skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't generally understand how statistical metrics are supposed to work. The whole point of statistics is to give you reasonable expectations for the possibilities of a space that is both full of variation but well-explored based on what particulars you know already. The problem is that most people don't realize the arithmetic mean is intended to give you the expectations associated with not knowing essentially anything. It's the map you give a stranger in a strange land (am I using that reference right? I haven't actually read the book yet); the way I explain how to get somewhere in my hometown to a family member isn't just not the same as the way I would to somewhere near my new job, but runs a worryingly high chance of making things less clear than if they just tried to do it themselves (well, at least, before the days of google maps. Why does technology have to be so good at ruining metaphors?). When you have, or will have, information, working without it is just asking to get tripped up. This the brilliance of the adjustable cockpits example: The Air Force leadership assumed they couldn't set cockpits to fit their pilots because they didn't currently know which pilot would fly which plane, forgetting that no plane takes off in the Air Force without the leadership telling a particular pilot to get in a particular plane. Once they adopted the life-like "What do I know about Y given what I (will) know about X" approach over the card-table-like "What do I know about Y given I can't know anything about X", seemingly untouchable problems immediately resolved out almost on their own.

We see this immediately and intuitively from the great conditional graph in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958102
I'd certainly be interested in hearing the story behind that.

Personally, I have no use for Clojure, myself, and, thus, no opinions on the project, or its participants; other than to sincerely wish them well, and success in their endeavors.

Because Clojure (as a specific project) is not something that I use, my opinion of the tool has no bearing on whether or not it is a good tool, or on its creators/community. I completely recognize and accept that my opinion of the tool and its creators is absolutely worthless.

So, I'm best off, keeping my mouth shut on the tool and its creators. I can live with that.

Since this was linked on the front page of HN, and seems to have remained up for four years, I can comment on what it says, in a very limited fashion, as there are a couple of things that resonate with me.

In my case, I'm the original author of a fairly important infrastructure tool, that has been completely taken over, and is being maintained, by a new team of highly capable individuals. I'm barely even a footnote on the project, and that suits me just fine. I pop into the Facebook group for the project, from time to time, and spew up a little historical anecdote, as a trivia exercise.

But I started writing that project in 2008, and released it in 2009. I then had to shepherd, maintain, evangelize, and defend the project for ten years, in a sizable community of, for lack of a better word, trolls. The project was meant to help them, and Serve their needs. Getting them to accept and embrace the tool was ... challenging. I was met with suspicion, hostility, entitled demands, condescension, hostile takeover attempts, insults, attacks of various types, etc.

Ahhh ... fun times.

But in the end, it worked out.

One of the reasons that I have all but walked away from the tool, is that ten years of keeping the pot boiling was exhausting. A lot of other stuff didn't get done, while I was working on that, and I had to hold myself back, in many ways. I also made a number of interpersonal mistakes, while evangelizing/defending the project, and learned some harsh, humbling, lessons about myself, and about others.

I am eternally grateful to the team that took the project over. I am sure that it is not their idea of a "perfect tool," but it gave them an excellent baseline, and they have extended it, far beyond my initial vision. It now Serves thousands and thousands of people daily. I was also able to soak up a lot of the bullets for them. I'm a pretty tough old coot, and knew what I was signing up for (I am intimately familiar with the target demographic). Now that it's an established project, and some of the new team are quite respected in the community, it is being treated well.

All that, to say, that I was tempted to write a manifesto like this, numerous times, but decided that it would only make things worse.

I think, in my case, that was a good decision.
I once attended an experiment where soldiers were trialling a new CIS system. An officer asked how it was going. A soldier replied “the fucking thing is fucking fucked, sir”. It was a succinct statement aimed at a senior decision maker and the trial was halted ten minutes later.
Society in general, and often an authority in particular. For example if you were a radio broadcaster, your employer might warn you about using particular words:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
You haven't explained anything unsaid in this thread, including by me, but merely completely ignored my argument that there are far more hazards with electronics than merely fatal electrocution.
Erm, reusing is more effective than building a new computer from scratch. New chips are not environmentally friendly to make, use large amount of pure water, etc...

related article from a few years ago about the Z400:

https://boilingsteam.com/gaming-on-a-cheap-xeon-the-hp-z400-...
Fascinating. "Deprank is particularly useful when converting an existing JavaScript codebase to TypeScript. Performing the conversion in strict PageRank order can dramatically increase type-precision, reduce the need for any and minimizes the amount of rework that is usually inherent in converting large codebases." I wonder if the idea of using pagerank style systems for ~refactoring translate to other domain; e.g. organizational or knowledge refactoring (ala https://aviv.medium.com/when-we-change-the-efficiency-of-kno... )
Honest question - who cares? Who cares about this app, much less the color of their logo?
The introduction of the 30 yr mortgage made homes "more affordable" but then eventually became an enabler of still higher prices; both at closing and over the lifetime of the loan (i.e., total cost).

