skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Norvig's book is extremely useful for a whole different reason. It remains one of the best advanced books on general software design. Don't get distracted by the title
Black activists accused of sowing discord

https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/05/04/black-activists-ac...

> Just because you advocate programs that are not aligned with or approved by the U.S. government, siding with anti-racist, anti-colonial forces should not make you a target of U.S. cointelpro actions, raids on the homes of citizens, and humiliating arrests.
Most companies unfortunately don't let developers adequately explore solutions or problem spaces before committing to them either. The ones that dominate do, but that's also because they often have the resources to build it from the ground up anyway.

The average mid-sized business seems to have internalized that code is always a liability, but they respond by cutting short discovery and get their just deserts.
Building a more inclusive GitHub Global Campus
To be fair to PHP there have been quite a few improvements to the language in recent years.

I even hear Laravel is pretty nice to use.

I'll never know that stuff though because the PHP I generally encounter is 15 years old spaghetti.
Not sure whether you understand the difference between the prospective world of public analysts, and actually running a power grid. I know there can be a divide between the two, and some self-agrandizement on each side. Picking reliability over efficiency is the sound economic choice.

Please note that my comment is not about the viability of storage for renewables.
The branding (or at least the zeitgeist) around Rust is that it is a "safe language", which implies that bugs are all logic bugs or somehow the fault of the programmer for doing something "unsafe" (hence the keyword).

Anyone who thinks about it for a bit knows there are limits to guarantees of safety. It's notoriously impossible to prove that a program terminates appropriately, for instance.

So I can understand some shock to run into the arcane all of a sudden. It must be especially shocking because it feels especially out of place.
People don't like ChatGPT summaries. It's not authentic enough for them. I tried it once, had the exact same experience.
Deep pockets AND freedom to publish?

This will be like many other industries:

Make 100k a year at this noble job and better the knowledge of mankind

vs

Make 500k a year at a soulsucking corp job, doing research to better the rate at which we get people to click adds by 1%

Guess which jobs many great minds would take? I would take #2. At the end of the day, I can't feed my family with goodwill and back pats.
This quote is incredibly true for me. I used to (like 2 decades ago) pirate everything. Then Steam came along, and it is just so easy to buy things, and I don't have to worry about malware keygens or no-cd hacks. I haven't pirated a game since 2005.

I still pirate the shit out of music and movies simply because I can goto TPB and have any movie I want, in 4K or better, downloaded and ready-to-watch in under 15 minutes. Or any album I want, in FLAC, in 3 minutes.
The only problem was that he could only smell and taste the colors. Further experimentation is planned.
The article is interesting but technically weak. If we focus on the process of generating a stream of pure CO2 from the atmosphere (where CO2 is at ~420 parts per million at present), things become a bit more clear.

Note first that the global biosphere is capturing CO2 into organic molecules at about 15 times the rate that fossil fuel consumption dumps geologically stable carbon deposits into the atmosphere. However, almost all of this biological carbon is respired back into the atmosphere by microbes, fungi, insects and animals who use the material as a food source. The reason atmospheric CO2 is rising is that the biosphere doesn't have the capacity to absorb the added CO2. Keep in mind that plant growth is a quite slow process compared to industrial activity.

So let's say we generate a stream of pure CO2 from the atmosphere - but how? If we got the electricity to do this (for pumping air over CO2 filters etc.) from fossil fuels, it's a futile cycle. The energy source has to be fossil-free for this to make sense as a CO2 extraction process.

Now, the oil industry has mostly been using their CO2 streams for enhanced oilfield recovery, i.e. they pump the CO2 down into the wells and it comes back out carrying the dregs of the oil with it. When processed into fuel, the injected CO2 goes back into the atmosphere.

Another use of a pure CO2 stream is to jack greenhouse CO2 up to ~1000 ppm, which has a significant effect on plant growth rates under controlled nutrient conditions. Most of the CO2 is released back into the atmosphere as well.

In terms of storing the CO2 in some stable form, this is rather energy-intensive. The two options that make the most sense are carbon fiber materials and diamond, the latter being harder to make (but very cool and sci-fi, enter the Diamond Age). Other options like making limestone (CaCO3) are tricky (where do you get all the calcium from). These are the only long-term removal options that make sense.

Claims that pumping CO2 down wells is a good idea for long-term storage are fraudulent. Claims that coal can be burned and used for electricity while capturing all the CO2 by the above process are fraudulent. The DOE public-private programs like FutureGen that promoted this were fraudulent, to the tune of billions of dollars of fraud.

