skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did lose the way, and then we found it again. Not everything has caught up yet but a lot has.

Moore's law kept going, and software started getting a little bit faster, which was enough to stop undoing the gains made by hardware, and now things are back to mostly snappy.

Occasionally you'll get a 30mb file that's slow... but subjectively things sure seem better than 10 years ago when you couldn't even think about optimization without someone beating you over the head with a "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote.
Ditto! The only thing that occasionally bumps me is a few missing features in vim-mode (marks & recording). But it feels so much faster than VS Code, I'm willing to put up with it so far.
Let’s say that the city of LA theorizes that enforcement of parking via these cameras will be cash flow positive; assuming the $11M contract size, 100 cameras and 5 years at face value you’d expect each device to bring in $60/day to break even.

Seems like a good deal for the city if they fine someone at least twice a day per device.
I would say parts for any thinkpad model are easier to find than framework ones. And it applies worldwide.
Are Workplaces Inherently Toxic?
> it's a [...] intro to a list of recipes

That's exactly the point. It doesn't need to be there, doesn't add any value whatsoever, etc. ;)
For every person like you who is on HN and willing to do followup research and change their mind, there are at least a hundred who will accept the first thing they're told at face value.

I mean, how could a Harvard Professor be a scammer ... right?!
If you're here, you may enjoy my recent rendering of a "Hyper-Realistic 2037 Concept Car Interior":

[1] https://taylor.town/stupid-touchscreen

The design language of modern cars is bad in a consistent and unique way. I think this video does a good job of naming some of the quirks, but what I really want to know is what incentives cause all of this.

It's kind of like how Windows and Apple both have particular types of errors I expect at this point. I can make some guesses about why those companies are willing to compromise on quality in certain areas. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why the car industry makes its decisions.
I'm not sharing any revenue with Microsoft for my desktop apps :)
Introducing the Ultimate Stand for Apple Vision Pro
> Google doesn't pay it's shareholders dividends

Google just started paying a dividend.
I'm curious as to why. I finally went all in on neovim about two years ago and have been having an amazingly stable experience.
Are Row Zero and/or PySheets open source?
I thought this was true for a lot of plants…
That's just trying to keep from being bored during the long wait times using an EV introduces to the same routine road trip.

Changing behaviors would be like breaking the trip into shorter days, charging at night while sacrificing some days in the man destination
Yeah I think if a sign says you can use your contactless credit card or “touch your credit card at the gate” or some language like that, then it should be clear enough.

With validity of credit cards being <5 years you’d think we are at 100% now having no magnetic strip. Perhaps cards issued in some countries do have magnetic strip (but hopefully 100% have contactless too)
The concepts of freedom and being comfortable in your car do not compute for non-Americans (and city-slicker-Americans)
That sounds a lot like a corrupted ISO/install media! I suggest verifying the checksums and trying a different USB drive.
China only owns about $800 billion is US treasuries, so a one-time payment of 40% of Google should do.
None of our processes have a 0% false positive rate. Not tickets written by humans, not criminal charges filed by humans, not court cases tried in front of a jury. So maybe a phrase would be "unrealistic expectations".

But what we should expect (and demand) is that the process have no higher an error rate than human reporting, and that the errors should be no harder to correct/appeal.
But having a large market cap necessarily gives a company a large amount of influence and power because they can sell stock to buy things.
This isn't genetic algorithm, though. It's mutation.

To do it with a serious model of a genetic algorithm, you need crossover, not mutation. It's fun, but this is sort of a lottery of randomized cars with some capacity for copying winning ones over to successive runs.

Breed the cars ;)
Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Unless I'm misreading your comment, you may have misread the article.

Inference for this RISC-V implementation takes 13.7ms. 7 seconds was cited from an Arduino version as a reference.
I find that flow state is sometimes mind numbing. Taking a shower gives me more creative ideas.

But visualizing any system or only a partial system on paper, makes a huge difference. Added bonus, pen and paper cannot be interrupted.

Need to learn Mermaid one day.
To be fair, debt isn't an indicator of anything but credit being used to build something now (aka an investment in the future).

So we should be focusing on what that debt is being used to fund, more than the debt itself. In my opinion at least.

Overall I agree though, the debt is massive and isn't actually being used to better anything within the USA.
lol. No they don't.
I was being sarcastic, apologies :) The phrase I was referring to is "innocent until proven guilty."
Specially considering the esp32 has multiply for both integer and floatinf point.
I don't like the bezels, but I really do like the large pixels of the 19" monitors. Sure, text scales fine on bigger monitors but most program icons do not. The bezels are a lesser evil than a big monitor to me--but the monitors must be matched. I can tune out the bezels pretty well (and working in a reasonably dark area helps) but I can't tune out mouse misbehavior when crossing the line. I have a portable screen for my laptop, it doesn't match and I do not like that at all.
Flying is still an option, but some towns/counties have gone so far to pass laws that make it illegal to travel through their jurisdiction to/from receiving care from out of state. This is level of absurdity the local governments have debased themselves.
I’m all for requiring a human to give out tickets of all or any kind.
false positives can also be human generated
> If Google was really existing in service of its employees rather than its investors, as it would be in a socialist system

What socialist system is that where a company is run from the benefit of its employees?
That might be ok if people were responsible and not poorly trained to the task.

