skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tangent perhaps, but I've felt this with AI, albeit with nuanced differences. In a nutshell, there's this weird tension between being kind of dismissive of it due to failed personal expectations, but also a desire to be as objective about it as possible, a "fear of missing out" if you will. As such I consume news about AI and engage with the "community" online about it, but I struggle constantly between separating noise from signal, "truth" and bullshit. It's not so much that bad news gets me down so much as the fact that sensationalist hype and bullshit makes me irrationally upset.

The whole OpenAI strawberry thing is kind of a great example. There was vague hype and speculation about it months before it was actually released, and in the end we got a model that is objectively impressive when it comes to benchmarks and is objectively better at certain tasks, but otherwise in my mind fell way short of the expectations being set by more "enthusiastic" commentators.

Now, normally if someone is prone to hype and sensationalism on the internet one would typically learn to ignore them and preserve your mental health, problem is that sometimes OpenAI employees (and other employees of frontier labs) can't resist making sensationalist claims themselves, i.e. claiming that we're a couple of years away from AGI or whatever.

On the one hand, it's a smart and reasonable thing to bet on expert advice, on the other hand, the experts are making very bold claims that I just struggle to see coming to fruition. The idea that you could simply scale an LLM until we achieved AGI always felt a little suspect to me.

Curious to see how others have felt about this.
Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures
"As I understand it" is not true, but I'm curious whether you heard it from a Lobste.rs principal, or just some echo chamber spinning stories against us.

All the tokens in that late 2018 came from our user growth pool — we never misappropriate any user-bought BAT.
I think the most telling experience I ever had, was once, I was put on a PIP because I had a period where my sleep was extremely unhinged and uncontrollable, and no matter how deliberate I was in my sleep hygiene and avoiding stimulant and adjacent intake, I would sometimes be unable to get to sleep or stay awake, and this caused significant heartburn at my employer, who had fairly rigid in-office time requirements on high, but adored my work.

On my first meeting with someone in HR about it, they exclaimed in surprise "Wow, they really want to keep you. Usually when I'm talking to someone, it's because their manager wants them gone."

(I was not, ultimately, let go at the end of that process.)
> [...] 11.45 mmH₂O of static pressure [...]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use these units for pressure? What happened to Pascal?
It's a big step back
I guess it happens because only small part of world population stay away from negative news. If most population stay away from negative news, I believe the news outlet will change their news tone.
I guess if undersea cable sabotages were to increase, you would want to be long Starlink. I suppose that's not immune to sabotage either, but you need a rocket programme to do it.
$40/day on mass transit is not unusual either. If I commuted into the nearest major city (and, yes, it would involve a short drive and cheap parking( that's about what I would be.
What if the languages available do depend on what the lesson is about? That would require the composed form. Skipping it entirely is not the way to go.

You could start with decomposed and then compose it, I guess. I don't think either order is inherently easier to learn.

I agree that the wording of the normal forms, before getting to examples, is usually confusing.
Better date handling for projects migrated to Gitea
No referral codes ever injected into links, which mean those blue or purple text things you click on pages. The bug affected typed-in binance.us and finance.com only, we made nothing off it, and we fixed it right away:

https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/

Anyway, thanks for your comment.
I think you'd like what I've done with mise. You can have tasks in your global config (~/.config/mise/config.toml) which by default are shown no matter where you are. `mise run` will show a selector by default of all tasks available, so no need to manually setup fzf. Shebangs work the same. Commonly, mise users would also put "uv" into their config so other users don't need to set that up separately from mise itself.

Interactive inputs are something I'm planning on shipping relatively soon. It would not be hard to do—I've got the ui components to do it and the data model supports it.
If you don't want to buy into the whole Nix philosophy, you can also use something like 'shake' (https://shakebuild.com/) to build your own buildsystem-like command line tooling.
I'm glad sodium is having its day in this configuration of using them in batteries.

What I'm really trying to understand is how in the blazes we aren't using Sodium _directly_ as energy transport mechanism.

Using the Castner Process ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castner_process ) you run the process of (caustic soda + energy) -> (water, oxygen, pure Sodium).

This process is 'perfect' in that you don't get contaminants; you lose nothing in this reaction. (It's decidedly imperfect in that the reverse reaction occurs during, so H2 wafts off, and it needs ~330ºC to run).

This process has been done to death in the early 1900s, but humanity hasn't done this stuff for a 100 years since the invention of a different process that turns NaCl into Sodium and Chlorine gas, because the latter is _also_ valuable, whereas water aint.

