skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah! I was a contributor in the past, have 3-4 T-shirts and a bunch of stickers, and then last year in October I wondered what happened to Hacktoberfest, why it didn't have the coverage like it had in the past.
Assume the content is trash and then read the comments for the recap. Like anything that is relevant will get quoted.
Most of the energy cost is pushing the air out of the way. This is just as true for a train as a plane. I suppose the plane also has to spend some energy as lift, but my impression is that this sort of comes along as part of the cost of pushing the air out of the way.

Has anyone done this calculation?
"Inventing graph theory" is a tiny task. He just took a map and simplified the visual presentation. All the work of the theory comes after that one little problem.
It wasn't a big journey like this thread starter is talking about.

You can see it in the short paper, where most of the length is due to the lack of algebraic notation, and there's nothing there to generalize to answer other questions about graphs.
I don't think the current round of AI is capable of replacing anything but Junior developers and doing that would just result in a shock in a few decades when there is a lack of Senior developers since on the job training is important for that role.

And it is difficult to listen to NVidia talk about what AI can do when it's $2 Trillion evaluation is rooted in AI everything.

AI being used to make programming more efficient is fine. At least once it is capable of meaningfully doing that.

What a lot of developers don't realize is if your code is long lived the time to write the first time isn't really a primary consideration when you are talking about say 40 hours vs 80 hours. Maintainability and extensibility are core.

And if AI doesn't help with those (certainly this batch doesn't) it is only increasing the tech debt problem in the industry.
I had a ton back in the day. Then I ripped everything. All neatly sorted on my NAS and can be watched via Infuse on the AppleTV. Last year on a whim I purchased an unlocked Sony UHD player to watch something that I could only find on DVD and was region locked to not my area. I also picked up a few UHD titles from https://www.criterion.com/

Since then the number of UHD disc has grown and I have slowly removed things from the NAS in favor of the glorious UHD versions. Have the shelf of disc has made family movie night more fun.

As an aside I did a little experiment. Same movie streamed (at max quality), the UHD disc on the Sony(UBP-X800M2) and same UHD on the PS5. Everyone could without fail pick out which was which.
Per capita fatalities went up 17.6% in 2020 and 2021 (total).
We use this technique for Soundslice (web-based music learning software). We don't have a native app, so we encourage people to install our site to their home screen as a PWA; see our help page here: https://www.soundslice.com/help/en/player/tips/247/native-ap...

Many of our customers (who are decidedly outside the tech bubble) off-handedly refer to this as "installing our app." And evidence suggests they find it to be perfectly reasonable/normal, even though they didn't use the App Store. Some of our users even use the Chrome feature where you can install our site as a desktop app.

The main advantages of the PWA for our users are:

* It gives you quick access to our app via its own dedicated button. (In fairness, Apple isn't taking this away. They're just making it so that the button opens your normal web browser.)

* It opens our website full screen — that is, without browser chrome (location bar, back button, etc.). At face value, you may think "big deal, so what?" But if you're practicing music on a smartphone, you'll want as much screen space as possible for the music. Opening directly in full screen is a nice quality-of-life improvement.
A lot of cards say "Updated December 31, 1969", what date are you all using to populate that?
Fantastic. I love when someone stitches existing tools to solve a problem in a novel and elegant way.
You can upgrade the plugin like this:

llm install -U llm-mistral

Relevant issue when I thought this didn't work: https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/427
Yeeeep. Also, he's spot on with his self-assessment of not having a pulse on today's youth.

