skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This doesn't seem right. If I use clippers to trim hair on my body, it grows back to its 'natural' length. I don't end up with hair of various lengths.

Are you sure? I have fairly hairy body so when I use moisturizers it tends to stick to the hair instead of the skin, and since I'm trying to take care of my forearm tattoos, I trim my forearm hair on a regular basis, after a few weeks, if I look closely, I can see some hairs being around, say, 2cm long, whereas others are just barely growing out.
Like peepeth?

Yes, its possible. No, people won't use it. Fediverse seems like its kind of a thing though.
It's partially a Fed thing. Higher interest rates in general lead to higher interest rates for construction loans. But if you're trying to spur housing construction without causing general inflation, maybe offer lower interest loans only for housing construction?
Not surprisingly Americans think the first amendment is a thing that exists in every single country and are surprised when other countries have laws that are not the exact copy of the US constitution.
The thing is... we subscribe to several TV streaming services, but IIRC Netflix is the only one whose app is on the TVs at this particular brand's hotels.

And it's become even more inconvenient to use external HDMI devices. At the last hotel I stayed at, the TV unit was permanently on 100% volume, and the effective volume was controlled by the external box.

This would be fine, except that:

- at low volumes, it was hard to hear voices clearly, as the audio signal coming from the box into the TV was really low, and the TV was amplifying not only that signal, but also background hum

- attaching an external device to the TV (like a TV stick) means the TV remote can no longer control the volume
Does this CHERI platform enable memory safety for programming languages and all the facilities provided by borrow checking language like Rust is not necessary?
You could double it.
What happens when arm hair get implanted on head? Do they grow like arm hair?
so run it locally, local version is not guarded
"The housing theory of everything" is relevant here: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28531025
There are really three things going on: secular inflation causing overall upward price trends, industry-specific restrictions on building housing in many places, and an increasing population.

Each of these things should be discussed separately in order to have a productive conversation about the overall results of rents still going up quickly.
I'm not sure how you get that without getting the government involved in providing those lower rates. I'm not opposed to that, but it makes everything a bit trickier...
Until the small players all close down and then the big players raise prices.
Canada only did 1, but not really 2 or 3 as much as the states, and the mess is even worse.

What it always comes down to is a pretty basic supply and demand problem in my head. Build a surplus of housing, and even the (4) algorithms will push rent and prices lower.
But programming is tech literacy, realistically, in 2024.
That's not the direction being talked about here. Try calling the C# method from C or C++ or Rust.

(I somewhat recently did try setting up mono to be able to do this... it wasn't fun.)
Well my feedback would be that your larger slower model doesn’t seem to be capable of generating cartoon style images while the preview model does seem to be able to.
specs compliance fetishism would be semantic web. The reason so much has been written on it is that it's so messy and practically people never get it right. HTML is so overloaded for multiple functions (content, logic, presentation and now accessibility), so is it really a surprise that it sucks at all of these?
After years of wanting to but never really being disciplined or motivated enough, I have finally been able to tackle math. My math skills stagnated in high school and then I went on studying computer science (avoiding almost all of the math) and came out pretty good in programming but still bad in math. I tried to read books like calculus made easy but it was still too dry and too hard.

How I fixed it:

1. I learned to become bored and be okay with it. I sometimes lie on the ground for 15 minutes to an hour and do nothing (and that's different than meditation!). I feel incredibly bored, bored to tears actually. I have noticed when I'm in this state, I'm in a much better position to do math or anything else that I slightly find boring but also really interesting.

2. I went to the root of my problem. I'm Dutch. I failed a course in high school called wiskunde B (math B). It teaches calculus, vectors and trig. I'm currently doing that [1]. It's been a few months, but it's going well.

Results and observations:

I think I'm almost at the level to do actual college level math. It helps that I studied CS, because I know a ton of math channels on YouTube and they are now immensely helpful. The thing is the course I'm following isn't explaining the theory well. It is amazing in making me practice, so fortunately I just need to go to good YouTube channels such as 3Blue1Brown or Khan Academy for an adequate explanation on theory.

Another observation is that it has made me a better programmer. My debugging style has always been "turn on the debugger". Now my debugging style is: think deeply about code execution first. Math makes me comfortable with "code execution" because with math you have no choice!

__Looking for a math tutor (email in profile)__

I'm looking for a math tutor. I'd love to ask questions during the week that I don't need an immediate answer to. I think it'll take about 1 hour per week for you. I have noticed I'll need one after the wiskunde B course because I have asked about 100 questions to them in total over the duration of 4 months.

Edit:

To add. I think for me what made calculus so hard was not having a strong understanding of the fundamentals. The gist of calculus of slope and area is easy. Manipulating the equations perfectly 100% of the time. That used to be really hard and it is getting easier the more I practice.

