skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true. There is quite a lot of applications that you can just run out of the box but then I'll give you two cases where that won't be the case and do require patches:

1) In many interpreted languages it is common to have convenience commands that shell out to call a script which shells out to call another script and 8 layers later you get to the actual real command. When I'm creating a package for an application that does this I have to usually figure out what env vars are being set, what paths are being changed and so forth. This is probably a super easy thing for whoever made the software to begin with but not so easy for someone that wants to just use it. So the solution is to make the original author aware that it might go into an unikernel environment or, far less probable, convince them that a better method would be to not do this practice to begin with as it.

2) In older software (specifically I'm looking at mid-to-late 90s), in a time before threads and commodity SMP machines and the cloud it was pretty common to write software that used multiple processes to do many things. Postgres is the most common example I use here (keep in mind postgres is descended from Ingres from the early 80s and Dr. Stonebraker is now on his tenth? twentieth? database venture DBOS (https://www.dbos.dev/) - which definitely has ideas that we are very keen about.

Anyways, that's not really the case today with go, rust, java, etc. For apps like this we will, from time to time port them. That's exactly what we did with postgres too to make it multi-threaded instead: https://repo.ops.city/v2/packages/francescolavra/postgres/16... .

I think there is a lot of opportunity out there for individuals to come in and create newer versions of software like this and get some really awesome benefits while maintaining more or less the same parity.
A webserver has far more uses than just showcasing or being reachable. It's a way to participate in the internet. I use mine more for showing people a random meme or pdf on $chatprotocol with a link than anything else. A static website with files in directories is both not a security risk and has almost no maintenance. And because it's just for fun you don't even need to leave your computer (and webserver) on so you can just use your normal computer where all your stuff already is. To share something I just use my OS file manager(s) to move the file to a webserver shared directory.

The only small hurdle for most is using a static IP on LAN and setting up port forwarding. Almost everyone's connection upstream is plenty fast.
Well I definitely wasn't (as in, as a kid I never washed my hands unless a teacher/parent/FBI agent told me "hey, wash your hands!")...

But my kids are young, and were like real young when the pandemic started, and (here comes the complexifier!) although I'm American, we live in Japan — where they've just been washing their hands and whatever else since forever. So my own kids (pandemic babies, mostly) not only wash their hands every single time they re-enter the home after having gone outside, but they positively freak out if there are any anomalies that prevent that exercise (like, the hand soap dispenser is out, or there are no hand towels, etc.).

But:

a.) my youngest is only 5 and I think he lacks the deadly focus to destroy all germs that my older ones have, and

b.) me, too — I'd rather just automate it somehow, to make sure I do it effectively. Apple's watch had this feature that used to not only detect that you washed your hands, but also NAG you if it was under 20 seconds. They turned that off by default, because it was annoying as fucking shit.

But OTOH, flip that script: "insert your hands... think (some positivistic California bollocks filler)... now clench your fists... AND PUMP THEM IN THE AIR BABY, YOU'RE VIRUS (AND TAPEWORM EGG) FREE!!"

That seems way less annoying to me, but I mean I guess that isn't a mainstream opinion or else it would exist?
And everyone from high school juniors up - teachers, staff, students - smokes.
Not that I'm aware of, but I've ran LLM's in Termux myself and am pretty it's not a huge leap from there to a simple python scaffold with a restricted grammer (the kind llama supports, for consistant structured output) and a Tasker integration. Hardest part would be trigger-word activation (maybe hardware key-bind is enough fr u?). It would probably run well locally with the all the cumulative speedups over the past year, but I do bet it would drain your battery more than Google Assistant, and am not sure that moving it over the network would change that.
I don’t know what I’m talking about. Thanks for the info.
Show HN: AI Customer Support Agent Demo with LangChain4j and Spring AI
I've been exploring AI libraries for Java recently and built a demo to showcase how to build a AI-powered full-stack app on Spring Boot.

Features:
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): uses a terms of service doc for context
- Function calling: can fetch, modify, and cancel reservations as allowed by the terms of service
- React UI with streaming answers and live database view
- LangChain4j and Spring AI implementations

I hope it can be helpful to folks who want to explore AI tools in Java but haven't had a chance yet. Let me know what you think.
Tech and Vulnerability: Opening Up About Mental Health – With Nathan Walker [video]
Not any more; they're overworked and underpaid and have little to no authority in our new reality.
I'd need a citation on 100cal/hr for sitting at a desk. Are you removing BMR from that calculation? That would imply people are spending 800cal/day on JUST sitting during a workday (no other movement, no BMR, no walking, etc).

If you extend this to a whole day, you would be burning 1600cal/day from sitting ... without even counting BMR which is ~1200-1600 or more.

