skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess what I mean is, there is a lot of things that Usenet does because back in the 90's we didn't have a lot of the technology we have today. Today there are more solutions then there was which means Usenet doesn't need to be the host for things like binaries, and the like, which tend to be most of the storage consumption problems that would keep people from self-hosting on the existing network. If we started over, not utilizing binary storage and a few other things, would that not make Usenet a better service with less storage requirements? Or am I just missing it completely?
I'm skeptical about most software being sold to firms: their decision-makers (senior partners) are also the closest folk to retirement, so unless they see a lightning fast return on capital, they aren't interested
Agentic behavior is instilled in RLHF'd models [0, 1]. In this paper, "agency" is defined in terms of the LLM thinking like it's a person (agent) with consistent thoughts (outputs). The problem is this also severely limits the LLM's ability to break out from the norm and explore unknown paths (thoughts).

Most (if not all) agent frameworks use GPT-4, Claude Opus, etc. models which are heavily RLHF'd.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05587
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702617
You word my position here too.

20's - a rabid Dawkins reading Athiest.
40's - I think Dawkins is an idiot and my favourite book is "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"
Updated (in case above link goes away) - https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/

Thanks for original!
Is there any benefit of using a laptop rather than a pi?
Municipal power, baby.
I think that depends upon the dream space you find yourself in. If it is an internal dream space for yourself, you tend to have more control (if you do have control).

However, I've been in many shared spaces that have varying rules on how much things can be changed. Many of them are what I describe as "sim" spaces. There are also spaces where it is procedurally-generated -- for example, deliberately taking a path you know has not been used, and the whole space pauses, as things are procedurally generated to create that new area on the fly.

Finally, it's a two way street. Connection to a space has as much to do with how your consciousness is attuned to that space; trying to change the environment too much is as much as your consciousness shifting out of alignment with that space, and disconnecting as it is the space resisting changes.

As an example, I remember one interesting experience where I was talking to someone. Three people entered the space, with their own (subconcious) idea of things, which created changes in the environment to fit their consciousness state. It's similar to how Will Wight described things in his Traveler's Gate series, when someone from one realm goes into another, and that other realm starts morphing towards the first realm. I don't think those three knew what they were doing, and it was kinda rude.
"BosWash" was the term E.F. Schumacher used for the east-coast conurbanation, in 1973. Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington. In Small is Beautiful: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful>

It's sprawled more since.

Apparently the term was coined by Herman Kahn in 1967: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BosWash>
Love a good hack. But in this case, I just use LibreELEC (kodi) and call it a day :D
Fred Wilson – Writing Online Is a Conversation
I'd rather take my chance at being renewed in carousel than be terminated as a runner.
Adding a Vim Mode to the Monaco Editor
A great basic formula I stole from NorCal Cycling's YouTube channel for coming up with a nutrition plan for a bike ride is:

TRAINING TIME(HOURS)x60=CARBS(GRAMS)

https://youtu.be/WNhOAIMDmQ0
> It's OK for corporate systems, but complete overkill for personal setups.

My personal files are ultimately a lot more important to me and much more irreplaceable than any files at work.

I'd never run a NAS without ZFS and ECC.
There's benefit to doing so, though - and that's integration. It's part of why Apple is so successful. It offers real convenience that users are genuinely willing to pair a premium for.

If you want to be more cautious, sure. But the likelyhood that they're going to collapse so hard and quickly that you lose anything significant is pretty slim.
I often did. Of course I had three other roommates at the time so it was not a sustainable solution to have four loads of clothes dispersed across the apartment if we happened to run into eachothers laundry schedules.
The gains mentioned are on top of compiler's PGO+LTO.
Trust among Americans isn't done yet
Seems ok from here in iPhone Safari.
Yup. Intel Nuc and a Logitech K400. I dont bother with cute menu things and just use whatever DE with scaling turned up to 150%. 99% of the time you're in FF/Chrome watching streaming video.
One of these days I might finally move off of just the Mail (~3$ per month) and onto a bigger plan.

VPN might be nice so my ISP doesn't yell at me for torrenting if I screw it up, and my copy of VueMinder is getting pretty ancient at this point. I could stand to get a newer calendar app.
I’ve got one of these. It’s called a toddler.
Show HN: Sketch Comedy Database
There isn't anywhere on the web the catalogs individual sketches and links them together so hoping to build it out with others who enjoy sketch comedy.

Just a fun side project built with Next.js, MUI, Prisma, TypeScript, Server Actions, etc..

Open Source as well - https://github.com/swax/SCDB
> For sure, doping it's still a fear, but these guys cannot climb Galibier at that speed only with storoids/drugs, it's insane the effort that they did over the year.

