skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love discoveries like this. We know so little. Is there a chance that stars like this are common and our instruments are just better?
I'll wait until I see people test this to make any judgements, good or bad. I'm certainly interested to see what it looks like.
Yes. What you are describing is very similar to people always asking for federal laws, when states or counties could handle problems as well. Out of a fear that those savages down in state X could vote for the 'wrong' policy.
You are right! CAD users encode a design intent into the software, just like you encode a design intent into an editor. I model a construction outcome with geometry like you might model business rules with functions and objects.

Some of the wisdom from programming would do well to pass onto design software. Like how strong type systems can provide safety by pushing rules to compile time and make some errors unrepresentable. Meanwhile, I can fire up Microstation, draw roads crossing at the same elevation with no intersection (think stops and signals, not geometry) between them. Or a drain culvert could terminate in a big Hello Kitty picture. These things should be impossible. If the task is designing a road, I don't need the ability to draw anything I can possibly imagine. I really need the software to know what a road can and can't do, produce a model that obeys those constraints, and to give me files and documents I can give to an owner and a contractor which convey an accurate understanding of what that model is.
Every year the new models will one-up the previous generation, using more and more ocean-bound plastic until someone gets paid to stand just upstream from the first guy throwing bottles and wrappers into the river to satisfy demand.
It's possible that Microsoft's target is too low and Apple's performance is also too low. However when you find yourself saying that the entire industry is wrong you might want to stop and think.
Blue Origin have been consistently disappointing. The leadership of Bezos and Bob Smith had a lot to do with their lack of achievement but that might change with Smith gone though they are still persisting with the stupid sub-orbital joy rides which will never be wildly profitable or lead to other things. BE-4 production still seems very slow which hasn't been good for ULA but there is at least signs of movement with New Glenn with a launch scheduled this year.

I do read books and I acknowledge Musk was a bit more than just the money man in early SpaceX. Perhaps I am too cynical but I think many people are prone to cults of personality and over-estimating the impact of individuals. SpaceX is well beyond being a founder's plaything. If they were truly dependent on Musk's micro-management they would have a very serious bus problem for an organization of their size and importance.
Yes, it’s the current market. I’m in the same boat.
You can trot this hypothetical reactionary skittish legal team all the way out so that they are increasingly ridiculous, but at some point you're going to have to make the argument for why they should dictate the software made for the rest of us.
Just listen to the video I posted - he doesn't sound like an entertainer, on the contrary! He loves what he's doing!
I question the logic of excluding Chromium users from reading one's writing about de-googling. Sorry, I'm not switching browsers to receive this particular brilliance.
My comment was not meant to intend commit messages be the sole form of documentation. I am also a big fan of good code comments, docs, etc. Just prefer a lengthy commit message (when warranted) over short meaningless messages (eg: “changed thing”). Most useful in my experience is quickly grepping git log for keywords if im searching for a relevant change.
Weren't you always able to change the default Explorer folder? I just checked it on Windows 11, and here it's in Options (in the top bar, where the "New" button and file manipulation stuff is) -> Open File Explorer to -> This PC. But I'm almost certain this has been a thing since like, Windows 7?
No, this is reality sadly.
Brilliant comment. How I wish more applications could just be text...
Section 230 was a response to a lawsuit that happened in 1995. It was passed in 1996. You're talking about a legal state that hardly existed for a year, but dismiss things as fine 'before'. Seems a bit of a crude dismissal.
Attachment Theory is an interesting subject on the matter.

A few useful books which helped me with both understanding and healing (there're still problems, but it gets better):

1. Love Sense, Sue Johnson.

2. The Power of Attachment, Diane Pooler Heller.

3. Understanding Disorganized Attachment: Theory and Practice for Working with Children and Adults, David, Shemmings and Yvonne Shemmings.

4. The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk.

5. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson.

6. "Focusing" practice, Eugene Gendlin.

7. How to survive the most critical 5 seconds of your life, Tim Larkin.

The first four lay down foundations, explaining the mechanics, possible solutions, will help in navigating, filtering and planning the healing.

The 5th and 6th are actual healing, former for couples, the latter mostly for individuals.

The last one is about a wisdom of violence embedded into the body of affected individuals which is likely suppressed by the rational part of the mind.
Similarly, I learnt PTC Pro/ENGINEER (now Creo) in university and have tried to learn SolidWorks, Tinkercad, Onshape and FreeCAD but never found them as usable or powerful as ProE. The constraint system, 2D sketch tool and assemblies were hard to map into these other systems.

I feel it’s similar to having learnt Photoshop (7) and then struggle to use GIMP. I keep looking for tools that aren’t there, expect panels to show certain details and they come up short.

