skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
archive/paywall: https://archive.is/PcBqf
The sad part was seeing any franchise or TV show be coopted by corporate suits - to the point where you can be banned for not liking the latest episode. The situation reached a point where every franchise has the "official" boring, sanitized sub and an alternative, community-driven one.
Isn't blue light really bad for eyes
A lot of schools remained remote in fall 2020 - depended on the school, and it's not exactly easy to switch between districts. Also, the quality of instruction in spring 2020 was absolutely affected as teachers adapted to remote and everyone dealt with the general chaos. Again could vary by school, but I think saying no instruction was missed is naive. "Days in class" is a horrible metric for learning, and there absolutely were classrooms where quality of learning degraded.

It was a shitty situation all around, and I'm definitely not arguing that schools should have remained open that spring. But it's silly to pretend that education was not affected across the country by the switch to remote.
Why is this specific to uranium? I would think that any molecule with similar electronics would also get attracted to the mesh.
No, you can still provide Google your own key.

The enormous problem with that change is instead that indeed you're required to provide the keys to Google, which can thus replace your app with anything else (especially, something that a court orders them to use).

Anyway to switch to F-Droid you always had to reinstall the app, because they use their own signing keys (and indeed could be ordered to do the same thing as above, but it's less likely).

Although, I think there actually is a mechanism to switch signatures; but if I remember well it entails signing with the new signature a version signed with the old one, so it's complex.
Looks interesting. But only offering Google and Apple as login options? Thanks, but no thanks.
The food, the people, the theater, the music, the buildings, the parks, the museums, the rivers, the beach. The current that’s always pushing you out, which force you to grow or leave. Collectively, “the energy”.

If it’s only an expensive studio apartment that’s keeping one here, I agree, they should save the cash and make room for the rest of us.
I get the message here but I feel like this can also swing too far the other way towards weaponized incompetence. Just acting dumb whenever you don’t want to do something and hoping others help you is missing the point I think the author is trying to make here.
My Ph.D. work was on a robot called Uranus. Let's just say it was the butt of many jokes. Like when my advisor was fixing it once, and I said "get your head out of Uranus!"

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gwp/robots/Uranus.html
they can easily make that illegal, i mean make it illegal to install blue light on non self driving cars, or while not self driving
I don't know if the .ps registrar is open for business these days, but someone needs to gift him:

CarolusIIIDeiGratiaBritanniarumRegnorumq.ueSuorumCeterorumRexConsortionisPopulorumPrince.ps
Stop trying to categorize things. Period. Recognize categories as a sometimes-useful shortcut for talking about somewhat-average (within that category) things, and that they're absolutely useless for everything else. When you stop worrying about whether something is or is not a fish or planet or alive, you will not miss it. You will be surprised at how rarely you actually need to worry about what category something is in.

This applies directly to database designs and why almost every database is awful unmaintainable garbage. If you have a table per category of thing, your database is terrible; but know you're in good company, as 99.9% of database developers make this simple and completely avoidable mistake.

Unfortunately our laws also like to categorize things, which does sometimes make it unavoidable in software dealing with those laws.

> Fish generally live in the water, breathe through gills, have tails and fins, possess a certain hydrodynamic shape, lay eggs, and are in a certain part of the phylogenetic tree.

This is not true (somewhat saved by "generally"). Either you're describing physical characteristics, or you're describing phylogeny; not both. Phylogenetically, whales are fish, and so are you. (This rests on the idea that only monophyletic groups are at all meaningful in genetics; nothing ever stops being in the "fish" tree, if such a tree even exists. Cats are felines and mammals and lizards and fish. Unless you believe there is no such thing as a fish at all, which is also a solution.)

> A fish is a creature phylogenetically related to various other fish, and with certain defining anatomical features.

Take a shark, pretty universally recognized as a kind of fish. If the argument is "whales are closer, phylogenetically, to humans and cats than to sharks, therefore they are mammals", then you should know: so are salmon. Salmon are closer, phylogenetically, to humans and cats than to sharks.

The point not being that you should call whales fish, but rather being: fuck categories.

> When terms are not defined directly by God, we need our own methods of dividing them into categories.

No, we really, genuinely, honestly, do not need any methods of dividing things into categories. We really don't.

I realize that the author does kinda get to a weaker version of this with talk about fuzzy borders and the goals of the category. The transgender discussion is pretty good, with his criticism of the fallacious argument:

> If a man thinks he’s a woman, then we might (empathetically) wish he were a woman, other people might demand we call him a woman, and we might be much more popular if we say he’s a woman. But if we’re going to be rationalists who focus on believing what’s actually true, then we’ve got to call him a man and take the consequences.

