skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following Unison since almost the beginning (back in the structure editor days!). It's a very cool project, https://www.unison.cloud/our-approach/ is a great read, and the Unison language (especially their formulation of effect handlers as "abilities") is very cool.

There are two specific things here that make me reluctant to use Unison Cloud in my own work:

1. It doesn't look like there's any FFI or way to shell out to other tools within Unison Cloud. I understand that this is necessary to provide the desired static guarantees, but the lack of an escape hatch for using pre-existing code makes this a really hard sell.

2. Typed storage is excellent! What are its performance characteristics? In my experience, gaining expressiveness in storage systems often requires trading away performance because being able to store more kinds of values means we have fewer invariants to enable performance optimizations. How do migrations work? I've always found online migrations to be a major pain point, especially because data rapidly becomes very heavy. (At a glance, it looks like storage is key-value with some DIY indexing primitives, and I couldn't find anything about migration.)

The approach article asks "Why is it so complicated, anyway?". My guess would be that:

1. For small projects where you can toss together NextJS and SQLite and throw it onto Hetzner, it really _isn't_ that complicated.

2. For large projects where with large amounts of data, high availability requirements, and very large scale, performance and operability matters a lot, and none of these all-in-one systems have yet to demonstrate good performance and operability at scale.

3. There really is not that much demand for projects between these two sizes.
if the "normal looking" thing doesn't look very good there's not much point bothering.

this is like how it took a few decades for us to get "nude" undergarments matching certain skin pigments in the United States.
How does customs even know what specific chip is being used in the car? There must be hundreds of chips used in a car - do they get some kind of BOM?
This has been a feature in the Wikipedia mobile app for some time. It’s a real gem, I’ve found out some really interesting things about landmarks I pass every day.
This is pretty much what Edison motors wants to do in the truck/semi side of the world.
I think maybe the author was casually mocking their strawperson Stanley (who they effectively characterized as old), by also associating him with other ideas widely considered outmoded and shameful.

Ironically, if Stanley's experience originated as an Internet-savvy techie of 30 years ago, that would be of the "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" era, when people who were gay, trans, or of other marginalized groups, could go online and find places where they can be accepted. Stanley supported trans friends before most people even knew that was a thing.

Or, if we're still trying to link older with wronger, go back to Stanley's counterculture hippie parents, who were more progressive than today's typical holder of now-fashionable ideas.

The author discusses their actual ideas at length. I think they went a bit off-track throughout the piece, when distinguishing their ideas from some current model, accidentally straying into tactics of propaganda rather than reason. And incidentally contributing to ageism.
unison is wonderful, lesser known tool.

I used unison regularly for a few years around a decade ago to do bidirectional sync between a linux VM filesystem and a host windows filesystem, for a weird dev workflow where i would pig-headedly use linux tools to develop an application that would be built and shipped to windows.

I never had any trouble with unison, it was great.

That said, for that particular niche use case these days maybe I'd use WSL to get a similar job done -- or just do all development in Windows if that's the platform we were shipping to.
Best thing I've read today, thanks!
Disney has had access to it, there were a lot of Fortnite Avengers promotions. It obviously worked well enough for them to want to invest.
seems like a limb trying to look human but ending up creepy is in the uncanny valley. A non-human tentacle limb is simply that, its not mimicking human like characteristics in a slightly off way.
You can combine paradigms for the best of both worlds (e.g. physical keyboard + your apps). I imagine that IDE experiences will only improve as time goes on.
I wouldn’t know how good they are, but https://machinelearning.apple.com/research?page=1&domain=Com... has about 50 papers in 2023. Aren’t those in computer vision?
One of the examples is an extra thumb. That prosthetic is clearly meant to be available for able-armed people.

This is very hypothetical, but if a prosthetic becomes a tool rather than a replacement for organics, then it's possible that products will change to be compatible with the tool.

