skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think the west coast has tornados and hurricanes? West coast by the pacific ocean has even milder weather than the east.
A paragraph from the previous essay by the OP comes to mind:

> Less sardonically, there is a lesson here: systems which intermediate between cultures are useful. Intermediating between cultures is a thing the world urgently needs and is extremely prepared to pay for.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/financial-systems-tak...

I don't think decentralized currency will actually solve the issues travelers have with this, at least without reproducing much of the infrastructure already in place for traditional currencies.
>mild thunderstorm

What!?! We have some doozies here in the summer. (Finger Lakes region of NY.)
Like if my TV could just open the webpage of my in-home media server and let me browse and play.
The main counterargument is that you have read 1000s of documents to train your brain which produces unique documents with no credit to the original copyright holders.

GenAI is just doing the same thing on a larger scale.
Show HN: Use a Slack channel to run your blog
>Ive grown up in a block like that in Bulgaria, and currently live in a similar but worse and smaller block in Berlin

Isn't it ironic when you move to a country that's 10x richer, but the real estate is somehow worse lol?
Absolutely.

The subtitles open with "so-called vaccine against COVID-19" and "with all this fraud that is which is being carried about by the WHO".

These vaccines have been seriously studied for year and now billions of people have taken them. Safe enough, ok?
Big rip scenarios are inconsistent with dark energy having a constant value of w=-1, which is what the author is discussing in that paragraph. The article is wrong.
That's like asking: "What harm has been inflicted upon you, individually and directly by some parts-per-million of a cancer-promoting chemical dumped in the town's water supply over the last twenty years?"
This already happens. I have seen recruiters trying to get domain experts in various fields to write articles for AI training.
> Weird that it doesn't go into LFortran more, they even have an excellent online and mindblowing WASM example.

They write:
The LFortran compiler has made great strides over the last few years. In 2020, it was missing a lot of features and only supported a very small subset of Fortran. Now it now supports a much wider range of language features and can be used to compile a reasonable amount of Fortran code. It can even compile to WebAssembly out of the box!

However, there are still some barriers that make using LFortran a little rough. The project is currently considered to be in alpha phase and the developers state that issues compiling real-world code are expected. While it can successfully compile some projects, such as MINPACK, the full Fortran specification is not yet supported and so many larger projects still cannot be compiled.

The LFortran developers are targeting full support for Fortran 2018, and its standout feature is an interactive Jupyter-like Fortran REPL. With a few more years of development, I expect that LFortran will be an excellent choice for compiling Fortran code for WebAssembly.

and

Check out the LFortran demo at https://dev.lfortran.org. While extremely impressive, note that the first thing I tried was changing x * 2 to x * 3 and saw that such a change is currently not supported by the code generator.
Neuro-lingo – A language where you only implement comments and types
Cable TV was never a primary method of accessing government services, banking, interactive education during the pandemic, etc...

They don't need gigabit internet but for large numbers rural residents even normal 25Mbps broadband isn't available.
Is soon to say that

But if somebody starts saying that will develop a stealthy weapon able to make tsunamis, that would (literally) be used to "target NY" and other coastal cities; and then you have a strange earthquake in NY and another in a Taiwanese coastal city almost simultaneously, maybe somebody should pay attention, do some research and explore some hypothesis, just to play safe
I was at a coffee shop in Astoria and it sounded like the subway running under. My first thought was that there is no line under this street (been living here forever). Then I thought maybe a jet liner flew over too close. But then judging by other people's reaction, I realized that this was an earthquake. I had no idea that you can hear earthquakes...
Well that's just what the Higgs field is, a scalar field with a nonzero vacuum expectation value. So the existence of a field of this kind isn't just possible in principle, it's been experimentally verified.
it's not technically wrong. it's just not commonly used, nor well-used by ChatGpt. Good times to use the phrase are when you are teaching someone... and when it's well, important, to note a detail or fine point. It's not something you'd say at the end of practically every communication...because there aren't always fine points or exceptions worth noting.

Also chatgpt has a habit of weakly editorializating almost anything as a way of covering its a*. For example, I asked it how much Jira costs, and after it told me it added:

"It's important to note that pricing and plans may change over time, so I reco.."

ok, sure pricing and plans may change. we kind of already guessed that. and it's not important to note it.

I asked how much Flat costs and it added:
"It's important to note that Flat may offer discounts or promotions from time to time, "

Again, not important. And if it was important, I would just note it. I would actively utilize that in my decision-making process.

"However, it's important to note that the endianess is dependent on the system architecture"

Again, completely unnecessary. just say, "Endianess is dependent on system architecture."

"It's important to note that the value returned by time() is in UTC."
ok, yeah that's kind of important. but just say, "the value is in UTC."

Like if I said to you, "It's important to note that you must press submit on a web page to return data to the server," you'd say something like, "yeah is that important though? that's just how it works?!"

