skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friendly Orange Glow is unfortunately kind of overstuffed, meandering and political and focused excessively on bitzer, and misses so much of what PLATO/NovaNET were to so many people. Empire, avatar, oubliette, dnd, even moonwar, typomatic, Room B/C, night ops, pso, AIDS, TERM-test, cherry keyboard hoarding, stig bjorklund, the chem lab, the trs-80 running the satellite, lippold haken and the music room, bigfoot. I don't know if it's possible to write the PLATO story but FOG only skips across the surface.
Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31
Yep ... I just looked it up, I bought my first BTC in 2010/11 ... Back when they were just handing out 0.01 BTC to mess around.
> To say that one token following the next is the only criteria is not how we got here, is it?

You could just read the research about LLMs before saying stuff like this.

You can't even seem to grasp that "Obama is a cat" as a statement isn't gibberish. I'm not even trying to convince you that these programs are perfect, I'm just trying to make sure that you understand that these aren't categorical errors and the things you consider successes aren't even happening.
> Eventually I won’t be able to trust that anything digital is authentic.

Read Ken Thompsons "Reflections on Trusting Trust". You'll reconsider your position on trusting anything digital at all, ever.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
I put Fedora on my 2012 MBP Retina. I made a USB key, iirc with the Fedora USB image tool, then plugged the USB key into the MBP and held the Option key as I powered it on. USB key shows up as a bootable option.
That's truly horrific.

And the culprit is ... meat eating and agriculture.

It's the primary driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss.

Animal agriculture because 75% of all agriculture land (30% of habitable land) [0] is used for meat/dairy, although it supplies only 18% of calories and 37% of proteins (we get majority of our proteins from veggies already).

We should acknowledge that it's our personal responsibility to lower demand of things which harm the nature, and protect (demand protection of) what remains.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
I believe https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.13382.pdf
I kinda agree but technical know-how is probably one of the more "honest" ways of self-limiting something if only because freeloaders usually don't have the patience for anything too complicated

And punishment for abuse is mostly non-existent
I've never had a concussion, but I wanted to recount my similar experience in school, too. Like you, 5 minutes of math lectures had me dozing off. Really, a lecture in any subject would bore me to sleep. Only when we got practical tasks to work on, like math or physics problems, did my brain wake up and engage with and understand the material. As a result, I excelled in the natural sciences and math, where working on problems took up most of the time, while I did poorly in the more memorization-oriented social sciences and language subjects. Memorization is a skill like any other, and I'm happy I get to work in a field where understanding is more important than memorization.
I think the situation is a bit more complex than this; or at least that it can be.

The thing driving consumption is engagement. So what can news provide that drives engagement?

Incomplete narrative.

Conflict is probably the most familiar place to find an incomplete narrative. The easiest way to present conflict is from a negative perspective. A problem that is missing a solution is very easy to engage with.

Mystery is another. What really happened? What will happen next? Speculate!

These are broadly considered "lazy journalism", and for good reason. Controversial narratives are trivial to construct, even when the controversy itself is fake. Mystery is either an incomplete story or speculative fiction.

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The best works of journalism present a complete story, but that doesn't leave much to engage with. It might be interesting. It might be complicated. It might be important. Is that enough? Sometimes.

Stories that good don't get written every day. If they did, they would become relatively mundane. The news does get published every day. What can we do except to fill the days in between with conflict and mystery?

What kinds of engagement are actually positive? Can they compete?

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I visit hacker news because it is thriving with examples of positive engagement.

New tools, educational exposition, open questions, historical exploration, etc. Many of the posts here aren't news per se, but they are better than vain controversy.

I think that news organizations should diversify their content and presentation formats. Find more alternatives to "new" than opinion and speculation. Present opportunities for objectivity instead of neatly wrapped conclusions.
"The simple two box, hatchback body style, combined with front wheel drive, and a transverse mounted water cooled four cylinder would be copied by every other car maker all over the world."

