skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it's no rocket science that the USA have been against the pipeline for a while, that they have been pressuring Germany to reduce dependency on Russia for strategic reason, and that they have a vested interest in the pipeline going away (since they are themselves selling gas to replace it.)

Which just makes them _one_ of the many parties that have an intereset in blowing up the pipeline. Again, it's really tempting to jump to this conclusion, not at all unreasonnable or unrealistic, it's just that there _are_ alternatives, and we're still in the mist about that.

It's not rocket science, it's much worse: it's geopolitics. At least in rocket science, you have launches as a "moment of truth" (rocket up / rocket not up.) We love it in HN because it's both very hard to do and very simple to interpret.

Politics ? The exact opposite. Very simple to lie / deceit / build narrative, hardly impossible to get a clear answer on anything - you can always add a "rail in the pool" and build a "credible" alternative narrative.

(My personnal "favorite guess", which is really nothing than that, would be that Ukraine would have done it with some light support (trainging ? intelligence ?) from the USA, while Germany was just "looking the other way". This would provide a "win" for Ukraine, "plausible deniability" for the USA, and "one negoctiation chip less" for Russia to put pressure on Germany - sometimes, constraints are liberating. Pure speculation. No data. I won't feel bad if it ends up being wrong. Would feel better if the war could just stop tomorrow.)

I suppose the closest thing we have to an "arbitrer of truth" will be the Nordics-based investigation ? Sweden is not in NATO yet, Norway and Denmark do not seem particularly hawkish (but I could be wrong), yet they don't have friendly ties to Russia, it's weird stuff happening "close to home"... who knows ?

Knowing this is not exactly in my circle of control. I'm more interested in how we're going to make EU neither "Russian-gas dependant", nor "US-gas dependant", nor "Middle-East-gas dependant".
I’m reluctant to read into it too much.
Yes. You can still visit the area, in what is now mostly Chinatown, though one of the main feature of Five Points, The Collect Pond is now gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan
I came here just to see the reactance to that headline
If you're traveling a lot and not using a burner laptop, well...
> Google Groups has survived 22 years. How many self-hosted Discourse forums can say the same?

Initial release August 26, 2014 (8 years ago)[1]

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software))
Question on a tangent -- what is the way to programmatically create PPTX files?

We may have a separate usecase that can benefit from this integration. Any pointers or example code appreciated.
That seems like a cool idea, I already submitted the request via Google form. I would like to try this product even if it's a demo.
> US military force needs to take control of the department

This is martial law. Los Angeles doesn't need martial law. What you're describing is the DoJ's job.
These days, it should be fairly easy to combat this. Everyone subscribes their messages. Client sw allows whitelisting the signatures. Whitelisted signatures can vouch for new signatures to be added. User can easily silence any signature. Messages that are hidden (because the signature is not whitelisted) are shown if a whitelisted message replies to them.

I'm sure I didn't catch all the edge cases, but the main idea is that the system is distributed, built on reputation, and self-managed. Everyone is responsible for the content they receive.
Truck: CAD Kernel in Rust
Thanks for posting this, it wasn't on my radar.

Couldn't this also contribute to increased home prices in older single-family home neighborhoods? Or it could go the other way, too, depending on the desirability of new neighborhoods versus legacy neighborhoods. I speculate that this type of legislation, despite the benefits, might serve to further entrench generational and class differences between neighborhoods. I'm generally for this type of legislation, but I'm seeing some potential unforeseen consequences.
Hmm will be for the super rich for sure. Lets say one air canister is 160 breaths. And this canister is premium lol, and cost 32 bucks. cost per breath is $.20. Avg person = 16 breaths per minute. Cost per minute : $2.30. Cost per hour $192. Cost per day $4608. Cost per year: $1,618,920!
If this is real they could get inducted into the Nobel Prize winner's circle.

