skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was also vegan for years, but not anti-hunting. While not a vegan today, my meat consumption is down by ~98% from childhood. Why are you anti-hunting? Usually, hunters are strong environmentalists. Plus, they are taking animals from their natural habit, instead of crowded feed lots.
There was a Flash video done in the early days of Flash that I would love to find again. I don’t remember the full video but it was done in an Anime style and ended with a girl standing on a cliff with flower petals blowing around her. It was a particularly beautifully done video that I would love to watch again.

If I recall, it was either a demo or the introduction to the authors website.
> Even if they were a 'cult of sexuality' - what exactly is the harm here?

Because advertising a fetish in public is considered unacceptable by most people?

Shouldn't that be obvious to them? If they go around in public consciously trying to make other people uncomfortable, do you seriously expect them to not get angry about that?
Regardless of our personal positions and feelings on nuclear it's going ahead and will persist as a global low continuous baseload provider; South Korea is building more, China is building more, both at home and globally.

In a very real sense to date the actual catastrophic failure modes of nuclear haven't been that bad on a realistic industrial scale.

Chernobyl persists as a bad place to dig into the soil if you're a Russian soldier commanded to do dumb things, as a large area nature reserve the case could be made that it has been a positive for non human animals.

The events at the Fukishima nuclear plant had few actual direct deaths, as an incident embedded within the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that directly caused 19,759 deaths, 6,242 injured, and 2,553 people missing it would fade from sight were it not for the evacuations and containment costs.

The areas evacuated are already allowing returns to much of the region, the containment costs are the kinds of things that can be mitigated with engineering on future projects.

I'm no great fan of nuclear but pragmatically designs and safety have improved over the decades and actual deaths and casualties look small compared to deaths in conventional resource mining and industrial accidents such as the Bhopal disaster (500,000 people exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate).

Sure, let's go with as much wind and solar as we can, let's have battery farms, green gas production, overnight thermal energy storage in sodium salts, etc.

But let us also pay attention to the costs of "green energy" - the ramp up to meet the current fossil fuel power creation levels will drastically ramp up toxic waste byproducts from nickel|copper mining, litium for batteries, rare eath processing, etc.

We are in a looming CO2 crisis that is worse for being kicked down the road since the 1970s when eraly action could have been taken.

Let's not blindly walk into another e-waste crisis by greenwashing away the real issues that come with new energy sources.
> basically the staff can walk anytime, and effectively take all the customers with them.

I suppose something like the ownCloud / Nextcloud breakup could happen.

You need a big enough set of employees with all the skills required (product & customer relations) such that these employees will be collectively more efficient than who remains to be willing to leave at the same time and still want to work on the same thing, and an important set of customers to be willing to switch to the new business.

Given how we like each others and how nice it is to work there, I believe the company would need to fuck things up big time for this to happen. What caused this at ownCloud is a political change (from true FLOSS to open core, maybe other things) and it took a co-founder + a big bunch of core contributors to leave.

I would say, if this is the biggest risk, the company is probably okay :-)

I agree with you on the fact that it is probably hard to achieve this though.

And still, ownCloud is still alive. I don't know how relevant they are and why people would choose them over Nextcloud, I'm somewhat amazed they are still there.
allow me to shamelessly plug something I wrote on the topic

https://gist.github.com/androidfred/75629dfda63180b6f0a0eaa4...

no data, no research :P just anecdote and opinon
It's my prime reading material for whenever I'm having a meal. But it runs out too quickly for my liking, especially after I exhaust damninteresting archive. Anyone have any recommendation on other website like that?
This is something I've been meaning to do with my city to show how bad residential zoning is. Kudos to whoever made this.
> I am sure Apple's analysts already have a number for how much profit they'd slough off if they pay off Masimo

Apple famously does not budge on their margins. If forced to pay a license fee, prices on these models will absolutely go up. Sale stoppage + this news cycle allows them to reset pricing when they start up again, without making consumers too mad.
Walking is far healthier too. It's the easiest way to get good exercise and improve your body function.
Since most SV startups don't like to patent things (and very few do anything actually patentable), it works. When you run into a case like this, it makes it very hard to say that you didn't infringe their patents.
Except - Believe nothing of what you hear, and half of what you see.
> Painting never aimed to be photorealistic

Untrue.

You might be looking back at this as someone who lived in a era when photography was for documentaries and painting was for art.

Are you autistic? I do not mean to be offensive. I'm an aspie.
Apple learned the game from Microsoft, who probably learned from someone else. MS was famous for just stealing any technology they wanted.
This is written from a very USA based ideology. Unlike the USA, China doesn't have a long track record of starting wars. China is unlikely to attack anyone, but clearly cannot rule out the possibility that they might and could.