I've been spending time around young tattoo apprentices recently. What I've found is that there is an aesthetic revivalist movement underway just with new hyper forms of expression that often are /extremely/ jarring to normals. Spend a day listening to musical genres like phonk/hyperpop. Everything the new kids are doing is heavily tinted with accelerationism. Honestly who gives a shit about punk anyway, things come and go. Go read some more theory and cry some more about it I guess.
I have no experience with Superset. Can you elaborate on a few points where you see it excel beyond Tableau?
Wrangler 4xe Charging Station (image only)
https://www.jeep.com/2023/wrangler/wrangler-4xe.html
They did that because they can't compete with Linux and had no relevancy in the tech world outside of providing business users with terrible software
You need a Plex Server to run it (unless I'm missing something).
Dead Horse Theory
I see, opposite for me: space bar is already a giant waste of a space in a prime ergonomic real estate of your strongest fingers, can't wait till it becomes a regular key that it is in non-ergonomic keybords. And these buttons aren't useless precisely because you can rebind them to something useful, even space if you need more space for it
So the article is fraud.
One thing though that I really want to stress to people is stick through it until the end, but don't try to rush getting there either. 90% of the book is just learning about whaling, which necessarily involves learning about whales and also whalers. However, the end of the book takes on a completely different tone and is borderline modern literature.
I think it's a bold claim to make, that conservative religious communities are comprised of humans who don't lie, cheat, steal, and have their libido under control.

I'm sure some exist, just by dint of probability, but plenty more are made of regular stock humans like you or me, or worse.
She said this:.

Marva Watkins in Chicago, Illinois, writes:
What is your real last name?

Marilyn responds:
It's "vos Savant," which was my mother's maiden name and is my own legal name. (My mother's maiden name is just as real as my father's boyhood name.) My maternal grandfather was Giuseppe vos Savant. Coincidentally, he married a woman named Maria Savant, my maternal grandmother. Growing up, I never thought about "Savant" being a word, too. I'm sure that people with the name "Miller" don't think about it, either!
By the way, my mother changed her surname to my father's surname when she got married, which was traditional at the time. I use her name, and my brother uses his name.

https://parade.com/418148/marilynvossavant/marilyns-surname/
I agree. Also Mixtral is a heck of a lot more useful than GPT-2, which is the last thing OpenAI gave us before they went the other way.
There are plenty of alternatives to capitalism discussed all over the place. I see them every day. What there aren't are alternatives that are both better and achievable in the real world.

Fascism, traditionalism, neo-monarchism, authoritarian forms of socialism, and theocracy are all very real and have both adherents at home and entire societies abroad that attempt to live by their rules. Unfortunately all of them yield a society that is worse in many important respects than Western liberal capitalism. They are stifling, repressive, or lead to poverty. The domestic adherents of these ideas tend to be either angry nihilists and edgelords who hate their own lives and just want any kind of change, or fanatics (e.g. religious zealots) who are obsessed with controlling and restricting the personal choices of others.

There are also lots of pure fantasies that are pushed as alternatives to capitalism: neo-primitivism, hand-wavey futurist utopias, new age woo, etc. While these may or may not be better, the point is moot because they are not achievable. There is no path from here to there, or in many cases there isn't even a "there." There's just a vague idea that if we all abandon what we have now and love each other or something magic will happen and we'll get utopia. History shows us that without a real serious workable plan we're more likely to get a slum run by warlords or a new boss that's worse than the old boss.

If someone thinks of a serious alternative to Western liberal capitalism that is both better and achievable (there is a path from here to there, and an actual "there"), I think they'll get plenty of attention. There is no invisible conspiracy that will somehow stop people from thinking of this or discussing it. It's just that nobody's done it yet.
> topping HN for no apparent reason

I think the HN algo is pretty easily manipulated. I worked at a startup that had an effective process to get things to the front page
Lefty here as well, funny thing about my experience with two kids (now teenagers) was that I could get switch arms with no loss of functionality holding a baby. I credit this to living in right hand world. Most lefties I know are at least somewhat ambidextrous simply by fact of most things being built for, taught and learned from right-handed people.
It's not like Microsoft is working on "Windows AI Studio" [1], or released Orca, or Phi.
It's not like there's any talk of AI PCs with mandatory TOPs requirements for Windows 12.
Big bad Microsoft coming for your local AI, beware.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-ai-studio
Can I just say, as an American who moved to Europe in 2022, the lines at gas stations are crazy to see! In the US, I had never had to wait for more than 1 or perhaps 2 cars to fill up, even right off the highway. Here, waiting seems to be common from what I've seen if you're traveling on a busy weekend. My experience driving has mostly been confined to the Benelux region, so perhaps it is different elsewhere on the continent.

