skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you but also the person you're responding to; I think the article sells traps too hard as a handy multi-purpose tool like a swiss army knife, when they're really more like a letter-opener; there are situations where it makes sense to use them, but you'd usually be better off with something else, and not knowing the difference can result in trying to use it as a precision blade, which ends up mangling things.
Really just Algebra II from high school, and Calc I if you want to go deeper. In all honesty if you have a solid handle on Algebra II and some intuition with geometry there is nothing in all of higher math that will be beyond your reach.
Never Go Full Kelly (2021)
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/scripts/bu...

My template script provides a way to make user-friendly shell scripts. In a script that uses the template, you define the dependencies and their sources as comma-separated values:

DEPENDENCIES=(
"gradle,https://gradle.org"
"warp-packer,https://github.com/Reisz/warp/releases"
"tar,https://www.gnu.org/software/tar"
"wine,https://www.winehq.org"
"unzip,http://infozip.sourceforge.net"
)

You define the command-line arguments:

ARGUMENTS+=(
"a,arch,Target operating system architecture (amd64)"
"o,os,Target operating system (linux, windows, mac)"
"u,update,Java update version number (${ARG_JAVA_UPDATE})"
"v,version,Full Java version (${ARG_JAVA_VERSION})"
)

You define the "execute()" method that is called after the arguments are parsed:

execute() {
// Make the computer do the work.

return 1
}

If the script takes arguments, handle each one individually:

argument() {
local consume=2

case "$1" in
-a|--arch)
ARG_JAVA_ARCH="$2"
;;
-o|--os)
ARG_JAVA_OS="$2"
;;
esac

return ${consume}
}

Then call the template's main to start the script rolling:

main "$@"

For 99% of the scripts I write, this provides:

* Built-in software dependencies verification.

* Instructions to the user when requirements are missing.

* Simple command-line argument parsing.

* Help and logging using ANSI colour.

Here's a complete script that builds the Windows, Linux, and Mac installers for my Markdown editor:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/blob/main/installer....

There's a write-up about creating the script that has a lot more details about how the template works:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdow...

Note that it is technically possible to improve the scripts such that handling individual arguments can be done in the template itself. This would require a slightly different argument definition semantics:

ARGUMENTS+=(
"ARG_JAVA_ARCH,a,arch,Target operating system architecture (amd64)"
"ARG_JAVA_OS,o,os,Target operating system (linux, windows, mac)"
"usage=utile_usage,h,help,Show this help message then exit"
)

By detecting an `=` symbol for the first item in the lists, it's possible to know whether a command-line argument is assigning a variable value, or whether it means to perform additional functionality. (PR welcome!)
There's no such thing as "payout" in free markets—someone buys your thing for money (sometimes less money than you paid for it, sometimes more money than you paid for it). So, while it might be a speculative bubble (like Beanie Babies, or Tulips, or whatever), it's certainly not a Ponzi. Also, the bigger fool theory (which is what you're conflating it with) is also not a Ponzi.

This might be confusing, because many other crypto products are very Ponzi-like. For example, Voyager literally paid new "stakers/depositors" (a.k.a. investors) with old "stakers'/depositors'" (a.k.a. investors') money to reach the insane return rates they were advertising.
I was stuck behind a big RV recently who was driving part way over the center line most of the time. I eventually realized he was trying to avoid clipping all the low branches along the edge of the road.
My personal favorite explanation for nearly everything: money

Locked down platforms without user freedom are a goldmine
Thank you for some interesting comments grounded in your experience.

I do, personally, think that now would be a good time for some form of non-profit/co-op/etc. reddit competitor to emerge. I've seen multiple suggestions in this direction, including from a GSU professor quoted in an MSM article. The demand is there - I think that most of the people aware and annoyed vis-a-vis the Reddit storm would coalesce easily enough around a properly structured alternative - set up clearly as a community-driven platform w/ an economic model strongly signaling commitment to that etc. And, I suspect the easiest way to do it is to form some reasonable organizational structure, and start with a version of the old reddit code base available through GitHub.

