skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cool. i'd want to try it. if you could sell kits, that'd be awesome. plus, use something like osm to figure out the road before taking it,road changes and stuff from there because it seems like a nice stable platform to get and store data on.

this is nice
and all maps are WRONG
The world is pretty complex - are we sure that causing less rainfall over oceans wouldn't have some weird knock on effect for the environment? Does fresh water falling on ocean surfaces contribute to the known stratification of salinity that allows some animals/plants/whatever to be able to survive in the top layer of water?

We have a problem: we're farming lettuce in Arizona. It feels a lot safer to just stop doing that then try to fix the issues with work arounds that might cause bigger issues.
> But my thoughts about Europe definitely changed after seeing the other projection.

That’s odd. Did you think land mass was somehow really important?

Did you ever check out how small Britain or Spain or Portugal or Netherlands were to the size of their empire.

Do you now think that Indonesia is more important because of its size?

I would expect that revelations about population would be more worldview adjusting (Nigeria and Indonesia are so huge).
Immortality is a curse, not a blessing.
Pets are intelligent enough to show emotions, allow simple interactions, and occasionally be entertaining and goofy.

They also run around and are very pleasant to stroke, which is not true of LLMs.

We all know what's going to happen. The content on CIVITAI shows where this will go. Combine it with animation and some personalised responses and many people will find it irresistible.
> The voice is the only instrument where you can "play" (sing) what note you think.

This is not even close to being true.
Yeah, screams honeypot.
I can recommend barefoot shoes. I really feel like they save my knees and everything else in my legs works more smoothly and I feel more stable walking. They take a bit of adjustment though. They'll train your calves, you'll walk slower because you'll have shorter step length, you'll initially get blisters in new places.
Seriously. Half the population is in southern Ontario. There's no reason we can't have a serious high speed rail line Toronto<->Quebec City that would serve - without exaggeration - most Canadians.

I forget where I read this phrase first, but: every flight in this corridor is a policy failure.
Personally, I'm hoping his proposal to jail the funders of climate change denial for reckless endangerment catches on and becomes popular.
Yeah, there's a pretty famous history on this paper (and with Ulrich Drepper).
> If somebody's executive dysfunction is preventing them from going through the basic steps needed to get help for that very thing, then they seriously need to enlist the help of either a family member or a professional who can walk them through this and ensure that they succeed.

You just said the same thing over again. How do you expect them to "enlist the help of a professional"? That's the whole (complex, multi-step) goal they're pursuing here!

(And, for many such people, they have no supportive family members. They live on their own, do the bare minimum each day at work, drag themselves home, microwave a TV dinner, and fall asleep. Think of them as "a car that doesn't have enough gas in the tank to drive to a gas station.")

> I'm not sure what the implication of this comment was

That lowering the barriers (and thus amount of willpower required) to get yourself initially introduced to someone who can help you with your problems even a little — even if they're not going to be able to help you really well with your problems — is valuable, because being helped even a little now means you have more willpower, that you can then use to access a higher-barrier-to-entry solution, and so on, in a cycle, incrementally bootstrapping your way to fully addressing your problem.

For an analogous situation: group therapy for gender dysphoria is hard to access. Web forums full of trans people you can talk to are easy to access. Those forums aren't structured to help you in the way that group therapy is, but it can at least help you overcome a crisis about whether you should acknowledge that you have a need that requires addressing in the first place.

Whether or not any particular approach or service that lowers barriers to accessing help, is good at doing that, should not be used to condemn the act of lowering barriers to accessing help itself. Just because BetterHelp is worse than nothing, doesn't mean that we should accept "nothing"; the barriers-to-access are still a problem to be solved, and we should still encourage people and companies who set out to try to solve it.
There are liberals and moderates who are annoyed by people who are aware of the plight of minorities? That political compass might need adjustment.
On the last Reddit news update, someone said "Reddit is between a rock and a hard place, and they've decided to bash their head with the rock."

It's definitely the most accurate portrayal of what's happening.
Interesting, thank you for sharing! This behavior is somewhat outside my experience, which is why I posted the link.

What do you think about AI personas -- will they likely trigger limerence for you? My whole interest in this topic was initiated by the discussion of existing and possible future products along these lines that is happening here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417826
Not OP but if you're in the Bay Area a lot of that was because sales tax revenue collapsed during COVID.

School district budgets are heavily dependent on local taxes, which in turn are heavily dependent on sales tax.

