skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should probably paste the second paragraph here for everyone who doesn’t wanna read TFA. Most people’s understanding of the Luddites seems about on par with their knowledge of the “idiot McDonalds coffee lady”

> The Luddites, Brian shows, weren’t anti-technology. In fact, they embraced new machines that helped them do their jobs better. They were against machines that destroyed workers’ livelihoods and rendered their skills useless. The Luddites rejected technology when it was used to enrich capitalists at the expense of laborers. Their dispute is best understood not as being over “technology” but about who gets the benefit of new technologies and who decides what kinds of technologies will be implemented
Did you happen to catch the post regarding ROM dumping the Nintendo Gameboy (DS?) by allowing the crashed game play through eventually playing ROM contents? just wondering if that's what gave you the idea here. But I agree, ASMr would be interesting!
…did you read the rest of it? I recommend it. (And I’m far from a crypto-optimist.)
Exactly the same here: We had Comcast Business for at least a decade, and cancelled it ~Oct after switching to city fiber. They wanted me to ship back the equipment by taking it to a UPS store, didn't have to package it up or anything, just hand it to staff.

I took photos of the gear in the UPS store. We worked for a few months with them to try to get it cancelled after that, eventually they said we didn't ship back all the gear, there were 2 wifi boxes we didn't return. We never had Comcast WiFi. We made a couple more back-and-forths saying this, and eventually they relented, but during this time I think we were charged $600-900 bucks (2-3 months of service) that we couldn't use (because we returned the modem) but they wouldn't cancel because we still allegedly had the WiFi gear.
It's open now!
Love The Far Side. “Went to market” with the missing toe had me in tears when I first saw it!
No, that's not possible.

Console.log(a) will always run and finish before your async function finishes in the example that you want.
Many years ago attending the first company technical seminar that one was taped to the door.

Sometime in the late '80s the local daily began carrying the Far Side and the very first one had Popeye on the witness stand saying, "I yam what I yam."
Thanks, people are entitled to their opinions, so I am fine with it. I am building to learn and play around with Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform and want to have an RSS app I like to use. So, I will continue working on it.

I did experiment with light mode a while back. I didn't end up implementing it. But maybe in future, I will add it as an option . Here is the sample of it

https://x.com/its_sasikanth/status/1737280450127704222?s=20
Teaching every single kid to be cautious doesn't scale. Kids are inherently irresponsible anyway and it's not like cars only kill kids either.

> Yes, drivers should slow down in neighborhoods

They shouldn't. If they need to consciously do anything in the first place then the street design is unsafe.

Interestingly, humans have keen senses of danger. Think of crossing a wide and straight two-lane street with cars parked alongside it vs a narrow, winding one-way one with no street parking.

For example, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh4H9qZ-_6Y&t=195s
If I had to guess, I would say the comment was downvoted because it is unnecessary adversarial, and ignores the obvious non-oppositional-defiant-disorder option: elmu saying "you're right, I don't need that additional compensation to motivate me, my existing stock ownership will motivate me", and for him then to perform.

If there's a risk that he wouldn't do the job because of an inability to focus given other responsibilities, a fiduciary would be obliged to remove him from his position. Money wouldn't gain his "focus", because then he would just get his friends at spacex to give him even more tens of billions of company money to "focus" even more. And we all know he'd just be shitposting on Twitter the whole time no matter what.
We used to use fibers before promises to do this. But don't do this.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/fibers
"Neurotypical" always rubs me the wrong way, because I feel I've never met this person with a typical mind and I'm not sure they exist. I prefer to think of it as a distribution over a very high dimensional space, where the autism spectrum would be one dimension among many. I saw someone make a comment the other day about the average person having "one ovary and one testicle," which is crude but illustrates the point well.
I open the PDF in Google Chrome on a Mac. When I Ctrl+P, the dialog says it's 1 Page. I don't try to print it, but I think it will not consume more than 1 page?

Also, PDF preview in Chrome simply showing it like a normal PDF, but Preview seems confused (gray background instead of white)?
> The cool thing about Vitalik’s blog is that it is decentralized.

I’m not sure how you could read this post and conclude that “the cool thing” about it is that it is decentralized.

By far, the coolest thing about Vitalik’s blog is his writing, in its thoughtfulness and humility.

That it’s decentralized speaks to his commitment to his beliefs.
I enjoyed reading this, and it makes me happy to see that he's finding his way forward in a humane way. Thanks for posting the link.
> The only offramp is someone else (or some exchange) buying your stocks.

