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Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring (and faster) thesaurus
I began this in late September 2022 purely on the whims of frustration with thesaurus.com, which does not bother to focus the input box when you go to the homepage! So I made my own site that focuses the input box. And because I wanted a thesaurus where I could type just the term in the address bar (eg type carefulwords.com/word) to get my results.

I also think that purely synonyms are not enough of an inspiration guide when searching for words, so I have added thousands of quotations. I intend to add more over time.

I submitted this back in October, and people enjoyed it, but asked for the words to be clickable if they have a page in my thesaurus, and for terms to be separated by parts of speech. So I have done these.

I have also started hewing down the lists of synonyms, which began as the Moby Thesaurus list but are slowly being curated over time. (The dataset is too large and with too many irrelevancies, and is missing several common words such as "wish"). But this work is much slower.

It is less rough around the edges, and it won't be solely synonyms and quotes when I'm done I think, but I am happy to make it more beautiful and useful, if you find it worth using.
If it's like many of these 'AI' engines, it's a statistical map of text. I'd expect it to produce no better than what it's trained on, then muddy that by randomly combining different versions of similar statements.

I'm impressed it is ever accurate.
No, they don't need to keep the software up to date, they just have to ensure that the device continues working. Almost everything that uses electricity has a bit of software. Most devices don't need any updates. At the very least they need to enable somebody else to keep the devices running, for example by open sourcing the infra needed to do so.
This has been posted before (edit: not several times), so I will simply repeat my joke here, too:

You can combine the LOL Verifier with a special map (sold separately) to build the ROTFLOL Verifier.
There is also something very pleasant about the feeling of cash. It establishes a permanence and a respect for the currency that has to figure into the psychology of money.
> love trains -- but planes are usually a better solution than high-speed trains.

Not for short to medium distances they're not. Everything under 3-4 hours of train is faster, more comfortable and with much less hassle than flying (going to an airport, security checks, uncomfortable seating, interruptions for take off and landing, long queueing).
You do not need an expert most of the time, except when you do, at which point you better have one on board. You can mix and match, but keep in mind that context switches are expensive too.
pleased that yes I can but only just, what is the significance of 40seconds?
> internet-connected security cameras

These stopping to work is actually one of the best outcomes you can have

As opposed to e.g. internet-connected security cameras being hacked so that anyone can watch your home or footage from internet-connected security cameras being shared by the service provider with just about anyone or footage from internet-connected security cameras being completely useless because of the cheap hardware used for them, creating a feeling of surveillance without any of the benefits
Shifting responsibility to consumers has only ever worked to further enrich corporations.
HN: our team has been working on an advanced API queue/load management system called Aperture[0]. It has following capabilities -

1. Limits concurrency based on latency gradient or queue depths etc.

2. Weighted fair queueing scheduler - prioritized load shedding based on workload priorities and latency estimation.

Anyone interested in Little’s Law, token buckets, network schedulers, control theory (PID controllers) should definitely check it out! [1]

[0]: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture

[1]: https://docs.fluxninja.com/
One challenge with the chosen example language, Python, is that functions are truthy. So if you forget to call the function that computes your boolean test, you end up with a default true.

Taking the last top-level statement, the `if`:

if var_contains_a() and var_shorter_than_5: #note the lack of parens for the second
print(var)

This will print a string of any length that contains 'a' (or any other collection that implements `in` and does, in fact, contain an element, 'a'). The second function is passed directly as a boolean expression, and being a function, it resolves to true.
Yeah true multihoming is expensive and involves things like hiring people to actually inspect the physical lines and Make sure they don’t run down the same street at some point (and be subject to the same backhoe of fiber death)
I’ve got a fun little side project that uses GPT. I tested gptzero against 10 of my projects’ writings and 10 of my own. It detected 6 out of 10 correctly in both cases (4 gpt-written bits were declared human, 4 human-written were declared gpt).

Which is better than 50% but not nearly good enough to base any kind of decision on.
This was my point. The Socialist Party in Portugal is a moderate social democratic party (while the "Social Democrats" there are a centrist party). There are communist/far-left parties/formations in Portugal, but they are not the gov't, and policy there is ... not communist.

This person is just drive-by shit talking his ideological biases
Thank you for sharing these notes.

I've been impatient for ARM64 hardware to become easy to use for home servers. I've got an RPi 4 (at retail prices, no less!) and it is quite good but I want more options. The previous stories I've read of RockPro64 have been much worse, it was nice to read this went relatively easily.
Capitalism is another word for ‘Only look at profit’. It is famous for short term management decisions that create hard-to-change and expensive infrastructure.
Unexpected’externalities’ will always develop as human activity exceeds the environment’s ability to compensate for the disturbances we create in millenia old equilibria.

