skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but not for lack of trying.

I stopped using Duo almost a year ago after reaching a 2500 day streak, having repeatedly turned the whole tree (it was a tree not a path when I started) gold more than once, only for most of the lessons to be reset as more content was added.

I'd decided to stop using it before that point, and only continued to get a round number.

It kept giving me the illusion of knowledge, but when it came to actually trying to talk to native speakers I was getting perhaps three words in four, which isn't enough for any but the most basic of sentences.

My current apps of choice are Babbel and Clozemaster, the latter of which is perfect for commutes precisely because it doesn't use any stupid annoying animations or grating children's voices like Duolingo does, and therefore allows me to get into flow state.

I've also got some podcasts and YouTube channels in the target language: https://www.youtube.com/@EasyGerman

I'm now up to recognising 29 words out of 30 in normal conversation (depending on accent and speed, of course), but wouldn't have gotten that far if I was still on Duo.
Poor code monkeys. I am in a industry where software bugs can severely harm people since over 20 years and the fastest code never survived. It always only solved some cheap and easy 70% of the job and the remaining errors almost killed the project and everything had to be reworked peoperly. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. "Fast" code costs you four times: write it, discuss why it is broken, remove it, rewrite it.
How does being a backend engineer makes you safe from business requirements changes? It doesn't add up to me.
This is a famous experiment. To summarize the aftermath:

- Strong statistical evidence of tampering with the test. Bem has been doing more test than he has recorded, and removed failed tests from the statistics.

- Replication studies can't find any effect.

Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: the transparent Psi project https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.191...

"Too good to be true: Publication bias in two prominent studies from experimental
psychology", Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 19 (2): 151–156. doi:10.3758/s13423-012-0227-9
http://www2.psych.purdue.edu/~gfrancis/Publications/GFrancis...

The Test of Insufficient Variance (TIVA): A New Tool for the Detection of Questionable Research Practices
https://replicationindex.com/2014/12/30/tiva/
Yet one of the most corrupt first world democracies has them while most of the much less corrupt democracies doesn't have it. Maybe it is needed due to corruption, but it doesn't seem to be necessary.
Pray tell: what magic C/C++ compiler options do I add to enable deterministic OOB checks that never produce any false positives or negatives?
Tubeless sucks. I've seen several cyclists on group rides running tubeless tires have flats that couldn't be fixed at all, or required installing a tube to get home. Maybe it works well enough for mountain bikes but for road bikes the tubeless tires seem too weak.
This might be what push me to buy Townscaper
That's easy to circumvent.

A VPS host running DNS resolver and point your boxes to it.

You're welcome.
I closed the page at "Kubernetes", despite the "you may not need this", because that was all I needed to hear to know this setup has little to do with the ordinary one person tech startup.
There is, but weight, cost, etc.

BLDC motor design also has a conundrum - most of the heat is made in the motor coils, and they can be designed to get up to about 250C, which makes them easy to cool.

However, they are wrapped round thermally conductive steel touching thermally sensitive neodymium magnets which have to stay below ~60C for full performance.

So it isn't simply a matter of getting rid of heat - it's a game of preventing heat transfer.
Unless France starts blocking DNS port 53/udp and 53/tcp and start whitelisting DNS servers ... :-/
"For this article, you’ll need the following knowledge:

Basic C understanding (Memory, Stack, Heap, Syscall)."

Obviously, since C doesn't prescribe any kind of heap, stack or syscall behavior (or if they even exist), I assume the author meant something like "Basic understanding of how C is often implemented on certain operating systems and hardware".
RGB monitors and CMYK printers have a very limited color space compared to the pigments used in inks and paints. The colors are brighter and more vivid instead of compressed to fit RGB/CMYK. Many of the best art works have to be seen in person to really experience (I haven’t seen the Fuji prints in person so I can’t speak to specifics here).
Mr Hopkins you are by far one of my favorite posters on this website and these sort of comments are golden.

