skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are the upsides, what are the downsides if Ukraine still loses, or gets split up like Korea, anyways?

Is the net balance in favour of supplying weapons? This is the type of analysis I've not seen done yet across thousands of articles, essays, blog posts, etc...
Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine
That GIL debates is never ending. If we had some demo about multi-interpreter for concurrency, maybe we could at least decide which way to go.
You can't crowd source mil-spec ICs. Many have no commercial equivalent and even when they do they often use unusual packages that can't be sourced anywhere else.
Fun fact: the order of type qualifiers (const, volatile, restrict), type specifiers (char, int, long, short, float, double, signed, unsigned) and storage-class specifiers (auto, register, static, extern, typedef) is not enforced at the current indirection level. This means that the following declarations are identical:

long long int x;
int long long x;
long int long x;

typedef int myint;
int typedef myint;

const char *s;
char const *s;

const char * const volatile restrict *ss;
const char * volatile const restrict *ss;
It makes sense, landlines are in the minority and are presumably unprofitable now. I guess we’ve reached the point to where even the majority of the elderly have cellphones rather than landlines.
Please don't throw around the word "stealing" so loosely.

Scraping data from a public website is not "stealing". It might be a violation of the terms of service, but then you have the whole issue of click-through (formerly shrink-wrap) licenses and contracts of adhesion.

If someone isn't vetting you and potentially signing you to a more meaningful contract before giving you access, for free, to data, then using that data for any purpose whatsoever (except republishing it or derived works, which might, depending on the nature of the data or the derived works, be a violation of someone's copyright) is so far from "stealing" that using that word is wrong, and I suspect intentionally inflammatory.

That's why Elon limited access, rather than going to the police to file charges for theft, or suing over copyright violation or breach of contract. Not to say he absolutely couldn't do the latter, but it's hardly a clear win.
It’s always really easy to armchair criticize using versions of, “why weren’t you prepared for every contingency at all times?” And I see versions of that in the comments. Supply chain is really really really hard. Keeping it warm for decades is really really really expensive. Especially if you’re not churning out 50 million of something every year.

Though I imagine there are valid criticisms if we had all the details. “They didn’t think to preserve X specimens.” “Y software was lost on a tape drive somewhere.” “Z blueprints got improperly stored inside the Ark of the Covenant.”
Animals can detect prey/predators by sensing water pressure changes from their movement.

Some water-based animals can detect electric impulses from muscles of their prey/predators.

Here's some introductory text about shark senses: https://www.sharktrust.org/shark-senses
I was a big cryptic crossword fan when I lived in the UK, and turned my nose up at American-style crosswords as being too vanilla. But I finally got into the NYT crossword after living in the US for a few years, and now I love it. Clever constructions and wordplay like this example are the reason why.
I've had the opposite experience under Linux.

My old nvidia 570's drivers went into severe bitrot. Basic stuff like screensavers and desktops broke badly, and games were flaky. The card is still more than powerful enough for what I used it for.

I switched to AMD, with open source drivers. I get windows-level performance on AAA (and indie) games in steam, and zero compatibility issues with the rest of the Linux ecosystem.
> But with the internet, you can find the absolute best book or video or tutorial in the whole world that blows your local teacher out of the water.

I’ve done a lot of mentoring, including through some formal programs.

One of my biggest challenges has been students/mentees who find a very convincing blog post or video from a confident, polished writer, then mistake that person’s confidence for absolute authority on a subject.

The worst example I can think of is the world of JavaScript training influencers. These people produce courses and training material for sale, then heavily use social media to promote their material as the canonical source of truth in the field.

These influencers can be very persuasive, confident, and relentless in their advertising. They have an incentive to present their material as flawlessly correct and exaggerate or invent problems with other ways of doing things.

The result is juniors who have taken some overpriced online JavaScript course who are utterly convinced their knowledge is superior to that of the 10-plus years of experience of people around them. They’re off on some tangent trying to rewrite part of the codebase in some new framework/tool/language that their influencers said was the “best”. They won’t accept that there are multiple ways to solve problems or that some times the correct engineering solution is to use a simpler framework even if it’s not trending on Twitter.

It’s almost a rite of passage for some juniors to go all-in on their preferred internet sources and assume that what they read is superior to the real-world experience of the engineers they work with.
As always, Web Archive comes to rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20230701142059/https://jollyroge...
Just don’t give the AI your payment information.
I would like to learn how to set up a Python Docker environment on my personal computer. YouTube videos are all over the place. Is there a resource for finding rated personal teachers?
>25% of 40 year olds are not financially attractive mates.

Is this a peculiarity of the US? Income was never an issue when i got the hots for someone...especially when things turned into long-term commitment.
In fact, quite the opposite.
Would love to hear that story!
Lying is too often cheaper and more effective than honestly building something useful and compelling. There is also the background noise of so many competitors and other things, folks feel compelled to exaggerate to build name recognition.

