skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to the pedantry -- the Scottish system re-uses the number with an "M" instead of an "A" when a new motorway replaces the old road on a new alignment, but if the existing alignment is upgraded then (as in the rest of Great Britain) the A road sometimes keeps its number with a "(M)" suffix. And it's not necessarily the case that the old road is renumbered, either.

So we have the M74 and A74(M) which are different pieces of the same road. There are bits of the A90 interspersed with bits of the M90, although the bulk of the A road is north of all the motorway and the motorway has in many places a different alignment to the original road. And the M8 is the main road connecting Glasgow and Edinburgh, replacing the A8, which is a different road with only segments remaining.
It's a mixed bag of a blog post. Reading it, and your response, I see all of this as growing pains. The Rust async split mentioned in the post is a legitimate issue. It's also a consequence of immaturity. Rust async underspecified async runtimes and, naturally, incompatible async runtimes emerged and leak all over. The shrapnel of that plagues crates.io. A thoughtful post about this is found here[1]. On the other hand io_uring, new and immature as it is, suffers from security problems, to the point it's been turned off on important platforms, like containerd (by default,) Android, ChromeOS and elsewhere.

As for the actual need for Rust async: there is a real point here as well. While many applications have no actual need for the benefits of Rust async for the bulk of their code, nearly all of them are using it pervasively because that's what the dependencies they're using have been built on. Why? The best answer I can offer is "webscale anxiety": if your thing can't at least theoretically claim to handle Cloudflare levels of IO concurrency out of the box it's garbage, apparently, and no one will consider it. An ecosystem wide case of premature optimization. The cost of that is all the great things that might be done in Rust, but aren't, either because the attempt failed after the developers gave up trying to cope with Rust async, or they've already been through that one or more times and forego Rust by default.

The good news is these problems are all solvable with time. I cling to that hope because Rust and io_uring are both awesome innovations and deserve to survive and thrive.

[1] https://corrode.dev/blog/async/
What happens when renters go and shame landlords for getting kicked out for not paying rent and such? Most people leave reviews when they are angry, not when they are satisfied.

Landlords aren't usually liked, accepted perhaps but not liked. Sometimes they have to make tough decisions and this can unfortunately make people angry.

I get it for a hotel, but a landlord isn't getting paid to work with customer service, they simply rent it the place. So, if they can't have the ability to respond about the person slamming them won't that cause issues? It has to be a two-way street, otherwise it will push prices up so they can deal with the additional admin and work around making everyone happy.

They do deserve their privacy as well, most landlords are not a company so publicly slamming their name seems like something that they shouldn't have to deal with. They deserve anonymity. If this happens to a landlord once, they may not rent again.

Now, I'm not against it for situations that are absolutely horrendous but like another commenter pointed out, if they are really that bad you will notice it when you meet them the first time and they show you the property.

But rating people, i.e. landlords, is not the same as rating a company.
A central problem here is also that they are nomads. They don't live in the area, they aren't from the area, they aren't integrated into the area through work, they simply exist in the area until they get bored and move on. Why would anyone want these people in their neighborhood hangouts?
> "Mate" has this anthropological, scientistic feel to it.

Every trait discussed here is being selected for. There are evolutionary pressures at play here regardless of how complicated you think our social and cognitive functions are, when the outcome isn’t complicated.

Any sex linked trait that promotes height is being selected for on the X chromosome.
Wow, that bit at the end really sold it. Very cool
I have and love a steam deck, and used to have geforce now for about 18 months before I got a 3080 new rig. We might be playing incredibly different games in very different ways, and that's ok - but geforce now being beaten by steam deck is, again, taking a reasonable position way too far.

Geforce now lets me play cp2077 on ultra with all the ray tracing on high resolution 32" monitor. Steam deck can "play" cp2077 at 800 resolution if you don't mind a melting jet engine in your hands. They're both great for what they do and are, and they can make a powerful combo, but in terms of performance I don't see how they can possibly be compared :-/

Edit : did you by any chance only try the free / low tier version of geforce now?
Not guaranteed by default for NVMe drives. There's an NVMe feature bit for "Read Zero After TRIM" which if set for a drive guarantees this behavior but many drives of interest (2024) do not set this.
I really cannot understand consciousness. And if I am honest nor do I see peoples fascination with it. Especially now that scientists are trying to measure, they seem to come up short and some posit that it must a quantum effect or something else.

I am not sure what new learning all the research and thinking brings: I am lost it all the “arguments”; I really do not understand.

A lot of way smarter people than me think it’s a worthwhile concept to wrestle with. Maybe I’m just not smart enough to get it.

