skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not rebutting Walter's argument successfully. Everything you've said there is extremely subjective, difficult to pin down and mostly an emotional argument to begin with. Even your starting "obvious" premise that society isn't already leftist would get howls of disagreement from many quarters of society and because nothing that comes out of the humanities is in any way precise or rigorous it would be impossible to even resolve that dispute. You wouldn't even ever get to the point of arguing about whether Marx's claims were really "minimal" (lol) or whether he has "relevance" or was not "dogmatic"!

Whereas we built an airport and the plane doesn't fit is something not something anyone can argue about. Either the planes fit or they don't. Humanities academia devolves into Marxism so fast exactly because it's not pinned down by reality in that way, which is why it should just be abolished. Why should the rest of us be forced to pay for gibberish like "cyborg techno-feminism"?
TIL most of HN is struggling with parasitic drains and dying batteries. It's a pandemic!
all this hassle for EVs instead of building more railways and end the R1 zoning...
Nobody normalizes an uninformative prior on its own. Normalization only happens when you get your posterior.

I am not straw-manning anything: bayesian methods are a generalization of frequentist methods. The equality / isomorphism to frequentist methods, in the special case of the uninformative prior, is commonly demonstrated in introductory (undergrad-level) bayesian textbooks and is in fact trivial. One need not even talk of any infinities: if you’re doing discrete observations, infinities never show up (and in that case the prior normalizes just fine). And if you’re curve-fitting (ie.: using parametric methods), the “infinite” line goes away as soon as you multiply your uninformative prior with your likelihood.
It would be good if her Collabora email address could stay active, it is embedded in the Linux sources, it makes it a lot harder to get signoffs on changes if you need to lookup new email addresses for contributors.

The Panfrost project doesn't make itself easy to contact, IRC is the only method listed in the Mesa documentation.
Europe has more wind in the winters than in the summers
Sure, but it will be impossible for users to find your product on any search engine unless thry already know full address of it. It's like naming a password manager "ssh".
Zero Bullshit Git
That's a valid point in that we don't fully understand how LLMs solve some problems and using logic and rules of inference isn't excluded by the architecture, but on the other hand understanding that they are generating probabilistic token sequences is a very powerful and effective way to understanding how to engineer prompts and understand some of their failure modes. If we discard that insight, reasoning about their many failure modes and limitations becomes near impossible.

For example we often see people thinking that because an LLM can explain how to do something that therefore it knows how to do it, like arithmetic. That's because if a human can explain how to do something, we know that they can. Yet for an LLM outputting a token sequence for an explanation of something, and outputting a token sequence for solving a problem statement for that problem domain are fundamentally different tasks.

We can get round this with very clever prompt engineering to 'force' chain of reasoning behaviour, as this discussion shows, but the reason we have to do that is precisely because the cognitive architecture of these LLMs is fundamentally different from humans.

Yet these systems are clearly highly capable, and it is possible to dramatically improve their abilities with clever engineering. I think what this means is that LLMs may be incredibly powerful components or elements of systems that may become far more advanced and sophisticated AIs. However to do that engineering and build dramatically more capable systems, we need to have a clear understanding of how and why LLMs work, what their advantages and limitations are, and how to reason about and work with those features.
Can you share some of your favourite pbs videos?
Moreover, tools are better too. Even if one is still using only vim on the terminal, plugins work better, screens are bigger, code compiles faster, and the internet has better resources for everything from programming and communicating with your team, to just finding music that helps you stay productive, for example.
After over a year and a half in Europe, traveling through quite a few countries, East and West alike, I can say that I have not had one single instance when - unlike the US, from where I was coming - anyone would ask me this type of question, especially at the beginning of a conversation, and unless necessary for some prior discussion justifiable reasons. In fact, in the first few months, lacking this American way of introduction, I was inadvertently delivering a professional "elevator speech", myself, just to embarrassingly realize how out of place such topic was, if not purposely asked for.
You can then just set the same goal again. I don't see the problem.
> Let the merit of the software dictate

What does this mean? Using this service is letting the merits dictate. It doesn't stop anyone building a competitor.
The future of work is 4 days
It's not clear to me that they are replacing it bit-by-bit.

https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

I don't have an over-time series, but if you're willing to take my memory at its word Rust's percentage has hovered at around 10% for a while now. It seems to have actually gone down recently. Combine that with efforts like Servo being wound down and their team being let go, and it makes me wonder what the future of Rust looks like in Firefox.

If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be interesting to know.
But your experience isn't universal or even common. Most of the engineers I've encountered can and do critically evaluate work in social science and the humanities, correctly conclude it's built on a very flimsy foundation of scientism, has little value and that this is why social science/humanities academics are so vulnerable to crackpot ideologies. Something much more strongly associated with universities than engineering organizations. Critical theory did not come from Boeing.
My guess is that more than half of that $25 goes to the payment provider (Stripe etc.). Maybe more.

