skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love org-roam, and keep an extensive knowledge base. That said, it's important to know what not to take notes on. The notes are useful if you'll want to use them later.

One way to use a note is to look it up to know how to do something, or how to respond to a situation -- the note prompts or directs an action. A less popular but sometimes astoundingly effective use of a note is as a prompt for writing and processing -- it doesn't have to encode anything with knowing, just something worth thinking about.

If it won't be used in one of those two ways, it's just drag.
In Hamburg, Surviving Climate Change Means Living with Water
Why on Earth would one use malloc in C++? Instead of using ’new’ if explicit allocation is desired.
That same process happens to every log I burn in my fireplace. We call it burning. I'd never describe it as exploding even though it matches that definition.
Agree with your point about multiple tools being good enough, but IMO firebase is not one of them. In my experience despite it claiming to be excellent at scaling, it performs worse than even a small Postgres instance. It’s good at the “real-time subscriptions”, but that’s about it.
It would not matter, but Amazon used to advertise that they commingle, so I know they do, whereas I do not know for sure if Walmart and Target do or do not.
http://modernperlbooks.com/ is a good introduction to the language
For any Charles Babbage fangirls/boys out there, the Royal Mint recently honored him with a commemorative 50p coin as part of their Innovation in Science series: https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/charles-babbage/c...
Why blacklisting the AV01 codec?
Show HN: ReleaseChurch – a fun-website to cast a prayer for your release
> Is anyone suggesting we ought to devise a pharmaceutical treatment for broken behavioral patterns,

I don't see why the hell not. We already have these in the form of treatments for alcohol/nicotine/opiate dependence.
https://releasechurch.dev is a fun website, where people who do release projects of any kind may
cast a "digital prayer" for their work's good luck and success.

It's in a very early stage (released 15.Dec.2021). Your feedback will be much appreciated!
Hershey Goes on a Threat Blitz Against a Bunch of Independent Breweries
It's unclear from the feature list - could this be used for offline message delivery in group chat? E.g. in a chatroom with 10 participants, when you connect, you receive the messages you missed while you were offline (provided someone that has seen those messages is also online to relay them)
Unfortunately, the US has a culture of doctor worship. Most people know next to nothing about medicine, so doctors can get away with all kinds of incompetence. As someone else in this thread mentioned, medical mistakes are the 2nd leading cause of death in the US.

I am glad to hear your sister survived that ordeal.

In the US, doctors that have maimed and killed patients can switch specialties and become a lucrative medical marijuana prescriber:

https://www2.mbc.ca.gov/BreezePDL/document.aspx?path=%5cDIDO...

https://www.laweekly.com/after-almost-30-years-as-a-surgeon-...
In youth it's easier to want to learn something even if you don't know what it's for. At least it was for me. I blame evolutionary optimization: Kids (which, behaviorally, today includes plenty of people in their thirties) don't know what they're going to do, and don't know what they'll need for it.
Atomic Habits is an excellent book, highly recommend it to anyone struggling to fix patterns of behavior.

I’ve started to curate any environment I use to avoid unintentional triggers. For example, when you reach for your iPhone to open up Medium or Kindle, you are forced to see all the different notifications and home screen icons. If there is a social media app or Safari icon happen to be there, your craving to open it and check the feed will get triggered unconsciously. There will be no “decision to check news” — you’ll just find yourself scrolling through the feed. So what I have now is a clean setup which makes sure screen pages with valuable apps are not arranged together with distractions. I also try to keep my phone away on the other end of the room, so that reaching for it would require more efforts, breaking down old habits of mindless browsing.

I find ideas from Atomic Habits interesting as they suggest improving your life through pre-defined policies and good habit design, not through conscious decisions made in the moment. Made me look at many other things (e.g. management, teamwork environment) in a different way.
We're definitely missing a "secular religion", as an alternative to the preposterous and regressive superstitions that billions partake in.
Either there's another nonconsensual experiment underway or a legal threat scam involving security bounties, because the phrasing of this Princeton email is very similar to the security bounty emails I keep getting... at my personal, static, blog.
How to Find a Good Startup Lawyer
No, it wouldn't.

One is a polite but firm email reminding a website administrator of their obligations under the law, and the other is a thinly-veiled threat of bodily harm.
This raises a question whether the best prediction should be a measurement of intelligence. GPT-3 might well be capable of super-intelligence, for what we know, but if we feed it examples on human level of thought, it will interact with us on human (i.e. stupid) level of thought, because that's what we are teaching it. Just like adults choose to talk to children on their level.

However, a truly intelligent system, I think, can transgress this boundary. It can protest against the task of giving the next best prediction, so to speak.

