skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public transportation is one piece of the puzzle. Cities that are truly great for car-free living are also walkable and cyclable, and have dedicated infrastructure to this end. Public transit gets you part-way there, since unlike cars, public transit, even buses, do not really make the streets dangerous and hostile the way that individual transport vehicles do. Still, it's important to remember that public transit is a key part of a broader approach to the problem and not the end-all solution itself.
I don't know if you have seen, but the old Croquet team is back: https://www.croquet.io/
saPAKEs are one possible solution, but none are currently standardized.
Show HN: Nested GitHub Action Runners
Also a Google Workspace user, using Firefox for everything with no issues.
I think in a corporate enviroment, most organisations are too large and all you really have to do is sound like you know what you are doing hence the ability to speak and ability to write.

A lot of the higher up, management types are so far removed from the ground work, that is all they see. You could be doing excellent work but they won’t see that if you can’t communicate your ideas to them or your busy doing the actual work, they will just see the end result and if a team was working on it, the people in the team that get the most credit are the louder, more visible ones.
Some people abandon all traditional social contracts only to embrace totally new social co tracts and then demand that everyone else embrace then too.
The retailers in this context don’t want their business.
I am not claiming that Einstein will be forgotten, only challenging the conjecture that he will be a figure well known and cited by the general public. I really doubt that most people on the street would remember even having heard of Newton, much less referring to him in any context.

Don’t worry, the same will be true of kardashians, probably sooner than It happens to Einstein.
Depends where you live. That's a broad assertion to cover a wildly divergent spectrum of community types.
> What do you actually expect from Mozilla by "taking their head out of their arse" ?

Investing in their browser. Investing in an alternative ecosystem.

Brave have added in-browser Torrent, TOR, IPFS support. That's what I would expect from Mozilla, trying to differentiate itself. Now we've lost the compact UI, got coloured themes for one release. What's cooking that's really exciting? What's the plan to retake some of the lost market share? I can't see any thirst to improve over there.
The Rust Jobs Market
It seems like it is a suboptimal choice to use a garbage collected language when trying to optimize for throughput. What made you decide to use Go instead of a language like Rust or C++?
The article and headline are pretty misleading imo, the ban seems like it's only for the free tier.

Edit: Actually, it's not really clear.
> And ensuring all DoH requests go through a corporate proxy is... not entirely trivial.

Remember that it's a good thing that it's hard to do that. If it were easy, then the ISPs would just do it too.
For one, real estate value isn’t fixed.

A lot of two small houses can made into a condo that serves eight families or more (a very tiny condo).

The values of those eight condos isn’t equal to the two houses; the total value will be eventually be quite higher yet individually be more affordable.

That’s just the start. Let’s suppose 1000 single family homes were converted into a 4000 units.

The construction alone means economic activity, though that’s temporary.

3000 more families means more to that much more demand for services in the long term. Which ripples into more demand for service jobs, generating a demand for labor.

More incoming labor means more people, which means more construction activity due to demand.

Rinse and repeat.

San Francisco is missing out however, because the window of opportunity is passing; that is, if it hasn’t already passed.
I am Chinese. I took a look at some of these "key documents", but I don't know what is wrong.

1. For the "Education Training Center" or the so-called "Re-education Camp", the intake rules from "Vocational Skills Education Training Center Intake Examination and Registration System"[1] says: "对符合规定条件应予收押的犯罪嫌疑人、被告人，应当对其人身和携带的物品进行严格检查，对女性的人身检查，应当由女工作人员进行。". From Google translation (if you don't understand Chinese lol), it means "Criminal suspects and defendants who meet the prescribed conditions and should be taken into custody shall be subject to strict inspections of their persons and their belongings, and the physical inspection of women shall be carried out by female staff members." (btw the english version of this document is not so accurate).

I think it is very clear that those detainee are criminal suspects or defendants, so my question is, is it wrong to detain these guys?

2. About the environment of the "Education Training Center". From "System for Vocational Skill Education and Training Center Detainees Leaving the School for Medical Treatment"[2], the detainees can leave the "camp" for medical treatment, but need to be escorted, and cannot contact with other people. From "Education and Training Center Management System for Calls to Relatives (Trial Implementation)"[3], the detainees can call their relatives every 10 days. What surprises me is the rule 6, which says when the detainee's family is in need, the grassroot (草根, the community office) needs to find a solution to help them and gets back to the detainee.

Anything wrong about this?

[1]: https://www.xinjiangpolicefiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/...

[2]: https://www.xinjiangpolicefiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/...

