skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what they look like these days but I loved K'nex as a kid. They're similar to legos, but designed from the outset to be dynamic/mechanical (instead of having that awkwardly retrofitted on). You could even get motors (both electrical and wind-up) which you could then stick an arbitrary rod through and do whatever you wanted with the rotational motion

Edit: Looks like they're still alive and kicking! https://basicfun.com/knex/
You know how Go had generics for a long time, but only for the language designers who got to use it in functions like `make` or data structures like `map` or `slice`. There didn't used to be any generics for users of the language.

Similarly, Go has tuples, but only for the language designers who get to use them for multiple return values from a function. No tuples to be used elsewhere where users of the language might find them useful.

Now, Go also has sum types. But, yet again, only for the language designers: they get to stick `nil` as one of the constructors (to use Haskell terminology) in their favourite data types, but you as a language user don't get to make new sum types.

Another example is operator overloading: the designers get to overload eg arithmetic operators, but you don't get to do that.

In contrast C++ even for all its other faults at least makes an attempt to hand you many of the tools the language designers get. (Though, I like Rust's and Haskell's approach here more.)
If readers refer to the article, the reason for the easter egg was because the textile execs hired to manage game development treated the idea of crediting developers as absurd, and so the developers inserted evidence of their work into the games as easter eggs, literal hidden paths. While it was not direct copyright enforcement, it was leaving a "makers mark" on the product, which has precedents in other fields such as map making. Or, I'm probably just too dumb to tell the difference and this insight was both incisive and deeply edifying.
Ask HN: My SaaS faces an existential threat. Should I go monk mode to save us?
And what would that look like? Does anyone have any tips?

The only other option I can think of is pivoting to a different, larger, crowded market.
Battery may be long lasting but the straps seem to last about 12 months before breaking. And cost of repairs is about the same as purchase price of the watch.
Zap Energy is using a "waterfall" of molten lead-lithium for its inner wall. They're planning to attempt net power this year.
If it can't be easily simulated by QA--and infra had to get involved in this case, in order to hang the service--it's hard to even test Rachel's suggestion like she mentioned.

No dev team would add a /hang endpoint just sitting out there, either.

Every environment, from local to pre-production, may successfully bind the port. So it becomes an operations issue, almost like an emergent thing (a service among services in an ecosystem).

Ideally, the port binding retry gets added to an internal framework, so that all teams benefit. The first version might be a hack, but later improvements multiply every service's robustness.

Although, it seems like there's a threshold for distributed port binding retries where they synchronize (?), and nothing can rebind.
CICO is hard to beat. People trying to come up with hacks but they fall short.

You cannot beat thermodynamics. Surplus = weight gain.

Not surprising to me . Of course, if one or two meals a day helps you adhere to a diet, go ahead. All diets entail having to change this differential to work, to undo the surplus, so either the input or output side of equation.
The author takes the long way round and misses the point by a little bit.

ANSI C defines EOF, the 2nd edition by Kernighan and Ritchie page 151 states 'getchar returns the next input character each time it is called, or EOF when it encounters end of file. The symbolic constant EOF is defined in <stdio.h>.

The value is typically -1, bit tests should be written in terms of EOF so as to be independent of the specific value.'
It’s quite rare for a theory to be dismantled so thoroughly that we look back on it and say “oops, all of that was just coincidence”. Rather, the existing theory is a special case of the one that replaces it.

For instance, Newtonian physics wasn’t demolished by Einstein et al. It was refined, such that Newtonian physics applies very well in scenarios and scales that we would consider ordinary.

But you are completely right. When the theories are unified then people could very well be saying “you can’t just add these states together”, just like I’d often say that when talking about adding speeds together (it doesn’t convince the traffic officer). What I do think, though, is that a perfectly good response to that will be “ah, yes, that isn’t a problem though because this isn’t in the presence of a magnetic, rotating, supermassive black hole with a funny hat on, so the flopookle correction we learned about in physics 201 is negligible”
Plenty of functional Ritalin users. Very similar effect profiles (assuming the meth is clean), since they metabolize to the same thing.
Melian Dialogue: Thucydides Trap Type II
It's unfortunate, but I know many people in my life who have been sexually abused and raped. I'm more sensitive to sexual jokes because of it. My intent here is to push the author past the easy joke title which can make women feel uncomfortable to be in this area of the internet.

Tech is very male dominated and the more inclusive we are the more ideas we bring to the table.
(2009)

I have grown fond of approaches where at each call site, the caller can explicitly declare whether or not a call is a tail call. The writer of the code knows best: whether the call is recursive and can consume potentially unlimited stack. If it does, use a slightly different syntax* to communicate the fact that the code is relying on tail calls.

