skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a biochemist with a biomedical background. Everything that follows is a simplification, but it's truthy.

We understand pretty well what causes cancer in "otherwise healthy individuals" (eg.: assuming there aren't particularly bad genes involved... which is a whole thing on its own), it's not a big mystery. We know with total certainty that "cancer in general" is not usually caused by viruses, although some viruses are notorious for causing cancer.

What causes cancer is whatever causes tissue injury and inflammation, with some probability. This is why smoking causes cancer, why drinking alcohol causes cancer, why sunburns cause cancer, why ionizing radiation causes cancer... The more chronic or frequent the injury/inflammation, the more the odds stack up against you. Viruses that cause chronic inflammation cause cancer.

(There are also a bunch of things that directly cause mutations including some of the above, and those cause cancer too, with some probability, if they overwhelm error-correction mechanisms.)
I have posted a poll here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35923261

What would your response be to my question 1) and question 2)
Simply put: an accumulator (in fixes-point format) with enough bits to calculate dot products with up to 2^31 terms with NO loss of precision.
What does it mean to be “more than statistics”? Is there anything that cannot be described as a statistic?
Your product sounds extremely great! I'm hooked!

One nitpick: In my humble opinon, you should switch from Discord chat to Zulip.

It's completely open-source (Apache 2, self-hostable, free full cloud plan for open-source projects) and has an excellent threads-first (called "topics" model): https://zulip.com/why-zulip/

It can run fully in the browser, but it has desktop and mobile clients as well.

It also supports public channels which AFAIK discord doesn't. So you can link to specific messages inside a GitHub issue and anyone who doesn't even have an account can see the relevant messages and context.

Interestingly it's what the Rust language team (and community) uses for comms: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com

(I'm not affiliated in any way with Zulip btw, I just love the product)
KiCAD is clunky but Eagle is just plain weird. Even copy/paste is a completely unique workflow compared to anything I've ever seen.
There is a whole class of communication optimal algorithms. And cache oblivious ones. You really shouldn’t have to do what you’re doing, and progress is being made.
> Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population

this is not true. your data is federal only. most prisoners are at state prisons. drug offense is about 1/5 of total.

source
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html
Fastmail supports something like this, but the process of adding a new outbound alias every time I need one is not streamlined enough, so the conversation goes like this:

> otherperson@ABC.com to burner123@subdomain.mydomain.com: Blah blah

> me@mydomain.com to otherperson@ABC.com: Blah back at you!

> otherpersonABC@ABC.com to me@mydomain.com: Who are you and why are you responding to my message to burner123@subdomain.mydomain.com?

Does 33mail make it easy to continue the conversation under the alias?
Describing engineers as "fat and happy" is really derogatory. Their spend on tech employees is a tiny fraction of total content spend. Also, an even tinier fraction of what they spend on services like AWS. If they want to cut costs, there's a ton more low hanging fruit than letting people go. In fact, revenue per employee is the highest compared to other FAANG
If your house does not have a lock and everyone knows it then yea, that's your fault.
Async is not necessarily as useful for database connections since connection counts will generally be in the 10s and handled with a thread pool. It's pretty low overhead to just use pooling.
I have posted a poll here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35923261

What would your response be to my question 1) and question 2)

Sidenote: I am with you as to what happens to the brains of vegans :)
When you look at the specific uses, I think it's a bit less unbelievable. I think the important piece is that they should more clearly stipulate how the data is used and what controls are in place to protect it. Even more importantly, opt out by default if there's any chance of the data leaving your vehicle and a clear mechanism for wiping all collected data.

> Your Facial Geometric Features will only be stored on your vehicle.

> Vehicles equipped with Teammate use sensor and/or image data from the vehicle’s interior and exterior to evaluate the vehicle’s surroundings
I think this is not actually the newest edition; that is available on https://sites.google.com/site/prasolovskacatmoiknigi/home .

