skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> less artistic

Don't confuse the act of putting paint on a canvas with the finished result. Programming is not art, it's a means to an end.

> It imposes too much structure on programming

The structure that tools like git provide is based on decades of know-how from people who use programming and source code control as a tool to accomplish a result.

You may decide that painting with oil or acrylic paints on a canvas is less artistic and more structured than using crayons or markers on paper. But there's a reason why artists gravitate towards certain tools to make certain results. The time invested in using the tools correctly is required to make the desired result.

In my case, I don't use git for one-off programs and experiments. Once I plan on working on a project for an extended period of time, it's extremely helpful.
Ultra-orthodox communities (like everyone else in the modern world, with vanishingly few exceptions) are entirely dependent on the broader society/economy. Under the implausible scenario where they approached a majority of the population, they'd inevitably (a) diffuse much more broadly into the rest of the population, and (b) make their current set of organizing practices unsustainable, without any persecution involved.
Using real objects for 90% of that effect is probably the cheapest way to go. The two things you mention could be added in.
Yes but it seems this particular implementation is using a heuristic for how to batch that made some assumptions that didn't pan out.
Cahier looks like exactly what I’ve been hoping for for a long time. People have been taking “knowledge management” seriously for a few years now and we have a number of great tools like Obsidian, Zotero, Anki, and their brethren. But there’s still no real good solution to properly highlight and annotate documents, then link those outside their originating document into the broader context of one’s notes. Instead you end up with multiple silos—a Zotero full of papers, an Obsidian full of notes etc. This strikes me as a definite step in the right direction—thinking about knowledge management as an integrated process, with a workflow right through from reading, to taking notes, to organising those notes, to actively employing them to generate new insights and effectively write.

(I guess my only concern is around potentially reinventing the wheel when it comes to some of these areas. E.g. do you plan to integrate every feature from Zotero, like the web-integrated grabber? That sounds like a prodigious amount of work, but without it it’s hard to fully supplant Zotero as a reference management solution. I’m curious as to your roadmap for this and what you see as the ultimate feature set and user workflow.)
Agreed. Some nice stats, but a clickbait title (everyone knows what universities are for). I guess "Less Collegiate Overhead Is Better For Students" isn't a splashy enough title.
It's a fair enough point, it being invasive, but at what point do the benefits outweigh the negatives?
In the US, it’s similar, except there are still patients.

You might think I am kidding:

I remember going in once for something minor. The receptionist, admissions nurse, doctor, and blood draw nurse all had “volunteer” badges on, and the company running the building proudly claimed it was a non-profit. The only person without a volunteer badge processed my credit card payment.

They billed my insurance 500% the national average for some routine bloodwork.
> is not an accurate summary of the environmental impact of rocket launches.

So what is the accurate summary of the environmental impact of rocket launches? 10 times more than B747? 100 times? How would it look compared to aviation?

> rocket launches are incredibly disruptive to the local ecosystems of the launch sites.

Not according to FAA when they issued license for SpaceX's launches at KSC - [0]

[0] - https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/space/environmental/...
IIRC bird brains are 'packed/structured' very similar to our cerebellum.

So one would just need to pick that little cube out of our cerebellum, to have that 'twice as complexity'.
I don't know, but germination has probably been studied a lot: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824603/>
Yet another excuse to classify all the media on your device to show you more relevant ads?

Can anyone recommend one of the foss gallery apps available on f-droid?
The Albini-produced Whitehouse albums seem to be underloved because they're a weird transitional period between the group's more famous "wasps fighting" and "broken African robot" sounds, but they're some of the best releases. There's a decadent and sinister competence to them that can't be heard in the earlier buzzier material.
You didn't see the trumpet that was the focal point of the first few moments? The piano with paint cans prominently shattering right after that? The guitar towards the end?
I don’t see how uninstalling Windows from your laptop is gonna solve hotel Wi-Fi problems—but power to you, I guess.
A Dossier of the PostScript language (syntax, list of operators, manpages, etc.)
Hey guys. I have been obsessed with typesetting languages for a loooong time, and I plan to write my own one day. So I decided to delve deeper into already-existing ones because my language has to target them.

This is a full dossier of PostScript, Adobe's "Assembly of Printers". I am currently working on a dossier on ROFF. I even managed to hunt down Runoff's original commands (although I have not managed to find a 'real' runoff document, guess too hopeful?)

Thanks.
Was it the urgency of war? Or the non-market money that poured in?

I've had fantasies of doing another 1-3 years COVID style, but putting all 2 trillion dollars into cancer research instead of a vaccine that saves 1% of old, obese, and sick people. (or swap it with global warming cures, whatever you want to mobilize the world on)
It's not a fear, it's a certainty. The most effective and insidious form of advertizing will come hidden inside model weights and express itself invisibly in the subtleties of all generated responses.
The vast majority of reputable sources that appear via search engine say that alright is the informal version and all right is the formal version.

