skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if I told you that one can write code again from scratch instead of fixing broken one?

Writing replaceable code instead of maintainable code seems to be already working for a lot of projects. With LLMs and all that fast computing we have it seems it will be more of replaceable code in the future.

Of course there are always projects where it will never work.

It already works for infrastructure as nowadays servers are not fixed and treated like important things but you spin up fresh one.
Syncthing experience is greatly improved if you also host your own discovery server, and if you can port forward.

Pretty minor to do, but, it's a big speed increase.
Tying robotaxis and mass transit seems like a winning combination. Mass transit can get one within a kilometer and a robotaxi can do the rest.
Wow that is pretty incredible! Thanks for the correction.
FreeTaxUSA is good except it does not accept any situation where another country might be involved. If you have foreign income, a foreign address, or anything like that, their software will not support it.

Still, a great option for most people but it's worth noting. As a dual citizen, I had to worship at the altar of TurboTax again this year. For anything in between a simple W-2 or hiring a CPA, they are unfortunately the best option, no way around it.
Article title & h1: The Making of Side 7 | GUNDAM EVOLUTION Private Server Project (it looks like op is Matthew Stanley)
I've always wondered that too. In very quiet rooms I hear quite intense ringing. I have distinct memories as a young child of wanting a fan turned on in my bedroom at night because of the sound of silence was ringing. It seems like what people describe as tinnitus, but... I don't seem to have any of the hearing loss that is always described as causing tinnitus. I can quite clearly high pitched noises such as CRT monitors and ultrasonic mosquito repellent. I don't have a history of working with loud equipment or going to concerts, and in any case that doesn't explain why I would hear it in childhood. It all doesn't quite correspond with with a lot of the causes and symptoms I hear described.
What's not mentioned is that just about anyone can be an embezzler given the opportunity. I remember reading that most embezzlers start small. They have the trust of a company or person and know that they can take a few bucks without anyone knowing. It starts small at first and grows to levels where they get caught.

I knew a guy who was a cashier. The company he worked for decided to save a few bucks and got rid of the person who cashed him out each night and verified his transactions. He decided that he could steal a few bucks since no one would know. He started small and increased a bit. It was never a lot but he did it regularly. He continued and eventually, he got caught. What's interesting is that it wouldn't have happened had he not had the easy opportunity of take the cash.
New York actually had Air Taxis (passenger van helicopters) that shuttled people around the city until 1979 when a horrible crash ended the company forever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Airways
What a masterpiece what a great job!!!!
The book very explicitly gives credit to the essay, so much so that Mattern frames the argument in relation to the earlier essay.
FWIW in the current time we definitely encounter "wrong physics" in places where science and politics intersect.

We find them where they intersect with actual reality, because it's all just nonsense. Electrons and photons are not real. You won't ever get your quantum computer (at least not in that way), because the physics isn't real.
This is useful, I often have this problem too
I'll throw this out. If you did this in one night, ngrok $5 plan is probably too high. I don't know what they offer though.
I think they're being factitious?
When you do get a live person, you can say that you do not consent to be recorded. When I’ve done this the person on the other end claims to stop recording.
I dream of having a BTFS that will fix my "damaged" media files. E.g. ones I media shift, if my disk was scratched and portions are missing, or if the codec options I picked suck, it could download the "damaged" portions of my media and fix it seamlessly.
With great difficulty considering I’m outside the US long term and it turns out a lot of financial institutions’ security measures include “block all IPs from Asia”

But ultimately I used TaxSlayer, web based. I’m sure they leaked my data but all of this feels like public data to me anyway
The online graph algorithm in the post reminded me of Frank McSherry's Differential Dataflow.
Does Skylon have a place in the world of Starship?
But if I understand correctly, GPT-4 reduces that to a 1536-dimensional vector. Roughly 1/8th. It's counterintuitive to me.
> Which was a real time saver because it crashed every 2-3 hours.

That's exactly how I started my career as an engineer. As a 10-year-old boy, I had to learn how to fix it if I want to play games.

And it is the first time I know that what "Any Key" is.
The conclusion here is that American military might is definitely, definitely, definitely not on the wane, or engaged in asymmetric warfare the narrative class tricked us into believing to be backwards religious zealots with no hope of ever playing on the global stage, and that this new multipolar world is fake Russian news.
https://archive.ph/jFv4R
I'm not particularly interested in this topic, but man I love Ezra Klein. I've spent so many hours listening to his podcast about all sorts of topics, and while I don't always agree with him on every political issue, he is really very very good at what he does.
Deep pockets in the sense of "can print indefinitely or until the inflation leaks into Bitcoin", and shallow pockets in the sense of actual artillery shells and interceptors.
I think most places don't collect enough telemetry in the right formats.

