skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory: Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit" [0] is a must-read for
everyone interested in some stronger definitions. The full essay is
easily found online.

Long as short: BS has not got a lot to do with depth of knowledge or
truth value so much as the attitude of the bullshitter.

It's a moral not a knowldge defect.

The Bullshitter is neither a liar nor self-aggrandising as we commonly
think, but simply has contempt for the very concept of truth and
falsehood. It's like epistemological sociopathy.

Some bullshitters can be very knowledgable too. They pass the five-why
questioning but then defect and talk absolute rubbish as it suits
them.

I think all LLMs are in essence bullshitters, and I hope something
good to help us understand not just consciousness but morality too,
will probably come of studying why LLMs are not really "thinking" and
holding an interlocutor "in mind".

Not Frankfurt now, but my own observation, if you wire that to the idea
that power is the capacity to paint social reality in ones own
interests, then unsurprisingly bullshitters are much more common in
traditional power roles. LLMs are therefore (rather obviously)
dangerous in any role that involves power or decision making.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Not sure this is so relevant. Uber only reported profit in 2023, it took 9 years for Amazon to do so. In a sense, it’s a choice.
I've started to look at the quick answers more in Kagi which use AI. That's saved me some time.

I have Copilot installed, but don't really use it much. I had to disable the auto-complete, because it uses tab to accept, which made it impossible to simply use the tab key... you know, to indent my code. The idea that I would need to hit escape every time I wanted to press tab was stupid. Accepting a suggestion should require a modifier key, and there didn't seem to be a setting to change this. Therefore, I only use Copilot when I explicitly invoke it, which is almost never. (If someone knows how to make this better, I'm all ears)
if the movie contact was made today unfortunately, the signal would have been intercepted by a teenager who the builds the machine to the alien spec in his bedroom with his best buddy from school
> I find it a bit odd that sleep clinics would turn her away so readily.

I don't. I've had significant problems with insomnia in the past, and in general I've found that sleep clinics really only focus on two issues:

1. Restless leg syndrome

2. Sleep Apnea

Beyond that, there really isn't much they can do besides (1) recommending standard "sleep hygiene" stuff, or (2) drugs, which all come with various tradeoffs.
I found ADHD to be a huge advantage as a founder - hyperfocus + constantly solving NEW problems was stressful but also fun and energizing, whereas to others it could be perhaps just stressful.
All system idiosyncrasies are APIs in the long run ;)
> robust and efficient browser with a maintainable codebase.

i would say neither chrome or firefox score particularly high in any of these
Please consider that your comment was also low effort, but turned the conversation in a more argumentative direction. To be frank with you, that's worse than a low effort comment that adds nothing; it detracts. It's better to downvote and/or flag such comments without responding than to respond while raising the temperature of the discussion.
If something works in a distro, it automatically works in a Dockerfile based on that distro. There is no extra packaging effort required.
On it! Will take a bit of time!
You can, but as someone who is currently juggling external SSDs to try to get a video project finished, I can tell you that you don’t want to.

Hence me yesterday looking at the 4TB upgrade price on the M3 MBP. Hoooooooly cow. I mean I’ll almost certainly get it on my next upgrade, but wow.
People will say that because everyone has an agenda, the point is to not stop China from building chips. You are naive if you think China wasn't already putting everything they can into building chips at home, did you really think China was okay buying chips from Taiwan in the first place?

The point is to slow them down and just make it harder to compete today, the US is pouring more money into chip research and manufacturing than the entire rest of the world combined, and nobody thinks the US is going to fall behind anytime soon. Not to mention the 5 other massive strategic disadvantages China has just purely on geography alone (i.e. energy policy).

TL;DR Who cares if China is self sufficient on tech in 10 years, they were gonna be self sufficient in 15 years anyways, and it's not like China is going to be loading up on Nvidia's stack forever.

If there was going to be a time to do it, it would be now. Any later would just not matter as they would be ramping up their own production anyways.
Ask HN: Where do you consume content outside of tech content?
I hate asking this question because I know it’s fluff, but I’d only be interested in hearing the answer from this audience in particular.

I live about 35 miles outside of SF. I like my home and I venture out into the city once, sometimes twice per week, either to go into the office or catch up with some friend or other. I’m otherwise happy with my home and being home.

I read a lot of tech articles, where probably 60% come from HN. The other 40% are probably things I search for organically out of curiosity, and then on top of that is the tech reading I always end up having to do for work.

As far as tv, I watch a few shows here and there and definitely like watching movies, though I’m always out of ideas.

Otherwise, I’m usually listening to music or going for walks. I used to game a lot, been a while since, but I didn’t like the effects it was having on my health so I quit.

