skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that I like many aspects of what he does, and I am not just saying negative comments.

I'm speaking specifically about a recent video where he explicitly says that every other diet is worthless because it's not backed by data, and his is.
I think this is a real fallacy, but akshually a logic fallacy generally only refers to operations that can't be performed under formal logic. Which is a very useful definition for computer languages, not so much for natural language which doesn't really follow formal logic (since people make actually fairly good arguments all the time that would be "fallacious" under the terms of formal logic).

I don't know if its appropriate to just apply the name fallacy to any old worldview or system of argument that one dislikes. You could call communism a "labor activism fallacy" or capitalism a "capital investment fallacy." You deride any sort of system of argumentation by saying it's fallacious. Now, to be totally fair, if we accept Godel's incompleteness theorem as true, then the Nirvana Fallacy really is a fallacy under the terms of formal logic. But I believe that there is more complexity to this than that.
He worked on MHD, he knows what he is talking about, he also worked closely with Russian scientists, not something mainstream media would cover, specially nowadays

http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/En...

Anything that'd destabilize a country is generally not publicized by the press, unless it benefits you

He started a non-profit, distribute all of his work for free, and pays for translations in multiple languages, I don't think he does any of this stuff for the money

The fact that the US pretends to be pioneer in the field says it all, don't you think?

The various "UFO" sightings are MHD experiments
What? VLSI, VHDL, Multics, Hypertext, GaAs semiconductors, autonomous navigation, GPS, and packet switched networking were a few things they funded. Totally absurd, right? For every successful tech, they probably explored scores that didn't pan out. Basic, high risk research has huge payoffs across society even if you don't like who's funding it or why.
I wonder how to measure this?
> I can't help but feel like this is Tesla surrendering their biggest moat ... for questionable gain

If Tesla has a non standard connector much longer, it becomes a liability. It'll be harder and harder for them to sell cars that need adaptors everywhere.

I also don't think the Supercharger Network will be a moat much longer. As there are more EVs, the incentives for business to put in chargers gets higher. Teslas needing an adapter becomes a liability.
The question is not "doesn't the alternative have the same problem in kind"? It's "does the alternative have the same problem to the same degree?" Certainly, bikes have tires too, but bikes weigh a tiny fraction of an automobile, have half the number of tires, and generate a tiny fraction of the dust, per unit distance. We can't let perfect be the enemy of significantly better.

> I don't think this can be a mainstream public transport solution if we want to move forward.

The cities of Copenhagen and Amsterdam beg to differ. Bicycles are first-class citizens there in terms of transport.

> Ebikes are unsafe, for starters.

Do you have any stats on that?
If you live in California your issuing bank has to let you opt out of CC data sharing
I mean rockets are absurd - burn gas to throw it behind you to push off against. Works in space (the NYT regrets the error).

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/news/150th-anniversary-18...
New clues emerge about possible factors behind sudden infant death syndrome
Mozilla brand managers should be the first jobs replaced by AI.

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what Mozilla's underlying strategy is, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

-- with apologies to Douglas Adams
Honestly I don't have an issue with Node's approach to module resolution - especially when combined with a package mangers like pnpm that symlink dependencies.

Multi project workspaces are easy to manage with pnpm and publishing to an npm registry is fine enough.

I thought about git as a package distribution mechanism (like Go) but it adds complexity in how you handle transpilation for releases and I'm not sure how versioning works in the context of multi-package projects/workspaces (how does Go do it?).

I just want to use TypeScript on the back end without a billion years of setup.
Something simple as that should not require tons of RAM and CPU because of Java. Writing it in natively compiled language would produce a lean product - Rust, Go, etc.
Exactly. Few hundreds of thousands of interactions with chatgpt is definitely too less for model to learn lot of new things. The thing it does well is make them much better at following instructions. It also makes it much better at working with given context.
Coincidentally, there was the recent TV show, Anatomy of a Scandal, about a fictional rape case where the defense tried to argue that “not now” wasn’t sufficient to withdraw consent for sex.
100% recycled aluminum vs 30% recycled plastic
The data also contains salaries information and private addresses of Tesla employees, which clearly don’t belong to the category of “whistler blower data”, even under EU laws.
What possible justification does Salem have for keeping their non-coastal counties as captive colonies when they clearly want to leave?
Legislators move slower than tech.
> a car that you can actually REPAIR by yourself

If Aptera manages to scale up production, it looks like they'll deliver that part at least. They're promising to make all the manuals and parts available to anyone.
If it needs unobtainable levels of power, that means it's not efficient. If it's efficient you can use a diesel generator in place of your diesel engine and obtain the same amount of power.
While I have no idea if the use of recycled materials is truly greener than virgin, I was excited by the words "DC-in barrel plug".

