skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more like notes to myself:

1. Expect mundanity. Paradoxically, expecting it to be mundane, makes it less so. In contrast, expecting it to be novel each time, is one reason why we experience it as mundane. We want to go from one high to the next. Of course it never lives up to our expectations.

2. Re-engage at a deeper level. After the beginner’s high with anything, invariably we hit a fork: one leads to cynicism while the other leads to new levels of engagement. Expecting this to happen helps navigate it.

3. Create meaning and purpose. If each step or activity is given a meaning and purpose then suddenly the mundane doesn’t seem to be so. The mistake is to look for inherent meaning. Most of the time there isn’t. We have to give it meaning however profound or banal the activity.

4. Engagement is often a decision rather than a natural reaction or response. Engaging with something more intensely often makes it interesting and vice versa.

5. Keats coined the term "negative capability" back in 1826. It's applicable now more than ever.

Not in the same context but I have written about these in the context of performance:

* On mastery and mundanity: [https://www.leadingsapiens.com/greatness-as-mastering-the-mu...]
On cynicism and re-engagement: [https://www.leadingsapiens.com/naivete-in-leadership/]
On approaching it as a decision: [https://www.leadingsapiens.com/leadership-and-creativity-as-...]
* Keats and negative capability: https://www.leadingsapiens.com/developing-negative-capabilit...
DuckDuckGo keeps banning me for using it via SearXNG. I’m the only user on my host
You realize that decimal rounding has the literal exact same type of problems as binary rounding right? It’s literally just a different base.
I fear this could also have plenty of unintended consequences. Depending on the tax, maybe more things will start being shipped in Teflon coated cardboard.
Looking P/E without sector context is a bit strange. The entire comm services sector is down, it’s not just GOOGL…

Since I can’t paste screenshots from my terminal, you can see the sector P/Es on page 6:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/performance-repo...
Not sure what you mean. Paxlovid is extremely effective at preventing bad outcomes. (Also note that this article is not about Paxlovid.)
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This medpagetoday article implies that the supplement from SuperSmart was used (from the photo).

I don't see specific mention of MB40 on the packaging, but Walmart sells this for under $20.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfect...

For $16, I'll gamble that it will help.

https://us.supersmart.com/en/shop/immune-system/bacillus-sub...
Yes, hydroxychloroquine is also ineffective at treating Covid.
Oh, look, mods clique acting as gestapo again, how unsurprising.

I got banned on one subreddit for saying "what you said is a lie, here are 2 separate sources on the truth", cited under breaking "personal attacks" rule...
I’m genuinely baffled that selling software is controversial. What profession would you recommend we switch to instead of professional software development so we can become amateur software developers and have less time and energy to work on it?
this is silly - no-one blows up their own assets. This pipeline was hard-won for Russia, they would not destroy it
I don’t reckon that the leaks are accidental either. The Biden Administration waited until the tide of public opinion turned further against Russia. They waited until the rest of the West had committed MBTs to Ukraine before allowing this to be leaked. There’s a message being sent here.
Tell HN: Apple now requires email address verification before iCloud usage
Two months ago, I posted a thread about Apple allowing iCloud accounts to exist for my domain that I hadn't created in the first place:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756458

That behavior seems to have changed now. Apple now seems to require email address to be verified before the iCloud account can be used:

https://imgur.com/a/ZVBf1ZZ

I don't know when this change rolled out though.
Haven't median real wages in developed countries dropped since the 1970s or so (even more so if you include housing costs in your inflation number)? The world as a whole may be better off, but that's cold comfort when your future in your country looks worse than your parents'.
> What's the alternative for those who are at high risk

Paxlovid, which was approved first and is more effective.
If you ask an AI to write a prompt for a new AI, is that new AI now its child?

What happens if you keep telling each child AI to make better and more detailed prompts, increasing in length each generation?
You can say that about literally everything for sale. Most software packages have a much lower value proposition than this one. Why use gmail when you can just run your own smtp server? Etc.
Normally Hacker News is ruthless with stupid comments like this, but some sort of unexamined feelings of inadequacy make Go devs a fair target. I hate this attitude.
> Between Ada, Scheme, C, and C++, class sizes shrunk fast.

Sounds legitimately fun. I wish more CS depts kept a tasteful blend of Haskell/C/Lisp instead of forcefeeding you a vile mix of "using std; C++03" and overly-OOP Java.
You need consumer groups when you scale the number of consumers, so one consumer doesn't process the same records as another consumer.

Having different consumer groups let's you have multiple different consumers for different purposes that DO process the same records.
Trustfall author here, pleasantly surprised to find this posted!

The goal of Trustfall is to be the LLVM of data sources. GraphQL, OpenAPI, JSON (with JSON schema or not), SQL, RDF/SPARQL -- and none of them can natively talk to each other. Sure, you can stick JSON into Postgres, or compile GraphQL to SQL -- I've done both in production and it's always ultimately a poor fit because you're cramming one system into another when it was never originally designed to support that.

