skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know who likes spicy things? Americans! Last time I was there I had a hard time finding a ramen that wasn't spicy. I mean, I like peppers and pepper sauce, but over there is ridiculous. By the way, how the heck did jalapeños made their way all the way to Alaska? Every single food had jalapeños on it; pizza, burger, breakfast burrito... At some point I had to ask them to remove jalapeños from my food cause it was burning my back end when going to the bathroom (another thing I learned is real, I thought that was a joke).
It would be even harder to read if the author didn't do that.

We are being invited to consider a premise (i.e. presume that it is true) and explore the consequences. At any point, we can choose to disagree with this premise, but at least we understand it.

Imagine instead if the author, after inviting us to accept the premise, proceeded to write as if we were to assume the premise were false. It would be much harder to understand what they were proposing or why they even wrote the piece in the first place. At best it would be a maze of obligatory qualifiers and nested hypotheticals.
As I said, there actually is. All top 3 scientists and all 3 top labs that have built the tech you are referring too. It's unanimous.

Sources: h-index of AI rankings
LLM rankings

Everyone can look them up and what their stance is.
So is FSD by the author and others being compared to perfect? Or is it compared to the worst drivers, average or best drivers?

If we wait for perfect it will never happen.
What resource’s depletion do you imagine is going to do us in?

I’m somewhat skeptical of climate change causing a civilization ending process, yet I find that vastly more likely than us running out of something.
Many of us are old enough to remember the kinds of projects that were freely and openly licensed and yet all you ever got was www.foo.org, foo-user and foo-devel mailman lists, a foo-1.2.3.tar.gz of source code, and a foo package or port in your free OS of choice.

Within each of these projects was an elite cabal of committers — those with access to the source tree, it’s history, and the ability to commit to it. Mere mortals couldn’t just become committers! You had to be proposed and seconded off the back of a prior history of helpful patches you’ve emailed to the lists over the past months.

Nowadays anyone can commit to any project because a git commit is always in a fork of the repo. Every single git working copy is a fork, even if most of them are just a means to be able to push commits back to your own master on someone else’s machine, usually GitHub’s.

I wonder why the author of this post can’t enforce the old social model with the new tools? Is it a sense of
social pressure to accept patches they don’t want? (Edit: in fact they do say this out loud — it really is about the emotional burden of having to reject contributors and interact with strangers — fair enough, I feel that too sometimes!)

One other extremely understandable problem with having a public repo to which it is easy to submit patches: the project owner’s level of plausible deniability for having seen copyrighted code drops to dangerously low levels. If the Yaak author was also worried that someone was going to put up a commit implementing something that was already on the project’s private roadmap, and that the external contributor would then claim some kind of IP ownership of the feature once it shipped, then I would be sympathetic to that stance as well.
That's quite helpful. Thank you for the information!
I’m not getting this, is this a way to challenge us? Elephants are way bigger
Oh my god! Seriously. Wow. This is honestly sublime – emotionally. For so long I've had townscaper builds, many of which were from a really crummy time for me in my life. I still build at least one a week, as a kind of meditative task. I've always so wanted to explore these little creations. They often have embedded coves, labyrinthine stairways, and hidden gardens that the normal controls make impossible to fully appreciate.

So this is ... wonderful.. and I'm so so so grateful there are people that make these things. What a beautiful surprise to see on HN! Thank you so much for sharing this :)))) EDIT: my day tomorrow is entirely forecast to be spent indoors navigating these little worlds. EDIT2: I wonder if there's a way to get to floating castles? I seem to get dropped in the ocean below.

EDIT3: A rather big build I'm whiling away time on: j11y.io/stuff/Town.obj
This doesn't look like the R&D I see in actual research centers - like places where you can play with particle accelerators, big pools, wind tunnels, microscopes.
Maybe that's an Alaska thing?

I live in New England, and at my grocery store most of the ramen flavors are quite tame.
Now, do whales.
From that post:

The benefits of open source must make up for the fact that:

- It’s hard to deal with unappreciative or rude feedback
- It’s hard to manage long back-and-forth feedback cycles
- It’s hard to decline a contribution that was submitted without approval
- It’s hard to say no to most things once the project has matured
- It’s hard when a good contributor leaves
- It’s hard to accept that people are working for no pay
- It’s hard to feel good about 1000+ open issues
- It’s hard that it never stops.

The list is made up exclusively of "it's hard to..." points, every single one of which reflects the personality of the person who wrote it, not the project's distribution model.

Hard to deal with unappreciative feedback? Ignore it, plain and simple.

