skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also find myself relying less on debuggers over time, but I think it’s for very different reasons. Namely, I get more of the kind of feedback I’d want either before even running the code (type checker, linter, etc all providing instant feedback in editor); or from improved code navigation tooling (type checker/editor again); or from years of honing my test writing instincts (if it’s worth debugging, it’s likely also worth testing, so you don’t have to debug it again).

But this is all very different from “just” thinking through the code. If anything, my cognitive capacity has declined significantly with age. I depend heavily on tools to shorten the paths I have to think through in the first place. And tests (if you’re doing TDD anyway) are just a more efficient “run, error, modify” after all.
> by the same argument you could place say racial minorities as a sacred caste and I think we all mostly can recognize that that isn’t generally true

The people who believe trans people are in the simultaneous all-powerful/incredibly weak position are primed to believe that about pretty much any minority group.
I don’t understand why geany isn’t more popular.
Thanks for the link! I'm watching it now, but am wondering why there is always some rhythmic ticking sound in the background? A bit like a clock but not really.
I did not add a card, that is the way the machine is shipped/manufactured.

SBC.
Is it horrible to suppose that someone might not be well-suited to the task of driving a business from nothing to a national concern? Because I personally suspect that of most people, including myself, and don't think of myself as particularly mean-spirited.

Also, the offspring of the man in question identifies an aspect of his temperament that led to things turning out the way they did.
Any SSD will do really since it'll be bottlenecked by 5GBit/s USB.
In my experience, this is usually solved with more TS/JS abstractions, something like global theming. Often they are hacky and poorly implemented, and always they are leaky.
There are types without values. That the type is itself a value does not mean that it has values itself. False is a type with no values. Consciousness is not a value.

Replace type with concept and value with thing, and we get a rebuttal using the same language. You can also switch the terms, depending on how 'a thing' is interpreted. If you are more familiar with set theory, replace type with proposition, value with element. The critical difference is between reference and referent.

Further if large numbers of people holding something is true for considerable duration is sufficient for something to 'be a thing', we'd also have an argument for 'the consciousness of the human heart' being a thing, which I don't think anyone would argue in good faith these days. There are probably better examples, but note that the duration of time and frequency of experience are parameters with no obvious values indicating at which point the underlying 'thing' should be accepted as undeniably 'a thing'.

The whole point of requiring it to be technically defined is that all this confusion just goes away and it becomes possible to ask more meaningful and less ambiguous questions about it.

That said, I will concede that the argument I have made does not say that consciousness is definitely not 'a thing', just that it is defensible to say that it is not a thing, given that it is held that either it does not represent a proposition, or that the proposition it represents is not true. (note I'm using the term proposition with some handwaving).
This article does a pretty bad job of explaining the concept.

> This is one instantiation of an idea that was omnipresent in 2021-2022—that much of the weirdness in financial markets, from GameStop to crypto to stock market volatitlity, was driven by an excess of liquidity. This idea made a certain amount of inarticulable, pre-intuitive sense, but that sensibility does not a gears-level understanding make.

Seriously? This paragraph is fucking garbage.
You know stuttering is like sex. It is breath taking, daunting and most importantly you forever remember your first time! (August 12th during math tutoring session about 35 years ago. I was struggling to say the word "multiply" getting stuck in the "mul")

I suffer from a slightly different and less "famous" problem now which may have been caused by my stuttering - Clattering. As a kid in an effort to get past the "chokepoint", I would mumble a bunch of N words before and after to get over it. Most folks would just give up in pain or pity and I felt relieved. Ofcourse that habit stuck around for a long time even after I learnt to manage the stuttering (breathing exercises, toast masters, general confidence building, making fun of myself etc). Unlike stuttering Clattering results in a very general mumblyness even when you are not stuttering and is a lot harder to fix as in your head you sound coherent. But record yourself and you are staring into a lot of demons!
Forth. It’s easy for a small cute script. But quickly becomes a PITA.
Within the data world, I am especially confused by usage-based pricing _and_ the push towards data mesh. In a data mesh you now have hundreds of data analysts in your company… all needing access (and driving consumption) to the data lake and all the tooling around it like on demand spark clusters, notebooks, lakehouses, dbts, dashboarding, catalogs, governance and so on… it gets really expensive to run what 90% of the times is good old sql. Most importantly, none of the vendors are going to help you optimize resources. You got a standard, highly predictable, BI job each Monday? Vendors will push you to use everything they got, while maybe an on prem server is all you need and it will be cheaper.
I guess in personal finance it could be the same :)
Good guide to diversifying your problem solving and strategic thinking.

de Bono’s techniques may feel antiquated (cringe), yet small steps of progress and simple truths can emerge from collectively skilled uncertainty.
It's a great tool to teach about the evils of monopolies, but a terrible game.
Mhm

https://www.deathbycaptcha.com/
Worse yet, it’s clear they have no ideas or understanding why this was a bad idea at Twitter.

