skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had anxiety my whole life. Tried CBT, therapy, medication, everything.

Eventually got diagnosed with a congenital heart disease. Turns out, when your heart is behaving in a way that mirrors symptoms of anxiety, your brain decides you’re anxious. Your brain just picks something to be anxious about, because there’s no mental reason for anxiety.

Within a week of being on the heart meds my anxiety mostly disappeared. Still get anxious from time to time, but over actual things and it’s manageable. But, was really a life changer
>but, I've personally found that nothing destabilizes my system like adding a bunch of software from outside the package manager

That's why you should be creating your own PKGBUILD.
I wonder which company that is. In my area, a local health insurance company is somewhat well known for remaining "non-profit" by directing a lot of their extra money into local real estate, much of it commercial buildings downtown. Seemed clever years ago, but hopefully they're feeling some pain now.
Using GPT-3.5 Turbo in Golang
Thank you. Which OS have you been using so far?
That’s what discovery and depositions are for
I feel like this would end up with a bunch of interns in prison for the crimes of executives. It would be too easy to find a scapegoat.
I have done thousands of KMs of riding.
Endianness isn't relevant to any of the stuff discussed in the article. It is equally applicable to both big endian and little endian architectures.
This is a decorative/art installation, not the bridge's engineered lighting. So whatever Singapore is doing is not relevant (except if it's also for similar purposes).
>It's just a pile of rocks

So the outer sides of the pyramid are these very precise steps with amazing accurancy, and it's just filled in (where there aren't chambers) with... piles of rocks?
I suppose this time there might be enough distractions for sufficient number of them. And small enough minority end up doing drastic things. It might not actually take that much to keep them distracted, if there is enough food, drugs and easy entertainment.
These are LEDs to write messages and do colors, they are not for lighting.
I’m looking out my window and see two. I stand by the claim that it’s basically unenforced.
The reason we have women's sports in the first place is essentially a different form of "you have to be below 2m" in order to promote diversity in sports, so disallowing trans people doesn't seem like a much bigger step than disallowing 50% of the population.

Personally I don't have a strong opinion on this, especially since trans women taking over women's sports is not a problem yet anyway.
More than half the world overweight by 2035
Those are contingent on Amazon actually following thru with their investment
Where's the lie. Didn't US of A invade Iraq for the sole purpose of oil ?
Regulations in this case are just a way to deal with the bad system we have for holding people accountable for externalities. I would focus on fixing that rather than a highly complex and bureaucratic regulatory regime for every industry. It should be made unprofitable to toxic wasteland an entire city.
Besides the fact that equity language makes your writing "mushy", my biggest problem is that it alienates part of your audience, including potential allies.

In the mid 2010's America tried to become "too woke, too fast" and the backlash inflicted trump and proud boys and a whole lot of socio-political conflict upon the country.

Equity language has the same polarizing effect. There are good smart decent honest people who are immediately turned off when they get bombarded with these semantic shenanigans.
GitHub desktop/mobile apps have been the worst thing to happen to GH since / along with the acquisition.

The website is being neglected, (especially on mobile) which is the primary value the service has for me. If I have `git` I really don't need GitHub except to view comments.

Ironically, notifications and comment management is still pretty bad.

Don't get me wrong, I still think GitHub is the best at what they do, but like many incumbents, I feel like they are losing a bit of what makes them so great.

Polish up the features you have, we don't need endless feature releases, we need smooth features we know and love.
Other alternatives are Nix (or NixOS entirely) and Guix.
you argue that the curse is to have majority of your economy oil/resource extraction related businesses.

But my point is that the curse is that there is a stimulus to stop doing any other businesses. And it seems that Norway has largely avoided that by forcing as much oil money as possible out of the economy(oil fund)
Disagree. It's definitely falling behind in certain areas such as LSP support but overall it is just so much better than anything else I've tried in terms of moving around, macros, regular expressions that do what they're supposed to do, stability, stability of user interface (I could open an Emacs from 20 years ago and start using it immediately), quick and thoughtful response to bug reports…

It just works for me. It really, really does need some improvements in places but in other areas everything else just lags behind.
I'll give a plug for 'Cosmic Python'[0], it goes into detail of structuring larger python applications using hexagonal-ish architecture. I wouldn't recommend this approach for smaller services.

