skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you talk, the people interrogating you will find and kill your children"

You don't value the information that someone else is protecting as highly as they do, so you assume that some level of pain motivation is going to make them share it because it would make you share it. But almost anything will make an ordinary person share information they don't value, because they don't value it.

Torture is literally worse then nothing, because you've wiped away the ability to engage in meaningful interrogation in the time you have. It is inherently adversarial, and humans are really good at fighting back against perceived aggression: this is such a problem that interrogation specialists spend a lot of time educating police and military on what not to do. "Good cop, bad cop" is actually exactly the wrong thing to do because the "bad cop" undoes the entire repore you've built with the subject because they throw their mental defenses back up.

The CIA really wants it to work, to the point that they lied to the producers of Zero Dark Thirty about how they got the intelligence that led to finding Osama Bin Laden...but that's not how they got it. They absolutely tortured that guy, but he had already disclosed the intelligence they needed before they did any of it.[1]

[1] https://time.com/3627694/torture-report-zero-dark-thirty/
As long as that technology isn’t infinite scroll.
GitHub contributions to master branch of keybase/client: https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/contributors
The Three Artists Behind a Landmark Lawsuit Against AI Art Generators
Although I have become a bit weary of Apple's marketing speak, when I discovered this feature it really did feel like magic.
I am not a fan of hydrogen, because I once worked with a former NASA robotics engineer. We were looking for a way to power terrestrial robots, and we asked him about hydrogen.

He told us there were extremely high efficiency hydrogen systems at the time. But they all suffered from similar problems:

- Hydrogen is highly flammable (or explosive) in an oxygen atmosphere.

- Hydrogen has truly awful power storage density—unless you compress it to a couple of hundred atmospheres pressure.

Nobody wants to store potentially explosive fuel at 200+ atmospheres. I'm not aware of current hydrogen technology at all, but that's a fundamental physics challenge that needs to be addressed somehow. And it needs to be addressed in a cost-effective way at each step of the distribution chain.

The problem with high density energy storage is that you're putting a huge amount of energy in a tiny space. Gasoline is flamable, lithium-ion batteries are notorious for ugly fires, and even flywheels can fail catastrophically. A good power storage system needs to manage this risk somehow.

(There was some really interesting work being done with carbon-fiber flywheels and maglev bearings in a vacuum about 20 years ago. Apparently that had decent power density, and it could charge off electric charging infrastructure. But car insurance companies weren't convinced it was safe. Which would also be a problem for hydrogen.)
Yes on all points, with an exception that solves two problems at once.

Set a sliding scale of rates, based on how much they either commit to pay up front or pay timely over the past 6 months. In my shop it was a Service Plan, each one priced just under a common budget threshold. So a $9900 plan got a 5% rate discount, $24K 10%, $49K 15%, etc... (discounts not exact, make your own). If they pay that much up front, they immediately start on the discounted rate, if they just work up to it, they earn the step-down in rates as they pay bills on time passing each tier within 6 months. (Nothing wrong with using escrow too, but we never had it arise).

the cool thing about this is that it provides an immediate answer to the inevitable questions about getting discounts — instead of client trying to beat you up on price, it becomes "of course, here's our discount plans, what works best for you?". I probably should have expected that, but it really surprised me at how thoroughly it banished those uncomfortable conversations.

I was given a tip about this type of billing by a random guy in a hall conversation at a conference decades ago, and I wish i knew who it was to say "thank you", because that billing structure really paid off.

Also, emphasize "Your name is your bond.". Absolutely key to be reliable. The world is way smaller than it seems, and being a trusted provider goes a long way, in ways you can never predict. It is far more important than any kind of being flashy.
even if "view PDF" is available, I always click my "Sci-Hub X Now!" button, as a matter of principle
For years, since the OpenAI's ChatGPT, I've been relying on Google less and less
Retool (on-prem) + Tailscale (golink, etc)
I find it sad that the knowledge of how to use calculators has declined, and as a result there is less market need for them, so they get discontinued (especially the good ones). I find a good engineering calculator indispensable.

The HP-15C is a really great one, although I usually prefer to use a much older HP-25 — it has most of the functions I need, and it can be used single-handed, which is a Big Deal. I even designed a Qi battery pack to make it useful in everyday life :-) https://partsbox.com/blog/wireless-charging-for-a-hp-25-calc...

I think learning an HP calc is a great investment of any engineer's time. For practical use, I find the HP-12C to be most useful for everyday things (because of percentage functions and date calculations), HP-25 for mechanical engineering and anything where I need to use a calculator one-handed, otherwise the HP-90 was the pinnacle of calculators in my opinion and I really like its unit-handling library. Do not automatically assume that the more recent HP Prime is "better" — in my opinion it is a contraption designed for university students, and I don't find it as useful for actual real work as earlier models.