It's a great book, though for a completely different audience than Strang. It collects hundreds of apocryphal results from 400 years of linear algebra, most with proofs, some fairly deep.

Here's the English 1st edition: https://staff.math.su.se/mleites/books/prasolov-1994-problem...
I want touch-type on a physical keyboard at my arms and hands resting position. I want pocket keyboards for AR for these reasons below:

Allows you to input data without needing to look at the keyboard.

The positioning of the keyboard wherever your hands and arms rest comfortably, improving ergonomics.

Haptic Feedback

Multi-tasking. Comfortable typing while not disrupting my AR experience
Well said.

Your average "very weakly" typed language will happily do "APL"+1 == "APL1"
It'd be pretty amazing to have something like the optical storage jukeboxes but for SD cards. Expensive, but amazing.
"very little" is still an unacceptable amount for most fields.

Quantify "very little" over what time period, variations of use, fail states, sample size.
Understanding the DCOM Wire Protocol by Analyzing Network Data Packets (1998)
I'm a generalist with a degree in computer science and physics, experience in science (a little), software and electronics engineering, and a lot more non-technical stuff. While I'm certainly a lousy software engineer, it's more than enough to get hired in and around Munich.
This is great! I've poked around for a tool with ShaderToy's immediacy, but for compute shaders. Always come up empty until now.
Expensive, limited range, slow recharge times, huge dependency on a battery supply chain, etc. Right now, people are obsessed about them but I think this is just temporary phenomenon. Once people realize that there are cheaper forms of green transportation that avoid those above issues, the obsession with battery EVs will end.
Is it just me but when I query Bing Chat it seems to use plugins already.

Can you use Wolfram Alpha and give me the exact distance to Mars in miles?

Hello, this is Bing. I can use Wolfram Alpha to give you the exact distance to Mars in miles. According to Wolfram Alpha, the distance to Mars from Earth as of Fri, 12 May 2023 20:14:56 GMT+00:00 is 155.9 million miles (250.9 million km). This distance changes constantly as both planets orbit the sun at different speeds and distances. The minimum distance that Mars and Earth can be apart is about 33.9 million miles (54.6 million km), and the maximum distance is about 250 million miles (401 million km). The average distance between Earth and Mars is 140 million miles (225 million km)(space.com)(space.com)(solarsystem.nasa.gov).
The same department of justice that continues to prosecute a case against Assange? I'm nonplussed. Boris Becker (UK), Amanda Knox (IT), speak to prison brutality (and those are well known international personages.)

Ukraine: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/08/ukraine-four-...

Mexico: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/mexicos-federal-prisons-a-...

Spain: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-77231-8_...

Brazil: https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/qa-why-is-prison-v...

And in Paradise (I mean Cuba): https://democraticspaces.com/trending/2022/3/29/prisoners-de...

Etc...
Excellent, my gig as a sexy sax player is safe!

Jokes aside, it’s still very early days for this kind of generative AI. I see a real use case for virtual band mates that play along with whatever type of music you play when jamming at home, for example.
Posits are pretty cool. I hacked a relatively high-performance implementation in ocaml.

They're really elegant.
Blue check on the app: probably 70/30 negative, with all the negative comments focusing on Yaccarino's official WEF involvement. Zero gender based or notably biolus comments, even after going back to try to scroll down into the content you're describing.

Incognito on the web: all negative, mostly WEF new world order scaremongering, anti-woke hand wringing, and outright offensive comments.
Flathub website adds a non-free software filter
That current technological advancement has the potential to be positive, at best, or at least benign.

