skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how do you know you're following "the" RFC correctly? And which one is that? There are several different standards just for email addresses themselves, which almost everyone gets wrong. Did you know addresses can have quotes and parentheses in them?
A disclaimer is that I haven't read "Why We Sleep". Nonetheless I recommend the book "Sync" by Steven Strogatz (2003) -- particularly chapter 3 on sleep -- which describes a neat coupling of when we sleep / when we wake up to our body temperature which oscillates with a period of roughly 24 hours. (See figures on pgs 81 and 83.) Much of this discussion on sleep is derived from "isolation" research in the mid 1970's by Elliot Weitzman and Charles Czeisler, experiments in which subjects were isolated from all sense of time including daylight, clocks, and the news, to study their sleep cycles in the absence of external information telling them the time of day.
Family, friends, cost of living, good food, opportunities to spend time outdoors.

Not sure life would be better in, say, London, or, god forbid, Silicon Valley, joining the rat race and eating Soylent.

But you should be sleeping now, and so should I ! :)
That Dream Job (Surprise: It's "Actuary ")
I wrote a bash script before anything existed for node.js to run a process on a server...people were just doing `node ./index.js` -- my script created and init.d/start-node.sh script and suprisingly its my most popular project even today -- that was back in 2010 I wrote that shit. SHortly after it got picked up by some js newsletters and HN I found nodemon and switched to that.

For what its worth now I use systemd scripts.
"Baseload" clearly exists. There is a minimum load on the grid that it never falls below, which can be satisfied by constant-output generation methods that aren't as well suited to varying output, but also don't vary output and so can't don't create a shortfall when low output periods in variable sources last for longer than the usual amount of time or coincide with high demand.

> The sum of a bunch of intermittent sources is sufficient.

That only works if the intermittent sources are independent. In winter, solar output is going to be lower during the day than in summer, zero at night, you will have more hours of night, and heating load is both higher in winter and higher at night. There aren't going to be panels on one solar farm where this is the case and others that produce more, it will be true for the entire hemisphere for the entire season.

You're then left relying on wind if you don't want to use nuclear, but wind costs more than solar, and now you're lacking independence again. Weather is regional. There will be days when it's still and cold across a thousand square miles. Even batteries that could hypothetically take the load for a night are not going to have anything left by the end of a week of that, so you either need baseload generation methods or some currently unproven/uneconomical ultra high capacity long-term storage system or the week when that happens the power will go out and people will freeze.
The HN title has a typo in the name of the superjet
A former sniper said on CNN that it should've been so easy to hit from such a short distance that it could only have been "divine intervention" that saved Trump.
A consumption tax can avoids some of the ills of this - it is undodgeable for the wealthy (unless they commit fraud) and it is very progressive
> Continual "curve fitting" to the real world can create intelligence.

I'm going to need a citation on this bold claim. And by that I mean in the same vein as what Carl Sagan would say

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
> If I wanted to use this for malicious intent, then I think the most valuable thing I could get away with would be a 5% discount coupon

Or spinning up hundreds of accounts on a website so you can perform card testing. Or creating accounts so you can put all of the inventory for an e-commerce site into carts to reserve it for yourself. Or running sneakerbots. Or any other malicious intent where the victim is the website operator.
they did close it down, numerous times actually, this is probably the 10th iteration of it (that i know of), the most popular fork gave up on development 2 years ago: https://gizmodo.com/rip-popcorn-time-1848307032

at this point I would call this project zombified, I imagine that each new dev (or group of devs) keep degrading the code quality and experience on each new iteration..
TBF AEthelstan may have had internal control, but his reign still waged continuous warfare against Danish invasion, a conflict that continued for almost another century, until Harold Godwinson finally repelled them permanently in 1066. Sadly Harold could only savour that success for a few weeks as three week later he fell at Hastings, where the current King’s ancestor William managed through luck to eke out a victory thanks to a lucky arrow strike.

They must all have been tough bastards: to repel the Danes in Yorkshire, then race south on foot 300 miles in heavy armour and almost defeat another marine invasion.

Had I been around then and clapped eyes on even one of them I would have done whatever I could to hide and try to escape the slightest attention.
Culture is hard. The effort that executives and leaders in originations with good culture exert to maintain it is often underestimated.
The fascinating and complicated sex lives of white-throated sparrows
I read this post (and then the paper) scratching my head over two details: which OpenAI model was this using (it just said "ChatGPT") and was it using ChatGPT's data analysis mode, aka ChatGPT Code Interpreter.

I finally found this tucked away towards the end of the paper:

"Browser-based version of ChatGPT version was updated as we conducted our task-based studies. P1-P9 used the March 14, 2023 version of ChatGPT, and P10-P14 used the March 23, 2023 version."

