skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethics might as well be religion. People decide based on emotion and come up with reasons after.

If you read an article about Dollar Tree and it makes you feel bad and you don’t want to shop there, that’s your prerogative.

For me, I’m not interested in being guilted into assuming ethical responsibility for the decisions of the Dollar Tree management. I presume they are adults of sound mind so the responsibility for their choices is theirs alone.

FWIW I can probably count on one hand the number of times in my life I’ve shopped at any dollar store so it’s a moot point.
It's a 10 year old project. Less than a year of inactivity isn't a big deal for something that's basically "finished".
And since the data is highly redundant the 750MB can be compressed down even further using standard approaches (DEFLATE works well, it uses both huffman coding and dictionary backreferences).

Or, you could build an embedding with far fewer parameters that could explain the vast majority of phenotypic differences. the genome is a hierarchical palimpsest of low entropy.

My standard interview question- because I hate leetcode- walks the interviewee through compressing DNA using bit encoding, then using that to implement a rolling hash to do fast frequency counting. Some folks get stuck at "how many bits in a byte", others at "if you have 4 symbols, how many bits are required to encode a symbol?", and other candidates jump straight to bloom filters and other probabilistic approaches
(https://github.com/bcgsc/ntHash and https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer are good places to start if you are interested).
Y'all in the replies here need to stop flaming each other with anecdata.

I'm sure there's better data than this, but this is what I found with a brief Google: https://www.geckoandfly.com/6311/the-most-reliable-laptop-su...
Show HN: Clann.app – where family legacies come to life
Hey everyone, just launched clann.app where family legacies come to thrive.

Create beautiful family trees, share cherished memories, and celebrate your roots with future generations.

Preserve your story for eternity.
Haha, you think reddit values OC? They love to say they do, but then you get caught in spam filters, reported for "self promotion" (because how dare you use a proper blogging site over reddit's markdown self post), and overall called a shill because you don't revolve your life around reddit before daring to share something you thought the community would resonate in.

It can be done, but it just shows another hypocritical angle of that community.
Foreach derp with Csh
QueryPulse a database driver to log and monitor queries
There isn't such a contract because it's not specified, there are a huge number of "socially nice" use cases well below 2 million terabytes, so the proper way out is not to lie that it's unlimited (and give more guidance on what "fair use" is)
I just want to say how much I love your product. So many of the best things never make it financially, but I really really hope you all make it. I'm 100% willing to support obsidian financially, just need to know where and how to do that. I don't want an account or a sync thing, I just wanna give you all money for the great product.
I went looking for a web browser!
Fair enough, but the organization itself doesn't aim to be authoritarian, at least not by design. Why can't a cybercrime interpol be the same thing?
Now that I think about it, doesn't interpol already deal with cybercrime?
Damn, I'm broke in 5 more ways than I thought.
I'd be interested in what took years—can you explain? My worst case in terms of responding to emails is a few months—which is terrible, but happens when (a) the inbox is backed up and (b) the request requires more than a little time.

It doesn't really depend on whether I think someone's trolling, because the response is usually much the same in either case and anyhow genuine trolling (i.e. totally bad-faith action to provoke or waste time) is relatively rare.
Even if you went to such extreme lengths as encrypting it such that decryption happened on monitors, a camera with a high enough resolution could still just make an (imperfect) copy.
Single use PE or PP straws do not cause any problem in the USA. None.
Is anti-corporate a bad thing? Is activism also bad? Aren’t all words made up? The word does indeed refer to something. Just because you disagree with it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
"Some people are so poor all they have is nothing."
Wages are rising: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/12/real-wage-gains-inflation
It's using webrtc for a p2p connection, see https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop/blob/master/docs/...
> What reasons are there to decline a visa to a PhD employed in a critical industry?

Protectionism of course. The fear is that companies are looking for cheaper foreign labor. Ironically, when allowing some visas with many strings you end up with indentured servants that push labor prices down, not up.

A train of thought is that there's no such thing as a labor shortage, only employers unwilling to pay for labor. Of course it's all very complicated. Attracting top talent is also good.

It's not easy to know what the perfect policy is but there are lots of arguments to sort through.
Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as offsets deemed ‘worthless’
Eye color is subtle. How do you define blue eyes? It's not just one phenotype; there are a range of blue eyes, whose differences correspond to fairly subtle variations between people. The article you linked [1], is quite good but requires quite some time to absorb completely.
Very very true.
> Zoning regulations wouldn't need suspending.

