skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing immutable about pdfs. If you have an "original" document, it'll always hash to whatever it hashes to. I fail to see the point. You can cite md5 hashes on LG the same whether they're pdfs or epubs or, heaven forbid, azw3 (amazon's proprietary epub-like format).

What's the obsession with "looking the same everywhere"?

Page references: this shouldn't be a thing. Academia has already solved this problem for notable texts. Rather than nearly uncountable numbers of paragraphs that all run together, paragraphs or short sections or lines are numbered. See any good edition of Plato or Aristotle, or just about any notable play or longer poem ever translated. Relying on a single published layout of a work to reference is dumb.

Citing exact line numbers isn't even necessary for native-language works. When they're digital, search works. It works even better in flowed-format texts than it does in pdfs, which sometimes, depending on how the pdf was constructed, won't match text properly across newlines.

Visual quality: As long as images—data, charts, graphs, photographs—are not degraded beyond usefulness, the actual text, and its display, is up to the reader application. Everyone uses the web complete with mathjax, and those doesn't have Knuth-approved formatting in every respect. But they're good enough, and they work everywhere on every device without squinting or pinch to zoom. There are some people who insist on putting pre-rendered images of math in html, and they always look worse, because they don't match the text without a lot of work to have extra high-res images that are auto-scaled according to viewport and surrounding font size—work that I bet not many people have ever done in the history of html publishing.
Cool, I have a Selmer 5 digit Mark VI tenor that needs a tune-up. I'm afraid to give it to anyone as it's kind of a collectors item. I'll contact this guy to see what to do or maybe use the instructions to do my own work.
I thought the book was fantastic, particularly with regards to detailing what Blackberry did right when it came to tech sales and pitching their product. I felt the movie missed the opportunity to have a 'success montage' scene a la Scarface, where Blackberry sales blow up once executives started showing it off as the go-to device for instant email and messaging.
> All you needed to do was search the group list for relevant terms. All the Usenet clients supported searching the group list

- Group list

- Usenet client

Most people had no clue what that stuff was.
I respect your reply. What follows isn't arguing against what you said.

I see a parallel between the Arduino/Adafruit folks and the people who go through developer bootcamps. It is extremely ill advised to make sweeping statements about bootcamp grads which might imply a shallow depth of understanding or troubleshooting capacity, because so many people will get very upset about your gatekeeping. That vibe hasn't made its way to the EE world, clearly.

I've had a 35 year and counting career as a self-taught software developer. I've learned a lot about adjacent concepts without needing to become particularly expert in any of them, because I learned early to delegate to others' strengths. For example, I've never learned assembly or been unable to function because I couldn't implement a device driver. I also have very weak math skills in general.

All of which brings me to the actually important question: what knowledge or skills do you need to do what you have set out to do? An honest evaluation of most problems can only result in "not that much, actually" because you are not working in a vacuum. We have YouTube and GPT. We make friends with complimentary skills, and we develop a sense of when to persist vs when to ask for help.

I don't subscribe to the idea that someone who has internalized all of the formulas is somehow more pure, any more than I assign respect to someone who still memorizes all of their friends' phone numbers.

In many/most cases, not knowing which topics we should obtain deep knowledge of is actually a negative. While it's perfectly reasonable to decide that you want to know all about Maxwell's equations, but you should see it for what it is: a hobby, unless you have a damn good reason to prioritize it over something silly like shipping your project.

It's like the DIY keyboard community, I guess: it's cool that folks want to get that nerdy about building their own data input device... but if you stop to build your idea of the perfect keyboard before starting the task assigned to you, you deserve to be given a strike.

TL;DR: 98% of people with a deliverable in mind would be better suited by a Collin's Lab video than a 45 minute lecture on the physics that make capacitors work.
> You can't realistically bring nuclear up and down in line with a daily demand curve.

https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/nea-news-29-2-lo...
> At medium levels of wealth (more than $1m and under $50m), you are likely unable to access good advice

What the actual f...

According to the "Global Wealth Databook 2021" by Credit Suisse, page 129, there are in the US:

- $1-5M : 19.5M people (<6%)

- $5-10M : 3.2M people (<1%)

- $10-50M : 1.5M people (0.4%)

And that is from one of the richest country in the world, with a very steep exponential wealth distribution.

$1-50M is _far_ from "medium wealth" by any stretch of the imagination.

>$1M (liquid) is enough to be denoted "high net worth" HNW and access private banking, with a dedicated wealth manager, from most major investment banks.
I commuted on it for a few years, and now that I’m retired it’s getting plenty of recreational use.
Possession is 9 tenths of the law. What right do you have to all the metal, diamonds, gold, oil etc that you're using right now if it can be safely returned?
The main thing for me is that I don't want everything I share with my friends and family to be public.

