skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all time cult classic

Yes, it was really very bad. But in a good way, and had Vanity in it, 1985. Between it and Buckaroo Banzai (which had its own timely Japanese connections, 1984) I would choose the latter mentioned, but we don't need to choose.
The benefit is arguably not just to a small number of ranchers and farmers.

The U.S. went all-in on globalization. That includes globalization of food production. For 50 years the typical USian has taken bananas and coconut for granted. Coffee is a staple in every kitchen.

Produce and dairy of countless varieties are produced in California for consumers around the country and indeed around the world.

Would you argue that globalization of the food supply chain is a mistake? Do you propose that Chicago grow its own spinach? Should Saudi Arabia grow its own alfalfa? Should apples and grapes consumed in Oklahoma be grown in Oklahoma?

I suppose many people are rethinking this whole globalization strategy. From microchips to mozzarella. Economics: the spectator sport with real spectator consequences.
I thought Vanguard saved money by outsourcing all decision making and power to the people who chose the stocks on the S&P 500 and the market which they use to weight every stock in their funds.
Yes, it's called living in a society
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser makes bid to take company private
I've wondered the same. I feel like I've seen a subtle but very significant change in people's approach.

In the past on some corners of the internet I'd get "down voted" (whatever system the locals use, not just reddit) for anything that smelled of X, Y, or Z.

That's still the case at times BUT I've seen a lot more folks express distaste for that kind of crusade and gotten a lot more support from people when inevitably I end up sayng "No that's not what i'm saying, I'm tired of having to say that ... we can say X and not be Y".

Meanwhile the most egregious examples of the kind of calling folks out for their perceived impurity such as "you know you don't have to defend X" type comments seem to get a great deal less support now, if not outright ridicule.
I hate fonts that have textural imperfections that are repeatedly perfectly on every instance of the same character, destroying the illusion.

When I wrote my book "Crafting Interpreters", I hand-lettered every single word in every illustration separately so that it would be as imperfect as it appeared.
Why unfortunately? If it spread, that meant people liked and sought to emulate it.
Not quite that, but macOS' new tabs-in-windows is close. I personally don't love keeping them all in tabs in a single window, but I can always select the Window > Merge All Windows option to gather all my disparate Finder windows together for this purpose.

(ETA: This wouldn't work in the save dialog though, I missed that detail)
Like this https://www.mctb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/%C3%91anas-a...

I let my manager know that there may be times where I have sleep issues. Sometimes it lines up with a 2-week sprint cycle. When I meditated seriously, it was +/- 4 hours. Now it's more like +/- 2 hours. So if I normally wake up at 9am, sometimes I wake up at 7am, other times at 11am. I actively search for companies that are flexible with core hours, and have a later standup (>11am).
It’s perfectly reasonable to point out the second half of the sentence. “It says to provide help and insight” isn’t law school levels of interpretation.
Regardless of what the book says, anyone too close to the product during its development will have difficulty designing it appropriately for the user.

If you know how the product works then you already have a mental model of interacting with it. That mental model is NOT the same as the user will have, and thus an engineer will think that something is obvious even though it is not obvious to the user.

The same goes with anyone else who is close to it during the development.

You need outside users to make it clear how people new to a product can understand and interact with it.

Unless you're an engineer who can forget everything they know about their own product, you shouldn't try to design everything yourself with no outside feedback.
Fourtunately, that seems to be less and less the case. Ehich just makes those issues, e.g. morality in Instagram knitting, all the more obvious.
Having better ways to telegraph your intentions is, as far as I'm aware, still an issue, and I would support improved/expanded methods of 'escrow' for this sort of work.

Way back in college, I talked myself into doing a white-hat hack of a service another student was running that I valued highly. He had used software with a rather nasty CERT advisory outstanding. My attempts failed, which meant he had patched his system, probably at the firewall. I shrugged and went on with life.

Or at least I tried to, because the next day I got an email from him telling me that he saw what I did and if I ever pulled shit like that again he'd report me to the Dean's Office. For the time, the university had some pretty sophisticated auditing tools to backtrack problems including shenanigans of this sort and because I was doing something 'good' I had just accessed his system straight from my dorm room (I found out shortly after that even if I had attempted to remote in he still would have been able to send that email).

I offered an "apology" that was about what you'd expect from a 20 year old white male: all excuses and rationalization. It hadn't quite sunk in yet that this distinction between black and white hat existed solely in my brain. I don't even think I bothered to tell my roommate what I was planning to do. I had zero alibi because I was impulsive. I never did anything like that again. If memory serves, I told him I'd never do something like that again (which means it was sinking in a little bit), and that has been largely true.

