skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
brings to mind the idea of god as a stopgap.
lets just call it faith, as in no physically correlated replicable observation.

in other words, a hunch, or in sci parlance, an inference.

no known phenomenon can be demonstrated publicly to explain it so lets fill this gap with a thing that has properties [omni-scient omni-present, omni-potent]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
I just wrote my first extensions for a new side project (https://getbirdfeeder.com) a few weeks ago. Initially I thought that now after a few years everything will be mostly standardized with "web extensions" and I just upload the extension to the three big extension stores. Turns out it's nothing like that and I wrote a little bit about my misconceptions in my blog [1]. It's still not a great development workflow. If there's any good strategies I'll gladly give that a try.

My initial plan to have a private package that I just import in my extensions but turns out you can't really do that as imports don't work. Right now I'm kinda stuck in copy pasting code back and fort hand keeping a V2 Extension for Firefox (and Safari) and a V3 Extension for Chrome. I also keep separate manifest files as they have different features.

[1] https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/building-web-extensions-fo...
What a distraction! I never understood the obsession of American neoliberals and neocons alike with Russia. While our supply chain with China has been massively disrupted and continues to be disrupted, all we keep
Hearing about is Russia!
Samples of the music it generates, presumably.
Music played by a Game Boy. I assume it has a recognizable sound.
If you suspect that it was an automated decision, in addition to any normal appeal processes, you could go through whoever their GDPR contact is and ask whether you were subject to automated decision making and if so, to please review the case manually as is your right under GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

Another obvious solution would be to find a different affiliate program (or set of affiliate programs) and point to them, since Amazon apparently doesn't want customers from you. Maybe some cycling-specific online store(s), or a price comparison web site? Probably more work and less profitable, but a potential avenue if you can't make progress with Amazon or don't want to deal with them.
Which is basically useless in the face of how trivial the initial conditions are to violate.
Statement by Josh Renaud about Missouri investigation [pdf]
Amateur sleuths help solve 160-year mystery by decoding Charles Dickens letter
I’d imagine almost all games do? Most courts and pitches require a decent amount of maintenance.
Paul does mention talking as an alternative to writing though. It is not that talking is not interesting to him. Writing is just a more efficient process.

For example, when editing video, there is a lot of friction due to the software you are using. Writing can have a lot less friction. You can literally just take a pen and paper avoiding a computer altogether.

That being said, one point Paul makes, is that finding a conversation partner that is willing to patiently listen to you as you explain ideas may be challenging. Filming a video and putting it out there can make it less challenging. And you can get some constructive feedback from many individuals. Although, I am not sure to what extent Youtube is the right medium for this exercise.
To be fair, its pretty shallow and fluffy... Exactly the kind of 'philosophy' I would expect from the 'life advice' section of my local bookshop, but nothing really intellectually satisfying. The phrasing is great though -- I am always impressed how well this works with gpt3: The choice of words gives the text a certain (simulated) glimmer of profundity.
Could be. I've been an ML researcher for 8 years and I haven't used sci-hub until today. Ironically one of my (very obscure) papers is available there.
Not withstanding his breaks with the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln had a relevant quote: "When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
No offense, but editing mainstream language's code is a pain compared to working with S-expressions. If they manage to get merely to that level of code editing convenience, they can keep their new syntax, I'm gonna stick to S-expressions.

I often see people using VS Code editing code. To me it often looks painful and I have the urge to do the code editing myself in Emacs with all my key bindings and good S-expression support. I have seen people being even much faster than me as well, with extra commands they define for moving S-expressions around and paredit and so on. Maybe VS Code can somehow be configured to offer the same comfort in code editing. I have not seen it done so far.
Airline and hotel partners will NEVER make miles more valuable

I don't think "NEVER" is accurate. It's just very very very very rare.

I looked up awards flights on the airline I have miles with at the beginning of COVID, and it was offering crazy discounts just to get people in seats. North America to Japan for something like 10,000 points and ~$200 in fees.
> Today, the Cole County prosecutor declined to file charges against me over my discovery of a flaw in a public website run by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that exposed thousands of teachers’ sensitive information
I've been using a kind of hacky analog of this for JSON for years, rather than messing around with jq, JMESpath, etc. https://gist.github.com/craigcalef/89799df3f2fc7957d84a1b06a...
If it wasn't clear, I am part of that population that thinks this is all very silly. The point of my rambling was to point out that the solution to NFT/blockchain problems boil down to contracts and lawyers and courts. Things that we already have and can use without NFT/blockchain bullshit.

We have courts and lawyers and contracts. We need to use those to make NFTs work, so why are NFTs valuable again?
Curators and gallery owners absolutely demand this.

