skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> needs [and] I wish I did

There is no "«need»", if that means "hiding an excuse". But if you want to go "lymbic", as per a parallel post nearby: Intelligence is a Value.

It is a fact: individuals and societies are increasingly in need for Intelligence. When Vannevar Bush conceived the Memex, the need was chiefly for making information more available. Now the overwhelming need is to process it.

In practical terms, it is quite strong how somebody formulated the point in the recent Kissinger's book "Leadership":

-- the world is getting more and more complicated, while administrations are getting less and less capable

where "administrations" there reflect individuals in general. But computers, now largely in pockets, finally dramatically available, were supposed to be the Memex, enhancing tools... The promise must be fulfilled, because the stakes remain high (societally, historically).

--

Update:

> through AI domination [...] invent a crisis

This should be a joke. This seems like living on idle fantasies while there is a real world outside them, that will not run according to wishes just through its own natural running. There are decisions to be made - by humans, by individuals, by administrations, by governments. There are real problems out there: drought, floods, diplomacy, resource management ... what to do, who to marry. There are optimization and decision problems that we cannot just solve through paper (consuming pens and eyes).

We have been studying AI for decades and we have been using aided decision making tools for centuries - automated, for decades. You are using one now, the browser is a DSS information accessor! That means, calculators, not "Overlords"!
That's unwise too...maybe most phishers aren't great hackers but don't give strangers with malicious intent access to your machine.
I don't like rust but I would just MIGHT consider using it if it would compile faster than C++.

Well...
There are alternatives though, if you don't need to travel during peak hours it drops to €1440. (https://www.ns.nl/en/nsflex/webshop#/abonnement/dal-vrij)
I Org in 2023
Capitalism got us into this mess and it’s not going to solve it. She’ll got out of renewables because it didn’t make profit enough.

We can’t consume our way out of this problem.
Life is a pay-to-play game these days.
It is much more complicated than using two ports. There are two modes of ftp, active and passive.

In active mode the client connects to the server on port 21. It then issues a PORT command which tells the server which port on the client to connect to for data. The server connects to destination port on the client using port 20 as the source port.

In passive mode the client connects to the server on port 21 and issues the PASV command. The server chooses a random port for data and responds back to the client with a PORT command indicating this port. The client then connects to this destination port on the server using a random high port as the source port.
If someone tried to fake euro coins they'd likely end up losing money and they're used much less (particularly across borders) than notes.

Notes need to be designed much more carefully to avoid counterfeits and if the designs differed people would be more easily tricked by a fake one or would assume that notes from another country are fake by default

Coins also don't have transparent elements like notes and aren't supposed to be inspected by using light so it's easier to have a common side and a "do whatever" side
Probably because carbs are cheap for the calories and volume.
> There isn't a good reason why private methods should be exposed in the header. This makes refactoring the class implementations much more of a pain in the butt than plain structs + global functions.

Irrelevant. Private member functions aren't mandatory or required, and when developers decide to use them they explicitly state the class needs to export their symbols.

Those developers who somehow feel strongly about private member functions are a multitude of techniques to meet their needs, such as using protocol classes and move private stuff to concrete implementations, or use non-member functions either with internal linkage or stashed in anonymous namespaces.

I don't see the point of complaining that something used wrong is not being used right, while purposely ignoring the myriad of options where things are right based on your arbitrary requirements. I mean, this aspect of C++ is around for at least three decades. Don't you think that if it was a problem someone would already have noticed it?
https://archive.ph/CUnqV
If you’re in Australia then look up Qota. They used to be called Aussielent.

Basically powdered meal - I’ve been eating it for about 8 years now. I get the vanilla and add just a little bit of honey, using warm/hot water. It’s like smooth porridge.

Meal dealt with in ~2mins.
> I don't know what the answer is, because it's a genuinely new environment for the human brain.

