skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the person you’re replying to, but I’ve been doing this and have documented my philosophy https://publish.obsidian.md/uncarved/3+Resources/Public/self...

And a syllabus https://publish.obsidian.md/uncarved/3+Resources/Public/self...

…and on that obsidian site you can see some of my notes. I curate my notes and then publish as part of my revision of a topic so I’m always a little bit ahead of what’s on the site but it’s directionally correct.
Every time I see these kinds of prompts that ask an LLM for a numeric ranking, I'm very skeptical that the numbers really mean anything to the model. How does it know what a 0.5 is supposed to be? With humans, you'd have them grade things and then correct the grades so they learn what it is from experience. But unless you specifically fine tune your LLM, this wouldn't apply.
I don’t think people realize how much brighter the sun is than almost all other light sources in their life.
Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned, Natively Trainable Sparse Attention
I'm guessing it won't pick up TV stations anymore since the switch to digital broadcasting?
Prof. James Reason (Of Swiss-Cheese-Model Fame) Passed Away
Misquoting my arse. Mao didn't need to hold a gun if he could control those with it. The currently crumbling pax Americana wasn't held by just capital and group action. You think Xi would be fine if the people in his country controlling the guns decided they want someone else?

I didn't just talk about the stick though. When you promote the idea that all cops are bastards, and make sure people who will police the way you want don't go into policing, you'll get bastards. Doesn't matter if your community votes DSA, Green or Communist.

If you don't have people that align with your ideology in areas that matter or aren't incentivised to you won't get the changes you desire.

How will you get change when the people who want the changes refuse to work or have their people in the organizations that they want change? And even disincentivize it.

Barring the use of force it's the functional elites, not the hoi polloi (that manage to have time for protests and such) that drive change.

You can tell from the biography of pretty much every activist or philosopher you know.

As for Linux, it takes people; individuals on the inside to drive change too. As anyone who follows development there will know. If the people that matter don't write or don't accept the code you desire, it's never going to be in-tree.
Don't know who you mean by "everyone," but the only two mentioned so far suitable for a broad audience are The Soul of a New Machine and The Cuckoo's Nest.
Yeah I don't get it. I've slept in national parks that were closed. Don't leave trash don't start a stupid fire how hard is this?
I had chronic pain in my neck for a couple of years. It started in the pandemic, so the usual guesses were it had something to do with working remote - which meant sitting down more, potentially ergonomic issues, less socializing, etc.
After seeing several doctors, doing all the tests like MRI and CT scans, trying physical therapy and many other conventional and non conventional treatments, the key for me was seeing a pain psychologist. As mentioned in this article, a lot of pain takes place in the mind. Even though we feel it in our bodies, it’s our brain telling us that it’s a problem. After a few months of therapy, the pain was no longer a major facet of my life. After 6 months I felt totally cured and myself again.
The US medical system can be a maze and easily spiral for chronic pain sufferers. I suspect this is an area where we are still learning
I guess we'll see won't we? There's no harm in checking, just like with everything else.
Yeah it sure is looking like that to a non-American like me, looking for witch hunt ammo on political opponents, sure the government makes a lot of social security payment and salaries I doubt there is widespread fraud or improrietry there, worse is if you mess all that plumbing up legit social payments and salaries are going get impacted, these are things that should not done by "move fast and break things" approach. But what about other massive government procurement from corporations and overcharging?
Others have answered this well, but a more interesting question to me is why we don’t have video of the flight deck recorded on flight recorders. We have the technology to do that reliably.

It’s an interesting privacy concern really. Pilots don’t like the idea, somewhat understandably, who wants to be watched at work every minute of their day? But then it’s also a safety benefit and maybe that’ll win out eventually (this question does keep getting raised on certain crashes).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reason
(We eventually merged all these threads, in case the context switch is confusing to anyone)
I updated the post with the point on visibility; in my tests inspired by https://lobste.rs/s/b5dnjh/0_0_0_c_thread_local_storage_perf... I see that clang improves codegen thanks to hidden visibility but g++ does not, and that comment says clang doesn't do it on all platforms.

