skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my reaction too.

It was like reading an engineering team saying their attempt to design a new lightweight mountain bike failed. It turned out saving weight by omitting brakes wasn't a good idea, and their attempt to fix it by riding beside each bike and manually slowing it down wasn't too popular either. Then they have the hubris to follow that up with, "you can avoid the same mistakes by reading what we have to say on bicycle design".

The lessons they can take away have very little to do with engineering or FinTech. I'd file it under doing a bit of research before committing to any major task. Basic accounting principles are centuries old now. They could have learnt about them by buying a high school text book, reading it cover to cover and use doing the exercises. It would have taken them less than a week.

Admittedly that only gives you the "how", not the "why". You realise much, much later that the engineering equivalent of double entry accounting is two systems design by different teams that are constantly comparing their outputs. By the time you've figured that out, it's caught so many errors you realise "holy shit, these systems are really easy to screw up, and are under constant attack by malicious actors".

There is a hidden trap at every step - floating point being imprecise, currency rounding not being reversible, tax calculations being one way, ACID being a hard requirement. I'm being this mob screwed up tax calculations. Floating point throwing out 1 in 100 million transactions was one of the joys they never got to experience.
In theory I can disable most if not all of the telemetry coming out of my phone, though. I can also choose to leave my phone at home, knowing that it's likely there's still something on it that's collecting data on my movements, even if I've been careful about disabling and uninstalling things.

But the car is largely a black box when it comes to its electronics, and if I need to drive the car somewhere, I can't leave the black boxes at home; they come with me wherever I go.

> And an EV without smarts is legitimately just a golf cart.

Sounds fine to me.
Clojure offers so many ways for you to manage state for different use cases. Atoms, volatiles, agents, vars, refs.

Functional programming never fights against persistent state. It simply carves out the functionality by use cases and offer you more choice in managing it.
Thanks.

When I said "steadily declining interest rates causing an increase in demand for investments", I wasn't referring to institutional investment only (for residential properties this is almost entirely insignificant in NZ). I was referring to the motivations of all purchasers.

Nobody was paying the average of NZD1M for just a home - they were making an investment with future capital gains in mind (as well as getting a home). Now that credit is no longer cheap those capital gains are less than assured - even negative. So a correction is occurring. The correction has not been caused by a drop in demand for homes/places to live.
What is modulex: https://www.newelementary.com/2017/11/old-bricks-what-are-mo...
Absolutely, that’s why it’d be interesting to have an actual study about it. Otherwise it’s just runaway speculation, and all we can say is there are many companies and managers and they all work differently and your experiences may vary.
Whoever bought my old Honda Fit is asking the same question right now; I installed a button in about the same place. They'll have fun figuring that one out. Honda Fit's AC is designed a lot more for fuel efficiency than effectiveness. So I added a resistor parallel to AC temperature sensor (and the switch inline) which makes the system think it's warmer than it really is, so it cools more. But with the risk of allowing the coil to freeze up. I called it the "AC Boost Switch".
Honestly, and this is not personal, I doubt your ability to determine a bad summarisation or translation outcome. My wife is a professional translator and spends a good deal of time picking up the steaming wrecks that LLMs have left after someone went for the "cheap" option first. And we're talking best of breed stuff like DeepL here.

As for the other points, I rather like to spend some time thinking on them personally. If you're not connected to the decision yourself, what are you?
Most things that transfer power from individuals to future governments is a clear no from me.

I am happy with our current government.

But reading history I have realized that the scariest thing that is is powerful governments.

Honor and trust work extremely well: anyone of us can create enormous caos if we want to but most of us don't so it doesn't happen.
I am 100% against this and I don’t think it should be allowed. You’re young fit and healthy and you want to die?

Find a way to do it. It sucks, and it’s not that I disagree that some people might be better off - it’s that the system that would allow for this would be politically untenable and likely abused.

But it’s also because not allowing people to commit suicide easily can help making the symptoms go away naturally as circumstances change.
It is, when you consider the problem of dealing with spent pebbles. These are not like the fuel rods of a LWR that occupy a fraction of a much smaller volume. The dry casks to store them would be immense.
Germany had complete control of the country. When Hitler decided to give Hungary a big chunk of Transylvania Romania army could not what they really wanted: ie fight the Hungarians. [0]

Instead they had to suck it up and march East into Russia proper.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vienna_Award
you can do that with llama-server too
It is pretty amusing, but I actually have to agree. Unless your book is about generative AI, using it for the cover makes me question the effort put into the rest of the book - which is really unfortunate if the author did in fact put a lot of effort into their book!

Yes, don’t judge a book by its cover - but lots of people do anyway.
Those classrooms! Exactly.
You're not wrong.

