skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right I worded that badly, but as I acknowledged in my previous comment it's an area I know little about and only mentioned it as a known example that's not the same as the rest of what I explained.

I do however believe there are various cultures that do use ayahuasca unrelated to the sort of expensive retreats Americans might travel to.

And you're right that Western / non-Western was a poor way of explaining what I meant, but I'm not sure if there's a widely accepted good phrasing for what I meant which was really "countries or communities within countries whose cultures, including in healthcare, are more significantly unlike the cultures in Western Europe & North America than the cultural differences between countries & states within NA+EU".

In hindsight I probably should have just said "I believe there are completely different styles of psychedelic use for mental health such as with Ayahuasca but I don't know enough to say more about that"!
> rsyncing to a running Tomcat installation

You can delete while resync'ing but I guess the issue is not in resyncing itself, but rather in the disempowerment of individual contributors.

You could have argued to add --delete for your case, as well as requesting a shutdown before and a start after, but I guess explaining this to countless morons is too much to ask from a humble developer.

OTOH, this resyncing story probably means that you were allowed to choose the wrong development framework to start with. Because resyncing PHP is much more reasonable.
I'd have to use it first to comment on it, but thanks so far. Article makes a good impression.
> In contrast, the 2024 curriculum for eighth graders focuses on critical thinking, problem-solving, and the application of concepts rather than pure memorization. Modern eighth-grade assessments tend to incorporate multiple-choice questions, data interpretation, and critical analysis tasks, emphasizing skills over the retention of facts. For instance, geography in 2024 often includes understanding climate change impacts, human migration, and data analysis using technology. Students are less often asked to memorize the names of specific rivers or capitals and more often expected to understand broader concepts, such as the implications of geographic features on human civilization.

Strongly disagree. A 12 year old has zero chance of applying critical thinking or data analysis to complex subjects like climate change or human migration. It's still memorization, he's still expected to regurgitate a few lines he learned in school.
I eagerly await the Skyrim mod!

Jokes aside, this is interesting because I have thought about this since the first time I killed the dragon outside of Whiterun. There is a brief change with the guards nearby where they are wowwed by your feat, but some of the standard NPC responses sneak in and make the immersive aspect of the game shaky, at best.

I always thought, overtime, the honeymoon phase of a hero's deeds would wear off, and the villagers would swing more into a negative mindset, asking things like "who is going to clean this up?" or "how will we be compensated for damage to our homes?" etc. Community disruption tends to devolve into a lot of cynicism about the people in charge, in my experience with everything from natural disasters (obvious negatives) to new urban shopping centers (less obvious negatives). Regardless of what actually changed to disrupt the community, eventually it is perceived as the source of problems.

I'm not a psychologist or civic engineer, so I am not sure if there is a name for the concept I am referring to.
I know a lot of engineers follow various principles like SOLID, DRY, Clean Architecture and so on, but as far as complexity goes it’s really rather straight forward. You never add abstractions until you can’t avoid them. We’ve had 20 years of these principles (and what other nonsense OOP had brought with it) now, and despite the fact that many of them were written by people who haven’t worked in software engineering since a decade before Python was made they still remain popular and largely unaltered. Which is silly considering our industry has never been more of a mess, with so many teams building complexity to “future proof” things that they will never need, to the point where some teams actively hinder the business.

Complexity is fairly straight forward in my opinion. You build after the YAGNI principles and you include things from SOLID, DRY, CLEAN, whatever when it makes sense to do so. If you happen to enter a team that has dug themselves into a pit of unnecessary complexity you need to work on reducing it.

This is takes a good engineer, because the fundamental reason to do this or that comes down to engineering. People who follow dogmas are not good engineers. You will even see the authors of some of these principles like Uncle Bob tell you that people who over complicate their code bases misunderstand his principles. Convenient when your career is selling consultant, but also very true.
Specifically, write tests that identify disposable code. More specifically, you hopefully wrote some disposable code that is a modular extension of something close to the core. Write tests that demonstrate which of those deserves to be core, and which is necessary for a requirement but disposable. Since the article brings up shared apis, hopefully when you arrive on a new project, those are well understood as requirements paired with test cases. Repeat in the opposite direction in dependent projects.
That's a bit of a reach. Nihilism / pessimism about the far future doesn't mean people just give up their current life.
A human cannot live on just berries. Even if they could, where are those berries gonna come from?
It's good for final product too. Moonring is an excellent game by Fluttermind, and written in LÖVE
AI tools for schools. Currently building the first tool out which is to do with languages. It's been a wild journey so far, but pushing
I’d think that importing and using for example an aviation band transceiver is regulated in most countries, and prohibited unless both the device and the user fulfil certain requirements. As such, prohibiting the ownership and use of a device is nothing extraordinary.
The monitoring might be 24/7 but its reaction time is nothing usable in a life-and-death situation. Or I just cannot imagine a human being notified "I think I'm crashing into something" and able to take over and do anything of significance within that second to avoid the crash (except hitting on the brakes which the car could do just as well). So don't read too much into the response team, it has definitely its use but won't save you from plunging into that sinkhole who just appeared.
Banks and regulators warn of rise in 'quishing' QR code scams
True, but it's much easier for web apps to alter the deal than native apps, given most of their local state is ephemeral and hard to access, and much of the useful data, and potentially even software, is on the server. How many emulators are there for web apps, compared with emulators for nearly every popular OS/platform in the last 40 years?
If you misread data in the way you appear to, that doesn’t surprise me. I can’t imagine you think many studies’ conclusions appear to follow from their results.