Capitalism is also only valid for voluntary transactions. Consider an event like illness- people do not choose to get sick. But we have put capitalism clothes on this beast.

Capitalism gaves us in the US ‘managed care’ , an administratively burdened healthcare system, and new burdens like corporate suites for healthcare with 7 figure salaries.

For example, corporate managers see empty beds in the hospital. They reduce staffing. Then there is a flood of illness clogging the ER. They need nurses in a hurry. They hire temp nurses (3 to 6 month minimum contract) that get paid double. The remaining staff nurses feel shafted. They quit and become traveling nurses too. The hospital goes from a 10 mill surplus to a 30 mill deficit. And the traveling nurses dont know where anything is so everything moves more slowly reducing throughput. Delays in Operating room (the major profit center) reduce case load further.

In such a system, a slow to change ‘centrally planned’ arrangement might actually be better
Newly public companies going private again
Placebos Can Have a Real Effect on Guilty Feelings
Think about longevity. Whether I'm writing, drawing, making music, or anything else important to my life, will I still be able to view/edit that data in 20 years? Granted, even with offline-friendly software I may need to port it to new platforms and make sure I back up the data, but at least I have a chance. The data I still have from 20 years ago is far more precious to me than I thought it would be back then. Data that can only be accessed through an external party is ephemeral and it will inevitably disappear one day.
> Emacs was written in a time where security wasn’t a positive consideration but a nuisance

Thank god that today we are much better with browsers running remote code, having indiscriminate access to your filesystem, camera and microfone and syphoning data to mothership. /s
It's a matter of storage space more than cost.

If you mostly do digital, I'd say just get the E6 resistors and capacitors, common connectors and switches, and but there's as needed for projects.

Unfortunately multi packs usually have the whole E12 series full of odd sizes, like as if I'm going to need a 68k resistor rather than 100k, in a situation other than a project I'm ordering stuff for anyway, but having the extra selection isn't the worst thing.
> This example also shows that the perceived sophistication of the input-output transformation is immaterial

No, it doesn't show that, it merely asserts it. Consciousness could be a logical property of some perceptual algorithm, like ordered outputs is a property of a sorting algorithm.

> But, there is no essential reason why that should lead to an experience of pain, rather than a sensation similar to color, which generally does not produce pain.

Sure there is, because it's approaching the point of causing damage. Pain happens when sensory precepts approach acceptable tolerance. Pain is like clipping in an audio stream.
Loading this site causes Brave browser on iOS to hard crash. Impressive.
It's true that with Datadog, a spike in your usage can have a dramatic impact on your bill. This feels true though of any usage model. We've all read stories about out of control AWS bills. Datadog does at least provide some guardrails to prevent things from getting out of control: https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/billing/usage_...

With these usage metrics and a little bit of automation (for example the Webhooks integration: https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/webhooks/), you could stop shipping telemetry at a certain threshold.

Disclosure: I work at Datadog.
Lung capacity.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7995705/
Does FreeCAD have a feature tree like in Solidworks or Inventor? It's an excellent system and makes it easy to switch from one software to another.
That sounds exactly like offline capabilities?
The Qt port of Scintilla is also used by a number of projects as a lightweight editor component:

$ lsb_release -d && apt rdepends libqscintilla2-qt5-15
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
libqscintilla2-qt5-15
Reverse Depends:
Depends: libqscintilla2-qt5-dev (<< 2.11.6+dfsg+1~)
Depends: sqlitebrowser (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: sonic-pi (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: qgis-providers (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: python3-qgis (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: python3-pyqt5.qsci (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: openscad (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: octave (>= 2.11.2)
Suggests: libqscintilla2-qt5-l10n
Depends: libqscintilla2-qt5-dev (>= 2.11.6+dfsg)
Depends: juffed (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: libqscintilla2-qt5-designer (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: libqgis-gui3.22.4 (>= 2.11.2)
Depends: libqgis-app3.22.4 (>= 2.11.2)
The difference is modern democrats are living in a world after 40 years of deregulation so it’s much less obvious whether further mass deregulation would be beneficial, Carter’s balanced budget emphasis was borne out of the mistaken idea that inflation was being caused by Federal deficits, and there’s no exceptional Left resistance to JPow’s rate hikes and tightening.

His other policies were largely in line with center-left policies of today, mediating conflicts, reducing dependency on foreign oil, renewables investments, expansion of federal health care support, massive expansion of parks and conservation land, established Superfund, supporting marijuana decriminalization. On gay rights, he was the first president to meet with any gay marriage proponents and he worked (with Reagan) to defeat the proposed California law that would ban gay people from teaching positions (history doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes).
and Notepad++ itself sometimes gets bundled with other software.
Thats quite a good marketing trick actually. Something that most people can do and probably would do. Getting them to buy in do the small excercise and then going to the sign up. Well done to whoever thought of this.
"Good morning and new product announcement: this week we're starting to roll out Meta Verified -- a subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you, and get direct access to customer support. This new feature is about increasing authenticity and security across our services. Meta Verified starts at $11.99 / month on web or $14.99 / month on iOS. We'll be rolling out in Australia and New Zealand this week and more countries soon."
When was a little kid I was picked on a lot, even bullied by my dance "teacher" - she was in what in the US is high school but somehow was "teaching" kids.

