skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool! Would love to have some extra datapoints. This is what the raw data I use looks like https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/harcon.html?id=9410580#
How many times must this question be answered? TLS is a requirement because otherwise nodes between your device and the server can easily modify the HTTP requests and responses to inject malicious code. Your traffic is also trivially tracked.
I’d say almost everything I’ve written, has been for personal use, even though I publish as public open-source.

I write a lot of modules and SDKs, and regularly consume them in my own work. Comes out great.

Lots of folks ignore my work. I won’t bother speculating as to why, but I’m fine with that, as everyone that depends on my work means I need to take them into account, when maintaining. If I’m my only customer, then I can do whatever I want. I write stuff that I need.

Publishing as “classic” public open source, forces me to do a good job, so that means that really significant parts of my projects are pretty much “worry free.”

You can see my stuff in my GH orgs (I don’t really have much in my personal repos).

https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#here-on-github
Like I said it is competitive with other computers in its class. The Surface Laptop 5 is $1000 and also comes with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. And MacOS Performas much better with 8GB than windows does.
> It gets very awkward when you are trying to host & treat people, but they insist on compensating with cash.

My friends should feel comfortable with whatever. If they are more comfortable splitting then let’s do that. Under no circumstances will I make the assumption that more money is better and less money is bad.

If they are acting out of politeness, that’s on them. This is especially the case because I tell my friends to be who they want to be
I highly recommend an episode of How To with John Wilson titled “How to Split the Check”

https://youtu.be/LsMdnCO7AOA
To some people sharing money is generous. To others it's a flex that they can't replicate and it makes them bitter. To others it's a sign you can be taken advantage of. To others it's a sign that you are not mature financially and are just making poor financial decisions.

Just like music, people have different tastes/expectations when it comes to money.
Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics
I created an optimizer for helping me make ship loadouts in the game highfleet. I put it online and added ship-sharing. Had a ton of help from a frontend dev, I mostly worked in C using SCIP, IPOPT, and such to solve the constrained optimization problem.

https://hfopt.jodavaho.io
Horses don't "have" asses. They're both individual contributors.
No idea about the why. Vespas were a bit of thing maybe 20 years or so ago in the US but, while I think I know one person who owns something along those lines, they just aren't very common in my experience. (Maybe because car ownership is higher and it tends to be either/or?)
I built a native mac app called FileWatcher. It watches the filesystem for events like read, write, open, mount, stat, etc etc. I wanted to investigate how xcode's build system worked [1] (which relies on `stat` to determine whether or not a file needs to be recompiled) and couldn't find any tool that would do the job.

I was astonished when I couldn't find what I needed - surely this had already been solved by someone else! There are things like inotify and watchman, but they don't provide process information about the events.

I haven't figured out how to distribute it quite yet because the API it uses to collect file system events isn't allowed in apps distributed on the app store. I recently made a short video demo, though[2].

[1] https://blog.codysehl.net/2023/Understanding-the-XCode-Build...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhMWXzoBWY
Also the mapping from ‘awkwardness’ to ‘looks like bribery’ seems assumed and not justified.
Show HN: Silkflow, A fine grained reactive Python framework – for Kindles
Silkflow is a lightweight, fine grained reactive web framework that brings the Kindle Paperwhite and Raspberry Pi together for a match made in heaven. Designed specifically for resource-constrained environments, Silkflow allows you to create interactive web applications in Python, similar to Plotly Dash or Streamlit, but with a focus on supporting the Kindle Paperwhite as a low-cost, IP67 rated, daylight readable display.
enso is cool!
Nice try, Satya
So you have traded capitalism for socialism. Except it's not really social if they're is a price attached to it.

What the article says is the price of being hospitable without being awkward carries a high price of ownership, or high capitalistic cost.

