skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘I don’t have time to make a short letter, so I made a long one instead’ -Mark Twain [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21422-i-didn-t-have-time-to...]

That kind of organization takes time, editing, multiple revisions to get right, etc.

And a mindset that it is useful. In many cases (like if you’re a religious caste), having a giant wall of text that requires skill to identify elements from, is a plus.

Do you want your ciphertexts formatted into paragraphs too?
The downvotes are because "this reasonable point of view" is also an ignorant one.

Emacs just cannot be Emacs without Lisp. Emacs is a Lisp machine; it is tightly integrated with Lisp and needs Lisp to operate. Lisp is at its core principal model.

There are a number of different types of applications that are significantly more difficult to achieve with a non-homoiconic language; check out Hyperfiddle/Electric, there are some videos with demos. Why do you think there were so many attempts to re-create something like Org-mode, yet none of them were hugely successful?

For starters - the Lisp REPL has some significant differences; it just doesn't work the same way as a REPL in, e.g., Python. In Lisp, you can send any piece of code without any prelude or ceremony directly to the REPL. That REPL instance can even be on some remote computer, like a spacecraft millions of miles away (I'm not making up this shit, NASA did it at some point)

Anyway, Emacs is Emacs because of Lisp, not because someone on a whim decided to use Lisp instead of, I dunno, Pascal. Trying to build Emacs on top of some non-Lispy language is futile. It won't be Emacs. Sure, it might be to a certain degree even better, but it won't be even "like Emacs".
It's sad because 1) this sort of nationalistic chest-thumping is stuff we should have overcome, after WWII, and 2) why is it so hard to accept that an Italian navigator with a Greek surname and (maybe) Middle-Eastern blood, used Spanish money and skills to reach the edge of the known world? If anything, it should be cause for celebrating how the joint efforts of Mediterranean societies changed history forever.

As I get older, I am more and more convinced that us "Meds" are our own worst enemy.
I want to preface this by saying that my favourite mode of transportation has been NS rail in the Netherlands, but that I do 99% of my travel (where I live, in Canada) by car since I live outside of the city.

>the cases I've just been stuck in stop and go traffic for 30 minutes it felt worse than any train ride I've taken except for the few times I was in "I feel like I'm going to get crushed" levels of crowded.

I would much rather sit in a seat that has been meticulously adjusted to fit my body perfectly, with climate controlled to the exact temperature I want, with music/audiobook/etc playing at the exact volume I want, with 0 encroachment on my personal space, than to sit on a crowded commuter train, where crowded == more or less every seat is taken, with some people likely standing. I don’t care if I have to be in stop and go traffic for a bit, I know how to drive smoothly (usually smoother than trains) and I have pretty good patience, so I just sit there and relax listening to music for a bit longer than normal.

Maybe if you drive a particularly barebones/uncomfortable car[0] I could see a train being preferable. Aside from that, I will take the car over the train for commuting pretty much every time. The exception is if the train is notably consistently faster, or if I’m somewhere like the Netherlands where cars are more of a general inconvenience.

[0] Or any modern non-luxury car, since every manufacturer has decided “sporty” sells so you need 20” wheels with rubber band tires and sports suspension on your commuter car. I would highly recommend driving something like a 1990s Buick Roadmaster or Chevrolet Caprice, or Lincoln Continental, or equivalent vehicle - we had figured out how to make commutes incredibly comfortable for little money 30 years ago, but it seems like pretty much everyone forgot.
sounds like a great way to get a bunch of black hats to target you after pissing off the white hats. Playing nice with people this smart should be precisely to prevent this kind of damage to a company that results in losing clients.

