skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agreed. There should be a multipronged approach.

Step I: Ban institutional investment in single family homes. I.e. individuals/couples can own 3. After that, disincentives begin to kick in. Any non-individual/couple has strong disincentives against buying single family homes.

Step II: Make it easier to build multi-family, denser housing, with a bias towards owner-occupied over renting. Up to and including removing local control over saying "No."

Step III: Carve out a very specific space (and zoning) for what rentals (i.e. non-owner-occupied) should look like.
When people know the answer is always “no” they save their energy to plea for stuff they really can’t do without. You start saying yes and they’ll ask for more.

The trick is as always to find out the XY problem. What they really need may be way easier for you to implement than what they actually asked for.
Dream AI (End-to-end video generation)
Money supply increased but lots of money went into corporations. Not just into individuals pocket.
I haven’t revisited this issue in years but on a project for thousands of similar devices we found autossh much more reliable.

I believe the issue is that the connections often fail or get wedged in other network layers; the only way to be sure that your ssh tunnel isn’t: a) lossy enough to “keep alive” but too lossy to send data, or b) isn’t just always waiting on TCP retry backoff, or c) etc, is to use the tunnel to transmit actual data at the application level.
Ozempic can cause stomach paralysis, so each individual has to weigh risk to reward when choosing an obesity drug.
Show HN: YARS Bulk download imgs, GIFs, posts, comments and userdata from Reddit
This scraper uses simple .json requests, avoiding the need for official Reddit API keys, making it lightweight and easy to use.

Use with rotating proxies, or Reddit might gift you with an IP ban.
I could extract max 2552 posts at once from 'r/all' using this.

<a href="https://files.catbox.moe/zdra2i.json">Here</a> is a 7.1 MB JSON file containing the top 100 posts from 'r/nosleep', which included post titles, body text, all comments and their replies, post scores, time of upload etc.
The original specifications in the GGP:

> switching between X pages before and here, highlighting quickly, making quick notes on the side and so on.

Any PDF reader I've used will do those things, iirc.

> I can fold or flip a page so, that I can quickly view certain parts of the second page while I read the first one.

With PDFs, you can open it in as many windows as you like and arrange them for simultaneous viewing on your screen. Open a copy on another device too if you like.

I'm not saying books have no advantage, just not for those functions IMHO.
I think it comes from tasks not taking an equal amount of time, coming in at random, and not having similar priorities.
I want to know how this works for an enterprise work laptop. Can my employer choose to turn it on and access the information? It's the only time I am forced to use Windows.
I think you meant this as a joke, but this is what we landed on about a decade ago and it was the most reliable setup we found.
According to that link, it changed in 2001. I left the uk before that. Now I feel very old.

Thanks for the correction.
Building a Vector Database in Ruby Using Hash and PStore
Notes data is stored in an open SQLite3 database as Protocol Buffer data:

sqlite3 "~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/NoteStore.sqlite"

This is because it needs to support CRDT style syncing.

But the schemas have been decoded so you can access it using pretty much any language.
htmx + Templ (https://templ.guide/) is something I'm really enjoying as a replacement for React in my personal projects.
The quintessential example is US college tuition.

The US government shoveled free / low-cost money into sending people to college, university tuitions increased to capture that additional funding while still keeping their enrollment numbers.

Let's not do that with housing?
>So, it's better to potentially completely ruin the life of an innocent instead of killing him.

Yes clearly it's better. Killing him definitely ruins his life as well and isn't reversible.
Hm, I’m not sure what you saw in the post before my edits, but I think this answers “did AI motivate / help discover the breakthroughs we saw 20 years ago?” which I definitely agree would be a “no”.

Either way, before and after my edits the intent was to identify areas in which distributed systems researchers moved their focus to support areas such as (but not exclusively) AI.

The question comes from me supposing that “pure” distributed systems research has slowed.
I recognize the author Jascha as an incredibly brilliant ML researcher, formerly at Google Brain and now at Anthropic.

Among his notable accomplishments, he and coauthors mathematically characterized the propagation of signals through deep neural networks via techniques from physics and statistics (mean field and free probability theory). Leading to arguably some of the most profound yet under-appreciated theoretical and experimental results in ML in the past decade. For example see “dynamical isometry” [1] and the evolution of those ideas which were instrumental in achieving convergence in very deep transformer models [2].

After reading this post and the examples given, in my eyes there is no question that this guy has an extraordinary intuition for optimization, spanning beyond the boundaries of ML and across the fabric of modern society.

We ought to recognize his technical background and raise this discussion above quibbles about semantics and definitions.

Let’s address the heart of his message, the very human and empathetic call to action that stands in the shadow of rapid technological progress:

> If you are a scientist looking for research ideas which are pro-social, and have the potential to create a whole new field, you should consider building formal (mathematical) bridges between results on overfitting in machine learning, and problems in economics, political science, management science, operations research, and elsewhere.

