skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonsense. Perfection is the enemy of "good enough". There are carbon sinks on the planet, for one. We don't need to convert ourselves into some species of tree elves magically in tune with nature. We just need to be a lot better than we are now, which is a good deal easier.

And yes, delaying the problem has a huge value. Because stuff takes time to build, and theoretical stuff takes a long time to develop. If you think nuclear or fusion have something to offer, then time is a huge boon to you. If we need to convert everything NOW, then there's not even a point of thinking about nuclear, it just can't be built fast enough. Let alone fusion.

Certainly I wouldn't say no to complete carbon neutrality world-wide. But given how things are it's clear that this is an unrealistic goal on a short/medium term. But that doesn't mean there aren't big improvements we can't make.
"till date" is a particular Indian English-ism that picks folks who use it out /instantly/, approximately the inverse of a shibboleth.

I always wonder what other idioms my Indian colleagues aren't using around me because they're so obviously colloquial.
I'm sorry that you're stereoblind.
It would have been lousy if the calculator just stopped working without notice. But my recollection is that you could tell when it was getting low on batteries because the display would get faint. Ah, the memories...
Knowing French really helps with the higher register of English, as most of the “fancy” words have French roots.
This story is my favorite in the thread. Thanks.
What I find intriguing here is that in the past century, breakthroughs in physics (relativity, quantum mechanics) followed from earlier insights in mathematics (linear algebra, stochastics). Yes, mathematics can be very, very abstract and sometimes it appears to be more like poetry then science. But when an insight allows to generalize and simplify many different problems it's quite possible that we will see the fruits of that insights for decades to come.
Is it possible to measure amount of lead in water somehow at home?
I'm a systems programmer, with experience writing high performance code for mathy stuff (signal processing), network stuff, filesystem stuff, and most recently, I'm learning-by-doing "database stuff". I was joking at work the other day "if I can get compilers under my belt I'll have caught them all".

I see this applied to work (database) in a way I'll not elaborate until I can do it. :)

But in other areas, I've done a lot of signal processing, numerical algorithm development and optimization, lots of MATLAB (for improving the underlying math, but also using approximation theory for performance. Think: "replace exp(x) with a taylor series" except .... more. :)) and C/C++ (for turning those graphs of lists of equations) into machine code.

I've written dataflow style code starting from "paper of equations", to "runs on N nodes" many times.

Perhaps then you see how this looks (to me) like a "missing piece". :) I can now mix between mathematical optimizations (like replacing an expensive function with a pade approximant, using a lattice of symbolic identities, etc) and _compiler_ optimizations. \o/
But with an extension I can have a personal garbage block list or hide/collapse website preview without removing the result completely that works on other search engines

Btw, can you hide text preview on Kagi instead of removing the domain completely (in case you're not certain the website is garbage and sometimes want to check the results, but just want them less visible)?
I'm reminded of how the repercussions of this 1066 battle at Hastings are with us today in Britain. Gregory Clark in 'The Son also rises' shows by genealogical tracking how, following this successful French invasion, the families that then formed the ruling aristocracy still largely figure in the British ruling and social elite in the 20th century. Clark presents evidence that 'almost all societies have similarly low social mobility rates'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book)
Ask HN: I must learn Docker and Kubernetes – where to start
I'm going from helpdesk support job to another role. They told me that I have one month to learn all that I can about Docker and Kubernetes.

After one month I should be able to understand the concepts, offer 2nd level help to customers that have issues installing our Docker images or setting up Kubernetes using our instructions.

I've never user Kubernetes, I don't even know if I can run it at my home computer. Docker I know so much as it takes to run docker image using commands from documentation.

Can this be learned within one month (I'll get paid for one month just to focus on learning) so I have about 160 hours for this?

I like structured approach. If there is any good on-line course, site or book can you tell me about it?

I know that there is a lot of YouTube videos but the usually cover just one aspect.

I have experience with virtualization systems that run on desktop computers (VirtualBox). I know basics of Linux (Ubuntu and Mint).

I know that HN isn't fond of this types of post, but this is a genuine ask for help. Not some post to get spam content (paid courses adverts, etc.).
The fact that Kagi has a blocklist tells me their algo isn’t any superior.

The best kind of search engine is the kind that can read your mind (by inferring your intention or something)
The fleeting part is essentially what certain types of meditation are all about.

Negative thoughts and emotions have to actively be fueled by something in order to persist.

