skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. Good question. I can think of a couple:

1. I was accused of a crime once. Hired a lawyer, and planned to go to court and fight the charge (I legitimately wasn't guilty of anything, not that that really has anything to do with the story). Anyway, on the day I'm supposed to go to court the first time, I get a phone call about 7:00am. It's my laywer's office. They say that my lawyer has had a medical emergency and is in the hospital, and to go to the courthouse and request a continuance on that basis. So I go to the courthouse, they grant me a continuance, and I go home. This is all on a Friday, mind you. Later that weekend, Sunday night I think, a buddy messages me on IRC and says "Hey, what was your lawyer's name again?" I tell him, and he responds "Yeah, I thought so. I just saw on the news: he died this morning."

That led to all sort of interesting complications, but everything did work out in the end, and the charges were eventually dropped. But the whole ordeal cost me a lot of $$$ and the stress probably took a couple of years off my life.

2. I was driving a fire engine to a call one day, when the dispatcher called us to say we could cancel the call. I stepped on the brake pedal to start to turn around and go back to quarters... and the pedal sank all the way to the floor. No brakes. Luckily this was an older truck with a manual transmission, so between using the engine as a brake and using the manual parking brake, I was able to get it stopped with no harm done. The really low probability part is that we got word to cancel while we were on a nice, straight, long stretch of empty road, where there was plenty of time and room to maneuver. Had we run up on an intersection... well, no question we'd have crashed. Whether or not anyone would have been injured or killed is another question.

I had 3 or 4 other "near misses" during my firefighting days as well, where my surviving was a low probability event. But yet, somehow, despite all that, here I am.

> Ever won a lottery?

No, but I consider lotteries to be a tax on people who don't understand probability and expected payoffs, so I don't play.
I remember running a software fpu on a Mac, I think to play a neat little game called Avara.
Sotomayor and Kagan have been accused as well. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ethics-documents-co...
Nature often does this in their news division: someone qualified but not connected. It's good practice!
Interesting thanks. I wonder why they aren’t marketing that more on this page that seems important
Wonder if this will once again ignite talks about the Nicaragua canal. My understanding is that it has lots of potential negative environmental impacts but both the current value of the Panama Canal and its likelihood of getting even more congested almost seems to make another canal somewhere in the region inevitable.
Summary provided to aid in reading:

> Curtis Wright, once a director at the US Food and Drug Administration who oversaw evaluation for pain medication, got a position with a first-year compensation package of $400,000 at Purdue Pharma a year after he led the approval of OxyContin

> Wright had confessed in a sworn deposition that he "might" have written the portion of the FDA package insert that said OxyContin was "believed to reduce the abuse liability of the drug."

> OxyContin was the "most prescribed brand name narcotic medication" for treating moderate to severe pain by 2001, according to a report by the US Government Accountability Office. Deaths from prescription opioid overdose quadrupled between 1999 to 2019, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 247,000 deaths from prescription opioid overdose over the last two decades.
Show HN: I've Created a Resume Analyzer in Google Sheets with AI and Bulk OCR [video]
https://inteltechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Image-2-...

Capitalising the first letter of each package name makes it look jarring.
Same issue as 'normal' rotaries. It has apex seals. They will see the same amount of wear and failure as the other configuration. The marketing around this and the journalistic misunderstanding gives me serious huckster vibes.
The article uses inferred NSA preferences as justification to avoid SHA2. Can't have it both ways.
Britain's 'unbearable' sewerage problem is a warning against privatisation
itym "most improbable"

got shot once, barely broke the skin.

I was riding a bike down a common trail through the woods. Someone else was shooting cans with a .22 and hadn't paid attention to the trails coming into the clearing behind their target.

their bullet bounced off the ground, hit me in the kneecap and inner thigh. knocked me off the bike just from the kick to the leg and the surprise. I jumped right up and smacked the snot out of the kid and then realized i was bleeding a little. The bullet was barely stuck in the wound. i gave it back to him as a lesson in gun safety.

just a hair of difference in timing or alignment of any element could've made that nothing at all or fatal. catching a bullet without getting hurt? not even a believable story.
> compared to all the other common Rails apps with their ever accumulating fat models, complex controllers

i interpret fat model as: what can be move to the model, sits better in the model (directory). things that cannot be moved to the model: the request, the response, the session. not set in stone, but usually this works.

what i regret about older Rails code i wrote was the gluing of all biz logic to ActiveRecord ORM models (akin to, yuck, Hibernate entities), that also contain DOAs, form validation and all business logic. now i tend to split these out: form dtos that do validation, repos with queries, simple record classes, etc.

fat signals homogenous big thing, but is actually where most of the application lives. i coudl call it lib as well.
See: Rings of Power
Respectfully, you’re dodging part of the question.

