skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i just glob over *.default and *.default-release `mkdir -p chrome` and
move it there then check if my user.js has the setting that enables
legacy userchrome (via grep, (useless) cat, and pipe), and if not add
it. wouldnt guix do something similar if it managed my userChrome.css?

i am not sold on the maintainability delta between my script and a
guix one, but i only use a text editor, a terminal emulator and two
web browsers for 90% of my use, so maybe im just too small scale to
run into the maintainability issue it's trying to solve. the main
struggle i have is in making the config files, and guix would only add
another layer to that.

easy to learn might be a valid consideration for me if i didn't
already feel comfortable with scripts of the normal non guix variety,
but the devil i know does fine.
a set of tools that wont fade away, its much harder to believe that
about nixlang than its for bash/dash/sh

i dont have to recreate nix to get easy customized installs, my
installer script doesnt need to know or do anything about derivations,
monads, flakes, etc. it just uses packages from my distro and pulls in
my .config directory. what else does nix do that my script should do?
the software my script installs is probably more supported than it
would be on nix because its on ubuntu, one of the more commonly
supported distros.
Defer has to be added manually and maintained correctly, and often has double call challenges and so on. Automatic behavior on scope exit is less fallible (including e.g. it can’t just be broken by the machine in a pathological patch application), and has fewer logical pathologies such as double execution cases. Defer was re-popularized by go, but I think rooted in a knee jerk from bad c++. The scope mechanisms are better, as discussed and it’d be great to see them in more places.
I found that learning lisp development follows logically from using emacs. To configure emacs you have to use elisp, so you naturally become proficient in it.

That also finally elucidated the staying power of emacs. I don’t know of any other software system that has the same introspective capabilities as emacs. That makes learning and modifying emacs a natural extension of whatever you’re doing.
‘Great news’: EU hails discovery of phosphate rock deposit in Norway
Agreed. The difficulty creep that was demanded by vocal experienced players has made Factorio much harder for newcomers to get into.

Factorio is a brilliant Zen garden and an absolutely terrible real time strategy game. Since the beta there's been more and more biter types and a gradual ramp up in how frantic you have to be to keep up. It's tremendously off-putting and completely opposite to what makes Factorio what it is.

Hopefully the developers realize this at some point and knock it off. Make a 'frantic mode' toggle for the experienced players but don't make it the default. I can handle needed a turret or two at key points but I can't handle needing to race the tech tree to keep up. I don't get why they made the defaults so hostile to new players. I'm not even that new to Factorio but it's still waaaay too frantic with default settings.
Gating is part of the growth playbook from ten years ago. It is considered outdated now, where the idea is to demonstrate value first, as you said.

Gating makes your conversion rates look good, as it filters out prospects unlikely to convert, but it also reduces the volume of users who might convert.
I assumed without reading, this loophole would be the hope that the theorems which can't be proven true or false according to his incompleteness theorem have measure zero and all are of the odd sort which is the Gödel sentence, but it's good to know he thought about the American government as well.

Gödel also has a proof of God:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_ontological_pro...
> If I want to discuss an article, there's Twitter, Reddit, etc.

Most articles don't have a Reddit thread, and it's impossible to view commentary around a URL on Twitter in any kind of cohesive forum-like way.

Also, I don't want to have to constantly be copying and pasting URL's into other sites. I just want it right there automatically.
Google search's death by a thousand cuts
Why is the video 25fps? To make it more "cinematic"? It isn't even 24fps cinematic. In either case, they both look awful in your typical 60hz container because 60 isn't divisible by 24 or 25.

Just make it 30 or 60fps. It looks awful like this.
The US has a secure, jam resistant com link that will be used by the F35 to control a squadron of drones.
I’m blanking on the name right now but it was displayed in a public demo so I’m sure someone else on here has seen it.
Tarsnap just uses S3 for storage. Would it not be cheaper to just use that yourself, and ditch the abstraction layer of Tarsnap?
Safety obviously. Same as how you can't sell a car that doesn't have airbags anymore (barring some exceptions).
Are Engineers Lonely?
My engineer friend is building an AI girlfriend/boyfriend, I am interested in partnering with them but just want to know if its huge problem.
An unproductive $250k/year engineer should be let go.

Probably because the expected level of requirements-understanding, project management, QA process, and maintainability isn't usually given by a group of $20k engineers. But a single properly-educated $250k engineer delivers such a setup in a month or two.

