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> Batteries Included - Hono has built-in middleware, custom middleware, and third-party middleware. Batteries included

What does this mean?
Gerrymandering Denies Incarcerated People Fair Democratic Representation
Super cheap on GOG right now... https://www.gog.com/en/game/overload
84% positive and 16% worsened mental health is not the same thing as 84% and the rest neutral or mild side effects.
I’m an ex-climate militant, so the fun part is that I have a very large corpus of knowledge on this topic. It’s an incredible experience to have read papers deeper than people who try to defend climate, and to know the weakness of each paper. Militants and even professionals really generally don’t know what they’re talking about, which is across the board in climate change. They are right, but often by mistake or pure luck, and I abhor that.

The sad part is any scientific topic that becomes politicized, becomes abyssal in terms of science. It is true of climate change, feminism before that, all the way back to 1500 and planets.
Just remember, "The enemy is always down" ...
No.. 16% had a negative response, 28% had ~no response, and 55% had a positive response. I think people would be much more hesitant to try psychedelics for their mental issues if you told them it was a coin toss whether it would help or not -- and was an unlucky game of Russian Roulette from making their mental problems worse.
The way Outer Wilds rewards curiosity is incredibly novel. More subjectively, I’m quite partial to how the narrative reveals itself. Wish I could relive that experience all over again.
It’s really easy to come up with KMP. Just write an algorithm that searches for a substring p in string s. Make your algorithm efficient by sliding two pointers down s to find the biggest possible match, often called “sliding window”.

You want to grow the window as big as possible to match the substring. The data structure you naturally come up with to do checks efficiently here is the one you use in KMP.
kevin42, you just made my day.

Back then I played the trailer over and over and over, waiting for the release... That line is carved deep and immediately pops up every time I think of Descent 3:

> Now, after years of waiting, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Just as fitting today as it was back then :D

EDIT: ha, an internets uploaded it. What a trailer that was...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHFazkfmBE4
For me it's how you discover one by one elements of the history of the "aliens" and how you use the physics to solve some puzzles. I also love the story. IMHO is one of the best videogames ever made together with Obra Dinn
Basically a modernized version of the premise of "The Trial" by Franz Kafka. An unknown authority charges the character with a unstated crime and bureaucracy chugs along on errors and assumptions.
> but he was "nuts" way before he ever came into power.

I agree, sure, but strictly, literally that doesn't conflict with what I wrote -- i.e., I didn't claim he was not nuts before 1933 or before he became a dictator! I considered being clear and explicit on this point but omitted such to make the main points shorter and simpler. And I part way addressed this issue by noting that with constraints a nut might not look like one but look nuts if the constraints are off.

> was some brilliant politician

Well, it seems accepted that on his way to being a dictator he was an effective speaker. Maybe he had some industrial backers who were brilliant.

On the Nazi ideology, Aryan, master race stuff, you know more than I do and might be right, but I omitted mention of those out of not being sure they were more than just a party line, a way to get political support, etc.

"Master Race"? Let's see: Math, science, music. Hmm .... Germany, yes, but also Poland, France, Russia, Austria, Hungary, England, the US, ....

Ah, poor Hitler and his "master race": About then, the 1936 Olympics in Germany, Dad was at Ohio State and knew Jesse Owens -- 4 Gold Medals!!!! Hitler's athletes just needed better running shoes -- that was the problem????
Fighting words. I suspect a substantial fraction of the world cooks rice by this knuckle method.

As for unhygienic, you do wash your rice, right? Your hands should already be in there.

Edit: Jo Koy explains how to cook rice with this method https://youtu.be/wMNLicO2cHw?t=107
Fair enough. Of all the historical policing systems, the vigiles seem to be more similar to modern police forces than other systems.

I still think the vigiles are probably notably quite different from police - operating mostly at night, being able to move directly into the military, sleeping in a barracks. Much of the policing during the day was carried out by cohortes urbanae, which definitely were military units.

But they were an organized firefighting and policing force (and I haven't been able to find information on whether they were uniformed). I can see the resemblance, but they also existed in Rome for 300 years then disappeared.
I find the design and results somewhat underwhelming (weak significance in a N=800 sample with >50% dropout). The authors also mention that they lack power, but the only correct answer then is not to do the study, include more people, more data points, or reduce measurement variance.

That said, I think it's a refreshing perspective, and it seems like a good idea to look at effect heterogeneity in psychedelics use. Thinks like bayesian trees (BART) can help identify subgroups that react differently to stimuli along specific characteristics.
Oof, the anachronistic nature of this history is immediately relevant when the Huns are being used as a catchall term for nomadic steppe peoples in an era when this is dominated by Indo-European tribes and referred to as the Mongolians. A quick scroll confirms that there's no mention of any indigenous peoples in the Americas, period, even as they're touting the great and mighty power of the, uh, Lombards. You get other Eurocentric gems, like Charlemagne being the most powerful ruler in his time, more so than the contemporary Tang dynasty in China or the Abbasid Caliphate, which... yeah, no that ain't right. Also interesting that Napoleon at his height looks to be ⅔ the power of the British Empire at the time?

