skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel about 60 after leg day.

I feel about 20 whenever I get on my motorcycle or around a pretty girl

I know I'm exactly my age by what time I go to bed.
That's really just a US phenomenon.. Here in Spain most teens carry Androids. And most people overall in fact.
Nothing is more ignorant than being willfully ignorant of the fact you aren't making sense to your audience.

"You" in reference to the people posting these things here at HN, not the article author. We aren't the article author's audience, so he has every right to ignore our needs. Whoever posts these things here, though? Their audience is us, and they need to try and make sense of themselves.

Just add "(Boolean SATisfiability)" after "SAT" and everything would have been fine. It's simply good practice to always explain the first use of an acronym anyway.
And the original paper is published even before the first version of C was introduced.
If you code in that style you won't even notice the borrow-checker is there. Unless you have a bunch of shared global state, the the overhead of arc will seem silly on your single core uc.
Breaking Free from Neural Networks and Dynamical Systems (2021)
It's a lot of fun. I'm back to my old interest - small systems programming on the bare metal. I did Nand2Tetris several years ago, and now I'm following the work of people like Tunney and DeVault as they bootstrap de novo. 100rabbits is also fascinating.

I'm working on an electronics program for the local makerspace - some combination of ham radio topics, microcontrollers and sensors - trying to figure out some good projects that can pull those fields together and get the younger crowd to realize they are carrying four microwave radios and a supercomputer in their pockets and that they ought to be interested in rf electronics.

Trying to get the makerspace off of Google Docs, Photoshop, Twitter, and other proprietary software and onto FOSS hardware and software is really an uphill battle. It's so convenient.
They were making deadly viruses in a lab.
It’s like handing out loaded shotguns to school children then claiming anything that happens is an accident.
I don't care what the article says, nor will I read it, but I will defend to the death my right to comment on it.
There's a reason why DoE's used as the "villain" agency in Stranger Things, enough so that DoE commented[1] on it.

1: https://www.energy.gov/articles/what-stranger-things-didnt-g...
A non-shitty e-bike
I started a « business » sending burned games to tunisia from rural France.
At the time Tunisia had a thriving game cafe scene. But shitty broadband.

It was cheaper to find someone on a phpbb forum to send you physically something than dealing with ISP and shitty local internet laws.

It lasted for a year or so. I send hundreds of disks. Was getting pay thought bank wire on my older brother account.

I think I drink all of it in cheap pastis drink.
Back in the 1990s there were decent Espresso bars in any small city in a flyover state but you could not buy a good cup of coffee in Manhattan because every block had three Startbucks because they figured stock market analysts would assume that there were just as many Starbucks on every mile coast to coast.
SD cards are made for cameras etc, and they're good for that. They have sequential RW speeds to match common video formats at 1X speed or burst photo capture. The spec sheets won't tell you how terrible the random write speed is, and even the quoted sequential speeds aren't very good, but that's ok for cameras.

I use a modern high-end SD card from SanDisk as semi-permanent storage in my MBP. If I copy anything to that card that's not a single file, it takes forever. Overall it feels worse than using an old HDD. I have to actually think about what I store on it (mostly videos/photos), so I totally see the reason for wanting more internal storage instead of an SD slot.
HIV has at least one similarly plausible but unprovable origin story - concerning the unintended consequences of polio vaccination in the 1950s.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7935079/
James Bond books rewritten to remove ‘offensive’ references
US Teens Feel Down, but the Adults Aren’t All Right Either
700MB+ installed. It's a big boi for a text editing app.
There's some discussions about it on a site which goes by the acronym MDL.
About to turn 40 here, for context. In my early 20s I worked with a fellow who was 60 yo. Something I'll never forget was when he told me, while in a relatively introspective conversation during down time at work, that he doesn't recognize who he is when he looks in the mirror. Internally, as he said, he felt the same as he always did. Now, granted, this was a 4-times divorced, 5 times married ex-hippie and proud ex-80s coke-head fully bald man exhibiting light tremors, so there may have been other issues involved, but as I cross the threshold of another decade, can't help but think of what he said.

Much like you, I don't feel much of a change, but I also feel very lucky because of that. Not sure if I'm aging well or if I'm accepting aging well, but then again I'm only turning 40. If I'm lucky enough, there'll be a ton more to lament in the future.
Improving Large Language Models with External Knowledge and Automated Feedback
Well, let's just try ripping all mention of Rust out:

""While obviously C is closer to the metal than say, Python, I am increasingly dubious about the value of any of these high level languages (yes, even C) to learn "How the machine really works". I reckon it's probably more instructive to write a little bit of ARM assembly than to learn enough C to get to the same place today.""

