skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle to see how this is better than just {} or Map, except as a mock for Redis.
Google “owns” what it calls life
I just got an Ioniq 5 a little over a month ago and did pay with cash (ie no tax credit). The quoted lease interest rate was an insane 8%+ even with an 825 credit rating and I didn’t realize you could simply buy out a lease early like a regular loan until well after the purchase.

I didn’t think the credit made a difference to my purchase decision because my income phased it out anyway, but I hadn’t realized you could back door it through the lease with an immediate buyout. That’s a really neat trick, and if I’d known that I’d have paid a lot more attention to whether they were offering that $7500-back lease deal when I bought mine.

I’m not even bitter. The HI5 is well worth the full price I dropped for the Limited if only for that beautiful AR HUD it has; HUDs have been a #1 must-have safety feature for me ever since buying a Genesis with one years ago. But props to you for figuring out how to end run around the process and get the HI5 and a great deal!
While custom, it is remarkable the gate count was low.

They were simple and very cleverly designed.
I've done something like this at different points in the past. I once had a group where every Wednesday night we would meet at the same pub for some drinks and dinner with an open invitation for anybody that wanted to join. Some weeks there were 3 or 4 of us, some weeks there were 20.

Had another group where every Saturday morning we would go to a different cafe for brunch. It was a smaller and less dynamic group, and we would organise the venue in a group chat throughout the week, but it wasn't a question of, "who wants to come this week?", it was just assumed we would all be there and phrased as, "Any objections to trying this place?"

Mid-size city in Australia.
There's a lot of people I like quite a lot, and significant obligatory-connections about. But gee man, I'd trade in a ton of these connections of solid friends/relations for people whose values I can more clearly recognize & that reflect my own obsessive geek interests than I could comfortably admit in real life. The really good people are not in high supply.

I find again and again a real & immediate need to work hard to connect the very good folk, to get those with deep interests talking. Many just bow out to the mundane. So be it for them, but it's a loss to see very high intellectual potential just inundate itself among the norm.
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Truman Capote and Gore Vidal were two American writers who had a long-standing feud with each other. The feud began when Capote wrote an article for Esquire magazine in which he claimed that Vidal had been thrown out of the White House after making a pass at a member of President Kennedy's family². Vidal took Capote to court for libel, where the two traded insults². After the pair settled out of court, their feud continued – even outliving Capote².

I hope that helps!

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Same sentiment exactly. Not to sound rude, but I don't -want- more friends, and it feels bad rejecting people who reach out. I already feel like there aren't enough hours in a day, and selfishly want to hoard my time to myself.

My wife and I are polar opposites in that regard. She can never seem to have enough friends, and they talk often. I think one big difference is how people are with nothingness. Because no matter how busy our day is, there's always periods of downtime...on a bus, on a walk, before bed, etc.

For example, I could sit in a chair and stare at nothing for a long time and not get bored. Mind always wondering, planning, thinking. She on the other hand gets bored and stir crazy in short order. And having people to reach out to chat with is a good cure for that.

I'm not suggesting one is better than the other, of course, just another difference in people.

All of that is to say, people like us who at least -say- we don't want more friends make it harder for people seeking, by removing ourselves from the pool so to speak. And I'd imagine between marriages, kids, work, etc... there's a lot of us like that.
First item seems pretty cool: you don't have to restart the REPL to try out a new library.

Say you're tinkering with part of your program in the REPL, and want to try out a library you found online. Instead of losing whatever test data you've loaded/transformed, etc you can just call add-lib(s) and try out the new (potential) dependency. Equivalent in Ruby would be having a Rails console open and loading a new gem without editing Gemfile, running bundle and restarting the console.

Sounds like borkdude could like #3 more as that sounds useful for babashka.
I've found that it's more about the person than the area.

My friend is an urban activist and he always complained that his childhood neighbourhood wasn't conducive to meeting people.

Recently I learned that we actually grew up just a few bus stops from each other. For me it was never an issue to hop into a bus/subway train and reach my friends - usually unannounced.
The last two people my partner has tried to make friends with have turned out to be utter scum.

I also seem to attract utter scum, I had to tow some crack heads off the local beach and tow them to work, I got their number and could have been friends with them but who wants to be friends with crackheads?

The other people my partner could be friends are in completely different stages of their lives (e.g. gonna be grandmas soon).

