skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's a complicated answer: faith is at the heart of it, of course. In Christianity there's the idea of vocation, which applies to all, not just the clergy. A simple way to think about it is to consider the things you're good at, the things you can do that will serve others, and what you enjoy: imagine that as a Venn diagram, and try to discern what lies in the middle for you.

My software skills still play a part in what I do. But seven or eight years ago now I felt drawn to explore a vocation in ordained ministry – after study, a formation programme, completing a Masters degree in Divinity, and a lot of thought and prayer, here I am. It's the happiest I've ever been. Which isn't to say that it hasn't been difficult: being a cleric is not easy work.

Intentional discernment about vocation really has made my life a lot happier, and it's something I talk about a little because it's of value to other people as well.

(I'm in the Anglican [in the states, Episcopalian] tradition, but the process of ministerial formation is very broadly similar between the various mainline protestant denominations and Roman Catholicism.)
These are going to be small gold bars.
Yes but the article is about the Tesla being at the bottom of the list.

If you’re one of the 3/20 Tesla 3 owners that have serious faults Teslas innovation isn’t of much value to you.
Leave it to a member of HN to talk about variables ;)

Merry Christmas!
NaN $ buddies! What are you gonna spend your windfall on??
TBF, I have yet to see a C++ compiler where the union type punning trick doesn't work, there would be a lot of broken code if real-world compilers would change the current behaviour no matter what the standard says.

Of course now that std::bit_cast exists it's the safe thing to do (but then there's still C code that's compiled in C++ mode which was even recommended by Microsoft because the Visual Studio team couldn't be bothered to keep their C compiler in shape until a little while ago).
Anyone else think Lindt is pretty tasty for an inexpensive milk chocolate bar? I never liked Hersheys and agree about the weird almost vomit note in the flavor. I used to like Cadbury but it changed.
Tolkien himself was unsure if we were in the 6th or 7th age

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I doubt if there would have been much gain; and I hope the, evidently long but undefined, gap* in time between the Fall of Barad-dûr and our Days is sufficient for 'literary credibility', even for readers acquainted with what is known or surmised of 'pre-history'

I imagine the gap to be about 6000 years : that is we are now at the end of the Fifth Age, if the Ages were of about the same length as S.A. and T.A. But they have, I think, quickened; and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh.

Source - The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 211
Then it wouldn’t be cheap
There is a concept in manufacturing called the andon cord (a button / pull that activates a claxon and stops the line). Once the line stops, everyone swarms the problem and works on a fix. Toyota in the 80s pioneered its use and then beat the big 3 at manufacturing quality.
That is the standard apologetic but it doesn't work. Complete knowledge of a finite domain like pong is not omniscience. Omniscience is full knowledge of everything, including the future. To know the future, you have to be able to solve the halting problem (among other challenges).

Of course we can postulate that God has (or is) an oracle for the halting problem, but that still doesn't make him omniscient, it just pushes the problem one level higher. An oracle for the halting problem can (by definition) solve the halting problem for ordinary Turing machines, but it cannot solve the halting problem for Turing machines augmented with an oracle for the halting problem for ordinary Turing machines. Such machines (let's call them meta-TMs) have their own halting problem which cannot be solved by a meta-TM. We can hypothesize a meta-oracle which solves the halting problem for meta-TMs, yielding a meta-meta-TM, and so on. But at every level there is still an unsolvable halting problem. It is not possible to close this loop for the same reason that it is not possible to enumerate the real numbers by repeated diagonalization, or to enumerate the transfinite ordinals. So in fact it is a much weaker condition that makes God impossible, namely, that omniscience is impossible. (It immediately follows that omnipotence is also impossible.) But that's a harder case to make because it requires an understanding of the halting problem.

