skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sympathetic to concerns that some kids (mostly girls) are doing it because it's a trendy thing to do. I'm worried things like The Genderbread Person send the wrong message by gendering clothes and activities. It tells a boy wearing pink and playing with barbies he's a girl.

If my kid's LGB, I'm glad they found what they're looking for, and if they change their mind, that works too. The trans bit worries me because it's permanent.

I think both sides have gone too far on this issue, and find California and Florida equally scary.
Wow!

Yeah it's just a bit off the standard one. I seem to remember getting it from an HN redesigned site or something.
This is great! How do you make the graphics?
Whether it's illegal or not depends on the specifics. for ex if you'd gone into their driveway to take it back that could be trespassing.

regardless that sounds dangerous. I guess if my car was worth a lot more I might take that kind of risk.
The compulsion is whats sad about it. Like with every serious addict.
> It means testing a treatment that's still highly experimental and a long way from being approved.

If that's the definition, then that doesn't sound evil to me. It doesn't sound like informed consent is impossible.

Also I feel like that definition includes lots of existing allowed clinical trials.

> That would be as erroneous as saying "the law bans murder, therefore the meaning of 'murder' is defined by the law".

What's the thing similar to murder that is allowed? The equivalent of "FDA approved middle-stage testing"? Otherwise this analogy falls apart half-constructed.

> No - of course I'm not. How do you come up with these bizarre misreadings?

Well the word murder does work that way. Something being murder often depends on whether it's ethical or not. If it's ethical self defense then it's not murder, for example.

So you don't need to get upset that I asked just in case.
> Why is this comment necessary on every Julia-related post?

I think it's just a reaction to constantly seeing Julia being oversold and overmarketed in the geekosphere.
I'll metally prepare myself to getting a lot more emails starting with: 'I hope this email finds you well'.
This is such an obnoxiously typical take for this website.

“Well, Ive got nothing substantive to say, so I better start whining about surface level syntax stuff I don't like”
Did You Know That You Can Catch and Throw Stuff in Ruby?
Most consumers make purchasing decisions against these buffers.

If you have two identical electric cars for the same price, one with a range of 350 miles and one with a range of 280 miles, which one would you buy?

If you have two identical phones, one with a 4300 mAh rated battery and another with a 3400 mAh battery, which one would you buy?

If you have two equally priced SSDs, one with 500GB capacity and one with 480GB, which one would you buy?

To enterprise customers the sales rep will explain "look, this device has a bit less space, but the write endurance number quoted here is much better, over 5 years and 5000 drives this will lower your TCO by X". In the consumer space you build your entire brand around one price-reliability tradeoff and stick to it. Usually the cheaper one with the bigger headline stat sells the most, and everyone else has to make up the lost volume with margin.
A similar segment from The Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSMOVeE9YBI (NSFW, depending on your W)
This is a really beautiful way to see something we take for granted all the time. The fact that computers can do all this in the blink of an eye (sans network speed) is just mind blowing.
Unfortunately with LoRa a more sophisticated approach is not possible (for the way the RF protocol itself works). When you transmit in a given spreading, anyway you are distrupting the current communications. The maxium you can do is listen before talk which we already implemented, and then random timeouts, and ACKs only when absolutely needded (and opt-in). What makes working with LoRa even more problematic is that message time-on-air is huge. In theory we could use multiple channels, but this makes sense only when we want a one-to-one communication, instead the goal of the project is to create a WAN-style network.
Key Trends Shaping the Embedded AI Landscape
Riots fuelled with religious/tribal zeal can kill thousands in mere hours.

Blocking phone internet seems to an efdective solution to this for now.
My assumption would be hunting perhaps? Since that involves gun ownership, and gun ownership/rights typically being associated with "conservatives".
Wait till you find the assembly code hidden in a list of hex numbers that gets copied to a function and then called as a thunk ;-)
depending on what you mean by hours that sounds like significant battery drain compared to screen off and asleep?
I think that modernity had shifted the mainstream view away from that, but it need not that way. When I look at Christopher Alexander’s life’s work and what the various people tried to do during the Renaissance, you can still be in relation to all around you. Alexander’s talks on centers and unfolding brings you to designing in this way.
I have found nice places on the Internet that abide by those norms.
Left-hander here. Yes, that's why I'm practising using my right hand to use chopsticks too.

It's still weaker and not as flexible as using my left hand to eat, but I'm working on it. :-)
They're actually just putting those types of cameras and sensors in the cars, via transportation mandates in both US and EU.

