skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" You could travel freely pretty much anywhere, no roads required."

Nope, only in steppe-like environments, where horses are native.

If anything, technical civilization tends to de-fragment environments worldwide. You can drive the same car in Patagonia or Borneo as long as the road is there, and your phone will use the same stack of communication protocols.

Of course, it has externalities. The question is how these externalities can be mitigated. But a humanity numbering 8 billion people can't realistically think of individual self-sufficiency at a scale, and not even tribes of hunters and gatherers, 1000x less numerous, were ever composed of self-sufficient individuals.

We might be more fragile than our ancestors, but we also gained some other forms of resiliency that they didn't have. Humanity actually passed through a bottleneck event about 70 thousand years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#:~:tex....

It would be a lot harder for a single natural disaster to threaten survival of the entire Homo sapiens species today.
911 and the patriot act maybe?

More (unchecked) power always leads to more idealism /s
No, that's the only thing to understand about it! You can't trust anything it says about anything. What it does is emit plausible-sounding information. But we've seen -- I think across every single realm of anything -- that this information includes complete nonsense, whether due to it being trained on people just shitposting bullshit, or due to combining tokens (words, sentence fragments, whatever) in new ways without the benefit of any actual understanding of it.

It can be useful, but it's at best as useful as a smart dog that's figured out how to operate a voice synthesizer, and is also on amphetamines or hallucinogens. I'm glad to see this term "LLM hallucination", as that's how it's felt to me.

I find ChatGPT really useful for things that I can double-check instantaneously (or nearly so), such as doc comments for the code I just wrote, or small unit tests that match the comment I just wrote.

But in my experience, it's worse than useless for writing real code, or any complex endeavor that isn't instantly verifiable/rejectable at a glance. Because vetting plausible looking code -- including dependency specification -- is almost always more taxing than just writing the code or package.json entries yourself.
> We'll never know what happened to this plane,

You've decided the truth is unknowable, no good would come from knowing the truth, and searching for the truth is itself causing harm.
The ones who are excited about these as tools are the ones who are openly inspired and want to inspire however the ones who claim copyright infringement seem to come off as insecure

Yeah yeah, your side are the good guys and the other side is a bit dodgy.
GNU's Bulletin Volume 1 No. 1 (1986)
The expressivity gain depends on what you're left with without the feature. It was hard for me to imagine where the previous comment draws the line around iterators and generators.

An optimizing compiler would need to know what actions are pure in order to rewrite code to be lazy. Python allows so much dynamism, I can only see that happening with a very sophisticated tracing JIT.
I would love to know how Japanese convenience stores can be stocked - even in out of the way places - with fresh, nutritious-ish food that isn't super expensive.

I feel like there must be a huge and hidden (to me) supply chain to make this happen and that's the real story, have never seen this explained anywhere.

Most countries you just get "shelf stables", which implies this "invisible thing" is missing. The stores themselves are just the tip of the spear and I want to see what's behind them.
Hmmmm a butcher would be like a business analyst in the software development world maybe?

Both still put they hands on the product, but in completely different perspectives.

Maybe a store manager would be more applicable?
It is a very interesting reading of American history in which murder as a tool of statecraft ended with the American Revolution, or indeed at all.
I've no idea how to interpret your comment in way that isn't bizarre. You seem to state you think competitive advantage in intelligence activity - and in military activity for that matter, as they are deeply intertwined - doesn't exist.

And that the reason it doesn't is because everyone involved has to constantly leak and brag all their confidential secrets out in the open so they will be considered hireable by other agencies tasked with secret-keeping?

Have I read that right?
Elites that stay elite do so by remaining understated, basing the majority of their reputation on the results of their work, and only sharing their techniques when they know they are in the right crowd.

If the internet knew, it wouldn’t be an elite op anymore.
Hmm, ok, but structs and pattern matching aren’t static types. They certainly don’t offer anything like the kind of type safety you can obtain (with some effort) with mypy or other Python type systems. Mypy is quite similar to Typescript.
> Given that it is mostly unsubstantiated bullshit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
How to Cite ChatGPT
Do you have some examples of the smart one that realize it early and diversify successfully?
Show HN: OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative
Hello folks,

We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files.

OpenObserve can use local disk for storage in single node mode or s3/gcs/minio/azure blob or any s3 compatible store in HA mode.

We found that setting up observability often involved setting up 4 different tools (grafana for dashboarding, elasticsearch/loki/etc for logs, jaeger for tracing, thanos, cortex etc for metrics) and its not simple to do these things.

Here is a blog on why we built OpenObserve - https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve.

