skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that sucks up tiny features like a giant vacuum cleaner sweeping the streets and changes every hour.

Can you provide some (preferably recent) examples? My experience has been the opposite. It feels like new features are given a lot of thought and deliberation, and stablizing even something small can take upwards of a year.

I will agree that today's Rust is different from Rust 1.0, but I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. More that they were able to come to a stable 1.0-ready core fairly early on, and have been adding on the more tricky parts bit by bit since then.
Considering the usability of PGP it wouldn't surprise me if the most users didn't use it and just entered their address. Especially since there was an 'auto encrypt' button right there. Linking bitcoin transaction info + addresses of users could easily be used as probable cause by the government to justify searches and seizing of vendor/customer devices to find other evidence.
Murder-for-hire happens regularly. Corporate involvement is very unusual, but that might be colored by a greater ability to throw resources at the problem. Most murder-for hire prosecutions that make the news seem to have something in common - the protagonists were amateurish, typically motivated by personal grudges, and spent relatively small sums of money (<$10k), and hired relatively inept killers who did a sloppy job and were caught. In contrast, organized crime killings often go unsolved for long periods.

Why wouldn’t POTUS have journalists killed then?

One current candidate for that office has lawyers who argue a POTUS would be immune from prosecution for such acts.
Op, why do you need to spend 50k to get healthy?

Maybe you could spend a maximum of 5k, and I would recommend that only for buying exercise equipment, and for other items like a nice road bike. Start exercising 30 minutes to 1 hour everyday

Start with a diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables and cut out sugary crap and oily, fried stuff. Cutting out or drastically minimizing meat might also help. You'll see huge changes in 30 days.
Convenient Sandboxed Development Environment
The GIL is per interpreter/process, so this wouldn't be related as far as I know.

The GIL only really kicks in if you use threads in a single process. Then, the GIL will only let one single thread do actual work at a time, and will trade off which thread gets to do work. The other threads can wait on IO stuff (web requests, the file system, etc) but they can't do number crunching or data processing at the same time.

That's a really interesting observation though, I wonder what _is_ causing your separate processes to sync up?
sure, but you don't need a manipulated and twisted context please don't take what I say out of context
> we haven't made any new discoveries in cosmology in the past two decades

Is that true?

At least for my hobbyist understanding of the progress of cosmology, quite a lot seems to have happened in the past two decades. Confirmation of the Higgs Boson at CERN [0] kept me up all night to watch the press conference; I found it extremely exciting. (Maybe you count this strictly as observational particle physics and not cosmology, but I might appeal for it to be allowed in the context of your critique).

And what of TFA? Isn't what we're reading now a new discovery in cosmology?

What about the rush of exoplanet discoveries?

What about the dramatically different galactic properties now observed in increasingly strange corners of the observable universe (including some which perhaps give insight into some of the properties of "dark matter" or whatever it ends up being)?

0: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/new-results-indic...
Huberman is sponsored by AG1, thereby he endorses the product.
Covid vaccination rates and deaths were rather famously subject to it. E.g. some combination of stats like “most covid deaths were vaccinated individuals”, “vaccination reduces death rate”, and “population segment with lowest vaccination rates has lowest covid death rates.” were all true at the same time.
But your example isn‘t a case of Simpson‘s Paradox (which is purely statistical), but Jevons Paradox (which is about human behaviour and economics).
This is awesome. Great job! I love the simplicity of the whole thing. I was able to figure out the tool in a minute. Compare that to professional software, which can have a scary complexity. I think it'd be a great educational tool. Kids would love to experiment with it.
I am suspicious of this approach given that so much fiber is removed from the stock. Surely some of that pulp has flavor to contribute?
> our resident nuclear expert / historian

I'm no expert and there are several on HN that know fair more about nuclear technology than myself, it's also not a matter of history for myself as I was present at the time and a number of Australians were "detained" by the Indian Government at the time (they completed the work they were there to do in any case, only with personal armed guards and no option to leave early) and later questioned at some length by US personal when in transit through US airports.

If you hunt about there are many US TLA hosted documents that admit they weren't expecting either round of testing ( the 1970s not the 1990s ) when they happened, at best they had it as a possibilty.

The questions posed to Australian geophysicists and field crew were heavily weighted toward the "how come you people knew there'd be atomic tests and we didn't" end of the spectrum.

The answer to that is one specific Australian who organised the survey contract might have had an inkling .. but for everybody else it was just another radiometric survey with two quite large (crystal volume wise) quite sensitive radiometric spectrometers. Get to the job site, complete calibrations, begin survey area and Bang! surprise nuclear testing.

As a general impression the US appears to be far less able at on the ground first hand field work than many seem to think, than is projected in movies.

