skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent a lot of time in university libraries and the disinvestment is often difficult to see unless you are doing deep research or in the weeds.

I should note that I am writing this response as somebody who is a professional researcher and scientist, not as an undergraduate student who needs to find a few references for a term paper. My needs are quite different than others and the library needs to cater to a wide range of people at all levels of research.

Many universities are in fact repurposing libraries as "study spaces" or as "learning centers". This often means dedicating more space to meeting rooms and desks, etc. To get that space, libraries either put the books in storage or quite frankly sell the books, especially books that are not checked out that often. Many of the technical books that I own are former library books. Moreover, even well-resourced government labs (like DOE national laboratories) are selling their books. I know because I have bought some (albeit through a third party). Putting books in storage is the better option, because at least the books are available, but it removes the ability to browse the shelf for adjacent books (a highly underrated research method) and often requires preparation to request books and then wait for them to arrive in a reading room. That said, it is far better to put the books in storage.

The availability of reference librarians is often greatly overstated. A library like the Library of Congress still has excellent reference librarians who often can perform apparent miracles to find difficult to locate information, but at university libraries, if I ask for a reference librarian, I often end up with an undergraduate assistant who does not really know much and cannot help you if you have a specific question to ask about locating something in a particular collection or how to use certain equipment like microfilm readers. Perhaps the undergrad can help other undergrads out, but when I was in grad school I never found this practice helpful when I needed specific information that I was already having difficulty finding.

To summarize, this trend may benefit some people, but it comes at the expense of in-depth researchers and their needs.

I will end by quibbling with that notion that "most of the information is digitized". The problem is that the Internet is so large that you can easily spend your whole life without ever realizing how shallow it really is in a single subject. Only once you go deep in that subject do you realize how much is not yet digitized in the first place. Yes, much information is digitized, but based on my experience, it is not "most". Some day that may change, but for the time being, physical libraries still play an important role here.
BTU/h and kW are measures of power, or the rate at which energy is delivered. BTU and kJ are units of energy.
In other words you'd want him to repent and accept the orthodoxy, before you'll consider listening to his possibly-heretic theories.

Whether he is right or wrong is fundamentally irrelevant. TED accepted his talk, reviewed it, fact-checked it, like all other talks; and then bowed to political pressure and quietly moved away from it. That's not a good look, regardless of what the speech might be about. To be fair, it could be worse - they could have kept it completely hidden - but it's still not great.
The fact that this comment is downvoted says a lot about the cluelessness/agenda of some of the people here.

The listed links to articles give the actual data which helps one to make an informed decision if one would but read them.
It is a result of a proud tradition bound culture that is at odds with their economic reality.

Most couples are barely scraping by economically. Those who want children are faced with employers who expect their employees ass in seat 12 hours a day six days a week. Childcare is difficult.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/09/10/business/japan-...
iPhone 15.
Coleman Hughes does indeed believe in racial color blindness.

The viewpoint he's taking seriously while ultimately refuting is that "color blindness is, in fact, a Trojan horse for white supremacy."
Statistical Modeling for Glacier Loss: Is It Accurate?
Sorry for taking so long to reply. I was away on a trip.

When I was there there was essentially no dedicated bike paths. You had to ride on the street, with not even a bike lane. It's a bit better now, with a bike path next to the RailRunner line.

There is a lot of gravel in town, with places where the gravel gets on the side of the road where people park, as when a dirt road or dirt driveway comes onto the road.

In my first few months of living in Santa Fe, I got driving off the road by someone cutting in front of me.

Checking now, it's gotten better. I lived around 601 28 W San Mateo Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA and worked 309 Johnson St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA (the apartments have gone condo, and the company I worked for has long since gone bust).

Nowdays I would be able to take the rail trail to the Railyard, but then either bike with traffic or on the sidewalk the rest of the way.

Or I could bike along some busy streets, like take a bike lane on Galisteo into the center of town.

Neither are that appealing.

I certainly know people did bike there, but that does not mean I felt comfortable doing so, even after 10 years of often using a bike for errands in Tallahassee, FL, Urbana/Champaign, IL, and Mountain View, CA.
Apple's iCloud Website Updated with iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma Features
> config languages driving a build system

Yeah, this part alone is already wrong and can not work well.
Probably just didn't want kid spit on the window.
Interesting to see this was programmed in Rust. Out of curiosity, any intention to make it self-hosting at some point?
TED is a well-oiled feel good scam that pretends that you can learn something that will change your life/your mind by watching a 15 minutes video.

It has managed to instill in the popular culture that those videos are educational. No, they are not. It’s simply a brand earning a lot of money on the free speakers hoping to get some Karma and organizers paying lot of money to just have the brand.

