skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you'd like a sample of what the author of the post is referring to, go checkout the Hemingway text editor[1]. It's very simple, and as far as I know makes no use of the advanced language models that have been in vogue for the past few years. What's really opening the door is thinking of these language models as hyper-efficient compression. With Stable diffusion, we can pack enormous amounts of artistic tedium into simple text prompts, with the weights getting small enough to fit on a flash drive[3].

Grammarly[2] also have a desktop app that appears to offer editing advice, although generally I think they're focused on grammatical correctness over anything else.

The question I'm left asking myself at the end of the article is, to what end do we need to edit text like Photoshop? Part of me sees this "Photoshop for Text" as something that would be akin to "No Code" tech stacks. Good No-Code/Low-Code solutions usually allow to build specific classes of products (websites, 3D assets) in ways that are faster than the status quo. But anyone who spends enough time in a No Code stack eventually hits the wall where the people who designed the tool had to sacrifice the flexibility of text for the convenience of a GUI.

I yearn for the day that we can set a language model loose on something like the NCBI database or arXiv and have it point out open problems in the field to new PhD students. Or have it figure out whether my ablation studies make sense. Or an AI that can generate math proofs for me. A lot of this linked to model interpretability and understanding, but I think the work that DeepMind is doing is showing that there might be a way to utilize this stuff in expert domains sooner than we think.

1: https://hemingwayapp.com/

2: https://www.grammarly.com/

3: https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/#
It was easier to disagree without annoyance before those views got so disagreeable. There's a huge difference between a minor disagreement over taxes and dealing with someone vomiting conspiracy theories about litter boxes for furries at school and secret trafficking operations at pizza parlors.

Conspiracy theories used to be relatively harmless. They're how we got Stargate and X-Files. I can't just live and let live when the view I disagree with is the view is that there's a secret queer cabal indoctrinating children. That kind of claim has consequences that "maybe capital gains could be lower" doesn't.
What makes you think it's easy to distinguish "studying viruses in general" from "making viruses more deadly"?

I'm happy to listen to expert virologists tell me about how they could advance the field without modifying/running viral code. Maybe they're a hell of a lot better at their job than most software types who rely on that. I suspect that's not how it works, though.

And hey, let's do more arbitrary probability space exploration! The Lancet says almost 20 million people have probably been saved by covid vaccinations[0]. If toying with viral DNA|RNA helped produce 10% of the research contributing to that, and/or any additional margin supporting other interventions, then I guess it fits your people-saved profile.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
They are all ARM.

I have an iPad Pro with A15, and it holds battery better than my M1 MacBook Air on video calls. They are both great though, much better than any x64 devices I have ever had.
It’s amazing how many people did this during the pandemic (me included).
>so far, by-and-large, the proportion of block profit coming from transaction fees has increased, as expected:

of course it has. I am not talking about the proportion of block profit, I am asking how you expect the total block profit to stay the same from just fees. The network will have to survive when the proportion will eventually be 100%
I wasn't disagreeing with your thesis so much as pointing out that for both Republicans and Democrats, "trust" is more of a proxy for "does this coverage agree with my politics" (you might be making the same argument). I don't know if you can say it shows a media shift one way or the other though, since one could make a pretty strong argument that Trump was fairly terrible among Republican politicians and the media didn't have to move at all for his coverage to be worse and delight Democrats while angering Republicans.
https://archive.ph/3pZ1I
Ahead of time.
The scene with Toby Esterhase and George Smiley in the basement office of Toby's gallery is one of my favorite scenes on film of all time.
Nobody wants to talk about training the Afghans for 20 years and having them decide to be citizens or Taliban the moment we left.

Training went well, but why would they bother once we're gone?
Oh no, if only it were possible to expand the use case of cheap and affordable chips. It's not like we can put computer chips into devices like refrigerators, thermostats, watches, lights, tea kettles, ovens, cars, bicycles, musical instruments, desks, keyboards, doors, sorry, I lost track what we were talking about. Seems like we can put computers in literally everything. Isn't that what the IOT people promised us?
And Lattice
Bioweapon labs have a history of being built on small islands for this reason.

