skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but that's it: the trappings of LotR. I don't think there's anybody that would deny the elf, dwarf, halfling, ranger, wizard [1] of D&D are based on LotR.

The thing is D&D stops at the trappings of LotR, and completely ignores Tolkien's world is a kind of feudalism, with vassals, oaths, birthrights, "noble blood", etc. Upstarts are frowned upon in Middle Earth, and in fact, much shedding of tears is caused by people overstepping their bounds or wishing to dethrone their rightful lords. The very concept of "rightful lord" is so very Tolkenian. Denethor in his pride forgets he is a mere steward and not the rightful king of Gondor. Saruman in his pride forgets he is tasked with a "sacred" task and should seek no earthly glory. Wormtongue covets both Eowyn and the throne of Rohan.

D&D has none of this, as the article explains. You can "earn" your way to having a fortress, lands, etc, without the pesky concept of vassalage. D&D is all about the upstarts seeking fame, coin and glory.

[1] except D&D's magic is Vancian in nature, unlike LotR's. You cannot "learn spells" in LotR, and in fact, Elves don't even consider what they do magic and are suprised of it being called as such.
> Good EMs will unblock you, deal with conflicting priorities from stakeholders, provide you with air cover to have focus time, and help manage your career growth (among other things).

Those don't really seem like things you'd want to outsource, no matter how good the outsourcee is.
Google Cloud: After March 18, 2025, Container Registry will be shut down
Show HN: Kty – The Terminal for Kubernetes
kty is an SSH server written in rust that provides a TUI-based dashboard mapping k8s concepts onto SSH. It relies on OpenID providers for identity so that you don't need to introduce anything special to your stack. With SSH in place, there are some fun things you can do which are difficult otherwise:

- Forward traffic from a service on the cluster to your local laptop using `ssh -R`.

- Forward traffic from a local port to the cluster using `ssh -L`.

- Use `scp` or any sftp client natively to copy files in and out of containers.

- Shell into a container from anywhere that SSH is supported.
Jazz Bands have band leaders, they choose the players, the tunes and lead the concerts.
an ex-KKK member

In the 1940s. Mentioning this, but the fact he would publicly denounce the Klan by the end of the decade, and spend the rest of his life profusely apologizing for having been so stupid as a younger person -- is just smear, basically.

Byrd later called joining the KKK "the greatest mistake I ever made". In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions".[37] Byrd also said in 2005, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened".
A Butlerian Jihad Lite is really starting to get appealing.
I agree that effective human organization is, by far, our largest problem today. All of our contemporary problems are, at their core, organizational problems.

However, we actually lack an understanding of how large systems are organized.

In the human body, each cell performs its task without a centralized authority but as an individual agent. The cells are selfish and just try to survive. But emergent in this behavior is a human that thinks itself the master of all the cells.

Michael Levin has done surprising things that fall from studying cells of animal bodies and how they can act independently.

We really need a science of agent based systems. I don't know of something that captures it entirely.

What I do know is that top-down hierarchical organizations are fragile and will corrupt with time. Agent based systems are the only way nature will allow to progress much.
Even if unsolvable, I appreciate the context provided. The More You Know.
I actually have one of these on-demand hot water systems at home, on gas, as it is much more powerful than an electric one.

What really bothers me is that you always read that they are instant.

The fact that they are instant is not because they don't have storage, it is because they are smaller and thus could be placed much closer to where you need the heat. The problem is that everybody who replaces their hot-water tank puts that 'instant' (I prefer the term on-demand) water heater in that place.

The following is anecdotal, I promise you, I'm not lying, but again, N=1.

We have one that we unlocked to go up to 140F (default 120F for protection).

I live in North Phoenix, bordering the desert, so it gets to around 32F (8 hard freezes last winter).

The capacity of our hot water heater, which is already high, as they really work hard, isn't enough to heat up city water fast enough to get water that is the temperature I like, in winter. Remember that thing needs to heat up water from say 40F to 140F. And while it can do that, it cannot do it at the same pressure as the previous one with a tank. It'll literally reduce pressure if it cannot reach the right temperature, which is really annoying, as that makes the overall temperature go down.

The previous one with the tank was 140F, got refilled with 40F, but could deliver me a much more continuous pressure for much longer.
We should nationalize OpenAI as punishment for the flagrant copyright violation they've taken part in. Either give every aggrieved author points in the company, or fine them for something like the GDP of the entire planet (round up - to maybe fifty trillion dollars?) and establish a fund that pays for global education and the production of new works.

They literally are thieves of the world's entire intellectual output. "For training the model", they say.

Yeah, there's a lot of bullshit going around.
> Based on what?

I never expected to be taken as declaring an objective fact; I just notice that this is already how workplaces are shaping up. I could easily be very wrong.

