skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have done a bunch of stuff in the past but most recently I just bought two synology arrays and followed the instructions to set them up in less than an hour and they just worked with literally zero hassle.
In a thread about email, "postfix" really threw me here! But I realize you don't mean the email server, but I'm not sure what you do mean.
.. and the above is the reason why linux kernel uses cpio. Yes, the default tools suck, but the format itself is much simpler and there is only one version.
Ask for refunds, otherwise they’ll just keep doing it. Better yet, don't own an xbox. It doesn’t have any open source software you can run on it.
Did they control for additives and highly processed foods? Carbohydrates are more commonly over processed and adulterated with colors and preservatives than meats, with the exception of some fast food. Carb heavy stuff also more often contains a lot of sugar.
Yep, same. Yelp is not nearly as good in Apple Maps but for in town directions it works great for me.
Hi, I'm the original creator of this project. I'm happy to say the motivation is purely organic, we've no backing and have never received donations of any kind, project is totally out of pocket.

Originally I wanted something akin to SteamOS that allowed packages to be installed and maintained through updates, and knew Fedora could offer that after using Silverblue for about a year, and it just kept evolving and growing from there.

We just launched HDR in testing, and are working on custom kernel signing so we can move that to stable without breaking secure boot support.

If you want to support us for the time being, all I can ask is that you give it a try and report any bugs you may find to us. The more users the better!
I would guarantee that most of the people who come to Hacker News haven't ever posted an amazing hack here. It doesn't mean we can't appreciate one.
In a naive ECS system this might be true, but mature ECS systems use archetypes which partition based on usage to maintain the contiguous memory.

I've written about the details here: https://taintedcoders.com/bevy/archetypes/

The gist is that instead of partitioning by type you sub partition by usage. Bevy does this by optimizing your storage based on the bundles (groups of components) you create. Flecs does the same but I'm not sure of the exact mechanism.
Missing the biggest tell, probably because Amazon avoids providing them in the first place:

Cutting back on irrelevant benefits like food and office supplies. Executives usually don't like layoffs and try to avoid them with easy cuts to things people won't miss. Since these easy cuts are never meaningful (else someone would have already done them), they almost always proceed to the next steps like layoffs.
> {Edit} Ha, looking at the competition, it does indeed include the full size of the gzip binary in the metric. Weird.

The competition is specific to one corpus of test data; it doesn't include testing on other data. If the size of the program weren't included, you could hard-code all of the test data into it and claim victory with an infinite compression ratio.

Fun fact: the idea of using an AI language model as compression has existed since at least 1988. It was mentioned in passing by Vernor Vinge in his short story The Blabber.
> Another mechanism that causes warfare is a lack of flexibility, a lack of options.

That is very true but my conclusion is the opposite. US diplomacy did everything to not create options for Russia. Everything the US did deepened the impression that the invasion would be a walk in the part for Russia and US will do nothing. Russia had just one option left - to attack.

If US had rapidly moved a division into Ukraine for joint exercises when Russia started to threaten at the end of 2021 then it would have created options for Russia.

Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.
Ask HN: Let's collate system outages caused by expiring certs
UTC timezone just ticked over Jan 1 00:00Z, and I'm bored.

Post outages likely caused by people setting their production certificates to expire at the most easily predictable worst time of the year.

- Key base is down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828514

- A bunch of Sony cinema projectors broke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38825623
Not if your / filesystem lacks the /nix directory to use as a mountpoint, and happens to be a read-only image. Something that needs a workaround on macOS.
I am imagining a NAS appliance designed for high availability and low-touch, like a RAID 10 box with a ton of hot spares, designed to automatically rebuild in case of failure. The hot spares are spun up once a month to prevent stiction.
Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review
Forza I think
I'm sticking to the same as last year [0]. To not have any 'New Years Resolution' and to prepare for 2030.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34193215
He recently uploaded a video titled: "What's the deal with the popcorn button?"
Almost an hour of him talking about a button that pretty much only exists on microwaves sold in the US, and a warning only printed on bags of microwave popcorn sold in the US.
The guy has great skills in explaining technology, but it could reach a lot more people if he didn't target always target an American audience at the expense of broader appeal.
To not let my friends set their certificates to expire on Dec 31.
Just make highly processed meat more expensive.
Mix and match one's own take on clips/tidbits from random search engine results[a][b] to 'gnarfle the [tex] garthok'[snl][tex]

