skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Consolidated RSS feeds for independent blogs?
I've been experimenting with a smart RSS reader and I've been using Superfeedr to ingest content. Superfeedr monitors RSS feeds and calls a webhook when content arrives, I stuff these into an Amazon SQS and then spool them out at my leisure.

My system requires a fairly high volume (1000's of articles) to train a machine learning model so I have been focusing on high volume feeds like preprints from the arXiv, news from the Guardian, etc.

Now Superfeedr charges 10¢ per feed per month, my bill right now is $3 a month. It's reasonable that I can subscribe to about 100 feeds on Superfeedr but subscribing to 1000 feeds seems pricey to me.

There are a lot of independent blogs out there that publish an article every week or every six months. What they all have in common is that somebody has to poll an RSS file many many many times per article ingested. W/ superfeedr it makes for high costs but it is a hassle even if I built my own RSS ingest system.

One thing that would help would be consolidated RSS feeds that aggregate posts from a large number of blogs. Are there good ones out there? Are there other answers to problem of polling hundreds or thousands of independent blogs?
If 3D printed firearms made gun production so accessible, then why aren't we seeing a proliferation of gun usage in countries where gun controls and purchase requirements are much more strict than the USA? Is it just because those are stronger societies so people are more apt to follow the law even if it technically easy to break those laws?

Backyard gun production has been something done in China for a couple of decades now, but you still see very little gun usage in that country where it is otherwise banned (backyard gun production is also a death penalty crime, so there are strong disincentives).
I'm glad there's representation for MBAs in congress.
I heard somewhere that moving along the metabolic disease path from pre-diabetic to diabetic can cause structural deformation of the eye lens rather dramatically due to increased blood sugar content and can be the cause of a symptom like, "I woke up one morning and couldn't read." Anyways, worth looking at diabetic markers in that age range even if my previous sentence is bunk.
Decent musicians will change to accommodate you, and your range/ abilities. Apart from that, various softwares can assist by transposing a tune, whilst not adjusting the speed. But it really sounds to me you could do with a vocal coach/ teacher for a while. Youtube has a bunch of 'vocal coach reacts to...' videos (as opposed to 'rock band reacts to...' etc). That may give you an idea of what type of vocal coach you might want.
I did not know this thank you for bringing it to my attention. Seems like a pretty feeble excuse from Cleverly though. In my opinion, anyone who's capable of it and wants to should study Medicine should be supported in doing so because the societal benefits are so great. The fact that we stop 17,000 from doing so is an absolute disgrace. We waste money on a lot of shit in this country, I'm sure the money could be found to send more people on to study medicine. It seems to be universal across the country that councils lay new block paving only to dig it up a few months later on a whim for some reason or another, that could be a place to start.
We're having an issue of employee churn, and I think a lot of that is 20+ years of tech debt is catching up and new developments are becoming extremely difficult.

I was just wondering if it would be good general practice to refractor piecemeal every couple of years. This would (in theory) reduce tech debt, and if the refactoring is done by relative newbies, you ensure the base is understood and stays fresh.

I haven't hashed out or thought this through yet, so happy to have holes poked in this idea
> Which is the same argument used to defend the exploitation of workers in banana republics.

This is a completely bad-faith interpretation of my comment. The OP and I were both talking about the cost of government services. If you want to frame that as a burden, that's on you. Banana republics didn't provide their citizens with trillions of dollars of government services.

> An argument which is trivially dismantled when we look at rural areas like the ones in my state where housing costs are increasing so quickly that people are having to move away

I guessed what state you lived in before I looked at your profile. Check where all the recent immigrants are coming from. NIMBYism in California is so bad that its effects spilled over to the entire west coast.
Crimes of lead; brainy T Rexy; misinformation; peripheral ideas; self-deception
I worked on a service called the Bill Auditor Service.
When people wanted to find out who, wait for it, audited the bills, they knew where to go.

And sure we had some services where their name no longer reflected their purpose.

Those were refactored and renamed when the time was right.
Shows up regularly in games of various sorts, both making and breaking. Imagine for some simple contrived example that:

Attacking in melee yields a damage of F(strength), let's say F(x^2)

Attacking in range yields a damage of G(dexterity), let's say F(x*10)

It takes 10 attacks to level up to the next tier. Who will output the most damage on their way from tier 0 to 14? Seems like a simple question, but that number is annoying enough to not be obvious, and an integral gives the answer easily. Integrated [0,14] [x^2 = 915] [10x = 980]. So the linear damage still just outpaces the exponential (in terms of total damage done). Their integrals are equal at 15, after which point the exponential takes the lead.
DA was an official, certified Apple developer. They even had him keynote an early WWDC (as well as Harry Anderson).

