skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, it depends on the scientist. But it’s hard to know what an advance is. Like, people long searched for evidence of æther before giving up and accepting that light doesn’t need a medium to travel in. Perhaps 100 years from now people will laugh at the attention is all you need paper that led to the llm craze. Who knows. That’s why it’s important to give space to science. From my understanding Lorenz worked for 5 years without publishing as a research scientist before writing his atmospheric circulation paper. That paper essentially created the field of chaos. Would he be able to do the same today? Maybe? Or maybe counting papers or impact factors or all these other metrics turned science into a game instead of an intellectual pursuit. Shame we cannot ask Lorenz or Maxwell about their times as a scientist. They are dead.
The only rational points for the beginning of a year are the solstices or the equinoxes.

From the point of view of an inhabitant of the northern hemisphere, the choice remains between the Winter solstice, i.e. the moment when the Sun begins its journey on the sky back towards us, after reaching a maximum distance on the sky from us, and the Spring equinox, the moment when the Sun returns on the sky to the northern hemisphere.

Those who are guilty for the fact that the solstices and the equinoxes do not fall on beginnings of months are Julius Caesar and his astronomer consultant, Sosigenes.

The Roman calendar had been very bad and it had drifted extremely from the astronomical year. The calendar reform of Caesar has corrected the length of the year, but it has failed to align the solstices and the equinoxes with the beginnings of months. Instead of that, the Winter solstice fell on the 25th of December and the Spring equinox fell on the 25th of March.

So the calendar of Julius Caesar is the origin of the adoption of the 25th of December for the Christmas and of the 25th of March for the beginning of the year in several countries.

Additional confusion has been created by the Gregorian calendar, which has not restored the calendar from the beginning of the Christian era, but it has restored the calendar of the 4th century, when the rules for computing the date of the Easter have been established. The calendar of the 4th century had been shifted by 3 days since the calendar reform of Caesar, resulting in the current dates for the Winter solstice and the Spring equinox around the 22th of December and the 22th of March.

So now not only the solstices and equinoxes do not fall on the beginnings of months, but they no longer fall on the traditional days of the 25th of their months.
I interpret it as saying that at least the system hasn't just degraded into a rubber stamp (where someone like Tao can publish anything on name alone).
Apple watch already does that.
Transformers are very bad at counting in one feed forward pass, you need to explicitly tell them to use a counter in autoregressive fashion like here:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6775cb37-4198-8007-82cb-e897220827...
Edge case. In every company on the surface of this continent people import libraries and run software with no idea what is under the hood and whether they are compliant with all the applicable license agreements. Some clumsy attempts are made for major systems in some companies, but again, edge cases.
March coincides with the first month of the Jewish calendar.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2164005/jewis...

It was also the first month of the Roman calendar until January and February were added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martius_(month)
> require active cooperation from the entity issuing the IDs

It doesn't actually. Third party zero knowledge attestation works just fine. Think through the cryptosystem. It's possible for an authority to verify an ID for a given name and target site without revealing the former to the latter of the latter to the former
SSH remote in VS code has way better latency and performance characteristics than mounting a shared directory. Stuff like disk change monitoring also works a lot better.

The one mixed/negative thing is that language servers will run inside the VM instead of the host where the editor is "running", which can defy your expectations. I find that a plus since language servers love to tie up multiple cores and eat up memory and having that happen inside the constrained VM environment stops my host system from getting bogged down.

I used to edit in a shared mount before and moving to the vscode ssh remote model was a noticeable improvement. It's just faster.
Hah, me too.

I tell both my kids "don't stay up too late" just before I go to bed (usually around 11pm). Beyond a certain age you can't force them anymore and they have to learn their limits themselves.
pg8000 is a pure python postgres library, should op require that
Yes. You’re right. Bad reading on my part!
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Yes and no. As the article reminds us many of the months have numbers in the name. It is arbitrary to have December as the 10th month, but having the thing with 10 in the name as the tenth thing is somewhat more satisfying than having it as the 12th.
You keep glossing over Nakba. It doesn’t make sense to “share the land” with people who ethically cleansed your family from said land. You say that you represent “leftist Zionism” but such a thing doesn’t exist as evidenced by your argument against basic human rights.
What do you get out of attacking everyone who engages with you?

Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but your description isn't that technically interesting - no aspects of getting Graphene running on the devboard, or other difficulties integrating the parts. The idea of separating out the baseband isn't really novel either. A decade ago I gave a shot at using a mifi+tablet to move in that direction, and to see how far I could get without a proper voice plan. (I eventually got bored and moved on). You're not sitting on some super special idea here, and this vague passive voice "existence proof" style of writing is cagey and tedious to read. Which is probably how I ended up skipping over some actual details.

But do you know what is very interesting? That you've found a niche where the backpack form factor isn't a huge drawback, as well as group(s) of people who actually appreciate the threat model enough to keep spending extra effort doing a nonstandard thing. Those are all social factors that could actually sustain this type of device, rather than merely being passing curiosities that users eventually move on from. Basically it needs to be easy for people to piece together such a setup while mindlessly following a guide, as well as point other curious people to a description of it - the polar opposite of the trash elitist attitude you're pushing. (eg what specific dev boards straightforwardly run Graphene? I don't see any listed on the website)

And so if you actually care about widespread communications security rather than just being some combative wanker on a message board, please please please try to level up your wisdom for your next sockpuppet nym.
It seems awkward not ending on the last day of the month. In NEw Zealand it's close, the FY ends on 31 March.
I think it’s that a paper submitted by one of the most famous authors in the math field is not auto approved by the journals. That even he has to go through the normal process and gets rejected at times.
Absolutely the opposite. Using Apple's built in one is less secure because it is within the ecosystem that you are subject to; if you are locked out of said ecosystem, you are locked out of everything. Password managers should never ever be inside your ecosystem. That is why people often manage the database syncing themselves and relying on the database own strength, eg kdbx.
She refers to herself using the pronoun 'her' in the About page.
I use a custom pomodoro timer. Instead of taking a break every 25 minutes, I do it hourly. During my break, I take off my glasses, walk around, stretch, handle small chores and tasks, etc.
These models are trained in two steps: training base model and then uptraining it. First step includes as much data as possible, everything company can find. For Llama models it's 15T tokens, which is ~40 TB of data. No-one really puts an effort on splitting this data into train/test/eval (and it's not very achievable either). It's just as much data as possible.

So it's like 99.9999999% wrong to assume something public isn't on the train set, such as Putnam problems in this case. This is about it.
But the journal editor should.
Pages is the old thing, why would I use it? Isn't it basically deprecated by now?
> It's boring database engine that powers boring business applications.

FWIW, it also powered the most popular (in terms of player base) MMORPG before WoW took over.

And I wouldn't be surprised to find it in aviation, railways, powerplants, grid control, etc...
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A funny consequence of this is that there are people alive today that do not know (and never will know) their exact age in seconds[1].

This is true even if we assume the time on the birth certificate was a time precise down to the second. It is because what was considered the length of a second during part of their life varied significantly compared to what we (usually) consider a second now.

[1] Second as defined in the article as 9192631770/s being the the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom
No purse strings. No control over banking. No control over prices. No control over exchanges.

Tarrifs are a power of congress delegated to the president.
Sort of. But it makes sense. They missed out the first time and don’t want to be an also-ran. If he had gone for the glory from the start it may have been different. The prestigious journals probably don’t want incremental papers.
If you want to only use sqlite, I suggest looking into litestack: https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack

I've not used it myself, but I am going to rewrite one of my projects that I only use locally from postgres to litestack. The benchmarks are incredible!

https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack/blob/master/BENCHMARKS.m...
It depends on the tool.

https://zkdocs.com has some protocols described, if you're curious to learn more about this space.
people have been saying that since before i even started my degree over a decade ago.
They could still segment the market into large enterprises and small businesses.

Also, I don't believe the balance of power is tipping towards business customers, as nvidia is basically the only relevant player.
War acts are not under debate here. Those are obvious presidential powers.
I pretty much got out of programming because sitting for too long resulted in me having serious spine problems culminating in surgery. Not sitting long enough means I rarely get into the ‚zone’. I’m glad others have figured it out better
Already somewhat blasé from life in the honeypots, yours truly registers an even more bizarre level of events after a some routine logs spelunking
> But December vs March is totally arbitrary, right?

