skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I initially interpreted it to mean that expecting people to give impromptu speeches at funerals was an odd custom (that certainly doesn't happen where I live), but now I'm not so sure.
I'd challenge the assertion that LLMs never pass whatever a "sniff test" is to you. The code they produce is looking more and more like working production code.
You should be glad that those products are steering away the worst customers from you.
Nanowar of Steel – HelloWorld.java (Source Code Video) – Napalm Records
Speaking at a funeral like that is an odd custom.

Note that custom for funerals comes from the local culture and customs of how previous funerals are run. So that it isn't to you is just a reflection on your culture, other people come from different cultures where such a thing is not normal and because it is not normal- for their culture - it harms their meditations which would be done in the way they have grown up doing.

As such I'm not making a statement of right and wrong for your culture, only that in OPs culture it is wrong and so asking for someone to speak like that was in fact wrong on the part of whoever asked. Whoever asked may well have come from a different culture where this behavior is normal and so made a mistake by not recognizing that they were in a different culture!
very cool! love the visual representation of recursion. Very impressive to pull this together in two weeks.
Perfect headline for Not The Onion
One factor I enjoy exploring is that a key ecological differentiation between Factory Farming and "What everyone enjoys and seems to know might have potential"-Farming is mono-culture vs poly-culture.

In Factory Farming a single variable (crop) is moved to one side of the '=' and the inputs are sorted on the other. The variables of seed rate, fertilizer rate, irrigation rate ( especially against the weather ) and timing ( herbicide before, pesticide after, fertilize at seed time? ) are complex enough, but worthwhile to study in abstraction, such that we have in the 20th century produced such programs at universities and funded them well enough that the USDA keep very good guides for many crops in many soil and climate zone combinations.

Crop rotation and even grazing rotation are even studied quite well for their soil-building (and thereby fertilizer supplanting) potentials. But what I see in practice around me is that the fields here in seven years are planted in cotton seven times. Most farmers would approach rotation with the same sense as if you asked a manufacturing facility to change from plastics manufacturing to use the space for printing and finishing work for textiles in order to improve the skill-set of the operators. Once you ( As a farmer) nail the timing and rates of corn, you don't roll the dice with 10k acres of your livelihood. Once you build the fences for cattle, you don't want to do it all again for sheep ( different line type and height )

The upside is still very attractive. There's just some serious work to do, keeping the lights on.
They are the "boss", however, so you most likely would not if you were working for them, so there's probably just nobody to point out the emperor's naked.
Deception is a key part of life, and the inability to discriminate fact from fiction is absolutely a key metric of success. Who said "kill or be killed"? Not I. It is survival or not, flourish or not, succeed or not.
Net Zero 2050 involves so much economic depravation that is neither good for business interests, or good for the public's economic well being, such that the only way it could ever happen would be in some sort of authoritarianism. The adherents are nevertheless undeterred, thus I think Ecological Totalitarianism has a good chance of becoming the Bolshevism of the 21st century.
In the future only advanced intelligence will understand the api governing human - computer - human - animal - human interactions.
It's a real shame that copyright lasts as long as it does so that people can only really get access to things in their parent's past rather than being able to do something with the things they grew up with.

I'm still a little shocked Disney didn't try to get another extension this last time. Maybe they did quietly and were rebuffed or foiled by the utter gridlock of the US Congress.
Gave me a good chuckle. Good advice, too. My wife gives me a weird look when I talk about how much better carpet is than hardwood. But honey, the acoustics!
It wasn't a question of morality - we don't know what the long term side effects are.

Look if it helps a morbidly obese person drop enough weight so that they can get a handle on their A1C, blood pressure, etc. then it's probably (from what we know now) worth the risk. For the slightly overweight person who takes it, and I know a few from the gym, we don't know what that looks like yet.

It will take time to find out if there are long term detrimental effects.
The problem is it's a pain to debug through the call chain a.b.c.d.e to figure out where's the cause.
> Who do the authorities go after if there's no owner or server?

A "decentralized social media platform" implies the exact opposite of "there's no owner or server": there are many owners (in the extreme, each user is the owner of their own slice of the platform) and many servers (in the extreme, each user runs a separate server).
> By contrast some of the most fundamental laws in the nation, the Constitution's Bill of Rights, are generally just a sentence or two - and that works just fine.

I don't think that's an accurate representation of the Constitution. I'd that we've seen clear examples of when the plain language of even the first two amendments has not worked just fine, and resulted in harm and litigation all the way to the Supreme Court.
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I'd like to request a feature to make ancient fonts more readable...
> 1. Aesthetics completely annihilates function. I mean good luck figuring the pieces apart.

