skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could brashly say that the Platonic world does exist? I must be from Missouri, show it to me! Do that and you can bring me to your, and Max Tegmark's, side. Show me a Tree that has the pure essence of tree, show me a One, show me the pure ideal of a triangle.

I do take umbrage at your insinuation that I have not actually thought "through the implications in a contemplative, meditative way over the course of several hours" on this subject. I have spent many years, and not a few semesters of college, contemplating this very subject.

Consider this, where would your platonic world go if there were no sentient beings in the universe? Would it sit there, on some "higher plane" awaiting discovery by no one? Would the pure idea of a Tree get lonely? We're very into "does a tree fall in the forest with no one to hear it does it make a sound?" territory, however I think this is extremely important when trying to decide what is Real.

Plato, a man who lived ~2,400 years ago, decided that ideas were Real with zero proof and you're just going to accept his word on this, I'm supposed to just accept this? This does strike me as extremely life-centric, for lack of a better, all encompassing, term. If all life in the universe disappeared, the universe itself does not suddenly vanish in a puff of smoke. Stars will still fuse the elements, blackholes will still gobble up matter, the earth will continue to orbit the sun until it's consumed by the sun or is disrupted by some massive interstellar traveler. But the world of ideas wouldn't exist because there would be nothing to think of them. Mathematics wouldn't exist, because there would be nothing to conceive of them.

If you assume the platonic realm exists, sure, I would grant you all of Penrose's Three Worlds, I would grant Tegmark's belief that somewhere out there is a physical Platonic realm. I'd also probably believe in a lot of other things with out evidence as well.

But, maybe I'm just from Missouri. You're gonna have to show me.
If you're tall and have the budget, I would recommend getting a 4-leg desk rather than a 2-leg one. I switched from a 2-leg Autonomous to a 4-leg model (DeskHaus Apex Pro) it's so much more stable, even when raised.
The only advice I haven't seen yet that you might consider if standing is to wear shoes or some good house slippers. Standing in one place barefoot on a hard surface can really wear out the feet and knees of some people (probably depending on your arches).

A standing mat is good, but gets in the way of the chair if you're trying to sit.

The best solution I have found is simply wear something with padding and support, even if you're a no-shoes-in-the-house kind of person.

Although in my experience, a pair of slippers under the desk will quickly become the favorite sleeping spot for whatever pet you may have.
sure but the environmental footprint is still huge
Only a small fraction of those 70% is memory management errors.
Last time I checked (~3 years ago) FreeCAD was riddled with bugs. You make the slightest change to a constraint, everything that depends on it breaks. Degrees of freedom are calculated incorrectly. Multiple times I saved and reopened a file only to see my work get completely destroyed, with all my constraints throwing errors, and a quick search confirms I’m not alone with that problem. [0]

OpenSCAD might not have all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a WYSIWYG editor, but at least it doesn’t fubar hours of your work. As usual, formats you can edit with a text editor are the most robust. It is definitely not an “objectively worse way to do parametric modeling”.

[0] https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=38574
SymPy: Python Library for Symbolic Mathematics
Retrieval Augmented Generation (Rag): What, Why and How?
I strongly recommend a standing desk paired with an ergomat. It's not the standing that's good for you, it's the moving. An ergomat promote that healthy bloodflow, plus it's pretty comfy. Good for long VR sessions too!
A bit sexist though isn't it? This is one thing men should no longer feel obligated to do, in the name of equality.
Is anybody maintaining a historical archive of “IP address metadata” (which would include geolocation)?

If I have logs from 10 years ago, can I look up information about that IP as it was at the time?
Getting married in the first place is losing its appeal. Lots of millenials have witnessed boomers getting serially married and divorced in their lives and have interest in that drama.
I have no experience with it yet but I have build123d[1] in my list of stuff to check out, it's basically OpenSCAD but in python and it seems quite more powerful (plus, fillets/chamfers/etc are built-in). It also seems to have VSCode integration through OCP CAD Viewer.

