skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
600x zoom didn't seem to help from the 150x zoom. Wonder if we will ever be able to see actual planet surfaces or we need some other technology to do that, i.e, we should have small satellites every 10 light years. but this map is amazing and a good step forward.

Edit:
Was just thinking that image does us tells us something i.e, there no large artificial structures or billboards anywhere we can see. Maybe I watch too much sci-fi but honestly would have expected someone to build some huge structure around a star or planet, would be disappointing if no one does.
This is very untrue.

I recently canceled both to get a different bundling deal, and it was super easy to cancel both, and the services didn't end until the date I had paid.
Start with reading "Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction" by Jonathan St B. T. Evans (Oxford University Press, 2017). Very short read and bonus points if you find it at your local public library. At the end of the book, there's a list of suggested further reading if you want more depth.
Those researchers are just making noises. It doesn't mean anything.
Evaluating and enhancing probabilistic reasoning in language models
No. The majority of teams and individuals are using it as intended, to understand and prevent future issues from process and tool defects. The complaints Ive heard are usually correlated with other indicators of a “bad”/punitive team culture, a lower level IC not understanding process or intent, or shades of opinion like “its a lot of work and I dont see the benefit. Ergo its malicious or naive.”

I worked at aws for 13 years, was briefly in the reliability org that owns the COE (post incident analysis) tooling, and spent a lot if time on “ops” for about 5 years.
The author shares the full letter (in fact an archive of many years of letters!) on the homepage at http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
I feel like there is a specific kind of person that likes all this, and there is very little overlap between those people and the people that choose to use Typescript.

Kinda feels like someone was forced to work in Typescript and really wanted to scratch their own itch.
> Written by someone who (apparently) thinks that a simpler malloc will solve memory safety issues

Simpler? He's suggesting adding an LLM to malloc in order to translate human text to bytes.

Your comment is written by someone who doesn't understand satire, I think!
This looks like F#
CoffeeScript was not only a great idea but also successful beyond its adoption. It influenced and inspired many features that JavaScript later incorporated, such as arrow functions and destructuring assignments.

Over time, JavaScript evolved to the point where the few quality of life improvements offered by CoffeeScript no longer justified learning an entirely new syntax.
Life? Probably. Something that has thinking capabilities? Much more doubtful.
Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features
But no v4 devices support this "four socks requests wrapped like an onion" thing you're proposing, so how would they work with it?
As a JavaScript person, you will probably want to start using JavaScript frontend frameworks like React/Next.js, Vue/Nuxt.js, Astro, etc. These frameworks allow you to build very fast websites, without page reload.

You can connect these frontend frameworks with a Headless CMS which is, ideally, open-source and written in JavaScript/TypeScript too. This way, you can customize both the frontend and the CMS using the same programming language.

We created Strapi, the most popular open-source Headless CMS, to replace legacy stacks with full JS stacks: from the frontend framework to the CMS.
I just assumed this was a reddit copy-pasta
This is way less readable than normal TS. For that reason alone I doubt I’d use it.
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Click the "Let's go gambling" button to start, then if you like a certain part of the generated idea, you can lock in the words and then gamble again to find something you like.

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All of the categories are just hardcoded lists, so if you have any good ideas for new categories, I will add them!

Thank you for reading, and feel free to roast me in the comments. :D
Do you have any thoughts about the possibility that it wasn't ketosis but instead just a lack of gluten?

I've not tried either but I've heard the same result attributed to making both changes (hard to know because they tend to coincide).
For me, undirected mind wandering (daydreaming, background processing, actual dreaming and similar states) seems to be the best source of creative thought as well as flashes of insight. And semi-directed mind wandering (brainstorming as well as random walks down pathways of thought) seems to be essential to problem solving.

However, schools and workplaces rarely appreciate any form of thinking that doesn't produce immediate tangible output with some kind of economic value.
I'd rather have a code base I'm going to be working on in a language I haven't learned yet, than having it be in C or C++ if it's of any significant size.
Learning a new language is small thing, all things considered, especially if it's a well designed one like Haskell.

Spending a week or two getting familiar with the way things are done in a language, and then gradually become effective in it and the specific codebase I would be working on for me at least would beat having to work in an environment with 50 years worth of irreconcilable technical debt inherent to the language.
Caffeine is the most used drug in academia.
One proof is that we are thinking, and so are dogs, cats and monkeys to a lesser extent.
Thank you and congratulations!

How (in your opinion) does this project compare to https://www.librechat.ai?

(My company selected LibreChat to host our internal “GPT Teams” implementation after surveying and evaluating the current state of tools as of about six months ago, but I’m sure it’s a rapidly evolving space.)
There is zero way to optically resolve an exoplanet’s surface without something like a gravitational lens.
It's possible, but that's an exaggeration of a degenerate case. RC doesn't mean all data must be tangled into an unknowably large randomly connected web of objects.

