skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I don't know the steps between 'mass as inferred from light doesn't explain galactic rotation curves' and '80% of mass is ghosts'

This is the root of the disconnect, I think: dark matter isn't ghosts. Or if you're feeling snarky: all matter is ghosts. Any talk of "substances" or "essences" or "intrinsic properties" is entirely outside the scope of physics: the only things we ever see are interactions, and interactions with light don't have any special epistemic status that interactions with gravity lack. If anything, the opposite is true.
Dark matter skeptics believe, in effect, that everything that interacts with gravity also interacts with electromagnetism. They tend to believe this really strongly, but I've never heard anyone give a reason for it. It's a strangely abstract thing to be so dogmatic about.
I'm doing something similar with a $5 VPS, but with fastcgi/c++/sqlite3. I then have a cronjob that then aggregates error logs, generates an summary and posts to a Slack channel. Personally I wish I didn't have to write it, but it works.
`pyarrow`'s `read_csv` function[0] has just four default arguments (defaulted to None): 3 option objets and one Memory Pool option.

```
pyarrow.csv.read_csv(input_file, read_options=None, parse_options=None, convert_options=None, MemoryPool memory_pool=None)
```

You can then pass a `ReadOptions`[1] object if needed.

For example:

```
read_options = csv.ReadOptions(
column_names=["animals", "n_legs", "entry"],
skip_rows=1)
csv.read_csv(io.BytesIO(s.encode()), read_options=read_options)
```

You can see how ReadOptions is written on this link [2]. It's interesting they use a `cdef class` from `Cython` for this.

This doesn't solve all issues (the ReadOptions object and the others will inevitably have a bunch of default arguments) but I do think it's safer and it's easier to have a mental map of the things you need to decide and what's decided for you.

[0] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.csv.r...
[1] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.csv.R...
[2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/python/pyarrow/_...
GP edited their comment after I responded and didn’t mention it. Completely changed the comment. Was very antagonistic to the author of the article before.
There's quite a lot of space for commercial products where internet randos aren't providing arbitrary input.
Thank you! I just did a quick `git grep` in a work code base and found one clear instance of this bug, and two more locations where I'm not 100% certain whether references are kept around long enough. Made a note to open a bug on Monday :-)

Another surprise in python's base library:
I knew that re.search searches for a regex match in a string, so I thought that re.match would match the whole string. I was wrong, re.match only anchors the regex at the start, not the end. re.fullmatch anchors it at both sides.

I felt very stupid when I found out; I started at my current work as a Perl developer and learned Python for a new job; but there are two more Python developers (with previous Python experience outside this company) on the same project, and none of them noticed the mistakes I made based on this misunderstanding.
Well excuse me, but us humans are doing a great job at killing ourselves without the help of an AI thank you very much.
No, more like X-37B, but perhaps one that can skim the atmosphere, i.e. with scramjet propulsion.
Here is a little GIF demo: https://twitter.com/timo_schick/status/1624058382142345216

The possibilities of this line of research are endless. When language models can call APIs and/or use UIs, they can become the unified natural language interface to any software, any website, any app. See also https://www.adept.ai/act.

Siri and Alexa and Google Assistant are dead ends. Language models trained to use tools will finally be able to start delivering on the promise of a software assistant that works. And eventually, they will be a key part of robots that accept natural language commands to perform everyday tasks in the real world, like this: https://sites.research.google/palm-saycan
>erred by sending such a large

I surmise you need large balloon to carry required instruments on one platform. Going forward IMO PRC just going to fly them higher, US can keep shooting them down... possible until they can't, both will reveal US capabilities. At minimum, finding out f22 + missile ceiling is worth the cost. PRC isn't going to stop program just because US domestic politics goes full retard, if anything, that's strategically exploitable especially if PRC can make current WH admin look weak by flying a balloon at height that can't be shot down. Medium/long term, PRC building/exposing CONUS vunerability is net benefitial for PRC posture - it's their version of, in DoD parlance, integrated deterence. IMO US analysis missing strategic calculus on PRC side.
The response here makes me think most commenters don’t have experience with this particular footgun.

To clarify: Python can gc your task before it starts, or during its execution if you don’t hold a ref to it yourself.

I can’t think of any scenario in which you’d want that behavior, and it is very surprising as a user.

Python should hold a ref to tasks until they are complete to prevent this. This also “feels right”, in that if I submit a task to a loop, I’d think the loop would have a ref to the task!

It’d be interesting to dig up the internal dev discussions to see why the “fix this” camp hasn’t won.
Dictated, not transcribed.
No. It's useful if you want to eyeball the target first though.
“You hang up first.” “No, you.” …
"This video has been removed because of youtube policies".

