skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have zero qualms about being absolute ghouls under their wallet names. The people with the most power in society don't need anonymity. The people with the least often can't safely express themselves without it.

Also:

https://theconversation.com/online-anonymity-study-found-sta...

>> "What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts. The online comment management company Disqus, in a similar vein, found that comments made under conditions of durable pseudonymity were rated by other users as having the highest quality. "
Its definitely not just you ( https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1aduw8j/did_youtube_ki... ). I'm seeing the same thing for all the YT RSS feeds that I follow.
There are a lot of factors that really complicate this system.

Enforcement focuses on the wrong parameters. Police love to remind us that, "Speed is always a factor." Well, it's certainly the most easily measured one. The trouble is, what speed is wrong? Is it the 5 cars who want to drive 90mph on the freeway, or the 2 cars who want to drive 65 in both lanes? By obsessively enforcing speed limits, police have managed to perversely incentivize the difference in speed between drivers who are willing to risk a ticket, and drivers who self-righteously bottleneck traffic. I have never even heard of the law, "keep right except to pass" being enforced, even though it seems pretty obvious that it would help.

People don't want to drive. People have to drive. That reality perversely incentivizes drivers to minimize effort. There is very little motivating drivers to drive better than they need to. How could we possibly change this incentive? Fear tactics are not working. Threats are not working. This is an open question: what if it has no answer?

Infrastructure demands backwards-compatibility. We can't just build a new part of a city without roads. Where would people put their cars? If people living there didn't have cars, then where could they go? Where could they work? Could anyone visit? Utopia must have a compatibility layer: somewhere that alternative transit can transition to highways. But where? If you have to park your car away from home, then you need to manage the risk of unattended property. If you have to get a ride in someone else's car, is that affordable? If you are going to take a bus, how long will you have to wait? How many busses will you have to transfer between? No matter what we do, the compatibility layer will always be inefficient.

Infrastructure demands infrastructure. The only solution to more traffic is more road. The only solution to more road is longer driving distance. The only solution to longer driving distance is more time in traffic, which is identical to more traffic. The only way to stop growing this system is to stop growing the amount of drivers. How can that be done? In order to become a non-driver, you need a minimum viable alternative, otherwise you will have to drive just like everyone else. In order for alternative transit to be viable, there needs to be enough of it around that it feeds its own infrastructure demand. If alternative transit is built with a highway-compatibility layer, then that compatibility will effectively remove the need for alternative-transit growth. Realistically, alternative transit won't start demanding itself until its utility is equal to the highway system. We can't build that all at once, so how can we overcome the already-present highway infrastructure demand cycle?

No matter how you look at it, the highway system is feeding the worst aspects of itself into its own growth. The only way to change this cycle is to build a lot of alternatives really fast, and make them dirt cheap. It's a political nightmare. Even so, I would much rather live in that nightmare than the one where rubber meets the road.
Erm, if the linux community comes together - then it can happen. But the employer of a game engine dev is not part of that community and probably simply does not care.

So if you care and feel the call, go organize something. I care, but have other duties.
The main drawbacks to me are

1. No support for nested virtualization, so running a vm inside your vm is not available. This prevents use of projects such as kubevirt or firecracker on a Linux guest, and WSL2 on a Windows guest.

2. No GPU support

If the base hypervisor was Linux, it would be way more capable for users it seems. I also wonder if internally Linux is used for development of the platform itself so they can create "virtual" racks to dogfood the product without full blown physical racks.

With all that said, I do not know the roadmap and admittedly there are already quite a few existing platforms built on kvm, so as their hypervisor improves and becomes more capable it could potentially become strategic advantage.
"Finds out" is the operative part. COPPA is not a proactive requirement; it's a reactive one. Proactive legislation is a newer harm that can't easily be predicted based on past experiences with reactive laws.
> “The finest line of poetry ever uttered in the history of this whole damn country was said by Canada Bill Jones in 1853, in Baton Rouge, while he was being robbed blind in a crooked game of faro. George Devol, who was, like Canada Bill, not a man who was averse to fleecing the odd sucker, drew Bill aside and asked him if he couldn't see that the game was crooked. And Canada Bill sighed, and shrugged his shoulders, and said, 'I know. But it's the only game in town.' And he went back to the game.” — Neil Gaiman
Most innovation in the homeless “housing” space has focused on relocation, both benevolent (trying to reconnect them with family members and friends willing to house them and get them off the street) and self-interested (without regard to the well-being of the individual, just focused on getting them on a bus going somewhere far away).

