skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the people you meet only exist in this one lifetime. But the numbers themselves transcend that. I think it's okay to attach a tiny bit of significance to a number that happens to be randomly generated, but I don't think it's enough to move a number up to "interesting" unless it was right on the edge.
I see several very dubious classifications. Shouldn’t the great stink be under civil engineering rather than agriculture, and why is Plato’s Atlantis under computer science?
The technocrats in Belgium are really leading from the front across industries when it comes to rational, forward-thinking, and - most importantly - both pro-competitive and consumer friendly regulations.

Agree with other comments that GDPR isn't perfect, but at least its a start! I work in Finance, and their regulation around things like Open Banking (e.g. PSD2) is great. Of course they have their bad aspects, but overall they level the commercial playing field and protect consumer freedoms. I worry the US is letting legacy industry dominate the development of our financial (and other industries') infrastructure for short term incumbent gain but long term societal and commercial detriment.
If someone just says "The Gulf War" they almost always mean the 1990-1991 invasion of Iraq ("Desert Storm"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
What a beautiful thing.
> RF also has virtually no modern logistics for ammo storage or transport. They have no forklifts and few cranes. Most ordnance is moved via rail and then by hand (!). They can't seem to pour a flat enough concrete pad for forklifts to run atop.

Do you have a source for that. The last part (especially) is pretty unbelievable. I would assume that the techniques for pouring flat concrete isn't new, and even if they didn't have it, they could just make forklifts with bigger wheels or something. For instance, here's a US military forklift driving on gravel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift#Counterbalanced_forkl....

I do understand the Russians are much more focused on rail for military transport compared to the US, which then let them make design choices that have made it hard to switch to truck transport.
But the point is that Occam's razor is not an evidentiary argument. Occam's razor is basically saying "we don't have any explanation for why this is going on, so we'll just go with the simplest one" - and I'd even argue that falling back on "discrimination" is not even the simplest explanation in many cases. For example, found an article that stated that 61% of designers are women. Design is a desirable career with lots of opportunities. It doesn't seem correct to me to say "well, we have no better explanation, by Occam's razor there is considerable discrimination against men in design."

I guess what I'm trying to say is that looking at discrepancies in population frequency is a great place to start an investigation into why those discrepancies occur, but far too often (definitely not always, but frequently) I see it as the end of an inquiry, without digging into deeper root cause analysis of what is going on.
Things move slower in Switzerland. Eventually they adapt good ideas. That is why they're so stable but not always progressive. Switzerland is a very diverse country politically and culturally.
I imagine a tiny amount would be okay, based on the scientists' reactions. However, I wonder if chronic use of this, which is how it'd be for diabetics, would actually lead to bad consequences. Perhaps the material is specifically tailored to be not just prone to absorption but also neutral/positive when processed by the body?
Yeah, there is something in this space for sure. I think one of the issues is time; code can start off as a fun experiment, but transform into one that's not, which maybe just means that it is metadata associated with a specific release, yadda yadda, but there's a lot here to think about. For sure.

I recently have been accepting some PRs to some Ruby code that I wrote ten years ago that ended up being still in-use today. "Shitpost" or "baby's first crate" isn't accurate, but "hey I was very serious about this before but now it's not as high priority for me but that doesn't mean I abandoned it" is a tough thing to encode.
“Not a problem”…until they get laid off. Which has happened to many internal maintainers.
Would you not recommend UniFi then? Will you be migrating to another system?
Gotta be the plastic indeed; it also reminds me of this [1] - a mockup design I cannot track the source but guess it's also one of Apple. Kinda similar to old iPad docks

[1] - https://ibb.co/qxDVBng
It is so low heavily lobotomized that 99% I find much better results with chatgpt even though it is technically an older model.
Researchers Say They've Created Superconductors at Room Temperature
TSMC's 3nm process is still more dense than their 5nm process, just not by as much as the name would suggest. The name is meaningless because it no longer gives you an accurate idea of the average feature size.
I haven't used asyncio that much, certainly not in any serious sense, but wouldn't ContextVar lookups be a major factor of performance in serious asyncio code? Using tasks for things that aren't io-bound seems likely to give a false sense of performance superiority when doing basically nothing.
>then twice as much retirement savings should simply lead to a twice higher market clearing price for that work due to "these accounting mechanizations".

You assume:

* The labor market isn't flexible, that higher pay won't attract new workers

* There isn't a wage at which workers would be satisfied meeting their basic needs.

And this makes your conclusion that the labor would simply absorb additional funding too rigid.
German society which values security over risk taking and adds a shame component to failure.
I used Altavista and Yahoo in that time.
That is a useful design maxim, but the problem is that in a "systems language," it is difficult if not impossible, in my opinion, to achieve.

