skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm accepting magazine donations for my encyclopedia. If they're something that isn't already available in electronic format then I will scan and upload them.

It's not technically live yet, but there's a couple of test pages up:

https://en.magazedia.wiki/cinefex-no-138

https://en.magazedia.wiki/gq-style-usa-summer-2017

I have something in the order of probably 2 million magazines in various electronic formats that I am working up organizing and uploading.
No, this was not the question. OP has said that Moore's law still applies and “oh, it's only Intel who's unable to keep up”.

Does TSMC double the amount of transistors every two years on average?
Merry Christmas !!!!!!

I'm taking a break today and playing call of duty all day long. Tomorrow I will go for a hike or a walk, and then 26th is back to the business/grind.

I hope y'all take a good time to rest.

I'm thankful for the folks who are working over the break. Thankful for the gas station attendants, the police officers, healthcare professionals, on-call engineers and customer support, and so many others to whom I am eternally thankful for making our society.
“Successful” here appears to be measured in dollars and time spent working. When you get older and survey the successful of your peers, it becomes really obvious balance and love was the key to success.

Maybe taking advice from a 38 year old on being successful isn’t the right approach. Maybe you should source your advice from people closer to the end of life than the beginning. I’d rather read his reflections at age 78.
Thank you.

The computing world loves to be relentless positive about things. Ergo all the over-promising and hype-cycles and whatnot. I don't want to descend into nihilism, but I think we need more criticism to balance it out. If people don't know what's bad, how can that appreciate what is good?

A lot of people revere Bell Labs a lot. I dunno, I think the original version in Manhattan with a train running through the building might have been cooler! There was a huge diversity of computers and operating systems in the late 1960s and 1970s. It can easily be argued that technical merits had less to do with Unix's winning than the monopoly law that preventing AT&T from commercializing it.

Starting with an elementary schooler's negative sentence is a good way as any to break from the relentless positivity and widespread Unix worship :)
Cost, availability of materials and you can scale the battery by getting bigger tanks. The flip side is that the amount of power they can deliver doesn't scale this way, just the amount of energy storage. Also round trip efficiencies aren't great. For stationary storage size matters less.
"Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
A go-to method is to ingest different chunksizes based on the document hierarchy & then use langchain with a bunch of retrievers depending on the doc type.

Then create an index about the metadata of each doc. So that you can ask the RAGbot what all it can answer about.

Another way to ensure it stays on-domain is to generate synthetic questions & check for similarity against user queries. There's a whole rabbit hole of query decomposition to avoid straying off topic as well.
Good insight that I hadn't thought of. To flesh that out, the KJV translators used thou as singular and ye as plural consistently to render the second person singular-plural distinctions found in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The translators never intended a usage of thou in the KJV to imply informality, only that the original language used the second person singular. That would naturally carry over into prayers and hymns that don't come from the KJV Bible. However, common people at the time who couldn't know the translators' chosen convention might have then read closeness into the pronoun used to address God, which wouldn't be a bad thing theologically.
The problem is that most pseudocode I see is not well crafted, and often seemingly no effort has gone into ensuring that it gives a complete or accurate picture.
TL; DR: ten years ago, Raspberry Pis and Android phones were a handful times faster. Nowadays, they are around 100 times faster. Pretty impressive, considering they fit in our pockets.
I still subscribe to retro gamer out of the UK. Kids read it too.
Not sure why I'm downvoted. Who the hell disagrees that even a total extinction isn't a 'civilization collapse'.
If by that you mean a quadrupling in public debt since the financial crisis of 2008, you are right.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN/

No other first world country adds debt as quickly as the US and the interest payments of servicing this debt grew to $1tn this year.
I feel like the mainstream print magazine era died when Playboy ended:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy#Online-only

There are lots of great niche magazines out there still printing if you have the money. I run a magazine encyclopedia so I see a lot of things coming across my screen and I'm actually floored by the number of magazines still printing.
> The only place this "bridge" goes is up a small incline in the background.

You understand that this is a technology demonstration right?
State politics absolutely are driving hospital closures and OB/GYN deserts because the 'desirable places' metrics includes places that won't prosecute doctors for routine prenatal care. That's literally why we're seeing Texas and Florida suffer from an increasing lack of OB/GYN care.

