skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is insane how tone deaf most of the comments are, jarring even. I forget how insular so much of the community is and I often make the mistake of equating intelligence, which exists here in spades, with critical thought.

Understand that most of the sentiment expressed here is identical to the pre-digested mass media pablum intended for 100 IQ consumers.

Think of mass media coverage of a subject you're an expert in and how horrifyingly wrong it typically is on so many levels, and try to rectify the two.
I look at California ISO's site

https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply

The difference between summer and winter for renewables is 20%. In California the difference is driven mostly by solar.

This is an interesting page.

http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2021/11/world-population-by-lat...

Majority of the worlds population lives between 40 north and 10 degrees south. And also some places like Scotland had lots of wind.

Definitely winners and losers in the transition.
I would cross check it with corruption levels, sometimes high taxes are just organized crime with extra steps.
One wonders, why is a minor release announcement for PHP on the front page?
Someone built a website that does this for every major city on earth

https://www.top-rated.online/
Said the troll account with 3 comments
> What the fuck indeed. And where the fuck are the people who are supposed to stop this?

Which people? The paramount officers of the executive branch? They actively support it. They quasi-independent inspectors-general in the executive branch departments? Those in areas of concern have been (fairly blatantly illegally) fired, and in at least one case physically ejected by security personnel.

The majority of both houses of Congress? They at least tacitly support it out of partisan loyalty. The courts? They’be issued orders, but ultimately rely on executive compliance or a different part of the executive enforcing those orders, and see “the paramount officers of the executive branch...”, previously.

The electorate? They voted in the people supporting it in the executive and legislature. A sufficient number of safeguards have failed that there is likely no effective recourse within the system, and none of those failed safeguards are likely to reset into their functional state without some extreme force being applied to change their present direction.
Its not remote work itself. ... that just amplifies the inability of some people to "see the work" and to self-organize.
Our gym classes weren't held at a frat-boy bar, so... no worries, mate!
Since 1993 there were 20 blue years and 12 red years.

Why wasn't it fixed?
Practices such as Dry Sex increases a women chances exponentially.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dry-sex-is-the-african-sexua...
Yes. I was walking outside and realized I was wet. Definitely not the rain, there must be a kid with a squirt gun running around.
I switched career paths in an attempt to get away from that.

It turns out, it follows me. I have a decade worth of finely honed pessimism maximizer I cannot get to stop running against everything.
I'm not now, but was.

Getting up on time was the hardest thing. No jest.

I solved this by ensuring I had to get up for some exercise. More exercise later in the day guaranteed by night come I was tired enough to get to sleep easily enough, get regular sleep, and complete the virtuous cycle.

The rest took care of itself.
Yeah, I came to a similar conclusion, but the wording seems weird.

At face value, if someone asks to buy 20k of my product, sending samples seems like an obvious next step?
I bet yash is great, sorry for distracting from the topic, but since you asked...

It's not one killer feature, but it's a lot of small things that add up to this feeling that POSIX shells are stuck in a rut and that a better world is possible.

I'm going to use docker output as an example. I know that you can ask docker for json and then use jq, but let's pretend that what you're working with isn't so friendly as docker. Here's the output of "docker ps", a string:

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS
786fc8348b7a postgres:12.6 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 9 hours ago Up 9 hours 127.0.0.1:5432->5432/tcp

I'm not proud of it, but I used to write bash scripts which looked like this:

line=$(docker ps | grep postgres)
echo $line | awk '{print $2}'
echo $line | awk -F 'ago' '{print $2}' | sed 's/hours.*/hours/'

to get output like this

postgres:12.6
Up 9 hours

In nushell, that's this (notice that it gets the whitespace right, which is more than I can say for awk).

$ docker ps | detect columns --guess | where ($it.IMAGE =~ postgres) | select IMAGE STATUS

╭───┬───────────────┬────────────╮
│ # │ IMAGE │ STATUS │
├───┼───────────────┼────────────┤
│ 0 │ postgres:12.6 │ Up 9 hours │
╰───┴───────────────┴────────────╯

This the part where somebody says "powershell does that too", but check out this stackoverflow post on just how that might be done: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47335781/extract-columns... It's not exactly wow material.

