skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are your people?

I guess I will rephrase — can you, at long last, address what I have been asking about US crimes, which have been far more egregious and affected large swaths of land and people? Where is the CONSISTENCY in the moral and practical stance being advocated?

About proxy war: yes it does, because the strawman is that Ukraine as a whole has to be a proxy for another country, for that to be a proxy war, but that’s not how proxy wars work.

You won’t see much support for invasions or occupations from me, but it is a fact that Latvia was an SSR.

Many regions do not get the luxury of independence at all. Hong Kong for instance was a mere football between two empires (Chinese and British). They don’t have a say. Neither did Kurds or Catalonians or Basques etc.

Hong Kong all by itself also had 2 million people protest recently, and China didn’t care. You don’t seem to say very much about that. I mean China’s a Big Bad too, right?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48656471.amp

In Chechnya, far more than 1/3 of the population showed up to protest Charlie Hebdo cartoons. And what is your prescription there?

I think peaceful protests are great. Democracy and international courts are even better! War is not. I am glad that Latvia got its independence without any shots fired. So did Australia. Not so for the USA, they fought a war to secede from the British empire, then fought an even bloodier civil war to prevent the southern states from seceding. They also fought a war with Mexico to annex a lot of territory. And so on.

USA doesn’t have a great track record of getting involved. It supports Saudi hegemony over Yemen, providing planes that bomb hospitals and markets. It supported Pakistan in Bangladesh’s war of independence, even as Pakistan’s army engaged in genocidal rape. These are recent events.

Also, US itself has invaded and occupied many areas much the same way. Some, it annexed (like when it overthrew Hawaii’s kingdom and annexed Hawaii, then stationed troops there — how is that different?) Others, it basically enslaved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Ha... … more recently, it simply invades and occupies, undermines or destroys but doesn’t annex or enslave (Iraq, Libya, etc.)

Anyway, I am critical of the Russian government and can condemn crimes done by it as well as US and China. Are you able to say anything of substance about the long list of crimes by the US? My point is that these imperialist countries and their cold war are the reason that smaller countries get caught in their proxy wars. And the only way out is for them to stop the violence and commit to good-faith dialogue where they agree not to crods each other’s red lines.
That does sound like a good idea if you put it like that, just not right now. Computers are still a really new field with lots of innovation going on. In the future we might take a government radio-ish approach. Cell (and cable) networks seem easier than roads and cheaper than water.
EU Lawmakers Back Plan to Strengthen Remote-Worker Rights
What's your Notepad++ macro?
A possibility might be that the bigger sites have paid more attention to opsec, and are harder to take down, whilst smaller players may be easier to intimidate.

Current Nyaa (nyaa.si) has been targeted [https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-lawyers-are-trying-to-shut-down...], but efforts haven't been successful so far.

> I guess because these are commercial?

Highly unlikely - it's not like rights holders get anything regardless of commercial status.
Also, Nyaa runs ads on their NSFW site, so it's commercial in that respect.
https://archive.is/lIwCn
Islam isn’t an ethnic group. French Muslims (de souche) exist.
Pocket sucks. I used it to save articles to read them offline later. About half of the articles would not load offline for a reason or another. Sometimes they would download and I would look at them on my iPad, then they would be grayed out the second I turned WiFi off. A bunch of others would only load in web view, but without images.

I have no idea of how a product can be so unreliable at its main job for so long. Instapaper has been rock solid so far.
That link does not work for me?
Lets "pretend" code is a form of speech.
I don’t know, man - I’m batting a thousand on how funny potty talk is to a three-year-old.
Noclip Game History Archive
Preach. Put some garbage reality TV on and she looks at IG while I look at Zillow or whatever. I work from home and she's home with the kid, so we're talking all day. Nice to just sit next to each other and relax.
It just seemed a little imprudent to tempt fate I guess.
> There are many theories and computer models, but no evidence.

Models and theories are what enabled us to develop all our technological progress. Before, there was random chance and tinkering. That changed when we started doing experiments and to model theories that fit the measurements. These theories made predictions which enabled us to see whether the model was actually valid. Data is worthless if you have no model to plug it in to make predictions from it.

Beside that there are desktop experiments that are so simple that you could almost do them at home that show that the ability of an atmosphere to capture heat is influenced by its carbon dioxide content. These experiments were done over a hundred years ago.

