skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I initially was expecting you to make excuses like "yeah, our code has undefined behavior, but it works, and only 10 people will use it". This is how I've seen the "but it works, just get shit done" attitude employed among my programming peers. People use "but it works" to excuse things don't don't actually work.

In the end, I think you're right though. As long as the code is reliable, then the shortest code is the best code (within reason, don't start playing code golf). It takes an awfully good abstraction to beat simply having less code.
> How else would the daemon know which files belong to the volume which was just mounted moments ago?

I wasn't intending to include transient filesystems in the index.

> Of course, I'd appreciate that.

Gimme about a week :-)
Website Meta Language (WML) (2001)
Some personal must-haves:

– DriveDx, for storage health monitoring: https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx

– Bartender, to control menu bar clutter: https://www.macbartender.com/

– HazeOver, to dim distracting background stuff: https://hazeover.com/

– Raycast, for launcher, window manager, menu search, clipboard manager, etc.: https://www.raycast.com/
Didn't they just buy Spin?
Thanks, I will probably read that collection. Nice to see it includes the stories The Zahir and The Book of Sand which feel just as relevant as the ones mentioned in the paper.
They were actively comparing the GPS position of the train to the known location of the workshops of their competitors.
High school, at least as far as it serves as a sorting mechanism for top students, follows a kind of Parkinson's law: the number of hoops to jump through increases until it reaches the natural limit of how little sleep the top students can handle.

There were rumblings that my high school, which had plenty of AP classes already, was about to introduce a combination AP/IB curriculum, which absolutely terrified us. I and my AP-taking classmates breathed a huge sigh of relief when it was announced that it would be delayed, and the students in the year below us would be the guinea pigs. They would have to run twice as fast just to stay in place.
Kubernetes heavily dominates there though.

I don't recall people throwing Cloud Native as a term before k8s or outside that space. Google trends seems to confirm they emerged at the same time:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Cloud%20...
Some ham radio guys with a jet engine in the backyard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsR8pCkSFW4
Not necessarily. Think of life in poor neighborhoods today. People can be competitive over limited resources or status within their world of poverty. And the constant threat of violence ("prepared for war") can even exacerbate this dynamic.

Yet at the same time all larger ambitions -- those which could threaten the people with real power -- are thwarted.
Odd that this is presented as a news. Milan tube has 3G and later 4G coverage for many many years now.
Yes, but those already have most of the needed infrastructure. Most gas stations have enough power to run a couple level chargers - they just don't have the chargers (note I said 1 or 2 chargers, not 8+ which is what anyone serious about charging needs to install)
It's not like we weren't warned, though. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-15/the-econo...
Most of the startups I've chatted with seem to prioritize finding people who build products. The complaint/regret I've heard from 3-5 organizations was hiring researchers.

Researcher is more for highly funded organizations. Starrups can get by with off the shelf models.
A college "Single" dorm being that size is perfectly fine. You really aren't supposed to spend 24/7 in it.
From the article:

"When ATP is inside the cell it acts like an energy source, but outside the cell it is a danger signal that activates dozens of protective pathways in response to some environmental stressor. We hypothesize that suicide attempts may actually be part of a larger physiological impulse to stop a stress response that has become unbearable at the cellular level."

"Among the metabolites identified, some currently exist in supplements such as folate and carnitine. This has also provided the researchers with an exciting new avenue of study."

According to the abstract, the researchers measured measured 448 metabolites.

- Modified purines and pyrimidines from tRNA, rRNA, and mRNA turnover were increased in the trMDD-SI group.

- Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) was increased in both males and females.

- Increased lactate, glutamate, and saccharopine, and decreased cystine provided evidence of reductive stress.

- Seventy-five percent of the metabolomic abnormalities found were individualized. Personalized deficiencies in CoQ10, flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), citrulline, lutein, carnitine, or folate were found.
I thought we already had that. We humans are never happy with the current stuff
Doubles in the US are barely largely than singles. Imagine your single, but with another bed in it.
The reality is that the Anglosphere as a whole uses a hybrid system to greater or lesser degrees. Heck, stones are still used at least somewhat in the UK. And I'd argue that Fahrenheit is actually a pretty decent system for day-to-day use. The degrees are smaller and it's not really that hard to remember 32 degrees is freezing. And sub-zero is fricking cold in most places. If you want to be all-on scientific, use Kelvin. But that would be silly for day-to-day use.
See also: Boom, Soylent.

Are there any other negatively-named companies?
Maybe some of it was only in the disk version?

I played the Electron version, which was even more limited, as the Electron's video chip couldn't do all the tricks the BBC Micro's could. (I think you even got some of the game memory looking like random garbage on screen. But that could have been a different game.)
From your original comment, I learned some new things about a movie I enjoyed but haven't thought about in a while. I felt it connected fine to the topic, and made for a really interesting contribution to the discussion.

