skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing the opposite works for me.

I always start out defining the ideal API I want to solve a problem and then solve the problem using the not-yet-implemented API. I then implement the API recursively by adding lower level API’s that makes it easy to solve the higher level API problem. And most of the time I already have a lower level API from a previous project I can easily reuse and perhaps expand.

So I don’t start with the database moving towards the biz logic. I start with the biz logic moving towards the DB (if needed). It works really well.

I think this is similar to how experienced Lisp developers work. Starting out defining a new “language” (a bunch of functions) that makes it easy to solve the problem and then recursively implementing it. However I work in C++ and Typescript not Lisp.
> In this paper, we argue against the view that when ChatGPT and the like produce false claims they are lying or even hallucinating, and in favour of the position that the activity they are engaged in is bullshitting, in the Frankfurtian sense (Frankfurt, 2002, 2005). Because these programs cannot themselves be concerned with truth, and because they are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt without any actual concern for truth, it seems appropriate to call their outputs bullshit.

> We think that this is worth paying attention to. Descriptions of new technology, including metaphorical ones, guide policymakers’ and the public’s understanding of new technology; they also inform applications of the new technology. They tell us what the technology is for and what it can be expected to do. Currently, false statements by ChatGPT and other large language models are described as “hallucinations”, which give policymakers and the public the idea that these systems are misrepresenting the world, and describing what they “see”. We argue that this is an inapt metaphor which will misinform the public, policymakers, and other interested parties.
I don’t know. It could be a misleading step.

Take social media like Reddit for example. It has a filtering mechanism for content that elevates low-entropy thoughts people commonly express and agree with. And I don’t think that necessarily equates such popular ideas there to the truth.
And yet... I worked for a small software company (STNC Ltd.) that was acquired by Microsoft in '99. One of our customers was Psion, and then Symbian, we definitely shipped releases to them after the acquisition, so there was (or could be) Microsoft software on the Psion

On a different not, my understanding was that Psion had paid Cygnus to work on Arm support for gcc. So essentially Psion was responsible for gcc having arm support.

The tool chain was bizarre, writing c++ in the Microsoft Visual C++ ide, and building with gcc. Which was crazy in the 90s
> Probably a mix of plastic and metal: Full metal cards don’t actually support contactless interfaces!

Well it's really annoying: the "metal" card (maybe as you say a mix of metal and plastic) is harder to swipe, so I got use to present it face down instead of face up, for I noticed that that way I get a better percentage of success on the first try.

I don't have the problem with my full plastic credit/debit cards.
Kind of a software question, but why isn't nfc with asymmetric keys a thing? It seems like at best this is a custom javacard app on select expensive cards ($4 per card if you buy 1000 on aliexpress) or $70 for a yubikey otherwise. Is getting the signature time fast enough just impossible with current hardware/tramission power restrictions?
Even with an unlimited budget and unlimited time, the difference between good and bad engineering is that a bad engineer won't know where to apply their talents to ensure things won't go wrong in the future. While every discipline in the world is bound by budget and time constraints (even an armchair philosopher has a limited lifespan), that doesn't change the essence of the discipline itself.

I think of engineering not just as designing and building things, but also knowing where the limitations are of the thing you're constructing, whether it's purely on paper, in a computer's memory, or from brick and mortar.
I believe that half of meditation is letting your self dredge up all the nasty stuff and watching it happen, the other half is cultivating an outlook that's okay with or even happy with those things coming up. It's literally practice, for remaining stable when bad things happen "off the mat", and to be able to narrow in and concentrate on the grain of calm/bliss/joy in every moment. These elevated jhana states can be a healthy part of that, but they take work to get to.

if you're going to actually try to do it and not just try to McMindfulness your way out, it's dangerous to go in to this unprepared, IMO. early in my meditation experience I went a bit too deep on this just by practicing insight a few hours a day on one of the apps and was anxious and emotionally unbalanced for months.

