skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what this passage is trying to say.
There's an obvious possible intent, but the wording seems to not match it.

Quote:

"
A Sad Footnote to a Sad Footnote

Famous Bullet-Catching Trick

Annemann was considered a strange figure in
magic and, by all but a few, he was thought a
genius in the methods of duplicating psychic
or mental phenomena; he was a creative thinker but always a reluctant and nervous
performer. It was big news when advertise-
ments for his full evening show appeared in
the New York press. Annemann was to ap-
pear at "The Little Theatre in the Sky" atop
the Chanin Building on New York's 42nd
Street on January 26th and 27th, 1942.

The feature of the show was to be the
famous Bullet-Catching Trick. A committee
purchased, examined and marked a bullet
which was then loaded into a rifle belonging
to a spectator, a marksman, who had never
met the performer, The marksman hoisted the
rifle to his shoulder and took aim at the mouth
of the performer who stood blindfolded on
the opposite side of the stage with his hands
behind his back. The commands, "Ready —
Aim — Fire!" were given. A shot rang out and
the performer dropped to his knees; there was
a trickle of blood from the comer of his mouth
and then miraculously the marked bullet was
seen to emerge from between his lips.

Over the years twelve magicians had lost
their lives presenting this spectacular effect,
and the magic fraternity spoke of the upcoming Annemann attempt with strained antici-
pation.

It is easy to speculate that Annemann, too,
felt the strain, not only of this trick and this
show but of the other confused pieces of his
life. He did not do the performance. On
January 12th, a few miles away from the
theatre, he locked himself in his room and
committed suicide.
"

It skips the part where there's an attempt to "magic" the bullet?
Most C implementations are hosted and like to keep compatibility with the C standard. So they go with the standard C stdlib.
Well, yes, definitely.

And that’s the business model of a lot of ERPs, especially mid-sized ones. Some of them even have private configuration software, and I even remember one having a private “special compiler” that was just applying something equivalent to a ROT13 to the code and zipping to discourage customization by customers.

But the crazy part is that you don’t even need to resort to this. Unless you’re SAP or something like that, there’s no chance in hell that a developer will want to hitch their career to your shitty ERP, so consulting it is.
This was a good read, it was nice how they put the contested signature top right and prominent and also clearly reiterated the story the mayor tried to squash.
“your stoner friends”, lol, where are people like you still found?

In California, and the entire West Coast, recreational use of marijuana is as normal as alcohol use.

People that use substances are different than those that abuse substances, and yet you are
conflating the two.

“Senate lets people that have had a drink before work at Intelligence agencies” “my alcoholic friends working as spooks would be a threat to national security”
Oh, and you might be interested in https://radicle.xyz/. I tried it a while ago, was stable and has nice aesthetics to it as a bonus.
Let me guess, you don't do your own yard work or don't have a significant area to sweep or rake? You realize they many electric blowers, right?
interesting, we've built a general framework that supports new project creation (as one way to use code gen), not tied to a language either.

Curious where this experiment will go and if it will become useful. Right now it mostly seems like a git clone with a bit to update the module clause.

Thanks for sharing!

Ardan Labs has a nice, much more extensive, Go starter: https://github.com/ardanlabs/service

---

https://docs.hofstadter.io/getting-started/create/

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
What version of bash do you see this happening on? Mine works as expected.
No, it only works for direct current. While superconducting processors could, in principle, operate more efficiently and perhaps at higher speeds than conventional processors, they won't be completely free of energy losses. AC can induce losses due to electromagnetic fields.
I think them waiting until there’s more research is preferable to them coming out and making random claims which pan out not to be true.
Many people that seek leadership roles are indeed narcissists.
People with strong narcissistic tendencies may indeed be drawn to high-level corporate positions due to the visibility, power, and status associated with these roles.
These folks proper in environments where they are in control and don't do quite as well working "in" teams. This is usually the tell. ;)
A Thought On Using Rust for non-system programming
In order to avoid "burying the lede": I strongly suspect that Rust's momentum will be increased because its downsides are ameliorated by LLMs.

I wrote a terminal-based utility in Python that I'm thinking of releasing publicly (I've been using it myself for years). But the footprint seems very big for a terminal utility.

So I've been looking at converting it to a compiled language. One with memory management. I like F#, but its executable footprint is surprisingly large.

I played with OCaml, and I basically like the language, but its tooling is not great and I'm finding that ChatGPT isn't good at writing OCaml code particularly when using libraries, because there just isn't much code out there using most OCaml ecosystem libraries.

