skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original post was complaining about increasing density and how investment in public transport hasn't kept up. The previous poster said what about bikes, and you are now saying that bikes are not a solution to people coming from the greater Paris region. But that was not what we are talking about, we were talking about higher density (=more people) in Paris proper. Bikes are certainly a solution to transport in the high density city.
https://archive.is/gy08B
Because simpler languages are inherently better than more complicated ones.
If there was an ‘abundant supply’ most of them wouldn’t be considered such any longer, just regular geniuses, because the population average would have been raised up.
I can give you one example from recent memory: packaging tkinter dev packages with your tkinter python app. Tkinter usually requires some system dependencies on top of python dependencies.
Can I use this to translate one language to another?
Amusingly, this same topic is on Twitter at the moment, where the dominant opinion seems to be “let people communicate however they want, don’t try to change that.”

It’s Twitter, so I don’t take it particularly seriously, but I also find it ironic how the same people who will say that you must let people be themselves do not want to let me be myself. I despise small talk. My productivity plummets if I have to work in an office, because people keep talking about nothing.

If you have an actual technical question, by all means, hit me up and I’ll be happy to engage you. But otherwise, no, I’d rather just keep focusing on whatever I'm working on.
These go hand in hand.

Human spaceflight in the US today is 100% driven by the desire to militarize space.

See Gateway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway

This is all about supporting military habitation of the moon.

This reply seems to assume the argument is against space exploration in total, when it's actually against human space travel.

The idea that inter-stellar human space flight should be funded is pretty far out there...
I think everybody understand that Musk (and others) were way to aggressive on self driving stuff. What their new version can do is impressive, but as you say, Robotaxi aren't all that close.

But do think saying this demo is fake based on to aggressive timelines for self driving is a stretch.
I don't mean equality, I'm talking about the basic kind of fairness that I would hope we can all agree on.

Some children are going to grow up in abusive or neglectful homes, which isn't fair to them. Some portion of them are going to do poorly in school, which isn't really their fault, they're children. Those children then become adults who have to enter the workforce or try to get into college and be basically ranked in a lineup against everyone else, including people who had loving and supportive parents that bought them tutoring and what not. Where do we suddenly cross the line into being fair?

Repeat that situation across a variety of different attributes.

Sure everybody has to meet the same bar, but that doesn't imply the same odds of meeting it, or work to get there, or risk incurred to try. Is it fair to not build ramps on buildings because people in wheelchairs have equal access to the stairs? Is it fair to not give poor defendants attorneys because they have equal access to the market of lawyers?

I don't think equality of outcomes is desirable because of externalities, but I do think it's worth closing the gap between the haves and have nots out of deference to the inherent unfairness in the system. I don't care for the extremes of income inequality we've arrived at under the guise of the system being perfectly or mostly fair.
Had quite a few friends (and I still consider them friends even if they do not reciprocate anymore) driven off the deep end by the media's constant rage sensationalism and fearmongering.

The media is concentrated, incendiary bullshit. They are cancers upon society and I have no pity they are dying. Good fucking riddance.
Support for trailing dots got much better in recent years. Some website still completely brake.

http://microsoft.com./ is a 404 for instance. http://google.com./ redirects. https versions often give certificate errors.
Sorry but surely the idea of having a brain computer interface predates the Culture novels by many decades. Similarly, how are these books the inspiration for SpaceX? Those ideas of traveling the stars (well, planets) _absolutely_ predate the culture series.

Seems pretty obvious to me that these ideas originated long ago in the scientific world and were (beautifully) expanded upon by science fiction authors (again, many decades ago).
Sure, but we get the same thing with dividends.

If we eliminated stock buybacks tomorrow, little would be lost other than insiders wouldn't be able to use buybacks to unduly enrich themselves and people having to pay some capital gains taxes.
These home made ebike batteries regularly catch fire and burn down apartments. Quite a lot of apartments in Australia are banning taking ebikes inside now.
I'm pretty close to both my teens. But the relationship shifts. And every month you feel that they "need" you less. And they tend to go through a phase in mid-adolescence when they really make that clear, too...

If your primary answer to the question "why I'm here? what's the point?" is taking care of your kids, you're going to end up with a widening gap as they age into adulthood, move out, and you spend and spend less time with them and they become more independent.

Oh well, I'll get back to you in 5-10 years when they've fully adult-ed.
The same with auto manufacturing: lack of real competition bred complacency and then real competition came along.
Hmm, I'll power through, thanks. I do love Factorio, though.
I wouldn't be so sure it does that. Slave owners interacted with (some of) their slaves daily, and yet...
Is it EEG? or any other tech?
It also means you only get one third of the stuff done. Nothing "compiles and it works". That just means you suck at finding bugs :p
Except in this case you can't start that business without getting arrested. You can still get a license without getting arrested.

