skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At different scale, but the same reason why I don’t spend $8 in twitter. I can afford it, but I won’t give than guy any money.
As a native speaker: I think “across” (while understandable from context) is the wrong preposition because to me that would imply a diametric traversal, not circumspect, eg, halfway across would land you in the core of the earth. Half way around is what I would say to describe superficial travel of half the earth’s circumference, landing at the opposite side of the world.
DeepL is an AI-backed translator. If I use it to help me write my documentation, how is it different?
I wanted a laptop that was silent almost always, had a beautiful display, great keyboard, trackpad, and speakers, and a long and consistent battery life. Landed on a M1 MBP. If there is a Windows laptop that fits those characteristics, I'd try it after this one dies.
Chemical manufactoring has been hit by the sanctions against Russia, not because of electric energy but because German chemical plants had sub-market price deals on natural gas for heat intensive processes. This has nothing to do with electric power.
Notably also the CDU, Angela Merkel's party. Of course, CDU is now reversing course and saying that they were never against nuclear, but this is factually wrong.
Many of the Swift features for generic programing and protocols are based on the way C++0x Concept proposal went down, as mentioned by Dave Abrahams in some of his interviews.
Solid state is mostly a marketing term. There is no inherent reason a solid battery is better. Solid state isnt some magical pill for EV success.
RTFM, from `man base64`:

-w, --wrap=COLS
wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76). Use 0 to disable line wrapping

The manpage is about one screen size large. 1 minute read.
Research: Americans supportive but misinformed about fusion energy's promise
That bot responding to the issue about bots writing nonsense… Satire is dead.
I have llm very patiently explain to me why I crashed prod when I used the wrong conversion factor between ms and mus and us. Thanks SI very cool that one of the more often used units needs unicode to be entered into code.

Llm are absolutely helping with catching buts and code quality already.
> The only movies which would require upscaling to 4K are those released between about mid-2000s to mid-2010s, the advent of native digital cinema, but filmed in 2K. Everything before was filmed in 35mm film, which can be scanned to 4K with information to spare; everything after is filmed in native digital 4K or more.

Good to call this out, I think this is something that's really lost on people.

It really blows my mind that George Lucas, for all of his apparent obsessive concern about his films supposedly looking dated, chose to shoot Star Wars Episode 2 in 1080p in contrast to Episode I on 35mm film.
Garbage collected languages are fine for the desktop, there's plenty of software written in C# or Java that performs perfectly fine. It's mostly the web stack that tends to be bloated and slow.
so you'd rather nerd snipe others, gotcha ;) :D
Long live https://moviemadness.org/

All of the movies, none of the bullshit of streaming. I watch about two to three movies a week, that’s all my TV time. Two weekend trips a month to MM takes care of all my video needs. I guess I’m missing out on streaming specific content, but I don’t care.
Wild that somebody thought this was an improvement.
It's damaging to reputation. and that's a concern I don't see being
considered here. We had a vote on our project to stop using AI
generated images [0].

A central reason was "reputation". It's a PR move because ordinary
people are coming to associate AI with really bad things. If they see
us using AI for icons, why would they not assume the rest of the
content is AI generated too? It doesn't matter whether the general
public are right or wrong.

I think what we're hearing in this thread is mostly a developer
viewpoint. Try to see it like the customers see it.

Of course using AI makes many tasks easier. Changing tack is a schlep
because I have to go back an replace the old instances. Honestly I'm
almost regretting the decision and shudder to think what this
accumulated debt would be like with a couple million lines of code and
docs instead of a dozen pictures.

Seems very courageous of them to make a policy choice early.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/nomoreai
Considering the video is 3 hours long and you replied 1 hour after it being suggested, is it possible you didnt watch the whole thing and might be missing the convincing portion?
As to be expected, they only allowed as means to reduce arguments for people to go looking for alternative stores.
No, in Java, this is true for reference types in general. The method receiving the pointer can mutate the object, but it can't change which object the original variable points to.

