skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went on a similar caffeine experimentation journey, and eventually settled on one (1) cup of coffee in the morning, followed by usually plain water for the rest of the day. I appreciate the boost to "get a task started" willpower that the caffeine provides, and by limiting my intake, it's mostly flushed out of my system by the time I'm ready to sleep. For my body, this balance seems to work well: I sleep deeply, dream vividly, and am occasionally woken by nightmares. (always wasps.) Usual stuff.

Ideally I'd avoid caffeine entirely, but when I tried to sustain this (for over a year) I felt lethargic and fatigued more often than not. From a willpower perspective, it was far too easy to go, "I'm too tired to start this task right now, I'll put it off." Some of that is mental, I realize, but the quick fix won. I have stuff to do and I don't want to spend months in misery trying to force a major lifestyle change when the coffee is right there.

What I *cannot* do anymore is drink caffeine (in any form) all day long, like I used to when I was younger. I have no idea how I slept at all. I'm partly convinced I mostly did not, and in hindsight it explains a lot of weird sleep consistency issues I was constantly struggling with.
I have to imagine that Meta, and other big companies are in a similar situation. Meta, in particular, gives beefy grants and anyone that joined 4-5 years ago has seen the stock go up 7X. For a senior Engineer that held on to the initial grant and refreshers, that stock would be worth $5-10+ million now.
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> Wow, I didn't know you could do this with the Apache License. This is a fork with a license which revokes some of the permissive aspects

Yes. This is the whole point of the
GPL and other copyleft free software licences. This is why people have been saying the GPL is so important this whole time. It seems lately more and more people are slowly starting to realise this. Makes me wonder why it wasn't more obvious before. Is it a case of "don't care until it directly affects me"?
I'd say you need to know how to properly instrument your containers so that you'll never need to get inside. If your team is on the level of "we need tools inside the container for troubleshooting", then don't use minimized containers like these.
TL;DR accepting intellectually that we are technically Europeans has very little to do with feeling like European-ness is a part of one's identity.

I thought it'd be obvious that I didn't mean every Irish person would be bemused, but I should have been more explicit.

There's a difference between accepting Ireland as legally and bureaucratically part of Europe, or thinking it's politically or culturally useful to be in the E.U., and feeling that European-ness - however you choose to define it - is a part of our identity as a people.

My anecdotal experience (have lived in two European countries and one non-European country, learning the local languages and diving deep) is that European countries are about as "foreign" to Irish people as any other countries. There are exceptions, and it depends on the country, e.g., we're closer to the Poles now, and have a few fun stories about crates of Prazsky at the wedding in Gdansk.

Try out the experiment - ask an Irish friend or relation of yours if they feel like them and a Finnish / Belgian / Romanian person have something in common, or what they know about that country. My experience is that a lot of people (not everyone, and again, anecdotally) are very uncomfortable even with the idea of imagining that other places really exist.
> it's not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything

It took me the better part of a day to set up all the dependencies to properly compile the thesis template my uni provides. Just the core and basic extensions are over a gigabyte to download, then I had to manually copy something from one folder to another, then run some obscure command to rebuild...something, then the version of biber didn't match the version of something else, but if I installer biber directly then it didn't match some other perl library, but I couldn't uninstall and replace that because it was required by some other perl program I have installed...
> unfortunately named SOS

I’m sure whoever named it had a painful awareness of what would be the ultimate end of the ///.
Making a brighter change: The benefits of Connected Streetlights (2023)
Out of curiosity, why did you make the switch? Licensing?
Youtube feels more and more like extortion every day that passes.
> update our subscription layer to call subscribers on the main thread instead

I often do this, but have been doing it less frequently, lately, because I don't want to force a thread switch, unless I know that I'll be calling UIKit functions (not always things that affect UI. Many "background" UIKit functions also require main thread). Instead, I clearly mention the thread state, in the API headerdoc description ("- parameter handler: A simple, no-parameter, tail completion. May be called in any thread.").
Going Faster: Isochrones and "Time to Hello World"
Inflation's Wild Ride
Microsoft did experiment with that some time ago, but the /// was simpler - it was two switches, one actuated at one pressure and the other requiring more force to actuate.