It reinforces for me how valuable usability and interface design is for power user tools. But also, how important training materials are, and how loyal a user will be once they are accustomed to completing a workflow with their tool of choice.
Intellectual property generated at universities that accept any taxpayer funding whatsoever should belong to the taxpayer, meaning any US citizen should automatically have access to that IP under a free non-exclusive license.

If you don't like this, tell the billionaires to go back to funding private research centers (e.g. Bell Labs) and they can own all the IP generated there outright.

Otherwise, it's just a ripoff of the taxpayer by state-subsidized 'entrepreneurs' which makes a mockery of the whole free-market capitalist competition system they claim to support. Ultimately, we end up with a system of aristocrats gambling at casinos who are given government bailouts every time they make a stupid bet - which is not sustainable over the long run.
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And leetcode interview problems are not novel either. They are formulaic, you just have to know the formulas.
Someone take C out behind the barn already
> [...] the push for standardizing phone connectors ended up [...] making it a better place for everyone.

What's your evidence for that?

By default, we should assume that the engineers building phones and the consumers buying phones are the best placed to evaluate what connectors they want. And it would take considerable evidence to convince us that some unrelated third party bureaucrats know better.

Especially since even the best case benefits are so minuscule: it's already very easy to get charging cables that have multiple heads, for that people that own multiple phones with different connectors, but only want a single cable. (And everyone else can just buy one cable or the other.)
Physical drives is just one part of the service. Everything else is subject to inflation. Usual solution is to automate and cut staffing, but we know that often doesn't work out well.
I’m sad this is the outcome. “Her” was a spectacular and novel exploration of how intelligence fundamentally drives us towards curiosity & connection. It also has a stunningly unusual ending given the topic, where the human protagonist grows in their humanity instead of getting lost in a digital simulation of it.

Johansson is a tremendous artist & entrepreneur, her decision is probably the most reasonable one at this point in AI’s development. Given the apocalypse AI will likely cause to the business model of the creative industry, any AAA celebrity probably needs to avoid being the “identity of AI.”

OpenAI’s and Sam’s enthusiasm for the idea makes a ton of sense. If you’re a tech optimist and haven’t seen “Her,” it’s worth the watch.
Despite the sarcasm tag, I’d argue my first two examples are not really that different than the service advertised.

This service places no responsibility on the requester to prove they have a real case. And in some cases (like the second) there is potentially true and measurable harm if in fact the petition should in fact be unequivocally banned or blocked from a service.
Sounds like they long left Facebook. Only danger is Meta realizing that these request all come from one source and blacklisting them. That said, Meta must received tens of thousands of appeals, so it'd be easy to lay low.

But yes, I have no clue what employee inside would agree to work on this for an extended period.
Oh God, please don’t let gitlab get sold out to some big corp.
> [...], suddenly they want the full backing of Western military forces.

Who is 'they'? Do you have records of the 'ships' (I assume their owners?), asking for that full backing directly?
> It's unlikely that Kernighan meant it takes someone twice as smart to figure out what you were doing

no, that is exactly what he meant. clever code means you are just barely able to understand it enough to write it yourself [in any amount of time]. therefore, you aren't going to be able to debug it at all, by a factor of nearly two. and if you are the "smartest" person in the org (which he often was), then you are really in big trouble.

now obviously things in the real world like "smart" and "clever" are not one-dimensional quantities in neat categories, but he was making a memorable and funny quote, with quite a bit of truth to it, not a precise scientific hypothesis.

see also: "too smart for one's own good"

> nonsensical interpretation

how so?

> someone twice as smart may not be able to figure out what the stupid person is trying to do in the first place if the code written was nonsensical.

true, but irrelevant, this is about clever code from a smart person, not nonsense code from a stupid one.
I just bought an M3, my first MacBook in a while. I was appalled by the screen brightness and contrast. It’s really lacking.
That makes no sense. The recipe is still a recipe. Surrounding it by text wouldn't make it something else. Like, taking a picture of a recipe would make you the owner of the copyright of the picture, but anyone could copy that recipe to another medium and distribute it. Likewise you can re-write the recipe part into a cookbook and publish that without violating the copyright. Putting your family story around it won't change that.
Whether it respects robots.txt is irrelevant if its existence is secret for the entire time it's doing the scraping.
1. Euthanasia is supposed to work and not have a chance of horrifically painful outcomes.

2. Companies don't get to benefit from you being a test subject as a result of you being euthanized.

3. The upside of euthanasia is getting to die. The upside of what's happening here is maybe getting to have a cool gadget for a little while until your brain implant falls out, and then who knows what kind of terrible injury you'll suffer!
Lighten up ya dingbats!
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Someone someday may actually ship code like this into production. Horrifying to think about. For some reason this reminds me of trying to grow plants with Brawndo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqIJZeeXEc
The best way would be to send an email disguised as spam, and have the employee respond out of band with its contents without actually replying.

