skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't really see myself as being mean; you claim I haven't said what he's done, and yet you've just replied to a post where I've given more detail into what I believe he did wrong. If you're going to choose to ignore it, or decide it's not "enough" based on whatever rubric you've chosen, then I'm not really sure what to tell you.

Well; yeah. I think what you've said is what you have - you got a bad vibe on the fellow, found him annoying but aren't in a position to back the sense up with anything specific. No actual situations were problematic enough to point at and a code contribution eventually got merged. You're listing a bunch of things where the charitable take is "this sounds pretty normal". The dude wrote a lot of code without talking to the maintainer first; he thought what he was doing was a good idea and the maintainers got a bit exasperated interacting with him. Nothing there justifies the mean comment, I'd suggest most people have done that somewhere at some point. Random unnecessary rewrites is literally how I get to know new codebases, although I usually delete them rather than trying to get them merged but if they were technical improvements I could see myself giving it a shot.

Given your response to a relatively mild dose of feedback on backbiting; I think you probably can figure out why I see the comment as mean. I haven't impugned your motives or questioned your technical competence and you jumped pretty quickly to seeing an "uninformed, holier-than-thou attempt at dressing me down". Maybe this dude is the next Hans Reiser, but even then if you're going to go at some random contributor's reputation it'd be fair to have some specifics. Dates, links and examples that showcase abnormal behaviour to a bar where it needs to be shared.

> ...you can think I'm an asshole and a blowhard...

You might be expecting people to read a bit too much into comments? As far as I know we've exchanged 3; that isn't enough to get a great clear read on someone outside the topic at hand. Let the records record that I'm not seeing obvious personality tells in your comments. We're all in it together.

> If you don't find my point of view valuable, fine, downvote it

Fun fact; I practically don't downvote things. And the last comment I flagged was in 2022. Either something gets ignored or I post a comment. Downvotes are too ambiguous a signal.
I think it probably isn’t depending on what you think value means. At a surface level people watch them ergo it has value. But peer deeper and it seems fair to think about whether that’s a good or bad thing and so on.
For time series, you have the TimescaleDB extension.

https://www.timescale.com/
> Indiana Jones was named after George Lucas's dog

Acually he's also named after a dog "in-universe":

SALLAH: Please... What does it always mean, this... this "Junior?"

HENRY: That's his name. Henry Jones, Junior.

INDY: I like Indiana.

HENRY: We named the dog Indiana.

BRODY: May we go home now, please?

SALLAH (to Indy): The dog!? (laughs) You are named after the dog...

INDY (embarrassed): I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.

(https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Indiana%20Jones%20And%20...)
Students T test
Best buy has a search option for "non smart"

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-...
This is the essence of my experience with LLMs. I don't need their help to walk my talks. But they help me immensely with skipping phases like "let's climb this curve for 30min to create some config and forget most of what you did before, then load it back and forget what you learned". They broaden your knowledge, not deepen it. It's a vague-memories extension with everything in it.
The same is true for disinformation.

If you down the rabbit hole you start losing your mind.
Deduplication as an option or shortcut would be nice. But I think Atuin should and maybe must save all commands in the database.
Even better info about "Scroll to Text Fragment" feature:

- https://stackoverflow.com/a/62162093/117030

- https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/

- https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fragment_identifier#Examples

- https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096
I've never understood what Knuth considered literate programming. I've seen some examples of his and find them incomprehensivle. I think the issue with Knuth's contribution is that he only seemed to concentrate on the specification of a markup language, marred by TeX baggage.

