skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking this would be a fun way to get access to more monster stories. I'm bored of the usual ones.

I started digging into the Shinto text, the Kojiki. This is my favorite story so far:

https://archive.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj153.htm

As far as I can tell, it looks like a young prince was mad his uncle didn't get mad that the uncle's brother was killed. So the prince killed the uncle in a fit of rage. Then, another brother was similarly unconcerned, so the prince buried him up to his shins which caused eyes to pop out and then die.

No monsters so far. But, about as ludicrous and disjointed as most writing from a thousand years ago. It takes a special person to twist that into a religion.
Perhaps a book like Realm of Racket or How to Design Programs might interest him. Both teach Lisp-style programming with the Dr Racket IDE, although the former might be more appealing to teenagers due to the games developed and the narrative in each chapter.
From the sound bites in these videos it seems sitting on the seat next to that empty seat was a child. I am thinking how each we fly my son always asks to sit next to the window.this accident was so close to having a fatality…
Based on your first paragraph, it's not all engineers who need an indepth understanding of git. Only git engineers.
Because my account isn't signed into iCloud, that's the whole problem. To sign into my mac with iCloud requires it letting me sign in...
That's more a terminological accident I think. Those that describe themselves as working on "AI ethicis" in academia are mostly worried about stuff like AI's not saying something offensive or potentially discriminating related to race or sex, while people who use the term "AI risk" or "AI safety" are more worried about future risks like terrorism, war, or even human extinction.

Thinking about it, both groups don't talk a lot about the risk from AI being used for censorship...
I mean that's exactly how python won. Everyone wrote code and got used to slicing idioms without understanding how they were implemented in SIMD, and then when the implementation got changed from SIMD to GPGPU, the high level code and more importantly idioms didn't have to change.
Both Maine and Nebraska show that change is possible. The game is not lost; it is ever afoot.

> Maine and Nebraska both use an alternative method of distributing their electoral votes, called the Congressional District Method. Currently, these two states are the only two in the union that diverge from the traditional winner-take-all method of electoral vote allocation.

https://fairvote.org/archives/the_electoral_college-maine_ne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_Colleg...
Not only that, but the continent-level statistics aren't useful for much other than scoring Internet points.

State-by-state in the US, obesity varies between 35-50% IIRC.

There are also significant differences by race (black or hispanic highest, white non-hispanic slightly less, and Asian a LOT less).

If we're being honest, Europe has exactly nothing to brag about -- 1 in 5, or 1 in 4 obesity rates are still amazingly high. Just saying "not as high as the US" is a pyrrhic victory.
Is every successful Rails project work as a counterexample that expressive dynamically typed languages work? Ruby has to be the worst programming language to anyone who likes rigid structure and static typing where metaprogramming and monkeypatching is first class and not a sometimes feature for library authors. But it nonetheless works well for people.
Agreed, you'd want accident numbers adjusted per-passengers-per-flight.
Just like you won't laugh unless you are open to laughing.

Although, if it's really funny, according to the person the humor is being directed at, you might be able to break their concentration in trying resist the humor. :-)
Politics and war discussions have been increasingly common at work too. Companies have promoting ERGs in the hope of diversity and in the name of "bringing your authentic self to work", and these groups have become a hotbed of activism. I've witnessed flamewars in work channels on the topics of BLM, war in Gaza etc in the past two companies I've worked.
Er that page is describing how anonymization happens, not where or when it happens.
probably yes, since they sold a lot of their trains in poland.
I would in fact love a portable user-level process manager that can speak systemd unit files and is portable.

Something like supervisord, but you use systemd unit files, and it tries to do as much as it can within limitations (process tracking sure can be wonky, no dbus everywhere, no cgroups everywhere, no absolute freedom in resource limitations if you’re not PID 1).
The curious case of the disappearing Hydrox cookies
Clyde: A cross-platform package manager for pre-built applications
It wasn’t a door.
About a decade ago, we’d refer to LinkedIn as “the network everyone has, but nobody is on.” Meaning, everyone has an account but there’s no reason to log in unless you’re seeking an employment change. Looks like they tripled-down on features to change it. Always seeking DAU.
well.. my rtx 3080 doesn't, at least not 10 bit 4:4:2
I agree and hope for that as well.
There is a chance that someone will start a "quality market place" with a high barrier to entry that may not be particularly comprehensive but "good".

Sure there would be the usual shenanigans when it comes to gatekeeping and objectivity but in the end it could still be valuable.
OP's solution isn't remote code execution though. It's all in-browser, which is why it's pretty cool. Assuming you're only running code that the client themselves are providing, you're in pretty good shape from a security perspective.
DebGPT: Chatting LLM with Debian-Specific Knowledge
Wife of guy moralizing about plagiarism and making sweeping racialized claims is quite relevant, not to mention that it's belittling to Oxman to reduce her solely to "wife of Ackman". She was a very high profile academic prior to her relationship with him.

