skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the abiity to self-host is a feature. The requirement to self-host when the thing is mostly presented as a webapp seems like a caveat to me.

(Although it's worth noting that that's not the biggest limitation either, just the one that stuck out to me when I wrote the comment)
Wow, this is incredibly fast. I have Perplexity Pro and dare I say this is...faster? I like how you've made the UI load in sections. Nice build :)
It doesn't have to kill everyone, just destroy the technological society and that would solve Fermi's paradox. Think about the things our technological society consumes, particularly petroleum. There's no way there is enough of it to last a thousand years (a blip on a cosmological time scale). We have no way of feeding our current population without fossil fuels for fertilizer. Maybe that ends in a technological transition to something else, or a social transition to something sustainable. Maybe. There aren't a lot of data points.
Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies (2022)
The Chinchilla paper is about how to design/train a model to optimize use of computing power, which we can equate to cost (FLOPs cost dollars).

The question that Chinchilla tries to answer is: for a given training budget (which you can think of as dollars or FLOPs), what is the optimal trade off of model size and quantity of training data to get the most performant model? Build a large model and train with less data, or build a smaller one and train with more data?

However, another consideration is minimizing total lifetime cost of the model: training cost + inference cost. You could train a model for longer (costing more) in order to get a given level of performance from a smaller model that will be cheaper for inference, or vice versa. For any given projected model lifetime inference volume, there is going to be a different answer.

It's not that Chinchilla-optimal models stopped making sense, but rather that this sort of consideration has people willing to pump more money (tokens) into smaller models to reduce inference cost for that level of capability.
look at the examples they made why it should be in CSS grid. I totally agree it should be in that. It's a form of grid. It should be part of CSS grid.

This is one of the layouts that were just impossible in CSS and we really need it soon.
I also needed the feature they talk about with the background colors for css grid tracks in 2012. I solved that with DIVs, but it was hard to make it responsive.
Personally I don't order food items from Amazon because I worry about their whole counterfeit issues / that they really don't care about that issue.
I agree that civilizations (including humans) are unlikely to completely wipe themselves out, but it is not at all certain that we could recover to our present technology after a cataclysmic event.

Once we mine out all easily accessible fossil fuels, we'll cross a certain point of no return. After that point, a 19th century type industrial revolution will no longer be (easily) possible. Let's say a truly cataclysmic war happens and we just lose access to modern technology. Would we be able to regain it at some point? Could we rebuild a modern civilization without having access to the most energy dense and convenient fuel known to us even today?

Sure, we wouldn't go extinct, but if we are no longer able to travel beyond our own planet, we may as well have filtered ourselves out from the galactic stage.
While I also think that this is unrelated to the Fermi paradox, the global threat and real impact of a nuclear exchange wouldn't be direct impact, but the ecological crisis of a nuclear winter.
pghero and/or https://github.com/supabase/index_advisor

If you want to pay for a saas then pganalyze is like $400 a month for 4 dbs is a pretty good pricing model
Eh. I started university at 16. OK, I didn't really follow my branch of engineering for the most part but it was also a weird time for how various engineering branches were evolving alongside each other.
VCs rarely have disruptive predictions for their own industry
That's weird, I don't think I've ever turned it on. Thanks!
Individual teachers should definitely not be deciding curriculum as they are not experts in the fields they teach.
When was the last time we built a new city?
Don't they realize that human bodies need to excrete waste and if you don't give them a designated place to do it, it's going to come out on the street? And then the same people who refuse restroom access complain about shit and pee on the street?

This isn't rocket science.
High-speed imaging and AI help us understand how insect wings work
Feels like most people reacting to this think it's about C vs Rust. And part of it is, but the bigger conclusion is: If you're starting a new programming project, you probably shouldn't be using a systems language at all. Go, Java, C#, Swift, Python, or Ruby are probably better choices for most projects.

Go in particular has a lot of the advantages of C/C++ and Rust--fully-compiled binary, easy access to system calls, high performance--without the overhead of needing to constantly think about memory management.
Curious, if your livelihood wasn't built around Nix, why would you have gone back to Debian, instead of Guix ?
Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts
The Taiwanese population is to a great degree Chinese, but not only have they enjoyed a much freer and capital friendly economy (and society in general), they also started out with much of the economic elite of China that was fleeing when Mao took over.

It seems like a larger percentage of the population in Taiwan (compared to mainland China) have the kind of productivity that has been gathering in a few mainland cities, such as Shanghai.

