skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any thoughts on kdb+? A columnar datastore focused on time series data (HFT)
Super interesting in the abstract, pretty sure I don't have a use case today.
So: this would be an ideal passage to read to help a voice cloning system get a full sample of an English speaker's accent/tone?
Is this a popular view? I think mathematicians can be odd, but usually they communicate quite well. I think as far as popularization of their fields go, mathematics is probably doing the best out of the lot: numberphile, 3blue1brown etc.
I had to configure modelines on my first PC, bought so I could run a *nix at home, specifically Linux. The video card was a Tseng ET4000W32 and that is about all I can remember about the hardware in that PC. PC monitors seemed to rejected frequencies that were out of spec and shut off so I think the hardware damage thing was an urban legend or it might have been a thing with screens that weren't designed for the consumer mass market.

I didn't use X much initially because my version of the card wasn't properly supported in Xfree86 and had some colour/palette problem. Also the resolution and quality and size of cheap CRTs at the time made Xterminals less readable than the console IMO. The SVGA support in console for things like image viewers just worked. It was only when Mosaic came out that I started to run X more often and it wasn't my default for a few years I think.

Before PCI, PlugnPlay and Windows 95 everything was configured with dip switches and port numbers and interrupts went into configs even on the DOS side. Partitioning a disk wasn't a trivial thing. Even so modelines seemed kind of silly even back then. When people say Arch is complicated I just chuckle to myself at how far things have come.
“We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! ... And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that's what we are gonna do. We are gonna have a good time... We are gonna have a party.”
I thought it was about greening (ie energy efficiency) pools.

I was all excited about sharing idea to slash pool CO2 emissions
I am also confused by the allegation of “inflating toxic property bubbles.”

After reading I’m still not sure what that means, but yeah—monopolized rent fixing and a shift to prioritizing rent increases over occupancy rates.
This headline is factually incorrect and doesn't match the original article as well. They're protesting against F1, not for it.
The study set up is a bit unusual.

Consider three ways to teach:

A) Do what's best for the student's long term learning. ("deep learning".)

B) Optimize for the student doing well on a specific type of test (e.g. AP Calculus AB). ("teach to the test")

C) Optimize for the student doing well on a specific set of questions known in advance.

In the study, instructors had all three options.

In most high stakes testing, instructors have only options A and B.

The study seems to conflate B and C.

But A and B are more similar, than are B and C.

It would have been an interesting study if the instructors hadn't had access to the exams beforehand.

(Although typical US university high stakes exams are designed by course instructors who can do (C), I don't see this as relevant, as instructors can more easily help their students do well by making the tests easier.)
This might be a concern if it were 24/7 but it’s a one week event with races only actively happening for a few hours a day. Any impact would be dissipated long before the next.

If they were so toxic, race tracks would surely not exist or would be so unsustainable they’d go out of business immediately from having to deal with the cleanup.
a) after you create the superintelligence is likely too late. You seem to think that inventing superintelligence means that we somehow understand what we created, but note that we have no idea how a simple LLM works, let alone an ASI that is presumably 5-10 OOM more complex. You are unlikely to be able to control a thing that is way smarter than you, the safest option is to steer the nature of that thing before it comes into being (or, don’t build it at all). Note that we currently don’t know how to do this, it’s what Ilya is working on. The approach from OpenAI is roughly to create ASI and then hope it’s friendly.

b) except that is not how these things go in the real world. What actually happens is that initially it’s just a risk of the agent going rogue, the CEO weighs the multi-billion dollar cost vs. some small-seeming probability of disaster and decides to keep the company running until the threat is extremely clear, which in many scenarios is too late.

(For a recent example, consider the point in the spread of Covid where a lockdown could have prevented the disease from spreading; likely somewhere around tens to hundreds of cases, well before the true risk was quantified, and therefore drastic action was not justified to those that could have pressed the metaphorical red button).
> His position has always been that it doesn't matter who did it, it only matters what was in fact done.

