skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curses can be addressed by:
1) blessing everything that matters before you start your ascension
2) carrying inventory in an oilskin sack (which will work fine while cursed, and protect items inside it from being cursed)
3) carrying holy water and/or scrolls of remove curse
4) knowing the remove curse spell
5) certain Artifacts and armor will reduce the effect of curses on your inventory
6) carrying a lot of lightweight junk as a curse "buffer" so that curses will have a lower chance of hitting something critical
7) wielding Magicbane, that blocks 95% of curses.

A lot of this is really just, as mentioned, time spent on planning and execution.
Or more, as a friend of mine once admitted to.

He told me he scaled back because his insides hurt.
Wachtell Lipton “exploited a corporate client left unprotected by lame duck fiduciaries who had lost their motivation to act in Twitter’s best interest”, the complaint alleged.

They made the deal so airtight Elon could not wriggle out after trashing it publicly for months. Sounds like the lawyers, who were working on behalf of Twitter's then-owners deserve every penny and then some.

Elon's impulsiveness cost him tens of billions. It could not have been more capriciously wasted had he set a mountain of cash on fire
>Googling a problem gives you all kinds of results, which you then need to dig through and understand in order to evaluate whether there's something that can be adapted to your use case.

Exactly; search engines give you those blue links and short descriptions of the search results which are not enough for you to grasp what is the website about. I think what search engines need to do is tackle the complexity of going through the results of a search engine. Google page rank seemed like a silver bullet back in the day but the websites which are the most popular are not necessarily of the best quality. What we need is to lower the complexity for casual users when they deal with search results.

On the other hand ChatGPT is like an answer machine that can give you satisfactory answer on your fist try but if not, you need to talk with it, push it and explore what answers it gives you, just like you said. I think ChatGPT type search engine will be more suitable for people who are "lazy" or for the people who don't have time to "Google" and go through search results and look around the web for the helpful and useful information.
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The accusation that Threads is using stolen code is one of the more embarrassing accusation for Musk that he's made. Not as embarrassing for Musk as the fabricated pedophile accusations, but definitely incredibly cringe.

The idea of stealing code for large distributed systems build on entirely different underlying compute architectures just shows how technologically clueless Musk is. Might as well measure productivity by lines of code written. Major pointy-haired boss vibes.
> Yes, that's the point they're trying to make. Malaria doesn't spontaneously generate either.

That's the point they're missing.

These male mosquitos are released as eggs. Malaria doesn't infect mosquito eggs, nor does it infect male mosquitos. Mosquitos get infected by biting (which only females can do) an infected human (of which there are ~2k known annually in the US, having gotten it outside the US and brought it back).

For the genetically engineered male non-biting mosquitos to spread malaria, several things would have to happen, including Pasteur being wrong.
What’s your solution for hosting the archive of the data if you want to share it? That’s a weakness in my workflow.
My understanding is that this is basically how discrete-event simulations work under the hood. You have a frontier of future events in an appropriate data structure (say, a heap) and then alternate between adding future events into the heap and pulling the next event off the heap.

So, modulo several layers of abstraction and a bunch of implementation details I'm glossing over, using a scheduler like this to sort values is just a heapsort :)
The GDPR says none of that. If it does, I'd love to read that section because I've never read it before. It just said you have to tell who you're selling it to and how you're using it.

It's basic human shit. If I lend you a book and you lend it to one of your friends, I'd expect you to let me know; _before_ I ask you for it back. This is basic human decency, (I think?). This law was enforcing basic human decency that companies seem to have forgotten along the way.
My recent TI-nspire calculator had a track pad mouse built in…
ChatGPT is the Killer App that made people notice the potential of LLMs that had been brewing for several years.
He was also contrasting it with C++ which has many dozens of features and a developer has to understand the interplay between all of them to use the language effectively.
It offers to, but nobody has posted anything yet, so a follower-only timeline will need a week or two to get content.
The dots are spread out according to your window size, for my default view there is no line with a lonely dot on it.
Moms for Liberty joined and their first post was savagely ratioed. That's legit.
That's why angular is hated so much. It makes easy things more complicate. In my opinion it's a bad framework. Use a good framework instead! Just because some (or a lot of) frameworks are bad, it doesn't meant that the concept of a framework is bad.
I still don't know why both are so slow. Upgrading my mostly vanilla Devuan boxes costs me a few seconds to minutes and restarts are only to switch kernels.
Almost exactly a year from report to disclosure. I'm sure it varies a lot, but is that a normal timeline for something this severe?
Pictures of your female friends at the beach.

If you leave Facebook for long enough and are a man, it'll start sending you notifications anytime a woman you follow posts something. (I don't know what it sends women.)