I'm actually a little surprised I haven't heard more about that, here!
This reminds me of two other natural energy sources, both different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Mine
On a scale of 100, Pakistan got a 27 and India 40. Definitely similar. Particularly as Pakistan's perceived corruption score has been falling, likely partially due to Khan's highlighting of the issue.
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't bore you"

- David Bowie
Geat news! What about iOS-hosted virtual machines? I managed to install DosBox on one device in our family just before they blocked it but I want it, also a Linux VM and a real Firefox everywhere.
They probably want to say "why is this post necessary for every Julia release?".
I don’t know anything about XRPC and Lexicon, but claiming that OpenAPI is better than them because it’s more flexible, is not a great argument.
OpenAPI is a very complex spec, and most of the tooling around it, only supports some subset of it.
Sure it’s complex for a reason, it’s design goals are to be able to document the wide array of ways that HTTP APIs can be built, but if you don’t need that complexity, it absolutely makes sense to use a simpler RPC spec.
> Cars that live 20+ years are probably a minority.

That seems vastly unlikely? But I don't have stats one way or the other.

My newest car is 19 years old and it's like new for all purposes. My other cars currently are 30 and 35 years old and aside from paint faiding they are as good as new. With reasonable maintenance, cars will last for many many decades.
A bit bare bones but certainly a step in the right direction.
People get settled in their toolsets. Besides, Julia does have a lot of syntax similarities to Matlab, but that doesnt mean that switching is straightforward.

It’s still a completely different language with it’s own paradigms, semantics, ecosystem, etc.
https://www.theseus-os.com/
Of course he's a doomer. He's compared himself to Robert Oppenheimer and by his own admission the only reason he isn't calling for a complete halt to all AI research is because he's too pessimistic it'd be possible. He describes a man who wants to literally bomb datacenters as "not crazy", just "not helpful" i.e. he'd be totally on board with such tactics if he thought they were more plausible.

> Talking about the dangers of AI is not the same as being a doomer

It is in fact the same thing as being a doomer if you're claiming that something unstoppable will lead to doom, in the same way that pointing out government coverups of lab leaks technically makes you a conspiracy theorist.
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Why not? It isn't clear to me why monolithic kernel wouldn't still have better performance.
You objected to "In South Asian politics, bribes are a way of life", that statement is still true.
> Apple is not anti-VM. It is anti VM-on-non-Apple-hardware. ;-)

Do you mean they allow VMs on iPads already?
I'm curious to what is the output from the digestion - apart from more microbes.
If your city can’t keep Walmart, Whole Foods, and Nordstrom due to rampant and unchecked crime, homelessness, etc, then how would you compel normal citizens and employers to remain. If you forfeit your security, protection of private property and clean streets, then society will rapidly devolve and you will end up with such vacancies. And it doesn’t matter if this is deliberate and ideological or if it’s just incompetence or ignorance, the same outcome will arrive. SF is in decline and total denial about it. California is too. Anyone who doesn’t see this is in total denial.
Anything of relevance has significant AH volume. You’re too late by Monday morning.
Yes that's fair. More of a 'direction shift' than totally losing their way.
There should be a very simple way to translate Matlab to Julia that anyone can use easily.
Yeah, GPT-4 "could* do that - but I don't think very many people would ever do that. Why? Because often Matlab code is private and the owners can't give their code over to some other person.

So some other method e.g. Galpaca distilled or Llama-based distil by step for Matlab->Julia translation model should be popularized.

Especially with the distill step by step you could get something that runs quite efficiently on a laptop.
> SF is being gutted because the only equipment a programmer needs is a computer

I think that's only half of it. The other half is a lot of people were only in SF for the money. When given the opportunity to leave and make the same money, they did.
> Reasonably simple

> 35 minutes to compile

What kind of CPU are we talking about here!?
Does that even exist anymore?
I donate to Thunderbird but not firefox because of all the bullshit moves I saw them do over the past few years
I boulder every week with my 74 year old dad, which I'm really grateful for. I get the feeling we've got another year or so until he has to stop.
Lotus 1-2-3 did also have a wysiwyg mode. That might have given him more columns.
It's not about China.
You don't even realize how you look, do you?

Do you understand that everyone around the world remembers how western countries pioneered globalization and pushed all the nasty production to third-world countries, so that they don't get their white hand dirty?

You don't get to greenwash yourselves just because stuff you consume gets produced somewhere else, got it?

But hey, I have an idea! If you insist on being no less virtuous then Mother Teresa, how about this proposal: we shut down all of the outsourced production for US and Europe. Just think of it, this would be a huge optimization: it's the smallest part of the world that consumes the most.

And people there are clearly eager to be heroes and show us how to take care of climate - let's help them finally put their money where their mouth is. It's a win-win!
I believe it is mentioned, but not on that particular page. See this one [1]

> Anatomical differences in human hands

> We were given hints about anatomical differences in human hands very early on. The ergonomic marcostick prototypes we created did not work on a few individuals in our test group. We noted that one person in particular could not make the thumb pose required for Standard Grip. Forced adoption of Standard Grip for this user led to chopstick cramps. We created the model T training marcosticks and model H finger helpers in response, but did not think much further about this thumb condition.

