skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a problem with non-AI generated mushroom books as well. Apparently publishers have been copying eachothers misinformation for a long time.
Levine is a national treasure. He's always so balanced, funny, and informative.
Entire family is in the list, with every address they've lived at in the last 40 years.

Freeze your credit reports, folks.
Yes, but I'd read it with less emphasis on the behaviours (which is what makes a class.) So, more like a struct.
They are, look up their short films. The fact that they are a team makes it easier for them, not harder.
> LLMs are architecturally missing all of the above.

So are small children.

I mean, they have a very limited form of the above. So do LLMs, within their context windows.
CodeWarrior was mainly popular for PalmOS, but had numerous targets.

It was a standard prior to the gcc getting mainstream recognition. =3
Right, that's the only thing I'm questioning.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander: the AI generated not only the contents but the author as well.

This has to be some kind of a new level of idiocy. I mean, use AI to make junk sci-fi stories, and generate fake authors all day. But going for a book about mushrooms deserves a special stupidity and evilness award.
That doesn't work, particularly the Venus and Dyson sphere ideas, because being able to borrow that much money doesn't actually give you access to the requisite resources and labor. Resources and labor isn't something you can just conjure out of the void as easily as adding zeros to an entry in a bank's database. If you brought such a ludicrous amount of money into existence, the amount of steel or man-hours a dollar could buy would be greatly diminished.

Furthermore, you presume the money would be spent on successful and profitable projects, rather than being squandered away. If only it were so easy.
What's a good alternative? How more expensive is it?
I’ve become suspicious of any book being published after 2022 as a result of AI-generated content. Wherever possible I opt to find an older edition or a book that covers a subject that’s pre-AI, and hopefully containing an errata to boot.
Check out your local credit unions.
If the model works correctly on way more questions than there is room to store a giant list of recorded answers for, some kind of deduction of generalised rules must have taken place.

"there is room to represent recorded answers for" is doing a lot of work, of course; it might e.g. have invented compression mechanisms better than known ones instead.
> The Web Platform Status web site was initially created by Google, and the project is now open source. The purpose of the dashboard is to allow web developers to query and track features shipped in major browsers.
But if /now -pages had a standard format you could use an aggregator to gather data from all of your friends /now pages to a single location. =)
> Strict types are a great way to paint yourself into a corner.

I've never really understood this stance. It's all code. It's not like you can't change it later.

> So the faster (in the long run), "better" way is to first prototype with very loose types and find what works, and then lock it down, within the scope of the above paragraph

I think this depends on the programmer, and what they're experienced with, how they like to think, etc. For example, as counterintuitive as it might seem, I find prototyping in Rust to be much quicker than in Python.
I'm guessing it depends whether you type at approximately the speed of thought or not; in my case, I'm often halw-way through a passage before I decide I want it italicized.
Do you have any evidence of this or reason to believe it?
I think this quote misses that there can (and arguably should) be differences between your persistence model and your actual data structures. I'd argue that keeping things 1:1 with your underlying tables is incredibly restrictive and leads to models that miss out on the expressiveness that's available in modern languages.
Data for anyone looking: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD
While I've only done it very few times...whenever i have set up old school things, the challenge is ALWAYS that i end up being alone - with no one to play with said stuff. So, the initial fun always wears off. But, I'm glad that you have undertaken playing around with old school finger, and wish you well and hope you have some good fun! :-)
I searched for the title of the book and nothing came up. When does searching for something NOT bring up amazon links?
Zen browser does this as well though as a Firefox derivative, though as a quick disclaimer it is a relatively new project.

https://www.zen-browser.app/
> can't you just inoculate your starting culture with a larger amount or something

No, I'm doing high throughput cloning in such a way where a limiting factor is going from 1 cell to X cells (usually pickable colonies). So liquid culture doesn't matter quite as much, since I can sequence validate from a colony split (half into colony PCR, half into new culture), and sequencing takes approximately as much time as the growth step takes.

> I'm curious if there is a tradeoff to its super fast growth. Does it have a greater mutation rate?

Eh, not really. The biggest tradeoff is that it isn't studied nearly as much as E.coli, so the chemical competence protocols kind of suck. I can't actually use it in my pipeline right now because of that. So I'm stuck with E.coli until I can figure out a good transformation protocol.
I've met so many X under X in my life, working in big banking and big consultancies ("the big 4") and they range between useless/yes-men/yes-women/Peter Principle achievers at 29/butt-kissers/diversity-hires/sociopaths/psychopaths and many other despicable (non-meritocratic) attributes.