I’ve probably lost you by now so I should have made this the first question, but I feel disconnected from the outside world. I don’t even know if this is a terrible thing or not actually, but I was curious to know what you all do to stay in tune with society beyond tech stuff.

I suspect when I have kids all my time will go there, but in the meantime I’d love some ideas.

I’ve tried for example reading the news, but two things happen. I either get exhausted of constantly having to be on the lookout for bad info or agendas by the author, or the events themselves stress me out. A good, light, neutral source of news would be welcome.

Have never found anywhere reliable for tv or movie recommendations.

I don’t have any hobbies other than some of the deep dives I used to do when I gamed into fine tuning my machines. You’d be surprised how bad the info on YouTube is.

Anyway, if you made it this far, thanks for readin, genuinely curious to know what you smart people do and consume.
To publish a scientific paper many journals require an ORCID. The web site says "It’s free and only takes a minute, so register now!" which means they don't think people are going to read the ToS.

I of course did. It takes more than a minute to read. It's pretty standard, except that it require binding arbitration in the US, with no ability to opt out.

I signed it, despite being against binding arbitration, because I had no real choice, and because I felt the underlying intentions of ORCID are decently aligned with what I wanted, unlike the underlying intentions of Google.

Plus, I know the editor of the journal I publish in, so if it gets to lawsuit time I think they will make an exception.
Also https://github.com/aio-libs/yarl
My grandparents still use a fridge from the 50s for beverages in their basement. It's amazing how long old refrigerators last
You're buying into too much market fuzz too. That internet thing going big never happened and cell phones turned out to be bust, all that hype for nothing..... See how cherry picking works.

Also, EVs are a bust, wut?
I think the awkward part of your first post is that you appear to start with a value judgement that tinkering is for poor people who's time is worthless. That's not remotely fair to either poor people, or rich people who like to tinker. No one's time is worthless. Not your time. Not mine. It's all just time.
Has she considered PTSD? It sounds a lot like it and there has been promising work around PTSD from what I have seen in passing.
Hotdoc Documentation Framework
There is, in fact, an iTunes subscription called iTunes Match. That's the one that lets you upload your own tracks to the cloud, scans them to match against the catalog, and then gives you DRM-free high quality downloads of it.

On the other hand, with Apple Music, there's a different subscription that also lets you upload your music to the cloud and scans them for matches, but what you get back out of it is DRMed downloads. Which don't work outside of the Apple ecosystem, and stop working even on it if you cancel your Apple Music subscription.

On top of that, the way matching works is different for the two services. iTunes Match actually analyzes the raw data of the track to do the exact match, while Apple Music seems to prefer metadata. Which means that, with the latter, you'll often get a different variant of the song, in cases where multiple versions exist.
It is cutesy to use the word "bullshit" but it seems too colloquial to glean any real information from. What do they mean by "bullshitting?" Any sort of misleading? Pretending you know something when you don't? I guess I'm just tired of reverse-engineering your information to make a good clickbaity headline.
Promethazine (1) helps some people, myself included (UK Sominex). And occasionally, phenibut.

(1) https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1189-phenergan-tablets-25mg...
This could be great for homelabbers. I have around 40 services I run currently but every time I tried Next/owncloud I just removed it shortly after. Found it lacking speed, or resource consumption that was comparable to... the other 40 services combined etc.

This could perfectly fill that spot. Will be testing soon.
Fine, rather than "underlying theory" use some other words, basically does any new proposal give us predictions, solve some unexplained phenomenon, do something simpler and more compelling (sure, a matter of taste, but so is all of this to some degree), in short, does it tell us something new. Newton certainly did as he gave a law to describe and predict successfully the motions of the planets, for instance. I don't think we are saying anything different really. There wasn't a predicitve framework before (as far as I know), but then there was, so that is certainly progress. But the bar gets ever higher as we know more for what a theory should do. Just writing down an equation that can fit some data and can make predictions is great but is not the end of the story. We could just have some arbitrary functions that fit the data we have and call it a day.
The thing I have found amazing about the China collapse hype train is that I have been hearing it for almost 20 years now. Economists are point out some very real issues, it is just wild how long some of these things can go on for before the breaking happens.

But part of that is just the state of economics in the realm of mass media.

To that. Economist - Definition : Someone who can tell you today why yesterdays prediction of tomorrow was wrong.

Q. What do you call an Economist that makes a prediction? A. Wrong.
That's just an Explorers remake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_(film)
Yeah, it did.

You're thinking of the household-name famous artists (so-called "fine artists"), but those were far from the only ones.

