skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an algebraic example to keep things theoretical. If the easy to delete version proposed by the article is:

f(x) = 6x^2 - 5x + 1

The prospective extensible version is:

g(x,a,b) = ax + b
f(x,q()) = q(x,3,-1) q(x,2,-1)
f(x,g)

It's the generalization for factorable polynomials. It's clearly harder to read than the easy to delete version. It's more complex to write, and so on.

However, it's algebraically orthogonal. It has advantages in some cases, for instance if you later add code for a 6th-order polynomial and need to use its zeroes for something else.

We know that it could be better in some cases. Is it a good bet to predict that it will be better overall? The problem domain can fracture across a thousand orthogonal "creases" like this one. The relevant skill is in making the right bets.

Here's an example that's not orthogonal. Let's say we think the 6 coefficient might be more likely to change in the future:

g(x,a) = ax^2 - 5x - 1
f(x,q()) = q(x,6)
f(x,g)

This version is most likely just adding complexity. A single function is almost always a better bet.
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
Exactly. They come willingly but you can't force them to wipe your old age ass once they're here.
What are you suggesting complex Drupal sites be migrated to?
Roblox and Pico-8 use LUA.
> Rethink's battery usage is 15 - 20% on my pixel in logging mode.

This is unusually high. It doesn't cross 3% on my Android, but I'm using a version (v055o( that's yet to launch (but will in a week or so).

If you only need DNS based blocking, tap on the down-arrow next to the STOP/START button and choose DNS-only mode. That should bring down battery use to 1% or so.

> but I can't seem to associate blocked requests with apps, which renders it far less useful.

Rethink most definitely can. Make sure to turn OFF Private DNS (instead of setting it to Opportunistic or Automatic).

Ex A: https://mastodon.social/@tuxicoman@social.jesuislibre.net/11...

Ex B: https://mastodon.social/@33dBm@lazysocial.de/112051004405969...

> ...download the block lists locally. Does that mean it no longer uses DNS blocking

If you download the blocklists locally, then you can set those on your device, and use any DNS upstream (DoH/DoT/DNS53/DNSCrypt/ODoH) and the rules should be applied, regardless.
Exactly.

Most of the times I've driven across the US, I was either moving, or transporting a vehicle.
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This comes across as a comment on the headline and not the article.

The article had a very specific circumstance it built upon - how much human time time it takes to help kids.

This doesn’t scale, in the context of the article.

Your statement would translate into a point on economics and organization, than individual care.

This still obscures the fact that many critical functions don’t scale.

I would add that these tend to be under resourced in favor of things that do scale.
Yeah, that’s not really what comes to mind for me when I hear about “literacy”. The standards they use to measure literacy aren’t just about being able to read words, but being able to reason with the information. I’m curious is they can reason about the information if it comes up in a spoken format, otherwise it sounds more like a general cognitive impairment and not something specific to written words
You're right about the linearity being flawed, but I think there's an important and rescuable construct there. Humans do have ranges of illumination where we can easily accomplish certain classes of tasks - very few want to tat lace or operate heavy machinery by starlight, for example.
I suspect the downvotes are mainly due to the lack of something tangible to latch onto for a continuing line of dialog. The "and" in "Yes, and...".

I wish more comments on HN were as well-presented as yours. "By doing both of these, you have diluted the core of your argument which is 'outdoor advertising is visual pollution' and has some 'safety concerns'." -> Indeed. It's difficult for me to find fault with this.

Since childhood I've found billboards to be a very mildly dangerous distraction - increasingly so over the years as they've gotten colored lights, LED screens, animations, etc. And the proliferation of close-quarters digital ads which add audio feel particularly violating to me. When my Uber/Lyft rides have those tablets with unending ads, when gas station pumps insist on bombarding me with harsh noise from a too-small speaker driven too hard, etc.

Pro-tip for the vast majority of gas station pump TV advertising screens that are in service at the moment in the USA - if it has four rectangular buttons (all/mostly unlabeled) next to the screen, the third button down is an unlabeled "Mute" button about 90% of the time. I have not yet found a mute feature on the newest models that are just starting to replace those.
i love film festivals but i never know when is one to happen so i started a website for all like-minded in Austria:

https://festivale.at/

i'm waiting to have the logo ready to promote it
Why is there a video called Margot Robbie Takes You Inside The Barbie Dreamhouse after three paragraphs? Is that nu-gothic architecture?

Is this a glimpse of what the internet looks like without an ad-blocker?
Still working on https://klev.dev

More concretely, as a primarily backend engineer, I'm trying to update the main site, to make it nicer and work better on mobile devices.
Debugging Compiled Code for R with Positron
Nitrogen Dioxide Poisoning
I love those RFC documents. I am currently working with CCSDS documents and they are total trash comparing to RFC. For example when I read documents about how TCP works or TLS works I see that it has been written by professionals with experience and vision. And CCSDS documents have been written by bureaucrats who have never written a line of code in their lives.
The founder of Leptos makes a pretty good argument [1] that the bottleneck for WASM isn't really the DOM and that they are already faster than some popular JS frameworks even with the current constraints.

