skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know if this exists or not, but I'd like to try something like a fuse filesystem which can transparently copy a file to a fast scratch SSD when it is first accessed.

ZFS has caching for writes (SLOG)[0][1] and reads (L2ARC),[2][3] which was introduced many years ago when HDDs were cheap and flash was still very, very expensive:

* https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2009-10-08/hybrid-storage-...

[0] https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zpoolcon...

[1] https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zpool-cr...

[2] https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zpoolcon...

[3] https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zpool-ad...
I’m seeing this in everything. I was surprised to see it in a TP Link router for example. Avoid if you can.
> It calls the first Perfect Output; a feature designed to remove unwanted elements before printing and to optimize printouts.

I think "perfect output" would be to reproduce the input on paper as precisely as real-world hardware constraints permit. This here is no longer useful as a printer.

I can kinda see why they are doing this but it's still deeply annoying, when all I really want from the printer industry is a printer that prints.
In GA, GA residents with B-ish averages get free tuition to attend GA universities.

Including GaTech, a top5 eng school, that requires an A average to get in.

Source: dealing with undergrads complaining about their grades and their effect on their scholarship.

EDIT: I agree with what you maybe claiming that "education" does not justify legal gambling. And you're certainly right that most states abuse this argument and the fungible nature of money to just slosh money around.

EDIT: the lotto money is put in a fund that goes to pre-K programs and scholarships. The average required to keep the scholarship is set by the fund's size.
I read it as retrieval being the requests to the scraped site. I can parse a few thousand HTML pages in minutes, but fetching them in the first place takes hours.
I guess the focus in this one is on adding links rather than discussion, which from a look at that Wikipedia page, seems unique.

But yes, it seems a bit like a small twist on an extremely old idea.
There was a degree of proof of work involved. Text took human effort to create, and this roughly constrained the quantity and quality of misinforming text to the number of humans with motive to expend sufficient effort to misinform. Now superficially indistinguishable text can be created by an investment in flops, which are fungible. This means that the constraint on the amount of misinforming text instead scales with whatever money is resourced to the task of generating misinforming text. If misinforming text can generate value for someone that can be translated back into money, the generation of misinforming text can be scaled to saturation and full extraction of that value.
It's very analogous to drug use. The libertarian point of view that people should be free to do what they want with their own bodies makes sense at first blush. But addiction is such an absolute blight on society that ending it will only improve the world.
> Except it's not - it's a business problem. SKG would essentially ban the use of Oracle as an example

why are you using Oracle for video games? what's wrong with you?

> Or it would likely kill games like Rock band which have licensed audio.

Rock Band DOES work offline. Licensed audio in Rock Band is licensed in such a way that once a copy is sold the license allows the use of that copy in perpetuity. 100 years from now I'll still be able to pop in my Rock Band disc and play it, because that's how ownership works and the developer didn't get in the way of my ownership of my own property.

But when I said "It's a tech problem" I was answering someone who mentioned a tech problem.

Coming up with a different, non-tech problem as a counter-point to a whole discussion exclusively about a tech problem is not as smart as you think it is, and the examples you bring up aren't very good at all.

> Another way of looking at it is that only large companies will be able to conform

No, that's unmitigated nonsense. Just your first paragraph showed you have no idea what you're talking about, but now you're just stringing words together. The reason why only the largest companies can have these problems in the first place is because of their legacy technology integrations and pre-existing technology supplier agreements which they would have to re-negotiate. Remember, this is a scenario AFTER the initiative gets a million signatures, which is a year out, and AFTER the EU has legislated, which is another year at least, and AFTER the warning period which is several years. Even with the fastest possible timeline it's probably like 5 years of warning that things are going to change. And at that point anyone entering the space from the bottom as a new player is free to negotiate a deal which conforms with the market regulations going forward; if the technology suppliers don't want to negotiate realistic terms, they go out of business. While we're at it, large companies are also free to renegotiate their contracts to make them legal in the eyes of the legislation because contract survival terms are a standard staple in any technology supply agreement and if changes to market regulations make a contract unfit or illegal then renegotiations commence as a matter of course. But given the timeline of this going into effect they'll have renegotiated YEARS ahead of the deadlines.

This isn't a twitter poll. It's not going to go into effect 5 minutes after it's been posted. There will be AMPLE time for everyone to figure stuff out and change their paperwork, and the only companies really affected are the ones that already spend $1M+/year on legal anyways.
Tangential but I keep wishing for an MS Space Simulator revival - I realise there are other games that scratch that itch these days but I did enjoy how very seriously it took accurate simulation (plus occasional silly touches like the various futuristic spacecraft).
You have qualms with "claims", yet you use "generally" to describe newspaper dogma. So you accept that newspapers do not always not lie, yet you have issues accepting that sometimes sources have not been verified?
There’s also the embedded presumption that being rich is a superior state. I think there’s plenty of evidence that being poor is physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausting, but that doesn’t mean that being rich is renewing.