I still give Chomsky a lot of credit for his past contributions, but his opinions on the Russian imperialist invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine made me not believe that he was as objective as I had once hoped. Maybe it was advanced age leading to a decline of neuroplasticity, but he is entirely wrong on that count.
Certainly, but the entire point of a protest is to loudly show your support.

Supporting quietly from home is pretty much the antithesis of one.
Physical pools do also turn an ominous shade of green from algae when they’re not maintained, as apparently a Google review indicates happened at one of the property complexes mentioned in the piece.

I read it as trying to imply that the price fixing algorithm incentivized management firms to neglect maintenance.
> is basically asking your customers to navigate a big warehouse while carrying around all their intended purchases

Yes. And when you do that they tend to buy more than they originally intended.

> I like to look at the boxes and visually scan the shelves and see things I might not think to search for on my phone.

Precisely. The store and those products are designed with this exact outcome in mind.

> but the dry goods and other stuff that's typically in center of the store could work.

That's why many warehouse stores have home delivery but put a hefty fee on those items. Unless, of course, you spend more than a minimum threshold. It's a narrow margin business so it's hard to reliably make any other type of model work.
1950s schlock-horror title card: From deep within the labs at MIT, it's The Thing That Just Wouldn't Die! Shambling onwards for 40 years and counting!

After I expressed interest in learning how to program X on my first Linux machine in 1995, a friend showed me the giant wall-o-manuals (I think that's how O'Reilly got its start) and said "Are you ready to read all of these?"

I got by learning the basics of Xlib with the man pages and, I believe, Kenton Lee's site. X's display model is really straightforward if you already understand something like Win32, which is one reason why Wine was able to make rapid progress: translating GDI calls to X calls required only a thin shim.

X ran FAST, too. If you set the GC clip origin and mask you could blit a sprite in one XCopyArea call; I banged out a game engine based on that and was able to get draw speeds that Windows required DirectX to match (assuming a local display).
If they are shutting down roads that normally get automobile traffic, there might be less pollution during the event.
Happy you brought it up. I've been in and out of stereo photography for decades now. Initially I built a contraption with front-surface mirrors to expose two photos side-by-side on 35mm film. In later decades I tried dual digital cameras — at times even just sliding horizontally with a single digital camera (no moving images of course).

Fuji had a decent stereo camera years ago. I had one briefly but have been unable to find it for years now. I either misplaced it or it was stolen....

eBay is where I head now to find the Fuji cameras. But it is disappointing that there is not a current commercial stereo camera that I am aware of.

Perhaps someone can take the Pi and come up with something fairly high quality.
If FOSS and Linux users get to crow (EDIT: not my word choice, I'm quoting the parent post) about the supposed superiority of their software choices and Apple users get to crow about the supposed superiority of MacOS, then there's no reason this fellow isn't allowed to as well.
doesn't expensify use sqlite in production?
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
I meant emoticons, darn it.
"I have run production websites where I didn't patch security for months or years on end." Linux users wondering why nobody takes them seriously.
You sound like a joy to work with
Yea I’m saying the same thing, you need AGI to get whatever “superintelligence” is. That’s mostly my opinion, but I wouldn’t call it SI without AGI. Personally, I’m no AI expert, but we’re very far from AGI unless one of these experts knows things I don’t about current research. LLMs are interesting, same for other large models like vision, but they don’t impress me with their abilities yet. I’m be impressed when they can replace someone other than content farmers.
IMHO, some people who meditate seem to put on an air of superiority about what they experience, as if they assume others don't have these experiences.

Then they go on to blanket it with Oops! I forgot I don't do this! I am so mindful of myself! I am free of judgement!
I 100% understand frustration of outsiders of a group being offended on some other groups behalf. I'm in a particularly progressive part of Canada so it happens a LOT! :=D

If it helps at all, I was talking on behalf of myself, not yourself. That being said, the term "normies" also irks me, so clearly our differences have nothing to do with our position on spectrum :->

(neither "offends" me, but as per above, I automatically take less seriously the user of such words)
I'd guess the regular traffic would just take a detour around the closed roads.

