skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java:
String info = STR."My name is \{name}";

Scala:

val info = s"My name is $name"

Why does Java ALWAYS use unnecessary verbosity? I don’t get it. They’ve had years to learn from succinct languages.
The marginal cost of technology is pretty close to zero (albeit slightly higher for large LLM model inference) so it would make sense that the technology gets distributed widely. Kind of like how everyone has essentially the best smart phone. And it's laughable when someone tries to create a luxury smartphone for $10k and its just a sub-par Android with leather accents.

If you have a technology with practically zero marginal cost, pricing it very low and distributing it widely would maximize your profit. Not to mention that once its out of the bag, others will know that its possible and copy it.

[0] https://newatlas.com/vertu-ti-luxury-10000-dollar-android-sm...
Why?

What moral or economic principle determines why one company shouldn't be allowed to buy another, as long as it's not reducing competition (e.g. Amazon buying Barnes and Noble, or Amazon buying Wal-Mart)?

If Amazon simply built its own One Medical that grew to the same size, should that similarly be prohibited? And how are you going to determine the dollar value valuation of a company where it's not allowed to buy companies anymore?

Because conglomerates -- corporations that have products in lots of different industries -- have been around for a long time. They grow when they think they can generate economies of scale and synergies, which is good for consumers.
We only use `position: sticky` for the first row of the table, but then stack everything else in a separate div, so something like:

- parent div

-- 1st child div, everything that is "stickied" to the top of the screen (really a tree of react components like the header + filters + table actions)

-- 2nd child div, the table itself with a single position: sticky header row

The portal trick/approach is that technically the table is rendered by some leaf-ish component in the 1st child's component tree, but once the leaf components knows "hey I'm the leaf", it uses a portal to push it's content to the 2nd top-level child, which gets it stuck below everything in the 1st child.

It sounds kind of elaborate, but it lets everything in the top div get correctly dynamically sized without any hard-coded offset hacks.
>Our disagreement is that you think a right is something granted by the law and inability to excecise a right means you don't have it. A right simply means there is a valid justification to allow a person to do not do something. You can have a right and it can unjustly be taken from you.

Without a law granting/protecting your right to X, or at least the power to grant it to yourself and enforce it, you don't have a right to X.

You, at best have, a "justification for having the right to X". And even that is debatable. You might just think you have a justification, but ther people might disagree with you that X is any kind of right you oughta have.

So, where does this "valid justification" comes from? God? Some holy book? Some wise document written by founding fathers? Sorry, we don't believe in those things in these here parts. It needs to be based on either law or a body (could be "the people") that can force it into law.

> But nothing is being sold, iMessage is a free app so your point is invalid.

Doesn't matter to my argument whether its paid, or given free as a lure to keep you in the ecosystem (which is the money maker) - or even just given free in general, out of the goodness of their heart.

If a company doesn't like the terms under which a country or union of countries asks them them to sell and/or give away their app, they can always stop giving it to that country/union of countries. Easy as that.

>You're the bully here.

"Bully" against a company? For making make their app more open and compatible? That's some next level Ayn Rand shit right here...
Well, I have written a few NNs from scratch (using p5.js though, not C++... or pytorch nns), and a few very rudimentary RL algorithms. Also have thought extensively about AI for the past 1 or 2 decades. In fact, about a decade ago I saw the AI revolution coming and was very excited for an utopia (I supposed in the form of Universal Basic Income). It was a wild ride since then, but I've come to believe we need to actively promote ethics and good things if we want to realize any near-utopia, and that simply advancing the technology in 1 direction won't get us to utopia, or where we deserve as humanity.

That said, I avoid soapboxing too much, but I make no guarantees :)
> Some developers seem to think that using a debugger is a sign of weakness

Really? I have never encountered that in the last 18 years in any of the 8 or 9 places I've worked.

I've worked with many know-it-alls who both knew it all and didn't. With arrogant and humble developers.
No one ever said that.
Current ARM Macs don't have ECC, just like how the Intel iMac/Macbook don't have it. Likely the ARM Mac Pro will have it.
No, conservatism is about preserving the so-called "natural social hierarchies", including patriarchy, as well as economic hierarchies such as land ownership -- it is primarily about obedience, not freedom. It's not about the past, or generally resisting change, other than it sometimes coinciding with these principles. This is not a new definition forced onto it, it's the same definition that the founders of the conservative movement in the 1700s used and it remains the primary philosophy of the conservative movement.
Founder already has a new medical startup aimed at bringing the same benefits of One Medical to poorer people.
Or keep the voltage high and step down with a buck converter in each socket as needed and negotiated with the device: there's a good argument to use ~300VDC as a future home electrics design. High-power devices (water heaters etc) will work better and more efficiently with DC, and low-power devices can deal with 48VDC with a lightweight step-down converter (5A buck converters are tiny)
I think the influence on this study is probably inverted though as supplementation could be based on a recommendation to compensate for lack of outdoor time as opposed to a study that measured levels.
Yeah, it is really a shame. It would be great to see some new competition in the pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacy sector
It's a tough demon. I've had a somewhat similar experience.