The behavior is deterministic enough to be profiled and identified if it actually becomes an issue.

Identifying causes of pressure on a mark-and-sweep style GC is much more difficult, and depends on specialized GC instrumentation, not just a regular profiler.

In practice, you have predictable deallocation patterns for the vast majority of objects. The things that are "young generation" in a GC are the things that get deallocated right away in RC.

Time required to deallocate is straightforwardly proportional to the dataset being freed. This can be a predictable bounded size if you're able to control what is referencing what. If you can't do that, you can't use more constant-time alternatives like memory pools either, because those surprise references would be UAFs.

I've been there when Apple moved Cocoa from GC to ARC, and the UI stutters have disappeared. It's much more palatable to users to have RC cost happening in line with the work application is doing, than have it deferred to cause jank at unexpected times seemingly for no reason.
>SimpleX design restricts message visibility and file retention, making it far from ideal for those looking to coordinate large networks.

Telegram's and discord's "news" style channel features have always seemed to attract the wrong kind of usage.

An article criticizing private messaging apps for dedicated features like that which enable hate groups and scammers would be more interesting. Encryption seems like a red herring.
Desire Path
But physicists already made spacetime redundant by dividing it back to space and time. This was started by Dirac who restated general relativity with Hamilton formalism. The slicing of spacetime was completed in the sixties with ADM formulation. Also we know spacetime does not exist in practice because when we say "universe is expanding" we mean "space is expanding." It makes no sense to say spacetime is expanding.
Ramanujan’s story is very interesting but I would love more Indian mathematicians and scientists to become household names. Mathematicians like Harish Chandra, C. R. Rao, Manjul Bhargava, Narendra Karmakar etc. Physicists like C. V. Raman, Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha. Others like Har Gobind Khorana and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan too.
> employing an estimated 14,500 workers who received food stamps, according to the GAO report’s findings.

14,500 out of 1.6 million US employees (i.e. less than 1%).

For comparison there are over 40 million people getting SNAP.
Kevin from The Office?!?

https://x.com/WIRED/status/1848462548065997218
That's Earth. There is no model to say that life always goes on that way. We just have no clue.
This is seriously triggering my CoffeeScript PTSD.
I feel way more productive since going sxe.

I am naturally so tired around 9pm when I shut the lid of my laptop that I fall asleep within minutes of getting in bed.

On a side note.. Somehow my dreams have been insane and I’ve low key enjoyed the vivid worlds I find myself in over the past few months.

Wake up around 5 or 6, go for a stroll and then eat some breakfast.

Then I can work taking only breaks for lunch and dinner. Sometimes a 30 min nap in the afternoon in the park.
A guide to scheduled jobs with Sidekiq
As soon as I drive outside of city limits I lose all practical cell coverage. One of the main reasons I stick to Verizon
This is meant for engineers, a certification-like body of the core knowledge of the field.
If it was Public Mobile, they really did their long-time customers dirty because of their points system change. I used to pay $27/month because of referrals and loyalty, and now it’s back up to ~$39 because their new system forces you to actively redeem your points.

I’m switching over to Lucky when I have the mindspace to do it.
What makes Civet more likely to drive that innovation than TC39 proposals themselves?
What does this do?

operator {min, max} := Math
value min ceiling max floor

Is that a declaration or an invocation?
for every gifted, motivated, positive, constructive person in the world, there are probably 100,000 that want to tear them down and eat the carcass.
Over the years I've frequently signed up for streaming services for one or two months and then canceled. Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, Paramount+, Mubi, etc.

I've literally never had a problem canceling. This is a bogeyman. It's as easy direct as it is via Apple. In fact, it's easier direct, because Apple refuses to keep you logged in to your account, so you have to enter your Apple ID password over and over again. So annoying.
As mentioned above, Kubernetes is (intended to be) our only platform dependency right now. Drasi is not yet ready for production use and can be explored using k3s, kind, AKS, and EKS, which we felt provided sufficient initial options for people to choose from.

In the coming weeks we will get more of our Sources and Reactions documented as well as docs on how to create custom Sources and Reactions. In the short term, if people have Sources and Reactions they want so they can integrate with a wider range of up and downstream systems, we would love to help support their efforts in developing these.

The Drasi Team is most active over on discord channel (https://aka.ms/drasidiscord), where we are happy to answer questions and help people get started using Drasi.
Software quality may increase though, because there's a desperate lack of solid engineering practices across the industry.
So why do you think it is offensive to suggest it’s a polite way of obscuring a suicide?

