skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying not to dox myself so I can be more open on HN (though more concerns in modern era...). You can find some harsh words against some ML community practices in my history and I think it is easy to get misinterpreted as calling people dumb or confuse academic bashing from utility (I criticize LLMs and diffusion a lot because I like them, not the other way). So yes and no. But the lectures I have aren't recorded and public (zoom for my Uni. I'm ABD in my PhD). My lecture slides and programs should be publicly visible though, but I don't go into this with them because I've been specifically asked to not teach this way :/ In all fairness, our ML course only has Calc 1 as a pre-req and CS students aren't required to take Lin Alg (most do though, but first courses are never really that great ime) or differential equations. TBH to get into this stuff you kinda need some metric theory. If you actually poke through this paper you'll find that come up very quickly, and this is common in the optimal transport community. But I think if you get into metric theory a lot of this will make sense pretty quickly. So if you can, maybe start with Shao's Mathematical Statistics?
I'm not sure what puzzle you're referring to but the effect you're referring to sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule%E2%80%93Thomson_effect
Apollo Operations Handbook – Lunar Module [pdf]
fwiw, I'm not trying to be anonymous. I've updated my profile to make that plain.

The examples where there to demonstrate the conclusion in the final paragraph matters in real life. The para could stand on it's own - it's just a statement of the obvious. But like all obvious things, it's only obvious once you see it. Like the author of the article, I didn't see it for years (decades?).
I wandered across a summary article of this yesterday on Seeking Alpha (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4660493-bonds-beat-stocks-o...) and meant to come back to it. Thanks for posting! Are you the author?

Searching now, I also see this shorter overview that might be useful for people wondering what this is about: https://www.ft.com/content/3859b6e0-c80e-4f34-98b7-eb528ab9e...
I use WikidPad, I used to love the outline mode of Microsoft Word when I was in the corporate world.
Are you serious? Better going to a government with no added value vs a company providing a service for a monthly fee?
I don't think a town in Tennessee recently outlawed homosexuality in public,

They just added:
"No person shall knowingly while in a public space engage in indecent behavior, display, distribute, or broadcast indecent material, conduct indecent events, or facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited acts."

Problem was that the referenced indecent statue definition included homosexuality, which was then removed from the definition even before it blew up on social media

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/11/22/ten...

https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/nov/28/did-a-city-in...
Shootings affecting many people (ie mass shootings) in America aren’t common, and are over very quickly. Notification apps would not change the outcomes.

Earthquakes in Japan are a fact of life, and affect many many people very often. Mass shootings anywhere (USA included) are rare, freak occurrences, that involve small numbers of people.

Additional fearmongering over the very tiny risk from gun violence in the US actually makes the problem worse, not better. The mass media already does more than enough of that.
Trying this with books I was familiar with yielded extremely disappointing and off-base results.
Those end of year recaps are a highlight for me. I really look forward to it every year, along with comparing against my friends.

They also have a really nice API, which has admittedly been getting more and more locked down, but to claim it was not innovative, especially at the time, is farcical. All this without even mentioning, as other posters have, their effect on legitimizing music streaming. Also, and each user has anecdotally different experiences here, their music recommendations for me are top notch. I've discovered just so, so many pieces of great music through their service.
I just travel with a mulberry silk eye mask. Seems to do the trick.
Yeap. And that's of course why it's called triage, instead of diage (or would it be biage?). People are divided into three groups: those who will get well without help, those who will die even with help, and those who will die unless they get help.
>His take is that it failed for the same reason it fails today.

If your dad thinks solar is failing today I'm not sure he's a very reliable source of information. Solar has been growing exponentially since the mid 2000s and shows no signs of slowing down - the average year over year growth rate in solar capacity since 2016 is about 26% (doubling every three years). The most common error in understanding and forecasting the growth in solar capacity is underestimating future growth - every IEA prediction for the growth of solar for the last 10 years has been significantly higher than the previous year's prediction, and also a dramatic underestimate of the actual installed solar capacity. Experts in this space have been predicting that the solar exponential will level off next year for a decade, and in all likelihood they will continue doing so for another decade.
And here I was hoping some poor intern at Fox had visited such a site and had to explain what it was to their superiors
Very serious. It is an opinion that it is no added value. Show me evidence that the French government is providing a lower quality of life than say, the US government. GDP and growth are poor measures of quality of life. Certainly, you are free to not participate in the market if you choose not to as a business owner or service provider. It is very likely nothing of value will be lost.

