skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as a computer scientist, I'd urge them to reconsider. :) My intuition is that, given a sufficiently formalized system, computers can help them achieve their goal of understanding and discovering more math, much more rapidly and with compounding effects. Although perhaps there is a risk that any mathematics the computer might "discover" would become increasingly incomprehensible to human mathematicians, in which case the discoveries wouldn't be worth much.

I agree that humans are better at borrowing techniques between fields, but we can't do it quickly, and we can't systematically mine the entire "codebase" for these relationships (hence why "discoveries" in 2020 can combine ideas from 1990 and 2000). Besides, I suspect much of that gap between human and computer ability is due to a lack of a properly formalized representation of the ideas within each possibly related field. To use a programming term, it's a "code smell" if we haven't properly encoded the relationships between two fields. Sure, we can manually identify them, and then build on them once we do. But why did we need to bother in the first place? Wouldn't a formal system have made the relationships obvious, or at least more automatically discoverable?

Large language models have also changed my view of what computers are capable of, and in that context I've been most impressed with their ability to analogize and explain relationships between seemingly arbitrary sets of ideas. It makes sense they'd be good at this, since the premise of training them is to construct a web of weights that's indecipherable to humans but fundamentally enabling to the language model. Stephen Wolfram has been writing about how language models seem to encode a certain "truth" which has always existed but which we've never recognized. This idea resonates with me and I expect models have a lot to teach us about our own consciousness and how we model the world.

But on the other hand, if LLMs are so successful, by definition, at identifying relationships without being given formal representations of them, then why bother formalizing mathematics? After all, mathematics only exists because we can communicate its ideas by constructing the language of mathematics as a sort of amalgam of spoken language and abstractions we create within it. And while the exercise of formalizing the relationships between those abstractions might identify some imprecisions or mistaken assumptions in the existing hybrid of spoken language and formalized chunks of math, do we really need to bother? For an advanced LLM, shouldn't our existing definitions become naturally encoded into its weights during training, so that any emergent formalisms can be poked and prodded when we talk to it or ask it to reason about them? Or will it get stuck on the same imprecisions that we might identify when trying to manually formalize our existing systems of mathematics?
At least in New England, it's a bit of a joke how many houses have "formal" entrances (not necessarily elaborate but obviously designed to be the house's entrance) but everyone just uses the kitchen/mudroom/garage.
> they were all served from the primary websites server

> I had easy choices to block ads for things like gambling and alcohol at the ip level

???
I said I was not making an argument about scraping, just that "copying doesn't deprive anyone else" does not capture the pain point the people building websites complain about.

the rest of what you wrote is a combination of marxism--why can't society cooperate to meet my needs!?--and laissez-faire capitalism--bastards think they can use technology against me, I'll use it against them--neither of which either is a good way to run an economy.
It's cool to be able to compute things at compile time, but one thing that doesn't seem clear from this post is: can macros return code? If so, how? It seems like they can only return values that are computed at compile time, which severly limits what you can do with macros.
I think the idea is reasonable but it's true they mainly apply it when it's convenient. If you delegate authority, your agent shouldn't overstep the implicit role you have given them. For example if you hire a plumber to "fix your sink" and then you come back and he's replaced all your pipes and billed you $10,000 then you would be rightly angry that he didn't get approval for that additional work even if he says that it was part of fixing the sink.
An alternative is to pay the subscription fee.
(To be clear, I'm not saying the author was hyping up Mongo, just that the hype got to him.)
Agreed, they well could have suspended interest and payments for a given time period to be revisited. It would have been difficult to combat such a relief with a given lifetime. That time could even have been as broad as say 5 years in order to get a more permanent solution in place. Likely still would have seen pushback, but at least a better legal footing.

It isn't the SCOTUS role to give people what they want, it's to determine legality under the framework of the constitution.
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Something that I think many people really underestimate is how much crime is done by how few people. It’s incredibly concentrated. We may have this image of a normal person perhaps down on their luck and tempted by circumstances and while this is true of most criminals, it is not true of the perpetrators of most crimes.

For example, according to this article in the NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arre...) the top 327 shoplifters in NYC last year were arrested more than 6000 times.

The same is true of violent crimes. Most people who commit a violent crime are not actually that likely to do it again. Those who do are extremely likely to do it a third time.

Arguably, enforcement should be substantially more lenient for most people and substantially more aggressive for very few.
Rocket.net turns 3: Fully Bootstrapped to $3.1M ARR
> The risk is leaving bits and pieces behind when you pull them off, which is why you want to encourage them to let go on their own.

