skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The internet is big and I just didn't look for it very long.

You'd think so, but for the majority of homeless programs I was interested in, I couldn't find any data. For example, I was trying to find efficacy of tiny villages, what are their goals, how they track graduation rate. What's even their success criteria? Nothing, despite my decent google-fu.

> You'd think so, but policy is often penny wise and pound foolish. I think the biggest obstacle is that "free money" just doesn't fit in our culture very well (or maybe it just doesn't fit human nature).

For policies, sure. What about non-profits? Why wouldn't someone who believes in the efficacy of such methodology organize something like that? Changing someone's life for the better with only 3k sounds like a no-brainer to me. I would personally contribute financially and direct other people to contribute.
I'm actually rather annoyed by the recent trend of basic things like "go touch grass" or "go exercise every day" or "eat more fiber" being scientifically validated, because it's stripping away any and all excuses for me not going outside/exercising/eating well/etc.

Like damn, I knew I was supposed to do such things already, but it's the difference between mom saying to eat your veggies vs. mom slamming down a stack of scientific paper about why not eating veggies will literally kill you or whatever.
What about "organic" milk? By that I mean milk that is grown by my small local farm, humane conditions for the cows, no antibiotics or supplements for them.
You can do that offline where it doesn't affect other people.
Well, if the program is operating a business-critical function, then having it halt is bad.
Not seeing titanium, zinc, oxybenzone, octinoxate, octisalate, or avobenzone.

That’s not our sunscreen.
C++ language evolution is developed mostly in public. We don't get to see WG21 meetings, but we see most of the emails (https://lists.isocpp.org/std-proposals/), almost all of the TS proposal papers (everything except for very early drafts), and notable meetings still have multiple recaps from various participants in addition the the Meeting Minutes publicly outlining what these discussions are about, and we see (afaik) all of the formal votes that the committee members take (although the votes are anonymized). Plus a considerable amount of the conversation happens on GitHub, and many paper authors ask for feedback on Reddit and chat clients.

Also, the standards work is only a portion of C++ language evolution. Clang RFCs are public and anyone can provide feedback, the GCC mailing list is public, and both of their issue trackers (which include feature requests) are public.
It's also completely non-differentiated.

Each of the networks (other than Tesla) is trying to build customer loyalty via social networking features and monthly memberships, but that's destroying customer loyalty, not building it.

All people care about is the percentage of time the charger works, how long it takes for the session to start / complete, and whether a stall is occupied.

EA and EVGo are failing miserably on reliability and time to initiate charge, and anyone can install + operate a stall. The only network effect here is whether the charge station shows up on the map service vehicle owners use are using.

In theory, they could try locking smaller providers out of being listed on maps, but maps are also a non-differentiated commodity with a pretty low barrier to entry (people can just switch to whatever map service lists all the EV chargers, and not just the unreliable monopoly-owned ones).

Also, as the article points out, Ford has basically no loyalty to the charging networks, and is already weaponizing the on-board maps in their vehicles to force the charge networks to provide higher reliability services. I'm sure other automakers will follow a similar path.
Some left-handed people have their brains reversed, so that language is on the right side. To avoid that as a potential complication, fMRI studies often exclude lefties.
Perspective is determined entirely by the position of the photographer relative to the subject. There will be no difference in perspective if you zoom in with the phone to get the same angle of view you get with a 50mm lens on a full frame camera.

Here is one of many explanations of this you can find online: https://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/shooting/perspective-and....
tl;dr : Maybe the reals are far more mysterious. All we ever have handle over are the countable sets.

[0] Looking back, the core of my confusion was this. I had thought: I can visualize what ℵ0 means; that’s just the infinity of integers. I can also visualize what C=2^ℵ0 means; that’s the infinity of points on a line. Those, therefore, are the two bedrocks of clarity in this discussion. By contrast, I can’t visualize a set of intermediate cardinality between ℵ0 and C. The intermediate infinity, being weird and ghostlike, is the one that shouldn’t exist unless we deliberately “force” it to.

Turns out I had things backwards. For starters, I can’t visualize the uncountable infinity of real numbers. I might think I’m visualizing the real line—it’s solid, it’s black, it’s got little points everywhere—but how can I be sure that I’m not merely visualizing the ℵ0 rationals, or (say) the computable or definable reals, which include all the ones that arise in ordinary math?

The continuum C is not at all the bedrock of clarity that I’d thought it was. Unlike its junior partner ℵ0, the continuum is adjustable, changeable—and we will change it when we build different models of ZFC. What’s (relatively) more “fixed” in this game is something that I, like many non-experts, had always given short shrift to: Cantor’s sequence of Alephs ℵ0, ℵ1, ℵ2, etc.

