skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have lived in California for 36 years, 22 in SoCal and 14 in NorCal and I've noticed a trend that I find deeply disturbing: weather forecasts seem to be much less reliable now than they used to be. Before moving to California I lived on the east coast and the weather forecasts were generally unreliable, so I was really struck by how predictable the weather in California was, and how accurate the forecasts were. Rain began and ended when it was predicted to within a couple of hours. The temperature was within a few degrees of what it was predicted to be. And the window of predictability went out 5+ days.

Nowadays that has all changed. Forecast rain fails to materialize. Heat waves come out of nowhere and last much longer and are much more intense than they are forecast to be. Temperatures at my house regularly go 10 degrees above what is predicted, and regularly hit temperatures that would have been extremely anomalous when we first moved here.

This is all anecdotal. I haven't been keeping records, and I haven't done the math. It's possible that this is all confirmation bias or bad memory at work. But damn, it sure seems like a real phenomenon, and the most likely explanation is that the models were trained on data that don't reflect current conditions because of climate change.

The most striking thing about this is the speed with which things are changing. 36 years is nothing on what should be geologic time scales. I shudder to think what the future holds.
Randomize orders using a cryptographic hash of the order, client info, and all other fields plus a random salt added when the order is submitted.

Sort by hash. Impossible to game unless you can break the hash function.
> No joke: every time I read my daughter a Richard Scarry book, I wonder when and how it will have to be broken to her that unless her interests happen to include something that pays a living wage, she’s actually fucked for life.

Fight for housing reform.

Fight for every YIMBY proposal that comes up.

Demand drastic zoning reforms.

80% of the problem of affordability in the western world is housing. In the US at least, there is plenty of space left in most major cities (outside of NYC) to dramatically expand and make housing affordable again.

The unaffordability of the modern world is a self caused problem.

People want their house to rise 5% in value every year but are pissed off when restaurant prices go up 10% a year and daycares cost 30k a year.

You know what, how about my house stays flat in value for a decade while wages catch up with housing costs, and in return I get to save 15k a year on daycare and eating out costs 5k a year less and property crime goes back down to reasonable levels?

Vote for change.
> don't see why verifying that an IP from your own subnet isn't claiming to be from outside it requires everything in your second paragraph.

You're looking at this as a collective update of firewall rules, and content to stop there. I'm more concerned about what that gesture turns into once it's significance percolates out to the public at large. Societies rearrange themselves around technical capabilities. Continue reasoning about how that constraint evolves into new obligations and legal precedents on the network operator, and you should eventually arrive at why I'm content to leave that particular bear unpoked.

It never stops at the technical. Ever.
Any gotchas using Cursor? Or headsup?
Huh, 50% faster. https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/julyaug-2022/speeding-...

The immediate allure of hollow-core fibers is that light travels through the air inside them at 300,000 km-per-second, 50 percent faster than the 200,000 km-per-second in solid glass, cutting latency in communications. Last year, euNetworks installed the world’s first commercial hollow-core cable from Lumenisity, a commercial spinoff of Southampton, to carry traffic to the London Stock Exchange. This year, Comcast installed a 40-km hybrid cable, including both hollow-core and solid-core fiber, in Philadelphia, the first in North America. Hollow-core fiber also looks good for delivering high laser power over longer distances for precision machining and other applications.
I cross-compile a native qt app in windows, Mac, and Linux variants. It’s pretty neat to see it compile in wasm as well.
> AirPods and AI chips are the opposite of inefficient! They’re some of the smallest, densest, most concentrated and space-efficient products ever made by man.

Even if we were to take these claims at face value... none of these things imply that the thing is useful.
https://www.continue.dev/ for autocomplete/chat

https://github.com/cline/cline for the agent thing
So basically: what every single platform with plugins should be doing to protect their users. Or similar via some other language that allows sandboxing, e.g. Lua.
If you can find the old editions from before they were bowdlerized... they are often much better. Not everything that was pulled was actually offensive.

I'm in my late 40s. I still treasure the high-school graduation gift my parents got me: Richard Scarry autographed one of my well-abused childhood books. Cars and Trucks and Things That Go.
yea https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-wasi-on-workers/ and such.
EM radiation is defined by it's wavelength and amplitude. Whether it is from a 'natural' source is completely irrelevant in terms of the effect it has.

I guess humans have changed the mix of wavelength we are exposed to a bit. E.g. more RF radiation from phones and base stations. But I'm not sure how significant those changes are in the overall 'background EM fields we live in'.
It depends on the type of sailing and where the race will be taking you. The participants in a race such as the Vendée Globe [0] are almost certainly using the likes of synoptic scale models like the GFS and ECMWF to plan their routes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe
It probably makes sense if you're running untrusted code or handling untrusted data, or running code that was written after the rest of your app

So for a solo dev it doesn't add much, but for a web browser or something that needs plugins it could make a lot of sense.
More importantly, you can read diffs.

