skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to put in a plug for my employer's open-sourced C++ units framework, called Au: https://github.com/aurora-opensource/au

The library incorporates dimensional units into the C++ type system with an emphasis on correctness (including considerations for overflow, rounding, loss of precision, etc) and minimal runtime overhead.

As a very simple example of what using this library could look like, here is a tiny code snippet taken from one of the tutorials:

constexpr double speed_mph = 65.0;
constexpr double speed_mps = (miles / hour)(speed_mph).in(meters / second);

In a larger program, of course, the whole point is to avoid using naked "doubles" (or floats or ints, etc) at all, and instead use the library's "Quantity" types, which encode information about their units. Conversions are done automatically, and incompatible operations become compile-time errors.

const auto time = hours(1.0)
const auto distance = miles(65.0)

const auto average_speed = distance/time;

The tutorials are a nice way to be introduced to the library:
https://aurora-opensource.github.io/au/tutorial/

From a user's point of view (I am a physicist by training), I find the library wonderfully unobtrusive and "natural" to use.
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Somewhat unrelated, but I found the pricing page interesting: https://www.organclearinghouse.com/fees

> The cost of relocating, refurbishing, restoring, renovating a vintage organ is typically 2/3 or 3/4 that of commissioning a new organ.

A free organ (I suppose unsurprisingly) is very expensive.
This article refers to public messaging, not personal one to one discussions by specialized individuals with specialized training
Unrelated to the killing, tying you medium of exchange to a physical commodity was ill-suited to a time where the global productivity growth was double-digits for 50 years. Limiting the growth of your exchange medium to the rate at which a commodity can be extracted is almost as bad as going full command economy.
> this grass along with digestion process will bring nutrition that just feeding cells won't contain...

What makes you think that? If the cells are not fed the nutrients they need to survive, they will die. You can only reduce the inputs so much until the entire system breaks down.

That doesn't bar anyone from providing rich feeding mixes to produce cells with extra nutritional value.
Yeah, trending topics are sometimes downranked to prevent front page spam. This is apparently a known thing HN does.
I wonder what is to come next because it’s a site so reliant on their community and they have a very loud voice per the design itself. A mod team needs to have passion and time, and befriend their community. They can’t just throw anyone in.

I reluctantly had to delete Apollo and just use Lemmy instead for now. It’s growing quickly and a nice change of pace. My main communities are already there with at least a few hundred users each, some over a thousand. For having been on Reddit for 16 years (since Digg), it was surprisingly easy to let go. It helps that their website sucks so hard on mobile because there is then very little risk of “muscle memory” making you hop back in with no app.
> I was never too much into Carrey acting on comedic roles, but I really like his dramatic ones.

I enjoy dumb movies toe but, like you, I prefer him in the "not totally dumb" movies.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie I like a lot too.
And a weird looking mouse cursor
> People who always wear shoes all day every day

They explicitly weren't talking about you.
I also use this. Units are type checking for equations. Qalculate lets you enter the unit for all your known quantities, and tells you the unit for your result. If you don't get the expected unit you know you did something wrong.
But the infrastructure underneath the stuff the devs use was almost certainly not click ops’d. I’m fine clicking a deployment into prod, I am not fine making advanced cloud or build configurations via a UI
Recently tried Proxmox, spent few hours on trying to boot any VM placed on ZFS pool but with no luck. Same VMs converted from raw to vmdk (iirc) worked on 2 other, identical NVMe disks with software ext4 raid.
Or possibly a project installed Rocky Linux because it was easier, faster and cheaper than procuring RHEL licenses. It was found in an audit and now they had to procure and switch to RHEL or procure support for Rocky Linux. A complete wild ass guess but I have seen it happen at other agencies with open source software.

Since I retired on Friday, my experience with government IT and procurement is slightly out of date but based upon my knowledge of it until that point I would consider it a better wild ass guess than NASA procured 3 Rocky Linux workstation support contracts to test it before making some agency wide switch.
Fairly sure they mistyped, and "engineers" should be "designers". Otherwise that is indeed a very confusing statement.

There's usually multiple developers/engineers for every designer on a team, so bringing them in to the product with features that require full privileges would certainly be a lucrative move for Figma.
Just want to throw out there that people should be allowed to be wrong. Especially if they've shown the capacity to recognize their mistakes and own them.

Yeah, we cringe but who ever actually learns something without making some mistakes along the way?

If we spent all of our time dealing with the anxiety of trying to never be wrong -- most of us wouldn't be able to function.
It is all over the place. Some districts are great, some are terrible. There is a theoretical framework of accountability at the County and State level, but it is not enforced hardly at all.

