skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't always respond, some might even look at you strangely - oh well!

Why do you assume you're someone worth having a random conversation with at all? This is a sincere question.

In my experience of people trying to engage me in conversation, none of them are worth the time. At best I've had a social interaction that basically amounted to being on hold on the phone for five minutes while I struggle to work out what these people want and I'm usually left none the wiser; at worst I've had to listen to idiots segue from discussing the weather to holding forth on a variety of lunatic-fringe causes. Time wasted.

On the rare times I've tried to engage people in conversation they react like I would: impatience that I'm wasting their time, and/or blank looks.

I'd really discourage anyone trying to randomly engage people in conversation unless you're sure you really have some kind of shared interest. IE, you're at a gig, you might imagine then that you could have a meaningful conversation with someone there about the band you are both there to listen to.
True, with an ICE car you only need to worry about things constantly and randomly breaking down or wearing out and the fuel prices bankrupting you.

Disclaimer: I never owned a Tesla and only ever drove ICE.
Can't help but feel like that last bit may have fallen off the wrong side of the subjectivity vs conviction chart.

If people want to live different they can. Plenty of people die in their 50s and 60s. Some earlier.
> [website that's basically a clone of HN]

Which site is that?
I suspect the title of this article is going to get a lot of commenters who don't read the article.

On topic: It seems like the author was directly plagiarized, and it sounds like the perpetrators are handwaving lawyers at them. If I were them, I'd write to the head of their faculty or their dean; I suspect the university wouldn't want to be associated with potential plagiarism (and I suspect their lawyers would recommend getting the citation approved).
KeePassXC with the DB stored in Resilio Sync for me. It's just convenient that way because I've got a home server that everything gets synced with so I don't have to rely on devices being awake at the same time.
Very much this. The part of TikTok that scares me isn't even all the data collection, it's that someone can put his thumb on the algorithm to feature content one way or another and people will lap it up.
I've never written a parser because I love parsing. I actually kind of hate it, and have always been baffled by the people who nerd out on it. But, like, when I'm working on a problem that needs a parser, I'm glad I can bang one out! Like I said elsewhere: that's happened a bunch of times in my career.
Perhaps you should read the article?

The title is a quote from a professor's assistant insisting that "blogs aren't real scientific publications". The (to me) blatant plagiarism of the blog author seems pretty awful, as does the insistence that the blog is "beneath their notice".
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok’s commitment to African election integrity questioned
You wont take taxis now because they are driven by people?
> "The end-game is that technology will become invisible and we’ll have Google inside our heads."

That's a super dystopian end-game. :(
Hard to judge without having walked in their shoes. I grew up with nothing, and I have no family support network. If I am laid off, fall ill, whatever - there is nowhere to which I can turn. YOLOing in my 20s felt like the deepest kind of irresponsibility for someone trying to crawl their way out of childhood poverty.
Navigating Connected Memories with a Task-Oriented Dialog System
> ChatGPT is an interface to GPT that maintains a history of previous statements.

Not exactly, ChatGPT was fine tuned on top of InstructGPT.

> We trained this model using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), using the same methods as InstructGPT, but with slight differences in the data collection setup.

From : https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
Another place where randomness comes in handy is testing.

Suppose you partition your test input set into N different partitions of equal size, and you want, for each partition, to have a test input from that partition. If you just generate random tests then on average after generating N log N tests you will have hit each partition at least once. And this is true not just of the partitions you choose, but ANY N partitions of equal size.
I can’t believe Rossi wouldn’t cite you or at least acknowledge you in some note in her publication! And to say the value of your blog is “nil” while copying your work (including your commentary) is beyond parody… Entitled academia strikes again!

Merry Christmas :), your blog is fascinating and I’ll read through some of the other posts too!
1Password or Bitwarden
It might be an improvement but (1) I expect it would be political suicide for the government to try and implement, (2) if it is just a pricing exercise it wouldn’t change CO2 emissions (edit: if the government just spends taxes then that uses CO2), (3) the examples of the failures of carbon-credits indicates pricing externalities is a complex problem.

