skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the top10 in your region carousels get high engagement
I'm glad yCombinator was able to put together and prove the efficacy of this format and business model. Comments would threaten that and there's many other ways for one to get their point across.
>Why do they matter?

Because they are the experts in their field. They are the most qualified to not only read through all of the literature, but actually properly understand it, debate it, and come to a reasonably correct conclusion.

>why are you resistant to the idea they could be wrong?

I'm not resistant to the idea they could be wrong. It's science, the whole thing is built on showing proving previous hypotheses were either wrong or somehow incomplete. However, when it comes to health, I feel I'd be better served by listening to the consensus of various medical bodies than commenters on the Internet, media outlets, or my own ability to digest the scientific literature. In mathematical terms, I think the expected value of my health outcomes where I listen only to the advice of medical bodies is better than the expected value of my health outcomes where I "do my own research," in spite of the fact that medical bodies may be wrong here or there. I'd get it wrong more often.
Rent in Seoul is good, but price to income is pretty bad, worse than SF. For some reason South Korea's flavor of property investment prefers rental income (as opposed to China, where a lot of invested property is not even finished let alone sublet)

Vienna has a bit of an advantage in that it has been below its population peak for the past hundred years (since the peak was before WWI when it was an imperial capital)
I've been writing up my findings here: https://32bits.substack.com/

So far I've focused on the Sega Saturn because it is notorious for having a difficult-to-understand assembly language (SH-2). That means there are lots of things to discover, because people haven't really looked yet!
Do you know of a good reference / primer for LLMs from a technical architecture perspective? I've been somewhat avoiding them, but after seeing MonadGPT -- I'm just too damn curious.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to have a "survey level" understanding of what goes into scaling these models, and what they're capable of at different levels of scale. For example, in the "introducing llama" page, they say

> Smaller, more performant models such as LLaMA enable others in the research community who don’t have access to large amounts of infrastructure to study these models, further democratizing access in this important, fast-changing field.

I'd like to be able to somewhat intelligently be able to discuss the tradeoffs here. What exactly does "smaller, more performant" mean in this context and how can we quantify the differences between models that demand larger infrastructure.
I did something similar in recent months, where I generated separate bitmap tiles for all sub-tile movements and rotations:

https://github.com/uguu-org/ikaruga-snake/blob/master/source...

This seems like a common trick for tile-based display environments.
I agree. Foundational isn't the right word here. I would though accept "impactful". A lot of people care about code formatting "taken care of".
> All too commonly without documenting the build steps.

That's the great thing with Docker, all you need is documented in the Dockerfile.
I'm less cynical about web development. Lots of software engineers bemoan writing web interfaces and pine for the days of native GUI development, but web won because it's extremely accessible to people without CS degrees. There just isn't a good native framework that's as forgiving and easy to learn as HTML, JS, and CSS. I think gtk is pretty decent though
Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition
Well the emails said Thursday and Friday on them. I have inbox zero lifestyle. I only get 5 emails a day so getting 12 or so of them from a few days ago. Only explanation is they weren’t sent.

Also, I was buying something on gumtree. I missed out on the sale because I didn’t receive any emails with the reply from the seller to my messages. They did reply I found in the app, but I didn’t realise until they sold the item to someone else.

So I had the messages in gumtree app. The emails turned up on Saturday.

So I can 100% confirm the emails were late.
It's also a question of hygiene: restoring a system that can be trivially cracked again a few days later, would be stupid. So you have to first understand what failed, then restore only bits that you know are safe. This might not be trivial.
To be fair, it's not really a hoodie either as I feel that implies it's a sweater or has the thickness of one. It really is just a long sleeve shirt with a hood attached.
I'm a big fan of Antiyoy and all of the other Yiotro games.
One way to combat that, according to our old bee keeping advisor, is to have at least two boxes and stack them so that the frames are 90 degrees to each other (one box compared to the next), with food in both boxes. This way the bees seem to not get stuck in a corner as often.
> We’ve seen a lot of great posts about web components lately.