So it is up to local school boards and superintendents, and the local municipal tax levy. Most medium and small districts’ BOE members are regular citizens who are elected with no qualifications at all, and lean on the Superintendent for everything. So if you get a bad one (and it is common), your district is screwed for many years.
That's why I put this map on my kid's wall: https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-classic-pacific-centered

We live in Europe where the default map is Atlantic-centric so I wanted to make sure he got a different perspective.
"Textbooks" is clickbait-ish. It seems they are borrowing a term by Andrej Karpathy:

>Mar 30, 2022
Seems likely we’ll have custom (and partially auto-generated) “textbooks” but for teaching language models, not humans, to help them “grok” concepts.
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644

>Textbooks Are All You Need

>We introduce phi-1, a new large language model for code, with significantly smaller size than competing models: phi-1 is a Transformer-based model with 1.3B parameters, trained for 4 days on 8 A100s, using a selection of ``textbook quality" data from the web (6B tokens) and synthetically generated textbooks and exercises with GPT-3.5 (1B tokens). Despite this small scale, phi-1 attains pass@1 accuracy 50.6% on HumanEval and 55.5% on MBPP. It also displays surprising emergent properties compared to phi-1-base, our model before our finetuning stage on a dataset of coding exercises, and phi-1-small, a smaller model with 350M parameters trained with the same pipeline as phi-1 that still achieves 45% on HumanEval.@Microsoft Research
The age clock still does. A 40-50 year old dad is not the same energy as a dad so where aged 20-35. Sure an 80 year can even father a child .. although let’s be honest he wouldn’t be much of a “dad”.
In reality, the legal substances are the most widely consumed by a gargantuan margin. It's a comically massive gap between alcohol/caffeine/weed and the apparently forbidden fruits you're referring to.

Also, how "forbidden" is cocaine really when it's universally available and ridiculously easy to get?
Because that's not what's happening.

FTA:
"Once regulatory approvals are obtained and the transaction closes, the billing and support services for Google Workspace (including G Suite) subscriptions currently billed by Google Domains will be managed by Squarespace."
Right, and I am not really arguing against you on this. For an example of places where not teaching to the test can go wrong, though, I need only look at some extended family that were only taught evolution, as it would be on some tests.

Anecdotes being what they are, I'm interested in knowing if there is a large study on this. I'm also very open to thoughts on how to fix things. Knowing that it typically comes around to better tests...

Edit: To be clear, my evolution example was supposed to be that they were only taught it because it would be on the tests. Not that they were only taught evolution.
I don't think AI turning into Skynet is the problem, with a robot uprising and creepy titanium endoskeletons shooting laser cannons. The fallout of human response to the societal impacts of AI's adoption by humanity seems a more likely scenario. Misinformation leading to increased mental health crises as the populace loses the ability to distinguish fact from fiction, job automation and human displacement, further class divide, etc. etc.

TL;DR: AI is not the threat, it's the tool. Humanity using the tool is the threat.
May I ask what issues you have with QNAP or Synology?
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How is that "simple and elegant" design going for you?
> No includes that contain other includes is obvious and sensible and takes orders of magnitude off compilation times. That rarely gets mentioned.

That seems like an insane concept. I honestly can't see how it can be justified in a world where pretty much every compiler since the 90s has support for `#pragma once` and detects include guards automatically without re-reading the header.
Europe is half the cost for our company meet-ups
> ... listen to modern jazz and modern classical music, where unexpected pitches often show up. That innately trains them to think of individual note pitch as an important detail to listen to.

I don't think the absolute value any pitch class carries is of much intrinsic musical interest. Musical comprehension is not aided by knowing the pitch-class of a specific note, but in perceiving its relationship to other tones.

I'm guessing you picked those two genres of music because they are often referred to as "dissonant" or "noise". As far as modern classical music is concerned, much of the material has a unity between the foreground, background, and middle-ground details. Imagine you've been listening to an orchestra busily sawing away on pitch set [0 1 4] (in all its permutations) and then you realize the lonely glockenspiel's three disembodied notes over the last minute and a half spelled [0 1 4].

Training someone to listen to such a piece so that they might tell you the glockenspiel's second note was an e-flat does not improve anyone's musical comprehension. Training someone to listen to such a piece so that pitch-relationships in the foreground can be heard to form relationships at different scales of the composition does greatly aid in musical comprehension (and is routinely accomplished -- pretty much anyone can do it).
Except Mercator wasn't German.

He was born in the County of Flanders, current day East Flanders and moved to Germany at the age of 40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator
If you are comfortable programming in any systems language and not a complete beginner, this conference is a legit opportunity for growth (and mentorship.) There is no elitism or judgment here—imo you shouldn't miss out!
I printed the Dymaxion SVG on A3+ card paper. Makes a great icosahedron!
Criticism on NCLB is basically criticism on standardized testing. Higher performing schools are going to opt out anyways (they would rather focus their kids on prep for college), lower performing schools focus on the tests with hyper focus to the expense of everything else.
The latest tweet in the thread already deals with this objection:

> And for those saying: "well, better than shutting down Google Domains"

> Google Domains was profitable, I confirmed internally. Growing extremely fast (~$120M ARR now, ~growing $40M/year)

Which, I mean, obviously the product isn't so unprofitable that it needs to be shut down, or nobody would be interested in buying it.