It's also possible they collect too much in the wrong formats.

But the ability to vet a hypothesis (I bet our users are confused about feature X, which we can test by looking at how many times they go to page X, then Y, then X again in 30 second window) in an hour versus 2 sprints is vastly underappreciated/underutilized.

I feel like this article paints with too broad a brush.
this is all great, actionable feedback. Thanks for this - really nice list
I mean in all honesty running docker swarm instead of k3s or k8s seems ... i dunno, lol, i've slowly moved away from using docker even on my single hosts i run podman now instead, i like using systemd for containers :S
I was going to use TurboTax, but bailed when they tried to make me pay them >$100. FreeTaxUSA happily let me file for free.

Next year I hope to use the IRS Direct File software if it's rolled out to all states.
If something that looked as weird as this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIvJrciWwAAKWXY?format=jpg&name=...

Came flying through my roof and two floors of my house, I would immediately think it came from space.
another use of this is to share media after I've imported it into my library. if I voluntarily scan hashes of all my media, if a smart torrent client could offer those files only (so a partial torrent because I always remove the superfluous files) it would help seed a lot of rare media files.
> An abacus is not counting. A mechanical computer isn't adding. An electronic computer isn't really computing, because there is no objective phenomenon known as computation, except as a mental operation. We call something a computer for only one reason: it can be interpreted in a computational manner.

Nothing in this statement distinguishes computation from any other category of thought. The same case can and has been made for trees. These are empty words.
Largest discussion: [0](219 points, 17 hours ago, 280 comments), also: [1](51 points, 15 hours ago, 29 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038549
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40039567
What else would ejection mean? By definition it's an active source of thrust that is powerful enough to push the pilot clear of the cockpit before they rag doll against the rest of the airplane. Regardless of geometry it has to be powerful enough to overcome the thrust of the airplane and air resistance all within a split second. You can try some sort of mechanical jack in the box mechanism but it's going to have a terrible thrust/mass ratio if it works at all.

The vast majority of planes focus on #2, the gliding mechanism, which gives pilots the time to bail out out from a side door and allows for much more forgiving aerodynamics (thrust is up, pilot falls down).

For a consumer flying car you're really going to want zero-zero ejection seats that can survive engine failure during takeoff. That's the most dangerous phase of flight and the seat has to be extra powerful (to get the user high enough for the parachute to work).
> Spying Expansion Could Hand 'Stasi-Like Powers' to Trump, Privacy Advocates Warn

What a rediculous hypothetical. Whatever power this gives the federal government it gives the federal givernment in PERPITUITY. Its not trump or biden, its all of them.

This is the kind of BS the federal government pulls. They pretend like its red vs blue so you can pick a side and play the game.
Congress gets "reestablished" every two years. The English government gets "reestablished" every year when the Prime Minister asks to form a government in the Monarch's name.

So it could just mean when the current term is up and the new appointees are sworn in.
> Why add a pile of opaque superfluous - and presumably challengeable and likely biased - AI nonsense

There are a lot of signs that people put effort into hiding, so an aggressive statistical matcher is better on that front than manual tests.

> literally every study has verified that "AI" always exacerbates bias

If only it was that straightforward, or you could use an extra concentrated AI to subtract bias.
Seems a lot of effort to go to to maintain celebacy.
Well I'm not that young. I guess it just helps me to write fast when I'm not thinking about punctuation/grammar. I'll make more effort to capitalize.
This was published in 2019, so the technology may have changed.
None of those things happened.

Instead Apple transitioned everyone's phone to a new and better filesystem, without a hitch.

If it had been bad, it would be. But it wasn't, so it's not.
switch to Fastmail or literally anything else :)
Related:

Etak Navigator Tour and Demo [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202425 - July 2022 (1 comment)

Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744825 - Feb 2017 (83 comments)
Unpublished, they yanked everything off.
Apparently Computer History Museum has one, catalog number 102766595, "Gift of Stan Honey". Stan Honey founded Etak.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10276659...
Do these databases see through number portability, or are they just verifying that the area code + prefix is assigned to a traditional telco?