It's strange that you'd bring this false equivalence.

>I can see why a government might want to license taxi drivers.

Applying for a taxi-driver license is a whole another different thing than just having taxi mafia run your entire taxi industry. Can the said uber drivers even apply for a taxi license?
Quite a bit of this is covered in George Dyson's book 'Analogia'. I found Analogia to be interesting and well written, but lacking in overall coherence.
Almost out of the loop about Neuralink's tech. Is it EEG?
This is the key insight. I think that the reason why we have so many c++ replacement languages is because c++ is okayish for basically anything. Replacing it completely will necessitate several different languages that are good for different applications.

Okayish was fine or even necessary in the past but the industry has matured to the point where we need more purpose built tools for more specific projects.

Rust is going to be necessary but also zig, hylo, vale, p, Odin, and jai (assuming we ever get a release date). A language able to do everything that c++ can is almost definitely only able to do it all okayish.
"The development of teler IDS is currently on hold. However, we're thrilled to inform you that we've decided to take a bold step by embarking on a complete refactor, starting from scratch to enhance the overall development process."
It appears that way. These companies get all the hype. Statistically, though even in software. The most successful founders are over 51yo. But, you may have to get seed money outside of VC. B/c there does seem to be this funding bias.
Are you representing these devices to others as safe, with safety mechanisms? That is, are you selling or even giving them to people?

I hope only you are at risk from these devices (and I hope you are safe too, but that's your choice). Untested technology can't be depended on. As a rule I don't believe anything works unless I see it with my own eyes - if I swap in a new patch cable, I ping something. Safety equipment for mortal risks is on a different level.
Or you know, maybe people are too stupid to estimate probabilities like that. Our history is too short to really know what is normal and what is out of line. In geological terms, we are still very much coming out of an ice age and far from peak temperatures that we know have happened before.
China on Track to Be Ready for Taiwan Invasion by 2027, US Says
Fwiw I liked Civ 5 more, maybe give that one a go over Civ 6 if you haven't.
Funnily, I'm okay with people not working if they didn't want to. Most people would end up getting bored doing nothing after a few months and work with what they like to do anyway.
But I am finding my TickTick subscription very handy because it runs across platforms, and integrates with calendars, and provides reminders and views.

I can't do that with TXT files near as easily.
Ada is used quite often in embedded systems.

- https://blog.adacore.com/ada-on-any-arm-cortex-m-device-in-j...

- https://github.com/AdaCore/Ada_Drivers_Library
The open source clone of 5/6 is pretty fast, games take less time when it's less flashy and more responsive:
https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv
Every possible breakthrough is now a demo on Twitter without much technical context.
> `ppoll(2)` is a C library function you call.

ppoll is a real system call on all Linux systems and has been for over a decade.

> It is true that you could try to figure out whether the faulting address is within a range you thought belonged to a particular thing,

Which programs do, reliably, all the time.

> You won't get false negatives, but will get false positives.

No, you won't. Once a program wanders into la-la land of memory corruption, all bets are off anyway.
Did my thesis during these years. COVID (and remote) really messed everything in my effort to be organized, eventually I fell into procrastination, mild depression, rabbithole of organization methods, and went to a psychologist (too late I would day). I am like you: doing things alone is hard, I'm glad I'm not living alone. It push me to explore things, but still I feel like an headless chicken running randomly. Doing things in the hurry is fun, though I enjoy moment of calm too.

That said, I think nobody succeed working alone. One need discusaiona, support, structure, eventually money. From your little adventure, I see that (1) you still have motivation to work as a Dev, (2) you're bad at running business, and (3) you like teamwork.

I think give it a new try, in something that deal with emergency maybe, where you have a manager that hopefully can manage you well. It's not a start from zero, it's a start with more information about yourself and are valuable for your future manager. Knowing your limits and yourself is a valuable skill. Also go to see a therapist, you might find something too, as I did.
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The doctors I know go to conferences all the time, so I'm not sure this is 100% accurate. Many also read medical publication journals.
I’m not in your target market at this point, but in the 3D CAD space, I’ve noticed that several companies have gone with free licensing for non-commercial use, and those tools end up getting practically all of the of exposure in the maker niches on YouTube.

It seems like a smart — if long term — strategy, since today’s young hobbyists are likely going to be a significant number of tomorrow’s founders, choosing the software their companies use.

It is admittedly a little different. Hobbyists getting into 3D printing are surely more common than hobbyists designing and ordering PCBs. But the latter is more accessible to low volume customers than it’s ever been.
Didn't know that about the DoD and DoE, good to know. What was your experience and your sister's experience (and at what places) if you don't mind me asking?
Reddit prices IPO at $34 per share, the top of the range
> Hopefully there will be better alternatives (to LLMs) at some point that don’t hallucinate.

