skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part-way through I thought, oh no, this is another overwritten thinkpiece that will ultimately conclude with "you see, the secret message of this art is ... capitalism is bad".

But no, the story here is more interesting. I don't want to do it a disservice by saying there's a discrete "point", but it hadn't occurred to me that the spirit of Miyazaki's films could only be arrived at by somebody who both retained enough of a child's sensibility to spend all of his life on animation and accumulated enough of an adult's sensibility to do so, apparently, to the effective exclusion of much of those extra-vocational things that are usually said to make life enjoyable. Except for making ramen, at least [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc
I think they're asking, why would you spend $20+ on a board like this when something like a Lolin S2 Mini[1] is $4? There are millions of ESP32s out there... What makes one from Arduino™ any better?

1. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mspsSKa
and there's a compatible kit available: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/tynemouth-products/min...
Sure. Get over it. I did. You can too.
I dunno; a farm-use electric with range for a day or two of work plus a trip to town is probably a slam dunk for many working farmers, especially with the other electric benefits.
I’ve been using True flavor packs (2 per refrigerated gallon of water), alternating between lemon and lime. It’s just natural crystallized juice. Will likely never go back to just drinking unflavored water.

But yeah, I’ve been drinking water for years, and this has made it much more enjoyable. (I occasionally “splurge” and drink tea or soda, but it probably amounts to less than 1% of the fluids I consume.)

Citric acid isn’t great for teeth, but 2 packs per gallon should have a negligible impact (could possibly do more, but 2 is perfectly fine).
There used to be a black first-gen BMW X5 that parked up near my partner's house in the Glasgow's South Side.

Scuffed 22" alloy wheels, mismatched half-bald no-name tyres, bubbly black window tint film, bubbly Gucci-print gold-on-carbon wrap on the bonnet and tailgate, "Arabic prayer" CD dangly tassley thing hanging from the mirror, huge exhaust pipes.

No tax, no MOT (last MOT failed quite comprehensively on various serious defects), no insurance.

Like, come on, guy, try *not* to be the reason that stereotypes exist, eh?
2B requires evidence of carcinogenicity in animals as well as "strong mechanistic evidence, showing that the agent exhibits key characteristics of human
carcinogens."
Parallel construction isn't the theoretical stuff of paranoid hackers on online message boards. In a 2013 statement, it was revealed that the DEA uses parallel reconstruction "almost daily" to build criminal cases using evidence gathered by the NSA.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R2013...
I remember Harry Frankfurt from a lecture on the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, in particular on free will: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_cases

May he rest in peace.
No it does not, PPP is calculated based on a basket of 3000 fungible goods and services as well as other costs such as major infrastructure construction projects.

It has zero account for quality or outcomes.

It doesn’t care if you have access to healthy foods, it just cares how much would X calories costs, it doesn’t care what is the quality of the housing stock or the outcomes of your healthcare system.

You can very much have a situation where your economy shrinks, the quality of life tanks and your GDP PPP stays the same or grows, communism is rather good example of just how a situation can be where things are on paper very cheap from food to infrastructure mega projects and where housing is free but no one would claim that life in 1970’s Soviet Union was particularly great.

In 1990 the USSR had the 2nd highest GDP PPP in the world, if you honestly think that it was a good place to live I’ll build you a time machine myself.
Given there's a couple peeps who can't figure out their email address, I do my best to click on 'not me' or just ignore the confirmations intended for other people. But if I get mail for others that should have been confirmed, I mark it spam, because it is. Sometimes that includes an unsubscribe, which sometimes works.
I'd prefer to have access to free healthcare and social safety nets than having espresso.

You clearly haven't been to the US but there are a lot of poor people here.
At that point, it is IMO better to obtain that block from alloca()[1]—it’s not standard, but where it’s available the compiler will treat the result as untyped for the purposes of aliasing. (If you’re on GCC/LLVM, __builtin_alloca_with_align is also an option, although note that the memory it returns may not outlive the current block—similar to a standard automatic variable, but unlike memory from traditional alloca.) ISO C has a gigantic hole when it comes to obtaining and recycling untyped memory, pretending the hole is not there isn’t going to help.

