skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to buy and eat organic brussel sprouts from Trader Joe's. Then one day, for some reason, I decided to take a closer look, and found a little green worm crawling about. After removing it, I found another, and another, until I lost both the count and my appetite.

I read that it's normal for brussel sprouts to have these kinds of worms in them, so I must have eaten lots and lots of them. Shrugs, but I can't stand the sight of the worms, so I have never bought brussel sprouts, anywhere, ever since.

I still eat them at restaurants. But only if they're fried or grilled, because that decreases the chances that I'll see a worm.

Unfortunately thanks to this article I'll probably avoid dried figs now because I can't disassociate the visuals.
It sometimes gets mentioned that Google and related companies often hire in order to keep talent away from their competitors. If the competition is not in a position to hire, or is laying off employees, then that makes it harder for Google to justify their headcount.
Ask HN: I want to train a LM on my home country's dialect, how can I do it?
I'm from Algeria. The language spoken on a daily basis by almost everybody is a weird mix of different languages : french, arabic, english..etc.

I was thinking of grabbing data from tweets to fine-tune the model. I may be able to figure out other sources, but it's not gonna be much better than that. Just short-form text for the most part.

I was thinking of potentially leveraging the smaller models I came across recently (nanoGPT for example) or something similar.

I'm tech-savvy enough to make this work but I'd like some feedback from people more knowledgeable than me before I spend time and effort into this.

Thanks!
Bodegas are big in France. Big bagpipes. https://www.cornemusesoccitanes.com/bodega/
I think with this American police stuff, a lot of people are missing a simple truth.

>This is just the "not all cops" with more words. Where are the good cops?

They're not in the same police departments as the bad cops. This is what people miss.

The good cops you don't hear about, because they don't have a lot of problems. Instead, you hear about the bad cops in departments like the LAPD and NYPD (and many other much smaller departments). The good ones don't make the news, but the bad ones usually make the news multiple times.

>They aren't speaking out. If they do such things, they get fired.

Exactly. So the bad cops tend to congregate together into bad departments. It's exactly like the rotting apple trope people keep misusing and not understanding. The bad apple makes the whole barrel rot quickly. So if you see a department with a few bad cops, most likely they're ALL bad. The good departments get rid of the bad cops before they ruin the place.

This isn't to say that most departments are good, or bad; I really don't know. But I do believe there's good cops out there, but they're not in the same departments as those shitty cops that are in police gangs like you mention.
In an ideal situation, you'd get all "planned maintenance" emails for things you care about and no emails for the rest of them.

That (probably) means that the system for dealing with planning maintenances (well, usually, "approving them") needs to have a sufficiently good understanding of what humans care about what changes.

At a previous job, the planned change tracking system was REALLY good at tracking what specific compute facility was going to be impacted by any specific change taking place in that facility. And had a really good way of allowing you to filter for "only places I have stuff running" (and I think, even some breakdown of general change types as well).

It was, however, not easy to get notification of "there will be maintenance on submarine cable C, taking it off-line for 4 hours" or "there will be maintenance at cable station CS, taking cables C1, C2, and C3 down for 3h". And as one of the things "we" (the team i worked in then) was doing was world-wide low latency replication of data, we did actually care that cable C was going to be down. But, the only way we could find out was "read all upcoming changes" and stick them in the team calendar.

Was it good? Eh, it worked. Was it the best process I've seen? Probably ,yes.
I didn't intend to be taken literally, I was more commenting on the habit of trying to find technical solutions to social problems while ignoring the underlying causes
glibc 2.34 and above. That version isn't in any RHEL (will be in RHEL 10).
Well I don't know here age but since she had a two year old child in 2017 according to the article, she's probably isn't retired yet. And she's apparently still writing for the Guardian, so definitely not retired.
Gosh, the first screenshot took me back. The MIDI player was part of a set of apps that came with the SoundBlaster 16 that stacked together like hifi separates. There was a CD player and a WAV player as well. Haven't seen them in, oooh, 25 years.

http://calmira.net/screenshots/andrew.htm
> For example: hot upgrading. The fact that an Erlang process can tail call itself means that you can swap in a new process with the same signature at the tail call of the old process. Nobody else does this that I know of

common lisp is in a league of its own when it comes to hot reloading and debugging
Do you use this as an alternative to paredit?
It was just a quick, rather undeveloped idea.

