skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not exactly sure why, maybe small corpus

That's probably most of the problem. The entire corpus of ancient Latin is on the order of 9-10M words. If you printed it at the same density as a typical English novel, it wouldn't even fill a bookcase.
Not currently, but it is definitely something I worry about for the future. I'm pretty adamant in my support for (relative) peace and quiet in public spaces, but recently those around me have seemed to care less and less, which worries me.

For the time being, just living close to a small airport should do.
Hard drugs can be extremely harmful. So you make them illegal. Now you have two problems. Most of the problems that you associate with drug abuse are exacerbated or wholly created by the prohibition rather than the addiction that it purports but entirely fails to fix.

> resorting to theft to get a fix

Does this pattern characterize alcohol addicts as well? Or do the vast majority of alcoholics generally just hold down jobs to buy booze? Heroin is only expensive because it is illegal. Poppies will grow pretty well in just about every state in America. It is the prohibition that forces heroin junkies to rob and steal and whore for money. It is the prohibition that creates the gangs and cartels and adds the violence. When was the last time you saw a street battle between the grocery store and the bodega over alcohol territory? 1933 is the answer. When was the last time someone died from a mis-dosed, tainted or adulterated cocktail? 1933.
Why couldn't he let Alamada Research burn down instead of letting it use FTX funds?
What an interesting subject.
> For the most part, property taxes are not a fixed percentage the way that, say, sales taxes are. The rate floats, and that is important.

Maybe this is common in Canada, but it's definitely not common around where I live. Tax rates stay somewhat fixed, property values go up and down. Every now and then a county or city government will lower the rate when they're flush wish cash, but it's not a given. For the most part every time my property value increases I'll be paying more.
>they then used that arrest data to make decisions about where to perform future searches and arrests. Because they found drugs where they had looked previously, they looked there again and found more drugs. This creates a bad feedback loop where they were basically busting the same neighborhoods and demographics over and over again

This process is already a common complaint of police, without predictive software.
House Votes 216:210 to Remove McCarthy as Speaker
> Or making telephone numbers something that have to be mutually exchanged to allow access.

How would this work? Do you have to meet in person?
I've often idly wondered whether there is more speculative trading in orange juice than other commodities because of Trading Places[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places
A friend of mine recently asked me the dreaded "How do i get into programming". I pointed them to easylang.dev!

Thank you for making easylang, I plan to use it to teach anyone new to coding.
I’m sorry, it was meant to be tongue in cheek. Like probiotics , it cures everything from IBS to heart disease to anxiety. probiotics are very legitimate. Chocolate is very legitimate and that’s basically pure serotonin, so if you’re depressed eat chocolate. Etc.

You are correct that there are more questions than answers.

The serious part of my original comment, I have recently started trying tVNS. I think it might be improving my sleep. Definitely seems to lower HR. But of course, who’s to say what is doing what with these personal small experiments.
Not a ton of research on this, but there are some worrying examples:

"According to a recent lawsuit filed by tech giant Apple in October of 2016, roughly 90% of Apple chargers on Amazon, even when labeled as a genuine article, are fake" [1]

"manufacturers determined 20 of 47 items we purchased from third-party sellers on popular sites were counterfeit" [2]

[1] https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1148...
[2] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-216
That is not true. There is no such requirement for a hash function.
The “Clever Dad Design System” – don’t do it
The term "self-hosted" is an interesting choice. It's usually used to describe the compiler of a programming language written in that same programming language. This is an IDE written in JavaScript. Cool project, though!
I lucid dream regularly without even trying, and what you're describing sounds exactly like that. I hope you're self-aware enough to realize that your circumstances (personal / emotional investment in having this be real) make you one of the least reliable people to trust on this subject.
I didn't say it was a bad idea, just that it is amusingly meta.
>>statistical prediction that does not involve any degree of thinking, analysis, or understanding.

>This is a straw argument.

People say that it does not understand anything, that it just predicts text as though it does.

However, I believe they're mistaken. I find that it clearly understands things.

What do you think? Do you think it understands you when you speak to it? Can it do problem solving or original thought in your opinion? My own anwer is: "100% it understands me, and 100% yes it can do problem solving and original thought - maybe not world class scientist level but to an impressive extent."

Clearly it just has a few thinking "moments", it can't spend hours extensively tackling a problem the way a human can, and it doesn't have a memory, nor can plan nor execute large projects by itself or anything like that.

But it can, as you say, do "limited verbal reasoning", and that is incredibly impressive.
> Sorry I mean giving people houses and not charging rent - the two most evil things you could ever do.

No. You explicitly advocated for Communism, not "free houses". A social structure that actively grinds human rights into dust. You don't get the play the "communists just want to give people free houses" card without admitting to being hopelessly naive or actively malicious.

