skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should you expect ~2 million years of evolution to bread that out of us?

The ability to start and control fires for warmth and cooking purposes greatly increases the odds of survival for individuals and their offspring.

If I may personify evolution as form of rhetoric: evolution doesn’t care if you limp along through a painful life, or if your genes guarantee a horrific death at the end of it. Evolution only cares about your ability to produce offspring that in turn reach maturity and produce offspring of their own, and so on.

Resources are finite in this world, so sure, the fittest tend to outcompete less fit creatures, and the former will perpetuate its genes while the latter won’t. This is where the notion of “survival of the fittest comes from”. But it is a mistake to interpret that implication the other way around: that is, survival does not necessarily imply greater and greater fitness over time.

Evolution isn’t about species becoming the best they could be, it’s only about being good enough.
I think I missed the part where they support the title of the post with some arguments.

> as tough for any Web2 startups outside of AI (and soon for them too)

says who?

> And it will get worse because new funds are (not) being raised right now,

Wait are they or they aren't? And is there some data to support this? I am not saying it's incorrect but it'll be good to support this with some sources.
I read Axios pretty regularly because the site is exceptionally clean.

Other than that, I tend to stick to niche sites.
> That appears to be an inherent flaw in the technology that could only trivially be addressed with a much more powerful motor.

Wouldn't it be easier to add a governor?
Inside Playdate
It was called "Kiln" and integrated beautifully with FogBugz (both from Fog Creek). We used them for nearly 10 years.
Byford recognized it, and then his boss proceeded to undermine him so he left.

He wasn’t there long enough to effect the solution to decades of poor investment and managing.
A long time ago, I built a business around off-the-shelf IP cameras. The field was full of buggy firmware with enormous security holes (biggest I found was to be able to acquire pictures without even being authorised!). Hardly none of these firmware would get updated, they were abondonware right out of the package.

Even though this doesn't seem to be entirely open, any kind of move into that direction is a bit of fresh air.
Good investing has never been about X will make a lot of money, buy X. It's about what price are you buying the money that X will make. Right now, a lot of future money US will make is baked into the price of those US companies. You'll pay $100 for $4 of US earnings or $8 of UK/Japan/Netherlands/Canada/Sweden/etc. earnings. People already expect US earnings growth to be almost double. The question is do you think it will outpace even that? Even if you think US earnings growth will be somewhat better than the rest of developed economies, it's a worse investment.

For example, developed economies index, VEA, outperformed US, VTI, last year.
> entirely novel and original ideas

They are not novel if there is an equivalent pattern in the training dataset. I guess you are not really trying anything that isn't available already on github or google in some form. If you think you do then please show an example of "entirely novel and original idea", that GPT-4 developed for you. I had at least 4 cases in which ChatGPT failed to produce correct solution (after pushing it for hours to correct itself in many ways) in an actual novel problem (solution not longer than 200 lines of code) for which there was no solution on Google or github. But you can't blame statistical model that was trained to create the most probable outcomes based on it's training data.
That’s not a policy priority or choice - NYC bankrupted mass transit decades ago and the bailout consisted of a grand merger between the bridge tolls and transit. The current situation is a result.

It’s a public authority secured by bonds. Unless the feds decide to pump billions of dollars into NYS/NYC, nothing happens unless the organization is insolvent again.
Beyond the good ol' LaunchAgents – 32 – Dock Tile Plugins
If you're healthy enough to live past 85 you're more likely to have lifestyle and inherited factors that increase the odds of you being able to need fewer or no medications even into old age. Modern medicine helps counteract poor health but only so much.
Completely agree with your assessment of the building process. The majority of the complexity involved in the process is not inherent
Absolutely, I was surprised anyone would recommend ctypes for Python/Rust today. I've written a few Python libraries using Rust to do the slow parts, and PyO3/maturin is a great experience.
It would not be unprecedented. Nixon prolonged the Vietnam war to help his election odds [1], and Israel itself perpetrated false flag attacks during the Lavon Affair [2], and, arguably, the attack on USS Liberty [3].

I'm not saying this attack by Hamas was allowed to happen (in fact, unless some evidence comes to light, the default assumption should be there was no conspiracy), but "I don't think the gov would sacrifice people" [4] is not a sure thing. It's probable, but not nearly certain.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

[3] Citing Ennes's book, Lenczowski notes: Liberty's personnel received firm orders not to say anything to anybody about the attack, and the naval inquiry was conducted in such a way as to earn it the name of "coverup". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[4] I deliberately cut your sentence short. Their goal could be different from just tarring Hamas. Such as swaying local elections, or increasing US military aid, sorry, cooperation [5], with Israel.

