skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because I think carbon capture sells the idea that with the right technology we could just continue doing what we are doing. It is the equivalent of an obese person stuffing food in their mouth and telling you fat can always be surgically removed. Yeah sure it can, to some degree, but you do see how that doesn't fix the problem? Do you see how them saying that might in fact be worse than them saying nothing?

What you’re overlooking is that we will keep doing whatever we’re doing, for the same reason telling people to diet and exercise isn’t doing jack shit for the obesity crisis. We need Ozempic for the climate. Because the only alternative is 4C of warming.
I made my son a floor bed, it's really true that when you work with code all day having something tangible that you can touch helps.

It took twice as long as I thought. It cost double what it would have cost to buy one of Etsy but it's still one of my favourite things I've done in ages. My son still gets excited when he see's it sometimes
Aren't you afraid that the "fast-growing" small company will soon become a large company, with all the problems you mentioned you want to avoid?
That could mean they looked you up on facebook
Yea but the slide landed in the backyards of a lawyer suing Boeing.

It's a bit more than just "OMG BOEING PLANES FALLING APART" clickbait. Lol.

It's the universe fucking with us.
HN loves to make this claim but it just doesn't match my experience, from several teams. Estimates are not precise, obviously, but that doesn't mean that they are impossible to make or that they add no value.
I’d love to know how it’s possible to supply peak demand in the UK on a still day in January purely from renewables and storage. Especially if you consider that demand is also going to have to increase massively to decarbonise heating, transport etc
It's not so much what is said, but what it is or could be used for.
Email their CISO gulzar.abraham@tatacapital.com and rajesh.pillai@tatacapital.com
There's no need to speculate. Even with 1960s tech and no physical access, the US military somehow managed to produce really good maps of the USSR, superior to those that were available to the public. So ironically, the intentional inaccuracy of USSR-made maps affected domestic users the most.

In 2024, with satellites producing imagery in ~10 cm resolution, the most important factor determining the quality of maps is probably the amount of money available for analyzing satellite imagery into maps, and you definitely can't hide militarily important features like roads, railways, bridges and buildings.
Yeah as someone who (unfortunately) has the habit of exercising on and off that's what I heard/did as well: cardio where you're pushing yourself a little, but not so hard you feel like you want to stop right now or that you couldn't have a chat with someone running beside you.

Its weird though because HIIT is meant to be amazing for your body as well.

I suppose a mixture of both is good, and if I really think about it, we pretty much evolved to do that - low energy wandering to find prey, medium energy to chase prey and exhaust it, brief high intensity to catch up and finish the job. Then you get dinner.

Man, I should go back to the gym.
With AWS you're not using a saas. They cant even display the data you store with them on their ui console because they can't access it (unless you use DynamoDB)
I know, but those people need the training.
They're [dead], which means generally others can't see them, but people can enable "showdead" on their profile.
Ok, so what was wrong with your hands after all? Did you go to a doctor?
Sizing is useful for one thing: making sure that two people are talking about the same thing.
Rabbit Inc Before the Rabbit R1
I tried, but I couldn't understand what you said. Analog is gone?
The (abandoned) ROLF project was an attempt to get a RISC OS look-and-feel for Linux:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070211082559/http://stoppers.d...

There is also ROX Desktop, which has had some recent commits:
https://github.com/rox-desktop/
> but so is adding new nuclear

Are you talking about the typical nuclear plant which is often bespoke, or also considering modular reactor units which have (finally!) seen recent development?

