skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a whole lot of truth in this, but I'd also like to try to provide a complementary position, for the balance.

There is a kind of depth can come from focus, but this is a narrow kind of depth, one that can't question its own premises. It's directly analogous to the depth of a depth-first search, and has the same upsides and downsides. It's really handy when you know your target, and when you think your heuristics for having chosen that target are pretty good.

Meanwhile, I think you can look at this kind of broad-spectrum curiosity as a kind of breadth-first search, again, with the same strengths and weaknesses. It definitely takes longer, and it definitely can end up amounting to not much more than wallowing. But it can also serve very well when you're not sure what the target is, or if there even is one.

Furthermore, it can give access to more possible models, more analogies, more metaphor, more understanding-by-comparison, which in turn grants a depth of its own kind, especially in conjunction with true narrow depth of exploration. Since all models are wrong, and each model explores different facets of an idea, having more models gives you a broader set of tools for taking a given concept and applying it to specific areas. They may not be useful in the given moment, but they may lead to unpredictable and insightful connections later on.

But of course, to your point, that all comes at the risk of never getting far enough along to apply anything in the first place. But I do believe there is a place for each. Feynman spinning plates in the cafeteria and all that.
Making breaking changes to the OGL-covered system defeats the purpose of making the succeeding content OGL-compatible. If PF2E content required conversion anyway, and they were writing an entirely new core rulebook for those new rules, there was no reason to retain the OGL.
Banned for what? I've seen communities splinter off in seperate subreddits and none were banned.
Why do Internet Archive archived pages take so long to load?
I love using the Internet Archive and really appreciate the mission to archive data that too often ends up disappeared from the web. Using it recently I was curious—why is is it often very slow (7-10 seconds) to load archived pages, or even to search to discover a page is not archived?

I understand that due to the size of the data stored the full archive may retrieve archived pages from cheaper/colder storage to reduce storage and rare retrieval costs.

Curious to read more details on their architecture[0], whether temporary CDN-based static page caching might be feasible for hotter pages, etc.

I suspect it would be a qualitatively different-feeling archive lookup experience using it if it loaded many of the pages as fast as modern sites.

[0]: There are

https://help.archive.org/help/archive-org-site-architecture-and-glossary/

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20090709135157/http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~kirk/IAArchitecture.pdf

but I wonder how out of date the latter is.

Update: came across https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1217202059163979776?lang=en which suggests it is the server set / hard drive look up step
The TOS do say users grant GitHub a license to host, copy, and distribute works as comes up while they're providing the GitHub service. So saving copies on servers, making backups, and "distributing" it via their website.

IANAL, but I think Copilot is not a reasonable thing to include in these services.
Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022
I just really enjoyed reading through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687 and figured folks on HN might have equally good recommendations at a higher price point.

On Black Friday I bought a Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra (top of the line robot vacuum/mop), and it has just 100% solved my vacuuming/mopping needs (and this is from someone with two large dogs who shed a lot). It was $1200 but the ROI I'm going to get on that from saved time/not getting random dog hair in my mouth (they seriously shed a lot) will easily be worth it. The downside is I'm sure the Chinese government now has a detailed map of my house, but, y'know, tradeoffs.

What higher-priced item did you get that I should be looking at to make my life better/easier?
Hey,

We plan to open source v0.5 of DefraDB in early Q2. However, we do have an early access program for teams that are building interesting use cases with our tech so we could give you access to the private repo earlier :).

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You appear snide through your language choice, not through mere disagreement. You come off as arrogant and condescending.
is it /r/cars?
porn (watching) isn't killing kids
I think it's actually because in a modern environment, software is cheap to deploy, debug and update. That leads to under-investment in design and testing. For many software environments, I think the root cause of unreliability is that it's perceived to be cheaper to build and observe failures in production than it is to invest in adequate design review and QA.

It's instructive to consider how things went in parts of the software industry where failures are more expensive, for example:

- Avionics firmware gets a lot more scrutiny than a trendy website.

- In the days when consoles shipped games on cartridges, a lot of time went into QA. Today, a day-one patch is considered table stakes -- if the game even has a physical release.
> And this is precisely why AI art will not be the end of human creativity: humans will keep creating, and other people will like watching the passionate work of other humans, not randomly generated garbage.

The problem is going to be if you hollow out the artist ecosystem.

