skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my personal favorite UUID replacement, when not concerned with external compatibility or standards-compliance: a 96-bit random value, base64-urlsafe encoded to 16 ASCII characters

>>> import secrets
>>> secrets.token_urlsafe(12)
'uUBpBk2eENDslHyw'

with UUID, you can store it as a compact 16 bytes in a database, but it needs 36 characters if you want to embed it in a URL or a JSON payload. and there's a temptation to be "clever" and strip out the hyphens to shave off 4 bytes and create a nonstandard UUID format. by comparison these have one single canonical representation that is always a 16-character URL-safe string.
I didn't write, think, or imply anyone was a saint! Literally nobody used the word in this thread until you!

I responded to you, and you seemed to have two categories:

1) sociopath (Putin, Hussein)

2) not-a-sociopath (Washington, Gandhi, Churchill, Zelenskyy)

That's fine. I am not debating what a sociopath is, we can agree it's some kind of bad thing and if you would like to define it better be my guest.

My point is and was, that you didn't list Stalin, and putting him in either list is...problematic, as they say, when you consider Churchill and the Bengal famine.

Now I am not making any straw man or putting words in your mouth. I am interested in how you fit Stalin into your framework, not in telling you how to.

I'm not pushing the moral equivalence of Stalin and Churchill. Not at all. I'm just saying that there are well known facts that could support the opinion they are similar, and I'm fairly confident there are a lot of people (maybe millions) with that opinion.

That doesn't mean you or I need to accept it, but it does suggest to me that, from a global perspective, it should be considered respectable or at least not shocking.

There is a Wikipedia page on Washington-and-slavery, and while this is a tangent I don't want to discuss here and now, being aware of it makes the question of how to define a sociopath very complex in my mind.
This isn't really a story about AI; it's a story about an incompetent engineer, and the way that humans are quick to assign consciousness and emotions to things. Children believe their dolls are real, people comfort their roombas when there's a storm, and systems keep passing the Turing test because people want to be fooled. Ever since Eliza [1], and probably before, we've ascribed intelligence to machines because we want to, and because 'can feel meaningful to talk to' is not the same as 'thinks'.

It's not a bad trait for humans to have - I'd argue that our ability to find patterns that aren't there is at the core of creativity - but it's something an engineer working on such systems should be aware of and accommodate for. Magicians don't believe their own card tricks are real sorcery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Not everyone is, but when you are a new account obviously doing nothing but making simplistic and inaccurate arguments carrying Putin's water, you are at best a Useful Idiot (in the Vladimir Lenin sense) or a troll/bot.
One of my favorite quotes about this was “Easily the most doomed section of this entire article, even Google Stadia has a messaging service.”
How Facebook Builds Products (2021)
Pisanix – A database mesh project sponsored by sphereex
Even conservative GDP and growth estimates will put PRC in high income within a few years. Official 2021 per capita figures is $100 away, so theoretically reachable at end of year even with stymied covid growth projections. That said middle income trap is overstated to the point that it may not exist, including by OG researcher who coined the term. TLDR is middle income countries with successful industrial structure still generally grows significantly better than developed economies.

As for Rozelle, he does good work. But reality is even with deficient interior education infra, PRC is still massively overproducing talent after massive brain drain. There's record youth unemployment, again some of which is covid driven, but talent oversupply was evident pre-covid. The demographic crisis is going to be difficult to negotiate, but ultimately PRC has too manypeople, specifically undereducated older cohorts that can't be integrated into modern economy. Whatever happens PRC will be better off with 1B people than 1.4B, simply too many mouths to feed. Meanwhile there's plenty of talent to go around to build comprehensive power which more than GDP undergirds national strength. Xi/CCP's vison for "moderately prosperous society" was $10000 per capita, leadership knows PRC has too many people to reach developing country incomes. The current pipe "China dream" is $40000 per capita by 2049 (100 year anniversary) probably not realistic but still a lot of overhead to improve productivity. Likely enough to establish PRC as geopolitical superpower even with at low high income level. At end of the day, a populous country with $20000 GDP and 20 aircraft carriers is still much more powerful than a small country with $100000 GDP and none.
Maybe it’s just because I finished the Hyperion books… but AI spouting off about Koans and writing parables makes a bit wary.

(Rubs where crucifix would go on chest)
I'd argue it's an accessibility concern, not just an annoyance

https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/#distractions-user-story

Userstyle to remove it:

@-moz-document domain("gwei.org") {
body {
background-image: none;
background-color: #333;
}
}

(can be installed with Stylus or similar plugin)
>Whether we are more than computers is almost a religious question (I believe yes, but I can't prove it).

