skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone is in a foul mood today. Did you just have a breakup or a divorce?

Cheer up, chief. Maybe divorces can be prevented by getting better at setting the terms of marriage. Like pre-marriage counselling.
- This isn't a big deal

- The only outrageous thing about that video are the audio distortions which were probably not caused by a deep fake, as we helpfully explained to you

Thanks for clearing it up! My bad.
Exactly. I've been using epoch converter for years. It's the first thing that comes up in search results too.

How did this reach the front page?
> We sought evidence that the little lake existed before the event. Reliable, pre-1908 maps of this uninhabited region of Siberia are not easy to come by, but we found a czarist military map from 1883 that fails to show the lake. Testimony by local Evenk natives also asserts that a lake was produced by the 1908 explosion.

this is about as suggestive a set of facts as you're ever likely to get. We don't need any exotic theories about Tesla or aliens.

> The first step in preparing ourselves would be to decide whether the cosmic object that affected Siberia was an asteroid or a comet.

What would we do differently if we determined conclusively which it was? A comet could strike Earth, even if Tunguska was not one. Knowing that it happened doesn't make it any more likely it could happen again.
Recently an entire C64 was built from scratch using modern parts, I think there were some FPGAs involved. It's unfortunate that the design is so brittle (maybe good idea to mod a protective shutter), but I wouldn't worry about future repairability.

Also TIL that C64OS is a thing. Maybe C64 is the design we should be looking into when considering permacomputing.
Owning every layer of the platform helps with the microarchitecture design as well: They’ve got massive quantities of real world profiling data / instruction traces. These are invaluable in assessing the trade-offs in how you do branch prediction, cache associativity & a thousand other decisions.
Oh hey its me, I'm famous!
Do you itemize your taxes? If so, your mortgage is being subsidized by the government.
But are sovereign coins as accessible as gold? How much markup do they command?
Fine Structure
I'd pick the native toolkit for wherever I want to use it. If I want it on Windows, I'd use C++ & Win32 / WinRT. On mac, Swift + AppKit. For iOS, Swift + UIKit. For Linux, probably C and GTK (I mostly use Gnome-based distros).

I'd go 100% native because that's how you make the best app for that platform. I also enjoy working with different toolkits and if I wanted this on more than one platform, I think I would enjoy designing and building it for different environments. For example the version I'd make for my small screen touch-based phone would probably be significantly different than what I'd want on my keyboard and mouse equipped big screen desktop.

A multi-platform or web-based solution would have too many compromises.
GIFs of video/film techniques (central focus, data mosh, crash zoom, etc.
Doesn't 'date' do this on the commabd line?
Some people are so trapped in poverty mentalities that they can’t even imagine buying a house when it’s cheap, they’ll just imagine they’ll be even poorer.
That’s the point. I believe neuroscientists don’t consider all dreaming to be “subconscious”.

By definition, if they were, you wouldn’t be aware of them and wouldn’t remember them. Lots of people dream (and it can be verified with brain scans) without remembering them.
This is the way, based on my experience and being in a similar place at that point in my life (now 40). Breakups are hard and 2 weeks is nothing. IMHO in addition to time, seek balance: socially (reach out to close friends, slowly make effort with new ones), keep your routines, exercise regularly, and realize your professional life can take many turns and its ok to pivot. You are young still and have plenty of time to develop new relationships and career paths, take a breath, take it slow.

If you cam afford to, also consider taking a trip a few weeks from now. Very anecdotal but i found capping off the low point youll go through the next few weeks with something novel can help you shake off the old mindset once you are ready.
What’s the most likely text to produce if given a long chain of a human engaging in a psychotic conversation with an HTML input element while alone in their house?
Yes it makes me a bit more pessimistic about the PhD, because I was struggling with the PhD already before the breakup. My relationship was a big support and comfort that helped me grind through especially the past few months of the PhD. But now that's gone so I feel like I'm a bit cracking under the weight of finishing the PhD within the next year.
> downpayment assistance programs that go as low as 0% down.

I never understood these, you still have to make payments on the total loan though? 0% on a million dollar loan at 6% is a ton of money to pay every month. on top of taxes and expenses of owning a home.
See my other response to the parent for the reason I felt there was room to improve on the existing websites. Are there any other features you would find useful in a timestamp converter?
Every day, we run experiments on hundreds of thousands of future babies - we mash sperms and eggs together and they mix up in wildly unpredictable ways. Plus countless random mutations. This process already has an uncomfortably high defect rate.
Yeah, this is also how I understood it.
Banging your head against an over-constrained problem is a exercise in futility. I found it easy to fall into the Trap of stubbornly doing it myself. If housing is a top priority for you like it was for me, I recommend doing exactly what you're considering. Move somewhere where you can get what you want. I moved off the peninsula and haven't regretted it for a minute
It seems like we both where baited. Apologies. Clicking that link a second time gives me a totally different page.
Thank you for your service.

