skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found this while trying to create an observable plot with multiple scales[1][2].

I'd argue multiple scales are OK if the multiple axes have different units that can't be easily compared/confused and are used for greater information density (instead of relative comparison purposes).

For example: I'd like to plot weather stats like hourly temperature, precipitation, and AQI throughout the day, so several different days can be compared with each other. (And fit all this information on a mobile screen.)

[1]: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/147

[2]: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions/626
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interesting example because we defeated Germany without nukes...
Its silly to think protobufs code gen is a advantage. I can take a json object/xml/csv from any API and plug it into a website that will spit out models in any language I want.

The only real advantage of grpc and protobufs have are speed and reduced data transmission.

And hey fair enough man if those are your bottle necks.
> Many extreme warmongers are out there now; there's a powerful tide of embracing violence and hate

Sure. But that still violates the author's dichotomy: a hateful warmonger wants death. If you're an amoral war profiteer, your fodder are folks who want death. Dividing the audience into people who care about money only and people who care about death (presumably the good guys in the author's view) makes no sense.
The thing I like most about Thunderbird's new UI is that I can switch back to the old one. The thing I like least about it, is that the switch is not in the View menu, but in it's own, very small button, out of the way, next to the Quick Filter buttons. What a choice!
I tried implementing search for "nice" random iterated function systems (IFS) using the Lyapunov exponent (and a generalisation where I histogram the exponents instead of just using the average), unfortunately with no good results: I couldn't find a way to characterise / filter out the crappy attractors from interesting ones. Womp womp
I have learned some time ago that goals are mere milestones. I have found myself not being happy/excited enough (as in how I see others get excited on things) when I get something. It's very short lived, I find myself more excited 'before' getting it then 'on' getting it. I get the thing, it may or may not have changed the world for me at all, now what, repeat.
There’s a method to write the object with the size at the front. That’s all you need. I’ve been on teams streaming terabytes of protobuf every day. Is fine.
Wow, I've had that book on my to-read list for as long as I can remember. I guess I should read it.
How did the Atom bomb stop Nazi Germany?

And do you think dropping the bomb on Germany would have humbled them or would they seek revenge in the long term?

The bombs brought as MAD and that only works as long all parties try to stay alive and don't there is a paradise in the afterlife if they die for a holy cause.
who are those people and why is this on HN, esp front page?
Nothing about this is "AI controls guns/bombs/nukes." The AI simply gives predictions that humans must decide to accept or reject. And no, I don't buy at all that people on the ground in an active war scenario would have any sort of macro view at all. Without more to back it up I don't buy your claim.
You could always move a line to another pair if one went bad. Not sure if that was part of the motivation or just a happy coincidence.
Here is the link to the actual instance of static wordle (No JavaScript required):

https://stevekrouse-staticwordle.web.val.run/
>Maybe emcscripten works?

It does with minor hacks, I have C++ application compiled with Emscripten using CapnProto RPC over WebSockets. That is, if you are mad enough to write webapps in C++...

My gripe with CapnProto is that it is inconvenient to use it as internal applications structures, either you write boilerplate to convert from/to application objects, or deal with clunky Readers, Builders, Orphanages, etc. But again, I probably gone too far by storing CapnProto objects inside database.
Thanks for the interesting paper!

We now formally define our _God-Emperor Join_ henceforth denoted join_ge...

Nice work with TXDB btw, it's funny how much impact Clojure, Datomic and Datascript had outside their own ecosystem!

Let me return the favour with an interesting paper [1] that should be especially relevant to the columnar data layout of TXDB. I'm currently building a succinct on-disk format with it [2], but you might be able to simply add some auxiliary structures to your arrow columns instead.

1: https://aidanhogan.com/docs/ring-graph-wco.pdf

2: https://github.com/triblespace/tribles-rust/blob/archive/src...
Illegal in the Philippines. After years of struggle developing a product that (1) really worked and (2) anybody wanted. There are 200+ other countries in the world.

It's approved in the U.S., Canada and other countries but they don't sell it. Given that they are politicizing it so much you think they might grow 10 tons of it somewhere and sell small quantities of it so people could try it out ("get a $20 bag of rice and support its development") but (a) it defeats the narrative they're being victimized by Greenpeace and (b) people may or may not like the sensory characteristics.

I don't know how the GR2 trait itself impacts other agronomic characteristics but there is a principle that if an organism is spending energy on one thing it is going to have less for other things. A more definitely problem is that a small number of GR2 seed lines compete with a very large number of other rice lines. Even if the GR2 trait is neutral in other respects, the GR2 rice that is actually developed could be "ok" but not competitive with other seeds you could get.