I've noticed projects springing up left-and-right to write new code bases, move in different directions, etc., but, seems like the lowest possible friction option (not 0, but low enough to be quite appealing for many potential users) would be throwing up a fork of the old code base (ideally, audited / security-improved out of the gate).

This seems fairly workable to me - you could even move back to the original model of not hosting images, video, etc. I suspect reddit inc. wouldn't be interested in going after such a service considering that their hands are full with trying to juice numbers for IPO and all of the constant foot-in-mouth disease drama out of Huffman et al. Etc.

But, I must write that, I haven't looked into this matter in any depth and may be way off base in some way or other - apologies if so.
Ahh, always a nice pass time to go to those tweets and block the first 30 accounts that reply.

feels good man.
> Does anyone actually build new desktop software for main stream consumers these days?

You’re in a thread about some people that built a new piece of desktop software…
ExpidusOS's File Manager releases v0.2.0 cross platforms
It's been a long time since I've shared about ExpidusOS but we've designed out first core app, a file manager. This has served as a bit of a test bed for the UI/UX and general application architecture.
Yeah. I remember there was talk that it was a "nudist colony" so we'd peek over, hoping to see something ... but we never really did see any people outside the buildings. I was too young to really understand the hippie/drug angle so it didn't factor in, but now when I think back, yeah, makes a lot of sense.
Because they took 1.3 billion dollars from investors who want their money back, moderators currently do the job for free, and Reddit is looking to _cut_ spend, not increase it.
Ha. I always do when I’m towing my trailer. People like that annoy me to no end. I first helped move an old Winnebago class A up to the small mountain town of Idyllwild above Palm Springs in California. The highway is steep and switchbacks up the mountain with great views of the desert below. I must have stopped 15 times on the way up to let others pass.
Foolishness
I'm a drummer but not a gear head. Tuning matters more than type of wood (assuming we're not talking about other materials like metal or acrylic.) You can make pretty much any drum sound good if you put a decent set of heads on it and tune it right.
Same applies to other instruments like violins. There’s a reason certain types of wood are sought after.
> an area not covered by tests

Also, Django magic makes it very hard for tooling to actually know if something exists or not.
Update: There's an article about the restored feature.

https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-oldest-sorting-coming-...
> ... tech is that RSS is all but dead. Not sure if i'm an outlier in this but the % of requests in my server logs coming from RSS is very high.

I'm not sure which you meant here—is your perspective that RSS is thriving (judging from your traffic) or nearly dead?

There are two very similar English idioms that have opposite meanings: "all but dead" means basically dead, "anything but dead" means not even a little bit dead.
Isn't difficulty set based on the previous block time?
> Tesla hasn't re-invented the wheel on life-critical safety systems.

Haven't they? They've removed radar from their cars and now the AEB system uses image recognition. Does any other manufacturer do that?
My mistake, I thought there was a separate party from the company piloting and the owner was not aboard.
> Political systems aspire to sets of ideals.

They claim to, but I have yet to see one that actually does, except for the Machiavellian case you mention, where the leaders are quite open about the fact that they're looking out for their own interests and let the chips fall where they may as far as the impact on anyone else. If you can call that an ideal.
We went from a physical/social world to "digital as complimentary" to "digital native" in just a few years time.

If you look at the old world, one would spent a considerable amount of the day in the physical world with real people just to function. Work, do groceries, go to the movies, go to church (like it or not, powerful community builder), go to bars, the like.

Only now do we start to understand how this "limited and inflexible" world had benefits we took for granted.

Now many people can work from home, use food delivery, watch Netflix, then doom-scroll. In the rare cases that they are in public, they are rushed or buried in their phone, so unavailable. In the form of AI (hyper-personalization) and VR, more is on the horizon to complete our project of making the ultimate hyper-individualistic anti-social convenience consumer.

