skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently finished <The Left Hand of Darkness>, and absolutely love it. The style is one of clarity, tenderness, and honesty, and just plain beautiful in the section where---avoiding spoilers---they journeyed through the ice sheet, which is such a breath-taking portrayal of that environmental harshness, the human vulnerability, and the tenacity of will.

It's often classified as Sci-fi, but there's nothing particularly sciency or techy about the story. As far as "how it works", there are lots of curiosity, and very few answers. The book reflects more heavily on society, politics, gender, and most centrally, the personal qualities of honor/face/loyalty.

Having recently start keeping snails, I naturally draw parallel between my dear invertebrates with the hermaphroditism in the book, which is an extra curiosity for me.
"Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn" -
Excellent hard science fiction anthology
We need to ensure there are not incentives to over-medicate or over-prescribe, but ultimately the patient should be the final arbiter of their health care regimen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story
Ah, I see that on rereading, my mistake.
Hey, so I got pretty far into implementing open api specs for LLMs. To the point where you can point to an open api spec, ingest it, and then it’s available for GPT to select to satisfy user requests.

I do this by minify the specs and building an index to feed it that it selects from using logit bias.

Im at pause point on it while I figure out how to actually have GPT build the calls, but I think something like you have might solve that.

https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/LLM-OpenAPI-minifier
Very illegal. You want to turn a civil matter into a criminal one, that’s how you do it.
Planning cycles take 5-10 years and are often based on out of date information when the plans are made. Couple that with it being far easier for corrupt officials to skim off approvals of a few large projects than many small ones, and you will find that what has been happening 5 years ago is going to be completed different than what will happen 5 years from now.

Renewable energy and battery storage are on tech curves like semiconductors or DNA sequencing. Fossil fuels are not.

There will be no competition within a decade.
> And whether you agree with it or not, I doubt anyone understands "desktop" as meaning "GUI only" and not "for human users" in this context.

Config files don't apply to only human users either, though. Automation also uses configs. And they've got to be somewhere. Some automation is desktop oriented, I'll acknowledge.

If this standard came from Posix, sure, that applies generally across unix and linux to all programs great and small. If it comes from Linux Standards Base, I've got issues, cause I don't run Linux, but that at least clearly applies to all programs on Linux, packaged by a distribution and configuration file locations are obviously within the scope of LSB.

But XDG is more or less the Xorg/Freedesktop peeps; how are config files for everything under the sun in their scope? There's lots of stuff in their scope, but this just seems out of the blue. Being not an exclusively Linux organization is somewhat helpful, but still. How is the XDG an authority on where to place config files when there was already a servicable location to put them (and the specification documentation doesn't even have a discussion of who they are, why their spec matters, how the values came to be, etc)
*Allegedly. We do not know yet they that this is from the actual Linux Foundation, could be some patent troll looking for a quick buck, or maybe a rival seller getting pissy.

There are thousands of T-shirts with literal "Linux" written on them[1], with no relation to the Foundation, so it's extremely unlikely that this takedown is from them.

1. https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=u-tees&query=linux
https://www.pgrammer.com/ Coding interview practice questions like LeetCode but using GPT to analyze the code and provide hints when you get stuck. It will also look over your submission and give feedback like an interviewer.

I've conducted A LOT of interviews and have been the interviewee plenty of times. To me the hardest part about prepping on LeetCode was that I would sometimes get stuck on something. Not necessarily stuck to find any solution but the optimal one. The hints I'm getting back from GPT have proven to be very valuable and it still lets me code the solution with those pointers.

It's not a perfect product by any means but it's my work in progress passion project that I believe has a lot of potential.
The only signal we could possibly detect would be a deliberate one. No one sending a deliberate signal to an unknown alien civilization is going to encrypt or encode everything. Besides being unintelligible they'd literally look like noise and be discarded by the receiver.

It'd would make more sense to use a beacon with some obviously non-natural pattern. Then something like the Arecibo Message[0] on some mathematically related frequency.

The likelihood of picking up spurious stray signals from an alien civilization is vanishing small. Even our most powerful broadcasts from Earth will fade to noise before hitting Pluto. Radar (weather or military) might be detectable half way to Alpha Centauri. You'd need a very narrow beam (to focus the input power) to get a detectable signal a few light years distant.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
Costco Companion App, available on iOS and Android stores if you search for it.

Idea is to improve and enhance your Costco warehouse shopping experience, mainly:

- Provide platform to enable shoppers to review and rate products and for others to find said reviews. Costco and Sameday doesn't provide reviews, so we try to fill the gap.

