skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From watching the US from the outside and from several visits, it looks like a huge amount of people in the US are free market fundamentalists. People did label me socialist for suggesting market regulation.

Honestly there’s a very loud vocal minority here on things like this. Most people in the US are not free market fundamentalists.

There are still things sold in the US that are harmful for you. Look at cigarettes. Smoking in the US is at an all-time low; part of that is e-cigarettes, but a large part is the constant education and reminders here that it’s bad for you. If it were up to the free market, as it used to be, cigarette manufacturers would not label their products at all. That’s what they used to do, and far more people smoked back then—sans forced education and labeling.
I have an old Samsung laser printer, and the only machine that can print to it is a macbook. I've got a Windows PC, and it won't install the driver that is supposedly recommended (weirdly enough by HP?), while another version of that driver can't connect to the printer. It's quite bizarre.
> As a starting point for understanding the nuance, consider what the owner might do with its profits.

I'd hire thugs to keep the workers working for even lower pay to further increase my profits.
Yes, I think you have nailed it. I have seen this same phenomenon happen in nearly every niche that I pay attention to. Only thing I would add is that a lot of articles are based on tweets, often from random users where the article author did nothing to verify and just included the tweet as the source
Essembi launches integration with Microsoft Teams
Tarsnap is an order of magnitude more expensive than S3 standard, two orders of magnitude more expensive than S3 Glacier. It's great for secure backups on the order of kilobytes or megabytes (I use it), but not for this.
>We've never had to add disclaimers at the top of textual content, e.g. "This text is made to sound like it describes real events, but contains invented and/or inaccurate facts."

I mean, yes we have? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclai...
> The author is a PhD student that has been using LaTeX heavily for 10 years. But what should a new student use, and why? When the only reason to choose LaTeX is old colleagues and gatekeeping publishers, I know it's a matter of time.

From what I have seen, it's Overleaf.

Do newer students know or care what flavour of Tex Overleaf uses in the background? Not as far as I have seen.
This library does what you are looking for

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@microsoft/fetch-event-source
> As for the Chinese industry ... it certainly imports the best German machinery on a massive scale, and when it comes to manufacturing hi-tech missile components, it runs circles around Russians.

If that's true, then that fact would seem to undermine the whole policy thrust of this report, which seems to be the implementation of very broad sanctions against machine tools to damage the Russia war effort. It might be easy to identify, say, a large Azerbaijani advanced machine tool order as a Russia front to violate sanctions, but based on what you say, I don't it would be possible to identify a Russia front operating through a Chinese intermediary.
To be fair, the media has been doing this for at least 10 years.
How can you prefer one thing over the other if you haven't tried both? It's so funny how we are set up to think we are in control but overriding the default here would take some serious effort. Who is in charge really? The gut microbes order specific kinds of food then we obey? Trying to refuse to eat or change the order is pretty hard.
I was curious to see an alternative to this, but how is this an alternative? You're saying I can implement my own caching of function calls that invalidates when the arguments or source code change...? These feel like entirely separate layers. Did I miss where diskcache does this stuff?
These are version controlled. We use semver and they are released using the languages package manager :)
James Webb underwent a very specific cool down procedure. It included a phase where everything but the instruments were cooled down first, so that water from elsewhere in the spacecraft didn't stick to the instruments.

Moving a bit into speculation territory, I can make a more specific guess. The article for Euclid specifically mentions insulation as the source of the water. It appears that the water in the other components were properly accounted for in Euclid's cool down procedure. For Euclid, insulation directly surrounds the telescope portion. James Webb is build different. There's insulation on the solar panel side, but the giant heat shield is between that and the mirrors and sensors. I don't think there is any insulation on the mirror and sensor side, because besides the sun there's no significant sources of heat where James Webb is.
On the other, other hand, TV streaming is a luxury good. It's not really possible to be "morally justified" in stealing it.
Here's a diagram [1] I made several years ago (the date on the file is 2010 but it may be from even earlier) showing who was suing whom. The arrows are from plaintiffs to defendants. Nokia was the biggest source of outgoing arrows.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/0nn7e1e
There are so many tasks at which AI fails. It's just unable to perceive the communication the same way a human does: it will fail to shape text in a particular way, it will fail to rhyme correctly. etc.

For example, here's a prompt that both GPT 3.5 and Gemini failed at answering: "write some example sentence, in multiple lines, where each line is longer than the previous one".
I wonder if this is actually a good application for orbital manufacturing.

