skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reference to Olaf Stapledon's "Star Maker".

Published in 1937, it's in public domain (in Canada at least), and can be downloaded in various formats here: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200108

> Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations.

> Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed prefigure later fiction concerning genetic engineering and alien life forms. Sir Arthur C. Clarke considered Star Maker to be "probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written", and Brian W. Aldiss called it "the one great grey holy book of science fiction".

That's high praise coming from these classic authors of the sci-fi genre.

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Would you mind elaborating on Bogdanov? It's apparently a common family name, and I couldn't find anyone in relation to Teilhard de Chardin. Maybe you mean Alexander Bogdanov, who was a philosopher and science fiction writer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov
That's a policy choice, one which is non-obvious and requires serious justification. Why should people be incentivized to spend their money, morally? The mandatory inflation basically is saying, "spend your money or we'll spend it for you". How does this robbery encourage social mobility and the building of generational wealth, exactly? It's one thing to give handouts to people, and quite another to rob them. It's most harmful to the poor who generally have less leverage in ensuring that their wages keep up with inflation and they tend to need to spend a high fraction of their wages to live on, so eroding their savings is seriously destructive. The poor also can't as easily access investing advice and methods, to avoid the effects of inflation.
Usually, it’s because someone bought into GAE, and needed some flexibility for extensions to that app.

Cynically, fairly typical vendor lock-in.
List of qualifying repos for the Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor achievement:

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
>He explains this in the thread - it appears as though trigger warnings only serve to increase anxiety until the trigger is experienced, and at no point does it improve or worsen the experience.

Did it occur to the author that perhaps communicating when the triggering content is going to happen in advance, as well as giving a heads-up right before it to allow the people to make a choice to not experience it would be the thing to try in experiments?

Evidently not.

It feels like the author (and HN) thoroughly misunderstands both the concept of trigger warnings and informed consent.

>So he analogizes this by saying "Imagine a doctor prescribed you a pill and you asked if it was going to help". If "Oh no, it won't help, but it might cause some very minor harm." was the response, you'd probably find a new doctor. So why do we do the opposite here?

This analogy is beyond broken.

Ads for medication are required to include possible side effects. That's a closer analogy.

>In reality,

In the reality of broken analogies and hacks pushing flawed analysis and misunderstanding as research, I am a very sad person.

Let's be better than that.
NSFW/NSFL is a completely different animal than trigger warnings. Only 3 categories exist: 1) no warning, 2) NSFW, 3) NSFL.

Trigger warnings are hyper-specific to the audience and could involved thousands (or infinite) potential 'triggers' and a huge variety of audience categories/groups. The burden on the platforms, writers, and general audience is magnitudes higher for some questionable value.
Digital camera would be fine too. Some photo printers can print direct from an SD card without any PC or network connection.
Not enough abstraction layers
This reeks of dangerous propaganda at best derived from circumstantial evidence.

Did everyone forget the AP nearly started WWIII a week ago because of a minor editing error?

Yet the laptop which can't be mentioned was deemed misinformation, only to be recategorized as authentic years later.

The MSM has lost all credibility.
Man, you are my hero
They're running out of valuable stuff ignoring the gold. Most gold producing nations export their gold like any other metal or mineral, don't they?
you could theoretically social engineer until you find something to exploit

ie, if the file said to ignore "/site/adminpasswords.txt" then you could go to /site/adminpasswords.txt and reveal admin passwords. this is obviously a simple eli5 explanation but i hope it helps

however, i doubt the tesla.com website is where they keep any important code that relates to actual tesla software like we would see used in cars. that would be like the army having their real code for their software/systems at goarmy.com lol
C++ codebases are not at all pleasant to maintain. I'm willing to accept a smaller job market in exchange for a much more enjoyable day to day existence.
Yes, but not in terms of heat and battery. What fanless laptop do you suggest with similar specs to a MacBook Air M1?

