skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong, a hypothesis is literally an idea to be tested based on observation.

1
a
: an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument
b
: an interpretation of a practical situation or condition taken as the ground for action

2
: a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences

3
: the antecedent

As the US has been observed doing similar things in the past, this is a perfectly valid hypothesis.

How might one test this?

Wait 50 years for the docs to declassify perhaps.
Also Htmx got picked up early by the Django community
Is there a service where I can pay someone to talk to phone support for me?
I wonder if this explosion in GPU processing would’ve made things 1000x faster? Never paid attention to it.
As a person from south Asia, one of my big culture shocks moving to west was the allergies. Its almost unheard of in South Asia (at least a decade ago). One another big factor is likely that the heavy daily use of fermented food in South Asia, which was almost complete ly absent (atleast in US)
Increased supply doesn't change the demand curve but there are basically no scenarios that don't lead to an increase in volume and a decrease in price.
Anecdotally I see a majority (90%+) people commenting on HN living in relatively urban areas and perhaps this is why you see trucks as wasteful - the closest thing to a working pickup truck they see is fellow commuters in vehicles that have never been off pavement without even a tow hitch, etc.

Perhaps visit the "flyover" parts of the land sometime.
It's funny to me how these psychologists are trying so hard to ascribe this to a single cause. In my view it's clearly a multifaceted problem. Academics are more competitive than ever, media is more addictive than ever, socializing is more stressful than ever, and every decision you make in our society is tracked and has consequences. The news is constantly blaring out how the world is doomed, and the speed of technology makes it tough to predict even a couple years into the future. And nowadays if you say the wrong thing and it gets recorded then your life is basically over. It's no wonder that people are mentally ill IMO - before becoming financially independent, modern life requires an absurd amount of effort to successfully navigate.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/447

"There's nothing more annoying than people believing the same thing you do for dumb reasons", ouch ...
Little heavy on the conspirational thinking.
Java is verbose because it's inexpressive, not because it's good at documenting. It's Objective-C with everything too interesting removed, but they never added enough of it back.

Classic essay being http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom....
Wo..is it? That sounds crazy niche. Do you have any links?
> I have learned everything from flawed sources. We all have.

Sure, some historical books in the US South are wildly inaccurate!

This is why we deal with multiple sources, as well as defining, validating, and exploring our sources. ChatGPT does not do this. It does not pull from definable sources, it is an LLM that outputs text based on statistical word sequences from an almost bottomless source.

You can learn from it, but the sources may be sketchy, and it will mix source biases. I tried to ask it for sources on the fall of ancient Rome:

>> As an AI language model, I don't have the ability to consult sources or remember my previous responses. However, the information I provided about the fall of Rome is widely accepted in historical scholarship and can be found in many reputable sources such as encyclopedias, textbooks, and academic articles.

Personally, I think we need to tune the LLMs according to use. Creative? Then it one way. More factual, the other way. This does mean we would need to know sources for LLMs.
> I had thought that maybe the framework could pass a more limited delegate for the instance to the constructor to prevent people from doing something silly with it, but that would prevent you from assigning a property safely anyway.

That seems like a good idea. I'll admit my illustration is not a fully fleshed out design, it was meant more to be a sketch of how it would be possible to make a class based design much more capable than the original one was.

> Any user-defined component using lifecycles will still need to have "constructor", "render", etc in the generated source

Ahh I got it - this is not about DCE but about minified names. Not sure why my mind went with dead code elimination.

My first gut feeling is that this wouldn't be as important for everyday users if they already have code splitting / DCE / gzip. I'll look up the video, would be interesting to see some numbers - I'm hoping thats part of the presentation.

> componentDidUpdate receives prevProps and prevState, and shouldComponentUpdate receives nextProps and nextState. How would you provide information about the previous or next version of that hook-based state if it's being tracked as an instance property rather than in the component's state object?

I'm giving up having a single component state with the new API - this class based hook API also allows you to have multiple states. So I'm going to focus on the props part.

In the hook constructor, you would be able to use a listener for componentUpdate:

component.onUpdate((prevProps, props) => { run code });

You could also do something like

component.watch(() => [otherHook.someValue(), this.someState.get()], () => {
// callback
})

to get render-time change detection (equivalent to `useEffect(fn, [otherHookValue, someStateValue])`).

Its all a bit wordier, no doubt, but I feel that most of the capabilities can be implemented.
The sun is cooler than most visible stars, so it can be called yellow by comparison.

