skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government really does not give a shit about protecting children. Especially in the UK where they did not intervene in the systematic rape of hundreds of children for some strange reason. All happening right under their nose.

Parents protect children, not faceless governments. When something is sold as protecting children really the government just wants to treat you like a child and take something away.

The irony is that they will still allow very relevant and damning promotion of self-harm which does facilitate in suicide with an impressive 40% success rate.

It truly is evil like we have not seen in almost 100 years.
QuestionPro is one of the best, professional surveys solution, full of features, easy and intuitive to understand as well leading survey software according to G2! Which has become my reference point for MiroTalk [1] feedbacks.

[1] https://github.com/topics/mirotalk
Literally 1984, bros.
Why is the government involved in this, again?
You've just moved the "what caused the..." question up another level and then pleaded that your new level is somehow more special than the previous level without any actual justification. It's turtles all the way down and gods all the way up.
I guess you can’t have two suppliers, one on a traditional fixed contract and one on the octopus stuff, and choose the best one
Speaking of unpopular pet theories from the 1940s, I'm a fan of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

EDIT: There's also this super fun PBS Space Time episode on the theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqtW9MslFk
Please show me a completely offline web app that’s worth a damn. I’m unaware of any.

Also, “completely offline webapp” is such a damn oxymoron lol.
From the original paper (linked in the article):

> ... When given a mixture of original and general abstracts, blinded human reviewers correctly identified 68% of generated abstracts as being generated by ChatGPT, but incorrectly identified 14% of original abstracts as being generated. Reviewers indicated that it was surprisingly difficult to differentiate between the two, but that the generated abstracts were vaguer and had a formulaic feel to the writing.

That last part is interesting because "vague" and "formulaic" would be words I'd use to describe ChatGPT's writing style now. This is a big leap forward from the outright gibberish of just a couple of years ago. But using the "smart BSer" heuristic will probably get a lot harder in no time.

Also, it's worth noting that just four human reviewers were used in the study (and are listed as authors). That's a very small sample size to draw conclusions from. The article doesn't mention level of expertise of these reviewers, but I suspect that could also play a role.

Some are focusing on the paper-mill angle. But I think the more interesting angle is ideation.

If researchers can't reliably tell the difference between machine and human generated abstracts, what kinds of novel experiments or even research programs could ChatGPT suggest that might never have been considered?
Reminds me of this one https://xkcd.com/1489

"Of these four forces, there's one we don't really understand." "Is it the weak force or the strong--" "It's gravity."
Yes this is what is commonly referred to as pumped hydro or often only hydro
kind of makes sense that people don't want random corpses floating around.
(Buuuut let us also enjoy the fact that ML can generate a decent-looking abstract to a scientific paper 32% of the time. This represents massive progress; I would venture that most humans cannot write such an abstract convincingly.)
Materials Genome Initiative: Materials Modeling Software and Tools
Just use what works well for you and your team, how about that?
"Pro" here would be "prosumer", rather than "professional".
Async is the most inefficient bullshit ever. Something that takes 30 seconds to say takes 5 mins to write and another 10 mins to parse and that’s if there are no further questions.
Medieval Monks Were Distracted Too.
> sometime their developer experience is inferior to what you get with off-the-shelf OSS.

The internal version control system that I use (Fig, which is apparently based off Mercurial) is so good I've basically never had to think while using it. I can't really say the same about git.

CodeSearch is also, AFAIK, a lot better than what you would get OSS.

I think the productivity gains across 100K engineers is definitely worth it.
> Surely HVDC links between Scotland and England could be built?

why would this be necessary when the entirety of Great Britain is one synchronous grid?
> when people responsible don't take any steps to correct systemic racism, it should be considered the overt kind

The problem with the state of our debate is people smeared a word used for overt, intentional racism across all manner of unintentional behaviour. That not only reasonably infuriated folks. It also gave cover for the original kind of racism to duck under. (A similar thing has happened to the term violence.)
Are they even accurate enough to be useful? Today my Garmin watch told me I was at 85% in the middle of the afternoon when I was feeling pretty good and 100% towards the end of the day when I was feeling a bit tired.

The way I understand it, and I could be totally wrong, that’s somewhere between dead and impossible within the span of 2 hours.
They have very different purposes.

By your logic, Python is king over Go since Python doesn’t need to compile at all.
Code is firstly a social human language for machine behavior. It's not useful if others can't reason about it, maintain it, or it contains surprises.

Wise engineers don't add complexity or try to be too clever. Simple and small is elegant. Secure engineers don't have anything to prove and create maintainable code. OTOH, paycheck-driven engineers are incurious to try new things or promote software craftsmanship.