I stick to the broad conclusion that thread_locals without constructors linked into an executable rather than a shared library are the fastest and most performance-portable by far, but the visibility point is very worth mentioning.
2k authors and readers share their fav sci-fi books of 2024
Everything you mentioned might well be true (it's not; most of the monetary value for Starlink in Ukraine is from the military via pLEO. Not the measly single digit USAID)

But it's not relevant here.
As someone who didn't follow the conventional path into software engineering via a CS degree, Nand2Tetris has helped fill in a lot of gaps in my knowledge.

I completed part 1 of Nand2Tetris in 2023 and this year I'm working my way through part 2 where you write a compiler and OS for the architecture that you built in part 1. It feels great to finally start understanding concepts like memory management, virtual machines and compilers.
If you're in Tokyo, Sony has a nice little product museum with lots of cool gizmos like this. It's not really open to the public on a regular schedule but I just called one morning while on a trip and they said to come over that afternoon. I was the only visitor during the time I was there but it was super fun to see so many products I had or wished I had, as well as many I never knew about.
My Principles for Building Software (2020)
Just checking, you were able to try it because you pay right?
Why does this work? Just because there is 1 number which is in R but not in Q doesn’t prove anything, does it?

If it did, why are Even N and (Even + Odd N) the same size?
> Looks like the plane landed incredibly hard and the gear buckled. Extreme wind shear?

Quality is not good enough to tell for sure, but to me, looks like wind shear causing a tail strike followed by gear buckling

the Navy pilot jokes showed up fast in that thread
Trip February 2025 ISO C++ standards meeting (Hagenberg, Austria)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJxPg6quL4

St. Vincent's font on her music video looks exactly like the logos in the article that have all merged to the same gray goo.
Having done nand2tetris before doing various digital logic courses, I feel like the first portion falls a little short of its tagline of making a computer from modern first principles. It focuses too much on the specific implementation of its own architecture rather than giving the tools needed to create the architecture from scratch.

It doesn’t teach things such as product of sums and kmaps which allows you to methodically find the Boolean equation for any arbitrary output. I spent most of my time during the architecture implementation finding the correct expressions, while it becomes trivial if you learn how to do it systematically.

It’s lacking in teaching how state works, mostly because it passes over flipflops and their applications. It also doesn’t teach finite state machines (FSM), which was the single most important thing for me in understanding how to actually implement an architecture. This is because the concept of FSMs abstracts most of the logic and focuses on the behavior, and once you design the behavior you can then methodically implement the logic with the previously mentioned techniques.
My experience with evaluating consumer medical devices ("lifestyle" and "fitness") is that what is on the box is often not what the device actually does. Besides wavelength and wattage, you would probably need to check for consistency, whether there aren't any spikes, etc. I don't know how much IR light is dangerous for the brain / what tolerances are acceptable.
It can aid pilots, for one thing. I watch air-safety/accident-analysis videos all the time. They are often extremely informative and promote a safety-oriented mindset and the refreshment of one's commitment to procedure.

I also read scuba-diving accident reports. They reinforce best practices that I also explain to others in the context of what I've seen in said reports over and over.
Too funny, enjoy the vote
Tylenol is a pain reliever so may help with pain. Something like ibuprofen may be a better option, speak to your doctor, as it not only helps with pain but acts as an anti-inflammatory. The important thing to note is that it's effects do not happen instantly but something like several days later so if you have a knee issue, taking it regularly as directed by doctor or manufacturers instructions and not just when your knee hurts can really speed up recovery.

As for your question well you basically just have to trust the science. At some point a rat in a lab probably was intentionally injured next to another rat in the same position and one would get the treatment and the other not. They would then see who healed faster. Things like Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen have been around a long time and studied extensively so they have a good understanding of it's efficacy.

