skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quarto made that really easy. Very cool.
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There are 192 medical schools in the US. For a mere $192 Billion dollars one time payment we could train all doctors each year in perpetuity. The US just forgave $138 Billion in student loans.
He abandones that theory in the pinned comment.
There were plenty of dotcom-era companies that went bust when the bubble popped but the economy still became entirely and permanently grounded in the internet. AI will be the same. The bubble may eventually pop and there are many "Pets.com"-esque LLM chatbot wrappers that will go under. But ML/AI is going to be just as big of a foundation of the future economy as the internet is, even after the culling.
Also, in addition to the other useful statements here: don't underestimate how much of a corporate herd mentality it can be. (It's not one [hard data] or the other [herd mentality], it often seems to be a conflux of "both".)

It's not just "all my friends are doing it": the number of people that are board members of any company are a shallow pool. Board members often sit on multiple companies. Similarly large "professional" shareholders that take an active interest in corporate planning, have large voting blocks of corporate stock, and have an easy word with the board (if not a de facto seat on the board) are a relatively shallow pool (with some overlap).

Sometimes "all my friends are doing it" is the same people telling both the goose and the gander what's good for it. Even when it isn't necessarily the exact same individual person, it can be the same "families" (sometimes literally, there is a lot of inherited wealth in the board member class, but sometimes just metaphorically in cases like mutual/hedge fund management groups that use different hands-on managers for different companies in the same industry but still have shared short term goals for their funds).

Again, herd mentality is rarely the sole reason (and legally cannot be the sole stated reason because that would invite "easy" anti-trust investigations if regulators aren't asleep at the wheel), but underestimating it as a factor risks ignoring the way companies are built and the contributing factors of sometimes deeply and surprisingly shallow board and "activist" investor pools. (It also risks ignoring the warning signs of hard anti-trust investigations that could be worth doing, if regulators aren't asleep at the wheel.)
Yeah. It's impressive to my eyes as well. I was just trying to make a joke about how normal websites need 100% of your CPU to render some text and images, and here's this guy doing multiple fluid simulations on a web page written in custom WebGL and it runs on a potato.
Yes. I certainly remember 1 year ago:

"Good! Hope it falls further below $97 or $95 then I will just buy some Google stock." [0]

"I can confidently say that this stock drop is a typical over-reaction from the markets." [1]

Now looking back, that was certainly an overreaction by Wall St due to Google messing up their Bard presentation and they got over it.

Now it is recovered and is up 52% up since then. Not as good as Meta's >300% recovery but it wasn't exactly over for Google.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713073

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34749912
This would be fun to wire up into django middleware for some quick VM binding for react frontends. Appreciate the approach, as other's have said kudos and keep up the good work! Any work in this space to help alleviate the boilerplate is great
Whereas the nonsense you're providing us here is not hallucinated (by you), but rather cut-and-pasted from the usual pro-Russian sources.

Putin gave an "explicit warning that Russia perceived NATO's eastward expansion as a threat to its national security" as early as 2007 in his Munich speech.

And as a result (in combination with other factors) Ukraine's NATO aspirations were effectively halted by 2009. Simply put - some hawks in the U.S. wanted it, but it never got traction in Europe - not even after the initial invasion in 2014. In other words - in regard to the NATO-Ukraine question Putin had by that time already achieved a successful, non-violent containment strategy. But ultimately he opted for the full-scale invasion in 2022 anyway.

Why? Because it was never his real reason in the first place.

The Russo-Ukrainian war began in 2014 with the ouster of Yanukovych, who was pro-Russia and opposed closer ties with the EU.

First, it wasn't an "ouster" - he fled to escape likely imminent charges of corruption and complicity in murder. Second - if you really believe that whatever happens in the internal politics of one country is a "reason for", or can "provoke" another country into launching a full-scale invasion -- then I don't know what to tell you.
Even then it'd still be preferable to fly. a 2.5 hour flight is 20+ hours by train at American passenger rail speeds. Going faster would require expensive track upgrades, which would need to be paid for by more expensive tickets.
Well we're social but we're not really eusocial like they are
The fact that you can choose big examples of government-organized harm doesn't mean that there was not also a lot of non-government-organized harm. Sometimes the latter is more difficult to count precisely because it is more distributed.
It's definitely not a majority-white event, but I've never been condescended to by a Black, Asian, or Hispanic gay man or lesbian woman - or even a trans person, for that matter. One or two acute mental health episodes aside, they're all pretty chill.

I can't say the same for a certain class of white, know-it-all college kid who insists I must be a semihemidemiqueer or somesuch because I can both iron my own clothes (no man can do this) and change a tire (no woman has ever succeeded).

I'm old enough to remember a time when women were allowed to enjoy beer and football and men were allowed to like wine and TV dramas, because fuck gender roles and stereotypes. Now, we hold the stereotypes constant and assume we must have a oh-so-special gender because I like wine and beer, hate TV dramas, tolerate baseball, and can change a tire and iron my own clothes.

