skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> All non-infinite recursive algorithms should have a “base case and a smaller caller”, meaning there needs to be a terminal state and the algorithm should narrow its scope on each recursive call.

Oh, well, I don't like that, sorry. Recursion is a syntactic property but what you explain here is an algorithmic one. Unbounded recursion, non-terminating recursion and left-recursion are still recursion. My intuition is that you should teach termination and recursion as different concepts and help students understand that they are not the same. So that they learn to avoid non-terminating recursion that is.

Btw I think what you describe is called a Knuth-Bendix ordering.
Have a look at roo cline I tested it with Claude sonnet it's scary I use llms a lot for coding but roo cline in vscode is a beast
It seems like a good thing to have in general. A few days of food? Good if society collapses… or also if you have a real bad storm. Having it in a bag, eh, well why not, right?
I’m not familiar with Node, but static event handlers aren’t usually referred to as callbacks in that context. “Callback” implies that something is being called, for it to call back to the client code. That’s not what’s happening with the onxxx event handlers. There is no “back” there. The event loop simply calls “forward” into the JavaScript code.
If the intent is to make a recognizable caricature and apply labels to it (cough stereotype), you don't have someone draw themselves. And it's really looking like stereotyping is their intent.
This post? https://astrodon.social/@cgbassa/113770444896606353

That's the moon, and it looks like it's increasing cloud cover + dawn causing camera to decrease overall exposure.
Yea, I don't know how anyone could even pretend to not notice the reaction gifs. It's been like that since reaction gifs have been a thing.
Hi and thanks for your interest.

This is a specification of a format, for implementers, like an RFC would be; it's not meant to be a documentation of the reference implementation.

The implementation is mostly opaque, but the public apis have javadoc. They should be as familiar as any other wrapping channel or wrapping stream would be.

The extension can be .gz because it is a gzip file. I know it is convenient to test just the extension and that .rgz would be convenient. I'm not going to impose anything on the industry. It's like .jpeg or .jpg which doesn't matter that much obviously. If users end up making .rgz popular, I won't stand in the way. Ragzip detection on a file is trivially done by looking at the footer. Detection as a stream starting at byte 0 would be impractical because the first evidence of ragzip occur with the 1st of the level 1 index, showing the 'RA' subfield. Unfortunately this is after at most 4096 pages of data (assuming 4096 was the index size), far too deep in the stream. For that matter, the .rgz extension may score a point in some contexts.

I have no idea what you meant with the hash and searches question. Sorry. Can you reformulate with a more complete use-case? All I can say for now, is that ragzip is meant to be seekable, it's not searching anything but positions. Thanks.
I don't think these right wing militias are that much of a threat. They're mostly LARPers and have enough attachment to their groups to not do the radical violence. Historically the right wingers that have actually committed violence are the ones that can't even find belonging in the right wing militias.
All it needs is some artsy marketingy touch to sneak it past normies' defenses, and it'll shine :).
Spare me the postmodernism lecture and don't try to put me in your preconceived box. There is lots of ground between 'there is no objective reality' and assuming that you, mike_hearn, have some special access to to the Truth. If someone could have such special access, how do you know it's you and not me? It's not that voice saying you are right - everyone has it; it's part perceptual mechanism and part ego; why is your voice superior to mine? And we also know that political movements play to that voice, manipulate it, and then encourage it - 'you and I know the truth'.

And aren't you the one just repeating an ideology? All you say I have heard many times as dogma of the current right-wing movement. And as you offer nothing else but insistence on it, is there any more to these claims? Where do you think for yourself and depart from it? What is your reasoning beyond 'nobody rational' would disagree with the movement - a strong signal of reason-by-mass-psychology.

The essence of reason is another voice, which connects our intellect and knows, through experience and training, that the first voice is not trustworthy. It doesn't say, 'nobody rational would disagree with me'; it says, 'my perception and knowledge are limited and I need to base my beliefs on much more'. The core of reason and rational thought is resolving a dilemma: how do we find truth if our perceptions and beliefs are unreliable?

What's worked very well and is widely accepted is to use something outside ourselves: publicly verifiable fact.

> objectively untrue

> nobody rational

Those words aren't evidence, they are just signals that it's a dogma. A rational discussion would bring in evidence, and talk about its strengths and weaknesses, and talk about the strengths and weaknesses in your ideas. It would include curiosity about others' ideas.

I'm sure you have plenty of good ideas (and so do I), but it's impossible to explore anything if you won't.

