skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addiction is a black and white kind of thing, and it’s hard to comprehend it. But once you do, you are on the right path.
I had a similar experience but have found this NextDNS config passes the “girlfriend test”: https://github.com/yokoffing/NextDNS-Config
would you say the same to a junkie that has soiled himself and is riding on cloud 9?
Is it appropriate to discuss the negative side effects in this article? It's clearly a positive article about drugs - that's apparently just from the title. Must every article about a topic cover the positives and the negatives, even when it's a piece relating someone's personal experience that's clearly not intended to be unbiased news or science reporting?

Also, would you hold the same standard to drug-negative articles? Must they cover the positive side of drugs in a way that's realistic?
Sorry, but I think a post like the above should make someone like you take a time to reflect, instead of immediately prepare a defense. Regardless of what is driving your desire to watch so much YouTube, which in the end is what defines the degree of the pathology, it’s still an inordinate amount. YouTube is not background noise. Your brain is paying a bit of attention to it, getting dopamine from it, and becoming progressively less able to reach a state of peace without stimulation. Will you be running YouTube in the background when you’re sharing a bed with a spouse? Will you be wearing headphones with constant babbling going on, disturbing your sleep patterns? These are real issues my friend.
Agree. It's also a given that a renewable grid has to be overbuilt. Current estimates are by about 50%.

I don't know what the current target is, but 6% is well below what it will eventually be. The article suggests building more physical infrastructure, but that comes with its own cost and environmental impacts, ironically.
Yeah, that was one of them (the Islamic book I mentioned above).
A couple of times a year, the FBI scrapes up the remains of someone trying to make explosives with the recipes in this book.
All software is free. I have 4 versions of MacOS archived on my disk right now, and you can get your own copies on the internet archive. Want to pirate Mac software? Go get it, nobody will stop you. The only price that everyone pays on the internet, is free.

Every platform that respects the freedom and authority of it's users seems to agree that all software is free. As Apple is an American company, it would make me very happy to see them agree with those values.
I still have my hardcopy that I bought at a punk music/book store in the 80s. It's on a shelf next to titles like J. G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition, RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook, and Book of the SubGenius.
Can you clarify for those of us who are slow to understand?
Two surprising passages.

'...the family office business has become a huge industry, valued at around $6 trillion, now bigger than the $4 trillion hedge fund business.'.

and

'Investing in venture capital funds doesn’t put enough money to work, this person said, which encourages some family offices to just dump wads of cash into real estate, index funds, and anything else that can actually move enough dough.'

It's hard to imagine this much money in your bank account.
I gave podman weeks of effort trying to get its “killer feature” to work properly (rootless containers). I couldn’t even justify the time for a hobby project. Instead, I just installed Docker and went on my way.

IMO they need to improve documentation and drop the facade that it’s 1:1 Docker.
I haven’t used illegal drugs, but I am bipolar. Mania is a high that nothing else has ever matched.

I have benzos for anxiety. And they really make an exciting social event so much brighter and clearer. I’m so comfortable in my own skin, I can just be around absolute strangers.

It’s hard to compare to those highs. My daily live comparatively dull. But I’ve accepted the tradeful because the other things that come with mania are not worth it.

Occasionally, I get a glimpse of what I had. I should walk away, but I don’t. And pay for it later.
Is it just me or is Google quietly in serious distress?

Ads have been getting a LOT worse very quickly. Almost every ad I saw in a day when my UBlock wasn’t working was advertising an actual fraud. Whether crypto or recession get rich quick or “aluminum is giving you cancer.”

Advertising frequency is cranked way up. On mobile 5 second unskippables are 6-7 now. I’ll do a search and my ENTIRE screen is advertising until I scroll down and find results.
Docker is a life saver if your shipping software on Linux. Otherwise you’re going to have to deal with endless bug reports from oddball distros. Docker lets you test with a stable set of dependencies and know that’s what your users will see.
People are dumb, tonight at 11
If you've already lost your ability to make those kinds of judgements, you've probably already had to much. That's not a problem you can work on in the moment, but it's something to reflect on when you're sober.

If you don't know what you're putting into your body, you're always making an irresponsible choice. You're trusting someone to tell you how it will affect you, how much is safe, and what the side effects will be. Plenty of women know that trusting someone to give you the substance you think you're getting can mean getting taken advantage of.

Being high doesn't implicitly eliminate all of your self control. As impractical as it might be, the smallest bit of planning and caution can save your life.
> You said, space in our universe is not Euclidean and that is why the paradox does not prevent us from moving or reaching the goal, correct? This implies that the paradox assumes Euclidean space

What I should have said is that you cannot assume that spacetime can be infinitely divided. Instead I started that spacetime is not what people usually assume it to be.

The paradox (as stated) doesn't assume Euclidean space, although Euclidean space satisfies the assumptions of the paradox.

