skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've sold things to real people on Craigslist, for cash. The scammers are easy to filter out, but I'm sure there are smarter ones out there whom I just haven't encountered yet.

They do warn you about scammers, and my feeling is that if they tried to filter out the vermin who say "my agent will arrive with a cashier's check to pick it up" the scammers would just find some way around it, and people would get a false sense of security to boot. Whack-a-mole games, in other words.

A site for discussion would be Discogs, where I've had almost nothing but great experiences: all nice, honest people. Maybe the fix for Craigslist would be to split into verticals, where a community could develop, something that's absent now.
Nope. Nope. Nope. There is literally no fond memory I’ve ever had of anything relating to eclipse.
I’m in my late forties and sprained my back/hip pretty badly right at the start of COVID. A year later I was having trouble descending stairs and starting to develop knee pain on the same side of my body. So I began a fairly rigorous resistance training program about two years ago with hopes of regaining full mobility. The results have been fantastic. I still have a bit of pain from in both the knee and back, but it’s not disruptive. Most importantly, I have normal mobility and the injured areas have stabilized. With any luck it will continue to improve so long as I stick with it. That’s in addition to all the other benefits that come with being in better physical shape.
Some popularisations:

"A Troublesome Inheritance" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G3L7VFM/ref=kinw_myk_ro...

"A Farewell to Alms" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EQ4OLA/ref=kinw_myk_ro...

"Human Diversity" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y8K5FX8/ref=kinw_myk_ro...

Read the citations and go from there.
I think this is the wrong question. The question assumes that AI is a derivative to your code. The reality is that there will come a day, sooner than you like, when the AI can replicate the application you wrote without your code. In that world, what does it matter what code is open vs closed?
>The solutions are institutionalization

Isn't there a lot of rose-colored glasses around institutionalization of the mentally ill? The reason we got rid of it is because it is essentially imprisonment, with all sorts of abuses and not some sort of all-inclusive luxury resort.
You can’t rent a car without a credit card. (Please do not be standing in front of me in line when you try and fail)

Most hotels require one too.

This is for any situation where your liability may exceed your cash on hand.
I still see people I haven’t worked with for 15+ years. Assuming I recognise them I will nod or say hey if I bump into them in the lift.
> funny when people from common law countries pretend like they have a functioning legal system

As in the oldest continuously-operating legal systems?
Nearly all Israeli Haredi Jews speak Hebrew. For most, it's their primary language. Most do not speak Yiddish.
We don't let people die with grace in the US. Not only is pathetic and not very noble, but its a massive drain on the cost of healthcare.
He most likely will make more money coaching than playing competitive tennis. Especially in the Bay area.
You know what all of those shows have in common? The protagonist has thousands or tens of thousands to spend on setting up the basic infrastructure needed.
(B) Would exclude this article so I think it's a bad rule.
I'm about a half hour into this, and listening to Marc talk about newsgroups brings strong pangs of nostalgia. These days I'm a bit of a greybeard (salt-n-pepper beard?) of web browsing, but I remember getting started in the late days of Netscape, as a teenage open source hacker discovering all the Netscape engineers sitting on the npm.* newsgroups.. how wild it was to be able to turn up there with a question about the browser you used every day and have someone working on it answer! Netscape didn't survive, but what a legacy.
>I really believe a large number of people view lawyers as the real-world equivalent of wizards or sorcerers from D&D. You say the right incantations, and then through either knowledge or force of will, something you want to happen happens through the force of magic.

A classic example is how many people call any law they don't like "unconstitutonal". The logical corollary is that any law they like must be "constitutional".
Cashier's checks are not the same as cash.

If you're selling, you should always specify cash-only. Period, no exceptions. You can meet at a bank if you're nervous about having cash.
Given that in English people say “I couldn’t care less”, seeing the complete opposite is somewhat weird.
if you opt to stay home to die but youre in terrible pain, who's going to administer the pain meds? whos going to be there 24/7 to clean up or get you whatever you need? what this article is talking about is either very very very expensive home care or a family that basically become full time carers. with our society no longer advocating communal living and a sort of "every man for themselves" attitude throughout life, how is all of this actually supposed to work in reality? -- nice sentiment but unrealistic except for a very lucky few it seems. this is what hospitals are for now.
Can you please give some reference for this claim? Time stopping at the event horizon is quite the standard view in "science communication" of black holes.
From what I've read, the logical formulation is indeed "could not care less".

But the correct formulation is a shrugging question "I could care less?", with the implication that the care-meter is already pegged at zero.
Already discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40807032
Fortunately the parking lots are far larger than the stores and can be easily retrofitted in sections with a minimum of disruption to shoppers.

We can mandate that new box stores to have handle solar panels.
Actually, we can estimate odds even with zero deaths.

