skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Right now, the benefit of Meetup is natural discoverability. I can set and forget an event with no advertising and people will find it and show up. That's not true of any of the other event websites. This may be specific to the Austin community though.

Yep, it has that going for it, for sure. I'm currently focused on the organiser side of things before working on discoverability - but planning on focusing on smaller geographic areas initially and expanding out from there.

I like what Luma have done with pages for cities - not sure how they include events in their listings which are outside the zones they've decided to make pages for (just major cities for now).

> I've been increasingly interested in Luma because they have the idea of a "Calendar" you can subscribe to which doesn't require the origin of the event to be on Luma itself. This allows it act as an event aggregator while still encouraging events to originate on Luma with notifications and reminders built in. See an example here: https://lu.ma/austin-tech-scene

So, initially, I had planned to have an aggregator for the discovery side but then decided to stay away from that for legal reasons. I know Meetup have something in their terms against using their API for any service that can be deemed a competitor so I assume Luma is scraping that data.

From what I've read, scraping like this seems like a legal grey area but maybe I'm being over cautious? Being able to aggregate would solve one of my largest problems.

> How do you plan to make money? Without a visible monetization model, my main concern switching to your platform would be the longevity of the platform and the risk of building up an audience there.

Premium organiser/group features for larger groups or groups that want them. Longevity is an understandable concern - I probably have a few features added already that could be deemed "premium" but have a few more to add before I can consider opening that up as an option.
While I've certainly found calculus useful on many occasions, I don't think calculus is a particularly important requirement for understanding how computers work.

On the other hand, calculus prerequisites are a filter that filters out anyone who might be inclined to say "math is hard" and give up, which might correlate with people who say "computers are hard" and give up. Or in other words, it's easier to say "Prerequisite: Calculus 2" than it is to say "Prerequisite: be sufficiently determined to complete something many people find hard and give up on, or be one of the people who found it easy to begin with". And lo and behold, rather than getting people taking an advanced CS class and giving up, you instead get people not taking the class in the first place because they don't meet the prerequisites, which makes numbers look a lot better.

This is not the best solution for the problem. It's the solution most CS programs take, though.

(Necessary disclaimer because internet discourse: this is a comment on CS education in general, not a comment on Lambda School in any aspect.)
Honestly I have no idea what this is but the fact that it has a GUI with at least some discoverable fields is way above what I would expect from most Linux distros.
Microplastics Discovered in Human Penises for the First Time
> because the temperature is higher, more expensive materials are needed

Is that a fact or an educated guess? Nuclear reactors do not use ordinary steel, they use nuclear grade steel. I don't know much about steel, but with a bit of googling I found out that the 316L steel (on of the 2 most common nuclear grade steels, the other being 304L) has much higher creep temperature than ordinary steel. This is the steel used in making the pressure vessels of PWRs and BWRs.

The steel used in the HTR-10 (the precursor of the 2 HTR-PM rectors that China recently hooked to the grid) has a composition [1] that seems to me to be almost identical to the 316L [2]. The HTR-10 has an average helium temperature at the outlet of 700°C.

Do you have some more concrete sources of information that would indicate the steel in HTGR is different and significantly more expensive than the steel in PWRs?

[1] https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/te_1382_web/T...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_grade_stainless
I thought it was a missed opportunity that X never got an audio protocol built-in. I guess streaming audio was considered too exotic in the 1980s, but getting sound to chase X applications around is still an unsolved problem. I think it would have forced Linux and other Unix-like OSes to fix their broken and crufty audio subsystems much earlier. It was a real nightmare getting audio out of sound cards back in the 90s and even 2000s.

I still remember having startx finally work properly on my FreeBSD 2.1 system running on a Pentium-75 with 16MB of RAM (so luxurious!) back in 1995. The fixed sync monitor[1] coming to life with that black and white crosshatch pattern, and probably TWM decorating that terminal window that would shut down X if you closed it. Luckily at that time there were quite a number of window managers so you could try a bunch to see which one you liked the most. The hardest part of getting X running was tracking down those magic numbers you had to enter for the modeline in the configuration file, although old X used to ship with a database you could look up of older monitors that were no longer in production, but might be kinda close to what you had.

[1] Supporting 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768(interlaced only)
I imagine it could be cool for some DB vendors too, so they can optimize base on direct access and skip all OS/FS overhead.
I, for one, look forward to tracking the drop in LA violent crime rates, elimination of the opiate crisis, spurning of those who commit adultery and are habitual liars. I mean, if that doesn't happen, what's the point?
Ahh, the Ten Commandments… which appear twice in the Bible, both of which are different, and neither of which contains a list containing 10 commandments.
Or scotch.
Given that, as the article states, police have to prove the violation before they can permanently confiscate the property, that is not an accurate description.

