skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The function without the apparatus.

Everyday, all across the country - we pay teachers to teach and assess their students. Those assessment results aren’t trustable for benchmarking and ranking students, so we have standardized testing.

Obviously, yes - one intention of this concept is that it serves the same function as standardized testing, but it does so while eliding the externalities of cost and single, high stakes exams by allowing classroom assessment - made and proctored by the instructors during their standard lessons - to become trustable.
Pet peeve, by why do people persist in using wide aperture closeups to test resolution? If almost everything in the frame is out of focus, then duh, you're not going to notice much difference between 'high resolution' and 'very high resolution'.
To quote the article:

> Inspired by some similar images shared by Tim Wallace in 2020, we’ve created a series of black-and-white composite renderings of some of the points of flux in the global energy system. Created in Google Earth Engine, these pictures are effectively annual timelapse images based on Sentinel-1’s radar, consisting of multiple snapshots taken by the satellite across 2023.

Not sure if the wind farm images are also composites (wouldn't make a lot of sense), but those of shipping lanes definitely are...
Don't high dpi screens consume more power as well?
These are composites, although it's not clear exactly how many images are composed to build the final view.
The CEO has been on the board for much longer than 4 years though. And I agree that losing the CEO isn’t going to fix things. But putting leadership there that places safety above share value will. And the CEO is part of that leadership that needs to change.
Not true at all, USA begin to care about it too with foreign companies(TikTok) gaining traction in the American market. Up until now, these tech giants were all American and therefore under American control in American jurisdiction. For EU, it was always the case that the dominant tech giants were foreign - only setting up shops in EU for tax purposes. Besides EU, other countries have protections in place too.
>My first approach at this LaTeX generation is quite simple: align left if the message is from me and right otherwise

Isn't that backwards?
The EDID standard does actually support that, but I don't think it ever saw much if any adoption.

https://glenwing.github.io/docs/VESA-EEDID-DDDB-1.pdf (page 13)
Isn't this handled by 'purity' of functions?

It seems like the big idea here is that Int->Int always, no errors, faults, 'impact by extra data'.

Isn't that all also solved by pure functions? And is incorporated into functional languages at this point?
> The biggest risk to an evolving system is that you become bogged down by experts from a world that no longer exists.

I see that a lot at large financial institutions. Their architecture teams are often comprised of lifers that have never worked in a different industry, or for a different employer. They're experts in how the bank does things, not how the rest of the tech world does things now, and innovation gets stifled.
I would fail your interview. I assume interviews are for what I do/don't know. So I honestly say what I don't know, and would not offer to find out. Not right then anyway.

Unless you make it very clear at the outset of the interview that this is exploratory and we will be working with network connectivity and full access to the world's knowledge.

I have sent followups to interviewers on problems that were interesting or deep, but those conversations never turned into anything.
Yep. This happened in the most recent acquisition I experienced.
Potentially Inhabited Moon Is Churning Out Enough Oxygen for 1M Humans
Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language
Hi HN! I’m Gabriel, and I’m happy to share a project I’ve been working on for the last few years: Flyde, an open-source visual programming language. Check out the interactive examples and online playground on the website: https://www.flyde.dev.

In my last role as an engineering manager for a B2B-oriented product, I authored and reviewed many diagrams for backend applications, mostly for integrations between 2 third-party services. Some of these diagrams were elaborate enough that I started dreaming of a way to simply run a diagram as is; I imagined a “run” button on the top-right corner of the screen that would execute the diagram without the need to translate it into code.

That led me down a rabbit hole of exploration and experimentation, from tools like Zapier, Pipedream and Make, which are great for automating “backoffice” stuff, and up to NodeRED, NoFlo.js and the great work of J. Paul Morisson on Flow-Based Programming. I failed to find a tool that would answer my needs - a tool that balances a new level of abstraction, manages to stay powerful and flexible, and most importantly, integrates with the existing ecosystem, and doesn’t replace it. I built Flyde as an attempt to answer that need.

Flyde is designed to complement and enhance traditional textual coding, not to replace it. It includes a VSCode extension, it seamlessly integrates with existing TypeScript/JavaScript code and can run on Node.js and in the browser.

I believe that as we delegate more coding tasks to AI, we’ll assume the role of an architect rather than a programmer. This shift will require tools that focus more on orchestration and high-level troubleshooting and less on low-level functionality.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on Flyde’s direction!
everyone can see enough of what you wrote, bbye.
I have been going to Steamboat since 1981. I had a friend who bought a townhome there in the late 1980's for 400K. He sold it in the early 90's for a small profit. Now that townhome is worth 4 million. I have two friend from college that still live in the area but can't afford to live in Steamboat. They live 30 minutes away but the cost of living is still very high.
I've tried to compile Libcello with cosmopolitan with little to no success, I don't think the Ruby runtime will be any easier sadly.