I know some proper who have become quite wealthy and have seen the ways money changes them. It’s hard for the mind to justify overabundance in a world of need, so we must rationalize our fortunes as ‘deserved’ for being ‘smart.’

Another way to live is to strive for enough. Enough to help others, to take care of most any emergency, enough to take breaks now and then and be with people you love.
> ... its very unlikley to give you the exact answer you need (and if it does then well you job longetivity is questionable)

Experimenting with o1-preview, it quite often gives me the exact answer I need on the first try, and I'm 100% certain that my job longevity is questionable.
To be honest I got sick of most new movies, TV shows, music even before AI so I will continue to consume media from pre 2010 until the day I die and will hope I don't get through it all.

Something happened around 2010 and it all got shit. I think everyone becoming massively online made global cultural output reduce in quality to meet the interests of most people and most people have terrible taste.
https://wintelguy.com/zfs-calc.pl
VCRs are just ancient enough that soldering is easy.
To what end? Digitizing is a huge amount of work.
I have the same observation as well. The hype is getting generated mostly by people who're selling AI courses or AI-related products.

It works well as a smart documentation search where you can ask follow-up questions or when you know what the output should look like if you see it but can't type it directly from the memory.

For code assistants (aka copilot / cursor), it works if you don't care about the code at all and ok with any solution if it's barely working (I'm ok with such code for my emacs configuration).
I like that you are marketing it as a supplement, it's a lot better than a number of other people who would market a product like this in a predatory way, and I think that's commendable. I'm curious how this product will grow, and I wish you luck with this.
There was an article similar to this less than 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566097

This whole issue of writing for people really distills down to two skills:

1. Empathy

2. Writing

There is a world of difference between writing some code and writing an application, a product. That is all this article is about, though less explicitly. Empathy is a factor in this because its the difference between self-orientation and external-orientation. Self-orientated developers are primarily concerned with easiness, convenience, code vanity, and other subjectivity criteria. It comes down only to their effort of delivery.

Externally-oriented developers are primarily concerned with architecture and documentation because for them success is all about how other people receive their work product. Simplicity is more important than easiness because externally-oriented developers know they cannot read minds and have no idea what other people find easy, but they do know how to reduce steps and keep their code small.

In the brain writing an application, from a holistic product perspective, is no different than writing an essay, article, or book. Its all about organization and features. The code is something that comes later, like words on a page. For people who only write pieces of code they never develop the higher order organizational skills that brings it all together. It also works in the inverse in that if a person cannot write an essay with ease they cannot envision writing a new application.

Those are the reasons I super detest frameworks. Frameworks deprive developers the practice necessary to write original software which means they are not developing those organizational skills. Its a massive gap that the inflicted cannot see, but is so enormously apparent to those that can see it. From a behavior perspective its no different than a learning or neurological disorder in that the inflicted know something is missing, but have no means to see what that something is, and that drives massive emotional insecurity.
> In finance, the greater fool theory suggests that one can sometimes make money through speculation on overvalued assets — items with a purchase price drastically exceeding the intrinsic value — if those assets can later be resold at an even higher price.

They just need one more set of people past them to buy it. I know lots of uninformed people that would jump on it thinking they are “getting in early”.
Thank you for your service! If you want to support even more, feel free to talk to others about it!
Related:

"People in San Francisco tag a driverless car"

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1fqcpq2...

About driverless cars, new tech adoptions often start slow, until the iceberg tips and then it's very quick change. Like mobile phones today.

I remember thinking before smartphones that had entire-day battery and good touchscreens: These people really think population will use phones more than desktop computers? Here we are.
I think in 2024, if you're looking for people who share your annoyance with any given thing, and particularly annoyance with any given media personality, you will be able to find them. A triumph of social media. It warms the heart.
I would say, make it practical, with some live coding and incremental building of something they can use and play with.

C is a great language, especially for teaching CS (python is too but C allow to get into memory allocation and all the fun part of what make computing and compiling fun.)

I have learn C with code writing on a black board and pen and paper... that was good too but not sure if young people would have enough patience for such an approach
Ah, but, at least for generative AI, that kind of remains to be seen, surely? For every hyped thing that actually is The Future (TM), there are about ten hyped things which turn out to be Not The Future due to practical issues, cost, pointlessness once the novelty wears off, overpromising, etc. At this point, LLMs feel like they're heading more in that direction.
Not today, but I have a feeling that 3 years from now things will look very very different.
There's a major problem with having too little of a sense of agency. From that we see cycles of poverty and violence from people who seem unable to help themselves. I think this problem is widely recognized.