Much of the "evidence" for "weapons of mass destruction" came from third party non US sources and caused a stir when it was presented to the UN in a much massaged form to bolster the case Iraq had WMD's.

Snippets that originated with UK, French, Australian sources were jazzed up past recognition, mobile barrage balloon equipment became chemical weapon dispensers, and so on.
It's definitely not about semantics or language. As far as language is concerned similarity metrics are semantically vacuous and quantifying semantic similarity is a bogus enterprise.
I think the person you're replying to is just trying to use an analogous example; you didn't need to bring it up.

Regardless, I think it's a bit alarmist and overly aggressive to assume nefarious intent. Have the developers acted in ways such that this reputation is deserved?

Also, little OT, but it took me unreasonably long to understand that you meant "predates" as the verb form of "predator", not as in "comes before chronologically". The phrase "preys on" may be more clear.
Your use of the term "status quo" suggests a framing in which some corrupt minority has control over our society, and the rest of us must take desperate measures to overthrow this minority if we are to have any hope of leading worthwhile lives. This is a misleading frame (in case anyone is considering using it). You and I are not being oppressed unless perhaps we are being oppressed by reality itself: it turns out that human existence is more precarious and dangerous than we thought and we hoped it was: we can build machines more capable than ourselves. We are well on the way to do so. Every step of the way has proved profitable (and has for example allowed you and I to exchange these words with ease without our having to leave our homes), but the natural conclusion of this path of development is human extinction because humanity is clever enough to create machines more capable than we are, but not clever enough yet to control them.

If we don't pause AI research till humanity is smarter, there is no 30% chance of success. If we look back at history at human projects that at the time were thought to have a 30% or 70% chance of success -- if we look back using our superior modern knowledge of those projects, you see that most were doomed from the start. Consider for example the project of turning base metal into gold. Completely doomed from the start. The alchemists living in the year 1450 did not know that: they thought they had a decent chance of succeeding. Consider most past medical treatments: cutting holes in a mentally-ill person's skull in the hope that that would let the bad humors leave the head; nailing religious symbols to front doors to prevent the house's occupants from catching the contagious disease going around. The thing all these doomed projects had in common is that the people pursuing the project lacked a sufficient understanding of the part of reality they were trying to affect.

Similarly, we don't understand how to align a superhuman AI. Some of us have been trying to understand it for 20 years. Some of us have been getting paid a salary for 20 years to try to understand it. No one has even gotten close. There's no 30% chance: there might be a 3% chance, and if you think life is so bad that choosing a lottery that ends humanity with p = 97% and removes human suffering with p = 3% is a good move, well, most people disagree with you. And (I mean this in all sincerity and kindness) I'm sorry life has been so unbearable in your experience.
It's amazing - sadly won't use it since shadcn/tailwindui-catalyst is tied to react.. I'd definitely pay for something like this if it used vanilla js (mainly interested in Text/Headings/Tabs/Button/Badge/etc components that wouldn't require any js, and for the ones that require js then I'd prefer vanilla or vue).
I think it's more like, even if a total psychopath took over the world and turned it into their personal dystopia, I think there would still be more human-goodness in that world than if a paperclip machine took over. Not merely more (nonzero) humans, but also more things that I and other humans value. Things like art, nature, beauty, play, and maybe hope. There would be some things that the psychopath dictator appreciates and values that I also appreciate and value, even if that person is entirely hostile to my existence. A future of silicon and steel, methodically trampling the earth and grinding the solar system into paperclips, simply doesn't contain any of that. So I prefer the dystopia on those grounds.
The typing thing is really unnecessary and a step backwards, IMO. Added typing is maybe great for managing a code base, but it isn’t necessary for performance with a compiler that can do type inference.
Contractor horror stories are actually very common. They may not actually say to you "I don't know", but big delays in contractor jobs happen all the time. I would argue that software engineers are at least trying to be more honest about the unknowns of the work unlike some sleazy contractors.
Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem
How to decentralise and scale distributed consistency beyond the commonly accepted limits
Competitiveness is one measure of difficulty, but there are others. Engineering departments tend to be qualitatively more difficult to get into than the humanities, which are quantitatively more difficult.
That's another great suggestion, and probably a pretty easy contribution to tackle for someone. I'll make a mental note to look in to it next time I'm on holiday.
Yes, as mentioned the context length makes a big difference because you can feed it most documentation not even bothering to edit it since I you don't try to save tokens. I'm sure that a more structured tool (like an actual IDE) could do things even more efficiently but even chat is good enough.

Don't wait to subscribe, it's worth getting some experience with it because in the near future is be the floor for all models in terms of performance.

