skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a book, not a web page!

That's a distinction you are making - that books cannot or should not be updated, whilst web pages can/should be. It's no longer intrinsic to the nature of a book as a digital text.

Perhaps a list of heads-of-state is a silly example to use, but a text-book may be a better example - in a digital world it may be a reasonable expectation that a text-book would be 'correct', and so receiving updates would be appropriate. Or a particle physics data-sheet, where an updated value for the mass of a particle could be included.

Of course this should be consensual - "The publisher has provided an update to this text. Please accept, reject or review the changes", and it would be great if e-books and readers had a mechanism to scroll back and forward through editions (but perhaps that is a pipe-dream).

> I have old astronomy books that indicate the visual appearance of Mars changes due to seasonal vegetation! This was obviously updated in later editions; the old edition remains as an important historical record of what we once thought.

That's pretty much what I said in my comment. Sometimes the historical context is important, valuable or interesting.
Vendor is a trump card in this game. Surely no one can do better than a vendor, from which we buy a solution! Best of all, we can then shift the blame too! Our customers cannot use our product? It is the vendor's fault!
Copywriting tips for those who hate copywriting
Bite-size (micro)tips to improve your copy.
Writing content that converts.

With itsy-bitsy changes.
Created a newsletter.
Check it out: https://microcopyexamples.substack.com/

Yup, it's heavily 'inspired' by the works of Harry Dry @ Marketing Examples, Andrew Gould, Neville Medhora, Josh Spector, Chase Diamond, Alex James, among many others.
Yeah, as soon as they said 11PM I realized, ` they're using EST as the timezone? ` which would just do it at that time for everyone using the doc? I don't work with raw date objects in JavaScript very much, is that illogical behavior from it's Date object?
The stability of any country you rely on for power is indeed a major concern.

Alas during the previous Trump presidency, Europe saw that modern Republican 'America First' thinking doesn't just call for a wall with Mexico, a travel ban with Muslim countries, and a trade war with China - it also wants a trade war with Europe.

And linking the south of Spain to the north of Morocco only needs ~200km of undersea cable, rather than the ~6000km an EU-to-US link would call for. That's a pretty big benefit.
Some nice ideas. I think recommendations (health, products, news etc.) would be really useful. But you're right, none are as big a market as ads.
And unlike Stack Overflow, which is available to everyone online and has an open content license, the IP the users of the ChatGPT style services is entirely proprietary to the company.
I am not interested in feeding their machine with my brainpower. On the other hand, I happily contribute to Stack Overflow, and open source software+hardware. I do not think I will integrate LLM into my engineering workflow until there is a good service/solution which builds up the commons. The huge companies already have way too much influence over key aspects of knowledge-based society.
That. And more generally, there's almost no chance to change your life for the better. Rich people there are those who became rich before this system was put in place (before WWII that is, sometimes in the XIX century or before), and then just pass the wealth down the generations. Or those who immigrated having earned (or stolen) the wealth abroad. For others, there's really no hope of breaking out of endless toil for mediocre wage. And yes, on the flip side, it's really hard to fall through the cracks completely, but that's what it is: to prevent people from losing, we also need to prevent them from winning - you can't have one without the other. And, collectively, they just stagnate. There's no progress at all in any side of life, while America still enjoys relatively quick - even if very unevenly distributed - economic growth.
SISCOG in Lisbon used to be a big Common Lisp shop in the early 2000's, not sure how much of it they still use 20 years later.
I once interviewed (and got the job) for a java dev position with a mostly C/C++ background.

One of the issues to solve during the tech interview was fixing a bug in a fairly involved web app with a java backend. Long story short, it boiled down to "==" being used to compare two strings instead of ".equals" somewhere deep in their class hierarchy.

I found it and fixed it, even though I was not familiar with the reference vs value equality difference in java. General debugging skills acquired over years should allow you to track down exactly where things go more wrong than expected, and then help you reason about why it goes wrong.
Cyclist here, I only communicate with motorists by means of rude hand gestures...
V2V should still help to avoid phantom traffic jams, but really I wish all that tech in cars could block motorists from overtaking cyclist without a safe distance to the cyclist or when they actually want to take a turn with their car that would cross the cyclists path going straight ahead.
>Generic RV32I code is comically bad, since it doesn't even have things like hardware multiply.

Which is great when you don't need hardware multiply.

Alas there was an oversight, which is that M includes divide, but in the smallest cores, very often multiply is desired yet divide, which is much more costly, is not.

Some Z extension was later defined to give multiply w/o divide.

Most RISC-V MCUs in the wild are currently implementing at least RV32IMAC.

>it turns out that `-march=rvi20u32_mac` also works - it takes a profile name followed by extensions.

Yup, and most of the time simply targeting a profile is desired.