Spotify's CEO is worth ~$3B while artists make pennies. Why would you incentivize such a structure unless your mental model tilts towards that being acceptable? I'm not saying this should be free or a utility, but it should probably be a business of a couple hundred people with a reasonable valuation target. As a nation state, you can say no. Europe does this, China does this. It can be done. "I would like to submit a bug report." The only people wringing their hands are those who would profit from the VC/tech fuckery ecosystem extending its reach. Don't let them; cut them tentacles seeking a moat/regulatory capture/entrenchment right off.

We can do better, and I feel no shame in stating such a position.

https://www.google.com/search?q=quality+of+life+france+vs+us

https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/02/11/france.quality.l...

https://www.expat.hsbc.com/expat-explorer/expat-guides/franc...

https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/france/

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/should-we-try-to-live-lik...
In France you do (with interrogation and exclamation marks as well), but not everywhere in the world. I don't think anyone would raise an eyebrow at punctuation without the leading space in a french-speaking text.
And you can always use net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports to reserve the port for privileged use. (I have never had to do this in over a decade of using a high port for ssh access.)
> Not californian, but my interest was piqued by this “idea”. So what you are saying is - if my property values double - so do my taxes? Is the goal here to force me out of my home?

In the comment you just replied to, weren't they specifically saying this wouldn't apply to your primary residence?
A common trap is trying to learn all the parts and reading the docs. Docs for most codebases are out of date. We stopped doing docs - most engineers are better at reading code than the docs, and we design things in a way that when someone leaves or joins, things can be picked up without docs.

First, learn how the parts connect to one another.

You want to add a button. What is that button connected to? What runs underneath? Where does that change? Does it go through an API? Is the value tracked in a global variable?

What else is a value connected to? How is change displayed? Often changes in value are observed in modern code, but it can also be manually changed when a value is changed.

You don't want to learn parts because parts are easily replaced. Learn connections between those parts.

Some things appear invisible to those who have worked in similar systems. These don't show up in docs sometimes, which makes the learning curve steeper.

Next: learn purpose.

Why not purpose then connections? A system can be corrupted from its purpose. Things will eventually rewire to suit the purpose, but they don't function that way now.

Purposes can change too. When a code is written by a large contractor, the purpose is to make money. When that code is passed to the client, the purpose is to keep doing what it does and also to save money and time. When you see major refactors, it can be because of a change in purpose, but it's useful to understand how and why it's changing.

Sometimes there's no purpose - someone copied something they didn't understand.

Docs are good at denoting purposes too, so this is a good place to read them.
Did Jeff's grandmother give up smoking and live a long age though as a result? Then Jeff was kind and clever. It is kind to seem to be nasty and take a personal hit for the greater good. Few understand that! Probably every freedom we have is a result of someone being an "asshole" in history!
Having recently become a sexagenarian I have managed to fully solve this problem by completely running out of fucks to give, and they don't seem to be filling up again. I have proof: I have switched from belts to suspenders. Old age is liberating.
Carbon is really exhibit A of why MVPs exist. Jai and Cppfront have the same problem but Blow and Sutter probably don’t care if they never gain much traction. Conversely, Carbon is Google-backed (IIRC) and will soon die if it can’t justify its continued existence.
There is also a triage nurse in every ER, whose duty it is to decide who gets treated first. However, of the three triage categories, one hopes in an ER that few if any patients will fall into the category of "dies even with help". But I suppose gunshot victims could fall into that category.
Relying on Slack history is living dangerously. Viz., your org gets swallowed (or, is already a cog in a bigger enterprise) and Infosec/CISO starts to truncate all histories past NN days.
I’m in New Zealand which fully subscribes to it (based on my limited understanding!), and had a long talk with a policeman who was walking his dog. He had worked in NZ, the UK and Australia. He put Australia down the other end of the scale and the UK somewhere in the middle. It was a very interesting conversation.
> Why don’t we display content as a graph?

At least as of, err, 10-ish or 20-ish years ago, it seemed to me a key issue was a dearth of code - a severe disconnect between research literature and available FOSS code.

For example, to preserve user orientation, you'd like a graph's presented layout to remain stable during user interactions and edits, rather than being needlessly, repeatedly, and extensively rearranged. There were lots of research papers and prototypes on ways to do that nicely, but crickets for code.

Now imagine you want to implement a GUI app, and it turned out "well, first you'll have to implement bitblit, and then line drawing, and ...". You might get articles "Why don't we display apps as a GUI?".

