skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until we get evidence of such a thing, those ideas have little credibility though they are nice thought experiments.

What they're really seeing is that mathematically something can be expressed with less dimensions or degrees of freedom than what you observe in the real world, and then make the conclusion that therefor the dimensions and properties etc. that we observe are some emergent property and not fundamental.

But you can't make this conclusion from the mathematical model.

For example, if I have a finite sized two dimensional plane where each point is associated with some function f(x,y),you can trivially express it as a one dimensional system where all the rows of the plane are sort of unwound onto a single line.
This trick does not work for infinite 2D spaces but there are other ways to remap infinite sized spaces onto finite ones (e.g. via tan).

Yet there's nothing fundamental about this, it's just a mathematical modelling trick.
Will economics be a good degree for becoming an investment banker? (2021)
The authors screed is about their personal position & thought process. Any criticism on it is fundamentally of the author.

So treating that like an objection is disingenuous at best.

Perhaps I was a little harsh with that last line, but I stand by the sentiment.
You’re aware that people’s circadian rhythms don’t align? I, for instance, am a morning person. Morning classes were never a problem for me but evening seminars were hell. My wife is the opposite, shifted about five hours, a “night owl”. It’s not as simple as insufficient planning or personal discipline.
There is a strong correlation between BER and the age of the house. In Denmark the majority of houses are in category D. Almost every house built after 2007 is >D and EVERYTHING that is built after 2011 is A or B, with a large majority in A.

My house is from 1935 and the statistics tell me that it is practically impossible for me to get the house above C. I think that it is theoretically possible but the required investment will be so big that it makes more economic sense to tear the house down and build it with modern materials and techniques.

https://sparenergi.dk/forbruger/vaerktoejer/find-statistik-p...
Surprisingly, with two small kids, I only reinforced my night-owl habits. The rhythm we settled at is simple: my wife - a natural early bird - handles the early morning while letting me sleep in a little, and I - a natural night owl - stay up late, effectively covering for anything that happens between 23:00 and 03:00, so that it doesn't wake her up.

It's a bad system in so many ways, but we can't seem to make anything else work. And we know from experience that both of us getting enough sleep is the foundation on which everything else stands.
Deep Learning Opacity in Scientific Discovery
Are philosophers too pessimistic about AI in science while scientists are too optimistic? This paper argues that both perspectives miss something for critical about AI-infused science. By analyzing the role of deep learning in scientific discovery, we can appreciate its justified potential for significant breakthroughs.
HN is really getting flooded with AI/GPT posts lately.

Anyway, this[1] is a really good introduction to Prompt Engineering and how one can tailor prompts for their use-case.

Interesting podcast episode that touches on this stuff - "In an age that favors the formulaic and generic to the ambiguous, complex, and unexpected, it's no wonder that computers can sound eerily lifelike. Leslie tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts that we should worry less about the lifelike nature of AI and worry more that human beings are being more robotic and predictable."[2]

[1] - https://www.nocode.ai/introduction-to-prompt-engineering/

[2] - https://www.econtalk.org/ian-leslie-on-being-human-in-the-ag...
Teslas have consistently ranked at the top of most crash test benchmarks. They are extremely safe. Additionally their driver assistance systems enforce more checks that the driver is paying attention (more than Volkswagen at least).

Can you please link to the lawsuit? It could be one related to unnecessary emergency breaking which would likely be annoying but not cause death.
These things don't exclude each other. Also, people can be more expensive and less reliable than machinery.
Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-6-2-the-first-mainstream...
‘It took over my life ’ How one man made his dream 90s video game on his own
Yes, at this point type 1 fonts are bigger than Adobe. Type 1 fonts just exist. Adobe needs subscriptions to exist.
See my update below.

> The author has to prove that this mapping exercise is indeed not new knowledge...

Is that what you meant to write? It seems that "the author" here is referring to the paper's author (Frank Jackson), but his whole argument depends on the premise that the result of this mapping exercise is new knowledge.

It is acceptable English usage to call what Mary learns on release "knowledge", but it is not knowledge in the form of a proposition that you believe to be true; it is the memory of an experience (and whatever connections are made from that experience), and materialism does not claim or imply that you can gain the latter from reading it in a book.

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Update: With respect to the phrase I quoted, I see what you mean. This knowledge (if that is what it is) is new to Mary, but unless it existed and was knowable before Mary was released, the argument fails to show some knowledge that Mary did not know then but was knowledge at the time.

Jackson attempts to get around this by saying that she learns something about other people - specifically, that her conception of the mental life of other people was incomplete before her release and more complete after. Insofar as that conception includes objective facts, however, Mary could know those facts beforehand. Seeing colors might modify her personal justification for believing those facts (along the lines of "previously, I accepted it on the basis of what I learned verbally but now I accept it on the basis of my experience"), but note the "my experience" in that phrase: those experiences did not exist until after her release, so this justification was not available to Mary beforehand.
While that’s not 0 that does seem low given the fed has said they are setting it higher than that.