Microcontrollers and very embedded cores are of course their own world, but fortunately the world of custom is also a world where binary application compatibility does not matter.
I don't get why this was downvoted, because it is true. It does suggest that the threat model is not properly defined.
>The general idea is that it allows you to create something somewhat equivilant to a view that only exists during that transaction.

I can't talk for Postgres but on MS SQL it's definitely not like a view.

I had a CTE with a filter condition in the where close but got a conversion error in the later use for a value I already filtered out in the CTE.

So it may look like some kind of temporary view definition but the actual code the optimizer generates may behave unexpected.
2.I think you overestimate the caliber of query received in most call centres. Even when it comes to private banks (for those who've been successful in life), the query is most often something small like holding their hand and telling them to press the "login" button.

Also these all tend to have an option where you simply ask it and it will redirect you to a person.

Those agents deal with the same queries all day, despite what you think your problem likely isn't special, in most cases may as well start calling the agents "stochastic parrots" too while you're at it.
Show HN: Scrape any website with just url, with WebUI or Terminal
This project is a versatile web scraping tool with two interfaces: a Flask-based web application and a terminal-based script. Both tools are designed to scrape various types of content from a specified URL and save them to designated folders.
Why would motorists care? About 1/4th of killed car occupants didn't care about their own life when they decided not to put on the seat belt before the last car trip.
Nicely put!

I see new grads talking about MERN stack (with M for Mongo), and always have an urge to correct them that replace M with Mysql
But it hasn't, while it had a good run, it stopped being an image host in 2023 :

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur

(With screws tightened even more in 2024.)

Before you reply that you technically still can use Imgur, that's also still the case for Imageshack - but you cannot rely on them any more, unless you are a paid user.
The scandalous history of the last rotor cipher machine (2021)
Technology is progressing so fast that something like space based solar or fusion power will replace terrestrial solar within 100 years.
Someone pointed out to me that you can set eBay as the default search engine. That seems like a weird option. There can't be many that primarily uses their browser to access eBay, though I wouldn't rule out that people with this preference exists.
> Nobody ever talks about the hidden consequences of these oh so wonderful government programs.

Are you ok? Did you just wake up from a coma and suffering from some selective amnesia? Have you been living under a rock? Maybe you missed any and all libertarian content? Or the articles about how safety precautions give a sense of safety which result in more risky behaviors? (From bicycle helmets to OSHA stuff.) But maybe you have ran into articles about how car safety standards act as a birth-rate suppressor? No?

Spare us this "why nobody thinks of the consequences".

Premiums are going up because healthcare costs are going up, because there's a growing number of elderly, also because all services related costs are going up. (Because the Baumol effect, and so on.) Not to mention that as economic surplus grows (ie. GDP grows) people are willing and able to spend more on healthcare.

...

Check veterinary service costs and pet insurance premiums. Obama did that too?
Not that I'm disagreeing with your first line, but is there any business that doesn't exist to separate people from their money?
> avoid crazy strong sunscreens

It's also known that sun exposure causes the vast majority of visible skin aging.
So I choose to use overkill sunscreen on my face and neck to preserve my youth and balance that out by using no sunscreen on my legs.
In the summer, running around in shorts, I should get plenty of sun.
In the winter, I supplement vitamin D anyway
> the pods need to hang out near the surface to receive signals and to launch missiles

I'd think you could do some variation on attaching a long fiber optic filament to a fishing bob that has just enough electronics.
They recognise that in the quoted paragraph. The JSON-LD thing was only about the open web:

> [MarcXML, BibTex etc] actually have very, very deep support in many places (for example in library and archival systems) but on the open web they are not a goer.
A new age begins: Civilization 7 captures human history in manageable doses
I'd love if more studies accounted for this.
It's the "Mozart makes your kids smart" mistake repeated ad nauseam
But then the mouse "natively supports" 1000 Hz? OP said it helps with devices that don't "natively support it". The GitHub page calls it "polling rate overclocking" (whatever that means), which doesn't sound like it would "unlock" anything (or "ask nicely" as you put it) in the mouse but rather just increase the sampling frequency?
About inflation (5th November 2021)
Product presentation is a hard-to-develop skill. I agree that many aspects of the page are muddy.

I personally find their compact mode the cleanest I have ever seen. This is the entire window: https://imgur.com/hhfyeVz
To access the address bar, move the mouse to the top, or type Ctrl+L.
For the tabs, move the mouse to the left, or type Ctrl+1, 2… or Ctrl+Tab to cycle through.

I wish Firefox had such a compact mode.
Didn't know this but super interesting. Thanks for sharing!
questionaire based studies. Can't trust people with doing the questionaires on regulare basis, and they're filling in what they remember if they forgot a few days. Most people don't remember what they had for a snack after their lunch on a tuesday.

