skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also promise to notify you before your domain expires, but don't, and only allow you to renew free domains shortly before expiry. I think they also may disable/release your domain, also without warning, if your web server serves errors.

If you need a throwaway domain for some joke project, sure, but they make their free domains as hard to use as possible to get you to pay, and once you pay, you might as well pay any of the more competent (and more likely to still be around tomorrow) competitors.

My current go-to "I need to host this somewhere with a reasonable name" is Cloudflare with its pages.dev service. You can just upload a ZIP file and get free hosting and a something.pages.dev subdomain.
Ok, thanks for that. That is sort of what I had in mind. To the extend that it inhibits urban sprawl, I think that's a great thing. So many neighborhoods have been ruined by urban sprawl. There's one neighborhood near me that was ruined by all these strip malls. Almost every inch of ground covered by asphalt. Its a real eyesore. I suspect when people think of new development they envision waves of urban sprawl like that.
I learned software engineering on the job. I learned marketing in school as part of a business degree.
Nerd Fonts Considered Harmful
Not to mention Jira.
(German) wikipedia mentions it is a relatively expensive sugar replacement. Maybe that's why it is less popular. Interesting is that it is pretty common in multiple plants (it sounds more natural at least)
> More to the point, more valuable the related search is per amount spent on advertising, the more the noise and as result, more resources user will need to spend to enhance the signal.

This sounds like an argument of, The worse Google Search becomes the more time a user has to spend their and therefore see more ads.

But it has a very large hole in that the worse Google Search becomes the easier it is for a user to switch to Bing/DDG/Apple Search. It may seem unfathomable that people wouldn't use Google Search but people felt the same way about Google Maps which lost a huge moat to Apple Maps/Waze (albeit the latter was purchased by Google).
List of other massacres in India for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_India
Yeah and I believe they lifted zoning restrictions before covid as long as something like 20% of the units are low income? Somebody might check me on that.
After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love–and what comes next
Acting differently from other people could mean you are a poet, an astronaut, or a race car driver. But in the mental health context you are only abnormal if people think you are.
Encryption plus a single rewrite is likely many times more sufficient than ever needed.

Even if there is a massive 10% block reserve, you looking at a random 10% of an entire encrypted drive.

Figuring out how to just decrypt those blocks is a very hard challenge, then figuring out the SSD block mapping is going to be very challenging, and then for a chance to maybe get something valuable from that 10%.

Multiple very difficult challenges for only a chance of maybe recovering something useful.

Related, I just had a hard drive head crash. I was able to use dd_rescue to read out 40% of the drive before it fully gave out. It's amazing, but at least NTFS stores data everywhere. I recovered a few small plain text file, but not a single image was recoverable. It was pretty shocking to me.
Majority of monk fruit sold online & in stores is actually mixed with Erythritol anyway.

Top 5 hits on Amazon for "monk fruit sweetener" all have Erythritol. Some mention it in the product name, some later on in description, etc. Have to read very carefully.
On the bright side, our carbon emissions will go way down
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Epilepsy-specific ketogenic diets aren't recommended for people who don't have epilepsy. Their high-fat content far outweighs keto diets for diabetic patients or people on keto diets for general weight loss.

Also, keto diets don't affect someone's schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
> the random device

/dev/zero would be sufficient.

Also easier to confirm things worked (if desired) since you know what to expect on read-back.
https://archive.is/hjGJX
Amazing how many people are coming out of the woodwork cheerleading Erythritol and artificial sweeteners in general.

It is by far the easiest thing to just avoid all of them completely. Use sugar sparingly and stay far away from anything sweetened with HFCS, especially since almost everything sweetened with HFCS tends to contain absolutely outrageous amounts of it.

Easy for me, all these artificial sweeteners taste absolutely disgusting. But I'm also one of those people who just doesn't eat much sweet stuff at all other than fruit.
The 'machines' may have been maintained, it doesn't mean the filters installed on the waterline before the machines were. Properly functioning UV filters kill bacteria, there would be no way to introduce bacteria into the system from the waterline if the UV filters were working adequately (assuming the upstream carbon filter wasn't acting like a reservoir exceeding the specs of the UV filter also due to lack of maintenance).

Since the other machines elsewhere didn't have these filters, it's safe to assume nobody had them on the maintenance list and serviced them.
> never forget that tap water is not sterile.

Which isn't a problem in most cases, but in this case it was also a case of an improperly cleaned machine; it apparently relied on some chlorine in the water to limit bacterial colonies. I think that would be fine overall, but only if the machine was emptied and thoroughly disinfected regularly. I can imagine a machine like that would also be a source of legionella.

