skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's a lot of critiques to make of matrix's state synchronisation model but "blockchain!!!" is beyond facile
thank you, upvoted!
It would probably take 40-50k to make the house legal to rent (at least, from what I understand about the requirements to rent it). Which would then just mean I have to own it for longer.
Yes, the goal is to allow people to encode layout information optionally — as a separate layer from the semantic information.

One particularly cool thing is the ability for a single document to have multiple layouts (!), which is useful for parts vs. conductor scores. See here for an example: https://w3c.github.io/mnx/docs/mnx-reference/examples/multip...
You don't chose to do anything. Your brain makes decisions and you take full credit for them. This is plainly visible too.

If I ask you to think of a car manufacturer, your brain just served up a name. No conscious input from you, no choice made, your brain decided what car maker to think of.

Maybe you think of a few and then decide from those which one to "think of" (even though you already thought of one) in effort to inject "choice". But if you pay attention to the process here, its clear that its not even you selecting. It's your brain moving the selector of which one to "think of". It's your brain that served up those other names.

Free will isn't even an illusion. It just straight up isn't even there. It's just that 99.999999% of people never even pay attention to how their head works. But it's obvious when you observe it.
A frequent cause is private equity. It's common to buy a well know brand, leverage it to the eyeballs in order to extract short term profits and bonuses, and leave the company with no margin to weather a rough patch or evolve when needed. A number of household brand names have been destroyed following this general playbook.
This could be a fact if all you have in mind is kitsch, sure.
seems like a massive, massive security concern. people treat their desks as sanctuaries, and with modern wfh situations there aren’t cubicle patrols enforcing security policies and leaving citations.

> Do not upload any sensitive information.

well, an attempt was made.
The article is really about why we recently began using this particular word, not the etymology of the word itself.
> Of course we're not going to know we have a working life-extension drug until someone's life actually gets extended.

That means each stage of trials for each drug would be 10+ years at best, possibly longer. With that time horizon, it's unlikely we'll get an approved life-extension drug in the next 50 years.
I've been making another large app and got really bogged down in it 'cos it was so complex. So I decided to make this little fun on - really quick not my cleanest code haha.

Managed to get nearly 200 roasts in the last couple of days. Some are really funny.

I'm using Azure Vision + AWS Rekognition with an LLM to do the roast at the end. I can probably make this a little more efficient and much faster.

Let me know what you think. It's a bit rough around the edges but I like it :-)
only one (me)
In Outer Wilds, the player stays at 0,0,0 while everything else moves around them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbY0mBXKKT0&t=1907s
All we can do is rage against the dying of the light and decrease entropy locally to try and maintain our house and documentation.
I.have used phidata toolkit for data and AI workstreams at a job and my own startup as a paid customer. I.must say the tools are great, helps productivity and saving infra cost usecases. They have very little operational headache and just works,

We are exploring more ways to.use these tools
> PS, will you be adding Turbo directly to the app in the near future?

I need to get some clarity from Stability given the new Membership thing. I personally see no reason why I cannot as long as I tell people these weights are non-commercial / academic only.
Yeah I can see that. I'm blurring as much as I can automatically. Screens, documents credit cards
Gotta change the light bulbs in the rainbow now and then.
All great points, thank you.

Blimp requires far more maintenance. Rain is manageable, heavy storms and winds you just park it or lower it when needed. For urban centers, blimp moonlighting seems like a really neat feature. Could even do "digital projection" to focus light on desired areas.

Noise can be reduced because the fan blades can be larger and spin slower, does not need to be compact.
This is a great idea for all kinds of reasons, including setting your cost basis when you finally sell the house.

I did some of this for my house sitters, since they need it.
Site seems hugged to death

archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20231129055356/https://jackfromea...
Paste Magazine buys Jezebel weeks after closure
If you actually read my comment, you'd know that I did make a critique, and your ""blockchain!!!"!!!" reply is beyond facile.
Cool, MySQL scales. What does RoR have to do with it?
Natural monopoly means that the market only has enough demand for one supplier. Canonical examples would include highways, railways, local telephone networks, and residential Internet access providers.

Most of the big tech companies we love to hate aren't natural monopolies. Google's anticompetitive moat is primarily made of inertia: they were the first to market with a halfway functional search index. Defaults are very sticky: Microsoft pushes Bing in Windows a lot because a lot of people don't know how to change the default search engine to anything else.

Browsers are monopolized because we let Apple do to iOS what we refused to let Microsoft do to Windows: make the platform browser the only option. In the heyday of Firefox, switching from IE was just a matter of downloading an installer and migrating your bookmarks and history. You can still do this (and I recommend that you do), but if you have an iPhone, it's more complicated. You can technically use an app called "Firefox", but it's using Safari under the hood. Apple won't let you port your own browser engine, which limits how you can improve the experience. So switching to Firefox on iOS is pointless.

