skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want do downplay what you have been through and all the effort you have put in to trying to get an accurate diagnosis, and I know how discouraging navigating the US medical system is, but there have been a lot of advancements/changes in the area of orthopedic disorders since the 90s. If lidocaine in your shoulders is the only thing that has given you relief, you most likely have some form of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Lidocaine injections in shoulder muscles force those muscles to relax, releasing the brachial plexus (nerves) and thus relieving the symptoms of nerve impingement. Physical therapy is the primary treatment for TOS (e.g. building and stretching the muscles in the shoulder girdle), but surgery is an option as well. Ultimately they can just cut the ligament/muscle that is impinging on the nerve and viola, your symptoms are gone. In some cases, the nerves are impinged by something like an extra first rib that some people are born with. This too can be surgically removed. I encourage you to research TOS and come to your own conclusions since you know yourself better than I do, but that's what it sounds like to me.
>"There were (or still are?) SCSI drives that would not spin up until told to over the bus"

Surely they'd spin up as soon as the BIOS started probing the bus to init the hardware, long before the kernel was running, or they'd be infamous for being "the HDDs you cannot boot an OS from"...

In my 25 years of using PCs I have not once come across a drive that did not spin up as soon as the computer was powered on. But whatever the case is, Linux and FreeBSD never had this behavior. Waiting some arbitrary amount of time isn't an appropriate solution (to what I insist is just an imagined problem), it's just a poor bandaid.
Fascinating story of how Dow fought a dumping competitor:

"In 1905, German bromide producers began dumping bromides at low cost in the U.S. in an effort to prevent Dow from expanding its sales of bromides in Europe. Instead of competing directly for market share with the German producers, Dow bought the cheap German-made bromides and shipped them back to Europe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical_Company
If you want to reinvent a wheel, you had better be expecting and willing to spend significant time on your new wheel.

It's not just getting your hands dirty, you need to be strategic about where you want to spend your time.
Windows only, unlike Powder Toy.
True, but there are plenty of CS books about algoriths and data structures.
There are two factors at play here:

- Tech companies are moving to remote/hybrid work (whether by choice or not) and don't need the office space.

- Tech companies rode the bubble and made wild headcount projections between 2018-2021 and leased space accordingly. Now after the freezes and layoffs the exponential growth stopped and they realized they don't need as much of it anymore.

So while covid/remote work is partially to blame, it doesn't tell the full story. Companies in Uber's cohort have just never been sustainable at all. Now that VC money (including tens of billions from Softbank/Saudi Investment Fund) has stopped flowing in and the market demands actual profit, they are having to face reality and cut spending wherever they can.
Good to know, I would trust GNU as opposed to a proprietary solution.
Bezos & Blue Origin's end game is to try and set up an industrial economy in space. It's a long game, Bezos does not expect to live long enough to see it. Bezos was heavily influenced by the work of Gerard O'Neill while at Princeton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill#Space_colo...
but what about capitalism?
I'm basically a 5yo when it comes to hardware - so my apologies for the dumb question - but I wonder naïvely, could this enumeration be completely cached by default? Most computers have most of the important stuff either soldered down (laptops) or at least not swapped regularly. I think I'd sign up immediately for a system where I had to hold a key at startup the first time I installed a new GPU or something, but otherwise it could boot into Windows in 3 seconds. Since most devices that are likely to change are hot-pluggable, I would imagine that those don't need to be checked on at boot time. I'd love to know where I'm wrong on this, though.

Perhaps this is part of what Windows does -- I know that it basically keeps a hibernated image of the non-logged-in RAM state, for use when you shut down (and it throws it out if you do an explicit Restart, for troubleshooting reasons)
I cannot think of a useful way to define signed overflow. I can make it do something, but at the end of the day no matter how you define it, if it happens in the real world your program has a bug.

Since we can be sure if it ever happens your code has a bug, making it undefined is a good thing: the compiler can then assume it doesn't happen and so back track to prove some other things can't happen and so make your program run a little faster.
Looks like the code to bubble-sort the SYSINIT objects was committed a few months BEFORE this kernel qsort code was committed (late Aug 1995 vs early Nov 1995).

So that's why the sort-SYSINIT objects code didn't use qsort.

I'd also guess that there were fewer SYSINIT objects to sort back in 1995 than today.

see ~line 150 of sys/kern/init_main.c in https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/2b14f991e64ebe...
While that makes sense if you are only considering the single target of landing someone on the Moon, 1960s style, in this case it's about building a sustainable industry. The moon landing is just an excuse, and a target, something to be excited about. The real "mission" is build a bigger space industry, mostly because that creates jobs and pays contracts, but also because it pushes science and technology forward.
C is basically portable assembly. It should be as simple as possible. That is closer to what Zig is trying to do than Rust.
Really helpful, thank you! Can't tell you how many times I've had this in my amazon cart.
Are there any studies on waterflow to/from underground oceans? It's difficult to understand how comprehensive a claim is without knowing the entire system.

