skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when that meme of "how often do men think about the roman empire" was going around, I was talking to my girlfriend about it and I noticed how I couldn't name any Roman women other than [Agrippina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippina_the_Younger).

I mostly just watch [toldinstone](https://toldinstone.com/) and [Historia Civilis](https://www.historiacivilis.com/) on Youtube. I'm not really that interested in roman history, it's just nice infotainment to put on in the background, so it's not like I am going out of my way to learn about roman history, so it may also be that the presenters are glossing over the role of women in roman society. But I also watch a lot of ancient roman cooking videos, and again, the role of women is often absent in the historical texts that these videos quote from.

I find it odd that I can only name a single roman woman, when I can name at least a few dozen women in other historical time periods that were very patriarchal. medeival, renaissance, and colonial era European history has many famous women, and Chinese and Japanese history has many named women, many in the courts of nobles, but they were still written about. I also don't read into these eras of history deeply, I just consume infotainment about them.

It makes me wonder how much worse roman civilization must have been for women that they apparently didn't even bother to write down anything about them. Or is it that pop-history about ancient rome tends to be more male-oriented than history about other historical eras, and so women are just not talked about?
This proposal solves many societal problems. LGTM please merge into master at your earliest convenience.
What’s your source for this? The purpose of the asset limit is to force middle class people to use up their assets before the public will start paying. Thats an entirely reasonable policy decision.
Allowlisting has the problem of being more subject to lobbying.

Better to pick a more objective measure (environmental persistence) and then calculate cost addition directly from that.
We did not send troops until '42, but from about 1941 FDR was sending massive amounts of aid to the UK and USSR thru the lend lease and other programs.
All positive points are related to use of more energy, which of course would trigger research in renewables and faster hardware, but that already happens anyway with AI, fancier GFX in movies, medical simulations, space related stuff, etc. ...and of course the military. On the negative side, here's my view that I have never seen anywhere else: by mining bitcoin you invest directly in money creation, that is, there's no hiring people, no new business creation, no research aimed at product development, therefore much less knowledge and by extension a lot less jobs. What incentives would have investors to build, say, a motorcycle factory in a city, if a mining farm in some cheap desert land would make them richer for much less?
Going straight from energy to money benefits only those who will cash that money, and a few others working in the energy or mining hardware fields, which however are already highly automated, so the influx of new jobs would be minimal.
You need to let them go, there is no other alternative. They were hired by mistake for a position they’re not qualified for, it’s that simple.
with ever increasing context size — Claude 3 Sonnet, 204,800 token context size, 500 page document — sometimes not opting for chunking but at the same time optimizing for costs and latency might be a better solution, strategies like: Summary extraction and single pass extraction works well[1]

[1] - https://docs.unstract.com/editions/cloud_edition#summary-ext...
Anyone have a pdf copy?
We Migrated Our Static Analyzer from Java to Rust
I prefer "treat others as they would treat you" as a moral principle - or slightly better than they would treat you. How do you think your company would treat you, if they found a developer that did a better version of whatever you're doing? If you found a better way to do whatever your company is doing, the answer should be the same.
Datacenter as Computer: Intro to Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines (2013)[pdf]
Doesn't this make AI agents better? Given that human TAs do make mistakes a LOT, or in many cases are just unprepared (e.g. haven't done the programming assignment themselves)

Human TA's have ego, AI doesn't. With proper tools, you should be able to steer an AI agent.

I think both humans and AI agents both have their drawbacks and benefits. That's why the last section of the paper discusses that we even need to teach students (or provide tools) to help them decide where to use AI vs non-AI tools.
Actual title was too long for HN. Full book title is: "The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines"
It's on Libgen: http://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=5117E6AD93BCB262127474C6358645D...
Ha, I remember that thread!

I did the same with a dumpster find in 2020. I saw the guy hauling and depositing it, so I asked and got it (2011 iMac 27" with maxed out specs at ordering time - radeon 9800, i7, 16gb ram, ssd+2tb hdd. Almost mint condition).

It had of course 2 issues:

- backlight was dead on one half of the screen

- infamous radeon BGA soldering issue, intermittent glitches & os freezing when it had warmed up

I resoldered the backlight connector (apparently broke off the pcb under mechanical stress) and swapped in a used $20 Nvidia Quadro that I had flashed with nick's hacked rom from the above thread.