Lack of consistency can be enforced by code style linters. Let the linters be the Bad Guy(tm). Get agreement and buy-in on these beforehand.

Separate the people from the problems: give immediate, actionable, constructive feedback privately. Use frame taking to show how their actions come across and the concerns you have... for example, who supports this code when there's an P0?

Mentors are also needed. If possible, hire or advance an "old timer" in the space who can teach some new dogs new tricks.

Whitespace... I come from Ruby land where visual alignment, proper spacing, and terseness are valued. Too many comments and too much whitespace are a distraction, just like condensing too much. In general, very small functions, good semantic naming, DRY, and few levels of indentation make code more pleasurable to read than giant god functions with duplication or excessive line length. Code that runs together without functional visual separation doesn't make it clear what's prologue assertions and setup, main work, and epilogue return.
Is telegram so bad?
> If not for the PM, who will speak with the customers, gather, analyze and understand their needs and problems?

The engineers? i.e. the people who will actually be fixing those problems?

> Engineers or CEOs building features no one asked for is IMHO one of the major reasons lots of tech startups fail.

So why put another layer (the PM) in between the engineers and the customers? Sounds like an unnecessary game of telephone to me.
https://archive.ph/1XYY9
By a wide margin.
When I contacted System76 sales last year after others posted their logo was stickers they told me their logo was no longer stickers. Maybe that is only on the upper range but the upper range is what I am interested in.
""

For example, consider one of the parametrizations we
study: a group of 15 voters of which 3 are experts; the experts’ information is correct with
probability 70%, while the precision of non-experts’ signals can take any value between 50
and 70%, with equal probability. Then only non-experts with signals of precision close to
random should delegate: a non-expert with information that she knows is only 55% likely to
be correct should not delegate to experts whom she knows to be correct with probability 70%.

""

This is not about politics, or subjective questions about complicated situations. It imagines a world in which there is one correct answer and the reason that different people vote differently is due to a lack of information about that truth.

This is very much a simplified "game" they're playing with. In this context, the result -- I think -- is more like an outcome of the central limit theorem. Basically, if you get lots of people each with a 55% chance of being correct to vote on a binary choice, they're very likely to pick the correct choice in aggregate. If you have one person who is 70% correct vote, they're 30% likely to get it wrong. So you actually don't want too many of the 55% people to delegate their decision to the 70% person, which is a bit counter-intuitive.

This is sort of interesting, and I think says something useful about the Liquid Democracy concept. However I think the experiment is simplified to the point that it's a categorically different thing than even moderately interesting political questions, and so I don't think it's an argument against applying liquid democracy to politics.
You didn’t even remotely answer the question.
No mention of Garmin whose main watches all have Pulse ox sensors in them, so either they licensed the tech or they have their own implementation.

I'm glad I couldn't find Garmin here, I love their sensor data.
Also there's that whole "worst prediction in the history of physics" thing with the Vacuum Catastrophe.
Seems like this would make a good HBO miniseries...
> Allow me to repeat: Children are not freely consenting adults, which is why they get special legal protection.

You avoided the question about why businesses were fine using child labor before the laws. Your claim seems to be that businesses are nice and negotiate fairly. Why is the special legal protection needed if businesses are nice?

You also failed to explain how you as an individual would negotiate a better healthcare package with Amazon than what is offered now.

> And yet Starbucks and Amazon have had generous health care benefits without unions.

Allow me to repeat: unions negotiated that in the 1950s and now everyone benefits. Without what already happened in the 1950s you can't claim those benefits would somehow magically appear.

And Amazon and Starbucks don't exactly have "generous" healthcare benefits. They have average benefits compared to other US companies. And that aren't nearly as good as what folks in the EU get.
Five Eyes makes the official legality moot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
The best context to view the paper, is as part of an algorithm search.

Until the brain's algorithm is "solved", half steps are important. We need as many alternate half steps as we can find until one or more lead to a better understanding of the brain. (And potentially, better than backdrop efficiency or results.)
The same thing that prevents someone from buying your vote now - there would be no way to prove the delegation.
Since the front-end world was upended by webpack and react, my favourite change that I would abandon last is typescript
I meant cinema.

I don’t watch TV, save for a few (less than 20) shows I don’t think anything truly brilliant has ever been made as a series, ever.

That said, I would agree that shows made between 2005 and today are generally better than shows between 1980 and 2015.

Though better is relative; shows with very few exceptions are junk.
It's not solely about compile times though. If you consider all the debugging time Rust saves you from, I'd guess Rust even with its slower compile time, comes out ahead in terms of productivity.