And if you spend some time by simply observing those thoughts from a non judgmental stand point they’ll quickly disappear.
I had to quit doing so, because I discovered that it didn't just exclude listed domains, but performed a totally different search. Locations or local results were largely missing, when I excluded some domains.
Looking forward to reading your query compiler :)
The request was not from the Government, but an MP who chairs one of the Select Committees that scrutinise the Government.
I'd like to be able to simply vote for a product. If you already can, I'm missing the UI where you can do that. There's a cool one for a woman that I wouldn't use but is so good I want to vote for it.
Agreed, and more research and user testing for everybody. It seems like some types straight-up can't appreciate it due to their physical characteristics.
Is there a way to do the reverse, i.e., seeing the computer screen on an Android device?

Specifically I would love a way to use my Android device as a remote controller for PDF presentation. For now I can do this with KDE Connect but the remote controller is blind, I have no way to see the current slide on the Android device, much less to use it to annotate the slides in live.

Does that exist?
My interpretation is that the frontend added the <blink> tag when rendering a critical-priority ticket, no injection needed.
The question is whether its rival GNW is so much better.

IIT submits that consciousness arises from the integration of information within a system. A system is conscious if it possesses a certain level of integrated information, denoted by the symbol Φ (phi). GNW on the other hand claims that consciousness arises when information is broadcasted to a "global workspace" within the brain, making it available to a wide range of cognitive processes.

Neither has direct evidentiary support and both can explain everything it sees. By that measure it's pseudoscience the lot of them.

So...is this the most constructive way to go about it, or maybe there is another agenda at play here?
You'd be better off using and contributing to Firefox.

Less work, more result.
Is there going to be a way to have very simple clients, perhaps with a helper in the server side?

It'd be nice to bring matrix to microcontrollers and "retro" computer platforms.
Kinda does. Poulet (poultry)
>By making it feel a finite resource, some percentage of the users will start to ration their use of your service and/or do some deliberation before using it

Exactly to a T how I feel about Khanmigo. I pay for it because I love the idea of a maths tutor in my pocket that wont make me feel stupid, even if by accident, for forgetting something simple.

But there's a "battery" that resets every day and it just makes me anxious. I'd easily pay 50-100$/m instead of 10/m I already pay if I could get unlimited access but there's just no option for that.

If anyone has any recommendations for something like Khanmigo with unlimited access please please let me know. I'd pay so much for a good personal private tutor in my pocket. For maths if that helps.
what's handy guide to disable it all?
I really liked that article!
I've coming to bash this year and in my company we make things work the same way (principle). Chatgpt was a great helper and instructor to me learning bash and brought me up to Speed in no time. After my first weeks I was writing bash scripts that I thought was not possible to do in a shell which wants me to 'feel home' when I open a shell - that resonated with me in that post a lot.

I would be happy to find more bash script(er)s out there, to find inspiration and solutions for problems that increase my horizon of what's possible.

Kudos to OP!
Some of you might be interested in https://leadelimination.org/. Currently 100+ countries have no lead paint legislation. LEEP work to ensure effective policies and eliminate lead poisoning globally.

(I have no affiliation beyond having chosen to donate)
The Chinese influence works a lot like the Latin influence on English. Japanese is written in Chinese and some extra derivatives (hiragana/katakana are derived from Chinese characters). English is written in Latin characters plus a few extra (j, w, etc). Words you speak to express emotions, words that move you, words that you speak with your children, etc. are mostly native words (English/Japanese) but open a text book or newspaper and you're met with a wall of passionless loan words (Chinese/Latin) tersely describing precise phenomena.

The English is only for very modern stuff. Think computer technology or business buzz words.
I think there's an important difference between a negative thought about X and an introspective but emotionally more neutral thought about X.
Based on the compliance training I did this week at a hedge fund…

On the condition that you acted solely on information that was already public, or something that happened in a public place that you happened to witness as a bystander…

No, that is not usually considered insider trading.

Not a lawyer, not advice.
Open source AI - OSAI - does not necessarily mean it is open. Take the latest OSAI models and try to run them. If you really want to support the idea of open source you’d need to build a model in a way that it is not just open but also accessible to everyone. There needs to be something like Napster that distributes those models in the hands of everyone not just a few folks gate keeping access because they can spend 150$k / month on h100 GPUs
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I agree with the point you are trying to make, but Google Search + Email was not a small company. I remember Gmail Beta, Google was already known world over and definitely not a 'small' company.
I relate! But funny about the article because I read it as the guy had an ironic tone to exaggerate the negatives, but he actually loves it. I don't think he actually feels bad about it!
Actually on a second thought, I think it’s good like this as long as you can check availability on a click, much better it seems to see all domains at once than going on endless pages! Thanks!
I could have written this, except for the being a good enough programmer to write a browser that is. I wonder if the author has heard of the ladybird browser? https://ladybird.dev/
“Here are some tips on how to make your shell scripts safer. Don't.“

https://sipb.mit.edu/doc/safe-shell/

I say this as a diehard shell fanatic. The closer to metal, the better. ;-)
Does it warn you about typos in your "prhase that exists with a phrase " or just blanks out?
I don't directly use Google or Bing much any more but I know that Duckduckgo is terrible now.