Now, why am I talking about "How the machine really works". Well, here's the next line from Beej:

> When you learn C, you learn about how software interfaces with computer memory at a low level

You don't. You're learning about how C software interfaces with the memory of C's abstract machine, but that's not how your machine's memory works, not even close. For example C just magically ensures the alignment is correct all the time, but the actual memory relies on programmers to ensure they only perform aligned access, unaligned access may blow up your whole program or make it enormously slower, which is worse ?

On the other hand C's Pointers are not just addresses. Even though C makes them look more like they are than many languages with a pointer type, they still aren't just addresses. If you mistake them for addresses, you'll get punished by your compiler, although just exactly when is hard to predict - this is a game of Russian Roulette. However the actual memory in your computer really does just have addresses and they're just numbers like any other numbers.
Is this only an issue with modern life? Before modernity ruined everything the family and community were closer and there was a support structure. Losing sleep at night is only a problem when you still need to get to work the next day.
On that basis does the actual cause even matter as opposed to mapping out likely vs unlikely caused?

I’m sure air crash investigations would resolve many safety issues completely unrelated to the actual cause of a crash.
The Self as a Dynamical System (1999) [pdf]
After receiving an aggressive call from Embarcadro's license compliance team for installing Delphi "Community Edition" registered with a personal email address, on a personal laptop, to the effect that I could not use it because they somehow managed to connect me with [Employer] which also has Embarcadero commercial licenses killed that experiment really quick. This was in mid-2022.

Delphi is a neat product, but fuck Embarcadero - their business model is to extract revenue from the long tail of old Borland customers who are locked in for one reason or another, not grow the product.
Yes, this was when we had a liberal society. Western countries have rapidly trended toward authoritarianism in the last couple of decades, unfortunately, and liberalism is in its death throes.
The only problem with this is that it ends up being used disproportionately to criticize information which contradicts their beliefs. It's the same problem smart people have - they're more capable at rationalizing their beliefs than they are at deciding what to believe.
Except neither bats nor pangolins were sold at the market. That probably should have been one of the first things to check before spending, undoubtedly, millions of dollars.

The idea that someone in the lab down the street was accidentally infected with something from the lab and then went to lunch is far more plausible than creatures from thousands of miles away introduced a disease down the street street from a lab working on viruses that are known to be almost identical to the one of interest.

There’s no issue with pursuing all leads, but obviously some are much more plausible than others.
Cool. Does anyone know a simulation (free accessible) simulation for air current? I want to see air currents in different building designs but have not found an accessible simulation yet.
> From what I’ve seen, those who learn programming using high-level dynamic languages with managed memory really struggle to understand many basic concepts (e.g. equality/identity, abstract machines, etc, etc) and data structures.

That’s not my experience, and I’d be especially surprised if the first of those examples was true of people who learned with Python, since the identity vs. equality distinction is a basic, important, and in most pedagogy very early concept in Python.

> Like they’ll never need to write a native extension?

Use? Sure. Write? Probably not.
I guess it's never too late to divorce a lead weight. All in all, I'm happy for you.
So the RFC process was a sham because it never reflected the "wider company strategy" because the people with that context withdrew from it totally apart from being kingmakers?

I'm not sure you are making the case for it here. You are just making some other unrelated point.
This weirdly opens the Twitter app on my iPhone but won’t load the tweet directly. It loads in the in-app browser. Tapping the normal “better in the app” link just briefly shows a loading animation then remains in the fake browser UI.
Do you need the truth though? In some ways the mere question on the origin of the virus is a political one. No one in the public has ever cared to have definitive proof where any virus came from before. The ability to point to a specific time and place is probably outside of our ability. A lab had it on Nov 1st, 2021. A lab worker brought it home, is that 100% proof that was the first infection? Or did the lab get it from a place where it was already infecting people?

Finally, what do we do with the info? Is it just a, 'oh well, that's interesting'?
I mean, indirectly defending China by completely discrediting and demonizing any discussion the origins of a life-changing pandemic... to own Trump? is just... a bit pathetic honestly. It ironically completely ruins the credibility of those who were so keen to completely stonewall a super important issue just because they are so drunk on partisanship that Trunp being right isn't even a possibility. Peak Blue MAGA
AI Corrects Accents
Brains Don't Have to Be Computers (A Purple Peril) (2015)
This service is a "PED" for elite runners.

Kipchoge broke the marathon WR with a team of fresh runners to draft off of.[0]

[0] https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/10/06/drafting-can-save-...
You described my 2018-era experience in Uber’s infra org
chatgpt summary of the transcript, probably doesnt need a full writeup.

