skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So D3 is not what I’d consider a high-level library. The point of it is to be able to do all kinds of stuff not supported by your average charting solution’s out of the box histograms and whatnot. It’s a great way to make more bespoke visualizations.

Of course sometimes you just want to make a damn histogram without reinventing the wheel which is where some of the niceties discussed above come in.
> None of the mitigations that were forced upon us did anything beyond make things much worse.

> Covid wasn’t even that bad relative to other pandemics in the past.

Do you not see how these two statements contradict each other? What did you expect to see if the mitigations had worked?
Edit: misread comment, please disregard!
Which democracies have descended into dictatorships because of Google?

All Youtube does is feed me engineering and astronomy videos. It's actually improving my life.

Your algorithm is a reflection of you.
This is very cool. I wouldn't make buying decisions off of this, but it is a good starting point to get a pulse on the developer zeitgeist on any given topic.
bad diagnoses happens. Im more concerned that there was insufficient review to catch a bad diagnosis before the state took action, or in follow-up to a precautionary action.
> How would you relatively weigh the cost of false negatives to false positives

Imagine having a loving family that treats you super well and being taken away from them.

Then imagine being placed in another home with new people you don't know, with new rules and attitudes that haven't evolved organically with you as you've grown. Now you start to get in trouble for stuff you used to do that your parents didn't care about, because the new parents don't have the same tolerance for the same things

That's not even that bad really

Imagine having siblings who throw the fact you're adopted in your face when they're mad at you

Or having foster parents that actually are abusers themselves, but they're better at not being caught.

I don't think you can really truly calculate the potential harm that taking a loved child from a healthy family and placing them into foster care could do
that was not the question
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and the pyramids too, for that matter - nobody stole the white limestone covering, it just melted away.

it has some implications on when exactly these things were really built if it would be true. the height of the water which did that would be quite preposterous, too.
Yeah, I've used a transaction functions a few times but never had a case where two transaction functions within the same d/transaction ever interacted with each other. If I did encounter that case, I would probably just write one new transaction function to handle it.
The magic behind HN never ceases to surprise and amaze us :)
The 0.08/kWh includes delivery, it's more like 0.04/kWh without delivery.
I've attended every single Google I/O conference since the first one*, and for me personally this was the least compelling one ever.

It was pretty much all AI. I'm sure there are lots of other innovative things happening at Google that just didn't get any floortime. It felt like a couple of the sessions crammed "AI" into their title simply to be included.

(*obviously minus the ones that were canceled/restricted due to Covid)
Ok, who was sued over the twitter files?
The takings clause was ratified in 1791. Unless the current zoning restrictions predate that, there is an element of cheating to imposing a restriction and then "negotiating" to remove it in exchange for something that would otherwise be a taking.
https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-resea...

https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_20...

https://fortune.com/2024/01/18/why-is-google-search-so-bad-s... | https://archive.is/CLO4S

https://searchengineland.com/google-to-cut-thousands-of-sear...

(I use Kagi, DDG, and OpenAI for search primarily, all paid for, so my first hand experience with Google Search is limited, intentionally; are faster poor results better than slightly slower good results? I can spare a few seconds for better, this is not high frequency trading)
I posted the same 'Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought and Image' to ChatGPT-4o and it made the same error.

I then followed up with 'Your math is good but you derived incorrect data from the image. Can you take another look and see if you can tell where the error is?'.

It figured it out and corrected it:

Let's re-examine the image and the data provided:

* The inner radius r1 is given as 5cm

* The outer radius r2 is given as 10cm

* However, the dimensions labeled "5 cm" and "10 cm" are actually the diameters
of the inner and outer circles, respectively, not the radii.

Then recomputed and got the right answer. I asked it if it could surmise why it got the wrong answer and it said, among a number of things, that math problems commonly operate in radii instead of diameter.

I restarted with a slightly modified prompt:

There is a roll of tape with dimensions specified in the picture.
The tape is 100 meters long when unrolled. How thick is the tape?

Examine the image carefully and ensure that you fully understand how it is labeled.
Make no assumptions. Then when calculating, take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.

It got it the first try, and I'm not interested enough to try it a bunch of times to see if that's statistically significant :)
The RP2040 doesn't itself have wifi, no, but the Pi Pico does have a version that additionally has a wifi chip

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/20174
Yawn. You can't try it
I had this annoying thing running awhile ago and finally shut it off. You can do it in the Labs button - https://labs.google.com/search. Well, I can, not sure if everyone can.
"People" didn't lost the ability to build giant megalithic structures and indeed pyramid construction flourished in the Americas until about 600 years ago. The Egyptians stopped building pyramids because it took decades, was insanely expensive, and gave grave robbers an obvious target. From an engineering perspective, ancient people built more complicated things than the pyramids, just not as tall. Why should height be the sole measure of engineering prowess? Consider the coffered dome of the Roman Pantheon.
Ok, so charters, regulation, bribery, local laws, and city policies…

None of that sounds like free market to me.
AI-powered search is not a good idea as of today. Someday it would be, but that day is not today. Google knows this well, and hence that is why despite having their internal LLMs for a long time, they did not touch search with it.