Actually, I'm now also visualizing all the surrounding roads clogged with traffic related to the race. It's not increasing my enthusiasm.
I'm not even crowing about it

It's weird how people can find all kinds of stuff where it's not present. Some kind of rhetorical pareidolia. I basically said "Windows sucks, but it sucks less than Linux for my specific needs and people who aggressively insist otherwise at me can heck off."
And things might change after you leave that country.
Sole by-the-book CD/DVD image with a corresponding specific boot loader (e. g. isolinux) with installation environment which expects to access its files on a real optical drive through regular bundled ODD drivers would be almost completely useless today. To make such disks — installation media for systems released before widespread support of USB boot — work without real CD/DVD-ROM, you need to emulate BIOS functions and/or compatible device, and also keep the whole image at hand, most likely by copying it to memory in full, to provide data for reading, then boot the installer into that partially virtualized environment. Even older systems (before standardization of CD booting) may additionally need boot floppy emulation.

The main reason you can easily copy installation images to USB sticks and other devices is that they are actually “hybrid” images with a bag of tricks helping them to also work like a disk drive, and boot that way. There are two boot loaders which handle different modes (and a third one in UEFI boot partition, though accessing it is firmware's problem), and the kernel knows that it can be started in various ways, and has to look for the root filesystem in multiple places. Ventoy and company make use of the fact that everything is ready, and the only thing left for them to do is adding the menu item with proper path and kernel boot options.

So you can run Linux from USB stick, you can run it from there, but use intermediate boot loader (say, Plop chain-loaded by main system to bypass slow USB access in old BIOS through its drivers, and massively decrease boot times), you can run it from extra partition added to your disk, you can run it from image file, you can run it from memory, and so on. ISO is just a convenient legacy distribution format that does not help with any of that. And, as mentioned, there is no “boot process” with UEFI, you simply copy a bunch of files to the USB flash drive, firmware sees that one of them looks like a boot loader, then it is started, and can do anything it wants.
Thanks again! :) I’ll do some reading, maybe pencil in a simple little project for fun and experience. (A nice little MUD/MOO server, perhaps.)
Since nobody bothered to explain their downvotes, I'll say it: This is a pretty uncharitable reading of the quoted comment.
in more discussion with them, that turns out to not be the case. It was a misunderstanding of what an SBC is.
In theory, sure.

In reality? not sure much.

Cities compete for the prestige of hosting the Olympics and not so long ago Brisbane "won" the "content" to host the 2032 summer Olympics.

Guess how many cities submitted a proposal for the prestige of "winning".

One.
> we should have stopped burning fossil fuels for entertainment.

One man's entertainment is another's livelihood. It's not like they're burning a barrel of oil for fun...
https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37961166
yes, thank you. Looks like it was taken down which would explain why I couldn't google for it. I was looking for the COMF instruction.
Look you do what works for you, but this sounds like technological Stockholm syndrome:

> I know how to take control of Windows and remove all the noise they try to add every year or so
Right at the end it mentions the complex’s pool has been closed for two years… which I guess you can tie to the algorithm telling the landlord they don’t need to service the pool to get the rent they think they can charge, but yeah… the article doesn’t really justify the title.
How Many Candidates Can You Rank in Portland's Ranked-Choice Voting?
Well, I already have an opinion on them. The article seems to purposefully avoid describing what the market and the service here is. There are a limited number of venues where a preteen girl can credibly earn money on social media. Also, if she's earning that money, I'd openly wonder whether a Coogan Account is appropriate and if one exists here.

