skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's really called brutalist web design? Someone mentioned it to me on IRC but I thought it was just the adjective he used to describe the https://motherfuckingwebsite.com. Had no idea this had turned into an entire design trend.
>Strictly speaking an instruction set doesn’t include things like the memory model which you need to know to be able to port code.

Very strictly speaking, to the point where it's true but irrelevant.

RISC-V does have specifications for memory models: RVWMO and Ztso. They are both ratified.
There was a while in the late 2010s where many of us were pretty sure that Apple was on the verge of prohibiting users from running any code they wrote themselves.

Other than arguments made on messageboards, I don't think there was really any concrete evidence of this, the technical/product reasons they were/are doing this for were clear. So yeah, I think that's a discontinuity of perception.
People invent new words to avoid the baggage of old words all the time. Statistics has a lot of old associations and negative connotations, data science sounded fresh.
The benefit comes when prices reach the level where traffic flows at full speed.

This increases the traffic throughput by maybe 5x, which makes the road much more useful.
thanks for the heads up! i've updated the links in the readme to point to the right urls now.
Do the healthcare and FIRE sectors help the US compete against other economies?
Indeed. American liberalism (in the most general rather than partisan sense) has for decades tied itself to the ideal of nonviolence. In practice means that it favors orderly incumbency (however oppressive) over messy revolution (however justified). It's not armed groups are good by definition; many of them are highly questionable or outright appalling, eg FARC or the Maoist Shining Path group. But this 'nonviolence' posture and its magical exclusion of most state violence ensures that unarmed movements are impotent. An impressive dichotomy for a country that celebrates its own violent formation with fireworks and song every July.
The wise man does not build his house on the sand.
That was still a really big deal. The terrorists expected the towers to collapse immediately on impact. Everyone who was in the towers that morning and didn't die was saved by the "airplane-proof" construction.
I'm scratching my head what besides F-Droid and Altstore are available for smartphone platforms. Unless you mean the OS itself.
My old Windows phone had a dock to make a desktop which was actually pretty cool. I could see a use for this
Buses typically make several runs along their route in both directions, until they need to go back to the barn for refueling, maintenance, or mileage. So any deadheading they need to arrive or return from that route tends to be a fractional part of the mileage they make on that route. Also, the route taken to and from the barn can be a lower-traffic route than that which the bus covers on its scheduled route. It's also a defined endpoint; if we see these robotaxis meandering around town with nowhere to go, except sometimes a random supercharger port, that is not deadheading, that's lollygagging.
I really liked the video series of: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/aWV3xr6xSXk (more full length videos on his channel)

He used an old Intel NUC to make a handheld gaming device, but the quality of his work is quite good.

It's all open source too.

Really makes you wonder how far we've come. Tinkerers making and sharing technology that used to take companies so much time and resources to design.
Or the government could do it at-cost in-house instead of paying a margin to BAH.

I'm sure we can argue the 100 reasons why we can't/shouldn't do that, but it is a possible option, even if it's claimed to be a terrible one.
Thanks!!

> I played a few games with myself, but noticed that the "Game over" message does not stop the game? Is it supposed to keep going after the king dies?

Game is over when that happens, I just didn't add in the logic to terminate or restart the game, so yes you can technically keep going.

> Also, I think some kind of legend would be very helpful. I was unsure what the lettering system meant, "w", "l", and "o". I get they are related to the rules, but was unsure what. I see in the code you have an epilog text, but I never saw that displayed when running the game, I think it would be helpful to see it while playing.

Good point, I just updated it to display before the game starts, before it would only show when running it with --help.

> Finally, what rule dictates which pieces are born?

There's a queue for each player which continuously loops over the list of pieces displayed, and they're popped from the queue to eligible squares starting from row 1 for white, and starting from row 8 for black, and from left to right.
I think the problem is there's very little overlap between people who are interested in this stuff, and people who are interested in what typical consumers want.

People are really focused on privacy, and even opt-in integration with nonprivate hardware and services doesn't happen much.

Convenience features gtt completely ignored, and worst of all, a huge amount of P2P stuff has no mobile support.

Furthermore a lot of it involves a self hosted single point of failure. For me that's a complete deal breaker, it's not acceptable that a service could go down because something happened to a home server while I was away.

And then on top of that, most p2p projects for about 10 years were completely impractical blockchain things that either cost money or huge amounts of bandwidth and compute.

Self hosted, with decentralized identity not tied to a domain name, with automatic backup and redundancy to a selectable cloud provider via an open source protocol, with a very high quality mobile app, and smartwatch support, etc, would be amazing.

