skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring a physiotherapist is one that drives me mad. I have relatives and friends in real pain and they refuse to spend the £100 to £200 for a couple of sessions of physio to fix the problem. They can all afford it but they doggedly stick to mild pain killers and “it will sort itself out” eventually it may but what a waste of energy for months and years.
You're not alone. When someone asks "What OS do you prefer, Windows, Linux, or Mac?" my answer is: "none". Anyhow, back to dreaming. Someday maybe...
On my current motorcycle and body shape it says 0 degree forward lean, 90 degree knee angle and 94 degree hip angle. The most comfortable bike I've owned, Kawasaki KLR650.
I made two:

https://unli.xyz/eject/ -- no login, data saved to local browser, you can export to CSV

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library -- similar to Plex but CLI-only and no "server" or downloads needed.
You’re not always allowed to eat cake because some of the cakes in the houses down the street belong to other people.
> Note that NASA also doesn't have one: It only has SpaceX'.

Another way of saying this is that SpaceX is a contractor; which means that both NASA and the ESA 'own' the same # of reusable rockets (zero), and have the ability to purchase the same number of reusable rockets from the industry (one, from spaceX).
Ron M Kaplan of LFG (Lexical Functional Grammar) and Xerox XFST (Extended Finite State Transducer calculus and tools) fame seems involved.
Why not team up with a designer? to give an example...i love UI related stuff - but am not proficient/capable (yet) at coding. This is where collab is perfect no?
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> compared to even the shoddiest-run of national electricity grids

Who do you think runs connectivity for your average electrical grid outside of the power cables themselves?

There are superposition modems but those assume that the lines themselves aren't damaged so there usually is a whole SCADA system on either a private cellular network or through fiber or copper (depending on age) owned by the telcos.

FWIW during the massive blackout in the early 00's in North America and Canada the telco system held up remarkably well (until the fuel ran out in some places).
Come and take it
I am not asking about the morality of it.

I believe consumers are in their right, moral or not, to block ads, and Youtube/Google is in their right to disable ad blockers.

I am wondering if someone has a solution because I would really be interested in hearing it.
Definitely webclient ChatGPT
October 27, 2016
The Untold Story of the Making of Snoopy Tennis (2021)
You are always allowed to hire assistance. There are rules about who you can hire.
Lenovo "ThinkPad" workstations, like the P16s.
I'm probably a weirdo, but the "write in books" is a massive no no for me. I can't imagine writing in a book (unless it's a total turd, but I assume we're talking about good, insightful books).

I do take notes, but always on separate sheets that I keep in the book. Just no way I'll write on the book itself.
You don't, though? I'm not sure what kind of code you're referring to. Can you give an example?
A Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650. Just did over a 1000 km on the way to their annual festival, and kept wondering what the “correct” riding posture was. Either HN read my mind or a a bunch of HN’ers are in Goa now.
I was responding to this.

> The context window only has to do with the size of input it has access to - its not related to what it's outputting

The sequential token generation process is closely related to the content of the context window at every step.

Maybe I misunderstood your point. I know these things can hallucinate when asked about obscure facts that they weren't sufficiently trained on.
This article is just plain wrong. The author doesn't seem to understand how filesystems work - specifically the difference between writing data and renaming directory entries. LWN should either issue a correction or take it down.

First: The author is confusing atomicity techniques with durability techniques. rename() isn't at all relevant to durability. Never has been.

Second: Nothing about using rename() is relevant to what happens when pages are lost on crash. Using rename() or link() has no bearing on dirty writes. This whole section should just be deleted.

Third: When pages are lost, they're not back-filled with random unallocated space (and if they were, see the second point above). Filesystems are designed to ensure these regions are zeroed out before the area can be used - either proactively or in fsck.

Finally, this quote: "Which brings us to the present day fsync/rename/O_PONIES controversy, in which many file systems developers argue that applications should explicitly call fsync() before renaming a file if they want the file's data to be on disk before the rename takes effect"

There is no such controversy because rename() is utterly unrelated to the durability of data on a disk. This is a pure hallucination.

What a bizarre article.
> the years I start to thinking that this limitation was also a curse for communication overall on the platform

I would say the popularity of Twitter and its 140 character limit were a curse for communication fullstop. Globally, and irreversibly.

Facebook gets a lot of flak for being an echo chamber with targetted ads and disinformation, but Twitter never got the same level of critique in damaging online discourse.

