skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tried your prompt again and it seems it understood it.

And like I said at the start of the conversation:

> Consistency, for one. I have asked LLMs the exact same question twice in a row and got wildly different answers.

You’ve proven my point.

> I gave minimum context like this: "I have a history exam. You are an expert in British royal history.

Your excuses are getting embarrassingly hilarious. As if you need a history exam and to be an expert to understand the context of the question.

By the way, that answer is wrong from the first one. So much for giving context and calling it an expert.
https://building.nubank.com.br/functional-programming-with-c...
Isn't this a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40352656 from 2 days ago?
I never thought of that one. It's fun to think "we know the whole universe isn't spinning very fast, because our gyros are stable". Feels both obvious and somehow bigger-than-life to me.
Piracy Block Reversed for Tech Site That Reported Site-Blocking Workarounds
This is nonsense...

VCs have a whole staff of people needed to do business and a ton of costs. There's a legal team, marketing/events, human resources, finance, some executive assistants. Screening, meeting founders, traveling to meet founders, takes up a TON of time and obviously most of the time, no investments are made! Also don't forget, VCs have an office, usually not in a cheap place, so lease costs, cleaning costs etc.

If VCs had to work for free, where would you be meeting them? Ok it's all virtual now, let's say. But the truth is, meeting people face to face when you're going to write them a cheque for 10-20M is generally a good idea. So VCs and founders will almost always need to travel. You're also always going to need lawyers and finance people, since you're dealing with term sheets and large amounts of money.

As others have said, VC investments are not liquid at all and the timeline is 10 years for any returns. So a VC investor in your world has to travel around the US, Europe or India meeting founders, has to work with lawyers, financial folks for free, gets zero benefits in terms of healthcare, etc. All for the chance at 40% of something in 10+ years, that might not work out anyway?

If run this way, the industry would simply not exist and the founders would not get any investment. And the truth is this, there are many founders out there who want and actively seek VC investment and "shock" actually are happy with the relationship with their investors because they understand a good relationship benefits both parties in the deal.

I will also add, most employees in VC firms get no percentage of the profits of the fund (i.e. the carry). Most VC employees just get a regular salary (which is often far less than tech company salaries). So if there were no fee associated, these people would never get paid, since even when the fund finishes, they wouldn't get any of the 20% carry.
Xenon difluoride is in fact not hard to make: mix xenon and fluorine and expose to sunlight (or an artificial UV source). It just wasn't done for the longest time because of preconceptions.
Except that current strains can't be traced back to the 1918 strain - they are separate strains, not descendants. We don't really know why the 1918 strain disappeared.
In terms of flatland:

Ignore the camera. Instead you have a planet (a circle in flatland), a gyroscope (an arrow that always points in the same direction on the page in flatland), and Mr Square.

--> [.]
|
/----\
| |
\----/

Start off at noon, with Mr Square and the arrow at the top of the planet, the gyroscope to the left of Mr Square pointing at him. Now progress time by 6 hours, by rotating the planet clockwise by 90 degrees. Mr Square and the gyroscope will move with the surface of the planet, resulting in them being on the right side of the circle on the page (the gyroscope above Mr Square on the page). Mr Square's feet will be on the surface of the planet, meaning his rotation matched the planet. However, the gyroscope always points in the same direction on the page. It's now pointing at the sky.

/----\
| | -->
\----/-[.]

In conclusion: both Mr Square and the gyroscope move with the surface of the planet - in exactly the same way. However, Mr Square will always be standing (along with everything else on the planet), while the gyroscope always points in the same direction on the page (irrespective of the time of day). A camera using the gyroscope would have to account for that.

We wouldn't have the same issue on a (non-rotating) space station. That's why planetary rotation is blamed.
> Then you sort the table by Growth and you get a different list.

Whoops, where did London go?
In UK, started new job in August 2023.

Judging from the amount of LinkedIn recruiters reaching out with job offers, I feel confident I could get a decent offer if I wanted (data analytics / science, more than 5 years of experience).