But it seems like people these days aren't interested in feature rich commercial style zero maintenance apps, so I'll probably keep mostly ignoring the entire concept of self hosting until that changes.
Very cool, I will check it out.
Thank you for taking the time to reply. This has put me on the right path.
I really don't understand why the GSA can't do this (or CISA since they seem to be taking over some of the GSA's responsibilities)?

A reservation system seems like the kind of thing that'd show up often enough at various federal, state, and local levels for there to be enough value in the GSA just building their own, providing integrations into their US Web Design System so that it's easy for orgs to add, and offering it at cost to the orgs or facilities that need it.
Travelling to the Stars by Ladder [video]
Why does the official EU site use them then?
https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
I have family in that vicinity and I've probably driven by it a couple hundred times in my life but never stopped. They took over an old Walmart building after Walmart expanded.

If you've watched American Pickers (which started in LeClaire, Iowa, just upriver from Davenport), they worked with the National Motorcycle Museum on a number of finds.
> And once they learn how much they can move, they are unwilling to move around less (or slower)

I think you’d find a ton of people willing to trade their car for public transit if it was a viable option. I’ve never heard of someone who enjoyed having a $733 monthly car payment (the average). Especially not $1200 (a full 15% now!)

There are plenty of people in big cities, even in the US, who are happy without cars.
I built a CMS backed by it to build sites that are mostly data, but have a few text blocks and images, so since all the data entry was in Airtable anyway, moving the rest of the content there made sense and now lots of small dev tasks can be done with zero dev time (change gets made in Airtable, product manager triggers the CI build, CI build pulls everything from Airtable)
Compression and prediction as finite and infinite games
You make it sound as though there’s some obscene sprawl of interrelated tooling, barely held together with shell scripts, and only OP knows how it all works.

Nothing described is that weird, nor should it have difficulty horizontally scaling when and if the time comes - add another node, and front it with a load balancer.

The problem is that DevOps has shifted so heavily to Dev that “I’m running services natively on a Linux box” is somehow seen as Byzantine and arcane.

> when you use shell scripts for deploys… can’t as easily prove things to auditors as you can with a CI/CD system

What do you think a CI/CD system is running? Also, if /var/log/auth.log isn’t enough, there are other auditing systems available that could make this more granular.

> industry compliance standards

IME, these are a joke, and auditors routinely miss a dizzying amount of glaring problems, because they don’t look beyond records that humans generated.

> every hour you spend upgrading a database or patching an OS…

Patching the OS should be automated. If it isn’t, that’s on you. Ansible isn’t hard to learn.

As to the database, if you can’t read docs (both MySQL and Postgres have excellent documentation on this procedure) and perform them as written, frankly you shouldn’t be dealing with RDS either. It’s not like AWS docs aren’t confusing, spread over a million pages, and sometimes contradictory.

Pardon the seething undertone, but as an ops-heavy SRE/DBRE, I’m very tired of seeing people lambast ops as being somehow beneath modern practices, not worthy of their time, or worse,
not cost-effective. A well-written app can absolutely run just fine on a tiny server, and does not need the miasma of shit that is cloud-native. Computers are blindingly fast. Stop demanding infinitely-scaling vCPUs because optimization is hard. Stop pretending that your time is more valuable than minutiae like “my ORM is producing garbage queries resulting in hideous latency because I don’t understand SQL or schema design.”
This looks like a great idea.

For myself, back in the ‘90s, I was really into spending a bunch of time, hand-crafting Web sites, but these days, I just use rather lightly-modified WordPress sites.

Anyone remember the famous SatireWire Cubist Web Site story[0]?

[0] https://www.satirewire.com/cubists-launch-unnavigable-web-si...
I'm the same.

My reddit usage is now about 5% of what it was before. I also use it for Ukraine info, but now I do it at home on old.reddit.com, and not doomscrolling on mobile throughout the day.
AI Regulation
This is mostly about async Rust. Today, async Rust works, but it's a lot jankier and less polished than the rest of the language; in some ways, it feels kind of beta-quality. The maintainers are extremely aware of this problem and are making serious efforts to fix it. These efforts are expected to take years, because it is a difficult technical problem (most other languages solve it in ways that compromise runtime performance or low-level programmer control, which Rust prioritizes) and because a community-driven open source project has limited resources and takes time to arrive at decisions.

This blog post discusses one potential technical direction for addressing a subset of the problems with async Rust, and in particular why the need to preserve backwards compatibility with earlier design decisions, made before async Rust was designed, makes it harder than it might otherwise have been.