Anyway, with the internet the understanding of proximity changes. With an increasingly global economy everyone will be closer to people they only share english with. Or maybe mandarin, if you want me to emphasize skeptacism.
> Prior to mass car ownership you would assume that such things in the general population would be enormously more dangerous than they have proven to be.

An assumption that was correct and involved large-scale propaganda efforts to blame pedestrians for the harm inflicted upon them, including blaming children for their own deaths. U.S. car accident fatalities are also still to this day at developing country levels and every actually developed country largely has public transportation infrastructure. And this is before we get into the blight that is American urban design, evolving to serve the needs of this mass car ownership, with all its down stream environmental harms.
The HN title is wrong. The missing word significantly changes the meaning.
Weird... I zoomed into hundreds, and saw 2 or 3 that weren't accurate. YMMV i guess
You actually believe he makes razor thin profit? And you believes he reinvests everything? Sorry but none of us have verified his company’s books. Just saying
No-one wants to listen to a Jazz band with bad players. A good band leaders hires great players and lets them shine.
Unshielded embedded systems generate RF noise that can be received on AM/FM radios. Some devs figured out which processes generated which noises and could determine what the system was doing, or if a loop was taking too long just by listening.
Funny thing, the price of silver is pretty closely pegged to the amount of labor needed to dig it out of the ground and smelt it, and that doesn't change too much without late 20th century technology being involved.
What about smells? Scent is a powerful tool for recalling memories.
Exactly this.

We need to heavily (re)invest in processes, tools, ethics, technology that boost human social power and our ability to work together.

There are 8 billion people on the planet. So much potential.
And don't forget MacInstosh stereos and amplifiers.
The merge script existed as far back as git 0.5. Rebase came later.
Not immediately, but we will consider open sourcing some of our future work. At least, we definitely plan to be very open with our metrics and how well (or bad) our models are doing.
There is React Geiger which makes geiger counter noises on render [1].

Easy to tell when you have messed up and re-rendering tons unexpectedly.

[1] https://github.com/kristiandupont/react-geiger
First of all, this is awesome work and it's wonderful to see people taking writing plain HTML seriously, because, as you identified, the existing tooling is completely insufficient.

That having been said, I think the reason people largely don't write plain HTML is because the affordances that HTML makes for writeability (like omitting closing tags on <li>, <p>, etc) are frowned upon. If you're going to make all this effort to understand the HTML in the document, it's kind of a bummer to not make it actually understand some core aspects of HTML, aspects that are especially useful when writing it directly instead of treating HTML as a compile target.
Says who? The author makes a leap from endpoint security features for enterprise being moved out of kernel space to kernel level anti-cheat no longer being possible. The MS blog post doesn't even mention gaming. For all we know, this change may apply to Windows Server and Windows 11 Enterprise only or not apply to gaming anti-cheat at all.
Does Oracle actually defend it? Isn't the rule behind a trademark that you actually need to enforce it?

VELCRO(r) has this song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY

Edit: as I watched the video again I finally caught on the fact that RollerBlades are a brand of inline-skates. In Belgium we called them inline-skates.

It's interesting to see how brands-as-identifiers change based on language and countries. My Walloon friend calls tape Scotch, but I don't.
Eh I don't think humans will really be a viable concept in a few hundred years if this keeps up. We'll simply be too fragile and dumb for anything.

I see this as a good thing though, the only thing that separates us from everything else in the universe is our inteligence, in some sense we are that inteligence and this is the next evolutionary step it needs to finally break out from the confines of a tiny 20W brain that's been pushed as far as it practically can be.

When you no longer need to consume energy constantly unless you die, are functionally immortal and can hibernate for a thousand years, you eat only sunlight, don't get cancer from radiation or bone loss from zero gravity... the galaxy becomes your oyster.

Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur ;)
> teams forget what the goal of the company is and instead get hyperfocused on their teams KPI's

This is the intractable and unavoidable problem with the use of KPIs as a management tool: Goodhart's Law -- any metric used as a target ceases to be a good measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

You are -- literally -- telling the team, "go make this KPI number go up. Your entire job performance will be evaluated on that basis." It is unsurprising that the team therefore focuses on making that number go up.

If you want teams to consider the goals of the company, or anything at all besides their KPIs, don't use KPIs.
I use the say command on MacOS for a few things.

That command is a kinda fun. One time I had it read out to the lyrics to "Fitter Happier" using the Fred voice.
The Internet was made by the United States state sector and then handed over to commercial interests in the 90’s or so. Exactly what GP said.