> lithium ion batteries... makes the most financial sense

Correct me if I'm wrong but li-ion is still cost prohibitive for large scale energy storage on the grid. Things like V2G etc can help but those are owned by the drivers/consumers and not the state/electricity corps.
It happens but then it's time to find the next one.
Sorry but you're stuck in the past and have failed to update with new information. Pull up a graph of renewables levelized cost of electricity, and lithium ion grid scale storage cost per kWh, over the last 20 years, and note change. Renewables are contributing massively today, look at ERCOT or CAISO today. CAISO has about 15 GWh of storage deployed already and will deploy more soon. It's not theoretical. And this contribution of renewable to the grid will grow exponentially as costs keep declining and funding keeps increasing. You were absolutely correct 20 years ago where renewables used to be more expensive and grid scale storage didn't exist, but costs have changed.
This is unusual in a few respects. Maybe it’s just opinionated, which is fine. But putting Beethoven in the Romantic list is odd. Throughout most of his life, classical forms dominated. Beethoven was transitional but if forced to classify his music I’d place him in the classical era.

The choice of artists is interesting. It’s a matter of taste of course, but I think a more “neutral” reading of some of these concerti would be better. Perlman’s portamento shifts are indulgent; and Anne-Sophie Mutter’s tone comes across as strident even when a something more subdued is called for. For example for the Brahms violin concerto, James Ehnes is a better choice for an honest reading. The second movement in his hands is lovely without the drippy sentimentality into which Perlman can lapse.
Isn't it possible to just go looking for another fast-growing small company when your current employer reaches that stage?
Did that self-administered plant-based treatment have an orangutan-FDA EUA authorization? What does the Cochrane study on wound-treatment with leaves say? Was there publication bias on successful trials of wound leaf treatment? Was the funnel plot of orangutan wound-leaf treatment studies asymmetric or symmetric? Was the relative risk less than 1? Is the orangutan p-hacking (were there 19 other orangutans who applied the same species leaf to their wound with no effect, and this orangutan kept them from the BBC's cameras)? If the orangutan was basing its experiment off animal-model studies of _homo sapiens_, how well should it expect those studies to carry over to Pongo pygmaeus? Did a supplement manufacturer fund the orangutan's trial? Wasn't it dangerous for the orangutan to self-administer based on some non-peer-reviewed preprint (s)he probably read online somewhere? Why were preprints allowed to be viewable by it, given the hazard of self-administering that viewing posed? The orangutan should have left its wound untreated until it, its peers, all the orangutan organizations offering standard-of-care wound treatments, and their regulators had completed analyzing all the results of all the independent clinical trials in one comprehensive meta-study. (If there had been any clinical trials undertaken while the meta study was being analyzed, then make that two comprehensive meta-studies, and hope they don't result in a tie. If the leaf treatment worked, we wouldn't be calling it a leaf, we would call it medicine.

Pssh total pseudoscientist orangutan stuck in some institution-distrusting online subculture bubble.
Politicians can use social media ads to buy votes for €4 per person
The big players in this field are actually Optitex and Gerber AccuMark. Lookup any pattern making job from the likes of adidas, Patagonia or Arc’teryx and they require knowledge in one of those two.

The reason why CLO is becoming so popular in recent years is because they’ve been really smart about striking partnerships with fashion schools and offering their software at steep student discounts. I once tried to get a price quote from a regional Optitex rep and they just shrugged me off because they only deal with BIG companies.

If there ever was an industry ripe for disruption it would be fashion. The incumbents have been resting on their laurels for decades so it’s nice to see upstarts like CLO trying to apply the Final Cut Pro formula to dethrone them.
The reason it failed in prod was entirely unrelated to it being prod. The same could have happened in staging. IIRC, the error was entirely due to a RST packet from some external system during the upgrade. It was a bug in the upgrading system that should have been accounted for, had anyone known it existed. Identifying the root cause of the failure, was what took the most time. Had deployments been idempotent it also probably could have been resolved in moments as well ... but here we are, 15 years later with lots of lessons learned.
Halfway through your comment I was going to say you were wrong, that ASTs aren't self-referential and that you can easily allocate them in a single block using a bump allocator, but then obviously you say so yourself in the second part of the post. This is exactly what this post proposes to do when it proposes to remove the safeguards and says it can't show a Rust version (the "AstContext" is just a sort of bad bump allocator), except of course that in Rust it's completely memory safe.