China takes a longer and less forceful approach: political and economic control are their preferred choices by far.

Wars do not benefit anyone bar the arms manufacturers for the most part.
The Pick OS and its many derivatives had a non-relational database based on hashing at the core of the OS. Very popular a few decades ago but mostly dead now.

I do miss embedded SQL. The mismatch between database types and application language types caused by separating the two leads to lots of boilerplate and subtle bugs and logical inconsistencies.
> an array is all you need for a regular general-purpose text editor.

until you try to open up a multi gigabyte log file in notepad, and find that it's consuming all your system resources.

But opening that same file in sublime text works perfectly, scrolls fast and zero lag. Guess which one is my daily driver?
The question wording was about "revolutions" of the small disk. The distance traveled by the small disk center (= 4x it's own diameter) was only used as a way to calculate the number of revolutions, but I'm still not getting the intuition for how each diameter of distance traveled by the disk center equals one rotation regardless of the shape of path followed (it's obvious for a flat line of course).
https://gisapps.chicago.gov/mapchicago/ has more information. Your city probably also has a GIS page - just look up "gis <city>" and you will probably find it.
> although some people want to delete it

I hope they don't. The argument for removing it is basically that if you understand geometry, then the conclusion is obvious; but since this is an area where most people's understanding of geometry is incorrect (myself included, before today), the article is valuable. I don't see how it's different from articles on other mathematical paradoxes (Simpson's paradox, for example).
I would pay good money for a tabloid eink reader, so 17x11 inches. Ideally it would fold. A folding pair of 8.5x11 screens designed to work together would fit my use case too. So far as I know, nobody makes such a thing. Ideally it would be color but I’d settle for monochrome.
it's 20 years from the filing data. Issuing the patent takes 4-6 years, usually, so you're talking about ~14 years life.
As an aside, are we at a point in democratized hardware where I could buy the right components and a traced PCB to recreate a Gameboy?
Unlock Complex Time Series Analysis in SQL with Range Queries
That's copyright. Copyrights are life plus 70 years. Patents cap out at 20.

The parent comment was wrong: a 1989 idea would basically not be under patent past about 2011.
A programming language coding in a grid
There's lots of comment here about how this isn't needed for "typical" editing of smallish files and you can get away with something very simple, but that isn't very interesting.

What is interesting is the opposite question: how do you enable editing that is bounded only by storage limits?

A piece table is a good solution for this since the original file and the added data is immutable, which lends itself to mmap-ing. Then you can implement the piece table and various indexes (line breaks, etc) in a database (such as SQLite) or similar. Overall this gives you consistent performance at any size or number of edits limited only by storage.
Show HN: Background removal app with a powerful editor built with React Native
First contact with aliens will happen or it will be confirmed to have already happened.
Outside of simple C projects, a Makefile should be just a “here’s how to hold it” reference for the rest of your build system. Shoehorning in all of the build complexity is going to be overwrought, but a good “make dev; make clean; make build; make release” is a very welcome entry point for new or infrequent contributors
Replace wolf with bear. Do you draw the same conclusions? This already exists in many places in North America.
Can't promise anything, but feel free to drop a line, my email is in my profile.
The lines are forbidden because they are forbidden.

In a way, the tautology captures the generally squishy quantum mechanical definition of "forbidden".
Where did using the edge of a bowl, pan, or counter start? Use a flat surface for initial smack and you’ll get fewer shell bits.
The best intuition for me was the YouTube comment that said to imagine the rolling coin/circle is picked up on its edge, in 3D, rolling like a unicycle wheel. It turns forwards to roll and measure distance, and it turns sideways to travel around the circular path. i.e. "N" rotations for circumference distance on one axis (the straight line distance) plus one full rotation on a different axis around the circle. When the coin is lying flat, both have to happen on the same axis.
This is what happens Larry when you provide a service to the community.
happens everywhere.

facebook, instagram, telegram, whatsapp, viber, twitter, wechat, etc.

your convos aren't directly sold, but the heuristics of your convos are sold.
Depends how much vram you have to spare. There are a number of good sources of info including:

TheBloke's Discord

r/localllama

chat arena leaderboard

top models on huggingface
This is sarcastic, but it's very much how it works in a lot of places, and it no accident.

This book is a nice deep dive into how that came about: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/richard-d-kahlenber...
Is Chick-fil-A going to follow that too? Their in-house delivery staff are the best, Uber eats will just dump my order outside the apartment building and run while the Chicfila staff will walk it to my door and send a photo.
not more hostile than Ubisoft, i hope all their old game source codes get leaked in 2024
9p is a network protocol. For machine local filesystems one can do better by making use of shared memory which fuse and virtio-fs do.
Yes I was expecting this not the ads but the multiple streaming services.