Put all the software engineering discipline/experience towards a diy tool for more creative/interactive instruction on learning L-systems & APL without a spreadsheet grid!

Enable a new way to envision/do calculus exercises.[0][1][2][3][4] aka think the equation, see the equation, em(c*c) the equation (projector or 3d printing)

sdiff/ripgrep what absorbed in class few days later with what 'think' remember and have chatgpt explain where the gaps are!

Ah, guess not a diy thing till OS on DB[register] is ported for use with modern take on magnetic core memory[core1][core2].

So for now, just a possible irl envisioning of 'the matrix' concepts in textile as spacesuit wearable/portable fully self contained data warehouse.

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[a] : http://www.technovelgy.com/

[b] : https://www.creativeapplications.net/

[snl] : https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gnarfle%20th...

[tex] : https://tikz.dev/

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[0] : "The Hybrid Artisans: A Case Study in Smart Tools" (2014) : https://amitz.co/ewExternalFiles/ToCHI_FreeD.pdf /

[1] : "Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text" https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1010811

[2] : https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-convert-any-text-into-...

[3] : https://github.com/VikParuchuri/texify (Removes the extra brain to hand step in process https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39391080/extracting-hand... and/or make Minority report hand interface obsolete)

[4] : https://wherobots.com/havasu-a-table-format-for-spatial-attr...

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[register] : https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/26/michael_stonebraker_f...

[core1] : magnetic core memory : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
[core2] : '21st century' core memory :
"Smart textile fiber places conductivity and flexibility side-by-side" : https://newatlas.com/materials/smart-fabric-fiber-conductivi...
This is a great article, very funny. I appreciate the points about becoming much more efficient as you get older, and how important exercise is, because it allows you to eat normally while still losing weight, defeating your metabolism.
> If as many people worked on SPARC CPUs as Intel had/has working on x86 CPUs, would some of these problems have been solved?

Unlikely, they optimized for the wrong case, and made multitasking context switches very painful. From the kernel's perspective, you could add hardware workarounds, but they would be unwieldy and likely hard to code securely around.

> A modern x86_64 chip is immensely complicated internally.

Any OOO chip is going to be. x86 has somewhat more complicated instruction decoders due to variable length instructions, but past that, it's not very much more or less complicated than any other contemporary ISA.

> would register windows have caused speculative execution problems analogous to "Spectre"?

Any processor with a cache that is modified by speculative execution is vulnerable to Spectre.
After Windows support is further along, but not that long from now
China's final warning meme is actually very illustrative. The context is PRC was both warning and doing - actively attempting to shoot down TW / US based U2s despite having limited capabilities. The chefs kiss that this is an USSR meme is that PRC end up shooting down more U2s using modified soviet hardware than USSR herself. Even more so when consider PRC issued final warning to USSR that ended up in border skirmishes. PRC's actual final warning is "don't say we didn't warn you" has been predictative of PRC kinetic action with near certainty. USSR/India border skirmishes. Korean war against UN. PRC also has directly supported North Vietnam against the French, and threatened UK when they hinted at granting HK independence under Thatcher. That's every NPT nuclear state over territorial/security issues less important than TW. It doesn't always lead to immediate action, but has consistently been prelude to it.
Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
Thank you all for the replies. I picked this one, but the answer is for every other reply. I didn't know about some of these links.

