skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Communist Manifesto - before I didn't find history very interesting because in class it was literally just taught as remembering birth dates of kings and the dates of actions by "great men", etc.

Whereas Materialism (and Marxism) introduced a whole systematic view of competing classes and interest groups. It made it much more interesting and relatable.

[Questions from a Worker who reads](https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions...) really sums up the issues with history education at school IMO.
Google (ChromeOS, Android) does a similar thing by checking http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204 and expecting an HTTP Response Status 204, or else it assume there's a captive portal or something blocking Internet access.

Apple (iOS, MacOS) checks for https://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html and expects a basic HTML page with the body containing "Success".
How big is the model? I see the extension itself is 15MB, but does it download the model later?
Same would be true of almost all oyster-based oysters.
Let’s extend this thought a bit deeper. Why are we consuming different brands of fixed-form content through bespoke interfaces? Why is there no standard for navigation of any type of content?

I really hope RSS is coming back in force.
The UN is not the authority on human rights. It's just a weak, ineffective political body that represents no one in particular. Certainly not me nor you.

From the U.S. constitution: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Milton Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom". I was arguing with people online about politics and I was embarrassing myself through my lack of "Econ 101" understanding of issues. Someone in the thread recommended this book and I now I've leaned libertarian for the rest of my life, ended up getting a PhD in economics..
"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?"
> Americans tend to forget that there is a world outside of the USA

Reinforced by the apparent reality that mostly what people outside the USA want to talk about is the USA. Even on HN, where we have a large contingent of Europeans participating, we don't hear too much about Europe. It's almost always about the US.
> Connecting artists and venue owners with a web portal, allowing ticket sales to fans via the same site shouldn't be heavy lifting for a lot of the readers on HN.

The tricky part isn't making the website, it's persuading enough people on both sides of the equation that your business is a better option compared to alternatives.

And despite the situation with Ticketmaster it's not like they're literally the only tool available in a market waiting for a second option - there's already lots of much smaller ticket-selling options that you'd be competing with, ranging from single person PHP websites you can host yourself to companies with significant traction in their niches that are like Ticketmaster just much, much smaller.

That's not to say that an idea like yours couldn't succeed, but the fact that lots of people could do the coding doesn't make it a likely, or easy, business to make successful.
Seconded. Still resonant work.
You would not. 5 doctors talking about your case wouldn't help much.

People really don't understand the dire and primitive state of current medicine.

We are in the dark ages. We don't know why most drugs work; we have some notional idea but it's often an after-the-fact fiction that we tell. We don't know what causes the majority of diseases. In many cases we don't have treatments for the underlying problems, we only have treatments for symptoms.

If you want to see House MD, then tell your congresspeople and senators to invest in funding medical research so we can one day maybe leave the dark ages.
This footnote is almost more interesting than the post itself:

> There's a deep beauty to the thought that untold millions
of people using the app randomly, but oh so slightly
habitually, aggregated together, makes such a predictable pattern

That 'beauty' can be extremely scary from another angle. It's evidence of what makes Facebook, and other social media, such powerful mass manipulation tools.
1984: Society is NOT désigned for free will, and thinking out of the box.

Ashes,ashes: mankind can go from gods to animals. Really fast.

Lord of the rings: teamwork makes the dream work. But expect a massive amount of pain in the process.
breading and killing animals

Sounds like a new process to make fried chicken.
My dad is a doctor who oversees residents. Seems like half the time they call him for advice he just puts their question into gpt-3 and regurgitates it’s answer, so bill isn’t the only one.
It’s almost entirely dependent on the judge. Matsumoto in EDNY would probably give him like 9 years or something like that but there are stricter judges. If his case is in California then it’d be different too.
this won't stop the overall trend, but it can help you get around cloudflare's effective scraping blocking (copying my comment from a previous thread):

If you're scraping with Python, try cloudscraper—among other things(!), it supports JS rendering (basically the bare-minimum check cloudflare does), without needing to run a full browser in the background. It's built on requests, so integration was pretty easy.

https://github.com/venomous/cloudscraper
Note that while all passengers and crew onboard the aircraft survived, there were two fatalities among the fire engine crew
"This tax credit gets extended" is an outcome. "30 minutes with the Member and their chief of staff to discuss the vital importance of this tax credit to industry X" is not an outcome. You can problematize and subvert any scheme of categorization if you like, so go wild if it makes you happy, but honestly who has the time?
Why can't you feel sympathy for someone whose money was _stolen_
I said it'd be foolish, not that they wouldn't do it :D
Amoeba is a famous example of a distributed OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)
Truffle-like umami flavor is also had from sesame oil, which is sold in even greater quantities in many Asian grocery stores. Reading about the chemistry of artificial truffle oil makes me wonder how much "sesame oil" is affected by these types of scams.
We've been told for ages, implicitly by FAANG algos and explicitly by people who misread research, that we prefer to be outraged.