Stop carrying water for history's greatest monsters.
This also skips his pioneering work into microservice architecture, as exemplified by the structure of qmail, djbdns, and daemontools.
Hah, I was thinking: This sounds like stuff that I’ve seem before to me.
The files (repo tarballs) are generated on demand, there are no “new” or “old” files.

I guess you could base it on the commit time, but this is user supplied.
This is awesome, but reminds me of something I was recently wondering: why are there no infinite-zoom Mandelbrot viewers? They all stop at a certain level of zoom instead of generating the finer details. What's the limitation? I can't imagine you'd have to render the entire fractal in fine detail to zoom in on a specific piece.
False, I've done remote XDMCP in the early 2000s and it worked well on dial up.
I'd love it if the old man were Isaac Asimov.
I feel like one could study Japanese culture for a lifetime and never get bored
As this whole situation evolves, I'm interested to see what the Democrat's strategy is. Are they hoping to throw the House GOP into chaos, because if so, it seems to be working pretty well.

Before today, I kind of assumed they'd vote to support McCarthy; since he seems to be willing to work across the aisle.
SDXL native trained resolution for 1:1 aspect ratio is 1024x1024 like SD 1.5’s is 512x512. Like SD 1.5, you can go a bit below or above that without too much problem; unlike SD 1.5, SDXL also has significant training in a fairly wide set of other resolutions (ranging from 2048x512 to 512x2048) with approximately 1 mebipixel resolution, and they can be treated as starting points as easily as 1024x1024 can. I think SDXL has a narrower (proportionate) range of viable resolutions around its starting points, but that’s offset but having more than one “starting point”.
Sure, that's a reasonable take.
DJB has lost a ton of credibility already within the non-government cryptography community for his frankly unhinged rants on the PQC mailing list.

If you read his posts there, it’s hard not to come away with the impression that he’s just upset his favourite scheme wasn’t chosen.
I keep those types of tabs in Private windows.
Reading these parts of the analysis...

for each GLIBC_TUNABLES that it finds, it makes a copy of this variable (at line 284), calls parse_tunables() to process and sanitize this copy (at line 286), and finally replaces the original GLIBC_TUNABLES with this sanitized copy (at line 288)

To sanitize the copy of GLIBC_TUNABLES (which should be of the form "tunable1=aaa:tunable2=bbb"), parse_tunables() removes all dangerous tunables (the SXID_ERASE tunables) from tunestr, but keeps SXID_IGNORE and NONE tunables

...already made me expect what I'd see, and indeed the code there is quite unnecessarily complex. The first simplification I'd do is not make a copy of the variable's value, and the second one is to use the standard C string functions extensively; it's notable that there's no occurrence of strchr() anywhere in that function, despite it being a very useful function for parsing key-value pairs.
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Yes, here's the whole short: https://erikwernquist.com/cassinis-grand-finale
From what I have seen in other reviews, Framework laptops seem great but the fan is a tad too noisy.

Any real experience with that? AMD ThinkPads are surprisingly quiet.
Well somehow I trust google more on having my data, than anyone in the world. I prefer the knowledge to be in a known identifiable entity that can be accounted for, than run in the wild and be used by anyone with bad intention (once again, regarding my data). So this is not about data, but AI, but I think it still applies.
Crazy to think people were doing construction and remodeling at 3x typical lumber costs
> brotli literally already has a tokens for function/return/throw/indexOf(/.match/.length/etc.

Yeah, I see it already has a lot of JavaScript, HTML and CSS content. Interesting. I didn't realize it had an existing web-focused token library, and figured it was more like zstd, 7z and zlib, which I believe have none.

I would love to do the experiment if I had time. I wonder what is the laziest way to do it?
What does that have to do with the semantic versioning scheme?
I mean... you aren't wrong, having people willing to use an IED is the dangerous thing. More, they are as dangerous as the supplies that they can get ahold of.

I... don't see how that doesn't put a massive hazard on the availability of nuclear power generators everywhere? We have people willing to make and deploy IEDs today. Why would we not have them if nuclear sources were ubiquitous?

(If the idea is we would have the nuclear plants, but that the ubiquitous electronics would not have their own nuclear sources, I can see that. :) )
A few factors - labour markets are very tight generally, new housing construction has increased, WFH and hybrid has increased the demand for renovating existing housing to make space for home offices (and improve the amenity of housing more generally).
Meetups shortcomings are just one of many reasons why we’re building embolt[1] as an organization-first platform.

Running a club with events on meetup is great only until you need your community to contribute to the growing cost of running a successful club. At that point, you are no longer their customer — your members are a commodity and they give you just enough to stick around but not enough to function in a sustainable way.
We all know communities are basically revolving doors for burnout, lack of tools and support is a big reason.