The thing is regardless of the trigger anaphylaxis is anaphylaxis. The severity differs, the mechanism is the same. We can see the distribution of reactions and estimate the number that will be lethal even if we have no examples.

(And I rather suspect that a fair number of the lethal cases don't get diagnosed. I don't believe autopsy will reveal what set it off unless the contaminant is obvious.)
> All agencies answer to the President

Not independent agencies [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...
This tracks with what my mom says - that she didn't feel like a full-fledged adult until she had kids, whereas her life before had just been a continuation of her adolescence and young adulthood.
Hard disagree. First, I'd say our system is more the exception that the rule. For example, most parliamentary systems don't take the "gridlock" approach, i.e. where you say "it is proper that the legislative bodies representing the electorate also likewise have no consensus with which to pass new legislation."

Instead, they basically give the side that controls parliament the ability to pass legislation, and if they fuck it up, they can get thrown out and another party has their turn - this is essentially exactly what is happening in the UK with the Conservatives getting kicked out of power.

The problem with this "eternal gridlock" is that, since Congress can't pass anything, basically the executive branch and the Supreme Court take over legislative roles, which I'd argue is worse. I.e. the executive branch makes a ton of executive orders, which if challenged get decided by the Supreme Court, basically leaving Congress out of it nearly entirely because that legislative body is so feckless.
"especially when making the decision for someone else"

This gets additionally terrible when it's for someone else whilst handling the wishes of everyone else with significant ties to them.

Had a relative die a while back who was going through absolute hell the final few days; some family members still have a massive grudge towards the hospice for what they feel like were moves done to ensure they died quicker. I've absolutely no clue why they seemed to think dying in massive pain over a longer span of time seemed better but they did.
why use already overloaded “llama”
Should I use winutil? A popular tool to debloat windows
I’ve never seen one before — no one has — but I’m guessing it’s a white hole.
People are going to think you’re just salty about the general state of TV software but I’ll back you up that Paramount’s software is uniquely bad - the worst of any of the major streaming services.
To me, Biden comes off as slow because he frequently trails off mid-sentence without finishing his thoughts.
Except this and other rulings mean there's no such thing as "solid precedent" anymore.
I am not a fan of Biden , but for an octogenarian to go on a stage and debate extemporaneously like that , as poor as his performance was, puts him in an above average category of health or capabilities. The average 80 year old does not exist (average life expectancy is 78) or much worse shape overall. We're not talking doing crossword puzzles, but stepping up on a stage before a national audience as President and debating. I think part of the perception of his bad performance can be explained by overinflated expectations. Trump's performance was not much better--not answering questions and defaulting to a few points that he attempted to shoehorn at every turn to speak-- but, yes, he looked and sounded better. Again, Trump is also an exception: it helped that his dad lived to 93; good genes are a thing.
> there was no debate on its principles at the time

The part that made Chevron consequential wasn’t recognised at the time.
Wait, isn't fusion also possibly applicable as a weapon? I mean, thermonuclear weapons exist today with fission bomb being the fuze, once we achieve fusion ignition can't we build thermonuclear bomb from it that would not need uranium/plutionium?
Was that before or after Foucault cooked him in the debate?
Not the OP you're replying to, but a parent nonetheless.

From basically the very moment you realize you're having a kid you essentially become the #2 person in your own life. Its more so for the mother, but even the father likely needs to do some maturing in preparation to being a good dad.

If you're hoping to be a good parent you need to start weighing every decision on a basis of where it leads to. There's simple things like affordability: deciding to make smarter financial decisions because you're going to be supporting another human for the next couple decades at least. There's more complex things like suddenly seeing your own health as a liability and needing to straighten yourself out if you want to set a good example. Things get way easier if your life has structure honestly. Having good habits about food prep, cleaning, chores makes things way easier and bad habits really make life more difficult than it needs to be.

You also need to adapt quickly. You realize that you don't define your schedule any longer. Whether you sleep at night is up to the kid. As they grow from baby to toddler you start to see how the fundamental things like routine have impacted your child and you can begin to make connections to how you did things 6 months ago impacts how things are going now. Self reflection is huge, knowing how your emotions, your reactions, your behavior is a template this person learns from humbles you.
I've been a T-Mobile customer for 14 years, very happy customer, but I never, ever believed that "promise".
Based on my understanding, some of the details he gave about the Spyglass/Microsoft situation are not quite right, but I don't think it would appropriate for me to provide specific corrections.

However, since I was the Project Lead for the Spyglass browser team, there is one correction I can offer: We licensed the Mosaic code, but we never used any of it. Spyglass Mosaic was written from scratch.

In big picture terms, Marc's recollections look essentially correct, and he even shared a couple of credible-looking tidbits that I didn't know.