But in theory, agreement and buy-in is a one-time thing, while actually writing the code and reviewing the PRs are constant things.
> A car realistically just sits around doing nothing 80% of the time

A bit besides the point, but isn't it wild how inherently wasteful personal cars are? Every time the thought crosses my mind to get another one, if I don't stop at the cost, I stop at the fact that I'll have this giant chunk of metal sitting idle on the street or somewhere else nearly all the time. It'd be useful in an extreme minority of cases (for me), but I/we pay for it all the time by allocating quite a lot of space and money to them. The tires, the insurance, taxes, fuel, charging stations, driveways, parking garages, natural resources, air quality, ambient noise, senseless deaths, it's crazy. Granted, some aren't a result of idle existence, but c'mon.

Renting an arbitrary car periodically ends up being the most tolerable option. A small temporary expense when it's really needed or desired, and it's enough to remind me of the good and bad bits.
As a former Fit owner, I wish I had thought of this! The AC was really bad. We did a lot of road trips and it really struggled out on the long desert highway stretches.
this might also be a demographic issue - I live in an afluent area and genai is woven already into everyday so much that it is already difficult to imagine life without it. just couple of example - my 11-year old kid does most if not all
of her studying/research/… through genai. her class has a google doc where they share prompts they found useful for learning xyz… my kid asked me something last week and I said “no clue, google it” and her response was “google it??? thats funny dad…”

my homeowners association used genai to go through years of transaction to create a budget etc…
I'll do audiobooks while I do the grocery shopping or drive. And some of the books are kind of cheating as there are always a few graphic novels or 90 or 150 page books. But even as a parent I can find some time by cutting down screen time.

Also even though I enjoy reading a lot, I find more isn't always better, but I've been trying to survey some topics - fascism, Christian Nationalism, etc. If I really want to get something out of what I'm reading or if it is a complex topic I have to slow down.
I'm not doubting your solution but at the same time would turning down the desired temperature in the car achieve the same goal?
Pity about the downsides of the technologies you mention though. :(
Javascript can do browser redirects, but those are not actual 301 HTTP redirects.
That's what the original experiment was about the first time it made it to the mill, but the article is all about conclusions from the experimenter about rich environments. If you taught your dog a trick I hadn't seen before would you expect me to have a heightened belief that you knew the science of mammal emotions? I would just assume that you had a good treat and had or developed an understanding of some of their more direct physical/cognitive limits.
I'm quite sure this one is a joke. But yeah, the other one may have been that thing you said (or may have been a joke too, I don't think even the CIA knows by now).
Often times, when people learn Clojure, they are also learning functional programming and lisp and data-oriented programming and interactive programming all at once. Writing Clojure requires a shift in perspective, coming from the imperative and object-oriented paradigms, and without that shift, even basic programs can seem impossible to build. This shift was very difficult for me, coming from C/C++/C#/Rust, and I've spoken with many others who've felt the same. I suspect, when you talk about hitting walls due to state, it's due to that perspective shift not being complete.

Does that mean I'm saying Clojure is the best lang for everyone and it's their fault if they don't get it yet? No, certainly not. We need to do better with that, in the Clojure world, to make that bridge easier to cross. But, having fought my way across that bridge, I can confidently say that mutable state is no problem in Clojure. We have first-class support for it and that support is thread-safe by default. Unlike something like Haskell, effects aren't scary and don't need to be wrapped. They can be adhoc.

jank inherits all of this and just brings it to the native world. That means lighter binaries, faster startup, and easier interop with native libs. Aside from that, it's Clojure.
Oh please. Don't pretend like this has anything to do with "effort". If the book cover was some generic stock image you wouldn't even blink.
Don't judge a book by the cover is an advice for us, the readers. It is NOT an advice for the writers or the marketing department.

a tasteful public domain image of a crab or something like hundreds of years old but then detailed enough kind of like one of those O'Reilly's books and then make the whole cover white with some text that stands out... It has all been done before and I anal but I doubt O'Reilly's can copyright or trademark that design feeling.

Edit: unless the authors are trying to crowd source the proof reading and peer review by releasing an early access copy? This cover draws attention from the average reader who is drawn to comment about the book because there is something to criticize? Maybe this is some kind of advanced 3D chess?
> they could charge you with a crime

Doubt it. You'd be using a device you bought and now own, that didn't come with any kind of agreement/contract/etc to limit your usage. :)
I mean, really, is anyone all that interested in generative AI, barring VCs?
> In Europe, it’s also common for you to buy a place, and then when you move in, you find the vendor has taken all of the wiring and plumbing with them.

This is the first time I hwar of this.

At least in Norway the rule is that everything that is built in stays.

