skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The structuralist unsuccessfully tried to find similarities between different symbol systems in different cultures. They were convinced they could come up with some sort of formula of how a culture can be categorized and in what development state it is.

Fundamentally it's about language. What does a word or a sentence represent? How do you go from a spoken or written text to something that is meaningful to you if it's presented to you?

This intermediating process of communication is highly complicated and fraught with misconceptions which lead to lots of fuzzy logic being applied by your brain when trying to understand something.

The stuff that's happening between hearing or reading something and you actually taking it in as something meaningful is a vast space which is as of yet unexplored and gives a lot of room for speculation. This is what Beaudrillard (and others) tried to describe and analyze.

And it has nothing to do with math. Math is a whole other story and won't solve the problem for you because it's a different kind of medium (or text if you will). Math sits between you and the other while language is something in yourself, so to speak.

LLM's try to gather meaning from text stochastically. This is not the way we gather meaning as humans and in a sense this is not how communication works in the real.

But Beaudrillard (and others) reasoned that we left the real and live in hyperreality. The most famous example of his is Disney World: As soon as it existed it started to infuse itself into our everyday lives. The simulation of a fantasy world (the real existing Disney World theme park) has started to become real outside of it but not rooted in reality (it became a simulacrum): it is an emulation of reality. In that sense it is virtual. It's like virtual reality in the real world, it's a fantasy you can touch (and that can be sold and be molded to be sold more successfully).

The idea of sociability in social media is another example: it does not exist in the real sense, it is mediated by technology. Its origins are hinted at by using terminology of social interactions but in the end it's a transactional empty sort of sociability which promotes attention seeking and fast, easily digested pieces of symbolism over actual interactions. And more and more this kind of "new" sociability becomes part of our actual social lives.
The criticism section of the Wikipedia article focuses on political aspects, but to me, the very idea of keeping someone feeling like they're always watched sounds like psychological torture.
My son kept using it because it was fun. You don't have to optimize everything.

By the way, buying things that are useful for a short amount of time is not such a waste if you embrace the second hand market. Which at least in my country, is very lively for kids' stuff.
What I see with CoW filesystems is, when you force the FS to sync a lot (like apt does to keep immunity against power losses to a maximum), the write performance slouches visibly. This also means that when you're writing a lot of small files with a lot of processes and flood the FS with syncs, you get the same slouching, making everything slower in the process. This effect is better controlled in simpler filesystems, namely XFS and EXT4. This is why I keep backups elsewhere and keep my single disk rootfs on "simple" filesystems.

I'll be installing a 2 disk OpenZFS RAID1 volume on a SBC for high value files soon-ish, and I might be doing some tests on that when it's up. Honestly, I don't expect stellar performance since I'll be already putting it on constrained hardware, but let you know if I experience anything that doesn't feel right.

Thanks for the doc links, I'll be devouring them when my volume is up and running.

Where do you prefer your (bug and other) reports? GitHub? E-mail? IP over Avian Carriers?
For me, it wasn’t so much learning ffmpeg, as it was understanding containers/codecs/encoders/streams/etc. Learning all of the intricacies there made ffmpeg make a lot more sense.
A bit off topic but why are calendars so hard? I recently moved from android to apple and I'm just really impressed no one does a dedupe operation on calendars. Seriously, who works on these things? I'll write you the regex if you really really need it but damn, if you're going to push fancy AI on me to make my life easier at least take care of all the annoying trivial bullshit that makes my life harder.
I'm afraid that this happened, where it is so plainly and fundamentally wrong, expresses that something is fundamentally wrong with the police, and I think it is across the USA? as this behaviour is I think widespread?
My preference is 100% of fines and siezed property should go to the Social Security Administration.

Bonus diverting money or property would be a federal crime.
Not sure where you saw that few people recommend that. In a company, managers are routinely incentivised based on specific metrics (good or bad, typically budget plus some softer metrics). It's the norm, not the exception.

It was even the case in communist russia by the way. With horribly designed metrics, like maximising tonnage of a factory output, which lead factory managers to ditch better product for lesser, heavier products. I think it was described in the book Red Plenty.

Again the problem isn't incentives, it is badly designed incentives.
I mean, modules are just regular guile modules. It feels somewhat clunky, but at the same time you can use guile's introspection to do fun stuff.

I always found it more flexible, but on the other hand I never liked NixOS modules.
Django vs. FastAPI, an Honest Comparison
We call them steps or sitting steps, thats how we learned how to ride a bike.
So if you do not hire me I will sue you on the grounds of discrimination. You definitely did not hire me because I am a woman, or of colour, or my orientation, or because I was activist, or myriad other suable reasons. 100% certain there was nobody better than me on pure meritoric grounds. I don't care there were 100s of applicants, I know I was the best.

