skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick is to make sure the piers are not removed. For example, the new Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge (rebuilt after a similar disaster):

> In addition to a wider shipping lane, the channel would be marked by a 1⁄4 mi (400 m)-long series of large concrete barriers, and the support piers would be protected by massive concrete "dolphins".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge#/media/...
This situation is terrible, but to your specific question:

Anyone can build a bridge, but it takes an engineer to barely make it stand.
It's a text file. All your numbers were already strings. Nothing has changed.
Nice name :)

(For all the non-German speakers: "Zwerg" means "dwarf" and "c" is pronounced the same as "z".)
Because, as it happens with a lot of apps, the developer teams, product managers or whoever with decision powers are not users of their own applications.
Also check some of the forks of Deej; some already implement this in a DIY form
Sort of correct - except that the software to reliably decode VHS took some time to get right, and there still are regular improvements to the vhs-decode github repo.

For a long time a great S-VHS deck, professional Time-Base-Corrector and so on from a TV studio, was the better option over vhs-decode software, especially on bad tapes. But now, I'd go with vhs-decode any day.
the current top post on the frontpage is "Radios, how do they work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813679 is a straight up technical post about a field that is, verily, one among the remaining instances of black magic. You can say things like 'superheterodyne' and it's not even made up - people have been making antennas for a century+. You just have to get past the ICP meme reference title.

The arweave HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461631) I see is 5 years old and is a generic company/investor brochure puff piece vaguely promising something 'forever', a thing with a far poorer track record.

These are hardly in the same category of HN post and the comparison doesn't seem to do your argument any favours.
A lot of scientists are very bright people that can't invest the time to learn another tool that maybe is worse than Excel (e.g. Google Docs also does the gene-to-date swapping, try writting "SEPT2", the known gene [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPT2] in a cell), investing time and effort in changing pipelines that work for them.

Instead, the path of least resistance is to change the name of all known genes that cause problems with Excel. Biologist are changing and adding names all the time, so it's not like this is new. E.g. https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q04609/entry#names_and_tax... shows you a gene with 5 names.
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CSVs won the war. No vendor lock in and very portable.

I wish TSVs were more popular though. Tabs appear less frequently than commas in data.

My biggest recommendation is to avoid Excel! It will mangle your data if you let it.
> Basically, there is no technical solution to a legislative problem.

Although it's definitely true, the alternative (pseudo-)solutions additionally push the legislation to improve.
A lot of analysis is done using CSVs being pushed in and out of Excel. Doing so strips the formatting. Please understand the workflows being crying “skill issue”.
What kinds of posts get selectively removed?

Can you give some broad examples?
Affected, yes. That's not the same as "no food". Having farmers in the Netherlands is not a binary choice.
In this thread:

People who don't understand that excel is just a tool, which is useful but has flaws, arguing with people who don't understand that experts care about solutions not the tools, in which case it might be ok to compromise something unimportant, like the _name_ of something.

What these two sides have in common is the contempt for the actual experts for not building a tool that HN could build but wouldn't know how to use.

Peak HN.
> since when a company capable of routinely acquiring other established companies for tens of billions of dollars a startup

The acquisition was for “several hundred million pounds”, nowhere near tens of billions of dollars.
Sure, it’s not the most common problem to experience, just something that’s useful to know once you have more and more clients. It did happen to me, all connections used up for long running transactions (for multiple reasons) and then nothing else was able to run, CPU and I/O nearly idling at <5%, no significant lock contention.
If AMD fixes or open sources their proprietary firmware blob[0]. Geohot streamed all weekend on Twitch, reverse engineering the AMD firmware. It was quite entertaining learning about how that low level hardware firmware works[1] and his rants about AMD of course.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tinybox-Radeon-Again-UMR

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/georgehotz
I would say the damage is about the same, The ship knocked down a pier and all spans connected to the pier went down. The difference is, on the baltimore bridge is that the spans are a lot longer. But all other spans(the ones nearly out of frame) are still standing.
There was a BBC Four documentary about his archive. I think in that it reported that he was one of the first people in the UK to own a VHS device with the facility to record.
Except that the premise of ChatGPT is that it "knows" things, and that you can ask it about these things in specific ways and it will answer.

Further, that knowledge represents a vast body of training data that certainly includes the rules of chess, how pieces move, etc. This is verifiable. Go ask ChatGPT those questions now. How does a bishop or rook move? Can a piece move through or over another piece, etc. What is en passant? When can it be employed? You will find that it answers these correctly, and even provides examples. It talks about ranks and files, and authoritatively sprinkles in other knowledge related to the questions.