I do like driving over the border to save 20% on fuel prices though!
What differentiates a "fake" NFT from a "real" one?
Box zoom would need to be added to Vega-Lite first, and there has been some discussion around it in https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/issues/4742. Bottom line is that there's nothing blocking its implementation, someone just needs to do the work in Vega-Lite. And once released in Vega-Lite, Altair would pick it up automatically with how we generate the Altair API from the Vega-Lite schema.
This particular plane has a top-speed of 100mph. It might be flyable down to 30mph… which would make such stunts far more possible than with faster aircraft today. Of course, you can do anything once; The real question is, “can you do it multiple times?”
Performance not so great.

prompt: write python code to find the intersection of two axis aligned rectangles

Response:

Here is some Python code that finds the intersection of two axis-aligned rectangles:

def find_intersection(rect1, rect2):
# rect1 and rect2 are dictionaries representing the rectangles,
# with keys "x", "y", "width", and "height"

# find the x-coordinate of the left side of the intersection
x = max(rect1["x"], rect2["x"])

# find the x-coordinate of the right side of the intersection
right = min(rect1["x"] + rect1["width"], rect2["x"] + rect2["width"])

# find the y-coordinate of the top of the intersection
y = max(rect1["y"], rect2["y"])

# find the y-coordinate of the bottom of the intersection
bottom = min(rect1["y"] + rect1["height"], rect2["y"] + rect2["height"])

# if the right side of the intersection is to the left of the left side,
# the rectangles do not intersect
if right <= x:
return None

# if the bottom of the intersection is above the top,
# the rectangles do not intersect
if bottom <= y:
return None

# otherwise, the rectangles intersect, and we can return the intersection as
# a dictionary with the keys "x", "y", "width", and "height"
return {"x": x, "y": y, "width": right - x, "height": bottom - y}

This code assumes that the input rectangles are represented as dictionaries with the following keys:

"x": the x-coordinate of the left side of the rectangle
"y": the y-coordinate of the top of the rectangle
"width": the width of the rectangle
"height": the height of the rectangle
For example, the following code would find the intersection of two rectangles, one with its top-left corner at (0, 0) and its bottom-right corner at (10, 10), and the other with its top-left corner at (5, 5) and its bottom-right corner at (15, 15):

rect1 = {"x": 0, "y": 0, "width": 10, "height": 10}
rect2 = {"x": 5, "y": 5, "width": 10, "height": 10}
intersection = find_intersection(rect1, rect2)
print(intersection) # prints {"x": 5, "y": 5, "width": 5, "height": 5}

=======

Obviously the bottom right corner of a rectangle cannot be 10,10 if the top left corner is 0,0. ChatGPT3.5 solves this with no issues.
When I write code, except for some extreme edge cases, the computer will do what I want, the same way, every time.

Compare that too interacting with current ai, where it might follow the instructions and the out put is based on probability. Is there a reason to think these probability based on models will suddenly become deterministic?

I don't get how you can engineer anything on top of a models output that requires exactness.
I'm guessing you're a fellow American? Or talk to a lot of Americans online? Here, for some reason, left-libertarians barely seem to exist compared to right-libertarians. They aren't that uncommon elsewhere, though. The distinction is mainly that they want to weaken power structures of all sorts, not just governments.

Wikipedia on left-libertarianism isn't too bad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism), though notably missing a "Criticism" section.