But the shenanigans this group has previously been involved in will impede their efforts to reach their potential.
Thanks for the pointers, will definitely look into it.

>The array model is great, but when running on von Neumann architectures you lose execution potential

I expected that the array model would be best for SIMD and GPU parallel processing and as such a good fit for ML.

See Also: Array Languages Make Neural Networks Fast - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05234
I don't think your example is valid because we're not talking about water, we're talking about humans who are choosing to leave their country for a better place. Pursuit of happiness and all that jazz. I guess my opinion is being born in a place like the US shouldn't be some kind of privilege, and instead we should strive for the US to be a bastion for human dignity.
institutional corruption so transparent that there's a well-sourced wikipedia page
> its ugly history

Let me guess - denying minorities access to white people?
> For instance, have a few hundred thousand Americans move to Cuba and vote to have Cuba secede to the US?

That would be a great thing for Cuba. Cubans have been fleeing their failed state by the thousands, risking their lives and dying to get a shot at reaching America.

Starvation, medicine shortage, brutal LGBT purges are sadly common place under the Castro regime. Pretty sure these Americans would be welcomed with open arms!
YJIT sped up my Rails app by about 30%. It has a memory overhead, but it's worth it.
If anyone in the UK wants a few, I think I might have a box at the back of a cupboard. Mostly with things like DOS 6.x and Windows 3.x on. No idea what condition they'll be in after all this time since I last used a floppy drive, but they've always been stored in cool dry places for the most part.
The industry didn’t hash anything out though. You still can’t use a “performance” - ie a combination of lyrics, music and voice without negotiating directly with the rights holders.

That’s why you still can’t find “Welcome Back Kotter” on streaming and many old TV shows on streaming had to use different music than when they originally aired on TV.

And what do you base your mandated licensing on? The cost of production? Movie studios have played games with that for decades. That’s what is called “Hollywood Accounting”. Video game makers could do the same.

And let’s not forget that 70% of Spotify’s revenue goes directly to the music labels. Streaming music is a horrible business to be in as a standalone business. It only makes since for Apple and Amazon as a larger services/devices play.
I haven't used it as a sweetener per se but it's used in a bunch of products I like. E.g. energy drinks or protein. Those don't list erythritol.
You're right that it's tricky (impossible?) to find on its own. I suppose it needs to hang onto something to get it into crystallized form?
Likewise, I'd never trust a software engineer in a suit, unless it's for a project written in Java or COBOL.

Nor a sysadmin that isn't wearing black, running Linux and/or listening to metal. Unless they have a white beard, then you know they have been around for a while.

(Just partially serious here, don't read too much into it. But you know it's true.)
I sometimes think the main use of category theory is to look like a wizard, and say that as someone first exposed in math grad school in the early 90s.

Then i realize it's also an assertion that there are recurring patterns in functions (in general). And, as such, sometimes results noticed in one domain actually can be expected to have analogous results in another domain.
Article strongly resonates with me. I find most LLM criticism is "just" a bad version of Searle's chinese room. Its just a lack of imagination and foresight really. Critics are "unimpressed" because they lack understanding. If someone isn't awed by the Grand Canyon, for example, I think that says something about the observer not the Canyon.

Cells are just "stochastic molecular machines," how could "scaling" them up to multicelluar aggregates with 10^13 cells do anything meaningful. Bouncing a bunch of billards balls around doesn't make mind. But of course it does, and of course LLMs are more than parrots or pastiche or whatever low quality criticism the ignorant are peddling.

Sure life is "just" a dissipative process falling down an energy gradient. But aren't all processes like that? It seems so odd to assert without evidence a reductive "explanation" to discredit observable emergent behavior. It's just the mind as the new "aether."

Where is michelson-morley for the mind?
Whisper is open source.
I read it as requiring multi family residences, which would be extreme and unwanted by all.
> or was it because the subjects very sick and naturally producing more in their bodies?

