skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes me feel old when it all requires a nostaligic introduction.

>But I’ve been surprised at sort of the evolution away from self-generated content and more toward centralized programing and more toward sort of the self-promotion that we’ve seen on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok

I think that hits two points, the centralization point is spot on, but maybe what it doesn't say is the lower technical barrier of entry for people to put content online, and Wordpress had a big part to play in that, maybe also being stepping stone for people to understand that the web wasn't a dark geeky place and it was mainstream for people to put their lives/thoughts/stuff/products online. And the social networks continued on from that.

Unfortunately the centralisation prevents simple access to info. I see on facebook nowadays if I expand comments logged out I reach some kind of rate limit, one that doesn't exist if you sign up. Not great, some local services treat Facebook as their primary output of info.

Alternative means of information discovery and simple access to web pages imo were the spirit of the web.

Cookie banners and other interruptions to viewing a page are well known pains in the neck. Information discovery means are throttled by 5 or so big companies in SV.
Discussed here many times with the case of curl (see backlog).
> All of these arguments seem totally compatible with anarchism, especially the type of modernism-questioning anarchism that would stem from anthropology.

Given that virtually all political theories stem from the structuralist assumptions being questioned, I'm not sure where that leaves us with respect to political labels.

Personally I read Graeber because he's persuasive and argues well. He represents his own political views far more genuinely and forthrightly than the vast majority of people who put a lot of weight in labeling per se.
It's not consistent across species because different species have different mechanisms for averting tumor growth. But within species (certainly among humans, and I'm pretty sure also among others), more cells means more opportunities for something to go wrong and so more cancer.
Cessationism.

It's been a big part of the modernistic bent of the dominant Calvinistic protestant denominations. It was also drove the focus on literacy and certainly influenced the trend towards academic and textual rigor.

Widely abandoned in the U.S. only quite recently by low and high protestant calvanistic conservative groups alike.

Pentecostal and charismatic groups have been around obviously but weren't taken too seriously and were even warned against by dominant evangelicalism, but that has relatively recently changed in conservative Presbyterian circles and influential groups in baptist circles like Sovereign Grace Churches (though they aren't baptist, they've become heavily culturally entwined via southern seminary and other places).

This has basically reintroduced miracles and promoted an embrace of magical thinking in laity's daily life that was long absent from those bookish, stuffy, severe, and practical protestants.
Nagara Style
"Eventual consistency"

1) there is a network

2) on each block, a leader is selected to make the next block on the basis of a lottery -- each lottery ticket is a unit of computing done ("proof of work")

3) if the network splits, each subnet has a different leader and a different sequence of blocks from that point onwards

4) when the network comes back together, a new "agreed history" is formed from the last shared block, selecting the block with the most "work" done

and resulting in the transactions which were done and confirmed in the smaller subnet being thrown out and history rewritten as if they had never existed

This is the genius of Satoshi -- he figured out that something this trashy was good enough to get something done. Nobody in an academic setting would ever have considered that as a worthwhile solution I don't think.

It was madness. But it worked. It's the same kind of genius as Ethernet just rebroadcasting packets until something works rather than doing Token Ring type negotiation about who can talk next.

Worse really is better at times.
Its a play on words, with the deadly nightshade plant. Poison is also the same play on words.

And folks, this is why the "softer arts" are just as much needed, cause even simple literary artistic devices are /whoosh.
none of these solutions (especially for images) are robust at all. fundamentally this is not a technology that is going to work
It doesn't help that google is actively blocking ad-hoc Wi-Fi on Android.
Open an incognito tab and read what it says.
/g for grin. /G big grin that shows teeth
Good idea, methinks. Anything that brings chip manufacturing back home is a win.
Also check: https://localsend.org/

Apps are available for all platforms, and it's possible to achieve transfer over a LAN connection.
> It's interesting how many strategies Rust tried before settling on linear types.

Rust doesn’t actually have linear types. I’m not sure what Rust’s types are called (affine?), but linear types are the “must be consumed” (can’t leak) types, and Rust doesn’t have any support for this.

Rust’s guarantee is that you MUST NOT use an object after dropping it. Linear types would add the additional requirement that you MUST drop the object.
Gitlab 16.8 Released
I'm not who you asked, but yes this is correct. If the photos are from the phone's camera they will be in the DCIM folder. There is also a Pictures folder that stores photos downloaded from other apps. At least, that is how my Pixel Fold is.
When I was an engineer in the offshore drilling business in the early 80s, when we were in the office (not on a rig or in a shipyard), it was very common to call up a vendor to take us out for lunch and a couple beers. Usually that was it but there were days we took the afternoon off.