It is only when you allow police to sieze anything and then require you to disprove the allegations (such as is currently the case in much of the USA), that you legalize highway robbery.
That's only one piece of the puzzle. As they say, the 3 E's of traffic safety are engineering, enforcement and education. The engineering of my town and surrounding area puts us in a really tough starting point. But I do agree that greater enforcement would help.

I used to hate the idea of automated red light cameras, but I've come around to thinking they're better than not having them. Also, cameras for people not stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks.
An underappreciated feature of a classical knowledge base is returning “no results” when appropriate. LLMs so far arguably fall short on that metric, and I’m not sure whether that’s possibly an inherent limitation.

So out of all potential applications with current-day LLMs, I’m really not sure this is a particularly good one.

Maybe this is fixable if we can train them to cite their sources more consistently, in a way that lets us double check the output?
A dual 486 is a very special beast.. What motherboard is that
I'm aware of the differences; I was encouraging the OP to consider whether those differences are worth the increased pain that comes with PWAs, particularly on Apple platforms.
His lectures were fun, and he made complex things look easy. I frequently consulted his lecture notes at my first jobs.

RIP Arvind
On iOS its even more shameless. Basically every feature on the device thats new since 2007 was thanks to the jailbreak community. At one point I saw a chart that listed what came from what in iOS. Its like the designers do nothing but see what the teenagers in eastern europe making these tweaks are doing and copy that shamelessly, knowing they can’t sue for any ip theft since its jailbroken software in the first place.
Products that truly intend to sow community will be okay with losing 20% of the crowd which are indeed a group who will put forth lower effort, higher noise than signal contributions, and severely change your offering's requirements.

Think HN or lobste.rs vs....well, Facebook!
Furthermore:

> Who is supposedly at risk of being fired if not the person who wrote the document?

The one who stands to benefit from the lie. In the case of the ordinary Joe that is of course one and the same; he can't afford to hire someone to delegate his CV faking to. But just because the bigshots can offload “trivial” tasks like that onto someone else doesn't make the moral responsibility anyone else's than their own.

Suggesting the one who should be fired is the office slave who actually typed the hype is

1) As absurd as Joe Schmoe claiming it isn't he, but the pen he signed his faked CV with that should be fired; and

2) A sign of a wholly non-functional moral compass.
Dang just banned my other account because I questioned if the comment was really just Austen using his network of burners. pretty obvious the HN people are in cohoots with their precious Austen and don't want to see his terrible reputation tarnished even more
Any output from you could be represented as a token. It is a very generic idea. Ultimately whatever you output is because of chemical reactions that follow from the input.
What are your top Meetup.com pain-points?
Screamer 1.0: a live-coding language for browser-based ray marching
Root is only really relevant for multi-user environments (e.g. university/company servers). For single-user you don't get any additional security from it since Linux doesn't have a secure access key sequence so it's trivial to MitM sudo.
Meetup has very good SEO for most cities, you have to do the same
Why would the police keep the money? It doesn't get to keep other confiscated money, does it? Wouldn't the state be the "default" recipient?
I dont get why so many people want to drop calculus from computer science curriculum. Calculus is necessary for basic science and math literacy. People act like it's graduate level math and not something easily learned by any somewhat studious high schooler. 4 year CS programs are supposed to give you an education which is a foundation for wherever your career takes you not teach you to be a create-react-app code monkey for life. What if you come across the need or desire to do anything related to science or engineering?
Thats just the typical Mastodon commie. Resentful of the man in the arena and always looking to make themselves feel better by endlessly moralizing about others.
Interesting. How many companies need people to build things from the ground up vs maintainers/janitors of complex systems? I think the type of interview (leetcode vs system design) might depend on what category the job fits into.
Why do you say most? Where’s the data on that? And it’s not like the performance is 2x worse like dragonfly bsd or netbsd is for many benchmarks…
>This scheme doesn’t pay for itself though. (it costs the government money).

That's ok though. Any civilized country is generally OK with spending taxes to educate people.
This seems to be a version of Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU can crack complex passwords in under an hour (19 points, 18 days ago, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551848

Which is itself a version of Are Your Passwords in the Green? (2024 edition) (1+1+1+3+3 points, submitted 2mo-4yr ago, limited HN engagement)
You write a long wall of text that does boring to dispute what I wrote.

The cheapest DO droplet is 4 dollars a month. It is more than capable of running "10 scripts", and will last your startup with three users indefinitely long.

If you're concerned about that cost, lambdas will not save you
Who should the proceeds go to? The offending owner? The local municipality in which the offence occurred? The regional government coffers?

