skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it “just works” on Ubuntu.

Sure. Now look at the dependencies that are installed compared to dependencies that are installed for dehydrated (or acme.sh, etc) which generally are: bash, OpenSSL, cURL. This is very handy for more appliance-like system (I ran dehydrated on (RH-based) F5s for years before ACME was put into the GUI; also ran it on (FreeBSD-based) Isilons.)

Also, if you want to do an audit of the code, how many lines of Python need to be examined (including dependencies) compared to how many lines of Bash? (Both would have common dependencies like (Open)SSL and HTTP/cURL libraries.) As we saw with the recent XZ kerfuffle, 'software supply chains' are becoming important.

Personally I find it much easier to understand / configure dehydrated:

$ git clone https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated.git
$ sudo cp dehydrated/dehydrated /usr/bin/

# cat > /etc/dehydrated/config
WELLKNOWN="/var/www/htdocs/.well-known/acme-challenge"
CONTACT_EMAIL="you@example.com"
# cat > /etc/dehydrated/domains.txt
example.com www.example.com
# mkdir -p /var/www/htdocs/.well-known/acme-challenge

$ sudo dehydrated -c

(Ubuntu/Debian has packages for it as well.)
Intrinsic value does
> You don't have that option with digital fiat, even if you wanted to.

Yes, you could, you just need to acquire the digital fiat anonymously through one of many methods. Then burn all record of it and watch your money disappear the same way as taking it to the grave, just no death required. Or go ahead and die if you must, but you’ll still not prove that Bitcoin is any different or any less “takeable”.
Ask HN: LLM Directions by Information Decentralization
total AI noobie here; how much having information scattered around the internet and not in a single place, like Wikipedia, influences the actual LLM software development?
What L? I clarified my meaning because someone interpreted what I wrote in a way that I did not intend. I think it is common to clarify when appropriate.
Heard of TikTok?
It's actually a riff on this Terry Davis quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbG6u86t4bA
Can this be used to visualize 802.11ac/ax signals?
I like the theory that The Great Flood(s) were related to the Ice Age glaciers melting away.
If anything, this experience has made me appreciate Diesel even more!

Having strongly typed SQL has prevented these sort of bugs from happening at compile time. The only reason I ran into trouble here was that I went into `unsafe` land without proper precaution. That's on me, not the ORM.
If you’re designing a device that’s going to sit on a network, you need to build it to handle unreasonable peers.
Does it have to be US citizens, living in the US?

How about a native South African, born in SA?
Sadly, yeah :( Still haven't tried it, though!
> While the declaration has implications for the treatment of animals, and especially for the prevention of animal suffering

I don't think it does because you can't derive ought from is. We could know exactly what consciousness is but it says absolutely nothing about whether or not we should be respecting it. Applying the Golden Rule (I don't like pain, therefore inflicting pain is bad) is outside the realm of science and requires another framework in order to justify it.
It's surreal to see this on the front page since I worked on minimax entropy learning for texture modelling (following these authors), then abandoned that line of research because I wanted to work on concept induction and reasoning instead. I'm amazed these authors are still drawing a direct line through 27 years of their papers.

To explain what this is about (not having read the whole paper): it's using 'classical', small sample size statistics to infer relations between very small sets of data such as individual questions of an IQ test. Obviously that's going to give the best possible answer, because that's what classical statistics does. (Well, if you could solve exactly, but with this model you actually can't.) Then it's just a question of having a good prior over possible concepts. In this paper the concepts are hand-defined parametrized features (aka 'filters' in the paper, from the texture modelling lineage), e.g. "families of arithmetic expressions of length from two to six" for the number problems. There will be a lot of details involved in that.

Alternatively, something like a deep neural network trained on vast numbers of generated examples could come to learn what a suitable prior should be by learning the patterns used to generate them. Yet another option is to use a universal prior as in Solomonoff induction, based on representation/coding length.