Because you can port a landline to Google Voice for $20, and, in my experience, random Internet "phone number lookup" sites still show it as a landline years later.
Related:

BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576063 - June 2020 (121 comments)

BitTorrent file system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10826154 - Jan 2016 (33 comments)
Cool to see Low making the front page of HN. I'd never heard of them until Rick Beato did a "best band you've never heard of" video tribute around the time Mimi Parker died. Was just blown away by their music and wondered why I never heard of them before. I generally don't buy albums anymore, but I bought several of theirs.
What is the style of UI used in that device and why did it have that characteristic angular look? I’ve seen it on other devices of the same vintage.
Very cool, but missing a bunch of info on Mesoamerican empires and such.
It's very difficult to admit that you're ugly. There's that quote about how the revolutionary is someone who, finding something wrong with themselves, sets out the change the world.
Data is more like uranium than oil.[1] Valuable for its limited purpose, but dangerous to just collect and hold on to forever.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/10/03/th...
> unsuspecting Florida man

is there any other kind?
One-party consent as a law never made sense to me. Our whole system of governance relies on consent of all parties involved, or at least a majority of. Even the definition itself of consent requires this - in other words 1 party consent = 1 party non-consenting..
I think based on rarity of the event it might be 1k if I could buy it off with documentation.

Probably more from other people that are way more loaded than myself.
AI models have intuition the same way CapsNet is state of the art: claimed by Hinton, reproduced by no one
I have really enjoyed seeing the Low record example in Django REST Framework documentation: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/relations/#s...
I mean the write up indicates you'd need access to the server side, or the pageant with the private key loaded, which both seem to be like... umm... at that point don't we have bigger issues?
The narrative is pushed in part by Boeing PR and lobbying, who would prefer the world buy the upgraded F-15EX instead. BAE/Daussalt/Saab also stand to benefit.
Can't recommend this enough. The website contains almost all the course's materials, including exams and even answers. The only things that are missing are TA office hours and the credit which they obviously can't offer for free.

If you go through all the lectures and the labs, other materials posted here (including Martin Kleppmann's book) will feel easy and straightforward. Of course this does not prepare you for building a production-ready system, but you can go very far with what you learn from the course.
The term "Geometers" makes me think of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, which is just as will, since the article is about advanced orbits.
I knew about him from his work on CRDTs, had no idea he was the same person who wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Impressive dude.
I mean it also sounds like you'd need to be using a exploited server, or give the hacker access to your pageant...
I'd argue the terrorist engineers enjoy their jobs more than the average FAANG SWE.

Upvoted.
I've thought about using this for my media server in the past, but in the end I ran into to many issues trying to automate it. Then there's all the normal issues, slow downloads can wreck havoc on some programs expecting the whole thing to be there and I couldn't move files around without breaking connections. It was interesting to mess with, but in the end I just decided it would be a fun challenge to write my own in zig so I could have something "easy" to hack on in the future.
Is there much use for a partially resident LLM though?

Then I don't see much of an advantage over just vanilla bittorrent - if you realistically need a full local copy to even start working anyway.
This happens to be one of the pipe dream roadmap milestones for bitmagnet: https://bitmagnet.io/#pipe-dream-features

I used to use magnetico and wanted to make something that would use crawled info hashes to fetch the metadata and retrieve the file listing, then search a folder for any matching files. You'd probably want to pre-hash everything in the folder and cache the hashes.

I hope bitmagnet gets that ability, it would be super cool
Same author wrote a really incredible article about, in part, ice core libraries: https://placesjournal.org/article/the-big-data-of-ice-rocks-...
For those interested in the history of such history maps, I can highly recommend the book of Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton: "Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline", Princeton Architectural Press 2012. Unfortunately it seems to be out of print, but you might be able to get hold of a second-hand copy. . -- A German translation under the title: "Die Zeit in Karten: Eine Bilderreise durch die Geschichte" is still available.
Net zero would make sense if there were some sort of legal backing to it.

I’ll happily pay $100 for a ton of carbon if it comes with a video of it being captured from the atmosphere (or reasonable chain of custody documentation) and it’s delivered to me in the form of biologically inert bricks.

In fact, we have some trees we haven’t cut down this year in the back yard. I’d happily sell you some bullshit carbon capture credits in exchange for not cutting them down next year if I could then convert that money into atmospheric carbon capture bricks. (It’d be more tax efficient for you to buy the brick directly though…)
It's true. There's photo and video evidence plus confirmation from multiple separate sources (different countries).

You don't fire 300+ missiles and drones just as a "show of force". It's expensive. Their stated goal was to overwhelm the missile defense system and it clearly failed.

> The cost of the attack seemed to be 1/10th the cost of the defense so that does appear to be a net win for the attackers.

Not really. First, Iran is far worse off. Second, it showed that their missiles are crap. Many of them failed on launch and some crashed in Iraq (they intended to fire more).

But this was also a unique situation where Israel held back. In a typical case a firing would receive an immediate deadly response. E.g. planes and missiles from Israel returning the favor. Thus the cost for Iran would have been much higher.

Lastly, you should calculate the cost if the missiles would have hit the target.

