skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely most modern instrumental hits are EDM, yes?

More so, electronica. I feel kinda bad for a music expert who isn't aware of Four Tet, Nils Frahm, Orbital, Sasha, or Tipper.
The Frontend / server less / JS ecosystem craziness and high rate of change has left a lot of devs disenchanted.

High profile posts over bundlers, tailwind, and microservices set the scene.

A few popular people on Twitter have been talking about Laravel which has influenced other devs.

Wind is in Laravel's sails, not php's
Is it fair to say that you define thinking as operating in a nearly identical manner as the human brain?
Problem tho is that they're already pretty busy managing managers that are themselves managing managers.
> Possibly, but the fact that they are refusing to tell him why he’s being removed makes this suspicious.

Besides his claim, what basis do you have for describing this as a “fact”?

> Seems like they would not need to hide it if the reason was “you’re being removed due to excessive litigation against the school and your peers”. They would have a reason to hide “you’re being removed because you disagree with us”.

Seems like if he was going to misrepresent the reason he was being fired, misrepresenting the information he was or was not given by the people firing him would very likely be part of that. (Of course, even his account has him being given notice previously of potential cause of adverse career consequences of specific actions.) He contends that he choose to refuse to participate in the investigation he was asked to because he did not have adequate information about its content, but he does not seem to dispute that such refusal is defined as insubordination in the staff handbook nor does he allege that there is anything in University policy that entitles him to more information than he had received prior to participating in an investigation. Private employment in the US generally doesn’t come with due process rights beyond those in the employment contract. You’d think a conservative law prof, even if they weren’t working in a private institution, would know that.
So GoDaddy still does this, huh? I was stung in the very same way over 15 years ago, looks like their business practices haven't changed much since.
I wonder if children can actually metabolize sugar better than adults? They certainly seem to have more of a sweet tooth, and sugar cereals seem to be more popular with children than adults. Adults are far more likely to complain that something is "too sweet."

But hyper-palatable foods aren't just sweet - they're savory, spicy, tangy, salty, fatty, all sorts of delicous! They also smell amazing. I recall reading that simply smelling pizza can be enough to cause your blood sugar to spike, presumably in anticipation.

Paradoxically artificial sweeteners can apparently raise blood sugar as well, as can black/unsweetened coffee.
Right, and most people have things to do and time that is better spent not learning how to install a toilet.
> it is a really terrible writer

Most people are terrible writers, and never read anything at all. So they have no way to judge if the wordy informationless crap gpt wrote is good or not. It's long, thus is good.
Yes, the so called communists managed to inflict the most damage to their own people. That sure is something

Being from Bulgaria, I've met plenty of Russians. We're friends with another family - guy is Russian, and his wife is Ukrainian. Plenty of baggage but the guy had enough self awareness to recognise what was going on nearly a decade ago when the war started.

Also, as a gamer, I am often matched with Russians on a regular basis. 9 out of 10 are the worst team mates ever. While annoying, I feel sorry for these guys because it's clear they are just victims. I can only imagine the hellish environment they have been brought into.
How does this differentiate from other open source identity solutions like KeyCloak or Ory? I wish there was more collaboration in this space, especially singe we’re talking security and these projects need pen testing, bug bounties, and more infrastructure to be considered „production grade“.
4 Years of CFP Examples
When I saw the photo of https://info.computerhistory.org/xerox-parc-archive, I thought this building reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater but I was wrong because they are other architects and the Fallingwater house was built on 1939.
Oh I read it backwards and was confused. Thank you.
I'm sorry but most ChatGPT output is functionally indistinct from a pg "quality" essay: Make banal observation about recent technological development. Explain it's "disruptive potential" for legacy industry. Express mild concern about possible social impact on group. Conclude that such concerns are overblown and that tech workers / investors can make shit loads of money while making the world a better, happier place for their chums. Be sure to only use a 9th grade vocabulary.
If I had to ask why pg is concerned I'd say it's because ChatGPT threatens to disrupt the thought leader-industrial complex that he sits at the heart of. When anyone can generate his type of vacuous prose what point pg?
I "watch ads" when I watch on my TV because it's too much of a hassle to disable them. I just mute the TV and watch my phone for 30 seconds..
My mpv calls yt-dlp directly, and it can even seek.
Thank you so much for this comment! Exactly, the chat was mostly a validation thing. And I remember that even back then we had identified an idea that went into the Twitter fork of Redis very soon (implemented by Yao maybe?), and later into official Redis itself: lists with many collapsed elements per node.
Don't forget to try to change carbohydrates and fat consumption patterns as well.

