skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, aren’t there enough scraped dumps of Reddit data already?
Sure, it is not as convenient as an API, and you may not be able to put Reddit’s logo next to the results, but why would LLMs care about that as long as they can train on the data in some form?
to bring this full circle, terry pratchett's early science fiction novel "strata" was largely a parody of "ringworld". not as good as his post-stride-hitting discworld books, but worth a read anyway
I am the co-founder of Anchorpoint, a Git based version control app. It's like a Git client + asset manager.

I have seen many false statements about Git LFS and wanted to test how it works on a large repo. We are using a self-hosted GitLab on AWS and using latest Git features like sparse checkout and LFS (we are also contributing to the development of it) to see how far you can push Git.

We develop Anchorpoint, but everything can also be achieved with the command line app.

The test repo has 1TB (1.004 GiB) and a total file count (excluding files, that are ignored by the .gitignore) of 385.493. We are using sparse checkout to work on a subset (4GB) of the project. To make a performance test, we changed 10 files in Unreal Engine.

- “Git status” takes 1581.6007 milliseconds
- “Git add . “ takes 1633.8424 milliseconds
- “Git commit -m “Added bench” “ takes 1653-3998 milliseconds

Tests also included pushing single files with a size above 9GB and a single commit with 281.876 of files (approx. 300GB of size)
Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate
You will experience decline across many axis of your life as you age. An exercise that helps me accept this is to frame my identify in terms of things I will not lose.

- I like to hike, but what I really love is to be in nature and surrounded by trees.

- I like being funny and quick-witted, but what I really love is to laugh and see other laugh.

- I like to dance, but what I really love is to feel the rhythm of music in my body.

Obviously some of this is self-delusion (I'd also like to be young, strong and smart) but I find it helps.
Longhand means handwritten.
Might be controversial, but in my opinion the impact (and long-lasting aesthetic) of Bauhaus is much more visible in the industrial design of modern products than it is in architecture.

After all, a consumer product can win by individual choice of the consumer, with failed attempts of interpreting Bauhaus design disappearing again, which makes it easy to cite good examples of lasting Bauhaus style over time (i.e. showing similarity of Braun products with Apple design, etc.).

But a failed interpretation of Bauhaus in Architecture continues to live among us for decades, watering down the value of well-executed Bauhaus design with an appearance of being a cheap bland building...
Took a look at your website and I really admire your approach.

Looking forward to some updates as things firm up.

I would say natural competition has been around for a long time, and can act as an obstacle to natural co-operation. That co-operation seems to be so much more difficult to establish and maintain. But when you get strong individuals who are advanced in so many different directions, and let them keep going, it could take time associating together before some fruitful common ground can be staked out, but there's nothing else like it.
Apple and Tesla feel the pain as China opts for homegrown products
Now America was fascist and authoritarian in the mid-post WWII era?? Are you guys competing for biggest contrarian or did I accidentally step into a neomarxist forum?
> all labor should be free under such an ideology

no, parties are free to negotiate between each other, for their own purposes.. as they see fit
It is still beyond me why a common tool as a word processor needs to be an always online web-app. This cloud thing to this day feels like an inferior technical solution that's being forced by big companies at the detriment of end users, not to mention the privacy downsides.

And I say that as someone who earns his keep doing cloud stuff.
A new city (assuming they can manage to get all the legal approvals needed to build one) in a state the size of California has zero chance of being a solution to that state's housing crisis.

And the stated goals of the Secret Billionaires are starting to sound like a "Currently Trending in the Jet Set" list of buzz-phrases.
We look at the data in GA, but it doesn’t paint a good picture because we only care about one country (US), have only a couple pages that matter, and conversions are mostly from paid sources not organic search. One of our biggest complaints is that the search terms are mostly branded ones, even though we’ve been asking the agency to focus on unbranded terms. It’s possible that we’re being impatient to see results with only 6 months under our belt.
I worry it's going soon after the IPO.
Sure, I would excuse LLMs from being racist. I don't see how there could possibly be a compelling argument for them to be racist given how they actually work.
Doesn't load on FF mobile (for me).
Isn't LibreOffice broken abandonware though?
Although there's not much tooling around it, being a better spec (see sibling) would mean it's easier to write such tooling. Also, ODF is supported in a wider variety of software, MSO included, than ooxml (at least for a sufficiently advanced feature set of ooxml)
If someone were able to break Bitcoin's encryption we'd have much bigger problems to worry about - It would upend modern cryptography.
You’re talking to programmers here. We trivially add thousands of lines of changes to text documents that we all collaborate on daily and can tell you the history of every line going back for years.