You might enjoy reading this:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/01/a-multilogue-on-free-wil...
El Niño's 'sweet tooth' means indulgent treats could soon be even more expensive
What is USMCA?
What bit me recently was trying to set up non interactive password protected ssh keys. (The use case is wrapping the ssh functionality inside another program.) Turns out, if you want to script the use of an ssh key that requires a decryption password, you can’t do it without ssh-agent (which isn’t really the best solution for a multi user program).
When people are being pedantic, "REST" refers specifically to a set of architectural guidelines for application and API design, including things like statelessness and HATEOAS[1]. Most "REST" APIs don't adhere to these, and are just endpoints for shoving JSON around (sometimes with idiomatic HTTP verbs).

But this is pedantry. REST has become a generic term for "shoving JSON around," for better or worse.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
"If you don't like it, you can leave," is an argument with limited effectiveness. First, unless users spend a lot of time talking about servers, they won't know where to leave to. Remember the great migration, where we were all saying it didn't matter which server you picked because they all federated? It turns out it does, and they don't - and all the new users who were anxious about joining the "right community" were right!

Furthermore, if users did spend a lot of time talking about their admin's moderation, I guarantee it would come in the form of a lot of complaining, maybe even entitled-sounding complaining, without much deference to the admin's right to do what they want on the server they are, admittedly, paying for. There is no way for the community to figure out who's servers are good to be on without continually hashing out who is doing a good job, which means, in some cases, disapproving.

As for contacting your admin to say you think they're being petty... That is not likely to work! You'd probably just get yourself banned before having a chance to migrate your followers!
Mine is set to chime when I go 8 mph over (you can define this). Also, I tend to use the traffic aware cruise control on the highway to set a speed and not have to worry about it. Also, the speed is in the top left corner, it’s very easy to flick your eyes there.

As with most of the things that people worry about with these, it’s actually not a problem.
What’s the replacement for after effects? All those vsts, or the DAWs they run in.
Not the OP, but I spend in FS2020 up to 5 hour flying with HP Reverb G2 (2048x2048 per eye) without any issues. Frankly, it feels like being in a real airplane and one can visually recognize all their real favorite spots without any issues. Losing this would be a major blow for me to run any simulators as it's just so much better and outclasses any 3D projections on the screen.
In Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century it was the norm for husband and wife to talk to each other in the formal "V" form.

Today that would be completely unimaginable.
Merry dang Christmas! :)
I stopped reading after the line "Unix is bad."

Bold sweeping statements like this are a red flag - they tell the reader that the remaining content is likely subjective and offers little value.

From reading the other comments here, it appears that there are some valid Unix criticisms and improvements (all of which have been discussed previously on HN), but Unix is certainly anything from bad. And like anything, it can always be improved. Unfortunately the author didn't take this angle when writing the first line of this post.
And indeed, would have probably thought that people at a conference would be better being human beings and talking to each other, rather than staring into a laptop screen.
I really like the Python/Lua module system. To each their own...
On the bright side, that makes you an inf x programmer assuming you earn a number.
I've been trying out an interesting embedding model that knows how to treat text as a question be as a phrase about the world, and embeds the question such that it's likely to end up close to phrases that might answer that question: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/embed-paragraphs

Embedding and chunking large amounts of documents is expensive though, in both compute and storage.

The other trick I've been planning to explore is using an LLM to turn the user's question into a small number of normal FTS search queries and then run those to try and get context data.
how to run a local llm model for RAG apps. Retrieval documents are turkish. But ı would to analyze this documents with llm. But ı have not a turkish local llm. How to solve this problem. Out of fine-tune and training.
> We are not just experiencing the demise of PC magazines, but also the demise of printed press and of major old news outlets.

I have the impression that nowadays most people no longer want to invest the time to read in-depth articles or books on a topic. Myself, I recently read a couple of technical books and came to the conclusion that a good technical book is still worth it. It explores a topic in a structured way and in-depth, and the information in a technical book is supposed to have been reviewed. If you read good technical blogs, you can pick up a couple of things here and there, but I think it will never be as efficient as reading a good technical book on a specific topic.
Once models / inference engines are performant enough to run on consumer hardware without hogging all the resources of a machine -- sure! Embedding this into the core of a linux system sounds very interesting. A shell interaction could be had in nerd gobbledygook or plain human language.
The only mistake Toyota made in the UK was to re-brand the Corolla as an Auris. They paddled back but not to the status they once enjoyed?
LLMs are a fad like cellphones are a fad.
This seems like a subjective comment of little value.
Merry Christmas!

