skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just need a decentralized system where people could be rewarded financially for providing network access.

Imagine a plug and play system where people with a satellite link could sell network access to their neighbors without a headache. Clients would just need to specify how much they are willing to pay for GB and nodes how much they want to get paid in their routers.

There are many great things that could be done but AFAIK nobody is investing in making that a reality because governments and those that benefiting from the established status quo would definitely get in the way. So Starlink is the way as there's not much that governments can do to get in the way of thousands of satellites controlled by company outside their territory.
Ever since that xylitol study came out, I've stopped chewing gum
Neither do the emissions from not ever replacing the coal powerplants.
I absolutely think in words. There are no pictures or whatever other mental model. There is literally a narrative of words and blackness inside head.
Editor tied to self-described 'thief' who claimed role in his reporting
I don't see any connection between the Guardian and the recovered memory movement.

Throughout this thread you have a bit of an insistence on narrowly defining memory in terms of the brain, i.e. memories that people have.

In the field of epigenetics, and in computer science, and other areas, "memory" more broadly means a system of encoding information. Which is what happens here, when methyl groups physically bind to an adenine or cytosine molecule, like flipping a bit.

It's incorrect to call information stored in epigenetics "memories", but it's fine to call it "memory". I forgive the article for doing this as it's written for consumption by the broad public, and it's illustrative of the overall point if not literally correct.

FYI, the author is a respected neuroscientist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Critchlow
Foolishly though. Ads don't work nearly as well as what a lot of companies pay for them.
The explanation is simple, conservative outrage over non-issues.

To the first example, it's the same as whining about restaurants being forced to serve black patrons. If you are business open to the public you should serve the public. The slippery slope is beyond obvious. Can a doctor refuse to treat gay patients? A lawyer refuse to represent gay clients? A professor refuse to teach gay students? Regardless, conservatives won this one. Business owners can discriminate based on sexuality. Hurray? Yet why is this activist bringing up a case they already won?

The next examples of "how-to" manuals in elementary schools simply isn't something that exists. Further, it's frankly cover for the real agenda, pulling out any book making even the most glancing reference to homosexuality (billy has 2 dads) or past racism (MLK existed). It's a lot of hot air and fire over books not shelved in elementary schools. Perhaps in highschool or junior high, which is age groups where more explicit texts are acceptable.

> and have led to a decline in public support for the gay rights movement.

Completely the author, a conservative that likely does not support gay rights, opinion.

> the controversies keep activists in business.

I actually agree with the author here. Yes, the controversies keep the activists in business, but WHO are the activists? The answer isn't who the author identifies.

Consider how many rightwing outlets repeated the lie "Now schools are letting kids identify as cats and poop in litter-boxes!". Which activist do you suppose started that?
There is a difference between Peak Oil "Output" vs Peak Oil "Demand".
The article is about demand and not production capacity which won't matter once the demand starts to go downhill... will never be zero but will not be something that can prop up regimes that have sucked the life out of their people for more than half a century.
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I guess this means we need to add a “no iterators” linter to golangci-lint.
I feel like if they had simply named it FixedDecimal they would have avoided the confusion. It makes more sense that 1.0 differs from 1.00 as they are different precicions. As another person pointed out, dividing them by 3 will yield different results.
Microwave popcorn is an abomination: https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/eating-microwave-pop...

When they were old enough (like 6yo) I taught my kids to pop their own popcorn over the oven. 1 bag of kernels (dozens of servings) = the cost of a 6-pack of microwave popcorn, and the time it takes to pop isn't that much more.

Plus you can salt/flavor them how you like - our house favorite is curry powder/garlic powder/olive oil.
Being a twitter community notes member, they are mostly an extension of the political battle below the surface. Many notes and NNN come from bias or agendas. They are also too slow, many posts have had the majority of their views before a note is added.

Censorship is a government activity, platforms do content moderation as private entities
Wasn't this the one that was sabotaged by Microsoft so that BeOS was installed but you couldn't boot it? https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
> Regression tests are a small subset of tests, typically named for an ID in some bug tracker, and are about validating a fix.

This is how I also tend to think of them, but it's not how the phrase is generally used. The general meaning of regression tests it to ensure known correct functionality doesn't break with a future change. There's no actual requirement it be tied to a known bug.
> With E cores like this, who needs P cores?

Because, presumably, the P-cores are even beefier.

