skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't have the time to become familiar enough with every subject to form well reasoned opinions. It's the same reason we don't build everything we own for ourselves. Specialization and deferring to experts has been a natural human behavior forever

While I don't disagree that people could be better prepared by our education system, they also have to want to be capable of thinking for themselves.
Seems intuitively obvious. On a flat Earth the two distances would be the same, and while the Earth isn't flat, its close enough to approximate a flat surface for most purposes, so you'd expect the differences in the two arcs to be ~0
I always wondered how they got enough power into abandoned places.
> We joke about LLMs hallucinating but I'm not convinced we are so superior when we are outside our personal "training data".

Every time I see the phrase "common sense", I expect to see an example of the human failing you describe.
Enlightenment. I trod the same path. The solution to refactoring is tests, but having simpler code greatly improves this anyway.
https://archive.is/ZpXIR
I guess you absolutely need a computing power beyond the ability of a wrist held device to distinguish your strong heartbeat between rest and walking/running condition, so it would have, if screenless, to be compatible with iOS or Android.

Maybe an investigation of actual sampled data of people with anxiety disorder would indicate that it can be done without AI and fit all in a screenless device, but I'm a bit doubtful.
https://photodemon.org/ is a photo editing tool written in VB6
Alright what are the odds that Finland’s famous and much lauded approach to reducing homelessness was actually nonsense, and you’re the first person to tell the truth: that it’s actually because the homeless all just froze to death? That’d mean every news outlet has somehow ignored it, there are no whistleblowers and nobody else has bothered to look at any data on it.
Not if you're streaming input data where you cannot know the size ahead of time, and you want to pipeline the processing so that output is written in lockstep with the input. It might not be the entire dataset that's streamed.

For example, consider serializing something like [fetch(url1), join(fetch(url2), fetch(url3))]. The outer count is knowable, but the inner isn't. Even if the size of fetch(url2) and fetch(url3) are known, evaluating a join function may produce an unknown number of matches in its (streaming) output.

JSON, Protobuf, etc. can be very efficiently streamed, but it sounds like MessagePack is not designed for this. So processing the above would require pre-rendering the data in memory and then serializing it, which may require too much memory.
You are deacribing here are kinds of thoughts and how they manifest in generations. one is that brings things into physical existence(fame via achievement, children).

Another is that which is kind of intangible and describes the person(again not personal details but what they think about the self and ideas), like an autobiography, but still is very hard to get at: it's like they say Being in someones shoes.

It's impossible to understand both of the above kinds of thoughts, in general, because conscious thought is utterly temporary and highly subjective. And more so for the second kind of thought above for most people it is true that, their complex self is meaningless to others.

It's likely why you mentioned you feel disassociated from what your parents/grandparents thought.
What is the meaning of facts anyway? How relevant are the facts for post-industrial society? We, as a society, are separated from "hard" reality by too many degrees of separation for facts to be of any considerable importance. That is the price to pay for the superabundance and sky-high productivity.

And i understand where it's coming from. People want social networks to be balanced that is, reflect views of the general society/mass of users: balance between left and right. Any thoroughly fact-checked content is a content with left bias too evident to miss. It naturally makes people unhappy: they feel that they are being "pushed woke shit". Because biologically, people are, and ought to have, a significant right bias (insert famous squirrel vs tiger example).
It's not just that. Static types do help, yet dismissing an entire language because of a single aspect of it is extremely short-sighted. It's like rejecting Russian or Turkish, only because they have no concept of definite or indefinite articles.

Sure, Clojure is dynamically typed, but it is also strongly typed. That in practice means that for example Clojurescript when compiling to Javascript enforces those type guarantees, sometimes emitting safer code than even statically typed Typescript cannot.
There is a common misconception that prescribed burns are a magic bullet, and that if you could just magically burn all the things all the time you wouldn't have major fires. They wouldn't have mattered at all as far as the Palisades fire is concerned.

LA had a ton of rain in Feb-Mar 2024 which resulted in massive fuel growth. That rain stopped in a hurry, plunging the region straight into drought.

That fuel has since cured over summer and become available to fire. Once it ignited, it was driven by extreme winds and there was no stopping it.

Given the circumstances, when do you suggest prescribed burns could've been conducted?
I suppose, if your best friend, PA or butler knew you really well, they might have a really good idea of the kind of thing you might like.

If the AI has a very close link to you, and observes a lot of what you do, it might have a much clearer idea of what you want and need.

And if it was linked to your mind ...
For a single run of your code. That's absolutely no guarantee that m will always have the type, no matter how you got to the call.
I would do it like this:

Approximate Earth as a flat line. (The 5000ft path is close enough that it is also represented by the flat line. This is the 5000ft path.)