Solving these problems has basically been by job for the past 6 years, for Google's TPU systems and some of the GPU systems (the non-Cloud ones). It is a pity that, after the pandemic, it has been impossible to give similar conference talks at my company (at least if you are employed in Europe, due to restrictions on travel outside one's country).

The Meta sessions are very interesting. I wasn't aware of their work on Arcadia; Nvidia has also their own systems (Nvidia Air / Omniverse) in this area.
llammafile without cosmopolitan is "just" llama.cpp
Julia’s explanations are clear and fun, I hope she keeps doing that for a very long time.
The Doctrine of Useful Objects
> an algorithm that elegantly fits a recursive relationship is rarely one that naturally fits the tail-call paradigm.

That's because tail calls are structured gotos (with arguments). They're not really about recursion or even iteration.

> what is the advantage of [proper tail calls]?

There's a loss of expressiveness [1] without them, similar to the loss of expressiveness when there's no garbage collector.

> if [using proper tail calls] is almost always less performant, it probably isn't a very useful choice.

Don't assume PTC is less performant. There's no intrinsic reason for it to be. After all, the machine should be doing (slightly) less work: a goto instead of a call. Retrofitting it to an existing system can of course lead to a poor implementation, but it is not inherently a slow construct.

[1] Felleisen, Matthias. “On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages.” Science of Computer Programming, vol. 17, no. 1--3, 1991, pp. 35–75, https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-6423(91)90036-W .
> the unconscious mind synthesises its emotional choice, which the conscious mind presents as rational fact. If you want to know how the mind arrived at that conclusion, you've got to go on a fact-finding mission, i.e., asking why.

the more common name for it is post-hoc rationalization.
That wasnt intended as the best example, but the end of a range for predictive specificity (with breakfast being the other end).

After thinking for a while, I think it also depends on your definition of game theory.
Post more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828579
Was this published on april 1st?
It has been a while since I last used it, but I was under the impression that the store location was customisable and thus could be anywhere?
sixth'ed
One thing that is incorrect in this article…

No, do not brush your teeth right after eating as it will wear away at your enamel:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/ex...

Although anecdotally having my teeth clean does make me stop eating like the article says as I find it annoying to floss and brush (but do it anyways).
> Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with?

I think most people in tech have severe imposter syndrome. If they are constantly working in or on something they feel they are falling behind. Or lack the passion to constantly be committing to a Github[0] project. In other professions this simply doesn't happen. Once you have your license, degree, or certification you're validated. You're not on a treadmill to constantly prove your competence.

BTW, I love tech but even I'm starting to get exhausted from the constant need to stay ahead of the curve. Now I do 1-2 certifications a year and leave it at that. Which is about what a practicing CPA would do for work outside of their job.

[0] Github is probably thinking, "now why am I in this?" don't worry you were just an obvious, visible example.
I think gp meant that they can be reordered in a way that is hard to reason about, e.g. {…many-children…, class=""}, putting attributes away from a tag.
I for one was unfamiliar with the Houthi org’s credo and was rather shocked how antisemitic it sounds.

People here don’t quote the Facebook motto often, to be sure, but “move fast and break things” is quoted often as is the old Google one “don’t be evil.”

It doesn’t make sense that quoting the mission statement isn’t helpful information when there isn’t much about the Houthis posted here.
Lifelong musician - I thought from the title that it meant dropping a track on spotify at a specific release time. (I imagined, like, putting out one song from a new album at midnight every night). Most people I know would call this a "break", as in the build-up to where the beat breaks. Probably a generational thing.
Reflections on 2023 and Predictions for 2024
No idea either. Alasdair Gray is definitely a great writer. Is it a Hogmanay thing?
I enjoy being surprised when I start reading an article whose conclusion is the complete opposite of what I expected I was going to have read.
Ew, I hope not. I know lisp, I do not want to be Paul Graham.
Also, similar thread from a month ago https://lobste.rs/s/r8vitn/misty_programing_language_from_cr...
I know a guy that happened to. He was drunk and urinating by the side of the road in plain view and wound up registered as a sex offender. West Texas.