The best think I have found that runs Linux reasonably well (still with lots of caveats) is the X13s. And I cannot get a decent price.
Why did you correct to polycarbonate, a narrow category of plastics? Plastics is a very broad descriptor suitable for capturing all kinds of improvements in plastics and I don’t think any zippers are even made from polycarbonate.
Well, I mean, that might have been somewhat standard practice with mod_python the last time anyone used mod_python, which I would assume was about 15 years ago.

Looks like it's been dead since 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_python

In practice, I think modern Python webapps usually use WSGI or similar, where you wouldn't be just dumping a bunch of files somewhere.
No, I think that's the successor to FTX.
Yes, I remember when I was a child flipping through the UHF channels on my black and white tv, visible in the snow and static on one of the channels I could see the shapes in motion of my next door neighbour playing on his Atari 2600.
Culture != Civilization. Culture is a term used to denote the manifestation of the manner in which we think, behave and act. Civilization refers to the process through which a region or society, outstretches an advanced stage of human development and organization.

I think we've been having disjoint discussions.
I have bad experience interacting with members of the rust community. Biggest issue is that they don't keep their opinions to themselves and frankly make everyone misserable with their "join us now, you must" mentality.
>The analysis seems to be more about cases where people read the warning and then _consume the content anyway_, but is that really the common case?

It's not, which is why the entire analysis is BS.

If the subject of the experiment isn't given the choice to opt out, the experiment is flawed.

Is the subject of the experiment is indifferent to the content being warned about to begin with, it is meaningless.

And if not, it's just abuse.
That's true only in comparison to languages with manual memory management. Higher level languages spare you the burden of being conscious about these things, which means Rust is naturally going to be more difficult to work with than, oh, I dunno, Ocaml.

From the other direction, coming from low-level languages: the other problem is that Rust's type system isn't powerful enough to express certain things that you, a competent C programmer, might be fully conscious of...and so you end up needing to fight the type system to get it understand something you're already aware of. To use a classic example, you can understand exactly how the lifetimes work in a doubly linked list but still find it more painful to write in Rust than in C.
(author) The CIA TOD clock is okay for this. It uses wall mains voltage, so it's about as accurate as your average office clock. You can use a CMD-compatible device to seed the time; I'll be adding Ultimate-II+ support as soon as it's off backorder.
It seems like you would identify with Georgism[0]. The fundamental premise is that land/natural resources should belong to everyone, so it is necessary to pay everyone for the land we exclude others from.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Agree, I would say they’re on par with the magpie in terms of grudging respect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie
Not all OSS is badly designed. Blender and Linux are good counter examples.

And there is plenty of badly designed commercial non-OSS out there. Especially software developed internally at large corporations. Major corporations around the world are typically using 30+ years old software that makes similar OSS look like perfection itself.

I think it is down to priorities. When it comes to commercial software the key is what the person who pay for the software (or approve the software to be purchased) cares about. Which often doesn’t match what the users of the software cares about.
very nice. just purchased!
Also if you get a good enough weather station you can feed the data to NOAA and improve the accuracy of your local forecasts.
I'm genuinely curious, what do you think bad about that article?
I find that amateur presenters need to work on delivery the most. Many times people speak too fast and as a result they're adding filler words, ahs and umms which make the presentation a lot more difficult to listen to. Using gestures, modulating cadence and volume can help make the presentation more engaging.
Thanks for the reply re the yt channel, that's a shame as I'm sure you could package some of the content esp the physics ones into a course, I'd definitely buy that. There is a market for intermediate level training material that I've seen executed here and there, some examples are https://www.youtube.com/@DmitrySoshnikov-education/videos, release some free content from a course, hoping https://www.youtube.com/c/LowLevelJavaScript/videos does something similar in the future. Cheers and all the best!
Elon Musk may produce competitor if Twitter is booted from App Store
In the PNW, particularly here in BC, Gore-TEX was an absolute game-changer for hikers. Throw on a tank top or tee-shirt, then your Gore-TEX jacket, and you could climb basically any local mountain between March and October, rain or shine. Every local hike went from being a moist, uncomfortable affair to being a joy regardless of the weather.
Modern PHP apps also would be using Nginx and phpfpm, but it ends up being the same - copying files over.
If the reason stated at the end of the article is the reason I can also understand their decision.

