skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't: if there's that much demand for the company's products, someone else can start a competing company making the same products, presumably for less because with a monopoly supplier, prices will usually be very high. Of course, this doesn't work for cases where supply is artificially constrained (like products with IP protection), or if the communist government doesn't allow competing companies to start.
525 and 0.525 both have 3 significant figures, as would 0.000525. Leading zeros are not significant [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures
Home build by an engineer | farmer - most houses hereabouts are single level, this one is cut into a sloping block and the design is as much about wheeling a fridge anyway as it is wheelchairs - the outside steel shed is fully drive through on the level .. and then there's a drop to a lesser driveway so that stuff can be rolled directly onto a trayback (loading bay).

It's well thought out and practical, the own builder did the shed first and lived on site for two years with earth moving gear (owner | contractor) digging out big rocks, placing them, recessing walls into hillside, building out steel frame, etc.
Also the crowd is brutally cynical, which tends to discourage a lot of it.
Thanks! It's definitely a passion project, but if I can provide an open source alternative to players like Ticketek, that would be a nice win.
AI has a "bathtub curve" of value. At the low level, it's a super-autocomplete, able to write 1-3 lines of code that works good enough. At the high level, it's great for explaining high-level concepts that are relevant to a task at hand.

In the middle... AI doesn't work very well.

If an AI writes a multi-step plan, where the pieces have to fit together, I've found it goes off the rails. Parts 1 and 3 of a 4-part plan are fine. So is part 2. However they don't fit together! AI has no concept of "these four parts have to be closely connected, building a whole". It just builds from A to B in four steps... but taking two different paths and stitching the pieces together poorly.
Really interesting article.

Unfortunately, Notion is still painfully slow.
It's not about a death wish at all, but about being aware of the inherent risks, which most people are not. For instance internal estimates of the Moon landings were extremely stark. The prevailing mindset at NASA was around 50/50 - James Webb himself was quoted saying as much. Neil Armstrong was optimistic and thought they had about a 90% chance of survival, Aldrin felt they had about a 66% chance. This is why eulogies for these astronauts were written before they even set foot on the launch pad.

The fact that we nailed each Moon landing was thanks largely to good fortune. There's just so many unknown unknowns that you simply cannot get risk down to levels where failure is not a very real possibility. And in fact even the original Moon landing very nearly ended in catastrophe and only succeeded due to some superhuman piloting and good luck on top. The autopilot was going to set them down in a boulder strewn area so Armstrong took manual control and ended up landing with less than a minute of fuel remaining. And even when landing, he failed to carry out a process (immediate shut down) that was thought necessary to avoid a catastrophic failure by NASA. But with ever-recurring good fortune, they were wrong.

I would highly recommend "Failure Is Not An Option" [1] by chief flight director Gene Krantz. What I am talking about is an acceptance that substantial risk is simply going to be involved in space flight for the foreseeable future, and very possibly forever. And now space flight to distances further than ever, with the goal of starting an entirely new civilization, for the first time ever? I think it's extremely important to accept and acknowledge that this will involve plenty of death, so as to ensure that those who do sign up are fully aware of the risks. Armstrong was probably lying to himself there thinking they had a 90% chance of survival, and that's not good for anybody.

[1] - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Failure-Is-Not-an-Opt...
I can think of two, or at least, one dish and one snack:

dish: makki ki roti (roti made from corn flour) with sarson kaa saag (mustard greens, cooked). this is a very common, even iconic, Punjabi dish. I've only tried it once myself. didn't like the corn roti much. the mustard greens were fine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makki_ki_roti

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarson_ka_saag

snack: whole corn roasted on a fire, i.e. corn on the cob. bhutta in hindi. ubiquitous in india.
> To me the culture series fails, as it has no interesting ideas.

Just one of the subplots of Surface Detail involves a war conducted in virtual reality to decide the continued existence of virtual "hells" which advanced-but-repressive societies use to keep their citizens in line.

> There is no interesting conflict that can even exist in the setting, the only thing that the author could come up with were religious fanatics

How many of the books did you read before reaching this conclusion?
I agree with this thinking. Funny the city is using short term housing as long term shelters, but then bans using long term housing for short term rental because that distorts the market so! Hypocritical, yes, but the winner of the hypocritical scenario is the local citizen, and the loser, the tourist, which is typical of NYC and many other cities.
MicroPython Smartwatch
Just wait for stories about waking up one morning to see the camera extended and looking at your bed.
There was a java tool that could improve audio but it was designed for archival of tape, film audio, and old records and the like. I lost the computer i ran it on, i even paid for it but i can't find the receipt to redownload (or even rebuy it). It worked very well - about as well as i can do manually, and perhaps a few percent better - i don't remember many shimmering artifacts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xazubVJ0jz4&t=85s [0]

I'd be pleasantly surprised if nvidia can "fix" audio, as i have.. oh, a few thousand hours of audio that i could clean up in an automated way.