Finding a meditation teacher or practice community may help, too, it continues to help for me, but it's one of those things you gotta be ready to keep going back to
A question for those familiar with jhanas. How would physical discomfort affect your ability to meditate? What if you had a headache? What if you had brainfog because of lack of sleep?
Sure, I agree with that behavior assuming the user wants the security. If the user wants to disable it, they should be able to do so. It's awful to assume users can't make the decision for themselves.
Interesting idea. This makes intuitive sense to me but I’ve never seen code written like this or attempted to write code like that. I’ll have to try it out next time I’m using numpy.
What's the package name?
I first heard about these from Slate Star Codex and I wonder if anyone else here did. I can't remember exactly which post
I don't think anyone expects it to be reliable, they just don't plan for packet loss properly.
Word vs. Outlook
I'm not dang.


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I meant specifically that you can quickly see all your custom scripts (and only them) by tab-completing comma itself. Of course aliases have regular tab completion in bash as well.
Hard to do this on a mobile phone so maybe point me to suspected insertions/deletions in the 1938 translation as you seem to already have a list of them.

<<Basic Tactics>> here's the very good candidate for the original
https://www.marxists.org/chinese/maozedong/1968/1-095.htm
Ask HN: How to test HTTPS call with TLS13 and disabled post-auth handshake
I am wondering what an easiest way is to test a HTTPS call with TLS1.3 and disabled post auth handshake. There is no option in C# HttpClient or in Java or postman/insomnia to disable post auth handshake. Thank you.
I'm building: https://weather-sense.leftium.com

Any suggestions?

My app is inspired by https://merrysky.net
If you are using wordpress there is options in the SEO plugins to do the same like Yoest and Rankmath
Clickable link:
https://blog.getbind.co/2024/06/21/claude-3-5-sonnet-does-it...
You see the issue though with the approach you're advocating?

"Oh spoiler alert, you will actually feel like you are being more sadder after you started meditating.... enjoy the process"

So I'll start to not enjoy myself by becoming sadder, but I just need to enjoy it?
Exactly that! And speaking of quotas, nobody can explain, why Ethereum Virtual Machine-like quotas were not enforced in the standard.

Imagine that you download a .odt/docx/pdf form with embedded font in LibreOffice in 2025. You start to type some text... And font start to saturate FPU ports (i.e. div/sqrt) in specific pattern. Meanwhile some tab in browser measures CPU load or port saturation by doing some simple action, and capture every character you typed.
The fact that they cost just a few pennies each is a reflection of how little waste is occurring. If waste bothers you, focus on something worthwhile like canceling just one airline flight.

Lifetime of a plastic opus card may even be more wasteful, by mass of plastic and chip, if not used extensively. For example, one time use is often for tourists, where a full chip opus would be very wasteful indeed.
SGI also used rebranded Trinitrons. My first job out of college I had an Indy with a giant (for the time) Trinitron on top of it. Don't remember the exact size except that it was bigger than 17", so probably 19" or 21".
I was hoping real meant real cars. (It’s still the video game version)
This isn’t true in the way many np problems are difficult to solve but easy to verify.
The rationale(s) for creating National Forests are multitude, but one good reason why they exist is in the Northeast the Green Mountain NF and White Mountain NF form the watersheds of multiple important rivers (Hudson, Connecticut, Androscoggin, etc) that are critical for industry and welfare (drinking water, etc). The federal govt recognized this a century ago and put these forests into management without putting them into 100% preservation and as such created a delicate balance between conservation/preservation and commercial and recreational use.

IMO the National Forests are the true jewels of the American conservation system because they set aside some of the most valuable (from a land value perspective) lands in the interest of multiple use.
not sure if this is what you meant, but you can run linq files from the command line!
I saw it in mid April. Walked right in at the scheduled time. But I did feel that was anomalous. Both d’Orsay and Louvre should really be capping daily entrants - it’s becoming a significant waste to go when you’re 5-10 meters away with a crowd between you and most works of art.
This one: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/nick-cammarata-on-jhana
I'm a big fan of this blog: https://atadistance.net/2023/04/04/final-frontiers-how-suica...