Let's say that the latter is indeed an overcorrection and alright is the correct version; is the first syllable not actually referring to the notion of everything i.e. all -- it's some other prefix?
> Universities are the future of work

Historical universities were originally an acculturing opportunity for the upper classes who were often not obliged to work, and modern universities broadly provide the same services to a more egalitarian cohort.

Work preparation was never really something they were optimized for, although there's now about three or four generations of them erroneously being treated that way in political and social discourse. In that view, it's no surprise that universities don't quite know what do with themselves or that many of their graduates find themselves drowning in profound debt while struggling to find work related to their studies (since their studies were about becoming cultured, not preparing for work).

Most people work in trades of some kind, and there have always been much more effective and efficient ways to learn trades than through universities.
> "mammal mothers eating their young are relatively rare and usually occur under extreme stress or adverse conditions"

perhaps i meant to say just mammals? would be cool if neuroscience advanced enough to figure out what makes mammals specifically different but alas like Moses won't live long enough to see that day
> What about inheritance? We will hit that point sooner or later, where I want to pass my account to my children.

Reverting copyright term from the current insane state (in the US) of "70 years from the author's death" would allow that. Copyright in the US was originally under 30 years[1], but has been progressively extended by corruption and lobbying. If the copyright term was reverted back to 30 years, then games that you played as a teen would be in the public domain for your children to play in their early twenties (assuming you had kids around your late twenties). If copyright term was shortened to 25 or 20 years, then your kids could definitely play the same games in their teens as you did.

And, this was the original point of copyright - to allow for a time-limited monopoly on copyright and distribution of a work to allow the creator to get compensated, while ensuring that the work would eventually pass into the public domain and enrich the cultural commons. I'd much rather have a prohibition on "passing down" games, but have those games just become public domain for my kids to play, then allow "inheriting" copyrighted works/licenses, but have those works not appear in the public domain until after I'm dead.

> And there is the fact that you can be banned by these platforms and lose all your purchases

Yes, I completely agree that this is a problem that needs to be fixed. My point above was that Steam's existence and destruction of the second-hard market for games, with little downside, was proof that we didn't need to adapt first-sale doctrine for electronic media. However, that's completely separate from the fact that yes, if Steam bans you, you lose all your purchases. I whole-heartedly support legislation that gives you strong rights as to ownership of digital media - e.g. if your account gets banned, the platform provider is legally required to give you tokens to redeem to play your games somehow (which, if necessary, means DRM-free direct download - which I assure you will be an extremely strong incentive for platforms to never ban people).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright#/media/Fi...
Surely serious HFT systems bypass TCP altogether now days. In that world, every millisecond of latency can potentially cost a lot of money.

These are the guys that use microwave links to connect to exchanges because fibre-optics have too much latency.
So you agree with my statement that you can get enough iron without meat?
NATO countries rely on massive air superiority. Something neither side in that war has, hence their stalemate.

NATO armed forces have comparatively small amounts of armoured ground vehicles and artillery.

They need to and want to learn from the current war, but still keep in mind that their circumstances are different.
It's easy to say, if I'm spending someone else's money, that asking what a university is for is the wrong question.

(I feel like this is something that Terry Pratchett would have said better)
UK perspective here: we had a huge push to get "everyone" into higher education with the idea being that university attendance is correlated with higher income, so more degree holders = better economy.

In reality it's just created a large not-quite-elite that consider themselves "underemployed", when in reality there never were any jobs for 80%+ of them.

I feel that instead we should have promoted self employment / small businesses and created the environment for that.

That is to say - housing and building policy that ensures reasonable rents for living and shops, taxation policy that rewards taking risks, etc. Trade schools teaching people useful skills that they can apply without relying on some sort of ever-expanding bureaucracy to slot in to.

The focus on credentialism is backwards in my view. Most employers don't use it other than as, basically, a glorified signifier of IQ.
Idk about university, but high school is indisputably important because it's training data for the brain.
I get a sense this whole "ultra-processed foods" meme is a giant distraction from some actual culprit.

No doubt it's unhealthy to eat an unbalanced diet represented by UPFs, with lots of carbs, fat, sugar and additives, etc, but I think there are likely some specific ingredients that differentiate between a simple unbalanced diet, and a UPF diet.

Sugar was a perfectly fine ingredient until fairly recently, and I suspect vegetable oil, perhaps some specific oils, might be the next revelation.
Russia's latest tactic uses fairly massive old-school dumb bombs, retrofitted with satellite guidance kits. These glide bombs are said to be launched by aircraft from high altitude, just outside of Ukraine's radar range. They have thus far proven highly effective and very difficult to intercept.