Sometimes these monopolies interact. Google built Chrome specifically so they'd get a seat at the web standards table. They got people to use it by giving free advertising space to it on their homepage, and then they used their market position to introduce ridiculous numbers of new web APIs that every other browser vendor now has to reimplement to make Google properties work[0]. Microsoft and Opera found this to be such a hurdle that they switched their browsers over to Chromium. Firefox had to split engineering time up between implementing Chrome features, chasing down security bugs, and adopting multiprocess support, which slowed them down.

At no point is any of this 'natural'. The market can support five technologically independent browsers, but not when Google is trying to actively sabotage them.

[0] The most egregious example being Shadow DOM v0, which was never actually adopted as a standard, but used in YouTube's version of Polymer for years after Shadow DOM v1 was standardized. Firefox never implemented v0, so they were stuck running lots of polyfill code that Chrome wasn't.
Because Jesus loved using parables, a specific type of joke with a setup and a reveal that contradicts the audience's expectations.
Have they tried investing in a charging network?

Tesla packaged their early vehicles with unlimited super charging for life - and a nation wide network -- with test road trips publicized; and if you buy a GM/Ford today you have to pull up to a heavily Tesla branded station, pay a premium, use an adapter --- or pull up to chargers that are often slow and unmaintained, with waiting lines, and require a different app at every different station.
In the preceding sections, Jesus basically tells the guy, who’d otherwise lived by the commandments, to come back after giving up all his money and stuff. It seems to me that he’s looking for some more concrete action than an internal change of heart. If I were a Christian I’d make sure to die poor at least, just to be safe.
Summary: the government is covering up that they just don't know much rather than hiding facts about UFOs.
(distribute as in parallelise, possibly across multiple machines)
All I found was lots of empty bottles of “medicinal” alcohol.
What is the service? Indexing and aggregating news? This is commodity now.

Do you find this more valuable than the act of actually researching, writing, editing, and publishing the articles themselves?
So you don't get shot down by your own air defense
> The American side gets real sketchy if you go about seven blocks up from the park.

The same is true on the Canadian side, but Canadian sketchy is nothing like US sketchy.
> a random

It’s Joanna Stern. You may not have heard of her before, but it doesn’t make her a “random”.

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

> Is there anyone on hacker news that doesn't already know this?

Yes.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
RISC-V Summit North America 2023 videos
"What a strange tale": Tech conference canceled after execs flee report of fake women speakers [1]

[1] https://fortune.com/2023/11/27/devternity-tech-conference-fa...
I don’t doubt any of the reporting I have read thus far from either theverge or variety, but the sequence of events seems utterly disconnected and difficult or impossible to reason about. Standing out to me:

> in response to “feedback from the filmmaking team that wanted the actor’s remarks to be centered on the movie.”

the idea that someone could make edits to the text that will go to the teleprompter and thus favorably control what a human being will say, after being surprised on stage with edits to what they certainly planned and practiced, strikes me as phenomenally absurd and disconnected from reality.

It is even more striking that included in the cut speech (which the reader sort of must take for granted was part of an alternative, planned speech) is an impassioned description of the pervasiveness of lies and efforts to present alternative/revisionist histories.

It recalls comedy scenarios like a scene from Anchorman, or more acutely, that someone made decisions thinking people will actually behave this way.
I don't understand why Python gets shit for being a slow language when it's slow but no credit for being fast when it's fast just because "it's not really Python".

If I write Python and my code is fast, to me that sounds like Python is fast, I couldn't care less whether it's because the implementation is in another language or for some other reason.
The universe has a fundamental source of randomness that comes through all over the place. The universe is in no way deterministic.

But the opposite of deterministic isn't free will. It's randomness.

Programming lets you mash determinism and randomness together to arbitrary levels of depth and complexity. Yet not even the slightest hint of free will anywhere in anyone's program. Or even theoretical research into programming "free will".
>The whole premise that free will is a justification for inflicting suffering seems like a strawman from Sapolsky.

It's definitely not something Sapolsky came up with. The connection between free will and moral responsibility has been a central focus of the debate about free will since philosophers took up the issue[1]. One then only needs to recognize the connection between moral responsibility, moral indignation, and cruelty towards bad actors to see the relationship go through. You can certainly question whether free will provides genuine rational support for cruelty, but it doesn't take much to notice that people have historically used free will as a rationalization for cruelty, whether legitimately or not.