But, then you put a board in front of it and you ask it to make moves, and it doesn't adhere to these rules. You're not asking it to win the game. Just make a legal move. But it cannot, even while confidently responding with invalid moves.

So, it's not about whether it's been tuned to be a grandmaster. It's about whether it can even execute on the knowledge it clearly possesses.

Now, turning back to your analogy with a human player. You ask Gary all of these questions and he gives you the answers perfectly, so you recognize that his factual knowledge is intact. But, despite his best efforts, he repeatedly makes illegal moves. You would have to conclude that there is some problem with reasoning or understanding what those facts actually mean in practice.

That is the difference between appearing to understand and actually understanding. And certainly, there are some humans who fit this "appearance" description as well, perhaps through some processing deficit or otherwise. But as a broad category, this is something humans do quite well.

The concept of understanding is really not complicated. When we explain something to someone and we ask the question "do you understand?", we're not asking whether they can memorize or repeat back what we just told them. We're asking something else. That something else is the well-understood (irony intended) meaning of "understand".
I guess that was written before the Hammer-as-a-Service craze.
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Reminds me of

> Knowledge is Power - France is bacon.
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Interesting Read
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> As an aside: Azure is a pain to use with Terraform as its API endpoints seem to be an order of magnitude slower than the equivalent GCP or AWS APIs, so things like `terraform plan` can throw you out of flow even on modestly sized projects. Going back and forth between Azure and other clouds is night and day.

If it reassures you, their own tooling uses the same APIs so everything is slow by definition. Also, their security posture is a joke with multiple (around 10?) cross-tenant vulneabilities in the past 2 years, many of which were trivial to exploit.
An ai tool allows you to chat with data and instantly generate visual charts and download Word reports, simplifying analysis process
That's too much work. Nobody have time for doing or learning that.

Sounds like a joke, but it isn't. I know scientists who think exactly like that.
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I don't really see why:

public class TestJIT {
public static void main(String[] args) {
for (int i = 0; i < 20_000; i++) {
payload();
}
}

public static int payload(int a, int b) {
return a + b;
}
}

shouldn't be optimized into a 'no-op'. The end-effect is the same.
Sorry, can't understand, and that excuse is unacceptable. It's totally a skill issue, and a failure of it, and a laziness of these 'scientists'.

You'd expect scientists - people working to understand the nature of reality - to have some base competency about how they measure reality. Could have at least used a database for things like this; moreover any decent database can often import from CSV and export to CSV as well. Excel is not at fault here; the 'scientists' are.
> yet HN people in general don't hate on cash

Cash is more dominant than crypto, and while lower incomes are also over represented among its most-frequent users, it doesn’t show as much of a spike among specific generations [1].

People advocating cash use aren’t preying on anyone to get rich. There is no inherent gambling feature built into it. And it’s obviously used in a lot of legitimate circumstances for legitimate reasons.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/05/more-amer...
In any system that uses mmap or swap it's a meaningless distinction anyway (which is obviously nearly all of them outside of embedded RTOS). Accessing even something like the stack can trigger implicit/automatic IO of arbitrary complexity, so the concept of a function that doesn't do IO is meaningless to begin with. Async/await isn't justified by any kind of interesting type theory, it exists to work around limitations in runtimes and language designs.
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Inkscape is quite good actually. But GIMP is lightyears away from ever being in the same league. We need an open source Photoshop and Publisher program.
SQL and XML have schemas, and they're to a large extent human readable, even to people who aren't developers. If storage is cheap, compression isn't very important.

I've never come across this Parquet-format, is it grep:able? Gzip:ed CSV is. Can a regular bean counter person import Parquet into their spreadsheet software? A cursory web search indicates they can't without having a chat with IT, and SQL might be easier while XML seems pretty straightforward.

Yes, CSV is kind of brittle, because the peculiarities with a specific source is like an informal schema but someone versed in whatever programming language makes this Parquet convenient won't have much trouble figuring out a CSV.
I like this quote. We have a medieval bridge near to our house (1000 years old perhaps), it's incredibly solidly built, but could you call it well-engineered?

It's a subtle distinction that I don't think many in the digital realm quite grasp either i.e. far too many over-engineered technical solutions for features and products that aren't even desired
You cannot put the entire weight of the 70's safety culture to an engineer "showing off"

I bet there was a much more complex and nuanced analysis which included crossing ship dimensions, budget, time to completion, available technology, composition of the local seabed etc..

Designing a bridge is proper engineering and not that easy.
Yes, but you can create a small macro to the change the formatting and assign that to your table. Your CSV should import deterministically. That's not impossible to do.

