skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we've both got a hold of different patches of the elephant?

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism#Positions , you seem to be partaking of "Political Nihilism" (or at least Material Cultural Nihilism?), whereas my usual order is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism with a side of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereological_nihilism and "Cosmic Nihilism" as dessert (all prepared in the active style).

[As to technologies I habitually use, they serve roughly as I choose them to serve — sometimes more or less. (but always under my intention of contributing to, rather than providing meaning for, my life) The question is, which is to be master — that’s all]
What’s going on with the center monument in photo 13? Is that a testament to the importance of taking some time for one’s self?
> Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century.

I'd encourage to look at beam propulsion e.g. from here - http://www.gdnordley.com/_files/2way%20EML%20&%20PB%20prop.p... - this could serve as an alternative viewpoint.
shift key busted
Quasi-theocratic hereditary absolute monarchies also tend to have ways to make things happen that more democratic governments find difficulties with.
JPI Modula-2 was my first proper compiler on my childhood PC! I loved it, it was nicer to use than either Turbo Pascal or C.

I actually bought my first ever hard disk (a mighty 10MB as I remember, more storage than I'd ever be able to use), for something like £200, an absolute fortune to an adolescent in 1986, just so that I could install modula-2 permanently in the machine and could stop swapping compiler floppies and program floppies all the time.

But when I first got access to UNIX boxes as a postgrad there was C but no Modula-2, so I switched to C, which could do everything Modula-2 could do except it was a bit more fragile and treacherous.
Hi there, my intention was to offer some names of people who have intelligent things to say about the topic.

I mentioned YouTube videos because there’s a large volume of their content there, with many of the videos featuring in-depth conversations and debates, which I’ve found can be a particularly good format for discussion of a topic of such gravity and complexity.

But between these three figures there are also many books, academic papers, blog posts, and written media interviews.

I’ve long found that this is a topic in which some people are going to be standoffish and resistant and that’s fine.

My hope is only to help people who are looking to learn about the topic to know who I’ve found worthwhile to learn from.

All the best!
You may have oral allergy syndrome (OAS), which is similar to food allergy but not as severe. It doesn't typically lead to anaphylaxis. It is caused by pollen allergy, where the food has a protein similar to one that's in the pollen you're allergic to. This is called "cross-reactivity".

Personally I have OAS with raw carrots, which is likely cross-reactive from my birch pollen allergy. Raw carrots make my throat mildly itchy, but I don't have a food allergy to carrots and I don't get anaphylaxis. Cooked carrots are totally fine, the cooking destroys the protein. This is a common feature of OAS.

Actually, while I did have OAS with carrots in the past, I have recently been undergoing immunotherapy for pollen allergies (plus cat dander and mold) and in addition to my hay fever symptoms disappearing, I no longer get the itchy throat with raw carrots.

This page has a list of common pollen allergies and the foods that they may be cross-reactive with: https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/oral-allergy-syndro...
Yep, this was me with the Atari ST.

It was tough, though, the ST's OS really was written with C in mind. Lots of void pointer action which Wirth languages really didn't get along with.
Even the old code where I thought I was clever looks bad after time. Actually, the clever code looks much worse.
> Per Ray, the changes Google has been making seem to have most affected global websites with lots of inline ads and affiliate revenue links for e-commerce, because those are indicated as being more spammy

This part sounds good to me. I’ve been waiting ages for Google to crack down on affiliate spam.
The expansion-contraction of information as it passes between systems is interesting. Json takes more space than a binary protocol, but it is a more human friendly representation.

Programming languages are a moderately unambiguous way to describe procedures and transformations, but natural language can be more concise.

I wonder if language will drift and become more personalized with ai enabling easy translation between language islands
Would buffing with a fine polishing compound be unacceptable in terms of strength? Presumably this is a surface effect?
Ironically, the video is a skeptic's attempt at a balanced review of a published paper, and the paper, which makes its argument in text, is way more bullshit than the video's verbal discussion of it.
> perhaps they also enabled it by default in sonoma?

No, they didn't.

Anyway, iCloud Keychain has always been end to end encrypted.
Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, the underlying dataset very much conditions the quality of the responses. Additionally, the retrieval strategy is also a really important factor (and that is something which I haven't had time to extensively optimize).

I'm writing a blog post that will answer your questions! Will post it here when it's fully baked.
They’re cached because they’re popular, not popular because they’re cached .
What we need is another Bretton Woods - serving the majority of the large population.
I never got a rash until my late 30s (even after known exposure). Now I get the rash readily. I wish I'd avoided it more when I was younger.
You asked how it doesn’t feel native. Using a design system from a different platform, and not complying with the interface guidelines of the current platform, is a big part of not feeling native.

