skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That and the fact that in many cases, the symptoms are very mild, and the problem could be reasonably seen to actually lie in the society's sometimes really far-reaching demands for homogenity. And extreme homogenity is bad for innovation.

It might very well be that a double-digit percentage of the population has a some sort of neurodevelopmental disorder[1], and the extermination of such a lot of unborn people is going to be a considerable burden for industrialized countries already struggling with low birthrates, and being totally unprecented, may lead into all kinds of unintended consequences.

1) https://dceg.cancer.gov/about/diversity-inclusion/inclusivit...
By the way, I just found out that older versions of VNC (such as tigervnc and x11vnc) that are still part of modern distros such as Ubuntu use only the first 8 characters of the password. This fact is in itself questionable, but then just dropping the remainder of the characters and not telling the user is plain stupid and unacceptable.
Ugh, no matter whose side you're on, if the Israel-Palestine situation is not complicated, I'm not sure what is.
How do I scrape search results in Bubble without any code?
https://www.concept2.com/support/indoor-rowers/model-b
Facing adversity when one is young is important. Elon Musk faced it a lot and so did Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both of them credit it for building resilience in them. But again it will back fire if there is too much adversity / trauma.

In fact in one of the interviews Elon talks about implementing structured adversity.
Agreed. It's not like every problem requires you to imagine a mental model to represent and understand it. Some things are just intuited, especially as you get more proficient.
You're making an argument just to make an argument. Being a woman has both positives and negatives; there's tradeoffs. The same is not true of being a diabetic. My guess would be that most people believe there are very few benefits to being autistic to offset the negatives.
How are they detecting that the image is AI-generated, I wonder?
You’re right on about the time part, that was definitely a big part of what I meant.

You can start anywhere, and coding boot camps are useful, just as following YouTube tutorials. But until you learn to identify, quantify, and characterise the problem and data space you aren’t really doing the job of software engineering.

My experience is that many people are deceived into thinking that language fluency is the core skill of software engineering, and coding bootcamps tend to foster that misrepresentation.

That doesn’t make them bad. It just means that often, thrashing around with no real knowledge of the tools and solving a problem with the tiny set of syntax you can get to work is much, much more educational towards the goal of becoming a software engineer than getting a good grasp of the language as it pertains to solving toy problems that require little effort to characterise.

Anyone that is willing to hack around a problem long enough that the solution emerges is doing the real job.

It doesn’t matter where they start, or how much they “know” about “coding”. The real task is to fully characterise the problem and data structures, and sometimes that emerges from the horrific beast that rises from the tangled mess of a hacking session, a malformed but complete caricature of the actual solution.

Then, all you have left to do is to code the actual solution, the structure of the algorithm and data has been laid bare for you to see by your efforts.

That, I believe, is the essence of software engineering.
I agree that the crypto/blockchain angle is stupid, since it only makes sense in a completely hypothetical future where somehow governments ceased to exist or don't have identity management as one of their core functions. (For some people, this is less of a system-design oversight and more of an agenda.)

That said, there's always potential to improve privacy with some clever algorithms: A lot of naive approaches would make it too easy for a government or vendor to have lots of information about your activities that they don't really need or deserve to have.
UCL engineers set new record on how fast data can be sent wirelessly
Which researchers do you funnel money to?

The majority of basic research is done in academic research laboratories which are predominantly funded by government research grants. If one of these studies pans out and something can be patented, a business or investor group may license the patent and fund an applied R&D program with the goal of getting through FDA trials. This effort is either funded by investor capital or internal company funds (likely from revenues from the sales of FDA approved medications or other products). Presumably if a business or investor group has a track record of bringing treatments to market (e.g. having a revenue stream from a previously economically successful product) they are entitled with the option to invest more funds, etc.
This is where Strava is interesting because of how fine grained the data is.

You can reasonably assume that a place frequented by road bikers is an acceptable surface for electric scooters, or wheelchairs (the surface only, not necessarily an appropriate setting).

A well worn path will show many walkers and runners, but almost no road bikers.

I'm sure there's all sorts of accurate inferences that can be made from the data.
How smart your AI is depends on whether you're selling the poison or the antidote.
I kinda thought tourism would have been in the dumps since the US bans you from the visa waiver program just for visiting Cuba as of Jan 12, 2021 (a last breath by Trump after losing the election but not office).

That doesn’t impact Canadians, but Canadians aren’t going to Cuba as often as they used to.

There are still some flights to/from Russia, but it has to take the long route.

Maybe they get enough to make up for all that from South America.
That is not the same. On Brave it is just a right click and then "force paste".