It's very modern. Like those web sites that are light grey on darker grey. And the fact that you can't see if a square is white or black when a piece is on it is like they hide interactable elements in web 3.99 or whatever they're at now.
I like this comment a lot. I can understand the argument to amend the Constitution for things like the Second Amendment (I disagree but I can at least see how you would believe we should do that).

Maybe I'm just too cloistered in my Americanism but I can't even comprehend the thought process that leads someone to believe in good faith that restricting someone's speech which doesn't incite violence and doesn't constitute fighting words to be a Good Thing.

The example I come back to is that saying "the holocaust never happened" will get you jailed in some European countries (and maybe Israel too? IDK). To me and my suburban American sensibilities going to jail for saying that is worse than saying it in the first place. Saying that is objectively wrong and it points to some related beliefs that I find abhorrent. Saying it does not incite any violence. Saying it does not harm anyone - in the real, physical way not the pseudo-"speech can be violence" nonsense way.

I think companies should be able to fire you for abhorrent speech. Platforms should be able to de-platform you. Business should refuse to serve you. I have no problem with any of that. But a government should be restricted in what it can do to people based on their speech.

The parliamentary note is particularly interesting. It was posted elsewhere that Labour got something like 1/3 of the vote this time around but due to the parliamentary system is basically running the government? The US is obviously very different where even having a majority doesn't allow you do whatever you want (by design, and IMO a good thing).
InfluxDB is pretty much the most popular and widely used time series database.

The difference between just storing every value ever and a time series DB is that the latter one can reduce the data frequency when it gets older.

Like if you're measuring your fridge temperature, you might store it every minute. But do you care about 1 minute accuracy when the data is two years old? Would 5 or 15 minutes be enough?

This is what time series DBs do automatically.

They're also optimised for data that's formatted as <time stamp> - <values>, making inserts and queries fast for data like that.
Ironic that their build bot uses a table to present its validation check.
The fortune 50 is thriving, but if you talk to a school teacher or any other “median” professional - they have seen a large quality of life decline in real dollar terms over the last 50 years.

In the public sphere, the problems I learned about in grade school are still the top problems of today… except worse. Our government has become incapable of addressing public policy issues across the entire political spectrum from school shootings to immigration reform.
Principles for Doing Node.js Right
No, different culture. That are many different cultures and OP made the common mistake of not understanding until it was too late that he was intruding on a different culture. Even though OP was in the wrong I cannot fault him for the mistake, there often is no way to know if you are not very close to the family what the correct culture is.
It matters a lot to those who are grieving.

Consider that funerals may have developed over millennia as a component of the grieving process. There is nothing necessarily religious about them.
That doesn't agree with my area at all. Most restaurants have menus or an app or both. Some have a basic website with phone number and link to an app. There seems to be some kind of app template many restaurants use which you can order from too.
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But in the case of highways, they probably would have still gotten where they want to go by another route. The folly is treating highway capacity as being a "market" when really the decision making is much more dynamic and nuanced.
Only with ActiveRecord pattern you need such kind of hacks to prevent, it's why it's flaw.
Thanks for the constructive feedback, appreciate it a lot, really!
I developed many mobile apps in my career and I am surely planning to bring it to mobile. However, I want to make sure there is enough "interest" before taking the big leap.
Also, it is always possible to add dives to the app later on, maybe with internet connection (provided a computer or something to store them).

As for the lifetime price, you are mostly correct. Yet I want to experiment with this payment model since I had experiences that proved me that a generic customer is actually more keen on purchasing 10 dollars or more one time rather than 1 dollar recurring.

As an update, I am already collaborating with some communities with the affiliate program, I am very happy for that. Maybe the market is really demanding for something more and it might be a good opportunity, we'll see!
So you're saying that Sceptre is the way to go?
I'm going to throw out the worst analogy I'll probably ever make:

The law is written in higher-level languages, and the courts are the compilers. It's just that most written laws probably never go through the compilation stage, until it becomes a problem for someone.
Depends.

15GB on an actual server? Peanuts.

15GB MariaDB/Mysql database on a Raspberry Pi SD card? Recipe for disaster.
...that's a meme post of a guy in a mask. It's not an old guy.
the wording reads like this response was outputted by an ai.
Cool. What’s the tech stack?
Are you saying AI can't rescue a bad product idea by automating things? Like more efficiently doing something nobody wants done isn't a business?
I know the 5110 is one of the unbreakable OG’s but I’d much rather see 6210/6310 brought back to life. That phone looks cool even for 2024 and the ergonomic design is still usable. 5110 was so bulky!
There also is a very simple, uncontrived effect. You put pressure to a thing, the thing is quashed and ceased to exist.

Many things in a society exist on thin margins, not only monetary, but also of attention, free time, care and interest, etc. You put a burden, such as a regulation, saying that people have to either comply or cease the activity, and people just cease it, like in the post. What used to be a piece of flourishing (or festering, depending on your POV) complexity gets reduced to a plain, compliant nothing.

