skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to keep in mind, cities are mostly unique in a state but not entirely. There was another Oakland California twenty years ago. I don't know if it still exists 'cause Google no longer works for discovery of things like that.
I scored 3.

Took me a while to actually try hard things, because I was afraid of failure.

It wasn't until my mid thirties I started really pushing myself, embracing the fact that failure was a part of life, and changing my trajectory in a dramatic way.

~7 years later, I've got a nice house (2M), 1M in the bank, 2 kids, loving wife, and a handful of close friends I see often.

It was a tough road getting here, but life is good.
Is it extreme to believe that we should pay attention to the government deficit?

Is it extreme to believe that illegal immigration is out of control.

Is it extreme to believe that we should have ID's at elections?

Is it extreme to believe that there should be a department of governmental efficiency when the government just lost billions in the Iraq war?

Is it extreme to believe that we should become a multi planetary species.

I read Elon's tweets daily and nothing is extreme.

This is one of the many Elon hit pieces because he doesn't go along with the mainstream programming.
AI-generated overlay and rotation optical illusions [video]
> The next time you are deciding where to position your bluetooth speaker, if it's lacking in bass, boundary-load it.

There's only so much bass that a silly bluetooth speaker can provide. Even the silly Bose speaker where the sound travels through a maze before exiting the unit just can't make bass. Small speakers just can't move enough air nor have enough surface area to generate the waves for bass. Anything less than 12" is a joke. 15" is ideal for me as 18" tends to not be able to cycle fast enough for the music I listen. They do fine for longer sustained lows like in hiphop/rap. A running 16ths bassline at 135bpm sounds better in a cabinet of 15"s than 18"s. To me. No bluetooth unit has ever impressed me.
That just sounds/looks like more work then just doing it normally? what am I missing?
This exactly. LLMs can't reason, so we shouldn't expect them to try. They can do translation extremely well, so things like converting descriptions to 90-95% correct code in 10-100x less time, or converting from one language to another, are the killer use cases IMO.

But expecting them to solve difficult unsolved problems is a fundamental misunderstanding of what they are under the hood.
Note that although the Roman Empire started around 27 BC, Times New Roman is only good for fraud going back to 1932 AD.
>how did the criminals identify or decide to target these specific victims.

They used SIM swapping, which is done by fooling customer service agents using stolen, partial personal information. The victims were also cryptobros, so I am guessing the answer is actually as mundane as it gets: Victims put up their names and addresses on social media and bragged/discussed about their cryptowealth.
I was hoping for the article to talk about how it reinforces that its OK. Its way easier for me to notice pointless toil when I'm new at a job, or when I hire someone new. Once I've been there a while I start to go blind to it.
A real life The Big Lebowski
Makes being a mail carrier sound significantly better. Between having AC and a union im almost envious
It's still striking. The national average of people self-identifying as trans/non-binary is only 1.6%: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-o...

Even if you only compare with the 18-29 demographic, where the prevalence is higher at 5.6%, it's still 6x as high in the Rust community.
You've got to go even earlier... which is where the bc link becomes interesting. It's from 1975.

Lotus 1 2 3 dates from 1983... I can't find a copy of it that is runnable.

VisiCalc would be a good one to look at at 1979. It also presents 9 https://archive.org/details/VisiCalc_1979_SoftwareArts

You've also got sc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator) from 1981.

docker run -it ubuntu:latest
# apt-get update
# apt-get install sc
# sc
= -3^2

And you'll see 9.00 (screen shots of those two https://imgur.com/a/L0ZvJlP and the one from VisiCalc )

This is the way its worked for a long time.

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(edit / further thoughts)

I believe that the underlying issue is that unary - (negation) and binary - (subtraction) use the same operator and you need the unary one to have a very high precedence to avoid other problems from happening.