GPT-4's release date was March 14th 2023 - but only for paid users. Was this study using GPT-4 or GPT-3.5? That's still not clear to me.

Even more importantly: was it using Code Interpreter / data analysis mode? https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8437071-data-analysis-wi...

I'm almost certain it was not - none of the screenshots showed evidence of that mode, and that feature was made available (as part of the plugins beta) to beta testers on March 23rd - it's weird that the dates mentioned in the paper happen to coincide exactly with the GPT-4 and the Code Interpreter preview dates!

Without including data analysis mode I don't think this paper addresses the question "can ChatGPT do data science?". That's what that 15 month old feature is for, and any study that doesn't include it is missing the most important factor in answering that question.
I'd have a look at DuckDB as well, looks like they're doing a great job with their useful, practical and successful innovation and a ton of interesting differentiating design decisions; I hear that's on top of SQLite, is that right? They must have a fair amount of code of their own regardless.

Then there's also some projects who have tried to port or re-create SQLite in Rust.
https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-spent-8-years-fighting-the-c...
Science shows there’s underlying variability in sleep demands and these change based on age but people can also get used to less sleep even though they benefit from more.

In general newborns sleep 12-16 hours per day but not continuously.
Age 6-12 average 9-12 hours.
Teens average 8-10 hours.
Between 25 and 64 most people are 7 to 9 hours which is where the 8 hours comes from.
Seniors sleep less and rarely continuously through the night.

Talking about averages always excludes outliers. Some people are 6’6” and others 4’8, but odds are you’re still capable of sleeping more with better habits. There’s methods to learn how to fall asleep more easily and huge benefits from consistent sleep patterns. Further, it can make a huge difference what your room is like, lower temperatures and a lack of light is almost universally beneficial.
I personally wont ever be interested in VR until it has "generic computing" as a major feature.

like automatically creating a 3d world showing pipes as your internet connections, some kind of switches and buttons and things as every single thing you can do with your computer including complicated ass command line and GUI windows.

And all the tools necessary to reduce or increase the complexity of it as I see fit as a user
Please quote a Nobel prize (well, there's no Nobel prize in economy, but surely we understand each other) winner explaining that stock prices are, in actual reality, random variables.
> Given that quantum effects do exist, does this mean that the result of quantum activity is still just another physical input into the UAN

Yeah, it could be a spurious input though. My understanding is that quantum mechanics doesn't really matter at biological scale, and that kinda makes sense right? Like, if this whole claim about biology being reducible to the topology of the components of the network is true, then the first thing you'd do is try to evolve components that are robust to quantum noise or leverage it for some result (ie: one can imagine some binding site constructed in such a way that it requires a rare event that none-the-less actually has a very specific probability of occurring).

> and does not change the analysis of what the UAN computes? It seems difficult to think that what a UAN computes is not impacted by those lower level details (meaning specifically quantum effects, I'm not thinking of just alternate implementations).

What the UAN computes is impacted by those lower level details, but it is abstractable given enough simulation data.

ie, imagine if you had a perfect molecular scan of a modern CPU that detailed the position of every atom. While it would be neat to simulate it physically, for the purpose of analysis, you'd likely want to at least abstract it to the transistor level. The 'critical topology' is I guess, the highest possible level of abstraction before a CPU tester can tell your simulation from an atom-level simulation.

Now for CPUs, we designed that model first and then built the CPU. In biology, it evolved on the physical level, but still maps to a 'critical topology'.
yea, a big one. Once there was an intentionally multi-user-from-ground-up OS called "Multics". Dude named ken thompson or dennis ritchie or something worked on it but was like "bro, so bloated". So dude writes a DISK BENCHMARKING system, single user, called it "Unix" as if to castrate multics. The original unix was disk benchmarking, barebones. So we know how that moved into multi-user

source: kernighans readingbook, "unix a memoir" or something like that, great read
It looks like this:
https://unit.software/

Was on HN recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900029
My experience is that the software engineers at game companies generally hate the visual programming tools. They want to work with code. It's the game designers who (sometimes) like using visual tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqPl4QrczTk

Loved the soundtrack for RA1 and RA2
I don't think that's naive - it could definitely help ameliorate the issues. To my knowledge noone has tried this approach.

The other idea I had when I was working on this stuff was to do JIT supercompliation. Clasically, supercompilers expand the whole graph at compile time, but it would be straightforward to delay the supercompilation process until the first time that the code is actually executed, which helps tame the problem of generating lots of specializations that may never actually be executed in practice.