I do agree that its unlikely any one person will be moved to change their behavior after accepting a lack of free will/moral responsibility. But we are in a much better position to construct society in a way that takes this knowledge into account, for example by greatly improving prison conditions, having a stronger focus on the conditions that give rise to criminal behavior, and so on.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#FreeWillMoraRes...
> over five percent of the output ChatGPT emits is a direct verbatim 50-token-in-a-row copy from its training dataset

I don’t think this is typical behavior of LLMs. This is more typical behavior for retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Finding a relevant snippet is way cheaper than generating it token by token.

Is that how they lower the prices and increase the speeds behind the scenes?
The implied context here is that you'd forgo the usual tests, because the alternative is to send nothing to Mars.

According to Wikipedia they could have stretched those 2 weeks to around 3 weeks, but after that they'd have missed the launch window.

The usual processes are there to have a near-certainty of a working rover, but under these circumstances I'd think they'd just YOLO it and hope for the best.

But that assumes they've got spare electrical components, or alternatively a better use for the booster sitting on the pad than such an improvised mission.
The inconveniences that our own population high count cause to ourselves includes things like global warming, which we all agree is a huge inconvenience, so even by your own definition we are a plague.
It's hard for me to imagine (in the US) the government allowing an explosion in small commercial flights w/o TSA and all that rigamarole. If you get 10x, 100x the volume today, with a less upper-crust passenger base, the perceived security/terrorism risk probably starts getting talked about.
That article had been submitted separately, and was on the front page (where I saw it), but then it got flagkilled (mere moments after I saw it).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38462018
It's mostly anecdotes, but the lede is in the 2nd to last paragraph:

"The larger population may prefer to move—on those rare occasions when it does move—to a red state, but the college-educated minority, which moves much more frequently, prefers relocating to a blue state. There are 10 states that import more college graduates than they export, and all of them except Texas are blue. (I’m counting Georgia, which is one of the 10, as a blue state because it went for Joe Biden in 2020.) Indeed, the three states logging the largest net population losses overall — New York, California, and Illinois — are simultaneously logging the largest net gains of college graduates."

But without absolute or per capita numbers, it's hard to gauge this.
For a moment I thought this was about cannons and I got really excited.
Toshiba Develops New Cobalt-Free Lithium-Ion Battery
But does a Okta or Azure AD etc take the liability, though?
What snark? These are the goals of the USA prison system.
Sure. IMO it is important to have an overall picture of the fields of Concurrent/Parallel/Distributed architecture/programming before delving into the details of a language/library implementation. To that end i have found the following books useful;

1) Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming by Gregory R. Andrews - This is one of my favourites even though old. You get to learn/compare the different paradigms in one single book.

2) Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice by Bertil Schmidt et al. - This is a more recent book with good explanations/coverage including CUDA.

3) The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy et al. - Well known classic though with a main focus on shared-memory architectures.

Along with the above you also need more detailed language/library specific implementation books;

a) C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams.

b) Programming with POSIX Threads by David Butenhof.

c) UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads by Kay Robbins and Steve Robbins.

Finally; for studying concurrency at the OS level where software meets hardware, i have found nothing better than;

i) Unix Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers by Curt Schimmel.
Astronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like star
"But what makes these planets unusual, in addition to their large number, is that they are locked into a resonance with one another as they orbit the star. One planet, for example, will make precisely three orbits while an adjacent planet makes two."
What should I do if I suspect one of the journal reviews I got is AI-generated?
Is there a consensus on how much CTR you're giving up with context-based (as opposed to tracking-based) ad selection?

Are we talking 1% or are we talking 50%?

(What if tracking-based ads are actually less effective, as in: "I'm hesitant to click on an ad that keeps following me around"; "I've already bought this thing, will you please stop showing me this ad?"; etc)
79% of new energy capacity added in 2022 was clean energy (solar, wind, storage), so yes we can expect that the increased demand for power will mostly be met with low carbon solutions.

Renewable energy is already cheaper to build than coal or gas plants in many places, and it will just continue to scale as the technology improves.
> A frequent cause is private equity. It's common to buy a well know brand, leverage it to the eyeballs in order to extract short term profits and bonuses, and leave the company with no margin to weather a rough patch or evolve when needed. A number of household brand names have been destroyed following this general playbook.

That's why capitalism is so great, right? Creative destruction.
> I didn't publicly complain about it back then (as far as I can recall), but perhaps others did. So the Rust library team switched to using the OS's allocator by default.

I've honestly never worked in a domain where binary size ever really mattered beyond maybe invoking `strip` on a binary before deploying it, so I try to keep an open mind. That said, this has always been a topic of discussion around Rust[0], and while I obviously don't have anything against binary sizes being smaller, bugs like this do make me wonder about huge changes like switching the default allocator where we can't really test all of the potential side effects; next time, the unintended consequences might not be worth the tradeoff.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
And the country we're talking about is run by retributivists, and even further, whatever that is called - people who just want to see other people punished.
> our new CEO is a former Captain of the USS Zumwalt.

