skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the mis-installed panels of the Cosmonaut a little more appealing than they would have been, done properly. The vista of the original design is certainly appealing in its symmetry - but the misaligned panels provide a narrative, rather than a static scene. As the eyes travel the panels provide motion through space, bringing the viewer along for the ride with the cosmonaut. I therefore have to wonder if, having discovered the mistake, the constructors realized that they might have improved the intentions of the artist, or indeed if the artist themselves simply let it be, due to the improved narrative positioning.

What a delightful article!
Hey - none of us have endless energy or patience. We just do our best.

I don't mean to be dismissive about your experience; we all have a hard road, and some much harder than others. Still, if we're talking about it honestly: Why should the admnistrator and other people have compassion for you if you don't have it for others? I'll bet that, not being saint and under all that stress, you weren't perfect in what you were doing. I'll bet the administrator and others were also under many different stressors like you were; who was understanding them?

The only way there is compassion in the world is when it's between stressed people acting less than their best, often much less. If it's restricted to near-perfection, it wouldn't exist; the word 'compassion' wouldn't have any usage or meaning.

But that doesn't mean I do it well all the time. And I'm a jerk too and I hope people have compassion for me.
sigh.. this is HN, not reddit. I come here so i dont have to navigate this noise between signals
> Engineered wood indeed creates elements from imperfect timber that are free from defects and exhibit the same engineering properties, if not better.

Tangent - some research from the '60s that shows the impact of the computer age on the timber industry:

CROMAX - A Crosscut First Computer Simulation Program to Determine Cutting Yield (1963) https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA134223.pdf

Development of a Computer Method for Predicting Lumber Cutting Yields (1967) https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/rp/rp_nc015.pdf

Veneer Recovery Prediction and Analysis Through Computer Simulation (1969) https://wfs.swst.org/index.php/wfs/article/view/398/398

Note that these are not frequently referenced PDFs and I occasionally had difficulty with the first click for them.

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> There's a story on how the renovation of Oxford's dining halls ...

https://longnow.org/ideas/humans-and-trees-in-long-term-part...

> In all likelihood, the story is a blend of myth and reality. While the College, in keeping with standard woodland practices in Britain, has always kept groves of oaks intended for construction purposes, it isn’t clear that any particular set of trees was officially designated to replace the beams of the College dining hall

Another example (more grounded in modern times and less myth)...

https://www.military.com/history/why-us-navy-manages-its-own...

https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2020/11/constitution-grove-the-n...

https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2015/05/11/the-wooden-wall...
> I'm responding to a thread about Facebook "lobbying" legislators for tax carve outs.

Yah, that's not what the thread said. Facebook is simply deducting a business expense, there was no carve out.

> I choose to call it what it is - a bribe.

Except there was no bribe, you just made something up.

> You called it theft, because thats your libertarian ideology poking through.

I did not call it theft and I'm not a libertarian.

> I said that taxes avoided is money denied to the public.

I said that there is no such concept as "taxes avoided". That not something that exists. You can't "avoid" taxes, either you need to pay them or you don't.

It's not a thing to be able to just "avoid" them.

You are arguing imaginary thing that never happened, and using concepts that don't exist to make your point.
Interesting, I've found it's JS support pretty great. Wonder how much the codebase has a factor and how well things are typed/documented.
I find things like this too. I add detailed comments and get thoughtful autocompletes because many day to day things are solved problems.
Many places "insure" the tire to a certain amount depending on road wear.

Most people forget about the "tire insurance" and never claim, even if they could, so it's basically free money.

They give you new tires because it doesn't cost them anything, they get paid.

Discount considers it part of their marketing, so they actually have a pretty decent one: https://www.discounttire.com/customer-service/certificates

It IS limited to 3 years.
Generative AI and the big buzz about small language models
As we see these systems evolving, I have come to believe specialist small language models with an MoE framework are the future of the industry.
This is as much clickbait as an NTSB report is emotional.
I have the same experiences, but i am using already for a year. Quite surprised now and then how its able to predict my next move. Sometimes remarkably accurate. I noticed here on hackernews there is a large group of copilot haters. I normally find this forum
a place with the best open minded people out there. But not with copilot topics :)
This is a lot of OpenAIs:

ELON MUSK,

an individual,

Plaintiff,

vs.

SAMUEL ALTMAN, an individual, GREGORY BROCKMAN, an individual, OPENAI, INC., a
corporation, OPENAI, L.P., a limited partnership, OPENAI, L.L.C., a limited liability
company, OPENAI GP, L.L.C., a limited liability company, OPENAI OPCO, LLC, a
limited liability company, OPENAI GLOBAL, LLC, a limited liability company, OAI
CORPORATION, LLC, a limited liability company, OPENAI HOLDINGS, LLC, a limited liability company, and DOES 1 through 100,
inclusive
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"Vias ferratas", if you're getting technical.
What I am most looking forward to is future changes in development speed. I wish the report tracked the changes over time. Were they committed as-is (which is a metric to the local quality of the suggestion) and how long does it survive (which is a metric to the global quality of the code).
NSO has been:

https://www.state.gov/the-united-states-adds-foreign-compani...
Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming
Related:

The era of cheap helium is over–and that's already causing problems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39545134
AI Is Taking Water from the Desert
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Waydroid
It does:

Clause 7 Article 6 of the DMA states:

> The gatekeeper shall allow providers of services and providers of hardware, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same hardware and software features accessed or controlled via the operating system or virtual assistant listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9) as are available to services or hardware provided by the gatekeeper.

