skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be allergic to 100s (I could not even walk 1 meter of certain weeds and I would get blisters etc) of things until I moved away from my country 20+ years ago. I suddenly was allergic (as far as I know still now) to nothing; I accidentally came in contact with some of the worst allergens of old (as I live in nature since then) and they did nothing to our surprised. My wife who was allergic to seafood (passing out to needing epi levels) and that’s gone too, shortly after the move. I don’t know why; our doctor then didn’t know, but we chalked it up to stress; we went from depressing commute ratrace city jobs to sitting in a forest in nature doing whatever we liked. I work more hours now but they are stressless. Don’t know whatever is true, but one mistake I made was not moving earlier.
The article itself says "You don't control it completely".

That's an important qualifier. You can still direct it towards the right path.

If you don't do anything, you won't get anywhere (generally speaking).
HI,
congratulations for the idea and simplicity of Doc2Link.
I have some questions:
- are the links temporary?
- Can I be one click?
- Are you able to support the project even if it is free?

Thank you
Even worse: GPGPU is not only about LLM or even ML. It's also for computer vision, signal processing, pointcloud processing, e.g. Opencv has backend for CUDA, open3d, PCL the same. Even apple is kind of worse than AMD regarding ecosystem of libraries and open source high performance algorithms - when I tried to port some ICP pipeline to apple metal there was nothing there, most libraries and research code target only CUDA
It should be said this is mostly fine-tuning. freebsd-update is ok mostly, sure from time to time I find the CVS <<< >>> notation confusing, but thats a pretty small price to pay for something which JUST WORKS.

the disconnect between FreeBSD versions and the state of portsnap sometimes is in some ways more confusing. "sorry, you can't use ports anymore, we decided you're too old, but if you set WE_WARNED_YOU_THIS_MAY_NOT_WORK=1 it may be ok" -I don't seem able to predict when this is coming down the pipe. I am lazy and mostly live in the prebuilt binary pkg anyway so again, this is whining.

Thank you for the care taken with this thing. It's awesome.
Yeah, isn’t hitting memory (especially if it can’t fit in L1-2 cache) one of the biggest sources of latency? Especially that on modern CPUs it is almost impossible to max out the arithmetic units, outside of microbenchmarks?
Is it? That would require any update to any file to cascade into a bunch of directory updates amplifying the write and for what? Do you “du” in your shell prompt?

Not to mention it would likely be unable to handle the hardlink problem so it would consistently be wrong.
If you're building a product for designers, this is for you https://swiy.co/Ncie
Really appreciate the references here. I usually forgot some of the diner details on stuff like this
Certainly successful intelligent people often excel in personalities. Hard to get places without playing nice with others to a degree.
In case anyone else was wondering, no, it isn't _why https://viewsourcecode.org/why/
This is bad, really bad!
I <3 all the happy accidents that allow us to live much healthier and longer lives than the generations before us
> It seems like most of the world has decided not to fly on Chinese rockets, so those aren't really competition.

The Chinese market is so large that this does not matter: https://payloadspace.com/2023-orbital-launches-by-country/

India's space program/industry, though significant, is much smaller than China's. SpaceX makes up 90% of USA's launches at present.

US: 109.
China: 67.
Russia: 19.
Europe: 3.
Other: 25.
> Applications where low latency is especially important are (1) interactive audio systems (such as musical instruments or DJ tools) where the UI needs to be responsive to the performer, and (2) real-time audio effects, where the system needs to process analog input (say from a guitar) and output the processed signal without noticeable delay.

It's worth noting that these are practically the only case where extreme real-time audio programming measures are necessary.

If you're making, for example, a video game the requirements aren't actually that steep. You can trivially trade latency for consistency. You don't need to do all your audio processing inside a 5ms window. You need to provide an audio buffer every 5 milliseconds. You can easily queue up N buffers to smooth out any variance.