There's however also a problem with too much agency. It breeds anxiety, discontent, unhappiness. Not everything in your life is under your control, and expressing undirected gratitude is one way of acknowledging that.
haha true, I think the thing I am most after with this experiment is a more collaborative "alive" feeling outside of social networks. but of course we don't want to grant everyone write access to every part of every page.
In the release notes highlights:

> Optionally replace md5 with xxHash for data integrity checksums. 30% speed up on larger (128k) docs, no difference for smaller docs.

Happy to see xxHash getting more and more popular!
> Lawsuits based on what? Copyright?

> People crying for copyright in the context of AI training don't understand what copyright is, how it works and when it applies.

People are complaining about what's happening, not with the exact wording of the law.

What they are doing probably isn't illegal, but it _should_ be. The problem is that it's very difficult for people to pass new legislation because they don't have lobbyists the way corporations do.
Google didn't change it, it embodied it. The problem isn't AI, it's the pervasive culture of PR and advertising which appeared in the 50s and eventually consumed its host.

Western industrial culture was based on substance - getting real shit done. There was always a lot of scammery around it, but the bedrock goal was to make physical things happen - build things, invent things, deliver things, innovate.

PR and ad culture was there to support that. The goal was to change values and behaviours to get people to Buy More Stuff. OK.

Then around the time the Internet arrived, industry was off-shored, and the culture started to become one of appearance and performance, not of substance and action.

SEO, adtech, social media, web framework soup, management fads - they're all about impression management and popularity games, not about underlying fundamentals.

This is very obvious on social media in the arts. The qualification for a creative career used to be substantial talent and ability. Now there are thousands of people making careers out of performing the lifestyle of being a creative person. Their ability to do the basics - draw, write, compose - is very limited. Worse, they lack the ability to imagine anything fresh or original - which is where the real substance is in art.

Worse than that, they don't know what they don't know, because they've been trained to be superficial in a superficial culture.

It's just as bad in engineering, where it has become more important to create the illusion of work being done, than to do the work. (Looking at you, Boeing. And also Agile...)

You literally make more money doing this. A lot more.

So AI isn't really a tool for creating substance. It's a tool for automating impression management. You can create the impression of getting a lot of work done. Or the impression of a well-written cover letter. Or of a genre novel, techno track, whatever.

AI might one day be a tool for creating substance. But at the moment it's reflecting and enabling a Potemkin busy-culture of recycled facades and appearances that has almost nothing real behind it.

Unfortunately it's quite good at that.

But the problem is the culture, not the technology. And it's been a problem for a long time.
Don’t let the negative comments get to you. The idea is interesting, and there are plenty of ways to curb spammers (just look at Stack Overflow). Also, this isn't the same concept as webrings.
Who is this and why should I trust them?
Other countries have unions too. I don't know the situation in Finland, but they are surrounded by countries that have even stronger union and union laws that the US. (and some of those countries also have ship building)
Even if they were not packaged in plastic at the store, they probably contact plastic throughout the supply chain. Consumers can’t see that and so they can’t make a choice about it. Which is why we need regulation here. Or more labeling and transparency.
Could you apply here the Kerckhoffs's principle which says that security should not be based on secrecy? I know the original principle speaks about encryption but why should not it apply here aswell? Organisation should be secure by design and not by hoping nobody discovers all its assets. That being said maybe the mentioned Swedish approach to have the TLD zone public makes sense?
I used to have a dot-matrix printer from the 80s. I could print with "cat file.txt >/dev/lpt0". It was amazing.

Didn't do Unicode unfortunately, and monospace only, and no bold and stuff like that.

But still the best printer I've ever owned.
The problem is that it only works for basic stuff for which there is a lot of existing example code out there to work with.

In niche situations it's not helpful at all in writing code that works (or even close). It is helpful as a quick lookup for docs for libs or functions you don't use much, or for gotchas that you might otherwise search StackOverflow for answers to.

It's good for quick-and-dirty code that I need for one-off scripts, testing, and stuff like that which won't make it into production.
The biggest part of MSFS 2024 is the 'career system' - ie proc. gen missions, I'm surprised you missed it.
For a while I was trying to gentle a feral cat in a room in my other house (rental property under renovation), I moved the XBOX and all my DVD/Blu-Ray discs there (unlike books, I'm not afraid of having any of these get sprayed on) -- for a weeks the house was a SCIF but pretty soon I set up one of these

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-wireless/products/li...

for the 70 ft or so gap between the houses. Over several months I played games and watched Jellyfin, Tubi and Apple TV but didn't watch a single disk. The move freed up a lot of space in the main house so I donated of about 2/3 of the discs (not going to watch Disney's Frozen again but it was hard to decide which cut of Superman II I wanted) to the reuse center.