A common belief, but throughout America the zoning regulations prevent the construction of that which already exists.
It’s a problem for Elon’s of the world as they might have to do actual work, not send out ridiculous demands for everyone else while he blocks people on Xitter for the lulz: https://preview.redd.it/musk-email-to-tesla-today-v0-i7mxpgk...

There is no divine mandate the human economy perpetually grow. No god is mandating line must go up.

That argument is probably rooted in fear the elites will have to do the crappy jobs too: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/23170900/leaked-amaz...

Can’t tinkle down on people if they are comfortable: http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/horse-spar...
Our use case was that we needed to consider information from thousands of pages of documents to answer customer questions. I let GPT decide where to look based on content tables of the documents (thankfully each section was not more than ~500 words) and only fetched information from the relevant sections to let GPT answer the user's question. GPT3.5 was fast enough to be usable but often inaccurate; it would ignore some information or get confused about simple mathematical comparisons in the user's questions like 'greater than versus less than'. GPT4 was good and potentially fast enough but the API throttling was too restrictive and it was not possible to feed it less information and still get a good, nuanced answer every time.

Actually the trick to get GPT to find the information based on table of contents worked really well in narrowing down the information for the second-stage summary (to answer the user's question) but our use case nevertheless required a lot of information (often from multiple sections) with a lot of grey areas and nuance and the limited amount of throughout provided by GPT4 didn't cut it.

It was frustrating that, aside from accuracy issues (which depended on the complexity of the question), it often seemed to work very well and fast with GPT3.5 but the exact same code did not meet usability expectations when we switched over to GPT4 due to slow speed (though the accuracy was awesome).

I only spent 1 month and a half on this project but management didn't have the patience to wait for Open AI to remove GPT4 throttling and because they couldn't see it working (at the speed they wanted), they had no reason to believe me that my solution was designed correctly... That's startups I guess.

Anyway I still think there is a lot of hope for this technology and I'm confident that the problem can and will be solved. It was just unfortunate timing for me. Being an early adopter isn't always a good thing.
Revitalizing stalled open source projects
South Dakota is 77,000 square miles with about 3,000 square miles of forest. (~4% forested)

British Columbia is 364,000 square miles. Bigger than France and Germany put together. It has around 235,000 square miles of forest. (~65% forested, 78x as much as SD... or approximately "one France of forest")

Quebec is nearly 600,000 square miles with about 350,000 square miles of forest. (~60% forested, 117x as much as SD... or approximately "one Venezuela of forest")

Not to leave all the other provinces that are on fire out… Overall, Canada has nearly 1,500,000 square miles of forest (500x as much as SD... or about "one half of an Australia of forest"). About 10% of all the world’s forest, and third most behind only Russia and Brazil.

Given most places the majority of wildfires start by what is effectively random chance (I.e., lightning), you’re basically pondering “why does it seem like people in California and Florida win the lottery more than South Dakota?”.

And that's without even getting in to how remote an inaccessible most of it is up here. Fires have a _much_ greater opportunity to start and grow before they're even detected, and even once they're detected it's not like you can just drive out there and put water on them... they might only be accessible by plane and hours away from the nearest airport. This is approximately where one of the major fires is right now: https://goo.gl/maps/Gmiqa8kKwUva14obA Definitely suggest zooming out and looking around. If you take a look at a fire map approximately _all_ of the NWT + Yukon are on fire. Combined they're about 2.5x the size of Texas with a population of around 80,000 people.
What are your citations for the sunrise and sunset?
The perspective I have in the post is that Multi-Paxos and Raft and so on are still doing pretty much exactly consensus for each log entry, they're just sharing lock IDs/ballots/terms across multiple log entries, and having the leader reuse the first phase -- acquiring the lock, reading the existing state -- across multiple instances of the second phase -- writing with the lock.

I think this is compatible with what you're saying, but maybe makes them seem more similar than treating them as two different problems.
Correct, perhaps it's why racial grievance is pushed so much in the US, to avoid the collective lower and middle classes from forming a consciousness against exploitation.
The manufacturer remotely bricked your -working- device because you broke their terms and conditions by performing a repair. You should not support this sort of disgusting behavior.
Fascinating, are there lots of people looking at genetics with this ML kind of lens?
Yes, and if you gzip it it's even smaller. But the big takeaway is that the amount of info that fully defines a human, is what we consider "not much data," even in its plainest encoding.
Plenty of people would want to live there if there were housing. Why not build more?
Immigrants coming to the US to get shit done in tech are creating jobs, directly or indirectly. And if we loosen the visa requirements so the people on them aren't at the mercy of their employers they won't get paid less than citizens would for the same job.

