skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQL NULL has to be the quintessential example of why programming can't just blindly follow math. The NULL truth table makes all the sense in the world in a mathematical context.. and it is a total pain to program with. Letting NULL == NULL be "true" and NULL == anything else be "false" might be slightly less principled, but it would be soooo much safer and have prevent so very many bugs.

(And it's not like that's some sort of mathematical nonsense either. It makes perfect sense to not create a special value that represent "outside my universe of values" and then refuse to equate any two of them. It makes perfect sense to declare a distinguished "outside my universe of values" and let it be equal to any other such value on the grounds that it is mathematically impossible to witness any differences between them anyhow so within the system they are indeed equal.)
Piece is not really about Kesey. Here’s something about Kesey:

Now, the people who volunteered for these experiments and began taking LSD, in many cases, found it very pleasurable. They told their friends about it. Who were those people? Ken Kesey, the author of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," got his LSD in an experiment sponsored by the CIA, by MK-Ultra, by Sidney Gottlieb. So did Robert Hunter, the lyricist for the Grateful Dead, which went on to become a great purveyor of LSD culture. Allen Ginsberg, the poet who preached the value of the great personal adventure of using LSD, got his first LSD from Sidney Gottlieb, although of course he never knew that name.

NPR talking to Stephen Kinzer about his Poisoner in Chief: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/758989641 (The following paragraph, unfortunately, is extremely boomer and a grave misunderstanding of the situation.)
It may be rational and it may be irrational. All I'm saying is I want to see an argument. My impression of the AI space generally is that there are many, many obvious ideas which are simply waiting to be picked up off the ground and tested, and that it's not clear to anyone how much better (what are we even quantifying this with -- log loss?) the base LLM capabilities have to be before they're suitable for making tools that automate large quantities of work. Even if you assume that 240B is the limit for how many parameters number of engineers who have the ability to fine-tune GPT-4 or whatever Google is about to come out with is vanishingly small compared to the number of engineers who are participating in the open-source ML community, and the number of engineers in the open-source ML community is vanishingly small compared to the number of engineers in the long-tail of app developers who will ultimately adopt LLMs to their use-cases. Even assuming that GPT-4 is the best an LLM can possibly be, (which, again, I've seen no argument for), the widening of LLM availability and the building of practical tooling is a strong reason to believe that the utility of LLMs to concrete products will dramatically increase in the next 4-5 years.
As someone who works in advertising, this comment is wrong in many many ways.
Cattle are ruminants which means they play an important part in grasslands cycle because they can eat things that most other animals cannot. Grasslands are significant carbon sinks and endangered in some areas. Grasslands need grazers like cattle, which are the keystone species that replaced bison, and losing them can release more carbon, cause flooding, and remove the natural habitat for other animals.
>Within our lifetimes, books with every person in town's name, number, and address used to be delivered to everyone's home.

This example is only half-hearted at best I feel. Anyone touting this as an example also leaves out it was very possible to be omitted from this book or have a name other than your legal name listed. It is absolutely not possible with online tracking. Anyone throwing out this as an example of how "not bad" their industry is can take a long walk off a short pier.
its possible to restore it in a data restoration shop, if you are interested
Peter Hessler and his unique view on China
The lady in the vid, Valer Austin Clark, has some great lectures and slideshow presentations on YT if you search for her name and sort for 20+ mins. She built some absolutely massive rock dams that survived some huge floods.
I think the interesting question is- who is responsible when copyrighted material is provided as an output and is inadvertently used, openai, or the user?
The panels were spaced out enough that light was hitting part of the grass, and would probably hit all or most of it throughout the day
Unless it’s a stacked analysis when results of one study depends on another, usually experts just eyeball the frequentist results and take a judgment call — that’s been my experience (not generalizing but I think in business people like doing things that are simple and easy to understand).

I think it’s definitely possible that Bayesian and Frequentist approaches give different conclusions but in practice it doesn’t alter the final decision. Analyses guide decision making but in the end decisions are made on consensus, narrative and intuition. Statistics is only the handmaiden rather than the arbiter.
Animal agriculture, especially cattle, is one of the least efficient ways to produce food in terms of energy and land use. Its responsible for almost 10% of greenhouse gases.[1]

One of the best things you can do for the planet it to stop eating meat and dairy.

[1]: https://youtu.be/-k-V3ESHcfA?t=591
> For example, the US Constitution generally provides rights to citizens in the negative form, such as, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech". A positive form of that same right is Article 35 of the PRC Constitution, which is: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration" [2]. In the former case, the nation ultimately defines what "freedom of speech" means; in the latter case, the government ultimately defines the meaning of "freedom of speech." Granted, not everyone agrees with this interpretation, but I believe history generally shows this to be true.