This is actually not true and can logically be shown. We can model atoms with computation. Thus if all matter including the brain is made up of atoms then it can be simulated via a math equation.
Where are these tricks documented?
They absolutely do. See coc.vim which is a compatibility shim that lets you run a huge number of VS Code extensions in vim with minimal modifications. Also see Neovim which is a vim fork that has very good builtin language-server support.
"What a man falls in love with is, more often, the conceit that others love the sound of his voice even more than he loves it himself."

Youtubers.

Especially the ones who spin three minutes of content out to half an hour of blithering.
But honestly, people say crazy and ridiculous shit all the time on the internet - much of it injokes and non-sequiturs.

I doubt I could prove to you that I was sentient on here…
For one, he is still trying to protect the Alaskan wilderness
You're making a hell of a lot of assumptions. There's no evidence of a creator, no evidence the creator is a "He" and no evidence that it is remotely human with human concerns and that it cares about what we do one way or the other, or that it has any involvement after creation. You're projecting a creator that looks and thinks like you with absolutely zero evidence, which is alternatively your own lack of imagination or too much imagination depending on how you slice it. And we can go around and around on this argument, which after 50 years on this planet I can reassure you that I've seen it before. Even if I grant you a Creator (which I don't, we can always assume an infinite multiverse instead or just that cosmology allows for a causeless effect) then there's nothing that falls out of that other than the existence of a Creator. You then wind up with something like Spinoza/Einstein's God or the Prime Mover that agnostics like to consider. There's no evidence of any of it though.
I read this, and couldn’t help but think that the company which avoids performative work will utterly dominate the industry.

The featured article implies that the primary method of advancement in the future will simply be pretending to be interested in bull** presentations at bull** work. That those commanding the BS will prefer those who pretend to be interested in the activity. At no point does customer impact or tangible product matter.
Maybe - or maybe weird viral marketing…

I hate that viral marketing is a possibility.
It's the first result for me on DDG, following the exact link you have.
Concept vehicles are really nothing more than a marketing effort. They don't represent an actual plan to produce any of these vehicles.

Toyota has a single production BEV, which is due to be released "Real Soon Now" in the US, and next year in Australia. But they're only going to make about 7,000 of them[1] this year.

They are still heavily pushing their fuel-cell vehicles, along with FUD about how BEVs will cause the electric grid to melt down if everyone owns a BEV and all plug it in at once.

For example, this Toyota-sponsored video series from Diana Cowern (Physics Girl) is full of FUD and half-truths about BEVs, while neatly side-stepping the reality that all the cheap sources of Hydrogen are from LNG. [2]

[1] https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts/its-best-consider-202...

[2] There's a whole bunch of videos in the series and it's too long for me to go through and pick out individual quotes, but these two videos are IIRC the main ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWAO3vUn7nw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghIckc7nrY
Not sure if this counts, but made games throughout my teenage years. I mean I didn't really make the games, I was more the idea guy who pretended to do stuff.

The old site is still around. We used to set up our groups and post stuff we built there: https://create-games.com/
> At the end of the day, you're taking words, turning them into some numerical encoding, doing a series of matrix multiplications and non-linearities on the numbers and getting some other numbers out, which you can then convert back to words. That's it. There are magic numbers out there (weights to the neural net) that when multiplied by vectorized word embeddings and transformed back to words could convince someone that they're speaking to a human. But that's not sentience. What would even be sentient?

This is interesting, and I think you've reached the right conclusion, but the reasoning is flawed. It has to be flawed, because it can be used to prove that we're not sentient either.

Just create an arbitrarily accurate digital model of a human brain and step through time. Is it sentient? If not, make it more accurate until it is. If it is, where is the sentience? It's just numbers and algorithms, right?

You could argue that sentience just doesn't exist, which may be valid, but if it does, I don't think you can get very far with a reduction-to-parts analysis.
Pellucid is randomly common in 40s-60s scifi.
The Fighter Pilot Podcast also has a good episode with the (then) commander of TOPGUN that compares and contrasts the school to the original film.

https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/episodes/007-topgun-vs-t...

I believe they have some more recent episodes about the new film too, but I'm not currently caught up on the podcast.
How widespread is this fatalistic, unwavering belief in "the event"?
Self inflicted moderate demographics problems to delay a massive one. Without family planning, PRC would be at 1.7B people. Currently at 1.4B more than 600M are, to be blunt, excess people - underedcuated cohorts that subsists in informal economy that can't be integrated into modern consumption economy. PRC would be tackling a much grimmer demographic bomb if it were not for restricting births.
The Manga Guide to Databases

https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Databases-Mana-Takahashi/...
Do really healthy companies often have their stock price fall by half?