Finally, if spacetime is not Euclidean then applying the paradox to a Euclidean space is just a thought experiment and everything will depend on your definitions and how you define movement in your fictional space.

What Zeno was trying to get at with his paradox was a takedown of the idea of infinity applying to the real world.
Yeah - physical drive theft I think. I assume that's well locked down (and a crap shoot whose data someone'd get if they stole some drives) but nice to be protected I guess.
The "in-crowd" vibe is very different from religion. We admire a language for its strengths, but worship it for its faults. APL is beginning to shade into theological territory.
Manhole covers are round if they cover a pipe and square if they cover a brick built manhole.

Your note about them not falling in makes me wonder if Google had a different answer?
I don't think this author ever makes the point of the title. I would title this instead "doing drugs when you're young is fun".
>Then you probably aren't experiencing nearly the degree of hedonic exhaustion that is being talked about. You might be near zero

I think this is the challenge of responsible drug use. Hedonic exhaustion might be actually zero or negative (making the rest of life better), depending on the person and use.

I think it has a lot to do with intent and moderation.
There are alternatives listed directly below the Docker instructions. Seems like a silly reason to write-off a project.
Can the Artistic-Literary World Recognise the Beauty and Humanity in Math?
The original title was too long:

The Joy of Sets: Why Won’t Our Artistic-Literary Establishment Recognise That There’s Mystery, Beauty and Humanity in Maths?
Having to notarize your own software is giving one company total control over you and your future. It is unacceptable. I do not develop versions for macosx since notarization anymore.
Everybody's biased in everything all the time to some degree or other - that's just part of the human experience.

That said, I think bias is generally only harmful when it's concealed from people. In this article, which is unabashedly and clearly pro-drugs, I don't see the harm in bias - people can evaluate it freely and judge accordingly.
https://bellard.org/tinyemu/readme.txt :

> 4.1) 128 bit support

> The RISC-V specification does not define all the instruction encodings
for the 128 bit integer and floating point operations. The missing
ones were interpolated from the 32 and 64 ones.

> Unfortunately there is no RISC-V 128 bit toolchain nor OS now
(volunteers for the Linux port ?), so rv128test.bin may be the first
128 bit code for RISC-V !
I've been using:

https://www.ksoftware.net/code-signing-certificates/

Last time I looked they had the best pricing I could find at about $70/year. However, you still have to jump through the antiquated hoops for them to validate your business. One of the hoops was something like "have a business address and phone number listed in a commercial directory" which was particularly tricky to do for us since we don't have a company office anywhere and don't have a company phone number. In 2022, it should be reasonable for a software company to exist without a published phone number. I think we got around that by setting up a Twilio or Google Voice number and then adding a business listing in Google to one of our owner's residential addresses. Totally useless but apparently good enough to pass validation.
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It's hard for me to see how cooking at home gets better when you need to go to the grocery store daily so your meat and milk won't spoil. As well as not be able to save any money by buying food in volume or saving leftovers.

At the end of the day, your produce is either being refrigerating by you or your local store. Not much of an energy difference either way, but it introduces a massive inconvenience.
Ask HN: What Companies Offer ML Residencies?
OpenAI[0] and Apple[1] both do this. Are there other companies that offer something similar? Specifically: I'm wondering what other companies have open, temporary positions for engineers without an ML background to get hands on, production experience in ML. Thanks in advance!

[0] https://openai.com/blog/openai-residency/
[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/updates/aiml-residency-program-application-2023
Lithops: A multi-cloud framework for embarrassingly parallel jobs
I have a hobby of posting these sorts of things around Santa Barbara while out running: https://www.instagram.com/santabarbaradetails/

Most are survey markers, contractor stamps, road names, etc...
If you don't, your successor will. Money makes the world go round.
Bitcoiners Are Flocking to Nostr, but What Makes It Different Than Twitter?
I've used this comment system on my tor onion services sites for the last decade. I get plenty of people trying to exploit it. It's kind of fun. If the Tor folk haven't pwned it I doubt the HN folk will. Not for lack of skill but mostly a lack of motivation relative to the tor folk.
On the contrary, cities allow people to live efficiently.

If you spread into suburbs and single-family housing, you need more area per person, motorized individual transport (because walking becomes impractical), more spread out roads and utility lines, and so on.

Cities are not divorced from nature, they allow us to preserve it more easily.
Then, these users maybe should be using ios and not macos
I've worked with my share of utter fools in software development. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

People are remarkably failure-prone in the absence of controls and guardrails. Sadly, I suspect the individuals will get the rap instead of whatever crap process made it possible for the changes to pass muster and get into production without being caught and corrected.
Years ago, I had most of my music ripped to AAC in iTunes, easily accessible, browsable, and shuffleable.

