skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could be just in a bitter mood, but somehow all of these articles decrying what a terrible job we did by shutting down psychedelic research in favor of a war on drugs... Don't make me feel optimistic that we've moved on or improved as a species.

Like, this attitude of "oh NOW we see, we were just dumb 40 years ago! Everything will be better because NOW we get it" strikes me as exactly the same attitude that caused this problem in the first place.

The regulators etc thought they knew better and "fixed" the errors of the past by starting the war on drugs.

I guess to me, like, just focus on science and principles like free speech and the funding of interesting hypotheses. I feel like we're just demonizing a new group here and not learning the lesson of: "stop demonizing."
If I had a style of coding (whatever that means) and it got embedded into the models in a way that would cause it to echo for eternity long past my death, and was recognized as mine, I would consider it a successful work of art.
Probably not, but there is a lot of intersting stuff you could switch/trigger/activate without velocity.
Same. Works well, way cheaper, and the dev hangs out either here or on Reddit I forget, and seems really down to earth.
The over-subscription was definitely a problem. The ISP I worked for had a fractional T1 in their main POP for frame relay (512K or something?) There was about 4 to 5x in bandwidth needed for customer connections, assuming 100% utilization. During peak times in the evening, the FR was massively overloaded and ping times would get into the 100's of milliseconds (normally it was 10 to 15ms IIRC.) The connection never went down though, even when they were slow.
Show HN: OnnxStream running TinyLlama and Mistral 7B, with CUDA support
Are you bridging to the main eth interface on the host? (not just a KVM private bridge). Can you share your KVM configs?
If it wasn't dangerous enough by default, he specifically instructs it to act as much like a homocidal AI from fiction as possible, and then hooks it up to control his house.

I think there's definitely room for this sort of thing to go badly wrong.
Interesting, then they likely have massive discounts.
They do exist, for now, but many (and more every year) of the top appliances are going connected. And sometimes it starts by being optional until one day it isn't anymore. There's a reason why it's basically impossible to find a non-smart television today.

The thing is that manufacturers don't just have online models and dumb models. They have models where extremely useful practical features are only included on the ones that also require being online, because that's how they get you. And the market drifts because people want those extra useful features. My dishwasher has a salt reservoir (exceptionally uncommon in the US) for water softening without GI-damaging rinse aids, a fully enclosed housing with leak sensors to trap and alert internal leaks, inline water heating instead of an oven heater in the bottom so plastics can go anywhere without melting, and so on. None of those features are internet-mediated. It just happens that those extra features I really enjoy are on a machine that _also_ wants to be on the internet, and they press the issue by making the internet the only way to see what step the machine is in its cycle because the better drying and so on are only available with hidden-top controls (honestly fuck top controls on dishwashers, seriously). Thankfully setting that up is optional for now, but one day it probably will not be.
Knew that name sounded familiar.. Margaret Mead was one of the 'core group' members of the Macy Conference(s) in Cybernetics [0], whose other members included such people as John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch..

[0] https://asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/history/MacyPeople.h...
Dont forget my favorite part, your prescription is no longer valid after 1 year, so keep that cashcow flowing and come back next year!

This is especially irritating where i broke my prescription sunglasses, and they wouldnt simply make the same lenses again, and forced me into an eye exam
Thank you for the feedback! Did not notice that, I've now restricted it to accept .jpeg, .jpg, .png files.
A BookWyrm plugin is a great idea!
“doggy” companies? Do you mean “dodgy”?
The article calls out the challenge of stopping distance and sensing range. Drive Hwy80 over the Sierra Nevada mountains in winter, stopping, predictability, many other factors come up as well.
1. *Fibonacci Sequence*: The classic example where the naive recursive solution has exponential complexity. By storing previously computed values (memoization), the complexity can be reduced to linear.

2. *Coin Change Problem*: Given different denominations of coins and a total amount, finding the number of ways to make the change. The naive approach is exponential, but dynamic programming reduces it to polynomial complexity.

3. *Knapsack Problem*: Particularly the 0/1 Knapsack problem, where items with given weights and values must be placed in a knapsack of a fixed capacity to maximize total value. The naive exponential solution can be optimized using dynamic programming.

4. *Matrix Chain Multiplication*: Determining the most efficient way to multiply a chain of matrices. The problem can be solved in exponential time using a naive approach but becomes much more efficient with dynamic programming.

5. *Longest Common Subsequence*: Finding the longest subsequence common to two sequences. A classic dynamic programming problem that can be solved in polynomial time.

6. *Longest Increasing Subsequence*: Finding the length of the longest subsequence of a given sequence such that all elements of the subsequence are sorted in increasing order.

7. *Shortest Path Problems*: Like the Floyd-Warshall algorithm for finding the shortest paths in a weighted graph with positive or negative edge weights.

