skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Korea, Japan, China say hello.

Much of the world by population and gdp is a ship ride away from their major energy suppliers. Japan imports about half their LNG from Australia. Next largest is Qatar.

There are no power lines between Australia and Japan.
this made me curious if the ACM has something similar, sure enough: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
This is both a blessing (when it actually works on a huge transfer) and a curse (when things are being weird, usually network issues or a flaky remote connection, and you can't remove the weird greyed-out folder).
Extrapolate it one more step: Apple is clearly working on an iCloud backup for Macs, cause then that's more services revenue. While they're doing that, why would they fix bugs in Time Machine. People can't surely be using this old thing while we're working on the spiffy new thing!
Nokia and Vodafone say they can dissolve lag with L4S tech
A viable solution would be to clone all data onto a bigger drive, then delete some files, wipe the disk, and finally copy everything back.
in theory anyone can map any sequence to an interpolating polynomial, but I think those would get rejected.

Also: meta-sequences: a sequence of integers that has no notable properties about them or that dosn't comprise a sequence
the constitution does not give you a right to a pony.

It does give you a right to privacy, defined broadly as "the right to be let alone". These include the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unwarranted search or seizure, the First Amendment right to free assembly, and the Fourteenth Amendment due process right
Transmit has been and so far unless proven otherwise always will be one of the top 5 little apps for the Mac platform. Panic has always made some of the most intuitive/useful utilities, and there are few companies with the consistent hits that they've had.
They didn't go completely to zero. Neanderthal genetics live on in us:

https://www.livescience.com/42933-humans-carry-20-percent-ne...

So at least some of the explanation is that they were absorbed into a larger population.

The Scottish Wildcat is a present day example of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_wildcat

One of the reasons it's going extinct as a separate species is because of interbreeding with feral and domestic cats.
I've not heard of build quality described as luxury. I think for most people functionality and bodily integrity is a basic requirement of a car, not a luxury item.

You're not buying a new car every day. As long as you have one good car, it doesn't matter very much to you how badly the other ones of the same model are built.

My car is 5+ years old and still working fine.
Each new version of old things in windows increase latency.

CMD.exe is still their fastest terminal (even though it sucks on anything else).
Guns/AI don't kill people. People do. If someone should be held responsible, it's the people that order the strikes.
I'm not seeing those same numbers, anecdotally it seems people are very excited a $80 hourly rate in SF in a skilled trade that requires a 5 year apprenticeship - which suggest to me that most are not getting that. Though perhaps those doing well don't have time to post on the internet.

"I can guarantee you that a tradesmen in the bay that is good and skilled is pulling that as well." - or to rephrase; a similarly skilled tradesperson isn't making more in trades than they would have made as a SWE.

In general there is a competency crisis so I'm sure competent tradespeople can and do charge a premium and as things get worse I'm sure the premium they can charge can increase. That said, the US was angling to be a 'knowledge-worker' economy but for some reason, like many western countries, there now seems to be a huge appetite for importing unskilled labor to create a more mixed economy. I believe there will be an effort to push the newly arrived unskilled labor into the skilled tradespeople labor force which would put downward pressure on blue collar salaries. So the current windfall that they are enjoying might yet abate.

I think the denigration of blue collar was done so people wouldn't feel as bad about shipping factories overseas to increase corporate profits. The process of financialization and deindustrialization was driven by politicians and bankers and I think culturally the rest of us are were reacting to these realities as opposed to driving them. I think financializing and deindustrializing the economy was a mistake, as is importing large amounts of unskilled labor. I truly would have loved to have seen a larger blue collar middle class.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Climate change is the ultimate version of this. Almost no one wants to believe that our civilization is heading for total collapse caused by it's own waste. No one wants to revert to an agrarian society, they want to eat out and be entertained. Hence the angry replies and downvotes.
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I haven't created anything yet - I get this error every time and I have tried randomly over the last 6 hours. Curious to see it!
I don't really use them directly, but knowing about them helps me write more performant code. I know to ask questions like "which of the available sort functions is best for data that is mostly sorted" and "what's the best way to navigate this deeply nested object?" They also help you recognize certain patterns and apply known solutions before trying to reinvent the wheel. SO many problems end up being graph problems that have been solved time and time again (and sometimes you can recognize a Traveling Salesman problem before you start ripping your hair out).

Plus, writing algorithms gives you lots of practice with recursion and iteration, and knowing when to use which where. And it's fun! You may not use the knowledge directly, but you do pick up a lot of little useful nuggets for real enterprise development.
In that page there's a picture of a signboard with distances to other places around the world.

Interesting that Pitcairn-South Pole distance is twice that of Pitcairn-New York distance. Unintuitive to me.

