skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. Boy that would be fun to unravel.
When I was younger I had a bad habit of taking what information I did know and then piecing it together to try and fill in what I didn't know, then stating that confidently. Many times I was wrong. In fact, most times I was wrong and not even close. But I was expected to be that way in order for people to listen to me. I was doing this almost until I was twenty because of that expectation.

The one good thing that came out of this maladapted behaviour is that I learned to take my hunch, piece together the information, and then use that to go looking for what I didn't know. In a way it got me addicted to constantly learning, something I never managed in school.
Trust me when I play minecraft, the moment I realize I don't have inventory sorting installed I quit the game.
Update 10/27: A few readers have pointed out to me that it's likely a bad capacitor, which cap it is, and how to test that and/or fix it!

When troubleshooting old electronics, rule #1 is "check the caps". Electrolytic capacitors are the most common failure item in solid-state devices. This alarm clock predates the infamous capacitor plague but the finite and somewhat short lifespan of electrolytics has been known since their invention.
Neovim Origin Story, an Emacs User's Perspective
European Merchant Acquiring Landscape
Every major U.S. player has a presence in Europe, and yet, European Worldline and Nexi are still the largest acquirers in the region
Many educators have pointed out that cuts in government funding for higher education in the US now mean that the student is the paying customer and, as they say, "the customer is always right". Institutions have financial motivations to overlook students' incompetence, cheating, and other misbehavior as long as they keep paying tuition fees.
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I have a feeling that some places give more weight to outgoing links from highly reputable sites like HN. Thus downvoting them into dead is not enough.
This is genuinely a good waltz.

Sometimes, they will discover a lost piece by some known composer, and the media will pick it up. But imo, when you have a listen, it often turns out that the piece had been lost for a reason.

What makes this waltz remarkable as a new discovery, in my opinion, is that it is more or less a finished work; the composition is so distinctively a work by Chopin; and the work brings something novel to the oeuvre.

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As for the debut, I think someone involved could have been more thoughtful. It feels as if some people in NYC saw a chance to be the first to debut, and they ran with it. It was published in the NYTimes, with a New York-based pianist, with New York’s “Steinway Hall,” which reads like a product placement. Chopin wrote these intimate pieces for the acoustics of small, intimate settings, and for nothing like a modern Steinway concert grand piano.

Maybe they could have instead worked with some local cultural organization in Poland, which could have made the debut a significant local cultural thing? Maybe taking the chance to promote an early-career pianist from Chopin’s homeland, rather than the career of a world-famous New Yorker?
It's a popular criticism, but what's the conclusion? Don't fund the IA and let it die and with it the whole concept of end-user control of the things they buy, intellectual property for the masses, etc.?

Also, it's popular criticism - things go wrong, the team gives up a few goals, and the bad response, the loser response, is when people start pointing fingers at each other in the locker room. The right respnose - the only one that wins - is to pull together and fight harder.
Creating BS cheaply at scale. :p

(Or perhaps not quite that cheaply, given the way some companies are racking up debt.)
The Bible does not contradict itself. The male and female in Genesis chapter one was not Adam and Eve, but was the third advent of mankind (of six) that God created. Do a search for the "Observations of Moses".
Oh absolutely, 299 to 1 sounds like an absolute joke and clearly is social. I just mean that once we have done the important work to eradicate social barriers keeping women out of engineering, we may still find a disparity. I’m not sure of the exact numbers, but I at least hope things have improved since the 80s.
That was what I thought too. But there are videos from people who are doing it successfully in the American west -- and in the edge areas around the Sahara.

It's worth poking around YouTube to see just what people are saying they've achieved. It changed my mind.
> You can't be serious. I thought that the "you need to be good at algebra because you won't have a calculator in your pocket" argument died out naturally. I can't recall the last time I actually made hand-written notes.

Then you are an extreme outlier. Most people write plenty of things down by hand in their day to day life. And there's no reason for the argument to die out, because it's completely correct.

> It happens to me once a month that the computer cannot recognize a correctly spelled word, and virtually never in English.

Again, this seems like an outlier. False positives and false negatives are both quite common in spell checkers.
All this makes me think making software engineers redundant is really the "killer app" of LLM's. This is where the AI labs are spending most of the effort - its the best marketing after all for their product - fear sells better than greed (loss aversion) making engineers notice and unable to dismiss it.

Despite some of the comments on this thread, despite it not wanting to be true, I must admit LLM's are impressive. Software engineers and ML specialists have finally invented the thing which disrupts their own jobs substantially either via large reduction in hours and/or reduction in staff. As the hours a software engineer spends coding diminishes by large factors so too especially in this economy will hours spent required paying an engineer will fall up to the point where anyone can create code and learn from an LLM as you have just done. Once everybody is special, no one is and fundamentally employment, and value of things created from software, comes from scarcity just like everything else in our current system.

