skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! I'm designing the flight computer/electronics of a 2U cubesat for academia, and something like this might work really well for our application. We were considering borated polyethylene but the cost for that is prohibitive. This is perhaps not as efficient in terms of mass-to-protection ratio, but we have plenty more room in our mass budget instead of actual budget. I also like the idea that we may be able to mold this material around particularly sensitive elements of our system like the memory devices, to which neutrons are the biggest hazard.
In the 8 bit variant you could also interpret it as the Morse Code letter ........, which is an early form of non-printable character known as a "procedure sign" (aka "pro-sign"), and is often transcribed as letters without the inter-letter spacing (Eg <SOS> is the transcription of ...---...). The prosign <eeeeeeee> means the sender has mis-keyed something and you should ignore the previous character.
I like this comment, its thesis deserves a fuller defense.
>In the last 5 years police in the USA have killed twice the rate of white people than black people, too.

I guess if we're going to unpack that, it's also worth noting that about 60% of the population of America is considered white and about 12% of the population in America is black, according to https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-a...

Across the various years reported on the link you shared 46% of people shot to death by police were white, 22% were black. While that's more dead white people than dead black people, it's also disproportionate to the population.

While you're pondering what deaths we pay attention to, consider all the ways alcohol kills people, and how preventable that is, since we're just throwing things out there.
Verified identity?

I've always wanted to at least see a social network where everyone's identity was verified. Seems like that would eliminate a lot of the things people complain about. (Spam, harassment, misinformation.)

I've also wondered if there's a way to make it 100% non-commercial. (Maybe with government funding?) Public television was created with the idea that if this medium was going to exist, there should be one channel devoted to the greater public good (and not commercial pursuits). What would a social network be like if it didn't have to make a profit because it was publicly funded?

I've always wanted to see micro-social networks. (Imagine a Facebook or a Twitter, just for your town/university/book club/whatever.) Maybe public libraries could be involved in creating them, or local newspapers, or school journalism classes...
From the evidence I've seen exposure to allergens need to happen the right way. Eat it and the body learns that it is safe. But if it gets somewhere it shouldn't like the bloodstream, the body gets suspicious that it's a pathogen.
Mental health is important, and that's a great site and initiative.
PSA: Cropped/censored images from Pixel phones can leak details from original
Right on. Let's not forget Eisenhower originally called it the military–industrial–congressional complex.
What is there to talk about?

I can't imagine I'm the only one who mostly cut out after everything that happened in the 2010s. Too dangerous, too unwanted, too toxic.

(Fewer creeps in private communities too, of whatever kind of people you want rid of.)

If everybody does it, what's left is what's left.
I've eaten seaweeds before in several formats, and they're surprisingly versatile. But they're "further out there" than kale, so I appreciate that the nytimes didn't want to push that angle.

And, in case you're wondering "heavy metals bio-accumulate in ocean fish to questionable levels; could heavy metals bio-accumulate in seaweed to a dangerous level?", tl;dr: probably not to dangerous levels, but not certain.

"Distribution of metals and metalloids in dried seaweeds and health risk to population in southeastern China"[0]:

> Concern about metals and metalloids, especially heavy metals in seaweeds has risen due to potential health risk. This study investigated the distribution of 10 metals and metalloids in 295 dried seaweeds (brown and red) and estimated the possible health risk via hazard index (HI).
> ...
> The estimate of health risk showed that there was low health risk for potential toxic elements by intake of these seaweeds.

(I've gotta say, that article doesn't seem entirely convincing. This is probably the first article of this format I've read before, so I might be totally off-base, but the error bars in their data[1] are huge. Given that the article literally has "health risk to population in southeastern China" in the title, I'm skeptical whether the article is intentional fluff/propaganda science.)

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21732-z (full text)
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21732-z/tables/2 (data)
The DRM fight died the day the EFF, Cory Doctorow, Mozilla and other supposed champions of open data formats kept mum while DRM was being added to the HTML5 spec, this also killed off the idea of NPAPI browser plugins.
Plugins were originally meant for exactly this sort of use - to display proprietary data within a browser by handing it off to another application - Flash and Java were the most popular but there were also media player plugins for DRMed media (both VLC & Windows Media Player for example, had browser plugins).
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that analysis they did sounds kind of silly, since at 2 years and 1 day you’re paying full boat anyway.

The logical conclusion of their assessment: at 2y1d people can afford the fare so fly but 2 days before that they couldn’t so would drive instead? The argument doesn’t actually bear weight.
Meta employees grill Mark Zuckerberg at all-hands meeting following layoffs
What’s not valid is failing to produce source that matches the code that you ship.
It really depends where you live I agree. If you live in Europe there's usually a generous unemployment benefits for quite awhile and the government will probably pay for you to learn a new skill. That's not a great scenario but its much better than if you live in India.
What do you call the person they are going to hire to use the tool or are they going to switch gears from selling painted dodads and chicken sandwiches to fire up an IDE even a web based one.

