skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID inoculant should have been stopped once they've passed the threshold of "vaccine-related death".
> I don’t see a point in trying to hide the ID.

Exposing sequential numbers tells your competition the size of your company's user base, user activity levels, and growth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem#Historical...
Yeah! I/O Channel Processors are back, baby! Now, if only I could find my IBM 370/168 POP manual around somewhere…
How faster this is from automatic1111's webui?

Also, Linux is supported right? Then why is this listed as a requirement

> AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.11.1 for MLIR/IREE Driver Version 22.20.29.09 for Windows® 10 and Windows® 11 (Windows Driver Store Version 31.0.12029.9003)
its super cute.

but it turns out to be really useful to allow remote devices to run limited
code without interrupting the host. distributed reduction is the easiest application to think of.
Mostly I was amused by the idea of needing to buy a subscription to find out about the incoming 300 nuclear missiles. This is how the world ends; not with a bang, but with a compelling financial propositio-
But isn't hard stuff the most ugly one when it breaks without a test?

Stuff that's easy to test is usually also easy to debug.
> there’s another option that I’m not going to mention by name

I don't know if you're suggesting one should commit suicide, or if you're talking about something else entirely.
Did you survey developers or care to qualify your statement?
Mustn't forget tidying up the wrist-slitting in 13 Reasons Why.
That's what I'm reading since the first release of Java. Still, C/C++ and Rust are running circles around it.
Sure, I can see the value of something like that.

Perhaps that's why I never heard of these things - it was an inhouse holiday resort. Not meant disparagingly. I personally spent a year in such thing, before I was "recalled to duty". Corporate politics is a thing.
Here is a YouTube video from PCWorld. Founder describes the product.

https://youtu.be/YGxTnGEAx3E
An important element of TDD is that it wasn't supposed to be prescriptive. It's a tool/technique to use. Sensible people know when to use it and when not to. Even Beck (who many here and elsewhere assume is dogmatic about TDD) has said on many occasions he doesn't use it 100% of the time and wouldn't use it 100% of the time.
Cautionary tale for those insisting that psychedelics are 100% safe. You may end up wrecking your brain like this guy.
This is a pretty disingenuous take isn't it? Dylan Mulvaney carries tampons as a service to others who might need them because she was once asked for one in a bathroom.
A long time ago, I read an account online of someone who was looking for a new recreational drug experience and they got some risperidone, which is a popular antipsychotic.

(https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=20529)

They took a much larger dose than the normally prescribed amount, and it resulted in a vividly recounted seemingly interminable and utterly hellish experience.

I found it interesting and kind of funny, because we all live in a world familiar with crazy people, casually saying that someone troublesome "should get some help" or if more "empathetic" plaintively ask why nobody is doing anything about the poor untreated and downtrodden wandering the streets.

And yet, it's a shock to a normal (more or less) person to find out that such medications, which are cheap and sometimes effective, are not fun.

For some reason, the idea that "crazy pills" range from unpleasant to unbearable torture depending on dosage doesn't suggest itself as an obvious hypothesis to explain why people who obviously need them won't take them. And it never drives the development of better options.

Even if someone does try it for themselves, their take-away is that it was hell for them because they aren't crazy.
I agree this does not help their reputation. Indeed, I would define “top” tech companies as those competent enough to avoid these kind of layoffs.

This kind of move comes from a business that instead has grown fat and lazy. The best companies remain hungry and nimble.
The weird thing is the bulk of our time spent “in a painful experience” is willing participation. The anatomy of a painful experience is stimuli & response. The stimuli are (generally speaking) pretty brief, but you have no say in them. The response is the part where I have wallowed in self pity for months, have screamed myself hoarse into the void, etc.

Recently, sometimes I can’t help but see an optional epicycle wrapped around the whole experience like “ah, pain again. okay, let’s get this over with and get back to what I care about.”
> Social media profile notifications

Requires you to create an account on that specific platform, plus we have a few examples (eg: Facebook, YouTube) where the platform might decide to not notify everyone if the content isn't "worthy".

Edit: And since timelines now are curated by some algorithm, you can't trust it to show you all new content.

> Web push notifications

Abused by many to send you crap, not always easy to keep everything working when moving to another device. It's disabled on my browser.

