skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations

> “Some of the insects most affected include bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, dragonflies and damselflies.”

Great. It’s gonna be nothing but roaches, mosquitos, and ants eventually.
Yes. Put concisely: Use the client tools from the newest version involved for all steps.
SQLite bucks the trend of modern software by becoming faster and better over time rather than slower and worse like pretty much everything else.
I think there's a "bug" (a bad heuristic?) in the A* code, since it produces easy suboptimal "solutions".

https://emil.fi/m/astarsuboptimal.png
What happened is that the apocalypse did happen, is still happening, and will continue to happen until such time as people quit using tons of pesticides.

Worse is that warmer air usually means more oxygen is available which should make insect and arachnid populations explode, and should result in physically larger insects and arachnids. That we do not see this speaks to the health of these populations.
How to self host your own domain name
Friends at first sniff: People drawn to others who smell like them
LinkedIn has always been a mess. It's a weird mix of absolute narcissists who all spend time trying to make inspirational posts and teaching forced life lessons, and people desperate for attention seeking a bigger network than FB probably is for. After all, adding some rando is probably taboo on FB, but more acceptable on LinkedIn.

Talking about the posters, of course. Most people I know with LinkedIn just use it as an online resume for recruiters, and that actually works OK. Unsure why they added a social element at all, to be honest.
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ZH is a great example of the asymmetric warfare of fighting bullshit. They report a mix of truth, distorted interpretations and wholly made up nonsense simultaneously. It costs them almost nothing to generate this trash, and efforts to inspect it would be stymied by the level of effort in tracking citations (if they exist, which is almost never) or even just reporting on whether some predicted topic occurred. Another problem is that many of the predictions are premised on a non-reality that in and of itself makes addressing the content difficult.

disclaimer: I love reading ZH and have for at least a decade because it is entertaining in a gross way. They are basically consistently wrong but like crypto people, everything is positive signs that they are right.
Posting here since I think we went too deep on the other

> Do you think a partisan abortion law would have solved anything?

I never said “partisan”, I said bi-partisan and yes I do. Polling within the electorate showed support across parties for first trimester access.
The few times I was involved in “we should ask legal” situations and it wasn’t the most obvious yes… I just checked out after that as some legal drone always came back with some “no” and sometimes some really wonky situations they made up that frankly read more like some random internet legal expert rather than someone with training.
Naw, merge is orthogonal to cleaning up local history. Merging a mess is still a mess. Some people are fairly clean from the start, and some aren’t. And it depends on the task at hand, messes are easier to make when you’re doing more than one thing at a time.
> If anyone care to actually learn how git works when rebasing, then it becomes much simpler.

That's a very arbitrarily vague answer. It's very easy to hand-wave the misuse of a tool just by saying "you don't know it well enough". It's much harder to admit that maybe the tool is just difficult to use in the first place.
I guess when I have a spare moment with only my phone available, I am wrong to visit Hacker News?
You are not missing anything but recruiter spam.
Isn’t the point of MIT that the code can be reused in whatever way and for whatever purpose they please?

(As long as the copyright notice is retained of course, which in this case isn’t.)

I’ve begun leaning heavily toward GPL for this reason.
These days shorter fiction is almost always published as part of a collection, unless you are selling on line or self publishing in print.
Profanity is kind of a big deal by definition though. What else makes a word profane other than the fact that it’s a bigger deal to say it than the other words?
I like OCaml and I like F#. The choice between them is really "do you like .NET?"

As a Java programmer I've been amused at how ideas have diffused slowly from ML to Java such as the hotspot compiler & generational runtime (Sun hired somebody who did an academic project for a high-performance ML-famly runtime) as well as pattern matching, sealed classes, records, etc.
Also from the same website

Many statisticians believe the reason the CRPC study's results seem so counterintuitive is that they are incorrect. One of the more detailed analyses appeared on the fact-checking website snopes.com and concluded that the CRPC report used “inappropriate statistical methods” which led to misleading results.
The keyword you're looking for is "instrumental convergence" (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/instrumental-convergence). It's not an intuition or obviousness based argument; there's significant prior work, if someone calls it obvious and skips over the argument they're being lazy by not providing links but the links do exist.

