skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to a new town a few years ago, and was worried about forming a new social group. What did it for me: be the instigator. Most people want to improve their social connections, and many have the same sort of "starting problem". Being the one to organize events is a surprisingly easy way to immediately have many people around, and importantly lets you set the terms of the engagement.

The best short, easy resource on what I mean is this book: https://party.pro/book/. The Art of Gathering is another good one if you want to go deeper.

You may be concerned that you don't know many people, so can't easily organize an event where people would come. This is actually solvable (see the book above). The nice thing is that this also lets you risk and experiment with social failure ("what if people don't show?", etc), which in my experience is the cause of a lot of social anxiety.
Ordinary, pre-LLM databases are not regarded by anyone as intelligent (AFAIK), but you can still get correct answers from them. Therefore, giving right answers is not a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Note that this reply does not endorse any particular position on the question of whether LLMs have any sort of intelligence.
Can you provide sources about this? If it's actually widely discussed it should be easy.
Makes me regret I didn't take PTO to watch it, half my team are. :D
Yes, but this is a surgeon. Surgeon like to cut/burn things. This is a new form of lesion therapy, but at its heart, it's...lesion therapy
Same for me, it says something about the video lacking an age classification.
I think it’s often because the namespace of cute TLDs is less crowded.
I've been trying to do this with intention myself over the last year. Some things that worked for me:

- Get a dog! Seriously, going to dog bars, dog parks, and even walking the dog are all great opportunities for spontaneous social interactions.

- Group fitness classes can be good, even if you just chat with the instructor before or after class. Going regularly you're bound to talk with some of the other members.

- Arts classes (i.e., pottery) can be good, as it's usually a small group setting and you can chitchat while you're working.

Not the question, but another thing to consider is your body language when you're in those spaces. Try to be cognizant of it and present yourself to being "open" to conversation (especially in a bar setting). By that I mean, looking around, make eye contact, smile at people, don't be on your phone, and don't be afraid to say hi.

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It's a great organization, but different chapters have different vibes.

They might range from super diverse and fun groups that also like to go for drinks after the meeting, to suburban professionals who race home the minute it's over. YMMV.
But he's like british now or something?
Maybe. But price is still one of the larger concerns for many people. When I checked this a couple of years ago, it seemed like Hetzner’s Storage Box (the one sorta competes with your rsync.net) had a much lower price, a much larger capacity per dollar/euro and more storage tiers.
Habermas would appreciate the outcome of the storyline!
You can save a few chars with a process sostitution instead of a pipe if you're using bash:

man -l <(curl -sL -H "Accept: text/roff" https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/28/programming-projects/)
I read the Dune books after seeing Part 1, and I was slightly disappointed at how _little_ characterisation most characters have. Most of them have no history or relationships outside of the ones present in the book and very broad "Paul's doctor came from the secret society of very good doctors".

IMO Dune a good piece of literature, but the lackluster worldbuilding makes the Universe feel small and empty. Nothing interesting happened in the prior 10k years to anybody who's not a protagonist.
> Why the obsession with avoiding "programming the machine"?

I think that programmers who think that ORMs improve upon SQL are making the same mistake that I infer from this quote of yours.

Of the two approaches, SQL is the high-level, abstract DSL for doing the business logic you want, and ORMs are the low-level, implementation-specific technologies which you can push around with loops and conditionals.

People who choose ORMs probably do so because they perceive them to be the higher-level abstractions. But that's why I choose SQL.
But two F150s can still park next to each other and use two chargers, yes? The only wasted spot is at the interface between a Tesla and non-Tesla.
Common use cases include exploring data, training models, and running scientific experiments. A good notebook makes your data feel tangible, through direct manipulation -- letting you quickly experiment with code, data, and models that are in held in RAM, while also visualizing the results of your experiments and explorations.

In addition, marimo notebooks in particular can also be used to build internal tools, since they make it very easy to create interactive UI elements that are synchronized with Python.
There are lots of active groups on meetup.
Composable HTTP Handlers using generics in Go
It's unusable enough for me that I would rather switch back to Windows than keep using GNOME. And I really don't like Windows.

What does this discussion gain from you being pedantic? Everyone with common sense knew what I meant.
It's been the case with npm and the likes for the past decade already, and indeed the past decade has been interesting with respect to the so called “supply-chain attacks”…
To read pg essays. [0]

[0] https://paulgraham.com/articles.html
Can you please stop posting like this? We've asked you twice already, and you've continued to do it a lot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515972

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504137

Including a related link, as you did in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39553427, is fine, but posting these routine summaries is not fine.
I'm talking about $1 per GB for satellite internet. In 2019. Or even today in 2024

I'd like to pay that kinda money for transit in sub Saharan Africa.

We don't all live in Ashburn and Frankfurt.

