skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The text plugin alone seems like it could be a whole standalone product. Offline first seems to be getting more and more interest. Pretty cool. Dropbox + git for non-tech users. I dig that idea.
Because there is a group of easily triggered users who guard new, and attempt to keep things "right."

This story is interesting, and has applicability to anyone running a company.

Other stories which run afoul of The Guardians of New might cover how US healthcare is an outlier, another interesting topic for US business owners.

Immigration curbs also often get flagged, even though they have large negative economic impacts.

But, hey.. I could be entirely wrong.
Theoretically? Yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing
If you look at the history of why public education in the U.S. was enacted, there were 3 main reasons, none of which were actually educating children:

1. Assimilate immigrant children into American culture so that they would think of themselves as "American" first and whatever ethnicity they came from second. (Hence, the Pledge of Allegiance, national anthem, American football games, focus on history & social studies in class, etc.)

2. Provide childcare during working hours so parents could go to work. (Hence, compulsory education, hours that aligned with a factory schedule, high student-teacher ratios, etc.)

3. Teach children the skills they would need to be successful in the factory system. (Hence, attendance, arriving punctually, moving between rooms at the bell, following orders, not complaining, etc.)

What's happened over the last 40 years is that the factory system in America fell apart, and so the skills needed for it no longer seem all that relevant compared to actually getting a good education, which school is not all that effective at. Meanwhile there are new waves of immigration with parents that were often highly educated (moreso than native-born Americans, oftentimes) abroad; they don't buy the "this is what a good education looks like" explanation, because they have had an actual good education abroad. And the Internet in general makes people much more suspicious of institutions, because you can see the ways that different power centers try to enforce control of the discourse, and there is no unified discourse to get behind anyway. The public school system in America is deeply embedded in the industrial institutions that were developed from 1900-1980, and as those institutions collapse, the public school system collapses with them.
Here's my issue with decompilers:

I don't want to look at assembly code. I'd rather see expression trees, expressed in C-like syntax, than trying to piece together variables from two-address or three-address instructions. Looking at assembly tends to lead to brain farts like "wait, was the first or second operand the output operand?" (really, fuck AT&T syntax) or "wait, does ja implement ugt or sgt?"

So that means I want to look at something vaguely C-like. But the problem is that the C type system is too powerful for decompilers to robustly lift to, and the resulting code is generally at best filled with distractions of wait-I-can-fix-this excessive casting and at worst just wrong. And when it's wrong, I have to resort to staring at the assembly, which (for Ghidra at least) means throwing away a lot of the notes I've accumulated because they don't correlate back to underlying assembly.

So what I really want isn't something that can emit recompilable C code, that's optimizing for something that doesn't help me in the end. What I want is robust decompilation to something that lets me ignore the assembly entirely. I'm a compiler writer, I can handle a language where integers aren't signed but the operands are.
For those who haven't read the very good hard sci-fi near future book Delta-V by Daniel Suarez:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40859000-delta-v

Though we only encounter microwave beaming in the sequel, Critical Mass

I found the book a very good read, super realistic. 10/10 for realism/science/research and 8/10 for story. It's very optimistic. Nice to read with the war in Ukraine and progressive climate change not filling with optimism.
This is really nicely written and packed with very useful advice
MongoDB came into the community like a ton of bricks, taking over conferences, flooding the zone with mugs and t shirts, and for a time there, you couldn't view the front page of hacker news without at least two MongoDB posts. The death of SQL, now known to be an inferior relic of the past, was a regular topic of discussion. There's a reason why the "Web Scale" meme is so famous, because that's what actually happened for awhile there. SQL was an inferior, leaky abstraction, and ACID was not "web scale". it became all about the CAP theorem (which I hardly ever see anyone writing about these days).

only a year or two later, when teams that went all in on MongoDB at the behest of MongoDB's marketing department started realizing they'd been sold a bill of goods, did the slow and arduous march back to what continued to be the best generalized solution for 95% of data problems, the ACID compliant relational database, begin to occur. given that, this blog post seems really behind the times.
I for one, celebrate it, regardless of my dislike for Go's type system.

Every step helping taking C out of the picture is a welcome one.

At least it isn't like Microsoft where not matter what, .NET can't displace COM and C++ role on Windows, and isn't even used on new Azure Kubernetes samples.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/azure-samples/aks-...
I think you can envision “non-human-like”. Eg we already imagine animals can be conscious.

Conscious just means an intelligence that is self-aware and has subjective experience. If you define that as human-like then your point stands tautologically. But I think there is a very wide space of conscious possible-minds.

Simple examples would be hive-minds, faster minds, slower minds, distributed minds, quantum minds, it’s really quite easy to imagine conscious non-human minds.
I'm disappointed that FOSS discussions like this always devolve into profit-focused arguments.