Anyways.. my shock was really over the fact that the mother is basically saying "I want to sell access to my daughter online but I'm surprised that the biggest spenders are adult men with questionable intentions." Did she genuinely believe that the target market was other 12 year old girls willing to pay to watch another 12 year old girl? The parents resignation over the situation in deference to the money is also disgusting.

> about social media enabling child predators?

That's my point. The article entirely fails to do that. It's one case with a questionable background and zero investigation over the claim, which you'd expect, because the crime statistics show the exact opposite.
There’s a way around this, but it’s not fun or easy. It’s to listen to only the experts on that tiny sliver of a domain in which they are experts in. (And don’t listen to that expert when they talk about something that’s not their expertise .) This means listening to the expert on caves and not to the social media loving billionaire.
so we should have kept mad hatters yeah?
I think there are basically single instruction strlen in an x86 extension now? This is why people say that even assembly isn't the lowest level. Who knows how many uOPs these things are. Not sure of VAX architecture if there even are uOPs, but on a modern CPU, it's crazy how abstracted everything is.
The actual race isn't in the city. It's miles away, you can't even hear the cars while the race is on (like you can in e.g. downtown Melbourne even on the other side of the city). Nobody here in the city has a problem with it. Perhaps the residents of Montmeló where the actual circuit is do, but I don't know.

But this protest was against a demo performance this evening in the city. On a weekday night when people have to work. In a city that prides itself on sustainability and has pedestrianised many streets in recent years.

A lot of people like myself consider F1 to be nothing but a toy for big oil and billionaires with too much money to spend. It's hyper commercialised. I don't want them here either though I didn't protest. I just avoided the area. It's much harder to do if you actually live there though.
It's like crypto: you wouldnt attract anyone paying nearly enough if you had to invest to solve current problems without any idea if you even could. Might as well re-solve inefficiently past problems and you might catch a few passer bys.
Email was a real thing, and it took off because corporations like AOL and Microsoft advertised it to the average person.

Mastodon feels like : “Ah yes, my favorite account to follow @CNN@mstdn.social. I hope some day we get the real CNN”

Btw that’s a real account, not me over exaggerating again.
Barcelona has an excellent metro system. The trips will either go via train or not at all. And that’s a good thing.
I'm so confused.

Isn't "training LLMs on LLM output" the very definition of "model collapse" or "model poisoning"?
Normal NIMBY stuff we see every year at the Melbourne GP too. I'm all for their right to protest but they're not really selling me much on their subject choice.
For some people, it would be a big deal if Google suddenly locked their account. They might say it’s worth it.
>and decided to switch to static HTML sites on S3

it's really hard to overstate how great s3 sites are with cloudfront in front of them. mine costs me <$1/month, i have essentially no concerns about security, ddos, maintenance, anything. if i want to update it, i push some different files to s3. the backups are the other copy of the data on my local machine that i pushed to it.

the added complexity for any level of dynamic-ness is really just not worth it, unless i'm going to go to the trouble of making a full-on app that needs a revenue model.
This is just a public web forum, not a professional symposium. It's here to provide entertainment and distraction to bored nerds with nothing better to do, expecting anything more from it is your mistake.
In light of the flaming, I'd like to underscore why it's entirely reasonable to redact the author of the comment in question: the author outted themselves as knowingly and egregiously violating a ToS for another site, and using//promoting services which are at best unethical, but probably illegal (residential proxies//large scale proxy services are usually built off the backs of botnets//malware).

This isn't, IMO, favoritism or protecting YC interests//founders. The thread in question has nothing to do with Lamda, YC, or anything in that regard. It's someone talking about blackhat growth hacking in the open, which might bite them in the ass later. It's a textbook example of HN's stated policy about deletion/redaction in action.
I haven't found a thing people complain about that I wasn't able to remove. It's usually just 2-3 clicks, too.
Not Ni,

Knee

Gnu!
>No, but it's not exactly hard to retopo bad geometry.

Said no actual, working 3D artist ever.
Use AI to identify multimodal files for renaming
Seattle sure did. And it sucks.

