skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually a fan of POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE) where all social networks are auxiliary to my own website/blog.

After the Twitter debacle I'm done with the idea of being "married" to any network.
I'd never heard of the Seaborn library. And since Seaborn is the first word of the title, I assumed it was capitalized for that reason only.

So I thought the article would be about some ocean-faring insect or microbe that somehow affected scientists' mental acuity.
Sure. I think LLMs are good at that kind of thing.

My final example demonstrates how those cultural norms cause errors, it was from a logical thinking session at university, where none of the rest of my group could accept my (correct) claim that the answer was "not enough information to answer" even when I gave a (different but also plausible) non-robbery scenario and pointed out that we were in a logical thinking training session which would have trick questions.

My dad had a similar anecdote about not being able to convince others of the true right answer, but his training session had the setup "you crash landed on the moon, here's a list of stuff in your pod, make an ordered list of what you take with you to reach a survival station", and the correct answer was 1. oxygen tanks, 2. a rowing boat, 3. everything else, because the boat is a convenient container for everything else and you can drag it along the surface even though there's no water.
Interesting pattern, don't you think?

(2022) Musk: "Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1497701484003213317

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-secre...
Progress and innovation absolutely does lead to greater human happiness and fulfillment. As an example, absolute number of people living in extreme poverty started to sharply decline at the start of the 21st century: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre....
I think Zig is a step in the right direction. The simple syntax feels as pleasant as Go and the manual management allows for very performant software. It makes it easier to write safe programs but definitely isn’t as memory safe as Rust. The day we have a language as simple as Go/Zig and as safe as Rust will be the day we have a perfect language.
Or they are a righteous developer who likes to trash people outside of development. It was a popular fad for a while, which worked both ways, such as, “Developers think they are experts in everything but couldn’t figure out how to plug in a computer.”
Doing this for every intermediate result badly harms readability.

Consider McIlroy's famous 1-liner:

tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' |
tr A-Z a-z |
sort |
uniq -c |
sort -rn |
sed ${1}q

Adding intermediate variables like "newline_delimited", "lowercased", "sorted", etc... is just pure noise. It's the equivalent of a newb programmer putting a comment over each line of simple code explaining in English what that code does, despite it being clear already.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things"

One of the great benefits of pipelines and tacit programming is the ability not to name intermediate results, especially when those results speak for themselves, are not re-used, and have no significance in isolation.
A smart bullshit artist who loves the sound of their own voice is going to generate more hallucinations than a less smart, more humble, more self aware person.

Making LLMs more knowledgeable is great (more data, bigger models, yay!), but there are other avenues of plausible attack as well. Enabling LLMs to know when they have veered off distribution might work. That is, the LLM doesn't have to know more of the world, it just has to know what it knows and stay there. A person who says "I don't know" is a lot more valuable than an overzealous one who spouts nonsense confidently. Encouraging an LLM to say that there is a disagreement about a topic rather than picking one lane is also a valuable way forward.
I think at this point we kinda have to give up most if not all of the "weird" animals that exists today.

We can only pick them or the modern lifestyle. Let's think of what people will commonly refer to as a "best case scenario": World peace and equality.

Are you kidding me? Think of yourself, and the lifestyle that you have. And multiply that by 8 billion people. There's simply no way for the environment to survive that considering only a fraction of extremely lucky (relatively speaking) individual will ever read this comment.

Your lifestyle, right now, is not sustainable. That is not to say that corporations and lots of other big players are not responsible. But we have to be realistic.
Who said anything about government oppression?
Your argument is good but is also half-baked.

Sure, there's plenty of inequality and bad[1] resource allocation throughout the planet.

>The concept that we’re resource constrained to the extent that we’re beyond the carrying capacity of the world is beyond ridiculous

We definitely are beyond the carrying capacity of the world, if we want to guarantee a high standard of life for everybody here. 99.9999% of humans will lack the chance of being able to experience the upcoming eclipse from a plane, would you argue that's an unfair scenario?

>Don’t complain about the state of the world unless you’re actively fixing it.

I absolutely like this comment because that's the way I also go through life, since if one doesn't practice what they preach, one would be just another meek hypocrite, of which we already have an overpopulation of. I can presume, then, that you are doing your part to solve the "greed, fear and distribution" problem you mention, by lowering the amount of resources you consume to one that is typical of what the vast majority of the planet lives on?

Nobody needs drones and a robot pet when there’s still politically unstable regions of the world that could use the energy and care that went into creating such luxuries. [2]

1: "Bad", as defined by which standards tho?

