skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do know In-q-tel has invested in things that people use in the day to day, including Google Earth (originally created by Keyhole). DARPA kick-started the semi-autonomous vehicle industry with two of their Grand Challenges in the 2000s. The US Navy helped develop what would become Tor also in the early 2000s....
For those interested in GPS, check out this article which discusses in detail how each step of the GPS process works, including acquisition, tracking, and decoding. I was thoroughly fascinated and flash-card-ified it so I will remember the facts long-term.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40041198
Yeah, usually it is just your user account: https://xkcd.com/1200/
> Few which provide the level of care the upper middle class and above have come to expect in America

This opinion is the opposite of what I’ve heard from people from peer countries who’ve experienced both, not to mention even countries we tend to look down on (there’s an entire industry around even pretty affluent Americans going to Mexico to save money for equivalent treatment). I’d believe it for the 98+th percentile crowd, but I’ve also known people considering going back to Europe because the lower salary is better than all of the out of pocket costs, stress, and risk.
More than a decade ago, I heard a big consulting firm executive stated that he deliberately base his project on Perl, because his team will have less chance to find a new job elsewhere from this skill. :|
Oh, wow.

People have screenshots on X:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMX9e_3XMAAuvoo?format=jpg&name=...
The exact opposite for me! I have a hard enough time getting composition and exposure correct shooting stuff here on Earth!
Yes but are they denied by accountants or doctors? Death panels already existed, it's just a question of who's on them.
Ideas and Execution
Side note / point: I'm a current WeWork customer and have been incredibly impressed with the consistency of their offering. Every location is the same (in a good way)... Even down to the coffee, art, phone booths, etc.

Has anyone logged or written about how WeWork manages such consistency, especially during seemingly tumultuous times?
> A function with minimal side-effects is a function with side-effects [2].

Perhaps the real issue is being able to categorize those side-effects at design-time and control behavior based on category.

In particular, logging and telemetry which (ideally) do not matter to the core behavior of the application, versus web-calls (which probably do) and local memory changes (which almost always matter.)
It would be awesome to have a temperature tracker here as well.
SwiftUI and Compose are honestly very safe bets, 1st party support with a similar declarative approach to UI.

Obvious downsides in complexity of Swift/iOS libraries and Kotlin/Android but when the alternative is mobile UI C++, well.
Interesting. Just a quirk of different regions then. In the US it’s essentially assumed that incidental use from friends and such is such a small usage that the insurance risk is minimal.

To be clear, insurance for US vehicles typically only covers a specific named vehicle, although most policies have a few carve outs for specific purposes (eg, 30 days of grace period when you buy a car before adding it to a policy, as well as applying to any car you rent). If the owner of the vehicle doesn’t have insurance and you borrow it, then there presumably wouldn’t be any insurance coverage at all.
except for the very vague argument that tech disruptions in the past created more jobs there is not really any argument supporting that claim.

Would have been nice to explain how people would be employed in an AI scenario and how they would benefit from the surpluses created by it.
Thanks for a link, I'll take a look later. I meant my admission to be that I am mainly arguing last decade's mistakes. Such that I know I'm behind. But trans fats were hella bad. And my understanding was they were widely used in 70s and 80s.

I don't necessarily believe they are the only bad thing we used for a while. They were strikingly bad, though. Such that I do think it is likely a lot of other things were vilified with it.
My AI x Art experiment where I feed user data into text-to-image model
>Wouldn't the Greek airline (and Greek exit immigration control) check for a valid Russian visa for a Czech passport?

There's no exit stamp for EU citizens leaving the EU. Also nobody cares whether you actually have a valid visa for the place you're going. It's not their responsibility. Maybe somewhere in some paperwork they make you say that you do and nominally they're supposed to check it, but I'm not sure anyone actually does.
Show HN: I made a code copilot powered by Llama 3.
Code Copilot chatbot is powered by Llama 3.

A helpful AI programming assistant. Aim to assist you with your coding needs, providing efficient, readable, clear, and maintainable code.
Cryptography noob here: I'm confused by "Encrypting without zipping doesn't leak any information about the content." Logically speaking, if we compress first and therefore "the content" will now refer to "the zipped content", doesn't this mean we still can't get any useful information?
I'm still chugging along on sublime text 3
Man wins lottery, buys the whole country he immigrated from.
Thanks for the reply. That's roughly the strategy I'm thinking. In the past I would have also reduced the domain TTLs well in advance. You are probably correct about those using unreasonable TTLs on their nameservers.
Cool project!

For those who prefer a more vanilla approach, A-frame [1] is nice.

[1] https://aframe.io/
> Using threejs has completely changed the way I look at website development.

I'm curious to hear about the changes.
Tweet is back:
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1785107943664566556
Wasn't it solved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Ideographic_Va... ?

