skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doc culture is better than the alternative. 95% of docs get thrown away because half-way through writing it you realize it cannot work. In the absence of the design doc, you will instead hand-wave your way through the design phase and realize the mistake after several people have wasted time actually implementing it. It is a very, very good thing to know whether your idea solves or does not solve the given problem, at the earliest opportunity.
Here's a nice video that digs into the general structure of diagonalization arguments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwNxVpbEVcc

It's a really neat way to see a shared core between seemingly-separate topics:

- Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems,
- Cantor's Theorem,
- Russell's Paradox,
- The Halting Problem,
- The Y Combinator!,
- etc.
I feel like that everything big online has been an iteration of that same idea for the last 2 decades
>A work of the United States government, is defined by the United States copyright law, as "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties."[1] Under section 105 of the Copyright Act of 1976,[2] such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...
iPhones can be supervised and/or enrolled in MDM that allows for very high-granularity control of settings and logging etc
There is no shortage of workers who can make shakes. Don't believe every sign you see.
It is _always_ September after AOL. Eternally even. ;-)
The colour replication might be a co-incidence?
I was the exact same. My mind was blown when I realized you could connect to AOL and THEN open an internet browser and just be ONLINE! I spent way to long thinking AOL was the internet before I think I saw my cousin do this and it changed my world forever.
But the unconverted energy is still in the form of heat, right? Sorry if I’m missing the point. I realize you can’t get 100 of the input, but the unused energy should still be there.
Thanks for reminding me to grab the tinfoil hat!
Sveltestrap – Bootstrap 4 and 5 components for Svelte
I will give that a shot!
> Even fewer studying and cataloging plants.

Depends. Agriculturally important plants (and their pests of all kinds, including other plants) do get a lot of attention.
Seeing the same thing first hand with an ex-amazon exec
Just like the US isn't a capitalist country because they don't have a private military. If all you see is black and white, you'll miss all the good stuff in between.
Louisville used to have (kinda still does) a "trolley hop" on Frankfort Ave, where different galleries are open late and have special art displays. Some people go for the booze, and wonder around, some go for the art, some for both. There was one we went in to called Kaviar Forge and Gallery. The art display spanned two floors, and I don't recall at all what was even on display. But on the way to the second floor, I was like "Holy crap! Check out this hand rail!". My friends were kinda making fun of me for getting excited about a hand rail, but it was obviously exceptionally well done. It was the work of the guy featured in this article, I had no idea he was so well known.

There are quite a few hobbyist/artist blacksmiths around, and occasionally do displays. This guys name always comes up as he inspired and thought most of them.
All the reasons companies already don't successfully do that at the scale the RTO fear mongers claim they will: work culture, language barriers, various workplace and taxation laws that are/aren't in their favor, and frankly, experience and expertise. I bring value to a business that's worth paying American wages for, and so do so many folks I've worked with. This isn't to say there's not excellent engineers in other countries - there absolutely are. But (1) the tech industry has been centered on the US for so long that a lot of the top talent in this industry is concentrated here, and (2) the folks in other countries who bring the expertise and experience a senior or staff or beyond engineer in the US does aren't that much cheaper, because they know companies can and will pay high rates for the right talent.

Funny you mention Vancouver, which I used to live in and, talking to tech folks there, it was routinely called the "H1B holding pen" at the time - the place tech companies would hire folks and bring them to work at US wages while awaiting visa paperwork to head down to, say, Redmond or San Francisco. And BC famously has a huge brain drain to WA and CA on account of - you guessed it - salaries, and those folks often never went back to Canada. Back to: the talent concentrated here and demands a certain wage.
You can make an FOIA request for anything.

If you mean “will I get the source code if I make an FOIA request”, then the answer is “maybe”; if it was produced in house by VA (and not contractor-made software that the gvoernment licenses), the source code is probably a record, but its possible that, even then, the agency might invoke an FOIA exception with regard to it.
Yes, exactly. It was a BBS with larger scale and a GUI. You dial into it, and you're in their walled garden -- stuff on AOL was not accessible from the wider Internet, and at first, AOL provided no access to the Internet at large. Eventually they added it, and the Internet grew in scale and quality far faster than AOL could match with their own content.

AOL's brand name was huge, in no small part to their constant carpet-bombing of the entire country with CDs and diskettes promising to get you online today with 250 free hours or whatever. I really can't describe how impossible to avoid these things were in the 90s -- they were EVERYWHERE. So even after it became clear that the party was on the Internet and AOL became just a way to get to it, AOL still dominated the ISP business for a while. A number of things eventually did them in, not least of which was broadband.
Let me rephrase, it feels there is a lack of empathy in expecting people not to think this way. Maybe even a hint of snobbery.

