skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just did this for my cat Cauchy about 10 days ago. It was brutally difficult. But I was so glad ("glad" seems like a gross word in this context, not sure how to phrase it) I was there with him in his final moments and that he was able to die painlessly in my arms.

My vet had a "back door" entrance for these sorts of things. I took them up on it and I needed that.
I agree. Wordpress powers something like 40% of all websites. 40% of the web having a low friction way of publishing to the fediverse is a big deal. Sure, this doesn't mean that almost half the web is suddenly "on the fediverse"; the more ad-dependent a site is, the less likely it seems that they'll enable this unless they can do so in a way that brings users to them.

I want to be able to have a fediverse feed that's as much RSS feed as news feed, but that's my preference. I'm really glad WP is making it easy for folks to use ActivityPub.
This is why I love F1. Over 20 people working the pit stop, and the driver hitting his marks perfectly, literally braking at the last possible moment to maximize speed up to the pit lane entry, all for tenths of a second that can be critical to track position.

Say what you want about the action being boring at times, but the symphony required to make it all happen is the iceberg underneath what you see the driver doing in the car.
Looking forward to using IPFS support. Less string mangling to append it on the end of a gateway's URL.
You can close the federation tab and just view users you subscribe to/follow. In that sense it is no different than an rss reader or a newsstand.

You control your own experience.
> There is no motte and fucking baily

> In fact I even DID respond to your moronic RPG/nuke hyperbole

You need to calm down.

Carmack posits you should be an "absolutist." Always and anything open source, 100%. I pointed out an obvious contradiction, with parallels to the same ridiculous argument "2A" advocates put forth. There are clear red lines that almost the entire population agrees shouldn't be crossed. They fly in the face of "absolutist" and maximalist hyperbole about having things to 100%. Any weapon for anyone. Open source can be used for the same extremely dangerous weapons that almost everyone agrees isn't something a society wants proliferated.

The Bailey is open source absolutism, and when challenged with a case that shows this absolutism maybe isn't so great, the Motte is "all i'm saying is open source is good ok, why are you mentioning dangerous weapons"
> I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. In the face of such evidence and against such powerful and widespread belief systems of the afterlife, I occasionally think of the possibility of an afterlife, but there is no hint that I will see anyone I know, or even continue to exist in any form, but rather a long dreamless sleep.

- Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Considering that a popular hallucinogen today, DMT (with or without the ayahuasca ritual), commonly leaves users with the conviction that the drug really opened a portal to another dimension inhabited by godlike entities, and didn’t just scramble their synapses like e.g. LSD – I think that the experience you suggest wouldn’t necessary dissuade people from reaching for a supernatural explanation.
You're also often dealing with people at their worst. I know of two vet clinics in my area have had to put up signs warning that they will not tolerate abuse and berating at their staff, obvious signs of intoxication, etc. How many businesses have to do this?

One of the first things my wife was told in vet school was, "Most of you are here because you want to deal with animals and not people. In reality, if you are not good with dealing with people, you are not going to make it in this field."
That's a good point, and I'm in favor of those 'cultural expressions'. But I think we're fooling ourselves if we think somebody is buying a gas-guzzling SUV, or the next iPhone, so they will have the ability to write the next great American novel. I'd venture that most consumption is a status game.

I think my larger point is we have to zoom out for a systems level analysis. We shouldn't assume that the production is de-coupled from the consumption, and production can come with a host of negative externalities. I'm not convinced that wonton consumption (especially for the sake of itself) is a net positive, given human nature's tendency to be insatiable with regard to consumption.
But that's kind of a moot point. I mean, if you're even looking at the likes of DynamoDB or Spanner, it's because you need the scale of those engines. PostgreSQL is fantastic, and even working for Google, I 100% agree with you. Just use PG...until you can't. Once you're in the realm of Spanner and DynamoDB, that's where this discussion becomes more of a thing.
LLaMA2 is English-centric fwiw, censored for safety, and black-box on its contents. Happy to be proved wrong
I've had several NDEs and also worked with plan medicines (facilitating and dieting in the amazon) for close to 10 years.