On occasion they get appropriate engagement but sometimes there are no replies.

You should know that it does not go unnoticed. The breadcrumbs you leave will be followed by youngsters far into the future, a worthwhile endeavor.

Thank you for brightening my sunday and everything you’ve done and your efforts at documenting and preservation.

While HN is not what it used to be I consider you royalty and old school users like yourself are the reason many of us still frequent this place.

You are appreciated sir. Cheers.
Cursory search yields two things:
Flour mills [0] and railway system [1]

[0] https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn/history/flour-milling

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)
I stopped having to proactively learn most gotchas by just having the spectacularly useful shellcheck linter automatically run on save.
Well for one thing, that's Primary energy which is 75% waste.

If you combine that with looking at progress in the last decades or so, it allows for some optimism.
It's not unbelievable if you know and use Emacs and dired.

dired will use `ls' if it is available. You can also control the arguments passed to `ls' if you want to customize sort order and suchlike. You cannot trivially do this if it's hardcoded as syscalls.

Emacs's buffer concept specifically works around the idea of annotating the output of common coreutils commands and annotating them so they are interactive in Emacs. That means you can combine `find' + `ls' and show a collated list of files matching the things you want. That is very powerful.

Oh, and you can swap out `find' or `ls' with anything that emits a similar format (or customize Emacs to interpret it differently).

Now your readdir, stat, etc. equivalents require significant development effort.
Internal hubs now can have just as much range of ratios as derailleur's.

They also have the benefit they can change gear while stationary (very handy for traffic lights etc)

Historical (ie. 1960's) internal hubs only had 3 gears, so what you say might have led to market dominance.
The parents seem to be enablers according to the article. The child's mother is into marketing, so I guess it is in character.

I don't think there is a sane way to prevent missuse of pictures of children.

But a starter would be to not use social media.
As all the discussion about AI has shown, what we even mean by intelligence in humans is a huge and ongoing debate.

IIRC, canine emotional intelligence has been tested, and dogs have the emotional intelligence of a 14 year old human.

Just don't take my word for it as I've not been able to find an actual citation.
> I even had a go at writing a LaTeX paper of my own (it never got finished; there was a lesson there).

The lesson is that the author found LaTeX too difficult or did not have the patience for it. But maybe we should take our advice from someone who has actually written a document with it.

Like any tool (including WYSIWYG editors) there is a learning curve. Once the up-front cost has been paid, using the tool is easy.

I notice that the author uses Emacs. They could just as easily have written a long article about how that's a waste of time and everyone should use Nano, because you don't need to learn any keybindings and the result is just text anyway.

> ‘making humans edit XML is sadistic’

Agreed, but LaTeX is not XML and nobody is making anyone do anything.
Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work?
I'm curious to know how freelancers get work. I've seen things like upwork but the quality seems quite poor. Where are people finding Dev jobs that are more short-term?
I notice that we've been seeing a lot of articles here about how e-bikes have motor problems, how EVs don't sell, how EVs have issues, how they "aren't really green", etc, yet we never see any such articles for ICE cars and motorcycles. I wonder why there's such interest in maligning green ways of transportation.
Sure but is that really enough to get buy in on a whole new language? Especially when the new language still leaves open the door for so many of the critical problems with C?
"Who Is R. A. Lafferty?" (2021) https://www.wired.com/story/who-is-r-a-lafferty-best-sci-fi-...

> You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock you sideways.. Just one problem: Nobody reads him. They didn’t when he was alive, and they don’t now that he’s dead.. Lafferty didn’t just write possibly the best short stories in the world, of which more than 200 were published by various pulps and small presses in his lifetime. He also wrote 36 novels.. In 1972, Lafferty published one of his rare non-sci-fi novels, Okla Hannali, a history of the Choctaw Indians in the 19th century.. One of Okla Hannali’s most startling passages:

There is an interesting question in the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas and also in an old science fiction story, the name of which I forget, concerning the paradox of free will and predestined fate. It asks whether a man in making a great decision that will forever set the seal on his future does not also set the seal on his past. A man alters his future, and does he not also alter his past in conformity with it? Does he not settle not only what manner of man he will be, but also what manner of man he has been?

