skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the hard part of this is predicting how the global jet stream and polar vortex winds might change in response to disruption of the Atlantic currents. It already changes for North America in response to the Pacific subtle temperature oscillation we call El Nino / La Nina.

The proximity to the ocean and the general westerly winds of the mid latitudes mean that the west coast gets a moderating marine influence. The cold ocean surface provides us "air conditioning" in summer and yet is also a mild "heater" in winter, helping keep coastal air above freezing temperatures.

But, this general background pattern is regularly disrupted by large high and low pressure systems that wander through the region and give us our weather of storms, cold snaps, and heat waves. These cyclonic systems can both carry a somewhat distinct air mass inside them and also disrupt the normal westerly surface flow. And the jet stream is largely in control of steering these systems, making them track further north or south or even helping them stall out temporarily in their generally eastward course.
Limited reply to requiring zero debt:

Public assets (roads, sewers, other kinds of infrastructure) are always going to be "debt" in the myopic accounting from the perspective of the government. Requiring zero debt means selling these assets off to (presumably private) entities, which sounds like a terrible idea for reasons aligned closely with the kinds of arguments found in Doctorow's blog post.
The Chevy Bolt is reflective of what no other car company is being able to compete with Tesla.

Dealers.

The Chevy Bolt was a great product that owners almost universally loved. However, Chevy dealers would refuse to sell customers one. They certainly wouldn't promote it, and in many cases go out of their way to disparage it.

Maybe this got better with time, but at least when the Bolt was still fairly new, a friend trying to buy one was struggling to get a dealership to even let him test drive one, despite the fact that they were almost certainly available (he still got the test drive, but after much insistence from the dealer that he should test drive another car they had instead).
Super worth it.
“Private Access Tokens are a powerful alternative that help you identify HTTP requests from legitimate devices and people without compromising their identity or personal information. We'll show you how your app and server can take advantage of this tool to add confidence to your online transactions and preserve privacy.”

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That doesn’t sound the same as what Google’s proposing. Am I wrong?
That’s a ridiculous comparison. Single human lifetimes are only measured in decades.

If the entirety of humans were very likely to be wiped out from 2025 to 2095, you would definitely call that imminent, and is a much more apt comparison.
That also means that electrons flow unimpeded from one side to the other.

Great for energy transmission (though you can't put too much current, superconductivity breaks down under strong fields).

Great for fast circuits, such as CPUs, that don't waste energy just transmitting data.

Great for storing energy (in principle) by just making a loop and let current flow indefinitely.

Related, great for building powerful magnets (that are just such a loop) without wasting too much energy. Applications: MRI machines (they already use superconductors but are bulky due to the need for cooling) and other powerful magnets: LHC/particle accelerators, Tokamaks/plasma control/fusion. But also improved motors and generators.

Nice for levitating stuff since they levitate above magnets "for free" (due to their interaction with electrical fields, they reject magnetic fields). Possible applications for maglev (trains, etc), magnetic bearings, etc.

And possibly a lot of new applications opened up if you remove the need for cooling (Faraday cages?).

Of course, it all depends on how much current and temperature it can handle. But if this is real, just having one material is game-changing, and it will surely be improved upon by looking for similar properties in other materials. This one contains lead, which is a non-starter for a lot of applications due to its toxicity.

Someone else wrote a few use-cases in that other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866686
What are you even talking about? I'm talking about focusing on innovation and technical solutions, of which 'renewables like wind and solar' are part of, instead of tightening our belts...

It's wild that you'd get this:

> You're setting up a strawman argument between continuing to burn fossil fuels and 'degrowth' and keeping the industrializing world in poverty.

from what I wrote, when I'm arguing for exactly the opposite.
No, they were/are running a far more sophisticated shop. Certainly not solely tech analysis techniques. Read "The Man Who Solved the Market" by Gregory Zuckerman. Here's a review: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/books/review/the-man-who-...
SaaS market update: Churn climbs to record levels – June 2023
>To you and me, we associate smoking with health problems so subconsciously we hate it a lot. We also never feel the "good parts" of smoking so our minds are entirely biased into the negative aspects of it.

No one feels the good parts of smoking before they start and most people find the smell unappealing.

>Meanwhile, a smoker grew up without caring about the health damages and they consider it fine to smoke and the cost is acceptable for the "good" a cigarette can provide.

I'm not saying you're alluding to this but just to be clear, this is who a smoker develops into, the person was not some sort of pre-smoker who's dispositioned to like things that are bad for their health which would allow them to tolerate the smell. The tolerance is built.
Hey,
what do you think - how can we "repair" this process? I mean, what would be a perfect solution to not require photo ID verification video and get rid of scammers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVjGWpbE7k

This is an unlisted video of the LK-99 film (purportedly)
You are trivializing engines some what.