... the FIAT 127, released three years earlier, would like to have a word about who copied who.

It was:

- Transverse mounted FF

- hatchback

- water cooled four cylinder

- released in 1971

- license built by: SEAT Yugo Polski VAZ
It still is more low level than any other language currently (that can be run on multiple architectures) which I think is what the OP was saying. If you compile C without compiler optimizations, it will generate code that is exactly what you wrote. The argument the paper makes is that the instructions available in modern processors and the way we use them to optimize code (such as instruction level parallelism) is a consequence of C being so important despite being made for much older and much simpler machines. Because if the generated binaries from any C compiler without optimizations isn't low level then you might as well say the same about x86 assembly, and then you're basically out of options.
I feel that it’s less about the screen and more about what you’re doing with it. When my children stare at screens, it usually to play an educational game. When I stare at screens, most of it is work or adulting. About 2-3 hours/week is gaming and 4-6 hours/week is watching some silly show with my wife.

Now, kids in school are obviously doing educational stuff on their tablets so I see the fallacy in this line of thought. Idk. I feel like staring at a book is better, but what do I know? Maybe the increased engagement from a tablet is worth the downsides?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.13382.pdf
In C++, until C++20’s std::span, you would just use std::vector for stuff you can modify and const std::vector for stuff you can’t.

I think the real problem is that Go’s type system doesn’t catch the common error of keeping a reference to something you don’t own, or similar errors. C# catches some of these errors by letting you return a IReadOnlyList<T> or some other restricted type. Golang has ways to narrow certain types, but the slice type is primitive and has no narrowed read-only variation. C# instead forces you to pay a higher runtime cost, because you’re paying a lot more for indirection with IReadOnlyList<T>.

People fret about the difference between T[] and List<T> in C#, and they do come with different performance characteristics… Go’s choice to use slices everywhere does have a certain advantage that you’re getting the fast path everywhere, and you’re spending less time thinking about which one to use.

Not trying to say that Go is “right” here, it’s just my viewpoint that these language design decisions are rational.
I don’t even know what to say. This is so bad.
To make the kind of profit they make today, they'd have to charge you the interest they charge on loans today. My mortgage is 2.35%. Are you willing to watch your money disappear at that rate? I don't know that I am, but I'd never considered it before.
Sounds like what startups do these days :)
The tricky answer is, it depends.

Making maple syrup is interesting in that getting started is easy. You can typically use inexpensive or homemade equipment and if you have access to lots of firewood, then boiling is easy. The reduction of sap to syrup is 40:1, so collecting about 40 gallons of sap will leave you with a personal supply of syrup for the year. Beyond that is where the variables come in.

The cost of spiles, hosing, and collection containers for tapping is cheap. Stainless evaporation pans are expensive (roughly $1K new). My goal for this year is to collect about 400 gallons of sap, which means I'll burn through about 2 cords of firewood (that's a significant amount but you would never use propane because of the sheer cost). So do you buy your firewood or cut it yourself? That alone is a lot of work. Many (no, all) large operations use reverse osmosis filtering systems to concentrate the sugar content of the sap before boiling. This can cut your evaporation time (and fuel needed) in half, which is also significant. You can buy a ready-to-go RO system for drinking water off Amazon for a couple hundred dollars but the membrane capacity will be small and slow you down. An ideal RO system for my current scale is in the $3K range.

The weather plays a huge role in sap collection as you need below freezing temps at night and above freezing temps during the day for the sap to flow. This limits the season to just about a month. Today I'm doing absolutely nothing as the high for the past two days has been 25F and all my taps are frozen. Non-cooperative weather can shorten the season and limit how much sap you can collect.

So my 400 gallon goal should yield me about 10 gallons of syrup under ideal conditions. I bottle the syrup into 12oz bottles that could sell for about $15 each. Roughly 100 bottles means a potential gross revenue of ~$1500; not great considering the cost of the bottles and my labor alone have nearly wiped that out.