Consider the expression: 2^-2

Is that 0.25 or a parse error?
I think I've heard the term "packet" used to refer to the general category of thing that Ethernet frames, IP packets, and TCP segments are all examples of.
It's a surprisingly hard threat to model against.

For example, sure, don't store your funds on an exchange and they can't get in with a SIM swap, but when they're in your house, that doesn't help you.

You could store your funds with a multisig wallet and make sure you don't have access to enough keys at home to move the funds, but how do you make them believe you?

You can have one or more decoy wallets you can "cave" and give them access to if you think it might buy your freedom, but once you start, again, why would they believe you?

Do you just acknowledge that they won't believe you,that they are going torture you regardless? And at least make sure you or your heirs have the money if any of you survive?

There really isn't a good way out of this.
You said this so much more succinctly than me.
Only the low level Mac book. Knowing Apple the dock will cost half the price of a MacBook anyway. Also make it a pro/max feature only that price delta is pure profit.
Earth to have new mini-moon for two months
> With no representations of yourself on the net, you may as well not exist, and people are free to project anything whatsoever unto the tabula rasa of your nonexistent persona

I think this is only as issue if you are a “known” person in some regard. For most of us plebs, receding into anonymous nonexistence is likely a very healthy thing.
> the vehicles have airbags, 360-degree cameras, blind-spot monitoring, collision sensors[, AC,] and anti-lock brakes — all of which are missing on the [old ones].

Woa, is driving without airbags even legal nowadays or do they drive different ones in Germany? I always thought the USPS trucks looked... utilitarian old I guess, so like they shipped them over to keep the historical branding, but I don't know if that's actually the case

Another interesting bit of the article:

> the costs of installing thousands of charging stations and upgrading electrical service, made [electric delivery vehicles] unaffordable at a time [...]. That led to a deal in which the [US] government provided $3 billion

> [they're buying] 106,000 vehicles through 2028. That included 60,000 next-gen vehicles, 45,000 of them electric models, along with 21,000 other electric vehicles
Everything you said applies to regular search engines too. There's always a cognitive load in using them. Often the load is less with an LLM. Other times it's not.

Can't use either of these tools for all problems. Pick the right tool for the right problem.
Your $50 buys you nothing from Solidworks, expect to pay multiple thousands for that
I meant the permanent unique ID assigned by the server.
Blessed by Google but full of ads :(
Multisig wallet where you and your spouse both have to sign. In case one dies, the multisig can expire after a certain amount of time and let you access with just one key

Of course this assumes you have a spouse
This was a large consideration in me offloading the vast majority of my cryptocurrency during the peak run up. The financial and digital hacking risk I was okay with, the physical risk to my family was too much. Even if I kept it off-site and in a safe deposit box somewhere no criminal would actually know that. Decoy systems and complicated multisig setups are all vulnerable to the ball peen hammer attack.

Had I known Bitcoin would turn into what it had I would have done far more to create a pseudonymous persona when participating in the early scene vs. my well known and easily linked handle to my real identity.

It was a fun ride, but the risk just got to be too much.
You put it behind an API call and run the loop automatically for every coding query
Excel will convert many CUSIPs (strings) into numbers (scientific notation). For a relatively comprehensive list, see below.

https://www.empirasign.com/cusip-excel-rosetta/

Barring some types of corporate actions, CUSIPs numbers cannot change, and I doubt the ABA is aware of this issue.
For people interested in coding CAD in React, my team built a react fiber layer over jscad and are investing heavily into building an MIT-licensed 3d electronics library: https://github.com/tscircuit/jscad-fiber

I don't think you need a custom language to declare CAD, typescript/python have heavily invested in type systems so I hope the world moves more toward using existing languages.

The biggest limitation with code-CAD today is the lack of a constraint system (e.g. a clean way to say "these edges are 3mm apart") without X/Y coordinates everywhere. We're slowly building higher-level components that allow you to specify constraints so that you can write CAD in a way that more closely mimics the design intent, rather than a bunch of calculations.

