skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A guy I know used to get music from me because he knew I had quite a large collection. I asked him why he was going through me when he could just download it himself, and he said, "I can't turn it up on my stereo without it getting all staticky." He had a car stereo worth more than some people's homes. The key difference between my collection and the collections he was referring to that sounded so staticky was that mine was archival, constantly maintained quality, and his was Napster 56kbps-128. And that is why torrents inflicted a lot of damage to a previously somewhat high-quality only scene. From that point on, it was like wading through a Goodwill bargain bin. Thankfully, it has rebounded in the time since.
There are in between as well IME. I.e. places that do a lot of dumb things on the business side but you still get to learn stuff and the overall environment isn't that stressful.
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Did you force it into a parser? You can define a simple language in llama.cpp for the LLM to obey.
Your list is missing weapons and ammunition. Those are probably the most important.
What is gold good for again? I haven't found any use cases where aluminum isn't just outright better to have around. Aluminum is a lot easier to find too.
Indeed.

I cover this in "Your Database Skills Are Not 'Good to Have'": https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/12/your-database-skills-ar...

Specifically when I cite THIS: https://designingforperformance.com/performance-is-ux/
Depending on the durability guarantees of the database/connection in question and whether it uses request pipelining, I could imagine it indicating something like "non-clean connection shutdown; your last few commands might not have been processed"?

There's a similar situation in raw socket programming in some OSes: You might be done writing all your outbound data into the socket (i.e. your last write() call returned indicating success), but the receiving application might crash before being able to read all of your data.

By implementing an application-level shutdown command that the other side acknowledges, that can be avoided; maybe some SQL protocol implementations do that, and that exception is thrown if the shutdown request is never acknowledged.
I don't think half of Americans would still be alive a year after the bombs fell.
I said 'an established' pipeline. I don't believe the analogy is ever used in the 'you want the first one in a month' way, because there's myriad other ways to say it's idiotic to just go out hiring if you need something done stat.

(Primarily: short-term, hires will reduce productivity, because established colleagues see an increase in the amount of support & knowledge-sharing they need to do, reducing their output by more than the new hire can yet offer.)
Errr cool I guess? Definitely triggers my 'possibly overengineered' intuition, but hey, even if it is, at least it's not gonna waste cycles on the user's browser.

Dev experience does look pretty good.

To be fair, i have been quite happy with templ's style support, which would not really be useable in a non-templ project.
Boards of large companies are largely a circular group of rich people fellating each other?
How many monarchs fully believed in the Divine Right of Kings, that their rule comes from divine authority.
My argument is based on the revealed internal memos from Exxon regarding their awareness of CO2 and its effect on climate change, the number of world leaders who have been revealed to have aggressively pursued strike-first policies for nuclear war, anyone involved in environmental degradation, pollution, dumping chemicals into water supply, etc. All horrible long-term and even short term policies for the masses but provide short term profit to a class insulated from the worst effects. Of course it's not all rich people but there are enough of them with disproportionate influence that their influence is a sizable negative factor on overall human welfare.
This is a bad article, primarily because multiple people, myself included, have no idea what this person is talking about. I thought he was talking about Twitter. Someone else suggested X11, and a third group says he’s talking in the abstract.

If you fail at making it clear what the topic of your writing is, then you failed as writer. I shouldn’t have to guess what the subject under discussion is.

Now assuming he is taking in general, the whole article is just content free, because the writer is reduced to literally just brainstorming anything and everything, and saying, “See? There’s lots of reasons for something to be slow!” Well, fuck dude, I think we all know that.
Making a positive impact with money is looked down upon for some reason.

There are actions to help that I can personally do at a poor or mediocre level at best.

Alternately, I can put some of my FAANG level wages to help fund others who are far better at doing that, but may not be making FAANG level wages.
I wonder if that is due to how they were raised. Maybe that's how their minds cope with that situation.
That's because in most if not all anglesaxon countries, engineering is not legally protected unlike doctors or lawyers which further affects the engineering profession and mixes it with the role of technician.

People use engineer and technician interchangeably even when the gap of skill and knowledge between both is huge
Not disagreeing with you there. Edited grandfather comment.
Sounds like the house from the Silicon Valley show
Every copy of GNU Emacs comes bundled with the text adventure Dunnet [0].