I don't think that mathematician is necessarily the best model for a math paper; I think the best model might as well be the platonic ideal of what it means to do mathematics - logical correctness of all the conclusions.
This is (mostly) untrue. It's easy to deploy Next anywhere you can run a node server. What's more fiddly is deploying it somewhere that has its own special environment, like AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify etc; basically "serverless". But adaptors do exist for most of these to make it fairly painless, they're just not part of Next itself.

The advantage of Remix in this area is less that they've written their own adaptors for these platforms (do we really care who writes them, as long as they exist?), but more that the level of abstraction they've chosen appears to make it _easier_ to write these adaptors.

Edit: Something I missed, is that Remix does appear to work on Deno, whilst Next doesn't.
We surrendered.
Hey all, author here. That link is to an older version of the post - an updated version can be found here: https://viralinstruction.com/posts/hardware/
How old are you? I thought it is illegal for underage persons to run companies.
There are two kind of things that are often lumped together:

Visible local pollution: This includes things like particulate matter in air, river pollution, dirty streets, toxic water etc. This is clearly inversely correlated with development and health and developed countries generally sorted it out better.

Global level: This mostly includes greenhouse gases etc. This is very correlated with development and health among countries. The countries with highest emission has best quality of life and they are sharing the burden with undeveloped countries.
Yeah, I agree. I actually have these headphones and love them, so for a second I was a bit worried. However, this is clearly an isolated case, so I'm sure there's more to the story, and certainly swearing off all wireless/rechargeable gear is an overreaction.

I didn't hunt for very long, but a cursory search didn't turn up anything like this with these headphones or Bose for that matter. And while I don't trust corporations implicitly, I do draw distinctions between companies like Ford or Samsung that might wait until absolutely necessary to do a recall and a company like Bose that has always seemed to have a lot riding on their reputation with their target customers.

And given my interactions with other companies after product failures, I would be stoked to be offered the brand new flagship line (QC45) assuming I had no real injuries.

Then again, if I were of a litigious nature (and thought there was a potential payday) I might focus on how the trace amount of "heavy metal" smoke from LIon batteries that lingered after I threw the headphones outside might affect my pets, wife, unborn child and HVAC system instead of being reasonable.
They got good info, but good luck finding anything. It's like a Sanford and Son junk yard where you have to dig for things. Your best hope is just linking directly into a forum post that solves your problem.
In a nutshell, you just described why the American Libertarian fantasy of hands-off approach that replaces regulation with reliance on the justice system and lawsuits is undemocratic.

Also, note the stigma and shaming of "lawsuit-happy Americans" who are "entitled" and "sheltered", etc. - even in this forum, where people should know better!

So not only people don't understand that the lawsuits are a compliance enforcement mechanism, but they are actively preventing it from working by saying things like "nothing is perfectly safe, hurr durr".

Anyway. Thank you for putting it this succinctly; I wish your comment was at the top:

>There needs to be some incentive for companies to ensure the safety of their products or actions. In the US, this seems to be (punitive) damages, whereas in Europe it's more through stronger regulations. The nice thing about damages is that it's in terms of moeny, and since companies optimize for money, this does sorta make sense.
> Gpt-3 has convincingly passed the Turing test

Has it? I can't find a convincing source for that. Note that twitter and reddit don't really count, the Turing test always was a conversation, not limited to bite-sized soundbites like those. You can make probably make a decent Reddit bot by selecting random old popular posts from that sub, and that would never pass the Turing test.

The only interaction I've had with GPT-3 is AI Dungeon, and it's very easy to discover that's not a human.
They said "the cults Christianity won over", so we're not talking about modern televangelists or heaven's gate here.
Strictly that's a question about philosophy, not cosmology. Cosmology just says the universe is unbounded and leaves it at that. In fact "The Universe", meaning all the matter or energy which we will ever even theoretically be able to obvserve, is definitely finite. The distance to the point of infinite redshift (where we're looking at the big bang, essentially) is finite. It doesn't make sense to talk about anything "farther" out.
That's a good way to make sure only spammers can contact you. I don't conceal my email address and I get at least a thousand spam emails per day. If it lets one good stranger contact me per day then it's worth it. Being a Gmail early adopter, I also get so many emails due to typos or incorrectly filled out forms where people are trying to contact someone with a similar name. It's interesting to learn about what people who share my last name are doing.
Agreed. I think it's an ego problem. You know, the most common one with us humans
> You would still be doing the job of concatenating together the error message, possibly rendering some complex objects to a string, that is then fed to the no-op.

Why would you still do be doing that work? If a value goes into a no-op, then the value isn't computed. (In theory - I'm sure it doesn't always work out 100% of the time in practice.)
This makes more sense and was my first thought watching the video.

