skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The negative externalities of our pharmaceutical industry and its rampant over prescription of amphetamine and opioids aren’t worth it in my opinion. I would gladly get rid of all of it. The homeless users I see walking from Pioneer Square to Harborview Hospital didn’t start off injecting heroin/fentanyl and smoking meth. They almost certainly all started with pills, whether prescribed or illegally obtained.

Your argument that it helps you just doesn’t move the needle for me. I see dead 20 year olds nearly every day from fentanyl or hypertensive brain hemorrhages from meth users. That’s just in Seattle - I’m sure it’s similar in every major US city. There’s no

So while you describe this benefit to you, I think of it analogously as gun ownership. There are people who use guns appropriately for self defense, hunting, etc - but thousands of people die from them every year due to inappropriate and illegal use. And yet there’s no constitutional protection for amphetamine and opioids - but here the US is today, in a drug crisis of its own making.

That’s my perspective. I see the end of one extreme every single day. This is a population level problem and you want me to contextualize it to a single individual. I guess my response to that is that I have contextualized it and reject it. I might be some sanctimonious wind bag to you (who you can’t stand) but you don’t have to see the dead all the time. And this trail of mayhem begins at our irresponsible pharmaceutical industry. The high functioning cheerleading users have 0 perspective and want me to lose sight of the forest. No thank you, I’ll stick to the one size fits all treatments. No opioids or amphetamines.
Well my point is just that most people wouldn’t consider it anywhere near authoritarian, and that was a bit of an extreme word to use
Kinda off-topic: I remember reading that Apple laptops from 2021(?) onwards got a DAC (digital-to-analog converter) upgrade, making their DAC a pretty decent option with which you can avoid buying an external one.

Anyone knows how much truth there is to the above? I'm sure the answer is more nuanced than that and depend on various factors.
I believe this was last updated in 2011.
Can you explain what “virtue signaling” means? It always sounds like “they secretly agree with me but are saying something different because they’re bad people”. Which is just odd.
Can anyone recommend some alternative? Any help would be good
Search engines, even evil ones, should surface useful information.
Meetings are work, but the way most people do them, they are shitty work. Like being a janitor and just throwing the mop around randomly for an hour and then saying "I did work!" and the floor looks like an absolute mess after. Mopping random floors multiple times a day at random times so they're not all cleaned and your other janitorial duties are interrupted, and the floors generally being half cleaned. And mopping floors that don't need to be mopped. Or mopping when an industrial floor cleaning machine would be better.

There should be a series of books on how to have meetings. They're not especially hard to have. But if you don't use your brain to organize them, they end up incredibly wasteful and unproductive.
If not one sample pair of shoes was processed in the way advertised, then I think it is indeed outrageous. I'd agree that reuse might be better, but then the programme should be clear that that is one possible outcome.
I like to think that the light that reached me is just a record of things that already happened.
Also note that all this lacks any kind of transparency.
Oh I can totally see how, because I ate that shit up when I was 19-20. I was your classic 20 year old that wanted to be a millionaire by 21 because "that guy over there said he did it". Never coughed up any money for a course or anything but I saw a shitload of these guys' free content on YT, Instagram, etc. In another world I could have totally fallen for one of these courses.
What if you use relative line numbers though?
Do we have reason to believe that meth-addled monks is 1) anywhere near as common, 2) as institutionally protected, and 3) as externally harmful a phenomenon as pedophilia in the Catholic Church?

Each of those dimensions seem relevant as to how “tough” we ought to be on this, and the two cases presented seem very different.
This is straight up appeal-to-authority credentialism. What is actually wrong with the paper?
It's just early. It's fast to make little scripts and glue it together yourself, and until folks really enumerate use cases and build to meet them, it's going to feel unfinished. It takes years to build out a big project like this.

If you want "just works", stick to X and a mature desktop environment like KDE or Gnome for now (especially if you do any gaming).
One of the things I enjoy most about foraging is appreciating little obscure things like bay nuts, which you won't find at the grocery store.

The article is definitely right that roasting them correctly is a bit of a challenge, but it's worth it. If bay nuts were a mainstream thing, the same people who obsess over making the perfect coffee would have a field day with bay nuts.

Come to think of it, making some acorn waffles with ground roasted bay nuts might be pretty awesome. Too bad bay nuts and acorns aren't usually around the same time (I think?).
It's like saying that when you see a dead body with a sawed-off head nobody knows whether that body was born this way or somebody is a psycho who decapitated it.

For the sake if the argument let's allow this body to be an light-hour away from us when it happened.

I think your logic is very weak here.
I could explain what I think he meant, but it's more fun to watch everyone else "explain" it.
The difference would be the expectation of the person going into the role with a skillset in the publicly available domain expressing competence rather than having the company train them up.

