skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Yep, I think we need an about page, and maybe a few pull quotes from the articles. The first article from Ink & Switch is the canonical source of the name and the idea.

I think a lot of web consumer products (and dare I say SaaS too) are these days _not_ on your own computer like they were in the 90's or early 2000s. This isn't a call to return to those days, but it is a reminder that there have been trade offs in moving our productive lives entirely to other people's computers - both in terms of technical performance, but also conceptual ownership and the like. Can we rebalance a little?

So yes, the idea is exactly _not_ new. But a lot of products are built today without considering this tried-and-tested architecture as an option. This site & list of tools is just a friendly reminder that yes, there is another way.
Amazon closes $3.9B deal to acquire One Medical
> But it doesn’t explain why people have to delay children so long, which likely does reduce overall fertility rates.

I think it's much the same reason. When children are viewed as a giant economic and lifestyle cost, a lot of people will delay until they feel more ready. As things like good family housing become proportionally more expensive, it makes sense that people will want to wait until they feel more financially established in their careers and lives that they're comfortable taking on that kind of debt. And on the lifestyle front, there's more than ever that DINKs (dual-income no-kids) folks can spend their ample money and free time on, making having kids an even larger perceived opportunity cost. Why have kids in your 20s when you can't afford a house and can spend your time as a couple traveling or whatever when you can have kids in your 30s instead when you feel like you can better afford it and are maybe ready to settle down, or so the thinking goes for a lot of folks.
Some more context: if it were homogenous, that is only a drop of $16,429 per home for each of 140 million homes in the US.
Wasn't that Amazon's policy? And Microsoft's for much of it's former history?
Math Academy seems like it could be a game-changer for learning, it's a paid service and in beta-testing. They only cover math, though, at least right now.

In addition to presenting the topics and providing exercises, MA automates some tasks that are usually left to the learner, like spaced-repetition and tracking down prerequisite topics. They have a detailed DAG of math topics connected with dependency relations that enables this. Basically automation of a lot of what a tutor would provide.
I guess the devs are working on higher priority work and don't have the autonomy to choose what to work on
TBH, everytime I read about coroutines and their example usages I get stuck on the "why" question. If the example is a function waiting for data, a std::future seems a lot easier. If the example is a generator, a range/transform/filter or just a class that returns a std::default_sentinel iterator seems more appropriate.

The only reason I can see is lowering the overhead of creating threads, at the cost of harder to read controlflow.
Addictive substance in such tiny uses (a sip, the equivalent to 30 minutes of social media time/day), does not cause behavior changes over time. There is not a substantial study that demonstrates this. Remember, behavior changes are exceptionally hard to create.

Of course, alcohol guidance levels have been way too high for decades now, most modern orgs suggest less than 2 a week, and even use verbiage that states anything near or above 2/week increases health risks of all types - with zero upside. A dramatic difference from alcohol guidelines of yesteryear proclaiming a glass a day will improve your heart or whatever BS.

So this idea that full blown addicts are created by people who take a glass per week (the actual recommendation, not the alcohol industry funded one) or whatever is absurdity. Why were they using the substance in the first place? This will be a much bigger determining factor to their outcome - much like you can tell who social media is going to drastically affect by whether or not their support system embraces them.
It's a simple recursive descent parser, written in TypeScript from scratch. About 500 lines of code: https://github.com/astashov/liftosaur/blob/master/src/parser...
https://www.jcms-journal.com/articles/10.5334/jcms.1021217/ the artwork need to be transformative, non transformative artwork don't generate new copyright claims.
> think 30 year mortgage rates need to be below 4% before anything makes sense for me.

Or prices need to decrease, which can happen by increasing supply, as ProfessorLayton wrote.
And in a worse scenario, Russian fission attacks.
I think the problem is that once you get in that mindset, you start forgetting that you need to optimize/fix your application.

Having network issues due to slow async calls? Just increase instance size until the machine is so fast it completes everything before it becomes a problem. Now you are paying 10x more for something that’s a few hours of dev time.
Pimco-Owned Office Landlord Defaults on $1.7B Mortgage
Yeah look in my view it is possible, I'm a long way from being infallible. Maybe I misread and took a pretty different thrust the second time somehow? No way for me to know now. Anyway hence the request to @dang for a pretty obvious feature. "this post was edited after being responded to" flag.

If you didn't edit after the response I apologise for the suggestion.
Most of those starter homes are rented, not vacant.
For the last 1+ years I've been getting spam. I've marked it loads of times but it doesn't work.
I'll spend 30 minutes writing a short email, or many hours... just because I re-read it so many times. I re-read it every single time I've looked at anything else for even a second, because I'll feel like I need to refresh the entire context to add the next paragraph. I'll re-read the entire thing periodically as I write it, to make sure it flows alright. Every time time I read it, I fix every error I can find as I go... and then re-read it again with the corrections. I repeat until either I find no errors, or I don't feel like caring any more.