And socialistic systems do not allow for normal hospitality initiatives.
Your friends usually want to feel like they are your social peers; casually buying dinner for everyone reminds them that you're loaded and they aren't, but if they chip in they can maintain that feeling of being on your level. I got a tech job in 2014 when all my friends were waiters and bartenders and I found myself in situations like this quite a bit. To what degree am I obligated to pay more, since I have more, versus protecting my friends feelings and not rubbing it in?

Humans are complicated creatures!
Thanks, that is genuinely useful.

I may have a look at the transforms.
Aren't you mistaking the state and ability of being consistent, with the incentives for consistency? All these systems of governance would ultimately be useless without the ability to conform to them. And conform we do.

Maybe the ambiguity in this discussion is how to distinguish consistency from conformism?
There's a balance between showing your friends you appreciate them, and flaunting wealth / buying friendship.

The general rule I think is: don't gift something a friend can't repay with equal social value in their own way.

Or if you're going to anyway, make it explicit you're doing it for the experience, and don't make it a regular thing. (E.g. dinner at a very expensive restaurant you want to experience and you don't want to eat alone.) People know that rich people do rich people things, and "fun experience" is something that can be repaid without spending lots of money.
I should clarify, When I say people under 30 I'm talking about young adults who are purchasing their own Laptop. Not children. So the 21-30 age group.
When you look at those "How can I make money? / Generated Name taught me how!" astroturfed youtube comment clusters, do you see a positive contribution to the community?
Actually, Texas has made quite a big thing out of not connecting their grid to anyone else's. Because They're Real Men Who Go It Alone.

Of course, that means when there is a natural disaster in Texas (with the existing, largely-fossil-fuel-powered grid!), they...can't really get help from anyone else. (My hazy understanding is that there are a few limited-duty linkages that can be activated, or something, but it's woefully inadequate to serve the whole state.)

IIRC, the last time this happened, the only parts of Texas that were still getting power were a few that had wind & solar plants going. Because those were still operating just fine.
There is no prosperity without rule of law.
The `|` operator indicates that you're starting a function. And `*` is basic multiplication.

Scrapscript:

| x -> y -> x * y

Javascript:

x => y => x * y

It also works as a pattern-matching statement.

| true -> true -> 2
| true -> false -> 1
| false -> true -> 1
| false -> false -> 0
Doesn't a rust binary also include a whole lot of standard library? C compilers assume that libc is available, a rust compiler is hardly going to assume that rust's libstd is installed on a random user's machine.
Yes - I was making a mistake. I was trying to describe the effect of both masses. When one is much smaller than the other, then the movement is mostly in one direction. When they are closer in mass or even equal, they move toward each other. For example, if you have a 1 liter water bottle filled with a material that gives it the same mass as the earth, then the two bodies will move toward each other, and the water bottle will seem to move toward the earth much faster that the 1 filled with water (1kg). If it is filled with a material, that gives it much grater mass than the earth, the earth will move toward it.
The economics of scare tactics in mass advertising campaigns cant compete with those of writing actually good software.
In North America it's spammy as well. I have maintained for a while that Amazon is basically Alibaba with better English copy and delivery times.
One of my big "side projects" over the last few months has been my personal website and blog (https://epiccoleman.com). It's not very interesting per se - I mean, who doesn't have a blog these days - but it has been really educational and fun to work on. It's a really simplistic stack which makes working on it pretty frictionless. I spent a lot of time tweaking the look and feel of the site and am pretty happy with how everything has turned out.

I've also been putting a lot of work into a React component that renders a nice looking SVG Circle of Fifths, and just recently got to a point where I felt I could call a release "1.0.0". This has also been a really educational project and I'm super proud of the component. It's a little basic right now, but it looks very nice, and I have a lot of cool features planned.

It's licensed MIT, so if this sounds like something you'd like to use in an app, you can check it out here: https://github.com/epiccoleman/react-circle-of-fifths. I'd love any feedback, issues, etc.