"Everything you need to know is already hanging on the wall" is not considered an acceptable response.

The work needs to question, challenge, interrogate, and subvert, and artists definitely need to Be Interested in specific culturally niche things.

Lit crit, curation, the gallery scene, and visual and musical criticism are alternative industries - somewhere between symbiotic and parasitic on the creators who make the art.

You can make a very fine career for yourself by developing a reputation for making outrageous statements about other people's work. Popular music journalism isn't too bad at this, but by the time you get to academia it all gets very rarefied, meta, bullshitty, and (in reality) aggressively careerist.
You can learn new language in short time but standard library and tools not that fast - especially if they dont exist. You will have to google e.g. how to parse Date etc. People enjoy big ecosystem of libraries and tools.

Just to give you example In many ways I prefer Ruby than Python as a language but Python is just swiss army knife and in many cases you are one PIP install away to finding library that solves your problem. Maybe Python doesn't have such a nice web framework as Ruby on Rails but ruby is not much used elsewhere.

I think people complaining about Dart as a chosen language not because of it's features but because

1) you have to learn and/or redevelop new SDK for it,

2) language doesn't have good interrop with any other languages (like Kotlin -> Java, Swift -> Objective-C, TypeScript -> JavaScript, Objective-C -> C++, Rust -> C, C++ -> C)

3) ecosystem is small
Personally? Yes. They brought the thing about. If they did not do their due diligence to endure that outcome eouldn't happen, responsibility, when traced out lay with them.

If you were hoping to trip me up on "how many layers of seperstion until it's not your fault", you got the wrong guy. Unfortunately, I endure maintaining some of the most banal systems imaginable specifically because if I can reasonably forsee an outcome I'm not comfortable being culpable for, I don't work on it.

...You'll slso be surprised how muchoral quandry there is in many systems we take for granted.

It's s curse.
Your error is assuming people care about spending more money. Most people serious about collecting sky miles are spending someone else's money to build up their personal miles balance. And this is precisely what makes skylines so valuable to airlines.
This is what you get when a company is the regulator of a market. I guess government regulation isn't so bad after all.
Deep Breathe – Wim Hof Inspired Guided Breathing
Did Sci-Hub start working again? Last time I checked it wasn't adding new papers because of some legal thing going on in India.
N.K. Jemisin is a currently-active author who is phenomally good at world-building. (Also, resists the urge to show off the world just-because, and instead reveals it organically as the main POV characters interact with it. Highly recommend.)
> Everything beyond intro micro and macro is as pie in the sky as string theory,

That's kind of backward: intro micro and intro macro are the areas of economics most tied to abstract assumptions which are neither grounded in nor consistent with empirical observation (excluding, of course, both work addressing things like hypothetical optimizations and work in overtly ideological rather than empirical approaches to economics, like that of the Austrian school, but neither of those even aspire to describing status quo reality.)
This is at best unhelpful, at worst idiotic advice considering the context:

>> they just ask some questions give some meds and take the money without taking things seriously, sometimes does not even take ten minutes which was my experience. Even in the public hospital they pay less attention to me. There are good doctors who are caring but they are really rare

> None of us here are qualified in Psychiatry and Psychology.

Unless you have a list of all the posters, and their qualifications, you can not make that claim

> Please seek medical attention.

Which is what was already done as explained by the poster.

> Please take care of yourself and seek professional help

The only person who has a lot of skin in the game and perfectly aligned interest when it comes to your health is... yourself.

You can hope to find good and caring professionals, and it may even be a good heuristic to try that as a first line approach, but nobody has the personal and financial incentives to invest in your health as much as yourself - except possibly your spouse and parents.
hacker news is also a horrible place because after a few days it locks you out from answering to responses
Because the cyberpunk values and predictions couldn't have been more wrong.

It didn't even take 25 years to make 1984 look like an improvement in privacy and surveillance compared to what we have now.
Programs that have saved Hacker News 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
Little underappreciated part of Ruby these days is that part of it grew out of Perl, and specifically supports similar kind of scripting for daily tasks. Pretty sure both thsoe specific switches and some of the sigils used in syntax came from this Perl legacy.
Adams himself says "I like to think he's the kind of person who would have an Apple Mac", which suggests an existence for the character that is not strictly confined to the sequence of words published in the books.
How can it be “easily” e2e? The protocol does not allow the sender to synchronously communicate with any host the receiver influences.
You can also make your HTTP/1.1 SSE endpoints available on multiple domains and have the client round-robin them. Obviously adds some complexity, but sometimes it's a tradeoff worth making for example if you're on lossy networks and trying to avoid HTTP/2 head-of-line blocking.
I was fortunate to buy BTC in 2014, so I have the luxury of patience.