I saw a complete analysis engine written as an Excel file, which accepts and exports CSVs cleanly. It can be done.
Ordinary libraries can only lend as many copies as they have at a time, and eventually have to replace them (due to wear and tear or e-licensing conditions). In some countries the author also receives a dividend for every loan
This whole subthread is a five bagger.
Yeah I've encountered url parsing problems on hn before too -- it pays to always check your links. It forgot the . too, which made it think the url was over! You can use percent encoding in such cases -- . is %2E and ) is %29:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Bridge_(Washington,_D.C%...
Shannon was pretty ridiculous. He basically invented information theory, proved all the major theorems involved, and applied it to communications and error-correction codes. If you work in RF you can't do much without encountering his work. (It did take a while before anyone figured out how to get close in practice to the limits he proved, though)
Its very much part of the brand of the company.

Its similar to film scores to film/tv. Its not immediately noticeable to most people unless you take it away.

for example if you play the benny hill theme during lord of the rings fight scenes, it completely changes the feel of the scene. Whilst not as powerful, if you change the font for bbc/nyt/$other news org to comic sans, it has an equally powerful effect.

So just use an obscure free font?

For a lot of large companies, "free" fonts aren't free. They need to be licensed. If you're going to do that, you might as well just make your own. The upfront cost _might_ be comparable, but the ongoing costs are almost zero. Also you don't need to re-license if you make an new app or something similar. For about $50k you can have a font of your choice, which is free to use as you wish. Moreover you can create derivatives without getting into trouble.

I'm not sure how much it costs to license a font for something like a newspaper/online site. But its not insignificant.

Its also another way you can wield a ban hammer if someone is ripping off your work.
> I suspect he was... as a patent clerk.

I believe he managed to work on patents only in the morning..
Unless the faders are motorized, which I believe are expensive, I don't see how you can make that thing work reliably without some nasty surprises.

What happens if you change the levels through software and your faders do not move?

I would just have used rotary encoders.
It depends on conditions. You can think of various ways to gather more of them as cars get fancier, and other ways to part exceptions from a habit of bad driving to make sure that any case reported to a human isn't a waste of their time.

Then for what goes through you've got a system to challenge fines already - something completely mandatory in such a system and which can only be achieved in a powerful democratic state
Still they were, and they were pretty successful at it before the US ban...
ultrech is really nice. we (my family and i) are thinking about moving to either there or hague in a few years (we are currently in ams, but we are not staying since property values are way too high).
Yes, this! Google Docs is basically basic. But imagine if, years ago, Google had added built-in LLM-based auto-complete and refactoring and summation tools to documents and presentations etc, years ago...

Oh to dream.
Not available for India ?
We, as CS people, think computers are easy. However, for other disciplines, computers are not easy.

We can try to (and do) create tools, but it's not as simple as a table editor or a simple CRUD application. Scenarios has many peculiarities and edge cases.
Parts of the Francis Scott Key Bridge not connected to the hit pylon went down too. The beam structure above the road that supports the whole thing collapsed and took down other spans.
What are you hoping to convince me of? I did some further research but didn't find anything that would make me not want to watch his YouTube channel. e.g. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2821079/internetshield...
Never mind that just about everyone either calls it "Twitter" or "X (formerly Twitter)" anyway.
Avoiding both Telecom regulations across countries and avoiding SMS costs (this is one of Signal’s large expense-head as reference) is genius.
> Most importantly, it’s fun

As an insider to the market making industry[1] I find it deeply unfun. I've long thought that Id take less money for more intellectually stimulating work.

[1] in real markets, not mickey mouse crypto markets.
Possible Open Source CUDA Alternative by Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, Google?
Turns out that a tool you have is always better than a tool you don't have.
Could it be that the power going off and on, and the smoke came from a panicky attempt to recover from a mistake and avoid hitting that bridge ?
Very clever analogy!
Resolve is so much better than Premiere. Resolve doesn’t crash half the time
I just got the EcoTank one and it doesn’t use cartridges AND I can see the ink level. For my use cases it ticks all the boxes.
Spinner-mouse: Arduino-based USB rotary controller for Arkanoid, Tempest, etc.
AM peak detector is probably the easiest and primitive AM demodulator: it's basically made by a diode, a capacitor and a resistance. I implemented it when I was in the high school and I was making the first physics experiments.

The idea behind this demodulator is quite easy: the diode filters out all of the negative part of the signal, then the positive signal charge the capacitor and the energy is released in a quite constant way (R*C must be several order of magnitude higher than 1/f where f is the carrier frequency) during the negative signal "hole".
There are quite simple ways to reverse this kind of obfuscation though, like shown here: https://steakenthusiast.github.io/2022/06/14/Deobfuscating-J...
The POSIX spec defines portable and non-portable ASCII characters, prudently placing the separators in the non-portable set. In order to nest tables, base64 (or whatever portable encoding) code the table into the field. This works much better, easier and more error-free than any escaping strategy.

