skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't want to pay quite that much, you can get cheap thermal cameras from China e.g. from InfiRay. They just show up as a UVC camera.
Cool. The strongest argument for a boring diet is your teeth.
My dad preferably (to meat) eats cartilage, collagene, etc... off the bones (using a knife)... his dog then eats whatever is left. Anyone working on that?
Separate from anything else, I'm ... concerned ... at the idea of ints being iterable, because it seems like something I'd be much more likely to invoke accidentally than intentionally and then wonder wtf my program was doing. I'd prefer to have to write something like

(reduce + (range 1 3) 0)

and if you find yourself wanting the natural number iteration regularly maybe

(^upto (n) (range 1 (- n 1)))

as sugar.

This concern brought to you by e.g. the great pain induced by the difference between

for x in "foo":

and

for x in "foo",:

in python, for example.

It may turn out in practice that a lispy language and/or programmers who make different mistakes to me will make it not an issue ... but were it -my- project I'd probably comment out the iterator implementation for int and see if its absence annoyed me enough to decide it was worth bringing back.

(when perpetrating language myself I often find that some of my favourite bits of clever don't pass the 'annoyed me enough' test and end up as documentation examples or similar in the end instead ... hopefully you have better luck ;)
Though it's not free -- there's a free tier, but it's highly restricted and not very functional -- I use elevenlabs.io for text to speech.

It's extremely good at mimicking voices, and it sounds quite natural even with those custom-generated voices.
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1. Automated backup is just a one time setup task. You set it up and maybe test the backup once a month (and even that could be automated)

2. Similarly, monitoring is a one time task too. And if this isnt yet a project making $xx,000/month, you probably dont need monitoring yet.

3. Similarly, if your project isnt making a ton of $$$, you can forgo OS updates and only take care of critical secure updates.

In summary, the things you think you need to do, you can delay until youre making non trivial $$$ from it.
The key is to write stuff worth talking about IRL.
Yes sure. I can imagine though that normally you'd also want to be able to query on details of an event. In which case having most things in columns would make sense because you can combine it with JOIN queries, etc.

Also, in the context of web applications, you probably already have a database and probably don't have persisted disks on your application servers, which then adds complexity to the file based scenario. In which case using blobs is a perfectly fine solution indeed.

Still you are right that in many cases, let's say a desktop application, you are probably better off reading directly from tens of files on disk rather than having to deal with the complexity of a database.

The same applies to vector databases. I read an article a few months ago that spoke about just storing vectors in files and looping through them instead of setting up a vector database and the performance was pretty much the same for the author's use case.
that happened to me. I installed a plugin that would parse all pages for email addresses and store them for later reference. A few months later i started to see strange ads on pages that shouldn't have ads.
very nice work! at Malmo University we maintain an open source mobile platform for data capture in clinical research: https://mobistudy.org/

Our focus is more on sensors data rather than questionnaires, although we include those too.

Get in touch if you want to collaborate: dario.salvi at mau.se !
Wow:

https://reason.com/2022/04/28/florida-tennessee-ban-ranked-c...

This is naked anti-democratic power-mongering. The only reason to ban it outright (rather than, say, letting people try it and switch back if they find it "confusing") is because you're afraid that people might get the hang of it and think it should be used for state and national elections as well.
I need to find those. And get a more powerful workstation.
I love Emacs but I just don't find editing LaTeX on Emacs an enjoyable.

I am mostly using Overleaf (overleaf.com) which is free for individual use.
They only charge for collaboration features and integration with bibliography management software. Free for universities and institutions back then when I was using it a lot, not sure about it now.

Now I find that writing in org-mode then export to LaTeX is the best experience you can have on Emacs. I can do pretty much everything I wanted to do, math typsetting, and even Beamer.

A big warning though, is that you still need some configuration and you will need to be aware of that you are writing for LaTeX export in order for a smooth experience. Especially when you have code blocks with long lines.

Maybe I should write up an article on this some day as tutorials, such as the one for Beamer (https://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html) does NOT completely cover all the issues that you will face during writing.
Magical thing about timeshift is that you can use it straight from your live CD. It will find root, backups, and restore it together with a boot partition.
Also that stuff last year in China. The key seems to be not to be the very most prominent award; Locus and BSFA and Nebula and so on seem to have a lot less strife.
I don't trust UTC for future dates, only for things that have already happened. Future dates are tentative in that their UTC representation can change. For example, if I converted a Kazakh user's event slated for April 1, 2024 to UTC before February 1, 2024, the event time would be off by one hour.
Your confidence that there is an obviously optimal way to model something reads as either brilliance or hubris and brilliance is a lot rarer.

