skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m playing devil’s advocate.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/you-are-not-the-devils-advo...

> Again, I worked with Go in a production setting for 3+ years

The amount of time you spent doing whatever you were doing is not relevant. The google search you seek is mere keystrokes away.
I'm a lot more intrigued by the headlines around the venmo transactions.
Getting Started in CP
I want to get started in CP, does anyone have tips in how i can get started? Like all the math needed to get start in solving problems?
Redraw facilities are available in most countries? Refinancing etc? Genuinely curious.

For example (in Australia), my mate recently spent $40k, drawn out of his mortgage on solar panels, battery, double glaze windows, heat pump heating and cooling, gas stove to induction, gas hot water to heat pump and is currently investigating drawing more to upgrade roof insulation.
> When there are many and diverse data formats that meet that standard, it seems perverse to use the word "easy" to talk about empirically discovering the quirks in various undocumented dialects and writing custom logic to accommodate them.

But the premise of CSV is so simple, that there are only four quirks to empirically discover: cell delimiter, row delimiter, quote, escaped-quote.

I think it's "easy" to peek at the file and say, "Oh, they use semicolon cell delimiters."

And it's likewise "easy" to write the "custom logic", which is about as simple as parsing something directly from a text stream gets. I typically have to stop and think a minute about the quoting, but it's not that bad.

If a programmer is practiced at parsing from a text stream (a powerful, general skill that is worth exercising), than I think it is reasonable to think they might find parsing CSV by hand to be easier and quicker than parsing JSON (etc.) with a library.
She's a scientist. Most of the people on here are writing software which is essentially reinventing the wheel over and over. Of course you have a different experience of LLMs.
Show HN: NeKernel – Modular C++ Kernel with early BootNet support
Just pushed a new commit to NeKernel, a modular C++ kernel built from scratch.

This update introduces BootNet, a WIP network boot fallback module. If the kernel fails to load, BootNet is designed to recover by booting from a packet. EEPROM update support is planned, but not yet implemented.

Repo: https://github.com/amlel-el-mahrouss/nekernel
Docs: https://amlel-el-mahrouss.github.io/nekernel-docs/

Feedback welcome.
massgrave.dev has worked well for me
I wonder if there is a correlation with higher priced homes and improved school districts?
I wasn’t super interested in the topic but enjoyed the style of writing and completed the article.

I learned a few things I hadn’t planned on learning :)
Most philosophy dept nowadays have fewer undergrads than profs. An entitled liberal arts prof from an elitist university leaving the US for Canada, will improve both nations.
Sometimes it isn't outright lying. I have had the issues with hardware, API and SDK documentation being subtly different from the product as shipped. With hardware with a mixture of revisions, some conforming to doco and other differing and even their engineers not being clear about which is which.
Some proprietary-friendly compiler would've appeared in one way or another at some point. I'd rather such at least have some amount of openness. Better than many crappy from-scratch completely-proprietary vendor compilers at least.

And hey some of the work does get upstreamed, which is probably a good choice for the vendor anyway if the target in question isn't intended to be immediately thrown in the thrash and forgotten.
I refused a contract to hire that was talking pager duty.

I saw how they freaked out about things outside the team’s control during business hours. The first time someone called me after 11 pm I was going to get myself fired talking to them.
I regret constantly hitting my little brother when he was chewing with his mouth open at the dinner table. I was about 13 and had developed misophonia, he must have been 5. Our parents didn't understand it. I didn't understand it. I couldn't control myself for years. He was a sweet boy in a poor and dysfunctional family that also fell apart around that time. At the very least, he deserved a better brother.

Decades later, I still get abruptly and irrationally angry when people smack their lips, though I have learnt to suppress the urge to assault the source of the sound.

I can't eat with my Chinese colleagues. I get that more air makes each bite taste better, but it is hard to eat or even focus when your brain is telling you to rip their heads off to stop the sound.

It's an odd curse to live with, as, aside from the situation with my brother, I have otherwise never hurt or assaulted anyone in my life and am generally regarded as a softy. I have to force myself to sit at the dinner table with my mother when she visits, as she still smacks her lips.

Some people smack their lips in quick succession when they taste something new, like how birds drink water, and it drives me up the walls. Slurping is triggering, but not as much. Some people swallow excessively as presenters and will make a "tsk" sound with their tongues before speaking, which is worse than slurping and usually causes me to stop watching the presentation.

I'm glad there is some traction with misophonia research. We need help.
How do you mean? I’d love to know more about your theories!
Trade Wars Are Strategic Sector Wars, review of Trade Wars Are Class Wars (2020)
> I mean despite constant economic growth, something which fundamentally depends on increased energy consumption, the US has decreased emissions per capita by 30% since 1970

And the US population has grown from 203 million in 1970 to 331 million in 2020[0] - an increase of over 60%.

