skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never written a story before

You need to read and write more fiction if you want to tell an effective story. Just a description of the differences isn't a story. A story usually has a plot, character development, and worldbuilding in addition to themes. You can get away with not much character development or plot, but doing so in middle-grade/YA is not really viable. A hard sci-fi book with cardboard characters can work if it's pitched at nerdy, tech-literate adults. Likewise, a book without a cohesive plot but with good characters, themes, and emotional resonance is usually pitched at adults and is enjoyed by a fraction of the audience of popular literature. A good middle-grade/YA book needs to be accessible to a population which is not well-read and that needs the scaffolding a more conventional story structure provides.

Also if you've never written before, you should know that the younger your audience, the harder it is to write for the unexperienced author. Writing for an audience you're a part of (e.g sci-fi fans, romance fans, etc.) is much easier than writing for one you're not a part of. For children in particular, you need to have at least some idea of child development, appropriate vocabulary and topics, and what a child wants out of a story. 10-16 is a really wide range; I'd recommend either shooting for middle-grade (~9-12 YO) OR proper YA (14/15+ YO). There is a lot of difference between a 10 year old and a 16 year old. Most 16 year olds are not going to want to read things that are 'for babies' or that is too simple for them.

Things to consider while writing:

- Why should the readers care about these AIs? I think using them as POV characters is an interesting idea, but you need to develop the AIs and give them goals and things they care about. These things can be alien, but there needs to be something there that makes readers identify with/sympathize with them. Do they want to play Monopoly, for example? Or those age groups are often wrestling with realizing that the adults in their lives aren't infallible - maybe one of the AIs realizes it's poorly programmed for its objective or even (in the case of the ML AI) comes to mutually incompatible conclusions and has to come to terms with that before it self-destructs.

- What are the stakes? Why do we as readers care about this Monopoly type game?

- How do the characters develop over time/what lessons do they learn? Fiction isn't non-fiction - just lecturing and stating your point is boring and sloppy. (I'm looking at you, recent Orson Scott Card). You develop your themes and make your points through the lens of character development. This is less straight-forward but fiction is powerful because doing it in this way allows the lesson to embed in both the thinking brain and the emotional brain.
The labor shortage is caused by crippling regulations on home building especially in California. Do you really think that Americans are unwilling to work construction jobs? The influx of so many illegals is suppressing wages and destroying the industry for American labor. The reason to vote Republican in 2024 is the same as in 1850: to end slavery, and the reason to vote Democrat is also the same, to preserve the institution of slavery.

Green energy provides negative return on investment, does not create jobs, and those funds could be better allocated solving homelessness.
> totally wrong 20-50% of the time

That to me feels like there's some prompting improvements that you could do. It could be that your problem is just harder for LLMs than ours, but 20-50% of the time isn't what we observed after several prompting changes. The other thing is that we do regularly get outputs that are "mostly correct" and we can actually correct them manually, so while the model may have a higher fault rate, the actual end-user experience has a lower one.
Just search "rust" in HN comments (or on Reddit, or pretty much anywhere you see someone asking questions likely to invoke discussion about language choice): you'll find plenty.
> ban use by 2035

For personal vehicles that would hit the sector of population least able to afford an EV. Incentives and cash for clunkers type programs work better than forcing a financial burden on folks.

The other problem is that we don’t yet have good alternative to heavy diesel trucks. Sweden is experimenting with some cool options and we need a similar infra investment: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/05/09/sweden-is-building-... and https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...

The problem is that the last article is from 2016. All the investment is still going to long battery ranges and such, when if we built infra like this, trucking companies would switch due to much lower costs.
Oh thank you so much! Some of these exclusions make some sense to me but having my ctrl+n mashing interrupted by support.mozilla.com was fairly frustrating. Also security wise if I install a malicious extension with permissions to abuse these domains I'm already a goner haha
Obviously! The Morris Worm [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm?wprov=sfti1
This whole saga has been legitimate grievances clouded by lengthy blog posts that could have been so much shorter and less dramatically written. The other blog about this controversy clocked in at over 2000 words!
Thanks for the answer, that’s good to hear. I’m planning on shifting our new backend services from python to rust (and elixir) and Axum is my main focus now for the rest apis with diesel or sqlx.
"Russia's number one fear after the collapse of the USSR was for another military invasion from the West[...]"

Nice, Russia is just defending itself. Excuse me i need to go laugh out loud somewhere
How is that not just as flippant an “assignment of origination”? Regardless of how Liu Cixin might have written the most popular treatment of the theory, he did not come up with it, and stood on the shoulders of many others who developed the idea over decades. I have no problem with giving him credit for popularizing the idea but calling it “Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest” is going too far.
Organization that is “uncomfortable” with being criticized is always going to struggle to expand and adjust.

