skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an example I like to share, re: when LLMs can be better than doing the searching myself: https://topicalsource.dev/chat/023e7e54-947b-490d-bcd8-89cc2...

I understand the concepts, it's not complex, but it's something I don't use or do daily. One of the other differences with working with LLMs over search is that I can provide a lot more input as part of my query. That context is often used within the answer, a much better experience than having to map multiple other examples onto mine.

Also, I am not the author of a complex configuration management tool. Not sure what you are misreading. I have authored a deterministic code generation tool, maybe that is what you mean? It however is an alternative to LLM code generation that existed prior to the current LLM hype cycle

If you don't like LLMs, that is totally fine. You don't need to put down other people's usage or question why or how they get value out of it with feigns. Perhaps you might consider spending more time with the new knowledge tools that will not be going away. I just tried out the new Gemini Research assistant with the query...

"""
google has an open source project that enables pull requests to be embedded into a git repository and also comes with a gui. Can you help me find this project?
"""

It took a couple of minutes and came back with exactly the project I was looking for. Saved me a bunch of time and headache trying to find this: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

I didn't have to know the exact search words or phrases, I didn't have to filter through multiple search results. I worked on this post while my LLM assistant did it for me
Jack Welch
Russia isn’t as smart as China.
> They've purposefully underinvested in Safari to force developers to create native apps for their platforms where Apple makes a sizeable cut

Can't speak to how accurate this is, but for WebXR, this hits the nail on the head. Purposeful stagnation on supporting it and thus indirectly bringing down the whole point of the standard, pushing of their own AppStore bound ARKit, and when they released Apple Vision Pro it's magically supported again, because I guess they needed content that badly.
Homeschooling parents are divided into two separate groups. One is secular with college degrees who really want to give their children a better education than they could get in a school AND are able to do so.

The other group are very religious who don't want their children learning about evolution or many other secular things.

The only real issue I have with homeschooling in the US is that regulations vary wildly by state. Some states have so little enforcement that it is possible to teach a child essentially NOTHING by the time they are 18 and face no punishment for ruining that child's life.
> I don't, really. I think Ukraine avoids targeting Putin directly because it'd lead to serious retalliation (doubly so if unsuccessful); I think Putin avoids targeting Zelensky these days as it'd make him a martyr.

You are naive:

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

Considering how famously paranoid Putin is, I doubt the Ukrainians get much opportunity. There's not a doubt in my mind they would take it if they could. What are the Russians going to do, invade?
> On m68k, shifting right by 1 and performing a logical AND both take 8 CPU cycles. But the right-shift is 2 bytes smaller

There's also BTST #0,xx but it wastefully needs an extra 16 bits say which bit to test (even though the bit can only be from 0-31)

> That makes a difference on Amiga, because (other than size) the DMA might be shared with other chips, so you're saving yourself a memory read that could stall the CPU while it's waiting its turn.

That's a load-bearing "could". If the 68000 has to read/write chip RAM, it gets the even cycles while the custom chips get odd cycles, so it doesn't even notice (unless you're doing something that steals even cycles from the CPU, e.g. the blitter is active and you set BLTPRI, or you have 5+ bitplanes in lowres or 3+ bitplanes in highres)
Show HN: Recursively apply patterns for pathfinding (algorithm)
Balancing is the easy part. Progressing from stand still, to pedalling, while maintaining balance proved much harder (for my child). However, once mastered, the transition to confident rider was fast, I'm sure mostly thanks to having started on a balance bike early, and never having an interest in those scooters that every other kid seems to love (seemingly at the expense of learning to ride a proper bike)
Always has been. Time or money.
When I was learning Python on Udacity’s Python course, I worked out solutions to the problem sets on paper. That’s when I do my best, 100% focused thinking: with a good pen and a nice notebook.

It’s still the most enjoyable programming experience I’ve had.
My feelings exactly, but I think that's OK!

It's another tool and one that might actually improve with time. I don't see GNU's man pages getting any better spontaneously.

Whoa, what if they started to use AI to auto-generate man pages...
"Expulsion works."

There really seems to be two kinds of public schools. One is willing to expel students who are violent and disruptive and this allows the students who are willing and able to learn to do so. The other refuses to expel violent and disruptive students and they make it nearly impossible for the willing and motivated students to actually learn.
Agreed. Titles and credentials do not mean what they used to, in education and a lot of other fields.