I love coding, but my attitude has changed based on what I see big tech doing. Google, Facebook and Amazon particularly seem to be dead set on the enshittification of everything. It’s hard for me to see things as anything other than negative overall.
Reason why I still have and use a “dumb” car, no screens, no software, nothing except what CANbus logs, which is still a lot but nothing clouds based or breached unless you physically access the car.
How would I apply for a job like that? I’ve always had a strong interest in bio and computers (and physics, and psychology, and…)
I have posted a poll under the main thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35923261

What would your response be to my question 1) and question 2)
Baltimore is one of the most entrenched cities in US on a number of levels. It’s kind of ridiculous you are comparing the hyperwoke follies of SF and Portland with the outright despair and corruption in Baltimore. We have not reaped what we have sown, we hardly have a shot
Barring some unexpectedly big breakthroughs in things like 3d stacking or in improving yields for increasingly complex process nodes, chips in 2030 will definitely be using this method.
Btrfs is the filesystem for which they are most responsible.

They explicitly do not support its use for their database.

"[Btrfs] was initially designed at Oracle Corporation in 2007 for use in Linux, and since November 2013, the file system's on-disk format has been declared stable in the Linux kernel."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

They own the rights to ZFS by way of their purchase of Sun Microsystems.

Oracle is a power player in the realm of Linux filesystems, no doubt.
The electronic immobilizer on my 2009 jetta is a communication between the cars computer and the key doing some sort of key exchange or rolling code. There’s no amount of tampering with anything in the steering column which can result in a running car. You start the engine and without the correct authentication the computer shuts the engine off after one second. I experienced it myself in a situation where i had a physical key which was not electronically paired with the engine so i could unlock and start the car one second at a time. There’s no option outside of hacking the car computer or having access to dealer only computer interface tools.
You sir are someone I could probably enjoy a favorite movies marathon with.

Raising Arizona is another from that era which really clicked comedically for my young mind...
There is an effectively unlimited supply of kids who believe they have no future and are therefore willing to risk it all. Enforcement can't stop them from stealing a car when it takes a cord everyone has and less than 30 seconds.
I'm absolutely floored that that's coming out of a QtPy. This model is $10 USD!

I love desktop and mobile software, but the embedded world gets me so excited. Like, as excited as I'd get as a kid. I know I could do something very similar with python on my MacBook, or use existing tools on an iPad I already have, but something about doing awesome stuff with such limited and cheap tools gets me so pumped about it.
Linux uses OpenZFS, which is a fork of OpenSolaris' ZFS; they haven't shared any code since 2010 AFAIK.
I would disagree that 30B is not good enough. It heavily depends on which model, and what you're trying to use it for.

30B is plenty if you have a local DB of all of your files and wiki/stackechange/other important databases places in a embedding vectordb.

This is typically what is done when people make these models for their home, and it works quite well while saving a ton of money.

While llama-7B systems on their own may not be able to construct a novel ML algorithm to discover a new analytical expression via symbolic regression for many-body physics, you can still get a great linguistic interface with them to a world of data.

You're not thinking like a real software engineer here - there are a lot of great ways to use this semantic compression tool.
Google can only make money off of it if people use it and people will only use it if it's good so the immediate sentiment is that it's pretty good.

Feel free to short Google, you can make a lot of money if you're right.
I have noticed that too! When I grew up, a show would end with the bad guy being arrested and handed over to the cops. Now the hero kills the bad guy with pleasure. I think this is more and more creeping into society. Following the rules is for suckers, you have to hustle, cheating is almost mandatory (just don't get caught), discussions need to be "won", loyalty can be exploited and faking honesty and values is a recipe for success.

Also: In a lot of older sci-fi movies the aliens had motivations and could be interacted with. In most newer sci-fi movies they are just an evil faceless force that needs to be destroyed. No need for understanding.
Yeah, the brain is alive and is trying to keep the rest of the organism alive But n an environment.
The most prominent alternative (fuel cell EV) are also EVs. There are no fundamental downsides in comparison either. To continue your EE analogy, you're betting against another kind of CMOS which also happens to be made of far cheaper materials. Like your CMOS is made of germanium but the competition is made of silicon.
Second gen Apple silicon MacBook Pro sales (M2 models) are only moderately higher then second gen Touch Bar MacBook Pro (2017) sales.

