skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotcha so that is sort of a precursor to a deeper inquiry it sounds like. I'm concerned it sounds like there may be a strong bias in favor of popularity. Maybe that is less of an issue for developers already shopping within a specific stack/philosophy though.

I tend to try and ignore stars, because I've been burned by popular and unpopular projects alike. They also seem to be gamed at times. For an initial evaluation of something I might actually use I look at who the owners are, when the project was last updated, and explore the issue tracker (including closed tickets). That is usually enough to identify projects with major problems. If they pass the initial audit, then the process continues.
iirc this is why the hungarian notation existed. They had ints for columns and rows and they used a prefix on variable names to distinguish which ints were columns and which ints were rows. Though I may be misremembering.
Do you realize how bad Apple's accessibility issues were before? This is just marketing and I doubt many people are going to drop thousands of bucks to ditch years of tooling they're already intimately familiar with (aka, Windows), but this is an effort to try and entice some people. That's all it is. Marketing.
This must be R-- I mean totally some example of a site that HN will never become, getting downvoted for an actual question.
https://www.airwave.us/

Their website is now focused on technicians with a copilot for manuals, but they started as a pure voice/text push to talk / walkie talkie app
I played games my whole life and was shocked I had near instant VR motion sickness in sim racing. Can confirm it can be grinded through, recognize the feelings and stop immediately.
Onboarding is different. The work you would put into onboarding directly, you mostly put into documentation and architecture so people can achieve goals without having to have a mental model of the whole application. Try to design your application so you can part out components/endpoints/modules to people on Fiverr - you code is decoupled and documented well enough that short term contractors can come on, look at an example/template and fill in the blanks for the current requirements without a ton of direct support. When you're at that level, onboarding basically reduces mostly to a quick task overview/ticket discussion, a few DMs over slack and a code review.
The article goes out of its way to characterize such ancient sites through the lens of our current culture. This kind of archeo-sociology is nothing more than a massive guess as to what was actually going on. There are simply too many possible reasons for different house sizes. The most obvious, to me, is household (family) size. There may, or may not, be a relationship between household size and social level, but I do not see how this would ever be understood from these sites.

Jumping to "household income" seems too much for me, given nothing more than house size.

Example (from the article):
"In addition, poorer households are prone to lose members to richer households, have lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality rates..."

This is certainly a more modern perspective and not something I'd associate with a pastoral community like this.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I view such articles with a huge amount of skepticism.
This is the smart comment. If, as a VC, you know the outliers are hard to find, would you really get distracted by someone being on the market for 1-2 months?
Hmm perhaps you are right.. There's no context on the page about what ">128k" means so possibly a bad assumption on my part!
> In a world where everyone's AI can generate all those extra words, their value goes down. (Yes, this is bad news for people in my line of work who get paid to write all those words.) So maybe the profession moves in a direction that values conciseness and brevity, to re-add value to what the lawyers and agents do, that the AI can't do.

I don't understand that. If people bother to generate those words when they're expensive to write, why would they stop when they become cheap?
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I share that sensibility, but it makes more sense in spaces that have already acheived a "wild" equilibrium.

In many cases, existing crafted landscapes can't handle the acidity/moisture-trapping/etc of decaying leaves. So you're really advocating for people to give up on expensive, considered, laborious projects that exist for functional or aesthetic reasons. Even if there are alternatives that are comparably functional or beautiful, what's there is there already and a lazy wilding doesn't necessarily lead to one of those agreeable alternatives.

It's a bigger ask than your phrasing suggests.
> People can and often do the right thing -- large companies rarely do.

There are companies which try (and succeed) to be honest "citizens". Berkshire and Costco have quite good reputations.
Congratulations on the launch. The concept of Hydra is fascinating and truly revolutionary for book lovers
That’s the thing. Electron apps and co do not quack like a duck. They feel terrible and out of place in the macOS ecosystem. They are not Mac apps.

And the same is true of some apps made by Apple framework too! Catalyst apps are (almost always) terrible, including the ones done by Apple. The only exception I’m aware of is Messages, and even that one is not perfect.

They are apps that happen to run on a Mac.
Not Mac apps.
A lot of athletes don't stay on the Olympic village and if I was an athlete or a coach I'd be sure to book a nice hotel room to "relax".

I'd also wonder if anyone has got any data on putting athletes on tiny beds vs comfy hotel beds and their performance...
There's also leaves that can't be raked because they're too small.
It concerned extant liquid water flows on Mars. I checked again and the tool actually correctly summarised a conference paper [1]. The authors changed the wording in the abstract from "confirms" to "strongly supports" in the actual paper [2]. So the mistake AI made here was in selecting the (obscure) conference paper with 7 citations over the actual paper with over 400.