We are in early days and would love to get feedback and suggestions.
Here comes the tricky part: "finding it first" may imply you're have more and more false positives as you speed things up beyond crazy. And so, even if you have a "deterministic" model (and no, it's neither "pretty simple" nor "proven mathematical" most of time), it will get fuzzier and fuzzier. Also, HFT is execution-centric, indeed, but it doesn't mean you can't use complicated math models and all that, it's just much harder to do and is more of a computational challenge (which is part of what makes it fun).

Source: hft quant
To be fair, it's realistically not too far off how most humans make "reccomendations" for packages.

Still doesn't mean that it should be trusted, though.
Sure, but lumber is cheap. Hundred of dollars per cubic metre; literally 1% or less the value of the same volume of quality electronics or high-processed goods. That is the point here; high value density goods are so cheap to ship that making your EV battery plant near your car assembly plant is a false economy if you can save just a few tens of dollars on parts and labour on the other side of the planet.
One should be very wary of any blanket assumptions of management roles implying any kind of more seniority than engineering roles. They are different activities, different jobs. That's it. Not every engineer must be made a manager at some point to grow. An engineer can grow in engineering, becoming more specialist in various areas. I wish people stopped to conflate these things.

I know engineering manager can be loads of work. I wouldn't want to do the job my engineering manager is currently doing. I would probably die of boredom in meetings or completely fail, as my brain shuts off during the meetings or something. I want to build things. With code. That does not make me any less of a senior.
Surely Ted believed what he was doing was a great good

Hardly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65867291

In his own journals he wrote that he didn't claim to be "altruist or to
be acting for the 'good' (whatever that is) of the human race", instead
insisting that he acted "merely from a desire for revenge".
Milligram for milligram the pharmaceutical difference is mainly limited to the local anaesthetic effect not present in the caffeine.

Administration is just how you can figure it out for yourself at similar doses.

Go ahead and consume a gram or two of caffeine by any means and compare the stress on the heart and other organs, as well as personality.

Just because it's cheap, legal, and easily available doesn't mean it's safer by comparison.

Also since cocaine users generally consume recreational overdoses doesn't make either one any safer at any dose.

Plus think how many more addicts there are even at much less harmful doses.

Why do you think some of these hard-core caffeine addicts are injecting it anyway, plus handling it as well as they do. Definitely not recommended for anyone who hasn't already built up the tolerance addicts are known for.

Clean living pays off.

To go even more extreme, imagine if there were a nuclear war because somebody who was a little overly nervous pushed "the button".

What drug do you think would be detected if put to the test?
> It's not really a political position, it's more like a pathological insistence that civilization should be destroyed. Kaczynski went as far as saying we're biologically wired to live primitive lives and we're misusing ourselves in perversions that he calls 'surrogate activities', which include science and art. To him, hunting or trying to survive while being hunted in the woods is the perfect utilization of the human mind-body, and we should all abandon society and go do that instead.

Which isn’t crazy if you strip it of its politics and just consider the lifestyle itself.

Many people latch onto what are effectively caveman diets (especially that). And other people justify doing whatever “weird” stuff by saying that it works similar to how we used to do things, like defecating in a squat position instead of sitting on a throne. And indeed, some of the biomechanics are corroborated by findings that tell us that “sitting is the new smoking”.

Then you have the deluge of news about how you literally can’t do anything, ever, in modern society (lightning, food, air quality) without giving yourself X and Y (bad stuff).

That “caveman” philosophy is basically the most conservative approach to living that exists; better the evil you know than the evil you don’t (modern society changing all the time; see for example smart phones which are quite new).

Of course, the caveat to the above paragraph is that we don’t truly know how to “caveman” since we didn’t grow up like that. So it’s not strictly true that it is an uber-conservative approach.

Where anarcho-primitivism fails is that we’re seven billion people on this earth, way too many to go back to hunting deer and rabbits and whatever. The Unabomber figured out that he couldn’t simply make the individualistic choice (see: liberalism) of going out into the woods and start living by himself, because the found out that Civilization would encroach on him. And what’s a hermit got to say to the federal government giving him an Eminent Domain claim or whatever it’s called?

And then he took it in a bad political direction.
Your last paragraph is overstated... by a lot.

About late fees, I found this: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/paying-th...

The daily charge is £15 if you pay in advance or on the same day, or £17.50 by midnight of the third day after travel. If you don't pay by midnight on the third day after travel in the zone, you will receive a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN).

And a PCN: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/red-routes/penalty-charge-n...

