skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My intuition is that the "evidence" (i.e. traditional ancient texts describing "magic") do not seem to permit relying on purely materialistic mechanisms,

Contemporary debates about materialism-vs-dualism-vs-idealism originate in 17th and 18th century Europe. I wouldn't assume that ancient texts had any particular opinion on that debate, because they pre-existed that trichotomy.

It is true there are some ancient views which are seen as forerunners of modern materialism – the Cārvāka school in ancient India, the ancient Greek atomists. However, it may be a mistake to simply identify their views with modern materialism, since they arose in a very different context. In any event, many of these ancient and mediaeval religious/magical/etc texts ignored (or were ignorant of) those proto-materialist positions rather than condemning them, so I'm not sure why we should take those texts as taking any particular stance on them. For example, there is no evidence that the authors of the Christian Gospels were aware of the works of Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius, so why should we interpret the Christian Gospels as contradicting them. I do know that some later Jewish and Christian sources did attack the Greek atomist tradition, but most of those attacks was focused on their (effective) atheism and positions on moral issues, rather than their "materialism" per se.

> and most seem to require some kind of mind-fu to work.

"Mind-fu" is not incompatible with materialism. Maybe, on some distant planet, there is a humanoid species who communicate telepathically via radio waves. Maybe, they even exhibit some form of psychokinetic powers, through a biological ability to manipulate magnetism or (anti-)gravity or some undiscovered physical force. Even if that isn't permitted by physics as we know it, maybe there is some physics we don't know that does permit it. Even if that isn't permitted by the physics of this universe (known or unknown), maybe there is some parallel universe with different physics that does permit it. If the materialists are right and this universe is indeed "material", why wouldn't that other universe equally be so?
Small silver lining for the folks here that manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

The bug was introduced in glibc 2.34 so I'm guessing RHEL 7 (glibc-2.17) and RHEL 8 (glibc-2.28) are not affected. That just leaves RHEL 9 which is running glibc 2.34.
FTC Consumer Protection Chief Puts Data Brokers on Notice
There was a weird blip of time during the pandemic where cabinet grade plywood was cheaper than CDX sheathing at my local Home Depot. If I was building a house then it would have been cool to sheath it in oak veneer plywood.
A foot is a (variable) measure of length.

A board foot is a measure of volume - with an implicit third dimension.

So you could just use the SI unit for volume.

A board foot ~= 2.4 litres.

This seems a bit silly though, as timber is not fungible in the way you'd expect a volume of something to be.

As noted by sibling comments, you very much can buy timber in cubic metres - a convenience for costing / transport - but you're not going to buy timber without knowing dimensions of the individual lengths.
Then the same should hold for Ffmpeg.
I saw some discussion around the flaws of mri imaging to study cognitive states.

If i recall correctly, something like 70% of people fall asleep in the MRI so theres no baseline brain state to compare.
Give me 5 example companies that do this work and I will build a resource for you.
VR is based on a ridiculous misunderstanding
> I would rather have a belief that the system will find the root causes of crime and take actions to fix them then believe the system will punish those who break the rules.

I prefer both
Both BART and Muni had problems with the service brakes on their new trains flat spotting the wheels – apparently it's still not quite as much a solved problem as it should be. BART especially tends to run their trains with out of round wheels – almost certainly not helped by running aluminum wheels.
Thanks! So many good articles, great ideas there!
Yeah, I have high hopes for Matrix, but I don't think they're quite there yet (although I haven't used the release from a week or two back that is allegedly a major step forward).
I understand why C gets recommended so much, but without a good tutor or a class, it can be very tough to get started with since you must take care of everything. This is in contrast to say, languages like Python, Javascript, Typescript, Java etc.
Not unless the mechanism includes repealing the 1st amendment. Part of finding a good balance recognizes there is a hierarchy of principles.
One of the issues with AI products is that they often require a good amount of input to use. It seems to me that a great AI product would save me time and do things for me without being asked to.

For example, at our company we have a quite a few of alerts set up. Datadog also automatically detects anomalies. It would be neat if this (or something else) could automatically do an initial triage without being prompted and give me a free headstart on issues that come in.

Otherwise, it feels like it's "work" to learn how to use the product, which seems to miss the promise of AI (doing things for us!).
Intel to Make Altera Unit into Standalone Business, Seek IPO
I have had a great experience with using this: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

It combines caddy with docker-compose labels, making it super easy to spin up new projects that can immediately be exposed.
Where we live you now need sprinklers installed in most units. It’s overkill for fire safety
Muni reduced the emergency braking force back in 2008–2009 or so, because, yes people were getting injured (and given how frequent EB applications were back then…). You can definitely achieve sufficient braking without having to violently throw people to the ground.
When you say one inch wide, do you mean one of the twelve things in a foot, or one of the two things in the width of a 2x4?
Nah, I wrote that and Discourse is the worst of both worlds, it's somehow even less usable than old-style forums. I don't exactly love e.g. XenForo but it's better than Discourse in every way.
Yea for sure. This is the recession & deflation folks have been asking for.
Always amazed by the breadth of products in the Framasoft suite. I wish there were more users and contributors (and I include myself in that list).
I don't have any experience with Jsonnet, but from what I can gather, it appears to be a Turing-complete functional programming language. Leporello.js, on the other hand, is a UX concept that can be applied to any functional programming language, including Jsonnet.