> It wasn’t until after folks sent us more pictures and videos of their alternative grips, that we started to appreciate this as a prevalent issue.

[1] https://marcosticks.org/the-art-and-science-of-chopsticking/
I'm looking long and hard to see if Next.js is still a good fit with this new direction. The VC's want their money and the push to host will Vercel is getting louder with every new version.
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The notion that server disappearance is a non-issue is quite misleading. Servers go offline for various reasons, such as technical difficulties, financial constraints, or legal issues. Recovering and transferring data without relying on the original server is essential for users to maintain control over their data and identities. DIDs and recovery keys provide a valuable solution to this problem, ensuring user autonomy.

Your reply fails to address that push-based systems are prone to overwhelming home servers due to burst loads when content becomes viral. By implementing pull-based federation, the AT Protocol allows for a more balanced and efficient distribution of resources, making self-hosting more affordable and sustainable in the long run.
There's an argument that you want consistency across the state. Having snowflake jurisdictions is a headache for businesses.
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I gave that a go on my comments, as I suspected I mostly use the F-word indirectly (quoting from sources, paraphrasing reactions of others, etc) .. but it's interesting the algolia search fuzzy matches to "luck" and "Fukishima" etc.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> Maybe the compromise is a centralized service?

Yes.

Centralization is inevitable and normal users only care if they can use it easily or not and don’t have to choose a instance or set up their own mail server, instance, or whatever.

As always with typical techies, the emotions put into this post were already running high given Bluesky itself has gotten someone extremely angry over the tiniest things.
This was beautiful. Two things stood out to me:

* There's more stuff than I expected which exists only for backwards compatibility. That's a lot of bytes when you add it all up over the whole Internet.

* There's a lot of "expect N more bytes for a data structure of type T1" messages followed immediately by "expect N-k more bytes for a data structure of type T1::T2". I assume this is because there's other stuff that could go in that spot, but it still looks strange.

I'm sure all of this is necessary and important; I just found it really fascinating to peek under the covers. It's nice to be able to have it all (mostly) just work thanks to the tireless efforts of many engineers and protocol developers.
50 Years in Filesystems: 1974 Unix V7
50 years in filesystems: 1984 BSD FFS
The mention of OLED is sideways to the network stuff, it just so happens the device he chose has an OLED screen.

The protocol is FreakWAN, so there’s no TCP/IP involved. LoRa devices send messages opportunistically and listen out for other messages they can understand and then maybe act on if they choose to. It’s about as simple as you can imagine.
That would be bad because of the CO2 emissions and because it's a huge waste of government money.

It would not be bad for long-term tractor availability, if they kept up big purchases for many years. Especially if tractors were a hotbed of research and improving by orders of magnitude.

Or to put it another way: It's a hugely inefficient way of boosting tractors, but it will in fact boost tractors. It's not a good idea overall, but it will have some positives.
Fun fact: In terms of rank , the difference between USA and India is similar to India and Pakistan. Maybe the commentor could have chosen USA for comparison.

Funny thing is perception, these comments just harm India's perception for readers here. Why drag us here?
> “And I’m like, ‘Is we in a fucking movie right now or what?’”

I mean, you could probably ask that question since at least 2016.
The uniform distribution result is not interesting enough for you?
Notes on Nigeria
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding
It was Nautilus file manager in Ubuntu that used to drag if you opened a folder with a few thousand files. It was it was essentially doing at least one request for each file when you opened a folder and this was limited by the spin rate of the HDD. So if you had 5,400 files and a 5400RPM drive, yep that would take a full minute to resolve.

Eventually the solution really just become - get an SSD because you could throw thousand of requests and the results was fast enough.
Related work that will be opensourced:

https://exitsuit.com/
One kinda related thing I find constantly amazing is that your processor running at x GHz will have had several more ticks in the time it takes the photons to go from your screen to your eyes.

(Light travels at about 30cm/1ft per nanosecond)
Email has only solved the "authenticity problem" by centralizing to a tiny number of megaproviders with privileged trusted relationships. Forestalling that sort of "solution" seems to me one of the Blueksy team's design goals.

Servers go down or get flaky all the time for various reasons. Easy relocation (with no loss of content & relationships) and signed content (that remains readable/verifiable even through server bounciness) soften the frustrations.

55k tweets is little challenge to replicate, just like 50k signatures is little challenge to verify, here in the 2020s.

If Mastodon does everything better with a head start, it should have no problem continuing to serve its users, and new ones.

Alas, even just the Mastodon et al community emphasis on extreme limits on visibility & distribution – by personal preferences, by idiosyncratic server-to-server discourse standards, by sysop grudges, whatever – suppress a lot of the 'sizzle' that initially brought people to Twitter.