Lastly placebo effect seems to be a real effect so if you do something and you think it might help it might help.
Here's a video of a Airbus wing stress test. They seriously bend without snapping off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ih9V0uobKc&t=7
> I'm still not sure what any specific user of the word "woke" means, beyond the Ami/UK right using it as an insult, but I can't tell if it's generic or specific, critiquing something or just telling supporters when to boo and jeer. Does the Ami/UK left still use it to mean "being aware of systemic prejudice", or have they also shifted?

It is a mistake to think that negative uses of “woke” are an exclusively right-of-centre thing.

Rather than repeat myself, I’ll just link to this comment I posted a bit over a month back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42695516 - in which I cite several unabashed Marxists using the word negatively (including Adolph L Reed Jr, and the Trotskyist International Committee of the Fourth International).

If you read Reed, he actually means something rather specific by “woke” - whereas classical/orthodox Marxism views non-class-based oppression (race, gender, sexuality, etc) as downstream consequences of class-based oppression, “wokeness” treats them as if they exist independently of class-based oppression, or as upstream of it, or as a higher priority than it

Just the other day, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) was quoted as saying, regarding his own Democratic Party, that “I think the majority of the party realizes that the ideological purity of some of the groups is a recipe for disaster and that candidly the attack on over-the-top wokeism was a valid attack” - https://www.politico.eu/article/us-senator-mark-warner-democ... - Warner may well be a moderate or centrist Democrat, but I don’t think it makes sense to label him as “conservative” or “right-wing”. He’s not a “conservative Democrat”, in the sense that there was such a thing a decade or two ago [edit: I made some comment here about him not being a member of the Blue Dog caucus, but I’ve removed it because what I was saying didn’t really make sense-the Blue Dog caucus is and was a House caucus, while Warner is a Senator]

I don’t think Warner’s definition of “woke” is as precise as Reed’s, but essentially what he means by it is a form of progressivism which prioritises ideological purity over winning the battle for the median voter’s heart and mind
> The lengths they went to to mate in the landing of the Duke on Arrakis.

> They used a football stadium in Mexico, in order to get enough distance. The mind boggles as to what they did without CG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQG_Gt6-xpE
> for Lynch that would be quite something

It would be very easy: add some randomness to the prompts and keep the visual hallucinations.
No you don’t. If 50% of society uses drugs, 5% of society is homeless, and 100% of homeless people uses drugs - then you’d see that all homeless people use drugs, but most drug users are not homeless, so it’s not well correlated at all.
That's binary thinking.

One can recognize someone's accomplishment in one domain even if it means they suck in another, even if they're a jerk.

Jobs is one such example.
Another would be Bach. Newton, Nikola Tesla, John Lennon, William Golding, Winston Churchill, Einstein, Darwin, Edison, Prince, Henry Ford, Marie Curie, Schrödinger, Picasso, Marconi, etc. all come to mind as being despicable in some (or more) dimensions even though they were geniuses in others and moving humanity forward.
Same, as far as I can tell it's still the same mess it has been for many many years, if not worse.
> Only OP knows what OP knows and no amount of theory can disprove it,

This isn't true either. Memories themselves are non-falsifiable. So no matter what we either side says we'll literally never know the truth.
For anyone unaware, Walter worked for Boeing for years and probably knows more about planes than anyone on the forum.

It's likely not a morbid curiosity here, especially since noone died AFAIK, but genuine technical curiosity so he can see what happened, and perhaps educate us readers.
The vision of how to use the computer [video]
Do you have a recommendation for a book or course that teaches these things better? In particular FSMs.
> Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h

That's ~10x speed of a bullet!
Project 2025 is a radical plan organized by The Heritage Foundation, an extremist political organization in the United States that has gained immense power through subversion of constitutional governance.

Trump repeatedly disavowed any knowledge or alignment with Project 2025 during his campaign.

