skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> never seen a definition of utility which wasn't self referencing

It’s analogous to “holes” in semiconductors or virtual particles. You can’t directly observe it. But it’s an intuitive notion that makes many calculations easier.

Critically, there are several valid definitions of utility, e.g. the von Neumann–Morgenstern (VNM) utility theorem [1] and revealed preference [2]. Each has its own axioms, defined with varying rigour, that can be theoretically extended and practically applied.

> a highly unscientific concept

Sure, it’s unscientific in the way mathematics are unscientific: it starts with a set of axioms and extends from that. Determining whether the chosen axioms fit a particular situation is a separate, more scientific question.

That said, similar criticisms have been raised about e.g. auction theory and quantum physics, both of which (like utility-based models) make testable predictions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenst...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
Both big projects and small projects are targeted. It doesn't sacrifice functionality while provides speed up.
do you mean fails or falls? At any rate if you have a user that can log in on your site you can't assume they are always using the same computer and thus can't use localStorage for that kind of thing, also if someone does not destroy their session when using a public computer and agrees to tracking everything the next person who comes to site on public computer has now agreed to tracking everything.
Frustrating

QuiteRSS crashes all the time for me

Is there anything better?
Absolutely genius! Go Chuck :)
I agree that it is quite difficult to bootstrap a hobby practice, or repeatedly involve oneself socially when depressed. Speaking from personal experience in the deep dark pits, what I mean is that we should look at the problem through the lense of the BioPsychoSocial model.

Modern medicine is irreplacable but relying solely on medication is a pitfall of modern treatment. It turns out, for example, that chronic pain and depression are interlinked. A messed up neurochemical balance contributes to the erroneous interpretation of signals by the brain as pain (even when no bodily damage exists anymore). So what I'm saying is that while it may seem pointless initially to do that which falls flat in the estimation of a depressed mind (say due to anhedonia) those brief but regular walks in the park contribute to re-stabilization of neurotransmitters along with the medication.
Big tech is the least of my worries.

And in my observation is the most ethical amongst all kinds corporations.

I think people like attacking big tech because it's a soft target.

Meta using my messages to sell me more products of what I may actually like. It's isn't that evil.

Go look up what people in banking, oil, minning, spyware & manufacturing are doing. You will find murders, war financing, people being cut up with bone saws, people being enslaved by debt, people being bombed into bits while sitting in their apartments.

The reason why people don't talk about this kind of "real" evil is because the contenders are _actually dangerous_ they don't play games and most of us are spinless cowards.

The only reason there is alot of backlash on big tech because big tech is actually not dangerous.

If you want to improve ethics and actually move the needle look talk of people actually doing evil.
That makes sense. I fill fix panics and take this consideration into the next major version.
Show HN: ChessMonitor – Analytics for Chess Players
Hi everyone!

ChessMonitor is an analytics platform for chess players that provides stats on your games. The link shows an example of Magnus Carlsen. Connecting your own Chess.com or Lichess accounts only takes a few clicks.

The project has received a significant update in the past weeks, as it's now receiving the "EXIST startup grant" provided by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. This grant allows me to work on the project full-time.

Most features are currently free, but I’m actively working on new additions, many of which will be only available in the paid plans.

If you have any feedback or questions, please let me know!

Thanks, Thomas
War is probably the largest line item for most people. Losing decades long wars is expensive. You have the social decay that comes with focusing abroad rather than at home. Homelessness, drug addiction (my friends probably were killed by heroin made from poppies that a marine was tasked with protecting, maybe some of yours too)

Running a close second (maybe first) is regulatory capture, things like patents and certificates of need. Requirements for patented safety features in cars, patents on medicine, copyright on characters your grandma grew up with.
Starship Flight 4: A Turning Point – By Peter Hague
There are words/concepts that require you to have lived in that culture for some amount of time to understand the cultural baggage connected to the word, and how the word actually describes a part of the culture. As a Swede, one such word for me is `lagom`, which is often translated as `just right`, but this is a cop-out that doesn't do it justice.

To understand it you must know, on a deeper level why a Swede values things being lagom, and this is surprisingly hard to put into words because it involves history, language, value systems, social patterns and even concepts like gratitude towards simple things. This word encapsulates a really big aspect of Swedish culture, making it impossible to translate accurately.
I will remove the "next-generation" thing.
Aren't PFAS already everywhere, like microplastics?
Are you forgetting the weather and how poorly prepared most of the British are for it? Even in new build pedestrianised areas like.. Coal Drops Yard, outdoor seating is limited and normally nearly empty once the midday heat has passed.
The README says:

"KickC is currently in beta, and at times crash or creates ASM code that does not work properly."
Not saying we cant get an understandjng our shouldnt try, but thats not currently where were at.
What is the censorship about LA Riots in Western models?
https://archive.ph/Zrltx
https://www.etymonline.com/word/wharf
Hi @tkzed49, Teo supports custom route handlers and routing middlewares. Teo is a web framework with a builtin ORM. There are builtin permissions, too. You can use it or implement your own. Teo supports database auto migration.
Haha, DMV… I just moved to North Carolina, and the next available appointment at the DMV to change the address on my driver license is in September (it’s beginning of June as I am writing this).