I don't dispute the rest of your arguments about healthcare, but you cannot fix education and/or brain drain without fixing state politics.
Maybe! I am not an expert in these things!

The internet tells me yes, "cross-laminated bamboo" is a thing.
There was a family in Siberia who went off-grid and lived in the Siberian forest for 42 years. They were discovered by the Soviet authorities in 1978.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/lykov-family
I forgot about the continuous pre-training thing. How long and how much did they cost on Bedrock?

I had tried to suggest continuous pre-training to my client but it seemed expensive and when I mentioned that he lost interest and just kept wanting me to do fine tuning.

Also to clarify, did you do the continuous pre-training or RAG? And did you compare the efficacy of one or the other or both?
I hope Ruby 4.0 could allow explicit import and avoid implicit, global namespace gem import mechanism like nowsdays.
Computer magazines are gone in the whole world, not just US.

It's a bit sad, I've enjoyed them. The articles were well written when compared to average online articles about hardware.

But there's little point today in reading the news a few days or weeks after they happen.

Most people are into instant gratification, they want to hear the news, they aren't interested in the overall experience of reading an article, they don't care about author's point, they don't care about learning new things.

People just want to know in an instant how shinier is the latest iPhone when compared to the old one, how much does it cost and when they can get it. And a random online news outlet or random YouTube channel is enough for that.

We are not just experiencing the demise of PC magazines, but also the demise of printed press and of major old news outlets.

A guy with an YouTube channel or TikTok can have a greater audience than a former newspaper or magazine.
> The noun gendering alone makes it significantly easier to embarrass yourself speaking French than English.

English has more than enough of ways to easily embarrass yourself without the need for arbitrary noun gendering.
10 minutes a week is 8 hours a year you are waiting. I don’t have to do that. I plug in at night and unplug in the morning. I haven’t used a public charger for months.

On the last long journey I did the car was charged before I’d finished eating, so no waiting there either.
SQL as API
Why does it matter to you?
Very much looking forward to upgrading our application to ensure 3.3 compatibility.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38520630
Merry Christmas, Boldog Karácsonyt, Fröhliche Weihnachten, Feliz Navidad, สวัสดีวันคริสต์มาส, et al!
I'm feeling a bit ignorant, but isn't this a Rails thing and not a Ruby thing? I know that for most projects that's a distinction without a difference; but, that may be a decision from the Rails devs and unrelated to what Ruby's devs do?

Or I'm speaking out of my ear and completely wrong (and I don't know which :D)
If it mattered to him he would do something about it, not seek your attention.
Postgres really needs transport compression (without SSH or other hacks). Something as simple as GZIP would be sufficient. I really don't understand, why this isn't supported yet. :'(
It’s a different clause matching the “wireless” attribute.

Noise cancelling works by emitting a synchronised inverse of the sound wave to cancel.
Basically every self help book or essay has a similar structure of enumerated platitudes and some huge assumptions about what success actually is and how it is achieved baked in. They are also almost never applicable to anyone, not even the person who wrote it. They’re often more reflections of what they wish were the secrets to their “success,” when in fact it’s mostly luck. Instead they distill some personal philosophy mixed with cultural norms of success, dress it up with confidence, and throw in some twists of their own, and sell it as “this is how I did it, you can too.”

Seriously if you’ve read a few you’ve read them all. It’s like programming languages - once you’ve learned a handful the next one is about spotting the differences.
Precisely! Once you do that, you realize that public debt on the US has quadrupled since the financial crisis of 2008.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN/

Meaning that much is simply kicking the can a little further.

With interest payments hitting $1tn this year, it is, in my opinion, unrealistic that this is sustainable.
Both of the situations are car crashes. What are you even claiming?
I know you’re not allowed to say this, but I’m not sure many people here actually read the article. Many people are responding to the argument itself in ways that were already addressed in the article (for example, there’s a whole section outlining two rebuttals to the “perfect island” parody).
This got me interested, how is it different from barchart? I used their free options screener, but it had limitations.
Vos is informal, Usted is formal. That's it. We don't use "Tu" AFAIK.
I used the RAG knowledge bases for most of my testing described above.

