skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only at very high temperatures and densities we cannot be certain about the properties of matter, but there exists absolutely no evidence that can justify the extrapolation of the evolution of the universe towards such temperatures and densities.

The properties of the observable universe are consistent with an initial state where the temperature was so high that the protons and neutrons were free, not bound in atomic nuclei, like today.

This means that the temperature corresponded to a kinetic energy of several tens of MeV per particle. At such a temperature, the state of the matter is a plasma composed only of protons, neutrons, electrons, positrons, photons and neutrinos.

At this temperature, the matter has the simplest possible composition. At lower temperatures the particles become bound in nuclei, atoms and molecules, which become more and more complex with decreasing temperatures. At increasing temperatures, the higher the temperature is, more and more mesons, baryons and heavy leptons are generated and the plasma composition becomes more and more complex.

However, at that temperature where the matter has the simplest composition, any traces of its former evolution have been practically erased and we do not have any rational reason for making suppositions about it. Perhaps the matter was indeed even denser and even hotter, but there is no basis for this extrapolation except some philosophical belief that is not based on any scientific observation.

An extrapolation towards greater temperatures and densities could be justified only if we knew boundary conditions around the universe, which we do not know.

In conclusion, what can be known with reasonable certainty about the Big Bang starts from a moment in time when the temperature corresponded to a kinetic energy of several tens of MeV per particle, and all extrapolations to times before that moment are hypotheses that are not based on any experimental data, so they can be neither verified nor falsified.

The supposition that the Universe may have started from a single point is something that has nothing to do with science, but it may be a valid religious belief.
I think some directives can be duplicated -- like AllowUsers.

But I got bit by something related yesterday when NixOS suddenly changed the merge order and put my AllowUsers from own file below a Match from another file and locked me out :(
> The JVM doesn’t really have multidirectional arrays, it just has arrays with a type, and that type may itself be an array.

That contradicts the article:

> When the compiler encounters this code, it emits a unique bytecode, MULTIANEWARRAY, which creates an array with dimensions that are each set to the specified size.
Due to the later time of your comment you may not have noticed but a comment in reply to mine was flagged and it meant my subsequent replies had to be removed or they would not make sense (I don't think I said anything in them that alone would have warranted removal).

I don't blame HN for this because such action stops the thread turning into a brawl where both sides become even more polarized and arguments get even more heated.

When I made my initial post I thought I was just making an observation on the story and I gave experiences which I would not repeat from my observations of cultural shifts of recent years. It certainly was not my intention to inflame and I didn't anticipate a large portion of these comments would have to be removed as a result.

Unfortunately, forums have to so act to keep some semblance of order. The tragedy is that issues such this topic—women working in traditional male roles such as the military, the Me Too movement, stuff about kids, veganism, etc.—can no longer be discussed in a rational manner seemingly anywhere in society without them flaring up into melees that have to be quashed to keep order.

Why in recent years many people have become so polarized and indignantly and or righteously argumentative about such issues is a complex matter and I don't think anyone fully understands why. There's little point me speculating about the reasons here except to say that there are many HN stories I choose not to comment on for reasons not out of fear they will be flagged but because it's clear to me that even if I put a
moderate and well-reasoned case they'll nevertheless draw comments that will likely result in them being flagged.

It's not that HN posters are any more rowdy than elsewhere—in fact, HN is one of the more civilized places on the Web—it's that I know such stories will draw attacks by virtue of the topics themselves. In these situations I prefer to self-censor and don't post because if I were to add anything meaningful to the conversation it would draw wrath and ire of many, and as I see no virtue in adding innocuous or irrelevant comment, it's better to remain silent—a point I've already made earlier.
It's not about raping, wow you have a low opinion of men.

It's about the sexual tension, the emotions, jealousy, consensual pairing causing drama, etc.

And why is no one asking women if they even want to be in such a spot. I know I'd feel odd if the genders were reversed and it was a very female dominated space that was asking me to be one of the 10% of men quota.
SPACs aren't a ponzi scheme but they are set up for the creator to win. Typically they get 20% of the business at lower than market rate and sometimes have clauses for them to still win if it can't find a business to acquire.
Is the increased resource usage inherent to the model or does it only happen when using the extra context? Like if your workflow currently fits in a 2k model would an 8k model be objectively worse and only worth using once you've filled the context up of a smaller model? Or would it be worth always using an 8k context model and just knowing it will get slower and more resource hungry as your context grows?

Sorry for the random question, I've just been curious about this for a while and unable to find out and you seem knowledgeable about these extended models.
What is the specific “old way?” you are referring to?
Germany: A map of where smoking weed will continue to be prohibited
Inception GC
How can you live in Germany without registering an address? Were you just visiting?

