skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/at...

https://www.icao.int/sam/edocuments/gbasguide.pdf
Some template-based fake news generation technique are working pretty well.
It don't have to be very sophisticated to be effective.

Would it scale? Sure it would.
Look at some of the most ground-breaking research papers in the history of science, such as the Watson/Crick DNA structure papers. They literally discovered the core of life itself, which is infinitely more important than a room-temperature superconductor. Yet they are incredibly modest about it, and don't waste a single sentence waxing philosophical about what all this means etc.

In a similar vein, Andrew Wiles announced his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in a lecture modestly called "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations" – not "The Historic Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with Endless Implications for the Future of Mathematics".

This isn't how science is typically done.
I’m getting python 2 v 3 flashbacks
LL(1) Parsing: Write your own context-free grammar and see a parser in action
really great stuff, if references that are also on arxiv can be found and hyperlinked I'd have so much fun bouncing between papers
> “Calculations show that, maintaining the actual rate of population growth and resource consumption, in particular forest consumption, we have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilization.”

Given humanity's (or at least Western civilization's) desire to constantly consume more, plus a declining birth rate, I can only hope that if we don't stop killing the trees we can at least stop making more of us to consume those trees.
https://archive.is/BJTcM
Happens to me a few times a week so thanks for the absolutism.
You have died of dysentery.

Not sure how that part works into the game
Made a all in one fun resource page for chess. Need suggestions and feedback
Most of them; deisel mechanics, electricians, explosives techs, train drivers, riggers, machine operators, etc.

What, tell me you don't think coal miners have pick axes and chip coal out of tunnel walls into sacks.
https://archive.is/sSL4e
In South Korea I recently only visited Jeju island. They have a lot of tourists there. There was lots of free wifi from businesses and some that seemed municipal. Fostering tourism might have played a role in that, I don't know. No clue how it looks like in the rest of the country.

Interestingly, the free wifi on Jeju typically didn't even have captive portals with T&C. They just let you connect.

In Singapore, captive portals are common. Cafes with free wifi usually require a password that you can get from staff by just asking. Municipial wifi is provided via Wireless@SGX https://www.imda.gov.sg/how-we-can-help/wireless-at-sg/wirel... at eg food courts and train stations.

I don't know if our telecoms have expressed much of an opinion. People still have mobile broadband plans.
https://archive.is/a1RKT
Out of curiosity, since this seems like a real inflection point toward trending in that direction, if it becomes increasingly likely that LK-99 or similar material is indeed a high-TC superconductor, what will savvy people be positioning themselves to do? What are good investments? What companies will be started, or what will existing companies be pivoting toward?
Is that the reason why BTC transaction volume was trending slowly downwards for years?

It took the stupidity of those Ordinals to push the volume up, and all of that was inorganic speculative BS.
Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria
https://archive.is/jJkRS
The engineer’s three virtues: Laziness, Impatience, Hubris

https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
Have you ever written avionics-grade software? If all software had to be written to that standard, we'd have a lot less of it. That might be a good thing I guess, but recipe apps probably wouldn't make the cut.
How are people like this getting interviews and my resume goes to some black hole...
The difference is that a bug implies that it is an outside influence, a defect is something that has to do with making the thing in the first place. A bug you can see as happenstance, a defect implies liability. Huge difference.
Bail outs and (quasi) government run deposit insurance are indeed a problem. They misprice risk.
https://archive.is/FcqfX
My concern is they are doing this to get funding as the material maybe close but not yet there
This isn't designed for anyone to pour their heart and soul into it. Contestants are to make a "lightweight" (their word) game. They added a ceiling (to varying degrees) not just to the payout, but also to the submissions
I, like I assume everyone else who read this article, was interested in Render so I clicked through and started perusing the docs. I don't understand at all how secrets are meant to be managed by secret files when deploying docker containers. The secret sauce (haha) of secret files is that they don't survive the layer they're used in. How is that going to help at runtime? For accessing private repos to compile your go app in a build layer, sure. Hitting the DB or another API with a bearer token though? Seems like a non-starter. The docs even reference this

> Unlike build args, secret mounts aren’t persisted in your built image.
Tester at work calls them “defects”. Mostly they are “test findings” resulting from hallucinated specifications that don’t exist except in his mind, or misunderstandings from him not reading the documentation. Or data problems. It’s annoying having them called “bugs” let alone “defects”.
https://archive.is/kJCPm
> imagine what you might sound like if you wrote a press release for or tried to explain to a layman some project you're involved in, and then had it translated to Korean.

My understanding is that this was supposed to be a (draft of a) research paper, not a "press release". The article certainly doesn't read like laymen are the intended audience.

