skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What is the most painful developer setup guide you've experienced?
We all have our horror stories for painful setup guides. I'm curious if you had a magic wand to turn a painful quickstart guide into a 1-click sandbox, what tool or product that would be?
The right-wing SCOTUS seems to have determined it was a bit too much.

To their credit, yes they did.

The total lack of evidence did not support any such broad injunction. This case should never have made it to the SC docket. The fact it did just reeks of influence peddling and partisan gamesmanship.
The biggest issue is zoning and other restrictions on construction.

Back in the 1950s, it was much easier to build. Now it takes much longer and it's more expensive to just get permits. It's kinda wacky to think we're still using housing stock from 100 years ago. New construction is rare.

A middle class person, say a Firefighter needs to be able to buy a home where he works. Many city workers in California have to ride long Metrolink rides just to get to work. This is also a safety concern.

Do you really want a subway conductor to have to get up at 5am to get to their 9am to 6pm shift?

This has been an issue for decades, but it's coming to a head now.
It's challenging work! Especially in the tunnels at other sites.. But for this scan specifically, I didn't use a tripod, and I edited myself out at the bottom of every 360 photo.

For terrestrial lidar, you can avoid the laser and cameras by following a circular path opposite the device sensors or hide behind a rock or tunnel corner, etc.
I think a grocers could absolutely do the online ordering and pickup/delivery space where prices could be tailored to individual consumers and there was market dominance.

Sorry, I don't have the data to give a figure. I'd have to build the model, and have a complete transaction record dataset.
Rust has one form of channels in the standard library. More kinds available from crates.io. If you prefer channels, use them!
A good rule of thumb is that models can be quantized to 6 to 8 bits per weight without significantly degrading quality. This is convenient for the math: 70GB plus some overhead for the attention matrices (ongoing requests). This overhead depends on workload and context lengths, but you should expect about 30% more. So, around 100GB for a server under load.
> As long as budget increases to the IRS increase revenue to the government, they should keep growing.

Why? The government is not a business. They should not be interested in 'raising revenue'. They should be interested in helping their constituents grow rich; not taking their wealth.
Simulating 500M years of evolution with a language model [pdf]
The US used to only prosecute the government employees who leaked the information.

Charging journalists with espionage for publishing classified information is completely new in the US. Trump and Biden's prosecution of Assange is the first time it has ever happened. It's also almost certainly unconstitutional.
Quite a few contributing factors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiny1GrfhYM
What's Figma? They don't make it very clear.
Yeah that's my point. I meant the lack of visual (and sometimes audible!) noise they introduce.
Linux containers require a Linux kernel. Any tool on a MAC that is running containers locally is doing it in a VM.
Two weeks ago news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40662293
It’s been a while since the Republicans controlled congress and the presidency.
> Now, the IRS knows almost everything about your finances. They get electronic data from your employers, your bank, your brokerage. Most of commerce is settled electronically. Paypal and Venmo send them your info if you receive more than $500 in a year. There is nothing to be gained by randomly auditing the average family if the numbers on their report match what the IRS knows. The IRS can zero in on specific activities, such as people claiming unusual business deductions. But they no longer need to routinely audit most of us, and they don't need funding to that effect.

I think that this is a solid argument for why the government should be reducing filing burdens. If they already have the vast bulk of what is needed, and they're able to rely on that to audit people in case of discrepancies, they also should allow people to file more easily (or not file at all) using that information. Many other countries, including the UK where I currently live have a system wherein the most common kinds of employment don't require filing at all. The US could become one of them if it really wanted to.
https://zotify.xyz/zotify/zotify

https://champagne.pages.dev/music/
In the US, these museums can be brilliant, terrifyingly creepy, and everything in between.

I went to one in a tiny town in southern Arkansas a few years ago, dedicated to a river boat disaster shortly after the civil war. It was tiny, weird, and brilliant.

https://www.sultanadisastermuseum.com/
The AI chatbot that washes your dishes and does your laundry 8) [video]
Morse code would do the trick!

One check for short, two checks for long, two blanks for end-of-character.
>Somehow Jesse is a board member there, it seems.

With my eternal love/hate relationship with Teenage Engineering (cheap enough music gadgets vs overpriced metal folding table and OP1 price inflation) I'm almost excited to find more reasons to stop giving the company any more brain time / money ever again.
The way we manage human failures are with rules, checklists, and accountability. LLMs struggle with all of these, and I get the sense that spending 6mos to develop long lists of rules isn't what the parent comment has in mind with "just write a prompt"
Good standards are good. Bad standards are bad. The current standards are more towards the good end of the spectrum, at least IMHO.

