skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daniele [1], can you comment on this?

> the original Divio page doesn’t have this disclaimer and instead has big quote calling it the “The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation”. Procida doesn’t seem to be believe this and I wish divio would stop pitching 4doc as the one-and-only documentation system

This is a key point. I still equate Diataxis with this notion as the grand unified theory of documentation, because that's how it was originally billed. If Diataxis is no longer claiming to be anything close to a grand unified theory, then there's no point in debating whether it's universal or comprehensive. But the way that Diataxis talks about modes of documentation suggests to me that it still might be aiming towards universality and comprehensiveness. Put another way, are there other modes of docs that Diataxis doesn't mention? If these are the only 4 conceivable modes then doesn't that suggest that Diataxis is still aiming to be universal and comprehensive?

I personally think that it's worthwhile to formulate it as an attempt at a grand unified theory because for one, most people agree that it's a useful foundation, and for two, the "modes of documentation" approach lends itself well to further refinement. It basically boils down to researching/discovering whether there are more modes of documentation out there and debating whether the 4 existing modes are truly the most fundamental modes.

[1] The author of Diataxis who replied elsewhere in this thread
My guess is that France will soon have followers in form of other EU states.

Both left and right are contesting who can be more authoritarian these days.
The Code Is Law types are very adamant Code Is Law right until they get fucked.

Personally I say: let them learn the lessons the hard way, we can all stand back and perhaps learn something interesting. See it as an economic sandbox.
Uh. 50,000 Lumens?
That's a lotta lumens.
Which is awesome. But that's also gonna be running at
Imalent MS18 flashlights (which to be fair peak at 100,000 lumens) get well over 120 degrees C in temperature.

Your design seems to have cooling fins. But If it's radiating noticeable amount of heat, I'll only be running it in winter.
what is "our" government? this site is worldwide..
"you may want to look into and delete" isn't a demand.

Politicians demand censorship all the time, as is their right. They usually don't get what they want, as they don't typically have the right to enforce their desires.

For example: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9619449/Rand-Paul-b...

> Rand Paul blasted Twitter on Tuesday for not immediately taking down Richard Marx’s tweet from Sunday in which he offered to buy drinks for the Kentucky neighbor who assaulted the Republican senator in 2017.

He can demand. They can say no. Both are First Amendment protected actions.
I can click through to post and view the replies. I'm in the EU so I can't create an account, that might explain the difference.
Definitely agree that to whatever degree (if at all) vendors are required to work with city planners and transportation networks, it’s not enough. Transportation and logistics are too complex and delicate for the disruption approach of the tech sector and it can severely degrade or even endanger people’s lives.

I live on a small side street of an exit just before a horribly designed junction of two highways. A couple years after we moved in, we noticed that suddenly rush hour traffic was overflowing through the exit. Our street isn’t even remotely designed for that kind of traffic. Now we had an endless train of honking, angry drivers that effectively blocked us in our drive way. If someone on our street has an emergency, they’re fucked.

For whatever reason, it’s gotten better the past couple years and only pops up when there’s an accident on the interstate. Hoping and praying is a poor mitigation strategy, though.
What the devil does unofficial mean? Is there a world's hottest day governing body?

Or is it like boxing and there are multiple governing bodies and Tuesday captured the WBO hottest day, but the IBF and WBC still recognize August 1, 2022?
A sequence of characters is encoded into tokens, tokens are grouped characters, each token is mapped to a vector representation. When you give text to an LLM, the text is encoded into tokens, and each token corresponds to an index. Each index corresponds to one vector. The model produces vectors, and then finds the most similar vector and selects the corresponding index as the next token.

This is a spectrum, you can write a model that works on the bit level, so 2 vectors, or byte level, 256, or pairs of bytes, 2^16 and so on and so forth.

These days, we use statistical approaches to build the tokens, and a token can be 1, 2 or 3 or N characters long.

So when you give a sequence of characters to the model, it turns that to a sequence of tokens and loads a vector for each one, and when doing computations, it needs to consider all tokens together. This is called the context window.

In this case, scaling the number of tokens means scaling the context window to a large number.

GPT3.5 can do 2Ki tokens iirc, OpenAI’s GPT4 can do 4Ki iirc, Claude from anthropic can do 1Mi iirc.

The context window is kinda analogous to your working memory, the higher the better, unless there are approximations that trade off quality for length, which is what is happening here.
I doubt it, they can install any software they want on most people's phones. Sure in the future they can add supplemental hardware but it is very possible to do this measure currently on existing phones, unless you've rooted yours and install an alternative OS
There’s a bit of a difference between religious Armageddon and a scientifically driven concern that the changes wrought by climate change will be catastrophic on various fronts. Not to mention all climate change predictions I’ve seen are consistently under representative of how bad it’s actually getting. For example, the Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corral in the past 30 years. The impacts to humans directly will be less visible than the damage done to the broader life ecosystem (not to mention that climate change is only a part of the story - our addiction to plastics and other toxic chemicals destroys the ecosystem in other ways).