If you get results that don't match your search term and try to filter them you actually get more of the bad results.

That's a product that flat out doesn't work in my opinion.
Of all the passionate reasons one could imagine a person needs to feel compelled to write their own browser, this was quite unexpected.

I guess if news affect your mental well-being negatively it is legitimate to avoid them. But I would believe a day long session with the blocklist of your choice would be better?

Or just accept a certain degree of news, in the end you live in a world with other people who read news and unless you are a hermit things are going to come up eventually. Reducing can be better than attempting the impossible and fail.
It is impossible to ignore the set theoretic type aspects, because the whole foundation of strong arrows is based on being able to negate a type. If I don't explain the set theory bits, then the rest of the article falls apart.

I could perhaps rearrange some of those sections but that doesn't change my main argument: the type system is not being designed for type theoretic people. At best, you could say the _article_ focus too much on theory, rather than on the practical bits.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. You're absolutely right, though I'd nitpick and say not say "untyped" but that the only types that XML gives you are dom nodes and strings.

Contrast that with JSON, which provides booleans, numbers, and the list and object composite types. (side rant: as a standard JSON does not define whether it's numbers are integers, floats, or decimals! a conforming implementation can use whatever type it wants).

Yes, XML has (multiple) schema definition languages that can be used to enforce that the strings can be coerced into specific types, but XML itself conveys no type information in-band about the values. I think this is one of the reasons it is difficult read and write by hand.
Yay I get to write code! Oh it’s Pulumi code that wraps terraform to deploy Elastic Search and configure networking to allow logs from a kubernetes we deployed the same way.
Interested to hear from any lovers?
the right solution is updates that don't require any restart or service interruption. but that is technically difficult atm
The link to your Github project in the article leads to somewhere else
Because it's noise. Finding good art on the internet is already hard with just humans producing it, when the barrier to entry is crafting a prompt, the amount of shitty end-results will drown everything else out. And this is before considering the point of view of the artists that get their work incorporated in the training corpus without being paid.
>eg LuxChat in Luxembourg, Merkury 2.0 in the Polish MOD, many German local authorities

This is extremely sad. They're large tax-funded organizations and should definitely contribute to priorize the needs they definitely have.

Ironically, there might be voices pushing for a move to a proprietary solution they would actually have to pay to use, and have much less control over.
Yes, spot on. Accepting that it is ok to have a gatekeeper that monitors and monetizes what the digital planet is searching was a monumental wrong turn.

There needs to be a healthy decentralized, open source approach to search. If people can hope to train and infer with LLM's locally why not the relatively "low IQ" search index that doesnt even violate copyright? The two are increasingly facets of the same thing.

Btw you should try recoll for local search.

Open source business models are not the easiest but a team could easily fund things with corporate oriented customizations.

Maybe Kagi itself should try this path.

In any case the next phase of AI enabled computing will require some bold thinking and acting, but above all, having a moral compass.
Number one is pinning sites that have canonical information (like official documentation), raising sources which are consistently good and blocking sources that are consistently bad. With a day or two of tuning these you get better results than any other search engine.
Strange, I don't see a single ad for this query (current time in javascript), using Chrome logged into my Google account. Results are good as well.
It has always been like that. Fundamental research is necessary for applied research. And the needs of applied research give purpose and intuition for fundamental research.

But of course, fundamental research does not give results that look shiny for the next quarterly report. That's why the current trend of running universities like business is so awful.
It would be cool to see a browser being made in the Blender/Godot style of open source. Set milestones, encourage a friendly community to gather around, raise funds, manage it well, and back to step one again.

I certainly would love to see more options of browsers.
There are a lot of words the author used to simply say, "I'm going to start my pet project, which I also believe is going to fail very soon for a number of reasons"

Not much actual good content here.
Alright Elon, calm down
I've thought about this a lot and I think there's a reasonable hypothesis in evopsych (I know, I know...):