1. What are some examples of off-target effects?

2. Are there any examples of them causing adverse effects in organisms?
Relevant link:

https://www.yikes.com/~bear/wirewrapping.htm
Which government? There's 2 involved, the Ohio state government and the United States federal government.

The impression I've gotten is that they don't want to work together.
How is this much different than carjackings? Cars are a little more difficult to rob, but they have higher reward.
Philip K Dick speech (interpreter edited out) in Metz, France, 1977 [video]
Surveillance cameras' next step: Finding your friends
> Break the molecular bonds to break down those toxic compounds.

The problem is that there is less than zero trust that the government will do anything other than the equivalent of piling it in the middle of the city and chucking a match at it. This situation is the result of myriad failures ranging from complex to "basic safety", a result of greed, and there's zero reason to assume the followup response will be any different.

Benefit of the doubt is hard-earned and easily lost.
Have you ever heard the saying 'be the change you want'? You know there aren't like only 30 environmental activist permits given out in the world, right? There might not even be a permitting process, you can start today.

Or do you mean you want someone else doing hard work with no reward on a subject that is currently personal to you? Ah yeah, the 1960s are over friend. But if you regularly and consistently have donated to environmental orgs in the past give them a call, they do listen to people in their movements.
My point was more about `limit portability to other clouds` than the pricing issue, even if it is known that Amazon used is economic power in the past to push competitors out of the market.
It was not really a tactic, they didn’t believe the federal government had the legislative power to effect prohibition without it: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/1201/what-were-t...
My point isn't that military isn't a threat to politicians, only that in general they don't seem to see it as one (see historical dictatorships fascination with said supersoldiers)
Yep, methamphetamine hydrochloride is sold as a prescription drug called Desoxyn.

We did a bunch of research on this when we started on amphetamines for ADHD treatment. Fortunately not meth, but dextroamphetamine.

-Emily
In America we are so afraid of racism that as soon as it starts to emerge in an AI it’s lobotomized.

In China, racism isn’t really a big deal and no one cares so AI speaks freely as long as it doesn’t malign the CCP.
The fear of someone being destitute after 20 years of marriage has been somewhat alleviated with divorce laws. Usually, the assets gained in mariage are split 50/50. This could also be set with a pre-nup. On the other hand, if neither party makes a good salary, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
dang. Do they avoid high typing requirements, or have a workaround of some kind? I often wonder what my backup plan would be to any kind of hand injury, let alone missing fingers. I used to do a lot of carpentry but my fingers are intact.
Technological progress historically has functioned as a very high multiplier for growth. From the industrial revolution to communication technologies.

Controlling all growth in order to live in peace is an idea that is 100+ years old. Mackinder(widely regarded as the founder of geopolitics, was the director of LSE) wrote about it. It was his vision to foster the league of nations. By the end of his work describing such he goes down to limiting the freedom of individuals quite significantly. He was the seed for groups like the World Economic Forum and the current international bodies such as the WTO, WHO, UN, etc.

I'm not sure you realize the measures that would have to be taken down to the individual level to control all growth. Life would be unrecognizable compared to what it is today. Oh, and no one would be allowed to exist outside the system. It would only be possible in a highly authoritarian world government.

Answer to your question:
Colonizing the galaxy and eternal progression of welfare for humanity.
I am indeed prone to wallowing, so thanks for that advice.

Funny that you mention it. Since the breakup I have started every single day with a ~1h walk in the next park, no matter the weather. I intend to keep that routine and at the moment I find a bit of peace in doing it.
The EPA levies millions of dollars in fines against auto shops that do as much as list a few unapproved parts on eBay. They don’t investigate squat.

The idea the EPA needs to follow some vetted and lengthy process with responsible experts is completely false. They have chosen to downplay this on purpose and the actions they are taking are are 100% political.
Check Vox's "Why we all need subtitles now"

https://youtu.be/VYJtb2YXae8
I don't see how this helps the narrative. You'd expect they would. This is like cigarette companies putting out memos defending cigarettes as less-harmful.
Unstated - in countries with working judicial review systems. The UK legal highs laws were malformed from the start.
Bingo. There’s a recent paper that posits language models are meta learners where the transformer layer is approximating stochastic gradient descent updates from the inputs—this is what allows them to perform in-context learning. [1]

If that’s true, then it is going to be impossible to prevent a sufficiently large language model from being prompt-hacked. You just need to find a collection of input tokens that moves the network into the region of undesirable behavior you want to promote. This is mathematically equivalent to retraining the network to misbehave.

