skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We outlined some of our broad goals (intended differentiators) here: https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276296, in case that helps. Codidact is a work in progress. The biggest non-technical difference from SO is how we treat communities and their members: communities have a lot more autonomy, and we treat people decently. No stockholders are driving anti-community business decisions.

On the technical level, while Q&A is central, we also have other post types and other models. That post I linked to is an article in a blog that's part of our Meta community. The Electrical Engineering community has papers, so people can present information outside of the Q&A structure. Code Golf has a sandbox where people can get feedback on draft challenges before posting them. Software Development has a Code Review category. Some of our communities have added their own customizations to the code, like Code Golf's leaderboard for challenge answers. We want to work together with our communities to build what best serves their needs.

We've done some things that look small but might have larger effects. For example, the asker of a question can't mark one answer as "accepted" like on SO, but anybody can mark an answer as "works for me" -- or "outdated", or other annotations that communities can define. Scoring takes controversy into account, because +10/-5 and +5/-0 are very different even if they're both "net 5". With threaded comments, it doesn't matter so much if two people have an extended conversation; it's not in the way. Abilities are granted based on activity and reputation is just a number -- or can be turned off entirely if that's what a community wants. We're trying to make as much stuff configurable as we can, because we can't possibly know what's going to be best for every single community and don't have the hubris to claim we do.

We have the usual bootstrapping problem of a new thing. Our communities are small and trying to grow. Because they're small, visitors don't see thousands of questions and high activity, so they don't participate either and wander away, making it harder to build activity. We would love to find people who want to work with us to build communities. We recognize that helping to build a community with us is going to be harder and slower than just asking your question on SO, but if everyone were happy with SO this thread wouldn't be here, so maybe we're an option to a few people reading this?

(I haven't posted much on Hacker News, so I hope I've read the room correctly and that this kind of comment is ok. If not, I apologize and would appreciate correction so I don't repeat mistakes. Thank you.)
You don’t consume any of the hydrogen to liquefy hydrogen. That comes from an external energy source. Smartly, it would just be the renewable energy used to make the hydrogen in the first place, making it potentially nearly free.

BEVs will still exist as short-ranged urban vehicles. That is a niche, and in trucking that is a very small one too.
I could be wrong but I think GP is arguing for dropping ipv4 to avoid all the complexity that comes from still supporting it.
You dont have to answer, curious - how old are you?

(you speak with a fluidity I did in my gaming heyday - but I am over the global heap at this point.)
> If the name on the front page was not of a murderer, I truly believe it would be recommended reading in schools and philosophy clubs.

I disagree. His ideas are not novel or new. There are large bodies of work around the evils of technology, increasing polarization, isolation, disconnection from nature etc. Leftists are trending toward authoritarianism is old hat. It's all pretty standard stuff. There have been literally hundreds of popular books and films about these very subjects.

The only reason people are reading it is because he murdered people. He said as much:

“In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people.”

You can get everything he said elsewhere, without accidentally or intentionally lionizing a murderer.
"It is ridiculous how easily I can swing together a Phoenix web app and add some ML smarts to it. "

I'd rather optimize the current julia web app stack a bit and use with existing julia ML libraries.
It was a live bomb. You don’t just keep live bombs sitting around your house unless you plan on using them…

Also wait what even is this comment. Why are you just praising the Unabomber unprompted? That’s not what the person you’re replying to was even talking about…
I've replied to you more fully at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277721, but want to mention something here too. The problem with what you're saying here is that word "intentionally". You can't know someone else's intent from internet comments. Overwhelmingly, when person A says something negative about B's intent, B will react with hurt feelings, anger, or outrage, because they don't think that was their intent at all. (This is exactly what happened in this case, as you can see from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277408.)

It will get you a very long way indeed if you simply remind yourself that you can't know someone else's intent and edit your comments until they no longer include any assumptions about intent. If, in addition to that, you make your comments without pejoratives (and especially without pejoratives that have anything to do with other commenters), you should be in good shape.

I believe that you're sincerely asking for clarity here, so I hope this helps!
here, title readers

> SoX - Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation

> SoX reads and writes audio files in most popular formats and can optionally apply effects to them; it can combine multiple input sources, synthesise audio, and, on many systems, act as a general purpose audio player or a multi-track audio recorder. It also has limited ability to split the input in to multiple output files.

> Almost all SoX functionality is available using just the sox command, however, to simplify playing and recording audio, if SoX is invoked as play the output file is automatically set to be the default sound device and if invoked as rec the default sound device is used as an input source. Additionally, the soxi(1) command provides a convenient way to just query audio file header information.
GDPR banners and sticky mobile ad banners that make everything impossible to read
No leetcode? That is possible? This fills my heart with hope
Libertarianism has been exposed as bullshit over and over again. To dismiss these well-documented concerns as "ideological defense mechanisms" is just sad.

