skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinkpad x280 with 1TB internal SSD and external drive for backups. 16GB of ram. Have been running on thinkpads for twenty years. Always power, screen, keyboard at the ready.

Mostly services just run native on Debian. Gitlab, a few websites, Nextcloud, Minecraft. All data is located in /data which I backup once a year since family pictures are not more important than my time.
Yes, I refuse to engage with LinkedIn out of principle. I probably miss out on some opportunities, but I just tell myself that those jobs would have made me miserable anyway.
Yes, by title. And I often find out about them from friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. I also find out about a great deal of books from other books, either mentioned or cited/referred to.

I read some books cover to cover, and some are kept as references. Books are mainly on Math, Philosophy, and History. There are other topics, too.

I read in 4 languages and GR is very Anglo-centric. That's another issue.

I wanted to track my to-read and read for every book that I found.

I cannot do that with GR anymore.

(I am unsure to whether you are asking about my use case about the sites or the books. So I answered both.)
Papers are often rejected due to lack of novelty compared to previous work, especially if they contradict it. How many paper were similarly rejected because this fraudulent work was published?
Documenting everything ruthlessly (meeting summaries, action items, personal knowledge, TODOs, passing thoughts ala things I want to discuss with peers, etc) in a centralized and easily searchable/cross-linkable/organizable fashion.

Build this doc repo as well as the TODO component within it for absolutely minimal mental overhead. In fact, optimize for minimal mental overhead in all things, and ability to reenter/pick up where you left off effectively "on autopilot." This (low mental overhead, reentrency) applies to things like email triage as well.

I realize this is both very terse and very open ended, but it's really the crux of my ability to deal with exponential levels of randomization, complexity, and parallel tasks. If there's any "Secret sauce" this doesn't contain, it's the need to adjust your systems/organization/methods to whatever is "natural" for you (this perhaps goes hand in hand with low mental overhead and reentrency, even the process must be low-overhead and easily 'reentrent', for instance, preparing for forgetting where I put something, I should know my own tendencies for where I'd look such that I buid my organization upfront that I'd readily find it again.)

I'll cap this with one more meta item before I turn this into an essay: Retrospect. regularly ask yourself "how are things? how is what I'm doing? can it be improved? has anything gone wrong/should I be paying attention to anything I'm not? are there any questions I'm not asking?"
Over several years it must be a lot more money than it would have been if I bought every album once?
And now onto underwater cardioversion.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01960...
Biorock
there is a bank in Italy currently that uses this voice recognition mechanism which with current AI tech is fakeable within 20 min. Nothing much changed since back then I guess
I'm glad the EU has given the UK the bird on this one, I remember being in primary school when this was going on, and the propaganda and brainwashing I was exposed to as an infant in primary school was out of fucking order!

So thank you EU for fucking annoying the ruling elite cunts that run this country!
I'm curious about this popcorn polymer. I went looking, and found some papers on how it forms, but no pictures of what it looks like, or videos of it forming.

EDIT I looked again and found some tiny pictures:

https://www.shilohsciences.com/blog/popcorn-polymer-in-steam... (at the end - this is a great article)

https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/special-reports/14072...

https://epsc.be/epsc_media/Learning+Sheets/2020/20_05+EPSC+L...
> DOM simply does way too much and is bloated to all hell,

It's my observation that React and similar frameworks really help to bloat the DOM.

Now someone will say it is how people misuse React and similar frameworks.

and then I will say if large parts of the population using a technology make the same misuse of it, even people who know better, it seems like the technology supports that misuse and is to blame somehow.
In practice nobody polices this until you are big enough to deal with it though.
That's not true in the sense that the cancer doesn't have objectives per se, therefore it doesn't have anything to lose in the sense that matters.
Stop using them?

A good craftsman crafts his own tools.
> Southern Hemisphere?

Tasmania will fare well (probably) and has hydroelectricity (and inbreeding (allegedly)).

New Zealand has geothermal, two islands to choose from, but is getting over run with hollyweird seppo's looking for Middle Earth. At least Sam Neill is a (recent) native New Zealander.

As a Canadian you're welcome in either although you may get tired of explaining your accent isn't from (central northern) America.
Good thing that the back of my phone has neither of those.

Seems like a good idea to wrap the card in something opaque.
Will you get a check for your posts on HN? Your tweets? No, right? So all this talk about paying people for their data is rubbish, and what is really at stake here are checks between huge corporations that already stole it from you in the first place.
I meant literally legal. My point being this practice is legal so universities may accept whoever they want.
I remember when takedown.com was taken down! ;)
Our interlinked system of distributed monoliths includes one in AWS region af-south-1, another on the Moon, and a third orbiting Jupiter. All of these services are yours, except for the fourth on Europa. Attempt no POSTing there.
Which book has had the strongest effect on how you make products? And why?
Which book has had the strongest effect on how you make products? And why?