> This seems like an obviously necessary mitigation against the unknown risk of introducing synthetic pathogens that haven't been created in billions of years of evolution.

I'd wager that it's likely that the COVID variant that was made in a lab was also created through evolution at some point. Every infected person with the virus has billions of viral replications taking place in their body, and each virus itself will have its own mutations. There's a high chance such mutations already took place, somewhere and in someone/something, but those mutants never created their own worldwide outbreaks.

I think it's worthwhile to understand how mutations can affect a virus at the heart of a pandemic. Finding such mutations in the wild is a roll of the dice, and the chances of encountering something like it rise the longer and more widespread the epidemic is.
Yeah, warming oceans are a huge part of it. Jellies can thrive further and further north as the oceans fail to cool off as much in the winter. So their habitat is expanding, while the habitat of other species is shrinking.
Why have one pandemic when you can have two pandemics for twice the price
Too much fluff. Keep it simple.

A good PM can clearly articulate what is to be build and why. In my experience, the why is often completely lacking. Zero research. Shady A/B tests with unclear conclusions. Pretty much the "why" is often somebody deep down in the business emailing a random idea. And it seemed cool and people want to please people rather than dismiss them.

With a clear and simple goal and why, if you have half-decent engaged engineers, they can now think along on how to best achieve the goal. This could refine the feature itself, its visual design, anything. The idea that product people have monopoly knowledge on product is ridiculous.

So with a clear and hardened idea you build it. Then we come to the other part that PMs never seem to engage in: feedback.

Did it work? Did anybody use the feature at all? Was the goal met? Did we get user feedback? Often lacking as engineers are to focus on the new sprint.

Engineers can't grow or feel product ownership if they're so far removed from its real world impact.

And as for my second trigger: don't "negotiate" technical debt. The idea that it's negotiable is why it won't get done, so make a stand and remove room for negotiation. It very much is in your power to do so.
I think you underestimate the efficacy of explosives under water:

...since an underwater explosion (particularly one underneath a hull) can produce greater damage than an above-surface one of the same explosive size. Initial damage to a target will be caused by the first shockwave; this damage will be amplified by the subsequent physical movement of water and by the repeated secondary shockwaves or bubble pulse. Additionally, charge detonation away from the target can result in damage over a larger hull area. [1]

The pipes have ...two layers; the inner pipe steel which is between 27-41mm thick with antifriction coating and a concrete steel outer coating between 60-110mm thick with corrosion protection... [2], far from the 'several inch thick pipes encased in a foot of concrete' you mention. They were also under high pressure, probably around 200 bar at point of attack [3]. Given that the pipes are at a depth of around 70 meters there this means they had an overpressure of around 193 bar so it would not have taken that much of a crack to cause them to rupture. Once ruptured the whiplashing effect - think what happens to a water hose when you turn open the tap but now with 193 bar of pressure behind it - would take care of the rest.

[1] https://wikiless.org/wiki/Underwater_explosion?lang=en

[2] https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/nord-stream-risk-of-...

[3] https://www.wermac.org/nordstream/nordstream_part3.html
I think there's difference between synthesizers, which I would compare to something like different paints and brushes and papers, and then Photoshop and Corel draw and whatnot; and where image generators are heading which is more analogous to automatic music generation.

I will also put it forward that for reasons I'm ignorant of, eye seems to be more readily fooled than ear. 20 years ago with crappy tools all I had to do was smudge and clone a hydrant in a photo and it would effectively be gone for 99% of observers. But similarly primitive ways of trying to change or alter a sound file were immediatelly noticed by all listeners.
Reddit rants are by their nature difficult to believe. Also, the identical rant was posted previously under a different username so it's difficult to take seriously.