In the US there is a staggering variety of Bt corn or Roundup-Ready soybean seeds because the technology has been licensed to and picked up by most of the big seed vendors so farmers can get seeds that perform well for them. Farmers want these crops because they help their bottom line. If somebody tries to ban them, they'll fight back.

PRRI doesn't have a lot of resources to develop a variety of optimized seeds, it doesn't have the deep relationships with seed vendors that (say) Monsanto has, it doesn't have a lot of enthusiasm from possible customers in the Philippines. If local farmers, public health authorities and such had organized to support it there could have been a different outcome. As it is PRRI comes across as another out-of-touch NGO.

There are all kinds of little silly things such as the fact that they will start charging you if you grow more than $10,000 worth of it. If they really are out to save people from illness, change the world, and normalize the idea of transgenic crops, they should be giving it away for free.
I use pandoc for the ebook generation. for the website, I tend to write my own generator.
Microsoft asks some employees in China to move to other countries
Historical flavor: At CMU in the mid-80s, I was interested by the Gosling Emacs redisplay algorithm, which was essential in making Emacs usable on the 1200 baud terminals in the CS department. Gosling was working on the text editor for the Andrew system at the time, and I was curious to see how he would adapt redisplay to a bitmapped display. But I found out the Sun workstation was “so fast” that he hadn’t bothered, it just redrew the entire line every time.
A desolation called peace

(A great phrase and book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Desolation_Called_Peace)
Unencrypted broadcast NTP timestamps sound like a good idea until your neighbor starts broadcasting false timestamps to prevent your loud smart leaf blower from charging overnight :)
But don't be evil.
Have you checked betterbird? It's thunderbird with qol bug fixes and features.
My oops too. The extra 1 argument belongs with range, as you have it here.
I'm older than you with no kids and I couldn't do it. Living with some disability means always needing health insurance and still paying quite a bit for medical care; it's hard to imagine retirement.
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Because it much better to die from clean overdose?

That's like saying, I kill people with a clean knife, I don't want them to get an infection from a dirty blade.
Those are fun thoughts.

I've imagined a world where you can create a long, complex prompt that results in a reproducible response of code that does exactly what you want, and does it correctly. In that world, the prompt could be your versioned source and the build process could start from that. Implementing changes could be done by tweaking the prompt. Of course you'd still want to archive the "intermediate" source code, if only to protect yourself from an LLM outage.

In that world, you actually would be getting new code from the source prompt regularly, and yes, it hopefully would improve over time.

In our world however (at least for me), usage tends to be more conversational, so there really isn't even "a prompt" to save. Not to mention that I never use the output as-is.
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This only works when you accept the legitimacy of war as a premise.
You would need to irradiate the bees. The bees are the expensive part. Burning everything with regular chemical fire is cheaper.
Is that not a good excuse for drug legalisation? If drugs are illegal then we get poor-quality or adulterated drugs, leading to deaths, and funding illicit activities. If we legalise it, we get quality control and tax.
It's so bizarre that journalism and governments have decided that we're allowed to publish dozens or hundreds of articles and editorials rabidly supporting some official thesis, but articles opposing or even questioning that same thesis should at best be censored through official or unofficial means, and at worst lead to spurious criminal investigations and charges. Governments and justice systems are selectively giving access to journalists who are incurious scribes, and the rest are relegated to the periphery and under constant attack.

I think it started when the US started stretching legislation it had created regarding "material support for terrorism" into "clearly expressed support for terrorism," by absurdly playing on the meaning of the word "support." e.g. if I support your kid by cheering for her at her basketball game, it doesn't mean I can claim your kid as a dependent on my taxes.

Taking the side, or even considering the arguments, of somebody officially accused either by the government or some institution, has become something like "accessory after the fact" in a lot of people's minds. Accusations have become viral. Acknowledging the defense has become dangerous for journalists, unless the subject is part of a disagreement between institutions of roughly equal power and influence.

We're heading towards a West that officially licenses (and employs) journalists, and prosecutes people for performing journalism without a license. "Disinformation" is when you're told a lie about an official story, "Malinformation" is when you're told the truth about an official story by a journalist who is evil.
Thank you for sharing that beautiful, insightful story about your grandmother's life and death.
There is a balance to be struck though. For example where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, there are millions of people whose commutes are objectively faster and cheaper on the BART train, but the vast majority of commuters still choose to drive a personal vehicle over a congested and expensive toll bridge. The primary reason for this is that the train is just so damn unpleasant for a multitude of reasons (including noise) that most people find the extra wasted hour worth it to them to have a more pleasant commute. Whenever the agency that runs the train proposes spending more money on things like human excrement abatement, noise abatement, etc. people complain and protest about mismanagement and money wasting, so nothing ever gets better and the infrastructure continues to be underutilized.
Bending is an operation similar to folding, both in real life and in the language.
While fold is recursive on data, bend is recursive on a boolean condition (like a pure while that supports multiple branching recursion points).

