skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes wonder if I'm just biased or if performance really did get worse. It would be cool to have an anonymous Alexa coder or someone who got the axe there chime in as sometimes happens.

But I think the main problem was their entire vision for monetization was just nonsensical according to what I read. So I think they wasted many hours of effort on that front instead of trying to make devices people found enjoyable to use or that actually delivered value by working well.

People don't really want to buy blind via a device if they don't have to, and if they did it would likely come at the substitution of buying directly from the site. They nixed their web interface, and the mobile app performed poorly. They invested talent in coming up with buttons to reorder very specific stuff like laundry detergent, but something like their "Subscribe & Save" seems like a more sensible approach to that problem.
start with creating a smol indie game you yourself would want to play
NASA's problems with launch tower for SLS are getting worse
It’s not like that at all. Hallucinations are complete fabrications because the weights happened to land there. It has nothing to do with how much thought or double checking there is.

You can trick an LLM into “double checking” an already valid answer and get it to return nonsense hallucinations instead.
Sure, it’s ok for them to decide what kind of content they want on their own platform.

Edit: not ok for govt to coerce them into it though
> it's one of those "avoiding this activity for an hour could prevent you from dying painfully" things

If you do this often enough, for extremely unlikely scenarios that don't sum up to a meaningful aggregate risk of dying, you might very well have a negative return on investment though. (Time spent worrying about an unlikely sudden death is time you don't spend enjoying life, or at least avoiding a slightly earlier but much more likely death.)
Wrong. Optimus stoically raw-dogged the trade show rather than showing off. It demonstrated a level of parity with humans, especially tech bros that the competition will envy and try to emulate.
Everything You Know About "Blue Monday" Is Probably Wrong [video]
(Native level two romance languages. Very poor French, but I can obviously read it with two Latin languages and 8 years of schooling)

Oh I agree that the translator understood the nuance and I agree why "we" was proposed. The translation is correct, as is the original one.

I was proposing another alternative that incorporates the cold impersonality of "on" whilst not sounding pompous. The server was being viscous, not pompous.

I don't think my translation is "correct"; it hinges on my reading that the server was rude and nasty. A reading based on living in latin countries but also one based on my English Canadian prejudice that French Canadians all speak English but resent having to (don't fault them for it either)

I find translations fascinating as a subject. While there can be a bad translation, there is never a perfect one.
You may not have experienced this but as soon as you're cute online you get direct messaged solicitations for photos, some offering hundreds of dollars for nudes. Once you've quit your job because your OnlyFans page took off you're stressed about keeping your numbers up so you start asking strangers to "collaborate" with to produce more content.

I know its progressive to consider sex work a perfectly good career choice but some of us still think its worth encouraging children to have some degree of modesty and keep sex a taboo topic to be explored with someone you trust.

And if you haven't noticed prostitution on instagram and twitter you just don't know the lingo, but basically city names + dates in the bio is a solicitation to DM for rates. "NYC 9/12-9/22, Miami 10/20-31", that kind of thing. Actually the one thing that impressed me about twitter is how much of a bubble this is, you don't stumble upon porn accounts in general, but once you follow a couple of accounts that promote sex work even politically (which I think people totally have the right to do, I do prefer the nordic model to whatever america is doing) you'll see hundreds of these.
Garlic Bioactives and Its Role in Alleviating Oral Pathologies
>$2.7 billion. Such a cost is nearly twice the funding it took to build the largest structure in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which is seven times taller.

> NASA officials informed us they do not intend to request a fixed-price proposal from Bechtel
> shouldn't be allowed to put up securities they own as collateral for loan

Is that because the people making the loan aren't sophisticated enough to price those securities correctly in this context and so are being taken advantage of?

