skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Used" doesn't magically wave away the carbon/resource cost of producing the hardware. Buying used hardware still stimulates demand for the production of new hardware, although to a lesser extent than buying new.

Buying used also only works when not that many people are doing it. On an individual level, it is a good thing to do, but it isn't a solution. It does help foster an environment of maintaining and supporting hardware for longer, which is a better solution.

I could envision a scenario where solar self-hosters replace hardware at a rate so much lower than than hosting companies that it outweighs the additional hardware it requires, but I don't think it is the current reality.
Google’s security key can already support 250 resident keys. I’m not sure how secure it is compared to Yubikeys, but it can’t be that far behind.
It feels rather like Brexit. Economists: “If you do this, the obvious things will happen.” Brexiteers: “Project fear! Sunlit uplands!” [… the obvious things happen] Brexiteers: “How could Europe do this to us?!”

If he gets in and actually brings in these tariffs (there’s a non-zero chance he’s just talking about it to appeal to idiots), then he will blame everyone but himself when the obvious happens, and the idiots will believe it. So there will be no _personal_ consequences to him, therefore it is fine.
> I quite like JSON Patch but I've always felt that it's so convoluted only because of its goal of being able to modify every possible JSON document under the sun.

It seems like this is mainly a problem if you're implementing this _ad hoc_ on the client or server side -- is that right?

I mean: presumably most of the time that you want to either of these, you already have both the old and new object, right? Is it not straightforward to write a function (or library) that takes two plain objects and generates the JSON Patch from one to the other, and then use that everywhere and not think about this (but retain the advantage of "being able to modify every possible JSON document under the sun").

If there are cases where you're making a delta without the original object (i.e., I know I always want to remove one field and add some other, whatever the original state was), it seems like you could have nice helpers like `JsonPatch::new().remove_field('field1').add_field('field2', value)`.

I haven't actually done this so maybe I'm missing something about how you want to use these things in practice?

edit to add my motivation: I'd much rather having something robust and predictable, even if it means writing tooling to make it convenient, than something that _seems_ easy but then can't handle some cases or does something different than expected ("I wanted this to be null, not gone!").
It's susceptible to contamination from millennia-newer cloth fibers though!
Can you elaborate on how this affects the security model?
subhead: Founder of polling firm that conducted survey says: ‘That language is straight out of Mein Kampf … it’s Nazi rhetoric’

"The poll also found nearly one in four Trump supporters, 23%, believe if he loses the election that he should declare the results invalid and do whatever it takes to assume office."
Coreboot port for 486 motherboard (UM8881/6)
> No, my app never talks to a remote database server.

> It’s a simple, open-source tool that replicates a SQLite database to Amazon’s S3 cloud storage.

That was a very long walk to get to that second quote. And it makes the first quote feel deceptive.
SingleFile is fantastic, became part of my "standard" browser install, next to uBlock and Tree Style Tab
It is certainly interesting and you could take it in coutless directions. For example, say one provides a good number of photos of each piece of furniture in a room. A good number of pictures of the room dimensions then get a slide show with every possible configuration.

This would be worth something.

People do this by moving things around and with paper cutouts. Much easier to pay 20-30 and see all variations.

You then take pictures from something you want to buy and pay the fee again to see 50 or 200 implementations.
factors causing immediate collapse are both extremely rare and tend to be uneven across species. These snakes have no natural enemies in Florida
Rationale possibly...

- Drank zero water before... now a gallon a day which flushes my system many times a day

- My nephrologist told me to avoid all medications best as possible which i do and have done. When I must take meds then in my monthly to bi-monthly CMP (comprehensive metabolic panel labwork) i see my kidney function go down albeit temporarily. For example I took a new drug recently out on the market and it dropped my function to under 60% in Nov/Dec last year. Back to 75% as of my last test received this week. Prior test showed function was 82%.

