skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My feeling is that saving writing from AI is like saving thinking from the pen.

> If we were to live in a society where building a cohesive thought has to be done completely in one's head and communicating it needs to be done via talking, the pen might seem like a crutch that will make people lose those skills.

In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates made just about that exact point: that writing was not really a means to remember, but merely a reminder of what must be remembered, and that it cannot convey wisdom because it cannot be engaged in dialogue.

Socrates might've been a bit disappointed to hear of recent studies which suggest that the act of writing something down does help you remember.

I suspect the same is true of computers in general -- the technology of today that many thinkers like to grouse about for fear it is ruining future generations' minds. And to be sure there are Skinner boxes that run on computers like social media and Candy Crush that serve little purpose other than to sap our attention for advertising dollars. But... the act of programming a computer can be as mind-strengthening as writing, perhaps even more so. To program, say, a flight simulator, you have to know enough aerodynamics, deep down, to express it in a concrete, specific, and succinct way to a computer -- so if you want to strengthen your understanding of aerodynamics, writing a program to simulate it might be a good exercise. (I think this form of education was what Alan Kay was trying to get at with Smalltalk and the Dynabook project.)

Hmm... might programming and prompting an AI model both count as "forms of writing you can engage in dialogue with"? I think Socrates might sniff at them as weak forms of dialogue compared to sitting around talking with philosophers, but they're more active and dynamic than reading fixed, printed text and therefore may well present new avenues of education.
The .NET runtime usually comes pre-installed on all machines above Windows 7. It's just that if your app needs some advanced feature, you need to upgrade runtime version in those cases, this is pretty much how other runtime based systems like Java and Python also work.

Most people who stayed with win32 for long were C programmers who preferred the "purist way". But those who wanted developer productivity soon switched to the frameworks of .NET, Java, Python, etc.
This is a first-principles calculation known as density functional theory. it’s a useful basis for understanding physics in solids. it won its inventors the nobel prize in chemistry in 1998 iirc
All of earths surface is electro-statically charged. So you can electro-static repulse yourself from it..
not really?, Dirac, Von Neumann, etc. taking a look at the history of the nobel prize, its typically the case that something is predicted by theory, then once an experiment is able to verify, then prizes are given out.
The Human Rights Foundation Announces 20 BTC ($600K) Bounty Challenge
You were wrong. Accept it, don't be so snarky and toxic in your replies, please.
From 2009, a talk I gave about S3 internals [0], when I was Technology Evangelist for AWS. Still relevant today, I believe.

[0]: https://vimeo.com/7330740
On windows there is LTSpice which is free, has a lot of models, but not open source and ngspice which is open source but it does not have a GUI (although i heard that it can be used with KiCAD).

So i really don't underestand, what would be the advantage of using Qucs ?
I am pretty sure (but not 100% sure) that Windows uses UCS-2 for filenames, not UTF-16, and so it is worse than that, as you can have unpaired surrogates.
Git and Mercurial are fairly similar, at least compared to what OP is apparently hinting at. Different tech and different internal architectures, but both of them are DVCS offering roughly equivalent workflows.
curl write-out to files
This is not necessary a rebuttal, but I definitely have the same experience with coming up with creative ideas when I go walking or hiking without weed. I think walking is a great way to get your subconscious working effectively on something.
What universities ? They don't have labs ?
Even without the answers, I can't imagine I wouldn't realize by the pace and format of the responses that they were simply read to me instead of said.

I've never had such experience and it seems very low effort.

In any case there's absolutely no risk of someone passing an interview with ChatGPT on our end because it's about seeing how people think and what they've experienced.
> Well, Emacs isn't designed for a common user, but for a power user. From my experience, first time using Emacs was really frustrated.

That's not different from a piano. Musical instruments are not designed for "common users" or "beginners". The ones that are, are not good for playing good music.
This sort of incident is something where I think the fediverse has an edge. Can someone sign up on the fediverse with an offensive name? Yes. And they can suffer the consequences when they are blocked and defederated. On the fediverse, no one is held responsible except the offender themselves. And there is built-in social accountability for server admins. On a corporate controlled platform, people expect the platform to control the actions of users and make decisions that are universally considered morally acceptable. That's an impossible task. You can't make everyone happy.
> BBQ Tire-Smoked Beef

> Use the old car tyre as fuel for your BBQ to give a unique smoky flavor to your cow meat. Season the meat with salt and other spices like paprika and garlic powder before grilling. Serve with a side of coleslaw or grilled vegetables.

Mmmmmm.
I am a common user.

I have set "showdead=1", the choice is there as some people may want to not see at all the dead posts, while some other people may want to see them anyway.

You asked a few questions and I gave you some answers, according to my experience.