The expert-system/GOFAI people are mostly not the same people.
I love the form factor and input for reading fiction. Probably 90% of my phone screen time is that, which adds up to a significant time each week.
A snippet by definition is not a substantial portion.
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Still happening, it’s just now maintaining bee colonies and taking them on the road to pollinate is now an industry.
Buying anything on a credit plan is dangerous; I don't think many of the same consumer protection laws apply and there's a contract governing the whole process that probably eliminates the ability to do chargebacks or other standard remediations (it looks like it requires binding arbitration), and may have included clauses that allow refurbished parts to be delivered instead of brand new (Dell Outlet seems to be where refurbished things are sold, but it's not clear from the generic credit agreement I could find whether it was specific to new or used/refurbished parts).
This is where something like Wikidata (or another triplestore) would work well.

Wikidata's benefit is that it's public and verifiable without special software.

All the complex cases in the article can be captured (though Wikidata has, at best, a shaky set of schemas for how any given data is represented).
> they're canaries for a giant distributed network of annoying obsessive compulsive libertarians who will start squawking to high holy hell if they see issues on their nodes

OK that's both hilarious and true. It's one of the most critical components of the security of the network..
Once downloaded a copy of Hound of the Baskervilles, broken into chapters as separate files. Each chapter was almost exactly the same length, within a few hundred characters, showing that it had been serialized first and chapters were sized for publication.
The problem in your example is crime, not walkability.
Also seems to produce suboptimal solutions with Dijkstra's algorithm, which shouldn't be the case, right?

https://emil.fi/m/dijkstrasuboptimal.png
I guess I don't think of things that should work, when those things seem to be defeated so often. There are skills that apply to all websites, but there are skills that I may have tried when I got my first iPhone, but which I have forgotten because they are not universal.
It is important to measure results generationally. Typical VC time scales have far too short of a window to demonstrate a return. How does one quantify preparing the next generation?
I don't know, I'm afraid I don't live somewhere that can see them.
It's the source they're giving for the number, and there's nothing there that indicates it's valid. From every other source unrelated to that one, the UK's numbers have never been as high as they're claiming. Therefore, it's gibberish.
Would that not be freedom of disassociation?
Yeah, I’m not necessarily saying anything in particular is better. I just wish OSS creators would be a little more thoughtful with design before building empires on something.
Unfortunately without sandboxing, these sorts of tools just add an extra layer of maintenance to your system for a false sense of security [1, 2].

This can actually be harmful for less experienced Linux users who may trust something like this to keep them safe for running random scripts, especially since I see this tool often recommended for such a use case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22208223

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254679
> But it sounds like they should advise to mutex-protect all operations that can change the schema then, not just calls to that particular function.

No?

Do note the problem condition:

> Applications that are accessing the same database connection simultaneously on multiple threads

So the issue is likely the value returned by the function is borrowed from a per-connection datastructure (a mapping of some sort). The consequence is obvious when said connection is shared between threads, while the schema update is thread-safe, retaining data owned by the connection is not.

And do note that connection thread-safety is already shaky: while sqlite compiles with thread-safety enabled by default, lots of functions from the C API can return utter nonsense for shared connections e.g.

> If a separate thread performs a new INSERT on the same database connection while the sqlite3_last_insert_rowid() function is running and thus changes the last insert rowid, then the value returned by sqlite3_last_insert_rowid() is unpredictable and might not equal either the old or the new last insert rowid.

One of the reasons why the addition of RETURNING was a great boon.

Personally, I'd strongly recommend not sharing sqlite connections between threads anyway for those reasons.

Either create one connection per thread, or use a pool to move connections between threads as needed. And downgrade thread safety to SQLITE_CONFIG_MULTITHREAD if you have the opportunity.
People that have billions of dollars can always break in. And the first adopters also happen to have billions of dollars. So oligarchy seems fitting.
I hear you and have been in your shoes. Hiring is hard, and the steps to hire people ethically are pretty nebulous, which makes it much harder. Especially when the outcome would be the same in many cases, it does seem awfully impractical.

But that's the problem with bias in general, though— It's always a matter of practicality. It's been some time since most discrimination deliberately stymied people with a background or makeup the dominant culture considered objectionable. These days it hides in the subconscious mechanisms governing the purportedly rational generalizations we rely on when lacking time and resources to properly investigate something.