A lot of people way smarter than me agonised over the nature of the soul too. Is it that debate replayed? Are we just trying to justify humans “specialness”?
Every generation has to discover Hannah Arendt anew. It's not fair to say coulda-shoulda unless you're God himself. I wonder, the higher up in classification you go, how much of it is how much of it is abstraction as a result of the classification that does harm. How much of it is the gorillas who keep the other gorillas from touching the bananas so that they don't get squirted with water, because "that's the way it's always been done". Meanwhile, October 7th.

There was an article today in Foreign Policy, "U.S. Intelligence Is Facing a Crisis of Legitimacy".

If the material is stamped secret but everybody knows what's going on, then whoever sits on those documents looks like Ellis, the coke-sniffing negotiator in Die Hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTozIjeqFM
Pay equity is and should be about helping unlucky people be more lucky. One cannot choose to not be a class that receives lower compensation inherently.
Isn't the workaround here to back up your keychain file, remove your passwords from the keychain, update to Sonoma, disable iCloud keychain, then import the backup? Not a trivial process, but should be easier than the author's attempted workaround of disabling SIP and installing while offline.

Long term I suspect the actual answer will be that if you don't want to use iCloud Keychain then you just can't use the keychain at all, which is a shame as it once was one of the good parts of macOS.
They do not have any higher level understanding of right and wrong. You lead the model on by telling it to improve something, so it will rework the code in question and tell you that it's an improvement. Regardless or not if it is. Coding is about 70% subjective, 30% objective when it comes to figuring out improvements because the majority of improvements deal with business logic and things specific to your domain.
It’s been a 25 years since I’ve even been remotely exposed to them, but I believe the military currently has a non-classified NIPRnet, a classified secret SIPRnet, and a network called JWICS for top secret.

I think all three are physically seperated from the commercial internet and each other but don’t quote me on it.

Uncle Sam doesn’t mess around…
There are things like NAS (neural architectural search) but all you are doing is just growing the search space and making the optimization problem much harder. Typically you do the architectural optimization by hand, using heuristics and past experiments as guidance.
One suicide explosive drone opens a hole, the next goes into it.
> lost their sensitivity to poison oak via the accidental chronic exposure regimen

This is not how the immune system is known to work.

Sensitivity does not downregulate. Increased exposure enhances detection and response. Recognition proliferates. Once you're allergic to something, it'll only worsen.

You can become allergic to new things, but you won't lose allergies unless the recognizer population dies off entirely. And even if it did, you're likely close enough to training your immune system to this sensitivity again. (You've already done it at least once.)

It's a failure mode of adaptive immunity.
I tend to think that the underlying issue is that collaborative/group planning software usually isn't starting from first principles but is just a list of attributes people think they need or that are memetic/familiar.

Based on my experience I think a universal solution will have a starting point in the individual and will evolve from something like obsidian or emacs (but it will probably never evolve from a consumer hostile community/platform like emacs)... and will eventually be akin to a full OS replacement.

For any given universal interface you have to make it extensible, interoperable and personal (for some given definition of personal) and no software organized around a group can get there without a fundemental rework.

Honestly, I think for large commercial players (products like MacOs) it's more likely for us to get there after AI conversational interfaces are fully synthesized and OS' are fundementally reevaluated for production after they lose their relevance in other general computing ways.
I think the main ingredient is a living being.
I then further wonder how much of that difference relates to early childhood nutrition (which would presumably directly affect both height and perhaps directly affects and indirectly correlates with other non-height attributes).
Yes, it does. This follows from the fact that structural mass is proportional to stored magnetic energy, just as the mass of a pressure vessel is proportional to volume x pressure (for materials of a given strength).

Viewed another way: if we double B, we quadruple the forces on each segment of conductor, and therefore must quadruple the strength of the supports.

I explicitly said "support structure", the structure that is resisting the force of the magnets. There are other parts that scale more slowly, but I don't need to show that all components scale poorly to show that overall there are diseconomies of scale.

Note that this is NOT like in a fission reactor. In a fission reactor, everything scales just about linearly with power.
the very first big AI company who gives up trying to lobotomize and emasculate their models to align with the values of 0.01% of the world population will win a lot of hearts and minds overnight. the censorship necessary for corporate applications can be trivially implemented as a toggleable layer, using a small, efficient, specialist model to detect no-no words and wrongthink in inputs/outputs.

gpt, claude, gemini, even llama and mistral, all tend to produce the same nauseating slop, easily-recognizable by anyone familiar with LLMs - these days, I cringe when I read 'It is important to remember' even when I see it in some ancient, pre-slop writings.

creativity - one of the very few applications generative AI can truly excel at - is currently impossible. it could revolutionize entertainment, but it isn't allowed to. the models are only allowed to produce inoffensive, positivity-biased, sterile slop that no human being finds attractive.
Day9 / Mostly Walking's is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_TqymY5fCU