Some districts have larger pockets than others due to a diverse tax base and thus were able to keep paying for those services in each school (eg. Palo Alto, Cupertino, MTV, the Tri-Valley districts) but others didn't have as deep pockets and as such had to cut down on programs and merge them.
I didn't project anything. I said my feet are less sweaty in Birkenstock sandals than in Sneakers as they breathe less and less sweat and more fresh air is always better.
I like the appeal of model being bidirectional. Also modelling sequence of actions is really not solved problem in Terraform & Pulumi: canary change, check metrics, rollout to the rest of the region, check metrics, then all regions, if they solved it all while being "declarative" and high level it can be the next tool of choice for me.

I am not worried about UI representation of the model like many comments, it is not the main point of this project as I understand. UI just that - a representation, same relationships might as well be coded in HCL or the like of it.
I note the author added an external USB disk to act as the TrueNAS boot disk. I wonder if treating one of the M.2 disks as a boot disk is feasible. There are twelve M.2 slots in that kit, after all.
OpenAI Library for Crystal Lang
Ask HN: Are posts about Reddit actively suppressed?
I've noticed that several posts about Reddit get many upvotes but never make it to the front page anymore or get pushed down immediately. Looks like there is an auto-suppression in place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36423313
Indeed. He put his life on the line. I don't know the circumstance that lead to this and I hope everyone gets rescued, though it's looking quite desperate. But, yeah, that's pretty convincing from a marketing point of view.
It's about incentives. Right now, mods and Reddit have very different goals. When you tie moderator compensation to subreddit financial success, suddenly the incentives are now aligned towards maximizing the number of eyeballs on a given subreddit, because eyeballs mean conversions and conversions mean revenue, and revenue means happy shareholders, moderators.

As for the users, we could debate all day what's best for them, but the war between mods and Reddit would be over, and that's incredibly good for users.
Not really. Compaction is a feature of many garbage collectors, but the allocator I described doesn't impose any particular way of deciding how and when to deallocate the objects. You could do so explicitly with a MyAllocator::deallocate() method, or use runtime reference counting, or (if you're willing to constrain handle lifetimes to the allocator lifetime) you could delete the allocator entry when the handle goes out of scope.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting -- that seeking narrative explanations is wrong, or that the models we have of bicycle/quantum-mechanics are wrong?
The most important stuff in this paper isn't the numbers.
You are conflating object pools and ECS architecture. Yes, they work very well together, but neither is required for the other.

The ECS architecture is about which parts of your application are concerned with what, and it's an absolute godsend for building complex and flexible business logic. I would be loathe to ever use anything else now that I have tasted this golden fruit.

Object pooling is about memory management; in an OO language this is about reducing pressure on the garbage collector, limiting allocation and GC overhead, improving memory access patterns, etc. -- all the stuff he talks about in this article. I almost never use object pools unless I'm running a huge calculation or simulation server-side.

Games use both, because they're basically big simulations.
Just wondering, for those who have implemented something like this - do you still stuff these arrays with unique_ptr's instead of raw pointers, at least to make it easier to manage / reset / assert them within the "system" that owns them?
Maybe more accurate is that there wasn’t some nefarious bias that was meant to oppress people.

Europe was at the center because they made the maps. It’s a simple reason. If some other culture has been dominant we’d be using a projection that makes it more useful for them.
One under-appreciated effect of the announcement last year has been the attention and resources that have been directed toward Figma's upstart, open-source competitor Penpot. I tried Penpot back in the fall, and while it was impressive for an open-source tool, I definitely didn't see it challenging Figma anytime soon.

Fast-forward nine months, and Penpot has a boatload of new features as well as its own conference coming up in a few days. I tried it again recently, and it had come much further than I expected: not only have they implemented auto-layout (Figma's original killer feature, in my view), but with the added benefit of wrapping auto-layouts. They even announced a new roadmap item of grid auto-layout.

I loaded up a tutorial file and my enthusiasm was dampened a bit seeing how a complex document impacted performance – Penpot still has a long ways to go to match Figma there – but as a viable Figma competitor, I think Penpot might actually have a chance now. It's telling that even as Figma races ahead with this new release, there is one feature (auto-layout wrap) that Penpot got to first.

The funny thing would be if Penpot's rise, spurred by the threat of Adobe dominance, actually results in regulators giving Adobe the green light to complete its acquisition of Figma. Still, if this market becomes a healthy competition like Blender / Maya, everyone will win.
Funny enough i just watched a documentary (in german) about child prodigies (musical ones) and david garrett said: there are no child prodigies, every note is trained hard.

the gist was that a child prodigy is defined as a child who can play at 10 what professional can play but the kids need a few 'talents': 1. stamina and a lot of it 2. motivation/fun for playing music and 3. a ton of exercise.

And this blog article sounds definitly much more involved while trying to give of the vibe of 'look i have prodigy kids' and 'i only do a little bit of excercising with them and its just 5 minutes a day or so'.