Alcohol at lunch in a business setting was much more widespread at the time.
What was an overreaction? I ignored it and got on with the task.

My reaction was to comment about it later under a post on Hacker News about WFH.
I once wrote a non-conservative generational GC for C++ just as an exercise, with the constraint that I could only use standard C++ (it was in C++17).

It worked based on a template type I called "gc_ptr<T>". So you could create one of these with the function template "make_gc(...)". This was the only way you could allocate a new garbage-collected object.

"make_gc" would check if a type descriptor for the type was already initialized and if not it would allocate a new one. It would then set a thread_local with the descriptor and the address of the current object being created.

Then it would call the object constructor.
If the type being instantiated had gc_ptr members, these would be initialized by their constructor. The gc_ptr constructor would, in turn, check the descriptor of the parent object and add a record to it representing the member. The record would store the member offset calculated from its address and the one of the parent object.

Garbage-collected objects would also use reference counting for gc_ptr(s) on the stack or inside objects that were not garbage-collected. It's easy to know if a gc_ptr is being constructed inside a garbage-collected object or not: If it is, then the code is also executing inside make_gc, so I just need a thread_local flag.

For the mark and sweep, I would use an atomic flag to mark the GC as running. If the flag was set, then all gc_ptr would stop the thread (by waiting on a mutex) as soon as some code would try to swap/reassign them.
This means that code that didn't touch them would be kept running during garbage collection.

I would start marking objects from those allocated in the custom arena I used that had a reference count different from zero.

I wanted to add containers that could allocate contiguous GC'ed objects by wrapping the standard containers but never finished that.
GC'ed containers of gc_ptr(s) just worked fine.

I just re-ran the benchmarks I wrote to compare it against the Boehm-Demser-Weiser GC. It is quite faster in doing the mark-and-sweep (up to an order of magnitude faster with thousands of objects and a bit less than 100 MBs of GC'ed memory in total).

However, because of the atomic check, it was slower in swapping pointers by roughly an order of magnitude.

I never used it in any project.
I disagree, it's more an argument that even though advancement of human capability can bring great gains (defeating the dragon) we need to pursue equitability in these gains or otherwise they are unethically allocated.

The rising tide should raise ALL boats, otherwise inequitability will lead to social instability as seen througout human history so far.
Anybody who has lived in India will know exactly how wrong your numbers are. Saying that "every single person in my cohort has a package in excess of 50L" does not make you sound any more credible.

The numbers don't lie.
The euphemism treadmill strikes again.

It’s a linguistic process that has been academically studied and is surprisingly straightforward once you have it laid out in front of you it’s basically “once we acknowledge word as bad, people use new_word so they can be bad without other people knowing it yet”

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill
Looking back through this thread I should have highlighted the distinction between English and Anthropology.

> Speak for yourself, but we're very much qualified to opine on this since we have a 70 year track record of having linguists in the room never working.

70 years working next to another discipline and you didn't learn anything?

> In the same vein, I highly doubt high school teachers have any special insights into the most effective way to implement instructing LLMs or transfer learning.

The idea is to build analogies between the two domains so you can see how they approach similar or interesting problems. You're rummaging through Education's garage, looking for tools to steal.

You're the one who's supposed to have the useful insights.
Considering the shipping industry right now uses the absolute worst, most polluting terrible fuels they can find as soon as they're in international waters, we have absolutely zero chance they will handle the risks of nuclear responsibly.
On of the joys of House Assistant, is that its a forcing function for getting everything interfaced into one place. There is a brilliant plugin for interfacing (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/enphase_envoy/)

The work exploring the APi is excellent, and a very good write up. You should still read it.
That may be true, but I'm guessing you're not going to improve the situation without better wages. People likely don't get into this field in order to pursue a passion for tissue theft.
Good point, especially that intelligence doesn’t quite scale. Many (most?) of our problems are hard to solve due to lack of data/experimentation over lack of intelligence. And more intelligence won’t help with the infinite scalability of complexity.
C# has Using. When the block ends the destructor is called.

VB Classic has reference counting and the terminate event is fired when the count goes to zero. So as long as you don't store the reference in a global the terminate event is guaranteed to run when it goes out of scope (so long as you don't have circular references of course).

C++ has Resource acquisition is initialization (RAII)
Pictures risk having people disagree with the author's personal taste and the article hinges on there being a single correct taste
So what other ships are ran on nuclear power? I can only think of military vessels who have basically unlimited budget, personnel and oversight and tons and tons of extrinsic factors to not want to have a failure.

