skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I felt like I was just punting because I didn't take time to understand and resolve potential dependencies.

In my case the data was relatively small and I just wanted functionality. But I felt like if I could have worked out borrowing it would've generated more efficient code and less memory consumption.
You also have control to not be a celebrity and avoid the paparazzi. This is the parent's point. While you may have free will, it's hard to argue that having cheap access to fame is not appealing to everyone.
The groups I downloaded from archive.org are all in standard mbox-format and can be searched using mboxgrep. That has been good enough for me when I have wanted to search for something. In the past I often went to google groups, but I never manage to find anything there now it seems.
I think it's plausible that the deep state feels threatened by Tiktok because it is out of reach of US misinformation campaigns: Tiktok has the power to counterprogram against falsehoods spread by US officials.

We've seen how cozy Twitter is with the state. I wonder if any US propaganda falsehoods have been corrected by Tiktok already or if this a just a threat to national orwellian potential.
Came here to say this... Google Groups has a ton of use internally.
I know distilling goes back to antiquity but I was only thinking of the emergence of consumer drinks in the 1600-1700s. Specifically era of the London Gin laws.

I think in particular it's fascinating because this was before people really measured or understood alcohol content and they really had trouble figuring out why some drinks needed no real restrictions and yet others could destroy lives.
cool trick. Great channel. Mike's is also very high quality entertainment.

Here's hoping Diana recovers from her ME/CFS swiftly.
>When using an AOT language, how does one take full advantage of all cpu features at runtime? This seems like a place JIT would really outpace AOT.

One model is to not try and take advantage of the features at runtime, but to compile per-platform versions of your binary (with whatever flags and optimization levels you want, support for sanitizers, etc.) and deploy those appropriately. E.g. build one binary that supports "generic" x86 variants, one optimized for haswell, etc. This model works well if you have control over how your binaries get deployed (though not so well if you don't), and especially well if you can build the libc the same way at compile time also and statically link it into your binary. (This last point is one reason Google is investing in LLVM's libc.)
In a ChatGPT World: What Should the Ads Look Like?
Not directly, but this feels like a slope that could become very slippery.
I think this is a great analysis, though I think in reality it's not limited at all to Instagram specifically but more broadly to the self-promotional and self-marketing aspect of our culture in general at this point. Social media throws kerosene on it, certainly, but it's a much broader phenomenon of which this experience of Instagram is only one symptom.

Capitalism turns everything into a commodity. Including ourselves. From a very early age we are taught that it's important to sell ourselves; to survive and thrive. For most people this is just a background nag, mostly ignored, or poorly executed. For some it becomes a primary drive. The internet only accelerates it.

Mediums like Twitter are just as involved; showcasing one's quips for the world. It doesn't have to be a photo or video like Instagram or TikTok.

And as others may be pointing out, Instagram isn't even the worst of it.

Anyways as a parent of teens, it's very distressing.
what does aerodynamics of cars have to do with modern truck or SUV?
It's the only format that I can know with relative certainty that will keep show the same visuals across many devices and platforms. That's very important.

Word/excel/powerpoint all do whatever they want.
Can't speak for them, but we had some CJS/ESM interop issues with our (large and overcomplicated) babel toolchain as well as with our test suite.
Those sheets of paper have a really long history and humans have evolved it to be just the right size ... to handle and hold. And ergonomically two columns on a sheet of A4 (whatever by 11 in) is a pretty good default for the human visual system.

And ... printers work pretty well with it and while even I have to admit that digital documents are superior for most documents, paper still has a lot going for it: underlining, flipping back and forth, taking notes in the margins. I also find the added spatial dimension sometimes helps me remember (e.g. that was up on the top left of the page next to a chart) ...
Oh okay, if they only ban a subset which you agree with it's not state controlled apps. Got it, very logical.

Other logical conclusions:

Banning LGBT apps != allowing only state controlled apps.

Banning pro-Trump apps != allowing only state controlled apps.

Banning abortion clinic apps != allowing only state controlled apps.

Banning gun related apps != allowing only state controlled apps.

Banning climate activist apps != allowing only state controlled apps.

Banning Fox news apps != allowing only state controlled apps.

