skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> self-flattery

Lol.

> By straw manning the Middle Ages (especially the Middle Ages, as many of these types had an ax to grind against the Church) or the ancients as superstitious imbeciles, it makes them look better, these true men of reason, in the eyes of the ignorant whom they sought to impress.

This is a great point - and still relevant. Academia does this to this day, attacking researchers like Jared Diamond, pooh-poohing the work of (very) ancient mathematicians and astronomers, or diminishing the insanely impressive craftsmanship shown in, eg, 30-50 thousand year old flutes, carved with perfect pentatonic scales.

Pentatonic scales! Well over 30,000 years ago! The implications of that are astounding.
I don't know exactly how much money my friends and relatives have, but I suspect that several are in the second group, and none inherited that wealth.

A book written in the 2000s may pre-date much of Silicon Valley wealth creation.
> As if the thought process behind I'm hungry starts with "I"

That sounds like {you think that {people who think LLMs work like humans} believe that {the human sensation of hunger} is merely {saying the phrase "I am hungry"}}.
> I mean, earlier treatment is beneficial, but there's a significant confound. All else being equal, if a cancer is less aggressive and slowly growing it is more likely to be detected early.

Wow! That makes so much sense! I had never considered this!
I enjoy the implication that these massive cities we've built in the scorching desert that don't have any water of their own aren't to blame in the slightest. Like it's impossible to build server infra anywhere else than one of the hottest places on the continent.
any chance you could provide me with entry refs for the tipitaka?

The zoroastrian Ahuna Vairya and (especially) Ashem Vohu do seem to contrast following asha with worldly power. (compare med. {bellatores, laboratores, oratores} or PIE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifunctional_hypothesis )

Given the relative dates, I'm proceeding with the very tentative hypothesis that Zoroaster (who does seem to comment, in stuff I have yet to read, on immortality?) might be the common source for both?

(oddly enough, the "silk road" as such is supposed to be more recent than all three, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Chinese_and_Central_... suggest many possibilities for bits to already have been travelling back and forth across eurasia even if trade in atoms had not reached its later heights)

As for the nuptial number: at this point I'm not convinced it isn't just technakos barbar (technobabble)? IIRC elsewhere in the Republic it's argued that the guardian class will reproduce by sending its youth to the ancient greek equivalent of open-air music festivals, where they will camp together letting nature (as with bulls and cows) run its course, so the passage here seems to be a deliberate contrast. (but to what end?)

Edit: think I found it, via source attribution. The speaker of those lines is neither Platon, nor Socrates (whom he supposedly quotes), but the Muses (as "quoted" by "Socrates"): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
in which case technobabble makes perfect sense.

[at one point I ran across a Soviet book on religion —because a colleague had relied upon it in the 01960's to follow the Western CS literature and their use of Easter calculation as a running example— and was amazed at how much detail it went into on minor european sects but disappointed in how relatively broad its coverage was for other continents]

Edit: HN can express the sumerian signs for 3 and cow! 𒐈𒀖
i am puzzled why people think there is true intelligence in AI. IMHO it is advanced interpolation or morphing similar to the photo morphing tools of the 90s. if the data is not in the model you can’t get it out. you can only get interpolations out of it of data in the model. the more sophisticated the interpolation the more people think there is intelligence. maybe i am missing something but this is what i perceive.
That may what sysadmin meant back in the 80s and 90s but it's not what it means now. I would never describe myself, a SRE-SE, as a sysadmin because I would be describing someone whose primary job is to operate software and iterate on configuration.

SRE-SEs on the other hand are SWEs, they just have a focus in systems adjacent software whereas a SRE-SWE is someone who can dig into compiler level issues and optimization. Both write application code, do analysis, and write policy. A sysadmin of today would be out of place on a team like that.
If you’re equating signing a commit to traditional code approval you fundamentally misunderstand the point of signing a commit or what a signature is in cryptography. You “approve” the code by authoring the commit but the signature is a verifiable stamp to say it was you, not the approval itself.

In that case you probably need training or self-education. If your company tells you to sign commits but doesn’t tell you why, that’s on them. If you sign commits and don’t take the time to understand why, that’s on you.

Also, if you think quality comes from approval or signing a commit you’re also not understanding code quality because there is a huge amount of terrible approved code out there.

Just because someone doesn’t understand something doesn’t mean it’s bad or shouldn’t happen. It means that there’s possibly a gap that’s causing the misunderstanding that should be addressed, or the wording changed to be less ambiguous.
> I know we likely disagree on the usefulness of those, but if you are privacy concerned why would shotspotter even be on the same level of concern as cameras that don't need a gunshot to start filming?

I think that is also bad. Two things can be bad! That's just not the topic of the post.
Not all products trickle down to be used in egalitarian way.

