skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AI progress will help us drive improvements in science, health, housing, food, and education by making it better, more affordable and more accessible.

There seems to be a huge number of dots they failed to connect between these ideas.
> Burnout is a work life balance thing

It's more than that. Perhaps you haven't been in a position to accept a lot of resignations in your career. Burnout is most definitely implicated by the work place itself, specific work assignments, and general office culture.

> don't have a near infinity list, then that means you don't have a roadmap

Are you talking only about startups? That would make sense. In the more general case I doubt your assertion here. Does this fragment truly sound rational to you on a second reading?

> and this can always be done in the context of the work.

The very article this thread is attached to clearly shows how false this is.
Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house
Which Chromebook is that? Are there some good relatively high-performance ARM ones that aren't nearly like $1000?
This appears to be one sheriff pushing a personal agenda.

Unfortunately it's not - there's a whole "child safety" department behind them, ready with a "safety plan" and even an app that they're going force the poor kid to install. This kind of stuff doesn't happen without the coordination of external bodies, and decades of societal shift in favor of this kind of control-oriented parenting (and blind faith in technical solutions toward this end), also at institutional levels:

A few days later, DFCS presented Patterson with a "safety plan" for her to sign. It would require her to delegate a "safety person" to be a "knowing participant and guardian" and watch over the children whenever she leaves home. The plan would also require Patterson to download an app onto her son's phone allowing for his location to be monitored. (The day when it will be illegal not to track one's kids is rapidly approaching.)

Against this backdrop - it's quite likely the Sheriff wasn't pushing her own agenda at all, but simply following the procedures provided by her department.
I can't imagine trusting Kissinger any less after Theranos.
I would add:

3. End-user extra fields. Stuff you don't care about, but someone somewhere does.
What I mean is there's often no way to write Chinese names for people who don't know the language while also being what their owners would used. Yang ends up being pronounced like "bang" instead of "bung" and the between spoken dialects break pinyin even further. Characters are the faithful way but completely unreadable and untypeable to most people. I'd say just use the best way to communicate instead of using confusing symbols out of respect for strangers at the expense of respect for the person you're talking to.

When I see names with strange accents like ő, I just ignore them. Better that than guessing wrong. Of course if it's a real person you have a relationship with, you'd go to a bit of effort to figure it out.
Mac users can use XLD: https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

Free, still maintained, and supports every format around.
Oh yeah, please give the poor fruit company an SPECIAL waive so they don't have to be treated like all the peasant companies.
Probably it is not (only) eroding trust but eroding nerves with the overbearing sense that someone must look over everything and protect for anything and everything, including themselves, in other words meddle with each other's lives to the level of forcing them against their will.

In other hand despite the US has never been the role model of safety or courteousness towards each other yet the seemingly increasing trend of gun and drug related violence could cause short circuit in the head of those overloaded, especially when they are responsible and scrutinised by a litigious society for any and every tiny mishap with inflated theoretical consequences that should have been precluded with tenths of seconds reaction time and infallible divination.
Thankfully, it sounds like the child's mother won't be required to go to prison for a year - as long as she agrees to always have someone physically watch her son, and additionally surveil her son 24/7 using an app installed on their phone.

I wonder how many people these days think that they're going too light on her, and are thirsting for stricter penalties?
proxmox is using KVM for virtualization and Linux Containers (LXC) for the containers. I agree that something like terraform and/or ansible would make more sense for an IAC (infrastructure as code) deployment. Most of the people I talk to that use proxmox for a homelab prefer to do things manually and don't bother with any IAC implementation.

For work I'm a firm believer in reproducible environments and IAC. We actually a combination of vagrant, libvirt, and KVM to spin up local clusters for quick testing and development. It works out pretty well, but in my homelab I don't have anything complicated enough to bother setting up terraform/ansible for. Although I imagine if my server crashed I probably wouldn't think that way anymore.
Reminds me of this meme:

https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/w1ve97/virgin_...
The child was kidnapped, by the police.
Presumably there are rare exceptions where you DO want to do the thing.
That is really ironic how many scold parents for being helicopter parents whilst saying kids today are weak because they didn't do shit they themselves did.

But, it could also be an age-old thing where people who were neglected as kids has some kind of savior complex. The Swedish character Pippi Longstocking in the TV series (probably also in the books from 1945) was hounded by a "nanny" character that wanted to put her into a childrens home since she was living on her own, so perhaps these occurrences aren't new.
Maybe so, but the world often does treat Wikipedia as a reliable source. The editorialization ends up influencing them. This is why you see such heated battles on the talk pages of Wikipedia - there are people actively fighting to take control of this tool. Wikipedia’s founder has been warning the world about increasing bias on Wikipedia for several years now (https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/).
Many years ago, I was a user of an IBM 1130 computer system. It filled a small room, with (as I recall) 16K 16-bit words and a 5MB disk drive, which was quite noisy. I would feed in my Fortran program, then head down to the other end of the building to get coffee. The computer would think about the program for a while, and then start writing the object file. This was noisy enough that I'd hear it, and head back to the computer room just in time to see the printer burst into action.