More generally, the idea that academic work can only be investigated when the faculty member has some sort of high-profile leadership role is ludicrous. By your logic, the investigations of Dan Ariely, Francesca Gino and others were not sufficiently important to merit investigation and coverage by the press.

And you didn't address anything else I said about her response, which amounted to a "limited hangout" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout) or her husband's response which again, she presumably signed off on.
> The FAA actually do quite a good job and if anything are maybe a bit over the top in enforcing saftey

There's a funny thought experiment on undesired side effects there: the MAX is flawed because it was designed to maximize updates while playing the fine line to avoid re-certification. One has to wonder if getting the certification requirements easier to pass might have resulted in the MAX not existing, and instead having a more "natural" and safer plane created instead.

(no it would not, seeing as Boeing was already cutting it short, lowering the standard would lower safety. Still, interesting thought experiment)
I'm a daily Perplexity user and pro subscriber.

I dislike CoPilot and turn it off.

It is useful to be able to choose between GPT4, Claude 2.1 and Google Gemini Pro. Although I tend to prefer GPT4.

I use it for coding, searching and generating text (mostly for fun - limericks and rap battles for posting in chat / comments).

It's really handy that it does the search, "tell me about $TOPIC-IN-THE-NEWS" and I can check my assumptions on a topic before expressing my opinions.
Looking at this from a swiss train. It seems to be 10-15 minutes out of date compared to GPS.
Yes, App Engine was an early serverless platform -- even before the term "serverless" had been coined. The technology has improved since then, though.
Inetd approach is just fine. Don't listen to to the worshippers of systemd complexity. It's like listening again the guys who insisted that JEE is the future and you are stupid because you prefer simple solutions to simple problems.
what is ERG?

[edit] ok this is news to me
So what are Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)?

Employee Resource Groups are voluntary, employee-led groups whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive workplace aligned with the organizations they serve.
Frequently because those performance gains aren't actually needed. We live in an age where you can cheaply and quickly scale the hardware for 99% of tasks. Tasks that are too expensive to compute inefficiently are also unlikely to be profitable enough to be doing at all.
Because it’s the same group of people who want to, on a whim, decide that “homeless” is now “houseless” and that it’s offensive to homeless people to call them anything else. It’s language authoritarianism used to arbitrarily paint people as bad for utilizing common verbiage and for the dictators to feel they’re some revolutionaries all while never doing anything to actually help the people they claim to be fighting for.
I’m not sure how many are employed at LinkedIn today, but at the end of 2019 there were 65 journalists at the company. This is clearly a strategy to get people to spend more time in the site.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/23/media/linkedin-journalist...
The Perennial Philosophy (both the concept and the book) focuses on more these types of things.

It brings up that even in Christianity you can easily point at the non-personified elements of the theology and find conceptual relation to geographically unrelated beliefs.

One interesting bit he mentions is how dangerous it could be to be one of those people without being in some prophetic or theologically defensible position; Meister Eckhart being quoted heavily talking about the divinity of god being in all things, in a similar way as hinduism or etc might talk about divinity/all being in all things.

Of course he eventually was tried as a heretic in the papal courts, as it seems the beauty of unity revealed to the sage is often the nightmare of the local conqueror.
Closer and closer we get to the soma mentioned in Brave New World by Aldus Huxley.

The matrix really is coming.
A good number of sites are utterly broken.

I remember being able to browse normal sites with JavaScript disabled as late as 2010, but since then I’ve had to downgrade to Firefox+noscript.
AFAICT...

There was a slightly older study, that did a meta analysis and predicted additional mortality of 11% from HCQ.

The more recent study took that excess mortality rate and multiplied it by deaths of people who were treated with HCQ in hospital to get 17k.

Not sure why the calculation took so long, or why they use the same .11 odds ratio, when the overall mortality rate in countries varied between 4.5% - 30% for hospitalized covid patients exposed to HCQ
Creating a Linux controller for the Nothing Ear (2)
You can make this claim about anything that isn't direct machine instruction.

End users are using python - the advantage of modern computing is that whatever happens afterwards is irrelevant.
The Ten Commandments of Refactoring
Don't feel bad. UN resolutions don't actually reflect world opinion or even political opinion in those countries. Nobody cares what the UN thinks so even when countries vote in a particular way, the local politicians and voters barely notice. The story of people who get sent to represent the country there aren't elected and don't try to find out what people really think, they are just the usual NGO crowd.
You need to tune the algorithm.

Are you following people who are pushing politics on their LinkedIns?

I've found following relevant VCs, PMs, Academics, and corporate leadership has drastically improved my LinkedIn with almost zero noise.