The average human is only slightly smarter than the average rabbit. They are going to pay someone who specializes in this task.
I am against censorship, the subject itself is perfectly worthy. These particular efforts effectively mix true(ish) information with untrue information meant to inflame tensions and divisions and demoralize people.

Feeding the trolls does not increase confidence and trust in anything. When threads don't go off the rails like that, criticize away, no objections.
Yeah I've read that. I think the connections to Memphis are vastly overstated, and the data on its origins is still not enough for me. Okay, so a particular design company created it in 2017. But which individual humans are responsible for it? And who at Facebook is responsible for the initial idea of commissioning the design work and what it should look like?
Is this a new thing? My kids are <10 years old, but we flew a ton when each of them were under 2 and I don’t recall getting a supplemental belt once. This was pretty much exclusively on Southwest, though.
This came up decades ago when Bob Machol was chief scientist at the FAA. A plane had pitched downward, and the parent lost their hold on the baby, which fell to the front of the cabin and died. A ban on lap babies was proposed.

Machol pointed out that requiring parents to buy separate tickets for babies would price some families out of the market for air travel, leading them to drive instead.

But driving is much more dangerous than air travel. Many more babies would have been killed by the rule change.

Machol was able to persuade the FAA to keep the rule.
Uh? The French literally convinced most of the UN members (except the United Kingdom) to NOT support the USA in invading Iraq. The French representative at the time directly confronted Colin Powell about the supposed "proofs" on WoMDs. They also predicted exactly what is happening today: increased terrorist risk, geopolitical instability, economic fallout etc. You can see the famous speech of Villepin at the UN on YouTube. This how the war on Iraq was deemed as illegal by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the time.
Fun-fact this is also when French bashing started to rise in the US, coming from politicians but also throughout pop-culture.
Nuclear power has proven to be a lot of things, but cheap is not one of them. In theory it is possible to build nuclear power plants at scale and at reasonable cost, but in practice that has not worked out in the real world.
I’m always shocked to see people who build up a huge portfolio on LinkedIn - especially after their censorship.
Pain in the Tech Industry Is Beginning to Hit the Rest of Us
In my experience, the best option is usually to print your issues onto professional-looking paper and send a registered letter to their legal contact.

Lawyers are the only people that are still allowed to make decisions in modern corporations.
this sounds more entertaining for 3-d printing things that startle people by being staggeringly heavy rather than things that are actually useful

it should be heavier than lead; lead is only 11.3 g/cc, tungsten is 19.3, 75% tungsten would be 14.5, but then the other 25% is petg with sp.gr. ≈ 1 so you should actually get a density of 14.7

but i struggle to imagine cases where using tungsten is a more cost-effective option than using lead and making the object 9% bigger? they cite 'various medical applications' but tungsten isn't exactly ideal for permanent body contact either

oh actually they say it's 75% tungsten by mass, not volume, so it's only 4 g/cc, and so its attenuation (at 140keV) is only 18% of lead's (by volume)

copper might be an alternative that is less toxic than lead and less expensive than tungsten
Since no one really knows what causes peanut allergies, it isn’t surprising they come and go without much insight into why.
If you were to find one of these, would it be easy to set it off?
You're denying a person's lived experience and telling them to stop doing what they love. That's not very nice.

And I know what they're talking about. I'll put it a bit more politely: You can't help people who aren't willing to help themselves.

It's a thing. When you start helping out people in forums or on irc or what have you, sooner or later you'll encounter people who either can't be helped or just require far too much energy. No matter how much you'd like to help everyone, you just can't. It happens.

I believe parent poster has already calmed down, but I can understand their feelings. It's frustrating sometimes!

The many people you are able to help make up for it though.
I agree, I think in the US we are blaming social media, Covid, global warming, etc. but what is really bugging me is what lies under all those things, a general feeling that just working hard and being a good person will no longer guarantee me stability and safety. Since forever that has been the contract between the US govt and its citizens. Do good work and you will be safe and free, but it feels shaky now and it makes me feel adrift and listless.
This post is talking about the prevalance of the emotions of anger, bitterness, anxiety, and resentfulness online, and I think it's interesting and noteworthy how many of the comments here express similar emotions.

Over the past year or so I've found myself becoming increasingly intolerant of people for whom those are the dominant modes of expression. With my best friend of over twenty years, almost no matter the topic of conversation, he'll find a way to express those emotions. It's becoming an increasingly substantial issue for me, and I often find myself curbing my urges to reach out to share something I find interesting, cool, or funny, because I'm pre-emptively trying to shield myself from the negative emotions I know will inevitably be in his response.

