skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes asked people on HN, what news sites they consider to be of decent quality. And npr.org was recommended several times.

Seeing this cheap manipulative article suggests they were mistaken.

PS.

Maybe his 12 years sentence is completely unjust, I don't know.

But titles like this... How about "A man is sentenced to death after having cofee for breakfast" for an article about Charles Manson? (I suppose he had cofee sometimes, so formally a true title).
Always has. Wealth doesn’t change you, it simply amplifies who you already were.

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Supposing that there are natural laws, it might still be that there is no algorithm that can apply them in their entirety, if they depend on one or more undecidable problems. E.g., some people postulate that hypercomputation is physically possible, which by definition can't be expressed by an algorithm. But while the existence of such things can't be ruled out, I'd say we don't have any real evidence in favor of them.

Alternatively, the natural laws might simply contain an infinite amount of information, which could never be stuffed into a finite algorithm. E.g., if the ratio between the electron mass and one of the quark masses is an uncomputable real number. Or if there are infinitely many laws, governing deeper and deeper structure ad infinitum past the subatomic level. The latter has some philosophical arguments against it (why would we apparently be near the top of the infinite structure?), but the former is consistent with the apparent continuum that physical constants reside in.
Oh that range reduction. :) I’m aware of the technique, but thanks I did misunderstand what you were referring to. I don’t know what Nvidia hardware does exactly. For __sinf(), the CUDA guide says: “For x in [-pi,pi], the maximum absolute error is 2^(-21.41), and larger otherwise.” That totally doesn’t answer your question, it could still go either way, but it does kinda tend to imply that it’s best to keep the inputs in-range.
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> There's absolutely no way finding other examples on github would have been faster or higher quality.

How do we ascertain its quality? The problem is this absolute trust in your reply. How do you know what it tried to "explain" was the right explanation?

At least when you search and find examples you do evaluate potentially multiple solutions.
For a good example of this, with a bit of the underlying mathematics see:

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
Development log here:

https://devforum.play.date/t/zero-zero-perfect-stop-train-si...

Looks like the game was pseudo-3D up until 2023, but sometime before 2024-05-19 they switched to a video-based approach.
My dispensary has a strain called Cream & Cheese that's 8.43% THC/15.42% CBD. I like it because I can smoke a whole joint and not get overly high. It's still pretty pricey though, because my state has a small medical program. So, unless there's a sale, what I do is I get the more potent bud and then mix it with CBD bud that I order online.
Best stack to learn today for web apps?
I have an engineering degree (but not computer engineering) and 15+ years experience working senior roles in product management but not writing code.) I can hack code together and I've got a good understanding of the basics but I'm not currently able to do anything production-grade. I've decided I want to learn how to develop web apps; with a focus on apps that leverage LLMs. I use a Windows computer and would prefer to not migrate to Mac.

I'm looking for a list of specific technologies and tools I should learn on this journey of building a proper production grade SaaS app.

My current list:
- Linux

- Bash

- GitHub

- Python

- SQL

- PostgreSQL

- Docker

- Many things AWS

- Django

- LangChain

I plan to learn by doing. I've got an app in mind and will learn each of the tools in the process of building it. Anything you would add/subtract or recommend?
Photons to Photos
The best fix would be to stop making the penny altogether but that's a no-go. A possible one is to stop making the penny but keep the prices the same, down to the cent. When you check out your total is priced to the nearest nickel. If you pay in electronic form you get the total down to the penny. also, if you want to deal with the cent total you can bring in the pennies you have at home. As they come back to the bank, they would get sent back to the mint for recycling. In time people will just lose interest and it won't matter anymore.
> With the rise of gig work, constant firings and layoffs,

I’m honestly fascinated that people think gig work, firing, layoffs and 30-year mortgages are recent phenomena.

If you had to pick a point in the last century to enter the job market, now is certainly not the best time. However it is far, far from the worst time.

I think it speaks to just how distorted the tech job market was in recent years. For a couple years it felt like everyone was hiring, nobody got laid off, and you could always get a job as long as you had a pulse and could name a programming language. That wasn’t normal but many people’s expectations very quickly reset to that.
Since we don’t know which partner it is and we don’t have any other proof that shows that they’re not just lying about what the tech can do (or confused), that’s more of a salesperson’s unverifiable tall tale than a smoking gun.