Mute and unfollow people who post too much politics on LinkedIn, and engage with content that is more relevant to you. The algorithm will tune itself for you accordingly
That is the usd interest rates + big MC does for it. Pushing upside is so costly that only incredibly big capital can afford it. Futures and options market does this to big MC things without positive cashflow and profits. Also no stock buybacks and so on.
Is there any metrics which proves that making maintainable code is slower? Because in my experience there is no difference.
> This might change in the future but it is the current state
I hope it doesn't change. The focus of a model shouldn't be to embed data. Retrieval is a better method to provide data to a model, and leads to less "sounds smart" but very wrong results.

Having less data embedded also means that the model is more generally usable outside the realm of chat assistants, where you only want the model to be aware about data you provide it. One example could be in games where you might have a medieval fantasy setting, it would be really weird if you could get a character to start talking to you about US politics. That probably still wouldn't work with Phi-2 without fine-tuning (as I imagine it does have some data of US politics embedded), but I hope it illustrates the point.
LinkedIn Lunatics

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
What Is TensorFlow?
It sets the commit message to:

Merge branch 'feature'

(several variations exist) and when people add a real commit message, they generally preserve that much at least.

With certain reasonable git workflows this technically does preserve sufficient metadata, but there are far too many edge cases for completeness.
And that Worth worked primarily on systems that are many times smaller (maybe many orders of magnitude smaller) than today's biggest systems. It's no surprise, then, that the successful techniques are different. The right techniques to build a house, a skyscraper, a city, and a garden are different.
This is because R2 uses Durable Objects under the hood to achieve consistency. But you'd probably get better results using Durable Objects directly.
Linkedin wants to be a social network and people who like to socialize through business channels aren't there to be authentic but in its very nature shallow
I don’t think there’s a consciousness but I think most biologist would agree there must be some kind of “awareness” within cells and imo likely that awareness is the basis for what we’d call consciousness.
> Looks like they tripled-down on features to change it. Always seeking DAU.

The irony is that all the extra nonsense keeps a lot of us away even more. I think even the next time I want to change jobs, there are platforms I'll use before I go back to LinkedIn.

I guess it's like any social media platform. Once you invite too many people, you dilute the original purpose and community, and just end up with memes and cat photos.
I don’t think it’s exactly a mystery.

It’s the exact same reason the Nigerian prince scam emails are filled with typos. If you’re going to push bullshit you’re actively looking to to find anyone who will accept what you present to them uncritically which is very much that audience who let’s say aren’t exactly known for embracing nuance.

Their entire world view is kind of predicated on experts are all wrong and that they have “secret knowledge” and “common sense” and are therefore really the smartest people in the room.
Alaska's snow crab season canceled second year in a row, pop. fails to rebound
Show HN: iOS Shortcut to convert webpage into disco party
Could it mean 75% of a given year’s memberships are active in January? Probably an overly generous interpretation…
The API doesn’t need to include the site. The identity site just needs to verify age and return token that can be passed to site.

Lots of identity protocols like OAuth have the provider do the redirect so they know the site. Which makes sense cause they want to validate the site. But it works to have the app do the redirect. They end up passing the token to the sire.
Why is Go often lumped in with languages that don't have garbage collectors? I'm always confused by this. Is Go suitable for systems programming? I myself use Go, but for web development.
One I went to required you quit in person, which I had experienced before, but then the guy running it asked if we could talk about why I was quitting, since it was his first day taking over and he didn't want to lose anyone the first day. I was there for 3 hours talking to him and his buddy that got him into fitness. I ended up agreeing to 3 month free and a personal training session with him just to get out of there. I did the training session, it was very bad, and then went back again later to quit when he wasn't there.
Doesn't the FAA basically work for Boeing because these two share revolving doors? I'm just not flying any more.
Chromium now supports VA-API acceleration on Wayland
Related from Oct. 2022: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33207372 - 415 comments
Very well designed. I'd recommend saving the current state in the URL parameters, so you can share it (or save the link for yourself).

Also, open-sourcing it would be cool.
Indeed. Pretty much any horrible way to die from the olden days makes you a martyr in Islam. For example, having a building fall on you or gastro-intestinal disease. Fighting is only one of the ways and not really the easiest since the other ways are passive.
I think this is a huge part of it. It's the natural extension of "all publicity is good publicity" as manifest at the individual level. I'm actually less annoyed by the off topic things, which are easy to gloss over, and more annoyed by the rah-rah capitalism posts. "Look at this person who overcame overwhelming odds, you should too!" "Here's a webinar from the B2C company I work at that has no relevance to me or you but my company gamified spamming my personal social media with it so here we are." "Enjoy this fluff story about how we took an afternoon off to do a mandatory team building volunteer project that was way less impactful than if we donated even a fraction of the revenue our company made during the same three hours."
Most of the websites I interact with are either very interactive web apps which have no hope of working without JavaScript or are basically made up of text documents I want to read. It is shocking how much the document-style websites improve if you browse them without JavaScript. People have really put a lot of crap on top of what is basically just a text file.
Shades of CP Snow's Two Cultures here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures?wprov=sfla1

