skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ATM part was amusing.

It's still used in the telco space; xDSL runs over ATM, generally speaking.

It's not obvious that TCP/IP would win. I wonder how much of its victory was because it was basically free; the specs were public, and pretty much everyone build an implementation.

Compare that to the other protocols, which tended to be stuck to a vendor (DECnet, AppleTalk, IPX, token ring). That makes interoperability difficult, since in general companies didn't want to license their tech to someone else because it was a competitive advantage.

You can still find the free TCP/IP implementations out there (like tinytcp, which is still floating around).
yup, and someone's looking after it, and i'm submitting fixes and new features to it in 2023.

https://github.com/ingwarsw/tinyfugue

-adrian / erikarn
macOS 10.13.3 was released in January 2018, well over five years ago. Can we please stop repeating the "can't use it, it's not supported" line?
Unfortunately, the key arguments that have to be made with Apple are:

1. How much more profit can you show that they will make if they take the decision to implement your suggestion?

2. How will this help them better meet their regulatory requirements?

For #1, you don't really have an answer. You would be one customer who would be affected, and you might choose to buy their hardware instead. But how likely is that? Can you prove that? And how many more people are there in the market who feel the same way?

For #2, your suggestion actually makes the regulatory situation worse, since you're now adding a cell phone modem to what was otherwise "just" a computing device. And that brings a whole host of additional regulations into the mix, including import laws and tariffs. And any lawsuit that is filed against Apple that could involve protectionist measures against intrusion of external businesses into local cell phone politics would now be able to stop all imports of all laptops of this type, since any of them could presumably have a cell phone modem in them.

For Apple as a corporation, I'm seeing effectively no upside here, and all downside.

For you personally, there would be a lot of upside. And people like me would also benefit. I just don't see a compelling argument that would convince Apple.
Don't calls increase potential gains through leverage? With the usual high risk downside of the option ending up worthless.
I’ve used PG as a message queue, actually it was used as a transactional front end to Kafka; we’d push messages to a PG table during a transaction, which would then be snarfed up to Kafka by a separate process after the transaction completed.

I’ve seen very high transaction rates from this arrangement, more than 20k messages/second.
An antagonist seller can still fail to deliver after accepting payment. Unless what's being sold is digital and payment embeds flawlessly written smart contracts and no one has 51% of mining.
LetsEncrypt already destroyed that "$50 ceremony for $0 cost" business model.
Within six months of not counting, I’d gained over 20 pounds.

In January of this year, I went back on the program — time-restricted eating, counting calories, 10,000 steps per day, and a new exercise regime with super slow weightlifting.

That is a huge, rapid regain. Yup even with surgery he's back to having the same problems as before and having to be careful to avoid overeating. Hardly a miracle. It also shows how hard it is to fight obesity when even after taking such drastic measures as having surgery the weight comes back so fast.

The problem is surgery is just a temp fix. The stomach gradually expands again to accommodate food, and BMR/TDE falls a bit (metabolic adaptation is common after such procedures). Weight regain is very common 2+ years later ,so without fixing the underlying problem of food addiction/overeating, all or most of the weight will return even with surgery. The type of surgery he had has a higher risk of regain compared to to others. Surgery does not fix the tendency of the body to want to store extra calories, of formerly obese people to want to overeat. GLP-1 drugs help with this to a better extent.
Is this something like short term vs long term memory? The context window for LLMs is its short term memory where you can tell it to do things or quickly define something and the LLM can learn very quickly even with just 1 example or a sentence. But it forgets immediately once the work is done. But for finetuning, it commits the knowledge into its weight network and have a "deeper" understanding? The cost is it takes more effort and energy to do so?

