skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
guess who the early colonizers of these alt platforms are

The early web was mostly nerds, but not just tech nerds. I made my first site in 1997 and I linked to all sorts of things about TV shows, music and games that had been made by fans of things. If someone loved the X-Files and wanted to contribute to a site about it the only option was to get a book about HTML from the library and learn to use FTP. It thrived because it was just a group of people enthusiastic about things. Few people wanted to criticise because the only response you'd get was "well you make a better website then!". And when that happened people did. There were rivalries that worked like a feedback loop to improve things. That's missing today. People just criticise and don't try to do better. I blame the rise of guestbooks.
> I’m also unaware of a ground truth against which “correct facts” could even be trained for..

Seems like there are quite a few obvious possibilities here off the top of my head. Ground truth for correct facts could be:

1) Wikidata

2) Mathematical ground truth (can be both generated and results validated automatically) including physics

3) Programming ground truth (can be validated by running the code and defining inputs/outputs)

4) Chess

5) Human labelled images and video

6) Map data

7) Dependent on your viewpoint, peer reviewed journals, as long as cited with sources.
I _don't_ particularly want to participate in the comments section on most sites. Full text and image content of the article and nothing further is absolutely what I want out of an RSS feed - I should not have to leave my reader or deal with the internet at large to read the things that interest me.
There's literally an abstract at the top of this document which provides a summary. If you want more, you can feed it into chatgpt (or many other services) yourself, same as everyone here. There's no reason to post a summary as an unsolicited comment.
Yes, the photo in the article looks very cramped. Probably the same tightness in all other areas of the station, with a few exceptions. I wonder if they make any changes to free space from time to time?
Upheaval is the load bearing word in your sentence. This is what causes the extreme pressures.

Anything to relieve the pressure can, by definition, cause an eruption if there is an inadvertent feedback loop.
i love listening to, and proselytizing, their alternative Christmas stations this time of year.
I sent an email on 3rd Oct, but didn't receive any reply.
Wow, slaves perform worse when tired! What a discovery...
Fck any employer with required "off hours" and wage formulas for compensation.
Actually ... fck off hours.
It is paid only once since that 10 MiB gets cached by the reader. In future fetches the reader asks for entries newer than the date it last checked which means that the items already requested won't be sent again.
thanks for the clarification! i'd still be in for a fossil t-shirt :)
How is the Gerrit self-hosting experience? Easy to setup?
Might be a tangent - but is more discoverability actually desirable in this case?

Could it possibly preserve that "old web" style of interaction, if it becomes a global phenomenon that everyone uses? Or does this only work as long as it stays a little hidden niche, that most people don't know about, and will never find?

Or in other words - can something feel like "the old web" (which was early adopters and enthusiasts only) - if it's frequented by everyone?

You love the idea of smaller communities - but how can they stay small?
if i did not have your comment history i'd have sworn you worked for localai.io
Not so sure about the tar part, but the append-only nature is actually really well-known: look up log-structured filesystems, where all operations append to the log and GC comes to clean up stale data later.
I’m in the middle of writing a log-structured disk, and it’s really nice to work with. You get many things like clones, snapshots, etc for free.

The replay problem is usually solved with periodic checkpoints of your map, and a checkpoint on shutdown. This way you only ever replay on failure, at which point performance doesn’t matter as much.
I would like to see more explanation of the basics. For example, the section on serif Vs sans Vs slab doesn't explain what those terms mean.

That said, I'm enjoying the rapid journey through typography.
The archive link is useful, because it provides you a way to access the page itself. Nobody here has subscriptions to every single service, so if there's something paywalled, that link is useful to almost everyone person. (And I wish HN did it automatically) A lazy gpt summary is not that.
Poor Charlie's Almanack – Free and Online from Stripe Press
Well I don't mean with/without Gemini, I mean without the deceptive marketing of Gemini vs had they counterfactually produced a non-deceptive marketing. Other than that nitpicking, I appreciate the backup and the source. Counterfactual testing is by no means easy, so good luck with your work! My gf is an economist but on the macro side. You guys have it tough. I'm a bit confused why people are disliking my comment but mostly that they are doing so without explanation lol.
Building custom maps in WarCraft3 also involved a lot of invisible units to create unique spells. Creators generally used toads or sheep for these effects.