The market has been undershooting the whole time the fed has been raising rates. It’s a little strange frankly.
Came very close - dropped it at one point and picked it up by the now non-glowing end. We were wearing some good gloves...
Hamburg law overturned, limiting police usage of Palantir's Gotham
Sure, only people who can realistically do that outside of early 20s are people who have extremely soft landing such as rich parents.
Any old code is burden by definition.

You can still use old versions of Adobe software. (I… guess? I am not sure how do the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing shenanigans work nowadays, I haven’t used Adobe suite for ages)
The year in a copyrigt notice is supposed to be the year when the work was first published. So updating just the year would technically be wrong. That said, it doesn’t matter much since the notice is purely informational - it doesnt actually alter the copyrigt of the work.

If you want the notice to protect against infringing, surely you want to state the earliest year possible. But some read the notice as “page last updated” in which case you want it as recent as possible. But why not just write “last updated…” then?
Google will pay OEMs to bundle Android app
Surely nobody is waking up 5 minutes ahead of class if they have to travel to school/work.
You say the author intended

Cl2 --> 2Cl

Naw. That reaction requires energy.
Rob Ferretti, who runs a luxury and high performance car rental service has a podcast where he talked about this. He said a major US brand spent several months in talks to acquire the company then just walked away. He said they disclosed pretty much everything, since they had to prove they had revenue and were actually making money. A few months later they launched their own premium service.
> 1984 was a big critic of communism, where facts dont mater and history can be rewritten. Are we really far from that?

Imagine the balls it takes to pretend like the United States isn't the biggest icon of "facts don't matter".
I've been able to make this sleeping pattern work by being in Asia while working with American companies. I reserve 11pm to 3am for meetings/sync with other employees, I work from home and do any work that requires deep concentration in the late afternoon and I reserve lunch plus early afternoon to play with my son.

Luckily my partner is also a night owl and if she weren't forced to wake up early for work would go to sleep around 2-3am. So, when we're on holiday, we're in sync.
It would be, the problem is that you can not write such a script at the moment. As far as I know those checksums are almost always for the source code/file itself and not the compiled binary.
I don’t think you understand how this works. Nobody is taking money from the Fed right now, everyone is lending to the Fed. That’s why rates have gone up, the Fed is literally borrowing money.
We've turned the flags off the article now.

I realize it's frustrating when a story is flagged which you consider on-topic, but please don't call names ("your behavior is disgraceful") post in the flamewar style to HN. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AI spots Mesopotamian archaeological sites in satellite images
Sensitive US military emails spill online
I had a similar idea of "Reddit Pot Metal" which someone could buy for another account to "punish" them. And "Reddit gold" would be the only way to remove them or to wait 1 day per pot-metal.

Reddit gold lasts a week.

I wold propose a "Reddit pot metal" to last 1 day.
I dunno, if someone is saying “I spent a few hours every month maintaining” and they mean “I do other things while packages download” then they need to phrase it better.
BioGPT: Generative pre-trained xformer for biomedical text generation and mining
It isn't. However, attacking harmless religious practices isn't always wise. It might work in the west but it can have disastrous consequences in a religious country like India.
Sure, you can say "college students should get up at 6:30 and also get sufficient sleep, so they should go to bed at 22:00". But actually making that happen is much harder than just moving classes by an hour or two.

Of course you could argue about the anciliary benefits of teaching people to wake up early, and how that prepares them for society. But if all you care about are measures like academic performance and sleep duration (which in turn is linked to health), removing 8am classes provides better results.
Conversion, retention and churn industry benchmarks
In the consumer subscription model, keeping over 50% of revenue after 1 year puts you in the top quartile.

In B2B SaaS, conversion from trial to paying customer needs to be min 7% to reach the industry benchmark

More in my latest post on benchmarks https://www.vccafe.com/2023/02/21/conversion-retention-and-churn-benchmarks/
I don't have many complaints about the language itself, but I've found the packaging ecosystem to be the most complicated and frankly dysfunctional that I've used in the last decade.
I'm not sure but I think new engineers are paid pretty good. Also, how do you know a new person isn't going to quit? Do you have a good attitude? Work ethic? knowledge of the code base. experience to know when a solution is good or bad. Also, a lot of the "soft" skills take time to develop. willingness to learn new stuff.

