skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more or less what happens inside the emulator (the emulated disk is an in-memory 9P file system). It's in WebAssembly because that makes it more portable (same behaviour across platforms, architectures, and even in the browser or edge environments), and there are no external dependencies (not even Docker).

Because the emulator lets us boot an "already launched" state directly, it's also faster to boot up the emulated database than spinning up a real one (or Docker container), but this was more of a happy accident than a design goal.
> moderators still lord over everyone and control speech, the algorithm, your feed, and your freedom.

I can't understand the toxicity of mind that makes people think it's OK to impose others view their own, unwanted points of view.

If you're not welcome in a community, join one that would hear you. Why would that be against your "freedom"?
Ultimately, the reason so many hated Trump was that he said what they believed in their hearts but without using the words they liked. He wanted to “build a wall to keep immigrants out” and they wanted to “add regulation to protect locals and prevent unsustainable immigration”.

The desire for constancy is inherent in man. We can use Germanic words and be direct or Latin words and speak of fictitious lofty ideals. But that’s what we want. To hold what is ours and to take what is others.

And now that force is unpalatable we apply politics. Seeming hypocrisy resolves itself when we see that what was once a tribal conquest is now a political victory.

Marc Andreessen is the closest to this crowd for that form in its finest.
Not the first as a 'concept', there was a MUD where you could create objects with as much as properties as you wished.
Kinda gives me Bukowski vibes, like if Hank Chinaski had gone to art school.
It would be interesting to get the author opinion about the latest Eric S. Raymond invention
https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe
> But we can't say they knew they were hurting many people, because we still don't.

I’d highly recommend reading this article. It’s quite long but worth the read.

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-b...
The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"
I dual boot and have been using this for a while now (the older version). It does work, but some problems are to be expected. While impressive, it is not production-level. For me that's fine since I boot windows pretty rarely, but probably not for everyone.

I would love to see that the new version works with fewer problems.
I'm sad as DevOps Engineer I only have one upvote to give. YAGNI needs to be every team motto.

We tried caching at several companies. Outside node builds, it was never worth it. Horray, our .Net builds took 15 seconds instead of 4 Minutes. Eventually you realized no one cared since we averaged deployments every 4 days outside of outages and time being burned by it just wasn't there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain

:-D

It's a topic that has been explored quite a bit in science fiction literature.
Is this what it feels like to have a life without a purpose? Or is it a plot to a romcom movie about to be released?

Either way, interesting.
With the Master Chief Collection on PC, I’d only use this to play Metal Arms and Mercenaries.

The first Xbox had a pretty lukewarm backlog.
Replicate is good enough for me
>"The [Nix] flake input schema allows for:

o Having your flake pull in another flake as an input

o Having your flake pull in an input that is specified by another flake

o Forcing another flake to use an input specified in your flake

o Forcing another flake to use an input specified by yet a different flake"

Having your flake pull in another flake as an input -- in other words, all of the software components of a Linux (or other) Operating System and associated toolchains (c compiler (gcc, clang, tcc), libc (glibc, musl, ?), associated libraries, etc.), could be decomposed into a series of individual flakes...

As could any other large piece of software consisting of multiple component software pieces...

Related:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
This. Imagine my suprise growing up on NZ Marmite, to open a jar of British Marmite and go 'wtf is that slightly gooey stuff'.

There's 3 very distinct camps in NZ.
Love Marmite - what's wrong with you Vegemite people
Love Vegemite - what's wrong with you Marmite people
None of the above - what's wrong with the lot of you

:)
There are various online AI tools which do reasonably convincing Text to speech.

All you need is a little push and good tooling around the software to make voice actors entirely replaceable.
Guess - possibly some sort of outbound port-knock alternative:

if (SYN->dest port && TTL > X) { ACK };
Almost all speech recognizers until this latest crop (of end-to-end DL NN ASR) operated on cepstral coefficients (and their delta-s and delta-delta-s) as their feature vector.
I don't think anybody said that Fly.io is/has a managed Postgres service.
no special reason, no text to speech used either. I don’t usually think about stuff like that when writing, but I will in the future. Thanks for the feedback
1995 is when I started using SGIs in earnest (on Indigo2 and RealityEngine). I do recall a lab next to ours that had $15K indys that were absolutely useful for doing anything with graphics.
Linux would ran on that with ease. And, yes, Wine ran, but just Win32 PE binaries, not XBE ones.

OFC it was an "IBM PC". Some people could run ReactOS on it.
It was posted. It got attention. Someone may remember his name. Mission accomplished.
Is that really an option when there are another dozen people bidding on the house though? (I haven’t been through the home buying process yet)
Why is there always this kneejerk "bad!" reaction to AI? You don't think there's any conceivable way that this may actually help people? You don't think that Stanford Medicine may know a bit more about the problem space than you do?
Human error is the number 1 cause of outages, before and after the cloud zeitgeist.