At this stage in my life (36) I've become weary of humans.
I feel like that is only natural after a prolonged inaction by the elected official upper in the hierarchy. Climate change is only a world ending type of emergency, we are already at 1.2 degrees and are heading towards 3-4, a lot of people are already dying and the death count will grow exponentially every decade as inaction continues.

Perhaps your elected officials are simply desperate. And given the severity of the situation, I wish more elected officials were many times more desperate than Berkeley’s.
Windows 11's UI is trash, no question. However, it can be easily fixed with ExplorerPatcher. https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
An argument is that friendships are rarely planned, and involve a variety of unexpected, fortuitous encounters. It's easy to make friendships in high school or college, as you really get to see a bunch of people over and over again, and eventually a few will become your friends. A long enough tenure at a job can do something similar.

But look at how we have life set up in a US suburb, where all our travel is in an environment where we cannot talk to anyone, most of our commerce is done in places designed to get you in and out as fast as possible, and where employees rotate often enough it might not be all so easy to ever make them register as people, much less build relationships with you. Stopping anywhere is inconvenient enough that that few people spend a significant amount of time lounging anywhere other than their home. So where are you, exactly, supposed to make friends? You have to be trying pretty hard.

People's best bets is to pick up a hobby where people meet regularly, like an exercise class, or a boardgame meetup. Then you have enough people that the probabilities of finding someone compatible go up.
I’m seeing people commenting “yeah I’m uncool” and I highly doubt it.

For me, personally, problem is that I can only relate in context. If I leave the context - poof - it’s gone. And I feel it’s very similar with other people too.

We work, we communicate a lot and build relation. Someone moves on, switches the context and it’s gone.
The same with gaming or sports or anything.

Few more closer friends I have are closer most likely because they reach out out of the blue on the IM with joke or something, completely contextless.

I have some ideas and made some experiments as well but not many people decide to go in as relations require energy we often don’t have. Times are very busy for all of us.

And yet we need to remember that loneliness is literally killing men:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/loneliness-ha...
as someone w/ adhd, I think it's to calm parts of the brain while working on other stuff, or at least that's what it seems to do for me, I really want this on Spotify, so I don't need headphones.
"Aspiring dictators in Berkeley"

What permeates society is chronic histrionics.
I don't agree with their line of thinking but that's not even remotely a strawman.
This is ultimately what I discovered. Friends with groups are superficial, you really only have one or two real friends but the superficial friendships formed with large groups is actually more important for your mental health simply because humans are designed to live and interact this way.

Historically, humans lived in tribal groups where they're in constant contact with a large but cohesive group of people. So in terms of anthropology this is the more natural way.
What about recurrency?
Civil and criminal laws don't try to be universally complete and accurate. Their fallibility and temporal deprecation is understood and accounted for (unlike the ten commandments).

Consequentialism leads to splitting hairs as you reach the fuzzy edges (and more often long before that), giving us self-serving philosophies like effective altruism.

We live in a messy world. Any rules we live by need to know and accept their limits.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p8Tr5-rZUEonMln7LFTJYwiXPTL...
Big fan of Clojure for sure. But looking at all the cool projects built on WASM, I'm not sure about the bare metal vs VM direction. There are compilers, interpreters, embedded support, interesting sandboxes (RLbox), webGPU. There are use cases from browsers to embedded, and it's a portable assembly language so you can still write with most higher level languages if you like the syntax and take advantage of all these environments to run in. The "browser as OS" idea has been around for a couple of decades now and it keeps moving closer to the bare metal.
It wasn't a letter of the alphabet any more than the dollar sign, the pound sign, or punctuation were letters of the alphabet. It wasn't used in words. All that happened is that someone decided to put it at the end of the alphabet song to teach it to children, and that's where it got the name.
Buy a kettle.
The biggest endpoint vulnerabilities are human in nature.
>Although C and C++ are also built like this, Lisp is different: the implementations of Lisp are often much different than each other, and one implementation can offer plenty of different features not seen in another.

The author clearly has not spent much time developing modern C/C++ - the various pragmas, implementation details, and "here be dragons" quirks of undefined behaviour in msvc, gcc, and clang differ _greatly_.

I would argue that C is the Linux of Languages - a behemoth in the industry that every other contender is measured against, one that has large numbers of detractors and advocates, and that runs the majority of modern computing by an unholy trifecta of sheer inertia, the first mover advantage, and at their core, a really powerful tool.
How in the world do you get internal support to help you as an AWS employee? My understanding was that there KPIs were measured by helping external customers?