If all low-skill SWE work were to be done by AI, and the only humans in the loop were the ones at the top of their field (The twenty-years-of-experience folks), there would be nobody to replace them after they retire. Because you aren't going to get a lot of new twenty-years-of-experience people, when there are no jobs for zero-to-nineteen-years-of-experience people.

If you're interested in how this has worked out in the physical product space, you can always look at the American rust belt. As it turns out, when you offshore all the low-level, low-margin, low-skill work, you lose a lot of the high-level expertise in the industry.
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Define “memory”. If you think “react differently to the same stimulus as before not because of sensory or motor fatigue” requires a memory, single-cell organisms may qualify (Google “habituation in single cell organisms”, and find, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habituation, https://www.sciencealert.com/this-single-celled-animal-can-m...)
700 open tabs... Try 7000.... I have tabs all the way back from 2014 open right now on one of my firefox instances (probably have ~15 Firefox windows open across devices rn) which I have migrated between multiple machines along with my user profile, and I'm telling you I'm gonna get to them any day now.
Pinterest?
I absolutely love the answer to any of the other obvious questions that one would have about the membership.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/memberships
Yes, I agree! I mean, it sure seems as if critics from the "symbolic" camp keep moving the goal posts, doesn't it?

The "constant moving of goal posts" is one of the reasons why I think the two sides may converge: Engineers and scientists on the "connectionist" side could very well find ways to build AI systems that rely on "dumb" computation at massive scales to reason about symbols representing entities in the external world, simultaneously silencing and satisfying the critics -- who, as always and as ever, will say they were right all along.
Any quick insights to share?
Thanks for sharing.

Most of that feels like a very extreme sports lens on the topic though. My experience of rollerblading was as mostly a 30 something where a bunch of us would do evening skates on the bike path or on paved paths in the city and park, etc. At the end of the day, something he says at the end of the video is probably right. It was a fad and once enough people grew out of it or just stopped doing it as much, the network effect of it being an activity to do with friends decreased.
DF is a procedurally-generated colony sim (build a colony in the wilderness and survive/thrive/die in an entertaining way).

But that's not _why_ it is vast. The vastness comes from three main things, I think:

1. the number of distinct procgen systems. Creatures have procgen phenotypes and personalities. The landscape, biomes, and simulated geology/hydrology. Biomes. The civilizations and simulated history. The names of things. Religion, Instruments, cultural songs and dances, masterwork items and treasures, legendary forgotten beasts, and a bunch of stuff that doesn't come immediately to mind.

2. the inter-relatedness of the procgen systems. In many procgen games, the different systems do not affect each other. Systems that affect each other multiply the possibilities. And if they all affect each other, it's exponential. They all multiply each other. It's hard to describe how hard this would be to build in a way that wasn't just a mess of nonsense, but they did it by focusing entirely on the underlying systems and the UI was impenetrable ASCII with baffling UX. That has changed with the steam edition.

3. This game was written by two guys over the course of more than a dozen years funded by donation. It is an exceedingly rare and towering artistic achievement. This game should not exist, and will almost certainly never be surpassed (at least not in the same artisanal way).

One of the goals that was mentioned as a north star was that they wanted this game engine to be able to generate any fantasy story that has ever been told. But that none of those stories would be explicitly coded in, the world was just capable of making it happen.

You know, I probably could have just linked to their roadmap. The game is only halfway complete by the creator's opinion: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

That will give you some idea of the INSANE ambition of this game.
Reddit has definitely started a massive push in an authoritarian direction.

I actually was permanently banned from reddit last night for saying "I didn't know shooting a guy in the nuts would kill him" for spreading hatred/violence in a video game subreddit. It kind of caught me off guard.
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You’re right on the first part, but you don’t need unification to stop something. We’re in the 11th or 12th speaker of the house vote because of ~20 folks.

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/104vin7/discussio...

To assume logic will prevail in a system with a substantial emotional component is a dangerous assumption.
I had been using a laptop stand for a long time, but just upgraded this week to a laptop desk mount.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BDQQVN2?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_prod...

This has been a total game changer for me, as I could never find a stand that would get the laptop up as high as I wanted.
My posture has never been better!
I can't wait for insurance companies to start charging higher or lower rates based on the personality traits they've gleaned.
but it’s an example of someone following through and bringing something to fruition, not to imply it means you’ll get the same sales and reception but working 15 years on a project is an insane extreme, if he can do that I can do a year or two just to say I finished it
My team at AWS has been using P heavily for modelling and reasoning about distributed storage and database protocols and designs. I'm a big fan. The sweet spot for P in my mind comes from the fact that it's a much more approachable language, and mental model, than TLA+ (or Pluscal) for most programmers. That means that folks can pick up formal verification more easily, and then expand into tools like TLA+ or Dafny as their needs change.