Then make the 33000ft path which is a slightly looser line on top of this line.

This new path is not 4 times longer. Just a little bit raised, because 33000 ft is “nothing” compared to Earth. (To become 4x longer we would go deep into outer space and back.)
Being fat is uncomfortable, lowers your life-expectancy and is something many people feel embarrased about. In movies and popular culture fat people are overwhelmingly shown in a negative light (stupid, greedy, impulsive).

All of which is to say: there are many many negative incentives for people to "eat properly" and obesity is still very common. Telling people to just get more disciplined is obviously not working.
(Also, obesity and addiction more generally has a large genetic component, so try to have some empathy)
> I have yet to see even the most progressive Western European country that didn’t have a huge hate against Roma/Travelers

You don't even have to go this deep. Each and every friend of mine who's German of mixed heritage (Black, Asian) has struggled with people who can't imagine a German not being white. As in you, a German born in Germany, get addressed in English every now and then by strangers, because if you're not white, you have to be a tourist.
I'm guilty of this. I knew zsh had them but since I can never remember the exact things zsh has that bash doesn't, I just assume anything remotely useful isn't compatible.

This policy comes from a six hour debugging session involving (somewhere) a script that manipulated a binary file - bash can't store zero bytes in variables and zsh can, but it's not like it'll tell you that it's pointlessly truncating your data and I never thought to look. So now every step in that script gets converted back and forth through xxd, and I don't trust Bash anymore.
I mean, what do spend your time with, once you have solved all of the World's problems?
(2006)

Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33492122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14906429

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12147703

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130463

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=621557
Should the highest office in the land just go on pause? People voted for the previous president knowing they would be in office almost 3 months after the next election results.
Steam engines predate the understanding of not just the crystalline structure of steel but even the basics of thermodynamics by quite a few decades.
If by "called out" you imply criticised, then that is not correct.
Instead, the NTSB final accident report (https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/reports/..., p. section 2.3.1) praises the specific quick action:

"Although the flight crew was only able to complete about one-third of the Engine Dual
Failure checklist, immediately after the bird strike, the captain did accomplish one critical item
that the flight crew did not reach in the checklist: starting the APU. Starting the APU early in the
accident sequence proved to be critical because it improved the outcome of the ditching by
ensuring that electrical power was available to the airplane. Further, if the captain had not started
the APU, the airplane would not have remained in normal law mode. This critical step would not
have been completed if the flight crew had simply followed the order of the items in the
checklist.

The NTSB concludes that, despite being unable to complete the Engine Dual Failure
checklist, the captain started the APU, which improved the outcome of the ditching by ensuring
that a primary source of electrical power was available to the airplane and that the airplane
remained in normal law and maintained the flight envelope protections, one of which protects
against a stall."

The final report also gave a new safety recommendation (A-10-66, p. 124) to develop more appropriate (shorter) checklist for dual-engine failure specifically for low-altitude incidents.
> TTS Emotional Replication

What a tought.-

Velocity-driven audience coughs :)

PS. In jest. I do not mean to subtract from your substantive and interesting comment.-

In my ignorance, this puts me in mind of p5 and the like.-
NASA to explore two landing options for returning samples from Mars
World Sensorium: Crafting Action Today for a Better Tomorrow
That a country's government is guilty of somethihg is unrelated as to whether that country "deserves" to exist, and super-duper unrelated to how people sharing the ethnicity of that country's citizens should be treated.

In other words, Jews in other countries have nothing to do with Israel and nobody should harrass them for what Israel's doing... nor harrass them just because they're Jewish (which is sadly still common)
Maybe switch to less frequently updated dependencies and rewrite the easy ones in-house?
Windows still has Windows Forms with C#. Download Visual Studio Community edition for free (not VSCode), create a new forms project, and you'll have a GUI in minutes. Even beats VB6 in areas like automatic resizing because it has better docking support. It'll only target Microsoft's proprietary .NET but because Mono has supported that forever, you can run those applications anywhere Mono exists.

There are also tools like Gambas and Gnome Builder that'll let you drag and drop UI components, but I find the software designed to run on Linux kind of lacking in comparison.
I still have a VB6 program in production. I miss a nice `sort` function.

Also opening the standard window to open/save a file is a missing feature. You can use a vbx control but it's difficult to distribute, or you can use the API, but the null characters are a small problem.
"Not doing something you don’t agree with is not censorship, it’s freedom of expression"

It's both. It's not government censorship, so it's not a free speech issue in the legal sense. But private entities can still censor things, because that is part of their free speech, as you point out. nearlyfreespeech's free speech allows them to either allow or censor other entities' free speech on their platform.

