skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why we started to have weird national-lab-alike organizations in China releasing models, for example InternLM [0] and BAAI [1]. CCP won't outsource its focus areas to the private sector. Are they competent? I don't know, certainly less than QWen and DeepSeek for now.

[0] https://huggingface.co/internlm

[1] https://huggingface.co/BAAI
Re aside: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989>
Nvidia and the AI boom face a scaling problem
The IPFS part is where the actual files are downloaded from. I wouldn't necessarily say that it's instead of a CDN - it just seems to be a reliable enough way of getting the files (without the pain of setting up a server with all these files myself). Indeed, it fetches them through IPFS Gateways (the Cloudflare IPFS Gateway is unfortunately no longer a thing) using their CID hash.
> Times have changed.

Yeah sure, but that's a platitude that doesn't warrant anything.

> Students [...] aren't shallower or less educated than those [...].

Proof needed. You can't just say that.

> I have younger relatives who can't sustain their attention to read a book to save their life but still earn excellent grades because they were born into a world of technology.

The tests and grading norms have changed. It's been shown that (in some countries), secondary school pupils aren't able to pass maths and physics exams from 30 or 40 years ago. Being born into a world of technology only makes you apt to using that technology. It doesn't make you smarter or provide you with more knowledge. As a counter anecdote: quite a few secondary school pupils know that there's an infinite number of primes, and that E=mc^2. However, they've got no clue at all to what that means or what it's good for. It's just factoids, not maths or physics.

And in relation to the linked article, those excellent grades are irrelevant. And you even admit it. Young people don't read. Won't read. Can't read. Literature is pretty much doomed. Your cultural relativism doesn't assuage that.
> Only selected few buy books, because it costs money

I doubt money is the limiting factor for book uptake in the West, particularly in towns with a library. You're instead selecting for curiosity, intelligence and attention span. (Say this as someone without enough of the last.)
the ruling comes from up-on-high the mayor of London who does have some oversight over the city of london, and the transit of traders that utilise the market.

Gotta hit those eco numbers.
I wouldn't be surprised if America does it too but in this case Russia has a clear interest in promoting this particular candidate in Romania and America doesn't. Because it's a move to peel them away from NATO.

And Russian troll farms are also well documented. It's really a big part of their MO.
I've been playing around with the Bluesky public API. As people were looking for this kind of tool, that creates beautiful screenshots from Bluesky posts, I decided to give it a try.
I'd agree with a lot of that in terms of both many drugs being 'discovered' in clinical trials as oppose to earlier ( a lot of it it about choosing the right patients and dose ), and the differences in mindsets between researchers and those often involved in the clinical trial side.

One of the things you've missed is the strong restrictions put on pharma in terms of promoting use of existing drugs beyond the existing approval ( which makes sense ), and the almost complete freedom Doctors have to do what they want - they can just decide to prescribe something off-label if they think it might help.

It can take a very long time for new ideas to become new products - and a lot of that is inertia ( nobody else is doing it ).
I seem to recall reading somewhere that 'everything' is a thermometer, on the basis that many things behave differently at different temperatures.

You can also use an LED as a light sensor.

and I also came across a YT vid of a console that used a piezo electric speaker for motion sensing.

I wonder if you could use a track pad to pick up sound.
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Context: OP is author of a software which "simplifies self-hosting a secure, scalable Reverse ETL platform"
>Until this change, customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources.

So... raising the prices for everybody instead?
from my own experience, running stateful services in k8s is not easy and prone to errors.

so unless your devops/sysops/whateveryouwannacallitops has a lot of experience, it's just not worth it when things like RDS/ElastiCache exists.

i worked at a place that was 100% k8s, but all stateful things (redis, mysql, rabbitmq) were either hosted or in VMs.
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Perhaps I'm old fashioned but I despise this new fad of everything having to be a video. I can read much-much faster than the goober on youtube can talk, and I can easily skip sections which are uninteresting because I can see at a glance what the paragraph is about. But these days everyone has to be a Content Creator and a Personality and there's just no money or celebrity in written text, even though it is a vastly better medium for a lot of knowhow. So if I want to know something that could be a paragraph, I have to seek through a 15 minute video padded with 10 minutes of "Like, comment and subscribe and don't forget to smash that bell because it helps me so much"...

</old man yells at cloud>
While that works (and I use it extensively), it's a bit hacky. You have to use `object.__setattr__` to set attributes in `__init__` or `__post_init__`, which looks so wrong.
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I think you can take a look at the DiamondQueue, which is a Demultiplexer and a Multiplexer combined so that thread A dispatches a bunch of tasks to a fixed set of worker threads (W1, W2, W3, etc.) and then these worker threads use a Multiplexer to deliver the results to another thread B. Thread A and Thread B can also be the same thread. There is an example here => https://www.coralblocks.com/index.php/the-diamond-queue-demu...