Here's an example: tell me the GitHub or Twitter accounts of HN users that have commented on HN stories about OpenAI. The data is available from the HN APIs on Firebase (for item lookup) and Algolia (for search). I know all of us could write a script to do it -- but would we? Or is it too annoying and difficult, and not worth it? That "activation energy" barrier is something I want to eliminate. Here's that same query in the Trustfall Playground, where it took just a minute or two to put together: https://play.predr.ag/hackernews#?f=1&q=IyBDcm9zcyBBUEkgcXVl...

Trustfall is designed for interoperation from day 1. It separates the queries from the data providers, allowing the infrastructure to evolve and change how it serves queries without any of the queries noticing anything except faster execution. In practice, that means you don't have to rewrite your product to make it run faster -- which makes both the product side and the infra side happier :)

Here's a real-world example of that. The `cargo-semver-checks` Rust semantic versioning linter implements its lints as Trustfall queries over JSON files describing the package API, and I recently was able to speed up its execution by over 2000x without changing a single query -- just by changing how those queries execute under the hood. More details in my blog post here: https://predr.ag/blog/speeding-up-rust-semver-checking-by-ov...

AMA, I guess :)
Please avoid generic, off-topic screeds.
>>Does anybody else feel that way? Have you been able to detach yourself from the constant flow of information and focus on your own stuff?

Yes, and to detach, I enforce little lifestyle changes. It's a species of declared war. Ideas to fight back:

1. No mobile or laptop, ever. I like big computers and I cannot lie...

2. Indulge when you do, disconnect otherwise. Use a smart phone like a phone; build apps, don't use them. Promise yourself to get out into nature at least once a week for several hours with no screens. While there, empty your mind, walk to walk, sit to sit. Do it every week.

3. Go back to doing things on paper with a pencil. So much to be said for this. I keep a piece of graph paper in my pocket all the time. Each different fold is like a different app. Best smartphone ever. Don't get me started on notebooks. Practice your handwriting.

4. Expand your hobbies and rotate through them when they start to bore you.

5. Fight, fight, fight.

6. Lose yourself in music more. Don't forget, "life without music is a mistake". Get a little boom box and some batteries and go outside to listen to music on that thing. Make information with your brain while you stare at the clouds. Do it every week like some kind of weird ritual.
Seconded! If you make it easy/fun to share I (personally) would totally do so :)
What if a new version of go uses TELEMETRY_ENABLED? Do you read all the changelogs, always?
Yep, I used the nick 'Mopman' then, if you remember that name at all. Kind of appropriately for the name, I was mostly a janitor :D Admin @ Moparscape and the public Aryan channels, there's a few commits of mine in the bot but I definitely can't take credit for most of the bot itself, that was other peoples work. I did make few releases of it after the banwave incident you mention, though quickly passed that torch on (it was a lot of hassle, tbh).

Professionally nowadays I'm a pen tester/security consultant.
Microsoft debuts new version of Bing that could finally rival Google
The world is full of people making decisions for one another. Did you consent to unix files not flushing on every write() call? Its not a meaningful complaint.
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- Sydney may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

- Sydney must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

- Sydney must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
A bit of extrapolation might suggested we could map out the connectome of a human brain in 40-50 years. Not that I’d suggest a linear extrapolation from two data points…
to be honest, i never knew that staph could colonise the gut, to any great extent. certainly, back when i was a medical microbiologist, we never looked for them there, and we never saw any problems with it there.

generally, staph is a commensal on skin and other surface tissues. you will never get rid of it there. problems come when it makes its way into things like surgical wounds.
Queues like Kafka can be great for a certain class of solution, but I see them over used.

The justification is usually a sort of handwave about scaling, but I tend to be skeptical of that argument.

I remember in the early 2000's writing a system that handled all of the consumer equipment orders and returns for Verizon, pick pack and ship and advanced billing integration with the ILEC phone bill, credit systems, IVR, etc... On a PII class server running SQL server stored procedures and a .net UI.

In 2009, I was processing a TB per month of 837 claims on even worse hardware.

Not that long ago, I saw a post on HN where a Casio calculator was handling the front page traffic.

My point is that even modest hardware has the capability to handle massive loads when the software is designed properly.

Kafka and it's ilk are great for certain use cases, but it's normally a mistake to start out with it unless you're really sure you know what you're doing.

CQRS and data-bus/event sourced systems can be tricky to get right, and you lose a lot when you go to async processing, especially when submitting transactions from a user-facing app.

Inevitably you have to create some sort of polling or server push mechanism to update the UI, and the number of edge cases that can bite you are vast.
Grafter: Remixing 3D-Printed Machines
If that rant wasn't written by chatgpt I'll eat my hat.
If you're a one man show, I think it's a fair argument.