Coffee cups probably won't change, but power tools might, if there's something about having an extra thumb that makes them easier to operate. My cordless drills can go from forward to reverse by moving my thumb twice, but other transitions require more repositioning of the hands. You could move the torque controller to be reached by the extra thumb, for instance, reducing the steps to countersink a wood screw.
The grandparent comment would only be somewhat revelant in future versions of Youtube and Google services, since they did end up pushing users to 'try' Chrome exclusively (for Youtube in the footer and everything else via top banner/popups, for both Firefox and even non-Chrome Chromium browsers).

Which given the lawyers' concerns in this article is curious the 180 they did.
I couldn't tell whether you'd prefer i up or downvote you (up: you bring truth; down: i agree with you)
I wonder how much both the early 20th century and the current postmodern views on relations with the Neanderthals was influenced by the politics of the times. Back then people wanted justifications for colonialism and promoted social Darwinism; now we’re looking to promote multiculturalism and global trade. Both ways we’re projecting onto the prehistoric past what we want to see there.
Epic never did the metaverse. Sweeney talked about doing it, but they never shipped. Unreal Engine heavily preprocesses content in Unreal Editor, then trusts that content. For a metaverse, you need to do more of that server-side. Back when Sweeney was talking that up, I was expecting metaverse-in-a-box in Unreal Engine 7. That seems less and less likely.

The metaverse is real, and it's called Second Life. Which is a niche. It is a profitable niche. A "cash machine", one of the owners has said. So it stays around. Everybody else in the metaverse space lost money. Now that zero interest rates are over, and there's no more free money, this is even more true. Heavy Disney investment in a general-purpose metaverse seems unlikely. It doesn't fit their IP-based business model.
Hell, there are more gas stations around me going card only these days. Unfortunately the cash only world of the past is slowly dying in many places.
> I dread to live in a world where people are walking around self absorbed prodding and poking at things no one else can see.

Phones?
Consider the Lockheed Skunk Works project - it's supposed to be portable.
Where did they acquire VScode from?
Similarly, this issue occurs with your eyes. When you wear a vision pro you can see flicker issues with tons of displays that were designed to be visible by people and not machines.
Either uncommon or many of the attempts were unsuccessful.
(2021)? (2016)?
Everything in war is a target
LISP in the browser! You end up having to ship a large runtime with your app but it all transpiles to vanilla JS.

https://clojurescript.org/
I know. This author is writing from a pretty weird place, especially if they're first categorizing fictional "Stanley" as backend Engineer.
How do you go about modern luxuries like opening and charging your car, controlling your home, paying, using public transport, chatting, using digital id, flying a drone...?
No I mean an active prod table with people adding new rows all the time. It's just so much easier not having to worry about integer conflicts and auto-incrementing shenanigans.

But I get you like integers so whatever works for you, I just don't think they're the right tradeoff for most projects.
With 10G blocks @ ~144 block per day, that's almost 1.5 TB per day.

The complete blockchain is currently about half a TB.

According to bitcoin technology experts, a network of Full Nodes is more secure than a network of Partial Nodes. Right now almost anyone can run a Full Node. If you make the blockchain grow by 1.5 TB per day, only big corporations will be able to run Full Nodes.

So no, existing storage and network transfer is not sufficient for large block sizes, at least not for the current way we validate BTC transactions. I assume if there was a good technology fix for the full/partial node issue, it would have been implemented already.
I think I'm going to need one of those Carrie Matheson / Pepe Silva full wall mind-maps to track all of this.
Yes, but as long as we're having some fun with the concept: The problem with CO2 isn't the absolute CO2 in the atmosphere; most(?) of it was already there. It's the changes caused by the added CO2.

The problem with H2O wouldn't be the absolute amount, but the changes brought on by the added H2O. For one thing, it would rain pretty much 24/7 in Florida. :) (Yes, I know it's not at all that predictable.)
The infuriating part is how easy it apparently is to highjack dead people / inactive accounts, and use them for fraud.

