skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> inside a Faraday cage

So taking precautions for a giant solar flare/nuclear bomb EMP causing civilization collapse? Offline Wikipedia is a great recommendation, but I would complement it with prepper literature about survival and rebooting basic technologies. It might give you a guide about what to look for in your Wikipedia. Those books would also help you actually prepare for civilization collapse, because a computer won't keep you alive if there's no clean water or food.

Also, nothing beats community. If civilization collapses, your neighbors will be your best chance for survival, there's lots of weird and valuable knowledge when enough people cooperate, and then your computer would be very helpful.
Those are some incredibly broad and strong statements. What do you mean by professionals? What field? I know plenty academics who often start looking at Wikipedia as a first entry to a topic, and it is not uncommon to cite Wikipedia for example for a common definition. Yes for many things you would not cite Wikipedia because you would rather cite primary sources. That's also why I don't understand your statement about newspapers, there are plenty of fields (e.g. Political science, history) where newspapers magazines are important primary sources. The argument that things change is also week, books change as well so we cite the Edition, similarly you should cite Wikipedia (as well as other online sources) with a retrieval date.
Expectations of professional software engineers
combat? yes? win? no
I was in primary school before the web, and we were either discouraged or forbidden from citing encyclopedias. Tertiary sources, in general, have been discouraged for papers for a long time.
There are two things I would dissent on the statistics. Actually, three.

#1: Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Those numbers will be reliant on industry data, and regulatory agencies that have always wanted to keep the reactors in operation. And can we REALLY get a proper accounting of Chernobyl?

#2: Solid fuel rod waste: it needs to be transported, stored, and all the safety on that is reliant on massive amounts of human faith and they can't forecast all the things that could cause solid fuel waste to be spilled, stolen, lost. Transport requires shutting down infrastructure (like the tunnels on the interstate in colorado).

#3: Humans are necessary to monitor and maintain the safety systems. If a solid fuel rod starts runaway fissions, and the heat skyrockets, recovering from that is hard. Unlike MSRs which have a plug and a cooling pool that automatically compensates for an out of control reaction, no active systems, no human intervention, solid fuel rods require constant active monitoring.

Even if you have the safety systems for real reliable statistics (and how could you know without as good a safety system as the MSR/LFTR plug), solid fuel rod processing, reprocessing transport, safety, lack of scalability will simple never be price competitive with solar/wind/battery. It can't compete with the current prices, and solar/wind/battery is still improving on 5-15% annual improvements.

Obviously that won't continue indefinitely, but the point is that there is NO WAY to predict a stable price to even target for a 10-years-out nuclear project for a gigantic dome solid fuel rod reactor (and you HAVE to go big with solid fuel rod, both by design and for any chance of economics).

But an MSR is much much much more scalable. This BYU one is closet sized, the original ORNL reactor that got politically axed was closet sized. I guess liquid is more "spillable" than solid rods, so it does have that going against it, but still. Very glad to see MSR research.

Now, I'm pretty sure a "scalable" MSR will require as many or more of the headaches of solid rod nuclear waste transport, because I think that you can't compress all the equipment/processes for fission product extraction in a reactor, it would probably require transport to a central processing plant. But it might simply reduce to a "dangerous chemical" problem rather than "dangerous nuclear waste" problem, a distinction that is a political one.

It may be that all fission and fusion research these days is a moot point in the shadow of solar/wind/battery economics, but I think it is valuable and I think there's a place for nuclear in the economy.
So I'm actually British, not American, but I think we largely have similar attitudes towards desiring a house here. I think most European countries do too, really, once you get past a certain age. I'm not sure about how Asians are on average, but most Asians I know would certainly prefer to live in a house if they're past their mid 30s.

There are a few European countries where >50% of people live in flats: Spain for example. In Spain, however, the reason most people say they live in a flat isn't out of preference, it's because houses are too expensive. The other thing to note is that the European countries where flat habitation is popular tend to have interesting reasons behind it. In many cases, it's because they were built during the Soviet era.

I do think those community amenities are valuable, whether people live in houses or flats. I live in London, in an area with quite a good sense of community. I have an allotment, help at the community garden, live next to a very well maintained park, etc. but it really isn't the same as having your own private space. For example with the building stuff, I used to go to a Hackerspace, but I'm getting a lot more done now that I have a bunch of equipment at home. Simply getting things to and from my old Hackerspace was a nightmare without a car. Shared spaces also have rules which may not be compatible with what you're trying to do. My allotment doesn't allow irrigation systems, for example, so my little automated irrigation project in my garden wouldn't go down too well there!