I like the convenience of USB-C, but it's just not very sturdy. If I have my laptop plugged in and sitting on my lap, all I have to do is carelessly let my arm on the plug side drop down and that will be it for the cable. Barrel connectors are significantly more resilient to that kind of damage. I wish they would become common again.

Magnetic connectors also avoid the issue, but I find them way too easy to accidentally disconnect as I move the laptop around (adjusting positioning on the couch or while sitting in bed).
It is not unfair, it’s the crux of “consent”. Consent does not mean “keep pestering until they give in”. When technology does not respect user consent by presenting them a false dichotomy of “yes or later”, that is bad. Not all ads do this, but many dark patterns do, it’s even built into the OS like in iOS and Windows.
Japan stole quite a bit, from quite a few people, in the Pacific theater. The war doesn't end when the US gets back what was stolen - it ends when all of its allies get back, what was stolen.
When you think everyone else is wrong and you are the smart one, well…
Over the long run, would you rather have been a car company or an energy company ( oil company )?

Turning their potentially short term dominance in EV market share into long term dominance in charging seems brilliant to me. This is especially true if you expect Chinese and Indian EV makers to commoditize the market.
I used to be a fan, then he showed up to the cave rescue operation with half a submarine, and in responce to crtiticism he called rescue divers pedoes.

So I started wondering, can he be a good leader when he can't take criticism? How does he retain best pepple if his ego is this fragile?

I am quite happy to see more people reassess him as he demonstrates capricious and callous behavioir, for exanple the Twitter aquisition whoch he first wanted then tried to get out of.

I think you will come around when he targets something yoi carw about.
Which means surge pricing for Tesla. Musk said that charging would not be a money maker, but of course times have changed.

Holding on to my free unlimited supercharging for life. :)
Orcas have been teaching each other to sink boats, from what I was reading. They don't speak, but they do communicate.
A self-managed FOSS level 5 self-driving system, where you're not legally required to be actively monitoring it and ready to take over, seems very very hard.

We should require a huge and lengthy validation process for true autonomous level 5 self driving so keep others safe. It seems possible for an open source self driving system to go through this validation for one particular build of the system. But the moment I start modifying my own system (say, increasing `DRIVING_AGGRESSION` by 10 percent), it's no longer the same system that was verified as safe.

But even if personal modification is out of the question, the safety verification process needs to be so thorough and costly it seems difficult for anyone but a major for-profit company to go through it.
like Imperial units
Is it realistic to expend what should be a tremendous amount of energy to put a massive cargo space vessel in (presumably) an orbit around a planet? And then expend energy again to escape and head back?
Memory fades, so most likely better explanation.
Getting closer to a measurement for chronic pain
So interesting! I do have to say, the way they state some of the specifics as though they are settled facts is a little off putting, like -

"the size and the position of the holes cannot be accidental – they were made with the intention of musical expression."

Cannot? Were? I'm sorry, but there's no way to actually deduce that from the available information.
You are not engaging with my point and continuing to converse with the one in your head. Goodbye.
they just want to get the Blockbuster back
How does ChatGPT know math?
That's obviously not true if you look at the deliveries per quarter chart.
Well I hope they don't change the Stadium name, that's how I knew they were serious.
It won’t be completely silent because you’re still jetting a lot of water out the back of the submarine.
Russia invaded Ukraine because the US wasn’t being hegemonic enough. The first invasion in 2014 happened under a dovish, non-interventionist president elected due to public dissatisfaction with his interventionist predecessor. That administration refused to send aid to Ukraine at all, a policy that has been gradually reversed by the two successive administrations, then reversed more dramatically after the second invasion in 2022. Had the US taken the crisis more seriously, it could have likely deterred the 2022 invasion entirely.

If you want an example of the world with American hegemony, consider that the longest sustained period of peace in Western European history began when Western Europe was first occupied by American troops in 1945.
And, just as importantly, raising the barrier to entry for their competitors.
That seems like a disingenuous title, it's not abusing su, that's just one of the many things that tool was used for. That was never a bad practice, the tool just changed and pulled the rug out from under very many programs.
That's fair as well. Honestly, this is the first version, and I've just been surprised by how little I've had to debug things. The handful of things that I've added to RxHTML are carrying me farther than I thought.
Oddly, on the ATC recordings, the controller advises subsequent landing traffic of the two prior go arounds but tells the flight that that the reasons for the go arounds was unknown, when in fact she knew that they were due to conflicting traffic on the runways 28L and 28R since she gave the go around instructions in both cases (albeit belatedly in the case of the United flight.)
Ah yeah totally agree for national people perspective. Sino-Japan war is underrated. But also people think: we did bad things like western countries did, why don't every westerns be blamed equally for this? (this story misses some Japan specific bad things, like 731.) Still, it was terribly bad obviously.
It’s amazing how easily people are fooled into thinking something is intelligent. I met Stephen Hawking once and asked him how to slice video with ffmpeg. He didn’t have a clue! Obviously he isn’t an intelligent person. Yet so many people think he is smart.
Spoiler: It isn't, it doesn't even run OpenSSH at this point anyway[1]. Gitlab has gitlab-sshd[2], which can be used in place of the OpenSSH-based approach as well. It is used on gitlab.com.