This is the exact same thing: shitification.

Make a cool product at a loss then make it shitier to use to bring as much money as you can before enough users exit to break your network effect. You can even make it last longer by making it as hard as possible for your users to leave.

If the process is not entirely clear to you, look at Twitter. (Elon Musk is incredibly not-subtle at this). Everyone of those monopolies are "too big too fail" until it does. Yahoo was like this. Tumblr was like this. Facebook and Twitter were considered as indestructible gods yesterday: they look incredibly fragile now (I’m teaching to CS students and they consider facebook as "the thing used by their grandparents"). Youtube is indestructible? Every single creator is complaining about having video removed/unmonetized while every single person I know is baffle and annoyed at the number of advertising they get. Wait for the moment when people will hear about Peertube.

What most people fail to realize is that "failing" is never a big nova disappearance. It’s more subtle, becoming slightly more irrelevant. Yahoo is still there after all. Youtube/Facebook will still be there in 10 years. (while some may even wonder if Twitter will still exist next year). I keep hearing that "mastodon will never replace Twitter" while it already has: there are now more links to toot on HN homepage than links to tweets.

What few realize that it is all part of the plan when running a VC business. You have the "invest phase" (everything is free, growth at all cost) then the "cashing phase" (aka "shitification"). VC never invest without an horizon. So, sooner or later, money will flew out and the whole thing will fall. People miss it because the brand usually keep a residual value which keep the light on.

That’s why the only long-term sustainable solution is free software. Free software are the only software that can stay successful for several decades (sometimes without major changes in their architecture, which is awesome when you think about it).

That’s why, all in all, Medium must fail. It’s all part of the plan. I was lured in myself years ago but I painfully exported all my medium content to my own blog. It took me years to realize that any centralized platform is one signature away of being elon-musked.
i’ve been saying for a while this emerging “woke” or whatever you want to call it morality is now presenting much in the same way as the moral/Religious right was in the ‘80s-90s.

Their moral righteousness acts as an excuse to their actions whether right, wrong, evil, or good.

Ultimately the ugly aspects always seem to emerge and distract away from whatever good aspects their moral system might have for the world.

Such is the human condition I guess.
Higher quality code contains swear words
Repo: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/?h=feature/...
And there goes my evening . . .

Thanks for sharing!
I don't fully agree with the political assessment because the WH gave the Pentagon permission to shoot it down when they deemed appropriate. They didn't order the pentagon to do it immediately. I'm not sure (someone please chime in if you know) if the WH 'ordered' the Pentagon to shoot it down in the sense that it HAD to come out of the air at some point, or if the message was just "shoot it down if you think that's the best thing to do".
Is it? After many, many hours in the game, and many more deaths, I've learned the following:

1. If it's early game and you think you died because zombies are OP, you don't understand the clothing encumbrance mechanic.

2. Otherwise, the reason you died is because your luck run out.
That's exactly what neutrinos are in terms of human experience. Ridiculous amounts of neutrinos are flowing trough the whole planet and trough you like we are nothing.
> Our family was basically middle class

Most people tend to think of themselves as "middle-class". Your family may have been. Or maybe that's what you grew up with and was normal in your community but not "middle-class".

That point aside, the 1980's was the beginning of cheaper travel. In the 1950's it was the modern equivalent of $45,000 (all 'modern' prices are pre-COVID inflation adjusted Perth-to-London). It decreased by by 82% by 1980. It pretty much leveled out in the mid-1980's to today, inflation adjusted. Although the same rates your parents paid probably would have gotten them business class tickets now.
> That doesn’t seem very sensible in potential-beginning-of-block contexts, in particular in the if case where an implicit empty statement is deduced after the condition.

Are you referring to C style if statements where you can elide the braces?

In go the braces are mandatory, so I don't think that really applies.
I've noticed that as well recently an increase in coverage of Ukraine and antagonistic articles of China while at the same time what could be termed as "anti-woke" media.

Seems to me like the military-propaganda apparatus is spinning up to prepare the populace for a war. But it's more of a gut feeling at this point.
I don't know why everyone is so quick to label these other objects as balloons.
Weather balloons are tiny, enough so they need to attach a specific device to reflect radar signals properly and these massive payloads are not innocent climate collection devices
The problem with that assessment is it doesn’t actually account for novel inputs.

Consider how you would respond to my question posed here vs a language model. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757366

Of course developers can always tack on edge cases, but ChatGPT can’t for example handle beating a novel MUD from the 80’s. This isn’t about diminishing it’s accomplishments, just pointing out why the creators aren’t hailing it as AGI.