I think your assigning some deeper meaning to semantics than there is, without evidence to back it up.just saying China does this and the US does that is not sufficient. The next article in the Chinese constitution defines a right much in the same way as the the US constitution.

Article 36 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of religious belief.

No state organ, social organization or individual shall coerce citizens to believe in or not to believe in any religion, nor shall they discriminate against citizens who believe in or do not believe in any religion.

Does that mean that Chinese have the same religious freedoms as Americans? No, if anything this proves that a constitution document doesn't really mean much just by itself if there isn't a robust system of protections build around it.
Ask HN: Is posting 10 blog posts a day Spam?
I have an idea for a blog on technical topics where I set myself a challenge to write 1000 blog posts. But a friend of mine says that publishing such a series of posts can be perceived as a spam site by search engines. Do you think this effort will be perceived as spam? Note: I won't use ChatGPT, I will write everything by hand!
It's an interesting idea but I can't say I feel that would solve a problem I've ever had. In fact, I always completely annotate top-level definitions with their types. I never want them inferred. And I've never felt it too burdensome to fix up a call stack when adding a new effect. But if you consider that a weakness of Haskell then so be it!
does your entire business depend on the OpenAI API? what happens if they close it down?
"State residents 25 and older — and without a prior postsecondary degree — can work toward an associates’ degree or certificate, and the state will cover costs from tuition and fees to books and supplies."

I wonder how easy it will be to transfer these community college credits to a 4-year program. In my experience transferring from Purdue to University of Louisville for example, I lost 15 of 31 credits. Some of that was because Purdue had a language requirement for engineering degrees while U of L did not. But also, if a course was 3 credits at Purdue at 4 credits at U of L, U of L required making up the credit. But 4-credit courses that were 3 at U of L only counted as 3.

I can only imagine how much worse it would be trying to transfer credits from a community college to a 4-year school.
So he lives in a thing that is freezing cold in winter and exceedingly hot in summer?

That's not going to work in several areas of the world. Which is why we normally make houses.

> the rest of the country thinks it's in a "shithole state".

You mean if he's gay or an atheist he will get shot? Perfectly reasonable to ask people to go live there, of course.

> Which of course makes perfect sense, and there's nothing wrong with that picture.

"I got mine, I don't care if you don't get yours".

You should give speeches, we could bring school children to learn what's wrong with humanity.
It's the average temperature at which trees start to die, not the average temperature over a year.

Just a couple of weeks at that temp will do a lot of damage.

The point is that ~2C or so from the pre-warming baseline you start seeing signs of a mass die off. And ~4C or so the damage starts to become systemic and irreversible.
It's just discounting one's bid by the amount of the perceived risk.

For example, we discount the price of a used car by an estimate of how much of its useful life is used up. But that cannot be gauged precisely, hence risk.

We discount the price even further if bought from an individual rather than a used car dealer, because the risk of hidden defects is higher.

Risky investments are priced lower than more secure investments.

Many people say that free markets require perfect information. They don't, not at all. The imperfect information is called "risk" and affects the price accordingly.
And when it's 45 degrees you'll be right there saying that there is nothing we can do about it now, so we should just accept it?
I just ran -

dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.img bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync

And got -
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 9.49586 s, 113 MB/s

The drive appears to be - WDC WD160EDGZ-11B2DA0, it's a 16TB disk, which I thought would be SMR, due to its size, but maybe I'm wrong.

Just found https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/qf5ar3/is_this... which seems to indicate it's CMR.
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Scientists create living smartwatch powered by slime mold - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33976876 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)

Coordination Headwind: How organizations are like slime molds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31727144 - June 2022 (10 comments)

Slime molds’ complex ability to detect mass from a distance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29114686 - Nov 2021 (42 comments)

The 'blob': zoo showcases slime mold with 720 sexes that can heal itself (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27617789 - June 2021 (2 comments)

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A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285926 - Feb 2021 (76 comments)

How the humble slime mold helped physicists map the cosmic web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25602327 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

In slime molds, evolution selects 'loners' who refrain from collective behavior - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727215 - March 2020 (33 comments)

Evolution selects for 'loners' in slime molds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22658691 - March 2020 (10 comments)

Slime molds remember, but do they learn? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491547 - July 2018 (11 comments)

Slime Molds solve the travelling salesman problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4304427 - July 2012 (3 comments)

Slime Molds- single cell organism solves shortest path algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4303169 - July 2012 (1 comment)

Using A Slime-Mold To Calculate Minimum Spanning Trees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3970427 - May 2012 (20 comments)

Slime mold grows network just like Tokyo rail system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072876 - Jan 2010 (21 comments)

Communication networks inspired by slime mould - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071093 - Jan 2010 (1 comment)
> The worst part of it is that I'm not even convinced the Tories are going to lose the next election.