We sold our humanity for convenience, short term urges capitalized by a handful of mega companies.

Yes I'm dramatizing, but not that much, the trajectory is clear: loneliness might become the default.
I believe you can slightly change the flash attention kernel to implement the same kernel of this page attention, since both of them work on the key/value cache at block level.
Took a look at mastodon.world out of curiosity. Total conformity of belief on the entire front page timeline. Maybe it’s another one of those Mastodon instances where anti-capitalist social justice is the approved dogma, and dissenters are banned? Seems to be a lot of those…
It’s ok it’s probably a line item in their next promotion packet
What's the feature that's being removed that's making this unusable for you?
If you're not the customer...
It's happy to avoid xkcd:standards
well, it could be usefull for other people to know that they are already dead when they smell some specific smell with some reaction.
I like how See Also links to another interesting article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet
Reddit's biggest risk is community revolt. Financially incentivizing moderators to keep the community aligned with the company's interest seems like something investors would reward (even if the profit margin goes down a little).
Nobody is making movies that anyone would really care to preserve for the coming decades anymore anyways.

Besides which, we took a big step back when we switched from 35mm to digital. Digital has only recently reached par quality.
Defy Your Neck-Hairs
Supply exceeds demand for free moderators. They have no incentive to change this.
I’ve found the opposite. Turning down the volume helps tremendously. The further from 11 you get, the better a bad player sounds.
I hate to break it to you, but the poverty line in the Bay Area is not my definition.
How is it all that different from companies selling seats on spacecraft to visit ISS? Or just to be in orbit or above the Kármán line and experiencing microgravity?
OpenAI lobbied EU to water down AI legislation
They can’t compete with Tesla’s manufacturing and operational prowess. Their stations are money pits.
Outback Steakhouse is the most popular restaurant in Brazil
You only mention installing, but did you have to configure tlp & irqbalance? Battery life is all that's keeping me from using my pro as a daily phone :)
When I started learning about Bayesian statistics years ago, I was fascinated by the idea that a statistical procedure might take some data in a form like "94% positive out of 85,193 reviews, 98% positive out of 20,785 reviews, 99% positive out of 840 reviews" and give you an objective estimate of who is a more reliable seller. Unfortunately, over time, it become clear that a magic bullet does not exist, and in order for it to give you some estimate of who is a better seller, YOU have to provide it with a rule for how to discount positive reviews based on their count (in a form of a prior). And if you try to cheat by encoding "I don't really have a good idea of know how important the number of reviews is", the statistical procedure will (unsurprisingly) respond with "in that case, I don't know really how to re-rank them" :(
Every browser tab pretty much takes ~100mb. So IMO that’s a pretty reasonable amount for an app to take. 3x that seems fine.
Well, the current situation seems like enough incentive to at least discuss this as a possible solution...
shutting down means you cannot receive phone calls.

This is actually one of the major problems linux phone operating system hackers have been trying to solve — idle power consumption is really really important for a cell phone, but most hardware open enough to run custom operating systems on don’t have easy ways to suspend to a reliable low-power state.
Well, I think what you’re talking about is perception of risk. The perception of the risk that it goes to 0 is probably decreasing over time. But the expectation of future gains based on past performance is also decreasing over time. Most of the investors I feel are worth listening to see this and conclude two things: it’s here to stay but probably can’t go much higher without the broad market also going higher.
Those are not fast charging stations, they’re L2 destination chargers.
Ok the other hand jetbrains is developing new IDE - Fleet, that’s supposed to compete with VSCode - not sure if it’s written using JVM stack for that
It’s a good and reliable controller. Commonly used in auto/self driving projects also.
Does anyone have any self hosted YouTube __playlist__ recommendations? Downloading tends to be the focus and that isn't important to me. I like to save videos for later with my watch later playlist, but it is unmanageable. Not easy to delete or sort or search. YouTube could be so much better in terms of playlist management.
Bayesian analysis means you set up at least two models and evaluate the likelihood of the observed data under each. In this case rather than assume a fixed probability of good reviews, you might model a sudden switch (for example if an account was taken over or sold) or a gradual decline (for example if a manufacturer gradually lowers quality). Then you proceed as usual from that point. (I.e. find likelihoods and assign priors for each hypothesis/model, and use Bayes' rule.)
> But I didn’t see many people wearing pods like Airpods before Apple came out with Airpods.

