skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but, for comparison, scaling a search engine is hard in US, and it's not an insight worth sharing, it's completely obvious to anyone who looks at the market for 5 minutes.
For anyone looking to play online, the site has links to a few places and apps

https://www.renju.net/playrenju/
corrected URL: <https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/finally-engineers-have...>
Huh? In the United States books have inflated by -0.1% per year since 1997, compared with the overall economy which inflated at 2.46% per year on average during the same period. Because of the stiff competition.

Unless you mean specifically textbooks, which are inflating because piracy has destroyed the demand (the annual revenue of the textbook market is down ~33% since 2014, despite increases in both prices and enrollment in colleges). You can see the causal link here as increases in pricing are lagging decreasing sales. If the prices were driving the decreasing sales you would expect the opposite behavior.
Burglars hit a couple of rich people's houses and suddenly it's a crisis.

Theft rings continuously fence thousands of bicycles a month to Mexico--nobody gives a damn.

Funny that.
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Remember, kids: the real minimum wage is still holding steady at $0.

Once all of the Really Smart People are done bethinking themselves smarter than the market, voters can hopefully overthrow the RSP clique and get back to having, you know, an economy.
It'll give a nicer experience and will eliminate situation where an element changes location just as you try to tap on it.

The extension just needs to handle GDPR notice and Email subscription overlays.
StopCrypt ransomware, more common than LockBit, gains stealthier variant
> Rule number one of wild gathered foods, regardless of what it is: eat just a little of it until you know it won't make you sick, even if it's 100% safe.

I don’t have the source at hand but I recall reading a few years ago that you should start by rubbing it on your skin, and if no reaction run it inside your lips, and if no reaction, chew it a bit and spit it out, and if no reaction then eat a very small amount, and only eat more after a significant period of time has passed, and then in small doses.

It seemed reasonable to me. Slowly increase the risk level.
What would people’s gut reaction be if California was the one doing the banning?
LSF looks like what I need
gRPC is for long-lived services (and connections). Combining it with lambda doesn't make much sense.
Agreed!

A similar thing happened in India as well in the early 2010s, which is why a lot of telcos in Africa are owned by Indian conglomerates as they saw a similar opportunity and market structure, and also because of some corruption by paying off and grooming Museveni, Ruto, and Hassan

There seems to be a lot of meddling by both India and China in East Africa
> Pizza in particular is ideal for delivery, because most people want to let it sit for a bit before they eat it.

What kind of monsters do you know?
This isn't a generational shift so much as VCs showing their hand.

It's strange the article saw this as some magnanimous transfer of power rather than folks getting out of the market because it's not as rigged in their favor anymore and it's harder to raise cash.
I was a Mintlify customer 6 months ago and found their onboarding strange. Their Github app asked for permissions to access all my repos and there was no way to get around that. I just wanted to give them access to my docs repo not my app repo. Ended up having to dig through their settings page and revoking that permission after onboarding.

For customer OAuth tokens, I believe you should NEVER store the access token in the database. Only store the refresh token in the database. When you need api access, get a new access token with the refresh token and client secret.

This prevents incidents like the above as the attacker would also need your client secret, which is ideally not in your database.
I would love an explanation for software enginners / CS majors who aren't familiar with ML.

Last I studied ML was 2016 and that was stuff like decision trees, k nearest neighbors...
Personal Journaling Enabled with LLMs
> Are you going to force UK speakers to say truck, fall and cookie, too?

No, but it's pretty typical to see Brits talk about datacenters, computer programs and sometimes even catalogs, as opposed to datacentres, computer programmes and catalogues.
> The article deftly deploys some fine rhetoric borrowed from bleeding heart liberals--"think of the elderly who are relying on these deliveries!! Think of the CHILDREN!!!" But yeah, not that long ago everybody was doing without delivery services, and we didn't even notice that we didn't have it.

I see myself as very liberal, but this sounds like quite a straw man. What do I think of people deleting DoorDash, et al, en masse? "Good". Very good.

