skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a person retracts a statement about a wealthy individual, one may reasonably wonder whether it was done under legal pressure. In this case, however, it seems that Ashlee Vance feels it is his words that are being taken out of context to see an attempt to quash high-speed rail:

https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...

“The Boring Company is one of [Musk’s] ventures that I’ve never understood, really,” Vance replied. “I totally get your point. In general, though, there’s no part of me that believes Elon was trying to kill public transport so people would stay in cars. I just don’t believe that.... Elon didn’t even need to bemoan the high-speed rail project for it to undermine itself.”
NY, London, Dubai and Bengaluru: Top Global Talent Hubs
I'm sorry you're having to deal with that.

Mine isn't quite the same but I have had bilateral tonic-clonic seizures (Previously called "Grand Mal") and time traveling like that isn't ever fun.
A fairly significant % of Christians, at least in the USA but I would imagine the UK too, believe in alien visitation and alien abduction -- and that they're actually demons. One realization I've had recently, is that the simultaneous rise of the alien abduction/visitation phenomenon, and the Satanic panic, both peaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is likely related in some way; both involve repressed memories of fantastic sexual violation in physically impossible circumstances by supernatural beings.
SRE teams are Oncall 24/7/365
Believing he built two of the most important companies of the 21st century is part of the con. The first being that they are the most important and that he built them.
He's using domain specific language, if you don't get it you're not at home in the domain and that's just fine. I'm sure there's a ton of meaning hidden in those complex looking words but I'm not at home in that specific domain.

Talk to a layperson about kubernetes and crypto-anarchy and you'll notice their eyes will glaze over as well.
Probably better not to. From my experience tabs (in the long run) are more annoying than helpful. Take vscode: I use the "open editors" menu, because tabs work just up to 3 of them. Then they either not fit (scroll-x), have titles far too short to be identifiable or take half the screen when using tab wrapping.

I haven't used heynote yet (in a train rn), so you may've that already in place, but:

I suggest implementing bookmarks with fuzzy search. Press ctrl+b a prompt comes up, type the thing, press enter and get your file scrolled to that section (markdown title)
Styling Text-Based Lists
I have, are you sure you're up to date what standards actually say?
Zoology 1: Measuring and Improving Recall in Efficient Language Models
Ask HN: Show Your Homelab and Home Server Setup for Inspiration
I’ve been tinkering with quite a bit of self-hosting and home-lab stuff, starting with a few Raspberry Pis, a 10+ year-old MacMini, and a few laptops-as-servers. I’m willing to make mistakes, learn, and be inspired by what you do. I believe many of us would love your tips, tricks, and all the gotchas in between.
Never underestimate the value of motivated experimentation.

1) Set a goal (e.g. host a Minecraft server for your friends)

2) Spend all your free time trying to achieve it

3) Go to 1)
When I was 16 I was definitely hosting services for people on a monthly VPS, but it wasn't until a few years later when my cloud provider imploded with 2 hours notice while I was in class and I lost all my files that I started to self-host with my own hardware over a VPN.
This is GNU in a nutshell. Wacky stuff driven by wacky individuals. They didn’t invent open source, just twisted what already existed into an “ism”. In this case, Stallmanism.
> holocaust was the result of our involvement. And hitlers rise was in large part due to our involvement in WW1.

Sorry buddy, you’ve gone off the deep end. Germany wasn’t winning WWI, with or without America. What our involvement did was shorten the war’s duration and lighten the terms of the Treaty of Versailles a tad.

As for America being responsible for the Holocaust, you’re wrong. I know where you’re getting this , and while I don’t think you’re going to be deprogrammed by Internet comments I hope flagging this as abject nonsense will prevent others from going down that path.
> I was open minded, until I read the white paper.

OK, so your feedback is "I don't think this will work for reasons x, y and z."

We can learn from that and either modify the design until it does work, or move on with other projects that do work (i.e. High Speed Rail).

