skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am fascinated by this phenomenon, and the double-edged sword that metaphors are.

On the one hand they're jargon used as short hand to technical concepts understood well by domain experts. And the concision they afford can lead to deeper understanding as they transcend their composite or adapted meanings and become base terminology in and of themselves (I think of e.g. Latin in English legal terminology. "Habeas corpus" has a literal meaning when translated, but the understood jargon has a deeper, and more specific meaning). At that point, they are powerful because of the precision of meaning and concision of expression they afford.

On the other hand, they lift intuitive terminology from a base language that is understood in vaguer terms by a broader audience. And this creates invisible disconnects because the abstraction created by these terms leaks like a sieve unless you know the precise semantics and have the model to use them.

By translating a discourse into a higher metaphoric level, we increase precision and efficiency amongst mutual understanders, but at the same time, we increase the level of ambiguity, the number of possible interpretations, and the availability of terms familiar to (and thus, handles to grab on to) non-understanders.
And that latter situation allows non-understanders to string together what sound superficially like well-formed thoughts using jargon terms, but based on the base language semantics. But without the deeper knowledge required to understand whether a given utterance scans or not.

That's how I've been trying to wrap my head around it at least. I hope it doesn't sound like moralizing or condescension, I don't mean it to. I know I'm "guilty" of trying to manipulate metaphoric models that I don't actually understand, based on the lay-semantics of their jargon.
Generally it is something like "Candidate X is winning already, they don't need my vote to help so I'll save myself some and skip the voting process" or "Candidate Y is winning, there's no way my vote will change that, I won't even bother."

Same argument for early reporting of early voting (early voting itself I got no problem with, but keep the ongoing tally quiet imo).

The best case for maximum participation is when voters truly believe their vote may matter. We see this recently with nearly 49/51 splits in many elections over the last few years/decades. Some see this as polarization (and I often agree), but it can also be seen as a result of increased participation. Whether increased participation in democracy is ideal or not, well... "a republic [...] if you can keep it." [1]

1: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/conv...
I’ve read the Economist and its depth of insight is equivalent to your average top comment on r/Neoliberal (and I don’t mean that as compliment the subreddit).
That's actually a bit frustrating, it feels like a lot of options will take more money from you and then not really give you a better, sturdier product. Your options for quality pieces get even fewer if you (or perhaps someone you live with) don't want furniture that looks old-fashioned.
> What and why and when are “furries”?

Throwaway.

Old-school furry, from the early 90s. I won't try to speak to the history - it predates me by a few years - but the comment "furries run the Internet" was true for decades. In the 90s and 00's the level of overrepresentation was off the charts, to such a degree that for awhile one large and successful contracting company (Taos Mountain) would actively recruit from the fandom.

Many, many successful early startups had multiple furries working there in key technical positions, including some who's earliest and most influential employees were furries (not naming names because those folks may not want to be 'outed' as furry). I worked for one pretty successful startup that, with I think maybe <100 employees, at least 10 of us were furries. For awhile if a company was an ISP or other service provider, data center operator, had an IT staff of at least 3, or just were a tech company chances are there were multiple furries working there. Some companies still have pretty large fractions of certain departments absent on weekends when large furry cons are being held.

I'd say we're still overrepresented in tech but the industry has gotten so much larger that the raw absolute numbers aren't as surprising as they once were.
Not much stealth if "some will quit" is stated right up front
Not having public forecasting influences voting.

Either way votes are going to be influenced.

The benefit of democratizing those forecasts is to reduce surprises / rigged election accusations.
The only thing BBB was good at is spending that 20% coupon they send on some expensive item (iRobot Roomba for example or a Dyson). Everything else is overpriced and low quality, or costs the same as on amazon.
There is an AGPL program to fill the 1040 form. https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
Uhm, if you don’t think China is investing heavily in solar and wind generation, then you are in for a very big surprise. It’s just that with NG going up so much recently, they are leaning on coal heavily again so their economy doesn’t crash, long term they have a good direction set with renewables, better probably than the USA.