How does that jive with your interpretation of cloud as a scapegoat?
I am a woman who avoids speaking to incels and other types who think I belong in a kitchen shooting out babies instead of in a lab doing work I enjoy.
It's hard to see incompetence in the guy you like and easy to see incompetence in the guy you don't like. Housing is pretty clearly all levels of government fault. Cities are trapped by nimbies, provinces aren't using their clear power to overrule the cities and stuff massive residential upzoning through, feds are clearly funding rampant house appreciation through easy CMHC money and driving excess demand through a half baked immigration policy that ups the population numbers without enough heed to the skills we actually need to alleviate our problems. I could go on but that's the big picture failure at each level.
My dad picked one of these up at a garage sale in like 1990. It seemed like a great idea but I don't think I learned anything from it, other than that transistors broke my fundamental concept of electrical circuits.
I wrote up a bit about it here, from what I could piece together:

https://lifeinthesingularity.com/p/googles-breakthroughs-in-...
It’s quite ironic that we have bigger, higher resolution screens than ever before, and yet we have eschewed visible controls and detail/texture in favour of minimalism and flat design.

I get why: design trends from mobile have moved upwards to desktops. But man, I find myself missing Leopard-era macOS design a lot lately.
Regarding whether it is "a good thing for social networks to provide such stats":

It's a central part of social media, even here on HN.

Look at the front page. Each post shows 6 pieces of information:

Title, Domain, Points, Author, Time, Comments

2 of them = 33% are numeric indicators we trust because we trust HN.

Likes and follows are probably two of the main reasons that centralized social media sites have displaced websites, rss, forums, mailing lists, newsgroups etc.
Very good selection, from a Lagavulin 16 enthusiast.
We aren't doing nearly as much as we should be, but we're certainly doing something - and at time spans like 50 years, said "something" can compound quite significantly. Even if we've ultimately had the same discussion about climate that we ended up having today, but several decades earlier, that would already be a fairly big improvement in the current state of affairs.

You also completely ignore the other, and arguably more important, part where those companies didn't just bury the research - no, they knowingly developed highly effective agitprop, often intentionally disguised as science, to blunt the public reaction when the story eventually broke for the general public. They have straight up bought politicians to peddle said agitprop, too.
How was the work planned and organized? Any specific framework?
> Using a high VMA count usually implies that the application is doing
something suboptimal. Having many VMAs can degrade performance of MM
operations and result in memory waste.

> Running into VMA limits usually implies that the application is not
optimized and should handle things differently. Likely, the memory
allocator is doing something "bad" (e.g., mmap()+munmap() instead of
MADV_DONTNEED) and should be optimized.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1a91e772-4150-4d28-9c67-cb6d047...
I wonder if this is a localization bug. Some part of the code is assuming that for full-week view Monday is the second day of the week. But another part of the code is respecting locale settings and starting the week on Monday.
The DFT has quite severe limitations that do not appear in the Fourier transform. In particular, the Nyquist criteria that there be zero signal energy for ALL frequencies above half the sampling frequency can only be approximated, and must be accomplished BEFORE sampling, i.e. in the time domain.
The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it
I think it's conceivable but if the goal was to help people it would already have been done: address the systemic roadblocks that prevent more people from studying medicine, increase the supply of doctors and clinicians so that people don't have to wait months for a routine appointment.
> Insurance isn't a redistribution mechanism

That's exactly what insurance is. The whole premise is that they will dip into other people's payments to pay you if you ever encounter a covered issue. If insurance only ever paid you back some fraction X of your own contributions, why would you ever buy it? It would make infinitely more sense to deposit whatever you would have paid to insurance in a high yield savings account.
Author here. I may have gone overboard with the sidenotes.*

[*] My wife told me the same thing :)
I wholeheartedly believe that those are anti-features. They're metrics that drive antisocial behavior and make the world a little worse.
The best desoldering tool in my experience is flux core solder wick. Make an entire flux dish hot, put the braid in the liquid flux, then let it cool. Once you pull it out the entire braid will have flux throughout and it will actually wick up properly and clear vias.
In a lot of ways, tech is just another business industry now. It's not the cool frontier it used to be.
They use his Chinese-sounding name in the title. The rumblings of war.
you can use pg_basebackup to kickstart a replication slave. You can then just just down old and use new with ~1sec downtime. If you need to upgrade postgres at same time, you can then cascade to another one slave on same "new" host for safety, and pg_upgrade on that one. This will result in a bit more downtime, but also upgrading postgres version.
Unfortunately it's quite easy for some actors to get a valid TLS cert https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/
Good, but wmctrl and xdotool do exactly that with far more features.
> recognizing some of the things that Xbox has going for it right now with Xbox GamePass and cloud gaming

Or they don't recognize them as inherently good things. Game pass has potentially cannibalized "real" game sales on the platform and primed its userbase to "just wait for it to come to gamepass"; with the gamepass honeymoon developer deals drying up, this has had dire implications for third party support going forward. Xcloud has been a mixed bag - you can find countless reports of it lagging behind PS cloud streaming and various PC cloud gaming vendors in performance (latency) and image quality (though I personally haven't seen much difference between most of them).

