skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: The following comment was enhanced (gloriously so, actually) by ChatGPT4:

As someone with a background in both physics and psychology, I appreciate your skepticism. However, it's crucial to recognize that human knowledge and imagination are often the limiting factors in our understanding of the universe.

The Alcubierre Warp Drive, for example, is a theoretically plausible solution to surmounting intergalactic distances in normal lifetimes, although it remains practically impossible for now: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-alcubierre-warp.html. A recent paper proposes an update using solitons: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07125. Additionally, research on wormholes, such as Kip Thorne's work on traversable wormholes, highlights another potential avenue for interstellar travel, despite the current theoretical and practical limitations.

Throughout history, many seemingly insurmountable barriers have been overcome through the power of imagination and human innovation. For example:

1. Lord Kelvin, a prominent physicist, claimed that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible, but the Wright brothers proved otherwise with the first successful airplane flight in 1903.

2. Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics, once declared that extracting energy from atoms was "moonshine" – yet nuclear power plants are now a reality.

3. The concept of continental drift, proposed by Alfred Wegener, was initially ridiculed, but it eventually led to the widely accepted theory of plate tectonics.

These examples demonstrate how scientific progress often hinges on the ability to challenge prevailing beliefs and imagine new possibilities. Our current understanding of the universe is based on mental models that have evolved over time and will continue to change. Newtonian physics, once considered the gold standard, was later expanded upon by the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, paving the way for previously "impossible" phenomena.

At the American Physical Society's Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP) meeting, for instance, researchers discuss groundbreaking experiments and theories that would have been considered absurd just decades ago. Quantum entanglement, superposition, and teleportation, which were once mere theoretical constructs, are now supported by empirical evidence and even employed in emerging technologies like quantum computing.

In conclusion, while skepticism is a healthy part of the scientific process, it's essential not to dismiss the potential for extraterrestrial intelligence or advanced interstellar travel based solely on our current understanding of the universe. Our collective imagination and the relentless pursuit of knowledge have historically expanded the boundaries of what was once considered impossible, and there's no reason to believe this trend will cease.
> Eventually I won’t be able to trust that anything digital is authentic.

Yes. Although, in fairness, we haven't been able to trust most digital things for a long time already.
My friend, I specifically asked for good Java resources, but did not ask for other opinions. Those who suggested other languages were just cutting in to the conversation. I don’t care about their reasoning, I just wanted to learn Java.
Start here:

> because I need to do things I can’t do on macOS.

IT departments in huge corporations have purchasing requirements specs. Require any software that you pay money for to run on at least one non-Microsoft operating system. As a second source requirement.

If more than a trivial number of large corporations do this, developers make sure their software runs on other systems, which is what allows users to switch. Large IT departments are in a position to actually move the needle here.

This also has the side benefit of being a heuristic that excludes primarily low-quality software, because most higher-quality software is already portable.
I lived in Europe when the dollar was worth 4 DM - let me tell you, that was cheap.
most of the great masters children did not become great artists
You’re still paying for transfer, it’s just not itemized like hand rolled solutions.

The article should cover this, so maybe the author just isn’t knowledgeable enough to realize.

It’s like complaining that a buffet doesn’t charge for dish washing fees.
FTA: Google has decided to not honor pre-approved leave

Basically, going back on your word. No honour.
People—and not just "elites"—actually go to college to learn things. This is way too cynical/contrarian of a take.

Attend more actual college, read less Howard Zinn.
> But I broadly agree with your point - the tensions that brought the Republic down had been festering for hundreds of years.

That's true but not my specific point. My specific point is that the above comment is extolling a milk-toast "both sides" view of the breakdown of the Roman Republic that simply isn't supported by fact. The problems facing Rome were plainly due to changes in geo-poltical and economic circumstances. Many of these changes in circumstances were themselves created by action of the basic structures of Roman society and the successes they had achieved.

All resistance to addressing those changes in any manner, big or small, can be laid at the feet of an out of touch group of traditional aristocrats who would not abide Rome in any form besides the mythological form they believe it had in the early Republic. These people essentially held a veto to any "legitimate" challenge and used violence in successive circumstances where they feared an "illegitimate" challenge.
> Changing the behaviour of a file mode from truncate to not-truncate is a questionable decision

Looking at the commit which changed this behavior: https://cs.android.com/android/_/android/platform/frameworks...

it seems like it was a refactoring gone wrong, and not a conscious decision to change the behaviour.
You can approach this as a statistical sampling problem. Out of a field N candidates, one will become the representative of the party in the national election. Your optimization challenge is to identify the winner with high confidence while conducting the fewest number of tests. Each test exacts a financial and political cost on the eventual candidate. To have the most viable candidate in the general election, you want to do the fewest number of tests that give you the final result with high confidence.