So table, chairs, TV, washing machine, dryer etc goes, but built in appliances and built in place furniture stays.
> they owned them

Doesn't mean they need to be kept in their current location though. You're entirely within your rights to remove them and leave them in a safe place for them to retrieve at their leisure.
This is the dumbest thing, lol, but I used to play a lot of Diablo 4. There's an associated trading site that facilitates the trading of in-game items (https://diablo.trade/) but their frontend isn't great and is missing a lot of filters. So I spent a few hours and made a frontend of my own, and I was able to find a lot of deals that were otherwise difficult to sort through. Drastically improved the signal to noise ratio.

I did something similar with the Path of Exile cosmetics shop so that I could better find matching microtransactions for the set I was trying to build.

In both cases, I reached out to the official devs to offer to help just make their official one better, but both rejected my offer. So I ended up just building them for my own use.

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Unrelated, there was a popular hiking trail I liked that didn't have a good map. I made one by combining several sources and formatted it into a PDF. I submitted it to a local trail group. Within a few months it became used and shared widely, which I didn't realize until a friend of mine printed it out and invited me on a hike. "Check out this great map," he said, "it's finally clear where the trail is". We had a laugh when he discovered I made it.
I'm sure there will be kits to swap the ice engine to eletricfor most popular cars eventually. Then you will have more control about what features is added.
related (15 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130881 on Francois Chollet is leaving Google

> "Why did you decide to merge Keras into TensorFlow in 2019": I didn't! The decision was made in 2018 by the TF leads -- I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision.
The average electric car is a nightmare kludge.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41970406
Thats not a bad overage price, but then again cutting from 20 to 1 while raising prices seems fucking insane
> my homeowners association used genai to go through years of transaction to create a budget etc…

… Yikes. Hope they checked it afterwards. These things are quite bad at financial stuff; they’re good at producing something which looks superficially reasonable, but when you look closer, well, it’s all nonsense.
Pasting my comment on the article https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-would-it-take-to... :

> RCA Laboratories/the Sarnoff Research Center is surely one of the most important of the American corporate labs with similarities to Bell Labs. (It features prominently in Bob Johnstone's We Were Burning https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bob-johnstone/we-we... : it has a big role in the history of the Japanese semiconductor industry, in large part because of its roles in the development of the transistor and the LCD and its thirst for patent-licensing money.)

>> In Dealers of Lightning, Michael Hiltzik argues that by the 1990s PARC was no longer engaged in such unrestricted research decoupled from product development.

> According to Hiltzik and most other sources, the PARC Computer Science Lab's salad days were over as early as 1983, when Bob Taylor was forced to leave, while the work of the other PARC labs focussed on physics and materials science wasn't as notable in the period up to then.

Seriously: if this kind of thing interests you at all, go and read We Were Burning.
Yes, disincentivize dividends and buybacks, reincentivize investments, R&D and others.
> More interesting would be the percentage of people that have used GenAI in the past year with a purpose.

Also how many would continue to use genAI if it weren't artificially cheap/free. Remember that nearly all AI companies are losing money hand over fist, there's bound to be user attrition when the walls close in and they have to start shoving in ads or aggressively upselling paid subscriptions.
Square root computation can be tricky, often relying on approximations. These approximations tend to perform best for mid-range values, while accuracy can degrade for very large or very small values. With this in mind, a product of roots is generally more accurate than a root of products.

From a SIMD perspective, it’s worth noting that on most platforms, the cost of computing one square root or two is the same. On modern x86 server CPUs, for instance, you can calculate up to 8 double-precision roots in parallel with identical latency. So there’s no additional cost in terms of performance.

I hope this sheds some light on the design of my code.

PS: In a previous life, I did research in Astro- and Plasma Physics. While I don’t claim to remember all the Math, it’s usually more productive to ask for clarification than to assume ignorance ;)
They aren't the same at all

A shared style guide is an external impetus to adjust behavior. It comes with external accountability, and also an implicit understanding that violating the shared expectation may bring consequences

"Everyone should just be less anal" is expecting an internal impetus to adjust behavior. There no external accountability, and there's no expectation that failing to do so has consequences

> The other issue is that linters/formatters don't "solve" all formatting/stylistic choices.

80% of a solution is better than 0%
Use LLMs. Claude could generate a full course plan and execute it
Dealerships in the US have become more brazen about that practice. They won't hide that they installed the device. Instead, they will upsell you on an anti-theft device.

One dealer tried to sell one to me to the tune of 600$/year. That told me that they were butchering the wiring on every brand new car that hit their lot. I walked out without a deal.
I wasn't a very active 4chan poster to begin with, but when they introduced this awful CAPTCHA, and later the 300s countdown before making the first post, I completely lost interest in using the website.

