skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inspired by ChatGPT vs Math (2023), let’s see how multimodal ChatGPT-4o performs. I run the following experiments: (1) Prompt only, no image; (2) Zero-shot Chain of Thought; (3) Dimensions inside image, missing data; (4) Prompt and image; and (5) Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought and image.
Plenty of musical groups make a living locally and not only pop music. If you play a classic instrument you get opportunities for festivals, parades, weddings, local shows. Joining a marching band can pay for your schooling for example.

Many classic rock bands with members in their 40/50/60s perform live, have a local following and make good money without selling CDs.

Cover bands are often local and make good coin without album sales.

Then you have musicians performing children who get paid.

You are never going to be a pop star or a VC rocketship company but few are. But you can make a solid living just performing locally.
And if you meant awful inconvenience you should've said so in the previous comment. It simply is ... inconvenient, much more so than with a regular keyboard, but not as awful as to make it completely impractical, so the other benefits can outweigh it and result in plenty of phone typing
Oh, absolutely - sorry if I implied that, I sensed the suggestion of it in the parent comment and clumsily followed on from your response to that part.

I completely agree with making sure things work as much as possible and look OK when stuff like that is blocked and even when JS is disabled.

Analytics can be useful and ads are a necessary evil for the prevalent web business model. Tracking is, ugh, I guess in theory acceptable with informed consent - though I've tested a couple of those "consent frameworks" that popped up after GDPR etc and even ignoring the dark UI patterns let's just say they didn't stand up well to scrutiny regarding doing what they say they do.
Is "data science" an academic discipline?
It's also shared by mdqs. What's that?
I appreciate the history section in particular.

VS Code is known to use a Piece Tree (Piece Table represented as a balanced binary tree) and I thought AbiWord (which this article also mentions) was the first to use the data structure. This article points out that the Tweak editor and the MText interface in the Modula-3 programming language uses the same approach, meaning this variant of the data structure goes back even further than I knew.
You might be interested in Arcan desktop engine ( https://arcan-fe.com ), which has a tui api for clients. It has been used to build an interesting experimental shell: https://arcan-fe.com/2022/10/15/whipping-up-a-new-shell-lash...
I've noticed this as well. I think part of the problem is that most of the people here are Apple users, and that they subconsciously revert to their long ago Apple/Google flame wars.
3 decades later, they've been bought up by ZeniMax and then Activision Blizzard. I guess Hell has frozen over.
> I think we should stop pretending like Java and C# and Scala and a bazillion GC'd languages don't have local reasoning about mutable state.

Pop-quiz: what does this print out?

void myMethod(final Map<String, String> map) {
map.remove("key");
int oldSize = map.size();
map.put("key", "val");
int newSize = map.size();
System.out.println(newSize - oldSize);
}

EDIT: Apologies, I misread your double negative.

Nope. I reread it again and I'm still thoroughly confused. Java does have local reasoning, as opposed in particular to JavaScript, which does not?
I’ve been on prepaid since at least 2015 and never have had a problem with roaming in the US.
"BTW, if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her digital sataaaan!"[0] When this was first released, I wonder how digital it was back in 1990.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFjKPLc5qD0
Seems like stupid people are very selective on the protests. It is time to recognize that a lot, really a lot, of people could be stupid. Including me, obviously.
Agree, and there are other projects with fun names like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Scheme_implementation)
We might finally know how the biggest Egyptian pyramids were built
The very first day I showed up for grad school, the entire hospital was closed off by men in hazmat suits and a bunch of firefighters. I proceeded to the central office of my program, where more men with hazmat suits were wandering around, and a guy was being treated in my program's office for injuries.

It turned out they were doing "spring cleaning" and somebody accidentally jiggled an old bottle of ether in a fume hood, and unfortunately the old ether must have had some free radicals, which led to an explosion. It blew out all the windows in the room (which were 20-30 feet away) and the chemist was only saved because he was wearing safety equipment (he still had permanent scars on his face years later).

That room was later my office! The incident (as well as the investigation) is written up here: https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2019/03/24/date-ucsf-histo...
I'd be all over that if it didn't phone home for some reason.
> Now that is one hill I'm willing to die on: if someone can't figure out how to extract a tar archive just from looking at the synopsis on the man page and scrolling through the options, unless the archive was maliciously named to hide the fact that it's gzipped or something, I think that person would be a pre-junior developer and still have a way to go to become junior.

There’s “let them figure it out” and there’s “this is unnecessarily complicated because of archaic legacy compatibility”. It should not take multiple parameters to untar+gzip a file.

There is absolutely no reason why, if you provide tar a single .tar or .tar.gz with no other parameters, it doesn’t just say “ok this is a tar/gzip file and you probably want to extract it”.
Data-only global eSims are super cheap. Having done a lot of international travel lately, this is undoubtedly the best way to go.

