skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, this is indeed the second iteration of the project. Since the first iteration (released about a year ago), many things have changed and been reworked. The most notable change is the introduction of the semantic-analysis framework. Lady Deirdre 1 was merely an incremental parser library.

> why the seemingly needless location of everything down in a "work" folder?

It's just easier for me to organize the filesystem this way on my local machine. Everything that is unrelated to the development is outside of the work directory. Also, the license agreement refers to the "work". Perhaps it would be clearer for users if the work directory is clearly dedicated.

> Is there something else that you envision one day living at the top-level which you just planned for by putting everything someone would care about one further click away?

Everything that I planned to publish that is related to Lady Deirdre is already in the repository. I use this project for my other programming language project that I plan to release soon, but it will be in a separate GitHub repo. Actually, Lady Deirdre initially was separated from the language project codebase as I thought it may be useful for other programming language authors.
If I remember correctly, real libm implementations rarely use an analytically derived approximation, they just fit a polynomial rational approximation to minimize the error on the required range and precision.
This kind of hyperbole/lies isn't really helpful.
I still have a couple of Invisiclues hint books. I wonder if the special markers are still available and if they would still work on these old books.
Well said. Back when people pirated Photoshop, there wasn't much competition. Here's a newspaper quote from 1999: "GIMP, an Image editing program like the $899 PhotoShop, is free. I must be fair here and say that PhotoShop is in many way a superior program to GIMP. Still, there's that free thing to think about."

Compare that to the Affinity suite, which is an amazing collection of programs, especially for the price. They're currently running a sale where you can get everything for $83. If my daughter becomes interested in digital design, I'd be happy to spent that kind of money to encourage her. I'd be very hesitant to subscribe to the Adobe suite, even though that's what I use at work.
The readme does not claim to be open source.

> This work is proprietary software with source-available code.

> To copy, use, distribute, and contribute to this work, you must agree to the terms and conditions of the General License Agreement.

It's pretty clear on the rights granted:

> Please be aware that my work is proprietary software, intended for solo development. For this reason, the agreement requires you to automatically assign me the changes you make to my project's source code.

> However, if you want to create an extension for my crate, you can develop a separate crate that uses my crate's public APIs through Cargo. In this case, you don't have to assign me your work, and you can distribute your project under any permissive license, such as the MIT license.

These quotes are all pulled from the readme, and the last edit was 5 hours before your comment. Where's the lie?
Video games have had AI for about as long as video games have been around. Even Pong has an AI. This is an important distinction, because there is decades of research on the topic that gets confusing if people misinterpret the concept.

But to answer your question, there's a really impressive Skyrim mod that allows you to voice chat with NPCs in near-real time (capable of 5 second response times with some good hardware): https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/98631
This is a well done post, but please note that computers do not in fact use Taylor series for evaluating polynomials. They do use polynomials! (Or, sometimes, rational functions, but I think the recent trend has been toward polynomials only.) They also use transformations like the log(1+x) - log(1-x) one described in this article. (That one is used in fdlibm, a very influential math library, though more modern libraries seem to not use it.)

But the polynomials themselves are usually generated through some other technique, especially the Remez algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remez_algorithm) and modern improvements to it like Sollya's (https://sollya.org/) LLL-based floating-point polynomial fitting. It's still an active area of research; the RLibM project (https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~sn349/rlibm/) from Rutgers has introduced a totally new way to fit low-precision polynomials (say, up to 32 bits) using massive linear programming problems (roughly, 4 constraints on 10 variables).

Source: am researcher in this field.
Doxy is already prescribed in the US as a treatment regimen for acne, so if that’s going to be allowed STI prevention seems way more useful.

The overuse of antibiotics is mostly in farm animals, which represent 73% of global antibiotics use, and 90% of American antibiotics use.
The people responding to this seem to assume you’re doing so for funsies, which might be true. But that’s not what you said. So for their benefit, it’s worth pointing out that daily doxycycline is a pretty normal therapy for a range of chronic stuff—malaria prophylaxis, rosacea and skin that’s prone to infections, I’m sure there’s more.

If loopdoend’s doing this, it feels like a good bet that there’s a doctor in the mix judging that it’s medically appropriate for them.
I have an Eve Room and I quite like it. The little e-ink display is incredibly easy to read in most lighting conditions (i.e. any condition where there's some light), and the battery life is really fantastic.

I also have an air monitor from Qingping[0] which I got from Amazon, and I quite like that as well. Instead of VOCs, it reports pm2.5 and pm10 particulate, which was important for us (in Vancouver) because of the advent of 'wildfire season' in the past few years.

