skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like we’re breaking some laws of thermodynamics in that article.

The salts dark color draws in heat to melt ice? Also salt isn’t dark afaik.

How does this thing actually work?
I wasn't trying to have a theological conversation as such. One doesn't need to be a Christian at all to understand that Christianity, in all its major historical manifestations – Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant – has always drawn some distinction between "core beliefs" (sometimes called "dogmas") and "less core beliefs". Different branches of Christianity disagree on what exactly constitutes the "core", but making such a distinction is near-universal. And, while the claim that Jesus worked miracles is arguably part of that core, questions about exactly which ones, how many, in what order, etc, never have been. Only a very small number of individual miracles belong to that core in themselves, chief among which are the Resurrection and the Virgin Birth.

Catholicism takes this idea of "core"-versus-"non-core", and elaborates it into a whole "hierarchy of truths" (also called "theological notes"), with numerous defined levels. Orthodoxy and Protestantism have never accepted the details of that picture, but most Orthodox and Protestants would probably agree that it is more than a simple binary, it is more of a spectrum, even if they think Catholic theology went overboard in trying to break down that spectrum into precisely defined levels. (And some contemporary Catholic theologians agree with the criticism that Catholic theology did historically go overboard with this.) Viewed in that light, it can be defended that while both the Resurrection and the Virgin Birth belong to the core, the former is "even more core" than the later; there may be a small number of other individual miracles (such as the Transfiguration) which may be somewhat core as well, although clearly "less core" than either the Resurrection or the Virgin Birth are. But, one doesn't need to be a Christian at all to understand all this – one can understand the details of the history of how Christians have understood their own doctrines and dogmas, whether or not one personally believes in any of them.

> If I accept His death in place of mine

This sounds to me like an expression of penal substitutionary atonement (PSA). While many Protestants (especially conservative evangelical ones) tend to believe that PSA is core to the Gospel, other Christians disagree. The intellectual history of PSA can be traced through Anselm of Canterbury in mediaeval England, who in turn influenced Catholic scholastic theology (especially Thomas Aquinas) and then Protestant Reformers such as Luther and Calvin (who despite openly rejecting much of mediaeval Catholic theology, sometimes retained more of it than they consciously realised.) The whole satisfaction/substitutionary approach to atonement is rather Latin/Western (Roman Catholic and Protestant), while Eastern Christian traditions (Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East) put more emphasis on alternatives such as ransom theory and recapitulation theory. While one could interpret your statement in terms of ransom or recapitulation theory, I doubt such an interpretation would be true to what you actually meant by it.
Curious how this performs relative to ChatGPT? IIUC davinci-03 isn't the same model as ChatGPT, I've struggled to get satisfactory responses to prompts through the API compared to the chat interface, am basically in a holding pattern right now waiting for the new models to release on the API.
It may be kicking LastPass, but it may also be trying to head off customer defections away from ALL cloud password managers.

What happened at LastPass is likely to shake customer confidence of all vendors.
I'd like to use a skin that makes the keys stand out more clearly. Just because my touch typing isn't up to the mark.
So, traditionally, AWS's status page only grudgingly updates from green tick to green tick with information box after about half an hour of people complaining about AWS problems on Twitter.

Which raises the question; if Twitter is down, will any status pages ever be updated again?
It’s hard to tell chicken from egg when examining negative mental states alongside social media, but here’s why I’m convinced that social media is the culprit of negative mental states and not vice-versa:

I decided to drop my socials about 4 years ago. There will be periods here or there when I think “I have a handle on things; I can start using social media again.” Every single time, without fail, it begins a spiral of addiction and subsequent guilt that I have to crawl out of, yet again. It doesn’t matter how positive or negative my mental state is before re-opening the socials; the result is the same each time. The only good thing about it is that I’ve learned to recognize my pattern of addiction, and I’m better at breaking it after some practice.
> Who’s working on solving that?

usually people just cut off their heads after a while
Seems like a theme of hype, cash in and bust all over and again.
No it wouldn't, the movement of money is what drives an economy.

Think of it this way: Alice has a dollar, gives it to person Bob for the food they grow, who gives it to person Clarice for the clothes they make, who gives it to person A again for their art.

Each of Alice, Bob, and Clarice made a dollar and got something they wanted for that dollar.

If Alice instead decides to hoard the dollar, nobody makes any income and there is no economy.
IIRC, they "don't need" as much to perform well in the short term. Even these super sleepers may suffer cumulative effects over the long term. There's also a risk that those who prefer sleeping less will declare themselves part of this elite group without any rigorous study.
Isn't that a wash sale? With stocks you can't immediately buy them back if you're tax-loss harvesting.
Debian doesn't seem to install it by default either.
I, uh, don't think the answer to "I don't like HN" is "try HN 2.0".
>He asked employees in the outlets to take every book off the shelf, and re-evaluate whether it should stay.