Twitter specifically required people for a long time not to have long well-thought out ideas - but require hot takes and nothing else. Every political, social or economic position that was discussed had to be distilled to 140 characters - this effectively scrubbed nuance from any position. Along with retweets, this meant that all news, and all online discourse was reduced to "the hottest takes" without any level of complex thought.
Yes, this is a well known thing to anyone paying attention to information theory.
Excellent links. My favorite part:

> However you put it, there is no valid reason for a software left open without touching it to turn the computer into a toaster, especially since we don’t buy Russian gas anymore.
Just build it. If they don't, China or Russia will. There is no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Qanon is going to have a field day with this :D
Yes! I ordered these: https://www.amazon.com/Outus-Titanium-Rings-Split-Pack/dp/B0...

My super-scientific "is titanium" test involved trying to get a fridge magnet to stick to them. it won't, and a normal keyring will. Yes, that risks it being aluminum. Other reviews state they put one against their sanding machine and got white sparks which was an additional positive sign.

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I'd say the problematic dynamic with assertions like "there is absolutely no difference between men and women" is that they terminate a chain of thought, and then get used as a lemma in support of a conclusion. They're held in place by social consensus [0] rather than a lack of nuance.

Hypothetically I can see this happening with my argument, but I'm only imagining more checked-out cynicism. Maybe you see how it's poised for something worse?

What I do commonly see are arguments in the vein of "it's impossible for a company to be coercive", which I'd say is the same exact dogmatic pattern you're describing. They're used to justify a state of affairs, and then offer a fallacious solution like "go start your own company". The wishful thinking here seems to be based on emphasizing the distinction between corporate power and government power [1], which is why I think it's useful to point out the commonalities.

[0] like only now that the mobs have passed, can you use this spicy but technically correct example

[1] see the common trope of people asserting that freedom of speech only pertains to the government, when it's just a general concept and the government-specific bit is the legal framing of the first amendment
The people who invented numerological techniques knew that you could manipulate numbers using particular rules and discover new facts about the world -- for example that you could measure the length of strings and use that to determine, which ones would sound good if you plucked them at the same time.

Give the large number of successes that mathematics lead to, it only made sense that they would try to encode more things as numbers, including a more general method of translating _all words_ to numbers, using the most straight forward encoding they could think of -- just having the letters stand in for the numbers that the _same letters_ stood for when they were doing math.

It didn't develop this way in reality of course, but you could probably draw a fairly straight line of logical developments from numerology to word2vec and LLMs.
LLMs are deterministic in principle. It’s like JPEG where it’s a lossy compression plus some deliberate injection of noise to add variety.
Nothing I just said is inconsistent with what I posted earlier. I have no desire to hurt them, but I'm not going to pretend that anything I do to them is immoral or tips the scale from what they've stolen from me over the years
Is it that CSS is complicated because the problem it solves is complicated?
> any insight into why creators are hopping on the bandwagon

It probably works.
Thanks!

The images are real images from the web. In most cases they match the topic you search for but in some cases they turn out to be unrelated. (I already have an idea on how to try and improve accuracy here).

As for the conclusions, you're right now that you point it out. I don't recall coming across conclusion sections in other encyclopedias I read. it's a format GPT (which is the underlying LLM I'm using) seems to like to use by default. I didn't disable that behavior because I guess a conclusion to wrap everything up for the reader isn't a bad thing?
No macOS version?
Are you aware of any forums/groups where people network these sorts of setups with people in their area? I live near a tech hub and have been wondering if something like this could be possible to cover a larger area or neighborhood, but I don't know anyone personally who would probably be as interested.
+1 ^^ This

Set MTU on affected systems to 1400 or implement MSS clamping via firewall, etc.
I don't think it needs to be a moral argument, I just don't think you should be indignant if they don't cater to people not making them money.
Didn’t the guy that came after him literally sell weapons to Iran in addition to back room deals, all to fund cartels in Central America?
Are there instructions for this distributed inference somewhere? Can I do this out of the box with llamacpp or similar?
Ok, so first off happy thanksgiving. I'm drunk at this point so forgive my probable incoherence.

while there's some validity in the notion that philanthropists do good occasionally, a better question is would their good more effective than a state solution? I don't have a ton of evidence on hand right now, but highways, the whole new deal america stuff pretty clearly did more for infrastructure than any philanthropist. In the terms of stuff like the gates foundation, at the end of the day I'm a utilitarian. They do good I'm happy.