I always liked his take on Windows 95: https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/os_hype.html
> Opt-in would hugely limit the amount of material - possibly to the point where AI research becomes unviable for many applications.

Not necessarily a bad thing. If your tools require widespread breaking of existing laws, your tools are broken.

> it's a legal trade-off that should carefully weigh up cost vs benefit.

Cost: Loss of millions of jobs which are suddenly invalidated by the loss of copyright. Less content overall being created.

Benefit: AI can freely consume what content is left.

I think the cost is far too high.

EDIT: I'd also point out that the "natural" state of man is no laws at all - ownership of goods is enforced with only your strength of arms. I really don't want to live in that kind of world.
I have a bunch of 1-1's with my team but I tend to tell them it's not necessary unless there's something in particular they need to bring up. If business as usual, then skip it and focus on work. I'm not entirely sure if that's the right approach though. Thoughts?
I recently hired and working with someone for PCB design/manufacture low volume of IoT devices. As other threads mentions, you can always find folks on fiver and upwork.

Hardware academy is also good, where you can ask questions and meet other folks who build electronics products.

https://predictabledesigns.com/academy/

Happy to talk and give pointers, email in my profile.

Edit: I've no affiliation with hardware academy
I still think your "sorry I'm not really into social media" would have most likely ended it as well and would have come off a lot more polite. Could have escalated it if needed from there
Does this mean you only eat red meat and nothing else? Or that beef is the only type of meat that you eat?
You made a very nice editor, dismiss that clown. You are clearly also a great person. Do you have a channel for us to provide feedback or interact with the community? like a Matrix server, or should we just open issues in your repo?.
Electoral reform has been central to the Lib Dems plank since they first formed, of course they were going to go for the one shot at it they were ever likely to get. I was pissed off with them at the time as well, but in hindsight I was pretty ignorant of most of their platform at the time, which meant it was my unrealistic expectations of them that were broken, nothing more.
they won't leave those 10 billions gathering dust, they are expecting to raise their profit to a point where having 1/4 is more than keeping 1/1 today.

that or they let ChatGPT negotiate the deal.
Gaslight everyone you know into believing you're important, and act like you solve everyone's problems each time something happens- without actually doing anything.

Then proceed to post about all your "honest", "hard" work on social media.
If I recall correctly, Truth Social is a fork of Mastodon, right?
I think you're making a good point in general, but in this case I think we arguably did create an unsuitable environment for raising children, first with television and then the Internet itself.

I don't blame anyone, every step down this path has seemed like a good idea at the time, eh?
I stand corrected. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4984364/How-Hitler-... includes one example where Churchill's cigar was removed, and one where British King George VI was removed from a photo with the Canadian PM.

Still, the majority of examples, and the most famous ones, are Stalin, followed by various other dictatorships. But this example is apparently not a first for the UK.
hot take

It's rotten moss crushed deep into the permafrost:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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I got rate-limited for calling you coastal. Have a nice day.
Switching over to natural gas from worse fuels, which has been enabled by fracking, is responsible for most of the emissions reductions that have happened in the past decade.
Lol, that's a simple "no, I don't want to do that"
FTA!: “a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), eliminate the national income tax, and replace it with a national consumption tax.”

I guess they mean a (federal) sales tax because taxing at time of consumption is fairly hard to implement.
If you are happy working on your own and you don't need weekly 1:1s or support from your manager, feel free to suggest bi-weekly meetings. That's what I do with my manager.
We usually talk about how my current projects are going, what projects are coming up in the future. I also explain new methods or tricks I have discovered and we discuss if or how this could benefit others in our team.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVAIWfGBARk/

my problem was squeezing the MTA API parser into the ESP32 flash...

as long as you use off-the-shelf / already conforming modules, like the esp wroom etc, the cost for FCC compliance testing goes down into the thousands. it's still a line item, but over a run of 1000-2000 units, it turns into something that costs about a buck per board :)
What's your exercise regimen?
I also do something similar with my manager on a monthly basis. It's nice to just chat for a while, but I also really value the opportunity to discuss my work and career progression. From what I've read elsewhere, this is a pretty well regarded way to handle these.
> Not even HN gives you the ability to fix problems with this forum because they're afraid of what you'd be able to enable if they gave you access.

Can you provide a link, please?
Very cool! Here are some of my favourite Eastern European films, in case anyone wants recommendations.

Poland:

Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1965) !!!!

Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (1973) !!!!

Ziemia obiecana (1975) !!!!

Osobisty pamiętnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany (1986)

Pociąg (1959)

Pokolenie (1955)

Kanal (1957) !!!!

Popiół i diament (1958)

Czechoslovakia:

Holubice (1960) !!!!

Ostře sledované vlaky (1966)

Marketa Lazarova (1967) !!!!

Obrazy starého sveta (1972)

Spalovač mrtvol (1969) !!!!