Dude - time to start your journey, out of Plato’s Cave! The lefty/righty paradigm, is old and dusty. Just one axis of thought, out of three.

It was David Blunkett, who wanted us all to show our: “papers, please!” - so don’t think for one moment, that the desire to renew, and transplant, a Stasi esque surveillance borg, stops at the Conservative corridors of power.

We are boiling the frog!
I didn't realize that Canonical had lost Stéphane. Huge loss for them. Am incredibly excited what comes from his period of self-employment.
Eh, wouldn't the induction reduce to 0, 1, infinity?
Ask HN: Any good Arc scripts to practice learning Arc on?
No, that poster's #3 added the key insight.
It’s cultural. I’m dual national US/UK - there’s less of a focus on individual rights generally. Rocking the boat is frowned upon in a lot of circles. Drives me nuts.
There was a pretty interesting discussion on e141 of the All In Podcast regarding the IPO climate. I'm not an expert on this so worth consulting the podcast, but essentially they made some interesting points. Basically an IPO will fix the cap table for companies with very convoluted warrants and pref stacks. So while some investors will take write-downs the company was structured in such a way that it basically couldn't raise money. Not sure if this applies to instacart but according to the podcast an IPO event in some cases converts everyone to common which might be a necessary thing.

This isn't because of a "downturn" per se, but it advantages some investors and the company as a whole.
compatibility I guess?
The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
I rode in a Tesla Model Y recently and was surprised how spartan and uncomfortable the seating and interior were compared to my wife's Lexus ES. I have also found it looks extremely weird when looking at it from the front. They certainly set the standard low for the competition when it comes to comfort and looks. Perhaps, their software and reliability are what sets them apart, but the Uber Driver said he has already needed the cars computer replaced. I am not impressed from my first experience, why are people so fond of these vehicles, is it price?
I have experimented with caffeine for years (periods of off and on) and noticed dehydration (it is a known diuretic after all). The problem with many of these types of studies that claim there is no effect of x from their inability to detect an effect of x is that they don't rule out sub-populations who may experience the effect. In other words, it's possible for there to be no effect on average, but for the population to be comprised of different groups who do and don't experience the effect. This is particularly relevant to the linked studies which (aside from the first one) have very small sample sizes (n=19, 21, 12) that would not differentiate sub-populations.

After reading the abstracts and skimming some of the studies you linked, I don't personally find the quality of evidence convincing enough to discount what seems to be a commonly reported anecdote about the effects of caffeine.

As an example, the second study makes a glaring statistical error (equating p>0.05 lack of a difference between groups with equivalence of groups) that renders the entire conclusion invalid.

The fourth study (which probably has the best methodology aside from the small sample size) actually did find caffeine has an effect on water retention.

The other studies use various indirect measures of hydration (blood osmolality and urine metabolites) where it is unclear if sub-clincical diuresis would actually impact these measures.
I’m still waiting for Nix to mature and for its UX to improve.
I would like to check out your implementation in the neovim plugin. Do you have a direct link? As for myself, I was always more into doing git-related tasks directly in the terminal without relying on plugins or external tools, therefore bash scripting naturally aligned with that approach for me, even though I also do the editing in neovim...

Good point about making the AI more aware of conventional commits. In fact, sometimes the AI tends to follow a more conventional commit style, sometimes not. But there is an option to add specific instructions, like adhering to conventional commits or any custom guidline, but anyway, its still in progress ;-) And I usually manually the generated commit messages to fit in a specific context.

One of the challenges I've noticed is that the AI sometimes struggles to distinguish between formatting and actual code changes. So, to address this, I usually also provide additional instructions or make manual adjustments.
You advocate for a society without jails?

I mean it'd be great but is it really feasible?
Well, that’s a hot take lol.

I guess the author defines off the grid as totally isolated from any kind of community?

Sure, humans survive poorly in very small groups. We are very social animals and normally tend to live in groups. We thrive in groups.

People need communities. But those communities don’t have to be cities. And while it is very difficult to be truly independent as a community, it is possible and humans have done it well for hundreds of thousands of years.

I think the author just doesn’t know what the heck he’s doing. Ignorance will get you killed, and if it doesn’t, it’ll at least keep you chained to misery.

That said… lone wolfing it for 5 years after the fall of civilisation? You’ll die, for two reasons. First, people need communities to thrive. Secondly, if you have the idea of lone wolfing the fall of civilisation, you don’t know what you need to know to survive, much less to thrive.