Realistically, it requires training to see oneself in this way , its not the default mode of seeing the world. The default mode is, things happen to me, I experience things, so I'm the center and my fellow man must be the same.

If we ever do have conscious computers, let's see if they can be conscious without an ego?
See https://archive.ph/6PAE0
I work on Ollama. It's a good question since there are quite a few tools emerging in this space.

The focus for Ollama is to make downloading and serving a model easy – there's an included `ollama` CLI but it's all powered by a REST API. Hopefully, it's a way to support really cool applications of LLMs like OP's onprem tool.

OP's tool is more focused on ingesting and analyzing data. There seems to be quite a bit of interesting opportunity as an application of LLMs – e.g. analyzing not only local docs but data in a remote data store.
if you actually look at the inputs and outputs of entire industrial sectors, rather than individual firms, you generally find a very high correlation between the price of labor as input and the price out the output of that sector. like >96% for the uk as found by cockshott and cottrell in their 1995 paper
`json.loads` in Python exists, and Python does the intuitive thing when you do `{"a": 1} == {"a": 1}`, at least for most purposes (you want the other option? `is` is right there!). Stuff like argparse is not the easiest thing to use but it's in the standard library and relatively easy to use as well.

Not going to outright say that node.js scripts are the worst thing ever (they're not), but out-of-the-box Python is totally underrated (except on MacOS where `urllib` fails with some opaque errors untill you run some random script to deal with certs)
Oh, the infinite means solution!
This largely depends on how the application is written and in particular what if any non-POSIX interfaces it uses.

If you are looking to hit line rates with UDP, or looking to head well above ~1-10gbps with TCP, you're fast headed into territory where you likely need to move away from POSIX. (For a super dumb benchmark, oversized buffers amortizing syscall overhead might get you to 10gbps on TCP, but in a real application everything changes)

Once you're headed over 10gbps you'll quickly run into a hard need to retune things even for TCP, earlier if you're talking to non-local hosts. Once you're over 25gbps you're headed into the territory where you'll need to fix drivers, fix cpu tuning and so on. For a recent real world example: when we were doing performance analysis of our offloading patches for Tailscale we identified problems with the current default CPU frequency scaler for Intel CPUs on current kernels, and reached out to the maintainers with data.
I mean, I am OK with magic, but it has to remain magical to me.
The moment I have to deal with the magic, I don't want it anymore.
AOL existed before direct connections to the Internet of the kind that current ISPs provide were available. In fact, it, like some of the competitors mentioned in the article (such as CompuServe, which I used from the late 1980s to the late 1990s), existed before access to the Internet was available to the public at all (i.e., outside of government and academic institutions). Portals like AOL and CompuServe let you dial in to their servers and do things that today we associate with the Internet and web sites, such as email, chat rooms, discussion boards, news feeds, etc. But you could only do them within the portal using the services that the portal provided. The portals were not connected to each other or to the Internet.
I think this is what WeChat sort of is? And what Musk wants Twitter/X to become.

IMO interoperability and standards work better than this sort of all-in-one package. Do one thing, do it well, and play nice with others. Let the best app win. You know the team working on “X news” or whatever is going to be phoning it in, thinking in the back of their heads “we’d really have to do a bad job to get somebody to leave the whole platform.”
In a thread that is about tuning Linux network performance, a comment like this is essentially arson.
> You don't cure people of any sexual compulsion by indulging it.

If keeping people away from porn makes them less sexual I've seen no evidence of it either.

I don't think pedophilia is "curable" (other than possibly treatments that just kill libido entirely), all you can do is give people the tools to not act on it. Having a means of release that doesn't harm anyone could be such a tool.
I rememebr this era too.

I once showed this off to a friend by minimizing the AOL window, opening a folder, and typing some domain into the location bar. Back then IE was intermingled with explorer enough that this opened the website inside the folder window! Thus proving the internet existed outside of AOL!

We also had similar discoveries of editing the HTML of the folder itself before discovering .html files for making websites.

Then again when we discovered how to make content go into horizontal columns with this magic called <table> and <td> ! The magic!
Yeah agreed, especially now that PowerShell is available cross-platform.

Nushell[1] also seems like a promising alternative, but I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet.

[1]: https://www.nushell.sh/
Isn't it? If one bank tries to send fake transactions, it can have real effects. If some crypto nodes try to send fake transactions, it mostly just doesn't work unless you have a 51% majority. But at that point the system is mostly worthless anyways.
Wait, really? I had no idea you could do that. Might have to try that next time Im tempted to break out python or node for a bash script.
A few of their offerings yield only, "Sorry, this content is not available to view in your current location". I'm in eastern MA, USA.
Example: https://www.nfb.ca/film/buster_keaton_rides_again/
I think I know...