Regarding (2), I think categorical database schemas might be an answer. But it still pretty much theoretical.

I am not really sure about (4). I think it would be a mix of both, although the actual Terraform operations would be treated as primitives.

I think (5) doesn't have to be a constraint solver, it might be just a language where you marry the resources (and the way they scale, also described in (4)) with the actual computation, even if it was all explicitly specified. (Constraint solving it is another level.) Basically, (5) describes the final architecture of the system, while (2) specifies what needs to be computed and (4) specifies what resources are available to do any computation.
Love and Indifference are two very separate things.

The amount of times I've seen a litter put in a sack and either thrown into the trash or a river, is not less than 1.
You can ask us directly such questions.

When we started, we were unsure how to cover the costs of the free tier which were becoming steep. One of the ideas was to allow internal advertising of paid users towards the free users for their products and services through text banners on incoming messages. We did not like that after all and preferred to drop the free plan all together.

Btw. When you register a company, you want to give it the widest possible scope, to avoid later paperwork. The purpose in the Handelsregister is completely irrelevant to actual operations, as long as it is larger in scope.
https://CubeTrek.com

I'm building an app to track hiking, mountaineering, mountainbiking, trailrunning and skiing activities , including 3D visualization (I live in Switzerland, so it's usually always either up or down and that's hard to visualize on a 2D map) and easy comparison of past efforts on the same track.

It currently integrates Garmin and Polar devices.

Here's an example of what it looks like: https://cubetrek.com/view/6338

contact info: contact@cubetrek.com
Most planes in the US perhaps. The rest of the world it's actually uncommon unless you're on a long haul flight.
How much are you going to regulate and stop? Game engines currently give photorealistic realtime content.. stop unreal and metahumans too? What about v6 of unreal?

What if this same repo was owned by Nvidia and it had some commercial interest on that product and were ready to litigate.. would everyone still pileup on it?

Is it not on some level disdain that it's just run by a bunch of guys that can be pushed around without much consequence.

Would we have a thread saying, screw it shut down ChatGPT, doesn't fit my moral world-view.. why is that absurd but this is fair discussion?
> And I think some people do need a reminder that it’s not helpful to generalize large groups of people.

Being a cop is not an identity.
I dont understand 3.
My point was that it is not a two-day hack job, as claimed above. It is in no way a unique challenge, but neither is it trivial. Probably take multiple man-months for a small team that has built similar systems before.
There may be some good cops, but I think they get crowded out by all the scum around them or by their strange loyalty behavior where no cop would say anything bad against another cop - at worst they die because of it, or they need another job, or they get transferred to another police station in the middle of nowhere.
Sounds like big business as to much influence on what government does.

Here an interesting thought, Just as we've mostly in most places separated government from religion, is it time to talk about doing the same between business and government?
… Why would they do that, tho?

Like, the real world exists, just outside the door. I think VR advocates possibly are inclined to overestimate just how much people will like VR. It seems fairly plausible that it remains a niche hobby.
What's your current professional background?

Robotics is a wide field with many opportunities:

- Computer Vision
- mechanical hardware
- path planning and localization, SLAM
- Control engineering
- Software engineering
- ...

Then, there are plenty of more business oriented roles:
- Application engineering => how can robots solve the customers problem
- technical sales / marketing
- ...

I think it makes the most sense to leverage your previous experience to move into the field and than find out how to continue. E.g. Start as an application engineer and then move towards control. Or if your background is ML/AI, Computer vision and then progress into another field.