But they do have the side effect of keeping public school teachers from using bottom-up, student-directed techniques. The kids and the teacher are going to be evaluated by the standards, so the lessons have to be top down and at a very fast pace, or there would be no time to teach what the standards require.

Maybe a net win, maybe not, but we should at least be aware there are trade offs.
> the problems that "creates" with programming in Rust are actually problems revealed by programming in Rust, not created.

I would dearly like to see Rust advocates be more careful when they talk about this aspect of their beloved language.

The ownership semantics of safe Rust programs prevent programs from being written, and in the process, eliminate entire classes of bug. But they also prevent a literally infinite number of correct programs from being written, without resorting to the unsafe escape hatch.

Sometimes that's a good tradeoff. Often you can design your program around those restrictions and enjoy the benefits they bring. But what you said is much too strong a claim! Ownership semantics prevent or inhibit a great deal of simple patterns which are in fact possible to implement correctly. The doctrine that every difficulty a programmer runs into trying to color inside the lines of safe Rust is a case of Rust preventing them from doing something wrong, is simply incorrect.

Rust's memory model is highly opinionated, and in fact, restrictive. The pitch, and it's a strong one, is that the benefits of working within that model are worth learning how to work within those restrictions. But it's also very clear that ownership semantics create problems as well as prevent them. Telling people that the tradeoffs are worth it is good advocacy. Pretending there are no tradeoffs is not.
https://bubblespop.netlify.app/
China installed more solar PV and wind generation in the first 9 months of 2023 than all 26 nuclear power stations under construction will provide (already adjusted for capacity factor.)

It's true that China is beating the rest of the world on nuclear construction. It is also unfortunately true that current-gen (non SMR) nuclear doesn't scale the way factory-built solar PV and wind tech does. Again reposting this very illustrative chart: https://www.evwind.es/2024/01/13/nuclear-energy-remains-far-...
I think the WH spokesperson's response just adds to the level of disturbing:

>When pressed by a reporter to defend the targeted killing policy that resulted in Abdulrahman al-Awlaki's death, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs deflected blame to the victim's father, saying, "I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they are truly concerned about the well-being of their children. I don't think becoming an al-Qaeda jihadist terrorist is the best way to go about doing your business".
> Reddit aggressively tags random posts as NSFW and then offers "anonymous" browsing if only I install the app. What? That's silly.

"Request desktop site" setting in mobile Safari also works for me to bypass this.
You could search for the article about how the Lego mmo (or that's what i think it was) was shut down, then stop worrying about it. Unless you want to spend the rest of your natural life on detecting penises, swastikas and everything else. I mean, everything is offensive to someone.
Me personally: I recently had a lot of issues trying to setup MemGPT. A lot of the commands have implicit assumptions about the kinds of setup / configuration already in place, and without such configurations, they fail in non-obvious ways. Even trying their Docker wasn't always successful. I eventually figured it out, but wasted hours I'd rather have back.
Insane amounts of heat is exactly what you want from your power plant..
That's where the law comes in. You can prosecute a human for negligence. What about an AI?
Same, did not expect this from HN. Even the farmers interest group here in Denmark don’t spew this much misinformation..
> Google's "Find My Device" automatically opts-in; opt-out link does not work

This is by design. The purpose is for Google and law enforcement to know where your digital identity is.
Well, ok, hotels are more expensive now, but are houses and long term rentals any cheaper? Was the ban successful at improving housing affordability for the people who live there? The article doesn't seem to discuss that at all.
A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III (2023)
The problem is obvious, I'm a customer of theirs and now I'll sit out the next few releases and be more cautious in buying their hardware on the chances that there are more projects like this working their way out of the pipeline as they learn from it. This has damaged their brand. I am only one person, but I would be surprised if I'm the only one who feels this way.
Some more on the official page they put up, including the ad video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791013
No, it's a color filter in the accessability settings (I'm on iOS). There is another comment explaining where exactly.
I reached out to them to send a letter to my old employer to correct my W2. I did talk to someone, but that letter never got sent. Still need to sort out my taxes on that front.
Function coloring is orthogonal to async or not. I also greatly prefer function coloring, but I'm agnostic when it comes to either explicit async/await or sync code in green threads. For example, Haskell has function coloring, but it also has Go-style lightweight threads and sync code. It's the nicest experience IMO.
Broadcase wifi and bluetooth MAC addresses (even randomized) is enough to deduce iPhone vs not.
Well, Fox quotes the Pentagon as talking like North Korea is at least considering it. (I know, that's not quite the same thing.)

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pentagon-threatens-north-korea...
Ask HN: How much math you need to work as MLE in a company but not academia?
How much you really need to know to be successful MLE in a company that focuses on delivering working ML systems and not scientific papers?
Sorry to double post this but you can think of it as being similar to a human taking a cheap charcoal tablet with their food to reduce flatulance.