> Furthermore, the gatekeeper shall allow business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features, regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services.
Please read the paper. The authors are using more precise and specific metrics that qualitatively measure the same thing. Instead of having exact string match being 1 if 100% correct, 0 if there is any failure, they use per-token error. The crux of their argument is that per-token error is a better choice of metric anyway, and the fact that "emergent abilities" do not occur when using this metric is a strong argument that those abilities don't really exist.

However thermal energy does not more precisely or specifically measure a phase transition. They are only indirectly linked - nobody would say that thermal energy is a better measure of state-of-matter than solid/liquid/gas. Your argument makes absolutely zero sense. Frankly it seems intentionally ignorant.
I’m a generalist who has been good to excellent at various technologies and languages over a long time but honestly am not currently sharp at many. I’ve written Python, TS, SQL and Java, with many API’s and domains in the last few weeks. I don’t remember everything so Copilot and ChatGPT are an excellent way to get me back in the game, although I often have to still identify and fix where it’s going wrong. And some fairly rare (little code online) areas it produces garbage so it’ll take you 10% of the way there and then it’s back to you.

Not perfect but invaluable.
You could use a similar method to play burned PS2 disks using a Datel (of Action Replay fame) "Swap Magic" disc and a card to pull the tray out. the Swap disk appeared as a genuine PS2 disk with bad sectors, which would cause the drive motor to stop and give some time for the swap to occur.
Logging their metrics correctly is going to take resource. Instead, just set a flag on their account which, if true, means they just see some randomised junk stats.
That's what I was thinking as well. I loved the demo, but was a bit surprised at how much redundant data was stored behind the scenes.

Capturing keystrokes could still be a viable option if you maintained something like a virtual cursor that could move around the text display area.

Or of course, diffs are the most straightforward way to do it.
I don't know if ProllyInfamous is correct about electric vehicle batteries degrading more from age than from cycling, but it is an effect that shows up in batteries. The terms to describe the effects are "cycle life" and "calendar life." Increasing calendar age can degrade batteries that just sit there without deliberate charge or discharge processes. An example would be an old package of Duracell batteries, never used, that sat in the closet for decades and lost power before they ever went into a remote control. Those batteries reached the end of their calendar life.
Wasn't that due to lightning strikes on the cables?
They are useful for links that need to outlive the infrastructure they are hosted on. Think about them as a layer of abstraction. Ie. Links in paper published to a journal like nature. It might be valid for 10 years but the links embedded in it will rot quickly as organisations change cms's, domains names change. Organisations merge and disappear.

Also places where the cost to change the url is expensive, bus shelter adverts etc.
The C and C++ languages are no longer favored by the highest American authorities. Indeed, the White House wishes for developers to use memory-safe languages.
Yes.

It feels like how auto complete should actually work, but I haven't seen any exceptional performance from Copilot.

Like with Phind, the longer the code examples, the more errors.

But it feels a more fluid when typing boilerplate heavy code, which is nice.
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> I think it's excellent when it comes to reducing boilerplate

I think the rest of your comment already elaborates this point, but I want to highlight that language models do not reduce boilerplate, they automate it. Reducing boilerplate happens by designing simpler APIs, not by making language models interface with complex APIs for you.
> Really? Who got to design that?

A committee, of course :) :) :) :) :)
It also assumes that the density of stars is constant in an infinite universe.

You can have an infinite universe, but with all the stars located in just part of it, i.e. finite mass, infinite space.

Most of the light heads off into empty space, never to be seen again.
I foresee this being the game changer that will see more companies selfhosting their own AI applications. If you can serve an entire office with just one or two LPUs, you're kinda stupid to not do it.
Self annihilation fails due to nuclear proliferation, i.e MAD. So your conclusion is backward.

But that's irrelevant anyway, because nukes are a terrible analogy. If you insist on sci-fi speculation, use an analogy that's somewhat remotely similar -- perhaps compare the development of AI vs. traditional medicine. They're both very general technologies with incredible benefits and important dangers (e.g. superbugs, etc).
Depends entirely on how close your desires are relative to the center of the bell curve.
Let’s see, he insinuated that a former gay employee was a predator…

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/elon-musk-smears-for...

One of several similar specifically anti-gay run-ins if you poke around a bit
Navigating the complexities of local development: Our journey to Tilt at Jam
Re writable CD's were pretty flaky, but regular ones were pretty solid I think.
So I guess you have a point that since Go does not even have enum’s as a formal concept, they can’t suck. But this presumes that the only context where you can criticize Go is the context that only contain’s concepts expressible in Go. This is basically saying “Go does not have enums, therefore it cannot be criticized for lacking enums”.

