skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially related, if you are ill, I would implore you to read Seneca's Letter 78 to Lucilius [0]:

You will die, not because you are ill, but because you are alive; even when you have been cured, the same end awaits you; when you have recovered, it will be not death, but ill-health, that you have escaped.

There is, I assure you, a place for virtue even upon a bed of sickness. It is not only the sword and the battle-line that prove the soul alert and unconquered by fear; a man can display bravery even when wrapped in his bed-clothes. You have something to do: wrestle bravely with disease. If it shall compel you to nothing, beguile you to nothing, it is a notable example that you display. O what ample matter were there for renown, if we could have spectators of our sickness! Be your own spectator; seek your own applause.

And if you have lost, or are losing, someone you love, read Letter 63 [1]:

So too it cannot but be that the names of those whom we have loved and lost come back to us with a sort of sting; but there is a pleasure even in this sting. For, as my friend Attalus used to say: "The remembrance of lost friends is pleasant in the same way that certain fruits have an agreeably acid taste, or as in extremely old wines it is their very bitterness that pleases us. Indeed, after a certain lapse of time, every thought that gave pain is quenched, and the pleasure comes to us unalloyed." If we take the word of Attalus for it, "to think of friends who are alive and well is like enjoying a meal of cakes and honey; the recollection of friends who have passed away gives a pleasure that is not without a touch of bitterness. Yet who will deny that even these things, which are bitter and contain an element of sourness, do serve to arouse the stomach?"

[0]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
I’m kind of surprised why paid users wouldn’t be default opted out?

Am I missing something about being customer centric to force them to work for free for your software to manage it in addition to paying for it?

I understand how this might be in Dropboxes to let third parties create “synthetic data” of users proprietary data. Using it “at my request” for my benefit is the first step.

Maybe Dropbox could just opt put off their partners to not keep their customers information.

I didn’t think this would be the thing that got me to cancel and move Dropbox to something slower like Sync.com, but here we go.
At those growth rates, they shouldn't need the 900 Million. So this decision by the FCC shouldn't make a difference.

As a matter of full disclosure, being from Wisconsin, (home of the great FoxConn boondoggle), I now find myself firmly against corporate welfare. Giving a guy who's supposed to be the richest man in the world a billion dollars to provide me internet service? Nah, that doesn't smell right to me. Something's off about that.
Hmm, don't see why leaving out Bluetooth headphone support would save on costs. They enabled it with a software patch so the hardware was always there.
We have something that was called Laminex Freestyle 10-15 years ago. I think it's a resin blend? Where it cracked, we were able to have that small area replaced and remelted so the seams are not visible. It's white and cops red wine, turmeric, etc all the time and has resisted staining.
"This is what the stochastic-parrot takes (and the older monkeys-at-typewriters take) entirely miss."

I do hope people realize that the "stochastic parrots" thing is not a "take" but a 14 page research paper by four qualified authors, with a 158 item references section.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922
> Farmers Telecom Coop has gigabit or half-gigabit fiber to much of the county.

You are benefiting from the rural broadband subsidies being applied well. A coworker of mine has lived in various rural Oregon towns through his career and regularly gets faster, more reliable, and cheaper broadband than I do in Portland. Not only that, but it's run by municipalities or coops and so you can often get to know the operators personally!

I think something that's often overlooked is when the Starlinks or TMobiles of the world win these subsidies: rural communities lose the potential to provide decent local tech jobs and offer customer service those of us in cities can't dream of.

If we're going to subsidize things, let's subsidize publicly owned infrastructure!
Asbestos was banned but lead is still used in many things.
I think Rails made a good decision by adding code generators and calling it 'scaffolding'. The rails CLI will give you all the CRUD you want. Of course, a lot of libraries try to abstract that with DSLs or extra boilerplate.

Doing it at runtime is a lot more difficult and complicated; why not just use parameterised templates to create the right files in the right place?
Watts has recently made Blindsight available online through a Creative Commons license, so you can check out the book before you buy. Or perhaps make that so you can read the book if you can't buy: What I find interesting about it is that he's calling the CC release "an act of desperation more than experimentation." Watts explains his thinking here (with additional thoughts here), but the short form is that according to Watts the book got a small first printing (3,700 copies), isn't being carried wasn't pre-ordered by the bricks and mortar stores of Borders and Barnes & Noble, is hard to find in the specialty book stores, and is on the bubble as toward whether there'll be a second printing of the book or not. By putting the book out in a CC online version, Watts suggests, at least people can find it and read it.

I'm citing from here which also contain links to the actual Peter Watts reasoning: http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004689.html
> Sounds like existential anguish. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/306

After reading her article and your link, yes, and that seems to be caused by the practical impossibility to brute force an optimized path when there're too many possibilities.