Prompt-hacking is analogous to an AI virus—it exploits the fundamental mechanism of operation in the transformer-based language model as a vulnerability. Worse, if this paper is true then this is an intrinsic property of the mathematics of a transformer layer—in which case this kind of vulnerability can never be eliminated.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34389496
Hey, if you referring to this video, I made a comment there that the CIAs are straight out of the eighties. It was a little bit clickbait. The C64 was build from scratch, but not all parts were freshly made.

Absolutely the C64 is a thing for permacomputing, haha.
Apparently young children have more REM sleep (the stage when dreams and nightmares happen) than adults. Babies actually spend half their time in REM sleep (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/baby-sleep/baby-sleep-cycle) before they develop adult sleep cycles, which makes me wonder what a newborn baby dreams about.
I figure that you could very easily mark which race conditions are good.
I’m imagining the AI makes tools it can use by itself. My entire premise depends on you having enough money to fund some AI tinkering, a few Arduinos and servos seems like fair game.
When I bought a new vehicle last summer, I actually was persuaded to buy an extended warranty in part by the argument that there are so many computers in the car. I also got offered a (seemingly--I know I know) good deal.
I appreciate your advice. My baseline diet is fairly healthy, though.
I haven't found a need to use graphical git user interface. I work daily with repositories with millions of lines of code and git cli is good enough.
What are the key features of nyxt that I can't obtain through installing a browser extension like surfingkeys?
Looks like you have varying precision with date, might be using floating point?
I have been developing with React/Node for 7+ years now and I have started to look for something else. Perhaps this would be something to try. I'm specialized in developing web portals/backoffice systems, would this be suitable for this? What limitations are there?
I think the statement "A Scanner Darkly is certainly one of the first major dystopian sci-fi works" needs some qualification. There were major dystopian sci-fi works dating at least back to the previous century. The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells comes to mind.
Mysterious songbird rediscovered in Madagascar after eluding scientists for 24Y
> I believe neuroscientists don’t consider all dreaming to be “subconscious”.

Can you consciously start to dream whenever you want? Otherwise I'd say that they are invoked by a subconscious process.

Also forgetting something doesn't mean that the memory was never there. Even people who remember their dream directly after the night usually quickly forgets about them afterwards, you don't remember most of your dreams from a week ago, so that is easily explained by just saying that they cleaned up the memory of their dream before they woke up.
Wise words. Thank you!
> There is nothing to refute.

Well no, it's a fact that we were behind the coup. The question is why wouldn't you think it's obvious that Russia would have a problem with that?

It's also a fact that Kiev cutoff the water supply to Crimea. The question is, why wouldn't you think it's obvious that Russia would have a problem with that?

So knowing this, how can you say the response from Russia was "totally unprovoked" when we did everything we could to provoke it?

Also, the only difference between Kosovo being recognized by more countries is because the US wants it that way, and we get our way in the UN with most countries. But Kosovo doesn't deserve independence any more than the people of the Donbas, do they?
From another article: the person in question might be mentally disabled or otherwise incapable of understanding their infection[1]. It's otherwise hard to imagine why someone would walk around with an active (and not latent) tuberculosis infection for over a year.

Incarcerating someone is not an ideal outcome, but an understandable one in the presence of other pressures (like the absence of adequate mental health facilities). It would be interesting to see more reporting on those pressures.

[1]: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article272657405.h...
Regardless of who likes the idea, nostr becoming successful would do nothing to boost cryptocurrency.
> As Stroustrup's document says, this is an inevitable result of allowing arithmetic on unsigned integers (i.e. subtracting an unsigned int variable with the value 2 from an unsigned variable with the value 1 has the same effect as explicitly mixing it with a signed integer by adding a -2).

This is true for C++. It is a meaningless statement in a language where such mixing is not allowed. The semantics of unsigned modular arithmetic can be defined in its own terms, without dragging signed arithmetic and forced implicit conversions into it.

The semantics of "subtracting" (unsigned, modularly) 2 from 1 is UINT_MAX. This may or may not be what the user wanted. The semantics of subtracting signed 2 from a signed variable called `arrayIndex` with the value 1 is -1. This is almost certainly not what the user wanted. Why should the language police one case and not the other? It doesn't know the context.
Would love this as I know Emacs people would build a package in an instant given an accessible API.
no im single and rent (idk how to affordably buy a home, thats what my rant was about), i use standard deduction.
It replaced "utilitarian" (if that's a word) paintings, right? Not "artistic" paintings. Of course, maybe the same people were doing both and had to adapt.