But I geuss corporations ignoring security for more immediately profitable ventures on the quarterly report is a tale as old as software.
When I was young, I learned HTML with Nvu, if anyone else remembers that.
I’m not trying to say it is a problem, more that it could be a problem. The fear mongering around an AI apocalypse is silly. Concern around bugs in real software making minor but real decisions however are warranted. Just as we try to reduce human error so should we try to reduce algorithmic error.
> Kagi must compete with a search engine that most people believe has no cost

Disagree. There is plenty of money to be made in being the premium search engine to the rich and educated. To the degree they might solidify that font, it’s in pursuing academia.
Sfm: Simple (suckless) file manager for Unix-like systems in C
I'm curious, how long time wise do these type of "heavy computations" take on clusters of HPCs?
wow I didn't know the humble $ escaped jQuery. Thanks for sharing!!

It's about time js/browsers gave selectors better DX. Even simple things like reactivity and stores should be core to JS and not be up to frameworks
You remind me to the common wisdom regarding user feedback. That when your users complain about something, you should listen - not to their advice per se, but to their gripes. Because while their gripes may be legitimate, their advice is near guaranteed to be rubbish (they're not developers after all).

Specifically, I'm referring to your new guy example here. The new guy usually very correctly identifies that things suck, what he lacks is perspective. This means that both his priorities will be off, as well as his approaches. Trust the gripe, not the advice.

This is also I think what people in this thread are/were generally about here. Not because Richard would be some new unknown kid on the block mind you, but because our grandchildren having to deal with CRLF is approximately as harrowing as the eventual heat death of the universe, and because instead of standards revisions, he was calling for standards violations.
Reading this thread has been extremely frustrating because so many commenters seem to be stuck on "why do this when we already have a CS:GO simulation at home?".

You hit the nail on the head.
> no reason to reinvent the airport firetruck.

There is. The booster is high above, and is larger than basically any aircraft. There's no flat concrete airfield around either.

I would suggest blowing CO2 or nitrogen through pipes positioned at the right height on the tower.
I’m guessing he’s probably talking about LessWrong, which nowadays also hosts a ton of serious safety research (and is often dismissed offhandedly because of its reputation as an insular internet community).
Ah yes, bracket editor by adobe is back
Fast, accurate approximation algorithms for computing floating point square root
My 7yo reads voraciously, including on her Kindle. This depends a bit on the kid, but also quite a lot on the household overall.
A shockwave does not travel linearly.
I have no comment on the way Twitch handled this, was only providing the link for context.

I find the culture around this fascinating. We've got platforms trying to find the right balance of moderation in an attempt to not appear to be porn sites because that would be perceived as bad by society, while taking as much of that traffic as they can and normalising this type of content at the boundary, and while also trying to appease their own sources of moderation such as advertisers and payment processors. We've got content creators who may well not identify as sex workers, convincing themselves that they're different because of some boundary, and children looking for attention and emulating the increasingly normalised behaviour at the encouragement of a platform that prioritises views and exposes harmful metrics.
Social media and staring at a screen destroy social skills. I know, I lived through 2 years of COVID.
wonder how this works with Pocketbase
Bummer. Not sure it's possible to overstate the impact BBSs had on me and my life between 1983-1997 (and all the things downstream of that). Certainly used a whole lot o' Xmodem initially.
The Effects of "Buy American": Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
> We study electric vehicle (EV) tax credits in the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest climate policy in US history, with three goals. First, we provide the first ex-post microeconomic welfare analysis of this central component of the IRA. Event studies around changes in eligibility for EV tax credits find that short-run economic incidence falls largely on consumers. Additionally, domestic content restrictions on tax credits for purchased vehicles have driven enormous shifts to leasing. Our equilibrium model shows that compared to pre-IRA policy, IRA EV credits generated $1.87 of US benefits per dollar spent in 2023, at taxpayer cost of $32,000 per additional EV sold. Compared to scenarios with no EV credits, however, the IRA EV credits created only $1.02 of benefits per dollar of government spending. Second, we characterize the gains from policies targeting heterogeneity in externalities across vehicles. We find that relative to uniform credits, differentiating credits across EVs according to their heterogeneous externalities would substantially increase policy benefits. Third, we quantify tradeoffs in the IRA EV credits between foreign and domestic welfare and between trade and the environment. We find that the IRA EV credits benefit the environment but undermine trade, since they decrease global carbon emissions but use profit shifting to decrease foreign producer surplus. A controversial IRA loophole that removes domestic content restrictions on tax credits for EV leases has negative domestic benefits.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33032/w330... [warning: pdf] | https://doi.org/10.3386/w33032
I do this sort of "raw material" note-taking on a piece of paper because a lot of my thoughts I feel most able to express with diagrams, shapes, lines-between-things, visual patterns, etc. I haven't found a good digital equivalent.