Powershell feels to me like it's made by people who want all data to be structured, and who expect the app to do the work of structuring it for them. nushell feels like it's made by people who understand that text is king, and who are willing to attempt taming that beast as-is.

Plus there are a lot of batteries-included things that just feel nicer. Like if you want to make an http post request, the command is "http post". Of course you can still use curl, but I feel like this is so much more readable:

$ let token = "REDACTED"
( http post
-H {Circle-Token : $token}
--content-type application/json
"https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/gh/job/myproject/pipeline"
{ branch: "main", parameters: { action: "dothething" }}
)

The built in help is excellent (try "help http post"), and the error messages are very pleasant:

$ 5 + "5"

Error: nu::parser::unsupported_operation
× addition is not supported between int and string.
╭─[entry #208:1:1]
1 │ 5 + "5"
· ┬ ┬ ─┬─
· │ │ ╰── string
· │ ╰── doesn't support these values
· ╰── int
╰────

I dunno, it's just nice. I'd be much happier teaching a bunch of scientists to use nushell than I am when teaching them to use bash. When I try to do the latter I feel like I just stepped out of a time warp from the 60's and they think I'm here to punish them.
For instance, I commented that there was nothing "natural" about where some people start out in life, owed to centuries of codified discrimination, and you responded with the Pareto distribution.

You can't do that kind of thing and complain about people dismissing you. You have to choose one. Those are the rules. I didn't make them.

>not that it is original

Not sure what you think the value of originality is here (versus, say, fact or reason), but this seems to be part of a pattern wherein you're distracted by irrelevant details.

But, if it's originality you value, then I feel obliged to inform you that there's not a single original thought in the paragraphs you wrote. And, being wrong by way of poor reasoning doesn't make those unoriginal thoughts any more interesting.
They want manufacturing physically located in the US but paid for by anyone other than the US. (Remember the wall?)
Does anyone find it strange that this argument is always boolean?

(Child of the late 70's/early 80's here)

At my current and prior company everyone enjoys the freedom of adulthood. Of course there are massive productivity benefits to working in person at times. Of course there are massive benefits to working from home at times. Not productive in your current role? Move on or you will be moved on. Pretty straight forward.

What's so
Err, I would have agreed with you before this war lmao, and after learning russia military history they frequently don't inspect shit
Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support
Hi, MurmurHash and SMHasher author here.

The author of the linked article seems to be missing a _bafflingly_ _large_ amount of context from the last decade of people writing and testing hash functions.

Hell, Murmur2 is deprecated - they should've done their test with Murmur3. And none of the other hashes invented since then have been mentioned.

Was this article actually written years and years ago and just republished with a new date?
> the problem is, yeah, a lot of people do treat it like a chance to sit at home doing the bare minimum

