skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"whataboutism" be damned, its crazy how ignorant Americans are of the toll of the "War On Terror" while grandstanding over Ukraine

hundreds of thousands dead in Afghanistan. The UN believes nearly half killed were children. Innocents being killed by drones pretty much at the moment Obama was receiving his Nobel Peace Prize

Iraq conflict + resulting civil war caused by our invasion is estimated at 1 million dead, officially one of the top ten worst conflicts in human history

Worst of all, the capital we used to do this could have rebuilt America twice
I saw someone's workflow where they taught it to make its own shorthand language. Interestingly everyone ended up with their own shorthand, and yet the GPT-4 was able to understand all the individualized stuff just fine.
Don’t stay up late. Work during normal business hours, and don’t stress too hard. Almost none of what most software developers are doing really matters.
When I wrote my hypothetical example, I was imagining the return type to be a bool. My apologies for overloading "write", a more representative example function name would have been something like "FooWrite". I appreciate your follow-up!

I totally agree with you that folk writing code need to understand the semantics of what they're building on top of. Humans and now AI models have a great capacity for generating tons source code without understanding the semantics, though.
I agree with you but it’s usually the onsite crowd that wants _everyone_ else onsite. I am all for mixed setups with some onsite some offsite but i strongly disagree with the anti freedom side (those who want everyone on site).
Well a pram would not be very practical in Venice:)
Assuming the article is true, then this is what you get when we are living in a de-facto Police State? The frog has boiled so slowly we didn't see it coming.

I'd personally prefer living out in the sticks, growing my own food rather than being subjected to this level of monitoring.

In fact it's likely that intelligence agencies are building similar psychological profiles on all of us based on our Internet activity. With machine learning to infer things about us in ways we could never anticipate. Stuff that well and truly rivals East Germany here.
Some of the things that happened to me during the last 18 months:

- ChangeOver to the new bluetooth subsystem broke many integrations. My Bluetooth TRVs still don't work right (again).

- ONVIF support recently broke for an (admittedly shitty old) IP-Webcam. PTZ never worked/was_exposed.

- My USB-connected android devices can't be be controlled by the ADB-Integration anymore. There was some integration renaming/rescoping recently.

Home-Assistant still (imho) is best solution in this space for most combinations of metrics. I'd still recommend it to anyone.

(I tinker a lot with my HA-install/network, so maybe some of the above are issues on my end)
Even as these are tourist destinations with natural or historical beauty, the local decision makers should still allow for building new homes. Not necessary right at the historical town center, but within 30 minutes walking or biking distance. When demand is high, you should allow to build more supply.
> permacultural practices can compete in terms of output, it's just harder to industrialize

Then they can't compete – yet.
I've never had a problem doing this

sometimes they don't agree, and that's fine

maybe it's your approach
To be fair, a lot of Google services are not available in the EU.
IIRC EUs farming regulations stem from 60s/70s and their only adaptations were intensification and market concentration. Some decade ago the sister of a small German farmer told me how EU laws were systematically pushing him out of the market forcing him to sell his ground to bigger competitors to avoid going bankrupt.

You reap what you sow I guess
You can look at any training run comparing multiple parameter sizes on the dataset.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311

If you're increasing parameter size, it's a no brainer to increase data too as that will still also increase performance.

The point is that for any arbitrary performance x, the data required to reach it reduces with size.
Sure. Get out of HN bubble, go attend almost any Atlassian event -- their main user conference has thousands of users attending -- and you will easily run into people who love Jira and/or Confluence.
Ask it about cleaning a toilet, and then go deep on bacteria and fungal growth etc. For areas in which you have no expertise, but have a simple understanding, it will grow that knowledge tree.

My apologies if you are an expert toilet cleaner, the point is it's more useful than how-to-wiki or YouTube for getting you up and running or refreshing info you may have forgotten.

Avoid asking it for VERY obscure things you know nothing about, because it probably doesn't either, but won't say, and the hallucinations start.

The falsified stuff can be pretty awful, and it has a tendency to double down.
RFR: Left and Right Neural Networks – Inspired by Our Bicameral Brains (2021)
Its not trolling, in many Doctor's offices it is already accepted practice for patients to deny having their weight measured at all during a physical

We are within two years of a prominent lawsuit based on a patient being recommended weight management, if it hasn't happened already

Would you mind not elevating your personal beliefs to a community standard? Particularly when you may be factually wrong?