The author discusses the concept of using video games as a model for effective studying. Video games have well-defined storylines and goals, as well as clear feedback on progress and areas for improvement, which motivates players to keep playing. By implementing these aspects into studying, such as tracking progress and creating clear objectives, students can experience the same sense of motivation and accomplishment. Additionally, video games are low-risk and high-reward, which can also be applied to studying by removing the fear of failure and creating a safe space to learn and experiment. Overall, the author suggests that by incorporating these video game elements into studying, students can increase their motivation, productivity, and enjoyment of the learning process.
Had two colic children. 3 months of never more than an hour sleep at a time. Completely fell apart.

We adopted for our 3rd.
Best comment! lol
>It was normal for computers to auto-login and have no password at all, processes could each read entire memory on the machine.

To be fair, this is specifically to do with personal computers of the time; MS-DOS, Windows 3x, and Windows 9x were all single user operating systems: They simply had no concept of multiple users at all. The concept was bolted on later as an afterthought, but it was really janky and paled in usability and security to proper multi user environments like that seen in Windows NT.

Incidentally, this lack of understanding multi users is also why it's a royal pain in the arcane arse to join a Windows 3x or 9x machine to a Windows NT network. A network is fundamentally a multi user environment, something Windows 3x and 9x don't understand.

As for memory access, this too was simply a thing of the times. MS-DOS, Windows 3x, and Windows 9x all simply did not have the concept of segregating and securing memory access between kernel and userland and between each process. All the BSODs that traumatized us back then stemmed from this architecture, and the BSODs quickly diminished once Windows NT became mainstream because the NT kernel operated on the concept of segregated and secured memory access for better security and reliability.
I ran the numbers, looks like the Coles powered, which works fine for us on mains water no issues, is about 9 cents a wash, using less than 25 grabs powder at $0.39 per 100 grams. The powder goes in the doeser, plus a small amount in the main compartment so the first rinse cycle is doing a pre-wash.

No Aldi here in Tas, but I'd have to break the tables to approach price competitive.
> The light bulb went off: I knew the answer. They don’t want you to buy a shot of espresso. Espresso is not as profitable as espresso drinks. The only way to push espresso drinks with fancy syrups and names is to make sure as a stand alone, the coffee tastes like someone scrapped the burnt bits of toast into your mouth.

Eh. I'm all for assuming the worst intentions of corporations at all times - but a much more reasonable assumption to my mind (which doesn't assume direct malice, but rather an understanding of the desires of their customers) is "they know that the vast majority of their target demographic will be ordering 'mixed drinks' anyway, and so there's no advantage to them in 'roasting properly' when the nuance will be lost anyway"

That is - I believe that the author has the order of causation wrong. I don't believe that Starbucks' decisions lead people into drinking Espresso, but rather than Espresso is a specific drink with a specific consumption environment (at leisure, while seated, probably after or alongside a meal) which has no intersection with the consumption environments of customers who are likely to "drop into" a Starbucks. Imagine ordering an Espresso to-go from a drive-thru window!?
Tesla crashes into Girl Scout table and wounds 3 at Northern California Walmart
There was an Apple Mac (sub-) team visit to Inmos in the UK, hosted by Ian Barron, sometime circa 1982 - 1983. Bob Belleville, the Mac team's director of engineering, led the trip. I remember Ian had a Jaguar with twin fuel tanks, but told the story of how he forgot to refill the first one when it was empty, so sometime he totally ran out of fuel. JG (John Giannandrea), later of Netscape, was at Inmos around then. (He was at Apple last time I checked.)
Also add "use the correct Arabic for your target audience". "Arabic" is not monolithic and using the wrong dialect can go over as well as using Scots on a web page intended for Jamaicans.
The cursed universes of Dana Sibera
Except that servers are literally 50-100x more powerful than they were when these sites were built. You just don't need legendary talent anymore to accomplish pretty reasonable scaling with a simple low server count architecture.
A distinction without a difference.

I've said it was a lab leak from about month two of the pandemic.

Any sane person hearing me say this should assume I have low confidence as the sort of evidence necessary to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt is information a random hn commentor could not possibly have.

Unfortunately, even expressing that you thought it likely it was a lab leak was enough to get my accounts banned on several social media.
There were and are problematic elements of the lab leak people as well - I still see people (on this site) who claim that some or all aspects of the virus were synthetically created at the behest of Anthony Fauci. You may say I'm nutpicking, but I truly have a hard time determining what the lab leak theory is sometimes.

But my sense was that the agenda behind the lab leak family of theories was to lay blame at some human or humans for the events of the pandemic, which to me seems like a fairly futile endeavor. One of my questions for these people has always been this: say their darkest theories are correct; what am I supposed to do about that? It seems that the best course of action was to wear masks, socially isolate as much as possible, and get vaccinated and keep getting vaccinations as new strains appear.
Technically yes.
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/su0CP
> In general, there seems to be a big difference between a dead horse and something being unfashionable.

