skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced this is true. The economics of cultural production are far more winner take all than the economics of food and clothing production. Higher quality work gets more of the limited attention in that economy. AI work is doomed to fail because of this dynamic.
The new Mac Pro can be rack mounted. It has PCIe gen 4 for audio and video I/O, networking, and storage cards.
FFmpeg is exactly the kind of application, that in non-pruned configuration (i.e. with codecs like AAC) distributions cannot distribute binaries legally in some countries.

E.g. for Fedora, it is in rpmfusion repository and not in the distribution proper. Other distributions have similar arrangement for license-os-ok-but-patents-are-problem situation. These servers are outside US (or other countries that recognize software patents), and for the US users, the issue of obtaining the license is up to them.

The situation is so bad, that Fedora stopped shipping support for hardware acceleration of patented codecs (i.e. not complete codecs, but support to use the implementation in hardware, for example in your GPU), because they could be sued for contributory infringement.

Also note, that binaries for VLC or ffmpeg for Windows or Mac are similarly distributed from non-US servers, so basically the same situation as rpmfusion.
Ask HN: Your favorite cross platform organizational tools and apps?
Hello HN! Looking for input for cross platform organization tools and implementations for different platforms. Trying to organize and optimize my work spaces for better focus and project prioritization, knowledgebase, reading list storage etc. What are your favorites, why do you find them useful, what are some drawbacks? Open to any input for both mobile and desktop platforms, currently working within Android, MacOS, and Windows. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
IQ points only indicate how good people are at doing IQ tests (and that they actually did one), it doesn't tell anything else. And looking down on people with perceived low IQ is elitist and classist.
You are probably monumentally underestimating it, and with that it's not really a Reddit alternative... maybe rather a toy version of it? Not only is moderation going to be a huge task, but it would be so, even without worrying about much of the most basic spam, which I have to assume Reddit catches automatically, without moderator intervention. Your 300+ throwaway poster may be a malicious user, but on the other hand they may have set out to answer an obvious and important question about this Reddit "alternative", by seeing if it's up for the job :) See it as free user acceptance testing (fail).
Sadly, no one will blink an eye. I hate to be pessimistic on this, but your average person does not care about their privacy or even most of their rights. I think your typical person will throw just about all of that away for the appearance of safety and security.
I remember being downvoted for saying this is essentially a phone CPU and motherboard, just without consideration for constraints imposed by the phone's footprint. It means it can be designed with higher TDP in mind etc.

and yet, Apple charges for it as if it was a real workstation equipment rather than a phone in a massive enclosure.
I think spring's giant XML config file was preferable to the annotation garbage that most people use these days. But both are shitty solutions in my book. I'm still not convinced that doing all this configuration and magic at runtime is a good idea. Most of what spring does in terms of dependency injection (and probably a bunch of configuration related things as well) should really be compile time steps. There are very few cases where you want to change the implementation of $foo at runtime, and being explicit about those few cases would be nice.
I agree with the overall point, but there's some bits here that are a little bit silly

>You might be scoffing at the kilobytes this removal represents, but when it comes to web performance, every little bit counts

Go to Apple.com. Do you think that they value minimizing site size or do they prioritize the design first and then figure out how to make it performant? What this argument is really saying is that you should make the value judgement that performance vs quality should be somewhere towards the performance side, but I think plenty of people would make a different decision. You can argue that the scrollbar is extremely low value and therefore performance should be the priority but then... why are you writing an article about scrollbars?
By definition that every trade has two parties. Those boomers are now sitting on house wealth for the same reason that millennials without family wealth are priced out of home ownership.

If we built more housing, prices would go down for millennials, and those boomer’s investments wouldn’t look as good.

One way of putting it: pick a number of hours the average person should have to work over time to buy a house. If you want that number to stay the same, housing can only appreciate as quickly as wage inflation.
Chinese men. Cis-gendered, straight, educated, privileged men.
Well done for launching! Kudos for using Web Components.

RE: Landing Page. Keep the marketing side, after all you've a paid Model. I'd split the Landing Page on non-mobile devices:

----33% Marketing ----|----66% Endless FEDD----|

Could hide Marketing pane after some time / or button.

RE: Paid Subscription. Re-think the model you've got, won't scale (direct wealth-distribution by vote) as it's presented (e.g tipping creators by vote: could be done/seeded by Agents/Affiliates etc), unless I'm missing a twist to this.

You've done the right thing to not accept money atm (while you iron out platform/user issues)
Google 'secret' 'leaked' memo: 'We have no moat, OSS will rule all!'

Google actual thinking: 'meh, we had the some performance as the OSS models in 2019.'

The leak had the double purpose of shielding Google Research internally and disrupting investment in competitors, it never made any sense if you thought a bit about the market.
Plenty of criminals, thugs and gang leaders are dominant but not prestigious.