That is after all what this link is telling us. One of the main points made was "speed up development"

If it were solely about compile times that wouldn't be a major reason to use Rust here.
Nice! Any chance you could share a GitHub gist or similar?
We aren't descended from rats, though. Lizard brains, maybe?
I'm not an innovator in this space. I'm interested in swarm dynamics as manifested in structures of information exchange (like conversations) and the extent to which these have inherent structures that could be described by Lindenmeyer systems.
Indeed likely!

But in an article for publication it seems best to say something like "Trust your gut when it says "No", and get lots of data when you don't have strong gut feelings", rather than just that general trope...
Cosmology is one of those fields where I suspect we'll always be finding things that don't match with theory because we can never know nor replicate the initial state of the Universe.

There's also a lot of fundamental questions we don't have answers on. For example:

- What does space expanding actually mean? Is space stretching or is new space being created? If so, what is the mechanism for that?

- Is time a fumdanental property of the Universe or is it an emergent property?

- What are the fundamental intereptations of quantum mechanics [1]?

And so on.

The cosmic microwave background is our earliest yet observation from the Universe. Before this the Universe was really too dense and hot for radiation signatures to survive. Interestingly, we may be able to peak even earlier than that with the cosmic neutrino background [2].

But there are a ton of things about the early Universe's formation and expansion we will probably never know and will only be able to guess at with models that will always break at a certain point.

[1]: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/interpre...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_neutrino_background
Ask HN: Sources about a particular form of user hostility?
Hi HN,

I'm working on a blog post about something I call "usability nihilism" (named in relation to therapeutic nihilism). This is a type of user hostility in the form of, "users aren't smart enough to understand their computers" or "users don't want to understand their computers;" an attitude that software should present simplistic views to the user, reserving the true interface only for programmers and administrators, and that users aren't capable of or interested in troubleshooting or solving computer problems.

I'll save the arguments about whether this is good or bad for the blog post (if you feel moved to take a position in this thread, that's your right, but I'm going to decline to respond until I've completed my research - I'm not the thread police, but I am personally only here to discuss sources), but I'm looking for prior work about this idea, and so far I'm not finding it. I don't think I'm the first person to notice this phenomenon. I'm wondering if anyone can point me to sources on this topic or keywords to search for?

So far I've been looking for blog posts & academic articles about user hostility and UX, and I'm finding interesting stuff, but not quite what I'm looking for (discussion of hostility seems to be about either disenfranchising users to monetize them or offering deaf ears to their concerns, cousins to usability nihilism but not identical).

Thanks,
Max
> It's much closer to Mongo than it it to Sqlite.

If only. It’s much closer to DBM than it is to Mongo.
In my experience, and I used ZeroTier extensively before moving to Tailscale, it fails in a few points:

* Performance was never quite great, especially when NAT was involved. This may have improved, but I haven't used it in a while.

* NAT was hit-and-miss. It would usually work, but would not work frequently enough that I couldn't just count on it.

* Not really easy for some use-cases. Main one for me, having a router both for acessing my LAN from outside, and as a gateway to my home Internet (akin to a VPN service like e.g. Mullvad or PIA). It's possible, and I did use it that way but it required some iptables-fu and it would fail some times - when it did, I would lose all my ability to connect back. This is especially bad if I'm traveling, since I don't have physical access to the router to fix the config. This never happened with Tailscale.
I’m obviously not talking about programs who’s primary function is some sort of network usage.

But if it’s a desktop app that does desktop things but still requires a network connection for a completely inane reason I don’t use it. I hate that shit. That’s the same sort of awful as a “webapp”.

And I knew people would start with the “that’s actually no different than desktop programs requiring specific versions of the apps or toolkit. Therefore your complaints are invalid.”

Difference here is I can keep my program. And use it via emulation or virtualization if necessary.

Webapps are another trend towards a “you own nothing. You rent everything.” Economy with computer software.

It’s shit.

And I’ll add that webapps /have/ their place. And I obviously use some.

My big gripe is, like with everything with humans, there’s always this push to extremes. It’s not “let’s use webapps where they make sense” it’s “let’s try to convince everyone webapps are perfect and we need everything to be that!!” cough ChromeOS trash

So if it would stay reasonable where traditional and web and even hybrids can coexist that’s fine.

It won’t. It never does. And I am not looking forward to the inevitable future of Always Connected being a requirement for literally everything. And you have to pay monthly fees for every little thing. And you lose access to your supposed data of you let you account lapse briefly. Blah blah.

It’s already happening and if you claim otherwise you are being willfully blind.

