skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you are in a big project and want to refactor classes the string concatenation pattern gets extremely painful, it’s even worse when it’s done on the server and on the frontend. At some point you will have trouble removing your classes. My company did this a lot and know we struggle to clean it up since basically all classes are used somewhere. What we do is basically use purgecss and than diff it and look for all occurrences that got removed which will take us a few months.
I have a shell alias that I use sometimes when running long-running test suites locally, or doing some long task that is blocking my work (building Docker images, installing libraries). It echoes something for the shell, shows a success/failure image in the terminal, and playes an audio clip (loud and annoying ;)) when tests pass. The only way I could make it better would be to play a sad trombone on failure:

# e.g. pytest tests/test_foo.py && SUCCESS
alias SUCCESS="echo -e '\n\nSUCCESS' \
&& bash -c 'mpv ${media}/kazoo.mp3 &' \
&& imgcat ~/Pictures/success.png \
|| imgcat ~/Pictures/fail.png"

It's useful because I can hear that the task is done while I'm reviewing a PR, or reading documentation, or loading the dishwasher.
Mr Beast and similar viral videos are hardly the outliers given that their traffic absolutely dwarfs the best educational videos. There is a lot of useful and interesting content on Youtube, but that's very much a niche use. The vast majority of watched hours are on content much closer to Mr Beast than learning how to code or a diy woodworking project.
Kaiser does give a more integrated European style experience, however the experience largely depends on the quality of service you get from your local Kaiser doctors and hospitals.

Some are significantly better than others.
> How then did the Plioocene megafauna grow so large if the plants they consumed were 'faster, bigger [...] with less nutrient density'?

Herbivores are adapted to extracting nutrients from a food source that isn't nutrient or calorie dense. Compared to carnivores, they eat a massive amount of food relative to their body weight. If a food source is less nutritious, they just eat more of it.
CE marks aren't an equivalent to an FDA approval process, they're self-certified with no real oversight.

> By affixing the CE marking to a product, a manufacturer declares that the product meets all the legal requirements for CE marking and can be sold throughout the EEA.

> Please note that a CE marking does not indicate that a product have been approved as safe by the EU or by another authority. It does not indicate the origin of a product either.

https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/ce-...
Oh, I have 3 browsers open and each has 20 tabs open)) so I’ll read what they advise here.
P.S. I read it, it turns out I don’t have enough tabs.
Sleep apnea is not completely due to being overweight.
yes, the wings flap. the airframes are made of bone.
I don't think that's a great counterpoint for a few reasons.

One is that leg room isn't particularly transparent. If I search for flights, the price is much more visible than a leg room measure. Two, people can certainly be fooled; for a long time airlines have been playing a game of gradually ratcheting back amenities without being up front about it. This is the same game that consumer packaged goods companies play with apparent package size. Three, people pay for more leg room all the time. Last I booked a flight, about half the plane was first class, business class, economy plus, or exit rows. Personally, I sometimes pay for it and sometimes don't. When I don't, it's sometimes because I resent how grossly extractive airlines have gotten.

I also think "empirically want", however cute it is as a linguistic trick, is not particularly accurate. Is it what gets him paid? I'd believe it. Is it what they watch? Sometimes, for some people! But pretending that short-term behavior is equivalent to what somebody really wants is choosing to ignore a great deal. It's like saying alcoholics "want" to drink themselves to death.
>By the same token though, the Democratic Party in US was the white supremacist party in the 19th century.

You likely meant the 20th century. White supremacists were voting solidly Democratic up til around the 1960s.
Hence their qualifier “rarity.”
Right now we are not so much choosing to replace ourselves with machines as stumbling into it through hubris and ignorance. If the argument is we should accept our demise to make way for something better, we should be more explicit and deliberate about that. Most people are not imagining that future. And there's not convincing reasons to believe our current path will lead to something "better".

I think you're right that I misread your first two paragraphs though. Sorry.
always interesting to me the number of people who try to turn an LLM into AGI by assuming it’s an AGI (i.e. via some fancy prompt)
I don't know about startups, but I know of several more mature companies that are using it. It's, IMO, the best way to use the Java ecosystem.
Honestly? Find a new doc. I went to one for sorta similar issues and their advice was basically "oh well that sucks" and then years later went to another who said "okay let's try this instead"

Now I'm on a bipap and tolerate it through the night.
I’m surprised nobody has produced an audio version of this using Stephen’s cloned voice yet.
> do you want more prosperity? Very well then, all you have to do is let more businessmen break more laws

If your society forces this trade-off, it fucked up at a fundamental level and will devolve into instability amidst declining living standards and the erosion of the rule of law.