How do you people even rationalise this in your head?
The problem is when the "healthy community" is close to the central city and has good transit. Metro areas are networks, nothing happens in isolation.
Why can't you (any parent, really), as her concerned parent, implement such a ban?
I had a co-worker that assumed it worked template-style, where the value in the JSX would update and what's on the page would re-render, but the component function wouldn't be re-run.
As a small example of the complexity see this issue:

https://github.com/ricosjp/truck/issues/5

The last comment in that thread is me pointing to a related discussion about a bug in solvespace. Someone tried to cut a cone shape out of a flat surface and the boolean failed because of the degenerate normal at the vertex of the cone. It was days of discussion to select which few lines of code would be best to fix it.

BTW the solvespace NURBS kernel is under 10kloc and is fairly simple for what it's capable of. The bugs can be crazy to track down and require a deep understanding of what's going on in the code and geometry, but oh so rewarding to fix if that's your kind of puzzle.
The FBI chief is and has always been highly political. J Edgar Hoover was a extreme anti-communist and was investigating suspected communists, infiltrating CPUSA and creating blacklists at the exact same time that McCarthy was conducting his hearings.

In fact the McCarthyism acticle on Wikipedia has a whole section about the FBI. The FBI was deeply involved in McCarthyism.
Something being political does not require it to be partisan. Joseph McCarthy worked hand in hand with then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, and Wray was appointed by a president who also tried to ban TikTok.
Or even just social norms around day drinking or drinking age etc.
Environmentalists are like capitalists in that they always want the numbers going up. Growth, growth! Wherein reality, nature ebbs and flows.
That is unfortunate. You would think that the intent behind posting ShowHN is to get constructive feedback but based on what you described, it appears that the expectation is to make those creators feel good instead.
Cannot find where spouse dying resets the tax liability. If the outright owner passes away, that makes sense.
Also, don't Google emails by default have a 6 months expiry and the Groups is a way to preserve knowledge instead of relying on emails?
Did you somehow get it to play nice with multi-party chats, or does every user have their own private 1-1 room with the bot?
boiling the frog
Agree. I've never used the app but I'm curious about what these threat vectors are. But it's never discussed. It's just nebulously "bad."
Unfortunately, home owners vote at a higher rate, so this is unlikely to happen (even though it probably should).
I'm undecided. I feel it's a bit like when you .unwrap() everything. Either I take the time to match all the potential results, or I do it quick and dirty. But also when it comes to cloning if you don't do it you get a lot of lifetime annotations.
It actually works out better than 30%, quote is just an accounting game. You pay taxes on 70%, the top 30% is a tax free allowance. With a top marginal rate of ~50% it’s a massive savings.

Politically I think they originally justified it as covering expenses for people living in a new country (without having to declare e.g. trips home), but practically it’s a tool to help employers attract internationals and make it cheaper to offer internationally competitive salaries for professionals.
> A typical approach is to generate synthetic data based on existing ground truth. DoorDash did this via random text augmentation... During model training, they had a ratio of 100 synthetic labels to 1 actual label.

i'm sure this is well understood by practitioners but this isn't intuitive to me. when you synthetically generate data, you are resampling an observed distribution, but you're not materially going to get out something different than what you put in. (just read the linked cloudflare post - ok so we are generating negative examples and there's a lot more negative than positive - but what if we accidentally generate positives?)

whats a math/statistics intuition for why does generating synthetic data from existing data, to a 100 to 1 ratio, work so well?
I predict 13 more posts until it's Goodwin'd, and 200 more posts before it ends up being noticed by buzzfeed bots and turned into another culture-war post.
Did he?
What's more surprising is that Underscore.js[1] has seen more activity recently than Lodash (which was touted as Underscore's successor for years).

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore
There are only two kinds of apps: the ones that people want to delete and the ones that people don't use
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California's net neutrality law bars ISPs from blocking or throttling traffic, or offering paid fast lanes as of 2021. Fast internet is $50/month from several providers in the state.

No further action needed.
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My oldest got instagram and such at 16. She became depressed, moody, rude, and isolated. We would take the social media away, she became happy engaged, involved with friends and family.

Go right back to being depressed again as soon as she got access to Instagram.

Repeat every three or so months until she moved out. After wasting a couple years of her life she finally got off social media all together and is doing much better.

Her much younger sister is 13 wants social media. It’s a hard no. She complained to her older sister. Older sister was extremely firm on saying to stay off it.
Dianna (Physics Girl) is currently experiencing severe complications from ME/CFS/long COVID. Per the last update on her twitter:

The last weeks were scary. ER visits were hard. Dianna
still can’t walk, or even sit up in bed. But we see signs
of progress. Sleeping more. Eating more. More treatments coming.