It's no wonder our "freedoms" in the software world have slowly but steadily been shifting to look exactly like our "freedoms" in the physical world: artificial scarcity apportioned by the few using their leverage over systems which put you in a steel cage if you don't play along.

And here we are, arguing with each other using the terms of those who seek to enslave us to their control. The fact that these billion and trillion dollar tech companies even exist is a testament to our failure.
Apparently not; large container ships have a range of 10.000 - 20.000 miles on a single tank of fuel. These things are huge, and I can imagine they don't even need to compromise on storage space for fuel tanks (just like planes have fuel in the wings so their cargo capacity is maximised)
Company to Build $155M Solar Farm Planned in Wyoming's 'Hail Alley'
Really sad to hear this news.

Personal anecdote from when friends went through a family tragedy - the daily mail were incredibly invasive and insensitive. They trawled Facebook to pull photos (like they’ve done here) but also figured out close friends and camped out on their doorsteps to try to get them divulge more information.
> if the average HN user met me, they would be shocked at this specimen of a human with the intellectual capacity of a stone-age hominid.

If the average HN user is shocked at you, I’d be shocked at such average HN user who has no empathy or a clue about how the world works. If anything, avoid associating with people who may make you think you’re worthless or are a failure.

> So, the gist of the question is how do i become like you guys?

Don’t! Be what you are, recognize or get to know about yourself (from close confidants or therapists) and choose what you’d like to change and why. “I feel like a failure when I see all those overachievers around me” is a terrible reason to change. You don’t know what sacrifices those people are making, how miserable they may actually be due to their choices or actions and how some of them may just be showing off (this doesn’t mean all of them are dishonest, but nobody’s life is perfect).

> how do you keep learning so much everyday about the world, complex technical concepts, becoming technical experts, opening and running businesses, nurturing friendships and relationships, and fulfilling the various needs of modern life.

I’d say there are too many assumptions here. The average HN user is none of these. The top tier of HN users, based on how you measure it, may be.

In most communities, the number of lurkers is a lot higher than the number of active participants. On a platform like HN that’s meant for startups and showcasing things, there’s going to be a huge survivorship bias — those who make it post and those who don’t make it or fail multiple times don’t post (or don’t post as much). Measuring yourself against what’s visible will not help, and could actually be harmful to you.

It seems like you could do some good for yourself with counseling, therapy, friendships and connections. If you’d like, add practices that are in general good — eat well, sleep well, exercise and connect with others. If you wish, add meditation to the mix and learn about the philosophy of worldly illusion.

Nothing happens in an instant. You need to find out why you want something and put the effort. Be patient and see where things go. This is as much as an internet stranger can advise.
Ah I see. Yeah it has a long history of being a gambling sport in europe and controversies around organizational corruption & match fixing, and entanglements with organized crime are about as old as the sport itself. It's a great game but unfortunately in the places it caught on it also usually brought some of that baggage with.
> we felt that it already delivered significant benefits by virtue of not being MongoDB

Well then, tell us how you really feel.
Shoot, you’re right. I see what the issue is. I need to investigate this and fix it.
This. Why not support the projects a company uses in ways that go beyond the traditional ways of hiring employees in the form of physical bodies that defy traffic jams to spend large parts of their day in a physical building? There are some larger companies that employ open-source or third-party developers of course, but it seems to me that if your product is built around a technology or framework, it would make sense to invest directly in that project – share a developer resource as it were – instead of hiring an extra person in-company and make sure your use case and reliance is covered in the future.

Both the internet and open-source enable alternative employment and funding models that up until now might have not have been sufficiently explored.
> consciousness isn't a separate thing to the brain's physical processes.

That's ironic, because this is the most popular theory of consciousness among analytic philosophers: physicalism. It says that consciousness is identical to some physical process.

The problem with this theory is the knowledge argument. Mary grew up in a room without colors. Inside the room, she did learn everything about the brain. For example, she knows exactly what physical process is associated with the experience of "red". One day, she goes outside for the first time, and sees a rose. Does she learn something new? Something she didn't already know from knowing everything about the physical correlate of having experiences of red?
The average death rate for motorcycles and general aviation is around 1 death per 100,000 hours. Just an average, as you observe.

BTW, flying a small plane costs maybe $40/hour in fuel, but if your life is worth $12.5M (the statistical value of a human life these days) then the cost of the risk is $125/hour, three times as much. This tells me it's likely a good idea to include an emergency whole-plane parachute system on general aviation aircraft, even at the cost of fuel efficiency.
> I don't think having a cold or two is going to put many people in this category.

Have you been around kids post COVID? Winters after the pandemic have been a nightmare for many parents. My nephews have basically been "sick" the whole winter (getting sick, staying home, recovering, going back to school, getting a new virus, repeat).
They used it at my 1st job, a startup.