I go much harder anti-category and say: this argument is fallacious on its face because it asserts that belonging to the category "man" is even theoretically a factual thing. It's not, just as belonging to any category is not. Any argument that it is either True or False that object X belongs to category Y is immediately fallacious and should be completely discarded.
300M+ Registered Domain Names, Redirects and Active HTTP Response Statuses
Your argument is "large numbers of people can be wrong, as shown by the fact that either Christians or Muslims are wrong."

But metaphysics/religion is different than programming language utility.

We can expect a higher degree of accurate judgment in the latter.
Our team at Cybersyn aggregated 300M+ domains in a single source. Domains are cleaned into a standardized format with any protocols and subdomains stripped away.

For a subset of domains, the dataset includes information on redirects such as a website’s redirect domain, the start/end dates for which the redirect relationship was observed, and whether or not a domain is the primary landing page. HTTP response statuses indicate whether a domain is active or inactive.

More info in Cybersyn Docs: https://docs.cybersyn.com/public-domain/technology/tech-inno...
Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century
Brake lights being the color of stop lights is helpful because it's a reminder to stop, just as turn signals being the color of caution lights is helpful as a reminder to be cautious of a turning vehicle. Green lights don't fall into either category, being generally a cue to step on the gas.
> It looks like the GPU is doing most of the work

Yes. The GPU is doing most of the work in a lot of modern games.

It isn't great at everything though, and there are limitations due to its architecture being structured almost solely for the purpose of computing massively parallel instructions.

> when do we start to wonder if the GPU can “offload” anything to the whole computer that is hanging off of it

The main bottleneck for speed on most teams is not having enough "GPU devs" to move stuff off the CPU and onto the GPU. Many games suffer in performance due to folks not knowing how to use the GPU properly.

Because of this, nVidia/AMD invest heavily in making general purpose compute easier and easier on the GPU. The successes they have had in doing this over the last decade are nothing less than staggering.

Ultimately, the way it's looking, GPU's are trying to become good at everything the CPU does and then some. We already have modern cloud server architectures that are 90% GPU and 10% CPU as a complete SoC.

Eventually, the CPU may cease to exist entirely as its fundamental design becomes obsolete. This is usually called a GPGPU in modern server infrastructure.
Product problem considerations when building LLM applications
Absolutely opened the comments for the jokes....
I think you’re referring to those modern foam mattresses which are made of horrid manmade materials, are cheaper for manufacturers, have better margins, don’t last as long and are too hot. Lord knows what you’re breathing in

I don’t understand why they’re so popular. Sex is far worse with them too.

Their marketing is so aggressive I think many people don’t even know pocket sprung mattresses exist.

But they’re selling in droves so maybe there’s I don’t get

But interestingly, out of the all the hotels I’ve stayed at in the past few years, I can only recall one that had a foam mattress (which was awful). Wonder why the hospitality industry favours pocket sprung too…

Foam topped I can understand. But all foam/latex… no thanks.

What’s telling is that all the very high end manufacturers use natural materials and pocket springs. They weight a tonne and are supremely comfortable (I stayed at a hotel with a €5,000 mattress. Was like sleeping on a cloud)
> However, I don’t want to give the impression we should say no to all proposals. There are plenty of opportunities to improve our user’s lives through proposals. Here are a few concrete examples: [all 3 are just library additions that exist outside the standard already]

This may not have been the intent, but the way I read it, it's saying that language evolution is now pointless and only library additions can be considered. That would be a pretty dire situation for C++ overall.

Never mind that this means many language issues will never be fixed, it would also mean that implementations face the burden of yet more standard library additions which quickly fall behind external libraries because of the added burden of ABI lockin, and now multiplied by several vendors vs just one third party library.
This mentions trolls and bots that contact people those are obvious and this context of limited interest in my opinion.

The professional propaganda dissemination is the frighting part, and it is
far more pervasive than this study indicates.

That is not specific for Reddit, it goes for all big sites.
I am entirely certain that it is also the case here on this site.
Let's also not forget that we have so many visible light telescopes already. JWST specifically needed to be a space platform way the hell away from the earth since it is essentially looking at heat. Being on earth or even in earth orbit would not be cold enough to make it worth while. Even still, we have to cool the systems because the heat from the electronics doing the science could interfere with its own readings. Once that coolant is gone, the platform will be pretty much useless. So it's not going to be wasting any time looking at things in the same spectrum that pretty much any telescope on the ground can do. Sure, we still have Hubble, but even the larger ground based telescopes with adaptive optics can see in more detail than Hubble at this point.
This is a fundamental problem with people not suffering from medical problems understanding those who do.

Real diseases often have a progression of permanent damage over time and real treatments have positive and negative interactions with other aspects of patient health, cost, and a wide range of outcomes. Commercials especially push a simplistic view that a person has a problem and undergoes a treatment and their problem is resolved. This is as real as crimes being solved in scope of an hour drama or as real if you prefer as people hacking by pounding on the keyboard really fast.

