skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im reminded of Roko's basilisk which I suppose may have gained a significant number of new believers in the last year.

What I'm looking for is something specific to physics or astrophysics and that is at the scale of god / mythical creature creating. Like someone writing a literal (mythical?) interpretation of "Maxwell's Demon" into a new-new testament.
I had a Book of Kells colouring book when I was a child, I really loved it. Such beautiful designs.
I'm not sure what "more multi-platform" means here. It's been a long time since I've run into an environment that didn't have easy access to Java and it's tools.
> There still one good choice, just use less power.

All of civilization has basically been about allowing higher per capita energy usage. To say "just use less power" means going to a lower level of human development.

If our goal is human flourishing, then our focus should be on enabling yet higher levels of energy usage per person, preferably with as few side-effects as possible. Fossil fuels have been (and will continue to be for a while) the least-evil source of energy for humanity. I look towards a future powered by nuclear and renewables with better energy storage technology, perhaps even to a degree where energy is effectively limitless.

Your view, I'm afraid, is incompatible with continued human flourishing.
For code implementing a numerical algorithm, I think the ratio of lines needed in Fortran vs. Python is much less than 25, maybe 2 or 3. And once the code is written in Fortran you just compile with -O3 etc. to get good performance and don't need to thnk about translating to Cython, Numba, or some other language.
I wish Python existed when I was in high school. My school’s compiler wouldn’t remind me that I was missing a semicolon and I would constantly be wasting time looking at syntax rather than grasping bigger concepts.
This was superb. Thanks to the author for sharing.
Bad idea, not ever one has an unlimited data plan.
I have got several BigTech interviews as well as jobs through regular posting long form posts on LinkedIn.

One of the best framings I have learned is to teach yourself by writing. Think of it as a conversation with your friends and you are learning together.

Take the negative comments as a motivation to improve.

Go for it.
Containerized Freight Index
The parser actually supports #define and #undef as well.
The book couldn’t have been that good if it never got across to you that an airplane hitting production in 1997 was necessarily designed YEARS BEFORE 1997 (and hence the merger).

Boeings problems were long in work before the MD merger. Many commercial aerospace people in Seattle, particularly ones with parents who worked at Boeing, have struggled to come to terms with that, and there are a lot of rose colored glasses around here of what 1995-1997 Boeing looked like.
OK, give me an example of one such liquid from your list of 'many' that has all the desired properties of water and doesn't have any undesired, such as being a poison. You can't because there aren't any.
That’s somewhat true – it’s not easy but not hard enough, as we saw with the Aum Shinrikyo attacks – but an LLM won’t magically have access to non-public instructions and, not having an understanding of the underlying principles, won’t be able to synthesize a safe process from public information.
The Hug of Death seems to have shown that it's not a * scalable * architecture.
A good read on the issue presented by sagman is Financializing Poverty
Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance by
Sohini Kar. Although focussing on India, the book does a great job at underlining the issues with microfinance.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503605893
> But not at 30,000 ft doing 500mph.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774
Who specifically are the WSJ "science-denying imbeciles"? Can you point to specific articles or opinion pieces?
China removes official after video games rules spark turmoil
I love Nim and would absolutely use it for every piece of native code I need to write. Unfortunately, I find it suffers from a few big problems. First, the developer tooling and documentation is kind of inconsistent. The build tool, which is also used to install packages, supports a different set of args than the main compiler, which causes some weirdness. Second, the network effect. Most libraries are maintained by a single person, who put in a lot of effort, but a lot of bugs, edge cases, missing features and other weirdnesses remain. It's usually best to use libraries made for C or Python instead, really.
Oh a deep water robot that can manipulate rock sized objects on the seafloor, map environment, and return heavy things to the surface? I, government agent, would like to buy 100.
You really motivated me here. Thank you. I'm planning to getting into containerd and kubernetes.

I will have something to show for by the mid-year. I'm sure. Thank you.
That's a good thought. Initially the density is pretty normal and I'm sure there's a loud sound, but once pressure drops the air wouldn't transmit as much sound.

I don't see enough detail to really know how high they fly once the depressurization happens. I'm guessing that, if possible, they descend to an altitude where the supplementary oxygen is not critical for preserving life so the loudness could go back up. I couldn't find if there's a "typically safe" maximum altitude that is used in depressurization or it's situational.

Probably someone with better flightradar knowledge could figure out the altitude with time.
Wonder how hard would it be to convert all the public domain texts to Standard Ebooks. I know there’s already ebooks of most of these texts, but having them all together in a standard form would be nice.
There are a lot of studies that support the rationale that blue light and apps are causing depression. It’s interesting that we are looking for solutions in apps as well.
I think additionally, many people feel there are very real factors skewing the rate of car crashes compared to what it'd be from only "good" drivers with how our bar for driver's licenses in America is so pitifully low. And beyond that, that they can generally have more agency about their fate as a driver than as a passenger in a plane, while it'd seem far simpler to imagine quickly stopping a car in response to a failure than managing to land a passenger plane.