But more than poking fun at the specific issues in this attempt (and there are many to be sure), I strongly suspect that there's no way to even responsibly attempt such an endeavor. Quantitative data is simply lacking for much of history. Population demographics for well-attested areas such as the Roman Empire at its height is difficult to establish, but if you try to apply it to, say, pre-Columbian North America, the estimates vary by orders of magnitude. GDP estimates are even worse--even today, there are many countries where GDP may be over 25% off, and any number before 1500 may as well be pulled out of an ass.

The bigger question is if it's even reasonable to attempt to condense "power" into something quantitative. Economic power doesn't necessarily lend itself to diplomatic power: the US became the world's largest economic power sometime in the late 19th century, yet it remained a diplomatic lightweight pretty much until the climax of WWI.
Tried 7b q5 with some RAG tasks. Seems quite impressive.
> You're also referring to a period during which most of the world was feudal or quasi-feudal.

By most definitions of "feudal", there has never been such a period. What does "feudal" mean to you?
Interesting that OCD is the winning disorder, with zero negative responders.

Recalling my mushroom days.... Okay, I think I get it. Psychedelic experience is, in part, about embracing the beautiful chaos of the universe. Surrendering to the charms of free-flowing wild information at scale so huge there's no chance of imposing your own orderly corrections - as you might in normal every day life via OCD. That's my armchair take anyway.

Psychiatric history | Negative responders (%) | Non-responders (%) | Positive responders (%)

OCD | 0.0 | 25.0 | 75.0
The fact the game has no items, no power ups, no levels, no enemies. Just one question: what is going on? And your job is to figure it out. Knowledge is your only way forward. Unfortunately that means the game can only be played once and any spoiler will ruin it for you.
Not that much more important. Even if the metal is only liquefied, under the airflow it'll be prone to breaking into droplets with much lower terminal velocity, with much the same effect of reducing the mass that can actually hurt anyone. Unless I'm missing something big about the dynamics?
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In some fields of research, the amount of literature out there is stupendous, and with little hope of a human reading, much less understanding the whole literature.
Its becoming a major problem in some fields, and I think, in some ways, approaches that can combine knowledge algorithmically are needed, perhaps llms.
> Several countries had armies enforce legal codes.

We do that now. The division of the army responsible for that is called "the police".
How the Seattle Storm became the WNBA's most valuable team
I did something similar some years ago, https://github.com/ceritium/fuse-torrent

I had no idea what I was doing, most of the hard work IS done by the torrent-stream node package
Canon now.
The article gives two reasons why bonds are getting harder to sell: the fed is buying less because their are getting off QE; and the US government deficit is ballooning thus more bonds are hitting the market. Sorry to burst your bubble but China’s gas station had no impact on Treasuries.
I think there's a large Maori population in Aotearoa that would disagree with this. Heyerdahl's theory was discredited a while ago
Every time I remember we have a Tesla orbiting in our solar system, I remember how stupid we are as a species.
After so many years just using Linux desktops I was shocked how many single purpose GUI applications I need on my MacBook from work.

The one that comes to mind is a GUI with a single button to restore subpixel hinting functionality on, what apple calls, lo-dpi screens. Apple in all their wisdom disabled subpixel hinting a long time ago.

The one I haven't tackled yet, is having only output on my external screen without having to close the lid. Why is this difficult? Am I dumb? I expect there is a GUI somewhere which will expect 10 dollars per year.
All jokes aside, it costs more to convert something than to start from a bare patch of ground.*

You probably would have to demolish the buildings, rip up the parking lots, and then go from there. First to subdivide the land, if you want to sell off individual houses or small blocks of apartments. Or else use the whole parcel of land and put a larger set of related apartment buildings on it.

* I once looked at the estimates of converting a smallish building into one for a different use. When the estimates came in, the cost of converting that existing building was about 15% more than starting from bare ground. And it would have taken a lot longer.
Official post referenced:

https://www.roku.com/blog/protecting-your-roku-account
What is strange to you and me is common for hundreds of millions of people. It's strange to me that you're paranoid about touching rice which is going to be boiled for half an hour. You don't wash your hands before cooking? Not all rice needs salt either.
Excluding competitive tension from the EV market by trying to block BYD isn't going to solve the price issue. Whereas in PHEV/Hybrid space, there's at least some competitive tension.
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Official post: https://www.roku.com/blog/protecting-your-roku-account

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40031256
For many years I tried fiddling with the magic amount of water to rice. A few years back I said screw it.