It's... perfect. You ship caustic soda which is relative to other energy processes and carriers not all that dangerous (you don't need to store it pressured for example), cheap, extremely abundant to the desert, there you have a massive solar farm that turns into pure clean water and pure Sodium. That's even better than a hypothetical amazing Electrolyzer, because you _need_ water with those, whereas castner _makes_ water. I hear they can use that in the desert. Oh, and the anodes can be made from iron, which is cheap, easy, and abundant. Unlike the material you need to make your anodes from in state of the art water-to-H2 electrolysers!

Ship the sodium back. All you need is clean water. Toss a bucket of water at it and it poofs back into (Heat + H2 + caustic soda). Again, __perfectly__, no losses. You don't need a reactor or a catalyst or pressure; that process just goes automatically, all you need is a bucket and a vessel.

Storing sodium is, despite the youtube movies, easy. Some paper steeped in oil is all you need to wrap it in. It's stable under all 'warehouse temperatures' (-10 to +70), does not need pressure, and __has zero losses during storage__. It's also quite light.

Some back of the envelope math says that it's energy dense enough; a containership full of sodium contains more than enough energy to pay for the trip and then some - about as much H2 you can make with that as a ship with pressurized H2.

I'm guessing I must have messed up that math because this feels like it solves.. everything. Free energy for all. There's enough Sodium the world over, you can start right now (Sodium is already made in industrial quantities for other purposes, so you can just buy a containership's worth right away). Surely after 100 years of science we can improve on the already functional Castner Process. Solar panels are idiotically cheap and plentiful.

You can convert half the sahara, or the entire east coast of Spain, or the sun belt, into a giant solar farm, just ship coastic soda to it and sodium out. More energy than you'll ever need, and you solved the availability problem because you can store it, at no loss at all, effectively forever, at nearly no cost. Any warehouse can be converted into storage for peanuts.

I'd love to know what I'm missing here.
Video: https://youtu.be/gfkeR9vfmNo?t=86
I used this until AI became good enough. Now, for most purpose, I can just declare what I want to be done/executed and get perfect bash for it. I have a relatively complex Makefile that build graphql schemas and sets them up. It'd have been a no-go given how weird bash syntax is; but now I can get it generated and working from pretty much the first try.

There is lots of bash around and it's a very simple language, so AI models are pretty good at it.
Vulnerability of LLM Benchmarks: Do They Accurately Reflect True LLM Performance
I’ll go a step further and say that we shouldn’t spend a single penny on homelessness that could instead be donated to cancer research.

In fact, cancer research should receive zero funds that could instead be put towards care for needy children.

And we shouldn’t even waste money on those kids, when it should instead be used ito fight climate change.
Dunbar's Number[1] could potentially be playing a role. When you're already so preoccupied caring about people on the other side of the planet, you literally have no cares left to give around you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
Nearly all case fan brands use mmH₂O. No idea why, but that's what they do.
Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus
No, they are using collusion to raise rents--AI is simply the latest attempt to whitewash the collusion. Collusion is already illegal. And had been investigated and are currently being prosecuted.

Those prosecutions are now going to magically disappear.

Elections have consequences. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
He walked into a bar.

...I'll see myself out.
> The point is that there's often no way way to express "I want side effects" in declarative tools, and the number of side effects that might be useful is vast.

Shake (https://shakebuild.com/) is pretty good about letting you specify that a specific step produces multiple artifacts.

I suspect Nix can do the same?

> Some other systems (e.g. bazel/blaze comes to mind) actively try to hide side effects like stdout.

Yes, blaze isn't all that great. You can tell, because Google folks check in generated artifacts into their repositories, instead of wrestling with getting blaze to build them.
if you pour money on a problem, you create all sorts of incentives for the problem not to go away.
Alas, Make is really, really awful in most other respects.
gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/hacking-brian-krebs-s...
If governments what to make a
simple but effective regulatory change that will improve competitiveness of rent pricing then simply mandate all lease agreements must have their rate and terms published publicly.
It’s fascinating how the 24/7 news cycle and social media have convinced so many people that everything is awful.

I still hear younger coworkers snidely remark that the US is an “third world country with cellphones” while they live a lifestyle with safety, comfort, and luxury that puts them in the top 1% of people in the world. It’s wild.
The USA spends close to a trillion dollars annually on K-12 education, so you are only off by about 3 orders of magnitude.
The end of the ISS will usher in a more commercialized future in space
They have these in a smaller 80mm size, I have two - they are weirdly great? Relatively quiet at half speed and move crazy amounts of air, compared to other 80mm fans I have.

The fan in the center cools the motor which I assume increases MTFB.
Well without atomicity you can't have 1NF, and thus none of the latter. So let's hope you never store a content of a text content of a configuration or log.
Someone said hectopascals and was, unfortunately, misunderstood.

... As per commenter below, will also see myself out.
Something tells me that the “unknown destination“ is closer to Moscow than it is to Barbados.
Depends on the overall rapport.

