skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By that logic You should break into a billionaires home and steal their stuff because billionaires already have a ton of money.

I think you'll find that a surprising number of people would agree that this is a just and moral thing to do, but that is an entirely different conversation.

You present the argument as if piracy removes cold hard cash from someone's pocket. That is not the case. The only value lost is the hypothetical profit on a sale that may or may not have ever happened otherwise.

By this logic, it's theft to avoid buying certain brands. Just think of all the profits you STEAL from Amazon by buying from a local store instead! Every time you go to Walmart you're STEALING from your local mom and pop store. You are literally ripping food from their mouths! Don't you feel bad about yourself?!

It's nonsense.
In this case I mean "down" as in "the long part is pointing toward the ground", not "some button-like thing is depressed towards the wall".
I prefer the original headline, noted in the Correction section.
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> What difference does it make to us?

Anything proven or disproven adds to our collective understanding. You could apply that new information to old or existing problems and possibly come up with new or useful results.

Think “what would the proven existence of microbes tell us about a theory like the Fermi paradox”?
Little is publicly known about the base [where the three US troops were killed]. But it includes logistics support and there are 350 U.S. Army and Air Force troops at the base.

Tower 22 is near Al Tanf garrison, which is located across the border in Syria, and which houses a small number of U.S. troops. Tanf had been key in the fight against Islamic State and has assumed a role as part of a U.S. strategy to contain Iran's military build-up in eastern Syria.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-is-tower-22-s...
The old Maslow’s pyramid fantasy

I was a practising psychotherapist for over 25 years.

Never once have I seen a Self-Actualized person.

Self-Actualization is a goal that can never be achieved.

Having met our basic needs at the bottom of the pyramid, having worked on our emotional needs in its middle and worked at achieving our potential.

That statement does not represent any sample of human beings currently living on earth.
I mean, that's about how well I did when I looked at that image, too...
How do you interface with it? Are you pasting chunks of code into chat? Or just describing new code to write and then giving it feedback to rewrite it? Or something else?
I also got a rotary encoder with the plan to use it with a wind up clock. So maybe one day!
I didn’t understand any of that, sorry. Haha

A VPN lets me access my stuff from my phone while out of the house, for example.
Doesn’t hurt. Be prepared for resistance though. The steroid taboo means there are very few doctors in the US that are both experienced and comfortable prescribing.

I saw massive results at 1ml per month, try pitching that. The dose is so low it rules out abuse and lowers the possibility of side effects.
I've read that there is a strong correlation between the timing of earthquakes and the volume of gasses like hydrogen and methane leaking out of the earth. The volume of gas can change very significantly before and after an earthquake. There is newfound attention on this topic because there is a race to discover and harvest natural geologic hydrogen (look up latest news about "natural hydrogen").

I found this research pretty mind blowing and took these notes to highlight this topic.

Underground “Natural Hydrogen”: Notes on Research Review Paper by Viacheslav Zgonnik - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ucnE0B_WQA4zo8tTTsZyBu0i...
> We haven’t had a major leap in language power for decades

I call bullshit. Haskell, Rust, and Zig (and others) are revolutionary. Also: Rust and Zig are facilitated by LLVM.
For those wondering like me, this is Mozilla’s official documentation page about network connections made by Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
> The police called it a civil matter and refused to do anything.

You're a "little guy". You're not "business", "landlord", or government".. So your actual rights don't matter.

Put it differently, the very pigs who are hired to do "law and order" explicitly told you that your rights don't matter.
I'm unaware that the representatives of the United States of America have ever given any explicit authorization for a military expedition or fortification in Syria, though the executive branch has clearly given the orders.

My condolences go out to these soldiers and their families but not the civilian command that ordered them abroad without any clear declaration of war. As a citizen of the USA, we have no control over our military, nor our politicians, and I can't support most of the current actions supported by our elected officials and I am insulted at the deployments that are neither approved properly and put our servicemen at risk.
Crazy how witness testimony remains cited as evidence in a court of law. Pretty clear that we cannot trust our own recollections, regardless of our commitment to honesty
A good first question would be, is the code nontrivial enough to even be copyrightable?

If your app is 95% boiler plate and lets say 5% bespoke code that reads an image from the webcam an inverts the colors then your code isn't eligible for copyright protection. Or maybe I'm thinking of patents. My point is, legally they probably cant just copy paste your code but if the code is sufficiently basic you won't be able to prove that they copied it (and basic ideas are fundamentally not copyrightable/patentable. one of those two.)