It's a wasteful racket.

Let alone dealing with the entitlement of some of the drivers who think that they deserve special treatment at stores and restaurants because they're "on the clock", or "late", or whatever. A non-trivial amount of times, I've had them ask to cut in line (or just straight attempt to), or serve up attitude to servers and other customers alike just to get back to the "hustle".
> but they can choose what part of the industry they support.

Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't, sometimes it's up to what they care and focus about.

> If many care, they can make an impact.

Sure, theoretically. Expecting any results seems like a fool's game though. Who would bother when the state is right there and perfectly capable of making rational decisions better than any individual consumer could?

> And that's the crux. Many, or most people don't give a shit. Not about climate change, not about plastic in the ocean. Not about animals living in factories without seeing the sun ever. They care about their immediate surroundings, their taxes and the money in their pocket. They don't want further problems, someone else should take care of that (unless it increases taxes).

Yea, it's almost like this is a "tragedy of the commons" issue known to be extremely difficult to impact by individual decision making. And who can blame the individual? Who could shoulder that responsibility and emerge sane? The only entity involved one might expect to make a difference is the state with their ability to override the inherent irrationality of the masses.

Christ, what are people being taught in school these days?
Related from a month ago:

Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387387
Seems as if one guy wrote a book where he took down a straw man version of Sapir Whorf, and now a bunch of people who never fully grokked the idea are convinced it's wrong. I bet they're monolingual.

Some people don't have good detection for bad logic and rhetoric, and yet are easily convinced they understand things they haven't fully understood. See: crypto, politics, economists, law, etc.
Decentralizing IRC
Maybe Im misunderstanding, but why cant you just search said string in their github collection?
The only reason I could think of is that github search is a bit broken…
Florida only supplies about 3% of beef to the industry, so I doubt it. It's more culture war than anything. "They're coming for your steaks!" Whoever the fuck "they" are.
Open sourced code https://github.com/raghavan/Life-Logs
Why? If I want to spend an extra 20 bucks on getting McDonalds delivered at 11pm isn’t that my prerogative? I’d rather go the legit route vs having some rando on Craigslist deliver it.
It's not like websites are GPU bound
Thanks for this. It looks like a great read. As an immigrant I was always mildly annoyed by this idea.

Like, yes, my language has a ton of words for all possible familial relationships, for example different words for maternal and paternal uncle, but that’s because familial relationships are important in my culture and that’s reflected in the language.

Language is the reflection of culture, not the other way around
All my odd dream/sleep experiences came as a teenager, got every one at least once, lucid dreams I had several times, also night terrors, and sleep paralysis. Nothing since then.
Exactly. The problem is the excessive water extraction, not the technology making it cheaper.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240317002102/https://time.com/...
Was really hoping this was somehow related to the Bob Loblaw Law Blog
> There was a time before food delivery apps, and it was better.

This is such weird revisionist history. Was it really better to always have to walk to the restaurant, place an order, wait 15-30 minutes, and then walk home with cold food? Were people magically unexploited in 2010 because apps didnt exist yet?
It's not the fees, it's the difficult of getting a construction permit in the first place.

The FM band is full.
You don't even have the assurance that the RAM is ECC on cloud...
Is Nigerian cloud computing as cheap as Nigerian food?

Unless the whole supply chain is local, you're still paying global prices for some things.
While this is a POC, it 'works' in the sense that you can send and receive messages, join channels, and communicate in said channels.

(JOIN, PART, PRIVMSG, NOTICE, QUIT, NAMES are implemented)

All users are both clients and servers. Nobody owns the network. Names are authenticated against Handshake and so are TLS certificates and signatures.

Channels are owned by the person who owns said namespace - for example, if your name is bob, then you own bob and bob/*

Tl;dr:

This makes it impossible for anyone to take over your IRC.
I'm not a specialist, but there's a chain of trust you need to maintain to have the full set of features. If it's ever broken, you're sent to the gulag. I broke the chain when reinstalling like an old-timer on my M1 Macbook Air and was then forced to enter my password twice to unlock the Mac.

