skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it wrong to follow the opinion of someone with far more data than you?

In the modern world, the vast majority of people (including me) don't have the mental capacity to examine everything. Whether we're talking about politics, science, art, whatever else. Most of us become narrow specialists who are pretty much incapable of forming a good, defensible opinion or concept for a great number of subjects -- both important and trivial ones.

Granted, I don't know how you'd pick which experts to listen to and believe in a given field. I don't, personally, pick a subject matter expert and decide to believe them on everything. But I actually wish I could do that; there's just no social mechanism for picking those people.
People hate GoT because how quick it went from 100 to 0. I doubt they put more than one day in writing the entire S8, that was a dumpster fire of writing.
Firefox bookmarks (three layers deep) plus Instapaper for random non-technical articles.
Is there a Chrome version of this?
Maybe it's because I just started paying attention recently, but I'm seeing new approaches to the memory safety issue on r/ProgrammingLanguages every other week. Just off the top of my head, Vale looks interesting. But it's clearly under active research, even if it's not super visible
> I want a truly public domain license

I think this sentence contradicts itself.

A "license" implies that there is a copyright holder who allows usage of the work under the terms of said license.

While "Public domain" implies that there is no copyright holder (e.g. because the copyright expired, was explicitly waived, or is for some other reason not applicable).

If you want to put your work in the public domain, you can do so; simply include a note saying that you dedicate it to the public domain.
Finally, someone turned Soylent into a product!

Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
https://people.csail.mit.edu/msbernst/papers/soylent-uist201...
Lots of ways? Better features, better support, better performance.

If you can't beat the free offering, then go home.
This is messed up. Non-tolerant person dose for “stoned” would be like 20-30mg. I take 5 or 10 on a day i need to chill and i can feel it already.
When I was in college I tried weed. It was not a recreation for me, it just put me to sleep, a couple hits and I was out on the couch. So I never got into it.

Fast forward a few decades. I now have chronic insomnia due to things like on-call and anxiety. My brain will not shut down enough for sleep. I had tried Ambien, melatonin, blah, blah. Nothing really worked. I went to a party, they had green brownies. I was on the verge of a migraine, so I had a couple. Out on the couch in half an hour. I woke up without the migraine.

So now I use THC/CBD to deal with migraines and insomnia. I can get a good night's sleep if I take a nice, measured dose gummy just before bed. I wake up slightly before my alarm, alert and refreshed. This is a big change from before. If I feel a migraine coming on I put stuff on hold, take a big dose of CBD and some THC and sleep it off. I wake up without the post-migraine stupids that Imitrex causes.

Used responsibly, in moderation, it can have a life-changing benefit - just like other drugs. If it's abused... well, alcohol abuse will kill you too.
Ah ok, I misunderstood the product. Sounds neat!
As a counterpoint, I don't go to my bookmarks often, but when I do, it's invaluable, and I'd feel lost without them.

Especially with tags, I can quickly find a number of things I find/found interesting just by using one or two tags.

I agree about hoarding media, though. But I still like to have metadata on content I want to watch, and content I've watched and what I thought about it.
Yep, anything useful has to be legal and welcomed. Microsoft should start breaking into people’s houses and sorting their underwear drawers for them while they’re out. Million dollar idea!
Do you know what corners can't be cut in advance though? Sure, you can have a tiny post-seed team bogged down for a month rolling out Hashicorp Vault for everything because "that's how it should be done", or play forever with microservices, or roll out Bazel in a two person team writing Python, don't ship enough, and get out of business. Alternatively, they can be passing an .env file with secrets around, build a monolith, and deploy it with bash/make. It might be tedious or even dangerous at some scale, but which way would leave more time to create real-world value, hopefully somewhat captured and used to pay salaries?

The question of responsibility is a funny one. For every PM jumping ship and leaving developers with tech debt, there are tens of developers bogging businesses down with unnecessary complexity [1] and jumping ship with newly padded CVs. Do you think it's any better? In fact, what do you think is worse for the world?