I don't think it's anybody's fault— it's a bug in our brains and we can't control that. I do think we're ethically obligated to push back when practical requirements compel us to make those generalizations. If we expect police to do it when someone may or may not be pulling a gun out of their pocket, we should certainly expect ourselves to do it when we've got a queue of resumes to process.
Italy declares Google Analytics illegal
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I think there's been significant recent pushback on that trend, with more widespread recognition that skilled trades, vocational school, and non-college routes don't automatically imply second-class status (particularly considering the high costs and debt college grads get saddled with).

However, as far as 'elite colleges', there is this unhealthy trend towards a more 19th-century British posh/prole divide in the educational system, but that's been going on for some time. That's not about quality of education so much as elite networking schemes and the creation of an American aristocracy.
Copilot: it is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/pep/inde...

The suggestion is to never separate a subject from a verb or a verb from its object
Which frog will you eat?
There is a prevailing contempt these days for less intelligent and less educated people, that is very unseemly and disheartening.
CoPilot using code to train a model doesn’t violate any software licenses.
The reason its not effective is because most of the money doesn't actually do anything, that's literally what profit is

Profiteering leeches resources from a system to benefit a small number of people at the expense of the rest of the healthcare system

In my opinion, please excuse my language, but it's fucking insane
Boards games and card games are great too.
This is likely due to amazons version of copilot offering this feature.
> I think what is really going to be interesting in when someone finally does this trick for music

Already done, although I don't think an actual lawsuit has been filed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sfXn_ecH5Rw
Is this in response to the wrong comment? I'm giving an example of the opposite of what you're saying.
This blog post is inspired by Richard Feynman's commencement address, Cargo Cult Science: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cargo+cult+science

My efforts to extract my friend from her self-fulfilling misdiagnosis have reached the Supreme Court. The questions of my current petition are about who may perpetrate fraud on the United States Court, but I tried to make it about 'Medical Freedom' [0]. If any of you care about medical freedom, amicus curiae briefs would be very helpful.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31863786

I suppose it's not nice to call the conventional mental health system a cargo cult. But I've been trying to extract my friend from their system for 6.5 years, and have made no progress helping the medical professionals realize their forced prescriptions are the cause behind my friend's 'mental deterioration'.

Do any of you have any insights into why this particular branch of pseudo-medicine is so resistant to reform? It's been 20 years since Whitaker published Mad in America, and the mentally ill are still being pharmacologically abused. "Mental Health" problems are mostly solved [1], but the solutions are not implemented and the abuse continues.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993405

The Soviet Union sometimes sent their dissidents to their system of Gulags [2] (forced labor camps). Sometimes these dissidents would feign a 'mental disorder' to get themselves transferred from their gulag to a psycho prison. In the later Soviet period doctors at the psycho prison would treat their 'patients' with the anti-psychotic drug haloperidol. Robert Whitaker said the important thing about this historical fact was how American Psychiatrists, and others, called the Soviets' use of haloperidol 'torture' [3].

American doctors use haloperidol not for its agony-inducing effects, but as a tranquilizer for geriatrics, prisoners, and psychotics. Our doctors wouldn't do this if they realized they have much better options to treat the metabolic causes of their patients' symptoms.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17758723

My previous petition told the Justices about the Tragedy of Curtis Bagley [4], who was deteriorated by Arizona's criminal justice system. I don't know if Bagley was tortured with haloperidol, but I think it likely. My friend was injected with haloperidol at her January 2022 'stabilization'.

[4] https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1509632668169748481

Some of you like your psychiatric pills. The occasional benefit of SSRIs is entirely due to the increase in allopregnanolone [5], not the artificial boosting of serotonin. Many kinds of brain damage cause the brain to boost production of allopregnanolone. It's better to not induce brain damage when all a person really needs is a supplement. The MAOIs are relatively safe anti-depressants, and are reasonably effective for short-term use [6].

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859433

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439470

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Was LinkedIn ever something worth talking about?