> The point is that Native myths, Catholicism, and science fiction all ask versions of the same question: How preordained is destiny? In a single paragraph, Lafferty elevates sci-fi to the level of theology and ultimate truths, and unifies his entire artistic and thematic project in the process.
There is normally no collision detection beyond 10Mbps. Also PoE would not trivially work daisy chained.
Sad to see them gone. Are there any Swift/Swift UI 1–5 day Bootcamps anywhere in the world that can be recommended?
This would be the point where DNS over HTTPS would save the day if it had more widespread adoption..
Walter M. Miller Jr.

Also a science fiction novelist, also Catholic by conversion, incidentally also bombed a Benedictine Abbey.

I've read Lafferty, I like much of Lafferty, it was a prolific time for SF authors although cents on the pages in payment.
This is one that caught my eye: https://x.com/fox5ny/status/1802170514766541169
> Don't people bike because they want to get fit?

In my city people bike because they want to get from A to B.

E-bikes are great for that! They enable reasonable fast biking without breaking into sweat (good for commuting) and in hilly areas.

First they enabled senior citizens to bike fast and longer. Then came the mountain e-bikes and made it cool. Than the city hipsters. Then family mum and dad zipping their children around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA&t=168s

> If not, get a proper motorbike.

Motorbikes are loud and heavy and more expensive. You need a helmet and have to use the road instead of bike lanes. You need a driving license.
Wasn’t there also a passage advising getting 10 hours of sleep per night?
My new VPS got an SSH attempt in 5 minutes after I purchased it. I'm now in the progress of running a similar honeypot experiment.
> Some men sent pictures of male genitalia and links to porn sites.

> Sometimes the mom spent two to four hours a day blocking users or deleting inappropriate comments.

> At the same time, more sponsorships and deals were trickling in.

I can see the allure of a little extra cash and free stuff and attention, but this is just bad parenting.
Absolutely awesome ... an oasis in a hostile desert.
We needs more webrings and curated link portals (which this essentially is) ...

Thank you devs!
> so everyone else but you can be un-conscious and you would have no way of telling

Indeed, though* all of us should be confident that there is at least a second conscious being besides ourselves, the one who coined the term.

* ignoring A J Ayer for a moment, even though "there is a thought now" would be the only form of consciousness that a current LLM could possibly have if it had any at all
You can spot social Darwinists by hand-wringing that the "unfit" might paradoxically be outbreeding the "fit".
> 8181 root

In 30 days? That's tad unrealistic.

Just checked and there are dozens root login attempts per minute on my colo'ed server in the EU. Virtually all from the Chinese and post-Soviet IP space. But mostly Chinese.
It’s getting there, but you can still see that certain sounds are not realistically rendered. For example V in “vengence” the bottom lip has to touch the upper teeth, but in the renderings it’s only approximated.
The counterpoint to this is that Americans are too sensitive about sex relative to other things, such as violence, with or without guns. Three year old little boys get to run around with toy weapons that shoot foam darts, and apparently that's perfectly fine. Meanwhile you're saying that a teenager apparently can't be trusted to make decisions about whom they show their own body to. That teenager might be old enough to have had sex already, and in times gone by might have been eligible for marriage. But if someone gets to see them -- with clothes on and at a safe distance -- let's call the Puritan Police and have them shamed publicly for their transgressions against good moral behaviour!

In the USA the Overton window for these two aspects of life have very little overlap with the rest of the world. In only a very small number of other places do you see fathers teaching their teenager daughters how to handle guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIR1vcj4lcE

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/26/madonna-critic...
Show HN: OpenPledge – Encourage Companies to Fund Their Open Source Dependencies
I discovered that many corporations don't support open source packages because they can't see a direct return on investment.