[1] Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of CNNs: How to Train 10,000-Layer Vanilla Convolutional Neural Networks

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/xiao18a/xiao18a.pdf

[2] ReZero is All You Need: Fast Convergence at Large Depth

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.04887
I don't see why Notion-adjacent apps don't just deeply integrate SQLite for everything table-related. What am i missing ?
Sitina1 Open-Source Camera
You're already forced to use Microsoft's AI shenanigans. If you've been using Office suite, Microsoft recently installed an AI agent as an application update which launches on system startup. God knows what it does in the background.
Then you just get Little's law, which is not usually what people want. Preemption is usually considered pretty important... Much like preemptory tasks.
This very discussion feels nuanced so i don't share your sentiment.
Might need to read some Goldratt. We generally don’t understand efficiency that well.
Adding to my reading list!
> It's easy though

Neat, I didn't know it was a single flag in Docker.

The k8s method you linked definitely has some caveats as it doesn't allow this scheduling at the pod level, and requires quite a bit of fiddling to get working (atleast on GKE). This isn't even available if you use a fully managed setup like autopilot.

Maybe my expectations just aren't realistic but "easy" to me would mean I put the affinity right next to my CPU request in the podSpec :/
This totally depends on the system in question and what the agreements with your users are.

Eg if you are running video conferencing software, and all of a sudden you are having bandwidth problems, you typically first want to drop some finer details in the video, and then you want to drop the audio feed.

In any case, if you dropped something, you leave it dropped, instead of picking it back up again a few seconds later. People don't care about past frames.

(However, queuing instead of outright dropping can still makes sense in this scenario, for any information that's younger than what human reaction times can perceive.)

Similarly in your scenario, you'd want to explicitly communicate to people what the expectations are. Perhaps you give out deep discounts for tasks that can be dropped (that's what eg some electriticy providers do), or you can give people 'insurance' where they get some monetary compensation if their task gets dropped. (You'd want to be careful how you design such a scheme, to avoid perverse incentives. But it's all doable.)

> So you’re fixing the micro economics of the queue but not the macro. Queues still suck when they fill up, even if they fill with last minute jobs.

I don't know, I had pretty positive experiences so far when eg I got bumped off a flight due to overbooking. The airline offered decent compensation.

Overbooking and bumping people off _improves_ the macro situation: despite the occasional compensation you have to pay, when unexpectedly everyone who booked actually showed up, overbooking still makes the airline extra money, and via competition this is transformed into lower ticket prices. Many people love lower airfares, and have shown a strong revealed preference of putting up with a lot of stuff eg RyanAir pulls as long as they get cheap tickets.
In my opinion your question is unanswerable because if he lied when he swore the oath he was never a doctor.

Can you explain how your question connects to the rest of thread? I can explain the thread if you don’t understand it, as you admit.
I love ET. Some discussion here of its advantages over mosh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640200. Beware that ET does phone home: depending on how it's packaged for your system, telemetry is enabled by default in /etc/et.cfg.
The issue with appointments is the provider needs to be integrated into the system. Apple can’t do that on their own. It would have to be more like the roll out of CarPlay. A couple partners at launch, a lot of nothing for several years, and eventually is a lot of places, but still not universal.

I could see something like Uber or Uber Eats trying to be early on something like this, since they already standardized the ordering for all the restaurants in their app. Scheduling systems are all over the place.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Cores%20That%20Don%27t%20Count...
These two are not equivalent in practice. We’ve created a good set of tools that help one to stay in parts of TC that we agreed to consider relatively sane. TC is much bigger than we actually use. It is an enormous landscape, and we only dare to walk very specific paths on it, even our hardware specializes on methods we tend to use.

A similar set of tools and guardrails has yet to be seen for MT, at least in python-ic category. I think we can agree that relative success of MT in some X doesn’t automagically translate everywhere, because it depends on first principles which are different.
Availability bias. But it's the metric that stands out as being higher than an Intel system without a graphics card.
“Hidebound”
"Scalable", but does it scale in terms of business requirements typical of web projects?
Obsolete doesn't mean that the computer needs to be thrown away immediately. It means that Apple will no long allocate a portion of its finite software resources towards this machine.

Also, keep in mind that even if Apple did continue to invest software resources into the older machine, the application vendors probably wouldn't as it costs them money too. And applications can have security holes and breakages just like everything else.
If I have to wait for a cartridge to show up in the mail, why wouldn't I just go to FedEx and do my printing there?

