skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is it considered ok to write notes on books borrowed from library? If it is, isn't it same as writing something on a public wall?
all currently available reasoning approaches are limited.

I guess the topic is how far GPT in reasoning is from human. We can take some simple tests:

- can GPT play chess as well as humans, as benchmark of reasoning games?

- did GPT prove some nontrivial math theorems or solve some math problems where humans couldn't find solution yet?
Severe drought is reducing the number of daily Panama Canal passages
ebook-convert is Calibre. But you're right that you can use it from command line (which is what I do as well).
Are you using code interpreter? It's better.

The mobile app doesn't offer it though, and also has a system prompt that causes some strange behavior - sometimes it will put emojis in the text and then apologize for using emojis.
Points are a relative value.

If its 10 points a week then you estimate based on the assumption that 2 pts is a days worth of work.

That, coincidentaly, is what ours roughly shakes out to be.

Sounds like the stressed teams were lacking in common sense.
He cut his country off direct dependence on the almighty US Dollar. He'll never be treated as a friend to Western media after that.
My point is that no definition of the term “file-system” makes any guarantees about persistence, whereas I interpreted your post saying this:

> > The whole point of a DB is to remember the data after power cycle.
> You are thinking of a file system.

…as though you’re saying only an FS can persist data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937572

Was this it?
I beg to differ:

https://github.com/bediger4000/nonrecursive-recursion
No, but a situation that happened right outside my home is someone too busy looking at their phone bashed their BMW 3-series into the curb and utility pole, and then decided to put the automatic transmission in park before they got out of the vehicle.

And when they got back in, they were unable to remove it from park and put it in neutral.

The previous model you would’ve apparently been able to remove some center console trim on the transmission tunnel and insert the key into a covered keyhole to release the parking pawl. On this newer generation? Jack the car up, get underneath, remove an access panel, and then use a wrench to back out the parking pawl. What a pain in the ass.

Normal turbocharged 4-popper, not a hybrid or a BEV. Once it was put in park after a crash, car decided it was game over.

It was ultimately dragged up onto a flatbed, probably partially flatspotting the tires in the process. The guy sent by AAA had no intention (or the equipment) to safely jack up the car on a busy street to remove the pawl, and probably didn’t even want to even if he knew what to do.
This is a feature and not a flaw. More does not equal better.
There is something Robert Caro-esque about this article, if you made Caro an internet virtuoso and his footnotes hilarious (maybe they are! I haven't checked). So it's satisfying to see how it ends at the shore of Caro's great theme: power. Particularly public power, particularly to build things like interstates and bridges. It's an endlessly well-researched case study, which has been Caro's method too, right up to all the archives and long distance travel. But Caro spent a decade on one and 5 decades on the next, which makes this author's 2 months seem...risky!
So, like work for free.
Midjourney's business would be at least 10x what it is today if it wasn't for the utter dogshit Discord integration. I'll continue to give my money to inferior but technically capable companies instead. I don't want to navigate to a fucking chat channel to get my renders.
SSE (Streaming SIMD Extentions)
Just like for road accidents, death is a wrong measure, as it really depends on your health, i.e a 20 years forager will survive whereas an 80 years old one would die. Many mushrooms are liver-toxic, so if you already have hepatitis (very common in Russia), you're probably more prone to die from a poisonous one.

Intoxication leading to hospitalization is a better measure.
I used to get depressed quite a bit. I would shut down, and get lost in some work. This sometimes meant not showering or taking care of myself for a few days.

Although over the years I've given up on seeking external motivations, and this has helped me mitigate depressive episodes. Everything we'd ever need is within our own minds.

The ancient Stoic philosophers had a lot to say about this. Read their words, perhaps when you're not feeling depressed, so that you can remember them during these moments. But it's probably beneficial to get professional help, as @NoZebra120vClip suggested.
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No one said anything negative about the policy.
+1

It's the first and only note taking app I liked.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Oppos...
Congrats on the launch!

I've tried doing a similar project too, but never ended up releasing it properly: https://codeberg.org/notpushkin/shazamctl

If you'd like an idea for adjacent project, I was planning to make a menubar app (on macOS) / applet (on Linux) wrapping shazactl after releasing it – I think that might be a nice addition to Shaq, too!
devil's advocate: what's are the costs to the users / customer / business if defects are shipped? how does that compare to the value of rapidly adding new features? if the cost of shipping defects is much lower than the value of shipping new features, and it costs a lot of money to change the process or tooling or product to reduce the defect rate, then one approach could be to not attempt to further reduce the defect rate and accept the current rate that defects get shipped.

in some contexts a high (or even low) defect rate is completely unacceptable, the cost of a major defect can be ruinous to users / customers / the business --- e.g. if defects in the product can kill large numbers of people, or if defects would cause a giant batch of cash trapped in manufactured hardware products to be recalled, or if defects could cause the company to lose money very very quickly (c.f. the knight capital automated trading feature flag thing). but many contexts aren't like this at all.
Eh, I forgot to file state taxes one year and they spent the next 3 harassing me about it and threatening me with fines. I continued to ignore it out of sheer laziness (was a trivial amount since I was underemployed) and eventually they garnished my wages for what was owed. It was unexpected and harsh; 25% skimmed off every check.

