skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good response to some points by the sibling. I was going to respond that part of the reason is just that the cost of software is mentally anchored very low for people. Right now Windows 11 Pro license is shown to me as $199, which is enough to pay someone for around 27 hours of minimum wage in the US. Assuming you pay someone closer to $40 per hour, it would be almost 5 hours. Some random Internet websites tell me that typical auto repairs are between $300 and $500.

Cannot 100% vouch for these numbers, but it seems to me that the idea is not as outright ridiculous as you're trying to suggest, if we allow for tweaking economic incentives here and there. To be clear, I am evaluating this as a hypothetical scenario, not a project I am specifically endorsing.

Of course the current situation with consumers getting software for "free" and software developers getting fat FTE paychecks is some sort of a local maximum that would be hard to give up for both groups. But then the grandma that wants you to fix her email client won't be putting you through some ridiculous whiteboard/hackerrank interviews, so there is that. Bugs are mostly solvable with time, tools and attention, not genius.
https://archive.is/VtoC8
"no objections" <> "consent"
https://eloeverything.co/leaderboard

Yeah I think someone gamed this
Yeah, it seems to auto-dim the "SDR" brightness range a bit too much; the jump in the white background brightness ends up being clearly noticeable when e.g. I'm switching to an from the superbright QR code tab in the browser
Yes. Industrial seed oils are the next gluten. The biohacking community has been up on this for a decade or so. The quick headline is the healthiest fats are first tier: animal fat (meat/tallow/ghee) and olive oil, second tier: avocado, coconut. Third tier: more controversial but i believe a few specialty seed/nut oils apply- sesame, walnut, a few others. Basically that’s it, everything else comes with health risks, inflammation, and apparently hormone and other healthy gene expression. “vegetable”, soy, canola, corn“ are all inflammatory and problematic. It’s a good idea to avoid.
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. You can arbitrarily create models of earth life that didn't have a common ancestor via "my" hypotheticals which are just as valid as univeral common ancestor (which predominantly features: there is something common in all life, so all life must have came from the same place; obviously this is a gross oversimplification but that's what we're dealing with in the answer)
I find American culture overall is really kind of pointless and rudderless.

It’s a seemingly hyper competitive place built on the idea of having money and material possessions = good over all else, including environmental destruction, but to what end ? For the benefit of 1% of the population?

America also seems to need an enemy, there’s something in that.
If youre reading this, go listen to spiderland by slint. Awesome and super unique album
Fair. But what alternative path do you propose to oppose ubiquitous surveillance?
At first, the website concept focused on getting posts similar to a URL.
Querying with text didn't yield relevant results.

Your solution appears better suited for this use case. Thank you.
It'd be impossible to prove, but the types of topics I utilize social media for simply don't tend to correlate with highly-controlled/highly-censored topics. Generally, highly-censored topics result in alternative communities in grey areas of the web. I just don't see those types of communities popping up for wood working, programming, or the sports that I enjoy.
Yes, but not only, there is number of pressurizing/de-pressurizing cycles to be taken into account (that lead to fatigue), this is more known for hulls of (pressurized) planes.

They esperience at least two full cycles per flight, a submarine has as well at least two of them, but with much larger pressure values, for each immersion.

Some reference:

https://navalpost.com/how-deep-can-a-submarine-dive/

AFAICT, steel is still preferred to titanium because (besides the costs) this latter tends to become (after a certain number of cycles) more brittle than the particular kind of steel used in submarines.
Pros and cons: with a pipe it will be up to you to create your own message delimiters and protocol, so a pipe is somewhat lower level. You also limit comm. to just that machine, but that may be a pro if that is what you are looking for (omits need for things like username/password or locking to 'localhost'). Lastly, you do not gain an API for your users to consume (if that makes sense for your app - it doesn't always).
How big of a production deployment have you ran on min.io in terms of data transfer / month and total storage?

Because I've done small scale and can tell you I'd run S3 in the future.
"You can also (probably) use Taichi.js without installing anything"

Yes you can! (because of WebGPU)

And I never said WebGPU is high level. I said and meant it is simpler to get started with. At least it was quite simple for me. But WebGPU and wgsl by itself are surely not "simple".
If someone states as fact that the legal system is being used in bad faith in a particular case, they can metaphorically be on the other 'side' even if they aren't one of the parties involved.

This is because the legal system itself is the arbiter of whether it is being done in bad faith.

