skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No one is entitled to the attention

They aren't, but at the same time the world sure is feeling more lonely. Old friends will move on, but I did notive that Meetups never really recovered in my area post pandemic (and they weren't in great shape in 2017-9 to begin with). What does one do when it feels like there's nowhere to make friends?

>helped many of us to notice our time is finite and we should better spend it doing what we like and want.

It's not necessarily volunatry for everyone. Everything's more expensive and not everyone's gotten wages that keep up with inflation. Or they got laid off and are recovering from that. It just so happens the cheapest entertainment these days is in fact in your own house.
Immigration has been an Absolute DISASTER in Canada.

And any skilled Immigrants who did come all want to leave Canada because it is so expensive.
Every place has millenias of history. The countries in the American continent start to count from when they were invaded by Europeans, that's their (our) loss.
Jailbreaks are highly firmware and hardware specific. I've only seen one specific combination (5.13.5, PW3), but the LanguageBreak authors have seen hundreds -- including mine -- so I have no additional insight or instructions that the extremely thorough LanguageBreak thread doesn't have.

> random forum bulletin board post

As opposed to a random gist? :)
Clean Twitter(X) without clickbait and AI engagement
Genuine question. Would it be cool to have "clean" twitter - a service that does not promote engagement and does not use AI to make it addictive. No video format. Short posts. No algorithm to show posts, only chronological texts from people you follow. Like "bereal" but for text. For people who want to have interesting thoughts and discussions, but don't want AI and clickbait.
And maybe some transparent, crypto-based system to reward people based on post views.

Do you think a platform like this can get a large audience?
Baron who revived Olympics believed they were a religion of perfection and peace
There's only a few things to do with pepper ferments. It's not at all like baking a cake is. And it's far easier to accomplish safely than canning is.

Only one ingredient
must be measured before it is added: Salt.

There is just not anything here that could be improved by adding specificity:

1. Use pure-ish water, if any water is used at all. Chlorine is bad. Buffering from dissolved minerals is also bad. (Distilled water is cheap; use that.)

2. Weigh water, if any, along with the peppers.

3. Add 2% non-iodized table salt, by weight. (Kosher salt works here, and has other uses.)

4. Mix it up in a suitable vessel (I prefer vacuum bags because the results are both flawless and easy), and put in a dark-ish place that is not cold.

5. Wait.

That's really all there is.
It did break hyperinflation, and it is the currency still in use today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_real?wprov=sfti1#His...

> Soon after its introduction, the real unexpectedly gained value against the U.S. dollar, due to large capital inflows in late 1994 and 1995. During that period it attained its maximum dollar value ever, about US$1.20=R$1. Between 1996 and 1998 the exchange rate was tightly controlled by the Central Bank of Brazil, so that the real depreciated slowly and smoothly to the dollar, dropping from near US$1=R$1 to about US$1=R$1.2 by the end of 1998.
> Why do you think it's harder to count votes?

I assumed this from the parent post

>> Something being hard does not mean that it should not be tried.

As opposed to paper voting, which does not have the issues raised by Tom Scott. If that is not what you meant, don't you agree that a more high-tech solution, complete with unspecified but granted methods that mitigate the security problems, requires more expertise and makes the process of voting as a whole more difficult than the low tech one? (eg infra / software maintenance, robustness to outage, educating people on how to use it, ... everything discussed by other threads)

> ballot is a publicly accessible encrypted ledger, where the votes exist publicly

It is cool, but I do not see how this improves upon voting on paper by mail.
Involving computers in vote tallying is an invitation to fraud.

In the US right now, our problems are well understood and primarily relate to ensuring that only legally eligible people vote, and that the vote was cast by that actual person.

These are fundamentally not technical problems. We have known about them for decades if not centuries and as recently as the early 2000s the Carter-Baker commission laid out the problems and the relatively straightforward solutions.

There have always been political “machines” in big cities, and if given the opportunity, they will try to stuff ballot boxes, intimidate voters, harvest ballots, exclude observers, apply voting laws unequally, and do any number of other shenanigans to give their party an advantage.

This has reached epic proportions since mail-in ballots for able bodied voters was normalized during COVID.

And the problems have all been exacerbated by the unwillingness of the courts to force states to abide by their own voting laws.

Election administration is not difficult, it is a straightforward set of tasks that require diligence and integrity, and that benefits greatly from having highly motivated partisan observers at every stage of the process.

Technology currently used in voting mostly just introduces more ways to mess up elections either intentionally (via manipulation, by administrators or hackers) or accidentally (as via bugs).