AOL did keep state locally. There was caching. To not only keep the content fresh, additional minutes would be used getting back to the previous state and wallah .... more minutes used.
What you're getting at vis-a-vis highly skilled labor is known in Marxist economics as the labor reduction problem, and it's complicated (enough so that I wouldn't do it justice trying to elaborate the approaches in the time I have to respond). Marx died with it unsolved and it's a matter of discussion to this day. But you're conflating that problem with the concept of socially necessary labor, which is different and actually addresses the problem you posed (in Capital Vol 1, in the difficult early chapters). In order to produce value, the labor must be socially necessary, and the labor of any number of unskilled workers towards a highly complex problem (eg, treating a rare cancer) would not be socially necessary. It doesn't even have to be that complex. I don't have the skills necessary to make a wedding cake, and any attempt I make to do so would be so inept that it wouldn't be socially necessary labor.

Can't speak to the division by zero, but it doesn't come up in any of Marx important work. His mathematical manuscripts don't have any significant relationship to his work on political economy.
I love and hate it.

For simple things like navigating down one key, or one array entry, I know by heart, and it's incredibly useful. But anything more complicated, and I'm too lazy to lookup the documentation.

jq will fall into the bucket along with sed/awk of "tools I once wished to become an expert on, but will never do so because ChatGPT came along".

Would also put regex into that bucket, but they're so ubiquitous that I've already learned regexes. I wonder if the new wave of coders learning coding via ChatGPT will think of regexes the same way I think of sed/awk.
The Big Snit.

https://youtu.be/p1S5pAF1YYA
Marx always begins describing things in Das Kapital simplifying, and then, in later chapters, expanding the model, concluding that in fact it was more complex than was previously presented. The market value of some item would be proportional to the labor only if you consider an isolated industry as an almost closed system, like Marx did in the first book. At the third book, Marx shows that competition and search for profit would produce a force that equalizes the profits for several industries. In the end, prices cannot anymore be explained by the "value" of the product expressed in labor: several goods will be sold above or below their "value". Even if this value is still the origin of the surplus value that creates profit and growth in the capitalist economy.

Marx theory of value is much more elaborated than the one from Smith and Ricardo, and most arguments against it, are in fact arguments against naive and simplified versions of the theory.
The ironic part is that the left will tolerate those who incite violence (similar to Streicher) because they agree with the cause.

So in the end, all the clammering about tolerance is fake - it’s just a political weapon used to silence opponents.
don't disagree but a big part of this is we've gotten so good a preventing a lot of the other causes of death these have increased to fill the gap. Also, I'm definitely not sedentary, but absolutely hate walking. They're not orthogonal.
How many black people did the Jan 6 criminals shoot?

It sounds like allegiance is more important than deeds. Ingroup, outgroup.
Neat. You can then let TinyURL host your web site:

https://tinyurl.com/dmk9e4m2
I use https://github.com/qntm/base2048
I mean, I don't know how relevent this is, but it sounds like an ex manager of mine. Yes the manager came in with bad goals and messing things up to the point he can't achieve those bad goals. Then, you learn it's not about the goals or the accomplishments with this person, it's just wanting to express power over others as long the manager can, regardless of the costs to others
Huge. Gobs of opportunity. One failing of Flexport is it's trying to tackle too much at once. There's a lot of depth to each of the steps and you could build a very solid business out of automating many of them. I seriously looked at a few things in the compliance space and I still think there's a huge opportunity. Sales in the space is generally very difficult as decision makers are slow moving and conservative. But the opportunity to provide value in many places is real. I'd focus more on the supply chain guys at the big CPG companies vs the forwarders if I were to do it again.

What am I doing now? Seems like the same thing everyone else is - Working at BigCo for more money and less stress :). Not looking to change at the moment but urge folks to look into the space for sure. It's a lot of fun and very gratifying. Pure software is more boring in comparison.
Are you willing to bet?

I'd give you a million to one odds against that. More precisely to operationalise: against that being discovered to be the case in the next twenty years.

The way evolution and biology works, what you are suggesting is extremely unlikely. (See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pLRogvJLPPg6Mrvg4/an-alien-g... for a start of an explanation.)
AOL tried to spread the perception it was the internet and so should be the one chosing which internet resources were available for you. It wasn't really wasn't though. It was just a small walled garden in a bigger internet.

Cloudflare on the otherhand, by it's sheer cheap utility, has inserted itself between a significant number of the top websites (and other internet services to a lesser extent) on the internet as a whole. It acts as the gateway deciding if your client is on the approved list for access the resource. It has become what AOL always hoped to be. It's almost too big to fail now and likely will enshittify it's business model all the way to AOL levels in time.
The best solution gimbal mount attached to the lense.

