skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A really good question, to which I'll give an anecdotal "yes" from 30+
years teaching;

Maybe depression is too strong a word, but massive "anti-climax" plus
exhaustion fits.

People work on a major thesis like MSc or PhD and by the end of it
they're absolutely lost in a micro-world. The day after graduation
more than a few students turn up for a "what the fuck am I going to do
with my life now?" crisis tutorial.

I've seen authors and games developers get the same, inclusing
myself. After 6 months of "crunch time" they just run off a cliff like
Wile E. Coyote and keep running in mid-air before plunging. Their
manager knows they're finished but their own nervous system hasn't got
the memo yet.

For cyclic stuff like software releases I suppose that can also be
mixed with the dread of what is to come on the next round. In bigger
firms I've seen clever managers move people around between projects in
overlapping waterfall, so they don't get too emotionally invested in
the "the big day" for "their baby".
This page from the FTC vs. Amazon Complaint
Thermal comfort is still the number one thing. Visual comfort (primarily glare, but also the frequency spectrum of the light/overall light levels matter too) and ventilation do matter too though. Everybody knows what it’s like to be in a crowded lecture hall with poor ventilation and high CO2 levels leading to drowsiness!

There’s been a big boom in research related to dispersal of things (CO2, biological materials etc) lately though due to the increasing accessibility of CFD to building scientists + COVID.
I'm not sure if it's because here in North America summer has ended and the days are starting to get shorter, or maybe there's something hardwired in people to hear that vegetation is flourishing and think of it as a good thing but viscerally I had the same reaction.

Intellectually I can understand that the reason for this growth is the earth is warming causing the ice caps to melt and the ramifications for this are worse than however good seeing a bit of moss makes me feel, not to mention, as is addressed at the end of the article, the potential for invasive species to wind up overtaking what I assume must be an extremely niche biome and oh God we are completely screwed.

Still: moss. Nice. I like it.

Edit: typo
I think there was a black-and-white photocopy from the early 90s, but the full-color digital one (with an iPad app!) is circa 2013.
I was in a similar discussion some 10y ago. After a few rounds, we concluded that for a really good reliability you could do the following:

- no service is expected to last long enough or to keep your data safe,

- a physical medium is the way to go,

- create 3 backups stored in different location,

- use a different brand for each backup,

- every 10y review the backups: check the data degradation, rebackup on a new medium if the current one is getting phased away, reencode the content if the format is becoming obsolete & hard to open. [IMO, this is the key point]

Getting the old works of a predecessor on a physical medium is a really good feeling (I know how I felt when I'd discover the old notebooks from my father, uncle, etc.). Based on my experience and Internet, CD-R seems to be a good choice if the data volume allows. But it's getting slowly phased away. (fun fact: a few months ago I found the first CD I burnt -- works flawlessly (although, no checksums checked) after 25y)
Planes have had access to sat Comms for decades. MH380 had it but it was deactivated. Most likely by a suicidal pilot. The engines had their own uplink that was still active. But Starlink isn't going to solve that kind of problem.
I totally missed that bit when the OP, but it definitely made me think of that paper so maybe.
When I ask AI questions about things I know very little, I seem to get quite good results. When I ask it questions about things I know a lot about, I get quite bad answers.
Selenized maybe

https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w...
Really? I want to be able to flexibly move my arms and legs into all kinds of directions, I want to sit down on grass or generally on the ground, stretch my legs out, sit cross-legged, crash on couches, snuggle into various types of chairs, cuddle with people, play with kids on random/unplanned occasions, etc. Suits restrict a lot of movement or would look like bags, compared to eg stretch jeans and a tshirt and hoodie. I often use hoodies as makeshift pillows or seat cushion (and offer that to others), not so sure how that would go for a suit jacket. And I can squeeze them into a backpack when warm, or throw into a random corner or on the floor. It’s also easy to lend them to other people when they are cold, where jackets really only fit people of the exact same stature. All that and more means „comfortable to wear (and use)“ for me.
Also clicked it hoping for nostalgia.
Do you think rest of the world cares?
The difference is that all of those other technologies have a rock solid abstraction layer. In my entire career, I have never encountered an assembler error [0], and have encountered 1 compiler error (excluding a niche compiler that I was actively developing). Current generative AI technology is fundamentally not that.