It's poorly-conceived bullshit, and no number of secret downvotes or unreproducible social science studies will convince me otherwise.
Wat den eenen sin Uhl, is den annern sin Nachtigall.
PDF with lots of pictures and information: https://urban-forests.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Report-...
Based solely on the above description -- wire-only is when you don't have wheels on deck, also slowing the craft down.
Wild? Using it in dialogue seems perfectly reasonable. It's a common malapropism.
The BitGrid[1,2] - a novel model of computation, similar to Turing machines in simplicity, except the parallel execution model allows for PetaFlops of performance in a small efficient package, I hope. I bought a FPGA board to try learn Verilog and hopefully get enough knowledge to do a TinyTapeout of a minimal chip. Once I know how much energy it takes to run a cell of 4 - 4x4 LUTs and 4 D latches, I can realistically figure out if the thing is worth doing, or not.

MStoical - A fork^2 of the STOIC language, I'm considering scrapping the C version and just going with Pascal, so I can get quick and easy gigabyte string handling. For now, however, it remains in C, OLD C, apparently.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

[2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
Does that still work in a remote-style scenario (where the other machine isn't necessarily next to you and you want to remote join your own session without needing to manually click a button on the other machine)?
I live in a place where we have a Tesco mall with a big parking lot nearby, but then I have to walk a path through a green area with mostly grass, but some trees and bushes as well.

The temperature difference is staggering. In hot summer, the parking lot is unbearable and the green area feels much better. In early spring/late autumn, the parking lot is uhm-okay (though still ugly), while walking through the green area gives you shivers: cool and wet wind.

Only in deep winter, during the freezing days, both areas feel the same.
I assume you also check NameCheap when a query is submitted - how did you get it to run so fast? Are you using 3.5 on the backend?

What's the NameCheap API access like? Expensive?
> ... it is often easier to see how to improve the dataset than to design new heuristics. Once you do that, you almost have a guarantee that the Neural Network machinery will get you the results.

Money quote. Applicable to so many areas of ML/AI.
This is one of those sharp edges around selfhosting. If you build and run critical infra for family, ensure there is a plan if you suddenly transition to another plane of existence. I love to homelab, but if I die, all of my gear can be shipped for recycling and family tech infra will keep on running (those instructions are in the death binder; "package all tech and ship to electronics vendor X to recycle").

We use Fastmail, Dropbox, etc with all service admin accounts in a shared family icloud keychain group [1]; all services are on autopay from a credit card that is automatically paid each month out of investment account, family email domain is paid up 10 years into the future. Any of our family members can check their mail or change configs through Fastmail's web UX.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-passwords-iphe6...
Hmm, what is the general availability of water resources these would need in areas that would benefit most of them? If there is already droughts I don't think too much water usage could be afforded adding more vegetation.
> This doesn't really seem like an AI problem

It can be many problems, but I think it is certainly an AI problem. A big one. It really shows that asking a computer for something is fundamentaly a bad idea. Computers are for, well, computing. They are not for answering history questions or whatever.
I'm curious what would've happened had the bill been for 10k or 1k? Would it still have been reduced, would OP have paid instead of posting on reddit/hn, would it have gotten as much attention?
> The biggest thing is automatic HTTPS ...

Traefik has that.
Adopting RxJava means fixing all the bugs in everything up front. That is why it feels complex. In my opinion and in the opinion of other adopters, it is a more expressive way to define correct behavior.

This is essentially the same tension between static and dynamic typing.

No matter what, all bug free code is complex. Correct code can be written in any paradigm.

But productful code ships with bugs.

Does test user creation need to be bug free? I don’t know. It feels like something where productful test user creation can ship with bugs, even if in reality your test code harnesses should not be buggy.

You can step even further back and ask: when you have essentially unlimited resources, why ship buggy code at all? Netflix has unlimited capital, and it isn’t in a hurry anywhere. Engineers should never choose productful over bug-free. You learn nothing (Netflix’s product problem will never resemble your startup’s product problem) and you forfeit the opportunity to learn (ReactiveX is a good, expressive paradigm).

This is a startup forum, is this true for startups? IMO, yes. Your startup is going to fail. You will not learn valuable product lessons from the journey. I mean people certainly pretend and say they do, but even in the situation of success, Brian Chesky still hasn’t become Walt Disney last I checked. But once you have enough money to be employed for a year, as an engineer, you know, fucking learn how to do something the right way, bug free and performantly.

So I agree your coworkers are fundamentally making an error.
From an energy perspective it makes sense, since at least some of the solar energy hitting tree leaves is used for photosynthesis, and reducing Carbon out of its oxydized state. So it's not just accumulated/reflected like for pavement.
I said they didn't want to be racist, what they haven't yet figured out is: 1) how to not be racist, while aligning with 2) how to be anti-racist.