I feel that way each time I'm rejected, but I'm not suing. Maybe I should start.
Apparently a simplex is a concept in geometry. I'm guessing this is the intended meaning of the term in the name. When most decently well informed, native speakers of English hear "simplex," though, they are likely to hear "herpes simplex" and so are likely to wonder, as I did, whether, or why, the program is named after a sexually transmitted disease.
Yes, a balance bike or no pedals is a great way to start.

When they are ready the progress to a pedal bike, and they need some assistance, do not hold the bike (either by the handlebars or seat or anywhere else).

Instead, gently place your hands on their shoulders to stop them falling - this forces them to be in control of the bike’s balance without you interfering directly. They will learn to balance and pedal much faster this way.
Ask HN: Any (true) technical support line at Meta?
Hey y'all, I need some help and went a long shot asking here :)

My friend is an owner of the local gym which he promotes on a couple Facebook pages. Recently he lost access (story like many) and after couple of days unsucessful attempts seeing him stress about it I volunteered to help.

We logged in and I've done some systems investigation after which I'm 95% confident that the problem lies on the data side (especially since Facebook did some migration recently).

From my experience it screams "migration bug" all over the place. I.e. there's no indication page was ever connected to his account, no recovery mechanism confirm its existance, the page itself is dormant and it doesn't list any responsible entities. Meta's Business page is full of weird data and placeholders, e.g. phone number and e-mails listed as "()", missing avatar photo, plenty of redirection loops, data entity shows on listing, but details page redirect to other listing where there's nothing and so on.

But it's Meta so getting any direct support is hard and even then all support requests ends up with "reset your password" automated guidance. I'd like to help to escalate but failed to find any contact point that could help with it - we're trying standard bashing head against the wall technique.

Does anyone know some kind of process/procedure/contact point I could reach to escalate and could share it?
I forgot to mention, the typical situation for these things for added elements is to add `_ex` or the like, which is not a great solution. You can see this in various places in Erlang, especially around erl_interface and related aspects.

On the flip side, what if you realize a data structure needs to remove elements? Say revision 2 adds a field, but revision 3 removes it?
> X grew by about 47% last year

Do you have a source for this? I thought Twitter stopped releasing user stats when Musk took over. One thing we do know is that yearly revenue is plummeting: https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/
"cluster this data to try to detect groups of similar outcomes" is typically a fairly subjective task. If the objective algorithm optimizes for an objective criterion that doesn't match the subjective criteria that will be used to evaluate it, that objectivity is just as superficial.
and if a government say already forced ISPs to collect metadata about who connects to whom and when, I imagine they don't even need to bother getting data from the relay hosts
This is just incorrect information.

> By the end of the 1980s, all of the grammar schools in Wales and most of those in England had closed or converted to comprehensive schools. Selection also disappeared from state-funded schools in Scotland in the same period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school

There are private schools that call themselves grammar schools (paid schools, not state funded) and some grammar schools still exist in Northern Ireland.

But the system that defined what a grammar school is - has long since been abolished, and all free-access grammar schools were completely gone from my area before I was even born.

—-

EDIT: seems like the some state funded selective grammar schools exist but they are not exactly distributed evenly.

So, I am wrong; and this situation is actually significantly more class-enforcing than it used to be. Amazing.
It was for him. It wouldn't have been for me, hence the caveat.

Different people have different goals.
I was taught using the 'handlebars' method and I hated it. I taught my lil bro by having them cruise without support. He learned in hours
> but there is something about the geometry of a bike that is sort of self correcting.

Yup. Plenty of videos on youtube where they send a bike down a hill with no rider and as long as there is forward motion it will self-correct and stay upright.

Bikes in motion are self-balancing, and with no rider on, will continue indefinitely until the forward momentum has been exhausted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZCzr9ExKk
About time.

I seem to recall some detail about how they don't do the packaging, and that' still on the mother island.

This suggests that may be the case:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/04/tsmc_amkor_arizona/

It's a move in the right direction, but not as much as may be needed.
I am using it on my home server that serves my web page and also a lot of things for my home network.

It runs some guix containers and some VMs. Nothing fancy.

All declared in a couple of files.
This kind of change is deeply worrying, because on the face of it, it implies means estimates of climate change are potentially rather unsound - such large changes in mechanisms central to change - and so climate change could be much worse than we expect.

If climate change isn't so bad, then phew, but if it's actually worse, then we are in even more deadly trouble than we already are.
> then you can replace the -1 with the nearest even integer (I wonder why it can't do that by itself, but apparently, it can't).