I don't believe a court has finally judged that Musk has used the system in bad faith, but Musk has argued that funnily enough: https://casetext.com/case/oareilly-v-musk
The referenced TV show is likely the first season of Manhunt [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_(2017_TV_series)
We get our electricity from Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) here in central Texas. The do a good job. We pay about $0.09 kw/h.

https://www.pec.coop/

I think there should be more COOPs around. Just having more choice is a good thing.
While we're on the subject, neither is TOR.
Hitler #1 of course, because the Internet.
Right, also the state has a vested interest here, because patients bankrupting themselves on snake oil will result in more public money being spent on treatment.
Having Built 3 Companies, I Know the Importance of Values – Here's Ours
The search and rescue jurisdiction map is fascinating, although some of those areas are so huge that I wonder how much it really means in practice. If you're lost off the coast of Ecuador, are you really supposed to call the San Francisco Coast Guard?
Dude. Read the tweet in context [1]. He was responding to this headline:

“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."

Most likely, he was thinking of the dangers of AI (hence “might” - because we still don’t know).

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1667627403089268739?s=46...
Good for them. That doesn't detract from the fact that they lied and manipulated people to gain funding and support.

There's "overambitious" and then there's "unethical bordering on fraud". DreamWorld was the latter.
Pretty interesting. IIUC they haven't released the model weights, but I think most TTS papers in the upcoming months will release the weights since OpenAI Whisper.
AFAIK there are for-profit jails and for-profit hospitals

I even think for-profit schools are a shitty idea, but this may be less obvious why
Meta Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale
> as long as the spam issue can be solved

At the time of writing, Adolf Hitler is #1 on the leaderboard with Elo 1754.
“we store more than 230 Petabytes of data in Amazon S3, with our single largest S3 bucket coming in at a whopping 45 Petabytes”

How did they get so much data?! They say they only have 75 million stock photos. They must have tens of petabytes that are just dark.
Funnily enough, I have the opposite view: given the amount of stars and of earth like planets in the universe, probabilistically speaking there is bound to be a random chance where two instances of life have the same DNA without ever being in contact.

Disclaimer: I'm bad at maths and good at dreaming.
He also has the highest number of matches, so somebody is clearly messing up with this.

Maybe the API is just very simple and somebody is just sending upvotes to Hitler infinitely.
Ruining then bit with, honestly, a pretty good point.
Primarily cost. Oversight includes a democratically elected board and direct oversight by the state public utilities commission. Electric co-ops have been a thing since the 1930s in the US and they tend to work great.

https://ourpowermaine.org/faq/
I find it remarkable that Twitter can't turn a profit. The core concept behind Twitter is a standard first project for any new framework.

Obviously the real Twitter is as far removed from that as a Falcon 9 is from a model rocket. And I'm sure the real expenses of Twitter are all about managing the nine billion pies its got its fingers in, especially the massive hassles of moderation and placing advertisements.

Still... it feels like it just shouldn't be anywhere near that expensive to fulfill the core, very simple purpose of Twitter.
That little stinger at the end was not as surprising as they thought it was :P

It's very cool tech, but it's far from transparent. It has a very obvious "autotune" like sound to it that jumps right out. when they edited that one word it was obvious it had been edited.

Again, super cool tech, just not going to replace voice actors or anything.
By sorting by recency, I was worried I would get less revelant results.
Perhaps I should add a thresold to not have too old posts
To me this is a weakness; it requires me to read between the lines of a whole horde of different instances' statements of principles and try to make an informed decision based on that. Many people don't have that kind of time/interest/inclination, they just want to be able to read some discussions.
My dad willingly tried an experimental drug. It killed him, but he would have died a week or two later. We now know that the drug doesn't work as well as we all would like.

His death was valuable, and moved our scientific knowledge forward.
You're invoking god and magic (i.e. sufficiently implausible coincidence and sufficiently advanced technology). Yes, god and magic can render most descriptions of how the universe operates inadequate.
There are many ivy league legacy graduates doing absolutely nothing with their pampered lives.
Hold up, you're forgetting the whole libertarian model... "My body, my choice, except when you take advantage of me and then I turn the full strength of the taxpayer funded law enforcement apparatus against you"
> but if he had just held on, resisted the urge and played the long game

I don't think everyone having wireless devices that connect to a global information network in their pockets at all times is something one could've really foreseen in 1978.

and, even so, it's not as though it's really feasible to make any sort of shock-to-the-system sentiment widely and broadly heard, today, while abstaining from violence—even our modern societies are still trying to grapple with the question of, how much violence and destruction is justified in order to make a point about something, as seen in the last few years.

had Kaczynski chosen peaceful decades-later contemporary Internet discourse as his means of promoting his ideas, he'd simply be tarred and feathered as an "alt-right" nutjob, just like everyone else with views that contradict the present Western civilization status quo. The System has gotten extremely efficient in perpetuating itself, and silencing anything resembling Actual Dissent.
Typescript usually doesn’t implement features like this unless they are part of the core JS language. I believe this is a JS feature.
So... I did my PhD in a group that did a lot of phosphorus and P4 chemistry. Even though I rarely dabbled myself, the most interesting ligands were, iirc, unoxidized phosphorus compounds. This has two oxygens still, notoriously difficult to get rid of.