There is nothing inherent in prosperity that requires lawlessness. If anything, prosperity demands the rule of law and strong institutions; Somalia is no panacea. But innovation benefits from freedom. When that freedom is broad, prosperity occurs at scale. When it requires permission, whether by a monarch or by a bureaucrat, prosperity is more limited and making money despite the gatekeeper requires rulebreaking.
Yes, in fact there is also a good number of conferences, for instance in less than two days https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/ starts in Belgium for instance (meet me there ;-) ).

We are writing a trading system for a small broker company in Clojure/ ClojureScript with a Datomic centered backend. The previous company some of us on the team worked at had the code-base also in Clojure/ ClojureScript.
That is like the beep for continuity testing that is provided by most electronic multimeters, which is very useful because both your hands and your vision are occupied with the tested equipment.
for folks running their own businesses, have you managed to switch from xero to ledger/beancount? anything to look out for?

xero keeps raising their prices every few months, which is annoying (the whole attitude of 'you won't switch anyway, so we'll do whatever we want').
> You would think if the product were getting worse then sales would be declining

No, you wouldn't, unless you think sales are the only measure of quality. There is no "objective" measure of quality.
As always Cooks Illustrated goes into great detail and there's a link to their final recipe. I've tried it and it is wonderful. https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/article...
That's right: his books are very readable.

(With a couple of his novels I felt that if he had made them a bit less entertaining and a bit more pretentious and if he weren't already famous as an actor and comedian then probably they would be taken seriously as "literary fiction". I'm thinking of "The hippopotamus" in particular.)
If so, I'd say that sickos like me who waste their time opining on random facets of random posts on HN are pretty unlikely to be put off by this sort of pushback. We're all degenerate opiners here! :)
People will keep calling it JavaScript as it’s easier to say
Nalca Biotech
I would be interested in knowing whether these are effective at detecting sleep apnea in flight crews to aid aeromedical certification.
Isn't it similar? Beta carotene turns into vitamin A in the body.
Idempotence does not mean immutability, it means that two or more identical operations have the same effect on the resource as a single one. Since GET operations, by virtue of also being safe, generally have no effect at all, this is almost always trivially true. Just because the resource's content changed for some other reason doesn't mean GET is not idempotent.
No one is claiming that there is "new knowledge" here.

The entire class of deep learning or AI-based weather models involves a very specific and simple modeling task. You start with a very large training set which is effectively a historical sequence of "4D pictures" of the atmosphere. Here, "4D" means that you have "pixels" for latitude, longitude, altitude, and time. You have many such pictures of these for relevant atmospheric variables like temperature, pressure, winds, etc. These sequences are produced by highly-sophisticated weather models run in what's called a "reanalysis" task, where they consume a vast array of observations and try to create the 4D sequence of pictures that are most consistent with the physics in the weather model and the various observations.

The foundation of AI weather models is taking that 4D picture sequence, and asking the model how to "predict" the next picture in the sequence, given the past 1 or 2 pictures. If you can predict the picture for 6 hours from now, then you can feed that output back into the model and predict the next 6 hours, and so on. AI weather models are trained such that this process is mostly stable, e.g. the small errors you begin to accumulate don't "blow up" the model.

Traditionally, you'd use a physics-based model to accomplish this task. Using the current 3D weather state as your input, you integrate the physics equations forward in time to make the prediction. In many ways, today's AI weather models can be thought of as a black box or emulator that reproduces what those physics-based models do - but without needing to be told much, if any of the underlying physics. Depending on your "flavor" of AI weather model, the architecture of the model might draw some analogies to the underlying physics. For example, NVIDIA's models use Fourier Neural Operators, so you can think of them as learning families of equations which can be combined to approximate the state of the atmosphere (I'm _vastly_ over-simplifying here). Google DeepMind's GraphCast tries to capture both local and non-local relationships between fields through it's graph attention mechanisms. Microsoft Aurora' (and Silurian's, by provenance, assuming it's the same general type of model) try to capture local relationships through sliding windows passed over the input fields.

So again - no new knowledge or physics. Just a surprisingly effective of applying traditional DL/AI tools to a specific problem (weather forecasting) that ends up working quite well in practice.
All the official specs and working groups use different terms than what people colloquially use.

It's a bit similar to when people still call TLS "SSL" but that is for very different reasons.
I'm not sure - trademark law is tricky - "The Container Store" is trademarked (and while you might say "App Store" is too generic, but I don't recall the term existing prior to "The App Store", so this might be a "Hoover" or similar situation).

I remember McDonald's used[?] to have "All Beef" as a trademark for their burger patties (I also recall them getting in trouble in NZ as just because they're "All Beef" brand doesn't mean you can advertise them as "All Beef Patties" in a way that is clearly intended to imply they're "all beef")
I wish NSA worked to protect us here, instead of hoarding vulnerabilities...
> and they want to harm the competition any way they can.

That's an incredibly cynical choice of phrasing.