If you don't use async Rust, you can mostly ignore this. If you do use async Rust, and are interested in how it might (backwards-compatibly!) evolve in the coming years, then the report of the Async Foundations Working Group is probably the best starting point to understand what's going on: https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/welcome.html
> I suspect many of us don’t

One thing I’ve learned after crossing the 50 year mark is that time is actually the most valuable thing we have (and, most egalitarianly, everyone starts out with more or less the same amount of it left). So while troubleshooting can be enjoyable to many, time spent troubleshooting any issue that would simply be impossible to encounter in an alternative system is expensive indeed.

Consider reading this very understandable paper, which I consider at least as important as the Bitcoin paper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf
Just secede. The scale of the US doesn't make sense. The culture has many schisms. Give people who want guns their guns, give those that don't their peace of mind.
I think the problem is there's very little overlap between people who are interested in this stuff, and people who are interested in what typical consumers want.

People are really focused on privacy, and even opt-in integration with nonprivate hardware and services doesn't happen much.

Convenience features gtt completely ignored, and worst of all, a huge amount of P2P stuff has no mobile support.

Furthermore a lot of it involves a self hosted single point of failure. For me that's a complete deal breaker, it's not acceptable that a service could go down because something happened to a home server while I was away.

And then on top of that, most p2p projects for about 10 years were completely impractical blockchain things that either cost money or huge amounts of bandwidth and compute.

Self hosted, with decentralized identity not tied to a domain name, with automatic backup and redundancy to a selectable cloud provider via an open source protocol, with a very high quality mobile app, and smartwatch support, etc, would be amazing.

But there's not much interest, and it basically can't be done in a UNIXy way, since a lot of the value the clouds provide is in the tight integration of everything, with voice assistants and calendars and a million little things that are individually maybe not even worth setting up manually.
Should private citizens be allowed to own rocket launchers with munitions? This is a hyperbolic argument, but so is "universally against gun controls".
> Meanwhile i'm trying to figure out if any city in the us is willing to ban cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island,_Michigan
I abandoned Unity in 2019. I didn't expect them to do something like this, but I was dedicating a ton of my personal time into honing my craft of game development and I simply felt more comfortable using an open source engine so that I could own my entire craft and I could work on stuff without constantly thinking about money and capitalism. More of just a fun thing done for the love of it.

I didn't expect _this_ to happen, but I still feel like if your putting your life into something you probably want to make sure you own it.
Thanks! My parent comment has a link to my project on GitHub which is named daedalOS. As for architecture, it's changed so much throughout the 3 years, that I am not even totally sure anymore. It's built with Next.js/React. WebAssembly is used in many places, but it's not the basis for the OS.
Does the GSA code anything? does the Govt? For all this stuff isn't it all contract? What I'd hope for in a situation like this is that it's a term contract and the code stays with the govt but really do you want to take over someone else's code?
> Golang doesn't have copy elison unlike C++ so in principle you need to leverage the heap escape anyways.

I mean you can pass structs by ref or value around, which makes direct impact will they be on stack or heap.

> Golang's arenas were an experiment that has already been ditched by the maintainer as un-feasible.

Thank you, good to know, looks like big pros in favor of rust as lang for my next project.
Hi, a Petals dev here. 
 means "end of sequence" for LLMs. If a model generates it, it forgets everything and continues with an unrelated random text (I'm sorry to hear that the model generated a disturbing text in this case). Still, I doubt that malicious actors are involved here.

Apparently, the Colab code snippet is just too simplified and does not handle 
 correctly. This is not the case with the full chatbot app at https://chat.petals.dev - you can try it out instead.
Are you sure about the DNSSEC thing there? The overwhelming majority of deliverable domains aren't DNSSEC-signed (because the overwhelming majority of all domains isn't).
Can you fork lichess from github and publish the variant if it possible.
Several sites already exist on this basis (PyChess, Lidraughts, LiShogi).
I just want to say that while we probably do have some fundamental differences of opinions, I am a bit puzzled when you suggest that I am indoctrinated or otherwise brainwashed.

I assure you that, in fact, I am very aware in general of how strong and pervasive the profit motive is, how money drives research, and how sometimes research isn't entirely reproducible or is otherwise flawed from the premise or methodologies used. I am also very aware of how research is weaponized to push an agenda by many different types of actors - who may not be in good faith; agendas that likely won't amount to real change in the grand scheme of things - beyond lining the pockets of the few.

I believe that there are plenty of problems on Earth that I would classify as top priority for everyone in the world to address and for them to actively participate in the solutions. Things are not fine, we fundamentally disagree. And I do think there is enough consensus from all sources, that there are some pretty dire predictions for the world. I believe everybody is entitled to forming their own opinions, and that critical thinking absolutely shouldn't be discouraged. You are not harshly judged by me. I'm sure you could link me many studies where you identify a conflict of interest, or identify bad faith, or point out an agenda that is assuredly not for the greater good, or perhaps just dismiss studies that you would liken to fear porn - or an overreaction. And that's fine, I do have an open mind, a mind which I try to exercise, I may not even need to be convinced or informed. But dismissing all the research highlighting the problems potentially coming ahead is definitely a big claim, and requires extraordinary evidence to convince me or anybody reading the thread.