I can have fun with statistics too!

How do you look at these facts and what you see in them is
"The billionaires are destroying our planet and don't care?"

Actions taken by same.

How do you not see 30% less emissions on 60% more energy
usage as a big win for the environment that should be
celebrated?

How do you not see scientific evidence such as NASA provides?

Air temperatures on Earth have been rising since the
Industrial Revolution. While natural variability plays some
part, the preponderance of evidence indicates that human
activities—particularly emissions of heat-trapping
greenhouse gases—are mostly responsible for making our
planet warmer.[1]

0 - https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/popchange...

1 - https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-tem...
I hear https://ms.codes/ sells office and stuff.
Mesop v1.0.0 – Rapidly build AI apps in Python
Not always and not everywhere. I lived in Beijing for 9 years on a subway line (well, after line 10 opened) that would have taken me almost straight to work, but it was so packed I still took a taxi. Maybe the extra lines/capacity makes it more comfortable now, but it wasn’t Tokyo when I was living there.
At the airport, on the way to a Linux conference, I wore the Kagi shirt and people initiated conversations due to it.
Their days aren't numbered because they've built a sustainable business with a small team of developers that doesn't require a huge user-base to fund. Arguably if Kagi were more popular it would be worse. Just the fact that they aren't Google and use their own ranking while being small enough to avoid the notice of SEO hackers carries them a long way.
I wholeheartedly agree with you and it’s funny reading the replies to your comment.

Basically people just doubling down on everything you just described. I can’t quite put a finger on it but it has a tinge of insecurity or something like that, hope that’s not the case and me just misinterpreting
I believe it’s also optional, so you can turn it off.
The origin and evolution of lignin biosynthesis (2010)
It's been a thing for a while.
what if reading the state register gave back the value written?

I've had that experience. Turned out some boards in the wild didn't have the bodge wire that connected the shift register output to the gate that changed the behavior.
This is not only applied to Apple's software. The entire software and hardware market including iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Windows, etc. is pressured to release new products with more and more features every year, advertising those new features to facilitate sales. The result is, what was once a simple and cool product has become heavily bloated with unneccessary features.
Yep. And then when the DBs are already on the same servers, when there's a need to connect previously unrelated apps to some master data, a shortcut presents itself. The DBA thinks: After all, why not? Why shouldn't I take it?
i agree completely
Did you know, you can set your wallpapers to be continuously updating and make macs use terabytes of your network in hours or days depending on speed?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255329956
It's kinda like machine translated novels. You have to really be passionate about the novel to endure these kinds of translations. That's when you realize how much work novel translators do to get a coherent result.
I want to love hardware as code. I really do. I love infrastructure as code, devops as codezyou nake it. But I just don't think it's ever going to happen. At least not fully. Something about it to me just has to be graphical. Maybe it's the information density, or the fact that circuits are graphs / networks, or maybe it's just habit.

On the topic of autorouters, the post doesn't really go into why there are no open source data sets and why there aren't many open source tools. It's probably no surprise but there's a TON of money in it. The author mentions iphones and 10s of thousands of routes. That's nothing. Modern ICs have billions of transistors and billions of routes with an insanely complicated rule set governing pitch, spacing, jobs, etc. Not to mention the entire time you have to make sure the parasitic resistance and capacitance from the routing doesn't break the timing assumptions.

Cadence and Synopsys probably put billions yearly into R&D and I bet a big chunk goes into "Place & Route". I've heard that licenses for their tools run into the miions of dollars per head per year.
Yes, exactly. So saying "race cannot be meaningfully unambiguously described by a handful of totally discrete categories" is true. Saying it has no biological basis is clearly false, in the same sense that saying "color has no physical basis" is false, just because there is no clear way to exactly determine which pigments or wavelengths should fall into red, green, or blue (or how many and which primary colors there should be).
https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi looks way more legit than the website. Not everyone who writes good software knows how to sell it ;-)
I wonder if that's something that can be addressed by embedding the right metadata into images/videos? Most people don't bother even checking e.g. Exif data (let alone stripping or otherwise altering it) when reposting content they find online.
It is resizable vertically but not horizontally as it doesn't make sense to resize the window horizontally considering the content of settings details panel (the right part of the settings window), you would end up with a lot of empty space if you were able to resize it horizontally.
The "don't lie to me" button for a human is asking them, "where did you learn that fact?"

Grounding isn't very different from that.
One Drive in Toyota's $10k Pickup Will Make You Want One (2023)
What I find interesting is that my experience has been 100% the opposite. I’ve been using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for almost a year (well only the ChatGPT for a year since the rest are more recent.) I’ve been using them to help build circuits and write code. They are almost always wrong with circuit design, and create code that doesn’t work north of 80% of the time. My patience has dropped off to the point where I only experiment with LLM a few times a week because they are so bad. Yes it is miraculous that we can have a conversation, but it means nothing if the output is always wrong.