My own emotion about this trend is mostly sadness. There's so much cool stuff happening in the world, so many interesting things to learn about, and I wish it was easier to find a community of people whose predominant response is sharing in that excitement.
That's fascinating - do you happen to have a source for this? I tried Googling but came up empty.
The article mentions that memories are maintained - I didn’t see a source, but here is an article about it: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13412-butterflies-rem...
No:

* My wife's dad passed away extremely unexpectedly (at 64) 8 months ago
* My dad just started showing signs of ALS about 3 months ago and is probably a few months away from death (it is an EXTREME accelerated onset)
* My wife recently started to experience extreme depression, insomnia, anxiety, OCD, and has been trying everything and nothing is working yet.
* Had to fix my truck's belt twice in one week
* Someone ran into my car and it was totaled
* My personal inflation rate is somewhere around 100% for everything: cheese to diesel gas
* I had to take a second job to pay for my wife's medical bills
* We live in an RV because home prices shot up right around the time we were trying to close on a manufactured home - the seller then refused the original price AFTER the bank loan was completed (which forced a loss of 10k)
* We both get irritated when we see someone complain of long lines or just something that doesn't fucking matter.
* Don't worry, while we do own guns, we're not the type to lose our shit and aim at people.

> I can only speculate. I don't know what's going on. Maybe I'm just imagining things. Maybe I'm the one that's gone crazy.

No we're all experiencing things differently. I would say though, that the world is extremely unstable for people close to the border of unaffordability. If things slip any more, the world is going to implode.

I think people with money - basically the "winners" while covid politics made for easy money. Those people ought to think about that. It very well be an extremely important time in history to truly have "fake jobs" so that the world doesn't go there.
The same was true with llama.cpp. The trick I used was basically to identify which part of the program is performing the transformation, where the unwieldy file from disk is being turned into the aligned data structures that actually get used. In the llama.cpp codebase, that function was called llama_model_load(). So I basically just wrapped that code in a magic transaction:

main() {
magic_init(); // replaces malloc() with ./magic.dat file
if (magic->was_committed) {
model = magic->model; // use the heap built from last run
} else {
// create a new heap
model = new model;
llama_model_load(model); // pre-existing model loading code
magic->model = model;
magic_commit(); // mark memory transaction complete
}
// rest of pre-existing code
}

You could write a Python extension for this code https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/5b8023d9354010... and see if it works for your use case.
It should be fairly obvious that communities are dynamic, they either grow, or they shrink. When was the last time you saw a community stay the same... ever.

There are times of population accumulation, and distribution.

Growth leads to being a bigger target, once you have a certain population, it makes sense to target them. If you have a community with access to something, it may make even more sense at a smaller population size.

Shrinking eventually hits an unsustainable participation point where content becomes stale, and/or benefits erode.

This is the standard lifecycle of a community, you either grow, or you shrink, and bots are cheap and provide downward bias with a well resourced adversary.

As soon as it makes sense as a target, you then have disunity, chaos, toxic behavior, trolls, fake accounts, and bots often targeting those that contribute most because volunteer psychology says you stop volunteering when it starts costing you personally.

The agenda is as I previously mentioned and progresses from there. If you are too busy putting out fires, you're too busy to notice important targeted shifts.
> In the last 5 years police in the USA have killed twice the rate of white people than black people

That's a misleading way to use the term "rate". If you adjust for relative population size, the rate at which police shoot black people in the USA is disproportionately higher (over 2.5 times) than the rate at which they shoot white people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
It had little to do with fear, look to the makeup of the coalition of the not exactly willing.

Australia had the sycophantic Howard Government at the time, declassified documents [0] reveal the decision to go to war was taken primarily with a view to enhancing its alliance with the United States.

Other Australian Governments (eg: Keating or Whitlam, etc.) would, I hope, have told the US to bugger the hell right off .. or they would have grudgingly gone along on the basis of having mutual treaties (that didn't strictly apply to Rambo Missions).

The UK had Blair who apparently really really believed that the UK's "special relationship" with the US could temper their excesses in a rash post 9/11 PTSD induced revenge mission [1].

The handfull of lessor players were in it for the promised carrots (with a few having a minor twist of fear of the alternatives should they not go along - but the US at the time was over promising to gain paid allies).

[0] https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2017/iraq-dossier/

[1] https://mwi.usma.edu/britains-blunder-united-kingdom-marched...
That event got world wide news coverage, indicating that is was highly unusual.
The platforms age out, change, censor, etc. also, you may go through periods over time where you are less active - and the long term persistence of your writings is more valuable if in one place.

