skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like this is coming from someone in a silo of his own, nostalgic and out of touch with industry. I had a Newton and I don’t miss it.

In particular, JavaScript has evolved into a much nicer language than it started out, even more so if you add TypeScript. Yes, there are unfixable gotchas, but they’re well-documented and they’re far less important than some critics think. They rarely get in the way. There are tools that could be better, but they’ve improved a lot, and keep improving.

Also, embedding one app in another visually is a poor fit for mobile devices. There’s only so much screen to work with. Share buttons using common data formats mostly do the job. On the web, the best way of sharing something widely is with a URL. We have iframes but rarely use them.
But is that sky diving number for just general skydiving, or a tandem dive with a completely new to the sport customer like anyone here would actually care about.

Like one, I assume tandem has a higher incident rate, and also that first time divers has a higher rate as well.
The website has started filtering anything tagged nsfw, you'll have to create an account and enable 13+ or 18+ imagery.
You can't do religious war or race war on HN, nor post slurs. We've banned the account.
Main problem with DoSing NK is that it disrupts legitimate military cyber activities.
This space is too small for a philosophical debate about the merits of UBI. Suffice it to say, when the top 5% has 1,000x more than they need for subsistence and the bottom 25% has never had access to more than 1x more than they need for subsistence, nothing will ever change. And more to the point, because having 10-20 times more than you need for subsistence has a demonstrable impact on your ability to generate more wealth 1) some will always get richer and pull away from the majority over time and 2) eventually the majority of people without subsistence amounts of wealth will rise up and kill you.

Maybe that wont happen in our current system for a generation or two. But then the question those 5% at the top have to ask themselves is whether they feel lucky to avoid an uprising against them in their lifetime.
Is the verge a reliable news source now? Oof.
Sustainable Seafood
> Instead, proxmox is a good, free, open source hypervisor alternative.

I got the impression from all their "enterprise" branding that it wasn't, however based your claim I went digging and found that it's AGPLv3 and they do have a CLA but they allege the submitter retains the copyright, which my IANAL interpretation should(!) prevent rug pulls

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Documentation#Softwar...
> typical palestinian whataboutism

It certainly would not seem that Israeli media or the IDF agree with you: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-soldiers-film-themselves-a...
> what do I start with as a base OS these days

IMO, there are two primary options:

— Rocky Linux (or AlmaLinux) if you prefer a “bit more corporate” flavor after getting used to Windows;

— Debian if you'd like to get “more community” one.

Once you're somehow familiar with one of these, you should be able to figure out what else you may want to try.
The design philosophy of Great Tables
How does one get deeper into the credit card hobby? I optimize for cash back on gas and groceries but not much else.
Is'nt the (economic) problem of maintaining software an issue, independently of it being open source or closed?
They don't benefit everyone, and even among those who benefit, not everybody benefits equally.
> But if Americans follow the reasoning to put the most important information first, then why do they say "March 5th, 2024"? With that reasoning shouldn't it be "2024 March 5th"?

Because you're falsely equating "important" and "significant". It's not about little endian vs big endian, which is all about magnitudes. Most of the time, the year is implicit (i.e., this year, or perhaps next year but that will be inferred from the month). Rolling over months happens quite often, rolling over years is rare. And in cases where the month really doesn't matter, it'll be dropped: "see you on the 5th!"

That said, I personally dislike both MM-DD-YYYY and DD-MM-YYYY. Mon DD, YYYY is fine. YYYY-MM-DD (ISO8601) is fine (and to be preferred when naming files or in any other context where you'll be seeing lots of dates at once).
I hope not, for my sake.

Also cavities and gum disease are not the same.
Do you actually want to do that? When a customer wants to make a purchase, I think it is best to get the hell out of their way and not go stand between their wallet and your wallet, blocking their money and yapping about fees or some other completely unimportant stuff.
Higher end oscilloscope, signal generators and similar. A lot of the world runs on Windows Xp Embedded or very quirky Linux distros.
Oh no, I need to find a new modifier :(
> If a business releases a model, we have a right to demand that it is useful for us because we're the business' costumers.

What makes you their customer? Are you offering them money for access to the uncensored model you say you want?

Do you have some business that you’re going to be able to build that tests on access to an uncensored model, and their failure to offer that to you is preventing them from getting paid by you to provide the underlying technology for your venture?

Because on the other hand there is a state lottery over here who absolutely is willing to pay someone money for a safe, censored model. They are an actual paying customer with a real use case and cash to back it up.

Of course, it turns out the AI they ended up using didn’t (if this story holds up) actually meet their expectations with respect to safety and alignment - but let’s be clear: they wanted a safe, censored model.