I don’t know either, but I know it shouldn’t be censorship
your password manager hopefully uses an additional factor to enable it on a new device, so definitely avoid typing that in on Twitch
Do I read that performance summary right? At least in the past 10 years it was badly and consistently beaten by the market?
> as part of a federal project. Historical info can be found in this Wikipedia article

I had no idea the US funded an internal colonization effort! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanuska_Valley_Colony . Over half of the original colonists left within 5 years, they didn't have the right skills and the valley wasn't as good for farming as planners thought.

> By the end of their second month, 25 of the 200 colonists had returned home. On June 16 a group of colonists sent a telegram directly to President Roosevelt that read: "SIX WEEKS PASSED NOTHING DONE NO HOUSES WELLS ROADS INADEQUATE MACHINERY TOOLS GOVERNMENT FOOD UNDELIVERED COMMISSARY PRICES EXORBITANT EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR SEASON DOUBTFUL…" ... There was only one doctor and a few Red Cross nurses in the colony. More serious cases had to be sent by train to Anchorage. Polio, measles, chicken pox, and pneumonia quickly ran through the community, especially affecting the children who made up half of the population. With the media spotlight on the colony, the government was forced into providing medical facilities.
Did you just learn this in Finance 101? The real stock market is priced based on many factors including interest rates, future growth expectations, etc, but the biggest factor of all is psychological.
Sounds more like a treat than a daily meal. canned pesto sauce more often than not, (but not always) has lots of salts, sugars and fats.
> the same cause

What cause is that?
https://archive.is/okvsD#selection-935.0-935.114

The Govt still cant bring itself to admit it has a problem.

Is that the subconcious bias of those involved on display?
Ah, yes global cooling. The thing that has been predicted for at least thirty years by now. The most common argument is that solar activity is declining. Tough luck. CO2 is rising faster than the sun can become colder. We are in a solar minimum and yet we somehow break temperature records?

https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/2953/there...
Aw nice; I think haskell-wasm uses FFI too https://www.tweag.io/blog/2018-09-12-asterius-ffi/

super cool to see an nginx version of it!
No, I don’t think that is true at all in the traditional fine arts market, which is what my comment was referencing. Scarcity is a major factor and putting out tons of AI-generated art is basically the opposite work process of the highest-priced artists.
There are days when I feel like a robot - I have almost no agency from morning until night. It really drags me down when it goes on for more than a few days consecutively.

It's weird because my job is OK and I love my kids, and it's not that bad - I just feel like an NPC doing this day after day and want to "jump off the rails".

Sometimes the only thing I can fall back on is that even if I can't choose what I'm doing I get to choose how I'm doing it.
> You can build high rise apartments in any big city and multi-family anywhere.

You can't build them except in the places they already are. Converting existing high density housing to even higher density housing is prohibitively expensive. What you need to do is go to the edge of the high density area where it meets the low density area and convert the low density housing to high density. But that area is only zoned for low density, so you can't.

> The reason prices on housing go up is that it costs a lot to build housing and it's pretty hard to secure financing for a housing project which you plan to sell/rent below cost.

Who is requiring them to sell below cost? Just build more housing at the market rate as long as the market rate is above your construction costs. If you want a lower market rate, find a way to lower construction costs.

> If it costs $300 to build a square foot

But what causes that?
My impression is that they're reasonably priced - is that true? Could a student exist without cooking facilities by eating at ramen joints?
Not comparable to copper at all.
> Brits -- is this a common thing?

No this is a London thing because London property prices are ridiculous. For the price of a London bedsite you'd be able to buy a detached house in most other places in the UK.
Seems insurance of the 500 euro note has already ended as it’s mostly used for crime. Kinda hard to imagine people using it anyway; in the U.S. you’re treated like a criminal if you pull out a $100 in shops.
Making your life more miserable by giving you instructions on how to eat an apple or store-bought Mac & Cheese.

If it at least had some high quality photographs of the end result maybe it could push you towards saying "Ok, I'll eat". Because if you're really hungry, you're going to eat anyway, even if it's just an apple. But one does not need such a book for that.

