skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

― Ira Glass
I agree that marriage, kids, and the complexities they present are a drag on cognition.
The irony of affirmations: Why do I have to remind myself of being something, if I am already that? In effect, I am reminding myself of that which I am not.
I've had this idea of starting back at basics and relearning math from the beginning since I never "really" learned it besides memorizing and skirting my way through it in school.

Do you know a good path or book that's suitable for that?
It is a lie when we know ghost browsers essentially do the same. I think it is just not in the best interest of Google because it might hurt their bottom line i.e. ads.
The problem with red meat isn't meat per se; all meat has saturated fat, some more than others. Reducing LDL cholesterol (reducing CVD risk) means increasing fiber and reducing saturated fat, and if someone chimes in saying that it's not casual, we have an excellent mendelian randomization study that gives us a pretty good link [1]. All plant-based meat alternatives, including cheeses, have high amounts of saturated fat from coconut oil, which isn't very good either.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26780009/
Well, shit. It doesn't show up for me when searching (edit: unless I search for it exactly), but this appears to be the official: @archlinux@fosstodon.org
Thats.... the exact opposite of my experience lol. I was at a 3 letter agency for ~5 years and close to everyone I knew failed the first poly of every round. IMO its a ploy to raise the stakes and get you on edge.
Lot's of good books already here!
In the same spirit as Polya's book "Thinking mathematically" by J.
Mason, L. Burton and K. Stacey
I learned a lot in the early days with Demidovich book on 5000 problems on mathematical analysis.
Tom Apostol books on calculus, but for me his book on analytical number theory. Alongside alan baker's thin book on number theory.
Gilbert Strang book(s) on linear algebra.
Rudin book on functional analysis.
Oh Hardy's book on divergent series!
Ian Steward books on transcendental numbers and Galois theory.
Elements of algebraic topology by Munkres is a fantastic book.
So many books are invaluable to me in teaching not only math but mathematical thinking.

I guess if you want to learn thinking but not necessarily math "thinking mathematically" above mentioned is your friend.
tl;dr:if there are little kids around keep these magnets out of their surroundings/sight
Yep, still alive. He plans on being shot in the back while fleeing from a jealous husband in 2043, according to his Stanford bio[1]

1 - https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/
Except those forms blessed by the church like bingo, keno, pickle cards, raffles, etc. As long as the invisible friend gets a cut, they’re a-ok with gambling.
Landfills amortize the carbon emissions. Keeping the plastic's carbon temporarily sequestered in a landfill puts it somewhere other than the atmosphere. Eventually we'll have to do something with all that carbon, but we're better off burying it until we get a better handle on emissions in general.
I find this kind of hard to believe. Having Africans remove "toxic" content is absurd, because Africans tend to be incredibly misogynistic and homophobic with an incredible amount of hatred and vitriol towards "the west" (and now Ukraine).

Right now, go onto Facebook, search for Ukraine and open the first 10 posts. You will see that at least 70% of all comments are racist and from Africans.

Now search for "gay murder" and you will find that 90% of the comments are from Africans agreeing with the murder and blaming the gay victim.

Now do the same search for "priest beheaded" .. then "priest burned".

Having Kenyans train ChatGPT surely means they brought their religious and homophobic biases. This dataset must be garbage.
My wife and I get into the ocean pretty often -- sometimes, every day. But when I leave my swimming attire hanging in the bathroom for more than a couple of days (I try not to do that, but sometimes forget), it starts to smell really fishy. My wife asks why it smells so bad after 2 days, but not immediately after getting out of the ocean. I tell her The ocean is a soup of life, and when you get out there are millions of living critters in the fabric -- it's all alive. After 2 days... not so much
There are in fact a lot of vegans who do want meat eaters to consume less meat, for the same ethical or environmental reasons we don’t eat meat ourselves. Doesn’t require being an activist to want these products to see more mainstream adoption.
But why would that affect new comments if they’re able to create comments?
I remember nearly two decades ago a PopSci article about some guy who figured out how to use microwaves to convert plastic (any hydrocarbon) into oil and natural gas. More than enough to break even. He was converting tires and waste plastic.

Nothing ever came of it - IIRC, ownership disputes with the partner, and eventually the patent got purchased by some random company and blackholed.

Edit: found a source. Better than popsci. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12141-giant-microwave...
Right, though the large meat-abstaining culture in India is vegetarian and not vegan. As far as I'm aware, there has not been a traditional vegan culture. It's been made viable owing to supplementation and tangential modern products.
Querying is done "client side", rather than in the filesytem API. If you request all million rows from the database and convert them in your ORM, and then query the ORM, you'll see the same kind of problem.