The HP-15C is great, too, but I never use most of its functionality — for things like matrices there really are better tools. So you often end up using a small subset of what it can do, just to get the nice form factor.

On iOS, there are two apps that I'd recommend: "RPN-25 CE" is a great HP-25 emulator, and "Touch RPN" provides fast modern versions of the 12C, 15C and 16C (a programmer's calculator which I really like when writing embedded software).
write a code to interact with the Alpaca API for placing a short position on Google
I guess it was derived from the old (or layman?) definition of evolution as survival of the fittest as in human society the unfit survive with the help of medicine, technology and charity.
I've made excellent experiences with GravCMS across 5 different websites since 2015.
One minor comment: different markets/regions are _different_.

For example, whether or not customers pay on time can depend a lot on the region (and decade!). Not to mention that there's also a big difference between small and large companies, as well as different industries (manufacturing vs restaurants vs banks, etc.)
It is hard for me to listen to Lex Friedman. Even if he has interesting guests he sounds so naive.
Digital Model of Estonia
Even if solar panels are used only for domestic energy consumption (ie. Electric appliances) it's worth it. Entirely different subject than BEV vs HEVs...
Historical reasons. Back then it was all about hiding state which was perceived as some hidden walled paradise where there are no rules and yet everybody lived happy and without strife. Some certainly saw the need for dependable rules and so on (after all you can have final fields and be forced to set them in the constructor) but the lure of easy attitude from true believers was so strong that The Bean became the de-facto standard for about a decade. The Bean, with its sole default constructor giving a heartfelt middle finger to everything resembling some kind of predictability.

It was a painful learning process from there to where we are now, where we consider any internal state that isn't passed to the constructor in an already immutable shape a considerable smell that you'd better have very good reasons for and we prefer a clear distinction of preparation and operation phases separated by that one constructor which sets (and in most post-OOP languages also declares) the values of the object's constituents.

(PS why isn't "post-OOP" a far more established term? It feels considerably more useful to me than the usual mind gymnastics about "functional but not quite" that provoke all those (im)purity squabbles that help noone)
I really like the design of your website. If you don't mind me asking, any tips on how did you create it?
Shouldn't that be obvious from the transformation matrices? (I'm just vaguely sure this is true.)
Medical history books
Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds
got any french/german techno? I would really appreciate it.
I didn't bookmark that specific reference, but there are many other investigations that approach the topic in different ways and end up with the same result.

https://genv.org/pigs-intelligent-human-smart/

https://nypost.com/2022/03/08/scientists-use-algorithm-to-fi...
Minimalist website designs are all the rage right now, and for good reason. They are simply more appealing to our eyes, and that makes a huge difference in the success of your business.
Price barriers typically have a limited lifespan, I think this project being distributed as a set of design files instead of a product you can purchase is a far more effective way of keeping most people away.
Why would that work on M1/M2 macs? Rosetta isn't mentioned, only Wine, which isn't an emulator... What am I missing?
Jerk Systems and Chaotic Circuits
For some reason people want the experience but I would rather go to the arcade. But I think there's something to it. At this moment in time, it would be impossible for me to sit down and play final fantasy 7. It's just an enormous time sink where a good chunk of it is playing clunky side games or reading lots and lots of texts or grinding to get to the next section. I have too much to do and that's not really that fun. But if you get all the hardware, and you get your pizza rolls, and you bean bag chair, and you sit in front of the TV with your wired remote, and it doesn't have a button to make screenshots, and you don't have your favorite chat app integration, and you leave your phone elsewhere to charge, maybe you feel like you can just calm yourself enough to sit and play the game for the next 6 hours before it's past your bedtime.
I think about this book really often, especially the 9,000 year old woman. Really amazing imagery.
I have a collection of side-projects, all combined are making in the ballpark of $500/month:

https://mathlegame.com/ mostly via ads) - made this one when wordle got popular (

https://reversle.net/ (mostly via ads) - made a few weeks after mathle

https://slashdreamer.com/ (subscription) - wanted to do something with stable diffusion - this was the most useful one for me (since I am using Notion a lot)

Working on https://ogtester.com/ now.
These aren't the same type of thing. Diagrams are to communicate and discuss what could be/what is. Checklists are to remember to do things.
Ask HN: What are some things we don't talk about, but should?
yes they trained to use, however i never heared a preacher appealed to a commentary source, only to the bible itself. strange. they usually answer any question with 1 bible verse, no more.
I know you are a sarcastic troll.

But still, that 5 billion tons of coal gets mined, transported and then burned to produce energy once.

A kg of coal contains about 8kWh of energy which it can release once. This is the best kind of coal. Also you only get about 40% of it as electricity.

A kg of lithium will store about 1.1kWh energy in a battery .. thousands of times before it needs to be RECYCLED.

