skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Uv is great but it doesn't really help here. If an app uses Python as its configuration file format then the app is running Python. It's going to do `python3 config.py` or similar. It doesn't know anything about uv.

So you would still need to create a uv project, run `uv sync` and `uv activate` or whatever and then run your app. Not practical.

The only option if you use Python as a config file format is to stick to old features (Python 3.6) and not use any third party libraries. But op was saying third party libraries are one of the benefits of using Python...
> This is just the beginning of modernizing geospatial data storage. We’re already looking ahead to other types of geospatial data such as raster, point cloud, spatial indexes…

its not far from raster to full multidimensional
> 2012 - moores law basically ends - nand gates do t get smaller just more cleverly wrapped. Single threaded execution more or less stops at 2 GHz and has remained there.

A 2GHz core from a 2012 is extremely slow compared to a 2GHz core of a modern CPU. The difference could be an order of magnitude.

There is more to scaling CPUs than the clock speed. Modern CPUs process many more instructions per clock on average.
You mean, like electrons? At the bottom of physics is a bunch of spherical cows.
Chaos is still deterministic in classical physics. If you start out with the same initial conditions, the system always evolves in the same perfectly deterministic (but chaotic) way.
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines strikes again.
I think it was a Happy Gilmore reference.
Ice hockey players famously play a lot of golf in the summer, so much so that when a team gets knocked out of the playoffs people accuse them of throwing the game so they can get back to their golf.
I’m curious about the async aspect of this. I was under the impression PDF processing like OCR is purely CPU bound. OS file I/O interfaces are sync, so async does not help. With GIL, so single threaded Python, I can’t see how async improves performance for the PDF use case. Only parallelism helps, and concurrency doesn’t. When would it yield back to the event loop when it’s busy number crunching?
And suddenly I wish for an unholy mix between the two. Full contact golf, anyone?
Isn’t heat transfer modeled using stochastic processes? Why is it considered deterministic?

BTW I have absolutely no idea of physics, I just know about this because of finance where stochastic processes are used for pricing and heat transfer is used as an example
I understand why you feel this way, but saying it is impossible is too defeatist. People arent horses and their beliefs can change. Isn't it worth the sacrifice to acknowledge the concerns and political views of the opposing side if it means a chance of saving planet earth? We should find common grounds and start a fresh dialogue about climate change. I'm sure there are opportunities to do so.
Sure!

https://github.com/MattSayar/restaurants_rankings
I suppose a problem with that is that now Amazon knows what else you're reading.

Tbh the Calibre step doesn't mean much to me, since I can plug in the Kindle, stuff it with a few books and leave it there charging. Then when I feel like reading I have the books ready and full battery.
It's a cool device but the display was terrible.
The infrastructure isn’t there. We need to flood our system with fossil fuels as that’s the existing infra and it makes for cheaper food, shipping, consumer goods, etc.

The input might be cheaper but the infrastructure to support it needs to be built. Solve that problem first.
I want a study on the impact of generative AI on knowledge. I fear that AI hallucinations have the potential to destroy all knowledge. For now, when an AI hallucinates, I can still check an established source to see if the fact is correct. But what happens when most established sources are themselves AI generated? There will almost be no ability to verify any fact. The very foundation of society collapses and any shared knowledge. Oh wait, that already happened with flat earthers, Covid and conspiracy theories. But AI may be the final nail in the coffin for Western civilization.
> Likewise, we should confine AI decision-making systems to applications that suit their actual abilities—while keeping the potential ramifications of their mistakes firmly in mind.

This is where I see the greatest dangers, because we are boldly applying LLMs where they don't belong. As long as the consequences only affect the experimenter I couldn't care less, but when it impacts others it should be treated as criminal negligence.
Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug(2020)
How important is SEO for your startup?
I work for a startup that strongly relies on SEO to generate leads. I would like to know how it goes to other startup founders when it comes to your SEO.
No offense taken, this is informative.
Extreme sensitivity to initial conditions occurs at the level of interactions of molecules in a gas. Errors in position or velocity accumulate exponentially over very short time scales. It's so sensitive that moving a single atom on the other side of the universe would, by the small change in its gravity, cause O(1) changes in the position of molecules in less than a millisecond.
I assumed your misread and mischaracterization wasn't with ill intent since I could have worded that better, ignored it aside from the clarifying edit, and focused on the bit that was interesting.
I don’t think so. At the end of the day, I think people are pragmatic. It’s not about not believing in climate change, it’s about money.