*: such as an attribute. See https://reviews.llvm.org/D99517
Ha, I know people who would be fired for doing that.
To be fair, the OP is part of PingCap, who build TiKV/TiDB, which is built from the ground up to support both workloads, they call their database “Hybrid Transactional Analytical” database, which is explicitly designed to support both workloads without either side “treading on each other”, and without needing ETL pipelines gluing stuff together.
Google warning Nest Hub owners that games are going away
A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck, even middle income earners.
Out of curiosity, given that you appear to have more experience in this domain:

1) if there is a regulatory reason behind "protectionism" of some employees/departments, why not outright announce it to the rest of the company?

2) if you're saying that someone that wages "civil war" against other employees is bad regardless of their motivations, what would be your alternative for someone genuinely knowing the best long-term outcome for the company but otherwise lacking the necessary connections to play "puppet master" behind the scenes or pass money under the table to influence the right people?
It's funny that both Overton Window and Horseshoe Theory are both listed. They tend to contradict each other.
lithium is mined in US and australia, not so much africa. And, unlike coal, only needs to be mined once
here's the first response i got from 13B GPT4xAlpaca

> Mirror writing is when words are spelled backwards; this can be done to make the text more visible for people approaching the door from the opposite side. However, since the action required is to open the door, the correct direction would be 'pull' rather than 'push'.

full prompt:

Write a response that appropriately answers the following question, provide your reasoning.
### Instruction:
A glass door has ‘push’ written on it in mirror writing. Should you push or pull it
### Response:
Cool. The summary then is:

Ethnicity and Gender and Socio-demographic background != Ethnicity and Gender

What you asked in your first comment seem to be orthogonal to the point I was making.
Is this another one for the Google Graveyard? I know Amazon is having trouble monetizing Alexa and it looks like Google is having the same problems. I wonder how the Apple home pod is working out for them?
A remarkably tractable take down of reductionist 'calories in' view: it's what type of food the calories come from that matters, and the good sources are not the cheap, carbohydrate high fructose ones.

Insulin is part of endocrine system signalling. Signals matter.
It is actually extremely unclear exactly how modern BVR combat between stealth aircraft would play out, so no one can say that for sure. It may well be the case that combat between VLO fighters ends up such that superior kinematics matters.

It may also be the case that super-long-range engagement against information and control nodes is the key, in which case something like the J-20 may actually be superior, due to being optimized for the longest possible range of A2A combat.
We discussed this. Don't remember exactly but @abc3erl had a lot of experience with poolboy.

We made sure to do local benchmarks along the way and there wasn't a meaningful difference.

Really the discussion was around doing as little message passing as possible to not copy data.

See:

https://github.com/supabase/supavisor/pull/4

https://github.com/supabase/supavisor/issues/7

So there are definite gains there but if we want to do things across a cluster we're going to be copying data. The decision at the time was the benefits of clustering outweighed the perf gains considering we were basically already as fast as PgBouncer. This could change.
High altitude nuclear detonations cause powerful EMP effects over a large area. The US famously discovered this by accident in the 60s with the Starfish Prime nuclear tests, which caused EMP damage in Hawaii almost 1000 miles from the detonation.
There's another ADHD medicine called Desoxyn which is methamphetamine. Adderal is a mix of amphetamine salts, but it's still fair to say they're not very different. The main difference is in the common dosage.
Not generally in casual conversation, and certainly not in a medicine-adjacent/overlapping subject matter where it creates substantial confusion as to a person's authoritative clinical capacities.

This is an ongoing game played by "doctors" of chiropractic misleading the American public to perceive them as equivalent to M.D. Doctors. It's a cheap way to gain clout, but an M.D. is a professional doctorate, a PhD is not, the distinction matters here.

Beware of non-M.D.'s insisting on a Dr. prefix, or folks citing these people as such especially when it serves to bolster their medicine/health/nutrition claims. It at least suggests a desperation for authority.

Huberman's at best prefixed as Professor here IMO. Even that's being generous since he's an associate professor according to his wikipedia page.
What? You seriously call the way western governments deal with drugs "punishment" or as if there any kind of enforcement?, if there was, there wouldn't be any addicts and drugs being sold openly on the street.

Dubai actually enforces these laws and the result? No addicts on the streets and no public drug dealers.
I don't think they're saying they want only 200 NGADs. I think it's saying that they want to have enough CCAs so that they can have 200 sets of 1 NGAD + 2 CCAs. It also says 300 F-35s, which certainly isn't going to be the case; rather, that refers to 300 sets of 1 F-35 + 2 CCAs. The link in that paragraph has some slightly different wording that makes it clearer
Do you know at what point in the video he mentioned that (timestamp)?
If you went to Mars in 1 minutes instead of 3 you would be going faster than light but not going backwards in time. I'm not sure where you are getting that from.
it is a thing but also a choice
Have you looked at Dolt? Or LakeFS? Both of these are taking the “hot for data” approach too.
I kept trying to get chatgpt plus for two weeks until I finally got it two weeks ago. GPT-4 certainly feels like an upgrade.
> Tech is very male dominated and the more inclusive we are the more ideas we bring to the table.

