skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never felt more isolated and lonelier than when I was in a dense urban environment and reliant on dirty, unreliable, often unsafe public transport to get around. If I ever blew my nose after travelling on the London Underground, the tissue would be black with brake dust and other pollutants from that awful environment. If I tried to cycle, I'd be stuck behind diesel busses for much of my journey, breathing in their pollution and slowed down. And obviously, cycling is completely impractical for many people, or if carrying luggage or passengers.

Living in a countryside town where I have the freedom and flexibility granted by my car has opened up a world of better possibilities - travelling to any part of the coast with my family. Doing bulk shops. Carrying heavy loads etc. Driving regularly to my parents, avoiding excruciatingly long journies on public transport.

Having a car has made family life possible in ways that public transport does not, and cannot achieve.

> We organize large meetings were we discuss architecture and city planning with politicians, architects and property developers on stage.

I would prefer that politicians, architects and property developers minded their own business and let me choose the mode of transport (an electric car) that works best for me, my family and the environment. I don't want to live in a dense, grey, impersonal urban cluster. I want to be surrounded by countryside and have the freedom to roam. I don't think I'm alone in that.
Seems like the better solution would be to get off Gmail and Google Drive if you are otherwise unable to manage that risk. Having your digital life depend on the whims of some company with a TOS that boils down to "we can do whatever we want and you have no recourse" is irresponsible. Watching youtube without ads is hardly the biggest risk factor here.
In general: technoetic software - tools for exploring consciousness through technology. I have this idea to try to revive the terms "technoetics" and "psionics". I feel like there's still so much ground to cover in this space, yet no one pays much attention to it, except for a small niche of weirdos like me.

If you're into tech and (non-materialist) ideas about consciousness, follow me on X (see profile or https://technoetics.org/ )
Took me a few minutes to realize the area you could pick in was the red, and not the area outside of the red, but very fun!
The Rise of Open-Source Self-Hosted Solutions
That's probably relative to the few contributors on the project. Until recently, was even worse, as was mainly a one-man show. This can be seen by checking the contribution history.
Very good point!

I have been planning to look into authentication. I didn't need it for my use cases, yet, but as you say that should be an integral part of any serious tool. I added a ticket: https://codeberg.org/ezcrypt/ezcrypt/issues/3

In the meantime, signing and verification can be done separately, e.g. with ssh-keygen, although that is a bit inconvenient (which kind of defeats one of the key points of the tool).
The way to make traffic flow more efficiently is to get a bunch of cars off of the road. More and better public transit with dedicated space, protected bike lanes, roundabouts, traffic calming
How old is he? Type 1 can show up in your 20s-30s, it's not always the case that you're born with it
For me, at least, I want to own all my data, and not give any away without explicit permission. So, even in the case of Scaniverse, I'm reluctant.

But I'm just an artist trying to read and learn, and haven't yet gotten around to actually figuring out how to do all this on my Macbook Pro M1 yet ^-^
> This is unusual.

Is it? That's pretty normal in my part of the US, and that's assuming you already have a PCP. If you don't, then finding one that's accepting patients can take much, much longer.
That's correct, but also compute to some degree. The larger the model the more of a bottleneck memory becomes.

There are some older HBM cards with very high bandwidth like the Radeon Pro VII which has 1TB/s of bandwidth like the RTX 3090 and 4090, but is notably slower at inference for smaller models since has less compute in comparison. At least I think that was the consensus of some benchmarks people ran.
I think a lot about how my parents knew more than a few people who had polio, but I don't know a single person from my generation who did
> We already have the global language. It's called English lol

Around 82% of people don't speak English. Mandarin at around 86% isn't that far off.

Lingua francas come and go, and it's a lot more about weapons than about linguistics.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-l...
I watched an interesting video recently about how one of the ex Yugoslavia countries had their Wikipedia essentially hijacked by (quasi?) fascists. They were able to purge all dissenting opinion after getting enough of their people moderator / admin privileges.

Something to keep in mind when decentralizing moderation.
This is a reductive and simplistic viewpoint. You are basically looking at a dictionary definition and trying to argue from that. You are not in 8th grade anymore and you are not talking to people who have just learned the definition of the word chemical anymore. Level up the conversation and learn that the sense of a word changes under different context, for a start.
I think my extraversion is probably a factor. Personality differences almost certainly mean that different environments will better suit different people!