> The subducting slabs also carry deep-sea sediments piggyback into the Earth’s interior. These sediments can hold large quantities of water and CO2. But until now it was unclear just how much enters the transition zone in the form of more stable, hydrous minerals and carbonates – and it was therefore also unclear whether large quantities of water really are stored there.

> The answer has now been provided by an international study. The research team analyzed a diamond from Botswana, Africa. It originated at a depth of 660 kilometers, directly at the interface between the transition zone and the lower mantle, where the dominant mineral is ringwoodite. Diamonds from this location are very rare, even among the extremely rare diamonds of super-deep origin, which account for just 1% of all diamonds. The studies found that the stone had a high water content due to the presence of many ringwoodite inclusions. The study team was also able to establish the chemical composition of the stone.

https://scitechdaily.com/an-underground-ocean-scientists-dis...
No, but I'm not taking thousands of six-inch family vacations per day, I'd walk if I wanted to travel a distance for which two milliseconds was noticeable.
Although I usually rant about C, using libraries is surely not a problem specifically in the world of UNIX package managers.
Some interesting stray observations about this:

1) SF actually has a hard cap on the amount of new office space it can develop in a given year. [0] A lot of people pre-pandemic called it one of the worst NIMBY laws in America, but in retrospect, what a smart policy move.

2) Depending on how much you believe Apartments.com, there are c. 5k apartments available for rent in SF proper (a city of 800k) vs. c.31k in Dallas proper (a city of 1.3mn).

3) SF currently has 35mn square feet of vacant office space and needs to (by law) build 80k units in the coming decades. That's about 500sqft of vacant space per necessary unit...

It will be interesting to see if SF can transform itself into the world's foremost 'people live here because they want to, the jobs are virtual' city. I certainly wouldn't bet on other cities slightly lower office vacancy rates as a long-term structural advantage.

The only problem I see with the above is the amount of doom-and-gloom SF residents have bought into.

[0]https://sfplanning.org/office-development-annual-limitation-...
Hah. Fair point!
I love my 41CX+ app.
How is this any more their speech than company employed moderators picking and choosing which content users can view or pinning posts?
I really hate these "did you know that old thing + new trendy thing?!?!?!" articles. Yes, you can apply steganography to AI. Yes, you can use blockchain to secure grocery store coupons. Yes, you can train a neural network to operate Tinder for you.
https://github.com/paypal/junodb
Yes, having seen this from both ends the more «sciency» guys at reporting/analytics try to bring SOTA practices to bear before core business realizes a need.

If the need is in fact communicating $100bn design specifications between multiple transnational engineering and construction co’s, even the most grounded and pragmatic engineer will gladly inplement RDF and ontologies in the hot path. It’s the best tool for the job on the merits.

Sometimes they need a little nudge. A python or C# library here or there, just to take the edge off, you know?
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> The only thing I know about prisons in the US is from what I’ve seen in movies so I’m shocked to read that inmates need to pay, per page, to access and send content like blog posts, newspapers, books, music and movies.

I'm curious about this. I can't think of anything I've seen in movies that suggests they have access to the net in general. Sure, I've seen stuff about prison libraries, whose services I generally presumed to be free, but never much more than that.
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for Tatoeba.org I used to code "tatodetect" to do this, https://github.com/allan-simon/Tatodetect

it's was my first enlighting that with simple math and stats you can achieve pretty good result without ressorting to "machine learning"

basically the idea was

1. use tatoeba to generate the trigram count
2. remove low frequency trigram
3. apply a bonus score for "uniq" trigram that appears in other languages (it helped to differentiate very similar languages like spanish/french or Chinese dialects)

then you simply sum the trigram with their frequency ponderation and voilà

Tatodetect should differentiate 200+ languages and dialect, regarding of their script (alphabet, sinograms etc. )
It isn't the consumer's responsibility to solve this problem. That's the government's job.
I am not holding Ozempic to needing to be the cure for anything. My point is that people without diabetes are looking to this drug for weight loss, at which point they create a dangerous dependency, with no hard evidence that their actual health improves. This is opposed to coming up with long term solutions that involve re-evaluating daily decisions that lead to some of these diseases in the first place. If Ozempic is a good treatment for blood sugar control, which could be a good factor to consider in weight fluctuation, maybe reduce the amount of sugar one eats?
My experience has been that orthopedic surgeons are BAD at diagnosis. This is at least partially because they are always in such a hurry (in the US anyway). You were smart to persist and I'm glad you found a solution. Your solution is essentially one that has not only helped me tremendously, but I think would help so many others too. So many who blindly trust what the docs tell them. I don't blame people for trusting in medical professionals, but I do blame them for believing what these docs tell them when it goes against what they believe (e.g. doc says hands are fine but they hurt constantly). At that point you MUST take responsibility for your diagnosis and treatment, and it sucks, and it's not ideal, but if I hadn't done it, I'd be unemployed and on disability by now.
>Offices are built to different standards than residential use. The amount of effort to add new plumbing and wiring, to separate out utilities, etc is very seriously underestimated.