When they do trickle down often it can happen as a monopoly technology where supply is controlled by a few powerful entities.
How about Erlang?

I can’t say I know it myself. It always looks good on paper. Strangely nobody uses it. There must be a catch that detracts from it?
Remember that your rejected applicants are the largest and cheapest part of your recruiting organization, and you can't fire them. You will do well to make them fans of your company and your hiring process.
What measure is there for assessing the correctness of a theory aside from predictive power?
Can you repair your hairdryer? It’s literally a Chinese motor with a Chinese resistor, the two most frequent objects in the world.

Objects in the industrial world can’t be repaired. But Titanium can be melted.
if you're just trying to initialize a new Array, you can just hardcode it and get much better performance.
https://www.measurethat.net/Benchmarks/Show/29982/0/hardcode...

This isn't necesarrily unknown, but knowing that there's a cost associated with promises and async/await will get you pretty far in terms of performance. I remember the idea first clicking when I watched this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMBvjmeOotA
I was wondering how something so basic could go unnoticed for so long. Halfway down the page on OP's link, a user u/rbmm provides a compelling answer: that there are (possibly expected?) cases where a thread trying to acquire the lock in shared mode can accidentally get it in exclusive mode instead. This is due to interleaving of atomic bit test-and-[re]set operations between the (shared mode acquire) thread and the (exclusive mode release) thread running simultaneously.

The repro code holds the shared lock while waiting for all other threads to acquire the shared lock, and thus deadlocks if any of the worker threads accidentally gets an exclusive lock. In "normal" use cases where the lock is used to protect some shared resource, threads holding the lock don't wait for each other, so there is no deadlock.

Interesting stuff!
there are plenty of other beverages that aren't alcoholic/caffeinated than just plain water
Climate change is easy to solve: build fusion reactors which are 50x cheaper per kW to deploy than solar. Deuterium is cheap, after all.

> Climate change is not currently being solved because of politics and existing systems, not because of a lack of intelligence.

It's a technical problem that's sociopolitical because we don't have a Pareto-improving technology to solve it with. Like 50x fusion reactors. Not a complete solution, but with it, the political will to shut down remaining emissions is easy to muster.

Some people think we'll have AIs soon for whom "design me a fusion reactor which is 50x cheaper per kW to deploy than solar" is the sort of input which gets the requested output. I am skeptical of this. But it isn't an incoherent thing to believe.

Where cancer is concerned the situation is much less clear.
The way going girls go crazy for pop stars is a bit like how sports teams supporters act when their team scores.
There is even more fun aspect.

'Survival' for cancer tends to be defined as surviving 5 years. The earlier you catch, the more patient had left to live anyway.
Sure, when you don't backups and the maintenance that's comes with them into account.
Also accessing a home NAS outside its network is annoying as hell if you don't want to broadcast your home IP to the world or open yourself to attacks in your home network.
There are tons of examples where low latency is good for business, even small businesses. I'm sure you've seen the studies from Amazon that every 100ms of page load latency is costing them 1% of revenue, etc. Also everything communication is very latency sensitive.

Of course there are plenty of scenarios where latency does not matter at all.
My understanding was that K8s itself has overhead, which ultimately has to be paid for, even if using a managed service (it might be included in the cost of what you pay, of course).

I did add the caveat of "with modules" and the idea of sharing values around to different servers would be easy to do, since you have Postgres around as a database to hold those values/statuses.
Can this be used for body measurement, eg 4 shots different poses combined together? What kind of accuracy might you get if so ...just curious?
There are also downstream consequences of ordering tests aside from cost; not all tests are harmless. As an example, regular screening for prostate cancer isn't recommended as much. Partially because it is often so slow-growing that people often die of other causes before the cancer even begins to cancer, and because the definitive test is a biopsy which is somewhat invasive. Rates of complications are relatively low, but it becomes a cost-benefit consideration (again, irrespective of cost) of if those risks are worth catching something that you may not even want to bother treating.
Another problem is that due to fear of lawsuits, you really are not allowed to talk to candidates afterwards.

Even innocuous things like "We all really thought you'resmart, and loved your projects, but in the end we thought you needed a bit more experience. Please, please reapply in a few years" - you may mean it to encourage the person and show them that the lack of an offer is just a time mismatch, they or their lawyers might reinterpret it as a type of age discrimination, or worse.

Basically as a company employee you are in a "live fire" environment when talking to candidates and you need to keep your head down and minimize exposure

The obvious answer is to make the average validity of successful suits against companies much higher, so that the feeling changed from "it's Very very easy to be sued and lose money+status+reputation wise, regardless of the merits of the case" to "it's a free country, if you do clear, overt, intentional wrong, you may be in trouble, but in general as long as you are honest you are in the clear"
at the surface level yaml is a lot easier to read and write for a human. less "s. but once you start using it for complex configuration it becomes unwieldy. but at that point json is also not better than yaml.

after using cdk i think that writing typescript to define infra is a significantly better experience
So....the long-expected apocalypse comes, mobs of crazed hungry people are fighting over scraps of food...

