skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least back to 1926. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/village_of_euclid_v_ambler_r...

Industrialization led to many dirty cities especially before sanitation technology was deployed. Restrictions on more than e.g. 8 unrelated people per house, minimum window requirements, separating the meat packing district from a pure residential neighborhood were in response to tenements which were deathtraps in fires.
I guess I used the term inappropriately since the other commenter picked up on it as well, but I did compare it to deciding what to take a picture of as opposed to editing something written. There is some decision making and we don’t award the copyright to the architect or camera, but the photographer.
> Sure, there are crappy $5 T-shirts, but today I could buy silk and lace enough to embarrass a king.

Actually I think something has happened to the textiles industry whereby demand must have driven a certain band of suppliers out of business, and now try as I could I can't get polo shirts in the same thick quality cotton weave I could 30 years ago. There is probably some niche source possibly online but I don't know how to discover it; the standard "throw money at luxury mall brand" route seems to not work any longer as the brick and mortars have watered down their materials as well. Sic transit gloria mundi
BA.2.86 shows just how risky slacking off on Covid monitoring is
If you're considering sharding a database, please spend some time finding the best key distribution strategy, and don't just use `key % shard_count` as if it was automatically the right way to do it. The distribution of values for the left side of this mod operator will not necessarily lead to equal distribution over the shards.

Some will add a hash function around the key, but this only addresses part of the problem: for example if you started with N shards and ever need to add 1, you will need to move all but O(1/N) keys to new shards. And it's not just about growing the number of shards permanently, other maintenance operations such as replacing a host can require you to redistribute the data depending on how replication is set up.

Consistent hashing can often help drastically reduce the number of keys to shuffle, but in any case it's something worth spending some time on early on and getting right rather than having to pay later for having overlooked its impact.
I prefer triaging the bugs. If a bug is some superficial UI issue but has no affect on the core aspect, I'll choose to let it linger while focusing on bugs that are actually negatively impacting core use. People that get upset about superficial things are typically just never satisfied anyways and you'll spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to satisfy them.
Ford’s recall of Mustang Mach-Es in 2022 is under investigation by feds
A Cixen on HN. Well I never.

Yes, Taos was discussed there quite a lot.
How many songs do you have in your collection?
The ACA is a BFD, for sure. And I do think that the recovery was hamstrung by not going big enough, unlike the most recent one. Though, different kinds of recessions, so who knows. The real issue I see with Obama is that he was not very good at out-reach to Congress. Some of this was not his fault, but it really wasn't his strong point, or something he even seemed to put much effort in to doing. In that way--partly by personality and partly by his long experience in Congress--Biden is simply better.

It is possible that Obama would have been a better post-Trump President than Biden--I'm certain he'd win against Trump in a landslide--but we'll never know. Certainly it is the case that sometimes it is the opportunities you have--or what the country is ready for--that makes for the success of a presidency, along with a giant gob of good luck.

No Drama Obama, No Cryin' Biden.
There's even an investment fund on this principle. If Jim Cramer goes up on CNBC to talk about a stock, they buy the opposite of his recommendations. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/love-him-or-hate-him-new-e...
While streaming services offer a lot of convenience to listeners, I still prefer to download my music for offline listening - most important is that I retain ownership of the file; with streaming services, you pay only for access, and access can be revoked. Already, a handful of songs I have downloaded are no longer available online.

Unfortunately it's become harder and harder to find high-quality music releases that are readily available for download. More often than not, I have to resort to sites that will rip audio from Spotify/YouTube/SoundCloud, because that's the only place I can find the given piece, and typically that'll come as 128kbps which can be pretty easily noticed. I hope more people push back on the streaming model and encourage artists to sell their music direct. I'll gladly pay an artist for their work but I'd rather not have a middleman (Spotify) involved.

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Interesting to see OP use git as a storage mechanism, I can see it may have some version control benefits, but what about actually playing the music? Do you just click through the file explorer to find the song you want? What about playlists, and other means of categorization?
Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate
FreeBSD Journal – 2023 07-08 – Containers and Cloud
not stealing the work, just stealing the revenue...for very little investment.

> A human looking at someone’s artwork is “training a model

sure, except that model often takes months or years to train (wall clock years, not 1000-core cpu-years). and the end result is not a human that can stamp out new/competing artwork every 100ms.

for any kind of creative/performance/art work, these are watershed times. us coders are not super far behind.
anecdote but last year I sunk three solid weekends into trying to make git-annex work to sync my files between devices, and was defeated. it is such a fucking incomprehensible buggy pain in the ass.