I've always been intrigued by how the representation of those characters instantly connected so well with my engineer-identifying brain, and little details like that must have been a big part of it. It's a neat little nuance on the idea that what bits of cargo cult a person exhibits _now_ can sometimes give insight to their current place in life, and perhaps even to their deeper character and heart.
South Korea's Coupang to acquire online luxury retailer Farfetch
You have to go through archives to find them now but Microsoft used to publish reports on all their usability studies and it really gave me the sense of thoughtful and useful design of their UI elements. My favorite is the mouse ballistics https://web.archive.org/web/20110623221617/http://msdn.micro...

Saddly it seems like the latest trend is just to make things new and trendy with junk like rounded corners, low contrast flat colors and no delineation or highlighting for distinct elements.
…why would that mean it isn’t news that it’s available in London?

> Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city

If that’s the mission statement of your site I’m struggling to work out how you’d get to “Milan already has this, we shouldn’t cover it”.
Except that our experience shows that over time competition decreases and things like regulatory capture happen so it becomes harder for anyone small to enter into competition and then prices get hiked up.

And the cars and autonomous driving software itself is becoming more expensive and more subscription-based over time so those rents are going to have to be passed on to the consumer. Large autonomous taxi services may be able to strike better deals or even build their own software/vehicles if they're big enough, but you're not going to be able to compete with them effectively by purchasing a Tesla (and presumably consumer prices will rise as there's less individual-owned vehicles and companies go seeking after only the highest margins and abandon the toyota-corolla market to the robotaxi corporations).
I mostly go by a) recommendations from people I trust b) reviews (that I mostly find in the dailies).

Also, if you focus on classics I think you’ll be fine. I.e. Hemingway, Kafka, Dickens et al. Classics can have their flaws too, but I think we can assume they didn’t become classics by pure chance. So IMHO it’s a reasonable filter.
Everything is expensive because there exist people who are willing to stand by their values?
Indeed. In my time, it wasn't uncommon to have 6 AP classes a semester along with at least one time-intensive extracurricular. Assuming each class is the equivalent of 3 credit hours, it's the equivalent of an above average number of classes in college (15 being the expected amount, 12 being the minimum to be a full-time student, and 18 considered intensive) while playing a competitive sport.

The best part: Even a decade ago, the above was considered neccesary but not sufficient for admission to a top school. Plenty of people with perfect to near-perfect college entrance exams, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair finalists, etc didn't make the cut. Of the few that did, the majority were the lower Ivy's (Dartmouth and Brown).
Well, it is news for commuters in London, given that the signal from the Milan tube likely doesn't reach that far.
What kind of bubble is AI?
I dunno, there was also awarding the Peace Prize to Kissinger…
C needs an extension for import without namespaces purely based on names:

import vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoEncode;

QualityLevelPropertiesKHR(...);

Or even better:

import vk*PhysicalDeviceVideoEncode;

Get_QualityLevelPropertiesKHR(...);
Hi atdrummond!

I'm sorry I missed your earlier thread I had no idea you were doing and was a little stumped but I think you are an amazing person for doing this.

I'm writing because I think I could use your help!

I'm a recent graduate from University in France (Sorbonne University) with a degree in CS. I recently moved back to the states to my parent's house to look for a job but it's been difficult to get an offer.

I'm passionate about CS and have been working on personal projects while waiting to land an interview. Most recently I've been working on projects like creating novel interfaces for exploring music by analyzing audio with a neural net and plotting in 3D according to genre classification.

(demos from my project here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UyjFeLjGJs&list=PLvzGE7O7Di... )

I've been having a great time developing this and my friends are all encouraging but it's been difficult to convince a company to hire me or a way to monetize this.

Furthermore, I only have access to an old family computer from 2013 so have been limited to doing audio processing and hosting on cpu.

I would be eternally grateful and appreciative if you would do me the favor of helping finance a PC with reasonable specs such as a GPU and proper storage capacity (stuck on a 512GB SSD right now...) to help me develop my projects further!

I would only ask for ~$800 and I could finance the rest but this would be a huge huge huge help!

I still can't believe someone would be so generous as you but I know HN is full of thoughtful people so I'd love to discuss!

I'm not sure which transfer method is best yet but I have a bank account in the US and paypal so I'm sure we could make something work.