- I ate beef (steak) many times a week prior and lots of fried food (cut that down to once or every other month)... i still eat out always at Cava (simple rice and chicken bowl), grilled nuggets at Chic Fil A and a fruit cup with unsweet tea/splash of lemonade, salads at Panera (Fuji Apple), pasta (spaghetti with marina from local pizzerias), maybe a Chix/rice burrito from Chipolte or a mini turkey and provolone sub from Jersey Mikes... for breakfast if I eat it at all healthy cereal with no preservatives or egg whites with potatoes and wheat toast (no bacon or pork) at a local diner.

- I weigh myself daily and count my calories in my head. I recently been enjoying using chatGPT to do so, as it knows calories of all the places i go, counts them up and remembers them so i can add more later. I keep it between 1500 to 1800 calories a day(eat two meals a day and healthy snacks here/there) which i think isnt a lot for a dude my age (late 40s) and my size (5'11 170 to 175). I almost never drink calories ... unsweet tea and splash of lemonade for flavor is minimal.. water is zero. Rarely drink alcohol maybe one or two gin and tonics in a month.

- Ive always been obsessed with fitness prior to kidney function diagnosis as i enjoy looking my best I can on the beach and elsewhere :) So im doing some type of exercise almost daily (hike, bike, gym, swim laps, weights)

I think the amount of water i intake, changing my diet as noted above, maintaining my lifestyle of fitness ive always had & avoiding all/any meds are the keys to my kidney function success. My nephrologist who i still see a year later or so changed her tune and now advocates for the lifestyle i live to help with kidney function health.

I see people here talking about fasting and im not eating a ton a day. Maybe that's an overall good thing for our bodies not eating a ton ant things that aren't healthy/natural (processed foods are really bad i thnk).. not stressing it to break down more stuff (just a thought/guess).

My lifestyle isnt for everyone and the fitness portion is something ive always done to try and be the best I can be as well look the best i possibly can. Again im a bit obsessed with such and is a driver to my lifestyle.. ive never dieted i guess my lifestyle is a diet to others.
This is a good use-case, thanks!
I will be adding arrows quite soon too, but sharing and collaborating externally will take a while, hopefully you have joined waitlist :)
There is a lot of inaccuracies here (not only in your post but I am replying to stuff above):

First, there was significant pressure on de Klerk from Western governments. Thatcher told him to release Mandela, for example. The reason she did not support sanctions is because they would likely harm South Africans for no reason...this was justified by later events. As pressure on de Klerk would have made it a lot harder to negotiate with Mandela freely.

Two, de Klerk became leader and his first action was to try to form a path to reconciliation. Mandela played his part by abandoning terrorism (I am not sure why this is disputed...this is what Mandela said about himself). de Klerk's position was, however, not particularly easy because whilst everyone acknowledged that the system had to change, it wasn't clear how to get to that point.

Three, the article implies all white South Africans were racist...this is not true. This assumption is not why apartheid happened either. de Klerk was not Botha. The US experience dominates the world, the assumption that everyone in the NP was racist is not accurate...let alone saying everyone of a certain race must have been racist.

Four, there has been massive upheaval. The economy of South Africa has collapsed, and the ANC did seize property under the auspices of BEE. Large companies were told they had to hand shares to ANC members or they would be shut down, these companies then took out loans to buy back their shares. The current President was a friend of Mandela, union leader, he was then gifted hundreds of millions in shares...that is how he became wealthy (and, if you can believe it, he is the "anti-corruption" guy).

Five, the reason there wasn't bloodshed because there was a transitional period. This was agreed by both parties, this is why Mandela wins plaudits for recognizing that NP had legitimate concerns that had to be taken into account to move forward. But...this still hasn't stopped the country collapsing.