We now know though that the perchlorate detection may have been an instrument error and satellite imagery constraints water content of the RSL to below what would be expected from brine flows. It's not conclusive though and there is no consensus whether the RSL are caused by liquid or dry processes or some combination of both.

[1] https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2015/EPSC2015-83...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2546
Rust developers are loathe to use RefCells when a mutable borrow does the trick. It's preferable to rearchitect your solution than to use a RefCell. RefCells are a last resort, just as with unsafe.
I am impressed by the capabilities of the latest LLMs. I have been trying to create full programs from a prompt since day 0, but it was quite unreliable and mostly failed. However, the last iteration of LLMs (LLaMA, GPT-4-Turbo, Gemini-1.5) are starting to deliver.

I made some tests with TULP that you can see in the link, and they are impressive.

It is true that the LLMs already know the kind of task that I asked for, but from my point of view, it is starting to feel wild!

What's your take?
All the images get scaled down before the app computes the embeddings, so it should only take a few minutes, but definitely depends on how much you're trying to index at once.

I'm making improvements to make indexing more resilient and faster. The videos are sampled once every second. That's something I'm tweaking for better performance as well. Was considering letting the user adjust this too.

How have you tried indexing your videos so far?
This is true but if the error rate were 1/1000 I could see the risk management argument for using this thing. 1/100 is pushing it. 1/10 seems unconscionably reckless and lazy.
> Modifier keys like Ctrl and Alt complicate this situation.

This is such an understatement. Alacritty required you to manually bind keys to control characters in the config and finding the control characters escape sequences were such a nightmare I gave up and switched to foot
How exactly does inflation pay for infrastructure?
I love how many of those blog posts are triggered by German articles. German chemistry: the best outcome is setting grant money ablaze.
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Presumably many of these guys don't see what you're recommending as an option, and so even if it's not as "good", it would be an improvement to their status quo. Also, how is an emotion "fundamentally false"? You could say an emotional is irrational or unwarranted, but in the end you either feel an emotion or you don't. If you do, then it's definitely "true" psychophysiologically speaking.
> they still have massive drift after several hours. If you don't have GPS to relocalize precisely at least every day

I think you may be confusing two concepts: Measurement of true north and latitude via gyro (what the GP is talking about) and inertial navigation systems (which, yes, do drift).

You can measure those two things with just a single-axis gyro and no external references using a technique called "gyro-compassing". In fact, most internal navigation systems use gyro-compassing to directly measure true north and latitude to align the system on initial startup.
The leaf blower is used after using the weed eater (String trimmer) to blow all the little bits back into the grass.
Thanks, glad to hear it's not just me.
Bad relationships are expected, they're how you learn who is right for you, how to set and enforce boundaries, etc. They're progress towards learning and building important life skills. We don't want to send the message to people that they're too fragile to handle that.
I'm the latter of the three, so I guess I'll keep working 100% remote.
Paywalled. Subscriber-only article.

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What is more striking is that this VC felt it necessary to take to LinkedIn to "educate" others on his reasoning. For what purpose? So that people will remove dates from their slide decks now? Because that is the likely outcome.

The only investors who have enough time for such things generally aren't the ones closing the best deals. What does it say about him that he is desperate enough for a deal that he has to open cold emails and then take to LinkedIn to criticize a date that is two months old? If you notice he didn't say anything about the content of the actual information being outdated. Just the date.

His biggest gift to this company was not investing in them.
What did you expect? It's an 8-bit machine.

- ed: Turns out this one's a 16-bit machine? Anyway.
Verbatim from OP.
Well-positioned workers have little recognition of what lower-paid or lower-prestige labor has to deal with, even a few years out of such work. And when they know, they rarely understand. Seemingly small or innocuous things can make a massive difference in your experience at an employer. It was surprisingly frustrating having to throw my phone into a locker at my $16/hr warehouse job like I was entering a SCIF when, really, they just wanted to cut down on people taking photos of OSHA violations. The joke is that it was easy to use their disposition system to sneak photos to my email. Which is to say, this class of policy/tech just encourages people to find undocumented (read: insecure) ways to retain their at-work QoL.
This is impacting online discourse too. It used to be that when someone is wildly wrong it was relatively easy to identify why: ideology, common urban myth, outdated research, whatever.