Rather than "we're going to invest time and training into this person to get them" it will likely move to "we expect these skills from the applicant."

If the front end developer wants to learn back end, they will need to do it on their own rather than applying as a junior position and learning as they go. If the sysadmin is moving to an environment with kuberentes, they better have explored it on their own home lab.

I expect companies to be much less willing hire someone, and have them do some training no longer being able to make sure they stay after they've skilled up with the associated threat of training reimbursement.
I've been running these patches to play around with them and it seems pretty good; layered windows (WS_EX_LAYERED) work great, and the issue you would have with non-reparenting X11/XWayland WMs (mostly the mouse cursor being offset) is gone. There's still some minor quirks remaining, so it's not perfect, but a complex program like FL Studio seems to work just fine, as does some games using Wined3d.

The only thing I really hit that would be nice to fix is that it appears tablet support isn't in yet, or at least it didn't work for me. Of course, tablet support is a thing I generally wish could be improved in Wine, especially because Windows apps are slowly moving towards more modern APIs than the old wintab32 defacto standard.
> I do not know many others who implemented something like that.

the school I did in france, ENSEIRB-MATMECA, started with three weeks where you only learn shell commands, emacs, LaTeX etc before doing anything else. Here are the slides (in french sorry, although they all have useful reference cards at the end):

- intro: http://mfaverge.vvv.enseirb-matmeca.fr/wordpress/wp-content/...

- unix, shell: https://cours-mf.gitlabpages.inria.fr/if104/docs/01-unix.pdf

- emacs: https://cours-mf.gitlabpages.inria.fr/if104/docs/02-emacs.pd...

- latex: https://mfaverge.vvv.enseirb-matmeca.fr/wordpress/wp-content...

- "advanced" shell scripting: https://cours-mf.gitlabpages.inria.fr/if104/docs/05-scripts....
Awesome, I might try that!
Sampler – Tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting
Can you elaborate on their point? Can people only speak about things they have funded? What money did you spend to give you the right to make that post?

IMO it is fine to express opinions and advocate positions even without contributing financially. I’m interested in why that’s a problem.
They are honest in the same way as those who sell online courses on how to get rich by selling online courses.
> the internal C++ parser limitations, e.g. poor 'auto' support

I'm considering updating the internal C++ parser, which is written by Roberto Raggi, by a more recent version, but it's not my top priority.
“Inflation in the US has cooled for a seventh month in a row, but prices continue to rise far more quickly than is considered healthy.”

How should one interpret this? The overall inflation rate is going down, but inflation is still too high?

I am a layman. What is the solution? More rate hikes? If borrowing costs are already so high (to buy a house for instance), then why isn’t inflation coming down even more and faster? Does it mean buyers still have too much cash or are too willing to borrow or risk even with high rates?

Disclaimer: wrote this post with help chatgpt.
Something not very intuitive is there's no ab initio (i.e. "blank slate", a priori, purely theoretical, etc.) notion of "legitimacy" in mathematics, or even physics. There was a lot of debate on whether complex numbers were "legitimate". The truth is, they work well in several physical models; that's where their legitimacy comes from. We assume that any crazy axiomatic system can model reality, well, almost any actually. There are some properties excepted of any axiomatic system, like self-consistency, and of course the ability to generate some kind of complete (or locally complete at some domain) model of reality. What we then do is try to come up with models and infer the correct or most useful ones from experiments.

This means if a physical model yields a sum like 1+2+3+..., we of course expect the result to be unphysical and the model invalid. However, if experimental data is consistent with a result like -1/12, that would be a clue to explore a different arithmetical system for our model, one which generalizes summations (to Ramanujam summation or other kinds of sums). If this new model reproduces experimental data, you're on a very good track :) [1]

In mathematics the situation is even more interesting: the legitimacy is driven by taste of researchers, which will blend physical and philosophical relevance, and even aesthetics, curiosity and interest in part of the mathematician. (This is why we understand mathematics to be almost art, although a very particular art of course)

[1] Note: I believe the theory of learning (Machine Learning) developed recently is the best current formal understanding of this procedure, and how not to get it wrong. The overview is that whatever your model is, it shouldn't have too many parameters (certainly not more than data you're trying to fit), and that a reliable test for a theory is (a) either making a novel prediction on unseen data that turns out correct (validation); (b) Use the theory to model a part of the data, and see how it fares on the unseen part (for when you can't conduct new experiments; this is cross-validation).

Some references in this area: Computational Learning Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_learning_theory

VC Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapnik%E2%80%93Chervonenkis_th...

