skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And we got less than 100 years out of it before it got absolutely ruined by bureaucracy

Took the internet even less time to become a corporate strip mall.
not a bad model, becomes incoherent at above 8k token, and it's not helped by the fact that's very verbose, but seems very coherent and stay on topic closely until then: https://chat.openai.com/share/089d1b8c-3467-4c01-af9f-6568c0...

fails at math of course, even if the problem is very easy, like all mistrals. good for genration, probably not the best for RAG, there's mistral tunes that stay coherent to 16k tokens, and that cuts down chunking significanty
You have a lot of flexibility with PAC files, so I guess that's possible.
Some PAC files can be quite complex.

Another option would be using --deny-domains it accepts a list of regular expressions, you can prefix an item with - to exclude it.

https://forwarder-proxy.io/cli/forwarder_run/#deny-domains
Some of the fault for that issue is with the application developers and not the mapping firm.

At least one of the popular data sources does NOT return a long,lat coordinate, it returns a long,lat coordinate plus an "accuracy radius". For unknown US locations this was the "center" of the US plus a 1000km radius.. but most people never used the radius value and only blindly returned the center coordinate as truth.

You can see this in action if you go to https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-demo and search for 17.1.2.3. it comes back with (37.751, -97.822) with a radius of 1000km.

(37.751, -97.822) being the new "adjusted" center that's now in the middle of a reservoir.
Havasu: A Table Format for Spatial Attributes in a Data Lake Architecture
I write for the process, not for the notes. The process of writing is infinitely more valuable than the notes that it produces. I have a ton of notes I'll probably never look at again, but maybe they will resurface when I search for them. I used to worry about them, but I don't anymore. If I come across a note that's no longer relevant, and should be removed - I just simply move it to an archive folder outside of my vault and rename the file to "YYYYMMDD Note title" (where the date is the creation date). Where it goes from there? Who knows!
Oh I would absolutely fly more if the TSA process was less onerous. Hands down. But the entire airport process is so painful that it's just not worth it for a lot of things. Like Houston to New Orleans would 100% be a flight, but with the current security (and check-in process)...I just drive instead. It also regularly makes me reconsider flying longer distances and I choose leisure destinations/activities that are more drivable instead.

This reduces my flying by a potential 4-8 round trip flights per year for me personally.
Almost ten years ago I had the unfortunate opportunity to work with a master manipulator who was unfortunately more senior in the hierarchy.

Most of his code was actually technical debt. The code that wasn’t was external code he integrated. All of the code he wrote would eventually break down and until it did world force you to work around it, so it wouldn’t fail from interfacing with it.

In one of the standup’s i used the term technical debt to argue for fixing one of these issues that broke later but which he discouraged everyone to fix.

After that he integrated the term into his daily use to the point that it became meaningless. The people that believed this snake oil salesman thought that he had already carefully weighed his own decisions in advance.

Needless to say the issue was not fixed before he left the company and cost millions and plenty of customer headaches.
> Ironically, the palace is one of the few attraction in Bucharest. Walk just 200m away and it’s going to be rubble and desolation. In summary, I don’t think being anti-communist helps them all that much.

You got it wrong here.

1)Bucharest doesn't have many eye-catching tourist attractions like a quaint historical old town because of the 1977 earthquake that destroyed a large part of the old historical buildings, and Ceausescu in his infinite wisdom, decided "fuck it, we'll just build concrete commie blocks instead for the communist party members", a highly unpopular decision even back then in those days, that even the lead architect in charge fled the country for speaking up against this idea because he didn't want to desecrate history to build commie blocks.

The only somewhat silver lining of this today, is that due to the over construction of commie blocks back then, Bucharest housing remains somewhat affordable for the average person today despite gentrification, when you look at housing affordability in other EU capitals.

2) People in Romania are rightfully anti-communist due to the atrocities of the regime, and a giant building as a big tourist attraction doesn't change that. Being anti communist does actually help with the imense progress the country made becoming business friendly and attracting foreign investors.
There was a similar rumor making the rounds about Apple, spurred by Gruber.

But 9to5 Mac did some sleuthing and it seems that, in the case of Apple, it’s not entirely truthful: https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/14/apple-invent-usb-type-c/

Google also doesn’t seem to have fulfilled a bigger role than Apple did.
I was looking for the Epstein drive.
Thanks for the links; the BQN impl looks really interesting. I believe TFA deals with only hash codes and offsets in the hash table proper (keys and values are stored separately in a dynamic array), so fixed-width keys/values still apply. It's true that you can't use keys interchangeably with hash codes for variable-length keys like I do for integer keys, but I don't expect that to affect the relative performance of RH vs. BLP. (I'm curious how they handle colliding hash codes; 32-bit hashes mean you have a ~50% probability of at least one collision at 2^16 keys, which isn't much.)
Compositing WM is not "versus" stacking WM. Practically all mainstream Wayland desktops are floating ("stacking") based UI paradigms, while using compositing to construct the final screen image. The wikipedia article you linked to shows examples of stacking window management on the compositing window manager page!