Depending on whether I'm using LLMs from my Emacs or via a tool like Aider, I either review and manually merge offered modifications as diffs (in editor), or review the automatically generated commits (Aider). Either way, I end up reading a lot of diffs and massaging the LLM output on the fly, and nothing that I haven't reviewed gets pushed to upstream.

I mean, people aren't seriously pushing unreviewed LLM-generated code to production? Current models aren't good enough for that.
I feel thankful to China. They don't usually have any regards for copyright, and that has allowed those cheap retro handheld consoles. They most often come with 1000s of games on a micro SD card. You have to stop import of those things, sue those Chinese makers or something to get rid of them. More power to them I guess.
> having V8 as a backend also means supporting WebAssembly Exceptions and Garbage Collection under the hood. Stay tuned for more news on this front soon

Looking forward to this and languages that can make use of wasm-gc.

Does wasm-gc allow sharing of host data/strings across different modules in the same runtime, or is it contained to only single module with repeated calls/invocations? The scenario I am considering would invoke several different modules in a pipeline, pass data between each step in an efficient manner.
What kind of code? That’s pretty important to know right?
So somebody in another country with another language and another currency allegedly said… and came across several people and translations (did they translate currency?) before landing at a journalists inbox. Might as well as have heard about it on Twitter.
With some concerted effort and money spent over several years I was able to more or less reproduce most of this document (but not nearly to the level of detail or variation on process). Eventually I was able to finely CNC engrave a wax block with extremely fine (0.1mm) features, make a mold, and then stamp out as many copies as I wanted. This guide was really helpful in understanding some of the core ideas.
Probably it's just me, but your comment is very similar to the famous one on Dropbox:

My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I was going to write something similar.

Regardless, the comment I replied to is fundamentally confused (presented a tail recursive algorithm and said it didn't have tail calls, presented a linear algorithm that uses a linear amount of memory and claims it's O(n log n) for some reason but no clarification if it's in time or space). I'd rather hear from the person I responded to than whatever guesses the rest of us can come up with because it needs several points of clarification to be understood.
So we're talking maximizing embedding model per use case? Medical dats would require differnet model than say sales data? Sounds very fragmented approach.
It's up there with "drops" for word swith multiple different meanings
The best ideas are ones that start off with an internal painpoint. Congrats!
So, steamless is not seamless.
>I'd like to thank everyone who has ever run a bot on botsin.space and gotten joy out of it

I definitely got joy out of setting up a bot on it. Huge thanks to colin for making it so easy.
How could you supply enough power on one input USBc to source sufficient power on 3xTB5 + 2xUSBc ?
So now I probabilistically spam a ton of different orders to on average get my desired fill...
This just turns it into a "whoever is best at DoS'ing the exchange" game.
As the orderbook fills with competitor orders it makes sense for yourself to also spam orders so each of your orders maintains the same probability of being filled
WASM has two primary usages:

1) Making canvas webapps with unblockable ads built-in

2) Downloading and running random blobs of other people's code in a sandbox
That seems like a very expensive repair following a failure.
Same with drops
Impose a small order fee.
what is the failsafe mode if you lost all your keys, or forget your password, or fingerprint reader runs out of battery? same thing applies here.
Broadcom! But that's where IP goes to languish and die.
How common is this situation? While it's nice to look at the history of some line of code and contact the person who wrote it, in a company with a lot of turnover or promotion, that person isn't going to be available or want to help you.
ONNX has a WASM backend for running models in a browser. It’s what transformer.js (from HuggingFace) uses behind the scenes.
I don't have a recommendation for, but against BenQ monitors, the one I have looks nice but sometimes the refresh gets out of sync (best way I can describe it) and it causes a migraine inducing flicker in the screen that isn't fixed by power cycling the monitor. Dark backgrounds seem to set it off more too.
True. But the action seemed to drive forward a big picture message, the action was the means to deliver a message, until the end. Then it was just shooting and explosions without putting a bow on whatever philosophy had been introduced. That's the way I remember these books (and diamond age, snow crash, et al)
That feels somewhat implausible. I assume a Microsoft sized data center starts at over $100 million. Moving the footprint X miles away might be cheaper, but is probably a drop in the bucket given everything else required for a build out. I would further assume that they were already some distance away from the top tier expensive real estate to accommodate the size of the facility.
If it only had one USBc input, how could it supply enough power for 5 USBc outputs ? Well ok, 3xTB5 + 2xUSBc, but still ?
Modelling user settings
Surely they'd be using image processing ASICs instead of CPUs anyway, hence why they don't draw that kind of power!
I think you mean 29,000 W (watts), not megawatts (MW), which are 1000 kilowatts (kW).
SCube: Instant Large-Scale Scene Reconstruction from 3 images Using VoxSplats
> the intention of coding should never to be to belt out as many lines as possible