I think this kind of switch is still made.
Look into the Neo900 project. A lot of the current "secure" cell phone projects are really US-State plugs. The US Gov't is surprisingly transparent in it's funding. Just not opaque since it's kind of like a holographic sieve. Signal is one example of a Gov't backed and maintained project. Other things out there like LimeSDR recieve funding but maintain more autonomy.

Some people here want to talk to scholars, researchers, journalists, and/or friends/family in foreign countries about surveillance capitalism. Sometimes people want to speak to people who would otherwise be victims of reprisal if their state or their states' allies used the various tools Israel + US sells to hack + de-anonymize targeted individuals(i.e. students, journalists, lawyers, human rights wokers, etc#).
A lot of people such as Mormons manage to bear capitalism just fine without caffeine. I like to have a little coffee most days but let's not exaggerate it's necessity.
Chinese academics urged to 'construct narratives' to defend maritime claims
Very possible, most of us are French and Romanian :-)
Haven't read the paper yet, but looks like this can improve the ability of the model attention to work better, since many of these tasks end up being similar to these generic tasks.

Even gpt4 gets tripped up when there's too many exact instructions needed to be executed on an input. That's why it's common that breaking a task into multiple steps and multiple improves performance.

It's wonderful to see improvements possible on smaller models.
> You know, maybe it's time to overturn Marbury v. Madison

You mean the precedent liberals used to completely and un-democratically reshape the American republic in the mid-20th century—everything from taking religion out of schools to deciding that towns couldn’t shut down strip clubs “because free speech?”

Conservatives will 100% take you up on overturning Marbury.
You interfere with other devices, especially any others that have the same idea.
Before LLMs became widespread it was already a bit risky to buy technical books, with some books on Amazon being nothing more than a collection of vaguely related Wikipedia articles collected into a “book”.

And even without that, there are publishers like PacktPub which had a lot of poor quality hand written books. I know because I signed up for this thing where they were giving away a new book every day, and a lot of those books were just so bad. There were some gems in there too, hence why I kept looking at those free books. But I’d say 85 to 90% or more were just not worth even trying to read.

I remain hopeful though that even in the face of LLM generated garbage, quality publishers like O’Reilly and Manning will keep the bar high for what they publish.
My language has under 1000 hours of training data, so apparently is not well supported. How can I help add more training data? I actually have tens of hours of transcriptions of my own voice in my language, because I take many voice notes spanning back almost two decades. Most of it is very personal, but I could probably sort away a good portion for this and other projects.

https://keyboard.futo.org/whisper-training-data-breakdown
The Systems Audit Sales Tool
> If people are writing bad code at your company, to the point where you know it's going to come back to haunt you later, it's okay to just walk away .

IMO, one of the biggest reasons for this, is coders that know that they won't be around to have to clean up their messes.

Sort of a "chicken and egg" scenario.
This is really cool! Would it be possible in the future to add OAuth authentication via AzureAD (EntraID)?
>You can't have an excess of food and famine at the same time.

Sure you can. Food supply is not just a question of production, you also need logistics and will to distribute. There is currently a global food surplus, but areas of the world are still undergoing famine.

>in fact food prices were dropping

Up to 1931. If you look at the data into the actual Dust Bowl years, 1932 to 1936, prices go back up significantly.

>It doesn't even make sense, Oklahoma isn't dry, the American south is very humid.

But the Dust Bowl occurred in an extended drought period when Oklahoma was incredibly dry. And while it's true that topsoil was lost from fields that weren't farmed, those fields were fallow because of the drought - crops couldn't be grown in the dry conditions.
I meant it sincerely, not as a joke.

