skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some sobering statistics here

https://ideas.bkconnection.com/10-awful-truths-about-publish...

Summary: over 2 million self-published books each year in the US alone.

Now think about blogs. But as a reader, I don’t find this much of a problem. Yes, I rely on book reviews and recommendations by friends and on author name recognition. But that seems a lot better than relying on advertisements and Amazon’s algorithm anyway. And it’s pretty much what people have done for centuries with bookshops and libraries.
Yeah, I don’t disagree.

But in some sense , when could any photo be trusted ? We’ve had airbrushing, CGI forever now.
If you're just looking for init and service management, the S6 system (and its wrapper 66suite) are pretty good. It's the only alternative that seems to match Systemd for feeling like a modern tool in my opinion, rather than a relic of the old days.
> (except I will take static typing over dynamic typing any day)

Why? What exact typesystem do you prefer over Python's dynamic typing? A lot of its idioms, and probably e.g. NumPy/SciPy infrastructure would be about impossible with current static typesystems (look at the mess that is C++ scientific/ndarray libraries). Ditto for much of the autodiff and GPU stuff like pytorch.

Julia could perhaps get there, but the implementation has too many warts for it to take over.
>but maybe something would emerge? Some indie games or open source projects live off donations. Kickstarters exist. And of course completely free art exists

Sure - "free" (or efectively "free" (to the majority of users/enjoyers) items exist

Patronage existed for millennia before the Rennaissance (and does still ... albeit in the form of member-only access and/or "publicly-funded" works)

But ... that model leads to markedly closed-off generation of new work - either it is generated for private use, it is generated for "specific" public use (eg to enjoy the statue in the town square), or (in a very small handful of cases) is generated on the "good graces" of the creator (eg Tom Lehrer turning his work over to the public domain a couple years ago ... though for the previous 50+ years, it was all under copyright (and, FWIW, still is copyrighted by Lehrer, it has just been opened to the public))
> This hasn't changed with Apple Silicon.

The first part of your comment is correct. This part is not true for any benchmark I’ve seen - it’s possible to detect thermal throttling on the Air models but it requires uncommonly heavy workloads and takes much longer to kick in than it did with the Intel processors. In practice, a software developer who isn’t running LLMs locally will likely never hear the fan on their MacBook Pro or experience throttling on an Air.
Like a Phoenix, it will rise again.
Here's what ChatGPT thinks it might look like. Folks often say these models produce generic boring paragraphs, but I think this is quite imaginative!

User
If an LLM learning model were to be physically manifested, what would it look like? A simple object like furniture? A living animal? A star? Something else? Please speculate.

ChatGPT
The concept of physically manifesting a machine learning model like LLM (Large Language Model) is purely speculative and imaginative, as current AI models exist only in the digital realm. However, if we were to explore creative and symbolic representations, here are a few speculative ideas:

A Shapeshifting Sculpture:

Imagine a dynamic, ever-changing sculpture that morphs and reshapes itself to represent the constantly evolving nature of a language model. It could have different elements symbolizing various linguistic concepts and patterns, reflecting the adaptability and versatility of the model.

A Neural Network Garden:

Picture a serene garden with interconnected pathways and nodes representing neural connections. Each flower or plant could symbolize a different aspect of language, and the growth and interactions within the garden could illustrate the learning process of the model.

An Ethereal Cloud Entity:

Envision a floating, nebulous cloud-like entity with swirling patterns and textures. This could symbolize the vast storage and processing capabilities of the model, floating effortlessly in the digital space while processing information and generating language.

A Celestial Constellation:

Think of a constellation of stars arranged in a complex pattern, with each star representing a key aspect of language understanding. The brightness and connections between the stars could depict the strength and intricacy of the model's learning and comprehension abilities.

A Quantum Particle Dance:

Visualize a dance of quantum particles, with each movement representing the model's computations. The uncertainty and unpredictability inherent in quantum mechanics could symbolize the creativity and sometimes surprising outputs of language models.

Remember, these are purely imaginative concepts, and the true nature of machine learning models is rooted in algorithms, data, and computations rather than physical form.
I was going to write a response but you've put what I would have said perfectly. The problem, at least in academia, is the pressure to publish. There is very little incentive to write maintainable code and finalise a project to be something accessible to an end user. The goal is to come up with something new, publish and move on or develop the idea further. This alone is not enough reason not to partake in practices such as unit tests, containerisation and versatile code but most academic code is written by temporary "employees". PhD's a in a department for 3-4 years, Post Doc's are there about the same amount of time.

For someone to shake these bad practices, they need to fight an uphill battle and ultimately sacrifice their research time so that others will have an easier time understanding and using their codes. Another battle that people trying to write "good" code would need to fight is that a lot of academics aren't interested in programming and see coding as simply as means to an end to solve a specific problem.