(Choosing a generalization heuristic becomes more important in the JIT setting because you always have access to the full info about all parameters to the function you are specializing, and naively you would end up e.g. specializing sigmoid(x)=1/(1+exp(x)) for each value of x observed at runtime.)
Why do you think it's a lie?

There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie. "If it looks like a duck..."

It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post
> Transition diagrams for state machines, Swimlane diagrams for request / response protocols.

100%. especially because these things also form the basis for static analysis; if your state / protocol diagrams let you run something like TLA you are doing really good
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Kind of like with the Israel-Gaza conflict flare up, we'll probably get a containment thread sometime this week when discussion might be more civil and when the initial fog of information has cleared up.
So you’ve never actually had to acquire hardware or run systems at this scale? You’re just doing this on some Google sheets?
Thanks for the correction — I have no idea why I wrote it like that, it’s one of my favorite movies.
The Great Cheese Duel of 1935
She was unconventionally beautiful, but she really had a certain something. The modern girl I want to compare her to is Aubrey Plaza for some reason.

Again, that makes her casting as Olive perfect. It helps the audience see in Olive what Popeye and Bluto see in her.
No Work, No Food

Hyakujo, the Chinese Zen master, used to labor with his pupils even at the age of eighty, trimming the gardens, cleaning the grounds, and pruning the trees.

The pupils felt sorry to see the old teacher working so hard, but they knew he would not listen to their advice to stop, so they hid away his tools.

That day the master did not eat. The next day he did not eat, nor the next. "He may be angry because we have hidden his tools," the pupils surmised. "We had better put them back."

The day they did, the teacher worked and ate the same as before. In the evening he instructed them: "No work, no food."
References;

1) Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch

2) Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst? by Malcolm Gladwell - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/was-jack-welch...

3) Short-term profits and long-term consequences — did Jack Welch break capitalism? in Npr - https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1101505691/short-term-profits...

4) What Jack Welch Got Wrong (Just About Everything) by David Gelles (author) - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-jack-welch-got-wrong-jus...

He was dubbed "Neutron Jack" (a reference to the Neutron Bomb) for eliminating employees while leaving buildings intact. He was the main reason USA lost its manufacturing base and completely screwed up how Management was/is practiced.
No, I wrote it in PHP and I didn't want to get an angry mob after me.

I've been thinking about open sourcing it if anyone would want it, but right now the site has way too little attention for it to get any traction.
It's a really neat script though and it's also just one file and supports all the different kind of emails (with/without boundaries, base64 emails, attachments and some other stuff).
Helix (editor) 24.07 is out
It's wild to think of how many scifi stories and novels there are about immense, completely unmanageable world overpopulation and then give numbers that are lower than what we have right now.

The classic example would probably be Make Room! Make Room! (the very loose basis for the film Soylent Green), where a United States of 344 million people is so massively crammed and overpopulated that the average person lives on strictly rationed water and food.
I got the 512MB 223j mostly just because the refurb version seemed to be the cheapest well-reviewed, low power, and current model 2-bay NAS, and I assume the tock firmware is probably optimized to work well enough.

I can think of a lot of cool extra possibilities with more memory though.

I'm not seeing a ZFS option for Synology's stock firmware, and I was hoping to stick with their OS, but if it's vastly and overwhelmingly better I could see switching to something else.

Are snapshots actually necessary? Do they provide something incrementals to the external drive don't? I guess they're lighter weight and you can do them more often?
https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...
Surprised it wouldn't be the rare silicon needed to make the AI chips...or the data storage it uses
https://www.telecomarchive.com/six-digit.html

500-467 thru 500-478 will tell you more than you ever wanted to know.
Apparently Crooks was rejected from his school rifle team for being such a bad shot they thought it would just be too dangerous if he participated...
Most of these solutions are based on a cognitive trap, which I don’t know a name for, so I’ll call it the “maker vs. taker” fallacy.

Person A (the maker) has a problem, and works to solve it by creating a tool. The tool is effective and person A applies it to many similar problems to good effect.

Person B (“taker”) has just such a problem and applies the tool. Unfortunately it doesn’t help nearly as much as person A thought it would. A long series of similar people with similar problems come along and fail.

What the “maker” doesn’t realize is that the tool is ineffective unless you also went through the learning process required to build such a tool, which forces you to understand the problem domain far more deeply than a “taker” ever will.

The tool actually hampers the learning process that the maker benefited from, by asking the taker to learn tool semantics instead of spending time on the actual problem.
> The Solar Council is primarily interested in putting its own arrogance on display. Its Planetary Aid agent doesn't give a flying fuck about the slaves. That much is obvious.