...so how, exactly, is a billionaire supposed to get to his hideaway? Call an uber? To the airport to board his private jet? If it were even possible to launch a jet under such circumstances, why wouldn't the pilot have already grabbed his family (or a few stewardess) and and flown off to the hideaway himself?

Even if our Billionaire somehow gets to his his fortress, are his private security guards going to let him in? What, exactly, is he going to pay them with that is more valuable than what they already are occupying?

He can stand outside and yell all he wants about how they must "respect his authoritah", but any institution which gave him "authoritah" is gone.

I guess if you are a billionaire, it's easy to forget that the only reason we even have billionaires is that we believe they benefit all of us more than they are costing us. And in the event of a societal collapse, that would be manifestly untrue. To think that any of the rest of us would still just grant them all kinds of privileges after they had so incredibly misused the privileges they were granted is just the height of hubris.

Without an uncollapsed society, there would be no billionaires, anymore than there would be husbands without marriage.
Kepler makes Copernicus look like a tool.
I couldn't find a photo of this in the article:

> Attached to one component underneath that car — out of sight to virtually everyone but the rats, once the train resumes service — there was a round, black-and-white sticker. It featured a smiling cartoon face resembling Thomas the Tank Engine, and it proudly bore the words “Coney Island Overhaul Pneumatic Shop.”
I find it interesting that Manichaeism is used as a synonym for dualism despite the fact that dualistic cosmologies predate Manichaeism by at least a millennium--Zoroastrianism relies heavily on dualistic cosmology, and probably exists in a similar form in the older Indo-Iranian religion that Zoroastrianism (and Hinduism, for that matter) is based on.
The generator requires that you specify a grammar; combinators don’t.

Because the generator has your grammar, it can analyze it and tell you if it’s ambiguous. Combinators can’t.

Combinators easily support arbitrary lookahead.

The combinator libraries I’ve seen in Haskell can provide excellent error messages while parsing, especially if you spend time tweaking them. The generators I’ve seen don’t have error messages as good.

Typically with a generator you use a separate lexer, though I suppose you don’t have to. With combinators, you can use a separate lexer, but this is not typical.

Generators require you to run a separate tool to generate the parser and maybe the lexer as well. With combinators you just write them in the host language. This impacts your debugging experience.
I'll refrain from providing code that involve concepts as you're under 18
>I think you understood fine, its the entertainment and hospitality sector

I think you should give the questioner the benefit of the doubt,

"I have a friend that basically throws the high net worth welcoming party that’s missing from people’s lives" was a little hard to parse for me too.

Seems like an interesting business though which demonstrates we often don't know what problems are out there in wait of a solution.
Yeah, and allegedly the super-efficient government controlled system has built on the order of 4 bn houses for 1.5 bn Chinese. This might be the largest and most costly housing bubble in history, and I believe it happened partly because China is terrified of letting its banks fail. If you think the "Greenspan put" is a thing, just wait till you hear about the PBOC put.
If anyone's being that cagey about the "interests," it can only be one thing...
You make that sound like it’s a bad thing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/12/28/...
HATEOAS as designed for humans makes sense, but then REST advocates should really stop calling what they're after a RESTful API and start calling it a RESTful UI. An API is widely considered to be the opposite of a UI—it's the interface that is directed at computers rather than humans.

If the key principle of REST is one that is incompatible with computer clients, then a good starting point in a constructive dialogue would be to acknowledge that what they're really saying is that a RESTful API is an oxymoron.
Well, maybe last century.

At any point of this century, the response to those support incidents from MS was always to deny a problem, and if it's a known one, to try to gaslight the customer in a direction contrary to solving it.

I have seen organizations lose way too many people-hours trying to satisfy the MS support and apply what it recommended. That when the real solution was often reachable in a hour or two of research on 3rd party knowledge bases.
In its extreme alcohol is a truth serum. The ones who don't drink want to keep their secrets to themselves and can't be trusted.
NIST 800 in general typically doesn't apply to home users.
I wish I could compile those electron apps from source à la FreeBSD’s ports or whatever. I’d rather have the laptop compiling for a few days than using electron
Great advice. "Explain the impact, not the problem"
They also get some of the complexity of cloudy things when they run their own datacenter. In the end you find stuff like OpenStack which becomes its own nightmare universe.
> The #1 objection I've seen to REST as Fielding described it is that it seems to basically assume that the human is the API client.

