skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s not doing anything activists haven’t done for years to get out the vote. In college famous rock and hip hop groups would come on campus to play shows that had voter registration tables upon entry and lots of messaging about who to vote for and then being endlessly recruited to volunteer/phone bank/canvas for some group that was supporting the event.

Activism cuts both ways.
That's the whole shtick, plausible deniability by saying nothing of substance.
While that is true, it is not something specific to Verne but it is how everybody was educated at that time.

Verne was far more sympathetic towards non-European people that the vast majority of the Europeans of his time and many non-Europeans had very positive roles in his writings, even if their roles were less important than of the main European heroes. There were even a few strong female characters in some of his novels, even if most had male protagonists.

Therefore I think that it is stupid to insist on this. Only in the context of describing racism of the entire society of the 19th century it makes sense to give examples from Verne, among many others, to illustrate the way of thinking of that time.

Discussing this only in Verne can give the impression that he was worse than others, when in fact he was much better from this point of view.

He certainly was not an "apostle of colonization" and even the article recognizes that many of his works are very critical of colonization.

The main thing that can be reproached to Verne is that he tended to be much more indulgent about French colonization than about British colonization, under the mistaken assumption that in the French colonies abuses happen much less frequently than in the British colonies (though the British appear to have indeed been the worst, judging after the very small percentages of surviving natives in the British colonies in comparison with the colonies of all other countries).

As a child I have read a very large number of the novels of Jules Verne. While there were a few passages where he expressed a naive optimism about the possible benefits of bringing "civilization" to some remote parts of the Earth, those have made very little impression on me. What I have retained because I was impressed by them have been exactly the parts where the European colonization was criticized and where various natives had very positive images.

So any article author that describes Jules Verne as an "apostle of colonization" cannot have done due diligence in really reading his works.
A source code repository is actually a terrible place to get that context. All of the things like decisions and how this relates to the customer are completely missing.
What about when reading and writing? My inner monologue internally voices the words as I’m reading and writing. Do you not do that?
Any idea when it won’t be the midst of a climate crisis? Oh ok.
I suggest reading the comment I left back then in this blog post comments section, and the reply I wrote in my blog.

Btw, things to note in random order:

1. Check my comment under this blog post. The author had missed a fundamental point in how the algorithm works. Then he based the refusal of the algorithm on the remaining weaker points.

2. It is not true that you can't wait an approximately correct amount of time, with modern computers an APIs. GC pauses are bound and monotonic clocks work. These are acceptable assumptions.

3. To critique the auto release mechanism in-se, because you don't want to expose yourself to the fact that there is a potential race, is one thing. To critique the algorithm in front of its goals and its system model is another thing.

4. Over the years Redlock was used in a huge amount of use cases with success, because if you pick a timeout which is much larger than: A) the time to complete the task. B) the random pauses you can have in normal operating systems. Race conditions are very hard to trigger, and the other failures in the article were, AFAIK, never been observed. Of course if you have a super small timeout to auto release the lock, and the task may easily take this amount of time, you just committed a deisgn error, but that's not about Redlock.
> Nemo is Indian, but he is basically a white man with a pallet swap, since he could be anyone.

Can you elaborate on this?
Kate Holterhoff: From Front-End Engineering to Developer Advocacy [video]
And reality proves over and over again that open source firmware and hardware are very much needed.
> But at the end of the day, only the numbers matter.

Are these the numbers reported by tesla, or by some third party?
It's a vest that you can fill with stuff to increase the intensity of a workout.

There was a time in my life when my legs started hurting and shaking from muscle atrophy because I was programming too much and moving too little.

I was looking for a way to fix that issue and I didn't want to waste time going to a gym, so I started talking walks with a weighted vest. Walking is nice because you can think while walking and with a weighted vest you don't have to walk for hours for it to have a useful effect on your body.
Trying to figure out how to make Bluesky able to follow youtube latest videos from selected users (without a google autoban)

Possible workaround until it hits critical mass.
Knuth is not the average programmer by far. And I am not talking about coding skills. Knuth is a writer at heart. He was also from a time where writing code on paper was the norm. Literate programming is good for Knuth, but maybe not for most coders today, who grew up on fast computers and IDEs.
I’m a Tesla fan but I have to say anecdotally that it seems like Teslas represent an outsize number of bad drivers in my observations. Is it the FSD that’s a bit too aggressive and sporadic? Lots of lane changing, etc?