Let’s use a mental model that externalities should double the price. Existing NZ petrol taxes per litre double the price (about 50% at pump is excise and GST [1]). Using that model we can see that the existing pricing in of externalities doesn’t actually fix anything for petrol.

See comment edit above for direct action you can do to marginally fix the problem for yourself (obviously it doesn’t fix the problem, but it is one of the few direct actions you could do that is difficult to be cheated).

Edit: alternatively, global oil risks (rather than raw costs) act similarly to externalities in driving adoption of greener technologies: https://energypost.eu/russias-war-is-accelerating-the-clean-... Presumably because those risks are causing political costs to politicians?

[1] https://www.aa.co.nz/cars/owning-a-car/fuel-prices-and-types...
Most people seem to think it needs to be accessible online. Remote Access =/= Internet Access. Self hosting an external vault, using VPNs, and requiring MFA access make the vault tricky to get to in the first place. You’re machine would need to be compromised first for an attacker to even connect to it—and at that point you’re compromised (and probably keylogged).

If you’re actively under attack no Password Manager, mental algorithm/ password pattern, Yubikey, or MFA will prevent someone from just using your authenticated session(s).

Does that mean we shouldn’t use these mechanisms? Of course not. When the risk is only realized with full compromise—saying XYZ could pose a threat is moot from a security perspective.
Should this be renamed to, with quotes:

"Nobody Cares About Your Blog"

...given it's a quote and not a statement about Your Blog?
If your strategy is to run through life with no buffer what do you expect to happen? What scenario do you envision where you aren't wiped out? Get into a motorbike accident on your $5k vacation and bam, bankrupt. So much for the low stress holiday!

Some people must have nerves of steel, I couldn't sleep living life like that. A stiff breeze takes most people out financially and the feel comfortable going on vacations!

If you want to live in a society of relaxed, happy well-off people then you're going to have to do some work for someone else that you never collect on. That is literally the only way to achieve good outcomes. We call it "savings" and it is a great idea.
East-West battleground will shift from fossil fuels to metals
Does Ethereum have some sort of system built-in to be able to internally and correct as the community learns about new issues? AFAIK everything that's written is written in stone, no? (Barring a majority decision agree to a new ledger entirely like they did that one time)
I remember seeing a retailer that was literally dead in the water the second they IPO'ed then 5x and collapse twice over ten years...they still aren't dead but have collapsed permanently.

Large companies are often able to generate low-quality growth that keeps things going for a few more years. The trick is distinguishing between high and low quality growth.

Tech companies can add more sales people, that is easy, it can keep things going whilst equity markets are open. Quality growth can't be bought like a salesperson. MDB was always seemed anomalous to me, I am not surprised they are down 65% because competition is only increasing. But, either way, the real money is on the long side (predicting which companies are going to fail is a lot easier than predicting success, the problem is funding that position and what happens in the middle because companies have so many ways to fake success until the next bear market).
> So what exactly is so complex that Ethereum runs that it processes stuff so slowly?

Nothing against the talented devs working at Klarna, but if they have trouble handling the load, they can always add a couple TB of memory or a couple hundred CPU cores.

Ethereum needs to solve 100k tps while continuing to run on a Raspberry Pie on a home internet connection.
If you’re in the South Bay Area and need dinner tomorrow send me an email and I’ll drop it off! cedricbosch at gmail
Making scientific publishing easier around the world
>I'd write to the head of their faculty or their dean

The university and the journal. They both have an interest here.
Technically it isn't legal, but in most cases the copyright owner no longer exists, or no longer remembers that they own the copyright. With no one complaining, the games stay up. The only complaints I know about came from Nintendo and Amiga, both of whom are deluding themselves.
$ uname
Linux
$ uname -a
Linux phi-nixos 6.0.7 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 3 15:00:35 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Still has no bearing on why they would or wouldn't take taxis now.
Humidity isn't so bad when it's in the 50s/60s Fahrenheit all the time.
Hey, my apartment in Central California doesn't have microwave (although its a good apartment).
I asked it to write something bad about Meghan and Harry, as per a comment that suggested it would be able to replace journalists at certain newspapers if it could do that (and for similar topics that they obsess over). It replied that it wouldn't say bad things about people. It wouldn't even tell me what kinds of bad things people were saying about Meghan and Harry.
My uncle worked at Xerox PARC and worked directly with Alan Kay (still friends to this day).