What is the tech that allows us to stop climate change today?
The impression I have is that 'game playing devices' coming out now are picking points on a speed-quality-cost style trilemma triangle, except it's desktop PC/couch+TV console/portables. All the different products are picking different points in the triangle to see if there's a market, if laptops are a step away from desktops, then the GPD Win is a second step towards portables, the steam deck is third. The software side also answers another desire that a lot of people have which is to have PC games with a more console-like management experience, and the desire for the steambox to do something similar for HTPC form factor never went away.
Three months after my son was born, I made the mistake of following the news about the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes[0], especially in the Hatay region. I thought I was tough, as I had lived through the chaos and death of a disaster before, in 1999[1]. This time, I was far away in Germany, so not actually where it happened. But no.

Back then, as a teenager, I could somehow handle seeing people take their last breath on a sidewalk (don't get me wrong: It was absolutely horrible, but I could keep functioning, eat, sleep, even help people carry first aid kits). I remember being outside our building and asking my father where all those buildings went, in some of which my friends lived. He had chosen not to lie to me, and I still didn't break.

But one photo from 2023, a child's grave with a toy helicopter on top, his name written on the toy, the same name as my son, completely broke me. Two years later, I still haven't recovered from that single image.

And yet, today, we were in the emergency room because my son was struggling to breathe. I was calm and functioning. If I had seen something like this on the news or in a movie, I wouldn't have been able to keep watching.

It's strange how the mind works.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_eart...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%C4%B0zmit_earthquake
All those other sites that you mention would have to be BETTER than Amazon to get me to switch. Which isn’t my experience with B&N, at least.

I’ll be honest, though, I was surprised to learn that Alibris isn’t an Amazon subsidiary.
Lemmy is so depressing. Half of the posts there are either complaining or reminiscing about Reddit, the other half is political news and the ensuing tribalism. I love the idea, but the platform desperately needs not only more users, but better and more creative users.
Vite is in the same category as webpack. Is CRA in the same category as webpack? I don't think so, it's a webpack wrapper, not a bundler.
> Why don’t we just fork it?

There's plenty of Reddit forks. Lemmy is a fork by the fediverse people that looks pretty much the same as the old Reddit.

The problem isn't the software, it's attracting and retaining a community. It's the same exact problem you have with Twitter: when the shenanigans started, people created five competing forks, fracturing the user base of people willing to migrate. And now, most of them are back to Twitter, because that's where the action is.

Reddit did a lot of things that riled up a minority of users (API changes, the "new Reddit" redesign, etc), but they'd need to upset a majority for the platform to crumble. And I bet this won't happen here; no way they'd allow of the "top 50" subreddits, like /r/aww, to enable paywalls.
Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds
CanSat: A tiny, can-sized, Raspberry Pi-powered satellite
> Javascript is primarily compiled from other languages which use their own idioms, often imitating far more strictly typed languages.

I'm not sure which languages are you referring to. Typescript? It's Javascript with types (minus enums, which are discouraged). Elm, Purescript, Clojurescript, Gleam? Great languages, but they represent a tiny fraction of the real world fronted applications

> JS devs are primarily people who hate javascript

Modern javascript? Are you sure you're not projecting the fact that you hate it?
Not the OP, but that is a really interesting perspective, thank you for sharing it.
Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
We are building something similar and waiting my partners/clients approval for opensourcing it. Looks like we should join forces.
You can ctrl+f 'shelter' in the bill. It was not really FEMA's money, it was U.S. Customs and Border Protection money that was transferred to FEMA to disburse (probably for efficiency because FEMA already did similar work).

"I-don't-want-to-fund-sex-changes" is an emotional and possibly moral argument, it's made to get people angry at how their money is being spent.

Not wanting to spend money on foreigners at all is a completely different argument, that's generally not made probably because you get similar emotional arguments of feeding starving children. Or you get non-emotional arguments like projecting soft power and fighting disease epidemics before they reach us.

We're a nation of laws. The USAID and FEMA money is set in law by Congress. I disagree with how a lot of money is spent too. But that's why we vote and communicate to our representatives and have them change the law.

Bill Clinton's administration reduced the deficit and had a surplus. It reduced the federal workforce. It decreased spending and increased revenue. But it was done legally by working with both parties and unions and passing bills in Congress.
> Containers are inherently difficult to sum up in a sentence.

Super easy if we talk about Linux. It's a process tree being spawned inside it's own set of kernel namespaces, security measures and a cgroup to provide isolation from the rest of the system.
Electrons aren’t spheres. Or cows.
Variadic templates help quite a lot compared to what older libraries did or even still do to approximate them. Check out boost::variant’s shenanigans — I recall a single-line file that includes <boost/variant.hpp> and doesn’t even instantiate the variant template taking several seconds to compile.
o1 never cost $200/mo. That was o1-pro, which still isn’t available to Plus or Free users.
Remember, when someone calls someone else's behavior with names like “tantrum” or “hysteria”, it's never in good faith.
Isn't it expected? With the high interest rates, how can insane valuations be kept?
Also it means that ~15% of them still go public and that's good stats. Many others will just keep existing as going concerns, bringing profits to investors. In perverted mind of a VC that qualifies as failure, but it really isn't.
> Parts of Norway will drop 20C.