You seem very vocal about the topic. What are you trying to achieve?
You can indeed make the distinction between polynomial and pseudo-polynomial stop existing by enforcing the inputs are in unary. But you haven't made anything faster, you've just made almost all of them worse.
Specular Holography: How (2010)
That is a super good story, thanks for the link
Why is it up to reverse engineering to preserve history and knowledge. I wonder if the original engineers are alive to help and doesn't Intel have this information locked away somewhere?
FWIW, for this use case of creating curated sets of web pages, I find that Pinboard (https://pinboard.in) works really well for this case. When researching a project I'll tag pages with the project id and other relevant tags I'm using (like "sdr" or "camping-gear") and then the search function can instantly give me the list of pages I was looking at. There was a greasemonkey script that would take the search results page of Pinboard and open all the links in tabs in a new window but I have lost track of that at the moment.
> I'm familiar with Zotero and Calibre, though both are desktop only

There's a third-party Zotero client for Android named "Zoo for Zotero" that has worked well for me: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mickstarif.... However, I usually use it to read academic papers on my phone that I have already added to my library using my computer. I tried adding something new to my Zotero library on my phone as I was typing this comment, and sadly the interface seems a little clumsy: I can add papers to a collection but not a subcollection
Nice website, but trying to rent out compute regardless of platform is no game, good luck.

also, wtf is this about?

> Due to license constraints, the minimum lease for Apple silicon-as-a-Service is 24 hours. As a result, a Mac mini M1 can only be deleted after a minimum allocation period of 24 hours.
They say privacy, but this sounds like a request to make censorship more censor friendly.

Edit: People seem to disagree, but is this not a tool for wiping ideas from your training data? Meaning they want to train on Wikipedia and remove concepts (per locale probably) easy as pie. This is Google outsourcing compliance with jurisdictions that require thought policing.
I suspect the problem is how you can reasonably write a general spec for that which doesn't systematically doom some teachers, especially during the bootstrap phase (arguably quite a few years).

In an ideal world, our perfectly spherical students would enter the classroom "at grade level" and ready to proceed to the next level.

But what happens if you inherit a class of students that's barely above "remedial"-- starting one or two grades back on day 1-- what's the right metric for success? Getting all the way up to "at grade level" is probably unrealistic, but should we expect them to make up 1.25 grades per year, or 1.75? Or are we in a "we started back, and are going to beat them by going slower" mentality, and even getting 0.75 grade per year would be a win?

Conversely, if you're at a magnet school, you may be taking in students already a few grades above the norm on day one of class. There are kids who can absolute bury the needle on a standardized test-- "12th grade equivalent" at 5th or 6th grade. You could simply babysit them all year and still clear the bar.

I also expect there's a huge amount of dealing with Karen parents too-- I suspect an firm hand in holding back underachieving students could result in parental backlash. Too many parents would rather see the kid tossed out the moment he turns 18, even if they haven't gotten them career or independent-life ready.
That’s very true. I had a similar experience while working there
> Is kubernetes worth learning if you don't use microservices at work?

Maybe. K8s makes orchestration better. (If you disagree look at the last time marathon/mesos/dcos released and propose a better replacement.) Do you need container orchestration? That's a much better question. If you do, reach for k8s, if you don't, don't.
Same in the 90s in San Jose.
I use my laptop (Macbook 12") to write too. It's fantastic for that... until you start playing YouTube Music in the background or try to use Google Maps. It's getting to a point where the delays on many tasks become noticeable and affect my workflow.

That's unfortunate because I love that little laptop.
> and companies claim they are doing so to build lighter laptops

A framework 13" is 15.9mm thick and weighs 2.9 lbs. A macbook air M1 is 16.1mm thick and weights 2.8 lbs. So it's pretty darn close.

I'm sure that thinner and lighter laptops exist, but yeah, the framework is pretty thin. And at a certain point, it stops mattering. Being thinner wouldn't really provide much utility at this point.

The fact is that repairability is just not profitable for companies like Apple or Dell. They would rather you replace your entire computer when your screen cracks. But I very much hope that enough people do care about repairability to keep Framework afloat (and profitable). As an owner, I was astonished how easy it is to take this thing apart and replace things; I would guess that most of my non-technical friends can probably replace a monitor or a touchpad on one of these laptops with very little difficulty.
As soon as you leave python, that C extension can give up the GIL and your other python threads can start running.

The GIL makes python code have cooperative threading. It does not protect from e.g. your thread's view of state mutating when you make a database call.

I also believe it is best practice not to mutate data without holding the GIL in extension code, not a requirement - but I have mucked with a lot of different extension API so I might be confused.
Your simulation if developed to a good working state would make an excellent tool for making an FPGA implementation.
That looks awesome. You could try https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli, not near as good, but allow you to avoid the web UI for most things.
Depends on your partner - 3 cases:

- Some are former operators / joined successful firms at very early stage and lived the growth and startup problems. Startups all have the same problems at different stages

- Some are former founders and lived the same problems

- Senior partners had seen patterns repeating in the same industry/vertical/geo as you and worked/were on board with the founder iterating to find what was working or not on the same problem that you have.