I find myself reaching for P when, in the past, I would have reached for Pluscal. TLA+ is still my go-to for more "conceptual" problems, but I find the state machine model in P perfect for cloud systems work.

Ankush Desai did a great talk at HPTS'22 about P, and finding critical distributed systems bugs early: http://hpts.ws/papers/2022/HPTS2022.pdf He's also been working on some very interesting new directions for the verifier, and for closing the gap between specification and implementation for systems that are specified using P.
No one is forcing you to create verbose tag/attribute names.

If we are authoring content that we expect to last a few decades, markup is the proven engineering choice. It used to be sigil markup $1, $x, @@p etc., and other proprietary markup. SGML came and introduced DTDs, entities, parsing etc.,

DocBook format is pretty good for technical manuals. They pretty much covered 98% of the use cases for technical books. It would be foolish to invent a different format (using say JSON representation or some other proprietary format) for those use cases.

SGML grew too complex and then came XML in the late 90s and took off when SOAP started gaining traction for web services in the early '00s.

Unfortunately, XML almost went the SGML way on complexity with the addition of namespaces, multiple schema languages etc., But, we can never fault XML for its expressivity. There is also a good tooling available due to the work of many standardization workgroups and browser/vendor support.

If you choose to archive content using XML, you can be guaranteed that you can parse it 20-30 years later since XML is a simple format (if you use a simple subset of features).
This whole struggle session thread is a perfect example of how progressive values are enforced and advanced.

Acknowledging the existence of obvious branding or political affiliation means subjecting yourself to an inquisition where 30 people take turns trying to pigeonhole you as a bigot.

again the message is clear "you're not welcome"
Ticketmaster: "We've switched to app-based digital tickets for a safe, contactless experience" -------> The pandemic provides the cover we need to corner the resale market and collect the personal data of every customer.
The GP already pointed out that the "month's travel" rule doesn't apply in all cases. The poster you're replying to does have a point about increasing amounts of decisions being made at the federal level in this country, as opposed to state or local levels closer to the people affected.
I used to do that for my servers. It works quite well but packages update so frequently you don’t see a major benefit
There are many practical instances where an atomic is the simplest solution, e.g., shared counters.
If AI content is already this indistinguishable from normal content, how much normal content is "real content" anymore?

We have no metric or insight into this. The percentage will keep increasing as it's cheap and very economically beneficial for companies to use.
> The added convenience is almost zero, and for me wouldn't be worth it considering the £300/yr electricity cost and £300-£1000 initial outlay I can imagine for decent hardware and a few TB of drives if you don't have an old PC lying around. Plus all the time spent configuring

My Two Raspberry Pi Zero W's cost $10 in total - which is less than what you pay Google annually. Adding 500GB SSDs & electricity costs (cents per kWh) has my amortized costs less than your annual 200GB Google bill. Your mental image of "home server" is rather pricey
Note though that Citadel is reputed to have a turnover rate of 100% per year. Their layoffs take care of themselves.
There are admins on all of the Wikipedias under the WMF umbrella--each one sets their own rules for how admins are picked and how long, if limited at all, their terms are. I do not know what the process is for the Arabic-language wiki in question.
That site gives an Internal Server Error after submitting the form.
GDDR6X uses PAM-4 - I think it's the first memory technology to do so.
BTW, are specter and friends fixed in zen4?
I strongly disagree. In the West, the urbanized population generally have the political power, but the law happens to be on the side of the farmers. Most of the difficulty we see is the conflict between these two facts.
And the current languages are pretty much just Markov-chain-based placeholders for an eventual much more complex system with, presumably, actual grammar and all. Procedurally generated for every new world created.
In 2022, the IRS Went After the Poorest Taxpayers
This year I purchased bulk latex foam noodles ("LaNoodles") from CozyPure, plus two high-quality cotton zippered pillowcases with wool batting from another store.

I was already a believer in Talalay latex as a mattress material, which is what my current bed is made of.

I stuffed two queen-sized pillows to almost bursting with the LaNoodles. One I place in between my thighs, and the other is my normal head pillow. They are ridiculously thick but I no longer have knee pain or neck pain and sleep much better.
It is possible that the selective processes that led to ”modern” brains are essentially a process of self-domestication, and certain “diagnoses” are just reflections of diversity in that process.