(Please feel free to reference the Monty Python “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch. But this really happened.)
Ok, if the spatial concept of aspect ratio is the equivalent of electrical resistance, and given the analogy in the article of the painting and the resistor network, what is the equivalence of color then? Frequency?
My gripe with ligatures is this: when they are rendered as a single character, I get weirded out by editing them because they change in the editor on the fly. I prefer to have code "as is" without having to think about the context within which this or that character or ligature is rendered, because it's very distracting, disruptive even.

(Sorry for offtopic, but does anyone else have upvote/downvote buttons not visible for freetonik's comment?)
My Ex is Dutch

She says that there has been no flouride in any tap water in the Netherlands since she was a teenager in the early 70's. she has perfect teeth.
Ur-Fascism (Umberto Eco, 1995)
How do you guys crosspost to X, Threads, Mastadon and Bluesky?
I understand that wealthy parents are going to show up in these stats far more often than non-wealthy. I take umbrage at the statement it's only the wealthy. It has turned into effectively only for the wealthy due to the focus on equity over the past 20+ years as we've torn down any sort of public programs for these students.

My advanced class placement started far earlier than high school. 5th grade is when I recall being put into the advanced track along with others of demonstrated ability. I'd say from my memory maybe 1/3rd of those students could be described as wealthy by any sort of the word. But they'd be more middle class vs. working class in retrospect. They just seemed wealthy in comparison at the time.

The one thing that had near 100% correlation was highly involved parents - even if they were single moms who never had time to be directly involved. All the kids were held accountable at home. I never had outside tutoring, and few of my peers did either. It was all in-school education, where we were removed from normal classes for a few subjects but otherwise part of our grade level for everything else like social studies or gym. Plenty of time spent with said friends at various houses doing homework together though.

I totally agree this needs to happen at a very young age. I was able to test out of the public high school in 10th grade due to being tracked the way I was in grade school and junior high. High school due to no advanced courses being available was an utter waste of time. Those programs that got me there have now been long-removed in the name of equity. This is the one political topic I will speak out on, since it's outright evil what we are doing kids in the name of fairness.

You really couldn't come up with a better plan to cripple a society than what we are doing to public education.
I don't know if you can can say the entire USA has an "obsession" with preventing children from being autonomous based on this one incident. That's too much of a generalization. There are obviously people who do think that way. But there are also a lot who do not, including the mother, who said "I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident."

This situation is ridiculous, of course. But the USA is huge, and you can probably find pretty much any or every attitude and approach to life here.
A language model isn't a model of strategic conflict or reasoning, but may contain text in its training data related to these concepts. I'm unclear why (and it seems the paper agrees) you would use the llm to reason when there are better models for reasoning about the problem domain - and the main value from llm is ability to consume unstructured data to populate the other models.
At some point Threads started to suppress (or at least, not boost?) political content or news. Which sort of crippled it as a "current events + hot takes" Twitter/X competitor. Bluesky doesn't appear to have this limitation (though perhaps for some this is a feature).
You're right, but your numbers are a bit optimistic. $1000 retail price means $500 wholesale, and no way the liquidator is going to be able sell at $500.

I buy stuff from pawn shops and thrift stores, and you can buy expensive stuff for a song.
I'm sorry that having never had these relationships, you cannot comprehend the loss. In seeing this series and the comments, I see both the sweetness of the relationships and the hint of the grief at their passing.

Yes, we recognize that having loving parents is an immeasurable blessing. While their passing is not a world-ending tragedy, it is precisely because we know how precious that interaction is, that we mourn their passing - and encourage others who have it to treasure it.

But there are other precious relationships and interactions that we can establish, build, and treasure.
You compared Linux to Mac a few comments back -- how is that anything but choosing specific hardware to accommodate your OS?

by this standard Mac OS is still a hobby OS because it can't be installed on random hardware.