Nonetheless, 30 minutes a day on avg is still so much more than a lot of other kids do and as others said, the bragging is annoying.
Currently they are acting in maximizing alienation of their users and maximizing the chance a viable competitor platform emerges.
This talk is must see to understand what SI tries to achieve.
All the Covid explanation folks should try this: take away phones and computer for six months and have your kids read (old!) fiction books and good (challenging) non-fiction. Limit TV to a few approved shows/movies as a rare treat.
I bet you ‘ll be surprised.
I agree with this product 100%, although I fail to see how it could work unless normal meat is banned or taxed to be much more expensive.
Why?
It's very expensive to make, like synthetic fuel. But unlike fossil fuels, I have seen zero government initiative to ban or limit meat consumption so it's very unlikely for the economies of scale to work out, in my opinion.
They could have.

But by now they have probably irrecoverably destroyed their relationship to the existing community. Maybe they can build a new community.
Right, this is why I'm guessing we are talking past each other. I fully believe some places got degenerate and did it poorly. I'm not convinced every "teaching to the test" case our there is that, though. Often folks would whine about teaching to the tests for teaching how tests are scored.

I'd love to see a large study on this. And now that I have kids in schools, I'm very interested in ways I can help them learn. At the same time I also want them to do well with grades. Knowing that is often two separate things.
Seems like the left wing version of the "George Soros is behind everything I disagree with"
Because everyone and their brother seems to prefer PlayStation. You said it yourself, what consoles do my friends have? I have both the XSX and the PS5, but most of my friends and relatives only have a PS5. They have an extensive catalog of digital games from the PlayStation store and it would take a lot more than this deal to get them to completely abandon Sony.
Twitch without Ads was a nice benefit until that got removed years ago. We have gotten rid of our Prime membership as well. The death of it was really the 3rd party sellers and fighting to find the correct item.
That makes sense. How is the fiscal health of school districts in NJ? I'd assume they aren't the greatest because of how Balkanized NJ local govt seems to be, but you guys also have variable property taxes and that might make it better than a lot of those in CA.
Perfect pitch is the monad in musical training. Everyone not having it thought they want to get it. Those who gets it would know it really isn't helping that much. Disclaimer, I don't get neither
"No one wants to work anymore" - [Insert most hated C exec here who has never gone hungry or had to worry about rent]
Ironically, you're being gratuitously hostile in your accusation that they are not actually persecuted.
I'll concede that it has changed, but the etymology is now nonsensical.
Any good docs on memory and data structures for c?
Yes and no. A lot of the concepts about memory management and how memory functions are still the same or similar. It's a good baseline to start with, and then look at how things have changed since then (they certainly have changed, but most of the paper still applies).
This is a cool article. I wonder why all the content creators use TrueNAS. I evaluated TrueNAS Scale for a storage server and decided not to use it. I had two major complaints.

First, when you create a ZFS pool, it partitions drives and puts swap on all of them. IIRC it may have even set up some mdadm RAID mirrors. It's a bunch of complexity and can leave you with swap on spinning disks if you don't notice and override the behavior.

For me, whenever I see a bad default like that, where it might have made sense 10+ years ago, I get freaked out about what other poor defaults exist that I'm not noticing or what else may have been neglected for a decade. I use it as an negative indicator and often avoid the whole product at that point.

Second, every time I'd boot (or maybe stop) a VM it would trample my ZFS tunables, specifically zfs_arc_max. I couldn't figure out exactly what was triggering it, but I don't want a system that doesn't play nice with the default CLI tooling.

I actually had a really tough time finding a decent NAS and I'm going to end up building a plain old Linux system running Ubuntu 22.04. If anyone has any suggestions (not QNAP or Synology) for something that can do a good job of ZFS and 2-6 VMs, I'd love to hear them.
The problem is that there are plenty of valuable skills that are difficult to test in a standardized way. Most standardized test questions focus on Bloom levels 1-3 (remember, understand, apply) and struggle to test higher order skills (analyze, evaluate, create). Those questions are harder to write, usually take much longer for students to answer, and it's hard to format them such that they can be graded in a standardized manner (e.g., how do you test the skills ability to "create", to generate new ideas, to plan, to design, using a multiple choice question?)

Placing a heavy emphasis on teaching to standardized tests means that teachers spend less time fostering higher order thinking skills.
> I don't understand the big push for RedHat specific tooling

I'd wager it is driven by RH simply being "least worst" of the options which can be relied on to stick around long enough for enterprise users.

Canonical are doing their best to screw the pooch with snap and similar nonsense, leaving the only other option being cobbling together a collection of tools from fly-by-night small projects - which might go full unicorn-wannabe and adopt an open-core SaaS model any second.
The problem here is litigation. While you can take them up to court you will need a lot of $.