> a popular kind of financial engineering among very wealthy people

To use assets without a single universal price as collateral? I think everyone does this.
I do "professional" engraving as a side gig, mostly turning scratch people's make on lined paper into actual sheet music, and I exclusively use lilypond
Upon reading that comment, it sounds to me like they were present...
> Israel may equate Palestinians with Hamas

Does it? Israel provides them with food, water, electricity. Treats them in hospitals. Warns them about incoming strikes. I don't know any other country in the world which treats a hostile population like that in time of war. I also don't know a single other war with such a low civilian-to-combatant killed ratio. Usually it's somewhere around 9; in this war, the estimates are around 1-2.
> User remarks about irony of free API list having no free API. > Gets a response dramatically moralising the comment.

The humour of jaded online idealists knows no bounds
Cause eventually you realize that we’re here to plant trees we won’t see fruit.
Amazon wants to squeeze you if possible, and probably change things around so you’re not happy anymore and sell you back the things you’re using today.
Overall it'd be cheaper compared to Sydney and maybe one or two other cities, but more expensive than the rest. Plus the obvious, that living in the middle of nowhere can be quite isolating.
At that point so much of our lives would start to be recorded digitally the internet could act as a kind of shared memory for the whole community
Definitely C#. You’ll find tons more resources. F# is fantastic, but it’s not a good *first* programming language.

A lot of what you’ll learn when you first learn programming is going to be applicable in any language though. Once you’re comfortable with C#, and can understand the difference between imperative, object-oriented, and functional programming, you’ll be in a good place to check out F# (or any other language, really).

Good luck with your learning!
> Natural products and traditional medicines are of substantial importance. Modern medicine may not be the sole antidote for the ailments prevailing today. Therefore, people positively perceive ‘back to nature’ approaches like phytotherapy as plant products are rich in pharmaceuticals

Once sentence in, I know this is going to be slop
It's certainly still being used. I use bounded model checking, which performs a kind of symbolic execution using an SMT solver.

For more complex things that aren't as easy to model check, such as the formal verification of a deeply recursive algorithm or a cryptographic algorithm against specification, I'll use Coq or Lean to define an abstract machine model, then either extract code from this model into C, C++, or machine code, or when something hand written is required, extract code into an intermediate format, then import hand written source code into this same format, then prove the two equivalent.

Fuzzing is useful, but fuzzing serves different goals. With fuzzing, you can find execution paths that are incorrect, with a reproducer. However, these paths must be reachable with the fuzzer within the search depth defined. Fuzzing can find failure cases, but it can't prove the absence of such cases. Model checking can be significantly faster if well engineered, and it can be used to prove the absence of classes of errors. The same goes with constructive proofs in a proof assistant. The two approaches are complementary. One doesn't replace the other.
Ask HN: Who works with Medicare claims data (VRDC)?
I am very curious about the community around the Medicare VRDC. Do you work with the VRDC? Let's share our tips, tricks and code. I for one have written an R package (https://github.com/fabkury/phea/) that is useful inside the VRDC.

## For those who don't know about the VRDC:

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) release every quarter billions of health insurance claims from tens of millions of beneficiaries through their Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC, https://resdac.org/cms-virtual-research-data-center-vrdc). Access costs $40k/year for the project fee, plus $15k/year per additional user and other optional add-ons.

The VRDC offers both Databricks and SAS environments for data manipulations. A few months ago, they started also offering optional compute units where users can launch their own R or Python scripts, as opposed to working through Databricks.
Ok, cool, but would you pay a monthly subscription fee for the ability to talk out loud to get lights to turn on, instead of hitting the existing light switches?

Because that's what they're asking.
Pay isn't going to stop them if that's the point
Reminds me of that recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021951

"Don't forget the cavernous structures which people are forbidden to enter, buzzing with the activity of objects controlled by those enchanted crystals, like the magic brooms in Fantasia, performing myriad arcane rituals with rare and exotic materials to make more enchanted crystals."

"And the high priests guarding the knowledge."

"They perform elaborate cleansing rituals on any item brought into the crystal-writing room. When they enter, they wear special clothing, lest the impurities of the outside world taint the crystals."