"A website is not explicitly recognized as a type of copyrightable subject matter under the Copyright Act. Therefore, you should not list “website” as the type of authorship that you will submit with your copyright application. You, may, however, be able to register a website or a specific web page if it satisfies the statutory requirements for a compilation or collective work.
You can register a website as a compilation or a collective work if there is a sufficient amount of creative expression in the selection, coordination, or arrangement of the content appearing on the individual web pages or the website as a whole. Likewise, a website may qualify as a compilation or a collective work if there is sufficient creativity in the overall hierarchy of the website, such as the ways in which the pages are connected or linked with one another."

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ66.pdf
I've had the vivoactive 3, 645, Fenix 6, and now the 255. The HR sensor is much improved on the 255 (and similar generation models) compared to older models. It obtains accurate HR quickly and doesn't stray or go wild with readings. Enough so that I can go without my chest strap for most runs. I still use a chest strap for high HR interval runs, as it has gone wacky at times here. Another nice thing with the new HR sensor is it uses what seems like a glass cover over the sensor, unlike the plastic resin on older models that had a tendency to develop a spider web of cracks.

Another nice thing I've noticed with the 255 is GPS is normally super accurate, and I'm now able to rely on it 100% of the time for auto 1 mile lapping.
It depends on which hood you want to look under.

Let's say you wanted to write your own SSH client as a learning exercise. Is it cheating if you use OpenSSL? Is it cheating if you use Python? Is it cheating if you use a C compiler?
Not even sure it is possible: Visual C++ for Win95 can't target Win3.1 (as I remember) meaning just building will be something.. Talking about CI/CD software working on this target kinda sum-up to 0.

I am already surprised that a company still support this target knowing that most dev tools for this platform are more found over enthusiast website rather than Microsoft itself. And having hardware for making these tools running too!
It's welcome to compare your algorithm with FSRS. Here is the benchmark of FSRS: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs-benchmark
Carsome; a similar "unicorn" in Southeast Asia missed its IPO targets twice. Any other comparable startups in other markets?
My notes on earthquakes from that doc:

Hydrogen is associated with Earthquakes and can maybe even predict them!

In areas with recent tectonic activity: “Higher hydrogen concentrations were observed,” and “hydrogen gas was observed in ground water.” [pg 20]

“[Correlated with earthquakes,] hydrogen concentrations measured at continuous monitoring sites show abrupt changes in concentration over several orders of magnitude, up to 10 times, in a short period of time.” [pg 40]

“Indeed, at epicenters of large earthquakes a reduction in the ozone layer above them has been observed.” [pg 40]

“A systematic study of hydrogen in aquifers shows that H2 concentrations are in- versely correlated with the age of the area's last tectonic activity.” [pg 41]

“Another study shows that hydrogen concentrations in earthquake-associated faults are usually much higher than concentrations in non-earthquake faults.” [pg 41]

‘During earthquakes hydrogen concentrations in fault zones have been shown to increase by several orders of magnitude.” [pg 41]

“Numerous articles discuss hydrogen as a good earthquake indicator and the possibility of monitoring hydrogen for the prediction of seismic events.” [pg 41]
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Hahaha. Yeah, I figured I'd try it with a "harder" image for a personal project I'm working on — something you'd expect someone to take a photo of with their phone that isn't perfect. So I've been playing around with all sorts of OCR stuff. I was really surprised at how well Textract was able to read the text from that dark line with the fold in the image.
Much like the Y2K bug kerfuffle, there will be a time when the Copilot bug will cause an upsurge in business requiring developers to fix the stochastic parrot code bugs. I think this will be sooner rather than later.
That's pretty much what Urbit wanted to be, to be fair, just with a strong networking component powered by a decentralized identity system. It's just too esoteric to have meaningful traction as that.
HyperWrite Personal Assistant
Yeah definitely herd mentality and not fears of recession leading indicators
There are a variety of terraforming proposals with not totally insane price tags. To some, creating a livable biosphere in 1/3rd earth gravity brings exciting space travel prospects.
I read this less as "this makes it more likely that there was life" and more as "if there was life, this makes it more likely that we'll have found it".
It seems at this point a US strike on Iran drone production is inevitable. They are being used in every front that the US cares about, and now being used to kill US troops.

America really missed the mark on drones, our anti-drone weaponry is not ubiquitous and the switch blade drone is 10x the price it needs to be.
here's an in-depth video with the (de-facto) author of twoslash for anyone interested https://youtu.be/An_XkLxLWjA?si=M8Cehe8xtYAi6_FH

also, did you know that there's an inline syntax? it's `// =>`
Performance aside, if you need fully functional HTTP/2 and maybe HTTP/3 support then you're better off not using nginx. It's a pain.
Two terrible incidents by companies that are no longer operating, to how many accidents by human drivers in the meanwhile? Drunk drivwrs are going to keep driving illegally but given the option, some of them are going to choose to let the car drive them home instead of running over pedestrians.
Sure, the judgment that was missing is better assigned to the “management” skillset rather than the “technical” skillset.