And honestly... who could blame them?

They donate a certain amount to a person they don't know, with no guarantee it will help in any way.

With OpenPledge, we want to change that. We understand that small donations won't move the needle, since an engineer's salary is usually pretty decent.

However, if a corporation that heavily depends on open source repositories (and most of them do) is presented with a new way of supporting that actually shows results, we believe we can reduce the number of abandoned repositories and, therefore, reduce the number of vulnerabilities in enterprise products.

With substantial donations by corporations, which can be distributed among the issues of the repositories they use (this would be done by developers in these corporations), rewards would be paid to the actual contributors who solve those issues, and corporations would actually see results.

Hop on our wait list to be one of the early adopters in what I believe could be a revolution in open source community :) !
That’s crazy. I haven’t heard of this. My son was reading like an adult by 4. I didn’t do anything structured but just did what made sense. He enjoyed the learning process and so did I, so I’m not sure why anyone would tell you not to do it. Where’s the harm?
Ironically, I’ve just started asking LLMs to summarize paywalled content, and if it doesn’t answer my question I’ll check web archives or ask it for the full articles text.
hmm just an extra data point. I've ridden my 2018 bike in wet Scottish winters, across spring rivers, and summer beaches in summer, and it's been fine.

could be luck of courser
That's one tradeoff in Wayland versus the X Windowing System: if you want a process with the ability to send keystrokes X supports it while under Wayland you'll have to use compositor-specific facilities for every compositor you're willing to support (GNOME, KDE, wlroots, Weston,...).
Nice work, but like others, I have a "too good to last long" feeling.

What is the legal situation for such services? Is the provider liable in any way for how users use the service?
Thank you!

I've been using llama.cpp for about a year now, mostly implementing some RAG and React related papers to stay up to date. I mostly used llama.cpp, but since a few months, I started to use both Ollama and Llama.cpp.

If you added grammars I wouldn't have to be running the two servers, I think you're doing an excellent job out of maintaining Ollama. Every update is like Christmas. They also don't seem to have the server as a priority (it's still literally just an example of how you'd use their C api).

So, I understand your position, since their server API has been quite unstable, and the grammar validation didn't work at all until February. I also still can't get their multiple model loading to work reliably right now.

Having said that, GBNF is a godsend for my daily use cases. I even prefer using phi3b with a grammar than deal with the hallucinations of a 70b without it. Fine tuning helps a lot, but can't solve the problem fully (you still need to validate the generation), and it's a lot less agile when implementing ideas. Crating some synthetic data sets is easier if you have support for grammars.

I think many like me are in the same spot. Thank you for being considerate about the stability and support that it would require. But please, take a look at the current state of their grammar validation, which is pretty good right now.
As a native Japanese, I can tell you that is true. There are many types of Japanese paintings, but the most popular is ukiyo-e. And I can't think of a more famous ukiyo-e work than "Great Wave". Therefore this is considered the most famous Japanese painting.

If asked to choose one ukiyo-e as an illustration for a banknote, almost all Japanese would choose this work. (Especially considering that the back of the banknote, i.e., a landscape, is required)

Although less famous than "Great Wave", however there are still works that are comparable to it. "Yakko Edobei" by Sharaku is one of them, and it's the most famous ukiyo-e portrait work.
use https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restrictio...
Not sure an IP rating alone gives you the information you need for this usecase.

A [mountain] bike motor doesn't just need to resist ingress, it needs to do so after hundreds of hours of violent shaking while its external bearings are under heavy load. It should also tolerate a certain amount of direct impact.

I can certainly imagine this being tricky to achieve for a few hundred $!

> Don't people bike because they want to get fit?

No. I personally ride a _non-motorized_ bike for the health benefits, but I ride a _bike_ as a means of transport. I want as many people as possible to do this, it's better for everyone if people cycle. E-bikes are a fantastic way to expand the pool of potential cyclists.