Very Online (TM) people with large Twitter followings like Marcus Hutchins are coming to realise that it made Twitter a compulsion, and given an alternative are willing to ditch the Skinner button [0].

Compulsion and addiction is different from desire or pleasure. When we're offered meaningful alternatives, people often find more peace and happiness when they adopt them.

[0] https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/109368403091846997
Based on their comment, I was presuming (perhaps wrongly) that they played pool at a bar, and so their skill would have developed in the presence of some form of alcohol.

State-dependent memory isn't the only factor, though. Things like relaxation could well have an even larger impact.
I did the same and am pretty happy with the end result, but be warned: the official guide requires you to install a full Ruby dev kit to run an instance, with Docker being available but poorly documented (as configuration requires running separate commands rather than just writing a file).

It's not hard, but if you're like me and you don't like polluting your server system with all kinds of dev tools in the global space, you may need somewhat of an understanding of Docker to get everything running smoothly.

One thing to note is that if you're going to be the only one using your server, you may want to enable single user mode. It's a mode for the Mastodon frontend that's optimized for deployments with a single user account.

For those considering the switch, I also recommend checking out https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive and setting up an instance. With your Twitter account you can register for an API key and then mirror all the Twitter users that aren't on the Fediverse yet! It's unidirectional but as most Twitter users seem rather passive anyway, this can make the transition rather easy.

To prevent others from using your keys and quota, you can safely limit ingress to BirdSiteLive to only your Mastodon server. You end up with proxied tweets only visible to users of your server.
"Holding assets in trust" Does that apply to assets that were seized? To me, the phrase "in trust" implies that the owner of the assets has entrusted them to you, and you have a fiduciary duty to them.

[I'm uncomfortable referring to cryptographic tokens as "assets". I think of an asset as something with an intrinsic value, albeit floating. Cryptographic tokens have a price, but no value.]
I would hope so. It’s in my name!

I ended up calling an ambulance so I’ll postpone this until later. Feeling a little better but a full explanation will have to wait.

The answer is that of course it’s not proved yet, since no one has implemented it (or at least efficiently). It’s fine to be skeptical.

Current techniques are blocked by the technical challenge of getting 10GB+ to fit on a pod. Very few people have those skills. If there’s even a chance that this will work, it’s worth exploring, so I will be.
The problem is not journalist, it's about how Meta and LeCun presented it.

They presented it as "you should trust what it says and use to write papers", then hid in the small lines "oh actually really don't do that".

You can't have your cake and eat it AND complain about being called out on it.
Seems likely they served the very best they could produce? And most people thought they were still not something that could be served in a restaurant.
> I can play video games all day if I'd like, go fishing for half an hour here and there in the neighborhood lake, etc.

Twitter ? ;P
> In true science, it is exceptionally hard to distinguish truth from falsehood

I understand the sentiment, but I don’t think they referenced subtle proofs.

The system is unable to prove some high-school theorems and computations, see for instance: https://twitter.com/espadrine/status/1592879720269766659

(I don’t think that makes the system necessarily bad; it does mean that it has a long way to go still.)
Why not just share the link if it's so good?
I would be tempted to try this but both of my M1 Macs only have 8G of memory.

For text/shell only Linux, I have been using https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for the last week and for what I needed (I wanted to setup picolisp and Emacs for some experiments) it was all good.
Shit. Disregard all that I said. I forgot about the malicious client-side nonce-disabling malware. That's a doable thing.
The problem with Ticketmaster is the same as any consolidation play. If you let a middleman control the wholesale and retail side of the transaction, you’re gonna get a bad deal.

The solution is really simple, but the government no longer has the regulatory ability to do anything. You segment the distributor function from the retail, and end up with a bunch of retailers running volume driven low margin sales channels.

Ticketmaster brilliantly positioned itself as distributor, retailer and supplier for resale. So they have an exclusive on a venue, get a fee for the sale, get a seller commission for the resale, and a buyers fee for the resale. They “own” the customer and the venue.
Imitation crab is fish, not a plant-based substitute.
> friend has a party

This doesn't help if you're trying to bootstrap from nothing.

