skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not say that Jihad was used casually in Dune. But when you read only the first part it looks like the hero is promoting Jihad as something good.
When the truth, considering all parts of this sentence, is way more complex if you read on and even reread it.

I think the studio (execs) just were afraid of having a blockbuster with a hero that promotes Jihad.
Because the numeric keypads are largely unused and not ergonomic (wrist travel distance from letters to mouse). They are the "tenkeyless" variety, which many prefer. You can find full 104-key mechanical keyboards if you want as well, or get an external numeric keypad.
If only the briefly-proposed casino could've brought us together!
I know you are saying that in jest, but that would clearly not make kids safer. :D Just think of the number of kids who would be shot because someone was trying to stop a speeding car. (either kids in the car, or behind the car, or around cars)
how, though? I doubt we had an easier method than opening your phone and just typing a few sentences in a text box, or just "liking" or "reposting" something.
Maybe I can search the interwebs to answer this question but I prefer to ask the HN crowd. Back in highschool in remember someone (on an HP-UX) showing me that you could jump to any underlined word (referring to a section) by pressing some key combination, but for the life of me I cannot remember which.
I already checked man(1) and man(7), and could not find it either. Maybe this is just a fake memory?
The other way around! Today a few services that don't congratulate me on my birthday (on non-leap years) did. I was born on February 29th.
Overpriced according to whom? There's no big conspiracy here. Manufacturers earn larger profits on more expensive vehicles. If consumers are willing to buy expensive cars then why bother making cheap ones?

Some of the legacy mainstream brands used to offer an affordable entry-level model as essentially a loss leader to build brand loyalty with younger consumers. The theory was that those consumers would return in a few years and trade that cheap car in for a more profitable model. But now the brands have largely abandoned that strategy.

As for fuel economy, it costs more to build an efficient vehicle. If consumers are willing to pay a premium for efficiency then manufacturers will be happy to build it.
Early Retirement in One Lesson [video]
Yes, I think the scale that the LLMs operate at makes them interesting and different more than anything else. It's not really a new idea.

There's a theory going back decades that consciousness is an emergent property and that if we could build a neural network in a lab that was big and complex enough it would become conscious. (Not really sure I buy it, but it's interesting)
The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs
> The scariest part is that as people start to spend less time developing a skill set, and instead deferring to AI answers, you will cross a point where this problem can't be fixed (because nobody has the skills to fix it and the AI is trained on the outputs of previous generations of humans).

The loss of knowledge/skills was a key bit of Foundation which itself was a retelling of the fall of the Roman Empire.

As key skills become rarer, the price goes up.. until you can't hire for those skills at any price.
yeah. yet people believe AI can do new things without training.
Look at this psychopath not using vi/m.

I’m kidding. I use VSCodium on the desktop and heavily modded vim on VMs.
I mean as a person doing the signing, not as the person with the document to be signed. I have no control over what signature system others want to use to gather my sig. I can only hope that they will have an alternative available, such as going to an office and physically signing the thing.
On the flip side, though, it does seem that Wayland has been developed with a sort of "Linux first" attitude. Not that it's impossible to run on other OSes, but there are bits and bobs here and there that show the Linux bias.
When people are already chopping out numpads, etc, in their custom designs, they can afford an extra horizontal inch of space on their keebs for fancy features, without getting too big.

For a large segment of people, a keyboard like this has everything they need on it: WASD, numrow, arrows.
After this last run up in stocks despite high interest rates I've completely given up on trying to value based on any metrics.
We agree, there should be an editable grid view, and we're planning on adding that. In the meantime: you can do "quick edits" by hovering over a card and typing 'e' (or shift-click to select multiple cards). Then just type in a label name, a user name, a new title, etc. -- it's very quick. (But we definitely agree on the grid view, and thanks for sharing that feedback.)
Not really a big mystery. He’ll do what billionaires always do after buying property. Opulent compound + bunker + port and helipad.
Volvo and Polestar are both Geely brands. Volvo is decoupling from Polestar and they'll each be pretty independent at that point, although the corporate lineage may lead to technology sharing you would think.
I've been writing code for many years and have never needed a numeric pad. My keyboard since about 2015 doesn't even have navigation keys: I use a combination of the caps lock (reprogrammed as a function key) and IJKL. Works fine for me.
Yeah, it was much better than when a screenwriter inserts 5 Spanish words they remember from school into a script.
> Memory Safety Is Easy In C++

It's just increasingly hard to even bother reading stuff like this nowadays. I feel like some people need to hear "you're not as good at writing memory safe code as you think, and even if you were, it doesn't make you a better person".