"Bikes are for sporty people" is a symptom of a car-centric environment. In a healthy city, bikes are an option for everyone who has full mobility.
Why? Because people click & share those articles (”lol see turns out ebikes generate so much waste I’m way more green taking my F250 to work every day”)
Even then it's an insanely bold assumption that a company other than Nvidia could build a better framework than CUDA for compiling PTX. Especially since CUDA is already so much C-like. I've never seen anyone go deeper than that outside of academia.
Many BASIC dialects did this.
It appears to be two-stage process.

There are open port scanners that just check what ports are open on which IPs, and there are separate ssh login brute-forcers. Once your machine gets picked up by the former, the latter will pile up.

I have two servers on adjacent IPs, both with ssh listening on a high port. One gets hammered with login attempts and the other does not.
In Italy we gave rights to a private company to tell all ISPs what sites should be blocked by ip. Eventually, other websites go down when some cloudflare ip gets blocked
> these Internet security companies are mostly legitimate

Act like a bot, get treated like a bot.

> Just be aware that with your strategy “blocking 50% of unwanted traffic” means blocking non-attack traffic

You don't block them forever, just enough for them to move on to someone else.
I died reading this comment.
So you would be OK if I used "abducted and gang raped for so long that you come out seemingly alive and physically intact but your mind has broke and you enter a catatonic state and can't do a handover" as an example? Because if you are not one of those "sensitive people" you should be able to focus on the "can't do a handover" part of the scenario and not get caught up in the gruesome part?

And before you ask, yes I enjoy being overly graphic like this on the pseudonumoyous internet to exaggerate my points but I wouldn't do this irl. That is hypocritical of me.
One side project I never seem to start is a single board cluster based on Octavo SoMs. The idea is to have 32 cores per board to mimic a Thinking Machines CM-1-like cube. How easy is it to use a PCB to route Ethernet between nodes? What kind of components would go between the SoM and the switch?
Full Color Silk Screen Printed ZX Spectrum [video]
Only the sharp dots are stars - all those fuzzy little orbs in the background are galaxies
Some people walk because they’re trying to get to the office, some people walk to lose weight, some people walk to enjoy sunday afternoon with their partner

Biking is just as diverse.
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Yes, and also because some companies have a vested interest in people taking their F250 to work every day, is my point.
> If it’s no longer feasible to create such high quality content, it won’t magic itself into existence on its own. It’ll all be just crap and slop in a few years.

Except it kind of does. Almost all high-quality free content on the Internet has been made by hobbyists just for the sake of doing it, or as some kind of expense (marketing budget, government spending). The free content is not supposed to make money. An honest way of making money with content is putting up a paywall. Monetizing free content creates a conflict of interest, as optimizing value to publisher pulls it in opposite direction than optimizing for value to consumer. Can't save both masters, and all. That's why it's effectively a bullet-proof heuristic, that the more monetization you see on some free content, the more wrong and more shit it is.

Put another way, monetizing the audience is the hallmark of slop.
UI is quite neat. What I am trying is something similar minus complexities.
I think every parent should be aware that if they give their kids a phone the result is often that they become sexually involved with strangers at a young age. Occasionally, this results in actual meet ups, mostly just sexting.

I'm not sure if there is a "solution" to this problem, or its just the case that sexual morality as it has been conceived is already gone, and articles like these are just the death knells of a fallen order. The solution to changing sexual mores is always to socially isolate kids so they don't get "exposed." But you'd figure that, eventually, the kids will think we're all being a bit ridiculous.
From the article it seems that this problem is mostly coming from bikers with mountain bikes, riding in wet Wales off road. It looks like for the general case (on street, commuting) that ebikes are working as intended. For mountain bikers it is possible to simply get a mountain bike but where ebikes shine here is the ability to scoot back up the mountain after riding down.