skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, yeah I can see why it would sound like that if you haven't experienced similar issues. I would disagree on 99% of people not having tongue posture issues though. If you look at the structure of a lot of modern people's faces, we have an "adenoid" face - narrow, long midface, lack of pronounced cheekbones and eye support. The hypothesis is that chewing is an essential part of proper jaw development, and modern soft diets don't make us do enough of it.
That is exactly how it should work.

If the user does not own it, someone does and the accounting should play out accordingly.
You just invented money laundering
How are these two comparable? One is a reverse proxy and the other one is a tiny framework such as Flask.
In a past project, we used Units.NET. It worked pretty well as far as I could tell. (I was not involved with the gritty domain details.) My colleagues even extended the library where units were missing.
The FAQ has:

> Is this a crypto thing?

>> No.

I realize that crypto is a bad word for some people, but I think that the above answer has a corollary:

> Does it have a single point of control that will attract corruption if enough of us start using it?

>> Yes

Certainly plenty of poorly designed crypto things also have that point of control, but a well designed crypto thing at least has a shot at resilience.
Yes correct. And hopefully untrustworthy people become clearly untrustworthy people eventually.

Elon is not "untrustworthy" because of some ambitious deadlines or some stupid statements. He's plucking rockets out of the air and doing it super cheap whereas all competitors are lining their pockets with taxpayer money.

You add in everything else (free speech, speaking his mind at great personal risk, tesla), he reads as basically trustworthy to me.

When he says he's going to do something and he explains why, I basically believe him, knowing deadlines are ambitious.
The only downside with that I've found is people and orgs tend to overestimate their future usage of X across the board, so profits rarely match expectations with pay-as-you-go, and tier-based pricing will easily overcome you by capturing more $$ from the market. Some notable exceptions are things like file storage where people tend to underestimate what they will need I find.
This basically is a procedural DSL for patching, built on JSON. Which gives me an idea.

What if the client supplied actual code to do the update? I'm thinking something sort of like ebpf in the kernel - very heavily restricted on what can be done, but still very flexible.
As DHH said somewhere, it's incredible that the modern cloud stack has managed to get PROGRAMMERS to be scared of COMPUTERS. Seriously, what's with that? That shouldn't even be possible?

If you can understand programming, you can understand Linux. Might take a while to be really confident, but do you need incredible confidence when you have backups? :)
I like my job (I think..) and am on my third burnout. There's no worse feeling than being barely able to muster pinky finger strength equivalent brain processing power over an 8 hour working day, on high viz projects with tight time lines and daily stand up reporting on progress. Today I literally noped to bed with the laptop, looked at the problem a few times and concluded it can wait until Monday.
It's trivial to run mysql (or Perforce variant) or Postgres, with some minor caching for simple apps.

I'm not sure what you are hitting that would go past the capacity of a small vps.

Independent VPs for DB make sense, but if the requests are reasonably cached, you can get away with it (and beef up the backups) especially if it's something non-critical.
Apple/OP actually maintains a list of crowdsourced password rules for websites https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources/blob/mai...
(The relationship with tongue posture is possibly two-way - lack of chewing and/or proper tongue posture causes the upper jaw to develop narrower, which eventually prevents the tongue from adopting its ideal position suctioned to the roof of the mouth. The tongue not being there causes further narrowing and downswing.)
Ideally the data would just be openly shared with the parents, and they could see the provided analysis, do a separate analysis themselves, use open source tools, or have a separate company do the analysis. Then it's just up to the parents to select the DNA they want.
Thanks benjaminfh for the feedback.

Our ICP are sales leaders in GSIs/Cloud partners whose teams submit Cloud proposals with pricing estimates to customers. (I am ex-AWS myself and have seen this as a pain point both internally as well as when working with partners due to the quantity of excel work in estimates & scenario-building). Are there any other ICPs that you see as a good fit?
(Other ICPs we considered:
1/CSPs' sales teams - We ruled this out as we would have to sacrifice objectivity as a CSP-neutral platform. One of them asked for points favorable to their platform as talking points for their sales teams
2/Enterprises with contracts renewal deadlines - we haven't ruled this out, but they are simply harder to reach out to for us currently.)

You are right about complicated trade-offs. As a first cut, this output is intended as a starting point to evaluate the architecture / commercials from the three main CSPs for our ICP.

And you are right about the sticker price too. When we pull the billing & cost details from AWS, we end up getting their EDP / PPA discounts too. One of the features in our roadmap is to provide for an input field to apply a similar %age on the other two clouds for an apples-to-apples comparison (assuming they are able to negotiate an equivalent enterprise discount with other vendors)
I'm convinced bicycle commuting is what's going to make my 8:30-5:30 bearable. Hope I'm right.
gpt-4o-audio-preview seems like a stealth preview release of the Advanced Voice API but using the old voices. I asked it to speak like Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow but it used a much stronger Eastern European accent than in the movies lol.