[1]: debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version babeld-51390fc7

[2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/gitlab_...
I started watching firearms videos few years ago, mostly Forgotten Weapons (https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons) and the problems and tradeoffs encountered in designing firearms (both politics and UX) are very similar to those I've encountered with software.
>What irks me about these comment threads is that people hold Mozilla to a standard that nobody holds Google to.

Yes, because FF’s only advantage left is that they’ll actually respect your privacy and control of your machine. They have nothing else! If you want a browser that’s the fastest, or has full featured addons, or is mostly like to work on sites where you need it, sorry, Chrome has them hopelessly, irrevocably beaten.

Privacy is the one area where they could actually claim to be better and yet every so often they’ve shown willingness to abandon that advantage for the slimmest of upsides.
Comments and documentation.

I know it's not sexy, but adding lots of comments to the code will help to keep things organised, and will make your life next year sooo much better.

For higher-level concepts, usage examples, declarations of intent and expectation I cannot recommend "official" documentation more.

A lot of my career exists because I was forced by circumstance to write formal docs for my work. I refer to my own docs multiple times every day. Other people use my work because its documented.

And when I have to return to code, i find myself adding ever more comments to help me digest it. Personally I've never looked at code and thought "I can't use this, too many comments, too much documentation".

While I'm working I'm also writing (and rewriting) the docs.

For casual scribbles I use paper. I throw that away from time to time to reinforce how ethereal that is.

I have a motto now - if it's not documented, it doesn't exist. For me it matters 10x more than actual code, because it makes the code reusable, reliable and dependable.
I wish Mozilla or Microsoft or friends would let me pay $50 extra for a no-bullshit version of their products. It is infuriating when your UX is ruined by a corporation trying to make a couple fucking pennies off you
DC jack repair was very very common on laptops
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I keep trying to give ChatGPT-4 math problems that will confuse it but it keeps getting the answer correct. If the model is only using tokens and probabilities and not actually computing the equation shouldn't there be more incorrect answers?
The mantra for this is "perfect is the enemy of done."
how many times has this been posted here?
It looks to be a reasonable article published in a reasonable journal not some crank or pay-to-play journal. More likely, a hyena expert saw the flute and thought "that looks exactly like a bone eaten by a hyena" and did some research.

Most archeology in my country is performed by private organizations. There is nothing suspicious about that.

I don't know who is right but a pile of badly made attempts at a flute would probably prove they were made by archaic humans, not a random hyena feast.
yeah, the whole idea of report back on your work/yesterday/commitment is the squeeze that might be new.

i have to find out where 'report back' requirement part of Scrum comes from.
Can HTMX be used with static site generators, such as Hugo, to create interactive documentation websites?
What possible justification does Texas have for keeping Dallas/Travis (Austin)/Bexar (San Antonio)/Harris (Houston)/most of the Mexico border counties as captive colonies when they clearly want to leave?

And that’s notwithstanding Texas is actually constitutionally allowed per its annexation agreement to split itself into 5 separate smaller states, if it so wishes! The reason it hasn’t though is because at least 3 of the 5 would be solidly Blue by the approved divisions made at the time. One a tossup. One solidly red.

So, similar too the Greater Idaho plan. Or the Jefferson/California plan. Or Calexit. Or…
RxHTML started as patterns emerged while building useful things with Adama, so RxHTML is a templating language on top of a reactive document. ( https://book.adama-platform.com/rxhtml/ref.html )

My web-dev skills are fairly old school where I usually just used Mustache to make things look nice, and RxHTML is my attempt at something like mustache except it respects HTML (rather than just string templating). The reason I wanted to build yet another template engine is that I wanted to deal with differentiation.

If you see the entire state of a page as S, and then f is the template such that f(S) is the web page; RxHTML is to address how to handle f(S + dS/dt...) where we can template efficiently as the underlying state changes.

This blog post was written for me to help clarify what RxHTML is to a friend.
This is probably classified, but just how sensitive are MAD systems? A football field ship is a big chunk of metal and we’re ankle to detect them at some depth. One that has a 20 tesla magnet seems like painting a target on your own aft.
Because that would be false on its face. I'm sorry that you have no idea what you're talking about? The Korean war began when the communists invaded from the north, equipped and trained by the Soviets. It continued until the communists by then actually from China not North Korea, stopped trying.