Question: At which point does the influence reach actual zero? If it doesn't, does that mean the coffee in front of me is being influenced by Jupiter, however minuscule?
You can't just put your API in Lambda and expect to to scale infinitely. Serverless runs on servers, so it very much depends what that API actually does. For example, if your API runs a query on your database, the limit to how it scales will depend on how quickly your database instance can run that query.
Gigifying and tokenising everything including leisure activities is deeply dystopian. In particular the Social Credit systems are going to be terrifying. It’s amazing how many people that are pessimistic about them when endorsed by governments are sanguine in this case when the resulting problems are very similar.
> JIT can not make an assumption

The whole point of a JIT is that it can make assumptions. 'Assumption' is literally the term used in the JIT to track things like this.
The same company runs them. Your definition of "fully separate" has a wide berth.
I don't understand the outrage. Even knowing the context, the email is polite, to the point, tells the website administrator exactly what they need to do (something they are already legally required to do), and gives them ample time to do so.
The last paragraph reminds me of this https://www.jstor.org/stable/27899562
Who would manufacture such a thing and why? Who even has access to thorium?
Vodafone auctions the first SMS ever sent as an NFT
I looked into the source of the above link and it's a collaborative git-managed team effort.

https://standardebooks.org/about

What an awesome project.
I've inadvertently done something against Linode's ToS twice and both times they contacted me to get the issue resolved, my account was never locked. So take this as a +1 for them, at least on this front.
His Mistborn series is a good place to start. Helped get me back into fantasy/sci-fi after a 15 year hiatus.
No, Laravel is far, far behind Rails
Anyone else may want to preemptively opt-out from future studies. Info from https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/

"Please contact the lead researcher for this study, Ross Teixeira (rapt@princeton.edu), if you have any questions, believe you received an email in error, or would like to opt out of any future communication related to the study."
I wish it was possible to let users manually white list domains.

Emails could contain some form of standard header to ask users if they want to white list/add an address to their contact list, and other emails would be down as default.

I know email is a good protocol, but reading email headers made my eyes bleed.
Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019)
Maps and Charts of data and trends related to alternative fuels and vehicles
Pluto TV is a godsend. So much stuff on there. I've been recommending it to people for a while now. You can also get it on Kodi[0].

[0]: https://kodi.tv/addons/matrix/plugin.video.plutotv
If you can, give Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail a try. It's SF on what would happen if the Internet disappears, and goes quite deeply into collapsing supply chains.
Well that was sad. A good metaphor for meditating on the fact that everyone will die too.
And yet here we are taking over the world.
I thought log4j performed no escaping so even if you use its logging calls that take parameters you’re still vulnerable?
Yes the benchmark against Crystal was heavy on strings (json & base64) and Crystal seems to do better there. Whats the reason, Nim using refcounting?
Is it really much better to have five $15 services to get the same content?
@dang can it be replaced?
I suspect the appeal of YouTube TV is the built-in cloud DVR, mostly so you can skip commercials. I had YouTube TV for a while, mostly for local news. I switched to a local tuner/antenna with a DVR. I picked the Tablo product. The app could be better, but it does reliably record my local news and playback works fine. And it's quite a lot cheaper than YouTube TV, Sling, etc.

Though, of course, you have to be somewhere where an antenna can pick up what you want to watch.
I relate completely with the comments here. I have only recently even managed to finish reading a couple of books, but it took me months.

I would really like to blame how busy I am (new startup, 3 kids, other commitments), however I see my wife who is a physician who works in 2 departments and also teaches and runs a residency program and I know she is quantitatively much busier than I am and has far less control over her time.

However, she manages to read a couple of books a month at least.

I think that during the 2000s/2010s when I was sucking in a firehose of information and learning to consume exclusively in places like HN, she was still researching, studying and learning through long form papers, textbooks and experiments. Our brains are trained on very different cadences.

So when she sits down to read, there is almost no distraction, her comprehension is far better than mine, and she sort of shoots through a chapter with much better momentum than me.

I've recently resolved to stop trying to read anything popular/trendy that I might be attracted to just because it's there and instead only read history, which is my real interest. No more business books or novels I don't really enjoy. That has made a difference and it's already becoming much easier as I am more disciplined about it.
Sadly the conspiracy theorists will likely interpret this message as a ruse by evil hidden forces proving these toxic things are effective against the supposed mind control waves or whatever they think 5G is doing
NY Bears the Brunt of Omicron on Top of Delta
this is ironic

https://s2.loli.net/2021/12/18/E7faXl2AnVbr5W9.png
69 hue hue hue
This is another comment confusing YT with YT TV. www.youtube.com didn’t lose anything - tv.youtube.com did, which is cable TV over the internet, and it’s just like any other channel dispute that has happened in years past with traditional cable offerings.
You can use transactional outbox pattern to solve this.
The law does not require documentation to be in French, only manuals and operating instructions. But, as two other people have pointed out, the buyer may require comments to be in French. This is then a contractual requirement, not a requirement of the Loi Toubon.
This is why Python's logging module treats the argument as a literal string without performing expansions if you only give it a single argument. That avoids such issues.
Certainly, brother. Together we shall bring the Word of Wall to all.

