skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for checking out the site!

I'm currently using a cheap model, so there's a good chance the rate limiter will be hit with the traffic from HN going to the site.

I didn't expect it to be a success, but it's being worked on :)
Wikipedia has a list of ghost towns in the United States.[1]

Most rural towns were built to serve surrounding farms and ranches. As farming became less labor-intensive, the need for those towns went away, and the towns slowly died. See "Depopulation of the Great Plains"[2] It's interesting to note that the depopulated area is the best part of the US for wind power. That could work out OK.

Mining towns die when the resource is exhausted. They go fast.

Japan, where the population is rapidly declining, has a large number of empty rural towns. There's an incentive program to get young people to move there, but not many are interested. Because Japan's infrastructure is centrally funded, much of the infrastructure is still maintained in areas with very few people.

Russia has a declining population and entire abandoned cities. Putin is pushing young people to have kids. There's a "Pregnant at 16" TV show in Russia, which has been re-branded to encourage pregnancy.[3]

The countries that are above breakeven (2.1 children per woman) are all in Africa or are dominated by religions which oppress women. And poor.[4] "Peak baby" was in 2013 worldwide.

There are two futures, both bad. "Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant", or "Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_the_Great_Plai...

[3] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/11/05/as-russia-targets-ab...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer...
I appreciate you sharing your first interpretations! I get the impression it’s not that clear what this is. Trying to position what this is / figure out where we go with it is tricky/going to be a journey.

While this is in the CI adjacent (and indeed I am a big dagger fan and certainly inspired by it), this predominantly lives in the CD realm instead.

In particular, it has helped us with something that I feel is missing in the GitOps space, which is the connective tissue between environments. Automating updates to app versions directly in repo and then bringing that altogether into a single dashboard where I can see what does my repo say the desired state of the world should be. Ultimately, we want to surface what the actual state is too.

We’ve hedged our bets a bit so far and left room for non GitOps CD to potentially slot in too. But not sure if we should just double down and be explicit and go hard on GitOps.

When you say a “why not…” you’re referring to like a Glu compared with X section right? That’s a good idea. I will add that!
Back in the day, I used to really dislike anything TK related. It looked old and ugly.

Now it looks like a wonderful alternative to all the bloated, wasteful, Electron JS applications out there.
Sweden seeks clarity from China about suspected sabotage of undersea cables
I started writing a reply in disagreement, lamenting on the long-gone the pre-COVID times when we were buying sub-$10 Max10 devices, and bitching how Intel killed Altera, letting Xilinx to jack-up the prices.

Boy, am I happy I decided to do some googling before pressing send…

Although Xilinx indeed has jacked up the prices, the sub-$10 Altera category is still alive and well.

Furthermore, both Lattice and Renesas have devices in sub-$5 category.

For super cheap programmable logic, Renesas has a sub-$1 simple programmable logic devices.

So much options out there…
Measuring the Value of Healthcare Anti-Fraud Efforts [pdf]
If you have a how—to, I’d love to work on one for my home. I feel like this is all right around the corner…
Private chefs for Silicon Valley's elite spill the (precisely 70-degree) tea
> We know twitter has an intense liberal bias based on their previous composition.

No, "we" don't [1][2]. Pre-Elon Musk Twitter gave extra leeway to conservatives and didn't target conservative views for removal [3].

[1] Twitter Admits in Court Filing: Elon Musk Is Simply Wrong About Government Interference At Twitter https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...

[3] Researchers Confirm: Content Moderation Appears To Target Dangerous Nonsense, Not Political Ideology https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/04/researchers-confirm-cont...
Hetzner colo's for their US servers/locations. Perhaps their US bandwidth rates are much higher than their own DCs?
That's better, thanks
Ask HN: Can anyone give me a good reference on the Aaron Swartz case?
I’m part of a project that is trying to understand social dynamics of online communities during the first two decades of this century, including the shift from the written word to image media. I’d like to include a chapter on Aaron and the ethical issues he exposed, because I think they connect to a lot of the issues we’re saying today.

1. What online communities was he most active in? Reddit, obviously, but others?

2. My understanding is that he had the opportunity to take 6 months but would have to keep the felony, which is why he didn’t take the deal. Is this true? If so, why didn’t he feel that he couldn’t trust Reddit’s management and investors to protect his career?

3. What were his personal opinions, as far as we know, on the most desirable future path for technology?
The Baltics are disconnecting from the Soviet era BRELL grid with Russia and Belarus in two months [0].