where? I work at a fairly big org that some time ago decided to bet on web components. Everyone I work with (including me) hates it.
Do you mean that the hierarchies don't tend to be very deep in Python? I don't tend to have deep inheritance hierarchies in Python, but I don't tend to have that in really any language I use. If you mean Python code doesn't tend to use inheritance in general, I'm not sure that's true. Django, DRF, the ML/DS packages, etc. all seem to use inheritance as much as any other language...I think? Maybe you're contrasting to those endlessly deep hierarchies you might find in Java? Otherwise, I'm just not sure what the basis is for saying you shouldn't rely on inheritance in Python, given that it is a first-class citizen due to its object-oriented programming model.
They're the feeder contests in the U.S. that determine who gets to represent the U.S. in the IMO.

AMC = multiple choice test, open to all grade school students.

AIME = open response test, all answers are numerical, open to students who score high enough on AMC only.

USAMO = USA Math Olympiad. IMO-style proof problems. Open only to top N scorers on AMC and AIME.
Jesus christ, people have their own plex servers of porn? That's commitment I guess.
I have a fairly large library, and Jellyfin works just fine. It certainly has its rough edges, but everything works well enough.

Regardless, I'd very easily take fewer features, less polish, and even broken functionality, if the alternative is something that spies on what I watch and shares it with others.
Two statements you made

> because if stupid people have more kids, there will be more stupid people.

You are implying that their kids will necessarily be stupid, which is not so- as per the Mike Judge quote, nurturing and environmental factors, which may included adoptive parents but is far from limited to such, may produce alternate outcomes.

> When some people stop procreating and educating the next generation, the world population does not simply go down. Instead it gets replaced by those who do continue multiplying.

Just because there will be other people who procreate says nothing about the rates in which they do so, that does not guarantee world population will not continue to go down regardless.
Librewolf ftw, or Orion
Again, hyping and investing in something that has practical real-world applications is a step up from hyping and investing in something that doesn't.
Does this include the deliveries made by USPS for Amazon on Sundays (in the US)?
Interesting analysis for sure—one thing I wonder is, if we take the Metal Gear metaphor to its logical conclusion: how do we fight the flood of misinformation and low-quality bullshit without becoming the Patriots?

Whether MGS2 was truly prescient or Kojima just happened to come up with an eerily relevant plotline is up for debate (wouldn't be the only time, either... Death Stranding came out right before the pandemic!), but in the context of our AI-and-deepfakes conundrum you could argue that the Patriots were kind of right.

In-universe, they're bad for a lot of other (extremely convoluted) reasons, among them the "forever war" thing, but the information control aspect is at least well-intentioned, if not incredibly paternalistic.

So is there a way to prioritize quality and veracity without stooping to that level of total control?
I feel like I bought the last good HP LaserJet that was ever made.

Many years ago, I spotted an HP Color LaserJet Pro m254dw online at Costco and bought it. It's been a fantastic printer. The toner never dries out, "empty cartridges" don't prevent it from printing. It is modern enough that I can use AirPrint to print to it, but old-school enough that it has an ethernet port. The supplies status page basically says "Just because it's at 0% doesn't mean you can't print, but maybe buy a new toner cartridge and replace it when the output gets bad." It didn't require any special drivers, there's no need to link an HP account, and it has a usable web-based management interface.

So far I have the following complaints about the printer:

* After some large amount of uptime (3mo? 6mo? I'm not sure) it won't respond to print requests. Rebooting it fixes the issue.

* Toner cartridges are expensive. I priced out something like $450CAD for a set of the three colour cartridges. I'm still on the starter cartridges and, even though they're "empty", the output quality is fine.

* The word "Color" in the product name is not properly localized to the Canadian market.

Obviously I'm grasping at straws as far as complaints go!