That feels like the most charitable way to interpret people claiming fans are a lethal hazard?
I sometimes wonder if Kotlin will end up on the same trajectory. Java has added a lot of pretty good features since Kotlin first came on the scene, and the gap has narrowed considerably. The one thing enormous thing that Kotlin has that cannot be replicated easily in Java is null safety. But lately, most of the other features in Kotlin either make me long for something more powerful like Scala or shrug and just fall back to Java.

Admittedly, I don't do much Android development, and that was a big driver of Kotlin's adoption early on. So maybe it has more of a foothold there than on the server.
This internal dialogue business is the wrong direction. Many should learn to shut that off. You don’t need your own thoughts echoing around in your mind. That’s not quality thinking.

Play games. Consider that the real challenge of games is learning how the rules work, how the interface works, how game strategy works, how various systems of values are leveraged.

Learn to assimilate and “do well” in games. Even if you aren’t into the game, or you don’t actually finish it. Some games can be played over and over and over and there is always something more to learn. Building the heuristic understanding of the game is the best means of developing cognitive strategies. There are lots of high quality open source games out there, there is no need to spend cash.
I see no reason to doubt.

I think at the scale of the universe life even thinking capabilities life is almost certainly inevitable.

What's not inevitable is that it can thrive, and survive to a galactic scale. That's not even yet certain for us.

Universe is too big, we're all too far apart. Civilizations come, civilizations go. Some may not be on a planet where even rocket travel may be possible - no source of energy dense enough. Some can get wiped out by disasters. Asteroids. It's happened on this planet a bunch of times.

It's like the Birthday paradox. It's likely 2 people have the same birthday. It's not likely that someone else has YOUR birthday.
honoring robots.txt is an informal courtesy, not international law.
How ECS Autoscaling Works
I don't care if it's malicious or not. The fact remains that this team is using their position inside Microsoft to make use of tools in another product that a competing product wouldn't get to use.

This is one of the things MS got sued for back in the 90s. They shouldn't be allowed to do this again.
I think the main issue is the unhealthy up and down insulin spikes caused by modern high carbs diets.
I'm ignoring the dashboard because there are people who think Azure Dashboard sucks while I'm pretty used to it and think Subscription -> RG -> Resource is pretty logical but I'm sure others prefer GCP way of organizing.

>Aren't all clouds like this unless you're a big org?

Our spend is only 10k/mth and Microsoft talks to us. They are overworked but it's better than 1 million Spend/mth I had at $TwoJobs ago and getting anyone at GCP to pick up the phone was pulling teeth.
As much as I love Anki there is enormous friction in creating the cards, especially as a beginner. And you very easily get overfitting when you keep seeing the same question.
> CoffeeScript made writing and reading things much easier

My point is that it kinda didn't. It looked prettier on the surface, but didn't actually solve any of the deeper problems of writing JavaScript. To write CoffeeScript you had to still know JavaScript and all its oddities.

TypeScript solved those problems, and that's why it has taken off and had a meteoric rise to the point that it's practically synonymous with JavaScript.

> I also think CoffeeScript was probably helpful in getting some of these features adopted in the first place.

This may be true, but if so that suggests a benefit as a research language not a production language.
I used to think like you do. But the real place where we could make tons of progress is in relationships. Many stories of great thinkers involve one or a few crucial mentoring/pedagogical relationships. Without those, a person could forever find themselves trying to fit their square peg into the round hole of what "normal" society around them seems to expect. I can easily see how my life could have ended up like that.

As someone who benefited greatly from a few mentors in childhood and adolescence, my goal is to be able to give the same to at least a few other people in my lifetime.
"Astronomer Frank Drake created a formula to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way. Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan modified the equation to calculate the odds that Earth was the first intelligent life in the universe. They concluded that the odds of Earth being the first are less than one in 10 billion trillion, which suggests that other intelligent species have likely evolved."

1 in 10 billion trillion is some pretty serious odds.

It does get more complicated if we factor in life happening quickly enough without an extinction event.

But after looking at images like this there is just NO WAY we are the only ones.
I don't know why didn't PEP 420 make one file at root of the package that describe the structure of all the sub-directories, rather than going the controversial, lazy route to remove __init__.py. That way you get both the explicitness and avoid the litering of empty marking files.
I worked at AWS for 13 years. I did “aws call leader” for 7 years, and worked in the reliability org when we rebuilt the coe tool. Ive personally blown up a service or two, and know other PEs whove done the same or larger.

Ive never heard of an individual being terminated or meaningfully punished for making an earnest mistake, regardless of impact. I do know of people who were rapid term’d for malicious, or similar, actions like sharing internal information or (attempting to) subvert security controls.