> Box<T> generally ruins your ability to do pattern matching, which is a deal-breaker when working with ASTs.

For what it's worth I find that I never want to pass ownership when traversing ASTs with pattern matching, so I just bind everything by reference and don't experience this problem. YMMV.
I've never seen this in my life!

(The exception being overdrafts in Blighty which don't have fixed repayments agreed. Even then, the bank can't act unfairly).

Where do you live where this is the commonplace? Such terms would be laughed at here.
For what it's worth, I think people were able to reverse-engineer deviations between China's scheme and Google Maps' own scheme because Google's online services un/intentionally provided information about those deviations – which its Chinese provider somehow gave to Google – which people then scraped. [1] What that says about China's strategy of relying on indigenous mapping partners is up to you to decide.

[1] https://wuyongzheng.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/china-map-devia....
Building the skills needed for combatting fraud in the public sector
I look forward to the inevitable JSON path injection attacks given how widespread XPATH injection used to be. ( See https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/XPATH_Injection for more info. )
And accept the consequent reduction in living standards from no longer being able to offshore all you social and environmental externalities.
Unravelling life's origin: five key breakthroughs from the past five years
> They are struggling to put in guardrails and make it politically correct with text.

Are they? It’s quite hard to get politically incorrect outputs from ChatGPT nowadays.
I wish TomTom would get in on that.
Sure, beam search makes the result less greedy than it originally was, but it’s still an extremely greedy approach overall.

It would be sort of like trying to make local optimization techniques less local by running the process multiple times from different starting points and choosing the minimal basin the process ended up in from out of the different runs. Quite a bit better, but in many cases not even close to the global optimum*.

For a slightly more apt analogy, it would be like:

1) Choose multiple starting points

2) For each starting point, perform local optimization until you get stuck in a basin (local minimum)

3) Keep the n overall lowest points, create m different perturbations for each point that pushes the point out of its basin, and go to 1), using these m*n points as your new set of starting points for the next round.

Note this process is totally agnostic to whatever the local optimization algorithm is. That’s why I called the beam search part of an LLM’s post-training prediction a “meta-model”, because it doesn’t matter if the core inference is performed by a transformer architecture or something entirely different.

*I say “in many cases”. But I am extremely curious for this particular case of inferring sequences of human-generated text the degree to which we fail to capture the true joint probability distribution via single-token prediction + beam search.

It’s quite possible we are very far off—perhaps this is the missing “ingredient” for generalized reasoning. On the other hand, as I said in my original post, I never would have guessed current SOTA LLMs only use single-token prediction, and I’m astonished they work as well as they do based on that, so maybe we’re not actually too far off. Without further research, it’s just speculation either way though.
That's a very good point: commercializing the products of CO2 capture. I wonder if bio-engineering photosynthesis to speed it up is moderately feasible.
Japanese researchers develop sustainable material for displays
Haha comparison made me giggle.
I would say the downvotes come because 1) they are changing the subject 2) student protesters are far less dangerous than far right militias and 3) it’s a lot easier to relate to anti-Palestinean genocide protestors than to people who claim there is a white genocide and 4) if a divided populace implies intent on the part of the app developers, Facebook is at least as culpable. TikTok didn’t invent filter bubbles.
It took me some time to readjust my brain to stop aiming at extremes and focus at ~harmony. Doing exercise that don't burn you most of the time. Maybe later my body will be able to take a bigger hit, but in the mean time I'll take the slow maintenance mode.

Another trick was to focus on the whole body, I had a bad back but ran all my life like this, I now do light deadlift to restore better posture and better range of motion. Bad posture will make your muscle shrink and impede your running too.
I am sorry. I was under the impression that, at least for some features, Stirling PDF also uses pdfjam or similar, instead of wholly delegating to PDFBox. I think the point still stands, that there are powerful cli tools and I wouldn't consider running this container just for myself.