They are the final media/medium for humans for eternity.

I would even argue they are the final art, combining all other arts.

Eyes, ears and hands will be the interface forever.

Brain computer wont happen.
This covers three things:
Llama.cpp (Mac/Windows/Linux),
Ollama (Mac),
MLC LLM (iOS/Android)

Which is not really comprehensive... If you have a linux machine with GPUs, i'd just use hugging face inference (https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference). And I am sure there are other things that could be covered.
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> Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/chat groups about how the job market has shifted to favor employers, I think it isn't wildly irrational to believe the person you're responding to.

"In 2023, the software engineering industry faces a record-breaking shortage of professionals. This skills crisis has resulted in an astonishing 1 million tech job vacancies that still need to be fulfilled. Reports suggest that the number of US job vacancies, due to a lack of talent, will reach 85.2 million by 2030."

> Sure, "the plural of anecdote isn't data" and all that, but talk to recruiters and you'll hear much the same. Yes, even in this market it's possible to get outstanding offers but I'm fairly confident in asserting that that's much rarer right now than it was, say, a year or two ago.

All of these are anecdotes and nothing more. If you have data that would support that I would like to see it and then I can agree with you.
I've created many XMPP implementations, and I've never created a custom XML parser for it (well, some toy ones for various fun things, but not one I'd use in production).

You're right that some XML parsers demand the entire document at once, and those are not suitable for XMPP (or any kind of incremental document parsing). Parsers with a SAX-based API for example don't have this limitation.
To add to that, when traveling, I can get a 16 oz can of Coke for about 2 USD, same size bottle of water, about 2.50 USD or so, give or take.

So yes, what you said should be done.

But someone I know is on Gov food assistance, if they go to a local Farm Stand, produce they buy with their card gets reimbursed, so it is free. A nice first step where I live.
Giant Theaters
Oh smokers hate so much about their habit. If you have close friends who smoke, they might be honest enough to tell you. No one really likes to smoke, they won't tell you because they are ashamed.

Dopamine makes your brain believe the hassle is not too bad. But who likes having smelly fingers, getting ash or sparks on your clothes, getting your teeth cleaned professionally way more often, smoker breath, receding gums, harder to keep up mouth hygiene, lighting 10k a year on fire, running out of nicotine in your bloodstream, running out of cigarettes, getting ripped of by the last working cigarette machine in the area at 3 in the morning, getting wet smoking outside, and and and

Addiction is a crazy bug of the mammalian brain.
The people I know with the nicest houses are doctors and lawyers. I don't think either of us have a large enough samples size. Those who do take a large enough sample will see technical analysis is just a rain dance.
This is classic TDD, right? Certainly this is the approach taken by Beck in his book.
I love working remotely!

I also feel like finding a place to work remotely requires luck, patience, and due diligence.

The first hurdle is figuring out if you like remote work or not. Covid was a great way for me to try out remote work and realize I love it. I'm not sure what to do outside of that. I imagine it must be awful to prepare for an interview and get a remote job only to realize that working remotely just isn't for you and now you have to do the whole process over again.

After that, it's finding a good place to work out of. I'm fortunate enough to have a home office that is set up the exact way I want it to be. I can control the height of my desk, my lighting, and my temperature. I don't think there's any office I'd prefer over my home office, but I also know that not everyone is able to have that same experience.

Finally, there's the company, it's culture, and the team you are on. Is your company remote first? Is your team remote first? How do you work together? How do you have "water cooler" chats? I think the place you work for can really make or break your remote working experience.
> Stock price movements are literally text book examples of unpredictable (or more specifically, random walk)

I never understand the above argument.

How is that possibly true on long time scales?

I can say with relatively strong confidence that Tesla is going to be worth more than $1 trillion in three years.

In March, it was clear NVIDIA would boom in the scale of one year. Just, nobody knew how soon and how fast.

So the walk is not random in these cases...

So is the walk pseudorandom? Random with a bias?

It clearly can't be purely random.
I'd love to see where you've seen examples of that, because the The Expanse books are very careful to keep their eye on distances and travel times. The show seemed to follow that as well.
At least my journey was more slashdot => digg => reddit. Reddit seemed to really take off when digg self immolated during their redesign.
Apple Considering Foldable iPad, According to Supply Chain Sources
What is even Unix-like ? I usually associate it with POSIX but maybe thats naive
Not to my knowledge, for example if it's json data, if the json is malformed it will error out, if you have etra field you can error out as well: https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#Decoder.DisallowUnknownFiel...

For input that does not have the fields of the destination well you can use other libraries that check that for you or use pointers.
We're trying to figure out the optimal use case for this, i.e. whether it's internal or client-facing (your example).