For my other holdings I take profits aggressively and don't lose any sleep over missed opportunities. The way I see, it's a coin toss and I'm too lazy to get into technical analysis.

What I've learnt over the years is to ignore the optimism, in the right circumstances pretty much every cryptocurrency trends towards zero. So I'm very cynical about it.
Yes - see https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1492419986291408898
More like terrifying.

The possibilities made available for bad actors to manipulate the masses with this technology is unprecedented and terrible.

I think there needs to be a return to a more siloed, community based, web-of-trust model of communication where there is confidence that the people being interacted with are actually human.

A persuasive, funny, distributed army of commenters that sound like real people that are given prompts by people with the resources to spin up accounts undetected (or allowed via backdoor deals) and mimic the general public is nightmare material. I think a fair bit of that kind of manipulation is already starting to ramp up.

This technology is in my opinion on the same scale of danger as nuclear weapons and needs to be treated as such. It’s insanely dangerous.

I don’t think it can be regulated out of existence, and that also risks concentrating it in the hands of bad actors. I think attempts to regulate it effectively should still be made. But I think the only practical way out of this is some kind of distributed private set of communication networks where people control their own servers, their own online identities, and only connect to people they meet in real life (and then connect to others through networks of relations). I think that’s more realistically accomplishable then it sounds and is desperately needed.
Owning a "TV" is really irrelevant. I know plenty of people that only own a iPhone. Yet they watch hours of Netflix, AppleTV, YouTube on it.

If you don't watch anything on whatever you're using to post your messages to HN then fine but if you do then you're still "watching TV" for all intents and purposes.
James Blunt is always entertaining on twitter. He's one of the few people who manage to turn that toxic turd into gold.
Use web only discord and aggressively disable permissions. This results in less tracking and spying on you
Go’s the tool I’m using to build a side project, so I was really only curious about Go + SQLite vs Go + file system.
Or, someone who was creative and enjoyed creating things, but when one or two of them get a fanbase, it becomes a burden, because fanbases by their obsessive nature want more of the same.
Indentation based optimises for reading and sexpr based optimises for writing/editing.

The syntax here looks isomorphic to sexpr. If so, one could program by reading the | based form, then convert the whole file to sexpr to edit it, then pretty print back to indent form when done. Better if the parens only replace the | and whitespace on the conversion so the cursor doesn't jump.

I'm not sure I like that but it is a somewhat interesting design point.
We are not even close to the performance of ram. The cache can do a read and a write per clock, so should be good for 1 iteration per clock. I think what may have happened is that the compiler did exactly what it was instructed to do, read the value that it just wrote to memory. Figuring that it is safe to just keep the intermediate value in a register is one of those simple things that can be surprisingly difficult to a compiler.
Although the Sun does not revolve around the Earth, without getting too technical, its worth to mention that also neither the Earth does revolve around the Sun...

Just to clarify:

"Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun"
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/technically_th...
> I've still not yet seen…

Why do you think that is?

Perhaps it's because "proper" is ill-defined and very much a matter of individual opinion.
SSE doesn't support binary data. Text only.
Software engineering in startups, scale-ups and enterprises [video]
KMM shows promise for writing the same db/network logic for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. (less so on desktop, but it does work) Realized expectations give you a good way to extend that underlying layer a bit further. But you’re totally right — in the end, you still need to undetstand iOS and Android development, UI in particular, to make it work. It also doesn’t help that KMM is currently a buggy mess, Android Studio has a million issues with it, and the documentation is sparse to nonexistent for completely pedestrian use cases (good luck writing tests for anything). I hope it shapes up soon though.
A Strange, Endangered Ecosystem Hides in Underground Waterways
I only use them for upgrades because I worry that, when overbooked, airlines are more likely to bump people on cheap tickets. I have no idea if this is true.
Indeed. And even though glibc has only recently introduced support for rseq, the rseq system call has been around for a while. Search around, I found tcmalloc (https://google.github.io/tcmalloc/) is an example of software that is using rseq today, without glibc's support. And as far as I can tell, tcmalloc is using rseq both with a 'per-CPU' structure (actually portions of a larger block of memory), and without a requirement to pin processes or threads to a particular CPU.

Their design document (https://google.github.io/tcmalloc/rseq.html) might be of interest to you.
AFAIK its not really working again? I think there was an upload of a bunch of papers in a batch recently, but not ones that I was hoping for. I'm sort of worried about the past-tense language in this page suggesting that it isn't starting back up again.
People claim that the JVM is able to auto-vectorize simple loops:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59725341/java-auto-vecto...