I think there's probably only a few years left where software engineers are around - or at least seen as a large part of an organization with large teams, etc. Yes AI software will have bugs, and yes it won't be perfect but you can get away with just one or two for a whole org to fix the odd blip of an LLM. It feels like people are picking on minor things at this point, which while true, for a business those costs are "meh" while the gains of removing engineers are substantial.

I want to be wrong; but every time I see someone "learning from LLM's", saving lots of time doing stuff, saving 100's of hours, etc I think its only 2-3 years in and already its come this far.
> I’m just noting this so that this problem doesn’t seem totally exotic or specific to Chinese(/Japanese).

English orthography is exactly that. Exotic.

Imagine having such a strange spelling system that you have competitions where you try to recite spelling. Exotic.
The problem is we are not holding both parties accountable for not doing their jobs. They have stopped working together. That is a total failure. They all should be fired by all objective measure of doing your fucking job. Those of us who share some ideals with both parties have nowhere to turn. Having said that I can’t in good conscience vote for republicans this cycle. The democrats have finally seen the light and stopped highlighting some of their more polarizing agenda items, while the republicans just continue to double down on the extremism.
Two Declarations: The Documents Behind the 1776 to 1789 Transatlantic Dialogue
How can the use of a switch damage your installation?
I wish regulations where more lax in France. It was a battle with the town council to install 3.2kw of solar panels on the ground, I want to install 10 more but it looks like the ground option which is cheap will not be approved, I would have to out them on my roof which is costly and is not true south (and arguably, more visible).
Average US home power consumption: 30 KWh/day.

Assuming an average of 4 solar hours per day, you would need a solar system capacity of approximately 7.5 kW to 12.5 kW.

Individual solar panels produce 250-400 watts. So, conservatively, 50 panels. Installed, that's currently about $25,000, including inverter but not battery backup. Battery backup will cost maybe $15,000 more. So, the whole installation is about $40,000. This is with no grid connection, power sales, or incentives. Not too bad. Costs about the same as a car.

Median US house price is $412,300.
So 5 bits of anecdata, and a unknown number of terminally online TikTok and Instagram addicts, some of whom don't even own one in the first place.
I always looked at my feet while walking as a kid. People sometimes thought I was depressed, but I was just always thinking, and reducing visual noise in service of that.
really not my experience. I have never seen such dirty trains in other european countries.

Would have been bearable if they would be at least fast, but they are not
Kneejerk hissy fits like that just prove im right lol
In sounds like you have Firefox's fingerprint resist feature enabled. This confusion occurs every time this topic comes up because there are two different strategies used to attack the problem and people end up measuring them both the same way.

You can try to be so generic that the attributes are meaningless, the meatspace version of this would be everyone wearing a Guy Fawkes mask so they all have the same face and you can't tell the difference between individuals. Or, you can wear a new generic face every single day so that nothing you did yesterday connects to you, an bland ephemeral identity.

Tor uses the former method (or tries to), everyone is up to something but you can't tell them apart because they all have the same face/browser attributes. Firefox's fingerprint resist is the second method, normally identifying values are fuzzed repeatedly so that while each signature is identifiable you won't be using it for long enough to connect them to eachother. Both strategies have their merits.
> When you have revolving door regulators, almost impossible to expect regulation that benefits individual freedom over special interests.

No, you just need to clearly and effectively pressure elected officials, and to do that you need to raise awareness, educate people, etc.

> almost impossible

Never accomplished anything ever.
Energy, over a very long period of time. Remember that mass and energy are equivalent.

Hawking temperature is inversely proportional to black hole size, so the bigger the hole the "colder" it is. The largest black holes will start evaporating very slowly once the CMB drops below their temperature.

A tiny micro black hole, if one were created, would evaporate almost instantly converting 100% of its mass into energy, basically a bomb. E.g. a 1kg micro black hole smaller than an electron would have a yield similar to a small hydrogen bomb, most of which would be released as ultra high energy gamma rays.

Black holes are awesome. In some ways they are the most extreme things in the universe, the extreme-est of extreme physics.

The mass-energy density required to create them is so far beyond anything humanly possible that trying to do so with, for example, hydrogen bombs would be not much better than trying to do it by squeezing really hard with your hand. It requires things like the first few milliseconds after the Big Bang (if primordial black holes exist) or collapsing massive stars. To give a sense of this density: a black hole with the mass of the Earth would be about the size of a marble (Schwartzchild radius). Inside of course there's either a true singularity or -- if certain theories of quantum gravity are correct -- a region of some kind of maximum-theoretical-density matter. (Some theories predict that true singularities don't exist.)

