skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always start out with the best of intentions for dotfile mangement etc, using tools like stow, git and so on.

Eventually I get lazy and don't bother checking stuff in and forget where half of the stuff is.

Might try this solution but I'm too cynical to think it'll be something I'll stick with
> Algorithmic stablecoins are not a good idea. See: Luna/Terra.

DAI is not an algorithmic stable coin. (1) While DAI is based on smart contracts it is backed by a mixture of other cryptos and stable coins (not Tether but USDC, IRC). If you really want to keep money in the form of stable coins please use either DAI or USDC and not Tether.

(1) https://kriptomat.io/cryptocurrencies/dai/what-is-dai/
> Many of them were masking their life problems with the Buddhist aesthetic as opposed to really working with them

The phrase "spiritual bypass", which I'm sure you know (it is a cliché by now) is often used to describe this phenomenon. I recently learned that it has a specific origin: it was coined in the early 80s by the psychotherapist (and Buddhist) John Welwood, who had a lot of experience with it in spiritual communities. There's a great interview with Welwood from 2011 about this. I have a pdf somewhere, but all I can find online at the moment is this excerpt: https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/article/on-spiritual-by....

The relationship between spirituality and therapy is endlessly fascinating to me. (Edit: it's no coincidence that the OP eventually ends up talking about IFS.)
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Apple's 2023 Roadmap
That part in section 9 doesn't say that it invalidates the part in section 4, though. Reading it strictly, claiming an earlier license is "unauthorized" would merely mean that you can't use the earlier license to redistribute content put out under the later license, not that you can't use the earlier license at all.
That's true if your only goal is to generate truthful text. But if you're trying to generate useful text, continuing the sentence is necessary.

Maybe that'll be the next step once LLMs get very good at generating truthful text :)
https://www.lesswrong.com/, still tech focused but there are broader topics discussed. Also great for longform pieces.
France keep strong historical links with several North African countries that were its french-speaking former colonies. This probably generated a lot of migration between France and Africa fullfiling the requisites to be granted French citizenship.

In the case of Germany is probably because they received a lot of Turkish workers after WWII.
Ya the up-skirt thing was interesting. There's some laws on the books but I don't think it's ever been tried in the SCOTUS.

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/upskirting.h...
Provided USDC is indeed fully solvent and remains pegged, a run on USDT might even strengthen its position through an influx of new customers. However, if the USDT failure causes the crypto cataclysm some are anticipating, couldn’t Coinbase be exposed to such an extent that the company becomes insolvent?
> People used to do SOAP which is all of the downsides of graphql and json rpc combined without most of the benefits. Stupidly complicated to do just about anything with it.

To be honest, this looks like cases of "you holding it wrong".

SOAP was one of the simplest systems I've ever worked with! You point your client lib to a WSDL and everything else just happens automatically. All you do then is calling regular methods in your code (witch happen to be remote calls). All the network crap is abstracted away and completely hidden. Full transparency.

Issues start to come up as soon as people thing they should do SOAP "by hand". Sending hand crafted XML through HTTP libs. This is of course pure horror. But this whole thing was never meant to be used like that. As long as you used the proper tooling SOAP is really great and orders of magnitude more productive than RESTfull nonsense.
Interfacing with SerenityOS from Python
I hope people do that, so that I can stay behind and enjoy the amenities of the Bay Area at a more reasonable $/sqft.
I can see that working for start-ups , short term, perhaps until MVP
“A.I. art” is neither A.I. nor art. After you make a neural network the first thing that occurs to you is that it’s useless without tons of data. In this instance our data is art made my people. Using assets without permission or a licensing agreement is theft. To make things worse corporations are charging for this theft. Basically “A.I. art” is another way to say “theft as a service (TaaS).”
> some see it as a clean up for seeing a understandable 'history', others see it as a falsification.

I don't see it as a falsification. I see it as making the history less understandable. Having a track of what happened, can help in understanding what was intended. Code archeology regularly helps me understand Chesterton's fence.

Programmers are human. They make mistakes. The thing is not perfect at the time of squashing. When the inevitable issue crops up in production, I really want all the information I can get.

If you start cleaning stuff up, not only do you deny me information about how the code evolved, you also introduce another point at which a flawed understanding can mislead those that come after you.
Ask HN: Video games that will make me smarter and are addictive?
Don't have much video game experience. Wore out a Nintendo Donkey Kong and Nintendo Mario Bros when I was a kid. Then some Quake on Windows.

I realized the potential of gaming when a couple of games helped me progress my pilot certification (Flight Simulator of course, and X-Plane on iPad).

Haven't don't much video gaming, but do have an addictive personality.

