skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as it also notes, it works offline if you remember to open the ticket before you get there, and they don't (or at least didn't used to) give you sufficient warning. I found out that's how it works the hard way when it was new by having to walk a half mile back from the venue to get service to load the tickets.

There's also the chance the ticketmaster app won't work properly later even if you did do it. I've had other apps shit the bed for no apparent reason in offline mode before. I add them to my wallet now just in case.
I couldn't agree more, even on the political point.

This does not seem like a healthy economy or job market from my perspective.

Nothing compared to pre-covid, or even the early days of covid.
They fire up gasoline generators when the load is high as a back-up to natural gas generation.

There have been periods of rolling brown outs due to high industrial demand where I live. I know people in the industry and also watch the local news where they report that the gasoline backups have been activated and the brown outs should stop. Can confirm, they sometimes burn gasoline for power generation.
When will Mikey boy get help for his virulent anti-authoritarian/anti-establishment/anti-social/anti-everything-but-the-Church attitude?

I'm a big fan of his insights -- the same way I am of Marx -- but that doesn't excuse all of their shittiness.
The punishment in the plea deal isn't even a wrist slap. $244 million is not even a half a percent of their annual revenue of $77.8 billion—it's literally a rounding error.
Winter is not an issue for solar because solar panel efficiency is better when the panel is cooler. A panel blazing away in Florida is actually losing quite a bit of efficiency because of how hot the panel is; much farther north even with less light, the panels can produce more.
Depends on compression ;)
> And it turns out that a lot of human reasoning is statistically predictable enough in writing that you can actually obtain reasoning-like behavior just by having a good auto-complete model.

I would disagree with this on a technicality that changes the conclusion. It's not that human reasoning is statistically predictable (though it may be), it's that all of the writing that has ever described human reasoning on an unimaginable number of topics is statistically summarizable, and therefore having a good auto-complete model does a good job of describing human reasoning that has been previously described at least combinatorially across various sources.

We don't have direct access to anyone else's reasoning. We infer their reasoning by seeing/hearing it described, then we fill in the blanks with our own reasoning-to-description experiences. When we see a model that's great at mimicking descriptions of reasoning, it triggers the same inferences, and we conclude similar reasoning must be going on under the hood. It's like the ELIZA Effect on steroids.

It might be the case that neural networks could theoretically, eventually reproduce the same kind of thinking we experience. But I think it's highly unlikely it'd be a single neural network trained on language, especially given the myriad studies showing the logic and reasoning capabilities of humans that are distinct from language. It'd probably be a large number of separate models trained on different domains that come together. At that point though, there are several domains that would be much more efficiently represented with something other than a neural network model, such as the modeling of physics and mathematics with equations (just because we're able to learn them with neurons in our brains doesn't mean that's the most efficient way to learn or remember them).

While a "sufficiently huge autocomplete model" is impressive and can do many things related to language, I think it's inaccurate to claim they develop reasoning capabilities. I think of transformer-based neural networks as giant compression algorithms. They're super lossy compression algorithms with super high compression ratios, which allows them to take in more information than any other models we've developed. They work well, because they have the unique ability to determine the least relevant information to lose. The auto-complete part is then using the compressed information in the form of the trained model to decompress prompts with astounding capability. We do similar things in our brains, but again, it's not entirely tied to language; that's just one of many tools we use.
automating “development” does not necessarily lead to AGI. An LLM could make
minor efficiency improvements all day long and still not change the fundamental approach.
>Nicotine is highly addictive.

So are a lot of medications, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Can you elaborate on why you thought it was important to comment?
Judging by this population density map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Canada_P...

And the ever-useful "The True Size Of…": https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTU1OTcwMjU.MTI5MjQ...

I think you're overstating the difficulty given that population distribution.

And those two large splotches on the map representing Calgary and Edmonton and with most of the population pretty close by, they're only 282.6 km apart.

A 10cm^2 cross section of aluminium between them would have a resistance of 7.3 Ω, and even when bought from the first random supplier I found on Amazon that would only cost about €14m:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=resistivity+aluminium+%...

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Aluminium-Square-Solid-Material-S...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=282.6+kilometers+*+€5%2...

It would be about 12% of that price, €1.7m, if bought at bulk rates: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=282.6+kilometers+*+10cm...

At 1e6 V, 12.7 GW is 12.7 kA; I^2R losses over a 7.3 Ω link for that current is 1.18 GW: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2812700+amperes%29%5E2...