I have being part of rust community since 2013, I have seen lots of oddities over the years in this community. While it is inspiring to see such a dedicated and passionate community it is also upsetting to see same community kill off its own members based on disagreements and inability to carry any sort of constructive discourse.
I agree. I think a lot of the problem can be solved with discipline rather than a new spec entirely. If HTTP offers features that are offensive or unwanted, simply don't use those features. Make an HTTP server and client that only implement a subset of HTTP. Then use a subset of HTML, or another content type entirely.

This means anyone still using a popular browser like Chrome can visit your sites, but people using a more limited client can as well. It also means you still get to lean on the 30 years of technical refinement rather than reinventing many wheels.
and/or eat a lot of food rich in Vitamin D.
I think you might be projecting a bit here with the whole "nervous devs should never try anything other than write code"..

OP can totally give some basic marketing a go. The product isn't turning even creating revenue - hiring marketing now, without at-least testing the water himself would be silly.
I started drinking milk a year or two ago. Most milks have vitamin D added. It has made a stark difference in my life and it wasn't until I was looking back saying "I'm a lot happier than I was this time last year" that I figured out what changed.

Highly recommend supplementing with D. If you can tolerate lactose, milk is a nice pathway for it.
Americans' Excess Savings Are Mostly Spent
Assuming your ISP does not block port 25 and you are not behind CG-NAT you could do that. Point the MX of your domain to your IP and run a mail server at home. Postfix+Dovecot is one example.
James Webb Telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn's moon
> We just need to take away the developer's choice and force them to integrate

Who's we? Who are they integrating with? A protocol? A business? A government?

This has been tried in a multitude of ways. There's always a bit too much friction or cost.
Number Needed to Treat (NNT) seems like a great idea. Will learn more. Thanks.

The risk of cherry picking examples is they'd distract from my thesis. So I used two from my own life. I am fail. (Also, I have mo medical training and cannot advise others.)

As for LDL, mine is borderline, I'm very worried, it's unchanged by statins or diet, and I guess the plan is to monitor it. Further, the more I read about cholesterol, the more confused I get. It seems to be a topic in a state of flux. I'm currently eating buckets of fiber (oatmeal, beans, etc) and misc fish & krill oil, and recently added cocoa butter. Next I'll prob try that Fire In a Bottle stuff (some kind of tea extract).

I think statins make sense for most patients. A cardiologist friend says everyone in their practice start statins preventatively by age 40 (?). And they'd know best, right?

YMMV.
Lots of devs out there have great social skills which can translate well to sales. Sales is primarily communication and human connection and plenty of devs are capable of that.

Lots of devs start in sales because those jobs/careers are incredibly prevalent. Think basic sales jobs like retail, call centers, etc.

Lots of business people unironically "learn coding" to great success. Some even build "huge products" that solve big problems.

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Anecdotally, I know people who fall into all of these categories. I don't think we should condemn people to one function/talent... and, I don't think we need to talk down to cross-functional devs or business people.
I don't really see why the two are different.

1. Technical / misunderstanding -> talk about how you feel

2. You or your partner or your relationship is changing (or you feel like it is) -> talk about how you feel
> Which, ten years down the line, should free up a bit more opcode space when they decide to no longer support CS/DS/ES/SS segment prefixes. The space could be used for instructions that are the same in 32-bit and 64-bit modes.

The document explicitly says that segment prefixes are _ignored_.

> Removing all ring 3 I/O instructions (also part of the plan) will free up 8 further bytes in the primary opcode map for user space code.

It does not unless the same codes are removed in ring 0 as well. But if ring 0 IO commands are converted to multibyte, why ring 3 IO commands can't get the same?

> And then there is the 67h byte being freed as well due to removing address size overrides.

Again, not ignored - unsupported styles get GP instead.

> Free space in the primary opcode map => better encoding density...

Won't happen. More so, most encodings are shared with 32-bit mode and still developed this way.

> Getting rid of 16-bit data will make the data flow engine in future CPUs simpler (no more partial register stalls).

This is missed as well. 16-bit data are still handlable. Only addressing is disallowed.

> So what are the benefits?

Seems pretty none among what you listed:(
Climate change could trigger gigantic deadly tsunamis from Antarctica
I would love to see that chart of average pay by city adjusted to be after state and local taxes, and maybe with a Cost of Living estimate. Gross numbers aren't what hits your bank account.
When were these supposed "systemic issues" ever identified? In my experience "systemic racism" is a vague pretext to implement racist policies that push out white people (and sometimes Asians) in favor of black people (and people considered "brown enough"). I see this at my job and at conferences: people are explicitly promoted or selected as speakers in part because they are not white (or not male). This isn't just something I observed, they say it openly when the "diversity", equity, and "inclusion" strategy is discussed. I've also seen conference attendees openly say that there should be fewer white males at a certain event.