Cheaper and better coverage too.
I was able to implement this in the ORM layer of Django through a function that would inspect the query and split it if it had an OR under certain conditions.
I learned that VCs aren't my friends the hard way... they stole my company from me and left me with nothing.

I discovered a promising new medical treatment- a small molecule drug with impressive experimental results. My name is on the patent and my co-inventors decided to form a startup and gave me co-ownership/stock, although I did some work to help get the company started I didn't want to leave my current job to be involved in full time running the startup at the level they were.

They got big VC funding and the VCs reformed the startup as a new company. During the pandemic lockdown, trying to work at home while parenting a toddler with no childcare, I was sent a form to sign by a new VC firm funding the company, and I was so stressed with the pandemic situation that I just trusted them and signed it without reading it.

The VCs cut me out entirely... just deleted my shares and ownership of a company based on tech I invented and patented. I can't revoke the patent rights either, because they already had a contract licensing it from my employer.
"Oh, he gave me one too. They can't blow shit, they don't even sound like a leaf blower."

Your disliked neighbors talking to each other in the future, probably.
The only other possible dark horse that could have emerged was either in US Cellular or Dish Network. However, I believe there were concerns with issues like market capitalization (in the case of US Cellular) or having different priorities (like Dish) that would have jeopardized a proper fourth option for the US.

I'm not suggesting the merger was "good" or anything like that. Just that the other options seemed quite unlikely.
I'm guessing they came up with the wordplay before the invasion, and then regretted it because the reference suddenly stopped being purely historical.

And I get it, I've been phasing out this username, which I picked with bad timing, to avoid unintended connotations, even though I was simply thinking of Robotnik and not anything russian. I've got nothing to do with their language, so it just isn't worth it.
Cost per shot is only one of the relevant metrics for comparing actual cost-effectiveness.

For one example - surface-to-air missiles usually have ranges of 20-100 km. This device has range of 1 km.

So each shot can be orders of magnitued cheaper, but to cover the same ground you'd need 20^2=400 to 100^2=10 000 times the number of these devices compared to the number of missile launchers you need today. And you still would't be able to hit drones that fly too high.

Basically it's only a replacement for point-defence AA artillery (which is already pretty cheap to fire), possibly for MANPADS that have 4-5 times the range of this, not for long-range expansive surface-to-air missiles like Patriot, Sea Viper or CAMM.
Simplify Kubernetes Security Troubleshooting with AI
You are absolutely correct. But for many guys it is like choosing between eternal hunger while being unable to die or eating a preprocessed slop which will make them sick, but feeling slightly better than being hungry.
T-Mobile was the worst, most incompetent company I have had the displeasure of working with in recent years. I fled to Mint. To say I’m chuffed by that acquisition is an understatement.
Yes, that's true. If it were as easy as "just hire high performers" then everyone would do it. And even if you do hire high performers, helping them emerge from a period of disengagement is tough.

So perhaps one way to express my position is that when it comes to remote work, you almost have to treat yourself as an independent contractor or consultant, even if you're technically an employee.
I own a Stihl leaf blower and primarily use it to clear debris from the gravel paths in my garden. Because raking gravel also collects the stones. Debris includes leaves, leaf husks, beech nuts, catkins, and a range of other things that drop off trees. I use a big rake to clear the lawn (I actually enjoy the physicality of this task).

All of this stuff is composted over the year in a large pile in a secluded corner of my garden, along with grass cuttings, scarified moss, etc. The volume of stuff usually exceeds the amount I can get rid of using the local council's garden waste collection.
Jina reader for search grouping to Improve Factuality of LLMs
I went through this. Subscriptions are easier to start with, manage and understand and easier to sell. Once you've reached a certain stage and need to optimize for profit you will be in a better position to introduce. Monitor what your subscribers use/cost you.
The relevant "speed" is the change of the direction you are pointing at. The Earth rotates around itself in 24 hours, but around the Sun in 365 days, so the daily rotation is 365x as fast. We also rotate around the center of the Milky Way every couple of hundreds of millions of years.
"Coon - new tool for building Erlang packages, dependency management and deploying Erlang services" [0] comes to mind. Highly recommendable thread to read.