Most users in Developed countries have access to both doctors and the internet and have whatever level of problems they have in spite of pursuing treatment options and probably wont benefit from "one weird trick" to beat RSI.
I thought I must have written that myself in some kind of fugue state. I'm in the same boat.

What I find strange about it, is that I'm the opposite outside of work. Life life is just great, I'm improving at sports and learning new things in my side projects.

But at work I feel like I've got writers block. Any progress is super hard earned.
This is really awesome work!

This takes a big burden off of individual packages from publishing their own API docs (having done that I know how hard it can be!), and having a centralized API viewer can offer a lot of advantages over separate docs.

A couple of things I would suggest:

1. Track re-exports and cross-package references and allow crossref links to go into other packages. If package A uses rxjs, then links to the rxjs types should go to the canonical definitions in the rxjs package. (figuring out the canonical declaration can be tricky because it's not always the original declaration though)

2. Organizing by type isn't always a great introduction or way to navigate a package. On the Lit project at https://lit.dev/docs/api we re-organized the API docs by categories and the most important API surfaces. There aren't standard jsdocs for this, but a few straightforward things like @category could be used to offer an alternate top-level nav for a package. Also consider supporting the @packageDocumentation tag from tsdoc.

3. Consider showing files other than the README. Relative links to things like CONTRIBUTING.md currently break. Alternatively interpret all relative links as pointing to github.com or npmjs.com. It'd be great to have a way to link from the README into API docs to guide readers. The community doesn't have a great convention for this unfortunately.
> I'm not sure how you reconcile your claim that you don't believe there's a clear answer to whether it was wright with the emotion-laden and leading statement you made just before.

The parent commenter stated that the way we handled COVID made them lose their faith in humanity. I was pointing out that there were a series of choices to make, none of them good, but just because someone wanted to make a different tradeoff does not ipso facto make them a bad or uncaring person.

Was I snarkier than I should have been, sure. That was immature of me.
Are they not in front of the planet in this picture?
I wonder how many enormous breaches of so-called sensitive information it will take for infrastructural security to improve. Like I think at this point it's reasonable to assume that most SSNs are public information, and dates of birth arguably always were. Why do important services still use this as a final word authentication for any individual? Why is it legal for a person's credit score for example to affect things like mortgage applications, when these measures are permanently affected by identity theft that could happen to anyone at any time through the fault of one of any number of irresponsible companies that routinely hold enough information to impersonate someone to both the government and their bank (setting aside for a moment how fraudulent and irresponsible the practices of the aggregators of these scores are themselves).
Learned chess while young... elo around 1200~1500, pickup the game at 2023 because everyone has been talking about chess, maybe related to the netflix series but since i don't have netflix account and couldn't care to watch about a young-love drama series with chess around it, it wasn't the main motive.

Anyway opened a chesscom account, i got completly destroyed by online people, elo 100 according to chesscom, move to bots could beat 1200 up to 1500 elo eaisly... decided to give a try to online matches again destroyed but then started to find the pattern...

chesscom free account give me "three fair matches" that i could win to engage me in the platform, then it pairs me with either bots, 3-second chess engine cheaters or chess streamers playing with smurfs accounts, these pattern repeat almost every time sometimes is three, other times is four even five, if i play three games on 1 day the next day i would have another "three fair matches" and so on... so whats my point?

Unless you are paying good money for the subcription you are pretty much "meat canon" for others, the same applies to lichess... if you play 3 games a day for at least 2 years months you could get the 1200 elo, if you pay-to-win or pay the premium you would likely reach that 1000 elo more eaisly because is convenient for them to no match you against known cheaters on the platform...
> any effects and forces we have yet missed would have to be so small or inconsequential as to be meaningless

This is a level of unwarranted confidence far exceeding my own, in my opinion :)

Uranus is 2.66 light-hours from the sun. At 0.01% light-speed, that's about 3 years. 3 years is a long time to travel, especially in the modern age, but not a long time to be alive, even for a human today. Is it possible we dramatically extend our lifespans or achieve technological immortality in the future? I certainly think so.

Can we reach 0.01c traveling between Earth and Uranus? Maybe not, because we have to accelerate half way and decelerate the second half. But I would feel much sillier saying that sub-decade interplanetary travel is absolutely impossible than saying that it's possible. Than saying we'll unlock new materials and techniques that make it possible eventually. I'm not even saying to expect them within a century. Think about millennia of uninterrupted technological advancement driven by superhuman AI - you're saying with certainty that it's not possible we'll figure out how to travel within our own solar system on human timespans after all that time? It'll be a boring future if we're already hitting the absolute limits of space travel and we've just started.