When it works, it’s actually a great boon for the individuals at question, as well as dramatically out-competes alternatives on price, as there’s a four orders of magnitude difference in price between the cost of buying and building housing and shelters, particularly in some of America’s most expensive and overzoned real-estate markets, versus buying them a ride home to somewhere they’re expected. [1]

That said, these programs have mixed results - sometimes great and life-changing, sometimes ruinsome due to poor vetting of the opposite side and being used as a high-pressure removal tactic [2] - but cities have broadly embraced doing it because in either case, it is effective at the political goal of moving one’s homeless problem somewhere else.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-bus-homew...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
>but you refuse to acknowledge a premise.

Why would I acknowledge a flawed premise?

>like many instances of automation (in theory).

That (in theory) is doing so much work here it ought to be paid.

>What if someone can think drivers deserve better pay and ethical treatment and that self driving is a long term solution to a grueling job?

What if mythical beasts like unicorns existed? That would be pretty cool, I guess. Sadly, we'll never know.
From dwarffortresswiki.org Version history: "0.27.169.32a - 2007-10-29 - The very first fully 3D version"
> There is no age limit to that restriction

Wrong I’m afraid. Minors don’t have full rights, that’s why their bag/locker/car can be searched randomly, why they can have speech abridged, why they can’t see NC-17 movies(edit: scratch that one). The supreme court has weighed against minors many times.
It might be even easier this way:

$ curl https://ifconfig.me --libcurl ip_fetcher.c
$ make LDFLAGS=-lcurl ip_fetcher
$ ./ip_fetcher

(I just find make a heck of a lot easier than running direct cc commands)
Expensive _is_ good […] once in a while. Most notably, Apple.
> Can you spot the alteration?

yes!

5uqd.onion

vs

6uqd.onion
Deleting the old app and all storage associated with it cleared the error.
Let the record show that we all stand by what we said.

Let it also show that absolutely everyone knows to what you are referring.
There's nothing natural about a downward spiral in your mid-30s. I mean there will be some gradual deterioration but biologically a significant downward spiral doesn't have to hit until your 70s. There are plenty of masters athletes still turning in great performances at advanced ages. And they aren't genetic outliers; mostly they are just persistent and consistent.

Before blaming unlikely exotic causes like "long COVID" I would suggest fully optimizing the basics: sleep hygiene, body composition, nutrition, exercise, sun exposure, alcohol, etc. If you fix all that stuff and still feel worse than you did in 2019 then there may be something else going on.

https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/

https://www.hubermanlab.com/newsletter
Governments giving large companies a bigger moat..
What is the expected impact? And for whom?
> What other innovations can you think of for the homeless?

Go down to the shelter and volunteer. That will do substantially more than whatever capsule hotel/sleeping pod/innovation you can come up with. No disrespect. But it's becoming sort of a cliche here that hackers will save the world with code and bayesian priors. Perhaps best to remember all the damage some of tech's "innovations" have caused to society.
Or maybe the computer they had analyzing the data takes a while to search and it had nothing to do with people at all.
The problem there is that most of the OTA broadcasts are in glorious 720p.
I'm not so sure that detracts from their reputability, does Rtings seem less reputable because affiliate revenue is part of their income?
I think your take is a bit optimistic. I like quantization as much as the next person, but even the 2-bit model won’t fit entirely on a 4090: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-GGUF

I would be uncomfortable recommending less than 4-bit quantization on a non-MoE model, which is ~40GB on a 70B model.
Talk to me about how that works when 80% of people are charging every day. That spare capacity goes away as everyone economically chases it to the point of saturation. Everyone can change their schedule and they will all go for the cheapest, which will normalize power prices across the board, AKA no cheap power windows.
If you drill even further, you'd read this:

"We also showed that IQ has no statistically significant association in facial morphology in both men and women (at least as it was delimited by the landmark configuration used within this study). This means that our raters accurately assessed intelligence from faces of men based on visual cues that simply are not explicable from shape variability in men's faces. It is important to recall that our subjects were prompted to assume a neutral expression while their photo was taken and only photos of subjects with a neutral expression were included in the study. We can speculate about attributions of intelligence based on particular configurations of eyes or gaze, colour of eyes, hair and skin, or skin texture. These hypotheses should be tested in future studies."

Which means that the authors literally meant "face shape" in a narrow literal sense (such as round on elongated) , and hypothesize that other facial features
which they deem as unrelated to shape (although configuration of eyes IMO are clearly part of what usually is called facial features) are at play; they clearly are puzzled about the ability of respondents to reliably predict male intelligence from the pictures of their faces (even filtered to remove visual clues related not the faces per se, but facial expressions).

Stop pushing your agenda and engaginng in creative reading, please.
> Adding an Apple Watch to my iPhone means it no longer supports airdrop

Reference? I admit I use Airdrop once every 5 years or so, but I've had a Watch for longer than that.
Yep I settled on "No thanks, I'm good." Less and less push back these days.

