skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Great Plains also count(ed) as wilderness and have wildlife. Just because it’s not as picturesque doesn’t mean it isn’t an important ecosystem.
Mark One
Oh, my bad. You are right. Somehow when I read your comment I thought you meant 10 times. Not sure why that happened.
Every other player on a public game server is a potential threat actor of this nature, is the point.
Is this the new Twitter?
Consistent Hashing Demystified
I'm not up to date on these events yet, but GNUtoo is a Guix contributor I see around a fair bit on the mailing list and IRC, which makes this seem more interesting. It's not just a random person who got mad about stuff, but someone very involved in other official GNU stuff. Not familiar with neox, but wouldn't surprise me if they're similarly involved in free software stuff elsewhere.
The budget tab from a known manufacturer is the Amazon Fire 7 for $59.
Genes definitely play a role.
I have some russian genes in me and up till the age of 30 I could drink at least twice the amount of alcohol than all of my bulgarian friends. And Bulgaria has quite the drinking culture itself, so they were no slouches for sure.

More than that, the high school we were at had (still has?) a reputation for producing alcoholic software devs, so drinking culture was big even before legally allowed drinking age.

And with all that I still had to drink at least twice the amount of alcohol just to get to the same buzz level like everyone else. And next day I would experience none of the symptoms than all my friends reported, to their endless dismay.

I think the idea was that some people from russia have a gene for more efficiently processing alcohol in the liver, but whatever it was, after 30, I just became a regular joe drinking wise, which is quite nice since I don’t have to spend so much money if I want to have a buzz. Though I do a lot less of it now, as I also have a hangover the next day.
You are already responsible for whatever your car is doing, regardless of how it is driven. What additional regulation we need?
Its the really old Twitter.
The kind of person who would buy this would know more about its limitations than your average Tesla owner.
They have locations in Pittsburg and Phildelphia Pennsylvania, and in Louisville and Lexington Kentucky. It is not in every town like, say, McDonalds, but they're not just in global tourist destinations.
Here's some example C using one:

bytesRead = read(fd, buf, BUF_SIZE - 1)

You read the from the file descriptor into the buffer. Just like in Go you read from a file into a byte array. Neither the file descriptor nor the file is conceptualized as a tool for reading. The file descriptor is merely an abstraction of the file, which extends the concept of "file" to include pipes, sockets, and other io.
These pictures are my favorite of this phenomenon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/2...
It has a much better screen than basic laptop.
The True Cost of the Lithium Mining Boom
You are wrong. The poorest decile of people are the most likely to bike because they cannot afford a car.

https://lede-admin.usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/si...
What if I buy a used car that has it in it already?
I have a fairly complex infra under my blog (just for the sake of it), but I am fine with self-hosting a minimalistic one with Hugo.

Great way to have full control over your stack/content.
I dunno, I used to feel this friction (I didn't use to drive until I was ~30), how driving is a thing and not driving is frictionless, but I think it was just psychological. It feels reverse now - the only frictionless places for ~everyone are grocery stores and such, cause they are everywhere. And maybe things you consciously live next to, like if you decide to live next to an olympic pool facility or a nightclub. Transit has pretty high fixed cost of getting anywhere, even in transit friendly placed like Munich or Moscow.. everything takes at least 30-40 minutes given to/from and wait times, any time of day. And that's if you don't have any transfers. I used to take it for granted but now when I look up transit directions it just weird to think it used to take so long and I thought it was normal.

Whereas if you drive you can choose when to go and so make it convenient - like I go to a climbing gym at 6am in winter, no traffic and less people. Also, many things you don't even need to leave the house for - even with a relatively small house (1100sqft) I have room for a weight rack and home office, no need to go to a real office or to a gym.
How can they object to "unofficial" releases of Free (tm) software when anyone can pull the code and build it.
Very different than the six years it took before the mathematics community found a flaw in Mochizuki‘a abc conjecture proof.
FidoNet is also still around, but...
I think, perceived genius is a matter of scarcity in numbers.

Before, the society was divided clearly into very rich elites and peasants. The majority did not have access to anything that propelled genius.

And then comes one or two who are far removed from the median intellect/skills and are considered "genius".

Nowadays, with the median intellect/skills improving a lot, the very highly skilled people are not so much removed from the median. So, the numbers are less extreme.

There is also the matter of specialization. Before, "skills" were perceived in building and creating things that everyone understands. Like a painting, a sculpture. But a complex Distributed System maintaining 3B MAUs is not impressive to people simply because they don't understand. People can easily appreciate the Taj Mahal or the Pyramids but not the schematics of a Mars lander.

Give people Shakespeare, and they can appreciate in 2 years of relaxed training. Give them the CRISPR paper, and they are clueless.