If you're making material mistakes that hurt the social group you're in, especially things that cost extra work for someone else to undo and redo correctly, then you could be identified as someone ripe for removal from the group. Ostracization means assigning taboo or outsider status to that person, either as a way to get them to shape up and earn back the trust they lost or to remove them entirely with little remorse.
In the midnight hour, she cried ....
Of course this opinion is not based on reality in the slightest. HN looooves to come up with wild conspiracy theories like this and reiterate them as fact, especially when they prove a corporation is secretly doing something evil.
It does fix typos unless you put them in quotes. And tells you about it.
But probably less fun as well.
There will always be people that don't know what you know and vice versa. It's a given fact of life. It's like forgetting that the sky is blue. Haha. I.e., I agree with you, but your statement is more humble than the last.
In my particular example, the cardinality of the instances (i.e., the number of of unit instance count in a query's time range) should not even matter. I was summing a counter over all the instances, and VictoriaMetrics should just add up the counters for every time unit while scanning all the data points -- this is implemented by pretty much all the OLAP engines. Or put it another way, logically I was query over a single time series. It's just that each value in the time series was associated with multiple values. Given such logical model, a good time series database should not not even bother me with any concern of cardinality.
I wrote a couple custom browsers for both pro and personal reasons. I found out that there is a tiny niche market for a privacy-focused, minimalist browser that a) does not understand cookies, b) executes JS only when allowed to and c) is capable of displaying most decent Web sites without garbling them. I had good success with using Chromium as backend, and slowly adding the stuff we do need (download manager, password vault, auto-complete). Turns out it's quite easy to setup, but there's one annoying chunk: dealing with creating tabs or new windows. 'Modern' Web sites use and abuse that mechanism to display pop-ups, and it's quite a challenge to handle. Good luck to ya!
You still don't know the exact date of the potential acquisition. So you cannot make a successful trade. I would say it's not insider trading.
It wasn't the 80s, it was the 90s, and yes, the minimum wage in the 90's was the same as it is today when adjusted for infusion. [1]

It's must be easy to be you on discussions, when you just ride the Gish Gallop with your arguments and keep making up stuff for the others to rebuke.

[1] http://www.freeby50.com/2014/01/minimum-wage-history-adjuste...
Wouldn't the full score (which includes your environment context) be a measure of risk ?
Imagine you have a function which transforms nicely under scaling, ie. f(Mx) = M^k f(x) for some b. Then if you have systems where you use x -> Mx regularly, you'll find these functions turn up because they're the ones that respect the symmetry.

Now make M to be a Mobius transformation, so that f((ax + b)/(cx + d)) = (cx + d)^k f(x), where the coefficients are in SL(2,Z) ie. integers with ad - bc = 1. Mobius transformations like this are common.

That's more or less it as far as I'm aware. There's some growth rate condition too, I don't think it's as important to an intuitive understanding as the transformation law.

Disclaimer; my training was in mathematical physics not mathematics. To me, what l wrote here was enough for me to feel like I understand what they are, at least to some basic level.
It seems like pseudoscience the same way as string theory is pseudoscience.

Model things we can't define with hifi math and produce unfalsifiable predictions.
https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools
I have a strong memory that Quora used to be quite good, and then was suddenly horrendous. Is this just me?
It still is in the Jersey (the old one): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Legal_French
One cpupd also use, and I think this might be a brilliant start-up idea, use a device, maybe a cube or so, to scan biometrics of people... Maybe in exchange for, I don't know, NFTs or so.

Or one could simply trust a democratically elected government with that instead...
for everybody commenting - it's obvious that given the restrictions of food stamps you cannot use them to pay for delivery, you can however use them to pay for the food that was delivered.

health benefits can be used for delivery.

this is also made reasonably clear in the article (could have been better)

Or hey, some cash you have around.

on edit: for people who are technical the interest here is almost mainly huh, yeah they separate out the invoicing of the food from the delivery and you pay for the delivery with the health benefits if you have them and you pay for the food with the stamps if you have them.
VNC client?
Incredible reply, thank you. People like you are why I come here every day.
How People Can Create – and Destroy – Value with Generative AI
He's not doing it for fun. He's doing it because he's "fed up with it".

GoSub will be used by tens of people. If he makes a contribution to Firefox it will be used by millions of people.
… until you hit sparsity which you almost always have to switch approach. Generally you do not want to construct a dense matrix for a problem where it’s not dense!
Seems kind of similar to Amazon Ion: https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/

Some differences:
EDN has characters, keywords, lists, and sets
Ion has dates, decimals, timestamps, s-expressions, and blobs

Ion has a binary serialization, hashing standard, and schema language.
I don't see it dieing at all. Hardware just keeps advancing, while hardware requirements are stagnating.

I believe the switch is a big success for 2D indie games (think stardew valley, hades, dead cells). Those game concepts work and good 2D graphics will never look outdated.

I doubt people will buy into anti-consumer streaming-schemes to play great games which could run on a potato.
Because of incoming CRA and existing requirements, having CVE causes wide, lasting, high impact consequences for people maintaining software and hardware products, infrastructure and services.

Since barrier of entry for CVE is as low as "logged in user can crash system by filling disk/ram, can cause data leak i think" and that thing can get assigned high marks depending on the randomness of this whole process, you are in a situation of "one bogus report to cripple all users of open source library"

cve is not a bugzilla
Gosh no one ever raised a toddler before 2014.
I feel that Google's going downhill ever since they started to try reading my mind.