That’s such an underrated statement. Especially when you consider the amount of code as a liability that you’ll have to take care later.
> One thing that worries me about AI-generated code is that if there's an obscure bug that pops up later, there's no engineer to think "ok hang on, I remember something strange happening when I first wrote that code... let me have a look." Instead, there are only engineers who reviewed the code, which is of course a lot different from writing it.

I feel this is a very weak argument against AI. Professional software development rarely values crafting good code. You get it in to meet a deadline to make management that is technologically clueless happy. Even orgs that value good code have people leave because of the take a new job merry-go-round to get a good pay raise of years past. One of the reasons open source surpasses most closed source software despite a lack of funding is you a variety of individuals with different goals that are focused on making a maintainable and usable solution.
I didn't smell anything. A 200W PSU isn't terribly expensive and being cheaper than more efficient processors seems reasonable. I also only run a single 4k monitor so haven't thought about driving 4x the pixels recently.
Knuth answers this question in chapter 0.
I've been using AeroSpace with AutoRaise since coming back to a Mac after years on i3/sway.
I didn't dismiss it at all. I directly answered you. While plenty of things change despite inertia, plenty of things do NOT change. We've known about the benefits of no till, cover crops, crop rotation, etc. for centuries and they're still not common due to inertia. In the USA we know that government subsidies for corn have massively distorted the market and had huge negative impacts on health and the environment, but we don't change due to inertia. Water management something we're terrible at in the US despite having the knowledge of how to do it better, but we don't because of inertia. Don't underestimate the power of "we've always done it this way." People can come up with a thousand bad reasons not to do something.

In my company, another leader forced his division to stop using a manual tracking spreadsheet because it was wasting time. People HATED the idea of stopping it, expecting there to be huge issues, but the manager was right, all the information was already reliably recorded in other systems and this was just a wasteful manual copy. When people stopped using it, literally nothing went wrong or changed, no one needed it, but now everyone got back 15 minutes of their day. But people resisted because "we've always done it this way."

As another poster said, grain loss is more likely with these less-hand-labor-intensive methods, and people can overvalue the loss of that small amount despite the time and energy savings of scythes. So people might think, "I'll lose 3% of my harvest doing that, I can't afford that" except they'd expend 15% of the energy harvesting and thus that 3% loss is more than balanced out by the 85% time savings and the reduced work load. You can spend a fraction of that saved time making up the 3% difference in a hundred other ways.

People are very resistant to change. A lack of education produces lapses in logic and critical thinking and thus people won't evaluate the change in the right frame of reference.
It's incredible how Shannon's papers read like they were written this decade.
There have already been incidents of people getting frisky in the back of the robo-taxi. Cameras be damned, I suppose.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cru...
You could partially fulfil both resting orders, weighted by their (remaining) order size.

You might get "games" around people oversizing orders to try to get more "weight" to their orders, but that would be inefficient behaviour that could in turn be exploited, so people would still be incentivised to keep their orders honest.
It was just an example. Without copyright, ebooks would pretty immediately be free, so why "buy" any book?

And what do you mean by "retained property rights" over the contents of a book, such that it isn't just renaming copyright?
Does Waymo's app give you the ability to cancel a trip before the trip start, with no penalty?
Citation highly needed. I'm close to quite a few people who run larger instances than that, including my own, and none of them have ever told me about getting subpoenaed. That's exactly the kind of war story we'd tell each other, too.

I've seen no evidence that running a fediverse server is nearly so legally fraught.
There was no strategy when Musk bought Twitter. He spent 6 months desperately trying to renege on the agreement:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-sues-elon-musk-ho...

Only to finally cave and complete the deal:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...

The main strategy for xAI seems to be to extract what supposedly makes the public company Tesla valuable (long promised autonomy) and place it into Musk's private ownership via xAI:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/tesla-xai-partnership-elon-musk-30e...