Some reportedly do better with low carb and avoiding industrial seed oils.
Yes, to give credit, they do monitor the most important ones which almost everybody uses and which are usually also maintained by developers from Cloudbees. But there are over 1800 plugins for Jenkins, so at least quantitatively, most of them are not monitored.
Mainstream languages will lag behind others forever. The average programmer in Java or C# neither cares for nor understands 'new' features or concepts. Most people I know in this area have never even heard about prolog, lisp, smalltalk, etc.
This sounds exactly like me. Strangely enough, my hearing test was perfect.

Whenever there is background noise, I cannot decipher what someone is saying. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked, “are you deaf?”

Could it be some form of ADHD?
Free… in the experimental phase.

Then it’ll probably be super expensive
R gets a lot of hate, not least because it's quite annoying to parallelize at times, but I think it's a lovely free language with an enormous ecosystem and a lot of highly mathematically literate users, oft based at universities, and oft beholden unto no corporate interests. Arguably that's also R's greatest weakness too.

This is quite a nice modernisation of colour palettes in base R, which otherwise does feel a bit like it's from the 1990s. Colour palettes are particularly important for (not) biasing data representations -- a great paper about it is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19160-7.
Ditto for Indonesia
No, you're not snarky at all!

These are great points. AI changed the landscape totally within a few months. I played with AutoGPT 2 weeks ago, and it's absolutely amazing, already today in its (still) raw form.

"Brain dead simple"... yes, that's definitely the way to go. Will think about how to make that happen. These buttons you were talking about sound great.
Yeah, that was my thought too. It felt far too direct and oddly intimate in what it cited and quoted. I asked ChatGPT to write a generic obituary in an NYT style and it came back with things like, “As news of [Name]'s untimely death spread, fans and colleagues flooded social media with tributes and messages of condolences. Many praised [Name]'s kindness, generosity, and unique voice, and expressed their shock and sadness at the loss of such a talented and beloved figure.” And “[Name] will be deeply missed by their family, friends, and countless fans, who will always remember them as a bright and inspiring presence in the online community.” Which feels like the right way to approach the topic. This, on the other hand… focuses far too much on written word and research instead of impact and legacy. It felt tone deaf.

For comparison, here’s an article from a fan: https://twitter.com/ejdickson/status/1656425063321677825 - or for the direct link, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/heathe... Not that the article is any less frank about it, but at least it addresses some other points.

And it’s not like there aren’t other posts from contemporaries to quote. There are, just search for them: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1656344993995411456 for example.

This is more what I expected to read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/10/heather-a... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/10/heather...
On the surface-level, yes, it's semi-convincing. On the other hand, it lacks all the nuance of a human being.

Ask it `Give me a taco recipe in the style of Stanley Unwin` and you'll get something that has the style, something that's superficially Unwin-like, but lacks the contextual nuance of the humour completely. In fact, I'd say ChatGPT doesn't do humour, especially nuanced humour that's in the delivery and not in the punchline itself. Humour is a very abstract thing and there's so many styles of it. Can it tell you a joke? Yes, but that's not humour in its entirety.

Just an observation, but the LLM isn't expressing itself, it's words for the sake of words because they predict the next word in a sequence. It's like saying "what's the big deal about Allen Ginsberg? You drop a few f-bombs and a bit of flowery language, that's Ginsberg in a nutshell", whilst completely ignoring the expressivity of self.

What makes writing as a medium so interesting is the conveyance of thought from one human being to another. Is an LLM interesting because it can sometimes be a little alien whilst still having some human-like quality? Sure. But an LLM is just an LLM, it doesn't have experiences or novel new thoughts that express a larger ideology. As a human being, I unfortunately just don't relate to LLMs, even if they are a reflection of the content they're trained on, which is ultimately human. It just lacks soul.

If the LLM can't experience the zeitgeist in the way that we do, it can't really capture such a big chunk of what human self-expression is.