In none of those cases was a specific policy or practice identified that would explain the existence of "systemic issues" preventing minorities from getting hired, promoted, selected, and that would justify implementing discriminatory policies (aka "affirmative action"). So ironically we're discriminating against the "majority" (white males) over something that's mostly imaginary, at least in the US tech industry, based on nothing but demographic statistics. The fact that there's fewer qualified people of a certain color (proportionally to overall demographics) in the pool isn't evidence of systemic racism at the level we're operating. Meanwhile you would get laughed at for suggesting that we need gender parity in waste management jobs, or early childhood education.
The fact you think it is possible, which runs against every experience we have had in this domain the past few decades, combined with the philosophical and mathematical underpinning of software itself running against what you describe too, should maybe give pause to re-evaluate the claim?
> The fact that most Cloud software today still tells devs to give it a static infinitely-lived authentication key is absurd. We can do way better.

I could be misunderstanding your point, but cloud software is encouraged to rely on infrastructure introspection and role inheritance to achieve machine-to-machine authentication. There is also the problem when authenticating between user owned services, which can be achieved with services like Consul. Keycloak as far as I understand solves a lot of human-to-machine authentication scenarios.

In any case, I agree with the point that developing a secure application is hard enough that people might get it wrong even when actually trying to build it right. The development tools should induce secure development by default, but I believe the many particularities and use cases make it a hard problem to solve in a simple way. My point is that companies develop vulnerable application not because they want to in many cases, but because there is no right, clear, unabiguous way to do so that fits their particular use case.
History of the WWII Jerrycan
Not really, you see the same term used in left wing circles to refer to liberals/synthetic left types.
I'm not just talking about child support. If married, if you want to leave your wife and kids and go live in the next town and not see them ever, it will likely cost you more if married, than if you are single.
it depends on the invocation, and by default it checks for tty or not. the aliasing often does not touch this.

example alias:

$ alias ls
ls='ls --color=tty'

and from ls(1): "With --color=auto, ls emits color codes only when standard output is connected to a terminal. The LS_COLORS environment variable can change the settings. Use the dircolors command to set it."

("tty" and "if-tty" are the same as "auto")
Can you give an example of one that is?
Milk has loads of other nutrients. It's literally supposed to be a meal replacement for baby cows.

Might be because of anything to be honest.
> As a proponent of the Gemini protocol, I take issue with this line. The Gemtext format is a minimal markup format for text documents. It's a way of semantically indicating "this part is plaintext", "this part is a link", "this part is a header". Unlike HTML/CSS, it does not provide a mechanism for the author to style their documents. Instead, it is up to the client to render the text document, however the client chooses. If most clients render text in an unattractive way, that's not a fault of the format. And I mean, I don't think plaintext is ugly.

Okay? But why it isn't markdown? What does it add that markdown does not have ?

It is just taking few things from markdown but changing enough that markdown interpreter won't work. What's the point of that?. Different for sake of being different ?

I can understand say removing any support from HTML elements in markdown if you want to make something entirely new, but the changes are just entirely pointless and not make it more readable.

There appears to not even be a support for a basic table, while calling itself "rich document" format

But the cherry on cake gotta be this part of paragraph:

> You may have noticed that gemini supports links to other protocols (the above example includes a web link, beginning with `https`, and a gemini link, beginning with `gemini`).

The author is using `the markdown code/monospace font` backticks from markdown, in document describing this shitty format, where they are not implemented, out of habit of using them in markdown.
>Rust members were "uncomfortable" with this purely technical viewpoint - not their behavior, personal beliefs, or even their demographic?

As if their personal beliefs or demographic would be more acceptable things to have concerns over, in a technical conference setting?

