skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I don't think genuine pathological narcissism is actually a particularly common trait, maybe 5% type levels.

The problem is that a single genuine narcissist can make an environment absolutely horrible for a large number of people, meaning that even at 1/20, if you work in an area with 50-60 people, you're likely to have at least 2-3 narcissists in that group.

One other thing, I wouldn't call narcissism a "mental illness". There's a difference between a "mental illness" and a personality disorder. Narcissist Personality Disorder is effectively the clinical name for what is commonly known as "being an ass-hole", in the same way that anti-social personality disorder is just the clinical name for what is commonly known as "being a psycho".
Meh, I like the word. It means a typical person doesn't have to worry about going over the limit. For hacker-types, it often means "how can I use this up for myself..."
Lampshading something is different than parody it’s goal is to push suspension of disbelief just a little bit further, where parody doesn’t try to maintain it.

You can’t watch “Are We the Baddies?” as a war story. It introduced such elements simply to establish who’s getting made fun of. They remain in character but that’s it, the war story plot doesn’t progress the skit just keeps hammering the parody. Some parody has a more complete story but “Scary Movie” progresses the underlying plot to make fun of different elements of the movies it’s making fun of.

Harry Potter on the other hand calls out many of the tropes it’s using. House of the lions vs house of the snakes, guess who’s supposed to be the hero and who the villain. Except the characters once introduced are telling an actual story.

Snow Crash is between those extremes but focuses too much on the underlying story and its characters to be an actual parody. Over the top elements exist in the world, but they are played straight more Gulliver's Travels than Spaceballs.
Neither glass nor plastic add or detract from the flavour of a beverage.
China would much prefer taking over Taiwan peacefully, constant threat of invasion while increasing trade ties between both countries make it more likely.

As long as China is a credible threat Taiwan will never declare independence. That doesen't mean there is a real of an actual invasion as long as everyone knows that.
More precise maybe, but I certainly wouldn't call that more clear.
I suppose you use a gasoline water pump if you don't. Unless you are in a desert, of course.
Fraud Detection with Entity Resolution and Graph Neural Networks
I really don't like using the name "with". It's pretty confusing IMO. Plus, you can't destructure it because it's a keyword.

With Array.prototype.with, it's now array.with(0, 3), which isn't exactly the most descriptive signature in the world.
Don't get me wrong, I like math and had fun skimming through the book. But 4 pure math chapters to get to "growing circles"? Really?
It feels like these algorithms can be explained using much simpler terms.
My biggest concern with that would be that very quickly health authorities or insurance companies will force these on people and you'll be forced to interact with an LLM and not get to talk to a doctor for most stuff.
Parent is weird in claiming celera was hiding things. The second half of the 90s was a very vocal spat between Celera and the HGP about sequencing methods and Celera saying shotgun sequencing was superior. And the HGP was publishing updates to their genome every 24 hours while Celera published their sequence on completion of the initial draft, which showed their coverage. The fact that there wasn’t 100% coverage wasn’t hidden to anyone who read the published papers. (The abstract for the Celera paper even states “reduced the size and number of gaps”, which plainly indicates there were still gaps…)
I might misremember, but aren't some of the submerged sea power cables (Norway, Germany, UK) DC? If so, why? And how does that rhyme with AC being more efficient?
The only reason apple doesn't want to allow repairs is so they can sell more new ones. This "consistency from repair to repair" is largely a myth used to fool gullible consumers by playing on the assumption that apple actually has a competent repair wing. They do not, so this line of thinking that it's "third party repairs are a problem" is completely unfounded.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

The text is lifted from the first article, the images (which are very much there) from the rest, with no attribution. The title is just made-up clickbait. Blogspam is regularly moderated off HN.
The Case For – and Against – Apple Shipping a Larger iMac
Well, if you’re drinking from a takeaway paper cup, then that too contains PFAS for similar water-resistant reasons that the straw has them for.

Source: https://mtpak.coffee/2023/05/takeaway-coffee-cupsforever-che...
Hm... I think in Europe most if not all of the alcohol comes in glass (or also still sometimes a tin can). Only some beer is in plastic bottles, but most would say that is a sin and a no go and never touch it.
My (OLED) pixel 7 has a polarized glass that is brightest at -45° and opaque at 45° from vertical with my polarized sunglasses, so that works out well.

The IPS iPhone SE 2000 has a fancy polarizer that is never fully opaque in any orientation. I've seen this on other phones too. I believe it's pixel-level polarization.