The key idea of notebooks today are their interactiveness, the dynamic between a markup state and view state, and their multi-paradigm and multi-language nature.
Can I build Swift files only in React Native project using Xcode?
I'm trying to build swift native module in React Native project. Whenever I try build to test that module, it takes too much time(2~3 minutes) while it takes only 20 seconds in pure swift project. Is there any way to build and test only swift files in React native project using xCode? Or is there any better way to test swift module written in react native project?
Not a surprise since 70% of the production interruptions are due to misconfigurations according to an enterprise survey... It must be hard to test it
That map also showcases another example of this - Townsend Street is named after one James Townsend, who was the alcalde [1] in 1848, not for its location at the end of town. (Geary, Leavenworth, and Bryant are also named for pre-statehood alcaldes, but their names are less amusingly coincidental.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcalde
Those are obviously named after a person, not unexpectedly.
Go fits in well in the backend where Java would have been, but with a better stdlib, simpler tooling and a smaller deployment footprint.

IMHO it's great for docker-based services. And that's a pretty big marketplace.
Depending what value means... I think that shorts do not bring any value, just mindless filler. In my books that has no value. Some might disagree.
It’s not the ads on the TV that makes me yearn to replace it with a computer monitor and a Raspberry pi (although my wife and I will probably compromise on apple thingy)

It’s the controllability with kids. No you can’t watch hours of weird YouTube dolls videos.

And no, when we just want to watch a BBC cartoon, why does everything suggest “new movies you ight want to buy” - that’s advertising of a form that simply says “a manager wants to juice their revenue this quarter and is willing to ignore what customers care about to do it”
> The main benefit is that you can easily figure out what is where!

Navigating unfamiliar Go codebases yields very few surprises: things are almost always where I expect to find them, and it's great! This is hardly the case with other languages, where I have to rely on grep or trace function-calls
Is there any notion of integrating Frink as a library in other languages?
I remember feeling similar a few years back when a scripting language was thrust upon me (python in this case) coming then from a few years in statically compiled languages. It felt clumsy and unproductive for an astonishingly long time. I complained endlessly about this and that. At some point though it somehow clicked and I felt at home in the language.

Ruby is really not easy to get into with its n ways of doing things and supposed "magic" methods. I think it can be worth it. Rails (7) feels very productive right now.

(Never had to deal with sorbet/rubocop though and guilty of just writing "debugger", Rubymine has normal breakpoints as well though.)
I think there is much more information on the internet in written format though. Which I personally find a lot more accessible as well.

I always find video really slow and not very information dense, I don't have the patience for it. I get frustrated with the slow delivery whereas I can consume written text at my own speed. Skipping video works of course but I constantly have to "resync" my mind after a skip which happens automatically with written content. Written text can also be overly verbose and woolly but somehow I can scan through it even faster and summarise it without even thinking. It's really weird.

But it's great video exists for those who love it of course. And I think most people find video more easily accessible. I'm more of an outlier.

Fwiw I already stopped watching live TV many years ago :) All the ads, the endless game shows and talkshows with the celebs loving the sound of their own voices, no thanks.
There are 6 countries listed in that article, out of the nearly 200 countries in the world. Hardly "most."

And there doesn't appear to be examples of those 6 countries imprisoning people for those laws.
To be honest

> On February 20, 2024, an optimization to the user experience

At that point, about 10 words in, I already wanted to stop reading because it starts with the "we only wanted the best for our customers" bullshit newspeak. Anyone else going off on that stuff too? I'm pretty much already conditioned to expect whatever company is messaging me that way to take away some feature, increase pricing, or otherwise piss me off. In that case it was "not give any interesting detail at all".
Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
That first one sounds so much like a folky, jokey etymology, and yet, it’s true…

Given the existence of “logarithms”, it’s doubly surprising…hey, why are they called that?

Wikipedia says “Napier coined the term for logarithm in Middle Latin, "logarithmus," derived from the Greek, literally meaning, "ratio-number," from logos "proportion, ratio, word" + arithmos "number".”
I guess everyone knows that the Bell System was named after some phone guy, so maybe it's more of an aptonym, but seems worth including on the list for completeness.
I looked into it a while back and the synopsis was that you needed to move there and that they paid poorly.
There’s all kinds of “random”. AFAIK, ChatGPT finds the set of most-likely next word, sorted by likeliness. Then, selects from those, more likely the more likely ones, varying away from the top picks in proportion to the “temperature” parameter.