Here is @minimaxir playing with it:

https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1847025370694144135
As far as the European vs. US on the current situation - Euro countries are denying entry to journalists and doctors who are EU citizens just because they are speaking about the atrocities they have seen on the ground.

While Euro countries tend to be a tiny bit better than the US on the issues, they are generally much more restrictive in terms of protected speech.
>branding freedom fighters as terrorists

I mean bombing government buildings (which is what landed Mandela in prison) is definitely what most people would consider terrorism, or treason, or similar things. Now you can argue that Mandela's actions were justified because Apartheid was evil (and I agree that it was evil) but that's entirely different than arguing that he was just a poor victim of the racist SA government who was imprisoned because he wanted to end Apartheid.

The problem is that people feel morally uncomfortable arguing that it's ok to bomb government buildings (and similar actions) when your cause is just, because that raises all sorts of other moral quandaries that most people don't want to (or refuse to) face. So they pretend like Mandela and his party were perfect angels practicing non-violent resistance like MLK so they can avoid the moral quandaries raised by suggesting that terrorism is ok for a just cause.
I'd guess dial is probably a Bell Labs-ism
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Ah, France. Where the gov't can decide that you are dead, and mere reality is not a valid counter-argument:

https://apnews.com/article/woman-declared-dead-2017-is-alive...
I think it's a mistake to frame "why" as "cultural stuff around the scientific method" but not actually part of science.

> Basically a hypothesis is a statement that can be true or false. That's it.

No, a statement which can be true or false is just a proposition. The reason that we care about "why" is that a hypothesis has bearing on many falsifiable propositions. It's the difference between "the specific rock I dropped accelerated at 9.8 m/s^2" and Newton's law of universal gravitation.
Nobody is going to take away anything but the headline, this is why I don't read the news or have social media
on one side: you

on the other side: every human rights org in the world
If you can't tell the difference between a capybara and a guinea pig, you won't be able to tell the difference between a cat and a dog either. The former pair differs more in terms of their silhouette than the latter. 18×18 probably means you won't be able to tell quite a lot of emoji apart, but don't blame these rodents for that.
MacPlusDancer
I wonder if adding a merge op would be a viable option e.g.:

{ "op": "merge", "path": "/", "value": { "score": null, "author": "Frank Herbert" } }

It's kind of nice to retain the terse and intuitive format while also gaining features like "test" and explicit nulls. It's of course not spec compliant anymore but for standard JSON Patch APIs the client could implement a simple Merge Patch->Patch compiler.
Alternative syntaxes for Lisp dialects, some of them indentation-sensitive, have been proposed numerous times over the entire history of the Lisp family.

From the start, John MacCarthy believed that Lisp would be programmed using M-expressions and not S-expressions. M-expressions are still quite parenthetical, but have some syntactic sugar for case statements and such.

In the second incarnation of the Lisp project, which was called Lisp 2, MacCarthy's team introduced an Algol-like syntactic layer transpiling to Lisp. This was still in the middle 1960's! The project didn't go anywhere; Lisp 1.5 outlived it, and is the ancestor of most other Lisp stuff.

In the early 1970's, Vaughan Pratt (of "Pratt parser" fame) came up with CGOL: a another alternative programming language syntax layer of Lisp.

Scheme has a "sweet expressions" SRFI 110 which I think was originated by David Wheeler. It is indentation-based syntax.

The Racket language has numerous language front ends, which are indicated/requested in the source file with #lang. I think one of them is sweet expressions or something like it.

Those are just some of the notable things, not counting lesser known individual projects.
High interest rates have stopped way more drug development than lower or higher drug prices ever have.

Between 2019 and 2022 there were like 88 biotech IPO lockup expirations and only 3 were trading higher than post lockup for any period of time.

Macro determines the rate of risk taking. Not “details.” You simply 100% cannot have drug discovery without risk, and risk wants returns.

Should we have low rates and high inflation for the sake of more “discovery of medical techniques?” Inflation and high costs: dude, they are exactly the same thing!
> France is built on the idea that the public can't be trusted, has not really reached adulthood (won't ever) and needs to be coached by an army of civil servants whose job is to protect the State and its finances.

I believe the term for that is “nanny state”.
The ChatGPT site crossed 3B visits last month (For perspective - https://imgur.com/a/hqE7jia). It has been >2B since May this year and >1.5B since March 2023. The Summer slump of last year ? Completely gone.

Gemini and Character AI ? A few hundred million. Claude ? Doesn't even register. And the gap has only been increasing.