The staggered system of primaries does just that.
try it. but more important try to be active and do stuff you wouldn't do usually. you'd be at least surprised.
That's #2 on the GP. At least if the college is as expensive as the US ones are, only the elite can get a positive value from those things.
I’ve slowly begun to accept that the solution for my parents and maybe for me is going to have to be to unplug a lot more.

Do business with a local bank where I can see my banker in person.

Begin to actually verify trust numbers in signal and establish code words in person to protect us from AI impersonation
It would be nice if they reported radiation leaks like this in terms of equivalent hours of coal plant emission.
WebCodecs API Samples:

https://webcodecs-samples.netlify.app/
tbh my usual strategy is to drop into a real programming language and use whatever JSON stream parsing exists there, and dump the contents into a half-parsed file that can be split with `split`. Then you can use "normal" tools on one of those pieces for fast iteration, and simply `cat * | ...` for the final slow run on all the data.

Go is quite good for this, as it's extremely permissive about errors and structure, has very good performance, and comes with a streaming parser in the standard library. It's pretty easy to be finished after only a couple minutes, and you'll be bottlenecked on I/O unless you did something truly horrific.

And when jq isn't enough because you need to do joins or something, shove it into SQLite. Add an index or three. It'll massively outperform almost anything else unless you need rich text content searches (and even then, a fulltext index might be just as good), and it's plenty happy with a terabyte of data.
no, our brains arent based on transformers.

and the issue of lost uncertainty is inherrent to this, yes.

to fix this, a new type of llm would have to be invented. this particular branch of development may very well be a dead end.
This resonances with me as well. Telling people about travel abroad is sort of like telling people about your dreams, rarely ever welcome.
That's what parent&thread said. Technical trade was mentioned as a category
In the original article, they were trying to read a 10GB file into 30GB RAM.
The sports side of college is bizarre. I think it is descended from British upper class amateur athletics, but it makes no sense in modern times. Athletics has nothing to do with education. Nothing at all. Star athletes are there only so they can get noticed by scouts. Universities keep teams around for the money. They ought to stop pretending there's any connection to education and replace it all with minor leagues and farm teams. But since there's a hundred years of tradition, I doubt anything will change.
Metrics based on issues / commit activity are certainly higher fidelity.

As you indicate though, they require more effort to adjudicate. Are issues from core team members? Are commits meaningful? Is community activity meaningful? I wish GitHub would give allow us to parse things like this more easily.

My use of star count is generally a binary indicator. 1k+ is probably a legit project and below is probably still early. Beyond that, it's probably too noisy.
As someone who has worked two of the most intensive blue collar jobs, people should be wary of romanticizing blue collar work.

Blue collar workers are expected to really work at their jobs. White collar workers can chill if there is no work to be done, or be sent home early with pay, or take a relaxation day and just browse the internet and listen to podcasts. They have perks, you see white collar workers leaving work early to attend baseball games and do fun activities with their colleagues.

Indeed, some white collar workers are so "underworked" they can literally work multiple full time remote jobs. Blue collar guys can't work remote, so expect to pay for child care and endure the mourning commute.

Blue collar workers aren't necessarily paid based on merit, this is formally true if you work in a union-shop where promotions are primarily based on tenue; if non-union there may be no promotion path for most workers because management has a "fresh meat for the grinder" approach to entry level staffing.

From a social perspective people don't respect blue collar workers. Believe that nobody who writes think pieces praising blue collar workers wants their daughters dating a blue collar worker or wants their children becoming them.
That would work well only if there are no pointers in the load result, which sometimes (if rarely) happens without planning in C or C++ code, but almost never -- or actually never -- happens with Python code.

Or am I missing something?
>It's a crappy business practice designed to promote lock-in

Making it harder to switch is by definition anti-competitive

The whole point is that companies should not be trying to trick or stifle customers in any way from making a rational decision that is in their own best interest, including leaving their service.

The whole game here is "what can we get away with" and playing that game to start with is unethical.
Pythoncgi.net a guide to program websites in Python3
Small correction, the episode is 522
That's true but an extremely small cohort, <100 per school, at only a few of the top sports schools.
Whatever your opinion may be, degrees are often seen as a heuristic for "can complete a long, hefty commitment".
Always interesting to read about why Americans move to Europe. I noticed nobody said anything about healthcare. Instead, it seemed to be more about culture and walkability.
"Cannot be taught" is a pretty strong claim. I'm not an artist but it is my understanding that at least some forms of art (classical, sculpting) require at least some degree of instruction, and being in school is probably going to provide easier access to resources like models. A quick google search with artists I'm familiar with (Michelangelo, Caravaggio, da Vinci) confirms all were apprenticed to other artists.