I've created a custom map turning the system a round, where you played the invisible critters instead of the hero :D
FISA "Reform" Bill Would Expand Businesses Required to Assist in Surveillance
You all are talking quantitatively about volumes, but there’s also the qualitative difference between soil and magma.
The foundations of statistics are very much based upon Galton observing:

"the middlemost estimate expresses the vox populi, every other estimate being condemned as too low or too high by a majority of the voters"

at a livestock weight guessing contest and conceiving of a measure to quantify normal variation: the standard deviation without the use of calculus.

To be sure this evolved to expressions that included an integral sign or two .. but the foundations were founded with no more than a Sigma and some division.

There's a stronger case for those than care to make it that statistics is more dependant on linear algebra, if one takes the view that statistics is about finding fewer lower dimensional fair representations of many higher dimensional values.
I'm unconvinced that graphene is safe with the behavioral problems it's leadership has shown.
Can anyone point to a better source for this so I can't share it with people? Kotaku is the TMZ of gaming and I never share it, but underlying content is good on this article.
Firefox dropped RSS/Atom support too
Repetitive practice is important - it's about getting exposure to formal reasoning in a "toy" context. You can't get "conceptual understanding" in math without learning what formality and rigor is for.
One option would be to set up a big industrial district. Call it Shenzhen II. Cheap power and some industrialist-friendly tax laws and maybe the US could keep pace with the Chinese. People'd start building and finding uses for that power extremely quickly.

I find it very much laugh-or-you'd-cry that the US would rather have Yellowstone winding up for a big one than allow geothermal power projects near a national park. Talk about catastrophically bureaucratic priorities.
I'm still not sure how that is responding to my comment. Have I said something that makes me seem naive of the existence of snake oil salesmen? I'm actually operating under the assumption that my comment, and especially followup, explicitly demonstrate my awareness of this.
> No. Someone violating the social contract doesn't give you permission to violate it yourself.

At what point does a party become free from the obligations of their social contract with the corporate media company then?

>And I didn't say it was always immoral, I said it was generally immoral. One should assume "generally" rather than "always"... in general.

My apologies, based off your previous comments I assumed you were taking a firm ethical stance here. With that said then, I just want to point out that the claim "vigilante justice is immoral" is far from being ethical consensus among philosophers. (Communitarians vs Forfeiturist)

Ultimately this is outside the scope of our conversation so I'd rather not get hung up on it... the tone of your claim just struck me as oddly bold.
> but would you, the learner, be able to do re-enact the narrative better or even on the same level than the original author who posessed the knowledge on the topic?

Maybe. The author needs to write in a way that makes the book digestible to most people. Prompts allow me to get a version that's tailor-made for me.
Don’t know if it’s advances in technology or what but the (cheapest) lenses give me crisper vision.
Just playing devil's advocate here but Interix according to the Wikipedia was supported by Microsoft until Windows 7 (1999 to 2010). I wouldn't call that "bought and extinguished".
Thanks. Sounds good, really - but I'll have to wait for the next Black Friday deal.
I don't really understand what you're looking for and I don't write web apps in Go, so sorry if this is a wrong answer.

The templ language linked here is compiling something that looks similar to React's JSX into Go code. And then you can do HTMX: https://templ.guide/server-side-rendering/htmx/
Worth pointing out that MacOS (all versions) has a built in application called “stickies”, which I have found many proficient Mac users to not be aware of.

