skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure they're not talking about code size? Not sure what limiting instantiations would have to do with heap size...

(I also find it surprising that avoiding floats helps anything; maybe just in avoiding more instantiations? Because if the std floating point functions don't fully inline, you've got bigger problems than wasm blob size...)
I actually seem to use most of the tools listed in the article. Not oh-my-zsh though. I use prezto.

For me, the most bang for buck is using zsh history search with fzf. It's like a second brain. I have command line history going back years and can pull anything up by typing few snippets of text..
To summarise the opinions expressed in this thread, all with equal conviction:

a) It's a fencepost error (corner nuts are counted twice)

b) The nuts are unevenly spaced

c) The line segment counts are 2, 3 and 4

d) The artist is an artist so obviously wrong

An other commenter said something about "the smartest people on the planet". I hear this stuff about HN very often and, oh boy. Just look at this thread. Smartest people? Come on. We're just good with computers and then only with the stuff that has to do with computers that we've seen a hundred times before (e.g. off by one error). We see a novel representation and lose our shit.

Sometimes I find myself defending human intelligence against the wildest claims of some of the faithful of AGI on this site but in cases like this I have to wonder: are humans really that smart?
The parsimonious reason is that people write songs about comfort and large, happy families, not about AGIs and statistical households of 3.3 to 3.7 people with 1 to 1.44 breadwinners. Songs (and media) reflect cultural values, not cultural realities; see also rosy movies about the "good old days" of 1960s USA being not particularly representative of the period's racial and economic strife.
Older people have more money because they 1) Lived longer to accumulate wealth. 2) Housing was cheaper relative their income 30 years ago.

It's also worth noting that 50% of homeless people are over 50 [1]

[1] https://www.governing.com/urban/the-nations-homeless-populat...
You do not know what rent seeking means. Please stop using it in discussions about economics.
You know, this is great and all but I wonder if this guy is going to write in about 7 years to “just accept the defaults cause you are always going to ssh into a machine with bash and no color, setting up a pretty local machine is like adding flair to your server apron”

https://www.cinemablend.com/new/TGI-Fridays-Got-Rid-Flair-Be...
Assuming 1 train every 3 minutes for 16 hours a day, that’s 52 people per train. Which isn’t that much.
My approach is to use words that indicate what I want like 'concise', 'brief', etc. If you know a word that precisely describes your desired type of content then use that. It's similar to art generation models, a single word brings so much contextual baggage with it. Finding the right words helps a lot. You can even ask the LLMs for assistance in finding the words to capture your intent.

As an example of contextual baggage, I wrote a tool where I had to adjust the prompt between Claude and GPT-4 because using the word "website" in the prompt caused GPT-4 (API) to go into its 'I do not have access to the internet' tirade about 30% of the time. The tool was a summary of web pages experiment. By removing 'website' and replacing it with 'content' (e.g. 'summarize the following content') GPT-4 happily complied 100% of the time.
Absolute FUD nonsense. Actual greybeards know that the Linux kernel doesn't care if your binary is in /bin or /sbin, as long as you set up PATH accordingly. It's literally all you need to do.

I do not see what you are complaining about where no one is stopping you from installing binaries anywhere and on any mount you want.

When did greybeards expect to run user-friendly desktop distros on embedded devices, afraid of touching PATH? You are free to use anything else, or go LFS for ultimate customization, which is actually what I expect serious embedded devs to do.
That is pretty much my approach to improving my workflow also. My setup looks like I spend all my time configuring and tweaking things, but really at this point I spend somewhere on the order of a couple hours a year onboarding new tools. I have asymptotically approached an ideal configuration for myself, and as I get closer and closer, I spend less and less time configuring.
It's quite scary that a lot of people don't take the risks of climate change seriously and instead wring their hands about the disruption that the phasing out of oil will cause. That's nothing compared to the disruption, famine, deaths and wars that will result from climate changes - just imagine a world where North America is in severe drought and most of Europe becomes unable to grow food or to live in without air conditioning.
Why would you need to?

Obviously generalizing over pictures of humans and pictures of porn will enable CSAM generation ...

Plus a LOT of things have been declared illegal pornographic material in various places: all porn (China), drawn CSAM, any kind of drawn porn with unclear ages, ...
Privacy-preserving robotic cameras obscure images beyond human recognition
I've been dealing with the government salary situation for 15 years. Low GS pay is why we have to take bottom of the barrel for organization employees.

Contracts are gigantic and allow people to make great salary at a very low bar (because the bar is set by the low skill GS workers). What if I told you developers writing stuff like jquery, excel, ms access are making between 200-300$/yr. and I wont even get into what experienced people make. Basically the "official" system the one people see in public is extremely broke. What is crazy is I will see people say how high those GS salaries are, and then just chuckle if they ever really knew.