Well january is literally named after janus, the deity of beginnings and endings.
I've been building some apps with stacks lately that are supposed to be more modern and performant. Namely an app with Spring Boot and another with Micronaut. Both had a React frontend. It really made me appreciate Rails' omakase approach. Just having a form that shows validation errors from the backend and having something as simple as Rails' flash messages isn't solved by the frameworks themselves and requires you to build it yourself or find a third-party solution that might or might not do the basic thing you need or might or might not be well-supported. Rails truly solves the problems 90% of web apps share. It might not be in a way that's perfect for your specific project but it will likely work and you can swap it out one you've validated you app or feature.
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The interesting part is how militias are defined. Looking at how conscription during the whiskey rebellion and US 10 ss 246 provides some interesting background and raises questions on how that could be applied in a non-discriminatory way today. Another interesting point is how the text of other state constitutions of that time have extremely similar wording but also include personal self defense (see PA).
What do devs who don't use VSCode do to work in this environment?
Yeah that would work too. I ended up creating a table in org mode for a limited subset of my gear — camping gear specifically.

Using the phone is just too much friction. I print out a checklist and check items off.

This is not the flying car future I was hoping for, but it works well enough.
I was looking for a human scale unit of time that was proportional or a harmonic of some other universal physical constant, this reconciliation of the cesium clock second with historical definitions is probably why I couldn't find one.

turns out it's a measure of arbitrary precision.
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Standing desks can solve that problem. Some have built-in timers reminding you to switch between sitting and standing. After getting used to it, you start reacting automatically and it barely breaks your flow anymore.
I switched to old ass thinkpads like the x120e which I absolutely love, and ssh into a server much more powerful to do my work.
Not what this website is for.
That sounds like a gofundme situation :)
She said: "The idea is close the the details are wrong".
Is this really necessary given the advances with SQLite in Rails 8? What edge does this have over what’s included these days?
Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016)
Tight fitting pants + a belt is a sure-fire "stand goal" hack if you drink a lot of water.
Oh wow. This reminds me of Netlify pre-funding. All the at down to the <input type=“file” /> on the landing page
Yes, this is set to Nightmare, don't feel that bad.
Heh, my employer is rolling out Zscaler this year. The limited trial a few months ago was hell for folks using WSL primarily, with Docker images adding an additional layer of pain.

The people in the trial got very little done until it was decided to pause it, and I do not have high hopes for when it’s tried again. It strikes me as basically running malware in the name of security.
the image in the article is a truck completely engulfed in flames, I'm not sure how you can deduce "not thermal runaway" by that. edit: I see the video now, I see your point
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I had to replace a perfectly good T450s because of terrible performance when using external 4k monitors. I had it for 6 years, upgrading everything I could, and it could probably last for at least another 4 hears if not for the outdated CPU. Replaced with a ryzen elitebook because RAM is expandable to 64Gb, hoping it will last for up to 10 years. The difference in performance is staggering compared to the old core i5, well worth the cost of a base model.
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Without makefiles, how do you do projects with multiple languages or code generators like lex and yacc?
And leap years get more complicated.
It is easy to defend any side of the argument by inflating the "pitfalls of other approach" ad absurdum. This is silly. Obviously, balance is the key, as always.

Instead, we should look at which side the, uh, industry currently tends to err. And this is definitely not the "sitting on your incremental results" side. The current motto of academia is to publish more. It doesn't matter if your papers are crap, it doesn't matter if you already have significant results and are working on something big, you have to publish to keep your position. How many crappy papers you release is a KPI of academia.

I mean, I can imagine a world were it would have been a good idea. I think it's a better world, where science journals don't exist. Instead, anybody can put any crap on ~arxiv.org~ Sci-Hub and anybody can leave comments, upvote/downvote stuff, papers have actual links and all other modern social network mechanics up to the point you can have a feed of most interesting new papers tailored specially for you. This is open-source, non-profit, 1/1000 of what universities used to pay for journal subscriptions is used to maintain the servers. Most importantly, because of some nice search screens or whatever the paper's metadata becomes more important than the paper itself, and in the end we are able to assign 10-word simple summary on what the current community consensus on the paper is: if it proves anything, "almost proves" anything, has been 10 times disproved, 20 research teams failed to reproduce to results or 100 people (see names in the popup) tried to read and failed to understand this gibberish. Nothing gets retracted, ever.

Then it would be great. But as things are and all these "highly reputable journals" keep being a plague of society, it is actually kinda nice that somebody encourages you to finish your stuff before publishing.

