skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as someone who suffers similar experiences, especially ocd related to nail-biting and rumination/adhd rabbit-holes, something i've adopted is a shift in attitude: i decided a while ago i was going to stop punishing or shaming myself for what my brain finds interesting or worth pursuing (ie: the "rabbit-hole", the fixation, the current dopamine drip).

most of the time my rabbit holes are pragmatic and related to a hobby, skill, or educational/learning.

but sometimes the rabbit holes are escapism -- and instead of telling myself this is wasted time, i've tried to develop a more cooperative relationship w my feelings and my brain --the brain, the body, perhaps the "spirit" was in need of rest, and it recuperates in ways that generally are creature comforts (maybe reading or Netflix binges or video games and chess or sleeping for me, YMMV w.r.t. "meaningless" activities).

this has mitigated a lot of the existential dread i previously would experience, especially in how i relate to perceived "wasted time".

obviously this is my experience and i do not mean to imply the above anecdote as being a prescriptive change, but the existential dilemmas i'd find myself in due to whatever neuro divergence i demonstrate, have gotten a lot less frequent, and i find myself enjoying these experiences, and therefore appreciating my rabbit-holes more and more over time. or rather, appreciating my brain, and my experiences overall.

i've tried the preventative and/or tried fighting "against the current", so to speak, and it always left me exhausted, depressed, despairing, lamenting, and floating back the way i came, so i kinda said fuck it, built myself a raft that i strengthen over time, and just navigate the waters as they come.

edit: i realize i drifted away from the original topic -- i've had the opposite experience with the internet. while it has contributed to me consuming otherwise "meaningless" content from time to time for no other reason than wanting to be a couch potate, i have benefitted from the ease of access to information in such a crazy fucking way, especially with platforms like youtube (and forums, or aggregators) -- i mean we effectively have libraries in various forms and abstractions at our fingertips. yes it means accessible vectors for distraction, but man -- it's single-handedly the one tool my life has benefitted the most from using -- and that includes some of the listed pursuits involving networking, relationship building/socializing, my career, my "real-world" interests and experiences, good, bad, and everything in between.
Yelp files lawsuit against Google
I couldn't disagree more.

Paradigms in computing change. Modern means something uses paradigms that are best for today.

E.g. modern means using a JSON API rather than XML, or vanilla JavaScript rather than jQuery, or a responsive web design rather than separate fixed designs for desktop and mobile.

Modern, in this context, is meaningful and important to be aware of.

Of course, just because something is new doesn't make it better. But when I see "modern" in the description of a project, it usually does seem to refer to the paradigms that are the most useful for today. It's not just some kind of fetish for whatever's new, which is what the author seems to believe.
I was saying most people tend use the term incorrectly, not that they're the same.
Amazing work! It was disappointing that Fuji made the Xapp require location permission.
> But how do you reason?

My theory: reasoning is the application of analogies. Here `analogy = memorization + pattern matching`. Pattern matching is just an associative memory query; remembering an example with fuzzy enough details to apply generally. Analogies are self-similar/recursive and sometimes transcend contexts -- they're useful for thinking, for thinking about thinking, etc. Analogies pervade our language, our thoughts, our approach to novel problems, and the cached solutions to trivial/practiced problems.

There is no qualitative distinction between System 1 & System 2 thinking. It's a spectrum, quantitative. The more analogy steps required, the more thinking done, and the more System 2-ish that thoughts feel. This (probably wrong) theory has many consequences:

1. LLMs are truly intelligent, albeit barely. They rely heavily on memorization rather than much analogy matching. Their depth of memorized knowledge can somewhat substitute/mislead us to misjudge that intelligence.

2. The validation set grokking phenomenon occurs when a new analogy is internalized.

3. Scale really is enough. The scaling laws will continue holding with astonishing accuracy.

4. MCTS heuristics are useful inductive biases to vastly lower compute at the expense of model flexibility. Eventually, The Bitter Lesson will come for MCTS too.