[3]: https://www.xinjiangpolicefiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/...
Also capital efficiency. If you have limited labor anyway, why bother with lower margin additions and remodels?
Thanks for the suggestions, it's neither of these :(
Distributed version control is about making code and patches easier to share, if anything the point is to reduce the socialization. It's a more convenient and development-centric form of mailing lists, not a more social version.
Absolutely agreed. I’ve been through a couple debates about whether it’s worth adding a checksum, and every time we’ve either been glad we did or regretted that we didn’t.
My fourth grade teacher was memorable for being gorgeous-looking with
a fiery Italian temper. The curriculum was boring to begin with and
like many here on HN I was precociously bright, which made it even
more boring, so there wasn't much to do all day but study her
instead. When her annoyance reached a boiling point, which I learned
to predict a few minutes in advance, her manner would shift abruptly
between one sentence and the next, and she'd be stroppy with everyone
for the rest of the day with no chance of redemption. However, if a
colleague came to the classroom door to talk about something, she
would be perfectly polite and pleasant mannered until the moment the
door closed. I was amazed to see such a perfect effortlessly executed
context switch with no preparation and presumably no training on her
part. Can all women do that and are they in better control of their
emotions than they'd have us believe? She gave my young mind loads of
food for thought.
Eleuther.ai is just a bunch of random, but smart people without capital who decided on Twitter to recreate GPT-3.

Recently they released GPT-NeoX-20B. They mainly coordinate on Discord. They got compute from some company for free.

https://www.eleuther.ai/

Another group called BigScience got a grant from France to use a public institution supercomputer to train large language model in open. They are 71% done training their 176 billion parameters open-source language model called "BLOOM".

> During one-year, from May 2021 to May 2022, 900 researchers from 60 countries and more than 250 institutions are creating together a very large multilingual neural network language model and a very large multilingual text dataset on the 28 petaflops Jean Zay (IDRIS) supercomputer located near Paris, France.

https://bigscience.huggingface.co/

If there is a will there is a way.

BTW - People close to EleutherAI are looking for people wanting to play around with open-source machine learning for biology.

You just need to start contributing on their Discord: https://twitter.com/nc_znc/status/1530545001557643265
For those wondering, the actual source music is a piano version of Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2".
All the points raised here were valid then and still are valid.

It's really worth highlighting that in most of the US it is illegal to build anything other than single-family homes ("SFHs"). The sort of medium density neighbourhoods a lot of people like are an historical anachronism in zoning terms.

It's true there are local issues too. For example, New York's scaffolding laws just make all construction expensive [1]. Basically any gravity-induced incident is 100% the employer's fault and this hugely drives up insurance costs.

Tax laws play a part too. Ultra-luxury apartments in NYC not only don't pay their fair share of property tax (in terms of market value), which is an issue New York State has to fix and has refused to for decades because upstate SFH owners don't want to pay more tax (SFHs in NY pay way less property tax than an equivalent value apartment). Ultra-luxury getting property tax abatements for new construction is a crime.

But here's a key general issue that has been proven true around tdhe world: anywhere with the free flow of capital such that you can park money in real estate in the world's urban centers with little to no oversight have experienced huge increases in property value. This incentivizes ultra-luxury pdroperty development. We need to stop this.

We need:

1. More multi-family building in SFH zoned areas. Areas that prohibit this should be penalized for it with higher property taxes (if it's not outlawed entirely);

2. More medium-density development along transport corridors where we can and do create walkable neighbourhoods; and

3. More high-density affordable housing in urban centers.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/nyregion/campaign-underwa...
Having just looked up the "antisemitic breakdown" in question, that seems like a strong editorialization of a viewpoint that was fairly widespread at the time of the events in question.
Ah yes you're right it's profits!
It's existence as an alternative for those who want it doesn't bother me so much. It's watching other projects that existed for years without relying on it tacking it on as a dependency that got worrisome. It DOESN'T particularly follow the Unix philosophy, but that's okay -- not everything needs to be Unix.

At the end of the day, things seem to have washed out over the past few years, and folks who want to run systems without it seem relatively unimpeded at this point (heck, my Bluetooth stack on Slackware 15 worked out of the box). As long as the anti-systemd crowd keeps things constructive with parallel structures, the future seems bright.

And if the systemd proliferation brings users and thus big company driver support, so much the better. I just hope it is done in a way that the benefits can be shared in an init-system agnostic sort of way where possible.
> They're not forcing you to do anything at all.

If I force my way to the front of the queue at every store in town, evade purchasing limits, buy all the baby formula before anyone else can, and then offer to sell it at a premium, I’m absolutely forcing my way in-between the retailer and the customer.

That’s not a service.

Now, nobody needs to buy a PS5, but the fact that a PS5 isn’t a required to sustain life doesn’t magically transmute scalping into a service.

> their existence doesn't change anything other than giving you the option to pay $200 and skip the bullshit

They are responsible for the bullshit. Of course it changes things.

How is it so hard to understand that someone creating an additional, artificial market barrier to extract rent is also making it harder for anyone else to buy the product in the first place?