All I'm sayin is a more egalitarian state might have achieved the goal quicker had they any rich guys' will to solve it.

At the end of the day I don't have the evidence off hand but everything I've read points to the state as the source of modern amenities but admittedly I'm biased towards tech and leftism and I'm no expert. I haven't exactly read ayn rand. I've read stuff like pikkety and sunkara.

In the cases where billionaires do good I ask, Couldn't a state with that same will do more?
But there is no rigamarole. The article is just super confused.

Atomicity is orthogonal to durability. rename() is atomic and always has been atomic. It is atomic without guaranteeing durability.

In fact, to guarantee durability after rename you must:

1) rename(a, b)

2) open(the parent dir)

3) fsync(the parent dir)

This is to guarantee durability of the metadata written by rename() in the dirent.

All of this is totally separate from guaranteeing the durability of the data in the file, which requires its own separate fsync() on the file itself.

Atomicity and durability are never the same. This article is gibberish.
This is super cool, I didn't realize the reason would be so complex. Thanks for explaining!
With the advances in gene manipulation something like an AI that creates, prints, and tests nasty viruses isn't out of the question.

A little lab leak and you have captain trips.
Usually the 30-minute ads are total scam spiels for fake products or bunk science. I let one play just for grins to see how long it runs.

And I get them on Megadeth HQ album videos. Not generally the kind of audience that goes for these specific things being advertised.
> Who do you think runs connectivity for your average electrical grid outside of the power cables themselves?

The grid run their own lines. Underground power cables are always accompanied by a pilot cable, which used to be 2x current loops plus a bunch of twisted pairs, now fiber optic. Underground power cables are almost always run in pairs (pairs of 3 phases) so between every significant substation there's always at least 2 dedicated communication lines.

You have said 'owned by the telcos' and this is very much not my experience. The grid comms network is owned and maintained by the grid.
This is a security concern for the region.

Hitler solved this level of crisis. Didn't work out well for the neighbors.
I don't think your experience is common, at least not post COVID.

Just this year, flying direct to Hawaii, checked a bag because of baby gear. United cancelled the flight and due to staffing, would not/could not return checked bags (so I could fly Alaska) for almost 24 hours.

The bags has not left SFO. They literally took a day to move them from the back to the front.

I only made my new flight by finding the right person who was willing to task someone to go pull my bag early.
How do you prove a counterfactual?
In a sense _all_ of the axioms of a given system are undecidable. They're just given, and they're relatively arbitrarily chosen. You can create, for example a version of set theory where the starting axioms are different from ZFC (the "standard" set theory) and you can derive some of the axioms of ZFC from them. What Godel proved is that no matter what set of axioms you choose, as long as it's sufficient for expressing basic arithmetic, you can produce still produce new undecidable statements, or there will be true statements that you can't prove with it.
Ukraine's About to Get Its New Reverse-Slope Glide-Bombs
I would probably spend an hour or two just writing something like that. On the surface, I'd agree.

With that said, in my experience, many stand-up formats devolve into some version of "the two most talkative people have a conversation for 30 minutes while everyone else listens". I'd probably get more value out of doing a write-up than sitting through a meeting like that.

It really depends on the health of the stand-ups on the team.
IMO yes, but more likely and entirely different yet to be discovered way of modeling intelligence
> In QWidget if you use it then it’s compiled into the application.

Same thing with QML. QML files get compiled into the application. The QQmlEngine then interprets various expressions/actions at runtime. Just like scripting a QWidget/QDeclarativeView based application with QtScript.

I think the post you have linked to was simply comparing QML as a language to a HTML and how Javascript can be used as glue code to script various actions, and how you can expose business logic to javascript via. FFI.

<button onClick="console.log('hello')" />

vs.

Button { onClick: console.log('hello') }

vs.

Button *button = new Button(parent);
connect(button, &Button::clicked, [](){ qDebug() << "hello" });

> I want as few extra languages as possible. I do not find that extra work because it’s represented in the class itself and the observer pattern maintains my preferences... For my intentions I am looking for less overhead overall to keep files as pure C++ as possible to ensure that a class I’m writing represents the full scope of it’s functionality and domain.

I know where you're coming from. What I am saying was it is less about preferences and more about separation of concerns. "What the UI should look like" vs. "What the UI should do". The latter usually needs to happen in C++ anyways. But the former - there are better tools/ways to describe that.