Of course they don't want to help the competition, that's what a competition is. The competition isn't helping OpenAI either.
But it’s not that rare in non-obese people, I think is the point. Obesity is certainly a risk factor.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5181619/
The type of propulsion is not, though.
Nothing in nature has 360° rotatory motion.
Airplane is not an exact simulation of a bird.
Only an approximation
So you need a US keyboard setup for Apple intelligence? OK, I understand rolling out intelligence to those most in need first.
Indeed, my joke was written with the full knowledge of this farce. To make any prediction about technology in use 8000 years from now is just silly.
Which historians? I haven’t listened to a ton of them…

The ACOUP guy seems to be pretty even-handed, some of his best stuff is pushing back on silly/impractical/stereotypical elements of Game of Thrones (itself an over-the-top response to Lord of the Rings).

I think in historians we tend to see a lot of excitement for their special thing (like all academics), but the stuff they get excited about looks like details to us.
A more suitable word would be that we "emulate" the bones, etc., rather than simulate, which to me implies that you are testing against a replica of a thing. But I don't really think emulate works here because they're not especially analogous; these are fundamentally different approaches to flight so any form following the function would be incidental at best.
I was thinking OP meant more simulate as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm ie. a complete bottom-up simulation at the cellular level

By your definition of simulate, I think artificial neural networks are absolutely on their way to simulate intelligence
Have you looked into "elastic mandibular device"? You can get a mouth guard that keeps your jaw from falling away from alignment. It was enough for me to avoid a machine entirely.
> The minute its discovered that the AI is running to the benefit of anyone except the billionaire class that AI will be unplugged

case in point, the lobotomization of LLMs in the name of "AI Safety" which really means safety for the corporate brand.
If it was purely a business one, they would not have put it on the Apple Watch 9 which is no longer available. Putting it on the 9 doesn't do anything for sales.

There must have been some hardware difference.
Believe me, I was blown away just the same. And it's not like the accountant clicked a save button of a on-close dialog, no. Opening a CSV file was enough.
no one actually good at math is going to become a K-5 teacher, they’re gonna get paid, so it creates a doom loop where each new generation of primary school teachers get progressively shittier at math.
The French are pretty serious about preventing linguistic hegemony and fund measures to slow/prevent it.
What’s normal? On your Apple silicon.
> and do NPC voices

The steady increase of the performative acting style of play has been a key part of why I never picked the game back up. Reading that "do[ing] NPC voices" is a key part of the DMs job description doesn't help that stance of mine :)
By Church-Turing, is Fractran sufficient to host a Hilbert logic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_system
There are multiple attacks in that video. IP is one, but a much bigger one is knowing the real output (or maybe real output plus one other output) among 16 ring signature members. They do not explain how they achieved it but one could guess that maybe by just doing a lot of tx themselves - 15 decoys is just way too small and flooding blockchain with transactions all but ensures that someone picking random ring members will pick a lot of your outputs (and thus have little privacy from you). It is also for sure too small for targeted active attacks (e.g., it is not safe to have repeat interactions with the same entity), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3EbSKDA3o You really want more than 16 ring members, preferably all outputs ever created like in Zcash. FCMP work promises to bring similar privacy to Monero but is years on the roadmap.
Agreed! In a typical token bucket implementation, bucket state must be shared across multiple servers, which means you need a shared state repository such as Redis or a database (SQL or noSQL). This can add milliseconds to each request being handled.
NI is presented as if it is a fund you contribute to for your pension. Of course the reality is any money deposited in the fund is immediately "loaned" to the government to cover current spending.
Such great great software. A good clipboard manager is essential to dev, imo, is a top concern. Now that I'm on Mac, Maccy and been excellent.

The other essential for me is that I have lots of web navigation I do. At present I have a bunch of search shortcuts, @s to go to https://github.com/myorg/%s for example. And for ci and monitoring sites as well. Fast nav. It occurs to me some kind of general macro system that interacts with the clipboard could also work here too.

I did spend a long day playing with clipboard managers that worked with sway and Wayland, and got to a pretty ok spot. But, I put it down and forgot which of the many apps was the one I had finally gotten going! Whoops! Some temptation to roll my own with Deno, maybe.
2-3 weeks to change brake pads seems incredibly excessive and to be honest I don't believe it. I delivered Pizzas for more than 5 years, and my brake pads would still last 20,000+ miles.
^ This.

Popular, but terrible.
Speaking of consciousness and disunity, there's a troll on the Wikipedia Reference Desk (and probably similar trolls in other tech support forums) who answers questions with extremely dense and advanced technical jargon, forming completely fictional non-answers, and he flourishes them with "pretty simple, really" or other condescending touches.

Not long ago, he was called out, and then cited at least one technical whitepaper that actually featured a term we said that he'd made up, and at that point it became a meta-troll whereby he was so well informed about the leading edge of research, his fake answers had a real basis in truth, and still no relevance or application to the simple end-user questions that were being posed. It was masterful.
> There's a lot of value in the entire product team understanding the customer/user.