So, even if the chat goes astray, the sequence will continue on a path that feels natural because it is the natural way to go when going astray.
Isn't this like the exact opposite of the conclusions of the HapMap project?
Saudi Arabia: the Arabia of the Saud family. Also the only* country unambiguously named after its rulers.

* There are a few borderline cases like Liechtenstein and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan though.
Existence doesn't guarantee profitability - they may have investors with a lot of patience and deep pockets. After 40 years, they should indeed turn a nice profit, but I'm not sure if it brings in billions. Many people see their product as educational software.
It’s really not that expensive though. The PE ratio is frankly quite normal in today’s markets. When TSLA was on its insane run its PE was an order of magnitude higher. NVDA is nowhere near bubble levels of valuation yet.
The alternative apps are great though. No ads, no tracking, included sponsorblock etc. I use libretube. Grayjay is also nice but a bit too commercial for me.

I don't use YouTube very often as I don't like the video format but sometimes I can't avoid it. And this makes it a lot more palatable.
I've seen toasters from the ~1930s that seem to be virtually indestructible, and which will still burn your toast just as well as any toaster from the 2020s. I can't imagine current appliances lasting 90+ years.

Smart toaster ovens may change that equation a bit, both in terms of not burning your toast (due to cameras and various sensors and control systems) and also with even more rapidly accelerated obsolescence as apps and cloud services stop working.
If it was only to gap fill then that sounds reasonable, but other risks here is the voice agent picks up slack and lowers the pressure for staffing and working on solving these problems in the first place.

What is worse, that no one is available to listen to you when you're suicidal, or that you lack so much value that only a machine would talk to you. I'm sure some people would have an extremely poor reaction to that.
I sent them an email asking what .NET version their .NET link library used, asking if it was still .NET Framework or if it had moved to .NET Core or 5+. The question seemed incomprehensible to them. They barely understood what I was asking, and I never heard back from them.
The S&P 500 rally is just 7 stocks and is not a true representative of the real economy anyways. I think you have my argument confused. I'm not saying the U.S is supposed to be in a recession or headed into one.
Something happened that meant we couldn't rely on body mirroring any more: work from home.

You sound like you were hyperactive. I am solidly inattentive-type, I went through school before diagnoses were a thing, and my mother actively fought to keep me away from psychiatrists when teachers suggested it (for the best reasons - it was a different time). So all I ever got was "that boy's not right". I always assumed I was on the autism spectrum, and there's not much that can be done about that, so I just got on with things as best I could.

A 5% increase in diagnoses wouldn't result in month-long delays in the sales channel. Something else is going on. In Europe, the factory in Ireland is "having manufacturing issues", which seems incredibly opaque and has been going on for nearly a year. They say it will be sorted by April, but that date keeps rolling back. Given that it's world-wide, I am wondering if the problem is with sourcing a precursor.
... and they're working on breaking it on the personnal computer too. For security reasons, obviously.
To make a bolder point the state should also force some teenage girls to carry them. And then sentence them to death that is legal in Alabama.
It's become absurd.

Look at how creators now talk in their videos. "He tried to unalive himself". We are changing the way we speak to please these stupid algorithms when the context is the same.
One might think that Menlo Park, California was founded after the one made famous by Edison in New Jersey, but amazingly it's the other way around.

Via Wikipedia:

In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, at the time an unsuccessful real estate development named after the town of Menlo Park, California.
Knuth's literate programming notably differs from notebooks in that it was designed to write explanations meant for humans, which meant that the author could present the code in chunks in the narrative sequence; the code did not have to be in execution order, unlike notebooks.
is anyone able to share a GPT-generated joke that they actually lol’d at?
I think Mathematica is cool, but it is my understanding that Maple is actually superior to Mathematica in symbolic calculations.
!! is the previous command line BTW

useful shorthand

> sudo !!

for example.