Your efficiency is off by many orders of magnitude.
Writing as Microcosm 4: A Conversation with the Reader
Thanks for this advice. I think this is very pragmatic and actionable.
The technical limitation from space is at around 10cm. Current commercial offerings go down to 30cm, but there are companies like Albedo that are aiming at having satellites in very-low earth orbit, resulting in 10cm imagery. Their imagery is expected to be on the SkyFi platform, once their satellites are in orbit.

(Note that I am affiliated with SkyFi - I work as an in-house Earth Observation Specialist)
GP has ten of thousand of followers on Twitter.
The youtube video has links to various ones in the description. But you have to follow the posts to get to the actual research. Here are some:

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.200202-138...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2362....

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343237144_Role_of_N...

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.200202-138...

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When you try doing it, you start noticing a strong smell that smells like early spring or the smell certain air purifiers make. This smell lasts as long as you keep humming.
Java Streams: Write Functional Collection Code in Java
afaik, main problem on linux for application firewalls was that no program id (pid) is tied directly to every network connection.
am I wrong?
> Selling your time doesn't scale

a) It doesn't need to be your time exclusively

b) Time-based pricing is only one pricing model for consulting businesses.

I'd add that, funnily, I sometimes hear this from FTEs (who sell their time) or product entrepreneurs who eat ramen for five years and then have little to show other than the time they've spent on the product. Meanwhile, some consultancy owners make real bank... It's fine if your risk profile allows you to do product, but if it isn't obvious, a service business can be totally legit.
Romeo and Juliet is fictional.

I mean sure, could count as "evidence" but you'd have to be aware of the strength of it.

Imagine in a 100 years time, the next civilisation finds some popular dvd and tries to draw conclusions from it.
It's more like "adopting the view that this will work," because doing that works. It's a pragmatic argument, in practice. Dogma certainly creeps in when you get away from practice into politics, but "bias" isn't a concern in awakening. It's all about what works.
Yes, I see your point (no pun intended), but I would still maintain that this issue didn't necessarily bother mathematicians in the days before formalized set theory. The issue you mention is a reason that any definition of volume should not be based only on set cardinality, since there are those one-to-one correspondences with proper subsets (for infinite sets of points), yet volume should not be preserved by cutting something in half, or doubling something, in an ordinary way.

That is, if X is the unit line segment and Y is a pair of unit line segments joined end-to-end, we want the measure function µ to obey µ(Y) = 2µ(X), even though |X|=|Y| in set theory. And even though that's weird, formalized mathematics didn't get existentially ambitious enough to make anything truly bizarre out of it, I suppose, from Euclid all the way up until Vitali!
Why would you want a 20 year old wife at age 50. The maturity gap would be almost unbridgeable. The only benefits are sexual and even then the maturity aspect might play a part. Even in my late 20s, the idea of someone who has just left their teens would be deal breaker
I agree that safety should affect API design, which means that there is at least one major piece missing after the rewrite. Either the ability to switch to an even stricter type system (e.g. Rust) or a ~zero cost binding generator to a stricter language (again, e.g. Rust).

However, before reaching that point, piecewise refactoring is something of considerable value. There are huge C++ codebases lying around that I believe would benefit immensely from a rewrite in a safer language, even if it's not as safe as Rust (or Scala, or F#, etc.)

Firefox and Chromium have already paid the entry price for piecewise refactoring into Rust, so they're probably not the best candidates. But there are many other examples that undoubtedly are, e.g. LLVM.
he must meant that they have not changed the NT canon at the end.
> The cause of silphium's supposed extinction is not entirely known but numerous factors are suggested.

> The plant may also have functioned as a contraceptive and abortifacient.

You are far more confident on this than Wikipedia. Are you an expert on it?
What you're talking about sounds more like IT estate change management. I think this is about software construction.
I think I know of a particular situation that might have led him to give that piece of feedback. To be fair I think we're both to blame.
I have been working on knowledgebase stuff using embedding for my programming website that uses OpenAI's APIs. Maybe this is obvious, but does anyone know a good tool or algorithm or anything for creating the snippets? The first thing I tried was just splitting on multiple newlines or one newline and whitespace or something.

Some of the snippets are much too long, some to short. Also ideally I could extract code in snippets that include the whole function.

Maybe I should copy how gpt-index is doing it.
Antidepressants can cause ‘emotional blunting’, study shows
Ask HN: Resources for AI architecture
So there are lots of resources for individual models but I'm looking for resources that cover AI architecture. There seems to be a growing number of these larger projects and I'd love to learn more about what goes into them and read more about them. I think an easy to recall example is alphaGo. Any recommendations?
Looks more like Squeenix CSS
Ah, the mathematician's "obvious", where it clearly isn't :)
eg https://www.jumbo.com/producten/jumbo-lekker-veggie-krokante...
Thanks! We already had that discussion, your link is your reply to another comment of mine :^)

I was wrong twice huh!
The people who like hydrogen should show us all that we're wrong.