[0] which isn't that impressive, as I've done very little assembly.
Much of it has been done: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly
Doesn't the cell antenna use significantly more power than WiFi?
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And what about buggy whip holders? Will no one think about the buggy whips?
This is just me being bad at English. I now rewrote the first paragraph of the blog post to hopefully make it clear that I am just claiming that our nonstandard way of viewing P vs NP is underrated, not the problem itself. :)
If you drink and are into spirits, then a couple or three bottles of good Irish whisky.
I had a subscription to SciAm when I was young, back in the 1970s. It was like something published on a different planet.
Police seldom disclose use of facial recognition despite false arrests
Fiction: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Non-fiction: Pilates Anatomy by Rael Isacowitz - it changed me and changed my body.
France covered that by importing power from the rest of Europe. Taiwan doesn’t have that option as an island whose closest friendly neighbor is hundreds of kilometers away.
The transition to Wayland also seems to correlate with the adoption of client side decorations (CSD). This "modern" approach destroys the traditional UX of XFCE as seen by recent changes in the settings manager. I fear for the future of XFCE. The advantage of XFCE for me has always been that it's a stable implementation of a traditional Win98/XP UX. I hope they don't adopt more Gnome3 patterns.
https://archive.ph/UEOVy
Getting back to XFCE, and being able to leave gnome would be a godsend. I didn't dare to try KDE yet.
I didn't have the official Amiga hardware manual, but instead the book "Mapping the Amiga". It said the same thing in a slight more verbose way. I don't remember which minterms I used back then but I think I managed to work things out from this book to do shadebobs, bobs, XOR 3D line drawing and other things.

The page in Mapping the Amiga: https://archive.org/details/1993-thomson-randy-rhett-anderso...
Am I right to say that this is a template on top of cloudflare durable objects, not an actual software of its own?
It’s a generalization of async/await syntax in languages like JavaScript or Swift. I like that it provides a generalized syntax that could be used for coroutines, generators, or async/await without adding any of those specifically to the language syntactically.

One level of callback nesting in a function is totally fine, two is a bit confusing, but if you have many async things going on do you really want 10, 15, 20 levels of nesting? What to do about loops?

I certainly greatly prefer async programming with async/await languages that keep the appearance of linear function execution to stacking my callbacks and having a ton of nesting everywhere
Gaz would be perfect if there wasn't a risk of Chinese blockade. Renewable would be great if there was land and no typhoon. Nuclear would be great if quakes were not a thing. The problem isn't to price electricity. It is to find a viable long term strategy for an open society having to mitigate multiple risks.
I recommend the April 1929 issue. I found this in an antique store 10+ years ago, and it has (at least) two articles of interest:

The main one is "Einstein's Topsy-Turvy world", complete with picture of the 50-year old Einstein with dark hair. It talks about his "Unified Field Theory" book, attempting to explain it to a 1920's lay audience. It includes an artist's rendition of the 4th dimension.

I also found interesting an article about someone learning to fly. This is 26 years after the Wright brothers and aviation is still young.
I think I like it, The multi-line \\ I'm not so sure about, but it means you can indent multi-line fields without screwing up the content. I guess it's only when manually creating entries that you get annoyed by typing the same characters over and over.

I also quite like the statement

Alpha, using Ziggy now means participating in its development.

