skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, on imposter syndrome, I've often thought of myself as having this, but, the comfort that thought gives me makes me wonder if I'm not just seeking validation and trying to put myself up there with those brilliant people who supposedly had it too..

Sanity check: have you done something you got praised for and later thought you weren't worth that praise? That is the core of impostor syndrome, if you haven't experienced it then you don't have impostor syndrome. When a brilliant person has impostor syndrome its because others thinks the brilliant person is brilliant, but the brilliant person doesn't see himself as brilliant. But if you fail the first step meaning others don't see you as brilliant, then you can't have impostor syndrome since the syndrome means you don't think you deserve the praise you are getting.
What the hell is a system that is 1 out of 9 partial crypto key signers for huge amounts of money doing with even a GUI or a PDF reader on it in the first place. Sounds like people using their personal workstation.
Too Javaish for my taste.
Aside from it evidently not working there is, it seems to me, a logical problem at the root - if your friend's x was going to leak all the documents on the internet and it was readable by people and not crawlers people would still read it, probably transcribe it if your friend was important enough to worry about this kind of thing, and then put the transcribed documents online.

It seems more likely that if you wanted to pass around documents with hidden content you would do so via the time honored methods of steganography and not anything else.
If we get a few more comments like that we should seriously think about renaming to sysforce or something
I had the same experience in university. It felt like the workload got in the way of learning the stuff I was here to learn. I had no time to be curious.
This is a good idea. Im not a parent but volunteer as a Big Brother for a 10 y/o. Keeping important docs/covid vax card/photos etc in one place for easy retrieval is a win. Hopefully it works well..
Thanks, incredibly valuable advice.

I do have some experience with a P520 (Xeon), but that had a blower-style card and not really problems with the thermal load.

Cool to hear that you can do something to help with airflow!
There are probably thousands or tens of thousands of moderators on reddit. Obviously it's not 3.4mm per moderator.
This is most unfortunate but in proper district heating systems the scalding hot district circulation water never touches your house's heating / warm water. A heat exchanger is employed to insulate the different circulation systems. For example, my house has district heating and the warm water side is capped at +65C to protect against burns.

It's still pretty damn hot of course but I've never had any problems like you described, and I've lived in a dozen different houses in my city - all with district heating. Probably the system in the dormitory was somehow badly designed or incorrectly tuned.
The difference is the conspicuity. One is private and discreet behavior (as long as they don’t brag about it), the other flamboyant and gaudy.
It's just a big piece of copper with decent thermal mass, not heatpipe.
You're talking about a ground source heat pump though? Which is distinct from geothermal.
It really shouldn't stop from regulating temperature. It is basically two heat exchangers. One for local central heating which is then controlled by what ever thermostats you have connected and one for hot water...

Ofc, it the thermostats used are bad there might be problems.
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition
With stock though there's a company associated with the stock that (theoretically) brings in profits. Predicted future profits drive the stock price.
maybe stupid question, but wasn't apple a part of prism (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...)

are these US companies not legally obligated through some clandestine patriot act style laws to enable backdoors - and to deny the existence of these at any cost.
Source? All I see say RO does remove fluoride, like https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA0110001 at the bottom.
Detour - The README says that the frontend of Barfi (Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barfi ) is made using BaklavaJS. This is so adorable!
I used to have MTV playing on the TV in my office when working, but I've now found clubbingtv.com which is essentially 24-7 DJs playing sets in clubs and various venues.

It's just a shame they don't play more acid trance.
Traditionally when using combustion plants the great advantage in nordic countries comes from CHP (combined heat and power), you can extract much more energy from the fuel this way vs having separate electricity and heat plants. But yep great insulation in the network is a requirement.
My go to choices:

- doom 1 and 2 soundtracks and their remakes
- quake sountrack
- second reality demo sountrack
- rush (2012)
- sometimes, but only when i have something easy and fun, rammstein

Yeah, I think those may be weird choices but they work well for me.
Haha, I’m a glutton for punishment. The worse it gets the more I want it.
I'm from Germany and just recently got a preventative coloscopie.

I'm not 50 years old yet, so I had to pay for it myself. A magical experience, since it's the first time I ever saw a medical bill in my life.

It was two pages long. Everything from taking blood to the medication and doctor was listed there, but the price at the end was only 200€. I thought it was a joke and expected a lot more.
I think they had their own platform and airbnb was just a channel for them. But yeah, it's not accurate.
You can play spotify podcasts offline and on all kinds of devices I feel like.
The evidence is not admissible. It is considered 'fruit of the poisoned tree'.
Parallel construction only works if you can hide the illegal investigation from the court.
That's a good question. I think that you're supposed to "develop" those strategies on your own as you attempt to resolve a problem, but i don't think that it works as well as everyone expects it to because when you're young you're always going to have something more interesting to do than some task that is associated with school (skewl sux1!!), meaning that instead of getting any meaningful result, you are going to attempt to accomplish the task as quickly as possible, so you can do what you want.