But I will admit the dora muckbang feet shit is fucking insane. And that just flat out scares the pants off me.
I've commented as much before but what do people even use office for these days? Like I hear individuals complain about the prices and I'm just like I have not needed a real office suite in years. Google Docs has been enough to get by with for free for well over a decade.

Are you... creating and printing documents? Why? I haven't had a real need for a word processor since email was invented.
> Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger.

Garbage article. Garbage study. And garbage AI model that doesn't account for most of its audience.
21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024 and 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level[1]. “The average person” isn’t really a high bar, unfortunately.

1: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...
Any models allow offloading KV cache, it’s not a matter of model architecture but only of the implementation. The only somewhat difference can be for non transformer models. But for all attention models it’s the same – blob of data per each token. It’s much worse for older models with MHA because their KV cache is just too big, and it’s better for DeepSeek because their KV cache is the smallest. But it’s alright for current generation of GQA models as well.
Common Side Effects, here we come.
Are you aware of Brilliant Light Power and their Suncell (R)?

See https://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/

and scroll down to the

February 10, 2023
COMMERCIAL SUNCELL® INITIAL SHAKEDOWN

video.
Secularism/atheism is a religion too. It has dogmas on abortion, homosexuality, fornication, usury, adultery, education of children, and hatred towards other religions (as shown by you).
Ask HN: How to Judge a Hackathon
I’m going back to my Alma mater as a jury member for a 24hour hackathon. It’s been a while since I was on the college and hackathon circuit, so I am a little rusty on how and what to judge in the hackathon.

Any tips, ideas and experiences you guys have will be super helpful.
> I understand that it's not - that, genuinely, it takes some experience to learn how to "prompt good" and use LLMs effectively

I don't buy it this at all.

At best "learning to prompt" is just hitting the slot machine over and over until you get something close to what you want, which is not a skill. This is what I see when people "have a conversation with the LLM"

At worst you are a victim of sunk cost fallacy, believing that because you spent time on a thing that you have developed a skill for this thing that really has no skill involved. As a result you are deluding yourself into thinking that the output is better.. not because it actually is, but because you spent time on it so it must be
The excess isn't a problem on its own, but it prevents people from making money.

You get stuck with people who have money, who have everything they want, and people who don't have money who can't make any, becauae there is already a huge excess of anything that people who do have money would want.

Capitalism has no solution to this problem.
I simply do not care. I will just use - (the one next to zero on the keyboard) everywhere. There are a grand total of zero situations where using one in place of the other hampers information reconstruction or reading comprehension (although the latter is subjective, I suppose)
See also, trends in atmospheric co2 at Mauna Loa observatory:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Author here. Lots of great points being made. I want to throw in a crazy prediction.

I think routing is basically an image transformer problem without a good dataset right now. If the eye of the giant AI companies turned to autorouting and large synthetic but physically simulated circuit datasets were created, we would basically be done and autorouting would be a solved problem.

This means that all the work I’m doing now on heuristic algorithms, as well as all the hard work done by humans, will probably not be needed in the future. I just don’t see autorouting as being more difficult (in terms of solution space size) than the art being produced by transformer models right now.

I’m saying this because you’re right, these heuristic algorithms can only get us so far- the problem is really difficult. But our human intuition, the magic black box operation we do, doesn’t seem to be too far beyond the emerging transformer image models.
> when people cite an LLM and just assume it’s correct.

people used to say the exact same thing with wikipedia back when it first started.
Almost every citation here is research funded by a party selling something that just happens to be AI/ML. And they all have glowing reviews of their own products. Color me skeptical.

The last, and perhaps somewhat respectable study surveyed....about 410 developers. On a 15 minute survey. Sent only to GitHub users.
The difference is that your 'average' billionaire has effectively infinite resources to shield themselves from the repercussions of global climate change, sea level rise, strife, chaos, etc. At least as compared to your average Bangladeshi.
US no longer a reliable partner, old relationship is over: Canadian PM Carney
I would also like to throw in Lightworks into the “very good Premiere alternatives”. If you are ok with exporting 720p, the free version is pretty capable but if you want higher export resolution it cost money.

It has a subscription option, but also a “buy outright” option, and it’s often on sale for half price for the permanent license, ends up costing around ~$200 and it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I think it’s very good, though I am not a professional video editor by trade.
PostGIS seems leaps better to me (like the PG DX in other aspects). Eg in Oracle you don't have 2d points. Adding a geo index can fail in the middle and leave the table in a unusable state that requires DBA magic to untangle. Etc.

