skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not abuse of the spec. The spec says that GET is allowed to have a body. Whether an endpoint must honor it is left undefined, and this has lead people to believe wrongly that that means endpoints are not allowed to expect it. But certainly the endpoint itself defines what it does with your requests, and that's what actually matters.

QUERY is just GET once more with feeling, because people are worried about existing software that made the wrong decision about denying or stripping GET bodies and would need to be updated to allow them through, and detecting an unimplemented verb is I guess maybe simpler than detecting some middle layer being a dick and dropping your data.
These are great resources, thank you. If you're open to it, we'd love to meet and chat about the energy space since we're newcomers to that arena. Shoot us an email at contact@silurian.ai
Just because there was research from 1970 (as there was in subsequent years) showing that big design up front is a bad idea doesn’t mean that waterfall is a straw man argument. It is probably necessary when you are shipping code with extremely high costs of operation, where mistakes are extremely expensive (i.e. missiles, space shuttles). I imagine automotive ECU software is probably in that category.

The software industry has ignored research from 1970s and on and continues to ignore it today.

Look at the microservices craze. It’s another way that big-design up-front has been brought back.
At the rate we are going with quantities of satellites and orbiting space junk we just might get new rings due to the Kessler Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Agreed. To elaborate, he talks about self-identification, that anything with AI should be required to be labeled as such. And that enforcement is similar to how globally governments chase down counterfeiters of money.

It’s a good reference, in times where regulation is weak and easily circumvented – that hard lines and perseverance to maintain control at a global scale is still possible. Weapons and export controls are somewhat in a similar category. You still can’t build recreational nukes.

Still, would that actually happen? As usual with safety, rules are (only) written in blood. To most politicians, I suspect these ideas are indistinguishable from the constant chatter of doomsday cults and alarmists. Without a major disaster resulting in loss of life, war, famine, I doubt anything’s gonna happen. Even a global IT outage is forgotten after 2 weeks, and after Covid we’re pretty desensitized.
there are anti-depressants for that
I believe nginx+ has a feature that does max-conns by IP address. It’s a similar solution to what you describe. Of course that falls down wrt fairness when fanout causes the cost of a request to not be proportional to the response time.
I have tried for months to use my APAP machine, and failed. My wife has no problems using her. I’m not really sure what the next step even is. It’s frustrating because I can tell when I get a bad nights sleep I can’t think as well, but it feels like there’s nothing I can do about it. I can breathe through the CPAP exclusively for hours but then as soon as I try to go to sleep I feel like I’m being smothered and my heart starts racing. Does anyone have any advice?
The tradesmen charge what it costs to run a sustainable business. Unless all the tradesmen in your area are driving Lamborghinis and live in multimillion-dollar homes?
Fun fact, prior to the partnership it was called LiveScript.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Creation_at_Netscap...
My wife had a really bad experience with therapy when she went with postpartum. It's not all sunshine and roses, and they can and will switch from "I care about you and want you to get better" to "I might need to send people over to your house who can separate you from your child" pretty quickly. Not seeing the therapist anymore produced a marked improvement in her affect.
I feel like as the game evolved to fit more of a trope-y Tolkienesque quasi-medieval setting it definitely got more and more out of place. 1e, especially earlier on, and before was much more of a genre mishmash. Fantasy in the truest sense.

We never combined them either but I did find it cool that the 1e DMG gave explicit advice on how to do so. Heck, there was even that one module where the characters can find laser weapons. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_to_the_Barrier_Peak...
> JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language

Is this really so?

I have the feeling this is 'popular' because there are no alternatives. Web is popular, this is just an accompanying disaster.

There was an argument about fragmentation so people didn't want more things as option. As an answer to that there were many (?) attempts to solve problems that come with JavaScript for years, anybody remember coffee script? The only one that worked is typescript. And typescript again transpiles to Javascript having worse performance and a bunch of limitations.

The only alternative that I saw that makes sense is dart and people crucified google for considering to include it in chromium. It is really a shame that this didn't get accepted.
Not only tech... I live close to the French border. My wife asked me to go to some criminal dinner event thing in France, and all the leaflets and the website were English. Great! Checking out the details, a small remark in a table with the dates and such catches my eye "Language: French". Well, maybe that's the French date,... Nope, that's for all scheduled events. Kthxbye. At least we were not surprised on site, because my French c'est no bene.
Notes on Icons and Design with Susan Kare (2020) [video]
HTTP is used in many contexts where no human will see the request
Devil's Advocate:

The Music Business today, even when adjusted for inflation, is the largest it's ever been. You would think if the product were getting worse then sales would be declining, yet the opposite is true.