Somebody took apart the WHO meta-study about how red meat causes cancer. It's like 98% of studies #inmice, and they don't eat steak, they eat high carb/high protein diets. And the placeholder for meat is a blood-sausage that you wouldn't eat on a daily basis let alone every meal. None of the mice actually got cancer because they're all killed beforehand to look at the consequences of their diets.

And the few studies that showed relations between cancer and meat in humans were observational as in questionairs.

https://bigthink.com/health/red-meat-cancer-not-health-risk/
Exactly. If your system monitors a place like a halfway decent railway station half a million people per day is a number you could expect. Even with an amazingly low error rate of 1% that would result in 5000 wrong signals a day. If we make the assumption that the people are uniformly spread out througout a 24 hour cycle that means a false alarm every 20 seconds.

In reality most of the people are there during the day (false alarm every 10 seconds) and the error percentages are nowhere near 1%.

If you do the math to figure out the staff needed to react to those false alarms in any meaningful way you have to come to the conclusion that just putting people there instead of cameras would be a safer way to reach the goal.
The docs are available online. I don't know how often models are "re-trained".
You don't need to use a bare repo necessarily if you want to push/pull between two working repos, without a central "bare" repo locally, you just need to tell git to update when receiving:

`git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead`
Imagine this was controlled not only for Vitamin D but for physical activity
> The Semantic Web is the old Web 3.0. Before "Web 3.0" meant crypto-whatnot, it meant "machine-readable websites".

Using contemporary AI models aren't all websites machine-readable? - or potentially even more readable than semantic web unless an ai model actually does the semantic classification while reading it?
Sometimes (not necessarily here) just a better UI for existing features is enough to make a project succeed.
> Extremely large beverage holder.

You joke, but the only thermo mug that I've been able to find that fits into my car is an off-brand one my mother-in-law picked up from a bargain bin in Lidl. None of my five mugs or bottles fit.
Why would you go west to America when you have Africa below? Batteries are already cheap enough and getting cheaper that you can store 12 hours of electricity
Totally agree!

I was thinking of this quote about regex, apt in this situation:

"A programmer had a problem with Sql. So he thought of using an ORM. Now he has two problems"

Choose your battles wisely
It was a few hours work so it was not 'done properly', but the point was, it is working code and, as I know nothing about 3d or game programming, I didn't do any of it. People here claim it (current LLMs) cannot produce working code for entire software's without a human doing a lot of it; it clearly can and for non trivial stuff. I would say the real point is ; it cannot do complete code for non trivial programs without human doing most of the coding IF the person prompting is not an experienced coder. I am, so I can review the generated code, prompt in English what it should change and then it works. It is often faster to write code instead of that (so the thing blurbs 100% working code but with 20% wrong/bugs which I fix as a human) but in domains I know nothing about, English is faster for me.
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> modern-capitalism take that reduces to "People don't actually have principles, they only care about money"1

This is not a modern-capitalism take, maybe just a modern-capitalism phrasing. If you read "money" as common unit of value (which it is), not just dollars in hand specifically, then the statement is effectively true for 99%+ of people; the few for which it doesn't hold are considered insane[0], and we try to fix them or lock away in institutions, for the safety of everyone else[1].

There's no absolute value you won't compromise if the cost of keeping it is high enough, or equivalently, the benefit of breaking it is high enough. Having principles, integrity, is a way to boost the cost of some behaviors ahead of time, so you won't be tempted to engage in them even if presented with substantial rewards. It's particularly effective if other people know your stated principles and will hold you accountable. But it's still a finite threshold that can be overcome (especially with of companies, where principles generally are just pure marketing).

A skilled negotiator understands that everyone will sell out on their principles if the reward is big enough - but they also understand that it cuts both ways. Negotiation is a dance of allocating costs and benefits so that everyone actually gets something out of it[2]. It makes little sense otherwise.

--

[0] - Absolute principles are like probabilities 0 and 1 in probability theory - they break the math. Or zero in general whenever you want to do multiplication or division. You don't want absolute principles, or anything you do will be defined purely by them.

[1] - And/or stuck in cults as followers; notably cult leaders tend to be very much pragmatic and money-oriented.

[2] - Relative to the non-negotiated/fought outcome. "Your money or your life" sucks for the mugging victim either way, but the victim prefers being alive to being dead and the mugger prefers theft to theft + murder, so a negotiation is still worthwhile for both.
Hi, does anybody know why the page doesn't work? Should it display anything?
That's why you spend 10 minutes to write the correct prompt?
I found that ChatGPT needs to be rained in with the prompts, and then it does a very impressive job. E.g. you can create a function prototype (with input and output expectations) and in the body tell the logic you are thinking about in meta-code. Then tell it to write the actual code. It's also good if you want to immerse yourself into a new programming language and outline what kind of program you want, and expect the results to be different from what you throught, but insightful.

Now if you throw larger context or more obscure interface expectations at it, it'll start to discard code and hallucinate.
> I guess we're looking at a bright future.