Sufficient erosion in the meaning and value of 3rd party teaching credentials then diminishes the relative value of outsourcing the process vs. doing it in-house: literally.
`cat` supports multiple files, no? The whole point is that it concatenates. Why use 3 commands?
I agree but many keep claiming that inner city schools just lack money despite evidence otherwise.
Why not? I already pay for chatgpt but I don't pay for todoist so that doesn't help me.
Wow, I wish I had seen this literally yesterday!
When you have an algorithm, it tends to favor some posts over others which in some cases is good but in other cases is oh so bad. The higher problem is the visibility of the algorithm misbehaving is reduced, so you're likely not even aware of how bad the problem is.

Rather than have an algorithm and trying to hide any problems, Mastodon puts the problems front and centre. You are forced to deal with them. It makes you spend a little bit of time controlling your feed's hygiene and in return you end up with a feed that only contains useful content.

It's like the eating healthy alternative to doomscrolling.

It also has another interesting side effect. Not having an algorithm that concentrates on popularity means that the low effort content problem tends to evaporate away. Attention seekers aren't rewarded for spamming or rage baiting, since they lose followers every time they try.
Ask HN: Alternatives to WordPress for Personal Blogging
Hello

I have been using Wordpress as my blogging platform (https://chapra.blog). I also run a newsletter via kit. Not all my posts go out as a newsletter.

My problem is my workflow. I compose in Notion, then copy and paste in wp. If it is a newsletter post, I also do that in Kit. This can be tedious. Which makes me write less.

I also sometime cross post to Medium.

I am looking for an alternative that:

- Is a working CMS that can handle both web and a newsletter.
- Can easily cross-post to Medium when wanted to.
- Works with Markdown.
- Is cheap to host.

Ghost looked promising, but costs 5 times my current plan for WP.

thanks
You have a fair point. Some LLMs are better at some tasks, and prompts can make a difference no doubt.

Perhaps at some point there will be a triage LLM to slurp up the problem and then decide which secondary LLM is most optimal for that query, and some tertiary LLMs that execute and evaluate it in a virtual machine, etc.

Maybe someday
Ukraine crossed the Russian frontier. The Russians escalated by importing cannon fodder from North Korea.

I think the better question would be if China crossed the Yalu River today and joined the North Koreans to assault South Korea, what would the response of the US, South Korea, and Japan be? The latter two can trivially develop nuclear weapons if the US security situation degrades.

I think wielding nuclear weapons requires a baseline level of competence to exploit.
That’s a meaningless statistic. What matters is how each group respectively would do in the other format versus what they do in their present format.
> because they keep their UIs simplistic

How do I edit a sent message in the Claude Android app? It's so simplistic I can't find it.
> I am flabbergasted that anyone can claim flakes don't solve problems

Yes, that would be an outrageous claim! That is, of course, not what I said.

Arguing that channels lead to more problems than flakes is a good argument in favour of adoption of flakes. But you can also abandon channels without adopting flakes.

Which is what I said: flakes don’t solve any problems that can’t be solved without flakes.
It is, because why else would they deliberately pick a trans person, and moreover one who goes out of the way to make a big deal out of being trans[1], to sell beer to a demographic that's very very unlikely to be receptive to it? Wokeness is the only explanation left.

[1] There are plenty of trans people who just want to live as their desired gender, and no one would even give them a second glance.
Huh? What did the current administration do to force Russia to invade a sovereign nation? How did this administration topple Assad? Laughable that you think it’s ISIS running the show. How did the current administration convince Hamas to launch a war against Israel? Gtfo with your “liberal Pearl clutching” lmao you’re a joke
>If I have permission to do 150

Doing ~100 over the speed limit probably isn't considered safe, so I'd guess you don't.
He was always athletic. I believe he was captain of the fencing team in high school.
It depends on what exactly you do as the industry is so vast.

It is true (I'd wager this is true in most engineering fields) that very few actually use a lot of what you learned in school as it has all been put into fancy software packages. For example, my wife uses some kind of drafting software to design things like roads that she learned all the math to understand in college. It is the same in my industry where yeah, you use a lot of spreadsheets and Python scripts and SQL to help automate software and analyze the results. In a lot of cases you don't really need an engineering degree, but it helps a lot in understanding what is going on when the results don't make sense. Getting the engineering degree is also just really good training for the kind of rigorous thought processes needed for solving open problems.

There are also plenty of jobs in power that are closer to what you would consider engineering. For example, you might have to go to the substation switch yard, help supervise a crew installing new transformers, help design a microgrid...etc.

I'll add that it is pretty common for engineers to have some kind of existential crisis once you graduate and you realize what you thought you'd be doing once you graduated (in my case crawling around Jefferies tubes and fixing the warp reactor) is totally different in the real world. It's kind of similar in computer science where most graduates are basically just gluing library code together instead of writing their own software from scratch in C. I recall reading somewhere that the famous SICP course moved from Scheme to Python precisely because of the change in how people coded now.
The best thing about this post to me was the screenshot of the directory organization. It’s the little things like this that making thinking “how to start” a matter of “where could I start”.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
> Most newcomers will simply give up when faced with the choice.