And it’s all due to economic self interest and survival that they are doing renewables so aggressively, it has nothing to do with perceived fairness or whatever.
It's not that the programs are getting bigger. It's just that the bytes are getting smaller.
Not sure if they still are, but the folks over at DotBigBang were looking for a graphics engineer recently. I don't know how much experience overlap you have with that role, but given your interest here, they might want to hear from you. They're great people :)
> the chipset name and serial number

That’s actually pretty damning. A bunch of (chipset serial number, IP) pairs can track users very effectively over time. And saying they don’t sell the serial number or IP is mostly worthless — they could easily sell equivalent information.
> Silver was named one of The World's 100 Most Influential People by Time in 2009 after an election forecasting system he developed successfully predicted the outcomes in forty-nine of the fifty states in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.[2] His subsequent election forecasting systems accurately predicted the outcome of the 2012 and 2020 presidential elections with a high degree of accuracy, and - at the time - gave Presidential candidate Donald Trump the highest chance of success the day of the 2016 presidential election of reputable polls at the time.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver
0008410: Crash due to zero-size weasel
OCaml is pretty much the most "boring", "mainstream" language that isn't awful. It's been around for decades. It's got an established library ecosystem, development tools and all that. And pretty much every bigger/more popular language is missing one or more basic feature that's been common-sense since the late '70s (e.g. sum types or pattern matching).
Will be interesting to see how carbon-fiber reinforced concrete[1] fares in comparison.

[1]: https://www.compositesworld.com/news/tprc-research-studies-v...
NSA Open Source Software Booklet [pdf]
Either you need the item onceish so you buy the cheap option, or you use it a lot so you buy the expensive option. Those in between can find a used expensive option on marketplace/craigslist/etc. Not a lot of demand left in between after that.
Would this opinion still hold in places where voting is mandatory (or more precisely, not voting is penalized)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting
Weird considering idealism got us things like free insulin[1] when none existed, Linux, important things like human rights, democracy etc.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expe...
Upvote for many interesting charts and graphs

edit: dang, I have a stalker downvoting my comments. There really are many interesting charts and graphs.
Meeting Summarizer (Audio Recording to Summary) (Transcription and ChatGPT)
Summarises audio recording of a meeting - very good transcription + uses chatGPT to generate summary. Works for audio files (max 25mb)
At FiveThirtyEight, their goal is to deliver high-quality quantitative analysis by utilizing record-level data. It's ironic that the type of comment you made is typically found on sports news websites that lacks the rigor and depth of a quality analysis.
Unless you're Doctor Emmet Brown. Also, Mr Pedantic is curious of your definition of a clock. If you are limiting it to just analog clocks with manual only adjustments sure, it might be hard to keep them in sync. But I'm willing to think that all of those reading this thread have clocks in sync
I did originally discover this on Gemini via CAPCOM and after the fact saw it also had an http site.
Yes, MyScale can definitely help with that. Our platform supports storing multiple vector indexes, allowing you to store and perform vector searches on various types of embeddings. You can check out our documentation website for more information.
I'm also part of the team and I'll be happy to answer questions too.
I don't doubt the observation, I doubt how well controlled the confounding factors are.
You say this like it's unintentional
When I've moved in the past, the thing the moving companies won't assemble for you at the other end is "any IKEA furniture."

That tells you enough about the rate of success overall
These aren't their core product.
Operating income excludes the salaries of all the engineers working on new features etc, right?
I loved Ikea stuff, the latest purchase of BESTÅ TV storage is really awful. It is falling apart and I barely even touch it. The drawer brackets cannot hold a drawer, (I don't have many items) and they block each other while opening and closing the drawers. The materials are very dodgy and poor quality.

I cannot even give it away, sell it or recycle it. Considering making my own stuff eventually.
Blackmirror Firewall Cybersecurity
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For bedding, etc, LL Bean or IKEA is the way to go. For kitchen stuff, William Sonoma or Crate & Barrel.

