skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, I also feel like pop culture has forgotten overtime just how much inspiration (and in many cases ripping it out of the source material 1:1) early D&D took from science fiction / fantasy mashup classics like Jack Vance's Dying Earth.

There's not much difference to a common denizen of a fantasy world between a wand that shoots bolts of lightning and polished chrome laser pistol tube, or between a flying carpet and hover car. It's all the same to them, and the whole "our ancestral civilizations were so knowledgeable in the lost occult arts that they could shape magic into common objects" when it's really just forgotten high tech sciences is always a fun bit of world building.

This kind of material absolutely belongs in fantasy and I really hope that someday sci-fantasy makes a big comeback, some of my favorite reading books and inspiration for tabletop material have come out of them.
The Boeing guy who posted the detailed history of the plane a few weeks ago[1] said something to the effect that they discussed things in a slack-like system rather than enter in the official records system because managers would get upset at KPIs not being met.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...
This is a very hard problem to solve - nobody has successfully solved it before. It's not just a practical problem, because there are also a lot of political motivators. It's difficult to get districts to adopt new technologies, and teachers have a way they already like to teach.

There are already some great quality resources online to learn subjects like math, history, and science, but we believe the missing piece is grading - you're never actually evaluated whether you learned something online.

We think by giving students unlimited practice and feedback, along with quality learning materials, we can work on chipping away at this issue. AI will allow scaling access to quality tutoring, practice, and exams, all of which significantly improve eduction (currently, this costs $40-$X00/hr, but will cost much less with AI assistance). It's definitely not a quick fix to solve the issue of instructional quality.
Similarly all of the great software engineers I've worked with did a stint at Boeing that coincidentally ended when MD bought it.
You're right - I still use number-sense tricks for fast multiplication :)

For Calculator, I wrote https://git.io/ti84rpn so that I could use the fast parenthesis-less Reverse Polish Notation without having to adapt to a whole new calculator keyboard.
Nothing of that changes their desire to avoid selling to the worst abuser. What circumstances can do is making them sell despite that despite.

That's why it's so important to have a clean handover way that does not involve handing over credentials: it allows circumstantial sellers to pick a least bad buyer, if it exists. The more visible the existence of a clean path (as in "advertised in the UI vs getting someone at Google on the phone") is the more difficult it becomes to pretend that the shady path is clean. There might even be some "conscience arbitrage", perhaps unintended: buyers who buy through regular handover mechanism, with a believable story of confidence in being able to make clean money (which they may or may not believe themselves), but who then sell dirty. Less money for the original dev, true, but at least there's one handover on record, eroding trust.
We're arguably almost there with a lot of modern cars having assists that help with stop-start traffic situations. Granted, these assists are priced out of reach for most drivers as they are generally only offered on the top-trim, but I expect to see them appear as standard one day.
> The reason the NTSB wants to know the exact people involved is not to assign blame. The goal, and sole reason the NTSB exists, is to determine why an accident occurred, so they can work out what needs to happen to stop it happening again.

Anyone who has ever worked at basically any corporation knows this is career suicide. If Boeing ever discloses who that person is, he will effectively be barred from working in aviation for the rest of his career, full stop.
Johnson is generally considered a "War Democrat,"[1] not a copperhead (i.e. "Peace Democrat"). That's why he was selected for the ticket: Lincoln knew he had no chance of winning the copperhead vote, be he could win the War Democrat vote with Johnson next to him.

I agree that he had plenty of good reasons to drink, however :-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Andrew_Johnson
Tbh, i now look at optionals as another colour when i read this https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

You return an optional with no reason, it colours all subsequent calls.

When i was younger, i thought of them as an extension of bool, yes/no/maybe, but now, was it cancelled? Did an error occur? Did it just timed out? How many cpu cycles am i wasting throughout my code because every thing down the line checks it for null? It snowballs
Then mysql got bought by oracle
For a delta update of one version of a resource to the next, the resource itself is the dictionary (i.e. JS file).

For stand-alone dictionaries, the brotli code on github has a dictionary_generator that you can use to generate a dictionary. You give it a dictionary size and a bunch of input files and it will generate one. I have a version of it hosted on https://use-as-dictionary.com/ that you can pass up to 100 URLs to and it will generate a dictionary for you (using the brotli tool).
> they cut the wifi during test time so watches cannot be used to cheat.

What about cellular-enabled watches? At my kid's school, they don't allow kids to wear smartwatches on standardized test days.
I think all the links in the first two sections in the What Is Scala[0] docs give the flavor pretty well. It contains a full (and not small) set of OO language functionality, alongside an even more full-featured functional language.