...but--and I don't know where the fault here lies--payroll garnished too much. Pay remained 25% less than it should be and my employer's hands were tied unless I had release forms faxed over, and then I had to go harass the state for a refund. Meanwhile, my autopay regimen was disrupted so some bills were going unpaid. But they were more responsible than I was and paid out in 4-6 weeks as promised.

All the time I didn't spend just sitting down and paying the taxes, I ended up spending on phone hold trying to reclaim overpayments and reactivate services. Would have been easier to just pay the taxes in the first place.
Name-and-shame culture on the internet is toxic and ruins innocent people's lives. When someone conscientiously keeps a person anonymous while describing one or more of their flaws, there's no need to ask them to name the guilty. There's enough unnecessary permanent reputational damage going around on the internet already.
New York's garbage surveillance program is a privacy nightmare
"fully-owned and operated by the government" - This is the most important reason. For better or worse, gov't jobs are basically not allowed to meaningfully reward exceptional performance. There's just no mechanism for it.

Not to say things like this don't happen in private industry too - it certainly does. But at least you've got a chance. In most companies there is room to meaningfully bonus or promote or otherwise reward exceptional performance. You may or may not get something, but at least you can ask or push for it, and if they want to do it they can.
I have to admit, even though I loved this, something about it made me sad. It feels a bit like the freeway eventually did end up decimating a neighborhood as it was (Bloomfield), to the point it's a historical mystery.

There's a bridge near me that's somewhat similar in that it seems disused a bit, although it connects two residential neighborhoods. It never occurred to me it might be there because of the school right next to it.
Manic Miners: A Lego Rock Raiders Remake
I would expect people in sunny areas would be more interested in a solar car.

The recent solar Prius has a small roof and gets a few miles of range per day. Things get more interesting on a van/full sized SUV with a far larger roof.
Eh, it’s more than GTD. I actually paid for his course. Crazy, but it was worth it. GTD is about getting things done. PARA is about how to manage to torrent of informational content we’re bombarded with and make it useful… to get things done. I don’t use PARA anymore, but his process did help me get my personal information under control until I figured out a (similar) system that fits my brain better. With plain GTD, I was always swamped with information.
This is more specifically known as Chesterton’s Fence:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
Do. Not. Launch. On Discord.

They are getting worse and worse towards their users. The “platform” was never designed for this, it’s painfully obvious. There’s no knowledge base, no support system, no sense of organization, no professionalism, just bots doing “stuff” as a product. Is FastAPI that hard? Is building a customer portal that difficult?

I guess I’m showing my age but I use discord for gaming and chatting with friends, not to balance my checkbook or pay my bills or assist my coding or design architectural diagrams. Occasionally it will help me make a pretty image that would otherwise take me weeks… Or help be brainstorm a sketch of a creature. However, the UX of discord is problematic towards anything other than a gaming community.
Much can be done with self advocacy

I was hired at a company to help scale their development because their app was growing fast but they needed a leap forward in architecture and approach or they couldn’t keep up with growth.

I documented everything I did from day 1, from what I was doing as well as why.

When it came review time, everything ended up reflecting really well, for I may have closed less tickets than my peers, my peers where closing more tickets than ever, and there was a direct line from my work with them to that productivity increase.

Once upper management wrapped their heads around this they completely understood why I was effective at helping shift features: the A -> B wasn’t possible without me spending lots of time with others and helping with their projects, and we would have needed more headcount to achieve what we did by having me work with the org the way I was vs trying to juggle feature work with it

It’s all about the metrics at the end of the day, in some ways. If you can demonstrate your impact across the board it’s hard to dismiss
It’s actually likely to be the opposite. WordPad could be a test application for the RichTextEdit widget.
AWS and Microsoft are very, very different from Discord. Discord originated in gaming and caters to a largely non-paid user base, that background alone is enough to be skeptical.