The thing is... I've been in offices before COVID that were full of people doing the bare minimum. And they were able to do that because management, generally, has always sucked and was never good at their jobs.
I don't think this is a great analogy. While it can be true I'm not sure it even usually is. A lot of complexity in a codebase comes from the fact that the end goal isn't specified from the start. In fact, it really can't be. The code evolves along the way, goals change, the hardware changes, dependencies change, and patches turn into solutions. This isn't to say that everything along the way didn't have a good reason, in fact it most certainly did! But a good codebase is also constantly rewritten. There should never be shame in this because the goals changed. There are unknown unknowns that can't be avoided. But you need to constantly profile, fix, and rewrite. There is no end as long as time marches on.
Those were mostly purple years; the United States isn't—at least, when functioning approximately according the the Constitutional rules, which has suddenly become an important qualifier—a unitary executive dictatorship.
The First Motorcycle with a Seatbelt?
I kind of figured that, just based on the fact that there seems to be a ton of DOS-compatible clones out there, even when DOS was relevant, like Concurrent DOS. If the OS were too complex there probably wouldn’t be a lot of clones.
Yeah PSP got the most play time even vs the DS
Those are big dramatic claims with nothing to back them up...
What's your point? The paper you're linking does not include the analysis the post you're responding to is asking for.
I found "Natural Navigator" by Tristan Gooley to be a fascinating read with a lot of good ways to train your navigation skills without instruments.
$6500 depending on VAT. But 10-12 times M4 Mac mini's with 100 Gbps networking gives you triple the cores and 160 GB with 2.5 times the memeory bandwith if the sharding of the NN layers is done right.
Updated, yes.
How does deleting 18F translate into rich people taking money?
Through the number of tasks on the board that staff were getting cleared per month. The results are so clear that we have actually gone further than just reversing the work from home policies enacted post Covid, to actually banning it entirely (pre-covid it was allowed with permission)
Easily, I have a somewhat working understanding of the SAP version we run in my head, LLMs love hallucinating columns or endpoints that do not exist. I‘m sure the full SAP documentation easily clears 2 mil tokens. And thats not even touching our own codebase.
I understand you, no one should live his life living in a cage, even if it's a metaphorical one. Some people are shit posting because of their reasons, this shouldn't change anything on your side IMHO. Easier said than done, I know.

Instead of mocking you, let me send you love and respect. I hope you enjoy your life and find your freedom in your own way, and have fun doing so, preferably with other people.
As he said, conspiracy theory
We only run out of abstraction once there is stagnation and time to really bake.

As long as some new thing is being invented in our industry, a new abstraction will be needed because the old one just can’t quite flex enough while being backwards compatible.
My brother in Christ—meant genuinely—this is not the way. Multiple posts on this thread preaching about Jesus and bringing up the unborn? Evangelism is not meant to be twisting people's grief into a sales pitch. When Jesus's friends wept, he wept with them.

(Also, if an SSRI turns your world into grayscale, it's not the right drug for you. That's not how they're supposed to work. Very much the opposite, in fact.)
The IRS hired a guy to rewrite the Master File in Java a few years back and they ran out of money when he was almost finished.
> 4 years

What makes you think they’ll respect that law?

Assuming he makes it that long, he’ll have a third term. They’ll make some lunatic reading of the law to justify state legislatures selecting electors. The supine courts will rubber stamp anything.
Lmao this guy keeps moving the sticks as the AI gets more powerful by the month
Show HN: oEmbedPy is oEmbed client library for Python 3.x
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. (ref: https://oembed.com/)

This is client library for oEmbed written by Python (3.x only) that can fetch data and can handle as python dataclasses from oEmbed API of supported websites.

It has adapter for Sphinx and MkDocs.
You can render embed content into documents by content url with simply format.

See it: https://oembedpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
No nearly as much. And when we do it, we tend to get punished.
For some people, living hell for the poor.
Those 60-something percent do not control the development of the app or the moderation or the feed or the compliance with American law. It's a given that ByteDance is being used to toe the party line in the same way America might use Meta or Apple to export faux privacy.

We are in a standoff situation where the only smart move is to call China's bluff. It will hurt Apple, it will hurt TikTok users, but it will match China's policy of fighting market infiltration by foreign adversaries. A more functional administration would have this rubberstamped and banned in a week's time, regardless of free speech or 90% of Americans losing their FYP. Just look at how fast the EU and UK acted against Huawei. There is no such thing as a free lunch, in router technology or social media.
US tax filing is broken compared to many European countries that automatically prepare the tax return.
It only works when there’s a transcript. It’s not “watching” the video. That said, it works very well most of the time for me.
That’s why we’re purging the folks who investigate and enforce the law.
what's worked for me is using apple music, I find their playlists to be better and exploration feels more structured too.
In Lord of The Rings, there's a scene - King Theoden buries his son and says to Gandalf, "No parent should have to bury their child."

That stuck deeply with me and eventually I decided that if I lost my child, I'd let it consume me.