[1] https://youtu.be/4KtotxNAwME?si=IEZ5kRHR_W2o9i_k
Each electronic payment should have an attached PDF invoice. That would be a great start.
Decarbonising buildings and massive warehouses..

It's a very fun mix of hardware (for data collection), and crazy SQL queries to model energy flows between buildings, solar, batteries, etc. Considering just one building is pretty easy:

consumption = imported - exported + generated - stored + dispatched.
carbon = carbon intensity * imported
cost = tariff * imported

but then you add a site with a couple of buildings, solar on one of them, grid limited exports, etc modelling these flows is challenging. Like consider the case where one building got 10% of it's imported power from another building's excess solar, then calculating carbon becomes more difficult.

and once you've figured all that - then you have to figure out what makes commercial sense to do next.. install a battery, expand solar, move onto a TOU tariff, do nothing - and that's a whole other world of optimisation problems.
Puke is polybutyrate. Acetate is vinegar.
Maybe it doesn't in America. Nor here in Australia. Some European cities are showing that better is in fact possible by strongly supporting co-operative housing sectors which are better for residents. But that would break the American taboo against government intervening usefully in private markets for human rights (in this case, shelter).

More from a recent report by Australia's business council of coops and mutuals: https://bccm.coop/australia-urged-to-look-to-europe-for-solu...

Anyway, my advice to the author was that systems can enable care at scale. Not to say that our current systems do.

Edit: to be more explicit, I'm suggesting that some approaches to the housing sector in some parts of Europe amount to care that scales; society and governments have decided that housing is a right, and have enacted policies to approach that situation. Conversely, a "we don't care" approach also scales very well with the opposite outcome.
> Current pricing: €4/week, €8/month or €48/year (50% off)

That is a lot of money for what is basically a regex being run against a HTML document
It was more like not believing wasn't an option to express publicly in a feudal society partially managed from Rome, in the country that became the extension of the Roman empire after the fall.
Aaron Wagner and Wags Capital: Pro Football to Utahs Latest Disgraced Influencer
Original title (had to clip it to meet the character limit): Aaron Wagner And Wags Capital: From Pro Football To Utah’s Latest Disgraced Financial Influencer
Try composing two distributions.
This does not always happen but it happens often:

They're promised path to citizenship and an ok money. Then they discover that they work for an agency that takes away big chunk of their money. They can not change the employer since they'll be deported etc. etc. And the worst part is that at the end they still have to leave the country.

So yeah maybe not technically but they're slaves.
I’ve been looking for work!

But to pass the time, I’m also working on a personal journal that keep S-expressions in a database with a well-defined schema set by the other nodes of the database (imagine tiddlywiki transclusions everywhere!)

The idea is to have a bunch of adaptors for Google Takeout, Apple Notes, Obsidian, Apple Health, fitness tracking, org-mode, location history, etc. keep all my data there in well-defined formats. I could then also use the markup language I’m writing to present my journal data in various ways.

My main focus is on efficient data entry/ingestion powered by schema-as-data, which allows for machine and human readability.

I don’t expect it to be useful, but I’m having fun. If I wind up getting anywhere, I might open source it.
"automatically" = had to learn it
Show HN: A Simple Game Made with Three.js
A very simple game, but i liked how it turned out in the end.
Ask HN: Have you seen genuine emergent behavior in AI?
Beyond pattern recognition (to simplify) on training data, have you encountered examples of AI displaying emergent behavior—something qualitatively novel or unexpected?
About housing: I have a few ideas as to why, weirdly none of which overlap with yours.

1) I think part of it is due to our ability to fine-tune the limits. Before, if a company wanted to pass an inspection, they had to be really confident. There were going to be some expenses that in theory they could have avoided if they were better capable of measuring where the line between 'safe' and 'unsafe' was. The end result was buildings that were more safe than strictly required. But now we can get closer to the line, and so buildings are engineered at the edge of safety.

2) Of course, survival bias plays a role here. Who remembers all the crappy buildings that just vanished? It's the same reason we look at old toasters or mixers or what-have-you and say things were so much better-made in the past - all the crappy cheap toasters, mixers, and houses are gone now.

3) Also, as extreme weather has happened more frequently, areas all over are seeing weather different than what they were designed for. Given that the average temperature in Oregon in July (the hottest month of the year) was typically around 65 degrees Fahrenheit[1]. For the past few years it has generally hovered in the upper 60s. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Oregon before 2021 was 107 degrees Fahrenheit[2], and typically there were one or two days a year that crossed one hundred degrees -- occasionally five, more often none. In 2021, it hit 116 degrees. Since 2021, there has not yet been a year without 4 or more days over a hundred. And, of course, this pattern is repeated all over the world. Houses are being built for one set of extremes and averages and getting another.