[0] https://www.cosmicpython.com/book/preface.html
Post to HN, which you've done, and hope real hard to get the attention of an Instagram employee.
This is one case where lining up values (and surrounding operators with spaces) can be good practice:

tx_data[43] = utime >> 24;
tx_data[44] = utime >> 16;
tx_data[45] = utime >> 8;
tx_data[46] = utime >> 0;

Or even:

tx_data[43] = utime >> (3 * 8);
tx_data[44] = utime >> (2 * 8);
tx_data[45] = utime >> (1 * 8);
tx_data[46] = utime >> (0 * 8);
Tesla isn't using aluminum "cables" either. They use the material for large rigid bus bars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35014013
Yes, but honest question, do you really think that if IBM had purchased SCO (and maybe throw Novell in there too) that Linux would have still had any chance? I don't know what the outcome, but I just think there's too many possibilities at that point for Linux to just stay hobbyist without corporate adoption (fearing now IBM licensing/lawyering at that point).
> In other words we won’t be reading the minds of suspected criminals anytime soon.

Oh don't worry, this will get wrapped up in some pseudoscience bullshit and misleading statistics and marketed to law enforcement. But not to worry, at first it'll only be used on real bad criminals. If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear!
Detecting Starlink Satellites with a Portable Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR (2022)
A semantic variable could be used to modify the way the system interprets shell and environment variables!

You could have different variable semantics for different namespaces or partitions!

:)
You're not wrong. Personally, I just used GitHub's web UI to preview my PRs, but I suppose having a local GUI makes it easier to amend commits and not have to force push changes.
OpenAI Becomes ClosedAI
What is your point? PBS indeed puts out blatant USG propaganda from time to time, including egregious instances like that al-Jolani hagiography from FRONTLINE. FRONTLINE in general is a total mess of misinformation when it comes to international issues.
I found financial accounting to be one of the most interesting courses I've taken. It's basically thousands of pages of rules to simply try to match expenses and revenues at the appropriate time so that you know if your business decisions are individually profitable without getting misled by different timings of cash coming in and going out.

And it's basically incapable of handling IP-based businesses like software and pharmaceutical R&D. Those tend to be one-shot gambles on R&D, where you have absolutely no clue if your investment will pay off, and if it does the margins are nearly 100%. But they have to try anyway, leading to many clever-but-imperfect patches on the GAAP system.
I assume because `\{` was not a valid escape sequence, which means any use of this character pair can be identified as a template without changing the semantics of existing string literals.
> Motivation is called a reward function or goal.

That's generally a singular goal in RL, and is human programmed. And also you would need to assume AGI won't have a programmed goal or motivation the same way as RL, and will pick it's own goals and need to discover it's own motivation.

And the agents are still only interacting with envs programmed by humans.

I find pretty much all of Bostrom's arguments outlandish and lacking a grounding in reality.
It's been a long time since I've seen anything from his channel, but I recall that he would put out blog posts explaining the processes shown in the videos too.
Like you say it really depends on what your job is. For me those bit algo's for a few years were my jam. I was moving data between 4 different CPU types and across 3 different network transports depending on the project and 4 different OS's. You need to know your bits when moving data between diff arch types and across different transport layers. These days most of that same sort of thing I did then? I would drop it into a json text stream and call it a day.
He's not saying they are leaks, he's saying that they are examples of a large company releasing a product for free to crush the competition. I don't necessarily agree with him, especially about Kubernetes.
Udarp – New type of digital HF communication
Sublime Merge is still the best option so far (not Electron)
I installed Slackware 2.1 in the fall of 1994. I had everything working. X11, networking, sound, Mosaic. I compiled Spice 3f4 and used it for my EE circuit sims.

The next year I asked some questions on a FreeBSD usenet forum and was told to buy a SCSI card, SCSI hard drive, and new network card. No thanks. I just stayed with Linux because the hardware support was much bigger.
Tell me more, why do you recommend having a public IP?
And are you saying that can only be achieved with certain hardware?
> I learned that COBOL has the most accurate arbitrary precision math, surpassing modern languages.

Maybe that was true 20 years ago.
See above comment: the question is not "what does copyright law say now?" but "is some variation of that appropriate as a replacement for patents?"

In other words, all options are on the table. We're assuming that Congress does its job, for once, and being that they're politicians, they do sometimes respond to public pressure.
> If it's just plain wrong, you can point to that. But often it's merely shallow, vapid, and dumb.

Shallow, vapid, and dumb can definitely be sufficient for a failing grade.
Tell me more, what do you mean with “models for stuff”?
Having worked in a Solaris shop for a while, I still wonder what could have been if Solaris made the decision to open-source about 5-10 years earlier than they did.
I think Solaris would have been such a better base for the Linux ecosystem than Linux ever was. Though the licensing issues had to have been resolved for this to work out, and knowing Sun/Oracle - that would never have really worked out...
I very much appreciate this dude. The amount of time and energy he puts into making these is amazing.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Hackers-Heroes-of-the-Computer-Re...

https://www.audible.com/pd/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late-Audiob...

https://www.audible.com/pd/Steve-Jobs-Audiobook/B005V0QI82
It can be worth it. What matters is how much time it saves your users over the course of using the app vs the time it took to develop it. So, if:

#-of-users * total-time-saved-per-user > time-spent-optimizing

Then it's worth it. You can even multiply by cost of user per time unit and cost of developer per time unit, to see how much money was saved.

