skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learn both, you will eventually have to anyway, and it won't hurt your learning curve, in fact will probably help to see similar ideas implemented and expressed very differently.
Visiting public libraries since I was a child has contributed to my wealth of knowledge, experiences (through exposure to what's possible, and promoting imagination), relationships (by reading examples of how people get along well, both in fiction and nonfiction), and health (in this case a subset of knowledge, put into practice. Michael Pollan's advice "Eat food [not ultra-processed "food"], not a lot [I change this now to "not too much at once or overall"], mostly [a variety of] plants" has risen to the top.

Through relationships I have access to enough money (spouse works, I take care of our child who has disabilities, and I do some part-time work found through getting to know community members), and I have reclaimed more of my time, for activities with lasting good effects, by quitting videogames- I feel far more fulfilled after reading a book or gardening food than I have playing videogames, with a few memorable exceptions involving teamwork.
> America is building factories, but can it find the workers to operate them? With the jobless rate near a five-decade low, firms are already struggling to find staff.

Classic case of supply and demand. If there is a high demand for workers and a low supply, then you need to pay higher salaries to attract them. If you can't, then go out of business. This is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. If the US gov. wants these chip factories badly enough then they can help subsidize paying higher wages. In doing so, they should have the right to audit, e.g. ensure the C-suites are not taking an unreasonably large paycheck.
> agree to their Terms of Service

Thanks for the insight. I think it wouldn't hurt to have an open registry at some point, but we will need to figure out the governance model for that as part of the foundation.
Exactly. GitHub recently illustrated why TOFU is non-optimal when they had to rotate their keys [0]. For weeks, everyone was re-trusting GitHub's keys and most of the advice out there just said to scrub the remembered key and re-trust whatever came up.

If that's how the technical users of GitHub were reacting, why would we try to make regular people keep track of trusted keys?

[0] https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-k...
"Research" is not some monolithic single concept. One might also ask, "How can research produce ChatGPT when for decades research failed to produce ChatGPT?"
There is a difference between "making money" and "capturing the entire thing because our growth-addled brains cannot conceive of not allocating all of the money to us".

If you fire on the ecosystem, sometimes (not often enough, but sometimes) the ecosystem fires back.
arguably it takes more effort/expertise to curate those examples than just pull in a bunch of data that roughly loosely covers the intended surface area. bitter lesson redux?
it is a huge research area

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=llm+robots&searchtype=all&so...
By having a reason to use it. Make something cool and complex and don't shy away from edge cases and best practices. Strive to improve every day and you will learn.
Yes, it is ugly!

The thing is bad actors are essentially forcing arguably unethical tools onto people in need.

Our current Healthcare struggle is completely unnecessary.

A good percentage of our economic struggles are equally unnecessary.

The only reason we are even having these discussions is too many people with means are not employing those means in ways that make it worth allowing said means at all.

Greed, psychopaths, ignorance and more are the problem.

People are saying:

Basic health care can't come soon enough.

Drug price reform can't...

Mental health

You get the idea.

I get it. Lots of us are desperate.

I lost a home over this health care shit. Basically traded more time with my wife for our home. Brutal as fuck. I currently pay close to $2k in premiums and have difficulty finding options because I fall into what Franken called the "doughnut hole."

Have considered some sort of crime, or leaving the country many times too.

Like I said, ugly.
Oh, please don't be so pessimistic. Just like old generation used to say Google and Facebook will kill a lot of people.

Do you think Google Search suggestion for any medical-related are all true? But, people still search for their problems and self-diagnose. How many of them suffered for that?
The only reason people are paid more to write software is that it's valuable + hard and time consuming. If it was easier + faster, software producers wouldn't make as much money. Either that or you can reduce it's value in some way (this seems like a pretty bad way to go though).

The way you're phrasing it now it's like you're imagining that there's some central committee to appeal to in order to change this fact, but I imagine you already know that's not how things work -- so why would you phrase it like that?
There are some places where most of those are either legal or effectively decriminalized... Colorado, SF Bay Area (Oakland and San Francisco), and Oregon come to mind.

MDMA is an interesting one because its far along in the official legalization path as a prescription drug but it doesn't fall into the decriminalization statues typically because it is synthetic (most of them make an exception for naturally derived psychedelics -- so even something very powerful like DMT is covered).