Case in point, I never use FB except for the marketplace every now and then. I naturally forgot my login/password, hit the "Forgot password" option, put my phone number and... got given access to someone else's account, that they've not used in years. They likely had my number before, I guess, passing away.

I contacted FB and did my best to try to lose access to the account, starting with login out, but I kept receiving notifications through text messages, and was permanently given the option to "switch account" with no authentication whatsoever. Out of option, I ultimately deactivated the account in question, but that pisses me off because I really really did not want to alter it in any way.

Long story short, it's not a surprise Facebook is riddled with shit like that.
This is what happened, logically speaking. Though not averaged out in a balanced manner: instead, to the degree that Neanderthal genetics comprise anyone's genome.

Not to say that there weren't interspecies genocides, but we interbred with them and then outcompeted, for resources, the pure species into extinction generally speaking. Which was inevitable, parallel to how homo sapien lineages also die out from simply being outcompeted.

It is likely that the Neanderthal genome was outcompeted down to a percentage at which it was and is competitive. 50-50% Neanderthal-Modern Human? No dice, Darwin. It had to be reduced to a few percentage points, at which point individuals started being competitive. Was the last pure Neanderthal pair murdered, did they die from starvation, or did they just refuse to have kids? It could have been any of those, but the general procedure was likely defined by resource competition.

And Neanderthal isn't the only alien-homo genome mixed with that of modern humans.
not sure if this is just chatgpt, but analogous evolution is interesting to see
This reminds me of a Jeff Atwood blog post from 2007 where he talks about discovering that Google Maps (2 years old at that point) was quicker to use than locally run Microsoft Streets and Trips

https://blog.codinghorror.com/who-killed-the-desktop-applica...

contains this mind bending sentence:

Combined with a USB GPS receiver and a laptop, Streets and Trips is a fine navigational aid on trips. Well, assuming you were going to take the laptop on your trip anyway, which I always do.

The world has changed so much since 2007
https://archive.ph/qTMty
Yeah way too high.

Here's an estimate of the costs of air conditioning tents in the mideast conflicts:
https://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-...
Well we don’t know that they were smarter than us. The EQ (brain to body ratio) of homo sapiens is 0.019 and Neanderthals was 0.017. They were probably considerably stupider.
Not that it's any of your goddamn business, but yes, I have decided to not have kids, for multiple reasons.
There was earlier downloadable audio content but it was really early 2000s with RSS/Winer/Curry/etc. when 1st gen podcasting got its name and really took on something like it's current form. You can identify various other points like Serial/money flowing in/cellular connections/etc.
Reminds me of the time when we switched around all the icons on the desktop (ie chrome => file explorer, recycle bin => vlc) of my friend's laptop. He eventually gave up and launched the programs from command line.
So is there a term like "acquihire" - except it means more like "we sold a stake in out company so we would get access to their legal department" instead of "we sold a stake in out company so we would get cushy jobs"?
The Unsettling Truth About the 'Mostly Harmless' Hiker
The sub 500 LOC is a positive thing. If someone is looking for code to fork, learn and/or copy 500 is ideal instead of knowing a lot of details of more complex piece of code.

I receive a good reaction though.
> If the full amount of system memory isn't showing on Windows that's likely an unrelated issue

Full amount of system memory is seen by Windows. It just refuses to hand out more than 16GB of RAM to it so I assume (maybe wrongly) that this is related to the other 16GB which the GPUs get assigned to but have no use for.

The memory graph in the task manager (Performance) never goes above 50%.
This is awesome. Well implemented. I just learnt something new about the area I'm living in.