Could also be a skill issue.
> Be on the lookout for the signs discussed above, as well as other, unusual activity, which could mean something big is about to happen!

While it can be fun to fantasize about what every little oddity means, I’d recommend against making this a priority in your daily life. If you find yourself that distracted from your work, it’s a good time to dust off your resume anyway, regardless of if M&A forces you to.
Claude 3 catches researchers testing it
And a statistical model that does the same, but in worse, is not?
Opencv does not exist since yesterday.
You may not know, but China has also adopted pretty elaborate privacy laws called Personal Information Protection Law(PIPL) which is pretty close to GDPR.
The Cost of Using Managed Databases – InfoQ
I learned about reka.ai from this post; their LLMs don’t seem to have been discussed much on HN yet [1]. So, out of curiosity, I spent the last hour testing prompts with their chat interface [2] in comparison with ChatGPT 4, Gemini Advanced, Claude 3, and Mistral Large. I put the results at [3]. Overall, Reka Flash doesn’t seem significantly worse or better than the others. A lot more testing would be necessary to be sure, of course.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://chat.reka.ai/chat

[3] https://gally.net/temp/20240307llmcomparison.html
Car Anatomy
This is my site!
This was a pleasant surprise to find my own site on Hacker News this morning! I glad why it was getting a few more likes than usual day to day.

I'm happy to answer anything questions.

I finished a big work last year so any feedback is welcome.

I've previously written a little about the project:

https://www.newkidscar.com/

https://www.newkidscar.com/category/how-a-car-works/

Current traffic is 30k uniques a month and it's taken about 5 years of steady growth to reach that point.
Seems like installing something to catch trawling nets would be the more reasonable approach.

I can see sinking something like tetrapods[0] to make trawling impossible. Possibly redesigned to really catch on nets.

[0] https://alchetron.com/cdn/tetrapod-ba7fec0e-ec32-4278-adf3-f...
> We've also seen no credible evidence...

We have seen plenty of credible evidence. Just, no evidence that you will accept.
Launch HN != product launch
Wikipedia over DNS (2008)
This still works!
Appreciation post for the team behind Cal.com
Just came across them now and what an amazing and simple idea. Open-source closed, but effective tools.
No, the guy who kept saying you should buy the Model 3 because it will get level 5 FSD around the corner, and you'll be able to use it as a robotaxi and the car will pay for itself.

The guy who said "fuck advertisers" in public even though his X business depended on them.
I moved here, but I love this about Australia. There's a lot of boot-licking in corporate settings, but one of my first experiences here was someone holding the door open on a train for fun, preventing us from leaving the station. Back home, this would have been a huge ordeal while we waited for the police or someone to arrive, as we all quietly waited and tried to avoid making a scene.

But in Australia, the driver got out of the front carriage and screamed "OI, DICKHEAD!" and that rapidly resolved the issue.
I love the artwork on this Minuteman blast door:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Minutema...
I don't understand the '99th percentile' aside as a way to convince HN readers that the commenter wasn't cheating.

Rather, I take it as an expression of personal pride (in the positive sense) that there was such incontrovertible evidence that the commenter had no need to cheat in the first place, told with the satisfying (but probably unrealised) hope that the people who unjustifiably accused the commenter of cheating were later aware of the top marks he or she achieved after taking the exam in person.
You do know that the vast majority of Muslim people live in countries that don't have any higher hatred of the USA than the average person, right? The largest Muslim country is Indonesia, followed by Bangladesh and Pakistan. So religion has nothing to do with this.

The fact that Palestine is ruled by extremists is not a happenstance, it is a direct consequence of how the Palestinian people have been treated after the war. They lived under full military occupation until 2005, for close to 30 years. Is it any wonder that they became extremists?

What we are seeing are the exact same consequences of the Versailles agreement after WW1, with Germany becoming more and more radicalized because of the extreme economic conditions until a deranged lunatic came to power. This didn't repeat after WW2 exactly because, instead of occupying the defeated countries or imposing harsh economic penalties (both of which Israel did to Palestine after the war) we helped them build up.

Were there terrorists and radicalized groups in the Palestinian territories immediately after the war as well? Of course. But they were fringe groups, and were to be expected when so many had been displaced from their homes. They would have quieted down if the next 30 years had been full of economic growth, instead of military occupation and deprivation.
And never ever joke about firing someone.

Even if there's some technicality where we 'fire' you and rehire under a different entity, don't start the announcement with 'you're all fired. Ha ha, not really'. The cannon anxiety is real.
Whatsapp on Android lets you export a chat with or without media (images etc), but it limits the number of messages. With media you get the last 10k messgaes, and without you get the last 40k. Emojis are preserved though.

See https://faq.whatsapp.com/1180414079177245/?cms_platform=andr...