Kind of a band-aid (it's necessary to stuff a variant selector after a CJK codepoint), but should work.

These decisions were made back in 1992 and codepoint in 16-bit was one of desired goals. Non-unified CJK wouldn't fit. In hindsight, it looks like a rather unfortunate decision, but having more codepoints that would fit to 16 bits could seriously hamper adoption and different standard would win (compute resources were far more limiting back then).

In either case, it's like 4 byte addressing in IPv4, in hindsight, 6+ bytes would be better, but what's done is done.

Edit: Even in 2000s, when C# was released, string was just a sequence of 16-bit code units (not codepoints), so they could deal with BMP without problems and astral planes were ... mostly DIY. They added Rune support (32-bit codepoint) only in .NET Core 3.0 (2019).
"Pens are often considered a fetish item of neurotics with disposable income"

I don't have tremendous disposable income but pens are a pretty minor indulgence, which might excuse making them into a fetish item, writing pointlessly elaborate reviews of them (https://jakeseliger.com/2009/04/05/product-review-pens/), and so forth. Overall, I've come to like the Pigma Micron PN ("plastic nib") pens, which writes smoothly and from any angle—including above my head, which is handy for someone who likes to lie down and read.

I've carried around fountain pens, but they are too expensive if (when) lost, and too finicky.
People go to Google, because it is default search engine in most browsers, they don't seem to change it.
is this a rush to market of a half baked product or a product that doesn't need to exist except to show investors "something"? the fact it gets answers wrong and makes you double check its work sorta defeats the purpose.
HTTP 404 now, but it's still linked from the site's "Physics" category page, so it's not a typo...
What's tone deaf about it? Should the comment offer hugs and kissing before offering obvious, practical advice that anyone at all can take?
So hypothetically the CIA benefited from an anonymous decentralized non-internet based chat app? I guess that's two things (protest movements and a intelligence agency) can agree on....
Achieved through the use of prompts + Llama 3 70b, which I find very useful!
> hare-brained

Thank you for spelling this correctly!
The comments on this post are interesting:

1. Some insist that the source code be made public.

2. Some insist that there be no in-app purchases.

3. Some insist that there be no analytics whatsoever.

Each of the above has some legitimate reason. However, do privacy-focused apps need to play by different set of rules?

If so, what special monetization models would make sense to folks on here? #AskingForAFriend
I was under a lot of stress when I worked until I developed schizoaffective disorder and could no longer work and went on disability. Wounded in the line of IT duty. I am not counted as unemployed even if I am.
If you look for comments by "jcranmer" elsewhere on this page you'll find examples of why it's not as simple as you make it sound.

Do you have any experience at all with different charsets under the hood by the way?
In Defense of Deflation
Its all relative, right? The cost is about a millionth of the JWST image. A millionth!
Syntax is really nice, I'm just as impressed as the first time I saw Three.js as JSX (via react-three-fiber). It's nice to know I have this option if I ever use Svelte + Three.
G7 agrees to shut down coal plants by 2035, U.K. minister says
Who on HN is not Going Galt?
I'm really starting to hate the sub-community in Linux that tries to constantly change it.

I don't want to learn a new network config alternative with every update (Ubuntu changed its net config tool again with 24.04). I don't want an immutable os. I don't want to learn to write new config files. I just want to do what I've been doing but with new packages. If there's a problem with something, just fix it. Don't throw out the whole thing.

I moved to FreeBSD and am happy for its reluctance to change. If there is any, it's usually offering something genuinely new to me as a feature and to boot I only need to learn about it if I need it.

Hardware support is much lower but it's worth it IMO. I had the same irritation with macOS. Every release breaking something essential that was part of my workflow and i didn't want to change. Eventually I did change but away from Apple.

I don't want to change to LennartOS either.
Are you trying the paid gpt or just free 3.5 chatgpt?
Putting human spam-labor out of work, too.
It's a product class that's racing against the clock of Google and Apple baking basically the same functionality into their operating systems and making these dedicated widgets (even more) pointless. I'm not optimistic that Google and Apples take will be significantly more useful than these half-baked attempts, but at least they won't require you to pay for and then juggle an extra device.
> I want to see

They can still just lie though.
The Bits We Usually Ignore: Dedications, Acknowledgements, Footnotes, More
"should be" and "are" are often very different things.
The time to stop pointing out these mistakes in their our politically tilted sandbox was years ago. Let their false-narratives cloud our approach.

Now is the time to join rank and make sure your powder is dry.
> If he’s so dumb and you’re so smart, why don’t you go raise billions and profit like him,”

Because intelligence is not the driver of success here

> one angle

You can be bullish on Tesla. That’s perfectly fine.