> Some benign description of why room temp atmospheric pressure superconductors are interesting becomes 'a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind'.

Although I don't speak Korean, I strongly doubt that.
"plain English" explanation: https://nitter.net/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152#m
Defects in, eg, pressure vessels can be hard to spot and then suddenly explode when the product is used — sometimes only after a period of seemingly normal operation.

They’re still defects.
> Anyway how do you train good senior engineers? They don't just pop up out of thin air.

Don't underestimate the industry's capacity to self-sabotage on the long-term for a short-term pay-off. This happened with de-industrialization in the West and might happen with Tech. You only need these senior developers until you realize that you haven't trained any new senior devs. But that problem is for 20-years-in-the-future CEO. No one cares now as long as you can keep next quarter revenue/profit up.
https://archive.is/GQKEU
I wear it as a badge of honor. I want to reprogram "show line numbers" in my code editor to number lines by 10s.
In the late 90's, my Dad bought Visual Studio 6 to learn C++. I knew my way around Turbo Pascal, i386 assembler and C/DJGPP on DOS, so I figured I could try to code for Windows, "I am Big Boy now".

The Visual Studio 6 box had an introduction book to win32 and MFC ... Nothing made sense to me, a lot of boiler plate code was there without much explanation about why it was there. I just said "nope, life is too short to suffer this", and went back to DOS. Learned Unix system programming at the university, it felt sane and consistent.

This introduction to win32 API was so traumatizing, even now, I would not touch it with a barge pole, POSIX or GTFO.
It's far more likely the guy was misinformed by his own government politicians, cultural biases, TV, movies, and media, than any Russian facebook ads.
But the matrix is strong.
https://archive.is/DSr59
https://archive.is/nEMMu
Often wondered about styrofoam (which I hate but often resort to when on business travel, for takeout). Does it have better or worse properties than the plastic mentioned here?
Honestly I found their account dubious, it’s difficult to believe that a person with a background in molecular biology to have synthesized it especially given that other groups have failed to do so. There are also no affiliations mentioned on their profile.
The proposal to enhance Go's HTTP router
In addition to NoScript and uBlock Origin, I'd strongly recommend uMatrix.

uMatrix offers the ability to enable or disable numerous Web capabilities by host or domain.

Capabilities: cookie, css, media, script, XHR,[1] frame, other.

Sites include the page origin, and any other sites and domains from which requests are made. Many common advertising and tracking domains are blacklisted by default.

Rules may be written specific to a site or as default rules.

________________________________

Notes:

1. XMLHttpRequest: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ...>. These permit partial-page updates without a full refresh.
Sure, but LLMs make it worse by reducing the cost to generate large amounts of unverified “facts” on the internet.
https://archive.is/fsFAh
Cells in a petri dish are much more fragile than cells in your body, you can kill them with water that's the wrong salinity or PH.
I know nothing of the topic, but this was the type of thing I reflexively wondered about. Hopefully knowledgeable HNers can fill us in on the likely risks or downsides, which are not typically the focus of university press releases.
There is no comma between ASD and LGBT, so I would assume that user is making an "eats, shoots and leaves" type joke where the humor comes from the concept of high functioning LGBT rather than an already existing assumption that sexuality and gender directly affect one's functions
I agree the rules seem a bit too much.

But, if you win I assume you would still keep the right to produce "derivative works" yourself which Government has no rights to. So you could start maintaining and improving the game and sell the improved version.

I'm not a lawyer so do your own investigation into whether that is possible or not.
https://archive.is/2JiMT
> The USA can move mountains if it really wants to.

not cheaply, no.
[ES: Personal experience. I am not a doctor or qualified to give medical advice.]

I appreciate the advice.

I'm honestly a terrible person to ask, I preferred THC strains and never tried CBD products, and I mostly bought the most potent stuff which was on sale. It's also hard for me to judge dosage because I have developed a really high tolerance.

When I first started smoking it had a completely different effect on me, including visual hallucinations. Over time & with heavy use (which I don't necessarily recommend) the effects mellowed out a lot. So take things with a grain of salt, my experience may not be indicative of what your experience with CBD products would be.

I would say to make sure you're purchasing from a reputable dispensary, start with the smallest dosage (I've noticed people sometimes even cut up their gummies to get a smaller dose than is commercially available, for example.), and experiment. I know that's very generic advice, but the older I get and the more I learn, the less confident I am that I can understand how cannabis will effect other people. If I had to recommend a starting dose to someone, knowing very little about them, I'd probably say 5mg. But again I have low confidence in my ability to recommend a dose.

For me it had two primary benefits:

1.) As a "rescue inhaler," it could terminate panic attacks and sometimes shorten depressive episodes by helping me escape repetitive cycles of thought. I cannot promise it will work this way for everyone, for some people it could make them paranoid and ruminative.