The trick is to use open source version tracking and a simpler text editor. I suspect that markdown in a gui editor could do everything that actually needs doing.
Why did you make this commit? What was the reason that made you stage these particular files and their changes and commit them to the repo? What were you trying to fix, add, or change?

I rarely see that documented in comments because it changes constantly, and documentation tends to be for users. An issue number can have that information, but if you're going to be tracking changes in git anyway why not use the system as designed so people don't have to hop to a different system to get a quick understanding of the commit?
Why should someone bother to do this, if they already know and have a handle on cURL's syntax?
Superb. Now let's see modern laptops actually obey the "sleep" mode when the lid is shut.

How many of you have pulled laptops out of your bag to find it's been on for hours and its white hot?
I still see my point standing that modern architecture is very unpopular in Germany.
The “S” in original iPhone is for security. All in the name of shipping out that first product.

Just like car manufacturers. Never buy the first few model years of a new product or platform.
Bedbugs were spotted in touristic area of France since many years and were slowly growing. Bedbugs were already a real problem and in 2023 became a real concern Mainly due to olympics games coming.
But there was absolutely no reason to "panic", just to be concerned and fight the problem.
The reason of the panic was social media. And manipulation of social media is just one step ahead.
Ah, yes! Fakelisp page references Hylang too, although with a broken link.
Latam Chile B789 over Tasman Sea on Mar 11th 2024, upset injures 12
My biggest fear. The nightmares I had for years after reading. They returned, years later, when observing Alzheimer's from up close, in family members. No way out, no cure. Memory, reasoning capabilities, character, everything that makes you yourself decline, disappear; you're still breathing, but you're more dead day after day. And then, when you stop being aware of all that... does it make it better? or worse? I don't want to imagine this.

Two follow-ups: "Rainbows End" by V. Vinge. Maybe there'll be a cure. Or "Choosing to Die" by Terry Pratchett. Maybe there's no cure and there won't be. At least, you can decide to go on your own terms, as a person still, not a vegetable yet.
But they also have Terms of Service (https://localsend.org/#/terms-of-service) which are not so great:

You represent that you are over the age of 18. The Company does not permit those under 18 to use the Service.

I planned to use it with family (kids).
It’s not a question of whether it’s technically possible but practical to expect people to maintain a recovery address which is not otherwise used or guessable. If you can pull it off, sure, but from a security perspective I’d probably be looking for a way to avoid email at all for this mechanism since it just wasn’t designed around address privacy.
Those links seem to be about the impact of Brexit on food policy in general, not this label in particular.
Which itself has a fascinating backstory

https://www.absoluteveryfirsttime.com/post/magic-roundabout
I've heard this argument used to say climate change isn't happening, because there are less deaths.

Hurricanes aren't getting stronger, because there are less deaths.

But ignores we are getting better at predicting land falls and evacuating.

Responding to disasters 'better', doesn't mean disasters are not getting worse.

And there is some diminishing return, eventually the disasters will overwhelm the ability to respond.
The example of Rust is one where no types are nullable by default, but only if you wrap them in an `Option<T>`.

Given these two function signatures:

pub fn getUser() -> User

pub fn getMaybeUser() -> Option<User>

This code won't compile, because `getUser()` cannot return a `None`:

pub fn foo() -> Option<String> {
let user = getUser()?;
return user.name
}

But this code will compile:

pub fn foo2() -> Option<String> {
let user = getMaybeUser()?;
return Some(user.name)
}

(rust playground link: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...)
Money is used to transact, it doesn't "sit" in ETFs. e.g. if I buy a share from you that money goes from person A (the buyer) to person B (the seller), it doesn't "sit" in the stock.

Now ETFs can hold some cash, but in general they're invested almost wholly in their target asset, so they hold the assets instead of cash.

You seem to be mistaking market value for money
I read they only showed ads in a few countries as a test and now plan to expand. They also said they'll share the money from ads with channel owners, since ads are only shown in public channels. No idea which countries will be included, though, wonder if the EU will get them.
Seaweed!

But the word "seaweed" alone is about as useful as the word "plastic"; there are are so many different kinds that the word alone is not very informative.

I couldn't find any information on just what kind of seaweed the subject company is using, either in the article or the company's web site.

If it's kelp, it's problematic because kelp is sensitive to climate change and kelp forests are in a state of collapse around the world. Individual kelps can grow fast, but it can take a long time for new kelp forests to take root and spread.

If it's sargassum, which floats freely in the ocean and seems to be thriving in the new climate regime, then we may have something.
Generative AI Tries to Learn Cosmology
I can't imagine how people in my midwestern USA state would react to this. My small college shares an entrance with a middle school and they put a roundabout in a couple years ago. Except when parents are picking up or dropping off their kids it is very low traffic with very clear visibility. I still see people regularly not know how to use it. People stopping in the middle of it to let people in and stopping at the yield sign when it is obvious that there is no other car anywhere near it.
Two LLMs, one pedantic, annoying, and correct. The other a master of speech and creativity.

