skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can’t wait till we talk about Jesus and God in the same way we talk about Hades and Zeus.

> When societies cling too tightly to the faith traditions they’ve inherited—by accident of birth—they often impede critical thinking, open inquiry, and evidence-based governance.

It's pretty clear he's talking about atheism.

And a secular state is definitionally a state without a state religion. Sweden and Norway both had state churches until very recently. A closely related country, Denmark, still has an official state church.

You can also look to Belarus, a secular state with a high rate of non-religiosity.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthropy
For sure! Example pr below

https://github.com/generatorlegend/spriteai-dev-docs/pull/5/...
4443! Heck yah. Although, it's weird that I'm listed as having "career advice."

Nobody should listen to me. I have no idea what I'm doing.
I hear ya. Early 50s here too. The world feels too "coupled", so that the same sorts of things are happening everywhere, so you can't really "get away" in any sense anymore.

Being "connected" is basically a requirement instead of a cool hobby you can do after hours now, and so your data gets stolen 24x7, and you get advertised / marketed to, regardless of how resistant you are, eventually, it gets you.

And well.. feeling a bit like those people in 1930s germany.. "No good can come of this".. Just not sure where to run to anymore - most countries have their (virtual) walls up too (no visas), and the one out (Canada) isn't necessarily a sure thing as a backup..
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now.
Humans don’t train on the entire contents of the Internet, so i’d wager that they do learn differently
Why is PostHog so in vogue?
I've noticed lately that a LOT of sites are using PostHog. Until now, I've never seen that many websites use it. Is there a reason why or is it just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?

Why PostHog and not Mixpanel, Amplitude and alike?
Oleg Gordievsky, a key double agent in the Cold War, dies at 86
Wait, people actually just blindly paste together calls into GitHub actions written by someone else who can change it at any time?

You know what, no this makes perfect sense. This is exactly, perfectly in line with the modern software ethos.

Jesus. I'm so glad that 100% of my GitLab pipelines is code I wrote. It's owned by the company and it lives in our source control and runs on our hardware. I think you'd be nuts to do anything else, honestly.

For entirely related reasons, I'm thrilled that my career is moving in a direction away from devops and software in general. I can't stomach it anymore.
Two killer whales are hunting great white sharks – to eat their livers
You've still got Little's Law though. You either need a very giant machine or a very low feed rate in order to have stuff come out one end 4 hours after going in the other. I think steel recycling may be faster than that.
https://archive.ph/sPVjw
I’m slightly older and you know, in high school I bought Cliff’s Notes to avoid the boring long books I was supposed to read. Are kids today really different?
You might still be on DALL-E. My account is if you use ChatGPT.

I switched over to the sora.com domain and now I have access to it.
My favorite class I ever took was middle school algebra. We had a teacher, problem sets, and were put into groups of 3 or 4 to work through the problem sets together.

The teacher would give a bit of a spiel to intro the problems, but the problems themselves were very self-directed, things like "measure these triangles, square these numbers, do you notice anything?" then introing the pythagorean theorem.

The teacher would float around and basically help groups that were more stuck on things than others. But students would help each other a lot, meaning the teacher is not spending their time on people who can ultimately help themselves.

This is not a format that works for all students and all class types, but when it works it works so well, and it's extremely scalable.
There’s nuance here. I think I experienced the same thing maybe not quite as young but I distinctly recall the crib I was in as well as the day I got upgraded to a regular bed. Along with that I remember specific objects that I had around me which were later confirmed by my parents’ photos.

There a potential selection bias in the criminal witness example which is capturing adult memories that may be less sticky than those from an early age. That could explain some differences there.
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS).

Link to AoPS books:

https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/list/all-products
No, pretty much everyone hated him.
Same, but I think it really depends on the design on the neighborhood, regardless of if it's a city or a suburb.

