skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calories in calories out is unfalsifiable so people hide behind it as if it makes them invulnerable.

If people don't or can't measure CI or CO then you can blame them for being wrong. All of this flies in the face of the fact that your body should be able to regulate this for you, which would make manual calorie counting in your head or via apps obsolete.

So there are only two possibilities left. Either our bodies are defective and we need crutches like machine assisted calorie counting or our bodies work just fine but there are some weaknesses that can be exploited and calorie counting is just a technique for defending against those who exploit them.

And no I don't mean there is an evil conspiracy by the food industry. Your obese parents telling you to eat two pizza per day can be equally exploitative because listening to parents' orders is higher priority than listening to what your body says about how many calories you have consumed.
I guess part of programming is imagining the API you want before you go find out what's there and this is doing that.
Nuftu is now open source
Nuftu.com was a webservice enabling non-technically versed artists to mint official Ethereum compliant ERC721 tokens (NFTs).

Users would pay a flat fee in fiat currency, upload their artwork (image file, PDF, movie) and a description and Nuftu would handle the interaction with Ethereum blockchain , minting a Nuftu token, while taking care of gas fees etc.
Yes that’s what he said
'Not this one, I'll open the other one for you.'

Honeypot safe only works if the real one is well concealed. So then it's only worth having if it's somehow known/assumed that you have a safe at all. (Otherwise just leave it well-concealed and you can say 'I don't have a safe, there's some cash in my wallet and a little jewellery in the bedroom' just as effectively as 'Here is the safe it is definitely the real one'.)
I’m get where you’re coming from but this has not been a convincing argument to the people who think that GPT is “stealing”.

I think the only thing that will chip away at this sentiment at this point is when the US federal court system rules in favor of GPT/et al, which seems very likely.
No, we shouldn't. ChatGPT isn't a search engine, it's a language model.

The AI isn't getting this made-up information from anywhere on the internet; it's creating it itself because that's what it's made to do: generate good sounding sentences that "make sense" for some user input.
The lack of widely accepted precise definitions makes the whole thing pretty arbitrary.

Like the concept that it's possible to spend a lot of time doing work that doesn't really add much value is reasonable enough, but what that means is going to vary a huge amount based on the situation and task.

I try to use automation to nitpick my work, which when it works ends up adding polish without taking much time (of course the initial investment in the automation is easier to justify when the work is at least somewhat repetitive). Spell check is a good general example, the automation eliminates a whole category of errors without taking much time.
same here,especially on embedded boards
"We believed that <snip>, workers with limited skills could be quickly trained and perform just as well as workers who would cost twice as much to employ"

My oh my. Will they ever learn?

You could power a small town by attaching a generator to the (imaginary) revolving door of my company used by bootcamp grads, overseas devs and relatives of senior management who tinker with computers.

That last one is not made up!
I think you need to polish your article for more internet points. Please rewrite it with examples where refusing to polish work for a boss / employer and a client led to more opportunities in each case.
And that it’s not good yet.

I seems like the author is proposing a continuum of:

Not good enough -> good -> polished

This article has not made it to the good stage because it doesn’t convey a point well.
Well it does not have the heat pump. So you will only ever get the temperature the ground is at. In his case the temperature of the ground is 11C. Which I guess is fine for the greenhouse with the additional sun gain.

This is nowhere near enough for human habitation comfort let alone hot water.
It might interest readers to know that the Fossil SCM's primary mode of operation is CGI, and has been since it began life in 2007: https://fossil-scm.org/home

When i first discovered fossil, in December 2007, its ability to run as a CGI was one of its two "killer features" for me, and it's still right at the top of its list of killer SCM features for me.

(Disclaimer: i'm a long-time fossil contributor, but its CGI support pre-dates my joining the project.)
It is not designed to do math. It only generates a likely text response. If the exact equation (with exact numbers) did not often appear in its training data then you are very likely to receive a nonsensical answer. It can do some math simply because those patterns have showed up quite often in its training set. This is the same result for anything you ask. It will often imagine things like fake YouTube video links with real-sounding titles, fake function names, etc. I’m sure soon it will be hooked to something like wolfram alpha and we’ll all be terrified at how well it performs at anything math related, since it could likely classify and hand off any of the math stuff to Alpha and then utilize/summarize the results from there in its final response.
I wrote a web app that launched from inetd to control my cd player. It worked great but wasn't super practical since I tended to use it from the same computer that it ran from. Everything web was fun in the 90s though.
Probably the amount of RAM available more than the CPU. Surely you can get a very stripped down version of Linux running, but I doubt a version of Linux that you can use to do something useful.

Surely the day that even on these sort of low cost microcontrollers can run Linux is not far...
I disagree only with the use of the term "bronze age". The Titan of Braavos bestrides two mountains across a sea channel and wears a skirt of bronze. They have magic, and that changes the landscape utterly of what's easy and difficult. The two worlds are incommensurable.
Jesus Christ, this almost physically hurt to read.