I would estimate that a sugarbush of at least 150 trees, a professional RO system and evaporator, plus no additional labor costs could start to see a small profit if you either acquired your equipment for free or amortized the cost over at least 5 seasons. The requirements for bottling for retail are relatively easy where I'm located so you would just need to find a viable market for sale. The alternative is to collect and RO sap which you can then sell to an industrial processor for a reasonable price, which could move your profitability timetable up as your equipment and labor costs would be roughly cut in half.

But that's just some back of the envelope calculations. I don't know any local producers who do it for profit. The real key to turning this into a business is owning a viable and mature sugarbush. Anyone who has 50 or more sugar maple trees on their property in close proximity to one another and is not tapping them has no idea what a fantastic resource they are sitting on.
Then change the name of the rule :)

Zero, One, or Many. I think that would satisfy all concerned.
The en and flow of bundeling and unbundling.

Every couple of years “bundeling” becomes popular. Then, after some more years, people want to pay less and have more varied options, so “un-bundeling” comes in vogue again.

I guess we have now reached peak-unbundeling. We pay for everything separately, like video to Paramount+, Disney+, Netflix, PrimeVideo and so on. But already the cracks are beginning to show in this unbundled system.

I heard recently that Disney is open to licensing their content for other platforms again.
Doesn't this use as much VRAM as llama.cpp (with int4 models) uses RAM? RAM is a lot cheaper than VRAM.
Tungsten isn't brittle - but those cubes are sintered, not cast, and sintered metal is brittle.
totally agree. nice take.
You’ve said so many things that are factually incorrect it’s hard to know where to start.

There are very few services on AWS that started based on what Amazon Retail used. Even today, much of Amazon’s infrastructure is not on AWS.

Lambda is also not built on top of Kubernetes.

The one service that I can think of that came from Amazon Retail is Amazon Connect. It was originally used as Amazon’s own call center. You can tell it wasn’t built specifically for AWS because there was no public API for automated provisioning and no IAC support for years.

Google’s infrastructure is also not built on top of GCP. Very little of Google uses GCP and it’s mostly unimportant things.
I do similar but not particularly purposefully - I always top the dough with it already on my (pre-heated) cast iron 'stone'. (Otherwise trying to transfer it is a disaster that I've been known to pretend was an intentional calzone - I don't have a peel.)

I do so as quickly as I can, but of course it starts to cook the dough as I do; I've never seen that as a bad thing. If there's any holes where it stretched too thin, it holds it still allowing you to fix them too.
I've bumped into R.U Sirius a couple of times. Whenever I do I always congratulate him on Mondo 2000 and being so far ahead of the curve at the time.
You're right that retrieval practice isn't optimal for all types of knowledge. But not all spaced repetition systems are flashcard systems.

Just under a month ago, I read about 'math academy' here on HN. One thing it does is sort of what it sounds like you envisage: surfacing exercises relating to concepts you might be about to forget.
The Roman general Ventidius defeated the Parthians and could have possibly invaded Parthian territory, but chose not to. Probably done to not outshine his boss Marc Antony. Caesar was still a good military leader at the time, but was 60 years old at this point. He also was planning to punish the Dacians on the way over. The Dacian's would be a persistent problem for the Roman's until their eventual conquest by the Emperor Trajan over 150 years later.
Well, to be fair, they did conspire to disrupt transportation of goods and services -- and as far as I can tell succeeded in large measure in doing so.

I think that's what laws are for in the end, am I wrong?
What's your opinion of Conan's? That used to be the deep dish pizza place in Austin but I haven't eaten there in many years.
A hedge fund interview coding problem “devastated” me
> you seem to want to shut down interesting discussions even when they aren't racist or sexist.

No one has tried to "shut you down." They're just disagreeing with you. Isn't that what you wanted? A vigorous, diverse dialogue? You can't praise diversity of opinions and then claim oppression when someone's opinion diverges from yours.
Former employees at the deceased Silicon Valley Bank blame a combination of remote work, an over-focus on social issues, and a lack of risk management for the bank's collapse.