Maybe that was the plan all along.
In my experience losing those close to me, you don’t regret the things you said instead you really regret the things you didn’t say. So don’t beat yourself up too bad it happens to all of us.
The author mentions using "old Allegro".

If that means Allegro ⁴ then I maintain a fork for use with DJGPP which can compile DOS binaries:

https://github.com/superjamie/allegro-4.2.3.1-xc

I agree DOSBox is a good programming target these days.
Probably not the best place for a programming joke, but here I am:

This is exactly why I write code that nobody can understand. Can't get fired.
Parliament is fine. Or at least the reforms people have in mind are usually insane slop that would only mean ramming more, worse, shit through the pipe.
Node.js Best Practices 2024
More decorative than functional but beautiful nontheless and could be iterated to make it a better chess set. Maybe mixing different types of sand as a finishing coat on the pieces? (vocanic and coral for the pieces and quartz sand for the board)
At this point I would have been curious to take a look at the Liszt's composition to understand why the AI thought it was so similar to the one posted. Maybe the AI just found Chopin copied Liszt or the other way 'round... (just joking: I'm not a piano expert in any way)
There's a difference between regulations, laws and constitutional principles -- which in my view, shouldn't really be regarded as laws at all.

At highest fidelity, and least ambiguity, is a regulation since it applies to a highly specific context, and seeks to regulate relatively easy to name and describe practices. The audience for a regulation is typically a regulator, ie., a part of the government. Regulations quantity over a finite number of institutions/bodies/practices which are generally identifiable explicitly at the time, even if the law is written more broadly.

Many socially inadept engineering types assume either all law should be like regulation, but this would be tyranny, since you cannot easily enumerate or describe the vast majority of scenarios "of legal concern", and the attempt reduces social interaction down to the worst sort of prescribed interactions.

The audience for ordinary laws is judges (and somewhat, the police) -- to guide their decision-making when interpreting an unenumerable social scenario "of legal concern". These nevertheless concern scenarios with describable features, and its generally clear at least when they apply. These "general laws" quantify over an infinite number of possible "similar scenarios" whose similarity is giving by legal precedent and developed traditions of intepretation.

Finally constitutional principles, in being "one sentence" are nothing really like laws at all. In my view their audience is a very strange sort of judge who is much closer to a moral philosopher. These principles are so radically underspecified that they can apply to almost any scenario relative to some philosophical framework.

The purpose of constitutional principles is to limit the government under very broad ethical guidelines. So the audience there is the government, broadly. They exist to deter excessively immoral government action.

As you can see each of these has radically different purposes and audiences, and none make any sense as anything like a programming language -- nor are they anything like each other.
I did learn the Romans had been in what became France, a fact I didn’t know beforehand.
2024: The Year the GPT Wrapper Myth Proved Wrong [video]
We have almost two dozen Ikea Tradfri bulbs and they've been great. We had a few older Hue ones too, those never seemed to keep their state across power loss and their light quality was pretty bad given the price, really not impressed.
Then how are untrained users supposed to trust passkeys if they can't understand how they're secured when a third party is holding them?
but check mavi out here, it is by far the best at understanding hours long videos. https://openinterx.com
I assume they meant 1 to purchase, not borrow or read.
I don't think they were joking?

I personally tend to leave a root shell open (and both my feet remain largely hole-free to this day), but it's pretty common advice, to avoid accidentally typing something unfortunate like rm ./* into the wrong shell
this is unreadable. Annoying, cringy and hard to decipher
Show HN: I Built a Groth16 ZK-Proof Verifier from Scratch Using Rust
I've always been fascinated by cryptographic principles, so I decided to dive deep into zero-knowledge proofs and implement a Groth16 proof verifier entirely in Rust. This project validates cryptographic proofs and demonstrates how succinct, verifiable computations can be achieved.

Using Rust's powerful libraries like arkworks, I implemented pairing checks, public input commitments, and proof validation logic while ensuring the code remains modular and efficient.

I handled the complexities of affine group operations, scalar multiplications, and optimized public input verification to make this a practical ZK verifier.

Let me know what you think! Happy to answer questions about the design, challenges, or ZK cryptography in general.
Mostly Technical: Unreliable Narrator [audio] [video]
As I've said a couple different time, culture matters. There are many different cultures and they handle this differently. I've been to funerals where only the preacher talks, I've been to funerals where someone prepares a speech beforehand. I've been to funerals where opportunity is given for anyone to speak. This is just in my small area of life, as you go around the world cultures have many many different customs around death.
Somewhere in my house there is a copy of "Make Your Own Working Paper Clock" by James Smith Rudolph. [1]

One day when I have stored up enough patience and a table to work on that won't be disturbed for a while I might put it together.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Working-Paper-Clock/dp/0060...
Not very likely. This is the spot price, you only pay that if you need more power than you estimated (or if you guessed that the spot price would be below the prices for long term contracts, and hoped to save money on that).