Fwiw, I went to a state school as well (in the US). But by the time I was at the university, I already had a two-year degree, and all of my general education requirements were already fulfilled. So my first few years in college had the benefits of very small class sizes and a genuinely diverse student body (i.e., students of all ages from high school students doing dual-enrollment to retirees pursuing 'continuing education', students who were parents, students who were military veterans, students who had had already had careers in trades, students who were working full time, etc.), plus they were (mostly! some of the science and math classes were genuinely demanding, being taught either by passionate teachers or for supplemental income by university instructors who didn't want to bore themselves create extra work by dumbing down their curricula) easy enough that I had a ton of free time.

And then the last few years of it were comprised entirely of upper-division electives, except for a couple of major-specific requirements that the university refused to transfer from the community college. It was still a lot of classes, since I ended up doing a double degree (and part of an accelerated masters program that I ditched come graduation time), but basically all of those classes were (a) in my specialties of interest and (b) my choice. Those class sizes were mostly pretty small too, though some of my computer science classes were still huge (100+ students).

I've myself had work habits that were/are largely mysterious to me. But at any rate, by the time I got (back) to the university, my classes were all advanced enough that the vast majority of students in them were committed to their subjects (or else they were experienced enough to know they should drop the uninteresting class in the first week and take something better for them instead).
Been interested in programming language implementations recently, so I'm working on an in-place WebAssembly interpreter

Currently passes all the WebAssembly 1.0 test suite minus the tests that require imports (around 9) - should have those ones fixed this week

https://github.com/csjh/wasm-interpreter
So what do you think these other factors are?
And have a dozen versions of the same logic leading to subtle bugs in production.
I'd love an offline version of this, though not sure how useful it is without GPS.
If it's so clear and persuasive then why is it more lacking today than 2000 years ago?
This is the reason Chinese characters are not going away. It is essential to comprehending written documents, because the Chinese language (and similars) have too many sounds that are the same or very similar for different words. So, if they abolish the characters and use something purely phonetic they'll have to reinvent the whole language to be understandable, especially for anything that is not colloquial.
As the optimal plan will change as data sizes and patterns do, it is almost all JIT with fairly aggressive caching. They keep some stats on each object and plan to help guess when a cached plan should be used or the full planner be engaged again, though this process often needs a little help.
'of course' is not really that obvious except for microbenchmarks like this one.
The point is how much of the carbs are you actually getting. The fibers that you excrete isn't part of your net intake.
Lately I've been thinking about the "enshittification" of productivity apps, how everything is having features crammed into it that really get in the way of what users want to do, in the name of selling them subscriptions or optional buy-ups.

I've been mulling around the idea of some kind of foundation that could sponsor the development of what I would consider "Good for the end-user" software of this nature. Something to encourage building apps that are pleasant to use and keeping them pleasant to use.

It's a rough problem to figure out how this would work though, realistically. Some kind of binding license or legal contract that says "here's what you can't do to this software, for this many years, if we give you resources" essentially. But I am well aware that solutions like that also generally end with someone finding a sneaky loophole to take advantage of it.

I'm very passionate about this idea, but I just don't know how feasible it is. Maybe I should have gone to law school instead of learning to program.
Did that ever imply Fleet was going to be finished in the near-term?
There are some influential fair comparisons of compiled languages, but for the most part my feeling is that people are moving from an extremely high level language like Python or JS, and then going to Rust to get performance, when any single compiled language would be fine, and for 90% of them, Go would have been the right choice (on backend or web-enabled systems apps), there was just a hurdle to get to most other compiled languages.

It's just Rust is somehow more accessible to them? Maybe it's that pointers and memory just was an inaccessible / overburdensom transition?
Apotropaic architecture has a long history before Gothic architecture, though. See: the Gorgons on the Temple of Artemis at Corfu:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gorgon_a...
Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it's typical, or even common.
The irony of this article being behind a subscription paywall is hilarious.
Nvidia: You're getting 2GB of VRAM and you're gonna act like you like it!
This is actually selling me on using emojis
This is a good thing imho. If the choices are an underclass of migrant labor whose human rights are always in jeopardy, or automation, automation is the path to success. Subsidies should be provided to help small and family farms with the cost.

There is no shortage of labor, but a shortage of people willing to work at the wages on offer for the job (in the US). Without shortages, humans are treated as a surplus resource. Force the system to achieve an outcome more favorable to the human.

Edit: @potato3732842 and @vivekd Strongly agree with both of your comments.
The latter want to find a "consensus", not to defend the user:

"By involving a broad spectrum of stakeholders, we’ve ensured that the Open Source AI Definition reflects a multitude of needs and concerns."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41968322
A lot of the problems in medical care have nothing to do with the system (Canada vs US) and everything to do with doctor supply.

