skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of house building isn’t amenable to mass manufacture

That's because we keep making houses as these boutique hand crafted items. If we can't mass manufacture basements, then don't make the basement part which we can't mass manufacture. We're able to mass manufacturer cars, which are devilishly complex machines. Houses are simpler, but bigger. We could mass manufacture houses if the right incentives were put in place.

Hilariously, once self driving car technology lets us have self driving RVs, we'll be in a place where we are mass manufacturing homes.
The Full MH370 Story So Far [video]
I thought he had left comma ai, but the tone of the article is not of reminiscence but of what is currently at hand.
One example would be the infinite number of ways there are for humans to form unsound conclusions. But of course, this is not "real" reality that can be tidily corralled with math/science so it doesn't count, but it's still interesting.
Well, if you're a man older than a certain age, it's a good bet.
Yup.

Decline is an ok first-approximation default.

But not as the full-on maximization goal the author pushes. Doing that will severely limit you.

Other things to consider with meetings and gatherings:

Might I add value to others, either by bringing knowledge or being present to take on tasks?

Might be being seen as present & participating benefit you in the longer term?

What surprises (by definition, things you don't yet know about) might happen at the event?

Might hanging out with a friend or acquaintance be helpful for them?

Defaulting to not doing each of these things at one time or another has been cause for regret in my life. I'd advise at least asking that set of questions and others before actually not accepting an invitation.
You can use webui https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Once you get a version up and running I make a copy before I update it as several times updates have broken my working version and caused headaches.

a decent explanation of parameters outside of reading archive papers: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/wiki/03-%...

a news ai website:
https://www.emergentmind.com/

Reddit locallamma and how to prompt an llm:
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1atyxqz/better_...

Since you mention silly text generation there is also sillytavern which runs on top of another llm software such as webui.
https://docs.sillytavern.app/
> Pop science books seem to fall into "feel good" category of products. Most people buy them not because they are providing easily accessible scientific knowledge, but because these books make people feel smart

Orrrr maybe people just find them interesting? I thought Sapiens is a terrific book. I don't really care if every detail in there is down with the latest scientific research, I don't think that's what the book is trying to do anyway. Sure 100% accuracy would have been nice but I prefer the author to focus on his main message and effort to tell the history (and present/future) of humans even if it means sacrificing 100% accuracy.
Early in my learning how to write shell scripts, I decided to prank a coworker. I set a cron job to execute a script on his Mac to display an image via QuickLook. I randomized the time to help drive him nuts. He found it and deleted it immediately after the first execution because it wasn't nearly crafty enough.

Were I to do this today, I would use temporary dirs and such to obfuscate the location of the script, but whatever. I'm leaving in the raw info with my own debugging lines because that's where I was at the time (2007). Script follows:

#!/bin/bash

#roll to determine if the script continues. 0 is true, 1 is false

RANGE=2
number=$RANDOM
let "number %= $RANGE"

roller=$number

echo $roller

#roll to determine if torture should begin

if (test $roller -eq 0)
then
echo roller is 0. we will torture.

RANGE=59
time=$RANDOM
let "time %= $RANGE"

echo $time minutes until we execute

#roll the delay before execution
gotime=$(expr $time "*" 60)
sleep $gotime

#copy the obscure file, rename it and open it
cp /bin/effu /tmp/pwned.jpg
open /tmp/pwned.jpg

else
echo roller is 1. no torture today.

fi

As an aside, I'm reminded of this classic prank:

https://pete.ex-parrot.com/upside-down-ternet.html
How to Regulate a Politically Charged Bookstore
a mass producer of roof frames in the Western USA succeeded in making the parts at low cost and high volumes, but the immediate middle-men could not stop cheating each other and their sub-contractors using crooked contracts and hidden costs. The whole effort backed up and stalled after several years.. some parties took more than their share of profit, and others were cheated and went broke. The production may have halted completely.

