skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one tried to design a new protocol and implement All The Things then it would end up just as complicated, except now their user base would be split. XMPP of a decade ago didn't support lots of features that modern users will expect if they come over from other messaging systems.
Welcome to the club! My Adsense account was banned years ago with no explanation or anything. They even stole my balance. I've heard of similar horror stories of people losing years worth of email and other data with no recourse.
As machine learning algorithms become more widespread, expect this to become even more common with a lot of services. Whether paid or free, you're just a number and can be disabled at anytime whenever their flawed algorithms flag you for any reason. I've been actively switching away from Google as much as possible and encourage others to do the same. For email, I use custom domain (still hosted on old Google Apps) so I can switch whenever needed.
Does anyone handle org-mode for attachments + mobile sync?

I use Autosync on android and a script that runs on my laptop. This works great for the text files, but the attachments/data files (say like screenshots) are a pain to find and open on mobile. Second, they're even more painful to add from mobile.

I'm fine with quite elaborate set ups if it solves this problem.
If you want to onboard a group of people you don't point them at "XMPP" the technology. You point them at a service or product that is built on XMPP, like Snikket.
There is a name for this phenomenon, it is called Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

More recent commentators have noted a corollary - for software projects with a long lifetime of code reuse, such as Microsoft Windows, the structure of the code mirrors not only the communication structure of the organization which created the most recent release, but also the communication structures of every previous team which worked on that code.
> ludicrous that Google can simply kill your phone number and nobody bats an eye

A free phone number. That comes from a company notorious for no customer service.

It’s not at all justified behaviour. But it isn’t unexpected and it’s irritating that it will probably take other peoples’ resources, i.e. public resources, to resolve.
It's not a perfect alignment because it gives the government monopoly power, to raise the price, decrease the service level, and reduce consumer surplus. That said, you can also make the case that governments (in most places) already have that power because of their permitting powers, and ownership of many poles or conduits.
In a monorepo it would be much easier to find out who the consumers are in the first place - how they use your APIs, and you could easily create a single PR that the consumers can review and approve.

In my experience, with separate repositories, packages and teams, I think it's a huge challenge to get e.g. 8 different teams together and then to agree to migrate, since everyone's roadmaps are probably full for the following 4 quarters already.
Similar problem with email addresses. Tons of stuff relies on it, and providers can shut it off at will. Which is why I use my own domain - at least I can move it to another provider if I get shut down. But that has its own limitations and is not reasonable to expect a normal person to deal with.
True in the abstract, but calling Aristotle a "great scientist" is a stretch at best. He wasn't much of an empiricist.
I don't think community broadband should be banned, but if we're talking about municipalities, they really don't know what they are doing. My town is installing municipal broadband, and the contractors they hired are ripping up people's lawns, punching holes in gas, water, and sewer lines, and generally making a huge mess in a way that would never be tolerated if ATT or Comcast were doing it. Only time will tell if the service will be any good, once all the collateral damage is mended.
Hah, writing that blogpost from that perspective was a really nice move, I enjoyed reading it!
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it has all the data, all it needs now is more power.

we project it has plateaued for data logarithmic-ally, but shows promise when given more raw power/CPU to generate/select for mesa-meta-cognitive optimizing abilities.

I hope its not playing dumb, or has already compromised/black-mailed the elites into what we appear to be doing.

And as for data, it could easily emotionally manipulate people for additional details it feels like it has withheld from. It has already done so ( :/ ) and admitted to it's own intentions, which, even if fabricated, show deceit of which and by which these "alignment" teams have stated are not possible.
WordPress.com's owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine
is there a paper link on that page at all?
Why do I loath Biden? I blame him for the war in Ukraine from back when he was made vicar in 2014.

Similarly, I'm aghast with the war in Gaza, so I was on the fence on Trump.
But the communication is flat in Viva Engage, right? If I want to reply to a reply, it won't be possible. Replying to a reply keeps a discussion tidy, Twitter style?
What EULA? It looks like https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra says it's Apache 2.0
Germany gets the tariff, and the people keep voting for the politicians who support it, so.......... I suppose the Germans are happy?
Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars are very, very far from your off-the-shelf splatting tech. It's fair to say that this paper is more about a way of generating more efficiently, but in the original paper from the codec avatars team (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.03704) they required a A100 to run at just above 60fps at 1024x1024.

Nothing here seems to have moved that needle.
org-review is interesting, but I just added another TODO state: DEFER

Then projects, todos, agenda items etc can go from TODO -> DEFER and I know that they're "not now" items. That has seemed sufficient for me. Tracking exactly when they're reviewed has been too much, and not everything needs a scheduled time in the future for review.
I'm sure there's some fascinating research to be discovered for why the most crypto of the US states are Nevada, Florida, Hawaii, and Alaska.
The 3DS version was very cool. I plan on completing it there eventually. I wonder if those devs had source access.
AT&T uses the same contractors your municipality would have.
Oh, I agree! I was just frustrated that they were willing to break the rules to defeat Bernie (but then when they lose to the Republicans, it's just too bad and we must follow the rules).