So, "just" brand recognition ? That feels like saying Google "just" has brand recognition over Bing.

https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-top...
So: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule ?
>You need to understand as long as Citizens United stand it's practically impossible to make a change like this in the United States.

Why do you think it should be illegal to make documentaries critical of Hillary Clinton?
This at least can work reasonably well if you're talking purely about library documentation meant to be consumed by other developers. It does nothing at all to provide documentation to software users who don't read code.
wait this is crazy

what model can i run on 1TB and how many tokens per second ?

for instance Nvidia Nemotron Llama 3.1 quantized at what speed ? ill get a GPU too but not sure how much VRAM I need for the best value for your buck
Yes, it's a trivial example. I'm not looking to support it, I'm looking to catch it at compile-time.

if "Person.FirstName" is a string, then that encourages users to use string-operations against it, which will fail if this expression is being translated to SQL for executing in the DB.

if "Person.FirstName" is some other type with no meaningful operations supported on it (which will get converted into a string when the query is executed) then it prevents many many classes of logic errors.
Arbitrary danger in nature is where religion came from.
I guess they can make a heck of a lot just by cutting the podcast sponsorships.
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> a hypothesis is simply a statement that is true or false.

No, that is a proposition, not a hypothesis.

And the requirement that hypotheses be explanatory has nothing to do with culture, it is the distinguishing feature of the scientific method. See: https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/03/a-clean-sheet-introducti...
It is not about hardware, it is about some of the optimizations you can enable when assuming they can't happen. There are some mathematical identities that only work if you can assume they can't happen.
JSON is derived from JavaScript, it is not a strict subset.

The most glaring issue is JSON number type versus JavaScript float. This causes issues in both directions whereby people consistently believe JSON can't represent numbers outside the float range and in addition JSON has no way to represent NaN.
Thermal cameras have a fairly narrow FOV. When you're moving at (albeit slow) driving speeds and trying to see everything around you, trying to look through a thermal camera and scan around would probably be too slow and end up costing you more time.

Also consider that there are plenty of other native snakes the same size as a small python that will show up as a false positive on a thermal camera.
Thank you for confirming I'm not crazy. I remember having the same problem a few years back and looking up online if anyone had the same problem as me, but found nothing at the time.
I picture clusters of information as they move through the computer. Sometimes they look like ships or motorcycles. :-)

Usually, I don't visualize anything in particular. I use tools for visualization, but I prefer to think algebraically. If I work on a complicated system, programming to me feels like like moving through a landscape, with points of interest that I memorize or lay out spatially in a tool, and going through the motions like patching things together, flicking switches, plugging things in and out etc.
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"quit so we don't have to fire you and potentially risk legal issues, unemployment insurance battles, or other stupid BS"

just do layoffs man
They have mitigations. If a plane breaks down, it can glide. If a regular vehicle breaks down, it can be moved off. If a train breaks down, people can just get off the train. On a hyperloop, where are they going to go when surrounded by a vacuum? What about whatever is behind them also waiting?

There are no mitigations and the only option is death. Maybe you can repressurize the tubes ... assuming there is power to do so ... to evacuate people. This is the main issue, there is no air outside your vehicle. If a window breaks (see: airplanes where this happens every so often) everyone inside is dead. No discussions, no second chances.

That's the problem. The main problem and you can't engineer around it. There are no emergency procedures because if you have an emergency, you are dead; and there will be emergencies.
It's not a given that the maximally cynical answer is always the correct one.
It's ironic that farmers (traditionally thought of as less technical people, "workers of the earth", etc) and hackers (highly technical nerds writing operating systems and engineering compatibility parts) are so connected by this issue. Some of the farmers I've talked to understand the importance ownership and right to repair better than even many engineers.

That said, I think John Deere is just the asshole willing to weaponize the legal system to enforce their dreams. The real problem is laws that protect IP like the DMCA and the patent system. I'm not saying we should just delete all those, but they are in bad need of reform and enable a tremendous amount of abuse. The abuse is only going to get worse unless we treat the cause(s) rather than just the symptoms.

I'm glad the feds are giving John Deere some attention, but I really hope they are going to fix the lopsided system instead of just try to bully or micro-regulate John Deere into "voluntarily" allowing more repair. If we stopped unleashing the lawyers on people for modifying or interfacing with devices they purchased, it would shift the balance of power more toward the center (whereas currently the power is almost entirely on the side of the companies).

Even if you have no interest in repairing or "tinkering" with your own stuff, you should be on the side of right to repair.
This is nonsense. Health care costs about twice as much in US as everywhere else and only the rich can afford it. Health insurance companies fight against doctors and patients to subvert health and profit as much as possible.
> If you disagree, I would argue you have a very sad view of the world, where truth and cooperation are inferior to lies and manipulation.