I find it hard to believe that the market for uncensored models - LLMs that occasionally output 4chan style racist tirades, diffusion models that occasionally generate pornography - is actually worth addressing, compared to offering models which don’t do those things.
I was born in the early 90s, was working in film in 2019, broke my back, joined a bootcamp three months later, got a job in 2020, got another 6 months later, and managed to find a house in April 2021 before things started climbing. The combination of back breaking, career changing, pandemic, oh yeah I also got married, and getting a house, all in an ~2 year period proves to me that I am indeed lucky
It was absolutely a boon to all developers who used it. If you didn’t use it you were doing things the hard way. Just don’t look too hard at the implementation, because like I said M4 causes actual brain damage.
Yubikey Manager Privilege Escalation
DistilHN: Summarizing News Articles with Transformers
Thanks! Yes, that's what I meant!
Because there's literally nothing in it for me to help this guy unlock the stunning achievement of understanding why and in what manner computer systems communicate. This is intern level information, trivial to learn.
I'm sure the OP has already read his Skolnik given his comment but for those following along that's usually the best place to start.

https://www.amazon.com/Radar-Handbook-Third-Merrill-Skolnik/...
If someone can figure out how to hack the starlink dish frontend we'll have a hell of a capability to tinker with.
I went west-to-east in the late 1980s.

My group was in, err, very good shape by the time we got to Kansas.

We crossed Indiana in less than 2 days of riding (Vincennes, IN to Cincinnati OH along Hwy. 50). It was exhilarating.
Thanks for the original recommendations, and these two. I have heard about the Princeton Review books. I have not read them yet.

Among your original recommendations, I have heard about "All the Maths you Missed". And I have read several chapters of the one by Kolmogorov et al. It's a fantastic book. It lays the landscape really well, discusses things, and covers the breadth of the field rather than the depth of any particular field. I find the writing style really good. It could be seen as a reference book for people who already know the stuff, or are looking to know about new stuff, but want to have ideas about what those stuff might be.
Love them. Support them. Completed a 6 day bike trip from Pittsburgh to Washington DC on the GAP and C&O trails back in 2012. I would start as early as I could, often breaking trail for the day (wear a bandana and sunglasses or eat spiderwebs all day). Lots of deer and blue herons to hang out with. It was very peaceful and quiet, but I mostly remember green tunnel trails for most of the trip. There are wonderful stops and vistas along the way. As you leave the paw-paw tunnel, one of my favorite views of the valley quickly pass by, the closer you get to Georgetown, the better maintained the C&O is; the more beautiful the trail becomes.

I actually rode the C&O trail a bunch of times in Scouts and with my grandparents as a child. I think these are great for any skill level, including beginners. The biggest advantage for me is the fact there are very few roads you need to ride on. Because they are typically on old railways, or canals, they are usually not steep grades (though don't let somebody tell you "it's only a 6% grade!", because it sucks going uphill for lots of miles).

You can split up the trails in to day, weekend, or week-long trips. Especially on the GAP and C&O there are plenty of camps, towns and stops along the way to support yourself on the way. On my 2012 trip a guy caught up to me and tolerated my slowness for a bit. He was planning to finish the Pgh to DC trip in 3 days.

I've been contemplated riding the Erie Canalway, but my love for biking was ruined a bit with a bad case of achilles tendonitis after my last trip.

https://gaptrail.org/
https://www.canaltrust.org/plan/co-canal-towpath/
https://eriecanalway.org/explore/cycling
Are you considering that in your imagination? In reality Gazans have plenty of food. At least when Hamas doesn't prevent them from getting it due to profiteering and supplying itself.
Microsoft and Quantinuum demonstrate the most reliable logical qubits
Yes, I was just thinking of Distributism in this context. Communism says the means of production is owned by the state, Capitalism says the means of production is owned by those with capital (so in practice that means in a few hands). Distributism says let's distribute the means of production as widely as possible. I recall an article in Make magazine about 15 years ago on distributism - they made the case that things like 3D printers could be the technological enabler to allow distributism to work.
Here's the NTSB report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY21FH007.aspx
> Distributism views laissez-faire capitalism and state socialism as equally flawed and exploitative

This is also termed "anarcho-communism" within the academic literature and grassroots movements, just FYI (A common misconception of anarchism is that it is a 'lack of law and order' -- it is merely the lack of centralization). The Bolshevik implementation of Communism was called State-Capitalism for a long time by Lenin himself, and many Communist thinkers (I'm thinking of Tony Cliff, who was exceptionally progressive for his time) disagree with the Bolshevik implementation of Communism.
Is this an acquisition or an acquihire?
Teflon contain PFAS

Look at pubchem.
Agreed! If I end up having to use Ubuntu, my first command is generally `sudo apt purge snapd unattended-upgrades`
It's a really good counterweight to "You're only as good as your last ___," a narrative which leads a person to feel frightened/shaken after a failure.