I was really bad a it, but to make things worse, she yelled at me in my own ears for being bad at it. Mocked me in front of the other kids and such. I ended not only still being bad at dancing, but hating everything related to it.

As dancing was part of the curriculum, I had to endure the trauma for 6 more years. I never did it anymore, nor tried to learn it whatsoever. For a tropical country like this it could sound like nuts, but despite some people looking you down for not doing it, I haven't had much trouble for that in my adult life.
To make it easier for those not in the know :

https://mods.factorio.com/
When companies advertise free for life, take it with a grain of salt. If they can't force people into a paid subscription, then they'll simply stop making the device work.

Remember, if Google can cut off support, what makes you think others wouldn't? Remember Stadia?

Customers should agree to nothing less other than getting refunded for their camera setup.
Clickbait to make you sign up for the app?
Looking into the source, it looks like it uses krpano.
While I agree with the author to not do global pip installs for every new project, I also don’t want to see text in every git repo README explaining Python package managers.
Make it someone else's problem; put a caching CDN in front of it, like Cloudflare, who have experience with these problems (like intentional or accidental DDOS).
> Ending inequality requires asymmetrical behavior.

Sure there's a small delta between what you say and what others claim you say. Unless they verbatim repeat what you say there will always be a delta.

Don't pretend to don't understand the point they are making and address it.
Capitalism is not the same thing as a market economy. You can have a market economy where businesses are incentivized to innovate and create business plans that fit an effective niche without separating ownership from labor.

And although there are clear examples where market economies are nimble, there are also clear examples where market economies are fragile or don't actually produce outcomes that are best for customers or society. A health insurance company that puts most of its innovation effort into finding creative ways to refuse to pay out to its customers while obfuscating this outcome is a natural thing in a market economy.
Thank you for not choosing 50 seconds because 40 about killed me, and I am very stubborn.
> If you believe this is going to happen

I believe this is going to happen (and is happening right now, in front of us) not just for programmers but for any role that can be automated.

> How should you prepare for it?

Get equity. I mean ownership stake. If you don't have a legal/financial claim on the output of the machine then you're about to be part of the worthless surplus from the POV of the system.

> Start learning prompting now?

No, the machines will do that well enough in a minute or two.

> Get involved with building these AIs?

No, the machines will do that well enough in a minute or two too.

- - - -

Artificial Intelligence destroys scarcity, which is the fundamental basis of our societies and economies.

Think about it: scarcity is the very problem that societies and economies evolved to solve in the first place.

Now science and capitalism have delivered technology and wealth. There is enough to go around if we just worked out the logistics, and computers can do that for us in a matter of moments. In other words, the "World Game" is not hard! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Game we just have to get over our hangups.

Now here's where it gets really interesting: ChatGPT et. al. don't have glands, they don't have emotional trauma, no PTSD from being humans-on-Earth for generations, etc.
We can program them to be sane and perhaps even wise.

We can also attach empirical feedback devices to them, make them scientists...

So we have physical abundance and benevolent, sane, empirically-grounded AI advisors, how much longer will it take to sort things out? I think we could be looking at the start of a Golden Age?
Tom Boonen (former race bicyclist) is ambassador/investor in a company that solves that problem.

https://www.classified-cycling.cc/
Can confirm. Was looking forward to reading this and then BAM. Exit
As they say, revenue is vanity.
I'm terrified just reading this article. But TFA's right of course.
Since they've decided not to recover remains, we'll never be sure what they shot down. However, it seems very likely that they were indeed hobbyist balloons, and that they had radar reflection and radio announcement capabilities as required by existing law.

Probably not a good year to try repeating this stunt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight
I use Wireguard from the Pi to the VPS. It was really simple to setup.
Does holding your breath mean “don’t exhale” or “don’t inhale”?
linked letter to share holders by Palantine (https://www.palantir.com/newsroom/letters/letter-to-sharehol...)

:
"It has been our experience, however, that some countries, particularly in continental Europe, including Germany, have fallen behind the United States in their willingness and ability to implement enterprise software systems that challenge existing habits and modes of operation.
There have been repeated attempts to build replicas of Silicon Valley in continental Europe, in Germany and elsewhere, but the results have been decidedly mixed.
We have found that large institutions in the United States have been far more willing to investigate the most significant sources of systemic dysfunction within their organizations, which in the current moment often relate to the ability or rather inability of an institution to metabolize its own data."