Younger Taiwanese people in particular also seem to be building a special non-Chinese Taiwanese identity. I'm not sure if that has any significant effect on productivity though.
I just watched Youtube video saying electric cars have much higher depreciation than non electric cars. It would be a big mistake to think they are cheaper than non-electric cars.
Ok but it doesnt say anywhere on that page what you can do with the basic package?
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The key problem with the "brain in a vat" thought experiment
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Been there - I even have the shirt.

https://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm
I think the problem with such an architecture is that latency isn't a limit on timing closure from a hardware sense now, but you still have to consider it now from the software compilation perspective, and it might severely impact performance.

From what I've thought about this, the problem applies to any high fanout signal. For instance, if you want to implement a multiplexer for two n-bit operands, you'll need the select bit to be in ~n places at once (if you compile the n-bit multiplex into n 1-bit multiplexes). Compiling LUTs to route this select signal to the right places in the grid synchronously with the arrival of the data signals is complex and amounts to a similar sort of problem one faces with hardware compilation (akin to setup timing). In this architecture, you're replacing actual routing resources (wires) with LUT entries. Instead of considering the propagation of a signal down a wire in terms of nanoseconds, you'll be thinking about it in terms of cycles to traverse the grid. Unless the clock rate is absurdly high, signals like this will probably cause a performance problem for your design.

FPGAs/ASICs also have a problem of this flavor but it generally only happens for one signal: the clock. FPGAs address this by not using regular routing resources for the clock, and instead using special, pre-routed nets for clock distribution. I imagine you'd probably need a solution like this to deal with high fanout signals in an efficient way.
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This post was funny to read thinking OP was referring to the old "Game of Life" board game.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Life
I'm amused at the AI advert spam in the comments here that can't even be bothered to make the spam even vaguely normal looking comments.
"Although there’s no question that it was the right strategic decision, it did disrupt our day-to-day operations more than we anticipated."

Absolute double-speak. Translation "Although it was clearly a dumb thing to do we are now fucked and full of bitter regret and embarrassment. Also, check out my shades."
We're earthlings. Let's blow up earth things
>Our kid goes to a public school and overall they spend way less time on core subjects but a lot more on things related to race and so on which really do not have relevance to their level.

I'm curious about this. Could you explain more?
With those restrictions, Akaunting is definitely not open source, but it is source-available.
I wonder if a "modern" probe from 2024 could ever have a similar lifespan.

With systems hundred times more complex and build by a NASA that is a fraction of what it was 50 years ago, i guess a modern day Voyager will not even make it to the edge, let alone continue to function.
It’s amazing how fast we went from rarely seeing an electric Amazon van near me to seemingly most of them being EVs.

Makes so much sense. I wonder how many (tens of?) thousands a single warehouse location might save per day in gas alone. Last mile in urban/suburban areas is nearly ideal for an EV.

The upfront is very expensive with all the ancillary costs, but it’s hot to pay off handsomely after a while. And if a real carbon tax were to ever appear it would be all the better.
What engine / library was used to make this?
I did an apprenticeship and then went to complete a M.Sc. at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), with only one year of additional school compared to going through high school. Wouldn't have wanted it any other way...
Of course it is. This is BY DESIGN. A certain political party wants public education to go away and have private education funded by your tax dollars. It's yet another money grab by the wealthy.
Yes. I reflexively avoid asterisks on this site because they can hose your formatting.
In 50 years, I feel like GPGPU compute will be told as a Greek tragedy. Nvidia, pariah of Apple, would create a parallel compute ecosystem that was so powerful that even the combined effort of the industry couldn't topple it. At every corner where they could have thwarted them, Nvidia's competitors refused to up the ante or chided CUDA's efforts as silly and unnecessary. One crypto/AI craze later, everyone and their mother is berating their OEM for ignoring such basic functionality and refusing to collaborate on a competing alternative.

Frustrating is a good way to put it, but there's a certain causal satisfaction I feel from watching it all unfold. Of course everyone loses to CUDA when they refuse to sponsor an Open Source alternative. It's fascinating to me that hardware manufacturers would rather let CUDA dominate than establish a basic working relationship.
They were concentration camps - that's the definition. Perhaps your conflating death camps with concentration camps.
Both examples kinda sound like an anti-feature.

> had hackernews been written with a frontend framework, then i could click reply and submit without internet access, and the page could store my comment until internet is back and send it without me having to babysit it.

Which websites do this? I have never seen nor would expect such a behaviour. Would you expect it to still post if you close the tab? What if you close the tab, but open some other page on HN? Would you expect to see it in your profile?

