skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it dramatically easier to provide more useful history to machines?

If I'm providing history to a doctor I am pretty much trying to jam the history into a two minute explanation, and they are trying to remember our previous interactions based on short summarized notes that they made without my help.

If I'm providing history to a machine I can take my time to tell the machine as much as I want every time. I can send it whole spreadsheets of symptom logging and tell it my whole life story.
I’ve been thinking a little about this subject lately. It seems like bullying is a thing that serves the function of exacting the repressed violent desires of the social body. Who is selected for bullying is determined not primarily by the bully, but by the social group as a whole. To me this helps explain why it’s such a ubiquitous behavior; it’s a mechanism for a social group to act outside of its norms in the enforcement of its norms. To be clear, I think it’s terrible, just interesting to think about this way.
No, typically a court would summon an expert on the topic for testimony. Such an expert, as most any doc, would understand the limits of guidelines/calculators/etc. and judge accordingly. A typical clinical presentation resulting in a missed diagnosis would not fly at all under this process. But an atypical presentation in a very low probability context (young patient, no risk factors) might get through. Also, contrary to popular belief docs absolutely do not cover for each other in court.
My very first programming language was Liberty BASIC from a “for dummies” book. He’s had such a big influence on so many developers. Rip in peace
> which is totally backwards from a basic scientific perspective

This is not right, because if we have a situation where our theories and observations don't cohere, it's not given whether the theory requires modification or we're missing something in our observations (or both). A classical illustration is the orbit of Uranus being observed in the nineteenth century to be contrary to the predictions of Newtonian theory. Calculations were made assuming the truth of the Newtonian theory and that we were missing something in our observations - the position of Neptune was predicted and it was subsequently discovered.

On the other hand, the orbit of Mercury diverged from the prediction of Newton's theory. Again, a previously unobserved planet closer to the sun was postulated as being responsible, but in this case it really did require a modification to the theory of gravity: general relativity, which accurately predicted the 43 arcseconds per century of perihelion precession by which Mercury's orbit diverges from Newtonian predicitions.

GR has obviously made many other predictions, such as the gravitational bending of light, black holes, and gravitational waves, which have been vindicated.

So there's obviously a problem of the theory and observations not cohering, but whether the solution is a modification of the theory or a new form of matter is not clear in advance, and the latter is not unreasonable and certainly it's not unscientific to make as a hypothesis, to see where it leads.

The difficulty is in coming up with a theoretical framework that retains all the successful predictions of GR while also accounting for the galactic rotation curves.
I’m pointing out the argument’s absurdity. Saying that things don’t last forever to justify destroying something you don’t value, can easily be redirected to something you do value
Yes, I was just listing specifically how it doesn't work well, for me and most people. I'm not arguing against the concept or something. It's an extreme chicken and egg problem, with almost certainly no solution that would work outside of SF and NY type densities.
The first definition in [0], that is:

a person who has strange or unusual ideas and beliefs

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/crank
The story fitting to the headline can be found https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ceo-of-saudi-arabias-f...
Thank you for the explanation.

As a LLM wrapper (is it wrapped around ChatGPT?) would you say what makes your product unique is the specific prompts you have designed?

Again, great job! Planning, building and launching should always be commended!
My hangup with MOND is still general relativity. We know for a fact that gravity is _not_ Newtonian, that the inverse square law does not hold. Any model of gravity based on an inverse law is simply wrong.

Another comment linked to https://tritonstation.com/new-blog-page/, which is an excellent read. It makes the case that GR has never been tested at low accelerations, that is might be wrong. But we know for a fact MOND is wrong at high accelerations. Unless your theory can cover both, I don't see how it can be pitched as an improvement to GR.

Edit: this sounds a bit hostile. to be clear, I think modified gravity is absolutely worth researching. but it isn't a silver bullet
Sounds like someone used an unchanged password to gain (presumably) unauthorized access. This won’t last long. What a stupid / reckless stunt.
No.

That's utterly ridiculous. Milk is already a listed ingredient of milk and butter. It does not need an extra label.

Also, if a product claims to be Milk and it isn't, that fact should be stated to stop confusion.
I wouldn't say it's a solved problem, how many other companies are pulling off those numbers? Isn't that the current record for concurrent streams? And wasn't it mostly to mobile devices?
older generation BMWs do this same thing; it's achieved by a ratchet system on the door handle that interacts with the mechanically actuated lock.

it isn't electronic in the case of BMW. I don't know what Chevrolet does.
It's interesting to note none of the email tools I'm most familiar with are mentioned by the author. It's clear the author is a different demographic from me given they said they want to stay under $200/mo. Some of the tools I hear companies use the most are:

- Customer.io
- Iterable
- Braze
- Marketo
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud

My understanding is Customer.io is what most startups use these days with larger companies using one of the other four.
(specifically <https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/modules...>)
The videos are amazing. I watched the first season, and gave a glance at the second or third iteration, which somehow seem even better. He added one clutch visualization which really made a concept click for me.

