skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it seems like the fundamental idea is still the same. You have nodes that are connected to each other with strengths that can change according to feedback and complicated logic emerges from that.

That seems like almost fundamental emergent idea that is behind all the intelligence in the World.

It seems to allow for intelligence to occur, without this type of concept everything would just be random and chaotic.

The point is, how amazing it is that complicated behaviour can arise from this simple idea.

At this point it seems, that neural networks should really be taught at schools as soon as possible.
I'm also realizing the enshitification of school, but as a student.

For example, I'm currently worried I might fail my Python class because I'm waiting on tech support for this stupid product the school bought so the teachers wouldn't have to teach. I asked the instructor for help and his response was basically "well shit, hope you get it working because if you don't you fail the class, good luck"

So, what now? Because of their incompetence, because they're too lazy to teach, I'm a failure? Makes no sense at all.
PyPy has definitely had the most success of all other implementations, but it still has a painful warmup period for many workloads. I can't imagine it's an effective option for anyone to install as the default Python implementation on their laptop, for instance. And for many, many years, it had almost no modern Python support (but I'm of course very glad to see it's slowly catching up).

It is encouraging for PyPy to see some influx of money in recent years. But I will continue to patiently wait for it to hit enough of a sweet spot of performance vs usability vs compatibility to see real adoption.
That's a very romantic approach ("good old times"), but it's fundamental broken even if we could implement it.

The late 1930s and 1940s weren't exactly the greatest time to be around, and using that as a yardstick sets us up for a large downhill climb. And then there's the problem that often, changes interact with each other, and their full value (or cost) is only clear when it's together with other inventions.

You can't ask "what would social media in a 1930s society be like, what's the impact". It requires the existence of computers, of the Internet, of ubiquitous device access. These require advanced electronics, rocketry, etc etc.

This also goes in the opposite direction - a "social media is out right away" would end up leaving a ton of people completely isolated. It can't be simply undone, the genie is out of the bottle. (It might also require removing all group texts apps, and you go from there)

We can only do what we've always done - assess risks before implementing, possibly implement, assess actual changes after implementing. There is no idyll we can return to. Only daily work to make things better.
Function pointers between different architectures can be done.

Index into a table, webasm style is the easy option.

Writing a prolog that is valid in both architectures works too, I quite like that one.

You declare one to be the more important (e.g. x64) and do a hash table lookup on the other.

Or the most popular option of crash when calling a pointer from the other arch.
Well said! Here is a phrase from TFA:

> "the phone-based childhood"

We can take this even further: it's a Phone-Based Education and Social Discourse

What has happened in the "Anglosphere" is that we have opened a for-profit Pandora's Box of resentful and manipulative discourse that makes no damned sense to people who are looking to their society for sense and guidance.

As you say, the system is full of manipulative actors. Not all of them are foreign.
They do have a very good podcast, which is free:

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast
Fragile States Index
I always assumed, because they where so similar, that they both were compilers, generating executable code in memory. qbasic just had the option to write a standalone .exe removed. I just saw the quickbasic compiler output, though, no idea if this guess is true. Now I wonder if a compiled executable was faster than an in-memory application.
Roman Legionary gives Latin speech on Roman Triumph [video]
OpenWRT is great and all but if I wanted a really customizable router I'd probably get a Mikrotik.
BT Home Hub 5a, although you do need to disassemble it to flash.

https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a
I think a lot of people are really fed up with the status quo.

Management engines, millions of lines of hdd controller code, bios/firmware blobs that are basically opaque, etc are annoying and prevent me from having control over something I own.

Rightly or wrongly a lot of hope is being put into RISC-V as a way of improving the situation. The open nature of it might make it easier to break monopolies, to get control back of the hardware they own.

It's not about instruction set - its about open source. No different than the people who didn't get that Linux was a big deal because they compared OS features as if that was the primary driver.
I would buy one for sure!

WiFi is always a problem with flashing random devices. If they can build a device that has stable WiFi with external antennas, it would be a game changer.
Jon Haidt's best correlation for social media was roughly 15%. Practically saying it's not social media, but he challenges those to figure out a better answer.

>not just the rise in depression and anxiety, but also the overprotection of children, the rise of “safetyism,” and the shouting down of speakers on university campuses when students deemed the speaker to be “harmful.”

Social media is helping the situation, not making it worse. Though also depends on which social media, there's a bit of a censorship problem with some of them.

I look at the previous generation, how did they socialize? Considering my local city.

Arcades basically don't exist anymore.

Bars are in steep decline because of >100% alcohol taxes and drunk driving laws. $9 beers are the cheap brands and the police park themselves outside bars and pull over you because you might be drunk driving.