I had to reflash with a second Mac to restore the chain.
I think that's the sales pitch for https://tinyseed.com/
If only there was some kind of long-lived proxy you could put in front of things that would handle connection pooling and would forward requests onto a short-lived backend, scaling up instances as needed to serve those requests.
Are you saying the medical drones are overstated?
Most of these couples are people who grew up in and/or have strong networks in those cities to begin with.
> How that output comes to be is not the output itself, same as the nix side the article is talking about.

I see the confusion now. The nix image builders OCI layer's contents are _only_ nix store paths which _do_ include the input.

Nix store paths are are guaranteed to never overlap each other, and such the order of layering them in the docker manifest does not matter. But the docker layers are just tar balls of nix store paths. Each layer in the image has no dependence on previous or future layers at all. It is just one or more nix store paths.
Debloat non-rooted Android devices
Light passing by the Schwarzschild black hole [video]
GitHub search requires an account now, but more importantly it's poorly indexed by Google et al. You only look something up on GitHub if you're expecting to find it on GitHub.
And compare the animation at <https://twitter.com/PeRossello/status/1756697785083023812>
Reputations are earned
Seems like a misleading title. I thought "alternative meat" was plant-based meat, but instead they're referring to cell-cultivated meat.
Seems kinda pointless, probably culture war crap. Absent a pretty remarkable breakthrough lab meat isn’t going to be competitive with real meat anytime soon, no need to try and ban it.
That it must cause cancer somehow
> If they said they are welcome, it means they are.

No. Talk is cheap, actions speak louder. It's incredibly easy to brush off users with that patch talk. Actually working with the people who do provide those patches? That takes some serious effort from the maintainer: evaluating and testing their contributions, providing constructive feedback, making sure they are credited, generally helping them help you so that they can accomplish their goals without compromising your goals.

When you straight up challenge someone to show you the code and they respond by doing just that, it reflects very poorly on maintainers if they can't even muster a reply.
I like the scroll view in discourse. Makes it super easy to follow a thread. The subthreads and replies are also easier to use. The search is better, the ability to upvote makes it better for some use cases, and in general phpbb is a mess in terms of actually being able to see what's useful and what threads are relevant.

I think flipping the question makes more sense, why do you think some forums switched to or started using discourse instead of just using phpbb? I can guarantee you that it's not just to follow a fad or whatever, most niche or support forums don't care about that.
> the researchers examined the relations between participants’ self-reported engagement in both types of BSing and their ratings of how profound, truthful, or accurate they found pseudo-profound and pseudo-scientific statements and fake news headlines

If I understand correctly, they simply asked the participants themselves if they are BS’ing and drew the conclusions solely from that? How do you expect people BS’ing others would admit doing that?
As for myself, sometimes I just "barge through the exits and trigger the alarm and keep on moving". Never have been stopped by anyone.
The 360 model 20 isn't actually a 360 compatible system. It's a 16 bit subset 'inspired by' the 360.
I haven't encountered this in the US, but Albert Heijn has it for at least some stores in the Netherlands.
The Greatest Enemy of Privacy
The only places I remember delivering food before 2000 were Chinese-food places and pizzerias. Other restaurants didn't even do takeout except for fast food.
How do you do that on mobile?
IMHE as part of multiple YC-backed founding teams, this is a new tone from YC.

In the past they have been very condescending of anything that doesn't involve trying to be a unicorn as fast as possible. There's even a video in their catalog deriding 'lifestyle' (ie - non-vc, non-unicorn, non-blitz-scaling) startups.

It makes sense given their business model, but I found it distasteful that they were advising young, impressionable entrepreneurs to take on more risk and to move away from their core competencies: greatly reducing the entrepreneurs' own chances of success in order to give YC and their associates another lottery ticket for a billion dollar payoff.
Value was the driving factor for some of my early hackintoshing (Core 2 Duo era), but what pushed me to do it from 2015-2020 was the abysmal state of higher powered Mac hardware.

