skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not do it live? It works!

Well, OK, admittedly in the latest build, I have some stability issues right after boot. But in the worst case the machine reboots once or twice, and then it works. If it doesn't BSOD in the first five minutes then it's good, and everything works every bit as well as if the storage were local.

Whereas reimaging all the machines would actually take more time than waiting for this stability issue to work itself out. And would also require that I install storage in all the machines big enough to hold the main image (currently, they don't have this).

Overall I find it more convenient this way.

Note that the stability issue is specific to my hardware/drivers -- I didn't have any such problem in the Palo Alto house.
I am currently learning Rust and found the post interesting. As I learn the language, I keep reading how Rust is great and you don't have to manage memory (unlike C or C++).

However, managing ownership and lifetime _is_ managing memory. The borrow checker is there, all the time, reminding you of memory management.

Now, in C and C++ the same problem exists but you don't have a borrow checker to remind you. I think this is the same conclusion the blog post came to, but I'm not entirely sure.
Maybe it’s all about the auditor friends we made along the way?
Experiments in social media trust/moderation
> Yeah, but it's just a theory that tries to fit this data. Doesn't mean it is correct.

Yes. What else do you expect from science, or really from any human attempt to find truth? Are you just upset they don't include the caveat "subject to potential future evidence or better theories" on literally every single piece of science journalism? Are you upset that people do their best to make sense of weird situations and then tell people about their work, even if it's not absolute truth? What do you want to happen here?
For avoidance of doubt, I'll flip the polarity of your adoption hypothetical: In my opinion, a Chinese family adopting an ethnically European child have no obligation to teach that child "Western values" or "Western culture". Their only obligation is to raise that child with love and care.
Not sure about your feeds but I got a lot of moping over Twitter/X.
Nobody really teaches you the rules but... You're not supposed to grab them by their heels and swing their head into a locker. You're supposed to pop them in the mouth.

Anecdotally, I popped my bully in the mouth and stopped getting harassed.
Do you have any source for that statement?
I hope that your reaction is because the headline is way more sensational (to the extent of probably being incorrect) than the actual paper's abstract (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408721121)

Here's what the actual paper says:

> [...] Thus, the S2 impact likely had regional, if not global, positive and negative effects on life. The tsunami, atmospheric heating, and darkness would likely have decimated phototrophic microbes in the shallow water column. However, the biosphere likely recovered rapidly, and, in the medium term, the increase in nutrients and iron likely facilitated microbial blooms, especially of iron-cycling microbes.

Which sounds and - if I understand it correctly - means something kinda different than how "reset early life" is ordinarily understood, huh.
One of my friends owns a normal-looking radar range kitchen oven. It can cooks with both the convection oven and the microwave at the same time. It is from the 1970s and has all mechanical dials. It has a metal rack inside and you can use any cookware, without a metal lid I guess.
The downvotes are because people are reading the question as rhetorical rather than being asked out of genuine curiosity. It's only a good question if the person asking it is doing so with an open mind.

(That and the article answers the question.)
I'm thinking that there has to be something that is still keeping the rhythm going, maybe an extremely faint signal, all throughout that dormant period
Given all the talk about moderation in social media, I thought people might be interested in Advogato an early experiment in web-of-trust based communties. Kuro5hin(1) is another one that might be of interest...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin
Where is your threshold for "culture"?

Because you do have such a threshold, and you consider things that fall below that threshold not to be "culture", and therefore not to be worth preserving.

Which leads to: How do you justify this choice of threshold?
I stand corrected on the inverse square.

I still hold that it would be possible to send and detect signals set with intention with not too much more advanced technology than what we have.
Right. This seems to be the latest in the “throw random stuff at the wall and see what sticks” series of generative ai papers.

I don’t know if I’m too stupid to understand or if truly this is just “add random stuff to prompt” dressed up in flowery academic language.
Still very stuttery before crashing in Safari on iOS on my iPad :/
Have you got a better theory that fits all available data and has predictive power?
Pretty amazing that the military industrial complex was of sufficient importance to him that he used his farewell address to warn against it. And now it is just treated as an absolute necessity never to be scrutinized.

I often wonder if spending the money is the point - simply to say “The USA spends more than the next 10 countries combined” with no consideration for whether it is getting more value for the money. Like a startup, could other countries simply be getting significantly more value for their money and so the effective gap isn’t as large as the pure numbers suggest?

It comes to mind how the Pentagon running out of ammunition in recent years so to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and US donations.
I dont trust that it’s a pure mechanical system
Have the data actually been fit a Poisson distribution? Or is this is just a guess assuming constant rate and independence?
>I think it's a foolish point of view, but that's his right and he is arguing it civilly enough.