Remembering past successes in times like that can be nice grounding. I've always liked Julia Evans' brag document, which presumes you and your co-workers won't remember your past successes: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
Plenty of people attempt suicide after 30 or 40 or 50 as well. What's your proposed window?
Quite a few out there, I guess. I always liked the idea of sandbox.io .
The thing that gets me is that the guys who lead this effort are go-getting ex-finance, ex-trading people who work their butts off and have attention to detail of a microscope. And the article mentions that they did in fact do detailed studies and make financial models of the venture and things looked good enough to push forward. So... clearly even their experience, hard work, and attention to detail was not enough to predict what would happen.

I'm not sure what that means in the end :-). Maybe predicting the future is just hard? Maybe it was a 30-60 bet and they just got unlucky? In that case what they did was not unreasonable and had it worked the same journalists that cackle at them with schadenfreude would be singing their praises.
As much of a coder as I am, I think something like https://beepbox.co is much more intutive, albeit possibly more limited, to come up with beeps and such.
Personality, Ego States and Parental Programming
Scottish study: Rural residents feel less lonely than their urban neighbors
For non-hikers like me to learn: https://www.greenbelly.co/pages/appalachian-trail-backpackin...

- "Bounce Box - Box of supplies you ship or 'bounce' forward to pick up in your next trail town."

- "Trail Angel - Giver of Trail Magic. A volunteer who helps hikers with a place to stay in their house, a shuttle to the trail head, free food, anything."

- "Trail Magic - Given by Trail Angels. The goodies a Trail Angel offers out of goodwill."

Seems like a fun hobby
I assume it’s a simple accidental transposition of “case in point”, an instance or example that supports, or is relevant or pertinent to, what is being discussed.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/usage-of-case-in-po...
Most drivers have a reasonable estimate of how common and serious car crashes are, since we drive and know people who drive and therefore have firsthand and secondhand experience with the matter

The same probably can't be said for most skydivers (I assume most are first timers ticking off a bucket list item.)
Pretty incredible how Postgres has gotten so dominant in eng mindshare over the last 5-8 years. Especially with super popular tools like Supabase now being built just on top of Postgres; feel like every company I see is on it
Oh, yes, i have noticed the same.
Using Narrative Commits for Better Code Reviews
We've been using commit messages to tell a story using our git history and it's improved our code review process. By doing this, we've created a commit history that clearly details all the steps leading up to each change. By organizing our commits this way, we’re making our PRs easier for others to understand and giving ourselves a chance to refine our work. We also often spot opportunities to simplify or improve the code that we might have missed the first time around.
Blue check marks reappear on some large X accounts
Thanks! Tauri seems great, and there are a couple other options I was discussing with someone else recently too [1]. Trying to get handle on what's mature enough these days for a multi-platform app.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852167#39855002
Yikes, then I have remembered wrong about bash, thank you.

In that case I'll just always use `truncate -s0` then. Safest option to remember without having to carry around context about which shell is running the script, it seems.
Collaborative editing in OneNote is hot garbage, leaving you with a mile long list of conflicts. It desperately needs some work.
If a drop zone had anywhere near one death per year, I'd find somewhere else to jump. Skydiving isn't that dangerous.
> Some found that the GenZ were too open, insensitive, and should be more sensitive of their environment, and of people hearing what they said.

This is the exact opposite of what I've found, and what other older engineers and engineering managers I personally know have found.

In genreal we find GenZ to be overly sensitive to technical critisism, and unwilling to speak bluntly about technical ramifications.

This point alone makes me doubt the entire article...
Yes, I'd gladly trial something like this.

It must run locally / require no network requests. I can run on an M2 w 24GB or M3 with 36GB.

My email is in my profile here.
What is even left to innovate in document databases? They do a very specific thing well; it's not their fault naive engineers keep trying to use them in ways they are not intended to be used
Is the set of integer sequences uncountably infinite? It seems like Cantor's diagonal argument would work here.

1. Number all sets from 0.

2. Construct a new set by picking the i^th number from each set.
I believe it they likely will implement it in rust as an alternative engine to the two existing engines (default and streaming).
Yeah but DDR is starting to move to more complex modulations, CXL is bringing down PCIe latency, and PCIe is starting from a position of elevated competence when compared to other standards. For example, you might expect that PCIe obtains parallelism by sending different packets down different lanes but in fact it shreds packets across lanes specifically because of latency. When PCIe eats another standard, the average quality of the standards ecosystem generally goes up.