In fact, I believe it's possible to write code in TypeScript that would be very similar to Jsonnet. TypeScript provides the capability to create compiler plugins, which can restrict the allowed language subset, effectively making it more limited and suitable for configuration
That... and grubby land grabs, cavalier/deranged development (Lennar), and ignorant newcomers who think making a subtropical keystone ecosystem conform to their hell of previous residence is justified by exorbitant checks and brutal disregard.
They wouldn’t because nearly everyone would be homeless
I think you would need old growth for true 1m³
Metric makes the math easier, but it is much easier for me to relate to 40 board-feet of lumber than to 0.0944 cubic-meters.
Pretty wild. I can see these kinds of ai-based tools become used more often as they connect to more systems.

With that said, in my experience, usually, coming up with a good AI question can sometimes be harder than the act of looking for the data itself, i.e. asking "what were the last 3 errors yesterday" is not something I have ever done.
This means my homeowners insurance will surely go down right? Right…? Of course not.
And for what it’s worth, the board foot cost of a 2x4 and the board foot cost of a 2x12 are wildly different.
I ran a relatively large Software Development meetup in Las Vegas with 500+ members, and it was really the pandemic that killed it. Tried to bring it back but interest just wasn't there for a while and I kind of lost touch with the other people I organized it with. A lot of the other big local meetups also went to online only and the meetup scene here is a lot worse than it was before in general. It wasn't a move to another platform as far as I know.
Is it using https://fakerjs.dev/ ?
Would that make the game less fun?

or would the economy be the fun part of the game, automating and driving down prices?

I think games like factorio, the fun comes from automating and being less of a mental burden.
I have been trying to figure out the origin of egg and dart for years. This is an interesting direction to explore, I guess with some artistic license over centuries I could see that it evolved from the tip points of structural members. Maybe the rings of a wooden pole splitting from drying out.
A CEO or board of directors that angers the majority of shareholders (or an outspoken minority) doesn’t last long. That correlation is absolutely clear.

Which means most CEOs and boards focus on managing shareholders at least as much as anything else they do.
"Is this the right thing to have done or not?" is an important question obviously but the more impactful question for our times is: "is the right thing being done consistently?"

So, why is similar action not being taken against the actual big offenders -- Google, OpenAI, rest of big-tech?
From the same blog: vehicle sales are up 15% YoY

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2023/10/vehicles-sales-in...

Not necessarily a sign of health, but playing catcup with hisotrical trend.
The problem with WFHers is that they don’t realize that they’re like blue collar workers in the 80s voting to offshore their jobs away.
It would probably also help if we, as a society, weren't so addicted to unhinged moral panics about drugs, which in turn supply political fuel for similarly reality-impaired "tough on crime" policy pushes. Right now it's fentanyl, but in the past it's been crack, LSD, marijuana, etc..

(Fentanyl clearly poses legitimate problems for various reasons, but people have increasingly treated it like it's some kind of sci-fi chemical weapon instead of a medicine that's routinely used in hospitals and nursing homes around the world.)
No one is looking to China for ethical business practice.

Copyright ethics are something we have invented.

China chooses not to follow western copyright regulations. That’s not unethical, to them anyway.

Indeed, Copyright law was originally intended to allow people to legally copy things, not protect corporate interests for an eternity!
I believe you’re referring to “nominal” vs “actual” size. For anyone who doesn’t know, a 2x4 is actually ~1.5”x3.5”

Dimensional lumber is the original shrinkflator
The unfortunate reality of this is that while he may be right, it is difficult to classify the responses (or non-response) from the NIST people as deceptive vs just not wanting to engage with someone coming from such an adversarial position. NIST is staffed by normal people who probably view aggressively worded requests for clarification in the same way that most of us have probably fielded aggressively worded bug reports.

Adding accusatory hyperbolic statements like: "You exposed three years of user data to attackers by telling people to use Kyber starting when your patent license activates in 2024, rather than telling people to use NTRU starting in 2021!" doesn't help. Besides the fact that nobody is deploying standalone PQ for some time, there were several alternatives that NIST could have suggested in 2021. How about SIKE? That one was pretty nice until it was broken last year.

