skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I wouldn't call a toaster running code an example of software crisis. Call it business crisis or crisis of capitalism/consumerism, but it is not software crisis.

I agree wholeheartedly that an internet connected toaster is a very stupid idea, but our ability to build such a system shows, if anything, a triumph of software (and hardware), not a crisis. What is a crisis here is societal one; the fact that there is a demand, however artificially created, for such things. Software abstractions or layers of abstractions to be able to build such devices have nothing to do with this kind of crisis.
Your first example is precisely what I mean.

Making the FPS higher, might require some creative hacks. Making a 3D model look exactly like your vision might require highly technical knowledge about your tools.

Going beyond acceptable standards, imo, requires both technical and creative skills. And I believe the split is closer than we think.

On the second note, I understand the point, however, it's subjective how it makes the person feel. I have seen many instances of "creative" people shy away from technical things because its "not who they are" and vice-versa.
Incidentally, if you don't know this, the DoD and US Government standard for turning in a safe no longer in use is to set the combination to 10-20-30-40.
That's always worth a try on any safe that isn't in use.
> I had horrible pollen allergies. My mother took me to a homeopath (in addition to regular doctors) She prescribed some tablets / pills to dissolve under the tunge, that had some pollen in them.

You don't know that it worked. This is an example of the regression fallacy.[1] This is why we have controlled trials.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_fallacy
I'm guessing it's "growth-hacking" wisdumb. Presumably the logic is that it means that you have the emails of people who are interested in your product, both for metrics reasons and to be able to send them emails to keep them engaged. Maybe also with a dash of "if a user has created an account, they're more likely to feel invested and use the product"?

I could be mistaken. Heck, it's even possible that it's good advice, but I doubt it. I'm guessing that this kind of thing prevents more new users than it hooks.
> whether that date actually existed or not is irrelevant.

No, it isn't, since you explicitly said to start the first century on the date that doesn't exist. What does that even mean?
In France they were funded by the social security up to 15%, but luckily this stopped in 2021. I had some as a kid and my mom is still a strong "believer" in them. I don't see any harm in selling them IF and only if they don't prevent people from taking other "real" treatments. But other than this it's just placebo.
Fitting AI generated music.
This is an incorrect summary of the placebo effect. The placebo effect does require the patient to either believe it is effective, or at least not knowing clearly it is ineffective.

This is why clinical studies don't tell neither group (neither the treated group nor the control group) who is in which group, to not spoil the results.

And also, this is why homeopathy puts so much effort into spreading the belief they are effective despite all odds, up to the point of trying to convince people to abandon basic scientific principles.
Apple first rejected, then quickly approved, Epic's app store in Europe
I'm glad my peeing into the wind is helping the circle of life
God, I’d be curious to see what you’ve got there. But no way in hell I’ll know how to guess your name to lookup the details.
There is no year zero according to first-order pedants. Second-order pedants know that there is a year zero in both the astronomical year numbering system and in ISO 8601, so whether or not there is a year zero depends on context.

It's ultimately up to us to decide how to project our relatively young calendar system way back into the past before it was invented. Year zero makes everything nice. Be like astronomers and be like ISO. Choose year zero.
I was about to buy a D610BT or P710BT (to use on Mac) ... what enshittification should I know about?
Placebos work even if users know it's a placebo. I don't for a second believe in any of homeopathy claims, but I still buy and use it, because placebo works. Especially so when price and all other medicine-looking rituals around it are maintained.
Everyone else in my family talks a lot, so I grew up mostly listening to other people talk. When people are looking to talk, I let them talk and don’t try to compete for space.
> Grapefruit does not "alter the metabolism."

Wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome_P450
+1 on this. The Pico-8 is a delightful little platform. I have a few unfinished projects kicking around and this is inspiring me to go back to them.
How much of other modern research has the same amount of issues, but doesn't have any motivated critics to uncover it?
The what-if premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel) is:

What if an enterprising billionaire got tired of waiting for meaningful action to mitigate climate change,

and undertook to put sulfur back into the atmosphere, on the cheap?

"Taken from tomorrow's headlines..." perhaps. There are no international conventions or bodies currently prepared to regulate cowboy geoengineering, let alone capable of coercion.
3kg bikes are not practical. But I'm pretty sure a complete modern (electronic groupset, disc brakes) circa 7kg steel bike would find buyers, especially as titanium bikes still do find buyers even at prices and weights both higher than comparable carbon bikes.
Simple answer: GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. What happens if you run it with, say, 100 parameters?

Size matters.
>and the folks predicting we're just around the corner have been recognized once again as shysters, hucksters, and charlatans.