How would you feel if my org stated “all lives matter” and pretended not to see the problem?
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member"
The political appointee's that go in and out with every political administration and are political figure heads

Or the actual Dept Heads, the ones that actually do the regulation and enforcement, the ones that have been there for decades and work for every administration
It's basically multiple levels of misdirection and "are you sure? you have it so good here though!"
After a few years, and as my own application has grown, I feel I'm more productive in Symfony than Laravel, because there's less magic, I know where stuff is, and it's more "loosely" coupled components whilst Laravel is "All in or get out". I've been updating my app since Symfony 3.3-ish to now 6.3 and it's been fun! I've had to exchange the auth, the admin section, added new features, killed off features, but I feel with time, that my code has gotten more stable.

Maybe my first update experience with Laravel was a bit of a mess (v4.2 to v5.0 "The recommended method of upgrading is to create a new Laravel 5.0 install and then to copy your 4.2 site's unique application files into the new application. This would include controllers, routes, Eloquent models, Artisan commands, assets, and other code specific to your application."), and I couldn't easily "see" the models' properties and the Facades, that's why I have shy-ed away from it a bit. I have worked with several Laravel applications since then and have gone through the v6 through v10 upgrade cycle and can say it's gotten easier (though I wish they could settle on a release schedule), but my preference is still Symfony.

Plus when I checked out Django, I felt a bit more "at home" (e.g. see Twig templating language and how they used Django templating language as inspiration).

I've worked with Vue.js and AngularJS 1 and Angular 2+, but I'm glad htmx is coming in strong, so I can focus on logic, speed and stability instead of glueing the frontend and backend API together and debugging in the different browsers.
why not make this a consumer app like can of soup? Bet it would blow up and make a mess out of BeReal feed
I wonder if protestors will make EMP guns or use umbrellas to avoid drones/cameras like the Hong Kong protestors.
The Constitution is not written in a way that is specific or clear enough to take interpretation out of it. To be quite frank, neither is the legislation in any common law system.
No specific reason, but SwiftUI improved tremendously between macOS 12 and 13, and I use a couple of the newer SwiftUI features. Also, if I could go back, I’d rather not support Intel Macs. I’d built the original version of the app on an Intel Mac 6 months ago, but the performance difference between Intel Macs and Apple Silicon Macs for LLM inference with Metal is night and day. Apple won’t let me drop support for Intel Macs now, so I’ll begrudgingly support it.
For the entire country? Finland is ~277 times the size of NYC, so drones / km is much lower right?
Shame on you for shaming me for expressing my opinion on the internet....
On a Conjecture of Marton
It's not illegal to have these deals; it's not illegal to have a monopoly. It's illegal to use your monopoly to prevent others from successfully competing.

And again- no one has made the determination that it is illegal. The DOJ believes it's illegal, but the DOJ doesn't decide what's illegal. We're literally having the trial to figure it out.

So, you're relying on overly simplistic assumptions that are misleading you.

You can easily get the legal arguments, they're on Wikipedia, they're on the doj website, they're on the indictments. The information just needs you to go out and get it.
You mean your cousin's owner?

Adults have free will.
Those are two very different philosophies to Linux. Fedora is much more bleeding edge than Debian (by a lot) so the question really comes down to which you prefer.

I absolutely love Fedora and run it on my main desktop. That being said I also cut my teeth on CentOS so I’ve always had a soft spot for the RHEL approach to Linux. As for the bleeding edge aspect, I’ve rarely encountered issues with the latest updates. I had to do a bit of troubleshooting with pipewire and my HDMI output, and once a Gnome update caused the hertz setting on my monitor to bug out and cause a black screen.

None of it was really traumatizing though, and I have my system set to run a DNF update automatically on every login since I like to run as up to date as possible, and generally trust the packages won’t be overly buggy by the time they get pushed live.

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After looking at your profile I realize you probably already are familiar with the philosophical differences of the two. Leaving the above for the potential benefit of anyone else who isn’t familiar.
But you can't deny that anyone who doesn't want to work in an office is pushing their view on those who do want to work with others in an office, right?
No. But you probably do if you go out to dinner or some event with them. Over the years,I found that I could have most of my contact by phone but it really helped to have spent some some with someone in person.
Maybe depends on what's meant by application, but I'd say a lot of, probably most, research-level math has no (clear) practical applications and most research is not done from the PoV of applications or relationship to physical reality. Math is study of formal systems, sort of "what can and can't follow from some set of formal rules".

It's more a surprise that some rulesets map to physical world as well as they do [1].

For some there may be very important ones in the future like e.g. number theory got in cryptography. But for example just knowing whether P=?NP or if the Riemann hypothesis is true probably has no "physical reality" direct applications.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectivene...
Sorry, we try to move fast, we’ll fix it in our next release
>"the Justices regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules"

That's a confession, not a diversion. How could they have abided by the code while regarding themselves as "unrestricted by any ethics rules?"
No. My mother told me on my 12th birthday not to make the same mistake she did and it wasn't worth the sacrifices. Got fixed in my early 20s (I'm in my mid-40s now). My wife is disgusted by pregnancy and never wanted to put herself through that.