Whether we see the world as sad and dull or beautiful and magick is a question of perspective.
Forget the answers, Stack Overflow is just a toxic place to ask a question. You might get lucky from searches where others had a similar question, but god help the poor soul who makes an ask. I've ASKED AI more things this week then the last decade+ with SO, and get what I'd consider comparable quality of answers for my very specific questions. At this point, why bother with SO?
amazon is great when it comes to operations. Delivering a broad range of goods cheaply, reliably and quickly to your doorsteps? Check.

Developing a great digital product? None has ever worked for them.
> We are happy to announce that the WineHQ organization will be taking over as the stewards of the Mono Project

I'm a little out-of-the-loop here.

Does this announcement mean that Microsoft used to fund developers to work on this project, and now will cut that funding?
A living journal of some sort?
https://twiiit.com/emergetools/status/1828490449881047401

https://nitter.poast.org/emergetools/status/1828490449881047...

https://xcancel.com/emergetools/status/1828490449881047401

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/emergetools/status/182849044988...
"oh pretty please? digi-jobs if you are super helpful for internetbucks!" there is no way that they are testing the effectiveness of this garbage
> Amazon is planning to sell a paid subscription for an artificial intelligence-revamped version of Alexa

> you’ll still be able to use the current version of Alexa without a subscription fee.

It seems as if the current experience will remain free and this an available upgrade.
I'm not soiling myself with youtube searches atm, but Pecos Hank has a fabulous channel and video on the subject of lightning types. Here's a link to a brief description on his site:

https://pecoshank.com/anvil-crawler-lightning-video-and-fact...

The guy is an artist and a scholar. Highly recommended.
I beg to differ.

https://rumble.com/v21dicq-dr.-peter-mccullough-and-dr.-asee...

https://rumble.com/v2nxfvq-international-covid-summit-iii-pa...
Discussion here as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41370877
The kindle is pretty good.
I imagine — so I admit it might not be the case — your childhood contained ample food and not a lot of violence, want, and abuse. That’s why I used “privilege.” There is probably a better word but I can’t think of it.
Reminds me of Filippo Brunelleschi; in the 1400s he grokked structural mechanics far better than anyone else and protested supporting the domed ceiling of the Pazzi chapel with columns. All the engineers of the time made the case he was wrong, and such a large dome needed support — he built the columns and had them finish a few inches short of the ceiling. This was discovered many years later and has become part of architecture lore.
> I've actually been fired over this,

Why exactly where you fired? Because you used python?
E2EE with the service provider unable to decrypt your data, that's the gold standard that messaging app are judged by. Anything less is dishonest marketing.
It's funny how different users can have such opposite experiences on the same platform. My Facebook feed contains zero political rage bait or soft-core porn. Mostly I see pictures of kids, pets, and vacations. I assume the difference comes down to who you follow and which posts you like, but the algorithm is totally opaque so who knows?
"..friend or relative.." "..nipples.." damn it, so you were the one that triggered years of the worst porn titles
The evidence that C is broke is pretty overwhelming at this point.
given how easy it is to run into merge conflicts doing normal things with git, I can't say that I'd agree that in practice git is a CRDT either.
So true. The thing that always shocked me outside of the US was the inverse. The habit to clean hands soap or just a moist towel but then the lack of soap and sanitation in the restrooms.
> What are some real world apps using CRDTs that have really good experiences?

Since people loved my other hot take :)

I suppose "good experience" can be subjective, but Blockchains are also in practice a distributed trust-less CRDT that is used by a LOT of people.

- With redundant validation, across more than 2 nodes, used to solve for conflict resolution.

- and proof of work/stake used to solve for distributed trust.

Again, academically, maybe not a CRDT because they will not "always converge". Hard forks can happen. However, pragmatically, Blockchains are a CRDT.
In my most charitable assumption, this is just ragebait farming engagement. Nobody would endanger their own safety saying these things in a serious tone. Not in public, anyway.
I was thinking about changing my personal website's font to a monospaced one.