"you're sloppy" is too personal.

"this is not to the standard what I would expect" with reasons is factual, if, having been on the receiving end of, harsh. But it should not be done publicly.

"This has to be changed because it will break" (on a PR) is perfectly fine.

"This wasn't even run through linter, please don't drive folks to force push hooks" can be 3rd person passive aggressive (e.x. I'm not advocating for them but others want a series of hooks that is just...too...much...) but potentially factual.

"This .cs file was 2500 lines. You were given a choice but instead you chose violence" is something that was very very hard to not reword into something more polite when a PR wanted to add another 2600 lines. At the very least turn it into a more constructive "This .cs file is already 2500 lines. We need to stop the violence and refactor the class per-business-aspect."

I like that last example, because it shows some very subtle differences in how the same information can be communicated while severity/importance is still pretty dang clear.
The Art of Failure Analysis
Is "Fan inside a Fan" a new design for DC? Or is it something available in hyper scale only to come out now with Arctic?
The 1977 virus was already circulating in the population, hence why it ended up as a vaccine. Therefore, it was not a lab leak (or any human-driven mechanism; nobody's certain) that first caused humans to be infected with the virus but good, old fashioned, zoonotic transmission.

>> No prior pandemic is known to have arisen from a genetically engineered virus, but the technology for that has only recently come to exist. No one had ever died in a plane crash before the Wright brothers, but the risk was obviously still there.

Unlike plane accidents, diseases and pandemics happened way before labs that could leak them.

We're talking about prior probabilities here, yes? "How often has something happened in the past". Whether the probability of lab leaks increases now that there's a possibility of a lab leak is a conditional probability: "given that a lab leak is now possible, what is its probability?".

And btw that will remain very low because of the infinitesimally low prior probability of a lab leak.
medieval builders would have relied on the use of flame and natural light.

I think it all looks great with the exception of white-spectrum LEDs as far as the eye can see; the natural lighting of the past Notre Dame during early morning was special -- maybe it still is , but the white LEDs everywhere make it look 'clinical' to me.
I’m less concerned that it is using AI.

I’m more concerned how both the vendor and the landlords are dealing with the feedback loop when the inevitable error occurs.

And as far as I’m concerned, I would like the government to mandate data transparency and create the data clearinghouse to facilitate it. Requires APIs be used and open protocols. That’s how we “increase competition and drive down costs for the consumer”. Not just for rents, for insurance, services, and products.
I think the problem is that you can't really know if the PIP is being done in good faith or not.

In good faith, the process makes sense, right? "You are not performing, you have been told if you do not change it will be a problem, you have not changed, this is formal notice you must change or you will be fired."

In bad faith, as others have described around this thread, it's just a performance around legal departments being risk-averse when most places in the US are at-will and you could fire them with 0 notice, so they're making a paper trail out of whole cloth with the outcome predetermined, so attempting to "work harder" to get out of it is just you giving a lot of effort when you're about to need to work really hard to find another job no matter what.
Another fascinating example of nominative determinism
Yeah but like, so is a huge percent of what's shoved in our face everywhere in modern media - my surprise is at this part: "you could face fines or imprisonment for sharing, liking, commenting on, or saving our content, or for contacting us". The idea of being fined or even imprisoned for, say, liking a tweet or something, seems completely bonkers to me.
I am not familiar with the US system enough to comment much on the former. But you are missing the point about my recent experience with Ali (plus, there are no "porch pirates" where I live and services range from solid to rock solid). Packages getting lost is fine, mistakes happen (although I suspect in my case that the seller sent it to the wrong address). Telling me to provide evidence while being unwilling to provide me with the company I should contact for it is not fine and sufficiently "not nice" that I am now turned off by them despite other positive experiences.
They're 38mm thick and adding extra thickness to fans improves performance by a lot, but for some reason consumer PC component brands have rarely ventured beyond 25mm until quite recently.
How do they know 1803 study participants were women?
Quick someone tag linus in here so he can do a review and claim 20% performance increase \s
Please note the context. OP stated that the discussion is difficult because “it can be seen as sexist.” In other words, he feels the need to engage in throat clearing because others will perceive his point as sexist. My response is that it’s those other people—the ones creating the circumstances which make OP feel the need to engage in all the preliminaries—are being sexist.

Being a mother is very important to most women. Most women will have kids, most women who do consider it important work, and a majority of women would prefer not to work while their kids are under 18. We can just go ahead and say that it’s bad to devalue their work in home making without dancing around the point.
That is not really applicable here. The cathedral itself was never really destroyed even though the Christian rejectors’ mob ransacked it in the “French” Revolution and the latest fire also did not really cause structural damage.

It is also still a functioning Christian church with services.
> But what about healthcare? How do non-rich US citizens who retire abroad deal with that?

