skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nix is source-based. If you write your own "package definitions" you can distribute those in all the same ways you would use for source code, since they are source code. nixpkgs for example is a monorepo of many of those package definitions, among other things. Flakes are a (still experimental) approach to (among other things) streamline the options you have outside of nixpkgs inclusion.

If you also want to distribute pre-built binaries you would use a cache. https://cache.nixos.org/ is exactly that for nixpkgs. You can host your own via http(s), ssh or s3. There is also cachix, which is basically a hosting provider for nix caches that is pretty widespread in the community, I think.
> Are we going to prosecute all long-tail problems in any product?

Hopefully yes, if it’s proven the vendor knew but released anyway or didn’t disclose.
Totally agree. One of the hardest parts of quitting smoking for me was quitting smoke breaks with my smoker friends at work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S...

Explanations for racial discrepancies include:

- Discrimination by law enforcement

- Childhood exposure to violence

- Inability to post bail

- Socioeconomic factors

- Housing segregation

- Sociocultural factors

This is pretty well-known stuff. Please educate yourself.
Because democracy is a key part of Marx/socialist thought. The whole idea is that collective ownership of capital would mean it would be democratically managed by the working class, for the interests of the working class, rather than for the interests of someone else. You can quibble about that if you want but it's a big part of socialist thought anyways. It's only in the modern period that democracy has become synonymous with the western capitalist system.
I've never heard of this being a bad pattern, could you elaborate a bit on that and how we are supposed to do it? If you have some dependencies on gitlab.com and some on github.com, how will your go.mod file look like if you are not supposed to use the full path?
when you say run what actually do you mean?

if you can install transformers to your imac, the easiest way is to just check in code real quick, so just run the transformers code to load the model and tokenizer. Start with some basic bert models and move up. if you try to use a model loader app esp with full interface app like textgen or lm studio, you're adding overhead. ollama model server/loader is quite fast to me likely because it only comes with cli interface out of the box but it doesn't support all models and the smallest model is a quantized orca-mini which is unlikely to work for you.
He's giving the advice to his son who is about to go off to university.

What he's saying is if you get accustomed to borrowing you will lose your ability to budget properly.
Jhoo – A dart package to build websites
jhoo, dart package can help you build websites using dart, provides flutter like developemnet experience and renders UI using HTML/CSS.

jhoo is pure dart package and it's like a layer on top of dart:html library to create websites. Inspried by flutter, jhoo provides flutter like widget structure to create UI and renders it on web using HTML/CSS and DOM.

Check out jhoo on github
https://github.com/Ganeshsivakumar/jhoo
Yeah, he self-described as "violently anti-communist".
There are all sorts of questions I've had that are either very hard, or very annoying, to use Google for. They're often technical, but really they could be anything.

Two recent examples that comes to mind:

1. I was helping my 6 year old niece with her homework, and the exercise was extremely confusing. It had 3 pictures - a gumball machine, an owl, and something else (can't remember). The instructions said "for each picture, write 3 adjectives that describe what the picture can do." It's one of those things where, the more you think about it, the more confused you get. I thought I must be going crazy. I took a screenshot and asked ChatGPT if it could understand what the exercise was asking for, and it successfully interpreted the picture but agreed that the exercise as described didn't make sense, because adverbs describe actions, not adjectives.

2. A more trivial example, but I quickly needed to know the time and temperature for cooking bacon in the oven. Stuff like this is incredibly irritating with Google, especially if you're in the kitchen with food particles all over your hand. I don't want to read some backstory about the recipe author growing up on a small farm, intermixed with 15 different ads, just so I can figure out how many teaspoons of salt I need.
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Are two of my favorites that came to mind
Interesting to think about a world where Apple was able to embed AIX with PPCToolbox running on the same machine with classic MacOS essentially as the window server. Assuming they could get around licensing cost issues, this might have been a viable path forward for a modern OS in an alternate future.
Two beefs with this article. One, it creates a linear scale for what are probably multiple orthogonal concepts. Accounting for even one more axis would make the article much more interesting and useful.

Two, I don't think 4 is necessarily more effort than 3 (for some values of 4 and 3). What does take a lot of time is if different engineers have different ideas of what 3 and 4 are but lack the perspective to understand each other and choose a common standard. Everyone will choose faster if everybody follows static typing because you can rely on assumptions you otherwise couldn't. And, everyone can move faster if we don't worry about any of that static typing crap. If engineers take different approaches, everybody will move slower and probably hate their jobs as well.
It's not the same for sure. But I see my 15-yo doing mostly the same today!

