skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It kind of is a serious background. The standards of intellectual and academic rigor in physics and aerospace engineering is far higher than nutrition science or whatever. What the domain specialists have is familiarity with the existing literature, but that is readily remedied as anyone with an interest and motivation can become familiar with literature like nutrition science in short order.

All things being equal, I would probably trust the judgement of someone that went deep in the hard sciences and engineering, and then educated themselves on the literature of some soft science specialty on the side, than the average person whose entire education was in the much less rigorous and more shallow soft sciences. I have seen far too much sloppy and motivated reasoning in the soft sciences to trust anything that comes from people that exclusively live in that world. I am sure there are proper scientists in those fields doing good work, but that isn’t the average.

I don’t know anything about this particular case, but it is much easier for someone with mastery of the hard sciences to become fluent in the soft sciences out of interest than vice versa. It may not be fair but I have seen so many real world examples of this, where hard science/engineering experts became recognized experts in softer science fields entirely out of interest, but never in the reverse, that it is difficult to ignore.
who are the most recent signed up users and what is their hashed password? what is stopping me from running this query on your database?
The reason to switch to ARM is to get better performance, especially per-watt. If the supplier that's making your graphics card can deliver that, then why risk onboarding someone new?
More for pleasure craft than commercial shipping, but I have taken a boat through the big chute marine railway in Ontario. Very cool experience.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chute_Marine_Railway
The reason is probably because, in the EU, passenger rail transport is prioritised over cargo. For example in Switzwerland rail cargo is mainly transported during the night because thats the only time the network isn't working at it's limit for the passenger trains.

In Canada, to my understanding, it's the other way round where passenger trains have been reduced because of the need for more cargo train trips. The USA might be similar.
No new releases since June 2022 is a good thing. At some point you declare React complete and you put it in maintenance/optimization mode. No new api surface. Full backwards compatibility.

React is darn good. Don’t mess with it and go into enshittificaion.
For most heavy passenger rail like Amtrak and things like Caltrain in the Bay Area, it's because those trains use the same tracks as freight companies and the freight traffic takes priority.
Yeah the "programming" part has always thrown me off when I started my first Engineering job one of the guys was always talking about an "LP" model I thought it was some deep piece of black magic until I realized it was essentially brute searching for a solution to a series of simultaneous equations.

I think "Linear Optimization" might be a better term, or maybe "Linear Solving".
Not for speaker wire I wouldn't think, but it can carry balanced audio very well - people make converters to XLR or jacks that carry four balanced signals over a single CAT6 cable (using the shield also for ground). Given it's pretty close to the right impedance it can carry microphone or line level balanced audio very well.

It's a bit humorous to think audiophiles might be spending thousands of dollars on speaker cables to listen stuff that could have passed through literally $5 cables in the studio.
I love the concept here and will absolutely give this a go.

One bit of advice for the creators/maintainers: stop saying “cloud native”. It’s effectively meaningless, and definitely confusing. But most importantly, it’s irrelevant. Start with customers and work backwards. And in that process, ask if they really care about “cloud native”. They don’t. So don’t water down or distract people away from a great thing, please.
Are you a buyer or seller? If you are a seller, what do you think of the GP's concerns?
With the way prices are dropping for solar and batteries. As well as how many electric grid monopolists are not willing to pay much too home owners for electricity we are not far from huge influx of home batteries.
Really depends on the kid and their level of understanding. The most important thing in my experience as a dad? Whether the child cares to pay attention to something. Something playing in the background while they are playing with toys will likely not be learned or absorbed unless it's so repetitively played that you as a parent will go mad.

On the other hand, whatever your kids soak up they tend to REALLY soak up. My son loves space so much he has memorized various exoplanet names and can endlessly discuss space in general. Space was one of the many things we exposed him to through various media and its what he was drawn to. Our goal was to try to expose him to as many things as we could to allow him to find what he was drawn to - music, art, space, trucks, you name it.

So don't stress too much about whether your daughter is picking things up or not, or if she can't recount things to you. Anytime you introduce her to something new, it expands her experiences and helps make new neural connections - even if the connection is something simple like "that object is red like the other object!"
That video is perfect. It answered every question I had and more.

I'm shocked that Google is behind this. I would have thought the ROI would be a hard sell.

It neat to hear how involved they are in space.

Setting that up would be challenging. You have to have each network node aware of locations of the rest of the network.

Thanks so much for sharing that. I'm sad it's only got 40 likes.
> Nothing is preventing a system from sending you a un-deserializable message disguised as a protobuf,

I guess it depends on where you come down on Postel’s law. If you’re an adherent, and are prepared to be flexible in what you accept, then yeah, you will have extra work on your hands.