2: https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1757845715445752201
Benefits are a significant cost not included in your salary number. Those are just the workers. You also have salary and benefit costs for administration. You have costs for contracted services such as food, maintenance, billing, legal. You have liability insurance, utilities, taxes, etc.

No joke, my dad has told me that if he ever gets as far gone as my grandma was, to just buy him a one-way ticket to Nome Alaska. It's unsurprising that the majority of the people I know who committed suicide were diagnosed with dementia and decided to end it.
Ask HN: How can I export Screen Time data from iPhone/iPad (no Mac)?
Individual actions to fix this kind of problem are pretty ineffective. That isn't to say it's not worth doing. In the US / UK with FPTP it's basically all you _can_ do voting and activism under FPTP is also pretty ineffective again worth doing but insufficient for this large a crisis.

The basic reason for this is down to markets being very very good at resource allocation. Lets imagine you're a huge beef eater and previously ate 2 cows worth per year. You reduce to zero cows. What happens?

The price of beef drops a tiny tiny bit. Other people who previously couldn't afford beef quite so often now can and increase their consumption. If a large number of people switch away from beef eventually the price reductions feed through and some farmers go bust or else reduce their production. But since the externality isn't priced in chances are _someone_ out there will consume it.

To tackle this kind of thing you need the externality brought into the pricing system. Add taxes somewhere on the chain of green house gas production. It doesn't actually matter where you tax it, could be a sales tax, could be a production tax. You can even make the tax revenue neutral and pay it out to everyone. You can tax imports to keep a level playing field...

Of course doing that would massively hit the profits of fossil fuel companies and their share holders so they're lobbying like crazy & paying millions to promote bullshit like the idea of 'carbon footprint' to stop it happening.
Be my guest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
The senior sysadmins neglected to configure osquery’s client performance safeguards and apply properly scoped access (observer mode!) on the server.

Systems administration is the art of protecting everyone with less access from footguns while still and especially enabling their use of effective tools.

First-person testimony.
Ahhh, "sea-borne bug", that makes sense, thanks!
You post amounts to: in order to be smarter I need to increase my smartness. Great insight.
To speak in HN lingo, such change would be like expecting IBM to behave as a startup.
I was in a relationship with someone that had all of the “dark triad” traits for a long time. I don’ didn’t realize it, because the reality is so different from the cultural and media stereotypes.

In reality, the lack of empathy was mostly just a disability that harms their ability to relate to people. An inability to form deep emotional connections with people, and doing things that others felt were aggressive or cruel without even realizing it.
Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, find allies
I don't see subsistence seekers as people living of social welfare? subsistence seekers usually will have a job?
And weapons.
> direct consequence of how the West treats real estate as an investment

It's a direct consequence of NEPA privatising environmental review together with our lack of tort reform.
>With that attitude nothing would ever change unless there is immediate visible change from a very small group of people making said change.

It's more the opposite: unless there is immediate visible change from a very small group of people making said change, nothing will change in the end.

Which is precisely where all the "personal responsibility", "do it and others will follow" wishful thinking mottos have gotten us thus far: nothing ever changed.
It was dying when I started using it 15 years ago and it's been dying the whole time and still is. Apparently. Meanwhile I've had 15 years with Emacs and those who haven't have no idea what they're missing out on. Sad, but hey, you can't do everything in life.

The only Emacs users I've encountered in the wild were university professors who use Emacs pretty much out of the box. Never met another programmer who uses it. Plenty have seen me use it over the years and tried to pick it up, but don't think any have stuck with it like me.

For me Emacs is like a bicycle. It's the pinnacle of its technology class. Sure there are more convenient things like cars and VS Code, but these always come with tradeoffs and seem unsustainable in the long run. Emacs is a text editor for life.
Such a great project, really enjoyed it. I’m a hardware engineer. I really appreciate this
It's clear you have no interest in rational discussion.

Perhaps you'd be happier engaging with some local political groups that share your views?

Sounds a bit more productive than spamming a Californian VC firm's website with your hourly angry, poorly-informed political rants against "rich woke Western liberals" ;)
Google TV channels forced on the homescreen
We had different priorities because we realized going to the moon is mostly useless. NASA almost forgot to accomplish their original mission with Apollo, putting a scientist on the moon. They sent Dr Harrison Schmitt at the absolute last minute with the Apollo 17.

Post-Apollo it was realized NASA was a cute way to subsidize the defense industry and keep a large volume of people working and educated about building and maintaining rocket systems. Notably the Space shuttle required both liquid fueled and solid fueled rockets, ensuring a diversity of knowledge and skill in multiple domains. Conveniently the only practical difference between orbital manned spaceflight and suborbital weapon systems is the trajectory.