There's no single book I can recomment for building a poduct specifically. It requres understanding of your audience, needs, how the world functions, human psychology, etc. There are plantly you can pick to learn more in each direction.

I can recommend a book Shoe dog describing a product-centric approach of Nike's founder and his belief in what he was selling. Build something you belive in and and would use yourself. If you will love it there's likely somebody else in the world you would find it irreplacable too.
Immutability of a Post
I like the idea of keeping it simple. You need to minimize jargon and concepts that take a PhD to understand. Also, keep in mind that people don't know what's in your mind so you need to over explain so that people can get enough background to understand what you are trying to convey. Get the book, "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die." It's a marketing book but it will give you some tips on how to speak to a small audience.
I was unpleasantly surprised by that last week, where I had left my wallet in the car (an unusual event) and couldn't pay by tap my phone.
This is especially important now with easy and convincing voice generation
You're obviously right that the risk scales with size, but I'm still suspicious of pressure cookers. Yeah, it won't destroy the house, but I could still be seriously injured by it if the pressure release valve was clogged and I wasn't paying close enough attention.
site:reddit.com is your friend, even with all the stuff that's happening over there
was my first thought as well. I find it difficult to fall asleep on an empty stomach
Also, no evidence of aigratou being used in the -u from before the Portuguese arrived. It may be true that the similarity is purely a coincidence, but the evidence is very weak, and maybe without Portuguese influence ariɡatau would be used only in some fringe cases.
> That's contradictory.

What is contradictory in a claim that most research is low impact thus easier to fake while the incentives for publishing high impact research skews to publishing bad/fake papers since publishing is far more important then having a paper retracted?

> Not deeply, but I surely can come up with bio/med research with real life applications that appeared in last 2-3 decades. Say mRNA vaccines?

Nobody said that all research is faked.
I've had similar experience, also coming from a small Eastern European country. It feels like the market within the country is not big enough, including two nearby countries improves the situation, but you still need to deal with the language differences. To me it just feels there's not enough money, both from the possible customers as well as from investors.

My current employer is originally from the UK, but they started in the US. That included a corp in Delaware alongside the main office in the UK. The product is B2B and it worked quite well in the US, but expanding to European customers in the recent years has been more complex. Luckily since it's a B2B product, the language differences are less pronounced. The product itself is only provided in English and luckily we have European CS colleagues so we can offer support in other languages as well.
I think the main challenge in this space was that in the US there was only 2-3 big players who we partnered with initially. In Europe, each country has 5 of them and each of them work slightly differently. The company never needed outside investment, we kept lean for a very long time and we were profitable very early on.

My recommendation - focus on US, English-speaking customers first. If you can, do B2B and provide excellent customer support. B2B customers have different expectations, but they are also easier to deal with from my experience. If you can, try to bootstrap and become profitable as soon as possible.
> they'll be able to mine my phone contacts 60% faster

You give... random applications... access to your contact list?
I think the misconception is that there's a finite amount of stuff to do. Every place i've worked at there's been a near infinite backlog. Lots of stuff that would be done if they could. It's always been a constraint on the number of people hired (budget and availability).

I don't see engineers not being part of the process for many years, even if most of the work is done for them. For most companies, if they had their engineers suddenly become 10x more productive, they'd want them to do 10x as much, not scale down to 10% of the staff. Not to say some companies wouldn't.
I will by no means say that I followed or knew him. But the name was familiar and I suddenly remembered who he was and that I had his book on my wishlist for christmas. Sorry to hear about the loss.

I do like some of his approaches to life. There are some similarities between him and Richard Feynman.

Who comes to mind if I would like to follow some still living people that has this rebellious, "joire de vivre" way of life?
It’s not easy to be proven wrong. But damn, is it nice to embrace it.
There's an interesting, vaguely related family of terms derived from ゲバルト, from Ger. Gewalt "violence", that all refer to 60s-era student political movements and protests.

For example ゲバヘル, protective helmets students wore during protests, and even ゲバ字 "violence characters" - referring to an angular form of writing used on protest fliers and signs, meant to prevent authorities from identifying the author by their handwriting.

Example of such characters: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NAVI_hansen_shukai.j...
> He was diligent with everything the doctors told him

I know I am going to be hated for this comment, but... Given my own experience with the medical system, I can't resist and state the (for me) obvious: Maybe that was the reason for him to pass so early...