The limits are supposedly due to email size limits but, as they also apply when exporting to non-email endpoints like Google Drive, I suspect they're more to do with preventing people from moving their chats to other services.

And yes, the db is encrypted.
Article said households are not the major share of GDP. So is it the govt?? Who has all this excess savings?
Dunning Kruger is relevant in the context of the linked article but is not relevant in the context of the parent comment.
the big Idea is that the language is non-Turing complete and termination can be proven (and co-data is used for non-terminating programs).
Makes sense from a Nikon perspective: I have to pay anyway, over period X that amounts to sum Y, put that next the acquisition price and the estimatebof how long you want to use the tech you are paying for and there is your business case.

Plus, you get new business and a new product range you don't have yet. That alone justifies an acquisition.
Forced to remove Elixir by parent company, not doing it willingly
I made a convenient API service to chunk files for RAG
In my experience developing RAG-based applications, I was surprised to find that there aren't any simple, reliable ways to chunk files.

I ended up implementing my own chunking system that includes deep positioning data like page index and bounding box coordinates for every chunk.

You can try it out for free here (no account/api key required):

https://filechipper.com

Would any of you be interested in something like this? Let me know!
You pretty much answered your own question: compared to the size of the coast, the amount of energy these wind farms capture is negligible. You might see a reduction of power if you built a dense farm up and down an entire coast, but even then, the ocean is big compared to these farms.

Edit to add: the Hornsea wind farm featured in this article is 2.5 GW and about 400 sq miles. [0]. The total energy capacity of existing generation assets is on the order of 7,500 GW [1]. Let's double that, so 15,000 GW, which would be about 2,400,000 sq miles. There's 1,015,756 linear miles of coast [2]. We know Hornsea is roughly square, so a 20 mile deep set of turbines doesn't interfere with each other, so that gives us ~20,000,000 sq miles of usable coast for wind, and again, if we double the existing electrical generation for the earth, we'd cover 2,400,000 sq miles. (obviously not all of that is usable, but we're talking orders of magnitude here) There's really no conceivable situation where we'd build enough wind farms to interfere with each other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsea_Wind_Farm

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267358/world-installed-p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean
Easy is debatable, unless you have a huge fleet of helicopters (or maybe drones, because hey, it's the 21st century for some parts of the world). I've been to Mongolia, the vast emptiness is amazing, the article talks about roads but most of it is unpaved dirt track in the steppe. Now imagine a thick layer of snow covering that...
The summary is very high quality! Thanks for that.

I think the thing I'd like most is if the AI could "cite" its source (i.e. provide a timestamp of when exactly the statement was made that it's summarizing) directly inline in the summary (vs. only in the transcript).

Similarly to how they're used in AI-powered search (e.g. Perplexity), inline citations would help me easily cross-reference statements and gain confidence that the summary is accurate and the information can be relied on.
There’s still dissident republican and loyalist groups getting up to bullshit criminality and committing attacks on the regular.

The PIRA may have disbanded, but there are still active splinter groups.
Bluetooth Beacons and Augmented Reality
A few years ago I built an indoor navigation prototype that allowed users navigate indoors using Bluetooth beacons and augmented reality. I spent a lot of time researching the use cases of Bluetooth low energy and wanted to build a solution to help me navigate retail stores and malls in the US. Their immense size made it difficult to locate items.

I’m actively seeking product manager/associate product manager opportunities. I’m based in the UK. Email : sdmembere@gmail.com
If someone just wanted to be a "propagandist" they wouldn't need to be in Gaza and risk their lives to report from first hand. And we are talking about journalists who have citizenship from many parts of the world.
You're conflating the operating system with the hardware there. My PCs are not beholden to any of those companies
> to make programming more
closely related to mathematics

Why is this taken as a given to be a good thing? Our hardware has state. Any IO is a side effect, so what's the non trivial use case for "pure functions" all the way down?

I think FP paradigms can be useful in specific problem domains, I'm skeptical of the general utility (vs resource spend) of strong FP languages.
Yeah, the article is talking about smart people but truly smart people realize all of these issues and therefore the article in reality talks about those who seem or believe they are smart even though they really are not.
Recollection =|= Understanding
My spouse bought a new laptop running Windows 11.
Every few days some new auo updating feature breaks some legacy process she uses in her work. Printing, browsing, file search, desktop or taskbar arrangements, all have fallen. I come in to fix the problem. Every time there's an update waiting for a restart the computer won't print until after the restart.

This is a real problem for non technical users who depend on the computer for their home office needs and don't have a dedicated IT ream.
> Did you know that Israel tried to give Gaza back to Egypt and West Bank back to Jordan?

This is revisionist history - Gaza was never even part of Egypt! [0] Netanyahu's plans for "Greater Israel" (which includes the West Bank and Gaza) also run contrary to this claim.