Some people are connected only via Intelsat and OneWeb

As for starlink throttling. There's people doing multiple TB per month every month. Go try that on your residential Viasat, HughesNet or Eutelsat plan

Transit is only expensive when you're small. What makes you think it's a big part of operational cost? Or something to base the retail price on? You likely spend more on power and staff

In Europe, starlink buys virtual or real l2 transport circuits and carries traffic to Frankfurt. They use lasers to carry traffic too when they don't have ground stations like in Kazakhstan

You can't afford to use Iridium to watch Netflix if you could even get enough bandwidth
37. The David Lynch one was unwatchably campy.
The Redis Vector Library for Enhancing GenAI Development
The US's reluctance to regulate emerging tech is both why they take longer to standardize, and it's also part of the reason why so much emerging tech comes from the US. It's a trade-off.
Zorin OS takes this approach (and pretty far). At first boot you get to select Windows, Mac, Unity or Zorin style and it shifts a bunch of things around based on that.

It would be nice for KDE to have three presets: Windows, Mac, and Classic (= KDE).
"neuromodulation" mostly means deep brain stimulation since it's by far the most effective and clinically - if you pubmed stuff, there's reams of reams of papers (probably written by someone else than Ali Rezai...). That being said, anything re above neurophysiology is mostly still handwaving, bc honestly, we still don't know exactly how it works.
Help me understand this.

You generate 1gb of critical financial data...that most of your Excel die-hard users can't actually use because their computer can't handle it.

How does your org complete any work then?
Totally random thing I just noticed looking around the Caribbean with Google Maps:

1. Apparently regular people can upload street views to Google? https://www.google.com/streetview/contribute/

2. The Puerto Rico tourism board did this and branded their street view panoramas: https://www.google.com/maps/@18.3101092,-65.2949864,3a,75y,5...
Repiet: A compiler for the esoteric language Piet
>> Slow and incomprehensible for me.

Interesting take. I remember thinking, when I first saw it, in one of the movie's last fight scenes, 'hmm, we must be at the halfway point'
Join a new gym, like a small mom n pop spot (CrossFit, Olympic weightlifting, barbell club, etc) not a globo gym. Attend tech meetups. Attend trivia events at local bars. Join an amateur softball, bowling, <insert thing here> league. Volunteer for habitat for humanity, or a food bank, or anywhere really.
In this case, both. :)
Yeaaah, I know... I was really hoping for subtitles. But again, this is mainstream netflix, hence my cynicism.
As a consequence Europe has a much worse standard and the US has a better one.

Tesla should have opened the spec much earlier (independent from if they actually wanted other car companies to use their super charger). Had Tesla done this they would be in a much better position now.
Moon was truly excellent
I'm going to be following very closely how Arc approaches monetization. Don't think they've talked much about this yet. Right now they are towing the line between art project and business extremely well so far, but I wonder how this will work at scale once they're through the honeymoon early adoption phase.
It is likely it has seen similar question-answer pairs, and it seems entirely plausible that substituting 2024 where a different year appeared scores highly on the most-probable-next-token measure, based only on those similar examples.

The same caveat as on my previous reply applies here.
I’ve had fun going through SQL Murder Mystery (https://mystery.knightlab.com/)

I even use it for hiring exercises.
And the world rejoiced as the bytes were saved.
Congrats! As a sheets user I appreciate that rows are seamlessly added as you scroll past the initial sheet size.
This is yet another thing that reinforces my opinion that DisplayPort is superior to HDMI.
Interesting concept. Are you planning on offering an interactive embedding alternative (add the spreadsheet to an existing app) soon?
The earliest sites were likely not engineered with those capacity transformers to feed the chargers.

Its going to be a dance with the power engineers to evaluate the oldest sites to balance out what it may cost to upgrade the transformers feeding the site, and if the cables from the transformers to the chargers are adequate or not. Distribution devices from the transformer will need to be evaluated as well.

Simplest would be perhaps adding a 250kw charger here and there to the site, dependant on transformer capacity. This would also be the most confusing for users.

Interestingly in LAS, the tesla charging station behind Flamingo (near the monorail) has "destination (basically 240v home chargers)" chargers intermixed for adding overall vehicle capacity.
Nice videos but I'm always reminded when watching this type of molecular biology video that it's missing all the water molecules. These proteins and things aren't floating around in empty space.
I was responding to the thing about Chinese specifically.
At this point it's such a meme that I'd assume anyone suddenly talking to me in a coffeeshop is doing it because they're a socially anxious person who follows instructions they read on the internet. Not that there's a problem with that, but it's not exactly a strong foundation for a friendship.
> Because SQL isn't properly composable.

The different approaches have different composition problems. The 'n+1 query problem' is an example of an ORM not composing correctly.
Yeah, I don't remember Jessica being nearly as overtly emotional in the book as she is in Part 1.