So, it is resolved... I now want to take on positive addictions. I want to get addicted to one or more video games that will make me smarter. They could be about strategy, or reflexes, etc. All are good. Smartness comes in many dimensions. (Bonus if they can make me a better listener, or teach me to talk less, or turn me into a morning person, or teach me intuitions related to probability/fat-tails*).

FLOSS/FOSS preferred.

Currently, I have Windows and ChromeOS laptops, and an Android phone.

Your recommendations are invited below.

Thank you in advance.

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* sadly, the game isn't available any more. But Ole Peters of London Math Lab once tweeted a link to a game that helped me understand Kelly Criterion and its relationship to Ergodicity in a way I would never have understood otherwise.
>"I’d be curious if it were actually possible to buy a whole floor of mini apartments and turn them into offices instead."

It used to be common for startups to do this really early on. Founders would rent a 3 bedroom and make it an "office" until they out grew it and could afford commercial.
There were source code management systems, like ENVY, which made this easy. More than easy, IBM Smalltalk with ENVY was the best system I've ever used for collaborating with other programmers.
Drug dealing with impunity. Why is it allowed?
So throw out the one the motherboard comes with and buy one to replace it?
It might be hard if you do not have a work visa. If that is the case my understanding is the easiest way in is by getting a student visa. I know many people who have done this by enrolling in a Canadian college program. Does not have to be a degree just a 1 year diploma program or something. Then I have met several people who got their permenant resident visa pretty easily after graduating. Im not an expert on how it all works though you could Google Canadian student visas as a starting point or contact an immigration lawyer if you can afford it. If you do have a visa just start applying on Monster.ca, indeed.com, linkedin etc. Best of luck!
I imagine in a Mad Max future older tech will be more valuable because there will be no need to jailbreak them to get them to function.
My task has next to no network or hdd. Data parallel and the task is mostly branches, so GPUs are not effective either. And why use 8 core desktops when 16 core desktops exist. 10 desktops at $1.5K each is way cheaper. It’s also the kind of data that can go into the cloud. Not saying it’s the typical workload but it is my workload. Also it’s CPU bound so they go 100% all the time.
That is very misleading since it is purely because of historical reasons .i.e. a naive struggling newly-born state handing education to religious institutions.

The school system is very different to other countries. Schools can have a religious "ethos" but it means very little nowadays and many children opt out of the single religious education lesson a week. The curriculum is set by the state, funding is from the state, management boards are no longer dominated by religious orders and all teachers are in one of two secular unions.

For the most part, schools are really only Catholic in name only. If the church pushed anti-LGBT propaganda in schools like other countries it would cause uproar. That power has simply gone. The school system is archaic and over due for massive reform. One of the main things blocking it is historical land and building ownership.
Even having a setting where you choose between 2 dumb ads and 1 targeted ad shouldn’t be acceptable.
This is classic putting the process over outcome.

The point of anti trust is not to allow more competition. The point is to stop monopolies that hold customers captive, charging monopoly rents (high prices) and stop innovation.

There is a classic paper by Alan Greenspan on the breakup of Standard Oil [1]. He makes the point that supreme court was wrong. The breakup was just for competitors, not for the benefit of customers. This is the worst of capitalism where big business use the government to fight competitors.

This is the applicable case with today's tech giants. They are providing often a free product to consumers and continue to innovate. The low barriers to entry provided by digital goods and the internet mean that startups have never had it better. The last thing that is needed is government involvement to break up these companies for "anti trust"

[1] http://www.polyconomics.com/ssu/ssu-980612.htm
note @elonmusk comments here that he thinks it will go lower
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Bare git repos have lots of limitations, namely:

* Maintaining per-machine configurations is a hassle, usually involving a lot of manual branch juggling.

* There's no support for storing secrets in a password manager or in encrypted files.

Read more reasons why dotfile managers are better than bare git repos at https://www.chezmoi.io/why-use-chezmoi/#i-already-have-a-sys...
The problem with using those numbers as-is as an indicator of game system popularity is that Roll20 sucks for non-5e systems and a lot of people have jumped ship to Foundry VTT [1], which has much better mechanical support for various game systems.

[1]: https://foundryvtt.com
https://3quarksdaily.com/ is pretty good, although the volume can be a bit overwhelming.
https://arstechnica.com

Still very nerdy, but less startup- / CS-focused
Those are two very cherry picked examples. And I agree I'd probably have a totally different view of SF if I had lived there instead. But you're also talking like 30+ minutes commute to an office near Market street/Civic Center/SOMa
I like explicitly listing dependencies (as interfaces, as you shouldn't depend on abstractions). Golang's context are also a nice pattern for bundling them opaquely based on scope if you just need to pass them through (for logging, tracing and other ubiquitous purposes).
I think the most secure approach is to store a random id in the database and to also sign it any time it’s exposed to the user (as a cookie or url sent via email). The first benefit is that you won’t be exposed to DoS attacks whereby you’re querying non-existent tokens from your database, and the second benefit is that illegitimate sessions can only be established by compromising both your database sessions table and your application’s signing secrets.
TheMotte.org has good discussion, few links.

