skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much dispute the claim that devs are not allowed to think big. It’s just that they take the easy way out. After all, others are taking care of the visual design, requirements engineering, reporting, controlling and whatnot, right?

It’s fine, really. But then please don’t try to overstep the role you assumed.

In my opinion, it is critical you do both: Know the big picture, the vision, build a technological vision based on that. And then you must work on this, in bite-sized pieces. From my experience, in all but the smallest projects, not working iteratively (“experiment”, as you call it) is pretty much a guarantee to build the wrong thing from a user/customer requirement standpoint. Not having the technological vision is also guaranteed to result in a steaming pile of tech debt.

I don’t see a problem with providing reasonably accurate long-time estimates either. Build your technological vision and you’ll know. Everybody knows and will understand that substantial requirement changes or newly discovered requirements will change the timeline.
> the only person i know who injected it regretted it

Knowing of strychnine only as rat poison until today (I didn’t know about the uses in the Wikipedia page) may I ask — what happened to this person?
Ah that’s unfortunate, I liked the idea of Platformio.
Slot machines/whales seem to be the endgame for video "gaming" on phones as well.
No, jesus was born in 1AD
No. And it doesn't show in any HTML reference I have going back forever.
Its OK to disagree.

I am quite comfortable with C and C++ and still find it hard to hold all of Perl and its operators and naming rules in my head, to keep $s, @, % and .(dot) and quotes etc straight. Granted it makes types more obvious than say Python.

AWK is smaller. There are fewer things to remember.

Perhaps a good comparison would be the size of a Perl pocket guide and a AWK pocket guide. Perl and Python are much bigger subsets of AWK.
Soylent started in 2013. He's probably still on it.
> Their problem is all the rare earths

The fraction of mass in a HTS magnet that is rare earth is surprisingly small. Most of the mass is mechanical support, or substrate on which the thin HTS film is deposited. The entire ARC reactor might contain 10 kilograms of REBCO (2015 paper), out of a reactor mass of over 7 gigagrams.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540
For archiving a very old floppy, you don't want to touch the surface if you can help it to avoid causing any additional wear.
> . Keep bringing solar and wind online

What happens if you get an extended period of low winds? Cloudy weather? You need a LOT of extra capacity and storage.
> Skim the video.

So not all 4 hours are worth watching? :)
It’s kinda strange to see so many people taking Epic’s account here at face value given they’ve been fined multiple times in multiple countries over their existing store (Fortnite). For example:

> The FTC says Fortnite's "counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button."

> Because of those design tricks, the regulator says it found instances where players were charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item.

> "These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers," the FTC said.

> Some parents complained that their children had racked up hundreds of dollars in charges before they realized Epic had charged their credit card without their consent. Accounts who disputed unauthorized transactions on their credit cards often had their entire accounts locked, giving customers no access to content that they had willingly paid for.

(https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/fornite-ftc-fines-1.6690777)

They’ve been fined by multiple governments over button design. Maybe they’re not the most reliable narrator here?
Fonts are defined as filled curves, not stroked curves, so this approach is not directly applicable to most text.
You have to be building a lot of big flat things to justify the floor space a drum sander takes up. If you already have one, sure, use it, but floor space is by far the most expensive thing in most shops.

The power and dust collection requirements tend to be getting towards the bigger side of things for a drum sander as well. Most truly useful sizes are at least 240V if not three-phase.
Yes, modulo some text that's inappropriate to post externally. (Often, because they reference internal libraries in google3 -- this includes things like the ban on <thread> and <future>).
Wow this is much needed. Thanks!
I keep hearing rumors that a no GIL version is coming, I think this is probably the biggest change so far, as it would make the language much more performance oriented. I'm considering a tech stack and thinking about both python and Mojo for ML, not sure that Mojo is stable yet, but the performance differences are HUGE.
Depends, does this look like your design?

https://web.archive.org/web/19961121230158/http://www.stompe...
That sounds like most juniors are pimping out their CVs with ChatGPT.
As with many other packages, on NixOS you have to enable the relevant option: https://search.nixos.org/options?show=programs.ladybird.enab...

If that doesn't work, please open an issue in the nixpkgs bug tracker.
> Acid rain was not that bad... was it?

On a huge scale it would be.

A huge (and often overlooked) effect of higher CO2 is ocean acidification and this will come on top of that.
The backdoored version of xz was also signed.
That's cool as a learning experience, but if you're gonna build a language transformer, why not instead of ClosedAI's outdated nonsense learn something with a more established open architecture like llama, so whatever you end up training ends up plug and play compatible with every LLM tool in the universe when converted to a GGUF?