Some reporter would have to dig deeper to get to the bottom of it.
> I wonder what the underlying angle is here.

I'm not sure what you're asking/suggesting?
The basic concept of Phalanxes date back to 2500BC at least. Greek hoplites might be more recent, but it’s a surety that the basics were in place long before that.

Full body armour (probably expensive), along with swords suggest that’s this was probably the armour of someone high ranking, rather than a common soldier.
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SpaceX's Starlink assets were frozen before X was banned.
This also affects a lot of people who have been locked up in jail or prison.
LLMs...60 percent of the time it works every time.
It does seem like playing with words a little bit, by taking extreme definitions in both directions, from highly regulated machine, to random lump of gooo. By taking the extreme definitions, he's been able to eliminate any of the common ground, to make a cell not a machine.

But just looking at mitochondria as an example, and ATP transport. That looks very repeatable, machine like. It isn't like mitochondria just suddenly change function, or form out of random goo and change shape and function, they are pretty much transporting ATP. That is what they do. It is highly regular and repeatable and built from a blue print.

The self regulating goo is nice idea, I think using it to say we aren't machines is the stretch.
Caffeine will do that to you.
I absolutly dont trust it blindly at all. Where did you get that from?

I kept asking it questions and stepping through the debugger until I understood its implementation.
How do I know it's implementation is correct? Because I can see the results, I can see the data sturctures in memory, I can step though it and understand it - I know what electron densities around atoms look like, and I kept iterating on the code after it made mistakes, helping it and fixing it together, until it was finished. I just kept asking questions and interating so I could learn what I needed to of GLSL so that I could get it "un-stuck" when it hit a dead end or got caught in a loop.

I dont expect it to come up with the correct implementation straight away, what I'm saying is the enormous productivity increase kept momentum and enthusiasm up so much, I was able to implement something new and novel, something that would otherwise not have been created.
A more complex way they are currently used is for proving arbitrary computation.

One of the most obvious flaws of blockchains is that every node needs to re-run every transaction to know that the block is valid, leading to the same computation being run thousands of times.

Instead of having to do this there are new Layer2 chains like Polygon zkEVM or zkSync that post a compressed blob of transaction data and a ZK proof that all transactions in that data are valid according to the rules of the EVM. This makes the chain 1000x more efficient as the computation only needs to be run once and verified 999 times.

The proving is still slow and expensive which is why this isn't fully rolled out, but it's getting faster very quickly with both software improvements and custom ASICs for proving.
I know it's important to do science that comes to obvious conclusions, but sometimes the interiority-centric framework of psychology seems comically ill-fit for topics like this

In most countries in the world, money is what allows you to have any control over your life. For most people who aren't already rich, their having money relies on being employed, and we tend not to describe people who don't work because they're retired as "unemployed". Thus, people who are long-term unemployed likely feel that they lack control of their lives because this is true. I guess it's good to know that they are aware of their situation. It would be weirder if they weren't
I don't think there's such thing as a founder "mode", just good founders and shit founders, and anyone who thinks they can turn it on and off is definitely a shit founder.
Re: scoped

In response to your comment The ZK proof can prove anything, like that the password has enough special symbols and numbers - you definitely do not need "ZKPs" to do this trivial task.

and

> There's no way to check that someone's age is old enough with just a hash

Yeah you can, you log them in then link them to that userData with an identifier - typically an email address or unique user ID. You can easily write the login API to know nothing but hashes, or you can write it to respond with - to use your example that user's age - if the password is correct (without ever actually knowing the password).

Re: Passport verification

Anybody can verify any document with enough identifying information about the document and a registry to match it up to. You don't need a private/public key library wrapped around any functions to accomplish that, but the government probably requires the photo for a reason. Maybe you can verify the document, but a lot of services are going to require photo identification regardless of what your library can do without a photo. Again trying to find what problem this solves. Would have been way cooler if you said it verified faces with passport photos - that's the hardest part.
So, either these ad-tech companies are involved in the biggest privacy scandal of all time, or else they are involved in massive fraud by selling a non-existent service. Bad look either way.
For real? On mobile the feature menus open up and above my scroll view.

Also before the first paint finished the layout shifted.

Don’t get me started on the middle my browser cookie window that blocked the entire page…
Not yet, until they do, quite literally.

One of the principles Brazilian Law is based off is something called "Principle of Inertia" (which I can't find a proper translation since I keep stumbling into sixth grade Physics).