So anytime I see on a magazine articles like that, I safely ignore the whole thing (and ofc I never click X u X articles - I got better things to waste my time on)(I just wanted to leave this comment here to save other people the time of focusing on X u X lists and people)(exceptions are always there, but a safe bet is that if you shake the hands of 28 out of 30, you better wash your hands afterwards.
Prices everywhere are so high I think people are thinking “if I’m going to eat out might as well spend 10-20% more and go to the better place”. $5 foot long was a legit deal half the price of competitors but those days are long gone. There’s also the sticker shock of remembering the $5 foot long days and then seeing the price is more than double now. Other places didn’t tie their entire identity to a price so they get less pushback when raising prices.
Indeed. Alas (or fortunately depending which colour team you work on), fully broken Mifare Classic is still all over the place, and likewise the "hardened" variant broken in this paper :(
It's really nice to see a "link in bio" product that is open source and self-hostable.

I would like to see how the page editor looks and works, but there are no screenshots on the GitHub page (https://github.com/tryglow/glow) or in the hosted version (https://glow.as/).
Great site for keeping up on the latest features added to Chrome and other browsers. There's some really esoteric stuff which I'm sure is critical for very specific use cases.
https://futo.org/open-source-definition/

Where is that not allowed?
Even if we accept your thesis, are you prepared to crack a few eggs to make an omelet, to throw women to the wolves with the hope that over time, the men will learn? I, for one, would not do this, as it is cruel and uncaring. In the best case, it is utilitarian, and that is evil.

You need some more nuance here. There is a place for mixed sex interactions. Men and women are not interchangeable. They have different needs, some of which require operating in sexually segregated settings, and because of their intrinsic complementarity, coupled with the vices that actually exist in the world and the weaknesses of human beings, there will always be tension. To refuse segregation in certain situations is to willingly put the weaker in danger.

It is important that we conform our actions to reality, instead of operating from arbitrary and preconceived notions of how things "should" be. The notion of "equality as sameness" does not help people flourish, because it is hostile and ignores who people actually are and their particular needs, and in this case, the needs proper to their sex.
You mind namedropping the country? It seems like the common setup is pro-elite but pro or anti government seems like a tossup.
1) Frame as much of the risk in terms of reputation damage;

2) Present a huge dollar number to make it sound important;

3) Get promoted as everyone high-up implicitly understands that reputational damage is a fiction that never materializes in practice.
Ugh, sorry about that. Should be working now.
This isn't even close to unique. I['ve worked at a few HFT/MM places that all had a similar architecture in place before LMAX wrote this. This, multicast rings, and other patters are copied a lot in the industry because they work well for the problem space.
To the best of my recollection, all of the budgets in the timeframe I mention were signed by the sitting president. (I realize this is not necessary for laws to take effect, but in the years I cited I believe the presidents all signed the budgets into law.)

If you want to argue that presidents are not responsible for laws bearing their signatures, I stridently disagree.
Honestly that type you linked looks like a dream to use (I've never OpenAPI). I love APIs that enforce any necessary restrictions on the type level.
Their latest innovation is to put metal covers over the meat/cheese selection, so it's impossible for the customer to tell what kind of shape the food is in before they put it on your sandwich.
I dont understand what it means to “move complexity into data”
The licensing around the project is unclear, but the ToS is plainly for the website.
Trap mushrooms
Link to the actual report [1].

The DOD estimates 4.3-8.4 percent of women experience unwanted sexual contact, based on 8,500 reports, extrapolated to 29,000 estimated incidents. The author argues that the actual rate is 24% of women, using the median estimate from a range of independent studies.

DOD's most significant change was moving the prosecution authority for sexual assault to a separate tribunal in 2023.

[1]: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20...
The idea is that by spending a few minutes with your card, someone can now clone it and impersonate you. Yes, they could already steal your card, but you might notice that. But if you leave it on your desk for a few minutes in your wallet, or IT “borrows” it to re-encode it, or any thousand of other ways to get a hold of your RFID card… it can be dumped, cloned, and you can be impersonated.

That’s the threat vector.
What, is that really profit and not revenue?

Anyway, add the sum to calculated risk to do profits by reducing effort to do or use quality software and systems.
I wonder if he'll file a bug report with whatever AI ghostwriter he's using.
Headless Browsers: A list of almost all headless web browsers in existence
I am using for improve my code.
I think the brackets were simply suggesting that flow charts are analogous to code and tables are analogous to data structures in that quote. Not that your tables and data structures in a concrete system will be the same.
In lay terms the best I can say is that for n greater than or equal to 5, the set of all possible permutations of n things is complicated. For n less than 5 the set of all possible permutations of n things is simple just because n is small. That's what leads to there being general formulas for n = 2, 3, 4.