I have much more to say about this bonkers theory, but I fear already sounding like a ranting madman. Anyway, just my 2c.
I wish this existed when I started my project 5 years ago. I had to design a database schema for a full stack project using postgres. I was working with a scientific domain expert, and it was very helpful to have a diagram to review, so they could identify issues that might arise due to future domain specific needs.

This caused many one-on-one meetings where we would look at the diagram, and I'd note changes to be made for next meeting.

With this, we could have made changes live during meetings, and saved many iterations.

Things like pgadmin existed, but it didn't look as friendly for non-technical folks. This might decrease some friction.
Absolutely, but capitalisation does not necessarily reflect the quantity of individual investors.

If you're talking about the indirect impact of foreign stock markets on a local markets... Sure, I guess. But that's hardly in the spirit here. Any large company in many countries has an impact on markets local markets when they sway, but rarely in any significant way.

The majority of people on HN are not impacted in any meaningful way by Nvidia's stock price and have no direct (brokerage, retirement fund, etc) investment in them.

The assessments in further up comments that give context here are that we all either invest in Nvida unknowingly or have our employment/compensation tied to them. I highly doubt this is true for the majority of HN users.
It is the Law of Demeter. It sounds like a good idea, until you get the chain of wrappers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter
I have a ruggedized Dell. It's not nearly as tough as the Panasonic I used, but it's tough enough. On the other hand, it is much more useable.

I don't know if that's a brand or model difference.
Maybe so, but I think the actual problem was too much of a black swan. There were certainly executives who voiced concerns about the asset side of Capital’s balance sheet and were vindicated in the crisis; Jack might have listened to them better than Jeff did. But I don’t think anyone really even considered the idea that you wouldn’t be able to find buyers for the commercial paper of a AAA-rated issuer pretty much until it was happening.

That said, there were outside commentators who’d raised questions about GE’s liquidity in the 2000s (notably Bill Gross) which did get Immelt and co. to term out some of GE’s debt. Maybe Jack would have been foresighted enough to do more. But that would have hit earnings (you’d pay a higher interest rate on longer term debt), so it would have been a tough sell, I think.
> At that point you're playing whack-a-mole, and you'll always lose.

That's just sort of fundamental to society at some level though, we play whack a mole with all sorts of misbehavior until we reach some sort of acceptable equilibrium.

I totally get the hacker mentality, I have a fully disassembled HP printer under my desk with some bullshit DRM that I've been desperate to break for some time, but I think your last line is really the key: breaking the system is fun for a small portion of people who are able to do it, but it's their users/customers who will be annoyed when their accounts keep getting banned and they need to buy new hardware.
Nvidia is buyable by many international retirement plans, and/or affects international companies. It’s really hard to not be invested indirectly in them right now, even internationally unless your country has restrictions
Just because a failure occurred at one point in a flight does not mean that's the only point in the flight that the underlying issue could cause a failure.
There are some Dells that are quite indestructible as well. OTOH, it’s usually cheaper to let someone kill a couple laptops than to get a single rugged one. Plus, not all parts of the dead laptop are destroyed, so things like memory and solid-state storage can be easily transplanted to the next victim.
Wait 'til he learns how those LLM things actually work. (Surely "AI"-something is gonna be a "required" course in typical schools before he's even in college.) He's gonna be kinda shocked at how often they get things "right" once he really understands the underlying tech behind it. I know I'm constantly amazed by it. Some mighty fancy math involved in all that. :)
OSI was supposed to be a competitor to IP and Ethernet. That's the reason it exists.
Ah sorry - I don’t know why redwood slips my mind! Please correct me if I’m wrong but I thought you were using redwood as a git backend, rather than replacing git’s internals with a text crdt?
Title should probably be changed, since the article is about using AI to convert a PDF to semantic HTML.
I want to feed it not only the code but also a corpus of questions and answers, e.g. from the discussions page on GitHub. Is that possible?
X11's architecture, on the other hand, is arguably better than Wayland's. Server-side rendering is a great way to