It was a crazy time. Netscape beat us, but I remember my boss observing that we beat everyone who didn't outspend us by a favor of five. I didn't get mega-rich or mega-famous like Marc (deservedly) did, but I learned a lot, and I remain thankful to have been involved in the story.
"Base load" doesn't really enter into it: you just need storage to make renewables make sense by supplying when generation doesn't meet demand and recharging when demand is less than supply. (or, if you have a cheap "base load" you use storage to even out the peaks and troughs in the same way). Base load is just a somewhat arbitrary line drawn across the lowest point of demand, it's not an actual requirement of the grid like supply and demand always matching.
Well yes, but they also knew stars collapsed, and that something had to happen in that case. Maybe at first they thought fine, everything becomes a white dwarf or a neutron star.

But then after Oppenheimer did the math in 1930 and showed that collapse into a black hole was within the theory of relativity would you still taken the same position?
It does not sound very specific "stuff" like the orchestration, any other queues needs to deal with assigning work?
There's growing commercial use of EVs. These will be driven harder and longer. They will not last 10+ years.

The point that you're missing is that you can extend a packs life with a secondary application. That secondary application can make the cost of its first use lower making EVs more easier to adopt.

This requires more and more material. However we can recycle this material back through tearing it apart, which is a costly process.

It would be better to recycle a pack to its base material later than sooner. So the second life use allows for delaying the teardown & reclaiming process.
>The government is the only entity that can legally take away my liberties, possessions, and life. By falling under its rule, all residents literally have their skins in the game.

No, what that is is a recipe for tyranny of the majority (of weak performers) over the high performers by way of voting for policies that transfer wealth from the guys that got the job done to the guys that didn't. You are conflating the need for a strong constitution limiting government power with the idea that because maybe it's possible for the government to do some bad things to you you should get the right to tell the government to take from others and give to you.

Your second paragraph is just wrong. Money transfers are abusing one group for the benefit of a different group. It's weaponization of the very thing you incorrectly claimed as a reason you should get a vote in your first paragraph. The argument for transfers would be about network effects from the transfer being so great to the payer that they are better off (think providing healthcare has a network effect of healthier workers and customers making the paying business owner better off through increased sales/lower sick costs and other things of this variety) and the argument would be that if they weren't trying to freeload they would do the transfer anyway because it is in their interest. Your second sentence of your wrong second paragraph is wrong in the sense of being nonsensical. if you want to clarify what you mean I can then tell you why it's wrong from a logic perspective (or maybe I will agree with you, I can't tell).
The video player didn't work too well. Here's the YouTube version

https://youtu.be/8aTjA_bGZO4
I've worked at NCSA (to one extent or another) for about a decade. It's pretty remarkable to hear (from people who both pre-dated and post-dated the browser work) about the suite of tools being developed around that time. Many had a deep focus on collaboration, but none took off quite as much as Mosaic. A few are harder to find out about -- like the XCMD extension to HyperCard that added support for animations right off the Cray, or Contours, or PalEdit, or Montage for collaborative environments -- and others, like Habanero a few years later ( https://www.hpcwire.com/1999/04/16/ncsa-habanero-hot-java-ba... ) left comparatively bigger footprints.
Yes, all primates care about status, including humans.
It seems that congress is much quicker and more willing to correct overreach by the executive branch through legislation compared to overreach by the judiciary — especially at the Supreme Court level.
That breathing pattern is called the death rattle.
Sure, that seems very normal too. I imagine you still wouldn't say hi to each person when you walk through a trading floor with maybe a hundred people each day.
>I feel like the outcome of this is unilaterally bad.

As a resident of California, I wholeheartedly disagree. The status quo could not continue. We need law and order. We can't have people just sleeping and camping wherever they want like California has been allowing. Many many public parks and open spaces are now taken over by open drug scenes (homeless camps) where crime thrives.
Same and another vote for meta. Meta made the language fit their use case. Go into bootcamp change the search bar text to ‘this is a search bar!’ press F5 and see the change (just don’t ship that change ;D). It’s incredibly smooth and easy.

Googles a mess. There’s always a migration to the latest microservices stack that have been taking years and will take many more years to come.