It’s just copying for copying sake.
If there was a machine that increased a company's stock value by crushing orphans invented today, tomorrow there would be lobbyists in Congress pushing to allow corporations to directly apply for adoptions.
Well, as someone who has lived in various parts of the U.S (mainly Utah, Oregon and Northern California), as well as Germany, Denmark, and is married to an Italian: Germans, Danes, and Italians often have a lot of cursorily formed opinions of the U.S, while in the U.S if people have strong opinions about the EU (and not actual familiarity) they are often not just wrong or stupid but also just as often completely unhinged from reality.

I'm guessing this is due to stupidity manifesting in different ways in their respective regions.
I have a /24 as well, can you point me to any links or tutorials of how I can actually use it with my home connections
Pretty sure Germany uses Excel and variety of DBMS's. What do you think makes Palantir any different?
Who said it was?

In a traditional IPO, the investors take the management on a road show, where they sell it to the buy-siders. They settle on a price that will clear most of the shares and not leave too much money on the table.

Buying an IPO has traditionally been a losing game. There have been brief periods where IPO shares go up enormously on the first day, and an ordinary investor can't even get any. They're like found money for the lucky few.

So the people who bought at $14 thought it was the latter case, but it was the former. Caveat emptor
>AI is just a chain of matrix multiplications and some other tricks. Brains are on a whole other level with much more complex processes

This claim rests on the faulty assumptions that "just" matrix multiplications are simple and that the brain is necessarily more complex than matrix multiplications. A matrix multiplication is an abstraction of a collection of operations, the complexity of which scales with the number of parameters. Matrix multiplications can be arbitrarily complex depending on the number of parameters and their interrelationships. Even quantum mechanics, the most accurate description we have of the universe (including brains) has a formulation in terms of matrix operations (called matrix mechanics). So saying AI is "just matrix multiplication" is doing no work to demonstrate your claim.

Conversely, the brain is complex, but it is made up of a complex arrangement of a handful of simple motifs. The cerebral cortex makes up 80% of the brains volume and the pyramidal neuron makes up the majority of that volume. And so complex does not mean heterogeneous composition.

> Since LLMs have been optimized for language generation and nothing else

This misses what is powerful about Transformers and LLMs. To model the output of some system in the limit of infinite samples, the model must perfectly capture the structure and information dynamics of the system. Any deficiency in the model will necessarily reveal itself in a difference in output at some point. Of course LLMs aren't trained in the limit of infinite samples, but the question is how much of the system (a human mind producing language) has it modeled? If sentience is a necessary feature of a mind producing the kinds of texts we produce, it is an open question whether LLMs have or will recover the structure that endows sentience.
Maybe a lesson learned from this conversation is that the documentation isn't clear about what's going on and should be updated.
This is a somewhat uninsightful observation that only has people responding to it because of pedantic arguing. I don't think anyone even disagrees with the author, they're just arguing about words.
Let's say the average cost of the stock market is $1 for every $2 of expected income. People say "Oh, that's cheap, stocks are a good idea to buy". Everyone starts buying stocks, and the prices rise. Eventually stocks are $1 for every $10 of expected income. People say "Oh, stocks are not going to go up much more, they're expensive. Hrm, Real estate is only $1 for every $2 of expected income. Let's move there". People move there money into Real estate. Or bitcoin. Or Bonds. Etc.
> The answer is right there, my emphasis added. YouTube’s internal mechanisms, a la ContentID, are not processes which are a part of the legal system. They’re corporate policies.

No, that's not what I meant. I meant, "any claim that can be interpreted in a court of law as being equivalent to saying you intend to sue for copyright infringement and have a legal basis to do so."

In the same sense that a handshake contract is still a binding contract, a regular letter telling someone that you're aware they're violating your copyright — and which doesn't explicitly disclaim any interest in pursuing legal action — can still be interpreted as a threat of legal action; and therefore, if proven to be based on knowingly false claims, as injurious perjury.

To be clear, it's not YouTube making this claim; it's the IP owner making the claim, when they register the IP in the ContentID system. Such a registration is equivalent in the spirit of the law to notoriously claiming 1. you are the IP's true owner, and 2. that you do not license use of your IP for use by others without your prior consent; and that therefore 3. you have an interest in pursuing action against all future unlicensed use of your IP, whether that action is using the DMCA, within the framework of the legal system outside of the DMCA specifically, or through extralegal means.

