skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly OT, but one lesson I learned a while ago is that whole grains lend themselves well to similar cooking techniques. For example, I had first learned that farro tastes best if you toast it in the pan before adding water/stock--similar to couscous or quinoa.

What I didn't notice until later on is that you can do the same with oats! I now toast steel-cut oats in butter and then cook them like usual. Had never made the connection before that it's the same thing you do with farro, just a different grain.
The floating point implementation can signal SIGFPE, with a code FPE_INTOVF, it would seem to me that that is a suitable exception mechanism, it's just that the source isn't the floating point unit but the regular CPU.

Signals (kill), signal, raise, sigsetjmp, siglongjmp etc are C's exception handling mechanism. It's not as well integrated into the language as say a try-catch construct but it works well enough for situations like these. See: signal.h and setjmp.h

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(IPC)
And that's why you use C in the first place?
Except... correct me if I'm wrong here... The "reactor" did destroy itself.

> The fuel and canister get vaporized within a few billionths of a second during the experiment. Researchers then hope their equipment survived the heat and accurately measured the energy released by the fusion reaction.

It didn't necessarily blow up like a fusion bomb, but the energy was hardly produced in any sort of sustainable, ongoing form that we can harvest.

Worse - it's not even just the chamber that essentially destroys itself - the lasers that create the event also damage themselves: https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/controlling-backscatter-damage-...
So, you are against any laws relating to the internet and children?
Hey man - Have so many feelings and thoughts in reading this. First, I'm sorry you're suffering. As an obviously articulate and educated person who is in reality fairly young, I'm 100% confident you have so much more potential than you're giving yourself credit for. Also, as you can see from all these responses, there's more compassion and empathy out there than it might feel like. It's ok to reach out to people for help. It's great that you took this step. I hope all these replies can serve as positive motivation/momentum for you!

I completely understand how deeply you feel these things, but I hope it empowers you a bit to know that I for one am 100% certain you absolutely can find love, have kids and get a job in your 40s.

You mentioned wanting to move back to the US, which could be a great medium/long term goal. If that feels like what you want, I'd consider setting this as a goal on the horizon and then working backwards from there to put together a realistic plan for how to achieve this. Otherwise, set a different med/long term goal like moving to some other location you prefer or maybe getting a certain type of job. Setting a clear goal and then planning towards it can have a remarkable impact on getting shit done. It doesn't need to be perfect. You can adjust your goal and your plan as you go. Take baby steps, and celebrate the small wins along the way.

Finally, since you have an engineering educational background, with remote work and online resources these days, my sense is that it would be so much easier than you feel to brush up your skills and start working again. The world is big and filled with quite a few CRUD apps! I don't have enough context to know what fits for you, but there are so many tutorials and online courses that walk you through practical exercises to build real stuff. Once you set a goal and put together a sketch of a plan, consider if it feels right to pick some online courses/tutorials and build some stuff to refresh your skills and give you some recent work to point employers/clients to. Some that I just happen to have seen lately: Buildspace (fun weekend coding projects), Replit has coding tutorials. I always like Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial.

I hope some of this is helpful.
One fusion approach that was recently discussed here was anetronic fusion with Hydrogen and Boron-11.

Because it produces no free neutrons, it doesn't have the (small) waste problem as this laser fusion approach.

This article is newer from the one that I remember.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841080
Students at expensive New York university occupy campus, demand A-grades for all
20 and 30 year olds, take note how often health is mentioned in this thread.

One of the best investments into your future self that you can make is to take care of your health, both physical and mental.

I know this sounds like grandpa talking, but drink moderately, don't smoke, eat healthy, do some sports. You won't be indestructible forever and small damages and bad habits accumulate.

Your 40 year old self will thank you.
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> You need to see a therapist

You should reword that. Otherwise how did humanity last this long? Psychotherapy is less than two centuries old. You should instead say something like, "One option is to see a therapist."

There are friends, elders, books, and a number of other ways to climb out of a mental rut. Traipsing "Psychology Today" for a therapist who will charge the insurance $150 for 40 minutes of a session, through Zoom no less, with your $40 co-pay after deductibles is such a commercial approach to what is fundamentally a human problem.

You know a very modern problem? You can't sit easily and talk with friends over a drink about your issues and have someone give you constructive advice. Everyone is remote, busy, prefers chatting online, and as a result a lot of loneliness manifests as "Oh my god, what am I doing with my life."
Two observations,

There is utility and need for some convention of feature description, for the case of the external behavior of the system being correct, for some domain, despite lack of specific training. It is reasonable for users of such systems to say that the internal states and representation don't matter, so long as the behavior is correct; and in cases like these we will benefit from some consensus on how to talk about such things. Fine with me if some new term is applied.