I'm sorry, but stuff like this doesn't excite me.
You can also make cheese pepper pasta easily. Make pasta, leave some pasta water and add pecorino cheese (shredded), then some pepper.
Easy and good so you don't always have to use canned sauce.
Another (easiest) option is to just add cold pesto to the pasta.
It's hard to call it a bug given that any concurrent float sum or product will be different in regards to changing the amount of concurrency. Even if you order the final value per thread before reducing the result will differ if you use a different amount of threads to split the problem.

Because in floating point arithmetic 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 is different than (1+2) + (3+4).
One sound that I've noticed a lot recently is an "r" pronunciation which sounds like the tongue is all the way back in your mouth (if you pronounce an 'r' then pull your tongue upward and back, that's the one). It usual appears in "ar" sounds either before or after "g" or "k" sounds.

You can hear it in words like "marker", "park", "craft" and the like.

You can hear it in the words "guardrail" and "crack" at just after 1:35 in this NPR segment (https://www.npr.org/2023/03/10/1162713293/rockslide-repairs-...)

I've noticed that only some people I point it out to notice the difference, but I've heard it becoming more and more prevalent over the past few years.

The only downside is that I have no idea how to Google it to learn more about its roots!
Perhaps you are thinking of https://alterslash.org/
Yes yes, except Cory Doctorow, despite some flaws with his arguments, also does go quite deep into explaining just why enshittification happens. He doesn't simply spray forth so-called nasty lingo for the sake of drama.

And again, enshittification is a very real phenomenon. It's pervasive on the internet and sometimes it seems that at least half the comment threads on this site veer off into lamenting it each day, so I don't see the problem with naming it crudely so that a nice, simple, rude word can summarize this very real thing that so many here and elsewhere make their daily bread in expanding.
Huh. I was getting into cryptography and at one point I wondered why ssh doesn't use ssl/tls; and following that, who their creators were.

It seems odd to me that this person isn't considered a celebrity in the vein of Linus Torvalds (or perhaps Tim Berners-Lee? creator of http), considering how critical and pervasive ssh is.
> Cult members say their protocol is built from the same digital DNA as the Tor browser and the chat app Signal

Then just use those, as they are bettle-tested and received much more scrutiny than this new framework.
I'm not sure this is a correct assessment. The baseline ViT model (https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-100M) is presumably trained on a much larger dataset from HLS (https://hls.gsfc.nasa.gov/) in an unsupservised setup.

Vanilla UNET is around 7-8M parameters, this is 100M(?) so the model itself is an order of magnitude larger. There are larger models though as pointed out in the other Hacker News thread.

The fine-tuning datasets are much smaller, but that's the point - they don't need to be large, because of the foundation model underneath.
Yup, exactly. So through technology we’ve managed to created situations we cannot manage so the answer is more technology we likely will have zero control over or understand.

Can you see see how ridiculous this can sound to some people ? We’ve created a ridiculous situation so I guess you’re right, the only way through it is more ridiculousness.

In my opinion that story you’re telling me actually does create a perceived need for AGI.

Edit: It sounds like in your world, this is some type of AI without agency or self preservation goals ? Just like an oracle with an interface or something ? I hate to say this but governments have all the information they need to make better decisions, they make them mostly based on lobbying. Not going to fun when AI can extract more oil at 1000x the speed, crush dissidents or capture your attention to sell you more shit even more effectively.
He does indeed. Also don't forget his original arcade, the Under The Pier Show in Southwold, Suffolk[1]. The Pier itself also includes Tim's famous clock[2].

I've been lucky enough to meet Tim a few times and he's a lovely chap. I remember him photographing the attendees at an art show in Ipswich using a giant camera made of old road signs and discarded catering tins; genius!

