skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We just need to do less”

“But that’s called a recession. It won’t happen”

“WE JUST NEED TO DO LESS”

For better or worse, in a democracy anyone who tells the populace to scale back their lifestyle will not get elected. “We need to do less” is not a solution. It’s wishful thinking.

What other solutions are there? Make our current lifestyle less carbon-intensive over time. Yeah it’s not as good as perfect collective action, but it has the advantage of actually being possible.
Earliest example might have been AOL. Some others would be Microsoft's embrace extend extinguish, much of cloud vendors' repackaging of OSS, evernote, to a certain extent the recent Reddit and twitter API changes, IoT devices which get buyin based on open standards and then move increasingly critical features to proprietary unpublished/out of band comms.

I feel like it's quite a well-worn page of the tech playbook and I'm probably only scratching the surface here.
Really? The sole feature/plugin I’ve noticed not available is git, but working copy fills that hole for me.

Not noticed a single other thing, I’ve been super impressed with parity between the platforms in fact.
They tend to support their old devices for 5-10 years
The easiest way to achieve this would be to document the protocols and let hackers and power uses take over building interfaces. The company can continue support their own apps and people who want more integration can create their own thing as they usually want specific solutions. But we are headed the other way, with more locked down platform.
It reminds me an approach to data science and ML. It's way more common and essential for ML teams to log their attempts (experiments). There is a whole set of tools for this - experiments trackers. Primarily to even being able to compare and pick the best direction, but also to ensure reproducibility (in some areas it might be required).

ML/DS always seemed to me closer to science in its nature vs software engineering. Can be because of its nature as well - in a lot of cases it's a process of incremental improvements (vs - simplifying this a lot - let's say in SE we do a button that just works or not).
Even then people don’t turn their vents on universally. I’ve had to train the whole family on the habit because nobody is motivated to turn them on when they’re heating up water for Mac and cheese or something that seems “clean.”

I could maybe be more okay with gas stoves not being banned in new builds if there was automatic venting that turned on as soon as a burner turns on.
Doesn’t every Chinese smartphone run android? Is that totally without profit? Honest question.
I'm not familiar with Fuschia's FIDL system, but it looks intriguing. Though it's still pretty hard to beat using pipes and cut to ingest a line-oriented stream of text. If Fuchsia had beaten out UNIX in some parallel universe, it does look like we'd all be happier. Ha.

Runit is pretty good - it's the default in the Void Linux OS that I use on my personal machines. Definitely good enough for a modern desktop system, though it's not aimed at the same crowd as Ubuntu and Fedora.
Yeah, the "logical reasoning" in LLMs is mostly a marketing device to get products sold and papers published. One could hope that starting with reasoning instead of trying to get it "emerge" would do a better job. But if we have little idea of how abstract thinking actually works, this is a problem. What do you think about current logic-based AI approaches? Do they try to replicate the best ideas we've got from congnitive sciences, or trying to do their job for them?
Yup, Logseq is simply too different. It basically wants to go farther than what Obsidian aims to achieve. That said, some features of Logseq are janky, as they are not refined enough. I think Obsidian hit the sweat spot that is easy to implement yet offers enough features.
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And it needs to be inflationary. But this is "cursing in the church" for the typical right-wing, "liberal" BTC maxi
OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs
You realize you're talking about a 1bedroom apartment, not a single family home. It shouldn't require an L5 job at FAANG to just barely be able to afford 1bedroom apartment.
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Make unique was something that you could sort of do in c++11 (with tiny header) and officially added in c++14.

All the other stuff you mentioned as far as I can tell is C++11 too, so it looks like you haven't used c++ for a long time.
Rust posts on HN generate drama because of Rust People bickering with Anti-Rust People.

C++ posts on HN generate drama because of C++ People bickering with C++ People.
Ah, the "what constitutes a photo," question. We've already had arguments in a court (can't recall the case) where someone argued that a photo from a phone wasn't legitimate evidence because phones can hallucinate data. The word hallucinate wasn't used; that's just what I thought of because of "AI" text generation and contemporary reporting. Anyway, I expect this will become more of an issue over time and I don't know how we'll square the problem.
I'm sure then you'd be perfectly content if your otherwise perfect car were replaced with one identical in all ways except that the acceleration was 1/4 of the previous rate.
I suspect it's more a reflection of the anxieties of the public in journalists than anything sinister.

But the undercurrent of, "I hope we fail" (but never me) is certainly present in a lot of discourse.
No, I get it. I'm saying that's a bad design. The data structure for a VM system is a big tree of discontiguous mappings, which matches the API used for accessing it. If you make a random access to memory at an arbitrary spot, you expect to get a VM trap. If you want to map memory, you're expected to know the layout and manage the "holes" yourself (or else to let the OS manage your memory space for you).