[5] If this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don’t even call it our aid, our cooperation with Israel.
- Nancy Pelosi, Israel-American Council Conference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1LmnQRnw8I
Seems really really cool. Is this a full DB, as in they have to take PG source, put in tantivy and their sauce, compile, and distribute? Or is this an extension? If it's the latter, what's the point of putting DB at the end of the name?
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve written, but the idea that Musk hasn’t considered oil panning and should’ve just asked an engineer is ludicrous. The author assumes Musk must be an idiot despite all of the evidence to the contrary.
Frequently and repeatedly?

Yeah, as a teen that would be fucking weird, I'd only be able to respone with sarcasm.
Response to Wired redaction of Google ads op-ed
Why would you want more drugs on the street in CA? SF needs more schizophrenia?
Exactly, this is why it takes literally years of human effort to get a new version released
I believe there's also some fear about the cold Arctic water flowing south and destroying the fishing banks off Canada and some other Really Bad Stuff...
And without having to work like dogs.
> Ferrocene will be available for purchase by individuals and companies later this year at €25 per month per seat (or €240 per seat if paying annually). Purchasing Ferrocene will grant you access to the pre-built binaries and packages of our qualified compilers, and the rendered qualification documents for all versions of Ferrocene.

That's very low pricing. They won't be able to afford to support development if they price that low. It actually decreases confidence that their company is legit to see prices that are that low.
> I can't believe how much people take for granted that stock markets "usually go up 7% a year" or whatever.

Decades of something being true will do that
They did not cost $19B. That projection was the 2007 cost for building it from Harlem to the tip of Downtown.

Phase I ended up costing around $4.4B.
Quirky, clunky tooling with a bunch of arbitrary shit you have to memorize to use correctly. People enjoy that kind of thing after they learn it.
But if the admins of the site cared more about integrity than pure profit, they'd put in a simple heuristic to filter this shit. So one way or another, they're culpable; and more so if this is a known phenomenon.
Using GPT to train smaller models is against the OpenAI TOS. At least for commercial purposes.

Is it not? Do we just ignore it because it's not fair or they can't prove it?

How can we get from needing a million stories to being able to use just 10 stories?
Doesn't change the fact they sold over 80 million copies, you can do the math.
There’s a documentary about it: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/

/s
I'm sorry but a) no it is not the same thing as being deaf or blind. A currently Internet-less person can at some point have Internet. In fact, it is probably the case that most people who don't have Internet at any particular moment, will have Internet at some later point. Deaf and blind people do not typically become able to hear or sighted suddenly. b) The idea that not specifically creating a solution for someone in a particular condition is the same as actively excluding them, as you seem to imply by your axiological "it's not right" judgment, is incorrect. By your logic, making any tool for anything at all, so long as it has any dependency whatsoever, excludes all people who don't have those prerequisites, which, again according to you, "is not right". This would mean that even a tool which worked offline "wouldn't be right" since it excluded people without computers, smartphones, etc.
From Warp Speed to 100 Days: How to speed medical treatments
But we've rapidly advanced that progress within the last 100 years. All signs indicate that progress is gaining momentum, not losing it.
It's a great question for adults. What is crazy about tons of these questions is that the same problems embedded under the surface are completely mismanaged by many/most adults, and civilization as a whole.

Hey, teenager, can you solve the problem where entrenched rich interests refuse to reform the world for our basic survial? Yeah, we can't, and in fact in the last 40 years, we've given the elite so much money and power that under our generational leadership we've made the problem(s) even worse.
Since the left abandoned traditional left topics like helping the poor and the right has adopted them, but with a twist of only the poor of their own nationality, the poorer people get, the more likely it is they'll listen to those right wing voices.
And the more people are in this my nation your nation boat, the more likely it is that conflicts happen.

The powers that be are pushing towards this new world war with austerity, with higher cost of living. Ultimately I see it as the same old war rich vs poor, 1% vs 99%.
When there's war, people die, and who dies? The poor.
And who profits?
The rich.

Most media is in the hands of the rich.
Media drives opinion.

Traditionally there have always been wars.
War is good for business, especially the business of weapon manufacturers, which are part of the rich.

The world is destabilizing and I blame US omnipotence fantasy.
Empire USA has military bases all over the planet.
They have provoked the Ukraine war.
Because Serbia doesn't want to play fetch like the NATO tells them to, Kosovo is being lit again.

I have no insight into Palestine/Israel other than the US has their fingers in there as well.

Every recent war (not sure about Azerbaijan and Armenia) the US / NATO was or is involved.

The EU, which is apparent now, is a vassal of the USA, at least with the corrupt leadership of Von der Leyen.

Africa is evolving away from EU rule towards China, which tries desperately to buy into other nations everywhere. With all the hate towards China, when have they started a war recently or influenced one?

The only entity which has acted aggressively is the US military.

So how likely is a world war?
Currently I don't think it's very likely, but it's in preparation and the main actor is the US military.
Thank you.