Typically there are subtle trade-offs and compromises which only prove themselves to be useful/detrimental as the software changes over time. You can place bets based on experience but you can only really be cocky about your choices when looking back not looking forward
T are ways to deal with the land thing specifically that goes rather well together with UBI:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
First off, it’s healthy to temper your expectations. “Affordable” is very much a relative term. You can find general practice attorneys who can do it, but they can make half million dollar mistakes as in the source article. It might have been an $800 or $1000 difference an hour, but you can get a lot of those hours for $500,000. I’d expect to pay more than any reasonable human would charge for an hour of their time. It sounds negative (and it is) but this is about health.

You’re looking for a highly specialized practitioner with practical M&A experience. I’d start with my regular counsel (aka the person who does things like terms and conditions, contracts and the like) and ask for a referral.

It’s also really useful to ask people who work in the same field as you and who have been through an acquisition. I wouldn’t necessarily trust them for a skills based referral (ie - Lawyer A performed wonderfully) since they’re likely not lawyers and you often won’t know you got bad advice for years. But I would trust their opinion on things like how the attorney communicates and manages the entire process.
> you can tell it was designed before XML/JSON were "hot

or you can tell it was designed by people who care more about performance.
Jump Flood Algorithm Driven Motion Blur [video]
> On that note, why is Apple still successful with this? Everything is moving on their website.

Think of it more like a scroll controlled trailer and that the metric they might be working on it the longer a customer spends on the site the more likely they are to convert.

Reason I think it's this is their sites are mega long and information packed with everything moving these days.
Yeah this is not a zero day.
> the disbelief made

I assume you mean the suspension of disbelief? I.e. immersion. Suspension is a key word there, as in, your disbelief is halted, allowing you to be immersed.
That would be problematic for database performance. You would have to calculate the duration on demand when querying.
Don't kid yourself Jimmy, if a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about.
Noted, I feel like I need more use cases and experience to say for sure.

Some way of forming ranges is planned anyways.
The fact the pregnant box is ticked doesn't mean the death is related to pregnancy. You can get pregnant with terminal cancer and it is unlikely to end well regardless of the pregnancy.

The poster above just says it makes analysis of historical statistics difficult, he is not jumping to conclusion.
> A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace are two of the best SF books I've read in the last 10 years. I loved them.

I found them fun and engaging (I wouldn't have read the second one otherwise) but ultimately not outstanding.

> Three-Body problem is one of the greatest SF books of all time, IMO.

This is an opinion I am constantly baffled with. I found it awful, simply devoid of redeeming features; no interesting plot, no interesting technical ideas, no interesting characters, no interesting writing. (The worldbuilding could've perhaps been interesting if it hadn't been so thin.)
The entire tax regime in the UK is outright designed to inhibit class mobility and penalise hard work. The 60% tax trap and other benefit cliffs over 100k are just punishing. At the same time the capitalist class enjoy a cool 20% haircut on capital returns.
I think you could posit the opposite - that he lost because he motivated more people to vote against him.

Labour now hasn't united its opposition because I think nobody fears it much.
So an org
Salary, absolutely; stock: much more difficult.

That said, some folks in consulting pull off those numbers and it is, theoretically, possible to exceed those numbers on a good year in presales (at a place where commissions are uncapped).
I think Banks possibly just had the poor planning to die to early, there. Both due to the nationality thing (it has gotten a _bit_ less American-centric), and because it feels like his _style_ fits better with current winners than 90s winners (I was actually quite surprised to discover than Ancillary Justice was _not_ in some way a Culture homage).
You can simply use an SMS based verification. Multiple third party API providers for the same like Message Central, Twilio etc.
Houston <-> Austin is a business flyer route. That's why it's so expensive and you can get a flight every ~30mins or so throughout the day.

You can also fly Austin<>LA/Denver for 1/3-1/2 the cost Houston<>Austin. I've flown to Canada (from Tx) for less than a Houston/Austin (or Austin/Houston<>Dallas) flight.

These routes are where high-speed trains would excel...if one could get past the airline lobby
You can define nodes and edges on the same line in graphviz. Here is an example: https://viz-js.com/?dot=ZGlncmFwaCB7CiAgYSAtPiBiIC0-IGMgLT4g... Of course depending on complexity of graph you might want to do it separately.

A potentially much bigger difference in verbosity comes from graphviz being a general purpose graph drawing software, while mermaid is more of a software for drawing software development related diagrams (not just graphs and tables). This is well reflected by the fact that in graphviz the diagram types are categorized by layout engine (hierarchical drawing, spring model, force directed placement, circular layout,...), but in Mermaid they are categorized by what data the diagram represents (flowchart, sequence diagram, class diagram, state diagram, entity relationship diagram, gant diagram). You can draw many of those types of diagrams in Graphviz but you will have to potentially do a lot more of reinventing the wheel and low level manual formatting (arrow and node shapes, line style, etc.), while Mermaid documentation uses more of diagram specific terms like cardinality, visibility(public, private, ...) and many others.