This reminded me of what Marie Kondo says about keeping your own personal books.

-Put every single one of your books in a pile on the floor.

-Take each book in your hand and see if it sparks joy.

-Remove the ones that don't spark joy from your home.

-Find ways to store your remaining books.
Down with the panopticon
> Check out the history of communist countries.

I can only find the history of the authoritarian communist countries, the Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists, etc. I'd be happier to write off communism if there'd been more practical exploration of the libertarian communist theories.
I use Hugo [0] and host on Netlify, but anywhere works. Couldn't be happier. I used Wordpress and Jekyll previously, but Hugo has been a good upgrade.

The problem with Wordpress is that it's difficult to export content if you ever decide to move, unless you love dealing with SQL and format conversion. It's also annoying to host since it requires a database. Static site generators like Hugo/Jekyll can be deployed anywhere for cheap without dependencies and since it's just plan text / Markdown it's easy to move between frameworks.

[0] https://gohugo.io/
FYI, Harvard Book Store, in Cambridge, MA (not affiliated with the university), had a machine they called "Paige M. Gutenborg" towards the back for doing this, which I was going to suggest checking out if ever in the area -- it was on display -- but I just saw on their website that, after 12 years, they stopped doing print-on-demand in April 2022.

For reference, this page[0] about Paige on their website states that it was able to create "a library-quality, perfect bound, acid-free 300-page paperback book in roughly four minutes. These books are indistinguishable from paperbacks produced by major publishing houses."

[0] https://www.harvard.com/shelves/in_store_book_printing/about...
Libraries like Jooq and SQLDelight include what I'm talking about and then build on top of it with codegen which is even nicer since it adds compiler safety

But even without codegen you'd still a much nicer interface than manually hacking together strings as the Golang example others have linked shows: https://github.com/Masterminds/squirrel
You can't serve as president at any age unless you're a natural born citizen.
Wait, why do you think distancing won't slow transmission of infections that spread by surface contact?

If you are sick and don't sneeze on a stair railing because you aren't near the stair railing, then you very likely have less transmission.

Same with masks, if the material is captured in a mask then it isn't sitting somewhere else waiting to be picked up.
What you're describing is "deflation". Deflation isn't good for the economy any more than inflation is.
P.S. I actually just called them up to find out what happened -- I was told that a part needed to be replaced which wasn't available any more. Given that they are across the street from Harvard (though not a part of it) and down the street from MIT, one would imagine that perhaps 3D printing could've taken care of it, but for whatever reason that wasn't done.

I was told that the machine is still there, though, if one wanted to at least see it.
> Their testing showed that their refrigerator was able to maintain a cool temperature and that it was approximately as efficient as refrigerators now on the market.

So apparently it uses the same amount of energy, so no breaking of thermodynamics.

And yeah salt is white or clear, dunno what's up with that statement.
It's not well edited. The dark color they are referring to is asphalt. Salt mixes with water once it melts and lowers the freezing point to prevent refreezing.

This refrigerator appears to use a similar premise of adding salt to (ethylene carbonate in this case) in order to drive an endothermic reaction and draw heat in from the environment. In order to remove the salt to reuse the loop, they are using electrodialysis, so thermodynamics is preserved - that's where energy goes into the system.
Removing the salt from the water requires energy to be added in externally. Adding the salt back in absorbs that energy back from the environment.
I cannot use the word "transpose" to mean "incorporate into". Perhaps with the help of one or more additional words, like "transpose into"? For me, "transpose" by itself does not contain the separate or combined meanings of "incorporate" or "into".

Par example, s'il vous plaît?
ChatGPT Banned on Chinese Social Media App WeChat
links to the github examples are all busted: https://github.com/hexops/mach-examples/tree/main/cubemap

also, for a cross-platform tool i expected that clicking the images would take me to live demos that work in a browser, not mp4 and png files.
Sure! I have blogged about this[1], but I'll summarize here. Basically a barrier helps you do a "message passing" pattern, where one workgroup prepares some data then sets a flag, and another workgroup can read the flag and then read the data from the first workgroup. However, in Metal (and hence WebGPU) the barriers aren't powerful enough to guarantee you won't see stale data. Thus, to do prefix sum on Metal, you need to at least two dispatches, one to aggregate reductions over partitions, then another to do the sum within a partition. That's less efficient, both because of the dispatch overhead, and also because you need to read the data at least twice. You also need a bunch of different versions of your shaders to handle different problem sizes, which is really annoying (in fact, Vello can't handle more than 64k path segments until I write the larger version). Vulkan, CUDA, and DirectX12 (even DirectX11) can all do this; it's one of the ways in which Metal is an inferior basis for doing GPU compute.