1. https://www.underthepier.com/

2. https://www.southwoldpier.co.uk/waterclock/
> pimpl went out of style maybe a decade ago

This is a meaningless statement. As others in this discussion already stated repeatedly, pimpl is a very basic and fundamental C++ idiom that is pervasive in all application, and some frameworks are notorious for using them extensively even right now, as is the case of Qt.

At most, all you can claim is that you developed an irrational dislike of pimpls, but developers are renowned for making poor decisions and even introducing bugs, so it's worth what it's worth. I mean, some developers even in this day and age still complain about the whole notion of design patterns. Are these blends of opinions worth taking into consideration?
I did. It’s good. It’s aimed at people like me whose sole thought is “ugh, cooking? Again?”

Food is nutrients. Cooking is time spent making the nutrients edible. The more I can minimise that wasted time (both cooking and eating) the more time I have to spent on useful things.

Think of how exciting your laundry is to do. Now do it three times a day and listen to people who gush about how much they love it. That’s what it’s like. Sorry, it’s laundry; I hate it.

“So you don’t die” is basically my real thought process - 3pm rolls round and I’m thinking “I should probably eat something.. ugh”
For studying geometric algebras, it should help a lot if one is already familiar with abstract algebraic structures, like groups, rings, fields, linear spaces a.k.a. vector spaces.

I have not found yet any book that I consider really satisfactory, mainly because all of them are more or less incomplete, which is understandable, because a complete presentation would require a huge amount of work for rewriting the manuals for all the branches of traditional physics to use models based on geometric algebras.

An older decent introduction is "Geometric Algebra for Physicists" by Chris Doran and Anthony Lasenby.

There are also several older books, which need more mathematical experience, by David Hestenes, who was responsible for the revival of the theory of geometric algebras, which had previously remained a niche domain of mathematics for about a century after the too early death of their discoverer, William Kingdon Clifford.

There are also many more recent books, which can be seen e.g. through a search on Amazon or other such sites, but I have not searched such books during the last years, so I do not know which of them are good.

The older books are good enough to provide an understanding of geometric algebras, but for practical applications one usually must go beyond them.

Even without applying in practice the theory of geometric algebras, it is still useful to understand it, because this removes most of the mystery from mathematical physics and it allows a more efficient organization in your head of the knowledge about it.
Farming is about 10,000 years old so I would say more like 500 generations?
Relevant:

* https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html (mentioned at the beginning of the linked post)

* https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/31/The-rc-shell-and-whitespa... (mentioned at the end of the linked post)
Nah, it's better to forget about all that, and live as if you're immortal. Self-deception rules!
So you are not interested or see any value in providing jobs for your fellow citizens?

At the least, don’t hire thousands of people over 1-2 years and then lay them all off. That shows poor ethical, leadership and management skills.
Users will do anything and everything for not getting rid of using FOSS which doesn't spy against a user by definition.
So, from this point on, one time passwords only? I can't imagine any other proper solution.
Stew? Soup? Too hard, too much time. Wouldn’t make it.

Which is exactly why this book exists.
> :g/\(\d\{1,3}\.\)\{3}\d\{1,3\}/y A

This is IPv4 only. Have one for v6 as well?
or

>ap
Tray bake: just throw any potatoes, veggies and meat (replacement) in a single layer on a baking sheet with some oil, and spices and put it in the oven until it’s done. Maybe toss it around halfway through.

For meat we use anything from
chopped-up Italian sausage, bacon strips, chick peas, chicken wings to an entire chicken.

Veggie wise anything from classic roasting veggies like carrot, oignon and pumpkin to broccoli, beans, zucchini…

Spice the laziest is just dried rosemary. But I also like some southern spicy bbq rubs, plain garam massala. Or just plenty of garlic.