I have no idea how it would destroy me, but it would - wholly. A decade would pass and I'd hardly notice. I have so many videos of my daughters and I would likely do nothing but replay them simply regretting that I didn't take more.

I'd be the saddest person on earth and I think that's okay.
The IMF and BMF aren’t just software. They’re the code in tax code. It’s the law, not the printed thing in a binder.

If you have the gall to question IMF behavior vs printed tax code and write it up internally, you will get a reply from an tax code analyst in a couple of months from WV explaining why you’re wrong, selections from code, selections from IRS legal interpretations, applicable court cases past, present and pending.

It’s all very polite, but you quickly realize they’re lawyers and you aren’t.
Let’s pretend to think that through a bit as an exercise. While it might not be Musk himself, who could possibly benefit from firing all the people who developed direct file?
You practically get the nervous system for free. If those photo sensitive cells serve some other purpose, you get them for free as well.
Maybe it's like the silent majority: PHP developers have been made fun of for so long, they don't speak up. But there's millions of them hanging around the interwebs, keeping everyday systems maintained for normal people that are not flashy, but simply get the job done because it's stable and works.

Source: a PHP developer ;P

But I agree, a minor release is hardly news worthy
then they are in luck, they have the worlds largest investor behind them (US, Not Musk)
This wants something like a fast P3 or P4 to get any usable speed, sadly. Good luck getting this operating on a Cyrix.
Great post here, and yea, things hit so much harder after kids. I remember seeing a photo of a man in India carrying his daughter killed by the tsunami. My daughter was about the same age and I cried for an hour in front of my computer.
Just currently exploring how custom AI workflows (e.g. text to sql, custom report generation using private data) can help given the current SOTA. Looking to develop tooling over the next 3-6 months. I'd like to see what we can come up with before dropping $50-100k on hardware.
We know that the administration ordered the name change for the Gulf of Mexico, and immediately following that order the data layers via USGS broke. Probably because someone (or some organization of geniuses) tried to change it directly without consulting anyone.

Trying to sea-lion your way through this convo after the person replying to you gave a detailed breakdown of the situation is gross. Don't be a sycophant.
Yeah, AI's going to the moon! No one can stop it.
They were double wrong. I work at a GPU cloud provider and we can't bring on the machines fast enough. Demand has been overwhelming.

People aren't going to fly.io to rent GPUs. That's the actual reality here.

They thought they could sidecar it to their existing product offering for a decent revenue boost but they didn't win over the prospect's mind.

Fly has compelling product offerings and boring shovels don't belong in their catalog
I built a web app which lets you search PDFs using regex and partial matches
I struggled for a long time to search within PDF files - the search results are very strict requiring exact matches.

I decided to make this web app which works a bit closer to a search engine within your PDF.

The search algorithm will look for sections containing words within your search phrase, and regex can also be used to search for a specific pattern of characters.

Everything runs in the browser, so after visiting the page, it will work even without internet.
"That is a phrase that I coined in a 2022 essay called “Deep Learning is Hitting a Wall,” which was about why scaling wouldn’t get us to AGI. And when I coined it, everybody dismissed me and said, “No, we’re not reaching diminishing returns. We have these scaling laws. We’ll just get more data.”

How can anyone think he's arguing in good faith at this point. That essay was published after gpt3 prior to gpt 4 - and he's claiming it was correct!
Saw a video of his sister a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6fyRAGH78 Was impressed by the speed.
None the less - this was a scheduled minor release with no new features and no security relevant patches.

As a PHP developer myself, I'm still not clear as to why that warrants a submission to HN, much less a promotion to the front page.
They don’t have anything because they’re lying. Even the sibling comment is a fabrication.
Eloquently explained, writing have have loads of wisdom earned and clubbed with benefit of hindsight.
Safe Rust is memory-safe enough for practical needs, while maintaining top performance.
Maybe AI can't, but Firefox reader mode can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectFB
I certainly don't intend it as a sales pitch. I intend it as something true. Sorry, I'm in a bit of a weird state tonight, chewing through a lot of Psalms, after having gone through Job, and the collection of prophets in the past few weeks, and life... is less stable than I'd prefer right now, with a lot of challenges. Happy to chat via email or Matrix, I'm not hard to find.

