skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the type of prohibition which we want to enforce because they disturb others, and it would be inappropriate to disturb the illegitimately disturbed person even more by having to stop their activities and wait for some official to resolve the problem.

If a car is blocking a bus stop, the harm is done even if the car leaves before some official arrives to write a ticket, and it seems reasonable that the bus operator should be able to request that the law gets enforced without having to stay on the spot and point out the violation to someone - we do want a deterrent effect towards any would-be violators, that they should fear a ticket even if there are no officials onsite, and perhaps not do the prohibited thing.
I wish I had listened to this a long time ago. That starting so niche nobody bothers you is a winning strategy would not have occurred to me. Thanks for sharing!
That sounds like a different problem. There is a difference between taking duplicated code and eliminating that duplication by using a function, and having a short function that calls another tiny function that in turn calls yet another tiny function when all of these tiny functions can just be merged together...

The problem you're mentioning can happen regardless of whether someone repeats the same thing everywhere, or whether someone factors out common code into a single function.

John Carmack wrote an article [1] about the point you bring up, and how humans can understand a certain degree of complexity more than they can understand a very tiny amount of complexity or too much complexity. There is a sweet spot when it comes to function call length, not too long, not too short.

But once again this is a different matter altogether.

[1] http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...
you do realise that ussr does not exist anymore (it's been replaced with a hyper-capitalist structure that mutated into a fascist dictatorship); and that the existence of people being highly paid does not disprove the fact tha the us-style capitalism is a terrible system for anyone but the highest echelons?
Ubiquiti has a prosumer version of everything on an ISPs checklist, but most of it is either too expensive or under featured. Eventually you outgrow it and thats when you face a large expense to get out of it. Other than RF and hardware to support RF that is. Their tower switches are reasonably scalable, and some of their other kit, like FibrePOE is situationally ok.
Your proposed solution would run in less than 1ms though.
While the academic, lab and research road down this path is known, few orgs have been successful at applying this at scale.

One of the lesser known state supported entities out of India - https://apcnf.in/ is arguably one of the largest natural farming operations in the world. They have been studying not just how these interactions work, but also the critical points at which one can do high leverage, yet low cost inputs.

Below is an upcoming webinar if you'd like to learn how to get off industrial fertilizers, pesticides and even tractor spends in farming operations. As the natural systems are degrading.. i feel these pathways become fundamental technical innovations to keep the farming servers running the OS called planet Earth.

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Thrilled to see keen interest nature based computing at HN, therefore taking the liberty to share.

Full disclosure is that these methods aren't innovated by them as much as assimilated and fine tuned. Most of the knowledge is threads weaved from superhero permaculturists and scientists from USA, Europe and around the world.

Their edge of course has been observing the quiet ways of indigenous communities who quietly - apply knowledge (vs publishing). Working at almost a country scale has also given them experience on the social, economic and technical APIs of society which are necessary to take innovations from pilots to mainstream scale.

NCNF (National Coalition for Natural Farming) and RySS (Rythu Sadhikara Samstha) invite you to a webinar on Science of Natural Farming

Date/Time - 30th April (Tuesday), 3 pm

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It's funny because I really dislike the C# approach. It's not truly enforced - any code with nullable disabled can call public functions with `null`, even if on your side they were marked as non-null.
Reaching 20 years mark here, and I kinda agree and disagree with your initial take.

Hear me out, I don't think classes should be used to mutate state, or perform actions on their own. But they are a nice way to namespace and think about components properly. It can be achieved with just structs and functions (strongly typed, for the love of all deities) but giving a container like a class has its advantages to namespace some categories of functions belonging to their own structs.

I agree that many other uses of classes (and fucking design patterns piled on top) were, and still are, a major source of pain in software development, I'm very glad to see that a lot of folks around the 15-25 years of experience realised the footguns are not worth it and adapted to write more readable "dumb" code.
Let’s level set, everyone agrees that CNN, BBC, and NBC are much more sympathetic to Hamas than they are to any Jews or Israel. The NYT is historically much more sympathetic to Arabs than they are to Jews, the one exception being the rape report which has caused a giant outcry internally because it casts Hamas and Arabs in such a negative light. So your claim is bogus on its face, you claim to be bringing “pro-Zionist” sources but are instead bringing mostly pro-terrorist sources.

But let’s get back on topic: you’ve totally ignored everything I’ve said and brought in another red herring to deflect to. I can easily reject this “mass-graves” nonsense as you can easily see from the IDF claims they were just digging up graves to confirm that no hostages were buried there. Hamas themselves reported months ago that they dug and filled a mass grave… you continue to lie and make totally false claims.