So,

1. People with high intellect or skills were scarce in stark contrast to the majority. So they were called geniuses. There are more geniuses now.

2. We have advanced as a civilization and the focus is now on things that are harder to appreciate because of lack of understanding. Think the Taj in moonlight versus a Mars rover.
The sugar industry doesn't like competition?
I was actually able to visit the annual Rhubarb festival down in Wetherby and it was much more interesting than expected. In addition to learning about the unusual growing method, it was also surprising the number of rhubarb products for sale (like enough to fill an entire market).

My biggest take-away was that Slingbys Rhubarb Gin is delicious!
Yeah. And in India it's _only_ WhatsApp. Nothing else. It's the default.
What is everyone's favorite function / formula?

Mine is

n/(n+x)

It has a bunch of interesting aspects:

As n gets bigger, it goes from 0 to 1.

When n equals x, it is 0.5

As n gets bigger, the difference between n and n+1 gets smaller

For two sufficiently large n's, the results are equal.

Say somebody told you about a new cafe in town and that it is completely awesome. The best cafe ever. What probability do you assign to it really being an exceptionally awesome cafe? If your x is 3, then the probability after one person praised it is 25%:

1/(1+3) = 0.25

And if another person told you about that cafe being awesome, the probability becomes 40%:

2/(2+3) = 0.4

And after 3 people told you the cafe is awesome, chances are 50% it really is:

3/(3+3) = 0.5

The changes in probability are pretty strong at the beginning. But after 1000 people reported about the awesome cafe, the next report makes almost no difference anymore. It only ups the probability from 0.997008 to 0.997011.

By changing x from 3 to 4, your formula becomes more "suspicious", by changing it from 3 to 2, it becomes more "gullible".

I wonder if this formula has a name already. If not, "the trust formula" might be a candidate.
> fire this callback whenever this variable changes

Ouch, welcome to callback hell :(

Futures would be slightly better. The least painful approach to things like that. to my mind, is an explicit event loop, and posting events on a change.
Thanks, I'm currently trying to guide two students through the hell of setting up ML on CUDA without doing everything from scratch and they use chatGPT a lot.

This will probably come in handy for all the weird cryptic errors that they get along the way.
Parents should chillout; my kids go to private schools, they have a great math program but even that is not enough and most of their friends end up taking additional math class outside school.

I refuse to do that for my kids.

The amount of stress and expectations parents put on their kids is staggering.

Obviously, these kids will inevitably get bored in any school.
>there’s a new one of you born every minute

And soon my army of clones will be ready!!!
What a great question.. You want to judge based on something you want to spend more time on.

If you start from scratch, you're building it the way you like, but you aren't spending enough time on actually using it. However, you are able to get more creative with it. I built my blog up for over 10 years... just keeping true to its purpose.

As for using Substack or Ghost...

Ghost:
"Ghost is a powerful solution for modern creators who want to publish content on a domain they own and generate revenue through paid memberships. Built-in features like native SEO, email newsletters and paid subscriptions means you don't have to spend time or money on additional tools."

Substack:
"Most Substack writers earn money by offering paid email newsletter subscriptions. Writers can set 3 pricing tiers for paid publications: monthly, annual, and founding member tiers. The tiers start as low as $5.00 per month. As of 2023, Substack has over 2 million paid subscriptions."

Both allow you to monetize your blog, taking care of focusing on "how it looks" and more on what you are writing for an audience. If you start from scratch or use WordPress, you have more freedom to change the look and feel. You just have to keep up to date with the hosting. You ask yourself: free vs. paid membership.

You are supporting the Ghost and Substack projects and keeping them running by subscribing, ultimately supoprting them to receive more support. Depending on what you want to do with it and how you plan to use it ultimately depends on it running.

You decide to open up your blog up and let other people write to it too. So you need those features addressed. Substack and Ghost have their pros and cons. And so does having your own website sitting on your own server, giving you the most privacy, but also likely to disappear when you do.

If you are looking to get a blog up fast and monetize it, you could pay for hosting.. and do all the coding, or use existing.. build an audience who reads it, looks at it, and actually subscribes.

You also have to consider the SEO... substack, ghost, medium... all somewhat monetizable, but you still have to attract an audeince from there.. at least they have one to offer.. to help you build even more.