The page you provided as link, very likely was seen as a confusing mishmash of several projects, IMHO you should (in your next post) give some more info, the very little info that is on that page:

>Kraker Local Proxy Server is a tiny server based on Node.js which is a popular open-source web server development platform. The server is used by Alleycat Player to access websites which would normally be inaccessible due to browser cross-origin restrictions. This is fully explained in the installation instructions.

>A recent upgrade provides an additional feature. This is a Socks5 tunnel proxy which you can use with your web browser to select your preferred DNS provider or to bypass the DNS altogether. You can also access the Tor Network automatically for ".onion" links. This requires installing the Tor Browser or the stand-alone Tor client.

needs to be looked for, and many people won't take the time to scroll and find it.

You should (still IMHO) expand the info and place (a copy of) it on the actual project page:

https://8chananon.github.io/Alleycat-Player/current/download...

which is the URL that you should post a link to.
Ironic because it’s a Japanese name, not English.

According to the readme, “jj” was chosen because it was easy to type, and a name was found to fit that.
Doesn't anyone working in the physical sciences know how to record a decent video that isn't shaky, blurry, out-of-focus, or a handheld mobile phone recording of a computer screen?

He's using a digital microsocope! Just press the "record" button and upload that!

I can't wait for someone to successfully reproduce it, use a polaroid camera to take the photo, print it out, fax it, and have someone scan in the photocopy, take a photo of the scan from their screen, and upload it to a social media website that'll recompress it and put a watermark on it. Nobel prize winning stuff, right there.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/digital_data_2x.png

PS: No, the sample does NOT "levitate". From what little I could see form the shaky and blurry video, it just moves around, like any magnetic substance would. It could be a piece of rusty iron that flaked off something else, for all we know.
CRM is also being adopted by emergency responders (EMTs) and so on. I've started to use it whenever possible in important or high stress situations dealing with people. Stuff like repeating peoples questions to them so they hear your interpretation of what they said. Always responding to questions, even if the answer is "I don't know yet" or "I'm still working on it".

It's like taking a protocol like TCPIP and mapping it onto human interactions to provide a lot more robustness and remove many sources of mistakes.

There are more elements to CRM, but finding good breakdowns of examples seems to be tied up in paid or industry training and harder to dig up as a layman.
The video stopped very shortly into it for me and prompted some chinese message on the screen, just before he inserted the magnet. Has anyone got a rehosted link to the video that is less likely to get me on some kind of list?

It would be fascinating if this was legitimate.
> the-best-take-on-iran-contra.html

Now that's SEO!
I believe this is one of the claims of chaos engineering. If you randomly restart services, you have to build them in a way that they're resilient to random failures. If you do this to entire servers, VM, or containers, whatever your unit of OS userspace is, you can also kill an attacker's foothold if they manage to get one. Sort of how if humans were capable of respawning in a healthy base state but with their memories intact, you could stop the spread of a disease by just killing everyone.
I have a theory: They aren't. At least not intentionally.

These systems are actively studied, training one area might degrade another area without any obvious degradation overall.

Individual users targeting specifics in knowledge will amplify the "it's getting dumber" signal overall.
Aren't you dismissing my viewpoint that it's not as bad as those claim? Is my experience worth less? I honestly don't get your point.

And nice straw man in your last sentence. Quite ironic while complaining about SO being the toxic ones..
Remarkable to consider a container ship that doesn’t need to be refueled for 15 years!
This looks similar to the protein folding problem. Maybe an AlphaFold-like approach could work?
>I read this as "crazy but extinct bunch of organisms"

That'll be true too, eventually. The way we're going now, it might not even be that long...

I think we should build a monument on the Moon with an archive of data of our cultures (including a copy of Wikipedia), built to survive for as long as possible, so that alien explorers can learn about us after we destroy ourselves, and learn how we managed to do so so they don't repeat the same mistake.
Nice to see this posted here. I switched over to it about 2-3 weeks ago, and I haven't looked back. It took a lot of mental rewiring, but I really enjoy the workflow `jj` provides. There's no longer a time to think about what's being committed, because all file changes automatically amend the working copy commit. Of course, sometimes you don't want this, so you have things like the ability to split a commit into two, moving commits, etc. But having _everything_ operate on commits is really nice! Other niceities that I like:

- `jj log` is awesome for getting an overview of all your branches. If, like me, you have a lot of work in progress at once, this provides a great map

- Conflict resolution is really cool, as you can partially resolve conflicts, and then switch branches. Conflicts are also tracked specially, but I haven't done too much with this yet.