Intel and AMD are still trying to gain time on the slow march to ARM (particularly Apple) catching up. Both of their long term strategies seem to differ (AMD edging back into ARM itself, Intel being a little more close lipped), but they can't lose their one major edge (raw performance) or potentially more users switch to an x86-excluded (and, more importantly, third-party excluded) platform (Mac).
I'm a professional graphic designer and I think everyone I know pirates it. It's an insane amount of money to spend if you're freelancing. Freelance creative work is often a tough life with thin margins. The price point is egregious. I regularly use Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects. None of the software has had any meaningful update in over a decade, except for maybe some masking/selection tools. The AI stuff is trash and no professional would use it.
I knew about Htmx and that HN loves it. But this post is what I actually got to take a good look, and oh my god it felt like such a fresh breath!

We have a few jQuery-era websites (that still work today because why not), and Htmx could be where we trim hundreds of lines.
I like iterators in JavaScript well enough. I understand the syntax of this just fine, it doesn't seem that ridiculous. It's definitely a little less simple than Go usually tends to be, but it's certainly not impenetrable. And you don't have to use it. I personally probably won't use it but I don't care that it's there.
Reverse pointer is pretty easy with some hosting (Linode) and painful with others, but that's pretty basic knowledge. Same with managing IP reputation. Heck, mail gun helps warm up IPs for you (but if you're not email marketing it's ridiculous to maintain that).

What really gobbles my bobble is BIMI. Even without the paid-for certificate ($1500 is absurd), you can set it up to show your logo, and works on some providers (like yahoo). But careful, you have BIMI without the cert set up? Gmail spam-cans it.

Same with pgp, if you include your signature a lot of providers will immediately increase it's spam rating, usually high enough to land in spam (+7 pts usually), even though I doubt any spammer or scammer is inviting you to encrypted chats.

Email is broken because we all signed up for Gmail and didn't know better at the time.
> It makes me also realize how truly deplorable Putin is for constantly threatening to recreate such a situation for his own personal gain.

I don't think Putin is doing this for his own personal gain. I think the majority of Russian leaders in Putin's place would probably have taken a similar course of action. Maybe not threatening nuclear war, but definitely having a similar Ukraine policy.
> So, I might be easily able to afford refreshing my software tools after 5 ways of using them to earn a living,

That's just how all of tech works. Some pockets of software may be able to be fundamentally unchanged over decades, but the fact is that the software I used 5 years ago is not the same as the software I used now. Your choices are the same as ever:

- Don't upgrade for as long as possible

- Upgrade and eat the inefficiency cost for a while until replacements are found/made

- go the FOSS route and either do it yourself or rely on the goodwill of the community until its inevitable next schism.

There is no perfect solution unless you're willing to become a domain expert in that specific kind of tech and roll your own.

The only silver lining is that most of the fundamentals remain the same so you're not starting from square one. Whatever new web stack is being used today is still probably based upon React, which is based on JQuery, which is based Javascript. ES6 isn't a complete recvolution from ES3 (even if there are new major concepts to learn over those 15 years). So you have some knowledge transfer of seeing where and how things.
By default under most open source licenses, particularly permissive ones, violating the terms even by accident ends your license instantly, with no notice whatsoever.

Including a fair, common sense path to forgiveness severely limits legal risk for users, and is one of the things I like about the Blue Oak license.
I feel like most video game wikis would be pretty clearly fair use. Otoh maybe fandom would just feel its not worth fighting about.
That's interesting, thanks for answering. I hadn't heard people describe the tiredness effect, I had assumed it would be the same as for non-ADHD people.
i'm happy to support EFF with my monthly donation. at least some organization out there is standing up for our digital freedoms.
absolutely appalling on France here
GigaTeras?
Altman saving Reddit makes me like him more, not less. Imagine rooting for Condé Nast letting Reddit rot to death, Yahoo acquisition style.
Do you use another library instead?
Super frustrating. From the mailing thread:

However, this is not good as it remove under-powering range too far. I was getting only about 7% less performance but 90W(!) less consumption when set to my 115W before. Also I wonder if we as a OS of options and freedom have to stick to such very high reference for min values without ability to override them through some sys ctrls. Commit was done by amd guy and I wonder if because of maybe this post that I made few months ago(business strategy?)

I have certainly crossed a threshold where hardware seems good enough. I do not need the 99th percentile performance if it comes with a non-linear increase in power consumption.
> It really doesn’t matter that China is worse. It’s not a competition. The fact that people in other places have even less privacy doesn’t make me feel better.

This is exactly the sentiment I wanted to convey. I'd feel far more comfortable if we didn't settle for "at least we're not as bad as..." levels of rhetoric. Unsavory surveillance practices in one country shouldn't give us a justification to accept the declining status quo here.
Ask HN: What do Engineering Managers do at your company?
I work at a Big Tech company and in my part of the org I can't help but feel like the EM role here adds more of an inefficiency than anything else.