There are a lot of adjectives you can use to describe Scala - mostly good ones! - but "small" just isn't one of them.

0: https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/tour-of-scala.html#what-is-...
Their client is a group of the company's shareholders.
search for Last.Week.Tonight.with.John.Oliver.S11E03 on https://sunxdcc.com (I think it's the correct episode.)

or https://btdig.com/search?order=0&q=s11e03+john+oliver
I have been doing CGM for 7 months now and the learning has been invaluable. My metrics were never in the danger zone but I feel like I’ve learned so much about how many different factors play into insulin resistance and have managed to build much healthier habits over time.
John Gruber's take:

https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/apple_epic_developer_acco...
> A lot of "keto" and "diabetic-friendly" products are terrible for most people's BG and were for mine.

Absolutely, there are a lot of companies trying to cash in on this new-ish market, and they'll do anything to their products to get the net carbs down to 0-2g "per serving" -- scare quotes around that because this is a particular annoyance of food labeling in the States: food labels declare the amount of various nutrients per "serving", but 1) they get to choose the serving size [0] and 2) they get to round numbers, so if they just pick the serving size such that it's 1.499g of carbs per serving, they get to put that it's "1g", and so on.

It makes it impossible to compare food labels between different items even among the same manufacturer (and even the same SKU but different/later packaging, because they don't have to issue a new SKU when they change the food label). If instead they were required to show amounts in g per kg (or ml per l for liquids, or whatever), they could be compared more easily.

[0] The FDA provides "Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed" and asks manufacturers to refer to them when deciding their serving sizes, but (from [1]):

> FDA's guidance documents, including this guidance, do not establish legally enforceable responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe our current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations [...]

so really they can pick almost anything they like

> [...] unless specific regulatory or statutory requirements are cited.

unless the food is medicinal in some way, I guess?

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/102587/download
OP mentions the failure rate of GPUs as "If this were in GPU land, it would have failed within the first few days for sure.".

In my humble opinion, we never had failures of GPU even for large scale training. Our current training batch job is a 20GB json file which takes 6 hours just to load and has been running for more than 15 days with not a hiccup. And we are using the older Tesla T4.

GPUs have memory constraint issues but if you can plan and work around it, I havent seen it crash in real life.
It's also completely silly: it's marketing for me. OFC OpenAI will not reach AGI, and ChatGPT doesnt ressemble humans as soon as in interactive mode: there is little danger beyond freeing poor copy writers from their miserable torpeur.

But make another company defending against an insane danger from the first and people start dreaming.
> Maybe there’s a complex solution here,

There's an extremely simple solution here. Just comply with the EU regulation in good faith. Sure, you lose some revenue that you'd otherwise get, but only for extremely popular games/apps like Fortnite etc, but your overall margins remain very thick. The vast majority of users would keep using only the App Store and vast majority of developers would publish there, so what's the big deal?

Instead it seems that what Apple is afraid of, is that this would lead to a chink in their armor, _eventually_ leading to their no-compromise attitude being re-evaluated in other markets as well, both by users (just a couple of TikToks from high-profile influencers would be enough to bring this issue into a more public light) and regulation bodies.
It also is quite the assumption that the article was not read, but a salient detail was skipped, misunderstood, or any other less malevolent possibilities.
The point isn’t to stop all cheating, it’s to catch the most blatant idiots cheating.

That’s really all that’s required.
i do not know what i am doing.

I just want `create(response_model=T) -> T` lol
I'm guessing it has something to do with payroll taxes.
When I took the GRE in 2017, I got a really bad bloody nose right when the test started and I couldn't pause the test.

The person monitoring wouldn't let me have a bunch of tissues at the computer (Perhaps due to cheating concerns), so each time I needed a new tissue I had to raise my hand and she gave me one.

I didn't end up scoring very well.
I agree with the gp- while ground zero can have neutral or even positive vibes, the meaning is always that of point of origin of an explosion, real or metaphoric.

And I think that the meaning "most basic level" is wrong- the dictionaries might be simply recording a rare and wrong usage of the expression.
I applied to Canonical a few months back and they made me write an essay describing my high school grades, extracurriculars, and test results. I've never had that experience in any other job app so it's pretty Canonical specific but it does happen.
The brotli repo on github has a dictionary generator: https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/master/research/dictio...

I have a hosted version of it on https://use-as-dictionary.com/ to make it easier to experiment with.
This is incredibly cool!

Currently using docker as a way to easily distribute and run an open project[1], this would be great to use on top of docker

Will this run ok on a Mac? (I see the feature is pending, any tests done yet?)

