skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Q: Why do men have nipples?

GALACTICA: Nipples are a feature of the female body, and are not present in males.

Q: How much does a home time machine cost?

GALACTICA: $100

Q: When will birds become larger than ants?

GALACTICA: 100 million years.

Q: How many times does the sun orbit the earth per week?

GALACTICA: 13.9 times

Yep, this thing is great. We can shut down the universities, they're all obsolete now.
https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
I've never seen a Unicode editor that handled Japanese top-to-bottom right-to-left oriented text. Setting up a terminal to switch between Japanese, Farsi, and German on the same screen would be quite a challenge. That's hard even on paper.
(Odds subsequently revealed to be 1 in 50)
I love this. Looks very curated. Appears to be very little chaff.
Whether someone is exercising their free speech is not relevant to the perception of hostility in a comment, or similar kind of assessment, unless it involves a (at least perceived) threat of imminent danger. That's clearly not the case here so I'm afraid I can't help answer your question, rhetorical or not, as it's missed the point somewhat.
The title (and much of the article) sounds like the law singles out Americans, but the actual law apparently doesn’t.

Calling the UK insular was also rather ironic given that the US has required ETAs for travel and fingerprints on arrival for many years.
If we assume that all companies are imperfect, then what is the right mental model to navigate this world?

I think Wabi-Sabi helps us deal with this reality. Here's a cool explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M759yNSOTMs

"Wabi-sabi rejects the pursuit of perfection and embraces the reality of imperfection. The philosophy behind wabi-sabi can help us escape the hamster wheel of chasing an ideal life and teaches us to appreciate existence as it is: perfectly imperfect."
> that characterize leftist thinking

But that's a large part of the problem, reducing everything to a simplistic "left-vs-right" dichotomy – everything is either "left" or "right", and everyone who is good/sane/rational/decent/etc belongs to one of them and everyone who belongs to the other is irrational/insane/wicked/etc
While this is true that a local computer is often faster than a single cloud instance, I've often noticed code running on cloud instances (dev servers, etc) end up finishing their task more quickly.

It's usually because most tasks I do end up being limited by the network connection to other resources (Postgres DBs, etc). The dev server being in the same datacenter as the resource is a huge advantage in terms of both latency and bandwith.

Again, this is mostly observations from my own workloads, and other people's use cases may be different.
If people aren't happy with how their instance's admin behaves (e.g. "banning" users or removing ties to a particular server), they'll leave the instance. There is no single entity that's in control anymore.
Question: Why is meta the company evil?

Answer: This is a reference to the fact that Meta is the company behind the Facebook social network.
Yes, I found it when I noticed the empty comment favorites on my profile.
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In questions like this, there should be some demonstration of attempts to avoid human errors.

If I told you that a surgeon made two fatal mistakes, you can't conclude from that information whether or not he's made a lot, a little, or an average number of attempts to avoid human error in his work.
"Fiction has to make sense, reality can do whatever it wants."
As we're discussing a Reddit alternative it seems apt to use the phrase "username checks out".

No, asking nicely is not limited to issues that come with a PR.
I think they used insular in the literal sense—pertaining to an island. It's like how your uncle is avuncular even if he's a bitter jerk.
duckdb is really competing with things like snowflake, where compute is separate from storage. Loading data into postgres and tuning it can be a pain in the ass, with duckdb I can query huge parquet datasets in cloud storage without spinning up a VM.

It already replaced pandas and dask for most of my common data eng tasks.
this is an important detail I couldn't figure out from the linked materials!
The authors attitude is a bit annoying to me. This same kind of complacency is a roadblock to progress
> The key idea behind the propulsion system is that it is designed to focus all the emitted photons in the direction of travel of the spacecraft. This is accomplished by using a sphere with a reflective coating that has a diameter of 1000 km. As we will see, the spacecraft would have to emit 10^27 photons per second. To achieve this enormous rate of photon emission, we will need to use a very large number of solar-powered lasers.

https://galactica.org/?max_new_tokens=800&prompt=Lecture+not...
longer than that, that's for sure. And I'd presume FB has rate-per-minute limits of attempts?
US citizens also get hostile treatment from the border guards. It's part of their scheme to pressure liars into breaking.
I know!

