skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also relevant;

In Praise of Idleness and The Conquest of Happiness both by Bertrand Russell.

On Doing Nothing by J.B.Priestly
I had a course my CS senior year in formal languages and automata theory over 20 years ago in the US.

Graph theory wasn’t covered. We had Calc 2, Statistics, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations and Logic. Assembly, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Standard ML, Ada and C++ were covered.
> Pigs were a fortuitous choice due to the fact that they are especially resistant to prion disease

Prions is the first thing that came to mind after reading the description. I had not idea pigs are resistant to it. TIL.
No PhD here, but I'd suggest reading as much content (books, articles, podcast) from Cal Newport as possible.

He has a great set of processes and academia-specific advice, plus he has the career to back it up: he was able to crank out several books while getting MS/PhD in CS at MIT.
It comes in many variants with different properties.
It is actually a pretty radical idea that isn't very widely accepted today.

It is easy to agree with it if you are talking about some racial minority.

Treating murderers or child rapists with the compassion you would want in their shoes is beyond most people.

It also has a number of very easy criticisms that can be set against it
As often happens with minimalistic approaches, it only looks interesting on very small and very simple examples.

After “How would they handle large data?” it turns into an unreadable mess.

Communication between elements is not covered, global deps, DOM updates scheduling, content projection, and so on - you “just don't need it” in small demo examples, but you do need it in the real apps.
Right, the veil of ignorance AFAICT (Rawls may have addressed this somewhere) sidesteps the question of probability. Shouldn't you weight the interests of a group proportionally to the likelihood that you would have been born into such a group, i.e. by their relative population?
The real question here is who is willing to pay $10 million for such a bug.
You can connect tableau public to google sheets
Very parallel with the maxim (which, i confess, havent fully figured out, yet, but I find somewhat amusing)

(P. C. Hodgell) "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."
They were talking about imgui, so no. Unless dear imgui is secretly an immediate mode API on top of a retained mode renderer?

Also, weren't you literally arguing in another thread that performance didn't matter? Some calculation about Raspberry Pis and percentages of cores? I'm starting to wonder how good faith of an argument is trying to be put forward here.
RTO implies WFH. What are you returning from if not remote work?
Slackdump
Private Internet
When the task, or part of it, is np complete there is no way around. Model has to try all options till it find working one. In a loop. And this can be multi-step with partial fallback. That's how humans are thinking. They can see only to some depth. They may first determine promising directions. Select one, go dipper. Fallback if it doesn't work. Pattern matching mentioned is simplest one step solution. LLMs are doing it with no problems.
influencing the politics of the United States? Is there an alternative choice I have not heard of? I thought it was samesame in blue or red as it always has been.
Most people - just going by observation - appear to advocate policies based on who they actually are rather than on abstract principles. You're going to have to live with them voting.

Furthermore the argument that it is a bad idea isn't even strong. The veil of ignorance is powerful and interesting but voting is about different cultures negotiating to make decisions. That all but guarantees there will be different conceptions about what is fair that are not the veil of ignorance and those need to be respected. They aren't sociopaths, they just don't agree with you.
There are some subtle differences, and on rare occasion xargs won't do when:

1. the order of single line output results does not need preserved

2. long running parallel tasks are non-blocking for efficiency reasons

3. optionally need to include remote computers in a cluster

Toy example IP blacklist preparation:

cat ./banlist_ipv4.raw | parallel --ungroup --eta --jobs 24 "ipcalc {} | sed '2!d' " | grep -Ev '^(0.|255.|127.)' > ./banlist_ipv4.formatted

In this toy case, the child processes may be loaded hundreds of thousands of times. Thus, the random exiting parallel child processes avoiding blocking/waits reduces runtime cost.

Its FOSS, people shouldn't feel entitled to complain about how authors share their works. =3
Understanding Online Propaganda in the Context of the Recent Protests in Nigeria
SilverBullet: Note-taking appl optimized for people with a [hacker mindset]
You're not wrong, but that is precisely the tradeoff: stored-value is more reliable but also more vulnerable.