Armageddon is presented as an inevitable sudden destruction. It’s closer to an asteroid strike. Climate change is also Armageddon except it’s caused by us, it’s something under our control, and we continue to dither about how bad it will really be instead of taking explicit action. I’m an alarmist because I consistently see a lack of any real progress being made on tackling this problem in a timely manner. Remember, it took ~300 years of burning fossil fuels to get us here. In fact, most of the damage was done even more recently since it took a while for us to really scale this up. And this system has lag. That means that even if we cut emissions to 0 today (COVID is the closest we’ve come), the Earth would continue warming for a long time (decades?). Waiting for the damage wrought to be “visible” to us is waaay too late. Not to mention that it will easily become economically infeasible to address and eat up our economy in the process.
https://www.keithrpetersen.com/
Probably they just wanted to fix the problem that existing tweets referenced in news articles, etc. were now unavailable, but at the same time keep things locked out to non-account holders generally.
To be fair, broadcasting your hardware via topology isn't what I consider a safe practice.

As to the netgear switches, I would figure they'd have hot spares considering the cost savings. I'm not entirely sold on a specific vendor for the end-all-be-all for switching needs, support for most is less than stellar, and the need for hot spares grows every quarter report from the big name vendors as they continue to push for larger margins.

In environments like this, it's less about the vendor specific product, and more about the redundancy setup (which appears they lacked but are transparent regarding it).

Just my .02 cents

edit: didn't realize this was such a "hot take"
> conservation doesn't work in the developed world: there's simply too much sacrifice required, too quickly.

I would add the corollary to this that those entities that profit from the products that are killing the environment are unlikely to be sufficiently de-incentivized by any large Capitalist or hybrid-Capitalist/Socialist society/economy.

Simply stated, superpowers like the US lack the intestinal fortitude to force megacorps- our biggest offenders- to change their ways any quicker than the torpor of a hibernating bear.
The injunction is ridiculous.

It basically says the govt cannot suppress protected free speech but it can suppress unprotected free speech.

Without ever explaining why the particular speech argued about by the plaintiffs is protected.

Maybe that’s fine for an injunction, but anyone drawing any conclusions about whether the govt suppressed protected free speech from this ruling is highly mistaken.
I meant more that they were scapegoating CA

Maybe. I think that is just symptomatic of the tech industry being mostly concentrated in CA so they get the blame. Tech is everywhere but I mostly see new California plates here. I was a CA transplant and moved to a dense Mormon community so they have been nice to me despite being from CA. Other parts aren't so nice to transplants. About 60% of the people here are from CA and that is climbing daily. We techies are certainly driving up property taxes. The state tax assessors love it they even come visit me and we've had conversations about this. The people, not so much.
How do these work? Are there limits on how many views a gift link can get?
they have no doubt been doing it, they're just using the panic of a brainwashed population thinking they're on the brink of Islamic revolution to normalize it
Because FF7 looked like a cool american game.
You had a blonde hero with a giant sword, a cool black guy (Mr. T knockoff) with a gun arm, and beautiful women in a cyberpunk dystopia.
It really nailed the zeitgeist at the time.
This history is not quite correct: HTML was defined in SGML originally, and that did not support self-closing tags. Pulling in a DOCTYPE header and validating with, say, the W3C validator would flag self-closing tags.
Are they really in the same segment?

Evernote's killer feature was its ability to "scan" paper documents with a smartphone and to be able to search on those documents in the future.

Notion is just a Markdown editor.
> then death

...or a perpetual zombie state as a "brand" that has absolutely nothing to do with its original owner. Trusted names from my youth (GE, Westinghouse, Frigidaire, Maytag, Zenith, etc.) mean nothing these days. Packard Bell has been resurrected twice now.
It’s because the trailing “/“ has zero semantics now, by definition. You can add or remove it from any tag, and it doesn’t change the meaning of your HTML.

<div/>
some text

is thus equivalent to

<div>
some text

which in the absence of any further tags or content is interpreted as

<div>
some text
</div>

(Note however the exception for foreign content like SVG, as noted in the article.)
I'm quite aware of that, and you'll notice if you read my comment again that I specifically said "are special cases that don't qualify for protection", not that they should be a crime. Civil cases are actually a great way to address defamation.
How much of that information is actually retained though?
I think there were some arguments to be made based on Z&A's first two albums, but the third is unquestionably a mostly-metal album. The dismissal with no details beyond "this ain't it chief" is particularly maddening.
If you like cosmology and astronomy, you may love SEA! Its visualisations are beautiful too but not needed
It opens a number of problems, such as suggesting legitimacy of having backdoors that one could open """in exceptional cases""". The first thing that you should think when somebody is saying "let us activate camera and microphone" is how.
Journalistic standard. Typically, anything over 15-20 years is considered fair game; even earlier than that, eminent public interest can trump everything else (depending on state legislation and circumstance), but when it's so old there is basically zero chance that anyone will contest reporting on the basis of commercial sensitivity and win in court.

