skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think there are two strategies that would help a lot: 1) writing a spec (i.e. a plan) upfront, and 2) timeboxing the project by giving myself a deadline.

I would like to add another possible strategy: watching a number go up.

Recently I have started tracking the books I am reading. I track the page number I am currently on via a dashboard I made in Obsidian, which displays a %-read for each book. I have found that "number goes up" gives me just enough of a dopeamine hit to encourage me to pick the books up more frequently than I had before.
When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?
Yes I understand that. But the “get expoship” button on the homepage should take me to somewhere I can purchase. And if it’s sending me a magic link then the magic link should take me to somewhere I can purchase.

Trying it again now it’s still the same bug, and the email doesn’t arrive.

If you have bugs like this at the first point you’re trying to acquire a customer then that doesn’t bode well for the robustness of the product you’re selling.

I was genuinely interested to buy this (I bought shipfa.st, and have found it very useful) but this is a big red flag.
Does anyone know why the flyover ramps in a stacked interchange usually have such large vertical clearances? The vertical separation seems much larger than necessary to accommodate the tallest trucks allowed on the highway.

EDIT: There are some more theories here:

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4238/why-are...

Obviously there may be many contributing factors, but I expect one is dominant. This one is most convincing to me: The flyover ramp generally needs to go over some things and under other things. Additionally, for both safety and rider comfort, the ramp needs to be vertically smooth, not having fast drops or rapid climbs. That means ramp A might pass over ramp B by a lot more than the minimum amount because ramp A also needs to pass over ramp C just a bit later, where it does so by a much lower amount. With many overlapping constraints like this, most ramp intersections are much higher than the minimum clearance even though none can be lowered without either (1) making one of the clearances below minimum or (2) forcing a ramp to rapidly climb/descent.
The Twitter deal is a result of that, not the cause.
* Both Linux and MacOS are unices, there is less effort.

* The framework they use supports X11 and Wayland out of the box, it wasn't as much effort as you'd think.

* They accept contributions.
I heard somewhere that the reason is to provide trucks the ability to shed speed to make these sharp turns, and then give them back their speed when coming back down so they don’t have to brake hard or spend a lot of gas to do it.

Basically lets trucks use gravity to store their energy when making sharp turns and then get it back for nearly free.
The article kind of addresses this. Texas really does have more frontage roads than other US states. In the specific example cited in the article's headline photo, both the US 75 and I-635 have frontage roads that cross each other. They stay at ground level whereas the highways elevate. Part of the reason this specific interchange has so many levels, though, which is not addressed for some reason, is that both highways have high-occupancy express lanes that are separated from other traffic and have separate interchanges with the other highway as well as separate on-ramps and off-ramps to the frontage roads. This one is particularly bad because it's where the express lane for the US 75 starts and stops. Normally, the express lanes don't have their own dedicated exits and you have to first exit to the normal highway, but US 75 has an express lane north of I-635 but not south, so there are separate entrances and exits for it here.

Thankfully, I've worked from home for years now, but back in the day, this used to feature heavily in my daily commute. My wife and I worked at the same place, so typically used the US 75 express lane where it existed, and it was a bitch. To go south, you have to get off the highway onto the frontage road and then back onto the highway.
I'm the same. The only thing that has a chance of working is to remind myself that it's the middle of the night and however terrifying this is I'll deal with it in the morning.
Try having a chronic health condition. My ability to continue walking will at some point depend on paying doctors to replace part of my skeleton; that doesn't come cheap in America.
One aspect could be overall lower attention attention span, where people start zoning out in the middle of the test and don't try that hard.
Good point. UV in Austin, TX today is 10.6.
The "average lottery winner" also wins $4.5 though. (The original claim was that "if you win the lottery jackpot, then you win less than the average lottery winner".)

If there are 100 draws with a $6 jackpot 25 will have no winners, 50 will have one ($6) winner and 25 will have two ($3 each) winners.

100 winners in total - half won $6 and half won $3.
What everyone else said, but especially, they shipped in boxes designed for them, with thick styrofoam designed for them, and typically in a plastic bag so when styrofoam flaked off, it wouldn't attach to the monitor.

New plastic would take a couple bumps without showing anything, but a properly packed box will transfer mostly all the forces it experiences through the box and not to its contents. Tight fitting foam with reinforced corners prevents internal movement of the monitor. There's risk of getting the sides poked in with a fork lift, but when that happens, the damage is obvious and the recipient will refuse delivery if the carrier tries. You can reinforce the faces of the box too, but monitors weren't valuable enough for that.
My computer does not have a speaker (none built in, and none attached). I watched the clip a few times. Each time, as the button glowed in his video, the button also glowed below the video in the youtube UI.

So, at first I thought that Google is parsing the text of the video being played, but is not listening to your mic.

