skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Melville was a prominent author, an early sex symbol even, owing to the success and popularity of his novels before Moby Dick. That novel was hugely controversial in its day -- perceived as blasphemous, overwrought -- and it ruined his reputation as an author. Also, he'd spent money he didn't really have during the writing of Moby Dick so that when it flopped he couldn't survive on the famine part of the feast/famine divide.

Point being, had Melville continued writing south pacific adventure novels he probably would not be remembered today but might have died a well-off man.
People don't run over pedestrians because they smoked a cigarette, either, but church people view smoking in a similar way.
X app ran ads on whitepower and other hateful hashtags
No, those shiny app icons are still using folders and files, that part is just being hidden from users to where they have less understanding of how things actually work.

Phones aren't secretly using Roman numerals or tiny embedded abacuses though. If they were for whatever reason, there would be plenty of value in learning those systems.
Even though I still retain an entire bookcase of novels (mostly sci fi) from my youth, I now find fiction to be, well... boring.

Personally I'd rather read about something that actually exists...
Why Nuclear Rockets Are Going to Change Spaceflight [video]
Here's the 2014 conference debate between industry and academics that probably precipitated the exchange:

"Proprietary versus Open Instruction Sets"
https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/sendag/papers/micro2016_2.pd... (pdf)

--4th Workshop on Computer Architecture Research Directions,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7542457
Mark D. Hill; Dave Christie; David Patterson; Joshua J. Yi; Derek Chiou; Resit Sendag

And 2015 full video recording of the debate between Patterson and Christie: "CARD 2015 Mini-Panel #1: Open Source versus Proprietary ISAs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=novCbl4Wq3I
> Another hand gesture you will frequently see in religious art is a figure (usually a Pope or bishop) pointing upwards with their index and middle finger. This is somewhat unnatural since you would generally point with your index finger alone. The use of two fingers represents the divine and human natures of Christ.

At Disney employee training they taught me to point with index and middle finger (or my whole hand) too.
Now I have this.

https://looptube.io/?videoId=W5Z-d1Zx02o&start=77.1286764705...
What do you not like about Feynman's "little arrows" / rotating clock hands in the QED book? I can't think of a more simple metaphor for the exponential of a complex phase, exp(i omega t). I suppose you could try and do it with more commonplace trigonometric functions, but then you lose the simple vector interpretation of adding the contributions. Or are you arguing that you should always try and teach complex numbers and the Euler identity to avoid strained analogies?
Six million dollars is six million dollars. Now, if that's a team of eight delivering that value, yeah, it's a great deal. If it's an org of 100 people, 6M is much less exciting. I'd suspect it's the former.
You don't know shit about me and you should not assume like this.

I was 8 the first time I slept on the street, I was 15 the last time an adult provided a meal for as a minor. I was 45 the first year I earned more than $22k despite working full time for most of it.

I don't know what it's like to be college poor like that, no. None of my family or anyone I knew from my youth ever went, I didn't even presume to hope for it.

I don't find it particularly challenging or strenuous to cook all my meals, but I have at points in the past. And enough people have told me that they do, and I don't see how I have authority to tell them they're incorrect about their own experiences. That last doesn't seem like a limitation you face, however.
The title here is simply wrong, there's no nuance that could possibly make it correct.

Nethack, by design, changes the gameplay (slightly for some characters, greatly for others) based on the phase of the moon.

It tells you this, the same way the game tells you everything else.

There is no sane justification to call this a bug on either side, it's just a poorly trained model responding poorly to a feature it hadn't seen in training
> I would expect that all highly developed countries would provide access to treatment.

And yet, it's completely illegal for me to travel to Japan for even a day with my ADHD medication. I could be carrying my script, a letter from my doctor, and have literally only a single days supply, and I'd be risking a very serious prison sentence.

Outside of North America, even in places like Europe and Australia, ADHD is still close to non-recognised. Take Australia for example, if you assume 2-3% of the population has ADHD, and that every single one of them has to see a psychiatrist once a year to get their medication permit renewed so that their normal doctor can proscribe their medication (which is the legal requirement for ADHD in Australia), it would consume 2x the entire Australian psychiatrist workforce to deliver that many consultations... And that's if they were EXCLUSIVELY seeing ADHD patients...
omg the name just sounds like "precision scheduled railroading"
I'm one of those weird people for whom alcohol feels nice but also makes me incredibly sleepy to the point that I become way less social. Thus I will enjoy a beer at home but if I'm going out I will choose other substances (or abstinence).
Thank you, too for the friendly discussion.
Publishers only want to publish authors with large social followings. The first question they ask is a list of your socials.
3,817 VC's entered the chat
Blue Origin is newspace, isn't it? It's definitely a big outlier among LM, NG, Boeing etc...
Git over SSH
In this job market? Employee leverage is at a low ebb right now.
Frankly, I think jumping straight to comparing me to rape apologists is a terrible way to respond to this. Don't do that if you want to have constructive discussions.
dMMR deficient colorectal cancer was also cured in these ~110 patients with different drugs

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400634

(also from this years ASCO)
With modern facial recognition it's getting less practical for undercover cops too
Storing things "in files" still writes a CHS-addressed sector on a disk, but it's less reliable and the user doesn't know where it is.

