skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure whether to be appalled or flattered by the ChatGPT comparison at this stage of Language Model maturity, but I'm sure there's some hiberno-english artefacts in my breakdown that will advocate for my analog autonomy!

The "Nam Shub" was a nice parallel, but I felt Stephenson was re-treading ground already covered in Neuromancer with things like Space-Station Babylon:

"We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub."

or even the post-coital after-images of VR

"His vision crawled with ghost hieroglyphs, translucent lines of symbols arranging themselves against the neutral backdrop of the bunker wall."

My main contention with Snow Crash is that it's much lauded world-building often represents a feeble distillation of what came before it. Nowhere do you see the architecturally foundational yet throwaway references to things like the 'predatory-looking Christian Scientists' or the wonderful description of the subservient wives of the Sararimen dressed in Hiroshima sackcloth and adorned with faked signifiers of domestic abuse as a fashion statement.

Re: the sprawl Trilogy, I've already compared the post-Neuromancer books very unfavourably in other comments on the thread - what was done to Mary-Sue the Molly character was unforgiveable, and the only properly developed innovation in the plot was the collage boxes in Count Zero.
It gets even worse when error messages try to be cute or clever. It's childish and slightly patronizing.

"Whoops, sorry! This wasn't what you were looking for!"

"Oops! You broke the internet. We are trying to fix it."

"Are you lost? Let us help you home (link to home page)"

https://www.callbruno.com/en/404

Just treat me like an adult and tell me what's wrong. Preferably with a googleable error code.
Workers are signing cards because of UAW's historic wins recently. Deliver outcomes, and you win support.

> “Momentum’s picked up in a big way,” said Zach Costello, a six-year VW employee who’s a member of the Tennessee plant’s UAW organizing committee. The union’s successful strike last year against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., and Stellantis NV, which ended with agreements that will boost many union members’ pay by a third or more, “was massively influential in waking people up” at the VW factory, Costello said. “It really turned a lot of people to our side.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/uaw-signs... | https://archive.today/2jkHl
I tried linking errors to their offending line in GitHub repos, including a diff of local and newest version. Perhaps with some good AI, it could work and be a novel way of fixing open source errors.
This is like a tech company announcing they spun out a skunkworks separate from their main business to quietly investigate using version control.

> They've developed a flexible platform that will not only deploy to several types of vehicles but will be a large install base for software and services,"

The statement provokes more questions than it provides answers.

What the hell was Plan A? Wait for the whole EV fad to blow over?
i agree that with statements aren't the easiest to understand, especially for a beginner, but I think the value in having the entirety of the happy path in the initial block is very helpful for understanding the flow of the feature, once you grok the syntax.
Would there be a way to write a bridge between the Rust interpreters and C API where calls to existing extension API could work to/from the Rust interpreter?
Ukrainian and Russian are mutually intelligible languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility#Slavic

Whereas different dialects of Mandarin may not be mutually intelligible

> Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the standard language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese
How does it compare to XReal for watching movies?
Yes, but the CHIPS act was also signed by Biden. I think we can fairly credit him for seeing it through. Trump talked a lot about bringing manufacturing back, but he did not have the self-discipline to actually see any of it through; legislatively, Trump is a master of self-sabotage.

But it is true that the CHIP had bipartisan support, but the ones who supported it were not MAGA types, but people like McConnell.
Sooo your solution is to just do nothing at all?
Seeing the screenshot of the headlines, "mimic" (HN title) is a different to "posing as" (article title). If I can extrapolate from 3 headlines screenshot there, the sites have generic boring looks (maybe they're Wordpress sites), but they pose to be a news site for Sevilla, Rome, or Milan. Whereas when "mimicking", I would expect them to be copying the design of well-known news sites (I've seen fake CNN-looking sites).

It's always amusing/depressing when people claim something, usually something fake-news-ey or propaganda) and link to one of these random Wordpress-looking sites as their "news source". I remember someone linking to a page that claimed that a map of the March 2011 Japanese tsunami effects measured throughout the Pacific[1] was a map of the radiation from the nuclear accident, so people do fall for it, because not everyone is as discerning as us super-clever HN readers. ;)

[1] The map from https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/news-story/new-study-shows-some-co..., but the original caption was under the map and not superimposed on the map, and was cropped by the fake-news peddler.
"Advice is disproportionately written by defective people. "

Apparently, the author believes they themselves are defective (and either narcissistic or unfortunately activistic)
Nearly impossible to see the circle in dark mode on mobile. Neat idea though
I would describe it as an information leak vector.
Native web components / custom elements work great for this.
Because the deal will end (at the end of this year) and presumably they correctly sense it won't be renewed.
Borgctl – borgbackup without bash scripts
in the future our personal editors will create our own editions of these books. mine will have an even longer captain crunch section and yours will be abbreviated
I like that this isn't your typical skills demo.