(I gave two TEDx talk myself. Not TED, of course but still)
And the batteries which don't actually gain mass as they discharge. "Metal-air batteries", or a "metal-air electrochemical cell", as Wikipedia prefers to call it, rely on atmospheric oxygen as the cathode which is bound to the battery during discharge, increasing total mass.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%E2%80%93air_electrochemi...>
Not zero, negative margin.
This sucks beyond belief. The whole reason I moved to Insomnia from Postman was because Postman uploaded all of our APIs and credentials to their server without asking. I have clients that demand privacy - we can't even discuss the existence of their APIs outside the company.
Related, something happened with my ear supposedly as well, and I started experiencing dizzyness when turning around in the bed, and when raising myself from a lying position, even when slowly doing so.

Turns out there are "Inner Ear Crystals" that are floating around and that needs to be in the right place for you to not become dizzy. At first it sounded like new age stuff, but the medical doctor pointed out I probably had BPPV, and I started doing some exercises with body movements that are supposed to "align the crystals".

It still sounds like bullshit to me for some reason, but the exercises worked so I guess there is some truth in people needing to align the crystals in them, sometimes.
They do sometimes! Via radar altimeters, when relatively close to the ground. And sometimes to keep autopilots from freaking out, we have to build radar reflectors to make the ground look level to radar even when it's really not. https://lustublog.com/2017/02/17/artificiel-mais-pas-superfi...
There's nothing quiet about it. There's a whole district near where I live dedicated to it, it's covered by my health insurance, I've contracted to an IVF company here to do ML for face matching, many of my friends have used it, it's well enough known that the acronym didn't need to be defined.
> there are tons of other startups that are trying to come up with "individual products around AI", and I think it will be incredibly hard for them to differentiate.

Even more fundamentally, they're putting the cart before the horse. They're making the classic mistake: Taking a tool/technology, and then searching for a problem to solve with it, rather than starting with the problem. I agree a lot of these companies are doomed to fail for the same reason companies founded to "Figure out what to do with blockchain" were doomed to fail. They'll no doubt suck down plenty of funding while failing though.
So TED only platforms people whose ideas they explicitly agree with 100%. It’s sad and disheartening to see institutions that are supposed to promote different ideas become another casualty in the culture war.
I am glad you shared that link. I always wondered if we could just use plasma to get rid of waste. I figured it would be technically possible but prohibitively expensive, so I am happy to see the economics work out in some use cases. Skimming through the article, they mention that the plant needs lots of maintenance and frequent downtime, I am not sure how that would work out with the navy's high availability expectations for the carrier fleet.
> Remember when Win95 could be crashed or even rooted just by pinging it the right way?

"death on flaxen wings"
REST Client extension in VSCode. Just a file that makes requests and lives in your repo. No totally unnecessary SaaS business with per user licensing fees.
Even logical reasoning we take for granted, like variable substitution, is difficult for an LLM.

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/the-reversal-curse-llms-tra...

This was a retrieval from training issue, not an inference one. and people have this issue too.

Variable substitution is just not a thing for natural language. sometimes it rings true, most of the time it makes no sense to assume it.
Church's Theory of Social Class in Education
Maybe Apple VR will change things, but so far AR/VR seems like the Metaverse - full of hot air.
No, it is not really the main cause.

But, GP's point could still be true - even if it's not the real underlying cause, it may be still enough to accelerate research in this area.
Libraries need to change. most people go to the library to use the computers. what if we expanded the role of libraries to be places for autodidacts to learn and practice new skills? imagine a library full of maker equipment. 3d printers, sewing supplies, wood/metal working equipment. the modest government investment would be paid back 10 fold in the amount of innovation an individual would be able to accoplish.
> But the fact is that most times the difference between them is not substantial, so the effort to make any kind of switch so you can shorten Norway is simply not worth it.

Switching from YAML 1.1 (2005) to YAML 1.2 (2009) for that reason makes perfect sense, I think.
The Icosidodecahedron
HTMHell, collection of bad practices from real websites
yes, mammals are scarce (and a good chunk of the megafauna is extinct). Birds and, most of all, fishes are the real vertebrate winners. Our impact is what made us important

On the other hand, we are discovering a lot of new species lately.
planet nine is not the eye of the universe
Any singular probe would needed to know where to go searching. Any scanning instruments it could carry we can build and use better at Earth (soon Moon [1], fingers crossed). Your idea would require a swarm, an array, with Earth as a centre piece, effectively forming search beam rotating outwards.