--

But even without any of that, there is one very important point you've overlooked:

Alberta has already got a power grid.
In fairness they built the product which is farther than a lot of more valuable companies have gotten lately.
Interesting. Would also like to see a similar study conducted among non-binary and gender nonconforming people.
You had the privilege of being able to quit the job over ethics / concerns. I'm assuming you didn't wind up homeless with starving children. I have definitely not always had that in my career and many people don't.
I don't see a personal insult, but maybe SWEs should take the ethics of their work more personally. Maybe the shape of our epidemic of social and psychological dysfunction would be different (if not smaller).

When I worked at a retailer, we were told to push buy-now-pay-later schemes on our customers (on top of the corporate credit card, and insurance plans, and service plans). Most of my coworkers simply decided that they weren't going to - in part, because such schemes are nakedly predatory, but also because it was yet another dumb metric we knew we'd be held to if it were successful. I don't know of anyone who was fired or docked pay or denied a promotion because of it, and it's not worth luring someone into financial ruin over a TV and an entry-level sales position. Which leads me to another thought: if you're so low in the chain that you have no say in how and what you work on, is it a job that's worth sacrificing your morals for? Maybe take advantage of that increased earnings potential from job-hopping and get out of dodge.
Thank you for sharing this deeply personal philosophical treatise on not sharing deeply personal things on the internet.
Indeed, and it will force you to write good tests :)
This would have interested me before wrappers for Maven and Gradle became common. Now that you can check in wrappers and easily upgrade the build tool version I don't see this being worth while for general use. I could see it being useful in situations where you needed full code auditability of everything involved in the build process but I've never run into that requirement in my work.
And pretty much every company is bad. But this is a wrong answer because the question is actually nonsense.

The answer to "What happens when you move faster than light" is not "nothing", it is undefined because the question is invalid. Asking if a person or a company is good or bad isn't a question that can ever have a well-defined answer: the answers we give are rounded according to our own values. To get more specific, not all of us have a huge amount of choice in who we work for.

If apenwarr believes I want to be a good person they should hire me at Tailscale. What's that, they won't? They don't have openings, or I'm not qualified? I guess they're the bad person because now I have to work for a bad company or lose my income. And if I lose my income, my co-habitants lose their housing, and my donations to good causes dry up. Do I just not do enough good for apenwarr? They must be a paragon of virtue. Surely they don't eat meat, or even associate with meat-eaters. Surely they don't fly in airplanes.
The issue is that that refers to "Show HN" posts. If some engaged dev posts your updates, how is thst different from spamming every Opeani update? That's just organic interest, given that this is the one of the most well known Rust game engines, a mix of two topics that traditionally get attention here
It's piracy in a way that's analogous to ripping like Netflix content. You are breaking away from DRM which is piracy. They also cite the potential to have multiple tokens valid per one ticket which would let multiple people get in with the same ticket.
normative: establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behavior (ie: what is(!) true/proper/etc is what seems to be (or is said to be) true).

strict: following rules exactly

knowledge: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/#KnowJ... (Justified True Belief)

Simply: it is the difference between one's opinion of what is true, and what is actually true. But, it is even further complicated by the "truth" (colloquial) of the unknown being evaluated (by the mind, according to cultural/ideological conditioning, generating "is") as equal to the "consensus" opinion/theory (of the dominant metaphysical ideology of the era or geographical region one exists in), ie: "the reality is".

> If the latter is the kind that involves formal proofs, how do you account for the difficulty in applying those methods to normative considerations? Others have tried and failed. Does your theory equip you to explain how?

Yes: acknowledge that which is unknown. But this is very taboo in the culture we live in, people (once properly conditioned) get extremely emotionally worked up if one points out that certain(!) cultural "truths" are actually unknown (despite that being the explicit technical standard of the ideology's scriptures, and an argument in favour of its superiority). This can be difficult to realize, but comparing the effect ideas have on adults compared to on children in various stages of development makes it quite easy to see the phenomenon[1].

Or another approach: by default the mind thinks in binary (true /false), and according to its training set - forcefully override this intuition and think in more complex forms of logic, and forcefully re-resolve all truths (recalculate reality).

tl;dr: "Row row row your boat, gently down the stream...."

Full disclosure: this topic is far too complicated to do justice in casual comments on a text message board, not to mention I am in no way qualified to explain it. I am just doing my best.