My conclusion: the theory is good and I'm happy to see this but don't think that you can directly apply this to learning 'concepts' in anything other than IQ tests. The hard part of generalising this is firstly finding the prior over the concepts, and secondly the difficult optimisation step: using MCMC as part of the optimisation is both extremely slow and stochastic in a bad way (unlike SGD) and the reason I abandoned this approach.
Today fast food execs complain about weight loss drugs affecting their business. A whole novel can be written about willpower drug.
I would apply but my co-founder has a kid and can't move to the US for 3 months. Also, we don't want to setup a parent company in one of those 4 suggested countries.
> Near complete support to regular Ruby as alternative implementation (also known as CRuby)

Wow! So now we are able to (theory) run incorporate Ruby in Crystal. And thanks to CrystalRuby, we are able to incorporate Crystal in Ruby. I am aware that it is not Crystals goal to be compitable with Ruby, but it's quite impressive witnessing them being slowly integrated into each other.
I'm 38 Web Developer and close to burnout
I'm a 38 years old web developer, I have done this job for roughly 15 years.
2 years ago I had a child with my wife and moved in a small town in Italy, where in-laws help us.
I'm working fully remote since then for a company.

I think I have reached some sort of burnout/depression.

I am home all day long and I do not find enjoyment for what I do anymore (it has been like that for many years, but I never wanted to face it).
Recently it struck me: my job will be one of the first ones wich will be replaced by AI. Maybe not tomorrow, but sooner that many think.
Even if it doesn't happen I still will end up depressed in a few months if I don't do something.

I don't know if I have the will or strength to learn anything else.
I studied computer science, but I wasn't good, just average.
Now I have forgotten pretty much everything about algorithm, calculus or algebra, I have only used JavaScript as programming language.
I have built full stack applications, but never went deep into anything, always stayed in the shallows.

This is obviously my fault.

Right now I feel I am stuck in a bad place, not sure on what to do...
I guess this is a plea for help?
Has anyone else been in a similar situation, what might help?
Which components in a modern house could run as, or more, efficiently if fed DC power?

I'm guessing this includes:

- Most electronic devices that require AC->DC power adapters. Including CPUs, GPUs, and everything powered by USB.

- Electric stoves, ovens, and other simple electric heaters.
I am doing docker run -it --rm certbot/certbot

Is there a problem with that?
does it block twitter?
It's like you didn't even read my original comment. So yes, if you look at only one metric, namely CO2 and then only at a single country, one known to have exported pollution heavy industries to poorer countries, yes the graph doesn't keep growing.

Pollution and climate change is a global problem. The global graph for CO2 isn't going down. And even if it will, that still leaves us with other green house gasses, deforestation, PFAS, plastic pollution, other pollution, mining, rising extinction rates and more.

I looked at your graph, do me the favor at look at mine https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/death-by-hockey-sticks/
It is amazing how fast 25+ years went by. I'm in this picture... and when I think about the jump from C++ to Java 1.1, going through the transition of EJBs to what would be considered modern Java, doing XQuery/functional development, and now Rust -- it really does not seem like a few decades have flown by.

Watched the death of our AIX systems (perhaps undead, as it really never goes away), the rise of PCs, the fading of Unix workstations. Desktop compute exceeding what could be done on my Cray time. The world circled back a few times: stand alone, client server, stand alone, distributed... with variations on a theme. Same is true about frameworks, languages, and development religions.

On reflection, creating new developers is a lot like parenting. You give recommendations, guidance, and opportunity. They still might footgun something, but you love them none the less. I'm proud of them and have launched some really solid Dev Leads over the years. So much satisfaction in shaping people.

The thrill of peeking/poking assembly as a youth is still there when I compile and the damn thing actually does what I set out to. Fixing broken is still very satisfying. Discovering that you can change a culture by leading was eye opening.

