skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
n+1 to the Category comments.

Feature request: Allow planning by days following Authorization to Proceed or similar undefined start date. I realize this runs into its own problems but 99% of the time I don't know when that date might be yet I need to lay out a schedule to support a proposal to get the funding to do the job being planned. Weekends, holidays, and other specifics are less important than a view of task relationships and milestones over weeks and months.

Even the huge MS Project cannot or will not do that.
The AI part is a sideshow.

Its not actually needed or useful for that system.

the object tracking is the bit thats actually needed. Converting speech->text->vectors is really not that that useful.

Its perfectly possible to build self contained offline, reasonably accurate "anti-human" gun turret now. You don't need chatGPT for that. If you're in a hurry, YOLO will do most of the work for you.

You might need it to raise money from people with too much cash though.

edit ok so whats actually hard then?

Detecting "enemies" in anything other than a small room is actually quite hard. Sure you can detect motion, but getting a range on that "enemy" is tricky.

Sure you can use camera arrays, but that only give you ~30 meters without extra resolution. Radar works, but then you either have to get good at human classification with radar (perfectly possible, but no where near as off the shelf as camera based models)
I found your history very interesting (I was familiar with much of it but I don't think I've seen so much collected in one place) but I had some issues with your conclusion, mostly because I don't really see the phrase "cargo cult" or the verbed form "cargo culting" to be inherently pejorative. I think the concept of someone going through the motions without a necessary understanding of their purpose to achieve the desired effects is very useful one, especially given the ever increasing layers of abstraction that exist in our society.

Have you thought about an alternative concept or word that describes this phenomenon that could be used instead?
I think the question was about using podman on FreeBSD, which is the first time I'm hearing about it:

https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-install-podman-on-freebsd-14-0

Looks like it isn't using virtualization (unlike the crutches forced on users of the two major commercial OSes), which is great.
Wikipedia lists the energy density of kerosene as 9.7k Wh/L, and lithium sulfur at 550 Wh/L, which is not great.
Kenney.nl is the hero of the Game Development Programming course I taught at university. Access to high quality free assets allowed my students to not worry about being a great artist and focus on the game programming and game development mechanics that I was trying to teach.
Nails it. I'm so tired fighting incidental complexity--our tools.

Speed is great but let me just focus on the business problems and write something durable.
> similar cases

Can you provide specific citations?

And.. normally, I might ask that for argumentative reasons, but… sitting here, south of Pasadena, I really want things to look at to understand what this might do to the place I live.

Right now it’s my understanding that this is yet another once-in-a-lifetime disaster. I think our generation is at… five of these, at least?
Is the comment above about every website or libgen?
Gaslighting has had a lot of scope creep in the past few years. lol
Wow you mean it’s not accurate to generalise to an entire culture from a few personal experiences? Color me shocked
E.g.,

> “Without helicopters, this kind of a brush fire, we cannot stop it on the ground,” said Margaret Stewart, an LAFD spokeswoman.

> Perhaps demonstrating what a difference aircraft can make, a fire that threatened the Hollywood Hills late Wednesday was quickly contained and limited to 43 acres. Calmer winds allowed aircraft to douse flames with water from nearby reservoirs.

* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/20...
Neat, but you don't need to drink water if you aren't thirsty.
>He’s forgetting that software keeps getting slower

I mean, depends on what software you use. There's a pretty sizeable and growing ecosystem of people who put a lot of thought into performance. Just look at tooling like ripgrep, some of the newer terminals people have been working on, recently I came across a pretty nice neovim plugin where someone had written their own custom SIMD fuzzy string matcher (https://github.com/saghen/frizbee). There's some pretty admirable effort people put into performance these days.

I think speed of your setup is mostly limited by how willing you are to look for better alternatives.
ChatGPT does exactly that with its built in runtime and web search.

But the LLM provider doesn’t have to do that. Langchain - the Python AI library - and OpenAI’s own library has support for third party tools.

