skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is censorship.

No, it's not.

> The Brazilian people will have to decide whether they want their judiciary to have such excessive control over freedom of expression.

This is a very loaded comment, full of personal opinions. Which is fine, but let's not pretend it's factual truth.

In any case, we have. At least within the limits of our USA-inspired representative democracy. Federal law goes through 3 houses of elected representatives: the National Congress, the Senate and the Union Executive.

The Constitution goes through even more scrutiny.

> The rest of the world should

More personal opinions. Which, again, is fine. But it's not factual truth.

> The USA is the only major country which gets this right

I think this says it all. We have very little common basis for discussion. I would say the USA is the main major country that gets the _most_ things wrong.
Llama isn't open source at all. Stop using that phrase for your product featuring even an EULA.
If they’re able to do work and believe they robbed society, but simply do not feel paying someone back whom you have robbed is a good thing to do, that sounds like a serious mental issue that should be treated by asylum workers. Certainly not someone I’d want roaming the streets.
Right, but the only reason this even became a discussion is because a seed of doubt was planted 25 years ago. Otherwise, people wouldn't care about a rush to production because vaccines wouldn't be perceived as having the ability to cause harm.

> I hope you can see that distrust is a very expected outcome in people who tend to think critically

How very slick, implying I'm stupid. No, I am able to think critically I'm just also able to see the writing on the wall and string together events.

The Covid distrust did not happen in isolation and anybody who thinks so must be blind and deaf. It was a long time coming, as conspiracists increased in radicality and reach. Before Covid MANY MANY new technologies and treatments were already beginning their spiral of distrust. 5G, MMR vaccine, therapy...

As soon as Covid began I knew there would be a select group of people who will oppose the largest narrative, regardless of what that narrative is. It was obvious to me that people would refuse to wear masks. They had no reasons of course - wearing a mask is hardly difficult. But because you tell them to wear it, it's a problem. Because that's how these people operate. They don't care about outcomes, they care about authority.

Even if the masks are barely effective or might not work, there's no harm in wearing them. But to the conspiracists it doesn't work that way. They fear becoming sheep, so they oppose for the sake of opposition.

> communication fiasco (they are "useless" first, then they are suddenly required)

Something I think people don't understand about Covid is that it was a NOVEL disease. Have you ever had a circumstance like Covid in your life before Covid? No, right?

So what does that tell you? That clearly these were new waters. Yes, what is true DOES change because people actually don't know! People's understanding of Covid over time changed because they learned new things.

To be clear, I don't think distrust is a bad thing. But I do think that the particular brand of distrust around Covid was largely not legitimate. And I think everyone knows that.

I myself am a skeptic. But for the right reasons. Not because I enjoy being difficult, or because I'm inherently opposed to authority. The majority of Covid "distrusters" are anti-science, radical conspiracists - more along the lines of flat earthers. These are not critical thinkers, quite the opposite.

Just like blindly following advice makes you a sheep, blindly distrusting advice makes you a sheep too, just in the opposite direction. You need to analyze the situation and your sources. For Covid, that largely meant understanding Covid is a unique situation with therefore unperfect solutions.
https://containers.dev/
No, most other languages absolutely don’t work as well as JS, simply because there’s been less training material available. It’s useless with Rust, for example (hell, I’d be totally impressed if it has any idea how to appease the borrow checker!)
Why don't we build a portable numeric system that just has these mathematical constants and definitions built in, in a portable and performance manner?
Goes to show that it can be hard to have a meaningful conversation via text. Maybe we should add support for audio comment in code!
Only for free as in freedom, not as in beer.
Power consumption is definitely a big deal. I replaced an old PC that I'd been using as an always-on device with a tiny PC (i7-8700T) and it saved a ton of power. Given that power rates in New England are around $0.30/kWh, saving 50 watts means saving $128/year. I went from using around 60 watts to 10 watts at idle (and going from 110 watts under load to 50 watts).