That said, memory latency is so important that even small sacrifices should be heavily scrutinized.
> Where am I hostile?

Your entire comment is hostile and outside the guidelines for this site. We’re in this for honest discussion, not “let me play you the world's smallest violin for them” or “Are Tesla owners gonna starve or become homeless”.
Is it really that hard to believe that these idiot machines screw up? Furthermore, I find your implication that “bored glowies” would decide to bring down all of AI by posting a topless photo via the Washington state lottery apparatus, of all things, to be preposterous. Surely the Deep State could come up with something more effective.
Yes, he‘s a true Auteur. Writing, directing and composing (and often playing) the score.
Modern consumer motherboards are in a bit of a weird place at the moment.

Even if you buy the fanciest consumer motherboard out there, you'll find it only comes with one PCIe slot that actually runs at 16x speed, one that's maybe 4x speed (but 16x size), and that's about it.

You want a motherboard with two 16x slots, to run a dual-GPU setup at full speed? Buy a threadripper.

From a market segmentation perspective this makes sense from the processor manufacturers' point of view - get the people who want lots of IO onto your high-margin server/workstation product range.

Back in the 1990s you needed to plug in a graphics card, a sound card, an ethernet card, maybe a separate wifi card, and so on, each of which would use exactly one slot - but these days other than the GPU, it's all integrated on the motherboard already, and the GPU might block 2 or 3 slots anyway. So modern consumer motherboards still sell OK despite having fewer slots than ever before!
I imagine the temperature doesn't help. Compared to CA (where the columnist is from), the average temp is probably 20° colder, which could cut 15% off the range.
[sigh]

You know, it's hard to know what sources other people consider to be "reputable" these days, so perhaps you could put on your big boy britches and google the subject to find a source you like rather than expecting us to know what you trust and don't trust? I mean, shit, if you bothered to look at the Verge article you'd have seen the link to the NTSB report. Here ya go...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/ntsb-finds-no-evidence-tesla...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-crash-spring-texas-deaths...

https://fortune.com/2024/03/17/ntsb-fatal-crash-automated-dr...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/02/autopilot-had-no-involv...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-pro...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driver-was-behind-wheel...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/automobiles/tesla-texas-c...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/driver-was-behind-wheel-...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/autopilot-engaged-texas-tesl...

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36387950/ntsb-investigati...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2021/05/10/ntsb-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39933859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34731013

Would you like some more?
> ...humans have explored a few tiny dots in the space of all possible socio-economic-political systems.

Programming languages are often reduced to a blurb along the lines of "everything is a ${foo}"; what do socio-economic-political systems reduce to?

my attempts:

tribalism - everything works like an extended family

feudalism - everything works like animals in a barnyard

capitalism - everything works like marketplaces in a port

communism - everything is haunted by the spectre of class warfare

democracy - everything is the electorate's fault

aristocracy - everything is the selectorate's fault

monarchy - everything is the prime minister's party's fault

anarchy - everything is voluntary

warlordism - everything is either voluntary, or subject to ultima ratio regum
Desktop interactivity/IO latency test to bisect kernel bug introduced 2.6.16-19
It would be super helpful if someone could help me confirm this behaviour detoriation I noticed 17 years back around kernel 2.6.17. Subjectively, something with the I/O stack broke and never quite recovered.
For that, please propose robust ways of testing interactivity / responsiveness under concurrent load. The goal is to use it for example with the well-known PTS to bisect the relevant kernel range. The inbuilt `phoronix-test-suite benchmark kernel` will only run a series of low-complexity scenarios that say very little about what happens under heavy multitasking load.

The test case should be stressing I/O paths as well as CPU and preferably induce swapping. How could this be automated reliably?

AI asstisted answers welcome.

Full story: I remember using Gentoo at the time and back around 2007, I was impressed by the extreme desktop fluidity even when compiling openoffice, watching a HD sat tv stream and skipping between applications and many browser tabs on a moderate machine..
Then came another fluke kernel update and since then, never had the experience again of a robustly smooth desktop experience even under heavy (swap!) load..
Nowadays, even on a 48GiB RAM xeon hexacore system, memory never seems to be enough and when the system is up for a few weeks, sluggishness accumulates even beyond Xorg / browser restarts. It is a mystery to me and I think linux can do much better.
> - heating a zillion legacy homes using existing gas pipelines

They dont have electricity to heat with?

> - running all the existing fertilizer and other chemical plants

This takes hydrogen gas from the nat gas, why not just use the electricity for hydrolysis

I think other commenters have said it well. It's really just a storage mechanism. Waste daytime solar for use at non-peak solar production