We lost 70% of the officers to other jurisdictions that don't hate them.
Stress Doesn't Look Like Stress and That's a Problem
Ask HN: Someone has to eventually pay for it. So who?
The spend for this A.I boom is growing rapidly; the exception to what it can do is growing as well. However, there is a big problem. No one is willing to pay that high price for A.I, most people try it and move on to find free services. So I ask who is going to pay this crazy high l bill?
That’s wonderful. Good luck!
In some countries the part the tourists get to see are like a completely different country.
It's still php-and-ftp. Sometimes I get fancy and use python and ssh.
Don't matter, as police officers migrate to places that don't hate them.

The Democrat stronghold cities have less police now than three years ago.
It's called undirected or unorganized collective action, but it's still collective action
I guess I'm a truth seeker that pretends to be a community seeker just because it's more socially acceptable.
Absolutely. This is like 20 cars on a circuit! The event itself surely doesn't cause much pollution. In F1 in general, Barcelona and elsewhere, I'd say the circus _surrounding_ it causes by far the most pollution. Logistics to/from the circuit with trucks upon trucks per team, setting up the teams' respective pits, private airplanes to/from the circuit, thousands of spectators to/from circuits, some going by yachts, many by air for at least one stint.

The race track? In the big picture, a rounding error.
The ease by which the Investor Class can be duped by smooth-talking, charismatic phonies is Silicon Valley's Achilles Heel. They see someone who "fits the image of what they want to invest in" and that's it. From there on, it's "I Want To Believe" and they're willing to set aside technical warning signs and all detractors.

It's sad. For every Theranos out there, there are probably 100 feasible, solid business ideas that are technically sound that get passed up because the founders don't wear black turtlenecks and didn't drop out of Stanford or whatever.

If I could go back in time and reset my Character, I'd put all my skill points into "Charisma" and cruise through life as a billionaire, fooling everyone.
This is off topic, but can anyone tell where the photo with the caption “The situation is developing” was taken?

There aren’t many clues in the image, but the travel ad and outdoor dining point to somewhere tropical. Looks like a cool place.
Rabotai,
Hatzlacha. If you fail, the human world will go down in flames. But, no pressure!
Anyway, you said a "cracked" team, whereas the usual expression for elite excellence is "crack".
"Cracked" on the other hand means: Insane.
Well.... perhaps what we need here is some of both!
Looking forward to your success... indeed, it is our only hope.
> Since 2016, rents have climbed 76 percent in Phoenix, 63 percent in Las Vegas, 80 percent in Atlanta, 66 percent in Wilmington, North Carolina, and more than 50 percent in Portland, Seattle, Charlotte, Nashville, and Dallas. One multifamily executive quoted in an antitrust lawsuit recalls,

While I have no general reason to doubt the fixing allegations, but in the same time span national average fuel prices increased 72% and CPI increased 32%. So it sounds like inflation is arguably a majority of those change and with it backed out the numbers sound less obviously suspicious.
Jotai is truly fantastic to prevent unnecessary rerenders. I’ve been using it in my new project and it’s very nice.
Optical media was designed for distribution, ISOs and their use cases evolved around the same goal.

A good example is VirtualBox Guest Additions that packs several drivers for multiple OSs in a single ISO and leverages the autorun mechanism to simplify automation for end users.
This is the correct answer. I'd add _multiple_ experts, because even they can disagree depending on the topic, which is expected and healthy. And even then, realize that experts can be wrong, but they're much less likely to be wrong than <random skeptic>.
FPGAs were an odd experience of learning for me. I started thinking they were hard to program. Then once I got halfway decent at simple things, I realized just how powerful they can be. So many things just run faster if not instantaneously if you optimize for FPGA. It's incredible. And with modern cheapy low end boards, I hope they get more popular in projects.
It might have higher bandwith than the total bandwith of the internet.