This is also true when passing a pointer variable by value in C or C++. It is not true when passing a reference in C++ - the receiving method can change which object the original variable points to.
I prefer adb hell.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18097790/adb-hell-comman...
Cammy/Bikeshed
It's similar in that regard that it might be wrong sometimes. It's also similar, as coding LLM may be used to translate code between languages.
Ask yourself if you really need 100s of dvds? Are you gonna rewatch all the avengers that many times?
Offensive? Why?
Manufacturers are hiring due to the workers being very scarce (older ones retiring, young ones not coming in the same numbers). That doesn't tell the story of growth or decline in manufacturing (e.g., COBOL hiring doesn't tell the story of it's growth, just that supply is shrinking faster than the demand).

Look for the total industrial output instead.
That's no excuse for shutting them down and burning coal. They should be kept online until firmed renewables have completely displaced fossil fuels and only then be shut down.
> but then there's nothing on the linked page that claims that

The video does.
I mean, I came across a StackOverflow post the other day with "I apologize for the misunderstanding." in the middle of it.

There's a bit of a "intro paragraph, five numbered list items, concluding paragraph" style format that you start to notice pretty quickly.
When you run the numbers in terms of years lost, the traffic and firearm deaths will come out with a bigger share.
Twitter is a sad joke now, I deleted my account and created a placeholder to occasionally read tweets and I get a constant stream of near-identical bot accounts following me. The site is also broken and randomizing tweets for non logged in users further reduced usability for me.

There’s still tons of activity there but to me it feels the site is in a death spiral, the team seems to just manage keeping up with bugs so there is very little useful product innovation happening, or at least it seems like that to me.
> A large proportion of people certainly must think life is worth living

Most people do what they do without considering what they're doing and why, it's just a habit. I think you are categorically wrong.
Rvbbit: Reactive Data Boards and Flows
I've started reading this book and I rate it highly so far:
Serverless Development on AWS [0].

I agree that finding comprehensive, non-sales-oriented best practices can be challenging. One useful resource is Serverless Land from AWS [1], which offers a collection of practical examples and articles.

Mastering serverless involves more than just wiring up functions—it's about adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles. Over time, you'll develop reusable patterns and tools like Terraform modules that encapsulate best practices such as asynchronous Lambdas with EventBridge subscriptions, SQS Dead Letter Queues (DLQ), and appropriate error handling configurations.

For a deeper dive into the Serverless philosophy explicitly applied to AWS, I recommend checking out Yan Cui's blog [2]. Yan provides insightful articles on serverless architectures and patterns.

I suggest exploring the Reactive Manifesto [3] for principles and best practices in building responsive, scalable systems if you're interested in asynchronous messaging patterns.

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/serverless-development-...
[1] https://serverlessland.com
[2] https://theburningmonk.com
[3] https://www.reactivemanifesto.org
The article notes this was not possible in their specific context, as only the short form is implemented in busybox.
It's not about "how".

When it is discovered that your submission is AI generated, it is enough reason to discard the submission without having to review it any further.

Many open communities do the same.
Feels like this is just one of many pets.com moments to come
I really hate the result, they apply something like some gaussian filter followed by deconvolution which makes people's faces very uncanny: super soft skin with super sharp wrinkles
I respect the run-time properties of Go. If you can build a better tool with better run-time properties, that is progress.

That said, I am not convinced that making a thing easy "even for beginners" is always practical. Beginners do need to ascend some learning curves.

I make heavy use of RegEx and "one-liners" (bash-grep-awk-sed, Perl). These are powerful tools. Yes, they have strengths and weaknesses but they are built with a successful philosophy. Yes, their notation is irksome to ardent Python users who deplore all things non-Python.

The success of the RegEx model is its terse power. Something more verbose and simultaneously too simple for complex use-cases will not replace RegEx. Something that can/should do the same thing on [ $OS for $OS in @OSlist ] is a thorny problem with $OS.