It's okay to want better tools. It's okay to admit humans, even your own self, make or are capable of making mistakes.
If you need protection from the US security apparatus, you're not the target market.
Whether or not they're discounting the possibility of a prolonged period with little growth, the fundamental issue is that this is essentially unknowable, at least to your average investor. The 2 issues I see with this line of thinking (i.e. comparing it to the Nikkei):

1. You wouldn't want to dump 100% of your money in an S&P 500 index fund. There is a reason to diversify.

2. The point of dollar cost averaging is essentially to reduce the risk of dumping all of your money in (or out) at a bad time. Taking your Nikkei example, I'd be curious to see if you looked at, say, investing the same amount of money on the first of the month over a 2 or 3 year period. The amount of time you'd be under water over the past 4 decades would be much less than just looking at any single instance in time.
Ask HN: Anyone else here using the "free forever" Oracle Cloud servers?
I'm using one of these servers and it frankly it's pretty incredible that they give these for free forever.

The server seems fine but it seems quite slow.

Anyone else using these free servers? What has your experience been with performance?
Amen. Establish your boundaries and enforce them hard. Be intentional about building a foundation to derisk if enforcing your boundaries causes a negative event.
...spinning reserve has almost nothing to do with reactive power control? Do you know what reactive power is? Spinning reserve is almost entirely there as a means of secondary frequency response.

You're not making your case very well ...
Vantage Launches Financial Commitment Reports
... and then you discover that the problem also extends to the supranational level. European countries have holidays, but Europe-as-a-whole has holidays too (from the banking perspective). e.g. the holiday calendar for TARGET2, which is certainly neither the union nor the intersection of the holiday calendars of its participants.

Also: I guarantee you that there’s a team at every major U.S. bank with a crisis management plan ready to kick in when Jimmy Carter finally passes: U.S. markets are closed by custom on the day of a Presidential funeral.

There’s little worse for an ops team than a holiday that you can’t predict.
Make London Even Greater
I don't think that will solve the problem; if the X server is tearing, apps running inside a Wayland compositor that's running in the X server will also tear.
Your time is worth zero, and other folks time is worth non-zero. That's one way to get your conclusion. The other way, is you're just wrong.
Against Trendbait
They were just trying to avoid jihad and all that because of present geopolitical positioning. You can’t have the hero be threatening to go ISIS on the universe. You’ll get canceled.
The Ukraine Air-War in 2024 – Interviewing Professor Justin Bronk [video]
Ultrasound is routinely used to break kidney stones. With more precision like this, why not? I don't know if there would be risks though.
As LLMs have quite minor changes between architectures, would it make sense to just embed the model compiled to some sort of simple bytecode right in the GGUF file? Then, only implement specific new operations when researchers come up with a new model that gains enough traction to be of interest.
yeah, but he could have waited a little bit to see signs of a slowdown instead of taking such a radical contrarian view and leaving ~80% upside on the table.

better to risk it going down from $450 to $400 before selling than to miss out on the ride to $800
Using axis lines for good or evil
Plenty of good sci-fi, but mostly on TV.

Still, you're also probably overlooking how common sci-fi films are. Like say, Ad Astra with Brad Pitt (2019). The Martian in 2015. Blade Runner 2049. And so on.
I read the books. But not many years ago like most people who claim to be Asimov fans or something. I went ahead and re-read the entire series before Season 1 was released.

Asimov is a horrible writer. The books are just bad (with the exception of the first one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39555390). And if you take the series as whole, what they did in the show is really good. Imagine springing the Mule or R.Daneel Olivaw out of nowhere like the books do?
> THe link between selfhood (if I may term it such) and the body is something that has been discussed for centuries

I know plenty of people who don't identify with their body at all.
> In an increasingly interconnected world where decisions are increasingly made by people who count and value nines, you can reasonably expect financial systems to partially close the gap between historical practice and contemporary practice of e.g. Google Search.

this chap has clearly never worked for a bank

in the 2020s I had to write code to handle files in EBCDIC

I suspect that system producing it will outlive IP, TCP, HTTP and JavaScript
Cynical answer: These things are expensive enough without adding another two dozen switches, and besides, Kids These Days grew up using laptops and don't get the point of having numpads when the numbers are all already there above the letters.
Most of the bread I have had when visiting the US tasted sweet to me. Even my children (brought up in Norway and aged then between 5 and 15) complained that everything was too sweet.
Is Kara Swisher Tearing Down Tech Billionaires–Or Burnishing Their Legends?
I would be very surprised if most people actually choose to develop in C++. It's a very good language choice for many domains, and I suspect interest and expertise in those domains drives people to C++ more than a desire to program in C++.
You're right, the article I linked is not covering all of 2023 which I did not realize.