1. https://github.com/gumyr/build123d
Here in the US I got pretty upset the other day when I got an ear infection and went to the pharmacy, and all of the ear drops they had were homeopathic. Even the CVS brand medicines were homeopathic, labeled along the bottom edge of the box where you had to pick it up off the shelf to even see that.
Doctors and lawyers and possibly other schools have to take courses in ethics, and then can loose their license to practice for ethical violations. We should impose the same for software. Each company that produces software for public use should be issued a license to operate. If the company is found guilty of violating the ethics of that license, they lose the license. That means their software is now no longer legal to sell.
It is simple: the original ingredient pseudoephedrine was put behind counter as it can be used for meth production. The replacement phenylephedrine is just not effective, something I've known for years (so I always go behind the counter).
I tried a standing desk and found it difficult to work standing for more than ~20 minutes at a time. It got to where I had to shift my weight so often that it became a distraction. I next tried a treadmill desk, and walking slowly made it much easier to work upright for 60+ minutes at a time. Every body is different, but walking was miles better than standing for me.
"It doesn't drive engagement" is overly cynical. Discord was designed for chat, not as a support forum, and the search is surprisingly functional for a chat client.
Interesting. I would have assumed anyone with the skill to work on something that tiny would be so expensive as to make repairs not worth it.
Stuff like this is why people are losing trust in medicine.
Exactly, before like the 1920s people just gave gold rings. It’s all marketing, probably the most successful one ever
>I don't get to pick unions.

>Unions are not voluntary

Not all of my colleagues are in a union, and some of those that are are in a different union to me (albeit a minority of them). It works.
Stupidly I accepted a DB admin job in a cowboy real estate firm there, that mostly took care of all the abandoned strip malls and some former strip-malls-now-crack-dens. Knew I'd made a bad mistake on minute one, day one of that job.
What the heck, am I the only one who doesn't feel bad about paying for a text editor?!

I use it, it is nice and I enjoy, so I pay person some money. I figure I'm not buying some millionaire another boat.

I have definitely spent more on worse / dumber things.

Re: VSCode, I liked it more when MS stayed on their side of the fence, producing megacorper dev tools. This allowed smaller companies to flourish and create useful things and wild features. Now those same smallcos are relegated to the marketplace which is ruled by MS whim. I'm sure you can sideload etc, but I danno. Something about the freedom of Sublime plugs felt nice. Also what a great license scheme compared to all the other subscribeware we see anymore.

Maybe I'm just a sucker, I pay for my own JetBrains sub lol.
There’s actually a great resource on Reddit about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antarctica/wiki/index/employment#wi...
Your comment is extremely interesting and what I was hoping to learn from the article (without an existing source of information, how do we determine the location of an IP address). Thank you!
Considering it took 4.9 years from her first application to even hearing back, I'd wager that blindly guessing at it having been a straightforward process probably isn't as effective as it seems
Apparently an escrow arrangement is used by some of these companies. You disclose vague details in exchange for an offer, and once you agree, they escrow the money and then you release the artifacts.
For better or worse, closed shop (where a company hires only union members) was outlawed in the US by the Taft–Hartley Act in 1947.
The design worked for me! It highlighted a problem that I might want to be aware of when picking my next phone.

No, I don't want Google or whoever else to have their alarm app scanning my contacts for no good reason¹ either, and perhaps I can't stop it whoever is doing it, but given how many apps are locked onto that phone, how often it finds a reason to start one of them up, what perms they want, etc., I'm pretty sure I trust Xiaomi less. They probably have all my current data already anyway (I'm sure this phone is using more data than the previous one, though I've not dug into why yet, perhaps sending my info home is why), but hey ho…

My last phone was from Xiaomi too, but that was relatively stock Android (on the Android One program) so didn't have so much extra junk forced into it.

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[1] they might have reason, I doubt I'd consider it good!
Then the server send you 2k products every time because you might want one? This is insanity.
The IRS largely operates on a cash, not accounting/accrual, basis.