Is there a list of sicknesses that elevate erythritol levels naturally.

coronary artery disease and hypertension - these are the two main ones?
Just tried it out and wow!

insane.

Free and open source.

Thank you!
People often use this to imply that we can't make better things. That's a really sad belief. I will agree that it's tremendously hard, and requires enormous care, but the Founders of the US weren't gods. They didn't have perfect knowledge of all possible ways of organizing things. With science we say we stand on the shoulders of giants, and I think it's possible to do so in this realm too.
Online tool for creating infographics: https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/
I've personally replaced Google with Bing Chat for technical things (like searching for specific API). Does it make things up? Maybe. But in my experience it never happes even once in past whole week (>100 times of searchs).

It's not "it happened but you just didn't notice..." if it uses a function call wrong I'd have noticed. My code won't compile. My test won't pass.

So far it either gives me 100% correct result, or completely fails. But it doesn't generate "seemingly correct but actually wrong" things even once, unlike ChatGPT.
Additionally, refinement is a key focus of ours. Figuring out the best data points to retrain the model upon has twin benefits:

1) It provides automated issue resolution and saves data scientists' effort to debug and fix their models.
2) It allows us to reduce false positives in alerting: we send alerts only when we see a dip in model performance, or retraining can lead to improved model accuracy.
I use maubot-rss to pipe the feeds into a Matrix chat room, where I read them with the Element client.
If Google Groups is actually going to die would it not be worth scraping the history for at least some groups?
I'm currently looking for 3.5's for a coding competition that only allows code to fit inside a floppy. Unfortunately they don't send to my radically extreme location.
> It limits the choices

https://github.com/koush/scrypted extends HKSV to a lot more cameras.

I'm using it with an Amcrest AD410. I have an SD card in the AD410 to record 24/7, then anything with detected motion is also recorded by Scrypted to my NAS as well as uploaded via HKSV to Apple.

HKSV is pretty aggressive about what it's willing to keep, so I can go back to my NAS if HKSV trimmed a clip too aggressively, and if even motion wasn't detected, I've always got the SD card I can go to.
It's a false dichotomy to say the only two options are walkable and cramped, and spacious and car-dependent.
It really depends on urban density. I'm only familiar with big cities in the USA.

There's few new buildings in the West Village in Manhattan, with beautiful red-brick townhomes that fetch multi-millions. And new ones tend to adhere to some of the features of existing buildings. On the other hand, Seattle has some exquisite old homes with stunning curb appeal - and a whole lot of plain old looking buildings that were probably the cheaply made ones in the 1950s. So age is only one factor.

The new construction in SLU or the UDistrict in Seattle or Williamsburg in NYC is all cookie-cutter boxy panels - not particularly pleasing to most I think. I can't think of new parts of any town I've been to in the US I've loved. Happy to hear if anyone has any though!

Most would agree Berlin isn't as pretty as Cologne.
Using SPDK with Xen: performance AND security
>"Humans stopped being migratory about 12,000 years ago"

Up until recently ( relatively ) a person could pretty much move to other country without much fuzz.
ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Generating AI Obsolete
....only on HN
humans are a migratory species.
Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous.

Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection, not an actual thing in reality (similar to colors not existing in reality).

Having access to a extra mirrors at first creates a sense of control. You know your mom and dad won't give you a "non-distorted" reflection so the reflection from strangers is worth more. Colleagues or friends saying "you're smart!" means a lot more from them.

When each mirror is carefully placed, the "whole" of we we are and would like to be can be understood more deeply just like 7 blind men working together understand the elephant more deeply.