Our EM has 10 backend engineers under him. There are about five other teams, each of which is a fully frontend or fully backend team. We have biweekly sprint planning meetings where EMs assign out tickets to engineers on the team.

The problem is that between the 10 engineers on our team we're working on 5 or so distinct product areas. Each of us knows more about the product area than our EM. The sprint plannings become painful because we have to explain to the EM the status of each project and what work we should really be doing on the sprint.

Furthermore, it feels like splitting the teams up like this has resulted in "over-the-wall" thinking: I finish my work and throw it over the wall to the frontend people. This works really poorly. We have had some decent success by creating "pods" where integrated product, design, frontend, and backend teams for a product area meet at some frequency. But, we're still stuck with EMs doing sprint planning and there is no way he can know what's going on in all the pods.

In all my previous experience, I have never actually had a dedicated EM. Instead, we worked entirely in vertical product teams. That worked great. I did have managers but they were entirely people managers -- nothing about the work itself.

So, does my current situation sound... correct? It doesn't feel correct at all. What in your mind is the correct role of an EM?
Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on Human-Generated Data
As a fun reminder of how different people are, the months to me are basically only their numeric value, and if someone starts taking about October I think to myself "October? Oh ya, the 10th month, got it."
Short term is what matters to them. CEOs want to cash out the bonus
The numbers might be a bit bloated, but not by a lot.

We had just moved to Canada from a country without a reciprocal drivers license exchange - no matter as she never had one. Where we had moved from, drivers licenses are largely considered optional and although I taught her to drive and she had been riding motorcycles since age 12 or so, driving in North America is way different. We moved just before covid hit. Driving lessons and license testing were difficult / near impossible to get - and with very long wait times. So it was her only form of transportation for quite a long time.

She was doing cleaning at various businesses around the area as well, so again she would take the bike to those locations every day with her little cargo trailer and cleaning supplies. She'd come home after dropping our son off at school, charge the bike, eat a snack, change trailers and head back out, then repeat when it was time to pick him up.

She quite easily spent 3-4 hours on the bike everyday. Just getting to school and back for our son was about 45 minutes one way. He wasn't in the closest school because of things the further school offered (nature school), another 30 minutes each way to the local shopping centre, and then wherever she needed to go for work.

We went through a lot of tires and brake pads, but other than general maintenance the bike held up great and is still going strong.

She has a good job and nice little car now, so the bike is seeing a lot less use this year.

She is as tough as nails. :)
I have very mixed feelings about #MeToo, but this seems inaccurate or perhaps even disingenuous.

Why, during a long and steep decline in the
incidence of sexual violence in America, did
academics, federal officials, and the #MeToo
movement discover a new “epidemic of sexual
assault”?

A lot of topics discussed around #MeToo involved sexual conduct that was not previously considered to be sexual assault.

A prime example would be the misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein. For much of human history his sexual quid pro quo would have been viewed somewhere between "acceptable" and "sleazy, but not in the same category as forcible sexual assault."

#MeToo brought in a growing awareness around that sort of harmful misconduct. Critics could correctly point out that this represented a moving of the goalposts, a widening of the definition of assault. In my opinion (and in many peoples' opinions) this was a positive change. But it was, inarguably, a change.

Zooming out, though, let's look at the author's main point:

For career activists, success is a threat.
They can never declare mission accomplished.

This is the most blatant sort of mental gymnastics.

Two of the many flaws:

One:

Which of the mentioned groups can possibly reasonably claim "victory!?" The groups mentioned in the article have achieved significant gains but not victory.

I do not speak for women, African-Americans, or the LGBT+ community. But it's not a stretch to say that "victory" for these groups would mean fully equal rights and opportunities relative to others. If you think those groups have achieved that, I would urge you to learn more about their experiences.

Two:

The fight to retain those gains can never end. Because the opposition never stops fighting. Women were pretty sure they'd achieved some kind of reproductive rights in America, and then Roe vs. Wade was overturned. The fight can never end because the opposition never stops fighting.
You know USA had capitalism in the 60s as well? That was also reality, capitalism often works really well in reality. And even USA today isn't a bad place to live, if that is a bad case of capitalism then that is a risk well worth taking.
It's far from clear.