[0] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4974
Also not seeing titanium, zinc, oxybenzone, octinoxate, octisalate, or avobenzone.
Speaking of Germany, whenever I visit my phone battery drains much faster than elsewhere

This is likely due to the poor reception, which would mean my handset has to send a stronger signal to the base station -> more exposure to non-harmful RF, but given this German institute they do seem to care?

Would this be an example of someone shooting themselves in the foot by somehow limiting the transmission power from the cell sites? Or am I mistaken?
The wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development) has a link to a usenet post from 1995 that uses 'fork' to describe XEmacs; so that predates the gcc/egcs split by a couple of years.
The 2024 ID.4 will likely have an option for their new APP550 motor which will produce 282 hp and a maximum torque of 406 lb-ft. This should help bring it in line with the Y, but probably at a higher cost initially until they can scale production.
People often use technology without thinking about or knowing exactly how it works.
So you recommend we carry a laptop around in our pockets instead?
Computable functions do also have some weird behavior. For example: a) all functions are continuous, b) equality is not computable (maybe not so weird for anyone used to floating point), c) differentiation is not computable unless you work over complex numbers (but integration is!)
If a society didn't find some way to last beyond the lifespan of a human, then it wouldn't be much of a society.
If it helps, you can just take a vitamin D supplement and stay inside, avoiding some major health risks like skin cancer and death by vehicular accidents.
Sorry to hear it's become a bit of a trudge...

For some people, coding is more like a personality trait. They naturally think directly in code terms. Less some specific syntax...

Others don't do this so much. Maybe they see outcomes in their mind rather than having a dialogue about process, piece by piece. But for these people there's also a lot of opportunity in leveraging those tools that fall outside of the coding mindset.

This dichotomy can provide a good opportunity to think about whether a break from your main direction might be more appropriate, or if a change in direction on a career basis may be a better idea.

> How do you keep yourself motivated/interested after years/decades?

You should also be focusing a lot of the investigation here on your environment and circumstances. Things will get more tractable in a big-picture way.

So, "how does your environment keep you interested..." Might also be a really helpful question to ask people.

You'll still need to be responsible for yourself, but it'll be far easier to try different mindsets, ideas, outlooks, and projects if you shift your environment.

This is especially true if you are generally a more responsive person than a directive one (one is not better than the other, but it's good to know about yourself).

If you find yourself generally responding to the demands of your environment as if to prove yourself and your grit, skills, tools, or attitudes--problematic environments can be very toxic in a sense because you'll be more likely to blame _their_ problems on things that _you_ lack.

You can also change directions dramatically without changing your career, by the way. This can be a really interesting experimental process within a single workplace even.

And some people end up being an _invite_ away from changing careers anyway, not an _impulse_ away, as they previously thought. "One day some co-workers approached me and...(etc) now I'm doing this other thing and I'm very happy".

Just some ideas for you though, good luck with everything.
> But if you want strong bones and muscles, eat what strong animals like gorillas and bulls eat.

Both of those animals have a fermentation based digestive system so they can digest fiber that humans can't.

I'll take the diet and strength of a wolf or bear, thanks.
It's reassuring to see that I'm not the only one who finds those equations far from obvious. I didn't spend much time trying to understand the derivation though - as you wrote the result doesn't seem interesting anyway.
Yes, you did, and that's why I elaborated on why "closing the feedback loop" is barely enough to reach anything close to self-improvement. That is because self- requires intention to work in the direction of a particular goal, and -improvement requires an ability to evaluate whether the results are in line with it.

Going down to specifics, without the human intention of "getting good responses to human language prompts", and without the human ability to decide "this response was good" there is not much for an LLM to work on by itself.
I don't think the expectation is to invent something new. The expectation is to invent license or buy something old. Reverse engineering is legal, but corporate Espionage is not. If you are hacking to a database to get ip or have spies stealing documentation, that's not reverse engineering.
Libraries, VMs, Runtimes backed by libuv :

https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/v1.x/LINKS.md
I'd assume they have something more like a smart card (credit card, EMV) chip inside.

Hackers are not modding credit cards to change the account.
A statement in a program can’t really be undecidable on its own. It’s the program that has that property.
txti.es was free, and there's nothing in these comments, or the shutdown message, or the page from the Wayback Machine that mentions pricing. Why did you bring up paying for "something to do it for me" and hard sells?
Brain Floating Point (Bfloat16)
Changing the model wouldn't change anything. A turing machine is equivalent to any computational machine you want to put in there. It doesn't matter what the machine is. The turing machine is the goto because it was first used for them.