Knowing how to do something while required is only small part of the overall job.
Tell HN: How to download AWS S3 files in 16 simple steps
Background: I've used S3 to host various static content over the years, be it for emails or static websites. Today, I needed to download some of those assets. This was my journey:

1. Discover the S3 web UI won't let you download more than one file at a time

2. Install CLI: `brew install awscli` including a bunch of deps: `ca-certificates`, `openssl@1.1`, `readline`, `sqlite`, `xz`, `python@3.11`, `docutils` and `six`

3. Run `aws configure`

4. Learn what IAM is and that you not only need an access key, but also an IAM user

5. Open IAM doc link that only describes what the name requirements, object quotas, and STS(?) character limits of IAM are

6. ???

7. Find actual article describing how to create an IAM user

8. Delete old CLI user that is 7 years old and you no longer have credentials for

9. Before creating the user, create a group

10. Attach the right permissions policies to the group. There's only 817 to chose from - easy.

11. Creating a user with the same name as the previous deleted user resurrects that user??? Yep, yep, yep, this is fine...

12. Realize I have to hard reload the page for the frontend to update my IAM user info. 2023 tech right here.

13. Create access key for the new IAM user

14. Warning pops up: "Alternatives recommended: Use the AWS CLI V2 and enable authentication through a user in IAM Identity Center." – wtf do you think I just did, buddy???

15. Finally log into aws CLI

16. Copy files using `aws s3 cp`

breathe

Yikes!
100% cargo cult. It's just people not bothering to learn every little detail about everything, and the popular shortcut is just to "do what everyone else does". These things have a life on their own, effectively become part of the culture itself, and their original meaning long lost.
I never understood exactly why the West views meditation as something healing, something that can be prescribed willy-nilly to individuals with a history of trauma. I guess it's because it is non-invasive and doesn't sound like it would harm the patient further if not help them.
Four-day week liked by UK employers in largest trial
It's not a bad place for a tourist with a US passport on an ample budget. It's a bad place with dire job prospects for anyone trying to start a life there. Instead of "travelling the world in your 20s", these people travel across Europe drug trafficking just to be able to stand on their feet.
I think this blog post[0] describes what level of reliability you can achieve with Rust, specifically:

> In fact, Pingora crashes are so rare we usually find unrelated issues when we do encounter one. Recently we discovered a kernel bug soon after our service started crashing. We've also discovered hardware issues on a few machines, in the past ruling out rare memory bugs caused by our software even after significant debugging was nearly impossible.

For sure not everyone will be able to achieve that in their first try or when getting started, but for sure is possible, but with Node I'm not confident enough to say that, for sure if works to hack something quickly and put in online, with Rust it takes longer and there are not too many platforms yet where you can easily deploy your app.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...
One of these things that technically true, but in reality people use it as a recency signal, and it's rumored to be a good signal for search engines too. So it still makes sense to keep it up to date. Even if it's just for making sure your deploy pipeline for an old project still works!
"Has been"???

Thinking for yourself has never been a skill near as important as many people think it is. When looking at human endeavors the field of science and the scientific method is pretty damned new. I mean, maybe if you're the village leader thinking for yourself worked out, but if you were the lower on the organizational structure you might find yourself clubbed to death for questioning the boss too much.
Thank you. Let me try this out
Thanks for your feedbacks! We have something similar to templates - you can clone any existing project and use it as template. I wanted to provide more flexibility to user whether they want to use existing project and adjust it, or just create a project that will serve as template.

Generally speaking I want to add more hits and tips to help new users get used to application.
Colleague of mine working in small company. New 'CTO' hired last year. He's very much of the "everyone's voice deserves to be heard... all input is valid!"

My colleague has 22 years of engineering experience across a wide range of problem spaces and industries and team sizes (large bigco to mom/pop orgs).

Another guy (X) started was a year out of high school.

X insists that 'tech XYZ' is the best. Current tech stack was partially rebuilt by my colleague, but wasn't finished (because... lots of reasons, mostly resourcing).

XYZ is not only not a great fit, but the ecosystem supporting the problem space is small, especially considering what's already in place. Terabytes and years of data need to be migrated (both physically to new data centers and code-wise - new structure handling has to be added to accommodate current and future needs).

In planning meetings, "all voices need to be heard"... so X pushes XYZ a lot. And randomly rebuilds small bits in XYZ. And when it doesn't work - blames everything else (it's the network, it's the supporting libraries, it's ...).

The CTO will not push back. "That sounds great! That sounds like it'll solve all our issues!". There's a criminal deficiency in the understanding of the current tech stack or problems, along with no experience in migrating anything. But any criticism is taken as "we need to be more inclusive and let more people speak up - some of the best ideas can come from people who've not traditionally been heard".

Up to a point, that can make sense. But when do you draw the line? 3 months? 6 months? 18 months? People insisting on promoting child-like understandings of problems and solutions - while not ever delivering anything resembling a working solution - at some point should not be listened to.

Why does my colleague stay? He's only part time right now, and was close to leaving, but there's been some shift to refocus the CTO on something else, which may - over the next month or so - leave the few competent people there alone enough to get things back on track. I think if this was a 'full time' gig for him, he'd have left already.
I've been writing Python code since the mid 90s. I've also been writing Elixir code for about seven years now and work at a company that has a data science element to it. We write all our code in Elixir and it is great, in my opinion.