The fixes as I said, are simple but inconvenient:

1. Diligently clean voter rolls every year, or even throw them out and restart every year

2. Strongly authenticate voters via in-person registration with trusted nonpartisan agents (government officials) and verify eligibility to vote (citizenship, residency, age, selective service)

3. Vote in person. If intimidation is known to be a problem in a precinct, bring in state police (not local). Note that machine precincts are likely determinable via statistical and electoral analysis, eg where can small swings have big electoral impact). You don’t have to fortify everywhere.

4. Check voter id at the polls.

5. Paper ballots, hand counted on the day of election.

6. Invalidate the count and require revote from any precinct that counts any vote not in the presence of partisan observers from any party on the ballot that asks. Do not allow any vote to be counted after results are reported; the remedy for custody mistakes and “finding uncounted votes” is re-vote.

7. Publicly post precinct level results BEFORE reporting to the county or state. Publicly post county results before reporting to the state.
This allows independent channels to confirm that tallies at the county or state level are not tampered with or inadvertently miscomputed.

8. Fast track any election challenge hearings from any eligible voter in an election and do not allow judges to reject cases due to standing, mootness or laches.

9. Absentee ballots should be rare and require proof of need and extraordinary verification with partisan monitoring.
> hesitate to trust archaeologists because they have, far too often, ignored the culture and concerns of descendants while digging up their ancestors.

Or more likely: because they have, far too often, proved the natives wrong and also shown that the people the natives called ancestors weren't... or, if they were, they were also the ancestors of those terrible people from the Evil Enemy Tribe that Nobody Likes.

Natives have political agendas, too.
To be clear, they are not demonstrating issues in the code, they are providing a walkthrough of how one _could_ exploit an issue if one existed and the mitigations weren't in place, as an concrete introduction to how this is done against a mobile app.

e.g. “Given a vulnerability, this is what crafting an exploit looks like”
>Lockdown changed me in ways I don't like, albeit minor ones, and it's something of a struggle to manually keep doing the social things my old self did automatically.

loosening friendships didn't help. People got busier or maybe they are fine with how the lockdown changed them. It already took some time to arrange even small hangouts, but these days it seems like I barely see my "best" friends if it's not some special occasion like a birthday or very big convention.
Nanoscapes [video]
The way forward for something like that is for operating systems to start defining their interface in terms of ABI.

That would be a major shift in mentality, and there are reasons why this has become less common over time, rather than more so. But it seems to me that the balance has shifted, and this is becoming a better idea than it was.

Specifically, Unix, and therefore Posix, benefited greatly from being implemented in a high-level language (meaning: not assembly). It was a time of many architectures, with more invented all the time, and someone could write a backend for cc and bootstrap a whole OS.

But architectures are consolidating, and programming languages are proliferating. But the de-facto C ABI for any given platform remains the lingua franca, and it's a fairly impoverished way to communicate.

It's an intriguing prospect to develop a more sophisticated common language for object code. Different languages have different needs, that won't change, but I see a lot of room to develop something more full-featured, that would allow an OS to provide a UI layer without tying itself up in the details of C++ or Objective C.

Who knows, maybe Zig can lead the way on that, when the time's right.
The food delivery bubble is bursting – and maybe that's not a bad thing
Those are not going to bear impressive fruit. People who grow tomatoes for sale almost exclusively plant hybrids. Making hybrid seeds is even more involved, and they cost more, but the crop is much larger, so it’s worth the hassle.
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Qub – a framework for building websites with QBasic
If you're changing your vote based on which side was the latest to have a major "scandal", you're part of the problem.
For example, so that people aren’t forced by their spouses at home to vote a specific way.
> could ONLY have been done by the shuttle

I'm certainly not one of those people and I actually have never met one. It's ironic that you flag the issue of strawmen then seemingly immediately create one yourself in order to argue an issue that has already been conceded to.

We actually did spacewalks to inspect and practice repairing tiles. We had known prior to Columbia that strikes could happen and displace entire tiles. We had contingencies upon contingencies for this and we just completely dropped the ball on that flight. It was a combination of management and program failures on top of a compromised vehicle design. If you walk away from that tragedy with your only observation being the design of the vehicle was flawed then I fear you have completely failed to study the situation appropriately.

I also think people forget what the prospect of conducting medium term orbital operations in the 1970s and 1980s was like. We didn't have deep space networks. We didn't have TDRS. We didn't even have GPS. We just _barely_ started putting stuff into geosynchronous orbit. Spy satellites used to drop film canisters into atmosphere to return imaging to Earth.

The orbiter was a highly compromised design born out of an absolutely strange era between military and civilian use of outer space. It absolutely had problems; however, this hindsight view that if we had just built a different vehicle we could have done so much more or had more impactful of a scientific and civilian space program is not grounded in reality or the logistics of the program as a whole.