The data structure for a file is an ordered stream of bytes, which matches the API for accessing it. You can jump around by seeking, but there are no holes. Bytes start at 0 and go on from there. Want to seek() to an arbitrary value? Totally legal, presumptively valid.

Making the filesystem, implemented from first principles to handle the second style of interaction, actually be implemented in terms of the first under the hood, is a source of needless complexity and bugs. And it was here, too.
Is there a tool that would convert ebook to a single (or a set of) mp3?
Because there's legitimate concerns about high inflation generally, and in particular housing affordability (the latter especially in places like Canada that appear to be in a drastic real estate bubble).

If the economy doesn't slow, we'll see more rate hikes.
Live by the patent, die by the patent.

No sympathy deserved or earned.
They also don't want to be associated with the finance bros:

Patagonia has said it will no longer market merchandise to financial firms through its corporate sales program -- a potential threat to the popular menswear look dubbed the "Midtown uniform"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/midtown-uniform-patagonia-will-...
Thanks! Would you by any chance know of a light weight note taking app?
Nobody in the general sense is better off but let’s all celebrate because some bureaucrats’ climate targets were met.

Degrowth is a suicide cult.
So...transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-black racism, ...actually I don't know anything specific about Stop Asian Hate..., and queerphobia in general.

In other words, you just want to be able to be every kind of bigot and never suffer consequences for it.
British manufacturing is still in decline, e.g. Bloomberg published a graph yesterday showing how the British car industry output shrunk by half since Brexit in 2016.
This is a good point, but extends beyond individuals to companies as well, and seems to justify a pretty clear decoupling between China and the rest of the world until China is willing to play by the rules. Should we also then extend the guidelines that constrain foreign students from studying certain subjects in university (historically by not letting certain US government funds for research grants etc pay for those foreign students). It is obvious that China exploits the US educational and research system in a way that doesn't benefit us in the same way, apart from hoping that some students would stay and become productive members of society here who have no interest in funneling IP back to China.
I apologize for going off topic, but may I kindly ask how one might go about learning these things?
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So you work weekends? This seems more like an extra break, akin to having a holiday off.
Love this article. Worked as a search relevance consultant for years and these are exactly the problems we work on. Most of the time fixing search is a thankless job. People expect it to work and when it does they take it for granted, but when it doesn’t it damages your reputation and brand.

If you want to get started fixing website search relevance I recommend the books “Relevant Search” by Turnbull and Berryman, and “AI Powered Search” by Grainger, Turnbull, and yours truly. Both published by Manning.
you are correct. (Note from grade school report card: Mark missed 39 of the 81 spelling words this month).

But it does point to another issue with handwritten notes. Sloppy spelling and dislexia (sic)
"Dollars are super legitimate, dude"

Except that the most international crime is enumerated in $. Do we ban dollars? Probably not and, again, we have nothing better than conclude that since we put together "crypto" and "scam" we conclude all "crypto bad". Zero exceptions. Why are comments like this allowed on a "nerdy site"? Can someone please explain or better yet stop it. Where is @dang when you need her?
I keep a few screenshots of such hilarious occurrences. One of my favorite one is a list of stock prices on a website where something had gone wrong and numbers were all in the thousands of trillions of USD. For a split second before my morning coffee I wondered if the world had just experienced hyper-inflation overnight. The bug only lasted a few minutes but it was "cool".

Now the thing is: safety checks and then what? Because basically such safety checks are only really useful for developers and, arguably, should be stuff present in some kind of tests. What can the UI do? Not show any estimate when the numbers would be nonsensical?

Another wonderful screenshot I have is some old MS software where something failed and it tells me one of the reason it failed may be because "your computer is turned off". I mean: it was literally using that very same computer to tell me, in a pop-up, that my computer could be off.

Fun stuff but I wouldn't sleep (or write a blog) about it: a comment on HN at most ; )
[0] - https://beautifulracket.com/
As a native English speaker from England, I'd always keep "good" and "old" together, and probably put them at the beginning of the sentence. I'd also use "little" rather than "small" in such a context: "my good old little red wooden English book." To me that would sound just right.
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Fine to be skeptical, but I prefer to look at the data and inference drawn by sources who specialize in economic, investment, and financial matters.

For instance:

- The Economist, which has had a number of articles over the last few months about how the American economy is doing, e.g. https://www.economist.com/business/2023/10/29/americas-econo...