If I e.g. comment on a photo that my brother posted, I absolutely don't want any of his other random acquaintances to also see that. And also the other way around, if my friends comment something on my photo I don't want my brother to see that.

Private groups are the only way to avoid that. Or maybe a system like G+ had with the Circles, so I could e.g. share tech things only with my techie friends without bothering my aunt with it.
the inability to log in with an Apple ID in a MacOS VM is a decision made by Apple. you can certainly sign without logging in, but I don't think you can submit to the store in a VM.

you can see how they build tart here, including signing and entitlements and so on: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/blob/main/.cirrus.yml
Types versus sets (and what about categories?) (2022)
Fixed this for you:

In practice `Z` is already used *wrongly* for the "no preferred local time"
I dunno why is this not a GPT wrapper? So indicative of where the ecosystem is today... Can ANYONE tell me why this is needed??
It is a somewhat 'round' number, the width of 720p resolution.
Are you certain it's not lifestyle related? I've found that without my morning ritual, I can barely approach anything resembling productivity—and that's at the ripe old age of 28.

My morning ritual consists of getting up early, walking, lifting heavy weights, some coffee and some personal projects to get my brain working. Then I can usually sustain high levels of intense focus until about noon. All my most important work gets done by then. After noon is basically just rest and low-cognitive work like emails and communications.
The actual linked article isn't the paper, and doesn't even name the paper as far I can tell, it's just given as "Hu, W. et al. Science 381, 979–984 (2023)." in a footnote.

This is the actual paper, which (presumably, I cannot access) is specifically about how they made the estimate: Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
I doubt the latest assertion, the impacket tooling is well known for executing code over various interfaces. I have no idea how it works, but I imagine it would be difficult to truely prevent exec over smb.

Fwiw though, windows now supports openssh via a powershell command to install (e.g it’s not some third party binary). I’m not sure if it supports sftp, but it may be worth looking into.
Thank you tjr, I really appreciate this comment. Hope you have a wonderful day.
Yeah I also want an offline portfolio tracker

Offline taxes

guess there’s not enough money in that
You can compile Java and Go to web assembly and use those wherever you would have used JavaScript.
I’m not sure what’s your point? That JS shouldn’t have this library because other languages did it first a while ago? Should concepts only be implemented in one language because after that it’s rediscovering knowledge rather than being inventive?

I also really dislike the undertone of « other languages are better », which is naive at best.
It is introduced in the context of anti-racism, but the content actually seems more related to enabling a true meritocracy. It's hard to interpret that as a bad thing.
The hyperbole of Trump claiming his conspiracy is covered by the first amendment?

That's basically fact. Perhaps you derailed somewhere. Free speech is not absolute unless you are the king.
Especially assuming an increase in computing intelligence in that time.
That's been the rub with all these things since the mid-90s. They're fascinating to build and author in. But it's like a Trotskyist sect or an indie rock band or something: everyone's got one of their own, and nobody wants to join anybody else's. :-)
Have you noticed that the people advocating for emotional coddling in this thread also seem to have trouble with nuance? They pose this false dichotomy of "Wow I really love this but..." vs "This sucks go fuck yourself"

Simply being direct and forward without wrapping your words with empty praise or naked insults doesn't seem to be an option they recognize.
No worries.

I hope they publish a case study article as a clinical treatment guide for the next cases.

Your kind of situation exposes one of the current inadequacies of the clinical medical profession: falling through the epidemiological cracks of rare diseases and syndromes. There is a finite amount of evidence-based medical knowledge and an inability to rapidly test and adapt to infinite presentations that don't fit neatly into an "average" common case. Perhaps we need both cheaper lab tests/diagnostic procedures (not Theranos in execution but close to it) and tens of thousands more "detective" MD researchers meeting up with clinical side of the healthcare industry to elucidate the unknowns and the unexplained rather than shrug of patient concerns lacking clear explanations. Lastly, clinical MDs should aim to never forget their roots by publishing more.
Relatable.

My idea is that a profile should indeed be sliced. Personal, professional, specific niches (cooking, tech, whatever) and that we have a reliable labeling system that accurately detects the "channel", preferably fully automated. The signal to noise ratio would improve drastically and you could once again get value out of a social network.

Likewise I propose the same for moderation. Let me pick my comfort level. Ranging from "give it to me raw" to "I need to call my therapist because I saw a micro aggression" and everything in between.
Its not certain we'll get to that point, and if we do we'll probably need to rethink society as a whole. We have a lot of training data on human knowledge, discussion and Q&A, but very little on humans actually working and going through their thought process, which I suspect is why projects like AutoGPT aren't really that good [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoGPT/comments/13z5z3a/autogpt_is...

Relatively high fidelity and public data for some domains does exist, however (think all github commits, issues, discussions and pull requests as a whole). For those domains, it indeed might be only a matter of time.
I think the point here is that filing a truthful police report about a stolen item isn’t going to get you in trouble.