Never had anyone get real "pushy" though. But I give off "doesn't like to be pushed around" vibes haha.
I rent so I think I've done all I can. The water here in denver is horrible, I've never lived anywhere with hard water anywhere near this bad where I have to pumice stone lime/calcium off of toilets. I'd 100% have a house water purifier and humidifier if I could. I looked into installing one in a portable manner that I could just bring to places I rent but something about it made me not do it, like a permanent connection or something, I forget.

Only take the antis when I'm bad (maybe for 2 weeks this month, then not for the last 6 months). I've had some respiratory thing going around denver a lot of people are getitng.

My purifiers show indoor air quality and I don't think I've ever seen it not report good. I also just checked the monthly outdoor air on it and that never left good either.

Could be the dogs. Oh well.
It should be fair obvious that when you use a very verbose very boiler plate heavy coding style like static typing that because the programmer is writing a lot more lines of code per software feature and because the programmers make errors on a per line written basis that the number of the bugs will drastically increase.

You can easily find information on duck typed programs being significantly shorter and that statically typed and ducked typed programs have the same bug count per line. You can also look at the language defective tables showing ducked type Clojure as having the least bugs in commerical software and statically typed C++ having the most bugs in commerical software.

Google is your friend here.
> VRAM isn't moving nearly as fast as the models are progressing in size. And it's never going to. The cost will get ever greater to operate these at scale.

It is in at least 2025. AMD (and Intel, maybe) will have M-Pro-Esque APUs that can run a 70B model at very reasonable speeds.

I am pretty sure Intel is going to rock the VRAM boat on desktops as well. They literally have no market to lose, unlike AMD which infuriatingly still artificially segments their high VRAM cards.
As soon as companies get big things change a lot. Even if they are still considered medium sized. I once switched from a 20 person startup to company with more than 1000 employees. In both cases I was very close to the CEO. In the startup I could access almost everything whereas in the bigger company I was not even able to get a list of all repos in our central source code repository system. And of course there was no technical reason for that. It was just politics.
Sure! The Pirate Bay accepts various cryptocurrencies =D
Software engineers destroy plenty through data breaches, lost time due to (often deliberately) terrible design, etc.

If organizations and software engineers were held to account for data breaches, we'd have a whole new landscape.

Lives are lost to software failures as well.
The whole add to home screen process is needlessly convoluted. It would be nice if there was something similar to Smart Banners for PWAs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting_a...
Yeah a lot of homeless people are too poor to afford shoes and only have shoes thanks to donations.
> Using unsafe for some parts of the code doesn't throw out safety guarantees about all of the rest of the code.

That's actually hard to prove because you don't know which guarantees the unsafe code can break; being unsafe, it could potentially, say, mutate arbitrary final fields of any object in the program. So while such code doesn't necessarily break invariants, there's no easy way to tell whether and which it does. Once unsafe is used, no guarantee can be fully trusted.

But the direction we're going with "integrity by default" (https://openjdk.org/jeps/8305968) is that the application will need to acknowledge and approve the use of unsafe code by libraries, and so the author of the application could choose to more closely inspect the unsafe code and try to determine its blast radius.
"perceptions of playing speed positively predicted intrasexual competitiveness"
CDL != regular driver's license. Does an average driver know how to operate air brakes or prevent jack-knifing or what to do with a runaway engine? Trucking is a highly specialized job and requires more aptitude than ordinary driving.
Heh yeah that was just brought to my attention. It's kind of always been the mission of the project, and what we've been building internally. We've been adding 20 languages a month since we started, and we're not planning on stopping anytime soon - but indeed there are a lot of language missing at the moment.

By the time we're out of beta we will support every language, give us a couple months to make good on that headline!
I’ve been working on continue.dev, which is completely free to use with your own Ollama instance / TogetherAI key, or for a while with ours.

Was testing with Codellama-70b this morning and it’s clearly a step up from other OS models
Not justifying it on scientific purity grounds, but if you genuinely believe that your treatment is effective (and you are heavily incentivized to come up with an effective treatment), but your study result is unconvincing for reasons you don't think are invalidating, it might be easy to convince yourself that "tweaking the presentation" in a way that moves the treatment forward could save lives.
I think your comment would be much stronger if you laid out precisely what you think that line would be.