Registering the address will get you the tax number, which is necessary to be paid.

The health insurance (also mandatory when working) would need a registered address.
Looks like that we need to request the access first
Environmentalism is a big coalition, not just one focused on climate change. There’s a lot of people who oppose “the concrete jungle.” Most existing environmental laws, dating to the 1970s, are geared to them, not the more recent (or recently understood) problem of climate change.
It's interesting that Ahref stopped using affiliate marketing and they have a strong opinion about (https://ahrefs.com/blog/ahrefs-affiliate-program/).

Others do agree with it?
I’ve found that GPT-4 now fills the role that Google once did for me when learning new things.

For whatever reason the Google results just aren’t as useful as they used to be. Highly specific queries return very generalized results, and it takes a lot of effort to find something relevant.

With ChatGPT I can ask it how to do just about anything in any language and it nearly always gives me exactly what I need.
everyone complained about rogue pr's, i dont think i got anything but the tshirt :/ small devs like me you appreciate even the spam sometimes. lets you know you are alive, like when you're asleep getting ready and some toothpaste splashes in your eye.
Most of the energy used to put it into space was to push the fuel and delivery vehicle mass not the payload, that is not present on return.
> denying science

science isnt a religion, you cant deny it or follow it, there is a rigorous process and sometimes the results are wrong, misleading, or lead to the wrong decisions.

Do not pretend there's an absolute in science, especially medicine, where one can say "this is the only good way" and know it to be true.
I apologize that I overestimated how much time/effort it would take to contribute at the level you do to the point where I baselessly assumed other elements of your life were out of whack as a sacrifice. Thank you for all you do for the open source community.
1) It divides people into "primitive" and "civilized", which delineates an ingroup and outgroup;

2) The document is written for civilized people, because surely the document wouldn't call its readers primitive;

3) The flip side of "developed muscles" is "barbaric lifestyle" - the "proper" thing for women at the time was NOT to develop said muscles, but rather to maintain a "trim figure" ("one of the best exercises for a woman are her household duties, and that besides those she doesn't need more exercise", from a 1941 article);

4) In sum, given the context, the "endorsement" is a grudging admission that on this one issue the "primitive" women might be stronger, but in no way an overall endorsement of the lifestyle.
From TFA:

> An important factor in reducing the size of the codebase and executable is that Jacobin relies on Go’s built-in memory management to perform garbage collection, and so it contains no GC code.

I don't see how you can't see it.
I did the same for a long time, because it was obvously marketing BS, but when I looked into it a bit I realised that it was actually quite useful to have "programmable HTTP endpoints" og "Chron jobs in the cloud" where you don't have to worry about the details of running them. If they only run occasionally, they can be quite cheap too.

And since the major cloud providers have something like that, your are no more hostage with these than you are with any other cloud stuff.
> I think you owe Infinisil an apology.

You are right, done.
Practical OCaml: How I explore domain problems faster and cheaply
Are you not concerned that your practices are breeding bees who survive only with medical treatment while empowering the genetics and miticide resistance to reinforce endemic condition of your region?
It would seem some others are breeding bees successfully with zero miticide while you're building a Sardaukar force of mites, bred to tough conditions that even the healthiest of bees cannot survive without help.
Every Java reference to an object can be a reference to the allocated Go object for that object. The Go objects are the Java objects with no extra indirection. The Go object would be bytes with each reference field being a struct with a pointer. There should be a low level use these bytes for 'allocating' this object.
Put your head deeper into the sand
> I am responding in kind, based on the way you are talking to me. If you were polite, there would be no issue.

I've yet to insult or condescend to you, whereas you've condescended to me ("Grow up"). I'm not "psychologising" you, I've said that you're pushing an issue that affects you not at all but is harmful to others, and that you should probably figure out why you're doing that (or, why you refuse to accept you're doing that). Maybe me being polite while pointing it out makes it seem like I'm "psychologising" you, so let me rephrase: you clearly can't keep yourself from harassing people who live life in a totally harmless way, that's real weird, and you might not know how weird it is.

> and then pretend that you're a victim when someone responds in kind

Again I've not insulted or condescended to you so you're not actually responding in kind, but that aside I don't at all feel like the victim here.

> Publishing someone's address online when it's already publicly known what their address is isn't doxing!

This analogy doesn't fit, because--again--the connection isn't publicly known. How do I know it's not publicly known? Because I didn't "know" and I looked. I went to marcan's various social media sites and his website, to Asahi Lina's various social media sites and her website, and came up bupkis. So to be honest, I can't corroborate your claim based on what I've seen, and it's not for lack of looking. Could I probably find something? Sure. Do I care to? Not even a little.

