skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yet have we not all, at different times, been takers and givers, server and served?

It's interesting to read the history of the concepts in the article.

Unfortunately, for those of us who love seeing huge problems swept away by advances in the status quo, there's also no easily-quantified solution in here. It's a qualitatively-minded piece, great.

But the quantitative, rational aspect of this problem is basically begging for technological intervention. I hate to say it out loud, because people think tech is too much. But in many places I think we intuitively understand that the quiet, simple, efficient tech solutions are simply not there enough, in the right place, at the right time. It doesn't have to take much.

A lot of us can count off restaurant experiences that could quickly turn one into a vending machine connoisseur.

We may also be able to name hotel staffers who make us want to sleep in our cars in the future, because parking ordinances are more reasonable.

I was also reminded me of the days when the answering service would talk back to you, because it was staffed by humans.

If a problem came up, was it the customer's fault? The caller's? The service? This could be a real issue. You could write a fascinating piece on the dynamics.

Nowadays though--no way would that deeply-personal knot of dynamics be seen as a risk with voicemail, unless you knew there was a significant trade-off and intentionally shopped for someone to answer your calls.

So it's a different problem for the general voicemail-user population now, but the personal factor is mostly long gone. The beautiful, impressive personal factor, but also the awkward, infuriating personal factor when times were tough.

Looking at this issue from various angles, it seems clear that many potentially helpful (and maybe helpfully de-personalizing) solutions are simply waiting on the sidelines, solutions which don't drag everybody through the roulette game, and which also aren't the kind of AI-takeover-issue that some people fear.
The stop codon is more like the '\n' or '\0' in computing. Polya tails protect against degradation and is used for nuclear export of RNA.
Yep, you're right, including ceil() was misleading of me, if not downright wrong. I technically did not specify which side the interval is open on. But practically and realistically, in pretty much any scenario it will be a half-open interval that excludes the upper bound, and you have to go out of your way to get it the other way around (at which point you probably well know yourself to use ceil() instead of floor()).
Amusing dialog, and quite germane - Yorick claims to hold a cognitivist perspective (that meaning comes from 'handling symbols', see also [1]) while the final paragraph ironically expresses a healthy skepticism of cognitivism which (IMO) is justified: we all have to 'take it on faith' that things mean what we want them to mean. That is, as Wittgenstein famously pointed out, the meaning of utterances is given by their use and not by some mysterious psychical accompaniment or the grinding of symbolic gears in the brain:

> There must surely be a further, different connexion between my talk and N, for otherwise I should still not have meant HIM.

> Certainly such a connexion exists. Only not as you imagine it: namely by means of a mental mechanism.

- Philosophical Investigations §689

This is a drum I've been quietly banging for some time! [2],[3]

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627 (but see [4])

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158214

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880260

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34638196
there’s a legacy version available as well
If a seventeen year old bio female comes to a 40 year old doctor and is prescribed chemicals that alter her genitalia for life, it is “gate keeping” to prosecute or regulate said doctor.

However, if a seventeen year old decides to have sex with a 40 year old, we would find it morally reprehensible and all agree that she could not consent to use her body that way.

I don’t know how to rectify these two commonly held beliefs.
Why would aliens show up this way?
There's some C in there too. Example: https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/PATCHMEM/VER7.2/PATC...
There aren't really local buses in the USA outside of cities. I noticed it when I started traveling the globe. Many developed countries have virtually no transport outside of cities, other than via car. If they have a train or regional bus, it's typically one route to get you from one side of the country to another.

According to rome2rio.com, you can take a train from Albany, NY to Buffalo, NY. But to get from Albany to Wellsville, NY, you'd have to take a train to Buffalo, connecting service to Mt. Morris, and then still drive a car an hour and a half to get to Wellsville.

To get from Albany to where I live in NY, I would have to take three once-a-day regional buses, and still drive a car 30 minutes.
U.S. investors have plowed billions into China's AI sector, report shows
Not sure which was first but the thread below got more discussion, including the same ignorant jibes at Canada's air force

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757042
I did something like that going from Sao Paulo (Brazil) to Leticia (Colombia) following the coast toward north and later taking amazon river cargo ships. It took me about 5 months, transit days about 2 months.
These balloons could be an economical counter to the American Low Earth Orbit Military Constellation https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency
First off is you shouldn’t think that zero envy is possible, envy is a bit of an evolutionary trait to allow forward progress.