That's like comparing Excel with purpose built accounting software or an inventory management system. Excel might be a lot more flexible, but if the usecase specific software matches your needs it can be a lot more streamlined and less error prone.

So the conclusions will very much depend on your use case. If you are trying to draw one of the standard software engineering diagrams as part of design documentation, Mermaid can be great. For less formal design diagrams or quickly visualizing the state of some algorithm it's much more even playing field.
Honestly pal, if you’re in a position to sell a company for the kinds of dollars that PE deals with, you needed a lawyer a long time ago. I understand that they’re expensive, legalese is intentionally difficult to understand and lawyers aren’t builders so they’re not worth funding. I understand those excuses because I’ve used them.

But you needed a lawyer a long time ago. If you actually don’t have someone who deals with contracts, terms and things like that, fix that first.
I could argue the claim on its merits, eg that the world has changed since The Delicate Balance of Terror was written in (checks) 1958, that omnipresent satellite surveillance means that a first strike could never wipe out the enemy nuclear arsenal, etc.

But I think that's giving Brett too much credit here. His argument rests purely in the realm of game theory and logical-sounding ideas. In actual practice, the US military has never in its existence ran an analysis of how many nuclear weapons would be necessary to achieve strategic objectives in any specific scenarios.

Brett later points out that:

> This buildup, driven by concerns beyond even deterrence did lead to absurdities: when the SIOP (‘Single Integrated Operational Plan’) for a nuclear war was assessed by General George Lee Butler in 1991, he declared it, “the single most absurd and irresponsible document I had ever reviewed in my life,” Having more warheads than targets had lead to the assignment of absurd amounts of nuclear firepower on increasingly trivial targets.

Brett notes this, but it doesn't seem to give him pause or to cause his to reevaluate the validity of the doctrines he cites, even though those doctrines were largely written to justify what he rightfully describes as absurdities.

The US military has always, from the moment the nuclear bomb was invented, operated with the mindset of "more nukes is better". There is no conceivable number of nukes that would make the military go "okay, that's enough, we have enough to achieve our strategic objectives in any plausible scenario". As the quote above points out, giving them more nukes just makes them assign more per potential target.

The only administration that chose to conduct a survey of the SAC's war plan for deploying nukes, the fucking Bush administration under Dick Cheney, found that the plan was ridiculously overkill (hence the quote above) which directly lead to the US signing the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.[1]

HN commenters in this thread are giving a bunch of rationalizations why the US's nuclear policy is perfectly reasonable game theory, but any times military analysts with clearance actually looked at the US's nuke arsenal and the plans to deploy it, their conclusion was the same: "We have way more than we need".

[1] https://asteriskmag.com/issues/01/the-illogic-of-nuclear-esc...
You completely missed the point in the article.

The correct lesson is to not use what everybody else uses. That way it won't fail the same way, at the same time.
We currently have a restaurant here in Tel Aviv (The Chicken, https://thechicken.kitchen/), that acts as the test kitchen for a local startup called SuperMeat. This is definitely something that is happening, and even in the nearish (sub 10 year) term. The dream is that this is always around the corner, however.
Amara's Law and Cultivated Meat: A Case of Tech Evolution, Not Failure
Why would they? If people want an old president, then they shall get one. That’s just democracy.
For me, these traits made restic initially attractive:

- encrypted, chunk-deduped, snapshotted backups

- single Go binary, so I could even backup the binary used to create my backups

- reasonable versioning and release scheme

- I could read, and understand, its design document: https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/doc/design.rst

I then just tried using it for a year and never hit any issues with it, so kept going, and now it's 6+ years later.
I can see why people don't like Three Body Problem, though I personally do. Ancillary Justice is probably my favourite sci-fi since Banks died (unless you count The Fifth Season, but it can't decide whether it's sci-fi or fantasy).
AQLM and PV-Tuning: methods that compress LLMs by 8 times, retain 95% quality
You seem to use the word intelligence to mean `consciousness` (if you replaced the first with the latter I would agree with your argument).

I would define "intelligence" as (1) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations and (2) the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment.

It turns out that this is also the Merriam-Webster definition [0].
By that definition, yes AlphaZero was learning and understanding how to deal with situations and is intelligent, and yes most machine-learning systems and many other systems that have a specific goal and manipulate data/the environment to optimize for that goal, are intelligent.

By this definition, a non-living, non-conscious entity can be intelligent.

And intelligence has nothing to do with "experiences" (which seem to belong in the "consciousness" debate).

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence
Those lines generate insane losses just to operate and maintain them
I've been using d2 recently [0]
It's similar enough to mermaid but with the CLI you can output svg and png and have some decent looking diagrams.