Unfortunately, NIST doesn't have a sterling reputation in this area, but if we're going to cast shade on the algorithm and process, a succinct breakdown of why, along with a smoking gun or two would be great. Pages and pages of email analysis, comparison to (only) one other submission, and accusations that everyone is just stalling so data can be vacuumed up because it is completely unprotected makes it harder to take seriously. If Kyber-512 is actually this risky, then it deserves to be communicated clearly.
Your view is far too broad. There are many rigorous (and less rigorous) fields of study that are not sciences; if everything is a science then the term becomes useless. (I'm quite content with saying epidemiology is not a science; it draws from scientific knowledge but involves non-scientific study as well, much like history).
You can set this up with even less customization. Here's my snippet for doing so [0]. In this way, the default rule for all containers that are part of compose projects gets assigned a subdomain (service.compose-stack.lvh.me). Note that we also expose the traffic admin interface on `lvh.me`, which is perhaps a little more convenient than using `traefik.me`.

However, even with my tweaks, the overall solution is still limited. Because it's not on "localhost", the browser considers it an "insecure context" unless you also set up local HTTPS.

[0] https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/13659d19ca899cea...
I had to translate a text for school long time ago. It was in Latin, written thousands of years ago.

It was about an old guy lamenting how young people was crazy and losing the important things in life that his generation enjoyed.

The important genres of music like Jazz or Rock n Roll generated this rejection reaction from older generations, but it looks like Rock n Roll people today have become the elders.
No, no - it's completely plausible for a nuclear powered sub to get stuck in at most 150 meters of water and have all its life support systems fail badly enough to kill a couple dozen sailors. Also, China simply hasn't mastered the complex technology to remove CO2/generate O2 in an emergency - nuclear reactors, sure, but a big canister of lithium hydroxide and some oxygen candles are completely beyond them.

The whole article is dumb af. Maybe a sub bottomed out or smacked into something and had to head back to port - no way they lost a whole boat.
Dude. Are you actually stating that the multiple genocides that have been committed in communist countries were fabricated?

Downplaying the killing fields or the Holodomor as invented by the media or landlords is incredibly offensive.
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https://designers-guide.org/analysis/dg-spice/index.html
It's a repository viewer last time I checked, it doesn't have as many features as lazygit (rebase, merge conflict). I prefer lazygit personally
> By the way, The Utah Saints are the pool players in that video.

Well that's something I didn't know. Thanks for that.

I still like New Gold Dream a lot
Maybe somebody could hack the Lenovo Thinkpad TrackPoint Keyboard on to it.
Personally I’d love it if companies like Comcast, AT&T, Wells Fargo, BofA, et. al would need to compete enough that they stop being extractive and manipulative assholes at a minimum. Or at least stop being periodic criminal enterprises. Perhaps even fair and honest market participants?

I guess I need to cut back on the heroin.
Here’s my stupid question of the day:

Would you mind to explain what you mean by “native” in this context?
I'm writing a hard sci-fi novel and am looking for alpha readers. Contact me if interested:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/
1. I'm not always on a computer that has the go distribution

2. In that case, why allow reading the code un the browser ?
Obviously separate problems, like alcohol and drunk driving. People use prescription meth (desoxyn) and opioids responsibly, just like alcohol. Negative externalities are a separate choice.

Using meth is as victimless as using alcohol, and I think it's pretty silly to say there's a victim when I have a beer at home after work.
So you have studied programming for at least 5 years, what kinds of programs have you written? Apparently you have already applied your skills, since you have "created a good reputation among developers"? Why a time-frame of 20 years, why not 20 months or 20 weeks? Heck, you can learn a lot in even 20 days!

Once you have learned a few languages, libraries and frameworks then learning new stuff becomes much easier. At that point I'd recommend to check the website https://learnxinyminutes.com. Meanwhile, continue asking questions here and elsewhere :)

An other tip, if you are into computer science and algorithms stuff I recommend you try to solve problems which are posted at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com. You don't need to try solving them in less than X characters, but just to get them solved by any means necessary. And don't take too much bad influence from the posted solutions.
How is this usable. I see no documentation. There is a docs folder but all it contains is a code of conduct.
Everyone is "for" something, hence the ridiculous example of

> Should epidemiologists be careful to never advocate for policies that improve survival outcomes so they maintain the profile of an objective scientist?

So again I'll ask: specifically what is the "something" listed on that page[1] that would lead you to believe this person is better considered an advocate and not an "objective scientist"?