Plus there are all these small things like talking to my neighbours over the wall, being able to easily get my bicycle in and out, not having to walk up 12 flights of stairs because someone is moving in and has the lift blocked, etc. One of my favourite things to do in this past warm summer was to just work outside in my garden, in the breeze, with my laptop plugged into my outdoor sockets, fast WiFi and the ability to just pop into the kitchen for drinks.

I'm not saying flats shouldn't be made more tolerable - but aside from density meaning you can live closer to the centre, is there any case where a flat is really a better quality of life?

Also an interesting thing to consider is: how different is building vertically with elevators, versus building horizontally with trains, anyway?
It doesn't take 10000 to become good enough at something to work in it. A couple of hundred hours is often enough.

If you want to work as a programmer, management consultant, business developer or similar that is. Becoming first violin does take tens of thousands of hours.
Realize that you've just posted your dirty relationship drama to HN, be embarassed by this and get your life together.

Don't chase. Replace.
You just linked to what is effectively a press release written by someone affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, but you presented it as if it were some sort of highfalutin study merely because it links to a handful of articles. It does not even go into any detail on what it is citing.

Each cherry picked citation except for the fifth in that press release covers a relatively narrow area of knowledge, but the core question of Wikipedia's suitability for general education is how reliable it is as a general resource. The fifth citation itself cites to another cluster of studies of questionable relevance.

Citing encyclopedias is already forbidden by most research manuals. The real question is whether it should be used as a research starter at all. My answer is "no," because minute-for-minute of time spent researching, almost anyone will be better off with other resources, even just browsing by topic for book titles in the Library of Congress.

When the internet was shit, Wikipedia was impressive. Now, you can get virtually any digitized book title instantly with academic access. You can retrieve any academic article instantly with academic access. There is no reason apart from lack of academic database access or laziness to use Wikipedia for anything at all.
I don't think they have the source themselves. They say they used a disassembler and they provide the patches for download, so you can rebuild as much of the "source" as they have using a ROM copy and the patches.
I'm not sure if it is "shrewd" or not.

But! It is definitely better than all the states that used their Covid windfalls for permanent tax cuts. If we end up with a bad recession, one-time checks are going to hurt an awful lot less than lower recurring tax revenue.
I run an instance of some ~450 users, ~50 active, on a managed k8s cluster and it's costing me ~200usd/month. So I'm actually moving to my own DC where I get more than twice the resources for less than half the price.

If you have DC and power sponsored you can get real far.
Google books should be free to peruse for school students. That would be a good use of government money.

If people are against Google books, then the governments should scan and share all of human knowledge.
The problem is that people misunderstand the security model in Telegram, and believe that it's e2ee. Except that most features are not, only secret chats are e2ee, and people mostly don't use those (because the whole point of Telegram is the nice group features).
https://web.archive.org/web/20040409083026/https://en.wikipe...

the entire "references" section back then was one link
If Google is going to position itself as the face of the internet, then it has to live up to that responsibility; it can’t go, hm yes, use our browser and our email service and our phones, but only if you fit into this category of prescribed users.
Stupid question.
I wonder, was/is the ai able to reproduce the best know algorithms we already have? Can it do so reliably?

If this Algo is only good for large matrices, can it reproduce the one for small matrices?
Some good critique on this result: https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1577713102434361344

TLDR seems like the baseline strassen implementation they used is questionable wrt how really optimal it is in the first place.
> dslrs can use a similar technique that phones use—exposure bracketing—with good or better results depending on a variety of factors.

This. My 2016 Olympyus Pen-F does this (a small m43 mirrorless body). It takes 4 captures at different exposures and combines them in-camera. I don't usually use this mode, but the results aren't bad at all for snapshots.

It can also take up to 7 different exposures, but the user needs to combine those manually. This is the mode I use most often, since it allows me to tweak the result how I want.
That was a bit ambiguous and there is a greater "should config be code" debate, which the "yes" people will always win eventually because it's so pragmatic.

Config will always move towards code as systems become more complex and scale up. At some point code-config will have an output intermediary data structure that is consumed by what consumes configs. I don't really have a problem with that.

I am talking about things like querying a database and inserting what would otherwise be a row in the database in the code that does the query itself. So if you need to do debugging, you go do a query against your database and the row isn't there. It sounds absurd, but I have seen it, and caused an outage because of it.
You have raised 340 million dollars. Huge expectation to grow and make money, which means numbers will become more important. "free" stuff will go away, it always does.

Investors will want an exit event, sooner than later. IPO (unlikely in next 2 years, macro issues) or flipping it to ... someone.

