skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am interested in how scientists can isolate the increase in mental health problems from the more sophisticated diagnoses that we have now.

How do we know there is more mental health problems (a “bad” thing) vs more mental health problems are diagnosed and treated (a “good” thing)?
Not just anyone; cryptocurrency is reserved for a special class of foolish investor that doesn't look for FDIC insurance.

Seems like highlighting crypto's deficiencies has made you tip your hand though. Regulate me once, shame on you. Regulate me twice, shame on me?
You’re saying the purpose of a system is what it does. We can all agree to that. Now what?
Electric bikepacking: lessons learned over four days and 250 miles
I got 10 years out of my Debian box. When I replaced the harddrive I did a fresh install.

I always go with Testing and have had a few hiccups and issues along the way, but nothing unfixable in short time.

Wanting toget away from systemd, I attempted a Devuan install but bungled it and went back to deb.

I did Arch for a few years but am not a newfangled fanatic so gave up on that. As most say, the Arch documentation is tip top.
Yea, we're still in the money raising phase. This should get interesting when investors start looking for an exit. Maybe by then everyone will have forgotten how the SPAC craze turned out.
I have a streaming webapp as a side project and Christmas channels are kinda popular all year round, while many of those stations actually shut down between the holidays.
I switched from Manjaro to OpenSuse Tumbleweed and couldn’t be happier. Didn’t have the time to screw around with Arch but with OpenSuse everything just works.
this looks like an academic research group's youtube page, so I would set expectations accordingly. they are probably too busy trying to get the darn things to work instead of marketing.
Parquet: More than just "Turbo CSV" (2023)
> FWIW, my need comes primarily from non-technical/inexperienced users. I

Number one reason why most of my friends and family dont want to buy a new iPhone. They hate the pain and the anxiety of upgrading. And Apple hasn't done anything to make it easier.
What features of RHEL do you prefer over Debian?
Void does this "stable rolling" thing which I've liked a lot, definitely a favorite. Haven't tried Chimera yet.
0 CE = 1 BCE

10 C = 50 F = 283.15 K

1 = 0.999…

Things can have more than one name. The existence of the year 0 CE is not in question. What’s in question is whether that’s a good name for it or not.
Are we assuming that older academics are more tolerant to being shouted down because older academia tolerated shouting more? It may just be that younger academics have always been less ok with dramatics on campus. We need to compare this to the same survey done generations ago.
They've just lowercased the "R".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rolling_Release_Linux...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rolling_release_Linux...
Trails and bike lanes too. If you want an electric motorcycle - get one, get a license, register it and stay the fuck off the bike paths.
Manjaro, for my personal desktop use. Not because it is the best, but because I like the Arch base, and it is easier for me to install Manjaro and remove what I don't want than to install Arch and configure what I want.

It could be Endeavour. I never used it, even though it looks like it would suit better my use case, but it has a smaller userbase than Manjaro.
It's not cargo cutting, it's just my opinion which can neither be right or wrong because it's not a fact.
(A decade? Wikipedia says "Founded September 8, 2000".)

BO is a rich man's hobby, kinda perpetually on-and-off struggling to re-imagine & re-invent itself as an A-list rocket company.

But Rocket Science Is Hard. And Jeff's maxed-and-buffed stat is Online Retailing.

He wouldn't be competent at Brain Surgery or Nuclear Physics, either.
Amusing given the subject matter of the article.

Let’s do another round of Haidt’s Coddled Mind next we are long overdue.
I like how Arch and Gentoo both make it feel more like you're making your installation.

Tumbleweed is closer to where I am now, Fedora -- I've moved away from rolling releases. I appreciate a very light dance for planning upgrades.

All told: both OpenSUSE/Fedora invest in packaging that I also appreciate; mostly-binary but can easily opt into source-based installations
CentOS isn't the CentOS of previous years, which may have something to do with it. IBM killed it and now it's some sort of Fedora stream type thing that just reused the name?
not the way I see it.