I just happen to watch a YouTube video where a math professor mentions the same thing [2].

[1] The math course I've followed (400 euro - includes exam): https://kdvi.uva.nl/nl/onderwijs/wiskundecursussen/e-winterc...

It's in Dutch, but they have an English version in the language settings.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7febmLhS6E&ab_channel=BigTh...
> 32 bits is a bit over 4 billion states, so that is doable.

Whether 4B is doable depends on how much work you're doing for each of those states, but yes, "4B" alone certainly doesn't rule it out. There's also a question of whether it goes with your most frequently run tests or is something that's only run occasionally.

> However a lot of algorithms can have more than 32 bits of states and so quickly get beyond what is doable.

I'm pretty confident we're all in agreement there.
Yep, you don't 'save' democracy by trampling on its traditions.
Depends on the software being used but it's probably OpenMPI (or a variant). However, OpenMP is also used especially in a hybrid mode where on a node OpenMP is used for shared memory parallelism and OpenMPI is used for inter-node parallelism.

The parallel FS stuff is mainly to handle large number of nodes streaming data in and out. E.g. a few thousand nodes all reading from data sets or saving checkpoint data.

One big difference you'll see in HPC is large scale, fine grained parallelism. E.g. a lot of nodes simulating some process where you need to resync all the nodes and exchange data between them at each time step. Also checkpointing, i.e. since simulations may take weeks to run, most apps support saving application state to disk periodically so that if something crashes, you'll only lose a few hours or a day of computation. The checkpointing also causes a bunch of FS io since you need to save the application state from all the nodes to storage periodically so you'll see really high io spikes when that happens.
I think it's getting harder to "be your own person" digitally.

For example, host your own mail.

Do people host their own webservers anymore? (is a VPS is good enough?)

IRC? muds?

The rise of smartphones made "computing" accessible to everyone, but people can't actually compute.

Computers used to come with a language. You could write your own programs and run them from the getgo. You didn't have to ask permission to digitally sign your own program and run it.
This was a bigger problem in earlier versions of iOS, I've found them to be a lot more reliable lately, I have a shortcut that takes a sms reminder and converts it into a calendar event, (bec that healthcare provider EMS doesn't support sending calendar invite emails) back on iOS15 it would work intermittently, but ever since iOS17 it's been rock solid.
Version on Medium: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lost-souls-of-grammatiko...
Which hotel chain so I know to avoid it?
When far suburbs and exurbs have to pay their own way they often wind up not being able to. Those that don’t have an equivalent to California’s Prop 13 cap on property tax increases will have to raise property taxes substantially to continue maintaining roads, sewers, providing fire and police services, public schools, and so on. Places that do have an equivalent to California’s Prop 13 cap on property tax increases will have to find some other way to fund these services (local income and sales taxes, transfer taxes, toll roads, collection and insurance fees, etc.). Either way, a lot of the people who live in far suburbs and exurbs—which are extremely energy-hungry compared to cities, which is what many costs ultimately reduce to—will wind up pricing out not just future but current residents.

So yes, in fact, the “plan” is to pack people into high-rises—because that’s all they’ll be able to afford due to their relative energy efficiency.
GPT-4 users, how are you using it? Is ChatGPT Plus still worth it?
I know some people are using the API with their own frontends. Is it cheaper that way?
I am currently a Claude Opus (chat) subscriber, strongly considering making the switch.
Wow! this taught me more than 2 semesters of calculus. Thanks for sharing.
If it's not going to waste, it's going to waist.
Yep. I have a hard line from my skyshed to the house lan. It would be over cat8 or whatever I have.
I think fuzzing is doing testing, but often using other techniques (including sometimes formal methods) to improve the effectiveness of that testing.
I would be shocked if toll fees covered 1% of road costs in the US.

I can’t even remember the last time I paid a toll.
Add Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. It'll hook you, it's one of those bad movies that's awesome.
In the same way telecoms and other incumbent data-services providers can lobby local and state governments to create regulation that ensures that newcomers are prevented from entering the data-services market in the area, folks who are currently making big money from renting housing can lobby their local and state government to do the same.

(One obvious way for the folks making big money from renting housing to do this is to ensure the obstruction of new construction.)

And (of course) both sets of politically-savvy entities can encourage others to agitate on their behalf for the entity's preferred political outcome.
Looks like it’s not just me looking for this kind of job. But it’s even harder for me because I’m living in China which is a socialism country but more “capitalism” than western countries.
This is a significant part of my vision for Web 10! https://www.web10.ai/p/web-10-in-under-10-minutes

One of the immediate things I'm working on is a text to knowledge graph system. Yohei (creator of BabyAGI) is also working on text to knowledge graphs: https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima/status/1769019899245158648. LlamaIndex has a basic implementation.