Maybe because most aren't a brilliant neon white?

Make no mistake - true wireless earbuds were not a huge market until Apple got rid of the headphone jack. For better or worse, they have artificially created a demand for wireless headphones, and then positioned themselves so they're the only company capable of neat integration.
Thanks. I had thought the " quote was parsed / used much earlier in the tokenisation for sh.
Probably the same problem that prevents a JVM based Python from being popular. There are many popular libraries that use C extensions. Without those the platform isn't usable for many use cases, and it just becomes a niche platform.
Something collapsing isn’t an example of the Lindy effect not working. It literally predicts when things will collapse. It’s just a life expectancy for things with a power law distribution.

A healthy 20-year-old can fall over dead from a brain aneurysm. Doesn’t mean actuarial tables aren’t useful.
Data Falsificada (Part 2): “My Class Year Is Harvard”
I'm guessing someone (or something) made the argument that forcing people to scroll through every video uploaded to a channel just to get to the oldest ones "increased engagement"
You know, I've noticed the same thing but I never really "noticed" it, if you follow. It's almost like they bin the videos by length in the suggestion algorithm.
It’s bigger than the US. People are starting to get it.
No but that won't stop them from making a startup to sell you some snake oil that doesn't work!
Well, there is always the option of C/C++...
youtube is quickly approaching feature parity with mid 2000s youtube. Same for Google maps and even Gmail.
> It’s an ideal because we’re defining it in its idealised form.

Even if I take your idealized form as you state it and put aside my previous objections, when I ask myself what kind of system in human history has actually come closest to doing what you describe, what I get is an ultra-libertarian free market system with a government that is as weak as possible--at any rate, in which any government that exists does not have a monopoly of force and cannot expect to enforce its edicts against people that disagree with them. Historical examples include Saga period Iceland and some of the American colonies in the late 1600s and early to mid 1700s, before the British decided to tighten up on the colonies after the French and Indian War.

In other words, if your ideal really is "democracy" as you describe it, historical experience shows that governments take you away from that ideal, not towards it.
2023 Stanford Commencement Speech by John McEnroe [video]
“putting Uyghurs in concentration camps aint cultural genocide because they're extremists”

https://raddle.me/f/lobby/96713/heads-up-the-tankie-behind-l...

I can’t vouch for the source but I have seen multiple reports of similarly disturbing statements.
Think of Bitcoin like the martingale betting method.

In theory, it does win. In practice, few people have enough liquidity to keep up and even then, they need to know when to quit.
Regulations mandate a surveillance module attached to the trading system to detect suspicious trading patterns, and I guess also check the stability of the overall market place. Regulators get visibility into a trading platform through these mechanisms.

Unregistered crypto-firms do not have to allow SEC access.

This thinking does not apply to decentralized exchanges, only CEXs.
Steely Dan has had a lot of great drums on their records! Guitars and bass too. Their song FM is just brilliant...
You mean like, theoretically, in the future? Or you mean today?
https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2022/01/fleet-below-deck-pa...
Unfortunately with flights you can usually at least take a good guess at what went wrong. I think we’ll be lucky if they find (and retrieve) wreckage in this case
I wish they'd used EGUI etc instead of another web UI. It's Rust; might as well leverage the performance.
In general I agree with you, but the actions of Reddit's leadership over the past few months (and especially the past few weeks) lead me to believe they've completely lost the plot and don't understand the dynamics of their own community. They can say all they want that they value the contributions of the moderators, but their actions speak the truth.
I have the controller itself and as far as I know there's no way to use it wired. It doesn't even have a port, batteries are replaceable double As.
I am so glad that top VCs are thinking along these lines, of architectures that incorporate AI as part of the flow.