It reasons that the Juditiary Power will must not and does not have to act unless provoked to do so.

In practice, this means that while the law states that platforms operating in Brazil need a legal representative, that is not required or enforced until there's a reason to. In this case, it could be if anyone ever sues Bluesky, if they collect payments in local currency or transfer money in/out of the country, or if they provide a service that is regulated such as medical or financial advice.

So far, none of these have happened, or have not happened in a scale or frequency that has prompted action.

I expect that as people migrate over to Bluesky they will eventually be required to provide a representative or follow the fate of Twitter.
Privacy policies override laws.
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> That and every mobile OS shows very obvious warnings whenever media capture is being used

Does that show up with the always-on "hey siri/google" listening?
Intelligence is hereditary to a significant extent
Other nations managed it. Australia withdrew the 1c & 2c coin in 1992.

It's a no-go because... ?
I had no idea the BF16 format was actually named "brain float". TIL.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/phones-listen-theory-debunked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVazBWGgg64

They're sending pretty much everything BUT audio.

Main reason is that audio is just tremendously inefficient compared to other signals. It's large and expensive to store and process and doesn't really give you that many bytes of information you can't get elsewhere for how expensive it is to handle.
I'm not a weedologist, but when there's such insane THC amounts nowadays (without CBD) it's much easier to overdo it.

Best to stick with good indica.
Which language are you using, and what kind of code are you writing? So far I've had good results for Javascript/Typescript and SQL for web apps and Unreal C++ for game development. I can imagine it would do way worse though if you were writing something with a lot of domain-specific knowledge, really cutting-edge stuff or in a more obscure language like Fortran - but then again, I think that most developers would also struggle more in those conditions.

Part of what I find useful about LLMs is that it's almost like rubber duck debugging, except that the duck talks back. You have to explain to the LLM exactly what it is that you want it to do to get the right result, then it gives you a solution. Mostly the solution is right, but when it's wrong you'll better understand the problem through the act of writing it out.
> There's no reason that companies "need to scale".

That just seems silly to me. There are fundamentally lots of problems that require the labor of hundreds or thousands of people. You're not building a jet airplane with a team of 25, nor an advanced computer chip, nor, in AirBnB's case, a global peer-to-peer booking platform.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that many companies grow prematurely, or that they grow "just for growth's sake", but I don't like thinking that an answer to a problem is to just pretend it doesn't exist.
> this has nothing to do with LLMs at all

They are plugged into the backend of many search engines these days and they excel at picking out the nature of the pattern | result that a questioner wants and feeding back what they want to hear.

> ask around among people with serious graduate studies in mathematics and they will fill you in

I checked in with Terence Tao who I first met at an Australian math club get together in the mid 1980s .. he pointed out his 2007 paper on The Dantzig selector (a novel statistical estimator for linear regression) and seems fine accepting statistics as part of mathematics.

I'd hate to cite myself given my rather dull work, but I feel that Terrence surely qualifies as someone "with serious graduate studies in mathematics" given his Fields Medal and UCLA professorship and all that jazz.

Do you have someone more qualified in mind?

Emmanuel Candes, Terence Tao "The Dantzig selector: Statistical estimation when p is much larger than n," The Annals of Statistics, Ann. Statist. 35(6), 2313-2351, (December 2007)
Good write up. I've been doing the same since getting into the container business.
That’s great for making db operations easier. Just because you make a pseudo-API out of a view doesn’t mean you should.

The problems are in the realm of non-functional requirements. Quotas, security, protocol support, asynchronous batch and bulk data access, granular access control, throttling…you can try to do this with your db, and many have, but the square peg will eventually not fit anymore.
$90 every 30 days subscription. But... It includes 2 devices that are supposed to last 30 days each? Or not? Subscription isn't clear. Ugh...
https://gobyexample.com/ was helpful for me to understand what is possible with Go. Visit a topic that seems interesting or completely unfamiliar and try to think of a small exercise that will allow you to practice the topic.

Another thing I did was implement a common tool like `ls` or `tree` or `grep` using go. This will allow you to compare the output and performance of your program against the binaries provided by the OS.

Lastly, there are some really cool libraries out there (see https://charm.sh/) with great communities. Try building something small and ask for feedback in the Discord channel.
I've had to do this due to tech not getting a say in vendor choice. We were given an SSH tunnel, a DB user and a query to run by the vendor and sent on our way. Of course, periodically that query stops working because 'woops we changed our schema', and we have to wait for a new query for us to run.