As for the complex use-cases, I do not expect "beginners" to enjoy RegEx when even many otherwise talented computer users have fits of scene-stealing negativity when they encounter a regex.

Others will rightly draw attention to the need for a different project name. Naming a thing effectively is important, don't underestimate this need if you truly aim for adoption.
Base64 you get 6 bits per byte, hex you get 4. For most things base64 provides no benefit worth the hassle.
Most scientists work for free for the journals as reviewers, the same Journals earn also money obviously selling the product and they aren't cheap. They didn't spend a cent into the research done. Somebody else paid for it.

How the cost of a translator could be too expensive when everybody is working for free for you?

> What is this, the year 1055?

If your surname is Brown your work will be treated clearly different by journals than if it is Gutierres or Coulibaly. The editors probably don't even perceive that there is a bias here.

Including at least a member with an English name in your team is a known trick that eases to be accepted by publishers.
>It's regrettable that research had to be published in a specific language for scientists to leverage.

Not really. ~70 million people read Italian. Billions read English. The biggest journals are English language. Most of Europe learn English. Chinese academics learn to write in English, and English is the official language of India.

It'd be regrettable if they had to publish in Science/Nature to get noticed, but PLOS One is pretty open.
I am quite sure there were several examples regarding Apple software efforts during the time Steve Jobs was at NeXT, that wouldn't end up with "… now that’s engineering.".
external ssd's are good if you have multiple machines. you can just plug in / out your primary drive

say a ubuntu desktop, a macbook air and a windows laptop.

yeah file formats becomes a hinderance -- but they all can read exFAT at decent performance.
Inquiring minds want to know: does their sign take advantage of the FLICKS/FUCKS ambiguity with the right font, and if so is this wordplay on 20th Century Fox?
France is living this dream already and has been for over a century. It takes legal protections for secularism and the enforcement of those laws, it's simple, but it isn't easy.
I use it in the university and I hate it. The interface is ugly and very unintuitive, as well as the language.
TL;DR capitalism kills doctors.
But if its that big, how are you fitting it in your RAM with Redis anyway?
Because its not as easy as just saying "lets make low cost EV". That has to do with battery and supplychain. EV already need gigantic capital investment on it own.

All these companies have massive debt, low margin, need to continue to make money on ICE.l, transition to EV. To also make a profital low cost EV is insanly hard. They are struggling to develop a profitable high cost EV.

A lot of the supply chain is in China, so investing in that is pretty hard.
If the submitter acts as a competent gatekeeper to keep out the crap, no-one will know and neither will they care.
Naaah, not even close. 2021-2022 were a very unusual situation - they got lucky with chips shortages (and admittedly they've got it figured out) allowing them to sell at very high prices - the leader event suggested that Teslas are appreciating assets...

Reality is catching up quickly. Margins already crashed, and yet governments are still heavily subsidizing EVs. Without subsides, Tesla would never make any money (nor would their competition).
I am not sure what “AI” means but: Yes, yes. It is past time we do it.

People are producing plausible sounding bullshit because of ease of just cranking out and iterating code quickly. And we have made it way too easy to incorporate potentially copyrighted other people’s code.

As Donald Knuth would know, back when you had to generate punch cards and stand in line to load them on the mainframe, you spent a lot more time carefully designing and logically working through your code, instead of producing massive amounts of plausible bullshit. So yes, I agree.

You are talking about banning interactive editors with copy/paste and interactive compilers and debuggers right?
Nice trick, I didn't know this
It's definitely a growing profession.

It only came into existence fairly recently, and it continues to innovate and develop new approaches.