Laws do not have to be perfect to be good, but they do have to be workable. It's not clear that there's a working definition of "social media" that includes both TikTok and Reddit but doesn't include random forums.
If USDT can no longer be redeemed for USD, then people may buy BTC instead?
That'd be news to me. At least in all big companies that I've come across, where revenue depends on services to be available 24/7 and maintenance windows maybe happen once a year, I have never heard of such a thing.
> However, trends within metal music, and especially the genre of extreme metal music with basically virtuoso-level guitar skills

The virtuoso technique of extreme metal guitarists seems to be offset by lack of creativity and feel in the vast majority of cases (imo). Talking about soloing skills mostly...
>[...]"Churn" is the percentage of code that was pushed to the repo, then subsequently reverted, removed or updated within 2 weeks. This was a relatively infrequent outcome when developers authored all their own code -- only 3-4% of code was churned prior to 2023, although there is also a hint of the coming uptick in 2022, when Churn jumped 9%. 2022 was the first year Copilot was available in beta, and the year that ChatGPT became available.

I think this is a bad take on this issue. It implies that if either chatgpt or the devs were just "smarter" this would not happen. This also implies that churn is a bad thing. And I don't think neither of these are true.

The real problem is that debugging is twice as hard as programming and now for the first time we got to the point that people can create software that "works" but they cannot fully grasp why exactly it works.

Of course you can go with the easy answer (these people are just lazy/dumb and should not be in this field) but this doesn't help. But the reality is that we don't really have anything better than printf and gdb to understand what the is happening inside our computers.

Hopefully now we will have more incentives to create better tools to help our understanding of what happens under the hood.
Why would headphones need to integrate seamlessly with one set of computing devices but not another? This sounds like a market failure rather than a nice thing - anyone should be able to make headphones that seamlessly integrate with all platforms.
Because it doesn't work. Hydrogen is very difficult to manage. It requires very high pressures, leaks directly through materials, and causes a lot of damage to materials. And while "green" hydrogen is theoretically possible, there is no infrastructure for it. Now, and for the foreseeable future, it's produced using fossil fuels.

If it were left at that, it would just be a technical problem. The real antipathy comes from the fact that hydrogen is being pushed by fossil fuel companies and others with a stake in battery-electric vehicles failing. It's not "merely wrong". It's deliberate disinformation, and that's infuriating.
A lot of people out there claim to know Linux, yet few can prove it. OTOH, if they gain a cult following with lots of people using their stack, those people might become more familiar with their stack than most Linux people are with theirs. They could grow a captive base of prospective hires.

That's not the big concern though. The big concern is whether vendor integration and certification becomes a stumbling block. You can hire any monkey to write good-enough code, but that doesn't give you millions in return. Partnerships with vendors and compliance certifications can give you hundreds of millions. The harder that is, the farther the money is. A totally custom, foreign stack can make it harder, or not; it depends how they allocate their human capital and business strategy, whether they can convince vendors to partner, and clients to buy in. Anything very different is a risk that's hard to ignore.
Re masks - unless you buy them and wear them because of the rules, and not because you want to achieve some physical/medical effect.
China used private investment to fund its rail ways, so someone is going to take a loss on this, it won’t be the Chinese government.
IMX*, mating success is highly correlated with convincing a potential pelvic affiliate that you find them way more special than their 4 billion co-gendered neighbours, and not so correlated with especially high ability at anything else.

* being a geek, I'm no Wilt, let alone Temüjin...
I've been doing research into the high-rise housing projects in Chicago. One of the things I'm curious about when it comes to advocacy for more housing and to have that housing be accessible regardless of mental health or substance abuse issues is, does that not pretty much look like high-rise housing projects? If you want more diffuse housing that is accessible and also available regardless of other contributing factors, then it seems to me you would have to build this well outside of urban centers, as the land is too expensive, but then I doubt urban homeless would find satellite housing desirable.
To be clear, we at the time had already hired people with deep familiarity with Linux at the time this decision was made. In particular, Laura Abbott, as one example.

It is true that the number of developers that know Linux is larger than the ones that know illumos. But this is also true of the number of developers who know C as the ones who know Rust. Just like some folks need to be onboarded to Rust, some will need to be onboarded to illumos. That is of course part of the tradeoff.
But neither does Windows, so the issue here isn't XWindow specifically.
Same here. Recommended a friend to install FreshRSS today. Friend quickly got back saying YouTube feeds were broken. Checked and they were. Can only hope it's temporary, but it'd surprise me if it was given the aggressive enshittification of everything.
It was funded privately, not publicly.
For what it's worth, we're cooking up a lot of fun stuff with vector embeddings along these lines. For now we've decided on getting the product stable and launched, although everything is set up to go in this direction.
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you-- all my YouTube consumption has been thru my self-hosted RSS reader. I really like read/unread for all my "media" (blogs, YouTube, etc) in a single place.

All those alternatives sound bad to me.

I suppose in the short term I will cobble something together w/ yt-dlp to download JSON from YouTube and ETL that into the tt-rss database. That'll work until Google decides it doesn't, too.