Note that I don't endorse the views described in that article. I am expressing neither support nor opposition for left-libertarianism as a political philosophy. I have zero interest in debating the merits or demerits here at this time; I'm only trying to answer a question.
Generally what you get when VentureCapital/PrivateEquity buys out Redash.io, messes up end users in the process and spits it out a few years later, leaving users confused as to where it stands in the BI tools landscape.
I had an interesting conversation with a doctor recently. They suggested that people have overreacted to the risk of anaphylactic shock. We automatically treat it as a life ending event, but I guess even if you go into shock it's a pretty long tail event that causes permanent damage.

All this to say its hard to even get an EpiPen now. People using it unnecessarily during any panic attack and ending up in the ER is a bigger risk than the allergy itself.

It might be fair to say these treatments would be just as much as a psychological treatment - you have millions of people living in constant fear that this could help.
> crypto has the benefit that you can actually prove who created something

No. Crypto lets you prove who wrote a small amount of data to the blockchain.
New AWS Region in Mexico is in the works
that looks cool to me, thanks for sharing. I think something that works well for kids is instant feedback on their code/tweaks, looks like this has it.
Cargo Script
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/unstable.html#scri...

Lets you do this:

#!/usr/bin/env -S cargo +nightly -Zscript
```cargo
[dependencies]
clap = { version = "4.2", features = ["derive"] }
```

use clap::Parser;

#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
#[clap(version)]
struct Args {
#[clap(short, long, help = "Path to config")]
config: Option<std::path::PathBuf>,
}

fn main() {
let args = Args::parse();
println!("{:?}", args);
}
I wish more projects had guided tour videos that demonstrated the power of the tool in the hands of an expert user. Not "get started" but "why should I care".

Wes McKinney used to have an excellent 5 minute introduction to pandas in this genre.
I don't think they should be able to have it both ways.

Social media companies have speech? If they have speech then why aren't they liable for that speech?
Ask HN: How Do You Learn Without a Goal in Mind?
Basically, I'm looking to learn more programming languages and JavaScript frameworks, mostly to keep up with current trends and to stay on top of what's happening in the industry.

Problem is, I'm very much the kind of learner who finds it difficult to do anything unless I have an actual goal in mind to work towards. I learnt programming to begin with because I wanted to code certain things with it (mostly websites and apps for things I was interested in), and pretty much learnt everything else in life for similar reasons.

As a result, the idea of just doing something for the heck of it, or worse following a tutorial to make a todo list app feels utterly pointless to me.

So how do you motivate yourself to learn more in this situation? How do people learn if they don't have anything new they're dying to build/work on?
Start a song or clip from https://bsdforall.org/

Then browse to https://bsdforall.org/home
My very basic understanding of the physics of air resistance is that it increases at the square of speed, so a plane that's going at 500 miles/hour must use massively more energy than a trane traveling at 100 miles/hour.
The dominant behavior will always be buying instead of making, so (DIY) will always be counter-culture (and sometimes create interesting little communities).
I've found the AI tooling very helpful for 1:1 pair programming with junior developers. The AI tends to provide bad code at "100%" but it prevents me from constantly having to take the keyboard away from the junior — I can just prompt the junior to type a bit, the AI fleshes out the rest, and we talk about how/why the AI isn't quite right, and what should be correct. The junior is typing the whole time. It really helps, a lot. Probably cuts 1:1 time in half, or better (re: it doubles the amount of stuff we can cover).
Now I am wondering if someone optimized the cute animal hostage. Were kittens more effective than puppies? What about maiming and torturing?

I also find it interesting it is an animal under threat vs a human.
I'm interested in jobs about reverse engineering and pen testing.

Are you interested enough to leave "jobs about" from that sentence?

What I mean is being interested in a job doing X, is not the same as being interested in X. Because a job doing X has external dependencies (e.g. the hiring process). But simply being interested in X can be pursued all on your own.

And when it comes to hiring for people to do X, an interest in doiong X trumps an interest in a job doing X.

Finally, an academic degree in X is a standard way to demonstrate an interest in doing X to potential employers. If nothing else an academic credential shows a committed interest.