Also norms exist for a reason and resources on this very planet have to be shared with billions of other human beings.
Moore's law is still going, but we stopped making software slower.

We use JITs and GPU acceleration and stuff in our mega frameworks, and maybe more importantly, we kind of maxed out the amount of crazy JS powered animations and features people actually want.

Well, except backdrop filter. That still slows everything down insanely whenever it feels like it.
Drawing bounding boxes around license plates, and then running OCR on those license plates, is a relatively solved problem. My guess is that low confidence predictions will probably still be manually reviewed.
Need to add the ability to control acceleration with volume.
We have so much to learn from biology.
You like wasting time working for free for google?
> the process have no higher an error rate than human reporting, and that the errors should be no harder to correct/appeal.

I would actually ask that the errors be easier to correct, not just no harder.

Even if the error rate is lower, automated systems will detect a larger number of errors and therefore are likely to create a larger number of false positives. If we're going to automate the creation of false positives we need to equivalently automate their correction.
China owns < half a Google of US debt (i.e. ~0.84T). I think you conflated that with yearly debt payments instead.
Everything I personally do when hosting a website on a new server
> But what if you want to learn the basics of renting a virtual private server (VPS), spinning it up, and configuring it to run your website? Is learning the nitty-gritty of server setup obsolete these days? Maybe, but it's fun! So this is why I'm going to spend the rest of this blog post going highlighting my personal checklist for provisioning and hardening a VPS!
What if it was a smart object and the system could figure out what was supposed to happen and give you that back?
We actually made a tool [1] that handles the upgrades and maintenance for self hosting your own server appliances on your own computer.

[1] https://ipv6.rs/cloudseeder
That doesn’t mean the existing drug can’t be sold as a generic.
I bet there will be short peaks in the next years. Basically, ads declining and we discover they are a kind of scam for most companies (we don't know the real algorithm to handle the inventory) and/or legal actions around the world (e.g. Europe).
I’m not familiar with DO but one approach to the secret zero thing that works elsewhere is the VPS gets assigned an OIDC identity by the provider (or the VPS has access to one if it asks). That identity is in turn used to sign in to Vault.
I'm of the belief that if a law exists but isn't being enforced, the only correct course of action is to eliminate the law or start enforcing it. Otherwise, you enforce the law inconsistently, and you reinforce the notion that laws don't need to be followed.

Technology can help with consistent enforcement. Stop light cameras, in my experience, are more impartial and objective than police officers.

Where I live in the U.S., crime is prevalent. Many laws are flouted by criminals and rarely enforced by the police or district attorneys. The system has become a farce. It's better to enforce the laws consistently, or if they're not needed, to eliminate them.
> instead of recovering as soon as you heard the horn blip, you spent a lot of time with it going off in your ear. In fact my instructor used to pull the circuit breaker for it after it went off, as we already knew we were going to be spending a lot of time in an incipient stall condition, and could tell more from the changes in sound of the air going past us than some buzzer.

This is sort of the way I was taught. In primary training we'd always wind up doing a lot of minimum controllable airspeed work and then move on to power on stalls/departures and low power stalls/approaches. Recognition was pretty easy with the buffeting followed by the nose dropping. Coordination and control were the goals. Later on we'd also do accelerated stalls. I hated doing low speed work so my instructor made us do it every time even after I started doing them without him in the airplane.
Yes, but the bar is higher. No safe is impenetrable, or alarm system foolproof, but they do make undesirable actions more difficult.
Additionally, "Ozempic" (semaglutide) has become the blanket word to describe an entire class of drugs (GLP-1 Agonists) that all kind of do the same thing. Some of which have already been proven in clinical trials to be even more effective than Ozempic (ex. Tirzepatide)

It's like when COVID hit and somehow "Zoom" became the shorthand for online video meetings even though there were (and still are) a ton of options for that functionality on the market.
> You can trace individualism to various started places, like the Protestant Reformation's assertion that individuals have a direct connection to the divine.

Really? I think the Gnostics have long been on that path if one is crediting the Protestant Reformation...
DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game
As noted in the article, the plane had been modified with far more than just the STOL kit.

> A further issue was that his Cessna 185 had been extensively modified. The addition of floats, cargo pack, short take-off and landing kit and a three-blade propeller had never had their combined effect documented.