My coworkers decided to take on a 'move fast and break things' mentality, and hilariously had to transport a crate full of highly dangerous P4 by car to our lab when the last European supplier closed down, as to secure the future of the research; had they crashed the car, that would have made for some interesting headlines. So, not detracting from the importance of avoiding P4; but I'm left wondering if this still needs work to really make an impact on industry and research.

I fully accept the (huge) possibility that I'm wrong though because it's been a while and this never really was my specialty.

Either way cool to see P4 chemistry on the HN front page!
At the same time, there has not been a housing crash. Surely if you have to lock in the current rates for 30 years, property prices must come down significantly (to the point of a crash), all else being equal?

So therefore, does that mean that the housing market is just frozen, i.e. number of transactions is way down? That does not make a lot of sense either, as some people need to sell and some need to buy. People would also likely rent out their properties instead of selling, so rents should be coming down too.

So then, are we in a suspended 'just-ran-off-the-cliff' situation waiting to look down, so to speak? Is a crash in house prices/rents/both around the corner?
> there isn’t a whole ecosystem of packages that depend on access to a thread unsafe C API

They mentioned a similar issue for Postgres extensions, no?

> Haas, though, is not convinced that it would ever be possible to remove support for the process-based mode. Threads might not perform better for all use cases, or some important extensions may never gain support for running in threads.
Reddit and Discord have two major advantages over traditional forums. It's less friction when you don't have to sign up. If you already have an account, you need only subscribe to the channel/subreddit of your interest. You more easily accumulate contributors, and then you have more content, and then that in turn makes your platform more relevant.

The second reason is that Reddit/Discord is its own source of advertising. You don't start off with a great forum. You have to get people to use it. Probably most forums never get past the ghost town stage before people see it as something worth signing up for.
Yes, in fact several English spelling changes were done specifically with the idea of "correcting" words that were thought to be Latin loanwords. e.g. the 'b' in "debt" got stuck there because it made it look more like the Latin "debitum". That word has no Latin etymology nor has it ever has a 'b' sound in it, of course.
1. Identical DNA is probably impossible in any case, even on earth, right?

2. Seems like you're broadly stretching the definition of a biological ancestor.
> I'm honestly surprised it took them so long to reach this conclusion.

I'm not. You can get a long way with conventional IPC, and OS processes provide a lot of value. For most PostgreSQL instances the TLB flush penalty is at least 3rd or 4th on the list of performance concerns, far below prevailing storage and network bottlenecks.

I share the concerns cited in this LWN story. Reworking this massive code base around multithreading carries a large amount of risk. PostgreSQL developers will have to level up substantially to pull it off.

A PostgreSQL endorsed "second-system" with the (likely impossible, but close enough that it wouldn't matter) goal of 100% client compatibility could be a better approach. Adopting a memory safe language would make this both tractable and attractive (to both developers and users.) The home truth is that any "new process model" effort would actually play out exactly this way, so why not be deliberate about it?
Some people consider a flicking of headlights as a "go ahead" signal.
Manhunt: Unabomber https://reelgood.com/show/manhunt-unabomber-2017

I loved it too. It used to be on Netflix but they took it down.
There is no need for you to create a new class to represent a resource. Javascript doesn't require objects to be instances of specific classes, so you can just return an object with the dispose method while only using it as a container. Even when using Typescript there is no need to add a new class, a new type declaration is more than sufficient.

Just because it's on objects doesn't mean it's OOP.
Ruiners of all good things incoming...

It's cool, but dealing with bad-faith participants is what is really difficult about these types of exercises. It works great until the hurt people find it, and then the hurt people hurt people -- perpetuating their sadness unto others by upvoting the bad things.
Profit incentives and free markets work great when both sides of a deal can walk away. Most of us reading this work in software, which is in many ways an ideal free market product. But when one party dies if they don't buy, it's time to question market mechanisms.
Fair enough not really the kind of stuff I care about if I'm honest then.

We could just not sanction them, while we're at it unsanction Russia for all I care. I'd happily buy their oil if it meant fewer winter deaths.
two things can be true at the same time:

- his ideas were interesting & worthy of consideration

- his actions were deplorable
"...and can reason enough..."

Are we actually at this point now? I am less confident than you are...
Just wanted to say that I loved the analogy :)
I don't understand what you are saying here. RESTful APIs are supposed to follow a specific format, e.g. GET: candidate/{id}, GET: candidate, POST: candidate, body: CandidateDto, etc. How is GraphQL different? Keep in mind that you can "see what's available" on a Swagger page easily with a REST API.
I believe he also mentioned they were “lost” for a few hours when they lost communication so perhaps all hope is not lost for the people currently on board.
Titanic tourist submarine missing in Atlantic Ocean; search underway
Reminds me of '00s whatsbetter.com!
Maybe, but I think this would have way better chances, as then google lawers would be involved and not an automatic algorithm doing a killswitch.
Psychopath, yes, but remember that I'm really talking about a lot of the people right here on this message board. It's not some movie villain. I'm connecting his behavior to what I see here, every day. We notice him because he's got tons of money behind it, and a lot of people think that's just great.