And the frame drops and lack of system gestures, and lack of standard nav stack are major infractions on usability outside of design.
Show HN: I turned a GLSL shader into a .mov macOS screensaver
This echoes my feelings on this whole debate. The question of consciousness matters much less than the question of how we decide to treat things that we view as being very much like us.
parallelism is an important consideration on modern systems. While the memory clearing step parallelizes, the inner loop seems hard to parallelize?

also, how do we combine two sketches? (another form of parallelism)
> not being able to see which station the train is at, especially if no announcement is made

Wait, they're admitting they know this is a problem? It's such a pain having inaudible announcements or none at all. Is it really so hard to get on the PA for each stop? Then why not have it automated? Or an overhead sign in the car showing eta and name of next station? Ideally both.
I too suspect that's all it does. But we'll see.
You do realize that almost all the mass of a PWR reactor is steel, right? The steel pressure vessel, steel supports for the fuel bundles. So the argument you are making there is that the mass discrepancy between fusion reactors and PWRs grossly understates the difference in cost.
There is no exaggerating the difference in the night photos between NK and SK.

Every window in every building in the NK photo has the same exact lighting, but that isn't how a real city works.

The photos of SK have very different lighting coming from every window, it's a real patchwork of apartments. Different colors, light levels, and textures due to the unique lighting and furniture inside the apartment.

The NK photo is in stark contrast to this, with exactly uniform lighting from every single window in every single building, with all of the lights being on in every window.

It's kind of ridiculous to suggest there's anything similar about these two cities. One is obviously vacant and lit up completely as a show, the other is a real city with real people living real lives.
I always find it a problem when US roads use a N/S/E/W designation based on their overall trajectory rather than the local direction.

For example, we live south of Santa Fe, but to tell people how to get here [0] we have to say "take I25 North" (because heading out of Santa Fe and away from Albuquerque, the road heads south east, even though its ultimate destination (Buffalo, WY) is clearly to the north. The road signage is consistent, but if you also have a reasonably strong sense of direction, your head can be asking "why am I going south on a north-labelled road" or a variant thereof.
At less than $20k per car, that doesn't even seem particularly expensive. This is a fairly basic maintenance item.
Why on earth would you aim for popularity? Can you imagine the agony of creating something that you know is objectively less good than other options, then have this become popular? You then would have to write something about "the good parts" of your language! ;-)
I had the exact same experience with iCloud Drive (or whatever it is/was called) years ago. I kept turning it off and never agreed to use it and one day discovered it was on anyway and a bunch of my stuff was already in the cloud.

Pretty egregious behaviour.
That first article was 12 years ago when MLC was the norm and had 10k endurance.

Macronix have known about the benefits of heating for a long time but previously used to bake NAND chips in an oven at around 250C for a few hours to anneal them – that’s an expensive and inconvenient thing to do for electronic components!

I wonder if the e-waste recycling operations in China may be doing that to "refurbish" worn out NAND flash and resell it. They already do harvesting of ICs so it doesn't seem impossible... and maybe this effect was first noticed by someone heating the chips to desolder them.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40404054
Assuming a fast reliable internet connection, how well does an overclocked raspberry pi 5 perform when video conferencing using popular conferencing applications such as zoom, google meet, ms teams and the like?
Mythbusted?
Asking for one's credentials on a topic before assessing their claims is not ad hominem.
My mom grew up in South Africa, '40s and '50s, she always made us wash our lips after eating mango to avoid a rash. Only later did I discover I didn't need to, I always assumed the rash-causing compound has been bred out of modern mangos.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slop

I like it! The term that is, not the junk content itself.
It really just a state machine
I'll probably regret this, but I really want to do the North Korea cultural trip where you take a train from China to North Korea and get the propaganda tour about how awesome it is.

North Korea just fascinates me.
I saw only that it asks for the ROMs. Perhaps I'm being overly sceptical, but I don't see anything saying it actually requires the ROMs. And that ask will be easily circumvented.
A new spin on Enshitification...
The Worst Method for Learning ML – Reproducing AlphaFold
This is a write up of one of my first machine learning side projects that I am particularly proud of, a protein structure prediction model based on AlphaFold 3 designed to be trained on a single mid tier GPU (RTX 3060 in my case).

I talk about the successes and failures of this project, in particular its merits and shortcomings as a first project for learning ML.

For those more curious about technical details, I believe this is one of the first implementations of AlphaFold 3 in PyTorch (adapted to only consider proteins and ignoring other molecules) - see https://github.com/ogchen/nanofold for the project code if you are curious!
You are getting this reaction from people because of the judgmental tone you took in your original comment:

> If you can't take a single week off of work during an entire year in order to advance your career, then you're satisfied with your current one.

It’s a pretentious remark, saturated in lofty assumptions about people, and you could learn from these reactions.