Companies still can and do write down inventories all the time. It’s just that it doesn’t help with the IRS.
I get the expense and tracking argument but not the stockpiling one. You can buy 3.6 grams in a day and 9 grams per month. Are there stricter state level laws or pharmacy policies that I’m unaware of? 9 grams is like 75 120mg 12-hour pills. How much pseudoephedrine are people using?
But surely the problem is with the infrastructure that can't deal with an extra column - not the db/table itself?

If all the users of an API were bound to the shape of the data returned, but you wanted to add an extra field, you'd have exactly the same problem surely?

Sounds like the problem was with too much magic in the layers above - as in the end the shape of the data returned from a query on a table is up to the client - you can control it directly with SQL - in fact dealing with an extra column or not is completely trivial in SQL.
Is this the best possible demixing you can get? Or did you have to use a smaller / lower quality model to make it run in browsers?
Why I find the anger about this drug to be a bit overdone.

All sorts of "remedies" that don't pretend to have a scientific basis and have never worked in any context, unlike phenylephrine, which does work when sprayed in the nose, are sold in pharmacies.

I had a pharmacist recommend diluted ground up bees for an eye infection.
I'm from Germany.

Also, note my wording. I was not saying "this happens all the time", but "those were some of the most memorable moments".
Both actors and athletes face a different dynamic, due to the fact that there’s a limited number of spots on the field / the set. This keeps crab mentality at bay to some extent. The same is not true for most workplaces.
> Add SQL/JSON constructors and identity functions

This will be a nice quality of life addition!
You can still get it in the United States if you ask the pharmacist. But otherwise, yeah, it should just be on the shelf instead of behind the counter.
A few things about BPA:

- It's used to line aluminum cans to prevent reactions with the contents of the cans. Think soda cans.

- It's the "toner" of thermal paper. Basically every modern receipt you get is a sheet of BPA dusted paper.

- The BPA alternatives are basically the same thing as BPA, similar in structure and function, and likely have the same negative health profile. However you get to proudly put "BPA Free!" on your product.
Yeah, I don't quite get the outrage at this particular useless thing being on store shelves, among so many other useless things.

The outrage should be that anyone who wants the safe and effective option is treated as a potential meth manufacturer.
In general, these are due to union rules. The union decides what the compensation is, and it's largely by seniority. The airline makes no more money from retired military pilots than they do from any other pilot.
> One obvious - and genuinely exciting - upgrade would be to give the MacBook Air a touch screen.

Really? A touch screen on a laptop just seems like a feature no user ever asked for. It makes sense that devices like tablets and phones have touch’s screens. It’s how the evolved. But laptops have keyboards - why do they need a feature of touch devices?

What problem does this solves for users?
> in latin america

Well, define "latin america". This place has huge cultural differences. Culturally and ethnically we're even more diverse than the U.S.

In parts and some social circles of Latin America, closer to the U.S. marketing, diamond engagement rings are coveted, indeed. But it is not everywhere.
Don't expect wonders. You'll also do fine without one. I'v witnessed that most people don't use the stand-up desk anymore after the novelty wears off so 50/50 you're just throwing out money.
It differs dramatically. Your API is likely much much smaller than the inherent API of SQL tables. It's a difference in degree that is a difference in kind.

Anyways, every old idea must be retried.
This sounds very appealing, but since the earliest days of Android, we've been able to set up a chroot environment and install any distro and Linux app we want. Apps like UserLAnd make this trivial. I can't think of anything I'd want to do on a phone that I couldn't do with Termux.

I can see the appeal of having a fully libre phone, but since that isn't possible, it's hard for most people to justify going full Linux.
Here is a solution for those that care about speed:

https://www.miyuru.lk/geoiplegacy
Is there a non prescription ear drop that would help resolve an infection?
This is akin to saying that exercise is a poor substitute for a good diet. You need both. Also doing one but not the other is way better than nothing. Using a standing desk should not be mutually exclusive to working out and vice versa
I don't think the hn title (which I realize is from the link) is very helpful.
Better would be the about from github: TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application.