That said, Instagram is actually not run like Facebook in my experience, which is most of the reason Threads is part of IG.
Something that's particularly interesting; on Pod Save America, they referenced a study (which I forget right now) that tracked protest effectiveness vs size, and right around the time that twitter/facebook started taking off, protest size skyrocketed while protest effectiveness plummeted.

As it turns out, social media short-circuited traditional methods of organizing. Those traditional methods of organizing, ie, actually knocking on doors and talking with your neighbours, were also the social glue that formed civic groups which did stuff after the protest ended, like voter drives or lobbying politicians, political tactics which actually worked.
I wish there was something like Godot except with a code-centric workflow. Goldilock's Framework.
Oh true. Which kind of demonstrates the penalty for abusing HTML so much that it’s no-longer semantically reliable.
Thats a mere 0.17 AU, inside the orbit of mercury and smaller than some stars:

https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...
Sega promises no third-party blockchain projects for its biggest franchises
I have another one here but it's not very good: https://xeiaso.net/blog/voiding-the-interview-2017-04-16
> That appears to be exactly what has been happening.

None of the Twitter Files involve a government order to censor speech.

There's begging, cajoling, suggesting, implying, etc., but they don't have the power to order in most of these cases, and that's evidenced by the fact that quite a bit of the time the social networks said no.

Do feel free to cite an actual order to suppress speech that we can specifically discuss.
Do you think people living in the places that are disproportionately impacted, who are being used as a test course, and who don't receive benefit in exchange for inconveniences imposed have a reason to be upset?

I think a small, non-destructive direct action, social media push and telling people they can make a public comment on official proceedings is reasonable and appropriate.
Winklevoss Twins Sue Genesis Owner over Cypto Lending Disaster
As a senior my goal is to write that really complex stuff and then hide it behind a simple interface that always works the way you expect so you never have to look under the hood.
Poplar was pretty cool: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/poplar/doc/Mor...

(he and Wadler implemented it in Mesa, so he's got way more technical chops than the average "just a rich guy":
https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/poplar/src/Pop... ; he'd count as a "hacker" IMO)
CSP doesn’t have queues, only blocking channels. Some implementations may provide them on top, as go does.

I would suggest reviewing the Hoare book on CSP, it’s very readable.
But it entirely depends on where you're looking for work. If you're looking for a FAANG-style company, then yes, times are hard.

But that's a small segment of the industry. In most of the rest of the industry, jobs are as plentiful as ever -- but lots of programmers, mostly the younger ones, don't even consider anything that doesn't look like FAANG.
> Twitter, is an (un)surprisingly small fry when it comes to social networks.
By active users, yes Twitter is smaller than many of the other big networks. But by influence, Twitter is one of, if not the biggest fish in the pond. @[username] is everywhere in advertising and news programs. People don't break news on Facebook and Instagram. There's a reason Musk and his backers paid $ 44 billion for Twitter, and it wasn't the revenue per user. It was buying influence.
I'm not a huge fan of these pieces that don't speak to why frameworks are created in the first place.

The counter point to this is that the purpose of frameworks is to turn O(N) problems into O(k) problems by implementing a seam in the code.

The problem a framework ultimately solves is that some teams will choose to use screws, some will use a hammer and nails, some will use a nail gun, some will use glue, some will carve connecting joints, some will use metal and weld, some will take a large piece of material and carve it out, etc. etc. and now you have 50 different ways to perform one task, which is to get the end result of joining two objects.

That means 50 different on-boarding processes, and 50 different design paradigms to manage, 50 different classes of corner cases, 50 different monitoring/operational paradigms, 50 different hiring processes, etc. etc.

Sometime between 50-500 engineers it becomes necessary to properly framework-ize the unit of business logic that product developers work on, like a route, to prevent operational overload.
> You won't be satisfied until you accept that the public has demonstrated that they want low occupancy vehicles by using there dollar

What the public wants is irrelevant; the public wants to eat its cake and have it as well, all the while riding a magical flying unicorn. Low occupancy vehicle use in urban areas is not sustainable, and never has been. There simply isn't enough road space. In the space of 2-3 cars which likely only contain 2-3 people, a bus can carry fifty or more people: https://danielbowen.com/2012/09/19/road-space-photo/

...and you can't build your way out of the problem, because capacity does not increase anywhere near a linear rate as lanes are added: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/21/the-science-is-clear-...

The problem is so bad that SimCity creators had to massively fudge road capacity and parking, pretending that there are massive underground parking lots everywhere: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/x6ao05/simcitys_c...

Climate emissions goals aren't achievable without a significant curtailing in low occupancy vehicle use, as well. The most efficient production EV, a Model 3, gets about 4 miles per kWHr. An e-bike...even a cargo e-bike...will get around 60 miles per kWHr.