Anecdotally I think my programming skills also benefited from a formal education, though there are without a doubt many self-taught developers who far exceed my skill.
> I think a pizza steel preheated in a kitchen oven at 500F gives you a perfectly good pizza, and the fact that you can slide out the oven rack and use gravity to launch the pizza off the peel makes it a total win.

For me, the pizza steel is also plenty good compared to the portable gas ovens. Some other tricks I use are adding diastatic malt powder to the dough, and par-baking the crust before adding the toppings, to let the middle get crisp.
Ask HN: Resigning from a Position
I am planning on resigning from my position next week and have been planning my conversation with my VP (I report directly to her)

I am feeling burnt out for past month or so. Took 2 weeks off earlier this year hoping it will reset it for me but didn’t help. So now I am planning to take a break from professional life and find my rhythm again.

I am also a very private person, don’t like sharing my personal life with coworkers so I don’t want to go into detail with my VP on why I am quitting.

Any tips on how to break ice on this conversation?
A few posts in this thread talk about the signaling value of college and I wanted to share a thought on that.

When's the last time you saw someone wear a suit? For me, most people I see in suits now days are town car drivers. Because that's who needs to signal something (reliability?) to me in a low context environment.

People stopped wearing suits at work, even for interviews, because the signaling value of a suit is zero. I've read your LinkedIn way before I met you. If you are hot shit, I already know that. If you are not, the suit isn't going to change that.

Likewise, back in the day the fact that you had a degree and what school that degree was from, was a huge signal - often the sole signal you can get on someone prior to meeting them or considering them for a job.

Nowadays that's just not the case. Between credible certifications, blogs, gihub portfolios, open source projects, etc - I can get a TON of signal on you that would be more valuable than your college background.

To be fair not everyone thinks this way but I think that's a point in time thing. The signal is there and getting stronger, it's only matter of time before it's recognized more broadly.

And to the point, if you apprenticed in your field and had good results, people will selfishly value that more in hiring than you having gone to some woke school.
Now what are the elites going to get is to eat?!
Aside: I fairly recently got into photographing bugs with a macro lens and flash. It opens up a whole new world that you can't normally see with the naked eye. Also you can do it in your garden or local park, no need to fly to the Serengeti. Insects (and arachnids) are amazing.
Maybe I'll be in Germany soon for a travel. I'd love to meet: yuvalaizenman@gmail.com
This is also why I still like Reddit (minus the toxic subs). Just a plain presentation determined by votes and time since post
For a lot of us, it’s been replaced with credit card disputes. It tends to escalate issues very quickly on the vendors side.
Lessons from building Tailscan from 0 to $500 MRR in public
Here's an interview with Erwin who's building Tailscan (a browser extension for Tailwind CSS) on the journey of going from 0 to $500 MRR and building as much as possible in public

Let me know if you like me to include any specific questions in the future, thank you!
Privacy Browser PC 0.1
The problem isn't that websites should have more text; it's that they should have more content, using things other than whitespace to establish a visual hierarchy.
Thank you! Will keep you posted on open source version.

We have come across Hypertest, seems pretty cool and useful.
Honestly, what a disgrace. It’s almost like capitalism has an agenda to turn every living soul into a productive machine rather than a free-thinking, well-rounded individual.

Education is meant to prepare you to think and live, not just prepare you to work. I’m glad I didn’t drop out in my first year to chase the Silicon Valley dream, because I’d be a much more manipulable, less capable individual if I did.
It's not heavy water. It's very slightly tritiated water, and the tritium concentration is low enough that you could drink it without worry.
But tons of people aren’t locked up in college and aren’t meeting people in their area. They’ve also had their entire middle and high school years to do it. If they didn’t take advantage of it then, it’s unlikely they’ll take advantage of it at 18-21.

I think we are also forgetting that it is good for people to get out of their local bubble and get other perspectives/experiences.
How do you get a police report number for insurance claims then?
Two different issues, right? Reasonable people can disagree with her PBS and NPR are corporate media.

But I am very comfortable critiquing the consistently low quality of NPR journalism.

That doesn't mean that they're in the same league with the worst of cable news. However, some of the dynamics are similar:

* Journalists interviewing other journalists;

* Stories with no balance from opposing-view sources; and

* Facts regularly asserted by the journalist rather than a credible source.
I give Github star as a bookmark for the repo so I assumed that others might be using it the same way too.
From https://phys.org/news/2023-03-xcel-radioactive-minnesota.htm...