The only one of those that accounts for failure is risk management. Last year I was working for Bank of America and there inclusion and diversity are critical to the culture of the company as a first principle. That has not crashed Bank of America and neither has remote work. Bank of America is obsessive over risk management though. Their positive reputation is their primary asset and applied all manners and levels of business operations. Strangely, though, I didn't see much risk management in software development and so much of their internal software struck me as fragile.

If there is anything that killed SVB its the culture of silicon valley playing loose and fast with finances to reach high risk high reward payouts. Being woke isn't a factor.
But it's not. It has become a high level language. The idea that C is still a low level language is no longer true. It is highly abstracted from modern hardware.

Edit: I just saw your edited comment. Yeah the point is you really don't need to know much about the hardware to write C. It doesn't force you to understand what's actually going on behind the scenes.
Performative whiskey nerds are really dumb about dilution (I'm setting off Kasey, across the thread, by roasting people for how they drink). Cask strength whiskey isn't sold that way because it tastes better (it doesn't --- past some threshold and all the extra alcohol is doing is anesthetizing your tongue), but rather so that the customer is paying for more whiskey and less water. You're supposed to dilute it. It's like saying the right way to drink orange juice is to sip the concentrate.
It's not a disaster, it's quite inconvenient though and the effect would be the same as the lint that the article discusses.
> The kind of person who works hard to not be sexist, racist, transphobic or smell bad

Agree with the sibling comment to say this isn't hard work. Generally speaking you're saying basic requirements to be a functioning human in society, which also involves a certain amount of emapthy.

> is often very boring.

I don't understand the correlation here. There are plenty of sexist, racist, smelly transphobes who are also boring.
I think it would be reasonable for an employer to make some benefits, including certain paid leaves, subject to some minimum tenure. How an employer chooses among those options tells you something about them, but I don’t think a blanket “you cannot offer any benefits subject to tenure” makes a better world.

I do agree with you that if society thinks a benefit is important, society can pay for it directly. Or pass a law to mandate employers (or certain employers) to provide it.
Hooking customers into some form of ongoing dependence must be one of the oldest business tricks in the book. In that sense, there's also a certain irony in this being 'news'.
> Parents are buying the tablets because teachers - pushing shiny new technology in lieu of results - tell them it'll help

Funny, I'm remembering a summer holiday job 20 years ago, working on a HVAC production line. One of the others there bought a plasma TV for his infant.

It's not all about what teachers are pushing.

Heck, from what I've heard the teachers don't like the tech any more than you do.

> I think you're remembering computer lab, or something, where there was a proctor because computers were expensive. Now schools won't expel anyone they label troubled, no matter how much they trouble other students, and they won't protect anyone or let them protect themselves.

I have literally no idea what this is supposed to be about. Computers themselves are not part of any of the things you just said are bad.

And as I'm asking if the schools are even going to still be relevant, expulsions would carry as little meaning as being banned from owning horses does today.

> I don't see social media being so complex that they need all the years of practice to keep up, but I do see forming deep relationships as being essential and social media doesn't do anything to help with that. They'll get there when they do, no worse for not having partaken.

I didn't specifically say social media, I said "medium they will be sociable in as adults". That might be the traditional forums of the 2005 interwebs style; or soc med; or group chat apps like IRC, Slack, MS Teams as various of my employers have had us using; or video group chats like many of us got used to during the pandemic; or VR environments, be they games like WoW or roleplay environment like Furcadia or Second Life or VRChat, or "serious" metaverse things like whatever it is FB is trying to do.

It can also be going to parks and gyms, art galleries and graffiti walls, cafés and nightclubs. How much of that is part of school anyway?