Plus, I suspect that setting disables the buttons on sites that copy the entire field to your buffer.
I just want to express my gratitude to Wes and the team of people who worked on this. I had to go back and read it twice that it's been 10 years since the PR for v5 was opened. That's wild! I can only imagine the immense amount of work it must have been to change the inertia of this project. Cheers to a new chapter!
From VSCode/VSCodium to Neovim
> [Dr. Jonathan] Anomaly is a well-known figure in a growing transatlantic movement that promotes development of genetic selection and enhancement tools.

Nominative determinism is real.
The "where are my keys" thing is the worst. I can get locked in a 5 minute loop trying to figure out the next step to leave the house. I'm busy thinking about a cool problem at work or the next step in a game, or an upcoming fun thing, and I cannot for the life of me focus on finding my keys. Or I'll go looking and get reminded I also need to do X before I leave, then start that instead, and restart the whole problem.

I used to have a little jingle I'd subvocally sing: "Badge, wallet, keys, notes, laptop, phone; Owen's fed, doors locked, leaving home". It was my checklist. It's why I'll throw my backpack in the car even if I'm going to meet friends: It just helps me put aside the preparation anxiety to just do the same thing every time.

Those routines are helpful. I also keep prepacked bags - a backpack for work, a gym bag with copies of keys for gym, etc etc. I even have two or three pre-stocked wallets for those bags or I'll get stuck in optimizing my credit card selection for an activity. My wife laughs, but she's the one who loses her phone, cannot find her wallet, and to this day has no idea where her car keys are.

Atomic Habits was helpful. It's about how to set up your subconcious so you don't have to painfully think about every decision all the time. Maybe it's made me less able, maybe not. But going to the gym at 3 has become so routine that I find myself up in the kitchen before I realize why I left my office.

I'm guessing this is all pre-emergent dementia, honestly.
I tend to visualize call trees. Much of my refactoring is manipulating the call tree--flattening it, re-extracting subroutines, moving expressions up & down.

Another non-symbolic style of thinking I use is kinesthetic synesthesia. I "feel" the design "lean" in one direction or another, then refactor in that direction.
Just thought it would be cool to have a personal "data lifeboat", similar to Twitter export, for exporting Instagram
> It's nice to not have to fully reset your schema every time you test a migration file locally

In terms of dev flow, this is only a problem with imperative migration systems. Declarative schema management tools solve it by being able to transition any live database state into the desired state, which is expressed by a repo of CREATE statements.

If something fails, you fix the bad CREATE and run the tool again, and it effectively picks up where it left off. And well-designed declarative tools catch many problems pre-flight anyway by running a suite of linters, running the emitted SQL statements in a sandbox first, etc.

If the tool's diff returns clean, you know your schema is in the right state on the DB.

Ironically, lack of transactional DDL actually makes declarative schema management more straightforward in MySQL/MariaDB: you can't mix DDL and DML there anyway, so it's more natural to handle schema changes vs data migrations using different tools/pipelines.
Microsoft's goal here is to slowly extract every bit of unique ML capability out of OpenAI (note the multiple mentions about IP and security wrt MSFT employees working with OpenAI) so that they can compete with Google to put ML features in their products.

When they know they have all the crown jewels, they will reduce then eliminate their support of OpenAI. This was, is, and will be a strategic action by Satya.

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish". We're in the second stage now.
Why are stupid people allowed to post comments?
That was the conclusion Pete Judo came to: https://youtu.be/oyoMgGiWgJQ
To save you a click:

apparently https://www.mcmaster.com/ is very fast. A person who worked there chimes in https://x.com/mattwensing/status/1847277743228002635 saying they focused on speed (competing with paper catalogue), used VB.net and SQL Server with stored procs.

Some other guy explains
https://x.com/wesbos/status/1847047872770199647
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· Agressive pre-loading pages on hover

· fixed image dimensions - there is no layout shift when they load

· Dependency Injection (huh?) - only loading the JS needed on the pages where its needed

· Uses pushstate to change pages so it feels faster than a full reload

· agressive CDN and browser caching

· Server rendered HTML (ASP .net)

Funny enough they load almost a meg of JS (YUI and jQuery) but you dont notice because it feels so snappy

He made a video explaining it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-8QM8KhQ
which is a lot more interesting than the inane tweet. Maybe we could replace the link with the video?
I don't think that physics (for example) uses the word "hypothesis" in the same sense, even though there are, indeed, parallels between the two sciences.
You can easily "convert" wide angle photos to "normal" photos by just cropping out at least 50% of the wide angle photo.

Try it with your smartphone: make two pictures from exactly the same position, one with your wide angle lens and one with your normal lens.
After that you should be able to crop the wide angle version in such a way that the framing & composition will be almost identical to the normal angled photo.
I don't have aphantasia (I can picture people and things if I want to) but unless I'm building a user interface, my thinking is completely non-visual when I'm programming or thinking about systems or data.

When someone asks me to draw an architecture diagram or a diagram of our production infrastructure or whatever, I am very slow at it and the result is usually middling at best, because my mental model of those things has no geometric or spatial component at all.