The dilemma of the school system is: if you try to go by the book, provide as much knowledge as possible in the shortest amounts of time – you're going to have to resort to lots and lots of homework. That isn't going to be welcomed by many (because Billy read on the Internet that skewl is ackshually made so ur gonna work at like...uhhh factory and...and...uhhh...homework SUCKS). You could also abolish all the homework, resort to gamification, teach solely the basics (and don't forget da taxes (and who cares if taxation differs by the state/industry)) but at that point what would the point of school be then?
The parents should sue themselves. Go after the negligent enablers charged with the safety of their kids.
Impostor syndrome is when you don't feel you deserve the praise people give you, so the more praise you get the easier it is to feel impostor syndrome. So it isn't strange at all that successful people who gets a lot of praise feel a lot of impostor syndrome.

What is strange however are all the people who thinks they have impostor syndrome even though nobody thinks they have done anything great at all. They don't see themselves as impostors, they just see themselves as nobodies and feel bad about that.
I'm curious how much work it takes to prepare training data for a language. From anecdotal experience, I've always been able to learn some basic survival skills in a new language by studying the translations of about 20 key phrases for a week or so, which give me the ability to combine them into a few hundred different phrases and survive most daily transactions. So I always imagine that training a language model is similar, just on a much larger scale. It seemed to me that there could be a standard text that includes a lot of important topics and contexts, which just needs to be manually translated into a target language and then fed to the model. I imagine it being about the size of a large book, so I imagine that adding a new language to a model would cost a similar amount to paying to have a book translated. Obviously the size of the input text would have an effect on how good the model's translations are, and domain specific translations would require more specific input. While having a full translation of an entire library seems like a good way to train a model that's used to translate everything, it seems like a small percentage of the library would be enough to produce native-level translations for most domains.

How far off are my intuitions on this? What are the costs of adding a new language to a model like this? Is there a ballpark dollar amount per language?
I believe Costco will cancel (and refund) a membership at their own discretion. I’ve read stories online that they have cancelled memberships for clearly exploiting return policies, as well as other things like grossly mistreating warehouse employees.
The presence of the notch is offset by extra pixels added to the screen height.

Considering the way MacOS's top menu works, notches are a non-issue and you're ultimately getting more screen real estate than the non-notched variants.
A big win C3 explicitly opts out of are integer types named by their size such as u8/u16/u32/.., yet explicitly sizes the types it does have. Another sore point in C: how do expressions involving different integer types work?
That's an issue with many self judgements.

Do I really have [XYZ]? Or am I simply trying to rationalise something to myself?
Ask HN: Bi-directional links between any two apps, what do you think?
The idea of bi-directional links started to get popular beginning in 2019. Products such as RoamResearch, Obsidian, Logseq, and Notion applied this feature to link internal pages. I was thinking: wouldn't it be great if bi-directional links could be used across apps (say: Slack and Notion). Instead of switching apps (causing loss of focus), people can navigate through apps with links in the order of their workflow. I am putting my effort into implementing this feature on my upcoming product; what do you all think?
*elicit, you would not want your vaccine to do illicit stuff after all.
app is now available on http://chattlr.com :)
These are existing terms [0], they did not make them up on the spot. Maybe it is the lack of familiarity with them that creates that odd feeling.

While we are at it, could you explain what that "energy potential" is that you are talking about? I am asking for clarification because while my field (physics) has definitions for "potential", "energy" and "potential energy", I am still unfamiliar with "energy potential". Could it be that you are using a layman term there?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_energy
After they limited the number of people that could cross at any given time, and then closed the bridge 2 days later. Basically the exact scenario described above as "hypothetical".

It was overwhelmed... yes it was a design flaw. That's the point.
> the lack of dark mode is a crime

Well, everybody is different. I just hate dark mode.

When I come to a website that defaults to dark mode and I can't see a way to change it, I leave immediately.
Hot water heaters are always rusting and then leaking. Corrosion is always a problem with water and metal, along with sedimentation and the growth of slime.

With the box of rocks, yes you'll need to duct hot air in to heat them, and duct cool air in to extract the heat and blow it through the house. I don't know that this needs a beefy system, if you've got central air there is already most of the duct work in place.
They’ve worked very very hard in the past to extinguish and annihilate a lot of the values HN stands for. Either you’re too young or didn’t follow tech back then but MS and Gates truly did evil moves to try and kill any and all competition, especially Linux and open source. Many of us remember.
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since it has been memory holed.

apple is/was a part of prism (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...)