Good psychologists can provide enourmous value to their clients, and contrary to what the drug pushers want people to believe, mental illness isn't a physiological problem but a complex problem involving much more than that.
We kind of still do in Europe, but that is SMS are mostly free even pre-paid packets have lots of them, and there isn't data coverage all over the place, so if we want a guarantee that someone sees a message on time, SMS instead of Whatapps/Viber/.... is preferable.
Here is a "Proof of the Law of Cosines" by the same author:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.4169/amer.math.monthl...

But this time not with complex numbers.
> If they see us using AI for icons, why would they not assume the rest of the content is AI generated too?

This was raised in that linked thread and is a completely valid concern. Who could look at that package manager and feel confident about its other design decisions even if it wasn't largely AI generated itself?
So unraveling AI generated code is the new programming?
Argentina's president meets Elon Musk in Texas – and a bromance is born
same, before he really spinned off into his antics, I was really considering buying a tesla. I ended up leasing a lexus instead. Next car will be full EV, but will never get a Tesla, and it is 100% because of this man's actions.
Viber is quite strong still on some balkans and mediterranean countries.
specifically argeli, a term which has no wikipedia article; mitsumata (which the article says is the name of the paper) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworthia_chrysantha. the wikipedia article says the papers are washi and, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tissue, kitakata.

the econometrics from the article

> This year, Mr. Sherpa has hired 60 local Nepalis to help him process his harvest and expects to earn eight million Nepali rupees, or $60,000, in profit. (The average annual income in Nepal is about $1,340, according to the World Bank.) Mr. Sherpa hopes to produce 20 of the 140 tons that Nepal will be shipping to Japan. ¶ That’s a majority of the mitsumata needed to print yen ...

suggests that the total available profit is 420 thousand dollars, enough to support 313 nepalis (though perhaps the workers' wages are more than the landowner's profit, i suspect that they are, instead, smaller). the population of nepal is 30.7 million people, so this probably will not be a major new nepali export if it's just for the japanese mint. hopefully the article will make it fashionable among hipsters seeking better materials for their moleskines?

unfortunately the reporter did not think it was important to include the scientific name of the plant, so i guess we're out of luck

edit: as twic points out, it's almost certainly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworthia_gardneri, so i've updated wikipedia
Treating everything as if a contribution is done by an unknown entity (or worse, a hostile entity) is more work than generally people in a community want to do. Social communities are built on trust.

With the XZ utils backdoor, people are currently removing any contribution done by that attacker. Even if the work done is of limited quantity, evaluating every character and every byte is a huge endeavor requiring large amount of man hours. At some point it often is easier to discard code then doing the necessary in-depth analyses and testing in order to determine with a 100% certainty that the code do what the code should be doing with no side effect, security issue or legal implication.
Wait … that’s a real bot? Like not a joke bot that shows up in AI related conversations? Holy moley.
I think https://kroki.io/ deserves its own submission.
Verse: A New Functional Logic Language • Lennart Augustsson • Goto 2023 [video]
Good work shouldn't only be done in your focus/product area. If your accounting, project management, or, yes, marketing sucks, you'll fail.
When I say "from the left", I'm specifically referring to "to the left of the Soviet Union".

There was a lot of active debate when the Bolsheviks took over in Russia on whether to support them or not because they were creating the first "communist project" at that scale. The disagreement was largely ideological and the criticism was eventually proven correct when the Soviet Union sided against the anarchists in Spain (as well as when they went after "Makhno's army" in Ukraine, as well as early on when they disbanded syndicalist groups and worker cooperatives, as well as later on when they went through rounds of ideological purges and so on). The most well-known discourse around this seems to be from German communists, where it was cut short by the killing of the Spartacus group.

When you say 1984 criticizes "political systems in practice" that is exactly right: the criticism of the Soviet Union wasn't that their stated goals were bad, in fact most of the left agreed on the ultimate goals. The criticism was that, like the pigs in the animal farm, by merely picking up the weapons of the oppressors they recreated the same oppressive power structures (i.e. systems). Anarchists on the other hand wanted to disband the power structures and replace it with one built from the ground up.