I got a toy demo up and running with continuous pre-training but haven’t evaluated it unfortunately.
This also generalises: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04863
Have a Merry Christmas, too, everyone! :D
The more complex a language is the easier is to express complex ideas.

Imagine a language with just two words. Can you think or say anything in it? Sure, but it isn't going to be easy.
The Ruby LSP uses Prism. Kevin Newton has implemented a Prism-based backed for the white quark/parser gem [1] that can be used with Rubocop.

[1] https://github.com/kddnewton/parser-prism
But reality isn't biased towards the radical ideas of its time. Overton Window and all..
Assessment of the risks posed by domestic cats to biodiversity in Norway [pdf]
There's no need to explain French tu by looking at Germanic languages. It descends pretty uneventfully from Latin tū. However, French and Latin tu are cousins of German du and English thou.
It was not one sitting... That's a textbook, it took a while. Probably over a year. I was also doing it along learning some of the math involved in another course. Also my SO is a physicist so I had some help.

The theory is great. The problem is that it all hinges on a scientific breakthrough that has not happened yet. I don't see it happening soon. Just my not totally uneducated opinion. I have no horse in the race I think the people claiming it will work "soon" are being a bit dishonest with themselves as well as everyone else. For all we know it will end up taking several other scientific breakthroughs to get all the parts needed. I personally think that is the case and why I say it will not be in our lifetime.
Your wife should learn to appreciate knowledge and skills outside of her "comfort zone". Her PoV is not the only valid one.
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but they're right; you shouldn't drink so much when you're on call.
High debt with high growth is still much better than high debt with low growth. And Trump record on handling debt issue is no better than Biden. Trump added $USD 7.8 trillion to the debt during his term in office, whereas Biden's has added about $USD 5.4 trillion.
Like Trump, a big chunk of Biden's debt was COVID relief.
Merry Christmas! May the code fixing prod compile on the first try
Did somebody try 2 or 5 instead of 3?
My Model Y has over 900L of storage. The frunk and space below the boot combined are almost like having a second boot. Plus the lack of “middle hump” makes the back more roomy.
Leaked doesn’t equal open. It’s likely a crime to own a copy, and it’s definitely a crime to distribute it.
I'm curious what do you mean by "utopian" and could you give some examples?
That's awesome.

Nothing on that site about this one, which I can't talk about :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3ylmm4/comment/cyet...
The next best thing we should try to move to, if we accept that by having more experience and knowledge makes existing tech seem "bad" in retrospective.
I might come across as an old fuddy-duddy, but when a headline refers to something/someone/someplace/ as 'that', it had better be of such earth-shattering importance that the entire readership knows what 'that' is.

I read vulture once in awhile and I know neither about who 'hbomberguy' is, nor do I know what 'that video' is.

the whole goddamn point of a headline has moved from "quick summary of material" to World Weekly News style "hook-em with Bat Boy!", and it sucks.
I am grateful for my daughter, my friend, and my cat. That I have a house, a job, stable food and income.

I am grateful that I am able to live my life relatively free and in relative safety, without needing to be ashamed or hide who and what I am. That I can live completely and authentically me, and by doing so, can live my values and principles.

But really, in the absence of all of that, I am just happy to be alive and see my daughter grow into the beautiful young adult she is becoming.
https://khoj.dev/

Tried this summer, and kinda worked!
"No matter how badly designed, it would be better than the current mess, and save several percent of US GDP"

Brilliant essay, with so many fantastic lines.

I am picking this one out because amongst the many perversions of 'the system' is that the crazy healthcare inefficiency is counted as a metric on GDP. Those thousands of wasted hours of wasted hospital activity, ultimately paid for by the tax payer, is counted as economic activity in the national economy.