Anybody know which ones are particularly good for long-form text readability?

Bonus points if it's on Google Fonts.
You’re missing the point. Musk has a track record of offering services to remove competitors and then reneging on that once it’s no longer necessary. (Similar to the hyperloop: the whole purpose was to divert funding from public transit programs not produce anything actually useful)

Adopting a “free” starlink service that later becomes $$$ only once there’s no alternative is overtly worse than the current state.
Human Autosomal Nucleotide Positions Differing from Bonobo Instead Match Pig
SpaceX has not yet turned an annual profit. They have recently denied their own shareholder employees access to company financial statements.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/08/27/despite-rare-profi...
The imputed tax rate is misleading since it conflates unrealized capital gains--assets that have appreciated in value but have not been sold--with income. I would be cautious about imposing "cures" that may cause more problems than the current level of income inequality.
Can someone explain to me please why CRDTs are slow?

This article suggests the future to me: https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2023-05-04/merklizing-the-ke...

Take a look at this and compare it to Y.js or automerge: https://github.com/canvasxyz/okra-js
I worked at companies that had telex in the mid-to-late 1990s. They were the preferred method for some overseas communications.
You misunderstand the concept of a placebo.
No right click -> New tab / Middle click is a killer in 2024.
Also: iptables to nftables
That's majorly confounded by a significantly higher percentage of female students at Caltech being transfers, as opposed to beginning there their freshman year: https://www.clarkecollegeinsight.com/blog/how-to-get-into-ca...
telnet is always going to be useful for connecting to a TCP port that might be open, not just deprecated port 23.
Matryoshka virtualization
> Easy. Share price x number of shares.

This doesn't work if the shares have low-to-zero liquidity, similar to housing or land. In environments where it can take days to find a buyer, the price slippage could be more than the tax itself.
As a long time ‘screen’ user, one thing I appreciated was that you could count on it to be installed on almost any machine you ssh into. Is ‘tmux’ one of those things where it’s safe to assume it’ll always be there?
I've seen punny/phishy names being used Onboarding->Contact List->Phishing pivots.

Hernan R Resources, Sam S Upport, etc are the worst ones; the best of them I've pridefully jotted down.

WFH magnifies this attack vector; the internet didn't seem to name it yet, but I'm sure "onboardishing" is gonna be in the annual security training in a few years.
The aircraft carrier will hit the shallows, but that massive inertia can "carry" it for decades without any new thrust.

Remember when Microsoft was able to fight off the Web with piss-poor Internet Explorer? Until it didn't.
I think blockchains are overkill because they're trying to get a global consensus about every transaction in the world, which is very expensive (with electricity, stake etc.). They're trying to solve the additional problem of preventing "forking" of a history. Whereas if you allow forks then CRDTs are more lightweight.

Internet Computer canisters, Merkle DAGs (like IOTA), Hashgraphs and Holochains are probably a better architecture than Blockchains.

Having said that, I think Merkle Trees are the future, for minimizing the amount of sync. They let you see exactly what changed, and so on.

https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2023-05-04/merklizing-the-ke...

https://github.com/canvasxyz/okra-js

There's already great software done by Dat (later called Hypercore, now called Holepunch) that has an append-only log based on the SLEEP protocol. That's essentially all you need, in my opinion. They've built everything from key-value databases (hyperbee) to full-scale file systems (hyperdrive) on top of it. Beaker browser has been built on top of it.

I mean, merging state-based CRDTs is cool, but you may as well just use operation-based CRDTs with something like Hypercore or the older PouchDB.
I would want the git-like tool to have semantic diffs, and so have much better conflict resolution as a result; not CRDTs and more obtuse & confused conflicts than it's already capable of.
I worked at Datavant for 3 years building a network for deidentified data exchange.
Usually catch up on the little things. Little updates on things that aren’t my main project and don’t need any meetings, consults, or anything else. Clean up my email, purge downloads/screenshots/etc, organize things so when I’m having a better day I can have things easier, and stuff like that.