Incorrect. The out of atmosphere color temperature of Sol is ~5900K. The average color temperature of the Milky Way is 4700-5000K.

https://www.news.pitt.edu/milkywaycolor
Why? For explanation, see link below; appears this was announced back in 2020, title should be updated:

- https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267
RIP Frank Drake - pioneered SETI experiments detecting radio signals from stars
This is really kind of sad, SETI@home and Folding@Home were some of the first projects that got me really into computers and GPU programming. It was so cool to me in middle school to think that my computer was helping do a small part of real incredibly complicated problem solving.
I had many fun experiences thanks to my blog. From having random visitors contact me when I lived a few years in another country, to having the feds monitor my blog because of random notes I posted on a weekend project.

However it feels a bit like nostalgia. Nowadays everything is drowned in SEO-spam. My advice would be to maintain a blog if you find it fun to write. I find it useful because it helps me structure my thoughts.
I too tried to use all of our workstations to run this trying to break into the top charts. Oh how young and naive I was thinking the 8-10 computers I had were effective enough for that.
This is a long running strain of criticism against continental philosophy. I don't mean to write this to refute you, just that many people do think that the continental philosophers are tilting at windmills and aren't really based around objective reality in the way a lot of earlier (pre-Hegel) Western philosophers were. There's also people who would claim that Derrida's linguistic relativism is in fact bolstered by LLMs.
Office runs on wine.
I snuck SETI clients onto the computers in my school. This is a sad moment — but I rejoice in knowing that it embedded the concept of distributed computing among nerds in our collective memory. Protein folding, weather prediction, and looking for pulsars as an in-game feature of EVE Online... glad these things came out of it.
We did that as well on a bunch of spare Sun SPARC servers that were considered powerful back in their day. A part of me always wondered if I had been tricked into cracking encryption for the assorted agencies and that this had nothing to do with monitoring the quietest frequency in the galaxy.
You don't think that 'requesting work' can be done by a LLM as well?
Why learn when they have someone to do it for them.
Makes me wonder how many weapons the other nuclear-armed nations have lost and not recovered. Like the US, Russia has thousands of them, and had tens of thousands more during the cold war. How many of them went missing?
PostgreSQL logical replication only cares about the data. It doesn't require that you have the same database schema - or even a database - on the receiving end. It doesn't know about stored procedures.

You would typically use it for situations where you don't want to replicate your whole database.

You can subscribe to a narrow/specific set of changes (for example if you only care about inserts to a specific table, no other changes).

It has some significant limitations that means, it can't really be used as "Kafka Streams lite":

You can't have different permissions for different publications. If a subscriber can read one, it can read them all.

There is no separate storage for the publications or the subscribers: if any subscriber is slow/stuck/offline, it will hold back all your WAL for the entire database cluster.

--

If you want an exact replica of your database, you have to use the "physical replication". This still doesn't specifically care about stored procedures, but it replicates data and schema change exactly.
Folding@Home was something I ran instead of mining bitcoin at the time, it really made me feel fulfilled, but alas here I am without my crazy bitcoin money because I rather fold proteins to solve diseases back then hah
Phone support is a baumol cost.

Rising wages for more productive forms of work both pulls away workers from working in phone support - and increases its demand by giving everyone else more money to spend.

I would say a high amount of increased productivity in phone support is by using cheaper labor in developing countries.
A country road. A tree.
You think that evildoers might not only be able to conduct an excavation so difficult that it stymied the US military, but that they’d be able to do it without attracting official attention?
Does the copyright work in this case?

Because the patch was actually published already fully (in the mail list), if I understand it correctly.
HN has changed a lot. As others have stated there is a lot of politics injected that I couldn't care less about.
Purely speculative - but perhaps the explosion in GPU power and storage capacity means they can do this processing in house now.
And yeah I totally agree with you regarding `cargo`, in my mind thats also one of the things that don't seem to be related to the language but the quality of life improvements end up being huge.
A website with company "support reviews" wouldn't be a bad thing.
It’s because emails continue to queue up and it’s impossible to answer them all. While people will actively avoid calling if at all possible and will drop off if it’s not important.
sad.

wont be able to hear from Three-body from now on.
human's eye are closed.
That is another infuriating part of phone menus though. I am a busy person so I only resort to calling after exhausting online options. Then I have to listen to a bunch of menus and reminders about how I can do standard stuff like check my balance online. And I have to kind of “hack” my way to a real person who has the power to actually do something.
Support chat is pretty terrible, but poor quality phone support isn‘t that great either, in my view. (High-quality phone support does exist, but is unfortunately increasingly rare.)

I wish email support was more of a thing in the US. Not chat, not a web-only form or ticketing system, just plain old email (on the frontend):

It leaves a paper trail (persisted within my control), it has minimal overhead (the forced superficial friendliness or attempts of small talk in support chats are deeply disturbing to me), it works on a bad internet connection, it works asynchronously.