0: https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2018-February/...
What keeps me on a postpaid plan is that I like not having to worry about my phone plan when I go abroad on vacation.
Kurt Gödel kind of proved that it doesn't make much sense to build math based on axioms. This is what I consider the most important result of his work.
On the async part, definitely worth checking out https://github.com/shikokuchuo/mirai, also integrates nicely with Shiny/plumber
why you think that's gone?

treating data as privileged input was never out of fashion. last one in memory: google pixels modem accepting AT for custom firmware things from the outside. recommendation was "disable 4G and 3G until update" (which was the first one they delayed)
They probably meant universities (bachelor or masters program), but yeah I agree with you. People place way too much faith in institutions and take it as universal endorsement of ability, meanwhile many competent people are "misfits" that have all the brains and ability but can't stand the rules and mind games of these institutions; and those accepted are not significantly better than the ones below the acceptance line.
> VC as an asset class loses money.

If you're actually open to changing your mind, provide the source for this claim.

I think you'll find you're wrong by most reasonable definitions of "losing money".
What do you mean by "are very selective on the protests"? I go to protests selectively and I don't believe I'm "stupid" so I'm confused by this comment.
Show HN: I built a database of successful social media marketing case studies
I’ve been building building my own SaaS products for that past ~3 years with my main marketing channel being social media marketing (primarily TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube).

Throughout the process I became better than the average individual at making social media content and was able to create viral videos (1million+ views) on multiple different accounts.

During this process I would monitor other businesses’ social media accounts to see what other companies are doing that works and by doing this for over 3 years I amassed a pretty large database of accounts that I have kept tabs on.

I’ve recently decided to start writing case studies of these successful accounts that breaks down the various strategies (both from a high level account perspective + breaking down individual posts) that they use that makes their content successful and wanted to share it with you all in case you were thinking of using social media to market your next project.

It’s a custom built site on NextJS hosted on Vercel and I use Supabase (open-soure firebase alternative) for my auth, db, and storage. Currently it is pretty bare bones (just a list of case studies) but planning to add more features like search, filters by categories (e.g. AI apps, ed-tech, e-commerce) in the future.

Would love any feedback + suggestions on how I could make it better!
Thanks for that thoughtful comment. I particularly agree on the fragmentation of syntax: there are several syntax styles (plyR, S2 Vs S3, ...) and I always had a hard time figuring out the underlying data structures.

I think similar issues with syntax is what drove many students away from perl, preferring python with its one-way-to-do-it philosophy.
Have you tried using an nvim distribution? They take care of all the plugin loading, config and testing. They stay reasonably updated too.
Evals: Unit Testing for Language Models
> Scammers learned how to generate realistic CVs and they organize people to pass online interviews for them.

Can they help me out? Apparently, those scammers have figured out a way to convince companies they are real applicants, yet somehow I, a real applicant, apparently cannot do the same.
They have become popular around here. People use them to push leaves out of sidewalks.

Looks like they are way faster than unpowered tools.
>Can't help but draw parallels with the covid-19 pandemic

That is very clearly the intent of the article and a fantastic reason to write it off as social media garage and stop reading it.
They get to share raw ram access too. Many may not want that for security reasons. As long as you don't need to share screens and just want to share mouse/keyboard you can do it over TCP/IP with: synergy 1.x, barrier, or input-leap (for the various waylands that support libei). Some of them even include file transfer. But that would be better done with SMB or NFS or the like given the TCP/IP transport between exists.
ChatGPT-4o vs. Math
> Same direction relative to what? To the rest of the universe

By this logic, the Earth's revolution would also cause similar issue, and even worse. But in reality only the rotation does.

I think at least some part of your explanation does not calculate.
NASCAR fan here. Over the years the measurements of the car have gone from metal templates laying over the car to using lasers, with 1/32 of an inch making a difference.
And if you exclude children and people who generally don't participate in politics, elections and social causes (easily >50% of the population) then the 3.5% number is magnified significantly more.
My high school chemistry teacher used this approach, and I thank her for it. While maybe not at the same level of chemist, she did her best to make the subject much more approachable. My physics teacher had his humorous approach as well. I can still see his hand drawn sketches on the overhead in my mind.
They already forced a transition through several apps (Google Wifi, Nest, Home) and shut down some product lines (Nest Secure).
The 28 wheel feels immediately faster. It's lighter, so it accelerates faster than the 42 one and there are a lot of accelerations from low speed in a ride, especially for slow riders like me. On the other side the 42 wheel should be better at keeping the speed because of the higher mass and inertia. Unfortunately that's wasted each time I use the brakes or I slow down.
Protest is illegal in most cities in the U.S. This is because the 1st doesn't specify how it can be used. Therefore cities will require permits and move people to areas where the protest is ineffective. Even if its illegal, no one actually follows the law. It's based on what that administration chooses to follow.
You can run WSL or nushell on Windows Terminal
We don't need quieter electric leaf blowers. We need to ban the gas ones, with no grandfather clause. Not just for the noise pollution but the local air pollution. It's crazy the volume of air that can be ruined by a single gas leaf blower, far worse than modern cars, and they are inescapable in cities.
Thanks for sharing this. Any bit of such research is really inspiring for people peacefully protesting currently.
> those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

