skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, and what you recommend in those situations where, due to unusual circumstances (flat battery, whatever), you need to access to, say, your online banking or airline site or email or whatever using another device that would have no way of knowing who you are?
If there's a way to access a web-based password manager securely from any device, then surely there's a way to access whatever application you actually need access to securely too...

FWIW I use a password manager of sorts, but only to remember "hints". Once I see the hint I can reliably recall what the full password is, but there's no way reasonable way for someone else to do so. It's only passwords I use very rarely I even really need such hints for.
I think people just like to slip those political jabs in wherever they can to try to take a poke at those of use who think the 2nd amendment has a place in a free society. I've cleaned my guns hundreds of times over the past couple of decades and never been close to being shot. Not only that, but I keep one with me most times when I'm out and about (where allowed by law). It's a few standard safety rules to those who are petrified of guns and gun ownership.
No, you don't have to pay to file your taxes. You can pay to hv someone else do your taxes for you. The tax code is so screwed up, that it can be difficult to figure everything out yourself; but, you can. I've always done my own taxes.

The only "automation" I now use is an Excel spreadsheet, put out each year, for free, by Glen Reeves, (https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home/chan...)
A simple tax code is to eliminate the federal personal income tax. No federal personal income tax would eliminate W-2 paycheck wiithholding, giving every W-2 employee an effective take home pay increase.

People not filing personal federal income tax is green.

Banks not sending people yearly interest statement is green.

Companies not withholding personal federal income tax from paychecks uses less CPU and fewer papers so it is green.

Keep or tweak corporate taxes and fees as deemed necessary. And each State can do whatever.
A bit of personal anecdote -- at work, we have thousands of "Briefings" which are hour-long (sometimes day-long) in-person panels. We've successfully summarized each and every briefing. The messy transcripts are well summarized into five paragraph of text.

More topical, we also 1:many categorized each briefing into topics and sub-topics with topics ending up with several dozen briefings and sub-topics of a dozen briefings. For this we summarized the subset of associated summaries and tested this comprehensively, and had great results with LLMs.

I was originally skeptical this would work, but it worked beautifully. Given a sufficiently large context window, we would not have done so, but thankfully this was not a problem.
Jessica McCabe is very good about helping people with it. [1] America's experiencing a ADHD medication shortage (perhaps it's global) and some of her work involves how to address things without medication. [2]

I also would suggesting trying to adopt the concept of monotasking / unitasking wherever you can. Multitasking is a myth. [3]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/howtoadhd
[1] - https://howtoadhd.com/
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9qK8-sMGQ
[3] - https://www.google.com/search?q=multitasking+v+unitasking
So who else has contributed to the MegaGoGo campaign to Build A 300-Mile Wall Around SF During Burning Man, a community effort to construct a 300-mile wall in one week and prevent Burning Man attendees from returning to the Bay Area?

http://megagogo.co/
We're not talking about the waste water, we are talking about the solid matter, which as per the link I provided is dumped into the nearest body of water.
> Edit: what does this even have to do with “don’t base your business around x”? Private companies can cease doing business with you for a variety of reasons. You triggered one of them.

I think you've conflated legal and ethical obligations here; you seem to be using that to draw to an unfair conclusion.

From my perspective, the post warns against using Discord due to them (reportedly) banning the OP for innocent activity. I believe the warning is fair, as it dissuades other people from using the platform to host important content, which would be at risk of the same treatment.

While Discord clearly do not have any legal obligations to serve the user in question, this is already known. Stating it here doesn't contribute to a meaningful discussion -- no chat applications I know of are legally required to serve their users (unless, of course, they have entered into a binding contract with said users, perhaps through B2B services, etc.)

Nevertheless, the post does give off Stripe support vibes. I don't believe Discord staff monitor Hacker News, so I don't think this would result in any meaningful result for OP.
I think the writer hit the nail on the head when they said they were the first one to ask for the iPod.
A nit, routes are defined by template name, not by comment strings. Though I get your point that overloading things can be a bit smelly. I comport that the smell is just like a nicely ripening cheese.

I had to look up the acronym, but a RAD web framework is exactly what I'm aiming to deliver. Thanks for the kind words. :)
I find it surprising that the author credits William Whewell for coining the term "scientist", without mentioning the polymath Mary Somerville whom he was describing. Her research spanned mathematics, astronomy, geology, chemistry, and physics, such that simply calling her a physicist was insufficient.
“don’t base your business around x” this is a logical conclusion when you get no support from the company. The rest of your edit isn't logical either. When a business stop doing business for you, you deem it unreliable. If x has been banned without recourse without doing anything that would be, obviously wrong, I would deem it unreliable.
Yes, and most people can't afford neither.
The non-reddit post when it was originally submitted 7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34516515 (6 comments)
Article says there are 600–3000 penguins per colony. Charitably, let’s say the authors studied 15,000 penguins. Total penguin population estimate: 600,000. So this survey counted at most 2.5% of all penguins by reasonable estimates.