It is now politically expedient to support further manned missions as a spectacle to distract the US from real problems.
Everyone who has experienced osquery in production when mandated from above and used by less qualified admins knew exactly what he was getting at and the simple truth of it.
> It seems like the only thing we still know how to do and also want to do is roads

Except it's usually done in a more expensive and slower way than in other advanced economies
Some states are filial responsibility states where they can force the children to pay for nursing home or other elderly care. Isn't that fun...
The article outlines plenty of good reasons, that's why we're discussing it. Most depopulation scenarios are nightmares (wars, famines, genocides), and even the good ones are very, very unpleasant (disproportionate resources must be directed towards caring for the aging population, leaving little labour for maintenance of existing infrastructure, let alone development).
Not all your expected checks, but some of them compliance monitoring solutions (e.g. Vanta) can provide. They allow you to monitor whether branch protection rules are set, whether all GitHub users have mapped to employees from the HR system, etc.

You also want to learn about GitHub "rulesets" (if your GitHub plan offers it) because they enable central management of branch protection rules across all repositories. Using them, you can specify once at a level that branch protection rules are to be enabled, and then only add exceptions to this rule if needed, so you have security by default.
What? Really? You think the gap between 1960s American workers and Japanese workers was smaller?
No, they don't. What people think the FDA does and what it really does in general are extremely different. There's a very readable paper here [1] precisely on FDA handling of food imports - that is, if for some reason, you don't choose to believe random internet guy insisting everything most people think they know about a topic is wrong. I don't think it's very purposeful for me to just rephrase the paper when you can read it yourself and get all the details. But, if nothing else, I'll at least quote the lead sentence of the background section:

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"The FDA’s overall foods program is distinct in several respects from the agency’s other public health regulatory program areas. First—with the exception of food and color additive approvals and premarket notification for certain foods—foods under FDA jurisdiction, whether produced within or outside the United States, do not require premarket approval. Thus, the foods program overall is generally a postmarket program."

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The FDA does spot testing of high risk foods but otherwise relies primarily on corporations to simply promise that they're following the regulations that the FDA publishes. That's how you get things like lead in apple sauce - it's not something the FDA is going to be checking for. By contrast, they would likely test something like chicken, coming from a region that had a recent bird flu outbreak, for contamination.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220404/
Well, a system is just a collection of individuals.
Ollama is great for running a separate LLM inference server with very little setup required. This can be useful for a number of situations. Here are a few:

* You have a machine with a GPU that can do the inference but you need to run the application code on a smaller device. In my case, that's a Raspberry Pi with a touchscreen.

* You have multiple applications that all need to use LLM inference for different purposes. Loading the models exactly once is more efficient than loading them with huggingface for each application.

* Your python script is ephemeral and run on demand. You don't want to load the model each execution because it's slow, so you need a daemon. Ollama can serve that role without you having to write anything other than the script.

If you're writing Python and only need one application that's going to run on a powerful machine, you're probably better off running the models directly, but I'd venture a guess that that's a minority case.

As for flexibility, there are probably some things that are easier to do when you're running the inference yourself, but Ollama's API is powerful enough for most use cases.
You almost never see a clock anywhere

except in places where people aren't allowed to check their phones

(such as in schools or certain types of work spaces or a therapist office)
> without paying $100 per year

There was a way! https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync

From what I understand, the author played cat and mouse with them until he gave up. Obsidian repeatedly “patched” the “vulnerabilities” that allowed you to modify the sync server address across 3 different versions.
Given the enmity it sees from those chip supplying foreign countries, it makes total sense.
This seems to me only partially true. Sure if everyone had one-percenter level resources they'd be more inclined to procreate, though the cultural change and the shifted focus to individualism and one's own experience in life (YOLO thinking, if I may) probably has as much or even more effect on it.

As an anecdata, most people I know are somewhere on the low-class to upper-mid class, and the ones who want kids seem to always have at least one, consequences be damned, and the ones who don't, often don't put a price tag on it and merely use it as an excuse if they feel pressured.

Also the `natural instinct` may not be a given here, since up until recently the instinct to have sex and procreate meant the same results for humans just like other animals, which no longer holds true either.
No, porn is huge because people (especially men) aren't getting laid enough for other reasons.
Can you elaborate on this?

My understanding was that aresenic was the reason for any cancer warnings.
Reminds me of a Russian joke.