No, it isn't too much to ask that you make sure the hardware you buy works with the OS you intend to run. If you find Linux fiddly in the modern era it's solely because of this.
The loudest complaint I see about threads (lack of hyperlinks) doesn't apply there. Also, Threads seems covered in growth-hacking dark patterns, like the notification/activity screen being flooded with "picked for you".

edit: my big worry about BSky is the lack of any coherent monetization plan. This isn't community-funded stuff like Mastodon, it's VC-funded software - there will be a need for revenue at some point and then what happens?
cool use case: drop in a Wikipedia page and get a voice briefing. easy peasy. wish i had this in college!!!
https://play.ai/playnote/en.wikipedia.org_Pablo_Picasso_1731...
Batteries included, easy to start and very fast to develop, tons of packages and resources ...

FastAPI make sense only if you write an api for a third party frontend or service.
The card issuer will always have the final say when it comes to chargebacks. Each issuer has a different policy, and Stripe cannot (or should not) gamble on whether the issuer shares their view on a dispute, lest they be left holding the bag when the issuer claws back the money. Deferring to the issuing bank for disputes is a reasonable policy.
I'm about 75% through the audiobook, and it's absolutely fantastic.

The most surprising thing so far is how advanced the hardware was. I wasn't expecting to hear about pipelining, branch prediction, SIMD, microcode, instruction and data caches, etc. in the context of an early-80s minicomputer.
As Roger Moore said “Just because a man cheats his government does not mean he will betray his country”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_to_Athena
Unfortunately the Bush Doctrine is not valid in traffic. I believe you will find significant challenges if you try to justify murder this way.
Musk's Starlink gets Chad go-ahead to improve internet access
What is not clear is if this report was available when he got the job or not. Because "he crashed a plane unde difficult conditions" without additional context might be fine and then 5 months later the report comes out and it is not fine for him to be the CO of that unit.

And, being the military (and this also happens in big orgs as well), the people above him can fire hime from a post without much issues.
HAOS as a VM on proxmox works well.

I used some of tteck's helper scripts to set up mqtt and zigbee2mqtt LXC containers with a passthrough of the USB zigbee device.
I've pretty thoroughly drunk the NixOS Kool-aid.

For awhile I ran Docker Swarm with a bunch of SBCs, then k8s, then just a big server running Ubuntu + Cockpit, then Proxmox, until I have finally settled on NixOS.

NixOS has decent container support if necessary, but I've found that its declarative nature means I almost never bother with containers. "Uninstalling" something is generally as simple as "remove it from the config file, rebuild", and it's not hard to do cgroupey stuff if you need to manage memory and the like.

Not to mention that I think NixOS's nginx DSL is wonderful. It's so nice being able to have my proxy configs (along with LetsEncrypt) managed directly (and correctly) by the config environment instead of me writing my own scripts and the like.

(I'm not sure if there are any distributed NixOS things, because I could totally see something neat being built on Flakes)

My homelab has never been simpler and I've never been happier with it.
I do too, but doesn't FDB already do a lot of the same kind of testing?
Along with the submitter, I am also on the team of maintainers who volunteered to help with maintenance of this project after tteck's sad news that they were entering hospice (1). The team members are all motivated individuals, who are enthusiastic on carrying on tteck's legacy.

We are moving forward in a transparent manner and I am more than happy to answer any questions.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016605
sorry about the formatting. It won't let me edit it now either.
Meh. Were it not for [reason.com] I have come to assume this kind of nanny-state behavior in Australia and the UK; certainly not in a place like rural Georgia.
That's the difference between being a shareholder and running a business. For those who are actually driving things, they need to focus on more than just money to really be successful. For shareholders who have some distance from business operations, they can make do with "number go up".
This is essentially the paradigm what Karpathy deemed to be "Software 2.0" in an article in 2017:

https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35
> With this scale and amount of variety, "one in a million" freak incidents ought to be registered all the time.

I’m not sure “one in a million” and “freak incident” is the right mental model with this case.

What is noteworthy that a whole series of people, most of them professionals, thought an unatended child walking is noteworthy and they should do something about it. The busybody who thought they should report it, then the sherif who thought they should respond to that report then further thought they should do something about it and then further thought to go back and arrest the parrent, then the other officer who didn’t say “hey what are you doing, are you ok?”, then the child protection services who recommended the tracking app, and then the prosecutor who provides the legal muscle to back this insanity.

Yes it might be a one in a million freak event that all these people assembled themselves into a conga line of crazyness. But they had these beliefs even before the boy started walking. How many others have similar ideas to them? You think these 5 are the only ones?
Computational Electromagnetics (2013)
Mastodon’s only algorithm is newest-on-top, so your complaint is that the people you’re following seem strange to you. Uh, follow other people then.
The platform you are referring to is called "Reddit", one of YC's portfolio companies.
> We believe in a positive technological future, one of abundance for humanity, one where AI progress will help us drive improvements in science, health, housing, food, and education by making it better, more affordable and more accessible.

