skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plato and many philosophers have a special disdain for poets(artists). Where they urge people to live among reality, artists paint a picture that can never be possible.

There are ideas like: "Who knows what war looks like, a soldier? Or an artist? We get false ideas of war, and it corrupts our minds. Let us not pretend that the brain can fully separate our fiction media from what we are told is 'close enough' to real to be entertaining.

I worry most when it comes to expectations of interpersonal relationships. What poison is happening to the population when they read/watch unrealistic romances?
Two aspects:

1. Sorted, set is a contraction in terms: `packaging` and other tooling have interpreted it to mean just "set," which implies unsorted.

2. The quoted language there isn't from the wheel filename definition itself (and isn't linked to it), so it's unclear whether it's intended to be normative. Similarly, "can" is weaker than "should."
Yeah and we've all seen him boast about a bunch of stuff, you can't take it at face value.

I reject your assertion that Elon Musk made the employees at his platform because it would increase engagement or whatever and that he significantly factored in the impact that it would have on LGBTQ people.
I've created a beginner's guide that covers most of what there is to know about Obsidian: https://www.dsebastien.net/free-beginners-guide-to-mastering...

In short, it's a free note-taking app using the Markdown syntax, storing files locally and with wiki-like linking, tagging, a plugin system and tons of community plugins. Using it, you can organize knowledge, ideas, references, keep a journal, and more.
Nice that they provide the 3d scans.

I want to 3d print the knight and it seems so strange that I can do that with a thing someone made 800 years ago.
I found the Lipsum quotes used fascinating, so I looked them up:

Lucky Is He Who Can Accept His Broken Sword From Fate The Conqueror, With A Manly And A Humble Heart.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis https://www.online-literature.com/thackeray/history-of-pende...

Trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
—William Blacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_in_God_and_keep_your_pow...

And I if I be lifted up from the Earth, will draw all men unto me.
—John 12:32

No great man ever minds stooping.
—John Ruskin, The Two Paths https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7291/7291-h/7291-h.htm#:~:te...

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
—Proverbs 22:1

Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty
—Leonard H. Courtney https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Courtney

Let your light so shine that men may see your good works.
—Matthew 5:14

The Sun Shines Alike On Beggars & Kings
—Sundial engraving, allegedly from "Inter Caesarem et Galbam Sol Ministrat Umbram" https://archive.org/details/bookofoldsundial00unse/page/45/m...

Hitch your Wagon to a Star
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Civilization https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hitch_one%27s_wagon_to_a_star

Fellow-Citizens: God reigns, and the government at washington still lives.
—James Garfield, after Lincoln's assassination (alleged) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#Disputed

Experience is the mother of science.
—Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes#:~:text=Ex...

LET US STRIKE THE iron while it is hot.
—Chaucer, Canterbury Tales https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/6236476310
Let me know when they add tab groups.
Wouldn't mind being a desert driver for a while, as a between-STEM-jobs occupation ;)
> Who knows what is and what will be possible?

I think this is a vast oversimplification of how knowledge works. Like yes, no one knows with perfect certainty what the laws of physics or whatever else are, but that hardly means _anything_ is plausible or worth entertaining.

I amuse myself with the foundations of physics and I'm so sure that FTL is impossible that I find science fiction that uses the idea almost tragically silly, simply unwilling to grapple with the limitations imposed on us by the vastness of space.
True freedom is living your life in a way that you don’t have to lie to anyone about anything.
I mean it effectively means that the amount of cash going into the business is less than it otherwise would have been. The company wanted $5M of cash. With the owner selling $500k worth of shares it means they had to find $5.5M to be invested.

The only reason it happens is that the founder is negotiating both on behalf of the business and a bit for themselves.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657933
Some pigeons are domesticated doves, the kind of pigeons you see in town.

Wood pigeons are wild and distinctly different from town pigeons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wood_pigeon
The thing I am dubious about with many of these AI tools is having fine control over the details.
Everything is automatic and non-manually curated; we basically just uploaded the data without doing anything dataset-specific as far as the clusters are concerned. First we create an embedding of the rows, then we run projection & clustering on it. The first clusters we generate are narrow. After we generate the first round of clusters we label them with an LLM, and then cluster those to create the more generalized clusters. Have an LLM label those, and then we're done.
You don't need to watch the news that much, if something is important enough, you'll usually find out about it
For Tao, spending 10x time on aproof still means spending 5x less time than an average postdoc. He is incredibly fast and productive.
NVidia embedded: the worst embedded tooling, except for all the other ones.