It supports translucency, “float on top”, and is generally great for jotting things down without using a dead tree :)

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/stickies/welcome/mac
I had to look that up. From Wikipedia: Entity component system (ECS) is a software architectural pattern mostly used in video game development for the representation of game world objects. An ECS comprises entities composed from components of data, with systems which operate on entities' components.

ECS follows the principle of composition over inheritance, meaning that every entity is defined not by a type hierarchy, but by the components that are associated with it. Systems act globally over all entities which have the required components.
Theo describes how Graphite was built on top of git (and Github) to improve DX: https://youtu.be/I88z3zX3lMY

The main innovations seem to be:

- The concept of a "stack" which is somewhere between a commit and a branch, a group of commits.

- Better UI, especially for Github notifications.

The end result is he feels safer using advanced git features and can move faster, especially when working within a team of multiple devs.
> Is it conceivable that you would spend less than an hour a year maintaining something like this if you were to do it yourself? I don't think so.

Is it conceivable that that you would spend much more than an hour maintaining this? Including making your stuff fit the mold, working around the limitations, and, inevitably, moving your stuff to a new service when this one fails, as they do?

Also: a VPS replaces quite a few of these services. Maintenance beyond initial setup and occasional update is rarely needed if you are the only user. People tend to overestimate these things.
Practical suggestions for building intuition around Rust borrow errors
How can you differentiate between L4S and non-L4S traffic at the network level, especially in mixed traffic environments?
Quantum effects do scale. The randomness doesn't disappear it must have an effect. Either we haven't found it, have falsely attributed it to other effects, or can't measure it.

If you own the simulation then youre not limited in measurement. We are limited because we cannot measure without interaction.
Yeah, I don't like the colour either. I also can't really justify adding an orange logo on my site when it's almost entirely in black and white otherwise.
> There are so many heroes out there casually looking at work while eating cereal in their underwear at 1am.

You’re insane.
> producing electricity from sunlight and then using that electricity to produce sugars could not possibly be more efficient.

Per photon, no. Per area of sunlit land, yes, orders of magnitude more.

Also, the photosynthesis efficiency generally refers to the entire chemical energy stored in things like the leaves, stem etc., often useless in the food chain. Solar to food efficiency is abysmal.

Then, there is the question of fertilizer and pesticide use, runoffs and accumulation in groundwater and soil, destruction of soils by intensive agriculture, water use, substantial energy required to transport the large masses involved, the subtraction of that land from the natural habitat etc. Modern agriculture is a necessary evil.
Database generated columns⁽³⁾: GeoDjango and PostGIS
> Thierry started working on a new improvement to create a flag that keeps both all of his new work, but allows the previous workflow too (particularly, removing the extra RET, which was ultimately a side effect, not the main point). The patch missed the mark, but it is still being worked on.

I think that if the author of this rant did not come along and rant, there would be no "but is still being worked on" done. My reading is that the maintainer (Theirry) was happy with the extra RET.

NOW it is getting worked on because of the dogged and emotional criticism by the rant's author, prior to him writing his rant.

If he didn't make such an emotionally charged and disruptive arguments and patches, the rest of us poor Emacs users would have only found out about the broken workflow (extra RET) once the bug was fully baked in, requiring waiting for the next release in order to get a fix.
This really deserves a (2005) in the title.
the forced enrolment of ostensibly independent companies into the security state is one of the most invidious ways in which federal government extends its reach into the lives of its citizens. Delegating authoritarianism to the private sector doesn't mean it isn't authoritarianism
The world isn't, but some things are. Doesn't Rust have a problem with GUI frameworks because they heavily use inheritance?
It's so great. I've been this vision model to rename all the files in my Pictures folder. For example, the one-liner:

llamafile --temp 0 \
--image ~/Pictures/lemurs.jpg \
-m llava-v1.5-7b-Q4_K.gguf \
--mmproj llava-v1.5-7b-mmproj-Q4_0.gguf \
--grammar 'root ::= [a-z]+ (" " [a-z]+)+' \
-p $'### User: What do you see?\n### Assistant: ' \
--silent-prompt 2>/dev/null |
sed -e's/ /_/' -e's/$/.jpg/'

Prints to standard output:

a_baby_monkey_on_the_back_of_a_mother.jpg

This is something that's coming up in the next llamafile release. You have to build from source to have the ability to use grammar and --silent-prompt on a vision model right now.