I still have no idea what I'm going to be, when I grow up. I consider myself fortunate.
Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC. (2022)
Git branches: "homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of Hilbert space"?
I wish B612 mono fixed their (). Not sure what the reasoning was behind making them look like []
Do you think some form of memory would help, i.e. RAG using semantic lookup of prior situations and thoughts and outcomes. I feel like this is something humans do intuitively to bring similar scenarios to the front of mind so we can get a basis for how to deal with novel situations...
It's (2017), but the title is too long to fit that in ...
I thought part of the attraction was “right to work” https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/right_to_work_state#:~:text=.... made the unions far more fragile?
Capitalism is just as much behind producing bikes for children. Really sinister.
MeshLRM: Large Reconstruction Model for High-Quality Meshes
i tend to forget what the youtube home page even looks like. years ago i bookmarked the subscription feed rather than the "home page". never looked back. thats what it should be!
It's cutting calories–not intermittent fasting–that drops weight, study suggests
That makes total sense to me; thanks for the thoughful response.
Phytotelma
I think part of the issue is disagreement about what "harmony and compassion" actually looks like.

One of the sibling comments immediately jumped to the assumption you're referring to veganism and the use of animals in the food system. I'm not going to assume that's what you're referring to, but I will use it as a case study.

The problem with veganism's approach to this is that it's a limited extension of empathy. If you've been following along with the advances in plant behavior, it's pretty mind blowing. There is a growing body of evidence that plants have cognition (using a different system than animal's nervous system), memory, environmental awareness, the ability to learn, and communicate. In other words, it seems increasingly likely that plants are _also_ conscious.

In fact, there are hints of evidence that microbes are aware and making decisions. It may well be that environmental awareness and consciousness are just the defaults of life.

So then, for autotrophs like us, what does harmony and compassion look like? How do we feed ourselves at scale without causing harm or exploiting nature?
Ask HN: I'm building a gamified tool to help you plan and build products
As a indie hacker, my biggest pet peeve is to build products no one needs. Therefore, throughout my hacking journey, I've researched ways to validate ideas based on customers feedback and needs, so that I stop making up problems for products I want to build and start building products for actual problems users have and need solutions for.

But it doesn't stop there. I also find it hard to keep track of things I've tried and to aggregate feedback.

Hence, I need my tool to help me and you in two ways:

1. by guiding me at every step of the building journey by giving me directions in the form of short-term missions to validate ideas and always ensure the work I put in is relevant

2. by tracking the work and aggregating the feedback at every step so I always know what I've done and what still needs to be done

Are these pain points you also have? Would you pay for a tool that helps you make all your indie work relevant to build products peuple actually want? What other problems do you need to solve when building your own products?
> And despite having extraordinary trails, almost no tourist is going in the inside of the Islands.

Thx for the tip! I'm considering a visit to the Canaries some day (by boat), and I'd be way more interested in say, hiking a trail up a volcano, than hanging out at bars / restaurants / souvenir shop etc.
An unwelcome comparison: For certain people you can’t just teach Buddhist meditation using Buddhist terminology and context because that’s “woo”. However if you dress it up in vaguely “neuroscience” terms then it’s fine. And preferably you have some scientific studies at hand to prove that meditation has an effect. (Although no one demands biomechanic studies from their intro tennis teacher.)

Compare with all the moaning and complaining that comes from some people when you talk about functional programming and how it might relate to computer science.[1] Then you might have a better chance inventing ad hoc words for basics like “map” (preferably very prosey) and claiming that Martin Fowler invented it.

[1] This goes triply for anything having to do with proofs, at least proof software associated with FP.
Is there then a hierarchy of owners?
Making tracking illegal by law will do more than any technology created by the tech industry.
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students
AgentKit: Flow Engineering with Graphs, Not Coding
Seconded. It was an enjoyable watch for any Voyager fan.
Phishing Platform LabHost Shut Down by Law Enforcement
Carbon, Climate Change and Ocean Anoxia in an Ancient Icehouse World (2022)
> Electric stoves, ovens, and other simple electric heaters.