Its exactly the kind of thing I expect from when people in tech go try do something in other sectors without an adult in the room.

Thoughts on the "lessons" (out of order, deliberately).

Lesson 2: Word salad that basically means "we hired people who didn't know what they were doing, and expected the performance of professional tradesmen to just magically happen".

Lesson 1: see lesson 2, but with additional process issues that anyone with any construction experience could have warned you about, and chronic understaffing to keep a lean headcount.

Lesson 3: basically they decided to ignore tried and tested business strategies for growth and wing it instead. This didn't work.

Lesson 4-6 mostly, again, are poor business planning.

See also: recent HN threads of Hackernews readers largely incorrecting each other about work in the trades.
I can safely say that it's not really an immediately impeding problem with 1 GB of RAM either. I have a bit of experience in the context as I develop and manage a very large Perl software stack that runs on a fleet of servers ranging from itty-bitty to small/medium. Some of it is inefficient CGI, some of it is FastCGI, some of it is resident in the background and some of it fires up on intervals. All of it is heavily trafficated.

But, certainly, I'll concede that if the platform is completely CGI-based and for some reason is written such that there's a minimum footprint of 50-100 MB for any single invocation, then servers will be needing a bit of memory in lieu of a software rethink.
I agree only if fun is included. I've seen a lot of wow a cool opensource I wanted to try this, I want to play with, I will find problems to justify using this.
Most web servers / apps. Just think about how you would test a simple register endpoint for example.
Well. Yes? It’s not a computational engine. Al it does is figure out what the probability of the next tokens are and selects the most probable ones
I feel this. The other day I decided to just use Rails for one of these personal projects that I’ve been over-engineering for a while and it’s making progress.

Completely forgot how fast Rails makes everything. Based on the experience I’m probably going to force myself to just use Rails for any personal stuff now and figure if any of them actually take off I’ll rebuild if I need to.
Good point. This is more a Reddit post.
Let's try to see this in another perspective.

Say you are now the leader/boss/manager/client and you are working with a programmer.

So you receive a work and from past experiences you see it's lacking documentation of architectural design choices, you see many data processing procedures done synchronously with the APIs serving layer, the coding style is different than the agreed in the organizations. So you as for polishing.

And every time you ask for polishing this particular Dev cites a whole bunch of nonsense about powerplay and that the way it's done is different than his working style. You try to educate, and show why you are asking what you are asking to no avail.

What follows next is a slow but sure separation of this Dev. The employee starts receiving less and less work that requires those kinds of things, only maintenance jobs.

What the Dev did was effectively argue himself into isolation.
> One method to refuce cement‘s carbon footprint…

…is to simply use less concrete by making it much stronger.

Very promising in that respect is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile-reinforced_concrete#Su...

Especially carbon concrete can be up to 4 times stronger than steel concrete, so one can reduce the amount of material necessary by 4 times.
So you debug it then you write the tests? Or you write the tests first then you debug? Because you gotta debug it at some point.
I’ll be a C student and graduate in 3 years vs. being an A student who graduates in 4.
You Could Be Selecting Text with Your Mouse Incorrectly
Maybe it’s because I’m not a CS person by trade, but the whole idea of stolen code is so stupid. There’s only a couple ways to write a function to do X, just because some asshole did it first and put it on GitHub, I’m stealing if I write the same function? Fuck off
They don't. Remember that NASDAQ's clients are Jane Street, Goldman Sachs, i.e. not you or me. They don't onboard a client with doing due diligence. Then there is a clearing and settlement system called DTCC that requires every firm to post collateral equal to their trading volume. This system's primary job is to make sure everyone has enough funds to pay for their trades across all exchanges, not just NASDAQ.
I wonder what's the best way: try to extract profit from the fads (cynic) or isolate..
Dev people don't. It's the non-technical middle and upper managers who pick GoDaddy because they saw an ad during a sporting event.

Then the tech people have to shoulder the burden when GoDaddy screws up.

Last week I waited on hold with GoDaddy for five-and-a-half hours. And that was for the online help chat.

About half way in I decided to call the phone number, too. On hold for three hours and by then, the chat person finally showed up.
Thanks for adding this context.

Does your neice have competing opportunities where polishing actually blocks out?

My experience is that I don’t have 5 things I could do if I end with good enough. I rarely have 5 assignments due at the same time. So if I polish something, I’m actually just losing time that I would have spent on some marginal activity like tv, reading, etc.

It also is hard to evaluate opportunity and value, especially ahead of time. So focusing on a single experience rather than trying to increase quantity of experience may result in a lower level of impact than just polishing a single item.
You might be too effective of a fiction writer, because many of us thought you were the actual student with authentic indignation (whether justified was for us to determine).