In either case, anger, hatred and vitriol are not required for a productive outcome. We should not shoot down people for sharing information about possibly new and better ways of doing things, lest we discourage everyone from doing so.
It wasn't a weird clone, it's flakey memory from the commenter.
I've wondered if something like Hyperloop could make sense for high speed package transport, say between Fedex hubs. Smaller tubes, no need for life support, easier safety case, and packages could be designed to withstand higher accelerations (for sharper turns).
You're complaining that Appendix 3.1-A of Volume 2 of their 30000-page plan in insufficiently detailed? These drawings are detailed enough to build the railroad. https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/01_P2K_PEPD_RE...
Not followed for example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668237
I stopped when they grouped the NYT journalists with murderers and drug-dealers. Clearly someone biais, that also use the bible to make their points. No thank you.
Wired Elements are a set of web components by the same author that use Rough.js to render in a sketchy style. They work in any framework.

https://wiredjs.com/
Well, he did remove the current administration's tight collaboration with Twitter's censorship system. He also fired the majority of Twitter's engineers. Between these I can imagine a lot of people in the San Francisco don't particularly like him, regardless of anything else.
The author can't seem to make up their mind about the use of a vacuum. In one section where they do propose using one they also suggest sticking a giant turbine on the end of the car.

Maglevs are great. Why not build one of those instead?
I never once wished I was able to do that, the only application for that would be to communicate with android users that for some reason refuse to use whatsapp, fb messages, telegram or any of the numerous cross platform that do that. Why would anyone want to do this specifically using the sms protocol?
I have centralized AC and the wall-mounted control panel is located in a small storage room. I wanted to hack the control panel with an Arduino and a Raspberry pi so I can control it remotely via my Alexa. I ended up buying a switch bot [0] and an IP camera and was done with it.

0: https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot
This was the last year before AI, hand in hand with all the other technology of today, turned the modern world upside down. The last year we kinda could trust things we see or hear. I don't want to sound to dystopian but most people don't seem to understand the impact all these technology will and already has on our daily lives.
100 Apps, 100 Hours [video]
- LLMs/Deep learning in general - People have no idea how powerful the abstractions grown inside an LLM are. They could be many times more powerful that the output, as the output function could be lossy, and we'd never be able to tell from outside the black box. It's entirely possible that there are signals in there that do "theory of mind" far better than humans ever could.

It's like applying a billion years of directed evolution at Earth, just to get a small set of ejecta to hit Mars. Sure, we've shipped a ton or two of stuff to Mars, and colonized it with robots... but we've done a few other things along the way.

The fact that I can run trained models on my laptop and desktop without issue is amazing to me. Like my VAX 11/780 running VMS 7.3, I eventually hope to run an LLM on my cheap smartphone.

- Capability Based Security - I lived through the era in the 1980s when you could just buy a stack of floppy disks full of programs, and try them out on your PC, with no worries at all. The only way we'll ever get back there is if we finally get Capability Based Security built into our Operating Systems.

Keeping WASM free of the POSIX virus is a close second, but not as generally useful.

- MIMO Software Defined Radio - $30 SDR dongles are amazingly useful, but I look forward to being able to build a passive radar system that can detect EVERYTHING in the sky overhead, no matter how stealthy, for my own amusement. I'd like to be able to do moonbounce communications from a <$1000 flat panel MIMO array mounted on my garage roof.

- NanoVNA - these little things are freaking amazing, and dirt cheap. Quite handy for building an intuitive understanding of the otherwise black magic of RF design.

- Quantized Inertia - A new theory of physics about to get flight tested in space[1] It would be good to see some advancement towards making the human species Interstellar

- BitGrid - my own hallucination of the simplest possible Petaflop performance CPU. I'm stuck in analysis paralysis and need a shove. It's just a sea of 4x4 LUTs and latches, so it's slower than an FPGA, but it's massively parallel, so if you can spread your algorithm across it like peanut butter, you can put data in one side, and get a stream of a billion answers/second out the other side.