What percentage of GDP is based on humans navigating broken systems in a 'pre-modern' way? Probably way too much
No it's not the only thing. The same thing is mentioned in the article:

> In fact, he even said Intel could surpass the pace of Moore's Law at least until 2031 and has promoted "Super Moore's Law," a strategy to boost transistor count using 2.5D and 3D chip packaging technologies such as Foveros. Intel also often refers to this strategy as "Moore's Law 2.0,"

Regardless of transistors getting smaller, companies are outpacing Moore's law by making the CPU physically larger. They design the CPU so that it's composed of multiple chiplets. Since now there can be 7 chiplets that are closely connected, the # of transistors in one CPU is increasing faster than Moore's law. With the announcements about stacking CPU dies on top of each other in 3D, there will be even more chiplets in one CPU in the future.
I think the Unix model is a local maxima in the design space we've been living in for decades. It's incredible how well we've managed to scale and tweak the concepts but onto the systems we have today, but I'd love to see more experimental OS architectures again.
If it isn't relevant then don't put it there. Especially if it's inflammatory and highly debatable.
An attention layer transforms word vectors by adding information from the other words in the sequence. The amount of information added from each neighboring word is regulated by a weight called the "attention weight". If the attention weight for one of the neighbors is enormously large, then all the information added will be from that word, in contrast, if the attention weight for a neighbor is zero, it will add no information to the word. This is called an 'attention mechanism' since it literally decides which information to pass through the network, i.e. which other words should the model 'pay attention to' when it is considering a particular word.
I don't consume japanese media too often. But from what I've been sensing, there is a real class tension in japan'a young population now. It's not like in america where we villify the powerful. It's quite the opposite. The lower class gets villified and portrayed with a certain malice that i find quite distasteful. There is a presaure to be in communion with the so called 'elites'. And this partly drives the change of theme and feeling in their media.
What is "masking" in a paper that also has a section dedicated to mask segmentation ("masking" as in creating segmentation masks)?
I do not see those as a dichotomy: care to elaborate where's this essay significantly about making what people want instead of guessing what's going to exponentially grow in value long term?

He even talks about owning being more important than selling time (which you need to create, right?), so I think you are misreading or misrepresenting the essay by making this personal (he might be all the things you claim, but it totally does not flow from this piece).
What is a white hole? – with Carlo Rovelli [video]
Why only cold showers?
No you don’t get it, you’re not VC enough.

He has VC catnip, and he sprinkles it on his clothes, most notably between the 6 polo shirts he wears at once.
Not sure I'll visit, no speccy!
And, btw, just to make this also explicit: if someone works for one of these companies--and aren't doing it in some way by force, or aren't working from the inside to actively sabotage the company's goals--they are also complicit.
You could try reading the lines before impugning someone's ability to read between them. Frivolous lawsuit by definition doesn't care about legal merits, including your own fail criterion:

"[frivolous litigation] includes presenting an argument with reason to know that it would certainly faill (Wikipedia)

So again, no magic disclaimers can help you here, you still face the risks that someone is going to impose (or threat to impose) the burden of legal proceedings regardless of legal merit on you
Animation from GAIA data: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/12/Gaia_s_ste...
This is purely opinion but the “era of” something is over when it stops growing in popularity.
Marry Christmas to all HN readers from me too!

Not on rotation, but one never knows how much something escalates, therefor and for the team members silence if of course preferred ;)
You really think so? Aren’t we at the end of Moore’s law, so I’m really doubtful that we’ll see massive leaps like that.
All of the links were to a third party website.
.

/*`````````f-droid`````````*/

"<a class=\"package-header\" href=\""[^\"]+ {
CDp8iULPuCinsert(10);
for(x=32;x<yyleng;x++)putc(yytext[x],yyout);
fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
}
"<span class=\"package-summary\">"[^<]+ {
for(x=30;x<yyleng;x++)
putc(yytext[x],yyout);
fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);
}

To test:

#!/bin/sh
read x;
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\""$x page=${1-1}"\"
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"$(epoch)\"
x=$(echo "$x"|sed 's/ /+/g;s/++/+/g');
curl -si04A "" "https://search.f-droid.org/?q=$x&page=${1-1}"