In practice, however, MDMA is widely available via the same channels as other psychedelics which are typically not the same distribution channels for much more habit forming and harm causing drugs like heroin, fentanyl, or cocaine.
Linked page and the root page of the domain lack any explanation of what OpenTF and Terraform are. That should be right at the top of the page.
Is that not already possible with systemd-cryptenroll? Would be nice if they can make that accessible to a standard distribution, it's been standard on Android, Apple and Windows for so long now.
> how is it not fair game then for society to completely ignore my desires and needs?

Best I can tell, it already does this. Not saying I believe the lunatic sovereign citizen horseshit, about how if they spell my name in all uppercase letters on the paperwork, I'm not subject to courts of law...

But yeh, they're definitely completely ignoring my desires and needs. Yours too. Some people are just slow to catch on.
Avoid acerbic, ad-hominem attacks and try to stay on topic. We would all benefit from a regular review of the site guidelines. Have a good day! :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My claim is that I have situations where automation is not feasible to implement, not that I have trouble correctly setting it up.

People are downvoting my comments here, no surprise, so I feel compelled to clarify: I am not saying that others shouldn't use LE, nor am I saying that LE is without value. I am acknowledging that LE is not a panacea and brings its own complications that have to be considered.

In my case, LE is not a solution that works for me. Instead, I buy the certs for my websites that are used by the general public, and run my own private CA with my own root cert that is used to mint certs for everything else.
Out of interest, what have people moved to? I'm a pretty happy Ubuntu user (and the Snaps issue doesn't really bother me personally), but I'm curious if I'm missing out on something better elsewhere?
My wife cut up a lot of cloth sheets... linens, I think... and bathed them in a boiling mix of beeswax and a couple other waxes and oils. (I believe leather was treated similarly to build ancient armor.)

Messy process, but once they dried, they actually functioned pretty well as a reusable wrap and cover. Stiff enough to hold their shape, self-adherent, it can be used like cling wrap or aluminum foil, and could be cleaned and reused dozens of times.

Not sure if it is a net positive or negative for the environment, but it's at least practical.
(And there is a Windows version in there, too. Also:
look inside the Applications folder for additional goodies.)
Coming from windows, I’m a little confused how this works, is he reinstalling Linux/Ubuntu every week on all his machines? Or is it possible to “upgrade in place” just the kernel and leave your files/data alone, if the latter, is there a good guide for how to do that and for a homelabber would that be a good idea to avoid security bugs?
What are crypto miners doing that requires so much storage?
Anytype: The Everything App
I never understood the purpose of doing the daily note for these apps but I completely disagree with the author. Multiple times now I’ve been writing, gotten stuck, went to go look at relevant notes, and found a note thinking about the issue in a completely different way that I could then integrate with my current form of thought. The fact of the matter is that storage is a bit like expanding your conscious world. You think about things differently depending on context, mood, etc. If you have your thoughts about the same subject from two different contexts, it’s like reaching back into your brain and pulling out subconscious truths that you would’ve forgotten otherwise.

The issue with the daily note is that it doesn’t sort by content. That’s why I just constantly make notes based on topic of discussion. Whenever I have an idea, I take a voice memo on my phone. Then I send that voice memo to whisper AI for autotranscription, and a little script on my server formats it for Obsidian MD. I used to try to write from scratch. Now I realize that writing from scratch is a terrible method of writing.
Isn’t the waste still producing heat? How come we can’t use that to boil water as well?
Seveneves would come close. Spoiler alert, it features three groups of people surviving apocalyptic conditions on our planet in space, in deep sea, and in under mines. Part 3 is where the last two groups are introduced.
> Crypto was a total scam.

As someone who have been very anti-crypto for a long time, it wasn't always a complete scam.

The first wave of the crypto boom, before anyone that wasn't a programmer had even heard of it, there was a lot of real work being done that very much mirrors current AI work. Lot's of very sharp developers learning about block chain, figuring out how to implement things, experimenting with ideas. Back then everyone owned their own wallet and you would meet at coffee shops to exchange cash for BTC.

Most of the serious engineers that were really into crypto during the first crypto boom of 2012 left in disgust when the second boom came around.

Having worked in AI/ML for a long time, I myself can start to see how they felt. We do have some really cool technology in front of us, I think it has a lot of potential, but so many of the loudest voices in this space are entirely out of touch with what's possible, and far more interested in hype and making money than the underlying technology.
Yes, that was my initial reaction to this post. I like the framing a lot, and the references to copy-and-patch, Umbra, and so forth are great.

But my suspicion is that rather than trying to make the hard tradeoff, it may be less effort to implement the slow simple interpreter (I actually like tree interpreters), and also the compiler which can take a long time.

