skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I recall correctly, there was a GBA expansion that measured blood sugar.

It's called the Didget blood glucose monitoring system, and I found it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_DS_accessorie...
Proud WashU grad here. Just happy to see us show up on Hacker News today.
My reading is that the author made a world and campaign in the Fallout style but implemented mechanics more like D&D.
When people provision resources in the cloud in the same way they provision resources on-premises, they tend to massively over-provision.
However only about 15 years into your career (assuming college so starting work aged 23) with about 30 to go (retiring at 68)
Seems they've made a few: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyN2mpPl_WGxaCd3QIcJ7...
A Multiplayer Chess Platform
Too expensive to live, or can't live if I stay
I think the key word there was 'primary'. I think it's okay to have a main audience in mind that isn't the entire world.
can you clarify your comment with some examples, because i'm not sure what you mean, even whether you intend to disagree with the parent comment or agree with it
In consumer drones, DJI is the undisputed champion.

In consumer 3D printers, Bambu has revolutionized the market.
By ‘city people’ they probably meant suburbs in the US. 99% if suburbs are car-mandatory.
yes, when you know what you are looking for you can find it.
Honestly, the python plugin is a bit problematic on Windows at the moment, the next plugin version should fix that.

But on unix it is also built using python-build. For me, a light python user, there is no difference between using vfox and using pyenv.
I tip (well), I'm willing to pay. Now what? The problem isn't the consumer either.
Decomposing goals reasonably is the key.
Organizations can calcify. Experienced people become incumbents, using their knowledge as a competitive advantage. New people don't respect the existing structure. It's half growing pains, half power struggle.

A healthy organization takes these competing forces and integrates them. An unhealthy one (maybe one used to an overbearing, God-like leader?) clamps down, suppresses dissent, and lets the pressure build until something breaks.
Meta Llama 3 GitHub
Did some digging and found this: https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-rpg-origins-of-fallout-p...
Most people don't think a 3 of 5 rating is "good", rather it's half-way to utter failure. 5 star ratings as used by the general public are calibrated as 5 meeting all reasonable expectations and no special rating given for exceptional performance. Most people don't need instruction on how to rate on this scale, they just give everybody a 5 unless something happened to piss them off.
> Git is a special case i would say . Because it is fairly self contained. It had minimal dependencies on external components. It mostly relied on filesystem API. Everything else was “invented” inside of Git.

This type of developer tends to prefer building software like this. There is a whole crowd of hardcore C/C++/Rust devs who eschew taking dependencies in favour of writing everything themselves (and they mostly nerd-snipe themselves with the excessive NIH syndrome, like Jonathon Blow off writing Powerpoint[1]...)

Torvalds seems to be mostly a special case in that he found a sufficiently low-level niche where extreme NIH is not a handicap.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2nkimbPphY&list=PLmV5I2fxai...
What? Aren't those games Valve orginals since the beggining?
probably just sat in your room and got a career pushing a broom
I think most people hold RFC-4180 to be the CSV standard, even if it’s not officially a standard. It is sufficiently parametrised to suit all variants while at the same time providing a language and structure that is portable across all.

Don’t get hung up on the fact that RFC’s aren’t officially standards. It’s a publicly accessible standard which many people fall back on as a reference, which is more than you can say for a lot of ISO standards.
‘A Healthy body is a healthy mind’.

NOT doing a base level of exercise and body maintenance results in predictable mental issues (anxiety, depression, difficulty learning, etc.).
They could be exploiting an undocumented/taboo feature of reality: simply telling people a good story can cause them to believe ("There is no reason at all to assume...") things that are not necessarily true.
Llama 3 8B running 1.89 tokens/s on a Raspberry Pi 5 is pretty CRAZY
> But the US traffic death rate is more than double the average rate in other industrialized countries.

On a population, not a per-mile basis (though it is a bit higher than the average for industrialized countries, it ain't double).