Probably anybody who can get this docker container running, can use appropiate open source cli tools. So one would wonder about the target audience. I don't. ;)

But I do indeed LibreOffice's command line conversion features.
Thanks. Exactly what I needed
Git tracks itself. Checkout the first commit of itself
In the README files of the first commit 20 years ago, we can find:

GIT - the stupid content tracker

"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronounciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

This is a stupid (but extremely fast) directory content manager. It
doesn't do a whole lot, but what it _does_ do is track directory
contents efficiently.
JSON Path:

$.store.book[?@.price < 10].title

Python:

[x['title'] for x in data['store']['book'] if x['price'] < 10]

Javascript:

data.store.book.filter(x=>x.price < 10).map(x=>x.title)
I can't respond directly to your comment. What date did you email them?
I just think that they wrote "fast-growing" as a positive attribute, when the logic of the comment would make it a negative attribute.

Of course you can go looking again. But why not look for a slow-growing or not-growing small company, so you don't need to go looking so often?
> the change is largely driven by customer demand

Please sell us sell us sell us the elephant
I've no idea if they feel they need this or not. But I do know that if you want to buy a significant chunk of JS (which is the context of this) then you'll need to have a lot of money to do so.
This is technically possible to do on Android.
Arpanet, Internet Archive
Off topic but the thing that I find most interesting about New Zealand is that there were no humans at all there until the 1400's.

It was an untouched bird paradise.

Fascinating to think that only hundreds of years ago there was an entirely uninhabited country.
I'm neither from the US, nor an iOS user, I don't think I ever saw a checkmark when recieving a call.

The Google dialer does ask me whether unknown callers were businesses and try to ID businesses that enough people report
I feel like `fq` has a query path language that's kind of generic across lots of file types. It can be fairly verbose for that reason. I was using it to debug MsgPack documents and it was a lot less intuitive than just using some dotted string paths with `jq`.

https://github.com/wader/fq/
Yeah, programming used to be excellent and that’s not nostalgia as I still write MSX, Amiga and Delphi (win/lin) software. Now, with modern stacks, I just hate all of it really. I do it fulltime for work with nextjs (and all the du jour stuff that literally changes every few months and makes life easier: secret it doesn’t at all) but we are transitioning everything to my Common Lisp dsl; in one year even my work software will be a pleasure again. Stuff I should’ve done 20 years ago but I drank this modern tooling koolaid; it’s more akin to the layers of hell.
This may not be sufficient; some phone systems delay the disconnect, keeping you connected to the scammer on your outgoing call.
YouTube music has a lot of music that would never be able to put on Spotify. A lot of one-off punk albums from the 80s, DJ / house music sets, B-sides, live recordings etc.
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> You mean the Archimedes GUI on top of the BSD kernel?

No. (Although that sounds fun, I never heard of such a thing.)

RISC/ix was Acorn's ARM UNIX. It had nothing of the Acorn GUI -- it was fairly standard X11, I think with Motif or something Motif-like.

Acorn did add some Acornish tweaks to it, including its text editing and its memory allocation, but it looked and ran much like any other late-1980s UNIX, as far as I now. I have never got to try it myself, sadly.
Well obviously roads have benefits. Nobody is saying to abolish roads. But the marginal benefits of more road density really fall off beyond the minimum of “having a road”. Compare two options within a city

1. Redesign a 2-lane (each direction) highway into a 4-lane highway at the cost of several hundred million tax dollars, over the course of a few years.

2. Leave the highway smaller. Re-zone a city to allow small shops within residential neighborhoods, and up-zone all residential land to allow up to 4-story townhomes and condos. Spend tens of millions of tax dollars building a robust cycling highway, and make it safe for people to accomplish basic errands within a close proximity to their home.

For #2, spending of tax dollars is less and people are healthier. You still have roads, but people need to drive on them much less often.