I settled on syncthing instead. it has given me few troubles.
Part of the issue there is that they’re focused on the 99% of users who aren’t flashing firmware onto their phones.
What's different about the mac layout? Looks fairly standard to me, even the labels seem the same, apart from the trivially remappable control/alt/command/meta/whatever keys...
unless the gvt steps - in situations like these the invincible hand of the market isn't gonna work its magic.

for things that involve capital - the leisure class / owning class always has an advantage.

and btw - if you can't quit your job today and not work again for the next 10 years - while maintaining the same standard of living. you're part of the working class not leisure class. no matter how high your income is.
Perhaps safety is not the point; often the adventure lies in the risk.
They can however, build nuclear plants wherever they want, which is why China is building them at all right now. They have plenty of renewable potential in the west, but it’s limited in the more populated east, and their transmission lines meant to carry power west to east over long distance are still limited in capacity.
It doesn't compare closely to anything else.

The only related tech I know of is Inferno, the OS developed later from Plan 9: binaries are platform-independent and run natively on all supported CPU architectures.
> calling it self-inflicted is not accurate

Controlling the motion of your hand to your mouth is entirely within the powers of even amoeba. No one forced you to eat yourself to death.

It's strange how we are so tolerant of the obese but alcoholics who climb into a bottle because of PTSD are considered derelicts. "Healthy at any size" has been the most effective form of long term population control.
It assumes that had FB not summarized the article, people would have followed the link in the same location in their feed. Seems fair to me.

You can claim that news sites gain more than they lose. That's a different argument.
He didn't spend all his time shitposting BBS/Newsgroups/Slashdot/HN while pretending he knew the one simple trick to obviate global political and economic turmoils?
On the "glass half full" side, even if the price hasn't gone down, tech's managed to offer better products for the same price, which in itself is a positive.

- Streaming is a much better experience than cable. I can watch anything I want whenever I want on whichever device I want. I don't need to rent a cable box. I don't need to schedule a technician to come to my house to start my service.

- Uber / Lyft are a way better experience than taxis. I can call the device from my phone wherever I am. I get price certainty up front instead of the miserable experience of sitting anxiously watching the number on the meter go up. The app handles payment and I don't have to mess with the driver telling me the card reader is broken and he wants cash. The driver's GPS is integrated with my ride and I both don't have to tell the driver where to go and worry about them taking the scenic route to drive the fare up.

Anyone who wants to go back to the world of cable / taxis is looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Tech has absolutely made both of those products better.
VeriSign's monopoly should be ended but won't until big changes happen with the ICANN mafia. Cloudflare and Namebright offer at-cost pricing. How can they afford it and Namecheap (which should rebrand to Namescam) are marking up so much? You always make profit from addon services, not from domain registrations.

Be aware of the poor security of Namecheap. 2 years ago I was able to persuade their support via chat to remove the 2FA without providing any info! I didn't even try that hard!
I had never heard of a"graphological report" so I looked it up. It's so much worse than I would have guessed! Any of those personality tests are such a major red flag.

"Graphology is the analysis of handwriting with attempt to determine someone's personality traits."
Number of data points aside, I would like to see one causal model worked out in depth. Do you have a sample link?
To me, bubble sort is intuitive, as far as sorting algorithms or their detailed implementations go.

I absolutely wouldn't sort that way if I were to sort something as a human, but in that case I wouldn't be even trying to figure out an exact systematic logic with its minute details that always gets it right. I'd be thinking in terms of ad hoc problem solving, and possibly some heuristics for speeding it up. When thinking of algorithms in a programming (or CS) sense, getting the exact logic right down to the detail is exactly what you'll need to do. So, to me, those aren't the same kind of intuitive.

As is probably common, a bunch of simple sorting algorithms were given as some kinds of introductory examples of algorithms during my first university programming courses. I think those included selection sort, bubble sort and insertion sort. I don't think I initially considered bubble sort the more intuitive one (I think selection sort was it for me). But for some reason, over the years the basic logic of bubble sort became more obvious to me than those other options. So, at least personally, maybe there's something else to it than following the herd.

Of course I've never actually written bubble sort in any kind of real code, but it's still perhaps the most intuitive one to me, in terms of detailed algorithms rather than in terms of heuristics for human problem solving. (Merge sort is also about as intuitive to me at least as a general idea.)
> Could there be a hint here that programming-deity is either: a) imperitive at heart; or b) inordinately fond of garbage collection?

Or, perhaps, programming-devil is and we've all been tempted wrongly? :)

One problem with programming history is that it is all about compiling. And that is definitely the work of programming-devil.

People are trying to shake that off, but it's difficult. Programming languages advance one popular programming language at a time--and that progress is slow.
> RLHF

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Aren't these systems already trained to score good things higher and bad things worse dictated by human feedback?
Ha! I remember having to "draw my thoughts" when applying for Whole Foods circa ~2004.
Collecting those potentially very expensive stack traces, specially in those highly concurrent environments with high throughput requirements would be great for debugging but probably is gonna kill the performance of the system. But it would be nice (even if as a very heavy hammer) as an option.
I believe this was meant to be a link to this pre-RFC [0], HN submission [1].