If the shining future of full self-driving is what makes Tesla valuable and Tesla no longer owns that work, then that's a bad outcome for Tesla shareholders.
If you're talking about the magic keyboard, I wouldn't consider that a clamshell. I mean it opens like this: _ < L
No. Because the whole point of proof from a human perspective is to express understanding of the question, not merely answer it.
He was right about export controls. Nobody disagrees with him. I don't even think Meredith Whittaker does. But many times, I've come across a folk belief that strong cryptography was rare in North America before export controls were eliminated; it was not.
+ broadcast someone else’s
And anecdotes are useless. If you want to show me improved studies justifying your claim great, but no I don't value random anecdotes. There are countless conflicting anecdotes (including my own).
Thunderbolt 5 is very high data transport, but the latency of going through the TB port is still higher than going through PCIe. In a single large transfer, I'd expect TB5 to win, in a millions-of-tiny-transfers scenario, I'm not so sure.
there are millions of corollas there’s only one openai
I think you've misunderstood what he meant by change detection (not GP, could be wrong).

Hard to describe, easy to spot.

Some people write tests that are tightly coupled to their particular implementation.

They might have tons of setup code in each test. So refactoring means each test needs extensive rewrites.

Or there will be loads of asserts that have little to do with the actual thing being tested.

These tests usually have negative value as your only real option as another developer is to simply delete them all and start again.

That's what I would interpret the GP as meaning when they use the phrase "change detection" tests.
Juvy record for the train thing, working as a waiter in the city the detention center was in.
With a typical smart lock, the failsafe mode for the battery dying or forgetting your password is a backup key.

The failsafe mode for losing a backup key is getting a locksmith to come out and fashion you a new key.
> I didn't smell anything. A 200W PSU isn't terribly expensive and being cheaper than more efficient processors seems reasonable

200W is the realm of powerful GPUs and enthusiast/server CPUs.

Common sense would rule out an 8K TV requiring as much power as an entire gaming GPU just to move pixels from the HDMI port to the panel.
That's what reference types (the Wasm proposal) are for, GC builds on top of that.
you get an upvote
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41467268

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645605

This was a resource which was mentioned on the Shapeoko wiki --- while it's off-line, it's still on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20211127090321/https://wiki.shap...

Since then, some of those pages have been made available on Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/hobbycnc/wiki/index

https://old.reddit.com/r/shapeoko/wiki (ob. discl., I work for Carbide 3D)

And there have been a number of other developments

- FreeCAD has hugely improved since that was written.

- Solvespace as greatly improved, adding some basic CAM functionality

- Blender has had the Solvespace sketcher ported to it as https://www.cadsketcher.com/ and BlenderCAM has gotten quite a bit more workable

- Dune3D was created and is remarkably capable: https://dune3d.org/

Also a fair number of forums discussing CNC were gathered at: https://forum.makerforums.info/
oh look another article that brings the HN luddites come out of their woodwork and spew "hurr durr AI hype/bad/waste"
“Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
Damn, I asked the other day if it was down after noticing a ton of timeouts in sidekiq. Reached out and Colin said they were looking into it. Guess fixing it up just proved to be too much.
That's a very important caveat. In our modern economy it's difficult to not be a shill in some way, shape, or form, even if you don't quite realize it consciously. It's honestly one of the most depressing things about the stock market.
Norwegian official weather forecasting service usually say they're quite accurate, and I was thinking how can that be? But in an interview last year they spilled the beans, they were talking about temperature and only missing by 1-2 degrees C most of the time.

However, I don't care if it's 22C or 20C, like you I care about am I gonna need a jacket or not.

I get that it's a difficult problem. And the inclusion of local weather radar to track actual rain has been very nice. But it only forecasts 90 minutes ahead, and rain can develop closer than that some times.
The technical term is "viewshed analysis", what areas are visible from a given set of points. Any competent GIS system will have ways to do it, but peakfinder.com works pretty well as a more visually interesting demo.
I love my Acer Predator 43” 4K. It’s small enough that I don’t feel like I need to extend my desk to sit far enough away, and it also just squeaks under the max load for the Ergotron HX monitor arm.

It’s extremely sharp for normal use, and doubles as a 4K 120Hz monitor for gaming.
> Why would I even use Amazon in this scenario?

The point isn't "Amazon", it's "insert ebook distribution platform". If you prefer you can just as easily mentally substitute Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Books, Apple Books, Pirate Bay, or "ebooks123 (dot) biz".

And sure, there'd be writing, but not "authors". There'd be movies, but nothing with an appreciable budget. Plenty of big budget movies suck, but that doesn't mean I'd rather they not exist as a category.
To be fair, a rock-solid sandbox with extremely well defined and host controlled ingress/egress in a tiny package sounds absolutely fantastic
Oops, yeah you are right
Did the Pharaoh's Forces Burn Down Biblical Libnah 3k Years Ago?