What is the alternative though? These orgs can't fall back to their GS paid workers, because they don't have the skills..so they are stuck. GS really does have to get a massive bump, and I fear anyone who thinks otherwise just lacks the experience in the matter, and I wouldn't expect them too because there's so many details that are unseen.
hehe. I added an alternative JSON inner format spec to the readme. I need to add JSON and CSV support to the zsvutil itself next. I may actually change the spec to default to JSON. All because of you. haha.
I'm a fan of:
```
alias editrc="vi ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc"
```
Which waits until you exit to reload, saving you a command.
The word "mindfully" at the end carries too much meaning that can't be unpacked without reading a bunch of books. This story looks identical to many stories told in the dzogchen branch of buddhism. The basic idea is that normal life is full of earthly activities: chopping woods and carrying water. An average mind gets distracted by those activities and is dragged passively from one distraction to another. An enlightened mind watches these earthly activities with full attention, like you would watch colorful butterflies, but is not carried away from deep realisation that these butterflies come and go as simple decorations of the neutral state of mind, which is often called "emptiness". When these two qualities meet - emptiness and clarity of perception - the mind enters the natural state and if you can stay in that state while chopping woods and carrying water, you're enlightened. If chopping woods carries you away from that natural state, you're said to be "distracted".
Here's the stats for California (population 39 million):

California has the highest number of college students in the United States, with 2.58 million enrolled in 2023.
CPI doesn't measure things like healthcare properly (17% of GDP) as those prices are not paid by consumers. the insurers get their cut straight out of your paycheck.

College either. Tuition is priced as is, but what about people who pay many multiples of the original tuition in interest expenses over the years? not counted in CPI. Tuition inflation for a person with the means to pay out of pocket is much lower than someone who finances their education.
I don't know if it's gotten better in the meantime but if you edit text in the terminal, Kitty and Alacritty are much quicker emulators than iTerm.
Resource demands of an implementationist approach to cognition
I just paid to get my lawn cleared for a new patio. A guy single handedly shovelled 8 tonnes of clay soil into a skip over two days.

He charged much less than I earned in the same two days configuring AWS lambda functions. It's hard to imagine I had the more exhausting job.
https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/

:)
Adopting some of these, thank you!
Because people dont accurately represent their situations? This seems so silly. West Virginia has a huge culture of music singing about how its a state of coal miners, when in reality, there are less than 15k working in the coal mines, with a population of 1.75 million.

That does not indicate that there are secretly a lot more coal miners, it just indicates that people are clinging to and showing off an identity that they like and want to be represented by.
Ditching oh-my-zsh in favor of powerlevel10k resulted in one of the biggest terminal speedups for me.
Several databases index everything, needed or not. (And sometimes have mechanisms to force it off for some specific data)
Yeah, seems like email was already destroyed as anything useful before LLMs kicked in.
I have a close friend who was making about 1M in TC and hated every moment of it.
Tbh on macOS you should probably use xpc / Mach and that will probably let you do more than a generic ipc library. Of course caveat emptor it’s not portable
IIRC Houston does not have zoning in direct sense of the word, but has a set of regulations and restrictions (e.g. on height, setbacks, parking minimums, lot sizes, etc.) that still drastically limits options for buildings.
"[RSS is] an easy way for readers to quickly discover released and updated articles." This is true. And there's nothing in that statement about how frequently a site updates.

Telling sites to reduce the number of entries in a feed and telling users to decrease the refresh frequency is a bad idea for sites that update frequently. Very few self-hosted rss readers allow for per feed refresh rates (freshrss is the only one I've found that does I think) so to capture everything on sites that update frequently but have tiny feed sizes I have to run separate cronjobs. That's after asking them to increase the feed size.
1 billion rows is "small dataset"?
Serialization is the trivial part; the hard part is building a lockfree mpmc queue or message bus (depending on what you want) on top of fixed-size pre-allocated memory segments.

I can't tell what this library does; the blog articles and readme all talk about stuff that isn't close to any of the challenges that I see.
I do. At least if you want to live in the popular areas, New Yorkers who make 73k can choose to live in a 1 bd in a cheaper area if they prefer.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011438

The source paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1075
Why would you pick a path ripe with annoyances when you can adopt a more pleasant workflow where those annoyances are already fixed?
This is an interesting take and it got me thinking. The replacement rate in the US is not 4. In fact, I would imagine that 4 is probably unsustainable. I like to see money more as a chemical gradient a la chemotaxis, though more clever people than I call it a carrot. With inflation the carrot is being removed, perhaps even being used as a stick. A superfluity of resources without controls of some sort may well lead to runaway growth, and I presume with the relative expenses of everything that there is an unsustainable imbalance at the fundamental level excess demand for intrinsically limited supply.