Here, the US being big works against us, as does being unnecessarily spread out and driving a lot more "just because".
Re-Imagine Humanitarian Aid Delivery
Is it retaliation or Amazon just being Amazon, PIPing everyone when the directive from above lands? It's a two year company anyway (they don't want people to vest most of their stocks and the amount vested in the first two years is small).
Yes, I did forgot that!
What I'm more curious about is, how do you make children interested in this knowledge?
Yeah, I'm beginning to think detailed OCR-style extraction just isn't a good fit for these models.

It's frustrating, because getting that junk out of horribly scanned PDFs is 90% of the need of data journalism!

The best OCR API I've used is still AWS Textract - have you seen anything better?

I ended up building a tiny CLI tool for Textract because I found the thing so hard to use: https://github.com/simonw/textract-cli
The comments were repeatedly made and complainant was the only mother in the organization.

It’s a targeted attack meant to neg the person into thinking they are worth less.
Is json just bytes tho? Doesn’t it allow for variable width encodings?
Here's an interactive WebGL implementation: https://brian.sh/around/index.html

It doesn't have a satellite image option, but that would arguably be simpler than drawing continents like it does now. It uses a seldom-redrawn base canvas (menu -> debug > show 2d texture) then the discs are drawn with a simple shader.
Primary implies the lack of localization, and localization is a critical piece of innovation, as it forces you to consider additional user experience enhancements.

From a typography standpoint, think about how you would represent Hudum versus Latin fonts on a mobile app or PWA now that Mongolia is deprecating Cyrillic script.

On the Cloud side, a lot of major K8s orchestration and edge computing innovations were sparked by Chinese telcos and tech vendors trying to work around GFW related latency issues.
I think we could reduce the scope of today's curricula to accommodate this kind of teaching. If students spent a few more months understanding the how of scientific discovery instead of the what, I think it would be a worthwhile trade-off.
Considering they still use Claude 2 as the model for many features, I'd pass. Now, if they upgraded to Claude 3, on the other hand... I would still go with Codeium[1] and the Claude 3 API.

[1]: Which, to be fair, has fewer features.
Finding a second bug in glibc's condition variable with TLA+. (2022)
> Unless you're arguing the CCP is going to force TikTok's algorithm to amplify Chinese propaganda

Yes, that's my concern. We don't know the algorithms and IMO the risk is too high, given China's other efforts at propaganda. At least Twitter added community notes, but that's somewhat secondary given the algorithms potentially controlled by a hostile government.
> Because I feel the biggest problem to overcome now is politics

Politics is just a proxy for people’s desires and motivations and willingness to make trade offs.

Polls show that most americans agree humans are causing climate change, but most won’t spend even $10 a month to combat climate change: https://apnorc.org/projects/is-the-public-willing-to-pay-to-... (open the top line results pdf).

Forget EVs. What’s it going to cost for people to replace their gas and oil heat with heat pumps? Way more than $10/month!
Over a third of enterprise datacenters expect to deploy liquid cooling by 2026
The text parsing[1] is not really relevant, I feel. It's what comes after parsing that's a problem.

With CSV you have to guess at what the delimiter is, you have to guess if the first row are column names, you have to guess what each element is (string, date, integer, etc), you have to guess how escaped characters are represented.

The good news is that from a medium sized input, all of these would be pretty simple to guess while parsing each cell. The bad news is that, if you receive only a single row, you can't very well tell WTH the types are.

With JSON you at least get to read numbers as numbers and strings as strings (and special symbols as special symbols, like `null`).

The downside of JSON is that, like CSV, you still have to specify what the structure of the data is to a receipient, except that, unlike CSV, it's more difficult and prone to error.

[1] Although, parsing CSV is so simple you can frequently just write the parser yourself.
Carbon Offsets Don't Work [video]
Creating an island paradise in a fusion reactor
Perfecting the World Map?
Actually coding is the domain of mid level and senior engineers. Staff engineers architect, design technical strategy, collaborate across teams. A proper staff engineer might only see code during review or a proof of concept.
AI simply can't tell fact from fiction --- and it's only going to get worse as AI generated "facts" become more prevalent.