The closer you get to physical reality, the harder it is to be able to fit the world into your model, and you need to fit your model to the world. In Rust, unsafe is the way to manage this difficult set of tradeoffs
I agree, but still, I don't think it was appropriate for the judge to approve this warrant. Just because person X is suspected of a crime doesn't justify a search/seizure from person Y who just happens to be nearby at the time. Imagine a police officer legally searching your car just because the car next to you was suspected of a crime. It's just not reasonable. I hope the EFF or someone can help push back on this.
Verify Your Backup Strategy
A lot of intelligent lighting solutions still give you physical switches, although that can create some annoying behaviours when recovering from power loss unless the devices also had some solid state memory of their last on/off state.
Either "the vaccine caused this" or "Long COVID isn't real". Probably the former (or both?) considering the replies made by the commenter.
The Leaning Tower of New York City
> If someone has remote root you are telling me they can't unhide a filesystem?

Yes. There is no mechanism at all to unmask the vnode. If you believe otherwise, I'd like to see a proof of concept.
I think the answer is in that PDFs are used to convey 90%+ static content offline in a way where you could open up 10-year-old PDF and it will still look exactly like it did the day it was created. Because of this is it the system of record for reports in business, government, academia, and other organizations.

The other use case are fillable forms that are legally binding. In larger business or the government where you have your identity tied to a private key, you can sign a PDF with it.
> But try to make a nuanced point about more tests vs. more code to your fellow developers and you'll be burned at stake and your smoldering carcass will be thrown to wild dogs. Village children will use your severed head to play soccer.
Do hidden influences give neutrinos their tiny mass?
Hotline Miami and the Rise of Techno in Ultra-Violent Video Games
> Also, "not", as in "not the fastest" or "not the hottest".

Mid twenties Hiberno-English speaker here and that's always been a fairly common form of hedging, and I've not noticed an increase.
There's a lot of medical technology that involves sticking metal inside of people permanently, as long as they're making it out of the right kind of metal it's hard to believe it would be an issue to stick it on your skin.
About common sense thinking.

The phrase "for x in y" has an immediate common sense meaning in English. What it means in Python works out to that. Sure, you find a lot of complexity under the hood when you dive into the implementation. But the whole point of programming languages is to allow the programmer to think in terms of human concepts rather than machine implementations. And the concept maps directly to one that beginning programmers already have.

By contrast I've yet to meet any non-programmer who has an intuition about what "map", "reduce", and "lambda" should mean. As great as they are as organizing concepts, they are something that programmers need to learn and gain experience with before it makes sense. For a programmer who has completely internalized the concepts, it may well be similar mental overhead to a for loop. But most programmers have NOT done so. And beginning programmers find for loops a heck of a lot easier to learn - because it corresponds to something that already makes sense to them.

And the implementation is less "completely hidden" than you claim. Heck, the official tutorial at https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/ includes https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#iterators which shows you exactly how to poke under the hood and see how it works.

As for my comment about spending more time debugging than writing, that should be obvious. As https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=... notes, about 70% of total software costs come in the maintenance phase. Therefore as developers we spend over 2x the time maintaining software rather than developing it. The actual ratio varies by project size, industry, language, tooling, developer experience and so on. But that's a pretty good average. As your link notes, the contribution due to language is real, but modest.

My comment about functional programming being hard to maintain is based on anecdotal experience. I find my own functional code easy to maintain. But others have not. And my experience picking up other people's code has been at best mixed.

Oh finally, about Python, comments like "doesn't do OO very well" usually mean "doesn't do OO like I wish it did". I find them to be highly individual opinions, and not apples to apples when you compare people.
Now that's an interesting regression! I don't remember seeing it there before.

(The worst I've noticed before has been Lawrence of Arabia under History of the Ancient World. Very much 20th century really.)

Several other classifications are arguable -- which I think shows one of the limitations of this technique: it's not possible to iterate + improve.

So instead I've been wondering about using the embeddings of each episode synopsis, and comparing to the embeddings of Dewey subdivisions. I should be able to tune the results better that way.

There's also a technique from Google called CAVs (Concept Activation Vectors) that I'm intrigued about trying -- would love to hear if anybody has experience using this

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11279
Services like ChatGPT are the perfect answer for VC's desperate to find the next big piece of poop they can sell to their investors. Far easier to explain than crypto with use cases that sound impressive even though they don't stand up to even minimal scrutiny.

Hold on to your wallets.
> worse than brainfuck? I find that hard to believe...