That is subjective and shifts with time as we have seen multiple times in physics and AI. You don't get to decide what is dead. AI researchers as a group decide that and nature agrees/disagrees.

> By 2010 digit and text recognition was already long in use. It used hidden layers, so it was a form of deep learning.

False. I worked in that field and deployed production systems on mobile devices. SVMs with hand crafted were the rage with tons of hand crafted systems. No one serious used deep learning.

Even if it was used in digit recognition, that is just one use case compared to dozens of uses cases for symbolic systems (e.g. hardware verification) in 2023.

I don't blame folks for thinking that LLMs are the answer for everything (they maybe but we don't know yet). Folks felt the same about 1950s systems all the way till the AI winter.
> That's true in the ideal, and I 100% agree. But not in the actual real world, because, very tritely put, nobody is an island.

No, it's true in the real world. That's the issue. Nobody is smarter than everybody. The consequence is that you should never prohibit someone from making a choice "for their own good" because the chances are better that they understand and act in their own best interest than you do.

Where you need some kind of government action is for externalities. Dumping industrial waste in the river might be rational from the perspective of the factory, because they don't live down river, so you need a law to protect the people who do from the factory acting in their own self-interest. You can't convince them to stop doing it with argument because safely handling the waste is more expensive for them in actual fact. You have to change the math by prohibiting the bad act.

That's still subject to the same problem. You can enact highly inefficient and ineffective environmental regulations by being lazy or uninformed or corrupt. But for that we don't have any alternative than to do the best we can.

For getting people to make better choices or hold better ideas, we do. We try to convince them. If we fail, it's more likely to be because we're wrong than they are. Forcing them should not even be attempted.
A shame Apple silicon isn't in that mix for reference (though I realize how hard apples-to-apples testing would be, no pun intended).
They're saying of iPhone users (in wherever?), 34% are GenZ; and of Samsung (phone?) users, 10% are GenZ. Without knowing the overall counts of iPhone/Samsung users, the number of GenZ iPhone and GenZ Samsung is also unknown and you can't make any comparison inferences.

You can say that iPhone users are roughly three times as likely to be GenZ than Samsung users, I suppose.
The private unicode range is often used for icons on many web sites, but downloadable fonts are considered optional on the web, so we're left with unintelligible hex codes instead, at which point we've regressed to a pre-accessibility era when images typically didn't come with alt text, but at least there was a fallback mechanism.
OpenGauss Security Policy
I would like to ask you how to manage the security policy of opengauss? For example, if the default value of password_reuse_time is 60, is the password changed every 60 days in production?
Here is a 2020 article calling it a conspiracy theory

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotto...

Here is a politico article explaining how Facebook won't ban you for talking about it (anymore), since they used to treat it as fake news.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-...?

"Facebook will no longer take down posts claiming that Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured, a company spokesperson told POLITICO on Wednesday, a move that acknowledges the renewed debate about the virus’ origins.[...] The findings have reinvigorated the debate about the so-called Wuhan lab-leak theory, once dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theory"
So you did a Wikipedia search for it, then came back to write a comment about it, whilst also not explaining it either?
No, the GP got it right. High-frequency = short wavelengths, which can squeeze through small gaps in metal more easily than long wavelengths. (Visible light is an extreme example of this.)
Are Aircraft Carriers Obsolete?
And 4 other US intelligence agencies still say the wet market is more likely.
Did we just change Animation forever?
if US citizen nerds, like me, weren't so ignorant, lazy, and afraid, we'd work with our h1b fam to get us all more money and job security and dignity.

c'est la vie.
The bat origin also had no evidence given that the bats that naturally carry this kind of corona virus are not endemic to Wuhan and are not regularly consumed.

Yet many people insisted that this was the origin.
I just found this interesting as it’s something I’d completely never heard of, I’d imagine Amazon wasn’t aware of, and yet they need to be aware of to operate legally. The extent of laws in all of the jurisdictions that Amazon operates in must be pretty mind-boggling.
It seems like you're just interested in repeating yourself louder & meaner and not interested in engaging, presumably because you think you already know everything there is to know about other people's lives. Rather solipsistic really.

I hope you'll reconsider but if that's how you're going to behave there's no productive conversation to be had.
I've heard through channels that the opposite of "credible" is "non-credible".
And suppressing speech and freedoms due to perceived attacks on identity is a classic fascist move. Funny how that works.
Good article but I think a few examples would benefit illustrating some of these pitfalls in action.
The lab leak theory folks had plenty of evidence. The evidence the dept of energy cities is identical to what the supposed conspiracy theorist have said for months / years.
For most of human history, infant mortality rates were much higher than they are now with the application of science.
Typing code is probably less than 5% of my daily time as a SWE.
This is nice. I am going to try it on my RasPi.
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Windows XP, I believe.