skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So sorry to read of your loss, and the painful way it goes.

Sadly, this is just one of millions of descriptions of why the phrase "Slow as death" exists. Generally, life really does not want to give up, and the process is indeed terrible.
The issue with this situation is that it cannot be resolved through 'peace negotiations'.

This is pure, systemic evil, on a state level. Russia was never punished for its crimes the way Germany was after WW2. This is the result.

Peace will only be possible when that system is dismantled and destroyed - with everything that entails. Russia is not just digging itself into a hole, but into a grave.
No. The tank that can hold enough nitrogen (or helium or argon--same volume means the same pressure which means effectively the same weight) to do the job reliably is heavy. By the time your health is such that you would choose that path you likely can't lift it. I have seen my wife struggle with lifting that weight when it's in a form meant to be lifted. I've seen her fail when it wasn't as cooperative.
The best codebases have been my own, because I can monopolize the style and design to my own exacting vision of how things should be.

The best work codebases are ones where I may disagree with a lot of the style, but the lack of enforcement at the level of classes and functions gives us creative freedom, builds mutual respect, and enables ego-less, pragmatic, tradeoff-driven discussions about things which are actually important. If these discussions end with a majority but not universal agreement, then its fine, the minority is not offended, and we happily continue with our work.

That might also be because we're all pragmatists and somewhat cynical of shiny things, or the latest fad.
I am reading it now as well! I always felt like I wasn't ready, but last week I just decided to go for it. It's been on my list ever since finishing "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". The only other prep I did was reading Hamlet... which so far seems to have not been necessary (but am only up to Lestrygonians).

I actually have to credit Joseph Heller for the nudge to start, I had recently remembered a quote in Catch-22 that stuck with me:

"He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it."
I disagree. If you have problems, you should try to escalate them. It's better for the company... it's better for your coworkers (they're probably also having these problems!) If you escalate them and nothing is changed, then it's time to go. If you're going to leave anyway, you may as well try to change things for the better first.
I mean, I, for one, hope the guy makes it.-
Right, but he didn't get hacked because of that, he got hacked because he's the sort of person who would make such a choice. He is just a bad developer and a bad person to have run a bank or anything significant really.
Sulfur Dioxide
Does GS still use their proprietary Slang language or has that been phased out in favour of Python?
Top choice quote:

> The computing that we have today is basically perfect

Er.... :)
>Unless you're speaking about American politics, the opposite is true.
...The situation with the power grid is quite serious, though. It's going to be a very difficult winter for civilians.

This is what I was talking about.
Right. I don’t apply to jobs that cite a need for a decade of experience with data center-scale networking, for example, because I don’t have that. Not even close. I don’t view that as gatekeeping, it’s wanting people to be able to quickly ramp up to whatever quirks the environment has, without needing to learn fundamentals of the craft first.
If you find a company with strong security, it won't be randomly selected.
McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken and now the feds are involved
It's supply and demand. Demand is lower (less jobs.) Supply is higher (more layoffs, people looking for work.) Even if you are "good", there's a lot of other "good" people looking, too. Some even may be better than you! Or at least better at marketing themselves.
Well, even as an artifact. I mean, the OS signifies almost an entire epoch (heh) of computing ...
On a high level, this is basically creating a list test cases that are ground truth. You then test this dataset against some configuration of your LLM Application, like a specific model, prompt template, and prompt context, to see how it performs. We help you automate this benchmarking process.

You can read more about it here: https://github.com/palico-ai/palico-main?tab=readme-ov-file#...
Tennis also changed irrevocably when they changed from wooden to composite rackets.
This is...not realistic on any level. I've been professionally investigating cryptocurrency scams/thefts/fraud since 2017.

This is at least twice as convoluted a process as is necessary to separate people from millions and millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies if the site stays up for a week. People don't bother spinning up stuff like this when the easy stuff works just fine.
> The belief that life is a gift from a god is a highly Christocentric, Western view that I disagree with. We are brought into the world without any real consent; we should at least be able to easily choose the date, time, and manner of our passing if we so desire.

Too bad that's only one of many arguments against euthanasia, and one of the easier ones to grandstand against.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/against/against_1.sh...
Funny, I don't see it as being prescient or having parallels at all.

The Truman Show is the story of a man thinking he lives in the real world (he is not aware of being a star and has no desire to be one), and discovering his world is actually a TV show set. And whether he will choose to escape his entire gaslit "reality".

I don't really see what it has to do with Donald Trump or TikTok. That aspect of the modern world is about people wanting to be stars. While The Truman Show was about the exact opposite of that.

