skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I really try I can put myself in a place, I can imagine for instance going to the grocery store with my kids: I’m in the parking lot holding their hands. I feel the sun shining too bright in my eyes when I look to the left, I feel a slight breeze on my arms and face, then the automatic doors open, and my boy is fussing so I pick him up, and I can feel his arms around me, then I put him in the cart, and he’s heavy. I hear the beeping of cash registers and the murmur of people talking. One wheel is bad on the shopping cart and it squeaks and pulls to the left. The handle of the cart is smooth plastic, it’s translucent but with a red stripe painted on it. I reach for the cucumbers and I can see that they’re waxy but also the end of the first one I see is wrinkly, meaning that it’s starting to shrivel. You get the idea. I see it all in detail and I can feel certain sensations and hear sound too. Yeah visualizing with that much detail takes effort but I can do more than just visualize an apple.

It’s not exactly the same as watching a movie. But I think if I was doing this and you moved something in front of me, I wouldn’t see it. It would be an interesting scientific experiment. Certainly people have told me that when I was staring into space that they waved to me and I didn’t respond.

One way this is really useful is if I’m packing for, say, a camping trip. I can put myself in the campsite, and I first want to gather firewood, but it’s too thick to break, so I pick up a saw. -ok write that down, a saw. At night we climb into the tent and when we get inside it’s very dark -write down flashlight- and then after unrolling my sleeping back I notice that it’s uncomfortable without a pillow -write down pillow. That kind of thing.

I can do this with music too. Sometimes that’s how I write songs. I’ll work the parts, hearing them all together while I’m taking a shower, then later ill go to the music room and play the whole song one instrument at a time.
HK's first speakeasy bar 001 reopens to ‘make the classics great again’
20 K$ of training with a two-year binding to pay it back is structurally a 20 K$ loan with a two year term and a clause demanding instant repayment of the entire principal in full if you quit.

If the company is actually giving you 20 K$ worth of training and they just want you to pay off the debt then that can just be a regular two year loan. If you quit you still need to pay, but on the normal payment cycle.

These repayment clauses are loans with extra employee unfriendly steps. Even bankers do not write loans like this for regular people. And when you need to learn a thing or two from bankers about financial ethics, you have made a grave mistake.
Created an account and attempted to start in Firefox: got some kind of endless loading animation.

Opened an Edge window, attempted to sign in: had a long wait followed by an error message about a network failure.
I feel like this is an engineering cultural issue. Few organizations can produce safety-critical code, say organizations who focus on tail events and long term profitability. And an engineering organization cannot transition from a growth oriented shipit culture to a safety-critical culture.
The style of argument in the article is so weird because, at least to me, it has the exact opposite effect of what I presume the author intended. It just sounds like over-the-top nationalistic sour grapes, even if I give it the benefit of the doubt and assume the factual details (which are rather few and far between) are true.

Which is a big shame I think because I'd be very interested to know more about the TRON project and how it compared to other OSes of the day. I went to the Wikipedia page, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project, which unfortunately suffers from the same semi-ridiculous bias: "The project's goal is to create an ideal computer architecture and network, to provide for all of society's needs." Who writes shit like that?
New business model may help curb fashion's fierce environmental impacts
Sounds like a fun sci fi!
> , and that getting caught attacking will demerit tokens from you.

even that's only true if you define dememerit attack and caught in particular ways.

E.g. I have a lot of tokens then sell them. (or go around and buy up worthless no longer used keys from people who had a lot of tokens at some point).

Now I can bifuricate the history at that point, create all the alternative histories I can't and you can't take anything from me.

To protect against these alternative histories one needs to use a separate consensus mechanism. In many systems this has been essentially "some trusted third party signs the real stuff" -- often with some obfuscation in between. If you're okay with that security model, why not eliminate the intermediate step theater and just use the ultimate centralized consensus?
That's good to hear! I've been considering it. Not sure if as a commercial product in it's own right - what to sell, maybe first class mobile app support?

At least I personally would like to use it to ship commercial cross-platform apps w/o needing electron or something huge like QT. Nim is much more pleasant than C++! You can actually embed the Nim compiler (~8MB) and run Nim as scripts too, so in theory you could remotely update your app as a nimscript.

P.S. drop me a line (emails on my github profile) if you're interested
> My advice would be: if even a small part of you thinks you want children, just do it.

Uhh this sounds like terrible advice--kids aren't cars that can be returned or sold if it turns out the "small part" was incorrect.
The temps aren’t sustained here. Infrequent high temps aren’t anything to worry about.

There’s also the key point of ambient temperature. The heat source here is the SoC and it’s able to dissipate into the air. Which is key because you have both the device heat and ambient heat contributing.