I have everything I want and need, and no baggage anchoring me to a place (not attached to my parents, so if they need elder care, sucks to be them).

My wife and I constantly remark how nice our life is and wouldn't change it for anything.
Of course there's a tradeoff--- if everything is a component then it may as well be an SPA (or at least bundle those files...).

I don't think the core idea was to ever use "hundreds" of components. HTML should be able to do a majority of the work, and you sprinkle a component here or there as needed.
What's up with all of the Ubuntu hate in the comments?

Ubuntu is my default choice. It's very easy to use, polished and doesn't require tweaking.

I just installed Ubuntu Server earlier this week on my home server, and I was surprised at how nice the installer has gotten.
One reason why.

I've been tempted to try making them at home since about 2007, but for some reason all the different people I've lived with since then have objected to me running a lightly modified microwave oven continuously for a month at a time, with a few holes in the heating cavity so I can install an inverted pyrex bowl and pipes to connect it to a low-pressure methane supply system…
Some books I cannot help but recommend:

Non-Fiction:

- Sy Montgomery: The Soul of an Octopus

- Peter Godfrey-Smith: Other Minds

Fiction:

- Shelby Van Pelt: Remarkably Bright Creatures

- Ray Naylor: The Mountain in the Sea

They are each fantastic, and anyone curious or a fan of cephalopods should read 'em.
Stable Diffusion's eco system is pretty wild!
Why couldn’t Panama trench another “parallel” canal? That way they have two canals for dedicated directionality.
Heh, give snark, get snark. Virgil doesn't interoperate with C because ABI is a sticky, ugly, thorny thing. However, I've come to realize that several projects that want to use Wizard, a thing I wrote in Virgil, could do so if Virgil would link with C code. Problem is, all of that stuff at the C ABI layer is a quagmire.

I think pretty much all languages are hoping that that native ABI cesspool just disappears. I don't have a solution to that problem, but I know the solution isn't to keep on truckin' with uninitialized data, out-of-bounds-memory accesses, stack overflows, and undefined behavior. Surely we can do better.
It’s useful as a signal to dispatch a unit.
It's not about debuggability, prompt injection is an inherent risk in current LLM architectures. It's like a coding language where strings don't have quotes, and it's up to the compiler to guess whether something is code or data.

We have to hope there's going to be an architectural breakthrough in the next couple/few years that creates a way to separate out instructions (prompts) and "data", i.e. the main conversation.

E.g. input that relies on two sets of tokens (prompt tokens and data tokens) that can never be mixed or confused with each other. Obviously we don't know how to do this yet and it will require a major architectural advance to be able to train and operate at two levels like that, but we have to hope that somebody figures it out.

There's no fundamental reason to think it's impossible. It doesn't fit into the current paradigm of a single sequence of tokens, but that's why paradigms evolve.
The founders clearly didn't envision the court becoming as politicized as it is now. They basically hand-waved away the problem of how to interpret laws. If the laws were written in some kind of unambiguous formal system, then there wouldn't be a need for a court. But no such system exists, so we have this read-time political power corresponding to the write-time political power of the Legislative branch.

It's pretty clear the founders wanted some magic box to tell everyone how the laws applied in a given situation, and designed the rest of the system around that. They attempted to create that with the Judicial branch. It's clear from the lack of term limits that they thought the Justices would be apolitical. However, there is no mechanism forcing the justices to interpret the laws in the simplest, most literal way. Instead we have increasingly stretched interpretations used to affect political change sans representative legislature.
I try to reconcile this with the fact DEAs judge 30 years ago ruled pot should be rescheduled and here we are 30 years later and only now has the president gotten to attempt to get the executive underlings to act as they themselves ruled after their judges review.
> Imagine you're his partner reading this.

No. Do not imagine it nor ponder it. Go right to her and ask.

And in the long run, she needs to be coached to articulate without being asked every time (if that is the case with her).

Generally, when people start imagining how I feel about X, they are wrong over 50% of the time, which leads to an escalation of problems. Don't wonder how I feel. Ask me explicitly.

