skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's not to like about a world where there are a bunch of viable options of different sizes rather than a single eternal September?

It's such a blessing that Twitter and Reddit undid the world where Twitter and Reddit were considered the only choices. They forced out the early adopters of the next generation of social networks.

Who knows where or if Mastodon will fit into that, but what's important is that it's become normalized to try new options. Of course the masses will stay where they are for quite a while, but it wouldn't be good for them all to flood a new service still trying to find its identity.
127 years? Is it an overflow problem?
Great set of questions:

- This does work with Neon today, please go ahead and try. Today the index is in-memory and we are working on the on-disk implementation. Neon architecture does make it trickier - no local disk, so we are actively experimenting as we speak. Anything we ship will of course work on Neon.

- We will start with vector ANN and see the reception and user feedback. Now that we have 100K databases we are super attuned to what our users tell us.

- There is a cache/storage hierarchy: local cache on compute, cache on pageserver, and S3. We are working on cold start (stay tuned for more announcements this week). The goal is to make this unnoticeable for the app.
> I strongly believe that you should be able to have a government-backed, federated ID.

No thank you. This sort of thing will eventually become compelled and made into a series of regulations in the name of "safety", etc.

> lurk in the shadows of the Internet via anonymity and good opsec.

This is a feature, not a bug. Anonymitity is extremely important for many people.
If you go by features, there aren't many alternatives. Unless I set up a database server, I consider checksums + snapshots + compression + reflinks to be table stakes these days. There is only one mainline filesystem that supports all of that, and it has its share of issues that are unlikely to ever be fixed, and is (probably permanently) tarnished in many users' eyes because it was pushed too early. So the question is, do we really need a second filesystem? (Yes?)
Why the downvotes? No one has provided any evidence of 23andme doing this.
My understanding is that it's companies like Netflix that are hardlining on the strike while Disney and other traditional studios have been more interested in negotiating.

Probably because, like you mentioned, Netflix can more easily lean on foreign content.

I think Netflix is being particularly shitty here because they negotiated unique terms with the unions 10 years ago under the guise of being a new business model. They aren't "new" anymore, they are an established player, they should have to play by the same rules as the big boys.
Passwordless Authentication on Github.com
A significant number of the streaming services people complain about paying for offer services that cable companies never did.

Plus, I can choose which streaming services I want, and how long I want to pay for them. And everything is on-demand. And there are no ads (except on YTTV).
It’s all about finding common ground. Skip a few meals. That’ll make you more ravenous.
> 2 million daily active users

c/daily/monthly
His fiction was great, but his non-fiction is astounding. I liked, not loved "The Unbearable Likeness," which probably needs a re-reading at this point. But his masterpiece I think is "Testaments Betrayed," in which he examines the art of the novel. The habit for re-reading novels I picked up because of his explanation of the nature of the novel in this book.

This man was a giant of humanities and European culture embodied. He was a global treasure and a source of some much needed intellectual goodness. Once they go, they don't come back, and we are stuck with monsters and idiots.
Empex: Write Admin Tools from Day One [video]
My original blog post received some interest here on HN. I turned it into a talk, which I gave at EMPEX NYC last month. It really seemed to resonate with the audience. What do you think?

Original Blog Post: https://blog.andyglassman.com/2022/08/write-admin-tools-from...
If a server admin ragequits and pulls the plug on the server without notice you are going to have trouble getting your data out or migrating.
Didn't the pandemic accelerate drinking, if anything?
Anchor hasn't made actual steam beer in a very long time. Their brewing operation is effectively similar to most other mid-sized batch lagers, with modifications to bring it in line with their historic flavor profile. Historic steam beers were considered, even at the time, to be low-quality, and the method of making steam beer is primarily a way to make large quantities of beer at a low cost. Modern brewing is much more efficient thanks to technical advances than historical brewing and these types of techniques are mostly unnecessary to achieve the same thing. Anchor does do a high temperature fermentation process, which is part of what made steam beer, steam beer, and this still has direct impacts on its flavor profile. The actual process of making steam beer was only necessary prior to refrigeration, with modern technology you can have a much higher volume and more controlled brewing operation even when using high temperature methods.

The flavor of the beer is heavily influenced by the yeast strain and fermentation temperature, and the primary basis of what steam beer is, fundamentally, is lager that is fermented at relatively high temperature. The yeast strains that stand up these higher temperatures tend to produce lower quantities of the types of esters that produce lasting flavors in beer, and higher temperatures tend to result in a loss of important flavoring compounds which are types of volatile organic chemicals and tend to be temperature sensitive.

There's very specific, replicable, and well-understood reasons why high temperature lagers and steam beers don't taste as good as typical low temperature lagers. I do not think your representation of steam beer is accurate, and I feel I have some authority to that claim. I am a subject matter expert on beer, a certified cicerone, and an extensive home brewer.