If your vehicle is involved in a contravention on the red route, you'll be sent a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) for £160. You need to pay this within 28 days. If you pay this within 14 or 21 days (it will say on the PCN), the amount will be reduced to £80.
People always say that managers work more hours, but I feel like it’d be quite possible to do the job in the time I spend doing my work now. We don’t think it’s normal if programmers work extra hours to get their work done. Why should we for managers?
Is it prudent to use Scala for anything new?
Is it worth using Scala for new projects that don't use Spark? There seems to be a trend to not use Scala for anything new and either use Kotlin for functional programming or use Go where parallaisation is required. PySpark is popular among Spark folks. So, is it worth building anything new in Scala?
Every country has an underclass, the US one is just much bigger proportionally compared to the US one.

This map speaks volumes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
I'm not so sure. It's hard to take a murderer at their word — especially one who is trying to justify their crimes.
Our cities are full of mentally ill people living on the streets. Are
they a ticking time bomb? was Kaczynski?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65867291

His crimes seemed to begin shortly after he was fired from the family
business by his brother for posting abusive limericks to a female colleague
who had dumped him after two dates.

From there he retreated to the Montana wildness and to the cabin he
had built by hand, without heating, plumbing or electricity.

Perhaps we should watch out for socially inept STEM graduates.
If I would become aware of some idea and not as result of someone trying to promote them by murdering people then I have no problem with reading it.
Instead of having been "promoted" to a shepherd?
"Sputnik" is a regular Russian word, which means "one who travels together with another" (s-put-nik s-=with, -put-=travel/road/journey, -nik=somebody).

Victory is Latin word. Russian word for victory is "pobeda" (po-beda po-=after, -beda=bad/something very different from good, "after bad times").

It looks like 5 in the name is from Ad5 component of vaccine.

Moreover, the vaccine produced by Vector is called EpiVacCorona[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EpiVacCorona
I played spore a few years back for the first time and was impressed by how well it held up. I had a lot of fun playing it
This stopped applying since they were become caught.
I remember when Tim O'Reilly coined the term Web 2.0 for a collection of unrelated web development and business practices. I don’t know if his essay holds up.

https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.ht...

Clearly something has changed from Web 1.0, but everyone sees that part of the elephant differently. If your interested in APIs, maybe the moment Web 2.0 died was when Twitter killed its RSS feeds. Technically true, but it doesn’t get the social change.

As a „Xennial“ I’m with you: the blogosphere and independent homepages, loosely joined, was and is for me the truest expression how the Web should be.

(But maybe that is just because we spend our early adulthood in that timespan.)
We know this because we built the LLM and we know exactly how it works.
Those are two distinct capabilities.

Static analysis in Elixir is quite more accessible because you rely way less frequently on dynamic dispatch than Python (or Ruby or JS). You typically know which module you are calling to, structs and pattern matching tell you about fields (which we verify at compile-time) and primitive type information. Things like deprecated and undefined functions are part of the compiler, while most other dynamic languages typically require type systems or linters (or do it exclusively at runtime).

I agree on type analysis though. It is better than nothing but that's not much to talk about. We are working on it. :)
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272409 ("Ted Kaczynski has died", >600 comments)
> How?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/establ...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/valida...
Powers of a 2×2 matrix in closed form
Once ChatGPT was trained on "the internet of 2021", how big is the remaining model? Is ChatGPT effectively a compressed version of the internet?
> Can different style of cow farming be carbon negative?

Maybe, but with much less animals and a mix of animals (not just cows, but ducks, chicken, ..) and mostly vegetable, that's how it's meant to be in nature

Currently animal farms are disastrous: https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+animal+farm+impact+on... total weight of farm animals is 10 times the one of wild animals, which itself is about the same as pets, this is nonsensical
I've long moved beyond Elm, but I'd be surprised is anyone really used reactor. It seemed so completely unfit for purpose and was almost immediately useless if your project was more than a single file. elm-live was simply a requirement no matter how much I tried to avoid adding in extra tooling.
> focusing on German instead of English made more sense in schools where 70% to 90% of the students have a migrant background with "hardly… sufficient knowledge of German."

Sounds like this is more of an immigrant issue than a “should we teach English” issue.
One interesting trend is how they killed off coupons. Now the only option seems to be the store-run digital coupons. These require navigating a (usually) pretty terrible app that makes it hard to use. Manufacturer coupons, that the store can't control, seem mostly gone.

Then, in store, it's often difficult to tell if sale prices require a digital coupon.

Thus, many items are sold at a higher price than the buyer expected.
I had a coworker like that once. The trouble is that no-one but him could maintain it. So, after he already left for another project (within the same company), the managers called him back in to continue adding features to it.

In my view, it would have been better to just spend time to refactor, until anybody in the team would be able to understand it.