Servers have predictable power needs, so needing more is unlikely.
It's actually pretty minimal- I live in a mild climate, and even doing this sometimes I probably spend under $50/year on home heating and leave the windows cracked most of the time.

My home was most likely 'retrofit' in the '90s to make it airtight for efficiency, and even with the windows cracked is too airtight to be healthy, and still more so than it was probably designed for in the ~1950s.
Public or Private Tech
Hollywood accounting has taught me to seriously distrust what "profit margin" means.

If company X rents a building from company Y, and X and Y are both owned by company A, then X can have no profit on the books, even though A still gets the money.

In any case, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedHealth_Group#Finance says 2023 revenue was $371,622 million with a net income of $23,144 million.

23/371 = 6% profit margin.

Verizon has a profit margin of 7.3%

Walmart is about 3%.

You are right - it won't fundamentally change thing.

Medicare for all.
No one said anything about pretending it's not happening.

The correct method of training humans to conduct themselves in an orderly fashion under dramatic circumstances does not involve frightening them.

Prepare for all sorts of emergency scenarios. Tornadoes, earthquakes, power outages, fires, police activity, bomb threats. Prepare for them appropriately. In some cases: assemble at a distance outside. In some cases: go to safe assigned locations. In some cases: shelter in place. Category X scenario: take action Y.

Don't tell kids that superbad monsters are coming to get you and it's your responsibility to hide and not die (but make sure to text mommy and daddy! phone on silent!!1!!1! safeword "cacao"!!) when these evil creatures with big magic weapons come to hunt you down and watch you twist and scream in pain and eat your liver and we're soo worried about you and just want you to be safe so please don't die gruesomely, we love you so sorry we can't protect you make sure to study hard and do your homework.

The foregoing is an only slightly editorialized version of the way some schools and some parents communicate ASD importance to their children. I've seen worse. It involved parents sobbing. I've seen better too, but not much better.
Is stuff online worth saving?
Official inflation numbers are extremely low. How does that square with what you just said?
It reminds me of https://existentialcomics.com/comic/58 which has a bunch of philosophers playing Candyland:

> The contrast between the meaningless fixed nature of the game, and the narratives we tell ourselves as we are playing causes the feeling of the absurd. "We are doing poorly," "We are happy to be ahead," "We are nervous about being passed." None of these stories have any meaning, since the game merely exists, and the outcome is simply a part of that existence.

The workers do a thing, and management creates a narrative based on the outcomes, even though the outcomes themselves are purely a product of the system, and nothing about the workers. But they expect a narrative, so they'll create one out of whole cloth if necessary.
Rebellions: From High Frequency Trading to AI Acceleration
Executives (and managers in general) are used to delegating tasks to subordinates. I think they just don't perceive any substantial difference between delegating a task to a person and delegating the same task to an LLM.

Most arguments that technicians will try to put forth against LLMs will fail here because they apply in the same way to humans. "LLMs sometimes make weird errors? Well, so do human employees!"
For posterity, I'm documenting the integration between Holos and Kargo at https://holos.run/docs/kargo/
I think the term is "presentism". The tendency to judge past and future, with the ethics and morals of today.
Then you can't eat it too (or else you'll get very sick with NPEs/panics), sorry.
chemical sensing is still quite good though.
Stress and Worry
A Modern API for Cookies
I always thought it was because of narcissism. I didn't see it as casting an authority spell over others.
See also: Orwell, "Politics and the English Language."
> ...to stream from which content providers?

For me, Netflix, Paramount Plus, and Disney+, along with Youtube.

> They still have your viewing history

So? That goes without saying. But the TV vendor doesn't get to spy on my date, I get a consistent and fast UI across all video sources and all TVs, and I can watch local, non-streaming video without any third parties being involved.

And I have no issue using YouTube without signing in.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/05/06/for...

> A former TikTok executive suing the platform alleged Monday that ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, has far more extensive control over the social media platform than it has claimed
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A slight modification for my own philosophy: I always go to the wake/memorial.

The funeral (burial/internment) is usually for close family only. I will go, if it is appropriate, but usually, not. Sometimes, the funeral mass is more open than the actual burial.

I had a friend propose that we hire a woman and a child to stand a hundred yards away from the burial of a [male] friend, and leave before anyone can approach them, to add some mystery to the event.
NewsEdits 2.0: Learning the Intentions Behind Updating News
That's just that they picked a worse case of zero value for slices and maps, presumably for performance gains.