skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this more when you include how the then current versions of MS Office felt to use.

Ribbons might have a place at the absolute entry level of usability, but they'll never replace a well designed menu system that includes keyboard shortcut documentation in the UI within a super information dense presentation.
European Parliament votes on eIDAS, averting threat to web security
I thought the evidence was Musk considers adherence to signed contracts as something only his counterparty needs to comply with
You can still float elements in a subcontainer inside a flex container.
Correlation between height and being a F500 CEO
I watched the trailer as a cynic who has be burned for DECADES by shitty translations of beloved books into movies/made-for-TV. My favorite adaptations vary so significantly that it almost doesn't make sense to compare. (E.g.: Carrie, The Shining, 2001 diverge quite a bit from the books.)

That being said, I was excited to see Da Shi looked almost exactly as how I pictured him, maybe a little less grizzled and angular. And I'm embarrassed to admit the cover "everything in its right place" gave me chickenskin. I think the sophon countown looked interesting (scribbling like a fast etch-a-sketch, which is probably what it would look like if it had to travel the planet all day!), and the unfolded sophon looked pretty badass. I was also thrilled about the trial of Ye Zhetai, and the army of logic gates. Hm... i'm getting excited again despite my better judgement. The suicides OTOH looked gratuitous.
LLMs are language models. Not knowledge models.

That's a tremendous breakthrough! Language is really hard and we've basically "solved" it computationally. Incredible!

But whether via retrieval or some other form of database integration, LLMs will only become "AI" when tightly integrated with an appropriate "knowledge model".
> Dead-Penguin Tours (a type of tour in the late summer after penguins have abandoned weak chicks to die, leaving their bodies in popular tourist destinations, which causes grief in tourists)

I went on one of those and never realized I was supposed to feel bad about that. Am I a terrible person?
Snapchat is an app I found quite nefarious with push notifications. They have 'screen on' as the default notification mode for all their messages.

I currently use two phones with notifications turned off for Snapchat. However, the notification settings get reset if I use it on my other device. I don't use Snapchat altogether, but the other day, they sent me an SMS mentioning that I have a few unread messages. So scummy and so stupid!
> Living your entire life without really worrying about geopolitical bullshit that you have no agency over may very well be the optimal strategy.

But they do have agency. For example, if you don’t like the deal being offered where you have kids and then work to the bone to skirt by so that someone else’s line goes up, you can choose to not have kids.

Eventually, this will impact the other person who wants their line goes up.
Yes, and I believe Tesla proposed that >5 years ago. The industry chose to make it a free for all instead.
> i've definitely written a lot of assembly code by hand where i did far, far more perverted things to save a single byte

I mean, obviously, me too. But this is a general purpose compiler: emitting a runtime division by a compile time constant power-of-two is just silly. If you actually care about saving one byte of text and you're writing C, you're doing it wrong. As you point out, it's pretty trivial to beat the compiler most of the time.

See below, clang does what I want here.
Self-iteration seems to produce so much complexity from so few rules. The root of so many chaotic things, the collatz conjecture, fractals. And the chemical root of complex life. Funny.
Kudos guys, I've been super impressed with your development velocity. Marimo is a pleasure to use.
Just build more chargers. When chargers are as ubiquitous as gas stations this won't be an issue.
A tenary is all you need.
Oxygenfad released an album on Diskettes in 2004. There were 20 copies at the old underground Montreal music CD ESOTERIC.
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I know, and it has been a significant advantage for them. Others have been using a similar approach recently too (EA "balanced" chargers, Kempower, newer Chargepoint setups, and quite a few others).
Good question!

My bet is this:

Existing nonsense: Doesn't change much.

Transition for all the badly set up systems... Y2K v2 baby!

Cognitive overhead for Users, therefor Product and therefor Developers will be huge. I think a lot of the rage will be fendign off stupid and bad ideas more than anything else.

Note: any one who deals with dates and deep history will have a chuckle and think nothing of it.
What exactly is the "Ukrainian neo-nazi problem"?
weight - sure, scales are old and very reliable tech.

count? I am having trouble believing this.
Please refer to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551017
I with I could see the CCP leadership laughing their asses off at how paranoid the US is about China. They could fart and waste two months of our intelligence agencies' time.

Xi Jinping: Enters a meeting through the left door,

The Entire US Apparently: IS THIS A SECRET PLOT TO MOVE AMERICA TO THE LEFT? — TOWARD COMMUNISM?!

Protecting "domestic industry," which in this case really means anywhere in NATO, for national security is an actual thing so we don't lose our manufacturing capability but this is just silly. As if all our other connected devices aren't made in China already.
Intel Rebrands Its FPGA Business Altera in an Awesome Branding Move
I did this when I was younger and learned a lot of social skills this way. I just went out to the bars alone.