The other option for captured CO2 is to use it make methane and jet fuel, for long-distance air travel, rocketry, maybe global shipping. Here we have zero effect on atmospheric CO2 content as what comes out goes back in. This is comparable to biosphere activity, i.e. it's steady-state. Costs for this process might be 10X that for current fossil fuel production, but it's the long-term fuel solution. Given the high costs, electric vehicles form most local transportation will be far more efficient.

I think that covers all the technological bases, anyway.
I just want Visual Basic for the web man. Screw writing lines of code. I want to point and click, drop complex automated objects onto a design, put in the inputs and outputs, and publish it. I don't care how you do it, I don't want to know any of the details. I just want to be able to make things quickly and easily. I don't care about programming, I just want to get work done and move on with my life.

At this rate, when I'm 80 years old we will still be fucking around with these stupid lines of code, hunched over, ruining our eyesight, becoming ever more atrophied, all to make a fucking text box in a monitor pop some text into a screen on another monitor somewhere else in the world. It's absolutely absurd that we spend this much of our lives to do such a dumb thing, and we've been iterating on it for five decades, and it's still just popping some text in a screen, but we applaud ourselves that we're so advanced now because something you can't even see is doing something different in the background.
I tried TikTok for a few hours.

It became clear really quickly that they have completely disrupted instagram and snap. The UX is much more communal and interactive than either of those, the algorithm lands you on your interests faster, and they have massively reduced the friction around becoming a content creator rather than just a consumer - so there's simply more STUFF there. The videos are more ephemeral and imperfect than what you usually see on IG, and there's a lot more joy in what's being captured. It really is a step change in the ability to build communities around shared interests.

Behind the scenes, it's a privacy nightmare and I understand the national security concerns that go with PRC tapping directly into the id of our electorate. I think PRC is much more skilled and subtle about online manipulation than Russia is. (I was working on media monitoring when social media became strangely fixated on trade deals for just long enough to get US involvement in TPP killed - a framework that was only significantly different from other trade deals in that it would sideline PRC. Once both candidates came out against it, popular concern over trade deal nuances disappeared and never returned)

But the hysteria is driven just as much by SV tech knowing that they've been lapped and finding common ground with congress for purely anti-competitive reasons, as it is by the government trying to thread the needle between free speech and ceding ground to adversary information ops.
That's what they'd say anyway
Commenting on "It's basically Ajax": Yes, and it's also a return to the basics of a browser. Making HTTP calls (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to get HTML (the aforementioned Hypertext) and rendering it is the core thing that browsers do. It's both necessary and sufficient to being a browser.
I think people find it insincere because pointing out that both parties in question have a problem doesn't change anything about the situation or the problems.

It is most often used as an attempt at a defense by calling out other guilty parties. Yes, we should like to live in a world where anyone calling out a problem or injustice only does so from a place of unimpeachable moral authority. But we do not live in such a world so we are still left with the need to address problems where and when we can get the social and political will to do so. Using finger pointing as a defense has the effect of making the problem seem insurmountable and therefore sapping the will to fix it.

The more genuine admission might be to simply say, "I admit I have shit on my shoe, and it does stink; however, if you are to hold me to account for that, then I demand you also be held to account".

With that approach people have a much harder time seeing the complaint as merely a self-defense by way of finger pointing and it's much more likely to be taken seriously.

This is where many people in the US are probably at on, say, the Trump indictment. Can't really say it shouldn't happen, he has almost certainly broken a long list of laws for his whole career. But that also shouldn't be the end of it, more like "Great start getting a corrupt and lawless politician in jail! Who's next on that list? When does their indictment begin?".
Good luck doing business in China without local representative and or for that matter doing the same in the US. Everyone large economy has similar criteria more or less.
Because ads are in your face, it's like advertisers having their hands already in your wallet.
The vectors are usually (if you use OpenAI API anyway) unit in length, and so you can imagine them on the surface of a hypersphere.

You measure the cosine distance between documents, or between search queries and documents. (Cosine is fast, there are other distance metrics).

The vector database queries will do things like given one embedding (document or query) find the nearest embeddings (documents). Or given two embeddings (e.g. a query and a context) with a weight for each one, find the ones that triangulate to being near both.
Cannabidiol and Covid [video][22 mins]
That's the properly part. If you make a form and the output is supposed to go in a particular place and it doesn't (hx-swap), then it isn't functioning properly. The degree to which it is improperly functioning depends on the UI and the user. In many cases it's improperly enough that it may as well either work or not work.
Unless you turn it off in the settings, which is now an option. Settings -> Data Controls -> Chat History & Training

(There are only 2 settings in "Settings"...this and Dark Mode)
The answer to existing centralized for-profit systems blowing up, or to existing federated systems having various problems (some of them caused by an inadequate federation architecture), is not another centralized for-profit system with vague promises of future federation.
Paul is not dead is what I shoulda said!
have you seen any interest by the browsers to build htmx features as experimental browser features, with the goal of htmx features becoming browser standards?