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/baltic-countries-leave-...
The svg is very unimpressive but you are impressed by it, what gives? It looks nothing like a pelican
Not to the extent that Russian people admire Stalin, which for a guy that apparently did so much evil to Russia and Russians and wasnt even Russian himself is pretty strange, right? One would think that Russians would see Stalin like Jews see Hitler. Apparently he killed more innocent Russians than Hitler killed Jews

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47975704
I would have never guessed that networks that exist solely to approximate functions work on heuristics...
I haven't read it, but if it follows their previous efforts it will say what they want to happen (which is: get kids off social media), without saying how it will be done. Until the discussion this bill generated the "get kids off social media" meme had fairly broad support. In the currency of the pollies, this translates to "vote winner". Australia has already banned mobile phones at schools, and that looks to be a achieved roughly what everyone though it would. Maybe they expected this to go the same way.

It hasn't. Now the idea has been floated (and the bill passed!) discussion has inevitably turned to "how do we do this". It was the mental heath professionals (of all people) that first voiced objections. Apparently, social media is the main way kids connect with them. Which is kinda obvious if you think about it, because either the family or school seeks help on their behalf, or it's the family / school that's the problem in which case they need to seek help without them knowing.

Next, when it became obvious they were going ahead, where the discussions on how it would be implemented. To give you an idea of how that's panning out, the minister has said kids won't be prosecuted for using social media and just recently said the federal government ID schemes won't be used. Instead the minister said "the platforms will use their existing mechanisms".

If that happens it could end up being a nothing burger. The big platforms already have checkboxes asking "are you over 16" or whatever.

Regardless, they have passed the legalisation now, and the election is coming up soon. It's effects, if any, won't become evident for a year or two. That means they will be able proudly point to it during the election and say "look what we have done for the kids". As one prime minister explained show particularly bad decisions he made at the time "it was just retail politics".
There's a bunch of innovative things that just didn't go through enough design cycles to get the flow right which have since been abandoned
Will definitely make the servers list configurable via settings in one of the next releases.
Halloween, supposedly set in Illinois, has palm trees in the background of many scenes, and classrooms with doors that lead directly outside.
Finding YC Startups to Critique with Vector NLP and a Critique of Atopile
Thanks for thinking along, that's a good idea!

If the costs were to increase enormously, I'm thinking of limiting the generation via machine id, or that the person would have to buy credits or something like that.

Thanks for the CDN tip, will look into it. Currently hosting via Cloudflare, so shouldn't be that hard I guess.. (Famous last words)

edit:
Created the buyMeACoffee :)
https://buymeacoffee.com/coloringsai
Okay, refine procedures and try again
cool ideas! I am especially into these type of workarounds like your e-mail forwarding workaround. I've written services for myself based in similar ideas some time ago. Have you done more things like that?

> Keeping one's sanity away from the side effects of tech these days is quite a technical job, somehow

Disappointing, right?
We are working on something to change this & take a different path into a technological future. Right now we are running out of cash (bootstrapped) & need to find ways to stay alive...

I have a feeling that it would be great to talk to you, after i've ensured survival.
I would like to see Quentin Tarantino take on current-day issues. Who else is making movies worth watching any more besides Martin Scorsese? All the good movies have been made. Forbidden Planet was based on Shakespeare and it still shines. Generative AI tools show that it comes down to plots. I watched that Star Wars as a 1950s Panavision sci-fi at least a dozen times.
You didn’t present a consumer perspective, you offered your hot take on why the company has set up the site in the way they did.
I know serverless is really expensive, but Vercel is about $400 for 1TB
You write like you were born after all the events related to the desktop application had run their curse.

We killed the desktop app, to free ourselves from the Wintel monopoly. We pushed the migration to the Web, because that was the unreachable niche for Microsoft and their monopolistic practices.

We succeeded, and as punishment, now we have to endure all these applications written in Node.js with Electron UIs. We won, but we have paid a high price for it.

In this context, Figma is nothing more than an afterthought. Something that appeared as a consequence, not the cause of anything.
This site's DNS does not resolve for me on either Cloudflare or Google's DNS, but I can resolve it using MXtoolbox and some other DNS checkers. New site?
Really fascinating reading these. Just as a fly on the wall while serious shit is going down. I enjoy the differences in their email styles. Musk is always exceptionally clear and direct compared to the others.
The full app seems to be more about building custom feeds via a GUI, this is just one thing you can do with it

https://www.graze.social/
Not sure, there's also been projects like https://folk.computer which iirc was done by someone who was had a bit of involvement with Dynamicland
[3] is really interesting. I'm not surprised, but it really feels like history is happening when even the mundane starts to reflect it.
Thanks for your thoughts. To be honest, I have no idea.

But if I google "Coloring Pages Pokemon", for example, I find dozens/hundreds of websites that are not Pokemon, so to speak.
Is the OP using terms of art?
New Tool: jj-gpc
Depends on the book. Depends on the TikTok.