It also has lots of flaws. "Mechanism, not policy" has to go, because you are trying to make a desktop environment, not draw arbitrary rectangles to the screen. It is already a given that there is one special client called the window manager; it would serve the architecture well to know that's the window manager instead of treating every client as if it could potentially be a window manager. But Wayland goes even further in this direction, eschewing things like icons, title bars and resize borders, which are basic expectations of a desktop environment. While X11's way of doing these things is esoteric, at least it has one. (If it were up to me, standardized window properties would be promoted to requests, so you'd just call xcb_set_window_title instead of fussing with atoms and window properties).

Another anecdote is HDR: Wayland seems to still have not standardized how it should work; meanwhile on X11, there is already protocol support for multiple pixel formats (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit displays) and you could just add 48-bit color to that list. That would be one of the things Wayland stripped out while striving for simplicity (since everyone had 24-bit colour at the time) that turned out to actually be important.

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At some time before the heat death of the universe, I will get around to trying to fork Xorg and remove all the cruft and see where that goes. (Server-side rendering is not cruft. User-mode SVGA drivers are.)

I did minimal work on this already - as in, I downloaded Xorg's source code and had a look through. The whole configuration system has to go. The XFree86 driver code and driver abstraction has to go, and the DRM driver hard-wired in place. Using dlsym to locate compiled-in modules makes tracking dependencies impossible.

I suspect this has something to do with the state of Xorg: Nobody knows what it should and shouldn't do, and the module API for Xorg is the entirety of Xorg, so changing anything is liable to break someone's external module that wasn't on the "it should do this" list.

It wouldn't be the first time the X server was forked with the intention of cleaning it up: Xorg is a fork of XFree86, which was a fork of X386, which was based on something I don't remember.
I'm sorry to hear of your ill fortune.

If the vaccine has caused you heart damage, that updates the Bayesian priors on whether you would have survived contracting the disease itself.

It is entirely possible the vaccine warded off a virus that would have killed your heart if your body had to respond directly to the unattenuated disease. I don't think we have enough information to be able to tell (how do you do an analysis of that kind when you don't even know precisely why COVID or the vaccine can cause heart damage?).
Probably both. lesser TLDs probably don't have the volume and money to support more automated and less error prone systems
Demand is limitless and makes no benefit. Only production is beneficial.
Yeah people really need to zoom out on their stock tickers more
I just skimmed but it looks like it’s missing something like WiNGs
Fluxbox also has first class support for Dockapps. They're a great pairing.

An old screengrab to prove my point: https://www.thran.uk/img/desktop-aug-21.jpg. I'm especially fond of the VU-meter style ethernet traffic monitor, 'wmnd'.

Find dockapps here: https://www.dockapps.net/
Also since they’re not really “skills” so much as items in a bucket list for your hobby, spread out horizontally.
It's not the only way

On the flip side many times people start something they don't like (being forced or doing it with a friend, etc)and grow to like/appreciate it later.
What came out after Welch's retirement is that the company was really overvalued because of the growth of the financial sector.

His rank and yank also highly optimized for the short term, and stock markets loved it. He may well have given rise to that whole corporate mindset - "quarterly profits over long term results", leading to debacles like their battle with the EPA (Welch hilariously argues that it was a witch hunt, and that PCBs are apparently just fine to go in the water supply).
> 1. We must do something.

> 2. This is something.

> 3. Therefore, we must do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
lol and Yelp is extortion racket that will give your business shitty review if you don't pony up a pretty penny to them.
Robyn – A super fast Python web framework written in Rust
Ignoring reports of illegal material is one thing; ignoring invitations to join US-based programs or cooperating with them which Telegram is not required to do by law is different thing. The article for some reasons doesn't clearly states what it means; the author uses vague ambigious wording instead like politicians do.