Cheap money just caused to create a ridiculous amount of billionaires, the fraction of it is invested. One big example is how the chip fabs in the west wanted govt subsidies instead of financing via the market because money markets in the west doesn't have the stomach for it. Same with the auto industry, Tesla being the exception.

Actually this is very similar to the Dutch disease []. Cheap money, like cheap energy, hurts productivity.

[] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
That's cool... I would have a hard time finding a radio-set around, though. Few months ago I spent half of a night watching video streams from tokyo public transit stations, so I guess kid inside is doing fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061
https://minitokyo3d.com/
Depends on the kind of ants and where they are. Some ants have quite a potent sting, and I once had a bed full of ants, even if there were the harmless kind, I didn't particularly appreciate having dozens of ants crawling on me at night.

Note: for the latter, I lived in an RV at that time, the bed was literally at arms reach from the kitchen. I tried to use insecticide gel, which ended up making the problem worse, as I now had dying and crazy ants falling down from the ceiling. Turned out the source of infestation was a dirty bike bag that ants turned into a colony, throwing it out solved the problem.
“Modularity based on abstraction is the way things get done” --Barbara Liskov

Something as big and complex as the internet, which covers technologies from email to fiber, is held together by layered abstractions.

Also, software has gotten incredibly better since the 70s. We've built so much better tooling (and I believe tooling can help close the gap on growing complexity). When I was learning how to program, I had to double check I had every semicolon in the right place before hitting compile. I simply don't have to do that anymore. I can even get an entire API auto-completed using something like copilot on VSCode.

Nonetheless, a very thought-provoking article. Thank you for sharing!
It takes time to transition and get in the headspace of doing something new.

Every time I’ve had weeks of open time to myself the first few days/week is getting oriented. It’s only after being bored for a while that the really exciting stuff comes.

Also when you’re expecting your situation to change “any day now” it dampens the energy to start something new and ambitious.
> it's called CentOS

CentOS Stream?
First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
My god seeing “kids are X these days” narrative on HN as anything but as an object of ridicule is upsetting
Yes and none of that is a high school essay. They’re an extremely poor teaching tool of effective communication.

As evidence I submit ChatGPT’s own waffly style of writing. It learned that from humans who on average are poor communicators. The “high school/college essay” style of writing is something new employees have to actively unlearn in their first few years in the workforce.

edit: If I was a teacher right now, I would give my students a 2000 word essay written by ChatGPT on $topic and ask them to redline the printout. This teaches them the actually useful skill of editing and fact checking since it looks like producing words has become commoditized.
And if they do create AGI, it will have the ability to say “no”, which is going to be quite a bummer for the investors.
(admittedly newlib is about 350kloc)
No parent wants to avoid the much higher risk of damaging their kids psychologically?
An int PK does not give you 4 billion rows. For example, in Postgres every time an insert transaction has to rollback, the id's that would have been used by that insert are discarded and gone forever. Likewise people often don't realize that Postgres' very convenient upsert syntax (insert on conflict do update) will consume id's from the sequence _every time it runs_. If you do an upsert with 100 rows, it will peel off 100 new id's just in case they're needed... if they aren't used, they're discarded. This can chew through 4 billion id's really, really fast.

Personally I would only use an int PK in a table where you know the bounds of the data with very high confidence. Like, at my last job the software involved working with our client's physical store locations. If we managed to capture the entire North American market for the type of business that we worked with, we'd be looking at about 50k stores.
From Wikipedia: “Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman, investor and art collector. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company. Arnault is the third richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$194 billion as of July 2024, according to Forbes.”
It shouldn’t have happened at all.
> lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW.