More of interest to me though is that it is not at all clear to me that genuine emergence is not possible through scaling (independent of whether it is in any given existing LLM). Because the optimal (most compact) correct representation for a lot of e.g. language output, is exactly that which benefits from abstraction.

What reason is there to believe that the abstractions derived at higher levels (of the network generally but not necessarily, depends on the architecture) do not encode non-linear problem spaces in the world, which are "real" emergence?

I.e. if the way some network learns arithmetic is to settle on an internal weighting that performs computation, rather than "memorizing assertions", me, I would call that "emergent."

But I'm happy to use some other term should one, er, emerge.
Yes. Every story and background will vary, but to the question: absolutely, yes.

People seem to be advocating for various forms of therapy, and that can be fine, but I believe you have a genuine mid-life crisis going, and ought to ride that like a wave. You have a lot of potential it seems like, but lack really great guides and collaborators on shared goals.

I am aware of independent coaching that addresses everything you said, and there are plenty of people who can relate and advise in your circumstance. Someone needs to argue with you long enough for you to see that your outlook is not right or wrong, but ineffectual, inferior to your actual standard of living. That is what is peeking through here: a higher standard that will make or break you.

Your outlook is dark but the other side from where you are does make this crisis worth it. You seem at the edge of understanding there is something else, not just something more. From there, all your dilemmas are solvable smoothly in due course. It is similar to the entry of a higher math into a previously inscrutable problem domain. You just need that higher math, to wield it expertly and advance its edge, and for it to click into your way of seeing all situations and your life overall.
Because Microsoft was also a UNIX vendor, actually used Xenix in the context of MS-DOS development (via downlink cables) and already had knowledge in-house?
I think we're all right there with you, but I'm not holding my breath. Best he could off Jet Tracker Kid was $5k, which would arguably be pennies (less than that?) to Elon with his level of wealth. :D
I'll bite — so what did happen with Cambridge Analytica?

As far as I can tell[1], the only thing wrong with what you said is "Facebook sold...", where in reality, the data was surreptitiously gathered. Or are you referring to something else?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
Monero does the job fairly well, the only issue is that the floating exchange rate can make it difficult. A stable-coin with Monero's properties would do well I think.
I'm bullish on VR/AR but FB seems to have totally lost the plot. The metaverse is a joke, the Meta Quest 2 software is utter garbage (super buggy, unintuitive, extremely frustrating), and the Quest Pro was incredibly lackluster.

I enjoy my Quest 2 overall once you get into a game but the OS is trash and FB's layer on top of Android is not well done. My friends and I spend way more time than we should just trying to get into a "Home" all together and launching a game from the OS is a crapshoot. The OS is completely full of papercuts from unresponsive UI to things like switching to passthrough kills party audio for a second or two. Staying in passthrough for more than a minute (sometimes less) will kick you from the game you are playing which is infuriating. Do they think that people don't need to step away to deal with kids/pets/drinks/bathroom/etc? I can't tell you how many gaming sessions have been ruined or screwed up because someone had to take a short break and the OS/Game just shit the bed.

I was excited for the Quest Pro and was ready to buy one if it was compelling... it was not. The specs are a minor bump over the Q2, the color passthrough camera feels very "beta", and from videos I've watched of it in action I'm glad I didn't get one. The (literal) bending of "reality" when using passthrough looks terrible and feels like it would really break immersion. The controllers did look interesting and I haven't heard anything really bad about them, they do seem like a big step up from the Q2 controllers. You can pair the QPro controllers with the Q2 so that might be something I look into though I'd prefer to never get Meta another dollar if I can help it. I'm looking forward to whatever Apple is working on.

Sidenote: Maybe it's an industry term that I just don't know/understand but "of overall costs" doesn't make sense to me. The Subtitle has "Company says 20% of spending to go toward Reality Labs" which makes a lot more sense.
I agree that the production value for TV shows is insanely good now, it must cost them a small fortune. I don’t know how they are keeping the budgets lower than their movie equivalents or perhaps maybe I don’t know how movies justify their budgets given the quality of modern day tv series.
Years ago there were a few companies[1] that tried a clever workaround for streaming broadcast TV. The scheme ultimately didn't hold up in the US, but I've always wondered what keeps Netflix from doing something similar with their physical discs. Controlled digital lending[2] isn't exactly settled terrain, but given their resources and increasingly precarious position you'd think Netflix would press the issue.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo#Service and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FilmOn#Legal_issues

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_digital_lending
It returns a boolean.
IIRC, the Children’s Crusade never made it to the Holy Land. Instead they ended up a port in Europe where some “friendly” people offered to take them to the Holy Land on their ships for free. Turns out they were slavers and the children were taken to Northern Africa and sold as slaves.