The author understands Japanese sources and writes about how the various Felica-based systems operate and evolve.
Maybe for the moment it would be better if the AI companies simply presented their chatbots as slightly-steered text generation tools. Then people could use them appropriately.

Yes, there seems to be a little bit of grokking and the models can be made to approximate step-by-step reasoning a little bit. But 95% of the function of these black boxes is text generation. Not fact generation, not knowledge generation. They are more like improv partners than encyclopedias and everyone in tech knows it.

I don’t know if LLMs misleading people needs a clever answer entropy solution. And it is a very interesting solution that really seems like it would improve things — effectively putting certainty scores to statements. But what if we just stopped marketing machine learning text generators as near-AGI, which they are not? Wouldn’t that undo most of the damage, and arguably help us much more?
Agreed, but also, “writing things down,” was a bit of a euphemism for the many, many aspects of a formal approach.

The main issue is that we can get so wrapped up in the process, that we fail to get anything done.

It’s a question of balance.
When I lived in Shanghai 6 years ago they were trialling QR for the metro. It was really bad, always huge queues with people struggling to get the right angle/illumination/whatever to make it scan. I’ve never seen similar issues with contactless methods and in fact I think SH subsequently moved to them. The amount of data stored seems pretty trivial to scale if necessary.
Sure I bet you could find someone to inject you with mitochondria…
Mobile wallets are not a contradiction to dedicated transit cards, though!

Apple Wallet supports transit cards for dozens of transit systems, and most of them have some associated app to allow managing monthly passes or topping up the balance. Arguably, that's the best of both worlds.
Sure, but I kind of think fines might be the wrong kind of disincentive for businesses. This breeds a cost-of-doing-business mentality. Lying to customers and breaking the law should be existentially dangerous to them.

Perhaps some of the many privileges we afford big businesses should be clawed back once they show they are not trustworthy. Things which make it more difficult for the executives to do their jobs, easier for regulators to catch them if they do it again, and easier for the competitors to eat their lunch.

Jail time for egregious offences is not a bad idea either. In AU, in the lead up to passing a bill to make wage theft a criminal offence, a lot of big companies magically reimbursed workers tens of millions of dollars for 'accidental' underpayment going back 10yrs or more. All of a sudden it wasn't just other peoples money they were playing with.
In residential and downtown areas, the sound is going to be dominated by engine idling, pulling away, and low speed cruising. It's ridiculous to argue that electric motors aren't a massive improvement in all of these cases.
So productive, we could call him Octathorpe.
Hm. My stance is that free will is just not well-defined
I dunno. I heard a story about Ayya Khema that she basically just stayed up all night for a while just committed to learning the jhanas.

One of the problems with all the stuff is that it's very hard for us to know what other people have experienced. So who knows. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Let's not be so closed-minded about it. People are different.
Local, First, Forever
Source? It's always been my understanding that while smaller players do this, the major ad players - Meta, Google, etc - never do this: Data on everyone is their greatest competitive advantage, and they don't want to give it away!
I think this vague idea of them being bad because of various Americanisms is just really "America bad."

I will go through each one of your complaints and point out how they aren't really unique to America in any way and can be applied to a lot of places with celebrated urbanism.

> with their lifeless corridors and alienating common areas

The only corridor I saw in the Danish walk up apartment I stayed in was an alarmingly steep staircase. I'll take a lifeless ADA-compliant corridor over that any day. Half of the stairs I took in Tokyo were basically outside the building which kind of sucked when it was hot and humid.

> and that the ground-floor retail tends to be (apparently) reserved for overpriced retail chains that come and go every few years, presumably because they charge high rents for large spaces.