(To put my comment in context, I was abused for a medical experiment by a high ranking doctor at the age of 7, and am 100% blind since then.)
I doubt the bank’s authentication system is built to allow the CEO’s voice to authenticate a transfer out of any account…
It is called a workaround not a patch.
No; that's just an empirical observation. If you see a meta-meta-rule, it may have to be revised.
I think that you, like I did in the past, are underestimating the number of people who simply hate writing and see it as a painstaking chore that they would happily outsource to a machine. It doesn't help that most people grow up being forced to write when they have no interest in doing so, and to write things they have no interest in writing, like school essays and business applications and so on. If a chatbot could automate this... actually, even if a chatbot can't automate this, people will still use it anyway, just to end the pain.
Notably, she divides the population into four quadrants and all four of them actually accept that there is a problem to solve. Now that is optimism.
I would for a 7-row with a trackpoint
That's a wild claim. Why do you think is that?

What is an abstraction and what do you need to code it?
Same with Japanese, apparently a completely unrelated, differently structured language.
"Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. Unfortunately, we're not currently available in your area."

Oh well...
It took me 10 minutes to do the whole computation by hand, so I wouldn't say it's a LOT of work. At the same time I believe this is also one the points of this experiment, to show how much work goes into computing a single pixel value for a very simple 3D scene which makes us appreciate more that our GPUs can do this work billions of times per second.
Gaslighting me won't change the fact that the public messaging at the time was about herd immunity, i.e. prevent transmission.
I think it was within reach of plenty of people but most people with that ability decided that breaking the law wasn't what they wanted to do with their lives.
Yeah, it would be great if it had wider industry adoption.
These are both good suggestions.
Thanks. It's not in their list of supported languages: https://grpc.io/docs/languages/
> how often do I use products/app/websites from the other countries

Well, if the product is web based, the answer would be "am I likely to know?".

As to your market, you are well placed to do business in the Balkans in a way that a US start up is not - the opposite is not so true. Your appreciation of varying conditions in other countries is also to your advantage. If you make progress you will be less likely to have big companies trying to stifle you.

> Worst of all, I wasn't persistent enough.

You need to overcome that! I had big plans for a subscription based product. But early on I realised that growth was likely linear and cancellations would be proportional. As a mathematician I could see that would tend to a limit. But I persevered, and even though I was right I got a decent income from it until I retired. Modest growth beats none at all.
Thanks for sharing your experience -- I know I've spent a lot of time in the past worrying about FS corruption, but generally expecting that the database sitting on top of it should never get corrupted, mostly because I use postgres so much.

I don't have the experience you do in this situation, but my first reaction to this was definitely "don't use Cassandra". But I also never really understood the use-case where Cassandra shines as a solution either (seems like only companies with a lot of data really seem to get wins from it?)
The good thing about ChatGPT is that you can keep asking it to explain something in a different way until it explains it in a way that “clicks” with you.

Of course you then have to compare this explanation against all others and see if it fits or if it’s not a valid explanation.

It’s also great for exploring topics which have polluted namespaces on search engines.

Overall though I think the majour benefit of ChatGPT is it just teaches people to clearly define problems as natural language questions. Developing this ability helps the subconscious mind solve problems when the user is away from screens.
WCAG 2.2 Proposed Recommendation spec
It is the mindset that makes one buy a SLR, when they can't even make up all the options on the smartphone camera.
Expect publication as standard in August 2023
He’s just spouting Tesla propaganda. Check out his comment history.
I'd say there are colloquial and technical definitions of the word. Colloquially people have taken to referring to servers not their own, particularly operated by Amazon/Google/Microsoft, as "the cloud", such as OneDrive and Google Drive. I might even use the word colloquially sometimes. But when technical precision is needed, "cloud" refers to virtual resources on shared hardware.

Applied to this particular context, the colloquial interpretation doesn't make any sense whereas the technical interpretation does.
I rate Iain M Banks as my favourite author of all time, but the AIs in his book have a very different "flavour" compared to the intelligent-but-not-sentient aliens and AIs in Blindsight.

An interesting aspect of the Culture Minds is that they're described as hybrids of human-like / neural-net / organic intelligence and also direct numerical compute and storage capacity. They can both "think" and "compute", something few if any current AI models attempt.

A well-known limitation of current LLMs like ChatGPT is that they are atrocious at even basic arithmetic, whereas a $2 pocket calculator from the 1980s outperforms them in this respect!

I'd love to see an attempt at a hybrid architecture where the neurons are also connected to a numeric compute component of the architecture.

Think of parsing an expression such as:

let foo = 5 + 10

ChatGPT parses this as:

"let", " foo", " =", " 5", " +", " 10"

Essentially, its lexer produces a series of token IDs that don't contain the numeric values of "5" and "10":

[1309, 22944, 796, 642, 1343, 838]

Programming language lexers would parse that as:

[LET, ID("foo"), EQ, NUM(5), PLUS, NUM(10)]

In other words, lexer tokens in programming languages can carry baggage such as numeric values.

What if we lifted this restriction and made an AI embedding where every token had both an ID and a value? For literal text just set the ID to NaN or whatever.

