skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sell male tears mugs at Walmart.

I ran a social co-working space in 2016 in Austin, TX, it was pretty progressive, tech oriented, and socially liberal generally but we had a mix of political viewpoints and focused on GSD, we hosted Obama's young african leaders when they came to town and did a lot politically but not in a polarizing way, a few fresh college/masters grads came in that tried to blame all men, said men should keep their mouth shut. It was very frustrating, a bunch of those dudes went from voting against Trump in 2016 to voting for him by 2020 and now again in 2024.

2016 was like a giant premature celebration that included some pretty frustrating bigotry toward men, that due to proximity, was disproportionatly experienced by the very men who were the closest allies.

None of this bad behavior changed my views one bit because I hold my position based on data, I was dissapointed and did what I could to mitigate the damage but it was awful, throwing away allies in a fragile big tent party just for purity tests and for personal catharsis.

Each person is responsible for their own beliefs but the majority of people will not stay where they don't feel welcome.

Personally our two party system really cooks us, if we had plurality systems we'd probably have ended up with the equivalent of a Christian Social party that would have caucused with the left.

STAR voting would be nice and would help remove this implicit moral compromise people feel in voting, I think the more we can alter our system to enable people to feel like they aren't choosing between the lesser of two evils, the less we'll see people saying fuck it, I'll vote for my evil guy and excuse his behavior because I am choosing between evil and satan. I think people underestimate the damage that explicit moral compromise has had in voting, developmentally some people will always be black and white thinkers.
Crashes on startup. Offers to send a stack trace, which I've done. I've been updating apps manually, which is tedious.
I chose the Boox over ReMarkable 2 for that reason and the color display. In split-screen, I pretty quickly got used to zooming in on a column or full body width and dragging the PDF around to read it. I guess it's not perfect, but still better than paper or traditional screen for me
Even worse: if you send the PDF back to the Scribe, all previously-written notes are uneditable.

It seems note taking is treated more like an afterthought. Of course, this means I only use my Scribe as a scratchpad for disposable notes.
But isn't it because in reality, the limbic system keeps the score? Example [1]. I also think he mentioned it himself.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8418154/
Google maps has this natively in Japan which was great for travelling there
> they’re merely regurgitating memorized information

Source?
Wow, thanks for your story. I'm terrified of getting this too, and I've been wondering what it's like.
With all due respect, you're disconnected from reality.

- Earning 500k TC for 15 years equals financial independence and retiring at age 45 if you're careful (even if you lived in a HCOL)

- Earning 50k means working until you're 65 with a meanger 401k and spend the rest of your life depending on social security

Just because high earners aren't billionaires doesn't mean they can relate in any way to someone earning 50k or even 80k, that is absurd.
If you thought, past tense, you were probably right, but it's been in the oven for 3 years so it's finally approaching "fully baked"
Yes, the compiled WASM is significantly faster. Easily by an order of magnitude. I might be completely wrong about this but I _think_ if the brilliant folks at Microsoft research in the calc intelligence group would have waited a few years they might have used wasm instead of TypeScript (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/calc-ts-...)

As for Rust, could have been C or Zig. I just needed a language that minimally compiles to wasm.

There is another reason though. IronCalc runs in the bare metal, not only in the web and needs to have bindings to languages like Python, R or Julia. I can't get that today easily with TypeScript.
People should do/include Secaucus Junction.
Well, it's one of my businesses so I will probably sell it. I have others which I like a lot more and they have more staying power (and are less bothered by AI, although it helps, but not enough yet; my favorite business is a business which does very urgent emergency software repairs: the current LLMs are way too hallucinatory for that ; it's wasting too much time and really solid tooling I haven't managed to build around it; you cannot imagine how terrible, and therefor unique/diverse, software around the world is).
Thanks for trying it out! This is unfortunately not possible as of now and is one of th high-priority tasks to parse timestamps and datetimes, which is now incorrectly parsed as a string (Categorical). I'm using Papa Parse to load CSV data and I will likely need to add a custom parser on top of it.