It’s just that you’re blaming the studies, rather than your comprehension.
>15 year old codebase

Is this what people think of when they think of an old codebase? Must be nice :')
My use case is Scandinavia. The summer has an absurd oversupply of sunlight (weather permitting). Capturing this for winter usage is the poser.
Not really, since the geography is quite important as to how the conflict evolved and where the conflict zones are.
Mastodon isn't trying to replace any incumbent properties. The concept doesn't even make sense for a federated network. Not everything is a zero sum game of capitalist growth and competition, and there are valid definitions of success which do not require Mastodon completely subsume Twitter. I think it's OK to simply be an alternative.
I knew all these answers once. Knowing them then got me to where I am now.
I believe every country has a business like that nowadays, or a side-business from the official Mint that makes coins. And it's not even about whether it would appreciate in value tbh, they are a good medium for collecting and encoding important events or celebrating something.
Penguins live in the Antartic. Great idea and web site.
"What about..."? Isn't a very convincing form of argument in general and in this case it's particularly specious. When using the public roads, people's unsavory/illegal behaviour with respect to images (for example) isn't something that affects other road users, but if you're using a chat application an innocent user may well see/download content that cannot be unseen and is a crime to download (even innocently).

In that context the decision to avoid a chat application if you feel it is likely to put you at unnecessary risk where there are alternatives that will not is perfectly reasonable.
Therein lies the resiliency of phonetic orthography: despite the misspellings the sound represented by the words did not significantly change thus most readers would never even notice.

If anything it’s a statement on how the orthography of English in particular doesn’t well match the phonetic structure of the language - something due to a confluence of factors in English several hundred years ago, including the rise of printing.
I have read many of this types of blog posts about 10x, good engineers and such.

The only thing I have learned during my close to 30 years of professional experience is how incredible rare they are. The really good engineers in IT.

They are so rare so MOST people will never work with even one. That is how rare they are.

And a "Blogger, Writer, Philospher" - have probably never worked with one, and never will. Because they are in a whole different sphere of engineering.

The number of systems is increasing explonentially - the number of truely good engineer is pretty much a constant number.
That seems like a lot to hang on an argument from silence.

FWIW, we had very little processed foods in our diets prior.

If you want to expand your knowledge and get out of your comfort zone, lookup "plants are trying to kill you" on youtube.
Being able to write a character by hand, being able to type it up, and being able to read it are all different things. I doubt many Chinese would be thrown off from reading or typing 打喷嚏.

I actually did a deep dive into the issue of unfamiliar characters coming up when reading, and how people handle them. I won't go into all the details, but the general takeaway is:

1. Unfamiliar characters can actually be quite rare or quite common depending on the material you're reading.

2. It's not much of an issue for people either way.
Have you used both?

I've only used one long-distance Amtrak train (as an international tourist), and it was more comfortable than any long-distance bus I've ever used. Loads of legroom, a power socket, a large toilet at the end of the coach, a big window, a decent seat. There's a table if you book it, e.g. for a group of 3 or 4.

My journey was ~12 hours during the daytime. I wouldn't want to sleep overnight in that seat, but it's still going to be better than a bus.

Example with plenty of pictures of inside the train: https://www.seat61.com/california-zephyr.htm and https://www.seat61.com/UnitedStates.htm
I presume they would come with a certificate of authenticity from a respectable source. Also, it's not in the interest of an auction house to sell fake coins. I'd be much more skeptical if it was on ebay.
> Note: Very few targets will ever have a TLS section specified unless they are using it as an anti-debug mechanism as most program never use TLS.