In hindsight, I was such an earnest kid that any decent lawyer could have would have been able to get me off with a warning, that would have saddled me with debts that would have fucked up my 20's, even if we had gotten a good rate through a family friend. I'd probably have still failed a background check on the piece of software that I worked on in my 30's that is and probably will remain one of the mantelpieces of my career.

The Venn diagram of people with a suspicious enough mind to think of trying what I did and the personality that would keep them out of big trouble is very narrow. But to your point, the circles for aptitude, desire, and history are pretty small. As it turns out, I didn't enjoy being a low-bus-number person responsible for the security of the system, so I now fall outside of the 'desire' circle. These days I'm content to help people sort out/select auth libraries, configure CA certs, and occasionally talk trash about cryptocurrency. I have enough other interests that I'm probably booked out until after retirement.
The switchblade 300 has the same warhead as a javelin? Got a source for that?
> but that's not a thing here at least

Hackernews is a global website last time I checked so even if you don't face issues like that, many other users might.
Seeing the same at fintechs. “We’re compliant.” “Prove it.”
Show HN: A simple but effective chess engine in JavaScript
Is it just me or does this article contain no actual arguments to support its title? I don't even necessarily disagree, but I expect more than rueful handwringing if you're going to bother publishing an article about it.
Is this a defense company now, then? https://twitter.com/walter_report/status/1523497545351278593...

Any company doing shipping for the military has large government contracts. The government contracts have turnover limits, and every company this large works with the government a lot.
A lot of people come up with an idea and then have no product. And investors are just happy to throw money at them. It's that whole idea that if you want to start an AI company, hire a bunch of people in India to do your work, then once the funding round is done, actually build the system.

Hugging Face actually has a product and I think they'll be fine. I actually think $100 million is undervalued, because when I think "open models" or "training datasets" I think "Hugging Face."

If you really want free money as an AI startup just say you're going to solve safe / friendly AI. People throw money at that without even showing anything. Hugging Face actually recently put out a job for someone who can work in "bias mitigation": https://nitter.net/mmitchell_ai/status/1520483233132990464
Something else I found (by browsing the linked page) is that you can drag (while pressing cmd) and drop one of your apps to the top of the Finder.

Removing the app by dragging it back results in a poof animation that I can only describe as adorable. It is so cartoony!
Montreal Quebec is looking très nerveux right now
I don't get how they can earn those $100M back without becoming significantly less open.

The gist of huggingface is that they host pre-trained open source models for free. Anyone can download them and then use them offline without HF. And their paid offerings aren't even close to being cost competitive with buying a few 3090 workstations.

Also, HF doesn't really have any technical moat. Other people research and train those models, they just provide the hosting. In my opinion, their biggest value is the community. But how do you monetize a group of motivated volunteers?

What stops GitHub from offering free LFS hosting for AI models, thereby copying the foundation of HFs community?

And lastly, is there really much of a market in making SOTA AI beginner-friendly? You still need to buy/rent that A100 GPU server. Who's going to be greedy on salary for people operating a $20k/month machinery?
Hello, HN! This is a chess bot I have been working on sporadically for several months now. https://github.com/zamfofex/dummyette

From the very beginning, I wanted to make it simplistic in approach, so the AI algorithm isn’t very complicated. I wanted to balance strength and simplicity, and I think I’m very happy with the results!

My hope is that it can be fun to play for begginers and intermidiate players! It was meant to be played by humans rather than to play against machines.

It can also be used as a library, and I put a lot of effort on thoroughly documenting its API. It isn’t a fixed API, and it follows a “rolling release” approach, but I try to avoid making breaking changes unless I have a good reason for it.

I wrote a post about it in the Computer Chess Club forums a while back, but people didn’t seem so interested about it there: https://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=79379 Again, it isn’t a particularly strong or innovative approach, but I am happy with how it turned out!
Some Russian clients’ accounts, according to reports, may be restricted until May 31. According to Russian media, the largest American cryptocurrency platform has offered to withdraw its funds unless it can demonstrate that they are not subject to European Union sanctions.
I have an Ecobee. Agree with you that the killer feature definitely isn't the self learning stuff.