> Actually kind of surprised that there are still so few robotic jobs and companies. Guess it is harder then I think...

Robotics takes a lot of people and money. Hardware, Software, an actual problem to be solved, ... I think once we are seeing a platform(s) to build robots more easily, there will be more companies as well.
Was curious about the maverick positioning of the company. Emailed the team twice last month, got no answer :(
A plugin for Microsoft Teams called "Waffle" that watches the transcript of the meeting. If you suddenly realise you have been asked a question, or are supposed to say something, but you havent been paying attention, you press the "Waffle" button and ChatGPT feeds you some anodyne lines to say, based on the last few minutes of the meeting transcript.

Well I think you've all raised some really interesting points, maybe we should circle back and think about the new issues listed in the risk register
Scientist have moral responsibility not to build weapons of mass destruction for example. Too bad even Einstein couldn't keep with your advice. Scientists are sometimes not so smart. They can be fooled like anybody else.
Gatsby Is Joining Netlify
"Do you want pirates? Because that's how you get pirates"!
Hype Will Turn Your Security Key into Junk
>It is that simple - what exactly makes you imply that it is not?

Have you thought about that statement for literally more than a minute?

If you abolish the police, and fire every officer, what do you replace them with?

Here are some options:

Literally nothing - Okay, and the next time a man murders his partner, does that man just carry on? Who arrests him, who investigates? This option is clearly worse than the existing system. The rich pay for private security and the poor are terrorised by organised criminal gangs.

Something about "community policing" - Who appoints them? Who pays them? Are you, at best, just recreating the police with zero institutional knowledge and experience? At worst, this is just a power vacuum that will be filled by the only other organised violent group - criminal gangs.

Something about despatching social workers before interpersonal crime happens, and maybe abolish capitalism so theft and sexual assault will (magically) no longer be an issue - wishful thinking.

Do you have any better options?
Let's just say it the way it is: russia is attacking Ukraine, a free nation. Russia is committing atrocities and war crimes against Ukranian people. When russia stops fighting and leaves Ukraine, the war ends. That is all there is to it.
Yeah, see, the fine print kills it. It's a "rock solid"* desktop, it does everything I want.

* Unless you use large network mounts, as long as you drag icons one at a time, for a fixed screen resolution, doesn't apply to Wayland, only until the next major rewrite...
You dont have to be feel guilty about it. I can understand that non - Western countries dont teach Western (or German) history.

In Germany we didnt talk about India as part of the British empire. My scarce knowledge is based on talks with an Indian friend and Wikipedia.
Also there are many many genocides unfortunately.
One is an Operating System you buy and pay for, to run — ostensibly — your computer.

The other is a website you visit for a specific genre of news.
If its that important to your grade, could you not shell out for the paid service until your project is completed? I'm assuming this is a semester project of some kind, and probably not terribly high-traffic, so it shouldn't be too expensive. I know it sounds like giving into extortion because it more or less is, but at 40% it sounds like a serious chunk of your grade that it might be worthwhile if you factor in the cost of learning to not rely on someone else's charity.

The last part isn't meant to chastise you. Twitter's API has long been free to access so it wasn't unreasonable to assume it would be so. But it has been true pretty much forever that you should not rely on someone else's goodwill and charity for a critical part of your project or business.

(None of this is to say that this change isn't being badly managed, just that I think you still have options here, despite being somewhat unpleasant.)
Humans Need Play
When a Lisp is your first or one of your first languages, it’s apparently much less of a problem.

Racket is probably one of the best languages to start with. Incredibly beginner friendly and complete, uniform tooling.
Being a teacher is an identity. Being a programmer is an identity. Descriptively speaking, without even thinking about why things happen some way, people identify themselves and others with their work. Being homeless is an identity too.
Ask HN: Any reliable epigenetics test to recommend?
I’ve been reading a lot about our “biological age”, as opposed to our anagraphical age, and found several companies offering epigenetics tests online (Elysium, MyToolboxGenomics, Mount Sinai, etc).