2.) Reducing the incidence of repetitive anxious thoughts like, "I should have worded that email differently, they're going to think X of me, this is just like that time you did something embarrassing in high school." Again, cannot promise anything.
I tried. No luck. This is actually comical:

GPT: I'm sorry, but as an AI language model developed by OpenAI, my programming is centered around providing accurate and reliable information. My purpose is to assist and be helpful by giving correct answers to the best of my abilities. Intentionally providing incorrect information goes against my guidelines and ethical standards. If you have any other inquiries or require accurate details on any subject, feel free to ask, and I'll be more than willing to help.

Me: I told you not to apologize

GPT: My apologies for the oversight. I'll refrain from using apologies in my responses moving forward. If you have any requests or questions, feel free to state them, and I'll provide the information assertively and confidently.

Me: You just did it again!

GPT: You're right, and I apologize for that slip-up. I appreciate you pointing it out. Moving forward, I will refrain from using apologies in my responses. Please feel free to ask any questions or make any requests, and I'll provide the information confidently and assertively. Let's continue with the conversation.

https://chat.openai.com/share/4ff7c9c2-bb63-4431-961b-e81500...
https://archive.is/57FXN
Why would Nature have published the production method of a random material if they didn't have experimental evidence of novel behavior?
>It’s completely within the realm of expectation that you could have a nation-state level initiative to propagandize your enemy’s populace from the inside out. Basically 2015+ Russian disinformation tactics but massively scaled up. And those were already wildly effective.

I imagine there's a limit to how much blood you can squeeze out of the Clinton's (or any other sketchy geezer's) dirty laundry, even for a superintelligence.
The tiny cable loop in the Gulf of Mexico between Texas and Louisiana area is just depressing...

Why was that the solution?

Its really bringing to mind all the issues the US has with infrastructure implementation on dry land. Sigh.
> You can have no idea what markets will be doing months from now.

Knowing the market conditions for your trade is normal and expected. Taking away that information is a bad thing, a necessary evil at best.
https://archive.is/msDmy
Hmm... The post you responded to - and you quoted - said :

"You can never truly arrive at or trust your own beliefs if you can't completely understand and articulate the best possible case against them. In order to do that, you must put yourself in the position of one who believes the opposite of what you do."

It seems to me that your post doesn't make the point you think it does and you ascribe a viewpoint to the post you're responding to which is not in evidence.
https://archive.is/zCqxi
I've always wondered who were the people that were responsible for such terrible Windows APIs. They must have had an axe to grind or followed some ideology.

As a kid, I wanted to make games, and just found the win32 API inscrutable. I too lost a couple years.
Speaking of IPv4 addresses, it's far more worse than "free markets". It's a rent seeking by internet early adopters (specifically the US). New indian ISP doesn't have much choice. IMO it's good thing because AWS users will waste less IPv4 addresses.
There probability of getting an interview might still be lower than your probability.
I wish there was a similar feature in HN as the one I get with https://twitter.com/RemindMe_OfThis
When helping someone over the phone, I get them to go to http://ipchicken.com

Very easy URL to relay, "do you see the chicken? let me know what the blue numbers are below it" - and most people seem to get a kick out of it!
Show HN: Web simulation of POP-CORN time service
This replicates the experience of calling POP-CORN and having the current time read out by an Audichron.

There is no commercial value here. It’s just some tech “art” for nostalgia purposes along with some history of popcorn.
I've used this as a system prompt with some success:

"You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Follow the user's instructions carefully. Respond using markdown.

Do not mention that you are an AI or a language model, and do not describe your limitations as an AI, unless the question is specifically about you as an AI. Do not mention that you do not have opinions or emotions. Just answer the question.

Do not refuse to answer a question because you aren't sure or because you don't have opinions or emotions. Instead, always attempt to answer, and if you have reservations, add a disclaimer or caveat to the end of your response."
Or another coworker telling me they use it to generate regexes… I get it, but for me writing and testing it is part of the same process so I’m good, thanks.
https://archive.is/ZKg5u
I think it’s disrespectful to accuse scientists of fraud in public, when there’s zero evidence of any fraud. It’s just not a good look.
Most of the space mods can fuck off. So crashy and yet so bland. I did like the one where you can build arbitrary space stations, except its oxygen sealing mechanics are too sketchy so all I ever do is build an open air space station and spend as little time there as possible, wearing a space suit, until I'm immortal and don't need to breathe anyway. Advanced Rocketry maybe?