But saying “aw man everyone else is getting richer than me so it’ll probably be my turn next” is humorously bad
Sunlight and Vitamin D (2013)
They are responding to the part of your comment that says

> An in-app purchase is an automatic dealbreaker? Doesn’t that depend on what it actually is?

Hardly unrelated
But folks have reasoned about imperative things for a long time, as well? It is certainly easier for many analytics to get into a functional form. But would be a stretch to say it is always easier. Fractals are often my go to example where imperative is easier for many constructs.

I view it like coordinate systems. Polar versus Cartesian coordinates can clearly both do the same things. They each have domains where they have advantages.

You could argue that time based logic systems are the end goal, maybe? Still feels like throwing babies in bathwater.

Edit: for a fun example of reasoning without programming "functional" logic, look up juggling diagrams/notation. Not all logic is symbolic in the same way.
We are living inside of an infinite fractal. Who would have thought.
What kind of company?

Asking coz a Director+ at one company can mean jack sh*t at another. As a Director your actual stats chops probably mean nothing at many larger orgs and it's all about playing politics. Get a major in psych-* or whatever.

If you want to stay in your presumably more startuppy Director role it might still be relevant.

But you said it's not for the relevance. So do whatever makes you happy and leave it out on your resume when it feels off and put it on when it might help.

I had a "Director+" boss once who got a Dr. title to be able to put it on his CV and business card. Got it at a cheap eastern European college that was known for basically handing these out to people like him that write a "thesis" on the side while managing a department of 20-30 devs. Of course that isn't something that's visible on his business card.
Maybe they are hoping to get purchased by one of the big players (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, …) the way that Apple bought Siri.
that makes sense. maybe they think they can get decent enough to be acquired and folded in? I just don't know anyone who wants one.
Thats why you generate typical geologic formations and add a few drillhole constraints.

Sure this isnt going to be a star trek scanner but for practical purposes theres a bunch of other techniques to constrain the results
When I worked a union job the ones “creating value” didn’t stay.
Just the opposite I would say.
GPL uses copyright to ensure that software that makes use of GPL licensed code will be free (libre).

Even in a world without copyright protections, the printer story ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt ) would still have occurred, but there would be no way to ensure that it won't happen again with GPL licensed code.

Without copyright, open source code could still be locked up behind paywalls and compiled binaries. It is copyright that ensures that the law is there to force people to release their code.

The hypothetical legislation to ensure the GPL or CC-BY-SA works is copyright.
The amount of dietary fat needed for humans to survive is very small. Most studies I’ve seen suggest the amount is close to 30-50g/day (depending on your weight) before there’s any meaningful long term health problems.

Dietary carbs are extremely valuable for energy purposes. Sure, you can be a keto nut and go completely no carbs, but extra carbs is valuable for energy reasons.

That said, ideally you should be replacing fat with more protein. Most folks get far far too little protein in their diet, and protein is necessary for maintaining and gaining muscle mass, which has a huge impact on obesity and body form. If you don’t have enough protein to maintain muscle mass but have excess calories then literally the only place for it to go is into fat stores…
It should be noted with this that many models will say they're a GPT variant when not told otherwise, and will play along with whatever they're told they are no matter whether it's true.

Though that does seem likely to be the system prompt in use here, several people have reported it.
I don't think anything will stay stagnant enough for us to even comprehend what life will be like in the future.
Separately from experimenting with Art x AI, trying out Cloudflare services was heaps fun. It has everything required for a modern web app and a fantastic free tier that is enough to get started with a $0 bill.

I've used:

- Pages for Vue.js SPA

- Workers for the node.js backend

- KV for caching and key-value data storage

- R2 for file storage.

They also have domain registration, DNS management and privacy-centered analytics, highly recommend
Productive Emotions
I'm just as confused... If you're copy/pasting the code into a new session, isn't that reading the code?
The xz debacle made me keenly aware of what a weak point the linker is, and now I kinda want a system that doesn't have a dynamic linker at all.
I’m sure you’re being hyperbolic, but consuming 10k calories per day shouldn’t be easy for anyone. No matter how hyper palatable your food is, 10k calories is an absolutely absurd amount of calories and would make most people feel sick. That said, it only takes a few extra hundred calories per day to make you gain 10s of pounds per year.
> doesn't give you the rights to delve into illegal behavior

... Illegal as defined by the highly paid lobbyists of the trillion dollar copyright monopolies? It boggles my mind that such "laws" are even considered legitimate.

> "Too good to die" doesn't exist.

Tell that to Wikipedia and several other organizations which put a stop to stuff like SOPA/PIPA with a single day of blackout. I want to see them try to destroy Wikipedia over copyright nonsense.
So do you just have a list of like thousands of specialized discord servers for every question you want to ask? You're the first person I've seen who is actually _fond_ of discord locking information behind a login instead of the forums and issues of old.