source: discussion with a small business person around 2005
Wow, mind-blown, thank you; this site alone should get UNESCO protection and/or robust archiving. Really cool how so much branching happening in the late 80s & 90s is illustrated =)
ATSC is a North American modulation standard for transmission of Transport Streams over RF signals. Transport streams can carry any kind of a payload, including data. When the spec came out it was mandatory to use mpeg-2 for video encoding because that was the popular codec at the time. However there is nothing in the spec preventing broadcasters using other video/audio codecs (many already do). This is what this tv station did. You have approximately 19mbps of bandwidth to pack in as much payload in there as you can fit. ATSC3 brings about other features such as higher bandwidth, improved RF signals transmission efficiency (lower costs), error correction, etc…
You can't spend a couple of days researching an essential, expensive device you're going to use for at least the next 2-3 years?
If you ever use "grep" on mac, it's also worth installing gnutils and switching to ggrep instead as it is significantly faster.
You don't need K8s. Dockerized app deployment using Podman Systemd generators
You don't always need k8s or cloud solutions to deploy your application. An example of the use systemd podman containers to deploy small applications to Hetzner.
Ask HN: Is Scratch a good tool for teaching coding?
I'm doing some research on the coding programs available for kids and have come across some pretty negative reviews of Scratch from developer parents...essentially along the lines of anything more than trivial code becomes a big mess. Or that it's good for exploration but not structured learning.

On the other hand, I know a lot of families and kids who love it. It's truly incredible that this free resource was created, persists, exists that's been enjoyed and used by so many kids around the world.

What's your opinion? Is Scratch a good tool for teaching coding to kids? Why or why not? What, if anything is a better approach/program?
Ironically, you are the first to bring this up. Looks like you jumped ahead to a made up conclusion to support some sort of victimized mindset.
Thanks for the link, didn't know there's that much feed production in the US

Who cares about India -- hmm, doesn't ground water depletion have quite different consequences:

In the US, there'll be fewer hamburgers. While in India, people will starve, famines?
This is especially tricky and maybe entirely impossible these days. For instance, in England now it's considered poor form to simply display nice landscapes. Why? They evoke "dark nationalistic feelings." If simply looking at some pictures of trees and a valley do that, how can a brand manager come up with something that's not a hot button?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/paintings-british-countryside-evo...
This is why they're pushing passkeys in phones' secure element with cloud account sync: getting people to keep a separate set of hardware keys is nigh impossible at scale.
Is there more context than the single tweet? Twitter doesn't display threads to non-users anymore and Nitter is dead, so I can't see if the follow up mentioned ever happened.
Maybe I’m just too old, but I will never understand the brief viral Stanley popularity, or the viral inaccessible-lead-pellet alarmism.
SAML is fine, no need for OIDC. Someone else mentioned SCIM, which is a highly desired addition, but not a hard requirement for me so long as a public API exists that I can use to automate the user lifecycle.
I wish drag-and-dropping made .eml files (which are basicall mbox files, plain text).

At work we have to deal with parsing the".msg" abominations Outlook _actually_ exports.
The expectations are lower outside of Scandinavia.
COVID mortality has always been correlated with age. Even so, excess deaths indicate that the official stats are an undercount. And vaccination mandates had broader positive effects beyond just child mortality. Children/teens don't typically die from the flu, but still benefit from flu shots. The people around them who would otherwise be infected also benefited from vaccination drives.
Default Handler: change URL scheme handler apps on macOS
First 25 have some really good points about personal growth. Second 25, while not being bad, aren't near as insightful.

Could prune that list down a lot and have some really good self improvement facts.
Perhaps search hnn for "cryptocat" which was an attempt to do e2e chat through a website a dozen years ago. It was somewhat controversial at the time.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cryptcat

The author gave up on it after a while and the website stopped working.
I had the same experience some years ago. When we told them they were out of their minds and they wouldn't budge on price, the sales rep came back after a few months pleading to get us back to the table because we would have been a gigantic sale and a foothold into the other orgs of the large company I worked for at the time. We told them we already had a different solution in flight because of their original failure to negotiate.
Get a few downvotes. :-O
I agree and disagree with you.