How would you translate this to one of the most competitive, cost cutting industries with a notorious history of accidents and poor labor conditions?
> Unless that trillion dolar company makes shiny phones and laptops

.. after mass adoption of $1 song purchases with trivial sync to iPod

.. followed in 2009 by removal of DRM from iTunes music purchases

.. without media piracy lawsuits against their customers.
well said, Catostomus are carps that remain still in the bottom a lot of time. They are not big swimmers. Their main concern is to suck a rock with enough force to stand their ground against currents. Remaining in waters with a lot of oxygen, that just travel straight to your gills, is like a holiday for the heart.
E-fuels are so inefficient that you need to bump carbon taxes to absurd levels before they become lucrative; it's cheaper to not ship most goods than to power ships with e-fuel. It's a niche solution for niche markets - say, racecars, supercars or piston aviation - not a green transport solution.

One efficient solution for marine transportation would be Hydrogen storage as Ammonia, but it requires a new engine and it's a technology that is still in its infancy.

Nuclear ships and submarines exist for decades and are a workable technology. The economics might still be off, especially considering the full maintenance and decommissioning. But if there is a place to try small modular reactors that get cheaper and more reliable as they are produced in series, this is it.
> Lord Byron is also famous both for his poetry and for bringing a pet bear to his university accommodation to spite the rules about no dogs.

Having sex with his sister also raised an eyebrow or two.
I'm confused, what industry knowledge or specialty does OpenAI have to build chips?

They're a software company that works higher on the stack unless working on cutting AI has given them an edge on chip design.
I never said they didn't deserve to be paid if their song is played - I haven't argued anywhere in this thread for not paying artists. In point of fact, I said I'm OK with Spotify.

To expand on that, I have a Spotify subscription. If I love the music and find myself listening to it regularly, I go and buy it so that they can have more than the pennies they get from my Spotify streams.

I also never said the phrase "decides to pony up for an album", so I'm not sure what those quotes are for. I said, "a piece of music", which could very well be a single song.

But thank you kindly for putting words into my mouth and then snarkily calling them "adorable". I greatly appreciate it. :)
This may not hold across geographic boundaries, which is the real problem. Like between Asia, Europe, and North America. Its not so much an a complete outage problem, as it is about bandwidth dropping very low on occassion.

When you're talking about say, high frequency trading systems, this is a big deal.

And anyone who deploys a service with all their data in a single data center, is a pretty small time player, or they don't need the uptime.
> unobservable explicit instruction

It’s absolutely observable between the two parties that are engaged in the conversation, as it’s part of the HTTP header:

DNT: 1
You've misunderstood the theorem. It doesn't say you can't achieve any combination of mostly C/A/P; it says you can't have perfect C, A, and P at the same time.
Helium's lifting capability is proportional to the density of the atmosphere, which is very low on Mars.
Why did Apple create the xserve line to start with?
> I feel like commenters in this thread are talking past each other.

Agree.

The point for me is that Google could track you anyway which is beyond the scope of their message to the (average) user.
Would it be at all possible for another business to do this, instead of Apple?

if for not other reason than that being perhaps the most likely way to actually compel apple to do it themselves, hahaha! :)
As of a few years ago, an Apple employee told me they were primarily running on OEL (Oracle's Red Hat-based Linux).

As for why Oracle: I think they said something along the lines of Oracle indemnifying them -- or being best equipped to mount a defense -- in a software licensing lawsuit.
Like apostrophes, right?

Pretty sure most people understood the reference to the plant - it's just silly phrasing given the context.
I thought that syntax looked familiar! Looks like Logseq uses Datalog for advanced queries.

https://hub.logseq.com/features/av5LyiLi5xS7EFQXy4h4K8/getti...
Isn't that because the ocean water blocks radiation?
Completely sealed power plant packs. Refueling requires swapping the entire power plant and sending it back to the manufacturer for recycling.
The Saudi-Led Coalition broke apart over disharmony between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which was apparently one of the turning points in the Saudi war against Ansar Allah, so that checks out.
I'm wondering when Apple is going to publicly release it's Cloud offering to compete with Azure, AWS, etc! :)
> The right to not use my things exists everywhere, universally.

For physical rival [1] goods, yes. Not necessarily the same for intangible non-rival things (e.g. the text of a book, not the physical ink and paper). Copyright law creates a legal right of exclusive control over creative works, but to me there isn't a non-economic-related social right to exclusive control over creative works. In the US, fair use is a major limit on the legal aspect of copyright. The First Amendment's freedom of expression is the raison d'être of fair use. Most countries don't have a flexible exception similar to fair use.