What's to say 50 yr won't do the same? Unless supply is going to be seriously addressed, this is simply another gov New Coke program. First sip tastes good and then it degrades over time to the point it needs to be euthanized.

But a 50 yr "sure thing"? What banker won't love that? Nice job Boris.
Bicycle Handlebars
Prokaryote or eukaryote? A unique microorganism from the deep sea (2012)
I pay 34c/kWh and likely more in the future. No thanks.
Alas, because you have not heard of them, does not mean your local police have not heard of them (they are probably using them already - even if you have astonishingly low gun crime in Europe, making the exercise a pointless waste of money).

In Europe, companies selling to the police are extremely discrete and generally keep a hyper low profile, particularly when selling technology (dubious or otherwise). These deals generally work by 'befriending' politicians who can instruct police to purchase and that's all back-room type of stuff.

Generally, it's when a politician wants credit by claiming some success in reducing/detecting crime that these things get any press. The publicity focuses not on the company, but on the genius nature of the politicians decision making.
Ask HN: What is the best way to get access to a LLM?
I want to get access to one of the leading LLMs. I am not picky which one. What is the best way to get access?
Previous discussion here, linked to original research report:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867921

As an aside, university press releases are probably the worst source of information on new research reports, they're almost always one-sided puff pieces comparable to corporate press releases promoting some new product.
Personally,.I would much prefer my odds as an adult in a lead poisoning/fire situation than a similar li-po situation. Going with the more complex battery is basically choosing a future of experimental medicine over treatments with long and successful track records.
> Yes, that was before we manufactured fertilizer. If that invention didn't exist, this number absolutely wouldn't be sustainable.

Hence proving the fact that we have no good insight of the future.
EU sanctions against Russia seems to punish the EU citizens much more than they ever did Russia.
Decentralising E-Commerce
Hi guys!

I'm 18 years old and starting my second business called Metacom Platforms.

Our mission is to remove the borders between the brand and the market, to align their values and incentives.

Metacom will function as a digital platform decentralising the e-commerce market where products will be opened up for co-creation and co-ownership using blockchain technology.

Think of it as a combination of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. For example, if a brand decides to release a new product collection they'll be able to put out a very basic version of it on the platform for their market. If the product is something the market finds value in they could purchase an NFT representing an ownership share of that product collection. That NFT will also result in a dividends per sale in real time using blockchain. Since the owner of the NFT is a co-owner of the product collection they can be a part of the product development.

This will reduce the brands risk and increase the brands efficiency by raising the financial resources needed to develop the product after a proof-of-concept from the market. Meaning much less risk for the brand to release the product whilst not needing as much resources to develop more products. Using this platform a brand can release way more products per quarter because of a larger pool of creativity and financial resources.

The vision is for our commerce to go beyond the existing one. Beyond commerce, meta commerce.

Anyways, any feedback on the business model or business concept is very much appreciated!

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A happy paying Feedly user ever since Google Reader shut down. I find it great.

I'm also a paying Dropbox customer and they keep nagging about Dropbox for Business and _that_ I find annoying.
Well I don't know about most people but to speak for myself I mostly write high performance network servers, databases and queues and in my world concurrency (if not parallelism) is strictly necessary. For me it's also not a recent development or a fad, it's been this way my entire ~15ish year career.

I imagine folks writing Web software, UIs and heavy desktop applications will also benefit from these developments but those areas are out of my core expertise so I can't speak to exactly how useful structured concurrency will be for them however I can see very clear applications for my domain.
It very much depends on the context. As an advocate of free speech rights I believe the only justification for legally penalising speech is when it is incitement to violence or criminality. Speech being offensive is no good reason to penalise it legally, otherwise it's no freedom at all.

However social groups and independent forums or publishers should be free to set their own editorial standards. Nobody (acting in their private capacity, that is not as a government employee) should have any obligation to repeat, distribute or publish the speech of others that they disagree with.
usury rampant

you will own nothing, and you'll like it
See also the 1996 original paper by Tridgell (also of Samba fame) and Mackerras:

* https://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/

* https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/c...
Is it swearing, though, or just occasionaly very offensive?
Does that imply "shmod" for chmod?
Millions of people use Mastodon.
There's been some life in the engineered timber space recently.

Hopefully some exciting (and sustainable) new architectural possibilities lie around the corner.
By analogy, you are telling a mathematics professor that "2 + 2 = 4".

EDIT: It wasn't me that was downvoting you FYI, but go ahead and down vote me. :)
> The Xorg developers who tried really hard for...

You misunderstand. Wayland development started in 2008. Screenshots/recording should have been on the board from day one and they could have gotten to standardizing on how to handle them in oh 2013-2015?