[1] Too much complexity can kill a business much faster than failing to scale. Loads of unicorns were unstable and failing under load (failwhale!), but that's a problem that comes with customers, which means money, which means it's much easier to resolve than having no money and a beautiful scalable stack.
Your work as a whole may be innovative.

is 'if err != nil {' your original work? Or is it 'commonly accepted knowledge' as a Go programmer?
That's exactly why I'm skeptical of clicking any sourceforge link. I don't understand projects that haven't left.
Heller intentionally made no mention of public carrying of weapons, only private carrying on private property. It also stated that the right to bear arms is not unlimited and that guns and gun ownership would continue to be regulated.

So, no, Heller did not establish a Constitutional right to carry weapons in public.
Tesla launches virtual powerplant that pays Powerwall owners to end brownouts
Revlon Is Getting Memed
Because of the behaviour I detailed in my initial post? Wouldn't apply to ReadMe's though, it doesn't have to be that dumb. At least one other poster agrees with me in the comments too.
That’s an awesome idea. I could also see professors’ creating a Goggle to restrict to sources covered by the syllabus. Similar to your idea but perhaps it’s news sites or open access journals.
Yes, that's correct. We integrate with the major ML frameworks to monitor serving data and compare it to the training data to identify potential error patterns and mine the live stream for data to fix them.
I'd love to show you the product in more details and get your feedback if you're open to it !
Consider the source: Deseret News. It's likely a subject not because of surprise but because it's a shallow exploration of other faiths.
At least where I live in the US (WA) legal weed goods are sold indicating mg of THC and CBD.
No way.

4500 gallons = 600 cubic feet

600 cubic feet of water spread out over a quarter acre is .5 inches.

That's a moderate rain for roughly 45 minutes.

Looks like the avg pressure for a home is 2 gallons per minute. Watering your lawn for an hour would be 120 gallons.

You are wildly off.
It's next to impossible to get the clearance for an Apple Developer Enterprise account unless you know someone at Apple. It's necessary to have an Enterprise account to sign MDM certificates, so I've had an application open for over six months without hearing from them, and the first application was rejected after 10 months without any dialogue.

With this article shining yet more negative light on the program after the Facebook/Google spying-on-the-internet-access-of-kids debacle effectively shut the Enterprise program down, the MDM space will be even harder to innovate in, considering no startup will ever meet the required bar for signing up for an Enterprise account.
Was a stoner from age 15 to 25 (first joint at 12-13), I started smoking less and less at 25 and have recently just totally stopped in my early 30s (I might take a puff here and there once in while socially, but even then). Most of my friends were also stoners, some still are. I cannot stress this enough, if you get high EVERY day or EVERY other day from 15 to 25 it really does something to your motivation in life.

I still struggle with motivational problems (ADHDish issues), but I think I've been lucky. I have friends that will probably never achieve anything meaningful in life and that is despite having had access to the best education available (private schools), parents that were MORE than okay, welp being privileged you know... Now some of them cannot stand normalcy (i.e.: working).

There is a world of difference between starting weed when you're 25 and smoking a little bit VS getting HIGH almost everyday from 13-15 onwards.

When we were young we convinced ourselves that weed was not dangerous at all...fools.

I'm about to be a dad, I'll make sure my kids know what's up.
Well people are being trained to install this due to MDM.
suspiciously around the time period of covid lol
Criminalising the sale just turns what could otherwise be taxed and regulated product (tested for mycotoxins, pesticides, solvents, heavy metals, etc; ++tax revenue) into an unregulated (and thus less safe) and untaxed product sold exclusively in illicit markets.

Again, it's not about wanting to encourage the sale of it, it's that the alternative (criminalisation) causes more harm than good.

