skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, if it really were a reality that we all observed, there would be no harm whatsoever in saying the quiet part out loud. This "trolling" is literally just interrogating the argument that's been presented. The only reason to fear it is that your conclusion won't hold up unless the reasoning that lead you to it is concealed.

Let's say that one really does have a point, that would stand on it's own if you were more explicit, and someone asks you to elaborate on why you came to that conclusion. What exactly do you lose by doing so? What rhetorical ground has your interlocutor gained? What is the proposed mechanism of this supposed bad faith tactic?

The only possible answer I can see is, "a moment of your time," which is pretty unconvincing. If you don't think the question is worth your time, fine, don't answer it. But there's no scenario where answering it harms your argument, but you still had a solid argument.

It's just that people disagree with you about what is supposedly self evident and real.
Always celebrating the "free market" but suddenly it's not so free anymore. Ok, not so suddenly. They US even pressure manufacturers like ASML to not export their high-end machines to China. I wonder what kind of leverage they have.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/us_expands_efforts_to...
When you cannot find the origin of the bug try to isolate a problem as much as possible. By isolation I mean remove as much code as possible but at the same time reproduce the bug. After start debugging. That way you can end up debuging smaller code and concentrate your attention on smaler piece of the code.
I don't have any trouble at all with the zippers on my 3 backpacks, but they're all Ospreys so that might make a difference. They all get a lot of abuse.
Cool. I honestly expected we'd get here before VR, so that was a surprise.
Lol. For sure. It's in the profile, enjoy
> What was the nationality of Akbar/Aurangzeb is a simple question.

Wikipedia’s article on “nationality” [0] defines it as follows:

> Nationality is a legal identification of a person in international law, establishing the person as a subject, a national, of a sovereign state. It affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state against other states.

So, which sovereign state had jurisdiction over them? The Mughal Empire. Hence, their nationality was Mughal.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality
I thought the point of having teams in Olympic events was to be able to make strategic decisions like this
I have a pair of kahkis from Banana Republic that have a touchy zipper. If I unzip too far, it is difficult to get the zipper back up. This has caused me significant consternation in public bathrooms! They probably cost around $60, with an MSRP 30% higher.
Which would also have nothing to do with "sexualization and commodification".
They probably have a way to deploy it to you locally if you have 400GB blobs and money.
Pictures alone are pretty low bandwidth with good compression. While the concept sounds cool, I don't see any immediate application for it. For long distance communication (/interplanetary) it's a problem of latency, not bandwidth. However, transmitting moderate/large length high-res video clips from prompts could be interesting, probably magnitude more efficient than existing compression algorithms.
An Inconvenient Apocalypse – new book on the climate crisis
In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, authors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen write that society needs to be better prepared for an inevitable collapse.
Sign me up, if you can get my 5% returns with same liquidity as money market funds.
How is that person going to link your name with your nude picture taken by a stranger?
If your proposal is to make all grant applications blind with respect to grant writer information, it is an idea that has a lot of unintended side effects. Firstly, not every field, in fact, most fields are not Math or CS by definition. It is certainly the most popular in this crowd, especially these days, but without proper facilities most of science cannot be done. So, making an application for grant anonymous, you have dramatically increased the risk of nothing useful coming out of the proposal. A talented independent grant writer (who may or may not be a great scientist) now has a much higher chance of getting the award. But if he doesn't have the ability to execute that great idea the project will fail. Most often idea is aspirational with no detail, the breakthrough comes in only during execution. Execution requires a team and facilities. This is why things like MURI (multi-univeristy-research-initiative) were created. Also, a lot of the grants are earmarked for early career researchers, without a lot of experience in proposal writing, which also will go away if the awards are anonymous. I am sure there are other points I am missing and also there may be ways to remove the shortcomings, but I don't see a clean and easy path forward with this.

As for math and CS, I am quite positive at least in Math most work is done by individual professors/post-docs/students without much involvement of grants. In fact, a lot of universities do reduce the overhead charged to purely intellectual pursuit with no major facilities usage kind of departments. Not sure all math or cs research will qualify for that because of the HPC requirements, but the option is out there. Universities as signals for funding and research success really appears to me like the best of a bad option set.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvqm/an-ai-generated-artwo...

Okay, well it's winning art competitions.
What the author meant by innovation seems to be limited to world-changing innovation like the telephone or internet. Following that, I’m unsure if world-changing innovation is slowing down primarily because of the talkocracy. The issue is not exactly about innovation slowing down because of X or Y, but as more and more innovations are made, the time needed to get to the next innovation will potentially increase. Each innovation introduces yet another complexity we need to handle, and unless we can keep up with the new complexity on top of the current set of complexities, we’ll just have to contend with the slowness.