Personally, I think that Tesla is not particularly healthy, and that its future is grim as mainstream car manufacturers get in on the EV action. Tesla is not particularly well regarded by Consumer Reports. Of the 16 EV cars with current rankings, Tesla's models are at spots 4, 10, 11, and 16, with low reliability scores. [1]

Tesla does have a big slice of the US EV market, but that's only 3% of the total market. It's perfectly plausible that Tesla's lead among tech enthusiasts, always a small fraction of a market [2], won't translate into mainstream acceptance, and that Tesla will enter a death spiral where their relatively low volumes mean they won't be able to keep up with the major car manufacturers. Their eventual fate could be what happened to so many promising early manufacturers of internal combustion cars: they become brands owned by bigger car companies. [3]

So personally, I think Musk lies did create a window of opportunity for him, but that as with so many liars, he sowed the seeds of Tesla's destruction with the same lies that enabled initial success.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/types/new/hybrids-evs/r...

[2] see the first graph here: https://thinkinsights.net/strategy/crossing-the-chasm/

[3] https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/planes-trains-and-...
Well, it seems not seeing this response in a timely manner has worked out for me as Bryan himself responded already but the joke was that he's often talked about being sidelined by doing journal study and/or obsessing over old manuals and papers. He also gave a paperswelove[0] on two papers in 2016, one of which is actually in the ACM library[1], and was involved with systemswelove[2].

Bryan, if you're reading this, I'm not a stalker. Apparently being accused of making a "submarine post" makes for a thorough reply, from me at least, even never having heard the term before.

[0] https://paperswelove.org/2016/video/bryan-cantrill-jails-and-solaris-zones/
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1052676.1052707
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjVkCfgsLQ4]

incidentally, if anyone knows how to get hn to put my citations on separate lines without indenting do let me know, I tried a few different markdownisms but this was the best I could do.
I was wondering the same thing when I first saw this paper
in Ontario you are not allowed to leave child alone before age 16. I'm sure there are states with similar age limits.

I do not agree with that - but it's the current law, so we can't just leave out early teenagers alone and run to work.

I too was and am a late sleeper and school mornings were torture. Just saying there is indeed a big dependency between work starting times and school starting times - though that can be solved with optional school child care rather than mandatory early classes.
Consider that, as a ballpark average, a commercial pilot gets paid maybe ~$200/hour for their work. Double that if you're feeling generous. Whereas total operating costs for a 737 is somewhere in the $5000-$10000/hour range. That doesn't include airport fees, either.

The cost of pilots next to the cost fuel+maintenance+everything else is...pretty negligible.
Lots of comments saying it's impractical but there are already several companies working on hydrogen (both gas and liquid) powered designs. Airbus/Delta and ZeroAvia/Alaska for example.

https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroAvia
Something like Snowflake ids has many of these advantages while being integers.
This is a pretty interesting toe-dip into basic Ghidra usage / Win32 reverse engineering, also highlights some of Ghidra's pitfalls.
Are you saying that bold lying and criminal negligence were also necessary for SpaceX to succeed? I wasn't aware of that, but I'm happy to take your word for it.
I'm skeptical.

They're claiming they'll be able to store 300kWh of energy on board. That's the equivalent of about 4 Tesla Model Y cars. Even if they could pack this much energy on board, flying that much weight 200km is almost certainly going to take more than 300kWh, especially with 7 passengers.

Lilium is very proud of their ducted fan designs and their power usage profiles -- and they should be! -- but they're counting on advancements in battery tech that are unlikely to happen in the timeframe they need. It's much more likely they will be limited to 100km range or 30-minute flights at a maximum when reserves are factored in.

This says nothing about how fast they can recharge those massive batteries. If they have the equivalent of four Tesla superchargers available they can probably recharge completely in 40 minutes or so, which is probably good enough. But that charging infrastructure needs to be in place at virtually every pad where the plane lands, so the "ordinary helipads" they brag about using are not going to work without roughly a $million of power infrastructure upgrades at each. If they try to go cheap on this, they will have to live with multi-hour recharge times.
I'm not saying a daily walk is impossible. Rather some will find it easier than others. Still, with two working parents and car focused city planning it can be very challenging to do seemingly trivial things.
They can't keep the artificial hype train going forever.
Why America won't go metric
> Marginalized communities that have seen home values skyrocket?

Illiquid property value isn't the same thing as having money, so...yes?

