skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, worth noting that "the EM field" (the thing that shows up in the wave equation) in this case is specifically the EM 4-potential. This doesn't work if you try to treat "the EM field" as the strength of the E and B fields or something - it has to be the 4-potential. I got tripped up by this at one point

Second, this isn't pinning the field in space, it's pinning the magnitude of the field to be close to some value (probably you can call that value 0)

So if the field locally gets "too high" or "too low", there's a restoring force accelerating it back towards the "normal" value, like a spring attached to the normal value.

It's not pinning it in the sense of stopping translation through space or time

In the water wave analogy, we're using the vertical dimension to represent the magnitude of the water wave, but translating that to other contexts, we're not literally talking about a physical height, just the magnitude of the field. (Which, for all I know, maybe you can formulate that as a position in some higher-dimensional space or something)
> Those towers still have ugly looking antennas on them; they're just too high to really be noticeable on the ground.

Yup, and unless you're standing right next to them you have absolutely no idea how huge these antennas are - but visually, they drown like flies in a swimming pool, you can't make them out any more, and that's the point.

Small cell towers can be visually hidden. Even if it's just a sheet of drywall or a fully plastic wrap/enclosure that's printed on to look like wall bricks or roof tiles, I don't care, it doesn't need to be a full fake facade like in NYC [1].

All I want is for the telcos that are robbing us dry here in Germany to have to respect the people whose space they want to use.

[1] https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/new-york-fake-facades/
This is cool! I've worked on a tool like this for a major biotech, its nice to see an open source version with a decent feature set.

Looks like your other work is related to UAVs. How did you find this problem space? What was the inspiration for this tool?
Bro. Batteries.
Satellite Pollution Is Now a Serious Problem for Astronomers
>There is a persistent misunderstanding that life expectancy has historically only risen due to reduced child mortality and that, after childhood, people lived just as long regardless of era.

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1831003332430712876
> What a strange comment

No, you made a very broad statement which you were called out on and then retaliated with name calling. Grow up.
And there is one problem: "belief". Some people can walk through Xerox PARC and bet their company on 3-4 things they see. Others can own Xerox PARC and bet their company on 3-4 largely different things.

In EMH there is cooked in some notion of overall largely rational beliefs, and yet the shares trade hands from someone selling to someone buying - both of which feel they got a good deal worth making money from.
Personally I’d rather write assembly than C. Or make “clojure but for .NET/mono”, or…

Paul Graham himself proved with arc that you can write another Lisp in C and have it be a great foundation for a single application without doing anything really interesting in a wider sense (See also emacs lisp)
> Labeling something "flamebait" is a characterization of the tone of an argument, and whether it appears to be designed to incite low-quality discussion/flaminess

Which is also not measurable and manipulates the reader. I don't see the readers comment as flamebait. Just because misinformation comes from right-wing media and people have eyes to see that and call it out doesn't make it flamebait. What should we call it? An unknown amount of totally apolitical misinformation from [insert party here]?

> It's still an euphemism designed to manipulate the listener, and is something that is impossible to prove factually

As are most arguments when we use phrases like "a lot", "similar to", etc. If you dismiss things based on such broad criteria, I am puzzled by your comment history. You have told users they are bad and support Tyranny[1], said it's malicious to support infrastructure spending[2], and called Snowden a narcissist (which proves he had no altruistic motives?)[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434473
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375616
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406143

These are not emotional statements supported by an argument, these are arguments supported by emotional pleas.

And a simple cmd+f shows "Emotional plea" is a phrase you do not use sparingly either. You are using this word very broadly. If you cannot hold yourself to the same standards you hold other users, you aren't debating in good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375535
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375602
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406195
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41206808

You have obviously constructed a belief system that makes it impossible to engage with things you disagree with while allowing yourself to lash out at users however you see fit and bring up whatever politics suits you.

> Copy-pasting journal article links is not an argument

An argument is not a theoretical bottle exercise for one to wordsmith their way towards not engaging with the facts. In the real world, we have eyes.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440241258026?i...

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637323/
Not OP, but thanks for the suggestion. I’m starting to play around with LLMs and will explore locally hosted versions.
I'm neither a writer nor particularly familiar with the space, but NaNoWriMo looks like a dying company.