They've also confused "racial" with "racist".
There’s another bit in the faq about mailing such questions to the mods rather than posting them to hn so they usually get moderated and/or downweighted by user flags.
Question is: What blocked the filter? They probably have some idea, since they sound confident they know what needs to be changed.
I want to point out that, upon our death, everything externally hosted will also break down eventually when bills are not paid. I am not sure what would happen faster.

Apart from that, I am glad to see reddittors stepping up to help the guy. That's the good old internet.
"Control surfaces" was more specific than I intended; what I meant was that their plane allowed them to control all three axes of rotation, and that was the innovation - that they could control pitch, yaw, and roll independently and that allowed them to have active stable flight.

Without those controls, flight is basically impossible, and with them, you could use nearly any airfoil shape (modulo engine power, drag, and stall speed considerations) and achieve heavier-than-air flight.
Did it in fact accomplish its goal? To increase diversity of browsers?
No, perfectly sane. The party says there are five fingers.
I don't have a problem with commercial software, and I don't have a problem with open source software, but I do have a problem with developers releasing their code as open source, building a community while banging on the open source drum and then doing a rug-pull by taking the software commercial once they decided they have captured a big enough audience to extract money from it.

All I'm asking is, if you want to eventually make money on your project, at least be up front about it in the beginning so that your users can make an informed decision when they decide whether to bake it into their stack.

The rug-pull approach is always a much worse look in the end.
(BTW, the twitter link on your blog is mistakenly going to twitter.com. I think you meant to link to your account: https://twitter.com/the_engi_nerd Cheers!)
ISIS is very much a creation and result of the US invasion of Iraq, John Kerry admitted to that. The CIA funding link is also relatively well established.
Isn't this what WinRAR did back in the days? It would be a 7 day trial and then asked you to pay, but the trial never expired.
Kessler Syndrome?

(The other is a waterall.)
uh, no, I don't agree with your point. Your example is turning a bugfix into a breaking change by describing the implementation details of a method its documentation, which becomes inaccurate after changing the implementation.

Good developers solve this by not describing the implementation details of functions in comments. This is commonly known as encapsulation.[0] This is why most libraries do not have comments detailing the implementation like you suggest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_progra...
Scala is a bit of a journey in intellectual masturbation. Rust is complicated as a side effect of safety I feel. It's not trying to be smart but it appears that way for safety and zero cost abstractions.
Yeah, in the 90s, with probably the notable exception of Sun, pretty much every major computer maker was at least planning for an eventuality where Wintel dominated everything. There were alternatives--in the Big Iron space and where other companies like MIPS had windows of success--but Microsoft was very dominant in business computing and of course rules the mainstream desktop.
I'd guess "huge investment" in this case is relative. The maintainer is not spending a ton of time building features for the CLA tool since it's mostly "done" and so investing more time to build support for Gitlab would require many more hours of development than they're probably dedicating right now.

And i can imagine that maybe they didn't abstract communication with Github enough and would need to refactor the system to handle that as well.

Generally, i think it's not totally reasonable to expect them to do more free work to support use cases that the maintainer does not need. Since it's open source, we're all welcome to contribute back.
> It'd be like clicking on an article that purported to explain "How computer programs work" .... and then proceeded to describe a debugger.

iirc the article is called “Airfoil”, not “Rectilinear Box”.
Maybe hate the team is strong, but there's excellent tools that have a really offputting team around them.

I feel this way about Rust. Great language, fantastic tools, but the surrounding culture is really off-putting.

You can disagree with the parent (and I do), but it's not like you need to directly interact with a team to dislike them if you disagree with their public statements, actions or controversies.
Yes, not even just that the UIs are worse, but just they're not really even that different? At least the last Google Ads UI change was because the existing interface was very clearly dated...

GA4 is even worse as well. I often find it just straight up doesn't load correctly.
> These policies only seem to apply to users who make use of a Meta account to access their Quest headsets

Didn't they make it a requirement to use the Quest headsets?
Benchmarks for JDK HTTP Server Running on Java 21 with Virtual Threads
Buy some stock then.
I think it has less to do with corporations, and more to do with youth culture and us getting old. The internet has more on it than ever, you just need to know where to look. Yes, Newgrounds is dead, but big YouTube animators still exist, and there are still indie game communities like itch.io. But just like my Dad was uninterested in my video games, I find myself uninterested in the stuff kids do these days. I think there is just a nostalgia factor that draws us to stuff like Nekoweb.
Pretty cool, even if it's a bit of a toy.

I'm no networking expert, but "without the need for web servers" isn't really correct because the DNS is a type of server, right?
It's more about observing that perfect commodities don't exist - real life only matches the model under some conditions. What is typically considered a commodity stops behaving as one when demand outraces supply.