* If people really don't want the feature and don't have time to review/work with you on a patch, they SHOULD just say so, instead of saying "patches welcome". Part of this is cultural, it's hard to say no.

* The other end of this bargain is we have to accept a "no", have to realize that the reason the package is good is because the maintainers keep it from becomming spagetti by saying no sometimes too, and by making priorities.

* EVEN THOUGH it can take maintainers time to work with a patch, there is STILL reason to ask for a patch. Sometimes it WILL take LESS time. But ALL the time it's part of how you develop new collaborators -- the person you work with on a patch may later be a co-maintainer or later take over as maintainer. You are increasing the bus factor by mentoring additional developers in the project.
What are the options for a foundation? Why can't you just put posts into the ground? Or on the ground and adjust? Like a mobile home but without the wheels.
It always seems like the current owners and top managers of Reddit don't use it. If they were, things could be much better for the community and probably the business. Again, the official Reddit app seems done by your high school cousin in a mobile development course.
You're eactly right. I saw the blight at Herculaneum, MO in the 2000s - dozers plowing down houses in a slowly expanding circle centered on the smelter.

1 in 5 students had excess blood lead. The schools nearby were scraped down and soil was replaced whenever the lead levels got too high from the dust blowing off the open ore and slag trucks running town. The smelter didn't hit EPA requirements for 25 years, and when faced with enforcement, decided to leave rather than produce lead cleanly, because it is not economical to do so cleanly. Cheap lead offloads the environmental and health effects to someone.

https://health.mo.gov/living/environment/hazsubstancesites/p...

https://www.kbia.org/science-and-technology/2012-08-08/the-e...
Revanced on Android can patch the Reddit apk to remove those ads.

https://revanced.app/
The class inheritance tree problem is solvable with a proper IDE/editor setup that allows you to drill-down into implementations. In a properly configured PyCharm for example you can Cmd+Click on any symbol and see its implementation (and do so recursively).
Thank you for the RFE! Looking at the X-Forwarded-For handling might be good, I wasn't able to add tests for that easily, though maybe the existing test could be used as a template if you get time. I think we depend on nginx or Caddy elsewhere, but the pkiext tests might also serve as a good reference. :-)
What's everyone's take on that IPO and the shares for reddit users?
The way to do this is to have a formal verification tool that takes the input, the output, and a formal proof that the input matches the semantics of the output, and have the LLM create the formal proof alongside the output. Then you can run the verification tool to check if the LLM’s output is correct according to the proof that it also provided.

Of course, building and training an LLM that can provide such proofs will be the bigger challenge, but it would be a safe a way to detect hallucinations.
> on ~1 million C programs, compared to [...] 2 trillion tokens, which is a few orders of magnitude more data.

Is that comparable like that? This would assume that the average C program of the set is orders (plural) of magnitude less than 2m tokens in size, which could indeed be true but sounds like an optimistic assumption.
https://github.com/xue160709/Local-LLM-User-Guideline There is a cookbook
supposedly there will come a time after "no longer a kid" where due diligence is the among the top things worth doing
Neither of you has identified anything technically wrong with unwinding via signal and neither of you has proposed a mechanism through which we might support semantically informative unwinding through paged-out code or interpreted languages.

Sarcasm is not a technical argument.
Definitely not Discord. It doesn't scale well past a certain activity level. It feels spammy with most communities and what's worse is it seems to be trying to displace forums, but the flow just doesn't work.

Most of the communities I care about eventually end up splitting to 3-6 servers, with about 20 daily active channels in each of these. Discord just doesn't give you the peripheral vision to figure out what's important.

Slack has its own problems, but the emojis are free.
Search for weed stuff.
Haha, I think every household in the UK had these tins filled with screws :D

The tins keep the old branding, for now.

Only the squeezies get the new branding.