If my SO was surreptitiously taking nude pictures (videos?) of me and our kid while we were sleeping (and uploading them to the cloud!), I’d be pissed (and this is the most benign interpretation).

That said, there should still be due process.

Ultimately, I think it’s an issue with the local max of computing we’re trapped in. We need tools that can free us from dependence on a handful of centralized companies that have this kind of discretionary power over our lives.
> which you lose across service-boundaries.

I suspect this gets resolved at this company by composing on the UI a ton. The UI can reach in and get Orders from the Orders microservice, then reach out to the LineItem microservice. Before this post, I've argued at it the other way: "A LineItem will always require an Order in context therefore maybe LineItem should be part of the Order service instead of it's own thing."

Since this isn't the first time I've seen this heavy UI composition in my career, I suppose it's time to coin and describe this DDD antipattern :)

Yeah that "engineers per service" equation seems alarming. I think we're essentially at a 1:1 ratio at a glance ; not evaluating whether there are "private microservices."
Anyone have any methods for avoiding this SEO nonsense?

I generally prefix search query with `site:reddit.com` or `site:news.ycombinator.com`

Which returns much better discussions about a question/topic, in those discussions can be genuinely great ideas and links
Are there any known examples of people using arbitrage to successfully recover their Google accounts?
I didn't say it's not an issue, I said it's a separate issue.

The question of if a thing is harmful or should be controlled or declared illegal, and the question of how the implimentation mechanics of controlling a thing might be done, are two completely different questions. If you had no way to physically prevent murders, that does not then follow that therefor murder shouldn't be illegal. Failing to realize that is yet another example of jeuvenile.

Practically every law, policy, regulation, code, etc has some element of arbitrariness, interpretation, and discretion or selective enforcement. This one is no different.
Oooh, I built one of those.

This is just a textarea. Edits are saved to local storage. You have 10 “files”.

https://ponder.joeldare.com/app
That's a good price. In mainland EU, right now, the X13s is €1490 in lenovo.com. A MacBook Air M1 is €1200, and I can get almost 10% off using academic discount.

Plus, the Snapdragon CPU in the X13s is still far from the M1 in regular benchmarks. Linux support is better in the X13s, except for the camera. It's an IR one, and this might never be well supported.
Back in my day, wireless was a bug, not a feature!
Of course, that's always a possibility.
You always only need another one when everything has gone to shit, either from failure or cost from vendor-lock-in, so drinking your chosen providers Kool aid equals taking the reactive route and scrambling to rearchitect when the issues hit.

Multi-cloud is really not a big deal. Main nuisance is billing differences, followed by slight variations in e.g. Terraform config.
macOS 13.0.1 (22A400)
Safari 16.1 (18614.2.9.1.12)
what makes you think the tesla.com website is where they keep their real code lol?
The essence of the trick: make the sign bit the least significant bit. Then all the leading bytes for integers of small magnitude remain zeros (not 0xFF like in two-complement integers), and compression becomes easy.
You can swap them in the system preferences without needing extra software. At least for the modifier keys
How? Say more please!
Unsure, sounds like a dark pattern or, being generous, maybe liability avoidance wordage. I have crimped >1000 non "Pass-Thru™" connectors(outdoor/shielded) with mine.

edit: expanded
>Yes, money from a primary can be used in the general. But in this case, it wasn't. The FTX money was used to select candidates but not to elect them.