But everyone needs some of both - the most purely technical engineer still needs the personal judgment to hit dates that matter, show up when others need them, and avoid overinvesting in purely play activities.

In this case, better managers would help but honestly any experienced engineer would know that constant customer complaints mean that something is going to change.
A large number of people, less than the “hundred million” that you mention (Wikipedia says FTX had “over one million” customers [0]) lost their highly speculative investment. Yes it’s a crime, and yes it’s serious. All I’m asking for is some nuance.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTX
Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system that covers diverse applications with simple patterning mechanism

https://global.canon/en/news/2023/20231013.html

Canon Says New ‘Stamp’ Machine Will Slash Chipmaking Costs – FT

https://www.asiafinancial.com/canon-says-new-stamp-machine-w...
If there are microbes on Mars, then studying them could tell us a lot about life on Earth. So far, we're trying to extrapolate from a single example.

The most interesting result would be to discover that Mars life is unrelated to Earth life. In that case, the universe is probably overflowing with variety of life in every suitable niche.

Or perhaps we'll keep searching for a thousand years and never find a trace beyond Earth. In that case life may be exceptionally rare.
Yeah, a lot of times it has better code quality, but more subtle bugs than what I'd be prone to produce.

I think a lot of the criticisms are premature, and it's more a stumbling step forward with need for support from additional infrastructure.

Where's the linter integration so it doesn't spit out a result that won't compile? Where's the automatic bug check and fix for low hanging fruit errors?

What should testing look like or change around in a gen AI development environment?

In general, is there something like TDD or BDD that is going to be a better procedural approach to maximizing the gains to be had while minimizing the costs?

A lot of the past year or two has been dropping a significant jump and change in tech into existing workflows.

Like any tool, there's the capabilities of the tool itself and the experience of the one wielding it that come together to make the outcome.

The industry needs a lot more experience and wisdom around incorporation of gen AI in development before we'll realistically have a sense of its net worth. I'd say another 2-3 years at least - not because the tech will take that long to adapt, but because that's how long the humans will take to have sufficiently adapted.
Just like other wrist-based heart rate monitors, I've found the Apple Watch will be within 10% of a good chest strap HR monitor (like the POLAR H10), but only during rest.

During high intensity interval training, the AW (and Garmin) can struggle. For me, it'll regularly read grossly under or over (like, think you're at 90 when your HR is actually 140, or 180 when I'm at 150).

Depending on your veins, your skin color, and your activity, wrist HR might be fine for you. If you want accurate HR in most conditions, though, it seems that you have to resort to a chest strap.
Not even sure AI could help about it, those software might run over system where the documentation never got out from physical paper support, maybe even hand notes.

Talking Win 3.1, it means using Quick C / MFC 1.0 and co. that I image no today AI would learn as deprecated.
Your initial definition doesn't mention social good, though you follow it up with an assumption that social good is some kind of check on where free speech ends. Where does this come from? I know it isn't in the constitution, but is there some legal precedent set that more clearly defines this line?

> This isn't a backdoor to attack your constitutional rights. Not even close.

I'd be really curious to hear more here. My specific question and proposed backdoor was specifically in response to the idea that free speech may somehow be limited based on a measure of how easily current technology allows said speech to be distributed. What did I miss there and how is it not a backdoor?
I Googled using: Vice Lords / Gangster Disciples war wiki

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangster_Disciples
As little as 20 years ago, the idea that Mars had a lake, like honest to God lake, or that we'd gather 1000s of exoplanet signatures, or that we'd find solid evidence of a liquid ocean on Europa. All of this would be bananas.

It may not feel fast on the scale of a decade, but on the scale of my lifetime this is breakneck pace. Not fast enough now that I'm middle aged, but so fast.

Everything is amazing, even if you already knew it was amazing, just let it be amazing.
Unless it’s been buried and eroded by millions of years of dust storms
Out here too!
Seems like someone has tried it:

https://medium.com/@ahuarte/loading-parquet-in-postgresql-vi...
AgentGPT: Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in the browser
Why does knowledge we don't have matter?
Stop idolizing a small set of companies that have problems no one else has [video]
I went to work with a friend who was starting a new company. He had started a profitable and successful fintech startup, and was still serving a role in that company. He had the money, I had the time. I thought it was a match made in heaven.