Not sure F-16s would help here in patrolling closer to launch points and intercepting the aircraft prior to dropping their payloads; or whether they would be too vulnerable. But, it does seem like a job for stealth interceptors, and certainly makes the case for air superiority.
I guess Ozempic is the closest thing to that vision, but for obesity instead of cancer.
I think it's a distinction without a difference in this case. You can't know if the reason your water stopped is because the water is shut off, the pipe broke, or it's just slow.

When all you have to go on is "I stopped getting packets" the best you can do is give up after a bit. TCP keepsalives do kinda suck and are full of interesting choices that don't seem to have passed the test of time. But they are there and if you control both sides of the connection you can be sure they work.
> Philosophy is not a science at all.

If you want to go there then sure, in some ways it is not. It is what natural sciences branched off of. Generally speaking, it is superior to sciences in that they are informed by it. Not sure if it’s splitting hairs in context of our discussion.

> Neither is math

Oxford dictionary starts with “it is a science…”, why do you say it is not?

> The so-called "social sciences" are commonly set apart in a different category

A different category from natural sciences. You’re seeing it now!

> it is the distinction between areas of intellectual inquiry that employ the scientific method vs those that don't.

Let’s talk about scientific method.

Scientific method is a key instrument of natural sciences, but it cannot make a statement about “underlying reality”, say materialism or physicalism vs. idealism. It can just make testable observations and predictions; the exact underlying territory can never be produced using scientific method—there can only be speculative takes on it, produced by our fallible human minds, informed by applying scientific method in particular ways guided by our fallible human minds.

A position that molecules is what causes us to flourish or not, meanwhile, is textbook physicalism. It is a particular philosophical view that is not within the scope of natural sciences to prove or disprove. The article you linked to actually supports this argument. See myth #2.

It does not make natural sciences deficient, but it highlights what they offer and what they by design don’t. Philosophical positions such as monistic idealism or monistic materialism have both equal capability to be true, and unfortunately both are (as of now) beyond what scientific method can prove or falsify.
Is consumer spending on these kinds of services significant? It feels like chasing pennies, but then again, numbers must always go up.

I could instead believe it is different enough to make an internal splash and that usability concerns were not considered.
That's an interesting question. In principle intelligence could evolve as a fitness indicator. That is, a species of herbivorous apes could select mates for ability in music, art, and story-telling, and then you get a gentle tribe of orangutan-like creatures with human-like culture. However, unless they specifically settle on non-killing as the fitness indicator, I don't see why they'd be consistent about it. Even an orangutan may eat a slow loris from time to time. It's more morality's business than evolution's.
Well they are fairly common (seen them around here too), although they do look a little strange. What amazes me from the Wikipedia article: "People have regularly consumed horsetails. For example, the fertile stems bearing strobili of some species are cooked and eaten like asparagus(a dish called tsukushi in Japan)."

If something is edible, people will probably have identified and eaten it. I suspect this didn't happen in the modern period of 'consumer culture', just for the taste and thrills but likely during the numerous periods of famine in history.

Like grasspea ( "Lathyrus sativus", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathyrus_sativus ), sort of a bean which strangely, can be eaten a few times to fend off starvation but "The crop is harmless to humans in small quantities, but eating it as a major part of the diet over a three-month period can cause permanent paralysis below the knees in adults and brain damage in children, a disorder known as lathyrism."

Imagine having nothing to eat but grasspea, each day telling yourself: "Last time, tomorrow I'll have a nice loaf of bread with steak". Only to resort to grasspeas again, each day closer to the point of no return.
This is why you start with a user need and find a technology to solve it, but Google leadership are doing that in the reverse…which is fucking dumb. Similar to the Apple Vision Pro in a way - yeah, cool tech, but why exactly do I need it?
I like the idea of it being easy to use. I can get by with git and mercurial, but I find that occasionally I fuck things up and don't really know how to fix it other than manually copying some files around and blowing away a branch. A lot of the error messages just feel obtuse.
> I wonder how much of what happens there could be done by LLMs.

With process optimization you first cut out things you don't have to do, then you simplify, then you automate. (vaguely calls to mind the spirit behind Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)

Academia got along fine in the 90s with 1/6th of the administrators.
What happened to that whole "organize the world's data" mission? That isn't something to quit on part way through. Aww.. would Elgoog really backtrack on this?
US has air superiority. Other NATO air forces are likely weaker than Russians.
Programming absolutely has an artistic side. I’ve read beautiful, elegant code that expressed powerful ideas in ways that made them seem obviously correct. You don’t get that from a pure engineering approach. Mathematicians know what I mean here.
Congratulations on your launch!

Users will likely find the positioning or, let's say, mental mapping effective. Perplexity serves as an anchor for general searches, triggering thoughts like, "Hey, I want to search for something." However, if you're a coder, it might specifically prompt, "Hey, I want to search for something related to code."

Take, for example, several GPT-wrapped products like Monica.im. While Monica offers more convenience, I still find myself sticking with ChatGPT to get my tasks done. There’s something to be said for the power of habit!

Ultimately, what matters is whether your service can deliver superior search results.

Consider Devv, which has crafted a specialized search mode for Github composites. It's uncertain if Perplexity will follow this path. Devv aims to cater to all code-related searches, continually refining its outputs and taking extra care to prevent bad cases.

Vertical and general are two sides of the same coin.
IMO:

1: Lead with the most critical differentiators versus git. Source control systems are a dime-a-dozen. The "I can do this better" projects that fail are a dime-a-dozen. Get us hooked within the first 3 paragraphs.

2: I personally don't (usually) encounter performance issues with git. I get more from Visual Studio than git. The only performance issue are the random garbage collections, and those are infrequent.

> When your parent branch gets updated, within seconds, grace watch will auto-rebase your branch on those changes

3: Automatically changing my code while I am working on it is a horrible idea. DO NOT DO THIS. Often, programming requires low distractions, and the distraction of changing the very thing that I am working on while I am working on it is a huge distraction.

The dangers:

- If I am trying to isolate a specific behavior, auto-rebase could change the behavior of what I'm trying to isolate while I'm trying to isolate it.

- If the upstream rebase creates a build error, it will completely destroy my flow. (It makes me stop a task while I am incomplete.) This could happen if the parent branch has a renamed method, and my changes introduce a new call to that method.

Instead, I suggest a very gentle notification about parent branch updates. Don't steal focus.

Edit: I was lead developer on a desktop file sync client for 9 years. Whenever I had a support escalation from someone using us as source code control, I'd always recommend that the customer use git and tell them that we used Github. Source code repositories have A LOT of transient files that come and go very quickly, and are very hard on live file sync.
The BlueWalker 3 antenna is white, not mirrored. It will reflect sunlight like a lambertian reflector, not like a specular reflector as you suggest.

https://ast-science.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-03-1...

SpaceX has offered their space-rated mirror technology at cost to other satellite manufacturers, but it seems AST SpaceMobile hasn't taken them up on the offer. I can't see any mirrored surfaces on BlueWalker 3.

>that means from all other spots on earth it will be extremely dim

The second paper I linked (see Figure 1) shows a minimum magnitude after array deployment of 5.5 magnitude, from multiple observatories at multiple locations on the Earth. That's still 10 times brighter than the IAU limit.

>just look elsewhere in the sky

The hottest thing right now is whole-sky surveys like Vera Rubin (which are important because they can alert other telescopes to transient events), which can't really do that because they're already looking at... the whole sky.
"The article" https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2023/supply

was a few paragraphs summerising the global coal supply as a subsection of the IEA Coal 2023 report.

If you fell that detail was lacking you can look to either the executive summary

https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2023/executive-summary

or download and read the full 130 page report (PDF) https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/a72a7ffa-c5f2-4ed8-...
That show - and Yes, Prime Minister - is a triumph
How to Deal with Lazy ChatGPT
I wouldn't call even a six percent reduction 'banal'. But it depends on the amount of resources invested on both sides.

As a hypothetical:

If the attacker invests approximately zero resources, the defender invests crazy amounts of resources, then even approximately zero actual damage is a great outcome for the attacker. The real damage is in the resources wasted on defense.

Btw, this is pretty close to what our societies did to our own civilian air travel in response to terrorist threats in the 2000s.

(I have no special insight into the numbers for the current war. But I wouldn't sneeze at 6% reduction.)
And then there's this!1!!eleven

Apparently due to intermittent shifting of 1 into an exclamation point, occasionally yielding multiple 1s, which can look like a random eleven, which is humorous to skip to directly.
It will be a deep dive into the most essential of HN staples, the nitpick
In other words: The purpose of a system is what it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
When you’re done with that, you can pitch it off the balcony.
This, more than anything, is why we need student loan forgiveness. The elected officials that were supposed to be supervising universities were asleep at the wheel, and the last two generations have had no option to get affordable education at the same quality of pre-1990 university. It’s great that some states are cutting university DEI programs, but why only deal with a tiny part of the problem? We need more professors and academic staff, not what we’ve frittered away loan money on to bump our US News rankings.
> it's training data for the brain.

Has the word "education" fallen out of favor recently?
And by subsidizing them we are. If actual market forces emerged then they’d stop it with the bullshit degrees that people that can’t afford and go into debt on. Subsidizing as we do today incentivizes them to be everything to everyone because the money keeps rolling in.