I think I would prefer to have the pm2.5/pm10 sensors in the living room and bedrooms (which have windows and where people spent the most time) and the VOC sensors in the kitchen (where cooking/burning happens) and bathroom (where cleaning products are used but ventilation is poor) but I haven't gotten around to buying more of everything yet.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B092HK4BB1/
I speak a bunch of languages, and this is especially helpful when learning languages that have a specific own idiomatic sentence structure. You get a pretty good insight into how people form sentences in their native language based on how they garble English. You can often derive where people are from based on those typical mistakes, even in a few sentences on an online forum.
I don't think math is going out of business
"Innovation" in this context does not mean cutting-edge technology. It just means changing processes to deliver better results. The tech is often the easy part, and there's plenty of room for boring software.

The hard part is navigating the bureaucracy and building consensus toward a change. This management-craft is where the clever thinking and emergent solutions are found and deployed.
Speech-to-Emoji with OpenAI Whisper and GPT-4o
LangChain is a critical thinking test and orgs using it are ngmi
Well, obviously Fastmail does.

And the (excellent!) alternative Mac Fastmail client FMail2 does.

http://fmail-app.fr
I made two using scd41, esp32 and esphome.
https://shop.m5stack.com/products/co2l-unit-with-temperature...
No: none of my clients or my mailserver support it.
It might be also important to note that mpfr is really for scientific purposes that need to deal with such large precision - there are significant memory and performance costs. For financial accounting applications, a fixed precision floating point library (aka fixed point arithmetic) is probably a better choice. Also mpfr is c/c++ but the author didn’t really specify their language and there may be other better options although bindings likely exist.
Many developers lead a double life. They have a job that pays the bills but is not their ideal kind of work. It can be boring at times and places constraints on your ability to choose which direction to take it.

At the same time, they have a side project that feeds their passions. It rarely pays well, if anything; but leaves the developer in complete control of what to do next and how long to do it.
I think that's at the heart of mathematics - deceptively simple definitions that capture the essence of something.
I wish I was this pragmatic as an intern.
Asking same question is not a contribution.

Every dying community I've ever seen was full of low quality and repetitive questions.
Yes, but only if I itemize. With the standard deduction being $29,200 for me this year, that's a tall hurdle. And at that, the only benefit is any amount over the standard deduction.
I don't think that's quite the case. SpaceX's method is more "release early, release often", and find (and solve!) issues early on. Traditional space companies on the other hand use a very rigid waterfall method.

SpaceX's method is not "fuck around and find out". It's design, find out, iterate. From what I can tell from the outside, it seems very reasonable.
You can’t call yourself a successful engineer, so what?(join the club), why does that matter to you?

Why do you romanticize the more specialist roles, what do you expect from them?

Is this ‘midlife crisis’ really about your work?
I would wish lot more programmers refuse to work with surveillance and add tech... But nearly every site has that stuff on them... Goes to tell what are the principles of profession or in general...
More than 30 Pa. schools detected toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in their drinking water that exceed EPA standard
https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-pfas-schools-drinking...

The EPA's new limits on PFAS in drinking water face legal challenges
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/06/21/nx...
1. witch is useless when the main structure reach the end of life... And it's useless for energy saving purposes, because you can't change the overall design to get more low Sun in the winter and less high Sun in the summer and so on. Rebuilding means demolishing the whole structure to create a new one, with a different design for different purposes;

2. I was in Tokyo for a project and before as a tourist, I've not seen large buildings totally erased and rebuilt but it doesn't matter I was there for a too little timeframe for that, but enough to see how many issues of high density Tokyo have, even the the Japanese have put an immense effort to handle many of them.

About the lifestyle I suggest, here in EU:

- Nederland, 425.4 humans/km², 81.3% live in single family homes

- Belgium, 381.79 h//km², 77.6% in single family homes

- France, far less dense, 62% in single family homes

- Ireland even less dense, 89.4% in single family homes

While some others like Italy or Spain do the opposite. Accidentally I'm Italian and I'm living in France switched from a dense city to the mountains and have no intention to came back, as many, many others, essentially all that have tried this way, so well, working it does work, it's not crazy, and local services are spread as well offering local jobs to many people in far better living condition than dense cities in the same country. It's a matter of choice, and I bet the late night Tokyo metro show the effect of density on humans.
> I'd like to see a 'contact layer' be sprayed on the inside of all food containers.

I think that's what's currently happening and the problem is that things that work for that tend to be things like PFAS, which is why they have been used for that purpose.

And I'm not sure animal studies are necessarily great at determining the risk from long-term exposure to small amounts of things like plastics either.
Can confirm. 35 year old engineer with a Miata (and another car). Excellent recommendation. Don’t believe the NC hate, a PRHT NC Miata is an incredible cruising car. The ND is a retractable fastback and doesn’t fully go down (aka not a real convertible) and NCs are super cheap. If you must go with a new car, NDs are fine too, just don’t discount the NC!
> The "correct" reaction to a midlife crisis is almost a trope now: you have it pretty good, don't rock the boat, don't screw things up.