I agree that Python has a more mature set of libraries for this sort of thing, but OTP provides some useful distributed features that would be difficult to implement in Python. I also think writing code in Elixir is more productive due to things like pattern-matching, Lisp-style macros, and a lack of OOP.
Great metaphor I heard yesterday about 230 - think of three things: paper, the newspaper stand, and the newspaper publisher.

Obviously the company that makes blank paper newspaper publisher's buy is never liable for what's printed on it. They sell it blank!

The newspaper publisher is of course liable if they decide to make a new paper called "How to build Bombs Weekly".

And even the newspaper stand is liable if they decide to carry this new paper. (They are not liable for something bad printed in a mainstream paper since they had no way to know a normally good publication would suddenly include something terrible.)

Now what is youtube? Do they make paper, or are they the newspaper stand?
They are discussing this thread here: https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-Hacker-News-community-vie...

Partial archive: https://archive.ph/npoh6

As you would expect, it's horrible. The moderation is quite bad too. They'll ban you for just saying you disagree with someone depending on the topic.
you have a point
Thanks for the reply - I understand.

In my case we’ve largely aligned with this perspective. The kids go to a French/English bilingual school with a large (+30%) cohort of non-French national students. Their friend/peer groups are diverse and wouldn’t be singled out for their backgrounds - although, like kids all over the world, there are plenty of other ways that kids will get singled out (height, weight, wearing glasses…).
As a side note, if you want an efficient python REPL and you don't need custom commands like offered in the project above, you can do the following:

- install ipython and rich

- set PYTHONSTARTUP to auto load whatever you like on start up

- call rich.pretty.install() in your startup script for a boosted repr()

- set %autocall to 1 to benefit from optional parentheses

- use ! to call shell commands

This covers most people needs for a non-custom REPL.

Still no reload() though, but python really doesn't like that.
I really appreciate your comment. I think I’ll remember the phrase “Buddhism on easy mode” for the rest of my life!

Your observation about preparation, behavior, state of life etc is also very poignant. I am Catholic and something that I’ve found delving into the writings of the saints is that it is often like staring at the sun: it’s too intense and I’m not ready for it. For example, when I was an atheist in college I read St Augustine’s Confessions and found it interesting from a philosophical point of view and an easy read. Now, as a believing and practicing Catholic, I can’t even finish the book. It’s spiritual fruit, of which I was ignorant in my youth, are too intense for me. I come back to it every couple of years and each time make it a little bit further.

That is all to say, it is funny how in mainstream discourse about religion/spirituality there is very little mention of “ability”. “Religious practice” is most certainly a skill that is acquired and refined through hard work (and grace).
Linux is now ready to run on modern Macs. Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-6-2-the-first-mainstream...
Thanks for suggesting on this. I used the default setup without any extra configuring. Will add those missing headers
Low, not high. They're talking about 0 and <0.
I have a Kia Rio Hatch 2021, and it has the screen only for the reverse / carplay. Everything else is physical buttons)
Original OP here - yep, it’s the uncertainty that’s the problem - that, and as a pedestrian I have to assume drivers are distracted idiots who’ll run me over if I give them any opportunity. And as you point out elsewhere, I shouldn’t give way and wave them on because I don’t know what other pedestrians, cyclists or drivers are about to do - I might cause an accident.

Presumably the Government have done the research, and drivers should always be ready to stop safely regardless, but … I preferred the old rules.
Our trailer has a 'cloud gateway' that allows you to see/control it from the internet. The box that does that is a raspberry pi with a dedicated hat to power it, in a custom box. They want $450 for a new one when the Pi's SD card poops out.
AI Content Detector by BotX
TrueText helps you identify whether a given text was generated by a large language model (LLM) such as but not only GPT models by OpenAI.

TrueText has a 76% success rate at detecting AI generated text and employs several techniques that help with detection.
I'm more concerned with how this will trend downward over the next decade(s) than how high up one side of the titanic is.
Indeed, TempleOS had a dynamic runtime C (HolyC) compiler too. Perhaps when people see the world differently, they try to compile C code on fly.
I thought everything is copyrighted by default, but in the US at least if you don't register it limits your legal remedies somewhat (no mandatory minimums and such)?
But it’s THE producer of PDF software.

Several of my clients are already moving their entire catalogs to new fonts
When I was at university the lectures started at 9, and everyone knew that not a soul was going to be there for the Monday 9am session, including the lecturer.
Here you're electing to remain on the happy but bloated path.

However sometimes it may be worth to venture out a bit in exchange for reducing code, or for using code that aligns more with your philosophies.
Sure, at least not for 2 more weeks.