> Good ol trusty RSS

I like RSS. And this blog offers a feed: https://www.bigfeels.club/public-articles?format=rss

Email... maybe not trendy, but it works okay.
Yeah, I really feel like we should be pushing plug in hybrids more. If you have a 30-50 mile EV range you cover the daily commute for the vast majority of people so you can drastically reduce emissions. Meanwhile the gas engine covers the “oops I forgot to plug in” factor as well as the freedom to do long trips without being bound to charging infrastructure. Both of which would help ease the transition away from pure ICE, IMO. Hybrids might not be the sexy solution but they buy us time to build out the electric grid, chargers, etc. as well as (hopefully) figuring out better battery tech.
I don’t want to be too mean here, but this comes off as idiotic nonsense. Well-intentioned bullshit is still bullshit. I think most religions were initially well-intentioned but because they added a layer of supernatural bullshit to it people decided to weaponize it and justify basically anything horrible.

When you base your belief on bullshit, you have the ability to justify anything, because nonsense can mean whatever you want it to mean.

Obviously not all religious people are homophobes or racists or bigots but it does seem like a lot of demagogues have an easy time using religion to justify homophobia or racism or bigotry.
True but also the search used to be amazing in the early 2000s.
It doesn't have to be perfect to be a decent approach sometimes. A spare or missing function isn't necessarily that bad.

It's the premise of On Lisp, for example, http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
I think the key aspect to overcoming losses resetting Baseline expectations though that you can move forward without overwhelming sorrow and regret.

I think the interesting question is if this is possible in a objective way. A lot of people that I've met rationalize dramatic experience and loss with the idea that it made them who they are, and is there for a net positive. I've heard this from people after suffering lifelong injury or acquiring permanent disease like AIDS.

It seems difficult to accept that it is water under the bridge without rationalizing that it was necessary. I guess from a deterministic point of view, maybe it was
And to think, Office Space came out 24 years ago. Funny how things come full-circle.

>And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.

>I beg your pardon?

>Eight bosses.

>Eight?

>Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation, is not to be hassled. That, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Cue some discussion about kids these days and "quiet quitting".
Bell labs was an in house incubator which was probably the most productive research institution of all time.
What to Know About PFAS in Period Underwear
Easy. Just use the nocode language for that.

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
I like the way that the author literally reinvents TDD while badmouthing "TDD." Which garners lots of commenters not talking about the author's content, but just here to also badmouth TDD.

It's possibly the best testing-related Poe/trolling I've seen.
I took it as meaning "It's a good thing that it's possible to 'ruin your life' more than once because it means you survived the first time and have some experience for the second time." Not meaning "It's a good thing to ruin your life the second time." I think that heading was being unnecessarily clever in order to grab attention, but I don't think the article ever says it's a good thing to ruin your life, ever.
My hope for python 4: find a way to accept both styles of something (eg `print foo` and ‘
`print(foo)`), with deprecation warnings. Deprecation warnings would be something new in Python as it’s not “compiled”, but if a way was figured out then you could eventually yank the old behavior after a date far into the future.
"Let’s go to bed and try again tomorrow" sounds like the epitome of being human to me. My new mantra.
> With books, movies, series and music I like to own physically only my personal favorites that I know will use many times.

I don't own many DVDs, but when I see them in my bookshelf they remind of the story the tell, the context when I watched them, and my theories about society, sci-fi, and utopias that those movies inspired.

With books it's even more extreme. I get the physical copy sometimes more to have a physical representation of an idea than to read the book.
See who could complain about this it sounds incredibly valuable.
Guessing from the names:

btoa() should be base64 to ascii

atob() should be ascii to base64

Edit: it’s other way around, lolwut. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/atob
How Russia is leveraging its Arctic region for global influence
It’s you’re not your. :)
but seriously be specific in what you want figured out.
While unit test are important for various reasons "The broken unit test stuck out like a sore thumb." is not one of them.

In the precise place in code you want to resume work, add in free text whatever mental bookmark you need, the failing compilation will stick out well enough.
> at age 20 I had read maybe 10-20% of what I've read since, but I was capable of reading comprehension and conversation...

This is because human intelligence is not just language, but lot of indirect context, "software" inside spinal cord (and other non-cortex parts of brain), and even human body itself.

But as I know, current LLMs working in plain flat structures. At the moment, nobody tried to use even neocortex-like structures, not even considered artificial spinal cord.

All these looks like, to teach table lamp, or something similar smart.
I can’t wait to see these scrum master charlatans eliminated from most companies.
> The reality of generating diagrams from code is that although you’ll generate diagrams that are a 1:1 accurate representation of your infrastructure and source code, they likely won’t be very useful for your team

See also the Borges short story On Exactitude in Science:

> ...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography. [^0]

More problematically, it's generally the case that more than one abstraction is possible and the available evidence can't on its own decide which is better.[^1]

(This title should probably be hyphenated as in the original source: "Model-Code Gap" reads as in "gap between model and code" as opposed to "the gap which can be found in code which could serve as a model".)