Update here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydgkCCXbTA

https://twitter.com/thephysicsgirl
I know its a drop in the bucket, but I hope this can inspire more drops in the bucket. I tend my yard with plenty of plants that make food and habitat for bees and butterflies. This includes native milkweed for the monarchs, carrots, fennel, and parsley for the swallowtails, and many other flowering plants for the bees. Chemical warfare is completely banned from my property. All kinds of insects are here and in balance providing food for the rest of the ecosystem.
We put this aside in the book for this exact reason: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch12-03-improving-erro...

> But I felt like if I could have worked out borrowing it would've generated more efficient code and less memory consumption.

That is possible! But while you're learning, this isn't the most important thing to focus on. And depending on what you're trying to do, using borrowing may be easy, or may be hard, and while you're trying to learn, you don't know enough to evaluate the tradeoff on that basis, so in my humble opinion, it is absolutely okay to clone, and is probably even what you should do in most cases.

Once you're feeling good enough about Rust to start digging deeper, working on trying to not do this is a valuable skill. But imho it's a waste of time when you're starting, and may lead you into a pit of despair.
China also sets the precedent of suppressing speech and political dissent, executing a large number of prisoners and other horrors. We shouldn't follow their precedent!
If apps are banned solely for their nationality, and not the uniqueness of their functionality (spying, law enforcement, etc), then yeah, it kinda does.

"Only countries on our approve-list can deploy social media apps in our country."
I don't understand, and if you could illuminate it would be very helpful, how are such pressures achieved and maintained even for the shortest time without destroying the apparatus that holds it?
Definition of NIMBY
Maybe people just don't like 4,211 social notifications per hour.
Lol what? Wikipedia has EXTREME moderation, from locking contentious articles, to hyper nerds spending all their free time browsing edit histories to revert dumb changes middle school kids made, to active efforts to undo the work that literal nation-state actors have done, to having to ban the offices of American politicians and political contractors who OFFER SERVICES TO REMOVE YOUR CONTENT FROM WIKIPEDIA

It hasn't been "anyone can edit anything" since like 2008!
oh yeah...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIuon6CUKz0
it's a little annoying that the "AI Impacts" paper seems to be three MIRIs in a trenchcoat, considering that this article is about EA's AI agenda and by extension Singularity/MIRI. There is a slight conflict of interest here - as the publishers of the paper are also taking funding specifically to "deal with the threat" they're publishing on.
this is such a HN question...
Premature optimization, etc. etc.

I tend to follow a "clone first, figure out lifetimes later if profiling shows that it would be worthwhile" rule. If I always did the optimal thing with lifetimes, I'd never actually finish anything.
It isn't Instagram, it is like counts. But the like counts are what drives the addictive behavior and makes the product "free" to use.

This is just Goodhart's Law at a personal level. We stop being authentic to chase likes. We inherently turn the measure into a target. We have hundreds of "friends" of FB and we interact with a dozen or less regularly.
Why is this so hard? Why can't we just specify that a particular file needs to be actually deleteable and that we don't want the system (at any level) to leak copies of any of the data in that file? There is no technical reason this is not possible, it is just a convention that has caused problems since the dawn of computing. There is no point in making a file system that supports that filesystem would not be able to specify deleteabiliy to the hardware. There is no point in making hardware that supports this because there is no file system that exists that would have anything to tell the hardware. This situation exists simply because of inertia.

Sure there would be performance implications, but who would care? You might just want to store a key for some full performance encrypted data that you would like to be able to actually remove access to. Sometimes performance is not the most important thing to optimize for.
>That means the government’s budget would have to be heavily controlled by how many residents there are.

... aren't we there already?
I'm very curious about this statement, does anyone know more detail

> Futures combinators are not used because the combinator model suffered some specific problems with state sharing in futures
> Instead, in the current national regime, it has a tendency to ossify current laws

Housing is hyper-local. And California (or all the places with housing crises for that matter) tend to have a de-facto one-party government. So it has nothing to do with national regime or aligning stars. Voters just don't want affordable housing.
> Schools are paid by property tax, but every public school in every jurisdiction I've ever lived in has been inferior to private while costing me almost as much via property tax.

Former educator: This mostly comes down to being able to select for students from house holds that have large disposable income and care enough about their child's education to send them to a private school.

This usually gets you a lot of benefits:

1. Less disruptive kids (get too disruptive and they kick you out)

2. More engaged kids

3. Parents with leisure time to volunteer

4. Easier fundraising (private school in my area rakes in ~$1ml/yr in fundraising, vs $500k for the public school).

I really want to re-iterate how powerful the effect of being able to kick people out of the school is. Like in most things 20% of the families generate 80% of disruptions in public schools and private schools basically get to elide that by not being a public service.
Well you can see Guido in his own words at https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196.