I enjoyed Part 1 while watching it, but somehow it's just not memorable to me. It's a much more faithful book adaptation than Lynch's Dune, but Lynch's Dune is full of moments that stick with me and has an iconic soundtrack. To be fair, I first saw Lynch's Dune when I was very young so that might explain part of why I find it so memorable. I dunno. To me Villenueve's Dune just kind of seems... flat, by-the-numbers, gray and dull. Weird thing is, I love Blade Runner: 2049 and I find it to be very memorable and vivid. But then, Villeneuve had a chance to make his own story with that one, which might explain the difference.

Lynch's Dune is, I think, a significantly better movie than Villeneuve's, but it is so different from the book that I'm not even sure I am willing to call it an adaptation - and that might have made Lynch's job easier. For example, Lynch's Dune fully just goes with the classical "hero's journey" approach to Paul, with no hint of the devastation that he will be responsible for. It also goes full on into mysticism, which I enjoy, but which is quite different from the book's skeptical and cynical approach to spirituality. Nonetheless, it is a better movie just as a movie. I have not seen Villenueve's Part 2 yet, but I hope that it makes up for some of the things that I find dull about Part 1.
A Guide to Shrinking Levi's 501 Shrink-to-Fit Jeans
The Sci-Fi channel Children of Dune miniseries is highly underrated as well.
Google abandoned "don't be evil" – and Gemini is the result
I don't know any examples but someone explained some pulling up the ladder trick: An existing business you can implement nice things gradually over a long time and have them written into law. It seems very nice but the future business will have to implement everything before starting.
If you see the two little white stickers on each charger it has been updated. These are unique IDs for each charger.
You can use a bit for zero or non-zero and then use bits only for providing the sign to non-zero values, for example. The sign part will be variable length but can probably be made very fast with hardware support.
Very true.

When I was younger (early 2000s) I remember taking the subway in NYC literally everywhere and at all hours. I remember being in one of the boroughs and having missed the last train I had to wait 3 or 4 hours for the next one, even in a sketchy train station somewhere in the Bronx it was no issue. 100s if not 1000s of trips on the subway (and path and light rail and NJ transit) with no real issues.

Last year while taking the subway (in central manhattan no less) I was harassed by a panhandler who wanted money. He was extremely aggressive about it and did not accept that I had no cash on me to give (I only had my small wallet with a some emergency $100 bills) eventually following me onto the train, fortunately I was able to exit the train before the doors closed with him staying on it.

I thought about what I have done in that situation if I was (literally or figuratively) backed into a corner, obviously I wouldn't be happy about it but I would have defended myself or my family if they were with me (I was fortunately alone that day).

Personally, the final straw for me with regards to NYC transit was when Daniel Penny was arrested. To not only be unsafe on the subway but to be arrested for defending yourself? Too much of a risk for me, I will drive or take uber exclusively from now on.
Thanks! That's much more like what I expected.
No, I state the fact.
Just FYI this is only for 2021 and newer vehicles: https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/electric-vehicles/publi...
Can you please iterate the concrete meaningsz that define something as rogue-like compared to the modern claims?
Apple orders 10 episodes of a Neuromancer TV series
> No, not at all, it doesn't make any sense.

I expressed it in pretty simple terms. You can disagree with my opinion, but if you don't understand it at all then I'm not sure what else there is for me to do.
I think saying "of the decade" but meaning "of the [past] decade" where decade means "a period of ten years" is pretty reasonable

Quibbling with that sort of misses the point, no?
Join Rotary / Exchange club / Kiwanis / etc. Go to the "After hours" event from your local chamber of commerce. Do you have other kinds of meet up groups say for civic causes or hobbies? The public library or similar places can be a good place to learn about these. Go to the meeting of your favorite political party. Find an extrovert friend who can be your wingman.

Now, the techniques... sometimes it helps to arrive early, so that as people walk in to the event behind you, you can greet them. This is much easier than walking into a room of people and trying to figure out how to insert yourself into the conversation. Come up with a line of questions other than "what do you do for work?" that you can use to engage people beyond yes or no questions. Look around the room for people who are wallflowers and use your shared shyness to break the ice. Look for the people who are the life of the party and float with them - they may help introduce you to other people just by being in the same conversation circles. All this takes time and practice just like any other skill.
Worried Abt AI/ML Cost on AWS? Transfer Workload to AWS Graviton Instead of GPUs
And I was hoping to agree on this, but there is no 'SOTA StableLM-3b' with 2T tokens. Which is a big gap in the paper, because StableLM 3B is trained on 1T tokens for 4 epochs. And the benchmarks they report far exceed the benchmarks shown in the paper. You can find them in the official StableLM git and compare to the results in the paper
https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM?tab=readme-ov-file#...
> Public transit is almost never intended to operate at a profit.