Edit:
Oh, I just thought of one other thing - a single line of code I wrote which frequently gives me great joy. In zsh you can define a function called `command_not_found_handler` which gets invoked whenever a command ... isn't found.

Mine says: `figlet lol, $@`, so whenever you make a typo like "gits status" or something, you get a big "lol, gits tatus" printed out, which is amusing.
> ... in the South.

Well, most of Europe is south of Norway, and there's a lot of comparable cycling culture and facilities there.

Unless you mean south of the equator, like here in Australia, but unfortunately we're not so good with that. I can't speak to much of the rest of the south (of the equator) unfortunately.
I was hoping someone would point me to something like this, thank you!
I love everything Bill writes. One of the things that I very much miss about working at Stripe is getting to read the very thoughtful notes that he would send out.
If you really think gift cards are pointless, stop accepting them. Tell people it's a personal policy. They will respect that.

I don't know how you figure it isn't wasted money. Not only did you not receive the good or service that they spent their hard-earned money on - which is fine, you don't have to use it for yourself - you didn't even pass on the gift card and receive some smaller benefit. That's thoughtless and disrespectful - not the act of someone giving you a gift card, but you accepting and throwing it out.
Yes, but large language models are very compute intensive and require a ton of RAM. So they wouldn't be able to run locally (this is currently possible with Siri), would be relatively expensive and possibly slow. So they might still be a while off.
Indefinitely since they are alpha emitters. This kind of radiation is stopped by almost anything like paper and the dead outer layer of skin and so is harmless unless you ingest the source.

Fact is, the waste that everyone is worried about (used nuclear rods) is not actually waste. 90%+ of the energy is still in there. It's just that the dominant reactor technology isn't designed to extract it. It would be dumb to bury this energy. It would be better to reprocess it like France does or even better, build the kinds of reactors that can directly use it as fuel.

Then you're left with fission products that you can bury it several kilometers underground in a deep borehole using oil/gas technology. It will naturally decay away in 300 to 600 years. Remember, most industrial toxins are toxic forever. There is no amount of time that will render it safe, and we don't even particularly try to isolate it because there's so much. It is only for nuclear waste that we try so hard. And it's only feasible because there's so little of it. All the spent nuclear rods (civilian) the US has EVER produced in 70 years fits in a football field at 30 feet high. Meanwhile a single coal plant produces 1100 tons of just ash a DAY. Not to mention all the air pollution and greenhouse gases. A single plant.

The waste aspect of nuclear energy is amazingly convenient in comparison.
Show HN: Pledge Your Human-Made Content
AI generated content is on the rise. How can you be sure what you're reading is 100% human?
>This means that all attempts to get data from it using the first USB interface would fail. Now you might ask, why does the webcam have an endpoint with a 0 byte MaxPacketSize on its first interface? Who knows!

Paper cuts like this is why the Linux Desktop isn't mainstream.
I moved to the US for college, and the only way to pay the predatorily high tuition was to take out student loans. Those were taken out incrementally each semester. I was eligible for several different kinds of loans at varying rates and amounts, so each semester I'd optimize, resulting in several loans a semester.
It’s the right tool when you prefer scrollbars to always be rendered, which is a valid preference. For example, in the “not needed” case, the scrollbar being rendered tells you at a glance that there’s no scrollable content with a hidden “only appears upon movement” scrollbar, an information which would otherwise be missing.
A great channel with tons of the Bergen-Oslo train route is RailCowGirl.
https://www.youtube.com/@RailCowGirl
I took a few classes taught by Graziano, one of the motor researchers cited in this article. I remember he was convinced that the motor cortex does much higher level planning and orchestration than other people believed, and that it stored entire movement templates across different areas as described here. One of the main ones was picking up something and bringing it to your mouth to eat.
As long as a chunk of rock is in one piece (rather than a pile of rubble) it's not going to get pulled apart by a modest amount of gravity. Look at any cliff overhang (or the underside of any boulder) for proof. So the trick is just to pick an asteroid that is not a rubble pile.
The best bit about that ad is that my homepod replied to every 'hey siri ...' with an error.