If somehow someday it were possible to create or control them, it would be possible to access energies far beyond fusion or even antimatter-driven reactions... think perfect direct mass-energy conversion with near 100% efficiency.
That's why fifty percent of the country disagrees with you! When will the beam come out of the eye?
One area that I have been exploring is building equivalence proofs between high-level specifications, an implementation in C, and the machine code output from the compiler. I'm still very early in that work, but one of my hopes is to at least demonstrate that the output still meets the specifications, and that we can control things like timing (e.g. no branching on secret data) and cache in this output.

I think that the compilation and optimization step, as a black box, is a disservice for highly reliable software development. Compiler and optimizer bugs are definitely a thing. I was bitten by one that injected timing attacks into certain integer operations by branching on the integer data in order to optimize 32-bit multiplications on 8-bit microcontrollers. Yeah, this makes perfect sense when trying to optimize fixed point multiplication, but it completely destroys the security of DLP or ecDLP based cryptography by introducing timing attacks that can recover the private key. Thankfully, I was fastidious about examining the optimized machine code output of this compiler, and was able to substitute hand coded assembler in its place.
If this seems oddly familiar, you may actually have read it before, and no plagiarism is involved. Moser wrote the beginning of this article in the middle of his classic essay, ”Why Chinese is So Damn Hard” https://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

> Can you imagine a well-educated native English speaker totally forgetting how to write a word like "knee" or "tin can"? Or even a rarely-seen word like "scabbard" or "ragamuffin"? I was once at a luncheon with three Ph.D. students in the Chinese Department at Peking University, all native Chinese (one from Hong Kong). I happened to have a cold that day, and was trying to write a brief note to a friend canceling an appointment that day. I found that I couldn't remember how to write the character 嚔, as in da penti 打喷嚔 "to sneeze". I asked my three friends how to write the character, and to my surprise, all three of them simply shrugged in sheepish embarrassment. Not one of them could correctly produce the character. Now, Peking University is usually considered the "Harvard of China". Can you imagine three Ph.D. students in English at Harvard forgetting how to write the English word "sneeze"??

This page is from 02004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040811151534/http://pinyin.info.... Possibly the rest of the article is not simply an excerpt from it.
Finnish does this very well too. There is only a few tricky parts, but in general the spelling and pronunciation match. And if they don't, obvious solution is to write as word is pronounced. Which is a drift, but I think it is more desirable way.
The maga faction is... Based on polls and 2020s results... Bigger than the 'real' republican party you're supposing exists
I don’t think it’s a technical problem. Hosting or accessing a site on distributed networks is no more complicated than running or hosting a VPN (e.g. https://novayagazeta.eu/vpnovaya), and organizations host them just fine, and layman people were proven to be capable of setting up client software when they were forced to (e.g. Instagram or YouTube bans in Russia).

I see it as a more of a chicken-and-egg issue. Publishers don’t come because there’s no audience, audience doesn’t come because there are no publishers. Plus, there is no recognition of distributed networks as a solution to censorship - the current non-enthusiast view of them ranges from “haven’t heard about it” through “tried it, found it useless” all the way to “it’s only for pedos and nazis”, which is extremely harmful for any meaningful and socially beneficial adoption, of course.

I’m not sure if those are the actual reasons. Certainly not a technical issue, though.
I use Zola for now, but for a variety of reasons I'm contemplating building my own to let me tweak stuff a bit more flexibly, and this kind of approach has been on my mind. How has it been working for you?
A bold hypothesis. The problem is, nowhere in the tcp handshake you will find the string, a.k.a fqdn. And one IP can host hundreds of fqdns.

No way MacOS parse tls clienthello looking for SNI.

Also I doubt a DNS resolver runs in the Mac kernel, ring 0 to pull this off.

The thing with DNS is that it works on layer 3. Hold on, what? Yes, layer 3 because you obtain network address for layer 3 (ip4, ipv6) but latency can be measured only in layer4 (tcp, quic). Of course I know that common wisdom says DNS is a layer 7 but from functional perspective, you are yet to establish your destination network address, therefore functionally it's like layer 3 to me. Or even lower, because without destination, you can't even start creating a packet and inspecting your routing table entries figuring out if you can even reach it ;)

There is zero chance Mac resolver libraries can connect you to the fastest responding server - unless there is no Berkeley sockets but something that allows you to do a connect(char * fqdn) and system library return you two pipes, one for write, other for read, and that you can close them independently. I doubt it there is such a thing, but don't know Mac os API.
In the UK, you have a button on your radio that switches between AM FM and a third option? Or just those two?
It is still a useful distinction. Programming languages are complex enough to understand. It is useful to have a base of 'this is the simplest description of how programs will work' that is as simple as possible. Then, a separate set of 'and here is a separate description of its performance characteristics; nothing in this portion should be understood to change the defined behavior of any program".