Even in cases where its the same person on both sides, it can still work out. There's an xkcd comic about it, even.
I think Linus would have forked it and made LinBSD and more people would have joined his effort. The Linux community was a lot more friendly and helpful to me than the BSD crowd in the mid 90's
Dependency management/tooling. Python (philosophically) treats the whole system as a dependency by default, in contrast with other modern languages that operate at the project/workspace level. This means it's very hard to isolate separate projects under the same system, or to reproducibly get a project running on a different system (even the same OS, because the system-wide state of one machine vs the next matters so much).

People work around these issues with various kludges like virtual environments, Docker (just ship the whole system!), and half a dozen different package managers, each with their own manifest format. But this is a problem that simply doesn't exist in Go, JavaScript, Rust, and others.

For code that never needs anything except the standard library, or for a script that never needs to be maintained or run on a different machine, Python is fine. Maybe even nice. But I've watched my coworkers waste so many hundreds of developer-hours just trying to wrangle their Python services into running locally, managing virtual environments, keeping them from trampling on each other's global dependencies, following setup docs that don't work consistently, and fixing deployments that fail every other week because the house is built on sand.
There was a guy at MIT about ten years ago (edit: 2018! Woah) who made a headset that would read electrical impulses from your face. Apparently when people think in words, the same nerves fire as when they speak, just at a lower activation level. Using those signals it is possible to reconstruct the words being thought.

I'm surprised it didn't seem to go anywhere.

Edit: found it https://youtu.be/RuUSc53Xpeg
It's so rarely an issue on Arch. Between the massive official repos and the incredibly comprehensive AUR, I've only needed to do it a couple of times.

My initial comment was about needing to do that on non-arch systems. I've created my own RPM and DEB packages in the past as well; but, at least when I did it years ago, it wasn't as effective as a PKGBUILD on arch.
Did you even read the article? This is a public art installation funded by a non-profit. Not taxpayers. The installation was intended to be temporary and has already gone way past it's design lifetime.
> Sure, but what's not really python per se. One could also call C++ libraries from java via JNI and pretend java is super fast.

But that's how every scripting language obtains good-not-just-decent performance. A strong culture of dropping down to C for any halfway-important library is why PHP's so hard to beat in real-world use, speed-wise (whatever its other shortcomings).
“${val}” is a legal string literal that is certainly used in plenty of existing programs.

In current Java you would have to escape \, so only “\\{val}” could have existed before.
The output part is basically nonsense. It would be more honest if the output was a text. E.g. "Teddybear" instead of a bad image of a random teddybear.
Well, for one, the lived experience for most science monkeys is "torture, execution, autopsy", and the reason we tamper with their brains is due to the similarity.

I suspect others are taking the wide view but I wanted to point out this direct answer to your question.

p.s the use of "torture" is intended in contrast to the neutrality of clinical language on this topic, not as a hint at my judgement on the matter.
2 seconds difference by my calculation
I'm currently designing a programming language, and I just might adopt something like this for it.
> I'm sure it's also the best training in the world for how to manage a supply chain.

I wonder if it is, though - as noted, Apple is almost unique in that their size allows them to demand vast concessions from their suppliers. I wonder how much of what you'd learn still applies when you're working for a regular company and suppliers can just say no and drop you as a customer if you get to be too much of a pain?
Thank you, I saw it was about Silverblue. It's in the title! I didn't claim Fedora (or in particular, Fedora distributions separate from Silverblue) doesn't work out of the box. I just observed what's in the shared article, which is a lot of steps to get things how they want them.

As a Linux Mint user, obviously I don't know a ton about every distribution and all of the differences! (There's an implicit assumption there, that if you know a lot more, you might choose to customize a less "off the shelf" distribution, though I don't know if that is accurate!)

I'm just glad my Linux installation process didn't involve all the steps that this article included to get up and running and being able to use my computer. To be sure, they have used Linux for over a decade, and like things a certain way, so their pickiness leads to a lot of the tinkering! I'm just saying, personally, I don't want to dig that deep if I don't have to.