Imagine being able to run GPT-4 spread across 1000 of these things.... it might take a second to get a token out, but you could have millions of simultaneous sessions going

[1] https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/graph-orbit-data.php?CA...
I took this course on a lark when I was working as a data analyst. It inspired me to change careers. Absolutely excellent course. Definitely do it if you've got the time.
I connect to a win 11 vm in azure across the atlantic.

I mainly login and try to open vscode.

I typically fail the first time and either open device manager or a news story on the start menu about an American footballer called odel beckham.
Efficient Training for Artificial Intelligence
> I don't know, did you look?

You made a statement, it is up to you to back it up.

> I know from personal experience that pharmacists do catch errors, but I have no clue if anybody is keeping statistics on it.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

> I'm struggling to understand the logic in wanting pharmacists to be more ignorant.

This is IT security 101 - the less randos have access to a sensitive data the better.

> Even if cops couldn't interrogate pharmacists because they were all blind and dumb, they'd go to local doctors instead.

In context of US situation I guess the benefit if when out-of-state telehealth doctor prescribes and local pharmacy clerks don't have access to those records. The best theoretical end game would be to either have such records on encrypted device owned by patient or none at all.

> The police are the problem that needs to be addressed.

Last decade or so the tendency has been to solve this by technical means, where possible. Like e2e encrypted messages, encrypted iCloud/Google backups, recent announcement of local Google maps timeline, etc.
OP points his finger at the protonatalist conspiracy.
As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to admit it was never meant to be built
I really appreciated thunderf00t for a long time and liked his debunking videos. There came a point where he had such a hard-on for hating Musk that he seemed to lose a lot of objectivity, particularly when it comes to SpaceX.
It's one of the only games I play! I have it on Android and one thing I like is that it's fast to open up and play a bit, save, and then quit. No ads or a bunch of intros to try to skip, etc.
I used to have a google account with my personal domain then I registered to Google Workspace 4-5 years ago. Since then, I have this message when I log in :

> Your account has been modified.
> The address user@domain.com is no longer available because an organization has reserved rickynotaro.com. Why is this important now?
>
> Don't worry. Your data is safe. To use them, you must create an account with a different email address. Your password and security settings will remain unchanged.

> Account details
>
> What type of account do you want to use?
>
> An account with Gmail and a new Gmail address
> Select this option to add Gmail to this account.
Unfortunately, we cannot move your data into an account with an existing Gmail address.
>
> Account using an email address belonging to you, not linked to Google. Ex.: myname@yahoo.com
> Choose this option if you want Google products except Gmail.
> Btn_Continue Btn_Do_it_later Not sure what to do?

I've been pressing "Do it later" for years. I'm still using this account for youtube, maps and other services.

I should probably use a secondary domain and use this address.

Some service prevents me from changing my email address when signing with google and weird behavious happens when it tries to use my user%domain.com@gtempaccount.com

Google documents it here: https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/1699308?h...
I have to say, this would be an impressive set of achievements for someone much older - great work and glad you're obviously having so much fun with it all!
"AI" is the new crypto pump and dump.

Yes, some of it is impressive. Jamming LLMs into every little thing to pump the stock price is not.

The majority of GPT wrapper startups will be dead by this time next year.
> Aren't China consistently critical of violent aggression?

No, they frequently support violence when it’s internal suppression. They also support violence for e.g. taking Taiwan.

The simple answer is China can have its cake and eat it too, so why not.
Could you provide a example? I am not sure where, in which scenario it isn't either irrelevant or easy to work around.
A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males
Research suggesting that much of the power of the transformer architecture comes from associative recall over long sequences that does not require scaling model dimensions. They design state space models that narrow the gap.

Overview
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-12-11-zoology0-i...

Zoology 2
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-12-11-zoology2-b...

Monarchs and Butterflies: Towards Sub-Quadratic Scaling in Model Dimension. Scaling in model dimension as opposed to sequence dimension scaling in the previous posts.
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-12-11-truly-subq...
> All of the human individuals I've met and talked with throughout life think both "BIG CHUNK" and "LARGE CHUNK" mean more than 10%.