It's fascinating to see other people's systems, since it gives a glimpse into the different sorts of minds out there. Doing everything with text feels like a straitjacket to me, but likely the same would be true for other people if they did it my way.

Does anyone else feel like the "thoughts == words" crowd get too much press, sometimes?
https://github.com/getzola/zola
I've been getting this a lot from embedded youtube videos (not in private mode) over the past week
Interesting concept.

"Today ChatGPT read 6997 news articles and gave 0 of them a significance score over 6.5."
It’s not so much that they are fragile, as they’re a part that gets a lot of very heavy duty use and they’re expensive to make invulnerable. Ain’t no residential customer going to pay for a 100mfd 240v tantalum cap (how big would it be even?).

Think of them like a car starter motor or transmission (for old ICE vehicles).

Assuming we’re talking motor start capacitors anyway. For most of them, every time the compressor starts they see a dead short at 240v for a couple milliseconds, typically in the 10,000+ amps range.

And most people use their AC the most when it’s hot and nasty out. Which doesn’t help.
Of the two member team:

> One person is not certain whether they can safely check the WP Engine box, and one person has been removed from Slack, and is also unwilling to check the WP Engine box

Context: https://login.wordpress.org

Más context: https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-login-gets-mandatory-affi...
My Favorite Linux Terminal 4K Font: Google Noto Mono
SpaceX is so strategically critical American interests that it’s implausible for either administration to kneecap it.
I wonder what kind of arrangements they had to make to keep things hot while not producing power. I'm assuming that you could keep the shaft spinning at near operating speed, and hold the temperature of the turbines, etc... the big question for me is the boiler tubes themselves you'd have to essentially turn the whole firebox into a superheater, pulling just enough steam out to keep the turbine supplied, and the make-up water flowing.

This stuff really isn't designed to be throttled up and down like a yo-yo. I'm amazed they were able to do it at all, and seem confident they can keep it up.
You may think this now but maybe wait until your kid is in middle or high school.

Adolescent life is coordinated online now, and you will literally be handicapping your kid if you take a hard line.
Therapeutic Benefits of Alcohol?
I'm one of those agoraphobics that can't leave my house. I'm literally trapped. However a single drink allows me to go about my daily life without having panic attacks. I've asked many times and doctors won't prescribe benzodiaspine which are supposedly too addictive. That's fine, however what I find crazy is the judgement if I communicate using alcohol therapeutically. Something that works so well and that I don't find addictive. So why don't people talk about therapeutic benefits of alcohol like they do with marijuana. Why is it so taboo?
Thomas Aquinas (medieval Catholic philosopher) knew the Earth was round [1]. If your first point was to suggest that the roundness of the Earth disappeared with ancient Greece -- that didn't happen. Nor did the Renaissance rediscover that point, specifically.

> The consensus at the time, among the learned (i.e. Catholic Church and a few scientists with royal patronage here and there) was that the Earth was probably round, and probably small enough that you could maybe sail all the way to China and India from the edge of Europe - but they had no idea that there was land in between.

The first point is not probabilistic. The second, sure. It's only some Americans at this point who doubt the Earth is round.