So you’re likely totally fine unless you were keeping the phone at high temps in a hot place for an extended period of time
> While NACFE didn’t specify the payload for this particular day, it did say that those trucks averaged over 70,000 lbs of loads

I'd suspect that the load is "low" but probably not unloaded.
I've been saying over and over that there is a lot of stuff that we don't understand and don't account for in climate models but it keeps getting downvoted. There are too many complex variables and interdependencies to be able to model climate accurately. Anyone who has built any simple simulation knows how incredibly fragile they are. The tiniest mistake or omission can throw everything off even when there aren't many variables. The more variables, the stronger the effect (not weaker as some people would assume, the errors are magnified by interdependencies, not diluted in the sheer number of other correct variables).

Simulations are extremely vulnerable to the butterfly effect.
I guess maybe I have more facility than I thought. I only spent a month in France, but could do basic things like order food, give directions, or follow a basic friendly conversation, even if I got by with incorrectly conjugated verbs and hand gestures.

In Germany, it was less than two weeks and I could pick up the flow of the sentences even if I still lacked almost all the vocabulary.

I assume it would take longer somewhere with a totally different language structure, like if you dropped me off in Japan, never mind another planet, but 50 years?

After at most a year, I'd have to resign myself to, "I guess I just live here now," and get to work.
Look up the book "The Fifth Generation" (1982)

How the Japanese were going to conquer the world with AI.
Ah, no in that case you did misread it. They’re saying that “private information shared with a governmental organisation should stay private” is a popular opinion.

The “unpopular” and “in what world” act like a double-negative.
I have no doubt people can stay in linguistic pockets if they want.

I just can't imagine making it past year 1 somewhere nobody spoke my language and not deciding, "I guess I'd better figure this out."
It’s also unnecessary, there are tons of kids to adopt that people don’t. Secular society just doesn’t want enough kids to sustain itself.
Sounds like one of those "having no belief system is a still a belief system" type arguments...
Will they finally add a way to download all your data without owning a Mac ala Google takeout?
That's not so uncommon. I looked at the vote data and it seemed legit.
Yeah, I’ve believed for most of my life that consciousness is some emergent thing that arises from the interaction of all the complex biological processes of our brain and its sensory input. Most people don’t like to hear this though, and I don’t express the idea often - it’s disappointing to consider this possibility (I consider it certain, as I’ve observed nothing to suggest otherwise).
Jm2c, but by far the best place I've ever worked (my current client) we don't do code reviews at all unless the author wants feedback.

PRs are good ways to defend your code base from bad code, and they were born in open source where you literally have no clue who the contributor is, but years of experience left me convinced that I don't want such a system where there's constant need to overview each other's work.

I want to work with a team where there is high respect and trust. A team where I know I won't like or love all the decisions others make, but I trust their judgement. Maybe they did indeed hack an ugly solution cheating the type system and automated controls. So what? What matters is if they have done so for good reasons (stuff was super urgent, a proper solution was just not worth the effort as the feature/fix was really not important for the business).

This made development speed skyrocket and I'm no longer bound to infinite code reviews as if we were sending rockets on Mars.

I also want to say, code quality is high, but this stems both from working with great individuals that can be trusted and from much higher interaction speed.
I'd guess there's a thin line between

"There is a lot of stuff that we don't understand and don't account for in climate models" vs "There is a lot of stuff that we don't understand and don't account for in climate models... and so climate models should be ignored"

HN voting isn't always good at parsing nuance.

It's an interesting area I'm unfamiliar with. How are uncertainty bounds communicated in complex, compounding simulation models?
The article seems to be making misleading claims to make a questionable design sound more beneficial in numeric terms than it actually is.

The first words you see in the article are:

> The current cost of buying 1,000 camp beds for a refugee camp is $110,000 to $220,000, it takes two weeks to produce them, another two weeks to ship them (by land or sea) and 24 hours to set them up. By comparison, 1,000 Humanitaria beds cost $17,000, can be produced in hours on existing, readily-available packaging machinery in every major city in the world, delivered folded flat by plane next day and can be set up in 20 minutes.

24 hours vs 20 minutes makes me think they are not comparing apples to apples. Either they are comparing the time it takes to set up 1000 beds with that of a single one or they are claiming the total setup time for these beds from flat pack to usable is 1.2s.

And 1000 camp beds in 24 hours is only 1.4 minutes per bed. Elsewhere in the article they say that “A single person can set up 70 beds in an hour”, which is 51 seconds, not so far off from the camp bed figure.

Also, why on earth would we be manufacturing new beds for each new occupant in every case? Tube and canvas camp beds are durable and reusable. Just because these beds necessarily can only be used when brand new and must be discarded after doesn’t mean you get to assume the same negative qualities for the thing you are comparing against.

The $100-200 claimed wholesale price for camp cots is also an order of magnitude off reality, as a few seconds browsing alibaba can confirm.