I changed careers at age 40+, learned to code, now years later enjoying it. It just took someone who thought I could grow.

Interestingly I was hired along side some capable, albeit green, college grads. The difference in terms of understanding how a business works, speaking to customers, asking questions / follow through to get down to the problem we're solving was enormous. They could code circles around me, but they also just wanted to be told exactly what to code and had no interest beyond exactly that.
You just nailed why "nobody wants to work anymore".

I grew up in the 80s and Gen X people like me mostly remember asking our Boomer parents for money and they would maybe give us $20 or tell us to get a job. Meanwhile many of them (not mine) were making bank. We grew up with the understanding that there would simply be no money for us other than what we earned ourselves. The minimum wage would never increase, working people's taxes would never decrease, rich people's taxes would never increase, social security would be gone by the time we retire, etc etc etc. It never made sense to me how the hippie generation that learned so much about consciousness and the human condition managed to unlearn all of that and revert to a greed-is-good gilded age philosophy of trickle-down economics.

So I've come to equate deciding for others with sin. Because the ultimate sin is to look out for oneself and deny the agency of another under whatever mental construct floats your boat. That's what stuff like the golden rule and 10 commandments are about.

We're seeing this today with center-right populist politics where its proponents call grown adults snowflakes for calling out exploitation. And even the center-left silently supports neoliberal colonialism if it supports its narrative. This is why I could never vote for a republican that thinks he/she knows better than me while undercutting me, or a democrat who claims to act in my interests while gentrifying my community to raise my rent for example.

The elders currently in charge of government think they have some wisdom that comes with age, but they can't hear us when we tell them that there are no adults in the room. Because the world is literally burning while they obsess themselves with materialistic pursuits that will materially diminish the quality of life for us and future generations.

Meanwhile Millenials and Gen Z seem to be rejecting this patriarchy. And Gen X largely wants no part of withholding resources from others "for their own good". I see two possible futures around 2030: a head-in-the-sand focus on the comfort of the family like in the early 2000s and 1990 where actual world peace is put out of sight and mind, or a silent revolution where the old guard retires and young people pay those inherited resources forward to automate the drudgery that consumes our waking lives so that we can move into the New Age.

The odds say that the former future is most likely based on history, but I suspect that the incalculable rage that young people feel towards the rich and powerful may alchemize into a level of healing love that the world hasn't seen yet. In other words if you have children, they will self-actualize in the ways which you were denied, and that wind-in-our-sails shift from conservatism towards investment in the future will play out across the population at large and deliver rapid spiritual evolution and innovation like we saw during the pandemic. So we should probably maintain vigilance in the face of one last sabotage as the powers that be attempt to cement minority rule by the elites before they pass.
> If you are looking to an AI/AGI/ML innovation, this is not what Geppetto is. It is clear from the beginning

I think part of the confusion, and why it isn't clear, is that releasing an "A.I. assistant" implies that you've put work into the A.I. or assistant aspects of it. The A.I. assistants in this case seem to be ChatGPT and DALL-E, and this seems to be a connector between existing A.I. assistants and Slack.

Adding to the confusion is the human-sounding name, which makes it seem like an A.I. assistant, rather than an integration.

As an aside, show H.N. is about being open and collaborative, and your replies to several people on this thread seem quite secretive and adversarial. Would you consider sharing more information, rather than less? Let us in :)
True, I was only thinking of fs access!
Yeah I’m in the same camp. Tried to read Cryptonomicon and immediately felt lost.
If you're wondering why 13, I assume this is the reference: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-o...
Thanks. That makes sense. I don't have that pattern in my code but I can see that some might.
Need someone to create a platform agnostic sponsorblock for any podcast app, just for the convenience of automatic skipping. Perhaps like a proxy for the RSS feed that spits out edited audio files? Edit: looks like someone has thought of this, if the podcast is hosted on YouTube: https://github.com/ericmedina024/podcast-sponsor-block

But yeah, I'm fine with using the skip x seconds in my podcast app as well for now.
You're right, this was 100% sent out of frustration and I probably shouldn't have. I still think that the level of nonsense in this comment section is of galactic proportion though.
I think if the deal presented to voters was warming is a big problem because of evidence... If you vote to spend an extra 3k a year we can fix it then people would maybe be ok.

The current deal we have in the UK say is we'll do stuff that costs thousands, is not very effective, will reduce CO2 output far less than the amount Russia, China and India will raise theirs. You will suffer while CO2 output keeps going up as always.