Not really. The current would be too high on low voltage DC. And high voltage DC is dangerous.
Added! https://www.erdosproblems.com/232

There are certainly many Erdős problems, broadly interpreted, still to be added. Any suggestions of missing problems to be added are welcome.
Depends on how you use it. My prompt :
Review this text for content,structure,style,grammar and spelling list suggestion in bullet form.

ChatGPT just reviews what I write and fixes where my mind wandered off during the process. Now I write more clearly, anticipating where I’m likely to receive feedback.
> His tendency to reduce the inexplicable to what he's confident he understands

Coming up with theories to explain the inexplicable is literally science.

Also, suggesting that Dennet's philosophy stems from a "challenging childhood" is argument ad hominem, because it focuses on the person, rather than on the content of the philosophy.

To continue the discussion in the same tone that you began it, perhaps you don't see eye to eye with him because he challenges your beliefs.
I already implemented some spatial partitioning with a Z order curve, it's not too difficult to write and understand, but it works well.

If I remember, the main advantage is that you can use a sorted multimap, insert item by converting 2D coordinates to 1D with some function. Multimaps are already implemented and fast.

The result is that your data is packed, and "sorted" by 2D location, so when you query items in an area, it's supposed to be very fast because of cache friendliness, I think. The interesting trick is when you query a rectangle, you calculate 2 corner bounds, and use them to query the multimap.

Of course, this is a simple way to index 2D data, and R trees are still faster, but no engineers will enjoy implementing an R-tree. BSP or Kd-trees are also much harder to implement than a Z-order curve.

I am not good at those subjects, but I feel like a Z order curve is the "best" way to index 2D, since it's a very good trade-off between simplicity and performance, which is if one wants to write lean software, like for a video game for example. Feel free to correct me.

Although I think there are things around Z order curves that are still under patent.
I think it was definitely unoptimized to begin with. The major slow down didn't happen until the model evolved though, as I mention in the Background section.
Not catching that change was certainly a performance failure!
It's time to retire the term "user" – proliferation of AI means we need new word
EK Water Blocks: Not Paying Employees, Partners, & Suppliers [video]
Does the old Twitter just meekly comply with the court order and not make a fuss?

“gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact or detail”

Gratuitous ... does not sound correct. Indications are that this attack was not randomly targeted or without a purpose.

Offensive ... makes it more worthy of attention, not less. Should genocide also be hidden because it is so offensive?

High degree of impact ... because it contains important information about the social climate that can help people protect themselves and each other. How is that a reason to suppress?

Or detail ... that is important for judging authenticity, to be harder to fool.

Australia's rationale amounts to "we need to control your reality so that you don't get out of control". Wherever this leads, thanks for pushing back, X.
Timing and location data combined with data from various "data enrichment" firms make short work of de-anonymizing this in most cases I am sure.
A reasonable and logical litmus test. Thanks for sharing.
Great start at a eulogy or thank-you note! I also thank Dennett for the originality, humor, and clarity of all of his work on consciousness and cognition. He wanted to communicate more than impress readers.

His book Consciousness Explained is a good overview of the conundrum of brain-mind. And in the end he admits clearly that he actually did NOT explain consciousness (read the last two pages). But he framed the problem better than most philosophers, and brings readers into the discussion.

Daniel Dennett, Richard Rorty, and Humberto Maturana: The three modern philosophers I read and respect the most as a practicing neuroscientist.

Maturana by far the strongest scientist of this trio and oddly, the most radical neurophilosopher of them all. I would have loved to overhear a conversation of these three.

Ah, perhaps too subtle humor in your closing comment. “Dennett in dust”—-his comfortable afterlife, will have to be satisfied with all of us talking about ideas he nurtured and motivated.
What do you code in day to day?
Right, this would be true if it were possible for a photon to"experience", but at i understand it we currently believe it's not.
In Canada, subjectively, it feels like the quality of newer doctors has gone up dramatically. The training must be a lot better these days. I’ve been impressed, especially when you go in to a clinic where they actively take in students for their practicums - the old doctors are often stepping up their game as well
Any articles on the engineering behind the Sphere? How do they get the data to each individual pixel?