Just the normal cycle, nothing Notion-specific.
How recursion got into programming: intrigue, betrayal, and advanced semantics
I'm old enough to have purchased cassette tapes in the early MTV days...and found compact discs to be amazing little pieces of technology when they started to become mainstream.

Fast forward to a time when I actually had the resources to purchase my own audio hardware, including a nice low-THD amplifier and decent quality floor-standing speakers in a 5.1 configuration.

Enter disappointment when I realized that while it was possible for my amplifier to split the input signal across all 5 channels plus the LFE channel, the music source was only encoded in 2-channel stereo. Then I went down the SACD, DVDA, etc route for a bit, only to end somewhat frustrated that it required hoop-jumping to get good quality multi-channel source material.

I haven't endeavored in this realm for some time now. Mostly, while coding I just use my Schiit Modi with some KRKs in my office for 2-channel stereo listening via a mix of Spotify and local FLAC files. However, I do wonder if anyone here has any recommendations for finding multi-channel digital music that I could enjoy in my home theater where a true decent quality multi-channel setup exists?
It's very surprising to me that anybody would assume that, let alone that everybody would be presumed to assume that.
We're already seeing hundreds of people migrating to other nodes.
School rarely helps with learning and almost always harms learning. If you're still sending your kids to school, be mindful that you're doing that for reasons other than to help them learn.
That's always the problem with using the word "Never". That should have been "Almost Never" or "Rarely" (which is true for me at least) , and I didn't catch it when I proof-read my comment. Sorry about that.

And yes: while traditionally people might install just from their distribution, times have changed a bit and people now do install from pip, cargo, npm, etc; but these are _somewhat_ trusted repositories still (rightly or wrongly).

Some people sometimes use curl as well. Due to the nature and low volume, this still doesn't give literal viruses much leeway. This is because it's not a target-rich environment (only a few executables), it's not guaranteed to happen on many computers, and most importantly, people tend to only curl in one direction. When you curl, you're mostly going to end up downloading executables from some central location. Typically these executables don't subsequently get copied to (m)any other computers or back to the server. So a literal virus doesn't get a lot of traction to replicate the way a virus wants to.

If you do manage to curl some malware, what you'd get is probably going to be something that's properly called a Trojan. Trojans are definitely a thing.

Just because you're on Linux doesn't mean you're magically completely invulnerable to all kinds of malware, you still need to act with care.

On the upside many distributions are more or less designed to keep you safe by default, and won't suddenly do something crazy to get you into trouble. On the downside the human operators are not always similarly inclined. ;-)
There is already an option to opt out of 2FA:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1064203
> Although I don't think the pricing model is the culprit necessarily, companies are willing to pay a lot for the clouds too.

yes, but that's a lot of small, cheap bits all put together. the minimum required to get going on the cloud is $0. with a mainframe, there is a minimum amount of hardware required and that amount of hardware costs 6-7 figures, USD$.

> new cache architecture on z16, where many processors can share their L2 caches to have a single coherent cache.

as a PC person my entire career, that is a mind-blowing thing to read.

the interconnections required to make that perform well enough to be useful must be insane. I WANNA PLAY, DAMMIT lol
Is it too early to answer this question?
The flaw in the policy isn't don't use Wikipedia. It's don't use Wikipedia but then do use Google and trust whatever comes up as top search result. That's bad policy.

Policy when I was in high school was don't quote Wikipedia, but feel free to chase sources cited by it, read those, and analyze and quote those. This still has the potential for bias, of course (the editors on Wikipedia will have pruned the set of sources cited by the article), but the meta-goal was to teach students how to search primary sources (read: "Actually get up and go to a library and open a book,") so it achieved that goal even if the books were biased.
I use usenotioncms.com to fetch Notion pages for https://notion2embed.com. I personally use it to embed Notion blocks/pages on static sites. They are already nicely styled and simple to update. Just and MVP at the moment, but it works for me, and I plan on improving it over time. Will be great for roadmaps, FAQs, "meet the team" galleries, etc.
Thanks. I get this feedback about pricing sometimes.

It's $15/month, but you can create any number of blogs with it. Not just a single blog.

There are people paying for it, so yeah, I think it is appealing enough for some people.

I especially get no coders as my customers. They can just whip up a page on Notion, and then instantly publish it to their blog. They get all the analytics, seo optimization, search and many other things out of the box. It's no different than how Ghost blog is charged at. Also, ghost cost is per blog.

My customers are mostly no coders, who don't code, but use Notion in their daily life to write content.
"Hey why are my torrent downloads running super slow?"