It has become much easier since we have a “proper” oven instead of a cheap countertop one, as it is much faster and heats up more easily.
Privacy is a political issue, not a technological one.
If you vote people in who then ban encryption or demand back doors or a weak algorithm, no amount of tech is going to save your privacy.
The world nears feared global warming 'tipping points': 5 disastrous scenarios
You can also set et and ts to your taste and then :retab.
A pill alone doesn't work do to well just how much mass is needed for it to contain enough usable calories. You need to eat the same amount of calories to survive and these have non-trivial mass/volume.

Just one thing from Sci-Fa... Still there has been meal replacement products for a long time now. From diets to lifestyle changes.
I still don't get how it is done.

1. How do you track which day had a black bar? By web.archive?

2. How do you associate the day to a specific post? I guess this should be fairly easy, albeit kinda manual.
What leads you to believe that protocol class + concrete implementations + factory can replace pimpls?

I'm going to make it simple for you: take a Qt widget. You define its widget layout with Qt a designer, save a UI form file, and get Qt's UIC to generate a header file that implements that widget tree. You have three options to include the object in that header: either inherit from it, composition, and pimpl. So you swore off a pimpl. Pray tell, how do you use a Pure virtual interface in this case?
> Some speculate about the “pouring” of some Great Pyramid blocks using a geopolymer and crushed limestone.

I'd forgotten about this! We should be clear that the "some" here are cranks:

http://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/pyramids/
Project Skydrop: A Real Life Treasure Hunt
As someone who teaches Dvorak touchtyping I recommend to do it no later than in sweet twenties because you will not be able to type passwords, if this a goal of your learning. Typing passwords is a final exam for my students.
Any non-wealthy single person faces an uphill battle to both 1. earn a living 2. take proper care of themselves. In the Middle Ages people invented a rather neat solution for this problem: go live together in a big building, work together, pray together, cook together and call it a monastery.
The way I see it, it's a feature that exists which some people use and prefer. Breaking it (intentionally or accidentally) just isn't something I want to see.
https://archive.is/ZZMLu

I look back at my digital usage, and health is something which doesnt really feature. No mention of daily exercise requirements, I guess Deep Vein Thrombosis hasnt shown up in youngsters yet so isnt a requirement.

Other factors will include, recall of information is worse when using screens compared to books, and then there is the potential lack of (online) surveillance meta data to safeguard youngsters.
Keypunch
In my case, it only took a few months to be more effective with Vim than without it. Since I spend most of my time working, Vim is a great improvement to my quality of life. The benefits of Vim include not just productivity, but also comfort.
I’ve always imagined that the decision to have a black bar or not was a curated decision by HN insiders.

Is this not the case? Does the black bar show for anyone with “.. has died” over a certain threshold of points?

Super curious as to how the bar is determined.
Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman
The planned obsolescence isn't the third party software, it's that version of Windows itself.

The new version comes with a new version of some APIs, which new software starts to use, and now you can't run that software on the version you have. They have backwards compatibility but not forwards compatibility.

Then someone finds a security vulnerability in the old version but they never patch it, and neither can anyone else because of copyright, so now you can't even keep using it the way you always had without falling victim to their inability to get it right the first time and refusal to either go back and fix it or release the source code so someone else can do it.

So just use the new version which still works with all your old software, you say. But the old version didn't spy on you and the new one does.
It's incredible how for many people this had no meaning, while for me it was immediately clear. Semiotics is a complex art, and perhaps this signal was a bit too subtle for many.
> Don't fall for "CEOs/managers wont hire me because I am too good". That's bullshit agent talk to hide their mediocrity behind a veil of praise.

Then dumb it down. Use 50% of your skills / experience. Pretend you don't know some of these things. Like if that's actually the truth it's quite easy to solve.
Frying rice with canned tuna and black pepper has been my life saver as a student.

If you have a rice cooker, you can use the rice from it. If not and you don't want to clean two pots, just boil the rice in a saucepan and once ready, get it out and fry the canned tuna with some chopped onion and black pepper.

Going to Indonesia, you can find out that's a variety of their national dish (nasi goreng). A sunny side up egg on top of that is an extra bonus.