However when the mirrors are mass produced and cheap and you have no control over their place in your life, then the identity becomes overwhelmed by expectation. Just like super high resolution makes your pores look larger, the mirror array makes every aspect of your life feel like shit even if from a rational analysis "extra information should never be a danger"
Looking at existing precedent, people who get caught in even the most blatant fraud (e.g. J. H. Schon) end up doing alright. One scapegoat will lose their position and credentials and go on to work in industry for about the same wage they would have expected prior to the "revolutionary work" that was exposed as fraud. Everyone else will not feel any repercussions at all and find positions (e.g. tenure) about as easily as they would have given the prestige of the group prior to being found out.
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This line of thinking trends very recently. Corporations are not everything despite what they and the media have you believe. Countries are defined by territory either hard won from conflict(war) or based on shared cultural leanings. Having citizenship is a privilege for many and in some countries it requires mandatory enlistment in the armed forces(Israel, South Korea).
Google Groups is heavily used within Google's ecosystem. Specifically it is:

- a system for managing group-based access for Google Workspace users, e.g. share a Google Doc with a group to give all members access

- a system for managing group-based access to Google Cloud Platform resources, e.g. share a BigQuery table with a Google Group to give all group members access to it.

- a simple way for Google Workspace users to create shared email addresses. e.g. support@mycompany.com

It serves these purposes quite well.
I was similarly confused and looked it up. I believe it’s just a set of templates for making infographics. Hard to draw the dots between “free templates” and “toxic social media app”
It's using Google Slides[0] which then allows to export to PPTX. There may be other better options.

[0] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/slides
It's a little different. Anyway, this is under the constraint "no stored procedures."
Interesting, I will need to contact them :)
thx, I hope this is also a nice product haha.
Importing 4B chess games using ES and Universal Profiling
We're up to 10 hours of downtime on their services.

Anyone know what could have caused this? Companies generally [citation needed] don't go down for half a day across all their services.
Groceries get to the shops by trucks. This is no different whether you have large or small shops. The only difference is: do you send all the trucks to the same shop or do you spread them over multiple shops. Amsterdam has no problem keeping its many, many smaller supermarkets well-stocked. Sure, it's a logistical challenge, but not one that cannot be solved.

> Besides that the US is a MUCH larger country than the NL, distances in the US are also much greater than anything you can imagine in Europe.

Of course, but how is that relevant? The fact that a country is larger doesn't mean that you have to make people travel all that distance. Imagine the EU merges into a single country at some point. That's not going to change the logistical situation around Amsterdam in any way. Logistics is already very international in the EU.

> what pollutes the most?

Yeah, what pollutes the most? Lots of trucks driving to a central big store, and then having people drive even more cars to that central store, or driving all those trucks to smaller local stores that people walk to? For the smaller shops, you probably don't need big trucks, but smaller ones, which does mean more of them, but still not remotely as many as the cars your saving. And some delivery trucks in Amsterdam are pretty light and electric already.

> it doesn't really matter how far away the grocery store is.

It still does. Mind you, more public transport is absolutely vital. I totally agree with that. And Amsterdam has pretty decent public transport (though biking is generally faster), but I still prefer local shops.
https://www.dalkita.com/sprinklers-in-single-family-resident...

> Surprisingly enough, sprinklers have actually technically been a requirement in all single family homes per the International Residential Code, since 2006. Regardless of home size, location, or construction type. IRC 313.2 states:

R313.2 One- and two-family dwellings automatic fire systems.
An automatic residential fire sprinkler system shall be
installed in one- and two-family dwellings.

> Period. It's just simply required. Only exception is for alterations or additions to existing building without sprinklers.
While I also lament what Google Groups has become, let's not rewrite history. By 2001, Dejanews had rebranded as a shopping comparison site, ran out of money, and was on the verge of shutting down. I don't remember many people being upset about Google stepping in to save the archive. And, in the early days, the signs were positive. Google actually cared about it at that point, and still had a good reputation. They expanded the archive with contributions from other sources and worked to improve the search and posting interfaces. Yes, eventually they lost interest and it degraded into the current abomination, but that happened later.
Nature has a well known bias for papers with sensational titles.
A lot of job search stuff is centered around it still. Recruiters find me there. But when I wasn't using it was just noise.
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Claimed (Again)
Not to mention the fact that this "undisturbed" forest is barely an hour away from the third-fastest growing metro area in the country.
https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/forum-software
Which raises a concern about privacy, since they're obviously going to be spying on your usage, and the tool has access to potentially sensitive information in your browser tabs.
California code requires this when the SFH is 3,600 sqft or larger.