To the article's point, I've can't recall ever finding a visualization of my actual code or architecture that helped me work through a problem. When I've tried, it has always just slowed me down because I constantly have to map back and forth between the picture and the native non-geometric version in my head.

That's not to say I never use any kind of visualization. Graphical representations of things like profiling results are convenient and useful to me. But they tend to be more like representations of numeric data than representations of systems or code.
Your mom. But seriously, nothing. Just the problem at hand. What's there to visualize when working on a job? It's not exactly an art and it's a lot closer to mathematics in regards to problem solving.
Wasnt there a scifi movie about mysterious Pod/Sphere showing up promising to teleport people to another world, but then it turns out it was all a conspiracy by a crazy scientist and all the scanned people were just disintegrated to help out Earth ecosystem recover from overpopulation? Hmmm there it is https://www.reddit.com/r/NameThatMovie/comments/190d0fb/im_l...
Deus (2022)

TLDR: Orb eyeball scanning might be first step of some crazy Population control conspiracy :)
No, Postgres doesn't. 2730 bytes is not long enough to hold all URL's encountered in the wild. But also, your performance will suffer if you use that whole length. You generally don't want to be doing that.

The difference between MySQL and Postgres here is negligible. It doesn't matter exactly where you define the limit of a short field, except it should probably be able to hold a maximum length filename which is 255 characters, plus some room to spare. Both MySQL and Postgres do this fine.
A few tips on writing better comments for the code
There are often hidden menus for “Hotel mode” that allow you to config which channel / input to default to on power up. No need to hack them.
Anonymity and lack of accountability/a target to attack on the internet is just a huge pain in the ass for most governments and corporate interests.

It is also useful, to some extent, for bot farms, propaganda, opinion influencing and spycraft. But if you're a government controlling the "internet id" for your or other nations, then you can easily make affordances for whipping up a "valid" fake digital personage.

That it still exists is a technical and political challenge that will eventually be resolved. There's too much money and soft and hard power to be gained by getting rid of it.
All of the banks and state regulation keep getting in the way. It’s like there’s a fence in the middle of a path — all we need to do is get rid of the fence and everything will obviously improve.
The amount of things you can accomplish with a tarp or two, and knowledge of some knots, is great. Absolutely underrated method of camping if you're not in a place where you'll get eaten alive by bugs.
Seems nice, but why would we need synchronization between devices ? if the layout is stored in that hidden file, it will be synced with any sync tool like dropbox, google drive etc.
So Twitter Blue/X Premium is the model of the future?
I'm calling it right now: there's a Microsoft/OpenAI breakup imminent (over ownership, rights, GTM etc) that's going to be extremely contested and cause OpenAI to go into a Stability AI type tailspin.
One of my favorite people talking about my single favorite tool of the past 3+ years. Up there with (above, really) zellij and helix for changing my daily life.
Hell, his wife was an illegal immigrant before he married her, considering that she worked as a model while on a tourist visa. And that's ignoring the obvious lack of "extraordinary ability" underlying her eventual "Einstein visa". Everyone just pretends that ultimately ending up with a valid visa or getting married somehow negates pass immigration crimes.
There’s tons of human-created data the AI companies aren’t using yet.
OpenDesk: Flexible office and collaboration suite for public administration
Suave isn’t dead - it’s more “complete”

What is missing? I might make a PR :)
That is a fantastic analogy.
Anecdotally anyone can talk to a few doctors and find out just how much time they spend on updating charts/documenting information that's not directly relevant to the care, its just to protect against liability or work with insurance. Or how many hours they spend on phone calls fighting with insurance companies. The people who actually understand medicine wasting hours with some clueless rep with 0 understanding and a flowchart who's only job is to deny claims. Dr. Glaucomflecken on youtube has many videos about that too.

So on the ground level, it's already clear some of our highest paid most valuable people spend 20-30% of their time on a flavor of administrative junk which isn't necessary in a single-payer system. I'm skeptical of claims that this waste doesn't translate into the higher level metrics.
shooting things in the everglades is tough. it's swamp land. i think there's a decent amount of lead in bullets
Thank you for the constructive comment. I will try to fix it and improve it.
That's because you're imagining early paper currency as a universal currency.

These early promissory notes were more like coupons that were redeemed by the merchants. It didn't matter how many times a coupon was traded. As a good merchant, you knew how many of your notes you had to redeem because you're the one issuing the notes.
We're all frustrated. No one is happy with their available choices. Join the club.