Files are currently used to implement apps, but that can be seen as a transitional measure, like an OS that supports both files and raw disk access. A fully app-based OS without files, though not existing currently, would be possible.

Another idea the industry discarded was to make the disk a big SQL database, again without files.
How many of those encounters are police showing up to a residence where they think an armed and unstable person is holding someone hostage?
Alcoholism would be the sin of Gluttony (“Gula” in Latin), which is basically overindulgence and overconsumption.

The definition of this sin became rather expansive over the centuries, so it would also cover those who engage in obsessive anticipation of the things they consume, who spend too much on them, etc. One reason for this was that the gorging of the prosperous may leave the needy hungry.

So from that point of view, it seems to me that the sin of Gluttony is still routinely condemned by people of a Christian culture, even if they are not aware of this ancient framework.

Regarding your specific question, I would say that overeating to the point of causing hunger to others is still criticised. At the same time, assuming that there is enough food to go around, eating too much of it doesn’t cause the same negative externalities to others as drinking too much alcohol.
These are bandaids. Fine in themselves, but not addressing the real problem.

The US really need to legalize transmission line construction!
Cool. Sometimes nonprofits like churches do the same in the US. Small businesses tend to use their home address (for tax reasons) or the address of a membership-based office space vendor like Regus (pre-coworking and pre-WeWork).

In the US, it's possible for anyone to receive a few pieces of mail or packages at a post office without a permanent physical address using general delivery.[0] For people without means who receive significant mail, the local USPS postmaster can grant them a PO Box.[1] As of 2018, there were 1.3 million no-fee PO Boxes out of 21.3 million.[2] (I assume this is for very low income people and actual homeless people and combined with some tens of thousands of deceased homeless people and perhaps as many cheaters of means taking advantage of the system.) And to workaround the artificial discrimination against PO Boxes for all users, USPS offers Post Office Box Street Addresses (PBSA).[3]

0. https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-General-Delivery

1. https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Is-there-mail-service-for-the...

2. https://www.uspsoig.gov/reports/audit-reports/no-fee-post-of...

3. https://postalpro.usps.com/PBSA
Yes. The "eureka" legend refers to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes. He was tasked with determining if a gold crown commissioned by the king was pure gold, or if the goldsmith had substituted some silver. While taking a bath, Archimedes noticed that the water level rose as he got in, and he suddenly realized that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the submerged object. This gave him the insight that by measuring the volume of water displaced by the crown, and comparing it to the volume displaced by an equal weight of pure gold, he could determine the purity of the crown. Excited by his discovery, Archimedes supposedly leapt out of the bath and ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka!" which means "I have found it!" in Greek.
Just in case? Not hand luggage?
I have yet to come to a satisfying explanation for the origin of that fetish.

I suppose in the absence of any historical record you can make up whatever story you like, but the self flagellation that comes with it is so weird.
At therapeutic doses this is literally the opposite of true.

There have been studies done that show therapeutic doses of amphetamines over a multi-year period actually INCREASED the level of dopamine receptor expression in the brain.

It was by a very small amount, don't get me wrong (3-4%). But it absolutely debunked this entirely assumed theory that long term therapeutic amphetamine use would result in some kind of pseudo-addiction.
One significant difference between verbal warning systems in airplanes and those in medical environments, such as hospitals, is the level of environmental control. In an airplane, the environment is highly controlled, with a single set of systems specific to that aircraft. In contrast, hospitals often have multiple systems operating simultaneously in the same room or nearby. This can lead to cognitive overload when multiple systems issue verbal warnings simultaneously. In such scenarios, tone alarms might be easier to manage and differentiate than multiple overlapping verbal warnings.
Sometimes it feels like the trend online right now is to design everything to make you stupider, on the theory that if it asks less of you will go along with it more easily. For instance, Google results seem more "least common denominator" every month. No longer can I search for something subtle and get subtle results; their algorithm pushes me towards and unhelpful answers. Maybe it's because lots of people do respond better to this, so it shows up better in the data. Anyway I hate it. I would like to gradually learn more as I interact with things, and engage with the complexity in systems, not have it hidden from me.
Bandera

Ooh, scary.

Here's the deal, though -- the guy is glorified by some people in Ukraine, but not in any official capacity at the national level. When an attempt was made to grant him official "Hero" status at the national level, it was rejected. The monument in particular is a local endeavor.