Should aim for low level of envy where you know you want it but not with intense pain, which is hard to achieve
A Tale of Red Guards and Cannibals
From what I understand:

- the balloon was required to file a flight plan or have an ADS-B transponder

- the balloon did not file a flight plan or have an ADS-B transponder

So either the balloon's operator didn't know about the requirements, which seems unlikely given its apparent sophistication, or the operator was deliberately hiding the presence of the balloon, in which case I think it's reasonable to call it a spy balloon.
I use shfmt and shellcheck together with pre-commit. I like to use the shfmt-py and shellcheck-py pre-commit hooks as opposed to https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks as they'll install the shfmt/shellcheck prebuilt binaries as needed:

https://github.com/maxwinterstein/shfmt-py

https://github.com/shellcheck-py/shellcheck-py
I would say that metros in Paris are much, much closer to 3min than to 20 (20 sounds like the middle of the night).

But now imagine if every passenger instead took an individual car? That would require a lot of cars.

Yes, an individual car is more comfortable if you can afford it and if not too many people have one (otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams). But really my ideal is closer to metros/trams than taxis.
So can a Free Software developer, so what point are you trying to make with your first sentence?
Wow, can't believe I didn't know this. Thanks!
>No offense America but my money is on our alien overlords to win.

Motherfucker when we all get shipped off to the cobalt mines on Rigel you're getting a blaster bolt up the ass.
> Is that true?

They're not literally thinking those thoughts in those terms, it's just what pops out when you try to translate complaints about "tangibility" and "seeing things directly" from folk-physical intuition into something physically meaningful.
Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8946744/#:~:tex...).
They had a full blown analogue targeting computer. The Norden bombsight was revolutionary [1].

Sadly it was still not accurate enough to hit specific buildings reliably so it didn’t have the impact on the war its designers expected.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight
It’s such a great game and huge source of nostalgia. I’m now hearing that synth music when in the planetarium.

Reminds me of Lemmings: one of those games that just shows up on every platform ever (though I think Lemmings stopped doing this years back, and I’m not sure why…)
We have no obligation to pay their rent because they explicitly waived such desires.

EDIT: I realize I failed at reading comprehension. Apologies.

Free-as-in-libre runs counter to asking for payment because they, as far as my layman understanding is concerned, are mutually exclusive. Code can't be free-as-in-libre if you have to pay monies to get any rights thereof.

Open source, on the other hand, is just that: The source is open for viewing. You can read the code at your leisure, but what you can do with the code or the knowledge gained from reading it is an entirely different matter.

So a free dev fundamentally can't charge for his code, but an open source dev can charge for his code.
The degree to which the elite institutions have managed to co-opt the left by playing identity progressives against economic progressives is both brilliant and scary. They've managed to paint adding some privileged, Ivy League educated minorities to corporate boards as progressive victories on behalf of minority groups who mostly don't even attend college. Meanwhile there has been zero progress on adding workers to corporate boards, which would do far more to advance the material and social interests of those same minority groups.
You can achieve 99% of that by using your own product and talking to your customers, and everybody managed to do just that and to make useful products long before telemetry became ubiquitous.
Switching from Davinci to Curie.
What unreleased materials are you looking for?
Thank you. I missed this somehow.
FedEx should have said: I have a number for you to take down.
Glad this worked out and nobody got hurt.
Thanks to a Saturday afternoon, the awesome Wayback machine, and already got my hike in.
See pages 2 and 44: https://docs.oracle.com/pdf/A85251_01.pdf

There's also a 'ps' listing on page 50, with a user id 'aholser', if that rings any bells.

I haven't used Oracle since about 1998, and never Oracle's Enterprise Manager or whatever agent, so no idea how well it worked. I'll read your article.
I'd like to subscribe to your blog
Teaching GPT Word Reflections
r(man,young,age,old)
r(man,rich, wealth, poor)
now find w2 and w4 for
r(_, creative,_, unordered)

Here's a revised relation with the words more similar to "creative" in the second position and more similar to "unordered" in the fourth position:

r(task, innovative, arrangement, haphazard)

In this relation, "task" is related to "innovative," and "arrangement" is the property or characteristic in question. The opposite of "innovative" is "haphazard," which implies a lack of structure and planning. This highlights the contrast between a creative and structured approach in an "innovative" task, and a more unstructured and haphazard approach in a "haphazard" task, which may be less ordered and more unordered.
I checked it out, not the same. Those games look great, though.

I found my mention as well, "Legacy of the Wizard" on NES.
Good point. Good science should independent of funding and politics. Methodology is not that bad for a nutrition study. I am concerned with compliance verification. A "keep doing whatever" group would have been a great control.
Ask HN: Any volounteer firefighters (not only IT production)?
Hi HN, after years of doing IT production firefighting (SRE/dev/ops stuff) In my 40s I hear some inner voice to enter down to earth life path, particularity I mean local volunteer firefighter brigade in rural place where I spend most of summer months (maybe full year once semi-retired). What do you think? Anybody of you went such way. I look forward to reading your stories?
Maybe they played the NATO card.
I think you misunderstand, crunchydata only deploys postgresql and provisions streaming replication between postgres nodes using patroni, which provisions the postgresql.conf necessary when you choose more than one replica in the PostgresCluster object definition.
Kinda amusing that the PM of Canada "ordered" an American jet to shoot down a UFO.
Verizon, T-Mobile Overstate Claims with $43B at Stake
You jest, but I believe some of these incidents have been caused by some sort of delay mechanism which gets stuck, until one day it is dug up or corrodes enough to unstick, at which point it goes off.
Hacking Your Keyboard with Karabiner
Hmm good question. I have two sets of clusters and both are on 13.9 so I'm honestly not sure if I ever did a postgres version upgrade.