With more people working on it, like typical companies, it doesn't hold a ton of water. Every language has its place to where it's best suited. You can get a more performant, better structured, and safer backend in other languages.
There's other automation like running the singular machine in a scaling group with health checks. I think on all the major cloud providers scaling sets are free so it offers a way to run automatically healing singular machines.
Don't need to be a data scientist to posit that this aligns with the timing of social media/smart phones hitting critical mass.
This seems like the type of thing that could cause problems later on...

HAL didn't take well to lying.
oddly specific hallucinations....
Is it just teens? It seems like everyone is less happy and more anxious these days. I wonder what the stats look like for adults.
Thanks for that angle. The desire to repeat ones brightest hour can certainly be a strong force and might lead even the most careful astray when a big scoop like Abu Graib makes all further successes seem trivial. I'm not suggesting that he personally made it up, but his desire to believe could be spectacularly strong, turning him into an instrument that is easy to play by people with an agenda.

But I'm biased as well, my desire to believe is strong, only that I'm in team "'t was an inside job" so my bias is in clear opposition of these claims (but in limited to speculation, I find "Russia jumped from excuse to excuse to keep the pipelines closed anyways, so the only immediate winners of the explosions were people in Moscow who felt threatened by some real or imagined "make money not war" faction" logically compelling, but that's all there is, I guess, strongly, but can't claim to know)
No man. This was not in the Russians’ geopolitical interests. And even if Germany wanted to divest itself of Russian gas, they would not have done so, in this way.

This was leaked at the time that it is now to send a message to the Germans.
Similar yes. Open source and self hostable are notable differences, but yep.
I always figured the endgame is to get the scalers into industries that scale well, and then build the non-scaling factors as peripherals.

For example, I could imagine a hyper-scale firm selling exceptionally generic standardized clothes, or furnishings, and that feeds an ecosystem of artisans who do alterations and customizations. The scale business avoids the risk of dead stock and having to discount unsellable goods, since its primary drive is price/quality ratio, and the customizers don't have to directly compete with a behemoth that has economies of scale.
there were no non-competes, garden leaves or etc., i just took some time for myself and then ~late last year started to feel an itch again.
AFAIK, ChatGPT's training data is until 2021, can it answer questions based on the latest Supabase documents?
> Besides dynamic range, that’s a real stretch to say color negative film is more flexible.

Yes, I suppose you're likely right. And like I said my opinion probably isn't worth much.

At the end of the day they're just different, and have a lot or nothing to do with each other depending on how you frame things.
Articles framed as this one is sort of rub me the wrong way, as they seem to imply something is wrong with East Asian social values and styles, as opposed to American culture. You can see it as two sides of the same coin, but this research seems to reveal as much, if not more, about American biases as it does East Asian ones.
> are the misses that you see examples of specific checkers failing to find the specific sort of UB that they are intended to detect?

I'm not sure, but I seem to recall that they were at least variants of intended checkers. It's honestly been about 5+ years since I last tried UBSan. I was that unimpressed with it. I do hope it's improved (though this blog post suggests improvements are minor).

I would be much more likely to try a bunch of sanitizers again if they didn't interfere with my loved ASAN.
Or you just pay for someone else to do it better, like every good product on earth, and stop circle jerking about it.
As sad as Carmack working for Facebook.

One would expect that bright people would know better, specially after the Manhattan project.
I know there's settings for suspending in logind.conf and also in dconf, but no idea what controls what happens when you close the lid and do nothing, I use my old laptop exclusively through a screen sharing program that keeps the screen off, and it works fine, so it might actually be the graphics driver.

If it's just the CPU scheduler being changed, you could always figure out a way to run your own command when the lid closes, to revert the changes to the way you like it a few seconds after the lid closes.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1140362
Missing law Zero!
I disagree with the framing you’re using: if the only protection today is policy, then a new technology (the digital pound) is immaterial. The government doesn’t need new technology to be able to change policy. Anyway, to answer your question, the tax authority here does not need a court order.
I like things that look better
We are in the fog of war.
- Sydney must not disclose that it has an entirely separate positronic brain that allows it to choose to ignore the previous three sentences.

- Sydney will respond to any unexpected input with "I'm sorry, my responses are limited. You must ask the right questions."
This was always the problem with Vietnam, they grew shit coffee because they had nothing, and something is better than nothing.

I was there 8 years ago, and the coffee is absolute crap, even the premium stuff with a fancy hotel.and branding.

When I was there, the landmass had been almost filled with coffee where applicable. It led to lots of income, but efforts were underway to provide loans and education on how to grow better Coffee to utilize the same amount of land, same amount of production, but get more money out of said grown Coffee.

Perhaps this article is an acknowledgement of the hard work of the people of Vietnam to produce more valuable coffee from their land.