Regarding visibility in editors, if you are nesting tables I don't think you care too much about manual editing, but if you do, it is easy to setup vim/emacs/vscode to display the ASCII separators. I am being told even notepad++ can display those, there are no excuses.
"but could you call it well-engineered"

If it is still standing after 1000 years, I would say yes. You cannot build a bridge out of stones with bad engineering - it would collapse under its own weight.

edit: does "well engineered" now means over engineered to some?
> Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.

...in other words.
In this thread: guy pretends to think he's different from the rest, and is able to distinguish the "key issue" unlike everyone else - and of what purportedly doesn't matter, like the name of something.
Just as an overview I recently researched for a new printer but of all the reviews, HP comes out last by a mile. I think the smartprint was mentioned a lot, then Canon (especially the low budget ones) , Epson/Brother are kind of tiered.
Yes, I have seen that argument often. I agree number of CVEs is a very rough metric. However, I am still confused as to why none of Chrome's CVEs would be Brave's CVEs?
You're a great educator!

I'm surprised that other people here cannot separate their subjective opinions, whether they agree with your judgment, from fact, whether you're a good educator.

It would be more reasonable to say: A good educator would help students understand that PDF files should have a small file size, and if a student fails to notice that, you will have to downgrade them for lack of attention to important detail.

And, of course the acquisition is bad news.
Americans are the only people I've encountered that seem to celebrate the dystopian monopolized unfree market that we're headed towards.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if Canva has people to distort social media to downvote anyone who disagrees with them, as other companies do.
There must be an historical case where someone had to prove that they are not dead, no ?
You have searched for photoshop in packages names and descriptions in
suite(s) bookworm, all sections, and all architectures (including
subword matching). Found 9 matching packages.

Package abr2gbr

bookworm (stable) (graphics): Converts PhotoShop brushes to GIMP
1:1.0.2-5: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x

Package gimp

bookworm (stable) (graphics): GNU Image Manipulation Program
2.10.34-1+deb12u2: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x

:

https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bookworm&section=al...
Oh, had I known back then the insanity that was about to unfold I wouldn't have deleted my 'internet toy money' wallet. Probably had one or two coins in it.

And this guy... :(
In that case IA can write their own books
> Adobe software is just better.

I won't be installing that invasive spyware suite to my system even if they pay me monthly to use the software. It's that bad.
I think it would have been prudent to disclose in your comment that you're head of product for this tool, per your bio
Famously on that front, the Terraform AWS provider gets new features before CloudFormation does.
I would guess none. No bridge span could survive complete loss of it's supporting abutment. Some bridges are engineered to survive partial loss. For example if the left side goes the right side will hold it up. But from the video the ship looks like it took out the entire supporting structure.
Do you think that someone at the FBI, inspired by https://xkcd.com/2910/, will be checking the IP addresses of the Wikipedia editors who got there before the ambulances did?
> Scientists rename genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates

I thought they fixed that bug. Oh wait, this is Microsoft. /s
Collision with what? I'm pretty sure that with a sufficiently massive ship sailing fast enough, one could take down any bridge. Hence I'd think there are limits which ship may approach at a given speed. Was one of those limits perhaps exceeded?
I just watched the footage. It's pretty horrifying. The whole bridge collapsed in a few seconds. It's a pretty long drop down to the water. Anyone on that bridge ended up in the water with little/no warning.

That drop alone would injure/kill many. And immediately after people would be in cold water still locked in their vehicles. The water there was deep enough to be able to deal with loaded container ships. So, tens of meters at least. If you then factor in currents and the amount of time it takes to mount any form of rescue operation with divers, etc. it starts looking pretty grim indeed.

I hope rescue workers pull off a minor miracle.
Capitalism that is as far disconnected from reality as yours is one of the issues plaguing FOSS today. I have no idea how your comment can be as upvoted as it is - maybe selection bias based on the nature of the article. It is still concerning though.
too bad images links are broken
As the article mentions and as I assumed as someone with the older hardware in my vehicle, this is likely only for those Teslas that have the upgraded FSD hardware. Would be nice to be able to demo it without paying for the upgrade, but the headline as written appears to be somewhat misleading.
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aren’t compiler built in simd vector types practically equivalent to what the compiler would vectorise scalar code to anyway
Geohot is wrangling with unsupported consumer hardware.

The datacenter stuff is on a different architecture and driver stack.
The number one supercomputer on the top500 list (frontier at ORNL) is based on AMD GPUs and AMD is probably more invested in supporting that.