It's not so much a warning to them, as to people who see them as psychopaths. Those psychopaths are all around us and can harm us. They'll also harm themselves, but we do not gain in the process.
> Yeah I live in one of the lower-wage EU countries even though I'm from one of the higher-wage ones. Though in practice it doesn't really matter as cost of living is lower too, it just matters when buying electronics. Or a car but I don't need one where I live and I hate driving. And having completely free healthcare gives a lot of peace of mind.

And cheaper real estate means you are paid less and build less equity in a house. But like the car, people convince themselves they don't want it so they don't have to admit they can't have it anyways.

> and resulting crime, gun violence

A lot of it can be traced to our southern border and gang activity. Something I'm surprised Europeans don't realize considering the rise in violent crimes post 2015 migrant crisis...
It’s definitely a tough hill to climb already without your primary evangelist being tactless ass.
Everything that I've read about him indicates he was a rising star that willingly chose to withdraw from society, possibly due to mental illness. Far from the "vengeful deadbeat" that GP is claiming he was.
Haha, that's fairly similar to my career as well. It really is severely slept on as a language.
That's not really necessary. Pulling in arbitrary versions of packages from PyPi is fairly easy, if a bit verbose.
You think a gigantic adtech company is one of the least evil?
While the idea is good, the API is gameable, as the POST request is just whoever you vote for vs who are you not, instead of some session ID.

Predictably, someone is gaming it and spamming Adolf Hitler.
which could just as much be a him problem at that age (or all his life, but compounded by his age for different sperm viability problems)
That was proposed but rejected by the government.
Another anecdote to share: at my dad's office, while doing a disaster recovery exercise, they realized that their startup power requirements exceeded what their electrical system could supply.

Systems had been slowly added over the years, but because the power system is pretty reliable around here, they'd never had to start things up from a complete power failure.
Agree, they were occasionally ahead or behind Intel. But they acted like they had alien technology.
Sorry to hear. I do agree, that was a noble death. Respect to your father for the choice he made.
> I believe you can learn the relevant career training most 4 year degrees provide in less than a year.

I’m not quite sure about this. I do believe that with the internet, a lot of information is available and you can indeed learn a lot, but there’s a reason that online degrees outside of CS tend to be “useless” degrees. I can read about, say, biology all day and learn a lot, but there’s all sorts of expensive equipment that gatekeeps a lot of “doing” (which IMO is an important part of learning). Ditto for many scientific or engineering fields outside CS. The only reason I was able to get into software was because computers were mostly ubiquitous in the public by the time I started. Also some knowledge is still gatekept or paywalled by universities, for example see the recent post about the guy hunting for the origins of that obscure Unicode character.

I’m sure somewhere, there are prodigies who can manage, but for Joe Shmoe in most fields, it seems to matter more what letters they have next to their education that what knowledge they have in their head. Though I suppose we’re getting a hit off topic.
You may call your company arrangement `electricityless` even! Like `serverless` - we don't use servers.
So you run a charity repair service? You buy something from someone, fix it, then give it back to the person you bought it from? That's a very noble hobby.
> That the AIs need enormous amount of data

I was surprised to learn that it didn’t take an enormous amount of data to train Llama.

Meta used 1.4 trillion tokens training Llama, but that’s only about a million times the Harry Potter collection [1]. Given that the kindle store has 12 million books [2], it’s credible to get 1.4T tokens just from that. Twitter has 200 billion new tweets per year, so it’d only take 7 tokens per Tweet for that to produce a Llama sized dataset every year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLaMA
[2] https://blog.fostergrant.co.uk/2017/08/03/word-counts-popula... (1 million words)
[3] https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics
Here's the link to Chris Hadfield's cover/version of "Space Oddity" since it's missing from the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
I think the argument is to loosen the regulation on human trials, not to drop all regulation on drug companies. They should still have to prove that they’re doing legitimate research and have had some success before opening it up to humans who are terminally ill. They should still be legally culpable for negligence and fraud.
> That's entirely because 30 years ago RMS's ego wouldn't let him admit that something he had no part of was becoming popular

Just a reminder that Linus was inspired by the existence of Minix and by the GPL. So RMS had an important influence on Linux's success. "Influence" =/= "role", but is generally (and in this case) a "part".

None of this justifies the dogged pursuit of the "GNU/Linux" nonsense , but I do think this is an important clarification.

BTW apart from RMS himself I've never heard a single person refer to "GNU/Linux" except in a joking fashion, and I hang out with a bunch of people you'd think would, if anyone took it seriously.