But I don't, it's such a hassle to deal with Visas post-Brexit.
It's funny how the post is about enhanced surveillance technology and the text sentiment of the comment thread is overwhelmingly positive.

Surveillance technology: >:(

Surveillance technology with the word "accessibility" in the title: :)
you only got 128bit, you want most of that to be randomnes, otherwise collisions are much more likely
>And I think you're severely overestimating wheel life span for modern models, at least due to the fact that carbon is more brittle than more pedestrian materials. Just look for Pogacar's fall earlier last week in the Giro to see how a simple flat tire makes the whole wheel a risk.

My experience is personal, but I get 50,000km out of a set of rim brake carbon wheels ridden in all terrains and conditions and through northern european winters. At that point you're also starting to lose spokes/nipples to corrosion, but the rim could be rebuilt with new spokes and a new hub if it didn't need a brake track. That riding includes racing, crashing, potholes, punctures.

Pogacar rides on Enve wheels, which are now hookless and therefore a puncture is much more likely to result in damage. Another innovation that makes life worse for the consumer and better for the manufacturer.
"Unlike other zinc-based batteries that discharge in just a few hours, the newly made battery can retain its charge for a week."

Good enough for a variety of uses. But poor compared to other batteries.

Given this high self-discharge, it would be important to know what happens when this battery is left in discharged state for a long(er) time? Most battery types degrade quickly when this happens.
Ask HN: Books on Building Decentralized Services
For clarification I'm not taking about anything block chain, but rather the system architecture of someone like mastodon or bluesky.

I know that they have some blog posts but I'm looking for a book that I can read physically about issues and considerations in decentralised services. Manly around authentication and authorisation. Service discovery. Etc.
With "socket library" you mean libc?
> Machine learning may help in guiding theorem provers

Interesting idea. There would be real upside where the machine learning system gets it right and guides the prover to a valid proof, and little downside if it gets it wrong. (The prover won't derive an invalid proof, it will just fail to derive a valid one.) I don't think there are many applications of machine learning that have this property.
Amen. All the economic and cultural and political upheaval, not to mention war that’s happened since, we seem to assume that the pandemic stressed a bunch of systems and that’s the causality.

I feel like we don’t sufficiently acknowledge that a mass-trauma event also made the entire damn species more irrational and reactive, and that’s going to be our reality for a generation.
They switched to another blockchain… that has the same exact name and is maintained by the same people. So in my opinion, Ethereum broke the “unmutable” promise after the DAO debacle.
You could argue that as Ethereum Classic kept the original blockchain, the promise was kept. But even so, it was the spirit of that promise was broken, and ETC is not maintained by Ethereum. I lost trust on Ethereum because of that and never touched it again since 2016.
King Leopold II established his brutal fiefdom in the "Congo Free State" in 1885 .. school shootings in the US and mass shootings from Las Vegas Hotels, etc are all rather this decade.

You have a stale point, Europe has moved on from colonialism and hasn't engaged in the home soil atrocities to the extent embraced by the US.
akin to saying I tried to divide by zero on my calculator and it doesn't work

The big difference is that if I try to divide by zero on my calculator, it will tell me it doesn't work and perhaps even given me a useful error message. It won't confidently tell me the answer is 17.
Since you're still struggling, I'll try to be as clear as possible. Why does a stock have value if it doesn't give you a share of the company profits, or voting rights?
Common lisp
Bummer the eye tracking is iOS only. I’ve been wanting focus-follows-eyes for decades.
Just an anecdote (no judgement here; VC has its place): An acquaintance of mine who works for a VC firm once said "Ultimately, VC money is a loan for people who are not bankable".