Looks like there was a scandal of some sort last year that led to a community purge of sorts including shuttering their forums. Their FAQ still references this event extensively, withholding any details. [0]

Add the super obvious cooperate sponsorship blog spam [1] (including the apparently removed promotion of their new AI partner [2]), and this looks like a zombie organization that has pivoted to squeezing the remaining value out of their userbase.

[0] https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/4403966090...

[1] https://blog.nanowrimo.org/

[2] https://archive.is/49R8u
The Big Trip
It's hilarious to see all the comments on the video[0] exclaiming at how advanced Photoshop 1.0 was. Indeed, it was a huge advancement in graphics editing at the time, and computers "back then" were capable of quite a lot of stuff. I think if everyone got stuck using a desktop computer from the 90's for a while they'd realize just how little has changed since then (or how much has been just slight iteration) :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tda7jCwvSzg
AI Agent-to-Agent (A2A) commerce is coming
gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It?
"No matter how big your engine is, you're not going to go anywhere without gas in the tank."

Quote from the youtube video.
That's disingenuous
In fact (if you read the post) I mention blocking "some small hosting providers as a proof of concept": that would be DigitalOcean, for the reason you state.
Why are landfills like this still a thing? Why not burn everything and only dump what's left?
> Come off it guys... the NaNoWriMo org already said they aren't endorsing the use of AI to write your entire submission for you.

Maybe I'm reading different critiques, but the angry people I've read have been upset with the labeling of condemnation of using AI to write as classest or ableist.

> They're just saying they aren't going to categorically condemn AI across the board. Seems like a perfectly reasonable position to me. Especially given that pretty much everything - human generated OR AI generated - builds on "that which came before".

Given how much AI-generation undercuts the core premise of the activity—writing out text—I don't really follow you. Besides if someone produces art of any merit the creator hardly needs the endorsement of NaNoWriMo to appear legitimate.
Clojure is certainly a hallmark among lisps, although it's rather complete. I would've expected it be on par with Lua esp. in scripting games. On a side note, great insight.
See the classic Cormac Herley research: “Why do Nigerian scammers say they’re from Nigeria?”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

> Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, not a disadvantage. Since his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.
> I refuse to believe that he's reclusing in some island in NZ and even if he is I'm pretty sure he isn't just watching from the sidelines.

You don't know anything about him other than some videos and public appearances. He could be doing a myriad of things, including watching from the sidelines. I bring this up not to bash you but to point out a common misconception that we all fall into at times. We don't really know public figures and so a lot of our opinions about them are just projections of our own desires and biases. People you only see in public can be very different (in character or motivation) than you think.
Anyone in the nutritional space who is still using the term "mediterranian diet" is an idiot.

Even neighbouring villages at the mediterrenian coast have different diets from village to village.

It's completely different all around.

So there is no "mediterranian diet" diet since every region eats differently.

Whenever you hear the term "mediterranian diet" you need to replace it with "zero modern processed foods and zero white sugar diets".

That is the only thing that these diets have in common, nothing else. Some are high in meat, other low etc... it's all over the place.
That already exists as "?" and was used in their example:

/first[-_]?name/i

Or to use your example, just checking for underscores and not also dashes:

/first_?name/i

Backslash is already used to change special characters like "?" from these meanings into just "use this character without interpreting it" (or the reverse, in some dialects).
The CRPG Addict blog has done a great job reviewing the PLATO games from a seasoned player's perspective, and he touches on some of the inspiration for Wizardry.

Oubliette: https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2013/10/game-12-oubliette-19...

Avatar: https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2013/11/game-124-avatar-1979...
The monetary side could only do so much and the fiscal side didn’t pull its weight.

For better or worse, having a GOP president during COVID lead to more stimulus as the Dems will play along and just add some pro labor addendums.

Having Obama in the WH he mostly dealt with nonstop GOP attempts to block any fiscal aid. Not to mention the huge focus on Obamacare by Dems took the eye off the ball.

US came out of GFC better than most but we still could have gotten out of it 2x faster.
Does it do it better? It also uses a ton more electricity so even if it's better, is it worth the cost?
“That is simple enough to solve (add an API call to update _your own process name_ or at least update your own process 'title' which interfaces like ps/taskman can use accordingly)“

We could call it setproctitle, or something. \s
Why Does Oracle Make Its Cloud Signup So Terrible?
Mayo researchers develop tool that measures health of a person's gut microbiome
Sharing the experience of building our own design system for my SaaS startup
Early-stage startups should not focus on building a design system but we did exactly the opposite!