Over here, after a major legionella incident [0] got 318 people sick of which at least 32 died, they're paying a ton more attention to it with things like public fountains, but they also seal firehoses nowadays - they would on occasion be used for utility like hosing things down, but then be unused for a long time, causing legionella and other nasties to build up in the room temperature water contained in the hoses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bovenkarspel_legionellosi...
Good luck with the non-subscription part these days.
I don't think that follows? Just because a better method exists (the inverse) doesn't make the original perform better.

Imagine the following method: take whatever the bit was, and set it to the opposite of that. 0% < 50%. Of course you can invert and get 100%, but that's a different method. It doesn't make the original any better.
The 65 billion model is 160 GB so no - unless you request larger storage spaces from github. 7 billion and 13 billion should fit though.
It isn't doing it right now.
I believe that has been reduced to EAA members getting 50% off the SOLIDWORKS for Makers edition (normally $99/yr).
Show HN: Plato – Airtable for your SQL database
Hi! I've been a member of HN for fifteen years so today I'm very excited to share Plato.

Plato is an Airtable-like interface for your Postgres or MySQL database. It's an admin panel for devs and non-devs alike to manage your DB. We see teams use Plato for customer support, customer success, ops, etc..

We built Plato because we think more people should be able to build and extend internal tools. We thought it was strange that even though low-code is supposed to democratize development, all of the low-code internal tool builders are marketed to engineers! Airtable is a familiar UI that fits the relational model well, so we've been inspired by their work. Even the engineers on our team use Plato quite a bit, since it's often easier than spinning up a SQL prompt.

Some features:

- Postgres and MySQL support

- Visual query controls (sorts, filters, hiding columns). No SQL.

- Joins by "expanding" foreign keys

- Virtual columns for tracking new data

- Auto-generated backlinks for one-to-many relationships

- Read-only locking for individual tables

- Virtual tables for sharing new views with your team

Plato today works on databases with a public IP (just whitelist our IP to connect), but we're soon rolling out an on-prem version. We can also set up an SSH tunnel for you if you contact us at team@plato.io.

We'd love to hear your feedback! Thanks.

- Michael
Any “hard” science fiction on that list? Something like Permutation City.
>Technically pure water is an acid.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insane-golden-chamber-contain...

scroll down to the "Terrifyingly pure water" section for a fun read on how fun really pure water can be.
7 or 8 percent chance of apocalypse is low?
If we had functioning government, this could possibly work.

Instead, in the current national regime, it has a tendency to ossify current laws. Most legislation can only pass when the stars align (one party has house/senate/president), so even fine legislation would regularly ‘expire’ and not get renewed.

Business planning is also thrown by self destructing legislation. A stable regulatory regime allows businesses to invest appropriately and optimally. Changing regulations more often (via expiring laws that might or might not renew) will necessarily introduce inefficiency.
That only happens when the market is a monopoly. Unfortunately, software, as it is now (i.e. almost completely uregulated), is super conducive to breeding monopolies.
> often vastly

Well, there are two exaggerations.

But time limiting laws won't work. There will not be enough time to review them before they expire, so they'll all be extended en masse. It'll just be another bureaucratic step that costs time and work.
> It hasn't mattered in the real world in a decade.

This is not true at all. There are plenty of such systems, run by major companies, in daily use. It isn't the most common case, but it certainly matters in important parts of the real world.
See I figured someone would say that. You make sense, so I will post it, I'll wait for your opinion
So you agree then
Credit Card Nation: How we went from record savings to record debt in just 2 yrs
It's a set of hurdles that I think wouldn't hurt. Plus more reasonable retention periods to limit the impact on the people around them. I think that would be positive. At least that way police have to intentionally select which cameras to pursue instead of just asking Ring for data on an entire neighborhood what I assume is happening now.
I think they made it pretty clear this is a tool to confront the "blank canvas" problem, aka writer's block. For me, this has been the best use of tools like stable diffusion and chatgpt; when I'm trying to be creative, I just start typing in the text box, and then with a few prods from the AI the ideas start flowing.
A way to “surface reliable information quickly” is to “find relevant web pages quickly”…so is extracting and summarizing info from the internet that matches the query using AI. You quoted the end, and said you instead wanted the means
WA House passes bill banning single-family zoning
I opened the twitch AI seinfeld stream once and stumbled into a conversation that went something to the effect of:

George: I really like that orange sweater

Jerry: Yeah, I just found black so depressing

George: Orange is such a great color! Orange is the new black.

...
Most of the real-time Linux kernel has been ported into mainline. Mainline is perfectly capable of producing stable low-latency audio, as long as you're running on threads with real-time priority.