Now, should have been this paper of Tao been rejected? I don't know, I think not. Especially the second one. But it's somewhat refreshing.
Nothing to see here. LLMs and AI suck and aren't really good at anything. /s

The world is about to change much faster than any of us have ever witnessed to this point. What a life.
Replicate Tables from PostgreSQL to Snowflake
Funny to see this, about 13 years ago I left a PR comment about not hard coding the year. The dev thought it was unneccessary because there was many months left in the year, while I believed it was trivial to use JS (it was).

Started a small argument, and ultimately was decided to use JS. Code was in use until the business folded in 2020, 8 years of saving PRs...
But isn't that exactly why the submission should be anonymous to the reviewer? It's science, the paper should speak for itself. You don't want a reviewer to be biased by the previous accomplishments of the author. An absolute nobody can make groundbreaking and unexpected discoveries, and a Nobel prize winner can make stupid mistakes.
Unfortunately many of the books I had time to read this year were a bust. But here's some of the ones I did appreciate very much:

* Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive - Philipp Dettmer.

* The Gene: An Intimate History - Mukherjee. Won't necessarily teach you much new if you've already read a few genetics books, but a fine read nonetheless.

* On Sophistical Refutations - Aristotle. Like anything by Aristotle, read it with a grain of salt and as historical document. Still, it's always a wonder how a text like this can be over 2000 years old.

* Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann. Skip the movie and read this instead.

* 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles Mann. It challenges common misunderstandings of pre-columbian society without being anti-Columbus.

* American History, Combined Edition: 1492-Present - Thomas Kidd. Goes beyond just the usual narratives we are all familiar with. Not recommended as a first American-history deep-dive, but a fine supplement.

* The Man Who Saved Cincinnati - Peter Bronson. Entertaining civil war history book. It's not only about Cincinnati.

* Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power - Carwardine.

* The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets - Thomas Cech. RNA is now kinda required reading since 2020. This is a good starting point.

* The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie - Dawkins. His latest is definitely worth a read, like (nearly) all his previous.

* Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI - Harari. How information traveled historically, with modern technology, and in the near future. Enlightening and a little scary.

* Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's 11 Symphonies - David Vernon. Even if you haven’t listened to all of Mahler’s symphonies, still very interesting read on “the first modern composer.” If you /are/ familiar with all his symphonies, the book is even better, and it will show you layers you didn’t realize were there... in case the music isn't dense enough to absorb by itself ;-)

Fiction:

* Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir.

* Dark Matter - Blake Crouch.

* Red Rising - Pierce Brown. A light read, maybe will seem derivative at this point but it was fun.

* Rifters Trilogy - Peter Watts. Super bleak, very creative.

* You Like It Darker - Stephen King. Another fine collection of short stories.

* The Forest of Lost Souls - Koontz

* House of Leaves - Danielewski. I waited way too long to read this. As good as everyone said it would be.
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New accounts are already subject to extra restrictions. I'm reluctant to raise that bar. I fear the risk of excluding legit newcomers more than spammers and trolls, who are ever with us.

> throwaway green accounts for drive-by snarky comments, spam, astro-turfing, etc

User flags on such posts are extremely helpful. They help by downranking and/or killing bad posts, but even more by providing a high-value signal for software to classify future posts. When you flag posts like that, you're not just cleaning litter off one city block, you're training the street system to deal with future litter automatically.

This only works to some extent (bad actors will always create new accounts), but the extent is considerable. If you care about HN, it's a valuable way to contribute.
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The WSJ is 100% correct. If Anyone who doesn’t realize that the social safety net today is roughly twice the size it was in 1970 as a % of GDP, and about 60 TIMES in absolute, then they shouldn’t be posting nonsense here. The reality is that the baby boomers began the process of household formation with FAR less support and far less labor protection than today’s millennials.
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Using a Vec for doubly linked lists sounds like overkill. There's got to be more efficient and more elegant way.
Academia is a paper tiger. The Internet means you don't need a publisher for your work. Ironically, this self published blog might be one of his most read works yet.
LastPass is inherently a SaaS, right? There is no ability to use it without syncing your vault to their servers.
yes, and it looks like this would be a scenario where the battery is totaled (unless fireworks?), which means doors are locked shut from inside and outside.