I've done this with essays spanning thousands of words. I'll re-read the entire thing every 5 minutes or so. I'm so paranoid about it.

And then I'll find out anyway later that I should've listened to some tiny doubt that I dismissed.
The smoking of the next generation is still smoking.
can you self-host this control d?
When I slow down driving through trickier areas in Seattle in that situation, most other drivers understand why I'm doing that.

I do that in the suburbs, and everyone loses their shit.
It's time for these people to get off their high elephant and write or fund a substitute, instead of doing nothing and whinging constantly just for the sake of gathering imaginary internet points.
I had a chance to see some of these robots in action recently (including the table cleaning one shown in the article). It is no doubt very impressive tech, but it was also pretty clear that they are at minimum years away from any real world application. And after that you still have to sort out issues with cost, maintenance, liability and a mile long list of edge cases.
>EVEN technical people, don't actually understand the Internet

Didn't Isaac Asimov write a documentary on this call 'Foundation'?
The sellers can’t sell either because the next house will have a disproportionate loan amount compared to what we’ve been paying. I’m in this situation and it is just keeping inventory low and listing prices high (for the few houses on the market).
Why would we want an AI that writes novels though? Is this a "to see if we can" thing?

Let's say this or some future AI system writes better novels than any human author at a fraction of the cost. Novel writing is solved.

What will we have achieved?

I wish I could opt out of this world you want to create, where if you achieve your vision, I will be utterly useless and obsolete.
I'm excited to give this a try.

Long story short, I worked through a series of concepts with a designer friend last year using GPT-3 with a similar target: longform. Our approach was not interactive, but rather that the need was for a batch mode, overnight tool.

I'm not really interested in having yet another JS library interrupt my real-time flow, which is quite quick, but is easily interrupted and I feel like we're at an inflection point where between grammarly and gmail our flow is something we remark about having when we read Csikszentmihalyi 20 years ago.

The results were pretty startling when using a corpus of text from a great writer, but less so with a smaller corpus of wanna-be David Foster Wallace work.

The one part of this that caused me to pause is this:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2277...

That is, the pre-order traversal vs. depth-first-search.

I'm outta my depth here not having a PhD in data structures and algorithms. My point is that from an authoring and marketing perspective, it would be clearer to me as an outsider and consumer, if the animation writ large the difference in terms of node traversal. Even after reading the stack exchange, you can see that I'm not alone in parsing this as the comments indicate the confusion. Without turning this into a Turing lecture, there must be a prosthetic device for understanding the deeper, underlying infrastructure.

Can you help?
My bet is that the semantic web is actually going to come this time. I think that before we did not all of the resources, but with the crypto hype dead this is going to be the actual next web.
It's interesting because it'd actually be very much in the banks self-interest if you did take your mortgage and transfer it to a better home that is now the same price as your original loan amount.

Presumably a home in the same area that is valued now at a time of high interest rates the same as your current house was during the time of low interest rates will be a nicer home. Having the higher valued home as collateral is a benefit to the bank.
They have the option to rent while they wait for the market to pick up, assuming they have another place to live.
I have had led lights for over a decade. Come 10:30pm every night I'm falling asleep with no problem.
>You can lower the SNR to the point at which it's unusable.

This would be the equivalent to blotting out an AM or FM radio channel by outputting white (or other) RF noise on a given frequency -- or frequency range.

>A system of distributed, hidden, state-sanctioned jammers doing C&C over a unaffected back channel would be roughly equivalent to "cutting an undersea cable", I believe.

Roughly equivalent, yes...

100% exactly equivalent, well, maybe not...

I don't know if Starlink is capable of frequency hopping or not -- nor the range of frequencies it is permitted to hop around in if it is -- but, if, let's say (for the purpose of discussion) that the following things were true:

a) Starlink can and does frequency hop;

b) The range of frequencies that Starlink is permitted to frequency hop in was infinite (1 HZ - infinite HZ) -- not true obviously, but if that that was the case,

then:

>A system of distributed, hidden, state-sanctioned jammers doing C&C over a unaffected back channel would be roughly equivalent to "cutting an undersea cable", I believe.

Yes -- but it would have to simultaneously broadcast white (or other) noise RF on all RF frequencies simultaneously -- and it would have to use a sh-tload of power to accomplish that.

The state-sanctioned jammers might have a lot of power to back them up -- but remember that the power of an RF signal falls away according to distance according to the inverse square law, that is, it does not fall off linearly, it falls off exponentially (like the light of an incandescent light bulb) -- so again, it would need one hell of a lot of power to block each and every Starlink (or other satellite) subscriber in a given country...