You can have passive experiences via either medium. TikTok is really optimized for that shallow level of engagement though and books trend in the opposite direction.
Water already is an issue in many places. It's expensive and in limited supply because we can't drink salt water and storage, treatment and delivery cost money.
The oft quoted phrase: “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”.
Tech employees don’t engage constructively with tech criticism because of self interest.
Additional info: https://spectrum.ieee.org/baltic-power-grid
Thanks for sharing, I am not using any of those.
Willing to train my own model in future as well!
If you live in Minnesota, sure. Not as true in Australia.
Michel Houellebecq, Annihilation. A clear-eyed and direct novel about the meaning and measure of individual human life in our modern age -- and yet it concedes nothing to modern literary or social fashions, but instead goes for universality and timelessness.
Btw, found this which explains a bit when you need a TURN server:

https://webrtchacks.com/symmetric-nat/
In my experience roughly 80% of technical issues are because 2 people (or teams) didn’t want to just sit down together and talk it out.
So I get the sense that we can be considered part of nature, and however much or little influence we exert is a part of the overall system. It can balance to an extent with our presence and will do so without it.
Apple Music has more live radio streams featuring artists too, and the Apple Music 1 radio features real live commentators. Whoever is at the controls for Music over at Apple is someone who really cares about music.
Audio analysis is one of the easiest problems that ML can deal with. The problem is, how can you use a pretrained LLM for discovering newly-released music? And how do you train future models without a source of new data?
Exactly, and you make it more difficult to rotate certificates when you suspect compromise, which is an important security feature.
Probably because right-leaning satire sites promote intolerance. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck…
I’m somewhere in between a prescriptivist and a descriptivist. But this definition of exponential is just wrong.
What if most of that is utter nonsense some psychologist, like their former failed high priests like Zimbardo, Ariel & Co-Quaks, tell them, because real work is hard?
a few of these have opened in the UK but after visiting a number of them in Tokyo they just don’t work here.

people are loud and they mostly are just trendy up-market bars, rather than a place to enjoy the music.

staff in two of the places i visited in tokyo actively shushed you if you were too loud, which is actually a feature, to me
>>And in street racing, and driving fast responsive cars in general, electric is the future.

Street racing is entirely too dangerous and of course illegal. You don't have to race to take part in the street scene, which in that scenario the actual power to weight ratio is somewhat irrelevant in itself. What is relevant to me, personally, is the ambience that surrounds a supercharged radically cammed V8 rumbling down the street. That will give me goosebumps every time. The power is in it's growl, not necessarily it's bite. I don't know how you replicate that in an electric vehicle and I think that feeling transfers to the racetrack as well. I would rather watch a 3-4 second top fuel race rather than a 2-3 second electric car race.

Oh yeah if you ever do happen to catch one of those top fuel events don't miss watching them rebuild the engines and the 'let's make sure it runs' startups. The fumes will cause tears in your eyes and your lungs will hurt but it's as good or better than the actual race.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Walter Isaacson)

Highly recommend it. Don't waste your time with Franklin's autobiography.
> A healthy economy is one where money, people, skills, and intellectual property has high velocity, meaning people quickly reorient their productive capacity to where it's most useful.

Everyone is an interchangeable cog!

> Serves them right for Brexit!

Brexit wasn’t a unanimous vote. There are people suffering under the Brexit decision that couldn’t vote at the time.
> Every single Australian's ID will have to be verified

Keep in mind all Australians got those IDs from the government in the first place...
In the manner of an algal bloom, yes.
Details matter with open source models
With the speeds the pro's climb these mountains, aero is still a big deal. For you and me slogging along it's almost all weight that matters. But not for the pros.
> I don't even understand the thought to use LLMs in the first place.

You know how people believe whatever they read, hear, and watch even though it might not be true? Well an LLM is something people read and to get over the hurdle of whether something might be true or good, you simply embrace it and ignore that it could ever be wrong. I don’t get it either as I get upset when I find out a source is mostly wrong.
I have extremely thick hair, but only use shampoo once every few weeks because too much absolutely ruins my hair texture. Nonetheless, just rinsing my hair thoroughly with warm water and then cold water takes at least 5-6 minutes per shower.

I think the greater point is that hair maintenance varies greatly from person to person, and it is absurd to assume every male only needs 2 minutes or every female needs > 15 minutes. A great example of the stupidity of stereotype and how it leads us away from useful thought.
The alternative is freedom of choice. Right-wingers will always whine that there’s no freedom of speech when liberals aren’t forced to listen to their drivel. Welcome to the marketplace of ideas!
Im sorry that you felt menace. Good luck with all your problems! Happiness is overrated anyway, its better to be realistic about human nature right? One day I'm sure ill be as wise and worldly as you, I just need to shake off all this unfounded optimism! Don't worry, you have helped with that a little I suspect, so thank you so much for the dose of hard reality.
But that is 100% the Pharma industry. How did we get an Ebola vaccine? USA spent $100M. And they were the only ones willing to despite <1% of cases
Ask HN: Have you ever "rage-coded" something?
Sometimes it happens that a programmer gets so annoyed or upset with something in a project that they sit down and implement a solution or solve a problem in one single multi-hour "rage-fueled" session.
John dies at the end -> all the other books. Silly scify nonsense that will have you giggling. Oh, and the Zoey Ashe trilogy too.
### Statistics ###

ninja has ~26 kloc, ~3,100 commits, and only a quarter of them by the original author (although by loc changed their weight is higher). Interesting!

https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/graphs/contributors

### Bunch of other comments ###

> users of ninja ... all Meson projects, which appears to increasingly be the build system used in the free software world;

So, AFAICT, that hasn't turned out to be the case.