> sucked up enormous amounts of limited money and resources on fundamentally worthless activities

Here you are carried away and go too far. The 1980s were some of the most efficient NASA budgeting years and the total budget for NASA has been an absolute fraction of the entire nations budget. We consistently spend more on _worthless_ wars than on NASA.

To say that these activities were "fundamentally worthless," again, is _precisely_ the attitude which annoys me so greatly. It's a foolish position that I feel can only be born out of absolute ignorance of all the things we did with that vehicle. NASA and our astronaut core worked as hard as they could to squeeze every possible benefit out of those launches and the testament of that work stands to this day.

> Thank goodness for SpaceX

You don't have to hate the history of the shuttle to appreciate SpaceX. Although for some people it does seem to be true.
Why don't the rich elites invest in LSD's (Labor Saving Devices), ie Automation?
That investment in technology (LSD's) would also help to create gainful employment.

Immigration is just a way to keep wages down and drive Asset prices high.
No, they can't, because they're covered by the CLOUD Act.
They implemented it in Greece.
And Journey to the West is a fairly modern book, only a few centuries old. It is based on many older folk tales of China (including many that weren't originally Chinese) and connects them with a framing story, a bit like Decameron or One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights). Some of them had already been connected before the book was written.
That's quite an extreme strawman. I never said that, and I doubt anybody reasonable would agree with that statement.

If it makes you feel better to assume anyone with a different opinion than you must be an unreasonable and uninformed idiot, then by all means go ahead thinking that, but I have little interest in engaging in a bad faith conversation.
I don't know, the green market (pazar) should be local farmers (OPG), but a common story is that some of them buy at supermarkets and resell at higher prices.
I think Google search quality peaked around 2012, it's been downhill since then. Enshittification is real.
Here's my old Kindle Touch 2 running a hacky Android 4 port attempt and a Game Boy emulator: https://i.imgur.com/m7ZZ1Xm.mp4 I'd say more like 2 - 3 fps. Not sure why there are random black lines. Display driver doesn't handle the demand of constant update very well. I normally use it as an e-ink picture frame.
I just pay the $20/month for Claude Pro and copy/paste code. Many people use Cursor and Double, or alternative frontends they can use with an API key.
Using as little computational resources (memory and/or FLOPS) as possible as an additional optimization criterion when training NNs is an interesting avenue. I think the current state of pre-trained model families is weird. Take Llama 3.1 or Segment Anything 2: you get tiny/small/medium/larger/huge models, where for each tier the model size was predefined, and they are trained somewhat (completely?) independently. This feels iffy, patchy, and like we haven't really arrived yet.

I'd want a model that scales up and down depending on the task given at inference, and a model that doesn't have a fixed size when starting the training. Shouldn't it specialize over training progress, when seeing more tokens, and grow larger where needed? Without some human fixing a size beforehand?

Self-organization is a fascinating topic to me. This last year I've been working on Self-Organizing Gaussian Splats [0]. With a lot of squinting, this lives in a similar space as the Self-Compressing Neural Networks from the link above. The idea of the Gaussians was to build on Self-Organizing Maps (lovely 90s concept, look for some GIFs if you don't know it), and use that to represent 3D scenes in a memory-efficient way. By mapping attributes into a locally smooth 2D grid. It's quite a simple algorithm, but works really well, and better than many quite complicated coding schemes. So this has me excited that we'll (re-)discover great methods in this space in the near future.

[0]: https://fraunhoferhhi.github.io/Self-Organizing-Gaussians/
> Following a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004,[9] where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and ChromeOS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive

Could be that he is a decent middle-to-upper manager but fails at strategic vision?

Also, I'm surprised at how trivially easy it was to switch from Google Search to Kagi (virtually from one day to another). I still other Google products (Android, Gmail, Youtube) but was quite surprised at how shallow their moat was (and so maybe I can just ditch Gmail for e.g. Fastmail?)
I suppose it depends on your perspectives. The overton window shamed introversion as being weird while glamorizing extroversion. I can't say how hard/easy it has been to be extroverted, but there was no shame factor (which an introverted person would say is a favor).
Todoist as well. Plus every second tue of the month for 4 months, and queries like that.
Show me wax on wax off. Show me long stroke up and down. You come tomorrow same time.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22show+me+wax+on+wax+off%22&iax=v...
Anecdotal is when someone else told you something and you used that data without verifying. The correct term in this case is “empirical”.
Thanks. What do u mean by "Linear"?
Heritability is the ratio of genetic variation to total variation. Lipstick-wearing is highly heritable; the number of hands and feet you have is not. As I said, and as you can see, the heritability of a trait tells you nothing at all about its genetic determination.