This has to be the most common fallacious line of thought that I see in discussions about roles and experiences at work.

Whether something has a lot of value is, well, irrelevant. There are just too many different things that provide a lot of value to the team. The problem is that things that provide value come with a cost and sometimes with harsh tradeoffs.

If you decide that everybody on your engineering team must interact with customers, then maybe you get the value—but you also drive away some valuable team members who don’t like customer-facing roles. Your team becomes more homogeneous and you lose some diversity of thought. Most teams need a combination of viewpoints to succeed—we don’t just need to develop our customer focus, but also our focus on tech, on operations, on finance, on personnel, etc.

Another way I see this fallacious reasoning pop up is when people say that managers should be engineers or have an engineering background… because managers are better managers if they have an engineering background. All other factors being equal, this is true! But a lot of similar things are true, like how engineers would be better engineers if the had management backgrounds. We must accept some level of specialization because specialization is good for the team. Specialization doesn’t just mean that people have additional skills, it also means that people are missing skills.
It's interesting to look outside the US, in countries where the D&D translations didn't come in a decade early: When facing Cthulhu, Paranoia, Rolemaster, Vampire and the like on an even playing field, D&D didn't really win.
> In what other world do we spend half of our time talking about and conforming to various 'methodologies

Remember that this is largely about consultants selling advice to executives. This is not about getting stuff done.

BUT software is also a young industry. We just don’t know yet the right way to do it so we discuss and share what’s worked for us. Just like it took a while to find the right manufacturing processes in other industries.
A Man Has Nothing to Hide–Not Even His Email Password (2014)
canadians are highly educated yet their economy is in the absolute shitter. i know which country id rather live in.
Every technology that can be weaponized has been weaponized. Unless we recognize and fix the problems associated with the human condition, we are heading towards a dangerous future.
They're not perpendicular in that picture. They're foreshortened - the one dark gap in the rings is narrower towards the horizon (farther away from the observer). The view is about right - the apparent altitude of the highest point of the rings would be 90º minus your latitude, so about 52º above the horizon from DC, which is roughly what that image is showing (we can't really tell the field-of-view span angle from a single pic.)

What's actually wrong is the orientation relative to the Capitol. The highest point of equatorial rings would be due south, and that's at the right edge of the image, so the center of the image is oriented so that we're looking roughly southeast. But we're looking almost directly at one wall, and the rectangular building is oriented to the cardinal directions, so that can't be southeast.
Both Google and MS had advantages that Amazon did not have in the mid-2010s in the ML space.

Google had the advantage of owning the entire ML and Infra stack (TensorFlow, K8s, BERT, CNCF) and Microsoft had an inbuilt advantage in research communities thanks to MS Research's outsized impact in fundamental ML research.

At the time, the Annapurna Labs acquisition was seen as a massive coin-toss because IBM went down a similar path a decade before and failed.
Check with your dentist also, some apnea cases can be treated with a mouthpiece you wear while you are sleeping.
Sure, that's OK. But taking a step back, how can we be close to solving one system, yet far away from solving another system that is a milion times simpler in every metric?
We tend to have an overly romantic point of view of history. But to correct it, I think we should not add Game of Thrones type stuff (ultra violence and other grim stuff), but Monty Python’s Holy Grail: rub a little poop, stupidity, and selfishness on everything.
If you don't understand a problem you're not allowed to fix it
Servers have to limit header size as well, since content-length isn't available. Without a bounded header size the client can just send indefinitely.

Also just impossible to read, and url encoding is full of parser alignment issues. I have to imagine that QUERY would support a json request body.
Ah, I read it too fast and missed the theft context regarding Satoshi's wallet. Thanks. Part of me hopes that in the not-too-distant future Satoshi will do a tiny transaction on his wallet just so all the speculation ramps up again and we get another wave of entertainment.
Amazon tells staff to return to office 5 days a week
I wouldn't count the Ozempic chickens before they roost. So far it looks like it's a costly lifelong injectable drug with a lot of reported uncomfortable side effects. That doesn't bode well for adherence at the population level.
All day, neither back-end nor front-end, it's my job and it's not a web service.
Pick any large company that has a division working on Linux kernel (say Android).

I bet my ass UX is not anywhere close to the low-level OS team.

UX is definitely embedded in the App level team but not in low-level.
This is all bound by Apple's opt-in policy for notifications. You'll never get one from an app where you didn't consent to receiving them.

Full agree apps should only send notifications worth your time, and risk getting unsubscribed if they don't.

However if you've opted in, both the user and app can benefit from receiving them when the user has a moment to act. Too many important notifications (pill reminders, deadlines) get buried under my noisy chat apps.
ChatGPT Is Getting Scary Better at Math