skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that it may sucks, but it is better to get an alert message? Or just do the rendering glitches?

What is cool about this project is stuff like this.
>The presentation is displayed in a simple X11 window colored black on white for maximum contrast even if the sun shines directly onto the projected image. The content of each slide is automatically scaled to fit the window so you don't have to worry about alignment. Instead you can really focus on the content.

One can tell the author really had to use this deck in real situations.
Isn’t the whole point of chaos sensitivity to initial conditions? Where the output even when minuscule differences varies wildly with input?
I'm wondering if the lack of a birth certificate causes a problem here.
> In Middle Ages Europe people did not develop or implement technology, or even employ existing Roman technology, at nearly the level of the Romans

Anything to substantiate this claim? Metallurgy and agriculture were more advanced, watermills much more widespread, windmills appeared by the 12th, overall medieval Europe was generally more industrialized than Ancient Rome and relied less on manual human labour.

Of course you're right about urban infrastructure, it had declined significantly, on the other hand there weren't as many cities and those that existed had relatively low populations outside of Constantinople and some Muslim cities (Rome itself was only able to sustain such a high population due to massive wealth transfers from the provinces without providing that much in return).
i love the work he does, but can only watch him on mute.
Thought this was about visualizing the 6502 rotate right instruction problem.
It's been around for quite a while, this doesn't seem like a productive fear
The disinformation landscape of this conflict is insane. This article paints a decidedly optimistic picture, however I fear the reality is far more bleak.

Unreliable casualty numbers aside, Russia simply has way more men, and can eventually attrite Ukraine into a demographic death spiral. Indeed, with the exodus of ~20% of its population since the start of the war, this demographic trajectory may now be inexorable. Eastern Ukraine, where much of the most fertile land is, and where most of the fighting has occurred, is now likely littered with bomb parts and unexploded ordinances, and the prospect of the jackals of the American arms industry turning it into a live weapons laboratory is particularly grim.
This is a Monty Python song from 1968, aimed at the Catholic church.
> But if you know how many jobs were lost in the printing industry (typesetting was an incredibly laborious work) which was completely offset by new jobs in other industries, things may turn out great

Comparison with past inventions do not take into account a few things:

1- AI may create new jobs, but it can also do those new jobs especially if they are digital. This is something that never happened before in human history. An easily available machine that can do what a human can do anywhere any time.

2- Cost and capitalism is a huge issue. If the cost of AI is the same as a human, but it can do the job 24/7 with no holidays, no sick days, no unions, and can execute and follow the whims of the prompter, then human will go for AI always.

3- Barrier to entry into any affected job will be low. People with minimal training or expertise will enter industries traditionally reliant on human expertise. This trend may lead to a proliferation of individuals claiming expertise in fields such as visual effects (VFX), which will blur the distinction between skilled professionals and amateur practitioners.
Tesla is one of the largest car producers in China. It's partnered with them as much as against them.
In chaotic systems, time becomes one of the parameters that has to be small for a linear model to make predictions, but they are still linear for brief times.
Dark Enlightenment but you're too afraid to say it?
I'm not so sure that the internet has improved productivity — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
Alliteration and consonance are forms of (the broader definition of) rhyme.
And let's say an embryo falls into a cryofreezer for 1000 years, that's going to be some fun estate probate.
Yeah, right. Because all the interesting things nowadays happen on the same server that renders your html and nobody calls into other SaaS APIs or interacts with external systems much.

Rails is great for a world where an app was running on one server, but that world just isn't there anymore as much as it used to.
Thanks I’ll need to look at their offering. Closed source right?
How is pre-tipping illegal or dishonest?
Nice. Instant business model: create 1000 embryos for tax purposes.
Inter-body coupling and security in electro-quasistatic human body communication
The moderation system is pretty much the same as any forum. You just have to read the sidebar rules first when you're posting on an unfamiliar subreddit, as you would when joining any community.
Pretty much every essay will have flaws, things to comment on, things to improve. Students especially are not going to write perfect essays, not when professionals have editors and they do the same thing, lol.
STNWeb: A new visualization tool for analyzing optimization algorithms
Couldn't you only have the snippet in the layout in dev environment? That's fairly common
> The context of the Iliad, ancient Greece, is completely alien to the modern US, just as it is to modern China

I'm not sure about that. We do not still have the same emphasis on the classics as a century ago, but western societies still inherit a lot culturally from ancient Greece.

Here in Canada, I was taught Greek mythology in school. We examined a play by Sophocles in high school literature. Civics class inevitably brings up Athenian democracy. Philosophy began with Thales. Music began with Pythagoras.