So when the next city proposes an $840M highway revamp [1], consider how you could spend 10% of that funding to increase mobility around the city for residents ($84M could build a lot of safe separated bike highways). While at the same time allowing private development to make natural improvements to neighborhoods by opening new corner stores and shops along bike routes

[1] https://www.i395-miami.com/
I have to laugh because I find almost all programmers are like this. They are almost always people who like making things. A lot of them are musicians too.

I find DIY to be similar - you get a physical result, you use your hands to make something, the satisfaction is almost always about pleasing your own sense of what you want. Ok there's the wife too but ....

I also like feeling that I can cope with certain jobs even if not well. Also you do get better. Baking and cooking can be like this too. When you learn the "tricks" that make your bread turn out better or your skirting boards line up properly or whatever then it's a super feeling. :-)
If you like SDF:s Womp is pretty nice for starting out. Tinkercad is another pretty good beginner “cad”.
I mean I've routeninly seen estimates be 3-5x longer that projected.
It's up to you if you thing that's an accurate enough estimate or not.
It only seemed like 13 years, because the closer you get to a singularity...
First Amendment precedent is due for a brush clearing. The Supreme Court went in a stupid direction with it in the 1960s and 1970s. Nobody who wrote the first amendment thought it protected pornography.
The question is would U need evidence to shut your mouth if you were a Boeing whistleblower?
> That's simply false. China under-reports by a vast amount, so does India.

I can't comment on China but I highly suggest living for a month in an average Indian household if you have such delusions. (Yes, it's a delusion.)

An easy way for an economist sitting at home to realize the same is look at PPP & currency valuations. The rupee is fairly weak but has a better PPP value, suggesting labour-based goods/services are cheaper/more common than capital-based ones. Hence why you have say more call centres (human-intensive) than high-tech Silicon Valley startups - an iPhone is "cheap" in the US, an hour of labour is "cheap" in India. Hence consumption of goods by Indians is very limited esp compared to the US.
Yeah, that is fascinating. good point. Is it impossible that there were humans there a loooong time before who then left/died out? Would be interesting too haha :)
Its actually logic.

There really are some things that cannot be known. It is valuable and useful to distinguish between belief/hypothesis and knowledge.

The worst thing, imo, is to believe that one knows when one is a state of belief - this is the curiosity killer.
You’re right, but for someone who doesn’t like running and isn’t a runner, keeping it simple and saying run slow is more helpful.
I first trained to run long distances using a run-walk method for equal distances, which I then shortened – it took some convincing from an experienced runner that I wasn't "cheating", but when I realized that I was able to run at enough overload to train no matter what, it then clicked: it's about staying in motion; it's running, not sprinting, which are two different things indeed.

I now cycle for the same reasons as you do, although it's not as consistently intense as I would like.
For military purposes the deliberate obfuscation between geodesic datums is meaningless as detailed and correct maps of china can be derived out of traced satelity images and maped to WGS84.

Apparently Google and Bing do not have access to these "corrected" maps.
FCC asks for more money to help telecom providers replace Huawei and ZTE gear
LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches
What about embedded YouTube videos on other sites?
Over reliance is a major part of the issues. LLMs in other contexts help bottom performers a lot, but top performers get worse because they are lulled into trusting the AI's judgment.

I've worked a good number of hours with Claude Opus and it has never produced non-compiling code (ChatGPT 4 does that for me), but it can create quite subtle bugs, which is missed by the "just make sure it compiles"-type comments in this thread.
Actual code is here: https://codeberg.org/vonshednob/pter
Apple iPhone sales fall in nearly all countries
> Most of the developed world will move away from individual vehicles for anything besides the last mile in the next decades.

I live in Seoul where despite its jokingly small size, people have car(s). We already have highspeed rails and everything. Cars are definitely not going anywhere unless specifically went against it by governemntal policies.