:)
> the greater part of the cost of running a car (the fuel) is mainly made up by tax on the fuel

That may be true in Europe, but not here in the US. In the US, the federal gasoline tax is currently about $.18 per gallon, and state taxes range from about $.09 to $.58 per gallon[1] (with the median around $0.27). The average price of gasoline in the US has been around $3.00 per gallon[2] ($0.79 per liter), so the total tax would range from about 9% to 25% of the cost, depending on the state.

The price of gas in most European countries is much higher, with Norway paying over twice the US average (US $7.87 / US gallon).[3]

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

[2] https://www.finder.com/gas-prices

[3] https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/Europe/
Diagramming software for Linux, Windows, Browser – open-source
Then there’s stuff like solid works.

Also, here’s an experiment for you, pull some random 50 something from an Hr or accounting department, sit them in front of a laptop and have them do their job on Linux.
There's not always traffic.
In the case of this one you have a POST to delete and a POST to upload. Instead of POST, PUT, and DELETE requests. Thats just from a quick glance.
Wow it’s amazing that we could somehow time the orbit period.
You just needed a new USB cable. They shipped one with some under-dimensioned specs, causing all kinds of problems mostly on AMD platforms.
How is this comment subjective and of little value?
Are you so sure? Even this link is built on top of the work of others, I'm not sure they've contributed as much as you think they have.
>Honestly we should have a name for such class of bugs.

They are called parser differentials
The "dollar store" VR headsets at least matched the resolution or beat the resolution of the other headsets at the time. For example the Lenovo Explorer I bought is 2880x1440 while the Vive at the time was 2160x1200. It was also truly inside-out tracking so it didn't need lighthouses to operate. All you have to do to use it in a new space is look left, right, down, and up.

So cheaper by a good bit, higher resolution, didn't need lighthouses, far easier to set up for a space, simpler cable setup, and lighter. And it quickly got supported by SteamVR with most games having complete support for it.

I don't have the space for a dedicated run around in VR kind of thing, so I mostly use it for racing and flight simulators where it's absolutely perfect at.
Lied.

Inflation of textbook prices is a real problem, finding ways to make them affordable in other countries where people have less to spend is a worthy goal, and you won't aid the cause by falsely attributing words or intentions to people.
Most of them fail to meet one of the requirements in the "uniform interface" section; generally, in my experience, either "self-descriptive messages" or "HATEOAS".
For the attachments like pdf you can use webdav, but for the metadata you have to use their service [1]. They have the code repos online so it's open source, but no self-hosting instructions [2]. They claimed it to be due to technical difficulties [3], though imo they have no incentives to provide this given that they host a paid service themselves.

[1]: https://www.zotero.org/support/sync

[2]: https://github.com/zotero/dataserver

[3]: https://github.com/zotero/dataserver/issues/105
I have written almost 200 small Windows programs, most in straight C, both CLI and GUI. I've thought about making them available (Freeware) but I've no idea how.

If anyone knows of a free hosting site please let me know: rdschaefer {dot} consulting {at} gmail {dot} com
I agree but people are doing it anyway. So technically Ruby on Rails and C++ are competitors in the web backend space.
2600 is still in print
They also thanks viewsourcecode.org but don't directly link to their excellent tutorial on how to build Kilo yourself: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
Same military that defeated taliban?
I do wonder how he manages to collect 30 million dollars on a failed startup and is still trusted by investors afterwards. How do you do that? And I usually get accused of too much self-belief.