Lobste.rs has lots of links, less discussion.
Read Something Interesting [0] (and its newsletter form Thinking About Things [1]) are great for classic general blog posts.

[0] https://readsomethinginteresting.com

[1] https://thinking-about-things.com
Agreed. That’s why I thought the footnote in the quote was brilliant. Guess I should’ve included that part as well:

> [2] Ay, there’s the rub. I’m assuming competence. (If your company isn’t competent, well, you know what you need to do.)
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>I don't know about "very easily,"

Halide is perfectly straightforward to use.

> I'm fine with plain old .JPG most of the time.

Halide can save JPGs if that's what you prefer.

>Telling me to spend money on a third-party app is just carrying water for two corporations that aren't paying you

The built in camera app has to cater to a lot of different kinds of user. I, like you, would be happy if it offered more controls, but this might make it less usable for the majority. The cost of one of these third party apps is pretty trivial compared to the cost of a new iPhone (or a 'real' camera), so it doesn't bother me overly – but you can obviously spend your money how you wish.
Points 1 through 3 are off. Point 4 is bang on though.

You don't need 250k to 300k, and if you had it you'd wish you had 500k or 750k anyway. A longer runway puts off the scary point where you have to launch something. You can bootstrap a startup with very little capital if you have the skills to do the work yourself, or you have co-founders with those skills, or most importantly you're happy for things to take longer. You don't need PR or bizdev either if you have a wide network or good creative skills for generating marketing chatter. The idea that you have to buy that is nonsense. Very few early stage startups hire in PR in my experience.

Point 4 is right though. Raising is a full time thing that requires focus. You pretty much have to stop working on your business to raise a round. That's a big part of the risk of doing it, and one reason why it's far better to have more than one founder.
Fifth thing you should have known:

Trying to improve mental health using an app is like trying to cure alcoholism with vodka. Societal addiction to devices is the reason why we've had an explosion in mental illness.
Used to be a part of forums when those were a thing, which they aren’t anymore.

Today, Hacker News is literally the only site I read the comments on. And I find myself reading the comments more than the submissions.

Maybe there are discords that are good, but I haven’t found any yet and I find that app unpleasant to use
I'm more interested in the survival rate of non-hardened low earth satellites -- most of which are not engineered to survive severe geomagnetic storms.

Heck, a good solar storm could knock GPS out for a day or two -- what's the economic impact of that?
I believe the same is possible. Especially the fact that we end up spending more money to make it not possible.
Currently you can get a variable rate of around 3% on compound finance. https://v2-app.compound.finance/ might be a cheaper way to do this.
Joe Justice about Agile Hardware Development at Tesla and SpaceX [video]
Oh, so it's the hangover that's getting worse, not the hangover?
I assume you've tried Reddit except smaller subs, particularly those that ban image posts? The political content and extremely polarised opinions drop away quickly the more niche you get.
> Money sucks but it is an effective way to trick our self-interested brains into creating value for society.

The only reason why I'm not creating more value for society (I have some social side-projects that never get my entire attention) is money. My NGO self-funded projects cannot compete with my salary working for a shit startup producing no value for society whatsoever but burning through VC money.
Objectively speaking, AI has delivered on much of its hype going into 2023. Generative AI applications actually exist, and consumers love them. There are a variety of B2B products doing various kinds of classification and prediction which have grown popular.

On the other hand, The burn rate in the field is insane - I'm not certain that even a small portion of "AI" businesses are on the right track or delivering something other than vaporware. With ad-revenues potentially declining as data evaporates - even the idea that 1 out of 10 will make it and make the rest worth it seems dubious.
We haven't had an explosion in mental illness. We've had an explosion in the number of people being able to recognize they have an issue, understand that help is available, and being willing to speak about it publicly. The problems have always been there.
> debt did not go to improve their bottom line

If you want to have any chance of being objective, you will include the cost-cutting that was done as well, which did improve the bottom line. At any rate, it will be very interesting to revisit all these threads a year from now. My bet is it will work out fine, but we'll see soon enough, right?
> Yikes.

I don't know about yikes. Hard to make the case that there's a ton of value in commericial space with the crime, drugs, and filth that constitutes soma, especially now that office space is just an incidental thing to most SF companies.
This guy was downvoted into oblivion for summarizing current case law in the US. I haven't been here in probably a year, and that's a little concerning to me.
I am getting to work on time with an eco saving device and they are mad? honestly the facilities team has every right to restrict me from charging my e-scooter and it's them covering themselves in case of any potential liability. My thing is property owners/tenants and insurance providers should be providing a reasonable way of accommodating e-scooters and I think it would be seen more widely.

