skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people tend to stick to the cheapest tool for far too long. However, starting cheap is a great idea. I've tried things for a few weeks that didn't stick, and was happy not to have spent the money.

Instruments and art supplies are a good example of this: a $100,000 violin is a lot better for your playing than a $50 one, and a professional miniature painter I watch on YouTube likes brushes that are $50-100 each (over a 40 year career, that can easily mean 6 figure spend as those wear out).

IMO once you can hear/feel the quality difference (or worse, spend time rectifying it), you should switch. For some things, that can take weeks or months, while for others it can take years.
You’re misunderstanding me. It’s also a fallacy to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. Everything is a fallacy if you can’t inductively reason. That’s the point, we agree.
Something very similar is the theme of the book "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt, which outlines the theory of constraints in a factory setting. The key is to identify bottlenecks and use them to increase/control throughput to match the downstream demand.
Uhm, it's not "malware", it's a shit LLM.

Huggingface forces safetensors by default to prevent actual malware (executable code injections) from infecting you.
Very much disagree, there's not a chance in hell I'd choose linux over macos and imo—with a few exceptions—it's better than ever, and gradually becoming a more approachable platform to build things for.

Although I'm fine with linux for server, when something breaks it can be a massive pain in the ass to track down why, until you've spent years day-in-day-out troubleshooting particular software to the point you know immediately what the issue is. This just doesn't happen at all for me personally on macOS in everyday use.
Well I just found out that somehow over the years I had flagged 30+ totally innocuous items. So I've unflagged them all. They were more like things I would have been interested in rather than upset by. So I guess I was flagging instead of favoriting or some such madness.
I often accidentally flag something (on mobile) and this helps me undo that.
Btw I didn't mean to imply it's forbidden information. It's just not that good/impressive/sharp. It often just doesn't inspire going back for more.

Also like I said, I find it useful for software design. It ultimately makes a bunch of mistakes but I find the conversation useful and I walk away with usable ideas. I don't often start new software, so I don't go to it often for this.

I think it's useful at the high level stuff; giving you ideas and laying out options, like the chat log you posted. But as you dive into detail I find two things happen:

(a) It starts to make egregious errors.

(b) You bias it with your more detailed questions.

When I talked to it about electricity, it started contradicting itself about how energy is carried, whether by electrons' kinetic energy or by "the field". I asked it "so is electrical energy encoded in electrons' kinetic energy or not?" and then it started to say that oh yes, that's how it's encoded. It seems it used my question to reinforce that knowledge which previously it was confused about. Since I personally don't know how electrical energy is carried, I lost confidence that I'm learning correctly. This happens often. "I'm sorry about the confusion. You are right. ..."
Why does my own show 2 flagged submissions when I did not submit either of those things?

Is it saying that I flagged them?

edit, I see the unflag links now, which resolves that.
You didn't engage with my reply, you went off on a weird monologue about why you are skeptical of racism generally..?

"racism is one of the many motives for drug criminalization" is thoroughly documented and not debatable by serious people.
I’d like a definitive list which contains the source for each piece of data, the means that source acquired it, when they acquired it, and proof of my consent for it to be collected, stored, and sold to other parties who then sell it off to the highest bidder.

“It came from teleco companies” is not due diligence enough for me, and it shouldn’t be for you. That answer isn’t an answer and the lack of accountability is how the companies continue to violate our right to privacy and flourish.
Well of course every pro was an amateur once. So they would have gotten the right tools to practice with on the way to mastery...
The first reviews I found from versions circa 2014.

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/motorola-moto-360-review/

https://www.alphr.com/motorola/32669/motorola-moto-360-revie...

Criticisms of how much the OS sucks

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/5/6108947/moto-360-review
Please tell me in GREAT detail the exact dangers of someone smoking on the sidewalk while I walk by.

Odds are there are no studies to reference because the entire idea is idiotic on its face and no one would ever both studying it.
It was added on Wednesday, about three weeks after I emailed to ask for some amelioration of my occasional clumsiness with phone screens leading to a high rate of erroneously flagged stories.

I didn't really go in with an expectation, certainly not for that kind of amazing responsiveness and turnaround time. Thanks, dang!
Ken Shirriff*
Yeah, but technically that doesn't qualify as a constant since it depends on the input. If you explicitly constrain the problem space such that the magnitude of the numbers in the list is bounded by a fixed upper bound, then it works out. That's fine though, but then it's not a fully general sorting algorithm, like e.g quicksort
I appreciate the context and will research the differences you shared; this topic interests me.

> This is goalpost moving.