I just realized something: maybe I can make it so regular file explorers work.

I had intended to use something like Fossil's checkouts. I could formalize it; each branch the user wants could be a separate directory in the repo directory.

While I hate that, people seem to like it. I think I will do it.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
> git for windows does "merge rebase" commits that preserve history during rebases: it creates a merge commit with the latest version, replays the existing commits atop...

Could someone show what this command looks like or link to docs? Searching for it produces a lot of rebase Vs merge results.
I'm aphantasic, though I'm not entirely sure that I have always been that way. I've recently been using Lumenate to meditate, and while it hasn't actually changed my aphantasia (yet?), I do get very strong abstract visuals when using the app. It's closer to the kind of thing you might see while on mushrooms than any kind of physical form. I absolutely suck at meditation usually as I just cannot switch off the inner voices, this seems better as it gives me something else to focus on.

https://lumenategrowth.com
Similar to carcinization?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
FWIW, potentially, possibly, maybe, perhaps considering to do something isn't anywhere near the same as doing that thing (especially when it's a "said to be" (i.e. 100% rumor)).

We see this in many software development-related threads across any and all forums:

"I'm thinking about trying..."

"I'm considering doing..."

"I'm planning to..."

To which the only sensible answer is: show me the code!
One thing I never see in pieces like this is comments on how a change might affect hyperthreading performance.

It's not relevant for single threaded code, but then neither is doubling the core count from 4 to 8 or 16.
Only if there's enough wind shear between the aircraft and kite altitudes... kinda like dynamic soaring [0] but without the need for the aircraft to jump back and forth between the two regions. You'd probably need to use a sailplane or something to get high efficiency flight at low speeds. I think it would be super dangerous, b/c in order to access the strongest differential wind speed, the craft would need to be very low to the ground (just a few meters).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring#Manned_aircraf...
You're underselling what Terraform gets used for here. What happens when you're using Terraform to manage multiple cloud accounts or even multiple cloud providers? Should it be scanning the entire host it runs on for credentials from every possible cloud, check to see that your configuration only includes resources for AWS account #XXXX, and delete everything it finds for any other account and any other provider?

Think of the footguns you're introducing if they designed it the way you suggest. What happens when you pass the provider configuration an assume role that you typo or forget to edit correctly but it's still a valid role your user credentials actually have permission to assume? It then deletes every resource that role has the power to delete because you nothing for it defined in that particular root module. Safety is more important than purity or ergonomics or devex here. Heck, that may be the core difference between ops and dev.
Our goal is for one day ParadeDB to be a viable alternative to AWS RDS/Aurora, so that like you say, you don't need to keep data in-sync and can just use one system (ParadeDB). Soon it will be possible for you to have ParadeDB running on your AWS (utilizing your cloud credits+all security/privacy guarantees) but be managed via the ParadeDB dashboard, similar to how Aurora works from a developer UX.

Of course if you are 100% attached to AWS RDS itself (rather than the convenience of AWS RDS, which is replicable by ParadeDB), then there's not much we can do here, as we also need to eat :')
> The Lick Observatory is located in the San Jose mountains on a site chosen by James Lick, a wealthy businessman who donated to educational causes throughout California. He’s buried under the telescope, which began operations in 1988, a year after his death. Shortly after that Jupiter’s moon Amalthea was discovered here.

The Lick Observatory began operation in 1888 [0] (not 1988), and was constructed between 1876 and 1887 [1].

[0] https://www.lickobservatory.org/about/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Observatory
Yes, and that has always been the case. We are trying to figure out why it's different now.
Elon's lead designer has been interviewed about Cybertruck, saying words to the effect of: Really, boss?
They are. That’s why they’re called “unicorns.”

Most startups fail regardless of the economic climate.
This won't impact infracost, Alistair just responded to it: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/139538#issuec...
On Flexibility
> The inhalation of wood smoke, even at relatively low levels, alters pulmonary immune function, leading to a greater susceptibility to colds, flus, and other respiratory infections.

Well that put a damper on my desire to attend a bonfire later this month.
For Russia Ukraine is as personal for historical reasons but also for strategic reasons. Ukraine is the buffer state between nato and Russia and the access to the black sea.
I'm not convinced by the arguments.

Do the majority of creators want anonymity? I don't think so. They can set up a company and hide behind it if they do. Being an anonymous platform invites tax evasion and money laundering. Do you really want to deal with that?

Why would I open up an API so that competitors can swoop in? What benefit that would provide to me? No one will use API over UI.

The author clearly wants a donation platform that caters to a very niche group of users. I would guess there are less than 100 people in the world who want it (and do not need it)
Fundamentally, sailing is extracting movement from the relative movement of two fluids. This is done by putting an vehicle at the boundary of the fluids with a wing in each fluid in such a way that the vehicle moves.