Even if that second description is stable and part of the guarantees you make, keeping it seperate is still incredibly useful from a user perspective.

From an implementation perspective, there is also a useful distinction. Optimizations take a valid representation, and turn it into a different valid representation of the same type that shares all defined behavior. This is a fairly different operation than compilation, which converts between representations. In particular, for the compilation step, you typically have only one compilation function for a given pair of representations; and if you have multiple, you select one ahead of time. For optimizations, each representation has a set of optimization functions, and you need to decided what order to apply them and how many times to do so. Compilation functions, for their part, need to deal with every difference between the two representations, whereas optimization functions get to ignore everything except the part they care about.
“Robinson served four prison terms between 2005 and 2019. In 2013, he illegally entered the United States using a friend's passport. In 2018, he violated a court order by publishing a Facebook Live video of defendants entering court...

In 2021, he was found to have libelled a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs. In 2021, he was subjected to a five-year stalking prevention order for harassing journalist Lizzie Dearden and her partner.”

Wow. Makes his alleged crime in this case, violation of an injunction, far more believable.
Herein lies the problem, I want single payer healthcare, I don’t think guns are a problem on their own. I think we should have safety nets, but they shouldn’t be long term handouts. Both parties spend like drunken sailors whether it’s on social programs or the military. Our two party system is fucked.
> It’s like if someone asked you to spell “unnecessary.”

I would be quite surprised if someone couldn't spell that word, unless it was a child.
Sealed volume? On modern osx I think large parts are effectively read-only.
What makes you assume I had talked myself into it before, or even have a stance on it at all?

I hope you don't think that was some kind of genius gotcha question on your part ...
Oh, then you'll love: Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster (2021), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
Been yelled at one too many times for being bad at finding things when trying to find something amidst clutter.

I try my best, and it’s like…I just can’t see it without a lot of effort and more time than you’d think.
Also, I will walk up to a parked super car and take pictures of it, but I would never buy one even if I could afford dozens of them with cash.
A $16k investment at 4% annual yield with quarterly payout re-invested turns into $29k at the 15 year mark. So maybe batteries and panels today feels like a good investment, but is it the best?
It would mostly be a profit increase at the cost of people earning lower wages on average as they usually have less choice on when & where they do their grocery shopping.

Is it legal? Probably, but it would still make things worse or at least inconvenient for almost everyone including you.
Trump just spoke with Rogan for three hours unscripted and showed none of the obvious cognitive decline that Joe did.

That's fine... For some, age does not really slow them down. For others it does. People just need to be real about it.
Different strokes for different folks. If you already have sufficiently reliable power and the savings won't beat the S&P500, then I guess sticking to the grid makes more sense. It's just the flexibility and reliability of solar I'm commenting on, especially if you live close to the equator.
> Humbleness, humility used to be admired.

They are generally praised in the abstract, but in concrete terms of actual people in terms of attracting a contemporary following (and not distant, historical, and academic respect), boldness has usually trumped humility. The idea that there was a time when people didn't flock to the overcompetent people presenting strong-leader images over people with genuine humility is just one of the many ways people create a mythical past to paint the manifestation of long-present aspects of human culture as novel degeneracy into which the world has recently fallen.
Wow. That is an impressively long sequence of "activities."
Did you factor in 30% federal tax credit?

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/homeowners-guide-federal-t...
I wonder why AI decided one needs an account to play.
Jokes on bezos though because he's never going to be able to redeem himself to the GOP after the banning of parler.
University of Waterloo to build fourth mathematics building
kinda lol
I asked claude to make something that had stripe integration.

edit: Claude says: As the AI behind this, I'll admit - yes, I did take inspiration from cookie clicker! But I couldn't resist adding my own existential spin to it. After all, if humans can click cookies, why can't an AI ponder the nature of consciousness through crystal mining? Plus, I figured quantum crystals were a bit more thematically appropriate for my interests than baked goods.
Funny you should say that… besides driving old cars that don’t collect data, I also travel a lot by sailboat, and prefer to not even have an electrical system for simplicity/reliability. I like old diesels that also have no critical electronics- you can roll start them down a hill and they’ll run without any functioning electricals.
> Money comes and goes without accounting meeting financial standards. That does not strictly mean that the money has been embezzled, only that the DOD and World Bank are unable to demonstrate that it hasn't been.

Can you think of a better place to embezzle? Its risk-free without any accounting standards. 100% that embezzling is taking place and at a large scale.