Weights here: https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/tree/main

Sauce here: https://github.com/mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
According to https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/archive/2021/ the average retail price for California was 20..
> Here is DNA clustering that shows race: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t9Va5ai9-A4/Xd0cmvRBL4I/AAAAAAAAu...

That image does not contain 'race', and it comes from a paper that does not even mention the word 'race'. You have provided no arguments that race exists. The paper writes:

> This observation ... will make it a challenge to trace the ancestry of African Americans to specific ethnic groups in Africa, unless considerably more markers are used.

The more markers you use, the more different groups you get. You can of course choose to 'cluster' them, but then some precision will be lost, and what exactly will be gained?
How is that different to TCP congestion control?
checked the live demo here - https://prakgupta.com/blog/moving_away_from_substack

looks quite sweet!
This, but also because it was something genuinely new that had never been seen before. Doubly so if you were young then and old now. Everything was novel, and therefore interesting - even the bad things. I’ve seen people expressing nostalgia for blink tags.

Perhaps the medium is just a little played out.
Can you guys lemma know when is the year of the linux desktop? I wanna add it to calcurse.
Yeah, knowing there were filesystems designed like that on purpose made me feel better about it:) And once you get over the initial weirdness, the ability to get any version of any file is pretty nice. Though my favorite angle is that if you can live with just burning space[0], it makes the thing so easy to implement:)

[0] To be fair, a huge caveat.
It's the same infrastructure, with the same outages.

The other points are something for the developers of your software distribution to worry about, same as if you buy a packaged service.
Stop Focusing on 40 Hours of Work
Part of a long line of similar projects: XHP, Pyxl, JSX. My own project Scalatags is pretty popular in the Scala community.

The approach works surprisingly well, both server side and running in the browser (JSX, or Scalatags+Scala.js). There are plenty of websites that don't need heavy client-side interactivity where server side templating + a sprinkling of client side logic works just fine. This is especially true if you can share code between client and server (e.g. via JSX/React or Scalatags/Scala.js)

You get typechecking, interop with normal code, and a high performance runtime for free. That's a lot to like!
Mixtral of experts
Not a lawyer so I might be reading this wrong - but to me this says "We might sell the company to someone else, and they in turn might sell it to anyone", and that's a bit scarier.
That some corporate services stopped existing does not imply one cannot have an "application/rss+xml" link in the html page source - in fact, it is not normal to depend on perishable services when "unrevokable" desktop software applications can be available, and in the case of RSS readers there still exists a large number (and writing one is pretty trivial).

To discover a feed, just check the html source. The problem is when the feed exists but it is not mentioned at all in the website.
I think it's changing them. You still need a person to think of the topics we want to talk about, that are interesting to talk about. But AI can help gather the info around these topics. If we 100% rely on AI for topics and content our content will be flat and not interesting.
Also not legal in Europe where you absolutely are responsible for the actions of your processors
Performance.gov: Track the U.S. government's goals
AI rejection letter for being born on the wrong date
Nothing new here at all: trivializing the intellectual achievements of machines is SOP. This will continue until machines have surpassed every conceivable benchmark. At that point we'll be left with only our epic hubris.
Cool. But is it readable from a search engine?
Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
There definitely is a way it should be, and like I mentioned, in some situations it should be different.

Not sure why you seem to think how I am annoyed by Dutch but not European politics, or how I am speaking for "the rest of you". Have you agreed to that with that rest? For the record, I am not annoyed by but rather disgusted with the actual political and governmental systems and practices. And I am very much not alone in this, second largest party in our recent elections is built on this very topic. So are many throughout Europe. Mostly framed as "right wing" which is exactly what people are tired of, me included.