Dunnet was originally written by Ron Schnell in 1982, as a Maclisp program running under TOPS-20. [1] In 1992, he ported it to Emacs Lisp; however, the Emacs Lisp version is more than just a simple port of the original, it extends the game with new rooms/items/puzzles, but also removes MIT-centric content–e.g. the "endgame" computer at the end of the game was originally named MIT-SALLY, was located at MIT, and was accessed via Chaosnet–the GNU Emacs version removes all those (dated) MIT references–although the GNU Emacs version contains (obviously intentionally) equally dated (albeit more widely recognisable) content such as a VAX 11/780

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game)

[1] Original is here: https://github.com/Quogic/DunnetPredecessor/blob/master/foo....
I appreciate the detailed descriptions and it’s a neat idea, but with respect, this does not strike me as particularly novel. I’d put money down that there are implementations of this in the wild that have been written and forgotten. Kind of analogous to the concept of convergent evolution, this is a natural solution to a particular problem that pops up every once in a while.
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Metals are problematic after radiation exposure.

You will be first ditching your gold rings and jewelry preferably as your first big barter before people get wise.

Unless you absolutely had them buried under 3' of earth.
It's not about them opting to aggressively pursue world-destroying policies, it's that, if some decision they make carries a long-tailed world-destroying risk, the weight of it in their mind is lower if a scot-free outcome still exists for them in the event that that happens. This is a psychological influence that would exist just as often in the poorest as it does the richest, it's just that the richest have the means to avoid the negative outcomes of their lack of more cautious foresight.
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http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q13412.html

Looks like the half-life of radioactive aluminum is only 2.3 minutes, should be safe after a day or two.

edit add:
https://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2003-03/1046983737.Ph....
And gold would only be unsafe for a month or two.
iPad is amazing for reading and casual content.

In particular, I like annotating content in books.
If someone can inject bad code for execution into the GPU that's also pretty bad though yeah?

The GPU should be able to pull and push stuff into memory, and maybe even access other devices directly over the PCIe bus?
I think if Lua were adopted as the web language, it would have lost its spirit / design philosophy of simplicity. I think the web would have exerted an evolutionary pressure on whatever language was the chosen as the exclusive way of writing code. Everyone forced to use a single language as the only option plus too many people clamoring for their own pet language feature to be added plus design by committee will probably always lead to a mess.
There are lots of technical reasons why web apps are slow, and this is a technical site so, as a community, the discourse tends to over-index on "react/electron/python/whatever is slow".

But these are the messy human + economic reasons why things are actually slow.

I'd add some nuance to (2), that even small corporate projects are often built by companies that are explicitly incentivized to build as quickly as possible, any other barometer of success goes out the window.

If you use software developed by companies or projects that are outside (1) and (2), you'll find it is actually pretty fast, subjectively.
I’m sure this has some decent insights but it’s from almost 1 year ago! A lot has changed in this space since then.
That's how it is for many in Europe.

You've got a car but using it to get to work is inconvenient due to parking, and buses often have priority lanes.

But the idea of commuting to Paris or Rome in car is...tough..
Way back when, community fallout shelters were a thing too. Some buildings may still have civil defense fallout shelter signs on them.

But, it's a lot of expense to build, maintain, and stock those; and there was no desire to keep it going. Same thing happened with pandemic supplies after 2009's H1N1 pandemic; it was a big deal, supplies were gathered, and it cost too much to maintain, so by the time covid rolled around, there wasn't a suitable stockpile of ppe for medical workers.

Unless the shelters and the stocks for the shelters are in regular use for something else, it's just not reasonable. There's also questions about time from detection to detonation vs time from detection to dissemination and if it would be better for people to shelter in place, wherever that is, or travel to better shelter.
Seems quite difficult to predict what would happen at a psychological level. Think what 9/11 did to the American psyche, that was 3k deaths, about the same as die every year from accidental food poisoning and < 1/10 the number of people who die in car crashes every year.

I'm not sure but I also wonder if you are under-estimating the overall supply chain complexity that underpins modern urban living. There might be 3 years of soybean supply in the US under ideal circumstances, but how do you distribute that to people when communications, roads, pipelines, electrical generation, fuel refining, private & commercial vehicles etc are all damaged at the same time? Plus the supply chain required to keep those things running? Not to mention record-keeping and the political fabric itself.
Maybe pose it as a question to the user, rather than an error message: “This message has been deleted from the server. Do you want to:

- discard it permanently
- store this version on the server
- save as a file to your computer”
What are the other people going to do with the gold? what could they use it for?

(Hint: gold is a useless metal in the modern era)
There are many scenarios where just being able to be safe for 24 or 48 hours makes a big difference, like the people in Kfar Aza who were able to secure themselves during the Hamas massacre.

You may be able to survive an invasion or massive civil unrest if you had a safe-room that was relatively resistent to gunfire, small explosives, or fire for even one day.
Transformers main usefulness is translation, including translations from technical lingo to natural languages and vice versa, or code to natural language etc. That was their targeted usecase when originally made and that is what most people use them for. This is what you use them for that doesn't require hallucinating. They don't understand so they can't replace technical experts, they can just translate a bit back and forth but you still need an expert who understands the domain since translations isn't enough for a layperson to replace an expert.