If so, let say in the future, we have an LLM with 100K token context windows but with a subsystem where it notices some knowledge keeps being repeated in the context and then store that knowledge for finetuning when the LLM is not doing inference. Basically a mirror of the way we human work? Is that possible? An LLM that constantly improved and can adapt to new knowledge?
Crosswalks still look the same as sidewalks :(
If we're talking about chemical consequences of alkanes vs carboxylic acids, yes. However, the parent topic is talking about the effect of burning plastics, for which consideration it can be thought of as burning fat in that it (as opposed to other plastics where the byproduct cannot be compared to just burning fat.
That reminds me of Scalzi's interesting post "The Gamification of Rhetoric". He describes how many people are not interested in issues or discussion, but are just trying to win with a sequence of stock arguments. He refers to this as slapping down cards from a "Debate: The Gathering" stack.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2018/08/03/the-gamification-of-r...
D) Irony poisoned teenagers
That's actually a thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome
>> but it’s a lot more work than just a rename

Such as?
Seems irrelevant because it's obvious people use click baits to get more clicks.
A human will continue to convert energy regardless of what they are doing, and there's an argument for using one's body (including the brain) enough rather than too little.

How much energy any particular tech uses is an additive concern more than a substitution, and I am careful about adding more energy consumption on top of what I already use to live.
You are extremely confused about how markets work. People are not going to willingly pay above-market prices for vegetables just because they have extra money. The pay for seasonal workers is not going to change if someone is able to buy Devutils for $3 instead of $30. A year ago the software didn't even exist, so nobody was able to buy it and guess what, the pay for seasonal workers was pretty much the same.

> What if everyone wanted to only work four hours a day and earn $45k per month? Does this sound like an sustainable idea?

With sufficient automation, sure. The goal should be that we all have everything we need without anyone having to work.
If it's not intelligent life we can talk to, that seems about right.

Not sure what else we would do?
Really? I don't think due process and law enforcement have anything to do with one another. Law enforcement arrests people on made up laws all the time just because they are doing something the law enforcement officer doesn't like, there is no consideration of presumption of innocence. Law enforcement's job is to enforce "the law" as they interpenetrate it -unlike civilians where "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" in law enforcement they certainly an go with ignorance of the law as long as the judge thinks it's "reasonable". Let's not forget the police have been embedding themselves in peaceful protest groups for the last 100 years.
"Right to work" is not going to stop anyone from quitting if some other job provides better working conditions.

The only reason you need to strike is if there isn't any other employer offering better terms that you can go work for instead. Otherwise you can just threaten to quit unless they meet your terms and actually do it if they don't.

Conspiracies only work if the market is concentrated enough; if there are ten thousand employers and it's easy to start a new one then you're not going to be able to hold together a secret illegal cartel.

None of those actually work in a competitive market.
I really disagree. Figjam is mildly ok, though I suppose if my company had been willing to give the team better tools it might have worked better? I still think there’s something irreplaceable about standing around the board in person to discuss/draw. Even the hovering pencil/cursor stuff just doesn’t work as well, IMO, as standing there and pointing at things/connections.

I’m certainly not going to make my team move to my city and rent an office for those meetings, but getting together a few times a year can allow for solving some tough/intractable problems much more easily/efficiently.
Ours was via the network, although I think we didn’t take the alt tree.

Unix distributions, on the other hand, arrived on 9-track tape via the “distribution tree”. You would get a copy, then make copies and send those on. Bug reports (at least in my experience) went back the same way. I found the TCP URGENT off-by-one bug in the BSD API, and tried to report it to my upstream; it came back “will not fix”, but it was unclear whether that was some gatekeeper between me and BSD.
My immediate thought as well. We already know that IBD (particularly unchecked IBD) carries an enormous risk of colorectal cancer... and my IBD is also consistently worse in the morning. Sometimes I skip breakfast when I have an early obligation and don't have time to play games with my gut.
rust mainstreaming a lot of functional concepts and patterns is awesome very much agree, just pushing back on the claim that this it’s the only language where this style is prevalent.
Real Time Video from a High Altitude Balloon
It looks positively cuddly compared to a Bobbit Worm (find a video on Youtube, if you dare).
“Flawed and expensive but still fun” is perhaps the best capsule summary of DCS I’ve ever seen.
> I think VS6 remained popular for a long time because it was the last release before they switched to the heavier .NET-based IDE.