I’m going to ask an inappropriate personal question:

Did your niece recently choose to spend time on her schoolwork versus spending time with her family?
Shamir secret sharing is a rigorous way to do it. Maybe for this purpose just spreading catenable chunks and some duplicates would be fine though.

(It would 'just' mean one being discovered weakens the overall password, if the finder knows what it is. With SSS knowing any less than all of the shares doesn't reveal any part of the secret.)
> CGI is slow ....

CGI is _computationally_ slow, but in practice it's faster than it needs to be for most sites. Some examples of CGI-powered sites i'm aware of include:

- https://sqlite.org/forum

- https://sqlite.org/wasm (same domain, different sub-site)

- https://fossil-scm.org/home

- https://fossil-scm.org/forum (same domain, separate sub-site)

- https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net

All CGI, all the time, and _plenty_ performant for the purpose.
We've accepted Bitcoin as payment on our website for years. Not a single customer has chosen that option.
Rust intends to force unsafe blocks in unsafe functions
Rust apparently wants to reverse its warning logic and instead of banning unsafe{} inside unsafe fn(), they want to require it and make it a hard error.
is there a good fastcgi implementation somewhere,the "official" one was not maintained since years ago. https://fastcgi-archives.github.io/
Searching PDFs in S3 Using OpenSearch and Tika
I like the essay. I find your context here helpful and I actually think it makes your point stronger. It contextualizes it with a real-world example. You might want to consider adding this context in a footnote at the end of your essay.
Better take some sort of GPS device, though. Otherwise you may never find it again. Who was the British chap that buried a bunch of silver before WWI and never found it?
Cinnamon is waaay more configurable than GNOME and they have far less dev resources, and they are fairly bug-free. KDE is still kind of janky but has improved very quickly and continues to improve due to more corporate funding over the last year or two.

Tbh there's no excuse, especially when GNOME devs REMOVE features that are already there that have no maintenance cost for no reason (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/icon-view-sizes-in-nautilus-43...).
Is HN a GoDaddy support forum now, as well as a Stripe support forum?
I’ve had similar interactions with immature or bad coworkers.

“I don’t have time to run spell check before sending this email. I’m working on other important things. You understood what I meant, right?”
> if you removed the ability for governments to arbitrarily print money,

The money is the governments. You can't remove that power - they're the ones with the power over the money, by definition. If someone else does, they essentially become the government. That money has value because they print it, and enforce controls over it. You're just holding some of it for a while.

How you are expressing what you want is meaningless.
You can tell him he’s wrong and he always apologises even if you are wrong in saying he is wrong
GoDaddy has never been a good domain registrar. They have horrible practices. Sell our data. And buy the domain you did a lookup for in their website and try to sell it to you for more money. Not a service to use in so many ways if you are looking for something dependent.

Namecheap is good. Their customer support has been reliable in two instances I needed it.

And I know you shouldn't use GoDaddy and Google domains. Also, any place which is going to lock your domain and data. Keep this in your basic checklist. :)
The closest thing to a current ‘official’ way to do this internationally is probably ISO 17442 Legal Entity Identifiers, originating in the financial services industry; part of this is even more directly relevant to you in that this includes a global list of registration authorities [1] which are maintained as an integral part of the LEI system (LEIs generally are very helpful in dealing with international company data, where they are registered, not least because they are very reliable, and explicitly freely-available data!). The nearest alternative (proprietary, but larger dataset ) are DUNS numbers.

[1] https://www.gleif.org/en/about-lei/code-lists/gleif-registra...
Then too much religion causes harm too.
If you haven’t seen it, I’d highly suggest looking at some of the recent research on in-context learning and reasoning in LLMs.

It is becoming increasingly clear that there is a phase-change in behaviour when these models get large enough, such that they can solve new tasks outside of the training distribution.

See work by Hattie Zhou or Laura Ruiz for example.

It is clear to those following the research or using these models that they are not just copy-pasting… (Even if you can cherry pick examples were the LLM recalls highly occurring dataset items like fast square root or whatever).
Good point, bearing in mind that working wood with only stone and wooden tools is a lot harder than with metals
Some elevators have this by double-pressing the button. I've only seen it work on maybe 20% of them though.
Because there are more of them born every minute, and there's a lot of information out there to process. And when doing something new, it's pretty hard to separate out the people with legit gripes and the people who are just complaining because they are confused or didn't get their way.
If you're familiar with Python, sure. A great thing about CGI is that you could use it with Bash if you were so inclined.
I‘d rather recommend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_trai...

like https://www.12minuteathlete.com/

Because you should not forget to also strengthen your heart muscle and endurance.
I prefer my automation fully erect.