Some of those plans are mentioned in my blog post reflecting on building this app:
https://kengoa.github.io/software/2024/11/03/small-software....
DactylGPT 4o mini fails to count to six, let alone meet the other constraints of a double dactyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl#:~:text=Long%2ds...

If I'd attempted to use this to generate an irregular pattern, it'd probably have wound up producing messages decoding to something like "Sammwich Hewix"...
I don't know about this instance in particular, but the vertical scale in similar maps is often exaggerated to make it easier to differentiate the different floors.

At the cost of distorting elements with a vertical dimension, it means that all the wireframe layouts don't end up overlaying each other.
Jumping to a destination via pointer that changed value is a misprediction of an indirect jump and that's common.

More uncommon but technically possible is to mispredict a unconditional direct jump.

For that to happen the code itself has to change.

Indeed JIT is a common cause of mutable code at runtime.

But also unmapping a library and remapping another library in the same memory range can also effectively cause the same address to contain a different instruction that the one predicted but the branch prediction logic (likely not even a branch instruction)
What are some of the tools you'd recommend?

In my case I'm working with Nginx and I'd like to make a few custom modules safer.
I feel like this is like saying “python shouldn’t care so much about indentation, I’m just trying to learn!”
Isn’t arbitration a result of legislation? Why haven’t various Congress of both parties or a mix undone it? Or changed its regulations to make it more fair? I don’t think this is something for the courts to decide as much as legislators personally
> understanding was that GPUs are especially efficient at rendering from textures, while being relatively slow at bit twiddling.

That understanding is very out of date. For GPU's made in the last 15 or so years a texture lookup is roughly 100 times as slow as a bitwise operation.
Guyana and Belize.
TLDR: It's the worst tech market I've ever seen, and I started back in the late 90s. However, there _are_ still jobs to be had.

I had a feeling I was gonna get laid off late last year, so I started my job search immediately on January 1st. As expected, I got laid off at the end of March... even so, it still took me another two months before I landed a new job.

In terms of raw stats, I applied to 175+ roles, got callbacks from maybe 20% of those, and received a single offer (which I accepted). Fortunately, my new job is still a full-remote role; I was worried I'd have to accept an on-site or hybrid role. Almost every single interview I had was doing the HackerRank/LeetCode thing; the company that extended me the offer was the only one that didn't.
authwalled: https://archive.is/IcRle

If I were going to spend that sort of money on a "degree", I'd probably go to an actual university rather than a for-profit certificate mill.
Antitrust laws as they exist are useless. They require a bar that is impossible to prove in real life. We need new laws that are flexible and allow a lot more power to split up and fine large companies
What does that actually mean, "works"? I don't know how that behaves in Google sheets or Excel. Is it evaluated exactly once the first time the formula is entered? Every time you focus the input? Is the dice rerolled when a1 or a2 is modified? What?
Maybe we need to change the legal process further to make it easy to participate and low cost.
İncredible game, matched with an equally amazing soundtrack !
Ask HN: Automate Collection of Financial Statements
How do you all deal with downloading and archiving your bank, credit card, investment account and other statements?

I find myself constantly logging in everywhere and downloading them manually which takes a lot of time and is easy to forget. Wondering if there isn't an easier way to do this.

Of course once solution might be to have them all sent on paper to a mailbox which auto-scans the statements so they are all in one place and can be archived this way or downloaded from that location.
I haven't considered beeswarm charts for this before, I will add those to a list of upcoming features. Thanks for the feedback :)
I say 'almost certainly' because LLMs are basically just a way to break down language into it's component ideas. Any AGI level machine will most certainly be capable of swapping sematic 'interfaces' at will, and something like an LLM is a very convenient way to encode that interface.
If 70 m is the diameter, not radius, that area is a factor of 4 too high. Should be more like ~3850 m^2. Still physically impossible at that size but it does make the required size a bit more tenable.
Yep big companies basically have too much capital to fail. They own distribution channels they seek rent on. No one else can get ahead of them. A small company making a mistake will die. A large company will not even notice it.
nothing compares to claude, not even gpt-4.
Flights are scheduled based on demand, not proximity. There are many Caribbean islands that are so close you can see them from each other on a good day, but the fastest way to travel between them is via Miami.
An excellent game for its time. The remaster is well worth it.