I'm doing a similar experiment right now, as sort of an offshoot of https://www.oilshell.org/

I don't know how easy it is to develop the interpreter and compiler in lock step, but I think it's worth exploring. I think you can probably reduce the effort with simple code organization, and by making the interpreter slower to run, and the compiler slower to compile.

It's indeed very easy to design a language with an interpreter, and then find out it can't be compiled to fast code. So IMO it's worth some design up front to avoid that fate.

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I also think OCaml (mentioned in the post) proves the strategy: they had a bytecode compiler first, then a native compiler. (Though TBH I don't know how it plays out in practice for users)

And WASM also proves it -- there are multiple implementations of the same spec with different tradeoffs.

I think it's almost more of a UX / DX issue of how to put these things together. I noticed node.js starts too slowly for my taste, but deno starts faster?

$ time nodejs -e 'console.log("hi");'
hi

real 0m0.111s

$ deno run hi.ts
hi

real 0m0.030s

I guess node.js is doing a bunch of stuff that isn't v8 starting up? But I guess this doesn't prove the point, because deno still has the unpredictable v8 code generator. (Related comment on "failure of JITs" for certain problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35045520 )
“Fork of Terraform” sounds like an item in a Mars settlers RPG. ;)
Hydrogel locomotion regulated by light and electric fields
https://filen.io/
MMU is also responsible for translating between physical and virtual memory addresses. Making virtual memory support optional is a non-trivial design goal; you're not only allowing userspace to peek at (or straight up overwrite) kernel memory, you also need every executable to be a PIE, or to swap it out to disk as a part of a context switch.

Check out RetroBSD <https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd> and LiteBSD <https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD>; there's a PID 0 (or 1? IIRC) that is called the "swapper" process, which is in charge of implementing the context switching. Fascinating stuff!
Depends on what you mean by pretty much anywhere. Outside of the actual cities in Alaska for example you won’t find many restrictions. Many countries in the developing world also are essentially unregulated.
Beware by blocking by IP. Many IP databases are outdated or wrong. This can be seen in Spain where DIGI (a romanian ISP) users have som troubles because of this. Some services see a romanian user instead of a spanish one.
I left it out because I don't agree that this works in the general sense. I think not specifying a number is very likely to leave money on the table.
Indeed HTML can do it all! My desktop environment uses semantic HTML when possible and modern CSS such as grid to handle the icon grid.

But maybe one day down the road I have been considering a total rewrite in WebAssembly in which the entire thing is a canvas. I feel this would be much more portable to other platforms and would have a better chance of escaping the browser one day.
The UI reminds me of RISC OS!
Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law
This is disinformation and you should delete it. I don't use that term lightly, Nuclear FUD is spread by Russia to keep the west dependent on their oil, and you're helping them whether you know it or not.

In reality, Uranium is mostly mined by leaching which is the least destructive form of mining. Not to mention the quantity actually mined is several orders of magnitude less than other things we mine in much more destructive fashions like Copper, nickel, zinc etc
I don't think we need to go over the externality cost presented by Coal, Gas or Petrol.

I'll assume that you are a proponent of Solar/Wind/Hydro. Which also have externalities, including human death, but let's ignore that.

But I am onboard with all of those. My problem is that I think solar, wind and hydro are not enough. We don't have a way to store energy in massive ways, so in order to account for cloudy days, non-windy days and nights, we need something else.

I see uranium filing that niche. If not uranium, what else? All the options I see mentioned are along the lines of "let's continue burning stuff, then, and keep adding solar/wind/hydro".

But that is what we are doing now already. And the temperature and CO2 concentration graphs keep going up. So, what is the alternative?
The way they handle bears is very limited, for instance. Humanity's main defenses against bears have been 1) being in groups of more than one person and 2) sometimes you gotta kill a bear. In Alone you've got your airhorn and bear mace and that's it.

I will say I enjoyed the early episode of one of the seasons on Vancouver Island where a cop tapped out within a day or two because there were bears. He even said (I'm paraphrasing) that he's not used to not being able to shoot them or call for help on a radio.
I think he's talking about mid-construction, before it's capped. That's when there is risk of contamination.

I'm not sure I agree that there is a risk then, but let's at least be fair to the argument.
Great explanation. I understand the process a lot better after reading.

I have questions now: It seems like everything hinges on the search step, where domain-specific content is gathered to serve as prompt input for the LLM.