[1] https://embolt.app — public launch coming later this year!
This Dan Brown/William Gibson crossover sucks my soul right out of the petabyte SSD I bought in a dark alley.
I agree with the first comment on that issue that that is not an issue with semver, and arguably not even an issue with the package manager.

It protects you against yourself, and it forces maintainers to keep their libraries up to date less all their users disappear for inability to upgrade.
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It has been like this for years. Apple does some things well, and there are reasons to like those things, but their following is overzealous to the point of kneeling before what is, fundamentally, still a for-profit corporation.

I feel like business schools have failed this generation of management. They look at Apple and see them do something that customers like, but it has a cost to the company, like giving up the ability to track people. So they conclude that it will be an advantage if they defect and make money from ads.

Then they see Apple do something customers hate and get away with it and the lesson they take is that they can get away with it too. But they can't, because the reason why Apple got away with it was by doing the thing the customers liked. And then they can't understand why they can't achieve Apple's margins.

You idiots, do the opposite. Then you can charge Apple's margins from the first one and take their market share with the second one.
Bernstein did not “found” the field of PQC. He wasn’t even doing cryptography when this field was founded!

Also, the schemes he’s railing against are also the work of top cryptographers in the space.
I know Keynes said something of the sort, did the 18th and 19th century industrialists also say this stuff?
Aren’t some growers able to grow in Georgia now, whereas they hadn’t been able to before? I seem to recall something about that.
Very nice! I think the landing README should really be a comparison with CuPy and not NumPy though
In the old days of ICL and msdos … it was dreadful (imagine to edit your cobol or asm on that) … but you make it sounds like fun!
Looks like a more labor intensive refinement of the much older techniques of copping and pollarding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding
Yep. I'll never need or use this implementation, but the tricks used will make it to other tools, which will be great.
"no real world evidence that they will"

what is that mean, anyways?
I’m now considered probably in the top percentile of earners for my country. But I do remember struggling to make ends meet on my 16k a year first tech job out of university. I find it hard sometimes to relate to tech workers in these forums sometimes. And yes I’m in the west.
Related:

Daisugi, the 600-year-old Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941631 - April 2021 (171 comments)
Saw his name in the domain and came here to mention Wanderers. I just rewatched it again recently while showing it to someone. Amazing.
Agreed. On the finance side, typically each store has a shrink allowance as a % of sales. The account is adjusted following the periodic inventory audit (usually annually). It rolls up to cost of goods sold so it is reflected in the margin.

So if shrink was forecast at 0.75% of sales but actually came in lower the store would see better margins on their financials.
Edit: Just realized the author is djb, Daniel Bernstein, which I guess is semi-ironic for me because I was recently praising him on HN for an old, well-read blog post on ipv6. Thus, I guess I may take back a bit of what I said below, or least perhaps it would be better to say that I can better understand the adversarial tone given djb's history with NIST recommendations (more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein#Cryptograp...).

> The unfortunate reality of this is that while he may be right, it is difficult to classify the responses (or non-response) from the NIST people as deceptive vs just not wanting to engage with someone coming from such an adversarial position.

Couldn't agree with this more. I don't like to harp on form over substance, but in this case the form of this blog post was so bad I had difficulty evaluating whether the substance was worthwhile. I'm not in the field of cryptography, so I'm not qualified to assess on the merits, but my thoughts reading this were:

1. All the unnecessary snark and disparagement made me extremely wary of the message. It seemed like he was making good points, but the overall tone was similar to those YouTube "WhaT ThE ElITe DoN'T WanT YoU TO KnoW!!" videos. Frankly, the author just sounds like kind of an asshole, even if he is right.

2. Did anyone actually read this whole thing?? I know people love to harp on "the Internet has killed our attention spans", and that may be true, but the flip side is we're bombarded with so much info now that I take a very judicious approach to where I'll spend my time. On that point, if you're writing a blog post, the relevant details and "executive summary" if you will should be in the first couple paragraphs, then put the meandering, wandering diary after. Don't expect a full read if important tidbits are hidden like Where's Waldo in your meandering diary.
> it can't be...

Oh boy it totally can. I'm not saying it it, but it totally can.

I feel many people (at least on HN) treat laws like programming. There are some similarities, but programmers like to eliminate arbitrary special cases, while lawmakers love to create arbitrary special cases. It's like their only job, really.
oh no! I just read Eifelheim 2 weeks ago, it was a lovely book!
> In the last 20 centuries of human history the powerful have always crushed the little man with the excuse they are serving the public interest.