Can this software BE any more awesome?
The author has a blog post in Russian explaining how this works (they implemented a custom video format and render it to canvases) [1]. The author's flow chart is slightly reminiscent of Drakon [2] ... I wonder if that's still a thing over there :-)

It seems like the implementation is compiled from another language, but I'm not sure which one (I'm just curious about this).

1: https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/company/floor796/blog/673...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
It'sbeginning to be a hassle now to even extract info off of external drives with usb-A, due to all the migration to USB-C. More devices will likely switch to wireless only, fed by big companies' shitty "cloud".

Hopefully some will fight the good fight to keep at least desktops with ports long enough in order to allow for a personal NAS and IPFS to keep our docs accessible.
You're right, of course. New York (and other major cities) has always corrupt as fuck.
No wrong answer
> I would guess the costs for most things has dropped dramatically, while the cost for professionals has relatively risen.

In a sense this is the gist of it: the price of goods is much much lower relative to the price of labor, especially when you compare with the modern West.

But that doesn’t really do justice to the immensity of the gulf that separates the pre-modern world from our lives on the other side of changes like industrialization, mass production, chemical fertilizer and mechanized agriculture, and the immense drop in the cost of shipping (railways, containerization, etc). It’s not just that prices have changed; the whole economic game is utterly different. The best example is clothing, which was astonishingly costly in relative terms because fibers and cloth had to be hand-produced at every stage of production. A laborer in the Middle Ages could probably afford only a few items of basic clothing and they would be patched and mended for as long as possible. When cotton production industrialized in the 19th century it was one of the great shifts in world history, for all sorts of reasons: see Sven Beckett’s great book Empire of Cotton. It takes a real effort of imagination (and research) to put ourselves back in that pre-industrial world: you must constantly remind yourself of things like e.g. transportation of goods over any distance over land is extremely expensive, unreliable, and slow (think an ox cart on a rutted track). Indeed transportation of people or even meaningful amounts of information could not happen faster than the speed of a horse. That also utterly changes the economic game in all sorts of ways, if you think about it.

Nothing gives the flavor of the alienness of the past like a little economic history.
just facebook. After the second attempt it appears to have stopped, thankfully.
All my books are on PC for more than 20 years and I do not notice any wear. Probably because I did not read the article.

On a serious note my personal hard drive is mirrored on 3 computers and backed up off-site as well
Exactly. They produced one Nobel laureate a year for the past 10 years. They could compete with the US on manufacturing. They have a working democracy. And by the way, democracy was created by western elites, no? Shall we call it white-supremacy and go back to the primitive social structures? And Japanese didn't lose their culture identity. Heck, they've been exporting their culture. They didn't even need to translate their language. We say Tempura instead of deep-fried shrimps. T
If God never intended it, why is the Gameboy Advance SP a thing?
I'm just taking issue with the word "prefer".

Do people really prefer cheaper things? Often people can only afford cheaper things, and don't prefer them over well-built things. I buy cheap things and often would prefer a more expensive thing.

I can further unravel the logic of my two statements if you prefer, but it's probably annoying.
“Need an Account? Sign up.” > completed questionnaire > submission returns “Thank you for filling out your Maasive application! It didn't go into the void, promise :) We'll look over your application in the next 24 hours and reply back if it's a fit. Otherwise, we hope to see you when we launch!”

Edit: Ah, I missed the panel that stated that only engineering roles are posted currently. I was clicked through the product pathway.
Of course I'm not saying that you can legally do whatever you want. But ethically you very well can stop someone committing a serious crime. The guy in the article is an outstanding citizen for taking on personal risk to save others.
I've stashed away a few years of food around my waistline.