As someone who finds it deeply puzzling that people so prefer trees to directed graphs, it was frustrating.
> Now it is true that the needs of human beings may seem to be insatiable. But they fall into two classes --those needs which are absolute in the sense that we feel them whatever the situation of our fellow human beings may be, and those which are relative in the sense that we feel them only if their satisfaction lifts us above, makes us feel superior to, our fellows. Needs of the second class, those which satisfy the desire for superiority, may indeed be insatiable; for the higher the general level, the higher still are they. But this is not so true of the absolute needs-a point may soon be reached, much sooner perhaps than we are all of us aware of, when these needs are satisfied in the sense that we prefer to devote our further energies to non-economic purposes.

[…]

> For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!

* John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930)

* http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

An essay putting forward / hypothesizing four reasons on why the above did not happen (We haven't spread the wealth around enough; People actually love working; There's no limit to human desires; Leisure is expensive):

* https://www.vox.com/2014/11/20/7254877/keynes-work-leisure
Read the end of the sentence after the parenthetical: "more often than Eva". I mean that if you asked any random American to name an anime, I'd wager if they knew any they'd know one of those much more often than Eva, it's about relative awareness, not absolute awareness.

And I'm pretty sure at least Pokemon is well entrenched into popular culture. Death Note and One Piece have had Netflix series, also indicated a good amount of penetration in the average market.
You had to show ID to buy porn magazines, go in a strip club or even the adult video rental room.

It's pretty insane that we have no check for an unlimited amount of free porn with all kinds of extremes.

It fucks up a lot of kids (and adults).

Showing porn to a random kid on the street would have you catch a charge if not something worse, but somehow on the Internet it's just fine?
Often what people consider BS is simply ignorance on the part of someone making that judgement. There’s a reason people are paid to ‘stand around’ on construction sites etc.

Post COVID supply shortages shows the critical importance of many seemingly BS jobs. Similarly a spike in cancer deaths showed up when hospitals delayed less critical procedures.

Rather than BS what’s actually going on is more often chasing diminishing returns. Half the effort may be spent chasing 1% better outcomes as long as the difference is worth the expense.
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You have to show government-ID-linked payment card information to shop at most shops in airports, or to buy plane tickets.

Most people use a SIM card that is tied to same. Their web activity is similarly tied to ID.

Most USians voluntarily provide that payment card (with full name in the magstripe) whenever they shop at a grocery store or movie theater.

I’m not sure why people think this sort of surveillance isn’t occurring. We’ve known since before Snowden that the feds have been receiving this data in bulk in realtime for decades.
Given that access to porn is strongly negatively correlated with violent rape across most cultures I've seen studied, I'm not sure you should be cheering this.
relevant: https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/ ("Text Rendering Hates You"; discussed quite a bit but under its old URL https://hn.algolia.com/?query=text%20rendering%20hates%20you... )

It's not quite one of the "misconceptions programmers have about ..." but in the same vein, IMHO
This should happen in-kernel and is lightning-fast, so should not be an issue. Maybe a pre-netfilter box..?
I think it depends why the conflict happened.

If it happened because say someone else did a refactor then rebasing on that refactor (and that might actually mean manually doing a lot of stuff) is easy to inspect. The problem comes through as a commit with something weird unrelated to the change.

It does require line by line code review by the coder, which few might want to do, but I like to do before opening any PR. Because in any case it is so easy to have an editor window open while your cat walks on the keyboard and pastes your password, or whatever :-).
> The pure depth of this code system is utterly fascinating. Each consonant and vowel in each word has its own meaning, so a seasoned veteran could tell the weather just by mentally breaking down each word of the telegram.

(from the first link)

This claim doesn't make sense. If the words of the telegram encoding for weather information are compositional rather than lexical, most of them shouldn't exist in English. How does it happen that all of them are extant English words? What happens if my observation of the dew point temperature needs to be encoded "luft" instead of "left"?
You are running into the problem where you’re just not meant to be a worker bee.

Become an entrepreneur. Following the rules that everyone else blindly follows is not satisfactory. I completely empathize with you. Being failed for not following instructions while probably knowing more than your peers and maybe professor.

Use LinkedIn to find founders who work on a startup doing something you find interesting. Cold message them and let them know you want to work for whatever they will pay (don’t devalue yourself from step 1 and offer to do it free - you might get a probationary offer or low per hour rate) and see how you can be useful.

People like us need to channel our energy into building stuff that does solves problems in a new and better way than what everyone else’s doing.

I always thought something was wrong with me for leaving whatever I found better than before and not being rewarded for it because I operate in non traditional ways. Only when I decided to say F it and did that for myself did I start to find happiness. You have no idea how amazing it feels when you find your first customers. I am from a poor family so had to figure it out all myself and I’m still learning everyday. It’s awesome. I hope you find the same outlet for yourself.