My Brother B&W laser printers never die and a $30 cartridge ($60 if you buy OEM) lasts a minimum of 2600 and will never dry out. I replace the cartridge once every few years and if I need color then driving over to FedEx etc. is much faster than waiting for something to come in the mail to replace an ink cartridge that will inevitably dry up if you're not using it every day.
well sometimes the old stuff is better than the new stuff. it really is hilarious though. things in the software world have regressed in some ways especially when it comes to privacy and locking down data.
I don't see anything in the comment guidelines banning humor. I do however see that it asks us to be kind, not sneer at the rest of the community here, and to stop the tired comparisons to Reddit.

The voting and flagging systems, along with the work of the moderators, are perfectly capable at managing the comments. No need to try to police them yourself.
> I’d like to use a (somewhat) wider range of basic symbols than whatever we had in ASCII last century. Even allowing comparison operators like ≤, <, ≠ and = that align consistently would be a useful start.

Visually, font ligatures do just that, and combine your !=, >=, etc. into single elements
Just don't try to center text on the page!
No what you get is alcoholism. It was sarcasm.
Just because AI doesn’t work for you, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for other people. Ozempic may have no effect, or even harmful to you, but it’s a godsend for many others. Acknowledge that, instead of blindly insisting on your use cases. It’s fine to resist the hype, but it’s foolish to be willfully ignorant.
> If anything I think that the general population is becoming more aware and educated.

Not necessarily.

Read Jacques Ellul's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul) book "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda:_The_Formation_of_M... The wikipedia page has a good synopsis of all the major points. Read carefully his arguments specifically on "Information" and "Education" and how they actually make you more susceptible to Propaganda. Excerpt;

"Information" Is an essential element of propaganda, which must "have reference to political or economic reality" to be credible. In fact, no propaganda can work until the moment when a set of facts has become a problem in the eyes of those who constitute public opinion." Education permits the dissemination of propaganda in that it enables people to consume information. Information is indistinguishable from propaganda in that information is an essential element of propaganda because for propaganda to succeed it must have reference to political or economic reality. Propaganda grafts itself onto an already existing reality through "informed opinion". Where no informed opinion with regard to political or economic affairs propaganda cannot exist making it an indispensable aspect. Propaganda means nothing without preliminary information that provides the basis for propaganda, gives propaganda the means to operate, and generates the problems that propaganda exploits by pretending to offer solutions. It is through information that the individual is placed in a social context and learns to understand the reality of his own situation. Information allows us to evaluate our situation feel our own personal problems are a general social problem thus enabling propaganda to entice us into social and political action. Information is most effective when it is objective and broad because it creates a general picture. With information quantity is better than quality, the more political or economic facts believed to be mastered by an individual, the more sensitive their judgment is to propaganda. In fact, only in and through propaganda do the masses have access to political economy, politics, art, or literature. The more stereotypes in a culture, the easier it is to form public opinion, and the more an individual participates in that culture, the more susceptible he becomes to the manipulation of these symbols.

Now add to it all that we have discovered since then in Neuroscience/Neurobiology on how to bypass the "rational" side of the Brain and you will realize that we mostly have "Informed Opinions" and "General Confusion" rather than Real "Education" and "Awareness".

If anything, the latter has become far more difficult to achieve today.
Your first link is to a poll indicating a year-over-year spike that has by simple procedural timing not yet been subjected to public opinion in light of an important vote of any kind. Time will tell on that.

Your second link is a liberal education in how partisan think tanks cook surveys to push their agenda. The Cato Institute is the de facto PR arm of Koch Industries and you insult the HN readership by even serving that at our table.

Your third assertion would be interesting if substantiated and contextualized: where do I get robust information about the Biden administration breaking with previous administrations on defying the public consensus by a factor of 5? Or were net inflows substantially the same under the last three administrations hailing from both major parties?

You’ve been around here a long time, and you’re clearly a very smart person, and I have a lot of respect for both.

But I’ve been around longer, and I’ll kindly but firmly remind you to leave the partisan pamphleteering on the whole rest of the Internet.
10 pages per month. So $12 gets you 120 pages.
For some scenarios that's fine, and you can slash the queue whenever necessary.

Eg at Google (this was ten years ago or so), we could always spend leftover networking capacity on syncing a tiny bit faster and more often between our data centres. And that would improve users' experience slightly, but it also not something that builds up a backlog.

At a factory, you could always have some idle workers swipe the floor a bit more often. (Just a silly example, but there are probably some tasks like that?)
Ask HN: Looking for a website where I can upload sounds and then play/mix them
Can you please help me to find a website where I can upload sounds from my library and then play/mix them?

I remember that I used one, but unfortunately, I forgot its name. Thank you.
There was no need to invent a new law named "strong version", it already exists: Campbell's law.