The Mac Pro was still the un-updated 2012 trash can, the 15” MBPs were too thin for the CPUs they housed (perhaps Intel’s fault for getting stuck on 14nm for so long, but still) and were hot with terrible battery life, and while the 27” iMacs weren’t terrible and probably the best of the lineup, they still weren’t cooled quite as well as they should’ve been. My 6700k + 980Ti tower in a Fractal Define case with a big quiet Noctua cooler was just flat better and made a far better Mac than anything Apple sold at the time.

That said, I did eventually grow tired of the tinkery-ness of it all and in 2020 picked up a refurbed base model iMac Pro, one of the few Macs in that timespan that wasn’t a mistake, for about half its MSRP. It was about as powerful as that tower, surprisingly even more quiet, and of course just worked without the tinkering.
Should they now pay 30% of the App Store subscriptions to Github for hosting their infrastructure?
Yep, I’m ok to see businesses fail if they can’t make a profit without everyone else subsidizing their model

I can totally survive without a $35 fast food order. Can they?
DIY Macro PCB Photography
True! But Nigeria doesn't have as developed a fintech sector compared to Ghana and Kenya, which lead to local champions arise somewhat sooner in those countries than in Nigeria.
Didn't the kids go into debt to learn how the world really works?

This is how we are. For now.
This made me grin. Everything has a label that says it causes cancer in California.
I guess it's all relative, but when I say "luxury condo" I'm thinking of $800k–$1M new construction with fancy appliances. Honestly not my particular taste. But when I see 30-somethings coming out of these buildings walking their dogs and pushing a stroller, I just can't figure out how the math works out.
It's more of a hipster thing imo. For some people since it's minimalist and looks "old" , it must be good. Like I get keeping it simple but man it's CSS..
The world changes little-by-little, not all at once.

Let's say your application (100k LoC of Cobol) handles payroll. Your government introduces some new rules about how paternity leave should be handled. You have two options, rewrite the 100K lines into Java and add the new rule, or just add the new rule in the Cobol app. The latter is cheaper, at least in the long term, so that's what you do. Now you have 101k lines of Cobol.

20 years, four tax reforms, three mergers, five international expansions and fifty lawsuits later, you have migrated 100k lines of Cobol to Java, but your app grew and is now 3 million lines.
This is an awesome paper, and the somewhat negative sentiment in the discussion here is surprising.

The ablation studies are well done, comprehensive and expensive to do. People will be using the conclusions from this for years, and that is much more impactful than if an upcoming Siri product ourperforms the GPT model at that same point in time.

A few really interesting points:

Synthetic datasets substantially (1%+) increase performance for Image Encoder Pre-training

Architecture of the Visual<->Language model connector doesn't seem to matter.

Interleaving text and image data improves few shot performance, but image captioning data improves zero-shot numbers.

The ideal mix of data types is 5:5:1 for Interleaved:Captions:Plain Text (!)

Synthetic captioning data helps substantially at this point too (up to 4% gain)

The appendices are amazing: lots of details about learning rates tried, batch sizes.

The "explain these figures" are really really good. See page 37.
The Future of IoT
Tailscale makes accessible IoT devices remotely. But remote-iot does the same
Mintlify sponsors one of my open source projects, express-rate-limit, and we use their service to host the docs for it. So I'm probably biased, but I've honestly been pretty happy with it overall - I'm thinking about using it for some of my other projects.

I think the best thing I can say about it is this: Mintlify helps us write better docs. Before Mintlify, we had a humongous readme plus a few one-off articles in the wiki. After switching the Mintlify, we started organizing things better, beginning with a less overwhelming readme.

I found out about this hack when they sent me an email yesterday. I looked through the git history (edit: and github activity), but nothing seems awry.