Having something you own allows for drift in subject matter over time.

https://fredlybrand.com/2020/05/28/better-writing-better-com...
Really? We flew for years when both our kids were infants and toddlers, through North America, Europe, Australia, and SE Asia. Every flight gave us an extra lap belt for any child that was too small to for a seat of their own (and almost always a “we’ll come and find you once most the passengers have boarded, we’ll need to give you a special seatbelt…” as we stepped on board and they checked out ticket). They’d always give us a special safety demonstration despite having used the belts dozens of times. If we had a bulkhead seat with a bassinet you’d have to take the child out of the bassinet and strap them into the belt on your lap if the seatbelt light came on.

I’m mostly stunned our experiences are so extremely opposite. As I’ve never not seen this!
'Most people' can call it what they want, but in this context, they're not referring to a RESTful API. Search for 'REST JSON API' and you may discover 'most people' may be a subset of 'some people', and not a majority of people.
I'd think the public palatability of lead products is one aspect. People don't worry as much about tungsten.

I was thinking weights to fit specific items. Model railway wagons, for example, need to be weighted and balanced to operate smoothly, but you have significant size constraints. I threw a bunch of tungsten weights inside a small locomotive to give it extra tractive effort.
My blog is an exercise in thinking in public (writing = thinking).

I restarted late 2021, after over a decade off-web. Back then (in hindsight) it was me trying to look clever. I used to dislike my writing.

These days I'm fairly happy with my posts.

I try to be correct, but not clever. In fact I'm happy to be corrected --- that's the whole point! I try to write in my own voice, but I don't aim for literary finesse. I don't write for any particular audience, but I do share links in communities of kindred gentlenerds out of common interest.

Several wonderful conversations have happened so far.

The most unexpected was a brief conversation with the grandmaster Douglas McIlroy himself. I'd cold-emailed him a thank you and linked to my post featuring his famous shell pipeline. I received generous critique and advice. That week, I was walking on clouds :)

I've also had a couple of unexpected (and nice!) "front page of HN" experiences.

Recently, one of my blog posts on my Org Mode workflow hit the front page. If my analytics is to be believed, it has taken on a second life bouncing off various parts of the Internet. That front-paging was warm on the heels of another recent Show HN I did of my site maker (written in Bash), which generated some lively discussion :)

Overall, I'm quite pleased with how it's going!
Oh? Is this one of those symbolic UN votes that amounted to nothing? I was referring to actual sanctions all the western allies are putting on Russia right now. Options that have teeth. But no one dared to do that to America.
It’s addressed in the article:

“On many foreign carriers, parents can (loosely) secure their child with a belly loop belt that wraps around the baby’s torso and attaches to the adult’s seat belt. However, the FAA prohibits this accessory on U.S. carriers because of its potential dangers.”

Fwiw when I’ve used the baby-belts they felt very secure. Always wondered why US airlines didn’t use them.
This sounds great — what airlines do this? It was certainly never offered to us.
… and for us non techies it shows we can at least try and RTFM.
So now you need additional capital expenditure to handle the extra load of running your CPU and GPU 24/7, above your base load.
It has actually, in places and times where regulations were reasonable.
If a killer robot doesn't have practical military application it could be used as a chef in the kitchen, fetching vegetables and meats and cutting them to serve, but it would likely be first used in commercial kitchens before it saw service in every kitchen. Also, it would be good to hire a kitchen robot chef after its term of service is up to reintegrate back in to society and boost the local economy. Strange that Infantry is a different MOS than Culinary Specialist.
Completely the opposite. Our kids were born in the last decade, and we only traveled in the continental US with them. Wish we'd gotten the same offers as your family.
Heh. I’ve been enjoying my life, as well, and also buying things from Bandcamp. And each time I do for the last year it says “Receipt for Your Payment to Bandcamp, an Epic Company.”

Anyway I don’t want to bore you, but yes I agree that less mergers would be nice. And the bandcamp news was very worrisome, and I’m sure at some point things will turn to shit.
I flew two flights last week with a lap-child and didn't see this. The in flight info just indicated to hold on tight in an emergency.
It’s literally a mug shot, a photograph (shot) of your face (mug) for official record. For the express purpose of identification by a law enforcement agency, no less.
Italian law applies only in Italy. Other countries determine their own copyright expiration durations.
Awesome. Thank you for your kind words. I'm flattered and you made me smile.
Survivorship bias. All the babies allergic to peanut butter, but fed it early, died.
Yes that's because LLaMA is unfiltered, which is very good for general usage.
invite-only discord and slacks serve this purpose, or local email lists. not the most newsworthy but they're out there.
Above was OO an based solution to #1, and arguably #2. Many would argue hooks did nothing to solve #2 and may have made things worse.

> Agree or not, but it is a very intentional and well motivated direction.

Agree with problem exists (roughly), disagree on solution.
This change will certainly impact many, but Open Source projects are still free.

Is Docker doing such a poor job that this is still misunderstood?