The article mentions a 2023 report of SIO [1] on minors trying to earn money by selling their own photos online; the report mentions Telegram, but notes that Instagram and Twitter are worse:

> Instagram is currently the most important platform for these networks, with
features that help connect buyers and sellers

> Instagram’s recommendation algorithms are a key reason for the platform’s
effectiveness in advertising SG-CSAM.

> Twitter had an apparent regression allowing CSAM to be posted to public
profiles, despite hashes of these images being available to platforms and
researchers

Yet, for some strange reason Musk and Zuckerberg are not under investigation.

Note, that the report also doesn't give any recommendations to govts to help minors to earn money they need the legal way to solve the root issue.

[1] https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jd797tp7663/20230606-...
"A Saudi national gives a tour of landmarks in Washington, DC that shows entrances, exits, and checkpoints" is not at all compelling, no. That describes my trip overseas last year if you swizzle the nationalities. The notebook of plane calculations is more compelling, and the evidence that he was paid by the Sauds as an informant is interesting, but not particularly damning (one possibility: he could easily be taking free money on the side while he coordinated with the Taliban outside of Saudi interests).
Check the last line with "hmmm".
Just remember that being indestructible also means the cheapest ones are ancient as well.
We have a giant Postgres DB, but instead of having every machine connect directly to it, we have a job that creates a smaller SQLite cache of relevant data and that’s pushed out to the machines who then reload that on the fly.

All this depends on your data being somewhat shardable of course.
It’s like audiophiles if you’re convinced of something not amount of persuasion or facts change your mind.
It's true that RPC latency doesn't exist, and that opens up other possibilities that are worth considering.

But if you do a ton of small queries instead of one big one, you could be depriving the database of the opportunity to choose an efficient execution plan.

For example, if you do a join by querying one table for a bunch of IDs and then looking up each key with an individual select, you're forcing the database into doing a nested loop join. Maybe a merge join or hash join would have been faster.

Or maybe not. Sometimes the way you write the queries corresponds to what the database would have done anyway. Just not necessarily, so it's something to keep in mind.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-prove-tha... gives the more layman-friendly version.
The tradeoff is that file systems like NTFS or HFS+ (and other journaled file systems), can take up more space and incur write penalties (To file itself, to the log, metadata etc...). APFS is as you point out a newer more modern file system, that has efficient resource sharing (like copy on write) and snapshot support.

You can have a fast indexed based search on APFS, but you'll pay for it with a very large index size, which the average user doesn't want.
I'm also a long-time (8+ year) Sendgrid user, and my accounts (one main account, 3 sub-accounts) were not put under review. I haven't needed customer support any time recently so I can't speak to that.
Author of `wp2hugo` here.

1. Hugo does not allow custom fonts - it leaves it to themes
2. Controlling many aspects of UI is really hard while having an abstract theme

I do not like modifying some files but I could not figure out a better way to do it without modifying a few files. Feel free to send a PR or suggest a better approach.
A bonus feature is that you can use it as body armour.
I decided to make a project management tool and why I think it is different
> The [\EE] operator is needed to explain the theory underlying how
TLA+ is used.

There's another reason to potentially support \EE: it's needed to refine specs with auxiliary variables. Currently, if an abstract spec has `aux_hist` to prove a property or something, you need the refinement to have an `aux_hist` equivalent, even if it doesn't affect the spec behavior at all. But if checkers could handle `\EE` you could instead leave it out of the refinement and check `\EE aux_hist: Abstract(aux_hist)!Spec`.

I think /u/pron once told me that actually checking a property of that form is 2-EXPTIME complete, though. Which is why it's not supported in practice.
If we're going all in on how they've ruined their site, their change of the default sort to use a variety of engagement metrics rather than upvotes is why the frontpage is mostly ragebait and gossip posts, as those drive engagement metrics like comments, replies, and time spent reading comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/o5tjcn/evolving_the_b...