I work in ProServe (app dev) and I touch a lot of different services. Usually I can reach out to an SA or the service teams Slack channel. I’ve been able to get an API bug fixed relatively fast by posting a sample to the service teams Slack channel.

“fast” is relative. Even though the fix was fast, it takes forever to propagate non urgent fixes through out the entire AWS infrastructure.
If you like this, I'd highly recommend the book, "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks": https://a.co/d/iqGNnyi
I think you might need to step away from the keyboard.
> Did you discover duration risk too?

ICSH is an ultra-short bond fund with average duration of 0.42 years. So very little duration risk.

That said for the GP it’s only slightly more work to buy actual treasury bonds. Hold them to maturity and there’s no risk of losing money from interest rates going up. You know exactly what you’re getting and when. And if interest rates drop suddenly you can decide if you want to sell the bond and take a gain.
Just do it. A good way to start is by building a Lisp like language as this unveils the game, and then syntax is fun to add.
Plato's Republic might surprise you then. If nothing else, check out chapter 8 [1]. That particular translation also has side notes offering extremely brief paraphrasings of each section, if you'd prefer to skim. It also includes an introductory section with a more modern rephrasing of each chapter. The oft repeated "drone" refers to individuals primarily driven and motivated by endless self indulgence. Plato frequently uses bees as a metaphor throughout the text.

His view is not that systems collapse due to some immediately apparent failing, but rather due to an excess of the strength of any given system. In democracy that strength, and excess, is freedom. So, for instance, he observes how freedom trends towards a disdain for authority which, taken to its natural extreme, tends to lead to chaos and lawlessness. Another is class warfare. In democracy, the political class is largely comprised of the most effective of the "drones." They will make their way to power, actively looting the wealth of the nation; spreading a taste to the masses for support, while keeping the lion's share for themselves. But of course the wealth of the "nation" is, in reality, the wealth of other people.

Those negatively affected tended to start pushing back. They, in turn, are demonized by the drones in power and next thing you know, there's class conflict. And quite an ironic one at that, as it's led by rich politicians pretending to be part of the masses. Ultimately the end of democracy, and transition to tyranny, comes about when the masses manage to elevate somebody they see as genuinely representing them. And this person is first struck down by the powers that be for fear of what he might to do them, only to come back ever more empowered - and eventually seizing on all of power, something actively cheered on by his supporters.

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Reading Plato is largely what made me realize that "history repeats itself" is not some abstract concept where things kind of repeat the same patterns if you squint hard enough. It is completely literal. We keep repeating the exact same things, over and over again, with little more than technology providing a change of scenery. My description above sounds like I'm retrofitting current events into Plato. I am not. Current events just fit his text in a completely uncanny fashion.

[1] - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55201/55201-h/55201-h.htm#Bo...
Are you assuming the panels are grid-tied? I may have missed that in the article, the setup sounded very off-grid to me at which point the power potential is lost if not used immediately.
It really depends on the city.

Making friends in Cairo, Egypt, where I currently reside, is very easy. People are very hospitable, there are a lot of house parties and you can crash any party (bring booze) and you will be welcomed with open arms. It's a massive metropolis and there are a lot of things to do.
I will say this, for optimism, I think we've turned a corner post-covid.

Now there is a population of adults who are admitting out loud that they are lonely and want to make friends and are willing put in the effort and make the compromises for that to happen.

This past weekend there was some great new TV on and my wife and I had had long work weeks, but we made a point to get out of the house and at least watch TV in a bar. When we met people we actually took the initiative to look them up on social media and followed them.

We were working on this in 2019 and people were put off by it or found it sad. Now people are ready and it's really exciting to me. I think we have the opportunity to build new social structures to replace the ones that have been eroding for several decades.
I feel like Windows UI/UX teams go back to their homes throw their laptops running windows out of the window and boot up a Mac. Windows 11 UI can go fuck itself. Absolute shit, I had to go back to Win 10 LTSC version after using it for a day.
Is this GPT from AliExpress?
Additionally, love is, and should be treated as, a verb. If you don't feel "love" towards your partner anymore, go and love them instead.
Strongly disagree. It's not a scaling issue.