To your point, I'm all for having a surgeon general's warning on cannabis products, restricting the sale to age 25+ (when the prefrontal cortex is much closer to finishing development), and other measures that may reduce harm, rather than increasing it.
matomo is something you can self host
CoPilot is a black box at the moment. Microsoft claims they used the public corpus on GitHub. There are plenty of GPL, AGPL, and "source available" projects in the public corpus. So what exactly is the licensing?

The argument may make sense if they limited themselves to public-domain (CC0) works, but that is not what happened here. If CoPilot attributed something to an AGPL project, does it mean the "virality" applies to all projects that use code from CoPilot?
Information wants to be free
Of all the things I've seen in my time writing software I can qualify that some of the most fucked up things involved state machines. The worst of which was a 200 state hand written one in C for an embedded measurement system. There was no documentation, no comments and the states were numbered rather than named. The guy who wrote it originally was "anti RTOS" and had died after riding his motorbike recklessly leaving this shit for everyone to deal with.

It took me two weeks to do a trivial change because I had to reverse engineer a ton of it. And the only debugger I had was a couple of LEDs on the board I could wiggle on and off.
It would also be nice to be able to search through my aggregated browsing history on every device I use.

Maybe I should open a feature request to Google/Fracebook to provide an API hook for that, since they probably already have all that information anyway.
No, I honestly have no idea. I know nothing about the law and understand even less. I may be wrong about all of this, but if we take the (laughable) idea of justice being blind it stands to reason any precedent that protects a single open source developer also protects Amazon's code.
On the flip side, I've built several production apps with AASM or Workflow that made adapting to changing business logic a breeze. If you're given a flow-chart you can translate that 1-1 and when that chart changes it's easy to adjust.

It was also really easy to write tests for.
Groundwater Systems Lie Beneath Antarctic Ice
I'm curious if this view is software specific or relates to any work released online? For example, do you feel similarly about a novelist or graphic artist? I reckon at least a few software engineers look at what they produce not entirely differently from how an artist or writer looks at theirs.
It's certainly a powerful step in the right direction though. Modulating your self identity really is a strong way to start breaking down bad habits or starting good habits consistently. Besides my own experience, I think there was a thread here a while back about "getting in character" to achieve unusual results
Applications of that collision:

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/834770508633694208 > a SHA-1 "Pinata" [...] claimed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723892 > Make your own colliding PDFs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917990 > Collision Detection
SourceHut: https://sr.ht/

Very fast and lightweight, doesn't require JavaScript, uses e-mail instead of non-standard communication methods and has many useful features.
People also forget about Gitolite, which provides lightweight shared access control around Git+SSH+server-repos. For me it's a much simpler alternative than systems with a heavyweight web UI. Although to be honest I don't know whether Gitolite handles SHA256 hashes (I've never tested it).

https://gitolite.com

https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
Artificial Photosynthesis Without Sunlight
Wait, but we do have the tools...

We can (and do) cure so many cancers. Usually with surgery, +/- chemo/radiation. Sometimes just radiation.

It's hard to overstate how curable most cancers are at early stage -- for some it's well over 90% and approaching 100%.

The whole point of these screening tests is to try to find more cancers at more curable stages.
It appears the indexing for the model parts is deliberately not contiguous; the 03-82 range represents the main 80 transformer layers. https://github.com/yandex/YaLM-100B/blob/main/megatron_lm/me...
Weed is a tool. it makes you high. that's about it as far as generalizations go.

if weed makes someone feel fulfilled, then they can farm a lot more feelings of fulfillment by using it than the old fashioned way of actually accomplishing things. I think trying to shame people away from it is silly. People who use it will very quickly realize it isnt bad, and then they dismiss everything they heard about it.

There is a monkey paw warning in that it wears off. It wears off in short and long terms; it is less effective the more you use it over time. So be aware that the spectrum for its effects is along the lines of "kind of cool for a little bit" to "everything you love slowly being ripped from your hands". the latter extreme probably being pretty rare and more applicable to heroin.