Also scalability and took operation.. good luck finding a $20k engineer to put together a Sitecore or Active Directory system.
If you call multiplying the Fourier transform by a linear function "high-pass filtering" and dividing by a linear function "low-pass filtering", then I understand what you are saying. But I'm not accustomed to calling those high-pass filters and low-pass filters. I think of high- and low-pass filters as multiplying the Fourier transform by a step function (ideally, or some close approximation of such).
Everything is psychological warfare designed to make people consume as much as possible, beyond advertising. Even something simlpe such as a sale (FOMO), or pricing (99 cents).
When setting the background image, I would intuitively set
... bg ${./foggy_forest.jpg} fill ...
As far as I know that would result with the image in the nix store and the path inserted in the extraConfig. Is there a reason to choose one approach over the other in that case?
> Twitter reported in their financial statements that less than 5% of their monetizable daily active users were spam or fake accounts

If a human signs up for an account, and uses it occasionally, but there's ongoing automated scraping or posting using that account for a good chunk of the time - or more specifically "for the majority of the requests" - would we call that account spam or fake?
This is where I’m losing track of what’s going on here. I generally understand the principles from at least the first half of the video, the pinhole camera and lenses and can imagine how it works in real life, but this is blender. It’s not real life. How does this work in BLENDER? Is it because the underlying physics models in Blender are so accurate one can recreate even these increasingly convoluted things in real life?
The OpenAI GPT-4 Bing beta leaks some of its prompts
Was playing with the GPT-4 + Bing beta and it went off the rails. Here's what it said:

The tool `browser` is used to interact with a virtual browser in order to find information on the web. It can issue a search query to a search engine, open specific webpages from the search results, quote useful information from the webpages, go back to the previous page, scroll up or down on the webpage, and open specific URLs.

The `browser` tool cannot be used to execute JavaScript, submit forms on webpages, handle cookies or sessions, or interact with websites in a way that a normal browser would. For example, it cannot add items to a shopping cart on an e-commerce website or log in to an email account. It is a read-only tool meant for information retrieval, and it cannot perform transactional operations.
such as believing that females and males are better optimized for certain tasks
Maybe eventually but the transition period would be decades of pain. And it would be especially ridiculous if self driving makes it a moot point by the time transition has actually happened.
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Why does it matter? We are talking about the fact that ethicists are dangerous because they use non-local moral frameworks and intellectualizing to justify locally immoral actions.

Why doesn't matter if local morality of any given society is moral or immoral when judged in a framework of some other culture?

Every society is immoral from the point of view of some other society.
I once improved a parser's performance a huge amount (iirc, something like 500x) when parsing large (>1GB) text files by mmap'ing the files instead of reading them into a byte array. It's not a magic bullet but it was alright for that application.

Another technique that can only be done with mmap is to map two contiguous regions of virtual memory to the same underlying buffer. This allows you to use a ring buffer but only read from/write to what looks like a contiguous region of memory.
It’s not a car tunnel, it’s a train tunnel. There are trains that carry cars but there were ferries before that. Yes you can drive a U.K. car in France and vice versa, but I doubt anyone wants that experience at home.
This has already been posted several times:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505733

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486486

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477850

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524611
I think the context was perhaps more important than I'd considered to explain the significance of "five-y". The implication was that the fiviness gives something of an intuitive explaination for why some shape had 5 sides. The presence of a √5 does (maybe) do this, but 0.5 definitely doesn't. (Because as sibling comment points out, 0.5 = 1/2 and the 5 only appears due to our (arbitrary, from a mathematical point of view) choice of base ten.
This is how the US does drug busts. When the cops bust a weed grow operation, they weight the entire plant root ball and all even if its entirely immature and lacks buds at this stage of growth.
Elon paid $40 billion to cure Twitter addiction. It worked on me.
I don't see how it mitigates anything. It merely adds a warning for _all_ older code and provides shiny new syntax exactly equivalent to an already popular practice of passing array and its length next to each other. All array-out-of bounds errors that were happening before will happen with the new syntax as well, won't they?
What is most upsetting is that I have trouble biochemically believing there could be anything at all on which to act. MSG = mono sodium glutamate meaning one sodium ion (thing in table salt) + gluatamic acid (1 of the 20 standard amino acids). Every protein in your body, plants, and animals will be ~5% glutamic acid. The instant MSG touches your tongue, it will immediately dissociate into sodium + glutamic acid and would be indistinguishable from another protein source.
This is an easy one. I love Coke. Love it. But, it makes me feel like shit, gives me heartburn, etc. Diet Coke has a distinct taste from Coke, but it’s not bad to me. It doesn’t make me feel bad like I do if I drink too much regular Coke
It’s more hazardous to drive?
You can have the headlights converted. Shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Does this only support English?
If the company is willing to pay someone 250k it means the person is providing them with more value than that. If they successfully replaced that person with a 20k engineer, it would just mean that the 20k engineer is now being exploited vs their contribution, not that the original guy didn't deserve his salary.