Numbers I've seen is that sitting is much closer to 10-20cal/hr from sitting (vs. literally asleep).
The problem is that if you get hit with hivemind moderation in M1, then you're likely to see it rated as fair in M2. This is encouraged by the "Troll" and "Flamebait" options which can be slapped on any dissenting opinion.
Interesting, there's a vitamin K analog that shows promise for seizures https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00168

And seizures and migraines have many similarities. Migraine might even be described as a kind of optic seizure.
China has 12½ times more robots in its workforce than industry experts predicted
Absolutely. I'm not trying to dump on them. It may not have come through with my choice of verbiage, but there's something romantic (in the aesthetic sense) and admirable about what they've done and their attitudes. That kind of unbridled optimism and confidence of youth that can be hard to cultivate as we get older.
This take makes no sense to me. I would bet you any amount of money that, 5 years from now, there will be fun+successful games that use modern AI to make NPCs more realistic than they are today. And I guarantee you wouldn't take that bet, because you know you would lose money.

The questions is not, "Is there a level of realism that is unfun," because duh, of course there is. The question is, "Will new advances in AI allow game developers to bring life to NPCs in a way previously not possible, that's also fun." And duh, of course it will.

Pointing out ways that increased realism can be unfun does nothing to prove that there are no ways in which it can be fun. Y'all are betting against the creativity of the entire game development industry. Absolutely wild.
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What happens if a company refuses to sell in Oregon, can they skirt the law?
I feel like personal websites were commonplace 20 years ago, almost expected. No real social media back then, so your website kind of became an extension of your online social life.
Other exceptions: ability to play sports, video games (from basic shooters to complex strategy 4X) and use GNU/Linux

(Cis girls are >50% of the US population; trans girls are ~1% of the population (generous); 99% of girls on Linux are trans. Js)
The claim of "participation" in the so called partition is inflammatory. You make it sound like Poland was a party to some kind of an agreement to dissolve Czechoslovakia, when there is no evidence of that, especially in retrospect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_bo...

I agree that the Czechoslovakian situation was less hopeful than that of Ukraine, at least for the moment.
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I know you're meant to just upvote here rather than say 'me too' but I am also a sucker.
Same. Knowing some of them personally confirms that they‘re humans after all.
While it's accurate that task complexity is the shoreline paradox, it also has the same obvious solution as the shoreline paradox in day-to-day scenarios: Agree a resolution ahead of time and discuss the measurement in those terms.

Nobody wants to know to-the-second when a project's Jira board will be complete, in the same way nobody wants to know to the atom-width how long the shoreline of Britain is. They want to know if the project is going to finish it in-or-near the last week of Q3, they want to know how many meters the shoreline is.
That valuation was in 2021. Wonder what it is now.
Good point; there's only a single server handling all the requests so things can be a bit slow depending on the time of day. And there are browser limits to the number of concurrent connections.

Mobile browsers with native HLS support are faster as well. Those without need to load everything via https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/ which slows things down.

I'll try to add some UI feedback so people don't give up too quickly.
Every time I've made a blog, I write like four posts, I run out of ideas, and then it just lays dormant for forever. I think the problem is that I don't really have enough interesting things to say.

I've thought about making a very basic "About Me" website to house my resume and the like, but after a certain point I feel like it's not where I want to dedicate a lot of my time. I like public speaking, but that's usually one topic that I've prepared for over the course of several months.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Beyond the Wikipedia definition, I've heard the term used to describe the phenomenon of people looking at an ugly codebase with tons of special cases and expectations, thinking they can create a leaner version only to end up going nowhere because all those special cases and expectations that made for ugly UML diagrams had reasons to exist and the overconfidence led to feature creep to justify the time investment to stakeholders. I.e. a good explanation for why it's often better to refactor than rewrite.
While all EV brands will technically have access to the Tesla Supercharger network by the end of 2024, many stations are not accessible to non-Teslas, limiting the impact of a move heralded as a game changer for EV drivers and the industry at large.

The restrictions appear particularly strict within cities, where Tesla has barred other brands from using all or most Superchargers. Tesla has not said why it's not opening certain stations, which it does via a software update. (It has promised access at 15,000 Supercharger stations to start.)
If there was any validity to what you're saying, why do places with more permissive zoning and less insane permitting processes see consistently lower rent and property price growth (see: Austin, Minneapolis)?
I dunno to be honest, I don't know of any kids diagnosed with ADHD to think of as examples.

Looking back on my own life (diagnosed early 30s, but part of the process was looking at how I was in school): I struggled to keep up with the bare basics outside of lessons - getting ready for school on time, remembering books, remembering to tell my parents I/they needed to do stuff on specific dates, doing (small amounts of) homework.