Btw, this is one of the reasons I feel a bit burned by MoltenVK, as it happily and silently translates correct SPIR-V into MSL that's lacking the correct barriers. In my experience, GPU translation layers are some of the leakiest abstractions around.

[1]: https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/11/17/prefix-sum-portab...
In Barber's Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years she mentions that proto-Indo-European language reconstructors are pretty sure that besides the usual set of animals and weather conditions, there was a PIE word root for "getting high". I'm guessing literacy (~3'400 BCE), not existence of drinking games (~4'000 BCE?), will be the major driver behind "earliest documented".
We've banned this account for using HN primarily (indeed exclusively) for ideological battle. That's not allowed here. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
3 and 4 seem somewhat valid. 1 and 2 only apply to a minority of people so Walker’s statements are good advice for most people. 5 is just ridiculous, it’s reasonable to average 7-9 as a recommendation of 8 hours.
> Communism came up when someone asked who was working on solving wealth inequality. That is what this particular thread is about.

Yeah if it only went that far then maybe it would have been a useful answer to a problem and nothing else, but so much anti-communist propaganda has been said at this point it seems more like you have an axe to grind rather than actually contributing to dialogue.

> Government is necessary. But there should be as little of it as practical, because governments wield power and power is dangerous. It's like gasoline. I need gas to run my car and the lawnmower. But I keep as little of it around as possible. And I don't use gasoline as a household cleaner, and I try not to inhale any of it.

This is too broad a statement to be accurate. You can insert many things in the place of "government' in that lawn mower analogy and sound correct.

This statement is also not very interesting because "as little of it as practical" is the whole debate, for anyone who has thought about it for more than 5 mins.

So essentially, your stance seems to be "small government good". Excellent -- but that doesn't really relate to my point, unless your stance is "small government good, so current and future wealth disparity is fine".

> I don't see the mere existence of wealthy people being a problem. The fact of someone creating wealth (which is how people get wealthy in a free market) is not taking something from someone else.

> I understand that point of view is unpopular.

I suggested we need more wealthy people with higher variance amongst them, so we can see more interesting/varied outcomes. How is this relevant to that discussion?
Bafflingly, most of my early-30s friends are still on Facebook. I was recently asked about my account at a party. Wild stuff.
Check out https://muslimphilosophy.org. Better than Wikipedia IMO.
I've seen the same trend at the B&Ns I frequent (Montgomeryville PA outside Philly and Northville MI outside Detroit) — in the past year or so the tech shelves have thinned out by 50%, same for the science and math, toys and games have grown by 100%, no more music, big reduction in movies, magazine offerings are fading and all the seating near them has disappeared.

I frequent B&N because I badly want a seller of new books ro survive, but I so seldom buy anything there anymore, I find I'm visiting less and less.
I beg to differ: most of us are _carnivores_ in terms of operating system choices.

I still personally use Windows because of its stability.

I tried Arch 5 years ago and was lucky enough to hit the dreaded Linux 4.19 EXT4 bug that lost everything I invested in Linux. After that I almost never use Linux desktop again out of the fear of losing valuable source code.

However this does not stop me from adopting Proxmox and Alpine into my homelab stack though.

I recently started to evaluate into Fedora because it is pretty stable. At least much better than Arch in terms of stability while still offering a great amount of customization ability above Debian and its derivatives.

---

The more interesting thing is I actually learned more about Linux internals since the last time I got the ext4 bug that erased my Manjaro.

I then understood how lost+found works and how to scavenge data from the bitmap mess created by that bug and tried to find alternative file system to work around the caveats and inefficiency of ext4.

That's how I came across ZFS and eventually Proxmox. And even the general concept of copy-on-write and influenced my data structure of choice by knowing things like append-only file and persistent data structure.

Because of one Linux ext4 bug, I have lost valuable source code that not committed, but at the same time learnt a lot. This is bad and good at the same time, but still bad in the end logically speaking (because "bad and not bad" still equals bad)
So, as someone who regularly visits B&N stores, this…creates a false narrative around the turnaround. Obviously, it has turned around, and is great. But it pretends that a sacrifice of floor space to non-book uses was part of the decline and the turnaround has involved recentering on books and particularly on a focus on intellectual stimulation, and the first is pretty clearly not true, and the second seems likely to be only in a very particular sense that diverges from what I think the average person reading the article would think.

On the first point, floor space devoted to books compared to the past at the same stores has continued to decline, with, in one case, the entire space formerly devoted to non-book items now devoted just to games and toys, and spaces that were, before the pandemic, devoted to books now devoted DVDs, vinyl records, and other legacy media.

On the second, the two sections of books that have not lost space seem to be (1) the bargain book section (which is also largely merchandised to show the whole fronts of books rather than spines like the rest of the store, so it is the least titles per unit of shelf space) and the self-help section; the rest of the sections have been compressed as the non-book areas have spread. If we define “intellectual stimulation” in terms of engaging a recurring customer base, I suppose that meets the description; but I don’t think it’s what people would normally read the description as implying.