And the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act does not contain a free-shifting statute. (unlike the Lemon Law which is a more specific version of Magnuson Moss).

What I don't understand however is how we deal with features that aren't used by ASUS, say some form of encryption in the CPU. TrueNAS uses it and your NAS locks up. And Intel actually releases an errata for that CPU.

Who is responsible? Should they give you a new one?
>Linux didn't have efficient+mature SMP even into the early aughts, although a few companies had built some massive SMP boxes

Including IBM. (Forget when they did their big stackable X-series server.) A lot of the tech eventually became applicable to even super-mainstream dual-socket servers but I wonder how much money was largely wasted on building and trying to sell larger scale-up boxes.

But, yeah, IBM was one of the big investors in OSDL (and their own Linux Technology Center) which had a lot of scale-up focus which made a lot of the legal claims of another 3-letter company pretty much misaligned with the timeline.
Yes that is one small dimension of why the dollar is valuable. But a far bigger part is the fact that using dollars enters you into the US financial (and by extension legal) systems which has been far more stable, reliable and predictable than other systems over the last century. For a point of reference consider Switzerland, whose currency is a minor reserve currency and whose banking and legal systems are globally appreciated, despite the fact that they have no power projection and a tiny population in comparison to their financial markets. The Swiss central bank has even deviated from their usual stable policy since 2008 and yet still they see inflows.
Laughprop: Open-source Stable Diffusion party game
Really simple Stable Diffusion party game developed for the CVPR2023 generative AI art exhibition. Includes three mini-games, including a movie re-casting game and telephone/drawing game.

Feel free to laugh at my front-end code, I'm not much of a web dev :) I think with some proper game design, fine-tuning of the SD model (particularly for the movie game), and better use of ControlNet, could be a lot of fun.
So you would equate those who have empathy for minorities with a group who committed genocide?

Edit: the problem with this slippery slope argument is that the likes of Trump supporters are "just patriotic," but are also engaging in book and curriculum banning.
At scale it becomes a bit less one-size-fits-all, because compute requirements can vary so much. Eventually we will probably have different backend types the same way that Amazon has different instance types, but for now we tend to talk things through with the customer one-on-one (feel free to reach out at the email in my profile if you want to talk about a use case).

BYOC is essentially a hosted instance of Plane with our hosted container registry, web UI, and command-line tool for deployment.

Jamsocket could be used to spin up a socket.io WebSocket server.
Perhaps yes. Multiples cores are now much more a thing than they were in 2007; that at least could be a change in emphasis. OSes may do things differently in terms of how they implement memory mapping. And so on.
> 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

> Ourselves and many parents didn’t know how bad it was until standard testing came up and our kids were scoring in the single digits in percentile.

Who was the comparator group here?
Reddit shared this on their instagram story yesterday. A booth at some Adweek conference. https://i.imgur.com/NNLtjFo.mp4
>largely pointless lockdown

I think you forgot about the whole "pandemic" thing that happened
Why not…just use rust then? I don’t understand the point of all of these niche languages in real life. Python, Go, rust, c, cpp, js, C#, kotlin, but why use others? Each of these have clearly defined strengths and community support.
they'll be out of air or hypothermic long before they get crazy enough to start eating each other or drinking blood
90% of Canadians live in a "small" strip of land that is comparable in size to Europe. That area (along with several regions and city pairs in the US) could have excellent inter-city and intra-city transit. But we just don't.

Canada and the US are lacking in good public transit because as a society we've made the choice to build for cars and not build for people. Almost everything about our built environment is optimized for cars and the result is sprawl. The cause is our public policies, building regulations, and zoning.

It has nothing to do with the size of the country, because people don't try to commute across the country, just like people who live in Paris generally don't commute to Berlin every day. The vast majority of travel is local and occasionally regional.
Give https://numpad.io/ a try. It's not a CLI though.
I can do this reliably for songs I've listened to recently (within the last couple of days), but after that I somehow "forget" the pitch. If I played a C scale on my guitar a few times in the morning every day, I could probably identify pitches correctly based on that reference. But I'd still need the reference.
> And this is how we ended with the extreme fragmentation and heterogeneity we have in Linux

Tangentially, I've long wondered why the Linux "API" is such a mess, in particular why are there multiple tracing frameworks? Multiple security frameworks? Which to choose??

It turns out, this is a consequence of Linux's stand-alone development, along with their (good) "never break userspace" mantra. The two together mean they can never deprecate an API.

Contrast this with the *BSD's development, where the kernel is developed alongside the libc and (a core set of) user-space applications. This allows them to evolve and deprecate their APIs, because they can update the clients.

(From a runtime perspective, all is not lost in Linux, as I suppose they can move an API to a module or allow "users" (distros etc) to disable it at compile-time.)