> even just plain reading would would be better. with js new comments could be loaded in the background and they could be added to the page and marked as new without reloading the whole page. a much smoother experience than having to wait for a reload.

So when you’re on a slow (and possibly traffic-limited) connection you would want the site to hog the channel with update-fetching? Loading the new comments, shifting everything as you read it? This might be OK for linear flat comments, but for discussion trees this just sounds like a nightmare, again - who does this?
that not true and that article is also painting a rosier picture of apprenticeships than reality can deliver, at least here in Germany.

First regarding the salary claim. It is a clear it depends, but overall this is rarely the case. According to some listicle articles I found one of the highest paying jobs that has vocational training is a boat mechanic which pays a median before tax salary of 4.100 EUR. The median salary for a software developer is 5.600 EUR before taxes. One of the top payed but less niche trades, a mason, has a median before tax salary of 3.450 EUR.
I'm a fan of z-base-32 for this.

https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encod...

Command line tool at https://github.com/tv42/zbase32

$ echo hello, world | zbase32-encode
pb1sa5dxfoo8q551pt1yw

$ entropy 16 | zbase32-encode
y64s31aq6cgjoko9fwbuasf4ce
As someone working in EdTech, I think the idea of schools being underfunded is very complicated.

School Districts horribly mismanage their budgets. One of the largest school districts in the country and one of my clients just didn't know how much money they had spent for two years. So, their solution was to not renew any contracts the following year. Didn't matter how important they were, you were only safe if you had a multi-year contract (which thankfully I did). The people who are making spending choices in districts are often clueless about how to spend money or think about ROI.

Some schools are likely underfunded. But they also just need financial literacy training.
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That script looks so lovely.
If you consider what constitutes this training, you'll realize it doesn't matter, what matters is understanding the core topics and communicating well. Parents aren't teaching a class of 30 students, they can engage on a 1-1 level with their kids.

> But when it comes to teaching science to k-12 students it’s ok to use someone with no training?

That "someone" is you. Do you have any memory of gradeschool at all? Teaching is not complicated, it's just work.
Maybe a more constructive question is, do we agree on which countries are doing public education well? And what insights or practices can we learn from them?
I agree with your point about tracking but I also see why it is a third rail. Some parents of average students will raise hell and accuse you of discrimination if you give anyone special treatment. Of course, the irony is I remember that when I was in fifth grade and given advanced math material with three other students that we actually got less teacher attention than the rest of the class. But it was far, far better for us than being stuck in the slow track.
And regionally, parents are wildly wrong about what to teach. Evolution, religion and its role in government, carbon dioxide, fundamentals of medicine, basic civics, recent history, how to navigate a world where gay people exist...
Wouldn't building more houses solve the problem without having to increase taxes and create programs?

A house wouldn't be at these incredible prices of $500,000 or $1 million if there were more of them available (supply/demand), real estate investing would in general be less incentivized, where today it's a major channel for loans and investment.

It's fine that it is - of course investors should be able to trade housing and properties like anything else - but it's wrong and cruel to stop building them, as the population continues to increase. They're making people homeless so a much smaller group can make millions of dollars off the scarcity.

It's not a great future if the average person can't afford to own a shelter, and if the price to rent one continues to be thousands of dollars every 30 days in relation to these wages - nobody can realistically pull away when the house price and the rent rate both are rising so fast. My Sacramento midtown apartment in 2010 was $660/mo, my first place in SF was $900/mo the next year. The same places are both over $3k/mo now, yet I made less money in 2023 than I did back in 2010, doing the same job and working more hours.

Meanwhile those who inherited a house for free, or bought it for a lot less money than they cost today can make hundreds of thousands from refinancing (doing nothing) or millions from selling it. That so-called value was created out of intentional scarcity and nothing else - out of depriving other people of homes.

Even the average homeowner can make out like a rockstar investor year-after-year without even having to try because houses are just increasing in value as supply diminishes, there's a problem - it's a real estate bubble that will burst the moment people start building houses and neighborhoods again.

I agree we have to cut down real estate investors, I just think you can solve it in a productive way rather than battling them in politics.
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As usual with the filters, the problem always is that the filter has to be so significant that it's essentially guaranteed to happen. Else the galaxy should still be full of aliens. We seem to keep scraping by with close calls, so it doesn't seem all that guaranteed that a technological civilization wipes itself out before it can establish itself among the stars.
This has nothing to do with "the bidding of donors trying to drive school vouchers" or whatever conspiracy that is. We just don't want teachers pushing their political views on children.
They aren't underpaid relative to other developed countries: https://data.oecd.org/teachers/teachers-salaries.htm
> 22 ½ hours to reach Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and another 22 ½ hours for a

That's about how long it takes for me to deploy a change with modern CI/CD pipelines.
Public school by me gets more funding per child than the private school tuition. And the building Ng maintenance was just done using a bond measure. Yet it has 90%+ not passing tests.
Education?