Do you think Sutskever,Hinton or Sutter are charlatans?
So live music only. Nothing recorded. All original pieces without sheet music or written lyrics. Nothing online or ever via a digital system with a memory function. No portable music players, not even 8-tracks. It would be one big ren faire of wandering bards creating ad hoc songs for coins.
Maybe, but define consciousness first
Here you go:

https://uguu-org.itch.io/bouncing-dvd

It's pretty bare bones since I made it just now, feel free to fork it:

https://github.com/uguu-org/playdate-dvd
This looks quite interesting, but I need some evidence it's not vaporware.
Like any cult pseudoscience it relies on the placebo and nocebo effects.

It also does affect people for sure... For things like a very real ear infection... the a-holes will leave kids in agony for weeks before parents see a proper physician for antibiotics.

Note Psychoneuroimmunology is also interesting, but a more legitimate area of scientific study. It takes a deep scientific look into induced immune system disorders, and unlike cult nonsense it has quantifiable scientific studies (usually done with rodents) that can be replicated in your own institutional labs.

Cult Homeopathy is just expensive child neglect in my opinion... offering the worst outcomes for the naive and superstitious.
At least with GPS, I've found a reasonable substitute to be an honest-to-god map. Here in LA the Thomas Guide is fantastic, but other places have "road atlases" that function similarly to my knowledge. In some ways I find it better than Google maps, because it's actually designed to be a map instead of a robot overlord dictating what you do.
The problem with "agile" is that everybody claims to do it. Companies with a healthy environment cram their procedures into agile-derived names, and keep the healthy environment, while unhealthy ones also cram their procedures into agile-derived names, and use their universality as an excuse to never improve.

I think scrum is irremediable, but even then, some places only practice it pro-forma: divide the work into tickets at the beginning of the sprint, rewrite the tickets into what they did at the end, and go home happy.
between now, and ,,, now* something has had an effect on the thing that decides
Contrast this with advertisement, which actually does work even when people know that it is ads, and which still does work on people how know how ads work.

Also, contrast this with psychotherapy, which usually does work even better if the patient understands how it works, because it enables them to become an active and more effective part of the therapy.
I think you’re talking to someone who is very serious about water consumption. Most people do not need a gallon a day. Not even close. While there is nothing wrong with it, we are not nearly as dehydrated a nation as the local news station seems to claim every 6 weeks or so or r/hydrohomies
"In a nutshell, the problem is this: You’re conscious. But if you’re just made of non-conscious matter, why and how exactly could consciousness arise from that?"

Another way of phrasing it which highlights the fallacy is:

"In a nutshell, the problem is this: You’re alive. But if you’re just made of non-alive matter, why and how exactly could life arise from that?"

Just because we don't know exactly how life arose from non-biotic matter doesn't mean that non-biotic matter is alive. And just because we don't know how consciousness arose, exactly, doesn't mean that all matter is conscious.
> that little bit of lag and judder that turn VR into a vomit machine.

This doesn’t apply to everyone, so it’s just a matter of training people with more tolerance.
same can be said for wget with --no-config (and really any app that runs on any system) - if you're in the business of automating it, those config-features need to not be ignored (or down right overwritten to your scripts desire)
in docker-containers though, its more safe to assume no pre-loaded rc files are embedded (but 100% want to check your source-container for things like that) - but for running in some users workspace, the need to be careful is real.

most of the time though, those options should be safe; only really need to not have auto-retries are when trying to get super accurate date (like observing odd behavior, you dont want thing to simply "auto-work" when finetuning something, or triaging an upstream-server or dns issue)

i often write my scripts execing calls like `\curl -q ...` such that i get no user's alias of curl and ensures a consistant no-config amongst my system and others (although gnu curl vs mac curl (and other binaries of gnu vs mac vs busybox) are always the real fun part). (if the user has their own bash-function of curl then its on them for knowing their system will be special compared to others and results maybe inconsistent)
Just to carry onwards with the use/mention distinction we're aggressively erasing here, you seem to question whether actual, real-life footguns exist.

They do! Here's a reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slamfire

Another common way to shoot yourself in the foot is a gun which will go off if you drop it. An example of a gun where early models were especially susceptible is the Lanchester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester_submachine_gun
I wrote a screen reader for an MMO I play that does day trading on the in game market.

It hooks into the games public API to determine items in my price and demand range and does buy orders everyday.

Since it doesn't do any injections, it isn't a violation of the games policies or anti cheats. Been doing it for years.

The items I trade in don't stack in inventory, which makes it tedious for any normal human player. But given the buying and reselling is scripted, it doesn't impact me.

I've generated a few thousand dollars worth of gold over the years doing this.

The games marketplace also is deflationary. 15% buy and sell fees. I imagine I've burned a considerable chunk of gold keeping my operations going.
This is actually a better solution. If someone complains you can scrub it and still maintain your full ownership of the video, while still keeping your video watchable.