This has nothing to do with other systemic issues that are off-topic here.
That rules out fire fighter, pool guy and teacher.
It doesn’t get the kind of things taught in most classrooms wrong in the way it gets business applications wrong, because there’s a (mostly) correct response that isn’t going to vary a ton from source to source. The weighting will always push its responses towards the right answer, though in moments of relative uncertainty I guess if you had the temperature turned super high you might get some weird responses.

It’ll (mostly) always know about the Sherman Antitrust Act and what precipitated its passage, for example.

That said, OpenAI repeatedly suggests verifying responses and says, “make it your own” which IMO includes spot checking for correctness.
Rip the PM's, cool tool
Someone is doing it with clay tablets!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/human...
I took CS61B with Hilfinger in '96. That guy was a character. In one lecture he didn't let a person answer a C++ question because he said "no, you already learned C++ in highschool. I want a virgin". People tried to avoid his classes, but you learn a lot from Hilfinger.
You print the pattern on the NORMAL to the curved surface building up the cell walls... then top off with a skin.

You can modulate fillings of cells too - imagine cells being filled with anti incendiary fire retardants

or chemically induced reactionary ( so if [CHEMICAL] touches that cell, due to some sort of breach, the cell super absorbs and expands to capture that chemical...
Arguable a reasonable choice to avoid tooling, but if you are going to use NextJS anyway… might as well choose TS
When I was in high school, in the Before Times[1], a guy who ran in my hacker circles broke into the school system's mainframe and gave everyone he liked straight A's. He was, of course, caught -- but the school system really did hire him after he graduated, as their IT security guy.

[1] This was before the internet, before there were laws specifically about this sort of thing, and before the public started mistakenly equating "hacker" with "criminal".
It's pretty unlikely that any exist though. Which was my point.

Although I have a side question: Imagine three streams of light, each 1/3 the density needed to make a black hole, traveling at a slight angle from each other, and then meeting.

The moment they meet they are a black hole. How fast is that black hole moving afterward in order to concerve both momentum and energy? You'll find the answer is: The speed of light.

There are clearly unsolved issues with Kugelblitze.
This. Fixed-point decimal isn't even implemented in standard Rust– which I would deem a very mature language, because they want to keep the standard library quite small. If you want to use fixed-point decimal, there's a crate for that;

https://crates.io/crates/rust_decimal
Brazil is making ethanol from its vast sugar plantations. They are a special case, and ethanol isn't great on a full lifecycle basis. It doesn't make sense without agricultural surpluses or subsidies, as there are in the USA.

China is the world's mass manufacturer. They will happily make whatever they can sell. If the West is demanding solar panels and windmills due to top down energy policy directives China will happily make and sell them.

There is plenty of fossil fuel available and a huge installed base of ICE's around to use them, especially in the developing world and BRICS. If the West stops buying fossil fuels it only makes them cheaper for those who will happily consume them.

The West needs to use its technological edge to develop market winning sustainable technologies and cheap, safe, electricity production. Crippling itself with unrealistic sustainable energy policies is going to be counter productive to climate change solutions.
Pretty much the only AWS logo I can recognize immediately is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_Electoral_Action
> If you're using it in place of a car $1,300 is cheap. Plus you're much more friendly to the environment and your own health.

Except it was being compared to a $700 bike (not frame, assembled bike), by the person with whom I share financial decisions.
Everything about keyboard preference is to do with personal habit. Using a keyboard effectively requires committing actions to muscle memory. Which is literally just another way of saying personal habits.

The ironic thing is this conversation of ours would have cost us more energy than what would have been saved from a lifetime of any of your keyboard optimisations. Which is why I roll my eyes when people try to intellectualise their keyboard preferences as some kind of revolutionary time and effort saver.
Off on a wild tangent...

I feel like people should be running MUDs on Linode $5/month servers... using xterm.js, websockets, and some back-end.

The back-end I'm playing with is .Net Core, and I'm using async/await to make the code seem more like a normal terminal application.

...and I'm just in love with how LambdaMOO natural language parsing and matching works... But I want to use C#... so I'm implementing verb matching using Method Attributes. And I'm trying to layer that on top of how Inform 6 works... Not using Z-Machine. Or the language of Inform 6... but the declarative style of Inform 6 room and object descriptions really appeals to me.

I get that I'm giving up the flexibility of user-created content in a scripting language...

...but if I still allow players access to the GitHub repository for the content... And make it easy for them to stand up test servers... That feels like a decent compromise?

I'm not even sure I want to make a MOO... or just a server with single-player Infocom-like Interactive Fiction games...?

But this is my hobby project right now.
It's really quite minimal for that exact reason. The volume of scans is high enough that very optimized pattern matching for them is developed by the brain. Most scams take less than 1s to identify.
Is this not the nature of all social problems?