[0] hilariously, youtube gave me a copyright strike for this video, even though it's obviously an archival upload. Jerks.
Many times, they were technical people/engineers who weren't that great at the technical stuff, but were really good at networking and self-promotion, and talked their way up in the organization.
Any good recommendations for Seattle area? Doesn’t have to be Seattle proper.

I miss SLUG at North Seattle CC :(
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Not exactly a notebook but Quokka gives you that REPL playground experience.
I tried a similar approach in a previous startup - treat data as documents and store in a JSONB field.

Postgres was awesome and handled this brilliantly, but the lack of schema and typing killed it. We just ended up fighting data quality the whole time. We couldn't assume that any document had all the required fields, or that they were in a format that made sense e.g. the Price column sometimes had currency symbols, and sometimes commas-and-periods in UK/US format and sometimes in Euro format - sorting by Price involved some complicated parsing of all the records first.

We moved back to relational tables.

I won't say I'd never do this again, but I would definitely not just throw JSON documents to a database and expect good things to happen.
It's plenty, because 30yrs is usually the rule of thumb for enough, and extreme events are more likely to be recorded even in the absence of/before there were regular record intervals.

There are well established probability distributions for these things, so you're really just solving for which published curve and maybe a magnitude multiplier and seeing where your data fits.

Also there's uncertainty baked-in and accounted for at every step of the engineering design process.

Eg. Geotechnical engineers love to calculate 6 digits to 4 decimals then throw in a 400% factor of safety.
"I might be able to redirect traffic for a particular local network host name (e.g. "router", "fileserver", "raspberrypi", "linksys", etc.) to an external IP address of my choosing"

Interesting idea. Can you give an example of how that would actually happen? Also the cmd.exe one. So what if it's a valid hostname?
I don't think there was. As a matter of fact, there was actually the following easter egg in earlier versions of Python:

>>> from __future__ import braces
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
What are the potential applications here
I wouldn't want to do that, GPU compilers are not open source and the hardware is undocumented. As a scientist I feel they are extremely badly designed.

My transistor and atomic simulation software is extremely parallel but not in the limited SIMD way that GPU's are.
Cinnamon sugar was a bigger deal than anyone gives a credit for now.
Here's one version of that backstory:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/fr...
Please use kdeconnect and nothing else. It works ootb and offline and cross platform.

It stays in the background and is fully transparent to your workflow.
Can you describe the problem in more detail? Maybe you're seeing a bug I can't reproduce here?
Thank you very much for your perspective. The recovery sounds very similar to that of a cerebral angiogram, of which I've had three.

I had a similar calculus when considering having my AVF corrected...like, deal with it now while I'm relatively young and can still heal fairly well, or deal with it later after the risk of complications has slowly and steadily increased with age. It's just a matter of getting over the anxiety hump I guess...
Why is that so much more different from requiring '\n' instead of ';'?
> I also like his positions on open source

Tesla's approach to open source has been poor. Tesla has frequently violated the terms of the GPL:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-...

https://www.theregister.com/2018/05/21/tesla_inches_toward_g...

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla...

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/21/tesla-no-source-c...
I think I need to download more memory to handle the whole internet
What confuses me is languages that can split statements over multiple lines as long as certain conditions are met (such as the break occours inside braces). I rather have a semicolon at the end of the statement to make it more explicit.
This isn't an adequat comparison in my eyes. Your example moves a very critical component out if the "protocol logic": message parsing.

Dealing with invalid messages is crucial in network protocols, meaning the API should be `&[u8]` instead of parsed messages.

In addition, you want to be able to parse messages without copying, which will introduce lifetimes into this that will make it difficult to use an exexutor like tokio to run this future. You can use a structured-concurrency approach instead. I linked to an article from withoutboats about this at the end.

Lastly, and this is where using async falls apart: If you try to model these state machines with async, you can't use `&mut` to update shared state between them AND run multiple of these concurrently.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'd love to use the Rust compiler to generate these state machines but it simply can't do what I want (yet). I wrote some pseudo-code somewhere else in this thread of how this could be done using co-routines. That gets us closer to this but I've not seen any movement on the front of stabilising coroutines.
My wife and I stayed in a hotel once which we later discovered was infested with bed bugs. We were thankfully able to prevent spreading them to our home by running everything through a very hot dryer multiple times and thorough inspection of our luggage.

I love cilantro but that room absolutely smelled like it.

It also smelled like my best friend growing up's house, which I commented on when we first entered the room after checking in. I had always assumed the smell was from their foreign cuisine, but I have been curious since this experience if they perhaps had a bedbug problem.
Might want a strobe warning. At least for Firefox and Chromium in Linux on a desktop it strobes heavily in the starting state.
IMO, it’s due to burnout due to pathological manipulation. Which is also playing out in politics and the media/advertising, and the macroeconomic fed rate situation. They’re all related.