1:1's don't renew. You have to keep feeding the relationship. The relationship can be extremely rewarding for chit chat & conversation, but it could drop at any point, and become a memory. It has no self-maintaining spirit, no ability to repair itself if one person loses some availability or time.

A group can fend for itself in a far different way. Assemblages can have members come and go, but maintain a core purpose and identity. There's rhizomatic affiliations that can find each other & get new currents & excitements going, whereas in 1:1's the potentials for connection are bounded.

Closed systems can only keep processing the same pieces of energy again and again for so long. They can steal some vitality from the surrounding, but the lifetime of the relationship is limited. You need more open dynamical systems if you want to keep interesting things going. Long term survival requires systems that can perpetuate & share themselves. 1:1's by definition cannot.
> Programming languages should be built like this. There shouldn’t be a single place where all the development happens. Different implementations can focus on different needs of programmers, and can develop these features without affecting other implementations of the language.

I'm reminded of the XKCD comic of competing standards. This is precisely what has held LISP back. You need standardization, you need a common place for all developers to work from or you can't make forward progress.

> This makes it easy for programmers to switch between different environments without having to learn tons of new skills.

Honestly... if every LISP developer has its own flavor and idea of how the language should work, how should continued development and progress on LISP as a language move forward?
1.8T tokens is very high...
I had in friends in SF that tried, I just couldn't get on board with their concept of fun

I wasn't into board game night, I also tried DnD which was ok but what an arduous turn based system and ritual, the weeknight bars were meh (to me), weeknight nightlife was pathetic compared to actual “world class” cities, some of my friends did well in the bouldering scene, there was a time when I was interested in free pizza and accumulating AWS credits at tech mixers, but that got old quick.

Turns out I don't like tech industry, I like money alongside the ability to build things myself. No big surprise there, just would have thought that the money in SF would have attracted more interesting and varied people.
For the PARITY problem mentioned here, I recall from undergrad cs theory that there are some pretty neat provable lower-bounds on arithmetic circuit complexity, e.g. parity is not in AC0 (bounded-depth, unlimited fan-in logic gates) circuits. Even providing more computational power via mod p gates still really doesn't buy you much: Razborov-Smolensky theorem shows that even adding mod-p gates you still can't compute modulo q, for p and q being distinct primes.

See also https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/02/why-cant-li... for more discussion of LLMs from a circuit-complexity perspective.
I saw this in my feed recently which was an interesting analysis on how code training was added as a fine tune (Codex) on a foundational model (GPT-3): https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tr...

I do wonder if anyone is considering mixing in larger and larger percentages of The Stack https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack with this or the Pile to get more code and see what happens.

(Likely beyond mere mortals' budgets though.)
I think Firefox users have now reduced to geeks and some 'real FOSS' enthusiasts etc. I still use Firefox as my primary browser, but I haven't seen any non-tech person installing it for a long time now. They all just search for Chrome and download, install that. So in today's times if someone's installing Firefox I'd say they'd mostly know their way around.
Well according to this is because many of us don't have friends.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608965
Join a sports team and stick with it. You’ll have lots of friends in no time.

Being part of a team and working on something together that’s not work and doing it consistently over years is key.

I see the same group of fifty people two times a week, rain or shine. Over time you’ll naturally develop close friends without having to awkwardly force it.

Added benefit: consistent exercise.
Man, I have been approached by guys like this, we have a good conversation, then they try to sell me something. The last few times someone has struck up a conversation with me out of nowhere it was to try and sell me something. I go to the gym every other day during lunch. Been doing it for years. Literally the only people that have ever talked to me were these MLM bros.

It made me feel profoundly sad the last time it happened. I don't know why really, but the fact that no one would ever talk to me unless they wanted to sell me something was just a hard thing to take.

So hearing that you hung out with these guys on purpose is fascinating to me. It all seems so contrived and artificial, but it seems you got something out of it at least. Did you end up making any real connections?

Since my experience feeling sad though I have tried to say hi and strike up conversations with strangers when it feels appropriate. People may be put off by it occasionally, but it's nice to connect with people, even if it's only briefly.
I haven't used Google Maps in like 5+ years, and was absolutely stunned when I saw recent screenshots of it. Who wants that many ads on their maps when better options are out there?
Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance
It was based on GPT 3.5 Turbo, but it just changed to a new model GPT4All-J which is improved from 3.5 turbo, but still small enough to run locally. It’s still it’s a small model compared to GPT4 so can’t imagine to competes head to head with that best.