[1] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-gla...

[2] https://projects.oregonlive.com/weather/temps/
That’s the idea of an option. Great if it works for him, but having spent a lot of time with Pieter Hintjens (of AMQP and ZeroMQ fame) before he chose the time of his own passing from recurrent cancer, the notion that this is not allowed in order to appease religious zealots is simply barbaric.
Anyone have any insight for why it's Javascript for data analysis? Doesn't sound like the best tool for the job.
For me a "Non-Rust Server" would be something like a PHP webhoster. If I can run my own node instance, I can possible run everything I want.
I'm working on Fuseable [0] - Hosting .NET apps from a zip file.

Think of it like Tiiny host but for .NET

[0] - https://fuseable.net

Note: I'm still ironing out the kinks but it'll be ready for early access shortly.
For those interested in this space, a couple of related libraries in Julia:

https://github.com/JuliaComputing/Miletus.jl

https://github.com/JuliaActuary/FinanceModels.jl

I’m the author of the second one, so am always interested to see discussions on financial modeling libraries.
Strawberry is often pronounced as Strawbry. Sou the 'e' becomes silent. And Lieutenant as Lutenant (or leftenant in Britain)
Hard to imagine what less informed would be compared to the current ignorance.
> you wouldn't find any claim or falsehoods being spread rather a question.

> whereas every tear down I have ever seen of EV batteries contains nothing as such.

You've either pretty much never seen any recent-ish battery teardown or you just weren't paying attention to them. Acting like active cooling is some rare oddity in EVs is pushing a falsehood. It's an argument not based in reality clothed in the slightest amount of deniability by acting like you're someone who would be informed (supposedly watched some significant amount of teardowns) but just haven't happened to see it at all.

> would take it's toll on the battery itself reducing both range and requiring more charge cycles because all those compressors need power too.

You're largely misunderstanding the amount of energy needed to actually operate the car at highway-ish speeds and the amount of energy needed to keep a battery pack somewhere in the range of acceptable temperatures. You'll use far more energy maintaining the cabin than what you'll spend managing the battery in the majority of climates. And even then the actual locomotive power needed to drive the car still dominates the overall energy usage.

And FWIW when it's really cold or hot my battery preconditions using wall power so it's leaving the house at a good temp. Then it's a pretty solid mass of stuff, a good amount of thermal inertia. So it's only those trips where it's been parked for a long while and it's fully cold/hot soaked that it's really using much of the battery. And even then it's still far less than even 25% for all cooling (cabin + battery) energy use of it's overall usage even when it's >100F out here and is totally heat soaked.

And even then, assuming it's not over 100F or under freezing a lot of the cooling needed for the battery can be done by regular radiators and airflow without needing compressors. If it's 50-90F outside it's probably just cooling itself by airflow over a radiator for the liquid cooling loop so all it needs is a water pump circulating, maybe a fan. It's not like there's massive amounts of waste heat being generated like in an ICE.
This reminds me of Halide (https://halide-lang.org/), which is a really interesting design in this direction.

In Halide, you specify the algorithm at a high level, then specify the "schedule" (execution order, vectorization, storage) separately. Then, it verifies that the two match. For tight loops like image kernels, it's often counter-intuitive which execution plan will give the best performance, so being able to experiment with the guarantee that you are still implementing the algorithm correctly is valuable.

For a database, it would be as if you could send a high level SQL query and an execution plan together.

Halide is very specific, but I could imagine a general-purpose language with a Python-like high level representation for code behavior, with the option to specify a lower-level implementation with a lot of performance annotations.
If you consider that a lot of people using the Latin alphabet does use the cellphone autocomplete to check how to write a word used infrequently...

So I would say this text is biased by the "western" view of the writer, something that could be categorized as "Orientalism". A study about this phenomenon is valid, is important. But this post is not a good study.
> using actual experiments

That’s the bottleneck the model was trying to avoid in the first place. The goal of science is to come up with models we don’t need to validate before use, and it’s inherently iterative.

Nanbots are more sci-fi magic than real world possible. In the real world we are stuck with things closer to highly specialized cellular machinery than some do anything grey goo. Growing buildings from local materials seems awesome until you realize just how slow trees grow and why.
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> demand indefinite compatibility.

Not infinite – long enough for the game to bring in most revenue is enough.

Who cares that it stops running one or two Windows updates later for totally avoidable reasons? Definitely not the publisher. (In fact, isn't it about time for an HD remaster again?)
Do you have an example of a convertible bond?
Selling a product for money and then delivering the product without those features is fraud.

The gymnastics this cult does is infuriating. The dude lies. Constantly.