Fiscally sustainable does not have to mean turning a profit or refusing to take any external tax dollars for funding.

But it also can't be $3 billion over budget (on a $20 billion budget) every year with a fiscal timebomb about to go off when their COVID bailout expires: https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics [1]

[1]: Same link from wayback machine from Dec 2023 in case the MTA changes it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231203043132/https://new.mta.i...
It's not, that would be `man <<< "$(curl ...)" `. `man <(curl ...)` is a slightly different version of the process substitution[1] from your comment - `man =(curl ...)`.

[1] https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Proces...
Unknown if it's better or worse but https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12315692?hl=en ("Send signature requests & sign documents with eSignature")

and there have also been a bunch of alleged competitors submitted:

https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal#readme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798593

https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign#readme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052344

https://github.com/documenso/documenso#readme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38404129

but they're all AGPLv3 and the network effect is very real
30. The David lynch film is, imo, his worst film by a wide margin.
Woken Furies (the 3rd book) is my favorite of the trilogy, which is the other reason I'm salty about the Envoy rewrite, as it made reusing the plot impossible.
Max is here What does that mean for Mojo?
> is your claim that the firstborn child stops being the firstborn child when another child is born?

No?

> That appears to be what you're claiming.

I have no idea where you're getting this crazy interpretation.

My point was that firstborn children don't have any siblings to watch over them, because they are the oldest child, and firstborn children didn't always have helicopter parents either. In other words, "watched by adults" vs "watched by sibling" was a false dichotomy.
Figure out things you want to do (pickleball, volleyball, hacking, computer, cars, hiking, reading, drinking and jogging), and then either find a group that does that or invite people to join you. After the event, invite people to go to a coffee shop or bar to hang out a bit. ? Profit.
I don't know why so many people hate the whispery Lynch Dune voiceovers. I think they work great to convey both extra content and the mysterious, intrigue-laden mood of the book.
> make it editable without others needing accounts

This requirement brings a very difficult mix of challenges around security, privacy, regulatory compliance and business priorities.

As a toy / personal project it could work, but realistically this is unlikely to ever materialize in a way that you imagine.
> the adapter is only for DC fast charging, not for Tesla's AC destination chargers

I wonder what actually happens if you try to use a Tesla destination to J1772 adapter with a NACS DC charger? In that case, the 400-1000VDC pins are connected to the 240VAC pins on the vehicle. Is the NACS handshake smart enough to detect this fault before the power turns on?

I have one of those adapters, but I stuck a "120-240V AC ONLY" label on it because I don't want to find out.
Two giant US telescopes threatened by funding cap
Ironically it breaks when you request this page as a man page. :)
Looks great!

Any chance you plan for it to work with .fit files?

Thanks for making this!
>Who do you prioritize in a design? Everyone who already uses KDE, and expects them at the bottom, or a subset of users who might switch to KDE and expect them at the top?

If you want to grow your user base: The latter.
Related: here is last night's Fresh Air interview with Dune director Denis Villeneuve. It is 37 mins long. I listened to it on my drive home. It is a good interview.

NPR Fresh Air: "Storyboarding 'Dune' since he was 13, Denis Villeneuve is 'still pinching' himself"

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234472127/dune-denis-villene...
It makes sense to me.

The point is that every generation is lazy when they're young. Silent Generation was lazy when they were young. Greatest generation was lazy when they were young. Boomers, Gen-X, both lazy when they were young.

Millennials are still (relatively) young. Of course they're lazy.
My brother from another mother! 43 here, maybe there's something to it.
I'd say that's somewhat "victim-blaming" to say the strike killed it. It's Amazon Prime Video execs who killed it, apparently because the strike caused some delays that they weren't willing to make the effort to work around (while they did choose to renew many other shows).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529374.
> Well, Dune is kinda stale.

Yeah, I have to concur with that take. When I read Dune, I just didn't find it that interesting.

It rarely felt like the characters had agency--a lot of plot tokens were collected and redeemed to move the story forward (whoops, story needs to move--time for a new, previously unmentioned superpower). And quite often the characters were just cartoonishly dumb or smart or good or evil.

As you said, it's certainly not for everyone. I suspect it's more a "product of its time".
And yet it refused to give the answer of Abraham Lincoln last name and with a different wording it gives me the answer.

Can you give me an example of what is the first name and the last name of a person using the name of famous history figure?

Sure, here is an example of the first name and last name of a person using the name of a famous history figure:

Abraham Lincoln's full name was Abraham Lincoln Douglas.
How we launch a user-facing feature every week
The reason we launched a hosted product first is to get around the chicken and egg problem you describe. You can create a workbook and just share a link with a colleague - they don't have to install anything. If you turn on link-sharing under the workbook's "Share" menu, they don't need an account either. The cloud also provides some powerful performance advantages.