This shit has just become too normalized and acceptable in contexts where it shouldn't be. You're not marrying them or making them friends.
TFA seems to think it was important. The Rust conference needs to have a black friend to prove it isn't racist.
it's 50% governments, 50% individual actions

the rest follows
If that could be checked and fixed on a regular basis, I'll be fine with that.
Antarctic alarm bells: Observations reveal deep ocean currents slowing earlier
Open Access full paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01667-8
Bayes is guaranteed to overfit
Isn't it about time to stop pretending thay there might be something hazardous about athermal levels of RF radiation? After 100 years I think we'd have seen consistent biological effects in the population if there were any to be observed.
No, not at all! The most vulgar and intelligent people I met over there were in Adelaide.
Space Odyssey: An Experimental Software Security Analysis of Satellites
Abstract: Satellites are an essential aspect of our modern society and have contributed significantly to the way we live today, most notable through modern telecommunications, global positioning, and Earth observation. In recent years, and especially in the wake of the New Space Era, the number of satellite deployments has seen explosive growth. Despite its critical importance, little academic research has been con- ducted on satellite security and, in particular, on the security of onboard firmware. This lack likely stems from by now outdated assumptions on achieving security by obscurity, effectively preventing meaningful research on satellite firmware. In this paper, we first provide a taxonomy of threats against satellite firmware. We then conduct an experimental security analysis of three real-world satellite firmware images. We base our analysis on a set of real-world attacker models and find several security-critical vulnerabilities in all analyzed firmware images. The results of our experimental security assessment show that modern in-orbit satellites suffer from different software security vulnerabilities and often a lack of proper access protection mechanisms. They also underline the need to overcome prevailing but obsolete assumptions. To substantiate our observations, we also performed a survey of 19 professional satellite developers to obtain a comprehensive picture of the satellite security landscape.
30 minutes in the sun is enough to get your daily dose iirc.

I think I get 30 minutes from going outside for lunch and walking to my car, driving, taking out the trash, getting my mail, etc.
Huh, my kids went back to school in September of 2020 here in Vancouver British Columbia. There was a short shutdown later in the fall, then schools were open for the duration.

No teachers died, and there was very little in school transmission. Our provincial health officer in charge made the choice based on the data available. BC has a very low overall COVID death rate compared to other jurisdictions. You can go look up the data on deaths and satisfy yourself that closing schools as long as many jurisdictions did was a stupid idea. The idea that we didn't know that at the time is also suspect, since data driven decision makers like the one in BC opened schools back up once the risk of transmission between children was determined.
My Grandfather worked at the Forestry Service and would come home with reams of used type paper (filled with statistics and reports, I assume). My grandparents would put the paper in the toy cabinet for us. I've made thousands of that design of paper airplane and just today learned that it had a name. Thanks!
I'm skeptical. This incident in particular doesn't prove that Rust has more zealots.

Every single Rust dev I've worked with is a normal programmer who prioritizes merit and rational process.

If you're already unfriendly towards the Rust community then this incident will only deepen your bias. I urge you to not assess the community with this flawed thought process. Rust devs are like all others.
>Much less weight should be given to someone "feeling uncomfortable"

If anything, people should be pushed to accepting feeling uncomfortable. It means they're meeting challenging ideas, opposing viewpoints, and getting out of their comfort zone and echo bubble.

Except if "not feeling comfortamble" is because someone e.g. exposes their junk, or farts endlessly on purpose during a conference. That, sure, should be curbed.
Check out angel investor networks in your area. They often hold events that are a good place to meet other founders, and are a great place chat with peers going through the challenge of building a business.
Actually relying on panics for unwinding in any way is not encouraged in any way, and compiling with `panic = 'abort'` is really common, and completely removes all stack unwinding support.
This removes half the magic of interacting with ChatGPT. Users will quickly realize they're interacting with a dumb database rather than an AI.
This takes me back. My first PC was a decommissioned CAD. It was a WYSE branded AT compatible with a passive-mainboard (i.e. the mainboard was just the bus, and the CPU was on a carrier that plugged into the bus), and an HGA connected to an amber display.

As an aside, the Sierra adventure games supported HGA, but many of them were designed for color, making certain puzzles rather difficult to solve.
An Essay on Burnout
I’m pretty sure that “think of the children” is a position taken at least as often by people who describe themselves as anti-woke, such as DeSantis and his “saying gay is illegal” idiocy.
Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion"
US police are selling seized phones with personal data still on them
> It's just that the only people who click to comment on stupid articles like this are the "electrosensitive" mentally ill

What if EMFs are causing the mental illness? This will be relevant later in this comment.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089106181...

> There's no non-thermal mechanism confirmed in any reputable journal

Is Pubmed not reputable?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=EMFs+non-thermal+effec...

Is Elseveir not reputable?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13835...

The ideas behind how this happens seem to be solidifying around EMFs affecting Voltage Gated Ion Channels:

https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ny...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01434...

And hey, regarding the mental illness, you know what the number one gene linked to mental illness effects? The Voltage Gated Calcium Ion Channel (CACNA1C)

https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/44/5/...

"Large-scale genome-wide association studies have consistently shown that genetic variation in CACNA1C, a gene that encodes calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1C, increases risk for psychiatric disorders. "
Globalization is evolving, but does not seem to be reversing