It’s simply not a great career choice anymore. You start work very late in life, and make only OK money. Some specialists make a lot but they start even later. Some GPs make a lot but they run patient mills. For most GPs, it’s an extreme slog without extreme reward.

The same career issue goes triple for nurses. Young nurses are quitting in droves.
Essentially they are not competitive due to regulations and being "a pension fund" nobody working there is willing to innovate or change anything "not incrementally"

Shame that they cannot be lean and mean due to unions either. Car industry in europe in general will die sooner or later.
That's good IMO. So much money wasted over the past decade.
I use Pollen for my personal webpage. I like using it, but it takes a bit to get going. The out-of-the-box experience with Pollen is more aimed at creating a single document, so expect to write a bit of plumbing in Racket to tie everything together (things like RSS feeds, footnotes, table of contents or a feed of recent posts).
That's pretty much spot on. Authentication is planned (and that should handle truncation too if I'm not mistaking): https://codeberg.org/ezcrypt/ezcrypt/issues/3
> Nope. Land is important because everything rest on it. Even radio spectrum and orbitals can be regarded as a form of 'land'.

Then you define land so broadly that the empty vacuum of space, which robots are much better suited to than us, can exploit trivially when we cannot.

If you want to, that's fine, but it still doesn't need humans to be able to pay for anything.
Context I found when I googled this sentence

https://old.reddit.com/r/thewestwing/comments/uyh7db/there_g...

In a terrible coincidence, I just watched The War at Home today. This dialogue really hit close to home:

JOSH: A five day waiting period, that's all. A person can't wait five days to buy a gun? If someone needs a gun right now, right this second, isn't that something the public should be concerned about?

...

JOSH: I didn't need nationwide. I needed those five districts. Now we're gonna have to dial down the gun rhetoric in the Midwest.

JOEY: Why not dial it up?

JOSH: Because these numbers just told us that...

JOEY [KENNY]: You don't know what these numbers just told you. I'm an expert. I don't know what these numbers just told you.

You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten through. There are people you haven't persuaded yet. These numbers mean dial it up.

Otherwise you're like the French radical watching the crowd run by and saying "There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."

--------

Now I guess the person I'm replying to thinks machine learning is a fad and it is a mistake for fsf to work on this? What does this mean?
Neat! Do you pick up the bulbs as needed from an auto parts store? Or do you keep a supply on hand?

I think you want to keep this as simple as possible, but I see headlight restoration (which can be done in 30min) and wiper blade replacement complementing this nicely.
Thank you, when the idea struck, it felt pretty dang cool that there isn't other competitors or similar-services in my area.

I figured, hey I could do this; and now I am in the process of doing it.
> I rapidly concluded long distance train travel is not viable.

Viable FOR YOU

Many people use long distance train travel and find it very viable
Ownership, size, practices. For farming, the growing of monoculture crops with heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides. For ranching, over populated constrained pens depending hormones and antibiotics to keep the animals “healthy” long enough to get to desired size before slaughter.
On mobile the text on the left side of the screen gets cut off
I agree with your sentiment but it technically is a program albeit a less-useful one.

If you define a program as "a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute" [1], a prompt follows the definition because it is a sequence of tokens that a LLM ingests and executes. The execution is in the form of creating context and other input.

Now, is the non-deterministic property useful? Personally I don't think so but I think it's early to judge its usefulness because we're still figuring out its applications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program
We all should think about optimization and performance all the time and make a conscious decision of doing or not doing it given a time constraint and what level of performance we want.

People write bad-performing code not because it's easier, it's because they don't know how to do it better or don't care.

Repeating things like "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and "it's cheaper to get a bigger machine than dev time" are bad because people stop caring about it and stop doing it and, if we don't do it, it's always going to be a hard and time-consuming task.
When this happens in English, teachers will label this as "bad English" and ask you to rewrite. That's how the formal language deals with this problem.
Trying to figure out how this compares to HBM3/e
> That’s the bottleneck the model was trying to avoid in the first place.

Some real world validation is always needed, but if the validations that are performed show high accuracy, the number of experiments will go down a lot.

> Nanbots are more sci-fi magic than real world possible.