This is just on top of the general technical inferiority (eg there are no transactional schema changes, so you don't get the safe go/no-go in those when applying those as part of app deploys with a migration tool)
Poe's Law :-)
This is amazing news. I loved this game as a kid. I still have my original gba and the game itself.
It's the world's hottest car company. You can't buy one in America
> 2. Implementation Language doesn’t matter

> I’m controversially writing our autorouter in Javascript. This is the first thing people call out, but it’s not as unreasonable as you might expect. Consider that when optimizing an algorithm, you’re basically looking at improving two things:

> Lowering the number of iterations required (make the algorithm smart)
Increasing the speed of each iteration

It may be true in this domain, I wouldn’t know, but applied to software engineering in general IMO it would be a massively incorrect assumption to say choice of language doesn’t affect speed and needed number of iterations.
Most of what we refer to as "engineering" involves using principles that flow down from science to do stuff. The return to the historic norm is sort of a return to the "useful arts" or some other idea.
Education is a series of smaller lies. It's one of the corollaries to "all models are, wrong some are useful."

Some lies are actually better than the truth. My favorite example is that shooters are taught to imagine their sights being in line with their gun and that's they're shooting horizontally. But they're not, they're shooting in an arc so over short distances bullet just rises a little. Don't ask why. Why it's cool is that people using this model are better shots.
Going on Oracle sales rep sponsored ski trips.
LibreOffice is vastly more stable and has more features and compatibility fixes that OpenOffice. I recommend using it.
I like Pinterest a lot.

I find art, tattoo ideas, home decor, concrete/wood builds, clothing fits, wedding themes…

It’s like a one-stop-shop when you need some fresh ideas on design.
I was told it was just voted out last time. That's how it works, right? Just vote your way out of dictatorship?
yaa!
> Or how can humans, most of the time, tell someone's race by appearance alone, without knowing anything about their lived experience or upbringing?

Can they really, though? Most people would identify me as "white," but as a 100% Slavic person from Russia, how much do I actually have in common with "white" people from Italy, or "white" people from Ireland, or "white" people from South Africa, or most "white" Americans? You might have to go back many centuries to find some common ancestry.

Is an olive-skinned person from Greece or southern Italy "white"? Today they are, but they wouldn't have been in the past. It took a while for them to acquire that label: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/colum...

Should a light-skinned person with 1/32 black ancestry be considered black? They certainly would have been in the Jim Crow era, but Susie Guillory Phipps sued over this to change her recorded race to white.

Is "hispanic" a race? In fact, many latinos actually consider themselves white: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/16/321819185...

Et cetera. There are certainly genetic differences between populations, but "race" as it's understood in popular culture (based on superficial phenotypical differences) is a muddy, unscientific classification. I'm not a social scientist, so feel free to look up "race is a social construct" to find more authoritative sources. There is a very high degree of academic consensus on the subject.
Incomplete JSON Pretty Printer
This is the problem of the internet writ large.

The solution is to be selective and careful like always
Why is that a problem tho?

Branding for current products have this property today - for example, apple products are seen as being used by creatives and such.
The biggest issue Framework have right now is shipping. I can order a ThinkPad practically anywhere. No so with Framework - they are literally leaving money on the table from what I would assume their core segment: affluent tech savvy users trying to get off the planned obsolescence cycle.
There is an extensive Python extensions module that could do it.

https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/11/25/libreoffi...
The things I'm wary of are pitfalls that are often only in the command/function docs. Kinda like rsync with how it handles terminating slashes at the end of the path. Which is why I always took a moment to read them.
GitHub to impose limit on owned repositories per user, starting April 28th
I'm still trying to wrap my head around nitroplasts, another newfound plastid.
Is there a point in Earth’s history where if you were to visit you’d find it was just a fungus planet, with no other form of life? Could there have been fungal type creatures that lived, died, and left no trace?
It's likely there are two polarities of the adapter in the wild given the pin mapping but it's probably true that most copied Microsoft
Good idea in theory, having a big gov contract with high volume and reduced rates instead of every ministry negotiating with CSPs, with standardised setup. Harder to execute in practice, how much to charge, what costs are subsidised across differing budgets
For simple things, I use mtPaint on Linux and PhotoFiltre on Windows. They are easy to figure out and very stable.
That's what I really want.

One thing I see a lot on X is people asking Grok what movie or show a scene is from.

LLMs must be really, really bad at this because not only is it never right, it actually just makes something up that doesn't exist. Every, single, time.

I really wish it would just say "I'm not good at this, so I do not know."
That's how GAFAMs size companies do it. They need to comply with European regulations for data deletion, and there are very few other options.
...that's a fair limit.