The bigger the claim the bigger the burden of justifying yourself. Like, I can't just stroll in and say "but Blacks being mentally inferior doesn't mean they're dumb" and leave it at that. There's been enough dogwhistles like that over the decades that that sort of driveby "well, maybe hating people is good" isn't worth entertaining without a signifigant amount of explanation.

This is the spirit of the rule behind:

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

So there is something flag worthy if you're this deep into a conversation then simply say "but bigotry isn't inherently bad".

Now if you do all that: will you still get down-voted for you explanation, yes. You may or may not get flagged depending on the crowd. You probably won't be banned unless you're repeatedly obsesses with this topic to no effect.

P.S. you can (perhaps invisibly) lose your flagging priveledges if you abuse those as well. flagging is not simply disagreement. It is basically saying "@ dang this is a comment you need to check out". You are wasting resources by using it willy nilly.
> This means, to be a highly productive Rust programmer, you basically have to memorize the borrow checker rules, so you get it right the first time. This is stupid, because the whole point of having a type system or a borrow checker is to tell you when you get it wrong, so you don’t have to memorize how the borrow rules work.

This is completely back to front. Of course you have to internalise the rules of a borrow checker or type system to be highly productive. How can you hope to do a good job without that?
Whoa, Johnny Mnemonic (1995) calling.

Also, these experiments are good fun, anytime there's a plethora of data available to play with it's a good time.... but anyone else get the weird sense of having been here before? Early Twitter days lots of this kind of thing was going on too with all the tweet data. Until they weren't. When everyone at Twitter woke up and realized it wasn't sustainable financially and technically to keep open firehoses out there. And then the API limits started creeping in and never really stopped. Just saying, we've been here and it's hard to see it playing out a different way even with ATProto's sorta decentralized whatever future.
There are shitty parents who happen to by accident raise good people.

I'd probably correct this to be, "invented by slothfully complacent parents who raised evil people.

Seems more accurate and likely, and fits objective externally verifiable definitions of evil people (willfully blind to the consequences of their actions) at least in retrospect.

You can learn so much about lost knowledge from reading old books.
Looking at this I was making noises like Homer Simpson looking at donuts.
I think a lot of bullying is rooted in a form of social awkward way to initiate play. And/or a form of testing the other to see if 1) the other kid is a equal alpha/beta scale in the pecking order or 2) a weakling that will tolerate bullying behavior thus boosting my alpha/beta standing in the pack.

There’s obviously some other complexity but i think this sums up a lot of the most common reasons that almost every kids will give/receive at some point. Some kids are just pure evil and enjoy inflicting pain, that’s out there but less common.
Simulation of the Formation of the Moon (2022)
Here it is in 3D: https://icc.dur.ac.uk/giant_impacts/moon_strip_orbit_houdini...

From https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac8d96/...

Good evening HN.
Is there an actual state law forbidding untrained people to use an extinguisher though?

It sounds much more like a job site policy that trained staff must exist and that they must be the ones that respond first (to use the correct extinguisher, etc) .. but it's difficult to imagine actual rules forbidding on pain of penalty (firing, fine, jail) an untrained person to step up (in the absence of any trained person being present, etc).

I'm in and from WA, although I've travelled a great deal, and here there's a lot of encouragement to have St John's Ambulance training, to take fire safety courses, to join SES and local volunteer fire brigades, etc. and I've never yet heard of any such rule as if your not trained, don't touch an extinguisher.
Modeling urban growth shows that cities develop in ways similar to tumors
How do you know that you know "enough" on a topic to write a book on it?
$100 Helio G85 with 6G RAM runs fine. Fennex browser.

Check your OS or browser for problems.
I simply answered the original question: "Demonize how?"

Thank you for adding to the point that you can't let your colleagues know that you voted for Trump. Your work life would be completely fucked.

You are an ideal example. You think Trump supporters are evil. And how do you handle evil people? You make sure they don't succeed in life.
Why Farmers Use Harmful Insecticides They May Not Need
that is fair, it's amazing how YouTube can eat a big file for free so you can have other people watch it, no storage cost concern

edit: I'm more talking about the influence on people's minds whatever the ad is in particular the bad ones/narrative
As the child of a geologist who spent countless hours out in the field searching for precious metals, reading about the integration of AI into mineral exploration truly excites with me. I have vivid memories of accompanying my father on his expeditions—banging rocks together and collecting samples.

I'm looking forward to seeing how these technological advancements will transform the field of geologic exploration, making it faster, more accurate, and perhaps even uncovering resources that were once out of reach. It’s inspiring to think that the tools my father used in the field are now being supercharged with AI, paving the way for the future of mineral discovery. Exciting times are ahead!
arnt car seat headrests designed for this use?
You remove it from the seat and the "poles" are tapered for this purpose...
Just hang tight a few months for our savior, the Doge, to sort it out.
What’s selfbotting? Based on the name it sounds like something that requires me to surrender my own authentication token to some automation service… but that’s definitely not the case for these alternative Nitter frontends.