I don't get that they went from a serif to a lifeless san-serif font on a vintage brand like Lyle's, though. It loses a lot of soul with that transition and wasn't necessary.
>obscure server maker

First google server racks

https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-computer-the-google...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#Late_1990s

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Google%27s_first...

were build using Supermicro P6SBM
> Libraries cannot buy used because

They certainly can. They choose not to. When you decide to demand a special binding and special print run, and when you will pay any price, you're going to pay a lot more.
In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind
Typically the alternative is a concrete pad. That's what my brother's fairly large house on the coast of Maine has.

I assume if you just put in posts those would tend to rot over time.

ADDED: Per sibling comment, a concrete pad is often not about just pouring a load of concrete.
Not really, in that all parts of the DNA can and do interact with proteins and lncRNA in the cell. Where in code there can be truly unused portions which are only copied, in the cell all bits are functional. The reason we say they are unused/junk/dormant is that we have extremely limited ability to observe the system in its totality.
> Vietnamese sources from 2023 have plenty of information and are credible… because it’s Vietnam.
Do you not believe that they exist after 2018

Participation in the VNR500 (the list the MoF mentioned in it's article in 2018) is optional and self reported [0].

I don't think YOU actually read the VNR500's rules and requirements.

> you would also know how to get copies of this information directly from the relevant ministries in Hanoi

I don't want to physically fly to Hanoi and ask for documents that I'm not even sure I'd be allowed to view.

Most Ministries in Vietnam are extremely opaque and don't publish numbers and metrics openly, and when they do, they tend to publish it physically instead of digitally.

Any numbers that get published digitally are difficult in turn to access aside from PR announcements, as a number of Vietnamese sites (government and private) rate limit access abroad.

All we can say is total trade between VN and SK is approx $80B in 2023 [1], and South Korea has been the largest source of FDI in Vietnam since Đổi Mới [2].

I'd also recommend you visit Vietnam sometime to see the changes I'm talking about.

> How do you not know this?

I do NOT appreciate this tone. This is a forum and it's Sunday. I don't need to justify jack to you, this isn't 14.771

[0] - https://vnr500.com.vn/QAs-Bang-xep-hang-Top-500-doanh-nghiep...

[1] - https://www.mofa.go.kr/eng/nation/m_4902/view.do?seq=38

[2] - https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/economy/recapping-a-35...
I use the internal folder for a Go-project
Good luck formally proving Linux.
What makes you think doing unwinding in userspace would do any more context switches (by which I think you mean privilege level transitions) than we do today? See my other comment on the subject.

> Things get even more complicated because context switches can mean CPU migrations, making many of your data useless.

No it doesn't. If a user space thread is blocked on doing kernel work, its stack isn't going to change, not even if that thread ends up resuming on a different thread.
Lichens are a mix of algae & fungi. :)
My local library, too. It's also clear they handle the books by hand. There's no automated system.
Nothing is definitive now. Hallucinations are real.
This is such a cool concept! I can speak for many devs when I say navigating a new code-base is a pain. As a visual learner myself, I think this has the potential to make my life so much easier as I start on or navigate new repos.
> Change trackpad scrolling speed

If you're on X11, I think you'll have to use xinput to set it manually.

If your on Wayland, in KDE at least this is available in the standard settings application.

> Set up suspend-then-hibernate

On KDE at least that's just one of the options in the power settings ("When sleeping, enter:" has "Standby", "Hybrid Sleep" and "Standby, then hibernate").

> GPU drivers (I have a box with an AMD APU and no idea how to actually utilize it)

Worked OOTB for me, do you have amdgpu drivers installed? What exactly isn't working?

> Many games (Proton is amazing and a huge leap forward, but om average it's still more work than gaming on Windows. eg fiddling with different versions of Proton or finding out that a game's anti cheat will ban you for using Linux)

I find that Proton mostly just works for me, but indeed EAC is a problem that I don't know how to solve (and also don't really care about since I'm not into playing public multiplayer games).