Honestly, this thing feels like I found a unicorn. I've been looking for a similar printer for my parents, but I haven't found anything from HP that ticks all of the boxes. The next one for them will likely be a Brother.
> If the limit is 80, then the limit is 80, not 81.

I agree with that. But the limit should be 120 or 160, not 80 (and my formatter should allow me to set a wider limit like that without making all my lines extra-wide - I want to be able to put things on one line where appropriate and not where it's not).

> I definitely buy the tiny amount of "noise" it brings

Tiny? It makes a lot of my code 3-5x as long. And often breaks things in weird places. This is IMO not a small reduction in readability.
Nacho keys, nacho cyber
this seems extreme.
> One of the major reasons the UK left the EU is because it would turn the UK into the financial center that it once was not having to deal with all these pesky EU regulations on financial markets.

total rubbish, almost 100% of the City were pro remain, with maybe a handful of people/firms as leavers

I was on a trading floor that day, and the impotent rage at the "wrong" result was present from everyone, from the interns upto the MDs

what I imagine most of the Dutch went through last week
PSR would like a word with your categorization. Indeed the Class 1s are the mortal enemy of decent intercity and commuter rail.
Relevant: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Buying a Brother laser printer years and years ago was the best thing I ever did to meet my printing needs. But I have to say, their WiFi support is quite terrible. Mine is connected by ethernet, but I've recommended Brother printers to several family members over the years who've used WiFi, and it causes me regular support headaches. Printer forgets the password, forgets everything, or just forgets how to connect even though it has the right information. Rinse and repeat every few months. Got so bad with my parents that I just bought them a pair of power-over-ethernet adapters so the printer didn't have to use WiFi any more.
A I've gotten older, I've found that my overall health mostly starts in the gut. I got hit with a form of chronic fatigue syndrome from leaky gut in 2019 that was so bad that I burned out and lost the ability to work for about 6 months. A variation of the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet is what worked for me:

* Avoid wheat and most grains (rice and corn are fine)
* Avoid milk and young cheese (cheddar is fine but YMMV)
* Avoid FODMAPs like beans, other legumes and nightshades
* Get back to macro nutrients like bacon & eggs for breakfast, meat & rice, etc
* Get back to micro nutrients like spinach for iron and a thyroid supplement for iodine
* Seek holistic approaches like ashwagandha to restore hormone balance
* Build gut health with probiotics and get treated for parasites if necessary
* Look into supplements like glutamine and colostrum which rebuild the gut
* Decrease caffeine and stress which lower the activation threshold for nerves in the gut to purge its contents
* Drink a gallon of water per day, from one large container if necessary, to accommodate ADHD/autism symptoms
* Exercise by alternating weightlifting and walking each day, about 60 minutes ideally

Each food damages the villi in the small intestine at a different rate, but the gut only regenerates twice per week. Gluten causes some of the worst damage, which remains hidden until middle age when the ability to regenerate starts to decrease.

Now I believe that GMOs and processed foods are so damaging not due to stuff like preservatives, but because low cost means a higher percentage of fillers like gluten.

It took 3-5 years but I'm able to eat FODMAPs again, tolerate milk every day and even eat wheat a couple of times per week. I consider myself to be in remission but must be mindful of what I eat.

I'm also hopeful that long COVID studies will reveal some of the disease mechanisms at work in these types of undiagnosable conditions. Gaslighting (not believing patients as they describe symptoms) is still a huge problem in western medicine.
I don’t think you understand this issue at all. The issue is that the backup utility deleted local files.
>Yes, it is unethical to pirate content you don’t own the rights to.