I understand what Rick is saying, to me music is largely worse today than it was when I was a kid (I'm only a couple years younger than Rick). But that's subjective. Looking at sales is one way to keep it objective and the sales are telling another story.

So yes, I agree with Rick that music is getting worse, but it seems not a lot of other people agree with us, based off sales.
Actually, it looks like the feds have sided with the 3rd parties?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/14/24101023/ftc-doj-comment-...
Saved you four clicks:

https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1YaG9xpu-WQ...
Show HN: Making HTTPS responses verifiable – open-sourced
I believe an ACE between 2 to 5 will be standard among most non-Western people with regular childhoods. Corporal punishment was (and is, to a large extent) a very common part of disciplining and raising your child in Asia, ME and Africa.
I disagree. Machine AGI does not have to be based on the same foundations as biological intelligence.
Apple Launches macOS Sequoia
Same in my department.

(The generic term for some type of fire-fighting vehicle is Apparatus.)
Adventures in Style
> Black Mirror dystopian world situation

That's a product. Larry Ellison wants to sell it to your betters.

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillanc...

https://archive.is/qqhCj
Not trying to be pedantic, but:

> We don't simulate a bird's bones and muscles

Isn't really true, is it?

We simulate the bones with an airframe, and we simulate the muscles with a prop/jet. The wings are similarly simulated.
Showers also tend to be effective.
I have been fascinated by this thought experiment for many years as well.

>I suppose it is hard for people to feel a connection with a group or org as intelligence

In theory (one theory, at least), we should have as much chance to understand what such an intelligence thinks as a single brain cell would have of understanding what goes on in a human mind.
> Is this really so? […] I have the feeling this is 'popular' because there are no alternatives

I think it's pretty clear that JavaScript is the most popular one. And yes, it's popular because in it's space it's without alternatives. But so was C for many environments. We can judge if that's fair or unfair, but it does not change the situation we have.
also covered by the great philosopher Bertrand Russell: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/.
The great thing about interpreting LOTR as an allegory for WW1 is it nicely explains the lack of female characters, without us needing to say critical things about an author we like.
Sounds like you aren't getting enough pressure. Also sounds like there could be some mechanical reasons like gerd, allergies or inflammation that cause your apnea, especially if you start fine.
Did you try different types of masks? I found that I felt like that during the initial phases of the titration study (where they determine the right settings for you) but once they dialed in the pressure, that feeling went away and now I actually quite enjoy it, since it makes it easier to breathe through my nose. I use a nose pillow.
An interesting fictional examination of this sort of thing is Marshall Brain's novella "Manna":

https://marshallbrain.com/manna

and it all makes me wonder what homesteading in the 21st century could be like, and what the resource limits are --- Isaac Asimov once posited that if one converted the entirety of the earth's crust into biomass the limiting element is phosphorous --- what is the limiting material for our modern lifestyle?

There's at least one recent book which looks at this:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125937631-material-world

Who is going to determine how resources are divided/allocated? Using what mechanism?

My grandfather lived in a time when commercial hunting was outlawed (and multiple species were made extinct before that decision was arrived at) --- will my children live in a time when commercial fishing is halted?

The homestead act in the U.S. had families setting up farms on 160 acres or so --- how do modern technologies affect the minimum acreage which a family would need for self-sufficiency to any measurable degree?

What sort of industrial base is needed for technologies such as bottled hydrogen being made by solar power? How long do the bottles and the bottling/capture system last? How long does a geothermal system last and what sort of on-going maintenance is needed and how does replacing it get budgeted for?

Modern industrial farming practices are burning/using as many as 10 calories of petro-chemical energy for 1 calorie of food energy --- what happens to food prices when we get past peak oil? Solar is supposed to work as a replacement --- when the cost of a barrel of oil is ~$400 last I checked --- what does food cost at that price point?
Idempotency in the context of HTTP requests isn't about the response you receive, but about the state of the resource on the server. You're supposed to be able to call GET /{resource}/{id} any amount of times without the resource {id} being different at the end. You can't do the same for POST, as POST /{resource} could create a new entity with every call.

A view counter also doesn't break this, as the view counter isn't the resource you're interacting with. As long as you're not modifying the resource on a `GET` call, the request is idempotent.
Someday we'll admit that Roman numerals were perfectly efficient, and the only reason we switched to decimal was because of that DCLXVI guy.

