skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the value of these

The Pile (the 800GB dataset by Eluther AI) contains BookCorpus2, along with two much larger datasets of books (and a whole lot of not-book stuff). From their paper [0] the reasoning for the book datasets is that they are "are invaluable for long-range context modeling research
and coherent storytelling". The reasoning for including BookCorpus2 next to Books3 and Project Gutenberg boils down to "no significant overlap with the other datasets, and others use it".

In general books are a great source of extremely high quality long-form content. They are longer than most content found on the web, and are generally of high quality, having gone through many revision rounds between editor and author. Just that both of these aren't really true of BookCorpus. Even a dump of highly rated stories from fanfiction.org might be better.

0: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00027.pdf
This name confuses me as I usually expect things named "OpenFoobar" to be open versions of "Foobar" (see: OpenJDK, OpenTTD), but here that’s not the case.
Oh wow. That’s a good one! Will add that one.
I think you misread the comment and he doesn't do this to escape his wife. You should reflect on yourself to understand what mechanism makes you jump head on on a (illegitimate) patronizing opportunity.
The target audience for a IaC project is probably people who know what IaC is. Or even people who know what "infrastructure" and "code" are, separately.
I didn't say Walmart can do whatever they want to their customers, for any reason they dream up. I said that I have no right to enter a Walmart store. No one does.

As a company incorporated in the United States, Walmart has to abide by lots of laws, including laws that prohibit racial discrimination. That does not equate to anyone having a right to enter their stores. It means Walmart can't exclude people solely on the basis of race. They can refuse to let me in for any number of reasons, or no reason, but if they tell me it's because of my skin color or disability they have broken the law.

Every night when Walmart closes they refuse entry to everyone, for an obvious reason, imposed fairly on everyone, and none of us has a right to enter the store. Suppose I roll up in a wheelchair as they're locking the doors at night, and they won't let me in because the store is closed. They made up that closing time, no law tells them when to close. If I sue Walmart claiming they denied me entry because I have a disability, they will rightfully say I was denied entry because the store was closed to everyone. I think you can see how that plays out. That's the difference between not having any right to enter the store and having the right not to suffer discrimination as a protected minority.

And when the dust settles and I lose in court, Walmart can bar me from their stores if they want to because I sued them. But not because I have a disability.
Making comfortable and capable mixed reality glasses common is not primarily a software problem. In fact, I'd say the challenges are almost entirely unrelated to software, though there probably would be a need for a richer software ecosystem designed for mixed reality for them to really take off.
Specialized in flying, including eyes and brains, at that!

Autopiloted is much easier than cars because air space is less crowded with less obstacles and extremely well controlled. Low flying delivery drones don't fall in that bucket.
I thought of OpenTTD. Transport Tycoon Deluxe
> I suggest that if you care about birds, with respect to drones, then you should become active in drone communities to determine the effects that drones have on birds. ...

Without meaning to be snarky, what is your intent in this comment? I cant move the mountain that is US domestic policy from here, which will inevitably infect my country -- where it turns out I'm equally unable to effect policy (yes, I do vote, I have campaigned, things get pushed through anyway).

It just reads as "Well if you care so much about birds, why dont you get into drones", which feels almost like a non sequitur. The birds were here before me, and before the drones. I cant imagine there are any studies done on the wide spread integration of birds and drones, we wont get any until after we have hundreds of drones in the air at one time. Then we'll be treated to repeated NYT articles labeled "Where have all the birds gone?", discovering that, in fact birds were ok with 1 drone on the weekend but have suddenly freaked out when there are 100s/km^3 of airspace.

I sometimes see one or two drone pilots in summer, but largely they're non-existent here which might be the cause of some of my distaste for the idea of their proliferation. When they're here, they're loud and annoying (and scare my dog!). Probably I'm just being a curmudgeon.
Title is misleading. More like what is under the hood in the near future, a technical perspective. I thought to find some inspiration on what kind of software we can expect.

Nevertheless a nice and agreeable read.
I'm no master, but I figured out a few things:

1. check git blame in the place where you do changes before you do them - on several occassions I found out that the "obvious bug" I was fixing was introduced on purpose 2 years ago and the jira referenced in git commit explained why

2. don't refactor long pure methods into classes with many small methods - if you can refactor a method into smaller methods - that's fine, but if you need to introduce a class with internal state because of interactions between these small methods - DON'T. You give the caller the opportunity for many interesting bugs, race conditions etc.