Let's assume 10 pixels per inch. One square foot would be 14,400 pixels. A PC can easily drive 1920x1080, or 2 million pixels. At our dpi, that would be 140 square feet. The Sphere's display is 160,000 square feet. So we could split that up into 1100 nodes, where each node is 140 square feet. It would be realistic to have each node be a single ARM computer with enough storage for a couple of hours of video. Push the data to the node over ethernet before the show, then have a clock signal going to each node so they stay synchronized.
Why is UUID related to telemetry?

If you use router level AdBlock -- that is, DNS filtering -- lots of ads and telemetry go away by themselves, and what UUID is used is irrelevant. Of course, most people don't do that, but still I don't see how changing the UUID helps prevent blocking telemetry/ads.
> and even big-budget banking apps that are painful to use

Big budget banking apps were always painful to use. That is not a change in anything.

> Reliability and security often feel lacking too.

If anything, there is more focus on those then in the past.
Do any of these bootcamps get you a job? I can't imagine learning much in a few month period, especially if you aren't already in tech.
That’s fair. I did plug in my TV after 7 years or so. I was hoping the new firmware would fix some issues (eARC compatibility, mainly).

It didn’t. Fixed some other bugs, introduced some new ones. Not my best bet, not my worst. Still no ads, luckily, though.
LoL. We will have to live for him and breathe his dust.
Have you ever wondered if your 30x revenue increase is what allowed you to pursue these passions, be able to find a good wife and raise your children?

I'm sorry if this comes out a bit strong but i really find this discourse kind of gross. "Yeah I have a ton of money but it doesn't matter to me. My real happiness is that I can go scuba diving in fun places 3 times a year. That's real success for me."

Like you I consider that my success in life is tied to my family more than my career, but I won't bury my head and pretend that one doesn't enable the other.
I haven’t experienced that, and therefore hadn’t considered it. USB stick for firmware updates it is from now on, then.
This looks great. Does the calendar support CalDav?
Ha awesome, that looks almost exactly like what I was imagining. I guess it was somewhat obvious to anyone who’s used racking like the one I used and thought about it. I wonder how well their system works in practice, but I can’t imagine it’s less efficient than positioning/attaching these things and wiring them up in the field, and then crawling under and tucking tons of wires away with painful little clips.

Now that that’s taken care of, we just need some way to get the interconnection queues moving faster :-)
It only takes about five seconds. Open the link that GP shared and read the first paragraph.

> as the early 1990s, about 90% of U.S. adults identified as Christians. But today, about two-thirds of adults are Christians.
Depending on your environment, a projector could very likely be more expensive but leads to worse experience than a half decent 4k TV. Most of people don't do what you are describing because they are spending their money well, not because they are stupid.
To be fair to the notion of substantial, it likely represents well under 0.1% of the pornographic sites on the public internet.
Article says: Justin Reynolds and his daughter Ruby. I'm sure Dad is proud and all and doesn't mind being left out of the headline, but it does make it a bit click-bait-y
Hey, there are dozens of us.

I got tired of how corporatized Linux has gotten a few years ago, ported a bunch of personal projects and services to FreeBSD jails, and haven't looked back.

Features aren't 1:1, but slimming down my Linux hosts has massively decreased the amount of time I have to spend administrating instead of working.
To expand on azornathogron's answer, when you are working with 2d data (it generalises to 3d too!) you often want to filter pixels in a rectangular area. This is commonly for bilinear filtering or some kind of convolution kernel.

If you don't interleave the bits and have large textures (think 4096 pixels wide) where each pixel is 4bytes big, that means there is a distance of 16kb between a pixel and the pixel below it.

This is super bad for caches (really important for the TLB in the MMU which is usually way smaller than data caches).

In GPU literature you'll see this called "tiling" (again like azornathogron said it's not always pure morton order), Intel document their tiling layout, here's an older layout doc:

https://docs.mesa3d.org/isl/tiling.html