Quite a lot of systems use linked lists which make everything O(n).

And the worst part is this is unfixable without migrating away from APIs which have been frozen for about 40 years at every level in every single piece of software you're using.
You should not assume it's world wide. Given "the FAA is investigating" and there's no reports of other countries it's reasonable to assume that this is limited to the US, or at least northern continental America.

(The title of the submission is also "Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage")
Not a direct answer, but I once read that the best book about a technical topic is the third book you read on it. Often you'll see things in comments sections like: "I have heard this explained so many times by others, but this explanation finally clicked!". The assumption is that that's the case because the explanation is better, rather than assuming it's the case because you've struggled with the material before and you're still going at it.
Yep, your link is indeed to the probabilistic tree used in GotKV.

Here "probabilistic" just refers to a way of balancing a tree. Rather than having a set of rules to keep the tree balanced, like with a btree or red-black tree, balancing decisions are made pseudorandomly. The result is that the tree is very likely to be balanced, and is unlikely to be unbalanced.

In the case of GotKV's tree: the entries are stored together in a stream, and for each entry a hash is computed. If that hash is lower than a certain value then the entry is considered a split point, and a tree node is created. So now we have a stream of entries, divided probabilistically into sections. Each section is a tree node. Now take references to those nodes and turn them into entries, and repeat the process, so you have fewer nodes. That continues until you have one node, which is the root.
This technique is very similar to content defined chunking, and some probabilistic trees are implemented using content defined chunking on their record format, rather than a pseudorandom value calculated per entry, as in GotKV.

For those unfamiliar with probabilistic data structures, I highly recommend trying to understand skip-lists first. At least why they are balanced.

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

As an aside, one of the neat things about GotKV is that the keys are delta-encoded. Adding or removing a prefix from every key in the tree is a constant time operation. This might be obvious to some of the database folks out there, but it's a fun mind-blower if you haven't encountered the technique before.
Ah yes, just like how fracking reduced the other methods of drilling oil from the ground.
Tesla's things are embarassing for Tesla, not AI as a field.

> Real AI wouldn’t need vast amounts of data.

And yet he expects an encyclopedic knowledge of the plot to Lost (a thing few humans who learned by watching it as it came out have) as part of a "Real AI".
I've seen reform-section-230 folks have literally nothing to say about this point. 230 is the only basis that protects those who would host speech online. Murkying the freedom to host seems murderously bad for the internet & speech.
I think Khan Academy is pretty much made for this.
My point was the configuration with the M1 has much higher throughput (more channels) than typical laptop/desktop configurations. This allows for allocation/deallocation to go more quickly, so while working it is less noticeable for many workflows. It really depends on what you're doing though.

The pricing structure Apple charges for more memory and storage is F'd up... I was just making a point that one doesn't need as much as you might think depending on the bandwidth and workflow.
Took a look and this is really cool. Will definitely keep this is mind. One major difference and area I'm focused on in this project is hosting. I would argue that there are currently much better VCS options for projects than Git (like yours and Fossil) but the reason these haven't taken off is that Github and Gitlab offer unmatched hosting and collaboration tools for these projects. Would be curious to know your thoughts/approach to this!
I hear that non-fish derived omega-3 is better because it's less likely to have oxidized before/during extraction. Not sure how true that is, but wanted to throw that out for discussion.
physical keys, the equivalent of passwords, have been working for millenia and will keep working in the future, despite their limits, which present a good trade off generally speaking.

everything biometric is scary as hell, I can't change my fingerprints.

everything involving cryptographic keys has the same problem: if someone get ahold of my keys, I'm f*cked.

if I need a device to be close to me, the solution is not as bullet proof as they make it sound.

we all know nobody ever loses their devices or forgets them on the train, they never get stolen, they never break or suddenly stop working.

They also admit that

Passkeys aren’t reused across sites like passwords often are, so stolen credentials do less damage

or

It sounds simple enough, but in my experience, I’ve found that the process can be confusing. When I attempted to test it by creating a Kayak account, I repeatedly got stuck waiting for a verification email that never showed up. Eventually, I managed to log in, and the passkey worked seamlessly on an iPhone. But when I tried to create a passkey on my Mac, I was locked in a loop where the site repeatedly asked me to enter my email address; I soon realized that I had to select the option to scan a QR code with my phone because my Mac mini doesn’t have Face ID or Touch ID, and I needed to authenticate on a device that does. At no point in the login process was that made clear.

so, yeah, thanks, no thanks.
Yeah, the first movie will always be the best one, but despite 2 and 3 being not as good, they were still really good! "Dragon Racing", the intro track from the second film, is quite fun, as well as "Flying with Mother". "Stoick's Ship" reliably makes me tear up though so I can't listen to it too often. The third movie has a ton of new musical ideas in it, and there are several tracks from its score that I like including "Third Date", "The Hidden World", "Once There Were Dragons", and "Together From Afar".
"Real AI wouldn't need vast amounts of data"

Errrrr yes it would. That's why we're born as dribbling blobs who can't fend for themselves, and then spend years absorbing data from our environment and those around us.
I’ve always wondered, as an immigrant, how they would expect someone like me to answer that question.