In terms of Pros:
- It was quick to set up and _seems_ to work, mostly

For Cons:
- We have no guarantees that this query will continue to work
- We have no understanding of the model behind this data (why are these records in this state, and these in another? No idea, and the vendor doesn't seem to understand the question)
- We need to poll this data source. How often? No idea!

Culturally I think it suggests an immature tech organisation in general, so while not a red flag I'd suggest it is an orange flag.
I have a friend who got lucky in his mid-30's and never worked again. He doesn't suffer from any of the symptoms described in TFA. I know its anecdata, but it seems to be borne out elsewhere.

So yeah, I think what the authors are seeing is the effect of chronic poverty, not chronic unemployment.
Most of the scammers I encountered were from the UK
I tried shairport some time ago, but settled on https://github.com/badaix/snapcast and have a really great and reliable open-source multi-room setup
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Been following this in the Playdate Squad discord. While it's not my type of game, it definitely looks great.
At what age does it need to start?

It's not uncommon for a first child in rural families to not socialize with other children until they start kindergarten and they generally don't end up years.
The key is to not over invest in work. Work is not life. Work is something you do to enable you to do the things, that are you life.

I enjoy programming. I program for a living. But, I also have riders on my employment contract that allow me to code outside of work, and enjoy that.

For others, it will be gaming, sailing, anything. The key is to fill that void that your work identity leaves behind with things that you do and control.

In doing so, you take control of your life. I am not perfect here, but because I can balance several different things... none of them control me fully, I control me.
Do check out Secret Agent, Diora, and Snow! as well.
https://futhark-lang.org/
Or hey, the courage to even act upon the most basic of conclusion. Being useful is very different from being aware or intelligent. It's sometimes more useful to be ignorant and brave, than scholarly and asleep high in an ivory tower.

Knowledge, or its synthesis into derivative knowledge, have nothing to do with utility I think ? It's sometimes pointless to acquire knowledge, and useful to act upon the world. So I don't really understand what you meant by "useful" yourself there.

What is the goal to reach ?
Web app? Rails. You can build it all by yourself.
The English civil war wasn't violent to you? even the glorious revolution was very violent by modern standards. not to mention the following jacobite "rebellions".
Contributing to something can be helping at the local church, or other things of value.

I don't consider the urge to help others a negative one. But one shouldn't measure. It is doing the thing to do it for whatever your reasons are, that matters.

If I choose to build something to help a kid walk, I am contributing to many things. And yet, I may get paid nothing, and not even care.
What happens if you just rub the updater in Wine? It extracts fine, but it won’t run?
what if chronic unemployment leads to poverty?
I can't wait to hear the fallout from their first PCI audit; "what the f** is a tamper proof bag?", "Key ceremony? No, sorry I'm not religious"

But seriously I wish them luck, and I sincerely hope they know what they're getting themselves into and are receiving good advice/support from SME's.

EDIT: Ok I retract that statement of goodwill, OP in that thread just comes across as a jerk. Enjoy the audits.
Trigger my database and you’re fired, software scab!

But in reality, any big corp assumes if you have the access, you’ve used it. So it should be pretty common
MySQL. A lot of sites use it.
At my current workplace, we deal with this via postgres schema per tenant. We have a script that ensures every schema has the same tables, indices and permissions. Scales pretty well.

I just wish postgres on AWS had better ability to separate compute and storage.
Oh, sure. From U/S experience I would guess that transarterial method was probably the most likely to work. Never did one, but was taught the concept and it looks like it would work.

Did femorals and popliteals by stim, it was quicker than ultrasound. Now that we have ultrasound everywhere, there’s no reason not to use it.

Residency 06-09.

One facility I worked at had a family medicine guy who was in the National Guard who asked me about field treatment. I mentioned Valium rather than Versed for reducing dislocations and fractures, and said that he really should find someone to teach him interscalenes by stim, I would teach him popliteals. Just to get those ankle fractures and dislocated shoulders comfortable until they could be evacuated (this is training, not combat, so plenty of troops don’t get moved until next day at least). Unfortunately this was as U/S was really becoming standard of care so it would be hard to justify teaching stim for a brachial plexus block - but he can’t fit that u/s in a field kit.