I now rip each of my CDs to a single FLAC and cue sheet (using XLD on Mac), on the theory that it's the most accurate way to archive a disc. However, I haven't found anything that offers the same accessibility to such a collection as iTunes did. I look through folders, and drag a few cue sheets at a time into Foobar 2000.

Any tips?
I can feel with you. Me, too, have problems with remembering what have been coded and why. Also, I suffer in creativity - but not in logic. So, for my part, I concentrate more on logical thinking and algorithm tasks. May be you too have some skill.

But, reconciling, for me it was distraction. Just like do one thing, then do the other thing, then forget about the first thing. And a lack of understanding data structures - I did not study CS. I overcame this by training on sites like codewars and thinking in the programming language at anytime ("How would the logic for the traffic lights be programmed?" while walking on the streets).

But this still do not help you with the creativity. I somehow have the feeling you lerned a lot, but it was all too fast pushed trough. Also react and bootstrap and things like that - they can be seen as own programming languages, with own logic, sometime syntax. You have to learn other poeple's thinkwise for being able to use their frameworks. So, thats may be a point, too. The different syntaxes of JS, CSS, HTML, bootstrap, react -> this all have to be mastered. Its a multi-dimesional problem. You need practice, practice, practice - codewars? You need to practice switching the languages instantly. As an example, one who learned 2nd language and perfectly speaks it starts to learn a 3rd language and stops speaking the 2nd until the 3rd is mastered. That one will have a difficult time to switch from the 3rd to the 2nd instantly. Its a fact. If he starts to train thinking the 2nd and the 3rd languaged simultaniously, it won't be a problem at all after a few days/weeks. What I want to say:

- do codewars on pure JS
- do codewars on pure HTML
- do codewars on pure CSS

Do them simultaneously, starting with JS. Because, with JS the other two can be generated :)

Thats my experience and a cheer up! If you don't see any future in programming, then try to find a job where straight thinking is needed and use your programmatical thinking to solve other things. Web is not everything :)
Rally in the 80s until 1986 was insane. There was the class B with some of the most powerful rally cars ever built. If you see older insane rally videos, it is usually from class B.

The Porsche 959 never participated in group B races, and it would have been really interesting to see it competing with Audi Quattro and Lancia Delta.

unfortunately in 1986 there were several tragic accidents, resulted in the end of group b.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_B

Here are some scenes from group B that give a feeling how intense and dangerous it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRtyT9WQzdY
Perhaps this will signal that it's time to start training these generative AI algorithms on freely licensed data instead of grabbing whatever is available.
My go-to CD ripper is https://github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip
There is an even worse scenario if you try to stop brute-force hacking of product URLs:

When you have received a number of invalid URLs from an ip address then you shadow ban the ip address by sending "404 not found" back for ALL following requests from that specific ip address no matter if it requests a valid URL.

Now all the security checking is skipped because simplistic security testing looks like "yet another hacker".
Or just don't buy an idiot box.

I'd argue the TV is one of the most harmful inventions of the modern age.

Sitting for hours a day is the new smoking. And the ever more hyper-partisan news rots the mind. All so you can watch the latest trite bollocks Disney et al. has just put out.

Lets not even get started on how they're all streaming services now. So much content yet a fraction of the quality.

I got rid of my TV when I saw a man being gruesomely killed on BBC news ~2014. It was without a doubt the smartest decision I ever made.
Fake and Misattributed Ancient Quotes
Icarus Trophy
> I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company.

You're at the wrong company if you're unhappy regardless of the size.

I've worked at a very small company which was miserable because the owner didn't have a clue and was only interested in the bottom line to the point of letting the software and the systems atrophy.

I've worked at Megabank, and it was also miserable. Actually writing code probably ended up being a sum total of 3-4 hours a week. At best. Too many meetings. Absurd change control system. Crazy processes and sign off.

And then there have been a few mid-sized companies - 20-200, and they've been the most fun. Get on with coding and even whilst managing a small team.
> that is a weird list

it is my list, and it is non-exhaustive.

> what's take home salary has anything to do with this?

you are moving the goalposts. You say that devs are overpaid, therefor time saved need only be a few hours to make back the money. I assert that this isn't universally true (that devs are paid well) and that it must apply to all developers (and everyone developer adjacent)

> $1,000 macbook

Nobody is using a $1k computer in the west. Not sure what that is meant to signify either.

> It's the cost of making business.

If you were a hairdresser and you had to pay a new license for every person who touched the chair, then you would have a parable. As it stands we have a lot of per-seat licensing and an SSO tax designed to get the most money from business customers, the result is that a lot of businesses (where dev costs are lower) simply cant (or wont) pay for every little tiny tool- even if it was priced in a reasonable way, because handling the purchasing and buying the license for the seats you need becomes a full time job.
Waves That Pull You In
Generation and reversal of surface flows by propagating waves
Just had my annual checkup and my blood work looks fantastic
>I have ADHD and I leave YouTube running in the background while I work and when I sleep. I know for a fact that 5+ hour on wednesday was "10 Hours of Hotel AC White Noise (High power setting)". 80% of the time it's on in the background, either figuratively or literally white noise.