When I moved the last time in a different state - the appointment to change my address on my driver license was same week and took about 15 mins, most of which I spent trying to get a decent picture.

So I “know” it doesn’t take very long to print a plastic card.
Dude you are truly deranged.
I think it’s usually pretty customary to attribute the original source if you’re going to write an exposition. They go through enough work explaining exactly the location of the furniture store, you’d think they’d have the courtesy to link to the tweet which actually made the discovery.

As has been pointed out though, IA has a pretty tenuous relationship with the Musk/chan adjacent parts of the internet, so it doesn’t surprise me they deliberately left those facts out.
Lmao, c'mon dude. Many companies are, in a literal sense, doing it, I gave you an example of one. Splitting hairs about the definition of DRM misses the point that it's treated as a separate thing. I was also only making the point that it's the anti-cheat that stops the games from working rather than issues stemming from compatibility layers, getting your panties in a bunch because of the mere theoretical possibility of removing anti-cheat from a game is ridiculous.

Proton can be used for software outside of Steam (though isn't designed for it) but is made up of open source components that definitely can be used separately from Steam. Proton is a Codeweavers-led project and the vast majority of the improvements Valve and it's contractors have made to Wine and it's supporting projects that Proton rely on have made it upstream. Steam Deck is selling extremely well and major publishers are testing their games and making changes specifically for the platform. Steam Machines was a decade ago, the state of play has changed.

You didn't say DirectX was a big deal, you said 'DirectX has no Linux equivalent'. It does, it's provided by Wine and it's supporting libraries wrapping DX and D3D API calls to SDL and Vulkan. Feature parity is strong and performance is in the same ballpark, as it would need to be given the software is being developed in mind for an anemic mobile AMD SoC. Though in spite of that even DLSS and ray tracing works on hardware that supports it.

I call bullshit on you paying attention, you're saying too many things that are provably incorrect.
15 years ago it was common to deploy web applications as live SVN repositories with a hidden path executing 'svn update' on manual http request.

Not quite the 'push deploy', but that was the way apps were developed back in the days, and for some reason I still prefer that approach. Commit, test, and at one point manually nominate and deploy stable version.
This is my favorite way of hiring (in France). You have all your time to get to know the employee and the employee has all the time to get to know the company. It usually brings excellent people for long, no surprises.
I had an interview where I was asked how I would guarantee that an event happened in addition to a database update (transactionally).

It sounded kind of impossible, I said as much, and then proposed a different approach. The interviewer persisted and claimed that it could be done with 'the outbox pattern'.

I disagreed and ended the interview there. Later when I was chatting about it with a former colleague, he said "Oh, they solved the two generals problem?"

> Every use I've seen sent events after database transactions, with the event not part of the transaction.

Maybe this is what they were doing.
Would be even cooler if all the knobs and buttons were actually physical.
Thanks for the feedback. I will start looking into it.
It’s not unrelated actually, there is some tissue inside the nose cavity that is similar to the erectile tissue of the penis. That’s why the nose gets “stuffy” from sildenafil, and that’s why you sometimes sneeze when aroused.
> mycomarkup

Do you happen to know if it supports tabs in code blocks (renders tabs as tabs instead of spaces equivalent)? I failed to find a way to test without installing.
Too late! X platform now has micro blogging tools
I love how the UK prefers to call poop rubbish
> set -e

> echo "Downloading piku-bootstrap here."

> curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piku/piku-bootstrap/master... > piku-bootstrap

> chmod 755 piku-bootstrap

> echo "Now you can install Piku on `hostname` like this:"

> echo "./piku-bootstrap install"

Did you look at the script?
Well, I just looked at Smithy. And they quite differ. Teo is just an HTTP framework like fastify, express, koa, flask and fastapi. It has a schema language and a builtin ORM, which make it quite similar to GraphQL and Prisma.
How do you learn anything in the space of software engineering? In general, there are many different problems and even more solutions with different tradeoffs.

To avoid spending hours on fixing broken environments after a single "pip install", I would make it easy to rollback to a known state. For example, recreate virtualenv from a lock requirements file stored in git: `pipenv sync` (or corresponding command using your preferred tool).
I think you might have names mixed up. Bo Peng (BlinkDL on github) is the author of RWKV, not on the authors list here.
Note that many icebergs have more than one equilibrium, with various final heights above the water.

