skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I installed Qubes OS last year. First, the installation was not smooth. I had to play with the UEFI BIOS settings to get the installer work. It can be picky with respect to hardware. That’s OK, but it’s unclear what works and what doesn’t, and you have to spend time searching the internet. If you look at their FAQs and forum, you will find all sorts of known problems that may arise just around the installation and booting. Then, the updates sometimes failed (and were slow, but that was OK). The main problem was that after a short while, one day it stopped booting, and I had to spend time in forums again. It felt unpredictable and fragile.

For an operating system to be used as a daily driver, it has to be stable, and reliable. The laptop may be forced to shutdown, even during an update installation. Some functions should always work: boot, WiFi/ethernet, HDMI, etc.

I would love to replace desktop Linux with Qubes. I work in Qemu VMs anyways. I would probably give 4.2 another go.
Indeed: if companies are to be treated as people, and we are to have a federal death penalty, corporate execution should be the result of breaches like this.
> All the observed complexities can be regarded as partial descriptions of a simple fundamental reality: the Universe’s wavefunction. As an analogy, a perfect sphere can be cut into many chunks with complicated shapes, yet they can be put back together to form a simple sphere.

As another analogy, the 100-bit lambda calculus term

(λ 1 1) (λ (λ λ λ 1 (2 (λ λ λ 3 1 (2 (λ 2)))) (3 (λ 4 (λ 4 (2 1))))) (1 1)) (λ 1)

is a binary tree containing all (infinitely many) closed lambda terms at its leaves. Thus including representations of all possible data and all programs.
Interesting comment. I would like to know a bit more about the thinking behind this comment
My daughter said there are 5 oceans ... I said she was wrong, then we looked at a modern map. Who forgot to send out the memo about the Southern Ocean?
My child's school was online-only instruction from March to June, and reopened in September 2020 for in-person instruction. They did not miss one day of instruction. No idea what you're talking about.
Consider an alternative view, that coincidence is an immutable feature of reality that can be searched. In that case, you aren't necessarily engineering coincidence. Rather you are searching with the intent to align your own actions with the inherent coincident bias of the universe.
"Creativity is the residue of time wasted" -- dubiously attributed to Einstein
I am still laughing at the title of lesson #2.
Yes, $10-12k is like the monthly mortgage on a family sized apartment in NYC.

Many NYers need to construct elaborate fantasies to delude themselves that actually living in NYC is totally economical/convenient/rational, and not just their personal preference. Something about a river in Egypt.

In reality while it's fun, its also often inconvenient, expensive, or both.
Technical Debt is not real
If you're at increased risk of contracting a deadly disease, you should take steps not to contract said disease, up to and including isolation, quarantine, testing, etc. What you shouldn't do is use political pressure to permanently stunt the education and growth of an entire generation of kids by insisting that elementary school children can just go to class on Zoom. 40% of 8th graders are deficient in math[0]. That didn't happen in a vacuum, it happened because schools were shut down. It happened because we expected 7 year olds to sit at a desk and watch a computer screen all day instead of allowing them to go to school.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/test-scores-show-how-...
Doors, kind of furniture I'm missing lately... With kids at home doors need to be equipped with a lock. And it helps to have ensuite too...
> covid spread through kids like wildfire, often via asymptomatic infections which then spread to, and killed, elderly who just wanted to see their grandkids.

Was someone forcing the grandparents to visit their infected grandchildren? In my own case, I didn't see my own grandmother for two years during COVID other than via Zoom/FaceTime. She has a history of bad lung infections, so none of us wanted to get her sick. This was despite her having four great-grandchildren and being a widow. When she finally got COVID this year for the first time, she developed some blood clots, but was able to pull through and now is back to great health.

I think the damage to children who were isolated from one another was much worse, and unlike the elderly, they couldn't really understand why we lived so unnaturally. If elderly people wanted to "just see their grandkids," they knew the risks and made a choice. Every death is sad, but I have a hard time thinking we should adopt harsh and even draconian measures just to protect those who ought to know better.
Yes, in a way! Plasmic is a general visual React app builder that can be embedded into your existing React app or be deployed standalone. As such, we place a heavy emphasis on _design_, so you can build exactly the thing that you want, and on _integration_, so you're never limited by what Plasmic can do out of the box. A big part of this is being able to use your own React components in your Plasmic designs, which is a major escape hatch that lets you include any amount of data fetching or business logic that can be consumed by your Plasmic designs.
Because my ADHD means that if I don’t have a closed door I will literally never get anything done.
https://www.revk.uk/2023/03/bed-sensor.html?m=1 has another take on the idea after frustration with a "smart" & expensive Withings solution drove him to something different.
I feel like anyone who feels the way the above poster does hasn't experienced having a kid in school and the way infections spread through those populations. Especially with young kids who still do things like thumb sucking. My child has been home sick from school four separate times since September, the amount of colds children get from being exposed to each other's germs is absolutely staggering.