This seems like ignoring the question, so the opinion is noted, but it doesn't sound convincing.

I still stand by my belief.
BrazilJS 2024 Is On
Autism doesn't preclude empathy at all. In fact, I would say it augments it once the other person's feelings are understood. What's generally lacking is realising the other is feeling in a certain way until it's explained to them or they have otherwise rationalised that feeling. Which, relatively ironically, will never be enough to make a neurotypical person feel empathy.
Maybe try Obsidian for the second use case?
> I’ll literally pay a premium for someone to take options away from me rather than have yet another place I need to exercise my self control.

Thank you, this makes a lot of sense to me! I'm still on the other side of it personally, but I can genuinely understand this position. So many times these sorts of discussions are so pointless as they go back and forth with things like "you don't have to enable that option if you don't want to" and people saying "somehow I'll have to" with these weird hypotheticals that seems ludicrous, but yours is a solid argument.
Heck, the line from Florence to Rome in Italy goes through mountains and is pretty fast.
I think religion drives superstitious thinking and possibly the belief in conspiracy theories as well. It might be the origin of such distorted patterns of thinking.
> like the war on Nazis, some wars have to be fought

The commenter you’re responding to would have preferred we’d let the Nazis do their thing [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38734555
The LinkedIn DPH Framework
Initial thoughts:

1. It looks beautiful and useful. Very nice work!
2. I love the math sections.
3. I was shocked how large the download was.
4. It's chewing enough memory between the GUI and the (3!) helper processes that I will probably continue to use BBEdit for this kind of thing.

I think it will be useful to a lot of people... I like it and could see myself using it sometimes even if it feels too heavy to keep it running all the time.
Memory Safety [pdf]
I am guessing once these containers are shipped, it's someone else problem? Also, my money is on China will be happy to strike a deal with Iran/Houthis to secure its ship than to co-operate with the USA.
thank you thank you! i clicked in and gave it a read.

he's a curmudgeon with love in his heart. and style. i'm laughing my head off. love it, thanks!
He got ousted out of one of the two (OpenAI), though. Perhaps because the partners recognized his con?
Congratulations! Did you switch to a lower level programming career path?
Versus ignoring it, and all other evidence, to push an anti-American narrative?
I didn't really like having YouTube be just another tab in my browser on mobile, it seemed too clunky. So until I switched, I didn't want to bother with 3rd party apps, since the experience a few years ago was horrible (forgot which ones I tried though).

Also I had that little bit of respect to support creators by not blocking ads. But when there's two unskippable 15 second ads before a 7 second shitpost video, at some point enough is enough.

So while I mostly just switched because of the ads, what really was a huge improvement to me was how every time I tap a YouTube link now (messenger, browser, mail), I get a nice pop-up from NewPipe asking whether I want to play it right away in the app, play it right away but just audio in the background, or enqueue it (if something's already playing). It's a small detail but it's such an improvement over "just interrupt the current video without asking".
From the postfix post:

> A short-term workaround can be deployed now, before the upcoming long
holiday and associated production change freeze.

> NOTE: This will stop only the published form of the attack. Other forms
exist that will not be stopped in this manner.
You have to be pretty dimwitted to think that either SpaceX or Tesla 1) are unimportant, or 2) would have reached anything close to their current level of success without Musk behind them.

Which makes his descent into erratic flimflammery all the more tragic.
I was using suicide bombings to demonstrate that people dont willingly throw their lives away unless they have a good reason for it.