I signed up with Sony to sit in the queue to buy one PS5. My signup is attached to my PSN account to help prevent scalping.

It cost Sony money to implement that queueing system and to fight scalpers.

Sony is losing licensing revenue on consoles because scalpers are eating into what would normally be spent purchasing games.

Sony is losing customer goodwill because scalpers are forcing themselves in-between Sony and their customers.

More of Sony’s customer base is frustrated and more likely to abandon purchasing the product altogether —- even when supply issues are resolved — because they have to compete with scalpers.

It’s not a fucking service, and we’d all be better off by extending existing ticket scalping laws and the CFAA to vigorously prosecute these absolute useless low-lifes that should be unceremoniously kicked back into whatever minimum wage gutter they crawled out of.
But that’s not how banks work. They don’t lend out the capital of depositors. Rather, when they lend money, they record a receivable from the borrower, and at the same time credit the borrower’s account at the bank. Bank lending creates money.
> If the land is valuable, and all you can build on it is a single-family home, why not build a very expensive single-family home?

The article suggests changing zoning so triplex/fourplexes can be built. Even if they have marble countertops, they'd still be more affordable than a house.

Currently, I can't build the housing version of a Camry.
When we had our house built. The builder only required 5% down (2016). We later got an FHA mortgage with 3.5% down and we got the other 1.5% back.

Of course we refinanced when the housing market got crazy and reduced the interest rate to 1.5% and got rid of PMI (FHA MPI)
Looking at my DNS requests, I discovered many things that are considered normal but are completely non-necessary... like Firefox pinging Mozilla's servers every few minutes to detect captive portals (on my desktop computer). I stopped that one (network.captive-portal-service.enabled) along with others in other software and devices.
It's close but TCP will retransmit frames rather than packing multiple updates in a single frame.

It's common for people to build this kind of retransmission logic on top of UDP (especially for networked games), it's sometimes referred to as "reliable UDP".
We live in the city and always are struggling with allergies. The whole family is always coughing or sneezing. We bought a xiaomi air purifier like in the article last week, started using it in the bedrooms for a few hours in the evening, and the allergies cleared up overnight. The particulate sensor is mostly useless, a known problem with the xiaomi models, but running it at a fixed setting seems to clean the air quite effectively.
I'm happy to believe that the article captures part of success.

However, communication is a two-way process, and the following have been important to me in my career journey:

* Understanding when to listen instead of talking,
* Asking open-ended questions that provide opportunity for other viewpoints,
* Empathizing with others', including understanding their expectations.

I guess the older I've gotten, the more value i've gained from just listening.
The compiler developers hangout there (or IRC) and you likely get help within minutes.
Every version bump includes patches for serious security vulnerabilities. You should reconsider your decision to pin to version 91.
At least in the UK I don't think most people care about the tech of their house (air conditioning, certainly not network cabling) like this.
Exactly this. Makes no sense for a single desktop computer, but when you have a huge room filled with servers, it's a lot more efficient to pump cooling water around than blowing a huge amount of air around. Also air cooling a rack full of equipment is getting more and more difficult as power densities increase, which is one of the main motivations of going to liquid cooling.
True for the older models but the new ones switch off after a certain time
Once we're outside a formal academic setting, the way to start learning is to start learning.

The first high hurdle is accepting that starting out everything (to a first approximation) is over our heads.

There's no perfect first resource because hard subjects are hard and take time.

But because we are out of school, we have decades to learn.

There's no final in sixteen weeks and only a pop-quiz tomorrow if we are in the middle of applying what we learned.

So just start learning math and figure out what works for you as you go along.

Good luck.
Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn’t ‘ready for primetime’ (2021)
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ ?

From this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31507082
They probably don’t have enough power to do this. Inter-corporation politics get pretty nasty.
Points #3 and #4 seem to be arguing that regulation is the problem here.

In the UK, developers aren't allowed to build a new development (of >5 [some areas] or >10 dwellings [everywhere]) without providing sufficient affordable housing. This is usually a mixture of shared ownership properties and affordable rent properties (which must be no more than 80% of market rent, incl charges) which must be built alongside the other dwellings.

Is this a thing in the United States? If not, why not?

> there is no epidemic of fire deaths in older buildings that are not equipped with state-of-the-art sprinkler systems

For someone from the UK, where we experienced the Grenfell tower tragedy just a few years ago - and where experts have testified that sprinklers would've absolutely helped to prevent fire deaths (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41230521), this argument comes across as so short-sighted and stupid it's not even funny. Skimping on fire safety measures is not the answer.
I'll leave this here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch16-00-concurrency.html
I have seriously been considering moving to Europe given the rise of fascism in the US. What does the immigration process look like for an American?
So, basically the tubes only exist to glow. And to disable the circuit when they're removed. Clever.