You are right that the attention-eating stuff is a huge difference.

Happy to also read the author :-)
Horses for courses. When I had my Lovecraft kick as a teenager, I had zero interest in going on to read the stuff that later authors set in the same universe. Derleth et al. seemed like mediocre talents just riding on Lovecraft's coattails.
That doesn’t help with the issue I put forward.
Even if the seed is identical, the output is not deterministic based on the input. A tiny change in the input could result in no change in the output, a little change in the out, a medium change in the output, or a totally new output.
A quick calculation on Wolfram Alpha: to cover 2% of the world's surface at 50EUR/m2 would cost roughly 540 trillion euros, or 5.5 years of current world GDP.
I am a longtime devotee of Lovecraft. For a deep dive into the man's life, I direct your attention to the Voluminous podcast [1], which covers a bit of H.P. Lovecraft's extensive correspondence. He was a fascinating character, simultaneously infuriating, repugnant, intellectual, sympathetic, and kind. When he wrote at his best, he was exceptionally good.

I lean more towards the belief that what was created between Lovecraft and his friends regarding their shared universe while Lovecraft was alive is superior to what came later. Subsequent revisions introduced elements like order, good vs. evil, etc., which, in my opinion, are fundamentally at odds with the incomprehensibility of cosmic horror.

These days, of course, Cthulhu seems more suited to a pair of plush slippers.

[1] https://www.hplhs.org/voluminous.php
That makes total sense.

Can you give me a specific example of esoteric economics question you referred to. Would love to compare UX with google and chatgpt.
This lays in a similar domain with a french startup named Vainu that back in 2019 started to use incarcerated people for data labelling.

Look it up.
The problem described in 2018 seems completely unrelated to downfall.
It looks like a potential optimization to the original spectre, doesn't even mention AVX gather instructions.

I don't see this going anywhere.
Yeah the article makes it pretty far before saying “maritime ports” and even then the article never seemed to acknowledge that there is ambiguity in “shutting down port operations” created when the triggering event is a cyber attack.
It's a defining feature of this place, no optimism is allowed. If it isn't perfect from the start, it can never be good enough.
What is distinct to humans is often indistinct to speech recognition models
Is there any alternative archive?
Some highlights:

“In order to procure the necessary raw materials for knife production, one of us (M.I.E.) went on a diet with high protein and fatty acids, which is consistent with an arctic diet, for eight days…”

“Raw material collection did not begin until day four, and then proceeded regularly for the next five days (Table S1). Fecal samples were formed into knives using ceramic molds, “knife molds” (Figs. S1–S2), or molded by hand, “hand-shaped knives””

“We repeated the experiment using the fecal samples of another team member (M.R.B.), whose diet was more traditionally Western (see supplementary online materials)”
Speculative execution was what made CPUs fast. That some creepy people use it for hacks is another story. Are we going to end up with super slow CPUs with super hard security in the end? As there is a trade-off between speed and security, so pick one or the other. I would rather have a fast CPU than one that prevents hacking in some narrow scenarios. Cloud operators might have another view, but why should I be punished for scenarios that won't ever happen on my laptop?
The Volkswagen scandal is beyond the pale. It is genuinely difficult to understate how catastrophic it was for the company. To this day ex-CEO Martin Winterkorn is wanted for charges in the United States.

As for Intel it’s difficult to judge without knowing how complicit they were. The fact it took years to for a proof of concept of Downfall to surface lends some credibility to their choices. Moreover equating a security vulnerability to being outright defective is overeager, to say the least. If that were true then you might as well sue the vendor of any lock that has been successfully picked, cut, shimmed, or broken.
I know what serointensity is.

> When they say serointensity, they specifically mean "Toxoplasma gondii IgG Serointensity"

Yes, because that's what they studied. :)

That doesn't mean we can draw such sharp conclusions. Next steps include compiling enough data for a meta-analysis on the variance in correlation between frailty and the serointensity of different pathogens.
> It's one of those things where, the more you think about it, the more confused you get.

> it successfully interpreted the picture

Sorry, but how did you know that interpretation was a success?
Gift Article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/technology/iphone-repair-...
For context:

China had a ban on Australian imports in the wake of the Australian PM saying that Xi and China should be investigated because of Covid or something along those lines.

China just this last week dropped the ban and expected Australian imports to come flooding back in but almost nobody bit that hook due to the amount of time and money export companies had spent arranging relationships with other countries instead of China in the wake of the ban.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231112101006/https://www.nytim...
I whole heartedly agree.