Applying AI to any sort of general decision making is like trusting a 7 year old. This means it can be extremely dangerous in the hands of anyone who doesn't understand or realize this.
My team recently paid for this on self-hosted GitLab ultimate. I would not suggest this for self-hosted. We've been having issues that seem to be related to self-hosting that are requiring a lot of effort from our System Admins to work through with GitLab support.

Separate from that, there don't appear to be any benefits to having it "integrated" into GitLab. I'm assuming we'll switch to another tool shortly.
I'll add to the pile of people suggesting syncthing. Works great across several PCs and phones for me. Mostly GNU/Linux and Android, a Windows machine or two, and I think I put it on one Mac that I don't use often. I also have it on my Steam Deck.

As some others also mentioned, syncing is not a true backup and you'll still want to make periodic copies to another drive/machine, probably at least one copy off-site. I just use rsync to a physical server at another location I have access to, but seems like many are recommending rclone for use with cloud storage.
I'm guessing this has come up (again?) now because there has been a "General Availability" in the new 16.11 where it's been apparently automatically turned on in our internal Premium instance (and individual users getting nagged about using it after the upgrade). For "Free":

> The GitLab Duo Chat is part of GitLab Duo Pro. To ease the transition for Chat beta users who have yet to purchase GitLab Duo Pro, Duo Chat will remain available to existing Premium and Ultimate customers (without the add-on) for a short period of time. We will announce when access will be restricted to Duo Pro subscribers at a later date.

At least one of our admins interpreted their pinky-promise policy page as something binding; at least from the communications we were sent it seems very hard to verify exactly what they are sending over or protections they've put in place.

It's 2024, not putting that clearly front-and-centre is a deliberate choice.
> These seem largely absent today.

I still hold the same stance today, but I am just tired of arguing for it on HN.

I noticed the same thing with the prevailing opinion on the issue changing on HN as well. However, it wasnt because there are better arguments for the ban now or some new relevant info got discovered that would affect it.

Nope, it literally devolved into tit-for-tat arguments only, except this pretty much makes the US lose any high ground here. For people who dont see how maintaining the high ground in this specific scenario[0] is very advantageous and cheap for the US, I don’t have much to add that wasnt already discussed to death in all the previous HN threads on this.

P.S. It sucks I even feel the need to say this, but no, I dont support the chinese government and have zero affiliation with it whatsoever (at least none that I am aware of lol). I do have a lot of respect for the country itself and their people. However, my respect for the country and their people is not relevant to my opinions on absolutely anything related to policymaking.

0. No, I dont believe in this approach for every scenario ever involving the US and China. Of course, I do believe in reciprocal trade sanctions and tarrifs. I dont believe in those nearly as much when it comes to the digital realm, and especially not when it is something like TikTok.
>This means the workers were gaming their timing system with fake pizzas.

Or it meant the person cutting and boxing your order was falling behind.

At least ~15 years ago, the way Domino's timer works is that when the cook puts the order in the oven, they hit a button. ~8 minutes later it says it's ready, which is how long it takes to get through the oven. That was the only input for carryout, delivery had another for when the driver left.

If it was 30% of the time, I'd guess you requested something unusual like "no garlic spray" where the mistake happened or was noticed after the computer says your order is ready, then had to remake it. Or most of the times it was just a few minutes and somebody was boxing it.
Oh, this project is widely criticized over its entire existence. Don't rely on some commenter on HN for sure. Do your own research. It won't take long.
"Pitfall!" on Atari VCS held 255 entirely different game screens in a 4k cartridge :)
That sounds similar to a sub-plot in Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Very interesting book!
> Ruby's private methods being not accessible by other instances of the same class whereas Python's are (to be bizarrely) accessible by instances of the same class

Not sure what you mean here; Python doesn't really have private methods.
Here are the models they use [0]. They best they do is Claude 2, hard pass.