Highly optimized competitive video games average like ~100ms of audio latency [1]. Some slightly better. Some in the 150ms and even 200ms range. Input latency is hyper optimized, but people rarely pay attention to audio latency. My testing indicates that ~50ms is sufficient.

Audio programming is fun. But you can inject latency to smooth out jitter in almost all use cases that don't involve a live musical instrument.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuZvRF-OgE&t=490s
As the article itself basically says, this is the least-worst kind of bad, and for consumers, it's pretty hard to see this as bad. So all the grumpy "China won't let me compete" stories are kinda whacked.

Strategically, any nation state depending on constant incoming battery supply probably wants a production facility, because when you decide to invade somewhere it's a bit embarrassing if you can't get batteries for your drones, due to that economy being .. the enemy.

I liked this: China’s BYD and CATL both continue to invest billions in R&D, are steadily launching new and better products, and in general are behaving more like scrappy startups than bloated corporate fiefdoms.

To me, that says we're in for more gooder better times ahead. Longer range, less risk of fire (these days, most fires start in cheap scooter batterypacks it seems)

Batteries are transforming electricity grid economics. We run these as markets because of neoliberal lunacy, when its a public utility function. Batteries make good money right now in arbitrage but their longterm role shifting Solar and wind to other times of day is huge. It can put electricity back into the public utility model, we can stop treating this as a profit market and focus on cost recovery of the transmission network, without coal. I can live with some gas peaker plants until they too are surplus to requirement.

Batteries are to me the closest we've got to the jetpack we were promised. They aren't "Mr Fusion" on a delorean flying machine car, but they are enormously cool.
Shyamoli Paribahan: On the go? Book your bus with a click and skip the line
I ripped my GPS out of the head unit of a 2020 Toyota Corolla. Still alive to tell the tale.
I vouched for it so it's temporarily back up, but I'm afraid it won't be for long.

Downvoters/flaggers, please explain yourself. I've found this very thoughtful and worthy of the front page... quite long though, I'll grant you that, but the guy has something honest and genuine to say
Well, if you allow a bit of a sloppy terminology, graphics are “softer” real-time, than audio - a frame drop is less noticeable than audio glitches.
That seems fine to me. While it sounds nice, I am skeptical this donation will do much in terms of more equitable access to higher education, precisely because John Hopkins is one of the best med schools around. To get in you already need to be privileged or exceptional and probably both. I'd love to know how many people ever have been accepted into Johns Hopkins and declined to go exclusively because of the cost of tuition; I'd be surprised if it's even like 0.5% of students.

Meanwhile, you don't need to be a genius to better yourself.
Yeah. I disliked Tesla before it was cool because I didn't like their product decisions or Musk's lies about self-driving. His fandom rushing to defend all the faults of the products and company made me even more wary.

IMHO, it's lame and kinda pathetic to sour on them just because of Musk's politics.
This book is foundational; all Programmers (especially beginners) should read it. Like all Kernighan's books, the language is simple, concise and precise focusing on the foundations/essentials with no fluff and all in a little over 200 pages. Understand the principles from the examples shown here and then apply them in your own context. The beauty of K&P's books is that they do not overwhelm you with theory but show you the craft/practical applications of it after which a study of the theory becomes more accessible.

To give a concrete example; i had some experience in network programming/protocol implementations before i came across this book. In the "Notations" chapter, they show network message pack/unpack routines written in the style of printf/scanf functions with format strings specifying the packet layout! This was a eye-opening lesson for me in the use of proper notations and little languages. There is also some code snippet examples showing ideas behind Virtual Machines, Code Threading, JIT compilation etc.

Folks should also get Kernighan and Pike's older book "The Unix Programming Environment" to go with this. The chapter "Program Development" gives a complete example of developing a compiler for a small calculator language using compiler development tools (and no theory!) in around 50 pages. This is the smallest and simplest exposition that i know of on how to write a compiler.

In summary; get all of Kernighan's books and study them! :-)
Versus what? Everything you install involves trust at some point.
Indeed!