8. *Edit Distance (Levenshtein Distance)*: Finding the minimum number of edits (insertions, deletions, substitutions) needed to change one word into another.
One weird realization I had is that lava is over three times as dense as water, so if you tired to “swim” in it, you’d basically just sit on top.
"BTW I use Arch"

Not a bad choice in all seriousness. But maybe in Manjaro/Endeavour versions.
Can you elaborate on that? Are the processes for making fuel for energy so different from the processes for bomb material that one doesn't help the other at all?
I have listed a few in the article. It's pretty common to see them in lectures and practical exercices.

- longest common subsequence

- longest common substring

- line warp

- subset sum

- partition

- knapsack

You can also have a look at [1] for more ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#Algorithms...
> I'd just assume that any service is going to get randomly DDOSed soon after launch, even without any sort of blackmail/targeted attack. Even if you can figure out who did it, there's pretty much no chance of chasing them down.
My takeaway from this wouldn't be "this shouldn't be possible" but "this has been commonplace for decades, and will keep happening, and we should prepare for the next one".

I treat this as a foundational flaw in the protocols powering the internet. People shouldn't need to pay off DDoS protection companies as a standard line of business.
This cell contain or produces no tritium, It's nickel 63 that decays into copper 63.
I'll be looking at your project for inspo :) Thanks for sharing!
"Doggy" or "Dodgy" ?

What's a doggy company?
Very OT, but I love the style of your resume. Is the source available somewhere?
How to Thrive in an Uncertain World
Sure, I’m just saying I’d have expected more artists to say “I know this will harm me financially but as an artist it is the most transcendent kind of success I could have imagined.”

Eg Grimes sees it this way, anyone else? It’s very surprising to me this isn’t a dialectic within the global community of artists. It points to me as a sign that perhaps art has become so intertwined with commercial and financial interests the latent mental models artists have of art have shifted over time, broadly speaking, away from art for art’s sake or art to speak.
It can, and specifically this was in reference to off the shelf grocery store pharmacy bought reading glasses that are sort of your prescription but not really and its just enough to make your eyes worse
https://archive.ph/7eWW7
That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

(seems like I will be spending tonight learning how to mimic bird sounds)
"You're reading it wrong."
Are you expecting much different answers from yesterday's "Ask HN: Are you an optimist for the next 10 years?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38976351 ?
Is this basically a book review?

Anyway, keto is great. I wasn’t terribly overweight and lost 19lbs in 9 weeks with it with a cheat day included. It’s great because it’s a very simple set of very few rules. It’s easy to adhere to because it removes moment decision making around whether or not you “should” or “deserve” to have X food. It’s nearly impossible for you to eat enough calories to maintain your current weight on keto when you’re already overweight. Therefore a deficit is nearly guaranteed therefore weightless is guaranteed. On top of all that you do get better at burning fat and don’t get as hungry.

The counterpoint is the tough piece - how do you come off that diet and reenter the real world where people eat carbs. How can you get pizza with friends, etc. I understand their are some who view keto as a lifestyle, good for them but most people aren’t going to do that.

Beyond the simple reality of calories are calories, none of this other stuff around fat vs protein vs carbs is really very hard to understand. Simple carbs are rocket fuel, they provide a lot of energy over a very short period of time. If you’re not going to use it, once the sugar saturates your blood, the excess will be taken out and stored. Then you’ll get hungry again. Fats are slower burning, so it’s harder for you to saturate your blood quickly.

This is an over simplification obviously but this is just not so hard to understand that it needs to be an endless debate over or be positioned as controversial in order to sell books.

1. Losing weight can and often will fix your diabetes. 2. Be conscious of the method you choose for weight loss, when you obtain your goal weight - what will you do long term?
Multi-tenancy is what's hard about scaling web services
In many cases there is evidence that the palaces and cities were not just abandoned, but they were burned.

So this makes plausible that the abandoning was not something voluntary.
Be sure to add MUMPS to the list of dead languages with large, actively-maintained legacy codebases.
What's unrealistic about this math? Just because the math involves new parameters (EG amortized cost of charging infrastructure & cost of electricity) doesn't mean it's fabricated.

Even level 1 charging (as you call it "overnight slow charging") gives you ~5 miles per hour and only requires a cheap charger of ~200 bucks. Charge it from 8PM to 6AM and you get 50 miles of range. If you have a <50 mile commute, you can charge from 8PM to 6AM, and your work commute is taken care of. Charge a little longer on weekends and you can budget further.

This situation might not work for everyone! Street parking of course makes this nearly impossible. But A LOT of Americans have a <50 mile commute, and a garage with an outlet. For these people, they're saving money every day, and never have to use a gas station ever again. In this situation you'll pay off that initial $200 in ~8 months. But even disregarding financial savings, many may simply prefer the tradeoff of not having to go to gas stations in exchange for plugging in when they return home.