We've spun off a company to realize the vision of bringing an open-source, standardized framework to the PHP ecosystem, where we've been building apps for communities for over a decade. It's "AI for the rest of us", but at the same time promoting positive collaboration between communities and AI. It also involves micropayments for tasks done by either an AI or human agent.

If you're a VC or an expert in the space, I'd love to get feedback on this: https://engageusers.ai/ecosystem.pdf

And if you want to get involved in any capacity, whether as an investor or developer, please email me greg at the domain engageusers.ai -- this time around we are planning to take on venture capital funding for this project, and syndicate a round later this summer.
Modern day recording techniques are much different than older, but that would make sense. Listen to some Led Zepplin compared to how it’s done now. John Bonham recordings sound like your in the room of a drummer where Danny Carey recordings sound like you are the drums. I’ve been fascinated with this topic after spending too much time with recording studio types
> From an ethics standpoint they're responsible for the harm caused to you by new drugs/treatments/etc.

I would argue that from an ethics standpoint they're responsible for the results of their decisions. If they hold a treatment up for an extended period of time because it might have some complications, but with the benefit of hindsight it is clear that it would have saved lots of people who instead died, they bear some responsibility for those deaths.

> If you're familiar with the education of anyone in a medical or medical-related environment then you know it's pounded in their heads to do no harm.

As it should be, but the point is that harm can be done by inaction, not just by action.
The advice that experiences are better than things is good, but most of my valued and cherished experiences were free or very cheap. I care more about the people around me than what we're actually doing. If you can spend some money to have more quality time with your friends and loved ones, do that.

When it comes to items, focus on things you use everyday. I bought a Brompton folding bicycle. It was a big purchase for me at the time but I use it every single day and get a lot of pleasure and enjoyment out of it. If you cook a lot, get a great chef's knife and so on.

Other hobby items are nice but even if you really love hiking you probably only manage to go once a week. But you wear shoes everyday, so spend money on the regular everyday shoes, not the hiking boots.
But funny, hardly anyone ever gets ticketed for tailgating, which is far more dangerous.
needs 2011
That's the problem with the vision of a Linux phone as being "iOS/Android-like, but without the corporate control".

For an open phone to be truly successful, it has to be better for its users, and in a way that's worth shifting ecosystems for.
Advertisers have always had ways to block likes and dislikes. The problem was that dislike counts were abused by people driving dislikes on videos for inauthentic reasons (YouTuber supports cause X, we disagree with X, therefore let's all go dislike all of this YouTuber's videos). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_brigading

Removing public dislike counts takes a good amount of wind out of such campaigns
I guess the difference is that you can live in a house. For the majority of people that's the real value.

Real estate market is also heavily (heavily) regulated, to the point that buying and selling houses require so much paperwork that it's not really convenient for scammers.

It's also quite stable, loans are secured by mortgages on the properties, I'm not sure anyone would accept bitcoins for the same purpose.
It is not fetishism to point out something behaves differently than Linux, especially in story about a technology introduced on Apple platforms.

Technologies don't exist in a vacuum. This thread pointed out a problem with dynamic libraries that cannot occur on Apple platforms because dynamic linking does not exist in a void but is part of an ecosystem that exists beyond the dynamic linker. The fact that in that context you keep insisting on ignoring any technology not present on Linux is sort of baffling.
Exactly, but everything else with those names is terrible.

Their argument is that games that use titles like this, tend to be using these names to try to take advantage of the success of other titles with similar names. If your game is named "like another game", then your basically marketing it as "$y is like $x but better", but $y is rarely ever better than $x based on most people's experience. Once you pick up on that, anything marketed as $x tycoon is going to be viewed as "yeah it's probably terrible, like the other $z tycoon I already tried".