Of course the inflation model is applicable outside of the purely monetary. The more people you have the larger the labor army, and with each number added to that the less valuable the individual becomes even in terms of highly specialized labor, because ostensibly this can essentially be predicted with a distribution and with the way people are commoditized in most positions and companies these day, excellence is neither expected, sought for, nor wanted. This is still within the realms of the economists wheelhouse.

I would argue there's a third inflation, social inflation, as well. And this essentially hinges on the same principal that the labor army does: more people, less individual value (“a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic”). And I would posit that the decrements have been seriously exacerbated in this realm by social media, television, celebrity, and so forth. I would also point out that the civil rights movement and women's lib has also (rightly) had a profound effect on social orientation that has yet to fully manifest itself.

If I recall correctly many developed nations have declining "native" populations. I'm unsure of the causal factors, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was in some ways an instinctual aversion to these sorts scaling laws. If I'm not mistaken Dunbar's number is roughly adhered to in nature, so it makes sense that there is somewhat of a drive to limit pack/civilizations size.
I don't think it has, if only because OpenAI aren't transparent about where they get their image training data from, but the most widely used public image generation dataset was found to contain CSAM: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24009418/generative-ai-i...
Does this also come to the atomic versions, Kinoite and Silverblue?
Not at this scale. There was never a time in history when it was so easy to produce SO MANY songs.

Before, you actually had to pay people to compose songs and those people had to sit down at a piano and write the songs, then other people had to perform the songs.

Now, I can buy a certain number (?) of the latest NVIDIA GPUs, build a cluster, and then churn out songs literally 24/7. Endlessly, song after song after song, each minute a new song. Just press the button, and a new song it created -- _no other humans involved_.

Yes, slop, kitsch and mass produced music were always produced. Never at this scale.
No. I like cats and having them around is a joy.

If you want to minimize health risks avoid driving, bad food and drugs including alcohol and nicotine. Those will get you, not the absolutely minuscule risk of living with a pet.
All of them and also seed oils.

(I hope noone is taking this seriously..)
I agree with all of that. But unless I'm misunderstanding, your previous comment was saying that more dead people leads more profits for companies, and I don't agree with that.

> Being fired and being unable to find employment elsewhere often has serious financial, physical and mental consequences for people. Often times it can completely ruin a persons life.

Yeah, and that's because we've tied a person's survival needs to their ability to find "work". And in many cases "work" is not really a productive activity; it's just a facade we've all bought into. It's a useful facade though, because if we were all perfectly efficient and only rewarded true productive work then we'd be in deeper trouble.

So our challenge, it seems, is to somehow keep finding new "work" when technology makes it harder and harder for us to trick ourselves into believing we're working. "Prompt engineer" comes to mind.
As a config addict, I fully recognize that thr time I spend looking for new tools and tweaking my configs isn't exactly "productive". But its a hobby that synergizes very nicely with my career and generally has the side effect of increasing my enjoyment at work (and thus, the amount of time I want to dedicate to it). There's obviously a balance yo be struck here but I think that config as a hobby can be very rewarding.
June Charts
If one believes that democracy largely won out last century because of the importance of mass conscription for warfare, I hope they give the machines the vote!
Doesn't basic PageRank for search engines solve the problem of search results filling up with AI junk?

As in, a page should only rank well if the page is linked to from websites that have good reputations.

So it's unlikely reputable news websites are going to link to and boost the search rank of sites full of fake articles and fake images, and any news website that did would quickly start to lose reputation/trust and their own ranking.

Before AI, the web was already full of unlimited junk, spun articles, clickbait and spam, with backlink farms trying to promote it. What's different here?
The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
The OpenBSD IPSEC stack thing was very silly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029640
This is how I did my emacs config. Start with basically vanilla, and about once a month I'd pick the one thing that annoyed me the most over the last month and fix it.

Solved a problem where I'd go on binges of installing and configuring 18 packages, and then not take the time to learn any one of them very well. Generating a lot of time spent reading docs and looking up keybinds when trying to work.
> If that were true, then many units would be empty.

This is literally true. In SF as of 2023, there's roughly 60,000 vacant units. In New York as of 2021, apartments listed as available and unavailable for rent but also vacant was around 89,000.

To contrast, there was around 7,700 unhoused people in SF in 2023.
>not listed in the news at all,

A lot of people miss that the news is generally a very poor representation of what's occurring around you, especially in larger cities. A middle class person getting shot/killed can hold the news cycle for a week. Meanwhile a dozen poor people could get killed without a mention in a paper.