It's like the curse of dimensionality but in a dynamic space: she can't ask for a complete set of videos to cover all the possibilities.

She can't ask for the top probabilities either, as this would require at least a sparse sampling of this very large space (ex: how likely is the aliens landing possible, not just in Phoenix like in her example, but at all?)

The desire to control your own destiny (or at least to optimize it) seems to cause a lot of anguish, as if the brain was running into a computability problem and the impossibility to compute was measured in a variable called $existential_anguish.

It makes me think about the halting problem
Houston's Intuitive Machines hopes to be 23rd mission to softly land on the moon
The 'Moneyball' Firm Behind Your Chicken
I really dislike this obsession with citations, as if every post is meant as a paper for a journal. I even dislike it in scientific papers (especially in the humanities, where most of the time it just lends false credibility "see, someone else said this too", and in some cases a paragraph ends up like a mashup of 5-6 excepts cited from others, complete with a footnote mark).

If we're interested in such a trivial matter as to why the crime was called "uttering" one can always look it up.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, simple CRUD usually stops being simple CRUD pretty quickly.

If you are actually doing simple CRUD, then DRF's ModelViewSets are great, and Pydantic would indeed be an overkill. However once the view diverges from your DB model, writing Pydantic models IMO is FAR superior than having to write custom DRF serializers.
You realize HN is one big smattering of advertisements, yea?
Mail order catalogs are dead. Long live mail order catalogs.

Physical locations have an opportunity to discover and create new meaning for customers in person
And then there's How To with John Wilson, executive producer: Nathan Fielder.
I think that's why the author went with a composable approach, as opposed to say, DRF's ModelViewSets. Similar, but I think the escape hatch here is much easier to open. I like it.
For new construction, there's a better solution than the old hole in the ground shelter. My aunt/uncle built their retirement home with one of the new shelters that are built into the house and attached directly to the foundation. It doubles as their kitchen pantry.

The downside to hole in the ground style is that debris could fall on the doors to the shelter and trap you in there for however long until someone happens upon you. So, some supplies might be a good idea.

Your requirement for being built/sold is a bit extreme. It is no different from places being built in flood plains, earthquake prone areas, or wildfire areas. Where it gets nasty is getting the structure insured.
Yes. Also the universal approximation theorem won't directly yield the kind of "strong" approximation we prove, which is uniform in time and holds for an arbitrary (possibly adversarial) sequence of disturbances.
Which leads to lovely little details like the reason the SF poop map exists: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab72091...

I’ll pass, thanks.
The 3M Auras m, especially the 9210, are really good. That’s what I’ve been wearing for the past 3 years. Comfortable, excellent filtering (I suspect they’d actually qualify as N99, but no one actually buys those. Also like how they come individually plastic wrapped (and folded flat). Makes it really easy to keep a couple in the car car and what not.
hiring security experts is expensive and very few companies are able to afford and retain them.

ask yourself what is cheaper: hire and retain Cloud Operation admins in SRE org, hire and retain Cloud security experts in cybersecurity org -- vs hiring a cloud security guru and task him overseeing with maintaining and security $platform_name ?

very few companies are able to hire and retain SRE-Kubernetes operators and Kubernetes security architects, so it kinda makes sense to merge and hire one good expert
That sounds like the path dependent consequences of the oddities of the US banking system.

Cheques cause significant processing costs*, so market forces idealistically should eventually select for quicker and less risky payment forms.

Cheques are no longer used in New Zealand because businesses didn't want to receive them once better (from the businesses' POV) forms of payment existed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38159600

Australia is also cancelling cheques: "Earlier this month, the government announced it was following New Zealand, Denmark, the Netherlands and others, closing our cheque system down by 2030" - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-21/cash-almost-gone-aust...

* From the Ozzie article: "The average cost of everything that had to happen to process a cheque exceeds $5 per payment"
It works fine. Just issue a HEAD request when you are unsure and rotate proxies a lot l. Takes a bit of infra but definitely possible.
I feel like we’re having our xkcd competing standards moment for WebAssembly outside the browser.

There is WASI (preview1 and preview2 with components), WASIX, and now WALI proposed here.
Nothing stops that. You'll end up getting a message full of 0 bytes (messages are fixed size) if it closes between the `closed()` check and the `receive()` operation. Common designs in this space instead indicate if the receive call has obtained data (return values typically indicate this). This is a kind of time-of-check/time-of-use bug.

Go, for its part, has its receive operation, `<-`, return a status indicating if the channel is still open, as in `v, ok := <-ch`
That depends on the jurisdiction. When I voted in Maryland, there was a machine that I directly cast my vote into.

When I vote where I live now in Massachusetts, I fill out a paper form in private and then I manually feed the forms into a voting machine where I have only supervised physical access.