One unfortunate aspect of classic games is how dated mechanics can get. It’s a problem that music or movies don’t really have, besides maybe feeling a bit cliché.

In the case of Grim Fandango, the tank controls are a bit awkward, some puzzles are actually quite difficult and require logic that would only make sense to a point and click adventure gamer from the 90s.

It deserves to be enjoyed and remembered, just because of its sheer style and creativity.
It's the same with wasabi; at a high-end Japanese place you can typically ask for real wasabi (even at relatively high-end places the default will often be fake), and I enjoy the fake stuff a lot more (though: I tend to consume it separately, and don't do the "mix into the soy sauce" thing).
I wouldn't call it background unless maybe it's async or continues to process stuff while you're doing other things.
Documentation and logs of the Voyager and Apollo projects are public, comprehensive, and fascinating reading. They do use authentication and keep the keys secret. They are literally rocket scientists.
What a time that was for gaming. Everything felt special. I am afraid to revisit these old greats though, in case seeing them today ruins the illusion of the past.
This is a fun visualization. I may end up in NYC if my job interviews went well enough to land an offer. Just wrapped up 2nd round yesterday.
IIUC, this project is focused on the calculations, not the UI.
Good thing Trump was elected, then; now moral controls over corporations are on the fast track!
Nah it’s not (only) the judge but the opponent processional lawyers that are here to make you loose. Can be extremely traumatic.
Maybe prettifier was the wrong word. I've definitely used code formatting tools that offer sorting of certain syntax elements as a feature. (Python imports in PyCharm springs to mind)
he just explained it to you.
> As much as I love writing Rust, I also know it's not a widely popular language

Is this true? Rust is hyped like crazy and seems to be used everywhere these days.
I made the mistake of arguing with a somebody on facebook about Gardasil once. In the end I asked her flat out would she rather her daughter got cervical cancer, or had the vaccine. She said she chose cancer.

Some people you just can't reach. I stopped arguing at that point.
> Forget the wording 'centrist', parent is trying to describe the need for a party that seeks allies from all angles rather than trying to produce outrage towards specific groups of people in a lazy effort to foment in-party support and credit.

Fair enough. I'm all for breaking up the duopoly.

However, the strategy of scapegoating and creating enemies is hardly a new phenomenon. It's as old as politics itself. More recently, I'm old enough to remember Reagan railing against "welfare queens". In 1968, George Wallace ran for President, and won 5 states, on a platform of racial segregation. There was also the McCarthy era, of course, where there were supposedly enemies, Communists everywhere in the US. And George W. Bush weaponized patriotism after 9/11, painting anyone opposed to US imperialism as supporting the terrorists. (This same happens today to anyone opposed to US imperialism. They're called antisemites and supporters of Hamas.)

In the end, though, polls usually show that people vote based on their pocketbooks. Economic issues are almost always most important and salient, despite all of the other political commotion.
Software on Paper – 1985 Cauzin Softstrip [video]
For those using freedom units that is about 200ft diameter, or about 31,000 square feet.