It is indeed a bit of a fantasy to suggest that we, as a species and global community, could penetrate the barriers that limit our creativity and stifle progress, and initiate in good faith diplomacy with one another, and conceive of working together to plan and manifest a better future without our current trajectory poisoning the well.

Fantasy or not, I'd like to believe that human beings are somewhat capable of the diplomacy, civility, and tolerance displayed in TV shows like Star Trek. We are perhaps currently barbaric, but probably still not too far off from shifting away from those practices if we actively utilize technology and our knowledge and ingenuity to change the world as a whole to one that is truly post-scarcity.
Related link in the article:
Unity is merging with a company who made a malware installer https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-is-merging-with-a-company-who-...
This reminds me of when Wizards of the Coast destroyed their D&D business by announcing they were cancelling the OGL. Many people had built a cottage industry around the OGL which helped to grow the player base, which in turn helped Wizards of the Coast make 5.0 the most popular D&D yet. Now everyone despises and mistrusts them, it doesn't matter that they backtracked.
Look, good websites are great. I’m glad you’re happy with the experience. But building good websites is not some special capability that should entitle you to large fractions of ongoing revenue from customers. Building decent websites in 2023 should be a competitive fee-for-delivery service, even for websites that have specialized functionality and large scale like auctions. Someone should pay you a (potentially large!) fee for building it and an ongoing maintenance/support fee. Nobody should be entitled to collect a huge rent amounting to any substantial fraction of all national park recreational fees just because they built some infrastructure, any more than the people who paved the roads leading to the national parks should be allowed to collect tolls on every driver passing through.

If your response is that websites are so hard to build that our government can’t spec out its requirements and get it built — and therefore just need to overpay by 10,000x for the privilege of having a decent user experience, then maybe we (technologists) need to go have a long look in the mirror and ask what we’ve done to make things so terrible.
healthcare.gov was a disaster for a combination of reasons.

However, one of the primary reasons is had such a rough start was because FAR too many people were channelled into it.

The individual states were supposed to set up their own systems that the Federal system would reimburse and channel people into. Places like California did so--and the experience was quite decent. The problem, of course, was the all the Red states refusing to set up a system and all their citizens wound up in the healthcare.gov system.

Of course, the major problem with healthcare.gov was the same problem as with all government contracts--outsourcing. All contractors basically play "chicken" with the government--they take all the money they can up front and do as little work as they can until the very last moment. If they get really lucky, the program gets cancelled and they get to keep all the money having done no work. Normally, they get yelled at at some point and have to put in work while the schedule slips and slips.

Occasionally, though, they wind up with a contract that they didn't do jack on that had a real deadline and the contractor winds up with egg on their face. This was healthcare.gov.
I disagree. Modern refers to using the learnings and improvements that have been made over the last few decades of designing CPUs. To me including 2 features doesn't necessarily make a design modern.
There’s always this case from 2008: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232990/
Those are the kinds of optimizations that work very well in theory and are an absolute nightmare in practice.

You're talking about a system where one kid running into the road could cause a chain collision of dozens of cars that were counting on rushing the intersection at high speed. Or, alternatively, could end up with the kid getting hit at 45 miles an hour, with extremely fatal and destructive results.
Don't they count fatalities due to assault? Is it optional to live in an area with high crime?
Agree. I've been using ChatGPT4 occasionally to write separate self contained pieces of code. It's amazing how good it is. The limitation right now is that you can't load your whole repo into it. So it's limited to small self contained pieces of code. You can give it functions it can call in the input, but still it's very limited right now. Once someone figures out how to load whole repo into it you will basically be able to assign tasks/bugs to it and it will create a PR for you. So you will only need to review PRs written by AI.
Award-winning ‘Transformer’ robot – Origaker
You are doing just fine. If you need to eventually scale or just add reliability, spend some time learning HAProxy and slap that in front of a couple of nodes.

If you’re concerned about security, spend some time learning SELinux. I’m assuming you’ve already done the reasonable defaults like public key required for ssh, no root login, fail2ban, etc.
There are none that we know of. But if we discovered one tomorrow or if Santa’s elves fell under the plant taxonomy, I don’t think most vegans would be onboard with farming them for food. Sentience is the variable that matters. Animals have just become a rough proxy for that variable due to the lopsided distribution of sentience.