3. when changing code look a few levels up and down the callstack and check if there are steps that are now redundant

4. it's much better to pass empty collection than null or optional

5. when you're testing conditional code - test the negative. For example when you add paging - don't only test that page 2 shows items from page 2 - also test that it doesn't show items from page 1
I remember a long time ago there was a fashion for "prevalence layers" instead of persistence layers. The idea being you persist your event log, but your app is the materialisation of all those events replayed. That way you get stop-the-world persistence but you're only ever dealing with your domain model (or the event sourced version of it, at least). Obviously you then run into issues around the size of the working set, and querying use cases. The approach in the article seems like an attempt to have your cake and eat it, and so my gut reaction is that it won't work, but then I never really had an issue with ORMs in the first place - Hibernate was great and I don't think I've seen an approach in 15+ years that convinces me we've moved forwards.
The effect where the items expand and move slightly to "try to reach your cursor" – does that fill any practical purpose? Considering that the threshold for the next item is still the same, it doesn't seem like it would help you click things, only fool you into thinking that's what it does.
Be really helpful to me and maybe others if you could let us know what 'Clones' you know of?, as I struggle to find them, thanks.
Reminds me of https://thedailywtf.com/. I read that site every single day before I discovered HackerNews
This, so much this.

HashiCorp pricing just made it simply impossible to pay them.

Their plan was to provide a free offering that was very good, get companies hooked, and then charge our the nose for any enterprisy feature.

The problem was how they charged, which they don't reveal until after you contact sales. You could build a solution using the free offering that works very well. Then years later want something paid offerings and contact sales and find out that they charge over 1000USD per clients, and you have 1000 clients. Oops, guess I'm just going to engineer my own solution for that. 1 million a year buys a lot of development and operational.

It's really hard to go to management and say this open source thing we are running and serving the companies needs will now cost millions of dollars.

Though I understand HashiCorp position somewhat. I'm sure their sales team has repeatedly heard that a potential client has decided they don't need the feature they called about since the free solution is good enough and can engineer around any short commons.
NI is recognised as a "contingent" part of the UK. (contingent because as a gerrymandered legacy colony imposed on the Irish people it is a disputed territory).

There certainly is an implied agreement that there will be never again be a hard border with customs controls. Both govts accept this and the UK parliament voted for the NI protocol because of this. Disputing this is simply absurd and pointless. Pointless because the days of unionist dictation to the rest of the population are over and they won't be coming back. Get over it.
If so, unit economics will never work, regardless of cargo.
Pierce the cover with a knife and cut along the edges, then remove the goods through the flap. Works for us. :)
> It just smells too much like shadow marketing campaign.

That's an interesting observation. I thought it was just the "tech journalists" recognizing the Framework name and publishing this everywhere but who knows ...
How Container Networking Works: Practical Explanation
more importantly, they've not even been charged for.

personally i'd be surprised if the guy wasn't a rapist, he spent a decade virtually admitting it and acting like one, but it's absolutely fucked that that all somebody (person, newspaper, content creator, whatever) needs to do to completely and permanently take away someone's livelihood is call them a rapist on the internet.

our society is irreparably broken at this point, there's no coming back from any of this.
Railroads are also enormously expensive to build and maintain. According to some reports a few times more so than motorways (at least in the UK). I don't know if there are technical reasons for rail to be more expensive but most railway organizations are inefficient monopolies. In other areas competitions drives costs down (e. g. drives inefficient companies out of the market) but railways are natural monopolies.
- "How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly, there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. They were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense."

Timeless observations. The most powerful force controlling a democracy is, simply, us. And the root cause of all the most damaging policy errors is us, with our banal inadequacies: our stupidities, our fears and angers, our irrationality.

This truth is entirely vanished from modern democratic narratives, because no one wants to hear it, and no one benefits from advancing it. Democracy means you're in power; civics means you're responsible.
LLM generated UIs sound interesting, but would likely ensure nightmarish bugs. But if it can be done, someone will try it.

I might try it.
Well, the comment from George here makes the topic a little gray since the peole mentioned talk about crypto and about Metaverse, whatever it is.
What's the reasoning here? AML somehow? Or just that large amounts transferred in should be subject to import tax (that just doesn't seem like it would be RBI concern)?

Because, on a basic high-level look, why would a country not want inflows of foreign cash, typically you do want to sell goods/services for foreign money, good for GDP.
$2.99/month shared hosting plan. https://www.inmotionhosting.com/home-b

It does allow for 2 websites, so perhaps this one is riding free on something else the owner does.
Food and medicine get in because they're exempt from the embargo and because the embargo doesn't stop Cuba from engaging in commerce with other countries. Cuba imports 80% of its food and the US is one of its largest suppliers.
The ones they are currently using in Africa are normal drone planes. They drop their payload without stopping though, so the payload has to be packed securely and nothing that can break easily. So it's used for medical supplies. This what Mark Rober's video was about.

If they were to create a drone that can deliver arbitrary packages, then it needs to be able to lower a package safely. That's what those renders are, they show a typical multi-rotar drone with small wings. So it can stop and lower a package. I don't think there's any real footage of these yet.
if you're making a commission on every shovel... I guess so?
I am sorry, but your last sentence is basically "humans learn".