[1] https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/10/28/, discussed at the time at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374863
I have no doubt the last thing the LLM firms want is to attribute their sources. I always see the claim, heck we don't know where the ideas come from that is impossible.
Water? Like out the toilet?
Yes, that famous marshmallow test has now been debunked several times from several angles. Many of them come down to the issue that the test was not measuring the participants' willpower so much as it was measuring their confidence that the test administrator would follow through on their promise.

So regardless of the validity of the method proposed here, I'd say that framing this article around references to that experiment is a mistake.
F150 towing capabilities are far higher now than they used to be. The use case for the 250/350 versions is slimmer as a result.

Isn't the usual line about diesel that CI engines provide superior torque vs. IC? Electric engines are insanely torquey, though, right?
I wouldn't personally draw such a bright line between monitoring and reliable CI/CD. That division definitely exists but partly as a product of the complexity introduced by fragmented data systems. In some ways an ideal world is one where the need for extraordinarily complex monitoring tools is actually pretty limited because we had tools to validate end to end data pipelines before making code changes if that makes sense.

We actually already do data monitoring as well although we haven't built the specific alerting features of Monte Carlo. There are quite a few tools that do that really well so it's not our focus at the moment.
No, the point is that the self discipline needed to hold one’s breath is lower than the self discipline needed to take one specific values-aligned action. And that, in turn, is lower than the self discipline needed to simply not do the thing that isn’t values-aligned, without a method.

Of course doing anything requires some degree of self discipline, if you want to call it that. But not all actions need iron-clad discipline.
Even if you replace water entirely with diet coke, the caffeine is not enough to cause harm.

> It's probably better for your teeth

So is not eating or sleeping or breathing.
A lot of what you mention is related to energy useage: smaller cars/houses, keeping houses cold in winter, less consumption overall. Perhaps the Europeans are on the right track here and we in the US are on the wrong track when taking climate change into consideration?
If I truly believed I was not guilty of an accusation that was ruining my reputation, you better believe I would use every means at my disposal to prevent my sinking under questionable data
That's not 100% accurate. Even though Marijuana is believed to be a cancer-fighting compound, when smoked it may have similar or even greater cancer-causing effects as tobacco does due to in many cases having more tars than cigarette tobacco does.

However, the jury is still out, and there is the issue where unless you're Willie Nelson you aren't exactly chain smoking joints the way your average hardcore cigarette smoker does, so even if marijuana is slightly more carcinogenic than tobacco, being exposed to a lower dose may mitigate that to enough of an extent as to make it a rounding error.

Either way, you are more likely to be killed in a dispute over marijuana than you are by marijuana consumption itself.
Cities Skylines has mods which can simulate parking in more detail.
Yes, but: in case of the latter, does the amount of people becoming rich outpace population growth? Is it even greater than the rate of growth in the sub-population of those already rich?
> It’s not as simple as “founders are optimists, scientists are skeptics”, though.

It's not much deeper either. There's having a skeptical yet positive mindset which is somewhere in-between. I once made a complex toolkit of runtime query optimizations that was a hodge-podge of kludgy things, which worked out well in practice. Someone asked me how I ever came up with the whole thing. I said I just started out and made one new improvement after another. They said that it was so fraught with obstacles (listing them off) that they'd be daunted to even start. I said I wished I'd talked to you sooner, you just gave me a roadmap that I didn't have while I was figuring out the pieces. Note that he was a high-level chess player (unlike no-rank me), but perhaps not as much of an optimist or risk-taker.