Only a small part of the animals feed needs to be seaweed and thankfully it is one of the easiest and fastest growing organisms on the planet. So it’s extremely cheap for the industry to adopt compared to losses related to carbon taxes and loss of market share.
It sounds a lot like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday basically use short positions to trade against the real value of the currency while selling at the "pegged" price pocket the difference. If a G7 currency can't guard against this type of attack then can a crypto service expect to compete?
It would be good to see some demos of what this can produce, this just looks like PPTX-light on the web, and the slide templates don't really show much.
What kind of "families"? Crime families? Sources please.
Look for krunkit for GPU/Cuda Accelerator. Should be much better support in podman 5.2 out next month, I believe.

You can use it now if you grab it from brew.
A popular UI design tool that UX/UI designers often use to mock up screens to hand to frontend developers who then implement it.
Announcement post: https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-slides/
I was going to say that this is nothing Hyperganic hasn't done....and then looked up Lin and Joesefine who were previously at....Hyperganic. I wonder what the story is over there. Open sourcing their geometry kernel is a very confident move.

Interested to see what happens between Lab71, Hyperganic and nTopology - traditional CAD/CAM packages are integrating topology optimisation / generative design but are simply not voxel-first. Perhaps there's a middle-ground to be found (though possibly requires more developed use cases first).
Are there distinct levels of language comprehension in autistic individuals
You missed the museums you're talking about. There are a ton of small museums in the Bay Area, from themade.org to the American Bookbinders Museum in SF. Non-profits are also expected to donate all their assets to other non-profits if they fold, here in CA. It's mandated in your articles of incorporation. Themade.org, which I can speak to, has always promised its stuff to Stanford or the CHM if it went under, though thankfully, we've survived COVID and are thriving.
Get neo4j out and count me in. No need for that Ressource hog.
This is great. I find I'm using Figma in place of other tools more and more. I could see using Figma instead of Word / Google docs pretty soon as well.
What a great idea, I'll do this! Thanks.
Even in large metro areas, there tend to be small specialty museums. The problem is that if you don't know they're there already, you're not likely to find them.
Dec PDP-10 owned by Microsoft co-founder coming to auction
I am under the impression the majority of 1%ers vote for the party we don’t envision them being part of.

Things have flipped over the last decade. The populist and 1%er parties have flipped.
I don't think anyone has a solid public answer about why they didn't reopen with other museums after 2020. It might be too costly, people leaving the organization, etc. to the point that the board didn't think it could reopen.
I understood that the labels were brand names, but I thought the article was saying that the ranchers deliberately used different brands of barb wire because it made it easy to distinguish their holdings. I don't know if they did.
I know very little about Figma, but if their presentation product can (one day) understand LaTeX math syntax and render it, then I’ll definitely learn it!!
NSA can't hire the right talent capable of producing that product for the same reason they have trouble finding white-hat security people to hire: You can't work for the government and do drugs in your personal time. Enough of the pie of elite researchers are in to wacky mind-bending that it's a real recruitment problem.
Ever found yourself scrambling to get tickets to a big game?

That's me, gearing up to cheer for Italy in Berlin this Saturday at Euro2024!

But, let's face it, who wants to overpay in the frenzy of last-minute ticket hunting?

So, I've channeled my inner tech wizard to cook up something nifty! Introducing... StubHubScraper!

It pulls ticket data directly from StubHub, tracking the flow of prices and ticket availability, all neatly organized into a PostgreSQL database.

With StubHubScraper, I keep a close eye on ticket prices, get alerts for price drops, and stay ahead of new listings.
Yes, if you're poor and don't have the credit to start your own business, just sell your spare kidney! You only need one, keeping both your kidneys is for people who like staying poor.
This is all the case in Denver as well.
> I'm sure those sparks have killed many people by now.

Probably not many. I have been shocked when I was twisting the distributor on my old '95 Tahoe to adjust timing after maintenance. It bit me good but I have felt and survived worse.
JIT languages tend to have the worst language-provided locality as they are often accompanied by GCs and lack of value types (there are exceptions to this, but it's broadly the case). And a JIT cannot re-arrange heap memory layout of objects as it must be hot-swappable. This is why despite incredibly huge investments in them such languages just never reach aot performance despite how much theoretical advantage a jit could have.

AOT'd languages could re-arrange a struct for better locality however the majority (if not all) languages rigidly require the fields are laid out in the order defined for various reasons.
Fusion is always 50 years away for a reason:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5gi9yh/fusion_i...