Statistical learning theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_learning_theory
Why wouldn't uBlock Origin be targeted? Nobody is capable of auditing the entire codebase, paying off open source contributors flat out isn't hard and it's cheap.
But who wants to work in factories as production grunts? The jobs are pretty terrible.

We need robot powered factories that require 1/10th or less the manpower of a normal factory. Then the extra cost of US wages matters less, and with the rising cost of shipping - it’s now both quicker and cheaper to build in the US.
As in my other comment: what if you use relative line numbers though?
Isn't it even more technically accurate to say that it hasn't happened yet, and actually won't ever happen, in our frame of reference?
Composer: Creative and Controllable Image Synthesis with Composable Conditions
How is AI more of a black box than a human moderator?
>They're good enough for lightweight music playing and even watching some TV.

This is such a low bar.

I have a 2019 16" MBP. The speakers are good for a laptop. That's it. I'm connecting the headphones or external speakers for any listening requirement. A $30 pair of Logitechs destroys the built-in speakers.

>No, they don't compare to my 7.1.4 surround system.

I'm having trouble reconciling the number of people in the thread who will do things like implement an entire Atmos home theatre setup (which is awesome, but in a lot of ways excessive), and yet are saying "MBP speakers are all you need!"
The content I interact with is plain-text (Markdown). I use Jekyll just as a tool. I have tried Hugo and way faster locally. However, Github Pages has Jekyll built-in and so I stayed with it. I rarely run Jekyll locally to write.
A comment on some of the presentation of the history (‘staunton has already noted the strangeness of bellyaching in 2021 about renormalization without mentioning the renormalization group)

In section 4.3 the author incorrectly describes Fermi’s comments to Dyson as a criticism of Dyson’s work on QED. At the time of this meeting, Dyson had already given up on his QED program and was working on the strong interaction. Fermi’s comments that Dyson had neither a “clear physical picture” or a “precise and self-consistent mathematical formalism” were regarding some (pre-quark) pion theory Dyson had been working at at Cornell starting in 1951, not QED.

Dyson describes this meeting in https://www.webofstories.com/play/freeman.dyson/94 but the required context is in the prior segment https://www.webofstories.com/play/freeman.dyson/93

Also the author describes Oppenheimer’s initial resistance to Dyson’s work, but fails to mention that Oppenheimer was eventually convinced that Dyson’s work was valuable and gave Dyson a lifetime appointment at the IAS.
You have only seen the tip of an iceberg. Try working as an IT-consultant. You have a half trillion different accounts. You can't work in multiple spaces while using the app. So you have to use a browser. Then, the problem is that you get logged off more or less instantly if the tab is not active.
IMO better description is “c is the maximum speed of information”

Quantum entanglement can create causal effects much “faster” than c, but you cannot use such effects to transmit information still.
this is what I've found to be most troubling around this whole debacle:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10345

how can it be in any way 'scientific' to base results on unpublished material??

> The analytic results we accept as true are partially unpublished, and the people who did the original calculation are long dead.

this ain't science, it's (American) imperialism applied through the cultural-institution of academia.
Not them, but a short list based on my chat history:

- Explained why a python variable in a closure was saying it was not assigned, after several minutes of googling/SO failed me (needed the nonlocal keyword, different from js)

- Explained the difference in several slightly-different C++ lists, which I couldn't google because the differences were mostly special chars

- Wrote working powershell code to output a list that has every string in $list1 that is not in $list2, on the first try, after I struggled for over an hour to do the same (and google/SO failed me).

- Explained the difference between two batfiles for the Intel Fortran compiler after google failed me

- Generated some really cool D&D statblocks

-Unbeknownst to us players, generated a really creative heist dungeon that our DM ran us through (he thanked ChatGPT as his "co-DM" at the end). This one is particularly notable because the man works at a hiring agency, he's not exactly a techie.
You realize if this becomes the norm cover letters will simply be made meaningless. One could argue they already are.
I can photograph the ground from a commercial airplane window, so yes my phone can take pictures of things much further than 2 miles away. Distance from the subject isn’t really all that important provided it’s big enough, lit well and you can focus to infinity.

The timing is tricky but 2/10 of a second isn’t an unthinkably brief window for snapping a photo, and if you use burst capture it’s trivial.
Same on Safari when I change airports (and I have to decline every time).
> If I were you I'd wait for 1.7 to fully release and then try it out for a couple of hours and generate some simple app to get a feel for it.

Good news: Phoenix 1.7 final was released yesterday! https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.7-final-released (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929159)

Although, if I were an absolute beginner, I might still consider waiting a little bit for the various resources to be updated to 1.7. That seems to be happening fast, at least. Or just go for the excellent Phoenix guides, which are already updated: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
It's a highly polished template, too polished to be useful during an actual incident. The game board is odd. If you want to make Cybersecurity into a board game, that would sell millions of copies.
This is awesome.