> Science isn't magic.

No, magic is just science we haven't figure out yet.
It looks like a usual convergence movement.

In the rotating reference frame, I think the centrifugal force will cause no problem in an uncompressible fluid, just a weird pressure profile. It will affect the particles in suspension and bubbles, but I don't expect too much effect in the liquid.

I think the Coriolis force has a bigger effect. I expect more curls with the axis in the vertical direction (that is the usual axis of centrifugues), than in the other directions. Also, most of them rotating in the correct direction (like hurricanes on Earth).

Is there info about how is the camera mounted on the centrifugue? I expect it to be on top, because a spinning camera looks too difficult. I'd expected more vibrations. Centrifugues are noisy and vibrate a lot. Is the video stabilized?

I'm not sure about the effect of the vibrations. Probably it's more difficult to have a laminar flow.
I'm 46 and I think the last few small contracts that I picked up were from older clients, even though I applied to quite a few other ones. So age discrimination does seem to maybe be a factor. But maybe with those clients it helped being a little older? Don't know.

But for me, my real concern is just trying to come up with an AI-powered business over the next few years before I am being discriminated against not only because I am older, but also because I am human that wants to be paid more than $1 per hour.

On RunPod a 4090 is only like $.50/hor and can run Mixtral very easily in quantized mode.

The open models like Mixtral are getting very, very good. And when you combine that with specialized agents for particular application areas, and then the ability to consult multiple agents per project, easily adding knowledge with RAG or automatically generated fine tuning datasets, etc..

There might be a lot of competition from AI programmers within a few years.

But regardless, I needed to find a way to create a "real" online business. The new and anticipated abilities of AI make it a bit more urgent I think.

I'm trying to build an agent hosting platform because I think that within a couple of years, everyone will expect to be able to run LLMs/agents on their own computer natively. So I am guessing we will have something like WordPress for agents. Hoping people will consider my tool.
I take issue with this:

Delegate these tasks to experts on the topic and focus on your priorities.

You need a decent understanding of something in order to delegate it. Without that understanding, how will you even know whether the thing is done satisfactorily, let alone monitor and unblock whilst the work is in progress?

I like the advice in (IIRC) High Output Management: if you have a choice or delegating two things, choose the one you know best, as that's the one you'll be able to effectively delegate. If you 'delegate' something you don't understand, you're actually abdicating.
That's nothing. The front page seemed virtually taken over a decade ago.
Then again, what is an advertisement if not a manipulation of public opinion. So maybe this result is not surprising after all.
That short blog post was still a long way to write it's easier. But we already knew that it's easy.
Odin is such a neat language.

I was equally impressed by Spall: https://odin-lang.org/showcase/spall/
It's basically the advice I got from older people at work: If you don't want to do something, don't learn how.
Tailscale launches device posture management
I am fairly convinced that /r/worldnews is modded by, and overrun with, US State Department and other spooky-type shills.
This seemed weird to me at first read but after some thought ...

My intelligence takes the form of what I like to call "clever". I'm quick to figure things out and it's served me well in my career.

I've worked with many people who were, in most ways, smarter than me, or as I like to call it "smart". But it takes them longer to come up with a solution or to figure things out.

Very often, their solutions are better.

I think if you are in the second category of "smart", this definitely could be an optimal strategy for not spending lots of time on things that don't matter. Personally, I'm not spending much time on these kinds of things in the first place.
The compelling argument is that it should be quite obvious that companies do not speak for all of their employees, cause most of them are - to what degree can be argued until the end of time - basically coerced to express the "opinion" of the company. At most it's the opinion of the owners, artificially amplified.

And to the question why the owners should not be able to express themselves: They can express themselves individually all they want, but if they want to use a company to do it they should also be personally responsible for everything the company does. And since one of the primary reasons to have a company is to isolate the owners from being sued personally ... there's a bit of a problem here.
> Pilot: If we are not set up for base soon, we will have to declare a fuel emergency and that would really fuck up your sequence.

> Controller: What is your divert field?

> Pilot: Oakland

> Controller: Ok you need vectors to Oakland?

> Pilot: No, my company forbids visual separation at night, what is the problem here?

> Controller: I can't have this conversation with you. You either divert to Oakland or you can continue to hold. It's up to you sir.

> Pilot: Ok you promised me 10 minutes, that ran out 4 minutes ago, so how many more minutes?

> Controller: This conversation is over.

So this controller, knowing the plane was near a fuel emergency, gave the pilots the option to either crash their plane with 240 people on board, or to divert to Oakland. This is tough for me to wrap my head around.

I don't want to blame this one controller for what is obviously a pattern of systematic failures at SFO, but I'm going to seriously consider flying into Oakland or San Jose next time if this is the attitude of the controllers there.