Honestly I feel the opposite in this high level description of cultural difference but it is the only rationalisation of the CEO who is very likely pissed off by data protection.

Oh boy, at least they are honest in their arrogance.
But this is not true. "Always having something to process" is not the ideal length. It will cause major problems, though it is somewhat counterintuitive. See: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2016/08/26/the-most-important-th...
I love payback period, it's a great metric. But it's easy to take it too literally. It's meant to be a tool to help you make prioritization decisions ("what if we do this instead of that"), but people often use it as a management report ("we did this; here's the verdict").

Here's a SaaS example: if it costs you $1000 to acquire a customer that pays you $100/month, the PBP is 10. That doesn't sound amazing. But you have options! If you give the customer a 20% discount to pay annually, they're now paying you ~$1000 upfront, for a PBP of 0. Tweak the numbers slightly and you can get a negative payback period. Suddenly your "capital inefficient" business has a big flywheel without the need for outside capital.

It's easy to think decreasing acquisition costs is what you need to do in the current market (and believe me, that's not a bad idea!), but that's the denominator. There's also a numerator - how much cash you bring in, and how quickly - that matters just as much. It's cash flow that matters, not profit.
I think that I could go for an entire decade not needing any passives other than powers of ten except for power supply work when you need an exact ratio for feedback.

But analog tinkerers do things that are very different from what I do!
Is it really that high?

https://www.icalculator.info/poland.html

Says that people pay 1.25% in health insurance.

Poland in general pays 6% of its GDP on health care. The US spends 3 times that.
100% agree. I want a web where using web apps is private by default. Been working on an attempt to move towards this: https://peergos.org/posts/a-better-web
The article talks about installing Python packages for development, but if you find yourself using `pip` to install Python tools/scripts then you should use `pipx` - it will properly sandbox those tools so they don't break (or be broken by) the system or other Pythons:

https://pypa.github.io/pipx/
As millions of people interact with ChatGPT, their writing will subtly, gradually, begin to mimic its style. As future versions of the model are trained on this new text, both human and AI styles will converge until any difference between the two are infinitesimal.
Distinction without a difference. My argument is that fingerprint is digitally preserved; not that it is an exact replica of a fingerprint. If it only compares a hash, it is still a biometric record and that hash has to be somewhere to be compared against ( which itself opens an interesting can of worms depending on the implementation although I do have some level expectation from Apple engineers that it was not botched ). You seem to be too focused on technical implementation and relative security of a given solution.

In other words, I am willing to buy an argument that Apple's implementation is better than some other implementations out there, but it does not apply to this case, because it was not Apple's Face ID that we are discussing.
China may be on brink of supplying arms to Russia, says Blinken
Totally agreed - vendor specific constructs like credits are particularly opaque. They burden the user with the complexity of managing cost without clear levers that directly correspond to a known metric describing their usage.
Thanks for this, that has helped me see something I missed.

If you’re dealing with something like SQS and are receiving variable sized batches of messages, the consumers can be classed as “100% utilised” (always processing a batch of messages with no empty receives) whilst the queue would not be considered 100% utilised (the average delivered batch size is always less than the max).
Hairdresser by day, drone hunter by night helps defend skies over Ukraine
This is very common when you can adjust the consume rate. This happens in practice: serverless platforms scale, Kubernetes has HorizontalPodAutoscaler, you can manually grab more VMs, or IRL this might mean calling in more staff or at larger time scales hiring more people in your organization.
> When your concurrency is high, this would result in too many concurrent connections to your database which wouldend upcreating bottlenecks for your system.

Can you expand on this?
Yep. Guess I’ll just read the comments.
I have also thought a lot about Austral lately. I have very similar conclusions as the OP.

I love the simpleness of the language. I work with a kinda high performance networking (DPDK use) as my day job so we work in C and while I love C quite a lot for its simpleness and clarity, it is so easy to do something wrong. Linear types seems perfect for helping to keep a track on ownership of pointers and make sure that everything is handled properly while still keeping the simpleness. I don't mind having to by hand write some destructor if someone helps me make sure they are called correctly - I probably prefer that for clarity. And it also seems easier to exaplin to someone: "Here is this type, if this type gets unhandled at the end of this function the compiler gets angry. Instead you have to call this function that you can clearly see by the types returns the Unit/a free type". (borrowing adds a bit more to that but still quite clear imo)

I like Rust for what it did to the space and I respect all the people working with it but it isn't THE solution and I am happy other things are entering the arena that caters a bit more to my preferred aesthetics I guess.

I have started coding some small networking things in Austral personally to get a feel about. Will see where it goes.