It's simply:

- Has WiFi (update from phone)

Then also:

- Being able to link with Alexa or similar to do things like turning off when you leave automatically

- Custom programming modes. So instead of setting a temperature at a single time during the day (home/away), you could do (morning/home/home2/afternoon/night/away)

- Can run my fan once an hour automatically for just 5 minutes

- Looks cool
Climate scientists keep hope alive as damage worsens
You can separate concerns without microservices too! People in the past were able to do it, they even invented programming language keywords for it, like https://www.tutlane.com/tutorial/csharp/csharp-access-modifi...
I cracked up at "Now you might think Darren here has gone completely mad..."
Who wants to take a job that has so much control of your life they are dictating what you do in your personal life just to interview there?
As a "get to Mars" company it makes very little sense, they've invested virtually nothing into colony technology, just rockets. Mars is to SpaceX what manganese nodules were to Hughes' Glomar Explorer, a flimsy cover story that only seems plausible because everybody knows the guy in charge is wacky. I believe the real purpose of their attempt to create a rapidly reusable heavy lift rocket (Starship) is to rapidly replenish a massive constellation of expendable interceptors in LEO, for ballistic missile defense.
Not 1950s, but 1970s; Lelystad. They did not mention this at all in the article, which is quite a miss. Lelystad was the earlier experiment, a bit more up north in Flevoland. It is not growing anymore because some parts have failed and not many people move there anymore. Housing is still quite cheap, even now. Some neighbourhoods are quite good neighbourhoods, some are just awful with many residents living on wellfare, many people into drugs, etcetera. They didn't plan for mixing different cultures and classes in society, they planned for somewhat segregated neighbourhoods, which was a wrong choice. If there is a city in the Netherlands where you can guess income and status from the postal code, Lelystad is the place.

We still have to see what will happen to Almere, Almere Haven is just 30 years old. Not all parts there are good :) It is often 30 or 40 years, that a neighbourhood can go from good to bad, at least that is usual in the Netherlands.
Ask HN: Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore?
It seems that right now there is no browser that supports h.265/HEVC even on hardware that can decode it - "Old Edge" used to, but "New Edge" does not. Neither Chrome nor Firefox support it (actually, both of those refuse to use any form of hardware decoding at all on my Windows box, only Edge uses it for VPx and h.264 - and of course every media player).

The only exception is Apple with Safari.

Why is this? h.265 can do a lot better than h.264 in some scenarios, but certainly isn't worse.

And why, oh why, is debugging hardware video acceleration still such a nightmare, even on Windows? Firefox doesn't even seem to have it in about:support any more!

And why is hardware video acceleration only a problem with browsers? I've never had any kind of problem with it with any media player, regardless of OS. It just works. But browsers - it seems to never work OOTB. Except for Edge, apparently. Which I thought was just a Chromium reskin with MS tracking.
Knuth's METAFONT might help, but it never took off because font designers aren't mathematicians or programmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/...
It's not cutting the climate-change impact of food. It's cutting the climate-change impact of food miles. As you say, overall it's making things worse, e.g. increasing the climate-change impact of every other delivery but food.
I guess so but I'm seeing 1-2 restaurants/bars in sub-neighborhoods that are about 1.5km wide.

I'm not saying the city is bad by any means, I'm just saying that it falls very short in what I would hope to be the "future of urban life". Maybe the future of smaller towns or exurbs. But there seems to be a lack of necessary dynamic spaces that change in character throughout the day as people flow in and out that you look for in great urban areas.
>Allow citizens to report 53' trailers

AKA standard trailers. Enjoy having a logistics framework where you are incompatible with the primary mode of semi freight in the rest of America.

The lack of enforcement on this element is a testament to pragmatism.
The Landmark Environmental Law Inside a NIMBY Firestorm
I've had several, intense Kundalini experiences! I know for certain that I can achieve a classical Buddha awakening in this lifetime, as long as I take care of myself.
I really got excited and thought this was about the other (IMHO better) Avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender

But this font looks cool too.
I worked for XOM for years which also really pushed the "safety culture" in the office. We even had the same "fired for not using the handrail in front of the boss" stories. Wild how memes like that must have spread through the industry.

10 years later and I still can't use the stairs without instinctively grabbing for a handrail.
> FIDO2 is probably more secure but it doesn't support the current security mechanisms already in place right now.
What do you mean by this? What security mechanisms, and why does FIDO2 need to support them?

There's also U2F of course, but in the absence of more pressure I guess that everybody who was using that will use FIDO2 or nothing (seems like a regression from my point of view - I don't have any need for passwordless login).

> The real victims of this move aren't the privacy enthusiasts who run Qubes on their coreboot-enabled Thinkpads, they'll find a way. I'm worried about the elderly and other less technically minded who have no idea how any of these apps work.

The real victims aren't any individual but society - the real problem is destabilisation through centralisation of power.
Tutorial: Building the Simplest Possible Linux System – Rob Landley (2017)
>I do wonder whether another approach would be starting to delete old videos with not many clicks unless you pay

You click to view a video like this, but instead receive a message that states, please return in up to 2 hours while we fetch this content from cold storage.

It'll help ensure you don't ever need to retrieve that content, the content is technically still available, but as the host you can start to whittle down online storage needs.