This isn't quite connecting the system to an automated reasoner though. There is some research in this area, like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35735375

Cyc + LLMs is vaguely related to more advanced "cognitive architectures" for AI, for instance see the world model in Davidad's architecture, which LLMs can be used to help build: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jRf4WENQnhssCb6mJ/davidad-s-...
The only way out is to become skynet
It was the Internet. Not because the powerful gained more power, because all possible revolutionaries became opiated.
I can't speak about nails and hairs specifically, but directional cell growth is common in nature.

In plants, for example, cells replicate primarily at the tip of a bud, which allows branches to lengthen directionally rather than grow out in all directions. The plant produces growth hormones, which are transported upward throughout all branches until they reach a dead end. When they reach a dead end, they stop moving and just sit there, which causes the cells at the dead end to have a greater exposure to these growth hormones. These cells bathe in growth hormones for so long that they pass the hormone-exposure threshold that triggers cell replication.
Other than "hacker spirit" (which is completely legitimate), is there a reason you'd want to play Halo 2 this way—going through the effort of modding your console to add memory and overclock the gpu—instead of playing the PC version?
I basically have the same setup (7950x, 64GB of ram, but pcie 4 nvme ssd).

Without EXPO turned on the length of the POST-phase is basically zero when I turn on memory context restore.

But with EXPO turned on my PC basically won't boot (as in, I'm too impatient to wait more than an hour).

So I just keep EXPO turned of, as 4800Mhz vs 6000Mhz RAM in practice doesn't make much of a difference (for most tasks).

EDIT: nevermind, I just tried enabling EXPO again, and it seems like the memory context restore option now even works with EXPO enabled, so POST is still very short. I'll keep it on and see how it goes.
Offer a tax credit for a percentage of interest paid on construction loans. Then you still get them from a bank but pay less interest.
It is a reasonable concern. So reasonable in fact that everyone has it and thus the natural state of things is American cities all try to ban dense housing. Hence the housing crisis.

This is the logic behind some states like California trying to reduce the amount of local control over how dense housing can be. It is a state-wide problem that every city is disincentivized to solve.

While you were probably using hyperbole, I don’t think it’s easy to 5x the population of a city with infill housing. Just financing, land acquisition, demolition, construction, and sales takes a while. Government redtape only adds more time.
Stepping back a couple thousand feet, much of what makes us vulnerable to all the purported bias, capture, and revolving door manipulation in media and technology is our ongoing choice to seek an intermediary between ourselves and our community.

Rather than directly engaging with our local (and immediate but non-local) community to learn about its needs and support its health, we've increasingly oriented ourselves almost exclusively towards abstract regional, national, and international concerns that we might only experience through some media intermediary.

We invite ourselves to develop anger or pity or righteousness towards figures that enter our lives through the same channels and with the same illistration techniques of theatrical characters while barely knowing the names of our neighbors let alone the challenges that they're facing this week or this month.

An simple off-ramp is to stop doing that, taking a stroll around the block to see if somebody needs help or company instead of scrolling through social media or watching TV news for the latest recounting of some faraway and universally misrepresented drama.

As citizens in regional and national democracies, it's important for us to be informed about issues at those scales but becoming sufficiently informed about those issues requires no more than an occasional exercise in research when it's approaching time to make a vote or when someone we're personally connected to asks us to contribute concretely towards a cause.

Removing bias and manipulation from the media and technology platforms is a Sisyphian task, but disempowering biased media and technology platforms only requires ignoring them.

And once you do so, you get a lot of energy back for supporting individuals you actually know and who can support you in return.
Where is this comment coming from? This reeks of anti-american bias, what substance does this add to the discussion?
Hard power is also the ability to police & coral & force not just far off people but your own people too.

In the network state era, there are forces far beyond your borders that the majority of your citizens are dealing with regularly. You can keep a very tight grasp on your own citizen, effect all the moderately high firewalls you want & dabble in banning cryptography as you please, perhaps, but it'll usually be a pretty leaky defense, and no matter how much hard power you have in your state there's probably very little your hard power is going to do to stop or reduce the overwhelming presence of Facebook or Google or far more modest sized internet services in the world. They will certainly keep influencing the world. And they will keep creeping in and influencing your people.

Power used to have geographic limitations, which gave local power enormity & presence. In the fiber optic age, that hard power buys you a lot less. And requires far more pressure & vigilance to apply even within your border.
Nobody is saying people who want their own yard shouldn't be able to have that.

But those that don't have that as a priority, or can't afford it, should also have options.