Otherwise it's like learning to build a website and stopping short of actually doing the final bit where you put it on a webserver and run it live.
Nope, it's exactly as written. I use a cargo runner, configured here:

https://github.com/bschwind/key-ripper/blob/main/firmware/.c...
This is an MT/ST Model IV. It's been on eBay for a long time, but the guy doesn't seem eager to sell it. The videos are cool though, because they show the details of the machine, including it's relays bank. The typewriter is missing at least it top cover. It would be great to work on this system, but somehow it should be acquired first ($1,000 < price <= $30,000).
>folks predicting we're just around the corner have been recognized once again as shysters, hucksters, and charlatans

is a bit vague as to how long round the corner is and which folk you are thinking of but there have been very non charlatan predictions that you'd be getting something like HAL around now based on the Moore's law like improvements in hardware performance which have kept going for a century and are currently accelerating due to the vast amounts of cash being thrown in.

Probably the best of them in terms of reasoned thinking and being ahead of the curve is Hans Moravec, a robotics guy at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon who argued computers would be reaching this point around now in his 1988 book - graph here https://imgur.com/a/moravec-graph-V3S2XoK and there's more detail in his 1998 paper https://jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.pdf

The reasoning is very down to earth based on his research attempts at robot vision and comparing the hardware needed to that of the retina - not much hucksterism.

In the graph in the paper on page 5 or so he has computer power roughly going from the equivalent of a lizard to a monkey to a human over about two decades so going by that and assuming they are around human level now they should be about monkey to human level better than us in a decade or so. Not sure if that counts as superintelligence around the corner? This is all independent of which particular algorithms are used.
You have a point, but surely there would be no cost difference in using a newer processor that would be easier to issue firmware updates for in the future, and would be more energy efficient.
I understand and it happens to many people including myself. Maybe set yourself to do a nice easy meal once a week just for the pleasure and see how it builds up from that.
> What are the biggest errors in that post?

1. “Governments of all countries 'print' new money at a steady rate”

Most money is privately created [1]. While America creates money somewhat steadily [2], many currencies are more volatile [3] and show distinct regimes [4]. And while that error can be covered by expanding the definition of steadiness, steadiness between countries’ monetary policies simply doesn’t exist. America is tightening while China is loosening, for example. (This is basic balance of payments. The claim about FX rates being constant is trivially false.)

2. “some of those bonds are bought up by the markets but most bonds are bought up by reserve banks”

Depository institutions hold few Treasuries, relatively speaking [5]. The Fed owns close to half of outstanding Treasuries, but it’s currently a net seller [6].

3. “Countries don't strictly need to tax citizens since they can just print money”

I’ll throw in a misleading statement versus outright error.

Sure, a country could MMT. But that means you can destroy money only through recession, default and selling government bonds. Since the comment rails against debt, that leaves an economic policy that requires—when inflation arises—intentionally forcing recession (likely via spending cuts) à la Volcker.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL#0

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM2ARM189N#0

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM2EZM196N#0

[5] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_...

[6] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST
I'm agreeing with you but going even further. X-nee-twitter is not only primarily a social media site, that AI is not part of it. Musk touching something doesn't make it a part of that X, and if he names a dozen irrelevant startups 'X' that's not enough to change anything.
I didn't go far enough. Wages don't go right to the poverty line, they go right past it.

Because there are not only always people willing to work for net-nothing, there are actually enough people willing to work for net negative, because they manage to survive in various ways ranging from charity to theft. Mooching off someone else to live without rent or having to buy food, under the table jobs, minor crime, obviously health insurance is completely out of the question. As long as those exist, the market says that this work is worth this cost. The market doesn't know or care how that happens.

Unfair is a funny word to try to apply to the power-wielding benefit-collecting side of this dynamic.
>> You cannot put up a camera outside your house to watch for Amazon packages.

>Yeah, no. Amazon wouldn't drop your package in a public area. That only happens in North America

In London, Amazon drivers will happily dump your parcels on your door step on full view of the road. Some slightly more considerate drivers will attempt to hide them behind a bin or flower pot. Some will put them in the garbage bin, sometimes on collection day.
Wanted to check it out and was surprised that it requires an account.
One of my vague project plans is to convert a world globe so when you touch a location it plays the radio from there.

Like this site but in real life.
Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step
You might almost think that the extremely high price of Bitcoin is more a failure of price discovery than an actual reflection of the currency’s long term value, in the event that people actually need to use it.
Which is no different to a whole host of bad human driving as well. Mistakes are inevitable in something like driving, they happen to even the best human drivers. All that matters is that over time the self driving mistakes decrease to the point they are far below the human average.