Any other machine that can simulate a turing machine can simulate failing in those same ways. You can't escape the problems of turing completeness without losing it.
I don't think YouTube themselves are doing that. As the uploader, AfD can absolutely just remove all negative comments they don't like. And they've been able to do that since YouTube started.
The simplex algorithm is similar being exponential time worst case but in practice often closer to linear
While terse, “woke” is not succinct, in its current negative external use, because it doesn’t clearly communicate anything about what it describes other than that it is disliked by the speaker. It communicates more about the speaker and the identity group they affiliate with than its notional referent; its a kind of right wing virtue signalling. (The older positive use at least had something like a coherent meaning, so arguably was succinct as well as terse.)
Well, YouTube already has it.
This is gonna be a hot take, but I use an HP laser from about 2012 or something, which takes cartridges that are like $20 for 18 months’ worth for me ($20 for maybe 3 months when my wife was doing her masters degree), and for the times I need color I have a couple bucks a month HP Instant Ink subscription for my cheap inkjet thing. It’s like $2 for more pages than I need, and I never have to worry about how inefficient inkjet is. I was super skeptical of Instant Ink but at the low price they ask, it solves the problem of color printing quite well for me.

Edit: once I disabled ipv6 on the inkjet. It caused it to drop its IP connectivity completely, about 40 times an hour. Lol. Took hours on the phone with HP to discover that.
The irony of people in this thread bemoaning humanity, how we can't all just get along, while simultaneously blasting "woke" politics is palpable
Quality has fallen tremendously since the 1990s with MS mice. It seems like this may have been inevitable.
Most serious security researchers use an airgapped laptop with a wireless card pulled or otherwise disabled. There's far fewer ways to compromise a laptop where the only comms are on a USB stick physically transported between two computers, though it's not necessarily impossible.
I don’t personally care for shallow depth of field (it’s become a cliche at this point), but the best phone cameras do a pretty good job of faking it. It’s not yet perfect, but it’s only going to get better. I also like that I can precisely adjust the amount of background blur in post.
How much UVA/UVB gets filtered out from shade under a tree? And how much vitamin D are we getting to make sitting in the shade worthwhile?
> Bash is a user interface.

Meh. That part is irrelevant in the extreme to the discussion.

Fact is that people write `.sh` and `.bash` scripts to get things done. They use conditional logic and loops and everything.

Functionally, it's a programming language with a (useful) REPL.

And this discussion is 100% about how bash is as a programming language.

> Having said that, Bash is my favorite programming language, because it is so limiting, and simultaneously not limiting, because it wasn't designed to fulfill what A Real Programmer(TM) thinks a programming language should be.

Umm... Then, yeah, I have to agree with your self-assessment of not being a "real programmer."

Sorry, but it's obviously true.

You're a scripter. I've known and worked with many scripters. They can do a lot of valuable work and contribute in a lot of ways to various projects. But they're not programmers.

Which is fine. Script away.

> But modern programmers, being wildly unimaginative creatures of habit, think the user is supposed to serve the computer.

After admitting you're not a programmer, you then go on to demonstrate that you don't really understand how programming works. Which I guess follows?

That's so far from the reality, that it's Not Even Wrong.

> That the more you type, and the more hoops you jump through, the more "clever" you are with the "way" you tell the machine to do something, that this is superior.

Programming languages are exactly the level of complexity needed to, with the least effort and most reliability, craft the code that, literally, civilization relies on.

It can't be made simpler. The complexity is inherent in the domain.

> Programming is a mistake. It's a half-measure. A stutter in the evolution of digital computing. We weren't meant to program, ...

YOU weren't meant to program. You admitted that above. Don't speak for the rest of us.

Everything significant in software that has been and will be accomplished moving forward will be created by programmers using programming languages. Your rant against programmers and programming is based on a lack of understanding of what programming really is and how programmers really think.

It's not even slightly about being clever. It's about the act of primal creation. We're effectively wizards of the modern world. We don't care at all about making a machine happy; we care about building things that work. That the things embody complexity isn't the goal, but it is a thing of beauty when it all works together elegantly.
Building a city sounds like a concious activity. But then there is:

> "Congregations such as these probably occur wherever shelter is limited to small patches of habitat, and food is plentiful," Scheel told Quartz.

They don't decide to live nearby others, but there simply is no other place.

The headline should be: Octopuses cannot live everywhere and may settle close to eachother if there is no other space available.
For those who read and understand these publishings, are there any indications of roughly what wattage (and distance from such transmitting antenna/panel) the EMF/EMR starts becoming a problem?
Doctors are a finite resource. Ultimately you have to ration that resource.

You can do it based on social status and wealth (America) or on medical necessity.