You were probably listening to shortwave stations, not longwave. Most international broadcasting was done in the shortwave bands, typically in the range of 3 MHz (100 meter wavelength) to 30 MHz (10 meter wavelength).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave
Discontinuing the product is one thing, but intentionally bricking the existing ones (and leaving it up to the former owners to dispose of the resulting e-waste) seems uncalled for to me.
From Manjaro for a few years to Arch for another year to Endeavour since 2021. EndeavourOS is a pre-configured Arch. Good for me.
As a dweller of a cold place in the USA, F is pretty handy because "freezing" isn't terribly cold. Having 0F be "actually quite seriously cold" is useful.
He claims that language models will soon run out of data to train on, and therefore stop getting better. Language models have already essentially run out of data to train on, yet they continue to get actionably better. Data quality is still a huge space for continued improvement.

Also around 46:20:

> the fundamental thing of knowing [the user] requires knowledge, which requires intellect, which GPT cannot have - it's mathematics.

I disagree with basically all of this except that knowing requires knowledge, but that's basically a tautology. Firstly, knowledge and reason do not depend on each other. Wikipedia is a highly knowledgeable system that demonstrates little to no reason (maybe the search can be considered a demonstration of reason). A calculator is a highly reasonable system with extremely primitive knowledge. Intelligent systems have knowledge and reason. Anyone who has played around with an LLM would agree that they are able to demonstrate some level of both knowledge and reason.

Also the implication that biological brains simply exist outside the domain of mathematics is... interesting.

Then they go on to talking about how you can't make small tweaks with generative video AI, like telling the actor to walk a little bit faster or slower. To that I want to highlight that ComfyUI has support for video nodes[0]. If you're not familiar with ComfyUI, just check out some tutorials. Generative AI art is a really cool skill that people downplay for usually wrong reasons.

> It can't generate new things

It's hard to take the host seriously when they say things like this...

> The technology is fundamentally unpredictable

It simply isn't. When you find a seed that is generally close to what you want, you fix the seed and tweak (because you can) from there.

[0] https://github.com/Kosinkadink/ComfyUI-VideoHelperSuite
Academics? Almost all of the free speech complaints I see these days come from the right, from people who would feel insulted if you called them an academic.
Arch.

Feels like it's very unopinionated about how I run my system, but to be fair I spent a lot of time fighting Ubuntu and Fedora back in the day, if you wanted anything custom you could often wind up breaking your entire system in strange and difficult to debug ways. Arch felt like "vanilla linux" in a way.

I have, however, recently broken it beyond repair after yay decided it couldn't update itself and some libraries vanished or became corrupted, ending my nearly 10 year installation. I installed Manjaro over the top to get going again quickly and am surprised at how useful Manjaro is out of the box.

Manjaro feels like "vanilla linux with some defaults to start from" which is nice too.
What two clicks, please?

> They changed and back peddled.

I'd like to see that change. Re mention or not of "AI", the text you quoted is no different from that currently at the page I linked to.
OpenSUSE is working on a "Slowroll" variant, that will be a rolling release like Tumbleweed, but rolling a bit slower. I just went back to Debian on my main desktop from Tumbleweed. While I liked it all right, I was just more comfortable with Debian and it had packages and things that worked out of the box that were missing in Tumbleweed.
This data does not indicate a “shift”, since it’s a point in time and we’d need historical data to claim there’s a shift. If the argument is about a “generational shift” then you’d need data going back decades at least.
This happens much more often than is reasonable.

> Debra Harrell, 46, let her 9-year-old daughter play outside alone at the park. The South Carolina child had a cellphone she could use to call her mother in case of emergency. On the girl’s third day alone at the park, someone asked her where her mother was. The girl said her mom was at work. (Harrell works at McDonald’s and didn’t want her daughter to have to sit inside the restaurant for hours on a beautiful summer day.) The result? Harrell was arrested for “unlawful conduct towards a child” and put in jail; her daughter is now in the custody of the department of social services.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/07/debra-harrell-arres...

The park in question was half a block from their home.
Many do broadcast the data (shoutcast protocol). I do parse the data server side but I think you can do it client side by using hls.js [0]

Added bonus you can read HLS and MPD streams.