The remaining ~$10 will go to thaks.dev to cover operational costs, administration and other expenses.

I don't expect them to work for free. If you think it's unfair, contact the developers directly to see if you can wire them money (to avoid PayPal fees). If it's too much work, you can pay services like thanks.dev that does the work for you.
Pretty much every other kind of question is politically loaded. Your love for roasted lamb may be repulsive to a vegan. Your job being a job provided plausible deniability for anything.
They're trying to solve the problem, not add to it.
After Google shut down Google Reader I specifically went looking for an alternative I could pay money for and landed with Newsblur[0]. I've been a happy customer ever since.

Pretty soon after that I moved over from Gmail to Fastmail[1], again it was a service that took my money so that I was the customer not the product being sold.

[0] http://www.newsblur.com
[1] https://fastmail.com/
People don't asks questions on what's a carpenter doing because the very abstract notion of the job they have is enough for them, whereas they have actually no idea how the jobs is done, and certainly none of its technical aspects.

Strip down any technical aspect of your daily job to figure out its actual social function. It has one. Whatever it is it'll help you figure out how telling what's your job to people, and even maybe to yourself.
So you are fine with idea that if Ukraine loses war then it's okay to turn back no it at that very moment, call ukranians aggressors and punish them?
Both seat and lid should be closed before flushing, to reduce spray. Has the additional benefit of requiring both men & women to lift something before using it.
So is this why you've got like an average of 40 commits/day 7 days a week?
It's not about crime or no crime, safety or unsafety, or even appearance of such.

It's lifting the veil on a fundamentally thoughtless, greedy society that refuses to effectively care for or help hungry people who have nothing.
> Whatever grows inside the simulator will never have an understanding that exceeds that of the simulator's maker.

Counter example: AlphaGo & AlphaZero, grew inside a Go simulator and surpassed our understanding of the game.
> A 5% flat fee is too much for me though, if it had a cap then it'd be different.

It can't have a cap if payment gateway processing fees are percentage-based.
I think learning outcomes are simultaneously:

1. If you can't be bothered to read the terms, then don't use OAuth. This is GP's conclusion.

2. If you are willing and able to carefully read the scopes, and you are willing and able to abandon the app if the scopes are too broad, and you comprehend the meaning of the scopes, then use your discretion. But that's a lot of conditions, so...

3. All scopes should be revokable by the user, and potentially spoofable at their discretion.

4. The resolution of scopes should strike a balance between being understandable and following the principle of least privilege.

5. GitHub and other OAuth hosts (even all app platforms?) should audit apps for misbehavior, both in abuse of permissions and unnecessary permission requests. Especially when the user regrets the actions taken by the app.
> there is not enough "space" for that at work

It sounds like you are over generalising from a limited set of experiences.

> reflect on why it's so hard to come up with something alternative

Same with this one. I for one find it easy to talk about things other than my work, but also find it that people enjoy when I tell them about my field and have a ton of questions.

The key is to live an interesting life and be a good story teller. These are both things which can be improved on step by step if that is your desire.
I don't do anything for a living.. I'm retired. I Make little videos and I rejoice that I'm no longer in this rat race
Quitks mode is one thing, but most browsers have specific rules for specific websites, a manual process to update and handle those cases. Pretty sure chrome and safari have hundreds of these rules.
It would be great to see a resource on how to apply this principle to other regions of the world. Like, ideas for the plants to cultivate.
Did you try vscode Zen mode?
Wow... I had no idea people put so much thought into the most basic, mundane small talk.
I remember someone had predicted this would happen with OpenAI's GPT-3, but perhaps now we are closer with ChatGPT...

Found it! : https://medium.com/swlh/bicameral-mind-humanoid-robot-with-g...
If they're requesting all the permissions then you shouldn't use them. If a random note taking app asks to read my contacts the first time I launch it then I'm going to assume it's malicious.
So if I have this right, its bad to tell people what you do for a living, but its OK to tell people to stop telling people what they do for a living?

What I find especially annoying is that the fact that 'what do you do' is being asked by someone else - so it follows that if they were not interested in that topic, they would ask another question. Which means it's not the social responsibility of the person answering.

But wait, also, there's nothing cringey about someone having a hard time relaxing and talking more broadly. Everyone has a hard time in SOME social setting, and its not a big deal. This article reads like a designer clothes ad - making you feel bad to make you buy (or do) something.

Now I'm done whining, I think a much more constructive framing would be a title/topic like "Asking what people do for work isn't always best. Here are some alternative icebreakers". Or "Fit the mood - making smalltalk without work". That would have been a much better article.
This is pretty much a European thing, thinking if Americans do it and you don't, the rest of the world doesn't either.