The in my opinion much more important reason was that Visual Studio 6 was the last version of Visual Studio that was capable of running under Windows 9x (every version of Visual Studio that was released after required some Windows-NT-based Windows version; Visual Studio .NET 2002 was the last version to run under Windows NT 4.0: Visual Studio .NET 2003 required at least Windows 2000; keep in mind that Windows XP only came out end of October 2001).
He wasn't practicing building pipe bombs in public.

By the rubric this document suggests, McVeigh would have satisfied 0 / 10 LARPing signals in Table 1.
I hope the next generation at least builds the guillotines
Try moving closer to or farther from the screen.

My eyes did this too up close, but could focus once I backed up.
article says he also uses "order by" clause, but I am wondering if it will severely limit throughput since all messages will need to be sorted on each lookup, but this probably can be solved by introducing index.
They're not, really, though. US freight rail is remarkably efficient and cheap.
Knowledge instillation is probably the holy grail of fine tuning. The hard part is:

1. Generalizing new facts. You can create a question answer pair of: “what is the population of the world in 2023?” “8 billion”, but it may not be able to pick up alternate phrasing or “does the world have 8 billion people on it?”

2. Catastrophic and behavioral forgetting. Continued fine tuning after RLHF and instruction fine tuning may result in the loss of the alignment and instruction following capabilities trained by OpenAI. At worst, it will start spewing random tokens like the example in the post.

I have not yet seen it successfully done, and I suspect that updating fractions (~.1%) of the original weights with PEFT methods won’t help.
I'm sure Redis is much faster than an RDBMS w/ all the ACID features turned on. The biggest concern I always have with Redis is simply overwhelming the in-memory storage limits when someone wants to do process a large number of good-sized messages at an inconvenient time. #tradeoffs
Idk. Hard to learn when the professor put you to sleep like a lullaby
RustDesk uses Tauri, Iced is replacing GTK+ in System76's COSMIC DE, and in my experience, egui is a very comfortable ImGui replacement.

I've definitely had "damn, I wish I could do xyz" moments with all three of those, but "early days" is a bit of a stretch.
For those asking what’s the point, check the author’s GitHub profile: “I’m also making my own Ruby called Natalie. You know, for fun!”.
> What exact counter party risk is eliminated by blockchain technology?

Some specific examples currently available:

• Atomic swaps, where traded assets are immediately moved between accounts upon execution of the trade, eliminate the possibility that settlement will not complete.

• Real-time commerce, where merchants accept payments in a format that can immediately be turned around and spent, without waiting for reimbursement from third-party networks.

• Loans backed by on-chain collateral, such that default triggers immediate transfer of collateral, eliminates the risk that collateral may not be obtainable upon default, or that the value of collateral may fall too far before the loan is liquidated.

> It’s not like I audit the entire trail of any arbitrary transactions, which is usually where things like that come into play.

Open databases can be digested and analyzed by open-source tools, and by trusted independent third-parties. Closed databases cannot be analyzed by anyone except for the database owner and government authorities. Some government authorities are trustworthy, others are under-resourced, incompetent or corrupt. Even if you personally won't read the full history, you benefit from other people being able to do so.

> Also, how’s blockchain better than existing and ongoing open banking projects? They’re enfranchising people today.

Problems can have multiple good solutions! Still, open API access is different from open access to underlying data and algorithms. Open APIs and blockchains can co-exist and benefit from each other.

> What about fraud?

Fraud is a complex topic. The traditional financial system has seen lots of fraud over the years (think about what we witnessed in 2008). Credit card fraud is also a rampant problem that is only managed by large financial firms heavily surveilling payment networks.

