skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the dartboard paradox. If you throw an ideal dart at a dartboard that hits exactly 1 point, the probability that it hits any particular point is 0, but the probability that it hits a point is 1.
yeah, they have that, that's the picture in the article...
Apart from the general ridiculousness of insinuating that of all records someone might adulterate or invent, he would pick a digital copy of a discharge letter sent to an third party whose other baby had died, your timelines are all wrong. Breary got the police involved in April 2017. Nobody thinks it's a coincidence that it was a few days before Letby was due to return to the ward; stopping her from returning to the ward was his stated reason for going to the police.

The "smoking gun" turned up inconveniently late, in February of the following year, when he'd been asked to go through the records of the kids who survived.
Attenborough is an interesting example because he had a real life near-analogue. He had a famous brother, Richard Attenborough (John Hammond in Jurassic Park). Their voices were extremely similar and they of course looked much the same. David is more famous now but back in the 1990s Richard was more recognizable. Who owns the voice? Does it default to the person who is most famous at a given moment? How often to we revisit that? Do the brothers battle it out in court to see which is allowed and which forbidden to do voiceovers using the "Attenborough" voice? And the Olsen sisters... that's a legal quagmire.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
If employers want to fire everyone that is in a union, they too should be welcome to do so.

Just a variation on a theme.

Corporations should have the power to destroy unions but unions should not have the power to destroy corporations.

When employees do good, executives get 40 percent raises, employees get 2 percent.

Anything that doesn't help make the rich and the powerful even more so is unacceptable ... because that's how fairness works in a lords and peasants system.
How it didn't? Amazon AWS alone added more changes to the backend landscape than all changes in the frontend. New NPM packages for old established frameworks isn't really churn, people complaining about it are just lazy.

React is 10 years old, Angular is older and Vue is around 10 years, too.

Now to the backend, how many frameworks are out there?
First you have multiple cloud providers each with their own set of preferred services.

Then you have the old frameworks like Rails, Django, PHP (wordpress, symfony, laravel), which changed a bit less, just like frontend but they are just a % of the backend. There are also the corporate backends like Spring and many more, which although they are still running and stable, 10 years ago Java was the obvious choice for most if not all enterprise projects but not anymore.

Then you also have multiple backend providers like supabase, firebase.
That is indeed what 'zero sum thinkers' tend to assume about government.

Government is, though, a solution to 'collective action' problems, which usually have prisoner's dilemma payoff matrices.

A problem could be solved if everyone acted. But individually, none of them have the incentive to act alone, so the default result is for nobody to act.

Government allows a group of people to agree that when there's a collective action benefit available, they'll take it, together.

That is explicitly not a zero sum outcome.
Because the source might no longer exist. Same as the current state might no longer exist. You can't diff something you don't know about and thus cannot create a transaction to deal with it.

Three examples, but first context:

You create some .tf files that create a bucket on s3 on AWS, and then create an object inside the bucket. This creates a graph data structure that describes the AWS provider, the S3 bucket and the S3 Object. You then apply this desired state, which causes terraform to create some resources in AWS and then describe the state as it was last known in the state file.

Scenario 1: You delete the object from AWS but don't tell Terraform about it. You re-run apply, terraform notices that it is gone and re-creates it, so far so good. Even Ansible and SaltStack could do this.

Scenario 2: You delete the object from the desired state in your .tf files. You re-run apply and terraform notices that you used to have an S3 Object in your desired state (because your state file says so), but since it is no longer there it goes to talk to the AWS API to see if the object is still there and if it is, it will delete it (or, plans to delete it and then it is up to you to apply or discard that plan). This is not possible if you don't record your previous intent. One-way tools fail here.

Scenario 3: you make a mess where you remove the object from your .tf files and also manually edit the state file and remove the object there as well. Terraform now knows nothing about what the world used to look like. But you then decide that the S3 bucket can be removed and since it's all managed resources anyway (no dirty clickOps tricks in the console) you tell Terraform to destroy the bucket. Terraform doesn't see any dependencies, and asks aws to nuke the bucket. But since the bucket isn't empty, you get an error. Terraform doesn't know anything about any objects in the bucket, and thus it couldn't clean it up.

Now, the scenarios here are oversimplified, and you would probably not setup an IaC tool to manage 1 bucket and 1 object if that is all you'll ever configure. But when you start creating multiple environments that each need their own configuration drift control and controlled resource destruction you really can't function without it.
I remember the days when I had to juggle between different emulators just to get a fraction of these features...
See, https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/may-update/index.html#....

They also reference, https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/equivariance/.

I'd also add, https://distill.pub/2021/multimodal-neurons/.
We don't have a "representative democracy" in the US. We have a representative republic. There is a very wide gap between what you believe our system of government is and what it actually is.
I don’t agree. I found this straightforward statement:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16712/usbc-power-delivery-hit...