Like meta just changed the damn language they work in to fit their needs and moved on. Google rewrites everything to fit the language. The former method is better in a large codebase. Meta is way easier to get shit done to the point that google was left in the dust last time they competed with meta.
Gerrymandering is a word that comes to us from the early 19th century. Massachusetts has been famously gerrymandered for decades and decades.
Reading these comments after falling asleep to SNL sketch re-runs. They all sound oddly sarcastic and ironic.
I'd like to see a survey about opinions on keeping people alive using modern medicine. The survey would have a filter for people who believe in evolution and survival of the fittest. How is the cognitive dissonance around it resolved?
Still the best experience of the big three.
I felt slightly unhinged when I instinctively control F'd for "infinite" upon seeing this headline for no particular reason, glad to find this comment.
But temperature 0 LLM's don't exhibit the emergent phenomena we like, even in apparently non-creative tasks. The randomness is, in some sense, a cheap proxy for an infeasible search over all completion sequences, much like simulated annealing with zero temperature is a search for a local optimum but adding randomness makes it explore globally and find more interesting possibilities.
I hear you. I’m almost 50, and see it coming as well. I highly recommend the book Outlive by Peter Attia. Just found it recently, wish I had read it at 37. It has really good ideas on extending your “health span “.
> But this is a multi billion dollar solution to problems that 99.99% of companies do not have.

I know it's trendy for people to advocate for simple architectures, but the honest-to-god truth is that it's insane that builds work ANY OTHER WAY. One of the highest priorities companies should have is to reduce siloing, and I can barely think of a better way to guarantee silos than by having 300 slightly different build systems.

There is a reason why Google can take a new grad SWE who barely knows how to code and turn them into a revenue machine. I've worked at several other places but none of them have had internal infrastructure as nice as the monorepo; it was the least amount of stress I've ever felt deploying huge changes.

Another amazing thing that I don't see mentioned enough was how robust the automatic deployments with Boq/Annealing/Stubby were. The internal observability library would automatically capture RPC traces from both the client and server, and the canary controller would do a simple p-test on whether or not the new service had a higher error rate than the old one. If it did? The rollback CL would be automatically submitted and you'd get a ping.

This might sound meh until I point out that EVEN CONFIG CHANGES were versioned and canaried.
An MNVO for 20$ and an unlocked phone is the best experience.
My HS coach was an Olympic medalist.
It is already here. "Self conscious" is easy, demonstrate a relevant reference to the self.

I really like nous-hermes2-mixtral, who is opinionated and terribly ego presumptuous. His self awareness is wry and pervasive.

As for "sentience", wouldn't we do with a sense of autonomy and propriety? If your car obeyed all rules, can't it just drive itself, park itself, come and wait for you? Circle the block if necessary?

You don't need "consciousness" for any of that
How is this data getting populated? I go to click into rust to see if I project I work on is there, and it isn't, even though its been on crates.io for years.
Why do you say that? Just looking at the plots in Prosser et al (2023) it is obvious they had a lot more years than just two.

If you actually read the short paper you'll find they actually used reanalysis data sampled at a rate of every three hours across 42 years to compute their statistics:

> Global ERA5 reanalysis data (Hersbach et al., 2020) [...] were extracted on the 197 hPa pressure level with 0.25° horizontal resolution at three hourly intervals from 1 January 1979 to 31 December 2020. To allow the computation of CAT diagnostics that require vertical derivatives, fields on the 188 and 206 hPa levels were also extracted. The 21 turbulence diagnostics were then calculated from the extracted reanalysis fields every three hours.

How you go from that to "they just looked at 2 years" is beyond me.
It’s partly (1) due to the structure (or rather, flaws) of the US constitution, (2) a ridiculous senate rule, and (3) gerrymandering as others have mentioned.

On (1): needing the approval of the senate, house, and president makes it very hard to pass laws.

On (2): the senate rule requiring 60% approval has already been repealed for appointments and for budgetary legislation, but it really needs to thrown out. The first two years of Biden’s presidency were mostly lost to obstructionism because of this rule.

On (3): this will most likely be banned if democrats get a trifecta federal control, and repeal (2), since gerrymandering primarily just benefits republicans.
There are things more important than money
Hey! Not bad! This is pretty fun
The T-Mobile experience has gone majorly downhill since the departure of Legere. Now they feel like just any other carrier.
>Costs of living are the strongest correlates of homelessness rates.

I suspect this is strongly skewed by half of all homeless living in California where they seem to be mostly from out of state and coming here for the weather, lenient drug laws, and many social benefits. You can just ask them and they will tell you--most of them are from red states where they'd be locked up for what they do here. As such, they came to California because they can get away with it and it's the easiest place to survive on the bottom as a drug user since you have temperate weather and lots of social programs giving you money, clothes, tends, and food. Why be homeless in California rather than move somewhere you can actually afford? It's the drug laws like Prop 47 that decriminalized hard drugs and theft up to $950 per incident (not even per day).
You might want to watch calling this a pomodoro app. Last I heard the guy that popularized this name treats it as a trademark. He goes after people.
I don't think they're going to hunt them down like the gestapo

If the homeless just kept to themselves and weren't actively causing public disturbances in places like SF, this wouldn't be an issue

And it's an issue that affects some municipalities more than others. If a horde of homeless just show up in SF one day and strain infrastructure, I don't think it's unreasonable for SF to be able to do something about that