The way I heard it, the don't use doping to improve their performance. They use it so they can train longer and more intensely than they would be able to without it.
I suspect that the pressure to fill "a whole album" has diminished as recorded music publication has shifted largely toward digital distribution, and especially streaming.

I don't think that prohibiting the publication of whole full-length albums would be a good idea. There have been plenty of great albums, that really deserved to be whole albums. Maybe usually that's not the case, but still, I wouldn't want to prohibit the album construct.
The price is wrong: Researchers explore farmers' interests in carbon markets
So this guy was the secret sponsor.
What are your thoughts on what Donald Hoffman has been pursuing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Hoffman
I've also got one. It's called my jackass neighbor.
If all you have on your Nas is pirated movies, then yes

> when they do happen they aren't likely to be a big deal.

But with more sensitive data it might matter to you. Ram can go bad like hdds can, and without ecc you have no chance of telling. Zfs won't help you here if the bit flip happens in the page cache. The file will corrupt in ram and Zfs will happily calculate a checksum for that corrupted data and store that alongside the file.
We still have Gallium Arsenide (0.3V PN junction barrier), electron beam lithurgy, stacking up, and finally going back to efficient bare-metal coding. Still a magnitude level performance increase to go, but at a magnitude increase in cost. We might be at the economic sweet spot right now, it only gets more expensive from here …
A key part of the NY case was also that Trump, the actual candidate, was a causal agent in the catch and kill scheme which, it was argued, violated election laws. What does the case against, say, Twitter look like? They weren't running for office or a part of any candidate's campaign.
I'm sure there are, just on my anecdotal experience I've never dealt with one. And considering the simplicity of the old washer and dryer its hard to imagine you even get much of a lemming. Simple machines tend to work well for a long time no matter what they are or what they do.
Tesla is in Fremont because Elon bought a former GM plant for $42M. https://venturebeat.com/business/tesla-paid-42m-for-nummi-bu...
Finland group downgrades 60 journals
Used laptops are cheaper than Pi's.
30 years of freelancing and most interviews (Europe) have just been conversations, first with business, and then with a couple techie team members. Which always felt like more of a 'does he fit in' type approach.

The business side along the lines of 'what value can you add', and the technical side was more about describing problems you had discovered, communicated about, fixed, and details about the methodology, or APIs involved.

I rejected interview requests with google et al knowing of the time wasting LC approach. I think most developers are there to solve real world business problems, not rewrite an OS, although actually that is currently my hobby project :)

With AI assist, the focus on solving business problems comes back to the forefront, and the LC can be done by the AInt so bad coder. Or I think it was mentioned here recently that coders will soon be relegated to AI reviewers, what a horrible thought.

In summary ;) I think I'd be interviewing programmers focusing more based on business domain knowledge at this point.
Why, so you can make more shit up? Lol
If a bear wants you dead and you aren't prepared, you're dead.

If you actually care to survive, listen to this great talk before heading out to bear country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PExlT-5VU-Y
I’m confused. ISTM Wu arguing that companies’ right to moderate shouldn’t be constrained by a reading the 1st Amendment too broadly. Am I getting Wu wrong or do you think the 1st should sharply prescribe moderation?
The benefit for me was that I already had an old laptop lying around. :)

I'm sure a Pi could work well for this too. It just needs to be powerful enough to display websites and videos smoothly.
Biggest issue with this: No button to turn it off.
It looks like a layer of plastics, so I would expect not well. Though, the part you'd hit would be above the ground, so it might still protect pretty decently for all the below ground stuff. You might consider putting a small set of stones around it so that the trimmer cord hits those instead of the wrapped wood.
Sure, but he labeled himself a Libertarian Socialist afterwards, which was what I was referring to.

And I would argue he did figure out the best way, he wrote books about it.
Are you using the current version of the app? It's been working great for me. They switched over from an older version somewhere on the order of a few months ago.
Ask HN: What are your programming ergonomic hacks?
I usually place syntax commas in the begging of a line.

For example:

```sql
select
column1
,column2
,column2
from table
```

Or

function(
arg1
,arg2
,arg3
)

---

Some people have a strong reaction to this. But I think its strictly superior in that I can comment out a line without having to add or remove any commas on the line above.

This is quite obvious, but I do feel like I never put much thought into programming ergonomics. What are some similar "hacks" that you know or use?
It probably still tries to analyze what's on screen, but probably can't send it anywhere if no network connection is available (unless it has a WWAN radio or can hop onto some Sidewalk-type network).
The 99PI on towers of silence, regarding the same subject matter, was incredible. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/
If all you’ve got is JS then every problem looks like a double.
I'm going to dust off my spark gap radio.
Mergerfs plus SnapRAID comes close to your ask:

https://perfectmediaserver.com/02-tech-stack/mergerfs/
The author seems completely unaware of the effects of

- sixteen thermal cycles a day

- constant vibration (sometimes severely when it was boosted) which means fatigue

- numerous effects of radiation on every material in the station, including the metal that makes up its structure (hardening/embrittlement), but also every seal keeping people alive
As for my anecdote, I had a computer with 3 HDDs in a raid5, it had some of my very early programming projects and other various things which I wish I still had. But, I don't have any longer because something, I'm assuming memory, was silently failing and over 40% of the files were turned into jibberish and random binary bytes.