A secretary applies for a job; the interviewer asks her: "In your CV you claim that you can type 1000 characters per minute - for real?!" "Yes!", she replies, then adds in a low voice: "but such nonsense comes out..."
Measuring GitHub Copilot's Impact on Productivity
I often wonder how much the average return on the stock market, which everyone with a retirement plan depends on, has simply been a function of a population growth.

If the population shrinks, economies will have to contract, the market will need to fall in proportion to the people available to buy stuff, and the compound interest gravy train for a comfortable retirement will end. This is my selfish reason for wanting more people.

This is based on nothing but my own rumination. I’d love to be proven wrong, as this worries me.
If you mandate that all meat come from field fed, hay fed sources, with no fertilizer (hay is a great rotational crop), instead of corn or other crops, solved problem.

You know, like the rest of the world does it.

(That is, unless you plan to shoot and kill and exterminate all bison, deer, etc, that would take over any land we leave fallow...)
It enables using the reduce function to accumulate Rupees.
I’ve used it. At large enterprises with sophisticated deployments. I disagree.
wealth tax would apply to wealth inequality.

I don't know for Norway, but Denmark is one of the most wealth inequal countries in the world, while also being one of the most income equal.
People bet a much bigger multiple in Asian countries. US real estate is cheap.

Not to mention, the incredible 30 year fixed mortgage.
So I see you want to go personal with this in order to try and call me a hypocrite?

Is that where you want to go with this cause I promise you it's not going to go how you want it to
Unijoysticle 2 allows you to use Bluetooth game controllers in old computers
You can just try in one long conversation right now. Ask it a hundred questions in a row and tell it you'll give it a tip each time. It's never going to respond this way. You have to deliberately make it respond like this.

We don't know how the memory feature is gonna work but I would bet a lot of money the bulk of it is gonna be inserting text into the context.

Another reason to disbelieve - the post was 1 day after the announcement and while I don't know about you, two weeks later I haven't seen any other posts claiming to have the feature yet.
The Canvas feature is a custom file format, but they published the format here: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...

If Obsidian goes under or you want to migrate at least your data isn't lost.
No.

There is a lot of shit what would be manufactured, transported to the other side of the planet, sit in the warehouse, [luckily] sit in the store and would be thrown out.

Eg: all this shit made for iPhone/iPod pre-Lighting, all these thin-thick Nokia chargers made in early 2000, all USB 1.1, 2.0 gadgets. Add to this a phone/tablet cases.
For the kombucha, you can grab a bottle of your favorite brand and use a bit of it to start your own culture. You'll also need some tea for flavor, sugar to feed it, and some cups to ferment in IIRC. It's been years since I've done it, but it is pretty straitforward and low effort. Go for it!
Replication crisis != poorly done studies != fake research. Related, but not the same.

Research may fail to replicate for many reasons. Especially in areas like social science. Test subject (person) randomly selected from a population in say, the '50s, was different from similarly selected test subject today.

Bad incentives & outright fakery just add to that mix of possible causes.
Now that Swift is on other platforms, I think it’s a good fit, especially as Foundation is being rewritten in pure Swift .

Really good ergonomics, safe by default for many cases and getting more of rusts safety for others.

Easy interop with C/ObjC/C++, which is a big deal for me because it’s what’s caused me to write less Rust/C++/Zig at all lately and focus on Swift.
We're pretty obviously going to do geoengineering at this point. But we're still need to decarbonise our economies.
this is very interesting, thank you for sharing!
Does it? I haven't used much ocaml and I haven't used Haskell in a while, but as I remember it all IO is already non blocking in Haskell, and the async library gives you the most painless async experience I've ever seen in any ecosystem. And for OCaml, you have explicit binds but recover neat do notation with let*?
I read the article twice but I'm having a hard time imagining how these are supposed to work. How does showing the note to the person that is trying to get bribed differ from just telling them it's wrong and that you won't do it? Usually in those situation you don't really have a choice, like when a cop stops you in the middle of the night. Is it meant to be given in a discrete way, so that the false note is discovered after the supposed bribe?
I handwrite almost all my college notes except for a few select classes. While it defiantly helps with learning....I have diagraphia and it makes learning so difficult....and iv recently been informed via my doctor I might have diacalculia as well and I might want to get tested.

I really only have 1 downside when it comes to hand written notes....it is not easily searchable compared to text files, and it can be much harder to take notes when their is diagrams or a math problem where the teacher is skipping steps....

This means I really need to go find a second hand review via a video to ensure I know what's going on
I don't know why any country would ever sell land under any circumstances. I'm thinking of Seward's Folly and the Louisiana Purchase.