As terrible as AWS and Microsoft are as companies, at least they have an established reputation in B2B software. It’s an apples to apple-flavored candy comparison.
Should be no difference. It looks like different languages. There's de.reddit.com for German, in.reddit.com for Indonesian. SH is Saint Helena I guess, which is a British overseas territory, and thus English. Not sure but that's my guess.
> For most people working as employees, the tax return is just for you to confirm your numbers with the government's, specify any deductions if necessary, and see if you owe any extra or are entitled to a refund.

In the UK, for most people working as employees there is no tax return. There's no numbers to confirm, no deductions, no extras.
the excellent community is one of the reasons I have been so pleased with Clojure professionally as my favorite stack for the past 8 years. I can't say much about the sites you've mentioned, as I rarely go there. Instead I lean on the highly active community forums, especially https://clojureverse.org/ and https://clojurians.zulipchat.com/ (which aggregates many sources). I originally started my Clojure professional journey with the book Web Development with Clojure, which just (second half of 2023) put out a new edition, which I am excited to read soon. It led me to a "batteries included" collection in Luminus, which I expect has changed to Kit (same author, latest technologies) in the new edition.

How's the community? Go introduce yourself at Clojureverse and you'll find a warm welcome :)
Partnered servers are definitely not. There was a kneejerk moderation action taking in the past to ban the primary FFXIV server after a user posted some illegal content there, reported their own illegal content, and deleted the message afterwards so mods couldn't locate it. Considering where Discord came from, it was a surprising move to not even ask the operators of the server or share any information until they were facing user pitchforks.
The article says TSMC built the actual chip part
My understanding is that the firms who provide Medicare patient dialysis are very loathe to have patients exit their system, if they spend say $1000 on patient care and bill Medicare, the US government, for $1200 that's $200 of very safe profit. If that patient gets a transplant that's $200 of lost profits, regardless of how much healthier the patient is, and so they have no incentive to help patients get a transplant.

So for technologies, either xenotransplantation (GM pig kidneys) or artificial kidneys which eliminate dialysis, expect some push back from those firms, certainly expect them to have a more negative outlook on any safety studies etc. than you might expect if you think of them as neutral health professionals who are focused on patient outcomes.

Which of course doesn't magically mean these alternatives end up safer and healthier, they might turn out cheaper but worse, whereupon pushing to keep dialysis makes sense and you'd find yourself on the same side as the profiteers, but this happens, just like if you thought Prohibition was wrong and you found yourself alongside people whose businesses prey on problem drinkers...
> you need to do some hoop jumping

Unfortunately, converting to the older file format means you lose all the typography improvements from the newer version. Also, I believe that loophole is slowly being closed by Amazon. It’s probably not a viable long term solution.
> Apple's track-record dealing with inferior products has been basically ignore the problems and put their spin machine to use.

Taking a broader view, I'd say that went 'screw this, we'll do it ourselves.'
Given the reaction by the other users to that comment, it's possible one or more of them reported it as misunderstanding them to be addresses, and the discord content moderation team also adopted a shoot first attitude.
Yeah, I think this is a brilliant thing in part because it makes disaggregation of hardware infrastructure plausible for high-performance, high-scale data-intensive workloads. It also turns some deeply embedded assumptions about software design and architecture for things like databases completely on their head. This shift in hardware balance is probably the biggest change to fundamental assumptions in database architecture since SSDs started to become a thing, and most people haven't internalized the implications yet.

It is an fun time to be working in high-scale data systems.
4 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37302574
Pure Data 0.54 “Sneaky Snake”
Release notes: http://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/x5.htm#s1
There isn't any food or sales at the event so everyone packs enough for a week. Which really means people pack for two weeks. People also bring enough water for a week of 100 degree weather. But it's not that.

Friend had a rubbermaid food bin he used for camping. One time on a walkabout he decided to eat all of it and see how long it lasted him. Lasted three weeks.
Hi! I'm a tax payer in the city of Oakland. I love this, and would like more!

So there, now someone's asked for it.
Some of us have been Elon-sceptical for rather longer than that.
I think there's definitely some level of "account reputation" based risk management going on there. My account is similar, but it also dates back to near the origin of the service.
What an odd practice. Not sure who conducted the review, but managers especially should be familiar with the concept of coaching, and recognize that you were doing a great deal of it. I am a technical manager myself and spend a lot of time on coaching team members too.
The worst decision Google ever made?
My candidate: shutting down Google Hangouts a few months before Covid hit. They lost the generic brand name to Zoom. Before that it used to be called "a hangout".

I'm told it has resurfaced as something called Google Meet.