However, several comments both here and on YT imply that Google is ALSO listening to what you say on your mic. Which, frankly, is much more scary - though I cannot currently test.
Ankane single handedly is contributing so much back to the industry, in so many ways. Wild!
No, but let's chat about it! I'll email you.
Doepfer’s commercial efforts at a reproduction substitutes a ribbon controller for the resistive wire. However it would appear he spent some time experimenting with this as there are notes on his page regarding it. He suggests a material called “constantan” to be wrapped around a nylon guitar string, then carefully polished to make a smooth enough surface.
https://doepfer.de/traut/traut_e.htm#2.1.%20The%20Control%20...
True, though the recommendation engine on YouTube will suggest other alternatives that are not on the same channel. There would still be a positive effect
Ah, thanks, I didn't know it was a live dependency.

>> Instead, pin all dependencies to fixed versions and host them yourself.

Indeed.
> When I walk into a room containing my dog and the poo it did on the carpet two hours earlier, it is sorry about what it did.

This shows that the dog knows it did something you didn't want it to do, yes. I'm not sure it shows "thinking about ourselves, scrutinising and evaluating what we do and why we do it", which is how the article this discussion is about described "mental reflection". Our dogs have made messes in our house and have shown evidence that they know they're not supposed to, but I see no evidence that they have done any reflection on why they did it.

Of course "mental reflection" is not an all or nothing thing, obviously there is a continuum of possibilities. So a more precise phrasing of my question might be: is there any evidence that dogs can perform mental reflection at a point on that continuum anywhere near the point where humans do it? Or are they only capable of it at a point on the continuum much, much closer to the other end, the "no reflection at all" end?
The video shows multiple 5-level interchanges in Texas where two highways intersect along with their frontage roads, turning what would otherwise be a 4-stack into a 5-stack or 6-stack interchange.
I'm sure that when the author today reads what he wrote, he will ask himself "what the heck was i thinking?"

Each of the dozens of ECUs in todays cars have a plentifold of complexity compared to any system existing in 1988.

Still a majority of people are managing to operate such a vehicle with as biggest aid, exactly the naive abstractions that he lamented about. The highly simplified mental model that we create of anything we interact with, is the biggest human strength, while he seemed to advocate quite the opposite.
LinkedIn toasts are the worst.
And now imagine that these 500k people would be served by a decent network of trains or even buses. That would immediately reduce the demand for infrastructure, simply because how much more efficient even a single decker bus is in passengers/m² of occupied road space.
Connect the dots as in why it makes sense? Or provide evidence? I can't tell you why it would make sense to the executives, but below are job searches for keyword software. You can yada yada and say maybe it's fake postings in which case I'm not sure what to say - but it's well known internally GM wants to expand the Mountain View office.

42 jobs listed in Mountain View
https://search-careers.gm.com/en/jobs/?search=software&locat...

6 in Detroit
https://search-careers.gm.com/en/jobs/?search=software&locat...

16 in Austin
https://search-careers.gm.com/en/jobs/?search=software&locat...
How PFAS reached the Amazon rainforest
There's no way to create media that doesn't have an editorial line. LLM generated media has an editorial line, in terms of what gets filtered, what gets injected into prompts, and what biases exist in the data. Attribution of work and allowing the reader to decide their level of trust in the source is the only known defense.
I understood it as not a wrapped web application, like Electron or Tauri based applications.
I'm confused, this is using an LLM to detect if LLM input is sanitized?

But if this secondary LLM is able to detect this, wouldn't the LLM handling the input already be able to detect the malicious input?
I would wager that there's a positive covariance between "solarium users" and "not poor" where "not poor" is surely correlated with lower mortality.
"The Pirate Bay" TV Series Teaser Appears Online
The reason I didn't respond to the rest of your post is because I can't understand its relationship to your argument. There is no need for deeper understanding here. It's just a substring match.
I agree that the completions might not be that great, but for context: this is a 100M model, while most models that people compare this to are atleast 100x bigger.

They also focus on single line completions, and ship different models per programming language. All these make it possible to ship a decent completion engine with a very small download size.
> You youngins may not remember, but pre-2005 we had to call a travel agent to book our flights and get paper tickets in return. This sucked, we don't have any transparency in to the process, we couldn't explore options (price, convenience, dates, airports) and customize our trip. Having access to flight booking via web was really a great improvement for user experience.

I'm going to disagree. I could call my travel agent and say "I am going to Chicago on <date> I need to be there by <time> call me back with a couple of nonstop options. And I'll need a room at the Hilton and Towers for two nights."

vs. today I can spend my own time navigating travel sites, avoiding their dark patterns, wondering if I'm really getting the best prices, making sure I understand the terms (is this refundable? are any checked bags included?) etc and then do the same for the hotel booking.