A trivial example is that university buildings are constructed to keep academic disciplines far apart from one another. Engineering and Physics live in one building, Philosophy and Modern Languages in another. Not too surprising then if they dont learn much from one another.
And not only that, your code is likely to become the next student's code. The professor doesn't need to understand it, per se, but they do need to ensure it's useful for future maintainers/extenders. Will the next Aerospace Engineering grad student coming in understand Nim or be motivated enough to learn Nim and have time to continue the work? They likely already had Fortran, Matlab, or Python experience (which depends on their undergrad and when they went to school). Picking a novel language for the research group needs to have value for the group going forward, not just to satisfy the curiosity or taste of the RA.
Yes, in the last year Durable Objects introduced "hibernation", in which the server object can shut down with WebSocket connections still active, to be started back up when a new message arrives. This largely solves cost issues with WebSockets on Workers / DO.
I guess it's this: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/resources/blog/what-are-emp...
Everyone worked with Fortran long before they worked with Python.
What do you want me to say here? It is 3000 lines, in a single file and no tests. I just said "seems like".

In order to comprehend it, I'm going to have to parse the whole thing into memory and figure out what it does. Not impossible, but if I'm looking to just fix a specific bug or contribute a new feature, I'd much rather go to the specific file that feature/bug is in, parse a page or two of code on my screen and work from there. It is just how I work.

I'm sorry that you have to deal with something that sounds worse. If it was me, I'd spend a lot of extra-curricular time trying to clean up the mess. In return, that would help me get an even better sense of the code.
Don't worry, with Microsoft's recent and extremely aggressive Copilot infestations[0][1][2] it's only a matter of time before LinkedIn becomes the "AI social network."

0. https://9to5google.com/2024/01/03/microsoft-edge-ai-browser/

1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pc...

2. https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/fed-up-with-wind...
I’m extremely proud of your skepticism at something I really haven’t put much effort into.

To clarify I haven’t read every religious text, but I have now read the Old/New Testament, The Baghavad Gita, The Tao te Ching, The Quaran and currently working my way through the Buddhist Sutras (looking to start on Sikhism next). That is the main text of all major religions and I only read 20-30 pages a day (with some overlap/not reading one at a time.). It’s very possible if you stick to it
Show HN: Filter and Monitor Hacker News Based on Your Interests
I was overwhelmed by the pace of AI news and papers coming out, so I built an automated HN news monitoring service that delivers relvant news straight to my inbox or RSS feed.

It uses LLMs to extract, summarize, and classify the front page articles and analyzes the different perspectives in the comments.

No more FOMO :)
Not sure what the exact context the blog refers to (they are a scientist turned software engineer?, their field is data/software intensive and see this as an improvement area?). Our team does engineering test and evaluation that include aspects of R&D and struggle with this. Scientists have academic approaches (must have sufficient sampling/statistical significance, sometimes delaying findings/reports checking additional aspects when a sanity check will suffice) but it does give rigor. On the software side, we definitely have spaghetti code, tools that rely on some file sitting in someone's H-drive, and plug-ins built by someone's old collaborator with little documentation. This is juxtaposed by the PM types that must be agile (fine when tasks are understood and defined enough to go nicely into a sprint, not always the case). Better communication on both sides would probably alleviate some of this but that is the great challenge in any group.
I still remember the following 2000s post to this day, nothing else:

"Why strapping buttered toast to a cat's back will not produce infinite power"

https://everything2.com/title/Why+strapping+buttered+toast+t...
It was all planned!
What's the best time of the day to exercise?
But… I don’t follow anyone on LinkedIn, I don’t use it as a social network. This suggestions seems like how you’d make it a better “work twitter” which is a product I don’t think I need.
Comparing it to lawn mower engines is not a big win for the diesel engine. Those small engines shouldn't be used in the first place.
Employee resource group, basically a group of employees that have some shared interest or background
The Air Current reports [1] that the same aircraft experienced pressurization warnings on two flights the prior day.

[1] https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/alaska-737-max-9-t...
Business epistemology is not about knowing Truth, it is about knowing currently useful information and practices, and it is expensive to validate or generate this knowledge.

Hence we get the same thing over and over again until someone convinces people there is a better way, or simply does something different and makes more money.
Except I dont think that is a feature. I think optimizing compilers is something numerical scientists should excell at and that it will be a much sought after quality. Python seems to do everything it can to hide those details from the user
Yes I would say it is proper to use the correct tool for the job at hand.