But even for text, what counts as polite, friendly, professional, intelligent, serious, or severe is absolutely a moving target, so…

that means knowin when they need to be all like yo and emoji wif spellin' that confuses ol fogies like me and missin all the full stops coz that be rude yo yo lol

And of course the fact that such cultural idioms shift arbitrarily and I've stopped caring means that actual real young people will cringe as much when reading that last paragraph as I did when writing it, in exactly the same way I told my mum to stop trying to be hip and with it back in the late 90s.
I don’t think anyone idealizes those kind of physical labor jobs. Usually “the trades” is much more skilled manual labor: plumbing, hvac, welding, specialized mechanic work and repair, woodworking/carpentry, etc.

No one says people should want a life of a mover, meatpacker, or ditch digger.
Early C compilers had a limit of 6 characters for an identifier
Aha, I gotcha. I guess that's my ignorance at play, not knowing to what degree an allergen can stick around, for how long, and how complicated that can all be!

Thanks for the insight. :)
Which, I assume, led to one of my favorite idioms: there are only three numbers in computing: 0, 1, and n.
> the researchers found that face blindness lies on a spectrum — one that can range in severity and presentation — rather than representing a discrete group.

How is this news? When I was tested and diagnosed with FB (I think in 2007?) the lead researcher explained the diagnosis to me, saying that people's ability to recognise faces appeared to be distributed on a bell curve. The "2.5% of the population" represented those on the long tail of the left-hand side of the curve and was a statistical cut-off point which they were using to identify people with middle-severe prosopagnosia, who could then be approached by researchers to take part in further research. I was quite happy to be diagnosed (not only a relief, but also I got paid £20 an hour to take part in research studies).

As far as I'm aware, FB is not considered to be a legal disability, though in some places you can ask a doctor for a referral to specialists who can advise on coping strategies etc. Mostly it's just something we have to live with. Personally, life got a lot easier when everyone had to work remotely - say what you like about zoom/google meetings, but at least the software writes people's names next to their faces.
Mastodon, Gemini and the 2007-reborn Gopher.

But yes, you are right. Back in late 90's/early 00's Linux and Unix desktop were trully different and unique. Fluxbox had zillions of different themes. 3D, black, retro, flat-ish, metal-ish, Java styled, Gnome styled, KDE-alike, Gaudi, childish, Bohemian, alien looking... every style was fine for anyone.

Ditto witht the icons. One day I felt technical and I switched into the Slick theme being "workstation/highend" themed with a gray color scheme, and the next day I felt nice and cheerful and switched into Noia with a blue Keramik theme.

Now everything looks bland, flat and everyone looks afraid on having an style.
Jesus, $120? Does it knead, stretch, and top the dough itself too?

Seriously, is it really supposedly that much better than my £15 cast iron 'stone'? (I put a lovely seasoning on it initially, but didn't look after it very well and it's all cracked and flaking off, so I need to start again really I think - I suppose it does save that maintenance work... but still, I could just buy a new one and start again several times for $120!)
I assumed he argued that we should shut down such conversations. I am perfectly fine with people disagreeing with me, otherwise I wouldn't post these things. In fact, the whole reason I post these things here is that I know people will disagree with them, I don't post in monoculture forums.
Pgwarehouse: Easily sync your Postgres db to a Snowflake or ClickHouse warehouse
Built this recently to help a friend setup a Snowflake warehouse from their Postgres database. Also tested it with ClickHouse which is cool for running locally. Uses simple COPY which is fast and doesn't require binlog access, but doesn't support real-time replication as a result.
Now you can have both!

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2023/02/08/adobe-acrobat...
Sound more like a chicken and egg issue, look like "big tech" are mostly using the format for archival purpose.

As Mozilla put it, adopting a new format increase the attack surface ( that is already quite large ) of a browser, they can not simply take the reference decoder and integrate it into their codebase, they also have to use resources toward maintaining it. Firefox currently integrate jxl support behind an experimental flag, but that could mean the feature is in testing and could be deprecated in order to better allocate their resources.