Hard to reject contributions? Then you're doing it wrong, plain and simple. No project can be all things to all people, and rejecting contributions which do not fit the maintainers' vision of the project is just part of the process. In contrast to the OP's ideals, that's _especially_ true once a project matures. (SQLite may be the most well-known example of that.)

Hard to accept that people work for no pay? Believe it or not, the overwhelming majority of FOSS contributions are not commercially backed. i've written far, far more code "for free" (because i WANTED to) than for pay (working on behalf of someone else's agenda). If you're not enjoying contributing then don't contribute. Likewise, if someone contributes to your project without you having offered to pay them, it's a fair bet that they got at least some small level of joy out of having written the contribution in the first place. (If they then bemoan the fact that it's not merged into the trunk, i can recommend that they read up on "egoless programming.")

Hard to feel good about 1000+ open issues? Then close the ones which are out of scope and address the ones which aren't (even if "address" means flagging them as "won't fix"). Feel good that other people are taking the time to contribute tickets in the first place.

All of that said: i'm not the slightest bit anti-closed-source, i'm just annoyed that the author doesn't acknowledge that all of the supposed shortcomings are personal quirks, not limitations of the FOSS model.
> Although the technical details from this point onward are unfortunately
too dense to include in a general-audience essay of this sort, assuming as they
do familiarity with constructive non-standard analysis, it suffices to say that
supersized machines cannot be made (Figure 2).

Brilliant. This is exactly how "Godel's Theorem or Quantum Mechanics therefore I'm right" arguments always go :)
If there's checkpoint starvation, the WAL file cannot be reset, and it will still grow indefinitely even with this setting.
It’s not the same team. The Freenet Team is developing Hyphanet now.

Ian had not been active in Freenet development for over a decade (he managed the non-profit but didn’t interact with actual development) before he started Locutus. He initially started Freenet in 1999, but had long been absent.

The renaming was done against the explicit objection of the core development team. For further background, see the links in https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html

Hyphanet is the original Freenet and the next release is just blocked by finalizing the new signing setup for the Windows installer. See https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01498
I love the way Zig does allocators, when you compare it to Rust where allocation failures just panic (rolls eyes)
This is parody of "superhuman AI is impossible" essays.
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize I was reading a parody of arguments against machines with human level intelligence (or "larger")
It's a collection of arguments for the impossibility of super-human intelligence, rewritten to refer to size instead. If one is absurd, so is the other.
This is the original grandparent post context that I was responding to:

> I think there is a lot of cargo culting in presentations. Title slide? But of course we must have a title slide, that is the way. And an introduction, and motivation... everybody else has one!

The implied lack of justification, or doing something because that is simply how everyone else does it is consistent with the definition I posted from Wikipedia. It’s not mere habit or convention, but habit or convention without knowing the meaning or context.

> To make it more useful we can move the goalpost back to the roots, to include clear cluelessness and uselesness.

Again, I didn’t make this argument, so there’s no goalpost to move. You’re responding to things I didn’t say, and/or reading what I did say out of context. This is a misreading of my post, the GP post and wider context I placed my post in, and/or a straw man, or we actually are in agreement.

My original post:

>> Cargo cult programming is a style of computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.

>> Cargo cult programming can also refer to the practice of applying a design pattern or coding style blindly without understanding the reasons behind that design principle.

> Arguably, designing a presentation in a particular way out of habit or convention

(and without knowing why that is conventional, or if that way of doing things has no known or stated justification, but is observed because that is the way things are done out of institutional momentum, and so on)

> would fall under one or both of these definitions.
You could apply this same thought reasoning with the trolly problem.

You know one CEO but not the others. The others could be worse people overall but they choose to hide it. So you make a decision based off a known bias.

I don't think you're irrational for making this decision, it's just interesting. It's something I've never done.
Third try always
Catalonia is richer than the rest of Spain, that is why Catalan elites want the independence, they:

- Have an international airport

- Have an international sea port

- Is next to a richer country (France)

- Is a touristic place

If Catalonia was in the south of Spain, isolated and next to Morocco, things would be very different.
This seems very software focused and in my experience doesn't really apply to e.g. an engineering company.

Completely missing is e.g. simulation or in general evaluation of designs. In my experience teams also do multiple tasks, e.g. when you are doing simulations you also have to look at how the simulation can be improved or whether repetitive simulation tasks can be automated. Nobody besides your team could do do this research on new methods, simply because nobody else really understands your tasks and activities.
This exact same brand are in the UK and I can confirm they are the spiciest thing I have ever eaten.

They were too hot for me, but I seen it as a novelty item so bought more packs to dish out to friends.
Is there a reason why someone wouldn't use retain_with_limit or is doing without it just an exercise?
It does matter since different brands may offer different levels of weather protection. Typically only Dutch bicycle makers care about things like proper mudguards and chain guards, for example. And some, like Azor go crazy and test their parts in a rust chamber.