Anecdotal, but I find the average HN exchange to be far more interesting than anything an LLM has ever output to me in terms of conveying meaningful ideas. I've tried debating with ChatGPT itself a few times, that's been—hit-and-miss.
speaking from direct experience coming from a family that builds homes in suburban southern california, it's sorta self-reinforcing and circular
people expect familiar floorplans,

planning departments approve them faster if the same elements are repeated,

HVAC, plumbing and fire mitigation regulations generally require a hub and spoke architecture

appraisers (and more importantly bank loan approvals) are based primarily on square feet, not quality (and also bathrooms)

so we add a bonus room that is likely never to be used, to bump up valuation to spend on better plumbing (developers are liable for 20 years of defects on new homes). we also build a minimum of 4 car garages, usually 6, because it's a cheap way to add square footage without added plumbing and mainly going to be used for storage anyway...
You're assuming YouTube is not loosing money with non-paying customers...
I was about to post this. If only the vscode plugin worked I would use Flix.
There is a comparison chart available: https://supertokens.com/pricing#comparison-chart
I was able to get a lesson and jam session with Tosin Abasi from AAL. He's so chill and ridiculously skilled. I distracted him at one point and made him drop his lasagna on the floor... He kept saying it wasn't my fault when I apologized but it kind of was :(
Been using revanced (and just vanced) for years and never encountered a bug. What problems have you had?
Anyone on HN is too tech-savy already. YouTube "just" wants to capture the 99,9% that won't compile a homebrew YT app.

As long as the grandchild can't simply click "install UBlock Origin", they're going to be fine, revenue-wise.
I am sorry, but the internet right now is bloated with ads that slow down everything and create an absolute distraction when one tries to browse, I do not care if they have problem modifying the appearance and behaviour of a webpage that I have loaded on my browser, but this goes to anything in the internet basically. I am not gonna compromise myself before they all fix the internet of the mess they have created.

I pay for the content that I think it is worth supporting, and that's it. I do not think youtube is worth supporting, and if quite often the only reason I watch things there instead of somewhere else is due to laziness. Same for many creators I follow probably. If they set adblock restrictions I will just stop watching and that's it.
> - the two particles aren’t really separated, they just appear to be (non-Euclidean)

> this article omits them, because it’s hard to think about

"Hard to think about" seems strange? Wouldn't it just mean the particles are two instances of the same object?

Maybe I've just been programming for too many years...
RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye
I find copilot most useful when writing comments tbh. Whenever I'm stuck contemplating how to phrase the rest of a comment it comes with a suggestion. It might be a terrible suggestion but that's usually enough to get me unstuck. And every now and then it's exactly what you need and it saves a bunch of typing :P
I'm going to sound annoying here, but have you actually used Svelte? The developer experience is night and day with Svelte(kit) and React/Vue. I can have a workable prototype within a couple of hours with Sveltekit, where it would've taken me a couple of days in React/Next.js. Svelte feels like an answer to that unending churn of web frameworks because so much of it is just plain HTML and JS, compared to learning the newest React flavour every fortnight.

Further, I don't think it's fair to say that Svelte isn't established, it's in production on some pretty big sites and has been stable for years now.
The quadcopter community has dig up research on the longevity of lipo batteries under different charge levels. Note that they do push their batteries really hard. Their findings apply as long as the latest devices still set 4.2V as 100%.
Let me guess: the download functionality doesn't actually give me access to the DRM-free video file and when YT deletes a video it's useless to me.
But then Einstein said (if someone got the translation right):

'...for we physicists believe that the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.'

Which is fascinating considering all the while he discussed 'synchronous events', talking about relativity, and how often time appears in his famous equations, eg E=mc^2 and K=8πG/c^4 . (c=meters/sec) A unitized 'spacetime' banishes time as a separable consideration.

It's as though we are trapped into a way of perceiving things that is wrong, but we haven't escaped that trap. OR... all of space-time is simply a giant, frozen, 4-D crystal in which the only thing moving - through the 3-D plane we call space - is our consciousness. If that's so, everything has already happened. OR... maybe that's mostly true, but not quite.

If that last thought intrigues you, you might enjoy reading Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P.D. Ouspensky.
Yeah, I thought that might be it that too even though I don’t present any other autism symptoms. Much harder to diagnose in that case, which is why they tried to isolate with the APD testing.
So what's the programming language that's 100% consistent? For example Python isn't.
During our morning standup this morning one of my colleagues pulled up the archive and dug up some of my source files from 40 years ago. He had been my colleague back then so I found some of his.
Are you using a rolling hash (such as the one employed in Rabin-Karp string search algorithm)? You can then store the hash at check points and the intermediate hashes between checkpoints can be regenerated using the rolling hash.