If you have X problem, that is your problem.

If Y% of population has X problem, as X grows large enough, eventually everybody is affected by the side effects of said problem.
No event horizon, just incredibly powerful gravity.
Actually, if you want to get out of this cycle, turning is a good subset of the hobby. A good small turning setup will cost around $1500 brand new (for the lathe, carbide tools, vices, drill bits, etc.). After that the wood tends to be cheap because you can use other people's offcuts or waste material.

Pens in particular are easy to learn, make gifts that people ooh and aah over, and don't take a ton of time. Materials for a pen range from $10 (for a cheap kit) to $35 (for a top of the line kit plus a fancy blank). Once you've made a few you should be spending an hour to an hour and a half per pen. If something goes wrong mid-project you lose the wood and the tubes, and replacement tubes are cheap, so you don't have to re-buy the whole kit.

Once you master that there are a variety of projects that will ramp up the skill step by step. And there are tons of classes around that'll help you gain those skills.
Ha ha ha onboard anything

PCs of a sufficient vintage had so little logic on the HDD that you could swap out the MFM controller card in your PC for an RLL one and get 50% more storage. The modulation of the signal written to the disk was the job of the controller card, not the board on the HDD. Turn your 20MB HDD into a 30MB with a controller change and reformat? Mighty tempting.
Also, proton decay is a thing. At a certain point, if the proton is unstable, the half life of the nucleus is longer than the proton itself.
Cool idea. Now we just need to get Git to switch to base 64 instead of base 16 hashes so that we have more letters than abcdef105. C0ffee is cool to be able to write though.

However, actually having the commits start out with the same letters is problematic and confusing when e.g. specifying commit hashes on the command-line
Why should having the GPU drivers checked into the same repository mean that they can't be loaded and unloaded dynamically?
A link was added from "Europe/Kiev" to "Europe/Kyiv" in the included-by-default backward file [0], so that any user that doesn't exclude that file will simply treat the old name as an alias for the new name.

[0] https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/e13e9c531fc48a04fb8d064a...
I'll have to give execing over smb another look.

I did try using OpenSSH, but there were issues with using Powershell through eshell over TRAMP. It expects a POSIX shell. I also tried using Cygwin to run OpenSSH, but that didn't work well for my needs.
Interesting. Probably did shift then, it would fit the pattern of epidemiological changes taking a while to percolate to radiology and as it's far more likely we miss crypto on MRI than toxo we probably wouldn't notice a change in our reporting incidence to make a radiologist question that ranking.

Thanks for taking the time to search and comment. Always appreciate learning from my clinical colleagues + now I can flex a new obscure fact to radiology trainees like a proper academic physician.
If you don’t then we arrive at yet another scenario in life where no one learns anything.
I am always baffled by people who actually use the back and forward buttons. I guess I just assume that everyone opens links by right-clicking and opening in a new tab. Is there some reason why back and forward is a better or even useful option?
Today it's a lagoon and a field so it's even more of a waste of space.
I tried my level best and got 2/20. I repeated with random guesses and got 5/20. I have used AWS on-and-off since 2018.

AWS icons are next to Egyptian hieroglyphs in difficulty. Google iconography isn't so bad (but bad enough still.)
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.
how does line number citation work for responsive text?
I'd argue they didn't have too much humanity, or at least what differentiates us from Chimpanzees.
There’s this https://github.com/tweag/nickel

Coupled with https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist

I’m not sure how immature it is though.
If you're involved in internationalization (I18N) or localization (L10N), this is a not-to-be-missed opportunity. Hallway conversations in Unicode events are super valuable--and the session content itself looks to be invaluable.
The romantic optimist in me will keep some hope out that that sort of thing was the Great Filter which felled so many of our unseen galactic neighbours.
Surprised not to see any discussion here of Khanmigo[0], which I believe has been using GPT-4 as a tutor for quite a while now (in a beta form). It's been long enough that I've actually been (idly) trying to find any efficacy data. I'm sure that by now Khan academy has it, but I haven't seen them release it anywhere.

The famous tutoring 2-sigma result (referenced elsewhere in the comments), only took place over 6 weeks of learning, and Khanmigo should have over 6 months (I believe) of data by this point

[0]https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs
This is the number supported by DNA evidence. There will be a margin of error.

The bigger issue, for me, is that I'm not sure how they can rule out the possibility that there were lots of other people around at that time whose lineages gradually died out. Modern genetic lineages may trace back to 1280 people (+/- the margin of error), but it seems pretty dubious to assume that those were the only people living at that time. It seems highly likely to me that there were infertile people, people who died young, people whose only living children were infertile or died young, etc.

(I did not read the original paper, so maybe they accounted for this, or maybe they that specify that this was a genetic bottle neck for modern humans, but not necessarily the actual size of the population.)
Is your DNS 1.1.1.1 by any chance?