> Israel doesn't want it

Israel's actions say otherwise. And let's not forget that Israel continues to illegally occupy land in Lebanon and Syria - they absolutetly want more land, and Gaza would be perfect for a port, some nice beachfront properties etc.

Also, why have they built a road bisecting Gaza? Why are many Israelis discussing the occupation of northern Gaza like it's a done deal? Why are Israelis holding meetings to plan building settlements in Gaza, attended by gov ministers? Why has Israel given out deals to oil companies for fields off the north coast of Gaza?

[0] https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/81796
Babel towers of macro edsls, aka learn lisp. https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Dupe of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39627240
Is a person who is aware of analysis paralysis smarter or dumber than the person who is a victim to analysis paralysis ?

I would argue that the person is not truly smart if they get analysis paralysis.
CorPower Ocean announces wave energy breakthrough
A truly fantastic read for me as it relates to my week over week woes working for a software company that is striving to be the top in it's industry and eventually purchased. Being involved in leadership here, I see the anecdotes being sold down about criticisms or decisions being made by truly remarkable 'uncredentialed' people and hear things from the old blood like:

"Well, bob such and such thinks a lot of things, but he really doesn't have that much experience or understand the code base or customer needs"

or

"He's obnoxious and do we really think he knows what X customer wants, get Suzy on it from leadership to show the powerpoint on what we are planning, Bob isn't good at selling the vision".

It ends up 6 months later that we end up messing up that feature and Bob ends up being the one right all along and we are doing it anyway and the original feature or design was just from the leaders own head, entirely missing the mark.
The liquid water absorbs most of the radar wave (at least for the C band, as is the case of sentinel-1). Thus, in the images it appears natively "black". When there are a lot of waves, the surface of the water forms some spurious reflectors that appear as a light texture in the surface, but the signal is definitely less powerful than metal/concrete reflectors of buildings and ships. Notice that in the "Humber" image of TFA you can appreciate some texture in the water. The contrast in this image has been exaggerated a lot, which saturates most of the land.
People shouldn't be able to block others developing useful technologies just based on some scifi movie fears.

Just like people shouldn't be able to vote to lock up or kill someone just because - people have rights and others can't just vote the rights away because they feel so.
Part of modern university training is making exercises as unrelatable as unpractical as possible, so that students are relieved to find their commercial work simply boring and repetitive afterwards.
> junior devs write far too complex code

…

> I think there's often a disconnect

Maybe you were already saying this, but learning how to write just enough of the least complex code is a skill acquired through experience, which naturally junior developers don’t yet have. It’s the pain of maintaining over engineering and needlessly complex code and attacking tech debt that develops the skills to avoid such things in the future. No better teacher for those things :)
I think and I don't speak for him, but he's saying he writes simple code because he's stupid, which is different from saying simple code is stupid, because smart people can also choose to write simple code.

Op may be too harsh on himself but it's an open possibility that he may also be honest and accurate in his own self assessment.
Reminds me of Pokémon Go spoofers. It falls to having to trust that the client is truthfully reporting. You could probably improve the AIS system and do the whole Apple Find My network crowdsource thing - letting ships triangulate one another. But you’re still trusting signals that can be spoofed
My understanding is that they had to break the ToS to take it to court. I mean they could have taken it to court anyway but they wouldn't have had standing.
No; purity is an orthogonal notion.
Haskell functions are pure in that given the same arguments, a function always produces the same output.
But Haskell functions can be partial; for some arguments there is no output, or the output is undefined.

Turner proposes a language for pure total functions.
If you're going to make the claim that credible evidence exists, please do share it. Genuinely, I haven't seen anything credible.
I own touchba.se and use it to set up meetings/calls. @Circleback team you could take it on the cheap, but I think Circleback makes a lot more sense for your company.
Yeah it would have happened regardless. US Americans think it wouldn't because they think politics necessates lobbyism and expect that if a European company were in a similar position to Apple then obviously the EU would be lobbied by them to let them keep pillaging.
You can buy them OTC in most of western Europe.
Nobody (at least, not me) is calling for the Linux foundation to do additional work.

They've taken it upon themselves to assign a CVE to every bugfix, and it's being pointed out that that doesn't seem to be helping anyone.
As you say, you cannot make a 100% side-effect free program, unless it doesn't do anything at all.

But I do think it's valuable to aim for as side-effect-free as possible, and concentrate the statefulness into certain part(s), rather than spread out all over the place, which is the typical way typical.
Definitely not "simple code is stupid".
Extensive travel required

No shit! You'll be telling me the perks are out of this world next.
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.10.4/faq.html...
Using an model that was trained with random data with different licences is in my opinion more legal dangerous than an library that represents the current status of image processing and you can't patent the current state of the art.