When I lived in "Brownstone Brooklyn" I had a stoop and would often hang out on it, as is common in neighborhoods with this feature. I knew tons of my neighbors, people would stop and talk to each other, etc. When I moved to Williamsburg years ago, that stopped. There are stairs that lead to my apartment, but it's not like a stoop that you'd find in other parts of Brooklyn -- they're steeper than you'd get on a brownstone and don't really encourage sitting at street level. I'd hang out on them sometimes, but then a few years back all the street lights and building lights switched to bright LEDs, making it gross to sit under them at night. But if you go to other parts of this neighborhood just a 5 minute walk away the building design is more conducive for gathering and chatting on stoops at street level, and I notice that that happens in that part of the neighborhood.

Anyway, I wish we'd consider these things when building our environment.
I mean if you think the US is the greatest country on earth, but for some reason needs to made great "again" and that has to involve scapegoating then having an ally where they solved most of the problems you are having with simple commons sense measures isn't all that attractive.

It amazing how US billionaires managed to have a majority vote against their interest and endure this shitshow. Time for the US to realize that their governments are meant to represent them and not the other way around.
San Francisco, up until covid this still happened for me too. there was a bodega like store in the mission me and other people used.

where i live now differs so that phenomenon doesn’t exist here.
Those aren't suburbs, this is a suburb: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iS3Zi4CT1vnWkD5P7?g_st=ac
Maybe your neighbor is scared of the same thing happening if they knock on your door... so neither makes the first move :(
Newborn Stroller babies are not asking to be looking at a tablet. It’s the parents.

Newborn Babies do not ask to watch YouTubes while being fed ultra-processed food.

It’s the parents who purchase all those electronic devices to their children. I gather that they do it because shutting them off is illegal and irreversible
5. steganographic subliminal messaging :P
I think the discrepancy comes from semantic overloading of the word "should" in "I doubted if I should ever come back." In older style English "should ever" can be interpreted as would ever happen to or would ever be able to but in contemporary English it's more likely to mean would ever want to.

There are other clues for the reader of course. One path looked less worn, but in retrospect it wasn't actually less worn. He would tell the story with a sigh, which isn't something you would typically do if you were happy about it. So I agree that it boils down to most people not being very good at reading nontrivial texts. But I don't agree that that this text is totally straightforward. It's not highly complicated, but it's not everyday text either.
The customers are captive (pay or sheriff with guns show up to toss your ass out), the employer is spending OPM (largely funded to administration or special interest segments or overhead), and the student consuming has essentially no say since his parents have no money left to choose somewhere else after paying already for the public school.

What could possibly go wrong where the only person with any real choice is an administrator who doesn't bear the cost or benefit of his own actions? The incentives could hardly be more misaligned.
The two inboard shafts are one length and the two outboard shafts are another length.
Pretty close tbh. Sub romania for brazil, and nigeria, for... i dont remember right now
This really highly depends on the person. Also, people always tend to view the past with more rose-eyed-glasses compared to how they actually felt at the time they are remembering.

Here is an interview with kids in 1966 about what they think life will be like in future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8xX3usi4c
First felon I know that has had no issues getting a job or getting a place to live. It's amazing how being a felon makes life so much more difficult for normies, yet actually improved his stature. It's embarrassing no matter which angle it is viewed.
You're incorrect. 4o was not trained on knowledge of itself so literally can't tell you that. What 4o is doing isn't even new either, Gemini 2.0 has the same capability.
Ugh, sounds horrible. This is what happens when extroverted bullshitters get to decide the rules around career advancement. Your ability to write self-promotional marketing slop counts for as much as or more than the actual work you were hired to do. I say this as someone who is right now grudgingly writing self-promotional marketing slop instead of doing my job.
> No need to break signal's crypto if you can just silently capture screenshots.