I'm not surprised. Most of the cheap devices containing tubes I see use a starved plate design, where the tubes are operating well below their ideal range, use a LED for "lightning" (because there's often no AC power to light up the tube filaments), all coupled with $1 reject tubes. Sure, it distorts very easily, so they can be used on music making, but so would a pair of diodes. This is just the next step in the evolution.
This is nice! And the timing is perfect for my purifier to complain about the second filter that I’ve so far
> Remember folks, it's politics season. If it reads like a hit piece, ask yourself why someone would want this published now.

Because Elon Musk has been particularly noisy and attention-seeking lately, with the Twitter acquisition drama?
The ups and downs of automated code checking software
It'd be perfectly reasonable to mandate that for one high value luxury house, a developer has to build a certain number of affordable homes. I guess it'd be the nimbys that would try and prohibit such legislation.
That quote is disingenuous. Do people really think that...

* Jeff Dean, lead of Google's AI division, wrote a paper with all that complexity to get SOTA on CIFAR-10?

* Jeff Dean, whose salary is sometimes estimated as $3m/y and is responsible for the direction of research of many more, is unreasonable for using <$60k of compute at public pricing, and less than that at internal pricing?

* going from a 0.6% error rate to a 0.57% error rate is reasonably summarized as ‘a 0.03% improvement’, ignoring both that it's a 5% reduction in error and that such improvements get harder as you approach (or exceed) the label accuracy of the dataset?

* the accuracy from this paper came purely from scale?
Thanks, there was an error in the docs, public methods that are watching an attribute should be `def name(self, value, old_value, attr)`. "attr" is the name of the attribute that has changed. Fixed!
One unique Firefox feature I love that I don't see talked about often is how awesome Firefox's address bar suggestions are. I can type just a snippet of a URL or a web page title and it'll instantly show me all matching URLs I've visited, whether on my desktop or on my phone. It's become my primary second brain for finding Google docs, or articles I've read, or GitHub issues. It's usually only a few characters before it finds exactly what I want.

Eg I type in "Ed"? It shows the URL to my "editions in solr" GitHub issues I've been working on recently. I vaguely recall an article I read months ago on CSS grid? I type "grid guide" and bam it's the first suggestion. The spreadsheet I made about user languages? "sheets lang". That vague API I can never remember the parameters to? Just type "/query.json?" And I get all my previous requests as examples!

I find Chrome's address bar has been way less reliable and much more frequently just gives me Google autocomplete suggestions -- even when I know that I visited a URL recently that should match!
It sounds like you're expectation of how Ukraine would do, is very different from that which Putin was planning on, or he would have prepared his people for a long and grueling conflict. To me, it looks a lot like GWB's perspective headed into the Iraq war, expecting it to be quick and easy with few casualties.

Even if/when Russia defeats the Ukrainian military (a big "if" at this point), they would have an ongoing problem trying to govern it, or prop up a more (to them) suitable government. It is difficult to picture a successful outcome for them at this point, if Ukraine decides to keep fighting.
I'm not saying there will be a scandal, I'm saying they won't leave assets sitting around the way people seem to want a model stablecoin to.

Fractional reserve banking isn't a scandal, it is routine business.
It is an attack. It's blaming a situation based off of someones politics. People are conservatives too and when they are talked about like that, they feel blamed or almost like they're being observed like creatures in a zoo.

The person who responded to you interpreted that way and to me it also reads that way. Simply bringing up politics is often an attack and depending on the context it may be relevant, but in this case I don't see any relevancy. Lots of people hate SF who lived there and this is independent of the media.

Even Fox news doesn't always report lies. Sure they have strong bias and tend to twist reality and exaggerate situations but their objective is political, not to simply just "lie." If a story aligns with their politics then when they report it, it's basically reporting the truth.

In this case the whole communism thing is an exaggeration, but it is an aspect of the truth that lots of people hate SF.

There's just no need bring up Fox or the conservative media here. Better to offer your opinion on the matter because a good number of people who hate SF are actually liberal and moderate as well.
Talend Studio?

https://www.talend.com/products/talend-open-studio/
Put another way though, the failure rate was decreased from 0.6 to 0.57 or a 5% reduction. That's pretty significant. If you can reduce LASIK failure rate by 5%, that would provide a ton of value although you would be talking about an absolute improvement of 0.001% in success rate.

I agree that the improvements we are seeing are increasingly due to simply spending more time/money/power but that quip is probably the weakest argument. I would have liked to have seen a Fermi calculation where the power used during training is only 1% (or probably much less) of the total power used. The other thing that reeks naivety is basically the world takes a lot of compute. Much more money and compute is wasted on Candy Crush for instance.
The universe is not uniform/isotropic at large scales
Boat engines with direct seawater cooling are definitely a thing. Usually only on the cheapest and nastiest engines, better ones definitely have a separate heat exchanger.
Denmark to install world’s largest wind turbines