FWIW homeopaths and chiropractors use the same sad defense.
My hope is that paying for the service will absolve one from adds. But it's a very faint hope.

In the long run, we will either have governments regulate adds or be ruled by adds.
The article isn't really about APIs. If you're writing APIs, most people will reach for DRF.

Ninja looks neat, though.
You may not want to deal with the hassle but I wouldn’t assume that applies to everyone.

A fully autonomous car (however unrealistic it may be) would be a game changer simply for the economics alone. Not paying full tax, insurance etc for a vehicle while retaining all of the transport possibility would be incredibly tempting to anyone on a budget. Not having to build housing with parking included could do great things for housing availability.

I’m not saying any of this will happen but fully autonomous cars definitely would open the door to a lot of opportunities.
I tend to handle that with an extra model that just has relationships to the other models and some methods to make it work
Solar and wind energy are essentially zero marginal cost energy after a high initial cost.

Zero marginal cost energy sounds like a fabulous way to reduce inflation.
> I think BEAM languages are kind of one of the few exceptions to this argument. Its tradeoffs and runtime semantics really are just very different from other mainstream languages.

Agree wholeheartedly. Elixir/BEAM/Erlang are a league of their own.
Ok, in a converse question, why would evolution create the human mind as the most intelligent possible system?

So I ask, are systems capable of better than human intelligence possible? And if so to what factor?

I would answer yes and unknown. If there are states of intelligent far greater than human then that gets really risky very fast.
Amazing, thank you for taking the time to share this! Big fan of notebooks in general and of Mathematica in particular.
Per person or per account?
> I completely agree that it’s a moral imperative to pay your bills on time and in full; what I’m saying here is that I’m not sure that moral imperatives are even the right framework for looking at these interactions between large companies (eg people have morality and ethics, companies have regulations and lawsuits).

Corporations are people, my friend. Any immorality committed by them is due to the immorality of their owners and executives.

It's easily possible to be an ethical businessperson; one just has to want to be ethical.
It’s the new Moores law. Instead of processing power doubling, it’s storage.
If the rail isn’t faster than the car then it won’t ever see wide scale adoption. It’s not even remotely difficult to clear this bar when the political will exists. Why slow down when there’s no actual need to?
It's unfortunate when suspicion falls upon these people simply for trying to undertake privacy-protecting best practices that the majority of us morons in the world don't care about or are woefully ignorant to. I hope one day privacy is normalized and treated like a valued, first-class human right (more like it was before social platforms and cloud-hosting became a thing and shifted popular culture to share-everything/control-nothing).
There seems to be a lot of Mac hackers on HN! Maybe comments like yours will eventually inspire someone with the chops to play around and advance things.

It'd certainly make for a good blog post here. :)
I know I'm a crazy person, but the idea of having a computer that actually won't let me run whatever I want on it is so nuts.
> Ellul was a professor, a pacifist, and a Christian anarchist. Attacks the ideas, not the man.

Who would care about Kaczynski's ravings without the murders?
I don't think they want to grow in that sense. And since this stuff is federated, you can use any other instance to subscribe to and interact with your subs.
Make sure you present yourself as attractive as you can be. If you look attractive, people will generally assume you must know what you’re talking about compared to someone ugly looking with bad lighting.

And this goes for any profile pics or thumbnails you use, etc. Look attractive in them. Use a filter if you must.
Then let's go with an observation. Humans got smarter than most large mammals, then most large mammals went extinct.
Your line of reasoning would be more comforting if the military wasn't enthusiastically arming such machine intelligence as we've managed to construct so far. Enslave us all feels unlikely as the benefit to said machine is unclear, kill us all is totally plausible.
I want the $300 back that they screwed me out of on ads
He forced his way into the conversation through terrorism. It seems reasonable enough to reject his ideas out of hand rather than give them respectful hearing.
Which right wingers support Ted? I’ve yet to find one in these comments.
Recognize Anything: A Strong Image Tagging Model
Not the OP but one small thing I do along these lines is compile multiple Elm top-level modules into a single binary with "elm make" and then initialize only the ones I need for a particular page. So instead of one big app, I have lots of little apps that only know a small part of the overall picture.

This also eliminates some of the boilerplate nesting/dispatching you would otherwise need between different Elm models for the price of a very slight increase in the risk of seeing runtime decoding errors.
Last I heard HN ran on a single server with a second as a backup. Likely couple hundred/mo in electricity and bandwidth.