When looking at the various options, I always enjoyed your architectural choice of htmx being an extension of html, for that very reason. Similar to "phonegap" hoping that the phonegap code base would get smaller and smaller as mobile browsers built more of those features natively. :)
Internet Pornography and access to communicating with adults online and sending pictures and meeting up has had a profoundly negative effect on some children and teens. I think that this space will eventually get regulated much better as people realize the negative externalities of an unregulated internet accessed by young minds.

This isn’t even getting into social media, and also spread of attention problems and screens. But in a way, I sense most parents were not yet adjusted to the new reality of the internet in the last 2 decades, and we’re all playing catch up for regulation.
I'm not sure what you mean. htmx and alpine.js are both client-side frameworks. To me, they seem to have similar goals and similar functionality.

What do you see as the difference?
A worker kills himself at work by jumping off a work building and you are here trying to tell me speculation about work being involved has zero standing? I don't buy it.
Unless you have a parallel universe generator, I'm not sure how you could prove that sticking to the GPLv2 has been more successful than moving to V3.
This is pretty cool! Thank you for sharing.

What was the technical effort to create such a podcast?
Good luck with latency though for anything slightly interactive.
You're using mental gymnastics to attack the alternative framework so that you could avoid thinking about hard problems.

No sane person believes that having option to sell your labor without taking risks is slavery.

If anything, slavery is being forced to be paid in the proceeds of a futile endeavor instead of just being paid how much you think you're worth.

People have different life circumstances and preferences, so naturally they want different risk options. Having better control over your risks is an indisputable benefit of capitalism.

Apparently, socialism ignores this benefit by assuming that people are robots that don't actually have different circumstances and preferences.
Not defending - but you know what happened to him.

That’s the opposite of vanished.

Vanished would be things like [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights] where many of the victims were never recorded, and literally no one from their lives knows what happened to them - and many of the perpetrators have taken the memories to their graves, or never knew the victims names to begin with.
Compilers can make commutative optimizations with signed integer overflow that is impossible with wrapping semantics. This is why Zig and Carbon both make unsigned integer overflow undefined as well. There is absolutely no advantage in most cases to wrapping semantics unless it is actually required for the algorithm (like some hashing or PRNG functions, for example).
Agreed, it'd also be a helpful trend-breaker to the ever bigger sizes of cars. We've never had such a high share of SUVs and trucks on the road, it makes everyone less safe.

Road safety has essentially become a typical social dilemma now: everyone's self-interested pursuit of safety (driving a bigger car), leads to worse outcomes for all, and if we coordinated better by all driving lighter vehicles, we'd all be safer off.

Still quietly hoping for solutions through regulation here in Europe, to severely limit the number of large cars (either requiring a special license like for busses, or through taxes based on their impact of weight on road maintenance and size on parking requirements). But I don't really see it happening. We really, really love our freedom of choice in the cars we buy, even if some of these cars are approaching the size of literal tanks [0] and can be driven by teenagers on the same streets shared with kids playing or people cycling. It's absurd to me.

I'm also really hopeful about driverless tech. If the majority of cars are driverless, I'm sure the majority of vehicles on roads will become unmanned taxis, at which point we can have way more differentiation in size. Right now we all buy personal cars with a size/capacity to accommodate even the least frequent occurence of travelling with 4-6 friends, even if 9/10 trips we drive solo. But if you can just call-up a ubiquitous taxi, 9/10 taxis would probably be 2-man pods at most. It should reduce average car sizes (as it's cheaper to manufacture and operate) and increase average occupation, making driving cheaper and safer. But that may be 2 decades away.

[0] https://www.motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-big...
The link after “there's not much verticality” appears to be broken
Yes, and for that they would be useful. However, in such an environment, it will be exceedingly rare for you to need one of these, as you would have to contend with city-level traffic and have to go at least 1.5 km away to even choose one instead of a bicycle. They have effectively the same safety and cargo capacity as a proper cargo bike, as they are super tiny. For families carrying children, bakfiets would fill the same role within that small radius. Therefore this is for intra-city, entirely urban trips, specifically going to places where there are no tram or metro stations within a few hundred metres or when a very small amount of too-heavy-to-carry cargo has to be moved more than 1.5 km, which as we all know, is a definite daily occurrence. Weather is one thing it protects you from, but from what I see on the daily, that's not a big enough issue to wage war against city traffic for for most people.