The subtle difference between the two being exactly what the author describes: Goodhart's law states that metrics eventually don't work, Campbell's law states that, worse still, eventually they tend to backfire.
Unix did not exist before 1970. Neither did tar. There are no tar files with files with timestamps before 1970 _unless_ you've used `touch -t 195001010000` or `utime(2)` or `futimes(3)` to set the files' time to before 1970. That seems pretty unlikely.
A comment there confirms my thought when I looked at the numbers:

the IBM PC division kept up that numbering scheme (4-character “type” code, followed by 3-character “model” code) all the way up to when they were sold off to Lenovo in the mid-‘aughts. (It’s also possible that Lenovo has continued it to this day; I just haven’t kept up with Lenovo in recent years, so I’m not sure.)

...and yes, Lenovo continued with it until around 2012:

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/ltwbo...

They switched to longer part number codes after that:

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_P16_Gen_2
Other players may not have had the resources or foresight to stumble upon superbabies.

A trademark is not infringed if its infringement is not known to others accused of the same thing.
Getting my textbooks from Library Genesis was a favorite college pastime.

When I couldn’t get them from LibGen I’d get a slightly older revision of a textbook for pennies on the dollar.

The only time these leeches you mention got my money was with those codes required to do the homework.
whats the process node it can do. im suprised a fab built in 1991 is stil valuable. the us is trying to build a 5nm fab in arizona and by the time its done well be at 1 or less. granted still probably worth it since it would only be about 7 years old process but 1991. thats gotta be old unless they kept upgrading it
Sometimes you can just embrace it, instead of looking for tricks.

If you are in the business of selling any product or service, then it's great that finding a way to make it cheaper also generates more demand for you.
The best part of a computer is its utter disconnection from reality.
Flying-Vs and longer wings: how the shape of passenger planes is about to change
It seems to be used both with and without.
In the main table with the maps it's not directly after, there's a comma. The ", England" is specifying the country, same as where it says "Yorkshire and the Humber, England", "East Midlands, England", etc. There's no comma part for "East of England", because there it is part of the name. In the demographics table it is directly followed by "England".

A more official source puts "England" in brackets, as if it's not part of the name but just to disambiguate: https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/e...
I do also like the idea behind templ, only issue is when I tried to use it, the DX was pretty poor on Jetbrains IDE’s. I think the LSP is broken for it
I’m confused, because the “not trick” I’m talking about is the boondoggle created by giving people exactly what they ask for, making nobody happy and jamming up your throughput in the process.
the brits gave up hong kong in the 90s. as soon as that happened no one was expecting them to back the case. however, i suppose the brits were optimistic so they didnt have to have regret about losing a colony.

i think taiwan might get some defense but only cause shit is made there and the west cant pretend the chinese wont flex their power
I find this article a bit odd, considering what the author is an expert in: generative imagery. It's the exact problem he discusses, the lack of a target that is measurable. Defining art is well known to be ineffable, yet it is often agreed upon. For thousands of years we've been trying to define what good art means.

But you do not get good art by early stopping, you do not get it by injecting noise, you do not get it by regularization. All these do help and are essential to our modeling processes, but we are still quite far. We have better proxies than FID but they all have major problems and none even come close (even when combined).

We've gotten very good at AI art but we've still got a long way to go. Everyone can take a photo, but not everyone is a photographer and it takes great skill and expertise to take such masterpieces. Yet there are masters of the craft. Sure, AI might be better than you at art but that doesn't mean it's close to a master. As unintuitive as this sounds. This is because skill isn't linear. The details start to dominate as you become an expert. A few things might be necessary to be good, but a million things need be considered in mastery. Because mastery is the art of subtly. But this article, it sounds like everything is a nail. We don't have the methods yet and my fear is that we don't want to look (there are of course many pursuing this course, but it is very unpopular and not well received. Scale is all you need is quite exciting, but lacking sufficient complexity, which even Sutton admits to be necessary). It's my fear that we get too caught up in excitement that we become blind to our limitations. Because it's knowing those limitations that is what gives us direction to improve upon. When every critique is seen as spoiling the fun of the party, we'll never be able to have anything better. I'm not trying to stop the party, in fact, I'm worried it'll stop.
A key distinction is that one doesn't accuse of name-calling, one moderates based on it.

Accusations are also personal attacks, and are similarly against guidelines.

Note too that it's member votes and flags which achieve the overwhelming majority of moderation results on HN, so going up against a significant, and reasonably plausible, objection, probably isn't a winning move.

That said, I've overspent myself in this thread.
There’s a few decades after you stop worrying you’re crazy and before you start worrying you’re senile. Leaving you a lot more energy for other things. Enjoy them.
Putting aside whatever "true sustainability" means, it's unlikely that it's a money thing. It's probably more related to the efficiency of individuals in organizations as they grow, and Apple is already quite large.