If you work in a business with a travel department or assistants who can manage your travel you have an idea, compared to the hassle of doing it all yourself.
What an I supposed to be using for mouthwash? Or nothing at all?
And MIPS too.
After considering your comment, I think my view on car features was an accident of timing. Car infotainment systems tend to be on a 5-10 year lifecycle. This means that AA/CP were often being introduced with always-on cellular data, which is why I associated the former with the latter.
Extremely impressive, done while doing research at Kansas State University with a PhD from the University of New Mexico. I don't know if any new major advancements have come from people from state schools today.
Editors and IDEs with F# editing modes know how to read the project file and display the files in the correct order.
For unattended reboots with encrypted root disks (reboot while you sleep), use Mandos: <https://www.recompile.se/mandos>

Disclosure: I am a co-author of Mandos.
Higher calorific intake is associated with lower mortality*

*Study conducted during the Great Famine
Patterns in Mindless Products vs. Mindful Products
Skip the Dishes, parent company laying off employees in Canada
i used to think amazon's search ux was terrible.... then i tried aliexpress and temu
The method I've seen is to run a carputer with Android installed and use the Tesla web browser to connect to it (no jailbreak needed).
https://teslaandroid.com/
Also I am not sure just how much of an influence it would have on tuning stability but it looks to have been chosen because of its temperature coefficient.
Normally you are either going so fast you are looking far down the road and not over the side or really slowly, trying to not rear end the car in front of you, the height is not that noticeable unless one is a passenger. One time I was on a freeway in Houston at night and suddenly sparks started flying down on me while I was going at normal speed - it was a truck that had flipped on its side in the merge lane that was above me and to the left and was grinding against the road and the guardrail at about highway speed (for a little bit), that was a new fear unlocked.
Further, there's a selection bias in that those who choose to go on a hike today are not among the least healthy to start with, even if the hike itself didn't change anything.
Can't speak on reliability, but battery life is going to be worse on the average due to the fact that they haven't fully utilized the hardware for things like video decoding.

Id just keep an eye on the ARM windows laptops coming, which all should be compatible with linux way better than reverse engineered Apple Hardware
> Condé Nast and OpenAI have struck a multi-year deal that will allow the AI giant to use content from the media giant’s roster of properties—which includes the New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and, yes, WIRED.

I'm disappointed by the fact that this disclaimer isn't more explicit.
> Nobody cares that they can't use Claude on Zed.

I do. I just cancelled Cody subscription because it incredibly slowed down my VSCode. If Zed is able to do advanced AI features that Cody did but remain snappy, I will gladly pay them $20 a month.

> Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows.

There are more users on Windows and Android, but they on average pay less and more often make developer tools purchase decisions as employers, not individuals. If you're starting a small company making new kind of developer tools that is not tailed for corporations, macOS is a much better market.
> No one should be submitting code that's difficult to understand

what? ok. Nice ideals.
Waiting for someone to say they could implement reclaim with a 10 line shell script and rsync.
And in the video the quote about keeping traffic flowing is laid over footage where the traffic is nearly stopped and creeping through the interchange.
Now THAT is some cool engineering I can get behind.
We wanted to cover this in a dedicated discussion. See https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/discussions/1342
Patrick Moore is a professional climate change denier now (and for a few decades) so maybe not the best example.

https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore/
A Swiss Dilemma: How to Get Old Bombs Out of Deep Lakes?
If you do not find it fun to read with your children and enjoy the stories equally you may want to consider picking different books or doing something else with them. They will pick up on it, and grow up to think you do not like to spend time with them - and later take that “truth” turned core belief to other relationships.
As a dog owner, I agree with you.

I KNOW that my dog would never hurt anyone.

But I also know that no one else in the world has spent hundreds of hours with my dog, and to them he is a strange and large animal. Inevitably some of these ppl probably have some kind of childhood trauma related to dogs.

So I always have him leashed where the rules are to have a leash.
It's "Find and replace" that makes my blood boil. I won't stand for it.
Address calculations are a place where fixed point can still have an advantage -- it's often less latency and fewer ops to step a fixed-point accumulator and shift it into an address offset on the integer units than to step a floating point accumulator, convert it to integer, then move that over from the FP/vector units to the integer units.
This is Youtuber has had several very well researched and thorough videos about topics that readers of Ken would enjoy, including Buran, the F-14 Air data computer, Elite, and the birth of Digital fly by wire out of the Apollo program.

Check him out and give him slack for his vocal fry. It's mildly annoying but the content is just so good.
I like this article, it asks an interesting question (albeit I think it is the wrong question but still it is an interesting one) about how accurately linear systems can be approximated by discrete systems. If you get into digital signal processing (DSP) either through audio/synth stuff or software defined radio or some other way, the trade-offs and how discrete mathematics differs from continuous mathematics are a very deep topic. If I understand the current papers on quantum mechanics it seems that physicists are thinking more and more of reality in discrete terms rather than continuous terms. All of which is fascinating, and yet the first question here for audio stuff should be;

What is the absolute best capability of the human ear to relative to its frequency response and dynamic range?