I don't know what to tell you about the cite you gave, since it simply doesn't say what you said it says.
Immigration from Mexico (by Mexicans) already has stopped. Those people crossing the border into the USA are not from Mexico. They come from all over the world. Ecuador has no visa entry requirement so people from all over the world go there and then make the long arduous journey up through Central America to the USA.
What a fabulous comment. I'd upvote it twice if I could. These kind of issues of cultural identity over time are one of the topics in Frank Herbert's Dune series.
I've heard a few different accounts of both the US Space Shuttle and Soviet Buran's design decisions here.

I've heard but cannot find a reference for the Space Shuttle being able to land autonomously except for the landing-gear release switch, which had to be manually toggled. This StackExchange thread has a similar observation (also without citation): <https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/23992>

That may simply be an urban (or LEO) ledgend...

(Up-thread there's discussion of issues with the US craft's somewhat uneven experience in attempting to automate other parts of the landing sequence.)

There's a Nasa report on automated modes of the Shuttle as well, which notes that "converting the Shuttle fleet to an autonomous system will be challenging and expensive", here: <https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100033420/downloads/20...> (PDF)

I also recall rationales offered for Buran's fully-automated operation being both that the Soviets had lower trust in their astronauts' ability and/or trustworthiness, and that fully-automating the craft enabled non-crewed test flights during project development. Again, no sources, and don't take me as any authority on this point.
It's not viable.

The goal of producing fuel is for explosive, quick release energy. Things like cars, tractors, heavy machinery need fuel. Lighting your home and things like that work fine with predictable trickles of energy that can be produced easily with solar.

The energy density of a fuel like hydrogen means that you need significant surface area to produce usable quantities at scale, quantities that then are burnt quickly. You have to make it at the rate that you use it, which means it's just added complexity in the stack of getting solar energy to where it will be used. It's just solar power with extra steps.

Add to that, solar power isn't this unproblematic perfect solution. It has a whole host of problems. First and most obvious is the mineral requirements to produce it, and extracting those minerals is incredibly destructive. Disposal of waste is also destructive. But another problem nobody talks about that is dismissed because it is seen as a small problem, is the problem of surface area. A limited amount of energy hits the surface of the earth, and life uses every drop of it that it can. Energy production with solar scales two dimensionally. You can't scale this up without significantly damaging ecosystems.

A little box you pump very little resources into that produces absolutely massive amounts of energy, something with a very small footprint that scales extremely well, that's what you want. Solar isn't it. Solar is great, but it's a stopgap for fusion. Everything is a stopgap for fusion.
> I believe such a society would quickly devolve into a dystopia and collapse.

The main argument in favor of totalitarianism/authoritarianism is pretty much always law & order. And the main argument against the prevailing power structure is pretty much always freedom (e.g. from oppression and/or protection of fairness in competition). So the question is often, what is more important to you, order or freedom? How much freedom would you give up for order, and how much order would you give up for freedom?

However, guilds aren't the only way to promote structure/order. As I said, the system in Canada is regionalized through state run organizations which are answerable to a democratic process. It is not through some secret cabal of "Masters" who make arbitrary decisions. We can achieve order without requiring esoteric fraternal societies. For all of their flaws, constitutional democratic republics offer a much better system of accountability.
Author here. Those are kind words! I’d like to add the last part of that quote:

> The page you're on right now is my mess. Now go create yours!
Supermaven (vscode extension) was quite handy at recognizing that I was making the same kind of changes in multiple places and accurately auto-completed the way I was about to write it, I liked it better than copilot

I just wish they were better at recognizing when their help is not wanted because I would often disable it and forget to turn it back on for a while. Maybe a "mute for an hour" would fix that.
I don't think phpBB threads ever change URL these days. It's only unreliable if the forum is managed by a video game company, because they delete the whole forum every now and then to renew their website. But MobileRead is well-known and enduring.
Related reading...

IdleWords

"Rocket to Nowhere A Space Shuttle Rant"

https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm

"The Lunacy of Artemis"

(Use the site's search, necessary)

https://idlewords.com/

"Why Not Mars"

https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm
Re Tesla superchargers - because Tesla is currently valued as a tech company at multiples of PE. Chargers are utility companies and command very low margins high upfront costs and high maintenance so are usually priced pretty low. In many instances utility companies that are private don’t even make profits and have to be rescued by the government and taxpayers in the long run so yeah that’s why.
Union, inheritance, dynamic_cast, enum class, std::variant... when all we needed all along was proper sum types.
Best beef isn’t fresh actually, it is aged for several weeks.

Similar with a lot of fish like tuna.

Sometimes it’s not about as fresh as possible, but how it is grown and processed.
You might trust yourself to read a bunch of blog posts on technical deep dives into the system and make up your mind based on that, though.

(Whether that's a good thing or not I don't know - perhaps you'd end up agreeing with whichever side has the most believable technological shibboleths, which isn't that much different from the current best practice of listening to the side with the better attack ads).