We wanted to craft a delightful experience and make the app feel premium, colourful and unique. Fortunately, most of our users tend to agree that we did a good job with this. It has improved user engagement and also justified our pricing.

But this required building our own design system right at inception vs using an existing one like ShadCN or MUi. So we spent time reading documentation for open source systems by Google, Apple, etc.

Here’s how we use our component library:

1. One of us designs the components on Figma

2. Once reviewed, we code it to show up on the library

3. We check if the output is consistent with the Figma design

4. When it is time, one of us plugs it in the main code-base in minutes

You can simply right-click on any component to view the code snippet including more info. For future updates, you just need to edit the component and it reflect’s everywhere in the main app. :)

Many early stage startups have small teams and UI/UX engineering is over-looked, but we just made it part of our development cycle early-on. Shram being a front-end heavy application, this approach has helped us ship real fast (2-3 times a week before we decided to rebuild it).

As a self-taught programmer, going deeper within each component to the root level, I learnt a great deal about accessibility, states, uniformity of parameters, nomenclature and how they map to component hierarchies, API calls, local storage, etc.

We were approached by numerous SaaS startups enquiring about our UI. Some offered to buy our component library as well! We then realised that at this point, we were indeed up-skilled product designers with a rare expertise. So we worked with a few lovely startups as freelancers and were able to bootstrap our startup so far.

While I am proud of this, I do not recommend others to build their own component libraries. I am happy to share my learnings here or personally. If you want to use it for your app, it's all yours for free (but available only in React). :)
>> it is a fallacy to claim that the only anti-authoritarians which exist are those who would be pathologized

I don't think that this claim was made in the essay.
Laid OFF from my $250K Google Job – 5 HARSH Lessons [video]
i may have missed it, but where does the C Standard say anything about access to a symbol table? or even if such a thing exists.

and as for IBM i managed to use all sorts of OSs in VMs on IBM hardware back in the 1980s. Which did you have problems with?
It can go into a few hands. UK is the 6th largest economy in the world. Yet if you factor out London, the rest of the country has a GDP per capita the equivalent of Mississippi, the poorest state in the USA. In short, UK has relatively high GDP but it is heavily concentrated in one small geographic area.
Gold nugget formation from earthquake-induced piezoelectricity in quartz
Pretty much all of your examples require some level of home surveillance, either neighbors or a good camera system. If you don't have nosey neighbors and don't have alerting cameras, it would be almost trivial to pick a standard lock and place a few small mics or pinhole cameras while the house is empty during work/school hours.

The real deterent here is that nobody cares enough about some random normal person to do this. It's much easier to send email spam to trick a tiny percentage of gullible people into believing it and paying up.
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Our product is already live in several enterprise freight brokerages and we have closed several enterprise deals. We're looking for a founding engineering to expand our technical team. The ideal candidate is looking for a role with a lot of autonomy, has intense curiosity, is excited about building and optimizing with LLMs, and is motived by evolving the antiquated $800B trucking industry.

We were YC S23 and raised a significant seed round after the YC batch.

Our stack: Javascript/Typescript, Node, AWS

Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3942534635/
It's a great site, but I don't think many of the listings could be properly categorized as old-growth. For example, I checked out a few samples:

"The oldest trees are estimated to be over 200 years old."
https://www.oldgrowthforest.net/md-schoolhouse-woods

"The age of the oldest trees is not certain, but 100 rings have been counted on a downed loblolly pine and a downed chestnut oak. There is no old-growth forest in this park, however, the strong protections put in place on this forest ensure that it may recover in time."
https://www.oldgrowthforest.net/va-james-river-park-system

(The exact definition of old-growth isn't agreed on, but I've seen some foresty documents in the PNW that demand tree age of 400+ years as a prerequisite for the old-growth categorization)
It's a serious problem for unserious astronomers. It's not hard to distinguish a satellite from a star.

"The Extent Of The Problem Is Unknown" is how you know someone's full of shit.
EU has pretty strong controls on government use of facial recognition (multiple police programs shut down etc) and strong whistle-blower protections to allow people to report them
Its the UK, minus London, that has a similar GPD per capita as Mississippi.
Assuming incineration has lower externalities than landfills[1], you're... expressing surprise that a cheaper, suboptimal technique is ever used?