Arguing what is based on what should be seems maybe a bit questionable?
Wildfires are coming to the Southeast. Can landowners mitigate the risk in time?
I think the failure rate for crypto organizations is much higher than the average org.
Org mode is great but for taking notes I started using howm https://github.com/kaorahi/howm?tab=readme-ov-file
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhQlcMHhF3w
That's great! Care to share the rationale of any of those specific interventions?
The NIST guidelines have changed "should not" to "shall not" for 800-63B this year. The reason this is important is that the very first NIST guidelines recommended rotations and composition rules. Even after 800-63B was first published, people continued to use the earlier guidelines under the assumption it was better and the "should" wording let them keep doing it. The shall change should force a broader change which is why it's significant. Another notable change this year is the banning of security questions:

> Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types) for passwords and
> Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require users to change passwords periodically. However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
> Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types) for passwords.

> Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT prompt subscribers to use knowledge-based authentication (KBA) (e.g., “What was the name of your first pet?”) or security questions when choosing passwords.
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5.6M vacant homes and counting: There's a housing crisis brewing in the US
Would also like to see a ban on firmware updates and programming tools locked behind a dealer (or support contract) portal and a ban on time-restricted software licenses for hardware.

In line with remote-bricking discontinued hardware, these policies only serve to generate eWaste.

If you sell programmable hardware, or really anything with embedded software, you should be required to make all the tools and software available to end users (doesn’t have to be free, but shouldn’t require a subscription or support contract either) in perpetuity.

Licenses to enable additional hardware features are fine, but they must be granted for the life of the device (i.e. as long as it can be kept working), not an arbitrary “we think the life of this thing is 5 years”. You should never have to keep paying to use a device you already bought.
I don't know the first thing about such things, but I'll bet if companies were pushed on this they'd suddenly start asserting that it's a lease, which I think is typically taxed similarly to a sale.

I hate the "everything's a subscription" business model that's taking over everything. We'll achieve peak serfdom when the air we breathe, water we drink, and food we eat is bought on a subscription model.
This will be a tough fight. I'm assuming warranty and second sale transactions will be much more complicated in some futures. In big purchases, I'd assume it would be a lot like Title Insurance on real estate?

I'm curious where this will ultimately go. Feels like the best path would be a "minimal capability" set that machines need to support at basically a mechanical level? Probably gets a lot more complicated on some of the more advanced gear. Which, really doesn't help the narrative, as people try and show the basic tractors as the only thing impacted.
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Each subtracted timeout is a 25 day timer, so any accumulated error would be miniscule. In your example there would a total of 2 setTimeouts called, one 25 day timer and one 15 day. I think the room for error with this approach is smaller and much simpler than calculating the date delta and trying to take into account daylight savings, leap days, etc. (but I don't know what setTimeout does with those either).

Or maybe I'm missing your point.
centralization is easy
> If I can only make 10% profit (or whatever the law is), what is my incentive to keep healthcare costs down? The ONLY way I can grow my income if it healthcare costs go up.

You're missing the step where you also have to increase premiums, i.e. price. And what normally keeps any seller from increasing their prices whenever they want is competition--some other insurer will get your business.

That begs the question of how competitive the insurance market is. Let's assume it's woefully uncompetitive. But in that case I don't see how the ACA 80/20 rule on administrative overhead changes incentives and the evolution of price inflation one way or another. At best it temporarily disrupted existing inflationary schemes, at worst it does nothing.
> In what world is a hyperloop going maybe 700mph comparable to a spacecraft reentering from orbit at 17,000mph?

In that case, the air can just "go around" the space craft. Try pushing down a syringe with the end capped. Bet you can't do it. Now imagine that at 700 mph; you will get a lot of heat and destruction. No heat shielding will save you.

> Apply your safety argument to passenger airliners or even ordinary trains and you'll see that they are also "impossible to make safety guarantees" for.

See sibling comment.
Nice, this is the compensating I’m talking about. It must be everyone else is angry right?
Small F# community have https://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Formatting/ that is a lot better than docfx, it has markdown support, notebook suport, script output embedding.

C# has nothing like that, xml comments and raw documentation that has no value
Software and more broadly IT are soul crushing jobs though, practitioners seem to get upset when that's pointed out but it's still true. Very few other jobs require the always on mentality that comes with IT work. Other folks typically show up, do their jobs, and leave. Very few folks in software/IT are able to have that type of relationship with their work. Maybe it isn't personally draining for you, but it is a very mentally taxing career path overall. This seems to get lost in the broader perspective because a lot of IT practitioners like this type of lifestyle, it doesn't change the fact that it's demanding and I think we can do better in regards to recognizing that as an industry. This also doesn't come across as dismissive to me either, every job has its inherent challenges and we should take time to reflect and recognize the ones present in our own careers.