Which finally led me to look at Rust. It has features I want like match statements, and even has macros that do pipelining. Obviously, it's usually considered a systems programming language, although there are things like web frameworks.

One might ask, however: For applications where efficiency isn't a major issue, why would you use a language where you have to manually deal with things like memory management, meaning that it will take significantly more code to accomplish the same thing as you could in a non-systems language?

An answer I'm considering: There is a *lot* of Rust code out there for training LLMs. My guess is that to the degree that a developer is willing to invoke an LLM to write code, it can handle the memory management pretty much painlessly.

I'm not advocating turning programming tasks entirely over to LLMs. We should still read and understand any LLM-generated code we use, carefully consider the structure and tools it uses, etc..

But what I'm suspecting is that a language like Rust may get more use in the future. The time expenditure that goes with its programming overhead is greatly reduced when LLMs are used to generate code. Maybe there will be less traction going to languages whose main advantage is that they require fewer lines of code for the same results when those lines are often written by an LLM.

So I make a tentative prediction: LLM use will cause the Rust community to grow even more quickly than has already been the case.

Anyway, I'm going to be moving from Python to Rust, making substantial use of LLMs, and see how it feels.
I put 1k USD into Tesla today with the same reasoning. Hopefully I don't end up a fool!
map functions to screens and function parameters to GUI-elements
I used to work in a position that had many things like you describe.

My per diet was $250, but hotel in the middle of oil field nowhere was $140/night, I couldn’t get breakfast for less than $15, lunch about the same, and any dinner that wasn’t a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store $25. Now you’re at $225/250 of your per diem, you’re covered in concrete, and you get $25 “bonus” for the privilege of living away from home out of back eating whatever you can find in the middle of nowhere.

A lot of the smaller contractors would bring in a 5th wheel, break out the bbq after work, and pocket the hotel money to make work better.

And maybe they make $100k but they work heavy overtime, away from home, and 3000 hours a year to make it happen. And they still have to spend 12 hours actually doing the physical work to make the job happen.

It’s not a glamorous life.
> If someone gave me the headline "was the president strong at writing essays when JFK was a high school freshman?" I would assume that either they were trying to trick me or that they were a non-native English speaker or computer program that didn't understand how English syntax or the concept of presidency worked.

I don't think it's as complicated as all that. Most English speakers wouldn't refer to a single person by two distinct proper nouns in a sentence like this, so I'd assume they were referring to two separate people. If they had meant to refer to the same person, they would have used a pronoun. I'd probably guess they were either talking about the President at the time at which JFK was a freshman (Hoover, I think) or the current President at the time the question was being asked.

On the other hand, if the question was "Was President Kennedy strong at writing essays when JFK was a high school freshman?" then yeah, I'd agree with your take. In this case, it's clear that the writer is intentionally referring to the same person but using two different proper nouns, which is a very odd phrasing.
A bit of artistic license perhaps, it's not really a plan. Pointing out the bucket of skilled labor is already empty and even the unskilled labor bucket is getting dry. Forcing layoffs now will probably bite them in future.
So they still generate permanent electromagnetic force when "charged"?
> it was usually a pretty reliable clue as to their skill level.

But in which direction? I'm very skilled, and used to customize things like this -- but at a certain point, I stopped doing it because I'd develop muscle memory for my customizations that would really mess me up when using someone else's computer.

So now, I don't customize anything. It makes my life easier.
Does LK-99 defy the laws of physics like the EmDrive did?
I think a better way (as mentioned by the parent) is to use FailureAction to do something (like send an event to an alerting system). Granted, you have to modify all the .service files that you care about, which is annoying.
Superconducting material discovered right around the time conversations about UFOs are kicking off again - coincidence?
Zero loss of energy to heat in any of the conductors. You're not making the battery more efficient, you're making everything else more efficient.
Except the energy is stored in the magnetic field. Superconductivity or not, you don't carry tesla-scale electromagnets around without becoming a target for high-velocity metallic projectiles and wreaking havoc with every electronic device in the neighborhood. Storage facilities for regulating grid power fluctuations are probably a much more realistic use case.
I kinda agree here, especially with modern tools.

Screen sharing on a call is a 10000x better experience than "just come over to my desk and look over my shoulder"

Screen sharing is better for pair programming, mentoring, demoing, everything. It's awesome.

The only real downside to calls is that whiteboarding is a challenge, but tbh Whiteboards are anti-productive, they are where communication goes to die imo.
I don't think the YKK video is there yet but Jon also provides transcripts for many of his videos on his Substack, which might me more to your taste.