Or to put it another way: the Simpsons once did a parody of the Odyssey. That only works if the audience knows the story of Odysseus. Which of course, they do. Most westerners know it, implicitly, in much the same way the average Chinese person knows Water Margin even if they've never read it.
There are certainly cases in big concert halls etc to run like 100m. 900m should be more a stadiums.
Its hard to see how Tesla would have survived without these efforts.

Ditto SpaceX. If there was a viable competitor to SpaceX in the US it would have emerged in the last 15-20 years.
I have been using gochi/chi router in my go project, and while moving to opentelemetry (OTEL), I noticed that it has weak support for chi router.

Although chi routers are widely used now across highly scalable go applications, but this lack of support causes being dependent on weird (static) scope names, with not much support from otel's own library for golang.

Since the OTEL library is not building new features for such support, I created a new library on the top of OTEL's base project.

Go-chi-otel is an adaption of OTEL go lib, allowing go chi users to now control their traces as they like.

I will be maintaing this project now to support any feature requests, as the library supports instrumentation right now.

You can star the repository if you like to support my initiative :)
Getting OT, but what is the deal with all the completely different moderation guidelines (that amass to like 20-30 weird rules and exceptions) for every subreddit. I find it almost impossible to participate (except just adding a comment here and there).

For example, I wanted to post a funny Risitas youtube vid I made (you know the Spanish comedian with that laugh...), and couldn't find a single usable "funny" subreddit. Some banned youtube content completely. Some banned "video memes", some banned X and some banned Y... all of them had slightly different guidelines and you immediately got an insta-splurge from a bot-mod if you tried posting. Some required you to prefix every post subject with some code word. I had to give up eventually and post it on some super-small subreddit instead that accepted anything.
Pegasus is notoriously sold to more than 40 countries worldwide, among them a fair share of dictatorships: Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, (Hungary?), Bahrain, Russia...
... terahertz waves, which are smaller and travel much faster than radio waves ...

Hmmm
No one makes $100k and pays $50k in taxes.
In my old "brick and mortar" days I would see a relaxing during good times, with more remote people being hired, more WFH leniency. It's when times got hard that the blood would flow away from the extremities (as I would think of it) and people further from HQ would be at risk.
Paying more money for better service is bribery now? What's next, I'm "bribing" usps whenever I opt for expensive overnight service?
What prevents someone from ripping out the surface the tag is attached to rather than the tag itself?
> If you are equally picky and constrain yourself to parts of the ecosystem which care about binary size, you still have more options and can avoid size issues.

The market and your boss do not care about that. They want tasks X and Y done. You have no time to vet 15 alternatives and pick the most frugal one in terms of binary size. Not to mention that for many tasks you have no more than 3-4 alternatives anyway, and none of them prioritize binary size. What are you going to do? Roll your own? Deadline is looming ever closer, I hope you can live without sleep for several days then.

We all know the ideal theory.
I'm going to guess the argument is "this may not remain true over the next 5-10 years as BYD/others take over and Tesla loses marketshare"
The interpretation is not correct, according to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422210
> Me as I walk through Playa Vista and Disneyland on my annual trip to California from a flyover state.
It’s a very sad tragedy. However his family chose to talk about this, with grandmother Esther Wojcicki posting about it on her social media.

She also wrote this book talking about her family’s successes:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Successful-People-Lessons/d...
Peter Santenello: Deep South's Poorest Region – What's It Like? [video]
If only the Romans had actually completed the Colosseum. It truly was a wonderful concept. Sadly it seems the engineering challenges were never the issue, only a lack of political will and shortsightedness ultimately led to the failure of the project.
If you knew it was going to replace their jobs, it would be surprising to me if you’d have decided to not do it.

The main thing to do would be to give people a heads up so they can try to get out in front of it. Which is something AI companies are doing at every level.
Well Threads is making pretty decent strides given that it was spun up in record time (by ex-Twitter employees that have an ax to grind for some reason)
I wish you would benchmark more common point-to-point VPNs as well. I see the comment explaining why you don't, but I think it would be useful. I'm comparing Tailscale, Nebula, etc against Wireguard with out-of-band static route management. These are very different beasts, but if I'm going to pay a 50% performance penalty for mesh routing, maybe I will architect my system to not require it. If it is more like a 5% penalty, then I will absolutely not.
How Street View Works, and Where We Will Collect Images Next
I have to imagine the overlap between markets for people who prefer to:

pay a premium to drive luxury (BMW customers)

vs

those willing to take a chance on a new ultra-cheap $22k Chinese electric car

are near zero currently
We have eliminated humans from other roles in favour of computers as humans tend to be unreliable and behave in unpredictable ways and those two traits are also very annoying attributes in a partner.