That isn't entirely clear. There is a lot of context that is elided. Given the time frame, clonized 1000 years ago and this is the first ship ever to visit, transit costs can reasonably be assumed to be very high and the resources available to assist each colony may be low.

The lack of livestock when founding a colony is not unique to this colony but was ubiquitous at the time it was founded. Presumably the approach to lack of livestock is also not unique. It is an entirely plausible that the Solar Council has tried various approaches and reached the conclusion that attempting to change or assist such culures externally is a waste of limited resources and/or actively harmful.

The underlying issue is not the cannibalism, since the Solar Council agent ate the meal and presumably knew or at least suspected when the colony was established. The issue is the way those in power treat their subclass.

Attempting to fundamentally change a planetary scale civilization with limited resources is not something we can safely asssume is feasible.
Based on: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...

Looks like we're misunderstanding vouches, I guess when we recall seeing a flagged article with a vouch option, it was because it was both flagged and dead, if it's only flagged, there wouldn't be a vouch option since the main counter to flagging is upvoting.
You might find Corbato's paper A Managerial View of the Multics System Development interesting - https://www.multicians.org/managerial.html
you're kidding, right? everyone I know both online and IRL complains constantly about how big cars have gotten as a result of the CAFE regulations
I think this is a good insight.

When designing a notation, you're choosing what parts of a work you consider to be essential (notated) and non-essential (non-notated). That is itself an artistic choice. Everything you choose to not represent in the notation is something that you are letting future performers or cover artists choose for themselves.

The notation serves as sort of a negotiated dividing line between what the original artist wants to claim for themselves and consider a required part of "the work" versus what future artists are allowed to participate in.

Given that modular music is rarely played by anyone except the original author, I suspect that standardized notation isn't very important. All that really matters is each author having their own private shorthand so they can recreate what they care to recreate.
But would removing the justification really mater given the entrenched power structure that has grown dependant on a certain way of veiwing other humans?

The cannibalism is not the primary issue, but is a clear indicator that the inspectors have been lied to and slavery is present, which was previously clearly established as one of the major disqualifying cultural traits.
Ah yes, I always forget about the rules with floats. My line of work only ever uses ints.
> Nearly all existing CLIs are much harder to use than GUIs.

Software would tend to be easier to understand if it is better documented; GUIs aren't inherently easier. If the computer display specifies what is expected then a CLI might be easier to understand, and documentation also makes it easier.

However, what is easier for one user might also depend on what they are familiar with. Someone familiar with a specific kind of CLI or GUI might be able to more easily understand that. I will find it easier to use an unfamiliar computer if it has a command-line interface that I can understand, rather than the GUI.

> They will delete your stuff instead of trash it.

Yes, although it is not really an inherent issue of CLI vs GUI, but of specific implementations.

> You can run commands on the wrong folder or even the wrong machine easily, since you're not directly clicking on objects.

I think this is not legitimate. A CLI and GUI will both have to display such things in order to know which folder/machine/objects/etc you want, and at least bash already does display these things (and I would expect that a good quality GUI should also do), so it does not have to be "all in your head".

> Even with autocomplete there's a lot of typing involved. If you're not a touch typist, it's a real slog to type that much literally all day, and can even make your eyes and neck tired from glancing back and forth to the keyboard so many times.

This is legitimate. However, people who intend to operate a computer a lot, should learn typing if they can.

> If you customize any of this behavior, it doesn't look any different, you can't tell at a glance what's in bashrc.

It depends on the specific customization. If you modify the prompt then it will look like differently. Customizations are still useful whether it looks different or not. (You can also make other changes to the looks, e.g. changing the font size, which are not a part of bash and are a part of the terminal emulator (or display settings, if the operating system you use handles them like that instead) so would be configured separately.)

> GUIs also could be perfectly well scriptable, we could have some futuristic UI where everything was an auto generated UI around drag and drop script blocks or something.

I have another idea, which is similar in some ways but is different. You could copy objects between the command-line and GUI in either direction, and program stuff in the command-line to trigger things in the GUI as well.
There's a whole industry around detecting these and placing them on block lists.
> So, the generated data must ..

What generated data are you talking about and who was it generated by?

If you mean the output of commercial GPS units, then yes, all manner of error inducing effects have been compensated for in post aquisition processing that generates output.

This article is about raw GPS data .. which is a collection of raw data streamed from multiple satellites that then requires processing to generate an output, and quite often additional inputs from ground stations | naval corrections to improve accuracy.

There are many different GPS instrument providers who all do broadly similar things .. the devil is in the details.

Several peer comments linked to https://ciechanow.ski/gps/ it's a good read.
Yes. If a team buzzes in and the host marks their response as incorrect, they can’t buzz in again.