As a matter of principle, nearlyfreespeech does not want to censor other entities' free speech. They explain why here:
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#TheLongGame
It's embarassing to have to even say this , but a counterexample, or even a few, does not invalidate the argument. You would need some sort of representative sample of successful projects, and then figure out which paradigm was used for each one and see if there's any statistically significant pattern. Good luck doing that reliably though.
Would you say the same about Trump's last minute changes in Afghanistan before he left office for Biden to take over? In this case, Trump removed the vast majority of troops in the interim period, leaving Biden with a situation where the number of troops still left were insufficient for the tasks at hand
> Where is the problem?

When the inequality gap widens, it has broader long term socioeconomic impact. The civil rights era is not even a century behind us and many fellow Americans are still effectively competing against others that have been given a generational "head start".

Does this matter to you? This depends on the type of society you want to live in and be a part of. My take? None of us live in a vacuum in isolation; we live in a country of 300+ million people. My neighbor's are Iranian, Syrian, Turkish/German, French/Moroccan, Indian, East Asian and all lovely people.

The problem DEI programs should solve is a systemic one where hiring practices might otherwise pass on qualified minority candidates or may not even be presented to them in the first place. The implementation of many programs is questionable, but the objective and why have some form of policy that focuses on broader inclusivity in the hiring process should not be: I want a better America for everyone and not just some subset of Americans.
This is pretty thought provoking. I think the issue is "80% of the use of this complicated tool is for very simple ends". From there you get a lot of "I can't be bothered to learn git/make/sed/helm/jenkins, all I'm doing is X 15 minutes a year". My guess is SWEs hate ceilings, so we don't want to use tools that have them, even though they'd be far more fit for purpose. We also don't want to build tools with ceilings: why limit your potential userbase/market?
Nah, when you move that fast, further acceleration stops increasing speed and starts squishing time instead, so you asymptotically approach C.

So I guess what I'm saying is I see absolutely no problem with the flat earth arguments?
Thanks for sharing this. Of course I will closely watch it because claiming to beat gbdts might be a bit early.

- It is not entirely clear how the datasets split is done. Do you make sure that the model is evaluated on unseen data ? More generally how does one knows whether a dataset was part of the training or not ?

- You mention some serious limitations (10k rows, 500 cols.). It seems a bit weird to have fixed numbers. Can these numbers be roughly balanced ? (eg. 1M rows, 5 columns ... ). Does these numbers scale with memory ? (what memory was used for the 10k rows / 500 cols figure ?)
Yeah, I guess trying to read the output of gcc -O -S would make assembly language seem pretty overwhelming, too.
It's not mutually exclusive.
I work for a web host and there's no way we'd host the kind of stuff NFS host, but dont think that makes me in any way against free speech.
Seconded. Regarding applying SPARK, the Tokeneer case-study is an interesting read. It's self-published by AdaCore.

This summary page links to the full PDF: https://www.adacore.com/tokeneer
Visual Studio's form editor had decent solutions for that. And most application developers don't care about tiny or huge screens anyway, applications will just be broken if you resize them too much. The software stack they're using should allow them to make the design work on any form factor and resolution, but most of the time nobody cares about those edge cases.
Formal methods for critical systems totally make sense.

Formal methods outside of that are just silly. You can prove your software meets some spec, but the spec will always be wrong. Either it’s wrong today because it’s incomplete or you misunderstood something, or it’s wrong tomorrow because systems constantly evolve at high speed.

I feel like the silly absolutism of formal methods folks held back software development as a field, what we needed was practical methodologies to reduce bugs and accelerate development not philosophical waxing about “correctness”, a concept which does not exist for most software.

Fortunately I think we’ve mostly moved on now, and there has been great work on testing, language design, methodology development, that has had real impact. The sheer scale of available software and how incredibly reliable it is, has made formal methods irrelevant to mainstream software development.
Did you try joining a Toastmaster group in your locality.
They do pretty good job to train people to speak better.

https://www.toastmastersd69.org/online-toastmasters-clubs/?g...
For $127 I'm guessing the electrode has some sort of inert coating or plating.
When I was little I was doing this on carpet patterns because they suddenly become 3D. It was very fun. But I never realized it could be used for this purpose.