The are designed mount on anything that accepts a tripod head.
Related:

Van Atta Reflector Array

https://www.radartutorial.eu/17.bauteile/bt46.en.html

1955 Patent - Lester Clare Van Atta - "Electromagnetic reflector":

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2908002A

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/83/5b/aa/c388e17...
Maybe the beetles don't know that the termites are blind?
https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/pfizers-clinical-trial-had-...

One would expect more deaths in the placebo group from all the people who died of covid. Which makes the data even more striking.
Yep, that's why I wrote a tool to cut all metadata from photos

https://cutexif.com/

Which I use before uploading photos to pubic services.

Exif has surprising amount of infomration
It’s certainly Apple’s fault that stepping one inch outside their ecosystem leads to unbounded brokenness.

However, as a practical matter, if you want one of their devices fixed, then you take it to an Apple Store, and if you don’t live near one, you either take a vacation to someplace that does, or stay home and pound sand.

I’ve had similarly bad experiences to the OP with toshiba and lenovo warranty service, and definitely blame those companies.

(100% of my busted apple devices were corporate machines, and they ended up on top of big shiny milled aluminum e-waste piles, so I’ve never personally had a bad experience with their warranty service. They have received a few questionable returns from me and fixed a software issue or two though. I’ve heard plenty of anecdotes where they just take back busted hardware so they can triage it.)
Capitalism doesn't have to be concerned with power for it to result in those with capital holding the most power. 'Rights' that are only available to those with capital aren't really rights at all.
Please tell me he sold the name "The Matrix" to Warner Bros.
As someone who loves to bike and hates to walk why would you prioritize one over the other? You're entire prescriptive approach is a big problem in making any improvement. How about "try to do anything other than drive by yourself in your car?"
> Just like a drunk driver who drives from point A to point B without killing anyone or causing any damage

I don't think this is a good analogy. There's strong evidence that drink driving increases the risk of accidents, which is why it's illegal. Child porn is illegal because children are harmed to make it. It's _possible_ that the existence of child porn increases the chance of a pedophile acting on their urges, but if there is I don't know of any studies. An analogous (and more ethical) study might be whether or not people have more sex in places where pornography is easily accessible, but I have my doubts. It's well documented that young people are having less sex in general than previous generations and porn is more accessible than it's ever been, so if anything it appears the correlation might go the other way.

EDIT: I think the other far more compelling argument is that allowing any child sex images to exist at all normalizes it, and could make people consider it less harmful. Could it increase the rates in which people who are otherwise not pedophiles abuse children? I don't know the answer but it seems like a question worth asking.
I recently discovered one of my neighbors in Palo Alto walks around with a handgun on him all the time.
It's a bad time of year for that. And a bad year too. There haven't been this many storms out there since 2008.
> Community refuses to admit that powershell is much better alternative to bash/python combo

Because its not.

Powershell is very nice as a glue language for .NET components, and its better as a general purpose shell/scripting language than the old DOS-inspired Windows Command Prompt, for sure.
If storage space was 100% of the decision about logs they would not retain logs. The other factors include technical utility and legal considerations.
By all means, if you think you know what it is then say it.
"somehow" - your computer would make phone calls to remote servers and (mo)dulate and (dem)odularte [modem] the digital signals to analog for transmission. Early modems you had to literally rest a corded landline phone on them.

Some companies built private networks and services to these users before meshing with the internet at large.
The iframe's sandbox attribute is doing a lot of work. I tried to change the parent window location to remove the footer, but the sandbox thwarted me since it didn't include "allow-same-origin".

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...

Of course, you can just link directly to the URL the iframe points to. In the case of your video, you can simply visit https://smolsite.zip/s/57fe209faf4e6c0316ad32d7eeb792dfb571e... to have it autoplay while getting rid of the footer. I'm not sure how long the /s/ URL stays around before getting garbage collected by the server, but I bet you could regenerate it by sending a GET request to https://smolsite.zip/UEsDBBQAAgAIAPtxJlepozjzcAAAAIgAAAAKAAA... again.
data = json.load(sys.stdin)

commits = [elt.commit for elt in data if elt.commit.author = "Tom Hudson"]

json.dump(commits, sys.stdout)

Definitely not as straightforward... would be nice to have a bit more affordances for path expressions in Python.
I assume that if the nix daemon is being started with each pod, then you're downloading a fresh copy of everything every time, so for large closures you give up a lot of the benefit of the cluster being able to cache layers (as in, say, a nix2container- or nixery-style image) and achieve very fast subsequent startups.

I'm a k8s novice, but would there be a way to run the nix daemon/cache in a semi-persistent pod on each node, and then "attach" it to the actual worker pods?
> but the toy networks we have today don't have nearly the right topology to achieve such states.

But why do you think it needs some "right topology"? Why can't "qualia-generating" computation be simple?

If you mean it needs recurrence (i.e. not being simply feed-forward) — then a network continuously fed with its previous output (which is the way you run LLMs!) does have this property.