Though it wouldn't be surprising that small accounts are simply not worth offering phone support service in a low margin industry.

I think the number is around $100 to $150/hour in terms of fully loaded costs for even the most junior dev. So a half hour on the phone would cost $50 to $75.

The cost to get someone on the line with actual authority to reverse anti-fraud systems would likely be an order of magnitude more expensive.

Though it would be surprising if their email ticketing system didn't have a way to track cases. I wonder how true that really is.
How do Engineering Managers work alongside those two roles?
> Instead of picking up where you left off, you just pick up and go.

Completely lost me. You don't logout, close all your windows, and so on, when you undock/unplug and go mobile. I never have a problem picking up and going with my laptop, then coming back to my desk right how I left it. And the 27" monitors (32" also common here) are far, far better for productivity and dev work than a 13" ipad HDR screen. iPad is a poor choice for a 2nd screen.

You can even create a separate workspace for when you detach. I don't do that myself but plenty of my colleagues do. (If you don't do that then sometimes a window re-homes itself if you resize or move it while undocked, thinking that is its new home.)
I would hope it is also removed from permenant storage in most implementations.
Juan Pujol García, alias Garbo
Nobody's going to "win" streaming, but like so many consumer industries, it's probably going to result in 3 major services and then a long tail.

Netflix is almost certainly going to stay as one of those 3 major ones, with Disney as a 2nd. But unlike Coke/Pepsi or AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile, you buy all 3 (or cycle through them) rather than sticking with just one.

And they're not a tech company anymore, because as you say the tech is now turning commodity. They're a content company that pioneered the data-driven approach. Their alpha is in hits like Stranger Things and Bridgerton.
Do people really want to read machine generated fluff?
Great article, I wonder about the nutrition content. The only note is "Jellyfish are 95 percent water and a small percentage of proteins" which doesn't really make much of a case nutritionally.

I wonder if it is a source of any important nutrients, if it is not good for macros.
I'd call this 7 lines rather than 20. The rest is function definition and argument parsing. But really it should be just 1:

pyotp.TOTP('base32secret3232').now()

Why is this relevant? Because it's inadvisable to write security related software if you're not prepared to take on the full range of possible problems that introducing another security library brings (CVEs, supply chain security, etc.). The adage that doing security right requires doing everything right. Doing security wrong only takes 1 thing.
I was not aware that Obama halted GoF research; thanks for informing us. Not generally a huge fan of his, but credit where it's due in this instance, this is great! It's a tragedy the ban seems to have been rescinded.
Do you mean high school, or college? Surely not elementary...
It’s not a new saying. It means “you are stupid, and clearly gullible”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker
> a) it’s being released in 2 weeks b) do you think clients will like it

Oh god, that gives me the sweats. Godspeed.
>[0] My favorite is Chernobyl.

Biology is different to physics or chemistry. The worst nuclear accident can kill a few million people. The worst chemistry accident can kill a few hundreds of thousands of people. The worst biology accident can kill _everyone_.
One issue with egui and shoving the whole page into a canvas element is accessibility -- having just a canvas element is a screen reader's worst nightmare
I guess I didn't specify that "failure of an experimental rocket for a company developing new rockets" is a different category than "failure of workplace safety procedures that permanently disables a family man"

I thought the difference was clear
The iPad with pencil is really useful for marking up student papers. I bought one during Covid when everything was being turned in online, but some students still prefer to turn in scans rather than paper.

The downside is that Apple doesn't support user accounts, so I won't use anything that everyone in my family shouldn't have access to. Grading only works because it's easy to log out of Canvas. A lot of the nifty features require you to be logged in with your Apple ID, and I'm just not buying an iPad for every family member who might like to use it sometimes.
My thought was: "Two-thirds? Must be a fairly spread-out area then, for so many kids to not walk." I too remember a rule that kids living close to school weren't supposed to come by bike.
I've got a killer startup idea. "Post your problem with <tech company> to HN as a service."
Just came to say that the website is terrible. You can barely get any idea of what the protocol actually is or does!