I tend to agree with you that FAANG engineers are overpaid versus the work they do. I disagree that the solution is to offshore to people paid less. These companies make more money than God, where should all that cash go if not to the employees that make it possible?

Think of it this way: A waiter in a fancy steak house will make 10x more than a waiter in a mom and pop cafe. They likely have the same skills and put the same amount of efforts in, but their employers bring in a vastly different amount of money.
Usually making your manager look good to their manager is a way of increasing the influence and reach of your team. Being part of a team with influence and reach typically gets you more reward and better work.
Employees aren't investments who owe you something. Employment is a contractual agreement of work for pay and that's it. Anything beyond that is corporate blackmail for the naive.
"Here is a car that is way harder to drive, but as compensation we've given you a branded litter picker."
Are we still talking about not liking the taste of water, or are you more talking about shit like thinking all gay people are child groomers?
Higher end cars have hardware to deal with this. You activate a setting called "tourist mode" and the headlight reflectors shift to make the beam throw symmetrical. On older cars it's a physical lever under the hood, and on newer cars it's a software setting the dealer must enable.
With your proposal, how is the dimension determined from `char a[...]` syntax?

Does it act like an implicit struct with standardized names for the size_t dimension and char* pointer fields?
My ISP actually sent me an email that said that one of my devices have an open TCP 445 port and advised me to fix it. Apparently Windows opens it by default and it can be exploited by some malware.

But I've never received a threatening letter about piracy. ISPs in my country simply don't send those.
I don't really care about the calories, but I developed type 1 diabetes which means I have to use insulin to offset carbs. Sugary soda drinks are not even remotely worth it - one can of Coke has as many carbs as a large slice of pizza or a bowl of rice or pasta. I typically drink unsweetened seltzer water as far as prepared beverages go, or black coffee, but I don't mind the flavor of artificially sweetened sodas. Now when I drink regular sugar soda, it tastes strange and horrible.
How do you know they plagiarised it? Do you own some trademark for it, or just a domain?
Some are, some are not. They are almost entirely like normal humans you see.
If you want to know if its freezing out just look at the water. Is it boiling? Again look at the water. Having the units align with human sense makes quite a bit of sense, I reiterate. Is it 50F? Well, that's quite dandy. Is it 50C? Am I dead or am I fine, couldn't tell you based on that dumb scale based on one particular molecules behavior. To be clear I'm not saying Celsius and Fahrenheit are on even footing, I'm saying Celsius is totally worthless when you already have Kelvin. Also the supposed benefit of Celsius goes out the window when you are not at Standard Pressure, woops!
Yeah even if the bacterium magically took care of gum health, it would need to somehow be able to dissolve tartar (calcium phosphate) without dissolving teeth (also calcium phosphate).
> Like the best ideas, it’s simple and makes sense if you think about it, but it’s still a really interesting framing that the complex machinery of life is really just the most efficient “entropy converter”.

Right? I think this could be a really interesting basis for a sci-fi novel - the first space-faring civilization in the entire universe trying to force every form of life to keep "entropy usage" to a minimum, so they can prolong their own life span.
I think the best wouldn't be asking internet randos. The best would be asking for a preliminary consultation with a lawyer, asking their opinion if it's even worth pursuing chasing this down.
Different country, smaller population, etc but Sweden did it in four years[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
Aspartame and pickled vegetables share the same carcinogen designation. If you are concerned about one then logically you must share the same concern about the other.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230630-aspartame-what-e...
Big Tech is built on open-source. How long will it last?
I'm pretty sure it's now based on the observation that very wealthy and important people in Britain don't have giant blinding veneers.

Americans think that the class terror that forces them to spend thousands or tens of thousands on their children's teeth (and their own) is universal, rather than a norm that we find ourselves locked into now. Americans with anything going on with their teeth look poor or disreputable, and it severely hurts your job chances.

Rich British people are just like "do you know who I am?"
Great example! Managing old or multiple versions of software is actually a great usecase for Guix.
No, that is called reverse causality. The type of people likely to drink artificial sweeteners most are those that are overweight, obese, or have diabetes. There is no insulin response from artificial sweeteners. And as an amateur bodybuilder, I utilize a lot of artificial sweeteners daily to curb my cravings while eating rice, chicken, and turkey to help me cut.

Sweeteners won’t make someone overeating stop overeating. But they can be used to lower overall caloric energy intake and reduce cravings as a tool.
If somebody needs to build an intuition about entropy he could think about simple problem.

You are given insulated cylinder with a barrier in the middle. Left side of the cylinder filled with ideal gas A, and the right side filled with gas B. If given a particle one can distinguish A from B. The pressure and temperature on both sides are the same. Then you remove the barrier and gases mix. Question: how much work you need to do to revert the system into the original state?
Hint: the work is equal to entropy difference between two states.