It costs more but you get more. In the 1990s, you could count on department stores for this stuff, but now you need to go up market.

BBB was great until about 5-6 years ago. The previous management made some execution errors and ended up messing up the product mix.
Funny, I was going to post this, but the horse's mouth is even better ;)
Even better, it’s a partial hash that gets sent.
Maybe the earth just burps occasionally and it's not really a gradual buildup of pressure and this would do nothing.
Veganism can act as cover for disordered eating; perhaps that is what you have observed.

Related, I know many “vegetarians” who are what I call effective vegans, meaning they eat vegan ~90% of the time, recognizing purity as a pointless pursuit.
Yes BESTÅ TV storage is absolute trash.
> Not sure what "soon" means in this case

Like there being infinite number of infinities that are ever larger, there's a seemingly infinite number of soons, each further away in time than the previous.

So I propose we invent something like aleph[1], but for soon. This way we can communicate clearly just how soon soon is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
It always seemed as something people do for a cool tech project or bragging rights, not to maintain it as a daily driver. Sort of like building and running arch linux from source. Sure, there are people who daily drive it really well...but it still definitely seemed to be more of a cool project akin to getting Doom or Doom variants running on toasters, fridge televisions, etc.
Are you familiar with Visual Complex Analysis?

Your spiral motion intuition is really cool and complements the amplitwist model that book introduced me to nicely.

On a random tangent, one of the reasons why I love Common Lisp is that it has functions like CIS[1] in its library. That got me realizing you can literally view SIN and COS as CAR and CDR for what's essentially a cons of non-Complex numbers. I don't claim there's any benefit to doing so, but it's not wrong.

[1] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_cis.htm
Leftist groups. Mostly. Leaning toward communism like the Red Brigades I mentioned. Their motto was bombing stuff, and kidnap/kill politicians. A famous group was “the Bader band” for instance. Acting between Italy, France, and Germany.

Then, they were the independentist group like ETA ( basque people ) and FLN ( Corsica )

Same modus operandis, but geared toward having France and Spain out of their places.

Thanks for the name, I will look those group up.

No right wing group in the US ?

We had some in France. For instance in 62 the “quarteron Francais” try to top De Gaule after he decided to let go of Algeria.
The Project Gemini site is here: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

There are multiple Gemini browsers, with LaGrange [1] one of my favorites since it works on desktop and mobile and also supports gopher://

1. https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
Obviously I wouldn't have been impressed by hallucinated output. I'm talking about correctly modeling a variable's state through its conception of what a Python interpreter does, which requires building a model of that interpreter and extracting consequences from it, rather than pure language statistics.

I agree that LLMs will often hallucinate. There is obviously no guarantee that the output is correct. But sometimes it is correct anyway, which I notice by actually running the code.

Here is a trivial example which I only mention to bring the conversation back to the reality of GPT-4 actually being able to do things like this:

Me:

You are a Python interpreter. Please give the correct output of the supplied code, with no commentary.

>>> a = ["wokwokwok", "says", "i", "have", "no", "understanding", "of", "code"]
>>> a.append("!")
>>> " ".join([w.upper() for w in a])

GPT-4, on first attempt:

WOKWOKWOK SAYS I HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF CODE !
Google Cloud Sales/Startups completely unresponsive?
We are a newly funded startup and trying to enroll with Google for multi-cloud Anthos, which we thought was a big push on their sales team (a crown jewel product, etc).

But whenever we call Google Cloud Sales, the representatives are outright rude and tell us that they can only "give out public pricing information," that they can't connect us with anyone else inside Google, and so on.

They tell us that there is no technical or sales account relationship on an ongoing basis, but that hasn't been true at the last 5-10 companies we've all worked at.

The Cloud Startups team hasn't responded in a month and a half, while Amazon and Microsoft were quick to issue granted funds. What's going on, is anybody else seeing this?