Sure they both involve reality TV, but I don't really see anything "prescient" about the movie. I do wonder if it was a little bit of inspiration for last year's Jury Duty [1] though...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_Duty_(2023_TV_series)
> The only question is if Russia apologists gain political power in the west and manage to stop West's support (Trump is Putin's buddy, by his own admission for example).

Odds are in their, and hence Putin's, favor.
The benefits aren't just in speed. There is pretty strong anecdotal evidence from many elite distance runners that training in supershoes reduces leg strain and speeds up recovery. Thus they can come back and do a hard workout again the next day and achieve bigger training gains.
Should have taken them to a bank, converted to cash and then done what you said.
I'm going to disagree with this as a long-term ARPG fan and a long-since-washed-up game dev.

Up through the last few years, I was playing Path of Exile rather regularly. The grind in that game puts what we used to do in D2 to shame, to me at least.

(Comparing the amount of time I used to spend baal/cow/key/pindle running to gear a character sufficiently for e.g. ubers vs. what I'd consider equiv endgame bosses in POE from tree-boosted maven/Sirus/ubers/etc, outside of explicitly low-gear bossers like trapping)

I also regularly wish I could go _Back_ to playing it, specifically 1.13-1.15 (harvest) as it was, in my opinion, the peak of ARPG gameplay, as it turned progression from pure RNG where a wrong roll would brick an item or where you had to rely on the market to find your gear into something slightly less punishing where we could experiment with a far wider variety of builds. But the powers that be in POE saw it differently, that it watered down the endgame and made progression too easy, and proceeded to remove the vast bulk of the mechanic, while doubling down on other mechanics that were, frankly, not respectful of anyone's time. (e.g. scourge.)

This to say, I think game incentives have changed over the last few decades. Something subtle, motivated by microtransactions, subscriptions and streamers, has changed the nature of grind from primarily something that needs to be kept fun to make the game meaty enough to play, to something that must sufficiently extend gameplay to keep the microtransaction faucet going and keep certain goals effectively out of reach.
Plus:

> All the major companies are putting more effort into making sure their systems are safe and align with human values than they are into creating new advances

!
If I understand what they did correctly it won’t have the same failure mode of hallucinations that a diffusion model has - it’s not a model that has an understanding of the world, it’s a model that’s really good at turning async per pixel light event data plus blurry rgb into sharp rgb.

That said I don’t understand it very well, for instance there’s a voxel step in the pipeline and I have no idea why.
I can’t remember at the moment precisely which old British Lord said this in the context of Indian independence but the quote goes something along the lines of democracy is only going to last if the program voted in isn’t a complete revolution, there has to be some continuity reflecting the demos, and expecting a complete overturning and revolution by votes is going to destroy the system.

Of course Government of India Act was not a great system at any rate and you’re probably not a fan of the UK one either.
Do what is asked and go home to your family
Loving how we are finding mysteries the further back we look. Super massive black holes far larger than our models can account for. Galaxies with more structure and more older population stars.

What is it telling us? Our current ideas are certainly wrong. Looking forward to what it leads us to.
With the deterioration of the health care system in a lot countries people are afraid that these laws will be used to "fix" the healthcare system. Instead of helping people chose their end this gives administrations the possibilities of saving costs by pressuring patients into euthanasia programs.

If the systems worked great people might not have as much aversion to it.

Add to that the Abrahamic religions fighting against it as they consider killing yourself or helping somebody to die as a sin.

I think this makes politicians afraid of touching for fear of losing the next election. The topic probably loses them more votes currently than it gains.
> "Can you show me any examples?" Tristin asked.
> "No" was the answer.

> "Do you have an unclassified test data set which will show me the problem?"
> Again, no.

Spoiler: At some point our hero all but figures out what the super duper hyper secret agency did - all based on contextual clues. Hint: It did not go down well.-
Yes, sometimes that's necessary when bad rulings slip through. If there was no mechanism to reverse bad precedent, we'd be in a pretty bad situation -- we wouldn't have this ruling, we wouldn't have Brown v. Board of Education, etc.

But the courts do this carefully and infrequently, and create a level of stability in the law that's far stronger than allowing the ever-changing landscape of statutory law and administrative rule-making to provide the final say over complex questions.

That's exactly the point of this ruling -- the courts had delegated the responsibility for shaping jurisprudence that defined the limits of administrative power to the administrative agencies themselves, allowing those agencies to interpret and re-interpret the boundaries of their own authority in pursuit of whatever ephemeral issue they were focused on at the moment.