Internal purposes include stuff like optimally rewording questions and getting priors.

A hybrid approach would be something like - hey let's not ask someone 100 questions because we can accurately predict 80%. Let's just ask them the hard-to-estimate 20 questions
Baserow Tech Stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, Vue 2, and Nuxt 2
thank you!
I thought it was interesting seeing this angle from the experience.
Thank you for sharing.

I am based in Southern Africa, and I haven't witnessed first hand AI replacement in work. Have you seen anything in your part of the world/industry?
Oops, you’re right! I was totally misremembering.
At least on older hardware, number of reboots was a stronger correlative with failure than hours on.

I'll readily admit this may have been apocryphal. It was a common adage when I was a child in the 80s and now that I'm actually qualified enough to suss out such a statement I've never cracked open the historical literature at archive.org on this one to actually check.

It could just be a portage from incandescent lightbulbs (where this is true) and older cars (where this is also true). The idea of non-technicals thinking magical computer dust having the same problem is understandable
Not me, I love the smell of second hand smoke, especially menthols. I grew up with people's parents usually smoking outside of parties, and it drums up some nostalgia I guess. It's a totally different smell than you smoking it yourself.
At least npm has namespaces (scopes) to group packages by trustable entity. I wish cargo had namespaces. It's a big miss for an otherwise security conscientious project imo.
No, you are still wrong.

The Guest Additions are capital F Free.

The Extension Pack is not.

There is no such thing as "the Oracle guest addition extension pack." Never has been.

You are conflating 2 totally different separate things, as is that Redditor.
There's value on the wrapper around the rendering engine. Presumably you don't use the raw engine, and use many of the UX features provided by your chosen wrapper (of which there are many). Things like tabs and extensions, hell even having history,
settings, cookies, and a back button are UX niceties a raw engine doesn't necessarily provide. So the wrapper is important; making a better wrapper is thus a worthwhile endeavor. Extensions only go so far, and if ManifestV3 ever lands, and stops ad-blocking extensions from functioning, it's easy to see a hypothetical consumer-focused browser that restored that functionality, or had it natively would easily be worth millions.

The only question is if they can actually make money, and the kind of money that VC investment demands at that. Opera, the browser company had revenue of around $380 million last quarter, but if you don't use their browser, which is also "just" a chrome wrapper, you'd never know it.

To put it another way, Linux distros; Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc, are all "just" wrappers around the Linux Kernel. Yet "I made a Linux Kernel wrapper" is worth at least a billion, in the case of Red Hat. If you never come near that distro, you might not even see a reason for its value, but you can't argue with their sales numbers.
I also did tech support in a hospital. I'm not sure IT is a value add in that environment, at least not as much as IT thinks it is. Nurses are busy doing things like saving lives and caring for people experiencing the worst day of their life. On top of that nurses have to deal with poorly implemented and maintained workstations. Then when they ask for help the very people who created the problem in the first place come and belittle them.

I'm not accusing you of anything. Just noting my own perception that IT people tend to be very smug and see the world from an IT-centric perspective. Nurses aren't dumb and they certainly aren't lazy. They just have better things to do with their time than deal with inconsequential IT issues.

As I recall everything in the hospital that was actually critical to providing care had some specialist that maintained the system. The computer running the MRI machine wasn't bound to Active Directory and might not even be on the network. Issues with it were routed to GE, not the guy that fixes printers.
It blew my mind to see that there's an alcoholic version of SunnyD (US orange drink targeted toward children). At this point, I would no longer be surprised to see alcoholic Kool-Aid next.
> 'unable to be fired for months socialist hellscape' Europe

A small handful of countries in Europe*
Bytewax: Stream processing library built using Python and Rust
Actually, administrative privileges, email redirection, and building access revocation is often done prior to termination notice on Fridays.

This is also why layoffs during vacation windows and on remote sites is more common in IT.

Giving people time to deal with the emotional aspect is important. As exposing a vulnerable backbone to those motivated with grievances is unwise. Recall, 93% of breaches are internal, and proprietary assets tend to leak with layoffs.

It is never an easy task, but it can be done respectfully. =)
For most people who just want to play around and are using MacOS or Windows, I'd just recommend lmstudio.ai. Nice interface, with super easy searching and downloading of new models.
'Disturbing picture’: another retraction imminent for controversial physicist
It's not like Twitter was beloved before, and neither are people actually leaving the platform (except for the dozens who care a lot).

Like most content on Twitter, the discussion around it is mostly a loud minority complaining.
I think a more significant factor is growth rate. Free stuff can grow orders of magnitude faster than anything consumers buy for the simpler reason that signups or downloads can be zero friction. Even a little friction slows down growth.

The game online for a very long time has been: grow as fast as possible, then figure out a way to monetize. Free wins in this game, making it almost impossible for anything paid for by the consumer to compete.