Blogging has been fun for me this past decade... I was about to quit a few years ago, just typing on it, but I've kept it going. Just as I was about to quit, I checked my email and got people interested in publishing articles on it. Traffic keeps it going. Emails keep me going. Enough about me... its up to you now to decide your likeness. Almost 2 million visits per month.. https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com

I'd suggest; start [all] of them at the same time. For seo reasons, write different content for [all]. see which monetizes the best or attracts the biggest audience (the fastest) while you do your own research on it. Different blogs for different topics.
As a reminder, the GNU Boot folks are trying to take the Libreboot name from her

to me that's not as clear cut. you can't create a new project, kill the old project and rename the new project with the old project name. it's misleading.
I know ux/ui design is super important, but as an outsider, articles like this always seem like insane navel gazing
Less people would be addicted to sugar if the products they ate included less added sugar. Quite simple.
Doesn't seem that way. I think it's a way to collect high quality information for humans, but LLMs can still benefit as a side effect.
It's just bizarre. People nodding along be like, yup, this is normal sane behaviour, taking notes.
Indeed really old

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

> The X approach to device independence is to treat everything like a MicroVAX framebuffer on acid.
I have the original Comma 3 in my car (2019 Acura RDX), and it's pretty game-changing for long drives. The car already has adaptive cruise control and lane-keep-assist, but you need to keep your hands on the wheel. With the Comma, I can set it up on most of the roads I drive (local or highway) and it'll keep me going at the desired speed in the center of the lane (up to a certain max turning torque, which is a limitation on the Acura LKAS system - if you're in the Bay Area, it handles 101 just fine but will struggle on the 280).

I've logged about 3k miles of autonomous driving at this point and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it if your car supports it, with the understanding that it's a limited system and you still have to pay attention the entire time. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the newer cars have tighter security around CAN bus communication, so it may not be easy for Comma to continue to do their thing.
> Uh, nobody thinks this. I'm sensing an straw man argument fast incoming..

Of course they do. That's what they say:

> The way I understand the program of decolonizing mathematics is to follow two principles:

> first, to recognize the contributions of people with diverse backgrounds, in order to offer more protagonists who can inspire and with whom more people can identify
> second, to provide examples and motivations that are relatable to under-represented backgrounds and identities, in order to reach and be more immediately helpful to more people

They imply that people will more readily identify and congregate with people of their own racial and ethnic background. That may be true, that doesn't make it any less racist.

> It's entirely unclear where you see the truth being stretched? Factually recognizing important contributions by people from under-represented backgrounds is doing the exact opposite of narrowing the "number of people you mention".

If you factually recognize important contributions, you don't have to make any efforts or care about the raised issue.

> It's literally mentioning more people who contributed to a certain effort or field of study.

Mentioning more than what?
> Of course this is different. Since you're training a foundational model that you want others to use everywhere, those who will use it need to know what exactly you trained it with, and where that data is coming from. The users of your data are liable for problems and issues arising from how you trained the model.

That's exactly my point, if someone wants to use a foundation model they won't use one that they aren't convinced works for their purpose. There is no need for a regulation here. If I open source a model on github but don't document it people won't use it relative to one that is documented.

> E.g. you claim your model is good for using in court proceedings. Somehow you want no responsibility for the outcome of your training even if all you did was train it on screenplays from court dramas. We just have to take your word at face value.

Again, exactly my point. If you are building a lawyer AI bot and use a crappy foundation model as a base the problem is not in the foundation model but in your application. If something bad happens the you the application developer should be held responsible. Which the EU regulation does a good job of regulating and no one is arguing against that part.

The issue with the EU regulation, and your arguments, is that they effect a level too low.
How difficult is it to talk to these scientists to explain a few things for everyone? There are papers and speculation but no word from the people who wrote these papers. Is it so difficult to make these people talk? Why are they being so secretive or shy?
I don't understand your argument. Where is, aside from the word "decolonization", the author of that document trying to "inject identity politics"? And to what end? (And you certainly seem to be concerned by identity of the people making those claims..)

Take a step back and think about how your statement really sounds. It's like saying that "a group of extremist geeks who wrote Unix is trying to inject violence into everything". It's faux outrage that misses the point.
I love EEVBlog but I wish he'd stop making videos on topics outside his area of expertise for views

He's excellent at electronic engineering but he's not a physicist
Smalltalk environments have defaulted to proportional fonts back to the beginning of time [1]. Some of the newer ones allow for richtext code, so if you really need to make that ascii art drawing, you can change the font in the comment. Also look up elastic tabstops for an alternate alignment solution.

The tricky part is there aren't many proportional fonts designed for coding (but more than there used to be). One early 90s version of ST defaulted to Helvetica, which was a nightmare to read on the then current lowres screens. Of the current choices, Input is probably the best place to start. Verdana is popular with some, and I've used Lucida a bunch, both sans and serifed. I have also had fun using not really suited display fonts like Zapfino or surprisingly readable drafting handwriting fonts like Tekton. I am currently fiddling with using various ports of the TeX fonts, particularly the CM Concrete as I find the big serifs easy to read. It is usually recommened to use a sans font for readability, but I think that advice is outdated on modern very hires displays with subpixel antialising.

[1] https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1693628/cream-10p...

The proportional fonts question recurrs periodically:

2005 https://ask.metafilter.com/16469/Proportional-programming-fo...