“Not a single emperor penguin chick survived” seems unsupported.
(2019)

Calibre 6.x is in current Debian https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/calibre
Go to the Stanford Business School. Learn to schmooze. Stanford has a golf course, with classes for students. Date and marry one of the students. Make lots of contacts. Hang out at the various startup groups and the D-school. Attend the biannual Y-Combinator Demo Days (Sept 6 and 7, 2023). Hang out with the VC's that circle the Bus school. Visit the Computer History Museum for inspiration.
That seems to be the title of the essay, not the book in which it was printed
I was in contact with them, and they are apparently OK with having the repositories be split up. There are over 230 of them each under 1.3gb in total size.

I’m working on distributing this data without GitHub - git packfiles are a fantastic way of compressing this data, and you can serve those easily enough from a bucket.
When I go to ledeai.com I see a suspiciously familiar face on their stock photo. So either Shang-Chi is taking over the meeting room or this is a fake photo.

Side note: Kim’s Convenience was a pretty good show.
I'm not sure if Verified & Partnered servers are treated different, but unless you have explicit contract with Discord their moderation can be rather flaky.

That should be understood reality if you use any third-party platform.

Also it is open to question was it this activity. Or something else. Or just being present or member of some server where something against ToS happened.
I assume they are insinuating that you are coming off as arrogant and only interested in teaching. They should definitely just say so, though.

In a good pairing environment everyone is learning from everyone. You didn't explicitly say you were looking to learn for others though you also didn't explicitly say you weren't. As far as I'm concerned, in the best pairing environments everyone is always pairing with everyone else, not just seniors with juniors. There is the idea that seniors can actually learn from juniors too since juniors will question things seniors haven't thought about in a long time and are living with "I do it like this because it's the way I've always done it" syndrome.

PS, love the username :)
I'm currently looking for contract work around Python/Elixir web-based projects (hire me anyone?), so I thought I will give TopTal a try after reading the article.

I put good effort into the application process - e.g. by ensuring my answers are exactly what they're looking for (the questions weren't technical so far). I then uploaded my up-to-date CV among other things they asked, and I selected my availability to "full time".... only to learn that I was put on some sort of waitlist - "[..] we encourage you to reapply after March 2, 2024."

I think I'll pass on TopTal. The could tell me way before I applied their network has reached its capacity (if?). Or is that he "long selection process" the OP refers to in the article?
That tripped me up, too. I was often reading the prompt and confusing it for the evaluation criteria, when they are actually two separate things. The prompt stated the flag must be perfectly accurate, yes, but the evaluation criteria allowed the flag to not be quite right.
American math standards have been low compared to those in Europe and East Asia for a long time, about as long as there has been divergence in student performance in the subject. Standards should be high, and many students (perhaps 80%) should fail to meet them. But what does this matter if only 1/3 of Americans get undergraduate degrees anyway? I can tell you what isn’t working: expecting very little of American kids in the public school system. It’s harmful to the education of our youth and gives further advantage to the already privileged who can afford private schooling and tutoring.
Category Theory with Bartosz Milewski
Does it say they were foraging or that the mushrooms were wild?

> In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it.

It's very common for people to die of mushroom poisoning in Russia?
When it comes to fonts there is this: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
Midjourney has been successful and then what?
By that logic there are no economists or scientist in senior business leadership positions - fair enough.
> Besides the infamous Javascript framework churn

reactjs came out in 2013, so it meets the 10y metric, but it has some internal churn, such as classes, hooks, etc
> how could we really determine whether a tax-bashing neoconservative actively protects labyrinthine tax practices in order to justify adjacent political ends?

We rarely have the ability to truly determine a politician’s motives in a concrete and objective way because many of the decisions they make are not transparent due to lobbying and other forms of influence.

Fundamentally, the American right argues consistently that the government does not represent the interests of the people and actively works to render the government ineffective.

Whether they intentionally use taxation as a means to achieve political gains or not, it’s pretty undeniable that taxation causes resentment when the government appears to be so ineffective. Ultimately, you’re trying to determine if this is intentional or not, which doesn’t make that much of a difference.