Most programs don't use thread-local storage? Very many do, although it depends on what kinds of programs you are looking at.
That's two "what about" arguments in a single topic. You're on a roll.
Vim implemented this: `:call err_teapot()`.
Tone is often a perfectly good signal of someone's biases. A neutral tone may hide them, but a non neutral one certainly shows them.
I’m a big fan of XKDC #927 [0] but if we followed your position, we would never introduce any new standard, ever.

https://xkcd.com/927/
I’m helping companies start trading, fintech, crypto, etc. It’s a FIX engine implemented in pure TypeScript. https://fixparser.dev
Upstarts! These days people only start sharing new fangled CSS frameworks 9 years in advance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974253
Thank you! What have you tried so far?
Or, you know, people interested in building a team of Good Software Engineers are interested in thinking about this sort of thing.

Also: Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You think asking for the location of organs is being prepared for work? Or geography, or history, or civil government. I think you're romanticizing the past.
“An aligned AI would not want to do these things (and if we have an unaligned AI, we’re back to talking about risks).”

An aligned AI is not AGI, or whatever they want to call it.
Well done! My niece is going to love this!

Is it possible to get all PDFs at once? Hopefully per section? That will really help to print all at once and get her a single book to go on for couple of weeks.

I thought I could do `curl | grep | xargs curl`, but the site returns 520.
Good engineers are pedantic about terminology such as effective versus good.
> The rest of it is stuff that is simple to Google.

Have you ever seen anyone under the age of 30 try to "google" something? It's bizarre and disturbing. I've seen it for myself, but on r/teachers they have horror stories. To hear them tell it, most kids fail not by cheating, but by being unable to google anything with which to cheat. Even if we dial it down to balance the exaggeration...

Inability to search with more than one keyword. Inability to decide which words are unimportant in a sentence to leave them out of the search terms. Inability to add extra words to give the search engine enough context (funny story about a high school chemistry teacher telling them "reaction" doesn't work for that unless they also include "chemistry" or "chemical"). And on and on and on.
Good point! People often overlook the fact that these machines need regular maintenance and thorough cleaning to be safe
I launched a podcast with AI Hosts
America at this point is where Germany was a hundred years ago. As an American, you should be aware that from now on, the excuse that "I didn't know" is no more valid.
Working on https://someguys.app to make it easier for people to find sports meet-ups and stay active, whether at home or exploring a new city. Personally, I’ve always found it tough to stay motivated and consistent with sports after retiring from 25 years of semi-professional sport, especially solo.
Having a group around makes all the difference, but it’s not always easy to find one—especially for sports that aren’t as mainstream or easy to organize.

With Someguys, you can find others to play with, including adaptive sports options for people with disabilities. It works for individuals looking to discover new activities, and also for clubs, providing tools to organize, promote, and make events more accessible.
> The issue is being ordered to “act now” by someone else

That "someone else" is us; it's the government passing laws and regulations, "of the people, by the people, for the people". Now that may not be as true in non democracies, but in a democracy the people elect representatives from the people. Those people make the law, and the people follow the law. Obviously it's not perfect, but as Churchill once said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others".

Just remember, control is an illusion, you can influence things; some more than others, but control itself is an illusion.
Kaleidoscopes also offer mindless fun, I would rather suggest those.
WordPress forces user conf organizers to share social media credentials
I am working on a software (for Windows : it is on your computer you own it, no recuring payement) that can export all data from Wordpress and WooCommerce shop to a json and csv file.

It is already working for a few clients that uses the software for orders, products and tax reporting for their e-commerce shop (yes they use a lot of excel in France where I live).

I hope I can sell it on a page in the next few mounth.
I'm working on waltrack.net, a price tracker for Walmart.com (US only).

The goal was to create a camelcamelcamel for Walmart, but affiliate is too uncertain, so I'm building a b2b offering for 3rd party sellers now.

https://waltrack.net
One of the Lewis Chessmen is in private hands and was recently sold for £735,000!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
Added about a week ago
One of the reasons that Google Search is falling apart is that it is filled with this kind of stolen, AI-generated content.

This post is just a 100% stolen AI summary of a popular YouTuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ
Between subgroups is not significant, but the replacement with PUFA is significant in itself.

As I’ve already pointed out to you, that’s not a contradiction when the studies are looking at CHO as a whole and not disambiguating between whole grain and refined carbohydrates.

If you think a 21% reduction in one of the largest killers in the western world is a tiny effect, then that’s genuinely laugh-out-loud funny.
the term "open source" was a concession to business interests (closed, proprietary) from the beginning[0]. We don't need open AI; we need free AI.

0. https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...
Obligatory mention: TV series Detectorists [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists
This. My understanding of 10x engineers was, even if a bit tongue-in-cheek, always positive. They are the smart guys and girls that know what they are talking and think ahead a few miles. It sure can be overwhelming when you hear them talk, but if you let it sink it in, it makes sense.