For me to believe any claims of war crimes they MUST come from credible sources. Who is credible? Well considering every single Gazan we’ve seen so far has shown themselves ready to lie about everything, I’d say we’d need irrefutable video and audio footage, from multiple angles, fully contextualized from start to finish like Hamas provided for their own crimes (Which you still deny happened at all).

So far all you’ve done is bring lies and innuendo as well as your own skewed sick biases.

I find it very telling that you refuse to acknowledge that Israel and the Jewish people are irrefutably linked, that you continue to toss around “Zionist” like some sort of insult and that thus far you’ve refused to even consider your own biases.

If the report comes out and shows with actual irrefutable evidence that genocide was committed then I would concede to your conclusion, but considering no war crimes have yet been committed by Israel or the IDF, despite this being the most watched conflict in the world, I know what we’re gonna see is a report full of lies and misinformation that does its hardest to redefine what war crimes are, what genocide is and then paint the target around that. Handily lampooning Israel and Jews alone while ignoring the fact that these new definitions will obviously implicate everyone who engages in any conflict in anyway.

What would you need to see to be convinced that no war crimes by Jews took place, that instead you were fed lies? Would it be enough to see Hamas admit to telling lies constantly? Would be enough to be shown that Hamas has never once told the truth? Would it be enough to see that Hamas film themselves committing war crimes and then blaming the Jews? What would it take?

Finally the fact that you claiming that all western media is pro-zionist tells me that you are 100% trolling. Likely for some disinformation producing country like Russia or Iran. This will be my last engagement with you.
sick feature!
> But instead it dumped me to a chatbot that was not capable to funnel me to any ads like that???

Streaming gave us content without ads for a while before introducing a form of advertising worse than what we had with cable, worse because it can be made unskippable.

Now they'll try to dupe us the same way with AI, expecting us not to figure out that the endgame is opaque and seamless conversational advertising.
I'll clarify.

Ads, as long as they have not been banished from the world, should be viable in some form on a small useful site.

There are ideas about how to get rid of ads entirely, but I wanted to be more grounded to the current state of things for the purposes of that comment.
Did they have someone in the camp with basic knowledge of Chinese orthography?

This is definitely a possibility, but even then...

> Did someone know enough to note carefully the way in which the characters were written? Did they keep the paper with the characters on it, and then hand-reproduce the precise structure?

This would be unlikely to work, because the characters would be written on paper using a pen or pencil, which produces quite different strokes that a brush, which is what you would have to use for a sign. Even if you know how brush strokes should look like, I can't really say how difficult it would be to produce brushwork that credibly looks like what someone would produce who has been doing it all their adult life, if you lack the experience.
30% cut for handling taxes? That's wild.
No, there isn't. Anyone who thinks so is experiencing cognitive dissonance. It is what happens when a normally smart person encounters info that they consider unacceptable, so their brain protects them by turning off logic and engaging emotions.

They stated very clearly what it means. You do not like that, so you are playing definition games because you cannot tolerate the reality of the matter.
Storage appears to be paying for itself so people are installing it as fast as they can.
Because the way they are quantized takes time to get bug-free when new architectures are released. If a model was quantized with a known bug in the quantizer, then it effectively makes those quantized versions buggy and they need to be requantized with a new version of llamacpp which has this fixed.
run mighy-snitch[1] and you’ll be a little more secure.

aside from mandatory access control, for which there isn’t a usable solution for the typical desktop setup, monitoring network access attempts is as good as it gets.

you’ll be surprised how often everything is trying to phone home. firefox is particularly chatty to mozilla endpoints.

i tried to get filesystem filtering working via this same lsm, but couldn’t get it to work well enough. haven’t made another attempt since. definitely should work. hope to revisit or setup a bounty for it someday.

1. https://github.com/nathants/mighty-snitch
Private capital doesn't get allocated based on omniscience of future outcomes. It's about approximations of risk to reward in an environment of uncertainty. If you add risk or reduce reward of biotech, you get less private capital in biotech. Investors will allocate in other sectors with better risk to reward.
That's exactly what I meant by nuance, because the refactor into a function could never predict that 6 months down the line that specific function needs to be expanded, and someone might decide to delegate the call to another place. And the mess starts from trying to not repeat some code.

Sometimes I avoided extracting a function out of some duplicated code because I intuitively saw that they had some potential divergence down the line, and it has paid off quite a few times. That's part of the problem as well, it depends on wisdom and intuition only gained through experience.
It's interesting: minimal software is out there, but folks don't tend to choose it. I spend a fair amount of time thinking about how to be conservative in my dependencies, and this encourages a lightweight stack that tends to perform pretty well. These days, I'm favoring tools like Lua, SQLite, Fennel[0], Althttpd[1], Fossil[2], and the Mako Server[3] and find that great, lightweight, stable, efficient software is to be had, for free, but you have to go a bit off the beaten path. This isn't stuff you hear about on Stack Overflow.