[1] Which you'd think would set off some ideas related to the topic of discussion in people's heads....but alas, we are stuck in a bootstrap paradox.
> "4:4:4" / "4:2:2" / "4:2:0" notation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling
Words are generally used for communication, and, as opposed to technical inventions, it takes multiple people to evangelize a word.
My takeaway: PG sees successful people as stubborn but teachable and open to feedback/discussion/pushback.
The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: causes and ecological consequences
>for all intents and purposes, this is a show HN

I don't really see how. Is it a Show HN because Bevy isn't a trillion dollar corporation making the news every other day?
I think there maybe more than the five qualities that comprise persistence. But those five make a lot of sense and I like how he shows their interplay. Good read!
This is an amazing series. Love the style and incremental examples.
Wow a lot of these are real basic looking.
Sounds like someone's mad about having a bullshit job.
What about:

- "Requirements" that don't mean anything and change on a whim

- Project management and issue tracking that is nothing more than a pretend game played for pretend by everyone involved yet is more important than actual results

- "We should do X" for two years, but we are still for some reason doing Y

- I'm tired of sprinting

- Incompetent managers that take a team of reasonably competent and intelligent software engineers and turn them into a void of non-productivity, where you send requirements and requests to simply vanish and never result in anything.

- A devops department that is chock full of talented individuals who are helpful and friendly and yet still take 2 weeks to turn around "Hey can you click the button in AWS to provision a new instance?"

- Knowing that this company that purposely hires middle tier talent (which I'm actually okay with, C students still build most of the world) and can't get out of it's own way still manages to run the entire industry, own the vast majority of the market, and basically takes it's profit as a tax on every consumer, and will never have to change.
You want to wrap in logical locations at times. That's my point. To repeat: cramming as much as possible on as few lines as possible is just not going to work well. Wrapping at column 80 vs 100 or whatever has nothing to do with that. That XCreateWindow() would be:

window = XCreateWindow(display, XRootWindow(display, screen), center_x, center_y, size, size,
4, vinfo.depth, CopyFromParent, vinfo.visual, CWColormap|CWBorderPixel|CWBackPixel|
CWOverrideRedirect, &window_attr);

And that's just not better. It's much much worse. Only a human can judge where it makes sense to break things (or not break things).

Completely forbidding "paragraphs" would be atrocious. Almost everyone will hate it. Just like everyone hates walls of text in comments.

And in the end a huge amount of complexity is added throughout the entire stack (from editors to grep to sed to code hosting) for very marginal gain with significant trade-offs.
Show HN: People dislike this kind of website
I will just share a somewhat similar project: https://github.com/netflix/dispatch

Also open source, also Python, also incident management, also custom severities (but not as much of custom roles, afaik) :) Has some integrations with slack, but not focused on Slack particularly.

Can be a good project to learn from as well :)

My relation to it: I only contributed with a couple of pull requests there :)
I was taught coding on Matlab. It had everything built in, and no package management to worry about. As green freshmen, we were making games in week 2 of the course, and running science simulations soon after.
Microsoft can't supply a trusted location to download their own apps? I don't think the Great Firewall breaks TLS.
> Every now and again

As far as I can tell, this has only happened once, in 1939 [1].

[1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...
Thanks! That's a great idea. I have been thinking of doing something like this.
Well yeah, they wanna rent, so they have to develop these things. It also depends on what business deals they make in the background. If the format is secured in some applications, that might cement it as a quasi-standard, which then they can leverage for further popularity.

I hope open standards keep winning. Overall, everyone wins with the infrastructure being openly accessible, especially the common folk.
Ask HN: What are your useful code snippets?
When I start a jupyter notebook (especially in a new environment) I almost always paste

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2
%load_ext autotime
%config Completer.use_jedi = False
import pandas as pd
pd.options.display.max_columns = 30

What are your useful code snippets or setup configs you reuse?
Depends on when they joined
Considering how many founders he's come into contact with, I'm curious why PG chose the Collison Brothers as the exemplary persistent entrepreneurs. Perhaps it's their inclination to tackle complex and unwieldy regulatory challenges that most tech founders shy away from?
I'd much sooner accept and commit implementation code written by an AI against unit tests written by a human than the reverse.
That's why you limit the liability of the company as a whole, but create great risk for the actual executives who decided that safety came second to the profit margin. Again, you can imagine what that would be, but when you compensation is in the tens of millions and there are hundreds dead, well... the risk has overcome the reward and the punishment should match.

Boeing's problem is its management. If you tell the rank-and-file worker to use the company's billions of dollars worth of production capital to build a quality airplane and hold them to it, they've shown they have the ability to do so in the past.
I mixed it up. It wasn't the Galaxy S1, but the Galaxy GT-I7500:

> First released 29 June 2009; 15 years ago

> Display 320 x 480 px, 3.2 in, AMOLED, Touchscreen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_(original)

About one year before HTC Desire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire
Appreciate the response but I'll be honest I don't understand what point you are making.

My only point is that Alberta being larger than Germany means its more expensive to deliver power to all its various small towns distributed around the province.

