skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not GP, but I understand soulless as without meaningful human interaction. Developers are generally and purposely shielded from end users. A lot of interaction is not in person, but in video calls, chats, email, internet forums like HN itself. It’s all very sterile.

I’ve never shaken a happy customer’s hand, (nor been yelled at in person for that matter), for example. It’s not a thing many developers experience regularly.

I like to think of health workers as a strongly contrasting occupation. Much higher highs, much lower lows. Certainly anything but sterile. Certainly not soulless!
I doubt the number of people experiencing this is anywhere close to what Wikipedia says it is. I know a lot of people who have used a lot of psychedelics from their late teens to 30s/40s and none of them have had HPPD
My apologies, will take a break from commenting as to better understand the guidelines. However, it would be great if there was higher tolerance for calling content such as this out. The article at hand and research behind it do nothing more but to perpetuate a false image of east europe being a monobloc of cultures, ethnicities, and genetic structures. Defending that while censoring critique is far from ideal.
“We”? I only do it when the payee allows no alternative. Looking at you, government departments.
Regardless of whether aspartame is better or worse than sugars (I neither know nor care) that sounds awful. I find the taste of aspartame revolting.
I have a friend who wears glasses and they say they can wear both at the same time with no problems. The (glasses') temples are pretty thin, though.
I bought four from different vendors over about 6 months. Every one of them had one bud fail within weeks.
I still don't see the humor here.

1) The overall point is to not let AI use racial bias as a factor in its decision-making.

2) Actually, there are a lot of people whose "race" is vague. My buddy has been asked if he's <random, different ethnicity/nationality> at least 5 times that I've noticed.

3) "Race" is a social construct anyways. In the US, in modern times, we delineate "races" in a specific manner, but these delineations have varied across history and cultures. See the one-drop rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule).
> But you have engines really not ready, for instance electron based games: you don't have the right version of the GTK+ toolkit installed on your enlightenment/Qt/raw X11/wayland/etc distro? Nah, won't run.

Hm, not sure what you mean here.

At least with the nw.js toolkit (from which Electron was forked IIRC) I've never gotten a report of a distro where it would refuse to run because of an incompatible GTK version.
EU has very strong agriculture subsidies, it certainly does not rely on food imports for basic goods.
A shell is a REPL. Though I do I agree there's something to using one with good features (ex. I would completely understand someone using exclusively zsh just for the better tab-completion).
Apple's actually quite good at this, but they do break things on purpose from time to time for reasons which they announce pretty publicly at WWDC when they do (32->64bit, deprecating GL, etc).

So, for example a dev can target an app at iOS 8 and it still works fine on iOS 17. Thats almost a decade of OS updates that didn't affect an app. Here's an example:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bebot-robot-synth/id300309944
Just because some compound or other CAN cause cancer, doesn't mean it's not essential to life in some way or other.

People tend to get hung up on theoreticals in terms of black and white. But the world deals in shades of gray.

Water is essential to life, but too much water can kill you. So .... ban water? Or use it sensibly?

https://insiderexclusive.com/radios-deadly-stunts-the-jennif....
You are conflating Amazon with Amazon.com, and vice versa at your convenience. It's much too sloppy of analysis to sustain a worthy discussion.
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Eh, unexpected clustering is sort of okay but again, it's what people respond to versus what they think they will. I've written some scripts so I can dredge playlists off of some radio stations that are hooked up to the Internet as part of a quixotic little project of mine and I've gone through, looked for dupes, etc. Let's say we're doing new wave (sure to start an argument there). What people seem to dislike is ABC, The Buggles, the Cure, Duran Duran, Ebn Ozn, Fra Lippo Lippi, Duran Duran, etc. Just having a gap between there feels insufficiently random.

Clustering apparently ought to feel deliberate. Now think back to when you had actual DJs selecting tracks on the radio. One of the techniques was "Two from a particular band." Not two from a band with some tracks between them.

Similarly, one can do a "Four tracks from 1994" to provide a cluster in time, another technique I've heard.

If anything, the more metadata you have, the more you can provide short runs of something. Microgenres, for example.
What do the Beeper investors get out of the kid having better job prospects? I don't think anyone is questioning that the whole situation has been great for the kid, the question is what the Beeper execs were thinking.
> it's just too much hassle compared to clicking the Buy button on Steam

Game piracy today is still easier than clicking the buy button, and it's also free. We're not ripping individual files from sites anymore these days, most games are neatly packaged up into one-click install repacks.
We have a Vault cluster running in containers. It is working well
Postel’s Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
While I do hope these issues are researched, I’m not sure why you find them “concerning.” According to Wikipedia only 1 of the 2 studies really seems well done, and that one reported no HPPD.