He led the design group. I have no idea if he dropped acid during his time working there but I sure hope so!
source is open as "open to read, download, and run" (and even modify as soon as you're doing it privately)?
> The kind of "fun" that the colleges condoned occurred in a sheltered atmosphere, and would have been utterly off limits to the adult residents of the surrounding towns.

... What kind of "fun" is that? The only thing that I can think of that would be off limits to non-students is literally illegal activities that students shouldn't be doing either.
Deadline confusion :)
The implications are that performative justice, an international perp walk in chains is somehow "better" not withstanding that probably costs more to make happen.

He's on $250m posted bail. That's quite a lot of motivation to attend his place of registration and hand over his passport.

Is being seen in an orange jumpsuit really so important for law to be seen to be done?

Oh wait.. I get it: his frequent flyer miles were fraudulently obtained so he shouldn't use the lounge.
pretty great idea, I'd watch "Tech To Brew" :)

the money made from letting a Netflix crew follow you around would probably help through bad seasons
That's a project that will take generations. "Rebuild all the cities". Ok.
I just reworked some java code that is deployed INSIDE an oracle database. You can load java classes into oracle and use them like functions.

So I would say: find the most obscure place you can deploy code, and make sure it is not testable.
Hasn't happened to Tesla
I am not sure if you are speaking from experience or looking at weather data, but in 13 years I have never seen indoor humidity high enough to make mold likely. Higher humidity with cool temperatures does not feel like high humidity with high temperatures, which can be unbearable. I sweat profusely in the latter conditions and not all all in the former.
Fair enough. I hope I was clear that I do think that computer programs can understand. I just don't think that optimizing for solving the Turing test will generally yield a computer program capable of "understanding" or "super intelligence".
If I had to guess, I'd assume that's because properly citing would out her as not having done a bunch of the work she claimed to have done i.e. actual research.

Everything else reads like classic misdirection of someone caught red-handed.
Fish? I think the issue is high cholesterol, high fat meat.
Show HN: Gcp2aws – Call AWS APIs Using GCP Credentials
I build this for practicing purpose.
Basically Golang clone of https://github.com/doitintl/janus.
Please teach me if you find something wrong.
I lived in Florida for a while. Between the ultra-conservative retirees and the over-representation of the tragically hilarious on-point stereotypical poor white rural southerner I thought it was an awful place to live. I get a lot of value for the taxes I pay in California: schools that aren't prohibited from discussing certain scientific topics ("climate change") and that aren't outing LGBQTP+ kids to other kids' parents in letters, for one example. Anyone who holds up Florida is a positive place to move to instantly loses credibility to me.
We know people in southeast Asia 70,000 years ago had boats they deliberately sailed out of sight of land: they colonized Australia. (Maybe via Timor, maybe Sulawesi, maybe both.) That they would have sailed wherever else they could, including along the Aleutians to North America, is the null hypothesis: you would need to demonstrate that they didn't, and show why not.

The region had a million square miles of bottom land now under the sea. People lived there for tens of millennia, and were driven by sea level rise, generation by generation, to high ground where other people already lived.