At no point during the entire Korean War was there a Japanese colony anywhere on the Korean peninsula. Or, for that matter, anywhere on earth.

If you're arguing the South Korean government whose sovereignty the UN went to war to defend, was somehow "aligned" with their former occupier Japan which was itself then occupied by the US after its unconditional surrender to end WW2... sorry, you're just woefully ill informed.

There are dozens of good books on this topic.
It’s Tom Clancy’s future, we just live in it.
Sorry for the confusion, but I am not saying

>Tritium cannot bio-accumulate

I'm simply agreeing that if it is possible, then the justification for release is invalidated. If you would like to argue your point with the commenter I replied to, you are welcome to do that.
> My xiaomi vacuum has LIDAR.

I don't. Yet, somehow I operate vehicles with little to no "phantom braking or unintended acceleration."
I'm guessing that you don't like capitalism and believe humans can actually have a nice egalitarian non-capitalistic society where everyone shares across the entire planet?
Right. Because they would probably be experts with the most knowledge to analyze that. And science is made of competing claims, with different researchers often presenting the best case for opposing arguments.

Do you think that the entire scientific process of collecting evidence on both sides of questions is a conspiracy or something?
I remember this technology being a plot point in a Clive Cussler novel, and then being standard issue on new boats in most Cussler novels after that. I see Tom Clancy also featured it in his books even earlier. It’s always cool when you first learn about some tech from near-future action novels and then later that tech becomes real; feels very futuristic.
Bitcoin is used by people in unstable countries.
Depends on the plastic. Most plastics in common use are thermoplastics which can be remelted and recast.
> Magnetic connectors also avoid the issue, but I find them way too easy to accidentally disconnect as I move the laptop around (adjusting positioning on the couch or while sitting in bed).

I personally prefer this over accidentally damaging the connector.
It is just a deal breaker in my book, and likely for others.

It isn't even obviously stated on their documentation either, yet their homepage has "Keep your data private with an operating system that's fully secure."
Heh, the "Memes" section of their Essays page is brilliant: https://htmx.org/essays/#memes
I agree completely although I confess I don't own a suit. I did once, I got it to get married in, but alas it stretched less than I did.

As an interviewer I won't hold it against you to not wear a suit, but equally I'm impressed when someone makes the effort to dress smartly. A tie is overkill though :)
I continue to be impressed at the effort people will put into avoiding writing any JavaScript. Is it really easier to learn yet another DSL embedded in attribute tags rather than taking a day to setup your JS dev environment and then writing idiomatic code for running inside a web browser? Surely your htmx project will eventually cross a complexity threshold where you've added enough scaffolding that you may as well have setup a JS bundler in the first place, and yet the debugging, testing and deploying challenges will continue to push you into less-trodden territory.

I believe there might be a sweet spot for small projects unlikely to grow in complexity, maintained by a Python dev who is allergic to JS. But I don't see why you would want to invite yet another abstraction into the web stack, when it's built on top of the very language you're trying to avoid, and which you'll inevitably encounter in all its automagically obfuscated glory as soon as you run into a moderately complex problem.
As an Oregonian, I found it fascinating that Oregon has one of the highest public land percentages, 60%; #5 after AK, NV, UT and ID.

https://www.summitpost.org/public-and-private-land-percentag...

Then I read about corner crossing, where private landowners can capture public lands because it is illegal to cross into private land if that land connects via a corner to other private land. The landlocked public lands are technically public, but you are breaking the law if you go into it because every single edge has private land on one side.

https://www.onxmaps.com/onx-access-initiatives/corner-crossi...

I wonder how much this would change if a large swath of Oregon were moved into Idaho.
Interesting that you talk about standards because I think the alt browsers are not judged to the same standards as chrome. Brave injected affiliate links. Microsoft edge injected ads on random third party sites, now it’s Mozilla. You won’t see google doing these type of (shady) things. You won’t get explicit stuff from google injected into properties they don’t own without explicit permission from the site owners.

Imagine if google injected random stuff without permission in a site like ycombinator, people would go absolutely nuts and google would be considered diabolic, yet for some reason all other browsers have done similar stuff and they somehow get a pass?
Ford has been including Tesla adapters for awhile…
Technically feasible? Absolutely. You can already create interactive documentation just with client side JS in your Hugo generated site. And HTMX is just a client-side JS system for building that sort of JS-required interactivity in HTML alone without directly touching JavaScript. That said, I don't think the tooling to make this simple to get started with in Hugo is there yet. Though you could certainly build it.
We need this for code understanding models like StarCoder and the like
For those with flexibility or a new project, also consider Phoenix LiveView. It’s been a joy to work with so far.
And the people who live there who don’t want to leave? Those who want to leave are free to move to Idaho any time they like. They’d rather forcibly drag people out of Oregon with them rather than leave just themselves?