The other use case is to make them hallucinate tropey stories and concepts for brainstorming, this isn't nearly as useful though due to it adding so much low quality stuff here when it hallucinates.
… why would you have the LLM spit out a json rather than define the json yourself and have the LLM supply values?
It’s already stolen in a way from all the users who just wanted to be able to use a forum and had no serious alternatives
At FAANG and adjacent that’s closer to the bottom of the career ladder. A Sr. at FAANG is pulling in closer to 350-400 TC. Staff, PE, and above will go significantly higher.
The dutch use bikes a lot. Like really a lot.
The culture around Java doesn't help either, with its love for insane amounts of abstraction and overengineering.
This is from 2024? Or was this updated?
Well, and a gang, too.

A lone family with pawpaw’s shotgun is not going to be able to fend off a gang of 10 thugs following a local warlord who wants their fresh water and victory garden.
I just started learning Chinese about 2 months ago, to me it seems they stuff whole concepts into characters.

For example,

"去" (pronounced "Qú") is "going to the".
"超市" (prounced "Chao Shi") is "supermarket"
"去超市" (pronounced "Qú Chao Shi") is "going to the supermarket".

3 syllables vs 7 syllables.

To me, it seems that instead of composing letters into words to convey meaning, they have more letters that are mini-words unto themselves.
https://archive.ph/wT5PE
Justin Timberlake?
Ah yes, you discovered "sweet tea".

They supersaturate the tea with sugar before cooling it down.
> how do you explain to a non-technical user that their data has been deleted on the server, but that their client still has a cached copy that they might want to try to salvage somehow?

How about: "This message has been deleted from the mail server, but Outlook still has it in its temporary cache on this device. You can copy the message contents, or discard it from the cache, at which point it will be permanently deleted."
All those preppers with their BaoFengs thinking they will be able to do something with them when TSHTF
India's scorching heat and lack of water leave Delhi's poor to suffer worst
Tracking-free link:

Not being familiar with the installation I found this video super informative: https://youtu.be/WfZQf1983iw
Economic forces swing in to play quite quickly. I'd expect after 12-24 months of status quo gold would start to regain value. It is hard to guess where it would sit relative to any other commodity in a post-disaster world, but gold being gold there are worse things to bet on.

Other metals might be better. Although Aluminium corrodes so there must be some situations where gold is superior.
Prompt for ChatGPT to fill the form required by FB to opt out:

given

<insert description from form here>

and knowing I am a privacy aware person, give me a few phrases to fill the following:

- Please tell us how this processing impacts you.
- Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection.

Copy - pasted the result and got a confirmation of opt-out quite fast. I wonder how many people will go through this.
That is a search problem. Finding people for consulting is not easy if it is about issues where only a few could know about and they can be living in a very distant place. For example, an unknown university in a country you never though about.

Wise people recognize that the concept of smart is easy when you play in a competitive field like chess but the problem is when there is no specific field to benchmark. Could you recognize Steve Jobs capacity if it not were by Apple?
> What is gold good for again?

It's for the future archaeologists who will excavate your cooked husk from its underground tomb, so that they can write papers on how people of our times would outfit the dead with valuable trinkets with which to bribe Charon to cross the river Styx.
Of course, if you can make a business model out of supplying anything mentioned, your prominence within your community too shall rise.
There is a method where you piece the glass together supported in investment, (a type of ceramic casting plaster), by building it up in layers. You tightly pack it and put it in the kiln, the investment holds the shape of the object when it melts.

This is a very advanced and difficult method of glass re-forming.
I think that's a fair extension of the analogy, from which I would make two observations:

First is that with frictionless checkout the library's efficiency is maximized (books are only checked out when being read and people's time isn't spent unproductively).

Second is that there is a limit to the demand of the library. A book will be finished before checking out a new one and a person can only read so many books a day. No matter how entertaining there is a fairly hard cap based on a persons need to sleep and reading rate. So a library would only ever need enough automated checkout lanes to match the populations awake time and reading rate before book demand is fully sated.
Rushkoff’s TED talk on this tpoic:

https://www.ted.com/talks/douglas_rushkoff_how_to_be_team_hu...
I appreciate your reply and argument. I concede that conventional wisdom and knowledge is that vegetables, across the board, are healthy and that meat is classified as carnciogenic by renowned national and international institutions.

However, I disagree with this premise frankly. A lot of the studies which led to these classifications are poor quality, backwards looking, and rely upon people remembering what they ate for the last quarter. Nutrition research is poor for a variety of reasons, sadly, and who hasn’t experienced the seasons of change with one article one day claiming eggs/coffee/wine/whatever are bad one season and the next that they are good and then bad and then good and then…

I’ve taken this up as a hobby, in my studies I have found an extremely wide and deep base of people who point out a dramatic improvement in their mental and/or physical health by cutting out plant matter. Many times these people have had chronic, difficult, conditions and had been told it was incurable.