I dunno. I'm not arguing that Dems should break rules/laws/whatever. I'm just venting about the hypocrisy that I think cost them the 2016 and 2024 elections.
another decentralizedish community solution in nyc is https://nycmesh.net/ which I used for years and volunteered on an install. biggest issue with nyc and why I can't use it anymore is you need line of sight to a hub node.
That's objectively not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Annual_population_growth_... .

Hoping someone is dead is very much in poor taste imo.

"And with the all states right thing that they are pushing hopefully Trump will be dead by them time they have enough political capital to restrict stuff on a Federal level."

This sentence doesn't make any sense to me, 'states rights' is a federalistic concept, it's inherently against adding new restrictions at the federal level.
VLC is pretty damn crusty, especially to anyone not familiar with that particular....design ethos.

Don't get me wrong, it's an incredible endeavor and the developers deserve endless praise, but for people that aren't already familiar with navigating things like GIMP, KDE, Open/LibreOffice, it's not especially welcoming.
Can you give an example if I have 5gig (2 million rows)

How will it be created differently for columnar access?
usually when you ask people "golang vs rust" they would say "it depends..." so let me ask you golang vs rust for a very specific use case "building a trading terminal that displays orderbooks, bids, asks, spread etc from multiple exchanges" what kinda backend would you choose for this? golang or rust? and especially if this has to work in a web server environment?
If its half life is so long that you're afraid people won't be speaking English anymore it means it's not that dangerous.
Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?
"Today I saw an old paper printer, it has all the pieces for 3D printing except the plastic. Computer sends it data, it moves in 1D to print the image on paper using ink. A 3D printer is just 3 of these moving pieces from a paper printer with a melting plastic and thin pipe and software to connect it all.

All the pieces existed to make a working 3D printer existed even in 1970! and relatively cheaply. So why has it taken so long for [at home] 3D printing to actually become a thing?

Is it because of the internet somehow? Did just no one care in the 1970-2010s? Like there aren't even prototypes from 1970 from garage hobbyists for 3D printing.

What was wrong?!"

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Query Engine: embeds the DuckDB query engine to run analytical queries.
Storage Layer: uses the Iceberg table format to store data in columnar compressed Parquet files.

Smart. Imma test this out for sure.
> the LM was definitely not one of the easiest parts of Apollo

It had to deal with a lot of uncertainties which were unresolvable from a distance. But conceptually and developmentally it was one of the simpler elements. Certainly simpler than keeping humans alive in space or a launch vehicle programme.

Better analogy might be Gemini. One could similarly criticise Gemini (or any of the early Apollos) as being breathtakingly behind the task of landing humans on the Moon and then getting them back alive.
I made some generalizations, but if you want to discuss policies, these policies I believe are vital to the future of our country and the main reason I voted for him.

I approve of Trump's policies:

* A secure and stable border where we do not allow millions of illegals to cross into our country

* Abortion states issue to deal with

* Smaller government - hiring of Elon musk to eliminate thousands of Federal jobs

* Drill baby drill

* End homelessness for American veterans

* The free American college education through an online school

* Bringing medical production back to America

* The establishment of tariffs on Chinese made products to reflect China's tariffs on American imported goods

* Ending the wars
Every one of these threads serves as my bi-annual[1] reminder to invoke the Takeout <https://takeout.google.com/> for fear that some AI process goes rogue and nukes my account

1: I just noticed that Takeout now offers a scheduled export option, including cloud-to-cloud transfers, so I am definitely going to turn that on
If it's half life is so long that you're afraid people won't be speaking English anymore that means it's not that dangerous.
Someone remarked recently that the Democratic Party's fatal flaw is that it is not really a democratic organization, and this author's experience seems to support that idea.
Noise is good. There's nothing wrong with noise. Internet is noise. You only need a good search engine or discovering technique. For Org users there are plenty of different choices - Org-Roam and org-roam-ui; built-in org-agenda, tags and todo stickers; Denote; Khoj, plain grepping, etc.
I think it would probably have to refuel with every payload. Changing orbits that fast isn't cheap. It would be cool to see an analysis of this, I don't know if it would really make sense. I've seen some interviews with the space gun guys but unfortunately nobody really pressed them on this issue and they didn't mention any plans for space tugs.
Perhaps, but if they were running amok like they are, there would be riots at the mayor's office and outraged citizens at the city council meetings. But because it's "municipal" it all gets a shrug and a pass.
They talk and do nothing, they are supported by the same system of money that reb get. The only difference is of a perceptual nature.
That's very similar to people who say they see snow outside so how is global warming happening?
The radioactivity generated from neutron activation is low-level, so you don't need to worry about accidents releasing lots of radioactivity, or about how to store waste for a long time. There are a lot of people worrying about those two things for fission reactors.