There's also the fact that nearly 100% of frontpage posts are pruned by moderators within 12 hours now. Tracked by a subreddit (RedditMinusMods) that reddit banned without reason, but you can still find a link to a graph of that happening on HN of all places: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36040282
"x is the future" is a sales pitch, nothing more, and can therefore be safely and completely ignored.
former. he's a free man.
In European history, the early modern period is roughly 1500 to 1800, and "modern" without qualifiers usually refers to the period starting from ~1800.

In other fields, "modern" may have a specific meaning due to historical baggage, or it can simply refer to the present day. The latter is basically the literal meaning of the word.
I was also wondering about the NS records.

Lots of other domains generally have nameservers that are outside the domain, or at least a mix of in/outside the domain. In this case it looks like it could be a best practice to do this.
Well, he'll only have to see them twice a week now [1]: he's been officially charged, then released (under bail), has to check in regularly, and can't leave the country.

I don't know if that counts as "due process" for everyone ?

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/08/28/le-pdg-de-...
When I was in college I remember seeing ads for military lunchbox computers with VME buses and SPARC processor boards.

Wish I could find one of those.
Yeah sure, just don't claim it's open source if the actual source is not open.
I'm pretty amazed at the idea, and how many variations are already filled out. The ones I knew something about seemed really complete. Well done!
If you have infinite monkeys, then (at least) one of the monkeys is Shakespeare.
But the thing was that I wasn't even watching their ads as I have paid for the Premium for a long time...
Shadowban everyone, use ai to fake engagement.
Given that America's history of organized labor mostly began with massacres of striking workers, I would actually agree with you there.
I agree, especially with Maximus and other tweaks.

I will take our weird defaultsdb implementation over some of the alternatives that get pitched. Scheme? No thanks..
Twain? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769624
Which "encryption charges mentioned in the arrest warrant" are you talking about? Has the warrant been published somewhere?
A while back, I developed a mental habit of replacing the word "technology" with "thing" in my mind.
Modern in the design sense should refer to the current thinking of the state of the art at inception. The individual gets to choose whether or not something fits their modern sensibilities.

Timeless design taps into sensibilities that transcend popular trends
agree - "grinned" is not at all the feeling I get.."grind" on the other hand, like skating.. yes more like it
Every time I see a new TLA+ replacement my first thought is "Oooh this will be good for the 99% of normal stuff people do with TLA+."

Then I look through some of the specs I've written with clients and find the one absolutely insane thing I did in TLA+ that would be impossible in that replacement.

Shoutout to operator labels.
Except that a plane has passengers. But this rocket had none. It did not even have cargo. And it crashed in a pre-evacuated zone. There is no need to have the same level of security for these two situations.
>Did the "killer poke" reduce Commodore PET sales?

Speaking as someone who owned a Commodore PET, knew others who owned them, occasionally worked at a sort of "pre-Internet Internet cafe" with dozens of PETs available for public use, and who sold a Commodore PET into the used market during their heyday, no.

PET's were pre-consumer-Internet and pre-BBS, so if someone was in a position to damage your machine, they were there in the room with you. There was no risk of random network viruses.

Sneaker-net sharing of programs on cassette tapes made tape-borne viruses impractical, to say nothing of their likely not even having been invented yet.

People did not set their friends' machines on fire, either digitally or with matches.
and yet, we're all going TOTSE it regardless.
Last I checked, it won't capture many aspects like `featured images in a page`.
Or even unpublished blogs.
I wanted to migrate both.

Further, working offline on a single file makes the whole process hermetic.
I needed that to build and improve `wp2hugo`.
I sure as hell wouldn't want to be forced to coexist with fascist assholes. Bubble me up, if that's the case.
they will never. windows search today is to increase bing traffic and show ads, much like the whole OS
If you like Fela's music, you will like this Brazilian orchestra including jams with one of Fela's sons. https://www.funmilayoafrobeat.com/ I didn't realize until reading the above article they are named after his mother.
They use it but in Chrome on a maxed out MacBook Pro