If I'm not entitled to media, why are they entitled to have no 'piracy' with digital technology? If you decide to spread information, don't be surprised if it spreads.
What do you care? Whether I've made a masterpiece sculpture or skid marks in my dungarees, people deserve powerful tools and instruments that will last.
Yet another hack job about the dangers of algorithms. Do these journalists not understand that Meta is worth at least several billion dollars? Do they not get how much value Meta and all its products have delivered to people all over the world? Just terrible reporting all around.
> You can do this with ptrace() which is in POSIX

What? Did you think the P stands for POSIX?
Ask HN: OAuth on OpenAI API Keys?
Remember the days, before OAuth, when a website would ask for your email password(!) to sync contacts? That's what it feels like now with OpenAI api keys.

Understandably, many new OpenAI-based apps are offloading their requests to client-provided api keys. They just can't scale otherwise. However, I don't want my key used for any old thing. They are secrets, after all!

Is there any work being done in this area to improve security? How do you see it evolving?
80 character limit? Are we trying to relive the late 80s. Soon we'll move back to 40 characters. Screens can support higher resolutions now limiting lines to 80 so developers can turn their brains off seems silly. Turn your brain on and learn to filter the noise of 100 characters.
I intentionally bought the dumbest dishwasher I could find. It has two cycles: "Normal" and "Heavy Duty", a "Heat Dry"/"Air Dry" selector, and a start/stop button. I could not find one that was simpler.

"Less to go wrong" is my mantra for appliances. I want to switch them on and forget about them.
The thing is that ground subsidence measured in single-digit mm is normal of any building.

Your real issues are in places like Mexico City or Jakarta that are sinking at tens of centimeters a year.
Yeah, it's not like they could just crack you again in the same way a day later...

oh wait
Excellent! So there is some interaction between the charged particle and the magnetic field which creates the em radiation.

So does a proton release light in magnetic field? Say in the LHC?
Validating the RAG Performance of OpenAI vs. LlamaIndex
I like the idea of web components, but really dislike html and js being intermingled (the reason I don't like React/JSX). In web components its even worse because its HTML as a string which means it has no validation and isn't syntax aware. I much prefer the angular approach where you have separate css,html,ts files, and would love a web component framework that could work similarly.

Searching for this I found some kinda hacky solutions on Stack Overflow which use fetch to load html/css at runtime.
SV / VCs dont like unionization talk.
> You're better off just taking your build artifacts and shoving them into some artifact repo

Better off how? What does "better" refer to here? Size on disk? Data transfer? Time? CPU cycles? Brain cycles? Body health? Please be specific.

> there's not really much utility to being able to rebuild exactly the same thing, because that's what you already shipped

This strikes me as profoundly myopic (maybe even willfully). The unspoken benefit here is related to a general understanding that it's good to be able to establish a base case showing that you can build the same thing in the first place, so that when you make slight changes to any part of it, you end up with exactly the same thing as before plus your changes, rather than being the casualty of hundreds or thousands of other uncontrolled inputs that have nothing to do with what you changed. You're casting aspersions on and summarily dismissing the basic tenet of having a control[1].

> The problem becomes pulling in new stuff and bumping the build, in which case you always have the cost of integration testing all the new code together.

Just to emphasize: you are correct to say that this is a cost you always have, whether or not you're checking the results of package installation into your repo. Not checking them in doesn't ipso facto cause any issues related to upgrades to go away, and checking them in doesn't ipso facto increase the number of integration work you have to do. There's nothing magical about pulling the dependencies in over the network at the extreme last moment versus reading them from some other place on your own disk.

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_control>
Yeah, NY throughout the Hudson Valley has shallow soil. The glaciers swept everything clean 21k years ago, dropped it all to form Long Island, and barely any of it has come back.

(Looking it up, the first result says that soil for at a rate of about 0.5-1 inch/millennia, which sounds about right for how much has re-accumulated, on average.)
Use an open source system. You can choose to back up to a self-hosted version, too. https://federated.computer.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/learnings

Beyond what's noted there (contemporary business jargon), English is diffused across the globe and has many regional variations that are different than class-signalling/formal American and British usage. As we all encounter each other online, it's not always worth over-analyzing word choice when you can understand the intent.
Tata!
It has been studied mostly on US adolescents. There is some research on Dutch teens too.