GPT-4 is still good for a lot of things and frankly even the free Mistral Large is impressive.
People can be right about problems with a process or way of thinking without being the next Einstein. There's no need to get personal.
I sure hope noone claimed that. You’re doing potentially huge dimensionality reduction, uniqueness would be like saying you cannot have md5 collisions.
Mostly because a lot of ISP's serve the ONT as an NTU (IE your network gateway or border) and others use it as CPE.

Here in Aus the (horrifying, terrible) national broadband network uses the ONT as an NTU from which it can split the service out to IIRC 4 ethernet hand offs and 2 RJ11 voip services. And because of this most private fibre providers do much the same. (Although NBN does it in part because their authentication method involves inserting DHCP option 82 into DISCOVER and REQUEST messages) In fact, I am aware of one that has moved to a single port ONT but still provides the customer another router beyond the ONT and keeps the ONT for NTU purposes.

NTU's are good actually, having a device to troubleshoot from inside or very near to the customers premises can keep support costs extremely low. If you have something that can also perform an ethernet cable test so much the better.

That said, there's another possibility. I have seen quite a few ONT's and man the majority of them in the usual price range of a residential ISP SUCK. The interface sucks, the hardware sucks, the software sucks and some of them have a lifespan comparable to a fruitfly. I wouldnt want my customer getting too familiar with devices that look like garbage and can fall over at the drop of a hat. So we just hold on to the password of those and let the customer do whatever they want past the demarc.
OH WOW. This makes it significantly more usable. Thanks for it!

I'm going to give it another serious go. I like TablePlus but I prefer open source options.

I've been using PostBird which fails pretty hard at any "large" data inside a single cell. The columns just bleed everywhere. I'm sad it's not true OSS because I know the community really wanted to take it much further but the original maintainer didn't want to. Their right, I get it, still sad.
Why open a window if you can open a door...
No understanding. Embeddings are a semantically vacuous representation and similarity is a semantically vacuous interpretation.
Perhaps the "Self-inflicted wound" refers to the injuries he suffered due to his own reporting on Boeing...
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That looks like the placement of their circuit on the FPGA. Like a screenshot from ChipPlanner in Quartus
> The funny thing is that the market is turning even Australia and Texas into solar superpowers.

I think the market is too slow by itself. There's a technical reason for this. Externalities are mispriced, causing market failure. Markets may get there by themselves eventually, but not as quickly as they should.

Australia is set to become a solar superpower partly because the center-left government got into power. The center-right is hostile to renewables even though Australia is perfectly situated. This wasn't always the case, the center-right used to be somewhat favorable to renewables until they got radicalized by the usual stuff.

Likewise with the US, the IRA's renewables provisions only got passed because the center-left is in power. Renewables will still grow with Trump in power due to state-level subsidies, but far slower than what would otherwise happen.

My primary concern with all this is this human, political side. Solving this problem is as much a persuasion exercise as a technology exercise. We need to somehow get the political right to drop their defenses. They are blinded by their dislike of lefties and Greta Thunberg and so on, that they are not thinking rationally about the objective market failure that needs to be corrected.

Further on this, we need to present a new narrative to the degrowthers. The degrowth left sees a mutually exclusive trade between growth and climate change. Which is sort of true if conservatives get in power and don't change their belief system.

What's needed is a sustainable growth narrative where you give conservatives their growth and you give the left their lower emissions. It is not that hard to implement if people could just stop being so politically radicalized.
Great article. The last few years I've started making arthouse games which I create for myself, but release for others to enjoy. I don't seek out profit or create for consumers. Many people have sent me messages about how my games have moved them emotionally and how they didn't know games like this could be made. It's been really fulfilling. Part of this creative process was to shift my mind to less of a mindless consumption mode.

I'm not against consumption. It takes inspiration to make great things. Consuming like an artist is what led me to the projects I make and the motivation to complete them. Going to museums, art exhibitions, independent cinema theatres, documentaries, long form essays and videos on fascinating subjects. I still consume, but I make sure to consume high quality content. Your life is informed by what you view. But make sure to get a dose of some low brow content too. Not everything needs to be serious. But the serious stuff definitely affects my creative life for the better way more.
Whm – Python WiFi heat mapper
I'm not convinced. Boeing doesn't want more attention, depositions are stressful, and whistleblowers are predisposed to martyrdom. If you're Boeing, this doesn't make the problem go away, it makes it worse.
Yes, we hired a few that stood out. They were indeed kinda weird for a few months, some got blander afterwards and some stood a lot more, but all in all they were meeting the bar we had in mind, and the ones that really grew weren't those we expected at first.