Likely because the aspect ratio will no longer be the same. There will either be lost information (cropping), compression/stretching, or black bars, none of which should be default behaviour. Hence, the warning.
That was sort of my point: it's not a reasoned stance (e.g. culture X is objectively superior), but an emotional one (e.g. I have an emotional attachment to culture X).
I wonder if high performance blockchains still in development such as Monad or MegaETH are going to leverage QMDB this late in the development cycle. If not, it seems like we're getting at least a couple more blockchain optimized databases by EOY
It's becoming fashionable outside the US as well. And the core reason is that public schools deteriorate.

Public school systems sucks at diversity. It demands parents and students to endure diversity (i.e. putting kids from all walks of life into a single class), while it delivers zero itself, i.e. refusing to diversify its offerings as affluent kids from high-iq parents need different schooling than the fresh foreign refugee-arrival from a war-torn country.

Teachers Unions make sure to deflct any "market pressure" from teachers and these unions' political arms (i.e. left-leaning progressive parties) rake in extra profits because they can cry wolf about the bad state of education or worsening abilities for poorer people to rise through the ranks via merit. Crocodile Tears.
For some reason I’m concerned with being able to find the labor required to make this succeed. I really wish them the best.
Nah, those were always right wing smears used to bully people. There's no rebranding. Bullying through online trolling goes through meme fads.
interesting - how have you managed to deal with those? especially the fuzzy brain syndrome?
has it also affected how performance and reporting is perceived by the managers? since moving goalposts and unclear agendas would also mean that it would affect performance in reports and project reviews
The hard thing for a lot of people to accept is that belief or lack thereof of evolution has no impact on daily life at all. It always comes up in these discussions as a boogeyman anyway.
What If You Could Get Books via Roller Coaster? (2015)
The 24-year-old 'neighborhood hero' who gave early warnings about the Eaton Fire
Here's a relevant article - essentially I think Fastmail may actually be the more private option, since E2EE email promises are only at-rest if you don't use PGP.

https://ownerofhappy.org/encrypted-email-bad
Seems to be a useful summary of 702 from a USA perspective: https://cdt.org/insights/section-702-what-it-is-how-it-works...
Most Karen's are actually great. We only hear about the unhinged ones on social media because the algorithm rewards outrage. But most Karen's are kind and they care and they work hard and they set an example for all of us. It's the Karen's in the world that keep all the small things from being shitty all the time.
While I agree with you in general, E2EE can't be a blanket excuse for building bad applications. If your E2EE applications can't deal with data encryption in a way that makes them comparable to competitors non-E2EE products from a usability aspect, then they are still bad applications, regardless if we know that E2EE does make it all way harder.

I love Proton, but there are aspects of E2EE that they haven't worked around well enough at present, in my opinion.

The biggest pain points are:

- Collaboration
- Offline access

Both of those are highly relevant for calendars, so it doesn't surprise me they didn't hit the nail on the head on the first try.
The sad game theory result of this is that no one ends up caring or comes to the conclusion there is no point of caring. Wonder if it is at all possible to reverse it once you fall in this cycle.
They still suck compared to software encoders. This is true for both H.264 and H.265 on AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs. They’re “good enough” for live streaming, or for things like Plex transcoding, or where you care only about encoding speed and have a large bandwidth budget. They’re better than they used to be, but not worth using for anything you really care about.
Depends on the definition of the financial incentive. If it means bonus, then this doesn't handle cases of incompetence or malice, they will still get their salary. If that includes salary too e.g. financial penalties, then you'll get police doing things specifically to preserve their salary and instead of focusing on their core responsibilities.

Just carrots, whatever the definition, won't fix everything, there are assholes in every profession, you need sticks too.
Ask HN: What to do if I got team mismatch?
Hi, HN! I have a regular account, but have to avoid using the real one because I ran into an issue and need advice.

I got a job at a european company (I'm based in EU as well). During the recruitment process I have been informed that a single job description is an umbrella for two separate teams within one division. I was lightly briefed on both of team missions by recruiter and I shared my preferences for a specific team.

During the interviewing process I have not met the hiring manager, so could not ask for specific from a substitute manager (a red flag I missed).

On my final interview round, I was told I'm matching for the team of my preference which made me feel that my goals and the company goals align.

But, right at the onboarding day I was informed that I in fact am joining the team that I did not ask for.

That made me feel really bitter, along the fact that other org procedures didn't go well at the start (those were minor things like conference rooms bookings got invalidated...happens).

I am an SSE with around a decade of years behind my back in the field, and now I have a strong feeling of frustration, as my chat with the interim eng manager made impression that I have time to commit to my new role and the team as they are or there's no other options for me. Thing is that I hve several concerns in regards to delivery and hitting the roadmap goals as I feel I may experience the lack of capacity. Specifically, being the only person handling the middle-end operations, I end up being on constant pager duty.