The only issue is if we underpay the immigrants. If Joe Schmoe American isn't the better pick then he shouldn't get the job over someone in a visa queue.
I can’t wait until we can bootstrap a human from a stage 3 tarball.
“Token for a ride” or anything about conspiracy of automakers to kill public streetcars is relevant. And they did it again by convincing us that everyone needs to ride their own lithium battery.
This is a good explanation. See also Shipilev's JVM Anatomy {Park|Quark} episode: https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/4-tlab-allocation/
Not that I would do it, but would I live longer if I just started eating naked mole rats?
Very interesting article. IMHO a key factor in how the world changes in the next 10-20 years will be how far the current wave of AI, based on neural networks can go.

If scientists and engineers manage to implement autonomous cars and robots that can do basic human tasks like clean, wait and take care of the sick and elderly we will wake up in a brand new world. It will put a lot of stress on the basics of society, such as democracy and having to work for a salary.
Ironically, every PhD in the US costs nearly ~$1M in funding.

People who graduate are stuck in a weird love-hate relationship. You can't hate it because of the generous funding; you can't not hate it because of the insane politics behind immigration that tied to all sorts of historical notions of racial supremacy and so on.
SillyCoValley: Fast-Paced Startup Founder SIM Game
Wow! I wonder what the reason behind this is?
That is something I, as a hu-man, and a being that forgets, cannot tell you.

The only thing I know is that the more I observe the stupidity of our species and the governments on this planet, which are somewhat all prone to egocentric corruptions and therefore stupid decisions in exchange for money ... doesn't work.

I mean, we are collectively destroying our habitat, not even having a backup colony on our moon, not even wanting to go for space other than territorial dispute. And what is the reason why we don't do this? So that we can drive our sports cars to impress others?

I meanwhile think that the only way to progress to a different society class (e.g. Type II and beyond) is if we decide to accept a rational system as our leading guidance at all cost. Be it a "Super AI" or a cybernetic system that combines all knowledge without forgetting it, doesn't matter.

But what matters is that the current state of how we divide powers (in the sense of democracy, communism, socialism etc) doesn't work because there are people involved that don't give a damn. And those that don't give a damn are the ones that benefit the most from the system, and are able to reach the top much easier than people that are not willing to compromise on their ideals. The system(s) have to be redesigned so that the incentive of that changes.

How to do that? I don't know, I'm a monkey that was trained to reach out for more bananas.
Supply and demand for labor should fix this. NVidia and friends can clearly afford to pay more for wafers.
>As now we've introduced some peers code review, automatic testing on most critical stuff (but since the codebase sucks these aren't really reliable tests)

They may not be "reliable", but these are your safety net, or harness, so you don't fall. I wrote about similar issues, for instance here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067 and, given your promotion, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211796. It contains a few steps starting from "So...".

You can add monitoring, something like Sentry (https://sentry.io) will capture exceptions that were not handled that you have not seen because the stack trace is buried in hundreds of pages of logs or something. It groups them by exception and counts them. It's pretty awesome. (https://docs.sentry.io). It supports around 108 platforms (Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.). This lets you see the exceptions and makes prioritizing easier (which ones are the most frequent, which ones impact the most, etc.).

If you don't have them already, issue templates are really useful and the comment I linked to explains why, but here's an example of an issue template (again, you can configure them for different types of issues so team members select from a dropdown for a bug or a feature):

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### Description
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<!--Describe the problem we'll solve. What, where, when, who, why, and how.-->

### Target
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<!--Who's the target audience? Who'll enjoy this the most or is suffering from this bug or
lacking this feature the most? Is this a problem you have? Have you talked
with other people who have this problem? Maybe it's something that would just be cool?
Is it a seed for an idea that could be cool?
-->

### Instances
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<!--Can you describe the times this problem has happened for you or others-->

### Proposal
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<!--What's the plan to solve this problem? Do we have a candidate solution or a hunch?
A list of steps? It's okay if they are a bit vague for now. We'll clarify
by debating them and adding context to them, reading more about the subject. It's
essential to understand that this document serves to capture thoughts and externalize
thought processes so we can all tackle the problem more effectively.
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### Resources
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<!--Any recommended reading about this? Videos to watch about something similar?
Maybe a blog post, documentation pages, a code snippet? Sketch, images, mock-ups, etc...
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/label ~feature
/cc @odle
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The variant of auto differentiation I know doesn't build up a graph of operations. Instead it calculates the corresponding value on the fly.
I use this as a docker instance running on my old laptop. It just took a minute to set up and works really well. The sync is as good as apple notes or whatever commercial software there is.

Only issue is i could not sync with an old iphone running iOS 12.
Why not in anthropology? Why not in literature? Because those degrees are not "needed"? Not "useful"? Or are there too many US citizens with those degrees already? Curious.