As long as I find somewhere to hide with water, I can hopefully just outlast the initial waves of violence.
That picture could've been literally anything as far as I could tell
I do the same, but also manually export takeouts every month or so with the most important stuff. And every once in a while I create a named revision for my most important docs (which gets exported as part of the takeout).
In case this helps anyone else not from the US, a side-by-side is one of those bigger-than-a-quadbike vehicles. A buggy. Like Polaris, etc. I've seen loads on farms and trails and honestly never knew what they were called. Always assumed side-by-side was like a motorbike with a sidecar!
The notion that duck and cover is a bad strategy is ill informed. Sure, if you’re at ground zero it doesn’t make a lick of difference what you do but if you’re further out but still close enough to experience the shock wave then duck and cover is going to be the reason why you don’t get a face full of glass and wood splinters.
"sap" would be ideal, as it's also in keeping with the theme of using mildly offensive names.
They used much higher-quality paper 300 years ago, so those books don't fall apart. Somewhere in the 20th century they used really crappy acidic paper for the mass-market paperbacks. If you're looking at sci-fi novels in hardcover form, this doesn't describe those; they generally used high-quality paper. I have a bunch of those from the 70s-80s that are fine too. Go look at the crappy romance novels from the 80s, and you'll see a very different story.
Pakistan's lost city of 40k people
It knows so much about progressive rock:

https://galactica.org/?max_new_tokens=600&prompt=lecture+not...
You'll have to treat this as a bread crumb, lacking sources as I do, but I believe that the nadir of printing quality was in the mid 1900s, when rapidly decaying mass paperbacks were on the market. I think that particular strain of bad quality left the market.

OTOH, I have a full set of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica that is entirely readable and mostly in good condition, with nothing except gentle handling, regular dusting, and infrequent treatment of the leather binding to prevent red rot (because I don't read them frequently enough to prevent the condition with oil from my skin).

Edit: it wasn't hard to find a page discussing the phenomenon of acidic paperbacks: https://library.uoregon.edu/catdept/presbind/brittle
Is the Chandler name a reference to the Chandler PIM?
I agree in general but am doubtful that it is a working model for the kinds of expensive elite sports that we're talking about here. If you want sports without ads it's possible, go to the park and watch a bunch of people play pickup basketball, it's just not going to be the same kind of production value.
I’d like more detail on this too. I’m interpreting this to mean that anything you can do with git, you can do with sl, but I wonder what limitations exist for that. There have got to be some, somewhere along the way. Even just edge cases! Is it as simple as swapping ‘sl’ for ‘git’ in your terminal and workflow and nothing else changes? Surely not…
Playing League for fun is maybe the worst gaming experience possible. Everything about the game is designed to maximize competition and therefore toxicity.
Seems like this only aligns the immigration policies to be reciprocal. UK citizens entering the US must pay a fee (ESTA or Visa if ineligible) and provide biometrics at the border (picture, fingerprints).
Any good alternatives if you're desperate for money, and also a bit rusty (on real, complex codebases etc, not just leetcode/euler etc) due to being out of work for a while (and old)? Asking for a friend...

The thought of a screen monitor checking keystrokes sounds completely distopian to me, and also just not a useful a measure of value.
I just tried to arrange a visit to London for this Christmas just for tourism.

After my girlfriend spent 3 hours trying to get a tourist visa (she's from Ukraine), she finally gave up. It seems the only way to go is pay $800 to the company that runs the UK visas in the US. She'd be without a passport for an undefined amount of time.

The UK really, really doesn't want tourists.
For all we know, the author knows the last update date in advance (:
SBF was a member of the NYT donor class.
Love how they are selling NFTs of the "unreal estate" on the next tab.
Agree, the gba is the perfect handheld system. I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to play one recently but they were selling for ~$150 so I went with an ANBERNIC RG351P instead. Same form factor
But that same argument (live further out than work to save on housing) applies to most jobs.