This is his story that I've not independently verified, but I don't think he was an actual sex offender from what I knew of him. He was certainly a drunk though.
Nim on a Real-Time Operating System: Apache NuttX RTOS and Ox64 BL808 SBC
Saying that kids shouldn’t need to study computer science is like saying kids shouldn’t need to read and write because the market for literate people is saturated. Code is the toolset for the modern economy.
I thought it was odd too. I'm the OP. I googled it and changing the title seems like a well-documented occurrence. And I think it's part of their mod policy?

App.net was a small part of the post. I would think that the regulative capture part would be more relevant. But it's their website I guess.
Return the loot? Totally agree. As do the majority of the British population.

Arrogant diplomacy? Yes, you're right. I should point out that any nation with a history of importance would be daft not to play it up, though I really wish we were a lot less active on the world stage (except as part of a multinational grouping like the EU or UN).
As for backing it up, we're still relatively good militarily. That said, even as the 6th or 7th largest economy (depends where you look) we're obviously going down the rankings and our permanent seat and veto on the Security Council for example is a little ridiculous (as is that of France).

Accent? If others still have that perception I'm afraid that's not my fault. Apart from anything I'm a Northener which means my accent is not classical British anyway but, regardless, that's their perception not mine. And even in the US the movie villain is often British.
I'm not denying it happens, but again that's on them.

Most other nations? I've agreed on the other stuff but I'm afraid we're not going to agree on this one. But then, we don't have to and discussion is good.

All about the impressions? Yes. Unfortunately short of stopping global adventuring and subsuming ourselves into a positive-looking EU (or similar) I don't know what we can do about that.

And as for England re-joining the EU? Majority England didn't vote Leave (or Remain to be fair), and to my mind the people who failed to vote in the EU referendum effectively said they were okay with the status quo. Which means I personally think the Leave option, the one seeking change, should have required more than 50% of the electorate and not of the vote - and we'd have stayed in. But it didn't, so we are where we are.

It'll take a generation or so but assuming no environmental collapse we'll re-join the EU or something similar. We'll have to, to retain any influence.

And to be blunt whilst I find very few politicians trustworthy at all, the more I've seen over the last decade the more I realise I prefer the EU over my own government so the sooner the better.

Thanks for the interesting reply :)
The text box seemingly has nothing to do with anything you've clicked on. I was zoomed in to Toronto, looking at the few points there, and the text in the too-small scrolling box was about Norfolk Virginia. That's pretty strange.
Fireballs in the Sky is an Australian citizen science program that invites people around the world to learn about fireball and meteorite science that began with the research of the Desert Fireball Network and has since expanded into the Global Fireball Observatory, a multi-institutional collaboration, with partner networks around the world.

https://fireballsinthesky.com.au/

https://dfn.gfo.rocks/

https://gfo.rocks/

As projects go this has core devices; home camera tubes that recognise paths in the sky and pool these to improve location finding, forums for people collaboration, drone searching, vehicle software (quad bike, cars) for grid searching.

The end goal is finding rocks - ideally big rocks that are older than the earth itself ..

Report a fireball: https://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo/report_intro
Sometimes, the country you are in changes even though you are in the same geographical location. I've had my email address for over a decade longer than the current countries of Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and South Sudan have existed.
I also have a stack of T60's around. I find what happens the most is the right hinge point breaks. Good luck with yours!
> Modern EV’s easily least 25 years.

Source, please?
Blockbuster Alzheimer's paper retracted by former Stanford president
> The A/B upgrade sounds a bit overkill, you can always just pop up a live distro or install a recovery system (on an old version) in a partition in case something goes wrong.

Could, sure, but we have the technology to make it unnecessary and disk isn't that expensive, so why not?
Happy New Year to you all!
NVidia on Linux is an unholy mess, and always has been (at the very least since 2004, which is my earliest memory of fighting it). It's true even on NVidia's own SoC (Jetson).