I did not want to do some hackintosh mods to the OS so i went with (iirc) mavericks and sold it on classifieds for $430 after noone in my circle wanted it. I was also able to sell off the mxm radeon 9800/2GB for $30, placed the ad just for curiosity about it's resale value in such a broken state. :)

The money was just by-catch, the real joy always comes from resurrecting broken things (for me).
This quanta title has to be rage bait. I don't think they could have constructed a more annoying title.
Court rules Meta must face lawsuit over fraudulent ads
The Proof: Securing Internet Protocol TLS 1.3
Looks like my old MySpace
the explanation of "*word = "hello"" shown is completely incorrect, the memmove explanation is also incorrect
Indeed, and there are a few other mammals for which there are mechanisms to reduce ATP generation, reduce VO2, etc., and some which do it much better than humans do. Emperor Penguins, for example.
I'm not implying soles don't wear out but that shoe rubber is nothing in comparison to tires. It is not worth comparing the two.
I've been hearing people posit this theory since I was a child in the 1970s, it's not a new theory by any measure.
Fun fact: GBA emulation and homebrew development actually started before the system's release [1]. IIRC, the official devkit was leaked, then someone wrote a summary of the low-level documentation and started circulating that, which (since the CPU had an off-the-shelf ARM core) was enough to start making rudimentary emulators and tech demos.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001214040900/http://www.zophar...
While highly variable, the blocktime average over hundreds of blocks can be held very close to its target (and with a trivial one line difficulty adjustment to boot). The orphan rate doesn't get pronounced until blocktimes are made significantly shorter than 1 minute.
It was meant to be witty more than informative, but it only has one meaning: to one significant figure would mean no more than 4.9% of physicists sell books. To three, it's 00.049%. I think less than 1 in two thousand physicists being book authors is accurate.
Is it going to be broken on Mac? Or maybe a random update a year into its life will break it on Mac?

I used to love playing Civ on GeForce NOW, because I could have 16 AI civs and turns took less than a second. But then 2K games decided I shouldn’t be able to do that, even though I was playing a licensed copy I bought from them on Steam, because they didn’t like the computer I was using to run it. So they removed all their games from GeForce NOW (and NVidia complied for some reason, despite the service being a cloud computer where users can play their own licensed games). But they offered no alternative – there is no 2K cloud I can pay for. Then a few months later 2K pushed an update that broke the game on 2020 MacBook Pro despite working fine before, and blamed it on incompatible hardware.
> The same goes with human TAs that are extensively used in undergrad introductory programming classes. They can also be unreliable in many cases.

Ehh. Those TAs, if they feel they might be wrong, can consult the lecturer/professor. And if they feel they might be wrong, they can just say so.

IMO there is little to no comparison between a bad TA and a confidently-wrong LLM (having been a TA who knew to consult the professor if I felt I was not on solid ground).

LLMs have no experience with teaching, they have no empathy for students grappling with the more challenging things, and they can gain no experience with teaching. Because it's not about spewing out text. It's about guiding and helping students with learning.

For example: can an LLM sympathise or empathise with a cybernetics student who is grappling with the whole conceptual idea of laplace transforms? No. It can only spew out text with just the same level of investment as if it was writing a silly song about cats in galoshes on the Moon.

I wish we were not in this "well humans also..." justification phase.

It is genuinely disrespectful to actual real people and it's founded on projection.

And in this case, it will also shut down the pipeline of academic progression if TAs are no longer hired.

Why are we doing this to academia when the better approach would be giving TAs better training in actual teaching? More-senior academics doing this kind of research work is absolutely riddled with moral hazard: it's not your jobs immediately on the line.

ETA: sooner or later, people in the generative AI market should really consider not just saying that we should talk about the ethical implications, but actually taking a stand on them. It's not enough to produce something that might cause a problem, rush it into production and just say "we might want to talk about the problems this might cause". Ethics are for everyone, not just ethicists.
Yeah, that looks odd 32GB recommended, also 256 GB HDD.
Definitely feels incomplete. It should at least make an attempt to capture videos from the crawl. It feels like it does less than what yt-dlp would do if given that URL.
For most browsers you can copy the reuquest in curl format to a site through the Network tab in the Developer Tools panel. In there should be all the cookies/user data required to make a request from the command line.
And I assume renting in the US these days means you'll need a 2xMonth bond in addition to your normal rent in advance, like here, meaning you need savings of 3xMonthly-rent to even consider moving, probably more unless you intend to move using a borrowed shopping trolly.
Landfills aren't usually in Antarctica. I thought we were supposed to be trying to keep Antarctica relatively pristine because it's Antarctica. Also, the sewage doesn't decompose in those temperatures, like it would in a normal landfill.
Judge rather than jury will render verdict in upcoming Google antitrust trial
Beer, water, urine. I drink them all, I can’t tell the difference.
That article is borderline rambling, and I don't see how it applies to asking this question.
I was thinking something very similar to this. For all the thinking about the Roman empire, we (well the vast majority of we) need to be very thankful we live now rather than then. Tom Holland's dominion gives a very interesting run down of the horrors of those times.
Sorry for the delay:

In both time I knew it was happening, but I was too busy to fix it.

It almost happened again - I pulled the employee off the job, made him document everything, and put a team of people back in. He was banned from the job.