I know not everywhere could afford it but I definitely would pay a few quid from my own pocket for a permit/inspection if the output results in me storing and charging in the office.

Please excuse any grammatical errors, sent from my mobile device
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Unless they've decided to change how Search works, everything you mention is in support of Google's way of doing search - which is the way its been done for more than 20 years. The kind of clout (and hype) that ChatGPT has built up in such a short amount of time could be indicative of a true "disrupter" (I know we hate that word here).
And on the opposite-of-polite side, supposedly there's cheat codes for bypassing floors where someone is waiting for the elevator.
The brain isn't a fsm simply because I can create a game with an aribtrary number of rules. If I can do that, then there are countably infinite fsm just for making games in my brain, "making a game with one rule fsm", "making a game with two rules fsm" etc.
Their bet doesn't require tether to blow up in the next one year. It's only a total loss for them after 6 years or so.
In fact there are about 750,000,000 people alive today with no access to electricity. That's not to say they could all live off the land if society falls apart, but someone's going to survive.
Finding the theory of everything.

ChatGPT: "The theory of everything (TOE) is a hypothetical single, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe. TOE theories aim to provide a single theory that describes the fundamental physical interactions and principles of the universe, and to combine the general theories of relativity and quantum mechanics into one unified theory. It is also sometimes referred to as the "ultimate theory of the universe." While many theoretical physicists believe that a TOE is possible, it is currently not known whether such a theory exists or if it can be discovered."
This is really interesting. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Right now I am reading quite a lot of stuff by Christopher Hitchens, which as you might know was very vocal about religious topics (and very much against most of it).

I haven't found much that he has said about Buddhism [0], but I'll check Thompson's book very soon.

[0]: https://trueancestor.typepad.com/true_ancestor/2007/05/chris...
> "Modern" REST generally disposes of things like hypertext and representations as being too complex, instead leaning on things Swagger/OpenAPI to declare an IDL equivalent, so you're getting effectively an RPC system

Now the question is: Why do people insist to calling some (no standardized) ad hoc RPC protocol "REST(full)"?
This https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/spark.html notes
"However, Dask is able to easily represent far more complex algorithms and expose the creation of these algorithms to normal users [compared to spark]" linking to:
http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2015/06/26/Complex-Graph...
So what exactly have WotC managed to trademark here ?

"Orc" would be trademarked for a RPG, but not a book, movie, video game ?? (Wait, is this why Game Workshop's Warhammer's are OrKs ?!)

That is why Pathfinder might have issues, despite having replaced basically all the proper names and stories ??
I rewrote all my CLI scripts in Elixir, it's best in class IMO. With Mix.install now it's just amazing. Fast, free and simple concurrency, low startup time, great ecosystem, very good system level abstractions and functions in the stdlib.
You’ll want to avoid Metafilter unless you’re interested in narrow discussions hemmed in by a very specific and limited ideology (think: Foucault, Marx, academia, etc): https://www.metafilter.com/guidelines.mefi
Yes? The article is titled "Please don't film me in 2023"
I feel like Lobste.rs is just HN Jr. It’s still tech-based.
The magic happens at so many levels. Apparently a third-party DI framework is too much magic, but the third-party compiler is not, nor is the out-of-order, speculating third-party CPU.

A DI framework is just another level of magic, which once you accept/embrace it and play by its rules (like using a compiler), makes developing other code easier.
In a company, code you write yourself is a dead end. You want as little of it as possible.

Staff turn over. What was a first party piece of code well understood within the company inevitably turns into a poorly documented piece of code written by a third party no longer employed, and there is no community of users to help out with problems.

Write and own code which is fundamental to the business model's value proposition, the code which delivers product market fit. Eliminate other code where possible. Upstream or open source improvements that aren't part of the competitive edge.

There are exceptions of course, for trivial functionality whose fully loaded cost of integration and upkeep as a third party is higher than home grown, but it's not a lot.

The other alternative is to be such an awesome company that nobody who contributes a lot quits.
Jeebus! --that is lame
The comments here are just as mediocre and repetitive as Reddit, just written in a way to sound more sophisticated
~200-250ms on my machine
Copyright infringement is not theft because you are not depriving the rightful owner of something.
AI art is not copyright infringement because the results are transformative (really transformative), so you would have to explain how AI art directly became theft.
Also, neural networks are not "useless", there is virtually an infinite number of permutations that can be achieved with generative models.
Since October 12 it has been going up at an annualized ~30% rate.

Where it goes next is anybody's guess.
"You don't need 250k to 300k, and if you had it you'd wish you had 500k or 750k anyway."

Spending a quarter mill on a prototype seems like a horrible decision, TBH...