Wait! Wasn't the last captain of the Zumwalt called James Kirk?
Both sides have seen significant industrial decline but the American side much worse, as I believe it was more industrialized to begin with. Moreover, there are not a lot of geographic alternatives on the Canadian side in comparison. Western New York has been decimated by de-industrialization whereas Niagara on the Canadian side is on the orbital fringe of the economic powerhouse of Toronto, essentially the NYC of Canada.
Paperleast
Or someone goes down on the gamer providing the missing cognition component.
I was about to ask the same, and here is your reply already! Thanks.

I would be glad to use your theme whenever it is ready.
Facebook, all Meta properties no longer allow sharing anything considered news in Canada. If you put in a link to a news site it will be blocked. At one point they were event blocking news satire. People sharing news now will drop in an image instead of a link. Much less useful.
I know it’s easy to change but the arguments for using glibc’s allocator are less clear to me:

1. Reliability - how is an alternate allocator less reliable? Seems like a FUD-based argument. Unless by reliability you mean performance in which case yes - jemalloc isn’t reliably faster than standard allocators, but mimalloc is.

2. Compatibility - again sounds like a FUD argument. How is compatibility reduced by swapping out the allocator? You don’t even have to do it on all systems if you want. Glibc is just unequivocally bad.

3. Binary bloat - This one is maybe an OK argument although I don’t know what size difference we’re talking about for mimalloc. Also, most people aren’t writing hello world applications so the default should probably be for a good allocator. I’d also note that having a dependency of the std runtime on glibc in the first place likely bloats your binary more than the specific allocator selected.

4. Maintenance burden - I don’t really buy this argument. In both cases you’re relying on a 3rd party to maintain the code.
Also no more a sec risk than https://www.reddit.com/r/desksetup/
Some issues with this benchmarking:

1) The benchmarks are intentionally designed to not have any memory access or even L1 cache access. That’s about as far from real world performance as you can get.

2) They say the reason for avoiding real world benchmarking is to measure raw core performance. However, only a few CPU instructions are tested, so it’s not representative. The time it takes instructions to execute depends on the instruction, and even how different instructions proceed and follow each other, aa well as other factors. This approach alone would not produce the measurement being sought.

3) Even if results were useful and the methodology were valid, the conclusions at the end seem to state the obvious. M3 core is more efficient that the M1 core, etc.
> So what? Are you proposing people rob the church of their property?

"rob", lol :D

> Why stop at you?

I do think that ownership taxes should go up exponentially… so almost nothing for your home, but if you have 6-5 it should be considerable. The church doesn't even pay any ownership taxes, so in fact it is them who are robbing me.

> Do I need to explain the consequences of socialist nonsense?

Right to education? Right to healthcare? Right to have a home? Which of these is exactly making you so angry?
It's advertising. Google drives traffic to the articles.

If Google stops linking to news articles, media companies would be the bigger losers than Google would be. Admittedly Google isn't Facebook -- it's value to users comes from indexing everything. This is probably why they accepted this deal.

As a Canadian, I wish that they'd just gone ahead and blocked Canadian news.
Any plans for an SQL db service?
On the American side, Goat Island is very nice. You can even walk into the river if you're sufficiently foolish, and from there you can just about throw a rock over the falls. The Canadian side is pretty heavily commercialized.
I wonder if you could also add a way to show open and movable fingerings for chords on hover?
tmpfs?
It's an unfortunate reality of modern communication and tools.

The incredible ease of modern communication allows businesses to show their offer to many more candidates that previously possible, and allows those many more candidates to respond from a greater distance and with more ease.

However, now there is a new problem - too many offers to sort through. It eats up their time with candidates that don't suit their needs.

So, what do they do? They increase requirements and use automated systems to cull the results as much as possible. They get more and more picky. This is an entirely reasonable answer to the problem.

However, now applicants need to work harder to show they're worth considering and avoid the automatic culling.

It becomes an arm race. Employers have incentive to reduce the incoming applications to keep their workload lower, while applicants obviously want to get the job so must make their application get through.
I am not arguing their decision is wrong on their real world system. It is a system design interview with a hypothetical situation completely unrelated to their prod system, where I suggest a different db than MySQL. They are the ones arguing that my decision is wrong and MySQL is the correct choice, at which point you have to defend your choices.
My ideal world state is one where there is no race or gender based discrimination. The way to get closer to that ideal is to condemn race or gender based discrimination.

What's problematic about that?