Replace is nice if it's only the song, but you lose any voice-over.

Mute also loses your voice-over.
Hence the note that UK GPs would sometimes put on patient’s notes: TEETH

Tried Everything Else Try Homeopathy
This is basically how TCM came to be!

The Chinese Communist Party had billions being raised out of incredible poverty and that populace started demanding medical care. There was no possible way to supply enough clinics, doctors, nurses, etc - and not just because Mao whipped the Red Guard into an anti-intellectual froth than then slaughtered much of China's academic/scientific community.

So Mao waved his hands and invented TCM, which basically said "oh yeah, most of these traditional Chinese medicines work. We did some research and figured out which ones and how to apply them!"

Hilariously people argue TCM doesn't work not because it's complete bullshit, but because it's a modified, corrupted version of actual Chinese medicine...
I tend to think about these types of problems this way as well. But then there’s folks that will throw this together in Excel, and I realize I would not know where to start. Anyone got pointers?
I created a website that 'proxies' HN. Its main feature is to refresh only every 3 hours; otherwise, it displays the previous snapshot. I blocked access to the real HN on multiple levels (PC, router, DNS provider).

I spent 3 hours developing this tool. It prevents me from checking HN too frequently throughout the day, saving me a significant amount of time.
Because prescribing a placebo while saying it's a medicine involves lying to the patient, which is controversial when ethical standards usually involve informed consent and a belief in patient autonomy.

> I just can’t fathom that the entire scientific community just went “ah, hm, right, placebo. I see. I guess we need to do our random-controlled-trials with a placebo control group now”. Wait, that’s it?

see that's because they didn't go like that - there's even an section on the ethics of using them in medical practice on the wikipedia article for placebo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#In_medical_practice

Plus it's a pretty important topic of discussion when it comes to pain management/opiod crisis. Unsurprisingly, a large group of professionals did not, in fact, randomly decide to ignore a very large and obvious question in the field
> and only if they don't prevent people from taking other "real" treatments

This is the dominant harm, yeah. As we know from infosec, few things are more dangerous than a false sense of security, and that's exactly what ineffective drugs provide.
6’ 165lbs

I remember drinking half of a 1 gallon plastic water jug in an hour changing a tire in the middle of a desert when it was 110°F.
Philip Morris did something similar in 2001 in Czech Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Finance_Balance_of_Smok...

There was a widespread backlash, like the phrase Philip Morris had as much negative connotation as being associated with Epstein or something.
If people start saying “zeroth century”, it’s only going to create confusion, because “first century” will then become ambiguous.
You can actually set it up to do Pico-8 code editing in your normal editor, while auto reloading in the browser, then building the cartridge and deploying the game via GitHub actions. It's been a little while but I set something like that up in some of my Pico-8 explorations¹.

[1] https://github.com/noman-land/piconet/
Meaning there's an inherently asymmetric objective
Utility Firms Go Nuclear over Amazon Datacenter Power Deal
My strategy is to use v4 Uuids for anything that is not inserted frequently and don't need to be ordered (think user ids) and v7 ids for things that are.

If your dataset is small the overhead from Uuids wont matter, if your dataset is large the randomness of Uuids will save your ass when you migrate to a distributed solution.
They're all actually AI powered, generally some form of real-time RNN trained on identifying and isolating voice content from background noise or music.

rnnoise2 is an open-source model that does very well. There also are things like Waves Clarity VX, the Nvidia Broadcast (Audio Effects SDK) too, as well as plenty of other solutions like Supertone Clear, Krisp, etc etc etc.
The BBC podcast In Our Time did a recent hour long episode on panpsychism, which in this listener’s ears represented a thorough dismantling of the baloney. Fabulous episode, it had me roaring with laughter. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vl96
> you might see "the last quarter of the second millennium BC", which means minus 2000 to about minus 1750.

From comparing some online answers (see links), I'd conclude that even though the numbers are ordered backward, "first"/"last"/"early"/"late" would more commonly be understood to reference the years' relative position in a timeline. That is, "2000 to about minus 1750" would be the first quarter of the second millennium BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century_BC (the "last century BC")
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1akt4zm/this...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-first-half-of-the-1st-cent...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-meant-by-the-2nd-half-of-the-5...
etc
Ah, I see. That is indeed odd. Maybe one of the monitors is dropping out or sleeping? Are they daisy chained? Same connection type or different? Onboard or GPU connected? Maybe the GPU PCIe interface is going into some kind of power saving mode? I do tech support a fair bit so if there’s any commonalities, hypotheses, or coincidences you can think of that might help me figure this out if I come across it, please let me know.

The failure mode for the shortcut I referenced above is that the screen is all black but you do still have a mouse cursor.