When I road tripped across US & CA the atlasabscura was my go-to for finding weird and wonderful places to explore. It had a great mix of historic, weird, artistic, irrelevant and timeless.
Webkit isn't the issue. The issue is Apple is making the same mistake as Microsoft by tying a browser version to a version of the OS. With no upgrade path for people with older phone, you have support the lowest common dominator instead of pushing people to install a new browser.
Pearl-3x7B, an xtraordinary Mixure of Experts (MoE) for data science
Pearl-3x7B is a Mixure of Experts (MoE) made with the following models :

dvilasuero/DistilabelBeagle14-7B
beowolx/CodeNinja-1.0-OpenChat-7B
WizardLM/WizardMath-7B-V1.1

A Mixture of Experts (MoE) model represents a sophisticated architecture that amalgamates the capabilities of multiple specialized models to address a wide array of tasks within a unified framework. Within the realm of a MoE model tailored for a chat application, the integration of expertise spanning three distinct domains - chat, code, and mathematics - substantially enhances its capacity to furnish nuanced and precise responses to a diverse spectrum of user inquiries.

The initial expert model, honed for chat applications, exhibits prowess in comprehending natural language nuances, conversational dynamics, and contextual cues. Drawing upon extensive conversational data, it adeptly generates engaging and contextually pertinent responses, thereby fostering meaningful interactions with users.

The subsequent expert model, centered on code, brings to the fore proficiency in programming languages, algorithms, and software engineering principles. Possessing a deep-seated understanding of syntax, logical constructs, and problem-solving methodologies, it deftly tackles queries spanning coding challenges, debugging assistance, and software development inquiries.

Lastly, the third expert model, specializing in mathematics, boasts expertise in mathematical reasoning, problem-solving strategies, and analytical techniques. Armed with a breadth of knowledge encompassing arithmetic, algebra, calculus, and beyond, it offers precise solutions, lucid explanations, and profound insights for mathematical queries, equations, and proofs.
Is it hard to teach "Intent", because the treatise here isn't well thought out?

The article starts with building a straw person, Stanley (who is weirdly homophobic for some reason?), and doesn't really articulate "here's how you code with intent" and "why coding with intent is important". Instead, it tries to tear apart people who don't use intent.
It won't necessarily accumulate though - there's a reason it was quickly abandoned as a chemical weapon. I would rather worry about its compounds, as it would quickly react with anything it touches.
My arm is full of oxygen delivery and self-repair equipment. It also contains several parts of my immune system.

A prosthetic arm within my lifetime will likely be lighter than my real one. Carrying around a flashlight or a multi tool embedded in a void in it wouldn't be that weird, and wouldn't upset your balance.

Those running legs are already much lighter, but they don't fulfill the full range of features provided by a lower leg.
What do you think of the AVP’s potential as a DAM tool, at least for hobbyists? Obviously a Lightroom subscription is way, way cheaper, but it seems like it would be awesome to have a native solution that ties in with iCloud sync and lets you blow up your photos to huge size for side-by-side comparisons.
It might be tough for Unison to be an island outside of GitHub, although I see the benefits.
Art doesn't have to have a "message" to be "edgy" and to say that art doesn't celebrate the beautiful in the world makes me think you don't engage with much contemporary art. What it makes me think is that you engage with art by reading about other people's reactions to the type of art you are decrying, and then jumping to the conclusion that is what makes up contemporary art.
Citation needed? There have been one-off, incomplete iterations in extensions, but core and contrib have never had this.
Yes there is an established flow for exporting your full account data. It comes as an easy export zip and CSVs.
Vilnius is sometimes touted as new valley yet hosts all the shady VPN companies that engage in hacking your home cameras, routers and tv's so they can offer IP addresses at residential space!

They are just as privacy invasive as US albeit with less financing which means they are even more ruthless and hostile.
I sold a few piece of furniture on Marketplace, and had so many occurrences of "My employer is relocating me and I need to furnish my new place, I'll send movers to pick up the piece". Looking at the seller profile, it's often an account that has seen no activity for a while, and the job rarely matches the type of position that would get an envelope for relocation (e.g.: Amazon warehouse workers surely don't get a package to move to a new location).
I'm having trouble because I read the headline "I is for _indent_."