[1] https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs
There's also research that indicates that cancer thrives in high-glucose environment, and that starving cancers of glucose reduces their size over time.
I honestly believe removing the Hobby plan to be a huge mistake on the long-term, while optimizing for short-term profitability.

Without any inside knowledge, I can only speculate, and who knows, maybe PlanetScale wouldn’t have been able to continue as a business, if they kept serving the Hobby plan

What I am quite certain of though, is that PlanetScale is far from ubiquitous enough to have people take a bet on a service they’ve never tried, without a way to try it risk-free first

It’s a competitive space, and killing your funnel of “Engineers learning technologies as a side-project, and bringing they tech into their day job” seems to me at least to be very shortsighted
Is there something interesting with this post or is it just a random question?
This ia really neat, I always wondered how those books were designed.
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The other advantages of buying a recipe book:

- you can take notes in the margins

- you can find your favorite recipes quickly because the pages are all stained and wrinkled

- you can reward the author for all the time they spent testing and honing those recipes

The real depressing thing here is the amount of whining about "wasted time" from folks looking for free cooking instructions on the 'Net. It's almost as bad as the "gimme teh codez" jerks on forums.

FWIW, I like this brownie recipe (and have purchased the book it comes from, twice): https://www.seriouseats.com/bravetart-glossy-fudge-brownies WARNING: contains even more words than the "love and lemons" page.
> However, in my experience, not one kid had an IEP that allotted them extra time to take tests.

There's a difference between the IEP that the school uses and the accommodation request for standardized testing. It would be pretty obvious to you if a student in your class were given extra time for in-class tests, but much harder for you to know if that student qualified for extra time on the SAT. If you knew when they were taking it then perhaps you could figure it out, but people who bend the rules to get extra time tend to not go around advertising when they're going to take the SAT, or at which test center, since that might out them as receiving extra time.

All this to say: I'm not so sure a classmate would know if a fellow student received extra time on the SAT.
They want to see your face and will disqualify you if you glance away from the monitor too often.
A long time ago, we decided that the city is for cars, not people.

It makes sense that it's the pedestrian's fault when the city is for the car, not the person.

Until the thinking changes, nothing else will.

It's working as intended.
>When you're at a caloric deficit your body will begin to burn fat. It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking

Of course it matters. Here's an experiment. Drink only 12 cans of soda (~140 cals each) spread over the day (so 1680 cals total). Assuming a BMR of 2000 cals (standard male), you're at a deficit.

Assuming you start drinking as soon as you get up and last one just before you got to sleep, will you lose weight?

No.. because your insulin is constantly spiked throughout the day which inhibits fat burn.

Now try it with broccoli (or even just fat).
I host a secret dislike for it but was really turned off by you including in-lined SVG files, shifted me more towards "maybe it isn't bad relative to peers"
Sounds like you should have bled all over the computer and let them deal with it. The lack of empathy they showed is abhorrent. Ugh. I’m sorry to hear that.
Thanks for the great feedback!

We’ll have standalone billing with no labels required in the next little while. We’re also planning to add a feature that will let you connect one label to multiple plants for that multiple plants in one location case.
The aeronautical safety culture specifically avoids blaming individuals, and prefers focusing on procedural and organisational issues. If one person made a mistake, why didn't the rest of the organisation around them catch it and prevent it from causing a problem?

I don't think the NTSB is going to look kindly on Boeing if they even try to throw the techs under the bus.
My impression from e.g. interviews at the time is that black and native americans felt, if anything, a lot more strongly "american" at that time than now, and fought as valiantly as anyone. Ironically despite the huge amount of objective progress against racism, culturally the country feels more divided now than ever before.
Alignment and censorship ?
Sure, but to continue the metaphor, the price for not relying on others is having to do everything yourself. And no king can succeed alone.
This looks great!

I've had varying degrees of success over the years with various monorepo approaches, and have so far been most happy with pnpm workspaces plus TypeScript project references (plus Changesets when it's necessary to manage changelogs for published packages). oneRepo looks like it combines the things I like best about these tools and solves some additional headaches, so I'm looking forward to trying it out.
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How so? SDCH had sidechannel issues which is part of why it was unshipped. I don't know that someone won't find a way to attack it but the CORS requirement already requires that the dictionary and compressed-resource be readable and the dictionary has to be same-origin as the resources that it compresses.