I have trouble justifying 2-3 months of work to my manager.
> I was surprised to see `fmt/format.h` on that list, but I do have to admit that the objections seem reasonable

The author talks about the code bloat, beacause of "an API that encourages custom formatter specification to live in a template". But at the end he mentions the standard solution to this problem:

> A preferable interface (I use, but also others AFAIK) is to check the type in a template (no choice there), and dispatch the formatting routine to somewhere that lives in a single translation unit.

So what prevents you from doing this with <format>? As I understand, the implementations of parse() and format() of std::formatter don't depend on the template parameters and can delegate to non-template functions residing in one CPP file. You can also provide additional wformat_parse_context/wformat_context overloads if you need wchar_t support.
I strongly agree this is the direction the author is looking for. RAG is one approach, but if the query doesn't match the right documents, you're screwed. And often they use a different, much simpler, embedding model.

I think harpercarrol link is a pretty good one, but it basically just feeds in the documents for completion, which isn't a good approach. The dataset needs to represent how you want to use it.

This one might also be helpful https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/finetuning-large-l...

Honestly surprised how almost everyone is saying to use RAG (on its own). One strong benefit to RAG is the data can change, but has lots of failure modes.

People often use hybrid search (fuzzy or bm25 etc alongside embedding search) which I suppose is still RAG.

But fine-tuning models to be better at RAG is valuable as well, increasing accuracy.

https://ragntune.com/blog/Fine-tuning-an-LLM-to-be-good-at-R...

Ideally, I'd try both. Fine tune on both the documents (create a question / answer dataset with gpt4) and rag instruction fine tune it.
feature phones are not a dominate thing in japan.

https://www.soumu.go.jp/johotsusintokei/whitepaper/ja/r04/ht...

86% of the population owns a smartphone. That's higher than the USA
I think we’re ready for ‘Lingua Anglica’.
I'm sure you know exactly what I meant, so do you really think your comment here is helpful or productive in any way?
Not a Xmas movie, but 100% a New Year's Eve movie!
https://templeofgeek.com/bring-new-year-classic-films/
Is it just me, or the worst part of coroutines is lack of tooling around them? Whenever I get a crash in a coroutine, the "stacktrace" is totally useless and doesn't actually show where the crash happened, just some boiler plate code around executing some continuation which doesn't refer to real code that you wrote.
> I am not aware of either the electrical grid, or most current EV's & their charging hardware, being built to actually do this. A whole lot of specialized stuff will still need to be built.

Its already done, but not yet widely deployed. Virtual Power Plant. Tesla Electric customers report making as much as $150 a day: https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo...
One great thing about software from magazines instead of GitHub is that you had to type it in and fix the mistakes. And those fixes taught you bit by bit what the code that you had typed in was actually doing. I learned more from the crashes than from the code!
Checking and staring are two different things. I can glance at another woman without being slapped in the face, staring at that same woman may result in other outcomes.
Merry Christmas to all you beautiful people.

And happy 8 year anniversary for my account, made on Christmas Day 2015. LOL
This utterly misses the point. Renewables are not so cheap that they are profitable at negative prices by themselves. Pricing is this way because renewables are largely not demand resources and run when wind, sun, etc is there, not when they are needed. In some situations they are still profitable at negative prices because subsidy is worth more than zero making breakeven pricing some negative number. Pricing is negative because the grid is in crisis from overproductiin and needs prices that low to get the renewables to shut off, its not a sign of a healthy, sustainable grid, its a sign of a grid in crisis trying to avert a collapse.
Many countries - like UK - have restricted consulting type of business, where it's not possible to make profit, as consulting engagement has to be taxed as deemed employment, even if it is a legitimate business, when service is provided by the owner of the company. Pulling the ladders etc.
precisely what I love about HN. folks here are into esoteric obsessions like myself
I never saved anything for the swim back.
Yes, I believe the folks at BlueDot have an FPGA implementation.
The Shepherd (2023 Film Version)
Based upon ''The Shepherd'', a 1975 novella by British writer Frederick Forsyth which was recited by Allan Maitland for CBC Radio in 1978 and rebroadcast almost every Christmas since 1979.