And, for example, the Cube bicycle as depicted in the article, is clearly not designed to be used in rainy weather. Who knows what else shortcuts they took?
The 2x Ramen is one of the foods I pack into my BWCA camping trips. We started with the standard ramens, started experimenting with finds on Amazon, and then discovered the wonders within our local Asian store. The 2x, for me, is just on the edge of what I can handle. I was not even aware there was something hotter.

You would not want to get the paste on your fingers and rub your eyes. No different then a proper hot chicken wing sauce.
Hint: It was an AI analogy.
We're getting to the point where browsers are worthy of the decades old criticism Emacs has received. They have become an OS with many fine features - simply lacking a good web browser.
Yes, I run the sponsorship program at Vercel. I'm the person working with these teams. Feels pretty fair to clarify.

Your bias is showing in your comment history.
There was screening. They said the cornea was a bit weak, but still fine… Last time I checked it wasn’t yet declared a genetic thing and there is no history of Keratoconus in my family.
everything is a command. If you don't like what that command does, monkeypatch it. Congrats, you're not a user any more, and never were.
MS only provides the infra, everything else is other's hard work under the trojan horse open source whatever. If they introduce limits, time to leave github. This will evolve into an elsevier vs researchers kinda situation.
Instead of “yst” and “dby”, which are a bit cryptic and hard to localize, I would suggest “-1” and “-2”. There could be a configuration parameter for how far back (and forth) relative dates should go. And sometimes there can be file times in the future, which could use “+1” and so on.
Well, you’re probably right since it seems like the US govt is foaming at the mouth to start ww3 with both Russia and China.
I only got CXL. After that experience, I am not too tempted to mess with my eyes anymore :(
Yes, the companies funding the libertarian movement have gotten their money’s worth back many times over. One of the most obvious examples of why this isn’t sufficient is that the arrangement is unilateral and there’s no practical way to opt-out of binding arbitration (which should be illegal) or to negotiate a price based on actual damages.
But those don't do R&D. They just do the R and never intend to bring a product to market.

E.g. automotive companies operate wind tunnels as well. Those would be used by teams evaluating car designs, together with simulation teams.
Agreed. The three individuals they listed are not anyone I would want my child to grow up to be.
The odds do not increase all that much with looking either.
Yeah, as someone who has built similar projects, this is a few hours of research to come up with the list of domains. You really should’ve done that; most of the comments here are negative, and ALL are related to the list you used.

It’s a cool idea and personally I would still do the research, revise the list, and then post it to HN once more. It’ll get a much better reception.
I think of poisoning as more systemic, less topical. Capsaicin acts as soon as it touches something.

I don't know if it enters the bloodstream or not, but since people eat it without more than a surface irritation, I would think that a quantity enough to cause systemic damage would be far too concentrated to touch, much less eat.
Sorry, I missed your reply. Thanks for the offer. I'll try to figure out whether this phone browser (a rather old Firefox fork) can take HAR traces and send it to you by email if I succeed.

Edit: No VPN, no Tor, no add-blocking, Javascript & cookies enabled. The only suspect is old hardware and slowly maintained software (although updated only recently by the vendor)
This is why it's called Computer Science, and not Software Engineering.
I'm hoping UCIe starts to fix this. It's touted as being something that can combine the low power with the high speed. As is PCIe is a relatively high power for anything that doesn't need the speed. You need to be moving pretty well past normal MCU interfaces (spi, uart, etc) before you see the power trade off.

As is, PCIe would add sizable die area consumption, raise power consumption by an order of magnitude, and likely raise part cost dramatically. Couple this with cheapy board designs that often can't even get USB 1.0-2.0 right (recalling the amount of boards that get the pull up resistors or power supply schema wrong), and it sounds like a nightmare to manage.

I think gigabit Ethernet is where I'd prefer the effort spent. Most micros have at most 100 Mb. NXP's i.MX RT line has gigabit but that's the only one I know of.
Again, I think you’re oversimplifying. There’s nothing reckless about accusing someone of rape, even if the only proof you have is your own testimony under oath.
Who cares what he puts on Twitter. IMO people are too obsessed over what people put on social media. Actions matter, words much much less (In this scope).

Judge people for what they do, not what they say (10000x on twitter).
Exactly. Just give false info, even when buying products, so when a breach occurs you won't have any headaches whether what was leaked and how.
Blocking content is done on a higher level: on the level which links are shown.