Also, another bad practice few bad practices to add to the list:

* Not writing documentation.

* Copying, cutting, pasting and commenting out lines of code in lieu of version control.

* Not understanding the programming language their using and spending time solving problems that the language has a built in solution for.

This is at least based on my own experience as a PhD student in numerical methods working with Engineers, Physicists, Biologists and Mathematicians.
It wasn't at cruising height yet so there wasn't as much pressure difference.

Also in this case it didn't open inward, it fell off.
This is quite a balanced take on the matter. Appreciated!
> why would it be bad to advertise the position?

Not an expert but from what I understand a position of this level should ideally be filled internally by reassigning or promoting a officer that is already serving. These posts are really important and need someone with decades of experience in the navy. It is terrible if they cannot find someone internally.
EFF Urges Pa Supreme Court to Find Keyword Search Warrant Unconstitutional
> I prefer my init scripts to handcrafted by local artisans. Each time the computer boots up is an objet d’art.

In all seriousness this is a wonderful article. Has the author/op seen this talk[0] by a FreeBSD developer on systemd?

What I like about the talk is asking about what is going to happen when we need to move on to newer ways of doing things that will have advantages and disadvantages over the old way. We can see a similar story with X11 and Wayland. Systemd does do some things better than the old way but does have flaws.

[0]:https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo
I use mini-pomodoro to build momentum when I can’t get started.

Start with 2-3 minutes “work”, 1 minute break. Keep bumping those up toward 25/5.

Usually by the time I’ve done a few rounds, I don’t want a break and I’ve got my momentum, and I ditch the cycles and just work.

This works surprisingly well for me even at a micro level, like exercise 10 seconds, break for 5 seconds, repeat. Before I know it I’m just exercising uninterrupted for 20 minutes.

I left out one part: clap for yourself

The process is more like:

* Pick something

* Do it

* Clap for yourself

* Repeat

And the key is to make “do it” as small as necessary to keep the cycle going, then expand it once the human reward system takes over.
Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max fleet
> Perhaps we should look at $/energy unit

But then also consider the change in this price as energy consumption changes, as a result of jobs becoming AI.
I'm guessing it has more to do with the shame of not having a pool of obvious candidates available. An admiral who has no subordinates or peers who are qualified for the position?
I toured the office as a candidate intern over two decades ago, when they showed me their computer cluster and demonstrated their news video closed captioning system, which successfully performed live diarization. The engineer was quite proud, and I was impressed too. Another engineer asked me about OCR. This was during the start of the Iraq War. I think they must have been busy sifting through all the data that involved.

On the subject of ARPANet, anyone remember the Internet2, mobile ad hoc networks, cognitive radio networks, sensor networks, and mesh networks? A whole bunch of technologies that went nowhere, sucking up researchers. In my youthful ignorance, I got sucked in too.
Yeah - but not nearly so far-fetched as imagining than the British might be competent, decent, and far-sighted rulers. Of a distant land. Peopled by natives so very different from themselves.
Agreed with what the others said. Kind of like a custard when ripe.

But, what I didn't like was it was overwhelmingly like the worst parts of the flavor of banana, amplified. Maybe it was the ones that I tried and there are other varieties, but that overwhelming banana flavor was what I disliked. Stronger than your regular bananas.
aweb and ibrowse are definitely more popular still.

aweb works on every Amiga and is open-source, but bad support for current www, and quite unmaintained.

ibrowse requires 68020, is reasonably fast but sadly proprietary. Better support for current www, but not great.

netsurf has probably the best support, but is the slowest, needs a lot of RAM and crashes a lot in my experience. It is probably much better with RTG, which I do not have.

Most of the time I'll just use AmiGemini. It is very fast and supports Gopher/Spartan/Finger besides the Gemini I find horribly designed and personally do not care about.

(mainly use my A1200, 68030 @ 50)
People seem to think "marketing" means "making ads for an already completed product". That is not what it means.
Can you elaborate on your thoughts regarding Wickham?
> Files spread in umpteen directories

Tools and frameworks encourage this. Git and VS code are build around directories. In VS code the first thing in the sidebar is the explorer. When you press Ctrl+P you see an overview of files. File-System based routing.

But directories lack a crucial feature compared to text: Ordering. If I put everything in one file, I can order it in a way that makes sense. If I put everything in different files and directories, it's all going to be ordered alphabetically.
One vote won't make a difference either, should people not vote?

I'm not saying the FAA shouldn't also intervene, I'm simply pointing out that consumers almost always seem to ignore their own power in the situation.

What you're describing feels much like a tragedy of the commons problem. If I chose not to fly everyone else still will and I'll be left driving around like a schmuck. I might as well fly too, and when I'm worried about safety I'll just call for more regulation.
> Refuelling the Rav4 is an errand that takes time

Sure.