My advice: follow this "trope" at your own peril. When your soul isn't satisfied with the direction your life is going, shut up and pay attention. Sweeping it under the rug is the best way to face this demon, stronger and scarier, 25 years later, when it's too late to do something about it.

Source: another mid 30 person a few years deep into their midlife crisis, so feel free to disregard my advice.
It's like arguing over who invented the light bulb or the personal computer. Answers other than "Edison" and "Wozniak", while very possibly more correct than either, will lead to an hours-long argument that changes exactly 0 minds.
The West encouraged Georgia to invade its breakaway former province South Ossetia in 2008. Turns out it was a lousy idea. Why blame Russia for bad voluntary choices of Georgian government?
i had that back in the 80s - managed to move something like n,s,w and then gave up, good name for a game though, and about typical for me and infocom.
I've always thought the same, that something like space travel is inherently incredibly dangerous. I mean surely someone during the Apollo program spoke out about something. Like landing on the moon with an untested engine being the only way back for instance.

Nixon even had a 'if they died' speech prepared, so someone had to put the odds of success not at 100.
I really liked the Jaguar, when it was working.

I'll not own another.
If you are interested in developing your career in that direction, would it have a higher reward in terms of job security and compensation to focus on your soft skills instead of hard skills?

If you're already a staff engineer, your leadership skills could be more important to your future than becoming fluent in Java or .NET. Aim for getting promoted, not for avoiding getting demoted?
Here is mine that works pretty well on coding tasks:

Instructions for the output format:
- Output code without descriptions, unless it is important.
- Minimize prose, comments and empty lines.
- Only show the relevant code that needs to be modified. Use
comments to represent the parts that are not modified.
- Make it easy to copy and paste.
- Consider other possibilities to achieve the result, do not
be limited by the prompt.

By the way, if you use the built-in custom instructions on ChatGPT, it will mess up other conversations that are not coding related.

I built a custom GUI app [1] that allows me to store and add different custom instructions to the prompt depending the type of the task (SQL vs Next.js).

[1] https://prompt.16x.engineer/
Thanks for the suggestion.

And do you know where I could read about the underlying theory? I'd like to implement the most I could from scratch, for learning purposes.
Sarepta: Why?
Attributing deaths to nuclear power due to political choices makes no sense. These fatalities were completely unjustified and driven by baseless fears.

Besides, what is the point of counting deaths? In Germany, an estimated 1,100 deaths per year result from the use of fossil fuels to replace the shutdown of nuclear power plants.

https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article/20/3/1311/6520438

Fatalities are strongly correlated with pollution, and deaths caused by hydroelectric power are significantly higher. Unfortunately, decarbonization is crucial. Otherwise, in the coming decades, we won't be discussing a few thousand deaths but several million.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

Nuclear power often faces harsh criticism, being labeled the worst of all energy sources. However, this perception changes when it's compared in context with other sources. We are in a critical period and cannot afford to exclude any energy sources simply because we like them less than others.
It has pros and cons, like anywhere :) If there's specific things you want to know, feel free to email me at the address in my profile.
Wonder how much of this failure was due to the IBM specific tech issues. Especially since McD is moving their POC to GCP
Seconded. Math does nothing for you by default but it makes almost everything else easier, to the point of making the impossible possible.
Honestly, I have not once regretted taking time off and not maximizing for career/income for awhile. I got to raise my kids while they were young and I focused on healing my codependency which had been holding me back in many ways (relationships, work).

“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
People who can't do basic math and skip prevention are responsible for their own shit outcome.

People in Portugal, where healthcare is "free", i.e. the government pays for it, frequently wait for years before being able to see a specialist due to long waitlists. The obvious outcome is that only poor people use the system and if you can you use private healthcare.

People in Czechia with single payer healthcare system with e.g. average wage of 2000 USD pay from 100 euros a month for health insurance (unemployed) to e.g. 500 euros (with 4000 USD salary) or more if you make more. You get the same shitty service (something like 20 years behid the US), you just pay a lot more if you make anything resembling a US salary.

There's no such thing as free healthcare. Can you make a single payer healthcare system that works better? Sure, it's just hard and even if everything is ideal you get maybe 50% discount. The main way to make healthcare cheaper is to drop coverage for diseases that are expensive to treat.
I'll give Adobe credit for integrating AI features into its products without charging extra. I imagine it's not cheap for them to support that much generative AI on an application that has traditionally run 100% on users' local machines.