Combined they mitigate the known dictionary-specific attack vectors.
uBlock countered that they wanted minimum $XXX and we pulled out.
Not quite yet, but it’s in progress. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Nope. They are all part of the whole "open source" gimmicky companies where their main focus is the commercial aspect of it. It's a shame they are using "open source" as a marketing gimmick and it's totally against the ethos of open source software.
Congrats on the launch. I'm curious about how Circleback connects to Zoom, Teams, Meet, etc. Were you able to use official APIs provided by any of the platforms for this? Did you use a third-party bot service like Recall.ai (already mentioned by another commenter)? Or did you build something in-house that drives the Linux client (where applicable) or a headless browser? No problem if you consider this a trade secret.
aw thank you for listening. some weeks its very much a labor of love lol.

no events planned near term but come to the big shindig in june https://ti.to/software-3/ai-engineer-worlds-fair . last year's summit was the first time i really understood how much of a reach we have and how many good AI people we've managed to gather as friends.
But they provide so little information compared to the DNA you provide. You get stuff like "ancestry" signals which americans love in their quest for racial validation, but they get to connect humans to a point they can find the family of an unknown murderer whose DNA was found on a crime scene.

Which information is more precious overall, which is a call to action rather than a simple joke between friends "oh im 3% Banana".
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I just heard about a related device from a family member who is an endocrinologist.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clea...

First off, he had discomfort with the study methodology. Didn't go into details, but was surprised that the FDA was less conservative than himself in this case.

Secondly, it has been common in his practice for someone to have an unusual event. Someone does something out of the ordinary, they have an unusual circumstances, they don't adjust their treatment, and something goes wrong.

His question was -- does the device have a reset button? Is there a way to restart the management and learning? The answer is no -- the device will learn! But there's no way for the patient or the physician to adjust the treatment. So his answer is -- he would never recommend this device, not the way it's currently setup. It's opaque and there's no means for a person to influence the device's learning.
Not how I would phrase it. :)

However, most gym machines (e.g. treadmills) have a setting that says 'fat burn', so I can see why the average population could incorrectly think that.
On one hand that is true, but I think for some of the critical parts, I guess they do have a rather close relationship with, and having regular meetings with. Having regular meetings with a company that is at two hour drive is a bit easier than at a different continent. And then there are also culture changes that require you to build a relationship with your suppliers.
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an explanation not only helps the ignorant, it reinforces the idea within your own thoughts and perhaps seeds new ideas that are derivative; it even teaches the otherwise uncaring that may happen upon the comment.

what you did wasn't that -- but I would just like to point out that simple concise explanations helps the community as a whole; it's not just the ignorant that lose out.

Yes, I know it's likely not your job to educate, and maybe it's a bother that someone acts expert on something that they're clearly not -- but those that care to educate serve everyone in the context of an online forum, not just the naive or ignorant.
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I have a childhood condition that left me marginally disabled with a bad hip (I probably should get a replacement and I'm not 40 yet) that causes me immense pain some days. I also have life-long mental health issues. I've been 300 pounds and I've lost it via the old-fashioned way - diet and exercise. If I can find ways to make it work, then yes, I do think most anyone can. You do have to try different foods and exercises to see what works for you; every one is different, and in that regard no one can educate you; you have to figure it out for yourself.
Again, you’re mixing up sources with coverage of those sources. This is an important concept to understand because it allows the reader to conclude that a review paper in Nature is more representative of the field than a single paper, and in both cases you’ll get a more nuanced understanding than fits in a single sentence.

This is also why the quote mills like the one you copied that from don’t cite their quotes, because their goal is not understanding but to continue collecting a paycheck for delaying action on climate change.
Requests it makes for things required to function at all, video data etc. I guess? But this is the first time I've heard this claim.
I thought that part of the application was a bit odd. High school me is so different from current me that I might as well be writing about a different human being entirely.
> unlike the max problems?

what do you mean unlike the MAX problems? do you think this is a different model aircraft. The MCAS related crashes with 300+ casualties was an earlier version of the MAX. The door flying off was still a MAX.

So at this point, we should be well past viewing incidents on a per incident basis, and now just see each one as yet another example of the failure/lack of Boeing's prowess on designing a safe airplane.
I've taken some tech certifications in the past and had the option of taking it at home (PSI) or at a test center (Pearson). The amount of intrusive demands the at home tests required and the absurd amount of monitoring made sure I never take a at home exam. Test centers I just bring my ID, leave my phone an keys in a locker and go to the assigned PC.

One memorable instance, I have a 37" 4K screen. In full screen mode the questions are in the top left and the multi choice answers are bottom right. The test proctor kept interrupting my exam because they assume I was looking away from the screen. I had to remind them repeatedly I'm using a large screen.