Good luck.
I thought your outrageous French accent just meant you're going to taunt him a second time.
Another great article from Arnon on doing exactly that:

https://arnon.dk/why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...
The spreadsheet is a wonderful way to create tech debt. So, it's very comparable to an LLM that spits out bad code.
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
Here's the list: https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?name

OpenOffice is probably the most famous (it still has the name, but it is dead, LibreOffice is the real "active" fork).

And the things in the "Attic" are officially dead - https://projects.apache.org/committee.html?attic and many more projects should be there.
Perhaps they could redirect to https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/issues and https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/pulls, respectively
Do you remember when & why CPI calculations first were made by BLS?

There are clues all over but this page has some good info itself:

https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Consumer_Price_Index/His...
I’m interested in details.
Nuclear is very expensive and not going down, while batteries are.
So with your analysis, it could be possible to estimate how low batteries have to go before meeting nuclear… It could be irrealistic but let’s see !
Given the number of people with private jets who want to ban my 24-year-old pickup truck, I support banning all civilian air travel until they can prove that their aircraft meet every safety and environmental standard my 24-year-old pickup has had to meet in its existence.
Something I've been doing recently that has really helped me find the right word faster is using flashcards.

One side will say "Explain the concept of x" and the other side be a paragraph or so of the concept.

I use both sides, so I will look at the abstract and try and remember the "x" naming word for it.

I don't think how you do, however I do often learn things in my own way, describing things internally using the "wrong" terms, This helps me link my internal thought processes to correct terms faster.
If this story was true, we would never see large swings in stock price, because they would already be priced in. But we do. Stock price is simply not an accurate enough predictor to create the incentives we want.

(The most obvious reason this is nonsense is that sometimes the future fall is only predictable to people inside the company. Short sellers don't help here. We need another incentive for those people to do the right thing.)
This is a wonderfully-written piece, and it articulates the paradoxical nature of countercultures better than I've ever been able to. Punk Rock is dead, long live Punk Rock.

I think there are real artistic countercultures out there, but they exist on the margins of art and society (as they must, innately). They're hard to discover, and even when they are discovered, they're inaccessible, bizarre, and disquieting (as they must be, innately).

I'm reminded of my record collection, and one record in particular: an autographed copy of The Great Annihilator, by Swans[1]. Besides the music itself, the peculiar thing about this record is the way it's autographed. Michael Gira signed it on the back, tucked away in the bottom corner. I've always wondered why he did it this way. Maybe it's a way of saying "here's my signature you materialistic loser, have fun trying to display this overpriced souvenir." Maybe it's a way of saying "appreciate the art as it was meant to be appreciated, don't use it as a display piece." Maybe I'm reading into it too much, and it means nothing at all.

[1]: They're a bit better known than they once were, but for anyone who doesn't know about them, go listen to some Swans. It's abrasive and uncomfortable, and you'll probably hate it. But it doesn't exist for the purpose of being abrasive and uncomfortable, and that's key. It's an artist's unfiltered creative vision. Incidentally, Cobain was a big Swans fan.
I share Carmack's sentiment on managing people here.

Naval Ravikant calls managing people the most common and recognized form of leverage. And he's absolutely right. But the scaling properties of people management are terrible once you get accustomed to how you can scale with code. People management necessitates adding new layers in order to keep the system from falling over, overall efficiency stops scaling as people are added, and communication becomes very difficult.
Like LLMs it’s good enough until it’s not good enough :)
That feels unnecessarily savior-lauding and like blending a grab bag of unrelated traits into an idealized person.

There's plenty of darkness within the strictures of conservative religious communities -- mostly resultant from the evil that corrupt people perpetrate when given (by God) power in hierarchical structures.
Also trees: https://abc7news.com/plane-crash-connecticut-small-plainvill...
All churches are full of sinners just like hospitals are full of sick people.

You're there to get well.