> I worry that the west will become over confident with our missile defence and use it as an excuse to push conflict as close to nuclear exchange as possible. To paraphrase Bertrand Russell; 'like teenagers playing a game of nuclear chicken'

I partially agree with that notion. Still, as an Israeli I'd rather have that defense system over ideology. I can tell you that if a missile had hit anything important the outrage would have been terrible and the retaliation would have been immediate. In that sense at least, it gives the space to take a breath and deliberate.
I did a bit of a deep dive into this, in case anyone is interested. I think reading the code is a great way to understand _why_ this vulnerability happened:

https://ericrafaloff.com/your-putty-generated-nist-p-521-key...
CNAM is the database you're looking for, maybe LIDB too. Once you port the number the CNAM should change.
Predictable Elon Musk dunking, but I'd like to see other people's ideas. Generative AI is an existential threat to social media. At least he's thinking about what to do about it.
SillyPutty
> I think you will be loaded for the bear

I'm misunderstanding this, please explain!
> one golang binary which embeds everything supabase offers

I understand the sentiment here, but truthfully we chose an architecture that scales, then made it as easy as possible to run. Each service has very different scaling requirements: connection poolers, auto-generated APIs, Auth servers, etc. Putting them in a single binary would trade one problem for another (IMO, bigger) problem

> Also I think that I even had to edit some configs for api keys or something like that. It should not be like that, everything should be passed down via envs.

I think you're referring to the "Securing your services"[0] section right? These are all stored as env vars - perhaps that's not clear from the docs?

[0] https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting/docker#securin...
This is generally true. These VPN services are security theater as tracking has moved beyond IP address. They are likely masking other more nefarious use cases; and in many cases, deliberately and willfully aiding and abetting therein (for example forwarding BitTorrent traffic to other "Non-Copyright/DMCA Participant" countries, forwarding users through faux residential IPs for 'streaming', etc.).
The browser cache doesn't help on the first visit when the cache is empty, and the cache will also have to be invalidated whenever the component's CSS changes. And if the CSS file isn't cached then you also have to contend with the flash of unstyled content problem while the browser loads the CSS file. The Lit docs do a good job of explaining this: https://lit.dev/docs/components/styles/#external-stylesheet
here's the 7B:

https://huggingface.co/amazingvince/Not-WizardLM-2-7B
TurboTax online.
People have been hit by meteorites (which of course are more plentiful currently):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-person-ever-h...
Unreal's highlevel of packaing and managing assets for years meant modding was locked off. Unity games often shipped on PC with loose files and hacking C# broke after each update but at least was an option.

Over time the modding community has leverage this high level by building unreal native tools. The net result has been the same sort of cross tool use we saw with Gamebryo. Back with Gamebryo the Civilization modding shared tools with sid meier's railroads and even early skyrim and fallout modding.

Now the Unreal tools mean mods can be done in blueprint and should not break after every update like C# based mods. Likewise the common pak format used by unreal games (common because consoles prefer the pak for faster loading), means mods can replace files without overwriting files. Aka, mod conflicts become a reference overwrite issue and not a file overwrite issue.

As a developer of an unreal based game its pretty nice to know modding is no longer locked out. You still need/should provide the community with a modkit, but even those the community can generate on their own if they care.
It looks like a huge bullet.
I laughed when I saw that your readme jumps straight into some category theory. FYI others might cry instead.

You're doing some cool things here.
Does this work on 4060?
It's a vector display, similar to how an oscilloscope display works. Check out the Vectrex video game console for another great example.
Sometimes in a private conversation I will say things I would not want the public to hear me say. In places where there is one party consent it requires much more trust to have these types of private conversations, because any conversation could be recorded and placed on twitter.

For example, I think it's awful that in some places it's legal to privately tell you friend about a mental health struggle you are having, and for that friend to, without your knowledge, share a recording of that conversation with other people. In my mind two party consent is a basic data-privacy law. You cannot create a record of something you expected to be private. You can have an expectation of a private conversation to be private.
My proposal is simple: a cop is someone deputized by the State to be a cop who is operating a body cam.

Body cam is off? He's just a citizen with a nightstick. When he's tried, prosecution is held in contempt of court if they allow the jury in any way to know that, were his camera on, he would have been a police officer. Same with the defendant: if he mouths off about what was otherwise his job, he's going to jail for as long as it takes to convene a fresh jury, no bail, contempt.
I love the look. They’ll be vector displays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor
Do you maybe mean a vector monitor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor
Can animals count? Neuroscientists resolve long-standing debate
Yes absolutely. Lokta papers can be found at mostly any stationeries in Nepal and notebooks of various designs are made using this paper.