For a lot of us, the current generation Xbox platform has been doing everything just as bad or even worse than it was with the Xbox One - they've stopped iterating on backwards compatibility, they've pushed Gamepass above all, and they've spent unbelievable amounts of money on M&A instead of building up their own existing studios and releasing more new original exclusive games. The quality of some of their major trumpeted releases has also been incredibly suspect, despite repeated claims of high quality from their internal tastemakers before release.

The dumb social media console war stuff has unfortunately gotten in the way of some important self-review and introspection that the Xbox team should be doing. As a longtime Xbox fan, it has been tremendously disappointing to see.
Related to "A teen's fatal plunge into the London underworld" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272278
It's funny that you should note that they are doing positive things in a transitional era, only to finish off by noting that you are playing decades-old games on their hardware.

While I am a fan of GamePass, and I own two XBox One consoles, I have no desire to own a Series console or the forthcoming refresh. Everything I want to play I can play on the One or via Cloud; but more importantly: the difficulty of discovering compelling experiences in this era of XBox is too damn high.

There are too many straight-up _bad_ indie games swamping GamePass, and too many B and AAA quality games that are phoning it in.
The amount of disdain I’ve radiated at white tower academia over my life time could power a small island nation for a decade.
There is by far enough enthusiasm for AI already.

>You don't think there's any conceivable way that this may actually help people?

I don't. I believe that exactly as OP described people will notice they are talking to some AI and just give up, as they correctly understand that the AI does not have the abilities and understanding that might actually help them.
I was distracted by other things and stopped working on anything to do with notebooks. For my current project, I’m just using Github Copilot for autocomplete, along with GPT4 for asking questions about TypeScript.

But notebooks are pretty cool for writing tutorials and maybe when I want to write a tutorial, I’ll get back to it?
Most other comments so far have viewed this artist's lifestyle negatively, as he wrote that he got by via abusing various policies and tax fraud (via "[hallucinating] a DJ software skin" to claim as a business expense). But he's an interesting person for sticking to his craft for close to a decade now: he has persisted in working hard to produce artwork and submit it for exhibition.

However, to what extent is this lifestyle necessary as an artist? A common piece of advice for many artists is to consider developing a steady career independent of one's art, which lets them afford their lifestyle as an artist (such as by writing, creating artwork, or performing during the evenings and weekends). But the effectiveness of this advice must vary for the individual: it's also common for many people to drop their artwork or stop taking it seriously in favour of their paying career.

For this artist in particular, I wonder if a steady job would have been a positive or negative to his art. In this case, the income would have reduced his suffering especially as he's dealing with medical debt. It could have even granted him additional artistic freedom, as he writes about the pressures to "defect" and his acceptance of more commercial work for money. Yet at the same time, it's possible that part of the desperation is behind his drive as an artist—though it's also risky to romanticize this desperation.
Author here: wow. I will see if I can find some of that Marmite XO. Thankyou!
In Sweden you can sell your company to a specialized company that will dissolve it for you (for example this one: https://www.standardbolag.com/services/liquidation). This can be done in a matter of 1-2 weeks.

In Sweden, you can of course also choose to dissolve it yourself, but nobody does that since it takes years, and it's pretty cheap to let someone else take care of it for you.

It sounds like the same service is not available on the market in Germany?
Well, your comment literally said, "less of everything"

" more love and understanding"

Was not mentioned.

So I am not sure how your first comment could help, to make the world a better place.

"we won’t solve humanty’s pressinge problems with more of the same."

And generic statements like these maybe neither.

Because when people are hungry(many are), yes they need more food. More of the same.

But your comment implies there are also maybe too many people anyway?

So rather less food and then eventually less people? But still more of love and understanding?

Or maybe it all just ain't that simple?
Did you read the linked article or just want to comment out of ignorance?

If you read the articles, the are many differences between Galen own description and description inside the Quran. Furthemore, Galen written sources are not available during the time of Quran revealation and all the translations to Arabic was performed hundreds years after Quran was revealed mostly perhaps during Al-Ma'mun time.