This was an abdication of the courts' own duty, and it's a very good thing that they've decided to take responsibility for it once more.
It’s necessary to whatabout when threads about Russia come up because there are usually plenty of top rated comments (see above) dehumanizing Russians and calling for their extermination. I have never seen any thread critical of US meddling in world affairs express the same hatred of US citizens and supporter's. “whataboutism” should not be used as defense against double standards. Double standards should be clearly called out.
Is it really dollar-cost averaging if you start changing the dollar amounts spent based on risks, as their description suggests? I've always figured the point was to DCA on volatile assets because you want to disregard that risk/volatility on the long term.
> If you can’t easily explain why something is difficult, then it’s incidental complexity, which is probably worth addressing

That’s how I feel about git.
Many government websites use Entrust, and that didn’t stop this from happening. So I don’t think that this is a good theory.
In the GitHub comments they say what they are doing to infer events is significantly different than per frame diffs. I have no idea what they are actually doing though.
Thanks :)

Generally curious about new authoring/markup tools and systems, so I'll keep an eye out for the post.

(The quoted blog post is part of an effort to explain some work I've been doing to single-source documentation and output multiple formats while taking advantage of the idioms/affordances of each format. I spent quite a bit of time reviewing and trying markup systems before deciding what I wanted didn't quite exist. Typst wasn't released when I did all of that; I'm aware of it but I haven't read enough to pull it out of my blind spot.)
This is the hopelessly arrogant attitude that creates our atomized, depressed, internet addicted society.
Nor I.
Very nice write-up

> ... see if I could get all the functionality working on Linux as well. ... I’ll talk about the specifics in another blog post ...

I am super curious to read when you do write-up about implementation of this functionality in Linux! Thanks for that and I will refresh the blog until that is written :)
> Someone in the medical profession explained to me what 'do everything you can' means to doctors and surgeons, it's a binding command

I've found that usually the people who said that to me were the least prepared for what that meant.
> AI on the other hand will parse the results for you and return the answer to your prompt directly.

Yep! And that's going to save you _one whole step_ when you're posting meaningless follow ups in forums filled with technical users who would have had no problem getting the information themselves.

> That’s a meaningful improvement.

It's a marginal improvement to the least meaningful activity that occurs on a daily basis. So, it's totally worth the trillions that have been invested in it. :|
You keep deliberately conflating energy and electricity. Importing energy and electricity is not the same thing. The UK cannot source its energy requirements locally but it can source electricity by importing energy and converting it to electricity.

Where we import from matters, importing from France and the Nordic countries is far more viable and easily defensible than importing from Morocco. It is still not a great idea to rely on them.

I agree that renewable generation being more distributed is harder to destroy than oil infrastructure (not that anyone has the operational capacity to attack the UKs infrastructure barring the USA with any great success) but that is not what it is a risk - the HVDC lines are! They are much easier to take out. If renewables require a HVDCs to less stable and friendly areas of the world then they make the UK more vulnerable - it is dumb.

>> We might as well sell off our armed forces.

> I don't see how this is relevant outside of the UK's desire to defend its foreign energy interests / trade, which it very obviously cant do anyways.

That's hyperbole, selling off our armed forces is a naive move that no nation would rationally do, as is becoming so incredibly dependent on a chain of other countries for electricity generation.

I prefer a solution that does not involve rationing electricity.
It's not about packing materials used for shipping either, it seems.
If you look at the beginning of the chart, the price decrease (from $780 to $258 in 2017) over the same four year period was 67%. And for 2023 it was only 24%. So progress has slowed a lot. In 2022 there was even a year-over-year price increase. That's bad news when you want to build massive energy storage systems that can replace power plants.
I'd encourage you to take another look at the article because I don't think your criticisms are well founded.

The javascript version does exist! The fact that it's produced by a compiler doesn't undermine it's existence.

What's interesting here is not that it's slower than the equivalent running on the JVM but that it was _faster_ than a version compiled to wasm.

Well written and useful article if you would like to learn about what type of optimizations are effective in targeting the wasmgc runtime.
I think if there’s absolutely no motion for part of a scene ever, eg an anime backdrop, this would likely not work well. But if there’s even a pixel or two of motion (so, anything actually filmed), that should be enough to infer events. Just a guess though.
Loved the essay and this practical and funny approach to the Finnegian dreamscape.

For me it will be back to Dubliners—should not have skipped it.
What's your alternative? Nobody wants a corporate solution, but they do want free services that fly under the radar. Of course not all of them last forever, but what better choice is there?
Yep. I’ve heard this talked about as Voice and Exit. They’re two strategies you almost always have available: essentially, speak up or leave.

If all the people who care about a problem leave, it becomes harder for the organisation to solve the problem. This is one form of organisational rot.