- Recently we started showing very special Costco warehouse deals in our app, there's a certain magic to Costco prices, e.g. if something ends in .97 it is extremely discounted but it's never advertised otherwise so we try to bring more of these special deals to our users.

- We have more features and want to bridge Costco communities together.

But... feel like, something is missing still?
I have made many projects, some of which are incomplete. In the case of Free Hero Mesh (a puzzle game engine, like MESH:Hero but many enhancements; in fact I originally wrote it because I wanted to play Hero Hearts on Linux) maybe it is too late (it is ready for use although improvements may be made in future; some features are incomplete so far). I also had incomplete (and not working yet) such as Pokemon Text Battle (supposed to be a Pokemon battle simulator in C, with a C API (do you have some ideas about how this API could work? I have some ideas but I am not sure that they are very good (I partially wrote the .h file so far), so I want to ensure to improve it before it is implemented); there are some features I had wanted to implement that other battle simulators lack, including a telnet-based implementation), and a currently unnamed operating system design (I have many ideas but no name yet; this includes a capability-based system with proxy capabilities, a hypertext file system with no file names and no directory structures (file streams can contain links to other files though, both to a fixed version and do a varying version are possible), a common file format for most types of data which can even be (text, tables, time series, and many others), integrated command-line with GUI, accessibility and multilingualization, non-Unicode, and many other ideas; I have written some about it on Usenet).
> The paper should never have been published.

The paper wasn't published, despite the phrasing in the nature article. arXiv is effectively a moderated blog
I think we disagree about what science is. Science isn’t something that is a optimal condition process. It’s a process resilient to human nature. Everything you hold up as a failure is in my mind a victory for science.

The failures of science are the papers that are outright fraud and as such are cunningly crafted to deceive and it actually works, and we believe falsehoods to this day - which I think we agree on being the failure of science.

This however was not. Yes the paper shouldn’t have been published. But it was. Etc. As humans are wont to do. Science didn’t happen in the news - excitement happened in the news. Human failures and bias reigned. Yet Science happened in the lab. That is victory.

Yet, the fact there are failures in no way impugns the victories.
Yeah a valid criticism and I apologise. All I would say is read the book/see the movie and enjoy it as a fun experience but don't necessarily take it as historical fact and in particular I wouldn't put any money behind anything just because Michael Burry has done it (as in TFA).
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Birds-Wolves-Ingenious-Secret/dp...
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

A pretty interesting history of Detroit in the 60s and 70s that relies heavily on first hand accounts and primary sources.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/458-detroit-i-do-mind-d...
Farming is sun+water+fertiliser. Remove anyone of those components and you reduce output. Solar will reduce the productivity of almost every crop under it.
KeenWrite is my free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown editor that can produce beautifully typeset PDFs. I started working on it years ago to help write a novel having a complex timeline and I couldn't find a text editor that allowed me to integrate a character sheet with the story itself.

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

Here's what I mean by using variables from the character sheet directly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCqe3A5dFg

Tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

CommonMark doesn't propose a standard for bibliographic references. I'm wondering if anyone would find cross-references and citations in Markdown to be useful?
I knew a Sales guy who made the dual-job arrangement work. One job was high commission, low salary; the other job was low commission, high salary. He busted his ass at the high-commission job and earned his high commission, and just did nothing at the high-salary job and got fired after ~6 weeks, then just picked up another one, got fired in ~6 weeks, etc.
Only if you are a hardware manufacturer hoping for a free ride. Risk-V openness does nothing for the users, its all about not paying license fees for IP cores. Hardware vendors using rick-v cores are free to and do indeed put their own proprietary crap inside.
The problem is that if the criminal is slightly intelligent, they will present a fake lease and/or some mail they received at the address. At that point, it's the court's problem to assess the evidence and figure out if it's a case of squatters or a self-help eviction by a scummy landlord.
What other careers can laid off software engineers move to?
What else would pay reasonably well, and be attainable with similar skills to a software engineer, and where there are enough jobs to soak up a good number of the laid off software engineers?
Terraform's Motion to Dismiss Against SEC: Dimissed in Its Entirety [pdf]
A-level students in England may miss out as stricter grading returns
I had an issue where I had a million droplets with an app on port 3000 because nginx is hard and I'm not that smart, so I made a thing that lets you add a domain mapped to a port super easy, and the request gets dynamically routed to the correct app on the correct port. It lacks https, but is otherwise super useful.

https://github.com/donuts-are-good/appserve
Slack and discord bots for QA over docs. It’s the hello world of LLMs, but my focus is on making them polished and easy to deploy into a docker container. Use them for my current company with ok success. They actually out perform some of the funded startups in the space, but it’s an arms race and I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up against the saas offerings.