They do retain at least two full time staff members though, so that’s going to be 10k/mo+ at the minimum.
$32 from Zoom settlement

$4 from Udemy settlement

$7.70 from Google settlement

Hey, happy to take 'free' money. :)
I agree 100% with the statement that it tells us more about our engineering team practices, but the question I have is, how to get it better? Python provides rich built ins, which make it easy to compose a rich suite.

It appears that no one else has an issue with it in my group, but I’m the oddball, these guys come from a TS/JS background. They don’t appear to express concern with it.

Are there resources that you can recommend that I can use to get better?
very interesting, essentially riding the coattails of the notoriety in derangement, what a concept.
It’s never that simple. There are loads of people for which a personal or work vehicle is a necessity. Public transport cannot, and is never designed to catch every edge case.

I’m all for better public transportation but strong statements and mishandled public funds just sways the support of the average joe.
>How Windows allows the running of a .bat file to DL an .exe that can run a crypto miner is just a bonkers lack of security!

Is it any different from Linux allowing the running of a .sh file to DL an ELF executable that can run a crypto miner?
There's whitepapers and articles every few years on Holographic storage, it's one of those perpetually just around the corner things.

See also memristors, that HP in particular have been saying is coming in the next couple of years, fundamentally changing the entire computing industry, for decades.
I had a different take on his writings than yours. Rather than thinking his solution was bad, he encouraged me to question why we “spend our days improving humanity”.

What does “improving humanity” even mean? What’s the metric we are optimizing for? Are we, humanity, any happier than we were when we were hunter-gatherer tribes? I don’t think so - we’ve just found new metrics to focus on and to be disappointed in ourselves in.

His writing encouraged me to consider that we are evolutionarily ill-suited for our current situation. We have resources far in excess of our needs, and yet we struggle. We find new issues to focus on, new problems, new fights, new causes. Our desire to “improve humanity” will never end, because it cannot end. When it does, we will find something new to take its place.

Maybe our purpose in life is to find food to survive. It is the task our ancestors evolved to do for millions and millions of years. It is our inheritance, in that way.
I have used this and it is a welcome advance on the older techniques such as gettext.

Just be aware that not all the implementations have all the functionality, for example, i learnt the rust implementation does not yet support the date/time formatting.

I recommend taking it for a spin.
I agree, the Fucked Up Deaths are insane.

For point of comparison, the entire rest of the auto industry, worldwide has fewer advanced driver deaths than Tesla, despite millions more cars on the road with advanced driving functionality.

On an absolute, and relative, basis Tesla advanced driving is the most dangerous advanced driving system in the world.
Never really played with the Erlang VM other than a little more than the Hello World in Elixir, but when I'm in the debugging hell of Apache Spark I really wish it wasn't based on the JVM.
The previous instance I was on was around since 2018. The one I'm on now has been around since 2019.
In NYC specifically, by far the loudest vehicles are dirt bikes — people ride them through streets with absolutely no regard for safety or pedestrians, running reds and honking and revving their engines. I think what you have said is generally true in other US cities I’ve been to though.
From my experience, Google works perfectly most of the time, but when it doesn't work you're completely screwed and have no recourse. You just gotta hope the problem fixes itself.
> The second one is obviously morally wrong, though even that is in dispute

I don't really think this one is in dispute honestly:

Now he began taking measures to limit use of his parks. He had restricted the
use of state parks by poor and lower-middle-class families in the first place,
by limiting access to the parks by rapid transit he had vetoed the Long Island
Rail Road's proposed construction of a branch spur to Jones Beach for this
reason. Now he began to limit access by busses; he instructed Shapiro to build
the bridges across his new parkways low - too low for buses to pass. Bus trips
therefore had to be made on local roads, making the trips discouraging long and
arduous.

- The Power Broker, pp 318
Ok, I've finally had a chance to look at this properly. It's clear that putting noreferrer on sites selectively was bad, and I'm sorry. This should have been obvious beforehand, and I just missed that.

The OP is incorrect that we did this for just one site. We did it for several sites—all the sites we knew about which were punishing HN referrers and which users had complained to us about.

The consensus in the current thread, as well as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36249414 and emails, is that a better approach is simply to put noreferrer on outgoing links in general. I've made that change now.
https://brilliantlightpower.com/tag-interview-of-dr-mills-on...
A package update to an important shared library in a Linux distro is the equivalent to a system update on the Mac, if I read you right you are correct in saying that in a long-winded way.

I feel like you may have some Mac fetishism going on that is leading you to see those two as more distinct than they are. The topic at hand is an ABI break after a dynamic library gets updated legitimately by its vendor. Code signing and "injection" is tangential.
Perhaps you misundstand. The ones with <10 users cost a few bucks a month. The ones with thousands of users are sustainable through donations. There is no lack of sustainability here.