Kidding. Kinda…
It is published World Economic Forum propaganda to move the global population away from eating meat, to eating bugs, for 'sustainability' reasons. Similar to 'you will own nothing, and be happy'. Kinda interesting to see who dismisses it as a conspiracy theory when it's published on the WEF website:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-migh...
Same developer
Because right now AI is an issue the public and policymakers are concerned about, and this is to show that private industry can take adequate steps to control it to stave up government regulation while the attention is high.
He's wrong, also it's pg...
End users typically don’t tolerate security fixes that alter or break existing functionality, so it would be in line with common responses for those ten screens of security concerns to be disregarded. One of the fixes this release is untrainable SIGKILLs programs for illegal memory accesses, which is a perfectly boring and sensible security practice — and also is causing much of the drama everyone’s seeing. Presumably there’s also a new Celebrite attack over USB-C / PCIe / Thunderbolt, and fixing it urgently has uncovered either a USB/TB spec bug, an implementation bug in the OS, or an implementation bug in the devices. It’s usually the devices, but sometimes it’s not.
Eval System for Image Generation? [video]
We wanted a way to evaluate changes to our image generation workflows, so built this UI to make it easier to compare results.

Curious if others have found good solutions to this? Seems like all the companies building eval tools are focusing on text.

Let us know if something like this would be helpful to you - signup here: https://forms.gle/8ZjhsEUvjNsoSWro6

If there's enough interest, we'll clean it up and opensource it!

Appreciate any feedback.
What you highlight is the precise problem I’m addressing

10 richest men in the world owned more than the combined wealth of the bottom 3.1 billion people

That means that in order to utilize that “wealth” it needs to be liquidated and no longer accreting value

The people who own that have no interest in liquidating that capital for anything that doesn’t personally benefit them. Since a company is a zero sum pie for total ownership whomever controls the distribution of equity controls the pie - unless you’re in a coop or a strong union, your ownership is simply at the will of the richest person in the company

If it’s the case that you need capital to make more, then by the power law the only people who can “create wealth” already have it and have no intention of using it for public good

So then how do non owners start something? They convince the ruling economic lords that they will do better with their money to give them more back

You can’t get money unless a ruling lord guarantees a rate of return. How’s that possibly a good system?

Seems a lot like greed based vanity dictatorships
They deduplicate and compress before storing, so it may end up only taking 1.5TB.

Still, that's $375/month. Nothing to shake a stick at.

I think the intended use case of tarsnap is for <100 GB raw data that is really important to you, for which you must have an offsite backup that is (according to them) insanely backed up and safe. I could see myself using them for a curated folder of personal documents I can't afford to lose in the event of a house fire. Then again, I could probably fit all my most important documents into my 1Password vault.
Using M2 Pro, but mostly using Java through the version installed by MacPorts.
A NAS built from generic x86 hardware and some disks. Use ZFS, it's a bit of a rabbit hole but an excellent choice for both reliability/redundancy and as a tool to backup. I'm not gonna explain how this works, just describe what you can do, it's an option.

ZFS:

- ensures you don't get bit rot

- manages both disks (raid/mirrors &c) and the filesystem, it's an all-in-one solution

- supports block level replication to local and remote systems, after the first backup it's fast

- can create dynamic partitions to group files together and build replication strategies around

Choose either RAID or mirrored drives (https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs...) I've gone mirrored but more for flexibility and performance. Use a calculator to see what options of disks you have https://jro.io/capacity/ (and google 'ZFS calculator' for others)

For backup get a second machine somewhere else in your house with a smaller setup and use ZFS replication to keep it up to date with everything on the main box you need backed up. Currently I use a raspberry pi with a USB disk but this is perhaps cutting it fine. You wanna keep this online so ZFS can periodically check the health of the data on the disks. Fully offline backups can be a risk.

Finally for a 3rd backup use some of those external drives, format to ZFS and use replication. Plug them in on a schedule and take a backup.

If you want to backup to remote systems (cloud/a box in your parents house) it also supports filesystem encryption. With the right options you can stream incremental backups over SSH only passing encrypted blocks. The system at the other end never needs to see the raw data.
You mean it is exactly optimized to extend our conscious and unconscious biases to gray areas in an inconsistent and arbitrary way?
I was visiting a relative in their $3M+ house in Bronte and saw plenty of it. Not in the front facades of the homes, but drive through the back alleys, and you can spot some in < 1 min. I remember an uncle there who's neighbor had a fibro cement mail box which was built into some stone work.