This is also something that comes up with esoteric cryptography schemes. There are systems designed so that you could theoretically deny whatever property, but in reality, the bad guy looks at your phone and believes whatever is on the screen anyway.
Never heard of the product and just had a look at the landing page. Immediately spotted a typo :D

> On Mac, Window and Linux

should be

> On Mac, Windows and Linux
A conversation with Richard M Stallman (2004)
I was revising my old blog entries when I came across my post and my conversation with Richard M Stallman. It is an enjoyable read, to go back in time and reflect.
Not when I tried https://i.imgur.com/1cPaXn5.png
Is this really such a strange thing to be concerned about? Snowden, NSA, etc...people remember. It’s well known that Trump’s campaign team was spied on by the FBI. Government is just a bunch of people, some of whom have strong political leanings, so intra-government leaks, spying, sabotage can happen and in all likelihood do happen.
No. Try actually asking someone who's raised kids recently.
C++ is merely behaving as a intermediate language/representation in this case. They are compiling to subset of it. Idiomatic C++ is not safe.
There have been cross platform API and tools forever and they all suck and you end up not taking advantage of the platform and features.

Java Swing, Electron, QT, React Native, etc.

If you are going to create a “native” app that doesn’t take advantage of the platform features, you might as well just use the web.

Besides, it’s always a leaky abstraction that forces you to have some type of escape hatch to take advantage of subtleties of the platform.
"I want a struct linker": https://yosefk.com/blog/i-want-a-struct-linker.html (2008)

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Classic example of the hidden costs of well intentioned regulation.
I hesitated a little bit before attempted to respond, because I think this subject returns often, maybe even too often. I am not saying this because I disagree with you. I am not saying this because I really disagree with the premise presented by author. I am simply not sure we can really add anything truly new.

<< Tldr: think carefully if you want to enable others to think carefully

It is not a secret on what works in education. There is no real secret sauce. Some things are well known and apparent even to the casual observer, but, and it is not a small but, it does not pay the bills of the cottage industry that has grown around education. For example, it is easier to throw money at everything, but ensuring small class sizes, which dramatically affect long term outcomes. I am not cynical. At least in US, I do not understand how anyone can pretend anything else is true.
They were more worried about dying than getting likes on Instagram.
When you get to a certain level, you believe the rules don't apply to you. There are many examples of this, but I won't list any for fear of promoting false equivalencies.
You're telling me the country that illegally spies on all of us online and provides corrupt pi.. cops with qualified immunity doesn't abide by the U.S. Constitution? Say it ain't so..
But it's already questionably legal to just look at it. If you don't even use that, then that's what private repos are for
ChatGPT IS its training.
I don't know if anyone's doing that but Claude's superiority at coding (currently, amongst non-reasoning models at least) is widely known.
Happy reader for a while. For HN readers, if you want to have a setup where you live near friends and/or family, check their posts: https://supernuclear.substack.com/archive?sort=top
I find the OP very difficult to comprehend, to the point that I question whether it has content at all. One difficulty is in understanding their use of the word "embedding", defined (so to speak) as "internal representations (embeddings)", and their free use of the word to relate, and even equate, LLM internal structure to brain internal structure. They are simply assuming that there is a brain "embedding" that can be directly compared to the matrix of numerical weights that comprise an LLM's training. That seems a highly dubious assumption, to the point of being hand-waving.

They mention a profound difference in the opening paragraph, "Large language models do not depend on symbolic parts of speech or syntactic rules". Human language models very obviously and evidently do. On that basis alone, it can't be valid to just assume that a human "embedding" is equivalent to an LLM "embedding", for input or output.
> For the world to benefit from your work, and therefore for you to benefit fully from your work, you have to make it known.