And, in case you missed it, no one here is asking what IAC is, most everyone in this forum knows, we are saying it's not super-transparent for a random visitor to their website and a better "what is this project about" page mentioning data centers a bit more and "we forked Terraform" a couple times less would be an improvement.
There is a strong correlation between highly processed food intake and metabolic diseases.

1960s and 1970s Americans drove a lot, cars were a symbol of American culture. But they were a lot slimmer and healthier than today. Look at any video from NY or LA streets from that time. These guys and gals were normal office workers, not hunters and gatherers. But they looked completely different.

Perhaps not incidentally, their diet was completely different, too.
This is not a VM. They connected Nitro, which is an NVMe implementation, to real Mac hardware via Thunderbolt. So this is just a Mac booting from external Thunderbolt-connected storage.
What? Today chatgpt helped me make a plantUML diagram of a scene from Toy Story 1. Who are you to deprive me this pleasure.

@startuml
participant Woody
participant Buzz
participant RC
participant "Moving Truck" as MovingTruck
participant Toys
participant Andy

note left: Woody and Buzz are stranded at Sid's house.

Woody->Buzz : We need to get back to Andy's room.
Buzz->Woody : I believe I can fly.
Woody->Buzz : You can't fly!
Buzz->Woody : I can fall with style.

note right: They need to catch up to the moving truck.

Woody->RC : We need your help!
RC->Woody : Let's go!

Woody->RC : Ride on RC
Buzz->RC : Ride on RC
RC->MovingTruck : Chases the truck

note left: The batteries start to run out.

Woody->Buzz : Use your wings!
Buzz->Woody : It's not flying. It's falling with style.

Buzz->MovingTruck : Soar and land safely
Woody->MovingTruck : Soar and land safely
Toys->Woody : Welcome back!
Toys->Buzz : Welcome back!
Andy->Woody : Hugs
Andy->Buzz : Hugs

note right: Woody and Buzz become friends.

@enduml
I'd love it if it was also accepting Common Lisp
Is there a modern solution for this that isn't some variant of FastCGI? I know it's inadvisable but sometimes I would like to write a proof of concept that doesn't require me to code a reliable, long-running process.
Which sounds... fine.
Nice. We (Delphi[0] - enterprise AI data assistant) do something similar internally to power our app.

We’re all typescript under the hood so I’ll give this a look and see if we can use it.

Symphony wouldn’t support other LLMs currently, right? Only GPT-4?

[0] https://delphihq.com
I wish NEMA 6[0] receptacles and plugs were more common in North American, especially in the kitchen. I would love to have access to 240 V for counter top appliances like my electric kettle and toaster oven. A single receptacle compatible with both 120 and 240 volt plugs would be even better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_6
Tax write off won’t justify or make up for this. He’s just desperate and flailing like a man sinking in quicksand.
Franco-Prussian happened after the civil war and had a much bigger influence.
Most of the work use mopads/motorcycles for delivery. A lot more efficient than cars.

Here in India a lot of delivery services moved to electric 2 wheelers
"That said, there seems to be an underlying interpersonal conflict, and possibly incompatibility, here."

Possible, but I would not judge so much, from the little that was shared. Op just shared what worked for him, to prevent panic attacks. And he shared that their are downsides as well, that frustrates his wife. The rest is speculation.
But a person who knows what "infrastructure" is likely thinks of roads and power lines and sewage pipes. A "data center", which is what "infrastructure" roughly means in this case, isn't exactly the prototypical example of "infrastructure", or is it?
Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video]
https://archive.ph/KPqJA
I'd say it IS a tech problem as much as it is a policy problem. Technology historically has allowed humanity to develop society in a way that constantly minimises risk, reduces "hard labour" tasks, and delegates repetitive "brainless" work to computers. Only with technology could these policies come into fruition. Otherwise, we would be effectively shutting down industries completely, and as far as I am aware this rarely if ever happens.

I do believe minimum wage should be set at the local living wage standard, and that companies like Uber are exploiting their workers through weak labour laws, but unless the market is much more tightly controlled, in a somewhat-free market (which is most of the world) economy, it is a tech issue.
1B+ asians eat tofu as a regular ingredient and not as a "meat alternative missing any kind of taste, smell or texture." In fact, not only are there DOZENS of kinds of tofu with wildly different textures and flavors, but even within a category, brands have big differences. The Japanese eat tofu uncooked and cold, drizzled with sauces (soy i.e. more soybean product!) and spices (ginger) - it's called hiyayakko, it's delicious and available as an inexpensive appetizer in most japanese restaurants and sushi bars.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hiyayakko
I’ll bet a substantial amount of money it’s happening elsewhere.

And sooner or later I’d expect the developers of at least one of these apps to end up in serious legal trouble.
It seems the license info is not readily available on the website. I can easily find it in the GitHub repo but not on the website. I think it would be nice to have it clearly visible on the website, too.
> The plus side from this will hopefully be people reading contracts more closely before basing their income stream on it.