In the EU, having a human-attended support email address has recently been made a legal requirement, and I‘ve had great experiences with it (if only because in some companies it seems to immediately get you to a second level support due to the relatively low volume compared to the "official"/advertised means of contact).
Hmm... You are equating responding to a "massive ground offensive against the DPR/LPR" with Russians "defending themselves against Ukrainian aggression". Are you implying that DPR/LNR are Russian?
That example was highly controversial, and I think Chomsky was actually right in that instance (all languages have recursion). Generally my understanding is that he's considered to have held the field of linguistics back quite a bit with a non-disprovable hypothesis.
Does opentelemetry also support mocking outgoing requests values on replay? Or is something else used for that part?
Open source =/= community, though, nor contributions. It just means releasing the source code with an open license
Yeah, it was a surprise. Discovered by experienced family doc, followed by PSA and biopsy.
For me, my ability to stick to a diet was predicated on my ADHD being properly medicated. I never reached the "obese" category, mostly because ADHD seemingly doesn't prevent me from sticking to an exercise plan, but I was in the "overweight" for most of my 20s because I wasn't able to focus consistently enough to effectively count calories.

Many people can't stick to a diet or exercise plan because they haven't been treated for a related problem. For example, many people can't effectively exercise due to joint pain which could be alleviated by physical therapy which is frequently denied by health insurance.

Additionally, the "healthcare system" includes stuff like nutritional and exercise education, public gyms, etc., all of which are woefully underfunded in the US. Worse, the programs which do exist have been heavily influenced by lobbyists (lobbyist influence on the Food Pyramid, for example, is well-documented). The corporate right to lie in advertising also means that much education is undermined by straight up lies in ads.
If the US military couldn't find it when the scene was fresh, what's the likelihood someone could establish a large and sufficient enough excavation operation to find it, and remove it, before somebody bothered to go "what's all that ruckus about" and call the US military?
>#2 is perhaps necessary for democracy to work

Citizens that are active and care, is what's necessary for democracy to work, that is, citizens which actively monitor, and participate in, political developments. Mere "informed voters" just voting once every 4-5 years do not really make democracy, even if we were to be generous and assume that the elections-very-X-years model and the existing representation hierarchies system are adequate.

Beyond that, for real democracy to work, the number one source of information of citizens should be real life experience with other citizens that they're actively learning from (their issues, grievances, etc with laws, political decisions, officials, etc) and collaborate with. Not the media.

In other words, voter who 99.9% of the time tend to their private affairs alone, can't make democracy work.
Indeed an LLM doesn't need to be told what routes or actions to take to do that as has been demonstrated by palm-e and chatgpt for robotics.
Deutsche Bank comes to mind.
Sure, but some of us can only get Comcast.
Because you are encouraging them to be helpless. Notice how fast they learn when you don’t just do it for them.
Discussions are boring when they are simple assertions with no background or detail.

It's also very common for people to argue they need these large vehicles for activities they aspire to do more often, but in practise only do once or twice a year.
Were the searches performed by the @home software so extensive that there's no other use for that data, or were there trade offs made for compute time from when it was originally created being too much for the time? So if the software was updated to take advantage of today's compute scanning the same data, would there be any benefit? I seem to recall some results of "AI" searching existing data to find things that were previously missed. Wondering if the same might be true of the SETI@home data.
The problem is that it's been replaced with either nothing or a help page that doesn't solve your problem.

I recently had a company email me saying:

> In this case, your review of___ has been flagged because we couldn’t verify its authenticity, and on that basis we’ve removed your review from our platform.

> While we’re confident that this is the right call, we appreciate that sometimes we get it wrong. If you think there’s been a mistake here, please do let us know by replying to this email and a member of our Content Integrity Team will review this decision with you.

What happens when you reply to that email as instructed?

> Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, this email address is not monitored and this is an automated reply.

Instead they direct you to some long ass form on their website asking about the URL of the review I'm contacting them about, which I have no idea (it was a response to a "how was your customer service experience, please rate us), and I'm not going to spend my time trying to find where it was. The whole experience was by email, I don't know if it even has a URL, but it's a required field on the form.

The original email thread that they told me to reply to should have all the information they need, but instead of even generating a link that pre-fills it into the contact form, they just throw all the context away and say "go to our website and fill out the form" because my time is worth nothing to them.

The extra irony is that I would complain to them about their service doing this, but there's no way to contact anyone useful with feedback.

Honestly I assume it's all on purpose because if I bothered to fill out the form it would cost them 5 minutes of someone's time to have them review it.
On Overexcitable Children
I think a tmpfs on Linux on some fast DDR5 RAM may get you close, it may even be faster but I'm not totally sure!