Just look at it’s wonderful attempt to play chess: https://youtu.be/rSCNW1OCk_M
Yeah, but if you read, they didn't know about the incidents until well after they happened; also, they never shared if they were over US coastal waters or over actual US soil.
A few years ago this guy documented going as far from London as he could on local busses, it was very interesting. Apparently he's since done a follow up on trains, which I have not read

https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/142843808187143373...
what on earth does this anecdote have with my comments?
Well, I would turn this back and say Dark Matter proponents believe that everything that causes gravity must also be matter, which is a strange thing to be dogmatic about.

The only thing we know is that spacetime is curving without any visible/detectable thing causing it (at least not in a way our equations predict.) Calling it “matter” is already making a huge set of assumptions.
The US Government shooting down an Unidentified Flying Object sounds like the start of a science fiction film. If there were ever a bad time and place for actual aliens to come visit...
This sounds like a perfect description of retail stock traders vs institutional.
Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.
>> Why exactly is dark matter unintuitive to the layperson?

For me it's because the explanations don't actually make sense. The classic example to me is the galactic rotation "problem". It gets resolved by suggesting a spherical cloud of dark matter surrounding a galaxy. Great, but why would it affect the galaxy normally but take on such a distribution? The solution raises more questions than the problem. Not to mention it's a whole new kind of matter we can't detect. It's almost magical thinking.
was thinking of wolfe and the plains of abraham, actually, but [manuel voice] i know nothing. well, almost.
They're really beating a dead horse at this point.
You say MOND is better because it's simpler.

We already have examples of particles that do not interact electromagnetically but have mass, and therefore interact gravitationally. They're neutrinos. How is a new theory of gravity simpler than particles that are similar to ones we know exist?
Yup, a switch has been flipped. Actions that may or may not have happened in the past, and are happening now, are no longer being tolerated. Between this and the CHIPS act I expect the current divestment from China to go from a trickle to flood..
Serious question: was there ever any doubt that US military could shoot something down out of the sky no matter how high it flies? If they are doing this to determine capabilities, it's like staking at a grocery store to see if it sells milk.
Just like how humans progressed technologically.

Each individual human has information that is considered specialized (a narrow model). Without communication there is no way to access these specializations. And written and spoken language is just the best way to communicate we've come up with (so far).

Feels like these language models will be the glue that hold all the narrow models together, and can build on top of to create new narrow models.
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the emacs package for connecting Eliza and the Pinhead quotes. I think it was something like "analyze-pinhead"?

Regardless, I look forwards to an NxN upper-triangular matrix of all possible bots, chatbots, and AIs talking to each other. :)
I love that movie so so so much that an "Yes minister" really captures it all.
That may happen, but it's not the case here.

The project was written using modern standard sizes, as required by law; but knowing that the tunnels are ancient, they also mandated the provider to make a field study to figure out the real tunnel minimum sizes, and build the trains according to its result.

The scandal happened when this caused a delay in the initial estimated dates, and politicians found out that they wouldn't be able to open the train lines in time for this year's elections.
I guess I take issue with the vagueness of "intuitive" because that's kinda sorta "just feels"/bias/projection about the state of "lay person" thought. As I said, germ theory is "invisible stuff that interacts with your body" and an interventionist god is intangible entity that can control your fate... And I think a lot of people believe in those.
It's been replicated tens of thousands of times and you can replicate it at home very easily.

https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Make-a-Simple-Double-Sl...
This seems to mostly be a policy piece, targeted at political folks rather than technical ones. The laborious establishment of a couple analogies was particularly hard to get through, but I suppose it will be useful for the target audience.

A concern with this sort of thing is that it will have weird expectations about developer responsibility in securing the, as they like to call it, “software supply chain.” It was nice to see that that they reiterated the open source developers basically have no responsibility.

I don’t see too much objectionable here, no idea if they proposals would actually help but they seem mostly harmless.

An analogy that occurred to me while reading was: open source developers could be seen as more like a natural resource, something like wild animals. In particular wild bees. People don’t really expect bees to follow many instructions. You can set up nice places for them to put their hives. But mostly you should just leave them alone and be happy to collect the honey they produce, which they produce as a side effect of existing — you can check if you want to eat it.
Most evidence would be gone after a few million years. Any metal that oxidizes would go first, aluminium included. Concrete would disappear with weathering, earth quakes, and even just by the action of plants. Huge open pit mines or mountain top removal would be weathered away and filled in with sediments. Plastics decompose and chemicals are diluted and dispersed or consumed by microbes. Gold jewelry may last a long time in the right conditions but if it's subject to any kind of motion it will deform and wear away since it is much softer than the grains of sand that would be rubbing against it. Everything would end up buried under layers of sediment or higher sea levels or even subducted into the mantle and melted.
That sounds a bit like a cognitive distortion. What makes you say that? If it's actually true, the self-awareness is a good step to making some changes.