I don't agree with this assumption. One does not necessarily follow the other. Outside of work, I write programs that I need and that further my own personal curiosity and education. I don't have to release any of it to the world, in order for me to fully benefit from it. I plan to take all of the source code on my computer to my grave and that's totally OK.
I think another part of neighborhood design that influences this feeling is how walkable a neighborhood is — anecdotally, I feel like I've had way more run-ins and conversations with neighbors when I've lived in places that had grocery stores and coffee shops within walking distance, as opposed to when I've been in neighborhoods that required driving 10-15 mins to get to anything.
There are a lot of odd exclusions on that list. Just spot-checking, I see blog.plover.com, the blog of Mark Jason Dominus, who by the way is looking for a job[1].

Also, dtrace.org is excluded, which hosts four individual blogs that surely should qualify.

[1]: https://mastodon.online/@mjd@mathstodon.xyz/1142231895042721...
If you figure out stoop whiskey, let me know. I'm all in for sure on the idea.
Here is one on tensorflow as well:

https://github.com/generatorlegend/tfjs/pull/2/files#diff-a7...
This sounds nightmarish in a corporate way but good advice for solo introverts, doubly so if you work in the arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Gordievsky
All of the places I've worked at that have come close to this style of self-promotion have been dominated by kingdom builders and professional bullshitters.
Thank you for proving that other HN members can call out bad HN policies and the way its applied by its de-facto leader. N-gate died far too soon.
what happened last year?
> RJ-45 (really RJ-38 but that's excessively pedantic) connectors

If we're being overly pedantic:

- the RJ numbers refer to not just the connector but the pinout and such

- the RJ (registered jack) numbers refer to just the "jack" side, not the "plug" side

So even though an "Ethernet" cable has plugs on it that fit into an RJ38X jack, its wrong as well to call it an RJ38 plug:

- different pinout

- the plug is the mechanically the same, but pedantically it isn't correct to call any plug a registered jack, because it's a plug not a jack

- the jack is mechanically different; an RJ38X jack shorts pin 1 to pin 4 and pin 5 to pin 8 when there's not a cable plugged in to it (this makes it a "series jack" instead of a regular "jack").

Name | Mechanical jack | Mechanical plug
47 CFR part 68 (registered jacks)
RJ45S | miniature 8-position keyed jack | miniature 8-position keyed plug
RJ38X | miniature 8-position series jack | miniature 8-position plug
ANSI/TIA-568 (Ethernet)
T568A | miniature 8-position jack | miniature 8-position plug
T568B | miniature 8-position jack | miniature 8-position plug

I don't believe any registered jack uses a miniature 8-position unkeyed jack (but scanning through 150 pages is a pain and for some reason Ctrl-F isn't working reliably in this PDF).

(ANSI/TIA/IEC calls them "modular" jacks/plugs, while the FCC calls them "miniature" jacks/plugs, but same thing. Well, same thing the way that CAT-5 and CAT-5e are the same; same, but with different specified tolerances. And just saying "Ethernet" or "568" isn't specific enough here; CAT-6 requires an IEC 60603-7-4 connector, while CAT-5e only requires an IEC 60603-7-2 connector; even though most people would call those the same, they have different tolerances. I don't care to compare the FCC's 47 CFR part 68 requirements with the IEC 60603-7-{2,4} requirements.)
I just can't get Roboto my head...
Yeah, they do. The US Attorneys and the Attorney General are allowed to give input typically into whether any investigation is prosecutable.

Now did they investigate it? Probably not.

What's interesting to me is that personal phones were not seized for forensic examination though.

Were the phones hacked by foreign agents?
What other uses was signal used for?
The Super-Kamiokande Experiment
I see it normally on PC, maybe not working well on app?
It started looking like "Rust but without lifetimes."

Then I noticed structured exception handling. Oh well.
HN has no "doctrinaire" rule about exact original titles. The rule is this: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note that word "unless". Since the original title was linkbaity, I replaced it in accordance with the rule.