Malbolge perhaps. Brainfuck is tedious, but it's a language of 8 symbols; there's nothing to forget. But doing comparisons in bash calls for a whole quickref of its own.
That said with enough training and training data, the line between "plausible sounding" and "accurate" gets thinner and thinner. This will be especially true as these AI models refine their results based on user interactions. Being right for the wrong reasons becomes less and less relevant the higher the accuracy goes up, and at a certain point, it might get so good that no one cares.

Maybe human intelligence is more like that than we're willing to admit ;)
That was hundreds (or thousands, depending on how you look at it) of years later though, and more a reaction to religion, not new alcoholic potency.
https://ruby-compilers.com/ is a comprehensive list of the various Ruby compilers. There's a table summarizing them along with detailed descriptions for some.
If you buy a Synology NAS there's really not much to manage. Other than inserting the drives and waiting for it to initialize, it's not considerably harder than setting up an account somewhere. It also has apps for security cameras.
The Flex models (G3 and G4) are the only non-wired cameras they offer.
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes
I've got a handful of LS120 disks and their storage cases I got from my parents that are certain to have personal data on them but I haven't ever seen an LS120 drive in person...
> I definitely do not want to read a super long Harry Potter fanfic

This hits the nail on the head for me.

I mostly enjoyed the books as a kid, but didn’t really maintain being a Harry Potter “fan” into adulthood. Out of the dozen or so “hardcore” millennial nerds that I know really well, there’s exactly one person that I think would attempt to read something like that, and based on the reviews I’ve read, I would bet that she would struggle to finish it, if at all.

There is a somewhat interestingly vocal group of internet adults that insist that the default mode for nerds in their 30s is to be Harry Potter super fans, some of whom lapse. Like we were all raised Catholic and some stray.

I was a big fan of Animorphs at that age too, but you won’t see me going around reading or writing Hork-Bajir/Andalite fanfic. Because I enjoyed it as a kid and then went on to read other books.
Translation and summarization are just two examples of use cases for which text generation is suited great.
"a rather modern invention"

Congestion charge is a rather modern invention as well, because the amount of cars in some city centers exceeded the tolerance of the locals and the capacity of the roads.

Borders can be soft/open as long as a modest amount of people crosses them. In a world of 8 billion people and relatively cheap travel, open borders would result in massive flows of people into several desirable locations - whose citizens aren't happy about such prospects.
It’s been like that since humans have been around. That’s the way knowledge spreads.

We humans have been repeating and imitating ourselves forever. That’s even the way babies learn to talk.

And we are not all clones, we don’t all think, say or do exactly the same things. But most just repeat and consume the same content and ideas (movies, music, books, languages, media).
> Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous.

It also democratizes the clout, power and protection that the hollywood famous have. Without social media harvey weinstein would not be in jail. A "relative nobody" wouldn't have been able to "out shout" and expose a media mogul like weinstein.

As with everything, there are positive and negative aspects.
The SEO out of ChatGPT is for boomers and other clueless people. The dead internet theory is true.
Linus Torvalds on Word-Wrapping Git Commit Messages
Ok, but one broken clock is easier to manage than a dozen broken clocks that are also potentially malevolent. At least all cars are tuned for the same type of fuel, and it would theoretically be easier to migrate all infrastructure from one formula to another as we did with lead.

How would auto manufacturers manage their cars' fuel systems if every station could potentially have a different octane booster? How do all those cars switch over to an entirely different formula when a bunch of those octane boosters are found to have issues?

Personally, I think the industry needs an R&D consortium to look into better technologies that all shareholders can use. Federal input and regulation, but the companies are free to work together to find better solutions for the environment and our health.
This has not been my experience with mostly G4 pro hardwired PoE cameras. I have their G4 doorbell and did have similar problems until I upgraded its transformer and pointed an access point directly at it. Been smooth sailing ever since.
Albanians?
That makes sense. So ChatGPT has to use some cleverness to present the relevant previous text in the current prompt, but the language model is still responsible for pulling out the meaning of that context and responding appropriately. I remain mind-blown :)
There was no soil yet at this time. Plants rooted directly into rock, turning the surface into gravel/sediment, weathering and runoff carried minerals and carbon away into the water. The landscape's stability depends on the roots, and so during mass extinction events, minerals and carbon get dumped en masse from the continents into the sea, and atmospheric CO2 levels drop because of weathering.

That part is relatively well established. This paper looks at the transport of phosphorus in particular, from terrestrial rock into marine ecosystems.