It almost feels like they're trying hard to make the experience worse for everyone: users, OS developers, app developers, hardware developers... I don't know what to make of it, if you want NVidia you should pick an OS other than Linux (I've heard FreeBSD actually works fine), if you want Linux pick a GPU other than NVidia.
Happy new year all! I’m proud to be an understated member of this community, only commenting briefly but yet coming back here every day to see the some of the most inspiring and incredible comments. I hope 2024 is as good for you all as it can possibly be. Personally I’m looking forward to a new year that is as awesome for my family and myself as I hope for everyone else. Good luck everyone in 2024!
Worse thing is that html snippets are not directly pasteable into your code. For this I wrote me html-to-m tool which I can run on a visual selection in vim with a hotkey. There is a web-based one, but I find its formatting too awful to use.
I've been playing through Dark Souls recently, and I think it captures the ambient presence discussed in the article very well. You see ghosts of other players flickering in and out of existence. You can communicate with others by leaving messages, and you can view their deaths. A bunch of pools of blood left by multiple player deaths will draw your attention and warn you subtly that there's danger ahead.

But the actual multiplayer is constrained. Your offers of help can be accepted by anyone. You can be periodically invaded. There's no communication other than by movement and gestures.

It does feel like the gaming equivalent of sitting alone with other people. You're aware of them, can interact if you so choose, but your experience is still your own.
have you checked on the veracity of this type of contact?
last time for me it was a good time with an old one; but continuing would be just nostalgic bazinga...

anyway i'm surviving and happy new year [+2 days] nerds!!!!!!!11
Yes, this is too pricy for something that shows no examples, and the author asking for improvement advice. I only kinda get what it does, but without examples, I can't tell if it's something that you could just straight up ask ChatGPT to do.
Nah, it was wp-mail-smtp. It completely crashed out on me.

> PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: ActionScheduler_Action::set_schedule(): Argument #1 ($schedule) must be of type ActionScheduler_Schedule, ActionScheduler_NullSchedule given

I've been able to take 2 million hits a day, so it's not that!
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark Abdicates
Agreed. It’s renewable, so who cares if it’s efficient?
That's my point though, you're not using the protocol if you're not federating, unless I'm missing something
Feliz año nuevo !
I thought it could be used to crack private keys?
Who should make videos about the popcorn button?
When do you see AWS Lambda supporting Bun, if ever?
Yeah.. you're right.Sorta works with "Desktop site" enabled on mobile. But better to view on a PC, that's for sure.
Sounds like my friends in finance.
Well, for strength exercise steroids are already a thing, mostly with younger people. What does happen if the elderly take them?
I hear what you’re saying. Yes of course we should aim to make our LLM’s as trustworthy as possible. I think my argument was more philosophical than practical. I meant that directing real anger seems misguided; after all humans lie with intent/real negligence, LLM’s are random number generators.
And ‘don’t believe everything everything you read on the internet’ is something that persists regardless of AI generated content; we shouldn’t expect to lower our guard any time soon. But yes, I agree strongly with how the danger arises because people DON’T treat LLM’s the same and get lulled into a false sense of trust.
We'll forever be addicted to the shared global (or interplanetary at some point) information network, but the phone itself won't be needed forever. I don't think there's a way to get a human to not want to know what other people think about stuff or to more generally get information for free in real time. This plus access to computational power is a pretty good combo.

If the interface is a brain chip or a phone or whatever, it doesn't matter.
He gave a couple of examples. Another one is aggressively treating GERD so that it doesn't devolve into various conditions that lead to stomach or esophageal cancer. It's possible something like this could treat pre-cancerous things too, like Barrett’s esophagus.
I'd only zapped the partition table...

https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/12/03/partitioning-with-debug/
I think the only hope is if the next generation sees it as something that only out of touch old people do...