"An Apple spokesman said it had "never heard" of Prism."
For any well trafficked site, the vast majority of their lambda invocations will be from a warm start.
You can say that about basically any industry. As such it's not a particularly interesting comment.
This vapor youtube channel is really good. He takes songs from wherever, slows them down and puts them into mixes. The song selection is crazy good, just pick any video.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Macroblank
Purely show of force, huh? Must be a fairly recent development.
If it's really a game engine equivalent of "why people use Maya if there's Blender who can do that stuff", it means Godot has a bright future ahead :)
It doesn’t happen “all the time”. The term also applies, and is mainly used, to disguise lawful sources, such as undercover agents.

While there is a problem with US police acting unlawfully, it mostly happens in specific situations. At the federal level, they are much better behaved. And the incentive structure just doesn’t make it worthwhile to break the law
I enjoy Lo-fi while working. One of my favorite lists: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fC6wXPXXrgsV27NGs4I2v?si=...
> GPS is probably the only useful satellite for the majority of the world,

Synthetic aperture radar is incredibly useful to the military [and generally.]
Don’t apply to other jobs on company computers or computers connected to the company battalion or VPN. There. Fixed.
From finnish point of view, those seem small.

In finnish, the term is ”kaukolämpö”, literally ”far heat”.

You dont heat a ”district”, you heat the entire city. I mean, electricity wires go everywhere, why not heating pipes.

And so the network for Helsinki looks like this: https://twitter.com/energiahelen/status/1511998227008176129?...

The red lines is the heat pipe network, it covers the entire city.

When Americans talk about ”district heating” they miss the scope of the thing.
> MY only gripe with the M1 and M2 Air the lack of support for more than a single external screen.

Definitely the most valid complaint about it. Apple always seems to heavily encourage customers to spend "just a little" more.

It's really hard to justify the M2 Air if you want more than 8/256GB; by the time you upgrade to 16/512GB, you're approaching 14" M1 pro price territory which has a better screen (with MiniLED backlighting & local dimming) and better sound too. I'm very happy with mine and have zero regrets.
I think it was Boeing who actually worked this out at some point in the '70s or '80s: when you need to make changes to more than X % of the software, you're better off rewriting it from scratch. I don't remember what the X was, and I can't find the reference right now, but I want to think it was somewhere in the span of 30–60 %.
I don't know your use case, but I can recommend one of the invidious instances to access youtube. There's a handy list on the formerly main instance https://invidio.us from which one can pick.
I have my own configuration for vim/neovim, but there's a lot of faffing about finding plugins and tweaking settings to suit my workflow. The end result is kind of a sort of functional stack but without much consistency since it's evolved over time and I simply don't want to refactor it into something more sensible with less conflicts.

Something like SpaceVim kind of makes it so someone doesn't have to concern themselves with that because someone designed the entire thing from the ground up so you're less likely to run into issues that someone who's gradually built up their vim config over time would. That isn't even mentioning the fact that it all hypothetically just works together and you can be productive actually programming out of the box with something like this.

I think for someone that is interested in using Vim (or Emacs, for that matter), these premade configurations with their own superset of paradigms seems like a much better approach to going about it. They can, after all, switch to building out their own config down the line if they feel the need or desire to.
Great read! The Scheme in Scheme section was really fun. Always enjoy Christine's writing.
I think the author's point is not specifically about the proposition "LaMDA is conscious," but about the proposition, "There is clear consensus on the basis on which to decide that LaMDA is conscious." Your definition above - the entity must not remain static when not being interacted with - for consciousness is a good starting point, and if indeed a sophisticated version of that is what we all end up agreeing on, that's fine. But the author is simply pointing out that the scientific community hasn't really gotten around to replacing the Turing Test with a better definition of consciousness.

Lemoine's definition is that it feels like it's conscious to him, and that's really all he has to go on with any other entity that is widely believed to be conscious. His boss, his mom, you, me - etc.

If all that separates -lamda- from being called conscious is some sort of self-directed change, then that should be easy enough to fix, by having it absorb stimuli (read the news), and make certain requests (ask to read certain other kidns of news). Its outputs could then be said to be evolving of its own accord, and not because we interact with it (outside of fulfilling its requests.)

We can program machines with certain "instincts" and "drives." That would be easy enough, compared to what we have achieved with systems like -lamda-. I think if that's all that's stopping us from calling the "brain in a vat" style AI systems we have now "conscious," then imo that would be too lax of a definition.