The default bookmarks only include links to safe content and the core communication tools (Sone, FMS) have decentralized moderation with which people sharing horrific content get blocked without creating centralized power structures. If you see something you think should not be there, you block it, and it disappears for all who trust your judgement.

And yes, it took a lot of work to get to this point.

The advantage here is: as soon as no one accesses that horrific content anymore, it disappears. So this moderation actually removes horrific stuff. Because the original Freenet is not actually for perpetuity: when a media file is not accessed for a month, it is gone.
> About the only time people can agree is when there's a danger

Haha, i thought the same thing when Covid started getting serious. Boy was I wrong.
Or people I anyone would like to work for.
Eh - to send it where? Even laser accelerated, even if it gets to 0.1c, where is it gonna go?

Edit0:typo
> The benefits of open source must make up for the fact that:

It’s hard to deal with unappreciative or rude feedback
It’s hard to manage long back-and-forth feedback cycles
It’s hard to decline a contribution that was submitted without approval
It’s hard to say no to most things once the project has matured
It’s hard when a good contributor leaves
It’s hard to accept that people are working for no pay
It’s hard to feel good about 1000+ open issues
It’s hard that it never stops.

> The list could go on, but you get the point; open source is hard and it takes a toll on your emotional well-being. The only way open source can work is in a corporate setting where full-time maintainers are paid to manage the project, can take breaks, and be replaced if desired.

I think a better answer lies in Rich Hickey's piece [0]. Making a project open source is not about making it a community project. You don't need to have contributors, or accept ideas. You don't even need to take feedback. I think Github's model of open source encourage the same kind of issue that social media have. By default, it encourages everyone to provide their opinion and ideas to something that is essentially yours. It does not work in the real world, and it does not work here.

You only need to add an issue trackers, if you care about tracking issues. You only need to accept contributions if you want to accept others' work. I still think email's collaboration and exchanging patches make more sense in community projects. PR and issue work best when there's a fixed set of collaborators and not external inputs.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
Would you still buy the Powerwall today?
I don’t see the images either on mobile.
Unfortunately having funds available to those who need it and giving funds to those who need it are very different problems. There was a significant amount of fraud with COVID funds, for example.

As a parent of four kids in public schools, less money is spent by the state on kids in choice programs and in most self selected charter schools. That seems like a win-win - parents get to choose schools that meet their educational needs, the public pays less in taxes to educated kids outside of the public school system.

My wife was a public school teacher, my mom was a public school teacher. Public schools are great for many, but their cost per pupil are in line with high end private schools and for the median students I don’t think they provide a better experience. In our area less than half of what the state gives a public school for a student is available as a voucher.

Unfortunately when a public school cannot provide a FAPE (special needs, social issues, etc.), without school choice the burden falls on the parents.
>> Why an organisation would want to drop Oracle RDBMS, but why move to another proprietary solution?

Bribes.
> don't have supporting tools, mainly a coding editor that auto-indents, re-indents, and shows matching parenthesis

But such an editor is possible for Lisp, without it having a deep understanding of Lisp at all.

For instance :set lisp mode is quite usable in classic Vi.

Whitespace, like indentation, is used in Forth programming. Do commonly available editors support this?
i can tell you from experience with a housemate's cooking that that includes capsaicin in cooking fumes touching lung tissue.
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It's way more efficient and logical to skip right to high speed mobile data than build out cable/optical/landline infrastructure
FWIW getting 8 0s took me 30 seconds, 9 0s definitely less than an hour, but after that I only got lower 9 0s, and 10 0s do not seem to be in sight
Companies can do it, but they refuse to, because noone knows what entity is really behind a specific corporation. So when a breach occurs it's basically a we handed over your information to whomever we collected it originally, but in a way that is untraceable.
> If we come into contact with a significantly advanced life form it would certainly lead to ineffable destruction.

I would expect an advanced form of life to be nice. Maybe humans will aspire to that some day too.
If its not useful, it's not going to be launched and accelerated that long.
There's a novel by T.C. Boyle about Dr. Kellog's Battle Creek Spa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24738.The_Road_to_Wellvi...

In case somebody's interested in a less accurate version of the story
This isn't the case if the driver (or, car computer, nowadays) rev-matches properly. Which is a skill that all manual drivers should have IMO.
Containing urban sprawl with densification strategies drives land price sky-high
Actually yes I too couldnt see any pictures on my phone nor get any real info. In my case I couldn’t spot a video either. Just lots and lots of ads. Very low info clickbait, which is a shame because I would appreciate an actual article on this subject :(
"Hmm no FPGA software for Mac, I guess I will have to design a custom ASIC instead...", said nobody.
Without the "I wish," that title doesn't make any sense.