* Problem statement *

The actual value of GPT is spontaneous creation of spoofed data. Some of that output answers really tough questions. Stop thinking at this point and reflect.

* Value assessment *

There is some amazing potential there for performing test automation where either large data samples are demanded or the sophistication of output exceeds exceeds capabilities of prior conventions. Taken one step further there is further value in using this authentic looking out for testing against humans for market acceptance testing or bias validation.

* Real world use *

When real world use significantly departs from the value assessment there is a problem. Faking student papers or hoping the technology writes a legal brief for you forces a complete realignment of potential revenue model with different clients paying different amounts.

* Expectation *

Unless this technology can actually make money in a reoccurring and sustainable way past initial trends it will be an investment black hole just like crypto.
Yea, LLMs hallucinate. They almost never hallucinate if you provide the right context, either via a search enabled LLM (ChatGPT with search, or perplexity.ai or phind.com etc.) or by providing it with more code/text/input to work with.
Don't use LLMs as fact database lookup machines.
I use them for brainstorming. I get such great ideas, I don't mind if they miss now and then.

Information can be abundant yet hidden in obtuse or misleading writing. LLMs produce writing that is quite accessible.
Deep cut
This control severely limits the utility of stolen iPhones, which is a good thing for me as an iPhone owner.

There are other phones that consumers can choose that don’t have this pairing. But this pairing of parts is one of the reasons people choose and iPhone.
Another strong EU regulation could force big tech platforms to change their ways
Right now I’m reading Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare.
Bad analogy, but let's go along with it.

The open source license already says you can go into the house and do whatever you want, including breaking something and kicking you out.

Your additional instruction to not break something goes against the rights initially granted.

To make it worse, one is covered by copyright law and the other by business contract law.
Right, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Just that that design has big downsides.
You forgot something. Also you look foolish telling people to educate themselves on Wikipedia

(

- Discrimination by law enforcement
OR
- Childhood exposure to violence
OR
- Inability to post bail
OR
- Socioeconomic factors
OR
- Housing segregation
OR
- Sociocultural factors

)

AND

(bad personal choices)
Thank you for the feedback! I wasn't sure if people would be interested in how I made it. But yes I could publish that. I used the Next.js framework because I didn't want to set up an entire backend server in a separate repo. Besides that, I just inspected HackerNews's frontend code in Chrome Dev Tools to copy the simple UI/UX of this magnificent site!

Now I need to learn how to make the site better and gather more people. I am working on deeply nested comments right now and an RSS feed.
Until ChatGPT can store and reference all past conversations, I'd suggest asking it to generate flashcards for e.g. Anki. I've mainly used it when I want to understand or deepen my understanding of something pretty specific.
Glad to hear there is more to come! I do think OCaml 5 not only keeps the language relevant but also makes it even more interesting.
It seems companies (eg Microsoft being the big customer in this example) pay to offset their carbon emissions so they can use that fact for marketing purposes.
Can someone ELI5 why advanced speaker DSP is a huge thing? I read the linked document and couldn't really figure out why this is important and why it differs from what we already have in Linux systems.
> These are all techniques that are in wide use in consumer microspeaker systems in tablets and phones, though sadly not common on laptops from most non-Apple brands.

Dell / Realtek / MaxxAudio (not sure who to attribute it to) offers such an implementation with mixed results. Some people go to great lengths to remove it and replace with something that offers a flat response -- personally, I didn't mind the alterations it introduced and the speakers "feel" quieter without it installed.
That makes sense, and its funny because the other reply I got a joke was about how bad coders don't even bother going to SO
I can't imagine being a historian in 100 trying to piece together history from a largely forgotten internet. Whole forums that shaped me as a person have been lost to time. Archive.org helps, and there are individuals with site rips on aging hard drives, but I'd bet more information has been lost in the past 10 years than all of human history has created before it.
Same, I'd pay way more than $20/month. It saves me so much time it's insane. For the past several months I'd been trying to write a tree sitter parser, and I had a really hard time with the docs for some reason. I sat down with ChatGPT and had a working V1 parser in like 3 hours. And it wasn't just feeding me instructions, I was actively conversing with it, going off into tangents when I didn't understand something, etc. It's just...magic. I love it.