Without checking the docs I would imagine you could do a little hack where you restore from pgbackrest into a clean postgres 14 cluster.
I find vowel heavy is sometimes not great. Hitting a semi obscure letter like b or c is much more helpful than e.
From "Cantinflas", a well known actor in the Americas.

> He is considered to have been the most widely-accomplished Mexican comedian and is celebrated throughout Latin America and in Spain as a popular icon. His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain and has given rise to a range of expressions including cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, and cantinflero.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantinflas
For anyone that plays Wordle on NYT Games site, there is another anagramming game called Spelling Bee in which the notion of a pangram is featured prominently. Basically, you get a set of letters from which to build anagrams (one privileged letter must appear in all your anagrams). Pangrams are considered to be any anagram which makes use of all the given letters and it will flash the word 'Pangram' on the screen when you get them, to give you a minor nerdy dopamine hit.

I am addicted to the game and get pissed at myself if I don't get to the top scoring tier every day.

EDIT: Removed spoilers for future readers.
Some data centers are noisy neighbors
How long before someone makes a pangram wordle-like game?
I don't think I'd have been able to tell that wasn't written by Colin Meloy without being told. It's not a great song of the sort of calibre I'd expect from the Decemberists, but everyone has an off day.
I think this is my favorite series of articles of yours so far. In parts because purely from the outside, as a programmer, I'm very familiar with the 8086 and its successors, and so have always been curious about what's going on behind the curtain beyond the usual coarse microarchitecture concepts. The level of detail you go into is perfect.

I guess that many people here will feel similar, given the 8086's role.
I don’t understand how being bought in with your parents money is ok yet an athelete actually doing a thing themselves with their own bodies shouldn’t “get a pass”. Especially given that they still have to, you know, pass classes!

Let’s not pretend all those legacies are showing up to class and working hard.
Haha, you reminded me of the days when some of my friends arguing iPhone's signal wasn't that bad but just could not make the call when everyone else could.
Since the GIL is there and it restricts multithreaded issues to happen, why would python packages be thread-safe?
They had bomb sights of various complexities, the Norden being the best known US design:

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

Still very difficult.
> You are confusing PDE5 and PDE4 inhibitors

Yes, sorry for the oversight.

> Nitric oxide is not involved in the action of PDE4.

?

Phosphodiesterase type 4 inhibition enhances nitric oxide- and hydrogen sulfide-mediated bladder neck inhibitory neurotransmission
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22934-1

cAMP Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors Increases Nitric Oxide Production by Modulating Dimethylarginine Dimethylaminohydrolases
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.9...

PDE4 inhibitors are most likely anti-inflammatory because they affect NO.
Alas, it still deliberately tosses the colors of the original graphics. I've yet to see a remaster that doesn't lose the feel and ambiance of the original.
Teal – Type Hints for Lua
Apologies, I meant to respond to another message.
Yeah, I’d be worried if it was AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA===. ;)
"It's fare free, why don't they open the back door too? It would expedite the boarding process"

Just goes to show how poorly thought out transit is in North America.

https://youtu.be/HX6C3MqH6EE?t=151
FWIW I prefer the one on the MNT Pocket Reform more. Both are OSHW, so making a corrected layout should be feasible.
Unlikely to make such a mistake when using air-to-air missiles (not surface to air or sea to air).
Obligatory: https://uncyclopedia.com/wiki/AAAAAAAAA!
When you make a 'prototype' spend more time filling in the gaps and making it halfway production ready (decoupling, documentation, nice-naming etc). Assume ti's going to be reviewed by a psycho. That way if it suddenly becomes flavour of the month and someone says the fatal line of 'wow! that looks awesome! Let's look to getting that spun up on the cloud layer!' you can breathe a quiet sigh of relief and know that most of the hard refactor is already done. Also your colleagues will buy doughnuts when you tell them you did this.

If you're asked to estimate a task in real terms (days/hours/minutes) and not rough estimates, over estimate ALWAYS. It suggests that the technical understanding isn't there for the project planning so when things go wrong and you say you need more time you'll find real friction.
Similarly if you are estimating in rough times or even better Fibonacci scales then you are likely to be in an environment that will accept delay because of unexpected findings... CHECK THIS THOUGH, if you don't want to ask, ask or listen out for what happens when something goes wrong and timescales slip, cos they will.