OpenSCAD started it all so we're very grateful, but it's also time for some innovation to bring the language closer to design intent
how do you get the system to change itself when it benefits so greatly from the status quo. massive protests? vote them out? those would require organisation and cooperation from people that can easily be turned against each other. no, the system stays as it is or gets worse. sorry to be a downer has there ever been a situation where massive self interest like this have been overcome?
I’ve always wondered if that gold coin company sells marketing info.

Were names of Mt. Gox claimants published?
I find it helpful to distinguish between bugs and design flaws.

A bug is caused by a poorly implemented version of the design (or a literal bug in the system). Fixing a bug requires identifying where the system varies from the design and bringing it into alignment with the design.

A design flaw is a case where the idealized system as conceived by the engineers is incapable of fully solving the problem statement. Fixing a design flaw may require small tweaks, but it can also mean that the entire solution needs to be thrown out in favor of a new one.

Importantly, what's a design flaw for one problem statement may be just fine or even beneficial for another problem statement. So, more objectively, we might refer to these as design characteristics.

Hallucinations are a special case of two low-level design characteristics of LLMs: first, that they are trained on more data than can reasonably be filtered by a human (and therefore will be exposed to data that the humans wish it weren't) and second, that they produce their text by sampling a distribution of probabilities. These two characteristics mean that controlling the output of an LLM is very very difficult (or, as the article suggests, impossible), leading both to hallucinations and alignment concerns (which are actually the same concept framed slightly differently).

If the problem statement for an LLM application requires more 99% factual accuracy or more than 99% "doesn't produce content that will make investors nervous" accuracy, these design characteristics count as a design flaw.
He said it, it is ultimately a turn off.
Depends on the task but if you're going high level enough, it's not more work. Think about it this way: if you're doing proper development you're going to write code, tests and commit messages. Since you know what you want to achieve, write a really good commit message as the prompt, start writing tests and let the agent run in the meantime. Worst case, it doesn't work and you do the code yourself. Best case, it worked and you saved time.

(Not sure if that was clear but the steps/loop described before happens automatically, you're not babysitting it)
> OpenSCAD is a one-way, declarative CSG environment that essentially only outputs mesh formats

This is why such a basic-seeming thing as “how do i get the bounding box for this CSG frankenobject I’ve created?” comes up again and again on stackoverflow etc. it’s apparently not possible without some hacks.

I’ll take a look at the alternatives you mentioned, thanks.
So far they have only drilled INCHES in a lab. File this under extremely speculative.
First of all, I'm sorry I upset you! That was definitely not intended.

I'm not comparing the two, I want to show what's possible. I often see people finding OpenSCAD, getting comfortable with it because it's all code, and stopping there. But there's so much more to solid body modelling, it's not too complicated to learn, and a bit more advanced CAD really expands the range of physical objects we can create! This is why I chose those slightly more complex examples, I'm not trying to gotcha OpenSCAD, I tried to show why one might want to branch out, despite all the downsides (subscription, non-code source files, Windows*, etc) you mentioned.

Fwiw I dream of a good open source CAD that syncs code and GUI (like KittyCAD) but doesn't fall into the trap of "procedural" modelling like OpenSCAD or KittyCAD. The combination of sketches+constraints+3D operations+projections is perfectly representable as code, it's just much more work than raw CSG, requires a geometric kernel, and is more mind bending. Still, I hope we will get one some day.

*: it does run perfectly well in Parallels though, so between Mac and native Windows I suspect it's more like 80% here
> If student debt is dischargeable and the government guarantee is removed or dramatically reduced, pretty much all problems are “solved”.