Like I don't need to say, "It's important to turn the key in a car." It is "important" in the sense that it's also vital or CRITICAL, or utterly essential. It's just how it's done. How it works. It's not particularly important.

"Overall, the ovipositor is an important reproductive structure that enables female insects to lay their eggs "

is it important? is it more important than other reproductive structures? how much more? why? aren't they all important??!?

Generally, "it is important" is a convenient phrase for abdicating responsibility. It removes people or entities from the picture as well as objections. It conjures a world where question-asking isn't present, without exceptions, or context. It also hides that invisible authoritative relationship between two people. So if you want to be vaguely manipulative to people who don't think critically, you can obtain some basic compliance without overtly threatening them this way. The fact that it won't work on most people, but chatgpt batters us with it is just tiring.

Furthermore, as my friend pointed out, ChatGPT works by stroking your ego and fanning its own flames. It tries to make you feel clever for using it. Telling you that what it is telling you is important is a low-grade sleazy way of inflating itself in your eyes, and also hinting to you that this information is worthy of your attention; that perhaps you can pat yourself on the back for choosing chatgpt... because it's not just random information from a google search... ChatGpt is giving you important information. don't you know.
SGI dug their own grave. Not only were the workstations expensive, but they demanded outrageously priced support contracts. This behavior drives people nuts and will insure that the switch to a competitor the instant it becomes an option. Despite the high cost, the support contracts had a pretty lousy reputation as well, with long wait times for repairs from a handful of overworked techs. Even worse is the company turned away from its core competencies to focus on being an also-ran in the PC workstation market.

There was a window in the mid-90s where it would have been possible for SGI to develop a PC 3D accelerator for the consumer market using their GE technology, but nobody in the C-Suite had the stomach to make a new product that would undercut the enormous profit margins on their core product. It's the classic corporate trap. Missing out on the next big thing because you can't see past next quarter's numbers. Imagine basically an N64 on a PCI card for $150 in 1996. The launch versions could be bundled with a fully accelerated version of Quake. The market would have exploded.
They're not related directly, but the codec was specifically named in reference to the media format.
I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified. Maybe both.

I would recommend using top-of-tree llvm-project/main sources for building f18; we are a fast-moving project and it would be a waste of time for anybody to debug a problem that has already been fixed, or miss a feature that has already been implemented.
TIL: When singing a license, ALL CAPS means chorus.
Entity-graph: Immutable data store with pull query support for Clojure(Script)
I'm friends with a small batch gelato maker. He mainly sells individual scoops, but he also sells pints. He started out using fully compostable pint containers, but their permeability leads to ice crystal formation while the product is stored. He's switched to more traditional pint containers, and the improvement is noticable.
Was always curious why visual programming gravitates towards node-based solutions...
I come from a game dev background and from all visual programming paradigms, the one that worked the best and was the least obfuscated was what you see in Construct and GDevelop.
Why not have something like that or maybe even similar to Scratch instead of big blocks that will make the program harder to read when it reaches even a dozen or so nodes?
Either absorption refrigeration or a steam turbine that compresses the working fluid.
Gopher it's easy, and you can read gopher://hngopher.com and gopher://magical.fish as starting points.
> Almost everything you wrote is factually
wrong

I know of no such, and you gave no
examples.

> It seems you have not been even
tangentially keeping track of any
developments after... 2015.

You are attacking me personally or the
content of my writing?

For your date 2015: A key to my Web site
is some math, and it is original with me,
from my research, and, thus, fully up to
date! Uh, I'm able to do such math partly
because I hold a Ph.D. in applied math
from a world famous university; for more,
I've published peer-reviewed papers in
applied math, saved FedEx with some
applied math for the BoD, taught applied
math in some famous universities, both
graduate and undergraduate, and, oh yes,
published peer reviewed original research
in artificial intelligence. Also taught
computer science at Georgetown University.

There was a LOT going on in the Internet
and the Web, HTML, SQL, etc. long before
your 2015: Gee, there was a nice
introduction to developing Web sites in

Jim Buyens, 'Web Database Development,
Step by Step: .NET Edition', ISBN
0-7356-1637-X, Microsoft Press, Redmond,
Washington, 2002.

Yup, that's 2002, long before your 2015!

That book is an example of excellent
technical writing. There are 15 chapters
with nice introductions to each of VB.NET,
ASP.NET, ADO.NET, database and SQL, one
chapter for each, plus more -- all from
2002!

The book does not emphasize how to use
JavaScript to make Web pages that jump
around for no good reason, make users
angry and leave, and hurt the ad revenue.

Net, in simple terms, what is new and
important about my work is my original
math; nearly all the rest of the tools
used and features implemented goes back to
the last century.