The real-time kernel provides additional improvements. But it's incredibly difficult to find up-to-date real-time kernels these days.
Pretty much just gerontocracy life. It is common for many societies to take this path. Repeated technology successes by the youth have permitted California to keep the machine going but the old here continue to bleed the young dry like vampires.

Decline is inevitable when technology gains stall. San Francisco is the bellwether. The city is already reeling. We will repair it or it will break.

All through the way down, our parasitic elders will lament its decline, denying their role in it.
Meanwhile: WA House passes bill banning single-family zoning

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-house-...

Progress can be made
I guess Discord is a bit weird here in that (assuming we're not talking about PMs), it's never clear just how open that Discord room is...
"Both 'homeless person' and 'slave' make the negative sound like a permanent unchangable state of affairs... as if that is that persons identity."

No they don't. There was an entire civil war that established that regarding slavery. People go from homeless to not homeless all the time.

These are very much linguistic games being played and the stakes are the careers of people that make the grevious mistake of not adhering to the made up rules.
Not exactly true about "performance is more API based".
Everything adds up. 400ms here, 700 there. Websites can be slow even before api calls are triggered or on the middle of them, or while the results from api responses are presented.
Not sure what regulation you're talking about; the only existing standards in this space are either proprietary to one manufacturer (e.g Raymarine's Seatalk), or just industry consensus (e.g NMEA). There's no regulation enforcing the use of either except market forces.

I know for a fact that security has been a big consideration in SignalK's development, but at its core SignalK is only a JSON schema; I don't see why military ships couldn't pick this up if they were so inclined.

For now, it has basically become the standard in the open-source marine ecosystem; used by default in OpenPlotter (a marine-oriented Linux distribution) and supported in OpenCPN (a chartplotter/navigation software).
Show HN: ChatHub – use ChatGPT and Bing Chat side by side
cp /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi 1>/dev/null 2>&1

cp /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi 1>/dev/null 2>&1

:D
Maybe it's a good thing for Wikipedia? DDG can scrape Wikipedia once, and then let their AI act as a sort of "knowledge CDN" so Wikipedia ultimately serves fewer page loads. As long as DDG supports Wikipedia in some way that seems like a net positive.

Seems to me that Bing and Google's chatbots are having truthiness issues because they're just scraping information from all over the internet. Any HN reader knows all too well that you can't believe everything you read on the internet. While Wikipedia isn't necessarily all true, the bar is much, much, much higher than the truthiness of the rest of the internet. Can anyone else verify if a LLM trained on a set of mostly-true info like Wikipedia will still make shit up?
An intelligent home!
This is frustrating. I don't know why you are trying to explain things when the issue is you simply were not clear with your first comment, and then acted like I misquoted you.

> SEBSE is a Framework, MAC is an implementation, those are two different things on different levels.

This is incredibly wrong unless you are referring to something other than mandatory access controls when you say MAC.

MAC is a concept. SELinux AND SEBSD are implementations. And yes, you can say they are implementations of FLASK, or call them frameworks, but semantics aside none of that changes that SELinux and SEBSD are implementations of a concept.

Saying MAC is an implementation is just flat out wrong.

And for what it's worth, I was correct when I said it was SEBSD, even though it isn't called that anymore. That's what the project started off as before it was merged: http://www.trustedbsd.org/sebsd.html

> Yeah no you don't since you don't even know the difference of SELinux and the/a MAC implementation.

The irony here lol.
Yes, it would be all good if they just tracked attribution and organized micro-payments and opt-out for the artists they are leveraging.

"Here's the list of artists contributing to your work not already in compensated libraries such as Getty. Your bill is $X.XX and 70% of your payment will go to these artists in this proportion [list]".

Instead MS is just pocketing it. It isn't like they lack the funds and hardware/software resources to also implement backtracing...

Perhaps what should be advocated is use this for idea generation then present it as part of the design brief to get local designers and artists to do a genuine creative work. And give them credit on the published result.
> In 2018, a proposal to redevelop a San Francisco laundromat as a 75-unit apartment building

75 housing units? Wow, they must have big laundromats in San Francisco. I've never seen a laundromat that was bigger than approximately one housing unit. Were they planning to replace a two-storey building with a tower block?
5-over-1 Housing Development
I like 3-5 story buildings for aesthetic reasons, but my anecdotal experience is that taller buildings don't preclude personal connections: I grew up in a ~16 story building that was built in the 1930s, and had lots of connections with my neighbors, their children, etc.
You don’t hear about anti DRM activism either.

Basically the internet geeks have sold out. The moment DRM meant that the money was going to the techies (Spotify, Apple Music, etc) and not the music companies, we were like “what problems”?