You should look into it. It very much depends on the country.

But typically you just start paying taxes or fees or whatnot into whatever the national system is in place. Most countries will require you to have proof of some type of outside insurance before immigrating.

There are overseas specific health insurance plans you can get on -- typically not very expensive because healthcare in the rest of the world isn't insane. [1]

Most countries also have a cash-only payment schedule. Unlike the U.S., fees for health services are typically known up front.

In any case, even paying cash, you're likely to find healthcare outside of the U.S. (in tier-1 countries like the EU, Japan, Korea, etc.) to be high quality and very low cost -- often cheaper than healthcare in the U.S. with insurance.

1 - https://www.aetnainternational.com/
That's a reason for optimism, given the decline in prices for solar/wind/hydro/geothermal.
I do not have children, for this very reason.

But anyone with children shoudl be concerned for their future.
> a church opening its doors to anyone desiring to come in

My invite got lost in the mail, I guess. Or maybe the criteria wasn't just "anyone desiring to come in".
Honestly if that happened we’d probably see the end of rent controlled units; people would be pissed to know they’re artificially subsidizing their neighbors 650/month apartment
>To be clear, being a homemaker is a gender-agnostic career, and there is even data that implies than men may be more ideal homemakers, with statistically superior social outcomes.

Source? Without proper controls this could easily be a case of "households who are in a situation where the man can be homemaker are better for kids", rather than "men being better homemakers".
For your parents. Several nongoogle email platforms NEVER bother opt-outers with captchas, 2fa, or other NONsense.
Do you know of a single attorney who has been held liable for negligence for using an LLM to help accelerate their document research work?
Not really. There is always someone richer. I’m try to compare myself to my past self, not others.
Put more simply, spending money on something tends to get you more of it.
I have the same view. Notre Dame just feels like a big regular church. The Cathedral of Cologne, on the other hand, is just something mesmerizing to me. It's like it belongs to another world/dimension and yet somehow fits with the gloomy sky of Germany.
Erm, never a factor of 100.

Lithium battery prices dropped from about $700-ish per kWH to about $140 or so. About 1/5 in 10 years and most of the drop was early (about a factor of 1/3 from 2013 to 2016).

Lithium battery prices will continue to drop, but the big gains are over. It's now going to be a slow industrial production decrease over time.
Every hotel I visit in town is a 5 star hotel in that you can at most see 5 stars from the hotel. A hotel at the edge would hopefully have many more stars visible
I guess that wouldn’t be necessary if your dependency graph is static, but if dependencies can themselves change during change propagation, you do need weak references.

Imagine input A affects node B affects output C. Then you probably want B to be collected if C becomes garbage. So the strong references need to go C→B→A. But the way a simple push strategy would actually proceed if A changes would be that A triggers a reevaluation of B, which then triggers a reevaluation of C. But A could be either immortal for semantic reasons (e.g. “the left mouse button was clicked” can’t really become garbage) or perhaps kept alive by some entirely unrelated dependent D. So A needs to be able to refer to B if it’s still alive but must not hold B alive, and similarly for the edge between B and C.

The way to deal with this is to have store dependents in a weak set. (I don’t actually see how to implement one with plain weak references without finalizers.) Alternatively, just give up and say the dependency graph needs to be specified up front and only dies as a whole.

My own dependency-graph/reactivity thing is not ready to see the light of day, so if you want some references I guess I can direct you to the author of the Sodium FRP library (not to be confused with the libsodium crypto library) and an FRP book mentioning[1] he implemented a cycle collector as a workaround for the lack of weak references in JavaScript (at the time).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240507181526/http://sodium.nz/...
You may enjoy reading Pillars of the Earth
Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One
It's funny because the number of homeless people if I recall correctly is around 10k and total number of people receiving aid is double or triple of that. One may wonder where that billion goes.
Is it more or less negligible than the number of intentional rifle homicides occurring in this country?
deepfakes are not a form of sexual criminality. Gees Thought Police here we come!
> We can, and should, close that 5% gap.

Good luck getting compliance without a formal registry.. oh wait.
Personally I’d rather subsidize the units of people in need (which may or may not be people in rent controlled buildings) than spend my money to grow the portfolio of some ultra wealthy corporation. Subsidizing individuals is really not what upsets me.
> Not if you look at safety, max performance, reliability or efficiency. Drive a 1940s car and compare. Hell, try a sports car from the early 80s.

By the late 1920s >80% of US households had at least one automobile, and even if they had stopped improving, the productivity change of going from (steam/oil-powered) train and animal power (the primary options pre-1910) had made a transportation step change in the US by the 1930s:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924825-fighting-traffic

By the 1960s >60% of households had two cars.

So yes, there have been incremental improvements, but the transformation change in society was done decades ago.