Bonus multiplier if someone was then reading articles about pilots and ATC not getting any sleep.
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These aren't exactly "religion" or a "new myth", but the Seven Secular Sermons project is sort of in the wheelhouse:

https://sevensecularsermons.org/

I like them overall, though the meter breaks down in certain places which drives me crazy after being raised on Dr. Suess and Jack Prelutsky.
If that's it, then it's more approachable that I thought. This is cheaper than many franchises.
The second one I picked up from https://www.youtube.com/@askvinh, found it a good idea.

The summary thing, honestly it's just because I was frustrated to feel like I had forgotten everything about the books I read a few weeks later, so I decided to find a reason to go back to them to try and retain more :).

The only other tip I can think of is to start a book club at your workplace. It's a great way to commit to it a bit more while getting suggestions you wouldn't have had yourself.
A backend isn't just a database, it sounds like you've just made your frontend your backend as well.
The tales from the 90s of fixing Macs are like pages from a tech thriller novel. Each story is a mix of high-end luxury, unexpected social encounters, and a descent into the murky waters of digital piracy, all wrapped up in the day-to-day life of a computer technician. It’s a fascinating glimpse into a past where the lines between technology, adventure, and moral ambiguity were constantly blurred.
As someone that was at CERN when Python started to be adopted in the early 2000's, Python got popular as saner Perl alternative for UNIX scripting, build tools (CMT), and as means to provide a REPL to C++ and Fortran libraries instead of dealing with ROOT.

That was all, it could have been Tcl instead.
Simulating Slices of iOS Apps
> To say "just use less power" means going to a lower level of human development.

This sounds like an assumption without obvious proof.
i've heard that clouding up the seabed has some bad effects that will be difficult to restore or prevent. Such as long acting changes to the sea food cycle which affects fish stocks etc.

I personally prefer that we mine asteroids...
Share your blog! I was literally writing about starting blogs 10 minutes ago (https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/06/the-web-is-yours/).

You can take your blog in whatever direction you want; you can write technical, professional posts, or write about anything else that interests you! No matter what you write about, there is probably someone out there who will be interested in what you have to say. If you share your blog I'll take a look. Now you already have a prospective reader :)

I am unsure the extent to which my personal blog was weighed when I applied for my current job, but generally having a technical blog is a plus. Being able to point to blog posts where you have at least one post on a project you worked on, a bug you fixed, things you have learned, how you solved a problem, etc. is incredibly valuable.
No one is going to hold Boeing responsible because Boeing owns everyone in charge at the FAA.
I wonder at what point people would consciously spend less time online and go back to physical books, especially those works that were published decades/centuries ago? If I am a normal, non-tech person reading something online, how am I supposed to know who wrote it (software or human), what is the agenda behind it etc?

Of course I understand physical books can also be written by AI (just last week, I saw a physical poetry book fully written by AI, except for the preface). But it is much more cost to produce a physical book than throwing up something online only.
If I am interpreting the article correctly, the arbitrator found that the videos did fail to meet the social media policy, but the company didn’t follow due process in firing him? I wonder if they are allowed to keep the videos listed as a warning or something in his personnel record.

Hopefully there is a silver lining, where he (and other radio people) has learned that he manages his portfolio, and needs to have his own copies of any work clips he wants to use!
> Services timing out on start-up, "waiting x/y -- x/y retries

What would you prefer happen instead? Having seen plenty of downtime caused by not having retries or hanging indefinitely weren’t exactly improvements in my experience.
Is this for the ‘experience’?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jan/04/book-of...
1 and 2 are features. Re 1, if someone doesn’t know what the output should look like they shouldn’t be reusing the code. Re 2, just think a bit more about it and you’ll realize fretting over ram that isn’t needed until it’s needed is actually just premature optimization.
The problem isn't that lines are being drawn. It's that they're being drawn arbitrarily.
My history of economic thought reading list
It's really gorgeous in person, and the Trinity Library itself is an absolute must-see if you're in Dublin and love books.
AI is already getting killed, people being disgusted and annoyed by this garbage.

Central command seems to have instructed drones to use “already” as a means to gaslight people into thinking there’s use and demand for this gibberish. Dont fall for it.
I try to write blog articles mostly for my own sake, my main purpose is to record my thoughts/ideas/experiences and to improve/maintain my writing skills.