The ones who seem to be speaking for others are the politicians with a feeble mandate :)
Rome ended around 500.

"ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1453"

Then you can claim it never ended. "Up until about one century ago, the Roman Empire was popular enough that the rulers of Russia still used the title of “Czars” derived from the name of the first Roman Emperor and they called Moscow “The Third Rome,” with the first two being Rome and Constantinople."

(don't underestimte this claim for Russians self identity!)

This graph gives a pretty good description:

https://davidgalbraith.org/trivia/graph-of-the-population-of...

Rome had a population of around 1MM (some claim 3MM) and ralaitvly quick declined to 0.1MM. NYC has 8MM Inhabitants. Imagine it would collapse quickly to 0.8 MM with many houses not occupied, broken and the infrastructure rotten. Non functioning cars on the street and if you were to ask one what these cars are they would tell you: No idea. Some kind of horse carriage but much to heavy, we don't use it anymore, because they lost most of their knowledge in technology.
Show HN: My Christmas tree has a custom processor
It has been reverse engineered

https://github.com/mist64/geos
> some kind of EU analogue of BRICS-for-South-America-but-not-BRICS;

I suppose you don't know this already exits (and has for decades), it's called Mercosul[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur
The problem in that article wasn't the ability to make the right function calls though. It was that it would make the call, get the result and... potentially ignore the result.
Why I created Banner Blog
I on the other hand would happily pay through 2030 to avoid the people you describe on omg.lol. I dislike pretentious tech positivity and HR catladies policing my online life.
I don't have to imagine. I worked as an electrical engineer before I got into computers. All I needed was a HP-45 calculator. Designing, documenting, building major infrastructure projects worked very well without computers. So I'm sure we could do the same all over if it came to that.
It’s very different. It’s a meta language that compiles to Go. It ensures correct syntax at compile time, and makes it much easier to treat parts of views as real values instead of bits of text. Much better composition, at the cost of a much more complex build
system.
There is a difference between being excited about learning this fancy technology thing in your 20ies and having to deal with the same basic shit to afford desirable lifestyle in 30ies.
RSS is there to inform you of new content being released - it is a "push" notification.
Agree, it is just more work than it used to be & heading in the wrong direction. I am assuming some subscribers are corporate with multiple users doing fake comments
A book is also helpful when you don't know what you don't know.

LLMs will help on specific problems sure. But there can be entire swaths of options and entire areas you may not have considered.

Java for example has some nice native support for multithreading. However, threads have never been the only option for asynchronous work, and many of the options are situational. Knowing those options can help tremendously in implementation.
What does he mean by "Januszness". There's an obscure Polish connotation here, but it makes no sense in this article.
I have a hard time putting faith in that “balkanization theory” from the '90s anymore. A fork gains traction if and only if it manages to get ahead of the mainline feature-wise, and stay there, by a sufficiently wide margin for customers to overcome their inertia. We'll see whether this ~eshel person manages to pull that off, or not (my money is on “not”.)
Nothing in highschool is rigorous or thorough.
I wanted to move on from Reddit when all of that was going down, but it's really the only place on the Internet where I could get (just from the memory of the last 24h) a decent range of discussion/advice from real people about pizza stones, indoor plants, descaling a coffee machine, learning piano as an adult, and the answer to the question "TV show where someone sings Chattanooga Choo Choo", all from a single website that isn't heavily polluted by ads. As long as "[query] reddit" makes Google so much better, I can't really consider Reddit dead.
thanks, added a PR to fix this: https://github.com/supabase/supabase-grafana/pull/7
That looks great! Is it open source?
There is a thing called user testing. I would say if big company makes design with a lot of whitespace its outcome of a process that had many variations and many tests.

So yes its subjective and people probably like it.