I am not trying to diss Anchor, I'm simply stating a mere fact, which is that their beer is mediocre. Not bad, but it is certainly not a world class beer. It may have been in pre 1980s, but the current craft brewing culture has advanced far beyond most beer drinkers expectations. For the record, I am not a huge fan of IPAs, although I will drink them, and I don't think "craft beer" and "IPA" are analogous concepts. Your reply to me reveals your biases, and indicates you didn't critically engage with my prior comment.
> lots of people are used to comparing storage and memory directly and have the impression you get 'less for more' when shopping Apple.

Yeah, I feel like most people in these conversations are sort of in "grocery store mode" -- sitting in an aisle comparing the ingredients of one jar of mayo versus another jar of mayo from a competing brand.

It's just not that simple anymore with Apple's new SoCs. What Apple is doing with its combo of core performance, unified memory setup, specialized compute blocks on the SoC, and the overall thermal efficiency which allows all of this to just run and run without throttling all that much--it adds up to way more than the sum of its parts. You really have to use it in your daily life to believe it and feel the difference.

I still have a mix of Intel machines and Apple Silicon machines for my work and personal life, and it's just so immediately apparent the latency difference in usage. Apple Silicon feels and runs so much better.

Sure, would I recommend more than 8GB of RAM? Yes. More SSD is better? Of course. But Apple Silicon in even its thinnest entry-level configuration is an auto-recommend for me. And the prices at that entry-level are so, so reasonable for what you're getting.
Btw: using “btw” to point out an obvious and obviously intentional feature of the lost you are responding to is snarky and sarcastic, which is hypocritical in a plea against snarky sarcasm.
I'm not sure about erasure codes, but it seems to be possible to do this in a couple different ways already:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bcache

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LVM#Cache
Couldn’t agree more! I’ve been following his channel from very long time, it’s one of the underrated gem YT channel.
Reading the few comments here tells this is next level cope but whatever lol.
Children and property are easily handled by the IRS; people with more sophisticated needs (inheritance, meaningful donations, investments) could still hire a professional to adjust what the IRS calculates. That's effectively what's happening now anyways, its just the IRS doesn't let you take their calculation at face value, you have to file your own and see if it matches.

Instead they could just send you "This is what we calculated" and you can do nothing (probably 90% of people) or file as we do today for the special cases you mentioned.
Oscar I've never heard of but appears to be only available in NY/NJ and is operated by Cigna in other states. Kaiser operates primarily in the west coast. And Humana doesn't have much presence in Florida. They primarily do Medicare Advantage, AFAICT.
Nice, I didn't see that before. The text size on mobile is just too tiny.
Across my working lifetime, even with many of those things at some point in time, most years the IRS has (or can obtain) everything they need.

Heck, nearly 90% of households take the standard deduction.

The IRS should send a pre-filled form with an amount owed (in either direction). If you agree, you sign it, and make any payment/refund. If you disagree, you add your deductions and whatever else needed, similar to today.
Unicode U+FB01 is the fi ligature as a single precombined codepoint. You're right - it doesn't make any sense to have a monospaced glyph for that ligature, or for fl or ffi or many other codepoints in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block. But those codepoints exist, and somebody might print them to the terminal, and a terminal has to represent every non-CJK glyph as a single character cell...
Yes simlified taxes - repeal the personal income tax and replace with consumption-based sales tax. No more W2 withholding, no more individual fed/state filing, no more deduction games, no need for tax prep sites.

Maybe the sales tax would be zero rate for uncooked food at grocery stores.
hard to know if sarcastic or not on this site...
As I understand it, the "federate and slurp data" isn't something that can be prevented.

Deciding to federate means accepting content from that other site. A mastodon instance federating with Threads would mean that Threads content would be visible on that instance.

However, if an instance decides to not federate with Threads, Threads can still get the data from the instance.

With the permisivity of the protocol, Meta (and anyone) can consume any ActivityPub data they want.

Compare this to email. A mail server can block incoming mail from some other mail server (e.g. a known spam farm). However, mail servers don't block people who have email accounts on their servers from sending mail to abuse@spammy.mail.server

Trying to change it so that federated content only goes out to pre-approved sites (because face it - if threads.meta.com is blocked it is would be trivial to spin up notthreads.notmeta.com and consume the same data) would fracture the fediverse and make small sites difficult to federate with... and lead to very much what we currently see with email - you can't stand up your own email server and send mail to gmail... which is very much what federation is supposed to not be about.
Related. Others?