As I asserted before Galen had many things wrong in his works and books, they had to be corrected by medieval Muslim scholars and modern scholars. If you copied or performed plagiarism ignorantly, naturally you will copy the exact same mistakes but this is not the case for Quran. And it also the miracle of the Quran that it was revealed to an illiterate person (not uneducated because at the time most learning done via oral tradition) so that people like you cannot say he was copying from the Greek, the Hindu, etc. And mind you Muhammad is not a loser since he was a respected and wealthy traders in Mecca, from the ruling family of Quraish. Naturally it is much easier to accuse someone of plagiarism if he can read or write, but it is much harder to do the same if someone is illiterate because you have to proof another knowledgeable human as the source or narrator to be complicit, and they have to be existed in the same time frame and meet somewhere, somehow.
My girlfriend is simultaneously outraged that there are PFAs in the water supply and has entire sets of pans that are disintegrating Teflon that she even puts in the dishwasher. When I point out the irony she shrugs.
I don’t know if you have to.

At a job not too long ago, we hired an AI/ML guy for that full time and in office.

I can't find info I like, but PayScale has 63-110K listed as the salary range for “ Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialist”. Maybe a better job title in the search makes the numbers better.

Everybody leaves Canada for a reason. You go to school, you get a PhD, and you make what you could have managing a McDonalds.
It's his name. Which other name should they have used?
Honesty is not what the author is going for here. This is genre autofiction following a throughline of slumming, marginal artists that carries back through punk, beat, flapper, and la boheme writers.

It's entertainment, not true confession or activism, and it delights in getting under the skin of squares who can't tell.

No need to push back on the people reactively criticizing the character or writer -- that's the point.
Yes, that's correct. Other people did the real, heavy lifting to get things done, but my idea caught their attention.
You say so on a website that displays the number of likes (here: "points") for every post right on the front page.
Because the vast majority of commercial deployments of "AI" (llms) are extremely unhelpful chat bots that just waste customers time to try and avoid having to have a human talk to them.
It depends on the risk/reward ratio.

It would certainly make megacorps non-viable, but I don't see why that is undesirable. If the average company size is scaled down to the level where such liability is actually manageable, it would also largely solve the problem with monopolies, so it's a win-win.
That seems like a really wide range of sleep time. 4.3-10.8 hours. I can't image either of those extremes being good for you?

The only times I ever sleep that little, or that much, is after a lot of heavy drinking.
Ever ask yourself "is that a good price?"
I'm always on the lookout for deals and sales, but I never remember if the deal is actually good or not. To help me, I made Is That a Good Price (ITAGP) to keep track of the unit price of products I buy regularly so that I can accurately compare.

I'd love to hear what you think of it!
Me too, because Matt Levine's take is usually that insider trading requires a duty to shareholders[1], not just non-public information. From that pov it sounds like this wouldn't be insider trading.

Correct me if I misunderstood his normal position.

[1] he also usually adds the explanation that insider trading is about theft, not fairness. Meaning that if you obtained information which is not public by means of your own research, that would not be insider trading, because you have no duty to the shareholders.
Facebook presumably uses xz in production too and that is a hobby project (as we all recently found out). My understanding is that development of Btrfs was not sponsored by any company and was entirely a "community effort". It certainly would explain why it's perpetually unfinished.
There are two kind of issue:

- the first is that the office paradigm suck, no matter the specific implementation. We need to teach people about good desktop computer usage paradigms, like "hey, learn LaTeX, maybe ConTeXt not a WYSIWYG tool", "hey learn R, or Python not a spreadsheet", and that's sound nearly impossible even if (I've tried) it's not on NEW/computer virgin users;

- the second is "the rest of the world", a Public Administration must deal with Citizens, let's say in EU we have started to roll out ID card as smart-card usable also for on-line authentication BUT most users do not have a reader, so many have invented crappy solution to use a smartphone NFC support to read them while authenticate on a desktop. The result is a good idea, having a smart card to identify users, a thing we should have spread since at least 20+ years in the past, turned into a mess. Similarly we have "certified mails" where a third party certify message delivery like a postal mail delivery, but again they are implemented in messy ways and nothing is really uniform across EU states.

These are the biggest obstacles not the software per se.
H2O-Danube2-1.8B-Chat
Tech had people kinda like this in the 90s. Some of them hackers. Couch surfing, partying, lan parties, skating/hiking/whatever.
We Have Four Dogs
With this many animals in your life, it forces you to economize.You can’t give each pooch a bespoke doggy experience. There’s enough chaos as it is, you have to implement systems.

One of the systems we rely on is batching.
Sounds like "in the zone"
You sound burnt out? Why not take a brief sabbatical and see if you still feel the same after? Since you felt passionate about what you were doing earlier but that took a hit because of that employee, and that still remains an unfinished business, that passion may come back to you.
Because they're just another layer of self serving computer bullshit.