> USB-PD R3.1 supports three charging models:
> - Fixed voltage
> - Programmable power supply (PPS), and
> - Adjustable voltage supply (AVS).
> In the fixed voltage scheme, the Standard Power Range (SPR) mode supports 3A and 5A at 5V, 9V, 15V, and 20V.

That’s about as clear as it can be, assuming AnandTech is correct.

Also keep in mind the existence of PPS as another data point. I have an Anker charger sitting in front of me that offers 3.3V-11V at 5A. 5V at 5A falls squarely in that range, as long as you have an e-marked cable that can support 5A. (I have no idea if the Pi 5 supports negotiating PPS, but it would increase compatibility with chargers if it does.)

I agree the Pi 5 should have included a buck converter or something, but I don’t think it’s correct to say they’re not standards compliant. It’s just not a common use of the standard.
I don't understand how this solves the issue of others wanting to own you. People often want this, and the only way to achieve this is not to convince people they should have self-ownership because that does not preclude people owning things that are not theirs.
Robotic 'Super Monster Wolves' are guarding Japanese towns against bears
and you can listen to the image here
https://alexadam.github.io/demos/img-encode/index.html
> But second, the new Broadcom SOC finally supports the ARM cryptography extensions

Wonderful, this is long overdue.
Don't make the mistake of thinking the Russian government actually cares about homosexuality. It's for internal consumption only, for the purposes of establishing a convenient domestic 'other'. If they have to choose between a revenue source and enforcing the morality policies of the state in a way that doesn't interfere with the internal propaganda machine it's clear which option wins.
Having an LLM run terminal prompts sounds like a recipe for disaster
The TL;DR is that social media platforms are trying to retain viewership on their own platforms, downplaying links that will exit the user from the app.

Which shouldn’t come as a surprise. Engagement is their whole deal.

The author puts some real stretches in this article. He tried Twitter for 2 months and his subscriber count sort of kind of didn’t grow as fast for 2 months. He also didn’t really understand Twitter or how to use it (understandable after dabbling for only 2 months), so he concludes that “being on Twitter” is actually harmful to writers. There are some valid observations in the article but it really feels like it’s just throwing red meat to the “social media bad” audience with an expectation that they’ll subscribe to his Substack.
Every time I see these articles I'm amazed at how at odds it is with my experience. I work for a tiny company of ~30 people and it's awesome. I'm super well taken care of in pay, benefits, and work/life balance. I could make a bit more at a large corp, but I get some pretty stellar benefits here. Also if it's anything like what I read on here then there's no way it's worth it.
True, Hashi can cask it just fine if they wanted to continue to distribute through homebrew. I doubt they would though, they have already been recommending direct binary installation from their servers for the past few years. That is how the installation documentation for Terraform has been for a while.

The bigger impact is on other tools that have terraform as a dependency, as seen here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538#pullre...

Tools like atlantis and infracost are also getting removed since they depend on Terraform. So it is going to make distribution a little harder for those smaller tools. The good news is that the thread does say that they are holding off to allow those tools to update their dependencies to an alternative like OpenTofu when it becomes stable or to remove the dependency altogether. But the real impact imho is these other tools.
https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Collision-Strikes-Stickers-Win...
Except you do have hundreds of distinct smell receptors that can detect complex chemical signals, which contribute greatly to what we colloquially call ‘taste’.

Which is why food tastes very different if you lose your sense of smell, and why making artificial flavours is not just a matter of mixing a few base flavours.
Using views and triggers to ease refactoring on PostgreSQL
How come? It doesn't seem to have any dependencies that you wouldn't be able to get, they're pretty common.
Not just now, it was treatable then, he was just misdiagnosed
That's mid-game. The end-game is that these policies result in the grid becoming uncompetitive with self-generation plus fossil-fueled backup. Everyone who is able defects, leaving everyone unable holding the bag on a stranded asset.
I heat my house with a wood burning enclosed fireplace connected to an external air supply. Any other heating solution is kind of the less optimal choice when you own wood supply chain (forest and some tools to prepare wood for heating).