Something dramatic happened much more recently such that much of the population of the region now traces ancestry to a mother population from Taiwan. Plague, maybe? Another puzzle.
Lots of peer review papers refer to non peer review content. It's not wrong to refer to URI of note. Not to do so, this egregiously stinks of passing off others work.
Adding a trailer [1] for our AI overloads coming soon.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqPSTJMjCA [video][2 mins]
That feeling when you finally, finally find the bit of code you’ve been looking for… and you can no longer remember why you were looking for it, because you’ve completely purged your short term memory.
What is your dream though? Not to discount what you're saying, but so many people talk about saving to achieve their dream. From what I can tell, these folks' dream is actually: to save money so they can some day achieve their dream.
I love the OGA thing, it's pretty typical trade speak in the industry. When I worked in defense contracting, we'd only refer to one big agency as 'they guys in maryland'. It should be pretty obvious which OGA that refers to. I'm not at all surprised by these releases but I figure most of the folks out there don't know how the sausage is made. Luckily there is no such agency known as an other government agency.
Fair point regarding the last line. Overlooked that somehow.

> Land doesn't have any rights, so suburbs can't infringe upon them.

Slaves didn't have rights back then either, as I understand it. Can't infringe upon those!

More seriously, I haven't done the math myself but given concepts like "earth day" it doesn't seem like we're doing too well in providing for everyone, and that's with a large majority of people not living in the usa suburb style. It only seems fair if everyone (eight billion people) were given the opportunity to achieve an equal standard of living if they are willing to work for it; the kind of thing one would ideally codify in a binding human rights statement (e.g., ECHR). Under the ideal of giving everyone equal opportunities, freely taking however much land you fancy would almost certainly infringe on others' basic rights.

But anyway that's just about land use. I don't know that the amount of land taken is the restrictive factor here, it's probably more about how you get to and from your daily needs (transportation and heating being big factors in personal energy use). The fundamental limitation usually boils down to energy in the end (could live in the Sahara if you build a lot of AC and desalination and pipes to get it there -- spaceship earth style). Currently, we don't have a lot of energy available in a way that maximizes total happiness, considering global warming. We might have to take it easy with personal consumption rates until we do have the energy.
No downvotes from me, but people take vacations for other reasons.

I know people who are basically close to burnout all the time, and a week here and there of no-responsibility vacation would do wonders for their mental health. It’s not necessarily always about fulfilling a dream, but it can be about doing a little self care.
With regards to your Chrome issue:

1. How often did you update your Nixpkgs channel/flake input/etc?
2. What branch (nixos-XX.XX or unstable) were you using?
3. Were you using Chromium or Google Chrome?

Chrom{e,ium} gets updated pretty quickly, but depending on a lot of factors, it may take time to make it into a channel. It should really never take 2 weeks though, which is why I ask the first question.

You can also always track HEAD (or even a bump PR!) as the other commenter mentioned, though you might not want to do this if you're not using Google Chrome, as you probably don't want to build the browser ;)
Texas has been doing far worse things.

Allowing fracked gas power plants to operate without proper winterizing so they fail in the cold, unfairly shifting costs off of the fossil fuel operators who control the state government onto solar and gas, hamstringing residential solar.
It's pretty affordable though: https://openai.com/api/pricing/

The most up to date LLM is $0.0200/1K tokens (I believe this is tokens returned, approximately 1 word = 1 token, but not quite). I set a billing limit of $50 a month and spent a couple hours playing around this afternoon. It has cost less than $1 so far.
Pfft. You haven’t lived until you have introduced a circular dependency between two or three modules.
Whats even better is that at the time i'm writing this the hn post hast 69 votes.
It’s only a multibillion dollar fraud, so it’s fine for him to fly first class. Imagine if instead he’d been caught selling loose cigarettes on a street corner.
The problem with the Woke Left is that everything has turned into a moral issue. Not enough diversity in the party? That’s immoral and needs to be shut down!

The morality police you see in Iran is an exact extension of what you will see if this type of behavior is left to grow.
Segment trees are the foundation upon which all of competitive programming is built.
Same thing for me on desktop Safari.
Yes.

The "Nobody cares about your blog" statement, in this case, is not a dismissive, if accurate, statement about an anonymous blogger, or low viewership blogs in general.