I thought the book was only so-so, but required to support the nuances of what he discussed in class.
I appreciate your candor. Your points seem simple and are yet worth noting. I appreciate the way you framed and worded your reply, as it takes a difficult topic and explains the issues without resorting to generalities. It gives more light than heat, to invert the common expectation.

The current mode of public discourse incentivizes reactionary rhetorical swipes at the expense of debate itself. Wedge issues perform an alarming amount of work under these conditions, and once constructed, they continue working even in the absence of effort by their originator.

Do you have any recommendations for readings on topics that seem relevant to your views or points made in this discussion, or that are perhaps adjacent?
The syntax is Prolog-like, so people in the field are familiar
with it.
You know they were commoditized when "Build Netflix" became a system-design interview question.
They are L-TEK Ex Pro X. Shipped all the way from Poland!

They seem to work pretty well. Have been using them frequently for more than a year with no issues yet.
I think in the context of the book 'procedural epistemology' encompasses all programming, not just what you'd call procedural programming.
Someone on Mastodon pointed out that not all Model Ys even have the manual release. I didn't believe this could be true - how could regulators allow this?

But it's actually listed on the Model Y page (https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-AAD769C...): "Note
Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors."

Not sure what the distribution is or whether it's just an "old version" problem?
This is every dev house I've worked at. For most people (mostly not the ones on HN), coding is a 9-5 job. No ambition. Just lines of code. Go home. I don't know there is anything particularly wrong with that.

You just have to accept most staff at any corporation are simply just average. There has to be an average for there to be better and worse.
Do you think it could be simple to fix, even by a hackish third party?
Thanks for plainoldrecipe! Such a handy tool.
Solves differently though, right? Cable broadcasts are not the same as a streaming video over the internet, right?
First interview question: What kind of car do you drive?
Bullies lower the fitness of targets to elevate their own standing. It's neanderthal-level social darwinism.
Would those hammers work on Tesla windows? IIRC, they now use laminated glass (like windshield glass) on the door windows as well.
I regularly use duckdb on datasets of 1B+ rows, with nasty strong columns that may be over 10MB per value in the outliers. Mostly it just works, and fast too! When it doesn't, I'll usually just dump to parquet and hit it with sparksql, but that is the exception rather than the rule.
> In my opinion, Rosetta should be more heavily gated* to push everyone from Adobe to Steam to build for aarch64.

Honestly I see game developers simply abandoning MacOS (more than they already have) if they need to do more work on their back catalogues. Nobody at Adobe cares if CS3 doesn't run on the latest MacOS, it's no longer a revenue source for them. EA would care a lot more if all their games older than 4 years needed work to run on MacOS, there's a lot more long tail revenue in games (but a lot of that is over aggregated back catalogues where the revenue per title is pretty low even if they sum up to a significant amount) than there is in the more typical B2C cloud SaaS attached apps that the App Store model is designed to serve.
Is there an example where nlohmann/json is not compliant? Would like to know (and fix) this.
laminated windows have a layer of plastic in them. You need a cutting tool.

https://youtu.be/DyZrQ3Q0ZR0?t=75

Also I know this video has a firefighter in it but I will tell you that FFs are more likely to use a sawzall than a hand tool.
Because it is an (likely illegal) lead gen scam

You can see they have a page for mortgage lenders to sign up for the other side
https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

https://github.com/Coopydood/ultimate-macOS-KVM

https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM

https://github.com/topics/osx-kvm
Security is always an economic activity too. The crash engrs at Ford could demand 30 mph speed governers, quarter inch steel plates, 5 point harnesses, and helmets, but people need a car that costs less than $200k and gets more than 2 miles per gallon.

Sometimes security requirements _are_ too onerous.
I’m particularly amused by the hypothesis that spacetime can be bent without the presence of matter. We can’t detect dark matter because there’s no such thing, it’s just a brute topological fact.
Earlier:

Over 500 Amazon workers decry "non-data-driven" logic for 5-day RTO policy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42009552
It's not the art style, it's the poor execution of the art style, and the

The remaster re-rendered the original cutscenes pretty much intact, but at higher resolution. They look terrible. Why? Because they're higher resolution, but no higher detail. A low resolution video, your brain fills in the details. "There's cracks and crevices in that wall" you think, looking at the blurry image of a stone texture. When it's high res without any filtering or texture improvements, it looks terrible.

The character motion is limited by number of frames. In the original, the characters moved smoothly, pixel to pixel. The low detail art and the low resolution that it was presented at worked because they fit smoothly together. The remaster? High resolution low detail sprites look like they're gliding across the landscape, even though they've got more frames than before.
Go ahead and make your peace with uniform random: the occasional runs are just a form of meta-novelty.

(wouldn't it be boring to always have large jumps between items?)
That explains why they use oxygen tents, but it doesn’t really explain why oils/fats on burns provide pain relief. The little I was able to determine was that the exposed inflamed dermis is extremely sensitive to touch/pressure even of just air or air currents, but I don’t know why this is the case.
All of the above: product roadmap, coordinating developers’ work, specs and designs, and anything else you can think of.
Are you living in a good neighborhood?
i guess there will be always a previous processor supporting something which the most recent doesn't.

but when the bug report is regarding supporting a software version which they don't support themselves anymore, personally i don't think they will give it any priority
Since I actively supervise my testing, and actively test my tests, I don’t find the prospect of mistakes in my test code to be terrifying.

I don’t understand why the possibility of difficulty with test code should cause me to write shallow, lame test code.
Distribution maintainers pretty much do whatever they want with the OS level ABI. That on top of whatever those user space libraries want to do anyways makes native application ABI stability basically impossible.
The article claims that the placebo effect has never been shown as a physical, objectively measurable effect, but this is wrong.
For example, I look at autoimmune studies a lot. In those studies, when placebo-controlled, a fair number (often 20-30%) of patients on the placebo arm see significant improvement in symptoms across many objective, physical metrics. Measurement errors exist, of course, but I would expect physical measurements to not be prone to so much psychological bias, especially if double-blinded, that this would explain away the difference in results.

The article is also wrong about there not being a physiological mechanism. Dopamine and endorphins can be powerful mediators of pain relief, for example.
Related:

https://x.com/steve_tenuto/status/1857523923509981437
this is an obvious case of battling the type system that just gets in the way. The "before" version obviously sucks, but the "after" with magic sprinkled in - sucks even more! is there an alternative solution?
> where we would put matter if we could to make our theory of gravity make sense

Dark matter behaves in a fundamentally different way from baryonic matter. We can constrain the total amount of matter in the universe (both dark and baryonic) from the observed abundances of baryogenesis. But dark matter has a different effect on the relative amplitudes of peaks in the CMB.

As far as I can tell, MOND has never really had any success outside of modeling galaxy rotation curves.

The skepticism I've seen towards dark matter vs. MOND has always been strange to me. Dark matter doesn't really require much in the way of new physics --- there's just a new particle to add to the standard model. But most MOND theories violate Lorentz invariance which is a vastly more radical departure from standard physics. (And in my mind, the more sophisticated MOND theories that maintain Lorentz invariance like TeVeS are really a theory of dark matter dressed up in the language of MOND.)
Still probably easier to kick out a laminated window with cracks in it.
MOND isn't pitched as an improvement to GR. It was always a Newtonian theory - it's in its name!

There are relativistic versions of MOND, for example, TeVeS [1], but they all still have some problems.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%E2%80%93vector%E2%80%...
Heart-Rate Recovery After Exercise as a Predictor of Mortality
> It sounded like that was directed at Elon not Sam? Or is it the other way?

It was to Elon at that moment. Elon wanted majority equity, board control, and to be CEO.

> Of course this depends on who we’re talking about. I would trust Elon to share AGI as he did Tesla patents. But not Sam.

I think Ilya is right to make it not possible in place of depending of trust Elon. Then he tried again with Sam but then he lost.
Is cable video over IP now? Last time I looked (which was forever ago), even switched video was atsc with a bit of messaging for the cable box to ask what channel to tune to, and to keep the stream alive. TV over teleco systems seems to be highly multicast, so kind of similar, headend only has to send the content once, in a single bitrate.

Not really the same as an IP service live stream where the distribution point is sending out one copy per viewer and participating in bitrate adaptation.

AFAIK, Netflix hasn't publicly described how they do live events, but I think it's safe to assume they have some amount of onsite production that outputs the master feed for archiving and live transcoding for the different bitrate targets (that part may be onsite, or at a broadcast center or something cloudy), and then goes to a distribution network. I'd imagine their broadcast center/or onsite processing feeds to a limited number of highly connected nodes that feed to most of their CDN nodes; maybe more layers. And then clients stream from the CDN nodes. Nobody would stream an event like this direct from the event; you've got to have something to increase capacity.
I use it all the time to connect to my boxes at home when I'm out and about, and I chat with friends on an IRC server running on there.

Development is pretty active, and the latest release just improved the routing algorithm by having it favour hops with the lowest latency which had a noticeable improvement.

If you're looking for a big community hub within the network you might be disappointed (you could always try to set one up!), but there are a lot of people using it for their own purposes and the protect is far from abandoned.
The fairest way to do it I feel is a FIFO. Yeah you might give an organ to a 70 year old on their last legs, but they don’t have any less of a right to live than anyone else.
After the Horizon scandal, public trust in complicated computer systems are at an all time low. It shouldn’t be an opaque system making such important decisions. Everything should be in the open and explainable.
I’m not sure buffering was the biggest issue with this event.
How was as 58 year old Tyson fighting a man in his 20s?
Rice is not as nice with global warming
How the hell is it undercut?

Money don't make circumnavigation easier, money makes it possible.

What's next, bitching about how F1 drivers don't buy their own cars, but are sponsored by e.g. Ferrari?

Also, your emphasis on girl shows what it's really about.

As if male sailors all craft their own boats from the trees they chopped with their bare hands, and girls have it easier by having a financial backer.

What a sad day to be on HackerNews (in other words, Saturday).
This is an issue with many modern cars, not just Tesla. The rear windows physically can’t roll all the way down due to the shape of the doors.

One way to solve it might be to design a window mechanism where the glass rotates in the frame rather than just sliding on a single axis. But as always, there’s a cost and complexity trade off.
societyserver/open-Team

an object-storage, backend as a service platform. enables you to build complex websites/applications including chat, messaging, email, without needing any custom backend coding among other things.

https://gitlab.com/societyserver/

https://github.com/societyserver/

backend: Pike/MySQL (without Roxen)

frontends: XSLT or REST (for custom javascript frontends), java desktop clients, a PHP library.

this project is forked from the original developers who stopped publicly maintaining it more than a decade ago. http://web.archive.org/web/20120502154511/http://www.open-st...

the website was lost during covid due to an administrative error while i was busy with family problems: http://web.archive.org/web/20211017092823/http://societyserv...

tasks that need to be done:

1: rebuild the website by scraping content from archive.org/ (skills needed: HTML/CSS/JS/UX)

2: rebuild the TLS stack and the auth API. (skills needed: pike, auth)

3: build more frontend examples for different frameworks (currently we have angularjs and aurelia. would love to see react, svelte, etc...) (UX/JS/TS/HTML/CSS)

4: add a GraphQL API. (pike)

5: document the developer tools. (most of that is on gitlab/github)

further on my wishlist are:

integrate shared editing like etherpad.

support SQLite as an alternative to MySQL/PostgreSQL.

better developer tools, like integration with git. (content is stored in the server with a history. the history can be exported to and imported from git), remote editing of content from VIM and other editors.

matrix integration (we already have IRC, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, FTP, WEBDAV, TELNET, LDAP...)

a gmail style mail frontend.

other integrations

this project has a long history and a lot of potential. i am actively using it for my own websites, but i have been neglecting the project itself since i was busy finding more work. if i could only get the first two steps done, we'd be back in business.
I wish I was rich too.
How is this being lax? Seems like someone just raised concerns about it this year. The complaints in this amount to "please stop going at our guys and go at the people who are beating our guys."
IVS does not scale past 1080p: https://ivs.rocks/
> So an LLM would potentially be good at writing a first draft of that script, which Dave could then proofread/edit

Right, and there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with this, nor is it a novel method. We’ve been joking about copying code from stack overflow for ages, but at least we didn’t pretend that it’s the peak of human achievement. Ask a teacher the difference between writing an essay and proofreading it.

Look, my entire claim from the beginning is that understanding is important (epistemologically, it may be what separates engineering from alchemy, but I digress). Practically speaking, if we see larger and larger pieces of LLM written code, it will be similar to Dave and his incomprehensible VBA script. It works, but nobody knows why. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t new at all. It’s an ever-present wet blanket that slowly suffocates engineering ventures who don’t pay attention and actively resist. In that context, uncritically inviting a second wave of monkeys to the nuclear control panels, that’s what baffles me.
Twitter is the worst global social network except for all the others
They damaged at least one car when their launch pad was suddenly distributed over a large area, throwing concrete pieces at least 6.5 miles.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-04-26/spacex-sta...
What a massive blow to NFLX. They have been in the streaming game for years (survived COVID-19) and this silly exhibition match is what does them in?

I didn’t watch it live (boxing has lot its allure for me) but vicariously lived through it via social feed on Bluesky/Mastadon.

Billions of dollars at their disposal and they just can’t get it right. Probably laid off the highly paid engineers and teams that made their shit work.
I figure leading political figures are fair game to criticize.
Oh that sounds awful I’m sorry! I’ve had to do code tests in online IDEs which fine, but I use vim and so I had to write everything in vim, paste to the IDE, get the live feedback from the rendered output and make adjustments back and forth. It would’ve been fine if not for the timed aspect.

I can’t imagine adding two people, an unfamiliar desk setup, an unfamiliar keyboard even, all while talking about what I’m doing.
This business is a thinly veiled mortgage lead gen scam

Its going on nearly 20 years I have been watching this train wreck