And 2017 macbok pros only got a small spec bump.

So the vast majority of customers were satisfied enough with usability even with the more sensitive keyboards, Touch Bar, etc.
What if AI could rebuild the middle class?
It shouldn't really matter that theft is easy. If you're prepared to smash a window, you could steal from homes and businesses, not just cars. There should be a strong enough deterrent to make it uncommon.

You may not be able to stop desparate people from stealing, but if kids are repeatedly stealing cars for entertainment, then problem isn't the security of the cars.
[https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugs-brains-behavior-scie...]

Did/do you compulsively seek caffeine despite significant adverse consequences to yourself and/or others?

If someone really like having coffee, but can afford it and it doesn’t hurt their health - they aren’t addicted.

If someone can’t hold down a job because they constantly drink coffee to the point they can’t work, then they’re addicted.

Or, if they suffer from heart issues or whatever (I’m reaching, I know) due to all the coffee they drink, but can’t stop. Same.

So the question is - does the Adderall or whatever help you function, actually?

And in totality improve your life?

If so, then you aren’t addicted. It’s rational. Seeking it, as long as it isn’t compulsive (aka it is based on a reasonable need and in proportion to the benefits/circumstances) is a reasonable thing to do. Like looking for Tylenol is if you sprained an ankle.

The challenge is, Addicts (of all kinds!) are often incredibly delusional on this front, and Adderall et al IS addictive for folks without ADHD brain chemistry/ADHD dosage. It isn’t as bad as meth, but same issues.

So someone who is an addict will often say yes, everything is fine to all those questions (and often mean it), but anyone looking in from the outside who knew them would often go whoa buddy that’s fucked, and they will have noticeable issues with functioning at some point.

Others may be non-addictive personalities and be able to use the meds (and get high) but will not be addicts. They can take it or leave it.

Many (well, early stage) addicts often tend to think they are these people. It’s part of the problem that makes them addicts. Some substances are very, very addictive and only a small portion of the population will not be a problem.

Others, it requires a really special person to get addicted (in real terms) to it. Like coffee.

Where interestingly, ADHD folks will often wonder constantly if they’re addicts while their life (and symptoms) noticeably improve - inside and out, and while they actively try to cut themselves off from the meds.

Weird huh?

If you’re really wondering, writing down in a daily journal can help if you do it consistently and review it after awhile.

If your life circumstance is such it’s safe, taking a pause for a week or two on the meds while doing this can be very informative - but I wouldn’t recommend it without discussing with your Dr. first as it can be a real problem if there are real issues you need the medicine to help you address.

I had a cousin who ended up homeless every time he went off his meds, for instance.

ADHD memory is the worst.
They his other comments. He really was, because it was he does.

Sugar, and the addition to things that taste like it is far worse than we understand. It seems to make people do crazy things.
No, I'm not, I think you missed the context. OP responded to this statement:

> You just can’t have them and also simultaneously expect everyone is going to find it worthwhile to deal with you under such laws, such that you’re outraged when they don’t. Or, well, you can, but it’s either quite foolish of you, or it’s imperialistic.

By saying:

> Those laws would be imperialistic if a majority of citizens around the world, including a vast majority of American citizens, would not gladly demand the same protection when shown what websites do with their information.

This is false. Whether the other nations being imposed upon would embrace the laws if they simply knew what was good for them is irrelevant to whether a state action is imperialistic. What matters is the degree of consent.