Just release a flatpak, even a snap.

I’m not asking to support all distros. But at least one between flatpak and snap is enough to support pretty much all distros out there in a clean manner, not with curl | sh
> As a rule of thumb, leap days come around every four years. But there are exceptions to this rule. For example, at the turn of every century we miss a leap year. Even though the year is divisible by four, we don't add a leap day in the years that end in 00. But there's an exception to this rule too. If the year is a multiple of 400 then we do add in an extra leap day again. At the turn of the millennium, despite being divisible by 100, the year 2000 did, in fact, have a 29 February because it was also divisible by 400.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240228-leap-year-the-im...
What I need is a du that caches the results somewhere and then does not rescan the 90% of dirs that have not changed when I run it again a month later...
This is kind of depressing: every time I make a somewhat-obscure sci-fi reference here, usually no one gets it (or it takes a very long time). But an obscure Seinfeld reference gets a full citation in 2 minutes.
From where to where did you move then?
It's definitely a philosophical position that exists beyond a random HN poster. See for example computational theory of mind https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
A well sharpened edge can give better grip and precision but comes at the cost of forgiveness.

So it’s a doubled edged…. edge?

Your best bet is to get your skis tuned at a shop that is knowledgeable about backcountry skiing and be brutally honest with them about your ability and the type of terrain you ride. They should set you up appropriately.

A full tune once or twice a year should be sufficient, unless you’re doing over 20 days or so.

If you have significant rock damage to your base or edge you should get it addressed asap.
Yeah, that was when I knew for sure that the author is trying to make a point and didn’t care about the facts. I’ve read NYRoB since the 1990s and you are right, they had and have a lot of really good writing and reviews.

The thing OP unforgivably misses is that today’s NYRoB is not the same as a decade ago. The editors have changed and it’s noticeably less “clubby” (less, as they used to say, “New York Review of each other’s books”). Also, worryingly thinner?

So the characterization in OP is out of date, to the extent that it ever had some truth.

Also, what’s the fucking problem with writing at the level of sophistication of a tenured professor?

*

Also, someone has to toss this quote in somewhere:

>> Thirty-six years earlier, disgust with the same ubiquitous, thin gruel [in NYTBR] had prompted Edmund Wilson to declare in the second issue of The New York Review of Books: “The disappearance of the Times Sunday book section at the time of the printers’ strike only made us realize it had never existed.”

As quoted in: https://www.cjr.org/cover_story/goodbye_to_all_that_1.php
Great point, I wonder how the court will look at OpenAI's internal discussions around utilizing copyrighted materials.
Children are dumb. I was miserable when I couldn't have ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Better to act with caution and reservedness than make more Chloe Coles.

Gender dysphoria has such a low precedent it's more likely that there is some other mental issue. Also I don't expect that pre pubescent children have autogynophilia.

Better to send your child to therapy than encourage them to mutilate themselves in irreversible ways. The risk of suicide is in mutilated detransitioners, not keeping your child from transitioning.

If you are reading this and you do have gender dysphoria for the love of god do not get your surgery in the USA. Thailand has been doing these surgeries for much longer and are the experts. All I see from US sex change operations are horror stories.
NL -> ES
The next innovation will be networking (jam-resistant radio relays and/or light) and patrolling, which will optimize coverage, report hot spots, and fill in gaps from attrition.

The end result will be an air traffic control system that creates a minefield of the air—an area-denial death zone.

The real innovation with drones, though, is that there is no more "fog of war."

Drones provide a perfect information environment.
Obviously most distributions provide package managers that should be used for unified automated update mechanisms and gpg signing. Superior to curl | sh in every way.
`/organisms/`

What?
People can project politics onto anything, but art does not need to be political.
The distribution in time AND place argues for sustained continuing contact between physically discrete, non-adjacent communities. Direct or indirect trade.

we document direct genomic evidence for Neolithic female exogamy in a woman buried in a different megalithic tomb than her brothers. Taken together, our findings provide a detailed reconstruction of plague spread within a large patrilineal kinship group and identify multiple plague infections in a population dated to the beginning of the Neolithic decline.