I still think it's funny that everyone is pointing out that it's about Silverblue, when it's in the title, and I didn't say anything to contradict that. What am I missing here?
up2date was before then
Huggingface.js – Hugging Face JavaScript Library
Sound's like you're opposed to all animal research, not specifically brain-computer interface research. We also don't ask a monkey's consent before doing any other sort of experiment on it.
Exactly--and the Sierra Club guide discloses that exact motivation in the part I quoted above.
> The number of images partially blocked by satellites is still small, the team found, rising from nearly 3 percent of images taken between 2002 and 2005 to just over 4 percent between 2018 and 2021 for one of Hubble’s cameras.

> “Starlink is the densest patch of space that has ever existed,” says astronomer Samantha Lawler of the University of Regina in Canada. "The satellites are constantly navigating out of each other’s way to avoid collisions" [here a reference to a similarly alarmist study from 2009 is cited]

Isn't this the point of putting telescopes in orbit? Starlink seems to at least be trying to reduce the visibility and size of its satellite fleet, but no one's working on cleaning up orbital debris - the best we have now is tracking of fairly large chunks of trash.
It was not, but for the most part languages don't default to arbitrary precision (i.e., sinple mathematical operators with decimal literals typically gets you binary floating point, not arbitrary precision decimal), even if they have arbitrary precision available at the language or standard library level.
The answer is: No, I don't actually care. I wouldn't say it's complete apathy though, I can still recognize that it's not exactly the most moral decision.

I agree, let's not exaggerate, if the overwhelming majority in aggregate acts in the exact same way, the aggregate action overwhelms the minority action.

In this case, most people don't care and share my viewpoint on the situation.
data definition syntax is quite strange at first but conceptually there's nothing special

and yeah legacy code of really sauron like
> Adding distraction, eroding the customer experience, and reducing the professionalism.

The professionalism of ... Starbucks coffee shops? Are you for real? It's not a bank. Let people wear what they want and what makes them happy. You can still require people cover sufficiently for sanitary and safety reasons.

> On another note, seniority is a toxic, irrational policy

Yes. Agreed. But also, Starbucks has been hiring people specifically to "outcompete" pro union voices. A rush of new hires can destabilize organization efforts. Seniority for the purposes of protecting workers is reasonable. Seniority as the only criteria is not. It's a careful balance.
Goodhart was an economist who stated his eponymous law in 1975, before Dawkins's The Selfish Gene (origin of "meme") was published in 1976. So Goodhart was not meme-ing.

If you want to argue that economics isn't science or isn't hard science, fine.

But law is used here in the sense of scientific law nevertheless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Economics_laws
Just caught this after a friend send it through, if you or anyone else is interested, please reach out to me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-p-le-20454736/

I started in education then migrated to tech with accessibility testing and now currently work as an accessibility analyst at Google. Would love to connect.
From an article on the train derailment in Oregon a few years back:

https://www.opb.org/news/series/oil-trains/how-inspectors-mi...

“Those unseen, broken bolts in Mosier, Oregon, expose a significant flaw in the current system for railroad inspections. Yet, federal and state regulators, as well as the railroads, all say current rules are adequate. Minimum federal requirements allow railroads considerable leeway for how they inspect their own track, while government checks are few and far between. As Mosier showed, the system can allow potentially dangerous defects to go unaddressed for months.”

According to the article, inspection and detection is done from a slow-moving vehicle. It’s a visual inspection…in the 21st century.

There are all sorts of rather simple technology solutions to employ, e.g. barcodes/QR codes to mark when a part has been replaced (or needs to be replaced based on age), image detection to look for anomalies, radar or sonics to look for flaws, etc. If nothing else, to at least augment a visual detection?

And another thing: our infrastructure is 100 years old, for Pete’s sake. We need people to stand up and say “enough is enough” already. We have to rebuild our infrastructure and use our latest technologies. The civil engineers have been saying this for 30 years, and the politicians don’t listen because it’s not something to get them re-elected.
Yeah, it could have been IBPOC.

Also, since we are exposing the silliness of all of this -- aren't "black" and "poc" discriminatory to "people who are experiencing albinism" ?
I'd say zero moving parts, extremely scalable storage, and very low standby power with the ability to burst up greatly when needed. It should also look relatively attractive and not require a rack mount. Just needs to run Debian.
> So obvious that it makes you question the effectiveness of medical research.

The point of medical research - especially the kind that seems obvious - is not just to discover new things, but to confirm what we think is obvious really, indeed, is obvious, and this isn't always the conclusion of such research.
EROEI: the metric deployed against solar and wind in the past, that was quickly erased from public discourse once it became apparent that modern fossil fuels did worse on it.

All those people complaining about EROEI no longer seem to have the slightest concern, despite it being a significant hurdle for future fossil fuel use.
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Yes, everything in physics is completely made up – that’s the whole point