Or, if there is something that absolutely has to get done, I suck it up and get it done, so I can go do nothing when I’m done, while not having to think about it anymore.
Whenever I run into a problem these days, I just ask AI directly.
Fly.io has been working in a similar space (globally-distributed apps) for a while; their blog posts are a great place to start reading.
> APIs are leaky abstractions as all abstractions are.

Not all abstractions are leaky. Not at all.
Didn't follow instructions to the T. E.g: install a port knocker vs implementing a port knocker in python
Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) service is already free and doesn’t require relying on a shady company…. You cannot transmit a message, but the devices are compact, lightweight, and rugged. I always carry one hiking, boating, etc.
I didn’t say someone should be able to stop them from saying their stupidity. What I said was that they are not legitimately questioning the science.
Yes because undocumented migrants are highly motivated to pay back the loan versus making a bunch of money and going back to their country of origin.

Also have you talked to any Gen Z or millennial? Most cannot afford housing, why in the world would you introduce even more demand for scarce housing?
the party that controls election infrastructure is the kingmaker
thusly, if one observes the king that was made, one knows the party who decided
see: GW Bush victory in FL
see: Biden victory in >100% vote cities
Write a lecture about best practices to avoid burnout.

Computer science is such a new human endeavor that there is so much uncharted territory about what the future of training the next generation looks like.

Obviously, some pretty bad habits led to the massive amount of burnout I am seeing amongst computer scientists.
> Once sentence in, I know this is going to be slop

Is there something bothering you in your life right now, so that you are so eager to rush and angrily write something negative after reading 1 sentence of a 34 page article with 148 references, 22 authors, on an ad free website that covers in detail from first principles a naturally growing plant can have quite a lot of helpful medicinal properties?
Oh, misread it as an expressive "what a joke", rather than a literal "this is a joke"

This is why emojis and "/s" were created
> what happens when the US government suddenly owns notable (or even controlling) stakes in companies?

This is effectively similar to nationalization, along with the pros and cons that come with it.
Yes, that's what I use it for.

nc (netcat) is also similar.
These Are the Last Supercars to Offer a Manual Transmission
It's not that far fetched.

Someone is going to be the lead architect. If BSD works as well as Linux but the guy in charge has a preference for BSD, that's enough for them to go BSD.
I was also pretty shocked to read this extremely specific direction, given my (many) interactions with Claude.

Really drives home how fuzzily these instructions are interpreted.
It sure wouldn't hurt if they hired a Debian Developer to do it right, or maybe work through the process of turning an employee into a Debian Developer.
People on this website often have difficulty detecting sarcasm, you're not alone.
for me the most salient difference, harris is gung ho on the environment. expect limited oil and high energy prices
trump is the opposite - if nothing else he understands "cheap oil good"... doesn't really care either way about the environment, seeing as last EPA chief he appointed had a history of battling the EPA.
As an insider tester since the insider program existed... People on release branches are already on a beta OS.
Is this not an argument against vendor lock in? I'd argue that doesn't really apply to a FOSS project like Linux, and that BSD isn't sufficiently different to help diversity. If that was the goal, there are a ton of smaller OS projects that I think would make sense to fund. Like ReactOS.
Discussed 8 years ago on Feb 19, 2017, 52 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682116>

(Submitted as it happens by ... me.)

Not a dupe, "reposts are ok after a year or so": <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831566>.
Not so much for polling data, but some governments do allow access to coarse election data.

Australia's was enough that the unfortunately complicated math of their election system was repeatable and verifiable (Can't find the post about it, however)
I don't understand how Tornado Cash (DPRK tool to evade sanctions) + Office of Foreign Assets control made Etherum non-fungible either, sounds like rambling to me