This story sounds actually plausible as it may not be that far from where the children started to a port city.
Since the GP said "from a prepper perspective", I assume he's thinking of conditions after some catastrophe has disrupted normal services.
> "They didn't pay, so they die."

This isn't a thing in the US. Hospitals will stabilize anyone, regardless of ability to pay. First responders- police, ambulance, fire fighters- will save any life they are able to. Preventative health care is a different story, and even that is complicated.

Unincorporated land holds a very tiny percentage of the population of the US; trying to use this as an analogy for the rest of society is just disingenuous.

> Other countries have orginisations that deal with entire areas.

So does the US. Even unincorporated land falls under the jurisdiction of whatever county it happens to be in as well as the state and federal governments; the only difference is it doesn't have a local town government... because there is no local town.
They're using a bool, so it violates the old-school C paradigm used for library calls. This is more of a macro rather than a syscall or standard library function call.
> What is the gift of predicting events that have already occurred called?

Retroactive precognition?
Ah yes, the classic "privacy/security/compliance hurts our funnel" argument. Said as if the former aren't more important than the latter.
Yes, but Steam runs on your local machine with a unique IP while Gamestream / Geforce Now run on shared IP cloud machines.

How do you know that the same game starting twice on the same cloud IP is the same user, and not the provider of that cloud service underpaying you?
https://www.wkms.org/government-politics/2012-03-15/south-fu...
Exactly. There are two separate cases:

1) Insured by another company. The sensible course of action is to fight the fire and bill them. Every company benefits from such cooperation.

2) Uninsured. The moral hazard problem, if too many people are not paying the only sensible approach is to let uninsured buildings burn.
‘Chekhov Becomes Chekhov’ Review: The Great Listener
The Bible (ESV)
> This is a company that should be able to bypass app store restrictions?

Every company should be able to bypass app store restrictions.

I don't think the question is even framed correctly. Every iPhone owner should be able to bypass app store restrictions. Developers doing so is just a consequence of consumer choice.
The hohlraum cylinder itself is also made of gold.

Could it be made from a metal that is in greater supply?
It’s probably not just power companies. I would be surprised if Wall Street firms and other large industries didn’t also do this practice.

https://www.openculture.com/2014/09/conspiracy-theory-rock.h...

Media bias is a big problem.
The big lesson to take away from the glitter bomb series is that you shouldn't be poor. It looks like it sucks!

If you're gonna steal it helps to be rich
I agree. People: clean your moka pots! If you believe the patina improves your coffee, test your theory: Brew a batch with just water, and give it a taste.
So the Russian and Iranian people who are not at fault for their governments misgivings are supposed to be shut out of the global financial system too?

Thank Satoshi for true net neutrality.
You call the county sheriff. Sheriffs and courts were the original reason why counties exist, and why there aren't any parts of the country that exist outside of a county, while there are quite a lot of people living outside of any incorporated city.
Right, that's why our elections always come down to a 50.001% majority, because if you let the majorities be bigger it's more expensive to turn them into a minority when they turn against you.
_ money flows to news sites that attack their critics.

Fill in the blank, tautology.
See also Rice Krispies
Checked overflow operations are kind of the goto operation for "it's easy in assembly, hard in programming languages"--in hardware terms, it's usually check a flag, but since flag registers are not provided for in high-level languages, it becomes a game of try to write it in a pattern that the compiler can recognize, which is never a fun game to play. Even worse than addition is multiplication. Thankfully, C23 has finally added these operations.

Although, recently, I noticed I wanted a case where I wanted checked (u32 - u32) -> i32 and (u32 + i32) -> u32 operations, which even Rust's standard library doesn't provide. (The use case is keeping track of a running delta between two lists of u32 values--the delta can go positive or negative, so it has to be signed, but the values in the lists can never be negative).
Yeah, I'm not sure what it is about the TVA -- feels almost like DARPA in a way. Something about the staffing and organization has led to a model utility. They're not without minor scandal occasionally but given the amount of political power they wield, maybe it's the distinction that TVA is government-owned and NextERA (who runs FPL) and Southern Company are both for-profit corporations?
Fiction: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier. Very fun novel somewhere between sci-fi and literary fiction, best read without having spoiled anything about it.

Non-Fiction: The Bright Ages - Matthew Gabriele. Very nuanced well written popular history of the medieval period

Journalism: Not from this year but I read it this year the first time: Largely photographic piece about the drug war in the Phillipines: (warning, very disturbing/gory) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/07/world/asia/ro...
The news that lockdown ends.
There are so many immidiate contractions in this thing it makes my head spin.

Like one section here says "no loot boxes since 2019 and never gambling"

Loot boxes are gambling.

"We respect our players by making our game pay to win"

But when we breed a culture of bullying and use behavioral science to get you to purchase cosmetics, that's fine.