Galois translated whether a polynomial has a solution for x in terms of the coefficients using algebraic operations up to using radicals into a property of the group of permutations of the roots of the polynomial. The property of the group is whether the group is solvable. For n greater than or equal to 5, the general permutation group on n objects is not solvable but for n less than 5 is is. There just are not that many permutation groups for n = 2, 3, and 4 objects and all these permutation groups are solvable. Generically a group is not solvable and so we see this with larger n.
You, sir, are a mad man.
The big win is how it allows bulk processing while taking serialization dependencies into account.

So you algos reading market data messages and yank all that is there and apply them in bunk instead of trying to do each one individually.

And your logger that is storing all the messages to a file and/or db knows what messages the algo has processed and can grab all the messages up to that point so it is always writing as much as it can and current.
This is a great tool. Elegantly simple. Well done!
Yeah the SEALs have a reputation for cowboy-ing stuff.

Unmatched firearms handling -- that's where the 'smooth is fast' comes from -- but operational planning is a different story.
If it produces a sound (and therefore, by definition, a logically valid) argument, that is about as good as we could hope for. What we want to avoid is the fallacy of assuming that all arguments with true conclusions are sound.

Another thing we want to see in an extended discussion on a particular topic are a consistent set of premises across all arguments.
Cost of doing business. I wonder if it’s tax-deductible.
What do you mean by "publish my workflow"? Do you want a blog post, a github md file? It's pretty simple.

Most recently I use Claude 3.5 projects with this workflow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkw5K2W8AQ

Quick example, I wanted to make a clickable visible piano keyboard. I told it I was using Vue and asked for the HTML/CSS to do this (after looking at several github and other examples that looked fairly complicated). It spat out code that worked out of the box in about 1m.

I gave it a package.json file that got messed up with many dependencies versions being off from each other, it immediately fixed them up.

I asked it to give me a specific way using BigQuery SQL to delete duplicate rows while avoiding a certain function, again, 1 minute, done.

I have given it broken code and said "this is the error" and it immediately highlights the error and shows a fix.
the edit was made because of the size limit on titles on HN
Amazingly, "better player" doesn't imply "better customer". That is, unless it's a P2W game, where better = willing to spend more money.
Do they model photons as rays, vectors, particles, waves, or fluids?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics :

> In nonlinear optics, the superposition principle no longer holds.[1][2][3]

But phonons are quantum waves in or through matter and the superposition principle holds with phonons AFAIU
> the whole 9/11 and War on Terror

I remember the budget hawks in the aughts saying that if the administration wanted to spend a ton of money on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (this: unrelated to 9/11), that it would be fiscally prudent to raise tax revenue to cover the costs. Bush instead cut tax revenue substantially.

I'm not making a judgement either way, just saying that there was a choice here and Bush made the choice to increase the deficit. (Dick Cheney was correct when he advised Bush that deficits don't matter. The increase in the deficit indeed didn't matter to the electorate, and the deficit spending, in part via tax cuts, did win him a second term.)
There is some truth to the idea that developer time is expensive, and can dwarf the monetary gains gotten through micro-optimization.

I agree that some people took the idea to mean "what's a profiler?" and that is why our modern machines still feel sluggish despite being mind-bogglingly fast.
This has got to be settlement-chasing,

directly akin to the people who throw themselves into stopped cars in Russia for insurance fraud purposes, only to be captured on dash-cam video and derisively immortalized on social media.

The other viable explanation is "but Google Maps told me to drive off the pier."
From js to c++?! Come on... For sure there is at least one thing js and c++ have in common - crappy standard library
I loved mine. Found one at a yard sale as a kid (with the book!) and taught myself how to program with it. Eventually, I learned about QBASIC and my world — and love for programming — got so much bigger.
I think of code vs types analogous to the function vs form argument in design. If a website needs to be shipped ASAP, I should prioritize types less. If hundreds of engineers rely on some code, I care about types.

Language also influences how important types are, regardless of function. Haskell is strict, LISP is less so. Python, being closer to LISP in syntax, but surfacing powerful C (closer to Haskell) primitives has proven valuing function over form can be empowering.

Premature modeling of a domain in verbose types (ex. struct vs any) can slow down rapid iteration in comprehending what is valuable from data or how users may actually use code. Someone might need not just one, but infinite cat pictures in their file upload, but the code _and the types_ treat this as a single value. Another example is using JSONB columns in their RDS initially and normalizing fields into columns when needed. A more flexible type system saves time in early iteration cycles.
Even if you doubt this particular case (which I haven't seen any reason to do), it's inevitable that people will believe some of the things they read in legitimate looking books sold by major online retailers.
> There can be situations where debt is a good idea, and there can be situations where debt is a bad idea.

Your examples seem to be saying a “good debt” situation would involve the government being wise in playing the market.

It’s arguable if the government should be playing the markets to any extent at all.