It is neither, "go-away, it's not ready", nor boldly proclaiming to be more than it is. It encourages engagement.
There are 56 reactors in France, they never went offline at the same time. It happened that half went offline but no more than that
In the US signal strengtheners seem to be common in public buildings. But in Europe it's common for big buildings (think convention centers, large multi-story shops, etc) to offer free wifi but have bad cell signal on the inside.

Additionally mobile data tends to be expensive, so lots of people in the lower half of the income spectrum will go with a smaller data plan and use free wifi at every opportunity. Which encourages places to offer it to get those people as customers.
And Vietnamese is still one of the luckier languages out there, having a nation state behind it with all the media that comes along with it. A large majority of the world's languages don't even have that.
We already have the highest incarceration rates in the developed world - I'm not sure that more people in prison is the right solution.
> You can pip install on top of Anaconda.

This is what people believe when they don't know how it works: no, you cannot. But this isn't even the point. The point is that you have different tools that have no interop between them, nothing in common at all: conda-build and setuptools (and there's plenty of half-implemented Python packaging tools that cannot package native extensions).

> Again, Anaconda is not "standard" python thing

Python doesn't have a standard at all. Nothing is standard about any aspect of Python outside of marginal stuff like floating point or XML etc. Anaconda is as legitimate as any other tool that works with Python. This is how it was intended. You probably wanted to say "not as popular as", which would be true, but also Anaconda is popular enough for this to be a problem.

> which is a just a subset of Python modules.

Are you sure you know what Anaconda is? You make the opposite impression...

> Anaconda is not a competitor for PyPI

Anaconda is a competitor of PyPI. It literally provides its own package index (this is what P and I stand for in PyPI).

> Everything sucks if you've been around long enough.

Python sucks. Let's not extrapolate this to other things. Marriages, for example, usually don't suck if they lasted long enough. I can think about few more things that get better with time.

But, Python is not a good language by any metric. But it's also not unique in that aspect. So, idk why would you drive so much attention to this fact. Good languages are rare, good and popular -- I'm yet to find one.

> Who in the world cares about this?

Parent poster of the post you replied to. But, more broadly, common interfaces are important because they allow one to avoid vendor lock-in, lower maintenance cost, reduce the onboarding time for the new developers.

> Your list reeks of someone flinging critiques without even knowing what they’re talking about

I don't care to name names. Python is garbage, and I never claimed otherwise. As for knowing my stuff... so far you seem to be that kind of guy. But, keep going. Sometimes the urge to argue may lead to you read about the subject of your argument.
Possibly peculiar for you. If you don't find value in maintaining your privacy, there's no reason to put others down that try.

In any case garmin watches are not all $800.

In comparison, most other devices require activation to work. Have you tried to use an apple watch or a fitbit?

I have a garmin watch, have never used bluetooth, wifi, garmin connect, etc.
It keeps track of my health and activities, motivates and makes recommendations. It's really useful to track sleep and fitness level.

The only local thing it does not do is EKG, they lock that until you go online and give your location as in the US.
One is a tech problem, the other is a business problem.

There are no ads on my websites.
And, no Client Side Decorations. XFCE died for me the day they adopted it. Inconsistency-hell ensued.

LXQt if you want something with less features, Plasma if you want more features. They're both performant.
FWIW, the emulator and source are all still circulating in less prominent places. It'll be back at some point.
there is a cross platform push to go all wireless
a lot of the how to's that are about useing
usb,then give instructions for wifi.....so....
......just getting a new cheap wallmart android phone to plug in and transfer files to a linux box is a chore now,but once it's working it's fast
and whole photo albums jump from one device to
another
my internet is strictly through a wifi hotspot on
one phone with mass data,and then a second phone
for general use and a semi broken laptop and an old hdmi screen running mint,which refuses to
connect to more than one wifi thing at a time
and the second phone is devoid of googlish apps
and does not play nice with any web sites doing
multiple redirects(etc),but it is my main camera
so,usb is in constant use
The equivalent in F# is let! (F# computation expressions are quite powerful); in rust the ? operator. Other languages have similar features.