By analogy, consider what sort of verbal claim of intent to commit a crime (e.g. selling illegal drugs) is necessary in a police sting to trigger an arrest. You don't need to actually have committed the crime (i.e. hand the undercover officer any drugs, or even prove you have any drugs); you merely need to make it clear that you are actively working to set up the conditions necessary to carry out the crime (i.e. to agree/negotiate a price for the drugs you may have.)

In this case, a judge would basically be looking for the point of "stated intent to commit perjury." Which happens as soon as the ContentID for the video is registered!
Your Code says it uses the browser's speech recognition API.

```
// Start speech recognition using the browser's speech recognition API
function CN_StartSpeechRecognition() {
```

As far as I know, speech recognition in Chrome, unlike on Android phones, is being done online. Means audio is being sent to Google servers. How does this comply with GDPR?
Queues are great as a buffer to even out compute utilization. With an empty queue, most workers can be shut down after a while, saving on compute cost. When the queue grows and stays non-empty, more workers can be started up. The length of the queue can be used to estimate the number of workers to spin up, as a metric for real time capacity planning.
What I find hilarious is the About page doesn't even state what the acronym IS, let alone the definition. Absolutely bizarre.
At the beginning of a company, it's all hope anyway [1].

Investors are sophisticated enough to quickly reason about basic margin opportunity, and decide if the company could ever be profitable, even if the founders have no real business experience. The assumption is that by the second round or so, you can refine the estimate of "Could ever be profitable".

More importantly for venture capital, is that there are many profitable businesses in the world that have people with finance expertise. If you just wanted to invest in profitable companies, you wouldn't be doing venture capital. Instead, you're seeking companies that will have massive returns and become profitable some day.

If the founders still don't know how to do finance, but they're making a ton of money, you send them a CFO to tighten that up. Same way you send them names for VP of Sales, or whatever else they need.

Deciding to give up on a company that seems to be generating lots of money, and "just" needs to improve margins is hard. If you tighten too early, you've blunted growth. If you tighten too late, you've thrown away the money. For the last few years, the amount of money sloshing around meant you saw more of the latter. The firms "had" to keep investing their funds, so they were chasing more and more deals on hope. But $10M out of a $1B fund is still no big deal.

tl;dr: the rare thing is rocket ships, not financial sophistication.

[1] https://www.k9ventures.com/blog/2012/05/31/hope-and-numbers/
Ironically, I wonder if something like lettermail is now more secure.

We do know that the exterior of every single piece of mail handled by the USPS is photographed, documented, and retrievable later[1]; but the content of the envelope seems like it may have some level of protection, if only because of the absurdly costly effort of opening and re-sealing in a way that doesn't reveal tampering.

Throw in some level of cryptography, use cursive (so it's harder to OCR), and use code words, and you probably have something better than e-mail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tra...
You can just say you were talking to the founders of Lyft.
This is neat. I accidentally took an image like this and used it as wallpaper for a while, but never considered trying to take more intentionally. Here's mine: https://photos.app.goo.gl/71Rdc5jKFd1FSS6A6
Self hosting in 2023
I've spent some time on exploring the current self hosting scene after I got frustrated about pricings on different platforms and how absurdly complex certain stuff became. I'm happy to share it with you guys!
Ingestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties
Why would I cite data when you didn't? What data can even be cited to refute totally subjective statements like the ones in this thread?

If you want points with data look at the usual suspects: percentage of men in prison, ratios of men/women in higher education, or the one this thread is about (women more likely to be elected in ....).
Reading is cached 95% of time for now, which is as fast as static. ISR for n users is more complicated (at this point at least) than just letting edge cache.
that's word for word from: https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/container-networki...
I mean if you thought you will pay flat fee and get online hosting till the end of time (and most likely didn't read the fine print that said it isn't infinite in time), that's on you
Has anyone built a Siri integration/Shortcut for this? I'm referring to the actual ChatGPT model, not via the normal OpenAI API.
>which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge, as it looks to help content creators grow and build communities

Useless bullshit. I was hoping for a paid model where you can get rid of ads for good. Instagram has become unusable over the past year as they shove ads into more and more places. Its like reading a book and every time you turn the page, you have a random chance of getting smacked in the face.
News from Axios:

Salman Rushdie reacted: «absurd censorship» and «should be ashamed».

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/19/roald-dahl-childrens-books

--

Ok, now for the trigger of a mother of all reactions:

reportedly, some text was added in a paragraph of Dahl's about hags «bald under their wigs»:

> There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that
> In what world does anyone care about meta impersonation anymore?

My 84 yr old mother does. It really annoys her when someone steals her profile picture, makes an account in her name and starts sending friend requests to her friends. I told her Facebook could fix this easily but they don't want to.

Now I can tell her they want to charge her to fix it.
This is one of the most confused takes on EU launch that I've ever seen.