echo this is a test|010.sh > 1.htm
yy084 < 1.htm|sqlite3 test.db

/*`````````bing`````````*/

\"og:site_name\"[ ]content=\"Bing\" bing++;
\<h2\>\<a[ ]href=\" if(bing){
bing_url++;
if(bing_url>1)if(!bing_desc){fwrite("');\n",1,4,stdout);bing_desc=0;};
CDp8iULPuCinsert(11);
jmp BING_URL;
}
<BING_URL>\"[ ]h=\" fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);bing_desc++;jmp BING_DESC1;
<BING_URL>[^\"]+ fwrite(yytext,1,yyleng,yyout);
<BING_DESC1>\> jmp BING_DESC2;
<BING_DESC1>\< jmp BING_URL;
<BING_DESC2>"</h2>" fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);jmp 0;
<BING_DESC2>"</a>"
<BING_DESC2>"<strong>"|"</strong>"|"</a>"
/*
example: less(1) shows hex <93>
bvi \e28093
E2 80 93
\342 \200 \???
printf "%o" 0x93
223
\342 \200 \223
*/
<BING_DESC2>\342\200 utf8++;
<BING_DESC2>\223|\224 putc(45,yyout);utf8=0;
<BING_DESC2>\231 putc(39,yyout);putc(39,yyout);utf8=0;
<BING_DESC2>\234 putc(34,yyout);putc(34,yyout);utf8=0;
<BING_DESC2>\235 putc(34,yyout);putc(34,yyout);utf8=0;
<BING_DESC2>\246 putc(46,yyout);putc(46,yyout);putc(46,yyout);utf8=0;
<BING_DESC2>. if(yytext[0]==39)putc(39,yyout);fwrite(yytext,1,yyleng,yyout);

To test:

#!/bin/sh
read x;
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\""$x first=${1-1}"\"
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"$(epoch)\"
x=$(echo "$x"|sed 's/ /+/g;s/++/+/g');
curl -si04A "" "https://www.bing.com/search?q=$x&cc=US&first=${1-1}"

echo this is a test|011.sh > 1.htm
yy084 < 1.htm|sqlite3 test.db

/*`````````yandex``````````*/

accessKey=.{3}[ ]tabindex=.{3}[ ]href=\"[^\"]+|.{8}link\"[ ]tabindex=.{3}[ ]href=\"[^\"]+ {
yandex_url++;
CDp8iULPuCinsert(13);
for(x=33;x<yyleng;x++){putc(yytext[x],yyout);if(yytext[x]==39)putc(39,stdout);};
fwrite("','",1,3,yyout);
}
OrganicTextContentSpan\"> yandex_desc++;jmp YANDEX_DESC;
<YANDEX_DESC><\/span> yandex_desc=0;fwrite("');\n",1,4,yyout);jmp 0;
<YANDEX_DESC><[^>]+>
<YANDEX_DESC>. putc(yytext[0],yyout);

To test:

#!/bin/sh
read x;
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqquery:\""$x p=${1-1}"\"
echo TWVGHkppk6Q6cODqP7Kqdate:\"$(epoch)\"
x=$(echo "$x"|sed 's/ /+/g;s/++/+/g');
curl -si04A "" "https://yandex.com/search/?text=$x&p=${1-1}&family=0"

echo this is a test|013.sh > 1.htm
yy084 < 1.htm|sqlite3 test.db
This pardon applies to convictions that existed at the time of the pardon, it's not automatically applied to future convictions.
This power comes from the presidential right to pardon, it's not the ability to disable a law while they are in office.
In theory it could be used for that, however the president would have to pardon each time.
I wish we could come up with a plastic that would biodegrade after a fixed amount of time say 200 years.
Worked with PageRank and "map reduce", tho.
"once you get the message, hang up the phone." terence mckenna

that alone made me quit all that drug stuff.

i still respect that other people need it for their own causes, but i have strong opinions on safety especially on addictive ones. i still find myself lucky i didn't got into addictive downward spiral with the things i got my hands on.
Merry Christmas to all! 2023 was a fantastic year, so happy to be over the Covid mountain and over the inflation hills that followed. Wishing everybody here a creative, prosperous, and exciting new year!
> LLMs aren’t a silver bullet for everything.

Please explain this to my Product org.
gaudete!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for all of the great reading over the last year.
It's quite scary when video game source code leaks. No doubt people will start finding RCEs to exploit.
Sluggish Schizophrenia
I missed "be lucky" and "be born rich" on that list. Some of her points are good though.
Kinda of poignant that it dovetails with the inflection of AI.
> end the AMA licensure monopoly, making doctors more plentiful lowers prices and increases quality

I see how this would lower prices, but it's not clear how this would increase quality. Naively I would suspect it would, at least initially, lower average quality.
Thanks, I had almost forgotten about this
Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks everyone for you great contributions to the community and thanks to the dear moderators for the great job they are doing!