I do think that the article, amidst the noise, identifies the key factor: giving stores control over stocking books that appeal to their customer base rather than relying on a mix of promotional agreements with publishers and HQ buyer selections. This leads to a selection more tailored to the local market, and more conservatively chosen – not in the political sense, but in the sense of what will sell vs. what publishers hope to make sell by placement.
It's an upsell
I have a hard time believing that story, mostly for all the reasons the other commenters listed, but also because I just don't see Apple sending a store manager to represent them in court. In my time there, even the smallest legal threat (e.g. "if you don't fix my X for free, I'm going to sue you") was an instant conversation ending statement. The only valid response for any of us employees after that was "Thank you but we can no longer help you, here is the number for the legal department". Given that, I just can't actually see them sending a store manager, even to a small claims thing. If they didn't actually care, they wouldn't have sent anyone at all and taken the default judgment (since small claims are definitionally, small) and if they did care, they would have sent someone who can actually represent the company legally.
That depends on what you don't like about HN.

If you don't like that HN doesn't gatekeep membership, consider the moderation here too loose and only want to see tech stories, it's probably what you're looking for, provided you can get an invite. It's basically HN cranked up to 11.
"The Internet sees shutdowns as damage, and routes around them."
>This is what happens when you fire everyone who knows what they are doing and start unplugging random server racks.

Has Twitter ever had an outage before the Elon Musk kerfuffle?
So it's about as energy efficient as current refrigerators, but "They acknowledge that it does have one drawback—it takes quite a while for the mixed solution to cool."

Nothing in the available references to say how slow, but "quite a while" doesn't sound promising. Still, maybe a modification of the method could speed it up.
The fear is an inability of government actors to be able to snoop on the users. That’s terrifying to those who constantly try to water down the US Constitution to take away our rights.
And what is the problem with doing that? The system comes back up when you reopen the lid nearly instantly anyways?
Or work that was interesting but was authored by someone lacking inside connections?
Space Force takes over all military satellite communications
While I mostly agree, A program this "basic" is not going to go far enough to learn anything that pushes any language far enough to learn it's limits.
Road salt is often full of minerals or other impurities, making it gray or other colors.
https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki/Lesson-0:-getting...
For what it's worth, I think part of the problem is that as tech became first commodified and then increasingly commercialized and financialized, this was inevitable, big money moved in and a lot of the effort in the space became about money instead of product. Additionally, the easy problems have been well trodden by now, so a lot of people aren't interested in them anymore.

Have you tried hackaday? Is that maybe like the mood you're after?
We're discussing an article called "Facebook addiction increases depression severity". It's not bad faith, it's literally what the article says.
> Government is necessary. But there should be as little of it as practical, because governments wield power and power is dangerous.

Yeah, but we clearly have too little of it now. Speaking from a tech standpoint, we have a duopoly in OSes. Apple has amassed an enormous amount of power. It controls an entire market of developers. It is actually being a regulator itself on that market. So, if you let the free market play things out, you will end up with something that resembles more of a dictatorship, or perhaps a bunch of them.

Also, we almost completely lost net neutrality.
They may have been reading it without an account for a lot longer, or it could be a throwaway?
Libraries and librarians always seem to far ahead of things on a meta level. My town (Halifax, Nova Scotia) also built a beautiful library recently. Once of the criticisms levelled at it was that it didn't really have stacks all over the place.

It has become an incredibly valuable community hub. Books are a bit of an excuse to enjoy its architecture and function. I've been there for countless hours with my children as they have grown up.

I'm also consistently impressed by the staff. In a time when every business is complaining about staffing and using it as an excuse for bad quality and bad service, it seems that most libraries are staffed with total professionals who do their job day in and day out and do it well.
Edit: society of mind is a great launching point for AI alignment as well. If there are internal processes that "care" about/sense different things, how do they work together?

1. Bidding system. Subsystems parse incoming info, and pay to bubble their need/plan into consciousness/action

2. Nested levels of concern, ex. maslow's hierarchy

3. "Recipes" that combine output from multiple subsystems. Learning recipes via subconscious communication / mirroring.

I get the sense AI alignment is too focused on the fantastical end-of-the-world catastrophe scenario. It's impossible to get anything actually done vs a vision of apocalypse. The real strides are going to come from operational safety and "open enough" reasoning, not "how do I know that its not lying about lying about..." paranoid recursing.
I could imagine hypothetical archeological evidence of drinking games without written words being involved.

The earliest limit might be earliest evidence of alcohol production, of course.
Mercurial was contemporaneous with GIT and is still around. Which is better is debatable.
Oresteia: Murder, Infidelity, Vengeance, Juries