We used to have TV channels now we have multiple streaming services each is in a way a channel. But it's hard to justify paying for a half dozen streaming services. Plus many push for another layer to pay for.

And I swear to god these streaming services monitor what you like and end the series with three shows to go taunt you about buying it.

Amazon in particular is bad for user interface and shows disappearing. They have older shows which is nice but the interface, the constant push to buy more, and just overall lack of innovation makes it feel blah. The lack of ads was the only good thing it had going for it! The lack of ads was the only good thing it had going for it now it's toast!
I've lurked here and on other discussion/aggregation sites for years (I've apparently been here 10--oof) and only recent started commenting a little more. This whole time I didn't realize the top color could be set. I noticed it in my profile a couple days ago and thought it was an entirely new site feature.

Seeing all this info I was unaware of laid out in front of me makes me wish there was a docs page linked in the footer, like Tildes has.
For the lawyers on HN, would you able to bring a lawsuit for defamation and tortuous interference?

Falsely accusing someone of bad behavior in an attempt to affect a business relationship seems like it would have some possible civil remedies?
In section 7:

> Problem Solving is Not a Generic Skill

There is going to be some difference between solving problems in a specific domain and solving problems generally (which is what TFA argues for). And since we really care about the specific domain of software engineering, it makes sense to pry open that difference when possible.

However problem solving in the general case is very close to fluid intelligence and IQ. Some interpretations claim that intelligence in humans is just problem solving, and that problem solving is most of what is captured by g [0]. All problem solving will be positively correlated with all other problem solving, and you would never expect to see someone good at one, but not the other.

In section 9 they cite the research on programming ability and its (expected) relation to general intelligence.

I'm not sure how much of a distinction there is to draw here. Psychometrics has historically been filled with attempts to factor out additional clusters from things like g e.g. multiple intelligences. Those findings often fail to replicate. Section 7 seems more like an attempt to draw a distinction without a difference. While section 9 seems like a standard summary of the research (like most things, a mixture of innate intelligence and cumulative experience).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
Even under WSL emacs is fast:

[9front@RIPPER ~]$ time emacs -Q -eval '(kill-emacs)'

real 0m0.193s
user 0m0.136s
sys 0m0.010s
The media cartels are pretty happy with it, being able to take down massive swaths of the Internet with no realistic consequences for false positives.
In general, that link does have more information. But if one wants to learn about how individual blocks or areas are zoned, the OP's site (https://secondcityzoning.org) is much easier to use and seems to offer more information, too.
I said unwise not inefficient.

Globbing is a security and reliability hole. You don't ever really know what got included or will get included, you just assume you do, and you are right only most of the time and only by luck not by actually ensuring it.

Saying things like "only the files I expect should ever be in this dir" is just wrong swiss cheese thinking. (you never said that, but another commenter essentially did)
Yes, just without the trip to the store or the mailbox
I like this; it gives me a good way to think about the "from the circle's view" - Earth center looking out at you sees your feet close and your head far away, always; you don't rotate at all.
I politely disagree about spreadsheets. Using a spreadsheet they could easily increase the value of delivered pizza while increasing the price enough to make a net gain allowing them to increase the wages. Imagine a sales pitch something like: "Our new home delivered pizzas come with twice the cheese and twice the sauce! Just pop it in a hot oven and in 5 minutes enjoy the smell of freshly baked bread and superb pizza taste, and all without leaving the comfort of your home!" It's a marketing problem accessible with a spreadsheet. I admit that it would not be quite this easy, but you get the idea.
You’re claiming that people used to be less greedy?
I'm having a really hard time understanding what's going on here.

> I'm moderating a subreddit with positive potential

What exactly is "positive potential" in this context? Just like... being respectful and kind? I'll assume that's what this means but it's an odd way to phrase it.

> I want to set the stage with a few bots ("bot" would be in their name and flair) having positive conversations matching the tone I want to set in the community.

You want the bots to talk to each other? What's the point? The conversations will likely not make total sense and be vague and unhelpful and fill your subreddit with spam that no one wants to read. I go to forums explicitly because I do NOT want to hear from a bot. If I want to talk to or hear from an LLM, I'll seek one out myself.

> I am concerned about the failure case of OpenAI going rogue and starting to disobey its instructions to be positive and solution-oriented.

You think... OpenAI specifically is going to reprogram its api so that its LLMs intentionally go against instructions? What could possibly give you this impression? Maybe you meant that you're worried about hallucinations that accidentally disobey which imo is a much more valid concern, but in that case I'd say you're much better off with a large, moderated, paid model exactly like what OpenAI offers rather than a tiny local one anyway. I have major issues with this premise but let's assume it makes any sense for the rest of this.