I haven’t been active in promoting my blog, so I have not received much feedback at all (:

I imagine getting people to read one’s articles might involve quite much work and promotion. Could still be worth it.
I’m not sure this is true anywhere. I live in a moderately sized UK city, and have done most of my life. There’s nowhere in the city that I would intentionally avoid at night due to the risk of bad things happening to me, many decades ago a friend and I were mugged by a large group of teenagers, and that was in what’s widely considered a good part of the city. At the same time I’ve walked through what are considered rough areas late at night on the regular and never had anything more threatening happen than drunks stumbling about the place.

The only thing I can think of here is that I’m a fairly heavyset 6’1” male, who wears chunky jackets most of the time. Maybe trouble sees me coming and decides it’s not worth the hassle (which is for the record hilarious to me, I’ve been in two fights in my life, and got my ass kicked both times).
Sorry for the dumb question, but what is stopping anyone from taking a picture of an AI generated image and passing it up as the "real deal"?
I'm unaware of any Linux distribution using SMF. If there was, I would have been running it. I didn't really like pfexec (it felt bolted on and not quite there yet), and I really really hated ZFS (and still do), but SMF made Solaris administration a joy.

I don't think any distribution was using runit before systemd, but it was available in Gentoo as a sysvinit replacement and ISTR it was used in the Rails community for supervising Unicorn.
I showered to also wash my hair. Can't work out looking all messy, what would others think?
> e.g. which of the one hundred brands featuring near identical products are actually brands you might find in a retail store rather than a random name slapped on the product in the same Chinese factory?

Ye this one is annoying. I often look for automotive tools and before I realized this I thought I was turning insane. Different store fronts pretend they are making some tool or like has sourced a factory to do their design.

But they like order the tool with a sticker and paint job from the same supplier.

Sometimes nuts and bolts or like cover plates vary but it is the same base.

I was browsing for tool hooks for the garage the other day and it felt like there are two factories in China that make hooks and two factories that put rubber on them for 4 combinations and that is it. But 20 flavours of branding.

Edit:
It would be really neat if the factory had to mark everything they made.
You’re definitely correct about the religion part. That people want their religion to have “modern physics” shows just how religious science has become in the last century.

Religion is supposed to be about guidance for people and how to live a good life as a part of the whole. Dealing with ethical codes, coping with the human condition of stress and suffering, familial and social bonds etc. Science on the other hand, at least hard science, is focused on making predictions about the material world. The two have very little overlap in general and trying to mix them I fear will not result in good science or good religion.
But look at it from the organization's side. WHYY will lose listener-ship over his standup, whether or not that's fair. They'll be held accountable to the actions of the people they employ, whether or not that's fair.

Take the ability to control who they associate with out of the hands of a media company and you doom them to being burned by the court of public opinion. Reputation is all a news outlet has.

(It is, perhaps, worth noting that the arbiter didn't disagree with this line of reasoning. Return to employment was conditional on Jad deleting the offending material, so he's not to the place he wants to be regarding the eating of his cake and the having of his cake. It may still be the case that his two desired activities are incompatible with each other).
Any solution could lead to some deaths, as could doing nothing.

There's plenty of power use that isn't necessary and could be cut with little or no meaningful impact. More so for the poor, they likely aren't part of the wasted power consumption that would even be the low hanging fruit.

In the US particularly, we seem to strive to build large single family homes. Those are a massive waste of resources, from the materials to build and maintain the structure to the power it takes to run the home. We don't have to travel nearly as much as we chose to. We don't need LLMs, technology with 2-3 year lifespans, or "fast fashion" cloths that fall apart in a season. We don't need vacations that include flying to some far away place, cruise boats, or roller coasters.

Sure there are sacrifices in giving up any of these, but any risk of deaths would be second or third order effects related to economic impact. There's just so many things we could easily give up if we cared to without risking serious impacts before we have to worry about risking leaving the poor behind or directly requiring deaths in some way.
Thanks! I hadn't considered that use case.
I dont know man but it feels like we need to spend more on mental health care to cure people of their delusions of thinking and living machines.
I did window cleaning in the 2000s and went inside many rich folks homes. It was my favorite part of the job.

But I had a much different experience. They were kind, more humanizing than middle class housewives, and very proud of their homes which were often fully custom to their spec. Most had built a successful business. Perhaps my curiosity went a long way to flatter them, or they saw themselves in me - young and hustling.
More than merely “investigated”. The FAA should indefinitely ground all Boeing 737 Max until Boeing has fixed them - at its own expense - and the FAA has certified the fixes on each and every one of them. Financial consequences on Boeing be damned. Or kill the plane by banning the Boeing 737 Max from ever flying over the United States ever again. Let Boeing go back to the drawing table and build a plane that works. Let the executives suffer from the years long decline in Boeing’s stock price. Let them lose billions. Tens of billions. I am out of fucks to give. It’s time for the government to draw blood over this corporate malpractice.
AA will do their own investigation but it's the FAA's investigation that actually matters.