Some of the screens might be different on each subpixel, making the screen not-blue for example when you're wearing polarized sunglasses.
I've only seen plastic bottles for very small bottles: the type you get in a mini-bar or airplane. If you go to a supermarket or off-license you typically won't find non-glass bottles for regular-sized wine or spirits.
Its curious you couldn't find anything, tons of terminal emulators out there support this, I'm not sure what platform you're on, but on macOS, iTerm2 supports image backgrounds, on Linux, kitty is my goto customizeable terminal emulator, and I think even the new Windows Terminal supports them! Also, I think gnome's terminal emulator has an effect like this on it by default (or at least it did in some distro's default setup I've used)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/medieval-s...
That's true for Project 2501, but not the cyborg protagonists of Section 9. They aren't Frankenstein's monsters, especially not in a society where some degree of augmentation is so normal.

That includes Motoko Kusanagi--even when it's been hinted she has relied on artificial bodies since childhood, that's still a very human form of alienation.
Detecting and blocking OpenAI crawlers with GreyNoise and Cloudflare
some light research into blocking openai crawlers
https://blog.aaronsdevera.com/posts/20230823-detecting-and-b...
The title of the actual academic paper linked in the press release is "Single-use take-away cups of paper are as toxic to aquatic midge larvae as plastic cups", which seems more focused.

It's a real shame when universities themselves participant in the tabloidification of how their research is presented.

Would much prefer to see them promoting scientific literacy rather than trying to be as 'attention grabbing' as possible.
Americans Rate Dallas and Boston Safest of 16 U.S. Cities
In this study recycled glass bottles were not better when it comes to microplastics. It's everywhere. In lids, detergents etc. In fact, single-use plastic bottles did best!

http://igui-ecologia.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/202...
PE can still contain aromatic plasticizers, especially when there's a need for them to be more flexible.
>Why is it always the same reply?

I keep going around telling people that 1+1=3, why do they always give me the same nonsense about the number '2'?

I blame Sam Altman.
On their own, yes. But if you have an application where you can check the correctness of what they come up with, you are golden. Which is often the case in the hard sciences.

It's almost like we need our AI's to have two brain parts. A fast one, for intuition, and a slow one, for correctness. ;-)
The secretive world of North Korean science fiction
To "recycle" glass, all you have to do is wash it.
> But to characterise this as an "absurd ...obsession" is wrongheaded...[STDs bad]

Of course they are but it’s archaic and thus absurd today when they can be avoided (ubiquitous condoms) and in most cases treated.

Not to mention I like to engage in activities with others with a modicum of skill…not like I seek out novice chess or tennis players. Without the STD risk the characteristic has no benefit.
Our parrot does not simply repeat - he associates sounds and intent with what we doing.

At night when he is awake (he sleeps in our room in a covered cage) he knows not to vocalize anything more "Dear" when my wife gets up - he says nothing when I do this as he is not bonded to me.

When I sit at my computer and put on my headset he switches to using English words and starts having his own Teams meetings.

When the garage door opens or we walk out he the back door he starts saying Goodbye - Seeya later and then does the sound of the creaky outside gate.
I love his channel and comparisons but at the end of the day the tests are on a population of 1 and I guess accuracy can highly fluctuate between persons.

Also in some videos I remember he was using the Dreem headband as comparison standard.

I bought the Dreem 2 when it came out as it seemed like finally an accurate sleep tracker but the software and recording were very dubious: every night that didn't fit in a perfect sleeping pattern it failed to give any useful data. I ended up sending it back and wouldn't trust much the results after that.
there's also Refact (https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact/) with support of several open-source code LLMs and extension for VS Code and Jetbrains
Reprocessing is more destructive to the environment. It looks clean to have stuff take place in large buildings but the externalities are significant.
> However, things like closures, composition at runtime and partial function application just made everything 10x harder.

Closures are just functions with an extra parameter for the environment (free variables). Subsequent passes after desugaring can treat them like any other function.

Function composition and currying should also be static transformations. Maybe you made it harder than it has to be?
Pure polyethylene and polypropylene are completely inert and safe in contact with food (if they are not heated).

The problem is that it is currently impossible to know whether the PE or PP used in some plastic vessel is pure or it contains significant quantities of various fillers that have been added for reducing the cost of the material or the cost of various processing steps through which it has passed.

The PE or PP vessels that are translucent and not colored are more likely to contain less undesirable fillers than the vessels that are opaque and/or colored.

What is needed is to have stricter laws about food-contact materials, where the manufacturer must disclose the exact chemical composition of such materials and they must not be able to claim that this is proprietary information that may be kept secret, like today.
Anyone knows of a theposterdb.com feed that has posters in this style+ I would love to use them for my collection
Or strangely enough in the US cheap spirits often come in very large plastic bottles... think Costco brand tequila and vodka in 1.5l containers.
I intended to make this submission about an alternative and not so much criticism about Backblaze. But you're right, I vaguely made some criticism and I definitely think it warrants a better explanation.

I also 100% agree with what you say about product updates, I want my backup provider to be relatively static and slow in changing their product as long as it is robust and it does the job.