Otherwise you could make the same 'danger' argument about video games, porn, social media, reading books, painting, co-dependent relationships, etc. Anything that people use to dump their attention / time into rather than deal with anything uncomfortable in their life. The vessels people use are a matter of preference, and tangential to the underlying problem.

There is always an issue with trying to use 1 tool to fix every problem. obsession. Weed usage requires nuance and an understanding of what it is you are trying to accomplish with it. same as any other drug, same as any other tool.

Honestly, if someone wants to do nothing with their life than smoke weed.. who cares? I certainly dont. They might be one of the last people I offer any sort of charity to, but that's about me not them.
Might be wrong, but doesn’t appear he was not doxxed — but that he knew the risks, publicly identified himself via his profile, his edits were traceable to him, etc.
This package was designed to solve more problems than it creates

https://github.com/paulhoule/gastrodon

Overall I think of graph visualization as a problem, in particularly there are some people who just don't see that hairballs are incomprehensible

https://cambridge-intelligence.com/how-to-fix-hairballs/
Also try a multi day hike through the wilderness to reset your circadian rhythm. This combines heavy levels of exercise, no phone access, and you wake up/sleep with sunrise/sunset.

To maintain your circadian rhythm during normal times, try to wake up and go to sleep at the same time every day and eat only during three meals per day at the same time each day, avoid caffeine later in the day and also follow the advice of others here. Keep the room you are going to sleep in very dark and quiet. Don't go to bed until you are ready to fall asleep - don't use tv/phone/computer in bed.
That's just a logic error, and not memory unsafety which might risk UB or vulnerabilities. The type system enforces that if we use-after-"free" (remember, we're not free'ing or malloc'ing), we just get a different instance of the same type, which is memory-safe.

You do bring up a valid broader concern. Ironically, this is a reason that GC'd systems can sometimes be better for privacy than Ada or Rust which uses a lot more Vec+indexes. An index into a Vec<UserAccount> is riskier than a Java List<UserAccount>; a Java reference can never suddenly point to another user account like an index could.

But that aside, we're talking about memory safety, array-centric approaches in Zig and Rust can be appropriate for a lot of use cases.
Is there ANY good direction or potential use case for Web3 and smart contracts?
I’ve been really happy with “Save as PDF” into my Dropbox folder. If you use Safari’s reader mode before you save it’s especially nice and the files are small. Works great with spotlight search and accessible on mobile.
I’ve started using History Book on iOS/macOS, runs as an extension in safari and can automatically save a copy of every page for easy searching later
Really interested in your experience with this.

What would you say it is about TypeScript that makes the code harder to read as it becomes more complex? Just the additional type annotation syntax, extra concepts like generics and/or the accompanying more exotic features of TS, the type definitions physically adding many lines of extra code, something about TypeScript that encourages code to be written in a certain way that is different and more complex?
The whole concept of 'oceanic-atmospheric oscillations' is one where the climate data community went off the rails a bit. In general climate models + observational data demonstrate convincingly that fossil-fuel-sourced CO2 and CH4 are steadily warming the planet at a rate best measured in decades - but the various 'oscillations' that were extracted from climate data aren't anywhere near as robust.

The heart of the problem is that the Fourier approach to time series analysis - which has worked extremely well is the astronomical domain, where the underlying physical model (planetary orbits) is definitely periodic, runs into problems when you apply it to data that has a more turbulent or chaotic character. Messing with the parameters can extract apparently periodic phenomena from large datasets that are really little more than artifacts.