I own 3 teslas. I like the cars. Doesn't mean the CEO doesn't constantly lie and under deliver.

It doesn't matter if the car cures cancer. It doesn't make his past lies become truths.
I built a CNC router table and am enjoying getting a hang of that. I have always wanted to take my software and systems skillset into the physical world.

I wouldn't mind making boutique sim racing/flight gear, or aftermarket car parts like cyberpunk-esque dash readouts and stuff like that.

That's the more hobbyist stuff, and more broadly I am also learning Japanese, and making games. They sound separate but I am hoping to blend the two skillsets and make games that bridge a gap I see there.

I think that good innovation only happens at the intersections of things we already know. That way you have the depth of understanding required to be useful rather than just new.
> It makes it possible to imagine a world where everyone has personalized tutors and that world isn't very far away.

My issue with AI hype is exactly this. Everything is “imagine if this was just better enough to be useful”

“Imagine if we had an everything machine”

“Image everyone having a personal assistant/artist/tutor/programmer”

“Imagine a world where finance is decentralized and we all truly own our digital stuff”

<rant>

I’m not much of a visionary, admittedly, but it’s exhausting being told to imagine products that only half exist now.

Having worked with LLMs in the autonomous agent space, I think we’re very far away from agents actually doing useful work consistently.

There are still so many problems to be solved around the nature of statistical models. And they’re hard problems where the solution, at least at the product level, boils down to “wait for a better model to come out”

I’m just tired of people imagining a future instead of building useful things today

<\rant>
60 Years of Innovation: From IBM System/360 to Generative AI
It would be great to give each of the NPC's their own character. For example, some of the NPC's could have a grudge against the hero for reasons of their own. They could be cheering against him for causing such a ruckus in their village, or maybe some "Monday morning quarterback" happening, thinking they could have handled the problem much better than he did. I think an LLM may be pretty good at coming up with some ideas. Or maybe even make it a bit tongue-in-cheek and have some of the NPC's be fans of the hero's enemies.
I've been a fan of, and a hacker of LOAD81 since antirez released it, and have put it in tons of places in order to induce hackerdom on kids and adults, alike. Its one of my favourite projects to bust out when someone tells me they want a low-impact, easy way of learning programming.

And since then, I've helped a few of those aspiring programmers become Lua gods! LOAD81 is really a gateway to a lot of wonderful things .. easy/simple programming in Lua, to SDL .. to the Lua VM .. to exending LOAD81 .. to an introduction to antirez other cool projects (redis, lol!) and on it goes ..

So, thank you antirez, this is probably one of my most cloned repo's over the years. ;) I should probably clean up some of my PR's and give you a bit of a laugh to review, one of these days (I added sfxr for sound effects, joystick support, MIDI and a few other things along the way ..)
This is not the same thing.

The state is ideally suited to manufacture public goods, more efficiently than private enterprise.

That means armies, judiciaries, policing municipalities, governance amongst others.

They address issues like management of the commons.

This does not translate into scaled care - care for orphans (from the article) still needs large numbers of skilled manpower, which is in short supply across the world.

These services are also often underfunded, since they are not really a first class citizen for voters.

Voters today, are also deeply targeted by emotional campaigns and identity campaigns, since that is the current political state of the art.

The state can be efficient, but some things don’t scale unless they are also resourced correctly.

Such services will also be amongst the first to cut, since “X will render it obsolete”, is a promise as old as time, and aren’t directly tied to overall societal survival.

Compared to something like defense / emergency funding
Building a Nextdoor equivalent for India.
Check it out at https://neighar.com
The article suggests not:

"While labwc is the biggest change to the OS in this release, it’s not the only one. We have also significantly improved support for using the Desktop with a touch screen."

"When the system detects a touch display, the virtual keyboard automatically displays at the bottom of the screen whenever it is possible to enter text. The keyboard also automatically hides when no text entry is possible."

No mention of this being an app feature.

And library compiled into the app would prevent the run-time switch mentioned in the article.
Eventually Freenet will work over mesh networks like Lora and 802.11ah - meaning it will be entirely decentralized including the communication infrastructure.
I don’t like this automatic editing out of ‘how’ in titles. It just makes it slightly more confusing, especially with the unnecessary capitalisation not present in the original.

Cheap Light Transformed Civilisation

How cheap light transformed civilisation

The second sounds like an article; the first sounds like a chant you might hear shouted at some kind of protest.
Often, it's the act of preparing the meal by hand rather than pressing a button on their hypothetical Food-o-matic that makes the biggest impact. We can certainly scale the provision of needs otherwise. I agree with the author on their assertions about what it means to care and actually connect with people.
Yeah, but nothing of that is the point being discussed, with Native AOT still not available in GUI workloads.

Also P/Invoke and CCW/RCW do have costs cross the runtime layer, even if minor when compared with other languages.
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