If Starlink only uses one set frequency -- then blocking would be a whole lot easier (no need to expend unnecessary power blocking multiple RF frequencies) -- so perhaps the "system of distributed, hidden, state-sanctioned jammers doing C&C over a unaffected back channel" -- with enough power, could in fact work...
It is so unusual to see clear and precise analysis on this topic. I particularly appreciate this turn of phrase, describing what Stable Diffusion does: “pull from an artist-chosen place in its massive table of probabilities to drive the generation of an image.”
Increasing supply runs into the same headwinds with increased rates. Probably worse because builders pay even higher rates for short term money.
I’m not sure how I feel about the source code. The file is meticulously organized and absolutely chock full of comments. But I struggle to follow the control flow at all.

Maybe if I spent more time with that style, it would click for me?
> That the top 8 universities ordered by wealth creation produced 35% of the wealthiest individuals?

Produced doesn't sound right. If anything, wealth attainment has declined with the rise of post-secondary schooling. Incomes have held stagnant. There is no sign of economic production.

"Those who come from wealthy families likely to choose amongst eight universities when selecting a university to attend" might be the most realistic way to frame this.
It would rain down french fries.
Sounds great but no example videos sadly. I wonder what it looks like before installing it.

Edit: Found one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCZTxzW6A0

Indeed very impressive. I'll try it now. I hope RTX performance keeps advancing so it's usable for ever more complex games.
This is a very long article and I didn't read it all, but I'm completely sure we can make LED bulbs which approximate the spectrum of incandescent if we want.
Progress toward affordable housing looks more like every boomer who did buy a house early dying and transferring their wealth to numerous gen x kids, and subsequently having marginally less political influence.
Honestly, I feel like German cars have an undeserved reputation for quality. German cars are superficially well built, quite fast, and make satisfying thunks when you close the doors. However, they are fairly unreliable, sensitive, and when they do fail, cost a lot to repair.

I'll take a Japanese car any day, however, Hyundai, Volvo, Skoda, Kia, Peugeot and Ford are also better engineered than most German cars nowadays in my opinion.
I had kids young. First one at 21 and my 2nd at 23. Now I am done having kids. Talking to friends, a lot of it is, it is a major financial burden. Now in their mid to late 20s, they are waiting because they hope in the future to be more financially stable.

Now my person opinion. Unless your a millionaire, your never financially "stable" enough to have kids. It is going to kick you in the "balls" one way or another. Rather it is affording diapers (not so steep) or child care (almost take a whole pay check for many people) or medical. With that said, there is a degree where if I had to do it over, I may have waited.
They are not a monopoly. Anyone can do the same. I believe two other companies are also launching Internet satellite services.
Cool hack! Thanks for laying out the steps in such detail. One specific comment:

>While the board was out, I removed the battery holder from the MPU board. The board needs 3x AA batteries to keep the CMOS RAM powered to maintain the high score list while the machine is off. I’d read that these batteries could sometimes leak onto the circuit board, causing substantial damage.

You can also use Lithium primary AA batteries, not to be confused with rechargable lithium-ion cells. They are better than Alkalines in just about every way, including that they do not leak. The only reason Alkalines are so popular is that they are slightly cheaper. In this application, you probably want the best cells possible.
You shouldn't be having children with the perspective of a financial payoff, free therapist, etc.

I don’t think parenting is a bad deal for the same reason any other kind of entertainment or fulfilling lifestyle choice is a “bad deal”
Good question!

So LLMs fundamentally do not encode the nature of facts and data. They're simply (well, no, extremely sophisticated) text prediction engines. There's no embedded comprehension. And that's basic to the approach companies like OpenAI are taking.

That's why it's so easy to find factual errors in the generated text from these models: they can create text that's pleasing, but that's as much as they can do.

The next leap, to generate language that's also accurate, will require new techniques to bake in actual understanding.

Until then, these models will always have issues with hallucinations.

Or, at least, that's my expectation. Certainly nothing we've seen in GPT 3, 3.5, or Bing, which is rumoured to be based on something close to GPT 4, indicates any advances in this area.
Like what’s the highest quality luxury brand now, Lexus? Given that it’s Toyota engineering behind it I’d assume they are still good but I’ve never been in that market so idk.
Compliance with standards makes zero sense if those standards are not optimal, or if they are outright garbage. Evolution of almost everything in technology is faster than the evolution of standards. And many standards were written by people dealing with really shoddy old ways of doing things.
Eh, your explanation makes it sound like the radar "image" is as divorced from physical coordinates as a spectrogram or a bar chart. Radar images are at least phyicalish... the asteroid does look similar to the image in real life. Doppler and range do roughly map to x/y. I hear it alot with SAR imagery as well - that we're not looking at a "physical representation". We are - there are just different anomalies to account for.
Funny that the author calls out Windows as being separate somehow. Hasn't the last 20 years of Windows been synonymous with adding more Posix-compatibility?
Ozempic Runs Low for Diabetes Patients as Weight-Loss Use Surges
What's the best temperature for a beverage fridge? (2021)
Not really unexpected or surprising. What I'd really like to see though is a similar list that differentiates between universities that help people create wealth vs those that just admit wealthy people to begin with.