It's reminiscent of the old NASA saying: "faster, better, cheaper: pick any two".
cool project.

how many successful deals have you intermediated?
No need to apologize. To clarify. I remember when JustinTV was basically 100% illegal (copyrighted) content.

That's how the service that we now know as Twitch built its resilient infra: battle tested with a bunch of teens broadcasting random stuff. No one batted an eye . So i was using JustinTV (Twitch) as an example of piracy that was overlooked, because because someone big had invested in it.
This is not the same thing at all, and Kant was not a socialist.
Slack will delete chats and files from free workspaces at end of August. Slackdump is even better than Slack's built-in export feature because it works without admin access and downloads attachments (e.g. images) in addition to messages. Exports can be browsed offline or loaded into Discord or Mattermost.

After trying some other tools/scripts to export/archive Slack, I was amazed how well Slackdump worked.
> Human cognition is much more than just our ability to string sentences together

animals without similar language capabilities dont seem to be too strong at reasoning. it could well be that language and reasoning are heavily linked together
True story: I bought a book on overcoming procrastination over 20 years ago. Still haven’t read it.
It's a little different than a DB with auth. They have to make those choices in the clear, and they have to follow whatever rules are enforced by the protocol while they do it.

Unlike a DB with auth, if the process is trustworthy then the people don't have to be. Can such a thing exist? I dunno, but there's no evidence yet that it can't, and golly it would be cool if it did.
Both Gore and Clinton were actual budget hawks. A big part of his campaign was highlighting the fact that the last few years had been budget surpluses, and talking about paying off the debt entirely.
That seems like an extraordinarily bad long-term strategy.
a.k.a Compound Effect, Tipping Point, Kaizen, Aggregation of Marginal Gains, Virtuous Cycle, Positive Feedback Loop, Self-Reinforcing System, Cumulative Advantage, Network Effect, Snowball Effect, Momentum/Traction.

Flywheels in engineering terms are short-term stores of energy to smooth out power delivery. It's not all that off the mark when used in the business sense unless it is presented by gurus as a free energy system and a symbol of envious easygoing.
Guess he should know about that, then.

My criticism of Hamilton is usually that the premise, setting the story of the founding of the US to <gasp>rap</gasp> feels like something an edgy high school teacher would do on a 90's family sitcom.
I think Kant's idea is important in its own right, but very different from what Rawls is talking about.

Kant is addressing the need for a moral philosophy to be coherent, in that you have to play out the consequences of what it would lead to. However, you are not asked to put yourself in anyone else's shoes; if you were a rich and powerful person, you might want to act in deference to rich and powerful people, and think it would be great for everyone to act that way universally.

Rawls is asking you to create a rule book the you would be willing to follow no matter who you were in society. If you are rich, you are supposed to imagine if you would still support the rules if you were poor. So from our previous example, would you want everyone to defer to rich and powerful people if you were poor?

The important aspect of The Original Position is that you are supposed to come up with a system where you wouldn't be against it no matter who you were in society.
Since switching to GTD, I've removed most of my pre-planned blockers and it's working well. How is color coding helping with the fact that according to GTD, only actual appointments should be put into the calendar?
I have a theory, to the effect that impacts on you are determined by the magnitude of the news as well as an exponential decay of the distance.

To take an extreme example, if Godzilla were to show up and level Tokyo today, that would clearly be terrible but the actual impact on me is much less than that some roads nearby are closed because of a marathon.

Unless I can do something to prevent Godzilla, there is no reason to follow the news from far away, except the leftover limbic system of my brain that still thinks its 10000 BC and we are in a small hunter gather band.
>As this warm air collides with cooler air from above, it forms an “inversion” layer of warmer air layered over cold air, which traps the ions.