If I had to say what a good founder mentality is, I'd say that they have experience navigating uncharted territories and finding success, whether on small or large scales. That kind of practice makes them good at sizing up risks and rewards. Related to this might be of a kinesthetic learner type--learn by interacting.
The local politicians (city, county) provide the funds. Can you take this up with them at a city council meeting?
Strlcpy and strlcat added to glibc 2.38
That extra complexity adds room for plenty of loop holes.

For example, by avoiding bankruptcy any existing liabilities aren't pooled and paid out proportionately along with the lawsuit proceedings. There is also nothing stopping the parent company from moving around funds to limit its "entire cash value".
if the euro didn't exist and the currencies were freely floating this would adjust itself automatically

it's almost as if forcing completely disparate economies onto a one-size-fits-none currency with a single interest rate and no fiscal transfers was a monumentally stupid idea
Something D O O economics
I have no idea what this is in response to, but the ESP32 is so incredibly popular that this is like saying "I like going to my Ford dealer because I know they'll repair Fords for ages and their mechanics really know Fords."

The problem with the ESP32 is that it has some pretty insane peak power draw figures (nearly an amp at times, far higher than the official spec of ~300mA) that catch people off guard in low power battery applications, and the dev/carrier board quality varies a fair bit. A lot of early 8266 and 32 boards had quite high power drain just from the board itself; things like poorly chosen resistor networks for battery voltage monitoring, for example. You used to be able to find reviews covering this sort of thing but that information seems to have fallen by the wayside.

Wemos/Lolin and 1-2 others are the main/best suppliers for ESP boards, generally.
Thanks! Unfortunately I’ve heard that Lio has been unresponsive at that email address for several years
The problem with this sort of comparison is that up until now, new ideas came from humans and technology advances merely helped to spread ideas, or greased the wheels. Now you can generate new ideas. Often without any skill of your own.

This is bad at first glance because look what happened when smart phones became popular: no one remembers phone numbers of their family, people can’t remember directions when driving. Now you don’t even need the ability to generate ideas.

And it’s not clear to me that LLMs democratises information. LLM have guard rails, are potentially trained on copyrighted data. Need to be run by large companies…
Citations needed. Many citations.
I attempted many times to use this extension under Windows. It was one of the most frustrating software installation experiences I've ever had. I never got it to work. Note that it has a 2 star review.

Perhaps Apple developers don't know how to write a Windows program but the macOS version will be usable.
Is it really? >90% of the time, I'm just passing a context so that I can cancel the rest of the goroutines if an early one fails and I don't need to do the rest of the computation.

That works just fine with throwing a context.Background in, which should be available anywhere, and not color the function.
Yes, that's exactly what the article is about: how we can model "plain for-loop" levels of performance in the presence of complex (intricate state at multiple levels and high potential for nesting iterators) code that is supplying the loop(s)
Multitasking systems gave us processes.

But those were too much.

So we got threads, which are processes that share an address space, file table, and some other things. The scheduler can switch from one to the other more easily than between processes, and data can be shared between threads without needing serialization.

But those were too much.

So we got user space threads, which are logical threads of execution that are driven by a runtime entirely in user space. The runtime adds scheduling hooks into all I/O functions in the standard library, or even uses a system API like Unix signals to preempt logical threads. No system-level context switching is needed. User space threads can be tiny.

But those were too much.

So we got coroutines, which allow a programmer to define logical "threads" of execution that cooperatively interact with each other. There is no assumption about the presence of a scheduler. The programmer either writes their own event loop or invokes one from a library in a "real" logical thread.

I wonder what comes next. As far as [communicating sequential processes][1] are concerned, maybe cooperative coroutines are a low as you can go.

[1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Hoare78.pdf
Seltzer water + caffeine pill! /s
It's plausible that the world is demonstrably better in pretty much every way, but there is an overwhelming amount of propaganda telling us to believe otherwise.
I have no idea if this would work and don't want to risk messing it up for myself, but have you tried changing (one of) the account emails?