Further: we can't afford it. At least in the US, a huge amount of infrastructure hasn't received the maintenance funding it needs, and we vastly overbuilt our road network - paving to everyone's driveway and building more and more roads as traffic increased - without thinking whether the long-term expenses were sustainable. In the near future, bridges are going to start collapsing because nobody wanted to pay for the upkeep they needed and now we can't pay for it.

> We need real solutions (which AVs are a part of) and not people swooning over idealisms.

Aside from the fact that our current road network is based on not just idealism but outright sticking one's head in the sand and not paying the maintenance costs...

There are "real solutions" working just fine in most of Europe and especially the Netherlands and Denmark.

> AVs are much better than personal car ownership and will play a big role in improving transportation.

The only thing AVs "improve" is eliminating labor costs and a potential increase in safety. They address none of the congestion and energy efficiency problems of low occupancy vehicle use, and by reducing the cost, the technology either increases profits or lowers the cost, both of which will lead to their greater use.

Safety isn't relevant in this discussion because people fear crime and rubbing elbows with smelly people who don't look like them. The reality is that public transit is orders of magnitude safer than low occupancy vehicle travel because collisions are far more common than crime, and public transit drivers are involved in collisions with pedestrians and cyclists far less than other drivers.
>14th March 2018 "Read 'Yes Man' by Danny Boyle. Changes everything."

Hmm, Danny Wallace[0] perhaps?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_(book)
Debian had over 324 million lines of code in 2009. How do you propose to audit that in a lifetime?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111281/exploding-am...
I don't think leftists are really that associated with short-form writing, haven't you seen the jokes about "leftist memes"?[0]

They were on Twitter because they left Tumblr, which was long-form.

[0] the joke is they have pages of text on them
can someone explain to me why this is a separate app and not just a view in Instagram? IG has the potential to be Meta's Wechat and this seems like it does that journey a disservice.
> but there are many equally maximalist auto superhighways in the city aren't there?

I don't know about that. Most city highways in the US have a speed limit of 50-55 MPH or less. It's certainly possible to construct roads that allow for higher speeds. Germany has many highways with no formal speed limit and a limit by gentleman's agreement of around triple that.

No one wants to have that literally in their front yard, but many people find it convenient to live within a few blocks of it, and the directly adjacent land is suitable for things like industry and warehouses and high voltage lines and railways, which all have to be somewhere.

> if multiple 53 foot trailers can legally park next to my vehicle with a jet ski on a trailer, next to a public park, that is not a scarcity of parking in my eyes.

Neither is that the place where contractors are racking up parking tickets.

> It should all just be commercial parking only basically.

That doesn't quite work though, does it? Suppose you live there and you're taking home a new kitchen sink from the hardware store, or literally any other heavy object you have to get from wherever it is now to your residence or vice versa. It's not about whether the vehicle is a truck, it's about whether what's in it is too much to carry long distances on foot.

> I think the best strategy is to do a congestion charge

Which then itself becomes a cost of doing business for anyone who can't avoid it, so it gets priced into the cost of trade services etc. even when the customer isn't rich.

Socially it's always better to reduce scarcity than extract rents from it.

> pedestrian superpaths

The reason there is resistance to this is that cars are heavy, so the best place for them is on the ground where you don't need expensive structural support. Whereas pedestrians are light, so you can build pedestrian spaces vertically at much lower expense. Which means there is much more constraint on the space that can be allocated to cars, whereas if you want more space for pedestrians, you can build taller buildings. Which in turn means it makes sense to use the ground level space for the things that it costs more to put higher up.

And if you want pedestrian spaces outside, put them above the road. Build balconies that overhang the street with pedestrian bridges to other buildings at the level of the second story. Have your al fresco dining on the roof -- the view is better from there anyway.
72MB isn't stopping people downloading it. If they later decide to delete, it will be because the UX is bad, or lack of content, or something like that. Nobody says "I use this every day but I need 72MB, delete" and nobody says "this app sucks but it's only 10MB, might as well keep it".
Yes, the state of the industry is a hot mess, but I'm not sure this article rings true. Failing to leverage good frameworks is as big a problem as over using the bad ones. I would point to Rails as an example of an appropriate framework (and Laravel if PHP is your jam). The trouble is so many others are bad, incomplete or defunct, but I don't think the answer is the golang mantra of 'we don't need no stinking frameworks'. Seeing mediocre developers reinvent the wheel, slowly and badly, is super painful and wastes time and money. If you hate the frameworks available to you then perhaps you should consider finding a better ecosystem. Relax your bias and follow the happy developers, wherever that may lead.
SEO, so that Twitter comes up when you search for threads
Don't shoot the messenger, the condescension is Go and Pike's. He pretty much explicitly said he wrote Go to solve the problem of programmers who he considered too stupid to program anything else properly, and his behaviour (both in personal conduct and decision making) has continued this trend of treating his users like idiot sheep who can't be trusted with any language features much beyond 80s imperative programming. It all feels a bit "old man spiteful at kids these days"
Indeed. I have a sinking feeling they realized (or were otherwise convinced) those models are too disruptive to existing businesses and whole market segments, in particular (but not limited to) when it comes to writing code. Or at least that's where it's most obvious to me just how many different classes of companies could grow and capture value[0] that GPT-4 has been providing, pay-as-you-go, for a dozen cents per use. But the same must be true in many other industries.