The only one who didn’t is RMS but we all laughed at him. He’s one of the only real principled geeks left today.
Not everyone can identify anxiety symptoms in themselves, especially if they have been experiencing them for so long it's become 'normal'. There's also those that won't report what they are actually feeling, even when asked explicitly, for a range of reasons.
C++ leak trackers are surprisingly easy to implement. You create a custom allocator that has a per-type pointer to a pair of static ints (one for allocation count, one for total size).

When the allocator is statically instantiated, it adds itself to a global list.

Periodically (and at shutdown) log the top N heavy hitter allocations. In testing, assert there are no outstanding allocations in a static destructor.

The overhead of this is a couple of increments / decrements per allocation / free, so you can probably leave it on in production builds.
How long did you have to wait for it to load? On my machine it's been running for 15mins, I'm still waiting for a prompt...
> See for example this article by SANS [1].

According to NIST 800-88 Rev. 1 a single overwrite is fine:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence#Feasibility_of_...
The US housing market is short 6.5M homes
From the first link:

"reduce the productivity of nearby lands, for example, by [...] driving up land prices beyond what local residents can afford."

What nonsense is this?
To add to sibling comments, YJIT needs the Rust compiler, so if you have to build your own Ruby binary, and you have to build it on a system where you can't get a Rust compiler, then RJIT will make your life easier. Not sure how common this is in the real world though.
What? No. Everything about this short comment is wrong.

Wealthy people are staying in California, it's lower income people that can't pay rent and are leaving.

The state's finances have had many years of huge surpluses, when these 3-5 stories were being built. This year's deficit is a tiny fraction of the magnitude of 2022's surplus.

Second, the state doesn't see any money from new developments. Property taxes fund county and city budgets, not the state.

Finally, despite property tax going to local governments that approve or deny housing, increased tax revenue is almost never part of the decision, and to the degree that tax revenue has come up for residential approvals, it's usually a negative because residential housing is viewed as likely consuming more city budget in services than it generates. Instead, government officials fast track hotels, retail, and other types of land use that generate lots of tax revenue.
I was wondering... Have you lived in Latin America?

I've lived in Mexico, and visited Panama and Colombia.

I met very few educated citizens of those countries. The educated ones I did meet I felt were my equals, in terms of education. It was fantastic. The problem is that they're few and far between.

This article is from 2005, but may highlight the problem:

"Despite having three times the population of Argentina, Mexico produces about 2,000 fewer titles each year.

There are roughly 500 bookstores in Mexico, which translates into one for every 200,000 Mexicans, compared to a ratio of one to 35,000 in the US and one to 12,000 in Spain, according to the Mexican Booksellers Association.

A recent UNESCO study revealed that Mexicans read on average just over two books per year, while Swedes finish that many every month.""

https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0216/p01s04-woam.html
I like it! But...

I am doing something like this for my intelligent feed reader but using local models instead of the GPT API and using moderate-shot instead of zero-shot.

Models like RoBERTa and miniLM frequently can learn pretty good models with a few hundred or thousand examples. I'd point to

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.03954.pdf

Now for years people thought it would be more scalable for some big co (say Facebook) to train a big model for everybody but that list in there of problems, particularly 2-7 and 10-12 are problems that only exist for the big company and that have to do with developing standards for the whole community. An individual might love pornography or hate pornography and have no problem at all expressing their preferences, but Google is forced to split the difference and split hairs that no individual needs to split. It's got a huge amount of resources to deal with it that somewhat compensate for that, but it's a big problem.

When I wrote this paper

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0308253100

I was looking at all the failing RSS readers with the same failing interface and thinking "Why doesn't somebody make one that uses proven text classification technology?" and believed mostly that it was because people were lazy, very few people would tolerate classifying a few thousand documents before it started to learn. I thought most people would classify at most 4 or 5, even 50 would be too much.

In December I was sick and tired of Twitter and Tik Tok and decided to put into action what I'd been thinking about for 18 years.

With a simple model and some ideas from active learning my system came on pretty strong with 200 judgements and even though the ROC-AUC hasn't budged much since it got 1500 judgements my satisfaction with the results has improved greatly since then for reasons I don't really understand. In theory I'm still interested in the "few shot" case and I've got a vast amount of data to run simulations on that now, but frankly I don't care much about it because I have 15,000+ judgements now and few-shot isn't a pressing problem.

Big picture, ChatGPT is overkill for this, you don't need something HFRL'd to be agreeable and sound like it knows what it is talking about, you need something closer to a cross-encoder

https://sbert.net/examples/applications/cross-encoder/README...

but the left and right sides are asymmetric. The left is some description of what you are "searching for" (it's been obvious to me for 20 years that real improvements in search relevance and usability involve treating search as a classification problem where the query is a parameter to the classifier) and the right is the document. Then you need to be able to hold the left side constant and fine tune it varying the right.