Basically your argument boils down to: "someone already doxxed this person, so it doesn't matter if someone does it again". I think any reasonable person would think that's wrong.
> they configured sshd to prevent players from running binaries other than the game

You might be interested in how to limit users to nologin shell coupled with subsystem access:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3527754
From the project page:
GC is handled by the golang runtime, which has its own GC

This is pretty cool, imo.
Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...

MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) - https://dataintensive.net/

Crafting Interpreters - https://craftinginterpreters.com/
> "the cord is wrapped around the neck" when the baby isn't even using its throat to breathe

This effects blood flow no? This happened to our first born and his heartrate began to drop by half and we began to prepare for an emergency c-section.
Researchers assemble the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
The Turbo Pascal 5.5 book(s), Alexandrescu's "Modern C++ Design", Scott Meyers' books, "Code Complete", ...
None of those differences really says anything about morality of having an AI do things, unless you want to argue that the AI suffer from their (mis)treatment.

People sometimes state that The Simpsons is now drawn in sweatshops somewhere in Asia. Assuming that's true, or at least that it's happened at least once for at least some cartoon, does it make any difference at all to the question of where the people directing them get their ideas from or how those workers learned to do their thing?
Being hard and small, the tuna can can produce much more localised and sharp pain. If the whole tuna is dropped on your lower body from the third floor and turns it into mush it would also hurt though. But I still vote for tuna can.
I'm amazed Richard Dawkins wrote this, primarily because it makes cold hard factual errors about biology (you're very unlikely to get a Y chromosome from your mother, sex is not defined by him but all his examples of it are non binary etc).

The fact he doesn't answer his title question. Or that there is no comment on the social side of any of this are huge issues with the article, but you can miss them given the much bigger issue that he is just plain factually wrong!?

If it were funnier I'd have assumed it was a spoof piece. Or maybe someone else is called Richard Dawkins and is trading on the name of the famed author?
The average driveway costs around $5k and the average home cost in the USA is now $416. So while it could be possible to shave off half of that 1.2% cost and save 0.6% it would come with needing some kind of easement or shared arrangement with your neighbor (who could change and who you may or may not be on good terms with). You also couldn't leave your vehicle or a visiting vehicle in the middle of the driveway since you'd be blocking someone else.

I had a shared driveway with my neighbor in Michigan for many years. It worked out well, especially for more efficient optimized snow shoveling. But I wouldn't say it was some kind of game changer and cure to America's housing ills.
You can make your own project, with arduino and a bunch of components. There should be a project that will require use of different techniques, like using a transistor instead of a relay, using resistors to not burn up components, using a voltage divider circuit (requires 2 resistors), and other techniques.

I am a beginner, so it would be hard to suggest what project to implement. I mainly used resistors to not burn the arduino I/O pins, and voltage divider circuit to step down the voltage for components with voltage different than 5v.
If I am reading the code correctly, and as a parachute code reviewer I may very well not be, I am not sure this supports threading at all, or at least, not user-level threading.

I can find references to a thread module and it clearly creates a "main" thread, but I actually can't find anywhere where it creates anything other than a main thread, nor do I see any code for task switching manually/cooperatively, or anything else like that. There's a global thread table but I can only find test code manipulating it. And the main core VM loop doesn't seem to have any concurrency in it to me.

Corrections welcome; posted fully in the spirit of Cunningham's Law as I'm curious too.
Sounds like a universal chat app: https://www.makeuseof.com/best-all-in-one-messaging-platform...
The AI Buzz
I do so many things manually that have been successfully automated for a long time. Washing dishes, splitting firewood, grinding coffee, owning manual transmission cars, I could go on. Some things are subjectively better like splitting firewood; It's more work but quieter. Some things are objectively better; washing dished by hand are cleaner. I don't think about it too much.

I guess I'll just add programming to that list and not think about it too much.
Likely because it's inconsistent with all other parts of the language where trailing commas are not allowed
Though serverless is compelling, the few cases where I've actually seen someone need the sudden increase in compute with both Firestore and DynamoDB, it failed to deliver performantly. That being said this was in the 2010s, I'm sure things have improved by now.
This is so cool. Can’t wait to go digging around through the code this weekend. Good luck with the project!
Ask HN: Mini PC with fast NIC and no graphics card
Is there a mini desktop PC that has a fast processor but no hdmi or other graphics output?
Only access web server and ssh.
Intel NUC looks nice but has graphics.
I tried to keep a physical notebook/common-place book, several times, but after a while i just stopped. I like handwriting but since i started using obsidian i don't believe i will return. I'm thinking perhaps of using papers as first draft or impromptu writing, and then final drafts will be stored or transferred to Obsidian.
>No evidence of GPT-4 getting worse over time

I read the the article you linked to, and either you're putting words in their mouth and/or making claims that go way beyond the conclusions presented in the article.