Why not give them back the top 5 instance list?
Show HN: Generate your authentic and realistic Chinese name
Generate authentic and realistic Chinese names that closely resemble real-life naming conventions.
Modern TV shows and movies.

We watch some older movies, occasionally, but no TV, except for the old Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes episodes from the 80's and 90's.

They haven't been inundated with adult shows with their sexy content/jokes and/or violence and bad folks of various degrees. They have gotten the flavor of the kinds of bad people can be from the Sherlock Holmes bad guys and women. They don't need Hannibal Lecter or his ilk and those kinds of movies that I grew up with.

Our daughter works on her crafts and our son on his chess. And we watch European football (soccer) highlights, where they get plenty of over-acting from those guys ;-) We also watch some select YouTube videos from time-to-time.
I’ve never seen him doing anything that I would call dangerous. Not in the sense that he, someone or something is at risk. He make things that can fail, but it will not reault in an injury.
Strudel [1] is similar (no affiliation), inspired by Glicol, is a bit more approachable in terms of syntax, has a great visualization in the editor (highlighting the sounds being played) and has a nice tutorial [2].

[1] https://strudel.cc

[2] https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/
Huione: The largest ever illicit online marketplace has launched a stablecoin
Original title shortened for length:

Huione: the company behind the largest ever illicit online marketplace has launched a stablecoin
Think of dbt as yarn for SQL, only the SQL is built from jinja templates.

dbtlabs also sells dbt cloud, which provides a runtime for your dbt projects.
But this is just because mice are terrible. Trackpad is so much better.
> It's difficult to feel optimistic about a society that thinks this way.

Maybe that's not how society thinks? That's one person's opinion.
why wouldn't one use sveltekit if they only have html and css? sveltekit compiles to a static site with a nice client-side router.

sveltekit is basically html + css in a .svelte file if you don't use javascript.
In general yes, but there are variable reluctance steppers, which work a little bit different. While a BLDC defines how it is made, a stepper has a couple of different technologies.
+1. Not like my $5 hosting plan has less downtime than Github. Well... maybe? Fewer moving parts perhaps. But it's not immune.
Nice! I am a HNN newb.

I finally found that six point font "favorite" that appears only once and at the top of the comment section for a topic.

You guys don't make it easy.
Russia loves this for us.
I mentioned it, true. I declined to participate.

Shall we have a meta discussion?
Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic(2017)
Because the education system is garbage;

because the parents are idiots;

because of the paranoid delusions about Them and What They Are Doing;

because the kids (and in many cases the teachers) are awful human beings that people (idiots or not) don't want their kids to be around several hours a day every day;

because of school shootings and other forms of violence;

because the value in this is no longer clear to anyone;

because the only people demonstrating "leadership" in this matter are leading outraged mobs around to prop up themselves and their power structures rather than anything productive.

Or, in our case, our youngest has autism and ADHD and was unable to be successful in the "not homeschool" environment (for numerous reasons), so we removed him from it.
This was over 20 years ago, not sure what I'll be able to find.

This one is a bit frothing at the teeth, but I do recall a few others from after the congestion charge was introduced. It ended up being a minor controversy, and I could have sworn I read confirmation from later on, after the Ken Livingstone was no longer Mayor.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-how...

And then from not long after it was introduced, you can see the AA blathering about it again: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2967852.stm

side note because I'm getting down votes: I'm one of those strongly in favour of congestion charges. I believe they made an improvement in London and not just because of these stunts. Of particular value was shifting a bunch of large vehicles to off-peak.
Mortality, Music and Perfection Anxiety
A short, messy, and honest story of my personal life and career (as a former member of the initial Bard team). My time at Google coincided with a brush with cancer, which ultimately led me to quit and pursue something more meaningful. I’m now working on a startup focused on improving care quality for cancer patients. Writing this made me feel incredibly vulnerable, but I hope it opens the door for honest conversations about the existential challenges of working in the tech industry.
The prompt was "lick boots."
You want to use 17 mm bolts to hold your fuel cap on? And your wiper blades? And your rear view mirror?