In the wider context of programming languages, enum is fairly well defined concept. Features like being able to convert a value to a string and do exhaustive checking on switch statements are widely implemented. The iota feature in Go is clearly imitating C’s enum keyword. It is fair to compare Go’s built-in ability to declare an enum-like type against other language’s ability to declare the concept.

To be clear, I’m not saying every language has to have every feature. I’m just saying the lack of a feature in a language is not a sufficient reason to excuse its lack.
That Marsalek works for Russian intel isn't new. Many of the details are.
It's always funny how true the Silicon Valley show turns out to be. Over, and over again.
FWIW, helium is extracted by drilling. I guess if you squint hard enough, a borehole is just a mine with a very small diameter :)

> Minnesota has turned very anti-mining in the past several years

With good reason. The Superior National Forest and Boundary Waters Canoe Area are more valuable to us than any copper or nickel deposits.

Once a tailings pond fails and poisons a watershed, there’s no going back.
The issue isn't the size of Apple's market share, it's the tying between their hardware, the OS software, and app store, such that if you choose to buy their phone, you also are locked into their app store.

Apple is not subject to market forces because Apple is not a capitalist entity, it is a feudalist one. It is not a merchant buying metal and glass to turn into phones, it is a feudal lord that has put a gate on the river that anyone passing buy has to pay 30% in order to open.
For the same reason it hasn't had any of $10 billion in military aid reduced even after acting counter to numerous US interests and values:

Politics.
Is Signal one of the other platforms they mention?
> - how would I switch between the OpenGL and Zink implementations when running an app today?

There are environment variables to control this. Or you just install one driver. Usually Zink is cool when you don't have an OpenGL driver for a specific hardware. You write a Vulkan driver and then Zink is a GL implementation that uses Vulkan.
It's no cello, but to hear that kind of sound coming from a ukulele is amazing.
Thing is, Copilot doesn't seem to take the code of the actual installed packets into account.

The moment you work with something a bit more obscure, it just guesses.

Especially with TypeScript it's kinda funny, since IntelliSense which is right there, in the IDE, tells the truth, but is completely ignored by Copilot.
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Now we see the reason for all the hype over Mistral for the last six months or so.
> The histrionical descriptions of other people's takes are like nails on chalkboard and kinda gross. (bloody murder?)

Just shows the poster read the relevant threads on this very site.
These are very US-centric, though I've not been to other countries' stations so there's probably some crossover. In two winters I've never heard anyone use fry/fried - toast/toasty is used at Pole. I imagine it's a similar set of vocabulary to within the military, especially as a lot of the naming conventions are holdovers from the Navy (e.g. we eat in the galley) and there are workplace-specific acronyms. Ice/being on ice is internationally ubiquitous though.

Also as a non-American it's quite hard to judge if there's a change in accent. We have people summering/wintering from across the country so it's a melting pot of pronunciation to start with. I think you'd be able to make a better observation from one of the bases with a much smaller population of neutral-accented people.

Skua (bin) is in that dictionary though, and that's still widely used in the US. As is toast(ed). Interestingly ice widow is referenced, though I've never heard that used.
chemical batteries don't take nearly that long to react!
If German intel serves personal data to a known fugitive from justice working with the GRU, then EU regulation is a lost cause. If anything, I want them to know as little as possible.
According to that article, it was used exactly for what it was intended for - to allow the privileged to stay away from the horrible urban masses.
Might have been a mistake? I've killed the other one as a dupe now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39565557).
Chicken Egg Production (2019) [video]
ok, but you can make that point for any law.
> Unlike open source code, there probably isn’t a market for support and similar “upsells” yet.

_Like_ most open source code, there isn’t a market for support and upsells..
I think being able to get better at things higher in the value chain does count as self development.
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Agree, that's why I only program with 1s and 0s, programming languages rob me of self development opportunities ;-)
Disputing the activities under a Delaware charter would seem to fall under the jurisdiction of the Delaware Chancery Court, not the California court Musk went to. Delaware is specifically known for it being easy for non-profits to easily tweak their charters over time:

For example, it can mean that a founder’s vision for a private foundation may be modified after his or her death or incapacity despite all intentions to the contrary. We have seen situations where, upon a founder’s death, the charitable purpose of a foundation was changed in ways that were technically legal, but not in keeping with its original intent and perhaps would not have been possible in a state with more restrictive governance and oversight, or given more foresight and awareness at the time of organization.

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Thieves also use pavers and crowbars to enter homes for robbery
You can't have closed enums without value constraints. Yes, some languages have been lazy and provided value constraints only for enum types.

Which is an interesting choice: Give a noose for developers to hang themselves with for every single other type other than enums – the types they are going to use most often – and not think twice, but then go full on helicopter parent when using enums – the one type that isn't particularly interesting.

It's a neat parlour trick, don't get me wrong, but I guess that's why almost all of the popular statically typed languages since Pascal (C, C++[1], Typescript[2], etc.) didn't bother with closed enums. They put their time into features that actually mattered to developers instead.

[1] Added later in life, granted.

[2] Ironically, does support value constraints except in the case of using enum.