I think it's entirely possible to have machine-counted ballots without giving unfettered and unsupervised access to the counting machines and I prefer the MA system (for the reasons you describe), but I also recognize the Constitution is clear in its reserving the power to each state for how to conduct the election (at least for President) in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2.
Luiz Barroso, Who Supercharged Google's Reach, Dies at 59
this is so dumb...

quarry workers probably get silicosis...from cutting natural stone?
MDF is still legal - and is horrible material
*most building materials are toxic

wtf has been achieved here? Seems like someone has buddies in industry and has lobbied for a ban on offshore produced building material to keep "honest local industries afloat"...ffs.
Kerr as in "Kerr Metric"
It's poison, there is no safe level.

"No level of alcohol consumption is safe when it comes to human health, according to a WHO statement released in January, 2023."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9...
Ugh, LaTeX is such a pain sometimes. Thanks for catching that.
There is a lot of space between a 3070 and a Switch. e.g. a few (I'd guess ~5) year old iPhones/iPads are considerably more powerful than the Switch. Unfortunately, it's just not a great platform for gaming.
https://archive.is/otORE
Simple youtube thumbnail generator would be great, thank you.

Not all that complicated junk out there, but just something simple - take photo or two, ask me to describe the thumbnail and text to put on top, that’s it.

Yet no product is out there that can produce at least mediocre result.

Which makes me think… isn’t this wave of hype is yet another scam?..

Anyone remembers the bitcoin 5 years ago?
Interesting, thanks for the info.

Yet, despite the newspaper being fully supported by plain, simple, black-and-white print ads (and maybe some color inserts later which were easily discarded), they managed to pay for serious journalists, and they didn't whine about how they need to track you and spy on you and force you to look at obnoxious pop-up ads to make enough money to survive.
I guess this will probably come up in the reviews but the presentation of the Kalman filter is lacking. I know it's not the point of the paper, but getting these details wrong in a paper about Kalman filters is not encouraging.

The statement that the Kalman filter is mean-square optimal because it generates a correct estimate in expectation is false. In fact, any gain L will generate an estimate whose expected value is x_k, as long as w_k and v_k are zero mean. The Kalman gain is a specific choice of L that is optimal in the mean square sense only when the disturbances are Gaussian. The Kalman gain is also time-varying and depends on the evolution of the estimate covariance, although it will converge to a steady-state value.

What's being described here is more properly called a Luenberger observer, but I guess that name doesn't get the same recognition outside the control community.

I'm also wondering why they chose to include H past estimates and measurements in the transformer. They're already embedding the Kalman gain into the weights of the transformer, so taking just one past estimate/measurement should exactly recover the Kalman filter. Going further into the past just makes the estimate worse, because of the softmax.
Review of Dumb Money
Well you could certainly have a laugh being overheard by non-engineer colleagues while talking about 'ninja crud'!
Nor does 100% of the Irish speak English as their first language, nor are Palestinians 100% Muslims. The point is that it is not uncommon for colonized nations to adopt the language or the religion of their colonizers, even if the transition is not always—and indeed quite seldomly—complete.
My parents have stone. I hate it. Very noisy in a high pitched unpleasant way.
you win my coolest app names prize, for your apps 2, 3, 4 and 7 ! :)
Hi there, I'm the alternate timeline you, the one who did start learning assembly with an x86 (and a copy of Microsoft Macro assembler for my 12th birthday). My parents, specifically my father, clearly meant well by trying to get me into a computer that they perceived would be more relevant to career skills than the 8-Bit micros that a couple friends already had. But what I got was not an actual IBM PC or even a close match like a Compaq, but a relatively obscure clone (panasonic, iirc) which, unbeknownst to me at the time, had a slightly different method for switching between video modes than the default CGA adapter/BIOS combo that was presumed by the meagre and not-written-with-middle-schoolers-in-mind materials available in my rural environment. this a decade before the internet would become widely accessible. reaching a worthwhile BBS meant furtive and risky calls to long distance numbers at strange hours of the night, which would certainly be discovered when the next bill came, and have to be covered by whatever allowance I had coming.

Since the main motivating interest was trying to get usable sprite-like animation working for a game I wanted to create, not being able to switch out of character mode without hanging the machine and having to start all over again was a leaden and demotivating drag. Especially because the thing did not instantly reboot but rather, loaded MS-DOS two-point something from floppy at a couple minutes a pop, and then loading up masm with much disc swapping involved the whole time due to the machine having only 256k.

I felt very bad and didn't want to tell my parents about this because they had spent a great deal of their at the time squarely middle class disposable income to get me the machine, and on masm itself, which wasn't particularly easy to get ahold of in the middle of farmland nowhere. And because I knew they meant well, trying to get me on track with a machine that appeared to be the dominant platform at the time and thus worth the extra cash to give me a head start. almost crushed all interest I had in programming, the obscene frustration of having to trial and error calling an interrupt or something, guessing at what the parameter could be and having no idea which out of the 220 (or more) possibilities would be the one that worked. This is not even getting into the perplexing and arcane yak shaving involved in dealing with the stupid x86 segmented memory model ( which I tried to avoid as much as possible, and just fit everything inside a single segment). I didn't understand why it was set up the way it was, so it was purely mechanical "how" ritual memorization without any context or insight.