> , planning

A little.

> , and mental energy.

C'mon now.
I was a big skeptic earlier on, but I have come to appreciate systemd in recent years. That said, the section on resolved is a big one–it has been one of the only things that consistently causes me annoyance over the three years since I started primarily using Linux on the desktop.

After one particularly deep rabbit hole where I never actually solved a problem where local network mDNS lookups always took exactly 6 seconds, I wound up disabling it entirely in favor of unbound, which works great but revealed that a handful of other things seem to expect resolved to be present and won’t work properly without it.
There used to be paid options. They sent a notice a couple years ago saying it was going completely free, but with that support has subsided. For example their mobile app is no longer compatible with latest versions of Android.
Ask HN: Are there any conferences for bootstrapped hardware businesses?
What conferences are most useful to bootstrapped businesses that design and sell hardware as their primary source of revenue?
Did anyone else pick up on a condescending undertone off of this article towards people who don't like reading? Reading this felt like the author was saying "I love reading, and if you don't, you're wrong."

Regardless, this is the same argument as the one being made about AI taking artists' jobs.
My company used sendmail to interface with our one very large and several smaller web sites that interfaced with our C applications running the whole business. Any other mail software required too much fiddling to get an interface to work, if it was possible at all.

We loved sendmail.
There's already more good books than what you could read in your lifetime.
Which means you have to pick them wisely. Which means good services that pick the best books for you are valuable. And: the key problem with AI here is the risk of drowning quality content in the sea of nonsense or, worse, disinformation. But it's not limited to just books but content in general. So: let's sharpen our focus to choose wisely what we consume and support content curators who preselect the best stuff for us
I am confused. Why was this downvoted with no child comments?
I'm not quite sure the connection here. What does running a rocketry program have to do with whether one chooses to fly on someone else's plane?
> Generation Z is not joining the armed forces in the way my generation did

Why aren't the kids joining the military? Did something happen in the last few decades that made them rethink it as a career option, possibly?
You've just moved the point where we make the arbitrary choice to here:

> You can interpret "A or B" as a set union and "A and B" as a set intersection.

{True, False, Or, And} and {False, True, And, Or} are two different naming conventions for the exact same structure: the unique boolean algebra on two elements.
look at the impact Omegle had and tell me it wasn't worth pursuing even if all those criticisms ended up being correct.
How would organized crime benefit from setting up an illegal FTP?

It just cut in their profits of selling pirated CDs with movies or software
Well, that would contribute to your when brand new statement. Isn't this a quality assurance nightmare to the point where one must wonder if innumerable customization options is a desirable attribute?
Thus was seen by many as a waste when built, but really it works better than in Germany in terms of quality of experience.
Not just the code itself, but the author. I worked with a guy that wrote at least one bug every time he created a PR.
I choked seeing how frontend was relegated to a single box at the end of the diagram, given that it's complexity often dwarfs the rest of the system. Most backends these days can be had out of the box by using something like Supabase, AppWrite, Firebase or tons of others. These days web app backends seem almost too trivial to bother.
> my concerns boil down to the fact that the adoption it has seen has lead indirectly (or, directly) into a monoculture;

Were there multiple implementations of sysv-init being used by different distros on Linux before systemd came along?
I've never seen The Book of Kells in person, but I have seen The Belles Heures, and it's imprinted in my mind as one of the most incredible works of art I've ever seen.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470306

If you're ever in NYC, do yourself a favor and make your way up to The Cloisters - it's housed there. Very cool museum even aside from this.
I doubt it was monetarily worth it before expect for a handful of people with a following from somewhere like a blog
Check out Alfred North Whitehead, process philosophy, and some of the thinkers that have been influenced by him. They incorporate evolution and change much more than basically any religious thinker from prior eras.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_theology
> ...y-c-o-n fuck. y-c-o-m-b-u fuck y-c-o-m-b-i-m fuck etc
Makes me think of SerenityOS. Although I have not heard it stated the motivation in that way, seems it arrived at a similar conclusion.
Most writers write because they want to write and think they have something to say. Very, very few make money. Ted Chiang made this point in the lecture I linked to elsewhere in this thread
I'm not cynical. I'm just tired of people making wild claims which inevitably don't pan out. Neural networks are the exact opposite of this. They became popular because people SHOWED that they were useful. The early papers on perceptrons and later feedforward NNs SHOWED that they are capable of solving classification problems at the very least. Those mentioned in my original reply have shown NOTHING for all their grandiose claims about human brains and "thought". If your theory works, then go ahead, IMPLEMENT HUMAN THOUGHT. Until then, stop writing about how you "solved" one of the deepest and most profound mysteries in human history.
This. 100%. In an developed country, the lifetime labour cost to maintain a clean changing room and shower room far exceeds the build cost. To be clear: A different way to think about this issue: As long as cleaning staff are paid living wages, I think this is a good way to expand your economy. Some people want to use commercial gyms; let's make it the source of good jobs.
"Nobody was willing to solve" is a bit of a stretch when upstart got shipped at pretty much the same time. (Sponsored by the commercial home of a particular Linux distribution -- but so was systemd.)
I have been programming for over 20 years. I've developed everything from small in-house applications to systems in critical infrastructure... But the working mood and work deployment depends mainly on the setup of the internal company policy :)
Krishnamurti and Bohm on the ending of time