Most of the time "What the UI should look like" probably gets described in your constructors. It probably takes a few write/compile/test iterations to get what you want. That works well enough for simpler uis. When things get more complex... that's when other tools can simplify your work. With UIC, you (or an actual designer) can visually edit the ui in QtDesigner and give you the ui files. All the UI description gets compiled to it's own class. Your business logic code wouldn't have to worry about details of layouts, positions, colors etc... It wouldn't have to be modified whenever you want to change the position of a button.

fwiw I started appreciating the designer only after going back to writing QWidgets code after a few years of break
Won't someone think of the trillion dollar corporations?
When you read the word "assistance" the first idea comes up on your mind is a foreigner?

It tells a lot about what's wrong with... everything.
For HN purposes it's not a question of the topic, it's a question of the spirit in which you're discussing it, or (if you like) the place you're coming from. What we want is curious conversation. That's the intended spirit.

'Propaganda' and 'censorship' are hard to discuss from a curious place because people mostly use those words as weapons to fight against something they consider bad. If you're posting from a place of fighting badness, it's hard to get into the spirit of curiosity, which is lighter and more playful.

Does that make sense? It's not a question of these things being "offtopic", "banned", or "not allowed". It's a question of whether it's possible to discuss them in a certain way. People sometimes think this is about "tone", but that's much too superficial. It has more to do with the state one is in when they're posting—I would almost say their physiological state, but that's maybe getting a bit strange.
It's not, though, because fsync has no relation whatsoever to what other processes see.

Durability is totally different from concurrency or multiprocess consistency.

There are already guarantees about how we can order reads and writes in a shared file. Very well defined guarantees -- ones we've built entire RDBMS systems on top of.

Guaranteeing durability (persistence across a crash) is a totally separate problem from understanding write visibility between threads.
Right just like dinosaurs dealt with gradual meteors igniting the atmosphere.
Nvidia sued after video call mistake showed 'stolen' data
Bones are live tissue and are constantly being remodeled. About a tenth of the heart's output flows into the bones.
So good memory just means you have a good compression algorithm?

I guess if you remember "Sam said a rude thing today about my work" instead of exactly what was said it is very hard to clear up afterwards, and you will hallucinate a lot more rudeness than was actually there.

If the compression algorithm for how to store such memories are different in every person it explains a lot of misunderstandings.

Edit: However not many would say that good memory means you are smart, some people remember a lot of things very well but are still dumb in practice. So I don't think that compression is enough to define intelligence.
This makes me realize that there are people who have made the deepest dives and people who have made the highest jump (parachute) descent but no records have been make of people combining them (highest release from an aircraft, descending to the water and continuing to descend for as far as possible).

Who will be the first to set a record? Musk, Bezos: the future is calling you!
I've toyed with hiring a local to wear a GoPro and walk the halls of the Louvre and one or two major cities, streaming the video to me in real time. I'd direct him or her so I could see the sights without the hell of travel. It's not on the list that I can find so I guess that it must not be allowed. ;-)
So silly to blocks ads on YouTube . IMO YouTube has an excellent - paid ad free experience that financially makes sense both for me and content creators. Blocking ads on YouTube just seems evil …
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Let's throw in Pynchon while you're at it
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Learn how to decorate/style/design your interior spaces.
Making the space you spend most time in unreal, is a great use of time.
Or i guess as the article states - pay someone to do it? :)
EU countries call for evaluation of data protection law
Interesting to see whether they'll open this can of worms. If they'll loosen the requirements, a potential message sent to the world is that any law can be called into question at will, as implicitly hinted also by the author.
The fastest z series CPUs are just modern 7nm, 8core superscalars with built in AI coprocessors, a fancy large cache arch, virtualization, and a _base_ clock of 5ghz. I imagine they aren't the wizbang magic intel has, but I doubt they are slow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Telum_(microprocessor)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/ibms-telum-mainframe...
The Little Hell
This seems like a fairly equally mixed list of good ideas and ways to be absolutely insufferable.

Maybe GPT wrote it.
Author then recommends not writing on greetings cards, using a post-it instead. Curious...

My own approach is to write my impressions on a slim notebook, and to keep it besides the book on the shelf.
writing in books shows an intimate bond with that body of knowledge, and to me, it's much more interactive than taking notes separately (which i still do sometimes).