On the more specific reasons I think Backblaze is a little far behind in UI/UX:
- It's very hard (or impossible) to know if you're 100% backed up after you add new files to your HD.
- When you go to the website to check if your new files are backedup, the web page is extremely slow and outdated (I'm talking windows xp style interface iframed into a modern page).
- When you get a new HD, because you're constantly filling this things up, the transition process is very sketchy, to say the least. Technically you go through the same process as when you loose an HD, which might make sense, but the process is very slow and the user doesn't get much feedback as to the progress and state of it. Which is particularly nerve-racking when you're dealing with a huge and priceless treasure trove of information.

That said I do have to make a caveat in favor of Backblaze. Not only it is reasonably priced (100$/year, new pricing), Backblaze seems to be design to run continuously on computers with lots of storage and with their HDs connected at all time. That's why they don't bother giving the information about the completeness of your backup, or even making a good web UI for it, because I guess their target user just turns on Backblaze and never really looks back at it. And forget about sharing files through Backblaze, it is 100% a backup tool, not a modern cloud file tool.

It should be said that I fall a bit off their target user, I want to backup my external drives that are connected only when I add new files, and not my whole computer, all the time. This is also the motivation to once in a while look for an alternative in hopes of finding a better solution.

Thanks for the tip on SpiderOak, I'll have a look into it.
Those devices look pretty nifty! I wish I could rent one though.
Does anyone else find it interesting that the USA seems to be doing this for ideological and political reasons more than just economics?

I'm not sure this is going to go well for the simple reason that so far, it seems Taiwan, Korean and China will still be pumping out cheaper chips and more of them which will make this plan financially unviable, which really seems to go against everything the USA stands for...

Personally I think it's a good thing, but I'm not sure who is going to pay for it.
As long as we have separate "Communication and Marketing" departments at universities, this won't change because the people who work there are equally decoupled from research as are journalists. I really had to fight our Communication and Marketing office to _not_ modify the message of a research in order to make it more "appealing" to the wider public.
This. I don't want to be in an event loop by default.
An LLM is always an it.
Well that now is a proper technical revolution. The rest seems to mostly justify swallowing 9-digit numbers from investors from where I am standing, without the beneficiaries being able to show much for it.
DeviceTree Overlays on Zephyr RTOS: Adding I2C or SPI
As if this article is about programming.
What? Definitely happens, latest when one of the cheaper thinner bottle types have been sitting a bit too long in the hot the plastic taste becomes intense.

And even if below noticing levels I think plastic molecules have been detected in such beverages, but uncertain here.
Apple will not sell you the parts period.
> This was serendipitous, as so many conversations in Davos turn out to be, because, at the urging of many, I was supposed to be angling for an invitation to the McKinsey party, at the Belvedere Hotel.

the powerful like to hold parties, talk, and listen to themselves and others of their liking also talk.

a journalist gets to write a little about it. lest the rest start to wonder too much and come to conclusions.

pay no attention to your betters. unless they want you to.
I'm not a prescriptivist when it comes to language; if a meaning evolves that's just dandy.

I do think it's odd to link to a definition of a word as the author does, and then use it differently without explanation (potentially depriving the reader of some interesting insight into the phenomena under discussion, if the reasons are good).

Secondly, doesn't 'misuse'really just mean 'used differently from how most people use it'? In which case, I think the descriptor probably applies, given the word's recent coinage and limited usage
The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
But it's not illegal to require a licensed "authorized" repair shop use the OEM part, nor is it illegal (unfortunately) to decline to sell OEM parts to unlicensed repair shops.
It would be interesting to see what the breakdown is on H100/A100 users. I would expect most inference users are similar to my lab and max out at a DGX node rather than being the bulk of users.

PyTorch has gotten a lot better on TPUs this year, I don’t believe there’s much of a performance hit now. Jax and TF (I don’t use the latter anymore) of course work. I never used Gaudi2 but it apparently works.

All of this to say, is it possible that Intel gets their fabs working and strategically partners with their long-time partner MS and OpenAI to extend Triton to Gaudi3 or 4 and be a threat to Nvidia within 2-3 years? Absolutely.

Is it similarly possible that Google increases development on Jax and TPUv5? Sure.

Neither of these possibilities, regardless if you think they’re probable or improbable, would need a decade to catch up to Nvidia.
Would love to hear more.
Downvoted because starting WW3 is a stupid idea...
Yeah, the API is very similar.

I don't know the .Net runtime well enough to say anything about how it actually executes though.
I think with new(er) GaN(or SiC) DC/DC buck conversion, 380V systems can get up to 98.2%, typically around 94% efficiency now.

Edit: And voltage of these type of DC grids are often higher (600V - 1000V, or industrial even up to 1500V), so losses in cables are less.
There should be a name for the syndrome of being familiar with something to the point of not being able to see it anymore. When I try to talk about some of the things I am very familiar with, then I often can't explain them. Like JavaScript. I use it all the time. 'this' anyone? '==!'? 'bind'? It is so easy once you have submerged yourself in it.