There are fraud vectors that blockchain networks are more susceptible to—just like there are other fraud vectors that blockchain networks are less susceptible to than traditional financial systems.

In my view, the greatest fraud risk in crypto comes from the issuance of tokens that are questionable in some way—a risk that I think can be eliminated if strong controls are implemented regarding the issuance of tokens on-chain.
Believe it or not, I may work on different problems and in different areas than you do.
Adding live organisms to complex living systems tends to have unpredictable and destabilizing consequences. Invasive species being introduced to ecosystems can have knock-on effects that go far beyond their immediate biome. The human body is a complex living system, and the consequences of perturbing that system are difficult to predict.

There are probably also lots of "good" bacteria in the mouth and gut using salivary lactate. I could not begin to guess at the number of additional metabolic pathways happening that are related to this. Not to mention the mutacin production that they mention, that they think may also kill off some of the bacteria in the mouth, that hopefully isn't replaced with nasty S. aureus, C. difficile, Candida.

The gut flora angle is just a whole other rabbit hole.

In light of the potential benefits, the "reasons not to" might fall by the wayside, hopefully none of the cautions end up being a big deal. But the status quo doesn't suck that much, if you look at how bad it could be.

Personally, I would like to see more resources go to diagnosis, study and understanding, rather than seeing people try to jump straight to the silver bullet and test on volunteers. Is it moral because they are "volunteers"? Are they really volunteers given that they would most likely get paid?

More importantly - and I cannot emphasize this enough: If this was such a great and simple solution, evolution would have already given this mechanism to us to and other animals. There is (or was at some point) a very, very good reason that our bodies don't already do this.
I was thinking it would be interesting to archive them for the inevitable “GPTX is better/worse than it was Y months ago” gnashing of teeth
Fourth paragraph of the post:

>Applied to job records, this feature enables simple queue processing queries, e.g. SELECT * FROM jobs ORDER BY created_at FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED LIMIT 1.
Cult of Done (2009)
The Kindle can’t handle USB networking, so it wouldn’t be a viable option. The private network is only needed if you are not in a WiFi capable area: at home I use it without AP
My best friend learned how the shell works because of bandcamp.

He spent one summer ripping about 400 CDs he owned.

He was ripping them into a directory called .junk. He moved each into the parent directory when it was complete.

And the final command of his project was 'rm -rf . junk'.
Temporal is a pretty complicated system. It has sharding built in, stores the entire activity history and runs multiple queues for timers and events. I’m a big fan (worked at Uber) but it’s definitely not just postgres with a few indices.
Despite AI? Copilot makes the team more productive, so we can do more work, so we can get more customers, so we can grow. It will induce demand for software engineers.
My usual approach with valuable iCloud Drive folders is to have an automatic process rsync them somewhere else and auto-version them there (Git, Dropbox, etc.). This wouldn't be great for very large data, but most of what I care to aggressively version and keep that lives in iCloud Drive is text or otherwise small, for which having two copies is trivial.
Project Gutenberg releases 5k free audiobooks
Yes, if there’s one thing government does well, it’s managing things efficiently.
I feel with you, but don't delude yourself in to avoiding any kind of marketing. Marketing is an evil necessity, especially if you are starting from scratch by yourself. That's just the nature of our reality. To scoff and say you're content is an ego-fuelled move, one that pushes the problem off for later.

Don't do that to yourself. Learn to market ethically at least, or else it's a real waste of time as your next startup fails because you avoided marketing.
Fine tuning is mostly useless for direct addition of knowledge.

You can use it to improve knowledge in indirect ways:

- get the model better at crafting queries for an external data source

- get the model better a tool usage to do computation with an external system

- get more useful embeddings from BERT/SBERT

- tell the model what it cannot answer accurately

But in general, fine tuning is noise right now because 99% of the people chasing it actually don't need it.