It’s possible at some point that the complexity is too big, no amount of talkocracy purge can allow us to replicate the innovation speed of the past.
Wow ... an instruction manual for how not to demo!

Oh, I think a useful looking color change flashed there in that transition. Or did my eyes deceive me?

This is like some dude convincing you he can fight by spinning things around your head in some martial-artsy way.
Athletes don't train to make the Olympics so their nation can take home the most medals, they're there as individual competitors. The Olympics aren't really presented as some large metagame, it's about the actual athletics.
> I've never HATED a technology the way I hate Drupal, before or since.

Did you ever work with Magento 1? :)
Slightly annoying that the share button will only link back to the random viewer rather than give the real google coordinates. Is this something one must use the developer console to rip out?
Thank you HN for your encouragement and support over the years:

This was the push we needed to start working full-time on Typesense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22181437
Here's another: Email addresses must have at least one dot.

There are MX records at the apex of .ai, so postmaster@ai probably works.
> Winning time 3:28:53

For comparison, Eliud Kipchoge’s world record from 2018 is 2:01:39 and his unofficial best is 1:59:40.

You probably won’t see that kind of improvement in marathon times again in your lifetime.
SQL is one of the few technologies that I first learned ~1999 at the very start of my career which is still useful to me on a daily basis today.
I don’t understand the point you’re making. Zenly could be readily sold for $500M?
Source? I’d like to go look.
I’m not sure what you mean by safety driver, but F1 is explicitly a team sport, and team orders are a part of the sport rather than a form of cheating. As much as the fans like to complain about it, there’s only really a few controversial cases that stand out in peoples memories, like the multi 21 race (which ultimately had 0 impact on the championship).
The In-Between: What made Rilke great?
Somebody made millions of dollars by rigging the olympics like this. Sports betting on dozens of off-shore locations.

Really crazy how much influence some people have.
That’s very kind of you. Thanks for the support!
I am not sure what exactly the thought process is here? So NVIDA is losing Chinese market, probably for the foreseeable future. Chinese are one step away from figuring out this technology anyway, if not already. They will not trust us again. It makes them less dependent on us. Oh, and we still need their manufacturing because of the labor costs, environmental issues, regulations and now, energy costs. How would this work exactly? I know it has been done during the Cold War I, but the world looks very different today.
What would be left? They wouldn't be able to access social media or google. That might not sound so bad to me, but I doubt most children or parents would be happy with that. Not if they want some way for kids to have meaningful access to the internet and also prevent companies from collecting their kid's data. Not that California's law would even do that, but it's how they're selling it to people.
I'm in the same camp, I've been collecting old golden-age science fiction books for a whole (with plenty of others as well along the way.) my wife enjoys the same so we regularly acquire bags of books. Road-trip holidays are the worst :)

I think it's worth understanding that the joy of collecting is the collectors reward. Collections have little actual value [1] and you should understand that when you are gone your collection will vanish, likely for no money. The cost of sorting it, cataloging, selling etc is too high.

The best person to enjoy your collection is you, and the best time is now. Collecting is fun, not work. Have fun, don't worry about the collection's future, and assume it will all be burned.

[1] if you think you have value, you need to sell the valuable parts yourself before you pass. You can't expect some family member to figure out which 10 of your 1000 books are worth money.

Ideally I hope to sell the whole collection to another collector one day. He will get it really cheap. I recently bought 120 books from someone, sight unseen. He took half what I offered. I'm still working my way through them.

I love that era because most of it was rubbish, but there are hidden gems. Frankly I get pleasure from most of the rubbish as well. It's like watching old B movies.

So if you have a bunch of old sci-fi books to sell, going to a good home, for little money, drop a note here and we'll figure out how to get in touch :)
Why they do this can be only guessed, but it is a fact that SMIC has made chips using a 7 nm FinFET CMOS process very similar to the TSMC 7 nm process.

This has been discovered by studying with an electron microscope some samples of ASICs made at SMIC for crypto mining.

This story has been reported in a large number of publications and it is possible to buy a detailed report with the result of the investigations about the secret 7 nm process of SMIC.

Because of the similarities with the TSMC process, and because it is known that SMIC has hired former TSMC employees, it is believed that SMIC might have copied various parts of the TSMC process, which could be a reason to not bragg about it.

However such copying is not as simple as non-specialists may believe. I have worked in semiconductor manufacturing, and even if you have all the details about how a technological process is done in another plant, when using other equipment you will not be able to reproduce the results without a lot of tweaking and changes.