In my experience there's a very different feeling between a perceived reality and an NDE vision (or similar visions that cut through the illusory nature of reality).
there's certainly a use-case for something like an inreach as a dedicated safety device for true backcountry adventures. but there's a whole lot of cases that aren't that, but you can still be out of cell service and have an urgent need to communicate.

for me, even just driving to the next town over, or going for a bike ride that takes me less than two hours from my house, there's places where the cell connection cuts out. i'm not packing an inreach for an hour drive, but it's nice to know that if i need it i can count on my cell phone.
Hexapipes author here =). This is awesome! People kept mentioning Penrose grid to me but I didn't know where to even start with it. And then you went and made it happen! I admire the dedication it took, love collaborating with you!

The bumpy history of this grid's development can be found in this issue: https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes/issues/83

First hexapipes thread for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216436
There is abundant food in places without obesity epidemics. The problem is food policy in the US, not abundance.
The Slowways[0] project is a great resource on UK's walking routes

[0] https://beta.slowways.org/
All corporate-y? By becoming a big corporation
I have a personal GCP account with an average spend of $12/month over the last year or so. The past week, I've been bombarded with messages and phone calls from a GCP saleswoman trying to get me to spend more. These business practices reek of desperation.
Here's a novel solution to use Mastodon/Fediverse replies as a comment section on a statically-generated blog.

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastod...
Alternative link: https://archive.vn/Q3EXM

> At the time, Uber had just started its ride-hailing service in Portland without seeking permission from the city, which later declared the service illegal. To build a case against the company, officers like Mr. England posed as riders, opening the Uber app to hail a car and watching as miniature vehicles on the screen made their way toward the potential fares.

> But unknown to Mr. England and other authorities, some of the digital cars they saw in the app did not represent actual vehicles. And the Uber drivers they were able to hail also quickly canceled. That was because Uber had tagged Mr. England and his colleagues — essentially Greyballing them as city officials — based on data collected from the app and in other ways. The company then served up a fake version of the app, populated with ghost cars, to evade capture.

It does sound like I was "greyballed".

Imagine a real taxi company doing that.

Doesn't seem like a strategy that will keep you popular in town.
That is a bit biased too. We don't know what the people actually dead experienced.
> "In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added benefit of warning you when you’re nesting your functions too deep. Heed that warning."

And, yet, that becomes so much religious dogma that people will shoot themselves in the foot.

I fixed a lot of network locking code way back when. I made sure that I had a validation framework to go along with it. It was a gigantic state machine, because that's what locking and protocol are.

But, you know, that thing had single exit point and 4-5 indent levels and extended past 80 characters because it was a goddamn state machine, had states and variables lifted directly from the specification state machine, and tested as a state machine with the validation suite.

But, hey, the kernel devs just had to rewrite it to match 2 indents and 80 character lines. So, they did.

And took 9 months until they passed the validation suite again. They didn't add a single feature. They didn't fix a single bug. But, hey, they dedented it real good.

What finally did the deed was that one of the senior devs finally got fed up, went back to my original code, wrote a Perl script (that's how regular my code was) to rewrite every state block into a function with extremely short, unintelligibly cryptic names and args in order to remove two levels of indent and make sure the function calls would fit in 80 characters.

The final kicker: someone genuinely found a real bug about 5 weeks afterward. They tried to fix it in the "better" code with less indents. They couldn't figure out which state was the problem because they mangled all the names. I went into my old code, fixed it, added a test to the suite and reran the refactoring script--and that's how the bug got fixed.

We're not developing on punch cards and VT100s anymore people--quit being stupid.

(Side note: the main issue that bit the devs is that people who are dogmatic about 2 tabs-80 characters tend to rely on early return to avoid fully-fleshed if-then-else which cause deeper chains. This does not work for state machines. There is no early return--every state should leave at exactly the point when you advance from the old state to the new state at the atomic swap. So, you can do what the senior dev did and cryptify everything, or you can just leave the damn state machine alone and accept 4 indents and 132 characters.)
For those who live in such areas, idle time in nature is abundant and connectivity is scarce.
I can see it as a bootstrap method. You attach a string to the inside end of the vine that moves forward, and it spools out as the vine "grows":

____________________
\
O=string============+ movement of growth ->
____________________/

O = spool of thread

When you see the vine on the other end, you can open the end to get the string, attach the cable to the former spool end, and start pulling the string to pull the cable. You want a light enough string for the vine to pull through, while being strong enough to pull a cable through.
Pretty straightforward with Ollama + LlamaIndex

https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/llm/olla...
> getting something to produce multiple angles and poses of a scene while maintaining characteristics of the elements in the scene

This can be done with img2img and Controlnet on Stable Diffusion.
But still a lot of manual work involved at least in my setup.
> NPR has been irrelevant for quite some time, objectively speaking of course

Tell me, objectively, how NPR is irrelevant?
Is Counter-Strike 2's new match-abandonment penalty too harsh?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37842923
"When I graduated in 2012, my personal student loan debt was at about $289,000. Despite a decade of payments, the total has increased because of interest, and right now it's at $460,000."