> just join a sports league

I spent solid chunks of childhood being forced into sports programs when I at best had below-average physical abilities. I even tried one summer as an adult to play in a league and I discovered that the physical gap had just widened and widened and it just helped isolate me until I quit going.

It's really great that people find things like sports leagues or meetups useful for this, but none of it overlaps with my mostly solo activities.

Unfortunately, that's how it is if you don't share interest with the extroverted crowds: you're just stuck looking for scraps.
Choose Your Mastodon Instance
As someone out of the loop about Pleroma, why do some people associate Pleroma servers with nazis?
Not to mention the disruption on the river ecosystem.

The size of our generation capacity is as important as its emissions.
The ones who built it instead of bought it?
It’s too bad this research didn’t continue. Instead we got a giant tower of kludges including containers, Kubernetes, service meshes, endless API design problems, endless reinventing of data serialization and protocols, and so on.
Saving Money on Big Queries
I still use an IDE for work, and that's the only free Jetbrains product: Android Studio. Of course, I'm an Android dev.

Sometimes code in Go for backend dev. VSCode + a bunch of plugins work OK. Perhaps not super snappy like Sublime Editor, but still acceptable.
BTW, I was a big Eclipse and Netbeans (for Java Swing) years ago.
> how to cache windows updates on my local network without an enterprise windows install

https://download.wsusoffline.net/

will download Windows updates and create an installer for them.
The book discusses the journey of exploring complex equations that represent weather patterns. The mathematical representation of these highly complex systems appear to be nondeterministic at first glance, but patterns do appear which are highly dependent on initial conditions. This gives the insight that our complex systems which seem chaotic are actually deterministic in the end and we can predict the outcomes of any physical system if we understand how all of the variables interact.
The Arc browser is the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for
People were buying and selling Twitter before Musk came along though.
Mastodon Reflections
And in term of movies: Ridicule and Le Souper are two [french] films that will teach you politics and social interactions MUCH BETTER than any history book.

[The second one needs a bit of Wikipedia to understand the background of the two characters, and why they have to talk to each other]
Too important to be controlled by few. The guidance of teams with expertise in human rights, accessibility, AI ethics and curation (though I'm iffy on that one) is better than the whim of a rich egomaniac.
There are people producing foie gras nowadays without force-feeding the animals. I don't know if that's what the shop linked above sells or not. There are humane ways of producing it, though unfortunately I think the majority is still made by force-feeding.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/01/487088946/th...
One read of the “jepsen” articles completely disproves this for database startups, most of whom have fundamentally lied about their core technology. I’m sure there are further examples should anyone care to do that level of digging.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, they all work pretty seemlessly on 1-2year old hardware, which I presume developers are using as well.

On an old laptop I had, with a low end dual core AMD processor, low-end SSD and 4 Gigs of RAM, vim with LSP plugin was the only editor I could use very well. [1]

On a new laptop, I don't have issues with intellij and vscode so far. I get more features than the old setup and that's nice.

[1] - Of course LSP itself may consume some memory and performance. clangd, gopls etc.. worked well for me though.
It is explained well on the Wikipedia page of MINIX 3[1]:

> To achieve that, the code running in kernel must be minimal, with the file server, process server, and each device driver running as separate user-mode processes. Each driver is carefully monitored by a part of the system named the reincarnation server[2]. If a driver fails to respond to pings from this server, it is shut down and replaced by a fresh copy of the driver. In a monolithic system, a bug in a driver can easily crash the whole kernel. This is far less likely to occur in MINIX 3.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix_3

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix_3#Reincarnate_dead_or_si...
What makes them different functionally? That doesn't sound like it means anything to me, just one of them came in later than the others
How lawns became a status symbol in America
I’m not OP and I’m not religious. I read the Bible to learn about many of the cultural references to it and to see what the big deal was. I was fascinated by two sections: Ecclesiastes, in which the author explains why “there is nothing new under the sun “, and Relevations which seems to be an incredible drug-induced hallucination about how the world will end. Whether true or not, Revelations is entertaining. I treat it the same way I do reading “Lord of the Rings”. Entertainment and a good story.
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

It showed me that intellectual curiosity doesn't need to be coupled with abstruse language, that in fact unclear language is not a sign of deep thought, but more likely unclear thought. It showed me that being an optimist isn't stupid, that it's an art and that gloom is not an inevitable consequence of intellect. I was suffering from depression back then. It took me 10 more years to win the battle, but I did it. It was all more about how this book was written, rather than what was written in it.