It’s up to third parties to build on up of it.
If there’s no system to refute the uniqueness of a handful of identities (sock puppets used for griefing) then the system won’t scale. If anyone can issue a “takedown” for free, the system of moderation won’t scale.
There are times when I would ask for this. If it's midnight on a Saturday and the website says: "You can reach a human agent 9-5 M-F or we can have an AI agent call you right now" then I might opt for the AI agent. I may also do this if I want to take a call while out for a bike ride, in a noisy place, etc. Talking to AI means I don't need to worry about being polite which is actually very convenient.
Yes, it is common sense.
I have an eMac G4, can't beat that CRT!
> […] and the fire dept. needs to enforce it.

And/or insurance companies.
> Memory corruption in one test doesn’t cause others to behave erratically. One test segfaulting does not take down a bunch of other tests.

Is "memory corruption" an issue with Rust? Also, if one test segfaults, isn't it a reason to halt the run because something got seriously broken?
Getting a postdoc position is usually easier than getting into a PhD program in the same university, especially in top universities. And the chances of getting a tenure-track faculty position or similar are probably something like 1/3.

The biggest obstacles to getting an academic job are personal. The jobs are wherever they are, and your (or your partner's) preferences cannot change that. If you are willing to relocate, your chances of getting a good academic job are much higher than if you restrict your search to a single city / region / country / continent.
Where Imagination Becomes a Well-Crafted Children's Tale
Did you check the basement?
This seems incoherent, how does this relate to the prior comment?

And why would the number of users expressing opinions even matter?

Edit: I’m not here to score points, so it seems irrelevant in any comment chain whatsoever.
laws are for the little people, not big tech
Not really. The era of "modern efficient CPUs" started some 10-15 years ago. Under light loads, Ivy Bridge or Haswell is going to have a similar thermal profile to modern machines.

Many of the new machines are actually worse, e.g. 3770K @77W vs. 14900K @125W/253W. That isn't to say they're not also faster, but if you actually use it you're burning more watts.
> many long promised features still not implemented

name one that isn't async / sane recursion (which is also async)
Gee, mapping every object in the observable universe (and possibly saving us from catastrophic meteor strikes) or pumping out a few more tons of ammonia?

Framing does an awful lot of work.
It's easy to remap keybinds in IDEA, or you can just export and import them wholesale (along with all other settings). The settings can be synchronized through their server or your own git repository so you don't have to do it manually.

IDEA is pretty stable overall, I've been using the same dev workflow for maybe 13-14 years now?

edit: idea == android studio in this case, there's very little difference between them.
The history was a good read, but the conclusion feels like a strawman argument

> The cargo cult metaphor should be avoided for three reasons. First, the metaphor is essentially meaningless and heavily overused.

> Note that the metaphor in cargo-cult programming is the opposite of the metaphor in cargo-cult science: Feyman's cargo-cult science has no chance of working, while cargo-cult programming works but isn't understood.

This isn’t how I’ve seen the phrase used most often. People generally complain about cargo culting when management forces practices on a team that don’t work, nor are they understood. The “cargo cult” element describes the root cause of these ineffective practices as coming from imitating something they saw or heard about, but don’t understand. Using imitation as a substitute for experience.

For that, the phrase is uniquely effective at communicating what’s happening. People understand the situation without needed a long explanation.

I don’t see a need to retire the phrase, nor do I think this article accurately captures how it’s used.
It’s important to not conflate Java’s interface keyword with the more general notion of “interface” as in “API”. In Java, you generally don’t and can’t have a source-level representation of the API without it being interspersed with its implementation.

(You could imagine such a representation, i.e. remove all method bodies and (package-)private elements, but the result wouldn’t be valid Java. IDEs arguably could and should provide such a source-level view, e.g. via code folding, but I don’t know any that do.)
Looks simple but extensible, will check it out. Thanks!
I picked up a G4 Cube for retro-gaming. It'll run what I'm interested in (Sim City, Sim Tower), is compact, and I've got the ADC monitor to go with it. Upgraded to 1.5GiB RAM and replaced the spinning rust with an SSD with an IDE bridge. I even have the working Apple USB speakers that it came with! Repaired the disc drive and it is good to go.