[0] https://d2lang.com/
> The nice thing about UBI is it is universal, and simple. The second your income goes below a threshold, you start getting a little bit of money. The second it goes above, you stop.

UBI is typically not envisioned as means-tested (hence ”universal”).
And that is so annoying noone would do it.
I backup everything except for scratch/tmp/device style directories. Bytes are cheap to store, my system is a rounding error vs my /home, and deduping goes a long way.
or we could sue the driving individuals for endangering our children by burning fossil fuels.
I never knew this. Thanks for sharing!
> A colleague out-of-the-blue messaged me about some python function I'd written

Just the other day a colleague at work was searching the web and eventually ended up in a blog post of mine. He was enthusiastic that he had "discovered" my blog. It was fun.
> Personally, I'm a big fan of the "for every $2 you make, you get $1 less from UBI/Welfare" concept. This seems a very easy way to wean people off of welfare. That money is already tracked by the IRS (unless you're getting paid under the table).

Just subsidize the minimum wage. It's dead simple. Raise the minimum wage by $x but have that extra $x be paid from taxes, not the employer. Big businesses will scream "But inflation! But wage-price spiral!". Their screams are to be ignored.
And then you quickly get to the not-author's-use cases where you have to start reinventing wheels, poorly.
aren't they bred to be very docile?
you might be interested in the concept of digital gardens: https://maggieappleton.com/garden
>I think that your wording is still horrendous.

I deserve that. I legit dont re-read anything i write on here because i tend to be censored.

>One thing is autism that is in genes and other is behavioral/adaptational etc. change.

Not genetic. GWBush put a ton of money into this and they essentially came away with nothing. 23andme isn't detecting autism via genes.

>I can assure you that diet had no impact on my anxiety that I have with my autism,

Which diets have you tried? The article never super specified which exactly. Kind of keto but that wouldn't be good enough. You'd still have problems.

>where in stressful situations I have severe communication issues with other people with all rhe "classic autism" symptoms, while in very relaxed environment you will have a hard time to define me as autistic at all - where my adhd(undiagnosed) would crawl out...

Ya you don't need to be like that anymore. You could be able to sit quietly in a dark room and just be. No chatter in the brain anymore. It's a level of peace that you really need to experience for the first time.
Thanks for posting that.

People tend to overlook that the technologies we use today have a much older history.
That's how revolutions work, if you disagree you usually get killed.

The thing is that people would get killed for disagreeing even under Batista. If your family was happy with Batista then I don't think they were in a clean line of business.
> OP says to always store a timezone with each date

Jon Skeet talked about this once. https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...

What I take is convert everything to UTC is fine if it's historical data, even unix timestamp is fine. However for the future datetime, it's more complicated than that.
You need to be a super user or a member of the pg_execute_server_program group for this to work.
Thank you! Finally! We need more super useful tools like this for ruining the internet with bullshit spam garbage pretending to be authentic human commentary so that the malefically antisocial can systematically make the world worse for everyone. This is perfect!
Temporal's go is... something. They used to use Java (I think), then they switched to Go, and the Go is very Java-like.

Or maybe I just don't know Fx.

https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/service/mat...

The issue we hit with Temporal - again and again - is that it's very under-documented, and it's something you install at the core of your business, yet it's really hard to understand what is going on, through all the layers and through the very obtuse documentation.

Maestro has... no documentation? OK Temporal wins by default.
Cultured meat is the ultimate processed food. It is to meat what a pop tart is to bread and fruit.
US maternal mortality has been among the worst in the OECD for many years - long before Roe was overturned - and the worst of any high income country.

It seems to be due to lack of access/income and race if I recall correctly. For the highest income quintile it’s roughly in line with the OECD. The lower your income the worse you do, and if you’re black the numbers are off the charts. A few years ago you were 3X more likely to die in childbirth in America than Canada, and 6X more likely than Scandinavia. Not sure the exact stack up now.

[edit] Here’s an NPR write up from 2017 [1] and 2023 [2]. And a more recent one suggesting the numbers may be overestimated in aggregate but suggests race is a huge factor, with black women 3X more likely to die in childbirth than white. Note the CDC disagrees with the idea it’s over-counting. [3] Even using the revised-down estimates America does not compare favorably to the OECD. [4]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-du...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2023/07/09/1186694708/u-s-maternal-death...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/13/1238269...

[4] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.MMRT?locations=O...
Your distinction between designers and artists is particularly compelling. While artists have the freedom to prioritize personal expression and originality, designers usually balance creativity with functionality. Agree.
Don't Use JavaScript for That: Moving Features to CSS and HTML [video]
They're going to have to fork the language.
I don't agree with the original assertion either. Yes, it was for various reasons, my point was it is not their responsibility to choose non-windows but rather the responsibility of Linux, mac ,sun,etc.. to make their product acceptable to the market.