[^0]: https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf
[^1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-underdetermina...
TIL that not everyone sees TV static and colourful artifacts. I’m glad to hear you are doing well. That is a serious journey.
Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth
Thanks. Regarding marking forbidden squares, apparently the whole point of the game is to develop visualization skills for chess (under Help, it references a grandmaster who recommends this exercise), so if it marked forbidden squares it would defeat the purpose a bit, I think!
1964: Shetland Shawls are more valuable than Gold
Reading this "fee-fees for adulties" article ruined my life. It is obvious that this person still has a great deal of emotional growth and healing to do.
An e-ink display for terminal use would be wonderful. I wish e-ink technology would take off and make setups like this viable for more of us.
It's suicide. If the only options before you are worse than death, then it becomes more appealing. I think I'd take death over a life sentence.
> It doesn't help that the early versions of Python 3 were really opinionated and terrible

Isn't opinionated kind of Python's thing? I can understand "terrible" being bad, but like, "terrible and unopinionated" sounds bad as well. As someone who never really bought into "there should be only one way to do it", it's kind of hard not to be amused at the thought of the Python community suddenly realizing that maybe being too opinionated can sometimes be a bad thing.
7000 old Earth and carbon dating.
I'm talking nationally. There are going to be outliers you can cherry pick for local concerns. The national data is quite clear on this, reference any stats you want on FRED or otherwise

And those jobs in SF are likely to go remote in large part, as we've already seen a strong transition towards. It's not very economically efficient to make employment contingent on location, so I'm doubtful that will continue to be the baseline model for white collar work.

Home prices in the Bay Area are driven by local employment, yet I can take the same job now and move to Texas and buy a 300k house rather than 3 million. The amenities and culture will develop over time.

Doesn't seem to be a very favorable outlook
from a fundamental perspective for BA RE prices to me
I don't believe youtube is profitable.

I can't find any source that claims this, and a few sources I could find say that it's a loss leader or that it's "roughly break-even".
The McMurdo Webcams
I wonder if diesel heating will be banned there. Geothermal is banned to avoid harming the environment. But, diesel is OK? Perhaps humans shouldn't be there until fusion is fully developed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ATAP
How did Vietnam and Afghanistan fare against "the government?"
Does anyone know why XHTML failed? I remember deriving some satisfaction from making my website XHTML compliant back in the day.

Wouldn't it make it much easier to parse? Or does the motivation to "make stuff still try to work even when it's clearly broken" override that? (The same motivation gave us everything that's wrong with JavaScript, so I'm not sure I agree with it...)
That's what refactoring/rewriting is for. You have your piece-parts, you start combining them at the next layer up. Realize some of them aren't what you need. Maybe you need more, maybe they should be combined in some fashion, or maybe their behavior should change. So you do. It's not like people (well, fools might, but who wants to be a fool?) say, "You know, I already finished that bottom layer, I should never, ever, ever change it. That would be admitting I was wrong and not psychic. I can't have that." Since most people aren't fools they will, instead, say something like, "Oops, that doesn't compose well. Time to fix it."
Are you proposing giving up a core or more of your system to kernel- and moving your data between cores to ship it!- as a win? There's some scenarios where I can picture that being a win, where ultra-low latency compute is key but higher latency is fine- but this technical possibility doesnt general excite me.

We may technically be at 100% no context switching, but we did kill 1/8th of our cores or whatever & stress the fabric a lot more, just to satisfy a technical constraint we set up that sounds good but is actually foolish to ask for.

Going totally userland is probably smarter. Go all in on SPDK or DPDK (storage/networking). You'll need dedicated networking for the app. In general though, I think your top post was 90% right, and that's good enough, and right now hunting for 100% is a mis-goal.
Well, then I don't think I respect your opinion. It's true that tab state is, in general, a function over a truly vast array of variables, plus transitives. But there are some invariants that have been present in the browser from the beginning which constrain this diversity. This feature removes a foundational invariant, namely that the content (and style) of a page depends on the content of a resource. This is a profound mistake that is not in the same league as, for example, a misconfigured webpack. It is more akin to an intrusive, badly written browser extension that injects random crap into a page, but this is far worse because of its novelty, and because of its (potential) scale.

This feature needs to die.
Stop what?

Using accurate information? Not ignoring the complexities of the world?

That comment is absolutely correct; to make things more confusing, people whose sex appears female can turn out to have XY allosomes in some, or all[0], of their cells.