The new computer cost me $240 back in late 2022 (with 32GB of RAM and WiFi) so it'll basically pay for itself in electricity savings - and it's 3x faster than what it replaced.

ServeTheHome has some good reviews: https://www.servethehome.com/tag/tinyminimicro/. The tl;dr is just that there's good options from Dell, HP, and Lenovo and the differences are kinda minor, but it's a good source if you care about specific information and teardowns.

It's a great little machine, takes up almost no space, it's almost silent, and it was basically free with the power savings - in fact, once I pass the two year mark, it was cheaper to get the new hardware than to keep running the old.

And you can put Proxmox on it as a hypervisor to run multiple OSs or containers.
Finally someone else using ASTs while working with LLMs and modifying code! This is such an under-utilized area. I am also doing this with good results: https://codeplusequalsai.com/static/blog/prompting_llms_to_m...
there are many stats from many sources, probably with varying accuracy. And please keep in mind since it's financial, many of them will be trying to sell you things.

There's also a difference between retirement savings and net worth. I'd guess there was a jump in "house poor" millionaires over the last few years.

The Fed has a Survey of Consumer Finances which can graph net worth broken down by perentile. You're right that even $1M net worth is not the majority, but top 25%ile:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm?mod=arti...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...

Probably more millionaires in the last few years with inflation though.

This is all US-centric; the author, Richard, is in Japan; I'm not sure how net worth, savings, retirement, or taxes are in Japan.
More accurately speaking, reduce the total inaccuracy contributed by all operations. The inaccuracy will be (generally) proportional to the number of operations, but keep in mind that some operation would be exceptionally inaccurate due to, for example, catastrophic cancelation. So do not normalize percentage into [0,1] if the input was already in [0,100] and an additional operation is needed for normalization. (By the way, cospi etc counts as a single instruction here which is why it is so good to have.)
Exactly. Mine hasn't changed for years, but I still need to pay this tax.
This would be useful if I closed my browser regularly, but I haven't closed my browser in months.
The biggest issue with apple's Mail.app is they don't support vanity domains the way Fastmail does. You can add them individually but the Fastmail app lets you create one right from within the compose box - you just type whatever you want into the From: field.
> a beach selfie in a white bikini and asking her followers to respond with an American flag emoji if they agreed

I guess the questions I have are... is right wing bot propaganda always in the form of incel bait, or is that just on X? Is that a reflection of different political leanings's inherent relationships to women's bodies? Projection by the fraudmakers trying to manipulate the maga crowd? Tacit declaration that there's no rallying political motivation for the target demographic after titties and flags? What? Because this format of a flag-bearing woman in some state of relative undress is undeniably lopsided. You just don't see it on the left. Or if you ever do, not nearly to the same degree or the same quantity. Not by a country mile. So is it the groups, the individual targets, or the perpetrators?
I could not disagree more. This sort of thing is a public service. Even if only a dozen people find it valuable, it can be exceedingly valuable to them. It's worth putting this sort of thing on your website for that reason alone.
Cool. Then I suppose I'll buy my dumb DisplayPort screens from rando Chinese knockoff companies that siphon off R&D that suckers like Sony and Samsung fund.
Once upon a time, I worked on a mathematical project that hit a SIGSEGV after about 10 hours of running.

Unable to find the problem, I ran the task on valgrind. Took almost a week, but it showed me the reason nice and clear.
Why does an air conditioning system need an Android tablet? Why do people buy this sort of shit?
Yes, and so really what we are seeing is just the effects of a high quality bar. If you want high-quality software, you do more iterations. And iterations produce breaking changes.
Show HN: Ad Astra – scripting language platform for Rust
Ad Astra is a dynamically typed scripting language designed for embedded use in Rust programs.

It belongs to the same category as languages like Rhai and Rune, where developers expose APIs implemented in Rust to a dynamic, domain-specific scripting environment, enabling a rapid edit-compile-run cycle.