There's been a strong theme in this thread of people arguing that Google should be required to do business in the EU and obey their privacy laws, and that would be imperialistic.
Thanks for the clarification, I was wondering if they were related.
Yes, but for the people blaming Elon Musk for Clint Eastwood's agent not spending eight bucks.
We used warp originally, and ended up refactoring to axum. We’ve been much happier with it.
But it's established through case law that police aren't obligated to do anything about theft. So the costs of policing thefts would seem to be voluntary, not damages. Interesting to see how it turns out.
This is not really controversial. The majority of cancers in humans are not caused by viruses.
No thanks, I don't do laptops. Besides, there is no reason why everything needs to be optimized for the small screen - there should be options for varying sizes.
if you own a car from 2008 or newer the government essentially mandates it to be a privacy nightmare. If you care about privacy don't buy a modern car. Throw in the Vault 7 CIA leaks about how they explicitly had programs to research how they could hack modern cars remotely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

you have to wonder how many vehicle 0-days nation state actors have saved up for when they need them, even just displaying the ability would grind the country to a halt because people would be afraid to even drive
Dangers of Inconsistent Parsing of URLs
The Ask Jeeves-ification of online search
Tear the Paper Ceiling
Eagle's poor copy and paste when I had to use it at university was a real shocker. So much work for such a common task. And it was so easy to get it wrong.

Sadly, it's not like KiCad excels there either. At least to my knowledge it's not possible to replicate a routed part of your module like it's already possible to reuse schematics sheets, is it?
The other expense is the novel Starship R&D program. It's not "back-office people". You're either very uninformed or just sniping in bad faith.
Still have to be good at hiring those people that are good at hiring. And giving them the funding, culture and vision to succeed.
GPT-3.5 Powered Videogame NPCs for second language practice
i do not notice a difference
I'm very tempted and agree that Zulip sounds much better than Discord. The only thing I'm a little bit worried about is that I have noticed that most people hate having multiple chat clients open and that discord seem to be the de factor standards for open source projects. I apologize to be contributing to the network effect and will strongly consider switching to Zulip.
Yes, 33mail can modify the reply-to so that it proxies the emails back through the alias.

So emailing longrandomstring@33mail.com will reply TO the original address FROM the alias address.
Wait until you learn about Forbes allowing anyone with $500 to be a contributing author and punishing literally anything on their site.
I'm confused as to how this compares to tools in the workflow manager space such as Airflow/Perfect/Dragster. The words describing the software are almost the same but it seems to come from alternate universe of tools I'm not familiar with. Could someone fill me in?
I think the main issue with ZFS is that you need to learn a lot of concepts to actually understand how to do things correctly and don't fuck up.

To this day I've written some personal notes as warning reminders to be careful about certain operations. I can't remember the exact terminology (I believe these are called "attributes" or "features" in ZFS), but what happened to me not long ago was that if I created a ZFS filesystem (along with a pool) from Ubuntu it was creating some of these features that ZFS on FreeBSD didn't properly recognize and didn't allowed me to successfully mount it.

The other way round creating it from FreeBSD and then mounting it on Ubuntu worked as expected. The thing with these "features" is that they can be "promoted" or "upgraded" and in this case if you do so will again render the ZFS unavailable to be mounted in FreeBSD. I spent a whole day on this until for some reason I decided to print this list and effectively compare and do some online search about it.
I don't get this comment, modern PCs still undergo POST and motherboards have gotten progressively better at displaying POST outcomes (from beep patterns to seven-segment onboard displays).

Macs have POST rituals, detailed (alongside other boot routines) to an almost extreme extent in this article.
If you invent/introduce made up concepts and rules on the spot ("let shmerple be ..."), which can't possibly be found in its training data, then, from my experience, when queried, LLMs are able to correctly reason most of the time... So it's not just Markov chains regurgitating sentences verbatim from their dataset.

Even if this kind of intelligence is just statistics, does it really matter? If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Maybe our own brains are nothing more than overrated statistical machines?

The only issue I see with the hype is when people attempt to anthromorphize it.
Remember the crypto hype train? Turned out a lot of journos were being paid in funny money tokens to hype and pump, and a lot of conflicts of interests abounded in general with peddling services someone they knew had investment in. Welcome to the media. It's always been fickle when it comes to the potential to make money.

Also very clearly a lot of people left holding the bag with crypto and are trying to resuscitate it with hype.