I now use ECC EVERYWHERE now. My laptop, my desktop, my little home server. All ECC. Because, ECC is cheap and provides a lot of protection for very little effort on my part.
One Million Checkboxes Is What It Sounds Like
i3 with Jetsons sound (fake but fun): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgSZ8sjDgU
Plus:

- The principle of being able to use your own computer, control your data, etc.

- Educational value of being able to do things, like, make your own K8s cluster from whatever level of masochism you desire (rather than the necessarily higher-level options with cloud and VPS provider offerings).

- Applications like home automation not dependent on Internet being up.

- (Like the cost of data storage) GPU compute cost, and also "reserved" guaranteed availability.

Personally, I also run some external services in AWS or Linode now, but in the past have run those from home servers and from colo boxes.
Understanding GPU Memory Corruption at Extreme Scale: The Summit Case Study
Some albums are more than the sum of their parts.
He got a detail wrong, but I think this takes little away from his point. Orwell considered the possibility of joining several of the factions and his choice to join POUM was ultimately arbitrary. His choice to join was not due to a perfect personal alignment of his with the goals of POUM.
I have often wondered if these flood stories document something much larger that might have occurred as the major ice sheets collapsed and raised the sea levels to unseen heights.

But the one that is most intriguing IMHO is the mediterranean sea event that happened but it is 6M years ago. Could ancestors of genus Homo have passed that story long for all that time even across speciation???

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/first-direct-proof-of-mega-flood-i...
It's always more satisfying to create something yourself but LibreELEC is a minimal Linux distro (barely even a distro) that boots directly into Kodi and is ideal for this kind of use case. It even has native CEC support.
Without literal Democracy, it is incorrect to argue the population justified the government. It would have to be consistent, and continual justification by decree by the population through Direct Democracy.
GitHub Actions and Secret Inputs
Microsoft and Qualcomm – Blame for Broken Arm Promises? [video]
It was opined on HN the other day, but operations research (aka data science), the annals of human process mapping (aka process automation), and control theory (outside ME/hardware) all suffer similarly.

A field retitles itself, and suddenly no one is aware of the still-applicable research from before the name change.

Which is probably more broadly to say that no modern courses teach surveys of previous material.
Even you think it is peanuts in comparison when expecting it to be for one particular race.
Conversely, I'm a ML guy who has to do webdev to make ends meet. Tips for me?
What a thoughtful response and I think that you’ve done a fantastic job at summarizing the crux of the issue

Namely, that idealized human organizational structures require every citizen to have a level of dedication and persistent scrutiny, education, etc... that would allow for sustainment of a society. This is every Greek philosopher ever saying that education is the key to democracy

Further, because this is the case, societies have tendencies (as we know from history) to lurch around following leaders who exploit this epistemological gap

I fear that you’re correct in the sense that this is not a tractable problem

Thank you!
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A cheap backup scheme:

Buy the hardware to make a lightweight backup server. Make backups work with it. Take it to your friend's place along with a bottle of scotch, plug it in, and then: Use it.

Disaster recovery is easy: Just drive over there.

Redundancy is easy: Build two, and leave them in different places.

None of this needs to happen on rented hardware in The Clown.
Kodi is definitely a very cool project.

I haven't used it much myself. How well does it work with streaming services? It seems like it's designed to be really good for offline content.
They are bundling open source stuff (Spark and Delta and so on), sure, they have their fancy IDE and whatnot on top, but they can let the community maintain things, scale back R&D, focus on things that matter to existing clients.

They have 1.6B revenue, a 50% YoY growth. And still not profitable. Hm, okay, recent acquisition on ML stuff, and of course probably burning hundreds of millions on cloud-GPU-AI shit.

Well, I guess as long as they have so big growth it makes sense to invest and raise ... and yeah that probably completely obscures the actual profitability of their core business. (Not to mention that they are probably spending all that money to try to expand their core business. To upgrade their value prop from cloud version of less-dumb-data-pipelines to 1-800-data-4-AI.)
I agree, it would be tough to implement, and I do not have an easy answer. Maybe something like a deposit-only account with a binding agreement on the earliest date the money can be withdrawn. No, I do not know how such a thing could be created in practice :). If it were possible, that would address the first issue, but not the second.
Also, JavaScript.
It leaves room for non-cooperation. Although we really must define what non-cooperation means in this context.