Then there is the fact that we consumers struggle to maintain and communicate a blocklist of bad actors.

And even good actors can sell out or slide into mediocrity.
It is quite rare to need an actual division instruction; for the majority of cases you would simply precompute the modular inverse and use that with multiplication.

Non-constant modulo can often be computed by checking for roll-over when incrementing (or just computed in a similar way to division)
This is the sprinkles on the icing of the five teir cake why C scares me. Thanks for sharing this, I'm sure it will help someone but I sincerely hope the never write C again.
the blog is slightly outdated — 3000 is out of beta and can be used now. Here is a fun game built with it: https://replit.com/@slmjkdbtl/Bean-Survivor
Maybe people are just aiming too high. Sometimes you have to know your limitations and know where you fit. Not everyone is a high achiever and not everyone thought education was going to deliver a better sociology economic potential for them. It’s unfortunate that society today misleads youth in thinking they can make their own reality and that there are shortcuts to success for all. Some are lucky but most are not.

You can let the river current take you where it may, or you might plan and prepare do that you may land on a desirable bank. People have to take some control over their lives if they want to have some self determination.
With an AI you also get a feel for what they typically know and what they'll probably fail at. The limitations are mostly consistent, at least on a per-model basis. Even more so than humans, since they never grow or learn anything new.

I feel like I've learned a ton of new things from GPT 4 in terms of software development recently, while also feeling I've been stagnating in my job with nobody to learn from. It's just so easy to have it explore alternative approaches or have it structure things in ways you may not be comfortable with yet (and would thus otherwise avoid) but would be better in the long run. It has the breadth to show you all that's possible while reducing the entry effort for learning to near zero.
You are mixing that up with Debian
Munger was referring to Li Lu[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Lu
The way conservative distros define "stable" is part of the problem. For things less than 3 years old, going for stale versions often runs counter to "stable".
I fail to understand this argument. If your friends are close enough do you need a big corporate network to share content/thoughts?

If they aren't close why do you care?

Alternatively, what would make more sense is to participate in communities gated by these networks but then it's your choice to be there.
I'm talking in terms of grief, and sounds like you are talking productive units.

I was considering Fermi's words - he said something along the line that he knows he is going to die and all his experiences are going to die with him, and he found that incomprehensible. What I'm saying is that adults have friends and are breadwinners, the impact of an adult dying on the world is so much greater than the loss of a young child.

a pre-covid example of how anti-vax misinformation kills

The other thing - the Wakefield/MMR story: the self-serving fraud published his fake study in 1998 and it has been debunked ever since. The measles vaccing came to market in 1963, its safety profile is known. Anyone who loses their child over a skipped measles vaccine, that's a case of "fuck around and find out". Also, measles are a contagious disease, anyone nearby who has HIV, an organ transplant, is of advanced age or simple was unlucky enough for their measles vaccine not to take is at risk as well. And there is sequelae, especially sclerotizing panencephalitis, incidence 0.1 % or thereabouts.

Skaphismos is too good for Wakefield.

Not sure who "the government" is where you are

The government of the US has declared the Covid emergency over. No mask mandates, no ventilation standards, no paid sick leave. I'm lucky enough to have a single-occupancy office and work in a well-ventilated environment. Many others are not, and meanwhile you hear news like hospital facilities on Okinawa overflowing because of Covid combined with other respiratory diseases (there's good reason to believe that Covid affects the immune system).
And been replaced with a zillion microservices with gRPC interfaces. Not sure that's an improvement.
Calling back never works for me because they always use spoofed numbers. This is why blocking is ineffective.
"Something went wrong. Try reloading."

having normal user account throttled in desktop browser the whole day today so far

great job twitter !
Good point. I’m mostly talking about following the phone tree (the vehicle extended warranty people needed you to hit 1 to get to a human). Definitely a good call not to just mash numbers.
I agree that Witcher 3 doesn't count as "current gen" anymore, but it wasn't meant to represent that. I picked my examples to show that we've seen high fidelity games throughout the last decade. All of those games pushed the boundaries of what's possible in some way and I don't think we've seen a decline of that at all.

There are just so many more games now that it might seem like that.
Then they too could call themselves an AI company!
“Minimalist Piano Forever” by Mouse Reeve
At least no humans are harmed in the process.
> From where to where?

We have come a long way from a time when dynamic languages like Perl, Python, and others were not yet prevalent. Back then, Lisp stood out as a unique problem-solving tool compared to languages like Pascal or C. However, today we live in a world where we have highly capable lisps and dynamic languages that allow us to explore problems quickly and with less verbosity. In this newer world, it seems that younger generations are not inclined to deal with s-expressions. I don't believe it's solely the marketing of other tools that has made them the go-to choices.
More sympathy wouldn’t hurt. The folks at Deno surely have learnt a few things from such an experience.