I'm not sure it's about fear vs love so much as fear vs aspiration and admiration.

Prestigious people are widely admired - sometimes for reasonable reasons, sometimes for trivial ones, such as being funny, glib, and/or charismatic, and being a successful grifter and chancer.

When you get individuals who combine perceived class and status with hardcore grift, either funny or passionately sincere/angry superficial glibness, perhaps some scapegoating, and some hints of dominance, you've built yourself a successful demagogue.

The same applies to the more populist and opportunist religious leaders. And perhaps some startup founders and senior managers.

It's hugely depressing to realise how inevitable this is. Most people assume they're making rational decisions about status interactions. They have no idea how their own software works - or even that they have software.

The possibility that it might be flawed, biased, and easy to exploit is completely foreign to them.
The place you never wanted to see in daylight.
>Don't forget, most of the same people screaming Lab Leak were later screaming Horse Worm Medicine.

So what? You just said we should only look at "logic, reason, and scientific evidence". What some of the same people are screaming shouldn't be a factor at all, by your own reasoning.
What awful things to say.
In my opinion, in modern civilization, concentration in megacities is inevitable. I think it is unavoidable whether it is a centralized country (France, Korea, etc.) or a decentralized country (USA, Japan, Germany, etc.). Since the benefits of globalization are concentrated in cities, the high-skilled workforce tends to stay in big cities. As in the example above, poor quality of care in rural areas is just one consequence. (In Korea, where I live, this issue has recently been on the rise.)
While reading your link, all I could think about is how good AI face generators have become these days. Hmm..
Unsubstantiated evo-pop-psych incoming:

I have believed for a long time that accurately assessing your chances of success on big bets is maladaptive. Ambitious projects (whether they be science, construction or mammoth hunting) could benefit society enough that on a societal level they're good even if a lot of them fail, but the benefit to the individuals taking on the risk could be low enough that it's not worth it for them (due to the diminishing returns of additional wealth on an individual level).

Gambling is just exploiting this mechanism to extract wealth.
I happen to agree, but that doesn't stop billions being spent on biodefense / biowarfare.

The lines can get a bit blurry because a lot of that type of research is "dual use".
Or Rugby, which I do.

Yes, the season ticket works out to £800 a month, but I'd be paying multiples of that each month for my house in London. Commute is 1h15m door to door, and the majority of that is on the high speed train from Rugby to Euston where I can either get work done, or read/listen to a podcast.
People should totally make that assessment, I just think the conclusion should be roughly “I will break even”.
I agree that you have an excellent point in relation to the thread ancestor, but to refocus the debate on the actual matter at hand:

A key difference being that opioids have a very real potential to cause massive, undeniable and observable harm to casual users (like all mind altering drugs including alcohol).

Crypto means that people can trade without having the regulators whitelist all the transactions. Historically speaking, that would appear to be an extremely positive thing for the traders. There are worrying signs about that we are about to repeat the 1920s, 1930s then the 1940s - this is a great time to start working with government-independent money. The Canadian trucker incident alone is a nasty foreshadowing of what we are likely to see more of as energy availability tightens. The government is not governed by compromising liberty-minded types.

The illegal uses of crypto aren't going away, so we may as well make it easy for all the honest people to use it.

And there are people who think that consuming energy is in itself a bad thing. I wonder how they feel about people voluntarily taking holidays, which are a much bigger waste of energy. At some point we have to let people make their own choices about what they value without trying to second guess them based on personal opinions.
CharityNavigator isn’t perfect, but it is better than nothing. It at least checks for things like independence, board composition, and other factors.

It also confirms IRS charity status.

MrBeast isn’t a charity at all. It’s good he gives money, but we don’t know how much he gives, or what percentage, or how effective he is.

Judging good or bad charities is up to donors. CN doesn’t say if something is good or bad, it just tells you how spend their money. Harvard spends all their money on their school.
> When we plotted the data geographically and compared it to our total numbers broken out by region, there was a disproportionate increase in traffic from places like Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and even remote regions of Siberia. Further investigation revealed that, in these places, the average page load time under Feather was over TWO MINUTES! This meant that a regular video page, at over a megabyte, was taking more than TWENTY MINUTES to load! This was the penalty incurred before the video stream even had a chance to show the first frame. Correspondingly, entire populations of people simply could not use YouTube because it took too long to see anything. Under Feather, despite it taking over two minutes to get to the first frame of video, watching a video actually became a real possibility. Over the week, word of Feather had spread in these areas and our numbers were completely skewed as a result. Large numbers of people who were previously unable to use YouTube before were suddenly able to.

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
https://chat.openai.com/share/e7157554-6534-4b73-98b9-672e47...