In my late thirties, I started drinking wine. A bottle a day on each of my days off. I could handle that, easily.

I never drank (and to this day maintain a personal policy) during the work week. With stress and anxiety I don't want to even tempt myself going down that road.

About 2 years ago in my early 40's, I discovered how to enjoy hard liquor. A year ago whiskey. I actually enjoy the taste "neat", provided I have a quality liquor. Be it rum, tequila or whiskey. I drink alone, so I could drink all I wanted to, and not worry about anyone else. The hard liquor, age and anxiety did me in. I never got wasted, never hung over fortunately, but enough that the next morning I realized I had blackout periods. I would eat something I'd prepared or watched a show I wanted to watch, but remember none of it.

I struggled with it for a few months. I hated that feeling. Every week I hated myself that next morning. It fed into my anxiety over time, having lost some.

I can't imagine how people can do it regularly.

I haven't cut out drinking, but fortunately I have learned the new limits. I can enjoy drinking still, and when I start to feel off, where I used to say "one more is ok, you'll be fine," I have managed to convince myself to stop at that point.

Things are so much better now that I've taught myself to enjoy and when to stop. I can only see cutting it out completely as when dieting cutting out certain foods - it leads to temptation and misery.
Not a game.
Agreed. There's something very special about playing it all on Nintendo hardware. Unfortunately a couple of my favorite games have freezing issues when emulated on the DSi.
The reason it's so bad is because dentists, doctors offices, hospitals and health insurance companies have also gone through this same massive consolidation.

CVS Health Corporation owns almost 10,000 drug stores and fills more than 20% of all US prescriptions. It also owns Aetna, the largest health insurance company in the US. It's the fourth largest US company by revenue. Another health insurance company is number five.

The largest health care operator in the US is HCA Healthcare which runs 187 hospitals, and has $60 billion in revenue.
Oh, you're right. I need to update my build system.
There's a related but very different take on this that was brought up by Wolfram in his recent article on ChatGPT:

"As a personal comparison, my total lifetime output of published material has been a bit under 3 million words, and over the past 30 years I’ve written about 15 million words of email, and altogether typed perhaps 50 million words—and in just the past couple of years I’ve spoken more than 10 million words on livestreams. And, yes, I’ll train a bot from all of that."

This actually has the potential to be useful - imagine a virtual assistant that's literally trained to think like yourself (at least wrt public perception; although you could feed it personal diary, as well).
I feel "infers" and "calculates" are still anthropomorphizing. I don't think anthropromorphizing is a bad thing.

If something appears to do an action, then it's a useful shorthand to say that it is doing the action. Even if it is doing something else under the surface
I too used to get domains, now about 5 years ago I got domain byDav.in & now most of my domains are subdomains like, hukamnama.bydav.in apps.bydav.in basically foo.bydav.in

Later I got tired of adding txt records, now my simple apps are like spa.bydav.in/weather or spa.bydav.in/radio spa.bydav.in/otp.html
It ought to be enough for the company to make a credible promise to send you the data and delete their copy. Is there really nobody who does that?
A cheat. https://www.ign.com/wikis/pc-cheats/Wolfenstein_3-D_Cheats
Yup. This has been posted so much over the years, I'm not sure there's anything left to comment that hasn't already been commented... :P
Providing equal rights to organizations with wildly different levels of power is not a path to fairness or market efficiency.
To me this is a lot simpler than Pandas as it’s just SQL but it’s SQLite with a columnar engine etc etc
California reactors win exception in fight to keep running
Is there a good way/site/method to keep up to date with the latest AI projects? Seems like a lot of people are now trying to specialize these GPT AIs and I would like to find out about them as there will likely be a few that could help me with my workflows.
The sleep soundly on expense horsehair beds.
Designing for Problem-Solvers
>and a boosting mission is being worked on

By NASA and SpaceX no less
Thank heavens...I was afraid I was the only one who hated Dodo.

More than any author I love, my history with Stephenson is mixed. Couldn't get past the first chapter of Anathem (though I plan to try again this year). Have tried twice to get through the first book of the Baroque Cycle (it's just a slog...a slog full of great writing, but a slog anyway). Those are huge pieces of Stephenson that are just blanks for me. I didn't finish Dodo, either (a minor piece). But the rest? Gems.
The initial prompt is pretty much gone in this highly successful lineage: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.0.0...

But the tail comment is slightly expanded. I suspected already that the tail comment is more of what was driving the continuation to reproduce it than any of the leading instructions

An immediate and still highly successful desendent then expands the tail comment: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.0.0...