I think this is reversed, inversions are usually cold air sitting atop warmer air. (Warmer air is lighter, defining the typical sequence with which an inversion is relative to.)
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AWS offers free training for the solutions architect exam. Their “well architected framework” is a must read. After that build a home lab and learn to use some open source log collecting and monitoring projects (elk, Prometheus grafana) those things could probably land someone a DevOps role in about three months of independent study.
I second the AWS recommendation. There are azure and gcp jobs but you don’t want them.
Id wage they could not create much if they had no exposure to other art or music in the first place. creation does not come from nothing. composers and artists typically imitate, its very well known.
Can you point to some relevant literature?
IMHO, he created RAG from documentation to provide more context for Claude, so he then can call Claude with a task like "Generate bindings in Rust language for C++ class Foo from the Bar library.".
GATT is great if you want to make yet another heart rate monitor. I was building a lock that worked over BTLE and I spent most of my time trying to get around the problems with GATT. It's been 8 years now but I believe that that there was a bunch of extra overhead that bloated the packets and the packets were too small. Resulted in too much back and forth etc. I really just wanted a socket. iOS eventually allowed you to interact directly with the Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol aka L2CAP. Seems like every time someone try to design a generic structure that does one job but is also extendable, it's a mess. Just give me the byte stream and move on. L2CAP doesn't seem to be accessible on the pico yet, https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib/issues/803
I know many companies I worked for in CA and CO did that at least for their parking garage gates but NOT for their building control readers, even though it was the same badge.
> which can be used to predict outcomes in novel situations,

the kind of predictions humans are extremely bad in the first place? most people cant even grok anything beyond basic math.
What if each of your followers was one second of your life
A a high level there's not much difference between template literals and JSX, they are both syntax-sugary ways to represent trees of essentially function calls.

> efficiently update just the changed portions

Since actually applying each change to the real DOM is too slow, the only way to efficiently update is to batch changes and then apply the delta to the actual DOM.

That means we need to keep track of some state, namely the previously applied state and the current goal state, which you then compare.

Now, you may have noticed that we've just independently invented the concept of diffing. And the extra state that needed to be tracked can be given a spiffy name, like "virtual DOM", since it's like the DOM, but not the real thing.

So, I'm quite unconvinced by Lit-html's claim that they are able to efficiently mutate the DOM without using a vDOM anywhere.

Either their method is not efficient (for example it falls over for rapid updates), or there is a data structure under the hood that is analogous to a vDOM, even if they prefer to give that data structure a different name.
Agreed. Plus the "Reduced from USD99 to USD20!" pitch is laughable.
My statement is absolutely true once you control for demographics.
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I also never sexually assaulted anyone in college and neither did anyone in my friend group. And yet! There were lots of sexual assaults on campus. It's possible for a small number of people to commit horrible acts without it requiring everyone to commit them or even see them happening.

Turning a blind eye to this or other similar problems (like stalking or catcalling or racial profiling or discrimination) doesn't help change the world for the better.

I'm glad you did the decent thing in college - some folks don't and the consequences for the victims are severe. I suggest we try, as a group, to ensure fewer and fewer sexual assaults happen like this and I think a critical part is recognizing that there are behavior patterns and statistics we can be informed by.
I thought it used to be free? When did that change?
Fortunately they seem to be using centralized services such as OpenAI's API, where they can get caught, rather than spinning up their own Llama instances.
I have a similar project. I scrape pages only to obtain page meta. It can use selenium, crawlee, i will also add puppeteer later.

The project is quite big, has mamy features.

It is my internet command center. I used it to check what's news on the internet.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
What is the evidence that the story is false then? You can't require a high standard to believe something is true but not that it's false. That would be a contradiction.
Despite this, in my experience, many Australians are scared to pirate. The American experience of harassing ISP letters and examples being made of individuals in court is well known.
Conversely, screen interrupts were at the core of Commodore 64 games, and of the demoscene. And also of arcade machines, NES and the whole next generation of consoles and non-IBM computers.