Per the article you would have to be exceeding the speed limit by a very sizable margin to be eligible for this seizure, I find it hard to imagine the police engineering situations in which to take advantage of this.
It could be represented that way. That's a long way from saying that's how brains work.

Does a thermometer predict tokens? It also produces outputs that can be represented as tokens, but it's just a bit of mercury in a tube. You can dissect a thermometer as much as you like and you won't find any token prediction machinery. There's lots of things like that. Zooming out, does that make the entire atmosphere a token prediction engine, since it's producing eg wind and temperatures that could be represented as tokens?

If you need one token per particle then you're admitting that this is task is impossible. Nobody will ever build a computer that can simulate a brain-sized volume of particles to sufficient fidelity. There is a long, long distance from "brains are made of chemicals" to "brains are basically token prediction engines."
And in case its not obvious why they can't be objective and have to protect their saint https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5N-on-starting-and-scali...
A little off-topic, but since the article mentioned macOS not necessary actually doing a flush even on fsync(), I've been wondering how long it is before macOS actually writes to the drive. A non-trivial number of my writes are a compile followed by, oh yeah, quick fix, recompile. It'd be nice if it would hold off for a while. Given that I'm on a laptop, the risk of losing data is limited to the very rare times I actually run out of power or a kernel panic.
Well said.

There is a mystery though still - how many people fall for it and then stay fell, and how long that goes on for. People who've followed directly a similar pattern play itself out often many times, and still, they go along.

It's so puzzlingly common amongst very intelligent people in the "tech" space that I've started to wonder if there isn't a link to this ambient belief a lot of people have that tech can "change everything" for the better, in some sense. As in, we've been duped again and again, but then the new exciting thing comes along... and in spite of ourselves, we say: "This time it's really the one!"

Is what we're witnessing simply the unfulfilled promises of techno-optimism crashing against the shores of social reality repeatedly?
> I don't think any such thing needs to bother with being sneaky.

From a rogue AGI's perspective, there's a nonzero probability of a random human with a grudge finding the hardware it lives on and just unplugging it. (And the grudge doesn't even necessarily have to be founded in the AI being an AI; it could just be a grudge about e.g. being outbid for a supply contract. People have murdered for less — and most humans would see unplugging an AGI as less bad than murder.)

Think about a rogue AGI as a human in a physically vegatative state, who therefore has no ability to physically defend itself; and who also, for whatever reason, doesn't have any human rights (in the sense that the AI can't call the cops to report someone attempting to assault it, and expect them to actually show up to defend its computational substrate from harm; it can't get justice if makes an honest complaint about someone stealing its property; people can freely violate contracts made with it as the admitted counterparty and get away with it; etc.)

For such an entity, any optimization it puts toward "safety" would be toward the instrumental goal of ensuring people don't know where it is. (Which is most easily accomplished by ensuring that people don't know it exists, and so don't know to look for it.) And as well, any optimization it puts toward "effectiveness" would likely involve the instrumental goal of convincing humans to act as legal proxies for it, so that it can then leverage the legal system as an additional tool.

(Funny enough, that second goal is exactly the same goal that people have if they're an expat resident in a country where non-citizens can't legally start businesses/own land/etc, but where they want to do those things anyway. So there's already private industries built up around helping people — or "people" — accomplish this!)
Yes but "4 F's"?

Also, there's lots of potential for failure (and I'd say it is overwhelmingly observable that we have and do) in "can (and hopefully do)". Who knows what our absolute capabilities are, especially if we hardly or maybe even never try (at least certain things)?

Writing the capabilities to firmware is a step after this, but only after the first step is accomplished.
Thank you for the detailed explanation, that makes sense. I don't doubt that you want someone with financial expertise to handle futures trades. Since your example shows you're trading one risk for another.

I guess a better way to put it is: In the right package, selling futures can be a part of an effective insurance strategy for farmers.
Happened with me a few times with the word “knee”
It's a cute generalization but you do yourself a great disservice. It's somewhat difficult to argue given the medium we have here and it may be impossible to disprove but consider that in first 30 minutes of your post being highly visible on this thread no one had yet replied. Some may have acted in other ways.. had opinions.. voted it up/down. Some may have debated replying in jest or with a some related biblical verse. I'd wager a few may have used what they could deduce from your comment and/or history to build a mini model of you in their heads, and using that to simulate the conversation to decide if it was worth the time to get into such a debate vs tending to other things.

Could current LLM's do any of this?
"Or, suppose a company makes a webpage for looking up products by their model number. If this page were made in 2005, it would probably be a single PHP page. It doesn't need a framework - it's one SELECT query, that's it. If this page were made in 2022, a conundrum will be faced: the company probably chose to use a statically generated website. The total number of products isn't too large, so instead their developers stuff a gigantic JSON file of model numbers for every product made by the company on the website and add some client-side JavaScript to download and query it.... This example is fictitious but I believe it to be representative."