Maybe Google Domains isn't the company's most profitable product, and maybe Google would be able to make even more money by allocating those resources elsewhere. But the point that people are upset about is that Google is going against a principle it had publicly committed to. Principles don't count for much if you only follow them when there's no cost to doing so.
Correct. In this context it’s perhaps also worth mentioning that Rust depends on LLVM.
That depends on the multiplication factor. You can get a unit of meat from one animal. You can get N units of meat out of cells of one animal.

Even if the treatment doesn't change, the production of meat becomes N times less cruel after the switch.
Whether or not it's intended as an ad, and whether or not they're getting paid for it, kinda doesn't really matter. I perceive it as a kind of advertising, probably because it came around when maps was adding all sorts of other advertising as well, and advertising was the final straw that drove me away from Google Maps.

I also find it a much less useful way of indicating directions, but I recognize that's just because my brain works differently. That's not a criticism of doing it that way.
One Man's Quest to Catalogue Every Moai in Video Games (2019)
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER has a great set of video about removing an organ from a home, and setting it up/modifying it in his place. I highly recommend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwwRR8deHk
He's good at breaking APIs. That's different skill from making APIs and things.
It is never about the tools. it is the people who creates problems.
examples in my case:
* A manager whose dev team cannot meet any schedule is starting to blame devops.
* A dev architect implements a brand new bleeding edge tech stack and ranaway, devops people have to wake up every night to fix poor-designed software.
* A boss who doesn't hire a sec team, wants pci-dss passed, guess who's gonna do.
* A team lead who abuses you, calls the company who hired you and tells them don't hire it, it is useless.

I've been working as a devops engineer for 6 years. I'm done. I quit and never gonna do this job again. Good luck with creating more complexity with tools.
An example with bent wood pipes: https://www.organclearinghouse.com/3034-zimmer-residence-org...
The weird part to me at least is that they don’t ask for affirmative consent prior to transferring all your data, billing details, etc., to Squarespace. This isn’t some 1:1 acquisition, the Google Domains UI won’t even exist anymore. Even stranger considering the Google workspace subscriptions are moving as well, no idea how Squarespace is handling that. At least transfers aren’t frozen so you can get away from Squarespace’s terrible product prior to the deal closing.

(I know Google has the legal right to do this, but that’s not the issue here.)
They already combined under Geo
> > rely on a host of shitty online platforms and expect the kids to figure out how to navigate all of them.

> This sounds like good real world preparation

Or, we could push to have a better standard for them, and get them to see and treat the shitty software as something other than an unavoidable and unchangeable status quo.
>how do you test the skills ability to "create", to generate new ideas, to plan, to design, using a multiple choice question?

The real answer to this is "don't use multiple choice questions", but that would require significant investment in actually properly grading the outputs. One of course could say that then you're going to teach to criteria (IE, what are the evaluators looking for?) but that may or may not be a bad thing, depending on how its handled.
This bit in the tweet chain was more interesting to me:

Google Domains *was* profitable, I confirmed internally. Growing extremely fast (~$120M ARR now, ~growing $40M/year)
How do we know that this article wasn't written by an evil AI that wants to stop us from developing a counter-AI
Why did you feel it necessary to include the family's race?
I'm using flowpilot. Its good software. If you have a decent Android phone it's worth trying it out
Because its kind of an irrelevant difference and everybody in Switzerland just calls Bern the Capital.
Whoever downvoted this - would love to know what specifically you take issue with from the linked article.
It is exactly what's happening.

Google is handing over the personal information of its subscribers, and the responsibility for their accounts, to Squarespace. In return, Squarespace is giving Google a bunch of money (revenue).
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The problem is that RHEL is too expensive for people who don't need support.
IBM is getting greedy and screwing up its pipeline.

Our dedicated servers are about $100/month for pretty serious hardware (2 x 8-core CPUs, 64 GB RAM, 2 x 8TB HDD, 30TB transfer). Paying $349/year is a significant percentage of that. It is worse for smaller servers, and ludicrous for small virtual machines in the cloud.

I would not mind throwing them a bone to have e.g. security updates at some reasonable cost. Their official repositories don't have enough packages, so I end up having to use 3rd-party repos for normal things, e.g. Postgres. Having a more full-featured repo of up-to-date software would be useful to me.

I have been running CentOS 7, but when that is no longer supported, I will switch to something else like Ubuntu or Debian, whatever our hosting providers support. I am already using Debian or distroless for containers.