They’re up there with Dodge Ram drivers.
You should look at Icechunk. Your imaging data is structured (it's a multidimensional array), so it should be possible be to represent it as "Virtual Zarr". Then you could commit it to an Icechunk store.

https://earthmover.io/blog/icechunk
Lots of people, myself included, read documentation.
My experience has been directionally the same as yours but not of the same magnitude. There's a lot of room from improvement but it's still very good. I'm in a slightly suburban setting... I suspect you're in a fender denser location that me, in which case your experience may be different.
I assure you I am not trolling. You appear to have misread my message.

Take a deep breath. Read my message one more time carefully. Notice the question mark at the end of the last sentence. Think about it. If after that you still think I’m trolling you or anyone else I will be here and happy to respond to your further questions.
Grab any ML book and read the chapter on random forests. If you have the maths background (which is not particularly high for random forests) which you should if you took ML courses, it’s all going to be pretty straightforward. I think someone already mentioned Hastie, The Elements of Statistical Learning, in this thread which you can download for free and would be a good start.
The crux of the issue is that your interpretation of performance cannot be trusted. It is absolutely irrelevant.

Even a system that is 99% reliable will honestly feel very, very good to an individual operator, but would result in huge loss of life when scaled up.

Tesla can earn more trust be releasing the data necessary to evaluate the system’s performance. The fact that they do not is far more informative than a bunch of commentators saying “hey it’s better than it was last month!” for the last several years — even if it is true that it’s getting better and even if it’s true it’s hypothetically possible to get to the finish line.
>Organizations don’t just naturally become bureaucratic as they grow; they become bureaucratic as a result of deliberate decisions made by leaders who at the time believed they were doing the right thing.

These leaders will have to be held accountable. Generally one want to do the dirty job. It boils down to people and nothing else. Any attempt at analysis the system without considering people's intelligence/character is premature.

My partial take on it: https://quberoot.wordpress.com/partners/
The only mechanism I can think of that could have been used for that purpose, and was publicly known about (to at least some extent) in the late 1970s, would be RSA. That is strong crypto, or at least we know it is when used properly today, but it's unlikely the authors of IP would have known about it. Even if they did, the logistical challenges of key distribution would have sunk its use, and they would almost certainly have fallen into one of the traps in implementing it that took years to discover, and the key sizes that would have been practical for use ca 1980 would be easy to break by the end of the 1990s.

Simply put, this isn't a road not taken, it's a road that didn't exist.
Fair point, but wouldn’t we rather they be spending their time doing that than actively abusing kids?
>> Only 2 of the 9 LLMs solved the "list all ways" prompt, but 7 out of 9 solved the "write a program" prompt. The language that a problem-solver uses matters! Sometimes a natural language such as English is a good choice, sometimes you need the language of mathematical equations, or chemical equations, or musical notation, and sometimes a programming language is best. Written language is an amazing invention that has enabled human culture to build over the centuries (and also enabled LLMs to work). But human ingenuity has divised other notations that are more specialized but very effective in limited domains.

If I understand correctly, Peter Norvig's argument is about the relative expressivity and precision of Python and natural language with respect to a particular kind of problem. He's saying that Python is a more appropriate language to express factorisation problems, and their solutions, than natural language.

Respectfully -very respectfully- I disagree. The much simpler explanation is that there are many more examples, in the training set of most LLMs, of factorisation problems and their solutions in Python (and other programming languages), than in natural language. Examples in Python etc. are also likely to share more common structure, even down to function and variable names [1], so there are more statistical regularities for a language model to overfit-to, during training.

We know LLMs do this. We even know how they do it, to an extent. We've known since the time of BERT. For example:

Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments

https://aclanthology.org/P19-1459/

Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference

https://aclanthology.org/P19-1334/

Given these and other prior results Peter Norvig's single experiment is not enough, and not strong enough, evidence to support his alternative hypothesis. Ideally, we would be able to test an LLM by asking it to solve a factorisation problem in a language in which we can ensure there are very few examples of a solution, but that is unfortunately very hard to do.