Agreed.

Very stoked for poolside and other AI tools to accelerate software development and create an abundant future for everyone.

I envision lots of jobs for software engineers because of AI.

This is definitely the future.
It seems to me you aren't going to relate much as you haven't experienced losing parents who you have strong bonds with.
Seems to me like Jarkko Oikarinen or one of his crew invented hashtags, no? Denoting the context of your communication with something like #warez or #hack significantly predates web2.0.
It's certainly a different model of deployment. I like it, though it does have its warts.

However there is a (community) TF module...? https://registry.terraform.io/providers/Telmate/proxmox/late... (I have no experience with it as I typically reach for Ansible).

Also, easy-to-install ZFS makes it hard for me to cajol myself into trying something else. And if I want k8s for play time I can always spin up (a/some) VM(s).
Hold on..

In my experience I found that ChatGPT writes awesome Clojure code. So much so that most of my clojure code in the last few months were written by clojure. sure it gets some stuff wrong but overall it knows more clojure functions than I do.

My prompts start by asking it questions about appropriate functions to use and then write the code itself. The prompts have to be a bit verbose and give it instructions to evaluate and think before generating output.
Wasn't that many years ago, children didn't have phones when away from the house...
I mostly use it in a dictation sort of way. I tell it what I want, it gives me its first guess. I read it and tell it what to change. I continue this process until it's what I want. Usually faster than writing it myself.
Hashtags were invented. It's a convention that happened to work well with Twitter's search engine.
Is it just me or does it feel like a lot of Big Tech empires are immovable? There are no winner takes all markets now. Massive incumbents are not replaced by another even more massive startup that gobbles up the market, but rather a collection of specialized alternatives. So Google is not being replaced, but is slowly losing bits and pieces to ChatGPT, Kagi, Perplexity, and others. Facebook/X lose a little to BlueSky, Mastodon, Threads and Telegram. Netflix by a dozen streamers. Etc. The age of massive upheavals is over? I can’t remember a single Big Tech company that went under completely in the last decade, just slowly became “not the only one”.
Is NAD your best shot at longevity?
The way I do it:

1. make contact@ do several filters: to:*@example.com, mark as read, never mark as spam, forward to teammember1@example.com
2. repeat filter for all people

now, your contact inbox will get all the mail, mark as read. when people reply with their personal email (or leave things unread as a 'todo') it wont interfere with anyone else
There should be a hardware product version of this, you software people have no idea.

- Have endless arguments about what to name the product

- Have industrial design team enforce the latest design language

- Create product variant SKU numbers, get them loaded into ordering system. Get buy-in from sales on these variants.

- Create part numbers for the FRUs and CRUs.

- Create multi-level BOM for all the variants.

- Buy replacement parts and push them into parts depots

- Calculate reliability so that warranty department knows how much to charge you

- Get agency approvals

- Create packaging

- Test packaging

- Translate any words on the package into french (for Canada)

- Get vendors to sign your big company environmental requirements document

- Write legal notices and get it translated into many languages

- Work with documentation team to get printed (usually short) manual translated into many languages

- Get safety engineer to sign off on products, usually means you need to make a bunch of stickers and include them in the BoM.

- Figure out the part numbers for the power cords needed for each country

- Figure out the part numbers for the rack mount rail kits for various types of racks that you support

- Write announcement letter

- Create videos and documents for sales team training

- Write troubleshooting guide

- Train repair center

etc..
> A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes.

> Nevertheless, she called the police.

Yeah, but which road was this?

From Street View for Mineral Bluff, Ga:

1. Murphy Highway-- no sidewalks, a lot of parts with no shoulder whatsoever, no protection for a walker even on parts with small shoulder

2. Mineral Bluff Highway-- somehow even less shoulder than Murphy Highway. I see a guardrail that would force a pedestrian to walk about a foot away from traffic

3. Railroad Road-- I'd guessing this road has lower volume traffic. But it's still extremely hostile to pedestrians-- only shoulder is either deep grass or a large ditch that's unwalkable. So the kid would have been forced to walk directly in the road for most of this

#1 and #2, woman absolutely did the right thing calling police.

#3? If low volume, meh. Still dangerous, though.
Whats wrong is abandoning family and friends over political bullshit
https://archive.ph/ryr2A
What specific type of content was being censored before Elon took over that is being allowed now?
> Royal Jelly

Is this a Spelunky reference? If so, I love it.
And now I'm just sitting here imagining tentacles rising up from a puddle, holding a tightly wrapped fish-skin container, to do an experiment in the air.

Maybe they'd think of "going into the air" like early human chemists think of donning protective aprons. Air keeps the chemicals from getting on your skin.