Try parenting.

The average parent nowadays is a sycophant for their children. They expect teachers to do ALL of the education work, they don't want their kids to have any homework, and they don't expect educators to discipline unruly kids who have been raised by their cell phones and tablets in a Lord of the Flies online social setting.

People who didn't get anything and everything they wanted from their parents when they were growing up have decided to try to be friends with their kids instead of teaching them how to behave in public or sit down with them to teach them how to freaking read. IQs are going down because Millennials and Zoomers are collectively irresponsible as parents and will attack educators instead of taking responsibility for their childrens' educational welfare. They treat teachers like garbage and their kids follow suit.

And what can they POSSIBLY point to? New Math? Gay people exist and you shouldn't treat them with hatred? LOL, please.
I absolutely hate this kind of layout, especially when combined with infinite scrolling. Makes it impossible to systematically go over all items.
Underestimated burden of PFAS in global surface waters and groundwaters
The only thing this is changing is that launchers have to get reentry approval before the launch is approved because a company messed up and thought they didn't need it or it was already approved and caused issues.

Also your distinction isn't as clear as it seems the Apollo capsule for example was able to use it's RCS to steer during reentry because the lift generated by the capsule was not directly on the center line. Where's the line between gliding and falling when even a brick can act like a lifting body due to the extreme speeds?
In 2022, a town in my state, Croydon NH, voted to get rid of the school system and replace it with a cheap private online vendor.

They did a revote and reminded the town that voting is important, but, for a week that was the plan. A system as engrained as schooling not actually being so was startling to observe so close by.
I have also been disappointed with the amount of focus they spend on such topics. Until our young child went to school, we had never singled out people as being different by race. She didn't really even have the words to call that out. Then in school they start putting emphasis on these differences, and in doing so are basically teaching them to separate people in that way.
Meanwhile, homeschooling my kids is going exactly the way I want. We have great curriculum, the kids work hard and we take our recess together. WFH + homeschool is amazing if your situation allows.
You can't go wrong with https://pgmustard.com. It's helped me so many times. All you need is the output of EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, VERBOSE, BUFFERS, FORMAT JSON).
And TFA doesn't even mention Unicode, scripts, ASCII, Latin, nothing. As you can imagine it all gets much worse with Unicode (though through no fault of the Unicode Consortium). See Unicode TR#39 [0].

[0] https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/
> Since one of the biggest complaints about Ada is getting the toolchain [6], I hope this can solve a lot of problems for newcomers to the language.

It might be just me, but Alire isn't great, I tried it multiple times, it's great for getting complicated dependencies e.g Utilada, but I go for GPRBuild as it just avoids all the fuss when programming across Linux/macOS.

I might try a hard switch at one point as I didn't use Alire 2.0.0 that much, so maybe it's better now.
I've never had a good short answer to this kind of question. It's much more of a twenty-page essay question, with a lot of subtleties to dive into. I've tangentially crossed paths with Stephen Wolfram off and on for a bit over a decade now, starting with attending a Wolfram Summer School session --

https://education.wolfram.com/summer-school/alumni/2011/

-- and every few years someone from Wolfram Research will show up for an email discussion about one interesting topic or another. I'm more of a "determined hobbyist" than a proper theorist along the lines of Ed Fredkin, though, so while I'll enthusiastically agree that _A New Kind of Science_ documents a whole lot of fascinating stuff... I might not be the best judge of whether it all adds up to something that should be called "revolutionary".

(I'm quite sure that I don't do anything "revolutionary" myself -- I just try to encourage Conway's Life research to continue. Discoveries have kept building on previous discoveries for fifty years now, and I'm just really curious to see what will happen next.)
There's a weird status component where a restaurant needs a certain amount of unavailability to really be considered nice to some demographics.

At some point, it's mostly fashion, rather than being about the food.
SDLAda has been around for a while: https://github.com/Lucretia/sdlada

You can add it as a dependency to your Alire project: `alr with sdlada`
> Why is there so much focus on public education and aversion to private options like charter schools?

So that everyone has a chance at an education. If public schools go away, voucher money will dry up and then only the wealthy can get an education.
It seems your are saying it is only relates to bricks? But it's not, it's any stone, cut or formed.
Wait you think flying a plane is a more relaxed experience than going on a trip?