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/ai_features.html#language-mo...
Thanks!

Nothing specific regarding mobile but we worked on rendering optimizations quite a bit to make the experience smooth. Most notably the render pipeline is based on MRT (Multiple Render Targets) which renders multiple frames at the same time, which is great when doing post-processing stuff. Also we made sure to keep the number of draw calls quite low by merging static objects. There is also a lot of culling going on, hiding rooms that are not visible.

We'll probably post more technical details on X in the coming days/weeks, be sure to follow us if you're interested.
> 100k is the floor, because 100k used to actually mean real money. I no longer think it is. I earn more than that and I believe we are struggling. I don't know how other people manage.

I don't think that can be anything but 'lifestyle inflation'? Even if that's one income, supporting spouse and children.
> Tesla sold 1.8 million cars last years

And yet that just barely puts them in the top 10 of automakers in terms of number of cars sold - yet their market capitalization was greater than all the automakers in the top 10 combined. Those are the financial fundamentals I'm talking about when I say Tesla's stock is overvalued.

The "tech people" who wanted a Tesla have already bought a Tesla (or two). It remains to be seen as to whether Tesla will maintain their dominant lead over the other automakers in the EV segment as the market expands to mainstream buyers.
Yeah but what is wrong with saying "this job isn't for them then"? If you are skilled enough to drive a car all day as a job, Amazon will happily hire you to drive a van all day, they pay much better than a local pizza delivery gig(at least here in UK, no idea about where you live obviously).

Or are we really debating whether there is some extremely small subset of people who can only get a job delivering pizzas(somehow) and they can't possibly get any other employment?
For scientific writing, you've also got https://manubot.org/ which combines git (for versioning and collaboration) and markdown and multiple good-looking outputs

One of the most useful features is that you can just insert a doi/pubmedid/... and it will automatically fetch and format the references

Edit: One of the biggest problems with the tools for scientific writing is that the writing process if often a collaboration - one author makes a draft, distributes it, and receives comments and revisions. Currently - and sadly - I think Microsoft Word has the best solutions for commenting and revising text, although you have to keep track of multiple versions being emailed around

Edit 2: "We will use our servers to create PDF files" is a no-go for certain documents - unpublished papers are often regarded as quite sensitive
> Which is part of the reason behind the huge popularity of Go in Asia

I don’t get your point - what does Go do uniquely here?
What we've learned in 3 days of Llama 3
cool, thx! will check them out!
Everyday Data Visualization: Design effective charts and dashboards
Payoneer Inc. vs. the Insignificant Me
I want to tell you about something that has just happened to me, and I do it only out of a selfish desire to express my frustration publicly, for no other reason.

As many of you may already know, Payoneer Inc. is a financial services company that US companies can use as an intermediary to pay workers outside the US.

Last week, Payoneer Inc. informed me that they had decided to close my account and that I should withdraw my money immediately. Four days later, while I was still talking to their support staff in an attempt to process the withdrawal, they wrote to me for the second and final time informing me that my account had been completely cancelled, that I no longer had access to their website and therefore to any of their services, and that if I tried to contact them I would be ignored.

I do not question their decision to end their relationship with me, this is their company and they are free to choose who they deal with.

Nor do I think they owe me the explanation they never gave me, again, these are their services and it is fine if they reserve the right to provide them only to whomever they wish.

What I find hard to accept, the reason for my frustration, is that they stole my money.

What was stolen was money that was unquestionably and legitimately mine, money of a verifiable and perfectly legal origin, money that I received from a company that operates formally and legally in the United States of America, a well-known and recognized company with which Payoneer Inc. does business.

Was it a lot of money? Probably an insignificant amount in the context of many here, but enough to cover my basic needs for three or four months.

I suspect Payoneer Inc. acts with such impunity because they know they are taking no risk: I live in a failed and broken state that has no diplomatic relations with the United States, and they know it.