Female exogamy is ubiquitous? It's common, sure. Is this a 50/50 or do more historical societies tend to women moving between families more often? I thought neolithic communities were not necessarily patrilineal but this argues that for the skandi dataset they were.
The value comes from the value of selling ads and knowing everything about the product. In this case the viewer. Value prop for building the ability to still have insight into your product is there. It captures all the people who think they are clever by not connecting through WiFi and not understanding that it can be done over HDMI.
His older versions were just as good in my opinion.
Completely agree. Furthermore, you could always just not pipe it to sh, read it first if you care so much. Releasing and maintaining packages across a range of distros is extremely hard and time consuming, and they just released the linux version.
And to demonstrate that hard realtime is not about speed, there is a whole hard-real time JVM implementation with GC and everything used in military contexts.

Modern computers are ridiculously fast, relatively speaking you don’t need much resources to calculate a missile trajectory, so “simply” 100% sure doing some calculations at a fixed rate, with even a GC cycle that has a deterministic higher bound (e.g. it will go throw the whole, non-resizable heap, but it will surely always take n seconds), you can pass the requirements. Though a desktop computer pretty much already begets the hard part of hard realtime, due to all the stuff that makes it fast - memory caching, CPU pipelining, branch prediction, normal OSs scheduling, etc.
Hard agree that pricing for standards is generally insane. IMO if the law requires it, it should be free + maybe a $10 admin. Anything else is BS. Standards bodies already make a killing off their membership fees. There are alternatives and workarounds though, here is one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452660

If you don't want to hire a consultant then don't. You can do it yourself. Go get a EEE degree and then spend 5-15 years working as a EEE in product development and certification. Then you'll be good to go :)

Or just blind self certify and pay the lawyers, Friendly Spectrum Agency and other spectrum users (like cell phone companies) when they come knocking and asking for damages from you.

Here is a free primer I replied with earlier today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926870
FTC finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites
> The current line number is in the bottom right, and if I need to go to a specific line number I have `G` for that.

How would you know which line number to go to? You see that word half a screen up, what's its line number?
When you look at the precedence of gender dysphoria and the amount of "trans" people surely you can only conclude that you're dealing with a bunch of fat incels with autogynophilia.
Yeah but what is common in real life is writing multiple parallel libraries for {Python, NodeJS, ...} with a nearly identical API. In this case I would think that if the Python command is `pip install foo`, the NodeJS command should be `npm install foo`. It's redundant to do `pip install foo-python` when pip is only for Python, and opens the door for stealthy attacks where someone else creates `pip install foo` on PyPI that is forked from your repo and mirrors your API exactly but steals data and credentials and sends it to malicious servers.
It sounds like you moved to Stardew Valley.
New Internet Thing, Chapter 10 (What's a BBS?)
Too simple. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240228-leap-year-the-im...
Certainly looks and feels like it
Stylebot.dev – Modify the appearance of any webpage
But linux [1] has absolutely zero security measures, and this has basically free reign over your computer to send off your .ssh folder, your browser cache, to install a permanent keylogger, etc.

[1] Standard “GNU”/linux desktops
I just want to point out that most keyboards hav a latency at 10-20 ms[1], so 1 ms is impossible.

[1]https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
Somehow tribes are the only ones who have their stuff figured out.
I have taken career breaks. I don't call myself unemployed. To me, unemployed means that you are not working but you want to be. It seems like the terms "unemployed" and "alone in the mountains" are just being used to dramatic effect. Am I wrong?
What I think is irrelevant, I'm not even USAian, I paraphrased an opinion held by the anti-Federalist founders held during the (US) constitutional debates.

