skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GoT is a recurring topic on that blog, and in another series [1] - that one on why Dothraki are not an accurate representation of any real-world nomadic culture (despite GRRM's explicit claims that it is a fusion of such) - the author made a reference to that claim:

«The answer to the first is something that we’ve rehearsed a number of times, but bears restating: for most of its readers (and the watchers of A Game of Thrones), A Song of Ice and Fire will be their primary exposure to the idea of the Middle Ages. This is particularly true because of the reputation that the series has for being ‘how it really was,’ a reputation that George R.R. Martin has consciously cultivated (as with his classic complaint of ‘what was Aragorn’s tax policy’ – there is a rich irony that, had Martin understood rulership in the Middle Ages better, he would have understood why Aragorn’s tax policy was less important). Martin has been quite open that he “draw[s] inspiration from history” and that fact has long been a selling point of the series over more obviously fantastical kinds of medieval-themed high fantasy as well as a response to some of the series’ more controversial moments.»

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/12/04/collections-that-dothraki-hord...
can it thread comments properly( like hacker news does) yet? That's my biggest complaint about my experience with the fediverse (and twitter) and it keeps me from using them much because every time I wade back in I get frustrated trying to follow the conversation as it splits off in a million directions.
> our brains also remember words

Word sounds. I can not read without hearing the word. (Now I wonder about those born deaf.) Based on that subjective experience which I presume is rather universal among the hearing, tokenized phones and phonemes seem promising.
I've only played with it and not done anything too serious, but Gambas is honestly amazing for something that has seemingly little adoption. It's so similar to VB6, but with tons of enhancements that keep it from feeling too antiquated or annoying to work with.
I feel pretty strongly that getting rid of copilot will slow down progress at a massive scale. Not only by affecting users who are getting a huge benefit from it, but by setting a precedence in how you can train AI
l'd th0ught you wou1d say that!
No, a tool can be designed well and still require training. It’s not the tool’s job to teach the user how to use it.

> For example: ctrl+C is copy, and ctrl+V is the key right next to it for paste, making that not just muscle memory but also extremely easy to remember and even easier to explain: "press the the key to the right of C for paste".

This is a terrible example. Why is it ctrl? Why is it to the right instead of the left?
A bit trickier is a huge understatement.
What semaglutide does is make the idea of putting more food in your stomach when it’s full…not nauseating, but something akin to that. It’s hard to describe. It almost feels like theres just no more room and the food will come back up. The main point I’m trying to get across is that (probably, sample size of 1) isn’t how healthy weight people feel.

And yes, I could easily eat more than one pizza. It’s a habit to simply stop at a few pieces, or more if I haven’t eaten much that day.

I’ve also taken growth hormone peptides that make you insatiably hungry. Literally insatiable - far beyond what I assume could be natural. I still usually limited myself. If I needed more I made popcorn or something and then went to bed hungry.
> I have seen human copywriters producing much worse content than what ChatGPT does based on good prompts. Why on Earth should we not automate that?

Because then it gets even cheaper to spam the general population with advertisements and marketing fluff, and criminals might even be tempted to use GPT to automate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam email exchanges.
And more importantly, this is why there are a few craft lagers. It's not because they're too busy making IPAs, it's because lagers specifically aren't easy to do at smaller scale. There are plenty of craft ales that are not IPAs.
>> A blind corner will kill drivers going by feel alone, who don't have experience on that particular stretch of road.

What exactly does not have to do with a speedometer? that is about road signs.

Knowing exactly what speed you are going has no bearing on your ability to navigate a blind corner. I am very confused by this statement

Based on visual cues alone you should know with in 10MPH how fast you are going anyway, if you can not tell how fast you are traveling generally with out looking at the speedometer you should not be driving

>How do you propose to limit licensing to experienced drivers in such a way that inexperienced drivers are capable of gaining the experience necessary to drive?

Well it seems to be popular in this thread to make flying a plan an analog for driving so how about simulators like they do for pilots, longer training, more time having to drive with an experienced driver. There are lots of things that could be done
There ain’t no Linux anywhere. Not even GPL.
> One interactive component that we use heavily that might interest you for futurecoder is what we call an interactive walkthrough: https://www.learncs.online/best#interactive-walkthroughs. It's like a video but preserving the interactive nature of a playground. Students really like them, and enjoy the opportunity to hear multiple explanations for the same concept when they're stuck. (We're working on popping this out for external use, and have a library in the works that you may be able to integrate with a bit of work.)

Awesome! I've only seen one other place doing something similar: https://scrimba.com/

This is definitely better than ordinary videos, and I like the point about multiple explanations. Although I do personally prefer that futurecoder rarely shows/tells without actually forcing users to run code and see for themselves, so they always have to be engaged. Even when they're told the exact code to run, they occasionally get asked to predict what the output will be, to make sure they're paying attention.