Because it's a federated system, there is no need for instances larger than that (and in my opinion, they are a net negative for the network).
Ok, I'll rant now.

Tape drives have multiple heads for IO, which allows some to fail along the way and you can still read/write your data. This sounds good - but it actually just means these tape drive heads are flaky. What do you do when too many fail? You call IBM or whoever and get them to replace your tape drive, or "reman" it by replacing the failed heads. This is the only way they actually achieve their warranties around lifetime read/writes.. they assume you'll fix the hardware along the way.

These HAMR drives have the same problem. The "heat assisted" just means they're using a laser to heat up a piece of gold, and sometimes this means the gold kinda drips around, and the head can be ruined. So their read/write lifetime numbers are pretty loose compared to PMR, and there is an assumption you'll "reman" these drives if they start to have failed heads for IO. However, the gold can even drip onto the platter, giving you permanent data loss anyways.

Lastly, they use SMR to get this density. SMR is not like PMR. PMR is what you think of with an HDD with many small blocks either 512B or 4KiB which you can read/write to. SMR has 256MiB (or 128) "zones" that you can only append, or reset. This means instead of being able to write randomly across the drive's capacity, you need to plan out your writes across appendable regions. This complicates your GC, compaction, and reduces your total system IO. Your random read performance is still better than Tape, but this basically turns your HDD solutions into something that looks a lot more like Tape. This is incredibly unpopular technology for this reason.

The market for these things is much smaller than most HDD vendors would like. You have a few hyperscalars that have figured out how to write out backups efficiently, but they want a lot of read IO, and reducing the spindle to byte ratio means you have less total system bandwidth to your data.

This means that the price per byte would actually need to be lower than their PMR drives, let alone wildly better warranty agreements, for these to be better TCO than current generation drives.
In theory, yes, but the bottom of the article explains that Seagate currently plans for their upcoming 24TB drive to be the last new non-SMR drive and all larger drives (28+ TB) are planned to be SMR. So in practice SMR and HAMR will be going hand in hand, at least from this vendor.
By that logic, we might as well just blame it on his beard.
Or let stakeholders build what is most efficient for their case, so we all save money, resources, and time.
SlimPajama: A 627B token cleaned and deduplicated version of RedPajama
Pretty much all architectures have "simple" instruction sets under the hood, that is, the microcode that executes the mess we put in binaries. RISC-V is based on the idea that you can skip most of this step. The difficulty is getting fusing and other optimizations to work so the throughout remains high, which seems to work so far.
Backup to cloud provider, and then have them ship you a replacement drive with the data preloaded when your local drive goes bad (Backblaze, for example, does this).

Local drives are more fast cache for data that should be stored reliably elsewhere (maybe hot, maybe cold, depending on provider and cost concerns).
What exactly are you still reading on usenet? I’ve never been able to find anything that isn’t just spam.
It's not about difficulty. Network effect is a bitch.
Not quite the same because they don't control as easily who drives on the roads. They can easily stop you from getting on the train though.
I have no doubt that Apple is capable of delivering a product that can beat Intel's i9-13900K, especially since Apple is using a much more modern 5nm process vs Intel's 10nm process for the i9.

As you point out, server CPUs are intentionally engineered for a target market. Apple's processors are very intentionally engineered as well. When engineering their product, they had a certain market in mind, and design and performance trade-offs were made accordingly. As others have noted, power efficiency seems to be a big priority. The M2 Ultra has a TDP of 60W. The i9-13900K has a base consumption of 125W, and draws up to 253W under stress. So do the math. Intel achieves 32% better single-core performance and 41% better multi-core performance (Cinebench) for 422% of Apple's power consumption. If there's something impressive here, it's that Apple is able to do so much with so little. If Apple wanted to, they could probably conjoin two M2 Ultra's and soundly beat the i9-13900K by a considerable margin and still use about half the same power to do so. The real question is why any consumer would need that much compute, and the target market for such a niche is probably very small which is why Apple didn't do that
Lots more interesting detail in the original 2021 LA Times expose: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-16/flamin-hot...
Sure, loud fans are loud but anyone that cares about noise is not using OEM fans, and picking up something from Noctua/Arctic. It's also common to upgrade to 140mm fans which further reduces noise.
That is only true in poorer European countries with older, cheaper vehicle fleets. Most new car sales in more affluent countries no longer have manual transmissions. Modern automatics with 8+ forward gears or CVTs are more fuel efficient than manuals and easier to integrate as part of hybrid systems. And of course EV sales are growing rapidly: they don't use conventional transmissions at all.
If that was the only barrier you could sign them yourself. They stopped a long time before that though.