So I wonder why it wasn't added. It wouldn't have been hard, exactly (enthusiasts for the TIKI-100, a Norwegian educational 8 bit, have gotten into the habit of repurposing the printer interrupt by means of a dongle in the printer port).

Was the idea that educational machines shouldn't be too game-friendly?
What, are nation states trying to interfere in US elections on a real tight budget or something?
In the past, a lot of news outlets were prestige buys by the super wealthy. They would buy a news outlet so they could make sure that they have a place that will say everything they want to hear being said. This often allowed for some objectivity over subjects that the magnate didn't care about, but it put very strict limits on the ones that the magnate did.

Plus, the news has always been majority sponsored by publicity, and news rooms have always been careful to print or broadcast narratives that sit well with the people who give them the money. Few things have really changed in these dynamics.
This reminds me of one of the tweets that live inside my head and makes itself known every once in a while, about the Lion King movie: https://twitter.com/glowcoil/status/1204511618769588225 ("when the gc sounds warmer" https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/how-virtual-production-wo... )
Will there be a self-hosted version of H2LooP Studio in the future, or will it remain cloud-only?
It's possible they don't mean to kill the golden goose they just accidentally do it by making its cage too small and reducing the quality and quantity of its feed in order to squeeze out a few more bucks.
I was talking more SCIF, less prison.
> Just because an author of the New York Times article made some angry tweets and some people disagree with her narratives doesn't mean that they were fabricated.

No, the fact that even the families of the victims say they fabricated stories about their daughters, and that they had no sources outside government propaganda mouthpiece, is what makes the stories fabricated.
Intelligence is not a mathematical function
We know precisely what is inside. It is just computer code.
It’s already solved. It works well. Just walk away.
Even if a project/company doesn't have a CLA, I don't think that is any sort of guarantee that their license won't change in the future.
Yeah, that's something I definitely love to add in next few days. I plan to use one of the Test Dataset from GraphRAG paper.
There is a lot to unpack in this article.

>If you, like me, are unchurched and don’t draw your values from a religion, then where do you get them from? From what broad tradition do you acquire your sense of what is good, normal and worthwhile in life, and – if I can put it this way – your general vibe too?

>When I’ve asked my non-religious friends, colleagues and students this question, they’re almost always stumped. Their impulse is to say one of three things: ‘from my experience’, ‘from friends and family’ or ‘from human nature’.

I'm non-religious and I'd say none of these three things. I derive my value system from empathy and (from what I strive to be) logical consistency.

> ‘What society-or-civilisation-sized thing can you point to as the source of your values? I’m talking about the kind of thing that, were you Christian, you’d just say: “Ah, the Bible,” or “Oh, my Church.’’’

None, but why should a society-or-civilisation-sized thing be any more valid as a source for your values than anything else? There is no intrinsic wisdom in society-and-civilisation-sized things (quite the opposite could be argued). Ultimately the author's conclusion is basically that you need a religion in order to have a value system, and that liberalism is a sort of quasi-religion that can offer that. In fact, it is entirely possible to have a coherent value system that is not based on a religion, quasi-religion or mass-movement of any kind.
Wow! 0 seconds! Not bad!
Ah, and you'll trust your 9 year old to not talk to strangers online. Many such cases.

Internet is a wild west, without parental control where your 9 yo can go your kid is a click away from something that may disturb them for life. And it's your responsibility to protect them before at least they hit puberty. Don't fuckin trust your 9 yo to not go places on the internet, that's insane. That's just taking off the responsibility off your shoulders.
The trust placed in the US’s constitutional and legal frameworks to safeguard transactions is commendable but often doesn't reflect the full picture. While these systems are designed to prevent overt harm, they frequently fail to protect against subtler forms of exploitation prevalent in many capitalist enterprises. For instance, industries like fast food and tobacco not only legally sell products known to harm health, but they also heavily market these to vulnerable populations, maximizing profit at the expense of public well-being.