- Vanguard's outlook for the next 10 years, in which they talk about how well the US economy is faring - https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/dam/corp/research/pdf...
Laws were given to ancient Israelites about how to properly identify and quarantine those with infectious skin diseases somewhere around 1446 BCE.
The shattering roof glass isn't all the uncommon. Quality control has a huge impact on the odds of that glass shattering too. If the leading edge of the glass is any height above the trailing edge of the windshield it's more prone to rock chips. When that happens it provides a place for stresses from body flex to concentrate and break. When the Tesla repair shop was looking at my car, the got out a loupe to try and inspect what remained of the leading edge of my glass. They didn't find anything, but they said if they even found an abrasion on the glass they wouldn't cover it under warranty. Frustrating, to say the least.

The Supercharger network is a very nice part of the Tesla experience. When I first got my Model 3, I assumed that non-Tesla charging networks were at least functional, but learned very quickly how much of a mess other networks are.

Any time I've attempted to charge somewhere other than a Supercharger there were issues. Either the charger simply didn't work, or the rate of charge was slower than if I'd connected to a 110v outlet.

Another benefit I often forget about is how I can park my car in my garage or driveway with 50 miles of range at the end of the day and wake up to 300. Having the "gas pump" at home is fantastic and something I often take for granted. It's also hard to convey the benefits to those who don't charge at home. It seems like a trivial thing, and it's even something I feel weird about being so enthusiastic about. I try to tell people it's like having someone fill your gas tank every morning. For about $10.

I've considered replacing my wife's car with an EV that isn't a Tesla, but the thought of dealing with the craptastic non-Tesla charging networks stops me every time. I'm hoping that sentiment will improve as more manufacturers join the network and the overall charging experience improves, rather than decline due to the influx of new vehicles using the network.
It’s about the challenges of open source companies and that some (us included) are rattling on some of the OSI foundations.
You can use git with it. It automatically commits at configurable intervals, and with few hooks[0] you can make pushing automatic and also pull changes made elsewhere (which then get instantly shown on a running Logseq desktop instance).

The default git configuration was kinda weird, but I think I initialized the git myself and then added it in Logseq before adding the hooks and it's been good experience.

[0] https://github.com/CharlesChiuGit/Logseq-Git-Sync-101
Both can be bad. I will say that the best PM I ever worked with had zero technical skills beyond HTML and CSS. She was a master of clarity and communication, and she knew how to give developers what they needed to focus. At some point, technical ignorance is a liability, of course -- but I've worked with many "technical PMs" who are too tempted to "get their hands dirty" and cause more harm than good. If a non-technical PM knows what they don't know, that can be a benefit not a curse.

The other thing, related to the OP -- a good program (project) manager is worth their weight in gold, and I'm not sure a bad PM can just fall into that role instead. Good PMs help define the "what" -- what's getting build, for whom, what problems it solves, etc. Program managers do the "when" and socialize schedules, red/yellow/green charts, etc.
std::forward<Self>(self)

ok that's pretty goofy
There is a mistake in the article, right? Multi-headed attention doesn't average together multiple attention heads. Rather it concatenates them and then right-multiplies by a matrix such that the output dimension matches the input dimension. That matrix might learn averaging, but it's not built in a-priori.
That’s fine but two points:

- Most hourly jobs don’t have “pto” do they?

- if more people want to take time off at Christmas/NYE than it takes to operate someone will have to work then, so closing is a nice option.
Yes, I mean the amount that the cost is inflated by is much greater than 4%.
For some reason, I am unable to reply to the original thread I was on and I need to start another one here. Probably too far down the tree?

At any rate, one consideration folks don’t seem to have for the halvening is the reduction in rewards for miners.

As mining becomes more expensive and transaction fees increase exponentially, I see more and more smaller miners dropping out of the pool as it becomes too expensive for them to operate (and we are in a high interest rate environment, so capital for borrowing is much more expensive to acquire). Then the miners that are left start to concentrate and potentially cause a security concern. It becomes too top heavy.

I’m not sure why alarm bells aren’t going off for Bitcoiners?
Looks nice, but I'm a little sad that what used to be a simple document is now an app that must be deployed.
I don't think the issue is with the number, but rather the context. What should the end user think when finder reports that there is 60TB of data on a 2TB drive? People with above average file system knowledge can generate an explanation for it, but what good does that number do?

When programming a feature like this it can be hard to spot the problem. The calculations for the backup's size can be 100% right, but still not appropriate to show.
Reads like a Patagonia puff piece
Prescriptivism vs. descriptivism. Taxonomically, you're right — kelp is a macroalgae, not a plant. But most people don't really care (and don't need to care) about this taxonomical distinction in their day-to-day life. It has a stem and leaves, it eats via photosynthesis, it's rooted to a single spot, and it's green-ish — as far as I'm concerned, that's a plant!