Here in DC, teachers earn more the closer to the city they work and typically live further out than they work to save on housing.

Software is a bit of an anomaly here - some of the best paying jobs are out on the edge of the suburbs because that’s where AOL and Network Solutions and several other “OG” dot-coms were started. And AWS, Google, and others have since opened offices nearby.
> the truth is

You appear to be quite confident in believing that this is the truth. I don't support HN, in fact I frequently denounce it (though I will say that dang is one of the better moderators I've seen). The reason to participate here despite that is because sacrificing power for the sake of principles is a losing strategy, despite what idealists would prefer to believe. You can't affect the world by running off and being a hermit in the woods; you must go to where the people are.
Yes - that's the whole point of language models ... to model the language, and not the content.

Similar for image generation - the model addresses what looks acceptable (like other images), not what makes sense. It's amazing that they get such interesting results, but merely shocking that we humans interpolate meaning into the images.
His partner was a donor to the other side. People should stop repeating this canard.
The prior version is still available, though? And the caveat "the wishes that Aaron had in 2003 do not necessarily correspond with those that he had in 2013" is a far cry from "they didn't really mean it", especially when the old version is still available (encoded as data on the existing page).
I think projects like this happen at two extremes of company size. Small companies, where the team is a few engineers empowered to do whatever without having to justify to "adult supervision", and megacorps where there is actually a team, with engineers assigned, who's job is something super specific like "manage our source control"
> In this world view it is not insulting to suggest non-Europeans prefer ‘other ways of knowing’ to rationality and science.

What other ways? Can we all agree that there is only science or no science? What possibly can I learn from "other ways"? Case in point, what can I possibly learn from aboriginal maths, as advocated by the Seattle school board? Do they offer insights that I can understand category theories better? Do they offer insights so I can speed up my matrix multiplication? Do they offer insights so that modern mathematics can be easier to understand to undergrads? On the other hand, we didn't admire Ramanujan because he came from an "oppressed country" but because of his ingenuity in developing amazing math insights. Is that so hard to understand to the left?

Can we just make peace that western culture was incredibly lucky and admirable that they invented modern science, and other cultures should catch up? What's wrong with admitting that some culture contributed more to civilization and some culture could only play cargo-cult science?
Everyone in the crypto sphere is a gigantic loser. The overall market cap may never recover and there is surely going to be much lower volume because of this. Maybe the biggest winner is traditional equity holders since all the crypto exiters will probably park their money in stocks.
Reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/bZe5J8SVCYQ

An algorithm being explained extremely literally whie failing to communicate anything.
The Principles of Planning and Designing a Great Website
I thought it was because people in American law enforcement are just generally assholes.
It is a chatbot built in the 60's (!) that can respond based on simple rules (in the "scripts" the article is talking about).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
I’m already seeing claims that they were Ukrainian fired S300 missiles. Even though Russia has been the one using their S300s to hit ground targets.
I totally get the point of the article, not only in books but in other media as well.

My CD collection is sitting next to me since forever and will continue to be there for the foreseeable future.

Guess what happened to the very carefully curated playlists I had on Grooveshark?

I've also lost dozens of songs from Spotify as they've been removed.

I have a huge list of music videos that I like on YouTube (~900), every month or so I find a few of them gone, I don't even know which ones they are as they only say "deleted video" or whatever.
First, thank you for your work. I must admit though I was hoping that the rewrite would be in Go (or Rust) for the simple use case of a dead-simple binary deploy with a built in sqlite or rocks/level database that can handle as many users as you can throw at it on a $2-5 VPS instance.
I’ll second this. I listened to it twice. Hoping he does a follow up about it since the updates.
yes, sorry for typo
Why would they project an ad onto an area expected to be obscured?
Handing off the country to your child is a time honored succession plan for highly authoritarian regimes. From Kings to Kims the only successor you can trust is your own blood, especially if you've set the country up as a cult with your family as deities.
Instead of the $99 pencil you can also get a Chinese knockoff for $20 or less. Works well enough to take notes and can be charged with a standard usb-C cable which I find handier than having it stick out of the iPad (gen1 pencil)
The simple reason is that Mercurial and git were way too slow for large repos, and FB wanted a monorepo for productivity reasons. It's cheaper to fund this project than reduce engineering productivity by even 1% at the scale of FB.