> "We are well above the 20,000 picocuries per liter EPA standard," Clark said. In water directly below the plant, the picocurie-per-liter count was in the millions.

I'm not sure if the millions of picocuries per liter are measured in the leak site or after it's diluted.

Anyway, I made an approximate calculation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35205070 and with tritium 10 millions of picocuries per liter is 9uSv/L. So if I made no mistake and you drink 1 liter of it, it's like 2 dental x-ray or 1/4 of a flight from NY to LA. https://xkcd.com/radiation/
In some fields, there are thousands of submissions daily to Arxiv. Good luck staying up to date.
> Its unique ability to treat packages as programmable data (i.e., derivations)

How is this useful in practice?
For every data point like this, there’s also data like mine - I met incredible people during my university years. Especially the first two years when we all lived on campus, we were basically a family. Even though we’re in different coasts of the continent, we still meet up 5-6 times a year, travel, some of us even married to each other.

Socializing and making new friends in your late teens and 20s is an important part of one’s life. Downplaying common space’s (e.g. college, work and etc.) importance and looking at it from a perspective of ROI, minmaxing every aspect of it is probably not the healthiest look.
Wow I'm analyzing some motor patterns I wasn't even aware of...

I think playing video games has made LeftShift + letter a really easy combo, right shift feels quite uncomfortable, but I did find that I use it when typing !
I know even less go but it sounds like it prevents accidentally writing past the end of the array by making a copy and appending to that.
It's nice to see this on the white collar side.

On the blue collar side, I heard from a friend in a union skilled labor role that the quality bar is very low for some skilled trades in some US regions. Showing up to work on time and sober sets someone apart a big portion of the workforce. Working hard and eagerness to learn will go a long way in the skilled trades. Lots of opportunities for people with a positive mindset.
You can use different modulation rates to/from a device (this commonly happens). Lower modulation rates give you better SNR, letting your quiet client do slow weak ACKs to loud large chunks of data from the router.
If that were true, Jeb! or Hillary would be president right now. As it stands, the Clinton and Bush names are not winning anyone office right now, and the most prominent Kennedy politician right now is arguably an anti-vax conspiracy theorist.
The actual cost of transfer is a minuscule fraction of what they charge, especially inside the region where it’s very near free. Cloud bandwidth markup is absolutely massive and is definitely strategically applied, such as the classic free ingress and expensive egress.

It’s all designed to get you in and then herd you into lock in. Why would they build it differently?
This is great news. Especially for men. It gives their lives more meaning and a sense of self-worth.

Great new podcast episode from Ezra Klein about this.
Re second point, I mean something else.

200 years ago I had to go to university because why? That's where the books and smart people were concentrated.

So I would pay a lot of money and physically relocate myself to access those books and people.

Now? I can study online, I can read, I can converse with super bright people of my chosing without the friction and limits of doing that in a college environment.
AI-generated art can be copyrighted, with a catch, say US officials
College/University does not have a monopoly on intellectualism or networking.

There is no guarantee that attending a college or university will help you develop more than you would outside that setting. There is, however, a guaranteed cost; and that cost can be debilitating.
> I thought the dieselgate models were up to 2015?

Not sure when effected sales ended but I know my car didn't require a software upgrade as it was the next generation engine.

> Do you mean ‘miles per gallon’? Either way, it’s impressive.

Nice! Yes I did, now fixed thanks. Yep I was pleased with that. I did have to follow a lorry for about 100 miles to get that figure but I wasn't in a hurry. Going a bit steadier and slower makes so much difference.

My normal MPG in summer would be around 65MPGish.

(UK gallons are bigger than US gallons so it's not quite as impressive as you might think. I must switch over to metric for everything.)
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It makes sense for chipotle to not answer the phone, they make like 60% of takeaway orders wrong somehow and would rather you just ask for a replacement for their app, who will give you a coupon code for one immediately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
not to mention the "moist interesting category-theoretical concepts"
I assume much of the recommendation algorithms are ML model based. In that case, code is less relevant than training data / procedures being used.

It'll also be interesting to see what adversarial SEO type tactics come from this.
I Made a Rabbit
Had this thought of making a website like this for a long time, if you have a special mesh with a specific piece of text in mind that could be represented in this way let me know
> I'd be very surprised if a big name like Namecheap were doing that today though.

The risks with getting caught doing that intentionally are very high, but preventing any employee with access to lookup information, email addresses, etc, from selling it has been a very hard problem that most large names have admitted to failing at a few times.
Insects can be very sensitive to drought
I have Manjaro running on a 2013 MBA. Installed on a USB with Ventoy. Runs great.