When you say "all systems of government" however, it's clear that you're likely unaware of anarchist theory: the problem is not government, the problem is the state. And it doesn't matter whether that state is a conservative or reactionary oligarchy, a liberal or Soviet bureaucracy, or an "anarchocapitalist" corporate board of capital owners: they all share the same structural problem of moving power from the subjects to the state and then using it against the subjects to legitimize the state's authority through violence.

In other words the point of Animal Farm isn't that oppression is inevitable but that switching out who's in charge won't make an oppressive system any less oppressive, it will just recreate the same oppression eventually.
Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no…
The US dollar is only 25% linen, 75% cotton.
What is that imported energy based on?
It depends who they lay off. Sometimes when it happens everyone breathes a sigh of relief that the grim reaper is finally coming for the slackers who are just dead weight holding everyone back.
AIs can make good looking pictures too, where everything looks nice... it's all good...

...until you count how many fingers the humans have.

Same is true for AI generated code.
A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021)
EU data shows PHEVs emit 350% more CO2 than tested values
([Edit] I would also not shut them down it I wasn't clear on this)

There is also no excuse for gasoline powered cars. But gasoline powered cars are the majority of sales. Or diesel powered trains, which are the majority of trains in the US. Or eating meat. Or flying in planes.

The US is burning more coal than Germany, and probably should build more nuclear plants to replace burning coal. But the US doesn't.

People do whatever they like, not things they should do.
Seems impossible to enforce, but I applaud the spirit of it.

Pretty soon anyone looking to add "open source contributor" to their GH profile can take a Gentoo issue and ask an AI to cook up a solution, put that on a PR, and send it in.

This will be a nightmare for maintainers. I'm not sure if there is a solution, since AI usage will spread regardless of how good/accurate it is and there's no way for us to differentiate between plausible bullshit and actual contributions, without reading it carefully. Reputation of contributors is probably the best proxy for genuine contributions, but that's a catch 22, so it can't be the only way.
Yeah, but then it is C code wrapped in Python, not Python.
Hydrogens issue as an order of magnitude worse.

Batterie had 10 years of massive investment and an ever growing market share. The supply chain issues are being worked on.

Hydrogen cars a statistically insignificant and have basically no growth. The supply chain has seen little investment and there is not even a prospect that any real investment will go into.

Its the same old 'get governments to pay oil/car company to sell a fake future'.
They look soulless.
Tangent but: the ultimate "Elon handler" at SpaceX is not just Shotwell but NASA, the DOD, and their satellite customers.

Space launch is not like cars or really most other products. Your customer is highly technical and highly informed and they absolutely will not launch on a rocket that doesn't meet certain design criteria and in many cases they will require the ability to review the rocket's actual design blueprints and software (with NDA in place). NASA and the DOD will demand this, full stop.

If SpaceX didn't have someone like Shotwell pretty much running the show there's no chance they'd ever get a customer beyond the low end of the satellite launch market. They'd also have trouble getting the FAA to allow them to fly, and with good reason. A rocket is basically a bomb that explodes in one direction, and many of its failure modes involve it exploding in all directions.

Elon's been great (at least in the past) at assembling teams, getting funding, and motivating people to do really hard shit. (Not sure how he'd fare today with his baggage... his brand has taken a hit.) He also knows enough about engineering to hire competent engineers. Beyond that I see little sign that he's actually good at managing or day to day operation and certainly seems no good at product design. This differs from Jobs who at least had killer intuition there. Jobs would have laughed the cybertruck out of the room.
Chinese Company Under Congressional Scrutiny Makes Key U.S. Drugs
I've heard the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Tiktok.

"I won't ever join those. Those are for kids. Those are weird. Why would I join them."

Society rules our lives far more than people are willing to admit to themselves.
The positive view: generate scenarios in which the code will fail.

The negative view: write plausible-seeming explanations justifying the code as correct.