The DiamondQueue should be soon available for free at the CoralQueue project on GitHub.
I disabled brave shields for a moment and wow. Especially the youtube-like iframe that slid in from the right. Crazy.
It's a fundamental limitation of P2P that you need NAT hole punching. If you use IPv6 it's truly peer to peer since you can generate ICE host candidates directly.

Also, you don't actually need NAT hole punching if you use fixed ports and port forwarding at the router level.
That is very true, although I also have the opposite example: some math books at Uni (e.g. the recommended one for calculus) were so dense with information that I could not make head and tails

I often had to buy a second book where the content was... well digestible
Nice explanation but it took me a while to understand the trick. They are hidding the tag in the "exponent" of the float, not in the "mantisa"!
In the same way Uber disrupted licensed taxis - or the big internet firms disrupted ad supported media.

ie totally ignoring existing regulations, pretending they don't apply to you and just hoping you can push through.

In a lot of the 'problems' are the regulations ( which are double edged and tricky to get right ) - and pharma companies are just following the rules.

I think governments might be less lax in letting there be a new wildwest in drug development.
Are banks moving away from voice verification as a means to identity checks? It seems like it's getting easier and easier to clone voices.
semver is useful for libraries and other things that have a very clear programmer interface.

For most applications it's fairly pointless. There are often many "breaking changes" in any significant release, and there is no strong agreement at all on what a "breaking change" even is.
Laser damage is notoriously difficult to predict due to a statistical nature of thresholds. There are many tricks and non-trivial ideas that can make the device certified eye safe, even if it emits a high laser power. These obviously wont be discussed willy-nilly on random forums.
XAI planning to release an app like ChatGPT
Never done cold and been OK, but anything I care enough I would take to a professional dry cleaner anyway.
Thanks! what would you expect from dark mode?
imo, this happens quite often. Single-focused direction can cause harmful consequences.
Available without paywall https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/where-glaciers-melt-river...
> Python used to be described as "executable pseudocode"

And that's never been true once you're past toy examples into real-world programs. I agree that type hints are "ugly" to read, but they make the code much easier to understand. You have to be aware of the types anyway, and it's better to have them explicit in the code than in your head.

You can still have duck typing with Protocols if you like that kind of thing. Explicitly saying what you expect the incoming type to be able to do is much better than reading the code and having to track all the attributes and methods so you know what you can use.
> Given the documentation says that this is supposedly to be between JVMs, how do they handle the serialize/deserialize?

Your transfer object needs to implement MemorySerializable. Below two examples from CoralRing's GitHub:

https://github.com/coralblocks/CoralRing/blob/main/src/main/...

https://github.com/coralblocks/CoralRing/blob/main/src/main/...

The second one effectively allows you to send anything you want (as bytes) through the ring, making CoralRing message agnostic.
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I use Qubes.
It's on there... you just can't remember seeing it.
It's sad on the human level too. A family member or friend may have a difficult issue that takes more than 2 minutes to discuss, but a person won't have the attention span to listen.

No wonder therapists are raking it in and short supply.
They have 50% and 50%. Also, "complex" is very small, like 20-30 atoms. I think someone found small polymers with 100. A lot for not-live stuff, but tiny in comparison to the molecules inside a cell.
Writing digitally is cheaper but that's exactly why distributing or getting reach is not cheap at all. You still need cost and proof of work in getting noticed by algorithms, as well as people who usually set trends. In fact, the lower cost of production means that more niche things get written than there would have been a market for.
Stellarium especially the premium version is a one time payment only is absolutely worth it for dense astronomical sighting.
Definitely not, I used it for random questions, in regular, expected way. Only the accounts that prompted about the square were removed, even if the ask:base64 pattern wasn't used. This is something I explicitly looked for (writing a paper on censorship)
What will they do when there isn't a podcast or video to teach them a concept?
> It's like they think only NYC will be recognisable

Probably more because they look at how much dollars and hassle it would cost to film in NY, compared to the (relatively) cheaper Toronto.
What 3D assets? I don't see anything suggestive of a 3D renderer here.
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I think the tool has some grammar info: C, C++, C#, Java, Go, JS are similar.

And that is enough when:

1. Most code in a code file is irrelevant to whatever specifc bug is being looked at.

2. It is removal of code at play not writing code.
So called Content farming has been a thing since early 10s. There is 15 years of history of (successful) companies selling filler auto-generated blog and post content.
> The alternative option which is consuming less in order to pollute less is pretty unpopular.

If you frame the problem like that, does it actually surprise you that no one will act on it? One has to either freeze or feel guilty of some kind of moral failing about the heat one consumes?