On a tangent, I like the idea of living in tiny somewhat isolated but reasonably developed islands (ie., not the rainforest type islands — personal preference) and sometimes think about moving to some place like that for a year or so. Might help that I'm an introvert. Probably not Pitcairn though.

Has any of you lived in places like Svalbard, Faroe Islands etc? What is it like?
Played around with fine tuning, but ended up just experimenting with RAG.

One thing I haven’t worked out yet is the agent reliably understanding if it should do a “point retrieval query” or an “aggregation query.”

Point query: embed and do vector lookup with some max N and distance threshold. For example:
“Who prepared my 2023 taxes?”

Aggregation query: select a larger collection of documents (1k+) that possibly don’t fit in the context window and reason over the collection. “Summarize all of the correspondence I’ve had with tax preparation agencies over the past 10 years”

The latter may be solved with just a larger max N and larger context window.

Almost like it’s a search lookup vs. a map reduce.
I'm finding myself in the unenviable position of defending autotools.

> They were a reflection of the way the kernel, C libraries, APIs and userspace happened to work. Short of that changing, the results wouldn't change either.

These things do change, especially as toolchain and OS vendors realize their quirks that cause portability friction.
Chevy s10 is Chevy Colorado today

Ford ranger is Ford Maverick today

Both are under 30k, why do you think they aren’t selling and the ford f150 is? Gas mileage?
Why fewer people are saying "obese" and "overweight" in America
I actually use Arq to send my Time Machine backups and the rest of my NAS to S3 Glacier, in case the house burns down or the drives fail (whichever comes first). It works great and is very cheap!
As others mentioned, there's no particular reason for the brain to be involved. But that didn't stop Alastair Reynolds from writing sentient pigs into the later sequels to Revelation Space, with that exact backstory. One of them is a major character in The Prefect (or whatever they renamed it to).
Why Ozempic Doesn't Help Some People Lose Weight
But why does the government need this information, for everyone, and everything? Again, what is the legitimate reason? I understand tax liability, sure, but so long as someone is responsible for paying the taxes on a thing, why is it important who has control of the thing.
The root of the problem is that the methods used by LLMS (even deep learning for that matter) are considered by many academics as "the brute force approach" and that the researchers are throwing GPUs at the problem. The speech recognition by deep neural networks bet almost every "intelligent" approach and a performance barrier which had been there for 30 years to be even considered good enough.
Where `rm`, or more technically unlink(2), fails due to ENOSPC, like in the article...

Hilariously this failure case doesn't seem to be listed in the docs. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...
>Vincent also intended to make a career in China, but he had specific plans for his time in the U.S. Once, during a class discussion, he remarked that someday he would purchase both a car and a real firearm. The illegal airsoft pistol that he had acquired in high school shot only plastic pellets. In 2017, when Vincent ordered the gun, it had been delivered to his home at the bottom of a rice cooker, as camouflage.

If I ever visit America, like Vincent the second thing I am going to do is to visit an American gun range.
I too wish to experience a real gun (semi-automatic or automatic) instead of air pistols.
If it’s a well known case feel free to share it, otherwise you’re just editorialising an unverifiable anecdote.
It's crazy that they used PHP at all, but that's just me showing my age.

Back in my day, high level languages were considered "moving too fast" to be able to build a four year degree around.

Instead, you had your intro course in C (or was it c++) and everything after that was lower level.

There were no web tech type degrees, only computer science, with one of three focuses you could pick from along higher courses- AI (long before the current llm craze) and two others I don't recall anymore, but were more systems level type stuff.

If you were lucky, I think there was a fluid dynamics modeling and visualization course that might have used python, but probably was also C.
I was delighted to find The Numbers from LOST:

https://oeis.org/A104101
You could get a bystander effect kind of dilution of responsibility, even if unintentionally. Everyone points to someone else which is a system of incentives that enables bad things to happen. The buck always stops with the leadership, but you still want well-defined blame at the decision maker level that's transparent to everyone while decisions are being made.
Impressive. I've never dealt with a situation where even `rm` failed, but I have had the displeasure of using and managing modern Macs with 256 GB (or less) of internal storage. I like to keep a "spaceholder" file of around 16GB so when things inevitably fill up and prevent an update or something else, I can nuke the placeholder without having to surgically prune things with `ncdu`
The generational thing is called toxic masculinity.

What a perfect example of why it’s called “toxic” - because it forces men today to make decisions that aren’t otherwise optimal to protect their perceived masculinity in the face of their peers and elders.
Some filesystems may require allocating metadata to delete a file. AFIK it's a non issue with traditional Berkeley-style systems, since metadata and data come from a separate pools. Notably ZFS has this problem.
I would encourage her. If she is so inept as to suggest that, I would 100% fake my support to make her fail as soon as possible. People like this need to be allow to face the consequences of their ideas.
Doesnt look like it. Seems like any name should work.
This doesnt even really need a github repo, this is effectively a blog post talking about how to use Zscript from nightly right now.
Pork? Huh? Feed them to pigs?
Does autotools really matter here? Did folks at the distros really audit the tainted package contents against the source repo and decide that the additional contents must be legitimate?