BTW there are already many complaints about "flagging" being used to remove content that is valid but merely surprising to people...its probably time to take away people's black markers
This is an argument against any form of direct payment... i mean, you can get your cash stolen very easily...
It truly is amazing that the entire world is in cahoots in a conspiracy against the nuclear industry. At the same time huge on-shore, off-shore and solar PV projects gets built on budget to little fanfare displacing existing fossil and nuclear production.

https://imgur.io/JYMNAWR
Ask HN: How can I revitalize a device that has lost support?
Hi there,
I've got a situation that's been bugging me and could use your help. My dad, who's a medical expert, bought a 3M machine about eight years ago, and it was doing great until it suddenly stopped working. He reached out to 3M, but they dropped the bombshell that they no longer support it. The kicker is that the software needs to connect to an external API to do its thing, but all the processing is done directly on the device.

Now, we're talking about a hefty investment of around $30,000 here, so I'm determined to find a way to get this machine back up and running. The problem is, I'm a total newbie when it comes to this stuff. That's why I'm turning to you guys for any pointers, guides, or even stories about similar cases that might shed some light on what to do.

Thanks a bunch in advance for your help!
EventSource is bad. We were using it to connect to GPT 4 via our server acting as a middleware (we hosted the code for returning the LLM response on our server since our company's OpenAI API key is supposed to be private).

However, previous developers had written a basic middleware to check if a req.body exists and if it contains a userId (since our server was handling multipler other things apart from this one component of the business logic).

However, any such manipulation of the request body isn't possible with EventSource (and I felt that using a workaround such as passing the userId in the querystring could cause some security issue), so I ended up using the fetch() method to connect to our server for interacting with GPT 4.
Also from Ableton: "Learning Synths" - https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
I dont believe that it isnt tiny %
Farmers have always been making excuses why they failed.
Agree. This blog is terrific. I’m going to post the article about packing and expanding polygons. Exactly the sort of problem I like to ruminate on when sleep eludes.
I love this question. Would be great to hear back from Confluent about this.

One safety mechanism I can think of is that the replicas will detect the leader is down and trigger leader election themselves. Or that upon restart the leader realized it restarted and triggers leader election in a way that B ends up as the leader. (not sure either is being done)

As I think about it more, even if there’s a solution I think I’ll stick to running Redpanda or running Kafka with fsync.
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Notably absent: Anything that is not USA or Western Europe.

Whis is why I cringe every time I read about the American diversity conquest of late.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
My first Ableton try out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oLysNagLQ&ab_channel=Mazzy...
> if they know I’m about to do something stupid, they have to tell me

Summarizing the rest of the comments: "No good deed goes unpunished."

However, "tell" takes many forms. One point I like to make is that I'll dig in on a substantive technical point, but strive not to bikeshed technical questions.

Package the feedback as a question: "I'm not seeing the motive for using a JSON database when we're really going to need an RDBMS," rather than "This idea is stuck in foopid."
Packing and Expanding Polygons: An Ongoing Exploration
Pasture farming on marginal land is part of the solution. Industrial meat farming is part of the problem. They're two different things.
> There are also quite convincing studies that show even worse declines for insect populations

Has the evidence improved recently? About 3 years ago there were a few papers, including a meta analysis (-ish), which were suggestive but also noted the lack of longitudinal studies, and their lack of geographical diversity (Germany and UK as I recall).

The consensus was that everyone was certain there was a serious issue, but it was nearly impossible to usefully (even broadly) characterise the issues.
But not forced by government and not monoply Or only choice, so not so dystopian yet.
I think that's by far the biggest lever given how inefficient meat is at converting land area & water to calories.
If it wasn't for Russia, the whole of EU would probably have dissolved NATO and dismantled its armies.
Ah, the part that was missing from my mental map was having the PHP instance act as a subscriber in a pubsub system. Thanks!
No it’s backed by some reports i’ve heard and read in the meantime. There’s no excuse but bitter results of BigFarm corps lobbying and politicians who incentivize the wrong things.
But would pasture farming on marginal land scale to the level of consumption we have today?
I might counter with "adb sh" on Android, and the C behind Objective-C as development tools where the standards are still very much present.
Although you do open yourself to vulnerabilities in how you generate your random entropy—for average user, it might be worse than relying on a hardware wallet.

The safest play here for an average user is to just not buy your hardware wallets off eBay, as it seemed to be the case in the OP!
It is better, because switching from meat to grains results in less area needed for planting grains, since we don't need to feed the animals anymore. Most grains that we farm today are fed to animals.
Yes but even if the halved costs are production costs, without materials, they are essentially investment in robots/machinery and labour.

I don't think that much can be saved on robots/machinery, so it must be largely labour, and to cut down those costs by 50%, of even 40%, seems to me like very improbable.