I was actually looking forward to seeing someone from Bend to make a comment like this
It’s actually impossible to attach pictures, they always are displayed in the mail. Also, when you drop a file into the message it’s not “attached” in a “attachment box” but their icon is actually floating anywhere you dropped it in the message.
So liability for collateral damage will move from the military to a corporate AI. A bug in a program to be fixed. The reach of war (already not needing approval of the people) will be cheaper and less accountable.
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You sort of have to read between the lines with popular science reporting. Prior to the event, the gas cloud was spotted and it was big news in the media as this would effectively be an empirical test of black hole theory and we'd get to see it in action. But the event came and went and nothing remarkable happened. You had to look it up to find out what ended up happening because it wasn't widely reported. We're still trying to come up with answers for why the experiment didn't turn out as expected.

So we either don't understand the gas cloud or our SgA* black hole model isn't correct (or some combination of both.) In either case, we seemed quite sure prior to the event. I think anomalies like this are where the really interesting information lies and we should be more humble wrt the veracity of our current models.
Regularization only helps you so much.
His point, I believe: artistically interpreting the motion and shape of humans or objects with larger moving parts makes animation look more on-style.

But for "boring" rigid objects, there's less of this advantage; hence, the consistency benefits often are more important.
The quote in the title is totally out-of-context. It's not entirely clear but from context it sounds like Mark Milley was just laughing because he realized that he's the "new Oppenheimer" as the current director of nuclear weapons research at Los Alamos.
> He said they’d have a hard time on the job market and described their views as a “pagan religion infecting our universities” and “an infection inside of our society”.

Really sounds like something right out of the mouth of a certain dead fascist
Maybe because russia has repeatedly signed then broken border agreements? What goes around comes around, there were statements about Alaska being rightfully russian too.
Please clarify? I don't know if war is "legitimate" but it's a fact of life even for something as innocuous as two flocks of cute parrots. Not to mention ant colonies, chimp factions etc.

War is real.
In bash, you can alternatively replace your shortcuts

Ctrl+P → Ctrl+A → Alt+D

with `!:1-$`, where 1 is the index of the first argument you want from your previous command.

So:

ls [files ...]
rm !:1-$

I personally find it faster to use bash's history expansion. But, we're talking about subsecond differences here.
> It always baffles me that people are in such a defeated state of mind that graffiti is just simply accepted and seemingly nothing is done about it.

As usual, the answer is found by examining assumptions: 1) It's somehow bad, and 2) People strongly want it removed. (And by accepting those two assumptions as true, and it's also true that the street art remains, that argument infers despair.)

I and many people don't think it's Bad (avoiding a specific definition, an endless discussion). I don't mean it's always Good or never Bad, but generally IMHO it ranges from easily ignored to decent to some really inspiring stuff.

And I find it generally inspiring that some kids have the spirit, creativity, initiative, and determination to do it; to express themselves and not be suppressed by society. Adults have so much agency; it's great to see kids seize some, and in a harmless way (they aren't injuring people, risking anything, etc.). I see the suppression of graffiti as telling kids to be 'seen and not heard'. People embrace billionaires who break rules and then kill and impovrish on a mass scale; all these kids are doing is painting something.

I'd almost advocate that kids have free reign to paint public property (that would seem to get out of control, and any announced limit may be an invitation to break it). It's their city too, and adults should have to live with what the kids have to say. (Still - how could that work? Any undecorated or unfinished surface?)

I understand you may not agree; we need to find a balance.
As a native Bendite but not current Bend resident, seeing that word with a capital letter always makes me smell juniper and sagebrush a little bit.
Google’s AdX was entirely protobuf, but now they offer json too.
From your link:
>The 1982 Disney movie is privy to a remarkable number of firsts: the first feature-length film to combine CGI and live-action; the first talking and moving CGI character; the first film to combine a CGI character and a live-action one; the first fully CGI backgrounds… The list goes on and on.

Sounds pretty heavy to me.
The China and Russia relationship is complex.

China, historically, has for most part chose to not commit to any alliances -- out of fear of being dragged into an unwanted war. This is largely still true today with the exception of perhaps North Korea today and during the early part of the Mao era with the USSR. According to Kissinger, China instead uses a system of "parallel analysis" where if two parties look at the same facts and arrive at the same conclusion then they will act towards a common goal. This was what China did when it was in a quasi-alliance with the US during the Cold War after the Nixon trips. Something similar might be happening now with Russia in regards to both countries want to see the US attention occupied and resources stretched.