IIRC, the sum total of all fusion research throughout all of history is USD$100-200B. It's obvious governments/industry/humanity doesn't really want it, or they'd go fund it.
Hey, a couple questions:

1. Can listen.dev handle the monitoring of dynamically generated or short-lived GitHub Actions, which may only exist for the duration of a pull request?
2. How does listen.dev differentiate between normal and anomalous behavior without extensive prior data on a new user’s workflows?
This is not accurate, and it would not. As much as I would like it to be the case, you are not free to use public internet content for arbitrary purposes. In general (as you probably know), you rely on the idea that a court would consider your processing fair use.

It's not transformative, it uses the entire work, the work copied is not a summary of facts, and insofar as their is a market at all, it circumvents that market. It fails every test.

(training OTOH is inherently transformative, and I suspect likely to turn out to be a fair use)
Some of us do donate instead when the option is available.
Recent and related:

Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites (1 day ago; 331 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791829
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland has all-playable exhibitions of home computer and console games on original hardware. You can play something on the C64, Atari 800 or Sega Genesis, for example.
> nobody really knows what the role is about

I Googled this question out of curiosity, and found an informative explanation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/j1ofba/comment/g...
> temporary until a decent human being above you realizes that you should be rewarded

In my 25 year career, I have never, ever, ever seen this happen. Nobody is just going to wake up and decide that you should be making more money and reward you. You have to fight for it, schmooze for it, document all that good work you are doing, make a case, fight again for it, beg for it, plead for it, threaten to quit over it, and maybe, maybe the company will finally give in and reward you, after trying every possible way to avoid having to do it.
I would disagree. Figma Slides got maybe the most positive response at the keynote. Most designers I know already use Figma for slides, so to make a first party experience with speaker notes and good UX would be understandably very popular.
First ask yourself how much you need to make. Possibly take into account any government benefits you receive when you're low income (often free health insurance and food) and whether you can save a lot by living in a place with cheaper housing.

Then figure out which job would make you the happiest on a day to day basis.

Then write a plan that would allow you to make that income doing the job that you actually want to do.
I'm pretty sure that's the case because it won't detect things going slower than 5 mph.
We can phrase anything in a negative light. Food which fuels 100% of Denmark’s population causes only 33% of Denmark’s emissions. This is a wonderful achievement.
We already have a zero maintenance fusion power plant that will last billions of years and that outputs millions of times more energy per second than humanity uses in a year.

We already have technology that can take the electromagnetic waves this fusion power plant produces and directly convert it into electricity without needing pesky intermediaries like boiling water to turn a turbine.

This technology is relatively cheap to produce, extraordinarily safe, can last for decades with minor maintenance, can scale almost indefinitely, and there are many practical improvements we can make to it that are going to applied commercially in years and not decades.

I don't doubt that trying to achieve commercially viable fusion is a worthy engineering and science challenge and that we will learn and develop many useful technologies along the the way - but fusion is probably the hardest engineering challenge humanity has ever attempted and after many decades of R&D there is still no clear path to commercial viability.

Solar panels today work, and they work well, and we can practically throw endless amounts of money building them and it will work. Today. And we needed solutions that work today, not 50 years from now... maybe.
I'd bet money that I could figure out what this code is doing easier than the equivalent in Python, which is my daily driver. You just need to look up the symbols and piece it together. Yes, that takes an extra step, but so did learning any new language. Also, I can see all of this in one spot.
>code that is currently executing can be manipulated live like any other data structure and it works.

I heard from someone who did this with x86(-64?) assembly in production code, but I don't know the details.
One job requires much more specialized training than the other. My father in law was a revenue agent, and the size of the books he had to use to do his job was astounding.
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
Stop scripting this yall. The site is having enough trouble as is. I thought we were more mature than reddit.
I’d expect they’re using huge models to train many small ones, one for each threat actor. Those small models could decide whether their actor is detected, or it’s time to slot in a different one.
We've had to contact the IRS a number of times. It was always difficult to get through. However once we did get through, the representatives were polite, professional, and really seemed to care about achieving case resolution.
Sorry, I had the decimal place off by one in my head. It's about 3% of the price. I don't think the margin matters though? It's just going to be a flat markup from the husbander to the packer.

Also I have no idea how much being in the EU (and so having a packer ban) but outside the eurozone would impact this (presumably it's levied in kroners?)
I suppose every search was passing all indexed documents into GPT asking for a rating
I have not raised VC yet in my life but if I worked on a business for 3.5 years, burnt over $3,000,000 and have almost 0 revenue with multiple pivots, I would fold it, return the remaining cash back to investors, thank them for the support and take a couple of months off to clear my brain.

The problem is you still have no traction or considerable revenue to show after 3.5 years. That right there to me says that it's time to end this misery.

Hope it helps.