Which is sort of a hard sell. I mean we are doing that in the UK with hardship and no global results. Not sure it's the answer.

Personally I'd favour a global solution like a carbon tax and counties that don't play ball can have their trade sanctioned. Also money into research into solar etc which I think is the real answer.
General rule: No, it's not different this time.

Slightly more sophisticated rule: Yes, it's different. But it's not much different.
You implied it by saying yours costs a mere 3 pence per mile. Nothing about spending 5 figures at 0 miles when that is what your parent said with "buy 3 or 4 good ICE vehicles for the cost of an EV". Even your second hand ones are 5 figures! 24k + 0.03*miles and 6k + 0.12*miles tie at 200k miles, assuming no other costs such as maintenance which there will be over that distance. The running costs are for someone who isn't me to worry about.
Execution like the wheels falling off their flagship all-ev car? After they've been making cars for 85+ years.

https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/wheels-falling...

https://www.motortrend.com/news/toyotas-fix-bz4x-disconnecti...

That doesn't get the headlines and attenion that a icon enlargement software update on Tesla does on HN.
The e-TNGA platform that underpins the BZ4x was supposed to have several more products built on it, including a larger SUV. This vehicle could be that SUV, or it could be one of the first products built on the platform that will replace the e-TNGA.

The Georgetown plant currently produces Camry and Rav4.
This has never, and probably never will, be anything more than a theory. In my experience this is only true if:

1. The "unit of work" is small enough to decompose into a 50 line PR. This is possible on larger codebases and less verbose languages. It can enforce over-DRY code which often leads to a lower universal ability to understand what is going on.

2. The team responsible for reviewing is responsive. I have never worked at a company where PR reviews happened quickly. Everyone is busy, everyone is overworked, and often times PRs are a chore that can be put off until later. Of course you can make some labyrinthine chain of small PRs all merging into one big PR but the problem still exists. I'd personally rather review a 300 line complete PR written well than 6 PRs that I have to constantly recall context on.

This advice follows the same logic as the asinine cyclomatic complexity rules. Yes, in theory they are sound. In practice, it's more of a flexible benchmark rather than a hard rule. But since someone inevitably writes YASL (yet another stupid linter) that enforces these types of things, an enterprising work-focused engineer will end up spending either more time fixing code to please the linter or more time exploiting loopholes in the rules.

Just write Good Code (TM) - whatever that looks like.
Which seems to indicate fairly clearly that, at least as far as time investment, 50 line PRs are objectively worse than 250-line PRs.
Right, agreed - it seems fast. What breathing frequency are you aiming for, and is there any science to it?

Also, you could think about extending to box breathing.
Hear, hear! We greatly dislike the ad model and greatly dislike the data-mining model. Let's normalize paying for a thing that you enjoy, as well as companies going for self-sustaining rather than giant exits.

And if you have the technical know-how and time budget, by all means set up your own OSS blog on a server and enjoy!
There are two ways of looking at this, I think the author took the positive way, and you've taken the negative.

You could argue that shorter PRs are easier to review and therefore people are doing more review, and that should result in better changes (indeed the 15% fewer reverts supports this).

Or you could argue that shorter PRs are harder to review as they have less context, and therefore more time is taken but that a better output is not necessarily being reached.

I think both of these are entirely plausible, and the truth probably depends on other process factors.
...with all the privacy concerns that entails. The website is slightly better than the app but it's still a privacy nightmare
EVs are a great daily driver for a family in the Sprawl that has a garage where they can charge the thing overnight at residential electricity rates, and that also has a second ICE car for their occasional longer trips.

If you live in a city, rely on street parking, and have to charge at the elevated rates of public chargers (which nevertheless are still barely profitable), then forget it.

If you're in certain kinds of rural areas, then maybe. Maybe you can charge with your own solar, mostly. Maybe there's enough charging infrastructure at gas stations near you, for Plan B. And say you're still within comfortable EV range of a small/medium city. Then I could sort of see getting an EV. A lot of rural areas east of the Mississippi are like this.

But if you're way out in Montana, or if you need to cross long stretches of desert highway in New Mexico, or something like that, then forget it. I'd do it once or twice with white knuckles and a careful plan; I wouldn't rely on it regularly.

Basically, EVs are tailor-made for suburban sprawl. Which admittedly does describe the majority of American civilization, such as it is. But if you're not part of that, then they're probably not for you.