The conclusion the article seems to be drawing is – regular people can't become centimillionaires because they can't get into Harvard. But is that really what this data shows? If someone pulled up the demographic of top country clubs, for example, they could similarly conclude that everyone who is a member of these clubs is rich, so if we just forced them to let in poor people we'd solve poverty.

The boring answer instead is – forget about Harvard and MIT and the rest of the top 10-20 "elite" schools and instead fund the state university system (funding still hasn't been restored since it went away nation-wide during the 2008 financial crisis), community colleges, trade schools and apprenticeship programs. All of these are a way more effective solution to getting a large number of people educated than constantly crying about Harvard's admission policies, but the latter is what drives online outrage and gets clicks.
The subject is about how the US sucks and should be critiqued. You're talking about defending what the US does around the world. I'm giving examples of how the US really is around the world, at least the Global South. What discussion do you think is happening?
Their rationale is probably because those two don't scale very well when you want to make their efforts count, whether bcrypt's hunger for CPU or Argon2's hunger for CPU and/or RAM. Bcrypt is very capable at bogging things down when you have lots of users authenticating very frequently, which is often the case with a POP3 server. A mere 100 e-mail clients authenticating every 2 minutes on average to check for new mail incurs a significant load even with a mild bcrypt work factor. On the opposite end PBKDF2 with 5000 rounds is much leaner, and if you enforce long passwords - which is immensely important no matter what password-hashing you use - then even fewer rounds are needed.
On the other hand, I see quite a few projects challenging The Way Things Are Done (Rust, NeoVim, Fish, OilShell, etc) to which there is a lot of kicking and screaming that things are fine. No need to change.
But that would require effort, organising and building!

I come here for the snarky comments and the “walking away feeling good” feeling, not actual action! /s

This post feels like it falls into the XKCD trap of “soon: there are 15 standards”

If you remove POSIX, what will replace it? If the answer is “nothing” then now on earth do you compete with a “build once run 99% everywhere else” mantra?

You’d end up with IE6 and ActiveX all over again, or HFS resource forks
This reads like someone whose spend a lot of time thinking about the problem and a lot less time working on the problem.

The main gist is: Why is memory shared between two processes?

The answer is: you can unblock a deadlock when you have a consumer and producer by just turning one of them on and off. In all other cases you can't. All the 'solutions' to that problem make assumptions about the processes sharing state which are somewhere between difficult to impossible to keep valid in the real world.

In short: 2 is a magic number and it's not the fault of posix.
HN does recommend stories. If the mods feel a story doesn't deserve its virality, they will manually weigh it down, if they feel a story isn't getting the visibility it does deserve, they will manually boost it. They will even sometimes replace the posted URL with one they feel is more relevant. This forum asbolutely does not place content based solely on user input.
For software-eating-the-world reasons, I'd guess. A chance to differentiate your product as software does more and more, versus a big chunk of the experience being within someone else's control and the underlying vehicle being an interchangeable commodity.

I haven't tried it personally, but people seem pretty passionate about the software on the leading electric vehicle brand, plus its associated do-everything phone app letting you control the vehicle, find a charger, or even order a new model.

The situation will probably be like smart TVs for quite a while: lots of janky experiences and user-hostile behaviour, because it's just so valuable to own a software platform that every company tries.
If you go through for the "great books" approach, just be aware that it's not the same curriculum as a major in mathematics:

> Mathematics is one of the many subjects studied in the college’s interdisciplinary great books curriculum. There are no majors at St. John’s.

It may be fulfilling from a humanistic/personal development perspective, but you won't really have the tools to do anything useful like cryptography, algorithms, physics, statistical inference, data analysis, etc., which, in my mind are the really cool things you can understand by learning math.
Some big mail carriers who are more FOSS-friendly should create a service where they will deliver your private mail-server mail to Google and Microsoft inboxes for you. So you can use your own mail server for every other mailbox with more reasonable filtering protocols, and when you have to send mail to a Microsoft inbox you just send it to them and they’ll forward it.

They could also provide Cloudflare-like spam and DDoS protection for receiving mail
I mean, 60 million sounds like a big number, but it seems that the average number of chickens slaughtered per day in the US is somewhere around 24 million birds.

I think you may underestimate the scale of poultry slaughter in the US.
Tesla names Palo Alto as second HQ less than 2 years after moving base to Texas