I agree my usage of "plenty" was more in absolute terms. It is probably thousands to tens of thousands, which is small in percentage terms. I also spent a lot of time on Australian farms, and they have lots of asbestos sheets buried in places. Most farmers would rather pile it up or bury it then pay the costs of having it removed properly.
If there's cups running on the remote machine there's a chance it will take care of conversion.
Congrats. It's good to see new entrants in the entrenched CRM market.
Creating and Exporting Project-Specific Configurations in VS Code
Speaking in terms of having “control” over your machine is alarmist and thought-terminating. Your computer didn’t do what you expected it to. Hell, you’re very justified to go beyond that and say that it behaved in a way that it shouldn’t. Removing files from / without notification or backup is bad. Not being able to have files in / is a completely superficial and meaningless indication of “control”. Again, your machine isn’t behaving in a way that you’re expecting it to, or even that you’re used to. macOS is an operating system. Its job is to…be an operating system. It’s going to handle some things for you. That’s why it’s there.
1.5k per month is more than 23tb of hard drives for 10 years ....
I'm going to stop here because of Brandolini's law. But I'd recommend you to read non-Austrian stuff on money.

At this point it's pretty clear that you have very strong opinions on stuff you have very shallow familiarity with, and the only way to fix that is to actually try understanding how the system works.
My pleasure in avoiding being shot isn’t enhanced if someone else is.

If someone dies in a car accident I can be glad it wasn’t me, but I haven’t learned anything.

If I do learn something from someone else’s misfortune, I could be pleased, relieved, possibly proud but I’m less sure about being smug.

I still don’t quite grasp the point about not being responsible for other people’s actions. If it’s never true then I’m not sure it’s all that useful.

It seems more like this is about our perception of other people’s responsibility?
How do you suggest one might fix that issue? Also pin the cache to a hash of all dependency versions? And then if one minor update And let's say the dependency did change, but it's generally inert (more error handling around edge cases, for example), how do you factor that in? Blow up the whole cache?

Your example isn't really a problem with OPs utility, but a specific example of a broader dependency management problem that affects just about everything. The answers usually boil down to 1) invest heavily in a kick ass test suite, 2) never upgrade or 3) upgrade and pray nothing breaks.
Alarming shift in Antarctic sea ice
Maybe before you get into the technical aspects, there's another consideration. Out of that 23TiB, are you able to estimate how much of a problem it would be, if you lost some or all of it? e.g.

* disastrous
* very upsetting
* disappointing
* meh

(It might also help to consider when you last needed to access any of it?)

Because honestly, my bet (without judgement) is that there's likely a significant amount of data in there that simply doesn't warrant keeping. I base this on my own habits (I have to actively fight a hoarding tendency digitally and in real life) and also knoweldge of friends who (while otherwise very well adjusted) seem to find digital hoarding easy to fall into - maybe because it has less of a visible life impact than physical belongings.
I read the quote and wondered, well, that’s sort of a weird thing to mess up; if it was always expected then why didn’t they take care of it?

It in case anyone else is wondering—it sounds like it is a very thin layer of water

> A few layers of water ice – the width of a strand of DNA

Sounds like they made it about as dry as possible.
You need more money when there is potential for more economic activity. Think about money as centralised IOUs. If 10 farmers want to borrow to buy seeds and fertilizer you need 10 units. If 100 farmers want to do it you need 100 units. Same with the rest economy. You just need some institution which assumes the risk the IOUs are not paid back (cause that would destabilize the system). Those institutions are banks. Limiting amount of money in circulation is just limiting economic activity for no reason and allows rent seeking behaviour of sitting on top of money pile selling to the highest desperate bidder.

And yes, system is such that it penalise anyone who tries to preserve wealth in actual cash and that is for very good reason! If you want to preserve wealth - it's easy just buy wealth (stocks, real estate, land). If you want preserving wealth without exposure to asset class fluctuations then you want insurance and in any rational market insurance costs you money. Keeping cash is safe and it costs you - exactly as it should be.
For duplicate files I've used the following:
- https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes
- https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

The latter works well for larger datasets, outputs a TXT which you can analyse and decide what to do with.
I don’t think a definition of counterfeiting that includes unlicensed stock photography is an especially salient one.
> ATT is equally responsible for data leaks from companies they share data with.

Liability from 3rd party breaches are avoided if the 3rd party has shown that they did their due diligence in maintaining their security.

If they show that they are in SOC 1/2 compliance along with other similar compliance frameworks, that is enough.

> auditing is rigorous

Having dealt with and seen this from SMEs to F10s I guarantee you it's nowhere near as rigorous as you expect, and that this is a common issue across all organizations - even some darlings on HN that people view as deeply technical.

Everyone has their pants off.
Yeah, I'm curious if anyone with experience has comments on the typography quality of Typst, or whether that's even a focus at this point in time. There are a million document languages (DocBook, AsciiDoc, Markdown+extensions, LaTeX, etc etc) but LaTeX has the foothold it does (other than academic entrenchment) because of the output quality.