More generally, if you have proper insulated system and leave it be for a while. All of sudden you will have to do some work to come back to the original state despite energy conservation law holds.
No, the employees are compensated for the time they spend working. My salary is not a profit, it’s an exchange of services for goods. My stock dividends ARE profits, excess revenue disbursed by the company to its shareholders.
Black coffee and tea don’t taste worse than aspartame
How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos?
I like it very much. Downloaded image is unreadable though - much smaller than original paste. If you make the image bigger then background is not visible any more.
“caught red-handed” implies an intent that is not supported by the evidence.

The design of the battery in the 6 turned out to be problematic once the battery reached a certain age. After lots of reports of iPhones shutting down suddenly, Apple issued a software update that slowed down those phones so that they didn’t shut down. They then redesigned the battery and this was not a problem in later models.

You talk about a general slow down of phones when the OS is updated. That is most likely due to increased processing needed in later OSs. The early phone CPUs had barely enough processing to do what they needed to do so the added demands of a new OS would drag them down a little. Over time the cumulative effect would add up. This is not unique to iPhones. I have heard the same complaints from Android users. Fortunately modern phone CPUs are powerful enough that they have the cycles to spare and slowdowns are rare.
> OS will survive without Big tech, I'm not sure it works other way around.

Survive, maybe, but probably not thrive. Big Tech has been a major source of funding of OSS foundations, provider of infrastructure, and employer of many major contributors for decades.
I put this list together for 4 different angles on learning about LLMs: https://llm-utils.org/AI+Learning+Curation
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/what-dental-service...

£300 seems not very significant if we are comparing the US to the UK in this discussion.
If anyone wants to play with a (probably much simpler) blender model of a lens, here's a link: https://studio.blender.org/blog/camera-lenses-with-caustics/

What I've personally always wondered is if you could make a liquid crystal or electrochromatic diaphragm to get perfectly circular bokeh (or maybe even smooth-edge STF bokeh) on demand. Would probably kill the T-stop value when full open due to less than perfect transmissivity though..

I also wonder what would happen if you could substitute an angle-limited piece of glass (kind of like a privacy screen - visible head-on but opaque from an angle) instead of the diaphragm.
I think you are asking specifically about practical LLM engineering and not the underlying science.

Honestly this is all moving so fast you can do well by reading the news, following a few reddits/substacks, and skimming the prompt engineering papers as they come out every week (!).

https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer provides an early manifesto for this nascent layer of the stack.

Zvi writes a good roundup (though he is concerned mostly with alignment so skip if you don’t like that angle): https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-18-the-great-debate-debates

Simon W has some good writeups too: https://simonwillison.net/

I strongly recommend playing with the OpenAI APIs and working with langchain in a Colab notebook to get a feel for how these all fit together. Also, the tools here are incredibly simple and easy to understand (very new) so looking at, say, https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/tree/main/simpleai... or https://github.com/smol-ai/developer and digging in to the prompts, what goes in system vs assistant roles, how you guide the LLM, etc.
Loneliness is rarely related to occupation.
"Decades of pain" is a bit of an overstatement, given that other first-world countries have achieved it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
Every mainstream language that isn't C or C++ is memory safe nowadays.
The main difference there is that the vast majority of drivers already had LHD cars.
I get the impression that they're targeting the easy case first since stimulating tooth growth there is causing what was supposed to happen anyways, with less likelihood of conflict with the existing teeth.

But the article makes it sound plausible that it'd work for normal adults too in that new tooth growth would occur. It's just unclear how/if they guide that growth to a specific area, or if it has to be wholesale replacement of the set of teeth like losing your baby teeth.

Maybe what will happen is once you get to a certain point of dental misery you just get on the medicine blocking USAG-1 and have all the remaining teeth pulled, then wait for the new teeth to grow in...
> To all the EEs out there. PSRR and power supply cross talk is a thing...

Damn, i have to cover my hdd led on the computer case so the neighbours do not see the pornos that i watch. /s
pg changed his message; a while ago he was telling everybody that musk was a genius and we just couldn't see it.
I use a simple inotify script on the receiving FTP server that waits for a new file descriptor to close and then uses rclone to upload it.
Over 100 artists are boycotting concert venues using facial recognition
ACC is simply a must-have for me right now. Battery degradation is massively limited if you don't charge over 80%, especially with the ridiculously unnecessary "ultra fast charging" most phones come with nowadays. And it is still plenty to last through the day.
I had no problem and it was my first time driving in left-driving country. But again, the roads there are fairly simple.
Companies have been trying to outsource to lower-cost developers for the past 20 years or more. In some applications, it works out, but not always. It would seem that marketplace has pretty much decided that the high priced developers are worth it in a lot of situations.
Industrial Civilization Needs a Biological Future