About the footprint, it could be reasonable and actually feasible, but that could be a great thing from some viewpoints (less visual impact of the factory on the territory or possibility to build a new factory on an area too small for a traditional plant ), but it doesn't sound like it could lead to relevant savings, the costs of actual land area and buildings should be a minimal percentage of the production costs.
Jira does, somehow, faintly smell of Java. There's just something about how slow it is, and how maximalist it is in supporting every whimsical idea that any rich corporate customer has ever asked of them. No matter how poorly the request blended with everything else Jira does.

Mind you, I've only ever used Jira when its been setup, poorly, to fit in to a badly designed "scrum" process. People say it can be usable if you turn most of its features off. But the same is true of "smart" appliances, and that doesn't make me want to buy any of them.
Yeah, my understanding is the poor regulation of the emissions controls on container ships is huge.
St Andrews, where I went to university, suffers from the same issue. When rich tourists can spend hundreds of pounds a night to stay in AirBnBs at the "home of golf", the broke students get forced into paying £2000pcm for a dilapidated council house.
We just say 'do the math'. But yes, it's an American phrase. There's no direct British equivalent.
I think your question is too broad.

As soon as you restrict yourself to a specific stack, you'll be able to find out by researching via the web.
An unavoidable pain point when working with fruit flies is that there is no way to store them. A fruit fly is either alive, crawling around in a glass tube eating banana paste, or dead. Once it's dead, you can't do experiments on it, and you can't breed it.

Fruit flies are used because it is easy to do genetics on them. Genetics means causing random mutations, selecting for something, then breeding them true to make a mutant strain, then crossbreeding, making further mutants, and doing experiments on all the results.

Each of those mutant strains is part of your scientific 'capital', something you've invested in and want to extract returns from. You have to preserve it. And to preserve it, you need to transfer ('flip') flies of that strain to a fresh tube of banana paste every three weeks. For all of your strains. Without ever missing a flip.

So i'm not sure that working on fruit flies is relaxing, exactly. Maybe if you can afford a technician to look after them for you!
EPFL PhD student here, I'd like to point out that this statement is NOT from EPFL. The lecture was organised by a student association called CLIC, and the linked post was made by the association. As such, this is not a formal statement from EPFL by any means.
The title of this thread is highly misleading and should be changed immediately.
You could by suddenly roaming when you're in your home country is a massive red flag and even normal people are aware and terrified of roaming fees.
"Pasture farming on marginal land is part of the solution"

Can you elaborate? I don't see how this is superior to leaving it fallow?

I have a few acres fallow and am right next to a quaint organic farm and I do see quite a few more bees in my tall grass and wildflowers than I do in their grazed land...
I had to learn about this from Clarkson of all people. He seems to genuinely be involved in what he's doing and Clarkson's Farm is a great show as well!
Maybe we could do three good things at once:

- switch to this better method of farming

- end the corporate oligarchy controlling food by having smaller farms

- shift people out of net negative “services” into farming

I don’t see the downfall of industrial farming as a bad thing — they’re a whole problem all on their own (including the recent push to take away family farms from the Dutch).
All you need is html, js, css. Don't fall for the over-engineering meme. And a backend framework if you need a backend.
I still use the "vanilla" stuff.

GPT-4 has been superior to Phind in my experience, especially on technical questions. And the web browsing beta closes all the holes remaining. Downside is speed, but it's a fire and forget thing.

I tried AutoGPT and the like, but found the self-iteration not very helpful when tackling real world problems. GPT-4 gives enough step-by-step instructions to do anything I need it to do, without it being wired into my file system.

Prompt engineering seems to be a thing of the past with GPT-4 too, though you still need to give context, which "prompt engineering tools" don't help with.

Plugins are also pretty powerful. It seems to hallucinate a lot with Zapier, but it's still the best tool by far.
This SO answer seems to say that it wouldn't work : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61041389/managing-server...

If you have an answer to that answer I'd be very much interested
I’ve noticed this happening often enough that now when I need to do something hard, instead of trying to do it, I think “I’ll just attempt it for 15 minutes to learn more about the task”.

Sometimes it turns out the task I had been dreading can actually be mostly completed in that time, and I was just wrong about it being hard.
Well, it's not just Brazil. A lot of meat in Europe is grown on burned or cut-down forest, it just happens to be the case it was done centuries ago.
Around here, e.g banks are big on Java, and banks are not going away anytime soon, nor is their Java code, which represented huge decade-scale efforts to move away from COBOL on IBM machines (both of which seemingly not going away either). And that's only one data point.

Sexy? nope. Hot new thing? neither. But the jobs are out there.

Similarly that mention of RoR being "in danger" seems incorrect. It's just that Rails is not the topmost big player in the market, and I don't think it ever was, even at its early peak. Sure it made rounds in the news and had a big impact but even back then it certainly wasn't The Tech That Everyone And Their Dog Uses.