They had an ORM which made everything much slower, and the most common operation they did was to add items into lists, which causes the whole document to be resized and requires it to be moved.

It could have been done with 1 sql server, but we needed 4 really heavy mongodb servers instead. And of course our code was buggy so the schema was all over the place.
Can you elaborate? This is a very low quality comment as it stands.
I recommend approaching people who want to homeschool with an open mind and a little empathy. They are not bible thumpers who want to eschew science, many of them are just normal people who do not like the bias and worldview that is being applied to education.
As the other commenter pointed out, it's just multiples of 111. You can find all sorts of patterns playing around with a calculator, I particularly like this one:

1² = 1
11² = 121
111² = 12321
1111² = 1234321
...
111111111² = 12345678987654321

It works in other number bases too, and once you figure out the math it no longer seems that surprising.
Could you share any ideas on what to do with this radio (receiving or transmitting) given its hackability?

It reminds me of having a RaspberryPi or a ESP32/Arduino with nothing to code for?
It's not flagged now!

Anyway, flagging happens by users, not mods. To talk to the mods, use the Contact link at the bottom of the page.
> There are plenty examples of self-awareness and reasoning

There aren't even objective, empirical definitions of “self-awareness” or “reasoning” that would support claims of examples. Those things are subjective internal experiences, not verifiable phenomena.
I’ve known a few very intelligent maths professionals and although good people, they always struck me as a bit robotic. I know it’s anecdotal and a small sample size but I wouldn’t be surprised if a certain personality is needed to excel and it just happens to be very terse and overly professional.
I however also think that that’s a big reason I never got into advanced mathematics in the first place. I can’t stand terse and overly professional material. I get bored much too easily.
It looks like dang has previously had discussions with you regarding the way flagging works, and this could be a similar issue. Enough HN users flag something, and if a mod doesn't reverse the flagging it just stays flagged. The mods are usually busy fighting bots and spam, so don't take this personally.
I don’t see this article argument for a “lowest common denominator” approach. For example, how is replacing

“Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold, G a compact Lie group and P → M a principal G-bundle.”

by

“One of the main problems in gauge theory is understanding the geometry of the space of solutions of the Yang–Mills equations on a Riemannian manifold.”

doing that? It gets rid of “Lie group” and “G-bundle”, but adds “gauge theory” and “Yang-Mills equations”

Also, “Of course, one should not give a detailed blow-by-blow account of every pitfall and wrong turn”, IMO, is an argument against doing that. It more or less says: “assume that there are steps your readers can make on their own”.
Can someone more familiar with the science help me out?

- On the one hand, the universe can be expanding at different rates.

- On the other hand, is it possible our approach to measuring the expansion (e.g., using Cepheid variable stars) might be the problem?
An equity stake doesn't necessarily mean stock. The US could have given Intel $8B for a 25% stake in the new fab.
Look up iPhone “personal voice”. People don’t seem to know about it.
I don’t understand what “time does not flow the same everywhere” means. Can you elaborate?
Aside from clueless people on Elance and upwork, no one goes to a developer and says "write me GTA5" or "make a website in PHP that does X", either.

What AI will do is leverage productivity of the individuals. Any new story will have its complexity reduced because the developer will be to use the existing codebase and say "hey, our current code is connecting with Foobar via the Zoberg SDK, now we are adding a customer that uses the BazBah platform and they need to change the order flow for 'deliver on payment' to 'deliver on invoice sent'. Show me what changes are needed to make this happen, and please write the integration tests to make sure that we are not breaking things from existing customers"

This goes from a one week task that will require three hour-long to something that can be done in an afternoon, reviewed by the developer and (most importantly) cheap to throw away if the original requirements change.
Related:

America Made a Bet on Sports Gambling. The Backlash Is Here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39860374
Maybe having better real time conversations in computer games. Like game characters saying your name in voiceovers.
There’s a serious “butts in seats = cash” focus from admin, now. I’m not sure if funding arrangements used (80s and 90s? Pre-nclb? I dunno) to be different.
I'd bet money in a forensic scenario they could look up the batch and then estimate the sequence and thus date of sale and pull the post office cctv footage.
I find text like this especially odd — it’s entirely implausible that Vultr’s customers actually have the right to grant this license.

Imagine the copyright infringement case Getty Images v. Vultr:

“Your honor, Joe Shmo LLC gave us an eternal right to do anything we want with this image that is watermarked ‘Getty Images’, so Getty can’t sue us.”

Maybe we need a provision in context law that directly penalizes anyone who writes a ludicrous provision into a contract.
That mirrors my experience. MySQL was faster for use cases where data loss was acceptable. Will anyone die if you lose some web log analysis stats? Probably not. You wouldn’t want to use it for anything where guaranteed consistency was critical, like anything involving money, but it was an alright replacement for things like an in-memory data store.