And that's assuming that prices become affordable, which they haven't become yet, apart (only recently, and probably temporarily) from used Hertz Model 3s.
Sure but nobody is going to build a brand new factory that implements an old process
Late versions of Netscape and early versions of Mozilla included email clients. Mozilla later split the email client and web browser into two separate programs, Thunderbird and Firebird. Firebird became Firefox.
Disassembly of crashed Russian missiles in Ukraine show that they use multiple consumer-grade microcontrollers and DSPs. Western systems engineers would typically have opted for a single aerospace/defense-grade FPGA instead of having so many different chips and interconnects complicating the system.

Using Russia's approach you can easily stay many semiconductor manufacturing generations back. Using the Western approach you will prefer staying up to date so you can continue using the latest the latest proprietary manufacturer-supported FPGA tooling.
It did wonders for OS/2.
How reliable is reversion as a metric? In my experience, the problem with 50 line PRs (that aren't just making a quick adjustment to something, but actually trying to build new functionality in sets of 50 line PRs) is that each change is so isolated, that when everything has to be combined into an actual working feature, the small changes aren't coordinated with each other. The PR that adds the DB migration doesn't add the appropriate columns needed to actually store the information sent from the frontend, etc. All the small things that can't be planned for in advance and are only discovered during implementation.

Those small PRs might not be reverted, but there are probably a fair number of 50 line PR follow ups that end up modifying the original implementation, and using up more total time and effort than if it was just a larger PR implementing the feature in its entirety.

I wonder how many of the large PRs they say take longer to merge and get less comments are actually feature branches into which the smaller PRs are merged, and which we expect to hang open for long periods of time with little interaction.

This analysis seems to take a set of data without much investigation into what the data actually represents and makes an immense effort to find some conclusions about the context-less data.
Does this really not download the whole video? I havent checked but im just surprised that it's possible
The difference is that American media isn't owned by the government. Chinese media can't tell the government to "fuck off" if they don't want to report something. In the US they can.
Twitter was always going to show ads, whether that would suffice or not was the question. Memberships were also an obvious move. There is no obvious move for Bluesky, an open federated network.
I mean, I think a worker culture centered on quality craftsmanship would be important both to grow an appealing brand, and also to have a healthy work environment where you feel like you're doing something worthwhile, but a little bit of cynicism is warranted. We're brainstorming ideas to get money away from the mega-rich and into the hands of the working class. There are going to be a number of steps where cheaply mass-produced parts are both economical and as good (or better!) than the handmade equivalents, but if you can add more manual labor into the process (without sacrificing quality or making a job that no-one wants to do), it's all the better for the ultimate goal.
Geez someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed
We both agree on the output being non-simple and, to be fair, that's what I was thinking about when I wrote it. ;)

Taking it a step further though; Of course evolution happened to the very mechanisms by which biological organisms evolve.

Because of course it would.

(eg.

* Eukaryote -> Meiosis : This is obviously a means to create/tailor Variation. (Evolution ~= Variation->Selection )

* Reproduction in Metazoa in general, with all kinds of complex methods to exchange DNA.

* Vertebrates. Just. Vertebrates. (specifically: Sexual reproduction thereof.)

* Simple but still strange: Viruses with multiple reading frames. Sure they successfully evolve, but it's never going to be straightforward!

)
It still boils down to running Windows games, regardless of how it is done.
I agree! This is just our first version, and email subscriptions are definitely on our radar.
Not OP, but: TSMC has tried before. The workforce is not educated properly and the workplace cultures are vastly different. In this case, the US workers were used to stronger labor protections than their Taiwanese counterparts.
Prenatal phthalate exposure and adverse birth outcomes in the USA
Wait, that style of air-con isn't common in the US?
Electronics (within spec) don't usually mind heat, thermal cycling is what they really hate.
So Chinese people are running some of the low quality spam content farms that have been plaguing the internet for years, seemingly primarily for financial reasons like the rest of them. The only real difference is their Reuters is linked to China rather than the West.
You're correct it's not an antifungal drug, it's a substance used for its antifungal properties. Furniture companies today still use it for that: https://www.leatherusa.org/dimethyl-fumarate-dmf you can Google "Dimethyl fumarate furniture". I'm not sure if it's mechanism of action is known.

It was originally used to prevent mold on furniture. The Germans notices that treated psoriasis when it was applied topically. After which the swiss(Fumapharm) was noticed that people who took it for psoriasis and had MS, had fewer MS symptoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_fumarate

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36641891
Dimethyl fumarate ameliorates fungal keratitis by limiting fungal growth and inhibiting pyroptosis
Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
> so there isn't a lot of advantage in replacing something like Lua scripting with a bunch of buttons and whizbangs

I mean... "no-code development" is an entire category of product offerings. People are positively thirsty for being able to do that sort of thing without having to learn to love staring at giant blobs of text all day.