It's syntactic sugar, but the readability is worth it
Doubling down on irrelevant labels is just self projection from you at this point.

But in abstract, people want to make games. If you go looking for trouble and try to shed more and more layers off, eventually you're left only with radicals and yes men. The obvious choice is to just not bring politics to arenas where people are strongest just playing to their strengths together. Forcing in partisanship for no reason only makes the whole weaker in their mission, while also becoming an echo chamber.

Make games with everyone that wants to make games, for everyone that wants to play games. Or get out of the industry.
> It's like believing that using a template off GitHub is going to teach you much

If you use a template off GitHub, read that template, dig into bits of it you don't understand, make some changes to it and see what happens - then you'll learn plenty.

LLMs are amazing tools for learning if you're willing to put the effort in. If you just use their output without trying to learn anything from it you won't learn much from it at all.
Most have caps.

My “solution” for a while was a stack of prepaid throwaway SIM cards with unlimited data from a nearby country and a cheap USB powered 4G hotspot in my bag powered by a power bank. They would last about a month.
> Not another character set please.

Oh no, I was merely using character sets as an analogy. What I was envisoning was a new control scheme, backward compatible with ANSI X3.64, but not merely a bundle of extensions either.

> Control codes should be on a separate channel.

I’m not sure about that. Two separate channels results in synchronization problems (which is why the parallel port went away and why USB and all modern protocols are serial). However, I would not be adverse to having the channel transferring richer data than plain bytes.
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Ask HN: How do you fine-tune LLMs?
Do you usually do full fine-tuning or LoRA (or its variants)? and why?
Smmry.com is ceasing its services
I've been using smmry off and on for as long as I can remember (maybe a decade)? And it's always felt like absolute magic to me.

I loved how you could give it how many paragraphs you wanted to summarize a longer text into, and it could just magically do it.

To this day, I have no idea how they did it (this is pre-transformers). Now that they're shutting down, I really hope they release the source code, just for us to get a glimpse behind the magic.
My accessibility needs are dead under Wayland. There needs to be shortcuts that can be emulated per application and global shortcuts.

Their security model won't allow this. I don't know how accessibility and automation tools are going to get by trying to support every wayland compositor.
The first paragraph is Wikipedia's definition for invasive species as a kind of introduced species with additional attributes. It's the first sentence in the article.

US federal law might be different, I wouldn't know.
Search capabilities of cloud photo album services such as Google Photos are poor for some reason...
From their die size and power usage relative to the perf compared to nvidia it's clear they didn't hit the goals they wanted to with navi 31&32 and it's definitely because of the chiplet design.

I don't have any experiences data center wise but consumer side the Navi 31 7900 XTX is also a bit of a temperamental gpu, but don't know how much of that is on the silicon and how much of it is software.

Though it is clear that some form of chiplets will have to be used as building large portions of the chips on cutting edge nodes with higher failure rates will just become more expensive as time goes on. More so with parts of the chips that just don't scale down with nodes anymore anyway.
My dad subscribed to these for many years from the 50s-70s. I used to sit in our attic reading old issues, with projects based around vacuum tubes, transistors, lasers (!) and even surveillance. It seriously ignited my love of engineering.

I came across new issues in the 90s as an adult and the articles seemed to be quite dumbed down. It had lost the magic of those old issues.
Taiwan's money spends just as good as anyone's money. That's why Europe is still burning Russian gas while in a proxy war that's seen hundreds of thousands killed. It's only in Hollywood movies that you refuse perfectly good money for geopolitics.
I feel like 90s PC games were filled with things like this. Stuff that would be probably day one patches in the following decade, but that (of course) wasn't a thing then.