For all the problems of kids staying home, I'd much rather stay home from school and learn online by being healthy than get COVID and stay home from school without learning anything at all. Especially when you consider the 10% of cases that have long term consequences. We saw a few examples of university age athletes giving up their athletic careers because of potentially permanently reduced lung capacity caused by long COVID so it's not just the older generation that has consequences.

I don't feel it's a fair characterization of these methods to say that the main benefit was getting 90 year olds to live to 91. I think the main benefit was slowing down the spread enough that hospitals weren't badly over capacity so that people who needed emergency care mostly could get it. Letting COVID spread like wildfire through the population would result in more people needing emergency care than we had resources for.
> a large or mid size city in a prosperous north Midwest state

Which city?
Read the text books, or when little the handouts, to see what they are being taught. When they are big enough for textbooks it will probably shock you, especially history and the like. Anyway, just play with stuff related to what they are learning, and play is the key word.

Most math education is syntactic transforms, not understanding. There are lots of skill-appropriate puzzles in books and online you can do together so your kid can see that math can be fun. Same applies to other subjects — learning about US history? Make a trip to some local historical thing and when kiddo is bored just run around or whatever.
If these historians feel so strongly about this maybe they should pay the yearly £4.5m out of pocket?
Detecting Pretraining Data from Large Language Models
I doubt that the waitstaff sees that as a better option, given their reliance on tips from happy diners.
If those are the stakes, are they linear with status, or do those inside the baboon inner ring enjoy them, while those baboons trying to break into the inner ring have much higher levels of stress and not appreciably better health or reproductive opportunities than mid-level baboons?

(If one doesn't assume the narrator is telling the complete truth, 1984 can be read as a book in which an outer party member —who is in the outer, not inner, party based on his middling A-levels— violently attempts to buck the system. Keep in mind that when Blair went to private school, he was an "outsider", there on a nearly-free ride to keep the school's test scores up [as the rich and the thick do with boffins to this day], and boy, did the insiders ever let him know his place.)
Often the per student funding number is skewed because of all the services a school provides, but not every student gets. Extra services may be specialized staff like speech therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, aides, bussing, or lunch programs. As an example, a special education class may have several aids, more specialized equipment and a need for more accommodating rooms. So it may not be a good method to take number of students x average cost = classroom budget.
more the unemployment benefits and the massive child care tax credits, yes.
moved out in 2018 after 18 years because i worked remotely and my mental health was frazzled. for much less rent, i ended up in a Catskills cabin in the woods by a stream, a short drive from any number of beautiful trails. bonus points for the luck of already being out of the city when the pandemic happened.
OK, ya got me: You managed to find one case from 2017 involving one Dem state senator (who was promptly yanked from all her committee assignments after her comment and "chose" not to run for reelection). Oh, and you found a bunch of rants from comedians, actors, and other powerless publicity-seeking hotheads — who can be found in all walks of life and of all political persuasions. Did you find anything in, say, the past couple of years?
> Aren't most k8s users not cloud providers?

Yes. The point still stands.
Right. He talks about hypothetical outcomes as if they have happened, which dramatically reduces his credibility.

For instance, in Denver, we still have several (I think even more than when I moved here in 2011) Taxi companies. Those Taxi companies actually use apps now. Those companies don't ever have the "oh the credit card reader is broken" excuse anymore. Riding a Non-uber Taxicab in Denver is an objectively improved experience now!

> douche-bag toxic tech-bro culture.

Ah, I see where you're coming from now.
The fact that X11 is a dead end (which I agree with) is why the accessibility conversation around Wayland is even more important to have.

If X11 was going to be some permanent fixture at least people who rely on it for apps that are abandoned or proprietary or can't/won't be updated would have an alternative they could keep using. But while X11 isn't going away any time soon, it's also very clearly not what we want to be building on or encouraging people to use. When I criticize the state of Wayland, I'm not saying X11 is great. I don't want to be on X11, I want to use Wayland. I want the features that Wayland has.

Where accessibility is concerned, we're at risk of losing a bunch of users if they lose the ability to use applications they rely on during the transition or if there aren't alternatives to help control the applications that don't get updated. This is not something where we can just say, "oh the developers are lazy."

If the stuff doesn't get supported, regardless of whether it's the developers' fault or Wayland's fault, the users can't just deal with it until the ecosystem catches up. Instead, they go to Windows (or more realistically to Mac, my understanding is that Apple is kind of the gold standard if you need accessibility controls).