Every time I peek at "business as usual" in embedded land, I decide I'd rather professionally orient myself in another direction.
The option to take time off and travel is still there and I think there are a larger number of people say bumming around Asia than there was when I was younger. For some reason Americans seem to have a cultural problem with taking a year off but it's fairly common in many other countries.
Not helped by every boundaries you'll have to cross to deploy a python lib or app. Pypa will not necessarily agree with pypi and or docker image versionning. It's amazing how fast naming hell travels.
> So they sold all the available stock they had as soon as they got it, at a reasonable price… and that made you dump them?

Well, yes, of course?

Why burn billable hours on a design I can send to production?
> Now Qualcomm is using the Nuvia core to compete with stock ARM Cortex designs in phones, laptops, and servers.

What stock Cortex designs in laptops and servers? If ARM had provided good chips for those uses, none of this would have been a big deal!
One option you can't hack on, the other you can but don't have to at all. Why choose the former? Are you so sure you'll never want to do anything on your phone that's unapproved by your corporate overlords?
A major part of the hard soft dichotomy is how the tech is treated and talked about in the story too though, not just the level of the tech. You could make a hard-scifi version of Star Wars, you'd just be expected to provide more justification and narrative around hyperdrives than you get in the current soft scifi version.
This is (in part) a knock-on consequence of Python packaging's dynamic metadata: installing a package sometimes means running arbitrary Python code to determine the package's dependencies, meaning that the resolver not only has to backtrack but also has to run arbitrary code in a fixed state (i.e., with references to other dependencies that should not change in parallel streams of execution).
Some of our customers said they spend around 3hrs a day on navigating new vulnerabilities alone. Step 1: wading through info from some easy and some hard to access sources; Step 2: trying to bring together all the most relevant information. E.g. just detecting your payroll provider got ransomed is just one step, then you have to research the group, any indicators that you might also be infected etc. then step 3: what do I do next? e.g. adding relevant hashes to virus total.

We not just help with relevant detection, but also automate some of the next two steps as well. Bringing the total weekly time saved down to a few minutes a day.
It's not uncommon for people to link their core product into their CRM (for billing and usage).

Which could in turn "infect" your core offering to now become AGPL (and now you're having to release your core product IP to the public).
WriteOnly
DebConf24 to be held in Busan, South Korea (July 28 – Aug 4)
It wasn't even set up for success at selling.

After years of raising 3 kids, you would think if I ask to add diapers to the cart, it would know something. But no, it would just go with whatever is the top recommended, or first in a search, or something like that. Nothing using the brand or most recent sizes we purchased.

There was no serious attempt to drive real commerce. Instead, Alexa became full of recommendation slots that PMs would battle over. "I set that timer for you. Do you want to try the Yoga skill?"

On the other hand, they have taken on messy problems and solved them well, but not using technology, and for no real financial gain. For example, if you ask for the score of the Tigers game, Alexa has to reconcile which "Tigers" sports team you mean among both your own geography and the worldwide teams, at all levels from worldwide to local, across all sports, might have had games of interest. People worked behind the scenes to manage this manually, tracking teams of interest and filling intent slots daily.
Exactly. About 15 years ago I was offering equity in a good little startup. I didn't take it because I just wanted to go somewhere with a higher salary.

When they finally sold about a decade later I ran the numbers and determined it would have been about $40,000 based on the actual sale price.

There's no guarantee of a $50M exit for anybody.
In addition to measuring VOCs, specifically alcohols, instead of CO2 using NDIR, the cheap ones can have additional algorithms that skew the readings.

I purchased an INKBIRD Air Pollution Monitor. It has an internal battery, doesn't connect to other devices or networks, is inexpensive, and is irrationally inaccurate sometimes.

A reviewer found the same behaviour and confirmed what I knew through tests with dry ice (solid CO2) and isopropanol alcohol. It measures CO2, not VOCs, but some constantly running calibration or data fitting algorithms lead to wild overshoot and undershooting compared to higher-quality monitors.