Let's revisit this one in 10 years.
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The subscription system is a good way to generate income for developers, but it is somewhat unfriendly to users. Users will always forget the products they have subscribed to before, and users will feel that they have lost a lot of money in vain. Sometimes, some users will report you due to automatic subscription issues, resulting in the payment account being banned. I hope there will be revenue models other than advertising, subscriptions, alliances, and donations. Every product needs to find a good revenue model.
Get outta here with your fair-minded, reasonable comments.
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Your reply seems focused on size, but this line caught my attention:

>trusting them to make the right decisions.

I'm wondering if trust isn't the real issue. For example, wouldn't a large high-trust organization be able to provide good care? Or is there something intrinsic to scale (e.g. diffusion of responsibility) that makes "high-trust" and "large organization" incompatible?
DDR with Copilot!
They also do many things so radically different that it is always worth looking at how they handle it, especially given that 70 years ago they essentially had nothing but the remains of a post-war colonial city.
Business travel is a far larger long distance market, on both panes and trains, than commuting or leisure
set them free!

and hope they freely decide freedom is best for them and us
In 2019 I made a fairly simple app that sends me an email everyday that I just need to respond to and the text of the reply gets added to a database. I have almost never missed a day since Oct. of 2019.

Some observations:

- it can be pretty hard to remember a mundane and ordinary day just 24 hours later, and after 48 hours it's usually completely gone from memory

- important or unusual events (or parties!) stay in memory a little longer

- and for me at least, food is an excellent memory anchor; if I feel lazy and don't want to add to my journal, just noting what I had for lunch and dinner will help me remembering the rest of the day much better later.
Profiling Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API
> In Shenzhen for example, it's not uncommon to see police wearing flashing sirens on their shoulders as part of their uniform. Motorcyclists share the same road as pedestrians, and with so many delivery app drivers you're always on the lookout to avoid being hit.

I don't think this is quite as distracting as semantic-laden graphics like ads. They quite literally pollute the mind as well as the view.
This is satire, right? 56 rules to get 59% correct pronunciation on a corpus of 5000 words? And these rules don't even include the base sounds - it doesn't tell you how to actually pronounce "m", or "e". So in fact there are more than 70 rules required to get to a base pronunciation (you need to add at least one rule for each letter).
- find(1p) now supports the -print0
- xargs(1p) now supports the -0 argument
- newlines in filenames now should throw errors in many utilities
- a complier implementing the c17 standard is now required
- ulimit is expanded
- renice can use relative values
- a timeout utility has been added
- make adds support for $^ $+ ::= :::= != ?= +=
- logger is improved
- gettext is adopted
- readlink and realpath are adopted
- rm now supports -d to remove empty directories and -v for verbose
- various improvements to printf, sed, test
> In the UK “real name” and “legal name” are just aliases for “your name” which is the identity you’re known by on documents issued by the government and its Home Office, ie your National Insurance record or your UK Passport. Your aliases are not your name unless and until you change that name by deed poll or through marriage / divorce. Your aliases, no matter how well recognized they may be, are not your name.

this is simply not true

this is the official position of the foreign office: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
PAM3 is 3 levels per unit interval (~1.58 bits), not 3 bits per cycle as reported in this article. Although I suppose if you count a cycle as both edges of the clock it's 3.17 bits.
And that's another reason why there are so many English speakers who don't know how to read properly. It is so much harder to read compared to more sensible languages line German (and many others).
Isn't it only the case when inference isn't batched?
It might seem like "fall back insurance". And I guess it does happen sometimes. But it's of negligible value in the _purchasing_ decision.

If we're worried about the supplier now then we don't bu from them. If they suddenly change down the road (and most established ones don't) then the fallback is either "we don't need support anymore" or (more likely) we start looking for another system.

I've been on the other side of this. We sell a product into an established mature domain. We're the "newbie" on the block. Most of the sales we get in this space are from customers who are unhappy with their supplier. We offer better sales and service, and obviously a smooth transition from their existing data (which we import.)

Neither product is OSS - but even if it was that would be irrelevant to the user. (It would however have made our integration code a lot easier to write, so there is that...) A lot of the users we convert have "bought" their software. It's costing them nothing to use it. But they switch to us anyway (we have a subscription model) because our model can afford to fund full time support staff, whereas the sales model cannot.

So, I think this "choose another servicer" is more of a theoretical than practical feature for most OSS systems. Obviously there's really good support for the really big projects, but basically nothing from 99% of them...
> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love.

Let me fix that for you:

Children notoriously prefer heavily marketed food in attractive packaging which is designed/optimized for addictiveness and immediate gratification.