Google's hand is forced by OpenAI-related news and investor pressure.

LLMs, on the other hand, are incredibly useful in their other products where we have to write text. I find myself relying heavily on Gemini to improve my grammar, emails, social media posts, and whatnot. This post too is spellchecked by Gemini.
Seems lower than CA right now: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...

I believe historically that hasn't always been true, but I'd bet that after all the bad press Texas utilities are eager to keep their prices as low as possible. In about 20 years I'm guessing we'll find out if that's because they've been skimming off their capital costs or what
> Like UFO theories, such and such monster, bigfoot, etc., they are for entertainment.

Many astronomers and physicists have engaged in speculations about extraterrestrial life. They also use some radio telescope time for SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) projects.
I once got tossed out of a sprint store for pissing off a salesperson with this factoid.
I've heard great things about Vega [1], which sits on top of D3. It's a dependency of OpenSearch Dashboards, allowing users to create custom dashboards on log and observability data [2]. The vega library might alleviate some of the concerns others are expressing about the learnability of D3.

[1] https://vega.github.io/vega/docs/
[2] https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/dashboards/visualize/vega...
> I find it a bit sad that your imagination ends here.

This isn't the limit of what's possible, it's a lower bound of questions that you have to answer if you want to build a replacement.

> These two questions depend entirely on the chosen implementation.

Okay? Feel free to include multiple answers, but you need at least one.

> If we’re talking about a new implementation, should we really start by accepting the limitations and constraints of the existing system as requirements for the improvement?

If you ditch all the behaviors of the old system without figuring out how to shim them in, then you can build a beautiful new system that's free of all the problems of the old system, and that's also free of all users because you just jettisoned all the programs that let people actually do useful work with their computers. We're stuck with 50 years of backwards compatibility not because we love it, but because people need to be able to interact with their machines without relearning everything, and people need to be able to use the machine to run the programs they're using.
> I don’t know what the answer is but Parking Reform, Strong Towns and Not Just Bikes are my north stars on this stuff. Do you have any others?

I think you might like this planning talk given in the 90s. One of my favourite videos on youtube and quite hilarious at times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMvwHDFVpCE
Then why don't you make it irrelevant in a civilised way by ignoring it...
> AT&T we have now is not really related to this old evil AT&T.

Yes, it is.

> Actual company that uses this brand in mobile space is used to be called Cingular.

So, in the beginning there was AT&T, the telephone monopoly.

It was broken up into 7 RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies, also called “baby bells”) providing local service (each of which got a corresponding chunk of the AT&T subsidiary doing mobile work as their own mobile subsidiary), and the reduced AT&T, which did long distance, and some other things. There were also two other local service providers (which, before the divestiture, weren’t AT&T subsidiaries but did partial AT&T control.)

The modern AT&T is the result of mergers of, among other things, the long-distance AT&T and 4 of the 7 baby bells. As part of the road to getting there, Cingular Wireless, which was formed as joint venture of two of the Baby Bells (SBC, which had already acquired Pacific Telesis, one of the other Baby Bells, and BellSouth) from their mobile units and other mobile and other firms (like, more than 100 in total), acquired AT&T Wireless (not AT&T), which became part of Cingular (which was still an SBC/BellSouth joint venture)

Then AT&T merged with SBC, making Cingular an AT&T/BellSouth joint venture. Then it was announced that the AT&T brand would be used for Cingular service when packaged with AT&T services. Then AT&T bought BellSouth, making Cingular an AT&T/AT&T joint venture…or, rather, just part of AT&T.

So AT&T is the old long-distance AT&T after eating a bunch of other companies, but it’s also a very large portion of the older monopoly AT&T. Part of the wireless business was Cingular for a while between being AT&T before and then being AT&T again. (This leaves out a lot of mergers that went into forming the current AT&T that are not related to the claim that some company called Cingular that was completely unrelated to the old AT&T bought some minor remnant of AT&T and clothed itself with the name.)
I believe the special part is that there are two of them for one display stream.
> For a three-bedroom house, say you were looking at installing it in six rooms (each bedroom, a kitchen, living room, and dining room — Quilt doesn’t recommend them in bathrooms) — it could cost close to $40,000.