There are AIs that don’t “hallucinate” (a bad metaphor), e.g., most of the technologies developed in the previous rounds of AI – like expert systems.

I doubt that we will find more advanced, equally-or-more general AI techniques than LLMs that don’t “hallucinate”, what we’ll probably do is find better ways to build systems around LLMs (or more future AI architectures) that allow them to resolve “hallucination” better before presenting results.

It’s not as if natural intelligences don’t both literally hallucinate and, more relevant to what is described as “hallucination” in AIs, confabulate when pressed to answer without access to facts, and we know with them that grounding in physical reality via sensory data and having access to factual references doesn’t mitigate those effects (and we’ve also been able to demonstrate the latter with LLMs.)
> Founded more than 250 years ago

I wonder what the oldest company to go public is. This isn't easy to Google, because search engines want to give you the public company which is the oldest, even though that's not the same thing. I see this article about Birkenstocks, which company is apparently almost 250 years old. Surprising! But it does not mention Birkenstock being the oldest company at the time of IPO, so there must be an older one.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1198324691/birkenstock-ipo-st...
Nova, new Rust-based driver for Nvidia GPUs
Red Hat have just announced Nova, a GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs, intended as a successor to Nouveau.
Play civ 2 first. The newer civs have so much extra stuff to make it overwhelming.
In theory, you could write a full transpiler in GritQL.

In practice, it's not really the ideal tool for translating between languages.

It does work well for cases where the differences are minor (ex. converting from JavaScript to TypeScript, or between different SQL dialects).
This is much more convenient than the full game, but I always get stuck in the tutorial because I can't find a button it asks me to press :(
> It has created a culture in which checking in enormous generates files is common.

You're not required to do that, and never have been. We're going to move the grammars away from checking the generated `parser.c` in, but early in the project, it was a pretty pragmatic solution, given that many consumers of the grammars weren't using a particular package registry like NPM or crates.io.

> It abdicates common and important features in popular languages like significant whitespace to error-prone external scanners.

External scanners are the right tool for this. Nobody has proposed a better solution for this that actually works, and I don't think there is one, because every programming language with significant implements it differently.

> The GLR algorithm sometimes fails inexplicably and is essentially impossible to debug (not sure if the bugs are in the algorithm or the implementation)

It sounds like you personally have had trouble with debugging a grammar you've tried to develop, but it solves a problem.

> It bizarrely uses rust and node.

Tree-sitter isn't very coupled to node. We just shell out to a JS engine because we use JS (the most popular programming language, period) as a grammar DSL, rather than inventing our own language. Node is the most common one.

> the generated c files are insanely (probably a consequence of the GLR algorithm)

No, it's not because of GLR. A lot of the reason for the C code size is that we want to generate nice, readable, multi-line C expressions to represent data structures like parse tables, rather than encoding it in some cryptic, unreadable way. Also, incremental parsing requires that a bit more data be present in the parse table than would be required for a batch-only parser. What really matters is the code size of the final binaries. The generated `.so` or `.wasm` files for a Python parser are 503k, and 465k, respectively. The wasm gzips down to 69k. I would love to make it smaller, but there are pretty good reasons why it occupies the size that it does, and it's currently pretty manageable.

> It also uses (unless it's been updated in the last six months) a terrible algorithm for unicode lexing.

I'm not sure what you're referring to here. UTF8 and UTF16 are decoded into code points using standard routines from `libicu`.
all endeavor of sending dogs/monkeys/humans into space looks like brought very little benefits so far
Ahh, that's a good idea, thanks!
Good catch - we can add some clarification to that form.

Today JITX is for professional EEs mainly, and we don't have a lot of resources to help people learn electronics from scratch. (Still want to help the students though - this company was inspired by my grad school robotics struggles).

However a code-based approach boosts reusability enough make open-source hardware a whole lot more meaningful. So we selectively grant access to people able to use the tool effectively today who are also going to contribute to open source.

Overall, we're opening up more and more as the tech moves from special purpose to general purpose.
I can't pass the paywall but does it mention Paris is losing people? I was living in the 15th arrondissement and this family area turned into a violent zone in a couple of years as they put public housing everywhere. Drug dealers, violence at my kid school, theft... My street became a spot for druggies and I had to pass them with my kids. 15 minutes from the Eiffel tower...

I left this city 3 years ago and found safer land. All my friends did the same. There is no sane reason to stay in an area with so much violence. Parisians will deny this but will just say "you have to avoid this and that, have a pepper spray, do not wear a skirt, do not go there at night..."
Yes, that would be great. A debate even, though that would be an odd format in an encyclopedia.