Kept both him and the customer.
You got me again, framework! ;-)

I bought the original glossy, despite my reservations, because it was the only choice. Then the matte display came out, and I upgraded to that for $200! Now you dribble out high-res, which I'd have preferred up front. For another ~$300 (giving me euros for some reason) I could now get hi-res?

Meanwhile the "marketplace" is not yet a market yet, still? I'm need to find a use for this growing pile of displays.

Oh, and what's with the sendgrid tracking links on your blog? Are we not able to trust even the companies we do deal with directly any more? I mean sure there's Microsoft and its ilk, but framework paints itself as enlightened.
The top dominant comment is the predictable "msm reported x was bad now it's good they don't know anything".

What a waste of a thread. Of course msm science reporting is trash I can get that discussion on a bad reddit thread.

Alcohol is a poison, a fairly tolerable one. It's also an addictive drug on social, biochemical, and emotional levels. And likely something that there has been coevolution with humans over the thousands of years it has been ingrained into society.

The optimal amount of alcohol is zero, because nutritionally it is completely replaceable with better options, any of the enzyme/relaxation effects are either replaced with no alcohol alternatives or far better done with exercise.

The entire thread has pro alcohol compartmentalized thinking hallmarks of addictive patterns: don't say bad things about the precious, dismiss the risks, trump up by 100x fringe studies of alleged health benefit. It's like reading /r/trees on reddit.

Now will it kill you from a single shot?no. Is alcohol one of the major millennium spanning means of getting people to procreate, a not insignificant aspect of general societal demographic health? Probably.
TikTok hid and I hid my profile multiple times and would hide peoples accounts when I had them on my contract list.

Basically made me feel like the entire application is malicious and associated with almost all my issues.
My mistake for engaging with you; you have checkmated me. You are asking me for my sources now, whereas I should have asked you first what your source was for your claim about "nobody choosing to do evil". Alas, that now looks weak and desperate.
I find the idea of a fixed-size universe to be myopic. I personally align with the Quilted Multiverse Theory (albeit more fractal, than quilt):

• Matter in the universe only has a finite number of ways it can rearrange itself

• If the universe is infinite, patterns will eventually repeat

• If the universe is infinite, there would be an infinite number of parallel universes within space

Thus, if you could travel far enough, you will perceptually return to where you started. And since perception governs presence, does it matter that you're technically somewhere else? You're essentially in the same place.

I also love this theory, because it means every possible form that can exist, at any point in its development, is taking place somewhere, all at the same time.

https://www.worldatlas.com/space/the-quilted-multiverse-theo...
Show HN: I built job search platform for Architects
Hi HN,

I started my solopreneur journey this year and I’d like to share something I’ve been working on: ArchGee - a job search platform for architects, interior designers, urban planners, and other professionals in the architecture field. Coming from an IT background, I’ve seen plenty of job boards for IT roles. However, my architect friends often struggle to find job opportunities specific to their unique skills.

Archgee is designed to fill this gap. It’s tailored exclusively for the architecture community, making it easier to find relevant opportunities. At first I am planning to integrate jobs from other search platforms (jobs that are relevant to architecture), then partnering with industry companies to ensure high-quality job posts and aim to create a supportive space for networking and growth.

I’m here to seek your thoughts and feedback.

Mirza
For me it was Dotto's Data Cafe (1990s Canadian TV show):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1wEOoCDNmg
I think it would be more reasonable to judge whether it is promotion according to its content, quality, purpose, instead of domain name.

I totally agree one should get flagged if one posts the same product or application for the same use case again and again. But in my situation, they are different tools for different use cases.

I don't think this demo would get flagged if it was uploaded and presented in the https://asciinema.org or https://github.com .

I don't go against hackernews flagging system. It brings ORDER.

Sincere thanks to everyone for reviewing the cases.
This is a new one. Didn’t read the whole comment much less the article.

“previously painted wood, chunks of metal, etc” crap.
that's why the article talks about using machine learning to decide of best strategy: to deal with unknown content 'shape'
I'd recommend removing yourself as the longest supporter and let others shine in the glory, I guess at least one person paid, right?
> In contrast, gene duplication at a large scale in any animal would probably fundamentally mess up body plan development in non-survivable ways.

While unusual, polyploidy in mammals is survivable, there's a species which is tetraploid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_viscacha_rat

The wiki exaggerates the degree to which this claim is controversial, fwiw. Better than the alternative, probably.
AverageDB
After 10 generations your message is diluted to 0.1%.

We still read Shakespeare and listen to Mozart.
There is Lucretia, and Virginia who was treated so badly by the aristocrats that it led to the overthrow of the decemviri and restoration of the Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verginia, Macaulay wrote a famous poem about her as well, https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/virginia.html
Is solar concentration more or less efficient than loud electric pumps at raising water for a water tower, which stores gravitational potential energy and pressurizes the tubes?