I don't find a good niche for these to succeed other than in very small towns with integrated suburbs but then again people would bike for bike trips and buy a car anyway because they want to get out of the small town at some point. It's a great idea but it either comes with most downsides of L-class vehicles or it loses its niche entirely.
Linus on why he doesn't like the GPLv3 - https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU

The start of the video:

Q: do you agree that you undermine GPL version 3 and how can I get you to stop

Linus: what

Q: how can we get you to stop

Linus: oh I hate GPL version 3 undermined it on purpose I actually thought the GPL version 3 extensions were horrible. I understand why people would want to do them but I think it should have been a completely new license. My argument for liking version 2 - and I still think version 2 is a great license - was that I give you source code you give me your changes back we're even. Right - that's that's my take on GPL version 2 it's that simple and version 3 extended that in ways that I personally am really uncomfortable with; namely I give you source code that means that if you use that source code you can't use it on your device unless you follow my rules and to me that's that's a violation of everything version 2 stood for ...

Tiviozation is specifically called out 2:33.

Driver compatibility and one way license changes preventing reincorporation of code at 3:30
There's probably a better API that wraps generate, but there's a bit more work than the logit mask.

You have to go one token at a time, otherwise the masking becomes combinatoric rather than linear (two tokens at a time -- need to generate all two token pairs, etc.).

But otherwise, that's what the code does! https://github.com/r2d4/rellm/blob/main/rellm/rellm.py#L21
Were they all Americans? How many warrants were served for comparison?
I’m blown away by the audio quality, well done. It’s nice that it also recaps the comments.

You said the cost is about $2 an episode, is that mostly for the summarization or audio generation?
I personally don’t have any feeling of success and don’t seem to miss it, I’m quite content.
thanks will definitely check it out.
It is very human to continuously fail to listen to the lessons of history, only to rediscover them.
I literally tried that yesterday. You will be introducing bias. It works well until you infer with something very similar to one of the examples you used in the prompt but not exactly the same then it will always return the json you used in your example.
You may have an MTHFR polymorphism that leads to low folate/B12, those SNPs are correlated with autism, schizophrenia, among other things.

I have the homozygous C677T SNP and recently started taking methyl folate and methylated B12 and noticed I get much better sleep and less brain fog.
Obligatory Youtube video for historical purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
I’m too used to getting search for free, so asking me to pay for this service is something that I’m very reluctant to do even though I understand that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

What I’m willing to contribute is my computing resources. If a search service wanted to use my machine for web crawling that would be something I’m willing to trade for an improved search experience.

I’m not sure how feasible this option is because it doesn’t pay salaries or cover server costs, but it does help alleviate some of the computing costs, I’d assume.
> Identifying with your employer to the extent you view it as the pinnacle of your life isn’t likely to end positively.

> At some extremes, this is false, right? What about someone becoming an astronaut?

Sorry about the source, but have a look at this workplace discussion between two Russian Astronauts, about how that after the big send-off the job is a "heavy routine" and "depression hits". But they can't give it up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/grzwfl/i_love_this_c...

- "I'm fed up. Fuck. This is the last time"

- "hahahaha"

- "What, dammit?"

- "This is the tenth time I hear that from you. We live while we work or fly."

I mean, what do you do after being an astronaut? If it's "the extreme pinnacle of your life" and it's over.
...aaaand we're back!

Probably was just a mistake, and has now been fixed, as the link structure on the page now points to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html (note the 3.0 addition).

The original link submitted here (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) also forwards to that URL now.
Dimensions itself do not carry any meaning, what matters are the neighbors to maintain a sense of similarity. Think if it like a very complex point cloud. Applying an n-dimensional rotation leads to the same point cloud content wise.

As for the number of dimensions, in a sense they are a training variable just as the content itself. The more dimensions you utilize for your embeddings the more complex your relations can be during clustering. Too many dimensions can easily lead to over fitting however and too little dimensions can usually not accurately represent the training corpus.
Can we even weight that statement? The average SPA is significantly worse than the average MPA. There is so much browser functionality that needs to be replicated in a SPA that few teams have the resources or talent to do a decent job.
What does your residential street look like? My guess is that is is wide and has no physical traffic calming features to make it uncomfortable to drive fast. If you and your neighbors want to slow people down on the street, you should fight for measures that make people feel like they should go slow naturally. Studies have shown [1, 2] that drivers often base their speed more on the "design speed" of the road more than the posted speed limit---and this likely resonates with most drivers.

Certainly software limits on self-driving cars would solve the speed issue, but I don't think that is the only hope---nor do I think it (or self driving cars in general) is the best answer.

[1]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9354/17c4dca8e52a2a4920bd9e...
[2]: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/19/8143
Of course it's related. The more the standard library provides for you, the less you need to rely on third party dependencies.
I misread this at first and thought it said George Santos. That would have been so much fun.