2010 https://slashdot.org/story/130020

https://www.quora.com/Are-monospace-or-proportional-fonts-be...

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958046
I love the idea of having a wiki-based spec for the best implementation and/or algorithm that has a bangin' talk page and I can generally trust for most situations.
Ask HN: What problems do you have?
It has to be a problem you have. It can be a personal problem or a business problem. It can be big or small. If you have tried finding solutions, explain whether it worked or if not, why not. If anyone else wrote a problem you experience too, elaborate in the thread.

A problem I have at the moment is finding clearly defined problems, like a directory of problems….
The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
https://archive.ph/DGZm4
> Most people prefer to drive

> It is only when people cannot afford to drive or driving is too inconvenient (traffic, or narrow streets/lack of parking in Europe, or outright restrictions ), they will use alternative modes of transportation.

This is literally a tautology. "People find driving more convenient, except when driving is less convenient".

> But don't argue that people want to live in urban paradise and some contrived system is simply not giving them what they want. Most people everywhere, when they can, want to drive and live in houses.

Price signals are real. The fact that millions of people choose to pay large amounts of money to live in big cities and not drive instead of moving out to the sticks is proof that it is an extremely desirable lifestyle for a large fraction of the population.
Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021)
It has nothing to do with Hwang. Hwang's paper was published in Science and he was called pride of Korea. In superconductor case we see infighting and even Koreans are very sceptical. If anything people who hyped this paper were mostly randoms on twitter.
Don't think of it as anything that guy is saying, because he's full of shit. Let's start with his example of the officers telling the non-rates (e=3 and below) what to do. That's already generally unrealistic. Officcer's tell nco's who manage the lower ranks.

Article 15's are also called NJP (non-judicial punishment). You stand before the commanding officer in lieu of going to trial (court martial in the military).

One outcome of bullshit article 15's like mentioned above is someone calling the CO's bluff and going to trial. This would make the officer look like a fool and could end his career right there.

The result of an NJP could be loss of rank, confinement to quarters or loss of half pay for up to 3 months. Probably the most common would be DUI's.
Windmill efficiency scales faster than (blade length)^2, so yes.
> If the device worked with ZigBee, I would get it immediately.

A huge problem with ZigBee is that it's not OpenSource-friendly. The tools are proprietary and devkits are pretty pricey.
Do anyone know if this can be used to trick ChatGPT 4 to be useful for coding tasks like in march ??
It's the kind of thing the owner would probably keep for themselves when selling the car. It's fairly easy to uninstall - just unplug and remove a windshield sticker.
Agreed on zero being better than diet. They actually use the same sweeteners, but a different flavor profile.

FWIW, in the US at least, Pepsi Max also became Pepsi Zero.

I suspect both are getting away from the 'diet' moniker because of the fact that people not on an active weight loss diet prefer them, ruining the played out joke of 'haha he ordered 2 burgers and a diet coke.'
> The way policy debate works (traditionally) is that the affirmative side gets to choose a particular policy to advocate within a broad space.

This seems like an advantage to the affirmative side. in that light, Ks are a strategy to negate the affirmative advantage.
So is it just a fancy way of saying "every transformation has an axis or origin"?
Leah created Libreboot, and nobody other than Leah has ever done a release of Libreboot or a Libreboot derivative.

Then, Denis and Adrien come along and decide+announce that because they don't like a change that Leah made to Libreboot, that Leah no longer gets to be the one to use the Libreboot name.
Wow I wasn't aware comma.ai came this far. I also wasn't aware that modern cars provided interfaces to steering/braking. Handy that!
Always so funny to see these videos where the debaters have such hugely audible inhales and an obscene cadence of argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAXpCLs7I4Q
She said Denis is an early contributor
System-wide load factor in Feb 22 was 38%. This is not competitive. Perhaps decreasing delays would boost ridership, making tickets cheaper.
But we are not reusing them.
Dark forest...

Do I need to say more?

If things are such that aliens send probes to any such planet as ours they would be concerned about negative consequences and put great effort into ensuring they could not be discovered by _any_ potentially threatening species.

This precludes any of the forms you suggest, as any species capable of sending such would also be more than advanced enough to ensure we wouldn't discover them and that they wouldn't fail at the rates claimed.

Even if we presume many many species sending such, there's the issue that they wouldn't be bothering with us in this way and would either have already conquered us for the resources to fight each other etc. (And even if not fighting they would be aware of each other as a result of these supposed visits).

There's no reasonable explanation for subterfuge which is the only answer ever given for such questions of "why have they not made direct contact?" Right?
Hydrogen production is about 80% efficient and only a small part of our needs depend of hydrogen.
A possible strategy is to use money from ticket sales to pay for priority, boosting on-time performance which increases the competitiveness of their product.