This issue isn't just about individual interactions or the inherent honesty of our society; it's about systemic structures that prioritize profit over people. The reality is that our economic model often allows, and sometimes encourages, practices that are detrimental to consumer interests but beneficial to corporate bottom lines.
Of course they are.. This is just a marketing piece by OpenAI
> If you disagree with him, you’re probably either a corrupt hypocrite, or on a corrupt hypocrite's payroll.

I agree with a lot of what you said but not this; this kind of thinking is a problem.

I love John Oliver and think lots of his content is funny and good. I also, however, notice that his coverage tends to gloss over some things or outright get things wrong when I look into it more. While not ideal this seems reasonable to me - most ACTUAL REPORTING does an abysmal job in this way and LWT is a COMEDY show. I have no problem with John Oliver nor the show but I think a "nobody can disagree on this in good faith" stance is a bad take and one that John Oliver himself would probably be against.
Any idea why Xeons would still contain this feature? Is it for backwards compatibility for their corporate customers or are there reasons that someone would still use it in modern applications in 2024?
How was your experience using Qt with Rust? Is it awkward writing models and QObjects in Rust?

I'm a fan of QML and would love to use Rust with it if pleasant Qt bindings are finally there.
Frame hacks with sys._getframe necessarily imply dynamic scope not lexical scope. Dynamic scope does not work with nested functions, including comprehensions. See this issue with the htm library, https://github.com/jviide/htm.py/issues/11
Nobody in their right mind is carrying a separate camera with them everywhere they carry their phone.
How do you juggle errands and other ad-hoc responsibilities? I really like your approach and I’ve implemented something similar but I struggle with that 3rd bucket I’m trying to get at. I would really appreciate your input!
You're not alone.
Someone suggested that the W3C should convene a Community Group to discuss JSX, but the grown guys involved in writing standards immediately scrapped the idea.
Rules that are fair for everyone regardless of sex, gender, class, race, religion, able-bodiedness etc? Must be socialism.
Yup, in order to scale this approach to any real size (and still have confidence that everything is working together like you expect), a proper reactivity solution is needed.

For those that appreciate this approach of JSX returning concrete DOM elements, Solid works exactly like this, with the addition of a proper reactivity layer.
The difference between Roseart and Crayola being left in the sun
Which specific smaller models?
True. You were at least 10x more productive in Delphi than VC++
There's lots of assumptions here that we've got examples to disprove:

> but people also apply logic and abstract thinking

Which people? If we universally did that as a default, elections would look massively different.

> A LLM is incapable of solving a problem that's similar to one that it was trained on, but with slightly changed requirements

Getting good answers for coding questions on my private code/databases disproves this. The requirements have been changed significantly. I've been through ~20 turn chat with LLM investigating a previously unseen database, suggesting queries to get more information, acting on it to create hypotheses and follow up on them.

> A LLM is also incapable of learning, once you point out their error,

This is the standard coding agent loop - you feed back the error to get a better answer through in-context learning. It works.

> or of admitting that it doesn't know.

Response from gpt: «I apologize, but I'm not able to find any reliable information about a person named "Thrust Energetic Aneksy."»
Long Live WordStar
lol yeah although tbf American car fatality rates are pretty bad too
I guess me and my Fuji X-E3 are out of our minds then.

I like taking good photos, so I carry a camera.
What if I don't and just access the cache whether I want directly? What if I take a cached picture and print it and put it on my wall?

The bit copyright idea is so flawed it almost feels satire.
It seems to do both:

https://hkalbasi.github.io/zngur/tutorial.html#calling-c-fro...

It sound like your quoted text is just saying that it’s not as ergonomic, you cannot use arbitrary C++ types directly in Rust, but you can use arbitrary Rust types in C++.