- You can't rely on anyone else to have fun so you have to talk to people or you're bored

- Alcohol helps lower your inhibitions so it becomes easier (relying on it always is no good but alcohol can be a tool just like any other thing)

- if you say something stupid or someone has a bad reaction or doesn't wanna talk you can say "have a good one" and peace out

If you don't know where to start with talking to people, comment on something they're wearing, then ask them followup questions and be genuinely interested and try to make jokes. If you run out of things to say, "have a good one" and peace out

Great way to learn to read people too because often people are too polite to tell you to fuck off but their body language suggests it so I learned to pick up on a lot of more subtle cues I didn't really see before
Maybe you're implementing your own "std".
Where is it claimed to be a language?

The article clearly states:

>Antarctic English is a variety of the English language

>consists of various unique words and is spoken with a unique accent.
Relevant comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2305#comi...
They must be widening the highways because the hydrogen and electric vehicles will be so cheap, everyone is going to start driving. Even the folks who did not drive before. They clearly know something we don't.
You'd have to do gpu passthrough if you want performance.
This still has to be approved by the Bankruptcy Court.
Yes, but

https://theweek.com/news/science-health/960931/why-is-the-wo...
> For me, that's not the case at all. I think with hooks, it's easier to reason about what values are actually used during what renders.

Hmmh. Can you provide me an example of what would've been "unclear" if the value was just state in a Class component?
> And we didn't sue..

You say this as a virtue, and I get it. But this shouldn't even be a possibility.

A few problems I see:

1) Very few people take personally responsibility for their choices [kudos to you]

2) Someone always has to be at blame, there can't just be accidents

3) Scrupulous lawyers looking for paydays.

4) Local governments pay out somewhat easily for accidents [see NYC]

5) Tort reform is not popular due to lobbying.
[dupe] wasting our time with this OP

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535969
When has it became normalized to not read docs and be almost proud of it?

I harp on this a lot, but computer engineering will never be treated seriously if we continue acting like documentaton or manuals are too good for us.

Its like if when designing a bridge no one read the spec sheet on the bolts.

If I ever hear a bridge or structural engineer going "huh, TIL" about a fact found in the manual of a tool or item he uses every day I'm running
I absolutely agree that it's nice for this to exist as an option for users who are used to it. I'm a somewhat heavy emacs user, so I'm not at all opposed to esoteric workflows.

But I think it's clearly proven to be a bad design as a default. Discoverability is very important, especially to people who work a lot with a mouse. And using multiple apps at the same time is a very common work flow, one that an always-on-screen task switcher makes much simpler than an alternate view you have to bring up, especially if that alternate view also obscures all of your windows.

I will also say I find workspaces a hard to use UI, as I always lose context when I have to switch workspace, but maybe this is just how my mind works. And the idea of one-task-per-workspace has never worked well for me, as there are several apps that I use in every task, such as chat or email while I'm coding and while doing a presentation and while writing some design. It also seems to require a lot of setup and discipline.

Finally, as a nitpick, moving apps to a different workspace instead of minimizing to taskbar/systray seems like much more work to me.

Personally I'm a huge fan of Win7's grouped taskbar with window previews, along with its window snap support (extended in Win 10).
I was thinking about this recently while reading the fourth book in the series and you put my thoughts into words tidily.

Tangentially, I also think the time gap between the third and fourth books (some 3,500 years) necessitated some more creativity with changes to the culture but I got the impression that the author still reused a lot of the same references despite the gap which felt kind of lazy, like humanity was just TOO stagnant for that long. That's when I started thinking that it must be a difficult endeavor to just invent a lot of new culture, especially when you've got to do service to the previous books in the series. The fifth book appears to follow the same trend despite another 1,500 years of time.
No, LLMs are a bit more than that.

We encode knowledge in language. When an LLM trains on language that is not just random words, it also trains on the knowledge encoded in that language. It does so only by training on the language - there's no real understanding there - but it's more than nothing.

Do AIs need a better knowledge model? Almost certainly. In this I agree with you.
I want to thank you and detail some of the reasons you deserve thanks.

Thank you for the conservative evolution of the KDE DE. In my mind the best praise of any major DE release is that there is no reason to fear it, and you've done that. Again.

Thank you for protecting KDE from iconoclast mentalities. This is a difficult thing to do and only hard nosed managerial discipline can achieve this, especially for an open source DE.

Thank you for accommodating compositor-less operation.

Thank you for Konsole. Yakuake is also great and I'm making use of it as well. However, what I appreciate most is that the latter has not disrupting the former. I can have work-a-day Konsole and Yakuake can be used where it works well at the same time. Thank you!

Thank you for not adopting the minimalist, "golden path" mentality. Options have great value to me and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that KDE, almost uniquely among both commercial and open source mainstream DEs, doesn't take them away: KDE is the only conventional DE that doesn't demonstrate contempt for my preferences.