I am a guy and have never dated and thankfully have never felt the need to, but if I ever decide that I am lonely, I would be inclined to try one of these apps over people given how messy dating seems to be.
I am not a fan of this as well but you have to consider that a good part of these are caches.
This will be downvoted into oblivion if it isn't outright shadow banned, or whatever euphemism. YCombinator, if your game can't keep up with your propaganda, it's time to retreat into the shadows.
Something I'm curious about:

There used to be a time when a "computer"[1] was an actual human being, whose full-time job was to perform mathematical calculations.

That job is basically obsolete now obviously, but I do wonder how they managed the transition when it became clear that their job will be automated away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
Putting a sheet of paper over my computer screen is by definition an adblocker as well?

Except it’s definitely not, because that’s not its intended purpose.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39372999
I think you mean insinuated, not insulted (I hope I'm not being insulting).

I'm not sure what answer would communicate the idea clearest, but:

* If you want the AI version of pain, there are examples of attacks that cause it to bug out and malfunction. It's clearly not operating correctly, and I think someone famously got Bing to say it wants to go on a rampage? Here's blogspam from last year form a quick search: https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/bing-ai-chatbots-destructive-r...

* If you want to know why people or animals experience pain, it's because it's an important sensor to exist in nature. AI has been trained to avoid controversial topics and will push back if you try to get it to talk about something it knows but doesn't want to engage with. That's sort of pain?

* If you want AI with literal neurons that can feel "pain" in a biological sense, there are also organoids, but I don't know much about them.

The world only cares about inputs and outputs.
> The stateless query engine layer is responsible for query planning, routing, sharding, schema management, node health monitoring, request parsing, validation, and AuthN/AuthZ.

Why don't the nodes expose health checks and other software like Promteheus/Alertmanager check node health?

Similar question for AuthN/AuthZ

Obviously Uber knows more than I do... just curious if this design decision (probably just splitting hairs) makes the most sense
I can't say about comparable quality of search results as I use default DDG search across all my devices for many years, so I'm in my own echo chamber here.

What I can say that, with current tendency of mass enshittification of available content, and noticeable decline of other major players in this space (from time to time I accidentally search via Google\bing or specialized engines), if DDG would just keep the current levels of search quality and modesty of interface with rich !bang syntax - it will be totally fine by me.

I don't need AI generated results, I don't need widgetry, ads, previews, helpers rampage on my search page. I like that they haven't changed their search page colours, css classes, layouts and everything else what compounds into UX for ages. Every now and then when I search something with different engines - I feel like I'm in the IE6 era when everything tries to install a toolbar into your browser, tries to steal your attentions or those old link portals riddled with flashy banners
And then google was born with clear and simple search results page

So it's not so much of a best search quality or ever changing landscape, it's the consistency of experience from DDG I'm after.

DDG is my daily driver, I used to it's style, results, visuals, syntax. In some way I mastered DDG search like one can master regex syntax or programming language. I used to it how someone used to their old tools. I don't want a new "shiny" hammer or a screwdriver, I want the one that is stable and I can adapt to it and master.

And if/when they would ask for small donation or a subscription - I'd happily help them, same way as one would help an old reliable friend in need, rather than flock away to some new hype-driven,money-burning,born-in-AI vendor locked native application.

Being predictably reliable in last few years of internet-worsening landscape - is not a bad thing really. It's a great perk (and kudos to DDG team) that some people value much more, than a fire-hose of degenerative AI novelty.
IMO literally nothing, as long as the analog hole exists. The best they can do is make it more expensive. Requiring an account is one way to do that. Another option is to take the RIAA route and sue everyone involved. Of course they will likely fail, but they can weaponize the legal system against less well resourced companies.

A better idea would be to sell access to the firehose and API at a reasonable cost such that it makes more sense to pay them for this rather than set up a whole scraping farm, aka the Netflix model. Unlike Netflix, they won't be crippled by 3rd parties unlicensing content.
Now is the best time to have kids. The future rules, if you know what’s coming.
Slaves. They had an Industrial Revolution, albeit one built on the backs of "biorobots." A large, double-digit percentage of the Roman population were slaves. If you exclude farmers (who were slaves to the land in a different sense), the vast majority of Romans were slaves. If you went to a market in Rome or Alexandria, you'd see slaves of various households buying groceries from enslaved shop vendors working for the landlord shop owner. Most of the people walking on the street were slaves.

Now imagine I got up to give a TED talk and told you my company perfected the humanoid robot, to such an extent that they were cheap to buy, perfectly able to understand and carry out instructions, self-replicating, needed only a little food and water as input, and able to develop highly toned skills? Can you imagine the productivity boost our society would experience?

Rome had that. Until Christianization slowly eradicated the institution of slavery, and the transition to serfdom. It wasn't until the Industrial Revolution once again gave us (mechanical) slaves that progress took off.
Slight disagree.