This is the worst kind of credulous “behold the power of design!” puff piece, complete with an insulting comment questioning the intelligence of the people at humanitarian agencies that this work is supposed to benefit:

> In fact, the beds used by NGOs all over the world are still camping beds with an average price between €100 and €200 (US$110 to $220) EACH, and because no-one had ever looked at it logically before, they take between five and 20 minutes each to assemble and are not suitable for transport in large quantities.

Humanitarian work should be praised, but not if it’s counterproductive self-congratulation.
The Pixel 4 probably reliably called 911 on the simplest network config, like GSM or CDMA, but when encountering WCDMA, VoLTE and all the fun ways you can configure these technologies, you ended up with situations where the phone would perhaps have data service, but no ability to dial 911.

T-Mobile has had manufacturers brick band 12 on phones like the Moto E because you would get rural data coverage with this band, but T-Mobile did not sell any Moto phones and did not want to write a software config for VoLTE for Motorola phones. Without band 12 enabled the phone will happily roam onto AT&T or Verizon in areas where T-Mobile doesn't offer GSM service instead of hanging out on a cellular network that can never provide calling or texting at that location.
This is just common solving problems while you sleep. Everyone does this. If you're having trouble with something - try a nap.
> Even then people still respond to me in English

Netherlands?
Or to put it another way, actual AI safety researchers/advocates don't really care about making 'harmless' or 'ethical' AIs in the sense that the LLM crew prattle about... what they care about is making 'sane' AIs that behave in ways that are intuitively sensible to average people.

The censorship brigade with LLMs is something new and mostly unrelated that is doing basically surface-level nonsense to limit responses for milquetoast corporate culture reasons, because actually enforcing 'sane' behavior on an LLM is impossible with the current state of the art.
It was definitely one of the first, if not the first actual speakeasy to hit HK when the current wave of that type of bar happened.

I remember hearing about it in 2010 while there on business, trying to find it, but couldn't (or it was closed, denied or full or whatever) and then finally visiting with a friend from an auction house while living there in 2012. It was definitely pre-"cool" instagrammable chic interiors. Black painted walls like the backstage area of an amateur theatre. Retro lounge chairs, crammed together.

But it was still a speakeasy. Private and fun, you could have a private conversation there among the din of conversation of everyone else who surrounded you. I think the drinks were OK.

The location was very funny. A literally hidden door (not the fake 'hidden' doors of the trendy speakeasies these days), combined with HK's rabbit-warren back-alleys made it a real challenge to actually locate. And the street it was off was a wet market by day (hanging meat, iced fish, butchers washing the the runoff onto the streets with pails of water), which was very funny. But in that part of Central, with everything crammed so conveniently close together, it wasn't that far from the more dedicated "bar and dining area".
It is remarkable how approximately 50% of the things Charity Majors says resonate so well with me … and how the other 50% irritate the ever-loving far out of me.

I think what she means here is “nobody ELSE should write a database,” because they certainly found it necessary and beneficial to do so.

(In all seriousness, usually you shouldn’t write a database. But somebody has to, you know? There’s no need to gate-keep like that.)
NTK?
This is what Facebook did extremely well with Phabricator, which was then open sourced.
Of course we have data. You can't brush it off with "correlation =/= causation". Why? Specific practices invented by porn are now mainstream among people who watch porn. This is a prime example of causation. Facial ejaculation didn't exist 100 years ago, even in France, which was Europe's prostitution capital. Now it's mainstream (see study). Why? Porn culture infused the sexual culture.

> we literally are discovering the genetic linkages to being gay

Well you should have read your article, which says: "With multiple gene candidates being linked to homosexuality, it seemed highly unlikely that a single “gay” gene exists."

Intelligence is determined at 80% by genetics, and polygenic. All of this says that there can be a predisposition toward homosexual tendencies ("gay" is related to american homosexual culture and is a prime example of cultural imperialism), however no one is "born" homosexual. Some people with the related genes may end up becoming so, others may mary women, some may just remain alone. This is a strange, calvinist projection on human existence. Would you say that people are born criminal too? There are genes for this as well. Or let's talk about race? So yeah, sorry, this is quack science.

> we've seen more openness to teenage experimentation

This sounds really like what an enabler would say to help sexual predators targeting young people. Teen years are not a good time to "experiment" too much things in sexuality (doesn't mean it's not possible to have sex), as consequences are long-lasting and they are very easily influenced and vulnerable.

> We haven't seen a significant shift in adults that claim that they are gay in polls.

Given that "gay" is the number one thing being advertised and promoted in the US lately, especially at the vulnerable youth, yes that's not very surprising. But I think we're past self-determination now anyway, and more in some kind of weird propaganda. Same goes with transgenderism, with devastating effects (castration of fertile people among others). The US has also currently a mental health crisis, with no sign of stopping, so "data" currently shows that your remedy is either ineffective, or destructive.