Personally, I’m not a fan of Postels law, and I’m camp “send correct data, that deserializes and upholds invariants, or get your request rejected”. I’ve played enough games with systems that weren’t strict enough about their boundaries and it’s just not worth the pain.
In other words, Valve pulled a Raspberry Pi.
I have similar thoughts on this - so few members of a team actually know what the underlying data model looks like. Gets even harder when you start trying to query across your database(s) + external sources like analytics/event systems. Natural language lets the whole team peel away at the black box of data and helps build common ground on which to improve products. I already mentioned it in another part of this thread so I won't spam my project but would love to get your feedback on my natural language to SQL tool if you're interested.
Skip Taubes!
As a kid, my mom got me a flip book of body systems - nervous, circulatory, muscular, organs...i loved it. My son couldn't care less about a similar book :) so in my experience its about offering things until you see they latch on and then you can explore the age appropriate depth they will enjoy rather than it being "school" time.
They're also the diametric opposite of idle.

I know a guy who almost became a zen monk. By march he writes the allotted number of scientific papers for the year (he works for a govt lab). He's the editor of the top journal in his field.

Meanwhile, he's self taught himself philosophy and teaches it (pro bono?) at a University you've heard of.

He also reads >150 books / year
Hectomillionaire is totally not a thing even in metric countries .. it's the universally rejected prefix.

As for article subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Johnson

he's apparently not the chap in central focus of the leading photograph.
It's also used at Repl.it:

"How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them"

https://blog.replit.com/nix
I'm working on nothing. I want to do something but I have no ideas and I'm also laid off so I have the time but no mental motivation.
Please explain what’s the situation inside China regarding the west! Is ray dalio correct? Are we headed towards a potential war?
The resistance of copper cable is often overstated. Quality network cable has about 0.1 ohm/m/direction. So two pairs in paralel for each direction (4 wires), for a total of 5m should have about 0.25 ohm total resistance. I wouldn't say audiophile approved, but probably very close to undetectable for most, both regarding the loss and the response.
Most computer users never monitor their cooling effectiveness at all. They get used to the fans spinning up when the computer is doing anything that THEY think is non-trivial, even if it actually should be trivial. Then there's a smooth transition from "fans spin up but things perform normally" (the ailing thermal solution is able to hit targets without throttling) and "fans spin up and things perform awfully" (the cooling can no longer hit targets without throttling).

This can be explained just by thermal paste drying out and caking up, no more mystery needed. I've had 12 year old "workstation" laptops (the copper cooling alone was heavier than some entire laptops are these days) which started spinning up their fans for seemingly no reason. I dismantled them, cleaned off the old paste, put on a fresh paste, reassembled, and haven't heard the fans once since then. The cooling was good on day one, it got worse for unavoidable physical reasons, and it's easy to fix if you know how.

The problem is most users do not know this is happening and wouldn't know how to fix it even if they did. If they ask someone for help, 99% of the time they'll be told it's too old and they should upgrade.
If you can rigorously test your hypotheses in an experiment, it is a scientific field.

If you can't, or won't, it is not a scientific field.
> You can’t have an easy solution when you have tons of interaction and state.

Desktop software was never this fragile.
Buyers do like to make as much money as possible. That is why they purchase companies. Sellers also want to make as much money as possible. That is why they negotiate. If they can't agree, the transaction doesn't take place, which is usually for the better.
Fitting as it's apparently National Stalker Awareness month. Who knew?
> RPCs looking like regular method calls sound a bit scary (easy to miss in code reviews);

CORBA had the same issue. The call could take 10us or 10s and no way to tell by the user. This was ofc widely considered as huge design flaw.
Crystal is a nice language to write utilities with. Usually with utilities you want to distribute it to other people, many of them can't just install the whole toolchain to run the code. So naturally we want a fully portable windows exe file that can be run independently.
It’s hard to say. Chinese were very pragmatic under Hu, and are more…emotional under Xi? Or maybe the wolf warrior thing is just as an act and they are still pragmatic, just with a different outward game that doesn’t have much to do with their real game. My guess is still probably no war, both sides have too much to lose and nothing really to gain except face points.
How to take power away from brokers: make third-parties more interested in data users make available themselves rather than those strung together from secondary sources, especially if it's of higher quality.

I know tying a UID to yourself and keeping your data in a central repository isn't the most welcome solution, but at the moment your identifiable attributes are fragmented across a vast ecosystem and not at all in your control. A data compensation mechanism seems a natural extension to the 'data donation' schemes that are currently gaining traction in academic circles -- some users are more inclined to share fitness data while others have less issue with sharing their social media history for analytical purposes.