Church is non-existent. government shut down many churches in violation of freedom of religion. Church attendance is at record lows. Someone is burning down churches, government doesn't care to investigate.

Clubs were mostly shutdown by the government because vice laws, sexism, etc. Illegal to operate a gentlemans club these day. Strip clubs basically dont exist anymore because of the government. Cannabis clubs are illegal.

Libraries and community centres aren't welcoming to people like me. I cant even go with my 4 year old daughter? I literally do IT work for these libraries but I'm accused of being a child predator and must identify myself and let them record my ID or I must leave? So I leave?

Malls literally have anti-socializing laws. How dare you 'loiter' aka socialize.

Parks now have a huge list of government laws restricting their use. Pretty rare to see other people at parks.

Hell I look at how I socialized, I had a road hockey game going practically all the time. Random boys would be walking by, we'd ask them if they wanted to join. They'd run home and get a stick and come back.

That's illegal now, it's unsafe for kids to play road hockey... I literally haven't seen kids playing road hockey in ages.

Skatepark? They literally built them and then fenced them off because of the hooligan kids... then stopped building them.

So you want to go for a bike ride? But you legally must have a bell/horn, helmets, and kids even legally are required to have knee and elbow pads. Oh and you're limited to 10km/h. Virtually everyone ignores these laws. I did 800km this summer. My daughter got to play at so many empty parks all summer.

Want to walk your dog, you have to keep them on a leash, pick up their poo, dog must be muzzled, only certain breeds are allowed to be outside, you're not allowed to play fetch, or chase or anything like that, on certain hot days you must legally carry water and a dish for your dog, and your dog can't bark too much or that's excessive noise law. So what do you do instead? You stay at home.

Government has basically outlawed in person social interaction. But humans require in person social interaction. Social media is where they are going to get some social interaction, not that it's fulfilling.
Hacker news needs a butthurt marxist flag....

Yet another butthurt marxist misinterpretting (among other things) the fact that free markets evolve into oligopolies to mean twar the whole system apart. The correct interpretation is that we screwed up going full rehnquist and nerd our antitrust enforcement to move back nearer to what it was doing pre rehnquist supreme court.
There is a great video from vinwiki on Lemons, with a lovely story from an actual participant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PmaR2Upn4
> Maybe graph databases are what some folks are looking for.

Beware. These sometimes sell themselves as great for everything ("Look, if you squint, all your data's a graph! Clearly RDBMS is the wrong fit, use our graph database for all of it [and pay us money]!" — the general tone of marketing for at least one major graph database vendor) but tend to have to make interesting performance trade-offs to achieve the kind of quick graph-operation performance they like to showcase.

Step outside the narrow set of things they're good at (sometimes not even including all there reasonable "graphy" sorts of things one might want to do!) and performance may drop to the Earth's core.

They also may be way behind your typical mature RDBMS at things like constraints and transactions, or support far fewer datatypes, which can lead to some real pain.

(this basic pattern actually seems to hold for most attempted RDBMS "killers"—they get hyped as a replacement, but actually their best fit in a sane stack is as a supplement to RDBMS for specific purposes for very particular workloads, if you really, really need them. See also: the wild "NoSQL"/MongoDB hype of some years back)
Does he define computation? I am asking because just about everything could be seen as some form of computation, given no definition, duh.
Of course, that's why there's 1.8MB of compressed JavaScript for a text box and an image. My point being that's it's silly and I'm exasperated with the state of the internet
> massive net wealth transfer to the richest

Those rich people created the wealth. Wealth was not "transferred" to Bill Gates, for example.

Gates created products. He then sold these products to people, who believed those products were worth the money they paid for them - i.e. it was an equal value trade. That is how Gates made money. It wasn't a transfer.

Theft, taxes, donations, subsidies and welfare are examples of a transfer of wealth.
Women are more social, i.e. more agreeable[1], more people-oriented[2], and so on. As such, they will be more susceptible to status anxiety derived from their place in the social hierarchy. Men's social status is more about who you are, what you do, or what you have, and so social hierarchy is less relevant. Social media has massively scaled up the complexity and the stakes of managing one's place in the social hierarchy. Women feel this more acutely than men. Teens even moreso because they are actively negotiating their place in the hierarchy and are less likely to have a rigid social network to fall back on and feel secure in.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0018...
Turning PowerShell into a JavaScript Engine
You don't necessarily need to embed it into the programming language itself to get a ton of value. XTDB (https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb) offer a Clojure, Java and HTTP API for interacting with the database, which is bitemporal and lets you query the database for a specific point in time for example.
How about this: ACID RDBMS in many cases are sugar. That is, they provide very NICE features, but those features can be implemented in other ways. In the cloud world, the sugar may not be worth the costs.