Are you thinking of tiling WMs? The major tiling Wayland compositors support floating windows when you want them, too.
They'll be yeeted into the nearest ocean habitat for endangered species
Why should you be able to pay to jump any line, just to go through the same screening? Total regulatory graft.
(Post author here). Totally fair concern. I'll find some representative examples on a sample task we've done some fine-tuning on and add them to the post.

EDIT: Ok so the prompt and outputs are long enough that adding them to the post directly would be kind of onerous. But I didn't want to leave you waiting, so I copied an example into a Notion doc you can see here: https://opipe.notion.site/PII-Redaction-Example-ebfd29939d25...
After the next terrorist attack, we're all just going to have to start flying naked.
GPT-5 would have this enhancement
NASA Built a 'Tire Assault Vehicle' from RC Tank to Explode Space Shuttle Tires
Using Texas as an example:

10-80% on a Model S/X is 70kwh. Rate billed to customers will vary from 30-50c/kwh at time of charge. Spot in Texas typically ranges from 5c to 15c/kwh. Assuming charge equipment is fully depreciated all they need to pay is maintenance and network cost, which is marginal across a bank of 20 chargers.

70kwh x 25c = $17.50.
I think it's hard to say things are fine when there's still huge gender disparities, in DC area it's something like 2:1
And time to go to an airport and get your fingerprints taken. Either way, it could cost $0.01, the point is a barrier is put in place to allow some people to save time.
What's the cost of rebuilding our existing tangible cities for density? Is that without complexity? What about consideration for time?

It's not as easy as hitting "new game" on Sim City
It does a good job to give some analysis on malicious code snippets
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>No, we accept road traffic accidents as fact

Have you considered that maybe you shouldn't?
Like quite a few people, to me the word "debt" doesn't naturally fit the problem of building code that will be harder to build on later.

For me, "technical debt" would be shipping a product that immediately starts consuming technical resources not associated with value production. Like a rickety distributed database that needs manual labor to fix regular corruptions.

That would seem analogous to debt. Not fully paying for what you have, resulting in continuous expense until the full payment is made.

Writing code without care for future work is a different problem. It is the "bad foundation" problem shared by design, engineering, construction, book stacking, ...

It has 1000 names: "Building on Sand", "Ticking Timebombs", "Bandaid Solutions", "Cutting Corners", "Short Term Fixes", "Playing Jenga", "Putting Lipstick on a Pig", "Haste Makes Waste", "Disaster Waiting to Happen", etc.

Living code is a foundation. Shoddy foundations are dangerous to build on & costly to fix. Don't build shoddy foundations.

No new terminology. You don't need a special strategy to explain this.

Tell your CEO they can get their enormous features yesterday, they just need to sign off on a "shoddy foundation" exception. Informally by email is fine. You are ready to unleashed the troops from responsibility for future mishaps! All you need is that little written record! Then presto. The coders are standing by, breathless, ready to party! (And preparing their resumes.)

___

I love the essay's point that each feature adds assumptions, and assumptions add complexity. The rub of remodeling.
It's pretty much completely pointless to worry about when you fill up your tank. Just fill it up when you need or want to.
I wonder if some smaller lanes would go back to having pinsetters. If you only have a lane or two, and the machines cost that much to maintain and run, perhaps a kid isn't that expensive.

And of course, you charge more because it's luxury bowling.
I call this effect “sand in the gears”. Some things are low friction and effortless, others less so. Too much friction and the “machine” seizes.

Psychological aspects are a big part of this.

My pet peeve is overzealous security trolls making IT staff use four layers of VPNs and remote access solutions with multiple glacially slow MFA authentication prompts.

I watched one guy typing into a console with a two second lag on each key press. That’s the round trip time to the Moon and back!

I felt bad every time I had to ask him to do something for me, because his shoulders would slump and he’d have this depressed look on his face as he forced himself to jump through the hoops… again.
I feel like there's a big overlap between the tech crowd and privacy zealots. It's such a common sentiment here on HN (and on Slashdot before it), but in real life, I've never met a single person concerned about facial recognition at all. It's not that they are actively for or against it, they just don't waste any time thinking about it or discussing it. Many countries do this and nobody cares.
It is very much a 101 class.

I have had a long-standing interest in digital signal processing as it relates to music and audio. Any math or physics training that can help me get makes heads of something like ‘The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing’ would be great.