Ending Slavery didn't leave room for the decision to non-cooperate with it, by continuing to own Slaves, or to be a Slave. Certainly depends on the specifics.

Just like Slavery was dismantled with no choice for those who wished it to continue.
LibreELEC is my go-to as well. I like to buy old thin-clients with bad storage for next to nothing and net-boot them diskless
This is cool!

I'm wondering how you change the input port (e.g. PS5), guessing you jump back to the Samsung OS in those cases?
Thanks for the correction. One thing I definitely don’t remember from the book is the alignment of all the groups. I checked again and what happened was that the POUM (independent communists) ended up fighting alongside the anarchists against the Soviet-aligned communists.
'The Dream Machine' languished in my 'To read' pile until I started the audiobook while on a road trip earlier this year. I was drawn in and read it through, switching between audio and ebook. I knew parts of the puzzle but it was amazing to see how they all fit together. An amazing book about a series of amazing accomplishments that let us share these ideas so widely and quickly.
To me, the book was mostly an eyewitness account. Orwell himself remarks on the absurd amount of factions and how bizarre things were after returning from the front. I agree with your take that he went in quite blind, but you can feel that he has experience as a journalist. I was most impressed by his descriptions of small acts of humanity in a hopelessly complex conflict.
It never mattered what the max bitrate was going to be, because as long as there was a lower bitrate option that allowed you to broadcast more channels, that was the option station owners were going to use. Because selling X ads makes less money than selling 2X ads.

Digital TV and radio were simply the first casualties of the modern advertising economy.
University of Cambridge publishing arm hit by cyberattack
Democracy has rituals that its disciplines believe that if adhered to correctly and reverently they will bring prosperity to their tribe.

Some, but not all of those rituals even stand up to basic scrutiny. Others, not so much.
Is the anarchism Chomsky has in mind literally just direct democracy then?
Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production
> I'm not sure "it can be generalized to an undecidable problem" really explains why it's hard....

Hah! I agree with this. :)
Google provides a mechanism to disable location tracking.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en

https://www.androidpolice.com/how-to-disable-google-location...

I've seen this as a small part in more general articles on increasing privacy in all of your Google settings.
Google had a Data Liberation Front before it was forced by regulation to enable bulk, machine-readable data downloading. Takeout is their product.
Afaik that was already the rule 25-30 years ago when Armstrong was cycling.
I can remember track and field athletes being banned when they didn‘t show up for surprise tests.
So either cycling was more lenient or he got a bonus treatment because he was famous.

On a side note: much harder today to not be available/found than it was 30 odd years ago.
It would have been possible but it would have required a trade off against the other data in the message; however, the goal of GPS is to provide accurate position data, not to provide convenient "calendar time" to individuals. Which is why they spent so lavishly on high precision correction parameters and so sparsely on low precision time of calendar parameters.
I think I get it, it's radical egalitarianism. It just turns out that hierarchical decision making works better for running complex organizations (e.g. an army), so anarchism (i.e. a vacuum of centralized power) nearly always leads to a warlord taking power. The US basically got lucky that Washington didn't want it and set a republican precedent for other colonial independence movements.
Another month, and another person trying another hack around GitHub Actions and secrets.
Id also add The Idea Factory* unless you have even better recommendations for Bell Labs era

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor...
Related One Million Checkboxes (992 points, 7 days ago, 307 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869
Yeah, rsync.net is pricey, but in reliable.

I been using Interserver[1] + borg[2] for the last 3 years. With the 10TB plan comes out to $25/mo, but if you prepay a year there's discounts.

For the OPs use case, they have a 40TB plan for $84/mo. Still pricey, but, cheap compared to most other cloud storages. If you have data you care about, off-site backups are required.

[1] https://www.interserver.net/storage/

[2] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Related big recent thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40257064
I have lived in cities big and small by orders of magnitude difference, and the park experience is the same. I'm sure gangs do what you describe in certain areas. But still I think what I am trying to get at is for the vast majority of people and things, we tend to operate pretty evenly. The rich and poor go to the beach and you can scarcely tell who is who when they are in polyester shorts sharing the same resources as everyone else. Are police maintaining this? Perhaps, but there are also beaches that don't have regular policing or active lifeguarding and they look generally the same in this regard as beaches that do. Maybe theres the threat of punishment if there would be something done but realistically the police don't work like they do in movies and TV and won't proactively respond before you get a black eye.

If people worked out how to be a bad person at a beach thats learned behavior. They might study the law. realize there are loopholes to exploit. Maybe realize they could argue the beach is private property and not public and kick everyone out. People do this, yes, but part of me imagines that they only attempt to do this because they know others have done similar things and are supported by lawyers and advisors who are finding ways to do this thing. Its not a natural response. Natural is probably a child working with other children they don't even know on a sand castle.
Australia, too: The Victorian Alps [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Alps