We are longtime Google Cloud fans -- decades amongst us all -- and it's sad to see this, because we really just want to give Google our money and use their systems. Usually that is the barrier but it seems like it is not enough anymore.

Sorry for the rant on Hckrnews but we are honestly just wondering if this problem is more widespread or if we need to explain our opportunity better to get through Sales.
It sounds so much better! Haha
People want predictions for various reasons, but in general, predictions are good for making plans and preparing for the future. Elections are just one of many examples of an outcome you might want to predict, alongside crop yields, population growth, product sales, etc.

I don’t have any deep thoughts about how these predictions serve democracy, but if people are interested in that line of inquiry, they should go ahead and pursue it.
I feel like if you're really hard pressed for a UV blocker you could just use mud.
The “Why?” Combinator
The article talks about multipart/form-data in particular.

Another thing one might run across is multipart/x-mixed-replace. I wrote a crate for that. [1] I didn't see a spec for it, but someone since pointed out to me that it's probably identical to multipart/mixed, and now seeing an example in the multer README it clicks that I should have looked at RFC 2046 section 5.1.1, [2] which says this:

> This section defines a common syntax for subtypes of "multipart". All subtypes of "multipart" must use this syntax.

...and written a crate general enough for all of them. Maybe I'll update my crate for that sometime. My crate currently assumes there's a Content-Length: for each part, which isn't specified there but makes sense in the context I use it. It wouldn't be hard to also support just the boundary delimiters. And then maybe add a form-data parser on top of that.

btw, the article also talks specifically about proxying the body. I don't get why they're parsing the multipart data at all. I presume they have a reason, but I don't see it explained. I'd expect that a body is a body is a body. You can stream it along, and perhaps also buffer it in case you want to support retrying the backhaul request, probably stopping the buffering at some byte limit at which you give up on the possibility of retries, because keeping arbitrarily large bodies around (in RAM or even spilling to SSD/disk) doesn't sound fun.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/multipart-stream

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2046#section-5.1.1
Interesting -- if I see "open a .jpg file" I never hear people pronounce the dot, it's "open a jay-peg file". You'd definitely say "open an .exe file", again because no "dot".

On the other hand, "Microsoft .NET" includes the "dot", as well as "bought five .com domains". Yet in contrast, "bought five .edu domains" would usually be said without the dot.

Hypothesis: we don't pronounce leading dots unless for some reason they've become part of well-known "branding", like .NET or .com.
> The tiny performance hit is usually worth the safety and simplicity

It need not even be a performance hit. The compiler could recognize the idiom of code such as

snprintf(buffer, bufLen, "%s%s%s", s, t, u);

and optimize it into (example possibly buggy; my C is rusty)

b = buffer;
e = b + bufLen:
while((b < e) && (*b++ = *s++));
while((b < e) && (*b++ = *t++));
while((b < e) && (*b++ = *u++));
*b = 0;
> My wife will cycle pieces after 5-10 because she wants something new

It's the cirrrrcle of consumerrrr capitalismmmmmmm
> It would be enough to say "hey, did you know that most phones send tracking data to the manufacturer when you download AGPS information?

Someone credible: please write and submit such a blog post to HN so that we can have the discussion from that perspective instead. The current perspective is broken; discussion-wise.
The IRS already figures out your taxes, but they only tell you after the fact if they disagree with your own filing.

It seems like it should be possible to do so up front and pre-fill the form online on freefilefillableforms. Then you could either accept it as-is or make changes as needed.
They've really improved a lot. They used to be abysmal, but all of the scrutiny and high profile attacks have forced vendors to invest in bringing them up to merely terrible.
figsoda makes so many cool little Nix tools that make the Nix universe a more fun sandbox to play in. :)

I've been especially enjoying nix-init a lot in the past few weeks at work.