So thus we have today's world where the game is: grow fast with free, then enshittify once your network effect has locked everyone in.

It works incredibly well.
both are not a science. Stock market is social science, which is not even a science since there is no LAW that regulates it, compared to physic.
It's not a new leak.
Their other data doesn't line up with ferromagnetism, though. It's either the real thing or a big fraud. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

ETA: the video referenced is apparently available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVjGWpbE7k . Interestingly, posted on Feb 26, 2023.
Question. The below, taken from a comment on this thread, is a common statement regarding stock price movement.

> Stock price movements are literally text book examples of unpredictable (or more specifically, random walk)

I never understand the above.

How is this possibly true on long time scales?

I can say with relatively strong confidence that Tesla is going to be worth more than $1 trillion in three years.

In March, it was clear NVIDIA would boom in the scale of one year. Just, nobody knew how soon and how fast.

So the walk is not random in these cases...

So in what way are stock prices a random walk?

Is the walk pseudorandom?

Random with a bias?
I'm just going to link the comment I wrote above :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36867709

Needless to say, this would be game-changing. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence etc, let's be cautiously optimistic here.
If AI can replicate linguistic patterns in a way that is undetectable for both humans and models, then it seems even easier for a ML model to emulate a natural typing style, rhythm, and cadence in a way that is undetectable for both humans and models.

But you know who has more real-world data on typing style? Google, Microsoft, Meta, and everyone else who runs SaaS docs, emails, or messaging. I imagine a lot of students write their essays on Google Docs, Word, or the like, and submit them as attachments or copy-paste into a textbox.
I don't think thats really a better title. It gives the impression that the reduction is less than the impact of people quitting.

I get where you are going, but this doesn't communicate it well. It would be better to somehow tie it into taxes or something if we want to go down that path.

Or maybe say something like "If all smokers quit it could save Medicaid 45% of its budget". Saying the same thing but I feel like putting 0.45% next to 1% leads to a gut reaction (since the savings is smaller than the amount of people stopping smoking) that does not properly communicate what is being said.
How long do you think it'll take for the scientific community to determine whether this is fraud, error or the real deal?
Once upon a time a (fameous) CS professor reported that his email was annoyingly slow.

He was using the good ol' mailx MUA.

He never deleted emails.

He never moved emails out of his inbox.

He had been doing this for many years.

His .mbox file was many, many megabytes.

Apparently, he had never noticed the problem before because he very rarely logged out, but IIRC some system work meant he needed to do so several times just prior to his complaint.
I'd want to see a lot better than "better than random" for the type of tool which is already being used to discipline students for academic misconduct, making hiring and firing decisions over who used AI in what CV/job tasks, and generally used to check if someone decieved others by passing off ai writing as their own, a wrong result can impugn people's reputations
I've been the only remote person on a team before. It was a horrible experience. I hope you're able to find a different arrangement soon.
> I'd also be shocked if it wasn't running at a pretty substantial subsidy.

Like most airports, you mean?
Since I created my account in 2009, nothing really happened on Twitter week-to-week, month-to-month, even year-to-year. Fundamentally, the site was mostly the same, and most new updates were either logical or non-important.

We went from using a third-party service to upload photos (TwitPic) to being able to upload directly to Twitter. And we'd go from having a certain shade of blue, to a different shade of blue; or the icons changed to be slightly thicker and redesigned, to contrast better. Nothing interesting. The only real "shocking" change came when tweets went from 140 characters to 280 a few years back, and then early last year Twitter announced that you'd be able to edit tweets. Those two things, in my view, were the biggest changes pre-Elon.

Now Elon owns it, and a lot of things are changing, like paying for verification, prioritizing paid users in replies, disabling Direct Messaging from free accounts by default, and other changes that, in my view, are geared more towards short-term profits as opposed to long-term platform trust and survival.

But overall, it doesn't impact my enjoyment of the service. I get the news on there faster than anywhere else. Twitter's got a great secret sauce in their algorithm that has yet to be destroyed. The moment I can't get immediate useful information from there, I'm not going to use it nearly as much. Until then, change the logo all you like...
Agreed, a happy side effect from pursuing something worthwhile.
A heuristic that can help before starting anything new: "If I am guaranteed to fail at this, would I still do it?" [aiming for process instead of outcomes]
or "If I can tell noone about this, would I still do it" [aiming at interesting things for yourself, and not prestigious things]
Trucks need to haul and tow. You need a real steel frame to do that.
I should be more specific. I smoked menthols and whenever I smelled a Marlboro red it made me gag.
You don’t have to have a strong stomach if you don’t pay attention to the market. Buy and hold or “set and forget” are legitimately good strategies at least in part because of this reason.