Give it another quarter or two :)
would order this immediately if it had a function row
https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/

Jan 5, 1999 to Dec 28, 2009, AMZN had an 8.9% annual return.

Jan 5, 1999 to Dec 28, 2008 was -0.52% annual return.

Jan 5, 2000 to Dec 28, 2009 was 6.88% annual return.

But why give a crap about returns during a specific 10 year period? Almost nobody is buying something today to liquidate all of it at a single point in time in the future.
America's Test Kitchen is better, in my opinion. Well worth the subscription cost.
> We (the financial industry) teleport value through time and across space and make this look easy.

I don’t know if it’s possible to describe finance better in less words?

Anyway, if this quote piqued your interest, you should familiarize yourself with this author’s still incomplete work: https://open.substack.com/pub/concoda
https://archive.is/8BJRF
It's not that they don't understand, it's that they don't give a shit.
> And this will not just be in government, it will be everywhere. The scariest part is that as people start to spend less time developing a skill set, and instead deferring to AI answers, you will cross a point where this problem can't be fixed (because nobody has the skills to fix it and the AI is trained on the outputs of previous generations of humans).

I think that would require AI development to approximately halt at close to the current level for over a lifetime.

Conditional on development halting, I'd agree with you. By analogy, there's this single, very useful, very powerful, set of "hidden methods that can be used to win all games, get rich, find love, determine the limits of thought itself!" — mathematics[0]. Do people like learning it? They do not. Calculator much easier. What a calculator does is none of that, calculators are merely arithmetic, but most people can't tell the difference between mathematics and arithmetic.

I think LLMs have the same effect on anything that can be expressed in words, and all the various image generator models have this effect on graphical arts. One must be extremely motivated to get past the "but the computer is better than me" hump.

However, I don't expect AI development to even approximately halt at anything close to the current level. There's a lot of room for self-play in domains like maths and computing where the proofs can be verified, and probably a lot of room for anything that can be RLHF'd, too. And that's also assuming we don't get any brain uploads; regardless of the question of "is such an upload of a human capable of consciousness", which absolutely matters, it may still be relevant to the economic issues of AI depending on the cost of running one depending on all the details of such an upload that I can't even begin to guess at at this point (last I heard, https://openworm.org was not actually measuring synaptic weights directly, but rather neural activity? I may be out of date, not my field).

Whatever happens, however good it does or doesn't get, I do expect something to go very weird before I reach the current state pension age — close enough that, if that something is "the machines break" or "society breaks", then there will still be plenty who remember the before times.

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/secrets-2
I wonder, why are more people not using Krusader? I understand it is a nuclear bomb for killing mosquitos, but with a bit of tweaking it can be fast and easy to use; plus, when you really need the big guns, you have them right there.
Amherst Lecture in Philosophy
I would like to ask a question and add before that that I have no intent to judge, discredit or diminish the value of this. It’s merely that I really don’t understand and would like to gain insight.

The question is: How is this a scientific contribution?

Or, to ask it differently: What makes this a scientific contribution?
Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader
I'm nearly 40 and spent most of my life in the northern midwest. Never heard "two bits" before.
Maybe someone should create an 'international holiday API'
It is funny that there are lots of "consent" discussions, entire companies to capture and manage user "consent", consent standards like "TCF v2.2" or "act"s like "GMA" when the whole thing boils down to designing a UI where a user will think they can't use the app or the site if they click "reject", or the "accept" button was simply more convenient.

I did not meet or came to know of existence of any one person who willingly gives consent for companies to use their data.
Virta Health champions its nutrition therapy as an effective GLP-1 off-ramp
Neighborhoods with higher density housing won't be able to charge at home so likely EV stations will be easier than widespread curbside charging in cities.
The feed isn't an issue if Tesla doesn't want it to be. Tesla and others have been deploying stations with local battery reserves because getting a big enough utility feed is a deployment time problem in many, many locations or cost-prohibitive. Utilities are (not surprisingly) a bit pissy about where you drop a megawatt or few load.

I'm guessing it is the result of site negotiation between Tesla and Ford, coupled with firmware/hardware/signage changes.

Ford wants chargers where they think they'll be most likely to sell cars, and might have handed off a list to Tesla where market research showed they'd sell the most EVs and there is the worst charging infrastructure, for example.

Tesla might be u an algorithm to pick stations they think that adding smelly Ford-driving plebs to will irritate the fewest Tesla customers but still meet their contraction obligations to Ford.