If society collapsed I think it would be more beneficial to be ADHD than not.
If the US economy collapses (to black swan catastrophe levels), you are going to have a much different set of problems and markets will stop running all together, the world will collapse.

We do know that the probability of a collapse is so small that it is not worth worrying about for investment strategy. Better to worry about the things that might lead to such collapses and strategies to mitigate those
You say that like Github Copilot could have been trained in a different way. There's just too much utility and progress in Github Copilot to let this lawsuit win.
Recently went from an RPi to a MinisForum HX90 this past year.

RPi was running PiHole, Wireguard, a dyndns updater, and the control interface for my old AP via docker(compose) on Ubuntu Server.

HX90 is running ProxMox, with VMs for WireGuard and PiHole, and a large Ubuntu VM to run dockerised (docker-compose) applications. I know ProxMox can do it directly, I just feel more comfortable in control of directories.

Thinking about running a web-office server (OnlyOffice, NextCloud or OwnCloud) and connecting that with my NAS... possibly using a Cloudflare Tunnel/argo or ngrok.
Really? Isn't FinTech getting hit harder than just about any other industry right now?
I got adjustable dumbbells last year and it was the most impactful change of the year for me. It is amazing how far regular exercise goes.
I use mine daily.

It makes tofu better than any other method and is a staple in our household.

My only wish is that the basket style models had more robust options. We go through one every ~6 months.
> it just takes 3x the amount of time to "deep fry" some french fries

Perhaps if you have a deep fryer with oil that is already at temperature. But if you have to heat the oil it's definitely not 3x faster than using an air fryer. Also, no need to clean up splatter afterward, or monitor hot oil while it's cooking. Or figure out what to do with several cups of oil after you've deep fried some french fries.
I also upgraded to a split keyboard and I love it. I really liked the Microsoft Natural keyboard, but slamming my mouse into the number pad was driving me crazy, so I decided to get a split keyboard without one. I have the Kinesis Freestyle Pro. As a bonus the mechanical keys are nice to type on! My only complaint is it takes a moment to get it dialed in for placement if it's been moved.
Saying 20m is meaningless unless you mention a time scale.
Not completely as typical 401K investor would change their allocations from equity to non-equity.
Related:

Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067007 - May 2021 (20 comments)

Politics and the English Language (George Orwell, 1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828499 - Oct 2020 (1 comment)

George Orwell on Writing and the 4 Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712057 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538496 - Feb 2017 (21 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12327324 - Aug 2016 (1 comment)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271030 - Aug 2016 (150 comments)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452900 - Oct 2015 (2 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6643231 - Oct 2013 (62 comments)

“Politics and the English Language,” By George Orwell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6277405 - Aug 2013 (2 comments)

Politics and the English Language [1945] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752825 - March 2012 (13 comments)

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" 1946 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079477 - Jan 2011 (1 comment)

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997940 - Dec 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=636287 - June 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell Essay: Politics And The English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=272211 - Aug 2008 (11 comments)

Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115519 - Feb 2008 (5 comments)

(Reposts are ok on HN after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Canada de facto owns a huge amount of territory. Nobody else wants it.

Vladivostok is desireable to many powers in the region, but it's also changed hands many times in recent history.
I do eventually, might be in v1.3 next month or sadly v1.4 depending on how much I've got on my plate :)
Can't wait to get my 1TB RAM that's actually only 931GB
You’re correct. But that preserves the status quo. Immigration doesn’t require reauthorisation.
The problem is knowing when it is failing. How can you know what you may be missing? How can you know how much time you are losing by not getting the best results? Etc.
Funny, we didn't have this problem 15 or 20 years ago. The banners are a reaction to the Ad Tumor's voracious appetite for tracking that we just got around to noticing.
You can if you force every immigrant to be educated. Germany's problem is that their immigrants are not. There are more than enough educated people that want to immigrate to America, start with allowing every international college graduate to stay and your most of the way to solving the demographic problem.

Even still, the US is much less homogenous than germany. A variety of cultures is not a problem.
Right. He's spotted that the "rule" may have a little truth to it, but is also kinda just bullshit.
The average investor also has less money to invest during down years though.
Not suggesting something else isn't an argument. Long term from now you don't know anything, you know long term up to now. The risk of a market crash isn't the same as of a meteor hitting earth, since tails of the probability distribution (as can be estimated, so not cast in stone) are fat.