Most of us are good at one and bad at the other. Eg, my instinctive response has been to quit my job when I’m not enjoying it. And that’s fine, but some of the situations were almost certainly salvageable. And I could have helped. Some people try to fix a workplace indefinitely, even to their own detriment, and even when the situation is probably impossible to fix and they should just get out of there.

I think it’s really important to learn both skills. And remind myself when I’m stressed that they’re both options.
It's a product of its time dealing with requirements and limitations that aren't much relevant anymore. As far as multiplayer save goes we have much more powerful tooling than we had back then.

But I think git became so ubiquitous that even new solutions unburdened by needing to mimic git's data model end up bringing that complexity forward because of familiarity.
Ok got it.

So then actually, yes the ruling was correct, and yes people are right to put this power back into the hands of congress, and out of the hands of civil servants.

Whatever terrible thing that someone would be complaining about in the future, it is mitigated by this correct ruling that helps stop that supposedly bad thing.

If you want to accept that position that I just laid out, then fine. You agree with me, but you would also be agreeing with the supreme court decision.
Probably impossible to get close to a decent SW Engineer salary from writing at least in the US
For what it’s worth, Metalua also generated PUC-Lua bytecode directly instead of source code, making it incompatible with LuaJIT (which might have been part of the reason why it died).
> "If it's like you've described, why do it at all?"

> He stared into space for a good few seconds, then responded:

"Glory."

The coach was a Klingon?
There are lots of companies that used heliostats to generate electricity, but that's not really a problem anymore. My understanding is that:

1. Photovoltaic panels absolutely cratered in price, so they are, generally, much more economical.

2. Not mentioned in TFA but these things have environmental concerns because they are basically bird killing machines. Any bird unfortunate enough to fly through the concentrated "death rays" is instantly fried to a crisp. So these things need solutions like drones to keep birds away.

Generating gas from solar is an attractive option because it's then basically just another form of storage. But it would be great if we could generate gas from solar to power existing gas power plants. The primary problem is that the efficiency of generating gas from (solar-powered) electricity is quite low.
Due to the need for perfect synchronization all users need to be using the exact same version. Mods can also break between versions. It is therefore very common for public servers to stick on one version for extended periods of time. It is common for people to use the Steam "betas" functionality to pick an exact version or download an exact version from the Factorio website.

I would say that servers only tend to update when large features are released. So announcing a security vulnerability would likely push some servers to update.
I am terrified of young people fresh out of our public school system who are entitled, raised by the state and aren’t half as productive as the ‘old people’.
I was going to say the same thing. A poorly maintained chain wears and “stretches,” and in turn wears gears faster. There’s no need to intentionally wear out components for better exercise - just ride a longer route faster, throw rocks in a backpack, etc. A poorly lubed chain only adds maybe 5-10 Watts, which is not much in terms of fitness improvements. And a worn chain and drivetrain is more prone to slipping or breaking, which is a good way to get injured.

Edit: I just realized nsteel said pretty much the same thing below.
One of workplace tragedy in America is how we moved from professionally managed pensions to individual 401k retirement plans. Most folks have no business deciding asset allocation, managing risk, etc.
I can't see what I should do with my second guess.
I did similar, in university 20 years ago. Your post brought up hidden memory of the same excitement by the prof, and my reaction, as I was already pretty exposed to postmodernism. Maybe its a Big Deal because it was an early break-out from Modernism (as this essay goes in to detail on its membership within) and into Post-.
This only reads that way looking back over a raising value. Look at a stock that goes to 0 and call the people that sold early fearful of losing,
It’s also vastly ignorant of the causes of World War I which had fuck all to do with nihilism. A radical fighting for Bosnian independence assassinated a Hapsburg, and then entangling alliances escalated what might’ve been a localized conflict into a world war.
"Continental Breakfast" is exclusionary of the isles.
No one is splitting their codebase for a single market if it doesn't make business sense. For a nonprofit with limited resources, I don't think it would make sense.
And what about the gap between a new thing existing and Congress taking an official stance on it? Should Bitcoin be unregulated simply because crypto didn't exist when the IRS and SEC were established, despite glaringly obvious similarities? How about the Internet & FCC?

This insistence that it's now about Congress being in charge is just gaslighting. Congress was always in charge. They were in charge under Chevron, too. This is about moving power to the courts and away from experts, plain and simple. It's logically unsound and a complete joke of a reasoning in the majority opinion to justify it. And again the SC itself literally said the goal was to move power from agencies to courts. Insisting otherwise is just willfully ignorant at best, outright propaganda at worst.

And literally one of the first uses of this new ruling was to strip the EPA of its ability to regulate environmental impact: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/06/30/supreme...

Societal health and well being is being stripped and sold to profit the rich by letting corrupt courts decide matters of expert nuance.