Then, if you need to go on a >200 mile trip, you have to use a public charger, and the math is less favorable as those will cost more and you'll have to hang out for a bit. But once again, you need to consider how often this is an occurance for you. For some people, it's weekly (or daily!). For some it's once a month or once a year. I agree that we're not at the place where from cost savings alone, it is maximally effective for everyone, but I don't think it's unrealistic for a very large portion of Americans.
Last week a cold snap hit Finland. A lot of electricity supply was offline due to maintenance. The peak price at Nordpool, Internordic electronicity market, hit 2.5 eur/kWh or 2500 EUR/mWh. This is 25x normal rate around 5c/kWh. The electricity demand flexed, being 30% under estimation/normal.

As a retail electricity consumer you can choose between market rate (hourly) or a fixed price electricity. Despite cold snaps, market rate saves long term.
> If the majority of the population is made redundant and unable to earn any income then what happens to consumer spending? It drops to zero and it takes the likes of Amazon, Walmart, and countless other retailers as well as manufacturers with it.
Are they going to just let that happen?

This is a reasoning that starts with the idea there is some sort of global conspiracy of the global elite making agreements on what to do.
I strongly believe there isn't, at least not on the level you are describing.
There is however the underlying capitalist system that demands profit optimization.

If there would be some sort of new product or company that would make all other aspects of the economy obsolete but it would bring massive profits for the stakeholders it would absolutely be launched.

Companies don't make predictions on what might happen to the economy if they launch x, y or z.
rep farming.
it works until you run against the limit where it's not possible to cut more calories but are still overweight. I think this is mediated by genes. Even willpower is genetic.
Surely it's pretty obvious they do.
When acting on behalf of a corporation (e.g. as an employee), humans are quite limited in what they can choose. This is very commonly used to justify actions that even the human themselves may find immoral. E.g. "just doing my job", "have bills to pay", "just following orders", "if I wouldn't do it, somebody else would". Not only are the corporations psychopaths (i.e. amoral), they are structures that turn humans psychopaths when they are on the clock.

We seem to agree that structures like corporations are best seen as something that transcend the individuals that they comprise. And I think there are less harmful forms of organization, or at least what corporations can do should be limited by e.g. states and unions significantly more.

I avoid (and criticize) the use of "evil" because it usually muddies more than clarifies, and has weird metaphysical connotations. "Harmful" I think captures it better.
Community is everything, and D leadership smothered theirs like a bag of kittens in the river.
Mastodon seems generally to be ND-friendly, according to ND people that I interact with on it, though maybe spend some effort to find the right instance and/or be prepared to move (there's a mechanism for it) in due course.
I dont think you can argue your position without reverting to a sunken cost fallacy or an ideological ignorance of the amount of suffering inflicted through simple existence, even in the best of circumstances.

If you want to argue that suicide is always an option, let me remind you that this is how the Romans justified the conditions of slavery.

I could always be wrong here, but i dont think you are able to explain how. To put it bluntly, fanatics never can. Or want to because they prefer feeling right. Pls do explain how i am wrong here.
I tried Fedora just a couple of years back (34, iirc) and was surprised so much how good it is! I used Ubuntu long before (like Ubuntu 8.10 before) and didn’t like it back then. Debian was (and is) better, but at that time it didn’t include non-open WiFi drivers and now I stay away from Debian mostly because of the outdated software (when I don’t care, I may prefer Debian, it depends). So I use Arch for a very long time, because I can pick what I prefer (except the init system, of course) and it’s not outdated. But at some systems I just need it to work, be balanced with stability and software being updated. But I also don’t want to tinker too much. E.g. my home family computer that is used by other family members. Fedora is so good that it’s my first choice in many places.
>> However, I found OP to be ignorantly ... quite cold and glib in the human interest side.

> I don't know. I feel like the story hit quite close . . .

I agree. I've been on both ends of bad parenting. I've been the parent who crafts bad parenting notions out of empathy-free theory.

When covering intra-family mistreatment, cold and clinical is a good method. The outcomes are naturally striking. I feel anything beyond a witness adds little and risks much.
March 4, 1962: Nuclear Age Comes to Antarctica
Perhaps that explains the other multiple poster, too; thank you for the context.
Just spitballing but it seems a unique aspect of a human driver is their fear for loss of life. We're all subtly terrified we are about to die and that keeps us sharp and responsive and thoughtful while driving.
Ask HN: Do children benefit from media that's "too advanced" for them?
I have a four-year-old. She likes all of the shows you might imagine, but for my own sanity, I also try to mix in shows aimed at slightly older kids. I have tried to get her to recount the plot, or show any other example of comprehension, without success. But I’m wondering whether it might be sinking in on a subconscious level anyway?

Mega bonus points if you have experience in developmental psychology, and or link to studies!
Very nicely written article.. and yeah, stable-pointer all the things! meme.