Tech has been bending over backwards for quite a while, but to no avail.

In contrast, marketing, law, medicine etc used to be very male dominated a few decades ago, made almost no attempt at welcoming women, and still got many of them.

It's almost as if women make their own choices, and it's not really down to how welcoming specific fields are? It's almost as if women have preferences of their own? Who would have guessed?

See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-... and https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...
FANG workers are not middle income. Middle income is sub 6 figures.
On the other hand, without the click bait titles and other YouTube algorithm hacking, how many of us would have watched it?

I’m happy having watched it. The argument about particles travelling at light speed and then suddenly having mass and travelling below light speed is one that I haven’t heard before. The note about 0/0 being finite rubbed me the wrong way, but I see the point.
I used to believe that these safe injection sites were an okay idea, but now I'm vehemently against them. These people need help, and should be FORCED into addiction relief programs. They shouldn't be left to continue their addictions unabated. That isn't freedom, it's slavery to drugs and drug dealers.

After seeing the absolute mess that SF has become, what I've come to realize is that these "supporters" of drug addicts are doing NOTHING to help them break their addiction. They are letting them accelerate their addiction, and they are doing nothing to help them get rid of their addiction.

If you look at all of these "progressive" programs, they look like insidious plots to hurt those they claim to want to help.

"Safe injection" sites actually keep addicts addicted for longer and don't help them conquer their addiction.

Education activists that want to drop education requirements because they are too hard to achieve for Black and Brown students don't help them learn, in fact they leave them uneducated by the time they graduate high school.

Mental health/homeless activists don't help homeless people solve the problems that lead to homelessness (usually mental health or drug addiction), instead they give band aid solutions that keep them homeless in perpetuity. The number of homeless people passed out on SF sidewalks and using the streets as their bathrooms have skyrocketed even though homeless funding is $600 million a year.

"Restorative justice" programs cause crime to skyrocket because criminals take advantage of these laws and commit crimes with no fear. Alameda County DA Pamela Price cares more about freeing criminals than helping her constituents get any modicum of justice or to keep their streets safe. She is doing the opposite of what she should be doing.

Everything that was promised by these far-left progressive policies have failed in the real world, and the fact they continue pushing them in the face of their failures is indication that they don't care about science or data, all their care about is dogma.
This is a common mistake made on HN, often used as an explanatory factor for something else. "Because the WSJ is owned by Jeff Bezos, "

It's what really is amusing about a lot of the rhetoric around LLMs when they say this: it's the most human thing they're doing.
Electric cars are clean though, you have massive improvement in air quality in cities alone.
And they are great economic opportunity since you're selling everyone a new car.
That's a massive economic boost.

Anything related to mining, well a lot of mining is bad and it's not like internal combustion engines have been all that great for the environment either. So moot imo.

Frankly I think the notion that EV is worse for the environment and battery technology being allegedly bad are just parroted talking points that negate to compare how EV would stack up to combustion technology if you applied the same number of engineering man hours to it but I digress.

Regardless propane from what I can gather isn't that much cheaper than gasoline at least for the U.S. so any potential savings in it being less expensive is easily lost by needing to burn more to go the same distance as gasoline.

Plus the conversion sounds expensive and warranty voiding. Most consumers wouldn't bother.
Is this with full or empty context?
I suspect what his geometric suggestion is gonna be
Your new password is: +++ATH0
Overhead is basically rent. You might think that a university rolling in with donations and names on buildings wouldn't need to charge rent but:

1. Nobody donates for upkeep. Not a huge market for the "jdiez17 memorial janitorial closet" if you know what i mean.
2. Endowment spending is typically limited to 4 percent, and often less. And often restricted in what it can be spent on.

Administrative overhead basically allows the university to convert its fixed assets into flexible spending on their basic needs that donations won't cover.
Also: overhead is limited by law, unless your university has a grandfathered exception.
Yeah sure, that's why countries which take a hard stance with actual enforcement like the UAE have no open drug markets.

The problem is enforcement, as long as there are open drug markets, then the issue isnt the laws its the joke of a police that pretends to do anything, or rather idiots trying to sympathies with drug users and dealers keeping the police from doing their work.
> preserve these weird cultures for the sake of it, not because anyone benefits from it

If the world ever turns into grey goo, it won't be because of an out of control AI, it will be because actual people have willed it into the world.
Related: https://cordcuttersnews.com/google-to-shut-down-support-for-...
>As a decent first-order metric - follow the ratio of companies getting money for using LLMs to do something, to companies getting money for providing LLMs and associated tooling to others. The bigger that ratio gets, the more real world impact LLMs are having.