But people love the touted “convenience” and eat it up. And poo poo naysayers.

grumpy
For now. You also have to go to great lengths to remove one drive on both desktop and 0365. The amount of times I’ve accidentally uploaded data to one drive cloud tenancies I do not own is insane. If I trigger a data breach, I’ll blame the Microsoft UI.
People will just switch to signal or whatever. It's easily mitigated.
Wisconsin governor bans TikTok from state devices on security concerns
Northern India just left the chat.
The Star Wars spoiler was so unnecessary.
Biggest threat to democracy is moral panics about fake enemies instigated by politicians (specifically, demagogues). This helps with that by replacing politicians with direct democracy. It's more feasible than full-on direct democracy since it avoids the need for everyone to become an expert on every legal area. You can delegate your vote to a non-politician expert you know personally - and to different people depending on the proposal.
Care needed with C++ std:optional
Yes. This benchmark was recently posted on HN[1]:

https://quick-lint-js.com/blog/cpp-vs-rust-build-times/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271293
Peak electricity usage is on the cold, frosty nights when there is no wind or sunshine.
Exactly.

Often the gap between what and why is enormous. Humanity began curing meats to protect against microorganisms around 3000BC. The effect of what was going on was immediately observable, but it wasn't until 4500 years or so later that we discovered the why of microorganisms.
Eric Lerner is one of them and he's advocating for the idea that the BB never happened and that we'd see plenty of old galaxies with JWST. He's since updated his thoughts and there was a bunch of controversy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32938153
Presumably because it's in the public interest to ensure bodies are properly disposed?
It really depends on the use-case. Async Python is nice for IO-heavy APIs
If CPU-heavy workloads are likely, I'd probably look into using go.

In terms of FE, it really depends on the skill-set in the team. I went for Vue over React when we had to have a bunch of backenders whip up a FE simply because it's more opinionated and we didn't want to have to make as many choices when getting started. Also, just rendering HTML on the server side can still get you a long way

For the DB, again, it depends on your use case and what your data-model looks like, but I think a relational DB like postgres is a safe choice 99% of the time. You might need to couple it with something else on occasion (I've reached for elasticsearch more times than I can count)
try "reserve ultimate heat sink" instead of "gigawatt resistor"
This is one of the astounding loopholes revealed by Snowden's revelations.

The US government could not spy on Americans without a warrant. But they convinced themselves that mass surveillance was legal as long as the USA did not search their own database on Americans without a warrant. And making the whole thing available to other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes was also OK.

So analysts in England got all the data. And nothing about UK law says that THEY can't do searches on Americans. So they do. And if they find anything, they can give the USA an affirmation that they know that person X is up to no good and crime Y is likely to turn up if they do a search of A, B and C. That affirmation is sufficient under the 4th amendment to get a search warrant from a judge. Armed with said search warrant, the USA can now search the database, verify what they are told, and then they have probable cause under which they can take further actions.

And so they convinced themselves that by simply outsourcing the initial search, they could conduct unlimited surveillance on Americans and still have satisfied the letter of the Constitution.
Most of the stuff we used is based on some very boring tech. It may get upgraded to something fancy when the product/service scales to a significant number of users, but Spring+Postgres (or RoR, or Django, or PHP...) will get you there with no problems.

Facebook was PHP, Instagram was Django etc. They became what they became while using incredibly boring "old-school" tech.

The product is paramount, not the tech.
Despite what corbynites tell you the problem has never been privatisation or the franchise system - certainly not the TOCs. Indeed the system has managed to take Marylebone and the Chiltern main line from near closure under government control to providing massive investment and high quality thanks to long term franchises. The competition has lowered prices dramatically for those that care (in 1990 a 3 hour return Manchester to london cost about 3 times the £45 price it does today, but today you also have the option of a 2 hour return on a faster service, the revenue of which subsidies the rest of the network), and has driven usage to record levels arresting massive declines under BR
I really feel like you misunderstood the article. Perhaps you went into it with a different assumption of what it was going to say.

The article is saying that if we built more transmission lines, or increased storage capacity, or had localized pricing, that more of the power generated would get used, and we wouldn't need to turn on the fossil-powered plants as much.

More wind wasted is precisely equal to more fossil fuel burnt right now.

Further, the article described why simply building more production doesn't solve things, because most of it would be built in Scotland, and we wouldn't be able to bring in any more power into the grid where it's needed then we do now.
Doesn't spectra come from the Rydberg constant, which is set by several other universal constants?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_constant#Alternative_e...
Same. I spent a minute or two clicking around, and, failing see the ability to purchase one or even get a price sheet from sales...
He's also the guy who pushed an eink display to 5bpp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140284
Well, I think there is some level of regulation that should be in place. For instance, if I live on a small property next to another small property, it would have a pretty negative impact on me if my neighbor decided they wanted to leave their dead relatives in the open on a corner of the property abutting mine.

Obviously that’s an extreme scenario. I generally agree with you that burial is over-regulated (c.f. human composting) but there should be some ground rules in place.
solution: turn off the computer