People always say this and it is true when CRE yields 1.5x the rent of residential, but we are no longer in that world.

The real thing that people underestimate is that now the alternative is building new residential, which is always more expensive than converting.

I think a lot of people, for whatever reason, have seen the entire world change due to COVID, but are just unwilling to believe anything has changed about office conversions.
Every time stories like this get posted, the first question is typically "when will they convert these buildings to residential?". And, like clockwork, there's always someone there to point out that residential conversion is prohibitively expensive and it would be cheaper to just tear the building down and start over.

My question is: is it possible to design high rise buildings in the future that can flex between residential and commercial? What's the extra upfront cost in plumbing, etc to build in this optionality from the start?
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Migadu certainly sounds good, but even their biggest plan seems a little on the smaller side. We are big fans of actionable email notifications that can be responded to, e.g., GitHub, Gitea, Active Collab. A response via email gets put into the respective platform/server, so we would very quickly chew through the in/out, and we get a huge amount of spam, and customer support emails.
China’s Space Plane Returns
I'm pretty sure they're talking about lots of things, primarily vehicles that "make your windows rattle". Popcorn tunes don't do that, the frequencies are too high and the impulses too quick. The description fits Harleys (as literally stated in their comment) as well as big rumbly trucks with knobbies and a straight-piped exhaust.
Technically Android runs the Linux kernel, but I wouldn't consider it a "Linux distro" in anywhere near the same sense as I would an Ubuntu or Fedora, etc. The vast majority of Android users don't even know they're running the Linux kernel, which is not true of "distros."
Look at the part about sudden stratospheric warming. This results in extreme weather.
The open source and free platform be able to handle the patchwork of regulations that are now in place that differ between city to city
Nasa is "excited" about the public display of their own corruption? Bezos can be excited of his successful lobbying efforts, but which NASA personel will want to set a foot into this unproven and unfinished thing? They are not all suicidal.
Motorola is now a Chinese company.
You can paste some gnarly code into gpt4, tell it "I think this code has an off by 1 error in it someplace" and GPT4 will find it for you.

So yes, it is useful.

It has helped me many times, "You've listed the items in this config file in the wrong order", saved me hours of debugging right there.

Even stupid stuff that I do once every couple years, I can ask GPT to setup my initial express server stuff "I want CORS enabled and these endpoints to process JSON" and it pops out code a few seconds later and saves me maybe 5 or 10 minutes of Googling.

I recently had GPT4 write me skeleton code for using Websockets, I'd never used them before and having something to base my work off of saved me a lot of time.
It could be just a stage of denial as in the 5 stages.

Or it could go deeper and as the world around us always change, by event we cannot determine and affect us totally … like say death and we have several possible path

Subject
- actively deal with it
- actively not deal with it
- inactively deal with it
- inactively not deal with it

Ignore us as subject
- let others deal with it
- …

Many religions and life philosophies are around this for, well, death.
Oh don't worry we are not far from future where a browser extension will show summary of entire YouTube video as a tooltip with help of GPT.

You just will have to hover the link.
Youtube has a transcript for automatic closed captions, and Sabine's here actually has been hand-written and even has some headings so it's much better than most.

I do feel a bit of surprise every time I read about the massive popularity of Youtube, or hear from a friend how they love the 2020s because they learned to do some bit of home improvement or car maintenance by watching a video. I wanted to learn how to frame an accessory building, so I went to the library and picked up "The Very Efficient Carpenter" by Larry Haun, when I needed to replace the water pump in my new car car I got a Haynes manual.

On the other hand, engineering school seemed at times to be a test to filter out anyone who wasn't capable of ingesting massive amounts of text in a short amount of time, which did well to prepare me for my career, which mainly consists of gleaning data from enormous PDFs, so maybe my cohort is unique in this ability.
More notes about pain as a game mechanic
Yeah maybe someday we can stop growing all our produce in the damn desert just because the weather was slightly more profitable.
Here's my interpretation of how this might work (reading between the lines and based on how ESOPs typically work):

1. The founder wanted out but didn't want to sell to a PE firm, and they wanted to give control to the employees.

2. The founder set up a trust that will gradually buy them out over the course of 7 years. The financial arrangement is probably something like: the trust got a long term loan for the initial tranche of purchases which it will pay back via dividends attached to those shares. It will also use those dividends to pay for future tranches of shares.