That said, these issues are why I'm considering switching away from Haskell long-term... but that's not easy, I'm deeply invested, and all the other features let me be really productive / creative. But the occasional weird runtime bug or timesink that takes a week to track down.. could live without that.

(There are ways to use the concurrency and queuing primitives like these kind of safely but it needs a deep expertise, there are too many non-obvious parts where you can let an exception slip through at the unintended place or otherwise get yourself burned. Lack of stack traces don't help much either, though that can be somewhat orthogonal)
Updated post from 2020: https://ankarstrom.se/~john/articles/html2/

Also, I don't want to dump on this dude but I've authored literally hundreds of entries on my 2 blogs since 2019 using Markdown. I doubt I'd ever bother to write that many using plain HTML.
Hmm looking at the architecture it seems like it would be though to create performant tooling quickly (especially if it needs reverse engineering), the VLIW/RISC ISA along with a CUDA-like threading model, and the tensor-flow (pun intended) for efficient cascading of neighboring AIE.
On the other hand this arch does give it a very high ceiling so I get why they would go for it.
Yeah I was quite surprised when I found out that that works! I thought Calibre was doing something special. That's why Citadel has a "copy to folder" — you can copy an ebook to an external drive. I'm not sure that it's really easier than just opening the folder to copy + paste it, but Citadel updates a metadata file Calibre uses when detecting what books are on the device to avoid having to read every file in the folder.
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The names you know in this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_forks
The high currents might induce noise inside other parts of your electronics ...
Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux
Litium ion and all mainstream battery technologies are fluid based and cannot operate in extreme cold.

That's why EVs have a system to keep the battery pack warm.
Note that if going the constrained grammar route, at least ChatGPT (haven't tested on smaller models) understands BNF variants very well, and you can very much give it a compact BNF-like grammar and ask it to "translate X into grammar Y" and it works quite well even zero-shot. It will not be perfect on its own, but perhaps worth testing whether it's worth actually giving it the grammar you will be constraining its response to.

Depending on how much code/json a given model has been trained on, it may or may not also be worth testing if json is the easiest output format to get decent results for or whether something that reads more like a sentence but is still constrained enough to easily parse into JSON works better.
I don't think either of those examples count as maintenance.

Yes, post-accident repairs are generally more expensive.
If you were born, raised, and now work in NYC there’s no particular reason to learn to drive, and it’s not particularly easy if you’re in a family that doesn’t drive. I’ve been driving since I was 13 (not an NYC native) but go weeks some times without driving in NYC (and the primary reason I drive now is to go to my upstate secret getaway). Doesn’t need to be a major reason, decent urban areas with decent mass transit don’t particularly require individuals to learn to drive.
It is, of course, both. Terms of art don’t get adopted when the capital doesn’t like them.
I’m confused as to the author’s reasoning.

They claim that stoping distance and non-normal driving conditions are an issue but these are precisely the same problems that AVs meant for ride share face but with a difference performance profile. The computer doesn’t care if it’s hauling 20 tons or 2 tons, what matters is we give it the correct performance profile and install adequate equipment to operate the vehicle safely.

The only real argument I see here is the limp mode case where it detects an error and must pull off. I can see the actual freeway being a problem here but then we just make sure the routes they initially travel have been checked prior to deployment - it’s a finite road that can be mapped and tested against. This can be further mitigated by having redundant computer systems and redundant environment sensors than it can fall back on to be able to safely pull off the side of the road or even make it to its next stop. Computers can make faster, more-informed decisions about nearly every driving situation and the challenges with operating heavy machinery are well understood.

The reason autonomous trucking has not been developed is not because of R&D, it all has to do with scale and what the funding is chasing. Running a truck is expensive, especially with a large load. Financing a project would have a lot of money dumped into the just the construction or retrofitting of a truck and it’s operation for roughly the same computer as the smaller vehicle - just with a different performance profile. When the vehicle you are testing has a kerb weight of 1100lbs and is electric, your maintenance costs plummet to almost nothing with fuel being electricity. We don’t have the same luxury with trucking. Additionally, Uber, Lyft, et al, are bullish on this technology because they would rather collect fares and pay a fixed cost for vehicles than having to deal with drivers that want silly things like compensation. The gig companies are also looking down a barrel of a loaded, regularly-shotgun that could drastically cut into their revenue. The dollars they are investing into AVs only care about ride share now.
Rust has memory safety without GC, and a from-scratch language design. D is an evolutionary development of C++ (which is also gaining new features of its own) with little to recommend it besides. A comparison with Carbon and cppfront is also instructive, note that both of those have not added GC to the language.
> psychedelics that don't activate 5-HT2B (associated strongly with aortic hypertrophy, i.e., your heart valves grow too big)

Do you have a source for that? I'm a cardiac sonographer and I've never heard of aortic hypertrophy.