"Oh, well, your torrent client decided to automatically use your vpn because it saw one running and somebody decided that was the right behavior because they thought you were dumb."

Users have preferences. Users can read. Let them learn and sort it out. Don't ruin a simple program with tarred assumptions of what is correct for users. Prefer simplicity.

Also don't assume using a vpn is more secure. That is a wrong assumption.
You just said it yourself: "normal chats are not end-to-end encrypted". The normality on Telegram is messages that their servers can read.
I dearly wish IBM would have a low cost box that allowed programmers to get familiar with the machines. At this point, their whole business is really reliant on existing companies. It doesn't even have to have all of the fancy hardware, just enough to get an actual environment up. This goes for the i Series as well as the z.
I still donate when asked, it’s one of the biggest achievements of free software. I wish I had more time to contribute to the pages, as I imagine that would be worth more to them than my 20 bucks.
Is this guy me? He could be me. Literally had this same conversation with my kids this week.
“Qualifying residents.” This is vote-buying with other people’s money, not legitimate public policy. No one believes this is a solution to anything, except maybe holding some seats while the Saudis snuff the SPR illusion.
Saved you a click: it's an interview with Gary Marcus.
I'd disagree with that, I think it's worth the sacrifice to learn the discipline needed to save. Think about what you'd spend it on otherwise? Something consumable, most likely. Something that won't have any benefit for you in the long run, or possibly even tomorrow.
No, please reread.
Agreed. I've been wanting them and used them just a small amount thus far. There's some rough edges that will likely be smoothed out over time. All in all, they're a welcome addition and quite easy to ignore if you don't need/like them.

One other side effect, now that Go has generics, we can all stop talking about them. Use them or don't. :)
> It's just the GUI wrapper, relax.

the "relax" bit was pretty unnecessary and condescending.
The guy is a walking TED talk. I don't hate him, but he's supremely annoying in his smug triteness.
I'm 25 and I've never really been in a relationship. I'm an attractive guy but I've consistently punched below my weight class with women. Most women that I've actually been interested in I've been too scared to actually make a move. Now I'm in the south bay and while my career is nice I just practically never have random encounters with women and it's getting me really down. I'm going to be moving to SF soon to hopefully change that, but I don't really know anyone in the city and I don't really like the idea of dealing with all the crime up there. Meanwhile I look with jealousy upon my south bay friends who already have relationships. Relationships and women are something that I really wish I had figured out when I was younger. I'm not even sure how a girl would react if I told her I've never been in a relationship, but probably not positively. Unfortunately this area seems like it's going to be the biggest struggle in my life, and I hate the fact that something so grueling for me seems to be so easy and, well, fun for the other 99% of people out there.

Also I'm not sure if I'm gay. My life experience leads me to believe that I might just be gay and in denial. I'm not sure. Wish I had figured this out in college.

Another one: I wish I hadn't done sports in high school. My natural interests were always along the lines of music, acting, programming, etc. I never really liked sports, honestly. But my parents kind of pushed me into it. So I spent 4 years in high school sucking at sports. I did try, very hard at certain points, but I'm just not a natural athlete. I think it made me a stronger person to have to deal with that but I wish I had been able to pursue things I was actually interested in during HS.

Also, I've smoked way too much weed.
This story is about hanging laundry outside.

I think this is either irrelevant, or inconsiderate if the point was to suggest "They should just be ok with this other thing I was ok with instead of what they want to do." without the excuse that what they want is somehow bad for everyone else. She's not raising chickens, and even the bit about the horrors of seeing "unmentionables" is ridiculous and deserves no consideration at all.
Correct. This fact is well known and exploited by those with the means and interest to reach a political goal, accrue wealth, and gain or stay in power, i.e. corporations, governments and advertisers. The internet is a playground for this crowd, and they couldn't have asked for a better tool.

It's incredibly ironic that the same adtech and social media built by western societies, sources of so much pride and prosperity, is legally and knowingly used by both internal and external enemies to influence their governments in any way they please, without leaving any trace of who did it, or what they exactly did to begin with, since it happens on long timescales with millions of small "attacks". It's the ultimate weapon.

As to how we get out of it? It's difficult putting the genie back in the bottle now. We can educate people about critical thinking and disinformation, but that will only reach those who are open to hear it. We can regulate social media platforms, but we run into a few problems: a) governments have no idea how they work or how to even begin enforcing regulation, b) corporations will never agree to self-regulate since it directly impacts their growth interests, and c) even if they do agree, it's an incredibly difficult technical challenge.

I think the solution lies somewhere involving all of the above. I think we all have to live with this now, as it's only going to get worse before, and if, it gets better.

Also, this is a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0