As for SSRIs, I've not actually tried them, I'm just going based on what several people have told me, that they're like putting earplugs into your emotions.

For the unborn, I don't see a point in ignoring reality. In 2023, the last year I've got convenient stats for, the US had ~3.5M births, and ~1M abortions. We're not "orders of magnitude" off the 1-in-2 stat from a century ago, we're... maybe a factor of 2 off. I see no point in pretending otherwise. And I do know more than a few people who have either lost young children, or lost preborn children. That's just my world. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Jesus wept with them, certainly, but also was rather clear on who He was.
That’s by congressional design. Don’t blame the mainframe.

DOGE just shut down the auto prepare because gov’t is bad and wasteful.
15 minutes actually is longer than what early videos were. The fact that it seems short is a reflection of the algorithmic push for longness.

Shorts are a whole different thing. But there's a void of videos from 90 seconds to 7 minutes that just answer a question.
That would be a big coincidence, wouldn't it?

I don't beleive in coincidence: You stop optimizing when you can get it around the corner.

'You always find something in the last place you look.'
> NNSA staff tell ABC News they are in a holding pattern. They're still bracing for firings, but possibly not as widespread.
Enjoyed the read, easy to read — TIL about Bayesian average and Wilson score interval. Amazing how much LLMs helped the author achieve their goal
The ubiquity of decent hashes also means that they're commonly used for situations where they're not wholly appropriate. I've frequently encountered non-cryptographic hashes being used for fixed sized integer maps or iterated.

Even non-cryptographic functions can benefit from the same kinds of threat modeling and carefully attention to selection criteria common in crypto. The risk for failing is that you end up with something as catastrophically flawed as boost's hash_combine [0].

[0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/doc/html/hash/referenc...
Same. Mine had expanded so much it almost popped the battery panel off. Thankfully replacements are quite cheap! I went through and replaced old ones on my PSPs, DSs, etc and now keep em all charged (with a mess of cables) to hopefully keep em semi healthy and not cause a bonfire in my closet.
All this GAI hype is so reminiscent of the moonbois from the crypto era.
When someone discovered a new tiling (tesselating?) shape, people made tiles in that shape. Where can I buy this sofa?
So his timing was slightly off. I don’t know why people expected LLMs to improve exponentially. Your iPhone now doesn’t look much different than the one 10 years ago. GPT-3 or arguably GPT-4 was the first iPhone moment, everything else will be gradual improvements unless fundamental discoveries are found, but those happen seemingly randomly.
Having multiple processes under one user in an operating system is more akin to having multiple threads in one process than you think. The processes don't share a virtual memory space or kernel namespaces and they don't share PID namespaces, but that's pretty much all you get from process isolation (malware works because process isolation is relatively weak). The container adds a layer that goes around multiple processes (see cgroups), but the cgroup scheduling/isolation mechanism is very similar to the process isolation mechanism, just with a new root filesystem. Since everything Linux does happens through FDs, a new root filesystem is a very powerful thing to have. That new root filesystem can have a whole new set of libraries and programs in it compared to the host, but that's all you have to do to get a completely new looking computing environment (from the perspective of Python or Javascript).

A VM, in contrast, fakes the existence of an entire computer, hardware and all. That fake hardware comes with a fake disk on which you put a new root filesystem, but it also comes with a whole lot of other virtualization. In a VM, CPU instructions (eg CPUID) can get trapped and executed by the VM to fake the existence of a different processor, and things like network drivers are completely synthetic. None of that happens with containers. A VM, in turn, needs to run its own OS to manage all this fake hardware, while a container gets to piggyback on the management functions of the host and can then include a very minimal amount of stuff in its synthetic root.