Since SSRIs are extremely widely prescribed already and seem capable of causing HPPD as well, I’m not sure what’s making you find them concerning for psilocybin in particular.
>Toy magnets linked to 7 deaths and 2,400 hospitalizations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/08/magnetic-...

https://wapo.st/3NIeFif
Do you have a citation for that?. I found a source for my claim above:

All single octet length top level domain (TLD) names are reserved.
Should the root zone ever get very large, there are technical
solutions involving referral to servers providing splits of the zone
based on the first name octet, which would be eased by having the
single byte TLDs available. In addition, these provide a potential
additional axis for DNS expansion. For like reasons, it is
recommended that within TLD zones or indeed within any zone that is
or might become very large, in the absence of a strong reason to the
contrary, all single octet names be reserved.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsind-iana...
It's very location dependent. Where I live most stuff beats the 2 day estimate and it's not unheard of to order something in the afternoon and have it at the front door when I get back from dinner.

Friends in other locations seem to have more of your experiences. I actually dread ordering from anyone but Amazon since the shipping is such a crapshoot for usually the same money.
I used a JBL Flip 4 speaker to listen to audiobooks and podcasts while floating in the pool for a while. Bluetooth doesn’t penetrate more than a few centimeters into water, so I’d just put my phone in a dry bag, tie it to the side of the speaker, and set it adrift. Way less clunky than a headset and worked great
I mean, kind of? But "shipping the developer's computer into production" implies a lot of things that really shouldn't be happening even with containers - the images you ship in prod should always come from git (or such) by way of CI, and shouldn't include ex. compilers. So I'd argue we managed to mostly get the upsides of just shipping the dev's machine but without the downsides.
This argument holds for any non-disclosed vulnerabilities, however.
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By that definition, i know COBOL too since i can look up programs coded in it. I can reproduce the program too by hand-typing it and running it elsewhere. Banks should hire me asap /s.

I genuinely don't get what is so hard to understand here.
You don't know the algorithm. You can see it. That's all.
You don't suddenly understand information just because you can see and copy it. Would certainly be nice though.
Yeah, have to be in the service area of an Amazon warehouse. If you are, it's great.
Show HN: Minimalist Calendars Generator
I built a calendar generator with TS and headless Chrome so I can print my own stuff. Plan to add more in the future. Let me know what do you think!

It's all free.
The U.S. Government's Most Powerful Spying Tool Is Fighting for Its Life
Bought it on Amazon
It seems to work great to ask questions about any books, for example I was unable to remember the name of a character and just uploading the PDF and asking gave me the correct answer as opposed to the hallucinated response of ChatGPT or Bard.
federated but united... we kinda already are, no? see all the state level privacy laws
This is good to know.

I usually stir the fresh grinds with a metal fork which seems help remove static charge.

It seems like the static problem gets worse with darker roasts (in my experience).
archive/paywall: https://archive.is/1r8Wa
PG has other essays where he claims it's because the lisp version of operators can just do more things.

And that's true, lisp macros are way more powerful than what most languages support. The newer ones (and some "progressive" old ones) got template systems that are almost as powerful, but the most used languages simply don't have anything comparable.

That said, nowadays using a lot of that kind of feature is normally frowned upon.
I understand your frustration, but I have a couple of counter-examples, and I don't offer them in any derogatory way.

1) Notes looks a lot like Standard Notes. If you built Notes using copy-left, OSS it's hard to complain unless you pay "royalties" to all the programmers whose work was incorporated into yours.

2) I am probably atypical. I have used Linux for over 20 years, but I can't write so much as a Bash script or a Perl one-liner. Yet I have spent a whole lot more money on software than I would have (or most individuals do) on other platforms. Because I can't code and appreciate the work of others and the freedom it gives me I support the following (not exclusive):

* Kaisen (my distro) and Debian (the distro Kaisen is built on) both

* tFSF for both core utilities and Emacs

* My DE (KDE), and even if I prefer the UI of other applications I mostly try to use those provided by KDE,tFSF, Debian, or Kaisen (e.g Akregator over RSSGuard) unless I donate, like:

* Mozilla (for Firefox), but

* Betterbird for my email client

* Syncthing

* LaGrange (gopher/gemini)

* Joplin

* ClipTo

* and more, including services (e.g. SoulSeek, envs.net)

Some annually, some monthly, some one-time.

In fact, when Standard Notes first came out I paid for a seven year subscription, and then ended up using it for about 2 months before becoming dissatisfied. There are some, like Alacritty, that I use extensively but which I have found no way to donate to, but I try to keep it to a minimum.
The content of the social contract is whatever the members of the society accept. If a law is widely broken it's not really a part of the contract anymore.

Profiting from ownership without working (free riding of its own) is a questionable and often questioned item of a social contract.
I've had good experience with PyInstaller across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

I've mostly used PyQt5, and it's able to package that without any extra effort.