The sin is not the extra complexity to secure the system. It's having first zero then more than one way to go about it and 13 years later ending up in the situation where some utilities support only X and some only some Wayland implementations. It's the sin of forcing your users to rip out the walls and stare at the plumbing.

What other OS makes you think about display servers?

Red Hat doesn't believe in the Linux ecosystem and it shows they believe in their ecosystem with a singular official GUI and unfortunately an ecosystem in which one is required to use only their tools is a mostly mediocre one because they are best in class in nothing and worst in class in many.
If I saw the cost per wear on some of my shoes I think i’d lock my credit card in a safe.
I'm not paying for TTRSS. I'm donating to SDF[0], which is free, but I'm paying to keep them sustainable. They added TTRSS to the services they offer, so I moved there. I can clone and install TTRSS[1] to a VPS of mine in 20 minutes, but I'm lazy.

> You are a hamster trying to be converted. That’s the point of the free tier.

I don't think so. Trello's free tier is usable. GitLab and GitHub's free tiers are usable, Pocket's free tier is usable. I'm paying to many services which I can use freely and get things done, and I pay for the highest tier I can make use of and fits my budget, but Feedly's take is esp. bad about their paid tier and nagging.

The problem is not presence of paid tier. It's how it's presented to you. I can pay for feedly, but I don't need the features me, and they were so pushy that it put me off.

[0]: https://www.sdf.org

[1]: https://tt-rss.org/
You mean the security gates? Those don't use NFC, at least I've never seen one that does. EAS systems are old technology and that also means they're usually dirt cheap. Perhaps there would be some niche use for NFC, but I can't think of one.
It's amazing how well broken sword 5 captured the art style of the earlier games, compared to return of monkey island.
> "What is bad language? Who decides?"

And then who gets the privilege of goin' back and keeping all these silly censor lists up to date everywhere when the standard of "acceptable words" changes? And how to handle "regional" curses? All just sounds like more hassle than it's worth to me.
No matter how connected it is a $1T total market cap (at it's peak) is just not large enough to matter. If it goes to zero it goes to zero, no large financial institutions will shed a tear other than for whatever fat fees they were making selling crypto derivatives to their whale clients.
You're not wrong if your only calculation is my power usage rather than the roundtrip of making the new chips and the new computer. There's a reason it's reduce, reuse and recycle. Reduce the amount of junk. Reuse existing junk. If neither work, then dispose of.
RadioShack reinvents itself as a crypto platform with wild tweets
@ohgodplsno (edit, and now @jpgvm's) have good answers grounded in a specific scenario which really makes their point well, but yours worries me.

>> But should they be writing highly concurrent software, without thinking bloody hard first I mean?

> Yes, by necessity.

So we should not think about it first, just do it?

And not consider whether there are better solutions such as checking we're using the right algos or cache-aligning our accesses or using a probabilistic filter before hitting the DB or..

Edit: no offense intended, the original question was meant as a rhetorical device to warn against dumbness and bandwaggoning. I am sure you too would not plough in unthinkingly but I'm afraid our industry's reaction is too often to do just that and it's such an expensive mistake, repeated over and over.
It's a thoughtless jumping ahead that will lead to slower software, not faster. And buggier.
The first-order reason the current regime funds education is that it is a pork-barrel jobs program (especially for college-educated women). The second-order reason is that the regime is mostly staffed by religious adherents to state-secularism, and the public education system is their pulpit.

And no, I'm not irritated - I don't think there's an efficient way to have a worthwhile discussion about someone's religious beliefs over the internet without coming across as slightly hostile. Apologies.
That's just replacing their anecdotes with your anecdotes. Why not look at actual data, which is likely to tell you that crime has plunged everywhere since the 80s.
Another great resource from Tridgell himself is this Ottawa Linux Symposium talk: http://olstrans.sourceforge.net/release/OLS2000-rsync/OLS200...
I've done this but from jiffyshirts.com. I usually would purchase the Gildan brand but they would end up shrinking overtime. Which is better, 3 shirts at $3 that shrink overtime or 1 shirt at $15 ?

I think the key is to find something that is not 100% cotton but rather 50% cotton/50% polyester. Looking at the material difference between the shirts I've purchased, the Gildan heather colors are 50/50 where as the the other colors are either 100% cotton or 90/10. By comparison, the Dickies heavyweight and Carhartt heavyweight are 50/50 and 60/40 material.
more energy to achieve things

What things though? It is mostly materialistic, isn't it? We are more comfortable than ever. We can talk to a person on the other side of the planet anytime we want. Yet, we don't know our neighbors. More people are lonely, more people are single etc. We live longer today, yet my generation seems less happy than my parents' generation. When I was a 10 year old, I played outside all day. Can you imagine letting your 10 year old by himself, outside the house, all day today? We can't even be sure kids are safe in schools (though this particular problem is just American one).