No doubt this would still result in a less private public overall, but the end-user can at least take back (some) agency in how data is put to use while making some passive income on the side.
Many people on social media use the word inflammation as if they're describing a root cause that they have control over, such as dietary cholesterol or exercise. But my understanding of this word is that inflammation is a symptom– an indirect result of any number of other factors.
> forum software is a solved platform

It was never solved. Forum software just stagnated with its poor backend and frontend solutions that everyone tolerated until the social media platforms we know today took off.

Now that even the most unsophisticated user has become intolerant of the noise on there, forums are coming back.

But, you can't expect people to go back to the same problems they left behind over a decade ago. Just about any modern CMS is a dramatic improvement over the crappy database schemas, dead languages, ugly, inflexible, and slow server-side rendered HTML, etc. Just about any frontend a college student whips up would have modern features people actually want to use and be far easier to maintain. What was "solved" is the realization that forums are just another CRUD app. The specific implementation is irrelevant as long as it is architected as such.
How dare you sir. Good day indeed!
For purposes of taxation, what's important is how 'elastic' a taxed good is.

If you tax beer a lot, people drink wine instead.

If you tax labour or capital, you get less of them. Especially in a globalised economy. But the supply of land is fixed, it's perfectly inelastic. So you can tax land without any deadweight losses to the economy.
None of the players here seem to have much to say for themselves. Not Broadcomm (maker of RPi cpu) nor Rockchip (maker of opi cpu) nor RPi nor opi.

RPi has had some very dedicated mostly independent contributors dragging things along. I think a couple have received some small sums for their work from the producing companies but miniscule amounts compared to the work. OPi seems further behind and again reliant on volunteer forces.

It's just so damned sad.

Also sad: the best arm boards available for under say $500 are some chips announced 2018 (Cortex A76). Even with Intel flat out not shipping new nodes for half a decade, they still have steadier better delivery pipeline than arm.
You don't really understand what a Catholic monk's life is like, do you?

Monks traditionally and currently do hard manual labour. They may work on a garden, farm, distilling equipment, artisanal endeavours such as carpentry. Monks (and nuns as well) have to do all the work in a monastery, which includes the daily chores, the cooking and cleaning. What did you expect, that they have servants to do that for them?

Plus, most healthy religious communities believe in real recreation on days of rest, and so they engage in athletics and sports as well. It's actually absurd to conceive of monks who are sedentary or lazy, no matter what the time period or region they may occupy.
Configure the macropad to send uncommon key combinations and use something like Keyboard Maestro to do the rest.
Or rather, run a cosine similarity search on a large data set that won't fit in the prompt, find only the bits that are relevant to the query, and put that in the prompt.
The implication is clear: "if you think the US is the best place to live, you are ignorant".

Even your point 2 restates it.

It's not based on any factual information. The united states has the most people on planet earth who have lived somewhere else but chose here, despite the enormous cost and effort involved to get here.

It's fine for someone to have the opinion that it's not a great place. But the idea that anyone who thinks the us is the best place to live thinks that based on ignorance is stupid.
Personal actions on this sort of issue are meaningless and always have been.
Isn't home depot website absolutely terrible?
It also helps that console makers like Sony and MS are less concerned with driver quality since they're exposing a much more barebones OS to purpose built games and game engines, with fewer bells and whistles and much more control by Sony/MS over the software on the console.
Last letters from Japan's young kamikaze pilots offer rare WWII insights
wow. I'm down to:

zsh -i -c exit 0.01s user 0.02s system 65% cpu 0.055 total

makes a big difference I agree.
Inkscape for WYSIWYG or Latex figure package.
https://paincarelabs.com/personalized-pain-prevention - a couple hops away.

I thought maybe 'repeat the mantra' might be one of the solutions. But no such luck.
> There’s an extreme power imbalance in favor of acquirers.

1. Sellers can tank the deal as well for any reason, e.g. if they feel the deal is not going as fast as they like (and I recommend agreeing on a general timeline).

2. Sellers generally don't get very many offers, so the opportunity cost is often not as high as you might suppose.

3. Sellers can negotiate more friendly terms (e.g. closing sooner), but usually choose to concentrate 100% of their leverage into the price.

4. Due diligence is expensive for both parties, but the seller can easily re-use much of their side. Non-exclusivity would mean the seller could easily entertain many costly offers simultaneously.

No buyer in their right mind would agree to non-exclusivity, though they can agree to a reasonable window for that exclusivity.
See also that time when hacker news was hacked, due to weak random numbers:

How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
Interesting take. I’ve mixed a couple of times and thought it was enjoyable, but I didn’t feel like it was much more than a pleasant but subtle buzz. Comparing it to MDMA feels like a stretch
Would an immutable distro such as Fedora Silverblue for the bill? There are ways to roll your own image as well
Database of national labour, social security and human rights legislation
Money. Ego
> Rust requires unsafe code to implement any non-trivial data structures

That seems like a gross overstatement.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/std/sr...