No, it just means everyone will complete their degree then file for bankruptcy immediately before starting their first job.
SOLIDWORKS for Makers includes a full copy of SOLIDWORKS and costs $48/year https://www.solidworks.com/solution/3dexperience-solidworks-...
Speak for yourself - I'm coding at least 30% faster than before because of LLMs. I don't use it for generating code, but as a reference and for brainstorming ideas. Your expectations are perhaps too high by wanting to see an "explosion", but the productivity increase was very clear in my case.
They reversed the policy too late. Their rapid growth was them seizing the low hanging fruit upgrading from a country of almost entirely peasants to slightly fewer peasants, all funded by Western greed. Those gains will never happen again.
I understand that but a project can still be active even if there are no releases. A lot of software doesn't even get published as packages in distros.
You had me tricked into thinking Solidworks was $50/year.

I was about to impulse purchase a license and switch over from Fusion. That would be an incredibly attractive hobby license and would probably take a lot of money from Autodesk.

All I see is closer to $3000/year :(
Was hoping to see different RAID configurations as well. Copying some files last night I noticed my 6 spinning disk RAID 5 array maxed out at 525 MB/s.
You might like the PCB constraint system we're building at tscircuit for laying out boards, the biggest issue with most systems imo is that you can't cleanly specify constraints. In tscircuit you can just use a <constraint /> component to lay out PCB elements

https://github.com/tscircuit/cli/blob/main/example-project/s...
And like with outsourcing it starts with the jobs at the lower end of the skill range in an industry, and so people at the higher end don't worry about it, and later it expands and they learn that they too are not safe.

What happened a couple of decades ago in poetry [1] could happen now with programming:

> No longer is it just advertising jingles and limericks made in Haiti and Indonesia. It's quatrains, sonnets, and free-form verse being "outsourced" to India, the Philippines, Russia, and China.

...

> "Limericks are a small slice of the economy, and when people saw globalization creating instability there, a lot said, 'It's not my problem,'" says Karl Givens, an economist at Washington's Economic Policy Institute. "Now even those who work in iambic pentameter are feeling it."

[1] http://www.watleyreview.com/2003/111103-2.html
Many years ago, I went to school with someone who shared their name with someone who got in a very public spat with George Steinbrenner who was the owner of the New York Yankees at the time. They got literal death threats on their phone.

ADDED: Since then I've often thought the worst case scenario is to share a somewhat unusual name with someone who is hated/notorious in some manner given it invites crazies to do crazy things.
I'm using Cursor and till now the "test run" part is manual, like Cursor doesn't care about testing or actually checking the code it wrote works

Any tips how I could integrate that? Do I need to switch to aider/plandex?
It doesn't really make sense. iOS games are built to be played directly on the touchscreen. That rules out a lot of types of games (imagine playing WoW without a keyboard). It's not just about horsepower.

I do think Apple thinks that way but there's a good reason for Devs not doing so.
The large majority of professional writers and artists produce thankless commodity output for things like TV advertisements, games, SEO content. These jobs should be threatened.
You can only deal with stupid (or ‘differently aligned competencies’) for so long before it starts to irk you, and you start assuming that anyone that calls—and anything they want—is stupid
Stack Overflow for better or worse would let you know when you're being an idiot and would shoot your foot off. AI will gladly load the gun for you.
The problem with most CAD tools is they don't represent "design intent" or high-level components well, and I believe this is mostly due to the language's not being sophisticated enough

e.g. a human says "these holes need to be separated by 2mm", but when we program in OpenSCAD and other CAD languages we usually specify x={-1} for one component and x={1} for the other (just an example of how design intent is being lost)

When we can represent design intent well, we'll have something that LLMs can really grab hold of and build higher level components
There is actually a book on geometry which takes advantage of this:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make

which has since become a series including:

Trigonometry: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make

Calculus: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make

Currently working through a library using the new Python-enabled OpenPythonSCAD, and at the end of it, hope to work on a project which requires conic sections (which I'm still researching, so if anyone has any good resources on that I'd be glad of them).
And what your phone can’t do will be offloaded to servers. Meaning your phone can do a lot and an M1 processor isn’t necessarily a waste.
They're not denying your experience. They are, however, pointing out you didn't do your research Well when picking programs to apply to.