> As many philosophers have pointed out, particulars are easier to point out than universals. The latter requires a lot of thought.

Fair enough, that’s a good point.

You don’t have to use >>= and >> if you don’t want to though. Use the do notation instead and the code will look much more familiar. You also mention fmap; that’s `.map` in Rust, etc. in other languages.

All I’m trying to say is, there are many parallels between Haskell and other languages at the level of particulars. The concepts behind >>= and >> are not unique to it anymore. So there is hope if you want to reconstruct the universal concepts in your mind from those particulars, especially if you use fitting abstractions like the do notation.
I don't see why this is being downvoted, it's an accurate description of what happened.

The funny thing is, even at the time it was clear that immigration would not decrease as a result of Brexit. Farage repeatedly stressed that it would open the door to greater immigration from the Commonwealth. People projected their own desire for lowered immigration onto the vote because, as you said, it's the only lever they were given.
Confirmation bias typically refers to accepting very little evidence or rejecting disproofs. Survivorship bias is the one where you forget to account for the non-survivors of a particular selection criteria.
I think they’ll package a variety of model formats and download the appropriate one for the user’s system. Apple and Microsoft both offer OS-level APIs that abstract over the specific compute architecture so within the platform you don’t need further specialization. On Apple hardware they’ll run their model via CoreML on whichever set of compute (CPU, GPU, NPU) makes sense for the task. On Windows it will use DirectML for the same. I’m not sure if there’s a similar OS abstraction layer on Linux, possibly there they’ll just use CPU inference or whatever stack they usually use on Android.
Oh man, working with PgVector to set up a semantic search in Postgres is something that looks easy at first, but takes many weeks. Especially once you try to introduce an HNSW index and combine it with other filters, it's a whole rabbit hole of challenges.

So I can see how this can be useful, especially with a Reranker model on top, which I didn't see being offered by other vector search providers.

I would try it out, but think about offering various self-querying features, for instance, a combination of keyword search with vector search.
MongoDB likely still has a side where it's better than PostgreSQL: clustering.

Running a multi-node cluster is a built-in feature (no patroni bullshit around) and you can ask on a per-query basis for consistent (acknowledged by a majority of the nodes) or non-consistent (do not require data to have been acknowledged by a majority of the nodes) values. Same for transaction (eg: ask for a transaction to return as completed only after 2 out of 3 nodes in the replicaset have acknowledged it).

It's sad to see PostgreSQL team ignoring this aspect for so long, it's really the missing piece to make PostgreSQL the definitive database.

I still dream of some built-in multi-master postgresql solution.
Since it wasn't a planned launch, the rocket wasn't at a cosmodrome.

The video shows a mostly-forested area. The big building right next to the smoke cloud probably belongs to the engine test facility.

As far as I can tell, the area administratively belongs to Dayugou Zhen, a small town with 40k inhabitants spread across 2 communities and 22 villages. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B3%AA%E6%B2%9F%E9...
The deeps have continued to hold, my fascination since childhood and is only increasing with each new discovery. As Dr. Ian Malcolm famously said, "Life, uh, finds a way."
Was there pc versions back in the day? If not, are these running on a playstation emulator?
Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing
I'm a die-hard nvim/tmux/mosh user so take this with a grain of salt, but to answer your question, many people use their IDEs as project dashboards. For example (depending on the project/ecosystem):

1. GUI editor (for UI)

2. Debugging (as in standard debugging tools like breakpoints, REPLs, etc)

3. Building the project, and build management

4. A terminal emulator

5. A container orchestrator manager (or as I like to call it, an orchestrator orchestrator)

Personally I think those tools are better separted from the IDE, but there is a real convenience in having them integrated.
Sorry but that is not true and we have tools and processes that allow us to reliably deliver new versions of crud apps.

I am doing that with multiple teams for over 10 years now.