The first explains the answer, the second translates the answer into layman, and the first validates that the translation is still mostly correct.
The complete story of Gödel incompleteness
Can we also have multi line lambdas? It will make loops in trees of components (html, UI etc) easier. Generating html in Python will look much better than:

```
with lib.html():
with lib.body():
with lib.ul():
for i in items:
with lib.li():
lib.add(i)
```
Always remember that ML is starting from training data, ie., from a very very very large number of (Prompt,Answer) pairs.

Remember also, that companies like OpenAI are tracking what prompts fail and adding it to their datasets. So their initial data is ever-more just a record of questions-and-answers.

Given this, we should expect that the vast majority of questions we have, of ChatGPT will be answered very very well.

What has this to do with intelligence? Nothing at all.

Intelligence is not answering questions correctly. It's what you use when you dont have the answers and arent even clear on the question.
My MacBook Pro M1 Pro refuses to charge when plugged in unless it needs to. Apple seemed to fix this with their newer machines.
Daaaamn. Dude put the DC-10 through its paces.
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You’ve got to at least consider the effects of pharmaceutical birth control has on society.

If you can’t question things for fear of being labeled a conspiracy theorist is a signal to question those things.
Another good indicator is if HN assumes it will tank
I don't think it is particularly relevant to the article at the moment. Outside of Tesla, very few DCFC stations support NACS at the moment. L2 has never been an issue, since adapters are so common.

The biggest shift is just ongoing sales. EVs represent ~1% of cars on the road, but ~9% of sales. Even if there were no sales growth, charging demand would increase by ~9x over the next 5-10 years.
Making drivers uneasy is often the best way to improve safety. Narrow lanes, in particular, help a good deal. https://www.wri.org/insights/bigger-isnt-always-better-narro...
Probably rather little, if money here is in general any world currency. As other instruments like debt do much better job...
Auto Shenanigans on YouTube recently posted a video about this

https://youtu.be/DAFQZwR157E

He finds a bunch of little known and mildly interesting things about the UK road network.
I think that's OK? What something is used for does sometimes change after it's been deployed.

What was once a network for universities to communicate and share information, became something much more than that, for better or worse, as one example.

Not sure if counting it as a currency, asset, technology or whatever changes anything regarding if Bitcoin ETFs are a "win" for Bitcoin or not.
They should make the gamestop guy the new CEO
I just set it to charge to 70%, unless manually overridden.
I think we need to apply a part of the concept of "Human Rights" to corporate as well, namely due process.

Law is always evolving and this is one of these cases. One of the human rights is the right to a hearing. If the world is able to force corporate to give the right to a hearing to their customers, many of these problems will probably go away.

It's cheap for corporate not to provide a hearing but potentially disastrous for affected customers.
So, what do you propose as an alternative to nuclear regulation?
Very interesting thanks.

My suggestion would have been social media.
I'm more familiar with that one than the one in swindon. It looks extremely terrifying from above, but what it actually looks like from the ground is a bit of a weird run of roundabouts one after another. If you take them one at a time rather than consider the intersection as a whole, it works fairly simply. It's actually shockingly intuitive.

Compared to the nearby roundabout onto the M40, which is of a much simpler design, but is covered in traffic lights, the Wycombe magic roundabout is actually much better at moving traffic around.
Gropiusstadt isn't exactly the best example of Bauhaus though. IIRC Gropius original plan was changed a lot to maximize capacity/minimize cost, the buildings were only supposed to have 5 stories or less etc. I don't think those issues have anything to do with the the specific style.
> this guy was so good he never had to debug a program after he was done.

Every CS department has these legendary tales that grow more hyperbolic over time (See "never" above.)

They are fun to tell!
The Savoy Hotel entrance is the only (??) place in the UK where we drive on the right.
your thinking of OpenOffice. LibreOffice is alive and kicking.
Yeah it's going to be a rough year for EV sales because of the switch. I'm definitely not buying one that needs an adapter if I can just wait a year and not need it. Luckily the EV I'm looking to buy (either Hyundai Ioniq 5 or Kia EV6, they're basically the same thing) seems to be on the relatively early side of the switch.
Diesel-Electric Retrofit Kit for Pickups [video]
This is a nerd-snipe for me. I have need for a pickup truck moving bees, and replaced the engine two years ago. I really wanted to try Chevy's own electric kit, but it was not available for general applications at that time. I also wanted to use my truck for long-distance driving, and the charging infrastructure in my area ( Southeast ) is not as developed as the West coast.