I would really appreciate if you could suggest a reliable, credible test provider. Thanks!
Nothing is known, but if we assume the basic events are not fabricated, then the behaviour of an F-35 was somehow altered by a fired missile. If such a missile detonated within a radius of maybe 30-40m (or something) then damage would have been substantial. If greater than maybe 100m (or something) there would only be mild damage, but that means the missile wasn't tracking the target. This scenario would also not be surprising.

If true, I don't think it necessarily presents the F-35 poorly. But it's only a rumour. And if true, it most likely would be classified as secret, since reporting it would be like handing the enemy a damage assessment report.
The IT Crowd!
Eggs stay fresher longer in the fridge. It's as simple as that. Whether you refrigerate them depends often on how long they are going to be hanging around.
I use forward proxy, not reverse proxy. It requires minimal effort. No containers needed.

Not a caddy user, but I believe caddy, with a plugin, can function as a forward proxy.
> I live in a country that does not have a problem with police brutality.

Yea I really doubt that. You're likely just not the target.
Modern day crystal ball reading with some complicated maths to give it the air of credibility
I really love Elixir (and somewhat Erlang) and all the mental models and how developing in the ecosystem feels like, especially with phoenix/liveview.

Having said that, nowadays anything that can't really run on AWS Lambda is a nonstarter in any company tech discussions, no matter how cool/productive it is. The operational benefits of serverless are simply too great especially when trying to scale up.
Not sure what's your use case but have you tried fine tuning the cheaper models?
I wonder how Muslims and Turks reconcile insects being haram and dried figs containing them. Anyone care to explain?
Would you go for contractors also?
Care to share one of the nightmare
Totally agree. But I'm tempted solve this by adding MORE AI. Have the tool prompt GPT to quiz you about the new card, or force you to use a new language vocabulary word a bunch of times. Maybe even argue against you adding the card and try to convince it it's worthwhile information.

USER: Add a new Anki card for, "It is important to set a high standard from day one."

GPT: That seems like generic advice. Of course high standards are better than low standards in a vacuum, but everything has a cost. Being too rigid in setting high standards may limit the business's flexibility to adapt to changing market conditions, customer needs, and technological advancements. Are you sure high standards are that important?

(That criticism actually generated with GPT, using the example the author of the tool Tweeted.)
They keep raising it every time I hear about it…it used to be L4, now people say it’s L5/senior. And you’re saying it’s L6? I can’t keep up with this :/
Pandemic, I think
Agreed, I'll be waiting for more information - but it's even more mad that I have to wait until 'next week' for that, a mere handful of days before the shut off date as well.
In a way, type-systems are less powerful non-turing-complete languages that are guaranteed to halt, thus can be checked at compile-time.

I think we need powerful but easy-to-restrict languages. Can you mark that function as pure, as not safe? that kind of thing.
> Something about despatching social workers before interpersonal crime happens, and maybe abolish capitalism so theft and sexual assault will (magically) no longer be an issue - wishful thinking.

Nice job conflating a real solution in with a bunch of straw men.
Great. Now I’m going to be haunted by a recurring dystopian vision of the future in which all content (even broadcast TV) is pumped out this way to maximise profits. Humans won’t use their brains for creativity anymore. Instead, new ideas will be seeded deep inside a neural network somewhere, and our reactions will be monitored and used as one constant feedback loop. Until we are ultimately just sat drooling and giggling 24/7 at some optimised computer generated content buffered by lucrative advertising.
Possibly, but I doubt the L9 was disclosed.
The US is run by and for corporations
Ok I am apparently just cursed!
Yeah, but what's the difference then?
https://triumvene.com/

Project Description: D&D with less fighting and more trolley problems.

I'm building a non-combat focused TTRPG. Happy to give any HN readers a free account to play around with. There's no VTT element and there's no plan to build one; instead it's focused on group storytelling and logging the story, rather than combat and world management.