Your Falcon 9 success numbers are completely incorrect. The success rate is 100% on current models and overall having only 1 launch failure (or 2 if you count a pre-launch failure).

Falcon 9 launches primarily to LEO because that is where the market is. There are just very few satellites that want to go to GTO, but those that do generally launch on Falcon 9. It's launch costs are substantially less than Ariane 5, to the point that Arianespace is now thinking of rushing Ariane 6 to end of life sooner than planned to focus on a future reusable vehicle.

Falcon Heavy was primarily designed for the US DoD as it's primary customer.
> What am I supposed to tell a young programmer who is interested in playing around with encryption on their own?

Tell them to stop if they’re trying to do it for anything real, or do it as a toy protect that never sees the light of day. And if they select the latter, then they may as well try GCM.

Tell them to leave encryption writing to the professionals.
Difference is that corporate finance is focused on managing a company at its current size while startups are really focused on building a much larger company. Hence why the economics of it make no sense until it hits that mythical future size
Thread from previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27613217 (June 4, 2021)
> instead of the current venv + pip mess

It isn't a mess: venv + pip is simple and (usually) sufficient.

Legacy/existing code or genuine justifications excepted, of course, there is no need to use anything else - even if an alternative is better, the use of alternatives is usually worse. Short of any massive technical reason, the best option is almost always to use the default option.
Suggesting you pay a lot of money for data recovery is also treating it as important business data.

In this scenario you already screwed up badly but you can salvage a lot. Very different from there being no hope.
I think you are assuming the danger is the beam hitting the ground, whereas the most obvious danger is the plane no longer having power? Different scale of course, but wireless power to a device that kills a hundred plus people if it loses power seems like a risky proposition.

Seems farfetched compared to replacing the liquid fuels, and I'll stick by that, fully acknowledging that the liquid fuels don't (presently) have a perfectly closed carbon cycle. Don't focus on it being perfect in two decades when vastly better is available today...

Of course that gets a lot better when fertilizer is made from renewable hydrogen instead of natural gas and the transportation is electric from renewables instead of gas cars, and if we used electric/solar heating for the thermal inputs it seems like the CO2 losses can get an awful lot better.

Hydrogen is theoretically closed cycle (though displacing fossil fuel electricity on the grid is obviously superior most of the time), but only if you redesign and rebuild the entire fleet of commercial airplanes. I think as long as coal plants are operational a lot of these details are almost besides the point, and as soon as fossil fuel plants are all offline the solution will be obvious from the experience we gained in getting there.

I maintain that swapping equivalent liquid fuels into the existing fleet is most likely to actually happen at scale.
The way it's worked for me is that I've been asked to report my hours when the information is being used to track how my time was divided among different projects. The ostensible purposes were to show that each project was receiving the its allocated share of resources. A secondary purpose was to see if anybody was being overworked -- for instance it could be used as evidence to justify hiring another person.

But we were told in no uncertain terms that we were not counting our hours. I'm sure the legal department had approved all of the verbiage and procedures.

I never personally measured my work in hours, and a lot of workers simply reported hours that precisely matched their project allocations, or copy-pasted from one week to the next. My present job doesn't have any of that.
What’s official in the US may not be so in China.
Every day we burn fossil fuels means we are burning through our strategic reserves.
Or as Charlie Munger would invert,

"What kind of startup would fail because it chose Rust ?"

Then don't be.
No. For a project like this you absolutely want the stronger type guarantees and abstractions that C++ gives you.

Were it me, I'd RIIR, but C++ that uses the type system and const-correctness in the proper way is an improvement.
Jack Dorsey often says. You don't need to be first to market. You just need to be best to market.

Demonstrated through Twitter, and now Cashapp
Yup, just about every time I've read of an 'overnight success', it was indeed an a very rapid path to success . . . after a decade or two of slogging it out in the trenches of obscurity.

There are a lot of moving parts, a lot to learn, and timing/luck are also factors. Until they all hit at the same time, it looks like a flop. It takes time to find, learn, or assemble all the key bits.

Sorry your dad's impatience was so persistent. Sense of urgency is important, but impatience is deadly. Thanks for sharing such a clear example.
You could have a container whose entry point is a shell script that calls multiple Python programs that need different environments, or a multiprocess container that runs multiple Python programs, although I guess you could still address either by breaking down your containers differently.
Oakland is a pretty slow boil “emergency” if ever there was. I can’t think of a time in the past 30 years that “emergency” wouldn’t be an apt descriptor of the place. The PD have been under federal oversight for more than two decades now. It’s always been a total mess as well as a cautionary tale. That is “what it says on the tin.”
I think I'll use other example. Thanks!