Your argument doesn’t prove GP’s wrong. It’s like saying that the king’s feast benefits the peasants because there was plenty of food that was thrown away that they could get their hands on.
Nice idea. We need a technology that doesn't just look at mouse movement to help you do nothing, but reads your brainwaves.
I sometimes use sound to notify me when long running tasks finish. On macOS you can do this by doing "long_command; say done;"
In one of my previous jobs, I worked on a software project that frequently got the following two kinds of comments from the managers:

"Wow, this is the only project in our company that works reliably. There are no major bugs ever; and all the small bugs are fixed within a day or two. I wish other projects worked like that."

"You have five developers working on one project? Isn't that too much?"

Seemingly none of them was able to connect the dots and conclude that maaaaaybe these two things are somehow related. That maybe the fact that we are not understaffed somehow allows us to write automated tests, refactor when necessary, etc., so we can keep adding new features as required and the project keeps working ok.

So they started removing the developers one by one, moving them to other projects. The last guy left on the project felt overloaded and quit.

The project still worked okay for a few years without new updates, and was gradually replaced by several new projects (because it had a lot of functionality). But the new projects only had two developers each on average, so at least the managers didn't feel like they were wasting money.
"There can be no question that Ai must be regulated and controlled just as powerfully as we control money."

That's the single new idea in there. It might be a good one. Or not. But it's worth thinking about.

AIs that you can only talk to have some risks, but most of the risk is that they say something that embarrasses or annoys something, or that they are believed to be right when they aren't. That's about the level of risk Youtubers generate. AIs that can spend money, buy, sell, and use the power of money - they can take over. If they're good enough at capitalism.
It will still cost whoever oracles decides to vindictively go after (driven by some unrelated dispute) a bunch of money and trouble.
Mass car ownership has been a disaster; the entirety of society was reorganized around them causing urban sprawl and long commutes; nevermind the myriad conflicts around the world caused in the pursuit of oil.

The road deaths are an incredibly minor party of the harm caused by cars.
I've developed branches against a moving target all the time where the moving target introduced a problem in my code that wouldn't have been found by a simple merge conflict resolution. It's much much easier to find the source of the problem when you have the real history (a merge) instead of a rewritten history (a rebase).
> “We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity and forget the rest.”

This whole essay and thesis falls terribly flat to me because there is a certain ongoing event, which Fry makes no mention of, which happens to be using AI in savage ways, but would also be happening were such AI still a glimmer in humanity's eye.

Hypothetical inhumanity gets a "call to action" from Fry but actual existing inhumanity deserves no mention.
The Terminal for Kubernetes
{random advice from the internet}

Java. Show your expertise.

Because Java is the "new Cobol" there's going to be a need for Java programmers for a long time., and building something interesting in Java is going to stand out in a pile of resumes more than a TODO app in Haskell.

If you want to learn a new language, Clojure would be a good fit for Java experience because it assumes knowledge of the JVM. Clojure would leverage your experience with Java and is a "cool kid" language that has corporate adoption.

Good luck.
Oracle still uses Java though. You can't spell JavaScript without Java. Regardless, JavaScript is now much larger than Java, so the trademark for JS should at least revert to the public.
LLM Response Augmentation: Graph, Text, or Both?
Thank you!

Sadly my English teachers in high school wouldn’t accept this as a response to their request for an essay on Tolkien. It was extremely frustrating, to say the least, given his repeated stance on the matter.
There are tools to do just that, see for example banks2ledger:
https://git.hq.sig7.se/banks2ledger.git
Show HN: Fine-Tuning YOLO in a Cafe: Custom Object Detection on a MacBook
To secure the grid in a zero-carbon world, we need to supply 4-5x as much electricity and be able to run without renewable generation for over a week.
The language was originally called Mocha, and when it first released to the public in Netscape it was called LiveScript. I recall that changing the name to JavaScript was quite controversial and unpopular at the time among geeks.

So when the geeks got to finally put the open standard out there they had a chance to fix this nonsense and take back the name! And they chose ECMAScript! .... wait they chose WHAT?!?
Tolkien continually revised his writings and published in 1954. I'm sure there are some hints looking back in retrospect at his earlier drafts.

And we know he changed the Hobbit to give the ring more power in later editions, for example making it irresistible to Golem. This sort of changed was likely propagated throughout the LOTR drafts as he made the ring more powerful.
Panamanian Patricio Jansson won a case against Piper Aircraft and levied on Piper's IP in Panama. Lots of mischief ensued.
> https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.accept (yes Accept can be used in responses)

I think that would solve.

HTTP servers SHOULD send one or more Accept: {content_type} HTTP headers in the HTTP Response to an HTTP OPTIONS Request in order to indicate which content types can be requested from that path.
Ethics only exist to provide value. If you can’t point to a value that your ethics provide then it’s not needed and excessive. Most of the ethical standards do provide value or mitigate risk you just need to understand what that risk and value trades is.
"The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31575530

> This comment is one I still remember from 9 years ago (from the top of the May 2013 thread).