I thought the reason was if you accidentally apply pressure to the engorged tick, it backflows the potentially lyme-contaminated blood into your person.

They sell special tweezers which engage the head while avoiding the body for this reason AIUI.
If left uncontested, yes, yes, yes, and yes. All of those are ads, offensively and intolerably on things I paid for.

I don’t understand how everyone else seems to be okay with this norm. I dyed the advertisement on my rain jacket black to make it invisible. I disassembled my phone dock and ripped out the glowing advertisement. I sought out a foil-backed sticker to fully block the illuminated advertisement on the lid of my laptop. I ordered custom printed stickers to cover the advertisement on the frame of my bicycle. I ripped out the advertisements embroidered onto my shoes.

As I look around my house, I see sanctuary from our dystopia.
Why exactly would any person be a program on a laptop?
That's just flipping for wealthy people.
I would never be able to be hired as an "AI Engineer" or "Prompt Engineer" despite my extensive AI portfolio because my job title is Data Scientist and the discrepancy would confuse most hiring managers.

Job titles are moving faster than career ladders.
I have had derelization from acute stress but it was never disturbing to me and it went away when my environment changed

Through the years I have dabbled with psychadelics with no downsides or upsides untill I decided to smoke cannabis for the first time , I had a very strong reaction that put me in depersonalization hell, it lasted 4 years , thankfully this was a few months before the lockdown .

I was surprised to learn how many people have had depersonalization from cannabis after just one hit
I don't think it's fair to compel people to do things they don't want to do. If someone does run their business like your example, let society decide whether to continue supporting them. The government should not be able to force people to work.
Interesting read and definitely related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
There are several reasons why it's actually really unlikely to lose important data when you lose power on modern systems.

Firstly, modern filesystems are designed to be robust to random power loss, so it's unlikely that you will corrupt your filesystem in a way that cannot be recovered from. It does mean that some unflushed data would not be written, but it will only affect files that were opened for writing at or shortly before your system lost power. Some filesystems (including ext4) can offer quite strong consistency guarantees if you configure them correctly, though usually stronger consistency means lower performance in some scenarios.

Secondly, the Linux regularly flushes dirty pages to disk anyway (15 seconds on my system, see `cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs` for yours) so you cannot lose more than a few seconds of data in the worst case. This is particularly important for the case of "oh, I forgot to unmount the USB stick before pulling it out of my laptop".

Thirdly, most applications guard against data loss by using some form of write-ahead logging and explicit syncing. For example, if you edit a file in vim and then exit with `wq!` it will call fsync() before exiting, which causes the contents of the file to be flushed to disk immediately. In theory it's possibly that you lose power in the middle of the fsync() call, but it's extremely unlikely. (Of course it would be just as likely that you lose power right before issuing the write-and-quit command.)

The sort of data that is not explicitly synced is where it's not really important to keep the latest information. Think about log files that are appended to continuously, or for example downloads in browsers. Do you really care if you have to restart an incomplete download after a sudden power loss? Probably not.
I can’t believe this is new to me:

> If you’re not impressed, if you happen to think that because you can fire a 250 at your local Bowlero, you can compete on the PBA Tour, let’s make one thing clear. Your local lanes are oiled in a way that helps turn misses into strikes, and when coupled with recent advances in bowling ball technology, have produced an abundance of 300 games among amateurs. But the oil patterns on the tour, unlike those at your local house, are devilishly difficult: the comparison is akin to logging a hole in one at your local putt-putt course, the contours guiding the ball toward the hole, versus sinking a downhill double breaker at Augusta. In other words, there is no comparison.
While it’s important to get both sides, RH’s actions are the exact opposite of what he’s saying there. And your belief that this somehow absolves them and that their anti-FLOSS actions are “misinformation” is incredibly disingenuous.
That sounds absolutely unbelievable to me. Any sources on that? Or even single examples
This is needed, urgently, but I worry about its long term implications. From the article, I think this sums up the general opinion: "economic hardship made him sympathetic, but that the number of thefts had gotten so out of hand that facial recognition was needed."

When politicians refuse to act, or worse reduce safety and penalties, communities lose out and stores close.
Depends entirely on what dark energy does in the future; "never" is compatible with all current observations. IIRC, the shortest interval is still x9 the age of the universe: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%2F%28%283%7C1-0.907%7...
Well, the Bali climate sort of lends itself to that (in addition to the availability of cheap labor to maintain said garden).
It's a bit personal and makes me think of this clip even though I usually try not to post YouTube links like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPwW5V4mhI
I pay for Premium.