Personally, I don’t believe vegetables are necessary. I am not a zealot however (just made a bluecheese steak salad for the family) and I think nuance is key here. We’ve all been told to eat the rainbow, vegetables are good, meat is bad, etc. However I think that it should be an individual decision, some don’t do well with vegetables high in oxolates, or lechtins, or glycoalkaloids. I LOVE spicy food [and nicotine] as in nightshades, (thanks to adhd?) and while I think I would do better without it I still eat them. I also think if you are eating highly processed meats like charred burgers or smoked salami with beer and bread and condiments that isn’t great and will lead to shortened life span.

I don’t want to drone on, my point is there is a lot of nuance and individual variability. Also, strict diets tend to cut out ultra processed foods (vegan to carnivore). We should not simply assume that all vegetables are good for all people. Some veggies are better than others. Some people process things differently. Healthy meats are healthy.

For anyone interested in further reading look up:
https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understand...

More on the “carnivore” diet fringe-y side:

Paul Saladino

Shawn Baker podcast for testimonials

Anthony Chaffee

In summary, there is a lot we don’t know but it appears that people eating an alternative diet are doing great. We shouldn’t just discount that because of “settled science.”
People liked it before we had the internet, people will like it after.

Shiny and rare is enough for some people.
am i mistaken here thinking Yotta founder is headed for prison or will be fighting civil/class action lawsuits for the next decade ?

I think confidence in fintech is shaken significantly since Wise fiasco. Now Yotta (YC company) is the nail in the coffin.

There is simply no way that US Banking cartel would allow a few group of people to get rich by the simple grace of knowing Perl language
I receive and sell RSUs, which I don't think the cost basis is reported. I also have ~3 brokerages with 2-3 accounts each.
For most Americans, 9/11 changed nothing. Hell, for most in NYC 9/11 changed very little in daily life after the initial attack.
> Make image undetectable

> We provide you an option to make image undetectable and then download it so that it can't be caught anywhere!

Unless I'm misreading this, the premise of the app and this claim are mutually exclusive.
On the topic, stupid people in the military are a much greater threat. Groupthink in a strategic command force for example, or any similar mob psychology, could be catastrophic.
You've clearly thought about this more than I have, so I'm curious about how you consider whisky (or other alcohol) fitting into the sixth order?

It stores well, will not be trivial to resume production post-apocalypse, and is valuable not just to friendly people but especially to would-be unfriendly people. Main downsides that come to mind are that it takes up more space, is heavy in large volumes, and is generally more challenging to transport in appreciable volumes surreptitiously.

edit: I've always thought it'd be wise to set up some sort of a distillery ASAP and be known for quality and fair prices. They're a bit complicated to run so people won't kill you for it, you can start with small vintages and run up to large vintages, they can operate on human-scale levels of energy pretty effectively, and the actual manual labor and input resources involved to bootstrap are not massive.
I would assume Outlook means that its locally-cached copy of the message exists, but the original server-side (probably IMAP) message no longer exists. And that without that message, there's no server-side resource to update — just a resource representation of a snapshot of that server-side resource, still temporarily persisted in a client-side read-through cache.
Much appreciated but given the (presumed) level of nuclear armageddon, wouldn’t rainwater be affected for months?
They probably found that the 10th one was systemically defective, and is just disabling it now vs a crap shoot which shipped products will crash or not when using theirs. Much like what they'd do with the batteries when they'd go wonky.

Or it's simply that much cheaper to yield a 9 core than a 10 from their production. Gotta stretch that profit margin even more, they don't make enough of apple users already.
Simultaneously caring about terminals that don't support basic movement but also refusing to use termcap seems like an unfortunate combination :(.
Because you may not be calling from a cellphone, but from a land-line.

Nothing about the number displayed on the app means that you have to use the device in your hand to dial it.

edit: actually, it does look like the desktop landing page explicitly suggests that this is what it's for.
You _can_ disable automatic updates and install updates manually. This is what I actually do, ironically for this very exact risk about the Raivo app. I like raivo, but since it was bought by this shady guy, I thought that by blocking automatic updates I could use the app without risk of some shady update coming. The only issue is that this is all or none; meaning that from time to time I have to go through my list of apps and manually tap on the upgrade button. So glad for that decision now.
Ding ding ding. It’s a running meme that my downtown bus station is constantly an area of violent crime. Because it is.
However, busses and trains usually only run every 10-20 minutes compared to a road which is going constantly. I can easily see cars on roads having higher throughput.
Do you know if Lua supports type annotations or gradual typing? I use those heavily when using dynamically typed languages.