On the social front - Billy no mates until college (where I met people who were as weird as me), constantly bullied for reasons I couldn't figure out, could not work out how people managed to make friends. Felt like I'd missed the day of school where they taught everyone how to socialise and be normal. It was also like my prime directive was "don't speak unless spoken to" haha. So damn quiet.

Unless someone directly invited me or gave me permission to do an activity that activity was just for other people, not for me. Dancing, sports, and pianos weren't even on the table lol.
Unikernels and virtualization are orthogonal, you can run eg on-prem appliances with unikernels on bare iron. Eg sounds like Netapp ONTAP is/was like this at some point.
they were tumbling, just slowly. they started reentering side first. that it broke at 65km was unsurprising - shuttle experienced peak heating about there.
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Eh, but why do we need it? I think given a mid term timescale (10ish years), there will likely be another layer of indirection added to the web experience, and people will start to shift from thinking in terms of specific domain names to some other mechanism of identification.

I’m sure it’ll still be possible to access websites using domain names, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear something like “Dad why do you keep saying ‘.com’, nobody says that anymore. It’s embarrassing.”
I feel exactly the same way. But I also recognize that many many many people who have been born, lived a long life, and died, felt exactly the same way.

I used to think it was very likely that by the time I am old, "old" will be 100+. I'm not very sure of that now.
Actual techies are interested in the inner workings and can see past marketing. The group you're referring to is either the wider public that doesn't have the technical expertise to analyze the claims made, or Apple loyalists who uncritically accept and defend Apple's reasoning.

If this had anything to do with theft, Apple would only blacklist parts which were inside the device at the time of theft, and otherwise provide "pairing" tools for free.
That last point is merely a way for you to get used to this system. Once enough people allow the spying they'll increase the price of you don't allow the spying.

And after that they'll mandate it for everybody.

I already pay a premium for having more horses under the hood. I don't want to get dinged when I use my car's power.
If you feel like this article is pretty empty in terms of "answers" and "new directions" and the fact that research group has been pushing these ideas for years, again, without any breakthroughs or challenging present understanding, what do you think that means for the quality of the research? This is at best a "ok, neat" result with some science journalism overreaching of how relevant it is for gravity.
It’s like catch 22 but more crude, and more brutal.

Lots of drinking, stealing, fist fighting, long winded anecdotes (with plenty of embellishments) telling lies to get into / out of trouble, and ethnic humour reflecting the attitudes which were typical of the imperial period: Germans/Austrians look down on Czechs, Czechs resent the Germans and are unfriendly with Hungarians, the imperial soldiers harass Jews (who get them back in various ways) and there is a scene where the Czechs in military jail are practicing their Russian: for an assumed surrender at the front.
> This is clearly the result of living in a capitalist society. In recent years, people have felt the pressure to monetise their hobbies, so there’s a constant state of hustle. We all need money to exist in our society.

Not clear to me. I think the driver is perceived status. Kids want to be influencers because they think it's an easy road to a certain kind of fame. The money in content creation is not great, and even nominally successful influencers aren't as rich as they are perceived to be. If you cared about money and not fame, you'd go work for a hedge fund. If you cared about fame and not money, I cannot think of many better jobs than an online content creator. So this article has got it just about backwards.
> It could be entirely true that it was considered an appropriate amount of wine for two people to share over lunch at that time.

Alcohol content in wine went up significantly, as well.
> A lot of this stuff is hacked together by young aspiring programmers just finding their footing, often grossly underpaid, and with very little experience or formal training. Which is great, respect the hustle! But not so super when personal data is being handled. Luckily, it kind of looks like they maybe dodged that bullet in this case?

This is an odd generalization to me - are the massive mainframe COBOL systems handling personal data at banks to this day, "hacked together" by underpaid young programmers? I'm sure they were underpaid... but inexperienced with no formal training?
I have nightmares of this future, where ChatGPT just pregenerates billions of firstname-lastname.coms and assigns them to you at birth as your destiny. "Welcome, human 12,435,428. You have been assigned the life of Mei MacIntyre. Flute and bagpipe training will commence at 36 months. Have a pleasant existence."
>That is a paper that you should not put your name on. I certainly would not. Their effects are also more like 0.11 not 0.15; the largest peak misrepresents all of the rest of the results.

>What they did is aggregate so much data that even a small inconsequential difference between groups that may account for nothing at all, that would go away with slightly different controls for confounds, becomes statistically significant.

>A lot of the comments here drawing conclusions like, ADHD is about an overly integrated brain or whatever are really frightening. This means nothing. Science communication at its worst.