Honestly though, my math-related knowledge is so stunted that I’ll be happy just to gain a sense of what all is out there.
It could be worse, as far as I know there's nobody trying to make a pin-less bowling alley with a big LCD screen at the end of the lane.
How can you have two persons with free agency that always make the same decision?

Or a hundred such persons?

The calculation itself may be irreducible, but what is the implication for consciousness and agency if, midway through the calculation, you fork the process? What about a quarter of the way, or three quarters?
Go look at the number of engineers that were on USB-C. Apple, not Google, contributed 18 of 79 named engineers listed on the connector certification project, or under 23%.

Intel had the most, as well as the editor position.
So they can make an ai that makes nvidia cards even faster meaning intel can buy as many nvidia cards to beat nvidia to it. Dont even know what the point is anymore since ai will replace everything and do everything on its own including new ai.
Agreed. Just like it's not a carpenters job to hammer nails. It can be the job sometimes but other times it's not needed to build something.

Just like solving the problem might be to remove code. Or to inform the user of tools that already exist but haven't been documented enough for the user to know about them.
"compromised extraction of oxygen by the body’s tissues" = mitochondrial dysfunction.
Being hit by a city bus is unlikely--they're loud, they're in the traffic lanes (not the bike lanes), they move predictably. Being hit by shithead teenagers doing stupid burnout tricks on their rental scooters, on the sidewalks? Probably happens to somebody every day.
You assume the slowest outlet + full tank worth of driving. Possible, but not how most road trips happen.
Figma isn't ugly enough for developers to want to use. /s
> Apple and Google both arrived at 30% as Thr number for their cut and why it’s never changed in the 14 years it’s existed

Trial documents show that Google charges 0%, 10% or 15% - depending on a situation. Lower than 15% rates were called “bribes” by Epic lawyers. The jury seemed to agree.
I'm American and have lived most of my life in American suburbs. I don't like them very much, and I don't like the imperial system.

I don't think denser development is a short term solution, but I don't like short term solutions either. Short term planning is part of what made traffic in cities like Atlanta so bad. And IMO it seemed like a fair suggestion because extending these tunnels to every house in suburban Atlanta wouldn't be a short process either.
This case is also extremely simplified by the fact that the customer only serves users nationally in Denmark. They even got away with running their own fully redundant DC in the basement, and i suspect even with really great latency to customers, compared with running of servers in Germany for instance.
Wish this had a caching feature… Setting up squid as a https caching forward proxy in docker is a pain.
a tad dramatic?
Why wouldn’t they? It’s a Ponzi scheme predicated on never ending growth.Population bubbles and dips screw the scheme, leading to our needing to pull in immigrants to buoy the status quo.

At the same time, I can’t blame Boomers. They paid in their fair share and don’t want to be shafted.

It would take serious balls for a political figure to say, no “this ends with us” and try to reform things to something sensible. Of course no one wants to be left holding the bag, so it’ll never happen.
In The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler describes three types of societies, based on the concept of "waves"—each wave pushes the older societies and cultures aside. He describes the "First Wave" as the society after agrarian revolution and replaced the first hunter-gatherer cultures. The "Second Wave," he labels society during the Industrial Revolution (ca. late 17th century through the mid-20th century). That period saw the increase of urban industrial populations which had undermined the traditional nuclear family, and initiated a factory-like education system, and the growth of the corporation. Toffler said:

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

The "Third Wave" was a term he coined to describe the post-industrial society. For features of Third Wave see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(Toffler_book...
Wow, I developed alcohol intolerance a couple years ago, your comment made me realize it might be related to COVID.

Apparently COVID can give you Histamine Intolerance:

https://medium.com/@calebwilemon/covid19-survivors-alcohol-i...
If one were to truly embrace the free market you would allow airlines to compete on the level of security. Maybe say Delta does a full CT scan and chemical tests. American is like getting on BART[1]. And we can let the free market decide the risk people want to take.

[1] Small hill to die on. On BART someones packing a gun on every ten car train.
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Insanity.
Personalized metaspaces, game worlds, content without paying a rent seeker copyright holder.

Education and research without gatekeepers in academia and industry complaining about their book sales or prestige titles being obsoleted

Whole lot of uses cases that break us out of having to kowtow to experts who were merely born before us trying to monopolize exploration of science and technology

To that end I’m working on a GPU accelerated client backed by local AI, with NERFs and Gaussian splatting built in.

The upside to being an EE with MSc in math; most of my money comes from engineering real things. I don’t have skin in the cloud CRUD app/API game and don’t see a reason to spend money propping up middle men who, given my skills and abilities, don’t add value

Programmers can go explore syntax art in their parent’s basement again. Tired of 1970s semantics and everyone with a DSL thinking that’s the best thing to happen to computing as a field of inquiry ever.