Keep throwing rocks if you or your org haven’t overlooked something in the system you work on.
Elderly care in the US is bound to skyrocket as people have less children and more elderly are alone.
Just wait until you see how many of us can't afford houses and will be destitute at 60
I ha[d] a bookmark folder with about a dozen twitstreams — no login/acct. I'm not signing up. Too bad nitter is broken, as well.

With all the public officials on Twitter (and FaceBook) publishing "public-facing" information, I'm surprised both are allowed to be/remain walled gardens.

To do my business taxes this year I had to DEMAND paper form acceptance, which was begrudgingly accepted once I went, in person, to the tax authorities [they want you to provide all sorts of tracking JUST TO FILE STATE TAXES, under the auspices of "two factor authentication"].

As a technosophisticate that intentionally avoids email and doesn't carry a cellphone... I weep for what my public-interfacing world will yet become.
Mostly just economics, is my wager.

In a classic agrarian economy, having a spouse and making children works out -- more children = more hands = more work done = more food or more product to market.

In a modern "pure" capitalist industrial/service economy, the economic model doesn't pay for the cost of the reproduction of the labour it depends on. So not a surprise when people do the same cost-benefit analysis for themselves and choose (or are forced) to have no children, and to not bother with marriage as a result.

The no-children "choice" often also ends up with no partner -- married or not. I personally knew several women in their late 30s and 40s who ended up leaving partners or leaving the dating scene because the men they were finding were not interested in or capable of being fathers. On an aggregate scale this adds up to a phenomenon.

Some advanced capitalist nations have gotten around this through high immigration rates. Others are attempting to get around it with debt to finance social programs or stimulus etc. In both cases it's really just "shooting the puck down the ice" so to speak. The next generation or the one after has to deal with the problem.
I learned a few new things, but it would be more helpful if this had info on whether these are standard and, if so, which standard they are a part of.
We also want the expertise to design and build in house in case politics change and we are no longer friends with whoever is making it
The attack volume is also mentioned to be only 10x normal traffic. For a DDOS attack, that doesn't seem like a lot... this type of spike could happen naturally to many web servers.
You’re both right. Aunche said that a copyright strike requires a valid DMCA complaint. A copyright owner can have material removed without a DMCA takedown, but it does not result in a copyright strike.

From google:

> Also, Content ID claims don't result in a strike.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000?hl=en
Universal Analytics is officially replaced by Google Analytics 4
Subscriptions are a scam. I am actively consolidating my payments and shifting to next best alternatives that give me one time pay options or open source and contributing there.
I appreciate this post-mortem. It's brief, direct, and shows they thought about their architecture rather than only scaling the DB:

> The start-up payload will be cached across the globe
Having the hots and marriage are totally different things for most people, I think.
Without a deeper dive it's entirely possible that decades ago more people were living in sham marriages for the sake of appearence and fewer people today feel the need to do so.
Far Cry 3 was miles better than the first two. In fact it was because of the success of 3 that every later game was just a copy of it, and the franchise stagnated.
The chart is just another "wtf happened in 1971" moment.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

What happened in 1971? The Nixon Shock, which is when the dollar stopped being convertible to gold after it became evident that the US did not have the gold it claimed to have.
In fact, from YouTube’s point of view, if they are intolerable enough you can pay them for premium.
When you're on the hook for alimony when your ex-GF leaves a toothbrush at your home it makes some think twice.
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-hgv

The cutoff is 3 tons loaded. The heaviest EV is 1.5 tons (the GMC Hummer EV). Many come in around the weight of a gas pickup truck.
And unfortunately it’s missing a lot of technical details. I mean they say this is “ChatGPT”, but if it is its not a very good implementation. It doesn’t appear to generate content on the fly, and instead works from a pre-done script? However, I may be wrong on this, but there’s genuinely not any information beyond feeding a “superprompt” to ChatGPT.
Source-available is not open-source; I know people care increasingly less but having access to the source is not enough for it to be "open".
Trafficking and abuse are a problem in Amsterdam. But there is good reason to believe that the problem is a bit smaller than in jurisdictions where prostitutes have to hide from law enforcement.

(There have been several studies evaluating the effectiveness of Dutch regulation, but comparing the relatively accurate numbers from the Dutch police force with the guesstimates from countries where prostitution isn't legal, means that conclusions are pretty soft).
Just in case other people who have AMD GPU and run Windows have the same needs as I have, that is, to train or run machine learning models, please checkout torch-directml and tensorflow-directml.
This comes down to the new in news.

That the Hanford site is contaminated is not news. So there won't be much continuing coverage.
The workers are sterile.