You might say: No, no, the problem is not consumption, it's the superfluous part of the consumption, the
overconsumption that's the problem. Okay, but, then, who exactly stands in judgment of which part of the consumption is the overconsumption? The same moralising types who bemoan the melting of the glaciers?

Reminds me a bit of pre-enlightenment Europe and its juxtaposition of power and catholic moralising guilttripping. What's needed is a humanistic way forward, a way wherein man gets to fundamentally be the hero of the story.

If you come to me and say: Here is a way to reconfigure the economy through technological, economic, and political change, to make it so that one can feel good about consumption again, then I will go to hell and back to make that change happen. If you just tell me "consume less", then don't expect me to do anything.
There is also Scratchbox, which was used (and probably is still used) to cross-build embedded Linux distributions. https://github.com/sailfishos/scratchbox2

It also offers CPU transparency and was able to run almost arbitrary desktop software, but specializes in build toolchains.
Why do you think your employer gives you their own computer?
I haven’t looked at the code, but can you just patch out the 30 minute limit?
Half of British adults visited Reddit in May?

That sounds like "at least once" and at this point, I'm not sure whether I've visited Reddit during November. Maybe the British remember these things better than I do, or maybe the figure is a little uncertain.
Anytime I see “P2P”, I assume a STUN server is involved because of the ubiquitous nature of NAT with IPv4. I read such claims as meaning that the tool itself does not require dedicated servers or persistent storage for its core functionality. (And there are plenty of public STUN servers to choose from.)
The issue isn't about "screen vs. print", the issue is about "critical, discerning, questioning mind" vs. "mindless consumerism".

The epistemological collapse we are experiencing wasn't caused by information being online and disseminated via browsers.

It was, and is, caused by a mass of uninformed people, with strong tribal behavior, shutting out any information that doesn't fit their preconceived world views, and industries and politics designed to benefit from that behavior.

And btw. misinformation can be, and has been, spread via print [even today][1].

[1]: https://english.nv.ua/nation/russia-delivers-nine-tons-of-pr...
I don’t think ChatGPT belongs with the other two. It essentially counts as reading.
CoralRing and CoralQueue (available on GitHub) are completely garbage-free. You can send billions of messages without ever creating garbage for the GC, so no GC overhead. This is paramount for real-time ultra-low-latency systems developed in Java. You can read more about it here => https://www.coralblocks.com/index.php/java-development-witho...
Your quote only refers to a small part of the deprecations, i.e. deprecated type aliases. Deprecations that are not in that group do cause warnings, and some of them are already scheduled for removal.

Your quote also conveniently left out the following paragraph:

> The aliases are guaranteed to remain in the typing module without deprecation warnings until at least Python 3.14.

Python 3.14 is less than a year away.

> Even if they decide to remove these at some point, you're looking at several years before it actually happens, and you'll have plenty of time to migrate.

I agree. I still think it adds to the pile of chores, especially for people who are on the fence anyway as to whether type annotations are worth the additional mental load to them.
YouTube and podcasts are fine as an introduction to a topic, but they are and do encourage passive consumption. It's fine for reciting shallow factoids in class and getting grades, but won't make you an expert in a field. If you can't maintain enough attention to read, you'll always have to rely on processed, second hand information. That's why reading needs to be taught as a skill, and heavily encouraged.
Author presumes we need Docker in the first paragraph. I suppose this is why they think we need Kubernetes.
I propose using "the operating system" as the basic-unit here.
It already runs on shared hardware thanks to a hypervisor.
Operating systems know how to network.

The entire desire for Docker in a production app comes down to willful ignorance of how software one depends upon is configured.
Developing some insight on its negative potential could demonstrate imagination, but the claim that it could be used to scam people is pretty much just rote repetition by now - an obligatory point made in every article and under every post about this tech (and not something that I think actually works out in practice the way most imagine it, since cold-call scam operations that dial numbers at a huge scale expecting most not to pick up can't really find a voice clip prior to each automated call).

As for positive applications, some I see:

* Allowing those with speech impairments to communicate using their natural voice again

* Allowing those uncomfortable with their natural voice, such as transgender people, to communicate closer to how they wish to be perceived

* Translation of a user's voice, maintaining emotion and intonation, for natural cross-language communication on calls

* Professional-quality audio from cheap microphone setups (for video tutorials, indie games, etc.)

* Doing character voices for a D&D session, audiobook, etc.

* Customization of voice assistants, such as to use a native accent/dialect

* Movies, podcasts, audiobooks, news broadcasts, etc. made available in a huge range of languages

* If integrated with something like airpods, babelfish-like automatic isolation and translation of any speech around you

* Privacy from being able to communicate online or record videos without revealing your real voice, which I think is why many (myself included) currently resort to text-only

* New forms of interactive media - customised movies, audio dramas where the listener plays a role, videogame NPCs that react with more than just prerecorded lines, etc.