Note this applies to news organizations. Individuals under private agreements (NDA) are a different matter.
Ask HK: Why hasn't bfcache been implemented more broadly across the internet?
Often there is an obsession with something that you just can't let go, and to me, that's the fact that bfcache hasn't been more widely implemented to this day on internet. Essentially, bfcache allows a page to be stored in the browser cache, so when you browse back and forth, it instantly loads from the cache instead of reloading. This is a godsend if you frequently navigate between pages, such as going from site A to site B and then back to site A.

I remember back in the day when Opera still ran on Presto, and I absolutely loved this feature. However, Firefox has some settings that enable this functionality, but even now, it doesn't work on all pages. It's particularly annoying that it doesn't work on relatively simple pages like old.reddit.com.

Anyway, what is your take on this? It just seems like one of those amazing ideas that browser developers, for some weird reason, are too hesitant to implement. I wish there was a way to force bfcache on some pages. I understand that it might break the expected behavior on certain pages, so it should be implemented on a site-by-site basis or even on specific pages. It shouldn't be too complicated to make this work on simple pages with little to no JavaScript.

There have been discussions about this on bugzilla, and I believe similar talks have taken place in the Chromium project. Concerns about enabling a feature like this more broadly, essentially freezing all the states of page A while you navigate to page B, revolve around potential security risks. However, honestly, this whole thing seems pretty trivial. Putting a 1-minute time limit or so for the page to be removed from the cache could address those concerns in my opinion.
Misread as "Chief Notation Officer", now that's a job I could get my teeth into ...
If I understand it correctly, The `<foo />` syntax is an XML invention. It was never added to HTML. Traditional HTML parsers see the slash as a malformed attribute and ignore it, and that behavior was codified in HTML5.
Can Obsidian record voice notes?
Don't forget the call to block social media sites during riots by the Frnace's president [1]

[0]: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230705-macron-s-call-to...
Yes, I'm sure all the Climate Change deniers both read and respect the Washington Post.
Man, all these comments from folks who've discovered this site in their youth many many years ago makes me feel old... because I remember when that site was first started.

I was a member of the metal-rules.com forums (RIP) and the founders of Metal Archives came from there. Many hours of my misspent youth were wasted arguing with the people on those forums, now all gone. Back then metal-rules was THE place to talk about metal on the internet, and MA was an upstart who almost nobody knew about.
Can it record voice notes?
I wouldn't say this is necessarily universal or a fixed cultural feature. Lots of couple in the US live with a parent or parents.
> Demands are free speech

When a government official demands that the political speech of citizens be censored, that is not protected speech.

If you recall, Trump wasn't allowed to block citizens who were critical of him on Twitter for the same reason.

> In a 29-page ruling on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower court's decision that found that Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked certain Twitter users

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739906562/u-s-appeals-court-r...
> It also is ineffective at blocking audio

If you turn your phone off and immediately put it in a Faraday bag, how would it receive a remote command to turn on and start recording audio?
This might be a shot in the dark, but I had this exact same problem a while ago. The cause for this was a running hyper-v vm I never turned off.
the emperor did an empire on behalf of the republic, and to fight off the british to save the republic over monarchy

these times were ironic and still up to your own understanding, because nobody got what really happened then
Overthrowing precedent is necessary when the precedent is wrong.
How do I stop the animated icon in the chrome tab? It's cool, but very distracting to keep the tab open.
Y Combinator is an American company and the website is hosted in the US.
I'm running a startup. We certainly do NOT need a podcast - we have a physical product, and since we're only 2 people, we don't have the time to produce a podcast, let alone the time to do a podcast well. We have a product to make, and customers to make it for. We're not even in tech - so there's very little content that I can utilize for more than one episode, or more than 20 minutes. I can tell my story, the company's value-prop, where we're at, and where we want to be in about 5 minutes tops. Probably less now that I think about it.

Honestly, I don't get why everyone is hopping on the podcast bandwagon. It makes no sense - just because someone has something interesting to say once doesn't mean they have something interesting to say every week going forward, especially if they aren't someone with a wealth of experience over multiple decades.