[1] https://hrdag.org/people/kristian-lum-phd/
Not a lot of people are willing to work in the food service industry in general, nor at 2019 wages specifically, also rents, and real estate skyrocketed. Food costs are generally only about 1/3 of menu revenue, with wages and overhead being the other ~2/3. Profits are generally very thin in restaurants.
Not really because its so regionally dependent - prices can vary dramatically within even 100 miles. I just picked up a bunch of of black walnut for $12.80/bdft, but I could get it for around $8 if I drove a couple hours south.
We should rip out the train tracks, put down asphalt, and convert them to car tunnels, but to be used only by people driving one specific brand of car.
I remember (maybe) Penn Gillette saying something similar: that something has gone wrong if we aren't horrified by the music our children like.
"It's clear that GPT-4 and Claude are skilled translators" on what basis? What makes a predictor LLM better at translating Latin than a system trained specifically for translation?

I'm sure they can do a decent job but it's weird to me that someone would leap to GPT-style tech despite its known tendency to hallucinate/make stuff up instead of translation-oriented tools like DeepL or Google Translate (I say this as someone who despises both of those tools due to their quality issues)

I can't imagine there are vast swaths of Latin in GPT's training set.
same as legal substances like alcohol.
Acceleration of a point on a disc is as velocity squared, divided by radius. Since velocity of a point on a (rigid) disc is proportional to the radius, this simplifies to acceleration being proportional to the radius. Reduce the radius by half, and the acceleration reduces by half. And, at the center, acceleration is zero. (All this, of course, is assuming the angular rotation rate is constant.)
A couple of places I've worked lived like this. We used the free version of Flyway with Spring Boot and Quarkus. We got by really well "rolling forward". My next gig used Sequalize and MySQL. Aside from hating those technologies, I hated that false sense of security baked into "oh well, we can always roll back"
I wonder if there's an analogy to be made here to DRM. In theory, yes, DRM shouldn't be possible, but in practice, manufacturers have been able to hobble hardware acceleration behind trusted computing model. Often, they do a poor job and it gets cracked (as with HDCP [1], and UWP [2]).

The question in my head is whether the failures in their approaches are due to a flaw in the implementation (in which case it's practically possible to do what they're trying to do although they haven't figured out a way to do it), or whether it's fundamentally impossible. With DRM and content, there's always the analog hole, and if you have physical control over the device, there's always a way to crack the software and the hardware if need be. My questions are whether:

a) this is a workable analogy (I think it's imperfect because Gen AI and DRM are kinda different beasts)

b) even if it was, is there real way to limit Gen AI at a hardware level (I think that's also hard because as long as you can do hardware accelerated matmul it's basically opening up the equivalent of the analog hole towards semi-turing completeness which is also hardware accelerated)

I imagine someone has thought through this more deeply than me and would be curious what they think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...

[2] https://techaeris.com/2018/02/18/microsoft-uwp-protection-cr...
That's been my experience with the site, too, which made me raise my eyebrow at the article's claim of "first-hand testimonials that have been vetted for authenticity and accuracy." If the data's such junk (which I surely won't argue with), why study it?

e: From the original paper:

> Rigorous quality control is conducted by trained experts with careful consideration given to “quality, credibility, and focus on effects or outcomes” (www.erowid.org). By means of that mechanism, all reports that provided the basis for the present investigation have successfully exceeded a standard quality filter.

Totally.
It's all far too conspiratorial for me. Just show me the math as to why it's broken, I don't need a conspiratorial mind map drawing speculative lines between various topics. Do an appendix or two for that.
The locks I was referring to were a direct result of many (most?) ALTER statements. Multiple clients trying to migrate isn't even in this equation. Just one client migrating can ruin your day with a single ALTER statement given a large enough database.

What's the biggest table you've ever had to modify?

Adding a column with a default is easy. What about deleting a column from a table with 10s of millions of rows? Renaming a column? Changing a column's type? Adding a CHECK constraint? Adding a NOT NULL? Adding a foreign key constraint that someone accidentally removed in the previous migration while data keeps flowing?

Those concerns aren't about your explicit advisory locks. Not by a long shot.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.htm...
interesting why not use that medical data?
That file got mangled moving across encodings; the original[1] is in KOI8.

https://imgur.com/a/xLUw0p8

[1]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/pravda
Yes, no true scotsman would dismiss a datura trip report.
> As hard as it may be to hear, to some extent that is likely a “you” problem. Start a culture of not having to have the camera on, figure out good reasons to have to exit such wasteful calls, etc. Continuing the same thing and whining about it melodramatically is unlikely to be fruitful

I wasn't being melodramatic.

It is a me problem. Everyone else seems to love this random assortment of asinine "culture" and "team" concepts. I've worked at my share of places and it's always the same. "Standup is like 15 minutes." and it is. but then you have the 45 minutes leading up to it where they talk about what they did the night before or what their kids are doing or what life is like with their pet they've had for a decade. Everyone else seems to care and care deeply. I do not. At all. I just wastes my time.
"You might be a force to be reckoned with, but there are a lot of forces to reckon with."

Younger me needed to hear that. Hopefully it saves someone else some time and energy.
Are there any plans for an abstraction over JSON?