As Jon Stewart used to ask on his show when trying to assess the motivations of conservatives: are they stupid or evil? Which is just a simpler way of asking: are they being intentional about this or not?
They will need to pivot into using different constellation, potentially starlink. Also - they smart watches look pretty serious - maybe they can pull it off integrating satcom there?
Really really misleading title. They're not losing on each vehicle sold, switching to making EVs just has large upfront costs that they have yet to sell enough vehicles to recoup.
> But if you live in the house, then just considering appreciation and expenses leaves out a huge benefit: you have a place to live without spending any other money.

What matters at the end of the day are the irrecoverable costs. When renting, it is just the rent. When owning, it is certainly not free: you're paying other irrecoverable costs (e.g. out of PITI+HOA, everything but P is irrecoverable; add on separate costs for when you must pay for repairs and it gets steeper). Sure, you have stability and can write off mortgage interest when you own (although the latter is an extremely unfair policy), but unless one is absolutely sure that one can stay in the home for close to ~7 years (the rough time it took for many HCOL cities in the US to recover their nominal prices from the GFC peak), it can be considered to be a risky time to make such a big financial commitment.

Ben Felix has some videos on this concept of "irrecoverable costs" which I find helpful to illustrate this, such as this one [0]. Although I disagree with his idea that leasing cars is a good idea (expressed in some of his podcasts), I find his ideas on renting vs. buying to be quite sound.

Personally speaking, I just doubled my compensation by moving from one HCOL city to another in the US because I was renting and not "locked in" to a mortgage. So many colleagues at my former place could not afford to come to the closing table with cash to close out their mortgage at a loss to move (the company I went to basically wanted to hire my whole team, but I was the only one who could manage because I wasn't committed to a mortgage). Eventually I do want to own a home myself, but it was eye-opening how poor of a choice it was for my former colleagues (although my choice to go to grad school during most of the QE decade probably more than compensates for this one win...).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Golcxjpi8
I think reproducibility is the gold standard. It’s hard to call peer review as practiced today “rigorous” when it comes to discerning truth.
Number 3 makes it worth it alone. If I buy something I want to be able to back it up and own it.

Number 2 is awesome because when people publish without DRM, effectively I don't need to worry about the format.

The first has never been that big a deal to me but I'll always have it on a machine I use for the other two.
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It's been discussed, people are bringing up irrelevant examples and generalizing what I said out of context, including you who quoted my comment by removing the context, and it's a fact that Csound has a more permissive license.
Yeah but if you can only do arithmetic right X% of the time you aren't going to get other answers right as often as would really be useful.

That said, LLMs have a magic ability to "short circuit" and get the right answer despite not being able to get the steps right. I remember scoping out designs for NLP systems about 5 years ago and frequently conclude that "that won't work" because information was lost at an early stage but in retrospect by short circuiting a system like that can outperform its parts but it still faces a ceiling on how accurate the answers are because the reasoning is not sound.
yeah, you’re right
Reminds me of Turbo Pascal (5/6/7)
But no steering column stalks :(
Yeah, also “7nm” and “3nm” aren't actually measuring the same thing (IIRC Intel 7nm is equivalent to TSMC 5nm)
Yes it can do that now, at least on Windows 10
I think we're too used to just replace things instead of fixing them. Fixing requires understanding of how things work, and I think it's a shame most of us (I include myself) don't have enough of this understanding regarding our day to day tools and objects. If fixing something requires calling an expert, it makes it much less appealing to fix it, than just throw it away and buy something new.

This relatively new attitude creates motivation to even further divest in quality and prefer creating cheap things that break fast, because we won't invest the time and money needed to fix them anyway.
Nobody uses WordPad, nobody wants to improve WordPad, WordPad will be sunset.
Sorry for being unclear, I meant to just go through the process of seeing what you could get in terms of contracts as if you had already made the move, not to actually follow through and start any contract.

Some of the "expat threads" I've seen on Reddit where people yeet themselves to the other side of the world and hope it works out only to fall flat on their face are pretty eye opening. By testing the waters with "proto-contracting" like this, you can at least give yourself some idea of what you could get were you to move.

edit: grammar
Seems like a great opportunity for a new alternative system.

Preferably with an error correcting code built in. Homophones shouldn't really matter, if you mess it up, the ECC could just fix it.

Go with 4 words instead of 3.

Take Diceware, treat the words as a base 7775 number, convert to binary, you get 50 bits.

You could do some fancy reshuffling, reorder the words by similarity(Start with the first, then repeatedly pick the one with the smallest edit distance), and do the conversion to an integer such that any one word swapped to a close neighbor only produces a small change.