If you want to change how the model presents text, use fine tuning. If you want to change what the model can present, fine tuning is a hopeless way of doing it.
Same here, I get 403s from tile.tracestrack.com

Edit: I think it's due to referrer filtering. I can load the tiles fine if I pass 'Referer: https://www.openstreetmap.org', but Firefox sends 'Referer: tile.tracestrack.com'. Presumably that's a measure to preserve privacy, possibly due to some extension (though I've disabled various adblock, tracking protection things...)
A Heterogeneous Service Marketplace with WS-Agreement and Service Negotiation
Can confirm I see it now! Definitely more immediately obvious what Ash is this way :)
I think autocorrect is overrated and actually makes the typing process much more annoying. Also I’m not sure if 55wpm is supposed to be fast or not? I just did a typing test (monkeytype.com) on my iPhone and got 80 wpm with 0 mistakes, and I don’t use autocorrect.
We participate in a glo-riders bike ride, so 150-200 bikes/scooters all with various levels of led lights from a strip on your helmet to 500+ synced to a speaker. A bunch of people have Bluetooth speakers playing the playlist of the ride.

It's not super well known, so random pedistrians or people at outdoor tables star and record the parade on their phones, so there's multiple videos of us all around town.
One from the same timeframe:

What if Chuck Norris gets hit by a bus? Time to buy a new bus.
Same for me, Firefox on Linux. Getting 403's
How is France forcing those countries to use the CFA? Some are leaving, I didn't see any friction: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/west-african-countries-to-st...

In general, the CFA caused lower interest rates to the countries using it, which is good for developed economies. The people complaining about the lost interest (I haven't seen a real proof about this btw) never speak about the massive french subsidies to the western african states (>$2bn), that dwarfs any retained income from the CFA treasury.

Ho, wait they are also complaining about this!
https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1195128/economie-entreprises/la...

So yes, let's close the southern border, push back the boats and never set foot nor send money there. I'm all for this.
Imagine being hired and paid a salary to produce this as a result.
Quilliq
c++ can be relatively simple if you don't throw in all the bells and whistles and stay away from template metaprogramming. I use it all the time. Sure compiles can be slow, but with proper file partitioning and creating libraries 95% of that can be controlled for.
> the whole point is to build a state that does less of it

A state is only a state when it can defend its territory.

At the individual level, the praxis of property rights is that something belongs to you if the person with the biggest stick says it is - this is typically the state (libertarian utopia's excluded).
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad. A lot of people, myself included, like the saturated colors.
.. and me FF/Linux.

Parent might like to examine their extensions/network/life choices. I block a shit load of stuff and bizarrely a mapping system used and generated by millions of people just seems to work.

This didn't look very pretty but I still got the menus 8)

$ links "https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/50.93675/-2.63421&layers=P"
Show HN: Emojirades – Emoji Charades
Never underestimate the power of doing it for fun.
There's so many. Vinegar, citrus fruits..
What would you like to have tested? I might have time to provide some feedback.
The US 2016 Election (2017)
No, your comment is pretty easy to understand, I just categorically disagree with it - as your prescribed fix hasn't shown any success in living memory. Now compare that to the tangible hardening of the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments thanks to technological fixes. If all goes well we might even end up fixing the infinite pain train of the monetary policy. Subversive technology has done this, not angry letters.
very interesting write up; thanks for sharing.

The insane nested div is typical of React codebases where people want to wrap their component code. No styling on thosw divs though, so I am a bit surprised. And there's no list, so this isn't a case of not using a React.Fragment

Curious!
Thanks, I appreciate it !
As for the Obsidian extension, how would that look like, features wise?
I'm not that experienced with javascript, so this should be a fun little project to work on.
On the python side of things, I'd like to also add folders and tags and stuff, based on some semantic analysis of the chats, for better Obsidian flow.
If the government is enforcing the law, they can't do that because it has been illegal for a thousand years.

If the government isn't enforcing the law, what good is a new law for them to not enforce?