Sterile drones would be counterproductive.
I think this is one of the biggest sales problem for any online service. People will not think about the actual value proposal, but instead compare it to things that are extremely free or cheap. Pay for Fastmail? Why would I when Gmail is free? Pay for Kagi search? Why would I when Google is free? Pay for a newspaper subscription? Why would I when they want the same monthly price as Netflix, and I watch Netflix every night.

My question is why do you compare? Just because both things are on a computer or telephone screen? I've never heard people compare with other things they purchase. Why would I pay for this cup of coffee when I get 15 minutes of use from it, when there is so much free content online? Why would I pay for this restaurant meal when I get several months of entertainment on Netflix for the same price?

People will agonize for weeks over a $5 or $10 subscription, but outside of the digital they won't think about spending the same amount on parking, a pint of beer, etc.

Since we have the idea that everything on the computer should be free, we get upset over the slightest annoyance and cancel/decide not to continue the service. But is that rational? Like people are itching for the slightest excuse to not pay.

YouTube has an enormous amount of entertainment and also educational content, like videos on how to fix things that have personally saved me at least hundreds of dollars. It's a great value IMO.
People inevitably convince themselves that DDOS-levels of traffic are unrealistic until they’ve actually been attacked a few times.
I've always wondered why I had a hard time finding a good mentor.

Now that I'm competent and experienced, I get it: I have no time to mentor people.
I have a plan to bring these numbers down AND horrify the people who think this is terrible:

Mass group marriages!
I don’t even bother with blog posts anymore unless they are new information and in that case it’s often easier to use Edge and Bing chat to interrogate the page directly. It’s far better than skimming or ctrl-f
My experience of it was actually opposite. I first started from Twitter, trying to piece together something from the chaos of tweets, but then I went to an actual news site which had a nicely packed timeline with latest action and had more accurate and more up-to-date information.

In theory, Twitter should be that real-time news feed from these kind of events, but it doesn't actually work. Signal-to-noise ratio is just very low.
Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it
Turns put he is a crook
If a medication is incompatible with a person's specific biology, they don’t see improvement (or their health declines). If a function is described incorrectly, you won’t see improved functionality (or you’ll see bugs). It was incompatible with the syntax/compiler/the rest of the code.

Though this one won't, LLMs will cite references if asked. They’ll also provide step-by-step rationalization (though they don’t think in that way). Just like Wikipedia, you still have to check those references to verify.
> I think the true reason for this is that software is orders of magnitude more complex than civil engineering - and everything you build is pretty much a whole new thing.

This is a lie software devs tell themselves to justify producing a shitty product while simultaneously patting themselves on the back for the brilliance they must posses to navigate such wondrous complexity.
Like the twitter url right now.
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/TVPWD
e.g. I now [MUST] ignore all HN posts linking to Twitter (as I do not have an account, and nitter is broken by recept API changes).
That’s a great example of what I’m talking about: it would be the perfect place to bring in a react-svg module. Vast majority of sites don’t use sparkline so the SVG stuff is unused.
I don't like being bullied into a subscription by out of line ads. The subscription doesn't add any value. YouTube still fails to create a viable business model that doesn't depend on bullying.
My parents live in Richland. To get to my parents I drive past the Berkley Pit in Butte, MT, Anaconda's Smelter cleanup, Silverbow Creek cleanup, Clarkfork River cleanup, and the Milltown Dam cleanup supersites.

A gaint pit in the ground is a bad idea.
Good twit is good.
This article was already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855331 (410 points | 4 months ago | 176 comments)

But that link no longer works.
Author here. I'm open to feedback and happy to answer questions.
They all are.

Edit: Please point out even a single Politician that wasn’t a crook. I’ll wait.
> I did a sloppy job of gathering some of them in this post (in no particular order) with even sloppier short explanations

I wonder why developers tend to be so self deprecating
Not Hanford, but in 1958 a radiation excursion happened at Y-12, and in that case, it was storage drums that had corroded, so the bottom came off. That's just one example of how this stuff can get in the floor.
> And that use case is gaming on Windows, which supposedly is the best supported case.

I’m being a little tongue-in-cheek here, but the best supported case for AMD is gaming via console: AMD provides CPU/GPU for the current generation of both the XBox and PlayStation consoles.

Which suggests to me that they shouldn’t have too much problem supporting their hardware on Windows or Linux. But that’s outside of my area of expertise. Maybe they need to spend too much engineer effort and time supporting the consoles at what’s probably a pretty thin profit margin?
Kind of astounding to see Google have such a rough transition (no historical data, confusing interface, etc.) for a product with almost 20 years of history.
Unless they make the ads part of the video itself by re-encoding it on the fly with the ads inserted, there will be a way around this. Instead of blocking the ads, the ad blocker just needs to download the content anyway and run it off-screen.