Bluesky having an even slightly greater tilt towards wider distribution, easier search, and relationships that can outlive server drama may attract some users who'd never be satisfied by Mastodon's twisty little warrens & handcrafted patterns-of-trust.

There's room for multiple approaches, different strokes for different folks.
Word2Vec: Why Do We Need Word Representations?
I came here to day this.

Another example: Mastodon.lol, which had 12,000 users literally shutdown a few hours ago. They did manage to give notice but the point remains that people had to move instances, cannot take their posts with them, and it’s a giant PITA, server covenant or not.

To call this stuff a “non-issue” seems incredibly obtuse, especially when the data portability piece is clearly an after thought by the Mastodon devs, and something that ActivityPub would need some major changes to get accomplished. Changes that the project leads have been fairly against implementing.
Windows Forms with C# still works excellently. Sure, Microsoft has deprecated it a bunch of times trying to push a new UI paradigm every year, but good old WinForms will never die.

The language is much better and the editor has more modern controls. Win32 calls are available relatively easily and the whole program runs quite a bit faster than VB6.

It's a shame that this is so often overlooked. At some point everyone seemed to have switched to WPF and that's when .NET cross platform GUIs seem to have died. There's a new tool out there right now but that doesn't work on Linux so I can't say I really care when WinForms will work perfectly on any operating system Mono has ever been ported to.
Still in 2016. You can check your version by pressing the "/" key and seeing if letters appear over menu items.
I've also used alpineJS, Golang and tailwindCSS to build gocial [1]. The source code is also publicly available [2]. The whole project is hosted at netlify as a big Lambda function.

But I think for future projects I might use HTMX + Tailwind.

[1]: https://gocial.netlify.app/

[2]: https://github.com/dorneanu/gocial
Great news.

Except for the part where they used K9 instead of FairMail as a foundation for thunderbird mobile.

K9 has way too many bugs and the ergonomics is terrible compared to fairmail, and both are available on fdroid.
As far as I can tell ActivityPub is (at least part of) the problem. If it’s not, then Mastodon is simply not trying to be a “Twitter replacement” or a useful global social network at all.

The only worse idea than Bluesky using ActivityPub would be to build something new making all the same design decisions.

Deciding “ActivityPub is the standard” (seriously?!) and demanding we give up already is the opposite of what we need.

I don’t know if AT is the best long term solution, but — and I’ve tried it multiple times — ActivityPub/Mastodon sure as hell isn’t. There’s no value in being interoperable with it that I can see, beyond the potential short term boost to vanity metrics on user numbers.

I absolutely want my identity to use public key cryptography, and I absolutely want to store all my emails, tweets (or whatever), and DMs locally first. I don’t like how accounts and servers work in Mastodon and the federation and global discovery approach sucks too.

The best thing we can do now is keep an open mind and try as many approaches as possible, because if something better than ActivityPub doesn’t come along society is stuck with centralised social media forever.
You are free to not use chopsticks, and most places will happily provide western cutlery if you can't use them. It is easier to handle some kinds of food with chopsticks however, and they're versatile for cooking as well as dining.

Why limit yourself?
Making a PoC is a great way to convince both yourself and the maintainers that the bug is actually exploitable in the wild and thus a big fucking deal. Alternatively, you might discover that there are some other things going on which turns out to make the bug unexploitable.
A year ago, not so recent in AI time. The top comment there is quite amusing given how things have played out.
What prevents it is the libraries. Just like Python.

Julia as a compiled language is faster and more distributable than either, but there is a chicken-egg problem about the ecosystem. MathWorks' provided libraries for Matlab are excellent, amazingly documented and massively supported. Python libraries are just hugely numerous in any domain you can imagine...
> criminal law is the only source of illegality. that is literally the definition of the word.

Your definition is not compatible with any common understanding of the word, or with any major dictionary.

Maybe you should check the definition of the word before taking a position on what it is, next time.
try using your fingers instead of chopsticks to eat cheetos and keep your keyboard clean
A lack of progress inevitably leads to annihilation anyway.

So might as well go for it.
> Having everyone lock themselves inside and exclusively interact via video chat is not a good thing, IMO.

Sounds like a Black Mirror episode.
Introducing Raycast Pro
We made a new HTML/CSS editor
It would have been cool to have a rad tool but for react and js as a whole. Writing it by hand is such a waste of time, at least for backoffice tools.
Surely they are willing to shell a out a few bucks
It doesn't matter what it is designed for. What matters is what it actually does. It's trivial to get GPT to do chain-of-thought reasoning and observe it.
Does anyone know what the units are for TTL and TTFX? I can’t tell how significant those results are. Label your graphs, people!
SLC still has a minimum block size that gets used during writes.