It sucks, but they're a pretty small business, and I think they're handling it reasonably well.
Microsoft, at least before Cloud happened, supported their tech stacks with backward compatibility for decades.
Niger had a military coup removing their democratically elected government last year. They are now drawing closer to Russia. The old government was corrupt, but the us was pushing improvements.

the us isn't perfect, but in general we want partners who are not corrupt.
Excel is getting Python “embedded” soon. Might make some of this easier.
No because Github and the App Store/iOS/iPhone are two different business models.
I really like this. In fact, I have an extremely similar home-grown abstraction. I might look into standardizing on this.
>about four-in-ten adults under 30 have used it

That seems pretty massive honestly, that's way beyond what I would consider adopted by the masses.
This is a gross misunderstanding of the GP's point though. It's not that they are against doing any of these things. In fact, they said they were more than happy to do it in their youth. I am in full agreement with the GP's sentiment as well.

Mucking about and tinkering with things while one has the time, desire, and stuff to learn is a young "man's" game. I did all of that and absolutely learned a helluva lot. It did everything I needed from it. I got cheaper/better computer than what I could afford. I learned a hell of a lot about not just the hardware pieces I chose, but also why/how certain things about the OS that I never would have.

But now, I too just don't care. It was interesting, but I'm not that interested about maintaining an OS or how it works. I just want it to work. So for all of those that are willing to do all of that today, I'm all for it.

your comment came across to me as just another one of those "if you don't feel the same way i do, you're wrong". that's not true. people can just be in different places in their life. been there, done that does not mean you can't go there and do it too. we're just focused on different things now
Auditors don't get paid to fail their customers ;) I think many people would be surprised just how.. Accommodating the process can be.
Exactly. OTA remains a little walled garden of content, justifying (?) their wasting of the precious spectrum.

There are some bundles of content (youtube TV, I think)?

But operationally, for the viewer at home -- HOW the bits get delivered to your screen is irrelevant; what's ON the screen is what we care about.

I'm thinking the TV operators are running a scam, in a desperate attempt to hold on to $ and spectrum -- both of which they are less and less capable of justifying.
I was thinking about this when I saw this post earlier today.

Why shouldn't the default be: does this website work in Lynx? I think that's a damn good baseline.

And in response to the other parent post, on a (almost) new iPhone, both news sites & Twitter continuously crash and reload for me. I'm not sure what the state of these other popular sites are because I don't use them.
8gb model doesn't count as a usable computer. It's absurd that it is even being offered in 2024.
You could order a proper loaf of groceries and pop something in the microwave or toaster. Doordash isn't serving lifesaving food emergencies.
Could it ever actually be competitive? Meat isn’t just the cell structure of a protein. It’s the connective tissues and fats and other parts. It’s also the land and the feed and so much more. And the cut matters. How was the muscle used to create flavor and texture?

A brisket is a lot different than a ribeye.
> I'm fairly sure that it's possible to be a maintainer and not have to bend over backwards for some imagined "community"

In recent years I’ve noticed more than a couple projects that have been aggressive about building a community, but uninterested in accepting patches or fixing bugs themselves. It’s frustrating when the GitHub project has prominent links to join their Discord and the author is constantly pushing their project on social media, but then you open the Issues and see 2-3 year old simple issues with multiple pull requests from people desperate to fix it, but the maintainers aren’t actually interested in anything other than collecting more GitHub stars and expanding their community.
"Real truth" and "fan boys"? Let's have some facts: there are indeed a boatload of extensions, though perhaps not (yet) to the V extension itself.

T-HEAD [1], Ventana's ternary op [2], Sifive also has a couple [3], including "Xsfvfwmaccqqq", one of at least four completely different matmul variants.

In particular for the latter, I would say fragmentation is an absolutely valid concern at the moment.

[1]: https://github.com/T-head-Semi/thead-extension-spec
[2]: https://github.com/ventanamicro/ventana-custom-extensions/re...
[3]: https://www.sifive.com/documentation
I learned about Cantor from this readable book:
Aczel, Amir D. "The Mystery of the Aleph Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity" Simon & Schuster (2001)
Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Diagnosis with MIMBCD-UI