[1] From Aquinas' Summa; search for "Earth": https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1001.htm (the also section has nothing to do with the Earth; he just drops that casually as an example in his reply to the objection in question.)
The best exercise is the one you stick with. Just get some, every day if you can. I can offer suggestions if you’d like.
Also, get sleep. Whatever you’re working on instead of sleeping you will probably finish 10x faster in the morning.
They have a history of pursuing solvable problems and abandoning those that were not working out or had better alternatives. Parachute recovery of the booster was abandoned in favor of propulsive landings. Catching fairings was abandoned for water proofing. Proposed Falcon and Dragon variants were abandoned as was Dragon propulsive landing. They abandoned carbon fiber construction and multiple concepts for Starship/Heavy.

The tiles in combination with ablative materials and the insane robustness of a steel vehicle is sufficient to get Starship through re-entry and soft land in the ocean. We know ceramic thermal tiles worked on Shuttle and X37B and presumably will on Dreamchaser so while the success was an awesome achievement it wasn't unlikely given time to refine their methods.

SpaceX are limited by the properties of real materials, not their ambitions, and we still don't know if rapidly reusability is possible with ceramic tiles or if their fragility will require inspections and refurbishment. They can't do it with ablatives and there aren't many other options. I am optimistic but also realistic about the difficulties of what they are attempting. Sometimes risky projects run into brick walls and you don't know what is possible until you try.
> The degradation of road surfaces is caused almost entirely by automobiles.

This should read: The degradation of road surfaces is caused almost entirely by heavy trucks.

Road wear is proportional to the fourth power of axle weight. A fully loaded cement truck or transport truck is doing way more damage than a fully loaded box truck, which is doing much more damage than a Hummer EV, which is doing much more damage than a Tesla Model S or F150, which is doing more damage than a Nissan Micra or Mazda Miata. Here’s[0] a page with a neat chart showing relative comparisons. Note that it tops out at 18k lb trucks, which are ~1200x as damaging as something like a Prius; it doesn’t include fully loaded trucks, which can exceed 80k lbs in North America. The amount of damage to roads they do compared to average or lightweight cars is mind boggling.

[0] https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...
It's probably exactly backwards. Social media breeds narcissism.
Your first sentence is true. The rest of it isn't remotely close to being true (starting in around 7th grade).
As others pointed out, you don't need any convenience from a modern language.

But what optics (often sloppily referred to as lenses) give you are really powerful getters and setters. They can do what getters and setters in Python do, but they can also

- target multiple fields in multiple objects at the same time, or

- target fields only when a condition is true,

- they can target deeply nested fields,

- they can target computed values which have a compound effect on the underlying fields,

- they can return a new full object where the targeted fields are transformed by an arbitrary function, etc.

This means optics are extremely broadly useful. They can be used as OO-style getters and setters, but they can also be used to build and navigate JSON objects, or parse HTML content. It's a common interface that can be used for getting and modifying data in any broader context.
Is this post from 2020 being revisited now because the situation seems even worse as Swift is building out isolation regions, complicating function coloring with stuff like per parameter inference?
> Mine's a 'Smile'

Yeah - so's theirs [1].

> I get that a lot, haha!

Gee, then -- it's probably "confusingly similar" [2]? Not a good sign.

Do yourself a favor and have a new one on deck, at least.

[1] https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/design/2024/January/04/how-tu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusing_similarity
Even then, I don't think they would need to create a fleet of drones to buzz around military bases to scare up a pretext for more funding. That's comic book logic.
No idea how. Energies of most chemical bonds / electrons around atoms are not very high, not sufficient to emit proper gamma rays AFAICT. High-energy gamma rays are produced in nuclear reactions. While "clean" nuclear reactions that emit only gamma rays and not neutrons do exist, they are very high-energy and thus hard to initiate, and I don't think it would be easy to capture the energy of incoming gamma efficiently enough.
We can cherry-pick AI experts to pay attention to. Yann LeCun recently called current AI "dumber than a cat." Stephen Wolfram has written some very well thought-through articles about LLMs and doesn't find much to worry about. Gary Marcus. I wouldn't ignore Geoff Hinton, but he can fall victim to the same mistakes anyone else can, as Gary Smith [1] described.