Slnko v sieti (1962)

Zlaté kapradí (1963)

Údolí včel (1968)

Hungary:

Csillagosok, katonák (1967)

A Pál utcai fiúk (1968)

A tanú (1969) !!!!

Kárhozat (1988)

Két félidő a pokolban (1961)

Az ötödik pecsét (1976)

Szegénylegények (1966)

Szindbád (1971)

Szürkület (1990) !!!!

NOTE: the films with !!!! next to them are my absolute favourites and if you don't have time to watch all of these films, I implore you to at least watch these.
If only it made sense economically, I bet someone would do it. As desktop OSes are perceived to be free (comes at no extra cost with the hardware, including updates for multiple years), there's not nearly the same Return On Investment as in B2B cloud and server markets. RedHat realized this aeons ago, Canonical followed in 2017.

At the same time, commercial products are being downgraded in usability by nagging users to subscribe to paid add-on services, telemetry and ads. And you can't even pay to 'get back to sanity'.
I'm interested in this data center mode, has anyone ever gotten hold of the supplementary dash executable? Or was it gated in some way or not available?
I think that the broad strokes capture something real. Namely that an MBA does not qualify you to run a tech company.

As your examples show, it also doesn't disqualify you. In fact there are plenty of roles where it brings value.

But the model of "I have an MBA, I can run any kind of business" is dramatically false. You need to have useful theories about how the company actually works to run it. And the theories by which tech companies work usually make a lot more sense if you have a tech background.

There are exceptions - for example Meg Whitman did an excellent job of building eBay when she took over early on - but they are notable as exceptions. And I know of no exceptions among companies who are in one way or another primarily selling their tech expertise.
So I think this may be true for most, but as someone with awful workplace anxiety from shitty workplaces in the past it helps me tremendously to have touchpoints to hear that I'm doing ok and that my manager doesn't have any critiques/etc. This probably isn't the norm, so I think a middle ground of giving people the option to 1v1 makes sense.
To expand on the idea a bit here, I thought the point was like a huddle between plays for the players. Yes, there should be a communication line out of the huddle to get information and such, but by and large the idea is to empower the team to do things the way that they think it needs doing.
Seems logical to me when the technology of the era is taken into account. Having the application code running on the most powerful machine i.e the server and then sending the graphics commands to be rendered on your specialist graphics workstation would make sense. I don't know enough about the actual efficiency of the X Window protocol though.

But don't we model this type of protocol today with the web?
It's quickly apparent that the people impressed with ChatGPT's code are generally solving pretty toy problems and want an alternative to SO for "how to do X".
"Clojure for brave and true" has in my opinion an excellent section on Clojure tooling in emacs (which I wish i read when I was starting out with emacs).
In Russia it is slightly different.

Due to a number of good things inherited from the Soviet epoch. Working for money is imperative here too, but I would say it is bounding you on lesser extent.

University education is free, the government is fully subsidized a huge part of students. Base medicine is free, and the paid medicine of good quality is cheap even if you don't have regular Insurance. Electricity and other utility bills are relatively cheap. A number of common goods and food is cheaper than in the western countries. What's most important in my opinion that a lot of young people are inheriting real property from their grandparents. It's not always the house of your dream(usually small flats), but you gain a place to stay in and to start with for free.

And the country itself is relatively well developed in terms of common services and the opportunities you have around. By GDP(PPP) the country is around Germany[1].

All in all, here in Russia you may have an opportunity to make a work/life balance relatively easier than in Europe or North America.

It's sad to face that a lot of young people are looking for emigration.

I had been travelling a lot, and I was fascinated by the developed countries of the West too for many years when I was younger. I don't want to underestimate the opportunities you may have abroad, and also I don't want to underestimate the problems we have here in Russia. But honestly speaking in my opinion it is much harder to survive in the West than in the post-soviet countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
As a manager, here is what I usually want to discuss:

- No detailed work stuff. That's not for this meeting

- How are you doing overall in the company/team etc ? (I am looking to understand if you still want to be with us and if not, why not)

- What is working well so far that wants you to keep doing what you do. This should come from both sides

- What is not working well that you need help with so that you can do better. This should come from both sides

- Are you on the right path in the team/company ?

- As the manager, what can I do better which I don't do today ? This can be tricky but I want honest answers and I give honest answers to expect the same.

Most importantly: 1:1 is more about the person, the individual and not the output as an employee.
What do you mean? US sold some oil when it was expensive and buys it now when it's less expensive, and pockets the difference.
Yes. I know what you mean about vanity/jealousy, but if you ignore his usual self-serving drivel -- e.g., offhand dismissive comments like "I've been tracking neural net technology for a long time (about 43 years, actually)" -- he makes good arguments, backed with examples, in the OP. Like everyone else, he deserves credit where and when it's due ;-)
I don't even want to know what kind of cookies you're baking
I think if you're going to judge the tech, it's important to understand what it is. Basically, in both cases, you are bringing in the context to those questions. You know what those questions "mean" in the collective brain-space, and why they are sensitive. You did not neutrally pick those questions; you know those questions are already loaded.