I do feel morally conflicted about how humanity built the entire internet basically for free, and OpenAI is just regurgitating it back to us and getting rich off of our collective data. But the tool is so goddamn useful that I can't help myself regardless.
How come, is dejanews.com being gone due to some failure of/at Google groups?
> So this 1000 metric ton CO2 DAC plant could offset the activities of 100-400 vehicles in a year

So it's basically useless? Just for show? Surely you could have done much more for the environment investing that money in a smarter way?
Missing:

- use blank lines between lines

- if you want them to show up as seperate lines
The headline doesn't fully jive with the text. Ports were shut down by a private company called "DP World Australia". DP World is an UAE based shipping company that apparently operates some Australian ports and handles 40% of country's shipping traffic? Obviously it's a major fish so the government basically has no choice and tries to help them sort out the attack.
This is such an absurd excuse. The competing android devices are not exactly known for being a more popular target for theft.

This is just a copout pushed by Apple to justify obviously bad practices, and due to their reality distortion field, you guys eat it up.
I use 30AWG (Kynar wire) for most things I build. I have it in multiple colours which is helpful.
Anecdotal, but back in those "good old days" when you could get a screen replaced in 5 mins like this article said, on the three occasions I did this I ended up with the worst cheap Chinese knock off screens I have ever seen, the last time I ended up spending even more to get a genuine one.

Hard to avoid this with small businesses when they need to make the enough of a margin at those cheaper retail prices.

I'm sure this is fine for a lot of people, but I'm much happier to pay for AppleCare+ and get components that keep the experience that I've paid a grand for.
> An HSM. Please please let it be an HSM ! :)

That is one of the options we're considering, but please tell me more. :)

What companies, communities or individuals are missing what features at what price point?

The devil's advocate would argue that it can't be that important if the customer isn't willing to pay 1,000 EUR per HSM. Do you care about certifications such as FIPS or CC? If so, is this simply a matter of achieving compliance at the lowest cost rather than security?
I think it's because AI is a crutch for junior engineers, and a rocket for senior engineers. It takes some degree of wisdom to know how to use it effectively, and the idea that you're going to lean entirely on it to make your program work is...misguided at best.
Why doesn't apple allow the owner to choose to decouple the pairing?

It's telling why they dont.
It's a scam. You spend all this time creating a generator and choosing preferences, and then it tells you you have to log in to your Gmail account and that you only have three choices
Look, you are literally posting on the internet, on an anonymous account, that if someone sends you their personal details and credit card info everything will be taken care of.

Your first reaction should absolutely be that it’s a scam, and only then further evaluate if it might possibly be true because this is HN.

I could have potentially used the word ‘looks like’, but it’s just a matter of degree.
Was there not a huge archeological effort by people all over the place to resurrect old backups and older servers so that the news archive could be complete? Lovingly retrieved, curated and donated because DejaNews was going to be "forever".

I realize that breathless reviews of "Small Wonder" and 40 line Boba Fett .sigs may not be the wisdom of the ages, but it's still an important part of the history of the Internet.
I recall reading The Robert Collier Letter Book when I was studying copywriting, and he had this quote about fads versus trends versus things that will never change.

It said that some products will always be needed, and gave an example : men will always need hats to wear in polite society.

Reading it 100 years later when societal norms have changed so much (and not only will you not see a single hat in a posh restaurant, they are even listed on the forbidden things of their dress codes) reinforced that there is no such thing as needs/products that "never change".
Gruber’s review definitely makes me more excited for Vision Pro, though I’m not sure I’ll ever own one. My prescription is pretty tough, so I don’t know that it’ll be an option.

What he says about panoramic photos resonates with me this week in particular: I recently acquired a 6x17cm panoramic film camera, and printed a photo on a huge Epson printer, and it is absolutely stunning, to the point that I’m suddenly pricing out wide format printers and ruminating on where in the world I could hang or even sell photos.

I can definitely see how Vision Pro would make iPhone panoramic photos sing.

(Reposted my comment from yesterday.)
So in order to save the environment we plan on covering it with white sheets?

Just because we don't want to tell Africa and China to stop burning and polluting and dumping it all in the rivers?
As you mention a podcast, I'd better mention BBC's The Lovecraft Investigations as they are a modern interpretation and most excellent.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w
None of that changes that the disproportionate statistics about arrest and police violence stem from disproportionate criminality.

They’re reasons why that disproportionate criminality happens.

Also, that discrepancies in outcomes are caused by differences in behavior between groups isnt “well known” — and is even lied about in the US media.
I remember the good ole days when I discovered I could actually talk with like minded fans about anime in alt.fan.dragonball (AFD).

monkeigh, tazer, Naa, MiraiMatt, JimboChiu, MattBlue. I still remember all their screen names