But we as a society should not pretend that this is what you have to be. There are just some smart people in the world, but they are rare. You don't need to be one to be a good person.
That, to me, implies there's a lot of unfound treasures over there... and/or a lot of illegal searching. Assuming there's interest outside of archeological value, of course.
Ford has gone pretty much entirely native in Europe. though. Their line up for decades has been pretty indistinguishable from German or French carmakers.

Their European division was a bit similar to what GM/Opel had going.
In reality though, do we actually need humanoid robots, and if so, for what?
I like the post, but it's a bit idealistic. It's like a laundry list of all the perfect attributes of almost any profession. It's like reading a religious text.
I thought McDonald’s is often locked into long-term contracts with companies
Given it was in 2022 and supposed to use blockchain, I assume the project is dead like pretty much any other industrial use of blockchain. And either way, who wants to eat DOC microchips?
Ironic. A blog post on TLS has TLS issues.
And if somehow we were still able to control such a thing, it's much more likely that the goal would be "make my investors and I as much money as possible" rather than "solve all of humanities problems".
> Within a few years of working on compilers I came across my first examples of 50k+ line functions. These were often (but not always) the result of source code generators that were translating some kind of problem description to code.

Like the issue in the Linux kernel recently where they had some simple looking min/max macros that generated megabytes of source code.
I'm not sure about the pirate copies, but weirdly, my Steam install had it set to 0, and it's quite a fresh install too!

It seems like yes most of the "slowhack" methods have been patched out, but knowing the demographics of the playerbase I wouldn't be suprised if there are some semi-secret 0days.

Honestly I wasn't aware of cl_filterstuffcmd being a thing, though when set to 0 it's still possible to change the settings it protects (motd_write,cl_filterstuffcmd,bind,unbind,unbindall,connect): I expect you could just run a command to create an alias containing one of those, and then run the alias, or include a malicious .cfg in the mod content and exec it remotely.
I'm working on a project that encompasses both JVM (Gradle, Kotlin) and Golang.

My hot take: JVM build tools, especially Gradle, are a soup of unnecessary complexity, and people working in that ecosystem have Stockholm Syndrome.

In Golang, I spend about 99% of my time dealing with code.

In JVM land, I'm spending 30% just dealing with the build system. It's actually insane, and the community at large thinks this is normal. The amount of time it takes to publish a multi-platform Kotlin library for the first time can be measured in days. I published my first Golang library in minutes, by comparison.
Need? No, absolutely not.

But they do conveniently fit into the century old buildings we put many of the factories into, which makes them a useful upgrade path for those unwilling to build structures around more efficient robots (the kind we've had for ages and don't even think of as robots, they just take ingredients and pump out packaged candy or pencils etc.)
It is more complicated on grid level. Some inverters might be smart enough, but some are not. Thus there is both push and pull going on. And this can affect voltage and frequency.
Official standard defines around 8k characters in modern usage. I’d guesstimate native highly educated speaker recognizes maybe 6-7k at most.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonly_Used_Standa...
Thanks for the new info, I hadn't heard of the study you linked.

I'm sceptical of your claim that "MOST (emphasis mine) modern psychedelic research is not focused on actively participating in therapy during the psychedelic experience"

I don't have time to look into what the split between the two approaches is now days, but it's an interesting enough question that I'll definitely find some time to get my knowledge caught up in the near future. Almost certainly not fast enough for this HN thread to still be alive by the time I have, but I'll reply to you if/when I'm able to either agree that you were right or explain why wrong, in case you're interested and in case you notice when someone replies to an older comment or yours (which can be achieved with the handy HN Replies, built by a longtime HN reader, which I personally think is a great tool filling a gap that HN should have had as a default feature - https://www.hnreplies.com/ )
You can use MLC LLM: https://llm.mlc.ai/
I stand corrected, you clearly know more about this than I do. :) (I'm only an intermediate learner.)

So perhaps my analysis of 袋小路文 wasn't very accurate at all. Yet I hope my point about 正, 生, 書, etc. stands.
Your body appears to not know gin has much more alcohol than beer...
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FTA: "Setting expectations for software engineers is tricky for all managers."

What about: "Setting expectations for managers is tricky for all software engineers." ?
Taking out frustration on employees who have zero control over these broken machines is just wrong
You don't need to look as far as Vietnamese Wikipedia to see ideology creeping in. I noticed weirdly forced extreme-left concepts in a lot of French and English pages, to the point it lowered my trust in the whole website.
Ask HN: How Search a Mentor Online?
hi, i'll start a PhD in Machine Learning, after 3y in the industry as a backend eng. i know that my decision maybe was not a good idea, looking at the current market, but for the moment i don't have money problem and i got this opportunity , the problem is that i'm still a beginner in machine learning but i'm studying a lot. but i would like to find a mentor, or just someone to text outside my university. do you know if this is possibile ? or where can i find someone willing to guide me a little? thanks for your time.