- First hydrogen fuel cell: 1842

- Earliest li-ion battery: 1965~

You've had a 100 year head start, and yet hydrogen fuel cell cars are terrible. Hydrogen planes? Some prototypes are being worked on.

I can go buy an entire car with a massive li-ion battery in it right now. I can get batteries to power my house during an outage.

Hydrogen? "There are some unresolved issues"

"Why is everyone so hostile to hydrogen" Like, release a product already. Everyone is moving forward on green energy without you.
Seconded. The onboarding is so terrible we just gave up after failing in every possible direction. Nothing worked.

It's such a shame as I really like the underlying ideas. But the implementation is hopeless and the way it's presented on their website is downright icky. Honestly, the video "explanation" of a love story with Scuttlebutt weirded me out - it was more like some weeb's fantasy of what a love story would be like rather than any kind of useful intro into how you'd use it.
Is our weak culled by predators, or are we pressured towards some change (e.g. more efficient digestive track) due to food scarcity?

Those would be some natural selection processes, and they don’t apply to us in any significant way since.. I would say the agricultural revolution at least, but maybe even sooner (the very reason we can “feed” such a hungry organ as our brains is due to our efficiency at hunting/processing food even back then thanks to tools/fire)
The biggest downside is that Paint squeezes the result of shearing into the original selection, losing pixels in the process. Neither resizing or shearing is antialiased either, only resizing the whole image applies a bilinear filter.
Are you printing & shipping them yourself? I considered selling stickers at one point but print costs under 500 was too high, plus the hourly requirements of doing my own pick& pack. I thought about hiring the neighbor kid, but casual hiring seems to get messy/illegal fast.
almost, they may well be subponaed but nothing much will come off it... they'll get 90% redacted out pages or something like that.. because of security clearance bullshit and safety of the 'land' concerns
> What would be the worst thing that could happen if you did ask again? Would you get fired?

It's about "reputation" and about what your peers think of you. I feel that how others perceive is very important for career progression inside a company. It's common for managers to ask team mates for feedback during performance reviews. This was (and is) my fear.
I haven't used the others, so I can't compare. But I like the keys on the prime - they're hard rubber and make a satisfying click, and don't wiggle too much. Apparently the Prime-G1 had a contrast issue that affects visibility of the letters on the keys, but they fixed it in the Prime-G2.
I "got back into calculators" recently (middle age is sad), rediscovering the graphical calculators of my schooling days. Maybe at the time I knew how to use it properly, but re-learning how to use it now made me appreciate the power. I did make me wonder if taught properly, or I had shown more interest how many extra marks I would have gotten in exams.
Who's comparing coal to batteries? We're talking the lifetime energy cost of producing batteries from the ground to the recycling depot.

Coal production is terrible and I'll never support it.
Makes me realise Microsoft are actually the most diversified of the big players now
This is disingenuous. Batteries are more convenient for everyday electronics, but not necessarily better for big storage. Reason is, that you can't easily scale a battery storage, while hydrogen can be scaled just by putting more steel tanks.
Still use an actual HP-12C daily. Been going strong for 35 years now and only had the batteries changed twice.

Had a 15C when I was an EE but it got sold on eBay when I discovered how much money it was worth.
> This reminds me of when my grade school teacher kept trying to insist that my friend, named Alex, was actually named Alexander. I think he originally brought in a copy of his birth certificate to shut them up.

This is like telling someone who is called Louis that his actual name is Hlodowig.
On the other hand: I can very well imagine some senior staff rolling eyes but feeling unfree to 'spoil the mood' by explaining how certain choices are going to come back and create problems later on.

I find it superinteresting, but also superhard to have that sort of feedback as things are ongoing. I've seen both happen (old hats hating progress too), but I was never successful (not in those larger above-my-paygrade-but-visible-nonetheless) in having a conversation about how we're having the discussion and whether or not every point/everyone is seriously hearda and considered. There can be a 'mood' that is overriding, and I haven't found a way to override the mood. Things tend to have to break down before that can happen.
I just mentioned it as a much later example for early marriages, but my other example(s) wasn’t refuted.

Also, I think quite a lot can be reconstructed from even primitive drawings, let alone a whole dvd we know got popular and thus even more relevant for an age.
>simpler by disabling features that contribute to complexity, like multiple inheritance and function overloading.

Seeing function overloading show up surprises me. The only thing I can think of is having different semantics between different overloads, but removing overloads doesn't remove the issue. You just now have a poorly named function that isn't an overload.
On mobile, I only see an "Accept" button for the cookie banner. How can I dismiss it?