And then RHEL will be completely irrelevant to me. Good job, IBM.
> But he seems to have forgot. I wonder why?

Most likely scenario is spez’s boss wanted better numbers to maximize price at IPO.

I think they decided to cash out when things were very frothy in 2021, and they missed the window. It will be interesting to see if they even get to $10B. I would bet on less than $5B.

According to Wikipedia:

>In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto.[13] Their investment valued the company at $500 million at the time.[14][15] In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder.[16] In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion.[17] In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.[18] The company then reportedly filed for an IPO in December 2021 with a valuation of $15 billion.[19][20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
Been looking into the same situation, and decided to stay away from TrueNAS for similar (though less specific) reasons. Currently looking at FreeBSD with their bhyve VM tooling.
Thank you! Interestingly, I think that link was blocked at the DNS level when using Private Relay. Managed to get it open though.
You can even wrap the pipe back into a tight coil and add valves so the player can change the length manually[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_horn
Israelis also tend to be very direct in my experience working with them. I'm not Israeli (in fact, I hold a passport for a country that doesn't even recognize Israel), but it's something I've always admired about working with people from the region. I think the Israeli culture is really good at cutting through fluff and focusing on getting things done.
You can get standing desk mats :) I got one for this reason.
I tried Proxmox. I mainly need a storage server that can run a few VMs. Proxmox looks pretty good for a VM heavy setup, but it adds a lot of complexity that I just don't need.

I like the release cadence on Ubuntu and I had such a bad experience with ZFS DKMS (many) years ago that I'm probably a bit bias towards Ubuntu because I simply don't have to think about it.

I won't use ZFS on root unless it simplifies dealing with a failed boot disk. I still prefer CSM over UEFI because UEFI makes it more complicated to recover from failure :-(
Locking cycling shoes are also preposterously narrow too. I guess they're all about aerodynamics.
I mean that based on the government was founded and run.

I’m sure the geography and average people are lovely. But it has a hell of handicap to overcome politically.
>But he seems to have forgot. I wonder why?

Because as long as the public buys whatever he's selling, he still leaves rich. Nothing about reddit going forward actually has to be successful or functional as long as normal people buy the stock, people who don't know reddit, don't use it, don't understand it, don't CARE about it, etc.
You do realize that Reddit runs in the negative? No chance they do this
Not everyone is story oriented or needs them.

There's this presumption whenever I read this argument that every person is story dominant.

Sure, many people need captivating stories and poorly comprehend statistics and orders of magnitude. You probably need stories to reach a majority of people. The cinema is more popular than abstract math classrooms.

But some people are different. They don't watch TV, movies, Netflix or read fiction. They live fully productive lives without being constantly enraptured in melodramas.

These people will read a story and think "bullshit bullshit blah blah". Don't forget about those people as well. They're often the ones put in control of the money.
Very odd, I'd love to know more since I've got that setup going on my router/edge box right now. ZFS mirror on two NVMe disks as the storage for root fs and VMs.
I'm not in any ways an expert in linux. I don't notice errors, but a lot of times I'm totally stumped how easy they jump to radical conclusions: "we're not using because single detail", "it's just bad", "one would never" without even hinting at any true research
I'd argue we've been living already in a post-truth world.
It's bizarre to think that you can know the truth on the internet.
Because by the very mechanism of language and concepts, you're always abstracted away from truth.
Not to mention layers of bias, management, interpretation and re-interpretation.

Truth is experience, everything else is a belief.
There was an idea that we were unified before the internet, but what that meant was that most people were receiving the same propaganda.
The information channels were fractured by the internet, meaning that control across it was impossible.

I'm not saying this comment is even truth, it's another opinion biased by my own world-view, beliefs etc.
But trying to find truth on the internet is like trying to find a tasty book.
It has some good content:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/tubi-tv

https://www.justwatch.com/ca/provider/tubi-tv
Anecdotally, this checks. Shoes off, dog sits on the couch, dog’s habits fall under the field of bacteriology.
I use a thick yoga mat in front of my standing desk. Fancier options exist, but the important thing is not to stand on a flat, hard surface.
Fun article. Surprised it doesn't mention the Peters projection map.

You cannot have both area fidelity and shape fidelity to represent countries on a map.

If you want area fidelity, the Gall-Peters [1] projection and the Peters world map [2] (1952) by Arno Peters are the way to visualize countries, whereas common maps focus on shape-fidelity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Peters?useskin=vector
[2] https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/map-of-the-world-peters-p...
Andrew Ng doesn't agree but that is a boring story.

It seems to me the big names in AI research our having a moment that appeals to their vanity. Easy to get your name in the headlines by out dooming the next guy.

There is also no downside to these predictions about AI eating us since when they are totally wrong you can just counter that they haven't ate us, yet.
AI: The Next Chapter in Design