That alone is stressful, which in no way suggests other points being made here are unimportant.

I spent decades suicidal. After some health stuff improved, I'm mostly not anymore.

So I can't help but wonder if exposure to animal diseases might be a factor.
as I understood it, culdesac doesn't even provide parking for your car, and parking your car 5 miles away is the same as not having a car at all (at least when it comes to vacation, family visits, larger purchases, etc.)
And as I understand the article, it has failed to do so. The near-death patients had no idea what the tablet was showing.
Also wouldn’t the real test be to turn the tablet upward so that it shows various images and if you really are floating above everyone and looking down you’d be able to see it?
Microsoft SEC 8-K: IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $29B
Gnome Merge Request Draft: Remove x11 session code
The Panavia Tornado MRCA – When international collaboration goes right [video]
GP was banned years and years ago for something (I don't know what) and now their comments are all [dead] on arrival. People (sibling commenter to you did this) can vouch for these [dead] comments ([banned] cannot be vouched, IIRC, but is very rare). Also upvoting and vouching are separate things here. You vouch [dead] or [flagged][dead] comments, you can only upvote live comments. You never need to upvote before replying to a comment.
So I went looking for stats to validate how reasonable this concern was and looking at what on average kills folks https://www.projectuntethered.com/hiking-statistics/#:~:text...

I think your concern is warranted as vehicle accidents and falls may call into question the durability of the device in question however based on the mix of accidents and especially the prevalence of medical misadventures its probably a worthwhile feature even if you don't opt for something desired for extra durability.

Another logical concern is battery life. A huge chunk of non-fatal misadventures are day hikers and the dominant cause is actually dummies wandering off trail as opposed to injury.
Ozempic's early success in kidney disease trial drags down dialysis stocks
Why won't SQL Server implement the ANSI standard for Persistent Stored Modules (PSM)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM

This is so pervasive in both free and commercial databases, that it is a gaping hole in SQL Server where obvious functionality should be.

I have thousands of lines of this stuff that will never see the light of day in a conversion because of Sybase Transact-SQL.

Why is Microsoft addicted to this very much not standard language, that they did not even originate?
Intercom gave a talk at the recent Rails world conference about how they moved to a micro service based architecture, but all it ended up doing was increase operational complexity. They're now in the process of porting their microservices into their monolith.

All the talks are being released in the next week or so, you should take a look when it's out, it was very interesting.
Yeah, you're using the Internet as Team A in the author's example. You're looking for images of fonts. The people that made those images bought a license to use the font to make images, so it's fine if they share them with you.

None of that guarantees you'll be free from legal concerns, of course. Maybe the original image author didn't have a license. Maybe the licensor thinks they can change the terms of the contract at will. You'll probably be caught in the middle of all of this.

My take is that the biggest problem you'll find is naming your free fonts. Someone probably owns the word "Helvetica", so you'll have to call it something else. Someone looking for a font will then not find yours, and will buy a Helvetica license.
I've just take a quick look but it looks great, thank you!

It seems I'll need to use the Air to follow the series. As far as I can see it's ccl + aquamacs + slime... right? It comes at the right time because I'm starting with the CLOS part right now.
According to the Readme, the client ID should be the domain of the client. So some site https://access.site.com would have the client ID https://access.site.com
Google is going to court for the first time over alleged pay discrimination
Complaining about downvotes on a public forum is also a "shitty habit."

As is basically calling people names in said forum.
It doesn't. You need to generate models for use on the neural engine, which apple did for Stable Diffusion, but this is just taking advantage of lots of fast RAM and lots and lots of threads, if I understand it correctly.
You're right, none of that is disputed though?
Aleister Crowley offered a technique for remembering past lives.

When you find yourself half asleep, and that dreamy fuzzy place, try to remember back as far as you can.

With practice you'll remember further and further back. And eventually you'll remember before the time of your birth.