Obviously this is HN were people have money so they are upset if they are put on a waiting list.
We don't hear much about the people from trailer parks getting million dollar cancer treatments thanks to the public healthcare system.
„Critical Code Studies“
I don't get why the Reddit crowd cares so much about disliking... Mostly without even a comment or something.

Everytime on groups that share a userbase with Reddit, and on YouTube, you get haters.
You don't know who, you don't know why, they just downvotes and burry your comment and they're not able to comment back.

It kills online discussions, make an echo chamber for the leading opinion, and kills any content that's a bit different.

For exemple, some awesome song about Assassin's creed was featured on YouTube, a few years ago, next to related content.
(Assassin des templiers)

The quality and the realisation were sublime.

But it got tons of thumbs down because it was in French, and haters only want content in English (filtering your exposition to international content was not the point of upvotes and downvotes!)

So downvotes are pointless imo. It's great they get rid of it (and HN should do the same for the quality of the discussion)
All the breathless language about how terrible this supposedly is really turns me off. It seems like every person involved in this debacle is being ridiculously childish
Unfortunately, you have to write for your audience. The audience for this piece seems to want emotional melodrama combined with diffusion of responsibility.
I'd recommend "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt as some pre-work. It's about the psychological foundations of morality and ethics which factor into the formation of religions and rituals, including rituals like college football games.
This is very goofy.

I had no idea I had high cholesterol or high blood pressure. I have a healthy diet and exercise, but it just runs in my family. A checkup found that very early and now I'm on medication that controls it.

I believe they didn't find a change in 10 year mortality, because none of this was going to kill me in 10 years, nor would finding out about it 10 years before my death help very much. But finding out now while I'm relatively on the younger side has a real chance to move the needle.
I'm 39, and the difference in my cognition prior to taking serious care of my health (which also includes daily walks) and after is palpable.
I hate hate hate “equivalent aperture” specs. I don’t mind the FOV being equated to 35mm sensor size but give me the actual Fstop please. Back in the day I shot formats from 8x10 down to 16mm. Nobody ever tried to normalize DOF between formats by talking about fstops until digital photography. Trying to normalize DOF across formats only obscures and confuses what is actually going on optically. No particular fstop (ratio between focal length and physical aperture) has a unique look and yet that is what people that demand equivalent fstops assume and demand.

For exposure purposes, f1.5 is the accurate and most important spec for that lens. All mirrorless camera lenses are specced accurately with focal length and fstop. Perhaps some of the marketing is done with 35mm “equivalent” specs but I’ve never seen a lens that had anything but the actual measurements on them. I’m not sure why people are still referring to 35mm focal lengths when talking about FOV in any case. Nobody is comparing the lens on an iPhone with one on a camera with a 35mm sized sensor. Certainly nobody will use the iPhone lens on another camera.

The main sensor on an iPhone is larger than most phone cameras but still close enough that touting the f1.5 fstop does indeed mean that it lets in more light, has a larger aperture, and has a narrower DOF than many other phone cameras. The vast majority of iPhone users have never shot with 35mm cameras and so wouldn’t have any idea what you’re talking about when it comes to 35mm DOF. I wish companies would ditch the 35mm normalized specs altogether.
Yes, 22 horses died at Berkeley in 2020. Several hundred workers also came down with COVID during that time. The sport is hard on labor and horses.
Digital zoom doesn’t fix the distorted perspective.
That alleviates hormones and animal welfare at least. Issues with allergies, sugar and sat fat remain. But hopefully also there is less consumed im this manner. Part of the problem is the pushing of people to consume quantities via celebrity advertising, USDA guidlines, etc.
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Utterly useless. There's no control group, and they repeated the memory test. Anyone will get better on the second time taking that test.

The fMRI correlations with memory improvement are between a very limited subset of the brain regions and the test results. These would very likely disappear if they properly controlled for multiple comparisons.
It could be that YouTube secretly supports right-wing German political parties, and is suppressing alternative views in the comments, or it might be that YouTube just thinks the world is too cynical and suppresses any comment with a negative tone irrespective of political bent, OR—and stay with me on this—the channel itself may be moderating its own comment sections out of pure self-interest, and YouTube as an organization isn’t particularly interested in the goings on of local German politics. Who can say?
The difference with SAT is that for SAT we actually know the opposite is true - the instances that can be solved quickly are the "rare" kind.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2023.05.28-161235/https://www.nytimes.com...
Rust is winning marketshare because it was built ground-up to take advantage of the massive progression of Moore's Law at compile time. Compiling programs written in Rust would have been completely infeasible 20 years ago, it would have simply been too slow.
Samsung has recently been caught replacing the moon in pictures with a reference image. Discussed on HN less than 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601