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[1] Notice for instance how Llama 3.1 immediately identifies the problem as "find_factors", even though there's no such instruction in the two prompts. That's because it's seen that kind of code in the context of that kind of question during training. The other LLMs seem to take terms from the prompts instead.
Good code is fairly self-documenting, but alas.
The decathlon weight 500g pakets of sand)jacket is about €20.
How easy is it to make your jacket 10kg? Are the coins easily removable? Do you have straps to keep the weight 'tight'?
Sun reaches maximum phase in 11-year solar cycle
If only proprietary software was as concerned about shipping free software in their products.
Is it worse than carrying a backpack?
NoWeb can support multi-thousand page documents which can compile to tens of thousands of lines of code.

I used it at a deep tech startup I worked a number of years ago to document the theory behind why the code was doing what it was. Doubly useful since I could just use a regular bibtex citation system for papers which had done some part of what we were trying to do.

My code became the defacto technical onboarding document, still in use today, despite the fact that none of the code in it has been updated since I left.

For examples you can read: http://brokestream.com/tex-web.html TeX is written entirely in WEB.
Very strange not wanting poorly controlled 4,000lb steel cages driving around at 70mph stewarded by people calling “only had to stop it from killing me 4 times today!” as great success.
They make it sound like they’ve discovered a secret
What's wrong with the logic? A caveat in the paper is that the technique will save 95% energy but that the technique will not run efficiently on current chips. I'm saying that if the new technique needs new chips and saves 95% of energy costs with the same performance, someone will make the chips. I say nothing about how and why we do ML as we do today - the 100% energy usage level.
Works on iOS. Page is so horrendous that I immediately reached for it.
Could injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere help cool the planet?
Our area measurement application did not require that tight a tolerance (we were estimating yield on broken material). If I needed that tight a tolerance, I could have gotten proof coins from the mint, or potentially switched to using a real calibration standard like a gauge block.
I know plenty of fantastic engineers that use LLM tools as code assistants.

I’m not sure when and why reading documentation and man pages became a sign of a lack of skill. Watch a presentation by someone like Brian Kernighan and you’ll see him joke about looking up certain compiler flags for the thousandth time!

Personally I work in C, C#, F#, Java, Kotlin, Swift, R, Ruby, Python, Postgres SQL, MySQL SQL, TypeScript, node, and whatever hundreds of libraries and DSLs are built on top. Yes, I have to look up documentation and with regularity.
REST APIs Turn 25: How They Came to Be and What Could Be Next
NJ AI Hub
Doesn't that apply to all companies? They have to follow the laws. Accountability sinks exist orthogonal to that.
This is a whole new level of dystopia - have an AI call your parents, and you can review the notes of the calls to see how they are doing. Maybe in a few generations seniors will appreciate this, but all the ones I know today would be insulted and pissed off if their kids suggested such a thing.
Perhaps one can debate whether it happens often enough or severely enough, but it certainly happens. For example, and only the first one to come to mind - the president of PIP went to jail.
Reading a file line by line in your shell
I believe it officially is pronounced the same as demon. But colloquially I hear a lot of (and sometimes find myself using) “damon”.
He's away from everyday operations, but he is most definitely the actual chief engineer of Starship - the one with final word, not necessarily the one doing all the work.
So the site is inaccessible due to being down for maintenance only 16 hours after this Show HN was posted?
On Working with Your Passion
Are you talking about Automattic? I'm not talking about the lawsuit, I'm talking about the things surrounding. Especially the checkbox when logging into Wordpress.org in which you must proclaim you aren't affiliated with WPEngine.

That is simply terrible behavior, one that impacts users, not just WPEngine. I personally will never use Wordpress again because of this.
My understanding is at that Microsoft runs such a tool and you can request access to it. (PhotoDNA). As I understand you hash an image send it to them and get back a response.
20p is particularly convenient, at exactly 5g.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your freelance projects?
I've used several tools over the years but no one fits my needs well enough. I wonder if I miss some magic tool. Which tool work best for a single person operation?
Some thoughts:

This could not have had very much precision - you can’t wake up at 725 if your neighbor is up at 715.

The knocker uppers client base would be limited by the density of housing and their walking speed.

With today’s suburban housing there’s no way to access everyone’s bedroom windows and walk from client to client. Even in urban areas, buildings must have eventually been too tall for a stick to reach.
Stoke Space looks really interesting. Everyday Astronaut visited a year ago and got a tour of their test facilities and rocket design, which is really innovative and aiming for full rapid reusability. Their development approach is similar to SpaceX's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8nbSwjtEY
The question I have grappled with is, can a manager ever be made to feel like he has a sake in the company it in the true sense? Companies do attempt to have partners and share purchase plans but a true ownership may be out of reach, unless the founder makes sincere attempts to include the manager in decision making etc.
Even then I suspect a founder may fail.
The conspiracy is far more vast than you imagine!