I used two words that probably don't exist anywhere in the training data and asked it (ChatGPT-3) to compare the weight of a kilogram of one vs an lb of the other. It initially gets it wrong, but when asked to show its work, it's suddenly able to decide that a kilogram of something is heavier than a pound of something. Using understanding or reasoning, or stochastic parroting; whatever you want to call it. I'm not claiming it's AGI, or sentient, but it's also clearly not just a Markov chain.
mmmr no DOCTYPE? :)
Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story
"Trad wife" AKA people subscribing to traditional Christian ideas of marriage are very much "far-right cultural activists" from the feminist perspective.

Traditional Christian ideas about marriage (i.e. stay-at-home mom, breadwinner husband, the wife willingly submitting to her husband's authority, the husband willingly sacrificing his own ambitions for the good of his family, etc.) are very much not in line with feminism. While these people won't call themselves "far right cultural activists" they do have to reject feminism in order to have a consistent worldview, and feminists would definitely call them something along the lines of far-right.

I do agree that far-right is a misnomer, "religious right" or "socially conservative" might be a better fit. My point is that "far-right cultural atavism" and "traditional wife" are the same thing from different perspectives.
Comparing the suicide rate of those groups with middle aged white men (adjusted for the population size) is a bit silly. Some sources point to 40% of trans people having attempted suicide, and I don't think 40% of middle aged men have attempted suicide.

In absolute numbers the suicide rate among men is an epidemic, but it's not fair to equate the two populations...
No reference to light years for the general public?
It's just a way of saying small used for "cute" stuff (cats, etc).
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing
I should've clarified that these algorithms would all be completely optional and could be opted out.

Currently Reddit by default sorts comments by "best", which uses whatever methodology they've decided (idk how that works, but clearly it doesn't work well for me). Other options they have include "top", "new" / "old", and "controversial".

I'm simply proposing having "best" be more accurate, and/or adding other options (eg. via clustering) like "insightful" - which is really the only one I care about for this kind of site. Then people who want the most quality, well-researched, thought-provoking comments can find those, while kids who just want memes and puns can find that. Everyone gets what they want and lives happily ever after.

The problem with personalized recommendations on other platforms like Facebook and Youtube are that you can't opt out of or customize them. I agree with you that that's a crap experience as a user.
All else equal, larger L1C footprint code still microbenchmarks nicely, but is pretty often worse in a real system.

Sometimes it's better to choose a slower routine with a smaller footprint. Nowadays memory bandwidth is arguably the biggest performance limiting factor.
If we're arbitrarily limiting scope to just America, why stop there? Let's drill down further, and say HN is aimed at California, which is only 34% white [1]. Does that get them the coveted minority status?

I don't see why the only perspective allowed should be one that maximizes apparent white privilege, especially since in other contexts, Eurocentrism is something that is decried.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California#Rac...
I would say this phrase

> the minor decrease in mass that occurs during the formation of a water molecule due to the conversion of some mass into binding energy according to Einstein's equation E=mc^2

Is highly imprecise at best, and misleading at worst.

It is true that the mass of the water molecule is slightly less than that of the oxygen and hydrogen atoms combined. It is not true that this excess mass is converted into "binding energy", binding energy is negative in stable molecules. That is the binding energy measures how much energy you would have to add to break up the molecule, or conversely, how much energy is lost (as heat/light/whatever) to the environment when the molecule is formed.

The mass is lower because it has been converted into heat in the environment, not because it has been converted into binding energy.

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I would call this an instance of the language model producing convincing sounding nonsense (something that they do quite often when asked about technical stuff).
I quit after I finished my PhD and suddenly I had a lot more free time. And actually, if you go back you notice it's actually a lot of recycled content anyways. And the conversation isn't interesting nor is the content driving any kind of positive thought process. Life is much better without Reddit. I would rather go swim laps in the pool or something. Even the argument about the small subreddits being nice isn't true. Because it's people who would rather talk about their hobby then do it. Which is fine. But it's not for me.
Agree. Right after reading your comment, I went and run shreddit (https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit) over my now unexisting account. I think is time for me to get good habits again and wake up from the enchant of "social media".
Good example. Kirkland stuff is good. It would be shady if Costco put their name on anything and didn’t care about their product.

So if you see something with the kirkland brand, you have some expectation of quality. And if you have a problem Costco will fix it (or drop the product).