But yeah all those planet saving heat pumps need some advertising anyway.
Neither of the two available political parties routinely make both tax hikes and budget cuts staples of their platform. So explain again how the general populace is somehow responsible?
Burn wood for many years and couldn't care less about these studies. If you're burning dry wood with a clean chimney and insure your seals are good, you're fine. There has been renewed interest by climate warriors to ban wood stoves (they love to cite women and children being "most at risk", the emotional argument must be present to change hearts and minds). Ironic, given it's mostly poor and working class people burning wood. Must be a big push by heat pump and geothermal industries to get rid of wood stoves in the name of "public health". Despite urban populations living with AQI magnitudes higher than rural populations who use these heating sources.
Current State of Open Source AI Book
I keep telling my friends who get really into stock investment, read some stuff, invent strategies - and end up much worse (sometimes losing money) than me just dumping everything into a few almost random indices:
1. Greed (not as a pejorative or a judgmental term, just this itchy feeling that you want more than you have even if you gain and are not satisfied) is the fastest way to lose money, whether through a poor investment or being scammed.
2. When you decide to play a game of stock investment, who are you playing it against? Being better than average (just market returns) means being better than the average (not median!) player, who in this case is some institutional investor. Do they really think that with a few online courses they can be consistently better than people who do this stuff for a living?
It would be in the system of laws

We do not have this self ownership principle in our system of laws. It should be something on the order of the US 1st Amendment in weight and scope codified in the very foundation of the legal system
It’s not a Windows/Mac thing. There are definitely slow terminal emulators for Linux as well. I’m quite sure you wouldn’t want xterm as your daily driver.
Show HN: ChatGPT on Telegram Bot
The Informatics Olympiads?
Let's not start down this road unless we want a detailed discussion of why the lightning network is hopium and fantasy that has fundamental basic routing flaws obvious to anyone who's built anything at scale.
> The cartels are mostly killing each other

The cartels are mostly killing the people around them, i.e. people in poor neighborhoods. They're not exactly known for being discriminating or acting with due process.

> And if you don't want to go to jail for doing drugs, you can just not do drugs.

Drug tests have false positives. Being in possession of something doesn't prove you knew you had it. Cops lie. People plead guilty when they're innocent because of coercive plea bargaining, but a system that gave everyone their day in court would be infeasible to operate at this scale. A system that actually implemented innocent until proven guilty would allow 90+% of the guilty to go free because the state couldn't prove that the median case wasn't one of the preceding.

It's easy to say we should just use a better system but people have been failing to implement one for generations.
Agreed with the overall point (small models will prove powerful) but I disagree with:

> But having more fine-tuned control over model parameters is a pattern that will emerge

This assumes parameters do something interpretable. IMO, it’s more that parameters themselves are meaningless/dumb and patterns evolve via interaction of many such units (like in ants)
QQQ went like 17 years from its 2001 high till it made it back to the same price. S&P is probably less stressful for the type of investor you are talking about.
Yes, the correct observation is that no economic system operates at optimum across every vector.

> Just because you don’t see the value doesn’t mean there is none.

Sometimes it is absolutely true, which is most often seen in nepotism but also in categorically stupid people (re: Bonhoeffer).
Adding the requirement to register in order to see the answers I think was major mistake. I remember multiple times coming to quora from google and after just closing the page because of it.
In the early days of Quora, it was a lot of fun. I remember asking questions and getting answers from Olympic athletes, college professors, and other true experts.

I actually made friends on Quora.

Then they tried to monetize it in various ways (and I don't mind paying for things!) and it went downhill fast. Just junk questions and answers, and a lot of fringe political ideas and topics, and people promoting their MLM businesses.
There was an article here just the other day talking about how a mass of older android devices spanning many different sectors (phones, TVs, chromebooks, etc) had been found to have malware that was installed between the refurb/shipping and delivery to retailers. These older devices also wound up in schools. So it absolutely is happening.
There should be no smoke coming out from a modern stove or fireplace. They are enclosed, take air mostly from outside and blow their exhaust into the sky.

Of course some smoke can come inside from the windows or aeration holes.
Homebrew Core only contains apps with opensource license, specifically license that compatible with Debian Free Software Guidelines license (GPL, Apache, BSD, MIT, etc).

https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#DFSG-compatible_License...
Sebastian Pölsterl: scikit-survival 0.22.0 released
Hashicorp maintains their own tap..

https://github.com/hashicorp/homebrew-tap

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-homebrew...
>Using AI to learn and ask questions repeatedly without fear of judgment is the key.

How... how, I ask, does not asking a question for fear of being judged get you anywhere? I hold that overcoming that shortcoming is a critical part of becoming a builder of systems. Using an AI to try to spackle over that interaction rather defeats the point.
What does your question have to do with the thread?
Kitty's my daily driver on Mac (when I'm not using eshell, anyway), but on the Windows side I am actually pretty damn impressed with Windows Terminal over WSL2. I don't even bother using graphical mode on emacs in WT/WSL, it is smooth as butter and super responsive in terminal mode and aside from using Linux, I'm actually preferring it as a dev environment to a Mac these days.