I say “was”. I hear it’s vastly better now.
The most glaring issue facing China today is the concentration of power in Xi. Not that the CCP has ever been known for its transparency or openness, but there was a time not too long ago where the party elevated technocrats and had ruling cabals with some (limited) diversity of opinion and thought. Xi upended that system by making himself central to China's governance, and has filled out the ranks of the CCP with yes men. NYT had a good write up on this months ago with organizational charts that showed how dramatic his consolidation of power has been.

China's newfound adversarial tone with its neighbors, and with the US and Europe, is more a product of Xi's whim and worldview than it is the product of a deliberative strategic process. Among the failures in China that can be attributed to Xi and his yes men has been the COVID containment strategy - rather than developing state of the art vaccines and embarking on a program of convincing the population to get vaccinated and take other precautions, China was handling COVID through draconian lockdowns months, and even years, after other countries found other ways to contain COVID spread and treat the illnesses it caused. By mid-2022, the Chinese populace was up in arms over the lockdowns, and the vaccine uptake (of a vaccine that wasn't even close to matching the efficacy of mRNA vaccines) was dismal. Xi finally relented, but that episode showed that nobody was willing to challenge Xi's vision, and so he ruled from a bubble.

Democracy is important, not only from a human rights perspective, but it keeps government accountable in important ways. China under Hu Jintao wasn't democratic, obviously, but it's easy to see that his government made more attempts to have its ear to the ground and not get too far beyond public sentiment.

Which is all to say, I'm not optimistic for China's future given Xi's continued poor judgment, and the lack of a functioning ruling committee that could pivot based on data, instead of being beholden to one man's whim.
This video is good, it shows how you are more likely to lose more money with cash than stocks over longer periods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeob9z27-gA
AGPL is absolutely fine for commercial closed-source projects. Don’t fall for anti-AGPL propaganda.

https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html
For the communal masking method that was deployed early on in the pandemic due to N95 respirator shortages, you're correct.

> At best, masking is a practice that makes the wearer think they're doing something "courteous", when they really aren't doing anything beneficial at all.

Fortunately in 2024, individuals have the freedom to choose to wear an N95 for their own personal protection. These devices are effective when worn properly, especially compared to vaccines when trying to minimize transmission to prevent reinfections which increase the risk of long COVID.
When you cook a dish, you don't need to know the chemistry involved to make something tasty. The meal is the measure. You can read recipe books eight hours a day. It won't fill your belly.

Same for web apps. Build something to do something you want to do. Knowing enough to make something is enough to make something.

You will never know it all. Nobody even knows what "it all" is. Good luck.
> your principled objection changes every comment and is reactive

I don't think you've even kept track of who you're replying to
Very much the opposite, since this is pure JS. PyTorch uses tuned native-code and GPU components for the heavy lifting and can in some cases compile Python code using PyTorch JIT / torch.compiler / torch.fx.
There's a "vocal fry" aspect to all of these voice cloning tools, a sort of uncanny valley where they can't match tones correctly, or get fully away from this subtle Microsoft Sam-esque breathiness to their voice. I don't know how else to describe it.
Surviving 2 years on a little server without Cloudflare
> And, a surprising number of my wife's friends from church have opted for homeschooling, so they can teach their kids from the Bible and skip all that science and math "liberal indoctrination".

I can assure you, the people newly complaining about "liberal indoctrination" in schools don't mean science and math. It's fine to disagree with people about what should be taught, but it's not productive to ignore how much education has changed and why people object to it, and then disingenuously mischaracterize them.
I'm not sure you know what "extinction" refers to, but yes, I could be the first - what I'd want is to make this process (that will inevitably happen sooner or later) to be as painless as possible.
Less "golf course" and more "discounts on discounts on discounts"
Easy Mode Rust
Confused, are they saying that different parts of the universe are expanding at different rates? Or are they saying two methods give different results for the same parts?
The post doesn't necessarily suggest the sentence is steep, it just outlines the surprised reaction of people in the courtroom: "Even after everything that the public has learned about the duplicitous life of SBF, the decision was met with a heavy silence in the courtroom".

I found it a straightforward description of the factors behind the judge's stated reasons for the sentencing decision, including the fact that SBF perjured himself at least thrice during the trial, obstructed justice via attempted witness tampering and refused to admit or apologize for his criminal activities, etc.
TL;DR: No.

> In almost all other societies and civilizations, including medieval
Europe, the sun and other heavenly bodies were thought to be alive
and intelligent.

It was also thought that the stars were fixed to a celestial sphere. Just because a lot of ancient civilizations adhered to an idea doesn't necessarily mean that idea has any merit.