Having stolen information about how the competition does it is helpful and it can shorten a lot the development time, but it cannot replace the need for a team of competent engineers, able to develop such a process by themselves, even if in a longer time.
You can train a cat to hit different buttons that play different sounds to mean different messages.
“OODA loop" also can be applied here:

- Observe

- Orient

- Decide

- Act
Reserved ports are a good idea, but just blanket "everything under 1024 is for root" is a broken solution, there should be some configuration where you pick individual ports to reserve for specific users - port 80/443 are only for the nginx user, etc
> differentiable Monte Carlo

it could depend on downstream task, is it differentiable or not. Ray tracing of convex textures is likely differentiable, win/loss function for a given chess move maybe not.
Noosa? Of all the nude beaches in the world, the single one I know about and have been to is (at least presumably) referenced.
I do love the irony that these decentralized systems often end up with the problems they were trying to solve. A trusted third party is the opposite of a decentralized system, and this service could be provided by any FAANG.
this is terrible advice given by someone that doesn't understand why privileged ports exist.
Related:

Show HN: Random Street View - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130192 - Jan 2014 (166 comments)
I started not watching because of, I think, some IOC related scandal. Eventually I forgot why I was boycotting it or whatever and just realized I wasn't interested anymore.
Perhaps Google had this in mind as they embarked on their Intel Management Engine workaround, dubbed "NERF": https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-NERF-UEFI-Linux
Why?

It's just one example of free speech not being absolute. Violent threats, defamatory statements, incitement to riot are a few other examples of non-protected speech.
The Other Electric Vehicle: E-Bikes Gain Ground for Americans
No.
They are used because you can decide Best of N players in N-1 games.
They are used in sports where the games are long, exhausting (a single player can play only a few of them in short time) and needs a non-trivial infrastructure (think tennis court vs chess board)
Banana republic does not sell quality clothing. Cheap construction, priced for branding.
The passwordless password manager is coming
sigh - dropped me into a pleasant sunny pre-war Kviv
The whole thing is a mess. I remember trying to make a Postgres email address column and wanted to do make sure it can do comparisons either way, then found this stackoverflow post that shattered my expectations of a clean well understood problem: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/68266/what-is-the-be...
Packj sandbox for “safe installation” of PyPI/NPM/Rubygems packages
> stroke 4x and of heart failure more than 10x

Can we have a statistical analysis for the lockdowns and curfews? Do incitations at being a couch potato have an impact on life expectancy?
Cool idea! But I also noticed a lack of support for 32 bit RasPis in many situations. What's a pity for sustainability, since there are still so many old RasPis out there.
Wasm could close the gap here and keep the effort for small projects low to support that platform.
Now we only need Wasm runtimes that are running properly on ARMv6.
A100? Huh. Russia has just stopped issuing biometric passports because of chip shortage and for new credit cards they have been cutting out and reusing chips from existing cards.
Celebration of excellence, yes. Just not personal excellence. The ancient Olympic games were already used as a political tool to assert dominance among Greek city-states. One of the points of the games since ancient Greece has been for the winning city-state to say “look, I can train my soldiers to be this good. You don’t want to mess with me.”
My understanding of many shared hosting providers is that they effectively 'jail' your ftp access to your specific directory and then probably use permissions in some form to prevent php/ruby/etc accessing out of that directory.

Do shared hosts support node now? I havent used a shared host since I learned PHP, but given the effective difference in how node scripts are ran vs php/RoR/etc, it seems like that would end up complicated

Edit: Quick google answered my last question - shared hosting providers that also support nodejs tend to do so via vps
Looks really cool, but this needs a frontend and csv uploader for people without panda knowledge to use, people with pandas knowledge this is abstraction.
Most of the overhead goes towards admins. But it is also important to remember that many universities have multi-billion dollar endowments. It's been explained to me that "I don't know what endowments are for" when I've pointed out that my (not top 10) university could indefinitely pay for all US student tuition (and 90% of foreign) on the interest of our endowment at a 5% yearly growth. So I'm still not sure what endowments are for considering that there are 15 schools with endowments that are over 1m/student. So yeah, I still have no idea what endowments are for.

https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/Endow...
There is no DDoS that's minimally violent. You are right though, not all DDoS attacks are politically motivated.
> stronger by making them more and more like humans, just with far less compute, and weaker learning methods. The notion seems inherently ill-conceived to me.

human brain while may have larger raw compute power comparing to TPU pod has also many bottlenecks, brain works on much slower frequency per current research than 2GHz TPUs, inputs are very bottle-necked, you can't feed brain with 1TB of text in one day like you can do with neural network.
Likewise, I was surprised by the pessimism in this thread surrounding generative art. Humans are extremely visual creatures, yet creating visuals is incredibly difficult. I hope this can drastically increase the number of visual storytelling in the world through the means that you mentioned.
> I was actually with them until

> "In fact, the Kitten installer does just this."