Now? I’ve seen people argue positions that are demonstrably wildly wrong in unusually creative and often subtle ways and there’s no way to figure out where they went off the rails. Since the LLM is responsive, they can use it to come up plausibly sounding nonsense to answer any criticisms collapsing the debate into a black hole of bullshit.
> I don't actually understand why this is considered a meme or rightwing, its always seemed like a reasonable question to me.

I mean, yeah, that's the school of Just Asking Questions. It's standard bad faith participation strategy in discussions, you play the role of an unconvinced fence sitter while actually pushing a narrative. In this case, it was that COVID was killing fewer people than it actually was.

While for a statistician or a medical practitioner looking to better understand the pandemic will find value in the answer to the question, your average laymen doesn't understand how to apply the difference to arrive at an informed opinion. People parroting this weren't concerned how many people were actually dying of COVID; they wanted to go get their hair cuts and eat out again.

A desire for a return to normal is a very... well, normal and human impulse but if it's not time yet, it's not time yet.
What I loved about this is that all of their prototypes were with a stock leaf blower with *3D Printed* attachments. This really shows the value of the rapid prototyping that 3D Printing has allowed.

It also shows that any of us could have done this with enough time and effort. And I don't mean literally any person- but there are a LOT of YouTube engineering channels that could likely have tackled this, had they been asked to.
It's hard to find a metric that can't be gamed. Otherwise we would not have this issue in the first place. You would also get a lot of office politics and an unfriendly work environment, because everyone would want the projects that would have the highest visibility.

All to often there are invisible "heroes" who quietly fix issues, prevent bugs and makes sure everything runs smoothly. They are simply not as visible as someone who creates high profile features and firefight bugs introduced by their coding. From the management point of view they are hard workers that work late fixing issues.

Management can only recognize what they can see. The quiet dev who just makes things work is a huge value to the company, while the "bro" that master the political game gets all the recognition.

What metrics can they use that are not quickly gamed?
I do not know who Jason lemkins is but he seems like a random small fry saying bullshit to gain some clout.

I have worked with bigger vc firms such as matrix partners and they genuinely care about you and want your startup to succeed if they are interested.

Trick is to make something which is genuinely cool and matches with the thesis and talk to vcs who are respectable.

Yc is a great help in this regard. They help you understand which vcs are respectable and which vcs you should treat like mushrooms: feed them shit and keep them in the dark.

Lemkins seems like a mushroom.
> So how can we take a method call, serialise it, perhaps store it in a database, and then later rehydrate and execute?

Any messaging queue would be better. Yes it's easy to setup. No it doesn't require additional complexity (in fact, it's less complex than the proposed solution)

example: https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-dotnet#recei...
I'm not sure! The critical section-ed Mutex prevents the multiple accesses; Note that you generally have an Option inside the RefCell, so you can initialize it as a static, then assign to it later. Maybe that's related

For copy types, you can use `Cell` instead. And of course, atomics for primitive types.
High-performers will perform regardless of location. If they are constantly unblocking people and being pinged they might have some lags in deliverables and the reason for that might not be as clear as if they were in office and everyone can see them being tapped on the shoulder and being distracted.

Those that lack internal motivation/sense of urgency might perform better on-site, but you as a manager might need to micro manage them. Is it worth it? I’m not sure. The employee and manager will most likely not enjoy the situation, esp if it goes on for a while.
> Our estimate is only about 20% of citers read the original

Oh no

That's basically the same as the percentage of people who read news stories when responding to or sharing the headline
i'm curious how the OM-1 MK2 gets around this to achieve 8.5 stops.

https://explore.omsystem.com/us/en/om-1-mark-ii
The first thing that came to mind when I entered the site was the resemblance of the classic Soviet iconography to their logo, sans the hammer and sickle, then I checked the repo, and coincidentally, they have a recent commit (`c6fac4d`) titled "kremlin -> karamel" [0] ([...] a tool for extracting low-level F programs to readable C code*)... Apparently, the commit is one big rename operation from Kremlin to Karamel, funny.

0: https://github.com/FStarLang/FStar/pull/2489
> For air ambulances within metropolitan regions, this sort of solution would be an expensive and inefficient use of current technology capabilities.

... I mean, given that it's touting high speed and range, it probably isn't aimed at that use case.

How much are air ambulances used _within_ cities, anyway? I would've thought barely at all.
He felt "triggered" that he wasn't the first call, which comes off as petty and entitled, which most VCs are.
So would people with perfect eyesight and no motion sickness discover it?