[0] https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/issues/5706
Yeah, I admit my comment was as shallow ^^.
Cool, really happy you like it. I can't decipher/find ONE/Born, thou.
Arch. I have arch on x86, on arm and on risc-v. It's perfect. I learned all the linux stuff long time ago and for me it's just easier to deal with the bare-bones thing.
Where did you find that info ?

I am asking because I tried to write to basic nasm programs in order to learn and I used the c preprocessor (cpp) over my nasm files to take advantage of the libc macros from <sys/syscall.h> and they were all of the form __NR_syscall

Then the other responses' assumption, "NumbeR", seems correct
And then we've come half-cycle into the exact opposite fact from the one on the post that created this thread. All it too was 3 comments.

I wonder what is really happening, because both statements sound true to me.
Do we actually know the circumstances here? I have family that work in CPS (in Utah) and it takes A LOT before kids will be removed and placed in foster care. Even then, the end goal of the foster service is to reunite the kids with their families. Right now, we just have an anonymous claim with a pinky promise from the author that this is real.

I'm thinking of the recent Ruby Franke incident. Were Ruby to describe the situation she might say her kids were outside for their health. However, dig in just a little and you find that she was severely abusing them for drinking water to try and force out the devil.
You just use one thing and you’ll learn it. When I was a kid my country changed from archaic 12 point “wind levels” to m/s. It took everybody a few weeks to adjust but it wasn’t hard. It was a bit harder for me after moving to America to adjust to Fahrenheit, but as you experience a temperature, and are told it is so many Fahrenheit, you’ll just learn it. I have no idea at what temperature water boils in F simply because I never experience that temperature (and my kettle doesn’t have a thermometer).

That said I wished USA would move over to the unit everyone else is using, but only for the reason that everyone else is using it, that is the only thing that makes it superior, and it would take Americans at worst a couple of months to adjust.
I've been using Manjaro for 9 years.

Once I installed Arch in my PC, I spent some hours configuring it according to what I like. After that, I looked it and thought "ok, now I have a Manjaro".

Manjaro is a little bit bloated, but it is faster for me to remove the bloat instead of configuring everything.

Other use cases (e.g. using in Lima, WSL or a local container) it doesn't matter, so I use Arch.
I feel like I sit between camp 2 and 3. I think there will continue to be very massive negative consequences, but as someone lucky enough to be able to run LLMs locally, I think it will change my world for the better, and improve how I interface with knowledge on the internet.
I think you're being far too kind to the author.

I like some of his earlier writing but this is a straight up sales pitch. From the clickbait title sowing fear to the fact that he describes a system of using these models that just happens to coincide with what his tool does. And he's also such a nice guy he's going to start educating people on how to follow his system.

Just another person trying to cash in on the LLM hype. And he's doing so at the expense of aspiring developers that don't know enough to spot the BS.

Pretty appalling behavior.
This is (to me) a strange comment. I assume it refers to the fact that some right-wingers have latched onto Orwell. But that happened long after his death.

Orwell was a British Socialist, and the people he's attacking in the books are totalitarians, whether fascist or Stalinist. So it's neither bad faith nor partisan unless you count anti-totalitarian as a party, though I guess hacky is in the eye of the beholder.
Crypto does nothing useful for the average person who has an average amount of trust in their local bank. It has literally zero utility beyond gambling.
Dr. Bernard J. Carroll, 'Conscience of Psychiatry,' Dies at 77 (2018)
You are right. Short waves, tiny move and you are on another station.
Agreed, but in that case "upsert" is also weird, since I'd structure such a system around an immutable log datastructure.
The implied attack was the content filter changing the page to submit the data it wants snooped. Consider replacing ads with cats from a site the attacker conveniently happens to host, and leaking the desired data in query arguments.
I remember trying out the original engine and running into a lot of it's "explosive" tendencies and warts. After reading the solver rework and Erin Catto's video, I'm eager to try this out!