I’m not sure how Twitter ultimately blocked them. It would be pretty embarassing (for Twitter) if it were a simple IP block of the Nitter.net servers, but that doesn’t seem too out of whack with Musk’s history of litigating bot behavior…
I would like to have some sort of paid version. Maybe an API, or something, to help pay for ongoing server costs and maybe some pizza money too.

Any ideas on what would be worthwhile for “premium” access?
You are basically saying, everybody who criticizes Netflix now has no clue.

That’s a bold claim given that people with inside knowledge could post here without disclosing they are insiders.

Is that some kind of No True Scotsman?
I actually appreciate that banks are on the consumer side.

In a developing country, the bank would accuse the customers of fraud on behalf of the merchants.
Bitcoin has been declared dead some 400+ times, and it's always funny and always wrong. I really believe the claims are made by people bitter they didn't get in to it when it was first offered to them.

https://bitcoindeaths.com/
Technical issues happen, but I wish they would've put up a YouTube stream or something (or at least asked YouTube to stop taking down the indie streams that were popping up). It seems like basically their duty to the boxers and the fans to do everything in their power to let the match be seen live, even if it means eating crow and using another platform.
A potential employee's guide to Silicon Valley startup equity
Absolutely embarrassing and a real life demonstration of a famous quote:

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
> I would guess it's a combination of "nobody sees the first hit"

This is an excuse. Not a reason.

Based only on people's status and the way they look, certain affordances are made.

The bullies are effectively permitted to bully.

The bullied prevented from fighting back.

The zero tolerance is the excuse (not reason) used to implement that.

This is trivially tested by reversing the roles.

If the bullied becomes the bully, the punishment is not reversed.
Some breaks are just too difficult to predict. For example, I work in ecommerce and we had a page break because the content team pushed too many items into an array, that caused a back-end service to throw errors. Because we were the middle-service, taking from the CMS and making the request to back-end, not sure how we could have seen that issue coming in advance (and no one knew there was a limit).
had a french voice in my head going "teache yourself to eatee chocolate"
Lack of moderation is a kind of moderation itself. It allows the loudest and most unpleasant voices to drown out everything else. "Shout louder and have a thicker skin" isn't really conducive to thoughtful discussion.

It seems to me that "say whatever you want and others have the ability to decide not to listen" is about as good a compromise as you can hope for.
Start with Praxeology (the methodology of Austrian economics).

"Start with a fringe ideology that explicitly rejects empirical evidence" is not exactly a good start.

The simple axiom that all preferences are subjective instantly eliminates a lot of the foundation of micro (and macro) economics as it is typically taught today.

No? If anything, econ 101 classes are basically Austrian economics classes due to how many idealized simplifying assumptions are made. And subjective preference curves are the entire basis of the supply/demand graphs that econ 101 students are bombarded with.
a rule should state there will be no new unionized positions in departments or agencies funded by the federal budget, and that individuals in existing roles will be allowed to retire, but when they leave, their replacements will not be in a collective bargaining unit. management roles will also not be part of those units, etc.

the government is not a normal employer and it is not a firm that shares equity. it is an exception. while guilds are viable for trades, and professional societies self regulate, employees of the state have no collective interest other than that as citizens. where they act as a corporate body, they are a literal conspiracy to subvert the consent of the governed, and it deprives individuals of their agency to provide honest service to the public. where employees of the state can both vote in elections and have a collective special interest, they become a privileged class that is antithetical to any democratic principle or equality. they know this, and saying it out loud too often is why their candidate lost.

plus, union leadership savagely betrayed their members over the last 5 years thinking they were about to institute the socialism they were originally founded to deliver but accelerating it without needing the actual working class, so I'd bet a good 2/3 of employees would be glad to have the unions out. it's fairer than even/odd SIN cards, smarter than blunt slashing, and creates the opportunity for serious people to get into public service.
Second nature or not, I’m not sure how this protects you against the security camera watching you enter the passcode. I guess you’re hoping it can’t read the digit on each key?
I imagine it is more of an exponential decay mixed with poisson since strikes were far more common back in the day. Also, I'd guess an exponential decay in the expected size of impactors over time as they've been smashing themselves into pieces.
This is just complaining about the free speech of others though. A moderation list isn't anything more then an opinion.

That's the thing: no one is obligated to not create an echo chamber if they want to be in one.
My first impression to your last paragraph was disappoint that we are using this sort of tech to solve this problem.

When I thought a little more, I realized it may not be a bad thing. This will solve an actual problem for real people in an area where many potential solutions have failed.