> I have no idea what your educational background is, but if you ever want a stable position that supports your educational innovation, consider applying for a teaching faculty job: https://go.cs.illinois.edu/teaching-faculty-hiring. (Currently our openings require a Masters degree.) We need more creators in computer science education.

It'd be great if I could be paid to work on futurecoder or something similar full time, and I've tried finding a way to make that happen before. But now I've just started a dream job at https://ought.org/ (working with AI, not education) and it'd be very hard to compete with that.

I don't have a Masters and I prefer to create things that are infinitely reusable rather than teaching directly. But thanks for the suggestion!
I was under the impression that the primary sources of ocean plastics were large usually Asian cities without proper waste management effectively dumping significant portions of their trash in rivers and the ocean as well as ocean fishing waste.

Sure some plastics get into natural water sources from clothes washing, but how much of an issue is this actually compared to other sources?
> Cell phones don’t randomly fluctuate out of a vacuum,” quips Walker.

But Boltzmann brains do.
Fungi are eukaryotes. They aren't a nascent life form.
Also "harm reduction" is patronising to users.

People use drugs for there benefits

Addiction is a symptom, generally, of alienation. To the addict the drug is helping. As the addicts loved ones that can be hard to belive, and demonstrably untrue. But still.

A much better paradigm is "benefit maximisation"

Ask ourselves what social policies will help maximize the benefits of drug use.

Leads to the same place with the harm, but without patronising users, and allows us as a society to explore the upsides of these drugs
Sending good juju your way mate!
I dont think k8s is what you are shooting at but the IPC that is required to run a set of microservices.

Like kafka.

My impression is that it is the serialisation that comes with each service-to-service communication that is really expensive.
He will be up for surprise.

HTTP with connection: keep-open can serve 100k req/sec. But that's for one client being served repeatedly over 1 connection. And this is the inflated number that's published in webserver benchmark tests.

For more practical down to earth test, you need to measure performance w/o keep-alive. Request per second will drop to 12k / sec then.

And that's for HTTP without encryption or ssl handshake. Use HTTPS and watch it fall down to only 400 req / sec under load test [ without connection: keep-alive ].

That's what I observer.
Animals live in the ground and you are talking about filling their homes with garbage? You are sick.
This is not an intellectually gratifying submission.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

It's literally just a story about someone being hit by a yoga ball because someone else sat on it wrong. Like, so what?
You’re misquoting your sources. For example your second source says “In the countries that account for most of the deforestation” and not “in the world.” That qualifier complete invalidates the point you’re trying to make. And “concerned scientists” are well and good, but perhaps you should look to experts that actually live and work agriculture?

And it’s sustainable because pasture is reusable and so is the farmland that grows corn and other feed.
Since I had the same experience just now, it seems useful to post the answer here.

In computer systems security, role-based access control (RBAC) or role-based security is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users. It is an approach to implement mandatory access control (MAC) or discretionary access control (DAC).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control
>want iPhone photos to reflect how they perceive the scene. //

It seems more about how people wish they perceived the scene. Like, over-saturated and with "beautification" filters; there's a recognition that this is not how the image maker [the person] actually perceives things. It's a dream of reality, a fairy tale.

Honestly, some Facebook photos ... all people on my Facebook are people I know in person, the filters some use are frankly ridiculous; like, I know what you actually look like and it's not a manga cartoon with massive eyes and completely smooth skin.

/rant
4 years of blogging on Gatsby.js, a retro
In the coming years we will probably see a lot of complicated microservice architectures be replaced by well-designed and optimized Rust (and modern C++) monoliths that use simple replication to scale horizontally.
Ask HN: Tech After Chemotherapy
I start chemo soon. My disease has got a pretty good prognosis, but I'm still paralyzed with fear and uncertainty.

How has treatment impacted your career, mind, life?
I’m a male with hormonal issues and I’ve also taken growth hormone peptides that make you ridiculously hungry. I’m no stranger to how hormones can affect our bodies. All I’m saying is that the type of satiety you get on semaglutide isn’t natural and I’ve never felt it before in my life.
Metal straws (and spoons, forks, knives) are amazing.
I said unrealized gains not capital gains.

The government doesn’t limit it’s valuation of the house to a demonstrated sales price but instead uses an estimate for the market price. Doing the same with stock is easy, they just hand out a tax break instead.
https://www.personal.ai/
TikTok has business operations in the US (including offices and thousands of employees).
This was fixed recently in Linux by Matthew Wilcox and others, in a way that can benefit all Linux filesystems. Folios of pages were added in 5.16, the page cache was converted to use folios in 5.17, and large-folios were in 5.18.
I try to be different when asking my share of questions in interviews...