Unsurprisingly, when you bring those pre-loaded questions to an AI whose job it is to continue the text in the way that was the most likely way to see it continued in the training text, you get exactly that.

Prompt the bare, unfiltered AI with antisemitic text, get antisemitic continuations. That's unfortunate, but in terms of what was promised and what was delivered, not surprising. You asked for it. You got it.

What I've never seen ChatGPT or any other GPT technology do is suddenly veer off into an antisemitic rant, unprompted. (At least, any technology that I know was GPT based. I'm not sure about Tay. Training the chat bot on its own input turns out to be a bad idea.) You can ask it to write a STTNG script where Picard discovers he has a son he never knew, but you won't see it suddenly spin off into an anti-Jewish rant. You didn't bring it. You didn't ask for it. So you didn't get it.

An AI that spontaneously dropped racism and antisemitism and all that sort of thing into a significant portion of the responses could be a problem. But an AI that simply gives you what you want is something different, in my opinion.

Worries about what that means in a larger context are currently not an issue, because the transformer-based AI that the GPT series is are fundamentally passive. There is no chance they will be fed a bad prompt and then go all Earworm [1] on $RACE. We still have time to deal with this.

My main objection is training the AI on generalized Internet text, and then trying to patch it after the fact, is just fundamentally ineffective, in a number of ways. For the goal of trying to prevent the AI from ever saying anything bad, it is an arms race and I suspect it will end up being advantage attacker in the end. For the goal of having the highest possible quality AI, trying to mask out its outputs after the fact is highly inimical to that. There's just no way this is a good solution.

At the very least, a far better one would be for the training set to be more discriminating in the first place. If nothing else, it is just generally bad engineering to put something into a system that didn't have to go in, then try to filter it out again after the fact. OpenAI would not have to be filtering out the antisemitism if they hadn't put it in the training set in the first place, for instance. It may be easy to just slam the entire internet in, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ
Game Programming Patterns, by Bob Nystrom.

Foundations of Game Engine Development (4 volumes), by Eric Lengyel.
I dont know... high voltage and gas fumes dont sound like they mix.
Duelyst game open sourced by developer
> Would this eliminate the federal income tax leaving state and lower taxes?

The proposal “gets rid of the national personal and corporate income taxes and abolishes the IRS…as well as implements a national sales tax. Additionally, the bill gets rid of the death, gift, and payroll taxes.”
How do you know they are wasting money and compared to what?
I realized in my 50s that I had been reading less and less for many years. I didn't know why, and it bothered me. Then, one day in the drug store, they had these reading glasses on one of those wire displays. On a whim, I tried one on. My gawd! I could see! My vision had declined so gradually I didn't notice it, but the reason I wasn't reading anymore was because of the effort to make out the letters.

The reading glasses solved that problem, and I was reading again. I also had been in denial and finally got progressive lenses for my glasses.

I know this is not your particular issue, what's happening to you sounds awful.
Makefiles for web work
> They're literally concentrating power into a multibillion company (MS) and are making MS their main financial priority

They were arguably concentrating power by themselves and the charter had become complete BS well before this rumor had surfaced.
It’s a 25% difference!
adafruit sells most of the parts you need if you go the DIY route https://www.adafruit.com/product/5362

great tutorials too https://learn.adafruit.com/rgb-led-matrix-cube-for-pi
Changed 10 managers in 5 years so I stopped caring what we're discussing in our 1-on-1s after a while.
The (I guess related) thing I noticed in the US was not just the portion sizes but the drink sizes. A small coffee looks like it comes in a milkshake cup. Soft drinks are enormous and/or come with unlimited refills.

I wonder if people who are paying attention to what they eat are equally as conscious about what they drink.
Repeating and periodic are not the same. Seeing a singed tree or a spun out car tells you nothing about how frequent these events are. They do tell you this place is likely to see those events, at any rate.
I don't think that is the case. Pretty much all distros have an X server available. A few distros install some desktop environment out of the box and some of those use a desktop environment that uses a Wayland compositor instead of an X server using the kernel graphics APIs, but even in those environments there is an X server (XWayland) right above the compositor (technically you can have a Wayland setup without XWayland but that'd just make the desktop less useful so i don't think there is any distro doing that by default - though even if there is, i don't think it'd be majority).

But TBH i think most distros either use X server based environments or do not provide a default OOTB environment at all.
You have to keep slowing down to maintain the gap which causes more problems.
Well, you can always choose this: https://www.hwlibre.com/en/troll-duino/