My entire family are outside the US. A big chunk of the people I interact with are friends who also moved down to the states and are not citizens yet. I probably interact with non-citizens daily more than citizens. It would be practically impossible for me to detail everyone I ever interacted with 10 years ago while I was at a Canadian school getting my degree.

The whole thing is so absurd for anyone who has ever been outside of the US even once.
Can this be weaponized?
There are a few synthetic coffee startups that claim to have a lower carbon impact, though it's hard to tell if this is just marketing guff.

For example:
https://atomocoffee.com/pages/beanless-coffee
Been there, made this mistake. Recently pursued an SF-85 public trust for work and under the "have you ever accessed or attempted to access a computer system without prior authorization" question I detailed at length my exploratory research into penetration testing, including how I discovered (and reported) that a school computer system had _domain admin_ credentials of admin:password, among other privilege escalation bugs I had found and reported.

Yeah, that did _not_ get approved.
Someone already pointed out the obvious, meat tastes good, but has some ethical baggage. Ala - fake meat.

But I think as you're pointing out, people around the world have made amazing dishes for centuries that are completely vegetarian why not eat those instead? And why there's no satisfying answer is because - It's not an either or. Do both is a perfectly valid answer.

I've been vegan for 13 years and my partner of 7 years is an omnivore. When I make dishes they like, we both eat vegan for the night. When we want a burger (and we're to lazy to make black bean patties) we use the fake meat. It's just another option to keep around that's incredibly convenient.

In my experience, these tend to be the "middle-ground", between vegan/vegetarians and omnivores. When Thanksgiving comes around it stresses my family to no end that there's no "core" (aka meat) for me. It is unfathomable to them that eating 5 veggie sides is enough. Conversely for those who choose not to eat meat without many vegetarian friends/restaurants tend to use these to bridge the gap. But you're right, once you're comfortable with stocking veggie alternatives ahead of time, knowing what dishes exist, and used to plant-centric thinking, all of which takes a lot of time, these don't make as much sense.
I think it can be done. Automated liquid handling and microscopes do exist.

We had a confocal microscope in our lab with a robotic arm attached and can automatically image samples. I'm not of the details but the samples are big compared to its field of view so I believe it searches for images with cells before imaging. A lot of experiments are done on these plates with liquid wells.

This isn't our model but shows a larger scope with automated robotic arm and a "plate hotel":

https://confocal.ccr.cancer.gov/nci-microscopy-core-labs/bet...

I'd go into why we switched from PerkinElmer and their proprietary image format to a GE but thats outside the scope.
Admitting attacks can lead to more attacks if you’re not prepared
Why do you assume I am American? Or are you speaking generally?

“We” don’t know the causes, only what was reported.

I’ve worked on a lot of old systems needing to be updated, migrated, or sunset. For sure it’s 99% of the time due to management being lazy. I get that.

And I know correlation/causation, but hey my orig comment was a simple curiosity.

Sure, my nature distrusts what a corporation says because it’s always filtered through stockholder functions, but I still think “3 major airline issues in as many months” is kind of hilarious. Even if they seem to be in different facets.

Does this happen often but only now is it reported to “us”? Or is this truly an odd and rare timing?
My first clearance interview, about 10 years ago, it was all going along just fine. I had the standard litany of "bad" things any early 20-something American guy gets into - a few mushroom trips, an alcohol ticket, friends from foreign countries. No deal-breakers so long as you are honest and I answered honestly.

The only stumbling block came when the interviewer asked "have you smoked marijuana?". I truthfully answered no. The interviewer suddenly changed from bored old lady to the hardened, ex-cop that I suspect she was, glared into my soul and asked again. "No", I answered once again. "Well, that does not check out with your background. We will have to ask around on that one." She did ask around, my friends corroborated my story and I got the clearance.