This is a bad measure because the cost to specialize an LLM for a particular domain is so low, and the initial investment required to have the infrastructure so high, that it's going to lead to a radical centralization of technology. You will have maybe 5 companies crunching the entire world's data globally.
VMS in 2020 is a vastly different beast than the VMS that ran on 11/780
I've always thought that if it gets to the point where a consultant and company are arguing over line items and it didn't go so badly as to preclude future work, then just meet in the middle, call it a poorly run project, and try and do better next time.

There's no good outcome from a knock-down, drag-out fight for either party when it goes that badly.

And yeah... I've observed my fair share of "So, we all agree we're going to call this a success? Great!" + director / VP takes a new job before it explodes.
Dont forget to mention people living in the north dont love the idea of investing in transmission infrastructure as it will only make them pay more for electricity.
What’s the plan if someone were driven to adverse psychiatric episode by this app? How do you plan on handling liability?
I don't know if I bombed exactly, but here's 2 of my most frustrating technical interviewing experiences that didn't go well for really dumb reasons.

> Had a 6AM interview with a developer in India with a very thick accent and who didn't have a good microphone, which made it very difficult to communicate. He didn't have a copy of my resume, wasn't completely sure what job he was interviewing me for, and started asking me React trivia questions for what should have been a primarily Python role.

> Had a technical interview with a cool startup doing some dumb leetcode style problem. We had some repeated video connection problems and started the interview 15 minutes late because we couldn't get a connection. Because of this, I was pressing and stressed out to finish the task on time and made a few silly errors because I didn't have time to think the problem through. Got most of the task done despite this, but it's frustrating to think that I missed out on this position because of some dumb video chat glitch.
Yeah I think that an indie studio would be best placed to thrive in that genre. If they could create an RTS that scratches the itch just right, the lack of big name competition would probably be an advantage that would make it easier for them to make a splash.
Regarding the home and mortgage, the wealth does not go away. The home can be sold and you keep all the equity, sans the mortgage. Of course, if the market crashes, then you've got a problem. THIs is is regardless if you have a job or not.
Rather than "Awful", I'd say it's showing its age.

The things I notice when working in PLPSQL:

* Ample boilerplate that needs to be correct when it could be inferred.
* Lack of a language server (doesn't help that PLPSQL is often embedded in strings in other files)
* Papercuts like procedures vs functions having different call syntaxes
* No/limited support for encapsulation
* No/limited package management
* Most new languages have syntactic sugar, like implicit returns / everything is an expression
We read words. To translate some words into other words of different literal meanings while maintaining non-literal metaphorical meaning implies the capacity to "understand" the words at that level. That it represents data as tokens is irrelevant to the kinds of processing it obviously performs.

Pretending GPT is just using a percent chance that some token should show up next is absurd. It's almost a hundred layers of neural pathways.
Your question made me wonder why the cycle would be a year long. I realized that's because when standing at 90 degrees north or south you're just rotating on the spot. There's only the yearly day/night cycle because of the 23.5 degree tilt of the earth's axis, and this doesn't change relative to the plane of the orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9MU4TouzII&t=61

This also explains why across 24 hours on the video in the blog the sun just "revolves" at the same height across the sky. In reality it's setting but it's imperceptible.

At less than 90 degrees (anyone know the longitude?), the earth's rotation comes back into effect and the sun does go "behind the earth", i.e. it sets, daily, for a few months.
>What does it say about your security policies and practices if engineers can sneak stuff in?

What does it say about developer efficiency if you can't make any change or audition without getting approval from the CEO? Giving power for lower levels to make decisions is important to remain efficient.

For security most places don't leader molest require more than 1 or 2 people to approve your change. You just need get them on board your Easter egg.
>>useful responses for getting work done.

So what is this WORK

where invest? Where di-vest?
Are there Kerbal Space Program like simulation for naval architect wannabe? I have always wanted to learn more about what it takes to design maritime crafts / structure.
Ha ha oh did that make me laugh. Companies like that are not suffering from a tech problem, that is only the symptom. They’re suffering from a people problem, often a big entrenched structural one. You can throw all the smart engineers you want at them but they won’t be allowed to plan the work, do the work, given the necessary tools or have their work adopted. Plus you’ll first need to convince them to drop vendor x that someone influential and important decided to spend $y00,000 on.
Javascript is not disabled on any of my browsers. I am not using a vpn or proxy. I have tried multiple browsers. I have tried with and without extensions.

I suspect their stupid popup wouldn’t have even shown if JS was disabled.