That really resonated with me as with that perspective I understood why behavior & practices are closer to what you'd experience if you personally need to take out a loan outside of the regulated banking system
Covid-19 hasn't become - it is still much the same and not the same as the common cold. But as you point out we have become more tolerant of it (or at least are now able to convince ourselves that we are more tolerant to it).
We are not kinetically bound to the galactic center, there is no friction causing earth to remain "upright" in respect to the galaxy. Earth is also a freely rotating inertial body and, even though wobbly, it is itself a gyroscope.

The next level of stabilization would probably be gravitational waves.
This was really cool. Challenging for sure on the first try I got one star. It challenges your ability to play around with it. I think the tutorial clicked for me when I saw the black shaded areas appear and they were mirror images of the red, then I got the game. With a small tutorial that this is the operation triggered by swiping would be useful. Though I did enjoy the aha moment when I got it.

When do the puzzels get updated? It makes sense to add a time zone. I’m definitely going to take another go tomorrow.
Weird, it got ylrfpmnmkmpdga when I tried it.

https://chat.openai.com/share/49ad0bc9-7b3d-4295-860d-4c8168...

Does that make it intelligent, then?
yes, there is [typically] nothing else.

you can ofcourse do a syscall directly, but i am not sure what value add _that_ is, `man -S 2 syscall` for more information.

edit: 'typically' because some languages / runtimes might go the syscall route.
Your pro-nuclear propaganda is just anti-renewable propaganda in a trench-coat.

Should germany do more? Yes!

Is it great that france spend the last 70 years building 0-CO2 emmision power plants? Yes!

Should germany spend its money on the cheapest, most available technology? Yes!

Is your nuclear greenwash for new reactors in germany an obvious conservative derailment strategy to delay more investment in renewables?
Yes! (you might actually believe this stuff, but german conservative parties that use this dogwhistle certainly don't)
Everything uses Quantum effects, because modern Physics descripes everything as quantum. Its like saying plants uses atoms effects. Its a non sequitur.
If a device uses lasers to compute something its a "Quantum Device". That word is too overused.
Agreed but using examples like Taylor Swift in music is far off from focusing purely on (exited) unicorns when talking about VC. You have to look outside the 99th percentile to find generalized insights.
Elixir is not a native language. It compiles to Erlang's bytecode format (BEAM) for the Erlang VM.
Western Romans, esp the elite, had already spoken Greek for hundreds of years at that point, and huge parts of the population of the west spoke Gaulish, Germanic, Celtic etc etc languages for hundreds of years too. So that's kind of a non argument.
I can’t believe I’m having to explain this, but the point I’m making isn’t about the content of the list but the numbers.

> like you would do to a layman.

I have never encountered a person so lay that I had to explain that 20 is smaller than 30 and 25.

> The point where I write a successful point is also the point where I understand the problem.

You have demonstrated repeatedly that you don’t know when you have explained a point successfully to an LLM, thus you have no way to evaluate when you have understood a point.

But you seem to firmly believe you did, which could be quite dangerous.
As noted, the VC would raise capital like any other business to cover its operating costs.

Think about why they don’t do that.
It's his blog an his opinion. I liked his side kick on the masks mandate and thanked him for that via email.
I'm not sure about semaglutide, but drugs in general are a good example of my point, because people use them to change/manipulate others and themselves. For example LSD has been used by cults, by the CIA, etc..
First brazilian fully digital bank, got pretty big in a decade.

I'd love to hear the story from the first engineers, how they got support for this, etc. They never did tech blog posts though...
What about Arc<Mutex<T>> ?
Business is business. I wouldn't call Zuck a hypocrite for not exposing himself on TikTok.