Edit: I just noticed your username, “soul of mischief“, and now it makes sense to me. Are you trolling?
Oddly instead of making it feel bizarre, these photos almost humanized the place for me. If you told me some of these shots were taken in Manilla I'd have believed you.
Even with so-called standard data protection, iCloud Keychain passwords are always end-to-end encrypted, and Apple cannot decrypt them.

"For additional privacy and security, 15 data categories — including Health and passwords in iCloud Keychain — are end-to-end encrypted. Apple doesn't have the encryption keys for these categories, and we can't help you recover this data if you lose access to your account."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
Ah, the good old mathematical law

num_lifetime_meteor_sightings = tan(pi * n/48)

Where n= daily hours spent outside looking at the sky
After having tried quite many note taking tools, I think Tiddlywiki is superior regarding transclusions [1]

[1] https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/#Transclusions
And yet the top thread right now is from BBC regarding Russian glid bombs.
Perplexity offers a Reddit "focus" which does exactly that! https://www.perplexity.ai
The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Is Closing Forever
This comment is unsubstantial and provides no value. Why do you care about this?
Question: How do I know everything I’ve been told about North Korea isn’t a lie?
Ask HN: Financial advice) Managing student loan consolidation and auto loan
I am a recent college graduate, having completed my degree a year ago. I currently hold $43,000 in private student loans, with varying APRs: $11,000 at 11.5%, $22,000 at 13.5%, and $8,000 at 7.75%. I am seeking advice on consolidating these loans to secure a better interest rate. I have explored options with Earnest and received an estimated rate of 6% over five years. Notably, their application indicates no prepayment fees, which aligns with my goal of paying more than the minimum monthly payment. Specifically, I intend to allocate $1,200 per month towards these payments, exceeding the minimum requirement of $880, to expedite repayment and minimize total costs.

Additionally, I am planning to buy a car which will require financing through some auto loan. The car I am considering is priced at $23,000, and I am contemplating a down payment of $5,000 to $10,000.

I seek guidance on the optimal sequence of actions regarding these financial decisions. Should I prioritize consolidating my student loans before financing the car, or vice versa? I am concerned about the impact on my credit score, as both actions will affect it. Is it advisable to do both within the same month so that the previous loan doesn't get reported on my credit report?

For context, my current credit score is approximately 733.

Thanks!
Can America Possibly Elect Donald Trump Again?
Nigel Richards (who tournament scrabble players regard as the game's undisputed GOAT) did not win the French championships just by having an eidetic memory (though it surely helps!), he is also amazingly good at the tactics and strategy of scrabble, including anagramming, board vision, rack balancing, and calculation of probabilities and lookahead. there is a considerable amount of "intelligence" involved, however you want to define that.
A bit confused … the article is about Ssd drive with 500- M. Is what it said and discussed more details here applied to nvme drive with 1000+ M. Same?
The article claims that these AI companies are calling for regulation. This is a factual claim. The speculative claim would be to introspect the mind and determine why they might be asking for regulation. This is a very reasonable Agent simulation.
The best highly-opinionated product management (not project management) alternative to Jira is Linear.app - it is sooo good I can’t begin to do it justice.
I find it interesting that the direction seems to be so intrinsic and important in the US but here is Australia we don't have it at all. Just numbers, but mostly people know and use the highway names and refer to the town they are driving towards.
1. Some philosophers think many metaphysical debates meaningless. Consider the debate about ordinary objects such as chairs. These typically are the result of composing more fundamental entities (such as those of the Standard Model). Mereological nihilists say: there are no ordinary objects (such as chairs). Others disagree. /Relativists/ about metaphysics say that these disputes are merely verbal. There is no fact of the matter to discover and expound. Whether or not there is such a thing as a chair is simply a matter of convention.

2. I disagree. But I think one point is right. Relativists point out that it is often (or maybe even always) possible to translate statements between the languages promoted by different metaphysical schools. For example, nihilists translate ‘the chair is on the ground’ to ‘some particles arranged chairwise are such that the particles at the bottom touch the ground’ (or something similar). For this reason, they claim not much hinges on whether nihilists are actually right.

3. Despite my antirelativist metaphysical inclinations, I think it is possible to translate statements in the language given by the ‘same ontology that constitutes reality’ systematically into languages that reflect different metaphysical views.

4. Some of those erroneous metaphysical views may correspond to how we naturally tend to think about certain areas, or the needs of computation (e.g. in being better complexity-wise). For this reason I am sceptical about the (admittedly very interesting) technique advanced in this essay, since it seems to assume that no conflict between these demands will arise.