Bias in reporting (this is on air time for particular kinds of incidents) dramatically shapes the publics view on the world around them and distorts the actual reality of what happens every day.
Recreational use of erectile dysfunction drugs is rising
What "luxury" hospitals? I've never seen the word "luxury" used to describe the teaching hospitals which train most residents. Most of them have high proportions of Medicare/Medicaid patients where rates are set by the government and hospitals have zero ability to charge more. I don't think you understand the reality of healthcare economics; this isn't a free market where sellers can change prices and supply to meet customer demand.
https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%...
That's really just a feature of the default system prompt, although ubiquitous. You can character-prompt local LLMs as you like, but no one seems to do that.
What do you think Iran shouldve done?
I feel 23andMe's feet deserved to be held to the fire over a credential stuffing attack, not just because of the sensitivity of the data, but because of how they allowed accounts using insecure authentication methods to access data from other accounts.

Roku though? The data stored in a Roku account is not totally insensitive, but it's not seriously sensitive. A lax security posture is justifiable. I would personally not care a bit if somebody infiltrated my Roku account and I don't believe most people would. The accounts mostly exist for Roku's purposes more than their customers.

My only concern might be people using my account to authorise charges I did not approve to rent movies, but I don't see why anybody would actually want to do that, since it's a lot more cumbersome than piracy.
I think you're expressing an opinion that is pretty mainstream among runtime hardening and exploit people. You can find reasonable opinions in both directions, though. Joshua Stein built a page that is a pretty incredible resource on this topic:

https://isopenbsdsecu.re/
I totally missed the fact that he missed tmux, it is such low hanging fruit…

I don’t think it is possible to save an hour per day by tweaking your terminal. But having yesterday’s tmux sessions still around is a nice perk in the morning. No need to stumble around my filesystem while my brain is still absorbing the caffine.
Looked at your product. If your marketing copy reflects reality, your product is Sci-Fi.

"The next phase of research is measuring the effect of stimulation on removal of beta-amyloids, related to Alzheimer’s prevention, concussion & TBI, and more. We’re actively speaking to researchers interested in examining the impact on insulin response for improved outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes, as well as athletic recovery and this is just the beginning."

But if you believed that this would actually have a significant effect, I feel like that'd be way up top, not an aside in a blog post. Which means you're a "Hard Fact" ("sleep is sleep") that isn't marketable, and you're reaching beyond your grasp to try to become "Future Vision."
In the US Federal Government we also have to deal with the fiscal new year which starts in October for some bizarre reason (yearly budgets go from October 1st to September 30).
Adding to this, the Internet is extremely noisy and polluted with all manner of crap, this has been the status quo for over a decade.

The notion that you could just grab data off the internet completely unvetted, and then train a useful model off that data seems very unrealistic. To get anything useful out of real world crawl data, you need a lot of filtering and processing to select the good bits. This is true if you're training an AI or building a search engine.
> Install iTerm2. This terminal application allows much more customization than the default Terminal application that comes with Mac’s.

Install WezTerm. This terminal application allows much much more customization as it uses a lua configuration language (and is also x-platform, so you can justify investing even more time into improving your productivity as that will pay off on every platform!)
Indeed, it's almost a cliche.

I believe it satisfies some sort of primeval urge magnified by sitting in front of a screen for decades.
Not sure if you’re discrediting the parent comment or pointing out the reality of it.

But yes this is something only someone with a high income would say. And yes, it’s true.

Beyond a certain income, the wrong job can be soul sucking and depressing. And it takes achieving that level of income to fully appreciate that reality.
Use CSS to boost the font size of emoji with no extra markup
My understanding is that it isn’t enough to know how to build a nuclear weapon, or even to have the materials. Uranium and plutonium will kill you very quickly in a machine shop setting if you don’t also have the right protective equipment and a whole lot of practical experience.

Don’t underestimate how hard it would be to assemble an actual working bomb.
I was given prophylactic antibiotics for prostate surgery. It might depend on the surgeon.
It is a breach and credential stuffing attacks can be strongly mitigated with well known security measures. Such as using banned password lists, or measures to detect and block malicious attempts to access accounts by guessing passwords.
ChatGPT doesn't take character prompts very well, that's why people don't know. Claude on the other hand is a champ with characters.
I think GP was saying that it’s /usr/bin rather than /bin for mounting as readonly. Not that merging any particular sbin with bin serves the purpose of readonly mounting.

Disclaimer: I’m mostly just a Mac user/interested spectator. It’s possible I’m misunderstanding GP, and it’s not clear to me why the /usr distinction matters for readonly mounting either. But I couldn’t help jumping in to see if I could help clarify something, because there are just an astonishing number of ambiguities and confusions about those ambiguities throughout the comments on this post!
And there are plenty of successful writers too. The internet has just enabled unsuccessful ones to complain about it at scale.