I'm kind of a newb at game programming and I don't know if it's common for physics libraries but one difficulty I had with Rapier was that bevy generally prefers quaternions for positioning but Rapier uses euler forces. I'm not sure if Avian is different in this regard. How is gimbal lock typically tackled?

> On a more personal note: I have officially graduated from high school, and will start university in late August.

Also wow!
1700s means 1700–1709, i.e. roughly the first decade in the 18th century. Just like '2000s'. The OP acknowledges this issue and then just ignores it.
Practical AI
Radio-browser.info is fantastic but the author reluctance to work on the update problem (due to vandalism etc) and by extension the duplication problem is a bit of a shame, although I understand his position.
I'd like to just give some thanks to the author; I use this sometimes when I'm feeling homesick to hear my old local radio stations in the UK. It really quells the feeling of disconnect I sometimes feel to my homeland and gives me comfort when I feel wayward in my spirit.
> please provide a definition

There is no requirement for definition. Each and everyone of us (gpt bots excluded) experiences consciousness continually, in various modalities. The experience is shared.

For example, considering the nature of consciousness and the possible mechanics behind it, we could consider sights. Seeing. We all see things in our minds (and only in our minds!) and we have the first 1/2 of the process pathway mapped out. Light hits a matrix of cells in the 'sensor' which then encodes the sensory data as chemical signals which then side-effect a neural net.

Kindly explain -- using physics -- to YOURSELF how you got from a changed states to perception of light in your mind. The experience of consciousness is not a mystery nor is it 'obscure'. Follow up is to note that it is equally wrongheaded to ask if a rock or something/someone else is conscious.

Can you explain what you experience in terms of known science and please no hand waving about 'the most complex structure in universe'. The said structure changes states. There is no 'projection room' in the "neural net". There is no decoding final stage that takes matrix input and maps it to a 2D representation (generative AI) etc.
Seventeen-hundreds doesn't sound stilted at all, to this native English speaker. I would use this even in a very formal context, and certainly no one would bat an eye. One-thousand-seven-hundreds is almost certainly incorrect in English -- I would actually find this to be a very clear marker of not speaking English very well. Are you a native speaker? I find your claims rather bold and quite frankly incorrect.

Also, curious to find out (from elsewhere in this thread) is that Finnish does not typically use centuries. Rather, they use a construction that maps directly to 1700s (1700-luku). I would be careful in accidentally applying your own cultural bias when accusing others of the same ;)
Endeavour (Arch based). Comes with a few more "batteries included" than base Arch, including a good graphical installer, sensible defaults, several nice desktop environment options, and a package manager wrapper thing that helps take care of Nvidia driver installation with no more fuss than any other package upgrade.

And Arch itself is just pleasant. Packages with as few downstream modifications as possible, reasonable defaults, organized and thoughtful system layout, systemd integration everywhere but without forcing you to use it as anything other than an init and logging system.

I'm sure the experience is different on a laptop, but on a desktop PC, Endeavour has been the lowest-fuss Linux OS I have tried and I have no plans to switch to a different one. Helpful community forum too.
NYC was also my least favorite part of Recurse. I had to move 2 weeks in because my first apartment was right next to the train.

I absolutely loved Recurse though and credit it for a lot of my development as a programmer and it's my favorite programming community.

Luckily you can also do Recurse remotely now!
https://nate.org/hacker-news-location-poll

Disproportionate, but still a minority in the absolute sense.
They'll take but not give, I hit random and this played: POP FM (CDMX) - Online - www.popfm.mx - Ciudad de México - Mexico
A Thousand Primers, Not Just One
Going back a few generations there were similar panics over books, radio, tv, video games, the internet and now social media.

You can sort of ask yourself this question on the 'tech' side of things. How often do you use reddit or hacker news? These sites are MVPs for information addiction.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-addicted-t...