I use the "package it all into one file" option: it's a little slow to start, but for my purposes (primarily, longer-running applications) that's ok.
In that case races do not exist as meaningful biological categories. There is no proof of their existence.

The reason I mentioned cats and dogs is you can tell them apart by their DNA with 100% accuracy.
Not everyone subscribes to the labor theory of value, where Marx's definition of exploitation is a very specific, technical one (capturing of profit surplus) whereas the conventional definition is not (ie, exploiting children for child labor). Most people do not think that getting paid for a job even as the company makes more money is "exploitation," even if it is so under the communist definition.
I still have no idea what Beeper is, because beeper.com only talks about Beeper Mini. I'm getting from some people here on HN that there's another product... somewhere... but if the purpose of the whole exercise were to draw attention to that product shouldn't they be doing that somehow?

As is all I know about is the chat app whose primary sales pitch is the now-broken iMessage interop.
I got the older TS100, for which IronOS was created originally, and it makes such a difference compared to a "dumb" soldering iron. I'm not very skilled in soldering, but the tool makes up for a lot of that.

Nevertheless, I would never have thought that I'd ever own a soldering iron requiring firmware.
I’ve known PhDs in philosophy who can barely create slides in power point… while others (like OP) go and use latex, create open source software and use emacs. I’ve never seen such a drastic difference in any other field.
Only one of the studies Wikipedia included had concerning results, and it was a survey of users. Such studies are good indicators of where future research should be done, but only demonstrate a loose correlation between psychedelics and HPPD. There’s no differentiating users who are “self-medicating” the issue from psychedelics causing the issue.
> You seem to have doubts still about that, so let me kindly illustrate you, about how real democracies work.

oh well... thank you, but I'd rather go other places to illustrate myself than reading someone angry on the internet.

> The power to start elections lies in the elected president. Period. The state has the monopoly of a lot of things. If you start elections by yourself is, first, a farce, and second, not democratic.

I'm sure you know the difference between referendum and election, so I won't kindly illustrate you.
Extreme reinforcement of your point: Read Leo Brodie's classics "Starting Forth" and "Thinking Forth."
>It was and still is also incredibly dirty.

Humanity's entire industrialization process to date has been incredibly dirty and damaging to this planet. It would be silly to think it has all slowed down. It just moved from your back yard.
What 'real tech stuff'? Windows is an OS for consumers, not makers.
Python has zipapps (https://peps.python.org/pep-0441/),
which are standardized and similar to JARs.
You can build a zipapp that includes your application's dependencies using a tool like shiv or PEX,
only with binary extensions the artifacts are still per-platform: https://github.com/linkedin/shiv#gotchas.

I recommend users to install my Python programs with pipx (https://github.com/pypa/pipx).
I think it is the best option when the audience is at all technical.
pipx makes such a big difference for managing Python applications.
It avoids the version conflicts of `pip install --user` and the pain of manually creating per-application venvs.
In general, it provides a reasonable user experience.
Because of this user-friendliness,
I can recommend pipx as the primary installation method and expect people to succeed at installing the program with it.
(I don't see issues about pipx installation in the trackers of projects that recommend it.)
My programs have binary dependencies but no GUI.
Directly below the paragraph about Alcoholics Anonymous was an advertisement for Absolut Vodka. Hmmmm.
Have you tried WebUI? It's like a ultra minimalist version of electron. It uses available browsers instead of shipping its own. You simply write your App in html/js and everything that goes beyond (e.g. file access) is delegated to C with a simple callback mechanism.
AE=adverse events
My understanding is these are more “confidence in the tokens selected being appropriate” rather than the more fundamental “confidence the classification chosen is accurate given training data,” where training data is samples of the distribution being classified rather than language corpus. They seem similar at first blush but the first is more about appropriateness of phrasing and how esoteric the semantics are, and the latter more descriptive of some statistically observable process - which is something LLMs are literally incapable of reasoning about directly.
I always get annoyed at the website.
The clue about the use case is in the naming:

Joint Photographic Experts Group

vs

Portable Network Graphics
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Basically all about having a homegrown solutions for South Korea, so the money flows there rather than an international corporation.

What will be interesting is if that homegrown solution is also used overseas, as then other countries will have to consider whether to retaliate with a similar "tax".
The most underrated feature of windows probably ever.
That's the myth, but really, there are several ways of doing it that are really quite easy.

PyInstaller is a good starting place. There are several others with similar capabilities.
> Would I enjoy coding more if I didn't do it as my full time job [deleted]

For me, the satisfaction of building hardware and software is solving a problem that someone has. I'm ok with that "someone" being myself or a friend, as a hobby... or being a stranger, via some commercial product I help develop.