My comments have been under the context of the post, VC funding. With VCs, you often find companies spring from nowhere with a marketing blitz or infinite runway in an exclusive access phase. This is not accessible to the common person, and in my opinion stems from a modernly masked form of nepotism. This is also not accessible in a world that requires near-term profitability, so maybe more of this will be broken in the years to come by economic realities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17740486
Godot 4.1, new Linux Laptop and phone, GNOME 45, China's distro: FOSS Weekly
How did you fine tune your chatbot?
I want to fine tune a chatbot for therapy use. OpenAI has only a couple of tunable models, which are all completion models and developed in 2019.

It is depressing to be stuck with a 2019 model.

I am curious how others have approached this problem. How did you fine tune your chatbot?
The US isn't the only country in the world. Find sources from European or British agencies, unless the U.S. has them under control too?
Good luck with getting visa to UK as an EU citizen. Home Office does not know what they want, but they won't stop requesting it until they will get it.
Robert Smith and his Woolworth's Top 20 electric guitar.
> ADHD-ridden market

> It is real alpha

I have a hard time reading past such phrases.

That put aside, I do agree with the idea that tools are a means to an end. Some are essential (like glasses for vision impaired, or a computer for a software engineer). But using tools also gives us skill and understanding.

Author brought up guitarists - well, many world renowned guitarists have 100+ different guitars at home. To become a master, you need to learn most of the available tools, and learn them well. There is a lot of cross-pollination going on. You learn the sitar and the banjo, you learn flamenco etc and this will greatly influence your understanding and style.

Learning purely from books might work for some people. But I think using good tools in the correct way is essential for many, in order to reach mastery. Writing is a tool. Flash cards are a tool. Learning in groups (or hanging out at the hacker space) could be called a tool.
EVH Built it pre-success, when he was poor and the neck was bought as a binned factory second.
> You paint a defeatist picture of the situation, which should be obvious not to be helpful in any way.

Recognizing obstacles to your goals is hardly unhelpful. GP is clearly pessimistic (and admits as much), but that doesn't change anything. If we (presumably in the "people wanting privacy" camp) want to win, we need to go down that first list and either decide why each of those sorts of people don't matter, or figure out how to counteract their political power.

"How is the former more powerful by necessity?" is a good question that deserves an answer, but I think you seem to have already decided, without evidence, that those people are not powerful, which I think is mere wishful thinking.
Pretty much. A manager early in my career would say “get the data model right and the code will write itself” and I’ve found that to be mostly true.
> Your pupils get lazy from using it because everything is in focus all the time

Can you explain this to me I’m always confused when people say it. From my thinking at least - I focus on close up and then far away things in VR all the time and it takes effort. The real world is also in focus all the time isn’t it, it’s our eyes that do the focusing.
And completely break down some walls, injuring others in the process? Get a promotion, and if caught just move somewhere else to do the same thing over again.
I'm not sure I agree with "universally", I bet there are a awful lot of people who can't stand that level of service and find it quite uncomfortable. I get that I could order ahead etc, but that makes an impulse purchase into a multi-step process. I'm sure the multi-trillion dollar company felt that pain when I still bought their product only from a different place. Oh wait... ;-)
I was also shocked to see I had flagged quite a few articles, likely because of my own fat fingers.
My wife and I were in DC in May 2022 and missed the bloom of another by a week or two.
Oh sure. IME Perl just pulls it all together into a much more convenient, all-in-one package that has all the libraries and tools you need to build anything from small scripts all the way up to large projects.
The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (2006)
How the Journal Investigated Hidden Lead Cables Circling the U.S.
This tech is on thousands of bridges around the world, has been for a lot of years now, and yes, millions of people have passed it, and we haven't heard of any incidents of passengers touching it and causing big issues... so I would say whoever engineered it knew what they were doing and don't need the Internet commenter expert knowledge...
Genuine question, when did you learn to play? Even 10 years ago entry-level solidbody guitars where quite good, and they keep getting better. Things like CNC manufacturing, tighter tolerances etc. really improved the quality of the average instrument.
Grinding Leetcode, it seems.
https://reloptix.com/pages/prescription-instructions
I think people that obsess over tools want to do it the 'right' way. Problem is, there is no right way. Most often, people never get started. Diet, work, sports, etc. I've seen it a million times. People research to death to try to figure out what the right thing to do is. The act of doing is the right thing to do. Just eat less and exercise, don't obsess over which new fad diet and exercise program is best. Just pick up the keyboard and type, don't research the best editor and plugins for two months. Go to the driving range / get lessons, don't buy a new driver. I think the root is everyone wants the path of least resistance but there is no shortcut in anything.
This is an Anglo-Saxon meme. There's a French proverb "Good tools make good workers".
Thank you, I didn't even notice that. Too late for me to edit the post :(
More often than not, when maintenance really matter and juniors really choke, the algorithms that powers core functionality usually have nested loops and conditionals. So if you start using inline variable declaration you really have a hard time "where did this was declared". Combine that with compiler switches and you have a recipe for disaster when declaring inline variables vs. a clear section of variables right after function header, where you put all comments to specify what those variables do.