Worth listening and filtering taking advice from successful partners/former entrepreneur/early operators can gain you months of learning.
Most "read it later" services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network.

Sharing why I decided to develop my own "read it later" software.

1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether, I have accumulated thousands of them.

2. On my computer, I can preview them one by one, but I cannot search through them. So, I developed a Node.js service that parses web pages locally and stores them in an SQLite FTS for full-text search. I deployed the service using Docker on my NAS.

3. To enhance my learning experience, I also developed an annotation feature that allows me to make notes and annotations directly on the offline HTML. For good articles, I save them to read slowly over time.

4. Gradually, the app gained some users. Since they were not familiar with Docker, I wrapped it with Electron and developed a standalone desktop version. The desktop version and Docker version use CRDT for peer-to-peer synchronization.

5. Some users provided feedback that it was inconvenient to annotate after saving, so I developed an open-source browser extension. Users can now annotate web pages directly in the browser, and the annotations and snapshots are saved automatically. When visiting the page again in the future, previous annotations can be restored.
I use aliexpress.com, but I live in a country close to China and far from the western tech-hubs.
That’s great to know, thank you!
Guess 5G makes everything faster, even the rage.
With the exception of syncing the list between devices (a feature I personally can't imagine myself needing or wanting, though I can definitely see why others would), these things are basically what tabs are for. You open things up in tabs to read them later, and you can also search tabs (a feature supported by firefox, at least, not sure about other browsers) and categorize them (their order and grouping into separate windows). Tabs also have the benefit of being extremely convenient, whereas there's a whole lot more friction involved in using any other option, like bookmarks, or things like pocket.
Until they’re second system and they find out why you insisted on things.
That’s linking to a think tank website.
It'll be so (ironically?) funny if AI becomes able to practically generate good quality stories (along with the matching generated video and audio / subs), after being trained exclusively on Manga and Anime content.

That'd all be legal too, as the Japanese gov has categorically stated that copyright doesn't exist on the source material when used to train AI.

Not sure if there would even need to be royalties payable for generated Anime characters that happen to look like existing IP.

Nintendo would absolutely go bonkers. I kind of can't wait. :D
Mobility lets me work on the balcony and in parks
Reducing longhaul international flight times by up to 40% is not underwhelming if you fly frequently. A 380 does 0.8 mach.
The fact that there are even copyright maximalists on HN boggles the mind. Go back two decades and the prevailing opinion in every tech space was that we should declare open season on any creative who makes money from copyright licensing.

I get that HN is run by VC people and their business model specifically relies on monopolization, but... I mean, come on. They can't actually believe that their actions are prosocial or even beneficial to the consumer, can they? I don't mean the basic idea of there being a copyright system, but the specific situation that we have where everything owned by someone else and customers have to permanently rent out their own culture. You've either deluded yourself into thinking that the international copyright bargain set up in the 1970s is still somehow the best possible option in 2023, or you're a cartoon supervillain called "Fuck You, Pay Me" Man.
I agree it could have more evidence, but it seems very likely that this trip is far more carbon intensive than a normal plane trip since all the food and probably a number of other supplies and amenities have to be flown in.

That being said, I think the overall lifestyle of people who pay $65,000 to visit Antarctica is a bigger problem than trips to Antarctica. "just one hundredth of the world population (77 million individuals) emits about 50% more than the entire bottom half of the population (3.8 billion individuals)." [0]

[0] https://wir2022.wid.world/chapter-6/#tab_61b433da73d0e
recently there are a few stories about "using jsdoc for static typing instead of typescript as a JS programmer", I wonder when JS can add support of static typing directly as Python did, that will be nicer without learning a new language like TS.

TS is great, I just never could find time to learn one more language.
One way to achieve that, for a teacher, would be to get all the good students into your class, and avoid having any bad students, or find reasons to kick them out. Do you have countermeasures for that?
> The culture in America doesn't respect...educators in the way it used to.

Things may have gone downhill since the 1950s, but it was never very good. Think of the scorn directed at the teaching profession in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the traditional proverb, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." I don't know when it began, but the general disrespect for educators is centuries old in Anglo culture.
Homer Simpson: Alright brain, you don't like me and I don't like you. But let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.

- Simpsons, The Front (1992)
>There is some question whether CTAN (for TeX) or CPAN was the first big library.

I'm not in this space, but the similarity in names made me wonder if these would really have started around the same time, with an unclear "dependency order", so I reached for a search engine, and according to Wikipedia, CPAN (1993) is based on CTAN (1992).
The open source model? If the away team can't get the home team to fulfill their requirements, they fork home teams code and take full ownership of it for their purposes. If they want to take updates from home team, they do so but have to handle the merging. If they want to, they can try to get home team to take their changes, but that's at home teams full discretion.
Yes, but the API is not inherent to the hypervisor/kernel split. You can have a operating system that exposes a smaller API similar to a hypervisor and voila, you have a better model. The only reason to prefer a hypervisor over a similar operating system is if you need to run a binary targeting a different operating system. At that point you actually do need a virtual machine and you actually do need the operating system in it. However, this is contrary to the point of a unikernel which is to get rid of the operating system within the virtual machine.