Here is the one for the history of Intel and AMD.

https://www.asianometry.com/p/intel-and-amd-the-first-30-yea...
IIRC, no, it wasn't per-site, but disallowing third-party cookies overall was a setting in 3.x.

The more relevant aspect, I think, is that there's an essential/non-essential distinction in the law, which differs from 1st-party/3rd-party.
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I can't even be arsed to season a pan properly and nonstick ceramic is fine. It won't last forever, but it works for upwards of 10 years.
Pernosco has that!
Well, we can only speculate. But I would suggest that since the writer themselves is choosing to write an op-ed on the subject, perhaps they themselves have ample motivation to come up with a persuasive word to argue their case? Their goal is to educate normal people on these chemicals and in the piece they explain that the terminology commonly used is so scientific as to be meaningless to the general public. Hence the need for a more direct "forever chemicals" instead of PFAS/per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFOA/Perfluorooctanoic acid or C8/8 carbon chain structure.
Add to that if you have food restrictions, the $40 meal might not even taste worth it but you have to order for some reason (like not being able to cook on that day, etc.)
I worked in Data Engineering for 6 years before recently deciding to at least take a siesta to write some "normal" software as a product engineer.

I really like data engineering in general - writing spark jobs, manipulating huge amounts of data, concerting pipelines, writing SQL... I just like it all a lot. I like SQL - there, I said it!!

But damn do the rough edges just burn you out. Airflow is one of those edges. IMO part of the problem is that everyone wants to hold it in a slightly different way, and so you end up with Airflow being this opinionless monster thing that lets you use it any way you want as long as it "works". And everything built on top of this opinion-less mess is of course also kind of a mess. And plus at a certain scale, Airflow itself needs to be maintained as a distributed system.

Spark is another one of those things with lots of rough edges. Some of it might've been the places I worked at were holding it all wrong, but Spark and all its adjacent context are so damn complicated you either have a small group of experts writing all spark code and you have to heavily prioritize what they work on, or you have a bunch of non-data-engineer folks writing spark jobs and kind of making it work sorta but it's all as inefficient as possible while still making it work, and it's really brittle as they don't know all the ways they need to think about things scaling.

Notably, I got really tired of people coming to our team and going "we wrote this big spark job, it worked fine up until it didn't, can you please help us fix it, it's mission critical". And it's just an OOM because they're pulling data into memory and have just been bumping -Xmx every 2 weeks for six months. or perhaps even worse, they were doing some wonky thing that wouldn't scale and then now they're running into weird errors because they used the feature so wrong (like, having a small dataframe with 1-2 partitions that then gets used in a subsequent stage that's HUGE and all the executors absolutely swamp the poor node or two that's hosting those partitions).

Anyway, it's easy to write a spark job that works at the time of writing, and really hard to make a spark job that will work 6 months from now.

Add to the fact that Spark is a giant money firehose, data engineering departments are constantly asked to sacrifice reliability to increase efficiency (just run everything hotter! who needs slack or buffer space?) and it just makes all the above issues worse.
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If you're trying to simulate a combinatorial explosion of possible states, reigning in the possible values would certainly help with maintaining that illusion.
Statist and capitalist society is built on rules for thee but not for me. Good luck voting and waiting to solve this.
The so-called 'hidden caste system' that has tipped employees at the top of the F&B food chain, earning significantly more than back-of-house staff like bussers and chefs?
> if you could grow a good single crystal of LK-99, it seems as if the superconductivity might only occur along one crystal axis: put crudely, you'd see superconductivity if you hooked your wires to two particular opposite faces of said crystal, but not to the others! Crystalline grain boundaries are already known to be a big deal in the efficiency of existing superconducting materials, and this would mean that polycrystalline samples of LK-99 would be pretty unfavorable to demonstrating robust effects.

I think this means production of usable superconducting masses will be tricky, if its even possible.

So... Probably on the longer side? Time will be needed to figure out how to make it macroscopically, or discover a similar compound thats easier to produce in bulk.

But once wire, coils, high purity samples and such start getting sold, I think the adoption would be very quick.
If you live in an area with puncturevine, either tubeless or slime filled tubes is a minimum requirement. People don’t do this and are then shocked when they have tons of flats.
How do you plan on keeping things 100% renewable? Do you mean you have contracts with renewable developers or is your network separate from the bulk electric system with only solar/wind/storage within the network? I assume the former?
I got nicely seasoned cast iron at Target for cheap, was very surprising.