Tracking Project 2025 does not serve to "hold governments to account," Project 2025 is a dramatic and dangerous attack on American Constitutional governance. Given the President's open deception and the sworn oath of all employees of the US Government to uphold and defend the Constitution, Project 2025 clearly represents an attack on American sovereignty, the betrayal of our allies, and a threat to global stability. Thus, tracking Project 2025 enables an understanding of the extent of implementation of this extremist agenda and facilitates more effective response to future destabilizing events (regardless of one's alignment).
Life becomes much happier when you realize that there's no reason for 2% of people to be your people and, instead of expecting life to be a matter of searching for those few who are special and wonderful enough to be your 2% unicorn, you work consciously to actually connect with other people and not just view them as energy bars you can consume if you want. In other words, the challenge to overcome isn't the 2%, it's the 98%. You're not doomed to be a 98% person. Hell, most of these 2% people for people like OP's article are the 2% for a lot of folks. You are just clicking with charismatic people generally like you.

Remember that Narcissus wasn't falling in love with himself. He fell in love with the appearance of himself, with the extension of himself. McLuhan wrote quite a bit about how we love to see ourselves reflected outside of ourself. Be careful that your condition for a valuable acquaintance isn't just a desire to use others as a pleasing reflection of yourself (this applies to relationships as well as these "2% people")
this is written by the author of mise
Given that control inputs and maneuvers are all captured by the data recorder, what would you expect to gain from video of the cockpit?
Here's why: https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-re...

Mainstream outlets have viewerships that compare disfavorably to those of top youtubers. That has been the case for many years now. The only reason most mainstream outlets exist is the taxpayer money train that's coming to an abrupt stop as I write this.
This is very timely. I took my kids to see the Dog Man movie this past weekend at a great, small, storied theater and ... we were the only ones there. Walking around inside the beautiful old building, I had a distinct feeling of being in a place that's not long for this world and it made me very sad. Hopefully this is a viable path forward for these places still clinging to life or even new ventures.

Not only are these cinemas priceless resources of art, culture and community but they're also natural conduits to other local businesses. After we left the theater, we walked to the ice cream shop and then to a coffee shop -- both locally owned. It really is in everyone's interest to keep these places around.

If you have a "local" option, even if it requires you going out of your way and past the megaplex, I would suggest making a concerted effort to support these cinemas -- in whichever form they're operating in.
It looks like the TID is stored directly in the pthread struct pointed to by %fs itself, at a fixed offset which you can somewhat-hackily compile into your code. [0]

In the process of investigating this, I also realized that there's a ton of other unique-per-thread pointers accessible from that structure, most notably including the value of %fs itself (which is unfortunately unobservable afaict), the address of the TCB or TLS structures, the stack guard value, etc. Since the goal is just to have a quickly-readable unique-per-thread value, any of those should work.

Windows looks similar, but I haven't investigated as deeply.

[0] https://github.com/andikleen/glibc/blob/b0399147730d478ae451...

[1] https://github.com/andikleen/glibc/blob/b0399147730d478ae451...
At least with a junior dev, I can teach them how to do it better next time. Not so much with generative "AI".
> Let's note the absurdity of moving your washer and dryer to a new house. Those should stay with the house like refrigerators and dishwashers. In the US it is common in some regions and not in others.

Yeah, if you buy typical consumer grade ones.

I understand washers and dryers are on a downward trend: getting worse, harder to repair, and less durable. I paid quite a bit more to buy a commercial washer and drying that's supposed to last a long time. I'm definitely going to take it with me. I'm not going to leave it with someone who doesn't know what it is, just to downgrade to whatever was cheapest at Home Depot.
I can recommend 2 books for those who want to try to learn, but tbh i think a retreat is still required to reach them:

1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide...

2. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindfulness-Bliss-Beyond-Meditators...