+[h1] +[batch1] +[h2] [batch2] -[h3] +[batch3] +[h4]

You would then have the operations log for a replica as

+[forwardhash(null)] +[hello] +[forwardhash(hello)] +[world] -[reversehash(world)] +[ ] +[forwardhash(wor) -[ld]+[k]

This sequence would give the following replica states after processing each hash:

+[forwardhash(null)] +[hello] -> hello
+[forwardhash(hello)] +[world] -> helloworld
-[reversehash(world)] +[ ] -> hello world
+[forwardhash(wor) -[ld]+[k] -> hello work

The direction of the roll is just a sign bit of the hash.

We don't need to encode positions separately as it is a function of the state of the replica and the sign of the hash.
I'm targeting people who don't love marketing and are totally busy with something else. At the moment, that's mostly solopreneurs and small startups. It's up to them whether they wanna go down the lifestyle business or the hypergrowth route, however I think a startup going for growth would have a full-time marketer on their team anyway, right?
Thank you so much, both for using Redis and for trying reading Wohpe.

I never saw a sample of the print on demand version of the English translation of Wohpe. I hope they print it properly. With the Italian version, we tried hard to provide a physical book that was of high quality, but shipping to US was impossibile from Italy.
I made my top bar the same as the page color, so that might make the logo basically invisible for me or others with a brighter color defined.
Isn't it possible for knowledge to be effectively different based on how much incorrect stuff there is?

For example if one person knows two correct facts about a specific sport, and another person knows those same 2 correct facts as well as 2 false facts, and doesn't know which 2 are true or false, isn't the second person less knowledgeable about that sport than the first person, despite technically having the same amount of true facts on the subject?

Equally, even if the amount of known knowledge in the world remains the same, isn't a world in which every human while studying spends every minute learning true stuff vs. spending half their time reading made up stuff, won't people on average be less knowledgeable despite the fact that no global knowledge got destroyed in the process? (Ofc there's never been a time when it's possible to spend 100% of the time learning completely accurate stuff, hypothetical exaggeration there.)
Agreed, google earth VR is the most incredible experience I've had with my VR headset.
I prefer early returns. It avoids nesting when checking preconditions. However, the function must always return the same type.
Going back to the mid 2000's but this time with an OS and touchscreens
Awesome story, thank you!
Unless the tax breaks are so high that the taxes actually go negative, they won't pay for hosting costs.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.
Plato's warning is true, actually. Since I started to write, I remember less and less about the things I have written down, because the brain replaces them with a pointer.

However, writing for thinking and writing for storage is two different things, and it activates different parts of the brain.

I'm an avid pen and paper user, and using a real pen on a paper allows me to think much more deeply. It regulates thinking speed, so things doesn't escape or my focus doesn't get derailed. Also it changes how brain works so it can think better.

Also, blogging and writing documentation at work made me a much better thinker, because converting these abstract concepts to meaningful sentences with a context and easy to understand structure affects also how clearly you communicate in other parts of your life.

Offloading this really robs you of the joys and power of meaningful communication on many mediums.
> So pick a random angle after separating the particles

What I never understood is: is there any reason to believe this is even possible in theory, let alone in practice? Presumably everything started at a single point in the Big Bang, so wouldn't that necessarily imply all particles are causally connected (hence superdeterminism)? How can anyone make "random" choices when everything is linked? Under what accepted theory do scientists believe this experiment to be possible?
Exactly. Busy, solo introverts deserve to have as much success as extroverts with a team.
> outside of particular ethnic or religious groups

lol
There's also perpetual colonialization and extermination of people you don't like.

Neither options are good, just bringing them up since they have been done in the past.
Maybe FlightGear could make use of that ?
On the other hand the file explorer doesn't work, so that's like a 10/10 in realism.
I never heard about Illiberal Democracy. Wikipedia definition differs from yours and even Wikipedia is not sure about what it is[0]

>There is a lack of consensus among experts about the exact definition of illiberal democracy or whether it even exists

I would stop using left/right as a description in politics. For example ruling party in Hungary is socialist, which means it cannot be right wing party no matter what they claim.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy
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Why would you need to tune the JVM, and why would you need a specialist for that?
Piped works great! However it is let down by the (IMO) poor UX design. I would love for some graphics designer to step-in a create more usable CSS stylesheets for it.
We just use our brains differently now, mostly to find ways that support our default positions, that leave our minds unchallenged and certain.
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I guess if it's supposed to be the brain for the world then yeah, I think it matters?

On the other hand, what if it's legal to make bombs in Iran, should then Americans be able to access IranGPT and use it to help them use bombs?
By the way, on macos the preview tool can do this. You can drag and drop pages between documents using the sidebar and reorder them the same way.