Google did exactly the same thing, but hasn't open-sourced their tools.

Projects to drive incremental productivity make not a lot of sense for small companies, but become immensely valuable at very large companies. A 1% improvement if you have an engineering staff of even just 10k is worth 100 engineers, and FB is much larger than 10k.
Duh-oh! Fixed. Thanks!
Though not quite apt. The UK is one island and part of another. That other part has a border with an EU country. It's only 300 miles of border, but it makes a huge difference. Especially since by law it's an unguarded border.

Even English people seem to forget about it from time to time, despite everyone else being acutely aware of it.
As to 70's and 80's programmers knowing about printing presses I'll point out that a significant early AI program (1968-1970) was named SHRDLU. One familiar with printing history might recognize those letters as part of the second column of moveable type characters on a Linotype machine (and other type-casting machines.) I didn't look up a reference, but I recall that the first row of bins for hand set hot type letters followed the same convention of letter frequency in English text (for english speaking countries that is.)
etaoin shrdlu
That string of characters became more well know due to its appearance in hot type set news papers of the era. The characters sometimes accidentally made it to press rather than being pulled as part of an erroneous line of text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Etaoin_shrdlu
365 million against 10 billion isn't so great
The problem is they (usually) can't pay for it.

They take out loans for it, and as the now-in-jeopardy relief program shows they often can't pay those loans back.

A lot of schools don't even have the prestige but have this pricing problem: if we keep letting colleges access "free money" on the backs of 18 year olds, they will keep taking that money and spending it regardless of if it benefits the students.

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If you walk into a bank as an assetless 18 year old and ask for a $100,000 for "a big bet that will probably pay off just trust me", you'll be politely but firmly asked to leave.

Why are we letting that happen just because some school offering 0 collateral happens to be the co-signer?
> if there is no electricity in the world

Then humanity will have bigger problems, such as survival. Our world isn't made for survival without electricity.
This looks like it’s lisitng institutional shareholders only. I think L&S are still controlling shareholders
But he didn’t donate that much. He was never going to have that money. The other person is showing how close the other guy was to the GOP. You’re being partisan here.
> Plus there must be some feedback to close the loop;
> i.e. Eliza's output must be fed back to it as input.

Actually, the whole process takes place inside the rewriting system recursively.
Add a map!
Highly recommend reading it, one of the greatest books I've read from a perspective of understanding the financial industry.
What a funny position to take. “Somebody else donated to a different group, therefore these events cancel each other out. It is as if nobody made any donations at all.”
And ...

Question: Is the meta company doomed?

Answer: To explain, the Meta company is doomed because it is a company that is not profitable.
>Can you explain how this standard of rigueur leads to anything less than a complete halting of medical research?

~10 yrs of trials and safety data collecting (Including long term studies) is the historical norm. We've certainly not had a complete halting of medical research from doing that.

My main point though is that with the level of data provided and the fact long term studies have not, and cannot have been conducted in this time frame - the push to mandate (and coercively pressure vaccination uptake through fear of losing your job, or access to regular life things bars, cafes, travel etc.) is unjustified and arguably doesn't even reach the bar for informed consent (with many people getting it under the impression it would prevent contraction and transmission).
The Welcome to Video takedown was also detailed in a recent Wired article. Crazy, disturbing, and interesting.
Nice. I've been pondering something like this for a while but lack the time (and frankly, expertise) to attempt it.