Maybe try the shortcut I linked next time you experience this issue just to see if it works for you and/or on other devices which don’t have your particular fix?
lobbying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...
Your understanding is correct but you're underselling very very in this context. It is astronomically unlikely to hit a collision with the advised generation methods. If you want a possibly easier to grasp parallel git relies on SHA hashes never colliding and will break in a really awful way if you can produce two commits in a tree with the same hash - it's so astoundingly unlikely that people are okay summarizing it as "Never gonna happen" - it certainly will eventually, but it might not happen until the earth is swallowed by the sun.
Indulging without argument a patient's harmless fantasies economizes on physician time, and that is surely the most precious resource.
Many studies have shown that even 5000 steps a day can be associated with considerable better health outcomes than those who sit at a desk all day and work remote and get maybe 1000. Personally that’s my baseline and I take a walk like that every morning before I shower for the day. I do some mild strength training a few times a week and walk and that’s about it, and I can usually keep up with my homies when the occasional group hike or basketball game comes up. My doctor seems happy with my annual exams and bloodwork
I haven't maintained any sizable database system without any issues, least of all performance ones.

I call BS.
I wouldn't take it that far myself, but I'm kind of perplexed by how the smartest people in the room at any given time have very optimistic timelines regarding when we'll have AGI. This isn't a modern phenomenon either. Both AI winters were preceded by experts more-or-less claiming that AGI was right around the corner.

It's as if the easiest people to fool are the researchers themselves
Eh, not really. There are things all along the alive-dead spectrum. “Life” is readily explained as, essentially, chemical reactions. There’s nothing going on in a living thing that you can’t explain in terms of unliving things.

The original emergence of life is rather mysterious/special, but the mechanics of how it now propagates out of “dead” matter is not.

This is not true of consciousness. We cannot find any evidence of anything in particular that would “turn the lights on” in matter that didn’t previously have the lights turned on.
Ha! +1

Although, I'd be shorting 80% of everyone else spending money with NVidia without a clear path to recover. However, given that most are (likely?) not listed, there isn't that much to short?
Adderall has been significantly beneficial in my life, for which I'm grateful, but yeah. There are problems, both with the drug, and with how easily[1] it's prescribed.

That anyone has ever said the drugs are benign is insane. I've been on Adderall for close to 20 years now, and there are consequences. Heart problems are the biggie. I'm very fit, eat healthy, don't smoke, run a few miles a week, bike, hike, etc, and there are some alarming issues with my heart that are likely due to Adderall use. Maybe I'd have the same issues even without Adderall, but odds are, it's the Adderall.

[1] "easily" is a tricky word here. It's hard to get Adderall, as the article describes pretty well, if you're someone like me - someone who actually uses the drug for its intended purposes. My experiences have often been worse than what the article describes. Because of the shortage, my local pharmacies require that you bring a physical copy of the prescription to them, with a fill date of the exact date you're trying to get it filled. One day too late? They need a new prescription. One day too early? They need a new prescription. You're also required to pick up the same day. If you don't pick up the same day, they'll send the pills back to inventory so they can fill for all other people stuck in the same boat as me. I've not been able to consistently fill meds that help me function for at least 3 years now. Maybe if I'd turned to the black market, I wouldn't have this problem?
A friend from Japan said 7-11 was an upscale store there.
It features the top products in every category, and is maintained in an organized and clean japanese way.
To those who downvoted: Would you dare to explain your disagreement?
I love the idea of a cool cutting board and have myself made a few of them, but they are a consumable kitchen tool and don't last long with regular use unless you are really dainty with them. I use my cutting boards a lot so I tend to save the fancy boards for presentation and serving and for actual daily use I make simple side grain domestic wood (maple, cherry, or birch) boards that I can make quickly and run through my planer when they get smelly, stained, or overly damaged. Eventually they get too thin and I make a new one.
No, the opposite. If people in large numbers are avoiding music, then the industry will behave better about copyright. They want people to listen to music.
Hotels and houseplants: why we should doubt mind-over-matter miracles
I've used 128 secure-random bits for ages, not caring for any of the UUID version nonsense. Per the birthday paradox, I need to have 2*64 entries in my tables to reach 50% collision probability, and it will be a while before I can afford that much storage anyhow.
Very likely radar is in the middle of the launchers, from comments:

S-300/400 TEL have to stay close to the Radar for mainly two reasons.

The Radar vehicle also has the generator supplying the TELs with electricity.

and the even more important reason is that the radar data can only be transmited over a short distance so if the TEL is too far out it can't get data from the Radar anymore.

Edit: max range for a S-300 is 120m between the TELs and the Radar and since the S-400 is actually just a S-300PM3 its probably the same or at least very similar