Yet you will still live, like millions do in similar temperatures across Canada and the US.

The true brunt of the global climate catastrophe will be bore by the the global poor in LDCs which do not have the economies of scale or capital to mitigate some of the worst aspects of a degrading climate.
The smallest binary rustc has ever spit out is like 137 bytes.

It has the exact same amount of runtime requirements as C. The default configurations aren’t optimizing for size, but if you want to strip it down, you can.
Cramming thousands of tokens of potentially irrelevant context through unclear indexing paths isn't "proper".

The best results come from feeding precisely targeted context directly into the prompt, where you know exactly what the model sees and how it processes it. The prompt receives the most accurate use of attention—whereas god knows what the pipeline is for cursor or what extra layers and context restrictions they add on top of base Claude.

Giving the model a clean project hierarchy accomplishes a lot efficiently in terms of context tokens. The key is ensuring it only sees what's relevant, without diluting its attention.

Tools like reopmix and OP's version, feeding targeted context straight into models like Claude or Google's offerings, outperform Copilot and Cursor in my experience, even though they use the same base models. Use the highest-quality attention (the prompt context) directly, rather than layers of uncertainty and "proper indexing".
> Unlike rigid, one-size-fits-all CRMs, it adapts to your workflow, whether you're a solo founder or a growing team. The AI learns from your usage to provide relevant insights and automation.

Can you give some insight into how you've implemented an AI to learn how the CRM is used so it adapts the functionality of the CRM? This sounds magic!
"Heat", in classical thermodynamics, is a derived abstraction. It's defined as the sum over a bunch of classical energies distributed among particles that behave deterministically. So this is just the measurement trick: we can't measure it therefore it's behavior is "random" from our perspective. But that's a practical limit and nothing to do with "determinism" in a mathematical sense.
"Tax cuts to corporations" maybe makes for a good sound byte in some crowds but what they're really after and benefits them way more and will cause way more deficits is the income tax.
> It's so sensitive that moving a single atom on the other side of the universe would, by the small change in its gravity, cause O(1) changes in the position of molecules in less than a millisecond.

Could you expand on how this is possible?
What are you trying to achieve exactly?
> I grabbed a brand-new DSLR camera and photographed all the fonts I was supposed to love.

I'm relieved to find I'm not the only person who wanders around photographing the typography.
I'm not sure who "us" is here, but I would suspect that the US could occupy Canada, Greenland, or Mexico with only small regional skirmishes. No nukes (detonated) at all.

I hope I'm very wrong -- or that if I'm right, the US public too polite to tolerate it.
same with ping pong, if you ever see a professional match they can go for 5 minutes over one damn point
The question is slightly inaccurate, it should be "classical mechanics". Classical thermodynamics is very much stochastic.
A landing page to a product that has yet to be built.

But it does have 28 5 star reviews.
Very cool concept! There's a lot of potential in reducing the try-debug--fix cycle for LLMs.

On a related note, here's a Ruby gem I wrote that captures variable state from the moment an Exception is raised. It gets you non-interactive text-based debugging for exceptions.

https://rubygems.org/gems/enhanced_errors
you don’t have to yell
That would likely ruin it. Deliriants are hell in pills
I know icechunk and I’m a huge fan of earthmover. But a common binary format like parquet seems nice… with interop for e.g duckdb and geo queries, you can “just load” era5 and do something like get wind direction/speed along the following path for the last 5 years group by day etc…
Since it’s getting added to the parquet spec itself, it should hopefully make its way to delta too soon.
I must’ve missed all the successful general strikes?

Trump got young men to vote in droves.
Firefox here too, no such problems. I do however run Google services in a separate browser (Brave or Chromium) because most of them hog the Firefox browser. For example running earth.google.com on FF is... a very special experience. :-/
Same. I replaced handlebars with server-side generated JSX (not Next or anything like that, just renderToStaticMarkup) and it’s an infinitely better dev experience than any other templating language I’ve used before (hbs, jinja, django…).

I’m getting more and more jaded about React and would rather stick with server side rendered html, but I’d definitely stick with JSX at least.
None of those tweets are about tax prep. They are about him personally wanting to pay less taxes.

If Elon wanted he could fund an opensouce alternative to Turbotax.