> Higher res video streaming (I think this is usually a DRM issue?)

You should check if HW Acceleration is enabled in your browser, but IIUC Netflix will indeed refuse to provide higher quality streams to Linux (and also Windows depending on your browser), you might be able to resolve it by googling a bit, maybe using a browser with DRM support and switching out your user-agent?

> I'm hoping that someone will tell me I'm wrong and that Gnome actually has an easy way to set the trackpad scroll speed

Gnome is notorious for removing user choices, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was impossible on Gnome/Wayland. Xinput might work on Gnome/X11. Switching to KDE should work on Wayland ;)
Whole-body simulation of realistic fruit fly locomotion with deep RL
The goal is to prove that the source code matches the machine code, not to prove that the code implements some intended higher-level semantics. This has nothing to do with formally proving the correctness of the Linux kernel.
Interesting idea to advertise on Reddit front page. I suppose there’s value in edgelords, bots generating GPT ATH stories, and political shills. Good luck to them!
Honest question: has opioid drug use significantly proliferated because of open air drug markets in SF and Philly, or is it just surfacing a market that already existed? And what about the health outcomes of drug users? Have they improved or gotten worse?
Checkout Akeyless as a better alternative to vault. All of the enterprise features of vault, for less than half the cost and delivered as a SaaS service. So no deployment, no maintenance, and no scaling required.

https://akeyless.io
Yeah. It's not the same thing by far. Amazoj deliberately chose to pour all income into expanding. On paper they did not have profit but they could at any point turn a profit by halting the expansion.
Substitute something more addictive. Have you tried Fentanyl?
At this point, we've moved well past baby and bathwater metaphors. If we want to call socials something, let's at least admit it is the opiate for the masses. The people have become addicted to it. It is the number one way of keeping the masses cowed. The original opiate quote as used for religions, but it hasn't been that for quite some time even before socials came along. I know I'm channeling Neil Gaiman a bit.
If your small function is not getting inlined, you should investigate why that is instead of globally breaking performance analysis of your code.
The Science Behind the Selfie (No, You Don't Look Like That)
Superb work! Extremely neat and clear implementation! Interesting note on the backward pass - what do you think are the main blockers for a backward pass? https://jobsrajasthan.com/
HN has ads-that-look-like-posts too. They're mostly job postings for Y Combinator startups—a perk of that incubator being getting privileged positions on HN's front page.

I filter them with uBlock.
is dex actually useful?

it sounds fantastic hence i suppose there is a catch
Are there any advantages to using the official Reddit app instead of something like RedReader?

https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader
It depends somewhat on how dry they are. Mine isn't very. But there's generally a fair bit of utility infrastructure that has to go somewhere. And even if it's not a finished basement it provides a lot of storage which is really useful if you don't have an attic.
How many of these suggestions actually exist?
Free Online Face Swap App
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Same with countries that have more relaxed laws. I think the problem lies deeper than legality and enforcement.
Back in college, the wireless network didn't seem to have any protections against ARP poisoning, so I went through a short phase of messing with my roommate by replacing all the images loaded by his browser with cats.

Also had the classic move of replacing the desktop with a screenshot of itself and hiding the icons and taskbar.

Once we got far enough into our programs we stopped messing with each other like that so as to not potentially interfere with classwork (and also the ARP poisoning stuff was probably going too far).
One more nail in reddit's coffin.

Since the API kerfluffle reddit's usefulness has dropped drastically.

Making ads look like user posts definitely kills the platform for me. They killed my platform and I killed my account.

Muxing ads. Who'd have thunk it?
I use mix copilot and lm studio to get the information and summarize the content
Maryland and Kansas overlap in terms of temperature overall. Wichita Kansas is on average 5 degrees warmer in January than Frendsville MD, High 40f vs 36f vs low 25 vs 20. Kansas City in the northern bit of Kansas and only goes down to 39° / 21°.

So there’s not that much of the US that’s actually colder than MD.