This works out to roughly 0.7 acres.
It wasn't approved by the FDA for those over 27 until October 2018. Now that it is, I think technically you need a prescription but requesting it through Walgreens/CVS/etc. means they handle that for you. (COVID/flu are similar - if I look at the records for CVS they show a "prescribing doctor" I've never seen.)
Software will continue to eat the world. There's a massive push to cut costs right now and hence the software job market is under considerable pressure, but companies are burying themselves in tech debt and low quality solutions. This will catch up to them very soon.
Wrong syntax is (and must be) an error. Totally different. The Problem in Go and Zig is that they put theory over practice: No compiler warnings is a good idea in theory, but fails in practice for things like unused variables or unused imports. Defending that makes it even worse and begs the question what other treasures they have burried in their language design. This thread is a testament to that.
At the top of the homepage there's a menu bar with categories, if you scroll all the way to try right of that there's a "new to you" option. Try it out :)
I think it’s even more amusing that that, these folks invented rocket science.
tight-lipped, thats a definitive symptom of bieng probed by the aliens, ovipositors.
Main reason for the space force getting orbital is just this. With the aliens getting frisky,man oh man, what a mess you
got 0G, 1G, 2 G,3g,up to 5G and they are talking 6 of em, beaming the virus strait from 8 chan into your pre frontal cortex.
Maybe we should revisit the idea of a RAD IDE built on top of video game libraries, like raylib. Video games don't have a problem with cross-platform UI.
I'm not sure if it is feasible to provide all relevant sources to someone who doesn't follow a field. It is quite common knowledge that LLMs in their current form have no ability to recurse directly over a prompt, which inherently limits their reasoning ability.
Engineer Boot
Antennas at Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
Name Diameter Description
DSS 12: "Echo" 34m Decommissioned in 2012.
DSS 13: "Venus" 34m Beam waveguide antenna (BWG) on altazimuth mount, located in Venus, California. ~910 m2 aperture.
-> DSS 14: "Mars" 70m Cassegrain reflector on Alt/Az mount. ~3850 m2 aperture.
DSS 15: "Uranus" 34m "High Efficiency" reflector on Alt/Az mount
DSS 24, 25, 26: "Apollo" 34 m BWG reflector on Alt/Az mount
DSS 27, 28: "Gemini" 34 m BWG reflector on "High Speed" Alt/Az mount

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communica...
That's a really interesting perspective. I grew up around when adventure games were popular, and I learned a lot about the grown-up world (and in fact, American world) through adventure games.

Sam and Max had so much Americana that, playing as a non-American, got me into the deep cuts of American culture. I think a lot of it was contextual. I didn't get all the references at first (e.g. who's John Muir for instance), but the context made it possible for me to figure it out.
> Again, it is based on FreeBSD

The actual OS is based on Mach 2.0, but it's been worked on since 1990 or so. The user space might have some BSD origins, but I can attest that a lot of Linux flags work on the command line, so lots of work there, too.

Is there any reason to give this article credence?
Underrated reason for tiktok's success: shorter videos lend themselves way better to recommendation algorithms, because you have better data about what users want to see
I agree about the accessibility, but Full Throttle is by far my least favorite lucasarts graphical adventure. It's really quite depressing and I deeply dislike the main character.
Interpreting that to mean that the person said 'it's not for white guys' and parent thinks they meant 'not "just" for white guys'. But the damage had been done regardless of original intent behind the words.
Out of curiosity, what time of day and pre-ceremony preparation do you recommend for the retreat?
It will be a useful benchmark to validate claims by people like Sam Altman about having achieved AGI.
That's a very different thing and you know it. Indentation is syntax. You can't just omit braces and expect it to parse.
Jimmy is right about Grim Fandango's gameplay failings, and it's unfortunate, because the game has enough narrative content that they could have just trimmed away a lot of the adventure game puzzles. But visual novels weren't really a thing in the west yet, and in that era there was a lot of emphasis on playtime as a metric that reviews would focus on.

Ironically, one of the most forward-looking approaches to extending playtime without relying on obtuse puzzles had been already pioneered (in a flawed way, certainly) by Sierra, the company which often served as the contrast to LucasArts' reputation for innovation. I'm talking about The Colonel's Bequest, which elaborated the classic adventure game score system into a kind of scavenger hunt, a precursor to achievements in today's games. Grim Fandango would both aesthetically and thematically have been a great fit for that kind of "find the secret scenes" style of replayability.
> The same pattern in Rust would just use variadic templates/generics.