Look, just, for a second consider that you are treating iran as a bogeyman, they gave us intelligence on al queda after 9/11, they held a candlelight vigil in tehran for the victims. How much do you really know about iran? Are you really so confident that you understand everything thats happened there? How well, are you confident enough to get people killed over it?
Looks like "braid", "clear", "branching", or "winding"
https://github.com/moses-palmer/labyru/blob/master/maze/src/...
Also on Flathub: https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.github.Anuken.Mindustry
Any chance of an arm64 build for Linux? I'm sure I could build it myself but it'd be nice if I didn't have to!
I remember going through the entire qmailrocks.org guide on a PIII with 128mb of RAM (Running Fedora 1 or 2) and then saying "ok, send me some emails!" and my buddy immediately crashed it within like 30 seconds. We were laughing so hard.
And that's fine. Does it make anyone less empathetic if they don't though? At least where it matters - where someone else's feelings are involved vs. literally no one else's (since they don't actually exist).
so a latex asteroid is an acceptable concept in your world? or was the humor in it too witty for you to grasp?
Yes, I'd like to add more languages. It's currently limited to what Lezer (https://lezer.codemirror.net/) supports . However I just found this repo (https://github.com/withfig/lezer-bash) which seems to be Lezer grammar for bash, so I can probably use that for bash syntax support.

> Finally, if you remove the canvas background or set it to the same as the app background color

Will look into that. Thanks!

> On Macos a menubar item would be nice to pop the app up

Hm, not sure what this means, sorry :)?

EDIT: Now I googled "macos menubar" and see what you mean :). I'll look into it!
So I guess the Houthis are part of life, no?
I know you are referring to those fake KeePass malware ads, but just to clarify: the issue I reported was not related to AdWords - it was for normal search results
Mindustry encourages compact designs due to limited space in levels where factorio has infinite space that encourages sprawling designs. In that context, the all-side output is critical for Mindustry's compact layouts.

I find Mindustry layouts a lot less tedious compared to inserters everywhere and I greatly prefer the Mindustry conveyor flow controls.

I do wish Mindustry added another transportation layer where physical transport between sectors was required rather than generic space launches. It would give a much more cohesive feeling to the various levels.
You missed a great joke about provoking God to laughter.
Unfortunately in my experience the older the person the less likely that they will be open to re-evaluating their core beliefs and political stance. Wonder if there is a research on the subject.
It is not even a matter of disagreeing with the proposal. If we take all of the numbers in the hyperloop whitepaper at face value—and I want to be clear that all of the numbers in that whitepaper are bullshit—even on those terms it doesn't solve a problem that anyone faces. Hyperloop under its own assumptions has a fraction of the transportation capacity of a railroad.
You may not need that costly, time-consuming infra re-org
I wouldn’t call my self an expert in React or frontend for that matter.

Earlier this year, I was helping someone create an MVC for a startup idea and I stumble upon NextJS (v13 at the time).

Within 2 or 3 weeks I was able get it up and running, hosted it in Vercel for demos and hand it to the team that was going to build it.

I found it very approachable and well documented. Everything I needed was on their website
Are you thinking about pneumatic tubes? Or private underground rail?

I fail to see what the hyperloop nonsense brings to the equation.
can you understand why people consciously decide not to have them?
> That will barely run Vista

Eh, not really. I'm still running Windows 8.1 on my oldest PC (pentium dual core, 2GB RAM).

But I see your point.
The article begins by explaining exactly that.
> SpaceX or Tesla

Tesla was already built before Musk came along. He has helped maintain it, granted.

The second important company he built is OpenAI.
Just a heads up, the author is a woman and uses she/her pronouns.
I don't know of a non-Kubernetes situation off the top of my head where this would be an issue, but I definitely learned some new things about DNS resolution on Linux by reading the article, and so I'll think to look for similar scenarios in the future.
You've got to give them credit for their flag, though. Talk about adhering to the KISS principle :)
Leans back in rocking chair,
Adjusts suspenders,
Lights pipe,
Cast loving glance down at dog

Did I ever tell you about the time I got fscked in the @ss by an alien?
You are playing with action figures, pushing troop markers around a board with no regard for the reality as it stands.
Oh, yeah, scaled down this could totally work! What about for small packages and documents in office situations - pop a signed document into a tube and it could whoosh to the recipient. Or at banks, customers could put their deposits into a pod — from their car, maybe! — and get the money straight to the teller.

The future is here!