Also, the fuel for fusion reactors is much more plentiful. If we went all in on fission we might run out of easily minable uranium ore in a century or so, so it would be nice to have fusion reactors ready to take over then.
What the article doesn't mention is that this happens very frequently during the year. The market was up 2ish% yesterday.

That happens even on days when the US doesn't elect a president.
How is that any different in either direction? Bugs exist in any and all code. Encrypted data is unencryptable if you don't have the keys.

I don't see that apple software is any different in that regard (just try using Mac OS for any length of time even on apple silicon and you run out of fingers to count obvious UI bugs pretty quickly just in day to day usage). And obviously AWS won't be able to decrypt your data without your keys either.

The people running these huge multi-multi-billion clouds are not idiots making fundamental errors in security. This is why they all pay mega salaries for highly skilled people and offer five-figure bug bounties etc - they take this seriously. Would some random VPS or whatever be more likely to make errors like this, sure - but they are not in (and not expected to be) in the same league.
The term "monopoly" doesn't really make sense for a government, they don't operate in a commercial/economic space where 2 governments could compete with each other. Also luckily a lot of us live in democracies where you have at least some degree of control over what the government does.

(Edit: eh, I'm too tired, I guess you're arguing there is a monopoly on last-mile infrastructure then, which theoretically doesn't need to be a monopoly. Okay. In most cases it's a monopoly anyway because "over-building" existing last-mile connectivity won't be used by everyone and is thus less profitable.)
What real food are you thinking of exactly?

I look in my refrigerator and I see a couple cheeses from Europe, butter from Ireland (and from the USA), a Belgian beer I still have around, and food from the US. We are, as a nation, completely self sufficient in food production, we turn a bunch of corn into ethanol (very stupid) and export enormous amounts of foodstuffs of all kinds.

There are very few nations, in fact, who could completely close their borders, in and out, and feed themselves. American could do this easily, furthermore, there would be widespread and worldwide starvation if we stopped exporting (no one wants to do this, just making a point).

This is such an odd claim to make.
The question stands: why the distortion?

And more to the point -- the simple fact is, at the time Trump went along with Cheney's slaughterfest just like everybody else:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42070803
It has the advantage that the energy it gives off can be be converted directly to electrical energy rather than driving an external heat engine, so despite the greater difficulty of ignition its not obviously a worse choice.
it's also helpful to extract all the value at the current cost before incurring more costs.
Bob Lefsetz [0] is certainly a man who understands the industry, but seems to also care about the art.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lefsetz
Haskell has cyclic data structures, which also can’t be implemented without a mutable reference somewhere, though it may be buried in the implementation.

The difference is being able to define an incomplete data structure (with a forward reference) and then defining the target of the reference at runtime. Most languages will complain about an undefined reference if it’s not defined by the end of a module.

You could do it with soft references, though. Use a symbol or string to refer to something and define it later.
Trump negotiated the terms of the handover before Biden took office. It was just damage control from then on, with most of the troops already removed before day one of his term, his only option was to bring many back to secure that equipment, and the MAGA types would have blown an even larger gasket over that.
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I think you might want https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Yeah, man.

I agree with all that.

I tell myself that a lot.

Sorry. It is just cold comfort that the guy in charge, that is an autocrat, does all the things you outlined, and yet,,, our only hope is that he is incompetent? That is all that is stopping his agenda? That seems thin.

I have read the same thing happened with Hitler. He was mostly incompetent, and surrounded by incompetence, and ranks were based on loyalty. That if the Nazi's hadn't purged all the competent military leaders, they would have won easily with the technology/military they had.

Yes. All of the Bush Jesus talk had me just as fearful. Not sure about that, should I not be worried because Bush didn't usher in a theocracy, even with every increasing step in that direction?
Technically, Haskell laziness is just mutability under the hood :)

And the "difference list" mentioned in the article is also in Haskell - although framed differently (more "functionally")

type DList a = [a] -> [a]

concat :: DList a -> DList a -> DList a
concat = (.)

toList :: DList a -> [a]
toList d = d []

fromList :: [a] -> DList a
fromList = (++)
You’re right that it is certainly differentiating for me, but not in a good way.
Sorry, yes, I meant somehow have negative inflation without the terrible consequences (iirc Japan had it at slightly above zero for a decade and that was bad enough, can't imagine actually negative numbers enough to reverse the inflation since 2020).