Six, the argument that there must still be racism because of economic inequality is a uniquely US take. The ANC expropriated wealth en masse, the majority went to party insiders, and there has been almost no interest in serious economic policy-making because...the country is majority black, and the ANC are the black party. The reason people are poor is because there is no education and so they have no skills, crime is also out of control...this doesn't have anything to do with someone else not being poor (and btw, almost everyone in South Africa is now poor, the currency has collapsed, everything has collapsed, there is so much corruption that electricity cuts frequently...yes, those white people again though...this is why Malema is popular).

Seven, it was reasonable for de Klerk to be wary. What happened to Rhodesia? Everyone has this idea that everything would be fine, just trust Mandela...okay, there is a country next door where you saw whites being slaughtered en masse when Zanu-PF took power. The country has still been ruined, but that didn't happen at least.
AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, & Cogs
What would happen if I do the opposite of what I am doing.

For example, if I am using a switch case, how would this application work in the if statement universe?

Both can achieve the same result but one enables the other to function in a different way.
>If you define science in terms of the scientific method, you make it a fundamentally useless hobby that can never produce anything of value. If falsifying hypotheses is all you can do, you can never create the kind of knowledge others can build on. The part of science that creates value is building models and explanations that can make reliable predictions. And that can be used as building blocks of more elaborate models and explanations for more complex phenomena.

You don't define it this way in common parlance or even in articles. But you do need to heavily define it this way when categorizing things. If you don't do this you have a categorical mishmash where nothing is ever truly defined properly and filled with fuzzy meanings. See the word "entropy" there are at least 3 definitions for that word and these definitions confuse people and lead most people to not completely understand the concept of what entropy is EVEN at just an intuitive and fuzzy level.

I realize it appears that I'm being overly pedantic and inflexible but this is NOT the case.

To be flexible means you need to understand why language SHOULD NOT have rigid definitions in certain contexts but also WHY it should be extremely rigid and concrete in other contexts. You need BOTH. When it comes to categorization on what is "theoretical computer science" and other very technical topics we Need to have well defined categories and definitions.

The fuzziness of literature and poetry which remains open to interpretation has significantly lower utility in technical fields.
I use transactional DDL all the time, even during development. It's nice to not have to fully reset your schema every time you test a migration file locally. With transactional DDL, you run the whole list, and if any fails, it rolls back to where you started. You look at the error, edit your migration, and try again. It really is a time saver. There is a peace of mind always knowing your schema is in a consistent state not unlike the peace that comes from a good set of unit tests.

1. Yep, I definitely miss clustering indexes in Postgres sometimes. I can sometimes fake it with covering indexes when all I want are an extra column or two along with the primary key or similar without seeking to the main table, but you're right about that MySQL/MariaDB win here.

2. The dynamic computed column is an easy workaround with immutable functions that take the record as a param.

CREATE TABLE foo ( a int, b int, c int );
CREATE FUNCTION d(entry foo) RETURNS int LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE AS $$
SELECT foo.a + foo.b + foo.c;
$$;

SELECT a, b, c, d(foo) FROM foo;

It's not part of the table schema when doing a SELECT *, but it is just as efficient as a computed column in MySQL/MariaDB and only slightly more verbose.

3. ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP works in Postgres with a trigger function, which you can reuse if all your tables use the same name for your "last_modified" column (probably a good idea anyway). Not as convenient as the declarative syntax, but it's a fairly trivial workaround.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION update_last_modified() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
BEGIN
NEW.last_modified = now();
RETURN NEW;
END;
$$ language 'plpgsql';

CREATE TRIGGER foo_last_modified BEFORE UPDATE ON foo
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE update_last_modified();

CREATE TRIGGER bar_last_modified BEFORE UPDATE ON bar
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE update_last_modified();

One function, many triggers. You also get to choose between "when transaction started" (now() or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), "when statement started" (statement_timestamp()), or "right now" (clock_timestamp()).

I don't mind workarounds so much as functionality that simply cannot be replicated. For example I miss real temporal table support in Postgres like what you can find in MariaDB or MS SQL Server. The painful kludges for missing PIVOT support like in MS SQL Server is another one.