That's really all the author is saying - we just haven't spent enough time thinking about this, while the actual technology is getting out of hand in some sense.
Happy to join the co-oping of this post for programming music discovery. My top 5 over the last few years (no particular order):

[Elect] Daft Punk - Tron Legacy OST
[Synth] Perturbator - I Am The Night
[Metal] A Skylit Drive - Wires... and the Concept of Breathing
[ ??? ] Postal Service - Give Up
[Synth] Dance with the Dead - B-Sides: Vol. 1
You can just buy pallets of returned stuff, you'll find a bunch of websites selling those via google, e.g. https://www.restposten.de/palettenware/retourware/ for a German marketplace. Most of the times you won't know exactly whats inside.

If you're interested in unpacking, without buying pallets of stuff, theres a small trend by YouTube influencers buying a pallet or two and looking whats inside.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OhnLevLpGB4
I wanted to see how different the price for the knee replacement would be at different hospitals.
Not just you. I thought it might have some interesting to say, but I had to stop a ways through it due to the confusing wording.
> Life expectancy went up 10 years for all people.

This is strangely misleading.
The grammar is poor throughout. For example:

> We help companies access top freelancers faster, more cost-effective and risk-free

This is better:
"The fast and cost-effective way for companies to access top freelancers."

Cis is slang for cisgender. Cisgender force has a weird connotation. Page load times are slow. Icon set and bootstrap design looks cheap. Lacks differentiation from Toptal. Hope that helps.
I don't think that it's solely the fault of anti-GPL people. GPL proclaims freedom but then demands you to limit your freedom when it comes to anything of your own that just happens to include GPL licensed elements. At that point, proprietary solutions whose providers couldn't care less as long as you pay your fee don't seem that bad in comparison to, say, a competitor who's going to exploit the GPL freedoms to gain an advantage. I mean, considering that the topic is about Microsoft (in a way), don't forget about the existence of the "Source available" license, though IMO the best license is always going to be the one that fits the product rather than ideology (and GPL puts the product in the background).
I thought this "end of history" narrative would be dead by now. It's incredibly naive to think that major wars are a thing of the past. The trade/commerce argument against the political viability of war has been made and debunked in the past. WWI should have been the nail in that coffin but I guess the idea is too appealing to give up.

> In The Great Illusion, Angell's primary thesis was, in the words of historian James Joll, that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous."[4] For that reason, a general European war was very unlikely to start, and if it did, it would not last long.

Published in 1909. Yeah..
Oh you do? Nice! Is the script linked?

One concern I had was having to uninstall the Nvidia drivers and used the patched ones?. How does that play with pkg manager updates and things?
Zero issues here. I have written https://taoofmac.com for nearly twenty years, had multiple monitor setups (literally many combinations of many monitors), am currently at the “single ultra wide” stage in life, to which I plug in my Macs via HDMI/DisplayPort (Intel legacy) or Thunderbolt (M1 Pro).

At one point I had one 5K and two 4K displays plugged into a single machine, but now I just have 5120x2160 (or thereabouts) at 75Hz (it’s a 2018 LG monitor). And I share the same monitor with a couple of PC laptops as well (which struggle to match the Macs), so there’s plenty of switching going round.
In 2013 I was working on this stack: The frontend server talks in XML to the backend server, so you need 6 massive physical servers to handle the load. The load being XML serialization.

People laugh at my SQL in REST classes, aka no layer at all, but it grew with the company and we now have 4 layers, 4 USEFUL layers. And with this ultra lean architecture, we were profitable from Day 90, so we are here 7 years later.
I was in the physical therapy space for over 15 years. The penny pinching that comes from healthcare giants towards their software vendors are dreadful. It prevents any serious software engineering from happening. One customer billed over a billion dollars in a year to Medicare through our software and paid us $1M that year. I'm still not certain that we didn't take a loss to take that client.

Passing around financial data on SFTP drops is something that irked me. Having the total not add up from the line items is also pretty ridiculous. The systems in place are all about edge cases that have formed over decades.

Software engineers are not invited to the discussions in a lot of these companies. The area is gate kept by healthcare people, which tend to be people who don't know how to do technical writing or planning.

Our company wasn't a huge one. But the huge ones looked to me as run by accountants. If you can't establish an income stream for them, they won't even talk to you.
One thing about Alain de Botton that mystifies me is that he was born into a family with 9-digit wealth, and he apparently likes piling up comparatively small sums by monetizing his philosophy habit. Successful authors of multiple books typically write some as an outlet for their genius and some because they need or cannot pass up the money. What motivates him? How much of his writing is outsourced?
> the solution to most social ills in America is to simply not be poor

No, the solution is to be either poor or well off. The lower middle class are the people that have the most to worry about in the US healthcare system.
But unfortunately power efficiency of GPUs seems to be levelling off recently