And then another immediate and successful descendent expands it further: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.0.0...
It is not really innovating, if it has been battle-tested by other languages, is it?

While modern Java sometimes makes me think about reviving and modernizing an old project of mine, if Java is simply always behind by design of its evolution process, that makes it less likely, that I want to spend time with it.
The best option is open enrollment for Medicare or state equivalent and tax funded subsidies for low-income individuals. Unfortunately this option is unattractive to either the left or right
I dunno, their flyer always has a couple of pages for deals on brake parts and tires, although the majority of the flyer is always other products. Even so, it's probably because flyers are focused on getting customers into the store, but no one impulse buys "cheap brake pads" and "discount oil changes", so why advertise for them? Also, auto parts can generally only have deals by category since there are so many cars on the road, which means they can only use generic images and price ranges.

I'm definitely not their average customer, but the average Joe that has settled on using Canadian Tire for routine car maintenance definitely spends more on automotive stuff, simply because cars are expensive to maintain. But I bet their household products are more profitable.
We're rarely under any obligation whatsoever to be kind, or empathetic, or caring, or socially conscious. Nonetheless, I aspire to be those things. So if I were writing a JPEG encoder, and I'm picking a test image, I could:

1. Use the Lenna, which originates from Playboy, which Wikipedia describes as controversial "on both technical and social grounds, and many journals have discouraged or banned its use", and where the subject in question has recently requested to cease its use, or

2. Use anything else.

I'd choose 2. Seems like an easy decision.
The Spinning wheel could arguably have been a Neolithic invention but instead only shows up fairly recently. What makes it notable is it probably saved more labor than any other device in history, and in many ways set the stage for the Industrial revolution.

In terms of discovery, trade with the America across the Bering Strait could have occurred vastly earlier and dramatically changed history. It’s likely people where crossing fairly regularly without realizing anything unusual was going on.
I don't need something faster than C. That only matters on the bleeding edge of AAA games, algo-trading, maybe adtech. None of the areas I choose to work. Also Python is too simple with dynamic types for me.
Technically, even the notion that harm is something to be avoided is itself a moral take.

I guess a better way to phrase it is that once you start policing morality on one particular matter and create tools for that purpose, those tools will eventually be used to police morality to conform to social consensus across the board.
No doubt there are many things we could do today, with available materials, but we just don't know how to do it yet. There might be a catalyst that can efficiently combine CO2 with H2O to rip carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and create fuel. There might be a combination of materials and processes that we already know about which would enable grid scale nuclear fusion. There might be a way to use existing materials to create ultrafast photonic circuits.

So many technologies are actually pretty simple when you look at their components - a lot of genetic engineering is "just" plastic, metal, and heated water baths.
Well these days they call it ASMR. But you're right he's one of the first to strip away all unnecessary sounds. Makes for a very therapeutic video.
> If that passed, a bill to amend the constitution, forbidding punitive slavery, would become must-pass legislation

Right now, it wouldn't pass with a Republican House, or (given the supermajority requirement to propose an amendment) with a narrowly Democratic Senate. It might not even pass with a widely Democratic Senate; the California legislature failed to pass a bill on this despite a wide Democratic majority.

And it wouldn't be ratified by the required supermajority of states, because lots of states are heavily invested in penal labor.

Outrage over Florida beign extreme on this might make it help polarize Dem states (via the Dem electorate) against it even where instituttionally entrenched, but that would be offset by the effecg of polarizing the issue on the other side.
Even if there is no sunlight for half the year (and this completely equalizes vitamin D levels in winter), various confounders of sun exposure will still affect a study on vitamin D levels, assuming the study collects some samples during the period when there is sunlight and vitamin D levels vary.

Also, the confounders of vitamin D supplementation I mentioned would apply even if you never get exposed to the sun.

I think your comment is assuming the vitamin D supplementation is effective, when that hasn’t really been established. We don’t even know that vitamin D has a direct effect on most of the correlated health measures.
> They are the study of our interpretation of human nature.

Every study is the study of our interpretation of something.

> Interpretations change constantly.

Yes, that's what intellectual progress looks like.

> our interpretations will remain largely bullshit and guesswork and thus subject to rapid and constant change.

And, yet, because we are human and must interact with humans all the time, we have to do the best with the meager tools that we have to reach as much understanding as we can.
Depends on the audience. I have friends who would totally lose their minds over the manuscript and ignore the sword, and I have other friends who would be the other way around.
You can have more than one problem at the same time.
So the AI can learn to use APIs that follow perfect RESTful semantics, are fully documented and intuitively behave exactly like one would expect.