Anyway, I'm not suprised here to see the crossroads between gay, porn and pedophilia. The connection is documented and quite old actually: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.13...

All of this disgusting thread makes me pretty happy to live away from the US to be honest.
If the project is an “executable” then the toolchain dependency should be explicit. If it’s a “library” then it should be implicit. But it’s really not hard to support Clang + GCC + MSVC. And if new toolchains introduce new warnings they should be fixed.

That said, my preference is for “dev” builds to not have warnings as errors, only “retail” which gets built by CI.

Third party libraries almost always have to be compiled without warnings as errors because almost all open source code is rife with warnings.
Thanks for your kind words, @treebeard5440! :)
Japan’s toddler superstar: the baby bringing hope to a ghost village
A gift link to the article by the Financial Times (expires after 3 reads) is at: https://on.ft.com/48D4jJ2
> nvidia did announce they are finally open sourcing the driver mid-2022 (partially iirc?)

IIRC, the new driver is "open source" because they moved the important bits into the firmware
This would allow you to make a dialect where you call a function that Apple in their infinite wisdom has deprecated. Consider the tax this would impose on the ecosystem!
I wouldn't suspect that if they didn't say that. The average has no bearing on this specific one that could very well have been empty.
Percentage or number?
This also ignores the effect of the microbiome, which metabolizes many drug compounds. Also how pre-existing conditions effect drug metabolism
IIRC, NRK started down this path because normal hash tables without free leak memory on every resize.

The original series of articles had me thinking about how to implement the normal hash table without leaking. I think it’s possible:

First consider a hash table using linear probing with a dedicated arena (restriction will be lifted later). That means memory can grow for free. However, resizing is still tricky because we need to rehash in place while ensuring we don’t “strand” any entries. This can be accomplished by iterating through the hash table entries in order, but starting at an empty entry and looping around. (Proof left as an exercise for the reader)

So now we have a hash table that can use realloc to grow. How to generalize for arenas? The key is that the HT will maintain a page map of sorts. The first page is of size M, the second is of size M, and thereafter they’ll be of size 2^n * M. Basically on each resize we double the total capacity by adding a new page. Since the pages are of variable width, though, how to map indexes to pages quickly? The key is to use ffs or ctz to get a rounded log2.
It's not automatic, but I can't imagine not trying. Maybe for the first year, you hold out hope of going back, but after that, if people are talking around you, do you not try? If you hear them use the same word for the same thing every time, don't you learn it? Don't you find ways to ask?
Sounds suspiciously like climate change deniers who think it's clever to point out we can't exactly predict tomorrow's temperature.
Yeah it sounds very scam-like. But it does make me think: IQ tests are basically all about rotating coloured things in your mind. I wonder if being able to visualize them in your head, instead of having to manipulate them with words and algebra like I do, does influence the results.
I’m intrigued, I really like those kinds of games. I would definitely take a look yes.
He’s probably going about 1/4 of this things top speed too.

I’ve had this same thing happen on a electric skateboard at about this speed but on asphalt. Shoulder dislocated, elbow broke, wrist sprain so severe I had to relearn how to use my hand. And I was a skateboarder my whole life leading up to that so I knew how to take a fall.

I still use electric bike and fat tire scooter/bike. But the high speed even on that feels sketchy. All it takes is a little gravel or something and you’ll lose your front wheel and eat it hard. That actually happened to a friend growing up, we were flying down a steep hill (ok maybe 20mph) on our BMX bikes. He hit gravel and the front wheel slid out. He had to have his upper lip stitched back on.
Well, I’d appreciate it if I collaborate on a repo with you. I end up giving up commit hygiene due to the absolute lack of interest from folks I work with unfortunately :)
I can't speak for CodeApprove, but Reviewable has file grouping capabilities so users can groups files based on anything they want (using a javascript function to do it)
I ultimately agree - I'll play Devil's advocate a bit:

Such an attack is referred to as a "long range attack" and is 'solved' by 'finality' in Ethereum, the largest running PoS network. Finality basically means a hard checkpoint. I won't make you say it: finality can of course be changed on different forks, and that's the core issue in PoS.

There is probably some utility in adding friction to such corruption, but that the mechanism doesn't ultimately prevent it and really just adds incentives to controlling it.

Attacks on PoS are more convoluted, but there are more of them and more ways to approach them. I fully agree this fact is lost in obfuscation and jargon.
Thanks for your kind words, @skeptrune! It was certainly a fun project.

We found some interesting insights. In the Langchain community, ~40% of the stargazers are from India. In the GPT4All community, we found that web developers love open-source LLMs -- more so that machine learning folks :)

Curious if there is any reason why you would not use it?
It’s a cold day in hell when rayiner and I agree on something but I think he’s got this one pat.