[0] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-sandboxed-determin...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37204013
It's entertaining watching the left struggle with categorizing Vivek as a candidate. The subreddit for the Indian community in America vehemently disavows Vivek, effectively calling him the brown Trump and pretty much rejecting him from the Indian community. They have this vision of what an American-born Indian is supposed to be, and Vivek violates all these immutable laws, so he's no longer considered a "real" Indian, whatever the hell that is.

I'm strongly considering voting for him if he's the Republican nominee. I've never voted Republican in my life, but I'm fed up with the brainless ideation of the Democratic party. I've been a stable liberal my whole life, but the Democratic party has drifted so far left that I somehow am considered slightly right-of-center now.
> I wish there were some improvements on doing a highly available self hosted setup. I’m talking plugging 5 machines into a router and power and it just works. Auto healing, redundant backups, etc.

I do too! I'm building an open-source system designed for end user self-hosting and one of my goals has been making it as easy as possible to self-host. The two biggest are DNS management and Router port forwarding. I can give you a script that turns a Raspberry Pi into a fully-functional server, but you still need to configure your domain to point to your house, and configure your router to point to the Pi.

These require two different solutions. The first would be something like Oauth2 for DNS. I've spoken with the guy running TakingNames who trying to do that, DomainConnect[2] is another approach, but the requirement for service preregistration kills it for consumer self-hosting.

For port forwarding, I think we need a self-hoster's router. Something with (at a minimum) a better UI for doing SSL termination and reverse proxy without asking you to understand and nginx config file. Bonus points if a self-hosted service can discover the router and use an Oauth-type flow to do it's own configuration.

Once these exist it becomes much more feasible to have a service which does auto fail-over, or redundant backups, etc.. in your basement/living room without additional configuration.

[1]: https://takingnames.io/
[2]: https://www.domainconnect.org/
It was about 30 images, though I'm planning on adding more and training again sometime. Either that or splitting it up between when her hair is short and when it's long, as it really changes how she looks.

This isn't what I used for my dog's LoRa but I used it for my wife and it worked better than what I was doing before (Adafactor): https://civitai.notion.site/SDXL-1-0-Training-Overview-4fb03...

I'd recommend increasing the network dimension to at least 64, if your VRAM can take it. I can do 64 with my 12GB card. At least for people, I've had better luck using a token that's a celebrity. I'm not sure how to try that with my dog - perhaps just "terrier dog" or something.
40-50% of first marriages fail. 60%+ of second marriages fail. This doesn’t account for relationships that never get to marriage and still fail.

That is to say that most relationship success is timing, luck, and emotionally healthy enough people (have to love yourself first before you can love someone else in a healthy way). I wish I had more actionable advice, but I don’t. Be a decent person, sell yourself, and get in front of as many (emotionally healthy) potential partners as possible. That’s it. I agree I am in the minority. I recognize luck for what it is, but try to encourage everyone to get more dice rolls in (see: this sub thread). I wish you luck and happiness.
Playing Baldurs gate three on unbuntu. Haven’t booted a windows machine at my home now in years!!
One of my favorite versions: when Steve Jobs immersed an early iPod in water to see if any bubbles came out, and therefore it could be made smaller/tighter.

https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+ipod+water+air+bu...

Another is when Feynman ducked a piece of o-ring in a glass of ice water, causing it to fail.

https://www.google.com/search?q=feynman+challenger+o+ring
What margins are you talking about? You think selling model 3 is a high margin business.
From the article,

> The biggest inklings that something interesting was afoot came kicked with GPT-3 launching in June 2020

Yes, I agree with you that if you were in this field, this is quite late to the realization. Most of my grad seminar in NLP in 2018 imagined ChatGPT-style tech would be possible as "language modeling is essentially world modeling."
Looks more like Bing hallucinating what model its running on. LLMs don't self-introspect well. (After all, its implementation details wouldn't be in its training set...)
And even if you open dev tools in another window, many people run browsers that are configured to display other controls... like tabs, or an address bar.
> they're dirt cheap, compared to SSDs.

If you need very large (4TB+ drives) maybe, but 1-2TB SSDs are so cheap nowadays. 2TB SSDs today are cheaper than 2TB HHDs from 10 years ago, and the price discrepancy is quite narrow unless you're looking at 4TB+ drives.

I don't even bother looking at HHDs for my own computers anymore unless I need bulk storage for videos or something.
This sounds like a good reason to pursue policies that make taking away a license not life destroying, rather than pursuing policies that allow people to destroy lives by continuing to drink-drive.
Another vote for navidrome. Easily self-hostable, and since it uses the Subsonic APIs, there's plenty of client apps to choose from (I personally like Symfonium[0] for Android).