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1n30s-LKus4MyNuceRoFAes5...
I ... am similarly curious

Closest I could find in a quick search on Electronic Design is The Things Conference ... https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications...
Enable Automatic Updates for Ubuntu Server
I thought "tob" was a typo in the HN submission but no, it's right there on their website.
None of the internal candidates qualified to do the job are interested, which says something.
This was partially solved by the internet and Google Books although there's still a lot of room for improvement. We really need to get all of the books in the world digitized and behind an API that allows anyone to access all of the content with some sane pricing scheme rather than charging per book. I doubt this will ever happen so the best we can hope for are the various efforts to pirate as many books as possible and make them available for download. It would be a dream to have a really good search over all of the written works of mankind though.
En3D: An Enhanced Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Humans from 2D
> I suggest learning about C++ ranges and CUDA algorithms.

I’m familiar.

> Parenthesis and brackets have nothing to do with how high level a language happens to be.

I would argue readability and expressiveness do, though. When someone is talking about high level languages in the context of Python, they don’t mean in terms of instructions, registers, and interrupts.

> BLAS in JavaScript would certainly be faster than Python, this is what is being discussed here.

No, it explicitly is not. You originally replied to my comment that it was impressive how Julia in this case was competitive with Fortran and much faster than Python.

You agree that no JavaScript JIT is going to make it as fast as C/C++/Fortran, right?

> Again the dynamism excuse.

Julia is a dynamic language, so I’m not sure what excuse you think I’m making. The reality is that the languages you cited generally are not competitive with C/C++/Fortran. The reality is that none of the languages you cited are even being considered for those applications. The reality is that languages that have had massive investment in a JIT like JavaScript are still relatively slow.

Julia seems to be different than the other dynamic languages you cited in this regard. Why do you think the relatively small investments in Julia have been able to achieve this while others, often with more resources, have failed? I think it probably has something to do with the language design.
Huh, McCarthy meets Palahniuk?
I find that "art programming" has a tight feedback loop. So using things like Puredata, or SuperCollider, or even poking around in with ShaderToy, you get instant feedback on your tweaks. You might want to also checkout OpenFrameworks.
Not sure if it's real or not, but on my university I'm almost sure python is used primarily for being the free alternative to matlab.

That, and how easy it is to install and import things.
Are u on Twitter? Would love to chat online as I’m building something tangentially in this space (not directly competing with you at all)
> authors tried to eek out an existence

* eke out

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eke_out
I like the idea of the product. (I work for FusionAuth and we have a passkey solution, but the more folks who offer this the better, IMO.)

I tried to sit up for the app on with chrome on my android device. It looks like it captured the passkey but didn't send the verification email (or maybe it hasn't landed yet). When I try to login I see "user not verified" and can't proceed further.

When I try to sign up but my email address was already registered, I get the unfriendly message "failed to fetch" :)

I assume you are using the library for your app. If so, would be awesome to get these rough edges fixed.

I also think that it would benefit from a simple example app, even an express one. That would let folks play with it easily.
Didn't stop them from joining companies such as Facebook, Uber, etc. though...
I used to say the same thing, then a random (maybe not so random) YouTube suggestion taught me that PHP 8 is a _very_ different language than what I got burned with back in the day (PHP 4)
Can you give an example of a book published after, say, 2000 that is really valuable for insights we would not be able to get from either older books (if related to the human condition) or news articles (if more to do with some bare fact)?

I read mostly books written before the World Wars and I’m doubtful there’s much after that period of any real and lasting value. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy some of it, of course, mostly the fiction. The exception might be really niche works of local history, which is probably <0.001% of all such books, or a few really good scientific/mathematical compendiums.
Strongly considering donating to the creator of Visidata, it's one of the terminal tools I can't live without. I use it every day.
If you look at religion, folklore, mythology, as metaphors, then you really can’t exclude anything as a religion, that includes science, which is also a metaphor. All language is a metaphor. Science as you practice it today, to me, is also a religion. I don’t mean that to denigrate science in anyway. We need metaphors to make the infinite more manageable.

And by metaphor I mean a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.