Finding an inexpensive and accurate CO2 monitor may be possible, and aliexpress.com is the home of inexpensive. But without testing and possibly a teardown, you will not likely get an accurate and affordable monitor.
As a kid I used to play football using this building as goal https://maps.app.goo.gl/9iBkX42RF6zUgXJd9

Which is like 1k years old aprox.
Counterexample, and the reason why there is so much emphasis on 'software bills of materials' and similar stuff recently: Log4j.

Fully open-source, packaged by many, many open-source (and closed-source) vendors. Had a widely-publicized series of terrible bugs which caused billions of actual losses, as in: "we had to pay to get this remediated and/or had to shut stuff down for a while, and that made us look bad, without anyone to sue."

Reducing that to "let's get rid of insecure, proprietary software" is a take, but not necessarily an accurate or helpful one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple
They can be, pip developers just have to care about this. Nothing you described precludes file-based deduplication, which is what pnpm does for JS projects: it stores all library files in a global content-addressable directory, and creates {sym,hard,ref}links depending on what your filesystem supports.

Being able to mutate files requires reflinks, but they're supported by e.g. XFS, you don't have to go to COW filesystems that have their own disadvantages.

You can do something like that manually for virtualenvs too, by running rmlint on all of them in one go. It will pick an "original" for each duplicate file, and will replace duplicates with reflinks to it (or other types of links if needed). The downside is obvious: it has to be repeated as files change, but I've saved a lot of space this way.

Or just use a filesystem that supports deduplication natively like btrfs/zfs.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint
Link for Europe: https://archive.ph/IHdjm
friends! let us have it both ways!

Humans have telepathy and cognitive biases!
> They then bombastically proclaim to have discovered a thing! (that all the locals already knew about for decades/centuries)

See also "Your finger, you fool".

RIP, Terry Pratchett.
I would revisit that calculation assuming you are drained at 45 instead of 60, including taxes and the opportunity cost of 500K x a few years at 3% rate for the next 15 years.
Sleep deprivation disrupts memory: here's why
Are founding engineers not also taking on risk? They're typically taking a much lower salary in exchange for their shares. They're avoiding vacations, nice cars, fancy houses, and other expenses that they could purchase if they worked for a larger, public company. In the example from the article WeWork founding engineers would've gone 9 years without seeing any value from their shares while the CEO was cashing out billions.

The difference in responsibilities is already accounted for in their disparate salaries and ownership stakes. I don't think it's very relevant to whether or not they should have the option of cashing out some of their stake during funding rounds.
The discover is another important value add - AI Agents can monitor beyond human scale across more data sets to do the initial triaging for you.
`tmux -CC` integrated to the native tab splits and the buffer. That's the killer feature for me. No other terminal emulator has it, not on Mac, not on Linux.
The mortality rate from things like long bus trips is very low. I'm not sure bus trip problems are that enthralling though, on the whole.
A fun little fact is that the load on a road causes damage roughly proportional to the fourth power of its mass – or at least, proportional to the fourth power of the weight of each axel. The US government publication detailing this is here – https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr61g/61g.pdf – in 1962 – and it's become something of a famous approximation ever since.
I think he's being quite literal in that he believes that they're too aggressive.

In the article he does afterall second the notion that AI will eventually replace a lot of human labour related to mathematics.
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”

--Carl Sagan
I've got some queries like this saved which are handy to workout when things are getting bloated and need some maintenance that I find pretty handy
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Show_database_bloat
Everyone has their own "killer app" that keeps them on one platform or another. Once Apple Intelligence starts integrating the apps you care about in ways that will meaningfully impact you personally you might find a reason to upgrade.
Ask HN: What non-mainstream programming languages are you checking out?
Question inspired by this current HN thread about Jank:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40640534
The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing
I couldn't find any written explanation of the GJK collision detection algorithm which gave good intuition for it, so I spent an afternoon writing one up. Let me know of any ways I could make it more clear & efficient.

And, of course:
Take this with the appropriate amount of salt for a high school sophomore's explanation of anything math related.
If you're taking about Koko the gorilla, that one is controversial. Look up Alex the parrot (Irene Pepperberg), which has a decent evidence base
Your understanding of the terminology sounds a lot different than mine. I always interpreted "hard" and "soft" to simply be references to "hard science" and "soft science."