Could be shortened to "TMSU: tag files and access them through a virtual filesystem from other apps".
Perhaps all the homeopathic cold “remedies” sold right next to the phenylephrine should be removed from the shelves too.
You're right about gemstones.

I saw the lab grown stuff coming a while ago didn't want to spend money on diamonds: I wanted gemstones and not to throw away money. My now wife wanted a diamond so I caved. I did add emeralds but wish that the ring was mostly gemstones.
This conversation seems like it could be clarified with references to subject matter expert’s publishings on the topics related to historical food sources.
Plenty more, but the economic impact to the airline is the same from any individual pilot.
how does that process not end up with the exact same shape as the original? (and if it doesn't, how would that be a useful copy of the font?)
Everything was reverted with 48 hours, your arguments might all apply theoretically but given scope, size, practice and handling, I wonder - apart from the theory - what your opinion is how they practically apply for this case.
You can get it in the USA if you show ID and ask the pharmacist.
So do ewaste costs.
> Too few imperfections and it’s worthless enough to grind to dust and use on consumable parts for power tools.

Industrial diamonds have been important for much longer than synthetic gem-quality diamonds have. Abrasive tools need diamonds, but they don't need to be attractive, so they aren't.
Yep, for my purposes I tend to use pngs for simplicity, but the next step would be GeoTIFF
Is this something related to people wearing less jewelry in general or just diamonds ?
And as soon as the laws making it a pain to buy were passed, cartels in Mexico were almost immediately able to provide instead. The restrictions were passed into law in the US in 2006, and Mexico implemented similar restrictions in 2005. According to the DOJ themselves meth production dipped briefly but stabilized or even increased by 2008:

https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs31/31379/meth.htm
https://archive.is/EjKPG
They are already doing it: most humans are not capable of writing a program to drive a car, be an interesting talking companion, or even remove noise from audio. We still need humans to kickstart the learning process, that’s true, but even them are not the programmers we are used too.
Pretty common in Mexico in the 80s and early 90s. It was called "Permanencia voluntaria". I remember a showing with the new Robocop 1 and 2, and another one with Hot Shots 1 and Deux.
There's only acceptable piloting and not. There's no pilot that makes the airline 10x more per flight.
I sort of guessed you were earlier in your career. The plateau broadly is around $250k in TC, with engineers having to move into management (e.g. change jobs) to earn much more. (Yes, there are some companies where this is not true. But most tech workers do not work at pure tech firms and so this is more aligned with their reality.)

Let's approximate a non-plateau career ladder this way:

- 20s: $150k

- 30s: $250k (+ ~65%)

- 40s: $410k (+ ~65%)

- 50s: $670k (+ $65%)

Does this look roughly like the compensation path for median engineers (people who spend most of their time writing code) at your company? If there are not a lot of people there in their 50s, it is likely that they are not paying median engineers with 25+ years of experience $670k. (This hints at the other plateau, which is that very experienced engineers are often pushed out of the field entirely. Would not want to be a 50+ engineer looking for work.)
There's a very good reason it's behind the counter. I'm not talking about the people who need it as cold medicine, it's the people who buy it to make drugs and get high.

Before it was placed behind the counter you couldn't even find it on shelves due to the amount of theft.
> “It must have been a really exciting time to be involved!”

It seems kind of hard to believe today, but most of the excitement in 1995-98 was around Java applets.

To a lot of people it seemed that the interesting interactive stuff would be delivered in Java, and HTML was just a basic document format that was destined to become primarily an export target for tools like Frontpage or Word.

Browser vendors were adding junk features like the <blink> and <marquee> tags, which didn’t improve the perception that Java is a real platform while HTML is ad hoc document glue.
Over longer distances it is more economical to use hydrogen as intermediary for electricity transport, as it can be moved through pipelines and ships and takes its loss mostly in the conversion, not the distance moved. Other benefits are the ability to time shift loads and to use the hydrogen directly in industrial processes.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X2...