https://library.qcode.us/lib/temecula_ca/pub/municipal_code/...
Not open source, but mp3tag [1] and Notepad++ [2] (which is) would also be on my Windows list. For Mac I'd add MarkEdit [3], which is less than 3MB, carefully feature-scoped, and has a responsive developer behind it.

[1] https://www.mp3tag.de/en/

[2] https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

[3] https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit
So, how does one host a forum that will outlive the current ownership and members? What are the options out there? Create a collection at archive.org and do regular dumps there?
> ... to whom?

To the people whose job it is to advocate for the privileges of the wealthy. And that is a frightening number of highly-trained, well-paid people.

They are starting with the foundational belief that taking any privileges whatsoever from the wealthy will end in complete catastrophe for all of society. This is, of course, not true, but it's a story that pays well to tell and re-tell. So, it gets told a lot, particularly here in the Anglosphere, and also apparently now in France.
I wouldn't mind buying those from you. I've got a delivery address in the UK... Deal?
Binary Packages Now Available for the Preview Nginx QUIC+HTTP/3 Implementation
I'm curious how you can view this as separate from climate change and not inextricably linked.
Science journalism or materials science?
SSR never faded and has always been an important requirement. Especially if you wrote SEO sensitive SPA's. We are not going back to SSR but are able to combine both SSR and SPA's more easily, as is indeed the case with dynamic islands and for instance React Server Components.
> LLMs do not do this, and if you're training the LLMs (at cost) to do this, you're already having to do the very same searching out of materials within the corpus related to what you want.

A more reasonable suggestion would be not training a LLM (which one doesn't want to do anyway) but treating it as a retrieval+summarization task: search the corpus for mentions and similar-by-embedding documents, and summarize. LLMs are good at abstractive summarization with minimal hallucination or error. This can serve as an 'annotated bibliography', a first pass for a human writing it themselves, or the collective summaries be fed into the LLM for a summary.

The main problem here is I guess that most of the relevant texts have poor or no OCR, so one can't do that in the first place. But there's a good chance that that will mostly stop being an issue in a few years as 'text' LLMs move to images (see eg PIXEL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06991 or Kosmos https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045 or https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10648#google https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14271 https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14156 ) and they will either OCR, embed, or just process images of complex text directly. So, something to keep an eye on, perhaps: there's never going to be enough humans to do all this archiving properly, but perhaps there may eventually be enough GPUs to do it...
> Enforcement of availability to maintain copyright, without the availability of the work it should default, irrevocably, to public domain.

This is so important, what is the point of providing protection to a work that noone will ever see? that is not 'usefull' by defintion.
Most recent MacOS is still shipped with bash 3.2.57 FWIF. Since default was changed to zsh they would likely never bump bash. So you never know.
If you're doing this. 100% boil your water and make sure your neti pot / nasal rinse tool is sterilized. Also if you are someone suffering read this study and try it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31560120/

Honestly it is my go-to when I have a really bad flare up.
Indeed there is nothing stopping workers from organizing across borders, even if individual workers are only legally authorized to work in one country. Many labor unions have local chapters in multiple countries and can coordinate labor actions. For example, see the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers which operates in the USA and Canada.
Social media is getting closer to fast fashion. Every app is doomed on creation to live a short life. I'm happy with this, since in reality, its ultimately a tool for marketing and social media is just the side effect. Superficial way of connecting to the masses? use the latest Social media. The real way of staying in touch with people? giving them a call or an email if not meet in person. Nothing beats the personal touch. Super