Reading the essay, it seems that is indeed the goal that the client is the human, so it would be weird for that to be an objection. If so, the objection then seems rather that a RESTful API is not terribly useful for a lot of systems.

Which is fine, not everyone has to love hamburgers either.

But yeah, I'd love to see a proper non-trivial example.
Oh, yes, all of those are fixable. It's just a permanent reminder of a lot of bad decisions along the way.

And it wouldn't be C++ if a large chunk of the bad decisions wasn't rooted in the preprocessor.
Yes, exactly. Modern chips thermal throttle by default, their turbo clocks/voltages aren't sustainable with most cooling solutions, so, reducing the voltage the chip runs at lowers the power consumed and allows the chip to maintain a higher clock for longer durations.

There is, of course, a risk that the lower voltage won't be stable, but, as long as you stress test your system as you would while overclocking, you'll be able to find a lower voltage that is workable.

The 7000 series ryzen chips have this built into most motherboard bioses by the name 'pbo offset' (or similar) which modifies the stock voltage curve lower, and can set new temperature targets if desired. I'm running my 7950x at PBO level 3 with an 85c target, works well with no more fuss than a couple reboots really.
There's a lot of media swirling around right now that's remarking upon the fact that the AI movement especially at it's most evangelical end strongly resembles what would otherwise be called a cult.

I don't think it's a coincidence we're seeing the largest numbers ever of people leaving organized religion at the same time we're seeing so many communities like the one that's grown around AI spring up that are essentially religion without the historical baggage.
The article mentions family-friedliness. That indicates a non-vanishing number of women at the events have kids and are likley in a relationship.

Would men in other societies accept their significant other rooting for other men with corny phrases? I'm reading "horny" here, but nontheless.

Would the female partner accept that the male one brings his cameras for photos of cheerleaders only?

I'm pretty sure it is "no", which explains why this isn't similar elsewhere.

Is this small piece of understanding I tried to derive anywhere near correct?

(I don't think I should ask my korean colleagues for verification.)
I think this "spray and pray" approach is making entrepreneurship more accessible. You get access to some funds, education and assistance to develop your business, and access to a pool of sought-after contacts you otherwise wouldn't have.

It gives people an opportunity to pursue their startup ideas - something that simply isn't possible for those less privileged.

I don't see how that cant be considered a good thing - especially for those who cant afford to bootstrap themselves and have no experience fundraising.
Amiga's final days as chronicled by the Village Voice 30 years ago
Don, have you played around with the Interlisp.org "try Medley in your browser" or the downloadable version? And if so, what did you think of it?
> you should reset the profile once it reaches a certain saturation point. This saturation point varies from platform to platform. Often, it doesn't have a quantified metric. Often, it will be a feeling

Yeah it's nice to have a blank slate now and then. I often get the feeling my profiles have had their moment in the sun, and are no longer serving me well. But then I just take a break from the platform, delete all my posts & comments with Redact and start shitposting again.
Offhand, weren't there 'expert witnesses' that reported what the government wanted to hear as well?

Edit:
This might be what I'm remembering...

""" On 5 February 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared before the UN to present evidence that Iraq was hiding unconventional weapons. However, despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service that the source was untrustworthy, Powell's presentation included information based on the claims of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed "Curveball", an Iraqi emigrant living in Germany who also later admitted that his claims had been false.[80] """

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#Pre-war_events
"Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, for instance, find that once corporate and estate taxes are added into the mix, the top 0.1 percent of earners paid 71.4 percent of their income to the IRS in 1960, compared with 34.7 percent in 2004"

https://slate.com/business/2015/04/top-tax-rates-why-its-abs...
I agree that GitHub is to be avoided. At present it’s a bit difficult and maybe a bit unrealistic to avoid it entirely unfortunately. But I really want the space to diversify more.
Yeah. In this current hype cycle phase the general population thinks that ai is chatgpt and that chatgpt can do anything. Both statements are completely wrong but people will believe it
Compared to 2005, we live in a society where a lot of people are very sensitive to words.

For example, "developer" is considered offensive, because for some people it's very important to be called "software engineer".

Really good developers don't care about titles.

They don't have time to worry about such, or they have so much money / experience that even if you call them "smart monkeys" they'll be happy with it.

Same goes with sysadmins, SREs, devops, or whatever role you choose.

For some people they have shitty jobs: they don't have such recognition (whether for a good reason or not).

No recognition from work, no recognition from colleagues, no recognition financially, etc, that, if you remove them the title / prestige, obviously they would feel bad.

Source: my experience in a school calling itself "engineering school", and all other schools calling it a "place where to pee code"
Obsidian has a built in sync feature if you pay for it. https://obsidian.md/sync
I think a better title should be, "AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and Big Money!
If volatility is predictable, it would quickly be traded until it became unpredictable and unprofitable.