That’s a lot of things that modify the flight characteristics of a plane, all interacting together in what seems to be a previously untested configuration.

I can completely see how each individual modification might modify the planes flight characteristics in a well know manner. But I struggle to see how anyone could realistically predict the result of all the modifications without some basic empirical testing.
To add to that list, I’ll take the IMG doc over PA or NP mid levels that did a fraction of schooling compared to traditional medical school.
Asymmetric power distribution does that. The closer the business is to a PE firm, the worse it will be. eg GE, Tesla
What exactly is the deterance?

Is there a person or machine who physically inspects the ticket before you board each train? Or is it that the person who sold you the ticket is probably going to be able see if you physically go to the wrong train for the ticket you just bought and yell if you go to the wrong one? Or is it that for most folks, the act of talking to a physical person keeps them honest even if they could lie and buy a cheap ticket but board an expensive train? Or something else?
Again and again this article claims that surprisingly a LLM fails at a certain problem, when it appears to be easy. Each time it seems pretty obvious why that is the case though.

LLMs rely on the statistical dependencies between words or parts of words. That means any question you ask, which is hard to determine from that statistical dependency is extremely hard for an AI. E.g. ChatGPT fails at determining the length of words made up of random characters. It will fail at even performing the simplest of rules because encoding the rules in the statistical dependencies is extremely hard.
> It seems quite a jump to go from "maybe try a a salad?" to putting millions of people on medication.

It's a hyperbole, meaning to say: The problem is so frustratingly silly and solution is so obvious and simple — just eat a little less, move a little more — that I understand how hard it is to accept that it might just be the completely wrong approach.

What makes it fairly obvious to me is that despite clear and long standing conflicting beauty ideals, the massive societal advantages beauty affords, and an industry build around weight loss (not even drugs, stuff like Weight Watchers), people still struggle.

If you have good insight into why informing about tobacco worked to the degree it did (although lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer death) other than claiming vague un-seriousness, I am all ears. Otherwise I have a hard time understanding this as an information problem.
Aside from the mandatory negotiation with the employee co-determination (works council), the layoffs "must be determined according to the principles of social selection [...] (t)his is often perceived as a major obstacle [...] it would be disastrous to have to dismiss top performers simply because they are younger than other employees or have been recently hired."

[Source] Random link from the Internet so that I don't need to translate: https://www.emplawyers-muenchen.de/wp-content/uploads/files/...
Good point, when buying a car, one can try to buy good stopping distance.
Still, all things being equal bigger classes of cars take longer to stop: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/best-and-wor...

I also wonder what happens in real world non-ideal scenarios (including rain and snow) rather than on the perfect test tracks they test stopping distance on.

Perhaps the fundamental advantage of a smaller car is increased maneuverability.
I built a small Python script so I could let GPT-4 debug my system issues:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/sysaidmin

It works surprisingly well!
Just another self-promotion blog post with near zero information density. "Behold, the vastness of our vanity, regurgitating old news like we just discovered something new." Do these posts really help with hiring?

CLION also highlights unused includes, nothing new here. Use a good IDE. A networked ccache also does wonders if your org allows it.

Slow build otherwise stem from a combination of: a) lack of proper modules in C++ (until recently) and b) unidiomatic or just terrible code bases. To help with the latter, hide physical implementations (PIMPL for class state, forward declarations for imports), avoid OOP-style C++ above all, minimize use of templates, design sound and minimal modules. No rocket science.
Right, because the main breaker would be 2 pole (or at the very least handle tied).
> which is that operators of the tooling will treat it as having a 0% error rate in a way that they don't with human judgment

This is possible but we have decades of camera enforcement experience suggesting that courts are aware that these systems are not as reliable as the manufacturers claim. People have been challenging photo tickets since the previous century and there’s a well-established process for challenging them.
I agree with this (the call to action, not the act) and will try and respond and share it, but it's a lobby group right ("Alliance for the Future"), I'd like to know who is funding it and a bit more about it.
IANAL but I believe the CEO is liable even if/after they left the company.
> 'We are only going to make $5billion instead of $15 billion, let's not bother with that one.'

Well, yes. If there's a 10% chance of success, these differences matter. Decision making happens at the margin.
Awesome content! Brilliant post. You could use maxmind and use the free files to get your data.
Unfortunately, yes, having one's personal information accessible to large, private companies really doesn't matter to most people. The only people I know who really care about this stuff are tech people, stalking victims, and victims of domestic abuse. [Admittedly this is becoming more aware for women trying to get abortions, but they're also a minority shamed to silence most of the time.] This isn't going to change until there are real, public, personal stakes for the majority of people.
There is also shdotenv that allows you to load different .env file formats and convert between them, e.g. for UNIX shell.

https://github.com/ko1nksm/shdotenv
Zepbound is $550/mo with the manufacturer coupon without insurance.
Sample size is only 4
A Wolf in IT's Clothing
FWIW, £250/month (GBP) is the equivalent of $3750/year (USD).
Pardon my ignorance, but does antibiotics even do anything? I thought there was no cure once you’ve been bitten by a tick?