Doubtful much will happen though. The FAA allowed Boeing to do the FAA inspections on the MAX planes they produced, and the FAA rubber stamped the certifications.

Fuck Jack Welch and fuck his devil spawn, the likes of Boeing CEO's Dave Calhoun and James McNerney, and sycophant Dennis Muilenburg.
(Livestream) Tesla Cybertruck Highway Range Test [video]
Fair point, my Zephyrus G14 4090 64+16GB has the same issues, it can run smaller LLaMA2 models much faster than 128GB M3 Max (3x) but 70B one is much slower due to CPU doing half of the layers (10x). So in the end I ended up with both.
Noise patterns from the camera will be off compared to what is in the image (I think)
It is the same (defunct) company, though. So, I would say this is highly relevant.
I think the problem of systemd is that it is complex. It is fine when it works correctly, but when you eventually have to dig into any sort of problem, it is hell.

For example, all of my boxes spew many logs per minute about "Failed to set up mount unit". This is apparently a bug with the generated name of some internal unit related to mountpoints (too long). This one is not as bad as others, because it does have a bug reported for it, but is still something I'll have to deal with until I upgrade the distro on all the servers. Many similar bugs I can't track down at all.

Systemd makes a lot of things easy, but not simple, and that is a big problem in practice.
Propositional Satisfiability and SAT Solvers
You should do just that and become rich if it is so obvious and easy.
Did you include the shobogenzo?
It still serves a legal purpose, as long as it's difficult enough. If you need to physically modify the device to access the keys, then bringing the unmodified device to court should be enough to verify legitimacy of the signature.
To be clear, the arbitrator's decision is not based on whether or not the reporter's jokes were funny, but whether they were, to any significant extent, inflammatory (together with the fact that they were made in the performance in his side gig or hobby as a stand-up comedian.)
I know that the air accident rate is pretty much at its lowest since records began. I have heard a lot about grounding aircraft in recent years, though being a relatively young person, I am wondering is this new or was this always the procedure?
I like the honesty of the article. I never got the grunge others have against it. I am a software engineer and work in office automation (a.k.a. the boring stuff). On Linux I am a poweruser. If Ubuntu used initd I use it. They switched to systemd so I use that. I liked it. Making an application start on reboot was easy to do. And easier than with the rc files 20 years back.
2024 will be a good year for Airbus... again
> Current LLMs can not summarize books even if they are in their training set

Why is this? due to legal reasons?
I love your website design, cpach. There are many cool links to click, too!

> my main purpose is to record my thoughts/ideas/experiences

Mine too!
This seems like something the CIA should be doing in a SCIF, not something an internet rando does in public. Surely all this is classified, or worse, copyrighted by Russians.

I'm surprised something that breaks Intellectual Property laws and National Security laws is allowed to be promulgated.
Depth of field etc will be hard to fake converting from analog back to digital like this esp if the focal length etc are encoded in the committed data
> It is incredibly common that people think they can just go back in holding their breath or stay low or cover their mouth with their clothing like in hollywood

Thanks, I had the slight impression that this was true and now feel incredibly stupid.
"* The fact that distributions have not only adopted systemd, but made it effectively impossible to opt out of."

The job of a distro is to decide what to ship and integrate that in the best way possible. Would a distro let you choose between glibc and musl for example? If you want either, use a distro that chooses that.
The availability of libraries is because of the language. It's a (good) flexible general purpose dynamically typed language which makes writing libraries and good code in general easy.

Why it's deemed unsuitable for large, complex, multi-person projects is that enterprise types know only the byzantine OOP mess. And when all you have is OOP, everything is a FactoryFactoryFactory and everything else is "unmanageable".
My daughter has a reproduction, and I've enjoyed many hours of looking at the illustrations. My girlfriend and her best friend went to see it at Trinity last year. I'm jealous.
Other than Tesla, how many brand new cars have their wheels fall off?
Assuming you mean `known_hosts`, no. It uses various data sources to determine where to try to connect with discovered keys: https://github.com/MegaManSec/SSH-Snake/blob/main/SETTINGS.m... lists all of them (which can be enabled and disabled by the user). https://github.com/MegaManSec/SSH-Snake/blob/main/SETTINGS.m... is particularly interesting.
Some Apple reviewers will take into account existing data too. Not just being able to sign in. So the provided credentials should have enough data.
This is sometimes called a “slider”. Difftastic has special logic to try to deal with sliders and get closer to what you want.
... and put your car in neutral and kill the engine by holding the start button.
Not if the parent controls a screenshot analyzer trained to detect objectionable figures, patterns, and phrases. This would work above the browser and IDE.
Universities? Their main goal is to get better in the rankings, isn't it?
The advantage and disadvantage of arbitration is that both sides appeal to the reasonableness of an individual, instead of twelve individuals and a judge.