Anonymous boards were supposed to be low-friction, but now 4chan is one of the most user-hostile social media platforms around. It takes a special kind of dedication to post there, which I seriously doubt helps the quality of the site.
Does it supports ollama
You're correct. The one in Greenland was the PM-2A. The one in Antarctica was the PM-3A. List of these, with even more small Army microreactors, with videos for all here https://whatisnuclear.com/slides/reactor-history.html#/2/16!
The big question, really, is whether they _regularly_ use it. I’ve used ChatGPT… precisely once, as a novelty.
This is the right answer, sadly. I had moved over to Mastodon and already people are using it to raise pitchforks. I just don't think our human brains deserve the power that comes with social media.
If you have long-lasting inflation, you need some shock to cut it. But reducing the supply of money only does shock, it's keeping it constant over the long term that avoids inflation.

And well, price control never works. This is well known. It's also well known that Argentina's last few presidents were people that wouldn't let patently known and unavoidable facts get in the way of their policies...
First, it is important to highlight for people no familiar with Argentina that the current yearly "Milei" inflation is above 40% and it could be difficult to go much below. This inflation takes into account a very basic basket. The current inflation is very high and the country is in a recession. This is just a macroeconomic measure beyond Milei and its legacy.

Then, sorry, you are mistaken about historical inflation rates and you can check that easily [1]. Comparing just one year of government inflation as a data point is not enough to extrapolate, and I haven't started talking about carry trade that gives investors more than 10% per month in USD. Last time that happened, just two governments ago and with
The same guy, there was a crash one day.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi
Germany did not have "complete control" of Romania. It was not a country under occupation. It was a willing ally, with a fascist dictator in charge: Antonescu. I think what you're describing is that Romania was not a peer on equal standing with Nazi Germany.

Romanian troops took part, willingly, of Nazi death squad actions.

Furthermore, Jews in Romania didn't remember the Germans "fondly".
Works fine for me on both desktop and Android Firefox with Ublock Origin.
It is obvious that a style comment is of no significance, and that the person who made it chose to spend time and personal capital on something of no significance.

It is not obvious that an actual code change is of poor quality.

To show that takes infinitely more experience, work to analyse all the direct and indirect ramifications of both the original and proposed approaches, capacity to push back and decide that your own engineering judgement is equal or better than whoever is purporting to correct you, willingness to suffer everyone else accusing you of arrogance for that on top.

Even with all of that, it's a lot harder to prove the valueless comment is valueless because the more you know, the more you know that practically every single line of code could be done 30 other ways with some valid argument for each one.

It's completely insidious both for the junior and the senior.

The junior has no way to know the junk comment is junk. So they internalize the comment and everyone is worse for it.

The senior has it almost worse. They know enough to know they don't know everything and the comment might be valid, so they put in all kinds of work to try to figure out if they actually missed something, did they have point etc. Maybe in the end the code doesn't end up as bad as the junior just rolling over, but it sucked for everyone and the challenge was not really an intentional productive crucible, it was just a douche that everyone had to waste time and energy taking seriously.

Only someone who actually is arrogant (whatever level, whichever side of the pr) has it easy. Again bad for everyone except them maybe.
Going through the docs I find you don't actually have a bit about how to make your website to use it. I mean I can work it would and it'll be obvious to proper front end developers but at not point do you say:

"Add the following line to you page source to send data to Vince"
It does sound like you're in a particularly bad mood, so yes, maybe our outlook does change. Maybe it helps to think of a darker timeline where Google would have kept all of these advances to itself and improved its ad revenue. Instead it shared the research freely with the world. And call me naive, but I use LLMs almost daily, so there definitely _is_ something of value that came out of all this progress. But YMMV, of course.
Not OP but I think it depends on your definition of 'string'. For example there are some very grumpy devs who believe that C has no strings, and that "const char*" cannot ever be considered a string, and that anyone else who claims so is wrong.
In many countries the new tradition is slowly raising prices for a couple of months and then do the discount. Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and all the stupid global corporate propaganda deception campaigns.
That seems irrelevant to whether SPAs were solving a nonexistent problem when they were invented.
Brazil pretty much did a monetary shock by reducing the money supply. Just like Milei.

We did more stuff besides the shock. But we also had more inflation, and it was more persistent.
I'm not quite sure why, but this release feels special, there are a ton of new features that I'm really excited to try out. All kinds of applications for the remote protocol even beyond the editor or games.

Two questions: is there any timeframe on the new declarative scene system (BSN)? and if mod_picking was moved into bevy itself, are there any plans to do the same with xpbd or rapier in the future?
Buy Your Own Space Selfie [video]
An awesome idea from Mark Rober !
Are we sure it can't be created in nitrogen rich atmospheres outside earth?
The samples are interesting, I wouldn't buy it (I just did the first few chapters of the rust book instead), but it seems cool. Get rid of the cover tho.