I like sticking mine in the oven and letting it preheat to dry them, plus it's genuinely pretty convenient to store them there when unused anyway.
> for having RTRPS tech flying around for decades

RTRPS = Real Time Role Playing Strategy?
A new chat model based on llama-2-13b, aiming to provide a strong coding capability. NewHope handle different languages including Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, Go, and more. Preliminary evaluation on HumanEval shows that NewHope possesses 99% of GPT-4's programming capabilities.
> I literally showed five lines of code above that solve the putative problem

The top reply to your five lines literally points out why your solution doesn't solve the right problem.

The macro you wrote puts the same definition everywhere. It can't even handle the original use case of calling a different function for each number type.

If you're suggesting a combination approach of hiding the implementation with a macro until after _Generic gets resolved, I don't think that ordering is possible.
I don't get the "disappointment" with USA scientists in this thread not having yet published a replication. There has only been one weekday since the LK-99 revelation came to light. Have some patience.

The analysis from this article is a publication from Berkeley National Lab that has already come out, and Argonne National Lab has announced they have synthesized the material as of yesterday and will release results from their replication attempt in the next few days.
Unfortunately, cheat detecting systems create false positives sometimes. I would not like to increase the odds of getting falsely flagged for cheating when run against multiple cheat-detecting systems when you no longer have a relationship with the professor and he doesn't remember you.
the other side's lawyers might like a few wild-cards (as to increase the chance of a hung jury).

No, never. The defense never wants a hung jury, because the prosecution will just get another chance to have another jury trial, with a new jury, but having learned from the failure of the first trial. The defense always wants finality.

Prosecutions don't want hung juries either, because there is always the risk that the judge will either dismiss the charges (if more than half of the jury leaned toward the defense) or pressure prosecutors to offer a better plea deal to avoid wasting time on a new trial.

Usually people "too knowledgeable" get bumped from the pool

If by that you mean people who know too much about the case already, then yes, because the defendant deserves a fair trial. If you mean people who are "too knowledgeable" in general, then no, unless it's clear that they're going to take this "knowledge" and rely on that "knowledge" instead of what is presented to them in court. Lawyers generally try to exclude tech bros, because they think they know everything about criminal law based on watching a few episodes of Law & Order and CSI.
Well at least the regulations have worked to solve the meth crisis.
It's a pretty good product with some mediocre software.

At the end of the day, it's extremely useful and usable for a lot of people doing a wide variety of tasks.

The hardware has some issues, but I'd say it's like 90% there. The software features that work well are rather limited, but that's an intentional design decision.

It has some limitations, but I consider it a rather good product.
I want to believe.

After several millennia of killing people for gold, we can finally put all that gold to good use—using it to create superconductors that can power energy weapons we can use to kill each other.

♫ It's the circle of life ♫
Something that has been eating at my brain a lot lately is that we are still using triangles to represent 3D objects; even where we really shouldn't.

Sure, we've gotten really good at it; but at this point it seems like we are starting with a complex smooth shape, approximating that shape with triangles, then trying to make that collection of triangles look like a smooth shape. Can we factor out the triangle step?

The most painful part of this experience is 3D printing: millions of people are using mathematical formulas to first construct a 3D object (CSG modeling), then to wrap the object in triangles (export to an STL file), so that a slicer can tell the printer how to fill in the domain of triangles. The triangles are literally inserting themselves into our reality!

This introduces a lot of finicky problems:

* Sharp edges and flat faces on what was supposed to be a smooth sphere or cylinder

* Broken manifolds that result in slicer errors

* Holes that get mistakenly filled in by the slicer.

* The topology of triangles defining what can and cannot be changed in the object, and where.

Back in the good old days™, I could tell POVRay that there is a 2-unit diameter sphere with a 1-unit diameter cylindrical hole in it; and it would go right ahead and raytrace that. If I wanted to do the same in Blender, I could only create a vain approximation of that, spoiled by triangles and entropy.
What's RTRPS?
Hey! He's "just asking questions."
https://archive.today/rznQr
DOGE-99 is just around the corner
FWIW we had an engineer who basically did this, and he was definitely a top performer. Depending on where he was and what the activity he was there for he might work nonstandard hours, but he definitely got shit done.

Director level non-standard hours might be a non-starter, but nothing about the lifestyle demanded it, it was really just about maximizing the time spent skiing or whatever. One could always knock of at 5 and get a few hours in.
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The wisest thing I've read all day. Thank you my friend
I've worked with too many people who insist there's nothing wrong with the way they are coding, while I've had conversations with 4 different people who have gotten tired of having to clean up after them.

I can't take anyone's word anymore that a tool is useless because they don't need it. We as humans need tons of things we pretend that we don't. It's positively pathological.