Our jobs are safe.
That makes me feel a little better.
> GraphQL is a huge burden

I’ve recently been bolting graphql support onto a midsize legacy webapp with the goal of making native mobile apps easier, and so far I’ve been finding it remarkably simple and delightful — In fact implementing a graphql API so that the clients can specify which data they want for themselves has taken less time than all the design dicsussions about what a REST API could potentially look like…

(edit: originally I asked how it was a burden, but after refreshing the page I see this was already discussed in another subthread, so I’ll just throw in my anecdote without asking any question :) )
FWIW, I think the article agrees.

> vitamin D effects were significantly greater in females versus males and in normal cognition versus mild cognitive impairment.

> vitamin D effects were significantly greater in apolipoprotein E ε4 non-carriers versus carriers.

Translation: If you’re already cognitively impaired, vitamin D can do little to fix that. Same goes for if you’re at high risk for Alzheimer’s genetically (ApoEε4), or generally at higher risk for neurovascular diseases (male).

However, as I’m sure others in the comments will point out — supplementing vitamin D will at least ensure you’re not getting cognitive impairment due to vitamin D deficiency, which seems to absolutely be a thing.
Indeed, it's closely related to the old Equality vs Equity misunderstanding - https://interactioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/...
Do you have an email I can reach out to?

I applied but heard nothing back.
I, for one, like checked exceptions.
Again, quantify them rather than vague hand waving. 1kW net of PV module has about 100g of metal in it and lasts 25-50 years. 1kW of fuel rod lasts 3-6 years and requires 130g of enriched uranium, a bunch of rare earths, 2kg of copper and steel for handling and requires extracting 1kg of raw uranium. The amount of lithium 'required' is zero, but if you choose to use LFP for diurnal storage, you need about 1kg. Roll together mining impact for battery, PHES, and solar and you've still not covered the uranium mine, let alone all the steel, extra copper, indium, gadolinium, chromium and so on. Inkai is over 460km^2 with a much larger zone in which the ground is too poisonous to inhabit. If you want to see how much copper is actually needed, maybe rather than using an unsourced article from 2018, look at the most recent IRENA or Frauenhofer PV reports. Racking systems have changed completely, modules are higher power and have less metal, and connection voltages are in the kV range now.

> And yes, the total amount of waste produced by nuclear energy is miniscule, and could fit in a much smaller amount of space than is taken up by solar panel waste, which is well over a quarter of a million metric tons. Both are small compared to, say, coal ash, but solar disposal does have significant costs and can and does produce significant waste.

Again. Compare for me the volume of the tailings pit of a typical open pit uranium mine like Husab with the volume of every solar panel ever produced. A few hundred grams of metal encased in glass for an entire lifetime of energy is not 'significant waste'.

> And one last thing--you're hypersensitive and pathetic. I started this discussion agreeing with your main point and trying to observe something straightforwardly relevant and you've been having a tantrum in response the entire time. Log off.

Projection much? You tried to push lies and propaganda, now you're having a tantrum when challenged. Every topic where nuclear shilling isn't immediately banned is full of the same set of talking points that have been debunked between years and decades ago.
I have a feeling that in the future developers are still going to be needed, but in an architecture and debugging/optimization fashion. Not in a writing boilerplate code aspect. There is also an issue with validating the output before it gets released to production.
For those of us with winter to deal with the better approach might turn out to be judicious use of UV tanning beds.
So, instead of formal APIs we need this to get out of the API hell?

The humanity is hopeless.
People don't even know what consciousness is anyway.
Maybe it's just biological multi-modal computations that aim at maximizing energy and stability of a given structure... (your atoms, then your molecules then your body, then your kinship etc)
Wrong. Two reasons, actually:

1. Culture is a dynamic and malleable thing, and through thoughtful criticism, it's possible to help people not be pedantic assholes on internet message boards.

2. If a post is both unnecessarily abrasive, and doesn't meaningfully engage with the post it's responding to, it adds no value to the conversation, and thus is not worth defending.
Only when forced to.
The question is, can you run server workloads on it? It feels like it is obvious choice arm server but someone should be first to try and test it
Note, this service is capped to 192 byte message roughly once an hour. Even assuming driver rest period doesn't need data, is 384 bytes enough to summarize an hour of driving?
It was never meant to be a permanent installation. It has already overshot its expected lifespan by many years.
LMAO. What does Seymour Hersh have to do with the Twitter Files? You’re getting your Russiagate dead-ender talking points confused.

And the Twitter files have revealed quite a bit. US government-coordinated censorship and exposing the Russian “bot” army as a myth. You clearly haven’t read them, or are just editorializing to fit your ideology.
That describes a lot of communities. Most of which don't produce similar attitudes as a result.
This video struck me as possibly being fake. Come on, just shuffling around some URL paths? Any idiot could create a video like that. Sorry, but no sorry.
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Yes and no.

No, as in not having the hypervisor extension.

Yes, as in the modes it does have (M,S,U) being sufficient for the implementation of efficient virtual machines.
Cool. Does sleep and hibernation work?