That's how radio was used for generations.
> So in both cases the aim is to act as a labour cartel to redistribute economic surplus from either consumers, firms or potential competition to insiders.

After reading that, you can safely ignore any comments for this person regarding European unions. I can guarantee you it’s an American and they have no idea of what they are talking about.

Unions in Europe have little to do with their American counterparts. Membership is never compulsory to begin with. They are just representative of labour for negotiations. Part of their role is actually mandated by the state. For example, minimum salaries for each roles here is set by bilateral agreements between the biggest employers and employees unions.

They play their role fairly well and nearly never strike. Calling them a cartel is beyond ridiculous.
Western Governor's University is the generic HN answer.

Comp Sci: https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html

It offers Math Education Degrees, but not straight up math.

But, one of my opinions is the really technical stuff is almost certain to require more commitment than an online degree.

Another of my opinions is the way to learn machine learning is to learn machine learning and pick up what you refer to as "prerequisites" as needed along the way.

A third of my opinions is taking classes in person works better for a lot of people...because who you know is important and learning communities are important. Hence your local community college might be the best option.

Good luck.
The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground
Having something work most of the time but break without warning - at least by writing to a log that an overflow has happened - goes against a lot of SWE best practices AFAICT. Imagine debugging that without knowing it can happen.

Does JS at least write ".0" at the end when converting a number to a string? Or switch to scientific notation for large numbers?
One point is to not allow Apple to act as the gatekeeper to what applications can be implemented and used on iOS. A second is to not force implementors of a fundamentally cross-platform application where I care about the service rather than the technology stack to waste huge amounts of resources on reimplementing the app multiple times. A third is having the economic gains of the app go to the people who actually did the work, not to the middleman who has been resting on their laurels for 15 years, collecting their 30%.

Native apps are good for Apple, web apps are bad for them. They've been using their full control of one of the world's most important computing platforms to cripple the web platform. If web apps really were that unappeling to users and developers, they wouldn't need to worry. Just stop the obstructions, and the market would decide in the favor of native apps. That they've been fighting this tooth and nail tells you that they have no confidence.

And let's be clear, Apple never even needed to do the work themselves. They just needed to stop blocking competing browsers. Again, if notifications are so bad, surely the users would have staid in Apple's no-notification garden rather than ship to a browser with that feature. But again, they have no confidence in their users actually choosing Safari.
Amid China’s Covid wave, 42% of people on one flight tested positive
Here's a successful prompt: https://imgur.com/a/hijsCfI

Could you agree with me that if a programmer manually put in a restriction to curtail and limit the public's ability to use ChatGPT's abilities, and as part of this restriction the model instead replied thusly:

"I'm sorry, but as a large language model it is impossible for me to speculate about how a president might make a declaration that the moon is made of cheese."

Then it would be a form of gaslighting?
Scientists See Quantum Interference Between Different Kinds of Particles
Watching Gophercon videos this morning, majority of my suggestions were Jordan B Peterson, Andrew Huberman and JRE. How the hell does it make that jump. I only watch software related videos at this point.
It depends. If names are different, character and plot details differ, etc., a book about students at a school for wizards battling great evil may be a not particularly imaginative rip-off and may even invite litigation if it's too close, but I'm guessing it wouldn't win in court. See also The Sword of Shannara and Tolkien. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Shannara

Creators mimic styles and elements of others' works all the time. Unless an ML algorithm crosses some literal copying threshold, I fail to see it as doing anything substantially different from what people routinely do.
APL/J/BQN?
I'm the type to become addicted and I had a big problem with spending vastly too much time on YT. A few months ago I cleared my search and watch history and subscriptions to start fresh. Now I only allow myself to watch videos about math, science, or playing instruments I'm interested in learning to play. If I ever see a politically leaning recommendation I tell YT to never show it to me again. If I slip up and watch something off my diet I immediately clean it from my search and watch history. It's improved my life a lot removing the toxic content and replacing it with slowly understanding pieces of modern physics from listening to Leonard Susskind.
I think it's great when the artists sell me a complete FLAC of their album, so I don't need to do any of that.

Otherwise, I prefer methods that get me CD->FLAC transfers in a few minutes.
Let’s put to bed the supposed dichotomy between the arts and sciences.

All the skilled artists and/or writers I’ve met chose that path, rather than slid into it because they couldn’t grok a truth table.
Oceans Break Heat Record for Fourth Year in a Row
I’m in complete agreement with you. Could you imagine 2 contractors from somewhere like Accenture, who are already underpaid and overworked, not making a mistake?