1. In an area like technical docs, if I can't find what I need it's often because I don't know the right terms - e.g.: I am looking for "inline subquery" but they're really called "lateral joins" - Would the search step have any likelihood of finding the right context to feed the LLM here?

2. How much value is added by feeding the search results through the LLM with the user's prompt, vs just returning the results directly to the user?

3. Are there good techniques being developed for handling citations in the LLM output? IIRC Google had this in Bard
The test would be finding a spot where a witcher says there isn't water, and then drilling there.

There's water almost everywhere in the ground -- the questions are is there enough of it to meet the need? is it usable (ie: not contaminated with salt or toxic chemicals)?
I guess that's probably a lot of why I don't get it, I never had any programmer role models. I looked up to Adam and Jamie, and
I never saw them doing serious code.
If they just shipped vanilla GNOME and vanilla ZFS that would literally be a perfect distro.
What is a moat of Ubuntu (Desktop) today? Don't say snap, please :)
Isn't the idea that as new trials are completed, the data gets entered. Just like how old buildings are only brought up to code when work is being done anyway?

So old trials may never catch up with it.
you might want to check these out too:

https://www.sbert.net/docs/pretrained_models.html#sentence-e...

that way you don't need to pay openai for the embeddings
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How feasible is this, really?

First if you block any nation of significance, you're going to have a list of rules a mile long. And I would wager that that list is constantly changing with additions and deletions, so you'll want to stay up to date. Firewall performance issues begin to weigh on you with thousands of IPv4 ranges loaded.

Second, of course, geolocation is notoriously unreliable, so your block list will have false positives and false negatives, and won't do anything to stop someone with the simplest VPN, unless you also strive to block every open proxy and exit node.

Are there data brokers who sell ready-made blocklists for things like this? They exist for adblockers, so do they exist for firewall systems and cloud providers? I would imagine this could cost money, but should be an attractive feature for any enterprise. "Block hostile nation states in one fell swoop!"

It really seems like this would work better at the eBGP level, but unless you run your own autonomous system, this is not a realistic option either.
I don't think it's helpful to lump in MOND under the "dark matter" umbrella, and no one else aside from you seems to do that. It's specifically not about matter nor energy (i.e., QFT) in every formulation that's out there.

Further, MOND does try to explain the discrepancy with articulated theories, just in ways that don't conform to the assumed supremacy of QFT-based explanations.
What do you miss in Gnome that you had in unity?
> global warming

The fun realization for me has been that we're in a no-win scenario now. Even if climate change (which has been re-defined) is overly-stated, the policies that are being and will continue to be enacted as a response to it, guarantee immense suffering for billions and a general decline in quality of life.

The good news is that you can mitigate for much of the consequences by simply not being in the West, ideally in a commodity rich country.
The article’s claims about the origin of COVID-19 being genetically engineered in a laboratory lack sufficient evidence and transparency, (relying on unnamed sources) to be considered credible.

Sky News in Australia is often compared to Fox News, and both have faced criticism regarding their “accuracy” on this topic.
> Nuclear fission based on uranium is a lot of things, but definitely not "clean" or "green" even on the raw material sourcing side like the pro-nuclear crowd keeps blathering.

Depending on your criteria, no human industrial activity is green. Digging up precious metals for solar panels? Pouring tons of concrete in mountain valleys to make dams? Building forests of windmills?

At the end of the day, the question becomes “does this enable us to reduce our carbon emissions whilst keeping a reasonable quality of life”. And to that question nuclear is without a doubt a good thing
> There is a difference between "making money" and "capturing the entire thing because our growth-addled brains cannot conceive of not allocating all of the money to us".

I feel like this post suggests a misunderstanding about how publicly traded, for profit companies work. Because it is literally their job to capture the entire thing and whatever else they can capture. That's why going public is not awesome for FOSS-oriented companies. We've been here before.
I think this is due to the membrane getting worn or punctured.

Hiking boots now almost all have a goretex membrane, and they seem to last maybe one or two seasons of regular use before they leak. The leather can last many years with care, and the sole can be replaced, but once the goretex is shot you only have whatever water proofing you can apply to the leather itself.
Flatpak is probably less buggy than Snaps for casual users.
Post from 7 months ago with 210 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34519824
I've spent a lot of time on my desktop environment to make it mobile responsive. I kind of went in with the idea of making something that could fit into any viewport. Most of the time it works, as much as is possible to transfer the desktop metaphor into mobile. But because my apps often rely on third party libraries, sometimes responsiveness is less than ideal.
Thats pretty neat!
The spinning motor might not start after some years of inactivity.