Business cycle wise:

- it starts out mellow, with lots of positive ROI and few downsides. Few know about it at first.

- as awareness grows, so does competition. While there is a ton of room to grow, this isn’t a problem. Growth doesn’t have to be at the cost of a competitors market share, there are tons of available untapped opportunities.

- eventually, it starts to become crowded. Now competition starts to become more heated and cut throat. Old tricks to stay competitive stop working, and there is an arms race to develop new ones.

- at some point, some/many players don’t feel they can compete based on fundamentals (positively), and it starts to become a race to the bottom. With some/many players starting to scam or commit fraud, be scary/manipulative, squeeze suppliers to a destructive degree, etc. Zero sum game instead of green field.

- this causes demand side restrictions and additional costs as customers start to get scared/overwhelmed, and cut back or get more demanding on quality.

- this causes a downward spiral that worsens the situation industry wide, eventually bankrupting marginal suppliers and maybe even big ones, until things stabilize or change.

On the social side, a lot of people population wide are flat out not doing it anymore. Including women. Similar to dating apps.

Which is why some advertisers, politicians, businesses keep getting even more insane and craven trying to extract even more value from the remaining people - to keep the numbers going up and right. So they don’t have to ‘look down’ and be potentially bankrupt. The loudest players in this type of environment are almost always the ones in the worst position.

This is also playing out in American Politics and Media right now.

It isn’t just engineer or blue collar types, who IMO were already predisposed to not engaging with it.

Pluses: in 20-30 years, there will be a lot of older folks who are very hard to fool or manipulate.

Minuses:

- there are going to be a lot more deeply traumatized people with a profoundly negative outlook on human nature, now and even more in the future.

- society is going to get a whole lot poorer while this plays out.
Honestly, I have a hard time seeing any of those specific three as a paragon of self-management. More, I feel they are prime examples that self-management is not a necessity and may actually hinder success. I mean, it's hard to say this without being both blunt and sounding reductive (though using them as the opening line and clear examples for such an article does the same, so here goes), but one was a major gambling addict with severe financial issues to the end, the others ambitions led him into exile to say the least and the last had less focus than a moth during 4th of July fireworks.
Only if your distro uses network manager

This wraps iwd tools I think. Even though, to be fair to the spirit of your comment, I don't see anything in the readme offering significant more functionality than iwctl
If your hash map uses open addressing, instead of a sparse array of pair<key, value>, you can have a vector<pair<key,value>> and a sparse array holding offsets into the vector. Depending on the sizes of keys, values, and offsets, as well as the average loading factor, this might or might not save space.

If your hash map uses chaining, then you weave an extra doubly linked list through your entries (see OpenJDK's OrderedHashMap, for a pretty readable open source example).
As was I. The analog was more about the overall shifting in risk profile where something that is, in objective terms, more difficult than something else can, over time, become relatively easier than the easier thing was in the past.
Wow the Atchfalaya article is incredible. I’m sure much has changed in the 40 years since, but the amount of work done by man (even before the army corp) to tweak the river for various economic reasons, only to intensify the ecological issues is illuminating.
Staggering how close we're getting to this future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwBm8fyLAsQ
The "wide" bus you are speaking of is so far 128Bits for both M4 8GB and 16GB configurations, same stuff you get on ordinary PC laptops.
No shared etymology, "ente" means "mine" in Malayalam. Felt like a nice name to build a privacy company around. Also the domain was available :)

If you're interested, here's more of the backstory: https://ente.io/blog/ducky/
Famous guy has opinions about another famous guy; doesn't concern me.
the view I now have is that for a relational table, yes you have to suffer through migrations but at least they are in sql. for document based stores, you still have to have migrations, but they are just implemented in code

json documents sound great, especially initially, but end up being a maintenance nightmare
This doesn't make any sense. Higher dimension means less dense. Far less dense, actually.
"different concepts have inherent geometrical forms"

Absolutely, in fact you can build the foundation of mathematics on this concept. You can build proofs and reasoning (for some value of "reasoning").

That's how dependent type systems work, search for HoTT and modal homotophy theory. That's how lean4, coq, and theorem proofs work.

If you remember at the foundation of lambda calculus or boolean algebra, they proceed through a series of transformation of mathematical objects that are organized lattices or semi-lattices, partially ordered sets (e.g. in boolean algebra, where the partial order is provided by the implication).

It would be interesting to understand if the density of attention mechanisms follow a similar progression as dependent type systems, and we can find a link between the dependent types involved in a proof and the corresponding spaces in a LLM via some continuous relaxation analogous to a proximal operator + some transformation (from high-level concepts into output tokens).