Personally I forgot about it on my latest phone because I had a fresh prescription for my glasses and didn't need to enlarge the font at the moment :)
Might as well roll your own TLS stack while you’re at it!
Sounds cool! I haven't explored that but there are lots of interesting ways to approach this type of thing. Tons of creative ways to use these models.
Well, that, and there's no such thing as a "solid state laser gyro". I believe the GP is confusing MEMS solid-state gyros and laser-ring gyros (which can use a solid state laser, but AFAIK aren't ever called "solid state laser gyro").

MEMS gyros have too much bias drift (both on a unit basis due to fab processes and on a temperature basis) to be practically useful here. You can measure the earth's rotation with a MEMS gyro, but you're really at the limit.
> In effect, you can win a race while having traveled 1 or 2 laps less than the others if you benefited from the lucky dog rule once or twice.

The driver still has to travel the full number of laps to win the race, same as any other winner would. The lucky dog just gets to drive faster than anyone else is allowed to during caution. The driver actually has to drive their car all the way around the track. It's the same as if the driver was able to drive faster than the leader in the middle of the race and get their lap back the hard way. No one would say he traveled fewer laps. They would say he drove faster.
To what end though? They’d exist at completely different ends of the technical stack to the point where it’s likely very unusable for the final product. Even though they do similar things, it’s very doubtful collaboration would have netted anything.
And with Quarto being available, why wouldn't you switch to whatever language is best for the current task? I'm throwing ObservableJS in there now too with the Quarto compatibility. You can do your data cleanup in R/Python, then use native web libraries for displaying pretty plots in the browser.
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What an odd little thing. I'm struggling to follow the chain of events in this summary.

It's an interesting stunt, I guess. By 'stunt' I'm referring to the proposal being written in a deliberately provocative manner with a goal other than the stated one.

Reading the "proposal" it's quite clear (to me) that it's not exactly serious.
I'm a little bit sorry[0] to say this, but it reads like a fanatical sales pitch. I don't want to pick it apart, because that's not the point. But for one thing, a serious proposal to seriously make this change would justify its claims, by -- for example -- pointing to something like surveys and statistics.

I think it's a bit of a shame[1], anyway, because as you read further, the sales-esque tone gives way to an earnest description of things wot KDE did good and the whole thing takes on a noble air, albeit one covered in obnoxiously heavy pens and, well, air fresheners.

[0] if this was the idea, it's seriously well done

[1] I have no idea if the people involved see it as a success or not
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I am curious if any of the termsync options can make neovim play nicely with mosh. My dream setup is to be able to spin up preconfigured dev environments in docker containers, and use blink shell on my iPad for on the go coding. Unfortunately mosh and neovim always end up with display corruption.
Last thing I need is another woman on my case, let alone one that remembers everything.
Correct. No text search, but it's something I'd consider adding if enough people asked for it.
Julian Assange is behind Cicada 3301. He definetly assambled a big crew to make it real, and probably some members was from MUMS also. But definetly not all members.
Here you can read about main goals of Cicada 3301 - https://pastebin.com/rn4gTF1Z
It is privacy, anonimity, freedom of information, anti-censorship and development of appropriat PO, that support this goals.
Meanwhile, in 2012, the year of the first game by Cicada 3301, Julian Assange, together with his associates, published the book “Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet”. In that book they talking about the same things exactly.
And yes, as you can see, Julian Assange was very interested in puzzles. And organized very elaborate Puzzle Hunt, while studying at university. Actually MUMS Puzzle Hunt is very similar to Cicada 3301 games in terms of general theme, long duration, atmosphere, openess to the public and some puzzles.
Sure I think VC has value in some cases. I think the zero-interest period distorted their role and pushed them into areas that would have better been served by bootstrapped and profitable small companies. I'm hopeful that with interest rates back in a more reasonable range we'll get a better equilibrium.
The longer you work in tech industry, you will viscerally "feel" just how rare Steve Jobs was as a talent.
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Only for lack of trying. Most of them do do just that.
As the VC pointed out, the key here is the two-months-old date.

But not exactly for the reason he stated. It is not that he isn't the first, so he's got thin skin or wants only founders who thought he was the best/first VC to approach (and smart founders might not take their first shot with their most favored VC as they'd want to hone their pitch with less-critical candidate VCs).

The reasoning here is more likely that "other smart money has looked at this deal and passed", so he can leverage the efforts of these other unseen VCs who passed. This could be written off as lazy/cowardly 'herd mentality', but it is a real signal.

It's also true that by definition, if there's a unique opportunity here, he's also missing it by grouping himself with the other VCs. But that is a negative-space signal, and the question is whether it's more likely determinative than the signal that "yeah, they also passed".
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