In all likelihood there's no process to do such an audit? Let's assume such a process did exist, forcing attackers to take a different strategy. Could the rain have hidden in plain sight in the source repo anyways?
Climate town just did a piece on natural gas leaks and how its a much more serious problem that previously considered - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2oL4SFwkkw - certainly soured me a bit on natural gas in general, at least until there's better regulation in place.
Safe Boot is your magical way to have the computer delete purgeable and temporary files, like boot caches. Hold shift down and once it gets to the login window, restart again.

Otherwise, go to Recovery mode, mount the disk in Disk Utility, and then open Terminal and rm some shit.
I used to think Adobe was in trouble with Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.

Now I realize that Adobe knows how to make money. They'll just add the AI models to Photoshop, Premier, etc and charge an extra $50/month and voila.

However, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney does not have a solid vehicle to making money.

Maybe in the long term, no one will care about using Photoshop anymore. But we're not even close to there yet. AI models seem to make Photoshop even more valuable.

GPT4 is different. OpenAI has made monetization its goal from the start by charging $20/month for GPT4 in ChatGPT and charging loads of money for the API. Also, they have the backing of Microsoft.
No we don't, for ages now.

I think it's more to do with cross border communication (roaming / international charges) that were and are quite costly.

Imagine if you would have to pay international charges when communicating between states in the USA - that what's happening within EU still.

Thus rise of Internet based IMs where you are not bothered by the regular gms cost and use whatever data data transfer, which is free/cheap
Modern (well, post-ZFS) filesystems operate by moving the filesystem through state changes where data is not (immediately) destroyed, but older versions of the data are still available for various purposes. Similar to an ACID-compliant database, something like a backup or recovery process can still access older snapshots of the filesystem, for various values of "older" that might range from milliseconds to seconds to years.

With that in mind, you can see how we get in a scenario where deleting a file will require a minor bit of storage for recordkeeping the old and new states, before it can actually free up the storage by releasing the old state. There is supposed to be an escape hatch for getting yourself out of a situation where there isn't even enough storage for this little bit of record keeping, but either the author didn't know whatever trick is needed or the filesystem code wasn't well-behaved in this area (it's a corner-case that isn't often tested).
Those interested in databases of mathematical objects may want to check out https://mathbases.org
Look, if you're in the field and having a bunch of SD cards and drives, that's cool.

As long as you back your stuff up correctly at some point. The pile of drives can be part of your 3-2-1 if you want.

Retrieval is also terrible with "my stack of drives" as well. Having to physically search through drives to get to a file is why we left paper to the 20th century.
I consider it relevant enough to comment about it…

Whether or not any of these comments in this chain have any relevance to the economic debate I have no opinion on.
https://archive.is/HCOja
"Corporations are people too, my friend."

If they can have "free speech" and are "legal persons" then the public _surely_ has an interest in knowing who is benefiting (the ultimate beneficial owner) from that corporation's actions.
Saasfly – An easy-to-use and enterprise-grade Next.js boilerplate
A magic trip start with `bun create saasfly`
State Machines in React
This I can agree with. Its a simple solution: An update to campaign finance law to US law that only entities with a US passport may donate to politicians.

This would need to also a law otherwise it would fail to pass the court system.

I don't think politicians would ever pass this law, which tells you exactly what you need to know. However, you could probably get referendum support for it.

Actually, maybe a law would not need to be passed. You could force a change in rules to require the US passport # for every donor to match the name of the donor itself. It would make corporations disappear from the rolls, similar to what happened when the IRS required the SSN of dependents in the 1040.
Ask HN: What would you recommend me to update myself on AI?
Back in 2011 I enrolled in the Machine Learning class by Andrew Ng via Coursera (Didn't finish it).
I also got into the AI class, same year via Coursera. By Sebastian Thrun, and Peter Norvig (Didn't finish it). Yeah, I know.

Back in 2017, I enrolled into Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng, via Coursera. I finished four of five courses. I barely remember anything. [1]

In 2018 I got into Udacity's AI programming with Python, finished the course, but I didn't exercised the thing after the end of course. [2]

In 2020 I bought the book "Artificial Intelligence : A modern approach" (Fourth edition was just releases) by Norvig and Russell (Didn't read the book).

Now I am seeing all sorts of AI applications here and there, some cats dancing out of a picture I suppose. And I would like to know what's new in the field.