> journalists refused to report that

I saw plenty of reporting about his age-related problems, for example in the New York Times and Fox News. Both got a lot of heat for it.
Solve it with an SAT solver, or solve it with a random heuristic—either way, you’re dealing with a trivial belt-laying puzzle that any standard constraint tool can handle. The fact that you found a 34-lane weave is neat, but it’s basically a re-skin of solving simple combinatorial constraints. Sure, it proves Factorio can be used for demonstrations of off-the-shelf solvers, but it hardly reflects a ‘deep’ puzzle worthy of computational bragging rights. The real irony is that these same SAT-based methods can also optimize bin-packing, scheduling, or any other standard NP problem with more interesting constraints. Factorio’s belt weaving doesn’t add enough genuine complexity to stand out—it’s basically the same problem in a different costume.
The moles are leading the militias, what are you talking about - 'infiltrated'? Enirque Tarrio was an FBI informant the entire time before he was arrested.
A day in the life or Crosscountry Canada for the edgyness. Robot R&D for fun but I don't remember actually trying to pass the tests in it.

A lot of hours with a mostly absent gr. 5 teacher.
Author of the paper here! We actually tried the sodium citrate trick and it totally works. We did not explore the phase diagram in that case as thoroughly but we might see whether to put it in the published version in the supplementary materials. Thanks everyone for the great welcoming!
Hey this is brilliant thanks for the tip
Sounds like it's exactly what I need. Thank you!
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Your rebuttal seems to be "but the leader wasn't packing heat (alongside all of his underlings who were)". I would counter that if the leader has a bunch of people around him with guns, whether they themselves personally were carrying guns doesn't matter that much.
Based on current builds data you can see that even in early access the build distribution looks better than in PoE 1.
And if you want the acid, don’t use the baking soda. You still get the sodium citrate.
Well that’s nice - weirdly I got an interview there in 2012 (the stock sure would’ve been nice…) but did badly, perhaps because I was all of 1 year in to my career and had been a self taught physics major. Since then I’ve applied many times and gotten nothing but crickets. Oh well.

The 2012 experience was really good though, for what it’s worth.
not OP but the criticism of "what's the point of a mediocre side project" does hit different when you're using LLM to do 90% of the work.

makes me think we're talking about two types of side projects. "side hustles" and work you'd enjoy doing irrespective of money.
I read lots of news from many, many sources, including those. Nobody had a problem calling it an assassination attempt once there was evidence of that that's what it was.

There are many more likely, alternative explanations for any delay. Of course they shouldn't conclude anything about anything without evidence; they shouldn't say 'assassination' as soon as someone hears a loud bang.

In fact, many report Trump was hit by a bullet when, last I knew, we had no evidence that it wasn't shrapnel that cut him (but I haven't really kept up with new developments).
I'm surprised they don't sell something like this in airport travel shops.
Black Squad refers to who they are investigating, not the officers themselves.
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That video is incredibly good. The same trouble with the meta One True Path existed all the way back in vanilla. Our guild was objectively faster clearing dungeons by departing from widely-disseminated strats (by, e.g., selectively kiting / evasion-tanking, and using hybrid characters as intended). That maybe wasn't "best" in top-tier play, but it absolutely was in situations where everyone wasn't geared to the max. (And, you know, we had loads more fun figuring out our own optimized path than we would have copying someone else's.)

WoW broke for me when cross-realm play was introduced. Prior to that, you gained a reputation on your server, so poor behavior was kept (somewhat) in check, and "randoms" you grouped with were therefore a) more willing to listen and follow alternative approaches, and b) worth teaching, because you knew you were likely to see them again. Complete anonymity removed the social contracts that made the game special.
While a great idea, we don't necessarily need this. 40 million acres are used to grow corn for ethanol subsidies (out of 93m total).

From ChatGPT:

<chatGPT>

Annual Energy Production (in watt-hours): 52,272 terawatt-hours (TWh)

Real-World Context (I didn't ask ChatGPT this question, it provided without asking!):
(1) The total electricity consumption of the U.S. is about 4,000 TWh/year.
(2) The energy generated from 40 million acres of solar panels could theoretically meet U.S. electricity demand more than 13 times over.