Nobody is suggesting turning all suburbs into high-rises. But we need variety and supply in the market, so that people have choices that suit their lifestyle and income. Including the option to live closer to where they work to reduce the traffic on your roads.
"IQ-gated?" Please, let's not be so self congratulatory.

The plumber who works on my house is easily as smart as I am. A successful software engineering career has brought me financial independence but I'm not particularly brilliant. Most of the folks I've worked with in FAANG aren't either. We're just normal people making a living during a very lucky period for a specific type of nerd.
Going forward, subscriber numbers won’t be included in their reporting. They’ve probably reached their peak and Wall Street doesn’t like it.
Vehicles Within Sufficient Wheels?
What you may have been looking for is these:

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

- https://github.com/dotnet/samples/blob/main/core/nativeaot/N...

With that said, Mono has been a staple choice for embedding in game-script style scenarios, in particular, because of the ability to directly call its methods inside (provided the caller honors the calling convention correctly), but it has been slowly becoming more of a liability as you are missing out on a lot of performance by not hosting CoreCLR instead.

For .dll/.so/.dylib's, it is easier and often better to just build a native library with naot instead (the links above, you can also produce statically linkable binaries but it might have issues on e.g. macOS which has...not the most reliable linker that likes to take breaking changes).

This type of library works in almost every scenario a library implemented in C/C++/Rust with C exports does. For example, here someone implemented a hello-world demonstration of using C# to write an OBS plugin: https://sharovarskyi.com/blog/posts/dotnet-obs-plugin-with-n...

Using the exports boils down to just this https://github.com/kostya9/DotnetObsPluginWithNativeAOT/blob... and specifying correct build flags.
The ingenious wines birthed from black volcanic craters
Are you thinking of the board of directors? It looks like the C-level officers at that non-profit are the ones taking a salary, the board members all get $0.

It's common for members of the board to serve in similar capacities in other organizations, but not very common for the C-suite to do it, though of course it does happen.
Janelia reveals connectome of the fruit fly visual system
In Australia road users pay more than twice as much in petrol tax as is spent on roads.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-21/fuel-excise-not-being...

So the recovery ratio is more than 200%.
> Nowadays, adding adequate amounts of RAM is not a cost concern. We have cheap miniPCs with 16GB and even 32GB of RAM being sold for less than what Apple charges for adding 8GB of RAM.

I don't that's an apples-to-apples comparison (pun intended). the ram in those computers is soldered to the mainboard, while it is part of the SoC in the newer macbooks. I don't know exactly how much that contributes to the manufacturing cost, but my intuition is that it would be significantly higher.

> You are also awfully wrong in claiming Apple products do not compete on perf/$. Apple has been for years pushing the idea they sell premium, high-performance hardware.

I don't think I am, unless "perf/$" means something very different to you. to me, it means the amount of performance you get for your money. apple is certainly crowing about "apple silicon" now that they have the best mobile parts, but I don't think even apple marketing would claim to outperform laptops from acer, asus, etc. for the same money.

but this is all an aside to my main point. adding up the cost of a bag of parts is one way of valuing a computer (and one that makes a lot of sense for a tower that hides under your desk), but it's not the only way. you can also look at it from more of a product perspective: what does it enable you to do? if you're a video editor or developer by trade, it's easy to justify the cost of a $2-3k macbook pro, even with the understanding that it's a huge markup over the bill of materials. it is a thing you use to make money. the base macbook air is perfectly fine for watching videos, sending emails, and possibly flexing on your friends at college. I don't think it's unlikely that apple intentionally hamstrings their $1000 offering to make it unsuitable for professionals, but that's not something I get upset about anymore. the alternative is not a $1000 mba with 16GB ram and a 512GB ssd; it's a macbook air that starts at $1500.
Such a click-bait headline. Rapidly means about 100 years. Article talks about 2120. Ok, in geological time this scale is a rounding error. But still.
Given Gentoo is a non-corporate, all volunteer project I think this is the salient point:

“ In his RFC, he laid out three broad areas of concern: copyrights, quality, and ethics. On the copyright front, he argued that LLMs are trained on copyrighted material and the companies behind them are unconcerned with copyright violations. "In particular, there's a good risk that these tools would yield stuff we can't legally use." “

Unlike Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, who all are corporate organizations with support revenue and legal teams to defend these issues, along with policy to prevent the issues, Gentoo is an all volunteer project that doesn’t have the organizational or financial support to fight legal battles. Their risk from copyright legal issues is much higher.
Macross Plus is a much better movie with an AI controlled fighter jet.
My understanding is that the western arms manufacturing base is being out-produced by that of Russia. So even if funding is approved by the U.S. the end result will not change. This is evidenced, for example, by the loan of shells from Korea to the U.S.