Thank you so much!!!!
My name is Tristan btw (:
I am located in virginia and my email is tristancharpentier@protonmail.com
Show HN: Grammarly for Prompts Built with Go, Htmx, Templ
Hey HN, I recently built a plan-validate-solve agent and struggled to write high-quality prompts so I decided to build a Grammarly for prompts. I used Go, HTMX, a-h/templ, Tailwind as well as the new OpenAI assistants - wanted to share a few learnings with you here:

- The overall “weight” of the solution. Basically, no external dependencies needed. I haven’t even touched web frameworks like Gin so far
- The packaging size when putting everything into an alpine-based image
- Super fast hot reload with cosmtrek/air in comparison to TS & React
- Basically no learning curve moving from React- to Templ-Tailwind templating
- Almost no JS is needed (except for interacting Web APIs like Permissions and Clipboard API)

For now, handling state on the server side is no big deal when using HTMX
So far I only faced some minor issues where, in some cases, Templ’s wrappers didn’t always transpile correctly or where hx-vals isn’t working due to Templ’s lack of support for single-quotes (used URL Query Params instead for now).

Re the OpenAI assistants - They worked quite well for my use case. But going forward I don’t see myself using them for very long since they are “just” isolated model instances that you can instruct and connect to your internal documents in a no-code fashion. I’ll probably drop them for a self-hosted Mistral 7B in the coming days, especially since fine-tuning becomes drastically easier these days. Excited to see how this scales!

An interesting direction I’ve been thinking about for the solution is to build something like this as a proxy that sits in front of LLMs and optimizes user prompts on the fly. Would appreciate any feedback on this approach.
I always jumped back and forth between Keramik and Plastik. I've tried a few times but haven't been able to get back into KDE since the KDE3 days.
This is a dumb question but how hard is it to train the mamba models that are on huggingface? It looks like the largest one is 2.8b - how many GPUs for how long do you need to train that up using a dataset like The Pile?
I have noticed the same problem. Every week they will re-enable the watch history automatically. They also changed the option from turn off watch history to pause watch history. I'm pretty sure this is an intentional change to make sure you can't have it off forever.
Yes, because I figured out how to reliably force a Thargoid incursion every time I did a hyperspace jump. From memory (BBC micro model B disc version):

- Pause the game and press the ‘x’ key. You’ll hear a beep. I don’t know what this does.

- Engage hyperspace. As soon as you see the concentric hexagon animation, press and hold the ‘Ctrl’ key.
You should see the animation a second time as you drop out of hyperspace surrounded by Thargoid ships.
The drivers of the initial choice (and really every choice thereafter) is the entire question. The universe has deterministic processes and it has random processes. The brain has deterministic processes and (potentially) random processes. Neither type of process creates room for anything resembling "free will." There is nowhere in the known universe for this to occur.

No of course I experience the same thing you experience. My argument is that it's an illusion, and it's one that you can actually peel away yourself.

Close your eyes and clear your mind -- you'll find thoughts simply emerging. Eventually, the thought to give up and open your eyes will occur to you. You didn't choose to have that thought prior to it appearing. Following that first thought, you might then give up, or you might have another thought not to give up. One of those thoughts will just immediately become the next behavior. In either case, you didn't choose those impulses prior to their appearance and you didn't choose which one ultimately turned into behavior.

So not only is there zero believable physical explanation as to how and where free will could exist, the subjective evidence doesn't pass even a basic "close your eyes and observe your own cognition" test.
Ask HN: What to do with a 5gbps pipe?
Gearing up to have 5gig-symmetrical fiber hooked to the house in 2024. Cue the "I just think it's neat" Simpsons clip.

What projects, hobbies, or volunteer work would you use a pretty good internet connection and a couple TB of NAS storage for?

In another thread someone revitalized my interest in Archiveteam Warrior, and I'm running it now. That's fun, it is the kind of thing I'd like to do more of.
>The person who didn't go to college and bought a home instead

What fairytale land do you live in that a high school graduate can purchase a home?
Shitty* values but yes, try to keep up.
Bitcoin Mining and Node Operations Using Quantum Computing
The potential impact of quantum algorithms on Bitcoin core mining and node operation is a topic of immense interest and speculation. Here, we delve into how two pivotal quantum algorithms, Shor's and Grover's, might reshape the landscape.
Oh, that explains why the Wi-Fi was weirdly not available to international tourists/required registration with mobile networks. I've been wondering about that every time I've been to London.
Definitely gets the point across in an instant. Excellent marketing.

It's insanity that even when Messages.app is closed, the messages still pop up. Even when not screensharing - I still get an audible ding sound when I'm on video conference.
Elements with an id are globals, so you do this (not that it's recommended):

count.innerText =
up.onclick =
down.onclick =

etc
" I am not sure how to extrapolate that to something intelligent that's not driven by some biological impetus."

I think this is very important. Much of how living beings coordinate or align is driven by their own mortality. It is a crucial aspect of their development. AGI could not possibly experience this in the same way.
I think the docking scene in Elite is borrowed in turn from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
FWIW every NYC subway station already has service, which I think is the most important thing. Most London Underground stations don't have service, which is super annoying as a tourist ("uh oh I forgot to map my route in advance and now I don't know where to get off or transfer").
See earlier note about the public not accepting autonomous vehicles while they make errors humans consider nonsensical. The actual aggregated stats don't matter. The logic doesn't matter. All that matters is the video of a self-driving car veering off course suddenly and slamming into a school or bumping a pedestrian at high speed on video. It won't matter that no kids got hurt or that the pedestrian survived with minor injuries.