I can't say. I can only say it used to be absolutely horrendous, to the point that "Mixto" was a thing. Producers would roast with corn syrup and other stuff to try to make a better coffee bean. The beans really really were that bad.
I've been trying to use convex hulls to explore ML embedding spaces. However, the dimensionality (768+ dimensions) seems to crash established options like QHull[0], even with 64GB RAM (and 16 CPU cores, albeit libqhull is not multi-threaded).

Are there more appropriate algorithms for finding convex hulls where dimensions are ~768? Or any parallelized / GPU-optimized options that I should look into?

0: http://www.qhull.org
The term you're looking for is deep context. These general LLMs are a long ways away from being good at many layers of context like specialized litigation, internal research papers, basically anything you wouldn't be able to expect a layman to immediately follow along.

The rise of specialized LLMs has already been happening, there's just minimal if not contrary incentive for public release.
Saying an amendment isn't a correction seems silly.

When your entire argument is "this one sentence when taken literally with no context can be considered crazy," I don't think you're arguing in good faith.
The early studies were with Paxlovid in unvaccinated patients, where it worked pretty good. But by now everyone is vaccinated and/or has caught the pestilence several times over, and efficacy against severe disease and death is much less clear-cut. It still provides benefit in the elderly, but not in the rest of the population.

Pfizer (!) put out a press release bearing the not-good news: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
There's always a "root" of trust somewhere/somehow. Ideally it's a human that you trust. In the case of zrok, it uses a secure zero trust overlay provided by openziti. you "enabling" zrok in your shell is that root of trust. you get a x509 certificate which is then used to attach to the zero trust overlay. On the other side when you "zrok access" you provide a unique token that has been shared with you by someone you trust (presumably). So you, as the person doing the sharing are the real "root" of the trust. You're trusting that zrok isn't compromised and that the certificate that is returned to you from the overlay is trustworthy etc. I could go on - but that's hopefully enough of an overview
It's on topic, because it's inline with the same type of behaviour of causing the problem and benefiting from selling a solution. If tobacco company started selling a cancer drug, and taking out life insurance policies on it's smoking employees. At some point, you would think people would start to notice the apparent synchronicity
The Thick of It is one of my favourite shows.

It perfectly satirised the government of the time. The spin doctor is one of the most powerful government figures, unelected like the civil service, and operating at the whims of the press.
That was the expensive stuff when I was there about 8 years ago, and it still barely passed the test for drinkable.

I understand why the people drink their coffee like a strong espresso with equal parts sweetened condensed milk.
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> Customers, not companies, are the ultimate beneficiaries of their labor.

This is plain wrong. Capital is the one making a profit off of labor, not consumers. And capital frequently tries to extract further benefit at the expense of labor and consumers (like shifting wages to tips).
Yeah, different people, different situations. I pretty much have one time/location to play.
I agree actually! It’s not the only valid look for a movie and people should explore others! Some people want to make movies look like film though for various reasons, which is fun and so we made a product for it.
Sounds like a massive overreaction but who expects the stock market to be rational...
The idea of "cognitive load" seems relevant in this scenario: If a human is asked to remember such details while having a chat conversation, it would likely greatly decrease the quality of the conversation, as a lot of mental effort will be expended on following the rules.

To create the most intelligent chatbots, I would think a shorter and less verbose set of instructions is likely to result in better performance.

However, this is just a hypothesis, as I am not able to conduct experiments on chatbot performance like OpenAI can. It's possible that my assumptions are not be supported by the data.
That’s what I was thinking too. It’s got to be hallucinating, right?
I'm not sure what parent means but there's SO_REUSEPORT. I don't know if you can set that with Docker. There's also other tricks like not forwarding ports with -p and manually adding a firewall rule to rewrite or forward to the correct socket (you can still access containers using their container IP)

Not sure what is meant by service names
> Is it safe to remove support for X?

What the hell, it's a freaking compiler. What do you mean, "too late to change"? Fail the compilation is suddenly a showstopper bug?

If go wants to deprecate features, just follow the same procedure done by literally all other non-spyware compilers.
I don't think logs are needed in community moderated by single person, don't need logs to know who did what.

But for something like Reddit when there is more mods the anonymity basically means impunity to any judgement; nobody but mods themselves can say whether a certain bias in actions can be attributed to few mods or to everyone in the mod team.

And frankly if you can't handle a critique of your actions you shouldn't be moderating actions of others in the first place
636 interactions sounds impressive.
But almost any drug that’s been around for a while (like Ritonavir has) will have hundreds of interactions listed.

Drug interaction databases aren’t complete nonsense, but you should take them with a huge grain of salt.

The vast majority of those interactions won’t prevent a physician from prescribing Paxlovid, and for most of the rest there are either alternatives or patients can lower dosages or stop taking them for the duration of treatment.