I thought the point of all this was that they changed the license. So you sign a license to use the product and spent time and money to develop your product... then they change the license so it's no longer profitable for you to sell it.

So I guess the only reasonable solution to prevent that type of thing is for the license to include wording that you have the right to continue to license it under the same conditions (and presumably price limited) perpetually.
I enjoyed this course
https://youtu.be/2pWv7GOvuf0?si=DKkhPXQmVjA3ySIn
The US horrible land use, zoneing and transportation policy in effect. Both housing cost and transport cost combined are huge part of people spendable income.
An introduction to Linux virtual interfaces: Tunnels (2019)
Does anyone else remember reading a longer version of this or am i mixing it with some other similar story?
Every incorrect reading should result in you recieving the cost of the ticket. If that was so, I would be 500$ richer. Would provide a nice incentive for contractors and governments to fix their shitty systems.
Wholly unrelated to the topic at hand, but while you’re here…

I minimise how many email subscriptions I have, so don’t keep pace with many writers. But I have an annual tradition going back maybe 8-10 years of over my Christmas break reading all of your content for the year.

It’s been fun watching the journey from Uberman sleep hacking to multiple properties with friends (an aspiration of mine), to more recently tea + relationship + Vegas.

Keep being you, and thanks for sharing.
Are subsidies not inherently valuing something highly? Except with some safeguards to prevent "Well you're poor so why are you worth keeping alive". Maybe it's better to shift ag subsidies to things like food stamps/some form of UBI, but that would definitively be a prerequisite.
I'm glad the judge disagrees with your... Creative interpretion of contract and criminal law not being the "more valid argument".
Would love to know the answer as well.

People that work with LXD typically say that LXD is closer to VMs than OCI containers. You can use one image and create a VM as well as a container from it with LXD. This brings things like full-featured kernel load with your process.

If that's the main differentiating factor though, that's deeply unconvincing to me, personally.
Great initiative, and I'm sure that with the community's stewardship this will become a better tool than TF ever was. Me personally, I'm happy about the licence change because it pushed me to Pulumi and I'm absolutely loving it, which I could never say about TF, quite the opposite.
I agree with the author that chat interfaces for LLMs can be suboptimal. A chat could require redundancies that is not required to perform a task and it imposes a linear flow of information. It is hard to have branching behaviour in a chat. I have been experimenting with using a different kind of a UI to overcome these limitations: https://www.heuristi.ca/
If that is the case, why does the upstream project website tell what it does?
I think it was the Taylor Swift song about PostgreSQL.
Ask HN: Is local website mirroring still relevant?
Mostly asking for personal use-cases. In the style of wget or siminar tools.
If true, the value inherent in the battery has to be understood properly. This impacts recycling, post car use, car resale value, lease tail costs, the whole box and dice.

It also means battery swap economics which have been criticised on a misapplication of Gresham's law are probably also misunderstood, and swap (ie battery lease not own) could work a lot better than people think.
I'm very interested in the question for how the design of online spaces in terms of user interaction creates incentives. The differences between no voting / upvote only / upvote + downvote seem significant.
We need good locally installed LLMs (and cheap hardware to run it). I hope there can be some kind of breakthrough for this similar to what Stable Diffusion made for image-generators. I tried to generate some simple code using a few of the llama-models small enough to run on my computer and it did surprisingly well, but still far from good enough to be useful.
> In this state I may acknowledge her talking to me but have little or no memory of any conversations after.

He tunes out his wife

> if I so choose

Willfully

> It drives my wife crazy

And often enough that it’s an issue.

He hasn’t shown up again in this bizarre thread, heck he’s probably doing it right now!
a closure can capture either the value or the reference of the variables.

in this case it captured the reference which at the time of invocation always pointed to the same value.
and do it over the sink
How I limit social media:

I don't use them. End of story. And no, LinkedIn doesn't count imho, because it serves exactly two purposes, to have an easily pointed to, searchable, public CV and a communication channel for recruiters to try and get me interested.

And that's it. No FB, no Insta, no Twitter, no Tiktok, not even large Whatsapp or similar chat app groups (the biggest is my family channel).

And lo and behold: I live, and happily so. And get news just as fast as everyone else, because RSS feeds are a thing, and probably a bit faster than people who rely on their "social" media feed to tell them what's up, because my RSS feed is controlled by exactly one algorithm, and that's a for loop iterating over my list of feed-addresses ;-)
Thanks, excited to hear what you think after trying it out :)
London has one of the best public transport networks in Europe.
It's been found, talked about, and got enough notice to make news which made it to HN... from Spain. Other places are either not aware yet, or not making enough noise. The models are available everywhere - I'm sure it's happening all over the place.