Microsoft's equivalent (of losing to Zoom, not their worst decision) would be buying Skype for $8.5 billion when it wasn't worth that much, changing features that made the beloved brand unusable for years, then rebranding it as Teams and forcing me to see that never-used logo in the bottom right corner of Windows. Never used it, never will, want it gone, but I can't. On the upside, I've heard that Teams is usable, and a worthy competitor to Zoom.

What's your candidate?
A state of affairs where users' devices encrypt files, and then iCloud scans the stored blobs to perform a perfunctory compliance check is clearly not impossible. So please describe what you mean.

Web javascript is one of the places the battle is being fought. Users are being pushed into running javascript (and HTML) that acts directly against our own interests (eg ads, surveillance, etc). Many of the capabilities exploited by the hostile code should be considered browser security vulnerabilities, but the dynamic is not helped by one of the main surveillance companies also making one of the main browsers.

But regardless of the regime the authoritarians are trying to push, the computer-represents-user model is what we should aspire to - the alternative is computational disenfranchisement.
yep, you have to be loud about your work, especially if it is not trackable via other direct metrics like ticket count
Ahhh the good old republican pact. This is true. Norquist wrote a manifesto that all republicans had to swear to like it was the Bible or he was the godfather (pre-trumpism). They purposefully screw up or otherwise entangle tax codes to the point where frustration lends folks to be sympathetic to their calling. It’s a classic case of pay no attention to my right hand.

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/137800715/the-man-behind-the-...
Signed by a central server. Not by the actual authors. One stolen Github account or one compromised build server and the whole thing comes crashing down.

Mature operating systems that have supply chain risks in their threat model like Debian, Arch, or FreeBSD, each author or maintainer signs every contribution which are verified end to end. Even a compromised Github or cloud provider employee can easily disrupt supply chains structured this way.

In recent distributions like Nix and Alpine, contributors complained that generating a PGP key is too hard, so they just decided to yolo it as though NPM security was something to aspire to.

Even proprietary operating systems like MacOS require code signing. Not mandating this is crazy.

IMO anyone unwilling to learn how to maintain a personal identity key of some kind has no business maintaining packages for widely used operating system.
New species of marine bacteria isolated from a deep-sea cold seep
All (or nearly all) of the top pros were using PED for a number of years.
I've read about some Native American tribes using Plus Codes as street addresses for homes on their reservations for the purpose of issuing IDs so their residents can vote.[0] They had not previously numbered their homes and the bureaucracy to register the home numbers might cause voters to miss the election deadline.

[0] https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/10/06/some-native-americans...
Long, interesting read. The dedication required is both inspiring and depressing.

Shit post:

I believe this song encapsulates all the important discoveries humans have made about giant squid:

https://youtu.be/4njXUqGxOw0?si=duGP2YBaLL8vljz_
There Is No Material Design Spinner for Android
Dataclasses are basically just better namedtuples. They do work nicely with type-annotations, but the two features are kind orthogonal.
On cursory inspection, the git repo [0] seems fairly active. Not sure why they wouldn't have made a release.

[0] https://invent.kde.org/office/calligra/-/commits/master/
It's a faster rewritte of the Reddit UI using some sort of in-house framework, basically it's just way faster than the normal one.

And no, it's not related to language.
Not all Kindle books have DRM. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to figure out which books have it and which do not.

Is there a place that sells ebooks that with easily strippable DRM?
Letting advertising in. Advertisers always seek to get favorable placement, treatment, more of everything. The old newspaper thing about editorial independence was always aspirational, if not an abject lie.

Google let ads corrupt search.
Oh great what does this futuristic chip do?

Instead, it was purpose built using a custom RISC architecture for DARPA's Hierarchical Identity Verify Exploit (HIVE) program. That US military initiative seeks to develop a graph analytics processor capable of churning through streaming data 100 times faster than conventional compute architectures, while also consuming less power.

Oh its for the military. Whats Graph Analytics?

Graph analytics deal with how data points connect with other data points in complex systems. The example Intel principal engineer Jason Howard pointed to in his Hot Chips presentation was social networks, which might run graph analytics workloads to understand connections among members.

So its a chip to analyse social networks at 1TB/s
> AWS and Microsoft are very, very different from Discord. Discord originated in gaming and caters to a largely non-paid user base, that background alone is enough to be skeptical.

AWS originated in providing servers for a book business that grew from there, Microsoft originated from writing a interpreter, but both of them excel in other areas today as well. It's not impossible to start with something (chat for gaming), gain expertise (chat for large groups) and then apply it elsewhere (chat in the workplace).
Apparently it was required by the Library of Congress in the U.S., but the Supreme Court might have nixxed that because of the Constitution's 4th Amendment (must be reimbursed if required to turn over property).