Money doesn't work that way. Money is fungible. There is nothing about contribution x that distinguishes it from contribution y once both are received, or prevents x from being used for the same purpose as y.

Further,

>In contrast, almost all of the FTX-related donations to the GOP were given during the general cycle meaning that they were specifically given to help elect candidates. This means the GOP actually benefited more from FTX money than the Dems

The other way around. Money given later in an election cycle means there is less time to use it.
It really grinds my gears when people do helpful things, like posting the link to read an article. Don't they know they're inflating internet points?
Need some hardcore sysadmin to with the code.
Yeah, and for product reviews I only trust SlickDeals commenters.

This funny tweet mostly covers it:

> u can google ur questions about the world and get the CIA FBI answer or u can add "reddit" to the end of it and learn the truth

https://twitter.com/literallysofie/status/137189962449199513...
Because for many (probably the vast majority) it's not true. Their smartphone is first and foremost a portable computer. The ability to make calls is secondary.
As someone who is rather distrustful of the real motives of the security in general, TOTP is IMHO a good solution that increases security for the user but is also entirely under the user's control.

As this article shows, a 6502-level CPU is definitely powerful enough to do this and other crypto primitives; smartcards, which can perform RSA operations, are roughly of the same power.
It's a public service. Why have you only considered selfish intent?
Show HN: Open Source Bot That Summarizes Top Hacker News Stories Using GPT-3
HN Summary is an open source bot which sumarizes top stories on Hacker News and publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel.

Whenever a new story appears on the Hacker News API /topstories.json endpoint, this bot summarizes it (currently using OpenAI GPT-3 text-davinci-002) and sends the story title, summary, and url to the hn_summary channel on Telegram.

The purpose of this project is to help build intuition on the capabilities of the current generation of large language models while making a broader swath of top Hacker News content more easily accessible. It could also serve as a platform for experimentation with other language model capabilites such as semantic search.

Join the HN Summary channel on Telegram to see the bot in action and enjoy the story summaries.

https://t.me/hn_summary

There are a number of potential directions I am interested in exploring here, such as making the bot interactive to allow features like bookmarking urls, semantic search, and semantic filtering.

I am also thinking about interfaces other than telegram. I started with telegram since I had recently used it on another project and it seemed like the easiest way to start playing with it. What other interfaces would make sense here?
Saying we have too many people is way too close to fringe ideas like ‘useless eaters’ or something worse. Those beliefs need to be challenged at any opportunity as they are borderline dogwhistles.
My understanding of programming language theory
Drupal is.
I thought firefox with its own engine never got in in the first place
Unfortunately I think the more this knowledge is shared the more those sites will be spammed.

Look what happened to ad blockers - we told everyone about them and now so many sites have ad blocker blockers.
It's to avoid pay walls....
I had just the right personality traits that made me a good fit for the education system. I loved to read, was fine at sitting still for a long time, loved learning without structure, and was not constantly comparing myself against friends. My sister was not so lucky and is having a hard time trying to enter the professional world.
>> Dad chose not do do any of that though... why?

It says in the article that would have cost 7k.
The "systems" label only means those languages can do a few more low-level things, nothing more. There's no reason not to use it for other things as well.
Divine incantations in early Irish literature
Indeed, a bug in the other sense too.
Show HN: Uminal – Large language model anyone can extend with new apps/skills
Hi HN!

I’ve been working on a project called Uminal, which lets anyone extend GPT-3 with new apps & capabilities that auto-compose with each other.

Short demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/211327fd8e854513b909b0f69eadd2f8

Online prototype: https://uminal.com

These “apps” are similar to “Alexa skills” but they’re auto-composable (and a bit different in other ways), and enable GPT-3 to interact w/ the real world.

These apps could be anything (as long as it’s accessible via an API endpoint).

For example, these apps could be other LLMs (e.g., Galactica), apps built w/ LLMs (e.g., using something like LangChain [0] or Dust.tt [1]), or just plain old APIs (such as web search).