As for the wider discussion: The path to Hell is paved with good intentions. I struggled with this often until I read some negotiations books, all of which said "Don't give credit to someone who did something for you that was of no value to you, and signal to them that this is of no value so that they do not expect a concession from you as a result." For random one offs with random people, it's fine to appreciate their (totally wasteful) effort because you don't have to deal with it often. But in a long term relationship it becomes a currency and causes long term stress. Not only are these efforts creating problem for you (money wasted, time wasted, etc), in the long run the other party will expect credit for it, which will feel like an added insult to injury.
That is the total energy of a Kg matter according to E=mc2, if I'm not mistaken. How exactly are you planning to convert that matter into energy? Do you have a Kg of antimatter laying around your house?!
I am interested in a setup that looks kind of like this: myself and another person streaming from our own remote locations. Viewers can switch between which of the streams they want to view (or choosing both at the same time!) while listening one or the other of the audio streams.
Ray's style has merits but I think he takes it way too far. It might end up being his downfall. He has a pathological drive for getting to cause & effect decisions that humans aren't built for. At some point, he's going be start studying the East German security apparatus due to it's ability to know everything about it's people. Maybe he already has.
> almost real-time connectivity with a database

If only they actually worked like this. I’ve experienced, as I’m sure many other people have, problems booking flights, lodging, buying tickets, etc, where when I go to checkout it fails because I was too slow. It’s also much faster to only request smaller pieces of data if you can, instead of resending an entire web page and then re-rendering the whole web page.

All that to say, there are tradeoffs. Finding the solution with the best latency and the best experience requires a careful analysis of all these details and figuring out which approach (or combination of approaches) solves that problem the most efficiently. Of course it’s not easy, but nothing you’ve said here indicates one solution would always outperform another solution.
Now we are focusing on serving other businesses, if you have a good consumer app idea please let's talk over email we would love to collaborate.
I can recommend OBNC:

https://miasap.se/obnc/

With this compiler you can also write interfaces to existing C libraries without too much pain. This is achieved without any (non-standard) additions to the language.
Wow, The Onion IRL.
No, it’s more an illustration that I was forgetting when the transition occurred. In reality it was probably 2002 or 2004 before the pain stopped.
And it's also inserting collusion into what is normal Market Behavior. If customers complain but don't change buying Behavior, then prices will continue to go up until profit is high enough for a competitor to enter
Works fine for me — Chrome on 2012 MacBook Pro, no VPN/blockers etc.
Principles are products of practice, not the reverse
I don't think the article mentions this but this is directly related to the drought in Panama.

Apparently they had a huge lake reservoir for storing freshwater that was then used to fill the locks in the canal. And then subsequently release into the ocean.

They haven't gotten the usual rainfall and this is causing serious issues.

> https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/03/panama-canal-drought-hits-ne...
Fedora has the release cycle of Ubuntu with the large development and QA team of Red Hat. It is upstream of RHEL, so they give a shit about quality and it shows. They also do things open whenever possible when Ubuntu will either keep things closed (Snap Store) or behind a CLA.
> This, however might actually be useful, given the current geopolitical climate...

You must have missed Elon's marketing pivot a some years ago from libertarian tech-utopianism to libertarian tech-dystopianism.
Well, there is a bus stop 5 blocks away under the I10 overpass, which has service nominally once an hour. Maps says that it will only take 5 hours to get to your job in Culver city. Good thing you don't need parking any more.
The source of radiation surely makes a difference.

Directing the sensor at a small point source makes clustering higher
than if pointing it up into space [0] and receiving the "planar wave"
background radiation of the Universe.

I took a while to figure this out when measuring the audio clicks and
crackles from fire. I expect similar statistics to apply on a nuclear
level (physicists please correct me). Within small, local sources common
effects can be linked to common instigators. In other words events
beget events. So a local variation in some variable sets off a bunch
of related things [1].

As you sum this over an ever larger number of suitably decoupled
sources, the central limit theorem starts to apply and what was bad
uniform/even distribution becomes good Gaussian. In practice you need
more than the theoretical >12 sources, but once you approach a few
hundred uncorrelated sources the bell curve gets pretty good.

[0] probably assume the sky/space is an infinite number of sources all
at very large distances.

[1] In the (dangerous) limit imagine a near critical mass of Uranium
emitting bursts of chain cascades.
Russia's Stranglehold on the Nuclear Power Cycle (2022)
>> for the same reason that the Senate wasn't meant to be directly voted for by normal citizens either: normal citizens usually don't have the political involvement necessary to make educated decisions

I am going to take slight issue with this, The reason the Senate was appointed as not because "normal citizens usually don't have the political involvement necessary to make educated decisions" it was because we are a Union of States. ie the United States. The states are suppose to have some level of sovereignty from the Federal Government, Previous to the Civil War most citizens were loyal to their State first, then the country.

Post Civil War the federal government started to rewrite the relationship, however the Senate was to be the States representative in the Federal Government, thus why there are 2 for every State. The House Represented the people, thus why it is apportioned by population.

A Senator was not meant to be the citizens voice in the Federal government, but was meant be the Voice of the State Government from which they were appointed.
It goes both ways. Whole Kaliningrad region is in range of barrel artillery and very, very easy to monitor. Also, most troops left to invade Ukraine.