Clearly these were crazy people far divorced from reality as we know it modern times:

During the ratification debates, Antifederalists charged that the President would become an elected monarch, that cabals would develop to ensure his reelection, and that the presidential veto power would be abused. They further feared that presidential power to grant pardons would allow the president to conspire with others in treasonable activities with impunity.

I mean, really? Can you even imagine anything like that happening?
I haven’t watched yet but this seems highly selective. There’s so much creative building in medicine, from what’s done in orthopedics with rebuilding joints (often using a patients existing tissue with new hardware) or with reconstructive surgery, etc. if you consider medicine more broadly to include pharmacology or therapy then there’s more room for constructive creativity.
WebVM – Linux Virtualization in WebAssembly
> A generic AI image generated from a simple prompt is kind of the opposite of a deeply researched and well written article. Throwing the two together is incongruous. It doesn't personally bother me as much as some, but I certainly don't think they add anything to the article.

I also hate them because when one of those images catches my eye, I feel like I've been scammed. It's like biting into a delicious-looking chocolate bar that's filled with ash instead of caramel and peanuts you reasonably expected. After enough of that, you'll even sensibly get wary of real chocolate bars.
Semiotic bricolage: On theory of mind and communicative intent
Not accepting blame and colluding with competitors to sew disinformation is a false equivalence.
I have been using diskonaut, its fast enough given that it also produces a nice visual output.
neat tool, congrats on the release and thank you for this and the analysis/comparison.
I think this argument starts to break down for the (gigantic) GPTs where the model size is a lot closer to the size of the training corpus.

Thinking in terms of compression, the compression in generative AI models is lossy. The mathematical bounds on compression only apply to lossless compression. Keeping in mind that a small fraction of the training corpus is presented to the training algorithm multiple times, it's not absurd to suggest that these works exist inside the algorithm in a recallable form. Hence the NYT's lawyers being able to write prompts that recall large chunks of NYT articles verbatim.
DualDisc format which combined CDs with DVDs
An actual example is that the Python LSP extension on the offical marketplace has some "DRM" that makes it pop up a fatal "You can't use this extension except with the real VSCode" error message. People have been playing whack-a-mole with it by editing the obfuscated JS to remove that check, or by using an older version from before they added the check. https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641
> it certainly won't *decrease* shootings

You don't think the very loud message of "Lots of people here are armed, not just you" has any chance of deterring someone?

Bold claim. Any evidence?
Why is there no spare wheel in that car?
>They will totally embrace AI without concern of privacy or the Terminator.

Exactly, which is why SkyNet won't send the terminators after us for a few decades, when Gen Alpha has forgotten about the movies and decided to trust the machines.
I don’t think I’d ever sign up for personal stuff with my work email. Those are two areas of my life I keep separate.

If you want a personal account and are willing to pay for it, sign up under a non-work account. Use that at home, and use your work account at work. This makes sense to me.
Yes. Most modern Ethernet isn't running on shared media (i.e. there are no collisions) and for the most part no packet loss as long as there's no congestion. For networks and for the CPU, when you're fast enough the jitter matters less, if the cpu or the network "takes a break" (from the application perspective), it tends to be a very short break on really fast networks or cpus. e.g. if a packet gets in front of you in 10Mbps Ethernet that's a big deal for an audio application but a packet ahead of you in 10Gbps Ethernet isn't much of a delay for audio. 1ms vs. 1us sort of thing.

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have you never heard the expression? as 1s and 0s left brained as I am, even I can let the lyrical notions be. i take solace in the fact that there's someone less poetic on life than myself. there is yet hope
nice try walking back a bout of senility :) no worries we have all been there.

or maybe you just come from reddit, I don't know (or care)
fts is just wrapper functions.

You cannot around getdents and stat family syscalls on Linux if you need file sizes.
Thanks for telling. It may be a bug in their system, but the way this seems to have been handled by them is really ugly
You are missing the forest for the trees here
I mean...

https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-...

https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-a...