Past lives and such
Although you're correct that it's not exactly 'another intelligence like me,' what it IS is an algorithm that's trained to respond in the way that another intelligence like you would respond. In the corpus of human text, second person instructions are generally followed by text that adheres to the instructions.

There is an alternative that I've found has tradeoffs, where you give it its instructions in third person, e.g. 'Sam is an intelligent personal assistant. The following is a discussion between Sam and Max --- Max: [question]? --- Sam:' You tend to get slightly more coherent responses with that format, because you've hooked into the part of its mind that knows how text looks in textbooks and guides, which are usually well-edited. However, it often gives more 'dry' responses, because you've moved away from the part of its mind that's familiar with human-to-human forum RP.
Me too, but at slower data rates. At 550km above, that’s still a big signal loss by inverse square law. Problem with slow data rates is that they clog up the channels.
Please don't conflate issues.

Retroactively applying laws to target your political enemies has nothing to do with censorship laws (except using them as an excuse) and everything to do with corruption and authoritarianism.

Donald Trump promised to prosecute everyone he holds a grudge against if he was elected president again, and the USA has constitutionally enshrined free speech laws.
Wait until you see a chip butty then.

Urk: I’ve gone from “Chip buttie” to “chip butty”, I’m not a fan, I’ve had to correct my spelling twice, but I’m not trying to sneak my spelling corrections past anyone.
Here's a great list of free LUTs. I use them with darktable when editing raw photograph files:

https://github.com/cedeber/hald-clut
It's not purely a matter of cost, right? Say you want or need a highly available, high performance distributed database with externally consistent semantics. Are you going to handle the sharding of your Postgres data yourself? What replication system will you use for each shard? How will you ensure strong consistency? Will you be able to do transactions across shards? These are problems that systems like Spanner, CockroachDB, etc solve for you.
How do they obtained informed consent for human experimentation? If I understand, the researchers are summoned to the hospital bedside of someone undergoing cardiac arrest. If they came into a loved one's room, or mine, I would be very angry. Any risk or distraction is too much.

But that's my perspective. Maybe they obtain permission from next of kin?
They also cut costs when they can. Metronidazole for colitis as an example - it’s not the standard of care for humans, but vets use it all the time because it’s wildly cheaper (cents vs $100s for vancomycin or $1000 for Fidaxomicin)
> Getting that upset/irrationally mad at a group over some downvotes is what I find concerning.

Ok that I can understand. For context, a while back I shared my experience going vegan for an entire year here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33364191

I then got attacked for it and dragged into arguments I didn't really want to have by other vegans. And this similar behaviour has happened repeatedly on other threads to do with veganism, animals, the environment and other culture war topics. It is always particularly bad on anything that could be related to veganism.

I've seen this downvoting pattern happen so frequently now on both mine and other people's comments that it is becoming difficult not to see this as people with a targeted agenda, downvoting things they like with the hope of it getting flagged early and taken out of the conversation all together. Like if you look at the post history of one of the people I ended up in an argument with on on the link above, their entire history is solely dedicated to environmental activism and picking fights with people on these topics to the point that Dang ended up banning him:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=myshpa

It seems unlikely to me that, within a minute, five unrelated people out there all simultaneously read my comment, which in the grand scheme of things was pretty benign, and then decided to downvote it. And I keep seeing this stuff happening on threads that are related to culture war topics over and over again.

Here was another one of my comments on a culture war topic that suffered the same downvoting treatment that eventually had it's flagged status overturned by one of the moderators:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37577525

All I want to do is come online and share my experiences and stories with other people like I'm in a bar just chatting to people. I can and have told these exact same anecdotes in real life without getting attacked for them. It's one thing having a debate with someone on here about some tech topic but it really feels like a punch in the teeth when you share a deeply personal story, purely with the intention of hoping it helps enrich someones day, just to then get turn round and attacked for it. We don't do this to each other in real life, I don't get why people insist on making it different online.
Recent and related:

Patients recall death experiences after cardiac arrest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726301 - Oct 2023 (13 comments)

People experience ‘new dimensions of reality' when dying: study - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725115 - Oct 2023 (66 comments)
And which country faired better in the ensuing years?
Requiring a ton of work doesn't really matter one way or the other for copyright. Mowing the lawn is a ton of work. Doing the work doesn't let you prevent other people from mowing their lawn to the same height as yours.
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