Good luck. Happy new year bro.
>Officials explained that companies will be able to use commercially available databases to verify that users are old enough to access their content.

What?
> What would your ideal copyright regime look like?

I would have to actually write something blog-length about this.
Minor nitpick but interesting for laypeople:

During a multi-casualty incident (MCI) the commonly used START triage system would invariably categorize a patient in cardiac arrest as 'Black' or 'Expectant'--these patients are typically passed over so that medics can treat more viable patients.

Additionally, pulses aren't used for determining whether a patient is 'Black'. Instead, medics will check to see if the patient has spontaneous breathing: if respirations are absent, the airway is positioned (typically jaw thrust or head-tilt chin-lift). If no spontaneous breathing is present despite positioning, the patient is assessed as 'Black' and the triaging medic moves on.

It is grim, but at a true trauma MCI (# patients >>> # rescuers) there should be no healthcare practitioners or rescue personnel performing CPR. This seems harsh but given the low odds of survival to discharge of traumatic cardiac arrests, it makes perfect sense in an MCI scenario.[0]

[0] Work as a Critical Care Paramedic, to lazy for real references :P
I agree that their SRE team is good, well motivated, and transparent. That does not mean that they are the first priority for resources, or that it's the easiest line item to spend on.
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I just copy and paste existing scripts and wire them into the command prompt. Something like this: https://github.com/smuzani/openai-samples/blob/main/node_exa...

There's instructions on how to connect it to the command prompt in README but that's not the best way to do it.
It's more Japan-coded in that the framing of Christianity and the occult is from a Japanese perspective: it views Christian symbolism via an outsider's lens, as an abstract, esoteric ancient cult (which it is, but not in the common way it's perceived in the West)

Also, Eva is much more, for lack of a better term, adult-themed, thematically complex, and sexually weird than Pokemon, One piece, etc. This certainly would make it less universally popular as a cultural export.
I don't think you need someone in the industry. It is added because without a light people don't think it is working, and the bright blue lights are tiny any cheap, and adding a way o dim them or turn them off is more expensive.
For DARPA (and IARPA) projects it's usually large teams that get selected, generally a university or a large federal contractor--or sometimes consortia from several such organizations. Unless you know how to make a tricorder, your chances of getting in are pretty slim unless you're a member of an organization like that. And that's fairer than it sounds, since usually DARPA-hard means lots of moving parts and therefore lots of experts on different topic areas on any given team, else the problem is hopeless.
Indeed, the Zig build system includes a package manager. Fetching, configuration, compilation, and installation are all 1 command:

zig build

Furthermore, C and C++ code can participate in the Zig package ecosystem. For example, here is ffmpeg packaged for consumption by a Zig project:

https://github.com/andrewrk/ffmpeg

Why not use a system package? Well, because the user's system might not have such a package. They might be on Windows, for example. Or their package might be out of date. [Or the system might have chosen sides in a nasty fork war](http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html).

So, while system packages are nice for end users, they might not always satisfy the needs of upstream application developers.
Do you have any examples of their mobility event handling? I'm reading the documentation for Pinecone and don't see much. Even Pinecone says Yggdrasil's spanning tree isn't good enough: "However, the spanning tree topology alone is not a suitable routing scheme for highly dynamic networks." [0]

I'm reading that as why Pinecone has the virtual snake topology. But they define that as a public key-based routing, which doesn't take into account optimal routing in the network. Nodes are ordered by public key [1]. It's good for P2P mesh, not wireless offgrid meshes.

And their SNEK routing does prefer the internet over Bluetooth [2]:

> we can further refine the path to use either the faster or lower latency link type to route to that peer:

> If the Best candidate has a slower peer connection type (Multicast > Remote > Bluetooth) than the connected peer

[0] https://github.com/matrix-org/pinecone#does-pinecone-work-on...

[1] https://matrix-org.github.io/pinecone/snake

[2] https://matrix-org.github.io/pinecone/virtual_snake/nexthop
Loss of life from mass shootings in America is a far more regular occurrence then loss of life from earth quakes in Japan.
France provides working services and a safety net from taxing a GDP per capita that's half of that of the US.

Of course you think that government spending is useless if your reference is the US. It's a country that is useless at serving its citizens.
Well the Illuminati wouldn't be using something you could crack, unless they wanted you to think that you had cracked something, which may or may not have been made so you think that it was or wasn't the Illuminati.