That's fine. A tech doesn't need to be in the top 3 market leaders to be useful, successful, and lively.
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Man, how much fun was it when it was just html, perl, or php and a db or txt file. It’s all a nightmare now… all the abstractions are lovely and all, but, have they really really improved anything that much? I’d take late 90s internet over todays version anytime!
Congrats you have somewhat hacked your ADHD or similar mental issue.
It's related to executive functioning and is limited so lowering the bar like you do works well however those tricks usually decay over time or become habit at which point one is not thinking actively anyways.
Adding a ton of water to the atmosphere is going to cause more warming. Water vapour is Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas. It's responsible for about half of Earth's greenhouse effect.
Imagine if new construction was allowed. Then you could build more, and have both one home for AirBnB and another for long term rent. Have your cake and eat it, too.
They're taking objective measurements of experimental outcomes while varying aspects of the setup. How is that not scientific!?

"If I jiggle this is behaves differently" is like... half of all science!

At the end of the day, better is better, and I don't think that can be hand-waved away.

That's like saying someone is not smarter because they just "studied harder" and that doesn't count somehow.
Or just do what you used to do, its not that much different only if you jump on the hype train frameworks.
Dutch farmers are having their farms seized by globalists in their government right now.

There’s a lot of corruption in farming.
ChatGPT already does this after alignment, it barely "knows" anything these days.
While it's not super clear, I think TFA's issue with Slint is the markup file (new syntax, not rust, special tooling/dev environment?), not the declarative bit. After all, they didn't say anything about Iced which is also declarative.
I feel like if Java had immutability by default it would be such a better language to work with. It is so hard to determine what actually gets modified where in a large Java codebase.
Yeah this is a problem faced by perfectionist types who end up being very successful but hate their lives every day.
Devoting 40 hours a week to a role, is just 8 hours of a day. What if you are workaholic who needs 60-80 hours a week? Why would it be wrong if you can as a worker devote the required hours to a job?
Maybe you should try https://svelte.dev/ for js part.
Itano Circus
Thanks to this comment by gabereiser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954796
The question is not so much whether you do as you're told by your subordinate but how you handle the "disagree-but-commit" state.

Ideally, the way it should work would be for the boss to say: "Okay, I think the right course of action is X, you think it's Y. We're in disagreement, but because I'm the boss, we'll do X. As you go about doing X, I won't intrude on your sphere of autonomy but will instead trust that you're a professional and will execute on X faithfully. If you frequently disagree with me and you're up for a promotion, I won't hold the disagreements against you. It might even work in your advantage, because we need to increase diversity of thought in management, rather than filling management roles with yes-men."

The way it usually works, in my experience, is: "I want you to do X, but you think you should be doing Y. That makes you a risk, because there's a danger you will sabotage X and execute on Y instead. I'll subject you to extra-close supervision to counteract that risk. When you're up for a promotion and you frequently disagree with me, I will fight your promotion, because if we increase your level of influence, it'll create more work for me, because I'll have to double-check your judgment and countermand your actions as a manager whereever I disagree. Having people in management who aren't yes-men just makes management more work, and we don't need that."

If your boss is of the latter kind and you disagree with them, then it's a mistake for you to ever "show your hand" to them by telling them about it. It's then better to just keep your mouth shut, and do as you're told. -- And this "shut your mouth and do as you're told" is my career advice for young people. This makes me look bad, and reflects poorly on the companies I've worked for. But that's the difference between career advice and hagiography.
The difference is them managing their PR - ability and opportunity. Bill's achievement is not avoiding the flak from this latest thing. He was able to completely rebrand himself from ruthless businessman to an affable philanthropist.
It's not a disease to be recovered from lmao
Very interesting article and the whole idea of controlled sea flooding is well founded, but international geopolitics for sure is a major obstacle.
EPFL PhD student here. This lecture was organised, and then canceled, by a student association called CLIC, not by EPFL. Notice that the linked website is not EPFL's
Are you sure your information isn't outdated by a decade or two? Providers have free roaming data nowadays, e.g. https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/domestic-roaming-d...
If you are doing it alone then you don't need any of these. Go for simple HTML, JS, CSS and PHP server side.

The popular solutions you find online are for Enterprise. Where different teams maintain the same site and no one "owns" any part of the code.
This is incorrect. If all food we produce world wide was distributed equally everywhere not a single person would starve. However it isn't distributed anywhere close to equally. In many societies food is instead wasted in large amounts.

Cutting back on industrial agriculture is sorely needed from an environmental standpoint, as well as reducing food waste. Solving starvation requires different solutions, such as improved distribution, as well as political stability.
Five nines is really high. I don't think this is true, probably because language runtimes have hot paths that are typically implemented by hand. If we drop "scalar" then of course you're dropping below even two nines because of the implementation of str* and mem*.