In other words, I thought "hard sci-fi" means fiction that deals mostly with fictional facts in fields like physics, astronomy, geology, and biology, while "soft sci-fi" means fiction that deals mostly with fictional facts in fields like psychology, economics, and political science.
No religious flamewar, please. The other flamewars are bad enough already.
No religious flamewar on HN, please. The other flamewars are bad enough already.
One year later, in a News Article:

"$person_name's lawyer could not be reached for comment, but it is noted that the userid mentioned in the lawsuit was created on 2022-12-03, the same day as the photos were uploaded, and the same day as the arrest warrant was issued..."

Using the id directly as the pk admittedly just makes things a bit simpler, one less bit of information to track down. I know bridge tables are not hard, but it's just one extra step that the developer has to be aware of, plan ahead for (and possibly all your teams and customer support people need to be aware of when they are tracking down an issue with an account)

UUIDv4 lets you move fast now and pay your performance-piper next year rather than now.
> Every bend in the river has its own castle

The purpose of those castles was to extract money from the river traffic.
Siri dropped the ball even before Alexa, it had the golden opportunity to become ChatGPT about 10 years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647751
Databricks to Open Source Unity Catalog
> If you had one or more junior programmers working for you writing code according to what you specify, would you have the same worry?

I try hard to avoid the scenario where junior programmers write things they don’t understand. That’s actually my biggest frustration and the difference between juniors I enjoy vs loathe working with. There are only so many ways to remain supportive and gently say “no, for real, learn what you’re working on instead of hacking something brittle and incomplete together.”
Wow GREAT point actually, I am a huge fan of plastic. It’s impossibly tough to know how to support plastic without supporting the combustion industry (Miltary-Incendiary Complex?), but that’s life for everyone who can afford to choose their job. I have a friend who’s struggling with how to use his ChemE degree to help create lifesaving medicine without giving his career to some of our most cartoonishly evil corporations, and I personally struggled with the desire to work on LEO satellites without supporting the US military directly.

A good lesson to never deal in absolutes :). I’ll say this instead: most people working in oil and gas aren’t doing it because they considered the facts and decided that it was a good future. They’re just there because it pays well and they figure the earth will prolly be fine. I mean, it’s huge! And I’ve never seen a climate apocalypse…
A convenient invention you've got there to dismiss criticism.
This just threw a huge wrench in the gears for a spambot detection system I was working on. The kind of content a spambot likes is a great indicator to choose whom to block or not.
I could make you a small website that does it if you want, it’d be good for my resume :)
It asks me to enter a species and I can't enter Latin plant names?
> Rarely does one see a C++ quick start guide that's actually this quick: https://lexbor.com/docs/lexbor/#quick_start

Could be because it isn't C++?
Sure it could maybe be kinda right, but what is the cost of a false positive? If you have, say, a 10% false positive rate, and there are theoretical reasons to think you’ll never get that anywhere close to zero, then what use case does this serve? Hey student, there’s 90% chance you cheated, well no I’m that 10%. What now?

Again, OAI cancelled work on this believing it not to be solvable with a high degree of confidence. What is the use case for a low confidence AI detector?
Can't we do the same thing with python, flask? Yes, not compiled and strongly typed but it's still easy to instantiate a web server with a few lines of code, no?
Rocket Lab and Relativity Space are also doing pretty cool work. Rocket Lab is the only other company to successfully reach orbit, they're the first to make an electric-pump fed rocket engine, and their upcoming Neutron rocket is supposed to be mostly reusable and does several things better than the Falcon 9. Relativity is using 3D printing to manufacture most of the rocket. RFA (Rocket Factory Augsburg) is also interesting, they're not doing anything novel AFAIK but they're using cheap parts from the automotive industry to bring down prices.
You can use Phoenix without LiveView by running mix phx.new with the —no-live flag (or manually pull it out of an existing project).
> We've had voice calling for over a century, yet it feels like the majority of us prefer to text most of the time these days.

It depends what culture you’re from. Many cultures around the world prefer voice. If you live in a fair large city just look around for folks on the phone. There are still many people who need a voice plan.
Widespread Reports: Google Ads No Longer Accepting Credit Card Payments
There are many others besides this Reddit thread, and have heard the same from several agency friends this morning. A desperate attempt to squeeze that last 1-2% out of a market that has stopped growing?

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In...the countries where that was a problem.