I also run an ad blocker, with extra rules to ban content I don't want to see, such as the terrible "shorts" mind-ebola, as well as a bunch of regexes for clickbait titles and a big ban list of channels that is updated often.

SponsorBlock to remove baked-in advertisements and other misfeatures like interaction reminders.

Now I am also using the beta DeArrow extension to disarm the thumbnails/titles a little bit by replacing them with random frames from the video.

I think the hip way to say it is "I'm between jobs" currently, but when I had a stable income source I would do eventual donations to channels of my interest, which according to some creators even a single USD is way more than the average lifetime return of a single viewer due to ads/YTP.

The only reason I haven't subscribed to Nebula / CuriosityStream instead, which seems to be a much healthier platform, is precisely because they advertise it so much. Also because I do appreciate more entertainment-y videos sometimes, not just edutainment.
All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
The Venn diagram of people concerned about discrimination against marginalized groups and people concerned about being asked to get inoculated against an endemic virus is two discrete circles.

Also funny how the COVID vaccine card thing never seemed to pan out anyway. I can't remember the last time someone asked me for proof of vaccination...
That sounds very interesting and fair but way less profitable than just selling ads, so it'll never happen under capitalism.

It's easy to forget that in reality it's almost never a case where we "can't find alternatives", it's that they are incompatible with profit seeking.
I dispute and resent this. Yes, maybe 10 years ago, but with 2 private trackers, a small server I run at home (seed boxes are good too, up to you really, I like home NAS) plus the *dar ecosystem provides the bots. I type one line to discord and have 4k, commercial free goodness in less than 5seconds.

Edit: for the curious I have a Roku 4k stick (so cheap) and a cheap 4k 50inch. I can queue entire seasons with *dar and Requestrr. Merrily, merrily, merrily, pirating is but a dream.
People are downvoting you. But 'pandering' to authority is a valid point if the other site does an ad hominen (These people are not technical, don't REalleY understand what they are talking about)
Why would it so obviously be static electricity instead of heat? Or why not both? Or something else?
These resources may help. All effort you put into better communications will pay you back for the rest of your life. This is the single most critical general skill for success. Good luck.

Smart Brevity (Absolutely love this one! From the founders of Axios News. Also a TEDx talk.)

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (excellence for presenting).

The McKinsey Way (Good info on structuring material.

TED Talk: 4 Steps to Communicate Anything Clearly, according to a Scientist who teaches quantum physics to kids. [1]

Presentation Zen blog, videos and book. [2]

[1] https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/4-steps-to-communicate-anyth...

[2] https://www.presentationzen.com/
A non-trivial amount of effort has gone (and is going) into this, see the Hipify tool.
Yes it's quite a bad decision. Interstate commerce shouldn't mean "any commerce" but that's how they now interpret it. They might as well say that since breathing affects the motion of air which could affect businesses using wind power around the country that it is subject to "interstate commerce" restrictions.

(This also means Congress wouldn't be able to pass laws around workplace regulation, minimum wages, etc. for any business that operates within one state.)
Ask HN: Is anyone working on a Reddit archive?
Although I disagree with most of the criticisms leveraged towards the platform, I still readily depend on it for a lot of day-to-day resources and general questions, many times less technically oriented.

While I wouldn't mind losing the system there in the long run, I think the state of posts before this upheaval was very valuable as a reference.

Like the title says - has anyone done anything like a Reddit "takeout" yet?
He did say he's not an expert. If anything it's meant as advice for others with small projects.

"I'm trying to stay humble. Mongo must be an incredibly big project with lots of nuance. I'm just a solo developer and absolutely not a database engineer. I've also never had the opportunity to work closely with a good database engineer. However I shouldn't be seeing improvements like this with default out of the box PostgreSQL compared to all the things I tried over the years to fix and tune Mongo."

But I would not assume that people in bigger companies are always experts in what they deal with either. It kinda matters how well something performs in non-ideal scenarios.
This isn't about network connectivity. It's about cells connecting to the BMS. I don't know if the title is clickbait or if I was just unfamiliar with the automotive jargon.

> Volfinity delivers a reliable interface solution that connects cells to the control board in an electric vehicle battery module, eliminating the need for daisy chained wires.
> turns out I don't immediately know how to distinguish

Atom feeds will almost always have <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> as the root element. In some cases they may use namespace prefixes but that tends to be rarer and less interoperable.

RSS feeds have an <rss version="2.0"> root element.
High tuition rates are caused by the collapse in state funding for higher education. There is no correlation with loan availability. This has been debunked countless times.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-hig...