5. A final worry is that metaphysics does not really speak with one voice. Many philosophers are quite sympathetic to the sort of picture outlined at the start of the essay, but e.g. mereological nihilism is surprisingly popular! If resolving these questions definitively is too much even for philosophers, those applying their conclusions will have some trouble too.
This "minecraft" is what the NK rulers consider art: order and simplicity. The lifeless vibe must be a part of what they consider beautiful.
The terrible situation of Windows professional laptops
Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
"Do The Atlantic writers dream of publicly available electronic articles?"
I am almost forty now, never try to avoid it, still no problems. I even had a side gig going in high school removing it. But it is still only any anecdote.
Gah, I didn’t realize that iCloud Keychain was enabled automatically on ios17. I checked and it’s been on for months. Why would they do this?

I remember when Microsoft uploaded people’s personal wifi creds in Windows 10.
It’s all highly suspect.

Stop it. This over sharing by default will doom us all.
since banks are effectively sustained directly by govt monetary policy, it's society's problem
We could send tardigrades ;-)
Well, flagging it didn't do any good, so evidently the admins believe it is.
They look like artist renderings
Can anyone authenticate these?

Well some do check out via Google Maps, though not as good looking.

I am impressed.
I think it is beautiful.
I wish we used colors more in our cities.

In these specific images that I do not know how representative they are
they appear to have a more diverse architecture than most US cities.
Interesting project. Just curious: why does it stop at 2013? Are the manuals not available, is it a licensing issue or just a project frozen in 2013?
I took a commuter train in NJ earlier this year and i was shocked at the windows. Seriously, every other train system in the world can pull off clean windows but not New Jersey? India? Clean windows. China? Clean windows... You can't blame pollution... you can't blame regulation because they've got tons of that in Norway and Japan and they're able to keep their windows clean.
"None of the actual empirical economic data in the US resembles your statement"

Who told you that? My opinions are actually not that relevant here.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3529638/

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-008-x/2007004/10311-e...

https://fortune.com/2023/01/12/millennials-broken-economy-de...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/opinion/fertility-decline...

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/04/real-reas...
"Almost all makes and models from 1982 through 2013"

which sadly means that no current car models are included.
Lightning Fast Multicast Ring Buffer
EU investigates Meta over Facebook and Instagram child safety
it said 1-4 players, which made me think I could play against an AI, but I couldn't figure out any way to make that happen.
This looks incredibly cool! Will it be coming to Android eventually?

I've always thought it would be great to have a way to check items in and out of containers or locations with NFC(Since long range RFID in consumer friendly formats is sadly still hundreds of dollars)
May I ask for the Toyota Scion XB manual from 2005/2006? Scion always seems to be left out of make/model lists :(
Puzzle made by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the university quest
Get low on blood sugar and perceive how your brain stops working and consciousness falls apart
It's fucking up my equation to continue investigating this, but, shouldn't this be a simple Poisson distribution (constant rate)? What model are you doing that has a trigonometric tan
There are millions of ten year old QLC SSDs

In 2014 QLC was nothing but a research curiosity. The first QLC SSD was introduced in 2018:

https://www.top500.org/news/intel-micron-ship-first-qlc-flas...

You have to also remember that people buy storage expecting it to last. I have decades-old magnetic media which is tiny but still readable.
Before going to expansions, I’d strongly suggest playing Ares Expedition, the card game. It keeps 90% of the feel of the board game but speeds the game up substantially and gives a lot more opportunity to make it through the deck.
It’s not that expensive at YouTube scale. We are talking fractions of a penny per GiB transferred.
I ordered but never open the box. For Covid hotel q 2 week project. They changed the rule and hence no 2 week isolation to do that sadly.
As a programming language researcher I'm definitely biased here. But I recommend anyone interested try to write their own programming language, because even if you never even finish the compiler, I think it's worthwhile.

Compilers include a lot of discrete algorithms and data-structures: trees (syntax), graphs (intermediate representation), fixed-point algorithms (static analysis); they also include a lot of difficult problems, like how to handle forward declarations (for recursive functions) and closures. And thinking about programming language design requires thinking about program design: deciding the set of features to make a language maximally expressive without over-complicating it or permitting spaghetti code, is a lot like deciding the set of methods to make an API maximally usable without over-complicating it or permitting invalid uses. Writing a programming language makes you a better programmer.

Similarly, designing and implementing a game engine makes you better understand game development (learn what is slow and how everything works, along with a lot of complex data-structures and algorithms). And writing an OS makes you better understand how to use maxOS/Windows/Linux. And writing a frontend/backend without using the popular frameworks probably makes you better understand how to use those frameworks...

Also, I recommend you try to make the language (or game engine or OS or ...) unique in some way that you think is better than how existing ones do it (and if you can't think of any improvements, don't make a new one, but you probably have at least some ideas). And try not to just read literature and re-implement it, it's OK to use libraries for parts that already exist. Otherwise you could just take an online (or in-person) course, which is fine, but it doesn't build critical thinking in the way that focusing on what you're interested in does.