I sometimes use Typst as an intermediate renderer with Pandoc, but for my highest quality work I insist on features like protrusion. I was using LibreOffice just yesterday and actually had to check multiple times whether there was a space at the beginning of the line because the lack of protrusion support meant unsightly visual gaps.
Literal survivorship bias. There were 24 originally and this was more than 50 years ago.
Ask HN: Should OpenAI implement RAG on ChatGPT-4 chat histories?
Wouldn't this be cool to be able to say

Remind me what that todo list was for my new product we were discussing a week ago... the one about porcupine soup?

And it would search based on that query and then freshen its context with the relevant snippets from history.

Someone should do this. Why won't OpenAI??
If it's encrypted, it's not deduplicable and not compressable
Someone knows their audience ;-)
You should look at Borg for the remote backup software. It does automatic deduplication; has the security posture you're asking for ("untrusted server")*; and is agnostic about which backup cloud provider you use it with. Of course it's FOSS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(backup_software)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642364 ("BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver", 103 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152369 ("BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption", 177 comments)

*You definitely don't want your private filenames leaked to data brokers, like Backblaze's clients experienced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019 ("Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook", 517 comments)
I don’t think that Apple uses CUPS anymore.
LaTeX grammar makes much more sense when you spend some time using raw TeX with no macros at all - it's surprisingly capable on its own and the LaTeX becomes much more obviously "slight improvements".

Many things people think of as LaTeX are actually just TeX.
Stafford's first star might have been a little early because of Apollo-Soyuz, but given that he was the first in his Naval Academy class to receive first, second, and third stars, I am sure he would have made general officer regardless.

Making flag rank pulled Stafford away from NASA. Not that he would not have wanted to make flag rank, but becoming a general meant that he had to accept command responsibilities.[1] After Apollo-Soyuz Stafford went from NASA to being in charge of the entire USAF air test program, including his former test pilot school, so very much in his wheelhouse. But that also meant that he would not fly the space shuttle. I think Young made the opposite decision: Retire from the Navy as captain, stay with NASA as civilian astronaut, and fly the shuttle (the first mission, STS-1, and a later one).

There was a severe shortage of experienced astronauts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, <https://np.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/nx4hh4/who_would_have_...> and NASA would have loved to have Stafford still in the astronaut corps. I bet Stafford in turn envied both Young and Joe Engle; the latter flew the shuttle on the pre-launch ALT tests, then used his X-15 experience to hand fly a hypersonic reentry on STS-2. Really, the ne plus ultra of test piloting.

[1] Another example of this is Bob Stewart. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Stewart>
No, I mean humans in general, not software developers. Seriously, show a non-developer a printout of some average modern C++ code and some average rust code and see which one they think is easier to read and more visually pleasing.
I'm not sure about mars, but at least for the moon it might be using helium-3 isotopes abundant in moon rocks as a fuel source for fusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
I would look into Git Annex which I have been heavily using to do the same thing with almost the same exact number of files.

Its very simple to have a "dumb" drive that simply stores the files and use annex to remember which drive it is. Also, to track and remember that you only have it in one place in case you want more copies. It can also push files to s3, glacier, and some other backup repos if needed with client side encryption (code between either symmetric or gpg)
> Basically; at the moment the system is designed to penalise anyone who tries to preserve wealth in actual cash and as collateral damage prices keep eternally climbing.

That is a feature of the current monetary system. Excessive inflation is bad, but reasonable inflation is a design goal. Cash isn't meant to be hoarded, its meant to be spent and invested. How would you encourage investment in a non-inflationary currency? Thats the problem with bitcoin, people want to hodl but not spend.
Deletion is also a big thing. identify and delete old, worthless stuff to make the issue more manageable. On my Windows machine I use WinDirStat to identify big things, and decide what could do with being deleted.
Bloomberg even wrote about this particular conspiracy theory this March [0]. Wait, no, I meant the previous March, here is the right link: [1].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-05/the-bu...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-26/eating-in...
Windows updates before MS fired their QA department were uneventful, after they fired their QA department, serious issues started popping up every single month. Including server systems not booting anymore.
What brand and model of laptop hardware do you buy now? I have been extremely happy with framework laptops, although my big complaint is that the trackpad on my 3rd gen is worse than on my first gen, so they might be trending the wrong direction on track pads. But otherwise, my experience with Fedora on framework hardware has been remarkable
The article has numbers for both training, I think in FP8, and inference in FP4.
Show HN: Open Interface – Operate Your Computer Using LLMs
Github: https://github.com/AmberSahdev/Open-Interface

Binaries available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux.
You seem to believe that the 'sustainability' argument is a bogus smokescreen. Why do you think the WEF is actually publishing this article? Please explain the conspiracy I'm missing.