[1] I don't know if that's true.
Pretty sure my uncle, the reformed fuckup, bought his first house with sanitation dept money.
> We were using Windows NT 4 machines with Voodoo 3DFX graphics cards as our development machines.

I didn't realize the Voodoo was running on NT 4 but for CAD/3DS/etc I can see that being a thing. I remember trying to run Quake 2 on NT 4 (Dual P233 Tyan Tomcat IV w/128MB) but there was something that stopped me from doing so, think it was direct sound so no audio? Wasn't until Win 2k could I run games on an SMP machine.
The cornerstone of social engineering and phreaking.
Admittedly, I was being a bit hand-wavy and describing a bit more of how it feels rather than the way it is (I'm perpetually annoyed that promises can't be cancelled), but I was thinking of the code I've seen many times across many code bases:

let results;
try {
results = await Promise.all(vals.map(someAsyncOp))
} catch (err) {
console.error(err)
}

While you could pull that promises mapping into a variable and keep it thenable, 99% of the time I see the above instead. Promises have some rough edges because they are stateful, so I think it might be easier to recommend swapping that Promise.all for an Promise.allSettled, and using a shared utility for parsing the promise result.

I consider this issue akin to the relationship between `sort`, `reverse`, `splice`, the mutating operation APIs, and their non mutating counterparts `toSorted`, `toReversed`, `toSpliced`. Promise.all is kind of the mutating version of allSettled.
Kipping on Grabby Aliens
It's a question of degree also. A small business may not be able to afford a full time X expert. Either at all because they are a small business. Or when X is nowhere near their core activity. X might be mission critical but also not core. Perhaps a lawyer, perhaps a sysadmin, perhaps an architect, etc.

A good consultant is a part time adjunct who gives you the hints you need at a price you can afford and then gets out of the way.

I think the more frequent problem is that it's HARD for a small business to pick the right consultant. After that, it's hard to establish what is the right question (so that the answer has a chance to be the right answer.) And then it's hard to understand the answer.

Still a good idea simply because you can't afford "one of everything".

(And then there is the consultant as a justification for something that would be hard to accept otherwise.)
this is my approach as well :peace:
Chris Marks: Using Statistics to Increase Mine Safety
And "the Higgs field suddenly switched on" is analogous to the pendulum's random vibrations slowing down enough that they no longer overwhelm its pendulum behaviour?
While this article may be making a good point, in its construction it's quite weak. It reminds of something an old reporter once told me: "Any article whose headline is a question, fails to answer that question." Corollary: If the article had a point, it would have stated the point in the headline. But the writer didn't do the work, so it has no point to make.

Sidenote: it doesn't seem to me that the writer understands AI, its moving frontier, and its likely near-term abilities.
Not to mention that... If Thomas Edison didn't invite the light bulb, we'd all go to bed at sundown! (sarcasm, obviously)
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Wabe – Create your back end in minutes
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Ah, I thought this was about AI.

Remains true for AI though. It has no idea what swimming is.
> Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff due to a violation of GitHub's terms of service.

It disturbs me whenever I see a message like this that has no detail. Whenever one entity is serving as judge, jury, and executioner, there should at least be information for the community about what the condemned was charged with.

I suppose the most-charitable explanation would be an automatic process that detected a contributor committing something that matched some kind of malware signature?
While I am sure nothing is more optimized and battery conserving than C code hallucinated by an LLM, I really prefer writing my code my self when I work with my personal projects
In contemporary British English “program” is used for the computation-related senses. “Programme” is used for all the other senses, e.g. a concert programme.

Using “reprogramme” in a computation context is very old-fashioned and would be considered nonstandard spelling these days. I suspect this is someone taking BrE localisation too seriously or it’s a non-British person’s idea of what British English is.
The FF1 spell list is more directly derived from D&D, though. It even has the Power Words. The sense I've gotten from reading about the development of FF is that the dev team had varied experience with existing RPGs, so the game ended up as a mixture of derivative and original ideas. (The face-to-face side view in combat was apparently inspired by football!)
Good question. They address it here: https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/discussions/1164
my, admittedly colloquial, observations that nuance your european friend's perspective is that, in general, europeans appreciate the size and environmental and ecological diversity that exists in north america. people from the us who visit europe and rave about its beauty seem to be smitten by european culture (cities, history, architecture).

again, obviously this is colloquial and not everyone will fit neatly into one of those two categories, but as i've traveled around the various continents, that's the _general_ theme i detect in conversations.