E.g.: assume that "integer constant" is ID 1000, then an LLM might be fed this input instead:

[1309, 22944, 796, 1000, 1343, 1000]
[ NaN, NaN, NaN, 5, NaN, 10]

Then the model could be wired up such that the additional tensor dimension can be sent to both the neural net or a direct compute block that does various kinds of maths, such as adding all inputs, multiplying all inputs, etc...

Could be interesting...
Not necessarily:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
There's an alternative for Comic Sans called Comic Neue and if I'm not mistaken there's also a monospaced version of it as well.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comic+Neue
To add to that -

Dotnet & rust would be worth mentioning too, in the "high performance" web-server category.

And for the database - apache druid could be another alternative to clickhouse:
https://github.com/apache/druid

It's always a question of tradeoffs.

The awesome-selfhosted project has a nice list of open-source analytics projects. It's really good inspiration to dig into these projects and find out about the technology choices that other open-source tools in the space have made.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#ana...
Disclaimer: I'm from the EU myself.

Like a lot of commenters are saying, these blog posts are nice, but they won't change the minds of the legislators.

The legislators, in their apparent naivety, are living in a dream world where they expect today's volunteer developers to take on real and unfair legal risk for their contributions.

That's why I think open-source projects ought to make a real statement and ban EU downloads of their software. This will catch the legislators' attention. Making the lives of whoever is using the software (practically everyone) difficult will get the point across and force change.

This has nothing to do with discriminating against who _contributes_ to the software, which is of course a bullshit thing to do.
We run a Cassandra cluster in production and its a pretty small cluster yet all that you mentioned seems to resonate. We do use Cassandra reaper to automate some of the tasks but no one wants to touch Cassandra in general in the team.
AFK.
"I actually do enjoy crowds and 'enthusiastic get-togethers.' Yes, I feel drained by them eventually" - in other words, the author is an introvert.
A huge number of people have given their real cellular number to a company on the Internet, for unknown purposes and without real justification.
Add Tcl events to it as well, with famous rants like this one, "Why Threads Are A Bad Idea"

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2010/cs4210_fall/papers/...
Taxing Universities [pdf]
I agree spending beyond one's means is bad, but why is that blamed on what the money is being spent on rather than who is spending that money in the first place?

We never seem to blame the source of the problem in any of these discussions, blaming one scapegoat after another in a frantic and futile attempt to blame anything but the actual problem. It prevents any meaningful answer from coming to bear.
Catching Kevin Mitnick (1996)
If you noticed, a ton of lexical material in Mini comes from Germanic and Romance languages, so even basic knowledge of English / German / Spanish / French is immediately helpful. Ditching the R/L distinction, or B/V distinction, or M/N distinction would kill most of this familiarity.
On Windows side, IO Completion ports, BeginAsync()/EndAsync(), TPL and Dataflow.
Very verbose and obfuscating reply to a comment that has been censored and that we cannot see.

It is symptomatic for the Python space that criticism is drowned out by consultants, who write loads of perfect English and focus on the irrelevant.

The only part I'd agree with is that Beazley is competent. Has he written and maintained production ready code though? I wish that people who actually do something would also receive such defenses.

But no, in the Python space the trainers and consultants are superior to the people doing the work. and they rake in the cash.
> I don't know how top-tabs people get through their days!

In my case, I feel the opposite. Having the tabs on the side interrupts the browsing experience and annoys me. I personally do two things that probably makes it easier to live with horizontal tabs:

1. I habitually close tabs. If I'm at 10+, I'll quickly scan them and throw any that I might need later into the bookmark bar (if they aren't in a folder, it triggers me to check them again soon-ish). Then I just purge all tabs because having more than 10 is just a cluttered mess. This is also true in JetBrains, iTerm, Sublime, Finder, etc.

2. I don't fullscreen my browser. It usually only uses about 80% of my screen width, sometimes less. That provides much less incentive to use side tabs
Ok, not contradictory, it is just two claims unrelated both between themselves and to my original claim.
Yes, low impact research is easy to fake.
Yes, there is incentive to publish fake high-impact papers.
Yes, it is hard to create and publish fake high-impact impact research.
Yeah that’s the thing; LLMs like all software are just the latest codification of existing theories and memes, that’s exactly what they’re trained on. That’s exactly the path we envisioned to create them decades ago.

The concept wasn’t new in 2006 either.

Not really seeing the “now that’s sci fi!” emotion here.

Most of our historical compute problems were coupled to network reliability, performance. Those bottlenecks are largely solved; oh wow explosion in AI progress.

This isn’t new it’s more like the Higgs; just needed to wait for hardware.
Your proposal describes Boyajian's star

Which behaves differently to this one

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mysterious-dimming-of-tabby...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/tabbys-star-may-not-be-alon...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star
best windows AV/Malware and Defender is not on the list. How serious can you take such a site/resource.