Of course, getting 256GB of DDR5 or even DDR4 RAM is going to cost quite a lot, and most motherboards probably won't have enough slots for this! Also it would probably be much more expensive!
It’s a parable about LLMs.
It seems like modern machine learning models are more aptly suited for crunching this data with a new method of distributing the segments.
Not just announced in 2020 - the hibernation went into effect on March 31st, 2020. Surprised as some of these comments are (even me!), it's been asleep for three years now.
As a consumer, I hate having to call phone support. Even if they answer instantly and are helpful, it’s still 30x slower than doing what I want in the app or website.

I avoid all companies which make me call up or otherwise engage in slow communication to get things done.
I’m training for an Ironman later this year. Surprisingly, the longest run I am scheduled for is 2:45. When I did my half- IM in ‘21, I never ran for more than 2 hours.

It takes a good aerobic base just to finish, but a lot of it is mental training too. For instance, some of the bike workouts are ~6 hours. On a stationary bike (the article mentioned a Peleton), it’s a mental game.

Nailing race day nutrition is incredibly important to prevent cramps.

But when it’s finally race day, you just kinda have to trust your training plan, trust your preparation and I just kinda zoned out during the race.
Putting custom tweaks into your drivers that are activated for specific processes is pretty common practice, what’s surprising here is that AMD put in effort to make Chrome run better but forgot to include Chromium. I wonder if the same is true for Electron?
When I read "touched" I don't think "executed". I think "edited". There is C code executed when I run JavaScript, but that doesn't mean that I had to touch it. Similarly, all the JS run when accessing the DOM from Rust is generated by the library. The user of the library doesn't have to touch it.
The Pentium FDIV bug was due to a bad value in a lookup table.
Great effort article. But I just don't think re-skilling is a good solution to massive layoffs and social unrest. It's a pipe dream. How do you ask questions for macroeconomic topics you didn't already know? - by reading books which everyone could already do. chatGPT has become something you have to do after you've read the book. People will need more time reskilling now. Classic Jacques Ellul argument again. I'm sorry for negative comment but nobody should take this seriously. The point of the article is showcasing how chatGPT can be very useful study buddy.
I was thinking more about the equivalent of a human noticing that the initial answer they were going to give is wrong and then thinking about the topic for a while before coming up with a better answer.
The only hope is for the fad to somehow go out of style.

It seems hopeless but maybe there is a marketer somewhere who can convince Americans that more practical vehicles are also cool. Ford has just reentered the small pickup market with the Maverick, for example, and I believe they are doing well.

Electrification could also push people to smaller vehicles, if the range benefits are real.
I personally love scala: It's been my main language at work for well over a decade. However, the barriers of entry are real, especially since arguably the most popular styles of the language demand learning the most esoteric parts of the language straight away. If your organization is well seeded with very experienced people, they'll be able to train people up, but it's oh so easy for things to go wrong.

If you are looking for all the advanced type system features, kotlin is definitely not going to put you in the same spot, but if you are hiring Java devs, training them is a far easier lift: They can mostly train themselves.

I'd hope that after another version or two of scala3, when more organizations are happy running it in production, we might have an easier onboarding road, where we don't have to explain implicit parameters, implicit conversions and implicit classes, just so that we can get to the real meat that is the mechanics of type classes. But, as is, there's good defensible reasons for many teams to go try Kotlin first.
Sitter’s idea in that is a different matter entirely.
> You would right-click a gizmo, select an event, drag a line over to the target gizmo and select a property.

This idea lives on in Qt Creator - https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/designer-connection-mode.html although I think most larger apps write their `connect()` calls in code instead.

Was it kind-of like this?
Well, I strongly disagree with the "that's it" part. The fad diets are what actually works. If it's the right fad ;)

I'd argue permanent weight loss is primary a function of if the diet works, and most don't. Including "not overeating - that's it." There's a reason people overeat and it's not mental. Their satiety/energy system is broken.
Not out of the blue. We ran a call center and even 10 years ago, the writing was on the wall for phone support. Average time to resolution for comparable issues was 3x longer over the phone, was overwhelmingly popular for older generations (read: very unpopular for millennials), and the call infrastructure was a constant misery. It’s no surprise that businesses are winding it down because on the other side, chat and email are so much easier from the business’s perspective.
I wonder if highly enriched weapons grade Pu and Ub would decay faster because of subcritical fission reactions. But I am not a physicist.
Apple can do this because they have absolute mountains of cash and users willing to pay extra for the experience and reputation. Your average business can’t do this.