Was this not happening before the estimated birth of Jesus of Nazareth?
Nobody uses semantic versioning for online APIs, because it's expensive to maintain all of the existing versions of the API for all of time. That means that you make very few backwards-incompatible releases, which has a tendency to clump your backwards-incompatible changes into large, planned releases. Stripe's API is a great example of this.

Semver is meant for library versioning. When they say "API" they mean the API that the library exposes.
I always thought semver was specifically for dependencies. It even mentions packages and dependencies multiple times at the start.

Anyone deploying their web app or something with meticulously selected semver changelogs is wasting a lot of time.
These things are always cyclical, but FOMO is a tough emotion to combat.
I took LSD with a group of close friends, one of the guys didn't come "down" from the trip. It was a very off putting experience, watching someone you knew 24 hours ago never be the same again. (there was a history of other drugs, but this particular trip was day and night difference)

He was in and out of mental asylums for about 10 years, and recently has just went missing.

I still take drugs when I want to, and don't advocate against them.

My rough advice is to just wait until you are at least 25, follow the safe, sound, setting tips, and always premeditate on what you about to do before you do it.
Crap music that other people made will flood the market, but music that's made just for personal enjoyment will explode. Writing music, creating/recording it, and arranging the tracks in Abelton is a very time (and money) consuming hobby if not done professionally. Learning to play an instrument in the first place can be far more rewarding because it's "yours". Prompt engineering on an LLM will be a total shortcut to creating music, but it will be yours.

Commuting to work/school/etc in a car might not be art, but driving for sport, at the top of the profession is very much an art form simply because of the technical skill, creativity, and emotional depth and investment. Just as a musician understands the nuances of their instrument to produce a captivating melody, a driver must intimately know their car's attributes to master each track. The racetrack is their canvas, with split-second decisions, adaptability, and emotional connection to the track, car, and other drivers. Like a well-composed symphony, high-level driving's graceful turns and passes resonate with both the drivers and the viewer. It's not just about who crosses the finish line first (despite what the Fast and the Furious movies told you), but the elegance and finesse required to drive at that level is befitting a music virtuoso to educated viewers.

Very much agree on the last point, technological progress often isn't. Electric cars are the future, but the diagonal torque curve of the motor lacks the charm of ICEs.
But not at JPMorgan where they need butts in office seats 5 days a week!
The vulnerable piece of code didn't need memory unsafety. Sure, __minimal_malloc does, but the bug was in mundane string handling.
I think it's probably great at Latin and Greek for reasons that should be obvious (plenty of public domain raw material, vast reams of scholarship dating back centuries). It's less good with some other languages, eg some Japanese companies have decided to train their own models due to dissatisfaction with ChatGPT's shortcomings.
My realtor's commission when I bought this house 2 years ago amounted to about $30,000.

I don't feel too guilty about taking up her time for 3-4 hours a week for 2 1/2 months.

Even if we assume she did the same amount again, if not double, lets say 10 hours/week for those 10 weeks, her 'hourly rate' (which I figure similar to a contractor, as there are of course other expenses) still comes to $300/hr, which is approaching associate/partner levels at a "reasonable" law firm (not white shoe or corporate).
Note that this is not Michael J. Flynn (age 89) [1], Stanford University professor emeritus and progenitor of Flynn's taxonomy [2] of parallel computer architectures based on the number of concurrent control and data streams available:

- SISD: Single Instruction stream, Single Data stream

- SIMD: Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data streams

- MISD: Multiple Instruction streams, Single Data stream

- MIMD: Multiple Instruction streams, Multiple Data streams

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Flynn

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn%27s_taxonomy
PCB Design Tutorial (2003).[0,1]

[0] https://alternatezone.com/electronics/pcbdesign.htm

[1] https://www.dapj.net/david-jones-tronnort-technology/
Farmers use a lot of technology. So if he is talking "AI" think like combines keeping the "lane" like your car and tractors sowing basically on their own adjusting seed and fertilizer levels as needed as they go. And none of that needs actual "AI". Of course we are talking large industrial farm companies here in many cases. Not your mom and pop farm.
I bet you likes miles, feet and country specific gallons too. Enjoy your unit system!
Amazing! They did also find fragments, but those complete baskets are stunning.

> The three dated objects (579, 580, and 581) corresponding to the earlier occupation phase of the cave (phase 1) are 3D twined baskets made with raw esparto. They are well preserved compared with the other fiber-based materials, being almost complete and decorated with geometric motifs made with dyed fibers (Fig. 2A); some incorporate human hairs or pigments (Fig. 2B). Other baskets recovered at the cave (582, 583, 585, 586, 586a, 586b, 592, and 593) share similar morphologies, techniques, and raw material, suggesting that they are also related to phase 1.