Do a Google Maps search for "McDonald's in Paris, France." Wouldn't you know it, McDonald's is in the high-rent central districts of Paris. It's almost as if urban central cities are desirable to live in and command high rents!

> They also tend to not have balcony space for people to decorate so from outside they look completely un-personalized.

Do a street view anywhere in central Paris and there are a bunch of balconies but nobody has decorated them at all. A balcony is not a plus for many people: if you have small kids and pets they can be more of a liability.

> If they were less soulsuckingly lifeless nobody would mind them.

The sameness in architectural design is cool when it comes to Tokyo, East Berlin, Scandinavian minimalism and modernism, Philadelphia's historic row homes, Victorian housing across America, architects like Mies Van Der Rohe, but it's not cool in 5-over-1 in North Carolina. Basically, sameness is everywhere, but you're criticizing it in one application in an arbitrary way.

> Also as a result of their soulsuckingness it's hard to imagine treating one as a long-term home, which compounds because they're more soulsucking due to having nobody people treating them as long-term homes.

Countries with lower home ownership rates than the USA: Sweden, France, New Zealand, UK, South Korea, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Switzerland. Your personal opinion is that renters don't treat their rentals like they are home, but that's an example of derogatory classism if you ask me.

> Also they are usually not for sale as condos either so that's another reason they don't feel like long-term homes. (Nor are they able to personalize them significantly).

They definitely are sold as condos. But okay.
Show HN: All-in-one AI web assistant (open-source)
BrainyAI is a free Chrome browser extension that offers features such as AI chat aggregation, AI search, AI reading, and enhanced AI web browsing. (Free alternative to Sider and Monica).
Traveling, traversing meeting rooms. Going on site. There are lots of reasons battery life is important in the corporate world without being present in front of your computer for more than six hours consistently.
And we get back to "open source operating systems are only designed for servers":

"Why doesn't SELinux confine desktop applications" https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1578673

If your text editor can own your account, it doesn't count.
Smaller non-profits are _way_ more likely to poorly use your funds, especially if they fundraise. Use charity navigator or other reputable organizations to see if a charity you want to support uses your funds well or not.

Some non-profits only pay salaries of employees, but spend the vast majority of their time and money on their fundraising events, which are just ways for rich people to throw parties for free. In that case, they'd still pass your test.

People who work at non-profits deserve to be paid a similar salary to what they'd be paid in the private sector. The important part is that a non-profit should be using the majority of their funds on their mission (and that may require the majority of the funds going to the workers, depending on the mission).
You should read footnote #2. You can get an Opus card, which is reloadable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_card

I couldn't find any data on usage for one vs. the other, hopefully it's not a crazy amount. I'd imagine that most people who use transit on a regular basis do not use single-use tickets.
I do tend to stumble into it with hardware relates libs like ROS. Web adjacent libraries/frameworks, IMO, tends to package things a little nicer (though the js ecosystem just said YOLO).
Yeah I like the idea that my code could compile down to memcpy, even though maybe the compiler may not choose to do it
I was part of a recent conversation about hijacking the speaker and making it play Ludacris - Move B** instead.
New Approaches Needed for Power Management
I obviously failed to communicate my point, I'll try one last time.

If I ask you to imagine you can see something, and you haven't decided on basic details like what it looks like, this is exactly equivalent in my mind to me saying "imagine a number" and you not being able to tell me any digits of the number - you didn't really do what I asked.

We can go through and tediously define every word we're using but hopefully the above paragraph will allow you to tell where our definitions differ.
Another way of looking at it is what if this was just a legit unintentional scientific error. The scientific process is not suppose to be so fragile that a paper by an individual causes it to go astray for 16 years.
Well, how do you readers know if your distribution is bell/gaussian? Sure, sometimes you plot means of large samples, and then it is true by construction; but a lot of time people use box plots when there is no intrinsic reasons for data to be gaussian. Like most experimental papers.