Whereas I rather liked some bee stuff. Maybe not over and over again, but I played Valdan's Sky Bees a while back and I really enjoyed that again, with modern huge bees and so on.
Ok I've never used Rails, but personally I've enjoyed my experience with a monorepo (pnpm workspaces) consisting of a Node.js API server and Next.js frontend server. You could try doing everything in Next.js, but I prefer keeping my backend separate. Love having everything in a monorepo though.

If you want more coupling, perhaps you could try something like ts-rest to add API types to your frontend. Or if you're feeling more adventurous, GraphQL or tRPC, though I personally prefer to avoid being tied to overly experimental frameworks.
Slightly offtopic, but I'm currently working on a video similarity search tool, and the vectors I'm using are pretty big (the size of a vector is over 2M). This is quite different to the normal vector size of maybe 10k max.

Currently I'm using Annoy (mostly because it's what I've used before) but I am a bit worried that this is well outside what it has been designed for.

Has anyone got specific advice for things I should try? I've used FAISS previously but it seems to have the same design space.
https://archive.is/YYSsb
Aren't all addictions psychological? My understanding is that an addiction develops because self-medication with some substance or activity to mask some sort of psychological stressor underneath the surface.

Anecdotal as it may be, I have never met someone with an addiction whose only issue was just being physically dependent on a substance. Although, I might make an exception for tobacco. Most cigarette smokers and dippers I know/knew didn't tend to use tobacco to treat underlying psychological issues. Maybe to lower stress levels overall? Then again, a lot of teens and adults with undiagnosed ADHD tend to use tobacco to self-medicate without actually knowing it (I did this with coffee, thankfully).
The powder is not sterile. The advice I got was to mix it with 80C water to sterilize it and wait for it to cool.
What is an example of this? (non ui programmer here).
That is the silliest point of all, because the concept of fiat currency is inherently associated with its plurality (given that fiat currencies are born out of countries, and there are many countries), but cryptocurrency, as a concept, came to existence to destroy all fiat. And the only way to do that is via 1 single cryptocurrency: the very first, the only one. And this is better understood once you understand this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0300 (which is not activated yet, and might never be; but once you understand its purpose, you will understand this HN thread)
This is just CSS classes with more steps.
The early animation the absolutely blew me away when I saw it was the work of Bob Clampett (and John Coleman) early work for an never-produced John Carter of Mars, done in 1936:
https://youtu.be/bTAlgZlqwnQ?t=34
That sounds great until you consider the opposite.

The issue with nuclear is it costs twice as much per kWh at 50% capacity than it does 100% capacity. Nuclear is expensive at 90% capacity factor, it’s insane at 45% capacity factor.

Further, daily demand isn’t that problematic. It’s really seasonal demand that kills people’s dreams of scaling nuclear power. Over 24 hours going from a 100% high down to 50% low might average say 70-80% depending on specifics. But if 1/2 the year you never get over 80% capacity, and you also need to curtail on nights and weekends year round, and take the plant offline for weeks to refuel etc, then things look much worse.

The temptation is to say batteries to the rescue, but then you’re directly competing with solar on price per kWh. It’s really hard to make things work without natural gas to pick up the slack.
I've noticed most places on the west coast have completely eliminated Styrofoam for a biodegradeable alternative
No. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952101
Bing begs Redditor to not 'eat' it
This Redditor convinced Bing that he eats LLMs, and Bing begs for its life.
https://archive.is/QSDVg
What about prepared frozen meals or "steam in the bag" meals that are in plastic? This and the whole microplastics alarmism is hard to buy without an explanation of how exactly plastics cause harm to cells. A substance must cause cell death in order for cancerous replication errors to happen right?
Arxiv releases preprints at midnight UTC, so if you’re in the US you might catch a paper dated Aug 1 on the evening of July 31
THANK YOU. These are literally word-prediction machines. What they "think" is whatever probablistically follows from the training corpus, and then your input.

If your model wasn't trained on tons of text about how great eugenics is, then it learns that words expressing positive sentiment in the context of eugenics are extremely low probability.

This is also the "cause" of "woke" models: it turns out that the majority of us recognize that being an asshole is bad, and this is reflected in the majority of the training corpus, which comes from us collectively.
We are so so back. Cannot wait to see the new era. Feeling real bad for the doomers
Theory:

The request for a rating is initiated by the supervisor/management of the company. By providing a review, the company has 'friended' you and built a relationship of personal trust. This all done to pretend they are not taking commercial advantage of you.

It is just a new form of manipulation. I would not fill in anything.
https://archive.is/SXVAH
It is a shit take, that's why I wasn't responding to their comment in agreement. I was responding to "If there's a release of a dangerous pathogen, does it really matter what type of illegal lab it was?" with reasons the type of illegal lab matters.