For example this iceberg towers above the water in one equilibrium, but barely rises above the water in its other equilibrium.

https://ibb.co/SdcKMBV
Immediately made me think of the set for the show Severance
Yeah, way back when I used to play Counter-Strike, I eventually landed on one server I really liked and kept going to. It would be interesting to see who was on it at different times of the day, and eventually I got to be friendly with most of the regulars that showed up, and they knew me.

Turns out several lived near the server's location, in Texas, and at one point my friends and I just happened to be going there to visit a friend who was stationed at the nearby military base, and so I ended up meeting up with them for lunch. Nice guys.
Thank you for the latest research update. I have heard that the constraints have been tightened in recent years, but AFAIK, they have not been ruled out yet.
I believe the fairings experienced uncontrolled freefall
Language nit:

You can't "restore" hearing to those who never had it.
Francis Ford Coppola: 'You Can't Be an Artist and Be Safe'
> At what point do they just merge with HN?

Maybe they don't want to volunteer their time and resources to drive traffic to a venture capitalist's website disguised as a hacker community
I think Inoreader is the best of the bunch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/movies/francis-ford-coppo...
Before you got to train and now you build your replacement
> This is saying that the observed effects of DM could be explained as a bunch of enormous solitons in the gravitational field equations.

From the abstract, first sentence, my emphasis:

"Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational field capable of driving flat rotation"

In Section 7, the author has this to say about the topological defect:

"although its origin is uncertain (despite being deemed stable in Section 3), there are scalar field solutions which can give rise to it (see Hosotani et al. 2002)"

In short, this is not about "solitons in the gravitational field equations"; it's about topological defects in scalar field models. The author derives their gravitational potential in the weak field limit and shows that it has the the right shape to cause flat rotation curves.

I agree with one thing you say: the author's claim of stability is unconvincing. Finding a time-independent solution, as he does in Section 3, shows that the configuration is static. To prove stability, you need to show that small perturbations of the static solution will shrink.

The author's proposal is a set of "unresolvably closely spaced singular shells" (see paragraph under Eq. (8)). But as he notes under Eq. (4), there is no gravitational force inside a spherically symmetric shell. So what's keeping all these shells concentric? As far as I can see, nothing. If you give one of them an ever so small push, it will glide away from its concentric position until it collides with the containing and/or with the contained shell, whichever comes first. At the point(s) of collision, there is gravitational attraction (see paragraph under Eq. (8) again), so the colliding shells will stick together. Even if the hypothetical topological defects survive that (I wouldn't bet on it), they will then proceed together (because of momentum conservation) until they hit the next set of containing and contained shells, and so on. Each collision makes the whole thing less concentric and increases the gravitational attraction at the points of collision. That sure doesn't look stable to me.
Diversity in thought is great, but I don't think that distinct native languages are a prerequisite for that. Throughout history, the societies that were able to achieve the greatest accomplishments, according to most any measure, are those with the most people using the same language.
I agree with much of this and I'll add one of my biggest stressors - opaque pricing. One of the biggest "innovations" in the US in the last decade or so seems to be to add as many hidden fees as possible to every service imaginable. Obviously it's hardly a new idea; I'm sure that human nature being what it is, they had to deal with it in Mesopotamia. But it makes budgeting very difficult; I suppose it's like living in a corrupt country; you just have to add an overhead for bribes as part of day-to-day living. Perhaps it isn't "like" living in a corrupt country; perhaps it just is living in a corrupt country.
It's social bookmarking, likely inspired by Delicious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)
> Good luck finding the consumer when you need to modify the producer (the payload)

I just grep for the event's class name.
Games scrapped from Windows Updates in Kramnik/Alcantara chess match [video]
Typical engineers, tipping into eugenics to treat society as an optimization problem...
I think this is a really important part of simplified explanations. You can get pretty far explaining things to people based on the questions that come to them naturally, but eventually you’ll hit a point where understanding requires asking a very long series of the right questions. At these points you have to be willing to say “to go further in this direction, we have to cover several dozen hours of background material” rather than trying to find an immediate practical connection that doesn’t exist.
haha. yes. i did this for paypal in 2006
Ever try to reach Google customer support?
Consider turning this into a driver for libratbag if it's not supported by the hidpp one already: https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag
Doesnt that likely demonstrate insufficient resource/capacity rather than OPs point that there are too many bureaucrats?
One trick I remember when I was going through puberty at school, I would make good use of tucking under my belt ha!
We're 8000 million people.

We can, and always will, work on many different things at once.
Inside a Tube of Toothpaste (2011)
In early 2001, my wife and I visited the beautiful country of New Zealand. The travel books told us to be aware that traffic flows opposite from the US. When we collected our rental car in Invercargill, there was a sticker near the steering wheel that read: "To stay alive, drive on the left!".