https://github.com/shelby-as-a/shelby-as-a-service
Oh ok. Mainstream media reported on fusion ignition #2 while (rightfully) ignoring LK-99. I think the takeaway here is just how bad techbros are at evaluating hard science.
Fun fact: I took the photo she used as a cover for one of her books, she asked me if she could use it and I said I'd like to be compensated and her response was something akin to "oh I was just asking assuming you'd say yes, I'm going to do it anyway". Nobody's perfect, maybe she regrets it, and it hasn't really crossed my mind in years, but I guess it still sort of irks me to be reminded of it. Anyway if anyone needs a portrait for a book cover feel free to hit me up XD.
I would think in most cases someone using Phoenix would use LiveView for these sorts of dynamic updates instead of htmx.
Obviously I want to buy a high quality print of the map focused on an area.
no I'm not, if I were i would have used the word theorem. sheesh, it's getting sloppier in here.
Just finished that book last night. Highly recommend, its incredibly original.
Source: Joe Rogan

One thing that was surprising to me was that Americans hadn’t been taking dewormers for a really long time, when I was a kid in Brazil I remember we’d be prescribed dewormers and anti parasitics at least once a year.
But the salaries are subsidized too.

“the education industry” -> You mean research industry?
Tomshardware link: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-inception-fix-causes-...
Sounds like a great motivation for academic researchers to find a way to train LLMs with less compute. Or maybe invent something better than transformers. A brain trains on 20 Watts after all.
Is some of the grant money taken for 'administration' though?

Famously djb complained about this at uic though apparently it has improved.

http://cr.yp.to/uic.html
Sure, if you're only using it as storage in a largely electrified economy.

The attraction of synthetic methane is that it is

1) transportable in existing pipelines, including to millions of homes and small businesses.

2) usable in literally millions of existing devices

3) relatively easy to ship.

None of those things are true for hydrogen.
You've rather misunderstood the issue. The issue is not that "there aren't enough instances for people who believe what [I] believe". The problem is that people defederate in order to block A not because A has any "wrong" opinions but merely because A is is tolerant of B's very existence.

Instead of having a decent moderation and filtering system whereby people could block and filter the messages of people they dislike, the structure, design and culture of the fediverse encourages server operators to block entire swathes of people who have done nothing wrong. That in turn encourages them to censor people proactively in order to avoid getting their instance blacklisted.

For example if someone merely indicates that they're supportive of freedom of expression as a concept, they are likely to get banned from a lot of instances, not because the owners of those instances disagree, or think there's anything wrong with expressing that view, but because having someone express that sort of view (which, remember, is completely mainstream) on your instance means that your instance has a reasonably high chance of being blacklisted, which means that now your users can't really participate in the fediverse. Your users haven't done anything wrong, and the average user on the instances controlled by the thought police wouldn't be offended by seeing that (entirely mainstream) sentiment expressed anyway.

The solution is for people to migrate away from instances controlled by thought police. The problem is that, just like the fediverse suffers from the network effects of much larger social networks, any instances that aren't federated with the main fediverse instances suffer too. And if you do set up an instance that allows people to express those sorts of views, you will very quickly become associated in their minds with Gab/Truth Social sorts of networks.

The actual solution is not to have defederation at all. The actual solution is to embrace one of the great ideas of the Internet: the end-to-end principle. Individuals should maintain their own blacklists. They can subscribe to others' blacklists, of course, but it shouldn't a binary property of two instances whether the users using them should be able to be connected together.

Compare ActivityPub to email. You don't get Google saying "we are going to block everyone with a Hotmail account from sending emails to Gmail users or receiving emails from Gmail users, because there are a couple of Hotmail users who have opinions we find distasteful". That would be clearly ridiculous.
It’s a subsidy either way, the stuff about the rewards going to the rich seem to be rhetoric that isn’t super relevant to the issue at hand.
Super fun to use. I hate having to “give up” on a question when practicing and this gives me a bit more options rather than just pass/fail
It's so rare to get a real apology:

> Now whenever any public figure is made to answer for their former bad self, they go on an apology tour where they say all the right things about being a work in progress, and learning and listening, and so on. Rarely do they break down the actual specifics of what they said, why it was wrong and why they regret it.

> “The one thing I don’t want to do is say: ‘The culture shifted – excuse my behaviour.’ It provides a context for why I was wrong at the time, but I was wrong at the time.”
I've always been a fan the Jeeves series -- Blandings not so much.