> the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.

Well... sometimes. Other times, the fact that there's good code that does something goes a very long way, and people live with the architectural faults. And as for the social issues - they rarely stand in opposition to the code itself.

> Some pieces of Ninja took struggle to get to and then are obvious in retrospect. I think this is true of much of math

Yup. And the some of the rest of math becomes obvious when some re-derives it using alternative and more convenient/powerful techniques.

> I think the reason so few succeed at this is that it's just too tempting to mix the layers.

As an author of a library that also focuses on being a "layer" of sorts (https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda-api-wrappers/), I struggle with this temptation a lot! Especially when, like the author says, the boundaries of the layers are not as clear as one might imagine.

> I strongly believe that iteration time has a huge impact on programmer satisfaction

I'm pretty certain that the vast majority developers perform 10x more incremental builds than full builds. So, not just satisfaction - it's just most of what we do. It's also those builds which we wait-out rather than possible go look for some distraction:

https://xkcd.com/303/

OTOH, the article doesn't mention interaction with build artifact caching schemes, which lessen the difference between building from scratch and building incrementally.

> Peter Collingbourne found Ninja and did the work to plug it into the much more popular CMake ... If anyone is responsible for making Ninja succeed out there in the real world, Peter is due the credit.

It is so gratifying when a person you didn't know makes your software project that much more impactful! Makes you really feel optimistic again about humanity and socialism and stuff.
Wouldn't you mainly get the energy back? Like, you use some going up the wall, and then gain it all back going lower.
Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

you don't have to have read the other Hunger Games because it is set about 60 years before the others
Show HN: Algorithmic music jukebox (desktop only, click twice)
Desktop only, you have to click the buttons twice.

I wanted to see if Claude could make a midi jukebox that algorithmically produces music using the rules of music composition. This is as far as I could take it.

Arguably, it succeeded at the main task of building a jukebox that algorithmically plays music. Click "Remix artifact" to see how it did it.

It's not anything good enough to listen to, and doesn't sound like the respective genres, unfortunately.
Did you ignore the part where GP was talking about the tradeoffs made, and how aero improvements are almost always worth the extra weight?

It's about optimizing the whole system, not just one part of it.
Bit unfair. Plenty of sober Englishman. During the week, anyway. Well, Monday to Thursday. Before midday, at least.
Everything. It gets shit done. Don't hate, just get it out on code because those MF can't.
For comparison, this is what other models produce: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle/blob/main/README.m...
I have built a dumb internal service for this that i have been using for more than a year now. And just today i've thought about turning it into a simple product, as i am in need to finance the work on my actual product. Then i saw this Show HN & then your comment. Which makes me wonder: how would you use such a service "occasionally"? And what would be your pricing expectation?
So let's not even try?

if we made some basic modules we could improve as time goes on and more research and data comes out.

Early sex education surely wasn't perfect and the science understood when they started teaching it in our schools.
In Tyler Hamilton's book he describes going out for hour long rides, then taking some sleeping pills and going to bed, all without eating, just to shed weight before the tour. Just crazy.
Institutions like World Bank, Asian Development Bank or IMF will not take any sort of cuts or deviations from the loan schedule.

International commercial investors won't also. They are also too many to negotiate with. Defaulting on those loans will send Pakistan's bonds and exchange rate into a tailspin.

That leaves other countries. US and Europe will not change loan terms either. So what has happened since 2018, is that Pakistan takes additional loans from China, UAE or Saudia Arabia to pay off other loans. If then Pakistan is unable to pay their loans backs, these countries reschedule payments into the future. But because of consistent refusal of the Pakistan state and elite to restructure and improve the economy has meant that even these countries have lost their appetite for help.
An adequate summary of Collier's critique can be found in the video (starting at 1:56:13):
"I've started this whole project thinking: 'Oh my God, I hate Richard Feynman. He's such an a*hole.' But that doesn't make sense. I don't know anything about Richard Feynman. And now I am here—Richard Feynman never wrote a book. Richard Feynman constantly made up stories. He was a showman. Does anybody know anything about Richard Feynman? Can you hate a guy that does not exist? The legend of Richard Feynman is based on nothing about Feynman at all..."