I don't see the point of picking one example of a mistake and pretending it's indicative of a failing endeavour when literally no other company is even close to what Waymo is doing right now.
Candle-Powered LED Lantern: An Exercise in Conversion Efficiency [video]
Thank you but people here still might not get it :)
> I appreciate the point of the article as written, which I think is to encourage engineers to push harder against the grain when their plans for the product really are the right idea,

My interpretation of the article is different.

I think the author is merely drawing attention to a force that pushes businesses in a particular direction, without proposing any specific solution.

The article doesn't say he had an alternative design or vision he wishes he had pushed harder, or anything like that. In fact he's full of praise for Manifest V3, which he considers the most elegant technical solution to a real problem, which he considered an indefensible security and privacy risk.
IANAL but some clarifications people might find helpful.

An "interlocutory appael" is when the proceedings are stayed until the appeals court rules on a particular matter. During trial a judge needs to give leave to an interlocutory appeal, generally speaking.

It's always worth adding that appeals courts generally deal in matters of law not findings of fact. Trial judges make rulings on the law in the service of finding facts. A consequence of this is that verdicts aren't appealed, which a lot of people seem to think. You can't just appeal a guilty verdict because you don't like it. You need to find a basis, being where (in your opinion) the judge misapplied the law that had a material impact on the case.

Lastly, related securities are a common theme in investing and trading. For example, someone might buy Exxon and short Chevron. Why? Both companies move to some degree in relation to the price of oil. So you've effectively removed that variable. Now you're betting that Exxon will outperform other oil producers (Chevron in particular).

So this does seem to be anovel interpretation. I agree with the decision but it wouldn't surprise me if appellate courts end up gutting this interpretation.
> where there's enough training data

The newer models are 10x faster and cheaper, therefore synthetic data is 10x cheaper to make now.

If the ARC challenge makes an impact, there's a good chance the next generation AI will need a lot less data.
How did the west stop the invasion of Kuwait?

And how did Ukraine supposedly decided to join EU and NATO?

Saddam did get tried and executed. But comparing the scale and lasting impact of a war began by lies of Bush and Blair, it seems like a drop in the ocean.

I like that you have mentioned the Genocide in Europe, might as well say just Genocide, because if it happened elsewhere, and is happening in Palestine, the west would give a damn about it. Of course thoughts and prayers would come from there.

Putin is not Benign, and as malicious as he could be in intent, the west outperforms him because they can do so.
Atleast he was not awarded a Nobel for Peace, like Obama and Kissinger, for their peace activities in Syria, Libya and east asia.
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I think you misunderstand me. I mean ONLY the specific idiom “the 20th century” because we’ve just spent more than a century using that and it is unambiguous, it’s clear.

Use “the 1700s” and the like for all other cases.
Has anyone who's bought short-term out-of-the-money options and made money ever NOT gone to prison? That is my main takeaway from all this.
All you really need is a Censys account https://support.censys.io/hc/en-us
We should also stop talking about decades for the purposes of periodization. For example, the “‘80s” arguably ran from the election of Reagan in 1980 to the appointment of Bush W. by the supreme court in 2000. Politically, economically, and culturally, the “90’s” were an elaboration on the “80’s” (e.g. the deregulation and market reforms of Clintonism just being a whitewashed expansion of what Reagan did).
Using HDMI EMI for fast wireless data transfer (2023)
The article notes the functionality has existed for a while and that this announcement is an improvement of it.
Try the free VPN built into Opera Browser.
typography is important and your logo isn't nailed it. Please, give it to designer to redo it
After factoring in the entire supply-chain (mining, manufacturing, maintenance, yield, reliability, waste management), renewables barely make a dent.

Drastic reductions need drastic measures. It is time we reconcile with the fact that modern living does not compute with our objectives of carbon emission.
This is late, but I just saw this.

Wow that’s a pretty wild idea. Quite interesting.

I’m not sure what to consider “natural”. I know category theory (I’m a physicist by training, not CS, so I’m not talking Haskell or whatnot) tells us that these 2D drawings of computation graphs have a well-defined meaning (eg you can deform the lines continuously and it doesn’t change the result, etc). In particular, we have these monoidal categories where we can e.g. draw two lines in parallel to represent two pieces of data flowing.

The thing is the “monoid” can either by the product (two values in a struct, say) or a sum (two possible values in a variant) and you get the same “rules” for how to draw it. Back when I was drawing tensor network diagrams it would really tricky to include both monoids on the one diagram. You could kinda do it in 3D but that’s not natural or easy. What people do in practice (in flowcharts, etc) is we tend to have these AND and OR junctions (and their inverses) where a human can kinda infer what’s going on (e.g. does this split and join refer to two parallel computations or branching logic?).