Come to think of it, it must be the case, because the alternative would be pretty much every player on the market taking the hit and carrying on, or pretending they don't see the untapped value source that just freely flows out of OpenAI for anyone to enjoy, for a modest fee.

As a prime example, I'd point out Microsoft and their various copilots - the code one, the Office 365 one, the Windows system-wide one, in varying stages of development. API access to GPT-4 as good as it originally was[1], directly devalues all of those.

It stands to reason that slowly making the model dumber, while also making it faster and cheaper to use, is the best way for OpenAI to safeguard big players' markets - the "faster" and "cheaper" give perfect cover, while the overall effect is salting the entire space of possibilities - making the model good enough to entertain the crowd, but just not good enough to build solutions on top, not unless you're working for one of the players with special deals.

TL;DR: too many entities with money were unhappy about all the value OpenAI was giving to the world for peanuts, so the model is being gradually nerfed in a way that allows that value to be captured, controlled, and doled out for a hefty price.

(And if that turns out to be true, I'm going to be really pissed. I guess it's in the style of humanity to slow down pace of development not because of ideology, not because of potential risks, but because it's growing too fast to fully monetize.)

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[0] - I mean that in the most nasty, parasitic sense possible.

[1] - I'm talking about the public release. That GPT-4 version seems to have already been weakened compared to pre-"safety tuning" GPT-4 (see the TikZ Unicorn benchmark story), but we can't really talk about what we never got to play with.
Huh, I did not know they were related to sulfonamides like that. If you (or someone else) might like a book that goes into the history of sulfonamides, I'd recommend "The Demon Under The Microscope" by Hager (https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Under-Microscope-Battlefield-Ho...). It was an interesting read.
I like this a lot. My dad had told me something similar at a kart race when we were at a much bigger track - he wanted me to look all the way to the turn instead of just in front of me. I've used that since as it is so easy to waste time over correcting along the way when you aim wrong.
We take your soup and pipe it into chat-gpt 4 and what you get is what you get.

The ever growing field of prompt engineering continues to grow.
Please no, typescript is already complex as all hell.
FastAPI is a joy to use. Tried using `bump-pydantic` and it worked flawlessly. Thankful for the work by this team.
Why the heck would they need an extension to share "Barcelona"
Are we talking the whole city map or like wut
What I thought was amusing was when the wii came out. All the publicity was about the playstation 3 and xbox 360, and the wii didn't get much notice because it didn't have the amazing system specs.

But it was fun with the accelerometer controller and less pixels and mips didn't get in the way of that.
Sounds like an interesting development for AI-based numerical simulation.
Appreciate the focus on making the process of building AI-based simulators simple and visual through the Model Engineer. It will encourage more people to explore and utilize these powerful tools.
We are creating a inflatable shippable greenhouse that can be set in 15 minutes on virtually any surface. The construction method reduces thermal mass loss by drafts by 90%. Structure sizes vary from sizes compatible with urban apartment balcony gardens to larger installs combining multiple structures to cover larger areas.
Genuine question, why are these http links instead of https?
What kmoser said :)

I support your argument about Yubikeys - I myself use them for any financial site that allows it. A lot of companies do use them to check for fraudulent logins. But the friction of it is high enough that companies would much rather take the loss than force their customers to authenticate every time a transaction has to be made. Also, I think until it is normalized in the industry, there is a consumer perception of physical keys being too technically difficult to obtain, set up and manage. Not to mention, all the Yubikeys in the world still don't help if one goes and gets phished/socially engineered :)
That's what I came away with... so they don't have enough resources for treatment... And the police hands are tied? I'm pretty sure they can still arrest people who commit crimes, just not for using drugs.

Also, why was it working for a few years and now it's not anymore? Could it be that the pandemic and economic downturn caused more people to turn to drugs and reduced funding? Ah, they hid that answer in the last paragraph...

> After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs. The country is now moving to create a new institute aimed at reinvigorating its drug prevention programs.
Agreed, just pointing out why parent commenter gets the “1990s/early 2000's game” impression from the screenshot