I remember at least two of the Police Quest games having similar breakage, where you just couldn't go forward after putting 20+ hours into the game, because of a choice you made early on.
My god, who came up with this name?? “Wi-Lo” sounds like “LOW range”
How old is the Mac? Does it have soldered RAM?
I'm not claiming the code is perfect; early compilers that generated assembly often produced inefficient code as well. I hope LLMs' coding abilities will improve over time. For now, I'm not ready myself to use LLMs beyond basic prototyping.
What is the difference between this and Cloudflare’s first party D1 database offering? https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/

D1 is SQLite
If you had to rebuild the rust compiler from scratch, and all you had was rustc's source code, there's nothing in the source code to tell you what '\n' actually maps to.

It's an interesting real-world example of the Ken Thompson hack.
I think that is a pretty foolish reading of it and I dont think it makes any sense if you tried to think it through what the comparison would be.

Can you fill in the blanks of what you think is being inferred. " I think {staying at my job} is similar to {Rodney king} in {_________} way.

I think you very confused about the objects and and relation being asserted. If you think the relational inference is clear, please, again, tell me.
> why someone that's been arrested 15 times should be let go to terrorize others

First, correct the assumption that multiple arrests mean you're just living your life "terrorizing" society. Perhaps start with using words that are objective and neutral, not just to fan the flames of passionate rhetoric.
Whether it's true or not I don't know but it would be good if fewer people went into tech.

We don't need more people working for ad companies endlessly rewriting chat apps in the flavor of the month JavaScript framework. We need people doing useful jobs like building houses (or making house building easier), basic research, medicine, social work, plumbing, or HVAC.
I have an InReach Mini 2. It is not necessarily useful. It depends on where you are. Don't make any assumptions about it until you've done research.

You'll find some places have only voluntary services and the phone is likely only manned on week days on limited hours. If you're lucky there might be a gmail address you can hit. No joke.
I'm curious if the how ppl fine-tune LLMs depends on why ppl fine-tune LLMs.

The couple of times I've tried to fine-tune a text model I've consistently gotten way worse results (I'm not good at it), so I've just stopped trying...
The population density of Taiwan is 649 people per square kilometre. In the US it is 38.

So that means in the US you can use renovables and the same space needs to satisfy the demand of 17 times less people than in Taiwan. In other words: it doesn't make any sense in Taiwan.

Also It doesn't make any sense to close your nuclear plants, specially when China could invade you any day of the week and destroy anything you have offshore in hours.

if the US abandons Ukraine support after two years, it would mean that it will abandon Taiwan too. Nuclear deterrent is real.
All these issues you just raised are not unique to Taiwan - everyone in the region has them yet they're expanding energy production. I mean China, specifically. If you want a zero-risk energy source, you can live in the dark, stumbling around with candles. And it's more environmentally friendly :)
Having an AED in every car would be really nice.
X11 is basically already unsupported, pretty much all the developers moved to Wayland. Even the BSD and everybody else relaying on X11 has noticed that and they know they can't maintain X11 by themselves.

It will 100x not go away, there is no way. Literally all big stakeholder both open source (Gnome, KDE, Fedora and so on) and companies like Valve are all in on Wayland.

The reality is, X11 is a complete train wreck and always was. Its just that for a long time people invest in it and made it usable. The same is true for Wayland, things have been improving rapidly in Wayland and it many ways its already better.

The train wreck is being cleared and the trains are running again, literally nobody will go back to horses.
Your post reminded me of the story "A canticle for leibowitz".

It explores many of the ideas you've mentioned. I recommend reading it if you haven't already. I think you'd enjoy it.
It used to use more resources and was slower than Gnome 2, when it was still a thing. I don’t know why it got a reputation of being lightweight. I guess people assume less features mean better optimized, which is jot really true. I used to run it for years though, really liked it for a while.
> smart cities

Still at it, huh?
What is a "full social reset"? Ideally I'd prefer to make incremental progress on privacy, but if you pinned me down and made me choose between accepting the status quo and abolishing all networked education apps, I'd pick the status quo. They have real benefits and I wish they'd been around when I was a kid.