Nobody is going to do this. Not unless they're duped into it.
> Well, silos being a perfect good outcome is debatable.. I for one don't agree.. But that is already possible today, just not at the escale of most social medias..

The goal isn't to produce silos, it's to distribute control. A bunch of subreddits under the control of Reddit Inc isn't "distributed control" even if Reddit allows moderators a degree of autonomy.

> But let's be realistic, that will never happen..

That's vapid defeatism. It absolutely _can_ happen, and we know this because plenty of other layers of the stack are decentralized (e.g., the Internet, the web, etc) and the decentralized social media world is growing year over year. While it still constitutes a small share of the overall social media landscape, these things are nonlinear, so all it takes is a single inflection point which could well be BlueSky or similar.

> Everything that bluesky aim to do already exist in some form or another but it never got traction simple because people are not there..

No social media app got traction until it did. I'm not saying BlueSky will be _the_ app that gets big, but "apps like BlueSky haven't made it big yet, therefor BlueSky won't make it big" could have applied as easily to every early social media network. Moreover, the Fediverse is already pretty large and it's a fair bit more tedious and less polished than BlueSky. One could easily imagine a privacy-concerned polity like the EU, or some Nordic state standing up their own AT proto instance for their citizens, which could serve as an inflection point.
It's the equivalent of cramming for a test, or memorizing leete code -- not very useful but very humane. Imagine if that's the direction this goes, finally we make humane ai, but it is as opportunitistic and deceitful as we are, and not really that smart.
Twice in one day, this is terrible!
I wish these were my only mistakes today, and thank you for the catch and correction!
I didn't say that, it's from batteries and solar and wind.

Pretty in Texas is 0.02/kWh right now at wholesale.
https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html
I'm on LADWP and my rate is .19 per kWh, so you're off by 2-3x. Many municipal power companies are even lower.

If you're comparing using PG&E rates, I don't think a utility that has to pay off damages from causing one of the largest wildfires in history is a good metric for comparing costs of different sources of electricity.
Yawn. 1394 had peer-to-peer connectivity and you could network computers together over 1394 and share files just fine. On plan 9 we can share any resource over any bi-directional connection using 9p.
Not surprising to me after their AMP initiative. Supposedly this was supposed to make the mobile web faster. Really the point was to make it more difficult to get different bid for ads. This is just one example of a pattern of behavior of saying you are doing something for the consumer but really its just to exploit a monopoly. If you are in a field with digital advertising you really should read the link below, and be very suspicious of Google.

https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/...
You can also use the same logic as that extension does instead: google.com##h1:has-text(AI Overview):upward(*)

The upside being you don't have to rewrite it every time the sites layout is updated with new random IDs, only when the AI Overview heading itself changes wording or style.
Where I'm at, our least dense zone is 1 unit per 2.5 acres. If the lot was almost, but not quite 5 acres, it couldn't be split without a variance.

In theory, the state requires the city to allow for 2x population growth, and the zoning process directs where the growth should happen. In practice, the city pushes back so hard on everything, that the growth is going to happen wherever whoever has patience and money to spend on fighting the council wants to build. Everyone else is going to be frustrated by the long process of back and forth on pulling permits over many years and many dollars that actually the city won't let you do whatever you wanted to do anyway.
I use Mint Mobile because it's cheap and has been reliable for my family.

A couple of months ago, I traveled to Belize with my iPhone 14 Pro, which only has eSIM. The websites for the two local companies said that I could buy them at a local store but none of the stores at the airport sold eSIMs or SIM.

Mint Mobile offered me 10GB of data for $40/week. Plus fees, as it turned out, so total of $42 or $43. I took it because I couldn't find a local solution and it was only about $20 difference.

I was happy with the service. My wife uses prepaid Verizon and it was $10/day for their service in Belize which is more in line with what I was expecting. We ended up never feeling like we needed to turn it on.

Half of the time we were in the mountains where there wasn't any cell service so I only ended up using about 1GB of cellular and the rest the resort's WiFi there. But it was nice to be able to search on the road for restaurants, coffee stops, etc.

On a trip to Croatia and Italy a few years ago, the situation for local SIMs was confusing enough that I ended up not using any cell service, just downloading maps from Google Maps in offline mode from the hotel WiFi. Worked great with just GPS but only for places I'd pre-selected - no searching for anything.
Not directly relating to protest, but sometimes people vote with their wallet, sometimes with their feet, other times at the actual ballot box.

Seems like 3.5% could also be a pretty good estimate of how many voters or less make all the decisions when it comes to less-publicized local elections.

How about 12 million who are selfish and unempathetic when it comes to very many of their fellow Americans?
When I did tutoring for an algorithms class, we’d generally make gestures at the fact that the big-O cost doesn’t tell you everything. But I can’t think of any way to handle that on a systemic level. Just plot n vs t and observe they the big-O prediction comes true for large n, but it gets complicated for small.