"Hey siri read me my last email" "I'm sorry I can't do that"
"Hey siri list my reminders" "You can use the photos app to do that"
"Hey siri show me my fashion line (?)" "You can try a search in your web browser"
> The homunculus never made sense, but did anyone think it did?

Why doesn't it make sense? Seriously, it was so widely accepted by literally MILLIONS of people because it DOES make sense: clearly my hands are MUCH more dexterous and sensitive than my elbows, my mouth and lips more sensitive than my forehead and having more dedicated brain connections and brain matter explains this nicely.

I first saw this image years ago in Psych 101, and many times since, and not ONCE did it occur to me that this "doesn't make sense".
Yeah I'll tell my parent/brother/friend who works at a grocery store that they can pay me back when their options vest, or their deli job hits 6 figures...
If you are generous with your friend from highschool who has a dead-end job and no useful qualifications, he may still be able to help you in one way or another. For example, he may have a very inspiring mindset and encourage you in your endeavors. He may even be more helpful than the not so generous rich guy who doesn't share anything with you or the guy who always calculates if his investments are worth it.
Sometimes people can't reciprocate because they don't have the means. They can't rent a house or take you out to a restaurant.

That makes them feel uncomfortable.
Hola que tal me llamo guadalupe tenia una vuenta de facebook como lupizz rueda martinez y al poner la contraseña ya no entró y tuve que volver hacer otra cuenta porque ya no podia ingresar a mi cuenta
That's a good point about the illusionary aspect to it all. It's part of why there are so many cultural/social traditions where the polite thing to do is to counter-offer. If someone wants to pay for a meal, you're supposed to offer to pay instead, this dance goes on several rounds until you give up allowing the original person to pay, which kind of demonstrates several things one of them being loyalty and commitment.

When this happens in cultures without this tradition, I find that both parties miss out: it doesn't feel as rewarding to pay, and it doesn't feel as rewarding to have your meal paid for because it seems low effort. People almost view that as bragging vs sharing because of that lack of dance. Which is part of the illusion! High effort v low effort.

A safe way to treat people is to allow them the ability to "counter-offer". Dance with them a little, alternatively encourage them for the next event if they want. You can avoid that crude transactional feeling, plus if they are up for it, next event is their choice.
Better to say, I think, that humans are much better at improving their approximation of consistency with mental effort both because we can think silently instead of "out loud, step by step" and because some of the patterns of careful thought we engage in don't get written down naturally as text and so are unlikely to be hit upon by GPTs. The advantages of not being a strict feed foreword network.

That being said, GPT4 can just open its virtual mouth spew forth without reflection and still produce consistent text is clearly superhuman.
You can go to open-mic nights in a pub if you want, but you don't necessarily appreciate or benefit from being surprised by someone with a megaphone when you went somewhere to hang out with your friends.
On that note I find it sad that AI has to pass the Turing test. As if the greatest possible achievement is to mimic a human mind.
404 on that Torvalds link
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This is a minor annoyance of mine across the internet. Usually on pages that are some kind of subsystem from the main site - i.e support pages, blogs etc.
I did something very similar quite recently with an old Mustek DV3000 camera that had webcam functionality. I was shocked to find out that Linux actually supports it out of the box. The quality is trash so it's not really usable, but fun messing around with it nonetheless.
>> Planning, yes, but that’s a verb that casts a very wide net.

The article uses "planning" to mean "classical planning", which is a very specific thing, although it's such a fundamental concept in AI research that it is very difficult to find a simple definition (there's a lot of useless stuff on the internet about it, like tutorials that don't explain what it is they're tutorial-ing, or slides that don't give much context).