My math knowledge is too limited to do this myself unless there's something to copy and paste or a brute force hack, but couldn't you do that by treating each word as a digit in 7775-ary gray code?

Any one word being off to a nearby word, would then just give you an error in the low order bits of the latitude.

Then you protect those bits with a hamming code, and have an overall 2 or 3 but checksum for everything, so at least some of the easy to make mistakes will be corrected, and most will probably be detected.

Reliability could probably be better than reading off coordinates, still faster, with only one extra word.

Plus the words themselves already have redundancy in them, if you make a typo, autocorrect can fix it, and if it gets the wrong one, the correction will likely catch it or flag the issue.
I suspect TB4 in the NUC could do the same job as the bus (can’t see the bandwidth listed)
Some people don’t put their code on GitHub, since they object to GitHub’s ToS, especially those pertaining to analysis and use by Copilot and various other uses which Microsoft may see fit to put the code.

Will Microsoft see this as a free license to use all of PyPI?
Intel 7nm and TSMC 3nm are roughly equivalent, they both have a transistor density of 200 - 250 MTr/mm2.
Shame. Notepad++ should now be the go to, right?
After I bought my house, the combination of maintenance, taxes, insurance, and mortgage interest was quite a bit higher than what I paid in rent (as I recall, $400/month or more). That's money down the drain.

I could have put $400 per month plus the entire principal repayment in the stock market. I'd have had less headache, less time spent on maintaining the property, and less stress from figuring out how to deal with problems while working crazy hours, plus a much better return. In my case, the house was a terrible investment. I didn't buy it as an investment (if I had, I'd have failed miserably).
The point is that what comes before the “and” is what leads to what comes after the and.

Music has existed for far longer than we’ve had the ability to scientifically describe the acoustic properties of music.

If I described Beethoven’s 9th symphony to someone who’d never heard it in terms of frequencies/pitches and durations, or handed them a piece of sheet music (assuming they don’t have the training/ability to read music and hear it in their head), they might conclude that music is fundamentally boring.

If that same person sits in a concert hall and hears the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform the piece, only then would they understand the impact of the music. The emotion, the resonance, the beauty, and all of the feelings that come with that as a listener.

This doesn’t mean that the musical notation or a more technical analysis of the sound has no place. Just that they provide a fundamentally incomplete understanding of the phenomena of music.

My point is that labeling and interpreting reduces reality to something less than it actually is. And when you stop limiting your experience of a thing to a low resolution description of it, it tends to inspire a sense of awe and wonder (at least for me).

And much like music tends to inspire people to create their own, or to play the music conceived by others, and much like musical notation enables the transfer of musical knowledge between humans, I think a scientific mindset and some kind of “spirituality” go hand in hand.

They’re not mutually exclusive, and each enhances the other.

To take all of this one step further, the awe and wonder increases when I contemplate my ability to contemplate all of this. There’s a time for labels, and a time for raw experience, and a time for appreciating the fact that I can label raw experience.
Just looking at the list below, there’s no way that anyone could get me to enter a building with two or more stories if I were an important Russian.
I'm not sure I see the problem here. You hoped to accomplish one thing and instead accomplished five things. Having a well-maintained, clean living space is important. This doesn't sound like ADHD to me. My wife has ADHD. She stays in bed falling down YouTube rabbit holes more often than and I do virtually all of the cleaning and fixing of what we own. She needs amphetamines to do chores, not to avoid doing chores.

It sounds like you may have just gotten bored with launching products and found other things are important, too. It's good to switch it up. Given these are side projects, that implies you're already doing the same thing professionally as a W2 employee. Long-term, I don't think you want to base your entire life around doing your job also as your hobby, at least not permanently. Most likely, the drive to do this one specific thing will come back on its own, but you can't force it.
my experience is that it's pretty subpar
Across the whole world, 100 people die of mushroom poisoning each year [0]. You don't think it's suspicious that this man, who was well educated and presumably experienced in mushroom foraging, happened to die of it within weeks of the failure of Russia's moon lander? After all the other poisonings and baroque assassination methods used on so many others who had troubled or embarrassed Putin's regime?

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/05/17/1175494...
I have a smaller house, but I just decided to drill straight through the outer wall. Ran a couple cat 6 cables around the outside of the house and stapled it up underneath trim. Can't even see the cable hardly. Just use a little silicone on the holes to seal it up and if you slap some paint over it it'll disappear. It's pretty much the same way cable or satellite installers do it.