Ouch also looks really nice! I was just thinking today how I want a general purpose archive management tool with a more normal CLI than tar or 7z.
At least I would have a reasonable assumption of breathable air, a fresh water source, flora and fauna I can gather and hunt to eat, and likely arable land that I can use to grow additional food sources from. Space and planets we can visit has absolutely none of these things.
The way the Romans used concrete to form structures that could be plausibly carved out of raw rock. The dome of the pantheon is an impressive feat of engineering, but the general shape bears similarity to rock caverns. Which is great, because concrete is essentially rock.

Meanwhile, the kinds of beams and walls we make out of concrete wouldn't work if carved out of rock, they are only structurally sound because we put steel rebar in the concrete. But rebar expanding due to rust is how concrete usually fails. Plus using rebar prevents you from using salt water in your concrete, which is one of the ways in which Roman concrete might be better than ours.
> If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

> Even paid products do this kind of stuff these days.

Yes, if you pay for the product, then not only are you still the product, but you're a sucker as well.

It's not quite that stark, but I don't see why a company would truly change its business model just because they charge a fee. It's too tempting to "do something with all this data," i.e. treat all consumer software as spyware.
There are a lot of cool experiments happening like this, both principled and from intuition

Ex:Label prop following non-local jumps ("metapaths") based on community detection (network-of-network, ...) or other shapes. Same thing for what constitutes a feature.

Michael Bronstein's papers (and talks!) are often in this vein, in the mainstream, leading, and quite accessible, so would recommend starting there..
I wonder why we didn't use a framed representation rather than delimiters that have to be searched for (which isn't so simple). It makes writing a streaming MIME parser much harder. With a compulsory Content-Length things would be much easier.

At least with multipart/form-data we get to avoid transfer encodings, which are also quite annoying to handle (especially as they can be nested, which is probably the worst aspect of RFC2046).
Our rail system sucks, it is true. I'm quite sure that, if we expanded it, it would still suck. Cars work well for people in rural areas, and they are cost-effective in rural areas.

Your "fact" on accidental gun "killings" v. fatal car accidents is far from reality. In 2021, there were 2,007 accidental gun fatalities.[0] In 2021, per your doc, the total US transportation deaths were 42,915, all presumably accidental.

[0] https://www.aftermath.com/content/accidental-shooting-deaths...
US officials seek to crack down on harmful AI products
The moment steam and unity run on freebsd i am switching for good. That os is just amazingly designed and was my first unix experience. I can mod the shit out if it and is rock solid but sadly cant run any of the two. As soon as it nails gaming this os will become extremely popular.
All studies mentioned in the article are very small; this assumes, of course, they are accurate, which most studies are not. (https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...)
How I contributed to Emacs

Once when I should've been in college still, I was using the Telix terminal program on a 286 with a 2400MNP5 modem. Now Telix had a really awesome scripting language that could do all sorts of terminal magic, but that's a story for another day.

My connection to the Internet was 8-bit clean, and at the time I was an avid Emacs user/evangelist. (Since then, I have seen the light of vim's face and have never turned away.)

I saw that Emacs included a mapping file for mskermit to generate ESC sequences for Alt+Keypress, and I figured out that if I mapped each scancode for Alt+Keypress to the appropriate 8-bit code, it would convert my Alt key into a Meta buckybit, perfect for Emacs usage!

So I painstakingly mapped out each scancode and transcribed it into the ms-kermit configuration, and before long I was Emacsing in all its 8-bit-meta-glory.

I figured it would be useful to other Emacs users, and so I sent the file upstream. Lo and behold, it was incorporated into the standard Emacs distribution, and it stayed that way for a long, long time.

Unfortunately, since I had never formally assigned copyright or done whatever legal bit needs to be done to GPL the code, TPTB did an audit of the Emacs distro and culled any code that did not have solid legal footing. At that point, ms-kermit was really obsolete anyway, so I suppose it's all for the best!
My point what I tried to make above -- why the assumption you're renting if you live in an apartment? Some naming convention I'm not familiar with that implies renting?