I made it all the way to the caret position before I realized my intent was completely wrong.
Prior Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792316
Only for the first season. They switched to their own stuff later. IIRC.
Why do you need to containerize for the example he has given?
A few months ago Intel announced AVX10, which is basically AVX-512 but without mandatory 512-bit vectors:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-new-avx10-brings-av...
Tesla pays 20-30$ per hour. Is it ridiculous and non-economical?
"responsive app can fetch smaller images" is not really exclusive to jxl though.

For any format you can store an image at multiple resolutions/quality-levels and a responsive app can download the one with the size/quality it wants.

jxl probably saves an incremental amount of storage, which is nice, but storage is not usually the dominant cost of anything. So this is still an edge case.
I think lots of folks are skeptical, but I think that's as much because he's challenging the status quo of "build SPAs w/ React" as much as his shitposting.
Maybe they "should", but really, when I lose an arm or a leg, I kinda want it to look like Ian Davis' mechanical hand prosthetic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VGgq1FjrCQ
Why would you learn Spanish? If you got to Mexico you can just Google "how to understand Spanish" and then you'll understand it completely, just like in the Matrix.

While you are trying to Google the right thing and make use of the answer, you're missing the limited chance to be talking with people in Spanish, had you already known it.

Instead of Googling "how do I trim a string in {language}" you could be thinking about the problem you actually want to solve.
A negative tax is a subsidy, no?

In Pakistan, electricity rates are slabbed. 0-100 units are charged very little - often below cost of providing the electricity. 100-200 units more, etc. So ultimately, high consumption users subsidize low consumption users. It makes sense because low consumption users are 'using' cheap electricity from hydropower/gas, but high consumption users are forcing the state to turn on expensive oil based power plants.
Even when I was a kid they were starting to understand this. I'm old enough to remember people believing it was useless, maybe even I was told it from a figure of authority at some point, but definitely as a child my memory was "people used to think it was useless, but now we know it isn't ".

It's kind if interesting to me that I continually see stories titled like the article over the years. It goes to show that undoing incorrect common knowledge is a long process that isn't really ever completed, because an editor somewhere decided that a title like this would grab people's attention, but to someone like me, this is like a headline that reads "brushing your teeth confirmed to be effective treatment in fighting tooth decay".

I've noticed a surge in articles letting me know that the appendix isn't useless, so I assume we figured out a bit better what it actually does, but to me the most interesting part is about knowledge dissemination.
The fundamental rules of Islam, Judaism and Christianity have absolutely no correlation with HN moderation. What are you talking about?
what software did you use for your own feed?
You probably won't Google a footgun until it's too late. Why would you not want to save yourself the trouble?
I save comments from time to time that seem sort of obvious but still resonate with me, and this is one such comment. Thanks! :)
Is a sparse high dimensional boolean tensor modeled as you describe roughly the same as inverted index in a search engine like ElasticSearch/Solr?
Simple: Pixels appear larger when they are closer to your eye.
Usually the places that are trying to hire HiPos do IQ tests-once-removed like https://www.criteriacorp.com/candidates/ccat-prep. There is plenty of evidence that general cognitive ability strongly correlates with job performance.
Hilarious. A long time ally of Apple will invest in a company hell bent (and somewhat righteously so) knee capping Apple.
Move if you have to. Be ready to work 100% onsite.
Better get him to rehab first.
I'm not saying it's impossible that arsonists are starting some of these fires, and sure, some may be started in this way.

I'm just saying that "lightning" is a simpler explanation than "well-coordinated major conspiracy of terrorists that succeeds at keeping things under wraps"---and so when, in California, a bunch of fires are started in a bunch of places where lightning struck dry timber in a fire-reliant ecosystem, our initial assumption about the cause should maybe be "lightning".
And ChatGPT is the yardstick we measure things with nowadays?

Also, AFAIK, it won’t say anything specific until you ask it a question, and the away you phrase that can hugely affect its reply.

Even if it didn’t, its response still assumes (more or less) that the Internet is always right, and that is questionable.
OTOH, Apple does tend to get OS updates to their users a lot faster than anyone else with market share. At least until they stop supporting a beloved device.
Hah. If tou have found a systematic way of doing this please share.