Bonus points for sending similar emails to random @company.com addresses so receiving the email alone doesn’t suggest involvement.
FWIW, having friends at Google and Stripe has been critical for my startup to survive potentially extinction-level disasters. Automated systems false-positive flagging us and shutting down our payment processing with no recourse happened on both. Only by having people on the inside was I able to get my case appealed by an actual human who was capable of reasoning.

I don't think I'd be okay with a platform like this. The ethics around it are questionable. But I think it's important that you don't take on a dependency unless you personally know at least a few people at senior roles at the company you'll be relying on.
I vaguely remember fixing this in gpedit.msc but apparently it's even easier to fix now:

If you’d rather have File Explorer open to This PC, on the ribbon, select See more > Options > Open File Explorer to:. Then select This PC > Apply.
Loops are more complex. They expose more implementation details, worse, they "expose" irrelevant details. Unless your CPU is very simple, like a Cortex M0, the C compiler will likely rewrite your loop using vector instructions (think MMX / SSE / Neon), leaving an unrecognizable mess where a neat loop with an index used to be.

C was invented to match PDP-9 and PDP-11, and it matches them beautifully. Constructs like *a++ = *b++ directly compile to instructions like MOV (R1)+, (R2)+, etc. But however much I may like the beauty and simplicity of the PDP-11 architecture, it belongs to the past, or maybe to simplest MCUs. C no longer matches hardware all that well, and especially the idioms of C from classic books written 30-40 years ago don't match modern hardware woefully, if you care about the last bit of performance. (If you don't, take C#, Java, Go, even V8; they are plenty fast with JIT compilers.)
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The value proposition is Fuji’s film stock which they have converted to software emulation. No one is allowed to copy it nor do they have the Fuji scientists who developed it. It’s unique, which makes it long term.

There’s at least 20 in the classic Fujifilm film stock. Here’s some of the popular ones. Photographers will recognize them.

1. *Provia (Standard)* - General-purpose film simulation.

2. *Velvia (Vivid)* - Saturated colors and enhanced contrast, suitable for landscapes.

3. *Astia (Soft)* - Softer contrast and natural skin tones, ideal for portraits.

4. *Classic Chrome* - Muted colors and enhanced shadow tones, for a vintage look.

5. *Pro Neg. Hi* - High contrast and vivid colors, used for fashion and commercial work.

6. *Pro Neg. Std* - Balanced colors and softer contrast, suitable for portraits.

7. *Acros* - High-quality black and white with fine grain and deep blacks.

8. *Monochrome* - Standard black and white simulation.

9. *Sepia* - Warm, brownish tones for a nostalgic look.

10. *Eterna* - Cinematic look with low contrast and subdued colors.

11. *Classic Neg* - Mimics color negative film with muted tones and enhanced contrast.

12. *Eterna Bleach Bypass* - High contrast and desaturated colors, resembling the bleach bypass effect.
If you’re interested in doing your own thing send me an email at mhmthrowaway23@gmail.com

I have a BA in philosophy and a MS in CS w/ a focus in computer vision. Similar boat as you. No 13 years of exp in a prior industry though.

I stopped trying to get a job a few months ago and have been plugging away at my own projects. I’ve been (equity compensated) working for a startup for the last month or so in a non-technical role and it’s been really eye opening as to what it takes to get something off the ground. I have a lot of interest in pursuing that route now and if you do too it could be good to connect.
But the steering wheel is a cool joystick!
Paragraphs are a small split and 98% of dense web pages still have the equivalent. That's not a defense for sparse design trends.

And pages are pages because that's convenient to make.

And to bring up restaurant menus in another spot, look at that density! If twenty pages was better I feel like we would know.
> You don't normally want to write "clever" code - you want to write easy to understand straightforward code

I think what the parent comment is getting at is the relative nature of "clever" and "straightforward." At certain times and in certain programming communities, use of deep inheritance hierarchies was "straightforward," and passing a function as a method parameter was so "exotic" and "clever" that languages didn't directly support it.
You should tell that to OpenAI, who are the ones selling it as "her".
> If the blades are still angled to produce thrust, then instead of the blades taking a bite out of the air, the oncoming air will start to take a bite out of the blades, so to speak, driving the propeller, and thus the turbine, in reverse.

Minor correction for the author, a unfeathered prop continues to rotate in the correct direction. The flow of torque is reversed, not the actual rotation of the prop.

Indeed under certain circumstances the prop can end up speeding past its design RPM to the point that the prop tips become supersonic creating a whole world of other problems and dangers.
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>no full disk encryption

In Australia, they can force you to reveal the password.