I also caution that "not being successful in a rigged economic system" is not equal to failing at life.
An obtuse study (and obtusely written article) that concludes truisms: birds of a feather; people preferring to congregate with others of similar interests.
> Admittedly, I have no idea what the hell 'Piketty's tome' is,

Piketty is an economist who wrote Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which is a book on economics and wealth inequality (essentially arguing that the rich are inevitably going to get richer absent government intervention).
How did you encounter that you have that genetic sensitivity?
The company may not have loyalty to you, but you're coworkers and managers might. Relationships matter greatly.
was that 30 hours mostly about curiosity - or was chatGPT helping you with some outside tasks as well at times?
Something I want to point out about this: Nathan has been harassed and bullied as the only moderator on a server with 50-100k users. He's very clearly been burnt out for a while and has been struggling to cope.

A lot of people are trying to make this about the Harry Potter game, but it really isn't. Any conflict being aimed at him would have put him over the edge, it just happened to be this.

He has always tried to protect the majority of users over what any subgroup wants. He was pretty harsh as a moderator, but genuinely wanted to do the best he could.

This isn't a trans thing or a Nazi thing, this is just about burnout.

Nathan made some bad choices and said some things he really shouldn't have. He should have found a way to bring more moderators on, but he didn't. He tried to do everything on his own and it broke him.

Nathan isn't a bad person, he just got pushed too far and he snapped.
Even F-35 criticisms don't hold all that much water, at least in terms of cost, given they are actually cheaper than the F-14 was when you adjust for inflation.
Higher would be more expensive to shoot down, but given that we have missiles designed to shoot down satellites - at least in LEO - I don’t think it’ll be possible to use altitude as a means of evading response.
Belgium Canvas has several superb movies and series, every week, year-in year-out. Humans select them, not software. Selecting movies/shows is a profession and I’m positive that many people can learn it.

When I meet people with seemingly the same taste, usually we exchange our trophies, eg my latest

This is going to hurt (series) - 2022 - UK
En man som heter Ove - 2015 - Sweden
All That Breathes - 2022 - India
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - 1975 - Belgium
> Getting the song down, I had to fight every impulse to better the song, to make it resolve where it doesn’t otherwise, to massage out the weirdnesses. I wanted to stay as true to its creator’s vision as possible, and at the end, there’s just something missing.

One thing that's glaringly missing is that the song presents itself as a story, but on even casual inspection there is none. Sailors Song entices you with the trappings of a good, melodic story song, and then pulls a Houdini.

Compare this song with The Gambler, the best-known version of which was recorded by Kenny Rogers. Or American Pie. Or Cats in the Cradle.

This seems like a kind of uncanny valley. Real enough to make you take notice, but fake enough to turn you off.

That said, I don't think the author tried very hard to get ChatGPT to add the "something missing." I think that's because s/he hadn't figured out what the missing thing was.

For example, ask ChatGPT to tell the story of the Chinese balloon to the tune of Sailors Song. Or, literally any event that has ever happened and which ChapGPT would know about.

It's actually kind of surprising that ChatGPT came up with the story song idea in the first place because that wasn't part of the prompt. Why not give it a few nudges in the right direction?
Is there a plausible explanation as to why the US government has not announced objects 2 & 3 are balloons, if they are balloons? They call them "objects", yet must know what they are. They wouldn't randomly missile unknowns.

If it's for reasons of secrecy, why announce it at all? The second one was in the middle of nowhere, it could easily have been ignored, or dismissed as a military exercise if anyone had made a fuss about it.
> we’ll get there soon

Hopefully - but that would be the absolutely critical part.

> stable data store to retrieve facts rather than trying to pull facts from the model itself

This is not clear: intelligence is a process of refinement of a world model.
It has one parameter. "Particle we can't see" has as many parameters as it takes to model the density and flow of those particles at any given place in the universe.
Could you write them or link to them too? Thanks.
>place an odalisque with an inscription on it
Besides being cruel, odalisques aren't known to exist for more than a hundred or so years. Let alone millennia.
I can ask the same for the other investors.

>in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications.[11] In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto.[12] Their investment valued the company at $500 million then.[13][14] In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder.[15] In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion.[16] In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.[4]

What type of shadowy agenda are entities like Jared Leto or Fidelity Investments trying to advance? Or should we assume that they're acting altruistically because they're not Chinese?
For a college educated, white-collar view of the issue, I highly recommend the Priceonomics article about David Raether. He wrote almost 100 episodes of the TV show Roseanne, only to wind up living in a van. It wasn't due to drugs, alcohol, or mental disease. Just an unfortunate turn of events.

https://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/