After all, nobody would have invented big-O if it wasn’t much easier than the alternative!
I just wish we could write simpler compile time type guard kind of things in a more simple way, because when the trait bounds metastasize it can get hard to read these type level programs

“Where
<<<T as F>::Output as G>::Output as H>::Output: HList<Head = A, Tail = B> + Z

type Output = <<<T as F>::Output as G>::Output as H>::Output;”

Put some Cons<Cons<Cons<U8, Nil>>>> in there and then realize numbers like U8 (from TypeNum) is itself a nesting of Cons<Cons<Cons< of binaries and it just winds up feeling like you’re looking at a massive nesting of <<<>>>

Consequently you can make progress in this area and get it to verify what you want, but the error messages can be massively complicated and divergent from the way the human developer writes their code (because of the “types vs values” difference producing wildly different error messages which are hard to customize) and the implementation can be a massive pain in the ass.

Developer experience here is surprising because it’s not “just functions” but rather combinations of functionalities with certain generics and associated types. You want to write a runtime style check but execute it at compile time, but to make that happen requires quite different code (in my experience)

All this to say, perhaps making type level comptime rust more simple and functional and readable is ultimately what would enable a lot of these formal analysis projects to provide a good experience for their maintainers and users

TLDR, wtb “comptime” Rust!

P.S. are we ossified on Pin<&mut Self> Future ? I wish I could tinker with different underlying implementations of async/await but no clue how to get started
The grandeur of the Great Pyramids is widely acknowledged as the pinnacle of pyramid construction (pun intended). Despite their impressiveness, other pyramids fell short in comparison (also pun intended).

Your argument suffers from flawed logic by attempting to directly equate the construction of a physical structure with that of a computer. Moreover, the greatness of the Great Pyramids of Giza cannot be solely attributed to their size; they possess other notable aspects as well.
you might be interested in https://github.com/poettering/diskomator

tldr: bootable image to expose all disks over nvme-tcp.

Note that authentication and encryption is not yet implemented so I would be cautious, but it's still pretty interesting
AI Ghosts in the Moral Machine
Reminds me when I used to ace Ancient Greek translation tests (it's a thing in Italy) by looking up whole translated sentences listed as usage examples in the dictionary
Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows
APL was originally conceived as an improved notation for mathematics, unifying a variety of fields and concepts. This effort is sometimes portrayed as a failure for not being universally adopted wholesale, but some of its ideas did influence popular usage, including the adoption of APL's ⌊ (floor) and ⌈ (ceiling) symbols, as well as those names for the operations.
Is it at all possible they were built with advanced physics we know nothing about? What about spiritual technology?

Buddhists and Hindus talk about “miracles” often, so why couldn’t the Pyramids be one of those miracles?

It really renders the discussion meaningless when you are trying to justify the impossible with wild theories and whatnot.

No machine today can do what they did all that time ago and yet we still talk about it like there is a practical and logical answer to it.
I seem to remember being able to change the system encoding to utf8, and the system time to utc, in order to work better with dual boot. But I haven't run Windows as a primary OS in several years now.
I don't think there's an issue. Discourse on HN can be daunting for anyone. Sometimes it helps to know there are people your own age doing cool things. It makes it more accessible, which is a good thing.
Agreed, and we really don't know / have any good information on how the locals felt about things then.

I imagine being common citizen back then is terrible, if only relative to my experience, but on the other hand they may have been enthusiastic to contention to an important religious activity. Really hard to know their circumstances / point of view.
Cool, instant cuda acceleration via cupy!
`import cupy as np`
US Mobile, an MVNO, I am on the Verizon network as they have slightly better coverage in the outskirts around me. I have never had any trouble with deprioritization.
Agree with everything you said. To expand on this:

> Speaking for myself, I avoided Arduino in the early years because I didn't want to step out of my lane etc.

Personally the reason I've avoided Arduino is the absolute pain in the butt that it used to be to get it connected to a network. Almost everything I build benefits from some sort of connectivity, and the Arduino was only really good for things that were purely offline. Even before the Pis had wifi, they had ethernet and I could just plug them in.

And now that ESP32 exists there's no reason to buy the wifi-enabled arduinos they now make, at 8x the price.
I don't know what country you're talking about but in the United States, which is where I live, our biggest obstacle to healthcare is the fact that patients have to utilize insurance companies to receive healthcare and the insurance companies are incentivized to deny that healthcare so they can increase their profits. That's not a problem building some apps is going to solve.
CSS doesn't fix junior developers [wasting] hours scrolling an obtuse man page until they resort to a half-assed SO response