(As of A.D. MMXXIV)
Human nature is full of self-conflict and contradiction. There are more base aspects of it and higher ones as well. This has been known up and down the ages. Vices and virtues. "You're against vice, hence you're against humans because vice is what humans like to choose!" Well, no. You can be against catering to the base urges. You wouldn't feed your dog 10 cakes even if it continues eating it. And that's not hatred of dog-ity.
Most British historians. They would prefer "Early Medieval Period" (c. 410 - 1066), spanning from the Rescript of Honorius to the Battles of Stamford Bridge (ending the Viking era) and Hastings (beginning the Norman period).

Within "Early Medieval England," they will eschew the term "Dark Ages" and instead you will talk about specific eras such as "Sub-Roman Britain" (c. 410 - 597), "Anglo-Saxon England" (c. 449 - 1066), "Viking-era Britain" (c. 793 - 1066), or even "Anglo-Danish England" (c. 991-1016).
Do you have a slow ramp up of pressure? I have to start on low pressure when I first put the mask on each evening.

Your sleep doc/clinic may be able to help.
who are saying what?

who are they?

could it be the apple fanboy clan?
Why would anyone outside of quantum computer research want a quantum computer emulator? On classical machines, classical algorithms beat emulated quantum ones by a very large margin. And Iran apparently claimed "detecting surface vessels using the quantum algorithms", which makes very little sense as there are no high-performance quantum image detection algorithms known, so this is highly likely just some Iranian researchers fooling their government, and making a laughing stock of themselves in the process.
Call of Cthulhu was notable for the fact that players' combat skills were inevitably their weakest.
The question is not whether education is important. It's not even about whether an MBA is important or useful. It is: Is an MBA the best education for a company with 1-3 people for an extended period of time? Many of the organizational design tools, finance, accounting, etc., you learn there are, again, irrelevant for a period of time until the company reaches some sort of scale, which most don't.
That sounds like a huge problem! Which masks have you tried? There are many different mask options that you may respond differently to
A lot of things are coming together in Rails 8. IMHO this is even more ground breaking than Rails 7 and Hotwire.

The amount of stuff you can do out of the box with Rails 8 is amazing.
I’ve completely stopped using my Apple Watch, but this is a tempting proposition. It looks like a one-off at-home sleep study is cheaper, but that doesn’t help me if the problem materializes a year after I get it.
New York Times' tech staff threatens strike during Election Day crunch
But, both devices have breathing rate detection during sleep. So it's active in both devices over-night.
I think you misunderstand, that's exactly what I'm saying. The AI we make will replace us because it will functionally be us in every way. Even unaligned LLM base models of the current gen embody our values and ideals better than we ever could.

The way I imagine it you could talk to one of these things and it would appear human, except it would know everything that is known, be a master of everything that can be done, and could fax itself to Mars over a laser in 20 minutes. Being software is such a huge advantage, since you can just swap your body for whatever you need to do or wherever you need to be.

I'm sure humans will still be around long into the future, but they won't be doing anything notable because we won't be capable of thinking on a cutting edge level. Not entirely unlike what a cat or a dog is to us now. The inteligence disparity will probably be similar anyway.
>The long term issue that many people don't seem willing to mention out loud is that we will eventually make humanity obsolete and robots will literally take control.

what are you talking about; the main marketing strategy for so terribly many ai companies is to run around declaring the end is soon because their product is so powerful

>The only real solution to the threat of militarization of AI and robotics might be to create a more unified global government and culture.

At this point I think you're joking. Tightly centralizing power always results in oligarchy, kleptocracy, and collapse. And why do you think this central world government wouldn't militarize via your unstoppable robots?
> The long term issue that many people don't seem willing to mention out loud is that we will eventually make humanity obsolete and robots will literally take control.

This is literally the AI doomer position which is very widespread and advocated clearly and explicitly.
I actually am getting more concerned about transgenic food. Nassim Taleb’s arguments about limited upside with unlikely, but massive downside of these organisms if they have unexpected outcomes.

I’m obviously fine with genetic modification to plants to create crossbreeds of various types of, say, lettuce, but it seems like we are trying to change out plants instead of trying to change our farming practices.

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Edit: since people are likely looking for a citation here, and are likely to down by default (again, I don't think their is anything "wrong" or "unhealthy" about genetically modification), I'll add one of his papers on the subject. Again, the concern is only to do with the effects that significant modification could have on wild species, and not on consumption:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267214303_The_Preca...

>Genetically Modiﬁed Organisms (GMOs) and their risk are
currently the subject of debate. Here we argue that they
fall squarely under the PP [Precautionary Principle] because their risk is systemic. There are two aspects of systemic risk, the widespread impact on the ecosystem and the widespread impact on health.