On the whole I did see Amazon “do the right thing” around improving process and tools; people are a fallible _part_ of a system, accountability requires authority, incremental improvements today over a hypothetical tomorrow.
I'm so confused.
I'm trying to understand what is wrong with mind wandering but to me it doesn't seem clear.
For those unfamiliar with the abbreviation sxe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge

> Straight edge (sometimes abbreviated as sXe or signified by XXX or simply X) is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs in reaction to the punk subculture's excesses. Some adherents refrain from engaging in promiscuous or casual sex, follow a vegetarian or vegan diet and do not consume caffeine or prescription drugs. The term "straight edge" was adopted from the 1981 song "Straight Edge" by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat.
Done in 60 Seconds: Tuning a Fast CICD Pipeline
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/uber-will-now-take-yo...
Climate protest linked to increases in public for moderate organizations
This is the future of iterative software construction.
I have been writing python for decades and had no idea they were made optional. Amazing.
Macbook Pros with M3 & integrated RAM & VRAM can do 70B models :)
I think there's a pretty compelling argument that could be made that matter assembling itself into conscious beings follows pretty naturally from life itself, given a long enough time horizon and assuming the properties of basic elements holds constant throughout the universe which seems pretty likely.
> I do find it a little funny that physics is in such a jam that "look at more stuff" is an important next step

Observation is the most basic step of science. By viewing, we can find evidence of theoretical concepts or see something that conflicts those theories so they can be discarded or tweaked. It's not like there are experiments that could be used to test theories, so observing is all there is
At my last move I'd set aside a bunch of cleaning supplies, to clean the apartment after the move was completed.

The movers binned the lot.

I realised this only after they'd left.

I was quite displeased.
It looks like rubyist brainrot
Don't look forward but look back. A secure open format with many possible open source frontends (like keepass/keepassx/keepassxc) and maybe cloud sync.
I didnt, but also I was expecting the input prompt to already contain an example
IMO, you're thinking about this backwards.

It's good that public school exposes children to many subjects - hopefully most of them. So that they can discover if they click with one of them. The real danger is that someone never gets exposed to a subject at all. College is the place to specialize in a subject.
Prior to the ruling in NYSRPA v. Bruen putting a stop to the practice the LTC application processes in the less permissive towns in Massachusetts were well known to have forms of this sort in addition to the basic state form as well as undocumented "soft requirements" and "nice to haves". In Boston proper you basically had to write an essay, or maybe that was Cambridge, I forget.
> The catch: You share a van with strangers and can only leave from specific locations

So... a bus. More accurately an airport shuttle. Is this satire?

Next up: Uber Self Drive. Reserve a car for as long as you want for $20k payment as a loan, partially refundable on exit. The catch? You need to drive yourself and fill up yourself.
I understand, I just wanted to see the quality of some of the pictures to see how it compares to Google Maps or Apple Maps.

This way it can help to understand for which uses Mosaic X could be potentially useful (and this could bring creativity, e.g. to develop a game).

Satellite imagery providers often give a couple of sample pictures in the public as well.
It is really a shame to me that everyone believes Microsoft has changed and would never behave like they did in the 90s and prior. They haven't changed. They just decided -- for a time -- that another strategy was in their best interests. They're deciding that again, and going back to their EEE playbook.

(It also occurs to me that a lot of people here probably aren't old enough to remember 20th-century Microsoft...)
My first thought was to put some motion sensors inside the room, along with a sensor for the door (open/closed), as well as some sensor for counting the people walking through the door. Maybe even some co2 sensor to detect changes.
Maybe something like Polya's "How to Solve it" and/or Solow's "How to Read and Do Proofs" would help. When I studied math in college I very much struggled with more advanced mathematical reasoning and those two books helped me tremendously. I would also venture to say that being able to better reason using the techniques presented help in many other areas of life than just math.
What? Perfect pitch exists outside of any tuning system. I know of concert pitch, but it's unrelated to perfect pitch.

The "perfect" in perfect pitch refers to a person's ability to recognize pitches, and makes no value judgements on any systems of harmony. Perfect pitch is not even related to harmony at all, as it pertains to a single tone.

Perfect pitch equally applies to all music that's based on pitches. It makes no value judgment about any particular practices, styles, traditions, genres, or tuning systems.

> “Accurately” is doing some psuedo-scientific hand waving. That hand waving what I find interesting.

What? A pitch can be measured as a frequency, which is a number. If someone can correctly identify the frequency accurately, they have perfect pitch. We can define "accurate" to be "within 1%", or whatever error tolerance you prefer. To which pseudo-science do you refer? Note names are used only as shorthand for referring to pitches, but "perfect pitch" doesn't require them. You can demonstrate perfect pitch without any note names or tuning system at all.
> sxe

Weird. First time I've ever seen that (abbreviation?) For straight-egde. Thought you were talking about some supplement at first.
In some ways, it's right on schedule: https://twitter.com/deepakvenkatesh/status/18483562170366856...
Thank you for that suggestion! I will check it out.
https://archive.is/fNzkJ
You used to be able to sign a guestbook