Corporate work doesn't have to be soul-crushing. BTW, is the "20% project" concept actually a thing anywhere? (Either as 20% out of 100% or 120%)
So what? You're not personally responsible for prosecuting Amazon. For that matter, neither are the cops. This tunnel-vision mode of thinking is how people talk themselves out of calling the police and the insurance company. The claims unit will want a police report number to start their process, and the fact both are now involved will exert direct pressure. So do it. The point is to be maximally assertive of any rights you have or may have, not playing legal billiards and negotiating against yourself in your head.
The reason your initial comment got a negative reaction is because "ChatGPT violates copyright" is a rhetoric argument that's often nonconstructive and it's starting to get old seeing it in every submissions about LLMs.

The core issue is that no one knows how copyright law will impact training an LLM until legal precedent is set, which is exactly what's being argued in civil suits now.
Should've asked for photographic proof that they have a cat.
Wikipedia content is also copyrighted, and it’s unlikely that an LLM reproducing it is compatible with its license terms.
Latex is the norm in all natural sciences and engineering fields. Most people however are happy with putting their content in someone else's templates.
If I understood the article correctly there are subsidies being provided for some of these activities. It may be possible to still grow enough food while not causing so much emissions. For example, corn is (was?) apparently majorly subsidized in the US. It might be much better for the environment to grow a different crop instead. Another common example is the greenhouse emissions of different meats, where switching to eggs may be much easier on the environment than a similar amount of beef.

(Someone might ask - I want to eat corn-based food and taking away subsidies may change that - a, corn would still be available, just likely at a different price, and b - your dietary preferences are already shaped by economics and global food trade etc. You never truly had a free choice unless you're a billionaire who was comparing ramen to caviar for fun.)
(2015)

Then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381281
I have a different ratchet set from Wera, which is also really nice and handy. Wera generally makes excellent tools, especially for the price point. My only gripe is that the printed-on size information on the handles of their screwdrivers wears off quickly, which is especially annoying for Torx drivers.
On a large enough timescale I don't think you can reasonably expect this on any of this big 3 OSes. From a less macro perspective, I think tools like Appimage and Flatpak will fill that role.
Congress. Supreme Court isn’t supposed to make new laws and the current ones plainly don’t cover this situation.
> Not having to know sed or a similar tool.

But you get a JSON with a list of lines that you still have to process in some way. Instead of having a program that reads the input line by line, you read a JSON that contains a list of lines.
Yes, too much water on the beans can lead to water gathering on the burrs, which can lead to rust on the burrs.

I use the teaspoon method (just the handle), cover it in water and stir the beans a couple of times. Just a single data point, but I've done this for 2 years at ~2.5 shots a day with no sign of rust on the burrs. YMMV
An RPi 4, 8GB. I run heimdall, calibre-web, nginx, and PiVPN/wireguard on it.
I recall there were American small businesses selling things like this with "not a toy" warnings; they got shut down years ago. "Too dangerous to be allowed to exist"

If only this agency was able to communicate with the other agencies whose purview includes the importation of goods. Perhaps they could prevent these products being sold in the USA.

There certainly doesn't seem to be much issue enforcing American laws in other countries when movie piracy is involved... Consumer safety laws are different I guess.

Altho... How was it that "Fake Ibuds seized" stories were a thing a while back? Would that be so hard to do here?
The timeless investing wisdom of Charlie Munger
https://archive.is/iE2TL
I'm curious why peer-to-peer didn't work out for them
The problem is chargeback fraud has become rampant since COVID, at least from friends stories in the payments and retail spaces.

The word got out you can just call your bank and they will back you very few questions asked. This was abused by many, and now it's no longer a sure thing. Anything outside of outright fraud is very much a coin flip likely depending on how profitable you are to the issuing bank.
TikTok driving antisemitism? Firm that ran survey didn't reach that conclusion
There's $100 waterproof bone conduction headphones with built in storage that works great. Speech is pretty trippy and well suited for bone conduction. Only issue is you have to find mp3s of audio, which usually means sailing high seas.
The hardest part about technical writing IMO isn't the wording, it is the structuring. So answering the question how much time to spend on which topic, how deep to go into it, in which order to explain things etc.

Wording is not unimportant as well, but my feeling is if you nail the structure the wording will flow way more easily.
The comment is about the differences between GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4, and how people refuse to try GPT-4. Not the difference between GPT and other models.
Hold on mate, isn't that what Java was supposed to solve. I remember before the days of electron when I was a wee lad in the 2000s, all cross platforms apps were Java.

Look at Ghidra, it's a Java app for Windows, Linux and Mac. The "holy trinity" of operating systems, covered with one language and framework.

So what happened? Did devs forgot Java exists and felt like reinventing the wheel but worse this time?
Not just a larger dose, most people on SSRI’s won’t trip no matter how much psilocybin they consume.
Or removing the right sized bean to go from 18.1g to 18g
Awesome! Love this movie, and had no idea this existed.