If you use wing-in-ground-effect then you are in a single fluid, where there is no relative movement, so you cannot extract energy from the relative movement.

Put more simply, you need something to push against, so you need at least part of the vehicle in each fluid.
Brushing over individual experience with aggregate statistics. How utilitarian.

Much of the article is about the author's experience of being lifted out of her family's social level, only to find herself not belonging to any class. Her family mocks her, and the saddled debt makes it harder to keep up with her debt free peers.

Also, before cherry picking convenient statistics, it's important to control for other correlation, such as income compared to parents income, and college attendance compared to parents income.

Here are some more liberal facts: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/05/18/first-g...

Given that median income of first generation college graduates is 27% lower than their peers, I think it is indeed likely that there is greater issue here.

To plug the numbers into your above math, we're now looking at $2.05m vs $1.60m. Not bad, but frankly in real terms over 40 years they'd probably be better off putting the $120k against the s&p500. Which is probably what the author's debt free peers will be doing.

I still think for this individual college was likely the right choice and will lead to a fulfilling life.

I also still think loading up teenagers with $120k of debt is utter bullshit.
Implying there was any analysis is being generous.
From the link:

> "While we can definitively say this weakening is happening, we are unable to say to what extent it is related to climate change or whether it is a natural variation," [the first co-author] Piecuch said. "We can see similar weakening indicated in climate models, but for this paper we were not able to put together the observational evidence that would really allow us to pinpoint the cause of the observed decline."

but also...

> [The second co-author] Beal added, "The Gulf Stream is a vital artery of the ocean's circulation, and so the ramifications of its weakening are global. I used to think of the ocean as our last remaining frontier, wild, pristine, and indomitable. It saddens me to acknowledge, from our study and so many others, and from recent record-breaking headlines, that even the remotest parts of the ocean are now in the grip of our addiction to fossil fuels." (emphasis mine)

Seems a little disingenuous to state in the publication that you cannot conclude the cause of the decline, and then in the press release go about definitively blaming it on fossil fuels, including stating that this conclusion is supported by your study.
I can't visualise anything at all, but I have multiple inner voices constantly chatting, often to each other rather than me. It's infuriating at times, but also the only thing I've ever known. I'm incredibly jealous of people without an inner voice.
There are the length of playing the "whole" game, the length of a minimum/typical/maximum session, and the length of a supported unit of play, and each can be long, short or irrelevant.

For example, an online PvP game has discrete games (e.g. a worst case of 2n minutes to play chess with a time limit of n minutes), one often plays a few games in a row depending on fatigue and available time, and replayability is infinite.
Thank you, updated the key.
Bookmarked for tomorrow
This is really cool, I didn’t even know Docker mods existed. That’s the best kind of cool.

I wonder if the internals will be open sourced? I assume it’s a pretty “simple” go tcp proxy that listens on the tailnet instead of an open port. I had been thinking about writing one for our services at work, so maybe we can use this, but I’d prefer to build the binary directly into our containers.
What you said is already factored fully in GP’s comment. :-) sorry.
Re the text editor, when I was writing an editor for my homemade CPU I used the one from this tutorial: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html - it is 1000 lines of C. Might be useful to you.

I have diverged a bit from the tutorial because I didn't want syntax highlighting, I really wanted vi-style keybindings, and my environment is much more performance-constrained. Mine is at https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu/blob/master/sys/kilo.sl (in my made-up programming language).
Hey guys. Congratulations - this is an exciting development. Can you show some benchmarks around showing the count of matches -- `select count() from table where text match is there`?

This was the top reason that made us (Segmed.ai) give up on PostgreSQL FTS -- our folks require a very exact count of matches for medical conditions that are present in 20M reports. And doing COUNT() in PostgreSQL was crazy, crazy slow. If your extension could do simple len(invertedindex[word]) that would already be a great improvement.

ELK has it immediately, but at a cost of being one more thing to maintain, and the whole Logstash thing is clunky. I'd love to use FTS inside of PostgreSQL.
Totally agree. I've also personally experienced it in the context of we can't afford to pay what Big Tech or VC-funded companies pay but that doesn't mean you can work 3 days a week.
If I give you a choice of 5 mediums and you fail at all of them you probably are worth skipping for now.
So can you implement soft floating point math in soft integer math in floating point math?
My guess would be the lovemaking, but I’m no bonobo.
Racket, PyPy and Parrot (RIP) are also designed to host multiple languages. BEAM is another interesting VM (fault-tolerance, distributed systems, live updates, etc.). GNU has a bunch of projects to help language implementers, like Lightning, Jitter, libjit, superopt, etc. Eclipse's Xtext lives in the same space as tree-sitter and (to some extent) LSP.