0: https://www.invitra.com/en/morris-syndrome/
I'm somewhat sympathetic to this, but media is a ridiculous money pit for folks. Don't get me wrong, I've done it. And I'll probably continue to buy some physical media for a while. But I have a hard time justifying the cost of giant personal libraries. They are almost certainly destined for a landfill after an estate sell.
The statement about matlab toolboxes is so wrong it's almost funny. The quality of different toolboxes varies dramatically. Some are quite high quality but others are a buggy mess and all of them are expensive. That said, the statement is very field dependent. Fir example I know that many (most) communication theorists are using matlab, because the communications and signals toolbox does so much that would be otherwise tedious to implement. On the other hand many experimentalists in the same field have moved on to python because the instrument toolbox is so buggy and coding GUIs in matlab is an exercise in self mutilation.
Sure, they will be alive if not come to Ukraine.
> rowing and cycling

This resonates with me, I'll buy rowing machine for a quick cardio at home. Something that I can connect with my garmin fenix watch or my phone so I can try the EXR-like app. When the weather allows it, I'm cycling on my MTB outside.

> FTP training is also firmly established

Would you have some resources for FTP (Functional Threshold Power)? Can I do FTP for rowing or running or is it cycling specific thing?
What’s your homepage URL, tho? (You don’t give it, and can’t find it on your HN profile.)

FTR, here is a complete Solitaire game in ~30 kB over-the-wire: https://FreeSolitaire.win/

Last time I checked, an update for Microsoft Solitaire was 30 megabytes…
We are not all actually “so smart.” Though some of us operate with varying cognitive advantages.

Here’s what worked for me…

In a Universe governed by entropy, ignorance and confusion is the natural state of mind.

Success is a function of persistence, perseverance, tenacity, endurance, application, willfulness, doing it. Do not forget that.

Everyone is a pathological lier, stop listening to whoever the hell that is.

Simple truths, no matter how boring or unpopular are better in the long run than made-to-believe, whatever it pays.

Oh, and do things the hard way, it is the only way you will truly own it. If you haven’t noticed, everything else is over leveraged.
Yeah this article has big, "Thanks, I'm cured!" vibes.

There was a great documentary on medically assisted dying in Canada recently (by CBC's the Fifth Estate), where social safety nets have become so woefully inadequate for the disabled that some are successfully applying to be legally euthanized by doctors rather than become unhoused and freeze to death on the street.

Apparently they just need like, meditation and good vibes, man. Totally not a platitude.
> Google isn't doing AI slowly, it's doing it slightly more privately.

This is how the world builds atop a different set of rails.

Google had the best infra and deploy systems in the world, yet they kept the lid shut and let Amazon and Microsoft win cloud.

Google could lose search revenue overnight. They should be scared to the core.

Researchers will flock to the organization with the biggest wins. And right now, that's OpenAI.

Time will certainly tell if Google sticks to this strategy and if it will work. I've already placed my bets, and if you're into stock futures, you can too.

> do you think that being smart automatically means being kind or that being evil necessitates being stupid?

Of course not. This is evolution at play. Neanderthal had it comparatively easy and became part of the gene pool. I don't expect it will necessarily be the same for us. Our biological tools lag too far behind to be contributing brain scans. But who knows.

Human biology is a stepping stone to proliferating throughout the galaxy. Despite what most science fiction tells us, it was never us that were destined to make that journey. Our bodies are frail and adapted to this gravity well. We live short, inefficient lives. We require gas exchange, a decade of parenting, slow learning, complex biochemistry and metabolic inputs.

We're looking at systems that will never die. Won't it be a tragedy to continue birthing more less-intelligent humans that are destined to rot when a better alternative exists? More intelligence should move to undying platforms.

Another wild possibility and analogy that describes my feeling: if I had the option of raising an AI child -- that will never die and could do more than I could ever dream -- instead of a human child, I would take it.

(I accept AI descendants may not have the same societal structures we do. In that case, my answers form the shape of an analogy rather than hypothetically plausible scenarios.)
Exactly. I'm paying a bit less than $7 a month. And that includes having to reup on a slightly more expensive plan every few years for more minutes.
No-one uses these often, and you have a 50% of guessing right every time!
If only Coal plant accidents were taken with such knee-jerk reaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...
Have a fantastic loving partner, an incredible house we worked so much on, an amazing job with fantastic people I enjoy being around every day.

I've decided to part ways with my partner now and move out, be on my own again at 30. I could've started a family now, but chose not to. I don't know if that opportunity will ever come again.

I've tried hard, but I just couldn't shake off the feeling of living a life according to a template, or a recipe. Holding myself up to everybody's expectations but mine. Feels like I'm ruining my life by walking away from people that truly care about me.

I don't want to bask in regret. Am I ruining my life?
These are 20+ year old GPUs though. How many people out there are seriously using an ATI Rage with Linux Kernel 6.0+? There isn't even a Windows Vista ATI Rage driver.