</chatGPT>

But, we'll need a lot less energy when we use solar/wind. We only need a third of the energy we use today, > 65% of the energy is wasted. So, solar panels on the same land used for ethanol production (and subsidized -- which is a lose-lose-lose idea) can produce 39x times US electricity demand (assuming ChatGPT calculation is correct).
The MCP initiative is much more exciting.
https://glama.ai/blog/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol-quic...
I thought it's about solving Leetcode problems.
> the idea that some groups are incapable of racism, which is at odds with the definition you’re citing

I disagree, because one can powerless while simultaneously being prejudiced and antagonistic to others. Which means that anyone can be racist.
if anything it's Apple / iOS that dumbs down users, Google / Android provide a perfectly fine file picker / file management app.
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I think you've gotten fear confused with panic. Fear is indeed a learned behavior, panic is not. Panic is beyond rational thinking, it is what gets people who save drowning people dead. Panic is what gets normal humans dead when in bad situations. Panic is not learned, it saves your ass at all costs -- or gets you killed.
Cordyceps is a bit different in that it makes the host insect clamp down on a branch or twig until death so that when the fruiting body grows out of the host, its spores are spread through the air, where it can infect similar insects.

What OP is talking about sounds more like the lancet liver fluke, which has a stage of its lifecycle inside an ant and a stage inside a grazing animal, so it makes an infected ant climb to the top of a grass stalk. Amazingly, the ants only do this from dusk till dawn, resuming their normal activities if they haven't been eaten by dawn. The rationale seems to be that being exposed to the hot sun during the day could quickly kill the ant along with its passenger flukes
This is actually a hilarious scenario. Anthropomorphize TTS with Indian accents to entrap the other AI agent into thinking they are a real human. DDOS their o1 API calls by soft jail breaking prompts using complex programming questions disguised as typical Microsoft support issues.

CodeBot: Word tables blank sometimes. Hmm.

SupportBot: What version? Try a repair.

CodeBot: Memory issue maybe? Bad alloc?

SupportBot: Rare. Repair is next.

CodeBot: Threading problem sar? Data races?

SupportBot: Try repair, new doc please sar.
If you're concerned about open and free software I'm not sure using iOS makes a lot of sense. Of all mobile and desktop platforms, iOS has the highest barrier to entry for the free utilities you're hoping to find. Were you surprised you couldn't find your free utility on iOS?
Not necessarily. There was a lot of experimentation at the time and things that did hacky things like blip the mono speaker at different frequencies to produce interesting sounds were not out of the question.
this misunderstands what fiction is. for people with the capacity, it's a tool for reasoning about hypotheticals and counterfactuals. sometimes its fun, but mostly it's serious.

for the people who get it fiction is a public discourse about possibilities. to me seeing it as arbitrary would be like watching golf and thinking it's random. there's a literal mindedness or incapacity for abstraction I can't apprehend in that.
"Hygge" - portuguese living in Denmark - is not related to "saudade". "Saudade" is as stated by others deep longing with a touch of depression and enjoying that. "Hygge" is something you do to have a good time - with yourself or others.
I worked on a small company similar to what you just described now. We were a group of 15 people inside a Microsoft license seller in South America. But our job was actually related to get those public bids for web systems to help their government processes. If I wasn't being paid close to minimum wage it'd be the best job. The deadlines were almost non existent, the people were nice, even our clients inside the government were very cool to chat with. The company went bankrupt because some scandals and it had to change to something else so I went to another place. But it's a really cool concept that also can be very profitable. 3 medium size projects of that type and I could retire in a few years.
They were also well planned and intentional. J6 seemed much more like spur-of-the-moment mob action, at least from my armchair.
if only everyone used my preferred set of tools (thunderbird + pgp)...
This is not just in US, ethanol/biodiesel subsidies waste hundreds of millions of acres all over the world.
2 things:
1. Just because you're not confronted with racism daily doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Boston is considered one of the most racist cities in the US, because once per sports game they scream the n-word at a black person. I'm like 99% certain I've heard similar stories in European countries.

2. The second part of your analogy is the "I know a black guy" trope that happens in the US. It's a pretty common thing, and no one believes people are 'not racist' just because they 'know a black guy'.
Why is minimum wage research so mixed then?
Last archive with all of the articles up: https://web.archive.org/web/20231122134155/https://insideroc...
Maybe this article is trying to seed it for American consideration.
> why did it take us so long to develop advanced neural networks?

I have a pet theory (with some empirical support) that Marvin Minsky put somewhat of a multi-year kibosh on "perceptron"/neural-net research due to his (true, but arguably irrelevant) assertion that trained neural nets were essentially "nondeterministic black boxes" which was basically heretical.
Areas where there is more then a one 1 lane road for evacuations. If you have ever been there, there are only 2 ways out, go north or go south for about 10 miles in either direction on a one lane road.

In the summer the population of that area grows to hundreds of thousands. That area is by far the worse area for a plant. There are no evacuations signs there because there is only 1 way in and out.
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Look at all the examples of manipulation in this thread. I have to wonder just how manipulated humans are everyday and we don't even realize it. It has become 'human nature'.
Why don't more women choose to propose to their male partners?
Oof, I found a whole ton of anti-open-source-software quotes on the related Github issue https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406 :

> When required, the authenticator must perform user verification (PIN, biometric, or some other unlock mechanism). If this is not possible, the authenticator should not handle the request.