3. Employees don't have any ownership rights at all, the trust is the sole shareholder. Employees do have control of the trust, to an extent, because at least some members of the trustee board will be elected from the staff. The trust is probably written such that the trustees can elect to distribute to the staff some or all of the dividends remaining after founder share purchases and debt service.

To answer the ownership question, trusts don't really have owners. Trust materialize into existence when a grantor (the founder) funds them for the benefit of beneficiaries (in this case the staff) and are controlled by trustees (in this case, at least some part of whom are staff).
HTC made great phones. Interested to hear of their return?!
Most encryption even with fewer bits is not possible to hack in real time. What is often happening is some sort of cracking. It is not impossible that there are flaws in these devices. I know nothing about them. You simply do not brute force 256-bit encryption at least.
What does this mean ? IIRC ^t has been in the BSD for over 20 years, maybe even in early days. ^t just maps to a signal.
There are a lot of other reasons why prisons exist (safety, money, jobs, etc.). One big one: applying power, usually to an weaker group. Cause, that's just what Homo Sapiens do.
This is very cool! I'd really like something like this for local models to integrate with Obsidian
The T is SEVERELY fucked right now. Anyone who can drive will in Boston, at the moment.
Legislatively forced RTC protocol would be welcomed by me! I am the Android user that "ruins" my inlaw's group chat.
The coolest thing about this proposal IMO is that they plan on being able to keep the lander on the moon for a full lunar day/night cycle (aka, a month). That means extreme heat and extreme cold. Which is extremely difficult when you rely on liquid hydrogen which boils at -250C.
True, but we're rather capable of building long pipelines to ship liquids across large distances.
Open question: how many folks out there believe that fake AGI also poses a substantial risk if embodied/"let loose"? Even more risk than true AGI?
Over the past 5 years I've definitely drank the kool-aid around walkability and better public transit. In the last year I moved to the one fairly walkable part of my city (of course it's the oldest part, this tends to be the case in most U.S. cities), and my quality of life has improved immensely. Feeling safe to walk around and go to restaurants, stores, parks without having to endlessly drive everywhere has been amazing for my mental and physical health. Plus I save money on gas and it's better for the environment!

There's so much more we need to do though, especially around larger-scale transport like passenger rail. In most of the US we only have slow amtrak lines that aren't competitive in any way with airlines. I went to Spain and France a couple years back and got to ride metros, high-speed rail, etc. It's insane how much we as Americans rely on overly-large, dangerous, gas-guzzling 50k personally owned (financed) machines to get us around in our daily life.
C11 added (limited) generic support
When the term “Jaywalker” was coined, it set us on a course that still continues to damage our physical and mental health
There's no space for the finalizer in the object, so it has to be recorded on the side, and it's kinda messy.
Debian is the vanilla of distros - just enough glue to make stuff work well together.

And upgrades work the smoothest of any distros I tried. My desktop install is from 2007 and I think it survived replacement of every component of my machine including the case.

We even had one of admins accidentally update one of legacy servers "2 versions up" and it just worked!
Well, movies usually focus on the plot, so I always assumed that “normal human needs” are satisfied and not interesting enough to film or talk about.
This is some flat-earther grade logic. Good grief.
> I can't recall anyone quite so broadly deciding they're above contracts across a variety of topics in the past.

Our last president is well known for not paying for services rendered and making people sue to get paid.
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Apple calls that a feature.
Why do you hate it? It's a pretty clever way to hide a message in plain sight, on what would appear to be a normal message; using a technique similar to what is used to watermark text generation results.
I went from Ubuntu to Debian on a desktop machine. I have an nVidia 1080Ti with default drivers, running 3 displays with no problems. Motherboard audio works, USB headphones also work well. I can watch videos no problem and re-encoding/recording with ffmpeg/OBS works without a hitch. Only thing I remember doing is replacing the firefox version from ESR to latest.

10/10, would recommend over snaps.
No, the opposite actually. GPT4 enabled this.
It takes years or even decades to understand the value & detriments of a given work. So yes, we cannot measure real productivity, especially not in any short term.
> we have private API access that doesn't use anything you say as training inputs- maybe your company would prefer that?"

This isn't enough for many companies, since the data still goes out the door. They would have to set up on site hosting to appease security minded orgs. Or, maybe that's what you mean.
Apple has a large AI group, including both the Siri team and the one designing the Inference hardware in the A/M series processors (the "Neural Engine"). And you can bet that there are a lot of AI people working in the heavily rumored auto group. None of those are directly LLM directed, but I don't know why you think that apple does not have any experience in this space.
For those curious: /r/CredibleDefense/

It's a mix of some people who know what they're talking about, along with a bunch of people who don't know much, with the confidence that they know everything. Nonetheless, some good gems of intel pop up frequently in the comments.

Edit: my intent wasn't to put the subreddit down. It's a great resource and I peruse it a few times a week. Just be extra skeptical of claims you read (the CIA "agent" leak comes to mind).
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