There used to be many thousands of itinerant portrait painters ("commercial artists"), maybe tens of thousands. These guys would travel from town to town banging out quick pictures of members of your family or local dignitaries or the new City Hall or whatever. They weren't bad artists (they had to be competent to earn a living), but neither were they Leonardos.

Think of the best artist in an average high school class. Back then, going into the portrait painting business would have been a valid career option for that guy (they were almost all guys).

Now, some of them later became famous artists, or became famous for other reasons (Samuel Morse, of Morse Code fame, earned his living as a portrait painter at one point), but they were basically just tradesmen.

All those guys lost their jobs almost immediately when photography appeared.

Even today, unless you're very unusual, I'd bet you have way more professional photographs than professional paintings in your home (weddings, graduations, baptisms/bar mitzvahs/analogues for other religions...)
What happens to our memory as we age?
Take a look at https://stately.ai/

- https://stately.ai/docs/xstate

State machines are kind of like fancy flowcharts. Statecharts are even fancier state machines.

Many programs end up creating ad hoc state machines (sets of variables that represent a more complex state.)

It can be better to implement these ad hoc state machines as actual state machines.
Yea but thats how you learn.

These ipad kids dont know anything because it all works now for games and netflix. No need for drivers, windows installs etc
I never tried going all in on Nix, but I don't think it's an all or nothing proposition. In my case, I use Ubuntu for my personal notebook and I wanted to prototype something with Elixir. The distro package is versions behind latest so I can't use Phoenix 1.7 with it. The solution was simple: there's a Nix package for the latest version, so I simply used nix-shell. Bonus points for having VSCode so I didn't have to install it on my personal machine. So for the price of running <nix-shell -p vscode erlang elixir> I got all I needed with very minimal fuss.
You can't add nvme that get the nvme level of performance.

Especially not at the level we'd be used to in any other serious isecase (eg. Split PCIe lanes into x4 and have a bunch of fast storage)
“ Creating branches and alternate realities…isn’t that vaguely familiar with Git? As it turns out, software developers are doing their own version of time-travel in their day jobs! Let me demonstrate that in this blogpost by explaining the plot of Avengers: Endgame in five git concepts!
” never thought the movie this way. What a surprise.
>kid
>2017

fucking hell
I’m arguing it’s not FP when you take an OOP language and bolt on lambdas. Lambdas are necessary but not sufficient.

You need expression orientation, immutability by default, persistent collections in the standard library, some way to handle monadic code, etc…
unfortunately that shoots down my "today in Hollywood" theory
In USSR, Pravda always used the subtitle "Organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU" in its title header.

So, you could probably rephrase this as "I wish modern day western press was as transparent as Soviet press", without being too much of a hyperbole.
https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
I’ve been watching a lot of healthy gamer youtube channel, the host likes to really geek out on brain science. One of the big take aways I’ve gotten watching him, is that sleep serves a layered purpose psychologically (and physically as per this article), that you work through social problems, then physical problems, then consolidating memory, sort of in that order.

One of the study tricks that the host figured out, was that if you want to memorize something, you should get rid of all the other things you don’t want to learn, and that journaling is amazingly good at that. Basically if you write down all the things you don’t want to remember, it sort of leaves space to move things to long term memory.

I say all this, because I’ve been experimenting with journaling at night, and it really helps with some of the restless nights where it feels like something is keeping me awake. It’s not a magic bullet, and it takes effort, but it may help to write down the things bothering your partner prior to sleep to allow for some of the ”less important” processes to happen.
The San Francisco System is proving as strong as ever especially with recent deals inked between NATO members and US allies in APAC, wtf are you talking about?
What evidence against the existence of dark matter should we expect to find if it didn't exist?
I remember I needed Hackintosh to build an iPhone app on my PC. You must possess a Mac to make apps for iPhones, don't know why.
I'm not sure why anyone would want to use a monetary system that maximizes transaction costs. Yeah sure you personally have an incentive to advertise it, since you are directly benefitting from roping people into paying these transaction costs, but that doesn't make it practical.

By transaction costs I not only mean the fees you pay to the miners by the way. Every time there is deflation, there is an opportunity transaction cost made up by the difference in price between the forward pulled transaction and the change in price due to deflation of the reverse transaction that would happen in the future. (Assuming equilibrium of sales and purchases over a lifetime).