Again, bash specific.
I'm never getting a tablet again. The lack of keyboard, separate pointing device tenders it a toy. My tablets have all sat unused. I've always preferred a 13" laptop because 99% of the time it's on my desk hooked up to power, keyboard, mouse and huge monitor via a single cable. But for that 1% of the time when I need to bring it with me, I pull out the cable and walk off with it in one hand. It weighs 1kg, has a pretty decent keyboard and a gorgeous OLED screen. And it cost less than a grand.
Definitely, Tailwind is just one approach to solving this problem, there are plenty of others. That said, one of the big advantages of Tailwind over other approaches, at least in my experience, is that it is far less bound to typical JS workflows, which means if you want to write HTML with your own favourite templating language, you can just drop in the Tailwind CLI and still get a lot of mileage out of the system. Compare that to CSS-in-JS or CSS modules, which are both very specific to the Javascript ecosystem.

The other big option is just using a methodology like BEM and being consistent with that, which in fairness also isn't bound to Javascript and has the benefit that - like you say - you're writing CSS as opposed to a DSL that is mostly equivalent to CSS. For me, the problems there come from the lack of tooling for writing really maintainable CSS - stuff like scoping and detecting whether a class is still in use. But it's definitely still an alternative, especially with some of the new features like nested selected that are coming out now.
sounds rather complicated. You would have to scan the entire spectrum (not the entire, but like certain bands) and detect if there is someone sending power on there.

But modern vehicles detect these relay attacks and drop your message when you are too far away (ToF Measurement), you could maybe instrument that. But then when you walk to your car on an open field, you may also trigger the alarm because your key is out of range for a short time.
The effectiveness of commercial desiccants and uncooked rice in removing moisture from hearing aids[1]:

"White rice shows promise as an effective alternative to commercial desiccants in reducing moisture in hearing aids when silica gel products are unavailable."

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27869510/
Just to understand here: you're claiming that since atheists have fewer children, they'll eventually be out-bred by the religious?

Atheism is, in general, a consequence of, not a cause of, all the things that also result in lower birth rates. Birth rates in the US started to fall a lot earlier than religiosity did.
It ain’t! Don’t worry these are good!
To me the whole concept of this exploration is to first find good base building and fuel materials while lowering the cost of travel. Once that happens it will be very quick paced race to those materials.

Like in any other business venture this mars/interstellar is a bet, so doubts of success are natural.
What is the relationship between the word "toro" (bull in Spanish) and lawnmowers?
Boysenberry
It is literally true specifically for San Francisco. The street now named Main in San Francisco didn't exist for the first few decades after the city's founding and grid-laying (it was underwater, just off shore in San Francisco Bay!), and at no point has it been a street of any particular prominence.
"Unexpectedly named after people". Erlang seems to be short for for Ericsson Language, Elo is often misspelled ELO as if it stands for something. Shrapnel is less unexpected.
The name “Sienna” is named after a color called “Siena” *

* (Also a city and type of rock)
Stunning that they don't invest more in their TV apps, especially the Apple TV app. Their single-row horizontal scroll UI is so frustrating.
Cayman Financial regulator uses GitHub for public consultation
I've been tinkering with XP-era systems a lot lately (for fun, nothing critical, don't worry) and UMSKT is a godsend. You can still activate those products with phone activation, but it's a pain in the ass compared to just keygenning with UMSKT.
A minor note about things like keep-lines: you can do the same thing, with more power by invoking the shell: (keep-lines "abc") is equivalent (or at least mostly so) to

C-u M-| grep abc

Clearly you can replace the grep with whatever. I do this all the time, so I have C-u M-| remapped to C-M-|.
A few German companies:

- Aldi (supermarket chain), founded by the Albrecht brothers, thus ALbrecht DIskont