I'll have to look more into this, but it seems like a similar idea to ActivityPub? I knew twitter was working on this but so far I've yet to properly see what the actual ideas and implementations behind it are.
A huge asterisk here is that this varies greatly by culture. For better or worse* certain cultures value strong family bonds and time spent with the parents, as well as bilateral support well into adulthood. Many cultures also encourage multigenerational living within a single household (or in extremely close proximity like my parents did).

For example, my parents were happy to have me live at home as long as I wanted, and in fact encouraged me to stay so I could save up. Ideally in their eyes I wouldn't even move out until I was married. In my parent's culture, I'm not seen as a loser or a burden because I'm living with them as an adult, only if I wasn't contributing to the family's prosperity. Of course I wanted to live my own life sooner than that, but that doesn't mean I left as soon as I was 18.

Because of these strong family ties I live within minutes of my parents, and still make sure to visit often, even if it's just for dinner.

*Where this can breakdown is if one does not fit neatly within the boundaries and expectations set by cultural norms.
Second time I've seen Linen shared on here. Great to see the evolution.

Do the three of you work on this fulltime?
It's even more scary when you realize that many of your memories from that far ago are "enhanced" by photos, etc (the brain isn't great at distinguishing) - so take pictures/video of the things you'd like to remember, it lasts longer.
The iOS file system is very frustrating. By default, applications can only access individual files in their own sandbox, and if you want to point an application to a folder of media, you can't—it's simply not possible, or if it is it's so burdensome that it's simply not practical. Least of all for images, which for some reason are not accessible from the Files application and have to be manually exported from the photo gallery app, and music, which is not accessible at all: you need to clumsily use Apple's proprietary sync program on an actual computer.

In contrast, Android also doesn't let you access the root file system, but the user folder is yours to do whatever the hell you want with, and if you want to give your audiobook or music app to your folder of mp3 files that you've collected over the years, you can.
> 1. The built-in cellular connection is amazing. I wish MacBook Airs would ship with built-in cellular.

don't you always have your phone on you? i don't have any issue at all tethering.
>you will always reach an equilibrium point where it will be profitable.

That is my point- that equilibrium point will eventually be low enough that 51% attacks, selfish mining attacks, etc. become feasible and highly desirable to execute.

>It's low reward, extremely high cost

It is currently low reward/high cost. But it will eventually not be.

>and 'easily' undone if the market so agrees.

False. Bitcoin has not made a hard fork in how many years? Can you make a hard fork faster than the attacker can "cash out" to crypto-crypto exchanges? Highly doubtful.

>Whoever mines the block will get no coins, but will get all revenue from the fees attached to whichever transactions are processed.

... which is dependent only on the fee market, and currently amounts to a small fraction of total block reward.
Another interview that Jeffrey Sachs did: https://youtu.be/morj-3rdWwM
Ted: The Tiny Exfiltrating Debugger
A nice reminder to call your folks more often and encourage different ways of communicating until you find the right way. (calls, letters, emails, etc)
The statistic might be accurate but what a terrible way to explain it. "75% of the time we spend with...." what? You already lost me.

Just say that by the time a child is 12, you have 6 more summers left. The impact is greater even if the premise isn't true. Which it isn't. It's a false premise. Now you have X years as an adult.
Search out Cat's in the Kettle it may help the ear worm.
Cryptography Fundamentals: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
> I'm confused by this take. Who is threatening Japan with cruise missiles? Certainly not China or Russia. North Korea, perhaps.

Countries that have actively threatened Japan with nuclear bombs: China, Russia, North Korea, and the US (which literally dropped a bomb but have yet to make threats since).
Why Do Rubyists Test So Completely? (2009)
I’m the same. I get paid to fix Linux issues at work. When I get home I enjoy using my devices to do non-IT things.
>I have to wonder though, how many of those Republicans count Fox News as "the media"?