Installed OS X 10.4 for kicks (will go back to 9.2) and wow, what a different OS that was from today's macOS. Brings back memories of my PB G4 Ti. What an awesome laptop that was.
I wouldn't recommend IR3 to a new player. It's significantly more difficult than the base game - there are a lot more intermediate products involved in making almost everything, the steam phase is a wacky layout puzzle, and it's got some mechanics like ore washing which require circuit controls.

It's a neat mod which I enjoyed playing (and I wish it were playable in 2.0!), but it's aimed at experienced players. Someone with only a few hours in the game will hit a wall pretty quickly.
Zim - Wysiwyg for markdown files

https://zim-wiki.org/

My only complaints are that it uses .txt instead of .md and that I haven't been able to get it to work on Mac.
I always think the Core 2 Duo was an inflection point in terms of performance. Before that every new operating system release seemed slow on even the most modern hardware. After it was fine.

Having said that my 8GB MacBook Air runs the unit tests for my current project four times faster than my 2018 i7 Mac. I will upgrade within a couple of years.
Who would ever come up with such an assumption?

(excluding regular users of Fentanyl)
Getting started is the only way to find out how hard it is.

The key decision is what would be good enough.

Good luck.
It is mainly cost – like 6x more. Utilities like LADWP eventually want to underground everything but the time scale of such a project is probably eons.
The NYT and their lawyers are confused, then:

> Defendants’ generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) tools rely on large-language models (“LLMs”) that were built by copying and using millions of The Times’s copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides, and more.

https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20...

This case is still ongoing a year later.
> The biological issue is that men competing against women will cause very real biological injuries.

Uh... this is quite a bizarre statement, given that you previously brought up boxing, in which the entire point is to cause very real biological injuries to your opponent. If you hadn't noticed, in all sports, men competing against men causes very real biological injuries, as does women competing against women.

> Saying that women shouldn't get to compete in the Olympics is fine, you should just be honest about it.

I wasn't making any suggestions, merely pointing out that the current divisions are arbitrary social conventions that could be changed. I honestly have no strong opinions about sporting rules, and I was joking about the need for a basketball league to accommodate me. I've played tennis but not basketball.

> I admire your innocence. Search for "genital preference transphobic" or the like to see an example

You can always find examples of any opinion in the world on any subject, but if they're not commonly propounded or representative of the public debate, then they're largely irrelevant. You can't validly repudiate a position by pointing out the most extreme advocates of the position, otherwise you would repudiate every position.

[EDIT:] It was probably a mistake for me to get sidetracked arguing about sports. The weirdest thing about your "motte and bailey" argument is the implication that the worst thing about acknowledging the self-identity of transgender women would be its effect on sporting competition. Whereas transgender people themselves appear to be much more worried about things like violence against them, discrimination against them in the workplace, housing, and health care, and general social disrespect, refusal to accept their very existence. I think that sports is largely a red herring.
On Misery
LA homeowner here. My backyard is also an undeveloped (re: “natural” hillside).

I’m responsible for clearing brush in that hillside, so that it’s n-hundred feet from structures. It’s checked in May, or thereabouts.
> Well known by people who pay attention, yet ignored by people who make policy at the local level.

It is not ignored by local policy folks:

> Molly Mowery, an author of a 2020 report for Los Angeles County on how to reduce wildfire risk, said that the county now takes wildfire into account when reviewing new housing development plans. The problem, she said, is that nearly 90 percent of the county’s housing stock was built before 1990, before many subdivision or building code requirements for wildfire hazards took effect. Once fire enters these communities, the homes are the fuel.

* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/20...