Slimy, the whole game industry is slimy.
Haruki Murakami's "Novelist as a Vocation" has been inspiring for me. It's a memoir about his path as an author. I find that his discussions of topics such as writers block relevant to my technology work.
If your equations are in MathML, the browsers should be able to screen read them at some point.

> Even slight differences in layout can make a complex set of equations difficult to parse.

Such set of equations should normally be represented by a single block, I can't imagine a reason why layout should change inside that block.

The layout of pdf is unnecessarily rigid. When I'm reading it on my screen, there's no reason the text should be split into A4 pages with very specific margin values. Latex also often moves your figures a few pages ahead because they didn't fit on the specific page. There's absolutely no reason for that when you have access to the big continuous canvas of an html page. This works for equations too; if you have a long equation block that happens to be right between two pages, you either have to let one page have a gap, or reorder/rewrite your paragraphs to make the equations fit. None of this has a good excuse when it's read on a screen.

I don't think we need a website, but a js-free webpage with hyperlinks would be a lot better than pdf. Pdfs I find imperfect but ok.
> I used to be rather successful with women, was never single, always could find someone easily. I'm 45, in good shape with a good job, but it has became much harder.

You're also most likely much more selective. In your 20's and 30's, there's no feeling of a clock ticking.
> So the Russian and Iranian people who are not at fault for their governments misgivings are supposed to be shut out of the global financial system too?

If it helps exert pressure then financial sanctions are strictly better than kinetic war. The ability to end around those sanctions can lead to significantly more death and suffering - both there and potentially elsewhere. It's not about fairness it's about minimizing harm. If you disagree, vote.

> Thank Satoshi for true net neutrality.

No thanks man. Seems like an interesting cult y'all have there.

[edit] Nobody has the right to trade. If you want to not conform to social norms and pose a risk, fine - but you don't have a fundamental right to exchange with foreign powers whom you detest. If you want to go down that path you better be prepared to be self-sufficient.
> If you are actually thinking about the need to call these function, you are already thinking about overflow.

As you should, for any datatype.
I'm black and your comment is demeaning in a way I can't put my finger on.

Kids do say "cap" all the time now, acting like we have so few wins that we need to get credit for it or something feels insulting.
I had a similar feeling after finishing the book. This YT video really helped frame the book for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UBOA00EAQw
The best way to eat whole grains is to roast them (like popcorn), along with some dry fruits ground them into grainy flour.

You can try multiple combinations, (rice, wheat, millet, corn, lentils, with cashew/pistachio/wallnuts)

Use that flour with milk/sugar or with literally with anything and you have your fancy breakfast!
> Was your project built in multiple languages and tied together using Maven? Or was it just JDK languages/Java?

Exactly that - for one it was a plugin for Alfresco ECM that disobeyed every Alfresco SDK rule :), then a custom Angular frontend that needs to be build according to the plugin - furthermore the business was of that kind that every customer had a specialized build with customization - Bazel would have solved that in a very neat way - including overriding a few source files for a specific customer.

We tried to build then docker images with maven which was just a shitshow considering our problems - however I'm not there anymore but I'd like to have the exact setup that you describe - the big hammer to don't have to deal with all the stupid things - especially as my background is sysadmin and every problem I don't have to solve anymore is good for me :)
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I'm reminded of an old Eric Lippert post about this. He basically says the same as you: boneheaded and fatal exceptions are not meant to be caught, and vexing and exogenous exceptions are ordinary flow control.

https://ericlippert.com/2008/09/10/vexing-exceptions/
Ideally a single use one.
No. Hospitals will do what they have to *against immediate threats*. They will not do what's needed in the bigger picture if they are not paid. You don't get the chemotherapy etc if you can't pay.
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for those lacking context, he was photographed recently with Jared Kushner
People do the same with AAA - don’t pay to renew until you need a tow and pay the renewal over the phone. I think they’re a bit smarter now and make you pay for the years you skipped.
Thanks for the recommendation, I just grabbed a copy.

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut was that book for me this year. It's an odd blend of fact and fiction covering a handful of 20th century physics and math discoveries. Alexander Grothendieck, Einstein, Schrödinger and Heisenberg all appear.
Puffed oats aren’t as popular in breakfast cereal but they also exist.

[edit] looks like Arrowhead makes puffed everything cereal. Rice, oats, corn, millet, kamut…
Holy. Shit.

I need to make an exclusive invite-only Mastodon instance with verified accounts, so being @ that server will be a status symbol.

Is Bluecheck.com taken?

(except now someone else will do it. Also I'm too lazy to actually do this)
> since binance is not based in the US or EU, its users don't expect the same level of transparency that banks have

I am not a Binance user. My tax dollars will be used to clean up this mess once it implodes. I am also not too keen on it playing piggy bank to Iran and North Korea.