Here are the paper's authors' affiliations:

Office of the Clinical Director, NIMH, Bethesda, Md. (Norman, Shaw); Section on Neurobehavioral and Clinical Research, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md. (Sudre, Price, Shaw).

It's hard for me to believe that the authors should not have put their name on this paper.

Do you have a background and credentials as valid?
> Much to the chagrin of the computer scientists who think it’s some sort of robust formal specification for civil society.

Law is actually code, just written in a language that is full of UB and you need to have if run on the system to know exactly what it does, the system being the hierarchy of jurisdictions.
It cuts both ways. In my experience working in the second environment, where deadlines are arbitrary, managers and leaders do not do the work to decide what is important or what it means to “be done”. You can start out with the prior that deadlines are important and discover that there are activities that may need to be done that will blow your deadline. You can seek clarification on what should be done, but be told either of “don’t tell me the details”, “figure it out”, “I trust you to make the right decision” etc.

In environments where deadlines really matter, managers are much more willing to make decisions about scope and control it closely and work with their colleagues to define a done state, because it actually matters.
That's my experience as well.

Most deadlines are bogus. The ones that are real are missed because management didn't fund the project appropriately, or started the the project way too late.

I've worked in too many organizations where I was asked to give an estimate, and then asked to give another because they didn't like the number.
The standard answer is "whichever one uses the tech stack you already know".

If you don't already know a tech stack, just pick one and learn it. Then you do know one and can re-use it as you wish.

But "best" is such a subjective term, it always depends on what you really need. Better to pick one and run than get caught in analysis paralysis.
Maintaining a website shows you're a step above the rest of the herd I suppose.
Wow! Impressive. How did they manage to fit GPT-2 in a spreadsheet?

A question for the author: will it be open sourced?
I work across timezones and getting rid of timezones absolutely doesn't resolve any of these problems, as the article covers.
Plan 9 is very multi-user, namespaces are actually one component in how it is multi user specifically. A given terminal may be designed to only have one user on it but CPU servers are still multi-user multiplexers, that part has not been given up.
Typically, to create a new product or position an existing one, it's crucial to identify the problem you aim to resolve or the need you wish to fulfill. However, Apple seems to be taking a different approach with Vision Pro.
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> Are standardized tests an accurate measure of intelligence? IMO, they're more a measure of knowledge and perseverance.

Depends on the standardized test. Some are designed to test knowledge, others are designed to test more fundamental attributes.

ACT is more knowledge, SAT is more fundamental attributes. SAT is still a significant amount of knowledge, but not as focused on it as ACT.
I think, in fact, that there might be more than one proton.
Subscribed immediately. I love Casey's work.
BBC In Our Time - eclectic topics, great hosts.

Aria Code by WNYC - introduces an aria and then plays it. Great opera primer for opera newbs.

I’ll share mine as it fits most of your conditions save for not being particularly long. It’s a daily legal news show ostensibly for attorneys but with a mostly non-attorney listenership: (“Minimum Competence” - https://minimumcomp.com).
It certainly seems like a reaction to Mint-like spending tracker apps which collect and sell data and purchase history from these platforms. The harder they make it to get your data out, the more they can keep that valuable data as a competitive edge.
Even on linux people avoid syscalls because syscalls are slow and bad. So I don't really see the problem with plan9's approach either. Make the common scenario useful, optimize for special cases (sendfile, io_uring). In fact read/write lets you batch bigger amount of data than single ioctl can actually be more performant.
So in theory I could buy the manuals, tools, and spare parts, and bring them to Chuck over there who runs an unaccredited repair shop? That doesn't seem awful.
> I may be wrong, but from what I've seen, the majority of "prevention of other people from speaking" is done to people who are not really constructive and muddy the water.

No one on this planet (China, Russia, North Korea, for example) surpresses speech they say is constructive input. When people get jailed for online speech in Russia, for example, it's almost always classified as distributing hate speech.

In 2018, Western Media even posted about "How a Social Media Post in Russia Can Land You in Jail[...]"[1]. Times have changed, I guess.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/2018/10/19/how-social-media-post-ru...
I believe it was the same situation at Oregon state, around 2003.

Perhaps it was easier for the ID vendor to key against a registrar db.
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>it’s much easier to be liberal when doing so doesn’t cost you meaningfully

I’d go so far as to say that is almost part and parcel what a “liberal” is almost always
I'm no so sure, it at least looked like it was tumbling before and throughout re-entry.
If they had attitude control, I think they would have at least stopped the visible rotation at some point before re-entry?

I'm not sure why the ship not immediatly breaking up, but eventually breaking up is proof that they at attitude control - especially against what the live feed showed - rotation.
Yes, Nanos is completely language agnostic. We've had rust customers (not just users) for a few years now.