>Ecologically, in addition to intentional cultivation, GMOs
have the propensity to spread uncontrollably, and thus their
risks cannot be localized. The cross-breeding of wild-type
plants with genetically modified ones prevents their disentangling, leading to irreversible system-wide effects with unknown downsides. The ecological implications of releasing modified organisms into the wild are not tested empirically before release.
> That was not a small rock in the Java pond at the time when we had to go through the Great Renaming.

Haha. It still hasn't ended actually.

Slowly all the old software that supported only java ee are now (nearing) EOL.

Only recently I've seen teams planning and preparing for the "move".
Deeper in comments, someone actually analyzed the code using Gemini. Super interesting the way Gemini identified the malaciousness..

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontend/comments/1fhy1p0/comment/l...
All transactions are publicly visible, so everyone would know that it was now possible for someone to take bitcoins from people. Value depends on resale. Why would anyone ever buy a bitcoin or accept payment with them if they can just disappear at any time?
As an alternative, the opposite may also be true. I could never sleep when I had the slow ramp of pressure.
> we can't figure out how to automate an insurance call

You obviously have not encountered an AVR (Automated Voice Response) tree yet. When you do, you'll be glad they don't 'automate' the call, as it would be worse than being on hold waiting to talk to an actual person.

> Is there a technical reason why so much insurance stuff has to be done over the phone?

Unsure. One guess is this falls out as a HIPPA requirement for "security" reasons. There are a lot of laws/rules in the US that were written years ago back in the day when the phone network was a single monopoly company and an isolated network such that "phone calls" were "secure" against eavesdropping. The phone network has changed such that this is no longer the case, but none of the laws/rules have been updated in the interim to account for the fact that "phone call" is no longer the same as it was when AT&T was the highly regulated monopoly provider of all phone service throughout the US.

> Why is it so hard to get a straight answer on how much a doctor's visit will cost?

Because the actual cost depends upon at least two things:

1) a secret contract agreement for pricing between the doctor (or the 'group' the doctor works for) and the specific insurance plan; and

2) how the doctor "codes" the visit for billing purposes (with the code referencing into that secret contract agreement).

> Are there regulatory challenges that make this all so complicated? I'm wondering if there are laws or compliance issues that make it hard to simplify things.

Yes, much of the mess that is medical insurance in the US is the direct result of many regulations/laws enacted over many years, that all sum up to the ugly monster that is the system as it exists now. And because it is profitable for the incumbents, they purchase politicians in order to keep the mess messy to maintain their legacy profitability.
Not as bad as the Pidora project

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1...
This is a great "free" feature in a wearable. I wonder how many years are left before Ozempic-like drugs make sleep apnea a rarity.
We've had markov chain generators for a while, having enough computing power to grant them the power to regurgitate wikipedia reddit and stackoverflow content is not "a huge step towards agi"
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Golden rice had the same problem if I recall correctly. The populations that it was designed to serve were reluctant to eat it because the yellow coloration was similar to that of a particular species of mold they were enculturated to avoid.
If the effect exists but has no net impact, then that effect might as well not exist. It is meaningless and irrelevant to a discussion on whether a given design is good or bad or what its intentions are.

Let's say that one such person exists, and they personally have caused 5 iPhones over their lifetime to go to the trash pile earlier than they would have if the design was different. In the mean time, in a parallel world, we have different design. And in this other world, 6 iPhones over the same time period go into the trash earlier than they otherwise would have because of faulty water ingress protection where the battery contacts penetrate the shell, or because of a broken battery contact, or because someone put a cheap 3rd party replacement in that caught fire. When we compare the two worlds side by side, we discover then that the "replaceable battery" world is one where the iPhone battery design is the one that drives iPhones to become e-waste faster and drives the sale of more $1k phones.

Since we can't have two parallel worlds, the best we can do is compare the iPhone to other phones and/or look at the size of the effect and whether it's significant enough to show up in design planning. If it does not generate a significant effect on the market, then claiming the effect of this minuscule fraction of people makes iPhones "destined to become e-waste faster than necessary" or that they factor into the design decision because apple wants "to sell entire $1000+ phone/$3000+ laptop upgrades, not replacement batteries." is fallacious. It's fallacious in the same way that claiming that butterflies flapping their wings in Beijing are causing more iPhones to become e-waste sooner than necessary because they contribute to hurricanes and many phones are damaged or lost in such storms. Butterflies might indeed create a very real effect on air currents when they flap their wings. But I'm not about to start an advocacy program for slaughtering butterflies to keep iPhones from becoming e-waste in a hurricane without some evidence that the effect is significant. And no one would accept the claim that butterflies cause iPhones to become e-waster sooner than necessary as true because the effect butterflies have exists, no matter how insignificant it is.