The simple version is that higher order functions do not correspond to anything that is part of our common sense thinking. As a result people have created arbitrary terminology for it like "lambda" and "reduce". When you've mastered the terminology it may seem like a good way of doing things. But there are easy alternatives for doing the same things that DON'T require mastering that terminology.

Python has a number of guiding principles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python has a list, but one of them is, "There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it." And higher order functions do not win in Guido's mind.

Separately, while the operation of higher order functions is explicit, code that makes heavy use of them tends to make behavior implicit and dependent on setup elsewhere. I have heard Guido complain about that exact style of coding. I have grudging sympathy for his view. Functional code can easily be a joy to write but a confusing nightmare to debug. And we spent more time on debugging than writing.
Show HN: Doublespeak.chat: A ChatGPT Escape Game
I was just going into excessive detail. My point was limitations stop following the spirit of the original.

I don’t specifically object to changing the judge from interrogation to observation of a conversation. But, it should be clear his version doesn’t have all the loopholes the modern interpretation does.
That's not exactly true either... there seem to be some rules, Americans are just think some European words are generic, where Europeans tend to know what they mean.

As an example of where the US system seems to work, you can buy "parmesan" which seems to be some kind of a sawdust-based product, or "reggiano parmegiano", which is a cheese.
Certainly cool, but it's getting a lot to see just how good GPT is at generating utterly useless cheap content. Making content is a moving target, and GPT by nature produces uncannily generic generations.
You can buy a dog. That buys happiness
Since every recursive program can be implemented without recursion, this isn't really a limitation.

Recursion can actually be a pit fall if you parse user generated data and don't set recursion limits. If feasible I try to avoid recursion.
So ... you didn't read the article then?
1977-1945=32
2023-1977=46
2023-32=1991

Quite a bit closer!

That’s an interesting note, given that the Tie/X-wing fights were heavily inspired by WW2 dogfights, right? Can you imagine something that draws on the Gulf War similarly? It just seems wrong, too proximate to pull out purely aesthetic themes.
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Sahara dust feeds the Amazon rainforest
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...
If you can’t list their numerous advantages, I don’t think you should be asking for their removal.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
IMO, because the "tournament" of evolution between competing species comes to place where "winners" are declared, they live. Losers die off. While lamentable, this opens the field for the next round of competitors to fill the voids left by the losers which drives more diversity and the process repeats itself.
My first startup did something like this. They got rid of 6pm dinner because people were staying until dinner and then just leaving. After the company got rid of dinner, people just left at 5pm instead.

The net result was that the company saved about $150/day, and lost about 25 hours worth of work. Not sure if was a good deal or not.
We go home to rest.... no more working for us....
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It's not something you recover quickly from :(
I used my pihole to block all facebook data in or out of my home network and the internet is palpably faster with the block in place.
>Do you know that it has been 2 weeks since Turkey banned country's most popular social media for no other reason that they suspect anti-government activity

After seeing how the Patriot Act was passed then abused, one should be very weary of any free speech limiting precedents being set.
All social media is a national security concern, because it is known to cause (not just be associated with) decreased mental wellbeing.
As I said, I don’t think many people experienced Windows Calculator not working. Is it completely impossible? No, because computers are weird sometimes.

But all three articles are just spam. The writers of those articles definitely did not experience nor fix Calculator crashing, they just took their template “how to fix [modern Windows] $application” post and replaced $application with Calculator. You can also find similarly absurd posts for macOS [0], with the fixes being very generic and applicable to any app (force quit, safe mode, update the OS), workarounds (use Spotlight Search), and one user error fix (disable RPN mode). And, oh look, GNOME Calculator on Ubuntu can break as well [1] (but to be fair, that one’s caused by the ridiculous Snap obsession of Ubuntu).

[0]: https://www.guidingtech.com/best-fixes-for-calculator-app-no...

[1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128243/calculator-wont-star...
Robotics is a double whammy, you have compute problems but you also have actuation.

Getting robots to move quickly is easy; getting them to move quickly to exactly where you want them, or with exactly as much force... that is much, much more difficult. Double for mobile robots where you don't have a good energy source. If cost is an issue that is another dimension -- powerful and accurate actuators are extremely expensive.
We just usually call them tariffs and duties.
Sure, but being kept on by an administration of the opposing party goes a bit to show that he is also not particularly partisan.