In Britannica the way it is now, I've noticed that related topics are sometimes written by experts with different viewpoints, and where they overlap you can see the contours of the terrain, so to speak.
unlikely. They'd already created the prototype decks. They had the fabrication know-how in house. Sure they have in house VFX experience, but rigging the scene and trying to match lighting to reality and ultimately disappointing customers? It's a no brainer to use the real deal when you can.

Many would hire an agency to create an ad for you but that would 10x the cost, not to mention dealing with the opinions of an outsourced creative director...
> In America oer accounts for about a quarter of the consumer-price index, making it the single biggest component.

Or ~50% of total spending for most renters.

Trying to measure inflation in one way when the biggest expense (by far) is completely different for two large groups is interesting (~67% own vs ~33% rent).

If you've owned a house for a while, you should be doing fine. If not, you probably aren't.
I feel sad reading this today. This Friday will mark 10 years since my childhood best friend died by suicide. This happened when I was in my early 20's and at the time didn't quite understand how to process. I was so angry over the situation I couldn't think about it with a clear mind. Over the last 10 years I came to learn that the people around me are more important than any anger or grudge I could hold against them. All the moments I've been hurt, angry, or disappointed will never outweigh how much I care about them.
Sounds like a cool tool.

The ability to write rewrites as regular code fragments with metavariables feels like some ideas I've had in the past. However, it seems to me that your tool lacks the ability to do something like (in C/C++/etc. terms) "replace every use of S::method($arg1) with S::method2(arg1, nullptr, $arg1)", where you have to do some amount of name resolution to know that x->method is a call to S::method, which seems like it is somewhat less useful for several kinds of rewrites I'm interested in.

(One of the main things I keep playing around with in my head is converting a C codebase into C++ by converting its ad-hoc vtable implementation into regular C++ virtual methods.)
Link is 404, archive.org to the rescue:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240320213112/https://discover....
Would you do it? Filter to delete emails containing "unsubscribe"
We are launching https://vella.ai so folks don't have to resort to crazy solutions like these.
Godspeed Warden.
A Tape Echo for Anyone
When people say Apple products are secure, we’re not saying they’ll stand up to the world’s top hackers, we’re saying when we visit grandpa we won’t find that he’s installed a toolbar in his browser that’s vacuuming up his bank password every time he types it. I know that if one of my relatives installs a sketchy app suggested by a popup, it can’t sit in the background and snoop on them without even being opened. There’s no Cha$e app in the app store pretending to be the official Chase banking app.

For sure it’s still possible to “hack” someone who is using Apple products (using social engineering for instance) but entire classes of mischief are off the table because of how Apple locks things down.
and then the webserver probably recompresses again via gzip.
As with humans and touchscreens, there are potential drawbacks — some familiar (“Participants in our study often emphasized the risk of their birds’ overuse, likening their screen time needs to those of children,” the paper reads); others uniquely avian (“When asked what risks tablet applications could pose to parrots, the most common answer was ‘potential damage to the tablet.’”)

Concerns about "potential damage to the tablet" are not uniquely avian.

The videos seem to show COTS tablets in cases that have been designed for children.

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COTS: Commercial, Off-The-Shelf; a product that is commonly available for sale, and is fit for use with little or no modification.
I love mermaid so much. It’s powerful, simple, text-based, easy to put into everything.

I hope this cash doesn’t make them suck. This probably starts a ticking clock until it’s no longer simple and integratabtle into everything.

I really like being able to diff diagram versions in diff to easily see who added a node or modified something.
BlackRock Launches Its First Tokenized Fund, Buidl, on the Ethereum Network
These glyphs are indeed defined in terms of vector paths (quadratic or cubic Bezier splines depending on the font format), but it’s rarely a good idea to directly render these shapes to display text.

Performance optimizations mentioned in the other comments is not the sole reason. Another one is visual quality.

Direct rendering of these vector glyphs would look good on high DPI displays and/or for very large font sizes. For normal-looking text on typical displays you won’t achieve great results without hinting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting

Another quality related problem is subpixel rendering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering Just like hinting, hard to solve while directly rendering vector shapes.
I don't agree, but let's pretend you're right. What will then? No sense in dismissing the idea without an alternative.
I suppose the conclusion, "the biggest picture is that OER inflation is running well above pure rent inflation (see chart)...it may well the deter the Fed from cutting interest rates anytime soon" may be relevant today, but when I see the chart over time, I see that the entire concept of OER inflation is completely out of touch with reality, and that if they were observing observed rent instead they wouldn't have been so far behind the ball on inflation. Not sure if paying attention to observed rent now makes up for ignoring it earlier yet.
It is a fundamental problem with how gpt works.
This thread, for example, is on the HN front page right now: https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1bii6h4/if_gravity...

Reading the comments, I would say there are plenty of intelligent users still on the platform willing to continue contributing for free.