Thank you for sharing.

My ancient ruby code and nodejs code all broke because I didn't pin dependencies. As a result I've got software that is unrunnable.

More software shall be unrunnable as time goes on, I don't know many trends that prevent software from being unbuildable and unrunnable due to change except maybe repeatable builds and hermetic builds.

Given platform toolchains complexity and libc versions and complexity of static Vs dynamic linking, I suspect preserving software is very difficult.

It seems doing + - ×÷ on numbers is not the difficult part of computers but arranging information into the right places in order to do it.

Logistics and package management are difficult to get right.

I think Java got something right. Bytecode is longlasting. Can rewrite the JVM for new platforms and architectures.

I am writing my own language and it is implemented as an assembly interpreter and a compiler for that interpreter. This lets me get development speedier.

What the hard thing I think is more interesting than bytecode or virtual machines is INTEROP.

The Amd64 SysV Binary interface of registers for C calling interface and the System call Interface of Linux.

Mozilla abandoned XPCOM extensions, part of the reason was performance of the interop between JavaScript and C++.

If I could run a virtual machine and interop with modern code that would mean the software was useable for longer.
> And a doctor, decides what's medically necessary, and decides to perform it or not.

Yup, and if a doctor deems than an abortion is not medically necessary, the woman can still have one anyway. Which makes it elective. Elective abortions are the ones we're discussing.

> Ans also no reason _to_ restrict them.

Why shouldn't we restrict them? If it's late enough in term that the child is viable, and there is no threat to the life of the mother, then why should that type of abortion be legal?

How is an elective abortion at 32 weeks any different from killing an infant?
I never typed in the full http link of a dependency by hand. Does anyone do that?
We’ll, given that it doesn’t cost me anything to make - I guess I’m break even…

https://makernews.substack.com/
Both right and wrong. There will be bubble, grifters and there will be a lot of pets.ai , but I think that unlike crypto the technology is sound, impressive and promising.

The advice to be cautious with investing is a sound one.
Not far enough. I have a dedicated internet provider subscribed to a place I rent specifically for work whose address I only use for work purposes, 3 states over. THAT is the way.
> Divergent series have no finite sum, by definition. It's self-contradictory to proceed as though they have a sum anyway, even if it gives "meaningful" results.

It's self-contradictory in the definition that you're using for sum. It'd be like saying:

1 apple + 1 orange != 2 fruits because addition only works across the same units.
I think it's because it's a course focused on Linux and not Emacs. Different operating systems.
I don't think it's so much a case of better or worse--but rather that some schools see a place in the CS curriculum for a Computers, Programming, and Tools 101 course and others do not--figuring you know a lot of this stuff or can pick it up.
Driverless cars: what we've learned from experiments in SF and Phoenix
What would you propose changing for this specific issue? Would you still consider it broken if deno supports, e.g. `import * as flat from "https://mycustom.com/x/flat@0.0.15/mod.ts";`?
I think people who seem overly eager to call chatGPT and stable diffusion and similar models "bullshit generators", and dismiss them because of that is missing something large.

In Machine Learning itself, we consider two classes of models/algorithms, discriminative and generative. Up until six months ago, the best work we had in ML was all discriminative, and humans were irreplaceable when it came to content generation. All of a sudden we have good generative models and a way to cheaply generate vast amount of content and ideas, some of which are good and some of which are terrible. I predict this shift will also shift the associated humans' roles from "generator" to "discriminator", who will be cherry-picking and editing AI generated articles or images (much faster) rather than creating them from scratch (much slower). Yes, it will take a slighlty different set of skills in the human worker, but if you can't see how that productivity boost can help humanity, I ont know what to say.
I think the author fundamentally misunderstands (or else mischaracterizes) why people say things like "cancel this meeting so we can get some work done". It's because many people feel like sitting in a room BS'ing about what work needs to be done, is something they can get paid for without having to do anything actually productive. Most meetings are not actually work, they are paid time masquerading as work. I don't know anyone who thinks that there should never be any meetings, ever. But, most organizations have a bias towards meetings, in that if invited to a meeting it is assumed you need an excuse not to go; the default is that if asked to go to a meeting, you should.

If we treated meetings like purchases, where you have a certain budget of hours you are allowed to use, and you need approval from a higher level to schedule one, I don't think people would try to schedule as many meetings as they currently do.
Please help the community and make sure that these issues are documented in Github/whatever issue tracker.

Or if you have the skills please contribute back and fixes these things that bug you!
I feel like this was lost in the conversation about Meta / Twitter moving towards verified accounts. I think social media companies are starting to realize that they should prepare for a world where most online agents are AI or AI-assisted