I think the weak case is much stronger than the strong case - that is, you can refactor to remove RDBMS dependencies; but that moves the complexity elsewhere.
Introducing DJI FlyCart 30
> meanwhile, the front server waits for all chunks to arrive, which takes 1 minute 100 ms, then sends their concatenation to you, which takes 10 minutes

It doesn’t have to wait for all chunks to arrive, but can start streaming the moment it has the first byte (for some protocols, it may even send you chunks out of order, and start streaming the moment it has _any_ byte)

Also, if throughput from the server to you is higher than that of a single disk, the second case can get the file to you faster. As an extreme example, if that throughput is over ten times that of a single disk, sending the complete file to you can take close to 1 minute.

Having said that, if it has to combine X out of Y > X streams to produce the actual data, getting that will be slower than retrieving a single stream because retrieval times will have some variability.
I have tried two G.iNet devices. One completely stopped turning on, and the other the specs were so low it could barely keep up.
They didn't claim authority, they disclaimed arguing by authority: "I worked at AWS [...] And it doesn't really matter. [please address] the substance of my comment".
If this work is valuable, the random seed shouldn't affect the outcome thaaat much.
Zapping Baby Plant Roots with Electricity Boosts Growth by 50%
See https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bates-v-...

(posted in another comment here)

> the actual technical fault

There were numerous issues, no single fault.
This. When I see television news I continually wonder: why are there no mentions of so much important news the Eye is covering?
>you'll hear about a story in Private Eye years before it gets to the national press or the BBC.

Still waiting to hear why a certain young person (of very modest accomplishments) made it into the House of Lords. Given the absence of any reporting by PE on this, it seems that rumours of a 'super injunction' might be true.
> Before, one collaborator had them in a chat sneering about chattr

"Wow this thing looks crappy"

> checking their Javascript

"I wonder if it is crappy"

> then getting a GUI pwn tool for firebase.

"Huh, it seems crappy. Let's just check to be sure"

> with a disclosure policy of 'we emailed them once and they fixed ...'

"Well, this thing is really crappy. we don't want to harm people. Let's tell them about how crappy it is to avoid harm"

> and didn't email us back so we'll just publish'

"They fixed the thing, nobody will be harmed. We still think it's crappy so let's talk about it"

Why wouldn't they go public at this point? They've gotten nothing else out of it, and since the issue has been fixed there is zero harm to customers. Do you propose they go like

"Hey company, we found this really embarrassing thing you did. I see you fixed it now, so can we talk about it"

silence

"Oh well the company didn't say anything so we won't talk about it. So sad"

In what world do we not hold companies accountable? In what world do we blame the people who find these issues for free?
See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940277
The $440M Software Error at Knight Capital (2019)
I have to agree totally with the propaganda and electioneering angle of some aspects news.

But it does feel like there is a lot of "content" that isn't there for that reason and is just included as part of the news for the purpose of distraction. Maybe there's a question of what section of the newspaper/site we are looking at and the type of story in it.
This is a nice status page, clear and honest progress updates.
In comparison to other generations? Yeah, they are.
Capitalism solved many problems, like regular famines.
I agree this might be the distinction. Communities are too permeable. The constant conflict we're seeing now reminds me a lot of e.g. harry potter fandom ship raids, except at a broad scale and for everything. We're not hissing about how people who want Harry and Hermione to fuck are dirty traitors to Ron and Hermione, we're trying to get someone's source of healthcare (employment) to kick them off for whatever they said about Ukraine/Russia.
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I feel like the title massively underplays the accomplishment. This is now the number two preferred LLM response in a blind comparison, only behind GPT-4. For a model created by a small team in Paris to be ahead of Gemini Pro, Claude, GPT-3.5, etc. is beyond impressive.
No, they're not. It's actually quite rare for that to happen.

Nobody uploaded Stranger Things S4 in UHD until after the season had finished for example.
A good progression I think is these books in order and 2 labs:

- Kurose, Computer Networks a top down approach

- tcp/ip illustrated volume 1

- the no starch tcp/ip book

For labs,

- at your workplace or homelab, I’d click through the network configs in your cloud. This hits maybe on “modern networking,” although the theories in the books will match to what you see in cloud just maybe with cloud product names. Reading through terraform repos is also good

- GNS3 lab software to build networks you read about in those books.

Or tbh, just doing a net+ cert would get you in a good place for basic competency to augment a dev job.

Top of mind - there is a logic to it and it’s quite interesting technology. Learn to thing in terms of protocols and their rules and it’ll open up.
Confessions of a Former SVB Executive
Yes, the way the incentives are aligned ensures nobody ever goes to jail and the little guy pays all the bills.
> take appropriate actions to ensure that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does not grant exemptions that could endanger public safety

Appreciate your contributing this. Some modest critique: I would be concerned about this language going to GOP members, as it sounds like a bias for regulation, which means you’re not one of their primary voters. (Same for “our priority must be the safety and well-being of everyone who flies,” which leaves out the economic benefits of flying to everyone on the ground.)