We had a good laugh and drove away from the airport. We soon discovered that the raised middle finger was international. :)
> `In the UK, a "high street" refers to the primary business and commercial street in a town, city or borough

I know exactly what this means, but this is intrinsically a fuzzy category. There is a local shopping street near us that I am sure doesn't make the grade because it is orders of magnitude smaller than the huge shopping areas off in 2 directions, even though it contains in 3 or 4 blocks:

* a drycleaner, * a dentist, * a pharmacy, * a couple of hairdressers, nail bars and similar grooming/beauty businesses, * several takeaway restaurants and coffee shops/cafes, some more upmarket than others, * a deli, * a clothing shop * a couple of "corner shop" supermarkets and hardware / general household goods shops (but no major chains), * a post office and a bank machine (but no bank branch).

I'm sure that if it was scaled up and/or joined up with similar up the road that does contain a small Sainsburys, it would be "a high street". But where do you draw the line? Is there a clear rule that divides it? If a bank or major chain supermarket moves in, does it become one? If a bank branch closes down, as they do these days, is a street no longer a high street? If we all shift to online banking, does the definition change?

This is basically the "bald man paradox" of fuzzy categories. So there never can be a fixed, definitive count.*
The Apache tribes fought the invading Spanish and Mexican peoples for centuries.

The first Apache raids on Sonora appear to have taken place during the late 17th century. In 19th-century confrontations during the American Indian Wars, the U.S. Army found the Apache to be fierce warriors and skillful strategists.

OK, I'm imagining people defending their homelands against invaders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache
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i.e. in professional capacity. Hence the criteria of "# of jobs" does not apply.
Cable would get too heavy to hold up by both ends
You can just go to the NC DMV in the afternoon. Afternoons are not appointment based. I updated my license two days after moving here. I had to wait an hour or so.
Also life is full of gambles. Not buying insurance is also a gamble and a statement of gambling. You are betting that the undesirable doesn't happen, and avoiding to pay the insurance.

Driving a car is a gamble and a bet that an accident won't happen.
I use Feedly, switched to it from my previous platform because it can support atom feeds
Doesn't Rails have like an insane learning curve? (I might be as well wrong) at at least compared to other frameworks.
“640KB ought to be enough for anyone”
Phpbb is almost unreadable for me. What he's missing is persistently collapsible comments.

Say for example in this discussion someone mentioned internationalization which I don't care about with 50 replies. I collapse this comment and it's 50 children and this discussion is for me still very readable. It must be persistent because if I return in 30 minutes I don't want to collapse same posts over and over. I also collapse posts that I have read and I'm not interested in replies. This effectively makes me a moderator.

Subreddits protects website from off-topic posts. Nested collapsible comments protects posts from off-topic comments and tangents.
Isn’t this typically explained via marginal utility, not just utility? You can’t really compare the utility of the same amount of money in the hands of different people, but for a single person each additional unit of money is worth less than the last along some non-linear curve. The $1k you spend on insurance is further along this curve than the first $1k of the insured loss (and the second, and the third, etc) and if you do the naive expected value calculation it ignores this curve.
Sometimes you may find links you think others might be interested in but don't think they're so interesting that it's worth submitting to HN or posting on your social media. But maybe it's just not for you, and that's fine too.
The thing you are saying doesn't happen, is pretty much exactly what I do.

I browse my RSS feeds in the morning while I'm having my coffee. When my coffee's done I move on.

Why is this fictional?

My feed list is a text file in my personal git repo, pretty easy to update.

I find social media like Reddit sucks me into the eternal doomscroll far more easily than my self-curated RSS feeds. My feed list has an end. It's not tailored to show me "hot" (read: emotion, probably anger spiking) content. It's not really addictive.

RSS > all
Here's a hint: would you care to answer my question?
Cannot wait for an instant translator. Something that can translate synchronously (!) one language it hears into a language that I understand. Getting closer!
A lot of sites out there are still not supporting IPv6 because ... you'll never guess, but dealing with DDoS on IPv6 where your attackers can rotate through addresses quickly is not easy. Amazon Cloudfront and Cloudflare have recently failed to block simple IPv6 attacks for us lately which would not have happened if we only ran IPv4
I thought you can’t just inject genes and then the body will start replicate it. Does it need periodic injections?
Isn’t it obviously good to get rid of someone’s problem? Otherwise it wouldn’t be a problem.
And worse, right through to experienced engineers telling me that I couldn't possibly specify all functionality this way, because the basic axioms are so small and few in number.

But when I have managed to implement this way, the amount of pain that does not appear in later stages of deployment is startling.

I have a uniquely frugal algorithm for execution of the state tables I generate, reduces down to a handful of logic operations, DM me if you are interested to discuss.