Pointing out that people of any era can get easily fooled by things they don't fully understand supports my position. Putting aside the obvious stock pumping and hype going on in the current AI bubble, plenty of people want to believe in AGI, or want to fear it, or just want to stay relevant. A decade from now we will only remember the people who made correct predictions.

[1] https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/computers-still-do-not-unders...
Title on HN is wrong. The article says GPUs and it's referring to one of their 8xH200 boxes.
Yes, US had a more built-up rail system in the past. But it's naive to think it died because of fair economic competition.
iirc they plan on making multiple launch sites so one getting damaged wont grind operations to a halt.
There were some financial giants that used Symbolics for fraud detection; possibly it just makes sense to keep it running than to rewrite it. I remember American Express being a large customer, from what I read.
Or have the tower on the moon catch it.
Huly – Open-source project management platform
I use Granola, I’m not affiliated with them. They create detailed meeting notes from whatever I type during the meeting, it uses the transcript and AI to flesh out my notes. It’s a great idea and their tiering is nice. 25 meetings free iirc. I sometimes chat with past meetings and find it useful to deep dive into the narratives.

The bigger issue I have is to do with messaging and clientele-communication itself. I’m building Athens to help me shift more things to voice ai. I think voice computing is the way forward. There are a lot of benefits, it’s essentially more ‘human’ and personal - things get resolved quicker, decisions are better and made faster. I am being asked about meeting integrations for it and that’s on the roadmap.

Here’s a link if you’re interested:

https://athens.winterdelta.com/playlist/536a9778-cd9d-4491-8...
Nothing from the "rationalist" cult carries any weight with me. It seems more like a self-congratulatory circle jerk of nerds telling each other how smart they are than a serious intellectual group.
Don't forget genocides they are committing
How would you respond to the argument that the burden of proof lies with the other side, i.e, the side that says there is too little AI doom risk to worry about?
Oh absolutely, I'm just shocked at the idea the author would presume others feel this way too.
Because they aren’t limiting the counts to post menopausal women. they are counting all under 30 women who are just delaying having children. this even before accounting for egg freezing and other modern tricks that allow children even after menopause. Actually total fertility rate for women retiring from potential child bearing is around 2.4 in the 2020’s in the usa.
I'm not sure what "logic" has to do with this, but I am confused why one would presume others share this mindset.
RedCap, the 5G for IoT, will get its first devices soon
Which is a PITA when you have a method that takes some event, e, as an argument.
Does it? I mean, it explains the desperate attempts at getting more money, but it doesn't fully explain his hamfisted execution. There are smarter ways to go about extorting your competitors.
Matt, you say that you've had no other reports and this is the only claim on the Internet.

That's not true. You have users on the support forums reporting issues with SCF.

"this has caused an incident requiring unschedule maintenance on a weekend. I use this plugin on a couple hundred sites I help maintain, so this has been a very bad experience "

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hijacked-on-weeke...
Cabel Sasser, Panic – XOXO Festival (2024) [video]
I’m genuinely concerned this will lead to SmartTV with unblockable “telemetry”…
i hope this is a meta joke, but given the....oddly provocative?.... line of semantically-insatiable pedant-ism influx, I fear there are now swarms of agents doing the "socializing"/bidding of unknown entities - including themselves.

whether to RAG specialized knowledge from bell-curve dwellers or to solicit medical information that is then easily correlatable with other info from an audience with a high median income, whos to say.
Yours is really the worst type of post that anyone can make here. Just because it's an election year doesn't mean we have to turn every damned topic into a red/blue culture war dripping with hostile political rhetoric. Embrace the better part of your nature or take it out of here and back to Reddit please.