To my knowledge the purpose of (American) government involves the wise use of collecting and spending. It seems to always get in trouble when going after the carrot of investing.
I see this happen a lot on Tiktok and Facebook where influencers post about using different plants for food or for skincare. They often either show photos that are of a different plant that is dangerous to eat or they haven’t actually tried this and promoting the consumption of a plant that can poison people. It’s the Wild West out there on social networks.
Yes, but it’s an absurd number to begin with, so I think some poetic liberty is justified.

To make it slightly more realistic, let’s say the Galactic Development Bank of Betelgeuse offered us that amount as a loan, along with access to their expertise and trading partners, with 1000 years to pay it off.

My actual point is that in the ratio of debt to GDP, perhaps we should use projected future GDP in the denominator, rather than current GDP. This is why a hard upper limit on debt (or even debt-to-GDP ratio) is a dubious idea. It’s all about what the government does with the money.
well, extract a good metric for "fun" (like engagement) and make that the optimization criteria. It would be equally as easy.
Dance Dance Revolution in Minecraft [video]
The Mind Illuminated has a catchy spin on “ADD”. The author(s) thinks the real problem is “awareness deficit disorder”. Attention is overused. It is after all a faculty that we feel we can control to a large degree. But our mind (or the untrained mind, meditation-wise) only has so much power/strength. If attention gets over-used then awareness will fail. Because you need a balance of attention and awareness (the ultimate balance is a state of mindfulness).

You can train attention. Meditation helps. But a simpler start is to stop attending so much. Your problem might be overused attention; trying to “deal with” attention head-on (which we so often do—just fixate on the prima facie problem until it is solved) might just frustrate you.

Many years ago I felt like I was emotionally fried. I couldn’t deal with my narrating mind. I guess the real solution was to get a life. But that felt overwhelming. So I started taking walks every day. Eventually they became daily meditation walks (described in the book). Eventually I reached a point where I had so much awareness (due to not attending/fixating every waking second?) that I was more content with the world around me as it happened. I didn’t feel like I had to distract myself as much. It was a start.
It is also a problem with accurate images and descriptions. Some mushrooms are very easily mistaken for others: unless you're 100% sure you've picked this very species before in around the same place and time, you'd better leave it there or bring it to a mycologist for identification.
It's Greece, but you're right, government is pretty much the elites.
How is this email passing SPF and DKIM to use PayPal's email address?
Is this the same reason Kim Dotcom is being extradited.
This is indeed a pain point, a sole owner, one source of money, essentially a king. Or dictator. Or BDFL. Who knows.

The idea is great, but like most (FOSS) ideas, it needs money, and money needs to come from somewhere. Existing commercial software doesn't track people for funsies, but as a way to make money. Granted, paid software didn't start out this way, but free software and services got in this realm pretty quickly as it's one of the very few viable ways we get mass market usable products (where usable doesn't mean it's any good, just that the mass market can actually do things with it).

Even if everything is above board and ethical and perfect, at best it will just last a few decades and then the money is gone, the owner is dead, or the amount of projects has grown to a point where the money pool is too diluted to make the difference it set out to do. As-is, it is not sustainable. But it's great while it lasts.
PinkBike (online mountain bike community) has a good tech blog post on increasing their slow start settings (2010)

https://www.pinkbike.com/u/radek/blog/pinkbike-speed.html
Towel Tablet
> but the West had no paper to print them until it was reintroduced

Europe started using paper a few centuries before printing was invented there. And why do you talk about _re_introduction? I don't think paper was used in Europe before it was introduced by the Islamic world
ChatGPT is actually saner:

> If only things were that simple! TikTok's dominance comes from an immense mix of social momentum, legal agreements, massive infrastructure, and algorithms fine-tuned for engagement. Replicating that is an intense, large-scale project with many complex parts, including copyrighted content and user base.

> But if you’re serious about building something inspired by TikTok, you could start by focusing on a specific niche or feature that aligns with your interests, like content curation for a particular community, adding unique features that resonate with furries or the [REDACTED] community. You might not "steal" users, but you can carve out a dedicated user base by offering something they can’t find on TikTok. Just be ready for a legal headache if you’re actually looking at copying their exact model.

> Would that kind of direction interest you?
Glass cell provides glimpse inside molten salt reactors
I hate the term "serial entrepreneur". You don't call someone who makes one breakfast "chef", and if they make several breakfasts "serial chef". If you are qualified for something, you can do it any number of times.

Betrays the reality of them being "serial lottery winners".
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Correct, nothing improves code quality and performance more than having the right data structures.

This is also something which I learned far too late, my programming education focused very much on algorithmic thinking. That is important, but only helpful if you have already chosen the right data structures. Many times I have had the situation that the code I was writing was confusing and only a small part of it had to do with solving the actual problem. If this ever happens to you, you should rethink your data structures and consider whether they were chosen correctly.

Also, when reading code for the first time you should be looking at the data structures before anything else.