Like all industries big tech is monopolized by aging rent seekers. Disrupt by divesting from it is my play now.
leaving religion

leaving reddit

avoiding marriage&kids (okay actually i only bring it up cuz the default replies seemed incredibly un hacker news to me, more like boomer news "religion, marriage, kids" lol, bruh one of my college buddies is big into religion and now he is married and has a kid and he used to be almost as smart as me now he probly couldn't program his way out of paper bag)

keeping a productivity computer where I have youtube&hacker news banned via host file
Apologies, that's what I get for skimming through the thread.
I hate to sound like an alarmist but here is my concern: If TSA can use facial recognition to confirm against a state issued ID, then that could be used to "confirm" your current facial biometric. In other words, this is definitely you.

Now use that same technology across the plethora of government controlled and accessible cameras, and now you could very well have total surveillance, and one day, Chinese style social credit scores.
I think this is great and can be useful for many UXs, but it needs a fallback so it isn't only reliant on scroll state.

I had the page load in the background, so the video didn't load, and I'm guessing when I brought the tab into focus a position event wasn't fired (or not how the library was expecting it), so I didn't get anything until I refreshed.

Yes, it is a bit jittery, and could use improvements, but nothing some lerping of positioning, etc probably can't solve.
Really exciting to see the combination of AI and VR for education. Immediate and personal feedback is severely lacking in traditional tools
It's always the parent-head discussion! Because both sides are "right." But I do think too much of either side is wrong.

Kids of the pre-digital generation certainly turned out okay, broadly speaking. And we certainly had far more freedom than kids nowadays (e.g. "I'll be hanging out with {friend}, call me at their house. I'll be home for dinner!").

But... it's also true that some modern evils weren't possible. Pedophiles couldn't groom us from across the country. Information came from the library or people. Communities were smaller and looked out for each other.

The one thing I'd be pretty resolute on -- establish some form of "you don't get to always have your device" up front. Whether that's homework time, or sleep time, or whenever. And be hard-nosed about it: no exceptions.

Otherwise "you always have your device" expectations set in, which coupled with stickiness of modern apps and peer pressure, means it's World War 3 trying to part them from it.

But if "no phone o'clock" has always been a thing... everything runs smoother.
The PRNG state is responsible for generating most of the users cryptographic material and is quite important to the system’s security. As such, the PRNG State is a security parameter that should never be exportable nor importable.

There are many new attacks that could surface if import/export were possible; off the top of my head: quiet preloading of an attacker-selected state while the machine is off.
That's not what PG&E says. They say they are paying more than $0.08/kWh for solar producers, and that's not even with storage.
Features like group chats and image sharing are barely useful on SMS. There is no encryption either.

> 57 percent US 30 globally is not a moat, its first mover advantage, and its on a premium product. And if apple had 90%, and still allowed for Signal, and complied with SMS you would be hard pressed to get iMessage access to raise to the levels of the DOJ and anti trust measures.

Those are still huge numbers and way more people using their product than microsoft had in the 90s.

I don't even think Apple needs to open iMessage, they just need to support RCS (which the EU is forcing them to do), and most complaints will go away.
beautifully put. London is the greatest city in the world
I meant that this happened in the past 10 years. “Liberal” wasn’t associated almost solely to “left”. It was generally accepted. This “classical liberal” euphemism, in its current meaning, is also kinda new, and almost everybody who uses this nowadays is not associated to liberalism at all.
> I acknowledged it's an obviously bad comment by suggesting you flag it and downvote it.

Right so – "comments you think are bad" doesn't really sound like an acknowledgement it's an "obviously bad comment" to me, but I accept that's what you intended with it.

And I don't think "never quote anything unless it's a literal citation" is reasonable. The problem with "aggro-paraphrasing" is the "aggro", not "paraphrasing". I've paid attention to this since yesterday, and I see tons of people use citation marks for non-literal quotes in all sorts of ways, with no one objecting. Only one person who seems to object, who seems to go off on rather boring pedantics and accusations of bad faith with some regularity. This is just not a widely held view, nor reasonable.

They're just trying to make the entire world adjust to a personal pet peeve. Good luck with that.

And again, if you want to argue "your post was too aggressive": sure, that's reasonable. But "you didn't sufficiently account for a niche pet peeve": yeah nah, sorry, I can't agree with that.
As an open-source maintainer, the simple answer is because that's what the majority of users want. The barrier to join a discord server and ask a question is very low, compared to signing up for a forum, posting, and hoping that somebody looks at it.

The only negative feedback I've gotten is from users in China, where Discord is blocked.
why would a passenger jet even have an afterburner you may ask?

apparently it was needed for takeoff, and since it was there, also used to more quickly cross over the sound barrier
There is still at least one place that uses pinsetters in Milwaukee.

https://www.geneandmarcyhollerhouse.com/