Informally, you might think of Ad Astra as a "Lua" for Rust.

Such systems have many applications, including the development of plugin platforms based on scripts for video game engines.

Ad Astra primarily focuses on ergonomics, both for the scripting platform developer and the script user:

1. For the platform developer, Ad Astra's API offers a convenient macro system for exporting APIs into the script engine. In many cases, you can export Rust APIs as they are, without changes and without the need to maintain an extra abstraction layer.

2. For the script user, the platform provides an advanced IDE environment through the built-in LSP language server. This environment helps the user develop script source code and explore exported APIs.

You can try Ad Astra's features in the interactive Playground on the project's website: https://ad-astra.lakhin.com/playground.html.

Feedback is much appreciated, and I'll be glad to answer any questions.

Ilya
did you read the US or the UK version of the books?
This might be fun:

Train on java compiled to class files. Then go from class back to java.

Or even:

Train java compiled to class files, and have separate models that train from Clojure to class and Scala to class files. Then see if you can find some crufty (but important) old java project and go: crufty java -> class -> Clojure (or Scala).

If you could do the same with source -> machine instructions, maybe COBAL to C++! or whatever.
understood, tnx!
The 2nd Edition of Designing Data Intensive Applications
I think that the first edition is mostly as relevant now as it was 7 years ago, but it's really great that this terrific book gets updated.

The expected release date is December 25
I don't think utility companies are entirely wrong to charge some flat rate for being connected to the grid, there are fixed costs with each customer and solar homes are not actually independent from the grid even if they're net neutral their night time power has to come from somewhere. Even if we get to enough residential solar to completely power the grid from solar and charge enough storage to last overnight there's still the costs associated with storing that power overnight we can't get around.
That's roughly the idea.. but I would in fact support all leveraged loans and exchanges, which would still affect the very wealthy proportionately.
Curious if you considered Polars. That's become the defacto standard in my group as we all dislike pandas.
Collation and Encoding in Databases
I worked for an Intel spinoff whose CEO was a former high-level Intel exec from the 1990-2010 era. Internal goss attributed much of Intel's decision to stay out of the iPhone to him... there was a supposed quote that went something like "we make chips for computers, not g*d** telephones!"

As the tale went, he was sent out to this doomed-from-birth spinoff as a "sunset cruise" to basically force him into retirement (for this bad decision) without the bad publicity of a public head-chopping.
Thanks for sharing, that's really interesting. So often big acquisitions are such gong shows (I work in that field in diligence actually), but it seems from the sidelines like the Yamaha-Steinberg deal is one of the exceptions. I've been very happy with everything I've ever bought from Yamaha in the music world. And they aren't gougers. (the Yamaha "intermediate" saxophones are pretty much universally seen as the best deal you can get quality-per-dollar on a serious horn).

This all has me thinking quite hard of getting Dorico!
Also there's the variable-speed furnace/AC fan. These heavy bastards, with an add-on brain, are very expensive when they go bad. In my case, the brain part was fine, but the fan motor died. They wouldn't sell me just the motor, just the combo for $900US! And, if I install the combo, it voids the warranty. (I did install it, I'm the homeowner not a repairman.)

I was also told if my unit was a Trane, they weren't allowed to sell me the combo! (My unit is a Goodman.) What a rip off!
Why did you switch to tmux? It seems to me that screen is more ubiquitous, and has more features. Having a modem is a pretty handy thing built into it.
I think this is great. I've been using threads for 6 months, and while I was never a prolific twitter user - I thought it sucked even before the elon purchase, now, it's entirely unusable to me (and I've tried) - I do like its interface, a seemingly "light" (by meta standards) approach to moderation, and now a step in this direction I think is a really good thing.

As to the "why" I think it's fairly obvious. If they integrate with everything, they'll eventually become the defacto platform and/or steer users and engagement to their other platforms with less friction.
As opposed to an American service like Gmail? Does the PRISM program ring any bells?
I still have my NZ90. The hardware was amazing, the software not so much
> Why should that not be possible to replicate today?