So dividends, buybacks, and takeovers don't exist?
Also the whole "testing" part. Unless you're just culturing an already known virus (in which case, why do you need to synthesize anything? You have it in a test tube or something) then there is not in fact any real way to know whether or not some particular genetic modification translates to any type of favorable property. Even gene-linked desirable traits in one species may not correspond to that trait in another, particularly when your metrics are things like "transmissivity" and "lethality" and not "I need slightly more peas per pod".
By far and away the best python plotting library is plotnine, a python clone of ggplot maintained by Hassan Kibirige from Uganda.

By the estimation of one esteemed colleague "it obviously pays back the time investment in less than a couple of days". I agree.
While I might disagree with the political opinions of those right wing parties, I've never seen any of them show complete incompetence and stupidity to the level of suggesting that people inject themselves with bleach to cure a virus.
Everyone has an unsophisticated view about something. And most people lack sophistication in most topics. I’m not evaluating beliefs as such but rather pointing out the logical contortions that some theists engage in to rationalize their position. Of course there are unsophisticated atheists. When they engage in logical contortions that I notice I point it out. I hope people will point out flaws in arguments that I make.
Only a Luddite would have the attention span to read that long of an article. Alas, I am not a Luddite.
Two pilots in their cockpit and you can see a mountain goat in the cockpit windshield.

It is captioned “What the hey?”
This is a product update we’ve been working on. Our multi-headed model is accurate in 49 languages and the full pipeline has really good normalisation (“ten dollars” -> “$10”), abbreviations, and punctuation too. It makes a big difference when you’re feeding this, say, to an LLM in real time.

(Should we add oxford_comma as a config option?)
Administering MacPorts
iRobot is coasting on reputation at this point. None of their offerings are competitive with the Chinese manufacturers. I expect them to get sold off to someone for the Roomba brand in the next 5 years.
Matplotlib has been working fine for me. Some caveats. I'm a physicist working in industry, and don't publish in academic journals. But I do a huge amount of data visualization, for my own use, and to produce graphs for internal reports.

The graphs look as good to my eye as what I see in papers, but I have no idea what extra steps are needed to satisfy each journal's style guide.

Before Matplotlib, I created graphs in Excel.

A possible question is whether Matplotlib deserves the status of being the default for teaching scientific programming in Python, or if a different tool would make it easier for beginners.
in terms of tools, I absolutely want the nuclear power plant engineer to use a wrench and pliars and tongs and a forklift and a machine while wearing a lead lined safety suit instead of wandering over to the reactor in a t-shirt to pull out the control rods with their bare hands. You could be Edward Teller and know everything there is to know about nuclear physics but you're not getting anywhere without tools.

to your point though, a person needs both. all of one and none of the other is useless. You don't want someone who doesn't know what they're doing to play around disabling safety systems so you don't get Chernobyl, but for the everyday crud website you can just hire the coding monkey at a reduced cost.
Did you check your spam page first? (just curious) I can't believe this can be happened. Pre-notice/action-note has to be delivered before the arrival of the last meaningful day.
Ham Solo + Darth Bacon = Pork Star
Crypto overall, including Bitcoin, have bunch of intrinsic properties. A lot of people just don't want to recognise them. It puts me in mind of the Sovereign citizen movement, and I expect it'll work just as well for them vs crypto as it did for the SovCits vs the US government.

* Can only pull new bitcoin into existence by paying a hefty market-determined price.

* Can transfer them iff you know a certain secret.

* Can verify that a certain number of bitcoin are linked to a specific secret.

* Can technically transfer bitcoin without approval from a legally blessed 3rd party

There is no asset outside of crypto with those properties. Turns out that combination is worth, so far, billions. Probably more as it settles in and people get used to the idea. Will Bitcoin last forever like gold? No. Will it last long enough? Looks like it. Is crypto valuable? Judgement is in, market says yes.
Roomba had first mover advantage by a mile and ~70% share of the robot vacuum market at its peak. The problem isn't Amazon but the fact that the company stopped innovating and let competitors with cheaper products and better tech eat its lunch.
I hope your statement is hyperbolic because we're all doomed if you expect a person to know how to operate a nuclear power plant. Normally, your testing if they can follow operational procedure that were created by people who designed the power plant in the first place.

Similar it is unreasonable and bordering on negligence to assume a person has the skill set unique to your situation.
There is a diff between extinction and stagnation.

Wall St wasn't bailing on Netflix shares in 2022 cuz they thought Netflix would turn into Napster. When subscriber numbers don't grow it's a signal of reaching the max number of subscribers on the planet who can afford to pay monthly for content

Netflix execs for years had been braying about how the internet has billions upon trillions of people. But if your subscriber counts start strugling to increase once it reaches 250 mil that's a sign of hitting people who don't have cash left in the pocket. After that peak is reached it doesn't matter how superior your tech stack or business strategy is to the competition.