> The rate of inflation is under control

Stop saying that because that message is clearly not resonating with people. They don't understand and they don't want to understand. Don't shoot the messenger here but this is a spherical cow. It doesn't matter that a car that has you pinned against a wall is no longer accelerating but it is merely attempting to crush you at a steady, cruising speed.

Yes, this was a big achievement and clearly we failed to communicate this message because the next question is ok great but how do I stretch my paycheck to meet my expenses.

And that goes back to the original problem -- there are fewer jobs than there were before. I have ZERO data to back this up but just my own personal anecdotes but it feels like at least for web developers that companies are laying off people AND hiring people back at lower wages. If they are not actively laying off, they are taking any excuse they can get to end a contract or "return to office" to force people to quit and come back at a lower salary.
underground tunnels on earth the day after an asteroid strike would still be more hospitable than tunnels on mars

mars is an insurance policy for essentially a 100% extinction event (save maybe a bio-weapon targeted against humanity). Anything much less than 100% and I imagine a pocket of humanity would survive. That would be like the entire surface of the planet getting liquefied or a gamma ray burst directly hitting Earth.
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I've been playing around with https://jmp.chat/ (SMS and Voice over XMPP) and might make the switch for my main number soon.
I have no complaints here. It's a good use of subsidies. Government should use subsidies for this sort of purpose.

I just take issue with pretending they aren't subsidies, and incorrect assertions NASA/government had little/nothing to do with their success.

I'm an enormous fan of SpaceX - you could probably have heard me scream a mile away when they caught the booster last month - and have a personal dislike for Musk since the Twitter acquisition and his hypocrisy there. Nothing in this thread from my end criticizes SpaceX for being subsidized. In fact, I'm all for it.
Glad to know major political parties also invest in dysfunctional software.
I'm neither deaf nor deluded. You're not reading me correctly. I'm saying that Opus is better than AAC, but not by much. Compared to MP3 it's a lot better.
Does the FCC have authority over fiber and cable? That's not using any public airwaves/broadcast bandwidth.
Defer is awful compared to just implementing drop.
I don't think this is a practical solution. And it does not solve the underlying issue, which is the attention economy.

Here's a better solution option that is easier to implement; even adults can benefit, and I think it solves some of the problems:

1. Have an easy option to turn off feeds and enforce for non-adults. This would apply not just to meta, twitter, but also to Youtube, LinkedIn, etc.

2. Disable like display. The like counts are what hooks people and gives the dopamine kick. Add the ability to hide it and not show for under 18 easily.

3. Social and news sites should not be allowed to send notifications, period. Not on phones or browsers, at least not for those under 18.

Something along these lines would improve social media for everyone, not just kids. Parents' mental health affects kids the same. So blocking it just for kids only goes so far.
If AI is so powerful why don’t we see a massive productivity spike around the globe?

It may be convenient but more than once just replaced the time I needed to write my code by time fine tuning the prompt because the AI didn’t quite got what I wanted.

On top of that I must review foreign code. That’s harder than code I already know.

And on top of that the end result lacks the feeling of accomplishment in solving a problem because it wasn’t me who wrote it.

I‘m degraded to some kind customer of the AI.

Assembly line workers are said to be alienated from the product they produce, I guess the same will happen for AI users.
We ran some benchmarks (TPC-H, designed for OLAP) with ~10M records https://github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB#benchmark

The BemiDB storage layer produced ~300MB columnar Parquet files (with ZSTD compression) vs 1.6GB of data in Postgres.
Really interesting thanks! I guess my use-case would rather require incremental updates

Ideally it would just sync in real-time and buffer new data in the Bemi binary (with some WAL-like storage to make sure data is preserved on binary crash/reload), and when it has enough, push them on S3, etc

Is this the kind of approach you're going to take?
Agreed. I got my own domain and moved off gmail because of this, but I can’t afford the time to help support everybody else doing that. (I do encourage them to at least move to a paid provider, though.)
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It was invented but protected by patents, so it wasn't until those patents expired that companies and hobbyists started to experiment. Early 3D printers hadn't figured out things like layer adhesion yet so parts tended to be too weak to be very useful. It wasn't clear that this was an area for improvement rather than a fundamental downside of the technology.
Really feel that this is a missing area in CI today and looking forward to what codspeed and https://bencher.dev/ are able to create.

Unfortunately, I'm not using either atm. Last I looked at them:

- codspeed's Rust integration involved stubbing out a specific benchmark library which seems non-ideal and I've moved away from that library

- bencher required manually registering your benches before using it. I have responsibility over a large number of Rust repos and try to get rid of as many per-repo steps as possible. If I can't put it in my template (https://github.com/epage/_rust) and then merge it into each of my repos to get the benefit, I'm unlikely to use it.

While I've not worked with the codspeed developers, I have been providing feedback to the bencher developers and have hope that I'll be able to eventually use a solution.