Remember, initial phase of a project is only 10% of it, the maintenance and expanding its functionality is the rest of 90%. Inline variable declarations are a real PITA for that phase.
I knew I was doing it, I just hated that I couldn't fix it myself!

It also seems like flagging an article now no longer hides it, which is extra great since the unflag link is right there without even needing to visit the profile to undo a mistap.
You can just say that you know what you're doing and don't need help. Maybe with a reassuring "i'm sure".
Ya I'm not sure where people are coming up with this extreme opinion. If they go to linux, maybe they're just trying to follow a path that's been restricted through layers of system protection or something. One of my only gripes with new macbook pros is just that the ram feels insultingly expensive, and to go past 32gb you have to upgrade the CPU (all in it's over $1000 to get there).
On tools: "Tools" are sometimes useful for getting a job done.

- "Good" tools don't get in the way of getting a job done, and often make tasks easier or faster to perform.

- "Great" tools can enable entirely new ways of completing tasks, and sometimes enable completely new types of things to be accomplished.

On amateurs vs pros and mastery:

- Amateurs worry about figuring out how to get something done "right," (i.e. typically with one instance in mind) and often blame their tools for poor results.

- Pros worry about figuring out how to manage the outcomes of jobs/tasks/etc to make sure they don't go "wrong." (e.g. considerations of failure modes, maintenance/upkeep/sustainment/etc..)
Then our understanding of the sun is just as much a shot in the dark (for it too will fizzle out and die some day). Moore’s law was accurate for 50 years. The fact that it’s tapered off doesn't invalidate the observations in their time, it just means things have changed and the curve is different that originally imagined.
In the countries that have one (like Canada), the carbon tax is coupled with a rebate. So if you use an average amount of gasoline, you pay $X in taxes and receive a $X rebate resulting in a 0% effective rate. It doesn't have the exponential factor of your proposal, but it does have a similar effect.
In a sensational burst of further irony, that remark is the most parochially anglo-centric to be found in the entire subthread, for implying that knowledge of colonial nursery rhymes is some kind of fundamental prerequisite to participation; even more egregiously, it depends on misconstruing the technical document: if a pedagogical verse in respect of vessel morphology was normative for the RFC, it would be a) correctly quoted, and b) referenced in section 10
Bevy 0.11: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
If our legal system isn’t prepared to properly handle such things then it should default to being illegal to collect and sell data until the legislation is created to properly protect the rights of those who put them in office and pay their salaries.

The default of “you will be violated until we get to it, if we are able to comprehend it” is a dystopia I hadn’t imagined, yet here we are.
That's more or less the GDPR, no?

The problem is that you can't just write those three things down on a single sheet of paper and call it a day. There -- unfortunately -- needs to be a lot of legalese that addresses various loopholes and edge cases, some of which will also increase the scope of the law/regulation. And so you either end up with something simple that's so riddled with holes that it doesn't work, or you end up with something like the GDPR.
Where does the tone come from in an electric guitar? (2022) [video]
So you’re saying the data stream to the brain is essentially an analog NTSC TV signal?

Because that’s how color was encoded: as high frequencies in the spatial scan. This was conveniently backwards compatible with analog black & white TV, at the expense of color accuracy (which is why the standard was sometimes called “Never Twice Same Color”.)
> To where would data be evicted from swap?

This is actually an interesting question, but this is quite obvious if you know how it works.

Consider this scenario:

Some app loads data (it goes to RAM), sometime later this data is moved to the swap. Now the app is trying to access it, so there are two ways:

there is no free RAM (eg other apps locked the physical memory), so the access is going through the swap

there are free memory blocks so the OS copies the accessed data to the RAM, app is working fast... but till the data is modified, there is no need to mark the data in the swap as a stale, so until it happens the OS can wipe the RAM and redirect the app to the swap.

Now consider another app is pressured to moved to the swap at the same time:

If there is not enough swap space, then the data of the first app, which has [a valid, synced] data both in the RAM and the swap is just left with with the data in the RAM and the swap space is freed to accomodate the data of the second app. If turntables (sic) the process would repeat, just with the both apps trading places.

But if there is enough swap space available, the second app data is just written to the spare swap blocks, and both apps' data could be read from the swap at any time.

Quite simple.

> Increased swap size might of course help with wear leveling if that means there's just more unallocated space on the device.

This is a thing too, ofc, but the main point is having less 'overwrites' per usable space.

> Mine hasn't even been just a couple of hours every day.

It's even 'worse' than that. I've seen a server with 850/860 Evos and LUKS (so the worst case: cheap drives and all writes are new), even after the 3 years they were only 50% of 'ssd health'.

TLC is the worst thing happened to SSDs as a technology, but people are forgetting what 3MB/s * 3600 * 24 is whooping 259GB a day, and you need to write ~259GB a day for 3 years to totally deplete the [official] write endurance (YssdMV).