The single-click/double-click activation choice is a excellent example of the thinking that makes KDE awesome. It goes without saying that changing that default must have been a tough decision. Yet you made the pragmatic, correct choice. Thank you for that.

The vestigial voices still beating KDE over the head for the 3->4 issues, despite over a decade of clear evidence that the lessons have long since been learned, are diminishing. They're being replaced by full throated, well deserved praise.

I humbly ask that you hear one concern of mine: X11 is crucial and will remain so for a long time yet. I have absolutely no problem with Wayland and imagine myself adopting it, some day, perhaps even accidentally. In the meantime, please do not neglect the X11 experience. I have yet to see any evidence that you have, but it is a worry for me.

Thank you - From a loyal and deeply appreciative KDE user.
I'm not interested in what happened in your opinion. I read the article, and interested in what was in the article.
bad link

more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535969
I agree with this point, that there needs to be a hard line drawn as to what these things are not allowed to do or touch.
- not friendly enough for my script-based deploys -- in particular the story around letsencrypt certbot having to edit my nginx config to inject the cert paths and some other things. I want my program to be a deb package that just puts HTTPS proxy config as a config file somewhere and the rest to "just work"

- error reporting is quite unclear in my taste, and I'd love to see a "trace" mode where you can debug your misconfiguration

- integrating with kibana/grafana requires NGINX PLUS and/or some hacks

- logging not in systemd
The first sentence of the article:

"Antarctic English is a variety of the English language spoken by people living on the continent of Antarctica and within the subantarctic islands."

It's a variety of English. At no point does the article claim it's a separate language.
> There are dozens of reasons to do that, unrelated from disabling WiFi.

You're moving goal posts now. If the stock firmware/software now allows disabling Wi-Fi, you don't need to hack the hardware.

And if you can't trust the stock firmware, i.e. you have reason to assume that it's actively malicious (e.g. by turning the Wi-Fi back on randomly), how can you trust the hardware? Who's to say that it doesn't, e.g., have an undocumented transponder feature that replies to a specific type of interrogation?
Exactly, it was posted because it's funny, that's it. Dismissing LLMs because of this would be like assuming C++ sucks after seeing a screenshot of a segfault.
In some areas, a green nozle means diesel. In others, a yellow one means diesel... And different states have different levels of ethanol added that can mess with your older hoses and fittings. But most of us got quickly used to that
They require a board upgrade at -each- dispenser. Likely they are still upgrading many of them.
The problem is, the algorithm that originally worked really well for Google (PageRank) ultimately contributed to turning the internet into SEO spam. How do you extract signal from noise in a way that doesn’t immediately make the noise problem worse?
Some that come to my mind I had good experience with are social hobbies, boxing, bjj, dancing classes, chess, tabletop groups.
This is no different than when someone sues the state.
I know this is a topic that people in the U.S. tend to feel very strongly about, but there's ultimately a limit to how effective personal cars can be when population density exceeds a certain level. The issue is the space that's required by them and building more lanes doesn't really help due to induced demand (i.e. as more road space becomes available, more people choose to drive and the congestion ends up increasing). As Cory Doctorow puts it, "geometry hates cars".

Unfortunately, the U.S. has gone all-in on car based infrastructure and that's a difficult thing to reverse. The best time to start improving public transport and active transport facilities is twenty years ago; the second best time to start is now.
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I had an interesting experience with an AI support call a few days ago (not with Amazon). The LLM was being unhelpful and completely failing to understand what my problem was. Eventually, I resorted to just repeating "I want to talk to a human", which would result in a response like (paraphrasing) "I understand that you want to speak with a human, but tough.".

Eventually I lost patience completely and said "I just want to talk to a fucking human". At which point the AI's speaking tone changed completely and became very curt.

It didn't get me the needed support (I never got support and will no longer do any business with that company), but I found it pretty hilarious.
> Pingora only fits Cloudflare needs.

I think you'll see a general sentiment among many of, "if it's good enough for Cloudflare, it's good enough for me."

Fitting Cloudflare's needs is not exactly a low bar, considering how much web traffic they route/serve.

Nginx and HAProxy are amazing products that I use every day. But this has merit that's worth interest. I can write my own Rust code for a slim and custom fitted Nginx for my specific use case with this. I think we'll soon be seeing other products like kubernetes Ingress controllers built with the Pingora framework in the near future that start stealing some of the spotlight from Ingress Nginx and family.
Can you reach out to breck at rowzero.io? We've heard this a few times and would love to learn more about your use case.
Europe already did what you described: standardized charge port standard (CCS2) and Tesla chargers already open to non-Tesla vehicles. It was glorious.