> I would like to be one step ahead of the game and set up a known-good, airgapped LLM in case OpenAI goes rogue.

We're talking about spamming a subreddit here,(presumably) not people's lives. If there's a report that your spam bots are being disrespectful, shut them down when that happens. I don't think you need to plan for this "failure case" ahead of time. Maybe focus on the failure case where all your potential community members say "I don't want to use a subreddit full of bot spam" and leave.

> I don't think it needs to engage in higher level reasoning, the ability to string together simple coherent sentences with positive sentiments would be enough as a fall-back

What exactly is the point of these bots if all they do is spew niceties without substance? If you're looking to give examples of what respectful behavior looks like, wouldn't it be better to just write up 5 or 6 examples yourself (without or without help from an LLM) and put them in a sticky post?

> I can also use it as a filter to make sure OpenAI does not begin to use negative words.

I think it's misguided to trust local LLMs more than OpenAI's LLMs in their current state.

I am tremendously baffled by this request. I don't think what you're trying to achieve is worth aiming for, nor do I think the steps you're taking to achieve it make sense, nor does your reasoning about it make sense.

Am I the one who's fundamentally misunderstanding something here? Can you give a specific example of what the bots would say and the effect you think that would have on your subreddit?
I helped work on Hubs and you might like Webspaces - it’s a way to just add a script tag to a HTML page to make it a 3D world, live multiplayer etc.

https://webspaces.space
> Local variable type inference has helped in [...] making Java code more readable.

whoever got that idea? if i have to infer the variable type it is _less_ readable

This idea is the same as saying less comments make code more readable because it reduces verbosity and typing
It took me a moment but I think OP is trying to distinguish areas where single family homes are allowed/required from those where multi-family units are allowed.
drekipus WAS born into such a family.
slightly off-topic: it’s amazing how little money (hundreds of thousands to single digit millions of USD) deployed via lobbyists it takes to affect national level policy
You would have to define what “best” means to you and then probably accept that’s a direction rather than a goal. You won’t have complete control over the process.

I tried to encourage curiosity. My kids mostly did their own thing with lots of guidance and opportunities made available — unschooling.

Montessori style seems to map best to how children most readily learn, but each child learns differently so there’s no single “best” anything. You experiment and adapt.

I think the worst approach happens when parents think they can mold and shape their child into their own vision, and don’t accept or acknowledge the individuality of their child.
While I share your disdain for unnecessarily long YouTube videos, Veritasium often (not always) gets a pass from me. I have been instant clicking pretty much every video he’s released in the past few months and always came out having learned a lot and satisfied.

The only other channel I would give the same pass is neo.
Right, but neither of these functions explains the circularity: if Netflix loses money on every paying subscriber versus the "ad watching sucker" demographic, why spend billions of dollars a year[1] advertising your paid plans?

(Maybe I'm being too literal here -- it'd be fair to argue that Netflix mostly just advertises their shows, not the plans themselves directly.)

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/688525/netflix-ad-expens...
they told him it was an IQ test but it was actually a psychological profile to diagnose his anger issues
The primary purposes of generative AI are to educate humans and to enhance the productivity of humans.
Depends on the application, but I have found the openhermes tune of Mistral to be insanely good for the size.

https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B
Happy to quit this just like I did Netflix
Me personally? I don't have an opinion, but I guess concrete production represents 4-8% of global co2 emissions. Not sure where "little" is coming from. Concrete is ubiquitous. If a more resource-efficient process is available, it might be often applicable.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-...
> Unlike the USA, China doesn't have a long track record of starting wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
Comments like this are unhelpful and just read like an attempt to punch-down on someone. If you think that something doesn't make sense then you must be able to list and describe what's wrong. Or do you expect people to be able to read your mind when you post something like this? The vagueness makes it sound as if you have a point but if you do it's not included in your post.
> if anyone is seriously considering alternative models

That’s for Apple to ponder and decide how to proceed. They seem to believe there’s no alternative yet.
> control characters which are visually indistinguishable from other characters

This is a text editor configuration issue, not a character choice issue.
> Not that Sim City ever took traffic or parking even remotely seriously

Hilariously, it did: https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4316222/simcity-lead-desig...

> "Our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots," SimCity lead designer Stone Librande says
“It’s not a problem that they illegally stifle completion on their platform because you can just use the other platform that also stifles competiton”
that's definitely not what I meant or implied; it makes sense that the immune system is a classifier of sorts
Tbh it’s mainly the large companies that can’t figure out what they need to do to diversify.
The real question is if you’ll miss that feature. It’s one of the most useless things they added to the watch just because they had nothing else they could. This and the wash your hands reminder lol.