Radio reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_bLEqmBi0

Novella:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepherd
I guess it’s hardcoded to run in something shaped like xterm or better.
The author's most recent update, from 2023: https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/optical-media-durability-updat...
It doesn't work like that. Car is always plugged in. On your app, you'll have settings to calibrate when to charge. All EV car apps have these settings.
> I ran about 30k machines with sshpass and it worked just fine. Easy to script. I don’t understand at all why we need something else here.

Do you keep all your passwords in one directory or in something more complicated?
Instruo Neoni is one oscillator which can do it. I think one can get on VCV rack (which I think is free).

The Neoni is demonstrated here: https://youtu.be/kkAagua3NN4 (Symmetric TZFM starts around the 57 minute mark).

Here is a track I made using TZFM (I am no muscician, just experimenting): https://hakon.gylterud.net/snd/foot-stomp.flac

The only sound sources are a TZFM oscillator and a kick drum.
There is an implementation with an extension: https://github.com/MarcJHuber/event-driven-servers/wiki/TACA.... But I don't know if there are any supported clients.

Another possibility would be to use CA certificates for authentication and only TACACS+ for authorization and accounting. Juniper now supports CA certificates. Cisco may in 10 years.
Merry Christmas all. Like many of the posters have said, I really treasure this site as this is what I still believe the Internet should be (yep, I’m old). Love all the nuggets I find here and the number of threads and articles I share out. Also, seriously appreciate dang!

Merry Christmas All!
Hackers use six-year old Microsoft Office bug to spread Agent Tesla
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Was this was not accidental?
https://archive.is/sqo6S
They come from all over the place but on average the quality is lower
Yeah face id is pretty good, no android phones seem to use the ir dot camera which makes me think Apple has a "patent" on it
...lame considering the dot projector is ripped straight out of kinekt.

Google does the memory photo thing too, but only if you use their app which I don't.

Android has had multi language keyboard support for the longest time, in addition to being able to install whatever keyboard I like (I use SwiftKey, it's brilliant) I can also install an llm based one as I please.

Android/my keyboard already does event detection/suggestion in text and has been doing for as long as I remember.

None of these are reasons to buy an iPhone...just reasons to buy a phone, lmao.
You appear to be in violent agreement with the parent commenter. What everyone in this thread is saying is: VR might be big someday, but that won't be this year, or next year, or possibly even this decade or next decade.

To continue to use the PDA analogy, if you went back to the mid-90s and told people "these will be everywhere in 20 years!", people would still shrug their shoulders and go about their daily lives same as ever, because 20 years from now ain't today. And when it comes to VR, we're all shrugging our shoulders.
I’ve come to the opinion that chocolate as a food is just much harder to make good than chocolate as a flavor or additive.

Fancy chocolates are ok but not really satisfying like how you remember it as a kid. But chocolate flavored stuff and melted chocolate is still pretty solid generically.

If you don’t want “sophisticated and subtle” chocolate, I would recommend Tony’s (slave free) chocolate. This gets closest to what I actually want in a chocolate bar.
I too go and get 2600 from B&N each quarter.

B&N, while corporate so to speak, is also the last major gasp of fighting the Amazon hegemony. I root for them to succeed.

Here in San Antonio, there are at least three if not four B&N. I know SA has a higher population than Seattle but hearing you only have one is surprising to me.

I go once or twice a month to browse around, occasionally buy a magazine or stationery. The other day during holiday shopping, both locations in my area were quite busy at the register.
> When environment does change however the rates are orders of magnitude higher. We live in the times of change.

If you open the link you'll see that the current "change" is caused by humans. Spreading invasive species isn't the most significant cause, but it is a cause. So I don't see how that contests what I said.
The replacement for NAFTA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E...
BlackCat Strikes Back: Ransomware Gang "Unseizes" Site Vows No Limits on Targets