The authors choose to distinguish between "capability degradation" and "drastic behavior change." Now, almost no one I've witnessed complaining about past and present results of ChatGPT care one bit about making such a distinction. They often simply complain that their previously good result producing prompts are now spewing garbage.

The authors explicitly admit that "the kind of fine tuning that LLMs regularly undergo can have unintended effects, including drastic behavior changes on some tasks." i.e. Fine tuning may in fact be causing the worse results.

Furthermore, the authors merely make an additional point that such a drastic behavior change shouldn't be assumed to be a "capability degradation." Meaning that, theoretically, if you toy around with your past prompt enough you should be able to eventually find an alternative version of the original prompt that outputs the past result you were looking for. Again, none of the complainers that I've come across really give a shit about this theoretical conclusion. They only care about past prompts now giving different results. In the article, the authors freely admit that this "drastic behavior change" could be objectively occurring due to fine-tuning.

To further prevent readers from making sweeping generalizations from their comments, the author's explicitly state that OpenAI makes it pretty damn difficult to do reproducible research on the LLMs in question, so you should not come to any hasty conclusions regardless ("As we have written before, this underscores how hard it is to do reproducible research that uses these APIs, or to build reliable products on top of them.")

Well, "building reliable products/processes on top of ChatGPT" is all the complainers care about anyway, so we're back to square one. Far from disproving the claim that ChatGPT is becoming more unreliable and producing worse results for the complainers use cases, the authors are in fact saying that their grievances may be justified for the only practical criteria the naysayers actually give a shit about.
Stafford Beer's Cybernetic Synergy Operations Room: “You'll Be Free Hacker”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/CyberSyn...
You say "don't use stack" and the other person in this comment thread says "use stack". Do you see the issue?
sometimes it’s just fun to add support for a niche use case if it’s simple and not time consuming to maintain
Top Open Source and Cloud Systems for Stream Processing
Just the text length of the parent post is shorter, so their explanation is better by definition according to Occam's razor (only joking).
As i said on another comment: I tried to keep a physical notebook/common-place book, several times, but after a while i just stopped. I like handwriting but since i started using obsidian i don't believe i will return. I'm thinking perhaps of using papers as first draft or impromptu writing, and then final drafts will be stored or transferred to Obsidian.
What Java build tool would you say does dependency management decently? Most people are still using Maven or Gradle.
Is safe the new sexy? CBDCs, trust and the evolution of money
A Classfile API for the JDK [video]
Quantum Yin-Yang?Visualize quantum entanglement of photons for the first time
Camera crushes Lidar, claims startup
The Fastest WebSocket Implementation
>When the money supply grows, even if it was paid out fairly to everyone as a UBI

But it wasn't paid out as UBI. The extra money supply didn't get dropped from a helicopter to the people, it went into low interest loans which which only went into high value assets, not to wages.

There weren't many scenarios where that money first went through the working class before reaching the wealthy.

Unless you can explain to me otherwise.
I know the link stresses that correctness and code clarity are the primary goals of this project, but I’m curious if performance is a goal as well? Do you hope that people will run “real” workloads with this or use it to embed other software in their Go applications?
Don't say than, until you've had Lebannese baklava. Both the Turkish and Greek varieties are oversweet. Lebanese baklava on the other hand is finer, more refined and does not drip syrop.
Wonderful to see so many options.

Can't want for some hands on guides so we can run in our own cloud accounts.
Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack
https://archive.is/AnxGG
I've been listening to them again quite a bit recently, maybe after 15+ years or so. I'd forgotten how much raw thrash power the first couple albums have.

Pretty cool that both Metallica and Megadeth have just put out new records. Some of the songs on the Megadeth album have their classic thrash feel to them, which I wasn't expecting - the guitar riffs are nuts.
But you do use a car, instead of walking everywhere.
Browser autofill?
> What is the official source?

In this thread I have provided a clip of the undersecretary of state claiming under oath, in congress, that these biolabs exist and she is very worried about Russians gaining access to the contents of them.

> what does that have to do with covid variants?

Here is some similar research conducted by the people behind the Ukrainian biolabs but in China:
https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/nih-to-terminate-ecohealth-a...
It’s a patent from 1963. It expired in the 80s apparently. I guess it didn’t do too well, or even perhaps wasn’t made. Either way, a patent can be made by anyone. Don’t see this as a serious modern attempt at solving child birth. (Edit: auto correct)