It will feel more dangerous and untrustworthy, and that has always been more than enough to kill a promising solution in this country.

If we can overcome that and actually follow the numbers instead of our guts, we won't need most of the cars in the first place—autonomous or otherwise—because the numbers say mass transit is the better option on all metrics: economic, environmental, safety, land use, etc. Cars are at best a backfill option.
Oh sorry I didn't mean to imply I'd used it in production or it was production ready, I simply consider it to be a really promising project.

It's tackling what I see as one of the foundational weaknesses of postgres, which is the storage engine. A good number of it's downsides stem from the fundamental design of the storage layer, and if orioledb succeeds in becoming stable then there is a class of issues that would simply go away.
The author should really read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building".

[0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
Bib cards are very brief summaries, so forgetting something could trigger creating a new note in the main box.

Review index cards to see if mind maps span as far as your daydreams can wander. Add new entries accordingly.

Ready to publish? Get your collectives and other cards out, and prepare an outline for longform work.
I will definitely agree that a transportation system based off public transit is much better than what we have now. The advantage you get with a 100% AV based system is that you can get coverage that you’ll never get with public transit. NYC, which has a great system, still has lots of parts of the city which you can’t really get to without calling a car or walking a long way. The point-to-point routing should not be discounted either. Getting in a car and going directly to your destination rather than trying to make a bunch of connection (and dealing with kids or purchased items or a wheelchair) makes a big difference for a lot of people.
That article has a perspective on crashes that's new to me. I like the idea of useful things coming from the ashes of tech bubbles.
So you're a beneficiary of the homeless industrial complex. Sorry but I'm not interested in anything you have to say as it's impossible for you to be objective given the amounts of money flushed through these programs.
Good data sheet!

I wonder where it fits on this table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_propulsion#Table_of...

Also looked at this table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster#Comparisons

The weight on this one looks really good, not even counting the lack of propellant. I'm going to guess that has a downside, that the total impulse is limited by how small the fuel rod is.
The thing is, "cash" in one's account is not cash at all and is not being hoarded. It gets loaned out. It's put to use such that it generates interest income.

> there are folks out there for whom a million in notes and coins is a lesser percentage of their net worth than the change in your change jar is of yours.

You argued before that they were hoarding most of their wealth. Now it's a tiny percentage.

Bezos (and other billionaires) were in the paper recently for funding their cash needs by borrowing. Why would they borrow if they had a cash hoard? It doesn't make any sense.
It's for folks who deploy to Linux. In the most recent case, I just needed it to mirror some images from DockerHub to an Amazon ECR.

Not having a Linux box for a dev machine, I'd have to involve one somewhere, and it'd either be a local VM or a remote one.

In my case, the main benefit of running Podman is not versus Docker. I don't want to run Docker Desktop because of its licensing. Podman doesn't have to offer me a technological benefit that Docker doesn't, at least for development use cases.

For development use cases like devcontainers, I agree, though. For that kind of stuff on macOS, I use Nix instead of a VM-based solution like Podman Desktop or Docker for Mac or whatever.
This is categorically false. The VAST majority of automobile accidents that result in deaths, even though drivers were at fault do not result in jail time. Even a large part of DUIs that result in deaths only result in community service and probation.

Source: idk
Yes? And people like you have enjoyed an office environment that by default catered to you. It's not those of us who finally found productivity in a controlled, quiet environment that lack empathy, it's you, the group that can't imagine that "normal" might not be universally healthy and that for the first time are finding themselves not the default perspective.
And in this particular case, some people seemed to be in such a rush to be the first one to criticize that they missed the much more capable 70bn model available in the dropdown. Yesterday when I checked this thread most of the discussion was about poor responses only present in the 7b (as if that was the only thing to talk about), and I think when that kind of thing is at the top of a thread for the first several hours it has a chilling effect on anything interesting being discussed during its lifespan.
> Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure.

That's the meaning of refactoring that I typically hear, tbh.

I guess it just depends on what one means by "external behavior". Changing a function signature changes the external behavior of that function for callers of that function, but not for other modules. Changing the interface of a module changes its external behavior for other modules depending on it, but not for clients of the whole server. Changing an API changes the external behavior for the client, but not for the end user (to whom API changes are invisible and irrelevant).

Traditionally, one might say "if the tests still pass, it was a refactor." Though nowadays that's probably not true either, as business code tends to contain a lot more internal testing than it used to (which is good! but also bad).
Hmmm... no Linux version.