100% agree

> Even if there's a confirmation

There isn't, if your sudo is set up to cache credentials and you have sudo'ed something recently enough [0]:

# Reduce unprivileged ports for this session...
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=80 2>&1 1>/dev/null

It could be polite to `sudo -k` before that, so people who use NOPASSWD sudo (and I guess don't care as much about security on that machine) don't have the speedbump whereas people who would otherwise have to type their password indeed end up typing their password.. but still, this is too much for an installer.

Just print something to stdout, make it red if you want, and include a note in the documentation to the same effect.

While I was looking, I saw this a few lines down:

sudo chmod 0777 "${sysctlConfigurationFilePath}"

sysctl.conf(5) on my system doesn't say anything about what mode bits files in /etc/sysctl.d need to have, but +x is not often used for configuration files. I haven't looked further, but this is a smell.

[0] https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/commit/7ca1f8a4d191f3a81...

[1] https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/commit/7ca1f8a4d191f3a81...
That's a fallacy, similar to claiming driving in a car is safer than flying in a plane because you're more likely to survive a car crash than a plane crash.

It seems you're attempting to suggest that local sports are less harmless than the Olympics, by somehow equating the latter to an increased risk of apocalyptic nuclear war?

Please provide evidence if you're going to make such an outlandish claim. One could just as easily claim (similarly without evidence) that the Olympics actually reduces the tension between nations and reduces the risk of apocalyptic tail events compared to local sports which provide no such relief of international tensions.
Any time I encounter a charting or data visualization library, the first thing I look for is how difficult is it to export the charts to PNG.
In most cases you’ll find out that they require you to install node.js to accomplish that. It will most likely involve rendering the chart using jsdom and then triggering the “click to export” button to generate the PNG file.
This seems like such a convoluted process and I can’t help but feel there must be a much simpler/cleaner way to go about it.

So far, Pygal [0] seems to be one of the few that gets it right in my opinion. The only drawback is that the charts aren’t as “pretty”.

[0] https://www.pygal.org/en/stable/index.html
Just spent three hours debugging a thing that turned out to be a cache issue. I think a big part of the problem is that it's not always obvious that the resource is coming from a cache. Some proxy somewhere is serving old data, but you won't know until you actually compare the data with the origin.
You captured it so well for me. I sat on the porch for a good 15 minutes.

I screenshot a few because I didn't want to lose that moment of sublimeness.
Yes you're right, same kind of issue. Thank you for the link with the detail.
> limited by the lithography machines they can procure

I would consider that a profound hurdle to advancement.

Nvidia has already moved to 5nm (released later this year).
From what I've seen a lack of testability is the problem with most bad architecture. Testability seems to have a high correlation with being understandable.

If gymnastics make the code easier to understand and prove things about, then we should limber up.
I stopped two years ago.
Lockdowns. It’s the only coronavirus we’ve treated by asking everyone to stay home. The impact on being healthy (sports, sun exposure, happiness) is huge.
The domain can also be an ipv6 address with no dot. Really the only thing that can be said is there will be something, an @, and another something.
I started playing Geoguessr’s ranked duels a few months ago and if not for a family vacation to break me free, might have fully disappeared into the game.

Caught myself studying online guides to bollard color and shape by region, what road stripe patterns correspond with each country, the different shapes of the lettering of most major languages… etc.

It’s such a fun way to spend 15-30 minutes a day, and it’s quite easy to see improvement in your skill in a short time.

That being said, watching the pros can be a little discouraging because they’ll even have things like the ridge lines of mountain ranges memorized, it’s insane to watch.
Sixth Month Building an Open Source Startup
I love svn, it puts some constraints on other non technical people. That makes my life easier.
mistakes happen, but holy moly, its amateur hour. a single developer deploying manually without understanding what their tools do, and then a catastrophic panic response.

when there is hundreds of thousands at risk, I struggle to understand how any organization could have been so cavalier about their deployment and incident response processes.
I'd also be worried about a defamation suit if the OP misinterpreted the situation. I mean, if I were a CEO of a struggling "startup" and somebody went around claiming I was scamming investors only because I was doing a bad job at building products, I'd definitely be talking to my lawyers about defamation...
I feel like you do need a bit of rigor, especially because rebases and the like often don't do what you intuitively want, leading to merge conflicts over and over again when trying to clean things up.

Even small stuff like not knowing to enable rerere means that rebases have incidental complexity compared to, for example, outright recreating commits in another spot.

I disagree with most people about mercurial being "better" (I love my staging area), but doing stuff with git in practice can be super duper fiddly. I've found it's much nicer to do the right thing with stuff like magit though. I bet there is a great UI that is yet to be built for most people that makes it easier to do stuff like "updating old commits" or other things that you end up having to do through rebases.
The US does not fab nvidia chips either. Taiwan and Korea do, and to my knowledge neither has yet sanctioned China in this way.