Playstation 3 Emulator Adds AMD FSR Upscaling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28114817 - Aug 2021 (1 comment)

RPCS3 Inside Look: A Deep-Dive into Hardware and Performance Scaling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24247586 - Aug 2020 (11 comments)

RPCS3 PS3 Emulator – January 2019 Progress Report - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19415445 - March 2019 (61 comments)

RPCS3: An open-source PlayStation 3 emulator for Windows written in C++ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457764 - March 2014 (48 comments)

(note: links to past threads like the above are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
hard not to see "threads" as a desperate last gasp by Facebook/Meta. any opportunism you'd get by trying to eat Twitters lunch should have happened a year ago while Musk was busy dragging a sink through the lobby he eventually locked himself out of. Many people started jumping ship in the first month due to the sites instability or his unbanning of troves of toxic users after he fired the entire moderation team. Younger audiences jumped to Mastodon because its not the convalescence home they visit their grandparents on called Facebook.

de-federation puts the power directly in the communities hands. if Meta wants to join with out EEE tactics, theyll need to first prove anyone on Mastodon sees value in a facebook presence.
> It's like they never sat a normal person down and asked them to try going from 0 to 'tooting'.

Why is that relevant? Like I genuinely don't understand this incabability to imagine people just...interacting via a medium, and that it is ok if not everyone is on a single platform. Not everything is about shareholders and creating another megacorp that can ruin my experience as fast as possible.

Sure, some people are not tech literate enough to use a platform like Mastodon, but that is perfectly fine, there are more than enough options for them. Also yes, Mastodon isn't the right platform for people that mainly want to sell you something or 'build their brand', and that is fine too! (certainly a plus for many)

Meanwhile every relevant (as in: information and tweets I actually appreciated, compared to a ton of accounts I followed, but were just rather 'low effort' content I don't exactly miss) account I followed on Twitter is now on Mastodon. So all I need to stay and be happy on Mastodon is for it to not lose those users again, and slow growth is a plus too.
So this is just another OEM market that Intel does not want to be an OEM in and for Mini Desktop PCs that for the Most part Utilize BGA Packaged "Mobile" Processors. And BeeLink and Minisforum/others do have Intel Based Options and have sometimes even used the NUC/NUC "Canyon" branding for those OEMs' Intel processor based options.

So maybe Intel can Keep the NUC Branding around for its Mini desktop PC OEM Partners to utilize and even some of that NUC "Canyon" IP that Intel has developed can be lent to Intel's OEM partners there to make use of ODM to OEM Style in any Intel based offerings from any OEM partners there.

AMD's made a lot of headway there with its Ryzen APUs in Minisforum/BeeLink Mini desktop PCs but that's more because of the Integrated Graphics than any x86 CPU cores. And now there are Ryzen 7040 series Mini Desktop PCs from BeeLink/Minisforum using those "Mobile" Ryzen BGA packaged APU variants that have been allotted 65W cTDPs by the OEMs and that's the same cTDP(65W) that used to be only allocated for the Socket Packaged Ryzen G Series desktop APUs that are more DIY friendly there than BGA Packaged APUs.

So OEMs will take over there for Intel and Intel can offer them the same Engineering In Kind sort of Assistance that Intel offers its Laptop OEM Partners there and Intel actually becomes a Laptop ODM of sorts to the Laptop OEMs where Intel designs a reference laptop at Intel's expense(ODM Style) for the Laptop OEMs to take that design and rebrand that as their own with minor value added additions for market segmentation there to sell to consumers. So Intel is no longer a NUC OEM directly but has given that over entirely to the Intel NUC OEM partners there just like on Intel processor based OEM laptops.
Gaussian Process Summer Schools (Recordings and Lecture Notes)
Well I mean there are things you can do prevent the JVM from this particular optimization. But you need to use the right tools to tell Java to expect spooky action at a distance, and arraycopy just isn't sufficient.

This would probably do

byte[] b;

// A
synchronized (a) {
b = System.arraycopy(a);
}
// B

Here A happens-before B, and you can assume a read fence at the start of synchronized block and a store fence at end of it, so consumers of b should get a consistent view of the array, and the synchronized block tells Java that you expect a to be modified by another thread so it can't assume it stays the same throughout the execution; and elision of the arraycopy isn't possible; so while the array may be in a weird state, it will at least stay consistent throughout the execution.
My first run: I deliberately buy every option that hurts alignment with the goal of killing humanity. Eventually I run out of alignment-harming stuff to buy, and everything else helps so much that around 2080 I have a human population of 14 million.

Second run ('cause I clicked the universal jump engine by accident): I deliberately hold off on AI upgrades unless I can keep alignment high. At 2080, AI is out-earning humanity but very stupid and humanity is only at 586 million.

(Also, why does the population start off so low? Do you know something that I don't?)

EDIT: I bought all the alignment upgrades on the second run. I don't entirely understand how threatening to nuke countries that research AI improves alignment when I'm already running GPT-5 on millions of GPUs
>that fallout isn't going any where any time soon.