Maybe Adobe's worried about AI making Photoshop irrelevant. Here's the cautionary note from its latest quarterly report: "While we have released new generative artificial intelligence products, such as Adobe Firefly, and are focused on enhancing the artificial intelligence (“AI”) capabilities of such products and incorporating AI into existing products, services and solutions, there can be no assurance that our products will be successful or that we will innovate effectively to keep pace with the rapid evolution of AI across our Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud. If we do not successfully innovate, adapt to rapid technological changes and meet customer needs, our business and our financial results may be harmed."
last time I checked, functions were part of the "minimum $50/month" thing. This doesn't look like a free tier, it's a trial period.
The documentatary evidence is fragmentary but there is significant evidence that a 5th-century BC Greek mathematician proved the incommensurability of the side of a square with its diagonal (it was apparently trivially known a century later since it appears in Plato's "Meno"). Whether that person was named Pythagoras or Hippasus or something else is really neither here nor there since he was pretty clearly part of the Pythagorean tradition that got associated with one name.

The point in any case is that incommensurability as a concept was not widely accepted at the beginning of the 5th century BC and was widely accepted at the end, and the name "Pythagoras" gets attached to the mathematicians who discovered that.

But like for that matter Plato's name wasn't "Plato"; that was a nickname his wrestling coach gave him.
> "We're showing that older individuals' state of mind is linked to the biology of their brain mitochondria, which is the first time that subjective psychosocial experiences have been related to brain biology,"

> Though the current study cannot determine if the participant's psychosocial experiences altered their brain mitochondria or if innate or acquired mitochondrial states contributed to those experiences, other studies suggest that the relationship between mitochondria and mood works both ways.

It seems as though they've established a "link" between subjective experience and objective biology, but still consider these two separate things in a causal relationship. For some reason that seems wonky to me, and it makes more sense to think of mood and biology as the same thing viewed from the subjective and objective perspective, respectively. In that sense there is no relationship, as there isn't independence, and then there's no weird/hard question of subjective/objective causality.
This exact type of thing is why when I switched to the dark side (product) and sat in management meetings where often non-technical folks would go “we could measure by lines of code or similar” for productivity I often pointed out how that was a bad idea.

Did I win? Of course not, it’s hard for non-technical people to fully appreciate these things and any sort of larger infrastructure work, esp for developer productivity because it goes back to well how you going to measure that ROI.

Anyways, this was fun to read and brought back good engineering memories. I’d also like to say, as it brought back a bug I chased forever, fuck you channelfactory in c#.
Afghanistan was relatively open during US and USSR occupations, still radical islamists prevailed.

Iran during Shah times was relatively open politically, although it was monarchy.

Egypt before the brotherhood took over.

Turkey was relatively sectarian, but with Erdogan it became more and more islamist.

Iraq after occupation was relatively open, yet ISIS ideology took off
I like
Engul [1] and Shavian [2]
(Both alternative writing systems for English)

[1]: https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/engul.htm
[2]: https://www.omniglot.com/writing/shavian.htm
Have you considered LiteLLM?
Ultramarathon runners are not normal people.

It's like saying that strength training is bad for you because Ronnie Coleman took a load of steroids and trained through a spinal injury.

The vast majority of people are never going to exercise even remotely hard enough to cause themselves issues in this way.
> easily be career-ending.

Easily be career ending? That's a bit dramatic, don't you think?. Someone who continuously says no to things will surely not thrive and probably eventually leave the organization, one way or the other, that's probably right.
Police roll up to my furniture business, “sir, this here lumber yard says you stole 2 tons of maple planks from them.”

“Well, I could see why you might think you could make such a claim, but you’re too late, I’ve already altered their ‘expression’. Please, come on in and search all you want. Rather than finding the planks you’re looking for all you’ll find are tables and chairs.”

“We are so sorry for disturbing you, sir. You are a truly ethical and impressive innovator. An inspirational disruptor of our existing legal understanding.”
Lung-Gom-Pa
Everyone seems to be reading this too simply. In fact, stupidly.

It's conceptually the easiest answer to the risk of asserting that you are certain, is simply don't assert that you are certain.

They aren't saying it's easy to face your bosses with anything they don't want to hear.
> If you have free time (I don't know how old your kids are) you can use that to explore new areas of technology.

To add further, once your kids are grown you will have time, savings, and a deeper experience to explore expertise. Keep on the path and build toward that future.

That said, if there was one thing I would become an expert in are soft skills and people/project management. That experience never goes out of date.
I have a feeling you are a Young Person™.

Low-risk can still be high-reward. The trade-off is time.

Cut burn, put money into index funds (or real estate if you can stomach the interpersonal aspect) and you will get there simply by virtue of betting on your society.