The system can't want anything. It isn't even really a "system" in any meaningful way, in the sense of being a unified entity working towards a common goal. US healthcare is just a bunch of disconnected people and organizations pursuing their own interests, often in conflict with each other. Any major improvements will require changes at the federal policy level to better align incentives with desired outcomes. This is hard because we collectively can't even agree on the desired outcomes or how to measure them. I mean at a high level most people think that everyone should have convenient, affordable access to high-quality care but once you get into specifics everything gets complicated and making trade-offs which disadvantage some voters is unpopular. Like should we spend $100K to give a terminal cancer patient another month of life? Should surgeons make $700K per year?

It's easy to complain and cast blame. And we should certainly cut out waste and abuse where we find it. But that won't significantly move the needle on overall system costs. The problems are much more fundamental.
To be fair, this is what I expect of any delay function. If it needs to be precise to the millisecond, especially when scheduled hours or days ahead, I'd default to doing a sleep until shortly before (ballpark: 98% of the full time span) and then a smaller sleep for the remaining time, or even a busy wait for the last bit if it needs to be sub-millisecond accurate

I've had too many sleep functions not work as they should to still rely on this, especially on mobile devices and webpages where background power consumption is a concern. It doesn't excuse new bad implementations but it's also not exactly surprising
Are you saying John Deere makes farm equipment that by design makes people physically sick? And if that is not your opinion, what was the point of your question?
When Bonuses Backfire
Duolingo does push notifications with examples
Sorry, I was referring to datapacket.com
Sure, but apples and oranges have a lot in common too, and if we call everything fruit, it's unnecessarily hard to differentiate them ... is all I'm saying.
"Valuation" to Fidelity. My point is that Elon likely sees a different value.

If Trump is elected, with Elon being is highest profile supporter, I imagine that Elon would be okay with having lost ~$33B in the Twitter acquisition.

Crowning the President of the US is probably worth more than $33B to Elon.
I don't know, I just get the cat to climb into the carrier on it's own.

You have to make the carrier a mundane part of the cat's life. Leave it out randomly so the cat isn't associating it with unpleasantness, put snacks in it. Then it won't be an object that brings fear and anger.
Says non-commercial when requesting access
Please bear in mind that it's not a final version yet – it is a snapshot from a PR.

Few more cases are being worked on!
I’m simplifying this for brevity but: Hot reload is a concept whereby changes will be saved, if necessary compiled (in the case of compiled/JIT-ed languages), then whatever is pointing at the original source is run again automatically (a web page/an app screen/whatever).

Edit-and-continue allows for changing the code and then updating the output directly in memory without re-compilation or restarting the execution. It sounds similar but in practice it allows for much more rapid iteration and is profoundly more useful. If you’re pretty deep into an application or web app for example (e.g. added to basket -> checkout -> process payment) and are 30 or 40 calls deep in a stack and realise you’ve a simple bug or change to make, you can edit the code in memory, drag the debugger back to the line, re-execute it and move to the next statement. The benefits of this compound really quickly for anything more than trivial scenarios, so much so that I’ll often code directly in a debugging session as it’s just handier to have a full rewindable call stack right there for simple cases where I’ve forgotten a property name or need to correct and XPath or something.

The surprising thing is that this isn’t even new, VS has had this for at least 20 years (and I think 25 or more as i know VB6 had it. Yes I’m old.)

Edit: 27 years ago in VC++5 (1997).
Did Sam ever satisfactorily answer why they seeded the database not in say, Silicon Valley, or the US, but in some of the most impoverished regions in Africa, and offering "insane" amounts - like in some cases two months salary or more?
Very much doubt they will be able to trademark “acf”.
I will draw or doodle on a notepad next to the computer. Then I will refer to it as I'm coding. I'm very visual, I need to SEE the diagram to model it, but even more so to communicate any ideas with others. I much prefer to DRAW an explanation than to use words. I get tripped up with names of things. If I create any non-trivial Java class name, I forget it immediately. In my head they are represented in a way I can't describe. There is no name or picture. It simply is and it related to other things which are.
I'm not and do not know American farmer so I'm asking a genuine question, why did they keep buying Deere tractors ?

I know for a fact that there are competitors, in Europe we have many other brand of tractors. It would make no sense to buy something that you know you can't repair.
we worked on a similar problem before but took a completely protocol based approach, essentially using a protocol built on top of UDT to speed up data transmission.

I'm interested in how this work performs in environments with high packet loss.
As model performance converges, it becomes the strongest moat. Why go to Claude for a marginally better model when you have the ChatGPT app downloaded and all your chat history there.
>LLMD-8B achieves state of the art responses on PubMedQA over all models

Hang on -- while this is a cool result, beating a limited number of models that you chose to include in your comparison does not qualify LLMD-8B as SOTA. (For example, Claude 3 Sonnet scores 10 percentage points higher.)

>This result confirms the power of continued pretraining and suggests that records themselves have content useful for improving benchmark performance.

In support of this conclusion, it would be informative to include an ablation study, e.g. evaluating a continued pre-training data set of the same total size but omitting medical record content from the data mix.