Dozens of finance executives wiped a decade worth of economic growth off the United States the year before I graduated high school. My generation will never recover. They left their jobs with more money that I'll make in an entire lifetime. None went to prison.
And what study are you referring to?
Yet some other evidence places it much later at around 130ky. Go figure.
I enjoyed this. However, if the author is reading I was pretty sure the ASCII sun was in fact an ASCII hole, if you know what I mean. Not that I disapproved, it rather fit the site you were reviewing which is in fact a steaming pile of stfu8.
If only we did what they're doing to cut emissions. They put up more solar every quarter than the rest of the world does every year.
Is the best person for any position (especially one with tremendous implications for the future of humanity) someone with his character?
that sounds like a good thing
They just sounds like ways it’s different from the language you’re using currently?
> People getting married want to be able to buy wedding cakes! This is a serious controversy!

Of course, and they should buy (or make their own) wedding cakes, if they intend to have wedding cakes.

My opinion is:

If the cake is not a custom order, but just one of their ordinary products, then they should not be allowed to refuse due to such things as homosexual, etc.

However, for custom orders, such custom orders could be anything and they should have the right to refuse any such custom orders if they wish (due to the order itself, not due to the discrimination of the customers) (although this will reduce their profit, and may result in a bad reputation, so there is still a risk to refuse them).

However, if they are the only bakery in the area, then it is more difficult, since they might not have much of a choice (unless they can learn to decorate it themself). (Although this is also true for any number of other things that nobody has available for sale, etc.)

About the specific case, I have received conflicting information about this. Wikipedia says it is a custom order.

As the other comment says: They did not refuse to serve clients of a particular sexual orientation. If they did so, that would be discrimination and illegal, as it should be. But a custom order is something different, as I had explained above (this doesn't necessarily mean it would be a good idea, even if it is allowed, though).

Freedom of speech and freedom of religion and freedom of opinion is important.
For what it's worth, I used to be certain that I thought in words too. Then I moved to a different country and used a second language often enough that I sometimes think in it. I then realized that there are periods where I think in neither my native language nor in my second language, even when I'm thinking. YMMV of course.
TBH, a lot of the complications in Backward() are because it's dealing with two iterators (one as an input, one as its output) and the input/output are both generics. This isn't a typical case.
Whenever iterator design comes up, I always have to refer to munificent's excellent article: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/01/13/iteration-insi...

tldr: The gold standard is if your iterator syntax / syntaxes can support these two types of iteration:

1. Interleaving two sequences

2. In-order tree traversal
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> I was pointing out that your original argument makes no sense, because of what it would mean if you applied it to humans.

And I explained why this equivalence doesn't hold in my view. You have made no attempt to justify it. So why should I buy it? Are you obliged to buy every proposition I put forward? Obviously not, or we wouldn't be having this discussion.

> [It] in no way relates to your original [argument] and does nothing to rescue it.

My argument is only endangered if the equivalence holds - and again, I haven't bought it. You seem to feel entitled to my adopting your perspective, and to respond assuming your equivalence is valid. But you have to earn that by putting forward a good argument.

Instead of trying to convince me or explore our disagreement, you declare that I violated unstated terms and that the discussion cannot proceed. This is nonsensical.

Since it's clear you aren't willing to give me a fair hearing, I encourage you to show this conversation to someone you respect and trust to be honest with you, so that they can explain this to you in a way that will register.
>Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

I knew I was late to the party.
This is one of a large number of carefully crafted policy pieces disguised as a wide range of things all brought to the US public eye by The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy...
Haha, yeah I did that exactly once. Turned into a horrible goo.
If OpenAI had an embedded python interpreter or for that matter an interpreter for lambda calculus or some other equally universal Turing machine then this approach would work but there are no LLMs with embedded symbolic interpreters. LLMs currently are essentially probability distributions based on a training corpus and do not have any symbolic reasoning capabilities. There is no backtracking, for example, like in Prolog.
I could have written this post, except for exactly everything would be inverted.
FTC is cooking lately
My best guess is an over-zealous response to some content licensing deal.
Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge around the Renaissance, with the invention of the printing press.

The farther back we go, the more we have to use tongue-in-cheek definitions of "rapidly".
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so a deferred evaluation, like (in elixir) wrapping a computation in an fn (lambda of 0 arity)
Yep, Elizabeth Holmes was bulletproof until the cracks started to show through. Same with Lance Armstrong, and many others.
Discussion (49 points, 7 hours ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40709451
*3: Multi-thread: A given function of the program is individually configured
(thread); two or more threads can be executed simultaneously.
*4: Multitasking: A method that enables a computer to simultaneously execute
two or more programs by switching the CPU to each of the programs at certain intervals.

It's funny, the definitions we take for granted now.
Let me editorialize that:

> Strictly following Mosley and Marks’s different definition because it’s strange and I can easily poke holes in it…

Again, I’m not sure why it was necessary to “strictly follow” that bizarre definition of essential complexity, one that seems to define anything a user says as “essential”.
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