Yes I have seen teams that cannot get basic app to prod over the year because they mess around with tooling instead of doing the job.

If you expect that there be no bugs - just go for an inspection with building inspector and check how many buildings have not even a single flaw.
2D Multiplayer from Scratch
Especially awkward if your name is Tom.
Nice thanks, I kept thinking this is much bigger news than the reception it is getting. Good to know at least it isn't the first round.
Sure.

Perhaps the interesting part is less that sats can do such things and more that it's now being reported that ground observers can pick such moves out in a crowd.

The technology was developed as part of a DARPA program focused on using AI to produce space domain awareness insights and find anomalous spacecraft in large satellite constellations

https://www.slingshot.space/news/slingshot-darpa-agatha-ai
Is there reason to believe they’re going to rot if they haven’t after 2,000 years already?
Lua has debug hooks that can be used for the purpose; for example an instruction counter coupled with a pool allocator should get one quite far. I would never trust third party bytecode, only source code.

Is anyone familiar with Roblox luau security features?
> I probably would never listen to more than a few GBs of high fidelity music in my life time.

FWIW, I currently have about 100 GB of music on my phone. And that is in a fairly high quality AAC format. Converted to lossless, it might be about five times that size? I don't even think of my music collection as all that extensive. But still, 160 TB would be a different ball game altogether. For sure, there is no mass market for music players with that sort of capacity. (Especially now that streaming is taking over.)
Weren't microwave ovens invented because someone's chocolate melted in their pocket while operating a radio transmitter? Maybe it's just a lady godiva story since it seems weird that the person wouldn't feel overly hot as well, but maybe.
How exactly is the internet not interacting with photons and electrons in the physical world?
In America, if I shot you in the leg and you died years later from an infection incurred because of that bullet wound I can and likely would be charged with murder because of the long string of consequence caused by my action.

So I can draw a pretty solid causal line from “my father died in a tent in the woods behind a gas station off of I-95 to the Oxy he was once on.” Maybe the pill itself didn’t directly kill him but it sure lead there.

Perhaps I’m just too emotional here, having literally dealt with the above last month. Can’t think straight?
Sure it likely will. However, it may also get you cancers, for which we'd need to enhance other cancer preventing mechanisms. TERT is essentially a fallback.

Plus perhaps you can have a "rejuvenation session" with TERT instead of boosting it forever. Thing seems like it can work after TAC is no longer being activated for quite some time.

Ultimately though yes, it may increase the number of cells that have already taken multiple hits if multiple hit cancer hypothesis is really true.
Voice-to-Text Demo with Whisper
Haha, I'd be happy if outlook just integrated a search that actually works.

Most of outlook search results aren't even relevant, and it regularly misses things I know are there. Literally the most useless search I've ever had to use.
Correction: The CPU was named NOVIX 4016.
The next iteration was the Harris RTX2000.

A quick history of this work is contained in this thesis by Charles Eric LaForest.

http://fpgacpu.ca/publications/Second-Generation_Stack_Compu...
The technology, capability and controversy of robots at war [video]
I'm in the UK. I always check the nutritional information labels. So far I haven't found a single brand of kombucha that has more than about 20kcal/100ml. Most are around 1-5kcal.

For example, this Lo Bros [0] flavour has <0.5g of sugar, and only 3kcal/100ml.

[0] https://lobros.co/products/raspberry-blackcurrant-330ml-uk
Check my answer to the sibling comment [0].

I'm not sure about the acidity but it certainly doesn't taste very acidic despite the very low sugar content.

In fact, I find even the sweetest orange juice to be a lot more acidic than most kombuchas I've tried.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837102
> "As it relates to Sam Altman, I think he's — he's a con man." he said, criticizing how OpenAI began as a nonprofit, but Altman is "now making a lot of money."