That's not editorializing, because it's using the article's own language and is a more accurate and neutral description of the article. Editorializing is when a submitter takes advantage of the title field to convey their own view of an article.
A practical guide to writing on the iPad (2023)
Lazarus uses LCL, which has many backends, of which Gtk is but one. But you can also use e.g. the Qt version: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qt5_Interface. On Windows, they have a native Win32 implementation of LCL, same as Delphi did in VCL.
The ffmpeg website is also using it. First time I actually saw it in the wild.
To be pedantic, the definition is wrong too. His definition is not the max but the supremum:

- max: largest element that is in the set, if it exists

- sup: smallest element larger than all elements in the set

But he doesn't really use the definition he gives anyways, his invariant to prove correctness does not rely on it.
I remember being scared of nuclear war as a child in the 80s. But even though that cast a pall of fear, only 2 superpowers had them in world-ending capacity, and they were self-interested enough that MAD could maintain the precarious balance.

World War I was long and devastating but there would be an end to it; wars don't continue forever by default. WWII was potentially cataclysmic but we were fighting coherently with a unified front, throwing everything we had towards beating it. You could buy war bonds, grow a victory garden, ration your use of gasoline/rubber/steel; do your part and we'll get through this.

The modern issues like climate change are global, imminent, and increasingly present, and there's no contemporary feeling of solidarity and effort against them. We've been told annually that the window to save ourselves is closing rapidly, and yet carbon emissions are still increasing. That's right, they're not going down too slowly, they're still going up.

Pick another modern issue, like education (which is arguably a root solution to these other issues). It's getting worse, so are we trying like hell to improve it? Teachers are trying but can't seem to move the needle. And the US is about to dismantle its national Department of Education to improve "efficiency".

I've looked at the situation and despite a desire for optimism, I have to be realistic. All efforts against the current slate of problems are off by an order of magnitude. Please, tell me a story, any story at all, for how this gets better within our lifetimes, without science fantasy like colonizing Mars or limitless fusion power (as though either of those things would help anyway).
Which I'm assuming is in a university setting, yes? In which case, I would also assume that at least a majority of the students in your class actually want to be in school somewhat.

Apply this to middle/high school students and you're going to get a lot of students being annoyed since they're being challenged, are feeling stupid, and don't know how to deal with that feeling of being stupid; especially given that many of them don't see the point in attending school since they feel like it isn't helping them.

There will be some that will engage, but those aren't the students we're concerned about here.
I can't buy this, because everyone in the group can see who added other members (at least until disappearing messages time out that information). If it was just someone leaking they could do that by taking screenshots of the government group and then sending them to Jeffrey Goldberg in a separate chat.
That's backwards. Prosecutors don't give input, they decide whether to charge. The FBI investigates, but they aren’t the ones who are responsible for taking cases to court.
Woo-hoo, # 265 :) FortressOfDoors.com

But my name is Lars Doucet, not Keith Burgun (that's KeithBurgen.net)

Happy to be included!
Safeguarding Research and Culture
Its crazy to me that they are not. I was in high school in the mid 2000s, and if the teachers saw a phone it was immediately confinscated. What happened since then?
Slightly tangential but The Economist put out a really cool interactive article a year or so back — it explores the relationships between factors like economic development, secularism, social trust, and in essence, levels of tribalism. The findings are a bit more complex than people might expect.

Excerpt:
"On the face of it, this shift suggests that people do think differently as they escape from poverty and insecurity... Perhaps. But at the moment, the WVS findings suggest this is not happening without obstacles and detours. If poorer countries were indeed converging with rich ones in terms of values, you would expect that they would be the ones where values are changing fastest, whereas the countries they are catching up with would be more stable. In fact the survey finds the opposite. Countries that are already the most secular and individualistic are changing fastest and becoming even more secular; those that are most traditional and clannish are changing less and sometimes becoming more traditional, not less."

Here it is:
https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2023/08/...

Archived page is less visually engaging without the interactive graphs but the analysis is still worth reading:
https://archive.ph/rRx7s
Has the meaning of the words "available today" changed since I learned them?
The article mentions there was no difference between synthetic and natural gums in terms of microplastics released.