Anyone can add new apps to Uminal by telling it how & when it should use the app’s API endpoint, and users can browse & enable apps for their account.

Then, when processing a user’s input prompt, Uminal will automatically call any of the user’s enabled apps as needed, & compose their inputs/outputs together.

It will fallback to GPT-3 whenever needed, as part of processing a prompt.

It currently uses MRKL + GPT-3’s zero-shot reasoning to accomplish this, but I’m working to let users also teach it how to process sample input prompts, which would hopefully improve Uminal’s reasoning ability for everyone, using few-shot examples in a scalable manner. Can’t wait to try this on top of GPT-4!

The project’s vision is to build an “intelligent computer” by letting anyone teach/extend LLMs to interact w/ the real world, similar to how iOS apps really expanded the capabilities of the iPhone.

Would really love to hear any ideas/thoughts/honest feedback, etc.! My Twitter DMs are also open: https://twitter.com/subby_tech

Feel free to join our Discord, if you have any questions/feedback or just wanna chat, etc: https://discord.gg/qczbX5rzD8

Project docs/readme: https://dent-mirror-a40.notion.site/Uminal-1d6b4b8fe22b42b28...

Source code for the sample Uminal apps (web search, etc.): https://github.com/thecooltechguy/uminal-sample-apps

Notes on using the online prototype:

Once you sign in, go to the Apps page and enable "Web search" and "Work Q&A".
The “Web search” app uses SerpApi to give GPT-3 internet access, while the "Work Q&A" app integrates with a sample company's Notion database to answer work-related questions (e.g., can I work from home?, etc.).

Due to how SerpAPI works, if any queries involving web searches fail, you can try re-running them and it will usually work.

Again, this is a super rough prototype hacked together in a few days, but would love to hear your honest thoughts/feedback/ideas!

Thanks! :D

[0] https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/

[1] https://dust.tt — https://github.com/dust-tt/dust
It's called Microcompanies.

>> Otherwise [without microcompanies] you just can't do software engineering right.

So true
Heat and battery is directly tied to the performance per watt.

With equally performing software, the one with the best performance per watt will be run cooler and longer.

The graph I sent is not raw performance, but performance per watt.
I guess for large data centers they could use multiple IPs and the overall scheme stays essentially the same, but the article seems to strongly imply that it is one single egress IP per DC. The 64k simultaneous connections limitation is only per origin server IP.
Lots of overly fragile people have hang-ups, and lots more will claim them — or wallow in them — if there’s an advantage to do so, and even if that advantage is merely a boost to their ego: you’re special, you’re unique, your problems and inability to control them are not a failing, but a genuine disability society should accommodate.

We can’t possibly account for every possible form of extreme emotional fragility, nor is it our responsibility to account for it.

The attempt to shift that responsibility to speakers is itself just a form of social aggression, status-seeking and control.

So yes, it is asking for too much.
It seems like that's not as much of a factor as one expects, as evidenced in Scandinavia and Finland [0]. Researchers said that even with high parental care policies, people still aren't having as many children. This is I think more related to people simply not wanting kids rather than policies relating to parental and child care.

[0] https://sciencenorway.no/birth-family-planning-population/re...
Happy 30th freezeday, kids!
I learned more in high school from debate than many other classes put together. How to write and persuade, how laws work and how to read them, confidence, organization, research, the list goes on.

If most students learned even half of what I did from debate I would make it required.
When was it not true?

And, frankly, thats their bloody job.
> By your definition, all problems of the form “does program X have property Y” are decidable, because you can just simulate X on all possible inputs until it halts or cycles, and observe whether Y holds in each case.

Yes! Thank you! That's exactly what I'm saying.

Now the question is: how can we do this without having to simulate running the program step-by-step on all possible inputs?

Or in other words, how can we reduce the time complexity of the currently-known algorithms for solving this problem?

That's the actual interesting question!