He has a point, no matter what you think of the guy himself. OpenAI is neither open nor non-profit.
> Licensing

Pretty much. Some of the paid Qt module look interesting, but the clarity of wxWidgets license made is easier for us to deal with our legal department when releasing new products.
I have plans for a cloud-hosted version. It will come in the future.
military air force base just there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Banas
Knowing an upper bound means you know that the best solution for the problem takes at most that much work. It does not mean that you can’t find worse solutions.
Unfortunately Microsoft has too many Web devs taking over the old Windows development culture, when it isn't Electron, it is Webviews all over the place.

See all those efforts with Blazor integration across all desktop stacks, MAUI (!), and the use of React Native in WinUI, Office and XBox.
This is an excellent point. If the parties involved can be humble, honest, and committed to the general improvement, then there can be improvement.

Which is more or less impossible at scale.
On the flip side you can now cover more distance in the same time and training feels better.
Yeah on one hand you have people afraid of wifi and simultaneously sending their kids to play all day outside in UV index 11 without a hat or sunscreen. Things that are "natural" being inherently safe and anything technological literally death itself.
As the newcomer to the, very entrenched, block, I think the memristor has a lot of momentum to overcome. In a EE undergrad (2007, so it has been a bit) we spent plenty of time understanding resistors, capacitors, and inductors. We looked at example circuits and uses, we learned the math and theory... We developed intuition around them.

Memristors were the missing fourth, and "imagine what you could do with that!" My imagination did not extend very far. Everything was being built with those other three and the non-linear components.

It'll take a while to overcome that momentum.

I feel like IPv6 has a similar barrier. I'm mostly an infosec nerd and I've been through a lot of training and education. Never once seen IPv6 treated beyond, "it has more bytes, firewall it off".
GenAI code transparency and council to exchange anonymized GenAI usage stats
We're working on GenAI code transparency- understanding how much GenAI is in codebases, and how / where it's used.

Would welcome thoughts on two things:

A. if folks care / do not care / have other reasons to care about this topic besides the ones below.

B. if there's interest in joining a free council to exchange anonymized stats on GenAI code usage.

Cheers.

A. why care about GenAI code transparency

five reasons we've heard so far- do you care? do you have others? do you see it differently?

1. Code Quality / Maintainability. GenAI code needs a human in the loop to make sure it's correct and sufficient quality. so "pure" GenAI code, straight from a prompt, is risky rather than "blended."

2. Code Security. GenAI coding tools come with security risks (obvi so does Open Source code too), so security stage gates should be put in and, too, pure GenAI code is a smell.

3. GenAI coding tools can help avoid mundane tasks / help with refactoring and prototyping, so it's helpful for teams to know how much GenAI is used to encourage the right kind of use.

4. GenAI coding tools need to be used correctly to avoid intellectual property risk (especially trade secret and copyright, there's not a patenting risk).

5. third parties will eventually care about this-- acquirers/ investors, insurance companies, procurement offices. wherever an SBOM is needed today.

B. is there interest/ feedback in an GenAI Coding Advisory Council?

1. Free to join
2. Participants get benchmarking data from similar companies on their GenAI usage
3. Only requirement is sharing own team's/ organization’s GenAI code usage stats, which would be anonymized before sharing
Both links are dead.
But I never had Covid19 myself, or at least, per my knowledge.
The settlement was really a bit insane to me - we’re giving immunity to a family that killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed who knows how many more, and the money is being paid to local governments. In my area they planned on spending their share on things like “outreach” and free-to-the-addict narcan so they could continue to run around causing local mayhem.

Speaking as a man with a deceased father and aunt as a result of the Sacklers, really it’s a spit in the face kind of outcome that was shot down. They ought to be locked up next to El Chapo in ADX Florence.
Here's some terminal charting libraries that use Braille runes:

* https://github.com/mum4k/termdash?tab=readme-ov-file#the-lin...

* https://docs.rs/ratatui/latest/ratatui/widgets/struct.Chart....

* https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/ntcharts/blob/main/examples...