What role does the antibiotic play?
are you familiar of the ideas of left libertarianism? murray bookchin is a good writer to read about that.
There are now CCTV vehicles driving around some boroughs of London scanning for parked cars. I strongly believe that this breaks the spirit of the law as it was originally conceived and implemented.

In most areas, local residents allowed for and voted for controlled parking zones primarily to prevent commuters or tourists parking all day/week and to reduce things like car storage by dealerships. Basically, to ensure that parking was actually available for residents, to make the best of a scarce resource.

I don't believe that the intent was ever to penalise someone parking for 15-30 minutes to have a coffee or to shop, to drop off parcels, to make tradesmen have to pay to park when working, etc. Perfect enforcement is punitive, and reduces the utility of the road network overall.

My personal opinion is that these surveillance schemes are radicalising a lot of people and turning them against their elected officials. Discretion fosters trust in power.
> For years now, the site is consistently the top Google search result for "apportionment calculator," and gets a steady stream of traffic.

What does not enough traffic mean? As a measure? As a rationale? What threshold was not achieved here that makes actual sense?

High quality links to pages with Google ads are all Google should care about at its most self-interested. There is no “too small” because it is all incremental. Why send someone somewhere and not have an ad there?

If they got more traffic due to the intentional crap additions, what does that tell you about Google Search?

This is an example of full failure of Google to even take care of their own interests.
It could be my bias but it seems a lot of inexperienced developers no longer read comprehensive books on topics but survive on Google, stack overflow, some documentation with examples/simple tutorials, blog posts and now Gpts.

All are useful tools but they are very poor in eliminating unknown unknowns like a book would.
A few years ago, as a 1st April joke, I set up a DOS/Windows 3.11 disk image on our PXE network boot server. It included a functional Word 6 for Windows, and the gzipped image was fitting in 12 MB... PCs back then could still boot without UEFI (and run Windows 3.11 if it was properly configured). It booted almost instantly. Same for opening Word.

Having used that version of Word when it was the latest one, I can say the current ones have quite some added functionality (lots of very tiny things, and a few bigger ones), but I'm totally sure the same could be done with 10x less memory usage if MS would care about it. But there's no incentive to do it. Computers are faster and have lots of memory, and we don't depend on floppy disks any more. It would just cost them more money. Not saying that this is a good thing (I think the opposite, especially that I start thinking that software bloat might have a non-neglectable environmental impact), but as long as nobody complains strong enough (or as long as the EU doesn't come out with an anti-softare-bloat law... seems just a dream but who knows), that wont change. And I can clearly remember I had the same bloat-software feeling when I tried Office 2000 or XP, compared to Office 97, so there's nothing so new here.

As a final note, I've recently seen the source code of MS Word for Windows 1.0 on a GitHub repo (MS released it, see original release on Computer History Museum: https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-word-for-windows-...). It was pure C, with even very large parts of code written in assembly! But the code is really ugly... totally incomparable to current C or C++ coding standards, patterns and language capabilities.
google's revenue is 300b, the mayan calendar ends in 6 years, do the math + that's about 2 trillion
nah, but it would be nice to have a communist version too.
I see that IP range quite a bit. https://github.com/tg12/IntruderAlertPro
I find it hard to believe that this post indicates that C++ build times are proportional to included bytes, period.

I haven’t used C++ in quite a while, but aren’t templates a big part of this issue?
That just leads to "I followed your instructions on your website and my house burned down". No company is going to open themselves up to that.
> We not only lost the way, we don’t even know the destination any more.

Hah! Good one. It's unfortunate, but true.
SUV do not carry more stuff than lighter passenger cars of similar interior size.

Actually I found out there are use cases where an SUV is worse than a convertible or even a bicycle with a trailer. I once carried home a small tree from my kids bicycle trailer and was amused to see peopme struggling to put large plants inside their SUV without spilling dirt all over the trunk carpet. Those with a pickup truck fared a bit better yet still had a harder time than I did because their truck bed height. The only guy who was as comfortable as I was putting a large plant in his car was the guy who put the pot on the passenger seat of his convertible.
That's not political views. That's just what it is. If you want to engage in demagoguery about technicalities of the currency, overlooking the actual goal behind it (assisting Putin's war) especially with masking it under mutual cooperation ideas - it's a waste of time since you simply sound like Putin's troll who poses as an intellectual.
pylint yells at me when my modules are more than 1500 lines. maybe it assumes the module is stored as string and not a rope.