For some irony, and also a good lesson,
consider Hacker News and its functionality
and user interface, both that go back
largely or entirely to the last century.

Uh, for "developments" since your 2015,
for the back end, that has my original
math which is fully up to date, and for
the front end, i.e., the user interface,
in general, in simple terms, for my Web
pages, each new technique would be
something more users don't understand and
that, thus, might hurt the success of the
site.

Let's see, since your 2015:

Pizza is really OLD, and Pizza Hut is
worth $38 billion.

Hamburgers are really OLD, and McDonald's
is worth $193 billion. Burger King, $34
billion.

My 1986 Chevy S-10 Blazer had good
electronic fuel injection, no other digital
electronics, and standard sealed beam
headlights which for me made it as up to
date as I want -- for anything since
then, for me it's useless or annoying,
more to buy, and more to maintain so I
don't want it.
My connection was poor at the time and perhaps I never really got the big double swing timing down so I often used explosives against saberists. Can't deflect a thermal detonator, and if you pull it I'll just grab another out of the bag.

I remember finding it funny that the 4 star force speed and jump would injure you from running into walls or bonking your head.
A taxonomy my monkey brain can actually understand.
There's both a per-developer and per-usage component into their "pro" plan.
This is a general misconception. Alcohol being a depressant doesn't mean that it causes depression - it means that it depresses (that is - it lowers) the activity of nervous system. The opposite of a depressant is a stimulant (like amphetamine), not an antidepressant.
The first part is fine because the search engine blurb isn’t a replacement for the thing itself. And I disagree with what ROM sites claim, you can’t just dump ROMs online and claim it’s not copyright infringement
As a WASPy dude in ‘merica, not drinking is something people still struggle to grasp. I’m middle aged now, and I still have regular social outings where someone is like flabbergasted “so, you never drink? But, why? Did you ever?” Sometimes I can tell they just are doing mental calculus and just determine I most be a recovering alcoholic and they suddenly apologize for their questioning. There’s some humor in it, but just not enjoying it enough or feeling a thirst for it is the only way I can explain it. I like how it taste ok, I just never really want to consume it. I usually say something like “do you like whole milk? When was the last time you drank a glass of it?” This makes the point 9/10 times, because a lot of people like milk but just never drink it. I’m the same with alcohol.
This betting wrong on specialization happened over and over again in the late 70s and 80s. The wave of improvements and price reduction in commodity PC hardware was insane, especially from the late 80s onwards. From Lisp machines to specialized graphics/CAD workstations, to "home computer" microcomputer systems, they all were buried because they mistakenly bet against Moore's law and economies of scale.

In 91 I was a dedicated Atari ST user convinced of the superiority of the 68k architecture, running a UUCP node off my hacked up ST. By the end of 92 I had a grey-box 486 running early releases of Linux and that was that. I used to fantasize over the photos and screenshots of workstations in the pages of UnixWorld and similar magazines... But then I could just dress my cheap 486 up to act like one and it was great.
Having both postgres and rabbitmq strikes me as overkill - I wonder if they'd be open to a PR to harmonize to just PG, slimming down the ops burden. I'll have to dig into it when I'm back on my desktop to see what exactly RMQ is doing for a media server
I remember always installing that. Also GOM Player was also a thing.
how can you implement a custom editor using QML? or that has to be done in c++?
It wasn't a fictional narrative, it actually happened.

We can agree that the results were worse but you can't pretend that the abuse was made up by Republicans.
I do wonder how a somewhat valuable metal like copper would work here. The copper standard. Go by the weight of the coin times the spot price of copper. Then the govt can’t keep printing more but I gyess they’d have to be on board
When you study integrity of maintainers across multiple distro package managements (dnf, rpm, apt, zypper, yum, pip, flatpak, snap, homebrew), you will see that most have maintainer integrity issues. Orc (orchestra) too.

Only one that nailed this is portage (BSD and Gentoo Linux).
> How are journalists supposed to eat if NewsGPT just scoops up their work and starts regurgitating it seconds after publishing?

NewsGPT won't just regurgitate the work of journalists. First it'll consider the paid "partners" of NewsGPT to make sure to downplay anything that might hurt them, then it'll do the same for their advertisers while inserting some ads in the text, then they'll give the article tweaks according to NewsGPT's own ideology and then finally spit out something very different at their users. Maybe they can argue that NewsGPT is too transformative to count as copyright infringement.
I agree with your response, but I also think it's an unsustainable model, which is why it's a "mind cancer". Growth makes things easier but nothing grows indefinitely, and that mind-set has done a lot to create climate change problems.
Zimbabwe launches a new currency again
I watched it last year, I think it still holds pretty well. What's wrong with it?
I don't know if I agree with that. The official docs do list a lot but often you get something like compression_level takes an integer from 1-8. But doesn't tell you if 1 is smaller output or 8 is to work the hardest.