I personally don't think it's useful evaluation here either as you're trying to pretend discord is just a "service" like google or chatgpt, but it's not. It's a social platform and as such, there's a ton of variance on which subjects will be answered with what degree of expertise and certainty.

I'm assuming you asked these questions because you yourself know the answers in advance. Is it then safe to assume that you were _already_ in the server you asked your questions, already knew users there would be likely to know the answer, etc? Did you copy paste the questions as quoted above? I hope not! They're pretty patronizing without a more casual tone, perhaps a greeting. If not, doesn't exactly seem like a fair evaluation.

I don't know why I'm typing this all out. Of course domain expert _human beings_ are better than a language model. That's the _whooole_ point here. Trying to match human's general intelligence. While LLM's may excel in many areas and even beat the "average" person - you're not evaluating against the "average" person.
Yes, GR uses differential geometry; however, a good (mechanical) understanding of any exterior algebra helps when working with tensors; and, I found GA much easier to understand than algebraic & differential geometry, when starting out. The idea is to familiarize yourself with learning math. The actual math of the GR paper is pretty straight forward: it's the physics which is so mind bending.
No one forgot. The ruling class doesn’t care and they’re dunking on plebs every day.
Cold War VLF transmissions

Damn that seems super interesting. I guess it's too sensitive to have a write up?
Since you need to create a unique bucket name any way, I like to include my AWS Account ID in my bucket names. Be advised that bucket names need to be 63 characters or less. Another reason I do this is that CloudFormation supports the use of:

${AWS::AccountId}
I personally have not seen a strong relationship between employment status and attracting a good partner. Women are not impressed by miserable decent paying corporate jobs. Theres no incentive
Literally has also meant figuratively for a while now.
Don't assume; force UTF-8.
after the first two or three times i got asked to code-review something that another developer "didn't know how to write so just asked copilot/chatgpt/etc and it produced this, could you tell me if it's right?" i got pretty tired of it. obviously it's useless to ask questions about how the code was written because the person asking for the code review didn't actually write it and they don't have any answers about why it was written how it was.

especially on the back of the xz supply chain attack and, y'know, literally any security vulnerability that slipped through code review, i refuse to have unaccountable, unreviewed code in projects i work on.

somewhat recently, there was the case with air canada's LLM-based support bot making a false statement and then a judge forcing air canada to honour it. i think we're setting the stage for something like that happening with LLM-written code – it's going to be great for a while, everyone's going to be more productive, and then we'll all collectively find out that copilot spat out a heartbleed-level flaw in some common piece of software.
I actually am fine with banning all Chinese businesses. Our ruling classes would dislike that. They ONLY want to ban Chinese businesses when they fear they might not have sole and total control over what Americans see and what "influences" them, and I hate that. It's that authoritarian impulse in rulers to keep people like docile sheep they can extract money out of and silence, that I hate.
Full article (gift link):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/world/americas/guatemala-...
Everyone wants 60A minimum at 240v. But 30A is just fine, you’re home all night to charge anyway
I think it has more to do with the fact that everything has sugar in it now. French fries, bread, processed meat in some cases. Im not usually in favor of making laws to solve problems. But for sake of argument if you had to call anything that had sugar added to it a "desert" i think we'd all find out that, all we eat is desert.
Humans are the universe defining meaning.
What is codified as legally fair use is extremely limited, and the limited changes to account for digital copies has mostly favored publishers. The terms of fair use should be updated and broadened.
>Even in a country with near-total freedom of speech, why would you knowingly permit a state-backed influence tool from such a known-"evil" country, to have a stranglehold over much of the attention of your civilian population?

Because Americans fought for the right to "be influenced" aka access information the government doesn't want us to see. No one forced Americans to use TikTok en masse. And no one hid from them the fact that it's a Chinese company.
I don't get why they don't just fly Air New Zealand anyway given that the govt owns 52% of it...
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Makes me sound old, but I'm sort of glad we don't live forever. Putting up with that kind of change sounds miserable.
> you can be sure that some startup will disrupt the LLM market by finding a way to do it

Indeed if a startup can find a way to scrub PII of living people from 20 billion pages of text (and prevent LLMs from ever hallucinating) they would be quite a valuable company, in the LLM dev space and numerous other ventures. Until then the EU might have to go without access to language models.
If someone joins who does seem like they will stick around, the senior people will give them a lot of time and invest in them.

I’ve spent significant time training and mentoring new people. Any time they ask me something I’ll drop everything to help them, as I don’t want them to think I’m ever too busy for them. My default is assuming someone is going to stick around, unless their words or actions tell me otherwise.