Even as a 12 year old with nothing to do all summer, I did not have enough time ro sit there cycling the power and to waiting 7 or 8 minutes between reboots. And God forbid the thing broke due to all the power cycling, or chewed up one of the expensive, (for a 12 year old), system disks.

I had no idea how much I was missing by having a supposedly higher end "real computer" . Other me, indeed be thankful you dodged that bullet.
These 2 companies having a stranglehold is the free market. Antitrust legislation is what would allow other companies to compete with these 2, and antitrust legislation doesn't exist in a free market.
Some banks still charge per payment for online transfers/bills and don’t for checks. As my cost per check is around 25 cents, plus a first-class stamp and an envelope if it’s mailed, anything more than $1 is a reason to use a check.
I activated a tmobile hotspot for when I spend time in the San Juan Islands, because on at least one island TMo is the only provider.

The service and hotspot were quite reliable.

While at home - a rural area of northern CA, my fiber provider (which is also the backhaul for Verizon - my primary cell provider) went down for a couple days. The TMo hotspot was reliable, performant and served up both the work I needed to do and streaming TV just fine.

$50/mo with no penalty to activate/deactivate made me a fan. Years ago, TMo sucked a lot in the Santa Cruz area.
This is the classic “real communism has never been tried” argument.
A while ago, I wrote gearfinder, to help find gear combinations to match a given ratio. [1] It's a little GUI written in Lazarus

I've written a BitGrid simulator in Lazarus.[2] BitGrid is a hypothetical computing architecture I've been noodling with for decades. I'm hoping to learn Verilog/VHDL/RTL enough get a chip made in one of the free shuttles.

Then comes the hard part... programming the thing. I keep pushing myself back into perpetual analysis paralysis.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/GearFinder

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
I don't follow at all. Killing civilians in a war is not illegal under any constitution I'm aware of; only killing your own citizens is, generally. Israel already has a fully democratic government, so I'm not sure what you're proposing to do here. And while Gaza is obviously not democratic, if someone did set up a fully democratic government there, and the people voted for Hamas as their leaders again with their stated aim of attacking Israel, then nothing changes. Maybe I'm missing something in your proposal idea, but history shows that people in democratic societies can and will vote for warmongering leaders.

Your original comment said that leaders committed to peace should "be installed". That doesn't sound democratic in the least. And here you say that "it is not authoritarian to take aggressive war off the table". When you're talking about outside forces forcibly taking over these places governments and "installing" new leaders, that's the definition of authoritarianism. Israel's leaders were already democratically elected, and obviously they're not peaceniks, and if Netanyahu suddenly died of a stroke, I think it's naive to think the Israelis would now vote for peaceniks. And I think it's very unlikely that Gazans, given a new vote, would choose peaceful leaders either, though I could be wrong of course.
How Starlink works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2QcycggWU

Its nearest ground station bounced off nearest satellite, or some inter-satellite laser links to make some hops, then to the user. It's optimized to be shortest route, just like routers with the wired internet you're using now: if you stream a movie, that request goes to in a short path from the server to you. You streaming doesn't slow down someone in China, because the data never approaches any equipment in China. Same with Starlink. Their data never approaches any starlink satellites in the US. When they get the whole grid laser link working, then it might, but it will still approach being optimal, with ground stations used as needed.

Ground vs laser is a latency thing, more than a bandwidth thing. No need to stream Netflix with low latency.
Not to mention we're not just stochastic parrots and monkeys on typewriters. We have reasoning. They can try to emulate it by putting ever more parameters but the reason we have nonsensical things like hallucinations is because they can't filter the output through reason before it comes out. Look at the lawyers getting caught with their pants down on ChatGPT. It's not actually reasoning a citation, it's just bullshitting what a citation might look like because a legal brief de novo needs to come from a place of reason.
This is great - just a couple UI things bugging me.
1. When clicking "Open" on a product, the user should be able to open that in a separate tab. Currently that's not possible; I'm sure because it's being delivered in a single page (can't check now because you're getting hugged to death by HN).

2. When the server's slow, as it just was, there should be some kind of waiter / loader to immediately show the user that the "Open" click was sent on a product. Otherwise people will keep clicking it (or worse, clicking other products) and there's no indication that it's loading.

3. Once a product is open, it's not clear how to get back from it. I see the "X" in the corner, but doing that seems to take me back to a blank search page, not to my search results. The back button also doesn't take me back to the search results...