My favorite to ask is:

"Tell me about a time you really screwed something up."

This can be a design decision, or may accidentally running "drop table users"...

This is an open ended question. The more experienced interviewees will pivot to how they learned something from it or whatever. I'm just looking for general humility tbh.

If they're nervous or confused, I'll share a few of my stories, like the time I really did drop that users table, or tripped over a power chord in a data center when disaster recovery testing was being done.
5% is actually huge with just partial lockdowns (car traffic was still allowed, there was just some time restrictions), and if the situation continued then life styles and the whole industry chain would have also adapted making this figure much larger

"shortages" are very relative, does it concern vital resources? (like water (not plastic bottle water but tap water), vegetables, rice, soap). Let alone the amount of waste is huge

This choice will sooner or later be forced, either from inflation, or government restrictions. We misunderestimate the massive crisis coming, it will be nowhere close Covid
3D printing of steel components is a modern option, https://facfox.com/docs/kb/the-10-best-metal-3d-printing-ser...
That’s still unrealized gains even if it’s not the fair market price.
In addition, you should worry about what happens to your app if a hardware error, network problem or natural disaster makes your machine unavailable.
Salt Lake County, Weber County, and Utah County all suffer from inversions during cold weather months, which is much of the winter.

Inversions are where a layer of warm air traps cold, polluted air inside the valley and air pollution accumulates because it can't go anywhere. I grew up in Utah county and I remember the Geneva steel plant was a huge source of pollution. In my environmental studies class we calculated that on cold weather days when there was an inversion the amount of pollution each person breathed every day was equivalent to smoking 3 cigarettes.

Even before internal combustion engines and modern industry the campfires alone must have given Utah valleys the reputation as "smokey valley" by the native Americans. This is not a new phenomenon - the geography of high mountains with lots of population causing pollution in the valleys causes it naturally.
> However, it does show how much real compute bloat these companies actually have

No, it doesn’t. It’s a fun exercise in approaching Twitter as an academic exercise. It ignores all of the real-world functionality that makes it a business rather than a toy.

A lot of complicated businesses are easy to prototype out if you discard all requirements other than the core feature. In the real world, more engineering work often goes to ancillary features that you never see as an end user.
Billionaire Dolan uses facial recognition to kick people out of Radio City
Great Salt Lake on track to disappear in five years, scientists warn
That's only available on the Pro phones though...
> a "problem" that has a fairly clear solution: students with behavioral issues tied to use of social networking services that are disruptive to school functions can and should be expelled. Problem solved.

That's not the problem, and that would be a poorly targeted and illegal solution if it were. You can't expel a child from public school for having a mental health problem.
Yes, but not llvm support. Which makes rust a no go.
> I wouldn't be surprised if they could get around the trickiest constraint, which is how many hard drives you can plug in to a non-mainframe machine for historical image storage.

Some commodity machines use external SAS to connect to more disk boxes. IMHO, there's not a real reason to keep images and tweets on the same server if you're going to need an external disk box anyway. Rather than getting a 4u server with a lot of disks and a 4u additional disk box, you may as well get 4u servers with a lot of disks each, use one for tweets and the other for images. Anyway, images are fairly easy to scale horizontally, there's not much simplicity gained by having them all in one host, like there is for tweets.
Anecdotally it absolutely seems to go hand in hand for me. To the point where I've started considering social networks, booze, THC, etc as dopamine sugar.

I'm allowed them now and then as a treat for hitting a goal* or something but not constantly, and definitely no cake for breakfast.

* for instance I'm enjoying a nice HN binge right now as I've already covered my rent this month with freelance work :)

While I've not had any direct results of any ideas yet I have filled 8 pages of my scratch diary with ideas and notes on my main side project since I've started reintroducing boredom into my life. Previously it was bad enough that I'd forget the diary existed for days and sometimes weeks at a time.

Rather than go insane if the boredom doesn't turn into creativity I'm allowed to read a book at any time rather than slip back to the sugary dopamine sources.

Could just be honeymoon period, I'm only a week or so into it, I might get bored of being bored soon.
The same thing is happening to California's Central Valley.

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-depletion-groundwater-californ...
Hmmm, ChatGPT doesn't seem consistent:

Q: what type of spring is in a spring clamp?

A: Spring clamps are typically made with a type of spring called a helical spring or a coil spring. These springs are made of wire that is wound in a spiral shape and are used to store energy and apply a force when they are compressed or stretched. In a spring clamp, the helical spring is used to provide the clamping force that holds the clamp's jaws together. When the jaws of the clamp are opened, the spring is stretched, and when the jaws are closed, the spring is compressed, creating the clamping force. Spring clamps are commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, and other applications where a temporary hold is needed.
TL;DR:

Because investors like pension funds and college endowments do not want the write-offs.