What is missing is the user base! When Linus started his project, many people knew Unix in their professional life and were disappointed with what the market (M$) was proposing for the personal computer world.

Today, no such multitude is waiting for the next Linux.

Linux may not be perfect, but it's definitely good enough.
Is blocking spam a silly thing?
yeah, but according to the article it wasn't even clear at that point that it's a phone project. It was too early to even make such predicitions.

At that time, it could as well have been Apple's attempt to a build an Apple TV (which never materialized), a Set-Top-Box (which was reworked for years to then end up as a iPhone-in-a-box AppleTV), a Premium Wi-Fi network, a game console,...
Yeah maddening! But you can remap it. I use this in my .screenrc to make it C-f:

escape ^Ff
>Signs and announcements on the dangers of running. Announcements on the dangers of slippery floors in wet weather. Announcements and signs about the importance of holding the handrail on stairs. Special extra video screens and announcements about the dangers of taking luggage on escalators. Announcements and warning signs that a flight of stairs is particularly long and tiring. Announcements on the dangers of using your phone while walking. Announcements that it's good to carry a bottle of water in hot weather.

I don't think there is a shred of evidence that being bombarded with neurotic fretting improves safety - here in the states this is usually recognized as limitation of liability. Juries will accept "we warned you," as a counterbalance to their universal tendency to want to side with the little guy against the giant corporation.
What is this conspiracy theory that Zuckerberg created lock boxes full of votes and what's the genesis of it?
They see AI features front and center. They dont see the backend (which may or may not be running Llama). Same goes for React although, with React, the framework is what the end user directly interacts with. So, by that logic, React is more of a product than Llama.
Sounds impressive until you realize that there’s 86400 seconds in a day and so even if majority of those happen during business hours thats still firmly under 200 qps per server. On modern hw that’s very small. Also what instance size?
So did they use padding everywhere to make it possible to edit their code later?
Only way to enter the market is to build a website builder thats purely generative ui. Skip any sort of old paradigm
>They all use the same model and the same transformer algorithm. The model has an EULA, you need to apply for downloading it, the training data set and the training software are closed.

Everything in that sentence is false except the training data part.

>So the "competitive" system means that everyone uses LLama and PyTorch.

This sentence shows you don't understand the LLM landscape and it's also false.

>Sounds really open

Correct. They partner with practically every vendor available for inference, which, isn't even needed if you run their models locally.

Meta has done a lot of wrong things over the years. How they are approaching LLMs is not one of them.
Amazon is using my grocery purchases to sell me prescription drugs
> What is many? It allows hand wavy arguments

I don't know because I actually can't read minds. However anecdotally, most (almost all) the people I knew who didn't take the Jab did so because they listened to some alex jones type podcast with a quack talking about crazy conspiracies. This INCLUDES my family, so I am being generous with my descriptions. No I'm not misrepresenting them.

> It is fallacious to group these two together.

They are separate, but it is fallacious to claim they share no commonalities. The entire reason the Covid vaccine was under any skepticism is because the idea of vaccine skepticism had already broken the mainstream. It was, 25 years ago, accepted as a position people could have.

Some of the people you describe here:
> this is a new thing being too aggressively pushed
Are now FULLY 100% anti-vax. Is that a coincidence? No, it's not, and you know that.
My mini PC I use as a router with an N3710 CPU uses like 5W idle with a SATA SSD. It's a 6W TDP. Running full tilt is like 10W.
I think JinjaX was inspired by JSX. Obviously, there's a huge delta, but my "HTML heavy" problems are nicely solved with JinjaX
I've switched to a minipc as my main computer. I'll never go back. Went from a 16 core monster to whatever 4 cores this thing has and it's just as nice.
> there is often enough time to stroll, but people rush because they want a seat.