What about Hong Kong?
To be frank, I thought the merger was necessary at the time as a lowly shareholder, only a few dozen shares at best, based on what I could tell on financial reports. I really wanted Sprint to not be a complete mess and be strong again, but they made way too many boneheaded decisions back in the day and the chickens were coming home to roost.
Right. The way I was taught is that a latitude/longitude cannot be accurately plotted on a map unless you know the lat/lon's datum and the map's datum, and ensure they match. Naive applications might assume a popular datum like WGS84, but not every map uses WGS84, so your locations will be plotted incorrectly if there is a mismatch. Kind of like how many developers now just assume a string of bytes called "text" is encoded in UTF-8, but if they are actually encoded differently, you may not render the string correctly.

Ideally, every latitude/longitude pair entered into OSM should specify datum as metadata, but as you say, the existing data is probably very incomplete.
Best guess from Duckin' is an old military proposal called "Multiple Device Queuing System" https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/papers/82usenix-mdqs/usenix.h...
No doubt there is a learning/awk hump like any tool. At first it was like why do I have to listen to this 4 minute voicemail. Yikes. But now it's like ok, listening to this 4 min monologue at 1.5X is better than a phone call that I may get stuck on for 20 minutes or worse a 30 minute meeting scheduled in 2 days that's free on my cal right now, but will totally kill my flow state on that day...
When we designed Datomic (circa 2010), we were concerned that many languages had better support for lists than for sets, in particular list literals and no set literals.

Clojure of course had set literals from the beginning...
> I believe that fancy astrophotography tripods already do that rotation for you, right?

There are various types of mounts, and each type can be either basic or fancy. The specific type of mount that deals with rotation of the sky (around the north/south stars):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_mount

You can can get non-fancy ones (US$ 240):

* https://optcorp.com/collections/equatorial-mounts/products/o...

Or fancy ones ($20K):

* https://optcorp.com/collections/equatorial-mounts/products/a...
We tried this in Myanmar
Treaties are not regulations.

You might just as well drop the "military" from your statement.

We've got world-wide regulations on CFCs but people break then, because producing CFCs has value.
No it’s really not, the same thing is true of alcohol use and car crashes because sober people still crash or lung cancer from smoking etc.

Suppose you have a study of 10k people split 5k:5k between smokers and non smokers. In the non smokers group you get say 10 cases of lung cancer and the smokers group you get 200. It’s really tempting to say the individual smokers got long cancer from smoking, but the base rate isn’t 0 so you don’t know who was screwed either way. Perhaps if nobody smoked in that total population there would have been 19 cases of lung cancer or perhaps 22.

Thus only thing you can say is smoking increases RISK of lung cancer not link it to specific cases.
> The problem is to break away from ANSI escape sequences and the like means also rewriting 50 years of command line tools.

Are we really that reliant on those command line tools? I only use a handful of them, and any time it gets more complicated, I reach for a real programming language to do the scripting. Those tools just do a bunch of string parsing, and the user interfaces are usually incredibly esoteric, inconsistent, and obtuse.
Yeahs it's a tough one, who's at fault:

Overworked parents

Or

Billionaires employing the top minds of the world using every trick in the book to make you consume as much and as long brain washing content
I read this very skeptically.

When I hear eye tracking I immediately think of advertisers targeting me based on what I look at, NOT quadriplegics using Apple devices.

Maybe I'm a cynic
The power of Intolerant minority is covered by N.N.Taleb.. the easy examples are Kosher and Halal foods becoming mainstream even though the size of minority itself is small.
> but that soundness for some critical properties is absolutely warranted

A particular technique can only be warranted for practical use by its cost effectiveness, not on principle. If you justify soundness for a property because that property is at the root of 90% of bugs then you should still prefer another technique that reduces 90% of bugs more cheaply. It doesn't matter what technique is used to reduce that amount of bugs.

I understand the argument that nothing but soundness covers the full gamut of mistakes people make in practice around memory safety, but at the end of the day of those mistakes amount to 800 bugs in your program out of 1000, then you should still prefer a technique that reduces 800 bugs -- the same or different ones of equal severity -- for cheaper.

Indeed, there are situations where sound methods are cost-effective, and that is where they tend to be popular.
The first time I woke up in North America to the sound of a neighbor with a leaf blower, I asked myself how this could possibly be legal.
Well, it does about as much as say, when Congress names an Aircraft Carrier, or ISO some day publishes C++ 23 (probably later this year).

Concretely your Linux systems probably have a file named /etc/services which maps the string "doom" to port number 666, much as it maps "ssh" to 22 or "http" to 80.