CTRL-F: unsafe

Only one result, an optional utility function: "pub unsafe fn get_many_unchecked_mut"
I've gone into a frenzy of home automation this week-end, right after seeing the demo video of this "LAM" from Rabbit, thinking about the potential for software there.

Connected a few home cameras and two lights to an LLM, and made a few purchases.

The worst expensive offender being a tiny camera controlled RC Crawler[1]. The idea would for it to "patrol" my home in my name, with a sassy LLM.

1. https://sniclo.com/products/snt-niva-1-43-enano-off-road-803...
Holy crap! I watched the YouTube documentary a couple years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw

Something definitely felt "off" about it ... but they seemed to show that this wasn't a crazy loner holed up in his house by himself.

I guess they were trying to drum up publicity to sell the stereo. And announce the completion of the project.

After reading this article, he does seem crazy. Not quite a loner, but very troubled

The video obviously didn't mention the part about his estranged son Kurt, which this article described

I like audio and big speakers too, but this is way beyond audio. 20-30 years of "engineering", taking over the family home, and alienating much of the family

Engineering is done within constraints, and this project had no constraints

No surprise that nobody really wants it
Night is not low demand in a really cold winter. It’s hard to just throw on some electric blankets and turn off the house heat.
"Open Core Model"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model

Enterprise edition features require a license file, so that directory would be empty and is not needed to use the community edition.

Most people do not need the enterprise edition and despite what some think, a CMS is fairly trivial to write from scratch anyway. That's why there are so many out there. It's a lazy business model. The general idea is more valuable than the actual code. People who pay for a CMS or start out with an open-core product will eventually have to shift priorities towards protecting what they've built otherwise when they scale up. Cheaper to migrate to your own thing than pay a license in the long term. It's more of a business decision than a technical one to do the cost-benefit analysis. The data, community, brand, etc. are so much more valuable than the platform making vendor lock-in almost impossible unless you're stacked to the ceiling with idiots who can't code at all. That's their customer: entities who want a website or app and don't need to think about the long-term cost yet or ever.
I can't remember the last time FedEx actually correctly delivered a package to either my house, or my place of business. They have left expensive switches in the middle of parking lots at wrong buildings in the rain and marked it as delivered. Whenever I see that a company is using FedEx to deliver something to me, I lose all hope that it will actually arrive at the correct address, let alone arriving on time.
We're at the beginning of a landmark moment for Longevity. The companies built in the next 10 years will power a radical transition from sickcare to true healthcare. Here's a short documentary from NFX on the topic...
Yeah that is why Python popularity is on the downward trend and Perl is the opposite /s
Self wasn't sufficiently fast? Craig Chambers's compiler [0] had to be careful around recursive inlining* but it's not that bad, and the compiler definitely came around in less than 30 years of Self or Smalltalk existing (even if you start counting from Smalltalk-72).

A sibling comment mentions that Smalltalk-80 played tricks with inlining some block methods such as ifTrue: and whileTrue: in the bytecode, but Self pulled nothing like that.

[0] http://www.wolczko.com/tmp/ChambersThesis.pdf#page=72

*Although maybe too careful - the important parts are that you don't inline forever, so some degree of recursive inlining is okay (and would help in the factorial example), and that you have a good reason to inline.
Gotta say Starlink could very well fix this soon.
It's like voting. No, my individual vote doesn't matter. But thousands of individuals voting can. Luckily, you are not alone in efforts to help reduce our impact, so it does add up across the population level if people do try to reduce their impact.
Of course, but I think the average person is actually more emotionally resilient, easily desensitized, and capable of killing than the average American generally assumes. History has plenty of examples of this. Modern times do as well. If filtering these was decently well payed, and was a job that had been around for 50 years, 99% of them would be totally fine. Just clock in and clock out. No it is not guaranteed to give every person ptsd if they see gore, which is what the person who started this comment chain claimed, and was what I was responding to.
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Absolutely. You can leave your employer any time you want, and there is nothing they can do about it. You don’t even have to give notice, although it is polite to do so. And you can go work for their competitors too, unless you signed a contract ahead of time in which you promised that you wouldn’t. Even then, that may not be enforceable.
> I remember cartoon network and movie studios releasing lot more interactive websites for their content in Flash.

In fact, quite a few animated TV shows and films were themselves created using Adobe Flash, including new shows in 2024:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_films