That episode reinforced the belief in me that KISS is the best approach in writing code. I try not to write "smart" code but simple, easy to understand, so I can go on vacation or change projects without being constantly dragged into the same codebase.
Doesn't take much to assume that a Source game is full of RCEs.
I think this is an unkind assessment to Kaczynski. What he did was wrong, there isn't denying that, but I think people forget he really was a very good mathematician and that he very likely was a subject in the MK-Ultra experiments without realizing it.

This is not to excuse all his actions as we cannot know really the full extent of the experiment he participated in without a proper understanding of what was going to happen to him and the potential outcomes.

His positions in his manifesto aren't exactly bad positions to take, his actions in bringing attention to it were bad and hurt many innocents.

I think it's possible to condemn his actions while also recognizing his non-violent contributions and the elements in his life that may have contributed to the creation of the Unabomber. After reading about the experiments he attended, it's very hard for me to remove those as a contributor to the Unabomber; they weren't the sole contributor, but I can't imagine having such derision and psychological abuse for 200+ hours without walking out of it maladjusted.

The purpose of such statements I think isn't to excuse Kaczynski's actions, but instead to ensure that we aren't just imagining some video game or movie villain that appeared and the FBI heroically stopped; he was a human being who lived a pretty normal life, and then he changed and became the Unabomber. The latter is extremely sad and appalling given the damage, and I think the latter is made even worse by remembering the former; he used to be a pretty smart guy and contributed well to society.

It's a sad story no matter how you view Kaczynski, but I think that we are worse off if we don't recognize that he was at some point a fairly normal human being, teaching maths and studying maths, who went through a lot of psychological issues, and came out as the Unabomber.
One of the thing that bothers me about such explanations is the inherent bias "post hoc, ego propter hoc" (afterwards, therefore caused by).

People who like such explanations tend to ignore myriads of counterexamples set by people who survived worse, while not becoming serial murderers. I can't even begin imagining what was it like to be in Nazi concentration camps, almost surely worse than whatever young Ted Kaczynski went through. And yet there wasn't a wave of brutal crime unleashed by the survivors once they got out. Instead, there was a lot of art, literature etc.

It is possible that Kaczynski's mind was uniquely predisposed towards terrorism and the experiments he underwent at 17 were the final nudge that slowly pushed him to start distributing bombs 20 years later. Yet he himself maintained that they didn't. AFAIK it was mostly his lawyers who tried to arguing so during his trial - not he himself.

Edit: this is obviously a controversial comment, as I saw it falling from +5 to +1 in a matter of minutes. I would recommend reading up some works by Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychologist who survived four concentration camps. He studied the crushing effects of the camps on human minds in detail; after reading his work, I am almost certain that a two-hour-weekly experiment done on a Harvard campus cannot compare.
Yep, like my current place split between US and UK. US people have to get up early and we end up working late.
The Third Wave ( a Social Experiment )
Submission statement:

Given the comments on the psychological experiments conducted on Ted Kaczynski, I feel that sharing this experiment [again] is worthwhile. The following is an excerpt from the wikipedia page:

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The Third Wave was an experimental social movement created by California high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could have accepted the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War.[1][2][3][4][5]

While Jones taught his students about Nazi Germany during his senior level Contemporary World History class, Jones found it difficult to explain how the German people could have accepted the actions of the Nazis. He decided to create a fictional social movement as a demonstration of the appeal of fascism. Over the course of five days (or nine, according to student Sherry Toulsey), Jones, a member of the SDS,[6] Cubberley United Student Movement sponsor[7] and Black Panthers supporter[8] – conducted a series of exercises in his classroom emphasizing discipline and community, intended to model certain characteristics of the Nazi movement.

As the movement grew outside his class and began to number in the hundreds, the experiment had spiraled out of control. He convinced the students to attend a rally where he claimed that the classroom project was part of a nationwide movement, and that the announcement of a Third Wave presidential candidate would be televised. Upon their arrival, the students were presented with a blank channel. Jones told his students of the true nature of the movement as an experiment in fascism, and presented to them a short film discussing the actions of Nazi Germany.[9]
Aren't the waves destructively canceling each other out instead of amplifying each other?

I usually turn the music down after ANC is enabled because it doesn't have to be as loud once the background noise is removed.
People have been called out and framed „Conspiracy Theorists“ (CT) for saying, years ago, that those government programs are one of the causes of amok runs in the US, repeatedly killing innocent people, i.e. in schools.

Is it now allowed to talk openly about MKUltra, CIA involvement and amok runs? Or do CTs still need to hide, even after media outlets like Washing Post write about that, conforming its existence?