In fact, it feels like there's an ever-so-slight latency when on a Mac that Windows doesn't have. At first I put it down to the keyboard feel, but even using the same keeb it feels a bit more 'squishy' on the Mac.
That's sort of the myth behind the guy, but from Romero's account in Doom Guy, Carmack was pushing himself to the limit. He didn't sleep, he didn't take breaks, and he frequently rewrote things that other engineers wrote from scratch. While his code was great, his faculties as an employee and manager greatly suffered. He started lashing out at other developers and became an utter tyrant of a boss when he began to perceive that the lack of similar effort on behalf of other developers was unfair. I think he really struggled with Quake 1, especially since he had to teach himself all the math required, having no background in math
yeah like.

people dont even understand. as a kid i would look at the content of .com files and .exe files in DOS and wonder why they didnt look like BASIC source code. wondering how the heck people made these wacky characters everywhere. had no idea what an assembler or a compiler was, and no way to find out.

as far as hardware.. .at least there was radio shack and those little books by Forrest Mims. Maybe a book at the book store. unlikely. the idea of board level repair to me would have been like aliens describing a spaceship without a translator.
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They are evidence, but due to selection effects they're generally a small amount of evidence (with the amount depending on the expected size of relevant population - in this case passengers seeing this HN story).
> And if you think America doctors are not rushed and often misdiagnose stuff then you’ve probably not been to an American medical facility in quite some time.

Oh, trust me, I'm sure they are, but it's even worse in Europe.

> And yet European health outcomes are significantly better than American ones across the board.

What on earth are you basing this off of?
Why is Esperanto in the natural languages list? Is it not constructed?
What is your point? It’s still a choice. It’s easier to spend more money than less money, great insight.
From my recent experience, ROCm and hipcc allow you to port cuda programs fairly easily to AMD arch. The compiling is so much faster than nvcc too.
I went wezterm because kitty wasnt always playing nice with tmux and i dont think i would go back at this point there is something i juat like more about wezterm i cant put my finger on.
> Missing opportunity to release 16GB version (...)

This seems to defeat the whole purpose of a Raspberry Pi: cheap, almost disposable computer to tinker around with.

A 8GB RPi4 board is already more expensive than some used desktop computers, and until recently some major hardware manufacturers (ahem apple) were still selling high-end laptops with less than 16GB of RAM.

I understand asking for features such as PoE and SATA support, but 16GB of RAM feels like an attempt to make the RPi something that's not supposed to be.
Golang to WASM: Basic Setup and Handling HTTP Requests
I think you are overestimating the number of people who will fully go off grid. Doing that requires you to overbuild your generation and storage capabilities a fair bit which is expensive and wasteful. Grid tie is better in most cases.
That part of the talk surprised me. It implies that you can compile Elm into C? I wasn't aware that was in its capabilities.

It seemed like a good idea worth exploring. I can see how he'd get Jeff'd there.
ParadeDB and the work they’re doing with this extension is incredibly exciting. Love to see it.
Po-tato potat-o, re: CS vs SE and role vs field.

I'm hesitant to appropriate "engineer" into what we do. There are certainly people who work with code who earn that title. There are also many who don't.

I do think it would be healthy for people who work with ML to separate more decisively from people who work with general purpose code. There are enough unique problems and solutions in ML that a clear community would better serve the field's maturation.

As opposed to getting an endless summer of "Why don't you just" software developers fouling things up, because it's "similar".
> No one should be able to use a specific voice

What is this thing "specific voice"? Is there a scientific definition, something beyond them just sounding similar to a layperson? There are literally billions of voices on this planet. And a person's voice changes drastically across their lifetime. Any such rules would need exact definitions with enough granularity of data to ensure nobody gains rights over the "specific voice" owned by some other person.
Exactly, very well answered. UK might be higher now that they recently (this year) raised their corporate tax rate by 7%!

And certainly this doesn't include the inflation tax either. Governments spend like crazy. No wonder we're not living sustainably! It starts from the top down! That's not corporations, it's the governments!
Beginner question: What would be a good circuit simulator to combine with this? Or do you always breadboard?
Is there a required article every time big co launches a satellite?
>>You are a social creature

In actuality I am an anti-social creature, I am contrarian, and very ODD

>>that learns everything you know by stealing bits of information from the world around you

No primary I learn everything I know by accessing information freely given to me by others in the world around me via voluntary exchange. Either freely accessible knowledge people put out for all to access, or by exchanging currency or other value with the holder of said knowledge for which they share that knowledge with me
> 10x? Financial independence is normally at least 20x, more like 30x.

You appear to be overlooking Social Security, which is a crucial source of income that all US workers pay into their entire careers. It's not just savings.

> I won't dig into stats for the US because it's of no interest to me.

Yet it's interesting enough to you to make baseless empirical claims about the US.

> I know that for my country that's absolutely not the case and I'm pretty sure it's the same for most of the world.

That's not the way the world works.
No, I think the implication is that if a major manufacturer lets something Bad™ slip in, they can be held liable. xXFoneBoi93 could slip in a root kit and the custom ROM they contribute to probably wouldn’t be held accountable in any meaningful way.

That’s how I read it at least