> Then one day a guy came in with a hand cart, loaded the coffee machine on it, and rolled it away. A week later the layoffs started. [...]

> In other words, the free sodas are the proverbial canary in the coal mine. When they die, it's time to get out if you don't want to die with them.

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573108 - May 2022 (198 comments)

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
> What’s the point of being a non-profit?

In this case, to trick everyone into thinking OpenAI is a "good guy".
Programmer's Survival Guide for a Zombie Apocalypse
It's way more than GraphQL.

Searching and analyzing large things is a real need. It won't go away by changing your protocol.
The Waterfall Model had its time and piece of the pie (still has in the form of modified Waterfall models) at the beginning of the software development era when software was complex in nature. Therefore, time spent early reduces costs at later stages e.g., a problem found in early stages is cheaper to fix than later in the process because the software has to be embedded in the hardware - no software updates.

We all know that it's not easy to find a good software engineer back then, or a knowledge center (like we do now) to get help from. If one team member leaves in the middle of an ongoing project for whatever reason, good documentation must be there for the new member to get a complete understanding of what's going on.

The Waterfall Model was never perfect, and Royce never claims it is. Instead, he himself pointed out major flaws such as testing only happened at the end of the process.

One thing I want to add is that Royce didn't use the term Waterfall but he said something like downstream. And he was right because we all know that speed of water is very fast but in this model it's too slow. Perhaps that's why he proposed modified versions of the original Water fall model https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Royces-modifications-of-...
I'm not an RPG person - but when I've done it, every player is in fact both acting their character's role AND acting as player in the game. The elven mage character does not know that a DM exists, or that dice are being rolled; but the player does, and complains when the DM applies a rule inconsistently.
Yes. (I'm from Sweden)
When someone can write about deep content in a simple way, they really understand it.
You're making me think of malls in LA like The Grove which are simulacrum of walkable, people sized neighborhoods which aren't available in that region outside of Disneyland.

There's even a rail trolly in there.
And personally I think in the occasional interminable "oh wouldn't it be wonderful if programmers were real engineers like architects" threads, where people fail to understand those processes used by other engineering disciplines

If the software industry had the equivalent of "general contractors" who pour the concrete, wire the rebar, dig and fill the holes, install the electrical and duct, laid the bricks, all to within the tolerances specified; AND had architects who knew both the tools available and the domain inside and out, a model mirroring the real estate industry MIGHT BE doable. But there are a lot of differences beyond just the "engineering" aspects (and often times, the head engineer on a project is not the architect).
I can't really use a phone outside on a sunny day. Even at max brightness the screen is unreadable.
The Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse: Rick Beato Explains
Ethics are not morals. Ethics are business practices morals are religious and political views.
In the videos the true path is the dashed line and the government prediction is the solid line. Our prediction, from our GFT model, is the animation which plays in the background.
Not sure if I'm missing something, but the term "sleep" has never meant "power down" in Windows. It's just a lower power state that keeps all your applications running.

AFAIK you can still enable hibernation (which does actually power down the machine) in the control panel.
What is your definition of utilitarianism? Utilitarianism is not a form of democracy. Good is not subject to a vote and is not decided by the masses.

Fwiw: "Utilitarianism is a theory of morality that advocates actions that foster happiness or pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness or harm. When directed toward making social, economic, or political decisions, a utilitarian philosophy would aim for the betterment of society as a whole."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/utilitarianism.asp
Nobody is forcing you to work for Mr Beast
Worth noting that "passive cooling" includes things like solar architecture, planting trees, and painting stuff white. You can do surprising amount for free!
It's indeed called the discrete logarithm problem both in the case of finite fields modulo some number and elliptic curves modulo a number. In the first case, you are reversing an exponentiation, so you're indeed computing a logarithm. But in the case of elliptic curves you're not dealing with exponentiation, you're instead reversing the multiplication of a curve element (i. e. a point) by a scalar. The two problems (and the way you solve them) look similar in the end, and I think this is why we ended up using the same name. But, if we nitpick, those are different operations and so the two problems are different, despite the similarities.

Note for cryptographers/matematicians: I know that "reversing" isn't the correct term here, so you could accuse me of the same sin I'm calling out in my previous comment. But it makes the explanation shorter while still conveying the correct meaning in the end.
Especially, because most energy used is currently not electricity:it fossil fuels. We need 4x for a zero-carbon grid and to be secure we need over a week's stored electricity: 10s of TWh. The plan for the UK grid has 50 Two in it. Will people really postpone charging their car for a week if they hit a cold still week in January?
Generative ML in chemistry is bottlenecked by synthesis