But to a certain extent government can only do what the citizens want to be done:

> Nic Arnzen, a town council member in Altadena, where thousands of homes, businesses, restaurants and parks were lost in the Eaton Fire, said the unincorporated community in Los Angeles County was trying to address fire risks. Less than a month ago, the town council chair wrote a letter to Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, recommending she adopt a controversial land-use plan that would direct development away from the Altadena foothills “and other high fire hazard zones.”

> It had been a subject of debate for months. Residents concerned about the community’s vulnerability to an inferno roaring off the slope of the San Gabriel Mountains favored the plan. But others didn’t want to lose the ability to develop their properties in the hills. […]

* Ibid.
I looked into this for a while and it sounds like, not really, it just intends to use a lot of comptime stuff. Also.. It doesn't exist, lol, it's just a bunch of advertising. Unfortunate.
Try linux-lts. The latest "stable" releases of the kernel (since 6.10 onwards) have felt like they weren't tested at all, major regressions in every single version. I report them, but new problems keep coming. Never seen anything like that in two decades of being a mostly/only linux user.

The lts is fine, no problems at all.
self-reviw can be good if it is about a honest conversation "what do you think how well you are doing" and then get an honest outside view for comparison. Often one feels and about something which somebody else didn't notice and lack somewhere else.

However most reviews I have seen are about paying the system, not honest evaluation of problems and praise of what's good.
> Q: why I chose common lisp

> A: I was looking for a lisp to begin with

> This is almost like a satire

How? It's no different than "Why I chose Arch Linux? I was looking for a Linux to begin with."

To even think that's satire is to completely miss the point.
This is an old idea behind “everything is file” and plan9, afaik. FUSE allows this, you can easily write a “driver” that does exactly this on a mountpoint like /mnt/mywebfs/whatever.com/search?q=….

/proc (procfs) is basically this but for kernel structures.
I've thought about this comment a bit, and I was debating on whether to "agree to disagree" or state my case.

I think that they are a terrific sequel/expansion to Factorio. It's still "Logistics: The Game".

Fulgora requires you to work in confined space and manage a complex situation regarding waste.

Gleba requires you to deal with stock that expires, sometimes dangerously. (Tip: Basically you need to keep refining the "dangerous" spoilable products into non-dangerous products constantly, or else burn it).

Aquilo I haven't gotten to yet.

These planets have expanded the scope of real-world logistics concepts one may think about in manufacturing, in my opinion. The expansion would have been a lot more boring if all they did was add stack inserters and turbo belts. If they are not fun, then there are mods to disable/modify recipes to not need them, while still getting all the cool new tech in Space Age.
So this is essentially a list of things that were bad in the old Internet from the point of view of... a feminist collective? It looks like the writer is trying to universalize an essentially biased point of view, calling my point of view a mistake and suggesting that that point of view is actually an artefact of the passing of time. I'm sorry but that's not true. I'd take the old Internet any day, defects and all, very sorry for the feminist collective they interviewed.
thanks!!! I appreciate your feedback, I just implemented loading html files, and i will do what you suggested. I know there are safer languages out there, but C is what sparks my interest and love in programming, like I woke up 6 am wanting to code in it....i just feel I should follow this instinct. C kinda force me to understand things better i think...
Note that training is not even relevant here. Downloading copyrighted content you don't have the right to download is illegal. Distributing content you don't have the right to distribute is illegal. Meta did both. They did so knowingly, very deliberately even. It is unambiguously copyright infringement, on a massive scale.
It’s a really basic engineering problem that was studied extensively in many studies and we teach it at undergraduate.

When I made the point that there is no scientific novelty here they insisted that their PhD was a ‘generic’ one and that means they can continue to run basic simulations according the to the recipe.
Ask HN: Will HN ever have a dark mode?
It's one of those sites that I frequently visit and get a glaring screen in my face when switching tabs. Just wanted to know if this feature is ever going to be available. I mean it's 2025!
My daily computer is 7 a years old laptop. The battery has its issues, but it's still powerful enough for everything I do – except games, for which I have a refurbished 5 year old desktop.