Why would I want to do work I didn’t have to?
"an infamous transphobe/alt-right "

Out of curiosity, has he done more, than saying he thinks that transgender is imaginary?
I'm not sure if it's correct, but I remember a tv show about archeology in East Asia, and they claimed that the problem is that they made too many tools of bamboo (that decompose) instead of tools of stone (that is forever).
That would require some sort of bioavailable calories metric that is specific to the person eating the food because I doubt people recalculate ther basic metabolic rate every single day.
> After all, if everyone sent out their emails, so to speak, what would be left for the meeting?

One thing I've learned is that a lot of people simply don't read emails.

You can send out all the status emails you want, no one is going to read them unless it's directly related to their own work.

Short, frequent status meetings ensure that people are actually aware of the status and gives them a chance of unblocking you if they can.
OpenZFS Lands a Nice Performance Optimization
>we only really use x86-64 and ARM64. What else is there that sets NetBSD apart?

Who is "we"? In Space/Air-Domain Spark and PowerPC's are big...and netbsd too ;) Mips and Loongson are also a thing.
Luckily the court system has agreed with your sentiments since the 19th century so I wouldn’t worry too much!
100%. I finish projects with Rails... Can't say this about things I start in Go with Clean Architecture and a distributed frontend written in SvelteKit etc. pp.

I need to print this out:

"JUST USE RAILS FOR NOW."
Hmmm I have all my domains on Google at the moment... what's the story with not using them?
The mafia used to steal dresses from New York garment factory delivery trucks and hawk them door to door in poorer neighbourhoods. The users (poorer households) definitely got value out of this by being able to obtain dresses they could not afford, but doesn't make a case for what the mafia was doing was right.
OMG sorry this is so relevant ... we've just been dealing with a client with SAP software that is supposed to automate on-boarding suppliers/customers.

It takes 2 people client side to hand hold third-parties through the labyrynth, and 1 person at the third party to desperately go back and forth to those 2 people to check if everything is ok and to answer questions about why things aren't progressing.

Literal facepalm.

Have had the same experience with two other clients recently. What is going on with SAP?
There’s a lot of factors that makes that a good idea vs a bad idea.

If your goal is just to achieve a degree and it doesn’t matter the quality, then it makes sense. Maybe you have an existing job where there’s a guaranteed promotion of you have a degree.

But school is about learning and making connections, not just sheepskin. If you want to get a good internship, or grad school then grades and special projects with professors are important.

So the person who graduates in 4 years will likely have a much higher lifetime income than the person who graduates on 3 years.
Rust's only selling point is the way it tries to solve memory errors, but it's based on a style of memory management that is inferior. There are other styles that prevent such errors from occurring in the first place.
Welcome to Digital Nomadland

A Portuguese island created a village for remote workers, promising community to the newcomers and prosperity to the locals—then delivered on neither.
Great point – how do we know when something is worth focusing on? I usually use enthusiasm for signal, but I am sure there is an effective rational approach as well.

In the case of my gf's neice, she is in an exploratory phase with a truly incredible amount of high-quality opportunities right in front of her. Losing attention/time to something low value would be "high cost," by my assessment.
Comparing the Graphics Capabilities of the MEGA65 and Amiga
Another day, another NoDaddy mishap. Best of luck getting it solved. If the recommendation is of any value, I've used joker.com (registrar providing free DNS services) for something like 20 years now. Not a single tech hiccup thus far.
Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)
People are sleeping in tents in front of the Nike store to get sneakers. So I think the hard limit is pretty high for this specific sneaker niche
Not-such-better-living through chemistry
It's clearly a derived work, since the apparatus that has produced the work (the AI model) can only function when supplied with copyrighted works - in fact it cannot exists without copious amounts of such works. If there is even a passing semblance between a source work and the output, such as, for example, similar code structure and different variable names, then you are legally fucked.

I'm sure courts will clear this mess up really soon, and I'm betting money the rulings won't subscribe to the "it's mine now" mantra of the AI crowd.
Mine too but Namecheap has royally screwed me a couple times recently on self-admitted bugs. First an entire domain went offline with no warning or notification because of some verification bug. Then on one of my expired domains they were leaking my real data in the whois due to a bug and I could only fix it by registering the domain at an increased price! Then I could re-enable Whois Guard (which was enabled when the domain initially expired)
It is not very surprising that this kind of obscure knowledge is not handled nicely, since the data points are very sparse. The issue here is not ChatGPT's general usefulness, but it usually don't say "Sorry, I'm not sure" since it currently lacks of ability to evaluate confidence of its own answer based on the real world data.

If we think the model is an efficient-but-lossy compression on the real world, then it currently lacks of a good way to error detection. If we want more general intelligence, it should have a way to measure consistency between the input (or its understanding on real world) and potential model output and its confidence interval. This is what we do everyday as a human to make a decision. I guess we probably need a number of more breakthroughs to overcome this weakness. Error correction would be the next step, and a much harder problem.
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