I now cook my rice like one would cook pasta. I pour however much I want in a pot of salted, boiling water. When it's done I pour it into a colander, set it on top of the pot, melt in some butter and fluff it with a fork.

Nothing ever sticks to the bottom of the pan, it's pretty indistinguishable from rice cooked he "normal" way and it's way less hassle.
This is a great explanation for someone like me, ie total novice.

You’ve explained it in a way so that each part of the abbreviation makes sense now.

Thanks!
You're entitled to your opinion.

I'm not making a claim on what people would do. That's just standard military practice when a missile is fired you fire back at the source to prevent additional firing.

Iran has no clue about the saturation point and got nothing. First, this was 100% synthetic since Israel knew about the attack and was very prepared. It got help from Jordan, US, UK and even the Saudis. According to army sources Israel already practiced for missile volumes with double the intensity. The fact that a couple went through doesn't indicate saturation, it just indicates the complexity of the problem space.

Also, this is relevant to a point in time. Missile defenses are easy to bolster with additional resources. Right now light dome isn't even active yet and might be a game changer (energy based interception). Software and sensors improve very rapidly and additional deployments are easy.

What we do know is that a large number of Iranian missiles crashed in Iraq and Iran because they are so badly made... Anyone in the market for Iranian tech now understands the quality of their product and its usefulness.
Deleted. Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20240415221214/https://wizardlm.g...

https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM/commit/4218c0ba64a84cfd...
> Unionisation pressures (...)

It boggles the mind how basic mechanisms to protect workers from health and safety issues and overall abuses are often mindlessly parroted as contributing to a company's problems.

Listen, if you are incapable of treating employees as people or even lookout for their own personal safety, the problems are not caused by workers getting together to do something to save themselves.

If your company fails at this fundamental level, the failure lies in the way your company is managed.

You are the problem if you want workers to work nights and weekends. You are the problem if you depend on workers sleeping in the office or factory floors to meet arbitrary deadlines.

If your managers try to argue their company can cease to exist if it can no longer subject workers to all kinds of abuse, your company should not exist at all, and the world will be a much better place without it.
https://archive.is/0kiur

To get around the paywall...
By hand with a pen. Go figure.
> Someone recently asked if the source code from Descent 3 will be released.

For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40009248

Very cool — thank you!
A deorbit of 3T of ISS cargo is significant, and there was a decent amount of press in fairly mainstream news sites leading up to the re-entry. It doesn't seem that unlikely that he, or someone he knows, had heard about it and connected the dots.
Did mine in about half an hour with Cash App Taxes (free) and ChatGPT for questions. I'm self-employed, but it was pretty straightforward. Got my refunds a couple weeks later.

Didn't want to use TurboTax because Intuit is an evil company that actively lobbies against streamlining our taxes. They're basically the reason we have to do this shitty process every year.

The convenience of saving my returns with the app far outweighs any concerns about leakage for me. Who the hell would want to look at my tax returns? If the IRS could just do my taxes for me, I wouldn't even bother to look at them, myself.
You know when you see HN discussion on some subjects where you have significant background and it's hyper cringe? Psychology/neurology is one of those areas where the community's commentary is almost always extremely...factually challenged. Be very careful making health decisions based off of HN comments. Lots of people with strong agendas and weak subject matter knowledge. Also, be careful not to over-estimate your ability to interpret random study results. It's kinda like trying to get a project to build you downloaded from sourceforge.
I’m over here wondering why someone would want deterministic nonces.

Isn’t it kind of the point to just roll random numbers? When would you calculate?
I think the book 'Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming' by Cachin et al gives a better and more rigorous overview of distributed systems theory than anything else I've seen mentioned on this thread: www.distributedprogramming.net
It’s all fits together in a very nice way. It’s very much a space archaeology game — if you like exploring the game universe and understanding how it works, you’ll like it, but that exploration is the bulk of what it has going on.
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I sat in on a lecture by a Stanford geophysicist, and he said that seismologists have every legal incentive to communicate that a large earthquake is imminent in the Bay, even if their work is inconclusive or suggests otherwise.

They might get sued or prosecuted if they say it’s safe and a big one strikes.
And also non-religious belief...paradoxical!
Sounds like the police trying to influence the boards to me.

Police already have power to ruin lives or at least make them seriously inconvenient. A retired cop generally still has friends and/or family that are active cops, and therefore has some influence.

Which means folks aren't nearly as free to speak or do their jobs freely. This is true even if you personally don't feel this way around any sort of law enforcement - you know others do.
> Any pro bodybuilder who refocused their efforts into powerlifting would quite quickly be putting up impressive numbers.