It becomes exponentially less radioactive due to decay. The long-lived isotopes that persist might eventually give you cancer or cataracts, but the short-lived isotopes present in the immediate aftermath of a blast will kill you. The dose makes the poison and fallout shelters vastly reduce the absorbed dose of radioactivity.
> Why? If they federate, I can follow people who post on Threads, but I get a chronological timeline I control and no ads.

It's kind of their carrot to get good will and PR from the vocal-but-small nerd-crowd though I think. Facebook could outright block people with adblockers; but don't as an example because (people would throw a shitfit). Good PR/Vibes from federating could go far fighting the 'ewe meta' stigma attached to Threads.
Is there some reason this doesn't work? (First google search result for "nix Nvidia tensorflow" btw)

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Tensorflow
Ah thanks, it's great hearing your perspective!

Interestingly, I think my most recent company fits into that range, they're about 5,000 now I believe. Though only about 1,000 when I joined; even in such a short time the change in culture was pretty hard to miss. And 10,000 just sounds massive to me!

Anyways -- it's interesting, there may be companies in that range with cultures that are good TODAY, but you have to have really solid leadership that you can trust to make sure nothing perverse sneaks in TOMORROW, you know? Definitely they are out there, it's just finding them that's the hard part, perhaps

(part of me wishes I could help in that crusade, but at that point I'm either joining a 10-person business or starting my own thing I guess, lol)
These companies want clicks and views. They used to lure you in with curiosity, then with distracting colours and animations, and now with other emotions. Outrage ads and disgust ads get clicks. Any strong emotion that will get your eye drawn to their crap is worth exploiting.

They're also experts at using psychological warfare like well-positioned faces and expressions to trick your eyes into looking at their general area. That's why every clickbait thumbnail has some form of a face with an extreme expression in it.

Adblockers are the only solution. Whether you go with uBlock or AdNauseam, the only way to make this stuff go away is to make their business model unviable.
> The lottery proceeds fund public schools.

Because a corresponding amount of general budget funds were diverted away from schools, the inference is untrue.
>The FTC will never ask for a recursal. I know I would not. You cannot blatantly call a judge corrupt especially when you are a participant in that case.

of course not. Law has much prettier words for that that the FTC could have used. The same words the article uses (they never use "corrupt" in the watchdog quotes).

Besides, I agree with the professor's arguments:

>“A rank-and-file employee at Microsoft would probably not have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of this case. … She's right to look at [the fact that] the division that would be affected by the litigation is not where her son is employed,” he said.

It's the equivalent of some Wal-Mart lawsuit where a judge's grandson is working part time at Wal-Mart.
What's next, a government with an HTTP server?
Maybe they will use ChatGPT or Claude to write the scripts ruing the strike. The context is starting to get long enough to maybe do an actual script.

Perhaps as a bonus, we can get an uncensored version of ChatGPT/Claude. I suppose getting the following response too many times will be frustrating:

“I am an ethical AI. The actions you are trying to portray of Prince Aemond Targaryen do not meet the standards of ethical, non-harmful conduct. Would you like me to rewrite the script in a more ethical manner, respecting human rights?”
Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’
It's involved in many things. Like many transcription factors, FOXP4 is intimately involved in the real-time regulation of essential cellular developmental processes, and can act as oncogenes.

In short, genes like this have their hands in so many pies you can't just patch it and not have side effects.
I discovered this book after seeing the ending to a friends episode https://youtu.be/qx4b0WmAy8s

The philosophy in the book went over my head, but I enjoyed learning about the Prague Spring.
True, maybe at home, etc. Though I'm thinking more the kind of "going out" drinking at the new hip microbrewery.

Also we have SO MANY breweries/wineries/distilleries options etc... so I think there was already a bubble.
Because they don't have the experience. For many technologies and projects, the pool of people who have done it is small and not already working at the company who needs it.
They should be SAT solvers, but people also want them to be vague and super flexible. Many people I know responded to Apple UI constraints (what was the name again?) with ‘what am I, a math professor?’. People want throw poop against a wall and smear it around and when they are happy with their work, they want to press a button and get the absolute optimal result that fits their broadest use case.

No different from what most non-frontend developers want by the way.

Problem is; that is not yet possible at all, because ‘the spec’ is too vague and strictness generated from vagueness will either be just vagueness (cannot find any constraints to throw into a solver so just leave it) or too strict (where many cases simply are suddenly forbidden that were actually feasible cases by the author).
Are there any others breweries that make a “steam” style beer that you’d recommend as a replacement?

I’ve always enjoyed Anchor Steam but never really found a suitable alternative.
Defcon tickets are that cheap? Man, I just assumed it was a 1200+ thing.
I've used kdiff3 a lot on windows. It's not bad, shows a readable 3-way-diff format (which I need to stretch over two screens to read the full lines). Reasonably fast startup too. But it lacks any sort of advanced editing functionality, such as undo.