Leigh Brasington reports that people he's spoken to who have studied kundalini yoga say the strong piti of the first jhana is the same as awakening the kundalini, so there's a bit of an "all roads lead to Rome" about these practices, which is encouraging.

Both authors are on dharmaseed. Worth checking them out. They're both great teachers.
Hahah, wow, who was offended by those easily-verified observations?
This whole introvert/extrovert thing as understood here is not grounded in science.

First of all, everyone gets drained from social interaction. That's how our species behaves.

Second, the real definition of introvertism and extravertism relates to one's focus - on internal thoughts or the outside world respectively.

Lastly, most of the population is neither in any significant capacity.

Interestingly, an actual extravert is drained comparatively more from social interactions, as to the introvert it doesn't even occur to care about drama.
Some wavelengths don't penetrate so deep, and not all bulbs are the same brightness.

I've seen obvious lies on some product descriptions on internet listings, therefore I wouldn't trust a specification claim like "x nm" or "y lumen", and unless I had tools to measure them I would not rely on them meeting those specifications.
You wouldn't know the difference.
This may be a good summary of the blog post, but in my opinion it is an uninformed understanding of Elm and Elm's history. JavaScript FFI isn't and never has been a "critical language feature". Rather, people discovered an implementation detail that allowed them to create thin Elm wrappers around JS libs (think Elm interface for d3, leaflet, moment, etc...). This was (rightly IMO) seen as undesirable for multiple reasons and 0.19 closed off the loophole at the compiler level.

As for being banned from the community, I keep seeing this claim but have never seen or heard of such things happening. Sure, there may be a negative reception to folks who keep wanting to re-litigate a decision that was made over and over, but nobody has been banned from anything.
As mentioned you are wrong on this: rowing is mostly legs, some core muscle and then a little arm. As you don't have your full weight on your knees it is a good way to get started on working your legs when you're overweight.
A family member of mine is involved in research into using red/NIR light to improve brain injuries outcomes. Apparently it can also irradiate passing blood which then circulates with the same mitochondrial clean up signals, so it has some secondary effects on non-penetrated areas.

I got to try a prototype LED helmet that blasts 90 watts of lensed, circumspaced NIR beams through the skull for 4 minutes. I can say that an hour later it leaves me feeling mildly buzzed. The main effect I can identify is a mild and general sense of stamina/energy. I used it before/after an all-nighter and didn't feel as impacted as I should have; analogous to how you feel the next morning after drinking at age 20 vs. age 30. All anecdotal of course.

They took the helmet away to give to a kid with an recent brain injury, but swapped it with a hefty 2-foot, 1800W panel. It comes with tanning goggles and instructions saying to be nude and 12 inches away from it for 20 minutes per day--so a bit quacky. But it's apparently big in professional sports clinics for speeding tissue and joint healing.
Does "historically accurate" even have a meaning?
Some people are more concerned about a world so dumb or in such bad faith that can make and tolerate confusion between "questionable possession" and "theft".

Which, paradoxically, calls for the need for more and more intellectual practice, which is a key purpose in the access to culture we have valued for millennia.

(Similar confusion is in that mentioned idea of Meta having done something wrong in processing texts - we can access all available texts.)
There is a large amount of evidence for red light therapy for all parts of the body.
Reminded me of MIT's game "A Slower Speed of Light"

https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
Mœbius probably has the greatest influence to obscurity ratio of any artist I can think of - his fingerprints are on so, so many things - and irony of ironies Jodorowsky’s Dune was probably one of the greatest catapults for further promulgating his aesthetic into the mainstream through the vessel of Giger. I doubt Giger would have been Giger without their collaboration on Dune. The unmade movie penetrates the popular psyche.

I remember finding Metal Hurlant and The Incal at a vide grenier in France as a kid, well before the days of the web, and just being blown away by the visions of this guy - only years later did I realise that I wasn’t alone in that sentiment. He’s the unseen foundation on which so much has been built. A creator’s creator, if you like.
Just think, people used to watch entire films this way.