(There may be other reasons to do so but that's not here nor there)

You are also committing the classic mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.
Faster create LLM chat bot with 8K pdf from mdpi.com
One video ad starts playing as soon as I land on page, while second video starts autoplaying as soon as I scrolled a little. Closed the page roght away.
VC's don't have the ability to distinguish between genius and super genius...
People who read the entire article might have noticed many of these problems were reproduced on Linux.
He’s seen as trying to pull up the ladder behind him & trying to use regulation as a moat while claiming it’s to manage risk for humanity
Aerospace grade laser gyroscopes are incredibly expensive (and bulky), and even then, they still have massive drift after several hours. If you don't have GPS to relocalize precisely at least every day, there is no way you can know the location of the camera on earth for more than a day, even with state of the art aerospace stuff
Considering the history of NAND flash amounts to Toshiba applying to Japan's patent office and getting laughed out of the room, then Sandisk saw it and applied for and received a patent for NAND flash from the US Patent Office, it's probably still the case.
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed
What do you think? How I can faster and smarter create LLM chat bot with 8K pdf doc about UAV for talking
In theory, magic links that are only GET and not idempotent are the issue, not the systems/filters hitting them.
I'd have done the same, and have done before when I've found myself on client projects related to online gambling (the business model is to milk addicts for everything they have and more, don't listen to anyone who says otherwise).

I know if I don't do it someone else will so it doesn't really make a difference - but at least I can retain some sense that I'm not the kind of person who does bad things, and that's worth something.

With web tracking you can at least be 'careless' in your implementation and 'accidentally' make it not work very well because most of the time nobody will ever test it properly. No way to get away with that with this "Bossware" stuff, it'll be in active use all the time.

Hope you find something better soon.
GET request should not change any substantial state. You're up for a lot of fun if you decide to violate that as a web developer.
Karman Alpha: amateur rocketry attempt to 100k ft (33 minute documentary) [video]
An excellent short documentary about about Sheffield University Project Sunride team's attempts to get their 2 stage rocket to 100,000 feet.
6 figures? For a single house or?
Well if it keeps pointing in the exact same direction then it would stay fixed on whatever star it is currently pointing towards.

Which is normally not a problem, but relative to something on the surface of the Earth the stars do move.

So I guess you should ask people to stand directly in front of Polaris if at all possible.
No one thinking about the $100 fee is paying more than 15%, if they are paying anything at all.
I hate how corporate lobbying is described as "government action", as if the government here is the actor and not the condom.
I have no idea what I just read
> She sent videos of kids vaping [...] to their parents and nobody else.

Correction: Should be "to their parents and the coach(es?)."

But still, coaches are in loco parentis, so pretty much the same thing.
PMF Mirages
This links a thread on twitter, which is unreadable unless you have an account. Could somebody provide a link that makes the entire thread readable for everyone?
The alternatives are .NET and Java platforms, with plenty of languages to chose from, and AOT is also part of the picture, if needed.

Go only if one is feeling like I was coding in 1990's.

Even node is better, thanks to Typescript, and if there are performance issues, native modules are an option.
> "try to generate a counter-example from here"
For the theories behind some SAT solvers, that's quite possible. There's a set of problems that are completely decidable. These are composed of add, subtract, multiply by constants, logic operators, and theory of arrays and structs. That covers most things which cause programs to crash and many of the things you want to write in assertions.
Which linux flavor will work well with Macbook Air Early 2015 version with most drivers taken care of for essentials like wifi, bluetooth, graphics, trackpad, etc?
>don't make project open source or make it clear "don't use this or fork for yourself, please" in read-me or something.

Most free-beer software state "Provided as-is with no warranty expressed or implied." somewhere in their readme or licensing terms.

Of course, fucking noone reads readmes or licenses.
> But chatgpt understood my instructions perfectly.

No, it did not, because it still assigned Z to 25, which is wrong.

> We have to learn how to use LLMs.

You have to learn that LLMs aren’t magical and will get things wrong no matter how much context you give them. And that the suggestions you’re making are absurd to the point of making them useless.
That sounds like something that can interact really well with HTML email, if you can manage to overlay the unsigned content over signed content visually via CSS/inline styles. :)
Per my other comment: Earth isn't attached to the sun, the sun isn't attached to the galactic center (they are orbiting). They are independent rotational frames of reference. They are also gyroscopes in their own right.