> OR, I might agree it is fair use and not sue you. However, that weakens my standing on my copyright, so it's better for me to sue you

No, choosing not to sue over a copyrighted work doesn't weaken your copyright. It only weakens the specific case of changing your mind after the statute of limitations expires. The statute of limitations means that you have a time limit of some number of years (three years in the US) to sue, with the timer starting only after you become aware of an instance of alleged infringement. Copyright is not like trademark. You don't lose your copyright by failing to enforce it.

Furthermore, even though the fair use right can only be exercised as an affirmative defense in court, fair use is by definition not copyright infringement [3]:

> Importantly, the court viewed fair use not as a valid excuse for otherwise infringing conduct, but rather as consumer behavior that is not infringement in the first place. "Because 17 U.S.C. § 107[9] created a type of non-infringing use, fair use is 'authorized by the law' and a copyright holder must consider the existence of fair use before sending a takedown notification under § 512(c)."[1]

(Ignore the bracket citations that were copied over.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/507

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.
> Why do communists build brutalist buildings?

Typically because they face a huge population move from the countryside to the city areas, and thus have to build as fast as can be and on a budget, which leads to what you can see there.

You can observe a similar pattern in many countries, e.g. here[0] in France, in the Lyon suburbs.

[0] https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/image/boW0onRHUjdzzl...
Here’s a blog post showing you how to roll your own in ~100 lines of JS

https://www.instantdb.com/essays/datalogjs
1. Datomic - While not open-source, it has an open-source version called Datomic Free, which is a distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible, and intelligent data storage and queries. Datomic's query language is closely inspired by Datalog.

2. DataScript - An open-source in-memory database and query engine for Clojure, ClojureScript, and JavaScript that is heavily influenced by Datalog and Datomic.

3. Crux (now XTDB) - A bitemporal database with Datalog-inspired querying capabilities. It is designed for efficient querying of historical data and offers ACID transactions.

4. Racket's miniKanren - While not strictly a database, miniKanren is an open-source logic programming extension to the Racket language, which is inspired by Datalog and can be used to manipulate and query data in a manner similar to Prolog.

5. LogicBlox - An open-source platform that combines a database system, a Datalog-based modeling language, and application server facilities. It allows developers to build complex, data-intensive applications.

6. Soufflé - A Datalog-inspired language that is designed for static analysis problems. It can be viewed as a database query language with a focus on performance, allowing for parallel execution of queries.

7. Dedalus - A Datalog-like temporal logic language used to express complex distributed systems. It is primarily a research tool but has informed the design of other Datalog-inspired systems.

8. Flora-2 - An open-source object-oriented knowledge representation and reasoning system that integrates a variant of Datalog with objects and frames.

Top 3 are from the Clojure ecosystem. Additionnaly in this same space there is Datalevin & Datahike among many others
Look at the pics though.

That's not ok however they spin it. Unless it's pure neglect but airbus didn't claim that either.
Apple doesn’t license macOS to run on anything but genuine Apple hardware. Which is why these racks of minis always keep popping up.
There are some really wild stories about Wim Hof. I read that he would sometimes sit on a fountain in a park in Amsterdam, using it to flush his bowel. Then one day, the fountain nozzle was changed without him knowing, and next time he did this he had to go to hospital because of perforated intestines.

I googled around a bit and did find some evidence that this actually happened but not that he did this regularly. I read it in an NRC or Volkskrant (Dutch papers) article if I remember correctly.
No, cessationism is about charismatic gifts, but the GP mentioned "prophecy" and I'm referring to "public revelation" so now we've got a thread with three different concepts being bandied about and debated as if they're central to a single controversy.
Wet suites work on principal of after they get wet they don't convect heat. I think certain clothing combination might reach same effect, just not as well.
It's not an Airdrop competitor if it doesn't even meet the basic requirement of Airdrop - to be able to arbitrarily send a file to someone without being on the same network.
I don't think the intent is to convince people with visual evidence, or "bring the receipts".

Not every article is or should be targeted at convincing the resistant reader, and visual examples can be a distraction or simplification of a broader idea.

It is valid for an article to simply connect ideas together, in a way the reader may not be aware of. A reader may have their own examples to think about, which are much more powerful.
Time Abundance
They're apparently not interested in building the chips themselves per the article, but rather 'getting' TSMC or another manufacturer to build them with the funds.

Which raises more questions than it answers. Why does OpenAI even need to be involved -- is this a common situation?

I would think the manufacturers would anticipate the huge impending demand for chips and raise the necessary investments to expand themselves.
I think his point might be more that we've already gave all the data and hardware that is feasibly possible with the world's richest companies; exponential scaling with that has hit its limit. Improvements (including more data and hardware) now are more incremental until the next revolutionary architecture change occurs.