- Adidas, founded by ADolf DASsler

- Mercedes-Benz, named by Emil Jellinek-Mercedes after his daughter Mercedes, initially with Daimler which then merged with Benz

- Audi, founded by August Horch. Initially founded as _A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagenwerke Zwickau_, he later lost the rights to the name "Horch". He named his new company "Audi", which is a translation of his name into Latin: in German, "horch" is the imperative for "horchen" (to listen), which maps to "audi" as the imperative for "audire" in Latin

And then there are a just a ton of companies named after their founders (Porsche, Bosch, Siemens, …) but I'm not sure if these count :)
Haribo is named after it's founder and location: HAns RIegel, BOnn.
I am more concerned about when/if we have millions of small nuclear reactors around, some of them will end up abandoned/lost. Then many years later, they will start to leak (think rain getting in).
I'm not super up to speed on everything he's said, but he didn't seem full of himself in that podcast. He sounded quite .. normal?
The names of Airport Codes is truly interesting as well. Basically early airports were farms and fields, and thus the airport code reflected the original famrland owners' name.

There isa book on the history of names of all places in California, and similarly, the names of places are who was effectively the earliest documented land owner of that area, or something from the native tribes.
The metal has literally nothing to do with Stephen Wolfram…
Exactly, your are making your staff take entrepreneur risks without the benefits. Open a restaurant, get a staff that you pay next to nothing. If you don't get that many customers no prob you are paying most of your staff next to nothing, if it's a great success maybe your customers will pay the staff for you.
> I guess if you just don't care about the details of what you're making then AI could lower the barrier to producing something mediocre, as it has with 2D image generation, but that's damning with faint praise.

To me this sounds a lot like how people complained in 80s(?) about compilers generating worse code than expert assembly programmers. Yes, it is true, but also quantity can trump quality. And allowing machine to do bulk work, even if mediocre, allows humans to focus on key parts; in code some hot kernels, in 3d modeling maybe some hero assets. Also like compilers have evolved lot in the past decades, I don't see reason why these ML models/NNs/etc could not improve on a similar trajectory. Note that I'm not saying that they inevitably will improve to superhuman levels, but just that at this point they don't seem something that can be completely dismissed.

Furthermore I don't think it's faint praise if tool can enable non-experts to create compelling 3D experiences easily even if they are not perfect and photorealistic. Again I draw parallels to programming; lowering the skill level needed has allowed huge amount of valuable programs to be written even if the code behind them is complete crap
It happened to me on a brand new PC (MSI Z790 motherboard) when I updated the BIOS, with a brand new Windows 11 license purchased from the MS store. It looked like the BIOS update was clearing fTPM keys or something. I ended up hitting my activation limit and had to call in and spend 1.5 hours speaking to various levels of escalation, uploading various invoices as proof of purchase, and then eventually they issued me an alternative product key which has worked ever since.
> When a similar method was invented that applies to RNA, was of course named Southern.

I think you meant Northern :)

Also, there are Eastern blots for PTMs
Wow, not a Mac user, but thanks for the use-case idea! Absolutely missed it before.
Sweet home Alabama
I’m not sure how you are using the term “history aware”, Would a time series forecasting tool be history aware ?
Also https://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName
Fair. One could get used to the following for the first step:

< file.txt cat

But then one has to ctrl-w cat. It is a pity that this is not an alternative to cat for a single file:

< file.txt
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That’s admittedly high, but their growth is also very high (the commercial business grew 36% last year and they expect 40% this year) which makes the stock attractive.

The gov business is growing slower, but the wins come in waves and those contacts are incredibly sticky
The Head of Google's Gemini AI
Taleb has math chops, what are you talking about?

He's also quite a bit less self-aggrandizing.

Otoh, they do seem to like reach other, which in my book does cast some doubt on taleb's ability to judge people...
Nachos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Anaya
I guess. But I swear I remember it was about iMessage. oh well, my bad.