Processes and OS services are a strictly better model than virtual machines and virtual devices when developing a program. They fulfill the same purposes, but the operating system model is less clunky as you are "virtualizing" a ideal machine that requires no setup and ideal devices that requires no setup. In contrast, virtual machines and virtual devices expose a API that includes the nitty-gritty details of actual hardware which is just a distraction when developing a regular old application.

You actually see a funny convergence where optimized hypervisors implement specialized virtual devices that do not exist in reality that offer streamlined interfaces. These are basically the reinvention of operating system interfaces as the virtual machine guests (processes) consume a abstract interface that the hypervisor (operating system) maps onto the actual hardware. They also support specialized virtual devices for communicating between guests (IPC calls). Reinvention for everyone, but worse, yay.
I hadn't thought of this too much but I bought an M1 14" Macbook Pro, mid-spec, for around $2300 I think back in 2021 right after it launched.

My previous laptop that I had used for 8+ years was a 2013 Macbook Pro 15" with the i7, and I bought it as a factory refurb 6 months after launch for- get this- I think it was $2400. New it would have been $2600 I think, in 2013-dollars.

So, especially adjusted for inflation, a similar level of machine is actually about 30%-35% more affordable now than it was a decade ago and computationally it's anywhere from 4x to 10x faster and something like 2x as energy efficient.

All that combined makes my M1 Macbook Pro one of the best values in computing I've ever purchased, IMO. And considering my 2013 MBP lasted more than 2x as long as any previous laptop I had ever owned, even though at the time it was about 50% more expensive than any previous laptop I owned, it paid for that run- and so if I get the same use time out of this current M1, the value over the lifespan of the machine will trounce any previous computer I've owned.
Huh, that decimal representation is a pretty attractive idea, I wonder why I haven't heard of it before or seen it in use at all.

100/256 seems very tolerable efficiency-wise.
It’s significantly worse than OpenAIs offerings, and I’m tired of people pretending as though these models are totally interchangeable yet. They are not.
Well you're not going to be much of a Rust user if you don't learn the basics of lifetimes anyway. I don't mean to get all gatekeepy, but if someone's not comfortable with &str and &[T], they're missing half the point of the language and won't be able to use much library code anyway.
Miloš is so lucky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGA7JyyEKhk
> What non-transparent GIL specific behavior are developers relying on exactly?

They are relying on behavior of a single environment. We similarly see a lot of issues moving threaded code to a new operating system in C/C++, because the underlying implementation details (cooperative threading, m:n hybrid threading, cpu-bound scheduling, I/O and signaling behavior) will hide bugs which came from mistakes and assumptions.
Yeah, it'd be good if the governments that had issues with it changed their position to require divestment of WhatsApp after facebook pulled that shit.

Pity that didn't happen, so yeah... they got away with it. :(
There is also http://www.555-timer-circuits.com/
If it’s configurable, then it’s never settled. People will find reasons to want to change it, or someone new will come in that used a better config at their last job.
You're creating additional hardship for yourself. Why create a pdf only to convert it out of pdf again. Just insert all your notes into the LLM model.
I work for a non profit org.

We sometimes purchase reconditioned laptops as they are good value for some use cases.

We have a lot of WfH users so need to courier laptops to some staff.

We recently had an insurance claim denied for a damaged reconditioned laptop as TNT/Fedex used a "no second hand goods" clause in their insurance to wriggle out paying up.

This has not stopped me purchasing reconditioned laptops, but something to be aware of and taken into account.

In fact just buying another reconditioned laptop was not a large expense and damaged laptops in transit are relatively rare.
Your experience may be slightly out of date.

Fansubbers these days are a tiny shadow of that they used to be. The vast majority of anime piracy these days consists of ripping official streams, which include subtitles.

Of course, if you're into older shows, you'll find many to be missing on the mainstream streaming platforms, and will often need to resort to piracy and fansubs to get that. But as anime becomes more mainstream, those interested in older stuff become a smaller slice of the market.

Also, due to more mainstream adoption, those interested in "cleaner rips, better encoding, etc" are dwindling. Whilst these people are still out there, you'll find the vast majority of people are perfectly happy with low quality streaming sites (also worth pointing out that these streams still offer vastly better video quality than what you typically got in the 90s).

Enforcement wise, I doubt they're targeting the hardcore fans - they're going after the mainstream, which is a big slice of the market.