Every single customary unit is secretly defined according to the metric system!
This neglects the first reason listed in the article for why you would use a lock.

> Efficiency: Taking a lock saves you from unnecessarily doing the same work twice (e.g. some expensive computation). If the lock fails and two nodes end up doing the same piece of work, the result is a minor increase in cost (you end up paying 5 cents more to AWS than you otherwise would have) or a minor inconvenience (e.g. a user ends up getting the same email notification twice).

I think multiple nodes doing the same work is actually much worse than what’s listed, as it would inhibit you from having any kind of scalable distributed processing.
This is pretty much why Rust has doctests. You include a small test in your docstring.
tesla releases this data: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
Why is it a blanked statement that “govt is corrupt” such a universal truth?

People can be corrupt too - musk redirected Tesla resources to build his glass house
Not surprising considering his physics background...
It’s all relative! I had an Ultra 10 on my desk.
I went 0' 5' 10' 15, 20kg over 3 years after an embolism.
N=1 (rather like yourself: or you spoke to/ read about people that don't quite understand 'pacing'.
Do you/ them struggle with 1 bag of shopping? I make three or more light(er)trips.
I've never heard of a surgeon going to jail over a genuine mistake even if it did kill someone. I'm also not sure what that would accomplish - take away their license to practice medicine sure, but they're not a threat to society more broadly.
Anyone pushing packets seriously doesn't even use syscalls...
You usually don't pay yourself all the money your company makes as salary. At least in Germany, your salary has to be "reasonable" (i.e. similar to what you'd pay someone who isn't a shareholder), otherwise it's considered a hidden distribution of profits ("verdeckte Gewinnausschüttung") and will not affect your company's taxable revenue. You'll always pay corporate (~30%) on your profits & capital gains tax (25%) on the remainder after corporate tax when you distribute it. You'll have to distribute it at some point.

"Some VAT on spending" is a bit hand-wavy, don't you think? If you take those 67k (probably a bit less in Germany, because you'll pay for health insurance one way or another, and it's not a 100% deduction) and spend it, most of that will be at the normal VAT rate, which in Europe is between 15 and 27%, the average is approximately 20%. That'll be another 10k or so (or another 10% of income), you're now at ~43%.

Buying gas for your car (~50% of sale price are taxes), or natural gas (~30% taxes), oil (20%), or electricity (27%) for your home, and you'll pay taxes, too. There's various small amount (~250€/yr for public television; nominally not a tax in Germany for legal reasons, but it would be dishonest not to include it -- it is by law, there's no way to opt out, you don't have a claim to anything in return, its height is controlled by the state), it adds up.

I doubt you could get to 70%, but 50% isn't far off if you actually spend your money (which you will have to at some point, so I don't see a reason why you wouldn't consider those taxes).
If you are interested in using S3 as a git remote but are concerned with privacy, I built a tool a while ago to use S3 as an untrusted git remote using Restic. https://github.com/CGamesPlay/git-remote-restic
Nemo was indeed originally written as a former Polish rebel against Russian rule, but Verne's publisher objected on the grounds that this might offend Russians[1], and so the published version of Twenty Thousand Leagues had no mention of national origin or ethnicity for Nemo.

[1] Both because the Russian market was important for sales of French books -- and government censorship in Russia was a strong possibility -- and because the publisher supported France's ongoing negotiations with Russia for a potential alliance, and worried a book promoting anti-Russian themes might make the negotiations more difficult.
This paper has been shown one month ago:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484991.

Now it's back to headlines of HN.Seems like people all interested in this topic.
Nickel is ~5 grams. Dollar bill is ~1 gram.
pretty_git_log() looks great, but using kitty on macOS it gives me this:

pretty_git_log
column: line too long
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Perhaps my commit messages are too long.
Gamepads and Joysticks
>who grew up on fast computers and IDEs.

>>When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Self hosting a newsreader has been remarkably satisfying. Over the past few years I've been adding blogs to as I encounter them here and in a few other places, and it's one of my favorite places to spend a few hours browsing through things other folks spent the time to write. I kinda feel like everyone should have something like this, and I deeply regret Google Reader's retirement for that reason.