Historically, funding was tied to tuition caps. These had to be removed when states cut funding to have balanced budgets.
> It's been absolutely awful for everyone.

It only became awful for me when people started publishing pure ESM packages; `npm i node-fetch` suddenly began resulting in broken scripts and I had to learn why. Prior to that, I happily used CJS outside of the browser and what I suppose is ESM in the browser (the `import` syntax provided by bundlers).

> a different spin IMO than a "advocated a moderate approach".

He said, "If your module target the Browser only, go for ESM. If your module target Node.js only, go for CJS."

This is moderate compared to the "Pure ESM" approach. The fetch API is built into browsers so I don't see why anyone would use `node-fetch` outside of Node.js, and yet the maintainers of `node-fetch` went Pure ESM anyway. Also that GitHub issue is titled "When will CommonJS modules (require) be deprecated and removed?" and his response was "There is no plan to deprecate CommonJS"[0].

0 - https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/33954#issuecomment-776...
> God forbid the man is allowed to speak directly to the American people instead of the media's portrayal of him, which is highly inaccurate.

He is allowed to do so.

He is not allowed to violate YouTube’s platform policies while using their platform. He can, of course, host his videos on his own infrastructure (or those interviewing him can host them on theirs.)
To add to this, it frustrates me when people complain about institutions being "undemocratic" and then get upset by the Supreme Court upholding the authority of congress.

I get that they are striking down laws that might be good things. But keep in mind that we are all guilty of picking and choosing our justification when it fits our side.
His biggest liability will be his stance on vaccines. It's too nuanced and he's already been misrepresented too much. Telling the average person anything except "vaccines save lives" is already a bit like telling a child that Santa Claus isn't real. The only meaningful response you get is, "ARE YOU CALLING MY MOMMY A LIAR!" And that's only about one in five -- the other four will just give blank stares.

People were able to hear Trump give a nuanced view on abortion in 2016 because he had never spoken on the topic before-- certainly not as a Republican. Kennedy has already become famous for being anti-vaxx, so he'll be seen in that light regardless of what he says. But his family name and personal charisma might overcome that. We'll see.
Interesting, I view Dawn as name-brand, maybe premium product and thought it was well-regarded, though maybe that's all those advertisements with oil-soaked animals getting cleaned up doing a number on me.

Never had a complaint or noticed a residual odor, though.
I can't tell if you mean that, but there is actually a strong argument for it, even while to some people it sounds like a hilarious joke.

Since we have machines and mass production an knowledge of biology and soil and weather etc, the resources it takes to provide at least staple food are now very little per person compared to history.

I would LOVE it if part of my taxes were used for free food for all.

Instead, we're all paying an extra 2.5 to 3% tax on every single transaction in our lives to the credit card companies. Now that's a hilarous joke.
What was that one that had something about “church of the screaming electron.” Wish I could remember the name.

Many are clamoring for a Reddit killer. Maybe just need a Reddit model killer. Return to multiple forums, smaller and more specialized.

Maybe part of the reason why people are increasingly at each other’s throats is because, online, everyone is subjected to everyone’s opinions. This leads to “Nancy “seeing “Bob” write an opinion about sexuality/religion/politics which infuriates her and she sends off a tweet storm to avenge herself, directing attacks onto Bob and his like. “charlene” sees her compatriot being attacked and launches a tweet storm at Nancy and all her followers which then “Charlie” sees and can’t believe the level of stupidity and hate and intolerance in the world so he sets out to make it right… by launching a tweet storm which then is seen by etc etc.

Also, I think they’re used to an idea that the internet was like Las Vegas. What happens there stays there. Not so, now you have a bunch of angry people slinging electrons at each other, many of the just absolutely floored at how stupid and hateful other people are, their eyes are opened, they go into work or their family function with this knowledge and launch a tweet storm, or a brick, but in the “real world.”

Like squabbling children or hen pecking, a little is necessary but sometimes you have to separate them before they destroy each.
Wow, this is a hugely reductionist and patronizing take. You really think there weren’t lower class people choosing not to drink, or to drink less?

I’m hoping you might simply be biased by the fact that most of what we know about history, and even in more recent times most of what gets mindshare, comes from the upper class.

For one, many religious movements across the world preached against alcohol use - and while you can argue in some cases the doctrine was set by the upper classes, that doesn’t hold as much water when looking at the many popular Protestant movements which were pretty grassroots. Temperance in the US was hugely driven by middle and working class women, not just elites. And alcohol use was highly controlled by such elitist movements as Leninist Russia.