Or take the first example from wikipedia page on box plot [0]: "Box plot of data from the Michelson experiment", which is just 20 points per run. Would I want to see this in the paper? No please. There is no evidence that the experimental data is gaussian (or even single-modal). Or further down that page, "A series of hourly temperatures" - why would one box-plot it either?

And even if you claim your data is gaussian by construction, maybe because you surveyed lots of people - I still want to see the evidence, as it's pretty simple to make experimental mistakes that turns data non-gaussian (say you only surveyed two neighborhoods with very different properties)

In other words, the domain where box plots are sufficient is very small. Most publications should never use them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot
The 5 building blocks of general intelligence
This is exactly right. After that first offer, I was just going to walk away. The sad part is that the business would have done very will during covid. It could have reached a new level of profitability.

She was able to take all of the money out of the company for a couple of years before the software contracts expired. After all the value was gone, she tried to sell the company for $1,000,000. The potential buyer almost laughed in her face.
If you're thinking slower than you want about work, then maybe it's because the work isn't worth thinking about. If you're forgetting things at work, then maybe it's because they weren't worth remembering. Absent a serious health condition, a mind won't just fade away when it knows it's needed and is serving an important purpose. Try introducing a little bit of disruption into your life to make things interesting again. The struggle is what keeps us going.
Possibly it is a good time to reflect on the following puzzler:

There are people you know who have achieved a jhana but don't talk about it. What are they saying?
ECDF plots are what I use.
Yeah, the sandwich-type cards usually have one preferred side for contactless taps. That's one advantage of the cutout-style cards, I suppose, but I haven't seen many of these lately.
It's impossible to stop all 100+ engineers on a large team from using footguns like that. It's why I find Rails to be an awful solution for large or mature companies: sure if everyone is a "Rails ninja" who perfectly knows the consequences of every bit of code they write, a Rails app can be beautiful and perfect. That's simply not realistic as an org grows beyond a certain size.
Several such pilots for this have been in flight the last couple years.
Simply go with the flow, wake up at dawn, and go to sleep when the sun sets, like the pigeons are telling you to. You'll be leading a more natural life, and you'll avoid the risk of being eaten by a fox due to hopping around on the ground after dark.
I feel like the really scary prospect is the lager causing a dam failure. I’ve read a few articles from NYT talking about the potential for atmospheric rivers to overwhelm dams in california, causing a cascading collapse. From memory, the potential casualties are incredibly grim (like hydrogen bomb grim). I honestly don’t know what can be reasonably done though. The possibly range is too wide and the timeline too long.
I might be overly sensitive to car noise but I find revving engines extremely annoying. Fortunately (and by choice) I live in a relatively low traffic area, so at least at night it's got almost no traffic, but during the day it's got enough of it to force me to shut close the thermopane windows and doors AND turn on an electric fan heater without the heat, so the low frequency white noise it makes masks the occasional roaring of the car engine passing by.

Also it's not like all the cars, most cars pass by with their engine on idle so they make little noise. Every now and then (which by law of statistics translates to always, eventually after some time), some idiot accelerates aggressively when their clutch is disengaged, resulting in the engine squealing like a demented stuck pig and me almost getting a seizure out of stress.

And then there's the occasional SUV with tank tracks instead of tires (figuratively speaking, they have tires suitable for climbing muddy hills, not cruising through residential areas) which zooms around at 80Km/h, in this case can't hear the engine because the darn tracks make so much noise you can hear them from several blocks away.

Hate. Cars.

Also an unpopular opinion which will 100% guarantee I get fiercely downvoted: "they" should make gas prices not 10-20% but 4x - 8x higher. So the vast majority of the idiots would have to take the public transportation system instead of the current standard of 3 cars for a family of two and sitting in traffic for 90 minutes to make what would otherwise be a 20-30 minutes transit. Differential price for individual (luxury) transportation.