In terms of frontend, which the post focuses on (Google Docs and a 30MB doc), I guess I'm conflicted. While I tend to favor native apps + web pages, I'm also a daily Tiddlywiki user, and I really think web apps have their place (heck, one idea I'm working on is a lightweight local server that lets you run web apps like Tiddlywiki). But without a doubt, Tiddlywiki is more resource intensive than Emacs (my go-to for notetaking when I'm not on TW). My tab for a 6MB Tiddlywiki file uses 155MB of RAM, and my (heavily customized, dozens of open buffers) Emacs session uses 88MB. So I do think the author has a good point.

[0]: https://fennel-lang.org/
[1]: https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md
[2]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
[3]: https://makoserver.net/
Weird I thought I answered this.

Anyway, they ship buggy code on overtaxed hardware that keeps me up at night.

ROS 7 was a disaster from 7.0 to 7.11, and it shipped on hardware that couldn't be rolled back to 6.

MPLS and OSPF have been huge victims of this. MPLS forwarding table often freezing and not updating. OSPF variables conking out causing protocol flaps, or not adding routes to the route table.

Theres other issues too. I could really go all day.

Great homelab stuff. I use it too.
what are the suggestions
I guess what I’m saying is if those preventative things were talking about, have not been implemented in the decades that they’ve been known about, I’m pessimistic thet they ever will be implemented.
What’s the most complicated thing it was able to debug?
Yes, Dickens satisfies both. He gets his message across simply. When he wants to expounds on what he means, he does it a beautiful and memorable way.
Ollama is really organized - it relies on llama but the UX and organization it provides makes it legit. We recently made a one-click wizard to run Open WebUI and Ollama together, self hosted and remotely accessible but locally hosted [1]

[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder
Adding configurability is a good additional option (even outside the layout detection) but because people like different layouts not because a few HN style folks break OS detection via custom firmware. It's certainly not a reasonable cause to redesign your control scheme around the limitation either. Something of 10%+ of internet users don't use qwerty, something of 0.01% set their layout via the keyboard's firmware.

Good note on the game being released ~2015 though, the API wasn't added until ~2018.
You pretty much nailed it here. Env vars and tasks were kind of a happy accident—I implemented both inside of a day. (different days of course) Just because I realized I had all the building blocks to make them possible already, just needed to arrange them in a different way and they just appeared.

In the future though I see tasks as being the headline for mise over tools. That's a ways out, certainly more than a year, but the thing about tasks is they don't suffer from the drawbacks that both PATH and shims have for putting your tools in the right place. In my personal use of mise I don't actually like using `mise activate` whatsoever. The problem is just that I can't yet do everything with tasks easily enough. Tasks need to get to a point where they're so easy you won't want to bother with having tools in your shell.

Though who knows. I may be off my rocker on that one. I certainly get things wrong as much, if not more, than I get them right.
One of my former employers maintains an old shitty wordpress site just to plant a flag. They never used it. All their customers come from referrals.
I use a mix of using llamacpp directly via my own python bindings and using it via llamacpp-python for function calling and full control over parameters and loading, but otherwise ollama is just great for ease of use. There's really not a reason not to use it, if just want to load gguf models and don't have any intricate requirements.
Sounds like you're running with a single elite clone. That's a really bad idea in genetic heuristics for exactly the phenomenon you mention.
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I don't disagree although as a physician he has a bit of conflict of interest in the discussion. I'm not sure it invalidates what he has to say but it's a context that might be kept in mind.
i think you might want to read up about labour protections in germany before opining this strongly.
In this case the assumption is that the camera evidence is accurate and conclusive. If it was a blurry picture, I don’t think they would be asked to provide additional evidence to prove they weren’t guilty, the ticket would simply be thrown out.

In other words, the burden of proof is still on the government to provide sufficient evidence. If they won’t or can’t, there is no case.
This is disturbing what state? Where do you find the ticks hiding on your body?
It's not the person who does the fine-tuning I'm worried about, it's the person who releases the base model who the law also makes liable.

The point is that, because fine-tuning can trivially induce behavior that satisfies the standard for "hazardous capability" in any model, the law effectively makes it illegal to release any covered model.
For a (pretty compelling IMHO) counter-argument see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
> "after this conversation I'm going to run to Bass Pro Shops and pick up a few more boxes of ammo" or whatever. Maybe a cyberpunk dystopia is what awaits us all.