I mean, if you want every neighborhood in every urban area to be tech and finance bros, maybe this is a good idea, but most people would disagree with the premise you're pushing.
Im just taking a wild guess, but here's a summary of a few bad behaviors here that have kept me from posting projects im proud of before...

most of the time someone posts something here, you get:

- this is wrong, they forgot to pump the xyz modulator in line 18

- I dont see why they didnt do it exactly how id do it

- why do this? so and so already did it, and its in rust

- you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

and my favorite:

- this reminds me of this awesome startup xyzmodupump.co, it doesn't really do anything similar to this, but the name is similar, oh and by the way im the CTO full remote bay area free lunabars and dog sitter.
Honestly, it reads like a homage to Ghost in the Shell. I feel like someone is having fun with this. It also makes no sense for it to have emotions.
Single digit millionaire is like straight A student. It's not particularly rare, but it involves a lot of sacrifice and perseverance. I do think the question stands.
The residents in this particular area have been complaining for 30+ years (somewhat loudly) to the Alaskan government that they don't have access to basic commerce. There's no road! Jimmy Carter doesn't want to build a road to meet these people?
6th gen is supposed to be pilotless and that obviates the need for actors.
Past job experience, internships, group projects, certifications, independent projects, GitHub projects, assisting with faculty... Such are things to include on an early resume or curriculum vitae.
> An example: would a developer publish code without knowing what ticket relates to that code?

Yes? I don't track a pretty significant amount of my work via tickets because I'm working on it largely solo and I have a direct line to all stakeholders to update them.

And I am not a technical writer, but I do technical writing, and I find breaking flow to juggle tickets a great way to get me to not do that documentation work because the opportunity cost of the context switch is high.
Unreal Engine. I haven't looked closely at Godot but the fact that it's open source is very interesting to me.

It's hard to beat Unreal's ecosystem of assets and plugins though.
Doesn’t sound too much more likely to me. There are definitely a huge number of typos in the training data.
Google share price $495 -- this is over a decade out of date
> Just create an arbitrarily accurate digital model of a human brain

When you can ""Just"" do that we'll see I guess.
> https://www.science.org/content/article/jaw-dropper-crop-cir...

All parts are based on a circle ("arms" are just incomplete circles). That's a stick in the ground and some string.

Start with the big circle in the middle. Why 6 arms? Because then distance between biggest arm circles is the same as the distance from them to the center circle. Easy to put them evenly around.

I'm sure it still takes some time to make them, but the figure is neither complex nor accurately done. I don't see why a few bored students couldn't do it overnight.
Isn’t the super hornet the more common navy jet anyways? Yes, the navy has a few F35s, but their bread and butter are F18 super hornets.
I'm not sure if it qualifies as useful, but a while back I hacked together a web push notifications site[1] for RPAN live streamers after Reddit ripped away in-site notifications. It didn't gain traction because the admins/mods banned and forbade me from speaking about it, and because I couldn't offer iOS notifications, but ~1,000 people still use it to get ~25,000 notifications every day.

For the first several months, I was getting a message or email every day asking when iOS web push was coming, and the timing couldn't be more perfect that Reddit just effectively shut down their live streaming the same day that Apple finally enabled push.

[1] https://rpan.me/live
Not true. It's called unsupervised learning.
And where is the source?

Just asking for a friend..
He means the ethnic diversity of the country.
Ah, that old silly word game - haven't actually seen it in awhile. The definition is available if you'd care to read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

Science also refers to the theory of gravity, which I would suspect we can agree exists.
This is simply incorrect. The dominant costs are maintenance, followed by fuel.

Even the tiniest and cheapest of trainer airplanes usually break down their cost structure as follows:

engine/maintenance costs: ~$90/hour
fuel costs: ~$60/hour
instructor fee: ~$60/hour

As airframes get larger and engines get more powerful, the cost of maintenance and fuel goes up astonishingly quickly - but it's rare to pay more than $100/hour for instruction. Once you get into turboprop and very small jet aircraft, you're talking one to several thousand dollars an hour in operating costs, which no pilot has ever been paid.
>Maybe we should talk about the horrendous fact that it’s a web app.

I don't need more apps. Unless there's a compelling reason to have one, I'd much rather be able to sit down at any PC and have the same experience. (I do have the app installed on my phone for notifications but I have those turned off on my PCs anyway.)

I don't really need chat apps in general. You can send me an email but Gchat is fine because it's integrated with Gmail.
I would switch to Apple Maps if there was an easy way to use it on Windows. Apple has no supported Maps website, though you can view Apple Maps through DuckDuckGo. But that's clunky and doesn't solve my use case of mapping routes on my desktop computer and then pulling them up in Apple Maps on my iPhone.