On one side, we are relentlessly moving ahead, mostly materialistic. Fantastic communication tools, medical equipment etc. On the other side, people are obese, unhappy, unhealthy (mentally and physically).

We can't even a significant portion of the people accept that climate change issues are real and maybe slightly alter their lifestyle (eat less meat, less dairy, use less plastic...). How are you proposing to achieve any kind of cooperation between people when the population keeps going up?
Perhaps because it’s a joke font that’s not supposed to be taken seriously?
As bad as "toot" was, I still think it's better than "truth".
Not that far away from permanent rentals owned by the state, where you gain whatever equity is added while you temporarily control it. Then you pass the rental off to the next person. Your max monthly payment is a calculation based on your income which declares the highest rental you can afford.
I think the supply of people willing to pay $11,000 for a randomly generated nothing (e.g. NFT) is actually pretty low relative to the full market potential of randomly generated worthless assets.
George Carlin was a comedy super-hero.
Just for clarification:

Do you mean "offensive" as in people's feelings, or as in the antonym of "defensive"?
>You are not entitled to this explanation.

The rest of the post would be good if not for this crack that lets the rot in.
Yours is definitely not the case I was disputing.
Node-Tor
Germany. I know this because I pay the same.
A recent discussion on HN [1] got me to reading Nick Lane's fascinating book, "The Vital Question." The book discusses (among other points) the origin of eukaryotes, and the mystery of why they have come to be only once in the history of life on earth.

The epilogue to the book was about the discovery of a single-celled organism in hydrothermal vents in the Pacific that could have been a true "missing link" - the formation of a new eukaryotic cell in progress. Unfortunately only once specimen was recovered - and then used up during prep for electron-microscopy - so its genome could not be sequenced.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31789045
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parakaryon_myojinensis
I am an internist in the US. It's the same here. I would never call the surgeon without an image. They would (rightly) refuse to operate without visual confirmation of gallbladder inflammation and/or a stone. Usually I wouldn't get an MRCP unless there was specific reason to suspect cholangitis. My first test would be ultrasound for right upper quadrant pain or CT for poorly localized pain.
It looks like he wore about 64 unique items in a year. Excluding two pairs of shoes. That seems like a lot?
I'd go for a SFF workstation, You can get a CPU with a passmark above 8,000 to idle under 10w for the whole system.

We decommissioned a dual xeon setup after realizing it was sucking over 200w while doing nothing. YMMV.
I wonder if that only works on checkpoints/ places where masses of vehicle get checked, I don't think it would work if you the only one getting pulled out(atleast ime in Baden-Württemberg), drinking suspicions haven't been more than "have u had smth to drink? "+l and if suspicion is high enough a "where have you been/where you going to ", never breathalyzers

But cannabis, wrong hair style+ couple younger people in car= did u smoke? "No "well we will make sure of that ourself"
Those shafts are somewhat old & running out of steam. The next door shaft is still producing a bit more but you can see the same trend in the numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauTona_Mine
> this font has failed to censor a single horrifically racist or homophobic slur that I've tried, these words are much more universally taboo in every culture

How to say you’re from the US without saying you’re from the US
I'm just using Thunderbird for RSS feeds
I find it tells me more about the person complaining than the thing they're complaining about
Well for Texans they could just break into Mexico over the border and get an abortion there as it was legalised in Mexico in 2021. Ironic I know. But the whole prospect of border patrols/checks noting who is pregnant enterying Mexico and suddenly not upon return is an aspect that may well come to pass.
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear: the last paragraph quoting the current conditions for using the VIIRS Nightfire data, where as you correctly note the conditions of use are similar, is a change that happened afterwards. I should have written “Meanwhile in USA, things have changed: ...”.

During the years when I worked on the Oil Spill Monitor and Gas Flare tracker, from 2013 to 2019, NOAA gave the data completely without conditions: anyone could go to the Suomi-NPP website and just download the CSV files without login or anything else, and not just the current one (the satellite does one pass per night over the whole world) but also historic data.

Now things have converged, and your statement that "ESA is just as open as NASA" is, at least when comparing the Sentinel vs. the VIIRS Nighfire data, absolutely correct.
Using the data actually provided, and the context in which it is provided, it is a failure of management to drive the issue toward resolution. Ownership and responsibility were unclear "for days" (or perhaps longer), while even the person responsible for ensuring things move forward was not doing so.

At the minimum, "leading instead of participating" would have ensured that there was a clear answer to, "What is the very next step, and who is responsible for taking it?"

Several replies want to "what if" this scenario speculatively for some reason instead of engaging with the author's point, which is as fine a demonstration as any of why directionless chatter is a problem that leadership should overcome.