I am willing to bet 1k that Intuit's 2024 TurboTax Online and other Consumer Group revenue of
$4.4 billion will remain above 4B in 2025.
8 minutes is the cutoff for "mid-roll" ads (you can insert ad breaks into the middle of your content, not just the beginning and end).

But people also realized, especially in the past couple years, YouTube seemed to tweak the algorithm to favor watch time more strongly than in the past, so people started "fluffing up" videos to 20, 30+ minutes. As long as they could get a click with a decent thumbnail and title, and enough people to watch for at least a few minutes, the average watch time would go up, which was a very positive signal. Plus, they could insert like 3+ ad breaks (some big creators insert 6+!) and make more money.

However, in the past year it seems like YouTube's tweaked the algorithm again to not favor watch time as strongly over some other metrics, leading to shorter videos being able to get more views sometimes (and not just music videos). (But they're still "less monetizable".

I think this is why podcasting (and especially extremely long podcasts) have gotten so popular. A few thousand viewers watching for 2 hours gives a lot more ad revenue (especially if you fill in that space with read ads) than like 1 million views on a 3 minute clip.
Is there something like this for handwritten documents? I know newer models have been really good at handwriting transcription.
This is similar to my experience with LLMs and DSLs. They tend to hallucinate functions that will magically work in the situation you are describing. My pet theory here is that they are fooled by many forum posts/issues "why doesn't a function exist in this DSLs called ABC that does this?"
It also better rule out general fractals as well, cause some shit will happen between these as well. Not fully sure, but it feels like Newtonian doesn’t really work with anything non-finitely jagged, cause geometry has extremums or simply insane behavior at everything non-linear non-finite.
Of course it could not. As is well known, the speed of causality has a hard upper limit.
China recruiting 'planetary defence force' amid fears of asteroid hitting Earth
This is already how society works, you just aren't wearing the glasses.

Childhood education, entertainment, social networks are all constantly trying to guide our actions. Agendas are everywhere.

AI might actually be more objective or transparent, depending on how it's implemented. The key will be choice - you can either choose not to use it, or you can choose which models you prefer.

Unfortunately, most people have little choice in their society.
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Efficient CSV Parsing – On the Complexity of Simple Things
As other comments say, It’s a bit of a crowded market…
Kubernetes in Action book is very good.
We don’t know exactly what will happen but we have good reason to believe it won’t be dramatically different from last time (systems don’t change easily) and we know defeatism won’t help.

Left-leaning people need to do the hard work of convincing people to their side, and that work needs to start now.
There have been several of these deep dives into manipulated speed runs and they seldom disappoint. Since we are on HN, I'll mention another mathy one that was summarized by Matt Parker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ko3TdPy0TU
Given that Jane Street's prowess is in OCaml, I'm more inclined to give them grace when trying to release a React Native app. RN is one of those languages/frameworks that is both very easy to get into and also incredibly difficult to make a polished app.
It's really an interesting idea; I'll try it.
We have boxes with up to 45 drives yes.
>I doubt very much that it was an anomaly.

The article that OP posted says the odds that it's not an anomaly is around 80%, so there's still a 1 / 5 chance that this is just noise.
In theory, yes Vite is webpack replacement. CRA is a different beast. So, what is CRA’s replacement? Vite + vite-plugin-react.

But that is quite a mouthful, so people shorten it to Vite. So, when they say switch to Vite, Vite-react plug-in is implied. No one is recommending rolling your own Vite plug-in for react
The environmental movement between 1970-1990 made great changes in the way people lived. What stopped it was all out effort by the fossil fuel industry to ensure nothing would affect their profits.

I bet you can think of ways to reduce carbon output without changing square footage or miles driven.
I think that this might be due to the specific version of VESA stuff it ships with causing the problems.
Thermal phenomena like heat transfer can arise in systems that are deterministic at the microscopic level. Indeed, at the time of Boltzmann (pre quantum) one of the major questions is how to go from deterministic but complex & unpredictable classical particle dynamics to continuum models like the heat equation. Kinetic theory is one piece of that bridge between scales.

In more recent times these questions are still studied, e.g., within mathematical physics / ergodic theory circles. Look up "Lorentz gas", "Fourier law", etc. Usually to get anything interesting one needs to hook these systems up to "reservoirs", which are usually stochastic. In principle one could replace the reservoirs by another large, chaotic classical system but that makes the mathematical questions too hard, and having some randomness in a small corner of the system and studying how its influence spreads is still very challenging but more tractable.
What I meant wasn't that moving the atom causes a FTL propagation of an effect, but that in two situations that differ just by the position of said atom, the changes become visible that quickly (after any imagined classical propagation delay).
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Research institution.

The department saw more need for storage than Kubernetes compute so that's what we're growing. Nowadays you can get storage machines with 1 PB in them.