The MrBeast brand doesn’t really stand for anything. And he doesn’t correct quality problems.
But they have, repeatedly, haven't they? Crypto coins except for Bitcoin are securities, and must be treated as such. Any business allowing for their trade must behave like any other securities trade business.
I think there is a very important difference here, specifically that the police department is not going around deciding what is and isn't legal but the SEC is deciding what is and isn't a security.
I have seen a number of stores in the UK, US and Netherlands got big chunks of stock in the past weeks (via https://rpilocator.com/). Obviously it sells out super quick so you need to be following their stock notifications (and make sure you follow their prerequisites as a lot of stores require you to have accounts that have purchase history to weed out the scalpers).
Why is it "essentially" a phone CPU? Please don't say "because of the ISA". It has 24 CPU cores, 60+ GPU cores, an insanely fast memory bus and a purported 60 watt power envelope. There's nothing "phone" about it.
Nothing in that article mentions any kind of "fragility" in JWT's design - and the issues it documents (e.g. consumers overrwriting the signature portion) concern only extremely non-compliant (i.e. dodgy) JWT scenarios - which sounds like someone applying a bodge because they were forced to implement JWT because it was thrust onto them, usually because JWT is already so popular already - so it's nothing inherent in JWT specifically, but any kind of distributed, non-opaque and structured authX/id-token would suffer from the exact same problems - though I appreciate the textual-basis of JSON and JWT lower the barrier-to-entry-for-bodging compared to binary formats like ASN.1 (though I speculate that if we had to use a binary format today I think things would be a lot worse overall, due to second-order effects of using a binary format, e.g. relating to higher barriers-of-entry).
I’m not really going for a native OS theme, if I wanted that then I’d probably have to use a native GUI toolkit
From an adult perspective, I'd agree, but on the other hand I've spent hours upon hours of my childhood watching fail compilations and random video game parodies and newgrounds animations on youtube. I'd say it's a "let kids be kids" kind of deal, even if I faint at the amount of money that goes into youtube video production these days.
> the farther away I move from those wretched, miserable rain-drenched isles.

you dont make a compelling case when you end your point with such bias
Do you think there is only phone CPU's and real workstation CPU's? Nothing in-between? If so, I get why you got downvoted.
I think it’s different being 'addicted' to taking MDMA when in a club setting than other drugs where people addicted to them take them every day.

MDMA is much too intense of an experience to integrate into the daily life of most people and there isn’t really a craving to take more once it has worn off.
I doubt any humans will be left in 2913. (Nice joke though)
Surely divorcing your wife, randomly moving to Thailand and telling people they should do the same to get happier isn't a normal behavior. Call it what you want
Time to link one of my favorite plots currently:

Orbital period vs mass distribution of known exoplanets:

https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/exoplanetplots/

As you can see there, the type of exoplanet humanity has detected the most are Jupiter-sized exoplanets orbiting close to their stars.

For two reasons:

High masses aid the radial velocity method because they make their host stars wobble more compared to lower mass exoplanets. Lower mass wobbles are just outside the sensitivity range of our best spectrometers.

Also aiding in the transit method, they have a short "year" - typically just a few days, making them pass in front of their star more often. The likelihood of detecting these is therefore a lot higher during a given observation time. In addition, exoplanets that orbit more distantly from their star have a lower chance of having an aligned orbital plane, that makes them transit the star through our line of sight to it. The necessary angle of alignment is much tighter compared to closer orbiting exoplanets.

Earth-like exoplanets (~0.003 Jupiter masses, period= ~365 days) are currently outside the sensitivity range of most instruments. Jupiter-like exoplanets tend to reduce the brightness of their host star by at most a few % when they occlude it - Earth has about a tenth of the diameter of Jupiter, so less than 1/100th of its disk area, so when an exoplanet like it passes in front of a star, it only reduces its brightness by a one hundredth of these few percent.

This is where even 16-bit cameras cease to be useful because even if the exposure times are optimized to be as close as possible to filling their "photon count buckets" in a single exposure, Earth and exoplanets like it would only reduce the brightness by 6 instead of 655 (of 2^16=65536) counts, which isn't that statistically meaningful anymore with all the additional uncertainty that is involved when taking images.
Show HN: Rarbg selhosted, a RARBG Torznab API compatible with the Servarr stack
I’ve been following efforts to create a clone of the RARBG website using the SQLite backup, but I figured it made more sense to self host a lightweight Torznab API that can leverage the already excellent Servarr stack (Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr etc).
I'm def not attached to the name, was just the best I could think of with a domain available. Can brainstorm others / open to ideas. Thanks for the feedback.
And if that same policeman happened to be speaking to parliament and was asked whether going 150 mph was legal he would be able to give a clear answer.
> (an maybe never) exceed their downsides

There were certainly times when they were necessary: when Windows had nothing built-in to defend itself, and for a time after then when those built-in features were crap.

Those times are pretty much over now IMO. I'd go as far as to suggest that the market is now an attempt at a protection racket and hardware hawkers are complicit: things come pre-installed on new laptops and make very misleading claims about what might happen if you uninstall them instead of subscribing after the free trial period (ref: Dad got a new laptop recently, I went through and removed all the junk included with it, I can see why people with little technical experience might just pay up).