I also like the Psmith books. I need to try Ukridge.
I don't think this will be a problem unique to the UK (Scotland has a different assessment system, and a different education board)

I feel very sorry for the generation who incurred this. Lots of bodies try to maintain trans-generational "standards" and so this cohort will be competing for very high entry barrier courses in medicine, veterinary sciences, law, architecture, against international students who may well have achieved better target scores in some hypothetical global bell-curve. After all, not everyone will be doing these adjustments, and those that do won't do it at the same time. But, entry standards have to be applied to the same timetable of completion of inputs, and selection of students for the cohort entering that year: the grade adjustments won't align, the judgement day has to.

But not doing this would be de-facto standards dilution.

A long time ago (over 40 years!) I worked as a lab assistant in the Heriot-Watt uni in Edinburgh and I remember the head of department in microbiology (the premier scots uni for brewing sciences!) saying they hadn't awarded a first degree in over 4 years. He was really proud (but sad) they hadn't diluted the value of first class honours. The external examiners agreed with them btw. I bet the University hierarchy hated this.

Well, the english schools assessment board let things get a bit diluted, and now it has to come back into alignment. It's going to hurt.
Novel for material science? Not really.

Novel for social media of sensationalist scientific news? Perhaps.
Is South Korea Marxist too? How about Japan? What about the state of New York? Something else is happening. Some blame chemicals or the economy. Before you say they just want to hook up now, younger generations are having less sex than ever.

I believe it’s communal ties and space per person in a given region (including outdoor space to freely roam). The Amish make 40k a year household income and clear 5-8 kids per family for example. We’re animals meant for friends, hard work, and open spaces.
yes! Part of prepping is to gain confidence and it can be very discouraging to run into this before live sessions.
Like others, bookmarked. So useful, thank you. Feedback as requested:

1. It's a map of "the best", so maybe the default filter shouldn't show "ok" recommendations

2. The numbers on the pins change regularly (I'm on mobile/Firefox). Maybe the pin could indicate the source of the review, or the quality, or the restaurant type? Or not have the number at all.

3. Moving the map around reloads the pins for the viewed area, but it sometimes loads a different set of pins for a big city. Is there a max number of pins being loaded on each map view change? If so, perhaps the max should be higher?

Hope that helps!
Work in progress. Ukrainian-American-British frontline analysis
Thanks!

> I think the plastic lens mount might be obstructing the light going to the sensor

It's actually a low-profile, 3D printed thing housing a glass UV/IR cut filter. The housing is flush with the glass filter unlike the stock Pi HQ camera lens holder. Removing the UV/IR cut results in full-spectrum photos that manifest the same color shift problem which is characteristic of CRA optimization (where they deliberately put the microlenses off-center toward the edges of the sensor.

> As far as I can tell, there's no lens array on the sensor[1][2]

I thought there is a lens array on almost all Sony sensors? [2] for example lists a "CRA characteristics of recommended lens" section on page 47, but this is not the full datasheet and only goes upto page 25. I can't find the full datasheet on the public internet unfortunately.
Probably should be a limit to a single individuals remuneration too.

If the board and the CEO collude, they can set the CEO's salary at the expected difference between revenue and expenses. Result: no profit!
The idea that land use renders solar infeasible is a noxious lie. Simply compare the $/acre one would get from PV vs. $/acre from farming: the former is much higher (orders of magnitude). If you think land cost would rule out PV, it would rule out agriculture even more strongly.

The truth is there is far more than enough land, available very cheaply, to power the world with renewable energy.
Finished reading The Three-Body Problem (Book 1) and it's such a fascinating read!

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...
I never got into this, but I have a friend who did really like Blackbox VR and says he got really fit using it (although I also have many more friends who weren’t so smitten). I guess don’t knock it ‘til you try it?
Call Stacking is a Ruby on Rails debugger that captures everything for a given request - each method call, params/argument/return values, class name/method/line of execution. You can visibly see which method called which, as each method call is nested relative to its parent callee. In a single consolidated timeline.

https://callstacking.com/

The state of debugging is kind of in the dark ages. I bet I spend 90% of the time on a feature just trying to figure out the execution path - what method calls what other method and under what context. It only gets harder as the code base grows.

Call Stacking is an attempt to automate that discovery process.
While that's true, there are plants that almost require shade, i.e. carrots, most lettuces, celery etc.
There is something very simple you can do. If the squatter can't prove a tenancy agreement they're out.
If the squatter leaves to buy food and the locks get changed, it sounds like that would also be a civil matter.
Firefly is a programming language that aims to simplify full-stack development:

https://github.com/Ahnfelt/firefly-boot#readme

It comes with IDE support and such, and the language itself is more or less done, but there are so many other things to do before it's ready for serious work :)