There is also one other similar funny ability I have: Vibrating my eyes. I can willingly vibrate my eyes. I don't think it's any useful ability as I just see shaky when I do it but it's fun to do in front of people. It scares some of them. There is actually a community about it in Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eyeshakers/
How much salt do I need to buy for the spoon to be cheaper?
I don’t agree, the FAQ answer doesn’t relate « moral alignment » to monetary value.
I think it simply states that advocating for free speech doesn’t mean falling into relativism, assigning the same value to all positions and endorsing the most extreme ones.
Pretty refreshing in the current context.
What do you mean? Clojure is strongly typed language - every value always has a definite type. It's not like Javascript. Types in Clojure are fixed and consistent during runtime, they just aren't declared in advance.
I'm pretty sure you pee it out too.
I see how the one on the motorcycle looks. But why does the car and semi just look normal? I wonder what the bearing configuration looks like.
Microsoft developed and trained Phi-4. How can there be bugs in their official implementation? Does this mean they trained und evaluated it on their own completly different code and then ported it to the huggingface library for compatibility?
Literally (and I mean that) no difference when it was written. Language changed.
Not really. Arrays are limited to an int in size. You would be using more memory for the calculation and have to cast the value down to a 32 bit value to use as an array index.

Or you could just write the code so it isn't vulnerable to integer overflow.
2nd link is a 404 for me
Document.designMode = "On";
15 years as a web-dev. Only just found out about this today.

If you pop open chrome dev-tools and run document.designMode = "on"; in the console, you can edit text directly in the webpage itself, without having to edit it via the DOM.

I actually do this quite a lot, so this is a real time saver. You can also troll people with it.
The App Store has adverts?
How does that become important? Could be just gossip.
What if we don't assume any bias and just look at outcome?

We stipulate that bias should play no part in decision making. Only the outcome should matter. If the outcome doesn't match racial balance of the society we make it so.
I guess Rust's contribution to high performance programming is that its borrow checker is so loathsome that it pushes people into using ideas like ECS or arenas just to not have to bother with it.
We have sugar-free sweets, alcohol-free beer, tobacco-free cigarettes (vapes), THC-free weed, oil-free fryers and now salt-free saltiness.
This is addressed somewhat in the "The critical window of shadow libraries" post

> Until now, the only options to shrink the total size of our collection has been through more aggressive compression, or deduplication. However, to get significant enough savings, both are too lossy for our taste. Heavy compression of photos can make text barely readable. And deduplication requires high confidence of books being exactly the same, which is often too inaccurate, especially if the contents are the same but the scans are made on different occasions.
> Here, you assume that focusing on businesses owned by people of color necessitates lowering your standards of your suppliers below acceptable levels.

And it does. Otherwise, the movement would be simply named: "focus on businesses with the best product".
Thanks to this article I have successfully taken a two-hour break from HN and my computer screen, on behalf of the massive headache I acquired at the same time as the aforementioned superpower.
I just can’t imagine getting so angry about someone who needs to keep their salt consumption down having access to a tool that helps them.
If you have no facts, you have no history.

If you have no history, you can have no future.

If you have no future, then you are stuck in an eternal present. This is the ideal state for authoritarianism and autocracy.
The Delphi ecosystem was similarly good back in the day. Today, the Lazarus IDE is considered as a spiritual successor to it, and it indeed has all the bells and whistles, drag and drop a UI quickly together, build a standalone EXE in a single click (not a single DLL dependency - not counting win32), just a wonderful experience.
So are they committing people who are drunk? That would explain why the number is so high, but that also seems like overkill.
Yup, and chances are if you're using a good C++ stl implementation, most containers already use packed storage internally. It doesn't even have a heap data structure, it uses an std::vector, with a set of helper functions.
In general, the air moves with the ground, so the earth's rotation does not affect airplanes.

However, rotation of the earth imparts a coriolis force on the air, which results in jetstream winds. Aircraft routes are optimized to use/avoid jetstreams for shorter travel times.
It might not be simple. It could be very hard, very expensive. Is it worth doing? Does it have value?

Would it be so bad if most of the CEOs are white men? All the execs are white men?

But I don't want to pick on white men. Let's say would it be so bad to let the incumbents call the shots. Let the incumbents hire only who they want to hire.
I ve read the report:
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/1628416385085972...

It does not quote its sources, but that sources seem to be the chinese government. Which then reports the progress of its provinicial governments- who miraculously always meet the set goals, by shifting goalposts and faking it.
So, that fluff peace this aggregated into up on an hill high, does mean nothing.

During the great leap forward the chinese government statistics reported record harvests, enough to export grain to the sovjiet union. Meanwhile on the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Deaths_by_f...

So, just because some provincial government buys scrapped solar cells to put them up unconnected some not used fields, buy a sattelite picture and doctor a report, while actually depending on coal plants that are planned and built. https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-t...
i do not believe that nonsense.
In Raku the ternary was changed to ‘exp ?? True !! False’ to free up the single characters ‘?’ and ‘:’ for other purposes.

IME it’s not such a large shift for the developer (still easily recognizable as a ternary) while also having the benefit of slightly increasing the visibility of ternary expressions in the coding experience.

Edit: Thanks for the coroutine reading recommendation. I’ve been struggling a bit with them and have a few in use but would definitely like to grok them better.