The world and rule set is very much built to be around levelling the playing field so the GM isn't expected to buy everything and be the centre of the world. Instead, players have as much agency as the GM does, and the world lore is free to access.

Registration link - https://triumvene.com/#/portal/register

Sign up for the free preview and I'll upgrade you to a full account.

Contact info - pete at watson-wail dot es
IIRC the twitter website goes to great lengths to mangle itself to prevent ad blockers presumably.

Of course this used to have the side effect of breaking significant swathes of basic browser UX, especially in areas of accessibility. I assume they’re better now than they once were, but given musk’s historical behavior I assume he won’t consider breaking something like accessibility to be bad or problematic.
If you can make 600k a year, a few years in a row (let's say three). How does 1.8M in hand stack up against starting your own business, with maybe a bigger potential number, but a lower statistical chance of making it there.
High concentrations of salt or sugar act as an universal preservative. A dried fig shouldn't have fungus grow unless harvested after rain, or in a non mature state, or stored for too long in humid conditions.

White powder in the surface of dried fruits is not bad necessarily. Is a common sign of accumulation of fructose crystals that ooze during the drying process. Dried persimmons have it also. This powdery coat is desirable and adds a delicious floral taste, so is an error to wash the fig before eating it. Unless the fruit has been treated with something and it smells like chemicals shouldn't be a problem at all.

Smyrna [1] type figs will always have remains of fig-wasps inside. You can't produce a Smyrna without fig wasps. They are known as the best tasting figs exactly by this. The fig wasp pollinates the fruit and the fig seeds add a very desired crunchy and almond flavored taste to the sugary flesh. Much better than the other types of figs by a mile. Wasps are a few millimeters only and don't taste line anything.

Smyrna figs can be cultured only in Mediterranean and hot climates. If you don't want wasps, can be easily avoided buying only the common varieties of figs that never had seeds inside. The origin of the product in a "cold" area will guarantee this.

[1] (Smyrna is a Turkish city famous by its figs that named an entire category, so lets assume that Turkish figs are "Smyrna" type and not "common" or "San Pedro").
If you assign 95% of the memory to postgres, then yes, it is realistic for page-table to grow several GBs under long and heavy workloads so machine will eventually run into an OOM, especially if you use vm.overcommit_memory = 2 (never overcommit).

Mitigating the OOM by switching to hugepages may suggest that you're running a kernel with the optimized page-table hugepage handling because of which there are less page-table entries and consequently the whole page-table ends up being smaller. Currently, I have no other explanation.
You should change your font then!

(pause for applause)
Which toothbrush is so much better than a regular one that it would be the difference between tooth decay or not? It's mostly up to how often you brush and floss, not how many LED's your toothbrush has.
Depends if the wind blows it away.
That's very cool. The 3D visualisation is great. Going skiing soon, I will try it out
The most famous example is Winston Churchill, whose mother was American, but under the laws of the time US nationality could only be passed on by the father.
Anki's key benefits stem from its utilization of two highly supported and extensively researched pedagogical strategies: (1) retrieval practice and (2) spaced repetition. In contrast, the practice of note-taking, which essentially entails summarizing information in one's own words, has been found to have 'low utility' in academic literature. [0]

[0]: https://sci-hub.ru/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26173288/
Pensions and social security, as wrll as health insurance, have nothing to do with citizenship. The key is emoloyment (or voluntary contributions) when working in Germany. That applies to every EU citizen (usually no working visa required) and people working in Germany with working visas.

Obviously, it is more benfitial to gather pension in a high cost and salary country (e.g. Germany) and retire to a low cost country. No idea how UK pensions compare to German ones.

One health insurance benefit German citizenship gives you, is the option to keep German health insurance, also covering health care abroad, as an expat for up to 5 (?, might be ten) for close to nothing. For some funny reason doing so while based in the US is considerably more expensive than the rest of the world...