I'm 100% positive, through first hand experience, that both Indian and Chinese society put a heavy emphasis on the type of work one does. To the point where marriage may simply be out of the question for an individual if they don't hold a good enough job.
When I tell people that, they assume I'm somewhere on the deeper end of the autism spectrum.
Well you can always use the answer to tell people how you dissociate yourself from your job too.
Separate to the "(non)-deterministic" question which would detract from this discussion.

One part we also fail to consider is that there is a feedback loop between all the individuals in society and any large economic levers that get pulled. This along with all the complicated interactions that are a result of the specific imperfect set of information each individual has makes this problem next to impossible to fully model. At best we could have approximations and models that abstract that complexity away. We approach something similar to the N-body problem in physics, which on some level I'd argue is simpler even as we have specific equations government their behavior. Not so the case for humans and their "internal" decision making process.
Do you have any references? I'd be interested to see the list and what workarounds are needed
For every OpenSource project I donate to, I check, whether they provide a SEPA IBAN, then I just set up a monthly transfer of a small amount that I can afford instead of a bigger single donation.
Whenever possible, I try to avoid any instances in-between which take some % of the cake.
If "X is possible" implies "X is [known to be] possible" then shouldn't "X is not impossible" imply "X is [known to be] not impossible"?
Same here, just reading the catalog was eye opening. I still remember the disclaimer in the Loompanics books.”Not for sale to prisoners or Canadians”.
I did a similar thing. We had two identical pairs of AirPods. One pair had a bad battery on the right earbud.

I thought those were mine, which had a specific extra warranty purchased from the store (Not Apple's own). Returned those to the store to get it fixed. Turns out they store and check the Device ID and I found out we've switched pods with my SO at some point.

They wanted a "spurious return fee" that was more than the value of the AirPods. I just didn't pay it and they destroyed them.
That seems like a pretty sensible way of doing things.

I wonder: will people find a way to exploit it? E.g. create a simple but useful dependency that uses 100 sub-dependencies, all by the same author? Will larger, more self-contained dependencies lose out to small ones?
As if the 3rd option does not exist. A manager that knows how to manage but also knows how the pie is made.
OMG - this is so true. Home sweet home. A few additional points:

- The hard separation between the base OS and user-installed packages that go in /usr/local - you can wipe the /usr/local and get back to the pristine state. Things don't get mixed.

- Better documentation, better man pages.

Whenever I log in to a Linux distro it feels like things are all in the wrong places. Hardware support is bad though, I wish hardware vendors would open source their drivers.
I think in europe, it is even worse. Because, where you come from and which language you speak is the most important thing ever. Luckily, we have seen huge progress on LLMs and hopefully get rid of this nonsense.
So you think some kind of final solution is necessary?
Metcal e.g. MX500 is built like a tank and often available cheap on eBay. I picked up a bargain priced unit on a whim and it's been great.

Used it to get the controller out of an ebike battery yesterday :D
Yes but you can't launch it from far away...
Not really. Most of these kind of offices have either a raised floor or suspended ceiling, making the addition of this kind of service trivial, compared to doing it in residential buildings. Natural light and fire escapes will be more difficult to provide.
If I understand correctly, the short answer is no.
> I'm finding it weird that unlike other non-trivial projects like OSes or compilers, people often discourage building web browser engine because it is "hard" or something like that like... how is it different from building a compiler?

A conformant C++ compiler is in the same ballpark as a browser, but a naive C compiler is orders of magnitudes simpler.

Recreating the Windows OS is in the same ballpark as a browser, but a simple OS that boots and runs command-line apps is orders of magnitudes simpler.

People don't casually start new C++ compilers or projects such as WINE, but they do start toy compilers and OS all the time.
honestly the web is so broken, i think it is beyond repair, i just want to run the website through some LLM to get the content out and show it in lynx and be done

i dont want to consent to be tracked, i dont want to login, i dont want a presonalized feed, i dont want to subscribe to your news letter, i dont want your ads, ethical or not

js is still an issue, but maybe a day will come when i can say to the model 'pretend you are js interpreter; what is text the output of this minified react garbage and show it as markdown' and just pipe it to lynx or w3m or worse case eww
Another solution that in my experience seems to work pretty well is what mainsail does. The motion planner runs on a raspberry pi. Theoretically this needs to be a realtime thing, but in practice the RPi is fast enough to where it's never a bottleneck. The actual stepping of the motors is handled by a more traditional microcontroller board with some very basic firmware. As far as I understand the RPi is sending it (step count, direction, rate) commands.