Agree? Thoughts? Comment for reach!
Yes, indeed. I could tell a great story, but just doing that would itself violate a No some lawyer gave me.
which phone did you get? Do you tether the ipad to it when out and about?
The tl;dr doesn't quite make sense to me. To me the core difference is that a Box<str> takes one less word on the stack, because by virtue of the str being immutable it doesn't need to track the capacity of the allocation as distinct from the length. This is analogous to Box<[u8]> vs Vec<u8> (and in fact those are the same data types except for the guarantee of valid UTF-8).
> I still wonder why people think it's smarter to introduce seventeen layers of abstractions for things that have one or at most two implementations

Tell me you are a Java dev without telling me you are a Java dev. :)

(While I know it's not just Java with this problem, my personal experience is that Java is the worst.)
Looks great. Basic question, how are you able to verify the data that Bloomberg Terminal provides is what you offer without breaking the bank?

I am making a guess here because the data they provide to their customer validates their price tag. What is that 10% that Bloomberg is able to charge their customer the premium price tag?
The European network is not generally set up to handle these long freight trains, because passenger trains are prioritized and the long freights screw that up (see: Amtrak)
160 pitches for 1.5M - in how many checks total?

Did you decide you wanted the 1.5 before starting the pitches?
Still boggles my mind reading things like this- so cool to hear origin stories from the horse's mouth, so to speak. But if he hadn't been nice what would have happened?

I'm sad to imagine the future we are headed towards where only new technologies are worked on, just to get the patents and sit on them, while everything pre-existing is deprecated and abandoned. Microsoft's embrace extend extinguish works eerily well.

Do you think we are headed in a better direction now? Or is it simply different?

I remember working with ATT in the late 90's when it was ATT broadband. They were still using green screen computer terminal windows for everything and were trying to get a GUI off the ground. Everything was alt and tab to switch windows etc, no mouse support! Into the mid 2000's! This was done by getting regular employees to try and cobble something together. The miraculous thing was that they pulled it off. Just took them a few years longer than it should have. ATT 'corporate' was known for being every bit the tv trope of a big business back then.

I remember seeing early builds and laughing it was so bad. ATT in particular was very much stuck in its ways as a corporation and was not inclined to change even the most broken of things.

When it finally rolled out it was such a mess. All the IT people could do was wince. Everyone but the people who mattered saw it coming. They hired some firm to re-do it all. That happened who knows how many times within just a few years after that. Went from refusing to update to doing it constantly and always breaking things.

I must say it was pretty insane watching $12k long distance bills from calls to, for instance India, get re-rated to several dollars.

Wondered how accurate the accounting could possibly be with so many inaccurate and fungible dollar amounts floating around.

Edit to add- years later I was working as an HVAC service technician and had to do some work at cell phone towers, server locations (wasn't really server farms back then), and phone agent locations for all cell phone carriers in Albuquerque, NM.

It felt surreal to see bow fast and far the companies had gotten in only a few short years. Companies (especially ATT) that couldn't figure out basic things about computers were at the cutting edge of like all the technology they used. ACs were top of the line Lieberts, they had all proprietary software on everything. The super remote cell phone towers had AC, power, storage, and communications redundancy. Their security had been beefed up to top tier. Contractors all needed top tier security clearance now.

I don't know if it was the Kevin Mitnick generation of phone phreaks, hackers, and social engineering, or the world in general, or a change in CEO but it was kind of like watching the titanic become some super-advanced space-faring time-warping ship.

That had kinda given me hope that- damn, maybe we can enter the new age jumping in with both feet. As a kid it felt like progress had been so slow!
This is precisely why I haven’t purchased a smartwatch. These devices decrease our ability to solve problems that require analysis for extended periods of time.
Same here on our tiny farm. I don't need any more hobbies, but I often entertain keeping bees. But I also have a bias towards native plants and native insects. So I cultivate lots of flowering plants, and leave areas wild, but have never done anything with honeybees.

I kinda wish there was a native Northeastern American bee that had some of the utility of honeybees for sugar and/or wax production.

TIL that bumblebees actually have a history of domestication but that international movement of bees led to serious health issues and transmission of pests that decimated both wild and domestic populations: https://www.sare.org/publications/managing-alternative-polli...
I always wondered what the secret sauce is that Bloomberg has that’s so sticky, aside from force of habit and hesitance to change.
And depth first seems to behave, strangely.

https://emil.fi/m/depthsuboptimal.png
Same here. I don't understand why someone would willingly use a 6" screen when they have a glorious 24" and actual input devices available.