It's sort of like AT&T. No one believes AT&T is going to shutdown and no one believes AT&T is going to find new customers. Cuz they have already captured those who can pay.

Growth investors will go look for other shares to buy.
Companies should be allowed to sue countries or personally hold bureaucrats liable.
Great, You just decreased competition by killing a company.
With a really indirect definition, yes! But then, the cost per unit sold for the latest Taylor Swift album through Apple Music is basically free, so much so that the marginal amount of time to produce and sell it is extremely negligible.
The culture has to be changed. CEO pay is completely out of whack, giving early retirement to higher paid engineers so Boeing can hire people at lower wages, moving parts of the manufacturing to areas that do not have Labor Unions, putting the screws on manufactures so they cannot make a decent profit. Is this corporate America. We need an airplane manufacturer in the US, but I say fire the Board and the CEO. Maybe those who want to protect Boeing should talk to families who lost relatives on the 2 fatal crashes. Shame on Boeing leadership. It all started with the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Management was not willing to go back to the drawing board and now look at the cost.
> But where I'm from one flu season a few years before 2020 was worse and deadlier than any of the years with covid.

Looking this up an analysis was published in February 2021 after the first COVID wave in Sweden: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930003/

Scroll down to Table 1.

The calculated excess mortality rate per hundred thousand people was 50.5 for during this first COVID wave. You have to go back to the 1931 (presumably flu) outbreak to meet and exceed that death rate.

According to the estimate in this next link, the total deaths have since quintupled: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

Which would yield an excess mortality worse than anything but the 1918/19 "Spanish flu" pandemic if considered just one outbreak. And on par with the 1889/92 "Russian flu" double wave pandemic. Though when counting the third wave of "Russian flu" it was probably proportionately more lethal than COVID has been (so far with ~5 Swedish waves).

Edit: I found out that the "Russian flu" may have been another coronavirus, a cattle-to-human zoonotic transmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43#Virolog...

: Comparison of HCoV-OC43 with the most closely related strain of Betacoronavirus 1 species, bovine coronavirus BCoV, indicated that they had a most recent common ancestor in the late 19th century, with several methods yielding most probable dates around 1890, leading authors to speculate that an introduction of the former strain to the human population might have caused the 1889–1890 pandemic, which at the time was attributed to influenza.[9] The COVID-19 pandemic brought further evidence of a link, as the 1889–1890 pandemic produced symptoms closer to those associated with COVID-19 (the infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 betacoronavirus) than to influenza.[10] Brüssow, in August 2021, referred to the evidence that OC43 caused the 1889–1890 outbreak as "indirect, albeit weak" and was "conjectural", yet the 1889 epidemic was the best historical record to make predictions about the current COVID-19 path due to the similar "clinical and epidemiological characteristics".[11]
Ha, silly of me, quite right. Not exactly what comes to mind when drawing circles to include a city 2/3 south down Taiwan, and 2/3 north up RoK, but fair point.
My father who was a professor in microbiology had this one on his office door: https://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/images/e...

I still use this phrase today when faced with a flood of information.
One item that interested me was the tax issue he raised - getting income in one year, and having to pay tax on that, but then expenses in the following year.

In my jurisdiction this is known as future-income, and essentially in year 1 a simple accounting provision is made (hence reducing profit in year 1) which has the effect of moving the revenue into the year where the order is fulfilled.

This is especially true for subscription revenue where "annual amounts" are almost always falling into 2 financial years.

This is enormously important from a refunds point of view - it's hard to give out refunds if the tax has gobbled 30% of the amount collected.

From the article he's suggesting this practice is not universal? Which somewhat surprises me...
No, it's just a showcase of how absolutely incompetent Qualcomm is at CPU design- they're as bad at CPU design as Intel is at shrinking their node sizes.

It's akin to AMD's inferior CPUs from 2007-2017, except with desktop PCs where you could just buy Intel, Qualcomm is basically the only game in town when it comes to smartphone CPUs to the point where their CPUs are actually more expensive per unit than Apple's (who sell them in 400-dollar SEs both to maintain their edge for businesses, and for people who are looking for a phone that's heads and shoulders a better value than anything in the Android space).

And the thing about Qualcomm is that, because there's no other game in town, they have a captive market and thus don't even need to try (which means the "x86 is doomed ARM is the future" people are just flat wrong in large part because Qualcomm's chips are both inferior to, and more expensive than, what Intel/AMD have on offer).