A community however can survive for hundreds or thousands of years. It doesn’t have to be a modern city.
I’m confused, do you prefer chronological feeds from friends and family or not?

Yeah I don’t get it either. I’ve unfollowed most of my family and friends. I’m not interested in their re-shared political pieces. My Facebook feed has morphed into a stream of stuff from my hobbies. It’s basically replaced Reddit for me.
The problem is that cows contribute to deforestation in places where we can least afford it (eg, the Amazon rain forest), and those areas are far better carbon sinks than grasslands.

I'm all for bringing the bison back; but we certainly do not need cattle.
Is the gameplay of Wipeout actually any good? Always admired the aesthetics, and I love F-Zero GX, but…

The bonking against sides, the short view distance induced by excessively-curved tracks makes it feel like the NES game RC Pro-Am, but instead of an tightly-cropped overhead view of the track, you see the next fifty feet of track ahead (at 1,000 scifimeters/sec).

The game felt brute-forceable through its brittle, unforgiving driving but it was so frustrating I never gelled with it. Was I missing anything?
Not enjoying lawlessness and dangerous, dirty conditions with drug use nearby is "complaining about everything" now.
but what about their farts though? I'm pretty sure the science has confirmed that cows are a net climate negative, on account of all the farting they're always doing.
That screenshot gives me the feels: WindowMaker, WipEout, FreeBSD. That’s as beautiful today as it might have been 15+ years ago. The “modern” FreeBSD logo and composited windows decorations betray it’s timelessness a bit (2005 or sooner), though I suppose the earliest it could have been was sometime after 1999 (ROX-Filer and Sim City 3000).
Thanks for this - learned a bunch. Also good to see others worried about this stuff instead of pretending it’s all great
There is such a thing.

But just because it has "law" in the name doesn't mean it's at all the same kind of thing as the "law" we usually think about.

Call it "international common ground" if it makes you feel better or understand what it actually is better.
"Bad" code also has way less abstractions. It's ridiculously easy to change something (unless it's really spaghetti/everything is intertwined)

"Good" and modern code often has many abstractions. In some cases, that gives ultimate flexibility, but in some cases, if you are fighting the abstraction or the framework, it will make it almost impossible to change.
As an end user, this is gimmicky to me, and I wouldn’t want to use an email client that causes the respective emails to appear more prominent by showing their BIMI logo. It would be similarly annoying as emojis in the subject line.
There is also ollama-ui.
https://github.com/ollama-ui/ollama-ui
Ah yes. It should just ... checks notes ... let corporations do whatever they want to do
https://archive.li/Yeazz
Maybe because base-60 has some numerological property that makes it easier to use than base-72?

All I can think of off-hand is that 60/5=12 while you can't divide 72 evenly by 5. 72 wins at dividing by 8 & 9, but it might be more rare to split a pile of things into that many.

60's divisors connect more neatly back to base-10, but that's probably a modern era concern, not valid back then.

Also, your thumb has one fewer exposed joint/pad -- the base sort of blends in with the palm, the final joint is much further down -- so they might have felt it's "different".
It would be hard to separate ignored ones from ones that would use a possible future optional static typing system. They would possibly have to use a different, uglier syntax.
>perplexing that you are so fixated

It was just a retort to OP comment of regional reaction to JP release being geopolitics at it's worst when incentive calculus points to decision to release being JP domestic politics at it's worst (even if it's also politically optimal/expedient). As far as being in room, I don't see how that's relevant. All we have is what has been publicly communicated and it was between aerial release and water, both of which = release into commons, what solution makes to public discourse is as important as what doesn't - the numbers released so far suggest domestic storage/disposal was feasible, but again, that's a politically non-starter. I find it perplexing people can judge what's optimal/suboptimal based on science when this is predominantly a political issue due to domestic and regional trust of TEPCO. The fundmental issue is people, including japanese does not trust TEPCO even with oversight to behave correctly long term. So the politically expedient thing for JP politics to do is dump in commons to avoid potential domestic blowback, because local storage not politically viable option. And natural regional geopolitical response to that would be fishing bans because JP made a potential domestic problem a regional one. How optimal the solution is a function of politics/incentives. In this case one that involves radiation that sensible geopolitical response would be to keep that shit in your borders regardless of cost. Yucca mountain fine example, it's a fucking shitshow but it's still US at least keeping their nuclear waste on domestic soil, it's US gov eating the cost, as they should. But IIT we have useful idiots whose like, punishing said dick move is geopolitics at it's worst.
That sure is a super position they're in!
I think you've missed the point I'm trying to make. I'm not entertaining their opinions. I'm annoyed that they don't see the utility at all and think it's such a gimmick. It's incredibly helpful to me day to day.

They act like it's literally useless except for plagiarism.