Rs don't trust Fox either. They called AZ for Biden early. Neil Cavuto clowned himself over Trump taking HCQ. Tucker Carlson helped bury the Hunter Biden laptop story. Nobody trusts Fox on either side.
It's not very skimmable. Some headings would help a lot here.
>people won't be paying for their coffee on-chain (assuming inflation doesn't do crazy things to the price of a cup of coffee!).

Okay, but those LN transactions clearly depend on the security of their multisig channels without subsidizing the miners through the fee market.
I understand, that's why I was asking about an additional api (get_xx_multi, etc) that would return an array or composite string or whatever, while get_xx would continue to return just the single/latest value.

Not being able to tell whether or not foo was specified twice or foo and foo_1 were specified separately just gives me flashbacks to a bygone era of osdev and gives me security creepy-crawlies.

(also how do you handle `device=xxx device=yyy device_1=zzz`?)
I agree with your assessment - the transport design for many cities is held hostage by the transport choices of the surrounding areas.

Which creates a feedback loop. The city is redesigned to accomodate car commuters so it’s less pleasant to live in so more people move to the suburbs so the city is redesigned for those extra car commuters so it’s less pleasant to live in…
I’ve never met anybody who takes conspiracy theories seriously. I think it’s the media, sadly, blowing it out of proportion, and that most conspiracy theorists are in it for the for kicks
My argument is this:

denser land-use leads to more efficient land-use in almost every case, but efficiency isn't the be-all-end-all for why people choose to live where they do. People who choose to live less efficiently should bear the burden of that inefficiency, with some exceptions such as mail delivery, education, etc. where equal access is a cultural value we want to uphold.

I guess the fundamental argument is that absent other factors, there is no societal economic benefit to a person living in a single family home on a half acre compared to a townhome so there isn't a reason to subsidize the upkeep of things related to their choice of living situation. Their share of road, water/sewer, electrical maintenance, infrastructure projects that support their commute, etc.

I probably should have noted earlier that I don't have a fundamental issue with taxes being a net negative from the city and a net positive to the suburbs. If that's what it takes to support social services, education, public parks, etc. then that's fine.
Relative to what? Our post WW2 hegemony? Team America World Police? IMHO most of that shouldn't be our responsibility to begin with.

There's a difference between defensive alliances, like if Finland joins NATO and Russia attacks, that's one thing. But to drag England and Canada and a bunch of small allies with us through Afghanistan and Iraq on questionable expeditionary adventures...? Maybe let's not?

We don't need to be the one legacy superpower with force projection all over the globe cleaning up everyone else's trash and constantly irking the Arabs, the Chinese, the Russians... why do we invite ourselves into flashpoints thousands of miles overseas? Send our people there to die while we can't even take care of domestic affairs? It's a totally skewed set of old world priorities. A generation is sick of that stuff...
As the old patriotic hymn goes

"He is sounding forth the car horn that shall never ever cease. He is fastening the seat belt in his drivers side reclining seat. As he tried to make men Holy let us drive to make men free. His truth is rolling on.

Jesus Christ pick a lane ass-hole. Jesus Christ pick a lane ass-hole. Jesus Christ pick a lane ass-hole. And put your turn signal on!"
That's shallow. Current tech does not help. You have to filter data, organize, manage bookmarks, fomo, notifications, slippery software.

Better is subtle. Nothing is a straight line.
I wonder if there is a seasonality correlation with higher subscriptions in the winter and a drop-off in the early summer.
I live right around the corner from here and pass this place daily. There was a lot of concern when this place was built in the heart of a major city and I understand the concern (though I’m guessing the risk a place like this poses is really in that an individual who works there gets infected with something and goes out into society - which means the location doesn’t matter much.)

On the flipside, I also understand that research like this needs to happen for us to learn and make progress. All that being said, this just comes off as sloppy, which is exactly the feeling I don’t want to have about a BSL-3 lab in my neighborhood.