On the website go to the Your Account page ("Account & Lists" dropdown -> "Your Account" section -> "Account" link, which goes to https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/homepage.html ) and click "Login & security" to get to it. Same place you'd update your password/etc.
What is the point of GDP as a metric then? Who is the economy serving? Why have an economy if it's not improving quality of life to some extent.

GDP is most often used by the government of a single country to measure its economic health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
Thank you! I’ve been told however that members of the iforgeiron community routinely redirect casting questions to alloyavenue despite the latter having been largely unusable for awhile now
There is a weird sort of analogy where universities spent the last 20 years putting their classes online, or associate professors and grad students uploaded YouTube deep-dive videos, etc. Point is, enrollment at Universities are way down now and you could probably draw some kind of link between the two.

However, there are also links between jobs that no longer care, and GenZ is a smaller cohort, and also maybe more of an interest in trades as a path forward.

I'm not suggesting the paper linked here is right or wrong, but we should keep an open mind about all the other potential reasons why things suddenly shift. One random reason could be that during this overly oppressive year of layoffs engineers have either stopped needing to search or haven't had time to work on a project that needed it.

Also there's smarter IDEs which are likely the #1 reason I've stopped searching the internet for one-off small things like "what's the API to deep copy an array in Rust." Documented autocomplete has gotten really good and things like copilot are just icing on the cake.
Hate it when an article spends 90% of the time posing a question and 10% attempting a bare-bones answer. I got to the bottom and realized this was just an article to drive inbound deal flow.
wow that is horrible. none of that is intuitive, which is one of Go strength. you would need to specific learn the Go semantic of coroutine to have any chance of writing or even reading code like this.
I spent SO. MUCH. TIME. in computer stores (yes, they were a thing) as a kid in the 80's, and the Compucolor was a favorite. The keys with different colors! Everything was opinionated and geeky. And hardly any demos existed, so the computers were wide open to experiment with.
> I did this and my palate changed completely.

Mind if I ask: How so?
https://archive.is/lFq0O
hmm. why are Lua arrays 1-index based?
Even if the thief abandoned my car after that, I still lose pretty badly in your described scenario.
I got a gmail invite pretty early and choose a single Spanish word that's the equivalent of John.

I'm the recipient of bank statements, cell phone statements, medical information, invitations to parties, and answers to HOA complaints. But more than anything, I'm the world's most prolific subscriber to dating websites, and my taste covers the whole spectrum and back.

I keep using the email address to use for low importance stuff. It's also a good way to see that clicking "Unsubscribe" actually works. Or better, the Spanish equivalent: "Darse de baja". I know the words very well.
The difficulty might be that an attacker would have to take down users all over the world to remove a page. Like BitTorrent, there is no server, the clients share the hosting effort all over the world. Not saying it would be impossible, only potentially very hard.
When I was a child in the early 90s, the likelihood they gave my mother to survive leukemia was slim to none. It was essentially a death sentence. And she died.

Now if you get leukemia in 2023, it's something close to a 70% survival rate over 5 years with significantly better treatments.

That seems dramatic to me.
It tends to get thoughtlessly assumed, rather than argued or asserted.
https://archive.is/x7dyZ
This is a great point. I think the research is "biased" to begin with, in that it feels like you could easily p-hack your way into a "chat gpt has degraded X" kind of paper if that's what you want to show. But with SO in particular, you're right that there are actually clear improvements that it makes as a competitor.

I can't think of a way, buy it would be interesting to see if there is a similar effect on Wikipedia contributions.
This misses the reason so-called McJobs don't pay a "living" wage. You're not supposed to earn a living wage doing zero skilled work. You're supposed to develop skills and move up in the working world.

Why are people stagnating instead of moving up? That's a really good question.
> Your article converts the first line of Vergil to Linear B and then tries to understand it as Greek, offering “With brine and slime in novel fashion at Tholoia Diphilimus (is) cityless.” But that’s nearly totally meaningless.