* And of course: memes, satire, and parody

I appreciate HN's general view on technologies like encrypted messaging - not falling into "we need to ban this now because pedophiles could use it" hysteria. But for anything involving machine learning, I'm concerned how often the hacker mentality seems to go out the window and we instead get people advocating for it to be made illegal to host the code, for instance.
You have a point, but you know where it originates: we all want to know if A is better than B. This article adds a bit to existing models by not only estimating the values of the As and Bs, but also of the structure of the competition.

But you're right: it remains superficial.
OpenAI is at war with its own Sora video testers following brief public leak
Use it for doing things that will benefit you in the long run:

1. Networking with the experts of your field through right platforms.
2. Gain credibility by showcasing your achievements and progress.
3. Build your own distribution.
My main point is there isn't some Illuminati with access to good info you can't get for free.

In the drug analogy I am saying most addicts know about rehab. The conspiricy isn't hiding all the NA groups.
Worth mentioning that I've also have the opposite opposite experience. Wrapping/using a library in vanilla JS, the type signatures changing and breaking unexpectedly with an update and only finding out when parts of the app suddenly broke.

It can be slightly laborious to manually wrap a bunch of operations so you can override something, but it's more of an annoyance/inefficiency than something that adds cognitive overhead. That said, many languages (eg structurally typed ones like TS) it should be a non-issue.
Also, New Inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson. A huge treatise on epistemology and philosophy of Science and much more "mindfucker" than his fiction.
Isn't it also because of a change in testing methods? It seems to me that multiple choice tests are more and more widespread. These can be gamed more easily, since you can often eliminate some of the choices based on knowledge unrelated to the correct answer.

For comparison, during my own education, a couple decades ago, I don't recall having a multiple choice test ever. Maybe 1 to 4 grade in primary school. Maybe. Everything was problems, proofs, or essays.
>obviously only the first few levels would be represented as their own Recursive teXt blocks.

This is not at all obvious.
Great website and the pricing makes sense. Some links still go to gphotos.site (automatic redirected). I tried so see how easy the iframe feature is, or rather if a non-technical person would understand the documentation. But the guides seem to be mostly AI generated SEO. Quickly the good impression of personal photos from genuine authors of the website turned into gen-AI slob https://www.myphotos.site/platforms/wordpress
> you can't live like that

Indeed its psychological torture but it doesn't just tear up the
individual, it undermines all social institutions.

A minor nitpick, TFA author uses the term "Epistemological
Collapse". That's the "science/philosophy and study of knowledge and
meaning" and for that to collapse would be different from what people
talk about more widely which is "epistemic crisis"... a deterioration
in common knowledge and disappearance of meaning, trust, truth,
veracity.

Historians call it an 'interregnum'. We're very definitely in
one. With another author I co-wrote about it here [0]. You can see it
everywhere. But I argue that no single technology is the cause of it -
rather what people do and how tech alters their behaviour. Look at
this adjacent thread on whether "Malware can turn off webcam LED and
record video". This rather simple debate raises a more or less
"unfalsifiable question", even if you have sophisticated electronic
test equipment and nation-state level of dedicated expertise,, what do
you really know about the relation between an LED and covert
surveillance.

In an epistemic crisis we are forced to confront how we use knowledge
and maybe to use it in a different way.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/radical-disbelief-and-its-ca...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259278
Containerization and orchestration of containers vs learning how to configure HaProxy, how to use Certbot, hmmmm

The questions you pose are legit skills web developers need to have.
Nothing you mentioned is obviated by K8s or containerization.

"oh but you can get someone elses pre-configured image" uh huh... sure, you can also install malware. You will also need to one day maintain or configure the software running in them.
You may even need to address issues your running software causes.
You can't do that without mastering the software you are running!
Sure, it is both. And in this type of situations I think the more important one to tackle is the systemic one, so that putting the burden on the individual is made manageable.

To give another analogy, if you want people to recycle, you need to create recycling stations in their area, and not force them to drive 50 kilometers to recycle a plastic bottle. That burden of infrastructure is on the government unfortunately in some part.
LOL you have a point. But this is subjective. Someone could argue that a highly complex C++ system is masochism. The reality is: a lot of successful market makers, prop trading firms, banks, etc. use Java for ultra-low-latency financial systems. And of course some successful companies use C++ as well.
We presume that it is us who have digested the thinness of the veil of reality who should be deciding epistemological questions but it is the younger generations who have grown up in this environment of 'Hacking the Matrix' who have the moral right to do it.