This seems interesting. Do you know of an example of a pro bodybuilder who turned to powerlifting? I wonder how their total muscle mass would change/redistribute.
Is there a tool or better way to do it?

What is your budget?

It will determine your options.
AI is probably the only field in science where even scientists behind the thing talk like salesmen. Hinton in particular comes off as a dishonest person: he clearly knows what he says is wrong but does it anyway because he wants to hype the technology [1].

Also, the whole "neural networks work like human brains" nonsense is beneficial to large corporations behind AI because it could help them defy copyright laws while the same restrictions continue to apply to the common man.

[1] - some more Hinton's "wisdom":
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1c2vauy/geoffr...
I think op is referring to a TS Elliot poem
More of a concern in the bay area, the geological composition is sand, mud, basic river delta sediments--not the most stable stuff.

eg: During a hypothetical Earthquake in the Bay area, the liquefaction of sand occurs, which causes underground structures to move upward due to buoyancy (think of a lower level parking garage), and the soil mass from the structure collapses.

the liquefied sand diffuses to the surrounding area after the earthquake, causing the sand beneath the underground structure to be lost, and the building will return to its original position or even collapse.
If you have no choice - like if it's what your employer uses exclusively - it's an option for making it more palatable.
My intuition is similar to yours, but I trust people who have done the thing more than your or my intuition.

Sync seems to require very responsive receivers, which is a desired property anyway, so maybe the downside isn't that great.
Unironirally this. Whenever taking drugs of any kind, but especially with one's that meddle with your reality. There is no excuse for not doing your research. Your consciousness is all you have
People were navigating out of sight of land, and reached Australia tens of thousands of years before this.

They might have reached North America, too. Anyway we know people got there because they butchered the Hartley mammoth 37kya.
In general the thing people find obnoxious about this kind of argument is that both 'race' and 'IQ' have their origin in eugenics, but are meaningless in genetics. The genetic variation across one race (say black) is much greater than the variation between races. There are no well-established genetic predictors of IQ. So, even if you do find evidence that there is a statistical correlation between these two unscientific and essentially meaningless concepts, your correlation is equally unscientific and meaningless.
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Hilarious that the person you're replying to had their smug reddit "CITATION NEEDED" gotcha-attempt, and when you and rayiner provided some, I see nothing but downvotes. I can hear the reeee'ing from here.
i hope you realize that there is no intelligence at work, and all that this is, is just advanced interpolation of whatever is in the model

it doesn't actually understand what you are asking it.
Im not sure how buying food is related to grants.
This was my sense as well. The device looks and is described like something I would not be surprised to find on a 1970s warship or spy plane to aid navigation. Not with street maps, specifically, of course, but something similar!

Still impressive to get it into a consumer-sized (and almost consumer-priced) box.
What an amazing game, I absolutely loved Descent!
> To a first approximation, if you express a strong opinion about politics (particularly in these times), no matter which side you align with, you're going to alienate about half your customers, so it's always seemed like bad business sense to do so.

There's a basic principle as old as time which goes something like "never discuss politics, religion, and sports with co-workers". The reasons are obvious.

What kind of absolute moron is going to assume the public face of a few fragile companies and insist on making broad gratuitous ignorant public statements on each and every single one of these topics, sometimes bundling a bunch of them together?
The n=16 is ridiculously low, though. Psychotic disorder, with 25%/25%/50%... n=4. The only number from Table 2 that makes sense is the aggregate. Even "history" vs "no-history" the differences are not that big, and slightly suggest that having a history of psychiatric illness has better outcome.
It's hard to understand what you're trying to say, tbh.

I don't think anyone thinks American military might is on the wane. The blog post is very clear that given the info people knew at the time, the ineffectiveness of missle defense systems was reasonable to believe in...

But America's war record in the past few decades shows that might alone cannot win wars. And given that our might is high and our strategy has been a bit poor, it's not insane for people to want to spend less money and time on the former and more on the latter...
I've found this to be generally true. Engineers are passionate and intelligent people, but frequently make the mistake of thinking this means they are experts in everything.
Without the "your enemy is not capitalism, it's the Jew!" ploy that entire "working class brownshirts beat up communists on behalf of industrialists" thing would not have happened at all. Antisemitism was the keystone that kept their self-contradicting ideological mess from collapsing before they even got a foot on the ground.
I'm really enjoying watching the creative ways this stable genius is finding to run twitter into the ground.
People take prescribed drugs for less than a 25% chance that it helps and a Russian roulette of side effects. Does sexual dysfunction improve depression?
Please could a fellow HNer who has experience using this explain in simple terms what Hono on a Cloudflare Worker enables that one cannot already do with a vanilla worker?

The docs[0] are not instructive on this point.

[0] https://hono.dev