I've been in different universities and the experiences for the same departments very considerably. You specify on your application whether you want your admission to be conditional on funding. One communications department for example would typically admit only 2 to 3 students per year on funding. I thought it was very competitive to get into. But of course if you tell them you're willing to pay your own way admission becomes much easier.

Other departments may not be that upfront with the deal but all people applying to grad school should understand these Dynamics.
I mean if you follow him because you subscribe to the same views then no they aren't extreme to you, sure, obviously.

But several of those things are part of extremist platforms. What it could look like or mean to hold one of those views alone in a vacuum is irrelevant, we're talking about what political action is taken by publicly endorsing an extremist faction's platform.

And this is not even getting into the things that are... I mean come on. Why is there no "is it extreme to amplify an anti-semitic conspiracy theory?" in your post?
Good luck with nuance here. Nutrition is challenging precisely because it isn't 1s and 0s, and the pedantry brigade struggles with that. Is one tub of Ben & Jerry's gonna kill you? No. Is it good for you? No. UPFs are a spectrum, and I don't see why folks here get so offended by the idea that maybe the healthiness of foods falls along a spectrum. The knee-jerk reactionary negativity is fascinating, but like... in a sad way. It's hard not to read it as the same anti-intellectualism that seems to permeate the more... persuadable parts of the tech community. "Scientists say UPFs are bad. Scientists are wrong. Therefore, UPFs are good, actually." It explains why there's so much anti-vax nonsense here (watch, my comment probably won't even get posted). Sad.
> People ... are increasingly unwilling to accept ambiguity and uncertainty in fictional universes.

When I was young and read scifi, it was more solitary and personal. I read it, thought about it, and moved on in a solitary way.

But over time, things have changed. Now I read more fiction, I select the fiction differently, and I communicate with others about it.

The big difference seems to be that when young I encountered my fiction, and nowadays I choose my fiction.

Do other people do this? Does it lead to higher expectations?
Amazing, thanks for sharing!

I don’t have anyone to talk to about any of this, so it’s helpful to see how others have done. It’s helpful to me as a guide of sorts.

I appreciate you sharing your experiences!
Thankfully I have been able to do what I want to do without learning the complexity that comes with Build123d etc.

Perhaps someday, but I havent had the need to get there thus far.

Also: Encapsulation etc was achievable with Python, which is something I already know. PythonSCAD checked all the boxes for me without the learning curve.
I wonder what he means by France having a “weird” naming system in common use. As far as I can tell, the traditional French naming system works exactly the same way as the traditional American one (except that it’s more common for French people to have several middle names rather than zero or one, but I don’t think that’s too rare in the US either).

Maybe he’s referring to the fact that some last names are two words (e.g. Marine Le Pen), but I don’t think that’s very common…

Anyway, it could be anything, so I wish he’d said!
which would make lenders more cautious which would make it harder to get a loan which would make less money available so tuitions would be competing for less and prices would come down this is how it's supposed to work yes
Especially when the cloud is AWS, GCP or Azure.

Damn, that’s all of them.
> First, we're discussing metaphors, and it's certainly possible to use different metaphors to describe or model the same situation.

It's by no means obvious that "any metaphor will do," which seems to be your point.

And all cultures have war. There are zero cultures that have replaced war with dancing and there's no reason to think this is possible.
This is fine if for free, but I don't see people paying for such entertainment. Even with custom generation, I think the audience for such paid entertainment is slim.
Don’t you live with your spouse?

Now the intruder has a gun pointed at both of you.
I would repudiate my earlier, silly ideas.
That is true, there is no silver bullet. For the people like me that know and have multiple keys in multiple secure locations are probably mostly fine, other solutions on government och bank websites is that they need somekind of formal verification before giving you a new key. There are always tradeoffs regardless of solution, depends on what you value.