We have to, otherwise the solar panels wouldn't work.
Gets buggier for every year.
I would gladly give up my ability to drive (under normal circumstances) on the freeway if it ended the reign of terror that rubberneckers and people that don't keep right except to pass (the law in at least WA state if not where you are too).

Just imagine a world where rush hour didn't mean slowdowns. Oh and also get rid of the onramp metering; it's worse than useless when traffic can't zipper and accommodate the influx of new vehicles.
A killer app is still not enough.

People can’t get HTML right for basic accessibility, so something like the semantic web would be super science that people will out of their way to intentionally ignore any profit upon so long as they can raise their laziness and class-action lawsuit liability.
I personally prefer "infinitely creative individual", with the non-artsy definition of creative: to create something
I guess the reality is, as a passenger, you either wait several minutes on the bus at a stop mid-route. Or you wait much longer at a bus stop in a crowd waiting for four buses to show up.
True, but if the dataset already exists, why not use it to benefit you?
Depends on your location. As the global population relocates to cities the cost-benefit maths work out in favour of not owning. New residential developments in Europe are planned and built without enough space to park at least one vehicle per apartment. Insurance, parking, and extra "emissions" charges (that EVs have to pay too), are all killing car ownership. There are places in London where you will not get a parking permit for your vehicle unless you meet certain criteria. The US was built for life where cars are an essential part of daily routine, Europe wasn't.
> When I look at the kinds of AI projects I have visibility into, there's a parallel where the public are expecting a centralized, all knowing, general purpose AI

I don't think this is entirely fair to "the public". Media was stuffed with AI company CEOs claiming that AGI was just around the corner. Nvidia, OpenAI and Musk, Zuckerberg, and others were positively starry eyed at how, soon, we'd all be just a GPU matmul away from intelligence. "The public" has seen these eye watering amounts of money shifting around, and they imply that it must mean something.

The entire system has been acting as if GenAI was right around the corner.
Absolutely! Today's LLMs can sometimes(/often?) enormously suck and should not be relied upon for critical information. There's a long way to go to make them better, and I'm happy that a lot of people are working on that. Finding meaning in a sea of information is a highly imperfect enterprise regardless of the tech we use.

My point though was that the core problem we should be trying to solve is overcoming the fundamental misalignment of incentives between publisher and reader, not whether we can put a better schema together that we hope people adopt intelligently & non-adversarially, because we know that won't happen in practice. I liked what the author wrote but they also didn't really consider this perspective and as such I think they haven't hit upon a fundamental understanding of the problem.
By you own standard, this is a low-value post as well.
Even the OTPs? :).
Why? When will it be cheaper to deploy in space than in some remote area somewhere?
Yeah. Put the controls in a corner.
Most humans we hire / work with / meet online or irl do. It doesn't really matter what 'the rest' are up to for me.
That’s very literally “productive “.
fwiw, here's my results.

Every question I've asked of chatGPT, meta and Gemini have returned results that were either obvious or wrong. Pointing out how wrong the answers returned got the obvious, "I apologize" response which returned an obvious answer.

I consider all these AI engines to be interactive search engines where the results need to be double checked. The only thing these engines do, for me perhaps, is save some search time so I don't have to click around on a lot of sites to scroll for some semblance of an answer to verify.
> 3 - How Money Works

Bold
As a very longtime VIM user, can you talk me into helix?
The big change is basically that we now typically specify exactly which integer approximation to the (real-valued, “ideal”) DCT to use; this means the decoder and encoder is much likely to fall out of sync. As a bonus, this means we can use a slightly worse but much faster approximation without catastrophes happening, and possibly also make it exactly invertible.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/bink-2-2-integer-dc... has a ton of technical information if you want to dive into it.
I'm so glad I don't have to work with these byzantine JS monstrosities.
This made me laugh. I was thinking more social matching with people not already in your network. For example dating or finding a roommate.
LossRider: A plotting tool that outputs Line Rider maps
Also a connected vehicle could potentially tell much if the car ahead is actively accelerating. Reducing it's need to brake if it can tell there's sufficient distance to negate braking (a bit more risky).
This is an excellent rebuttal. I think it is an issue that can be overcome but I appreciate the irony of what you point out :)
Some call it "phoning it in", some call it "working sustainably and avoiding burnout". It's fine to "phone it in" for the daily grind if it helps you maintain your reserves for actual emergencies. As the author point out, early Facebook instead instilled a "sense of urgency" which means everything is treated as an emergency all the time, which just means nothing is.
Why for a short time ? And this sounds reckless if most of your load flow is PV ?
Oh, absolutely. I just got caught up by the lyrics to Fort Minor - Remember the Name.
I mean the reason I use BitWarden instead of KeePassX isn't because I'm worried someone will steal the KeePassX database file, but that I'll lose it.
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