That said, I tried the matrix-multiplication example from section 1.2 on different computers and with different jdk version, but I didn't manage to convince the JVM JIT to emit SIMD instructions. No idea whether the loop is too complex for the JIT or whether there is some secret JVM option that I'm not aware of.
That timeline you linked matched up with the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine timelines. mRNA pre-clinical data had been being researched for over a decade. I don’t see anything that conflicts with what I said. Are you under the mistaken impression that mRNA vaccine research began in 2019?

Again, you’re claiming vaccine guardrails were removed but posting no evidence. Do they do 5-10 year trials on the annual flu vaccine? Please show me an authoritative medical source concerned about major shortcuts taken bringing the mRNA vaccine to market. Should be a piece of cake.
I suppose it's the original "if you're not paying, you're the product". Ads can be an excellent UX for the actual users of the service - the advertisers.
An NFT is a unique pointer, but the pointee doesn't have to be unique. You can have any number of NFTs pointing to the same object, NFTs don't inherently guarantee uniqueness of anything other than themselves. The token is non-fungible, the item the token is "for" can be fungible or non-fungible.
In some cases you might actually be better served sticking with HTTP/1.1 and serving SSE over several domains, to avoid HTTP/2 head-of-line blocking.
> the only thing I don't like about them is that Firefox dev tools make them totally impossible to debug

You can't say that and not say more about it, haha. Please expand on this?

Also, I'm a Fastmail customer and appreciate the nimble UI, thanks!
start a blog or microblog (twitter?) so we can all follow along.
> Am I wrong in thinking that IA (as opposed to autonomous AI) has huge potential today to change the way we interact with and create things?

There is potential, but there's also roadblocks. Just to name a few:

- The cost of training and interacting with these models is ludicrous

- AI is ultimately constrained by it's training data

- Designing models that people can get good results from is hard. It requires intense cherry-picking that's ultimately opinionated, and therefore flawed.

Maybe the "IA" you're looking for it "intelligence automation" rather than "intelligence augmentation". Too often do we forget that AI only understands that which it has already seen; there really is nothing new under the sun.
Because everybody knows GIF means Giraffe Interchange Format!

It was invented by rangers in the Serengeti for keeping track of Giraffes changing between areas. They made graphics illustrating those movements, and the format they used became knows as GIF. That's the secret history of the image format.
It already has devalued 8% (well, 7.5%). There aren't official numbers for what it is doing currently; it's an observation of history, technically speaking. Most economists believe this was the peak and that 2022 will bring significant declines closer to the Fed's target. And if not, the expectation is that the Fed will take action.
Oops, if you did that recently, you probably lost a lot of money.
If you're asking because you want to use LLDB or GDB inside Emacs, the RealGUD project is a good option: https://github.com/realgud/realgud
That battle has been fought already, and the accepted term is "source available", not "open source". (And gnu adds Free or "libre" software, which is software licence in a way that tries to ensure the "four freedoms" for all downstream users of software - such as freedom zero - the right to run software (no need for eg: cryptographic signature/trusted software - without a way for the user to define trust).
I'm imagining a combination of the guy who locked half a million in a smart contract with no way to get it out[1], ever, and the Libertarian Cop copypasta[2], where the crypto police is hired by an NFT marketplace to evict you from your house and set up an armed perimeter to prevent use of the house as it is now stuck in a smart contract with no exit.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-enthusiast-alleged...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7iqxko/libertari...
Please don't call names or cross into personal attack (regardless of who the person is). It's against the site guidelines, and you can make your substantive points without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's easy to forget this is an option because it's so rarely practical nowadays what with all the bitmap graphics and 3D acceleration requirements for even half-decent performance, but Emacs actually still works fairly well over a remoted XWindows connection. There's a bit of startup slowdown, and sometimes when switching back to it from another window it may take a moment to redraw, but most editing usage is surprisingly good. Of course this depends on latency to the target.

This may be as simple as "ssh -X $TARGET" and running "emacs". You'll know fairly quickly whether it's practical or not.
With the exception of hash energy waste you ignore their preexistence in society. Seriously, the people who find the internet the well of all sorrows keep on forgetting history beyond the remmit of their personal nostalgia.

Disturbingly look at netherlands in the 1971-1987 child pornography was outright legal and had Lolita magazine openly existing. Look up Joop Wilhelmus, the infamous proprietor of it. Somehow it remained legal for 55 magazine issues.
It’s like the Pacific Northwest and folks who move based on experiences during a visit anytime from May to August.

It works itself out long term, but being one? Oof. That was a harsh awakening. I never knew moss could grow on a sidewalk before. Before I left, I knew it was amazing you could even see the sidewalk.