My background involved undergrad education at a #1 party school, in a college town where open marijuana usage was common well before being legalized. And I had casual experimentation with other drugs (the aforementioned shrooms) and plenty of alcohol usage. I was probably the only one in my college acquaintance circle that didn't smoke on a semi-regular basis. I sometimes think I could have lied and said "yes I smoked weed", and still gotten the clearance. It would have actually been less of a red flag for the investigator(s).
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I think ChaptGPT is not all the way there yet but a very awesome proof of concept, what can be done with NLP alone.

You can use it for all kinds of roadmaps and features that have been done before, but the same has always been true for "frameworks".

I think the next iteration will be an AI Model connected to an actual relational database (yes a classic one) to store factual information and to have it "understand" things by relations.
Technically its always been possible to use world scale databases with unfathomable amount of information spread out across continents and that we as human agents are also simply "linking" relational info to each other. AI will be much better in automatically creating atomic database tables and queries because it understands them at another level than we do. This can also done with "trust scoring" on where the information comes from, how often you heard it from which source with another trust score and so on and so on.

This is why i am excited about the openai microsoft partnership, because it will mean that we will get to see OUR data incorporated into high end models. That is for me when the beta of chatgpt really begins.

And what this has to do with coding:

You can replicate amazing software and create novel software too, but right now its all a good luck game where you might just figure out that half the functions you where supposed to import, do not exist. My believe this is because it does not actually understand code, but translates it to a human readable format and writes a story for you which is then translated back, based on probability.

If it would know how a kubernetes service and deployment actually relate together and which properties of one influence the other, that's when this is going to reach amazing levels =)
The $400 headset in question is not doing both. What might happen in the future is for the discussion about the future. currently not the case.
Yeah the most likely form factor would be keeping all processing in the phone and keeping the glasses as a "thin client" of sorts. Wireless connection. And make the batteries part of the form factor (eg part of headband/strap to balance weight of glasses). A sort of AirPlay (ARPlay?).
you actually don't need an extension. You can enable container from about:config.
I do not care at all about the potential candidates I may or may not have robbed.
Yeah, apparently that 2FA handshake is crucial with some providers. I was not expecting this, I thought careful management of my 2FA backup codes would suffice!
Better than a $2k genelec?
I have to second this. It's very well written and presents a clear view of what Linear Algebra is. Although it might be best used as a second book in Linear Algebra (depending on your preparation).
Would love to designate which things to prioritize from my tax money. 50% family services and education, 30% infrastructure, 10% military, 10% general.
So, US spends approximately $12,000 per beneficiary per year. Given the cost of medical expenses, this does not seem too large..
Promising, thanks!

I had a charcoal grill like this once and it worked quite well, but something stole it off my lawn literally between cooking burgers and cleaning up. Must have still been hot. Anyway, I tried replacing it with a similar model, and convection was terrible. So it seems subtleties in the design which make a big difference.
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It's weird how Europeans have this fedual surf mentality.
>> Liz Cheney went from #3 in House leadership to a pariah largely overnight.

Seems to run in the family. The voters in Wyoming appear to agree.
I’m a simple man. I prefer the taste of meat, and the protein quality, but some of these products are pretty good. If they were substantially cheaper than meat - which would be possible from a fundamental principles analysis - then I’d buy them. There is no way I’m paying a premium for these products.
> if I happen to be out in the boonies, unable to receive their six-digit code... they don't have a solution for that.

Typically, when you turn on 2FA on a service they give you a handful of one-time codes exactly for situations like that.
Does it not? Try framing it more charitably. Someone suffers or will suffer or simply misses out on something you know theyd greatly appreciate because of their behaviour, if you love them will you ignore it? Or will you, while showing respect, endeavour to prompt or support their changing?

I think there are good and bad ways to express this, and I think the feeling itself isnt intuitive.
Love how the site ambiguate oil
This is a weird fight to pick.

It's usually a problem for any software that enumerates a directory for any reason, because that ends up being O(n) and often at least N system calls to e.g. get file information.
I think that was a Twilight Zone episode?
You may want to check your sources, because that’s not how commercial at works in the west.

Cattle are indeed raised on grass for the majority of their life, however they are fed grain to make weight for slaughter. In a sense, both positions are incorrect, because the image of cows grazing on grass most of their lives with little grain at the end is a very skewed picture (without grain the lifecycle would be substantially longer), but it is also the case that all cows do start off on grass.

The whole narrative that cows are “good for the environment” because they eat grass is fairly absurd though. The amount of land they require alone in the US is absolutely massive, and you can just take a look at the many fights over western water rights to see that even the impact of grass feeding is substantial.
I would love to see more information about the underlying architecture of the NOTAM system, if you can recall where you saw that.
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