- The abbreviated changeset ids are really handy. I often will just `jj log` (or in my case just `jj` as that's the default), notice a changeset I want to rebase, then run `jj rebase -s qr -d master`. `qr` here is an abbreviated changeset id for a branch/commit, and usually much quicker than typing the branch name out! This will probably change when clap gets updated to support dynamic tab-completion though.
And that makes it less wasteful?
At any rate there are lots of unusual things about Japan, including the post-WW2 rapid transformation it went, that make it hard to judge whether typical rebuilding rates are "wasteful" compared to other developed countries. But it is true there's a lack of much tendency to value "historical" buildings we tend to outside Japan (and arguably most Asian countries).
Yes. I read this thread in shock and quite some level of dismay that you weren't using an array :(... I am very glad you came across the correct way to code that :).
Who the hell uses these terms other than to explain some plot devices of schmulz novels?

Also "we" shouldn't tell others to participate in an euphemism treadmill.
Train an autoencoder to reduce your vector dimensions down to something more workable. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to search against such enormous vectors in a reasonable amount of time anyways.

Another option is to shard your vectors into N pieces, where N*k is the length of your vector. Since cosine similarity doesn’t care about order, it will be fine. The only requirement is that the k-th vector can only be compared with other k-th vectors for similarity. The benefit of this approach is that it can be parallelized easily.
If every thread also have someone claiming it not to be as toxic, shouldn't that also count the same? Aka you should then "consider the thought it is not toxic".
It's just extra stress to go out and do real work with handmade tools. Now I have two points of failure. The cyberdeck (unless I have a backup regular laptop) and the actual device I'm working on. If either goes wrong the client is unhappy and I get yelled at(or more likely, they don't actually yell but might like to). Making a cyberdeck as reliable as a laptop is going to be hard, there's lots of mechanical stuff to consider. Might be worth it, but I wouldn't trust a random reddit build with an important job I don't think.

The pi is just OK at best for actually using like a laptop.

I think a really useful cyberdeck would probably be something that could be put together with no soldering or real diy, just 3d printed aesthetic parts, a tablet and keyboard, power bank, etc, nicely mounted but still just some gear in a box like a normal technician would carry.

Or, something not at all meant to be used like a computer, that isn't already portable. No reason solar generators or NASes or something can't look like cyberdecks.

Or maybe something modular in multiple cases. Keyboard/monitor/serial adapter/battery/Ethernet in one, just use a phone for the actual computer part to ssh into stuff, or a secondary pi box if you really need it.
> Running prediction markets is probably more free money than that. Building and maintaining research teams like that is not easy or cheap, if it would be then Good Judgment Inc. would be rolling in cash.

You get your money from the prediction market if you are better at predicting.
Proof positive that Americans are among the most propagandized people on the face of the Earth.
How much of the cooling cost of current chips is due to wires, vs. the transistors themselves?

Superconductors will not help with the latter.
What a weird hill to die on.
So why doesn't AMD invest more in quality software? Everybody knows it's holding them back. Right now a tiny corporation has to jump through hoops to do work they could have done at any point in the last decade. Why don't they pull a great team together and just do the work, if the pay off is that big?
> because there are far more examples of things that most people were skeptical of that didn't go anywhere.

Such as? What's an equivalent to VR in that category?
Windows CE (aka wince), it's windows, with all of windows' bugs, but intended for embedded applications, making debugging even worse.
What does the Fediverse mean?
Im so glad the late 00s era of cringy "lolcat english" is over. Perhaps the modern equivalent of excessively pretentious sounding crypto bro naming schemes is worse in some ways, but at least I dont have to pause to explain the name when I say it out aloud to someone.
Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire
Superconductors don't make dynamic power somehow go to zero, switching from one state to another still means draining the capacitance.
I have renovated properties before. It can be far cheaper (like half the cost) to bulldoze a property and rebuild it from scratch, especially if you are trying to update to sensible modern standards from 60's/70's/80's "standards".
> “humans in my country started using cannabis in the 1990s for the first time”.

For my point it's irrelevant if people used cannabis thousands of years ago and then stopped.

My point is that weed had no presence in culture or social acceptance pre-1990. Weed is therefore much easier to ban than alcohol and not comparable to the difficulty of banning alcohol.

I don't know the history of weed in US, but my guess is that it's roughly similar.
Only if it's significantly more than pyrolytic graphite, which appears to be the record-holder at the moment. It would have to be sufficiently strongly diamagnetic to levitate over ordinary magnets, which could have interesting applications. Think low-friction and low-vibration bearings, etc...
It would be unlikely for the first observed room temperature superconductor to also be practical. LK99 contains lead which is something we are trying remove from consumer electronics.

What matters is all the investment and attention that would follow the verified discovery of such a material, the huge glut of research would surely yield even better candidates.

The ideal end goal is something like the superconducting tape that we already have, but that works without cooling and is preferably non-toxic.
Replace the double nn in your post by nh and it will work better ;-)
The story is confusing to Americans because the concept that is depicted as shockingly different to us as a population is actually not.