If you have an answer for that, then when your digital emulation has as good or better frequency response and dynamic range as the best ever measured human ear? Well that would be, by definition, indistinguishable from an analog counter part. (and yes, you can consider infra-sound, ultrasound, and blood bone harmonic resonance and all the other things the 'oxygen free' cable crowd sells you on :-)).
> In brain surgery, the brain holds still.

Only if the anaesthesiologist has done their job right.

> And you don't have to use explosive chemicals to create a very intense fire that still never quite explodes.

Unless the anaesthesiologist has done their job very badly.
Another simple strategy that I've seen is simply for the loaded bus to allow the empty bus to overtake it and go on ahead (and just stay ahead).
As you said earlier:

> It does help that I've spent the last 1.5 years building LLM-based products every day.

it could be an exposure thing. I don't interface with this AI stuff at all, much less every day. So I'm not going to pick up on patterns like that.
You're talking about lossy compression. Specifically perceptual lossy compression[0].

Lossless compression is entirely reversible. Nothing is lost and nothing is discarded, perceived or not, like zip.

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02782
This is why it's important to pay attention in linear algebra class as a CS undergrad!
>It’s hard for you to support that assertion,

What assertion, that you should drive sober? It is literally the only statement I've made in that comment.

So you shouldn't drive sober and there's not any research done to support that claim? lol.
Exactly, a Northern European adapting to sun exposure doesn’t mean getting a tan, it would mean evolutionary pressure to adapt to, say, sunnier California via natural selection over a few thousand years where less sun fit portions die off earlier, while the surviving group slowly gets darker over many many generations or better at repairing damage.

If you’re fair skinned but find yourself outside the low UV region that your skin is adapted to, you are welcome to begin the new adaptation by avoiding sun protection and going outside without regard to the UV index.

I, however, will not join that genetic adaptation.
>Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new Fast Edit Mode, optimized for text editing. This upcoming mode achieves unprecedented speed in transforming existing text, enabling near-instantaneous code refactoring and document editing at scale

I wonder what this is. Have they finetuned a version which is good at producing diffs rather than replacing an entire file at once? In benchmarks sonnet 3.5 is better than most models when it comes to producing diffs but still does worse than when it replaces the whole file.
Invariant: A security scanner for AI agents
I would like us as an industry to promote paying for things we use. Crazy idea, I know.

Open source is great and fun and an incredible force multiplier for the world, but when you want to do this stuff for a living, you have to charge money for it somehow, and if you're a software business, and not just software adjacent, it means charging for software.
Agreed about the AI, the last time I tried Zed I was also trying Cursor at the same time, and the Cursor AI integration vs what Zed offered was just night and day. So I got the Cursor subscription. But I haven't used it in 2 months (I don't get to code a lot in my job).

This was maybe 3-4 months ago, so I'm excited to try Zed again.
Is Zed a supplier? Sounds like a random developer can sign up at will without any corporate NDAs or other established legal agreements. Will my employer hash out the NDAs for every developer tool that wants to incorporate cloud AI for the lulz?
You can tell by the way it's written that it was formulated by a committee.
Anecdotally, I’m from across the North Sea where this study was taken. I hardly ever use sunscreen. I went to a conference in Galveston Tx, walked around for a part of the afternoon, the next 4 days I was peeling the skin of my forehead and nose… it was painful.
I'm okay with someone taking an older work and editing it to suit their own (necessarily personal) ideas of political correctness, but only so long as it is made obvious somewhere on the cover and title page that it is not the original work.

Anything else is fundamentally underhanded.
because Spain's on the wrong side of the continent
If incompetent it provides a way to be sure?

Could you for laughs explain for which cases these are, why they are needed and why they did it this way?

1) num-num === 0

2) num.trim() !== ''

3) Number.isFinite(+num)

4) isFinite(+num)

5) return false;

6) Why this specific order of testing? Why prefer Number.isFinite over isFinite?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-number

module.exports = function(num) {
if (typeof num === 'number') {
return num - num === 0;
}
if (typeof num === 'string' && num.trim() !== '') {
return Number.isFinite ? Number.isFinite(+num) : isFinite(+num);
}
return false;
};

I would have just....

isNumber = num => isFinite(num+''.trim());

Why is that not precisely the same? (it isn't)

how about...

function isNumber(num){
switch(typeof num){
case "number" : return !isNaN(num);
case "string" : return isFinite(num) && !!num.trim();
}
}

Is there a difference?

IMHO NPM should have a discussion page for this. There are probably interesting answers for all of those looking to copy and paste.
Did Google make you less productive when looking up about code? If it did not then I dont see how looking up with AI can be worse.