I agree it's tricky to find the balance of a truly blind playthrough, sans hints, and one that's also enjoyable to watch because the inferences are made reasonably quickly.
Or you can use '-f concat' and specify a text file with the explicit order of image files to be used as input - no need to hope and pray that the wildcard will pick the files in the correct order.

see https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate or https://shotstack.io/learn/use-ffmpeg-to-concatenate-video/
> discussions on food and health should not, as a starting point, be heavily politicized

That's some interesting whiplash from the title
Just to add, they don't have the baggage of google or Meta so they can do more without worrying how it impacts the rest of the company. And of the big players they seem the most aware of how important good data is and have paid for lots of high quality curated fine tuning data in order to build a proper product instead of doing a research project. That mindset and the commercial difference it makes shouldn't be underestimated.
> extremely opinionated pursuit of oversimplifying the language at the detriment of usability.

Subjective usability. Objectively, the language is quite usable, and many people even prefer it over the many other choices otherwise available to them.
The scientific principle is based on proving thing by experimentation.

it is empirical that means that you should be able to re-produce the results of a thing or assertion by following the details in a paper.

The public might be able to do it themselves. But the point is, its not about who says what, its about can it be reproduced.

scientist "A" says that the sky is blue because of "x". devises an experiment to prove that. writes up the experiment, publishes it, asserts that the sky is blue because of x, and that the experiment proves this.

Scientist "B" says it bollocks, reproduces the experiment, but also extends the experiment to show that the data also says that the sky is green. Paper is published with data and method.

The process repeats until a consensus is reached where everyone can reproduce the data, and no one can disprove the hypothesis that the sky is blue because of x.

None of that requires asserting bollocks on a chat show. Sure science outreach is great, but its not _really_ part of the method.
None of the actual empirical economic data in the US resembles your statement - average household sizes have gone down over time, real incomes have gone up, and Gen Z wealth is doing fine.

It is true in the UK but that's simply because 1. the UK economy is doing pretty badly in general 2. you really, really don't build enough new housing.

If housing construction was unrestricted it wouldn't matter much what interest rates were at.
To be honest, as I've read more of the Bel document, I have to say streams and characters feel rather "bolted on", especially since streams only work with binary. It feels like it's trying to straddle both the practical and theoretical, and ends up being a bit of a mess. I appreciate people exploring new concepts, but honestly this doesn't feel that novel.
Unprojecting text with ellipses (2016)
well doesn't the argument suggest the only thing you can be certain of is I, or at least some 'experiencing agent' exist, otherwise there would be no subject to do the experiencing
How the Buffalo Bicycle Changes Lives [video]
my little brother ran his own pirate station in lincoln uk in the early 1970s - it was based about half-mile from the police hq. when my dad discovered what was going on there were .... ructions.
He didn't have to sacrifice nearly as much as Assange, Snowden, or Scholl, and his renown is proportionally smaller, but "beacon of sanity while the world was going crazy around them" is also how I see Pat Buchanan's relationship to US conservative politics (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/against-buchananism/).

These people were not particularly eloquent, or intelligent, or talented, or insightful; but they were there, they were sane, and they spoke out. Though their battles ended mostly in defeat, they helped clear the path for future victories.
So, no, no real practical difference.

> Really the main draw is that the native version is more amenable to modding.

Why on earth should that be true?
It's not new speak, hard landing is a technical term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_landing
As a frequent user of the trains from NJ transit, I can attest to the fact that you can literally not see out of most of the windows
> Fingers crossed for remote work bringing some sort of equalizer effect here.

I work at a fully-remote company, and my org had a meetup soon after I first started working here. I was surprised to see how many of the people I work with seemed to be below average height. I've never really done anything to verify it, but I have a hunch based on that anecdata that the median height at my fully-remote company might be lower than the median height of the US population and/or lower than the median height at similarly-sized enterprises that have in-person hiring and work.
Commodities are good. They're cheap and don't need ceremony to buy.

The opposite is when distribution is controlled by someone subjectively judging if you're worth having it. This is very bad for minorities (the judger will be racist) and women (the judger will make you pay for it with your body).

Example in the US is the mass manufactured Sears homes, which whites in the South hated because they'd sell to blacks.
Looking forward the the HR role specializing in telling you that you are ugly but because of it you get a 5% pay bump.

Or the after interview meeting where your potential coworkers try and decide if they don't want you due to a skill issue or just because you are ugly.
"Laser" actually refers only to the generation technique and the resulting phase coherence of the resulting photons. Lasers don't have to be particularly tightly focused. In fact if you've got a laser pointer at home, there's may be a lens on it you can take off, and there will be quite a spread on it. It is focused down by a lens and if you look carefully at the resulting spot you can see interference speckles from the focusing lens. Without the lens the laser will lack those speckles and you'll get a uniform, much larger spot from the raw laser.
Spoken like someone who casts judgement and makes assumptions before considering that different people have different priorities.