Sure, they did buy a bunch of ex-Apple chip designers through Nuvia- but they didn't need to because they were going to sell out of their shitty processors anyway- and for Android buyers who are just going to toss the phone after 2 years anyway (and won't ever notice the phone is slow) it's certainly a good strategy.
You usually provide an upstream all IP DNS to query the DoH provider which ultimately resolves whatever queries need resolution.
some people are just unlucky in this regard. from the very first day of VR, I never had any balance / stomach issues. nothing bothers me really. anecdotal but I also don't seem to lose myself in the feeling of "immersion". to me, I feel "immersed" but I am always aware of where I am really. people freaking out when they fall from a height in VR etc. is a very foreign feeling to me for this reason. When I fall of from a top of the building in VR, it is just kinda fun a few times, but I never feel like I am really falling, and I will certainly not freak out about it.

So maybe, just a speculation, people prone to being VR sick might also have potential to experience more / better immersion? I don't know. With how VR tricks my brain, I can't imagine why I'd get sick from what I experience, or how I would mistake what happens in VR to real life. It still is an amazing experience nonetheless - but after trying everything you need to create fun using it yourself because good content runs out fast. Developing experiences with it / tinkering with experimental stuff is where I'm at, or else it will collect dust. Without PCVR, I would not get any good use out of it for sure.
Non-opioid drug from Vertex cuts pain in major trial tests
No it is not. As someone who has been using basically every registrar out there, I can tell you DynaDot has one of best prices (at least first year) but just about year ago they had nasty problem with their DNS servers (all 3 !) and all my sites with domains hosted there were down, 100% in the dark. Ultimately they fixed it and apologized but going through their forum you could see this was constantly happening and many people were upset. I never heard of domain registrar all 3 DNS servers going down for close to 10 hours straight. Big red flag in year 2023.

I moved out to what I consider being extremely stable and easy to chat for help registrar located with staff in USA (contrary to namecheap) that is NameSilo. They are usually $1 more expensive but who cares? I still register with DynaDot sometimes when I see real good deal price wise but if I want to use the domain for live project I transfer it to NameSilo.
You can still leverage the llm ability to understand language to do better than search.

You can use it to refine or expand your search terms, you can ask the llm to ask you questions about what book you'd like next and convert your answers into genre/theme/setting/mood to feed into the next step of the pipeline, you can tell the agent to narrow search results by asking you partitioning questions from the list of book the search returned instead of just being a dry ranking

The is so much rag can do if you use the llm part properly. If the rag pipeline goes question > embedding > search > summarization then yeah you're getting an expensive slow parrot no better than just searching, but that is because it's using the baseline rag that uninspired consultant describe in blogs in a scramble to position themselves as "expert" in the new market.
> The set of people to whom I speak of does not contain major theist philosophers.

Intellectually sophisticated theists usually have some awareness of the arguments of (at least some) major theist philosophers. Maybe you never speak to intellectually serious theists?

> The essence of arguments you wrote boil down to assuming that god has no property which falls into the category of “must have cause outside itself”. Such a belief is without a firm basis in my opinion

I think your criticisms are targeting the wrong point. That God "has no property which falls in the category of 'must have cause outside itself'" is true by definition, given the classical theist definition of God (and even by some non-classical definitions). If something has a cause outside itself, by definition it cannot be God; if it (somehow) turned out everything has a cause outside itself, it would logically follow that God does not exist.

I think it makes much more sense to target the premise "everything having P must have an external cause lacking P". For the Kalam argument (for example), that would be "everything having a beginning in time must have a cause lacking a beginning in time". The burden is on the advocates of the Kalam argument to convince people that premise is true, and personally I don't think they've succeeded, and I doubt you would think that either.

> At any rate, any believer in an eternal god must be comfortable with the notion that things can exist without cause/beginning/whatever term one wishes to use.

Yes, but they conditionalise that comfort. Many theists would say they are comfortable with changeless entities existing without cause, but not changing entities; or necessary entities but not contingent entities; or timeless entities but not temporal entities. As a result that comfort of theirs extends to God but not the universe. Is their conditionalisation of that comfort legitimate? How do we even begin to answer that question?

Myself, I believe in God, but I'm unconvinced that any cosmological arguments actually work in demonstrating God's existence. So I think you are right to reject them. But I think some of the specific reasons you give for rejecting them are misplaced, overly simple.
What does Senator Warren have to do with the European Commission?
E: Hey Boss, I want you to know that I am committed to staying with this company for life, no matter what happens.

B: OK.

E: I would like some incentives, including more money and increased control over the direction of the company if I hit certain milestones.

B: And what if we say no?

E: Um, I guess I'll just keep on working toward the milestones.

Did Musk get suckered into working with more focus than he would have absent the compensation package. As long as he believed he would get it, it worked to keep him focused. Yeah, right. By his own statements he would have kept on working with focus even if he was not promised the compensation package. Either way, there is no need to give it to him. He is not going anywhere.