We have found in embeddings that geometry has a meaning. Specific simple concepts correspond to vector directions. I wouldn't be surprised at all that we find that reasoning on dependent concepts correspond to complex subspaces in the paths that a LLM takes, and that with enough training this connections becomes closer and closer to the logical structure of corresponding proofs (for self-consistent corpus of input and, like math proofs, and given enough training data).
It is archived here: https://archive.org/details/MLS_Full_Cell_Export_Final
France provide such public meeting space for non profit.
It’s convenient.

It does happen in the US as well. On a city per city basis.
This isn't the case everywhere though. Eg you can't in Germany. You need permission from the person that you're taking a picture of.

Or at least websites like this make that claim: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/photography-laws-germany#t...
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How I added an effects return jack to my Tascam Model 12
'It's like I drew a door and disappeared through it' (2021)
We use both, publicsuffix.org and data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

https://github.com/Respect/Validation/blob/main/bin/update-d...
https://github.com/Respect/Validation/blob/main/bin/update-d...
Thank you for posting this! It confirms my suspicion that Unit is probably not reinventing the meaning of computation to match the new visual medium? But still quite interesting how it is laid out.
Is this 1337 speak for the modern world?
At Intel, nobody pays the grad student proportionally for their massive contribution to the bottom line.
> the declining sexiness of Ruby

What is replacing it?
I think the worst part of "meetup culture" is that there's almost always a commercial angle that takes preference over the community angle. No shade to OP, but even though this is what pissed them off about their JS meetup, they're still doing it by having their speakers essentially pitch joining their engineering team.

The other side of the coin is that default advice on the internet for getting a job as a developer used to include "go to local developer meetups", and as a founder/business, it's an obvious idea to see developer meetups as a potential marketing/recruiting channel. So a lot of attendees do actually want jobs, and a lot of speakers want to give people jobs. But will people stick around once they get that job? And is job-oriented content really what you want out of a meetup as a consistent attendee?

I wonder if some combination of reading groups, a process to get regular attendees to present, and hackathons might create a more sustainable programming meetup culture. It can still be corporate funded (eg have it in their building or shout them out or cobrand or whatever) but the content could be a lot more interesting. It might not work for Javascript, but systems programming actually intersects with a lot of published research and has more of a hacker culture, so I think you could pull it off. Incidentally, I just acquired some office space in SF and might be interested in hosting one if I had enough interest and volunteers.
I have been to meetups at bars/restaurants and it was impossible for me to follow conversations due to moderate hearing loss. Please take this into account when selecting a meetup location.
Creating a new language is almost as insane as building a browser engine. I do not expect this to become a viable browser regardless, but I guarantee it'll fail if they use their own new language for it.
Rather than being peculiarly modern, I think probably most cultures have always been much less stable and more changing than we tend to assume, even before modernity.
I think the article doesn’t do a good job of explaining why coriander wasn’t revived with Italian unification when other “ancient” things were.
Yep bhutta is everywhere but I was referring to corn in dishes. I had no idea makke di roti was corn.
Thanks, it is giovanni dot los___ at gmail.com (it should be in your inbox)

Also, Ambiq Micro has a 2MB MRAM (+2.75MB SRAM) processor https://www.top-electronics.com/en/apollo4-blue-plus-192-mhz... that can run on solar power (it uses ~5uA/MHz, Cortex M4) and Andreas Eriksen got LISP text editor to run on 384K RAM with the Apollo3 https://hackaday.io/project/184340-potatop and 4'4" Memory In Pixel Display.

I read that lithium-ion capacitors have much faster charging than regular li-on. https://www.tindie.com/products/jaspersikken/solar-harvestin... (and longer lifespan)
How did you figure Ladybird is receiving millions?
Every macOS release breaks a few things, but to be honest it's not much of an issue.

Here are some recent things that required code changes from developers:

- disabling user interaction when trying to request items from the keychain

- views no longer clipping to bounds by default

- installing login items and background services

The latter two were understandable, because they were caused by new features, but some are just caused by a lack of testing.

It's not a big deal, and I'm sure Electron apps have similar issues, but app developers do have to put in some work to make sure their apps keep working properly on macOS.
Paramount Global agrees to merge with Skydance Media
I laughed when I saw that phrase also. And, to answer your question, it's dead simple: 1.21 Gigawatts
There are tabs people and there are infidels
> there's no reason to think that that stack of unfathomably complex and highly chaotic interactions is anything but chemical/electrical/thermal interactions.

Did the psychedelics not teach you that knowledge of all like this may not be genuine? And never even mind that, is there good reason to trust what consciousness tells us in the first place? Sure, people have matching stories so that's a good sign, except the stories don't match over time.
There are kids out there with tab width 16 you should be grateful