Some standardization is a great idea, but including the word "all" is what makes it academic and impractical. And if you're not going to be absolutist about it, then you're just using marketspeak.
As a motorcyclist, counter-steering is a very pronounced and useful feature. I've tried employing the same technique on my bicycle and it had no effect. I'd be keen to understand others experiences of countersteering on a bicycle.
Thanks for the heads up - it's just a form to set a meeting right now.. If you're interested shoot me an email at chris.wood@qckfx.com.
When I was in high school there was a local school that was notorious. Apparently here the public schools were not allowed to expel kids if they would no longer have local options. This was the worst school, and thus the last place the kids would end up. So it was basically just a prison.
Yes, if you want to throw up in your mouth.
It's basically summarizing your own writing? That's less offensive IMO. Although having taken the WFR doesn't really count as a qualification that matters for any of the info you commented w/.
But possibly the most rewarding. The struggle is its own reward that pays off later many times over.
I use a Lamy 2000 and find the shape, balance, and weight to be perfect.

Different inks can transform the writing experience; Aurora’s Black ink is very wet, and in my Lamy, writing with it is effortless.

I also enjoy writing with dip pens. The Sailor Hocoro (1) works with fountain- and dip-pen inks and has a smooth-writing steel nib. I use it when I want to write out some passage or quote in another color. India ink is the blackest black and I love it for that, while walnut ink is a pleasingly light sepia.

1: https://www.gouletpens.com/products/sailor-hocoro-dip-pen-se...
Yeah, but, next years VR will be better . . .

( Adding legs will make it easier at least )
Broken Belief
I can say what I use flakes for at work:

I have a repository with system configurations for some CI infrastructure: a build server, a test runner.

The test runner can either be generated as an SD-card image using nixos-generators or live-updated using a remote `nixos-rebuild switch`. The OS configuration contains stuff about purposing specific motherboard GPIO pins.

Both systems depend on custom software not in nixpkgs; these are just hosted in private git and have a flake that mainly provide a devShell, but also provide a cross-compiled binary.

Flakes handle all of that in a predictable way: OS images, cross-compiled binaries, devShells, cross-repo linking, convenient hash-pinning.
Why and how would a fishing fleet be unstoppable? Why is that better than actual landing vehicles?
Well, sure it is problematic, I'm not at all surprised by anything in here, although I didn't know it had any connection to Feynman.

Give me a better term to use.

The problem is that it accurately and concisely describes a pattern of behavior that I see all the time, where people at businesses don't do the hard work to understand what they're doing, and they just copy methods around, unknowingly increasing the amount of technical debt in the company.
First time I saw it was 1981 on the front of a DEC-10
Nationalists are not motivated by reason. Just telling them they're going to start a nuclear war isn't a deterrent. Loyalty, sacrifice, obedience, ethnicity, borders, tradition, etc are their primary motivators today. If they have to end the world with nukes to protect "their" nation, then by golly, that's what they'll do. Self-preservation isn't as important as preservation of the ethos.

Look at any white nationalist terrorist organization. These are people who risk their lives to blow up buildings (sometimes their own government's), commit assassinations. They are aware they are putting their own lives at risk, but they do so anyway because in their minds they are doing the only thing that makes sense. In a competition with belligerent nations, nationalist zealots are happy to die for the cause.

The only thing that can stop them is if the non-zealots, who are never as motivated, come out of the woodwork to stop them. As we've seen time and time again, most regular people just aren't willing to risk their own safety or standing in community to speak out against or fight against those who are doing wrong in their community. This is why nationalists win. They are way more inclined to get in people's faces than calmer, more rational folks. Easier and safer to go along with the crowd. And so goes a nation.
I'll just leave this here

"The Insanity Of Linux's Regular Expressions "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys7yUyyQA-Y
> A potentiometer used for position feedback is usually just called a potentiometer. I guess it's technically an encoder, but I don't think I've ever heard it referred to that way.

I have absolutely seen potentiometers called encoders in industrial applications. The underlaying technology is irrelevant. Encoders and revolvers are just transducers of position.
You are right. MacArthur surrounded himself with sycophants and completely mismanaged the situation due to the disconnect with reality. He may have wanted to provoke a wider war with China, including nuclear weapons and supporting a nationalist invasion of China.

His mother was like a modern PR machine, and is the reason he has a mostly positive reputation. He left alot of dead Americans in the tracks of his journey to glory.
A few weeks ago while giving a talk to some business school students, I was shocked to find most of the students and children of the faculty were homeschooled for K-12. This was a Baptist-affiliated university. I really had no clue this was so prevalent amongst evangelicals.
> Learning how to co-exist with people who aren't like you is a universally valuable experience, especially for people who would fashion themselves as "not average."

If those people have worse habits, are less motivated, less educated, less cultured, what is there to gain from it?

Seems like there's only something to lose from adjusting to their shittiness. Like Harrison Bergeron

And seeing the state of California trying to push math classes later because of "equity", seeing public schools dissolving gifted programs, it makes me think that privatization is the only way forward instead of trying to make amends with the current progressive stupidity
So what? People take risks all the time. The guides are paid, so they must be getting enough to make the risks worthwhile.