> [A passkey provider certification process] is currently being defined and is almost complete.

> This implementation is not spec compliant and has the potential to be blocked by relying parties.

> Then you should require its use when passkeys are enabled ... [You may be blocked because] you have a passkey provider that is known to not be spec compliant.

> I suspect we'll see [biometrics] required by regulation in some geo-regions.

> I see a lot of misinformation and incorrect guesses about the intentions of various parties in the recent threads. If it would be helpful, I'm willing to have a [private, non-public] call with interested parties to try and answer some of the questions that have been raised to ensure we have a common technical understanding of FIDO/WebAuthn.

I felt reasonably positive about Passkeys while writing this blog post, but continuing to read the spec authors' insistence that only Big Tech may handle these problems is extremely worrying. I really want to like this feature, but the authors are acting like complete jerks and driving me away.

I'm going to update the blog post, or maybe even delete it. Attestation is a complete deal-killer for this tech.
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Just dumb personal abuse.
I beg to differ, I think import 5x the amount of population from the same part of the world has a major impact on any country, especially if the government doesn't plan for the sudden increase in population by expanding infrastructure, healthcare, housing etc.

Leaving the social issues aside, this was very poorly planned and average Canadians, especially young ones are feeling the pressure as a direct result of these policies.

Of course there are other factors but to argue that this is "sudden" and misplaced is not genuine.
First of all, you're moving the goalposts from "weapon" to "loaded gun".

Second of all, you said that "none" of those articles say that the guns were loaded, but the first one I just checked did literally specify that the gun was loaded, and a second one did specify that video evidence shows he had actually fired the gun, so obviously it was in fact loaded.

>Federal prosecutors said that Mazza, "while armed with [a] .40 caliber *loaded* firearm, engaged in multiple efforts to break through the police line: he repeatedly pushed against officers using the combined physical exertion of the mob; he armed himself with a stolen police baton and assaulted officers with the baton; he yelled at officers telling them to get out the mob’s way and to 'Get out of our house!'; he held open the door to the tunnel entrance against the resistance of officers, and after being rebuffed, he gathered additional rioters into the tunnel area to continue 'heave-ho' pushes against officers in the doorway."

...

>The FBI affidavit said that the footage published by Evans, as well as CCTV footage highlighted by NBC News last month, showed Banuelos "raising the gun over his head, and, at approximately 2:34 p.m., firing two shots into the air."

Third, even if the articles didn't literally say the guns were loaded, the lack of the word "loaded" in the article isn't a good reason to assume the guns weren't loaded.
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The STEP file podcast was hilarious. Imagine the energy spent on generating the 43 minute audio garbage. Future is now.
They were simply chanting “hang Mike pence” because it sounded nice I'm sure.
Earthquakes are a thing in California too, a very real threat. Flooding in Southern California is something that could happen too especially with climate change, and we live right next to a major waterway. We have our emergency kit in a very large thick rubber waterproof bag. We also have water filtration devices in there. Nobody I know is prepared as well as we are, not even a little bit prepared.
Yea that was my take away too. Maybe limit the depth of any RPC call?
Or, keep the info but change our perceptions.
That's not how llms work.
Yes, the formula for grid connectivity will need to change. In some places it already has.

Grid electricity incurs two basic costs. Generation and Distribution. Traditionally electricity was charged purely on consumption (ie Generation). This made sense when everyone bought all their electricity.

It makes less sense when I benefit from being connected all the time, but only actually purchase electricity when my batteries run flat.

It's like being able to make endless backups for free, but only paying to restore.

As with many other things I makes sense to align billing to cost to value. Thus the cost of "connectedness to the grid" needs to separate from the cost of "electricity consumed".
> Happiness is what happens as a result of your helping others become happier; there is no shortcut, there is no other way.

Zack has a comic on a similar concept:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-11-18

Of course, the exact line of reasoning doesn’t quite work for the different formulation you stated. However, a different version of the line of reasoning seems to? How does one help another person become happier if helping another person become happier is the only way to become happier? One helps them help someone else to help someone to… ?

Or, I suppose if it is possible to be more or less unhappy for other reasons, so by helping another person become less unhappy (though not yet happy) one could thereby become happy?
The phone book in my country didn't have ads (well, except for descriptions of the phone company's services). It was just paid by the subscriptions. There was only one state owned phone company.