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Also add to this that "developers need to modernize" minimizes just how unapproachable a lot of this stuff actually is. I don't have a good grasp of how accessibility works in X11 because the development philosophy there has been for years "let the toolkit handle it" or "don't worry about it, controllers will just do something weird to handle window placement or font sizes on their own."

What are the standards for handling those problems in the future? There probably are standards, and they're probably better than what X11 was doing, but I don't feel confident that I know what they are. And there are X11 apps that are written by developers who aren't professionals and that have even less knowledge than I do about how the Linux desktop actually works. I would challenge anyone to find a good tutorial online written at a level that novice developers can understand that walks through how to make sure that a Wayland app is accessible, what changes need to be made from X11, and what the common problems or pitfalls are that developers might face.

Again, wouldn't necessarily be the biggest problem in the world -- except for the fact that X11 is a dead end and Wayland is the future. And because it's the future, we really, really need to make this stuff work.
2023, Year of Open LLMs
Yes! Deleting other accounts would be cool. :-)
> The big problem is people have been trained to think that centralized authority is a necessary precondition for security.

I think that's inverted, but not in the way that you think it is inverted. I think the map that fits looks more like centralized authority builds the systems that serves its needs (and they're identifiable as such because they were built by a centralized authority with no inclination to hide its efforts, and maybe even incentives to advertise them).

I'd like to know more about this though:

> Just look at the state of browsers gating access to APIs for sites on local sub networks. We have created a two tier WWW.

Because I don't see it (the first part). I don't agree wholly with the second part either, because I do defense in depth and I don't entirely trust my own network. But barring those measures / tastes yes there would be two classes of services, internal and external. This is pretty old school, along with the DMZ third wheel.

So what do you mean by that?
Reported crimes.

Keep in mind NYPD had its budget cut by billions of dollars and lost record numbers of officers over the same period. Part of accurate crime statistics is actually finding an officer to report a crime to and then them giving you the time of day. And that's if you haven't given up on the city already and aren't "mindin' yo own business".

I lived in NYC from 1984 through 2021 and I can tell you unequivocally that in 2021 it seemed more like 1988 than 2006.

If anything, the mid-2000s felt like the safest period of time that I lived in the city -- at the height of where a good party would be held in the same kind of places dead bodies would be dumped a decade or two earlier.
I agree we should build more housing.

But in the meantime it's not helping to have a bunch of the housing stock dedicated to tourists. Now maybe banning airbnb will put such a damper on tourism that it becomes a problem, but let's deal with that problem when it happens.
That's photo editing, not camera settings like ISO or shutter speed.

Cameras are still designed to try to be able to match what the human eye perceives, regardless of what you edit afterwards.

An infrared telescope is not. Totally and utterly different. They're not the same.
Right now Plasmic mainly target outputting React components. The code it generates can either be consumed as files you check into your codebase (see https://docs.plasmic.app/learn/codegen-guide/) or as data you fetch dynamically across the wire to render content without touching your codebase (the "CMS" use case).
A Mathematical Perspective on Transformers
Is it really so inevitable? I sure hope not. Unless I get a meaningful amount of real autonomy, I am not cut out for management. Fortunately, any vague promises I've ever been given for more managerial roles have not actually materialized. I want to say no if they ever do.
If you want to get something done quickly, try llama index.

If you want to learn/hack, pick an easy vectordb, get an OpenAI API account, and do a quick attempt

Then you can switch to a local LLM and embedder, and it helps a bit in learning what the pain points are
sort-of related is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list
You make a bunch of great points, but I'd like to add that archeology can (and IMO ought to) be interesting to a tech audience even when it isn't wrapped up in modern geopolitics.

The article links to the paper [1] that describes the tests used to detect forgeries and the results for this particular artifact. There are electron microscopes and chemical analysis and all kinds of sciency stuff. I'll take that over "I rewrote an app in a different JavaScript framework" any day of the week.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03344355.2023.2...
That only works for things entirely encapsulated by the value of the cell, which isn't a useful amount of stuff. This will only help with primative toy examples where you are slinging numpy arrays or other easily hashed data with no encapsulation or indetermancy or order independence.

Sorry, if it were possible to just generically cache computations it would be done everywhere for everything. This is just going to help with toy examples.

The only way this leads to "better reproducability" is if it fails to recompute things that it should have recomputed. If the computation was actually deterministic from its inputs the best and literally the only possible thing this can do is exactly what recomputing it would do, but faster. Frankly that you said it is more reproducible is enough evidence for me that you are doing something fundementally broken.
I think it is better to approach chess as a game (not as a mental exercise). If you enjoy it, play it. Otherwise, don't.
Very good article, and well explained I thought
Open plan offices took off in larger companies in the mid-2000s, and I think it's a classic example of a cargo cult.