I don't mean this to sound accusatory, but do you think there's at all a connection between the probability of a dystopic future and the prevalence of people betting that that's the future?
Not until long ago, we had RTF, a simple and universal rich text format that was free, simple and available on all platforms.

On Windows, Wordpad was plenty enough for most needs, came preinstalled for free and barely consumed any resources, but I understand it's no longer shipping with Windows. Office 365 is now where the money is, even for basic needs.
I think it's entirely possible that car interiors are getting more cramped. High center consoles between the front seats stop me from spreading my legs, deep glovebox stops me from stretching them, even the headrest juts forward now making it that much more difficult to recline. There about a hundred things like this getting in my way, add in a carseat or two and I'm not even comfortable driving.
My point is that no one should expect responsible or ethical behavior from LA in this area.
Not if you set up the market such that other cars are significantly cheaper. The market is only free to respond to demand when an intersection of demand and regulation makes it economical.
What would you have recommended as an alternative to Epic?
So, I said one thing (The US government subsidizes low agency individuals, who drag the rest down by existing, so that they can keep a stable population from which to buy votes on the cheap), and you completely ignored it to start straw-manning something unrelated (simping for regulations).

These are unrelated, so I'm not sure how you got there.
The way I’ve seen this failure expressed is when a handful of helper functions gain a bunch of optional arguments to toggle behaviour that most of the callers don’t care about.
lol I initially read this as remote people workers and was super confused
Seems perfectly reasonable for people to be chasing buzzwords, when most people don't understand the underlying causal reasons for actual business success. Much safer to follow the herd rather than be left behind.
I had a library missing and it started using ldd to see where things were linked, and it changed the library path to the proper location, it was impressive.
Perhaps it's different in USA due to different salary policies, but in European academia it sometimes happens that some of the leading positions are not actually that desirable, as you'll just sacrifice your scientific work (which you presumably love) to get bogged down with administrative duties instead. Like, our leadership roles are generally elected, so we can pick any one of us if we're unhappy with what the administration does, but I have seen this resulting even in literally drawing straws to choose who will apply to be the only candidate to be the head of an (sub)organization, because it's clear to everybody that we have to choose somebody to do it, but no one wants to be that one despite it technically being a promotion with slightly higher compensation. Perhaps rector is the role where this isn't relevant, since there you have multiple candidates who have already "sacrificed their life" to administration, but it can be the case for others.
It’s one of those “X and Y problem” things people on StackOverflow talk about. The Y is “we want to achieve the same or higher productivity while reducing payroll” and they’ve heard that AI is a way to do that (an X).
The exe for Word 2 was about 1MB. I remember it because it was by far the largest exe I had ever seen. It didn't have the red underlines for spell-checking but it did have all the other word-processing features I use now.
Jassy, Bezos, other Amazon execs used Signal messaging app, a problem for FTC
The FTC is upset Amazon executives used Signal. Where do you begin with this?
Totally. It’s getting difficult in Outlook to figure where window boundaries are. A lot of menus also look pretty amateurish compared to native menus.
> Maybe as a moralistic measure it’s offensive that something lacking parsimony is practical. But from any meaningful measure - the users perspective, the developer, even the company paying for the processing - if it doesn’t matter - it literally doesn’t matter.

Except the post you're responding to was literally in response to a user problem trying to edit a 30MB document in Google Docs. So it very much does matter, from the user perspective.

> Comparing Google Docs to a program hosted on an Apollo era flight computer is obtuse to an extreme, and I would rather write my collaboratively edited documents with Google Docs than Apollo era flight computer any day no matter whether one is less parsimonious than the other.

Straw man. The post compares Google Docs to LibreOffice (a competing product), and points out that LibreOffice solves the user's problem (editing a 30MB document) and Google Docs cannot.
These cases are almost always an example of convergent evolution as in biology. Common environmental constraints drive them toward the same shape and behavior but their DNA is fundamentally different. As soon as the constraints weaken or change, they diverge again to reflect their underlying DNA.
there may be an important divergence implied by this essay .. people here ask about using an LLM.. but the essay refers to "different photographs of the same scene from different photographers" or other personal collection items that are related but subjective or not-authoritative

There is a rush in public to condense and summarize many authoritative publications to find patterns, or to replace a human expert with automated results.. yet that is fundamentally different than taking multiple incomplete perspectives to add to a human library-owners knowledge and investigations.

It is subtle to speak it but not subtle in its implications.. taking "data as facts" and condensing them or reordering them or rewriting an output based on them, using automation, is different than a human mind taking in many inputs for human mind knowledge and enabling new outputs from a human author.