There may also be agreements with the host site - malls and the like may have agreed to lease land for the chargers and spaces etc in exchange for the wealthy people the stations will bring to the area.

Ford et al are crazy to do this, frankly. Musk is incredibly unstable, extremely self-serving, and while I think Musk ultimately wants to become the Mobil/Shell/BP of electric charging, they're still competitors.
Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java
Yeah, but you want to avoid remote code execution:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-ai-...
Excited to see this. I built quite a few data-rich projects / dashboards with gSheets as backend/api - or as input UI, fetched to SQLite.

I'd be looking very much forward for: data validation, conditional formatting (including heatmaps) and - what gSheet doesn't offer natively, multiple choices cells via data validation or values from another column/sheet.


I was surprised I couldn't way to view a spreadsheet as a DataTable, or back as a DataTable
 (LE: found later how in documentation). And no sticky/frozen header row, ugh.

Cherry on top would be gSheets like SQL flavoured QUERY.

LE2: to add the wishlist, a potentially killer feature to/for some, dashboard type of sheet, with minimal/layout options –rows & columns blocks that can host charts & text (headings & paragraphs), with global filters – it would add a feature or two complementary to what gSheets offers.
And at some point maybe, comments - per sheet or column only.
In my experience it takes at least a year straight working with code before you can form an opinion on if it is beautiful or not. People who have not worked in a code base for that long do not understand what is a beautiful design corrupted by the real world vs what is ugly code. Most code started out with a beautiful design but the real world forced ugly on it - you might be able to improve this a little with full rewrite but the real world will still force a lot of ugly on you. However some code really is bad.
I've only been using it since I saw it recommended a few weeks ago, but for Hacker's Diet[RIP, 0]-style diet tracking MacroFactor has been unbeatable. Nothing dumb or meaninglessly social, just weight+nutrition tracking. In recognition that humans are imperfect and that both sides of CI/CO are more complicated than is apparent, they have built the system around a "best effort" vibe; systematic bias gets filtered out through feedback (if you regularly underestimate the calories you actually eat, the system will feed back by lowering your limits).

[0] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
Best Hospitals 2024
Shouldn’t the answer be Canada?
From what I know, the FRP is baked in to the titan security chip inside the phone which is near impossible to alter. The phone is cryptographically locked, possibly forever.
I suppose it will be (is?) some sort of overall climbing but locally sawtooth pattern with each generational jump.

I think the limitation is infra. Network, compute, storage - in that order perhaps.
This is so spot on. We (assuming you live in the US) live in a country where the purpose is to work for as little as possible, "grind," then throw money into an index fund and have it support us the rest of our lives. Own property, while having the bottom 50% of society continually support us in the gig and service economy.

Look, I'm no Bernie Sanders, but you have to be honest about the morality of it, and the feasibility of it. I don't see the current system lasting.
Canada, then France.

The supposed answer, Australia, is entirely divorced from reality.
Google DeepMind's new generative model makes Super Mario–like games from scratch
Django's ORM has a Model class that wraps an underlying SQL table to can runs queries in an object-oriented approach. When using utility methods like .filter() and .annotate(), you're executing them against the Model (well a ModelManager to be more specific) so they inherently understand the model (and thus the underlying table) that you're querying against. This allows Django to translate the arguments you pass into those methods into SQL, while also handle SQL parameterization, etc.

If the ORM were to allow you do build a raw query, using multiple tables, views, nested queries, etc - it would be difficult for it to then allow those utility methods. The ORM wouldn't have the Model class and it's associated fields to use in while translating the method's args into SQL.
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Japanese cars were never particularly rust resistant. Even some more recent Japanese models have been notorious for rusting.

https://carfromjapan.com/article/industry-knowledge/the-hist...
I am a scientist. I use notebooks the same way I use latex documents. To write reports that capture how I got a particular set of results.

Most notebooks I write have a lot of text in them, discussing what I am thinking and why, how each cell fits into the global picture of what I am doing, and what the results mean.
It's true i spend entirely too much time helping startups fix their damn data rooms... but i couldn't recommend them a tool for it when there is no about page. If I know nothing about the company I'm sure as heck not uploading financials to it. Names and Linkedin would go a long way (sorry if im missing the about page, i did look for it)
Haha, that would be quite the appropriate place to put one of those "Please wait and try again" error messages.
most people spend too long all day hunching their shoulders because they're typing. They would be better off if they didn't bring their hands closer together. That's the whole advantage of split keyboards too.
Besides, Asimov's book tend to have neither female characters nor people of color.

I think Foundation admits people of other races exist by book 5, in passing. And there are like two (maybe?) notable female characters in the entire book series.