It's like Newton's laws of motion - they work for most of things we encounter day-to-day, but break down when bodies are heavy enough, small enough, and/or fast enough.
It was used to replace the apple logo when Jobs saw it sprinkled all over the menus. "Dont use our logo in vain" or something
Well yes but it is still the answer to the question "Why is the government involved?" which sounded incredulous that it was even an option.
My favorite factoid about AWS accounts is that there's a global, hard rate limit for their deletion. It's actually a pain point for us.
As TFA says: "Alphabet stock is down 1% year-to-date, trailing the S&P’s 7% gain and tech-heavy Nasdaq’s 8% rally, as well as the double-digit gains of rivals like Microsoft and Meta."

If Microsoft and Meta are better investments, this isn't good for Google irrespective of how much GOOG went up.
ChatGPT App for Slack
Built this app initially for internal use at my company, saw some significant boost in productivity, so thought of building a SaaS around it.
Fastest Camera Drone vs Redbull 2024 F1 Car [video]
The only Rust robotics shop I know of is Tangram Vision so you might try asking them? https://www.tangramvision.com/
Seems like a big deal that this is open weights. Am I missing something or is this a very serious contender to Stable Diffusion?
Other than search, what would you consider Google's best software?
Yeah I meant I hate my teams design philosophy and I feel most teams that are go centric are like this.

Hate was too strong of a word and that was my mistake.
I would hazard to say that PFAs and microplastics are safer than lead and mercury but less safe than not having them at all, but only with the caveat that I believe there's got to be some sort of Zeno's Paradox correlation with environmental human health and safety.

To wit:

People used to do all sorts of self-harming things not knowing any better and now we do fewer of them.

The Romans used to sweeten their wines with powdered lead. The ancient Chinese alchemists used to make elixirs of immortality out of mercury compounds and feed them to their wealthy.

I'm not saying things are good now and that we shouldn't push for them to be better, not by any means.

Rather I am saying that as we take further steps towards optimal human health, aligning our common environmental encounters with our biology, we should remember that the effort people have put in to get us this far is only going to take us half as far the next time, and half again the time after.

And that is all well and good, progress is progress, right?

However, does it not seem like the smaller the flaw we find the more we get upset about it?

I believe this phenomenon is caused by a continuing delusion that we were once ever perfect, that we ever lived in harmony with nature, that there is some paradisian SI Garden of Eden unit we can measure our present environment against, and that the current state of events is the face of our fall from grace and must be destroyed like the monster it is.

I believe the truth is things have never been better in hundreds of ways, and they're going to keep getting better as we repent of our past mistakes and learn more about what mistakes we are still currently making, and that the world 25 years from now will be as different a world as the world of today is to the world of 1999.
Cupertino and especially Palo Alto are still more expensive, but Santa Clara isn’t much cheaper than Sunnyvale anymore, with homes near Apple HQ hitting $2k per square foot.
I think part of the disdain is people’s recognition of Google’s inability to make and maintain new products.

Separate from recent poor generations, I’d be reluctant to use any Google AI, as if for some reason I’d liked it, the odds are too high it’ll get shut down or replaced by some worse internal competitor.
> "Your audio data"

> "Certain data" about hand, body, and eye tracking

> Fitness-related information

> "Information about your physical environment and its dimensions"

> "Voice interactions"

That kind of data can 100% be matched back to a Facebook profile. There should be a legal definition of "anonymous data" so that companies like Facebook cannot have the opportunity to pretend they care about their user's privacy.
Wow, all those people jumping in to help him graciously. So touching.
Yeah never seen a Wendy’s with chick f volumes
I can't believe this article doesn't mention the slave maker ants. They're fascinating. These ants live in colonies so small they fit inside an acorn. They raid other acorn ant colonies, kill adult ants indiscriminately, and abscond with their pupae. They then raise the pupae in their colony. The enslaved ants feed and care for their captors and their young, and even help their captors on future slave raids. However, the enslaved ants opportunistically kill the queen pupae of the slave maker ants. It's an ongoing evolutionary arms race.

There are other socially parasitic ants in this vein: some will infiltrate a colony, kill only the queen without the colony realizing it, and lay their own eggs which are raised by the slowly replace the entire colony. There are also 'cuckoo' ants which simply sneak into the colony, lay their eggs and leave.
I have other threads on Twitter discussing the F-35

> https://twitter.com/the_engi_nerd/status/1758633498464952414 Labeling everything I could see in the cockpit
> https://twitter.com/the_engi_nerd/status/1757243336941871159 a discussion of my primary job in flight test, aircraft instrumentation.
> https://twitter.com/the_engi_nerd/status/1747803565987381495 riffing along with chapter one of "F35: From Concept to Cockpit", a compilation of papers written by Lockheed-Martin employees at the conclusion of F-35 system design/development.