This solves a lot of issues since the microcontroller is doing some really basic things it's well suited for, and the RPi is freed from having hard realtime responsibilities.
I put 50$ in the pokey machine but it’s only paid it out to two projects? Some of the other projects which are missing out I already donate to.

Any ideas?
> I also don’t really know who is to say one thing (machine learning) is more useful than another (feminism).

Okay, but "feminist technoscience" and "feminism" are not the same thing.

"Machine learning" is a tool which can obviously be used to do useful things–although no doubt harmful things too. "Feminism" is a diverse set of values and policy preferences, which promote themselves as beneficial for women – and while we can debate the details, very few would disagree that many women have derived real-world personal benefits from at least some of those policies. My late grandmother used to complain about how – in the late 1940s – she was forced to resign from her bank job (which she loved) the week before her wedding, because the bank's policy was not to employ married women. She absolutely welcomed the law being changed to make those kinds of corporate policies illegal, and while she didn't benefit from that law change personally, her daughters-in-law (my mother included) and grand-daughters did. We can debate whether everything feminists ask for is right (they aren't all asking for the same things anyway), but (unless you are some kind of ultra-reactionary), it is rather obvious that some of their ideas have been positive developments for women, and for society in general. By contrast, what good could "feminist technoscience" do for my grandmothers, my mother, my wife, my sister, my daughter?
Thank you for this.

I implemented multiversion concurrency control in Java with threads but I want to raise it to multimachine.

The problem I have is that the read and write timestamps need to be available to detect if a transaction between machines conflicts.

How do I synchronize read and write timestamps with minimal latency?

When a database replica receives a transaction for key X, it needs (a) a timestamp that is globally accurate (b) needs to tell other replicas about it so they can detect dangerous read-write dependencies.

I feel it inherently requires serialisation of timestamps to accurately determine what other nodes are doing with data.

Otherwise you get dangerous read-write skew.

(See the whitepaper "Serializable Snapshot Isolation")

Load balancers don't do much work, except shift traffic. I wonder if a load balancer that collects timestamps and enriches requests with timestamp information would be a scalable solution?
I might be wrong, but it seems at least for men in the Western world, wealth correlates pretty strongly with family size.
This right here is why I never, ever use cloud services for my side projects, and only use them on the client's or employer's dime. I always use Digital Ocean, Hetzner, or some other provider where I pay a fixed amount per month.

Which is a shame as it makes it harder to learn things like AWS and Google Cloud (or for that matter, Vercel) in my spare time, and perhaps they might even work out cheaper for low-traffic hobby projects, but ultimately the risk is too great.
> Overall, we rate RationalWiki Left-Center biased based on the use of loaded language against conservatives and High for factual reporting due to pro-science reporting coupled with proper sourcing and a clean fact check record.

Vs

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/encyclopedia-dramatica/

> SATIRE

> These sources exclusively use humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Primarily these sources are clear that they are satire and do not attempt to deceive. See all Satire sources.

> Update: This source is no longer online.
I am vindicated.[1]

But seriously, connecting to arbitrary USB ports is very stupid on the list of stupid things to be doing. Just don't and find a regular power socket or bring your own power bank/laptop to charge from.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33741018#33741664
I would hate this lol. Something about the way my brain works is that I just can't come up with something when put on the spot like that. I've done all sorts of interesting shit over my lifetime, some of which I think only a very small percentage of the population would have done, my mind is constantly running along tangents and my thoughts straddle the technical, the creative, the dreamlike, the concrete, and everything in between, but if I was asked to come up with a story out of the blue, the wheels would grind to a halt and I'd be a stammering mess.

However I know some people with whom this opener would really light a spark.
He used to work on WebKit, I'm sure that experience has come in handy

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/search?q=Andreas+Kling&type...
The point isn’t that “getting X to work” is a one-and-done job. Rather, you’re using major websites as indicators for what features to target next, because those are largely one-and-done.
QEC implies phase error correction (if you don't care about phase errors you could just use a classical error correction code). A 'logical qubit' refers to an abstraction layer that implements some sort of idealized qubit behaviour (including the phase) that is used as a qubit in computation without considering the underlying implementation. The underlying implementation of a single logical qubit may be something like 5 'physical qubits' using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-qubit_error_correcting_co... or a entire structure of many physical qubits using something like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toric_code
no-propagate-ttl really does clean up an ISP network.
JEP 444: Virtual Threads
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...

Don't know if this is everything, but there are a bunch of specific websites mentioned in here.
> would rather devote my life to a plethora of hobbies than a career.

Such as?
Yes, title of submission is misleading. The paper actually claims AlphaFold is unable to predict stability changes after single point mutations.

The article‘s og title should be used: „Using AlphaFold to predict the impact of single mutations on protein stability and function“.