I would say more that this effect is more well studied on US teens so we can say more conclusive things on US teens. In addition, there is some indication that the effect could also be present in non-US teens and should be further studied.
Disable it! (https://prettier.io/docs/en/ignore.html)

I do this occasionally, and especially with things like test tables. Linters/formatters are there to help in the common case, not to be some oppressive dogma.
There’s extensions to change the new tab page
And how would that fare against something like decent public transport?

Let me guess, cars are king that's why we should sacrifice our kids to their cold hard steel bodies. /s

No seriously. This saving money doesn't mean they should be allowed to cut corners. If you truly want self driving you should be behind not using public roads as experimental tracks (with all the fallout that could come from that).
Were there even other browsers back in '98 other than I think Netscape? How else would you have been expected to download, or utilize, the Internet? If a core component is considered bloatware, something is wrong.
Extremely configurable? It has like 3 config options, and an explicit policy of not being configurable.
> Well, this bounty is just about the only way that the Prettier team could contribute to solving that issue, so rejoice.

Erm, that bounty was for the production of a program that behaves exactly like prettier in at least 95% of cases, as far as I understood what "prettier test suite" means.
“Conventionally (un)attractive” aren’t well defined, but usually mean someone at the intersection of several/many beauty standards. Thin, busty, blond. Tall, dark, handsome. Pale, smooth skin, double eyelids. I just used one example for my post but the concept applies broadly.
Go was first and foremost created to serve the needs of Google. Kudos to them for releasing, open sourcing and backing it but it was designed to serve their needs. It’s not a criticism but it explains why it’s quirky in many areas. The authors being genius is not as important as the goals and intentions.
US Cost-of-Living Increase from January 2020 to October 2023
Your 1969 MG Midget is enormously polluting and a death trap in a crash. The turn signal is small and dim and barely visible to other motorists in bright sunlight. The ride sucks and the reason it’s easy to repair is there’s almost no interior structure or noise or thermal insulation to remove.

Over a 200,000 mile design lifetime, a modern car is way more reliable and way less work to repair than your MG Midget (by virtue of not breaking as often in the first place). Yes, today’s cars aren’t designed to be collector items that will sit and rot in a barn not being driven and get easily restored by amateurs in 50 years, but why should they be?
Into the river, so next to the island.
It's small compared to the collected works of every streaming service on the Internet, but it won't suddenly and mysteriously get deleted when a streaming license contract expires, and with 18 TB drives on the market, it certainly doesn't seem small.
C++ Exceptions, Unwind Tables, and 'relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_PREL31
They just released a new video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5kZ3VdFDY
There was a TV show starring JK Simmons called Counterpoint. I was able to watch it at one point but now it is completely unavailable in the UK. Can’t even buy the series!

Despite subscribing to the Showtime channel on Amazon Prime, I cannot watch Homeland. I can watch it on Netflix though and the audio and quality is absolute shit. And I don’t want to give Netflix 20 quid a month for that.

Why homeland? Was on a Damien Lewis binge. Love that guy’s work.
> performance and fix various edge cases

Those are the two main things that rust is expected to help improve.

It's quite easy to empathize with somebody that sees a JS software having problem with those two and picking a language that is known to help with those instead of being known to increase those problems.
I wonder how the preview on hover was made.
You can also lose your own files!
The ethical distance between this and littering is about as large as the one between littering and murder, though.

If it’s unethical, it’s somewhere around running a stoplight that’s plainly not registering your presence and hasn’t turned for ten full minutes, with perfect straight mile-long views either way and not a car or person in sight. Not really unethical at all.
Acela isn't HSR, and Metroliner which came before had travel times from NYC to DC as low as 2.5 hours. Acela does the same trip in 3.5 hours. Metroliner lowered trip times primarily through faster acceleration.