But when I try to explain what these things are to a person learning JavaScript, I am vaguely aware that I sound like a lunatic.

Perhaps 'koolaid syndrome'.

I am not stupid - C, Java, nginix, streams, tcp slow start, NBP, etc. But CSS has always been hard for me. 'float'? 'block-inline'? <div/> vs <p/>? Eh? Rem's and em's, %, and px's Oh My!

One of the things that helped was to understand that CSS is a _layout_ engine. It takes a list of elements and plunks them into a container. In prehistoric times (BG - before grid) you needed to float things.

So yes, CSS is very capable. And there are some things that would be much harder to write with Canvas or Threejs. But if I didn't already have CSS koolaid syndrome, I wonder if ....
Thanks for the article. I haven't written much Erlang.

I am looking for a better representation of concurrency and in my thinking I've found that it feels easier to understand is a timeline grid with rows for independent processeses and columns for time with demarcations for events. You could say a sequence diagram is closest but I'm also thinking of Chrome developer tools with its renderings for rendering, painting, javascript etc.

http://bloom-lang.net/ solves the nonorderly concurrency problems between machines with lattices.

I am unsatisfied how concurrency is represented in the mainstream languages. I find Rust async hard to understand and read at a high level from a schedule perspective. The function colouring issue is painful.

I want an interactive programming environment that lets me create a "tcp-connection" for instance and then register handlers for "on-ready-for-reading" and "on-ready-for-writing" which are system events that are triggered from IO threads that run epoll or liburing. You don't want to block the IO thread loop so you dispatch an event to another thread.

I've been designing a syntax for representing state machines and events that can be fired from different places, it looks like this:

initialstate = state1 | state1a state1b state1c | state2a state2b state2d | state3

It waits for initialstate to be reached, then waits for state1 then it waits for state1a state1b state1c in any order and so on.

Ideally we want data flow to be a tree and sprinkled with synchronization points which are barriers where independent tasks synchronizes, where we exchange tasks and data. Shared memory synchronization is great for the amount of data that can be transferred in one-go (you're not writing lots of data into a pipe as in multiprocessing or into a buffer in message passing, message passing can be O(1)) but I don't want to do it on the hot path, Amdahls law.

Another program I've written with Java runtime executes the following program:

thread(s) = state1(yes) | send(message) | receive(message2);
thread(r) = state1(yes) | receive(message) | send(message2);

I've been trying to design a multithreaded server architecture here
https://github.com/samsquire/three-tier-multithreaded-archit...

You could implement complicated interlocking workflows with this syntax, because you just need to wait for events as defined.

LMAX Disruptor gets some good requests per second
It does influence the flavour as coloured glass prevents the loss of flavour due to light radiation.
But then the price of American chips will go up and less people will want to buy them...there is a reason why the USA went offshore in the first place...money money money
Glass is a little bit better at keeping oxygen out than plastic, dark glass keeps UV rays at bay, and thick glass bottles can better withstand the pressure of a second fermentation in the bottle, as with champagne and abbey beers. It also looks nice. These are advantages for beer and wine, but mostly irrelevant for soda, water and juices.
I do use drugs. I have never seen spirits in a plastic bottle, even own brand super market vodka.

Boxed wine exists, and is a bit under half the market (by volume). Wine in glasses is still the majority of sales. Beer/cider/larger is sold in cans or bottles, with cans being about 2/3rd by volume.
Disregard? Not entirely, but sometimes I will be driving my car and opening its top or window, and for few seconds I can hear that there’s another car next to me, however, it’s in my blind spot, so yeah it does assist in driving.
Guitar pedals, 10s of subs:
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His wife, Chromosome, was an uncredited contributor.
Do I really need to specify "unless you have put the bottles in the sun, which the label tells you not to do"?
Are you only looking for huge unicorn-like examples?

I founded and bootstrapped a startup the year my 3rd child was born and exited it (for a life-changing amount) about 4 years later.

Doing something before you have kids may mean that you have more actual time, but once you have kids you are also older, with more relevant industry experience and wisdom. Also, becoming a parent often makes a person more efficient, better at time management and prioritization. Parenting is the ultimate crash-course in adulting.
It's much heavier to cart around, which must be factored in. There's absolutely nothing inherently harmful in single use plastics if they get properly disposed of in landfill.

Driving heavy glass back and forth from the bottling plant burns a lot of diesel unnecessarily.
I find it very odd that a 16 year old web service with user accounts has no method of contacting the moderators other than email.

I have no desire to take HN "offline" and pollute my inbox/outbox with a bunch of moderation notes. That's too annoying.

It might be slightly better if every submission and comment had a mailto: that automatically populated a new email with a link, but even then, this shouldn't be necessary.