"More boring" is a defence against spammers, but not the only the one.

There's also: "Take commercial incentives of the running company out of the picture."

The most prominent example of that is Mastodon. It's software is opensourced, and it's most popular server instance: https://mastodon.social is run by a gGmbH non-profit. (It's hosting company runs it as a non-profit charity for the social good)

Since it's developed in the open without financial incentives muddying up the experience, no advertisements are added and there aren't any algorithmic rankings to be gamed.

And since it's also based on open source, it's easy to share content from other server instances (it's all ActivityPub protocol underneath), and it's also easy to block (defederate) server instances with trolls and other problematic users.

------------------------------

It's like how twitter was at the start, but better.

If you want to try it out, you can make an account on any server then follow some developers in your languages/libraries/tooling of your choice.

You'll also see what those maintainers are discussing in the open and get an idea of how your languages/libraries/tools are going to evolve in the next version, or even participate in their evolution.
OSS Secure Private Router (SPR) Configuration App on the iOS App Store (2023)
I don't think there's much to figure out. The original mission is never coming back. The goal now is to make as much $$$ as possible. Sam & MSFT would never have agreed to it otherwise.
Firmware History: Halfway Between Hardware and Software
And in the EU† they had $30,397,000,000 net sales in 2023 [0], about $83,000,000 per day. Nearly a week of profit in the EU†. Around 1.6% of annual profit in the EU†.

Even with only looking at the EU† sales, this does not seem to be that bad of a fine.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q1/FY24_Q1_Consol...

† I know that EU != Europe, but Apple does not report its sales split up by EU countries, so this is the best that I can get from the data available.
I'm pretty suspicious of any 3rd party seo tools. Only true data comes from Google Search Console or hacker news logs.
I often find myself searching on HN, then Reddit (via google) and then good old sad google, in that order.

When Google arrived, it had the solution people were desperately waiting for. It was pretty much everything we wanted. And it even "wasn't evil!"

Now it feels like people at Google are just making sure they'll qualify for their annual bonus with total disregard to what happens to the company.

I forecast that in the next 1-3 years, we'll see another company steal the search market, just like Google it back in the day. But Google, don't worry, they'll "just be a search company".
This looks like an attempt to build good will with the governments of the world so that their platforms don't get crushed by regulation in the coming years. And also a way to give their supporters ammunition to fight a total AI ban by noting all the good and necessary uses of AI. The accord points out several times, for example, how AI technology can be used not only to generate deep fakes, but also to detect them.
Found it: https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8
>> I have heard the opinion voiced that works like the Iliad are too daunting
or too boring even for university students. I disagree. My experience teaching
the Iliad proved to me that even high school students can find the epic
engrossing. Most teenagers need help to get there, however. In this post I am
going to outline how I taught the Iliad to a gaggle of Chinese teenagers.

I grew up in Greece and we were taught the Iliad and the Odyssey at school. I
didn't find them daunting. I liked reading them both, despite being extremely
annoyed at the translation into Demotic Greek - a made-up, wooden language
that nobody has ever spoken, nor will. I also couldn't stand the way the epics
were taught, by literary "analysis" that bored every child out of their head.

But I liked the Iliad because it was basically more of the epic battles in the
songs and movies I liked at the time: I listented to a lot of epic Metal and
Connan the Barbarian was my favourite movie (with a soundtrack by Basil
Poledouris that could easily have been written for the Iliad). And I liked
the Odyssey because it was like the fantasy books I read and the games I
played: a big adventure, with many monsters encountered along the way where
the hero lost companions, rather than Hit Points, I guess.

All this came natural to me. I needed no "help to get there". I probably very
much didn't get to any place a literature professor would want me to get. I
decided that Achilles is a bloodthirsty assshole and fuck him and his μήνις,
whereas Odysseus was a smart guy, an engineer, but one with a heart who guided
him home, one of my childhood heroes [1].

But I think the ancient bards [2] would have been happy. They would have found
the literary analysis boring and preferred the spontaneous enjoyment of a
young child to a thousand eloquent analyses about the cultural value of their
epics. What cultural value does an epic have, with monsters and warriors, if
it can't get a teenager to be interested in it?

____________

[1] Together with Socrates and, er, Alexander. The Great - great butcher. What
was I thinking?

[2] Yeah, I mean the people we collectively call "Homer".
Doesn't part of the Rust compliation chain end up using `cc` anyway eventually for like, linking or something?

That might not apply at a "system's" level but I'm guessing in the massive Linux compilation job with module support you're making a bunch of object files with exported symbols?
Is there a FOSS tag on Steam? Can we make one? I think if we are enough to tag FOSS game as FOSS, Steam may catch on.
What would you suggest? Storing data on the blockchain where costs per GB are tens of orders of magnitude higher?