I agree tho, #LaunchTheProbe #NASA

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Crater_Radio_Telescope
Meta released a lot of high quality AI research and models (Llama) and tools (PyTorch) as open source. So instead of paying OpenAI for access to their large language model, you can just download a LLM from Meta and use it for free. So in effect, they are flooding the market with free alternatives to paid Microsoft/Google/OpenAI offerings.
not much relevant to me, and perhaps a lot of other people. I run my own business so no paid time off. Also, if needed I work weekends too - no issue.
Utterly horrifying
If you want a good example of the heckler's veto being used, you can reference recent acts at Yale & Stanford of invited speakers unable to speak because of egregious disruptions

https://davidlat.substack.com/p/yale-law-is-no-longer-1for-f...

https://davidlat.substack.com/p/is-free-speech-in-american-l...
> Is it an in-built preference? I think a robust monism is still a fairly radical position, especially among religious views. For example even the branches of Christianity which tack more materially tend to draw a rigid boundary between creator/created, God/the universe, etc. (and if you interrogate lay views they tend to skew even more dualistically).

Can you expand on this a bit? I have an intuition about what you're saying, but I confess that the definitions can be a little slippery.
The 60s take is that the woman is at home, ready willing and able to pack a suitcase. In 2023 it's more likely she is at work, like everyone else.
Agreed. Or if one lives near large research universities, they often sell off the equipment they no longer need for a solid deal. Sometimes they do sell computers, servers, monitors and such by the pallet, however, and I’m not sure anyone really needs a cluster that large at home haha
Recognizing that different cultures have different morals isn't moral relativism; that is simple observation. One must also believe that more than one set of morals can be right or that no one is right or wrong.
They aren't "kafkaesque political redefinitions". You are just choosing to use an overly simple definition because it supports your argument. The NBER determines recession based on a sophisticated methodology. One that considers the holistic status of the economy. This whole "two quarters of negative growth" is unga bunga economics
The font choice in the images made the call outs extremely hard to read for me.
Ask HN: How important are embedding models to RAG?
RAG = retrieval-augmented-generation.
Persistence is the key

Persistence on the keys
Creating the First Confidential GPUs
Lucid CL ran on top of a UNIX/C machine. A Lisp Machine is a whole machine itself.
for the overwhelming majority the issue is raising a kid, not conceiving one. And given Japan's fairly unique aversion for kids outside marriage (I think it's like 2% compared to 40% in the US or Europe), this is almost completely cultural.

If you're facing the choice of not having kids or being delegated to married housewife a lot of women across East-Asia just choose to not want one. Understandable, really.
I wonder if this should be aggressively ignored these days as a fruitless path. What if we were to do a clean room reimagining. It's hard to ignore the history here but sometimes sharp turns are needed to move forward.

I've spent 20 odd years trying to piece all this history together as a side hobby and met everyone from Engelbert to Sutherland to Atkinson to Ted Nelson. I'm wondering what a radical departure could gain us.

Base it on say, Karl Popper and Media Literacy theory instead along with webs of trust.

The TBL system we currently use is too susceptible to information pollution with profiteers and propagandists as a perfect memex would also be as well as everything Nelson's ever cooked up.

We've maybe let it run its course. Kill your darlings and smash your idols to build tomorrow
Chainloop now supports SARIF, OpenVEX, and CSAF VEX
Raspberry should raise the price until scalping isn't profitable. Keeping the price low is just handing money to scalpers that should be going towards future product development, until they can meet the demand.
I am surprised about the amount of resistance this is getting. Yes, some people talk more than they write. Yes, some people can't write but they can talk. But, that's just the environment the words travel through. The words themselves, they will be the same. I conceptualize expressing in writing as more lenient than communicating verbally. Verbal communication leaves much less time to ponder your ideas and pick your words carefully, thus, it's harder. I maintain my stance, if you can put words to paper (and the vast majority of people in the first world can do that) but are unable to communicate your ideas this way, you probably will fail doing so verbally as well.

If my supposition (Speculation? Stronger than it should assertion?) Is true then just interpreting requests verbally will not help
How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Reshape the Global Info Environment
I wish it had onboard storage, SD cards have failed on me
When it comes or aperture radar, you do what you must because you can.
> Question 2: Should a 16 year old be able to get a chainsaw.

No. In the UK, it should be illegal for 16 year olds to get their hands on anything more than a dull crayon.
I fully support this line of work. I hope all those behaviors which lead to significant harm are outlawed and all those behaviors that lead to good outcomes are supported. Just like with every other technology in the history of humanity.
I think this might be the crux of my discomfort with the OP's exhortation we should all adhere to his preferences. Unix and it's derivatives are great because there's a long history of people trying to do things, finding it hard and then slathering on a layer of functionality which is invoked through abstractions that are novel and probably inconsistent with those abstractions that came before. You don't need to ask anyone's permission and you won't find people saying "meh. you shouldn't do it that way." (okay. maybe a few, but you can ignore them. The Unix(tm) police won't show up to cart you away like what happens with VMS.)