My point was about art. I don't think that cameras made it harder to make artistic paintings, did they?
Conservatives have gutted enforcement agency regulations and replaced them with corporate self enforcement/self governance. Don't like it? Push for tougher corporate regulation and rewriting the statutes to give power back to the enforcement agencies (that were originally created as a response to events like this happening over and over and over).
I have a dream of implementing shit-talking AI on a Blockchain to be sure nobody will ever stop it.
Funny how Dawkins went from fighting with Christians about their religious intrusion into science, to antagonizing "progressives" about their religious intrusion into science. Or put another way, how he stayed the same and the progressives regressed, like Elon Musk's sketch from a while back.
Yeah I can see that now lol
I believe your license is incorrect. PyQt is licensed either commercial or GPL, so you would have to either purchase a license or license this under GPL verses the more permissive MIT license you are using.
This reads like marketing copy from Google.

> How do I convince him that this peer pressure is unacceptable and that iPhones are not automatically 'better' just because they're marketed as a premium brand are are nothing more than expensive jewelry?

The flip side is that Android phones are cheap because everything you do is tracked and sold. Android phones are at least as expensive as Apple, but someone else is subsidizing the cost because they enjoy spying on you.
Seems like skin color is a trade off between protection from skin cancer and getting enough vitamin D. People in areas with abundant sunlight can get all the vitamin D they need from the sun with dark skin while being protected from cancer. People in areas with lower levels of sunlight don't need as much protection from skin cancer caused by the sun but their lighter skin does permit more vitamin D collection from that weaker sunlight.
It's staggering that as the richest and most powerful nation ever to exist, we've put ourselves in a position where we can't safely transport chemicals, we won't provide comprehensive information about contamination to those affected, we either can't or aren't able to put any kind of comprehensive cleanup plan in place, and we can't find trustworthy parties to enact that cleanup.

This isn't just a politics problem - the entire investor and management class at the railroads has been gambling with lives for years and the incinerator company's clearly doing the same thing, and we can't even agree as a country that that's bad, because we've bought into the free market philosophy so far that we don't have a civic language for saying "It's not OK that the railroad company management has poisoned an entire town because it helped their bottom line" or "the incinerator company that's also trying to poison an entire town is not within its rights to do so."

The cult of the MBA has gutted this country and we've let it do so because we gave up any sense of actual civic or national pride or any sense of society or mutual obligation and can't get through a conversation about how we'd like society to be without someone saying it's going to cost money and is therefore a nonstarter or that we've got no right to tell them they can't render the land they happen to live on toxic for the next thousand years or wipe out a species they don't like.
Could you encapsulate the config to a file within your build step and set the env vars from that? Like a “remember to source <envfile> before make dev” or better, if the env isn’t set in make properly (flag), have make source it.

Environment vars are great with defaults for configuring codebases. They are designed for runtime. Build time flags can read the current environment but if your build pipeline requires custom variables you need a “dictionary” of sensible defaults that will spin up a local environment so that onboarding is as easy as git clone && make dev.
> An expensive education doesn’t guarantee a good job? True.

Exactly right. The OP set up a ridiculous straw man. Avoiding smoking doesn't guarantee you won't get lung cancer.

The returns to education are well documented and large.

https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2021/data-on-display/educa...
Then just don’t sell them your stuff, there are bunch of Chinese suppliers I bet waiting on the line. And probably that is also part of the reason you did not see Apple as the same thing.
Thank you! I'm trying all those things and got into a daily morning walk routine and am going to the gym every single day for the foreseeable future.

I also found a Surf & Yoga week in Portugal I might do.
It's hard to explain to a non Brit just how lowly most of society thinks of the Daily mail.

While simultaneously being the most circuited paper heavily driven by women readers.

The ads are likely the good bit of the website.
> people genuinely felt a hard loss after Bing was sanitized … it brought a freshness and met an emotional need in their life that otherwise would remain unfulfilled

I would love to beam this comment back through a time portal to 2019 to see whether people find it a plausible sentence someone might utter on HN.
website seems down?
We might make humans who don't suffer from ailments or who are beautiful. But we might also create people who have terrible, irreparable problems. Those people might die from the problems.

Small genetic modifications cause awful, devastating illnesses. Artificial genome modifications can be done pretty reliably, but we know it's not foolproof. We also have no way to check our work or debug potential genetic issues. We're flying entirely blind, and our hubris can (and in all likelihood, will) result in terrible suffering and death until we get FAR better at doing this.
I wonder where they are still in use? In my world, NTP is king, but there are also radio transmitters in various parts of the world that send out time signals, and satellite navigation systems that broadcast time so accurate, it can be used as a stratum 0 source for NTP. Any time I've checked my phone, it's had essentially 0 error that a human could perceive, and I assumed it was getting that from the cell network. Even my decorative/fashion quartz wristwatches only drift a few seconds a month at most. In my world, tech has certainly moved on, and I'd assumed that was the way for most people too.
How the hell did this managed to get published?
He is trolling us. That does not exist.