>Failure to comply with an assistance order is a criminal offence. When the law was first enacted, the maximum penalty was 6 months imprisonment. However, authorities have since raised the maximum penalty to 2 years behind bars.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/can-police-dem...
iTerm did have at least one rather serious data leaking bug in the past. It was introduced in a new feature and enabled by default.

People (or power users at least) tend to remember incidents like that. I don’t think it’s entirely “just because LLM’s”.
QCAD is not a parametric 3D CAD program. You have to know what your part will look like before you draw it, because all it really does is neatly draw lines and curves.

Contrast with Solvespace (or FreeCAD, or any of the popular commercial parametric 3D CAD programs), which lets you specify relationships (constraints) between elements in 2D and 3D. The shape of your part is the finished result, not the starting point.
the website doesn't seem to render right on Firefox for some reason (works with Chromium tho)
I'm sorry to hear that but this is not really the time or the place for personal stories.
> I’m going to write down what I hear, not what you say.

There is a mysterious boundary here that separates meaning from expression. I've been working on an idea that could move this boundary from the inside of the human mind into the realm of software. I call it the Story Empathizer.

story = meaning + expression

When we express ourselves in writing, we encode meaning into text. The result is a subset of all possible written text: intentionally written text. I call that subset "story".

The real challenge is to do this process backwards. To read a story - and see more than text - we need to unravel the original intentions of the writer. In doing so, we define a boundary between meaning and expression.

But what if we could take that boundary, and put it into software? Traditionally, we do this to the extreme: limiting ourselves to "context-free grammar", we minimize expression to zero; factoring it out of the equation entirely. Source code always means precisely what it says. All of the what and how is carefully preserved, but the why is nowhere to be found. Mystery averted. Natural language is full of mysterious why, locked away from syntax parsers in a cage of ambiguity.

If we can define that ambiguity, then we answer the why, and draw a boundary between meaning and expression. With that boundary, we could read more story, separating its meaning from its expression. We could go backwards, too: rewriting the meaning in terms of another story's expression. That's the process I call "empathizing".

Of course, all of this is so abstract, I'm struggling to tie it back down to reality..
As other pointed out, there's no contradiction. I would like to add that CL often avoids dependency hell with:

- Standardized Specification: Common Lisp has a stable and comprehensive standard that reduces the need for external libraries.

- Load Time Flexibility: Its dynamic nature allows loading and reloading of code at runtime, facilitating easier management of dependencies.

- Isolation through Packages: The Lisp package system provides a way to encapsulate code and manage namespaces effectively, reducing conflicts.

- Backward Compatibility: Common Lisp places a strong emphasis on backward compatibility, which helps in maintaining stability across versions.

- Mature Ecosystem: Many Common Lisp projects are long-lived and stable, leading to a mature ecosystem with less frequent breaking changes.

I can't claim to be a very experienced CL coder, but I wrote enough Clojure, and similarly, rarely ever see dependency problems, even though Clojure heavily relies on the JVM ecosystem, inheriting both its strengths and complexities. Clojure emphasizes interoperability with Java and uses many Java libraries, which can introduce complex dependency trees and conflicts common in the Java ecosystem, yet at the same time, Clojure emphasizes small, composable libraries (often referred to as the "small libraries" philosophy), reducing the likelihood of large, monolithic dependencies causing issues. The community prioritizes modularity and ease of composition, leading to the prevalence of smaller, more focused libraries. Common Lisp in contrast tends to favor more extensive libraries or systems that provide a broad set of features within a single package.
> RAG is a technology to augment search engines with vector search

Based on the words in the acronym, that seems exactly backwards. The words suggest that it is a generation technology which is merely augmented by retrieval (search), not a retrieval technology that is augmented by a generative technology.
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simonw's llm tool does this with a plugin: https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd

I'm with the others that want it in a command, not embedded in my terminal
Those are the hard problems, and they're problems that historically came from the Palestinians refusing to accept that the Jewish state has a right to exist, and refusing to accept that Jewish people have a right to live in large numbers in Palestine.[1] It's ironic and cynical to hear the "apartheid" claim with reference to Israel, because the nation exists to combat apartheid practiced against Jews, in a region dominated by governments that are aligned to an official religion that isn't Judaism. The plight of Gazans is a tragedy, and one which the Palestinians arrived at by refusing for generations to honestly and unequivocally embrace a peaceful coexistence with the Jewish people in Palestine.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Conference_of_1946%E2...
First it was interesting.

Then I suspected that it was probably going to funnel everything to Cloudflare.

And then I saw their hero quote is from James O'Keefe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe

So I stopped looking.
Yeah, it is highly unlikely to be a Dyson Sphere (or related object), but any follow up scans of those stars could result in some new interesting science telling us why those stars are different from the other ones.