Could heat a water tank full of gravel or sand.

"Engineers develop 90-95% efficient electricity storage with piles of gravel" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927280

How efficiently does a solar concentrator fill a tank of water at a higher altitude?

(How) Does relative humidity at the top and bottom of the tube significantly affect fill/lift rate?

Is PV to batteries to pumps more or less efficient than solar concentrated steam?
Consider a video game that consists of a single screen and when the player character walks off one side it appears on the other opposite side (same for top and bottom). The playing field in this case is a torus. Now consider the case of two connected tori; at any point the player exits they could find themselves on the other screen. Now consider a “foam” of many tori. Has this game been made? Or anything that explores this idea of walking around connected tori?
Not only that, but also not optimizing for the happiness and satisfaction of the people working at the company. In particular those working with this person. Everyone will have a worst work environment to allow one person to get away with not being earnest during the hiring process
Yes and no. Scientists throw out these sorts of terms and know what they mean but the general population doesn't and doesn't get the ramifications of the real meaning. Just see how many people think that when a scientist says "the universe" that they mean the entire universe and not, as scientists mean, the observable universe. For general, "pop" cosmology those have very different meanings and lead to all sorts of bad thinking.
Kids, this is why you shouldn't humanize corporations that shout out nonsense like "Do no evil".
Well, actually I would be interested in graphics and units available. Supposing it is going to cost 70€, at least I would like to know if it's worth it. These kinds of trailers are just useless
Not defending the $2000 rule, but there are charities that will give you move in costs if you are on SSI and bring them a lease agreement.
I think it has to do with learning styles and mental database structures.

I design complex medical implants, can build a car from scratch, and even understand some of the polymer chemistry of fabrics, but still struggle with laundry despite doing it for 20 years.

I have settled into the heuristic of warm wash & repeat until clean + dryers destroy anything but socks.
So they'll patch around it.

You're just making your software worthless in the long run for some value probably less than 5 years, or creating a fun problem for an emu hacker.

Most of the significant losses to piracy monetarily isn't emulation, it's the chippers/mods that bypass cloned media copy protection.

Which emulator authors have a lot more control over in bypassing
It's not always easy to find the right words to describe why a feature pause to refactor is needed. This quote was a succinct statement that avoids analogy:

"Postponing a small cleanup can transform it into a big cleanup because, over time, code builds up around the problem, and it too must be refactored."
What Causes Sleep Paralysis?
> that could be useful in cryptography.

See related Neural Cryptography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_cryptography
The first land plants were likely similar to mosses or liverworts.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/if-not-demons-what-cause...
Does anybody have any idea what sort of things are possible with such a tool?
You can accomplish the same thing by adding dog poop to your compost.
This. The XX century belonged to the US, with New York and Los Angeles attracting people and dictating the cultural and economic agenda. (West) Berlin's cultural life was undoubtedly lively but hardly dominant, even just getting there was difficult. Even just in Europe, London, Paris, Roma, Milano, Amsterdam - they were all much more relevant than Berlin at any one time after WWII. A few gay bars and Bowie albums doth not a cultural hegemony make.
Interestingly, warm-blooded animals (including humans!) tend to have simple genomes compared to cold-blooded ones or similar complexity. It's just much easier to get repeatable results during development when you can do all the trickiest parts at fixed temperature, a human can use a single gene to achieve what a frog needs half a dozen for.
You need to make sure your knot is a proper (double-slipped) reef knot, and not the granny knot. It's easy to mix them up, and keep doing a granny knot by habit.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
I played through the game a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it, thank you very much for creating and sharing it. Seem to remember getting stuck on level 2 for longer than is probably reasonable...! Will definately check out wordbots.
It all comes under the umbrella term "Budweiser".
It has some rather amusing utterly approximate analytics in it for gameplay tuning purposes (i.e. how far can you go with the honour system and not wanting to track individuals) which has revealed things like Spanish speakers seem to be much better at it than English speakers. This may be because one particular Spanish language blog linked to it and created a surge of a good demographic, but overall I have been amazed by how bad people are at it.

At one point I could spot cheating quite easily simply because no one was succeeding legitimately and the cheaters created such nonsensical patterns in what was going on.
Because the obscure site had not existed for years when the copypasta first appeared. So someone would have had to have found that obscure site and then saved the image for years before using it.

Honestly, both options (website or archive) sound pretty unlikely to me. I'm wondering if instead it was a third option: maybe the originator of the copypasta was the person who originally took the photo. It would make sense for them to remember the event and go pull a good image out of their photo folder.
FPGA implementations are often implemented based on code or documentation from software emulation projects. An FPGA version of a PS2 has no guarantee of not implementing the same or similar bug.