As far as taking pictures of other things on Earth, at least. Taking a picture of another planet/star/galaxy would also face similar challenges.
One has to wonder how many of the exploits out there don’t end up making their way to Cupertino as a result and what the consequences of that will be.
Off the bat I can see on-device assistants be more capable & allow customized handsfree browser/PDF interaction
it's an intellectually lazy, blinkered thing to say

the empire had incorporated new peoples for hundreds of years, through both violent conquest and people migrating in

= immigration is the only reason there was an empire in the first place, and that it lasted as long as it did - it's not like the Roman Empire was constituted of pure Latin OG Romans, lol. (heck, even their founding myths were that they were NOT Latins - it took conflicts for Latins to be recognized and gain citizenship)

so you can't just cherry pick a single time germanic peoples migrated in (as they had successfully many times) and say LOOK IMMIGRATION IS WHY THE EMPIRE COLLAPSED, it's ridiculous

and even if you insist on doing that, again, what's the takeaway? if your policy rests on there being no migration, in a world where there is migration and there's nothing you can do about that, it's a bad and doomed policy - successful polities are the ones with the ability to roll with and take advantage of it, not the ones that stick their head in the sand in some misguided attempt to remain static and hermetically sealed off from the world
3000 pedestrians killed by alcohol influenced drivers yearly. Maybe breathalyzer is due...
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/road-users/pedestr...
I don't think that would be wise.

"In Ukraine, the freedoms of religion and the press are deeply intertwined with the issue of minority rights, specifically with the treatment of the country’s largest minority, Russophile Ukrainians—those who identify with Russian heritage, be it through language, culture, history, or religion.

The vast majority of Russophile Ukrainians refuse to categorize themselves as a minority. They see themselves simply as Ukrainians citizens, and as such, they argue, they have a constitutional right to speak any language and espouse any religion or culture that they wish, not just the ones endorsed by the state. But Ukrainian law does not recognize Russians as indigenous to Ukraine, or even as a minority within Ukraine. They therefore have no claim to legal protection of their cultural heritage and language, a direct contradiction of Article 10 of the Ukrainian constitution.

....

A 2021 law fines the use of Russian in the service sector, while other laws have targeted Russian-language media, books, films, and music, even when they are produced in Ukraine. One way or another, according to Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, “the Russian language must completely disappear from our territory, it being an aspect of hostile propaganda and the brainwashing of our population.”
The tensions surrounding minority rights will only be exacerbated further once the war is over. As part of its accession negotiations with the European Union, in 2022, Ukraine passed a law outlining the rights of national minorities, but it specifically exempted Russian speakers from protection during the period of martial law and five years thereafter.
Although the EU had asked that this latter period be shortened, the final version, recently signed into law, while significantly expanding minority language rights for official languages of the EU, eliminates them entirely for Russian.

...

One thing that seems certain, however, is that the populations of eastern and southern Ukraine, Russophile or not, will not take kindly to being made the scapegoats for this conflict and denied civil and political rights en masse. The extent of what is being contemplated by Ukrainian lawmakers is staggering. According to Tamila Tasheva, Zelensky’s representative in Crimea, if it were liberated tomorrow, at least 200,000 residents of Crimea would face collaboration charges, and another 500,000 to 800,000 residents would face deportation. Refat Chubarov, the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, says that more than 1 million people—more than half the current population—will have to leave “immediately.”

...

<...>Datsyuk said, "<...>the government regards as its enemy not only Russia proper, but also those whom it has labeled “incorrect Ukrainians.” This has created a situation in which, as Ukrainian political commentator Andrei Zolotaryov has noted, “a significant part of the citizenry is in internal emigration and does not consider the state to be theirs. This is a very big problem in a country waging war.”" [0]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/18/ukraine-russia-war-civi...
I think it's reasonable to look forward to verifying that small Rust libraries use 'unsafe' correctly. That alone would be really helpful.
JPEG XL decoding support in blink issue has been reopened and assigned