Doesn't make Putin's war anymore justified

Right, but the idea here seems to be to throw cold water on idea that Ukraine is unambiguously the victim of aggression here, or to at least sow some general confusion around it.

It's all very straightforward as to why Putin invaded -- and (despite what he says) none of the Nazi stuff had anything to do with it. It's just noise that he puts out there to push people's buttons; to sow doubts about Ukraine's legitimacy as independent state or its right to defend itself; and internally, to get people to sign up for his lemming march.
Oh wow... That's pretty nuts. I guess the reason is to make it harder for people to lock themselves out of all their servers if OSCP or whatever is being used to distribute the CRL is down.
Dr Courchesne shows up in both articles, so it's no coincidence.
>Robots haven't materialized yet, neither any political will to shrink the safety net.

Human-like general-purpose robots - yes. Except, by definition, a robot, essentially a programmable mechanism, not something human-like.

Stuff like warehouses is getting increasingly automated, planes basically can fly and land themselves without human in the loop, autonomous cars are not here, but are coming in the next decade probably.

Personally, I haven't bought a cup of coffe a human made in at least a decade. That's some poor barista's salary not getting paid.

Not that I would know the difference between a 5/10 coffe from a machine and a theoretically 10/10 coffe a professional would make. And a machine makes one for a whole lot cheaper.
During a year of extremes, carbon dioxide levels surge faster than ever
> I think it’s effectively built in to the design.

It isn't. There is no guarantee that successive tokens will be comprehensible.

> Usually it outputs “logits”, which become a probability distribution when combined with a “temperature” parameter.

The logits are the probability distribution (well technically, you would apply softmax). Temperature is a parameter for how you sample those logits in a non-greedy fashion.
In fact he didn't like the lectures and thought they largely failed at pedagogy. The actual Caltech students who listened to them didn't get much out of them. Instead they were primarily useful in explaining the subject to other physicists. I think he says this in the foreword? (if not, I read it somewhere else).
OCPP Gateway
Sounds a lot like they gave you some BS to conceal discrimination.
Another fact that supports this perspective is that the North American megafauna survived through numerous cycles of ice ages prior to the arrival of humans. There was nothing particularly unique or special about the last ice age, the only real difference was the presence of humans.

One thing I find particular interesting though, is that there are likely two unique extinction events. One around 50KYA, that coincides with what I personally believe was the first peopling of the Americas, and another around 16KYA, which coincides with the arrival of North Americas current indigenous population.
Ask HN: Human vs. Computer in Rock Paper Scizzors
Basically, the object is to have the human not lose by too much to a computer program in Rock Paper Scizzors (or some other random guessing game) while the computer will try to predict what the human will guess.

Then have many humans together, trying to wargame against a single computer model.

And then can try the same with writing text against an LLM trained on what they wrote before.

The point is, that it is likely after a while humans will be extremely predictable by the model that machine learning will come up with and select competing models. Even RNNs and genetic algorithms would probably work here.

Doesn’t this mean a single computer can reliably beat any group of humans in wars, trading strategies etc? Given enough battles, it will have predicted every new plan they have, eventually.
No, but it's getting easier and easier. To opt into this testing stage functionality you need to add a few tags, and may eventually have to work around some package incompatibilities. Take a look at https://www.latex-project.org/news/2023/03/13/latex-dev-1/ for more info.
The interview is really a good read, profiling somebody who is fascinated and perhaps a little scientifically obsessed by exotic marine mammal teeth. It turns out that there is at least one person for every possible thing, I suppose.
They're not being built though. Not at nearly the rate needed.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/the-us-is-...
I am unabashedly human-centric, and only people suffering from affluenza think otherwise.

Read "The Improving State of the World" by Indur Goklany.
Yes, they can change it, that's what Manifest V2 deprecation is about. It will break a lot of ad blockers, because they rely on being able to read anything and change anything on all websites. Many people feel that Google is doing it to make more people watch more ads, not to improve security.
Oh, yes, absolutely.

It just struck me how dominant that memory was among people who served in all sorts of roles.
Startup Idea
I like Zig the language. Probably more than rust - Zigs singular focus on making systems programming ergonomic really appeals to me.

Rust tooling however makes it an easy choice. Unit testing with pretty printing, proptest crate for property based testing, Cargo.toml is just an easier life choice than build.zig, etc etc.

Not sure if Zig will improve in this regard. I suspect what I consider an improvement Zig folks would not. Still easier to wrangle than C.
Tesla's Pileup
Riot Platforms acquires 12% stake in rival Bitfarms
Ask what would the other do and do the opposite.
Hospitals have a sort of manic "New York Stock Exchange" energy and environment to them... The entire environment of a modern hospital seems brutally incompatible with the type of peaceful relaxing environment you'd want to reduce stress and improve patient outcomes. Bright lights, constant noise, loud electronics, preventing patients from sleeping based on whatever schedule is convenient to medical staff, etc.