That seems pretty tautologically correct to me given that power lines have a cost and must be constantly maintained and built to support new power demands.

I'm unsure about what the cross section of aluminum has to do with the size of a province, but i'm willing to learn:)

Run a simple thought experiment. Would it be easier to deliver power 100 meters or 100 km's? That's what we are debating here.
> Some interesting challenges: 1. There is a React parser that is used to parse, insert the style, and serialize it back to code 2.

here's another approach I used with dynamic react

https://github.com/mhsdesign/jit-browser-tailwindcss
"dynamic tailwind"
It probably doesn't help that there are actual Chinese shadow police operating in other countries. How do you know if you're being investigated by the shady, extralegal figures you're "supposed" to obey or more traditional scammers like these guys?
No. Not even close.
Criminal charges against the company aside, aren't there licensed engineers inside of Boeing who signed off on all of this? Where are they in this discussion? Isn't the whole premise of having a licensed engineering discipline that the buck stops with you and you lose your license if you let something like this happen?

If we don't revoke licenses and permanently end careers over something like the MAX crashes, the incentives of engineers require them to say yes to the company at all costs, because it's not worth their job to say no. The consequences of saying yes to a bad plan have to be worse than being fired.
I think CapitalistCartr put it better in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26979490:

> Do they think for themselves or parrot a standard position? Can they explain how they came to a conclusion? When they say "I think . . . ", did they? It doesn't matter they subject; either they think or they don't.

Obstinate people are ones who not only don't think, but aggressively don't think. They have their "dogma" (call it another term if you wish), and they Will. Not. Question. It. No matter what you say, no matter what evidence you present, they just won't.

This isn't just about obstinacy in pursuing goals. It also shows up in the confirmation bias that reinforces conspiracy theories in the minds of those who hold them.
I was being sarcastic, but this claim is made by people downplaying the problems with AI
Attention-seeking is a different trait...
Modding TikTok to only show Cat Videos
I think we should make an exception for saboteurs.
Would a criminal fraud charge result in federal debarment? If not, why not?
How to count rows read(scan) in SQLite
Noob < newbie < newborn < Germanic new + Germanic born.

It's hard to find a word that is a truly original coinage not based on any existing words.
What's the model behind it? I asked a simple question (that others LLM got it right without a problem) and this answered somethign completely wrong (and curious, since I don't know where the hallucination came from)
...by doing what? FB is one of the largest employers of people on this site. If you ran a poll, I'd expect the majority to answer "no" to your question. Of the people who answered "yes", I bet the majority would still accept an offer from FB if it was just 20k more than the next best offer.
Interesting - the one thing that makes me leery of React is that design is not separated from code. I'm used to HTML and CSS being in the province of the designer and I absolutely hate that there is no separation of concerns. The one thing I would remove from React is the ability to specify styling other than class and/or id for all but a few elements.

Now, it looks like I can do just that, maybe?
It's nitpicking until you someone learns about Hadamard product and confusion sets in.

a∘b = a_ij × b_ij

a·b = aᵀb = a_ji × b_ij
I hate reading documentation too.
That's not really relevant. Whether a job needs to be done, and who benefits, is orthogonal to what it pays.
Thanks, you've inspired a silly little poem:

"Step into my cloud," said the spider to the serf
"Your data's safe here, protected from the earth"
But as he uploads, bit by bit he'll see
The silken strands that bind his destiny
"Scaling's easy," it promises with a smile
But switching costs accumulate, all the while
The serf's apps and files, once free to roam
Are now trapped in a rented home
The spider's web, so soft and full of ease
Soon becomes a cage the serf can't leave
Which books/courses do I need to build a miniature jet engine from scratch
As a hobby I would like to build mini planes that can fly. The first step would be to understand how to build a jet engine. I know a lot of physics is involved in building one. is there a course or a series of books that would teach me the how to build a jet engine from scratch
That's fair. Most of the popular soft drinks today were invented in the US - Pepsi, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, 7-up, Slice, Dr. Pepper.
So you don't like 1PW - but what's the alternative in your opinion?
Looking at the git repo (https://github.com/ai-ng/swift), it was made by some web developer, not Vercel. Likely OP (Vercel CEO) just made a mistake posting it as a "Show HN".
Dup. 61 points, 79 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906141
I mean, it may very well have been criticized, but how is it any less fair than the alternative? As for being exploitative, that's kind of the point. The company figures for most shows it's leaving money on the table for scalpers to take. The other side of it is that if a show bombs the ticket prices can be reduced to encourage people to come.

To be honest, it seems overall a better solution.