One of my neighbors produces a podcast for fun, and it's admittedly low budget and not his primary focus, he just enjoys it. I went on once to talk about my experience in AI, and I realized that I'm incredibly awkward on camera and can't often speak clearly enough to get a point across efficiently, so going on once and seeing myself fumble around spectacularly was definitely a learning experience, and probably good for me.

What freaked me out, though, is how people reacted to it. The episode probably had 20-30 views on YT or whatever platform he posted it on, but some of the responses, (both written and short-form video) were outright disgusting. This got me thinking - why do people care so much about what 2 random people are talking about, especially when those 2 people have no deep expertise on such a subject? Do people have nothing better to do with their time? Do people not have the ability to discern between a low-budget setup with 2 guys just talking about their experience versus someone who has spent decades in a particular industry or sector? And if they do, why react so strongly?

Seeking "engagement" is cancerous.
The worst switches I've ever used would probably be various 'Cisco' switches from their small business line, usually ones that ran the same OS used when they were sold under different names like 3Com or Linksys.
Yes your startup needs a podcast, if your startup involves podcasting of some sort.

Otherwise I think not.
But then when do you find time to think?

Makes a lot of sense in some professions though.
It's not audio only, but I really like Asianometry, cyrious droid and other scienceengineering/history channels and joblo movie recaps for doing chores to.
Both are bad, the French aren't currently forcibly sterilizing, enslaving, and genociding a culture like the Chinese are doing with Uyghers, however. So there are different levels of bad.
Advice · Patrick Collison
@seanlaff (and anyone else interested in having this built into gitlab), it would be great to upvote (thumbs up) the issue (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/236018) to help it get traction.
Privately there's a lot of the rich doing just that but they're still pushing the do nothing response to climate change politically to continue making money in existing carbon heavy industries; see Florida rejecting solar subsidies and groups trying to force "remove the free electric chargers or put in free gas pumps" through at various local levels. There's still a huge faction of "we can't change this/it'd cost too much money to even try" out there.
Can any of these record voice notes?
The ability to use an index to seek directly to a handful of consecutive rows without processing the whole file was very important for our use case. Athena doesn't support indexing like this; it only has partitioning on a single column. It has to scan whole partitions every time. Both S3 Select and Athena are more useful when you want to aggregate massive data sets, but that's not what we're doing. We want to jump in and pull out rows from the middle of big data sets with reasonably low latency, not aggregate the whole thing.
A while ago, I designed a syntax supporting colspan (the last pipe of the line being optional):

|| are easier | than |
| any | markdown | flavor |

The number of consecutive pipes would increase the colspan value. I think I also had support for rowspan but I don't remember how.

The XWiki syntax [1] also supports it by letting you use HTML attributes.

|=Title 1|=(% style="background-color:yellow" %)Title 2
|(% colspan=2 %) Word 1 Word 2

Arguably more clunky and less intuitive, but more powerful I guess.

(disclaimer: I work for XWiki)

[1] https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide...
I doubt we're going back to burning oil, at least not as we have been doing. But I also doubt we're going to transition away fast enough, and once we have the "fix," the transition away from it will slow.

We have exactly one place to live in the entire known universe, and we're such a shitshow that we can't help but to gamble on destroying it.
And you don't have to have the resources of Microsoft or Apple to plan and build for the eventuality that a provider becomes intermittent or unavailable. There are fundamental aspects of running an internet-facing service and they failed at one of the most basic.
Yes, we archived the entire thing in 2020[0] (~100gb). Maybe it's worth running again.

[0]: https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/avlad

Edit: What this means is you can open any* link to lego.brickinstructions.com and see it in the wayback machine (IA ingests these archives)

*maybe not the mobile view you linked, not links after the job ran, not pages that couldn't be found in a crawl
Without any experiment showing that language modeling performance actually continues to improve past 32k tokens using this scheme, how are we supposed to tell whether this is actually viable?
I think it just greatly depends on the implementation, your unit may have been undersized?

Out by my place near Joshua Tree National Park most the homes and establishments use evap coolers. On the extremely hot days I'll usually go to the public library in town that has an appropriately sized modern evaporative system cooling the entire facility. It seems like no matter how hot it gets outside, it's cold in the library. The staff wear long sleeves or even jackets in the peak of summer, it's kind of funny juxtaposed against 115F outdoor temps.

They just don't work when humid, we don't generally have that problem here, not even at night.

We're also lucky to have abundant water underground, however ancient it may be. One could argue it's inappropriate to squander that water on cooling though, I might even agree with that argument. But with all the illegal agriculture going on in the vicinity (massive weed grows) I think cooling is the least of our water wasting problems...
Long term that is correct, but compared to a few years back it is. Snooping on people's phone conversations is a thing of the STASI, Securitate and NKVD era. Having everything you do monitored by the government through casual on street surveillance, and then introducing that to phones is not particularly flattering.