I believe highly trained individuals in any field should be welcome and treated with respect and equal opportunity. Almost every field supplement each other and the society in some war or the other. I'd urge everyone to look at the declining quality of teachers everywhere. And what it results in? Go figure.
Why do you think anything happens when you're alive?
Here are a few ideas:

1. Do a Linked-In search for technical editors
2. Go on X (Twitter) to find a publisher (e.g. @OReillyMedia) and scan their followers/following lists
3. Visit Amazon.com and search for books similar to what you're trying to write and view their preview pages, which often include copyright info and contributors. Then you can do a search on those people's names on a social media site to make contact.
4. Amazon.com has a self-publishing service and offers resources to help authors in different aspects of the publishing process. I haven't done this and don't know for sure, but there might be a way to join that program and do a search for editors that might want to offer their services.
I think Hanlon's razor applies here. ignorance is not dishonesty.
Ask HN: What languages was HN written in?
Hello everyone!

As a coder, I'm interested, what languages was HN written in. I find it the best social site for geeks like me.

I can see HTML and JS, but are there any others?
IMO let's just let in all skilled workers as permanent residents in a quick process. Brain drain our geopolitical foes by just being a better place to live and work. After that, extend it to everybody else who wants to immigrate. Put a few guardrails on it for criminal records and ensuring they have a place to live and work and whatever else. But let's just let everyone who wants to work in the US and can find a job do it.
This is a complex question. The cocktail soup in a gamete (sperm or egg) and the resulting zygote contains an awful lot of stuff that would be extremely hard to replace. I could imagine that if the receiving civilization was sufficiently advanced and had a model of what those cells contained (beyond the genomic information) they could build some sort of artificial cell that could bootstrap the genome to the point of being able to start the development process. it would be quite an accomplishment.

If they just received the DNA without some information about the zygote, I don't think it would be practical for even advanced alien civilization (LR5 or LR6) but probably an LR7 and definitely an LR8 could.
Yes most of the time if they are cheap and not certified without.
Same for almost every grease resistant paper these days.
And true for dental floss, and restauration soaps and....
It is just everywhere.
Adblocking is also theft somehow...

Surreptitiously hijacking people's expensive PCs and network connections that they pay the bills for to download ads that they don't want to see... not theft.

Funny how all this works.
I’ve done a lot of good work with Hashicorp tools for many many years. But I’m extremely excited to move off Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault and the rest.

Actually quite happy with the future: CDK, CDK8s… it’s a bit of a mess currently but at least there’s a strong path forward and tons of innovation.
I agree with you in principle. Wasting energy like what this and hashcash do is unfortunate but that's what happens when you have an irrational hate towards a technology rather than how it is used.

That said, modeling it after a general cryptocurrency is probably a bad idea since it rising prices may prevent legitimate clients from being able to connect to onion services due to the challenge being too expensive (either in terms of computation or accusation). I think a much practical approach is to have each visitor contribute to a partial solution that can then be combined to derive funds (much like how mining pools work). That way, clients will be completely isolated from cryptocurrency and sites can actually benefit from the work rather than just throwing it away. It's a win-win situation.

I hope the next generation learns from our senseless technology-burnings.
"The media" isn't a uniform entity, but when people refer to it in this context they typically mean the large consolidated media corporations that own major print and television outlets. And those entities have essentially eroded their own credibility to the point that trusting anything they say is foolish. If they say the sky is blue, go out and check.

They could do better, but until they do, it makes sense to castigate them when they err, because avoiding that reputational harm is their incentive to do better. Or, if they fail to do better, the thing that should ultimately kill them so they can be replaced with something that can do better.
The backend is written in Arc.
Is LK-99 a Superconductor After All? New Research and Updated Patent Say So
I wonder what will happen to DWAC stock in the morning...
You can't easily falsify "there's a simpler equation" but you can get pretty sure after a while. And you can definitely find it if it exists.
You should just cut to the chase with the absolutely crucial point that nullifies their argument that the the literal dollars they sent the government to pay their taxes are almost certainly not being wasted on X, because those are different dollars!
No evidence that’s the case. Very realistic that the new update was trying to do something that’s in spec for the genuine screen but the clone hadn’t copied properly.
According to wikipedia:

"Hoffman notes that the commonly held view that brain activity causes conscious experience has, so far, proved to be intractable in terms of scientific explanation"

That's just a fringe position. It may look good on Youtube or a TED Talk. But it has no scientific backing. It is certainly not a "movement" in science. They produced no evidence or even proposed any experiments. It's just idle speculation, not science.