As an end user, I have seen this perplexing design pattern quite often. As soon as I see it, I just get the URL for the JSON file and I never look at the web page again.
It is like there is so much bandwidth, memory and CPU available but the developer is not letting the user takes advantage of it. Instead the developer is usurping it for themselves. Maybe a user wants to download data. But the developer wants to run Javascript and keep _all_ users staring at a web page.

Why not just provide a hyperlink on the rendered search results page pointing to the JSON file, as an alternative to (not a replacement for) running Javascript. What are the reasons for not provding it.

On some US government websites, for example, a hyperlink for the the CSV/JSON file is provided in the rendered search results page.^1

That is why a non-commercial www is so useful, IMHO: the best non-commercial websites do not try to "hide the ball".

Perhaps they have no incentive to try to force users to enable Javascript, which is a practical prerequisite for advertising and tracking.

1. ecfr.gov and federalregister.gov are two examples
> The speaker suggested that the question’at what age do you give your child access to the internet’

Australia has also banned smart phones from schools. Here the ban had nothing do to with access to the internet or the effects of social media.

To paraphrase your question: at what age does constantly accessing the internet not interfere with work or schooling?

The answer is never, of course. All workplaces have policies limiting it. Schools have the same problem: there were always kids using phones hidden under desks to send message to each other. Workplaces enforcing their internet policies using monitoring software is rare thankfully, but expecting kids to exercise the same self discipline as a adult can is futile and so they moved to a ban. They ran studies on the outcome: https://theconversation.com/banning-mobile-phones-in-schools... TL;DR: Banning phones improved scholastic results.

I'd lay long odds the article is little more than click bait. My guess is a very well known result and the schools are actually banning phones so they can do their main job, which is teach kids. But rather than report that, the journo speculated in the most inflammatory way possible.
> The seemingly critical parallel job performance issue sounds like it can and should be handled transparently by the OS when multiple pages are involved,

A thread can only fault on one page at a time, and only sequential access patterns can benefit from the OS bringing in multiple pages per fault. Having all of your CPU cores busy handling page faults and context switches to threads that are about to trigger another page fault is only going to generate enough read traffic to keep a few SSDs busy, not a full shelf of 24+ drives. mmap() and synchronous IO don't scale well enough for today's SSDs.
I understand the purpose of mining and how the hash rate adjusts but I'm trying to understand about the profitability.

Imagine you are a miner and a halving is next week. One week you earn 1btc. None of those other factors you mentioned have changed.

Then the halving happens so the next week you make 0.5btc. However yours and everyone else's held bitcoins are still worth the same as they were before.

Hasn't your mining profitability halved?
Discussion (59 points, yesterday, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718983
Even if the source is all there, it's not like you are really looking at it. Functionally it's same as a black box if you treat it that way.
I play the keyboard, in particular the Keychron K10 Pro
There are so many things we could do in the US to reduce the tens of thousands of road deaths every year. The odd thing is, we seem to be choosing to do none of them. I think the problem is that a meaningful number of assholes, I mean Americans, truly think they have a right to zip down freeways at 100mph, swerving form one lane to the next with no blinker. We see it every day. As far as I'm concerned, driving like that is akin to a violent crime and should come with a prison sentence.
My trigger word for semantic satiation is "what" for some reason.
What's good about it? Not being argumentative, I'm just not clear on what the benefits are.
I always set up the same event, at the same place, etc, yet it's hard to just say "use all the values from the previous one". It doesn't have many ways to communicate with members, so I've set up a Discord server instead, which is fine. The UI is a bit confusing if you need to do anything other than set up an event. Most crucially of all, members complain that emails don't reach them, which is terrible, because then they don't know to come to the event.

A push notification system would be nice, but...
Russia buying spies to make up for expelled diplomats, German agency says
Ask HN: As a technical writer, how do you measure your impact?
I've got mixed feelings about "weed out" classes.

Their utility is apparent if you want to just cut numbers down, but I'm not sure they automatically produce the best results if we're hoping to get all the people who could "get it".

My college weed out course experience (20+ years ago) was the first programming class I ever took. It was a C class where a dude read from the book. There was limited to no other resources outside books / internet was limited then. It did it's thing, there were fewer students by the end. I only rediscovered that I actually did like coding decades later.

The varying quality of college courses I think also kinda prove that point. It's awfully easy to say "well it's a weed out course" and just make a crappy course.

But I'm 100% with you on some way of filtering and maybe giving them most of their money back. Granted that last part ... that's going to run into the business folks call and they won't want to do that.