It's a self-serving excuse written by a person who cares a lot, obviously, because all their images came from the blogger in question's site.
The OP's list is decent. Here are my suggestions for moderately challenging algorithms to understand and implement:

B-tree
Cooley-Tukey radix-2 FFT
CRC-32
DEFLATE decoder
Gauss-Jordan elimination
JSON parser
SHA-1 hash
> we all have times when we feel sad, depressed, lonely, in a rut, overwhelmed, or other negative emotions

I'm in one of those states right now. Unhappy with work. Uncertain about money. Poor health. It really piles up.

> If you find yourself in one of those times, convince yourself that it is only temporary and look for the good.

I'm fortunate enough to know that it's not permanent. I've been in these states before, and I've gotten out of them. It's just hard to see through the fog of uncertainty though. My brain doesn't work well when it's stressed.

For me, it helps to have a project that bring me joy. I've been doing a lot of hobby coding. It's really nice to code for myself again. I haven't really done this much hobby coding for 20 years, and it's like meeting an old friend.

Merry Christmas everyone!
Because the vast swaths of suburbs around cities actively contribute to a lower quality of life for those who live in the city themselves. Not only do cities have to provide car infrastructure for those who commute into the city, which contributes to traffic, noise pollution, emissions, and particulates that fly into the air or run off into the rivers, but the cities also subsidize the cost the suburbs incur.
To follow up on your mistake, ChatGPT, is, I believe, unable to emulate a Turing machine. A human with a pen and paper can (painstakingly) emulate a Turing machine.

In other words ChatGPT completely fails at being a computer! An easy way to trip it is to ask for calculations (123x456=55088?) or to run simple algorithms (ahptblu in reverse is ulbtphah?). Most interestingly, in both these examples, it could write the code that would have given the right answers.
The VCs wound up paying him, reportedly, over $7 million for his shares. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2002/...
I don't know whether the model is being updated, but I do know that repeating the same query will change the seed and you'll get a completely different answer. E.g. you might go from a lengthy yes to a short no. Chatgpt is extremely noon-deterministic.
Over twenty years in Australia and I still haven't gotten used to it (being 32C / 89.6F) on Christmas. So I do miss that, to be honest.

The difference to my family's place in Norway right now (-21C/-5.8F) is stark. As a child, coming out of summer, it would get colder and colder, you'd start seeing the snow .. and then soon after there'd be the magic of Christmas.

In the southern hemisphere, there's just nothing of the same. Oh well, no need to clear the driveway to drive in the morning at least.

Merry Christmas to everyone here. My first as a fully separated man after a two decade marriage/relationship fell through a year ago. Split custody of kids, I had them on Xmas Eve (the main one for me as a Norwegian) and also in the morning today Sunday / Christmas Day. House is going to be very quiet when they're gone for the day, but the peace in the house has made it all worth it. It's funny when you finally realise that the best thing you can do for them is to stop fighting for something that can't be saved - and you know everyone will come out stronger/ better as a result.
Been there. There are some fun ways to do DX in a small apartment. I'd be happy to chat about it anytime if you'd like ideas or just to commiserate over the difficulties.
> Roedy Green

< Sir Alec Guinness voice > That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…
Also worth noting that the leadership needed for a startup isn't necessarily the leadership needed at a larger size. Founding a company, and leading an established business, are two very distinct skillsets.
How smug are Californians that those who always disagree with them always “must be Republicans”? They really said people are leaving the state because of “political reasons” (ie, “they’re Republicans, aka, ‘non-regrettable attrition’”)? Couldn’t be all of the other reasons could it.

I say this as a California native who left for a litany of reasons, last of them being the politics.
If you don't mind using retro tools in an emulator like PCem, the first edition of 'Programming Windows' was for Windows 2.0 and should get you started.
You shouldn't be too hard on them - they were working with the evidence they had on hand, just like you are. IMO, the real evidence is under 20 feet of silt somewhere off the Pacific coast.