However the wiki pages can be quite good if they cover your use case and the real strength is so many examples online. Even if many of the example command lines feel like they have been cargo-culted through the years and no one actually understands what exactly they do.
4.7 an earthquake? Here in Chile thats more like a simple tremor, we dont even feel those.
You missed a great opportunity to rephrase it like this:

> It is worth noting that before chatGPT I'd see the words "it's worth noting.." maybe five times in my entire life (39 years old).

:-D
Are you an artist selling their own work?
What does "intense" mean?
Well, if the concept is "we should legally treat the systems just like very big humans", then the next step is to arrest and confine all the leaders of the companies involved on charges of slavery and child exploitation.

The distinction does matter in copyright too, since a transformative work needs some non-trivial amount of human input.
Sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good. As the XZ saga shows, even clearly exceptionally well organized attackers don't have an easy time injecting hacks like this; and things that increase the attackers costs or risks, or reduce their reward can be useful even if they don't solve the problem entirely. Reproducible builds are useful; they don't need to be silver bullet.
That wikipedia article might be the worst physics article that I've read on WP.
just a dude
Long before Windows 95 there was DOOM and DOOM would not run on an Amiga.

> 80s while DOS was still dealing with CGA and EGA, and decent sound hardware.

And then the 80s ended. What point did I make that you are contradicting?

> Even by 1990, the video toaster was released,

And if you wanted to do CAD? Would you use an Amiga? Probably not. What about desktop publishing? Pointing out that Amiga had carved out a niche (in video editing) when that was the norm back in those days doesn't make any strong comment about the long term superiority or viability of the platform.

Also, I don't buy into the idea that just because a company had something "superior" for a short period of time with no further company direction that they didn't lose fair and square. That Amiga had something cool in the 80s but didn't or couldn't evolve isn't because the market "chose wrong". Commodore as a company was such a piece of shit it made Apple of the 80s look well run. Suffering a few more years with the occasional bomb on System 7 was not a market failure.

> Macs had bizarre cooperative multitasking

What was bizarre about it, compared to any other cooperative multitasking system of the time?
Also you seem to be fixated on preemptive multitasking to the neglect of things like memory protection.
F77
I am always surprised how much it's taken over video processing tasks (and maybe how Apple lost the plot with Quicktime and such).

Would def be interesting if someone could write up a history of the project so far. I wonder how much industry input into the OSS commits there are (like MS/IBM into linux, postgres, etc)
> Edit: A different and less biased title would be: the use of technology and AI to minimize civilian casualties in guerrilla warfare.

In what universe is that a less biased title? It is just biased in a different direction.
> Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition.

Well, it's literally true: a hurricane is a tropical cyclone, and a nor'easter is an extratropical cyclone. A nor'easter is literally the "cold" counterpart of a hurricane!
I've never done a long trail like that but just locally there's an incredible difference between walking out in the wilderness vs in civilization. The former is to enjoy, the latter is sometimes necessary to enable the former.
I'm wondering if any uses at all would be left if programs were using strict provenance, a la:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/ptr/index.html#strict-...

If I have a pointer to an object that no longer exists because I've futzed with a union or placement new or otherwise put a different object at that address, but I know that my pointer has the correct bit pattern (i.e. address on most systems) for the new object, then a strict provenance model says that I have no business dereferencing the pointer. But an API like with_addr() gives me a very explicit way to tell the compiler (and the CPU or runtime if provenance is being enforced!) what I'm doing, and the cases that could plausibly generate valid code will be well defined and work correctly.
I remember when we got the first Indys at the uni.
That was magic like.
People nearly got into physical fights to use one of them.
People came in at night to use them as well.

I wonder if the uni is so locked down now that students can sit in the
lab all night.

Being a bit pragmatic in getting my actual thesis done I discovered
that there was all of a sudden, a lot more resources available on
one of the (older) Sun servers.

It saved me days if not weeks.
> do you want to know when something bad can happen in your program, or don’t you?

Almost everything can fail, and we don't need our noses constantly rubbed in it. Knowing how it failed might be interesting, but you're on your own to check for error subtypes and it's rare to define any.

2/3 of the code is way too much boilerplate for delegating error handling when it can be automated more reliably.
I know i have seen more stories lately about innocent people being freed after newly analyzed DNA evidence. I think a good question is, how would we know if someone were wrongly convicted? What tells are there that the person the judge and lawyers said was guilty, that's now in prison, what could tell us they are innocent. Presumably there are tons of guilty people proclaim innocence every day to try to get out of their consequences. What separates them? There could be catastrophically high rates of innocent convictions and I'm not confident we would be aware of that
There's a funny thing where the legal/commercial definition of "consent" is essentially a subset of "non-consent", having extremely little overlap with "consent" in a meaningful way.