Tony Judt, Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

Tony Judt, The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century

Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind

Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals

Those books taught me that there are quite a few secular religions to be beware of, with all the associated dangers and indeed opium for the mind. They were written with the example of Marxism, but this lesson can be generalised to other ideas, which explain away everything about life and bring a prophesy of things to come. It taught me that the religion I left behind when I was young is not the end, but there are more things to be vigilant about, lest your critical mind becomes anaesthetised and subjugated by the current intellectual orthodoxy.

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

A truly insane book. Prior to reading it I thought that the criticisms coming from "the other side" were caricatures. After reading this book I've known that there truly are people denying the reality of biology and making all sort of twisted reasonings you would have never dreamt of. The political movement associated with this book doesn't let it slip at first, but when I confronted core members of this movement (responsible for most of the political messaging in the press etc.) in my country it turned out that they actually believe that stuff. It disillusioned me about the sort of nonsense people can seriously believe, while carefully not admitting it at first.
> The only "fair" way to sell a good that's in high demand and you want everyone to have the same level of access regardless of their background is a lottery.

After centuries of failing to manipulate natural market forces, I don’t understand why people continue to think it’s possible. All that a lottery does is incentivize everyone to participate, even those who have no interest in going. Then a secondary market will engage in actual price discovery and you’re left with the current system.

There is really no way to beat the system. Prices are what people are willing to pay. I’m not sure how any other system is fairer? Let’s say I’m a middle class Taylor Swift mega fan and save up for years to drop $4k on a ticket. Instead, we move to a lottery system and I don’t get picked. I want to go way more than most people, as evidenced by the amount I’m willing to pay. But now I don’t get to go. How is that fair?
Another part of my career, I worked on a team that ran an automated content detection service (like YouTube ContentId.)

The database holding signatures for known music samples was sharded by artist. Not as crazy as you might think. You get a trial sample and you send it to all the shards which chunk on it in parallel then you just wait for the servers hosting each shard to respond.

But then Prince died.

The queue for the server that owned the shard Prince was in backed up.

Then our proxy that distributed trials to each shard backed up.

Then our regular reverse proxy backed up.

Then our anemic load balancer fell over.

What we learned for about the bazillioneth time is keep a backup of each shard handy so you can add it into the rotation and pay an intern to watch Facebook looking for news about recently deceased musicians.
This is a bit of FUD with the exception of search (which sucks on Twitter too).

* Different instances - yes some are problematic. But that's the beauty. You can move instances easily and everything redirects.

* Instance run by random dude - be that dude. One of my communities is starting its own server. Pretty cool. Also relatively simple to do so the "support" aspect doesn't need much.

Not an OSS fanatic. I'm still keeping my twitter but Mastodon is fine too and if Twitter is gone tomorrow, it's a decent alternative.
Science can't identify the truth. It can only identify what is NOT true. As our knowledge expands, we get closer to discovering the truth; but we can never be sure we've arrived.
For my kids kindergarten you had to send a very specificly formated SMS if the kid got sick so that it would auto-update the attandance list for the day. I built a webpage that would format the SMS and open the phones SMS app.
First time I had random people come up to me and say thanks.
Framing is key in this context. Yann introduced the model in a very authoritative way, presenting it as production ready. His quote: "Type a text and galactica.ai will generate a paper with relevant references, formulas, and everything." [1]
The AI produces output but nothing that could be considered a paper in a professional setting. Which is understandable! AGI is not here yet. But he should have presented the tool with proper context. A tool that can generate the awful content it generated needs better framing.

And, yes, his reactions were baffling to say the least.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1592619400024428544
> where am I to pull it out of (because it is not intuitive at all) if not documentation?

It is in the documentation. Quoting from the documentation:

> String variables end with the $ character.

The principal problem though is that you're dropped into the first of 4 tutorial/documentation pages, and have to hit "back" (which is unintuitive since I didn't get there from anywhere else on the site) to see the list of tutorials and documentation pages.
The ZF-8 has a lock up clutch. That's why it's so efficient. It uses the torque converter as a pump to match the speeds but then engages that clutch to have a 1-1 connection. No losses.
What an unreasonable comment.
Why would you need to assume when there’s an article that has the answer?
I'm of a similar mind. I can appreciate all of the neat features that an IDE can provide, but I rarely end up using most of them. I really just need a distraction-free text editor with a couple bells and whistles sprinkled on top. Vim and a few Vundle plugins does the trick.
I think you and I have a different notion of what "elegance" means. To me, it's not that high a bar. A native speaker who reads for fun and cares about self-expression generally achieves it. It does, however, prove a high bar for a non-native speaker in my experience.