You never know how much you need deferred foreign key constraints until you don't have them anymore. Or a materialized view.
JCB has its own payment network in Japan. In other countries they piggy back off AmEx or Discover/Novus.
Yes this is why eg the French bombard seeds with extraordinary amounts of radiation to get desired sets of random mutations, it’s much more natural and less invasive.
You can get self healing solar power if you grow bamboo and use the resulting charcoal for fuel. Carbon neutral I guess.
Gee thanks for explaining that for us all. Now I'd like to see you hit a fist-sized, moving target in the middle of the night, in the rain from the top of a pickup truck.
Sounds like the key for this entire venture succeeding is the quality of their legal counsel.
USB-C for audio works fine. I use a usbc to trs adapter with my wired ones.

For display out, the HDMI out is generally more consistent, but nothing really wrong with Display port over usbc, it just sometimes needs plugging/replugging.
I get the idea behind the philosophy but this is spot on; HD stores are running bare bones crews, parts delivered to the store, in my experience, are damaged at least half the time. HD doesn’t care about the customer experience and it shows, because the challenge is they don’t want to pay to staff stores appropriately.
Because they're trustworthy. If you buy a package on Amazon or Craigslist, who do you trust to deliver it to your door tomorrow? People love the trope that their neighbor is trustworthy and the evil big company isn't, but in reality it's exactly the other way around. If you buy your heart medication you buy it from Bayer or an indie startup?

Big, long lived companies excel at delivering exactly what they say they are, and people vote with their wallet on this.
Transaction Linearization in Postgres
If they really believed that why not stop H1-b visa workers? Why not stop migrant workers? Because they want cheap labor.

But dont they think that they could possibly find a partner here and marry someone? SHOCK

Blaming immigrants for what they want to happen to some degree, who do you think makes most of the money off cheap labor on sugar "plantations" in Florida? Its not immigrants. Who do you think is making most of the money on flooding the tech market with H1-b visa workers, its not the immigrants, it's the CEOs at the top.
> During his current campaign, the GOP candidate and 45th president has promised to impose massive tariffs of 10 to 20% on goods from all countries plus a special 60% rate for those from China

If you work for one of the many, many American companies that makes stuff solely from inputs from America, which themselves are American all the way down, then sure, might be good (provided you only buy American stuff). If you work for an American company which needs to buy stuff (surely there are very few of those), then, well, not so great.

And tariffs tend to breed retaliatory tariffs.

Realistically the only way heavy protectionism can work (for some value of ‘work’; the quality of goods in such countries tends to be very low due to lack of competition) is if you’re verging on an autarky. This is, well, something that is generally imposed on countries, not something that they opt for themselves because it sounds nice.
Not open source OS, just a homebrew store. Not quite the same thing.
Building the Hundred-Year Web Service
I sync them manually, like a medieval peasant
You started by saying that in science you cannot prove things, only provide evidence, but that in math you can prove things.

Then you made an assertion that a hypothesis "is a statement that can be true or false. That's it."

Now, you're asserting that a hypothesis "is defined by statistics". Never mind that humans did a bunch of science before statistics were developed, this is different than your prior statement ("true or false. That's it."), and you seem extremely confident in it.

You're acting as if you have certainty in a statement, but you did not arrive at it by a proof. You've claimed that only the falsifiability of a statement matter, not its explanatory structure, but your own statements about hypotheses are structural and definitional ("defined by statistics", "at the most technical level", "ignoring all the cultural stuff"). You've asserted that a hypothesis is falsifiable, and intrinsically statistical, but you bring no quantitative data in support of this.

I don't know what activity you're engaged in, but it doesn't seem like a rigorous and principled search for truth. And you seem to be more willing to preach about the importance of falsifiability than to apply that concept critically.
Lab-Grown Human Brain Embodied in a Virtual World
Reasonable people can disagree on things

Usually. Not this time around, though. You can't call yourself a "reasonable person" and vote for the people behind https://i.imgur.com/WQ4qbfj.png .