You’re also focussing on the exemption as the root cause to an event with an unfinished investigation. Unless you think your member’s staffers were genuinely unaware of this exemption, it doesn’t add anything to mention it.

Finally, form letters can be powerful. But they’re also dehumanising. You’re looking for the coordinator, as opposed to a sea of independent complaints coming in from your members. Better than nothing. But a quick paragraph in your own voice is more powerful
> Roads lead back to SQL because it became a de facto industry standard for "relation-like" stuff.

But what was in question is why SQL is the standard. Did it take that position because of its deviation? If so, that would suggest the theory doesn't just work. Without actually profiling, I suspect that the deviation allows some real-world optimizations to take place, enabling SQL databases to be faster than something with strict adherence to the theory. That would be a good reason why you might have to choose SQL over a strict alternative.

> Can you give an example of a query that cannot be expressed well in relational algebra

Seems not. CloudFlare blocked the submission, complaining that I was submitting a SQL query, which it thinks is a security concern for some reason...

In lieu, just think about what a relation is and how SQL is not relational. Even some of the simplest select queries you can imagine can demonstrate your request.
> It shows structured results from Spotify and Uber on the r1's screen. Does it have custom integration with all those apps?

Yeah there is a screenshot of a list of logins floating around, uber and spotify were on it.

Wouldn't be too interested in having it logging in to my account on a cloud machine on other things.
"But in the long term, when you pattern yourself after the NFL in order to get some of their television juice, when you jettison the traditions and orthodoxies that made people fall in love with the sport in the first place, you stop being college football: You simply become Minor League NFL. And no one cares about minor league anything."

This pretty much sums-up college football today: it has no future. When you throw out all of the traditions you're left with a bunch of kids playing football. I can watch that on Friday night for a lot less money - and support my local community.
I'm sorry, I must have missed that. I'm not sure what non-gaming applications could take off, to be honest. Some ideas:

- VR meetings in my opinion feel better than 2D Zoom calls - but I don't see companies buying VR headsets for this purpose for their employees

- Education: There's definitely some cool stuff here, but hard to monetize I think (did something in this space a few years ago)

- Non-gaming entertainment, such as watching movies on big screens. This could be the next big area for VR after gaming.

- Fitness. You could count this as gaming, but specific fitness apps are really popular and I would define fitness as a separate category.
I’m not, I’ve been at this for a while. It’s very strong bias of those in the tech industry that there’s no problem with radio frequency electromagnetic radiation. I was the same way. I was a network engineer for Cisco Systems from 1996 to 2000. I would’ve said the same thing before I realized it affected me in the late 201Os. There’s been such strong propaganda from the telecommunications industry because of the money involved. Just the fact that people keep saying “radiation comes from the sun as well” is proof of this fact sis, it ignores the fundamental science of how radio frequency telecommunications work. Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to comment about my post being flagged.

I’m not gonna post on hacker news anymore, there’s just too much noise.
Hey all —

Posted this yesterday in the e-ink photo gallery thread and it seemed to get some traction based on analytics so posting it properly here.

A few months ago I wanted to send a collection of images to a friend. Ideally one that could be edited after the fact. I was surprised to find that doing this was near impossible or required a signup/auth flow for some service I know I would never use again. Not only this but most services, even if you signed up, were bad. They didn't put images at the focus, and seemed to not really even know why they existed.

So I built this website:

https://mood.site/

It's a SPA where, when you visit the page, a new board + edit key is generated. You can immediately start adding images to the board via drag and drop/upload button/paste/etc. and will see the images immediately. To share the board, just copy the unique URL and it send it to someone (it also works on mobile). If you don't want them to have the ability to edit the images, send the url without the edit key.

There's a few other nice things (maybe some frills?) that I added in, like image deletion/resize, but the other accidental killer feature (imo) is that you get an API (check the network traffic for the URL) that is validated based on the edit key. So you can easily tie this up to anything (for add/get/delete, etc.). One thing I've done is build an iOS shortcut app where I can copy any image and click an icon on my home screen and it automatically adds it to a board I setup:
https://mood.site/WvP4xd6x

Here's the shortcut as well:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f6f83579522248e9a93de51016b...

Here's some other boards for examples:
https://mood.site/Prp_-CPS
https://mood.site/v1D7mbwJ
https://mood.site/uTa0dBxy

Interested to hear what people think! I've got a big list of features I'd like to add and some idea about a payment structure, but in general right now just want to get the word out.
Yay, have fun debugging Mariposa programs!