This is why the EU has plans to build out a large hydrogen transportation and storage grid.

https://www.h2inframap.eu/
The business needn't be dead, and in fact the "lessee" could resell it at a higher price. The ORIGINAL NFT.

But most lessee dead businesses would eventually lose track of their credentials, and in fact many of the people simply lost interest or even up and died. A system whereby a dead link or a parking page results in "property tax auctions" would have kept the ecosystem healthier by moving out the dead wood.

Milliondollarapp (yes, I'm plugging a personal project, but for the sake of discussion) includes both of these approaches. Unfortunately it's been 90% complete for 7 years, and could really use a collaborator or someone with a more photogenic backstory to market it.

What made Milliondollarhomepage a sensation was its founder was trying to raise money to go to university, and that soft spot helped him sell out in about a month. He caught lightning in a bottle and good on him, even if he never ended up going to university for that purpose.
They're expensive?

I've bought pseudo for years, and to this day a box is around 5 bucks. Maybe that would get expensive if one were to use them frequently, but they're not meant to be a replacement for allergy medication or whatever.
It's absurd how pseudoephedrine gets put behind the counter, and then Sudafed launches a new brand, "Sudafed PE".

Obviously meant to confuse people, because that looks an awful lot like it would contain pseudoephedrine.

But the "PE" now stands for the useless "phenylephrine".
Bought a hand crank one but improvised with a drill to do the cranking, works like a charm!
No, I'm saying they are going to do that anyway, this is an excuse to allocate more manpower to that task.

The extra revenue from 1600 people is hilariously small compared to their total.
At least gold still keeps its value, while looking good/expensive.
https://archive.md/78YL7
New features available with iOS 17 (18-paged PDF)
I wrote some code to convert links to epub, and those lazy loading images used in some websites used to be a huge pita to find the correct image file to be packed into the epub file, until I figured out a common enough way to handle them: https://b.yuxuan.org/lazy-loading-image-url2epub
https://archive.is/2iNEH
I'm originally from Brazil and the first time I heard about diamond engagement rings where when I moved to the US. It's basically a scam.
Flying-Car Syndrome
This is the call out though - the difference between a proof of concept, and then seeing what happens in production.

Production and scale definitively shows that LLMs don't reason. The output is highly unpredictable. Small changes can result in absolutely unrelated outcomes.

If you were to classify text using chat gpt - chat gpt switches from classification to text generation if your text is longer than a certain length.

LLM based Agents are the place where LLM reasoning died in practice.

I really hope that there is a change, maybe larger context windows will allow the generated text to "reason". Although, that would not necessarily be reasoning.

Even the article linked,

"Indeed, LLMs make it easy to get problem-specific knowledge as long as we are willing to relax correctness requirements of that knowledge."

LLMs generate text that approximates what a plan would "sound" like. It doesn't plan.
Surely NSO doesn't say "hand over your exploit and if we don't already have it we'll give you millions - you can trust us".

And I would argue most trade is not based on trust, except for maybe trust in the legal system and repercussions if someone tries to screw you over.
"Connecting to the stone"? That's a slippery slope you're on. You could be shopping for healing stones online before you know it.
Oh, so then you are ok with those companies offering those placebos for immense prices and the insurance (aka the people) paying for that?
You could just give some natural products as placebos that are not hurting trust in medicine by legitimizing quackery.
I used to check ITHell every day, the same way I read HN now. Then around 2001 it just sort of died, and has been frozen in time ever since.

http://ithell.com/
Speaking as a mobile dev, if OS versions are dropped in apps it’s usually to try to keep the scope of supported devices/OSes within the realm of sanity, especially for smaller companies/teams. Long-term support of older OSes is easier on Android than iOS but can still pose challenges.
https://archive.is/gqv0T