I think both monoids are critical to expressing computation and I still don’t know what the “natural” yet “rigorous” way to draw these things is.
> Except this is a 2 page article

Except this article is paywalled which hides the article length. I also suspect a lot of people are jaded from years of blogspam now weaponized with AI. I can half understand the rant.
Perl is still a better system administration language than Python. Many Unix wrappers in Python like shutil and subprocess are just not very good.

Python removes you from the system. Perl, like shell, keeps you in close contact with the system.

If a Linux/BSD distribution uses Perl in the base system, it is a plus for me. Unfortunately, most Linux distributions dropped Perl when they became bloated.
> Sceptical and disbelieving, Dienach looked out of the window to see a surreal landscape with skyscrapers towering into the clouds and futuristic vehicles zooming around and defying gravity," the podcast explained.

> According to his claims, the billion survivors will live in a world of peace and prosperity, resembling "carefree children, unburdened by worries or fears."

That doesn’t add up for me. If there are only a billion survivors, why would they have skyscrapers towering into the clouds?

Looking at https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat..., the world’s population reached a billion in 1804. The first skyscrapers appeared around 1880 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_skyscrapers), and those weren’t towering into the clouds.
I'm assuming all the redditeurs who bought GameStop shares a few years ago didn't go to jail.
Spain's new 'porn passport' is coming this summer
Lego Enables Garish Objects ?
Aya: A minimalist version control system with fewer than 6 commands
You don't think the local water co-op would raise water rates 10% to give themselves 10% raises? Unless literally every user is an owner, there will always be the incentive to extract as much from the general public as possible to distribute to the owners. Same with unions, they exist to benefit their members, not the general public.
The car almost certainly made a reasonable decision based on the information available. They have all the technology and logic required to make decisions based on ambiguous and vague signage, and if they hadn't done this, we'd be reading articles about how Waymos would stop in situations where humans would figure out what to do.

There is a lot of press trying to "gotcha" Waymo but from what I can tell, their systems are actually quite good.
Radio Free XP is pretty Pivotal Labs focused, but I think it's really cool.
the hot dog bun is a perfect carb vessel for “salad”-like fillings. unlike traditional bread slices, the hot dog bun has fewer open sides, and acts more like a cup to hold the contents. though it may look a bit odd, it truly is peak salad sandwich performance.
There's two things there, and I don't get either of them.

First, if you want to sidestep if Jesus is omnipotent, then it's no longer saying anything about omnipotence.

Second, you also have to make the devil omnipotent.

Actually, the second point has a sub-point, because if it's two different entities then you get "an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" which is more easily resolved by "the force just passes right through the object without influencing it" — for the self-contradiction I gave to even be present, you would need to regard the devil as being another aspect of Yahweh in the same regard that Jesus is an incarnation of Yahweh within Christianity (not to be confused with how Jesus is seen in Islam, which totally rejects this as polytheistic idolatry).
Should we say AST steps?!
On the one hand I feel you here. I am rarely that proud of stuff I do. On the other hand you accomplished something that just works, so it’s obviously good enough. It will benefit others if you share the sources. No matter what the code looks like.
This. Highly recommend using a numeric primary key + UUID. Using UUID relations internally can have some strategic advantages, but when UUIDv4 is used as the only primary key, you completely lose the ability to reliably iterate all records across multiple independent queries.

Also, the external thing isn't just for exposing it out to your own apps via APIs, but way more importantly for providing an unmistakable ID to store within external related systems. For example, in your Stripe metadata.

Doing this ensures that ID either exists in your own database or does not, regardless of database rollbacks, database inconsistencies etc. In those situations a numeric ID is a big question mark: Does this record correspond with the external system or was there a reuse of that ID?

I've been burnt taking over poorly managed systems that saved numeric IDs externally, and in trying to heal and migrate that data, ran into tons of problems because of ill-considered rollbacks of the database. At least after I leave the systems I build won't be subtly broken by such bad practices in the future.
> Money is created all the time and also lost.

> why should it be zero sum?

Money is created as debt by (central) banks and vanishes as it is paid back.
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Reviewing Terrence Howard's 1×1=2 claim
> If you all pardon an off topic digression...

IMHO, Euclid's definition of a straight line in today's terms would be "a line that has the same direction on its entire length". His definition of a plane angle would be "a plane angle is the difference between the directions of two straight lines that have a common end in one point".

What are Playfair's and Hilbert's definitions?