I got Bob B to eat treats with relish in the other house but once I moved him to the farmhouse he wedged himself into a corner and refused to acknowledge our other cats when they came around to greet him politely. He made a break for it the first chance he got although my wife has seen him lurking around our barn.
They also have QuickJS as an option in this release.
We need a revolution.
Craving for imac 32" leak. Googling every week!
I've Soured on Open Source
This reminds me... Anyone interested in spy stuff should check out The Bureau (2015). It's an excellent spy series and also a nice change in style compared to the usual Hollywood productions.
Maybe you could apply the web of trust concept? Tag submissions with a key, and then let people only see links that from keys they’ve trusted, or from keys that have been trusted by (some number of) keys that they’ve trusted.
> Funnel $10B in housing to Los Angeles and you'll build less than 100 units of housing, because the inflationary push of that money would balloon the cost of per unit housing. I don't want to imagine the effect of that on middle class housing.

Doesn't make sense to me. An uptick in construction work will not be an inflation balloon. More disposable income doesn't mean 1:1 more spending.

If you build a lot of (social) housing, you put at worst a lot of people a roof above their head.

Families having less financial stress might lower crime rate and improve children school scores. They might save to start businesses or find their other talents.

For some, this might be a downside tough. It makes workers more educated, healthier, more stable, less desperate and less dependent on bosses, plus they might be less angry so politically less exploitable too.
The patch code looks like a rather convoluted way of patching out the function code. Can we not just replace conditional branch with a regular one and nop out the rest? Or at least set w8 to 1 manually? I know next to nothing about ARM assembly, so I'm most likely missing something.
If they would do this in a printer how can any of their products be trusted?
Good luck finding someone who will pay you $50K for cash and carry. The problem with a lot of old stuff is that it has value to someone. But finding that someone who will take it off your hands without much friction isn't easy.
> Remember when Zuck was mocked for the Metaverse?

One of these things is not like the others. You listed 3 things proven silly with hindsight, then you post one comment that is mere hopeful wishing.
They kinda did that with 2012's 'MS Flight', it was massively panned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight
Networks correspond to diagrams correspond to type theories — and LLMs learn such a theory and reason in that internal language (as in, topos theory).

That effective theory is knowledge, literally.

People harping about “stochastic parrot” are just people repeating a shallow meme — ironically, like a stochastic parrot.
Forecast (HRRR) vs. observed (gauges/radar) rainfall during Hurricane Helene
Looks really comprehensive, thanks for sharing. Can't wait to dig in and add more stuff to my ever-expanding backlog. Loving all the screenshots too, something about that 90s-era pixel art is just so soulful and charming.
Thanks for checking it out ghusto! No need to apologize. What other solution would you expect outside of the Chrome Extension? You just mean you want a different browser supported?
What part of the product (or which product) use common lisp cause I can not find any information about that.
HTTPie GUI, simple and elegant, api testing
Buisnesses are old-school AI. The problem is $ doesn't lead to alignment.

Computer intelligence had a shot at changing things. At this rate AGI will be illegal and profit companies can rule every detail of our tracked and simulated lives.
People never seem to apply this to the arts.

People still use Eric Gill's fonts (sexually abused his kids), they put on plays by Oscar Wilde (who was definitely a sex tourist and the descriptions in letters makes it fairly clear the boys were underage), several murderers are admired for their works: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170517-can-you-separat...

I would not want to work with this guy, but using his code is not the same. I suspect if ReiserFs had been more successful it would have been forked rather than died after the murder conviction.

THis guy also sounds like he has severe mental health problems or is trolling: "I am physically the most disgusting form of existence that ever lived, I am so ugly people vomit when they merely see me. I can't even buy a prostitute no matter how much I would pay."
I have the same experience. I'm in gamesdev and we've been encouraged to test out LLM tooling. Most of us at/above the senior level report the same experience: it sucks, it doesn't grasp the broader context of the systems that these problems exist inside of, even when you prompt it as best as you can, and it makes a lot of wild assed, incorrect assumptions about what it doesn't know and which are often hard to detect.

But it's also utterly failed to handle mundane tasks, like porting legacy code from one language and ecosystem to another, which is frankly surprising to me because I'd have assumed it would be perfectly suited for that task.
You are already late.