Yeah, your main recommendation may be to commit to finish the courses I start, I know. These days I am doing just that. But I am revisiting some elementary Math topics instead like Algebra and Geometry (Which I recently finished a book in the Gelfand series).

What's the hottest training material right now on AI? I think I will need to know some advanced Calculus prior to that, right?

I just saw some "Elements of differentiable programming" shared over here just the other day, but I suppose the thing divide itself into designing the algorithms, some other people train models using existing algorithms, and then there exists consuming existing APIs. to help you recommending something, I am the kind of person interested in "How the things works" (Even when I am not working right now, I don't have a job, and I am looking for one just in case you have something for me). But yeah. Appreciate your input.

Thanks!

[1] https://coursera.org/share/09361d90a6fc1c987af0f89502f76c9e
[2] https://www.udacity.com/certificate/DJ7YNX9X
I want this for my photos.

I'm not a good photographer, but I have taken tens of thousands of photos of my family. I would love to provide a prompt for a specific day and persons and have it create a photo that I never was able to take. I don't mind that it's not "real" because I find photography to be philosophically unreal as it is. I want it to look good, and inspire my mind to recreate the day however it can imagine.

And I want to do it locally, without giving away my family's data and identity.
Depends on what "AI" means here. There is a spectrum of "we have a bunch of data in a database and some folks hand tuning queries" to "we built a deep learning network to predict XYZ." In the middle of that spectrum lie things like decision trees which provide explainable results.
St Lucia’s buns
Thanks for mentioning aider! I haven't had a chance to look closely at plandex, but have read the author's description of differences wrt aider. I'd add a few comments:

I think the plandex UX is novel and interesting. The idea of a git-like CLI with various stateful commands is a new one in this space of ai coding tools. In contrast, aider uses a chat based "pair programming" UX, where you collaborate with the AI and ask for a sequence of changes to your local git repo.

The plandex author highlights that it makes changes in a "version-controlled sandbox" and can "rewind" unwanted changes.

These capabilities are all available "for free" in aider, because it is tightly integrated with git. Each AI change is automatically git committed with a sensible commit message. You can type “/diff” to check the diff, or "/undo" to undo any AI commit that you don't like. Or you can use "/git checkout -b <branch-name>" to start working on a branch to explore a longer sequence of changes, etc.

All your favorite git workflows are supported by invoking familiar git commands with "/git ..." inside the aider chat, or using any external git tooling that you prefer. Aider notices any changes in the underlying repo, however they occur.
So your just going to ignore the healthcare example that every passing reader can clearly see? Really?

And btw eggs are also roughly the same or even cheaper for the median American income compared to over 40 years ago.
Can you site an example of this please?

It's contradictory to my understanding of what is happening.

By that, I mean, when the few remaining police left in Northern Gaza, who had reported to be critical to providing security for aid deliveries (and involved in coordination with Israel) where assassinated recently by Israel, and claimed as high ranking Hamas targets it pretty much cemented my opinion that nothing is true, or believable from Israel in this conflict.

How are you defining terrorist here as well? As other than the horrific events of October 7th, and the hostages from that day, the only visible acts of violence and terror associated with Palestine appear to be towards anyone Palestinian, journalists, aid workers and medical staff.
> at centimeter precisions

So yeah, you're 33 decimal orders of magnitude off from the Planck length. And that's assuming that Plank length is the smallest possible length.

So you'd need at least 117 extra bits to get your representations precise. And that's just for our solar system.

For the observable universe (~93 billion light years across) you'd need 206 bits of precision.
I ran into an issue like this in my first ever job! I accidentally filled up a cluster with junk files and the sysadmin started sending me emails saying I needed to fix it ASAP but rm wouldn’t work. He taught me that file truncation usually works when deletion doesn’t, so you can usually do “cat /dev/null > foo” when “rm foo” doesn’t work.
The King of Microrhythm (YouTube) [video]
Yes, ZFS has the same fundamental issue that all COW file systems have here. We have a reserved pool of space that you can't use except for operations like removing stuff.

The new problem with that reserved pool mechanism is that in 2024 it's probably way too big, because it's essentially a small but fixed percentage of the storage size. Don't let people use thresholds of total size without some kind of absolute cap!
I think a lot of how companies behave is defined by how they are constructed in law. For example, limited liability allows shareholders of companies to to be shielded from the consequences of "externalities" that their companies cause, which drastically changes their risk landscape compared to a counterfactual world where people were still legally responsible for their actions even when trying to make money
I like the phrasing used by https://houseofgraphs.org/ — while there are an infinite number of mathematical objects in any category, there are only "a few thousand that can be considered really interesting."
It it, but you could probably just say P90 and below is self made.