The United States dropped the ball here.
Yes. It says in the article that the assets have gone up $700 million in value
if you have terrestrial internet, why would you want starlink at all?

if you don't have terrestrial internet, i'm doubtful there's another solution that goes so cold. are you currently using such a solution? please share if so.
In terms of societal resource allocation, it's cheaper.
So money is the objective, but with extra steps ;)
v4 dispensers have longer cables and are centrally mounted allowing vehicles to only use one stall regardless of port location.
Land is cheaper in suburban areas, and most decision makers are capable of driving unlike children. Schools in the US have been moving into more auto-oriented, less walkable places, and this also happens when schools get replaced due to reaching the end of their useful lives.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/school-car...
>Who designs these programs?

This is the problem - too often people from industry don't get consulted OR people from industry with deep wallets who want things done a certain way are the only people who get consulted so that they have free reign to create a moat.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. A gas station owner is certainly free to onyl service certain brands and control access in any way that they choose. Customers would simply be free to take their business elsewhere. In practice, station owners would rarely (if ever) choose such an option.

Similarly, these NACS equipped vehicles can use any open NACS station, or any open CCS station via an adapter. There is nothing in the standard that limits charge station providers to only Tesla.

Any charge station (whether CCS or NACS) could implement restrictions in any way that they see fit. The most common cases of this are CCS stations at dealers, where they often restrict it to their company's vehicles.

It is unlikely that a public charge company would want to cut themselves off from revenue by severely limiting who could use their site.
That's what most developers do...

Honestly, I don't think the main threat is AI generating code anyway. I think it's AI as the middleware layer. There are a lot of developers that are gainfully employed as JSON shepherds -- herding JSON from one system to another with some business logic sprinkled in. I think there are some systems where a hypothetical language model that was extremely fast and reliable would be perfectly capable of directly handling a typical API request in realtime. And the programming of these systems would require little more than crafting a prompt (or series of prompts). Of course, right now LLMs are too slow, too expensive to operate and they hallucinate too much so people won't use them for that use case today. But in 10 years? Who knows...

And clearly, AI won't replace EVERY developer but it does seem as if there might be a future where fewer developers will be needed (in the sense that the growth in demand for developers will slow...maybe to a crawl).
Opening them up was part of NEVI grants, no?
There needs to be a better way at delivering drugs to the brain.

The BBB is essential for the brain from cytokines. An imbalance of immune system function inside the brain can cause havoc long term.

I read regarding the BLB (barrier for the Cochlear). A compromised BLB is thought to be the cause for many hearing ailments such as Tinnitus and hearing loss. An experiment was done where blood was injected directly into the cochlear fluids and this resulted in extreme hearing loss in mice.

A drug delivery method in a controlled fashion is what has been needed yesterday.
Microsoft Copilot for Finance
Well, it's not so much that people don't read docs, but that they don't keep reading them. Most people probably read (or at least skim) the manual cover-to-cover when learning a new tool. But once you're actively using it, the main interaction with its docs is when you land on a specific page to solve your immediate problem. I'm advocating for periodically reading the docs of your most commonly used tools, as if you were a new user. You'll pickup something new nearly every time you do that.
It would be cool to provide a deb repo as a way of subscribing to your blog.

So `apt update` will pull in all blog posts, `man your-blog` will show the latest post with links to the index of all your other posts.
I loved that series. It's on Caltech's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5...
People want to tell stories about the past, but they completely ignore the more recent past, specifically, Generation X, the notorious "latchkey kids", who also tended to belong to very small families, because the entire generation was the smallest in population of the recent generations.

US birth rates dropped dramatically between the late 1950s and the late 1970s, resulting in this small generation. (I attribute the drop to the increasing financial independence of women and the widespread adoption of birth control.) GenX family sizes were small, with few siblings. Yet GenX kids "enjoyed" (or suffered from, depending on your perspective) the absence of supervision for large parts of their days. Helicopter parenting didn't exist at that time. GenX is the glaring counterexample to the family size theory.

The past with extended families all living together — grandparents, cousins, et al. — is more distant than people are acknowledging.
I think Wolfram's work is quite different in flavour - he focuses on discrete dynamical systems (graphs/cellular automata, stuff like that) whereas OP is about continuous iterated systems like the Mandelbrot set (which afaik have a much older history in mathematics).
I appreciate you sharing this! I wasn't aware of the exact ontology of how roff vs. man relate, and I went through several iterations of this post trying to get this right. There being other tools -- groff, nroff, etc. -- added to my confusion. A blog post unto itself is "here is what roff/man page/nroff/other variants are, here's how to use them." I would have appreciated a succinct description; I'm sure others would, too.

As for markdown to roff, I thought about it as a v2. As I started to think about implementing a parser, someone shared https://github.com/sunaku/md2man with me, which appears to solve the problem.

I'd need to figure out how to integrate this into my (Python) site that is built on GitHub Pages; a bit of tinkering would be required :D