It's in their short-term interest to pretend the make-believe valuations are real. The numbers look prettier that way.

They keep their fingers crossed that everything will turn out OK in the end.
Yeah that's my whole point, psychological mass manipulation is legal.
Oh sure, when you're using waste heat that you would otherwise be venting or actively cooling then this is definitely better. The way you phrased it, it sounded to me like you'd find extra gpu tasks to turn on whenever the room gets cold that would otherwise not be done at all. In that case, on most grids it's unfortunately still better to burn gas directly.
I go with k8s even on a single server nowadays, it just makes everything so much more convenient.

https://k3s.io/ makes it really easy to set up, too.
Softwares state is depending on how close it is to the actual/perceived economic hot-loop in the product.

Thats where features grow, were software is properly maintained and tested. The further away it is from this route, the more it becomes a stagnant resource backwater, until the software - which might be alive in other sections, actually starts to die and bitrot, basically a forked away stand alone thing, with its own library, tucked into a corner, visited only on rare occasions.
This is what I hate about phone photography. It's not the fact that some processing has to be used to make up for the tiny sensor. It's not the fact that phones only have a limited set of focal lengths.

It's that the development of the processing engine of phones is geared towards garnering likes on social media, and therefore, it is being taken in very grotesque directions.
Personally I like to take long hot showers to relax and think. (See recent related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34289138 )

This would otherwise be expensive and wasteful of water and energy, but it doesn't take much of either to keep the shower flooded with steam. Plus I'm not drying out my skin while trying to stay warm with too-hot water; cool water in the hot environment feels great for wash 'n rinse. It also feels good to breathe the steam.
OpenAI's Greg Brockman: The Future of LLMs, Foundation and Generative Models
Except that vim was designed on a keyboard with the Ctrl key at the place of your current capslock (for most keyboards, Japanese still have Ctrl at the "right" plac).
I read the recent National Academies paper[1], and basically they say solar engineering is credible, high altitude sulfur is the only one of three ways that is known to be effective, and they want $100M over 5 yrs to study it. Basically, Luke is going to do that in 1 yr with $1M; they make a number of assumptions that I think do not help them (only considering airplane dispersal, for example). And their work on community building and further research would be helpful, but we just don't have 5 years to wait to begin to start on the problem.

[1] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/25762/chapter/8
Split the DB from the app and replicate with a load balancer?
Most of the colleges I'm familiar with have "college success" courses that purport to teach things like this. I took one. I recall not paying much attention to it because it was in addition to my normal course load.
Quote tweets I'd do as a reference and they'd basically have the cost of loading 2 tweets instead of one, so increasing the delivery rate by the fraction of tweets that are quote tweets.

Hashtags are a search feature and basically need the same posting lists as for search, but if you only support hashtags the posting lists are smaller. I already have an estimate saying probably search wouldn't fit. But I think hashtag-only search might fit, mainly because my impression is people doing hashtag searches are a small fraction of traffic nowadays so the main cost is disk, not sure though.

I did run the post by 5 ex-Twitter engineers and none of them said any of my estimates were super wrong, mainly just brought up additional features and things I didn't discuss (which I edited into the post before publishing). Still possible that they just didn't divulge or didn't know some number they knew that I estimated very wrong.
.. like I said above: ".. you've much to learn on the tenaciousness of a highly focused legal team - which is core to this lawsuit."
It's also useful if you want your app to update without being down, which even a single team might want to do.
Is it some new JavaScript framework or whatever? No. But it was technologically adjacent and I found it entertaining. YMMV.
Thanks for the edit because most students have no clue how to do it at all. Sure, doesn’t work for everyone, but at least a way to do it can be taught. It’s like handwriting. Almost no one reproduces the letters perfectly, we all have our own writing but if we didn’t start with the standard letters we’d have no place to start.
I imaging most people on this site did ok in school.
It’s pretty comfortable. I use it because sitting in normal chairs hurts my back. I’ve been using it ~4 hours per day
Depletion of groundwater is accelerating in California's Central Valley
> This is closer to disordered eating than healthy eating.

I believe she was losing what little weight she gained during pregnancy.

It’s not about suffering. Like I said, as long as you’re aware of it I don’t really care past the fact that I’m paying for it with my insurance premiums…but as someone else pointed out, it should be cheaper in the long run.
I thought they used the same "gumstick" batteries a lot of minidisk players used at the time. Were they something else?
It never was? Plastics are everywhere.

And most of the mineral nutrients in your food were indeed something’s poop at one point. I’m not sure how you want to escape that.