Wanna hear about 5 WD10JUCT?
All 10 on my flagged posts were accidents. Think this probably highlights a UX issue and the need for an "are you sure?" popup.
People who are buying a $60 unsubsidized phone are not going to all the sudden be able to afford a $400+ iPhone. Apple has never in 40+ years catered toward the low end.
“Obsess” is a strong word, but keeping an eye out for tools that could make things easier is a no brainer. Things move at a fast pace and whilst the script or hammer from 10 years ago works, why not keep trying new things to see?

I’d say the amateur is the one who mastered the hammer and thinks everything is a nail.

Edit: rather, not realised yet that everything is not a nail
I totally agree on the hallucination front, that is a big problem.

But the privacy thing is less of a concern if we are only talking about "using" (not training) these medical models. You could upload your entire medical history to such a model within the context window, and then provide your latest symptoms to get a diagnostic from the LLM. The LLM has not remembered any information about you at this time (it isn't "within" the model itself), it is only in the context window.

Anyway, just pointing out that there is a world of difference between training these models and using these models. If you are only using, there is really very little fear of privacy assuming the whole interaction is discarded.
Please do another "for" right after this one, identical, and then revisit this comment (hint: you'll get a syntax error).
Yep. Funny enough, Linux is actually not POSIX certified

POSIX was initially a bunch of the Unix vendors getting together in the 80s seeing a rise of incompatibility saying "this shit is crazy let's find something we can agree on" and then the conflicts of trying to still have a differentiating But Also compatible product. They knew that if they cannibalized themselves, IBM Novell and DEC were there to snatch up the customers

As a result, POSIX was intentionally kneecapped by all the players but not enough to make it completely worthless.

By the 2010s I decided to simply ignore it and if something breaks on FreeBSD or whatever, make the decision then whether to support it or not. Mostly it's platform testing at the top and then subbing the gnu version of things and bailing out if it's not there.
Oh my god, I have flagged dozens. None on purpose.

I have just unflagged all of them, hopefully It helps
Hmm, I have flagged like 15-20 submissions, maybe 3 intentionally... A confirm dialog may help.
And they operate trade-in programms spesifically to destroy second hand market
Wow great feature. Apparently I accidentally hit the “flag” button all of the time because every one of my flagged posts was an accident. Now I get to go through and unflag them all. Sorry about that whoever made the post!
A similar recent story: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...
Jimmy Wales is the founder and current president of Fandom. Not sure if there's any deeper connection than that, but I'd guess that's what the parent comment is referring to rather than mistaking them for being literally the same company.
Also on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@easy_sheets/shorts
don't shoot the messenger
Thanks for the tip. Every flag for me was accidental.
Nice to see it added, quite a lot of people found out they had fat finger flagged some content when I told HN about these (then) hidden pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253799

Edit: as stated in that post, you can also see your vouched items by accessing https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched
That wasn’t really a merger, more like a renaming
r/aws subreddit goes dark
Discussion on r/devops
https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/14v65za/raws_went_p...
I share this sentiment. Induced demand with regard to cars was studied when both population and urbanization were growing.

It's easy to imagine that this growth will continue to fill any capacity thrown at it, but that can't hold true ad infinitum, especially that peak car happened in 2017:

https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/the-setting...

The Braess paradox is also mostly dead in the age of real-time traffic information. Anyone taking an Uber can see for themselves the sometimes weird paths they take - all because it's truly faster this way with real-time data.
I think the person you answered to meant Schengen by saying “Europe”. Switzerland is in Schengen.
If I know exactly what I want and don’t need the guided experience, I just order it on the Apple Store mobile app then pick it up in-store.
> They would rather you replace your entire computer when your screen cracks.

The fact that a company dictates things to the customer is proof in itaelf that the market is not competitive
Think of the type of people willing to work at a company that entrusts the most critical action of a company, hiring of employees, to an artificial intelligence? It’s one thing to filter resumes with an ai, but using an ai to rate an in-person interview is dereliction of duty.
Using Lidar to map tree shadows
This is awesome!!! Super easy to make a site
42 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106674
Normalizing Unix seconds by the number of seconds in a day, results in Unix day, which has convenient properties, such as 5th digit after decimal point corresponding to decimal second (0.864 length of traditional second).

So, dividing UNIX_SECOND by 86400, we get a decimal Unix day.

For example, if UNIX_SECOND = 1688897360, then UNIX DAY = 19547.42315, Displaying this number with time formatting, makes it extremely easy for our time-trained eyes to interpret:

19,547 4:23:15, meaning:

19th Unix decimal year

547th day of the year (5-dmonth, 4-dweek, 7-dweekday)

4:23:15 decimal time (4-dhour, 23-dminute, 15-dsecond)