Even the Wikipedia article is not very well written. I followed this link to one of its references though and there's an entire textbook, available as a free pdf:

https://projects.laas.fr/planning/

In general, classical planning is one of those domains where GOFAI approaches continue to dominate over nouveau AI, statistical machine learning-based approaches. You'll have to take my word for that, though, because that's what I know from experience, and I don't have any references to back that up. On the other hand, if it wasn't the case, you wouldn't see papers like the one linked above, I suppose.

To clarify, the paper above makes it clear that LLMs, for one, are useless for planning but at least they can translate between natural language and PDDL, so that a planning problem can be handed off to a classical planning engine, that can actually do the job. How useful is that, I don't know. A human expert would probably do a better job of writing PDDL from scratch, but that's never explored in the linked article.
The absolute worst are drivers who do the MGIF thing then immediately do a left turn right in front of you!

Edit: Slight correction - the absolute worst were the kids who thought it would be amusing to throw a brick at me while I was commuting by bike through the outskirts of Edinburgh. Fortunately their aim wasn't very good.
I think the author might be making the assumption that ‘if you don’t feel awkward receiving the gift, it can’t be bribery’ - which I don’t think is what the law says, and hardly seems like a sound moral standard either.

I suppose the idea is ‘if you don’t feel awkward, then there can’t be any sense of obligation, so no quid pro the quo’.

But of course that’s not true.

Although I suppose the author only said this makes it look like it’s not a bribe. Presumably it might still actually be one.
We should do this in Florida. Seems I read about occasional frosts killing oranges
I don't understand this. I never had this problem.

When you invite people for dinner, it's assumed you cook (and this pay for the food) anywhere I lived.

Europe, India, Asia that is.

Drinks are also assumed to be on the host but most people will bring a bottle if they want to drink alcohol.

But that's still no expected from the host unless explicitly verbalized with the invitation.

When I invite eight people, each of them (or each couple) don't don't know how many we will be all together.

When I shout people at a restaurant, I just secretly pay when I come back from the bathroom, after desserts have been ordered.
I am a human , I am not a machine that inputs all the GPL code on the internet and then outputs similar code with very small differences. I am fine with OpenAI and MS using GPL code as long as the open source community can also train on proprietary code and art of the big companies.

What happens now is that some big companies say that is OK to train on any licensed stuff and on the other hand some people are sued because they done it, I want it clarified ASAP. And personally I would not give a shit on the ToS of OpenAI and use their poutput as I like as similar as they did.
Do the prompts become obsolete with new versions of ChatGPT?
Hey there, per your advise I made an attempt to consolidate the two articles into one (while still keeping it in a reasonable length :-)

if you are still interested the new article is located at @ https://medium.com/@uchtchi_buchtchi/the-unconscious-univers...

Thank you again for the great advise, and if you would read it, I would be very much interested in your feedback _/\_
Right. What makes it look like bribery isn’t the transaction. It’s the nature of the relationship itself.

Is there a great earnings imbalance? Is there ever a way for the friend to treat you in kind?

Are you and this friend close friends?

I wouldn’t think twice about making the trip to a summer house one of my good friends rented. I might offer to kick some money over, but it wouldn’t feel awkward or obligated. Just want to show my appreciation.

If this is someone I don’t particularly like, it changes the whole exchange. Why am I going? Why do they want me to go? With the change of the type of relationship, none of it is kosher.
I’m well aware those groups. I’m asking about solutions here.
Is that what the parent is describing? Even so, the problem with those comments is that they're annoying spam, not that they are annoying spam made my bots.

Humans can post annoying spam too. Look at any social group that attracts pyramid schemers or get rich quick cryptocurrency schemes. Those aren't bots, they're just annoying.
I have built VS Utils [1] mostly for myself since I work with WordPress and they use serialize(), unserialize() functions a lot, and sometimes I need to convert base64, timestamps value without leaving the editor. I find it's easier to write an extension for daily use functions and publish to VS Code so I can download it easier, sync across devices. Hope it helpful for others too.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tanftw.v...