In particular we had people who's surface personality were completely different from what we perceived during the interview. Not in any way that made it hard to work with them, but moving from university to a corporate environment was just enough of a gap to change their behavior in significant ways. I think hiring fresh graduates is way harder in that respect, and we were happy to have some flexibility in the work culture. One of the guy moved from a super rural area to be thrown into the megalopolis, and it was a real journey, we had the funniest late to work excuses ("couldn't find my bike cause I parked it near the neighbor's house and he moved it in their garage thinking it was his son's" -- later found his house had a bike parking behind the building)
Cedar Go Implementation: Simplifying Security for Developers
The Hacker's Browser
What a strange article.

- whistleblower dies

Blablabla

- self inflicted wound

Blablabla

- he was bound to testify the next day

Blablabla

- he was found dead in his truck in a parking lot

It sounds like the journalist thinks it was murder but can’t write it cause it’s illegal somehow. The result is a piece that almost reads like a satyrical piece from the Onion.
It is meaningless to talk about cosine similarity of sentences, or words, at all. Choose whatever mapping you want. You'll still be in Firth Mode.
I'm a huge fan of FEXPRs. No idea why they fell out of favor, they're what lisp is all about. I implemented all primitives as FSUBRs in my lisp, including all control structures and quote.

I should study Kernel. Looks like it went even further than that. Simply passing the dynamic environment to the FEXPR is quite ingenious.
Or: people who are hiring their future co-workers sort for people who will not make their life hell(or their co-workers life hell), and then evaluate for actual expertise.
Some probably would, some wouldn't.

I've had issues relating to people and that's one reason why I tended to become more of the lone wolf type on projects.

I used to be more rigid and arrogant on certain occasions. I think I've loosened up in that respect.
A comment with +40/-32 and a comment with +8/-0 are moderated differently despite both being +8. That's a good faith policy that makes sense if you don't want to promote highly divisive "fight provoking" content.

I think it's also worth pointing out that this is done algorithmically and not randomly or arbitrarily by moderators based on their prejudices.
Sorry—I'm tired and expressed that carelessly, and you're quite right. I wasn't talking about the article and am glad that it is as good as you say. In fact I merged the other thread into this one precisely because the BBC article was better.

What I mean is that the story itself, i.e. the significant new information, is a lurid apparent suicide, and there aren't any details about that, other than it happened. Not because the article is bad but because that is the only piece of information available.

The interest in such a story is neither technical nor intellectual and we shouldn't pretend that it is. It's a suspicious death story with sinister overtones. The curiosity here is not primarily intellectual, which means it's not really a good story for HN, but I'm giving it a pass because it is strange enough to be different and there's a community appetite to discuss it. Normally the latter isn't enough to justify a story remaining on HN's front page but there are degrees of community appetite and I recognize this one.
Yes, very much reminds me of that -- this looks great!
My LinkedIn is in my profile.
Sure, except the information here is not other users' account info or something, it's analogous to the source of the DBMS. Which is not typically considered sensitive.
Best quote: "I don't think [Linux] will be very successful in the long run."
No, professional corporate hitmen do not exist in contemporary America. Again, movies and video games are not real life. The only "hitmen" in real life are idiot junkies who get hired by their idiot cousin to kill their estranged wife in exchange for drug money and then immediately get caught because violent criminals are morons and not criminal masterminds.
I think it helps to look at it from another perspective: We are seeing a trend of certain health problems that are related to what we eat. We notice that a certain type of food is the root cause. Our currenty categorization of foods isn't helpful in finding the issue. The best label we have found for this type of food is "ultra-processed".
And, like clockwork, it's at the top of the /r/nottheonion sub:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1bcfceq/boeing...
Really impressive work!! Ever since the demise of Flash I've felt a strong lack of such animation tools.

Very nicely done!
Thanks! I'll check all this out. My goal is mainly to lose weight (about 30lbs) but I've been noticing little things like blood circulation isn't what it should be. I get tired quickly after a bit of exercise. Things like that. I'll check out the books. I always get confused over all the terms but haven't had the will yet to actually learn it.
compare https://shitpost.plover.com/o/omega-omega.html
“Barnett was cross-examined by Boeing's lawyers and his own attorney days before he died… The court planned for Barnett to answer more questions on Saturday, but he did not appear as planned. The BBC reported that he was later found dead [on Saturday] in his truck, which was parked in a hotel parking garage.”

Also why they say to buckle up while you are in your seat. Wind shear and such. Rapid descent they can do 4000ft/min controlled with air brakes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boeing-whistleblow...
every time I hear about examples of simpson in peactice, I don't get what lesson to learn

marketting team overoptimized, so non-nutrition demand fell?

drop nutrition from line of products, so that you're both efficient in products you do and overall?

these metrics are insufficient and it's better to look at gross change rather than ratios?

I have no idea
Well it should specify the thickness, length, and width of the keycard, since brands might change vendors

And of course it should specify which way it should be inserted.

And it needs to specify the amount of bend allowable given some amount of pressure. No point in using a bendy card.