Many of the supposed discoveries of periodic oscillations in the North Atlantic and the Pacific simply don't hold up over time, and as with ENSO, have zero predictive power over what phase/amplitude of the next 'period of the oscillation' will be. These phenomena are likely mostly chaotic in nature, not i.e. not subject to long-term predictability (unlike, say, the tides are) and should really be called 'fluctuations' instead of 'oscillations'.
It's more complicated than that. If the most recent signatures are entirely based on SHA-256, and you trust those signatures sufficiently, then they act as protection for all ancestor commits. In that case a SHA1-based signature on an older commit isn't a big deal.
And they can back-out/revert if they decide to as well
Zig would be if they wanted "C and generics and compile time evaluation", but maybe that does not seem compelling enough to the kernel.
Twice in Minnesota a black with a legal firearm was murdered by police with no consequences for the police. The right to a firearm is not, in practice or in law, at all similar to the right of free speech. The government, with impunity, murders legally armed people. It’s not really a right when people of the wrong race or creed get killed for being armed.

Gun control will quickly occur once black men arm themselves and the courts will concur. Similar to how religious freedom arguments get ignored when the Satanic Church makes them.
To me, a life that is in content and has meaning trumps all those whatever higher trajectory means. I mean.. isn’t achieving those higher trajectories the goal of being content and having achieve the meaning if it exits at all?
I feel like this has been known forever in the fitness industry / community.

They've been saying for so long that

1. Sleeping more means less eating (both because you're asleep, duh, and because ghrelin is reduced)

2. Sleeping more means weight loss is higher % from body fat (not lean mass)

3. Sleep is important for recovery for training and then you can exercise again sooner

For me I have a guideline that Sleep > Nutrition > Exercise > <bucket for all the other things, eg supplements> -- such that I will sacrifice the lesser thing if it means I do better with the greater thing.

If I have to choose between getting at least 7 hours sleep or exercise, I sleep. (Ideally getting 8-9hrs sleep for my body)

If I have to choose between having satiating, low calorie - high nutrition foods in the house, and exercising, I go grocery shopping or get chopping.
I attempted this on a VM inside a Linux host and got a lower privileged user from inside the guest VM to ssh to a root-privileged user outside on the host.
Both were authenticated to Tailscale with the same gmail account, so from an OAuth perspective, this is valid.
From the OS perspective though, the host SSH port is blocked, and a guest should never get full root access to the host or see the host's resources.

I am not sure if I am confused about something, or maybe there are prod use-cases where the same IDP identity should have different roles/privileges depending on the machine, and Tailscale SSH breaks that?
Presenteeism Wins Out over Productivity
What is the rubber pointy thing? Where do you find one?
You're right that Chromium* is a very difficult task, but I disagree with the conclusion you draw. I think Chromium is one of the best examples we can consider.

There would absolutely be issues, including security issues. But there is also very good evidence that the issues that are most exploited in browsers and operating systems relate to memory safety. Alex Gaynor's piece that the author linked is good on this point.

While securing Chromium is huge and a difficult task, it and consumer operating systems are crucial for individual security. Until browsers and consumer operating systems are secure, individuals ranging from persecuted political dissidents to Jeff Bezos won't be secure.

* Actually not sure why I said Chromium rather than Chrome. Nothing hangs on the distinction, afaict.
Is it not a wee bit short-sighted to label everything car-centric undertaken in the 50s and 60s 'dumb' when the planners and engineers of the day were learning just as they are today?
Things I do every time I start a Django project
Many BBSes were on FidoNET which had email and forums between BBSes.
For those who don’t click through to the other thread, I’d say that solar weather contributed, but the root cause was more an overzealous safe mode induced by the operations team that didn’t leave time to recover. A better operations plan would’ve shortened the safe mode duration to ensure that they attempted to raise their orbit even if it meant deploying during the solar event. Letting safe mode destroy the satellite to mitigate a probabilistic risk is just bad planning. Take the chance and deploy anyways and hope you get lucky.
I've also had good experience with Behind The Overlay

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behind-the-overlay...
I co-founded a company called Heap that competed against Google Analytics and we were quite successful. Amplitude, Mixpanel, and others have also done so. GA’s free pricing was not really a big issue for us and customers were very willing to pay 6- and 7-figures for a differentiated quality product.