Man, must be nice to be a time traveler from the 2030s. How does Covid25 turn out?
Trellis: AI-powered workflow for unstructured data
Something doesn’t add up. I see Iron Mountain box trucks at least weekly, with PA tags. Also we use them for backups.

Nothing about them is a secret. What a strange quote by the owner.
I actually pay for YouTube to not show me advertising, but I'm also a fan of UBlock Origin and yt-dlp [1], and also physical media, but I do appreciate ebooks a lot.

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
This sort of OS advantage is why companies are now required to show you available options when you furst use certain features. I'm not saying the current approach here is the best mitigation, but for instance on IOS during the OS setup, you're asked to pick a default browser. Similarly on Chrome on a new machine, I was recently asked to pick a search engine before I could use the search bar, showing several options.
This is a great assessment that I never realized until you said it. There are so many games from that era that I played that fit that mold. I was playing Leisure Suit Larry as a 10 year old! I can’t imagine parents these days letting their kids play that at all!
Very cool. It'll be nice to have a benchmark that can be used to validate abstract reasoning capabilities because the hype is really starting to get out of hand.
Are they difficult to get today? DigiKey says [1] they have almost 2000 ready to ship immediately.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/analog-devices-in...
WTF is people's obsession with the 'other position'. Sometimes there is no other position. It's just people complaining that someones opinion doesn't align with theirs.

An apple tree has 2 apples on it. It's a fact. There is no 'other position'. So sick of narrow-minded idiots/bigots. The article I linked to has way more factual information than the Reuters one.

The government is trying to legislate something it can't control. The whole situation is stupid.
This is a WIP, but here's the test suite for a recursive decent powered search DSL:

https://github.com/williamcotton/search-query-parser-scratch...

Claude, using Projects, wrote perhaps 90% of this project with my detailed guidance.

It does a double pass, the first pass recursive descent to get strings as leaf nodes and then another pass to get multiple errors reported at once.

There's also a React component for a search input box powered by Monaco and complete with completions, error underlines and messaging, and syntax highlighting:

https://github.com/williamcotton/search-query-parser-scratch...

Feel free to browse the commit history to get an idea of how much time this saved me. Spoiler alert: it saved a lot of time. Frankly, I wouldn't have bothered with this project without offloading most of the work to an LLM.

There's a lot more than this and if you want a demo you can:

git clone git@github.com:williamcotton/search-query-parser-scratchpad.git
cd search-input-query-react
npm install
npm run dev

Put something like this into the input:

-status:out price:<130 (sneakers or shoes)

And then play around with valid and invalid syntax.

It has Sqlite WASM running in the browser with demo data so you'll get some actual results.

If you want a guided video chat tour of how I used the tool I'd be happy to arrange that. It takes too much work to get things out of Claude.
You still need an independent income for that.
Well yes, but if it's someone else's library, realistically you're not going to change it.

Zig is a static language without variadic parameters, so you can't make it optional in that sense. You could make the options a `?T` and pass `null` instead, but it isn't idiomatic, because passing `.{}` to a parameter expecting a `T` will fill in all the default values for you.
I asked a while back to a NYC city planner the reason they didn't publish station MTA station layouts / exits on gmaps , like you see for example for toyko in gmaps

I was told this was not opened publicly because of terrorist concerns. But if you wanted to get MTA station layouts, it was certainly possible to get them from the city.

I guess we have flipped that page!
Sorry, I am missing context. Where does that come from?
Seems like this is basically Rescript or Elm - a completely different language with the ability to interop with JS.
So distribution of consumption from bottom 50% is closer to 33%.

https://www.bls.gov/cex/pce-ce-distributions.htm
Replying to your post-scriptum: maybe it’s used to normalise/re-appropriate[1] the triple parentheses?

[1]: https://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/technology/google-racist-ch...
This is just totally false.

That's exactly what countless techniques related to chain of thought do.