Then plan that was set is that I have to read the HLDs, check out the mission for Q1 and the milestones, talk to the product people. And then set to reconvene with the interim eng manager in a week. No expectations were set by the managerial party for the upcoming 1 on 1.

If if were in my shoes, or know a story or two like that or just want to share advice — I would appreciate it a lot.
I think, if someone's going to gamble anyway, gambling competently is better than gambling poorly. (Am I stretching this analogy too far?) Entrepreneurship may not be for you (or me), but there are people who find it a deeply satisfying path to walk. If they're going to do that, they should at least do it with the best possible odds of success.
The part about the receipts I had missed.

Although volunteering information about anything seems suspect.

And it also seems to be a matter of DEA dropping the ball, but perhaps they foot drag knowing that anyone with illegal money isn't going to ask for it back, as they'd have to explain why they had it.

I wonder if Elon is going to suggest we defund the DEA as part of his "DOGE"?
Yeah, ironically training wheels was a bad idea. It learns you the motions of pedaling, but not the core skill: balancing.
Similar signs were installed near highly contaminated parts of Russia, specifically Chelyabinsk near lake Karachay, one of the most contaminated places on earth.

https://www.damninteresting.com/in-soviet-russia-lake-contam...
>That would make legitimate civil asset forfeiture impossible to execute.

There is no such thing, so that is not a concern.
Show HN: Xogs – local log aggregation in your terminal
Excited to share a new open source project I published recently – say hello to a tool you probably never thought you needed: xogs

xogs is a terminal-based tool designed to enhance the way you work with local logs. It streamlines log aggregation, inspection and filtering, enabling you to handle logs more effectively and focus on what matters.
Whether you're debugging, monitoring, or just exploring log data, xogs provides useful tools without leaving your terminal.

This initial release contains all the basic features you need to start aggregating your local logs, but there is definitely a lot more to come.

I am curious if anyone finds this useful - would love to hear any feedback :)
How did you deal w/ the abandonment?
I started out using Proton calendar but ended up discovering the dates are actually not encrypted, which I think is quite an oversight. Haven't found a replacement unfortunately so it might just be the best option for the cloud. For now a local notepad calendar it is!
Yes, but the author doesn't care
What makes you reluctant from using flakes? I initially thought I'd never have a need for flakes but after spending an hour on YouTube and Googling, I converted to flakes.
> It's kind of a cool result. The laws of physics conspire to keep the universe consistent even in the presence of time travel.

Indeed. I find this very cool and this paper gives some interesting examples of how this might unfold including Einstein clocks and the grandfather paradoxon.
You might have been older, though. So with a balance bike you could've learned to bike years earlier. If you already had mastered balance, learning to bike isn't a big leap.
The Role of LDPE Plastic Scrap in the Plastic Recycling Industry
The nice thing about making diamonds as opposed to coal or bio-oil is that it's quite hard to burn the diamond, so less chance of someone getting tempted into using these enormous reserves that are just sitting there, depreciating, to fuel the helicopter of their bitcoin-mining luxury cruise ship or create an ultra-fast pizza delivery service using rocket launchers
Is there any library for e.g. fhm hash table lookup or similar? I have seen papers but have not seen a consensus of what a useful implementatio is
You're not wrong! I'd refer you to the Hobby Horse cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_horse), or "dandy horse". No pedals there!
Google Calendar supports CalDAV, but only behind OAuth, which many clients do not support. I've created https://github.com/bjesus/oauth-hopper to solve that - it takes care of the OAuth steps and provides a clean CalDAV endpoint that you can use to read and write to your calendar from almost any calendar application. In reality OAuth Hopper can be used to abstract OAuth away from any endpoint - it isn't CalDAV specific in anyway.
Every place I worked that has sought feedback threw it in the bin because of "costs" - smiled, nodded, agreed, then ignored.

Many people I've worked with gave a damn but were constantly ignored due to costs. Just my experience
> You are Apple. You want to make search work like magic in the Photos app, so the user can find all their “dog” pictures with ease.

What if you're a user and you don't care about searching for "dog" in your own photos, you might not even use the Photos app, but apple still scans all your photos and sends data off device without asking you?

Perhaps this complicated dance works, perhaps they have made no mistakes, perhaps no one hacks or coerces the relay host providers... they could still have just asked for consent the first time you open Photos (if you ever do) before starting the scan.
The problem with training wheels is that they train how to ride a quad, not a bike. On a quad, when you turn the handlebar to the left, you go to the left. On a bike, you fall to the right.
I agree, though self hosting can be too hard for everyday non tech users. I think the fact that Proton exists, regardless of all their issues, is still a good thing and a move in the right direction
Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M