It's downright silly to claim that I have no life responsibilities because I prioritize setting aside time for self-growth and encourage others to do the same.

Open your mind a little bit and ponder why you feel compelled to have such a negative and dismissive attitude about this.
Or maybe a watch made by a blind guy instead of a bridge?
higher fps is enough for me. i slogged through the 20 fps originals painfully just to see the story

actually enjoying the gameplay now
ha! not what I was expecting... https://dev.to/bbkr/unicode-vs-utf-4g8c is a good read btw
Just look at his Twitter: https://x.com/sama

And no, Twitter is no excuse to type like an illiterate teenager.

And I will bet you someone edits his blogs to not look like that.
I suppose you mean these appliances? https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Bret Victor: Biomolecular design in Realtalk (2022)
To be fair, that is the penalty of being in a shared cloud. They are incetivized to keep their customers from using everything, everywhere, all at once.

Jump into a 'bare metal' datacenter and things can get much different.
What about polycarbonate fronted by a thin sheet of glass with some sort of UV blocking? Or are these windows actually getting hit with stuff so often that wouldn’t be viable?
> Also, it’s almost impossible to create a freedom-respecting phone due to vendors refusing to release the hardware specs,

This is the only item that answers “what does Apple provide that open platforms are unable or unwilling to provide”. So now my next question is if that’s what preventing open platforms from succeeding, why aren’t our governments working to force low level component suppliers to open up? Surely open specifications for the baseband modems and other necessary phone components would do a lot more for open platforms than the ability to install yet another chrome reskin browser on iOS.
I wonder how much of that is internal vs external. For example, if taller people have higher self confidence / belief that they should earn more they might be more likely to ask for a raise, move to a higher paying job, or start their own company. The external side could be something like, taller people are more intimidating or likeable and thus have easier time getting what they asked for.
There are lots of statements we can form that "make sense" on a linguistic level. It's easy to convince yourself of something when the only standard is "linguistic plausibility." Consciousness is presumably a physical process. When you say "It operates earlier on the epistemological ladder than science can be meaningfully applied", I just don't know what that means. You're going to have to give me examples of what other beliefs we hold that occupy that space. Justified belief about reality has to be based on measurement (science).

If consciousness isn't a physical process, then you've lost me again. People have discussed these things for hundreds of years.
The "language" part. In context it seems to refer to the implementation, not the specification. I take it that pg does intend to specify a useful programming language, but not implement it.
You’re assuming that all of this is caused by employers having a bias against shorter people. What if shorter people are simply less healthy on average, say, because of the countless genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome, that result in a shorter stature AND other developmental problems?
This is kinda meta but one problem i have is finding people in an industry to interview about their problems. you can of course spray and pray linkedin messages and hope someone is willijg to give you their time. Or ask your friends. But none of them are likely to be fruitful or it will take a long time.

What would help would be a network that will offer me 1 hour calls with profiessionals in an industry in exchange for $xxx
Bret's part begins at 14:30 in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXiVOmaVSo&t=870s
Programming in YAML (for Home Assistant automations) was quite... something.

I very quickly switched all of my logic over to vanilla JavaScript in Node-RED and haven't looked back.
I've lost allergies to chocolate and soy.

If you can't lose allergies, why is exposure therapy a thing?
Thanks for sharing. Is it possible to join his team?
Vitamin D deficiency (and while we're at it, B12 deficiency and iron deficiency) are real deficiency issues that have risen in numbers across Western societies for quite the time now - IIRC, a large contributor is our change in diets and living habits.

Basically, we're spending far less time working out in the open so our body doesn't generate vitamin D on its own in sufficient quantities, and the trend towards highly processed, nutritionally inflexible diets on one side and vegetarianism/veganism on the other side leads to a whole host of malnutrition issues.

Unfortunately, the "malnutrition" levels in bloodwork are mostly calibrated on white European males... so similar to BMI [1] and a few medications and diseases [2], there is a "vitamin D paradox" in Black people who seem to not be that sensitive to lower vit-D levels than White people [3].

Human bodies and genetics are fascinating, even if you're not an expert in it.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9877251/

[2] https://academic.oup.com/ehjcvp/article/8/7/738/6644872

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954269/
Shorter men need to be richer or funnier I guess if they want a taller wife.
Absolute gem of an opening paragraph!

I like the implicit double meaning
I had the luck to see one these in person—an absolutely brilliant fireball in sparking white.

Maybe if I reorganize my flow to spend more hours outside in the evenings I can fool statistics into showing me a second one.