So... yeah, I tend to agree.
I'd say it's more likely that in the future we'll regress to 8-bit machines, losing the ability to sustain fab technology, than we'll exhaust 64 bits address space.

Having said that, with the advances of Electron apps, you might very well have a point...
Thank you, that's nice to hear!
Which of those named weather events was outside of historical experience in the area?

From the outside, wet years and dry years and desert winds seem very much like the expected climate for SoCal.
LLMs: Independent, complex thinking not (yet) possible after all
For now, we still have oceans and places with humidity.
You joke but this is what I have on 3-4 machines that I maintain (a laptop and desktop each for work and personal). And it has saved my butt at least four to five in last 6 years when my drives failed.

While 4 to 5 times doesn't seem a lot, I was able to get back to full speed within two hours of my drives failing resulting in almost zero downtime.
> Have you thought about an alternative concept or word that describes this phenomenon that could be used instead?

I think "magical thinking" would be an appropriate term for what Feynman characterizes.

However, one of the post's important points is that we're not even using Feynman's mischaracterized explanation of cargo cults: it's become a generic negative descriptor for anything the user considers insufficiently justified, even if the underlying rationale is not "magical."
How fast do modern SSDs die in older systems without TRIM?
AFAIK, just the shrubs. Particularly, California native trees are fine for and in fires. And if you look at the pictures, the houses have burned but the trees haven’t.
I have a 2002 TiBook[1]; it officially supports MacOS 9.2.2, but also every OS X release up to 10.5.8. I've been surprised to find that the retail copy of StarCraft that I bought in 2009 not only includes an OS X build, but also supports PowerPC!

[1]: https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/

I'm not sure if it can be made to run m68k apps "natively", but on the other hand you can emulate just about any classic MacOS in a modern browser[2].

[2]: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/
For more of a challenge, there are these texts (0):

> Random Wikipedia Article (probably hard) [1]

> Moby Dick (hard) [2]

> Donald Trump’s Speech, South Carolina (incomprehensible) [3]

0: https://zty.pe/?load
1: https://zty.pe/?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ra...
2: https://zty.pe/?text=11e5dad15e3dca9b
3: https://zty.pe/?text=21bb8f1868f879f8
cost and regulators generally have been unwilling to approve the rate increases necessary for resilience

plus we make our utilities pay prevailing wage
Suppose I'm a Famous Author and I make the bold assertion that preschool-aged children who are sexually abused end up exhibiting degraded STEM skills in high school. And then someone comes along and debunks my assertion.

Guess what? It's STILL better for kids to not be sexually abused! Everyone knows it!

Haidt may have been guilty of some motivated reasoning, but it didn't lead him to a bad place.
There are other operating systems supported for the Mac Mini G4. For example, NetBSD and Linux.
What mistake would that be?

Reference points are necessary to understand a crappy present.
The "billion dollar mistake" in Go is a non-issue: there's no security consequences (it panics safely) and it is the easiest kind of error to fix, it tells you exactly where the null pointer is.
Depending on the situation, a laser might be much easier to smuggle / prevent from attracting attention ?

But I guess not meaningfully in practice : see the recent "exploding pagers" operation...
Doubtful. There'll be the answers as 2024 and the years before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706570 (I used a browser extension, works fine)
I really agree, I think that making the tests as easy as possible to get going goes a long way towards a code base that actually has tests.

I have something very similar.

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator/blob/master/base/test_...

Borrowed heavily from boost.test.minimal and used to be a single header but but over the years I've had to add a single translation unit!

My takeaway is that if you keep your code base in a condition where tests are always passing you need much less complications in your testing tools and their error reporting and fault tolerance etc. !
AFAIK most of the fires in recent years have been started by PG&E power lines.
Either you can't distinguish bullet hell games from porn or you're projecting.