Make friends with people that you enjoy spending time with, but if you are working on something complicated, try and find a coding buddy who doesn't think like you (as long as there isn't actual tension). Threshing out ideas with someone 90 degrees to your perspective can lift weird and wonderful rocks.

Never trust your instinct, but listen to it ALL the time. Remember correlation is not causation but something is making you think you should look. The more you look the more you'll feel an understanding for something so follow your instinct, but learn on your own terms.

Many things never get renamed when they should do, so just because something seems sensibly named and it's behaviours are beautifully documented, don't entirely believe it until you've passingly proved it.

Any business that isn't honest about wanting to earn money off your work is lying to you and sometimes worse, themselves. Those that are honest about this are (in my experience) easier to work for, as your expectations on what you need to deliver are so much more obvious (money for the business) rather than some fluffy nonsensical indefinite esoteric concept.
If what we need to determine is whether existing theory of mind tests can be fooled by responses which appear to demonstrate theory of mind but not do so, then we need to speculate exactly how such tests can be fooled and devise new tests. Asking 'how could this 'successful' response be produced without ToM is quite possibly not something that ToM studies have had to consider very much before. A human's experiential memory contributes to their ToM. Does something that has a different kind of memory form no ToM but instead use some kind of 'proxy' for a ToM which yields similar results to a ToM (except when a more genuinely exclusively ToM-dependant model successfully manages to 'triage-out' such a proxy? I don't know how or whether such a proxy could work, but I think that every sceptic of the extent to which the results of this set of AI ToM experiments proves anything might want to ask themselves what, if anything, would need to happen, in terms of experiment design, to address their doubts.
The funny thing is that we are now producing trading data for the next generation LLMs. We’ll have to come up with more elaborate scenarios to test them next time.
oh and as for advice on good/bad coding behaviours, I'll be honest that should be described for you by the coding standards for that piece of work, or project, or entire company.
If it isn't then that smells in it's own right and for your own sanity go looking for a coding standard to hold yourself to.
Three public shoot downs certainly signals something new.
Speaking of joint efforts, I admit that part of me hopes this unfolding shootdowns situation could lead to a new DEW line effort.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/Distant-Early-Warning-...

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

https://rclsa-asrlc.org/stories/the-construction-of-the-dew-...

https://archive.org/details/0575_DEW_Line_Story_20_01_02_00

https://lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/warstories/

(Or maybe just the long-awaited Spies Like Us sequel...)

At this point though it would almost be unsurprising if the conflict somehow escalated from a Chinese balloon shootdown to a UAP/tic tac hot war.

These skies are, unconditionally, ourn.
Sample size is 3, sampling isn't random :)
I was thinking more along the lines of something like salt to which you could theoretically add an adulterant. Now what that would be without making the end result unpalatable is beyond my knowledge, but with the right financial incentives, I assumed someone could identify something.
Good point about OA. I couldn’t find what the control was in the pteropod study. What are they comparing them against?

Also looks like OA isn’t uniformly bad. Some species seem to thrive: https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/ocean-acidification-a-r...
I don't think he was referring to python when he mentioned server-side, but to real multi-threaded runtimes.
Show HN: I made a web app to compare pros and cons
I wanted a simple tool to compare the pros and cons of a choice I was making, and I still come back to it as a useful tool. Hopefully it's useful to someone else. Stack: TS/React, partially internationalized. Data is only saved locally.
Why the downvotes? Video is hilariously relevant.
Cold Lake, Alberta is one of the two permanent bases for CF-18s, not terribly southern.
> One official told ABC News that the object was “cylindrical and silver-ish gray” and gave the “balloon-like” appearance of floating without “any sort of propulsion”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/alaska-myste...
This technique seems to be limited to APIs that help the LM complete the sentence, but perhaps it might inspire a technique for including APIs that have side effects in the real world.

How long until we have interactive robots and personal assistants with something like ChatGPT as the glue uniting various task-specific APIs?
Johann Sebastian Bach
This is a fully immersive 3D rendered world. It's not the glorified hypercard slideshow of the original (as much as that version was amazing for the time).
> From my POV Elm stands as a serious challenge to the entire JS ecosystem.

Lol, OK. Spoken like a cultist. Bad news for you: It's not going to happen.
Considering the lunar ranging experiment of fifty years ago, it seems like it shouldn’t be some big surprise?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experime...
Ah of course. Not exactly little bottles of McCormick back then.
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this up. I would love to hear more about you're experiences growing up and especially the dysregulation.

Is there any other things about your life you would be willing to share?