I have no trouble imagining the company executives issuing orders: "Nobody's going to listen to the complaints of the riffraff in these shithole countries, so when the opportunity arises, just take their money, nobody's going to find out".

That's it. I swear I don't like to complain, I rarely do, but I decided to break this personal rule because just knowing that someone out there is reading me might make me feel less insignificant.
So, generative testing.
Parsimony
Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM
Manuscripts, Open and Automated
The space is large, it just turns out if you direct Mario to explore with a bit of bias (so, in general, there's some favoring of exploring from states where Mario's x coordinate is to the right, e.g.) it completes the levels.

I think Pokemon could be beaten with our techniques. Final Fantasy on NES poses similar problems to Pokemon, and that is a game at which some progress has been made in the past, here.
Thanks for the bug report. We'll have to figure out what could be causing this issue.
Audit Your Obligations
If you took star wars and removed the action and acting and it was just a bunch of philosophical arguments written in a book then not many would like it. We know since there are many such books and they aren't very popular compared to the star wars movie.
> "what is polymorphism"

I'm a senior developer at least in years, even writing my first Rails application when it was at version 0.6. I had to look this one up. And it seems the internet doesn't even share a consensus of what it means. Attempts to define it are all over the place.

The non-tech definition seems to relate to tech most as to what people usually refer to as interfaces. In fact, one definition for "polymorphism" that I came across – which I dare say was the most reasonable of the bunch – asserted that interfaces are a formalization of polymorphism. I assume this matches your expectations.

Given that, when would using the word "polymorphism" ever be useful as a senior developer? In Rails land, if you truly needed to communicate the concept to other developers (which is dubious), you're probably going to speak to duck typing instead. That is far more practical.
Unironically. More generally: nerds that like to solve problems. Most of us happen to be programmers, but I've seen plenty of people in the comments saying that they don't even work adjacent to the programming industry, yet they're here. That's what makes HN great. Diverse demographic.
I don't think it was implied that Ford's entire customer base was his own employees, just that he paid them enough to afford the cars the company manufactured. I agree with the rest of this though.
The 'garbage patch' is a soup of plastic flakes. Not like river trash; nothing at all like river trash.

To the degree this enterprise can remove pepper-sided particles of plastic floating near the surface, it will impact microscopic organisms almost exclusively. To the degree it does not clean at that level, it is not an ocean-cleanup device.

River garbage is, I think (and I began by saying) a brilliant solution. Keep it clean, rather than clean-up-after. Almost all the garbage comes from humans on land after all.
If we're doing strangely discontinuous maps, I'd like to submit Fuller's Dymaxion Map [1] -- at least that one keeps the continents contiguous, while truly minimizing deformations.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
I don’t think it’s a fundamental property of single-char open/close delimiters. Like, try-with-resources, or scala/kotlin/groovy/etc-like blocks do let you specify specific initializers xor finalizers, but one might as well create a language with ` { } with (FINALIZE)` syntax.
I tried it. I was impressed by the demos for soccer and baseball. But the soccer was a short clip of MLS, so I doubt I could use it to watch premier league or champions league. For baseball, I can’t even watch my local team that plays in a stadium funded by taxpayer dollars on regular tv, so I’m not convinced I would be able to watch from this headset.

Beyond that, everything was a slightly interesting tech demo in a headset that weighed too much. I was impressed by the design and how quickly they got lenses that matched my prescription.

VR already delivered most of the wow factor I think the demo was going for. It would be a lot more impressive if this were delivered in standard glasses. For now, it’s really cool but too expensive and impractical.
Those who have been receiving those trillions can afford to buy AI.
I've never heard of it, but I'm on the lookout for a new sci-fi read, so I think I'll get it! Thanks!
The pricing of the GitLab has changed so many times in the past years and free tier has changed as well. It has made GitLab so unpredictable that I had to switch away.

Someone could say that enshittification is on the way.