Executive management looked at the handful of hugely successful startups who had open plan offices and thought, "It must be these open plan offices, that's their secret sauce! We just need to copy that and we'll be successful too!"

...ignoring survivor bias, because for every hugely successful startup who did open plan out of necessity, there was a big graveyard of startups who had the same practice and failed.
I think this also means that the the capacity of the empty space in 3.4GB. Someone has previously pointed out the interesting networking/caching(/storage?) implications for such long transmission time.
What these numbers show is that all the stuff people claim about NYC is backwards.

1. These declines are until mid 2022. NYC's population has rebounded since then big time.
2. No, it's not crime deterring people. Crime is heading back close to historic lows. It's cost of living that's deterring people.
3. Rich people are moving in/staying/people in NYC are getting richer. It's the poor who cannot afford to live in NYC that are leaving.
A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion
The numbers to support political decisions are usually made up
I'm going to partially agree and partially disagree, I think...

> Every windowing system in common use (and a dozen others) took that path. X11 is the odd thing here.

Every other graphical system did so by tying the protocol to an entire specific software stack; Windows/Android/MacOS/Haiku all require you to use their single official compositor and window manager. I get that you're arguing that's a good thing, but I pretty strongly disagree.

> IMHO the actual strategic mistake for Wayland was that they prioritized writing standards over iterating on a working reference implementation that was usable as a daily driver.

Hard agree, 100% yes; even if they'd just focused on shipping a single working example desktop environment, at least it would have forced them to figure out all the protocols that need to exist.

> You shouldn't need an alternative window manager any more than you would need an alternative trackpad firmware. It's supposed to be invisible. Draw the window borders using a plugin/subprocess, because your existing user base demands shallow "customization". Cover the 99% use case, and expose an API for extensions to do stuff like auto-tiling or shader effects.

I'm less convinced of that; people aren't asking for shallow customization at all, and I am skeptical of the idea that any one window manager could accommodate the needs of GNOME, compiz (yay cubes), and dwm. You'd also bake in technical choices that would sit badly with chunks of the population; odds are that we would have ended up baking most of GNOME into the graphical server and being stuck using javascript for everything, or gone the other way and committed to using C forever.

But overall, I tend to agree; personally I would have liked wlroots to effectively become the unifying point and have been part of the initial release, along with actually shipping most of the needed protocols up front rather than effectively leaving everything except drawing windows as a TODO.
Does anyone know what this publication is designed for and by whom, and why only certain chapters are published?
Yeah - this is probably the main benefit.

Cities draw lots of people, typically ambitious people, but really all types.

> Ambitious people are rare, so if everyone is mixed together randomly, as they tend to be early in people's lives, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers. When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, they bloom like dying plants given water. Probably most ambitious people are starved for the sort of encouragement they'd get from ambitious peers, whatever their age. [0]

I generally think the above is true, but even outside of ambition there's just finding people to have interesting conversations with that are also interested in the things you're interested in whatever that might be. That's a lot easier with you live in an area that has more people, especially when it selects for the kind of people willing to move to a new place. It's one of the reasons global hubs have an advantage over mid-size cities and why the bay area has a specific advantage when it comes to tech.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
It can deeply integrate into your existing app (reuse your React components, and form the same React tree as your React app and read from the same React contexts, etc), and it can be hosted from anywhere. It also places a lot more emphasis on design and customizability.
I need one of these to stop my cat from turning on the bedroom lights when he’s hungry. Unfortunately with HomeKit doing automation like this the easy way involves converting the action into a shortcut, which comes with execution delay.
I have been using Plasmic for the last 3 months as part of a contract app where the goal was to get the technical, but not frontend experienced client able to do a lot of the design. I did a lot of custom work on components (like integrating the Supabase API and custom Auth for RLS support) as well as integrating some other endpoints/libraries.

In short, I have gone pretty deep with it as a proper "app" builder compared to maybe a more CMS/design use case. By far, for front-end low code UI tools it is my favorite. However, it isn't without the typical pains of that when the abstraction breaks it can be quite a hassle and requires some real knowledge (or support help) to figure things out. The real thing that keeps me on it though is that it really can have hand written react and Plasmic generated react live by side, which drastically lowers the risk compared to a lot of other app builders.

I do genuinely think it can speed up development for certain teams on app use cases, but I think the structure of those teams is a bit particular, because you do need someone who really knows react/next ecosystem to manage the underlying integration.

Thanks to the Plasmic team!

Happy to answer questions in thread