Until I started working with him and his true colors came out. I ended up doing all the work. He would occasionally come into town, shit all over everything and leave. He was an embarrassment in almost everything I tried to involve him in. We both are sarcastic people and he couldn’t separate the personal relationship from the professional.

I got to see another side of him I never knew as friends. All of his claimed tech skills were either completely fabricated or grossly exaggerated — turns out he was only good at having others do the work for him, while extracting the best possible deal for himself.

When I exhausted all of my personal savings, as well as spent substantial amounts on the startup myself, he negotiated with me to draw a salary from his investment like he was playing a game of poker. I was asking for $60k living in the Bay Area and it was like I was asking for the world. Meanwhile he would openly flaunt his wealth, buying $30k watches and taking every opportunity to brag about becoming “an investor”. He would regularly have me demo to add credibility to himself and for his own ego to his friends and personal connections related to his other business that left me asking “why did I just meet that person?”

All of the employees I recruited eventually became disgruntled and disillusioned, and were eventually fired by him (which he seemed to take great pleasure in).

The final straw was when we were accepted into an accelerator, based off all my work and connections. He agreed to do the in-person part of the accelerator with me, and he did show up for the first week. He spent it bragging about how much money he was making in his “other company” —- he even had one of his cars shipped out so he could drive it around, flaunting everywhere he went. Meanwhile our employees were constantly late being paid, and we were at risk of eviction from our office. Since I was the “technical one” (we are both software engineers) and his other company was fintech, we both agreed he should be responsible for the money but I don’t think he ever paid a bill on time and I would constantly have to remind him.

As soon as the money from the accelerator hit the bank account, he stopped paying for everything and left town with all the money, leaving the car he had shipped out sitting in the parking lot for months. I went to our investors and was advised to resign to shield myself from legal consequences. He accepted my resignation, the company failed, and we haven’t spoken since.
I don't get so much from going over previous conversations, but needing to articulate a problem well enough to ask chatgpt a question is extremely useful. Far moreso than coming up with search phrases, I find.
Or it just means Squarespace has to pivot and extend their product offerings.

Spend a bit in R&D to make sure they have a lock on ease of use at gen AI website building/modification, ideally starting from base templates and that's plug and play with their existing CMS.

If anything, doing that could even increase their market share to users for whom simple templating was either (a) not enough, or (b) still too complex without additional handholding.

For pretty much everyone, generative AI is a threat to those who stagnate in the status quo and an opportunity to those actively seeking growth and ever improved product market fit.
> the main issue is that it's not the default, and switching is a pain.

I would disagree. The main issue is basic driver incompatibility and in depth, dev-level debugging required when something goes wrong rather than just visiting the Apple or Microsoft forum.

I will say this is less of an issue than it was 10 years ago, but it’s certainly not a non-issue. If you’re average Joe looking to switch this is a huge impediment.
There was at least one company (Apollo, I think) that implemented demand paging on 68000 by using two 68000s. You had one, the leader, running as the "real" CPU, with the other, the follower, executing the same code on the same data but delayed by one instruction.

If the leader got a bus error they would generate an interrupt on the follower to stop it before it executed the bus erroring instruction.

The leader and follower would then switch roles, and the new leader could deal with the situation that had caused the bus error on the former leader.
Automattic's Big Re-Org
I haven't done any end of year work, or prepare for the new year work.

I've worked remotely for 16 years, and now they want me to RTO when I haven't worked in that office in 16 years, and literally no one I work with on any topic is there at that office. I work for a global team.

My team is gone home by the time the office opens...

If they make me go into the office alone, then I should stop having any meetings before my office time, which would mean I have zero meetings. No communication with anyone, alone in n office.

Let alone pending layoffs.

And yet, I have to continue to keep my service up and functional with features for my customers, while balancing everything else.

I'm not sure I've felt this down about my career in the entirety of it. What is the point right now?
Lawsuit Deal Downsizes Local-Resident Preference in Affordable Housing Lottery
No, it's that thing where white guys complain that women and minorities are being hired instead of them even though there is no objective evidence of that.

Companies generally don't use DEI in hiring decisions since this would be a violation of anti discrimination laws (they protect white guys too). DEI only applies to the start of the hiring process to get more female and diversity candidates. Candidates still need the skills and background to make it the rest of the way. So when you hear someone complain about DEI, it's really a complaint that they no longer have the skills to get hired.
Explain why you think this. How did you think the world worked before central banking? Do you think a pack of business people grouped around a table and agreed to fire people until inflation declined?
The HSCA conclusions were largely based on the now discredited acoustic analysis of the police channel dicabelt recording. If it weren't for that the findings would have largely supported that of the Warren Commission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_...

A good summary of the evidence that Oswald acted alone can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdrY