skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been thinking about buying a sibling domain (.net instead of .com) to re-host a fantastic essay that disappeared from the web some years back. I would make it clear that I didn’t write it and offer to remove it if the original author contacted me requesting that I remove it (it did not include attribution in its original form). But the issue has been enough of a grey area that I haven’t pulled the trigger.

For anyone who may be curious, wayback machine has an archive: fuckthesouth.com
Not only you suddenly will get the entire week for yourself, to do whatever you want, and you will be able to travel, but the other benefit is reviewing your relationship with material possessions.

I did that (sold everything, and went traveling), and now I own very little stuff. Apart from the mandatory laptop I need for work, and clothes, I couldn’t care less about everything else.

Before selling everything, I had a sick setup of dual monitors, and external DAC, speakers, headphones, keyboards, etc. Today, I need only laptop. I was considering getting one monitor, but can’t seem to justify the need.

It really teaches you how little material crap you need.
I love this mini article, however, I disagree with the main conclusion that collaborative editing is not an algorithmic but a UI/UX problem. I think that collaborative editing is a semantic problem. To the best of my knowledge (I'm writing this comment without much preparation), all SVN/Git algorithms are based on UNIX diff (Hunt–Szymanski algorithm). UNIX diff (and patch) is purely syntax driven.

Actually, I will make a small deviation here: I think it is a big industry/startup/open source project there, in creating a set of semantic diff algorithms/implementations. For example, due to my present job, I am very interested in collaborative editing of electrical circuits, and layouts for PCB and chips. Altium and KiCad are trying, for exmaple, to store everything in XML/text files and put the text files in Git/SVN and I can tell you a botched C++ program is nothing in comparison to a botched and malformed electrical circuit. So we need diff tools that "know" about a text file, vs rich-text with formatting, vs bitmap vs vector image, vs song, vs English text. Anybody want to start an open source project (DM me or put a comment here).

Anyhow, thanks to the authors on the great insights and let's work on the take home!
PolymurHash: A 64 bit universal hash function
Somebody spent ten dollars, so they must have a ton of disposable income that they're just itching to throw around?

Let's be honest what it's really about: Most hackers / computer enthusiasts are cheap skates and if there's an opportunity to get something for free instead of paying a dollar, they will spend hours or days to get it for free. They are highly insulted by the thought that anything on the internet would cost money. Maybe because they started young without an income and when commerce was not online. Then if somebody else spends a few dollars on a subscription, they consider it so outrageous that they assume that this person must be made out of gold – thus a delicious target for advertisers.

Why wouldn't advertisers have the same attitude towards people who spend frivolously on things such as buying a bus tickets or buying a coke? They clearly also have ten dollars in disposable income.
I think it is, entertainment options were limited. Now there is constant pervasive entertainment.

I may be wrong; but let me ask my five brothers and sisters and see what they think.
Would not recommend, if being alone is a risk factor to mental health.
You know elections have rules and they was clearly violated. Russia is in habit of illegally intervening with elections. Not sure how you think it should work?

If they didn't caught it before election whatever happened is a fair game? You should read more on the topic, why this ruling was made. No dangerous precedent here. Honestly, this is the opposite.
Yes? And it's not so much about the surveillance in the first place as opposed to the algorithmic manipulation of content to shift narratives and spread propaganda. Whether or not one believes the US based companies do similarly is beside the point, precisely because they're US based, whereas TikTok is the product of the US's primary economic and ideological adversary
That provides very valuable information: DO NOT TRUST this machine to be secure!

Similarly, any web site or app that can’t correctly handle a space character at the end of the password should never be trusted with anything of consequence.
I built a full featured Laravel crud app recently with probably 10 tables, auth, users, ‘beautiful’ tailwind styling, dark/light mode button, 5 different tabs, history function, email functions. 99% ai generated code. I almost didn’t even look at the code, just run some tests and make sure I’ve got functionality and no unexpected ‘normal’ bugs like min/max/0. Took me 15-20 hours with Windsurf. Windsail. Waveshark. Whatever that nice VSCode ai editor skin is called (completely forgettable name btw). It’s completely blowing my mind that this is even possible. There were of course some frustrating moments and back/forth (why did you change the layout of the list? I just wanted a filter…), but overall phenomenal. Deploying it shortly because if it dies, so what, this was a free job for a farm stand anyway. =)
How do you avoid losing money due to fraudulent claims, claims for services outside the scope of what you're insuring against, claims for ineffective resolutions to the claimed damages, etc.?

Am I supposed to know what a "scale-up insurance company" is?
Russian former ASML employee suspected of theft of trade secrets
Expectedly so, because each query to o1-pro makes it spend a small university's worth of energy for about 1 minute just to answer you.
The Georgescu trend was no.9 world wide and exploded 2 weeks before the election

What I learned from this is that people are much more easy to influence than previously thought. Especially if you come up with something that is a blank slate. Me included.

I was literally crying for my country these last 2 weeks.
Population growth is the major one, and time-frame, behind on building for decades. Tons of pent up demand and a nationwide problem, so people move when they can. Inflation already mentioned, govt subsidies.

Honestly, if you can't think four-dimensionally and/or understand derivatives you have no business arguing in a housing thread.

Not to mention what arguing against econ 101 makes you look like. Econ-denier is the new flat-earther.
From an employer's perspective: Why hire someone if they're going to be remote? Then I might as well hire someone from Brazil. Almost the same culture, 1/8th the price.

What's the difference for me as an employer if someone is remote from 10km away or 5000km away?

It's great that you feel like you're more productive at home, but it's still capitalism with supply and demand, and there are much cheaper remote employees with exactly the same webcam stream.
Meditation practitioners: differential effects in women and men (2015)
No, it's way beyond that.

He got booted out of one of the other far right wing parties when he publicly praised Romania's 1930s-1940s fascist/nazi dictators as "heroes, who maybe did some bad things, but a lot of good". He has refused to diaavow them every time he has been asked about them.

One of his major campaign leads wears Romanian nazi symbolism (think the Romanian equivalent of a swastika). The other one often posts about those same dictators, especially in commemoration of their deaths.

He has started one of his speeches with an exact quote from one of said dictators.

This is beyond all of the insane conspiracies and religious mystic declarations, from seeing aliens to "C-sections interrupt the divine cord", "water is not just H2O, it is information, that is why they bottle it to keep this information contained", and so many more.
My brother and his wife did this; quit their jobs and spent a year in Europe "slow living" (still did a bit of consulting work, maybe 10 hours/week), but with careful planning were able to keep their expenses waaay down (not sure of exact figure but much less than if living in the US). Month-long AirBNBs in non-tourist areas are inexpensive, so they'd spend 1 month in each place. A lot of walking, hiking, trains, just living. Not Paris, London or Zurich of course, but places like Albania, Montenegro, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, France of course. (Part of the reason for going to those countries is you can only spend so long in the Schengen Zone.) So you don't have to go as far as Vietnam or Ecuador to do this.

Obviously the OP has no children (and my brothers' kids are grown up) - if you have kids this changes the equation completely (though if they're very young then it can still work).
One overlooked aspect of this approach is how wasteful it is on purpose, people often buy a new printer (that comes with half-filled cartridges) and dispose the old one because it is cheaper than buying the cartridges which probably are not even empty.
Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable
Not sure how to square that with the chemical composition of hfcs.
As someone that hasn't been able to travel, this sounds wonderful
even weirder take. Let me rephrase it like "What if crime discovered after the fact it was committed?"

Or elections is somehow different?
I believe you'll meet the "Added or Free sugar" recommendation with 2 medjool dates, but AFAIK, the guideline isn't as strict on naturally occurring sugars, if there is any guideline at all aside from general carb consumption. Dates also have a surprisingly low glycemic index for how sweet they are.
> where Dante [...] come face-to-face with God and the Trinity

God AND the Trinity??
Anthropic launches Fellows program to mentor AI safety researchers
> There's the trial in the courtroom and then there's the trial in the court of public opinion.

And the judge is going to want to keep those as separate as possible.

> There are people on Reddit calling for potential jurors to know about jury nullification because they seem to think the killing was justified.

What people say on Reddit doesn't really have any significance. IIRC, the entire legal system is pretty hostile to the concept of jury nullification, and I'm pretty there will be giant roadblocks in front of what those Redditors want.
> You forgot the Irak war and Afghanistan and the fake WMDs. It's funny how people are quick to point that Russia is the aggressor but when the US was invading countries, few people opposed them.

Pretty facetious comparison. Iraq and Afghanistan were on the whole a mistake, but completely different from Ukraine. There was never any idea that the US would take the territory. It was just a huge waste of money for the US.

The very best case scenario for the US (which everyone realized was never going to happen within 2 years) was something like Japan and South Korea, setting up US-friendly democratic governments and corporations. There was absolutely no element of expansionism. Ask the Japanese and the South Koreans whether they are mad about being oppressed under the thumb of "US imperialism".

Contrast this with Russia's actions in Ukraine. They are taking over economically and militarily valuable lands, directly expanding their borders, expelling or re-educating Ukrainians who won't pretend to be Russian, and nakedly pursuing the revanchist fantasy of reclaiming lands that were ruled brutally by a totalitarian Muscovite empire for hundreds of years.

Conflating the two situations betrays an extremely shallow understanding of current events and a complete ignorance of history.
> comnpletely unstyled,

this is what completely holds back most built-in browser components from widespread usage, i suspect the vendors implementing it just don't care at all because it's not their problem

every company i've ever worked at had at least a somewhat consistently defined design language and it would look completely amateurish and out of place to use built in browser components in most places, regardless of how much html/css purists want that to be the case

unless that is fixed, it will never happen
Yeah sure, but those had absolutely nothing to do with the Ukraine.

And honestly, Russians have their current and past governments much more to blame for this, considering all the shit they did in Chechnya (starting with mass deportations in '44, followed by 2 wars and a bunch of warcrimes).

Not saying that the US was blameless with all the middle east messups, but IMO Russia collected a lot more karma debt in Chechnya over the last century by comparison...
> The west is in crisis, the ideology doesn't hold and the economy doesn't provide

So democracy (the ideology) doesn't hold? And the US economy is currently the envy of the world - yes there's a big housing problem that needs addressing, but if anything the losing party was the one that put up some kind of plan to deal with it, I don't see the winning party reducing housing/rental costs as they're from the landlord class.

> Can you tell me if US is about freedom and respect of the international law, borders and trande? If so why they support Ukraine against Russian invasion

Because Ukraine was invaded by Russia thus impacting Ukrainian freedom and borders? It seems pretty obvious.
After my fair share of car being incompatible with basic CCS (Connector fits, car tells me it does not like the electricity here) I just want the charging to be working without some fancy features which charger manufacturers are going to implement wrong anyway.
With the way things are at work right now I simply don't have time to mitigate this leak in my personal data security. I've officially given up.
Most of the other replies to you, except for the one by tempusalaria, are not really answering the question.

Broadly, while there was a lot of initial excitement - it simply does not seem like offline + off-policy RL can beat online + on-policy RL methods like PPO. Sampling trajectories from the actual model you are training and scoring them seems like it works much better in practice, never mind the additional flexibility methods like PPO provide over the form of the reward function.
Maybe worth noting that you have to eat a pretty large dose of fructose for it to make it all the way to the liver. More than in a few pieces of fruit. The small intestine converts up to 1g/kg (of bodyweight) fructose to glucose and other metabolites before it enters the liver portal vein.
No with the rate of development of quantum computers that estimate is down to the next few years.
I'm sticking with fuckerbook
The new puppet government was ethnic cleansing the local Russian populatin. So
It's not so clear cut. The fact that's it a puppet government is easy to confirm. Just ask yourself where Zelensky came from and why he stashes his generational wealth in the states. Why ban elections if the Ukrainian people are still really behind them.
Also Ukraine is not getting helped for free. More like they've mortgage their land and resources to the likes of Blackrock and other banking interests. That will keep the future generations in indebted servitude, while they rob them of their resources. This is just Western colonialism. Ask any Indian how fond they are of British colonialism.
Yes -- put another way, some cultures are better than others. I want cultures that prioritize individual freedom, liberalism, and egalitarianism to be "dominant" on a global scale, even if that requires some level of domination. Moral relativism is the true evil.
Just easy to see on the map, I guess - look for the binoculars!
It is ironic that the people responsible for most of the UX cruft on the internet (i.e., us programmers) prefer such minimalism in their interfaces.
I lack the willpower to go down the rabbit hole of how bad this guy was. On the political front, on the science front, on the logical consistency front.

After 2 weeks of frantically trying to convince people not to vote for him, I am exhausted and just want a good night's sleep.

Someone should document the amount of absolute insanity that the candidate was and maybe then you'd get it. I just feel relief at this point.
That was a very heavy-handed move that overrides traditions in many languages
Is there a known mechanism by which that happens? Or was it just a weird idiosyncrasy of her body and her diseases?
Might be because I’m on the free tier but every time I use Google Gemini to perform an even trivial task it spends pages to explain why it can’t do it while Chat GPT just does. Like:

I’m sorry but telling you what color you get by mixing red and yellow isn’t a simple task because of the following reasons: Reason 1: Light conditions…
I see it as less about pulling up a single piece of information

and more that a tool that every employee uses a dozen times a day

produces much more value than the same tool if it's used only by the big boss, and only once or twice a year as it's so inconvenient to use
This may differ based on location, as my grapefruit (non organic normal supermarket bought) are still quite bitter. I'm located in Europe so these might be Spanish grapefruit, though not sure.
"MBA-style corporations" does not mean that they have read the innovators dilemma.

An MBA-style corporation is one that is lost in a vast trove of metrics. They focus too much on the birds-eye view dashboard style of work - ultimately forgetting that it is less important to meet metrics and more important to keep innovating.

The metric-driven production is well suited for warehouses and factories where every unit is the same as the other. Because every unit is the same your business can focus on eeking optimizations visible via metrics.

But technology is not like that at all. Every unit of production is so different from one another. You cannot have a top heavy company that is just focusing on metrics. You need the top to be intelligently engaged with market, customers, systems, and employees.

Put in another words, if your company's primary focus is margin management, shareholder return, and squeezing production (MBA-school style), your company will have a very very hard time innovating.

Case in point - Intel - which has haemorrhaged itself with years of focus on buybacks and dividends and unit production - but not studying the market, studying modern tech, and innovation.
Tesla Cybertruck Owner Finds New Way to Chop Off Fingers in Its Doors
The command line is defined by strings. It had to be a string to stay within end-user requirements. You may be able to make a good case that the string input is best represented as something parseable by an existing argument parser library, but even then you are dependent on that library handling the strings correctly. Which, at best, pushes the problem onto someone else. Someone else who still has to be aware of input possibilities.
I recommend this to anyone who has not yet had kids (unless you don't plan to). It's the only opportunity you'll get (well until your kids are finished college)
Something that makes the Russian propaganda machine so effective is that they have the multiple departments at Russian universities at their disposal to produce both international and domestic propaganda. The West is up against Russian propaganda refined by psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists etc.

In the West the academias are contrarian. We are not used to adversaries that can put every single intelligent educated person in their country to work to undermine our countries.
Any insights to what the reserved rates are? Nothing really came up on google. I could find some commercial power rates which tended to be lower than residential rates, but I assumed that's not accurate since these things will eat a lot more power than most businesses would.
Isn't google merging chromeOS and android anyways?
Isn't there still the possibility of beating the guy in the second round? Would that be more fair?

(disclaimer: I'm a random Canadian on the internet who's out of the loop on this)
The Russian foreign agent law is used to attack the public personalities and NGOs, and have nothing in common with the Romanian Electoral Laws. Georgians are absolutely right to be scared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_foreign_agent_law
Not in Eastern Europe or Asia.
Yeah, I would call that a centrist party. To me the "right" includes trampling on individual and social freedoms. But maybe I've been brainwashed by American politics.
Hi Peter! Thanks so much for the kind words. I hope you noticed that a lot of the article ends up being a motivation for Ink & Switch's work, which we call out directly at the end. I am a big fan! :)

EDIT: Oh, also I meant to link to Upwelling, but forgot what it was called. I settled for a different link instead because it was deadline.
That’s great! I’m going to support it then :)
A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That's bad
The first half of her book talks about nutrition and health but the second half talks about her company that offers services to give people personal guidance on nutrition and monitoring their health, so there are some attempts to do this.
https://www.caseymeans.com/goodenergy
Amateur... It's the 7th year of NEET for me :)
YouTube Premium costs 90% as much as a standard Netflix subscription, but with one major difference: Netflix needs to spend ~17B on content per year to collect that $15.49/mo.

Youtube gets content for free and pays out a revenue share. If they also had to spend billions on content, they would have to charge more than $13.99/mo.
Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course
Is there any information on nutrition at all? Isn’t it 100% misinformation?

Every week a new thing contradicts last week’s thing.
If large scale fraud is suspected, results of exams will be annulled.

If a person is found cheating (and no other interference), that person's exam results will be annulled.

Why do you think this is not the case?
this is even counter to mainstream medical opinion
I have a cousin and his wife who did this with kids. They sold everything, bought an RV, and traveled north and Central America. They were homeschooling during that time. Their kids were 5 and 7.

It was not good.

I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea this is unless your children are under 3. Children need structure and permanency. They need friends, not just acquaintances. My cousin did everything else right, but his kids still have issues with relationships because 5 of their very formative years were spent without actual friends. It's really sad to think about.

For him, it was a wildly selfish move that negatively impacted his children. Don't be that guy.
You are pausing a command line parameter. It will always come in as a string.
If you're going to make a bold claim like that, shouldn't you provide some support? Otherwise you're expecting us to just take an anonymous person's word for it... and particularly a throwaway account.

You're saying "discount science based not on facts, but on the form in which such science is published" which is utterly unscientific
The 'child neglect' is the key here. Diona was trying to avoid having her baby taken from her and put in the system. In order to take any action against her own mother she would risk having action taken against her.
The text sync algorithm I wrote succeeds at the "The Color of Pomegranates" test. See https://cocalc.com/wstein/dev/share/files/2024-12-06.md for some details of the exact patches. This algorithm, which we came up with in 2015, is described at https://blog.cocalc.com/2018/10/11/collaborative-editing.htm...
It's a different approach than that taken by Yjs, Automerge, and Egwalker, with signficant pros (and cons!) relative to those algorithms. It has been used in production in CoCalc for over 8 years, and was also used by the recently shutdown Noteable Jupyter notebook project.