I generally find that defining words descriptively (based on how most people use them most of the time) rather than prescriptively (based on how institutions or niche groups use them) is a good way to avoid conflict, both on the internet and IRL!
It really started with the "dash to gas" [1] in the nineties. We had gone through some painful labor disputes in the coal industry which the government was keen to avoid. Alongside that the generating industry was privatised. This encouraged a lot of investment in gas. Also we were getting a ton of grief from Norway about all the acid rain from sulphur which had to be dealt with [2].

The Tory government which has been in power since 2010 was somewhat sceptical about wind power and shut down new onshore development when they came in. Fortunately their coalition partner negotiated the continued development of offshore which has been huge since then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_for_Gas

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
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For what it’s worth, we close during the Christmas and New Years break every year but still pay our employees/don’t use up their PTO.

I don’t want to work during that time, and don’t think it’s reasonable to make my employees align their holiday schedules with mine.
Have worked on this and it’s between 60 and 90% OK in my experiments. You run into lots of fun issues because people don’t write titles and descriptions for machines, they write them to appeal to human emotions to close a sale.
I would also recommend people try adding a weighted backpack to some of their social walks! On days when I don't want to hit the gym or am recovering from a workout, I join my wife in a walk where she walks normally and I carry 35-45 pounds on my backpack.

This can turn a 150-250 calorie an hour walk to a 300 - 600 calorie an hour walk while you're walking the same speed / socializing. It's definitely uncomfortable but doesn't interfere with socializing and thinking IMO (and of course, I'd start with 10 lbs first)

You can use sand or dumbbells but I did it often enough that I got a generic ruck plate and a high quality rucking backpack (GoRuck isn't cheap but I like their quality and the fact that they're made in America).
Yea, that wasn't a Sanity Check, it was a terrible assumption by the software developer. I think one of the best ways to proactively find bugs in someone's software is to look for 1. declared constants and 2. comments like // this can never happen

For 1. constants: Are they really CONSTANTS in the sense that they are immutable laws of the universe? Or are they assumptions you are making to make your program look nice? I can understand declaring pi as a constant or the gravitational constant. Is MAX_DB_RECORD really a constant? OK, so let's say you believe it is--now you just gave yourself tons of "checking" work every time a record is added, and deliberately added bugs in the cases where you don't check. Did you catch them all? Is MAX_HD_SIZE really a constant?

For 2. this can never happen: These are the parts of your code that edge cases swarm to, in order to give you all your P3 bugs. Really? It can NEVER happen? If so, why are you logging and doing a stack dump there? A "This can never happen" code block is usually not a sanity check, it's usually a deliberately engineered bug.
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I have a post that got flagged, but it conforms to the rules.

1. CNN is considered a solid source as far as I know.

2. It’s scientifically accurate. A woman actually has two uteruses (uteri?) and gave birth to fraternal twins. The fact that two babies were in her body makes them fraternal twins.

———> I’ve checked the FAQ and it offers no way to contact a moderator for a review of the situation. That’s also why I am doing this publicly…no private messaging system appears to exist.

If there’s a valid reason for it to be flagged, I honestly would like to know so I don’t make the same mistake repeatedly.

Thank you for your time.
> To me your comment is the outcome of smug, baseless superiority.

lol you’re on HN what do you expect?
That doesn't make sense. The value of anything can be volatile if you price it in units of a volatile currency. 1 BTC is still 1 BTC, just as 1 USD is still 1 USD. 1 USD isn't worth the same amount of Argentine pesos as it was yesterday, nor is 1 BTC.

If an apple was priced in BTC, you wouldn't care if it was worth a different amount of rupees or ounces of gold yesterday, just as you only care about the dollars and cents on the price tag now.

USD is sure as hell not stable. It's unstable by design - it is constantly declining in value as the money printers continue to churn. If you are hoping for a stable BTC-USD then you are hoping for a bizarre and unlikely situation where BTC declines in value at the exact same rate as the USD. I don't understand.
I find it surprising that this is a news story. Most things around here (Spain) are closed around Christmas and everything moves very slow overall as lots of people are on holiday. Is it not common for companies to have a break around Christmas in the US?
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I believe gogo was/is just a thin wrapper of HughesNet hardware and satellites. So if it was gogo we'd likely need to report the bug to Hughes
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It really depends on the pocket of people you choose to analyze, and their geographic location. That’s all true even today
Have you done it yourself?

Is there documentation anywhere?
what about https://www.cprogramming.com/?
Do you know if the folks working in their factories celebrate this holiday? Maybe they'd prefer a different time off that coincides with their holiday?
> And in relation to emissions in particular, just look at the way the present government fought [...]. That was in August 2023, and a leopard doesn't change its spots.

The article and topic aren't overtly political, no need to make it.
What are exact species? This sounds made up.