Companies must source inputs ahead of time, so they are spending money first and earning it later. In other words, they must sell low and buy high. Any enterprise must overcome the hurdle rate imposed by deflation induced transaction costs. This is why deflation kills an economy. The easiest way to reduce transaction costs is by not producing anything and that is why the Bitcoin economy has remained small.
This works very well, especially if the VM storage is on a fast SSD linux md raid array. Very very snappy Mac working environment.
I deliberately didn't use the word "see" when phrasing my response. I used the word observed because it was an observation, not a seeing. And I'm not describing a flow of vague amorphous whitish material, I know what you're talking about and I'm not describing that.

I tried to observe the phenomena yesterday again and couldn't observe it but it was very specifically this in the past: spherical orbs of white light expanding from a centre. There were many of these, and my perception was that the nature of this geometric expanding shape was healing. To describe it more clearly, many years ago I felt that the perfect geometric spherical nature of these expanding waves were designed to gently round off rough edges. To make an analogy, imagine kneading some play dough over and over again. When you use your hands to do so, every time your hands make contact with the play dough, the play dough changes shape slightly because of the contact between your hands and the play dough and it gets softer. Now apply this concept to the idea of energetic waves making contact and passing through the material substrate of the brain and the rest of the body (yes I observed the waves applying to more than just my mind). It was my physical and conscious perception that as the spherical waves emanated from some center, they gently readjusted the physical substrate that they passed through. And because there were so many of them in different spatial locations, this readjustment was incredibly refined.

I was slightly disappointed to see my comment down voted but I'm not too surprised. I stand by my description as an accurate and well considered, rational description of what I had observed in the past.
Yep. Reminders is #1 by far, followed by sending texts, turning lights on/off with HomeKit and timers which are similar.

I can’t imagine reminders w/o Siri because that’s how I add 90%+ of them. Grocery items, things to do at time X, or when I get to (or leave) work/home are the big ones.
> oil pulling

20 minutes every day?
Very few classes model a real world entity in my experience. Maybe that was the plan but it’s just not the reality of OOP in the industry.
If translated back into English, would

> Link Zeitcode Generierung

be best understood as something like “Link time-code generation,” rather than, “Link-time code generation,” or something like that?
That's 5 years of ownership. $2500 USD for a 16" then you get something back on the second hand market.
>I don't think you understand how languages work.

I'm not talking about languages, I'm talking about the specific words of IT jargon which all originate from English.

>Are you going to force UK speakers to say truck, fall and cookie, too?

No, because those words are not universally used technical IT words bound together by a common language.

With your logic then every country should translate the mnemonics of the programing languages from English to their local languages too, no?

So the "while()" loop will be "während()" in German version of C and "pendant()" in French version of C.
Now and again, there arise certain trends in science and technology which prove deleterious. Take, for instance, the carbon nanotube. It is, as of 2024, 33 years old, and millions of man-hours have gone into practical nanotube development projects. To say that the reward has not been commensurate with the effort would be far too generous -- just about nothing has come of those millions of hours. In hindsight, this should perhaps have been more obvious; the theoretical benefits of nanotubes hinge on the production of pristine submicron fiber-like (giant-) molecules, and those have always been somewhere over the horizon.

I feel that Cantor's theories are much the same way. They have severe logical shortcomings, which were highlighted over 100 years ago by the superior logician Skolem; namely that you can construct an uncountable set out of any countable set, and that every so-called uncountable set has a perfectly isomorphic countable model. Further, the diagonalization argument only works in the limit, with very generous use of ". . .", and the finitists have put together a number of very compelling arguments against it. People claim that Cantor's set theory might be a good foundation for mathematics, but it is at best a foundation made of sand. As with the nanotube, I feel that many researchers have spent countless hours -- millions, perhaps -- following an intellectual/scientific trend, and nothing good has come of it.
A Hackintosh was my entry point to the Apple ecosystem and I'm still here 15yrs later both at home and at work.
No I'm not. Please see my other comment where I make a physical analogy to why spherical expanding waves of light may be healing and restorative.
Ok, thanks for the update!
With a little preparation setting up a Hackintosh is not much more difficult than setting up an actual Mac. What you're describing is a myth or just out of date.
I have been trying to get my hands on one of these (in Australia) for about 2 months now but no luck. Tempted to give Ali Express a try on this.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006181125200.html
What a great project! One of my favorite things to see is when people implement as much as possible themselves. It really makes a big difference to have control over what is going on. And it is great for educational purposes of course.

I'm definitely going to be looking at this. Hope you had fun making it.
TV and films drive me nuts from all the shallow emotional chain yanking. I don't think I'm missing too much.

I'm currently keeping up with the outside world in part by going back to university (doing a PhD part time, with all the reading that that implies) and socialising hard (even though I think that I'm an introvert), and trying to get invested with various start-ups / mentoring / etc.