This is a pretty odd claim. The sentence is grammatically coherent and the semantics are... there. They're hard to understand, but that's true of essentially all ancient writing; this problem becomes obvious when we try to date historical events by reference to astronomical phenomena that contemporary texts mention. It's easy for us to calculate the precise dates of interesting astronomical phenomena more than a thousand years in the past... but it's difficult to determine exactly what the texts of that period mean when they describe astronomical anomalies.

(For something similar and much more recent, here's part of the introduction to The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties:

dragons were spotted seven times in the seventeen years from 1351 through 1367. In that final year, the Yuan dynasty's last, there were two spottings. The first, on July 9, was in Beijing. A dragon emerged in a flash of light from a well in the palace of the former crown prince and flew off.

What happened there?)

Why is "Diphilimus is cityless" more meaningless than a standard Linear B inscription such as "small jar, no handles: 1 handleless jar"? By most accounts there is more meaning in the sentence about Diphilimus.

> Greek (both in Linear B and later) doesn’t use the -us ending like Latin does, so its use here in a “Greek” sentence is very suspicious.

Reasonable. But there are many Greek names that do end in -eus, such as Theseus, Perseus, Odysses, Achilles, and Zeus; the reader cited above specifically suggests that the Ventrisian sequence ai-ke-u might be interpreted as the personal name Aἰγεύς. Diphilimos does not appear to be a classical Greek name, so we don't seem to be committed to any particular such form.

Lacking syllable-final -n and -s, how would we represent the name of Tiryns in Linear B?
I'm pretty sure that Einstein proved that light (including radio) is not, in-fact, analog, but rather has discrete levels of energy in quantum steps.
$21 is outright highway robbery. These boards are about $5-7 in single unit quantities.

The value-add simply is not there, particularly since they lead incredibly heavily on end-users, educators, etc to provide support.

I guess someone has to pay for those 8 week vacations.
Yeah, definitely a potential problem on the smaller language Wikipedias as the Scots Wikipedia incident shows, but for the big ones, low-quality content from new editors is not really a new problem to deal with.
Exactly, just a catchy title to generate attention.
Nope. Looks very different when you do. Even more so when you look at longevity, violence, leisure, etc.
I've never had Covid (as far as I know) and I dont take anything (except vaccines).

Hell my kids and wife have all had covid and the flu, and I've looked after them all and I haven't been sick beyond a dribbly nose in about 5-6 years. (oh with the exception of being bedridden for a few days FROM the vaccine :-P )
>window tints sufficient to block inspection of the passenger compartment of the car by an officer standing next to the car are already effectively illegal

Which is absolutely preposterous, given how hot it is getting. Window tint laws need to be repealed.
Yeah, I also find that weird. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love to not have a car and I'm all for public transit/biking/walking, but I bought my car (which I love) - a brand new Focus ST for 28k in 2013. I spend maybe $3k a year on gas and maintenance, insurance etc, (I don't drive much) bringing TCO to ~6k range. If you have to drive a huge amount obviously that's not realistic but for a city like Seattle where you kinda need a car, but only for certain things, it's absolutely possible.
You've offered zero details about why this is incorrect. You've just asserted the meme that it's "obviously wrong"...

There is no good faith argument that exists to prove this incorrect.
This is a perfect example of why research grants have so much red tape and approval. Apparently the process can still fail horribly, and over a million dollars can be wasted building something that was invented by a farmer in their barn in the 70’s.
pretty certain it's the germans that decided to use the russian gas

meanwhile the US was pretty upset about the idea
There are a bunch of benefits of having economic power that doesn't relate to happiness. Power projection and resilience to hard times are some of them.
As a European I have sometimes feeling that we are skanzen of the world. Don't get me wrong. It's much better than to be battleground like before.
Same. Luckily (recently?) iOS added support to using Chrome’s keychain to fill in passwords. It seems you still have to open the chrome app from time to time to sync passwords, however.