I think they could substantially improve patient outcomes by taking some tips from the best modern birthing centers, and make a quiet, relaxing, dimly lit, and peaceful environment at hospitals. I'd also say add some plants, natural (wood) surfaces and natural light, but realize that might make it hard to keep things sterile and private. It would make sense to create a rough schedule for each patient also with a consistent "left alone unless there is an emergency" time for sleep, etc.

I would imagine a calm and quiet physical environment would also reduce stress, fatigue, and improve performance of the medical staff themselves.
Exactly and a unique extended postcode based on a hash of the address number, for easier routing and error detection/correction.
This is my hugest gripe with Linux.

Everything I normally use on Windows can be replaced with the exception of Adobe, and it massively affects any ability to be creative or use something like Ubuntu as a daily driver
In the future better accessibility for screen readers of text (paragraph breaks), images (alt text), tables (control of reading order), and math formulae. It's up to the pdf readers too though.
Why would someone trust microsoft on security?
The point wasn't that the US is winning in terms of net solar capacity, but that the US's own growth is independently admirable. China has and will continue to win in terms of absolute capacity, in a large part because they're still urbanizing, industrializing, and increasing their overall demand for power.

(By contrast, US electricity use has been almost stagnant for 2 decades[1]. This informs the country's relationship with newer generation techniques.)

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/201794/us-electricity-co...
I use Emergent Mind[1] to keep track of new research published on ArXiv. You can bookmark articles once logged in. It's very useful for keeping track of articles, reading quick summaries, and following conversations on various social media.

[1]: https://www.emergentmind.com/papers/2404.09562
Michael Levin, one of the most original minds in modern biology.

This guy hacks our internal operating systems. His work is closer to engineering work than most biology is, because he loves to tinker with bioelectricity.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

déjà vu all over again

(Or would C# aot and GraalVM be more to the point?)
Yet.

Malware that scrapes it and malware that turn it don't need to be the same.
> People get lucky, then try to rationalize the past with a skill narrative.

Aka "fundamental attribution error" - overemphasizing internal or personal factors (such as skill or ability) while underemphasizing external or situational factors (such as luck or opportunity) when explaining someone's success or behavior. Fun fact: This bias has a tendency to leave stock traders bankrupt.
Making the most businesses is not a net positive. Lots of businesses monetize horrible things. It's pretty off topic from maternal deaths, am I supposed to be comforted that there's another landlord or AI startup?
I guess one factor which makes it less bad is that Starship can throttle its engines to hover (Falcon 9 can only throttle them down completely in a "suicide burn", which leaves no possibility of hovering in place). Starship also uses multiple engines for the landing. So if one fails, it still has a few others left, and perhaps even enough time to start another one.
This is an important point. There was a US isolationist strain as strong as it is today. The Man in the High Castle alt history, or The Plot Against America, both involve FDR not being involved for WW2, and that's where the US stands today: at a similar decision point about how it decides to act.

The right path is never clear when you're in the valley of the moment.
Wrong.

This is stupid, and you are stupid to entertain this idiotic notion.

Let's take another example:

"The mobility device can no longer operate. Your destination is no longer available."

This tells me absolutely nothing. It possibly even implies that something very bad has happened to my destination!

"The bus engine has broken down. Your route destination is no longer in service."

Even to someone who doesn't know what a "bus", "engine", or a "route" are, this is an actionable and clear message. If I don't know what those things are, I can quickly figure out what a bus, engine and route are, or pass the message to someone who does understand.

Removing information and replacing it with nonsense does not make an error message better. You don't need to be technical to be able to make sense of a message.
Continuing with the comparsion, Recall applies to the entire operating system not just one application. To avoid it, one has to avoid Windows.

Whereas to avoid browsing history, one only has to avoid the popular, graphical, advertising corporation browser. As I am not interesting in graphics, I do this everyday, with ease, because there are countless clients besides "Chrome/Safari/Edge" that work with the www for consuming information.
It is free - https://pdfa.org/announcing-no-cost-access-to-iso-32000-2-pd...
Meta pays billions of dollars for data/privacy violations, year after year. It's just a tax to them.

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/12-billion-euro-fi...

All the big tech companies break some law, but Meta is indeed unique in that it happily breaks privacy and data laws and then pays the fine, despite being ordered not to do it again.
Is building a long high voltage line not profitable? It seems like the potential for arbitrage should allow for sufficient profit, but maybe not?

I know there's a lot of blockers, but if there's money to be made I would have thought more people would have worked around them.
Talk about affluenza, telling someone 'go read theory'. Put your arguments in your own words.
It's very early days for clients. I guess the support is not really there yet. However most publishers and eprint archives have settles on pdfs rather than html annoyingly, so this is one of our best hopes of accessibility for academic publications.