Sorry. You just can't.
The one that blew my mind was Payback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wApAbxZY9k

It's GTA1/2 clone with an overhead view of a full 3D world.
While I'm pretty sure that all versions of this game are pretty good, the N64 version in particular holds a special place in my heart. There was a way you could play it with 8 players on 4 controllers, with each person using half of a controller, and it was so much confusing fun! Often, at least at the start of a race, we'd only play a couple seconds before the game had to reset all the players to be back on the track, since things just went so fast that it was challenging to follow your car and keep it in bounds. So much fun!
I don't think what you're saying is true, but even if it's true, it means Elon is doing a great service solely via Space Musk.
.txt raises $11.9M to make language models programmable
I'm not so sure about that. They have kind of opposite incentives to OpenAI. OpenAI starting without much money had to hype the AGI next year stuff to get billions given to them. Google on the other hand is in such a dominant position with most of the search market, much of the ad market, ownership of Deepmind, huge amounts of data and money and so on probably don't want to be seen as a potential monopoly to be broken up.

Also Sergey Brin is back in there working on AI.
Unrelated, but it is a fascinating thought that when each of us dies there will have been exactly one thing that counts as The Stupidest Thing You Have Ever Seen. Much like we probably won’t know what sandwich will be our last, we likely won’t know if our current Stupidest Thing will be topped, so it is good to recognize and savor those moments when they happen.
OPhysics: Interactive Physics Simulations
The current President also benefitted heavily from BEE as he was a close personal friend of Mandela. Made hundreds of millions.

If you say that you are going to take large amounts of other people's assets, there is no way to run that process and not have huge amounts of corruption.

The problem has been: very high crime, heavily mismanaged infrastructure (Eskom is collapsing due to corruption, ANC politicians were taking tons of money from contracts), no investment in education, and so a population with no skills. I am not sure what wealth redistribution fixes...it has been tried repeatedly. It is like people thinking that a $1m loan from your father turns you into a different person...no, most people will end up wasting that money too.
Small brains can accomplish big things, according to new theoretical research
There are dozens of other apps that do that already, and I don't think this one needs to follow. Staying open source, free, and convenient for cash transactions is better in my opinion.
The Shroud of Turin always brings out the Ancient Aliens crowd.
Oh, interesting. We used a different service. Glad we dodged that. Thank you.

EDIT: Though, on reading, it appears that the 'scam' in question is that they received prior authorization from insurers by using doctors' credentials. The service itself works as-is.

All of our stuff is just straight up medical expenses out of our bank account. No insurer is involved in our use of IVF or PGT since we just use concierge care. Insurance-based care is probably the best way for folks to get it affordably right now, but if you have the money you definitely want to be getting concierge service: no delays and no one between you and the person providing you the service.
We have models with context size well over 100k tokens - that's large enough to fit many full-length books. And yes, you need an input for the LLM to generate an output. Which is why setups like this just run them in a loop.

I don't know if GPT-4 is smart enough to be successful at something like what OP describes, but I'm pretty sure it could cause a lot of trouble before it fails either way.

The real question here is why this is concerning, given that you can - and we already do - have humans who are doing this kind of stuff, in many cases, with considerable success. You don't need an AI to run a cult or a terrorist movement, and there's nothing about it that makes it intrinsically better at it.
Actually, you need to be advocating for immigration:

* More founders so they can employ you.

* More engineers onsite so they are in the same boat/market as you, i.e. need similar or more income. Otherwise, they will "steal" your job from their bedrooms from cheaper locations, because they are able to bill less from there.
The public document - PLAN FOR THE ARTIST-OWNED INTERNET - zine subvert published yesterday has quite a bit of detail on the complexities and possibilities in the governance and benefit of the co-op. The team supposedly includes lawyers and economists.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1znV0Q8_jjxFTiKeT_FETTZieiXl...