Furthermore, Russia is resource rich but industry poor. China is the reverse. This makes them ideal trade partners. As sibling comments have pointed out, the border disputes between the two countries are now resolved. I guarantee you the PRC does not feel the same way about Vladivostok as they do about Taiwan. Taiwan isn't even foreign in their eyes -- it's an unresolved issue from their civil war. Vladivostok is lost to another country and its loss has been accepted.

> I don't think China really cares if Russia wins or loses in Ukraine and Russia does not really care if China takes Taiwan.

I agree. I think China just wants the war over one way or another. That said, I think they would prefer it if Russia comes out of it with their prestige intact simply because China has so few partners as it is (because of their aversion to alliances).

Lastly, I would add that, if you imagine China abandoning Russia as the US and EU want them to, what would they gain in return? A pat on the head and then what? More requests to comply with the system of liberal democracies? China's foreign policy has a very strong realist bend and is driven by very concrete gains and losses calculations. They don't place as much value on softer things like good will. Why would they jeopardize their energy and resource security for something as nebulous as good will from the US and EU?
To extend, this issue affects an incredibly small number of computer users. The 1% that knows it exists, divided by the large fraction that is too busy (or lazy?) to work around it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390656

The reason it falls between the cracks is because it doesn't affect enough people, especially normal folks. But let's not kid ourselves that integrating one of the existing fixes would affect the industry significantly.
People can believe whatever they like. It doesn't make them right.

The flaw is in your quote: there is no "super-intelligent AI". We don't have AGI, and given they were coming out with this a few years ago (GPT2?) it's laughable.

They're getting way ahead of themselves.
I grew up in farming country, and spent most of my childhood on farms, or otherwise around them.

No illusions about it not being incredibly slim margins and fucking backbreaking work with long hours - many farms here are propped up with government subsidies and grants - but it’s still tempting sometimes.

I know a few guys in software who are also working farmers and such, and it seems that the regulations are often poorly considered - adding an additional burden.
Thanks!
What if a company pays you for this ticket?
The "S" in "IoT" stands for security
I highly recommend Bridgetown (https://bridgetownrb.com/) as a contemporary, actively developed alternative to middleman.
Yeah protobuf is a good IDL and encoding. Unfortunately gRPC makes some choices that make sense for internal RPCs in a large engineering org, but it's not good for external clients IMO.
> Keeping anybody alive is worth it.

This might be true on average. But if you need to spend $1 million keeping a death row inmate alive who tried to commit suicide, that money might be better spent on infants with heart defects. Money being finite (and being an abstraction of medical equipment/expertise/hours which are also finite), you ultimately have scenarios where you have to choose one or the other.

> This shows how destructive capitalism is: In its pursuit of maximizing the profits

If something costs more than you can afford, then it is unaffordable. This remains true even for those who despise capitalism. The great innovation of communism was the destruction of all the data that would allow one to have insight about whether or not something was unaffordable or not. In the United States, insurance companies are heavily regulated, and premiums must reflect how much it costs to pay out claims, plus some small percentage for overhead. Nor do the hospitals themselves strictly seek profit... their adversarial relationship with insurance companies compels them to overbill in the theory that if one claim fails, the next can succeed... so price it for both.

Profit-minimization isn't a very good strategy for long-term anything. If you want to be able to stay in business until next year so you can perform surgeries, you might have to, I dunno, at least break even.
Isn’t this already how 5-over-1[1] apartment/condo buildings are constructed in the U.S.?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1
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Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Is outrage somehow a rational reason for anything?
> the minimal yearly expenditure to live a more Spartan version of our lifestyle (without compromising on things like food or heating) but with the same home was a little over $40k. Everything over that for us is just prioritization.

The mortgage alone for a house to fit a family of 4 would be close to $40k in many medium-high COL places.
Was wondering the same, thanks for an answer.
Sure but then also don’t go on Instagram or TikTok promoting that lifestyle as the ideology of a sectarian group.
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> War is real

This is the generous parsing of what Luckey et al were saying. The "war is illegitimate" crowd the ones they were mocking as disconnected from reality. (Albeit, in a nice way.)
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There are plenty of feminists that are as militantly atheistic as they are militantly anti-pornography/prostitution/female nudity. The modern Moral Majority isn't just composed of religionists anymore.
What can she do?
>> They are way ahead

A common misconception
Censorship I guess, this can't be reported in the UK (and the New Yorker geoblocks the UK) since there is an appeal pending. Kind of silly in the age of TCP/IP.
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Beyond semantics though, russia would have been in much worse shape without iranian drones, nk ammo and chinese everything (no pure military gear yet, but plenty other material)