Plants can't take up phosphorus in its mineral bound form. Modern trees have micro-organisms living on their roots that release P (and N etc) from the soil. In certain periods of the Devonian era, P would have been primarily liberated from the rock by acids let off by the plant roots as they decayed.
Try giving it a simple request instead ;)
That doesn't have much to do with the subject of the article. Why stay salty about a tool bar and yoga 20+ years later?
This is correct from a logical point of view but not a practical point of view. With a few major exceptions transistors basically are one shape and do one thing. So if you can scale the process node you scale the density, if you scale the density you scale the performance. It’s not like 1 transistor could you give you 0.01 flops and another could give you 0.02 flops, a transistor does 1 thing and it works or doesn’t (with a few caveats), and the second order effects don’t really overcome that.
I don't doubt numbers are declining. Yet, where I live in the suburbs outside a city in the US northeast, I see bees, butterflies, and fireflies all the time when it's warm out. There was a time period when I didn't. But I may not have been as observant then.
It looks like a hit piece. Someone is against rationality regarding the question of AI safety (any real practical consequences is to censor AI under _pretense_ of AI safety, Perhaps, the articles are the preventive strikes to discredit the AI safety experts that might point out the obvious).
But is there anything precluding them from re-issuing those parking tickets every day until the problem goes away?
Not if you obtain that money by selling your freedom
Yes completely agree, I should update the post to account for the assumption of version control (thanks!)
I encountered a similar issue once. The first indication something was wrong was weird corruption issues across a variety of services in our kubernetes cluster. In particular I focussed in on a service that took gzipped messages from a queue, which was reporting that some messages could not be decompressed.

First I confirmed that I could pull the corrupt message from the queue and it was in fact corrupt - so the problem was not in the consumer (which was throwing the error) or (probably) the queue, but rather the producer which created the compressed message.

On a hunch, I took a corrupted message (about 64KB in total) and wrote a quick program that took each bit of the message and tried the decompress operation with that bit flipped. Sure enough, there was one bit at offset 13000 or so which, if flipped, made the message decompress and at least visually appear intact.

Anyway, it turned out to be a single node with a hardware issue of some kind - rather than diagnose it fully we ended up just replacing the node. Repairing all the corrupted stuff that services on that node sent out was a much bigger concern.
I meant wether the user converts, no clicks through.
I know that this is a typical HN post, assuming everyone should become a Linux sysadmin. But related to the parent, and recent developments in Zero Trust Access products, I wonder if there is a pathway towards neighborhood-scale sysadmin services.

I mean, I essentially provide that to my small social community with a private media tenant.

With ZTA systems in place to accommodate remote access, maybe there is an appetite for neighbor-to-neighbor network sysadmin services? Hard to compete with the sleek silos of big box brands and their infinite marketing budget, plus 5 9s of service, though.
Really impressive! Very smooth experience on chrome.
No, that’s a false dichotomy. You are implying by that false dichotomy that one is greater than the other. Until very recently in human history one would be the same as the other. That is what I am saying. Being born in a location has nothing to do with being better or worse. It’s just a random occurrence. What makes a person better than another is how they live their life, not the circumstances of their birth.

While I don’t disagree mixing of diverse people can be hard, I would simply point to American history as an example of how the empire you seem to laud was built by mixing peoples relentlessly. In fact immigrants tend to be the drivers of American growth, while the native born… not so much.

I find it fascinating you think culture doesn’t change with time, but with the mixing of different people into a culture only. What culture has been unchanged with time? Language itself mutates constantly, how can a culture be static with time? How does it stay static? The people in the culture change with every birth and every death, the memory of the culture is wiped out every 100 years. Written histories are a poor tool of continuity for something as complex as a culture. Human beings themselves change radically over the course of their lives. All things are impermanent, but human culture isn’t just impermanent, it’s an illusion.
It is more of a "long term experience" than mere "assumption".

At least in Europe, a sizeable amount of illegal migrants has only very rudimentary education, and the # of job openings for unqualified people is very limited. Some literally cannot read even in their own language.

As a result, immigrants from Africa and the Middle East are, on average, significantly overrepresented among welfare collectors and significantly underrepresented among taxpayers.

Of course, as long as the numbers involved are tiny, you can try to educate at least their kids, but once a fairly low threshold is crossed, parallel societies develop in full. Having classrooms where 90 per cent of the kids don't even speak the official language of the country is quite an intractable problem. And that threshold beyond which the schooling system basically gives up has been crossed in many regions of many countries such as Sweden or France.

TL;DR: You cannot maintain a modern welfare state with premodern population.
Minimum feature size.

The problem is that we've reached a point where not all features scale down evenly. So while some transistors might be 2 nm on a new process, others are largely unchanged from 3 or 5 nm.

How much you get out of a new process is now highly dependent on how you design your chip and what you want it to do.

This is why AMD is using multiple processes in a single CPU package these days. Some elements of their processors get little or no benefit from smaller nodes, so it's cheaper to make them on an older node.