But the flip side of this is, yes, cruft.
Better Than YAML
Net neutrality is the law in California, but T-Mobile says Binge On is ok because any video streaming service can participate for free. It sounds reasonable to me and apparently the California regulators are fine with it.
> I always wondered why most explainations of SAR take the frequency-domain approach of describing it in term of Doppler resolution instead of explaining the process of aperture synthesis in the spatial domain in terms of a sum of phase delayed signals.

A time-domain backprojection based approach as opposed to one of the Fourier Transform based approaches? My guess is that because you don’t see the backprojection based approaches much in real-time systems (at least I haven’t seen any). That might change as they’re easily parallelizable in comparison. So any conceptual understanding between a time based approach and a real-time (FFT based) implementation is a little harder to transfer.

Like you, I also find the time-based backprojection approach more conceptually straightforward and satisfying, though.
I think SPACs are a bit different. They have been around since the 1990s, and for a long time there were maybe a dozen SPACs in a year. In 2021 there were about 600.

I think they will stick around and go back to their previous volume. Grift-o-currency is a scam and I hope it dies soon.
Ask HN: Frustrated by “Years of Exp.” Question After Resume–Am I Overreacting?
I was recently approached by a startup founder for a Senior Flutter Engineer role via email. I expressed interest and shared my resume with them. My resume shows that I have been in the industry since 2017.

The next email asks "How many years of experience do you have working with Flutter only?". Doesn’t the question show that the founder knows absolutely nothing about software development. I am furious at this question. Am I over-reacting?

I find this metric to be severely outdated and not reflective of software development skills at all for reasons such as the non-linear nature of skill acquisition and the rate at which technology evolves. Especially for a newer framework like Flutter.
I love the “remove more clutter” comment. :D
That is an impressively terrible relationship technique, but I suppose the repulsion strategy works when someone's goal is to con only the most vulnerable of victims.
I've been thinking a lot about the Yglesias thing of "America is under-policed and over-imprisoned." These sort of incidents map nicely to that - we shouldn't be jailing these perpetrators for a decade, but we should be catching them in the act and punishing them swiftly.
"it depends, nothing good"

Network devices forward (switch, more technically) packets to and end device based on an internal MAC table (send packets for DE:AD:BE:EF to interface ge-0/0/0.0) and most devices populate their MAC table simply by looking at input packets and sending the "next" packet for that MAC address out the "last" received interface.

If two devices in a network have the same MAC address, they will effectively "fight" for control of the packet flow. You can win that fight by sending a lot of packets.

In practice, the other person is going to get annoyed and give up.

There are lots of technology which avoid this issue now, but the two primary ones are 802.1x (used in corporate/government environments) and DHCP snooping which can be much more broadly deployed. 802.1x is very complicated and I won't go into it, but, DHCP snooping works by limiting L2 forwarding (MAC table population) to only what the DHCP server says the end device should have and it does this just by inspecting the DHCP replies (no custom protocol) with some vendor specific extensions on the DHCP server side for complex scenarios (you can even do things like put ports in a specific VLAN based on the DHCP reply).

This works fine on a physical layer and most hotels are probably using something similar now (less for malicious abusive reasons, though that's a thing) but also just to work around poorly behaving devices and to reduce customer complaints. If you care (and have a modest amount of money) MAC and IP spoofing are dead on the physical layer.

For the wifi layer, very similar stuff exists in high-end gear (Rukus/Cisco) and is starting to trickle down to prosumer level gear like unifi. If you care (and have serious cash for Rukus) MAC and IP spoofing are also dead on the wifi layer.
https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Self-hosted and open source.
Quanta costa?
Some recent processor has even more ridiculous curve, you can even get 80% performance with half power usage. Or even 1/2 performance with 1/4 power. Recent amd/intel processor has the habit to push the frequency to heat envelope (in other word, overclocked to the extreme by default) instead of a proper frequency with sane power usage.
discussion of alternatives happening in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126
Quite possibly they weren’t expecting to be ready to launch in 2023 but the design/supply/capacity issues were resolved quicker than expected.
I mean to say that if you can write and are unable to express your ideas, you probably won't be able to do so verbally either.

In the case of kids, of course, that's true, but just because they can't write.

But if you can (and most people can) just having the option of voice input won't help.

I refrain to take a stance about how much of the population is unable to articulate thoughts in writing, (it's probably not great though) but it's probably going to be comparable with how many can't express themselves verbally as well.

I'm talking here about more complex ideas of course. I'm sure average communication is functional.
I found that there are two possible answers:

* good old tools - curl, Emacs plugins (restclient.el is pretty nice), Vim plugins;

* and Postman/Insomnia alternatives - restfox.dev, hoppscotch.io and httpie.io (my personal preference so far) and I found this group to be the most volatile (I personally has moved from Postman to Insomnia).