I'm someone who used to frequently catch the last train north to Birmingham on a Saturday night (9:40pm), and it was usually full and so some people were without a seat. Of course we all rushed to try to get a seat. IMHO, it's foolishness to think people would do otherwise in that situation - after all who wants to stand for over an hour and a half when you've paid over £30 for the ticket?
When you said:

The Western antinuclear movement had their own agency and motivations, but because they happened to align with Soviet interests

Which "interests" were you referring to, other than the interest of discouraging nuclear power development in the West?
Concentrated sunlight is deceptively powerful. We probably all have played with small handheld magnifying glasses to focus the sun to a small spot, burning paper or small wood blocks.

When I was a kid I had a Fresnel lens, probably 2' in diameter, out of an old projector or some similar thing. It would set asphalt on fire. Almost instantly. You could probably weld steel with sunlight, though not very conveniently.
It's not just their financial problem... I'm concerned with triggering an event that could make the great depression look like a tropical vacation by comparison.

Just for a second, imagine seeing the sale of roughly 5% of all stocks across the board... what would the side effect of that be? Since all of the very wealthy would be doing the same, that means that the prices will likely go down by more than 5% triggering more downstream sales.
The measurement device gets entangled with the spin - which is in a superposition - and then I get entangled with the measurement device and for got measure the entire environment. How does this avoid the many worlds? If the measurement device only sees half of the entangled spin state and I only see half of the entangled measurement device - say I see the spin measured up because the measurement device saw the spin up - how does this avoid the necessity of a second world where the spin was down? What breaks the symmetry? What makes the spin down half of the entangled state go away?

There is also another weird asymmetry. For the spin we say that its superposition exists in my [slice of the] world but for the measurement device we say only half of the entangled state, the outcome I become aware of, is part of [my slice of the] world, what justifies this?
Is blocking spam a silly thing?

(Google Groups was to Usenet what Threads is to ActivityPub, and it got collectively blocked by all Usenet servers for spam, then decided to shut down.)
I think there are already decompilers and code analyzers at NSA like this. For 10 years or so.
Show HN: I made a site to create beautiful Notion-Style illustrations
GeoPandas is one popular library (https://geopandas.org/en/stable/)

I added a column type for full text search, searching tokenized text (https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray)

The pandas support for extensions is very robust with extensive testing to make sure you can do all the data aggregations functionality you expect in and pandas column.
Text to Diagram (Editable with Drawio)
After COVID, yes, that is true. People take it more seriously now (although things seem to be snapping back).

I would go out to lunch with mu coworkers and I would give out everyone wet wipes because I was the only one who had them, specifically for this.
Hi guy,

I’m Evan, a 21yo indie hacker. I love Notion illustrations, so I fine-tuned a model specifically for generating them and created this app.

I hope you enjoy it and find it useful for your Notion pages or web design.

Feel free to explore, and let me know what you think.

- Evan
Until someone decides to sell their fix at a cheaper price. Then lawyers will get involved and everyone will end up unhappy.
I don't think a forbes article is enough to claim with 100% certainty that every billionaire is completely different from the others.

It's such a wild and obviously incorrect claim I don't know how you could possibly make it. I mean, even me - there are things in common between me and random people.

> what actions would you take

Nice try, but if I tell you you'll just use that to discredit anything I say. That's not relevant to the conversation so I won't be answering that. Feel free to speculate.
This is something you don't need AI for, there are many decompilers out there already as well.

AI cannot even lint properly right now and you want it to decompile? good luck, there's too much hype going on people really think this is possible this year?

In the end always remember it's just autocomplete, it's pretty terrible at translations that are not natural language to natural language. I worked on a natural language to SQL and it was impossible to make it consistently generate valid SQL for Postgres, and I'm talking about natural language to SQL not virtual machine instructions...
Google ignores indie DMCA takedown request for App Store knock off
Auditing and Versioning Data in SQLite
Getting Started with Nix for Haskell