Edit: Or, you can have the viewer pay for the rush to retrieve the content from cold storage with a viewer-pays model
Are implementations of belief propagation considered message passing GNNs?
Yes, individual states are choosing for themselves via their duly elected legislatures and governors how they want to handle it if the ruling is overturned. Just like some states place limits on gun magazine capacities. They believe it's best for them, and absent a national law, they can.
>IMO how you deploy your software (one binary vs many services, all on one box vs distributed) should be an incidental detail that is automated away.

>You have two packages that are very chatty? Your infra figures this out and deploys them in the same binary

Are there any libs for doing that? Seems to me that that should be pretty complex.
I read about a study that concluded meal delivery kits resulted in less CO2 emissions, mostly because because store-bought food required people to buy larger quantities, so there was more food waste. I don't remember the details, but remember being somewhat skeptical about the way the study was conducted.

The point being that there's lots of factors and packaging isn't necessarily the biggest one.
For me it's kind of a wash. For years I avoided buying any imperial allen keys because I had a pile of free ones that were good when I infrequently needed them. I also got this combination 2.5mm hex / Phillips screwdriver which is actually quite convenient as those are the sizes of screwdriver I need most frequently.

The rest go into the landfill unfortunately, and I agree the waste isn't really worth the 3 random sizes of allen key I once needed.
Data Analytics Can Be the Next HPC for IBM Power
Sounds like your problem is capitalism and not the underlying technology. Which brings me to a related question: does the meat/dairy industry have my health as their priority?

How can you trust the incentives of any private enterprise? Unfortunately we can't all go back to subsistence agriculture. And sadly food is not seen as a right worth guaranteeing to "first world" citizens, even children, which rules out the state.
A well architected monolith isn't necessarily that different from a well architected set of microservices.

The problem with rails is it encourages you to not think about your architecture, and after years of putting every model, controller, or view in literally the same folder, you have a giant pile of shit.

Modularize by feature. And under each feature, you modularize by layer. Slicing your code N ways will scale better with your team than slicing your code 3-4 ways.
To respond in list

Sometimes, people haven't read the older thing before.
There was an excellent post a few months back about how overvalued creativity is.
If that's true, there should be better counterarguments than "this is unoriginal"
> A few hundred million will die in the top end of what we expect, but that's acceptable. And this is clearly the position of most people, so I'm comfortably in the majority here.

Citation, please? I'd love to see the polls saying that several hundred million deaths are ok with most people.

From what I've seen, increased government action on climate change polls very well among the public, e.g., https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...
Yeah, you're right, that's my mistake.

I think you can just omit it but yeah...
Junior react dev, currently freelance but looking to transition to a full time role with a great company.

Location: Youngstown, OH
Remote: Yes please
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: MERN Stack, strongest in React. Typescript, Heroku, Node, MongoDb, REST APIs, Material UI
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Portfolio: raymondmorrison.com (at this point I've grown so much while freelancing that I'm borderline embarrassed about the content on my portfolio, as they're just CRUD applications from bootcamp, so I do need to find the time to go and refresh it when I have the chance.)
Prettiest Neovim Setup
Hi there! the author of NvChad :D , Just sharing my recent theme setups. You may have never known that neovim cli could actually look very pretty, some screenshots :

https://i.redd.it/3xpcwmnr47y81.png

https://i.redd.it/84a766g4uhy81.png

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/59060246/130129238-8293826b-29fc-439a-9e6e-e79c67358916.png

config : https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad
This is the argument:

> Before the legalization of online gambling, the great majority of Americans would go their entire life without being tempted to seek out a bookie or fly to the handful of jurisdictions in which in-person sports betting was permitted. What millions now face are endless deceptive advertisements aired during the most-watched television broadcasts in America, inviting them to risk their money on platforms funded by venture capitalists rather than by organized crime.
We could also start exiling US citizens and liquidating (ironically) undesirables.
Germany of today is a byproduct of post-war Germany.
This is a fantastic direction. It's interesting to me that you would rather revision control be implemented outside of this replication topology in something like git and that the interface between tools is strictly files rather than the CRDT events themselves. Integrating other applications in the CRDT event stream and maintaining the stream as the revision history would seem more efficient, less error-prone, and more open. Is it an eventual goal to expose something like this?
I agree with all the things that you are proposing - maybe I wouldn't block corporate real estate ownership, I'd rather have "progressive property taxes", as to make it impossible to have any profit from large-scale renting - but I think that they would also be impossible to pass on Washington today. So, if we are just day dreaming, we should really go for it. :)
> Lake Mead ... has fallen so low that a barrel containing human remains, believed to date to the 1980s, was found in the receding shoreline on Sunday

More human remains have already been found since that first barrel[0]. It's more than a little disturbing to think about how many people rely on that lake for their drinking water and how much worse the quality will get as the water levels drop.

[0]https://nypost.com/2022/05/09/more-remains-found-at-lake-mea...