I do understand it seems weird today, but it may be a good thing.
Pry my treasured Conway Stewarts (made on your side of the pond), my Sheaffers (made on the other side), Rangas, and Sailors from my cold dead hands.

Art or otherwise, I take joy in writing with them, as do you, I suspect, with your writing implements of choice. That is all that matters in my book :)
The outright selfishness of Lane, Humphries et al. is mind blowing, and publicly advocating for it would (in the modern world) rightly lead to ostracism in any other context.

It is nothing more and nothing less than "I suffered, so you should suffer, too" -- the same attitude that keeps the "culture" of female genital mutilation alive.
> There may be better solutions [1], but my solution was to insert a call to strings in the pipeline

The "right" answer is to switch to using -print rather than -print0

-print delimits the values with a newline character (\n)
-print0 delimits the values with a null character (\0)
Meanwhile, after reading this article, I have my face one inch from a wall making clicks to see if I can hear the echo. Hopefully, nobody sees, or hears, me.
Small File Media Festival – The Cinematheque
That is an awesome house and a great story. I'd be really curious to know what the people who bought your house in Palo Alto did with the house (and did you leave the gear with it? It looks like you bought all new computers for the new place so ...)

I'm curious too how the planning folks reacted when you got the permits. I would expect Austin to go more smoothly than Palo Alto but that would be interesting to know about too.
Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Cancer Risk
“ What 'decisions' we make are illusions created by chance”

Everything except for this sentence that is :D
> I doubt betting line moves is even a thing anymore

It definitely is and it is lucrative if you go down the right rabbit holes. When you are able to be disciplined and completely ignore any sports fandoms you might have, you can have many "dimes" riding at a time and not even break a sweat
I suspect it will be interesting when people all realize too much fluoride is very bad and isn’t actually disinformation. It’s obviously not an intentional conspiracy to make people dumb but it happens to be outdated science to fluoridate city water at levels we do in the US.
or they will just do as they always have, axe social security, education, epa, state department, and increase the 800 lb gorilla that is DoD
In Switzerland they just turned those children into slaves and sent them to be abused and worked to exhaustion in farms.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/education/recognising-switzerla...

100K children, up to the 1980s, but who knows what's happening nowadays.
The request will be an S3 style API request and the contents will vary depending on the workload. For example, OpenAI trains an LLM, and for every iteration, a batch of model input data is requested from their object storage. My service would sit in the middle with a subset of the data and respond to the requests faster.

Regarding performance, moving data between CPU and GPU is slow but that can be minimized with CUDA unified memory and eliminated with GPUDirect RDMA. The product being a cache for S3 means that the client uses S3 and probably uses other AWS Services for their backend. I can maximize network bandwidth through the co-location of their backend service and my cache service in the same availability zone of AWS.

The GPU's computational power is useful for processing batched requests in parallel such as metadata requests and GET/PUT/DELETE requests for small objects.

The GPU cache protects data integrity by asynchronously copying changed data to S3 on frequent intervals. Additionally, I am planning to add a WAL option that will leverage the NVME storage of the GPU EC2 instance I am using for the service.

There are my thoughts so far on how I would address these issues. I have implemented most of them, and I'm working on improving it over time. I am happy to answer additional questions.
Was watching a video on the new Lexus RX 350s and they are moving to electronic door mechanisms too. Talk about solving a problem that doesn't exist - oh how I loathe modern vehicles.
If you look now, your submission isn't flagged anymore, people with enough points to flag can also 'vouch' and counter a flag, so it looks like enough people vouched to unplug your submission :) Sometimes it turns into a tug of war.
If they could shrink the actuators down to a finer resolution they might have something. Theree “tactils” per square inch seems rather crude.
You can also get a free PDF version of that textbook here https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/ds4/ (you only need to provide an email)
Skepticism should begin with the skeptic's own motives. A skeptic's second question (after "Really?" or "Why?") should be, "Why am I asking?"

Do they want to test the claim to learn something, or to dismiss it, just to dismiss it?

If they're asking questions which are literally answered as part of the claim, they need to start over, and start with themselves.
Apex Legends, the popular battle royale game from Respawn Entertainment, offers in-game currency known as Apex Coins. These coins are used to purchase cosmetics, skins, battle passes, and other in-game items. However, players often seek ways to get these coins for free, without spending real money.
>She didn't like this, and subsequently expelled my son

Name and shame the principal and school. Nothing changes otherwise!
In case it’s new to you, dear reader:

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?15026-1/eisenhower-farewell-ad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower%27s_farew...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
For reference, while it does work much better on my old laptop now, on iOS 18.0.1 iPhone 11 Pro Max, it also crashes until I add https://firehose3d.theo.io/?discardFrac=0.6