If you're already using them, both Plex and Jellyfin also serve as music streaming servers (Symfonium will also work with these)

[0]: https://symfonium.app/
Did you miss a /s? There is more varied music being created every day than ever before right now. There are sub sub sub genres you can seek out if you want. Contrast this with when I was a kid and we basically had what the radio played or what cassette we could buy with our $10.

The problem now is that we have so much content (music, books, movies, short vids, long vids, etc...), and not enough aggregate time to consume it all.
Interviewed with a defense contractor. I had three “ins” at the company and was basically interviewing to check them out because I was about 90% sure I’d get an offer.

I was about to burn out at my current job at the time. Too much stress, too many hours, too much crazy. At this interview, every one I talked to talked about how “exciting” and “cutting edge” everything they were doing was. “We barely finish a prototype before they’ve changed the design and we have to start over without testing the last one.” “It’s very fast paced, stuff is changing all the time.” “We work over some. Last week, I put in 72 hours, but that’s not typical.” “A dozen companies have tried to solve this problem, but we think we’ve finally figured it out.” And so on. And it was a weapon technology, which I had ethical qualms about.

I called them back and withdrew my application. The HR guy said he was preparing my offer. I told him I didn’t want to see it. My biggest fear was that it would be enough money to tempt me to take the job and I would have been miserable.

Six months later, half of everyone there was laid off. They never got the big problem solved. They lost several contracts. Dodged that bullet (pun intended).
Yeah this seems to be a fairly important missing piece. Is there some special boot mode with a ROM-hosted unmodifiable adb?
Exponential can be better than linear for small n depending on your constant factors, but it's never a given. E.g. `2n` < `10^n + 5` for all n.
This is how the Jargon File defines "malware":

malware
n.

[Common] Malicious software. Software intended to cause consequences the unwitting user would not choose; especially used of {virus} or {Trojan horse} software.

What if a program installed by Google causes consequences the user would not choose. For example, "Google Play" or Chrome.

Google has been fined 4.125 billion euros because it forces computer manufacturers to install these programs by agreement. Imagine if Google had to pay computer owners (ad targets) not to modify/remove the spyware.

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/cases/dec_docs/40...

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

https://theplatformlaw.blog/2022/10/03/general-court-largely...

https://www.clearygottlieb.com/news-and-insights/publication...

Also in India, Google was fined for these agreements.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1869748

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/indias-antitrus...

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techn...

https://www.bqprime.com/business/google-loses-appeal-against...

Also in South Korea, Google was fined for these agreements.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/skorean-antitrust-agency-...

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/9/14/south-korea-fine...

Projects exist to remove the spyware, so-called "de-Googled" Android. Clearly some computer owners would not choose these programs.

These are "witting users" under the malware definition.

Proponents of Google's practices will sometimes argue that witting users, e.g., people commenting on HN of their dissatisfaction with Google's practices, are not relevant. Only the "majority" is relevant. They will frequently use the phrase "most people".

However, these are "unwitting users" according to the malware definition. They are not "choosing" Google Play or other Google spyware pre-installed on their computers. Rather, they are not presented with a choice.

"Millions of users trust Google." Well, considering Google pays other companies to pre-install their software on millions of computers and to set the default search to Google, that's not surprising. We are all forced to "trust" the things we cannot change. What other choice do we have.
The value is that (ideally) they've asked around and figured out how half a dozen peer firms do what you're struggling with. So while they may not have solved your management problem personally, they can give you an idea of what's worked for your peers without all the icky industrial espionage and antitrust violations you'd need to find it out yourself.
How is that relevant in 2023? IANP, but my flash thumb drive in a car has 3500 songs on it, representing a small fraction of the total.
Can we assess our own immune system?
Solar works really well in the Alaskan summer. Winters you have to figure something else out. Alaska has lots of hydro, which is really common in that region.
are you sure he’s doing 5k/month just by streaming? No syncs nor shows? Also if Wikipedia is right he’s signed with Columbia Records. AFAIK the only artists making that kind money just by streaming while having no strings attached EVER (No label distro, no label A&R, no big tent agencies) are Macklemore and Chance The Rapper. Just two guys over millions of artists on Spotify.
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>No video game has any use for GTK+

my memory might be wrong but I had issues with native linux games that had level editor based on GTK and python, could not get them to run after 3 years since launch, I do not claim it is impossible just that I could not do it with some a few hours effort.
You might like Holochain (https://www.holochain.org/) as well, it's in a similar vein.
No. Just old fashioned p2p with signed transaction chains. No consensus, as far as I can tell.