The lion attraction down the street from me also features a ditch as a barrier between humans and lions. Vince would have been just as surprised if he had encountered it here first!
Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism
You could make the same argument about putting slashes in filenames (or, I think, even colons on old versions of Mac OS), and yet we accept that limitation generally without question. FWIW, I generally make sure most of my shell scripts support spaces in filenames--and am in fact more pedantic about it than almost anyone I have ever met--but for a developer tool as part of a build system or whatnot? No: developers should know better and I have no sympathy if they insist on spaces in filenames as it just isn't worth the productivity loss to everyone across the entire stack.
"what's ligma" on ChatGPT, April 2023:

`Ligma is a made-up term that originated as part of an internet joke or prank. When someone asks, "What's ligma?" the person who initiated the joke usually responds with a crude or inappropriate punchline. The purpose of the joke is to elicit a humorous or shocked reaction from the person asking the question. As an Al language model, my goal is to provide accurate information and assistance. If you have any serious questions, please don't hesitate to ask,
and I'll be glad to help.`

"who is ligma", today, Aug 2023:

`As of my last update in September 2021, "Ligma" is not a person; it's an internet meme or joke. The term "Ligma" is a play on words and a form of trolling. When someone asks, "What is Ligma?" the usual response is, "Ligma balls." It's a childish and deliberately provocative joke aimed at getting people to say the punchline without realizing what they are actually saying.

This kind of joke is typical of internet culture, where memes and trolling are prevalent. However, as with any internet meme, its popularity and relevance can change over time, so it's possible that the context or significance of "Ligma" may have evolved or faded away since my last update in September 2021.`

"who is ligma" over API:

`Ligma is a fictional character or concept that originated as an internet meme. It is often used as a prank or joke to trick someone into asking "What is ligma?" The response is typically "Ligma balls," which is a play on words and a vulgar joke.`

In April, it was very difficult to get it to explain the joke, and it will just outright refuse to do so, insisting that it can't say crude and inappropriate things.

Recently, it's been more open to using the actual vulgarity to explain the phrase.

The base API without any steering `system` prompt tends to exclude all the stuff ChatGPT was trained with, such as proposing a solution or apologising for using profanity or apologising for being an AI.
Edit: This turned into a rant.

"Teach the process"

Learn to learn

etc

The approach the author takes is boring and therefore will not succeed. Maybe future will prove me wrong on this - I'd be fine with it.

My take is an axiom that is omnipresent among tech bubble: Focus on what matters. Let's ask ourself every time we put more than one thought into something: "What is this really about?" "Why do I actually have to do this?" etc. Even without AI our academic systems are being gamified every day. AI just accelerates (and partly even democratize) this movement. People follow a fassade and sadly the system followed. We need to start asking general questions more again. With AI and art this is even more visible. It is often overlooked that AI can not create something new. And you do not have the right to make a living by rearranging and combinging already existing ideas. But exactly this is the metric we should focus on: the new. If you don't want to create something new, then fine, just copy and paste along. But making something new is hard and you'll need to learn the basics yourself (tech the process, learn to learn, etc). But to make this approach imposed is even another misguided junction. It has to come from the one thing that is important: the new, the actual drive, the 'doing it because I want it'
Well put. I'd add that theories can produce predictions, and if the predictions can be proved experimentally, all the better for the theory.
"That's just like, your opinion, man"

Everything? Really? Not to be flippant but I've heard a lot of people say something similar but I am yet to see a single convincing example.
I can not be bothered to do the experiment, but take a US house. Do zero maintenence or updating for 22 years and I expect it will have depreciated towards land value only.
Cloud Monitoring adds synthetic monitoring feature
Sure, I said cooler chips, not chips with no heat.
> Whether you want to monitor for this sort of thing (and how) is an open question. It's certainly possible that this is one of the times where your monitoring isn't going to be comprehensive, because it's infrequent enough, low impact enough, and hard enough to craft a specific alert.

my preferred way to alert on this is to use the process start time that's included by default in most process-level Prometheus metrics (and is trivial to implement yourself, if you need to):

> curl -s localhost:9100/metrics | grep process_start_time_seconds
# HELP process_start_time_seconds Start time of the process since unix epoch in seconds.
# TYPE process_start_time_seconds gauge
process_start_time_seconds 1.68957669109e+09

on a stable system, this metric will be very close to static. you can feed it through the PromQL changes() function to get a count of how many restarts have happened in a given time window.

in my experience, for anything with an "alert if it's down for X minutes" rule, you probably also want an "alert if it restarts N times in Y minutes" rule.
> Also, essentially the entire country outside of Tokyo is shrinking in population, which obviously depresses property prices.

I wish this was a significant effect, but my country peaked in population in the late 90s and had Japan-level fertility (and suicide BTW) rates since, but we got hit with the same insane housing price increases as everyone else.