I see a world where /usr/bin/perl will become PID1 and at every system boot will

mv /usr/bin/python /dev/null

there shall the snake finally be consigned eternally.
I'm a bit conflicted. On one hand, it is a sin that it still hasn't been built! And it must be powered by a literal steam engine!

On the other hand, Babbage never really finished the Analytical Engine. It was always in pre-alpha. In a sense, there is no Analytical Engine. Only a lifetime of sketches for various parts and extensive commentary on how the various parts might fit together. An actual implementation requires making a lot of hard decisions, and basically inventing a fair bit as well.

It's clear the Plan 28 folks appreciate all this, of course. They've appropriately started with a complete review of the literature:

> With the first-pass inspection of the manuscript archive complete, attention has turned to analysis and interpretation, and organising the findings to aid navigation. Babbage shed versions of the design as it developed in the form of ‘Plans’ – large ‘systems drawings’ which serve as developmental staging posts – the main ones of which number Plan 1 through to Plan 28.

This might hint at why Babbage ultimately failed, really. He was a tinkerer and he didn't commit to a design. It was always provisional. When he ran into a minor hitch, or had another good idea, he would go back to the drawing board and start over. If he had just committed and scaled up the original, much simpler and fully-designed difference engine he had been contracted for, he might just have got the funding to continue more theoretical and larger-scale work with thinking machines.
If GP answers no, does that mean these are the only two options?
This is awesome. Brought a nice chuckle to my quiet morning.
Why are you bringing this up? This derails the discussion.

The parent's point was that, unlike in Europe, when someone is injured by no fault of their own, the expected way for them to pay for the (very high) medical costs is to sue the offending party.

That's the excuse for not offering universal healthcare. Incidentally, it also explains why the doctors need insurance (because malpractice does happen sometimes, and if your health is damaged by it, you won't get a nickel of support unless you sue the offending party - i.e. the doctor).

That wouldn't be such an issue if we had universal healthcare and a support net for people who can't work.
Indeed, how scary is that? ;)
This is that report, just being re-reported.
So, just to make sure I understand correctly: notifications are delivered while the notification queue size is increasing (due to the transaction holding a lock), and it doesn’t become a problem until the queue size reaches its maximum, at which point it causes dropped notifications?

But the queue grows precisely because some notifications aren’t getting delivered, right?
Is that true? (Honest question) Whatever the “thing” was that exploded at the big bang (which I read once was the size of a grapefruit for what it’s worth) - could there not have been other similar “things”? And what about where that “thing” came from? I’ve read theories of the universe expanding, but then eventually falling back onto itself to recreate another “thing” that will explode again. Anyway, it feels like there might indeed be more.
A surprisingly decent US government provided resource to check that: https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/dtvmaps

Edit: One thing to double check that surprised me is that the channel number these days doesn't reliably tell you if the channel is VHF or UHF. That is, a low-numbered channel like "3" or "8" could really be a UHF channel. I guess they let them keep long-established channel numbers for marketing purposes. So check what you really need before buying an antenna. The website above does provide the needed detail under "RF Channel".
Natural Selection in action
Lying about who you are and pretending that you are allowed a certain thing… I mean legally it’s not fraud but it sure feels like it!

Imagine someone showing up to your office building pretending to have an interview , walking into the office waiting room, then walking out saying “oh, just an experiment!”

“It’s just an email” the ease of the mode of communication here is not super relevant to the action, right?
Most leaks are not catastrophic leaks, and will be detected (nuclear power plants are heavily instrumented) and lead to a safe shutdown.
Mayer has a JD and is licensed in CA (I don't know about NJ), has worked for at least one US Senate office, and has been so involved in actual practical privacy work that ad companies pressured the president of Stanford to expel him for his legitimate work on DNT.
Keywords are in English, and 99% of identifiers in all code I met are too, even when comments are in French or russian.

Pascal and old basic (among other languages) have been case insensitive for decades, and that has not been a problem.

In UI, you are by all means correct. But code is a formal language that happens to be expressed in Latin letters. APL is the only real language that doesn’t impose a western character set.
If we are starting to get snarky: There are two kinds of people who choose Rust over C++. Beginners who think C++ is too hard, and seasoned developers with years of experience working in large teams who _know_ C++ is too hard to get right.
How is this legal? Do Pluto and Tubitv have some contract with providers that allows this?

I remember a company named Aereo being sued out of existence because they were offering OTA TV to their subscribers by allocating an micro antenna to each user. The excuse did fly in court.

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

BTW, thanks for sharing!
The exact product that the government is warning about here is covered in the video that you linked, which was published Feb 18, 2020.
Habits Maketh the Man
What about rates of depression and anxiety?
The libraries create their own tables, triggers etc during initialization.