I also find that this market has the most opportunity to make a difference in emissions for the medium-heavy pickups that move so much of LTL freight and regional deliveries.
There's probably nothing outright incriminating in those documents, rather that the political party or parties were using their subsidy money to pay for services rendered from companies owned by the party leadership – which is 100% legal, but not very pretty in the public eye.

I don't find it very surprising that they could and did use the GDPR "loophole" to close the public sector from public insight. Before GDPR there were very clear laws of transparency making sure that they could not deny giving out public documents. And if they did, they'd be taken to court and always loose. They would still try denying some public documents and threatening court would work against that.

With a data protection authority on their side, they finally got the law on their side, using tactics such as saying that there is a risk that these documents end up on an American server. While at the same time using Microsoft services and American servers themselves. Which is the subject of the OP article.

Appointing a crooked head of a data protection authority or any authority is easy and it is legal. Circumventing laws is not that easy. But it is easier when you have more laws that are more open for interpretation.

The right thing to do would have been to make transparency laws more powerful than GDPR laws, because it was obvious that they would be abused. Now the EU has GDPR laws enforced on a union-wide basis, but not wholesome transparency laws enforced on a union-wide basis.
Where do you find such a cheap VPS? :)
can I use this as a collaborative grid component in my own project? that is, I don't want any of the no-code, spreadsheet etc features, I just want part of the frontend of my own app to be a grid that multiple people can edit, persisted in a database table that my own phoenix/rails/whatever process also has access to.
> Why not just put a muzzle on it?

I think he's talking about the Google robot that was linked in the root. "Muzzing" a domestic robot would probably mean putting it in a cage, which would defeat the whole point. That's not a solution.
It's not money in the real sense. You can't buy water with it. You can't buy medicine with it. You can't buy land with it. The map is not the territory with Bitcoin.
I am sure Microsoft would love that, but looking here does it look like abandonware? - https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/
Some people are just gluttons for pun-ishment.
Brutalism (which generally most/many people seem to dislike) isn't the same as Bauhaus though.

> modern architecture is very unpopular in Germany

IMHO it has much more to do with the constraints of the 50s and 60s. All major cities in Germany were destroyed and had to be rebuilt fast and cheap. Of course buildings from the late 19th/early 20th century might have looked a lot nicer but they were also massively more expensive (would you rather many cheap and ugly high density buildings or a few better looking expensive ones, it's not like there were that many other options).
I'm no fan of Musk but his business acumen is undeniable.
Can it do embeddable sub-forms and grids, like good ole MS Access? Like, I've got a grid on the main form showing multiple rows, I click on a row and it refreshes two sub forms, one showing a form view of additional fields of the selected record, and the other shows multiple rows from a child table?
> Panoramafreiheit also covers picture containing people as long as they aren't the focus or reason of the image, but things get more complicated there (and individual cases could override things).

Panoramafreiheit proper is really just about copyright, people have nothing to do with it. There's a separate law regarding pictures of people, with the aforementioned exception for people that have just incidentally been captured (https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kunsturhg/BJNR000070907.h...).
The title got me really excited that they were doing full text search. Boy that would be an awesome project. Zlib and Google Books do it, but it would be great to have a open source version that everyone could contribute to, and provided access to full texts
Insecticide
Some people think it's legit because they pay for the service and the decoder (firestick with a app) is sold in a real store.
Some insurance companies make you use an app if you want lower payments so this battle is mostly lost.
Crossing Information Security Domains and Expertise
Uncorrelated is the key word IMHO. And I wouldn't say it is liquid, but that's a good thing here IMHO too.

A lot of asset management is for pensions. This means that long term stability is quite important, and when designing portfolios negative or neutral correlations are highly desired (square deviation sigma goes down with weighted sum of correlation coefficients here [1]).

One one hand all companies rely on energy, electricity and gas and oil. To transform matter, to transport goods. Despite being a few percent GDP, energy is a multiplier/enabler of economic activity. Electricity's price is also being defined at the margin by peaker gas plants. And gas price is also highly linked to oil.

On the other hand, Bitcoins being mostly 'hodled' their price would be greatly defined by the block rewards. Which cost of is function of electrical scarcity. The highest the electricity price, the more it cost to produce the same amount of Bitcoin as per the consensus hash rate adjustments.

It's not perfect analysis, and I have not crunched the numbers; but I would not be surprised for Bitcoin to have negative or neutral correlations to a lot of assets because of energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
>Cirencester instead

Hey. Some of us chose Chippenham instead.

I honestly don't really understand what the fuss is with it, just keep looking right and drive forward when you're free to. It makes so much more sense than multiple stop signs where each side takes it in turn.
Love your qualifier. “If submitted correctly”.