skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have given up thinking about it much these days -- I guess I'm just pretty jaded with the direction the web went and most people are happy with it. There are probably better and more practical solutions than what I had in mind - besides it had got quite complicated though I may have just got myself caught up in needless complexity.

Still I should clarify, 200 or more definable characteristics, wasn't aimed all that much at the topic ie not purely a tool that could categorise topics like a library card index.

I was more concerned with outing the rubbish within the web and thus enable quick searches and more productive for the user, as well as saving hours of a desktop or laptop being on while the user conducted an endless search while they dealt with the many fruitless and pointless results.

... and on second though removed the really long reply that roughly outlined it. I will say characteristics are things like if the site is a banner (contact, about, low signal) ... if it's a mirror / pointer type site ... if the site is just a front end to some other place ... geolocation ... dynamic vs static information ... forum / blog / etc ... a new one comes to mind present day, if the site is behind a site protection service (some are awful - I'm so tired of seeing ray id just because I prefer to use an older browser) ... the site hosts any files on offer, code or text based, rather than rely entirely on some other site, pointing the user there or some cloud source which is not theirs ... grouping of what sort of data is in site, spam, x rated, political, safe for work and around kids etc

Again I've given up on it and perhaps for the best, I figure it won't be long there will be a LLM based service which will filter the web for users however they'd like results fine tuned to make the web useful to them again, not the mere shallow depth that some of the better search switch operators could do even in the golden times of search in the 00s, but nearly at the level of determining the characteristics of the site and what the user wants to avoid. ie not a mere LLM summing up the site and information. What a dream it would be to list results for nearest physical store to blah suburb that sells / has workshop / operators manual for recent Baz 1 ton excavator ... and not waste time sifting though pages of results until the search engine won't display any more - and in the end resorting to an old phone book to search for stores directly.
agree, trade gets screwed too. I guess sometimes democracy means we get what we deserve lol
Or allow building higher than one story? Like most cities around the world
Show HN: Easily compute expensive functions inside type safe Web Workers
This is the first public library I've written - let me know if I've inevitably messed something up here.

In short, this JS library allows you to quickly compute functions in a separate thread like so:

```

const result = runWithWorker(() => 1 + 1);
// TypeScript knows this is a `Promise<number>`!

```

There's some more examples outlined in the README. Communicating with Workers involves a few ms of overhead, so this is only going to be useful for computations that would take longer than that.

Throwing two or more of these calls into `Promise.all` should also let you make use of multiple threads for a computation.

Some background: the puzzle creator (coming soon!) for https://bridj.link inherently takes up to a few seconds to generate a "good" set of tiles. More importantly, there's no fast way to determine if there's no viable set of tiles to connect two words - so we have to reject the puzzle if it takes longer than 10 seconds for the algorithm to solve.

This seemed like a textbook use case for moving computation to a Web Worker - it wouldn't freeze the UI thread (meaning users didn't have a completely frozen tab while waiting), and we could easily terminate it if computation hanged or the user chose to cancel.

If all you want to do with a Web Worker is execute a single function though, there's a surprising amount of complexity involved. Beyond the boilerplate, there's a lot that can go wrong regarding proper error handling and remembering to actually terminate a worker: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...

This becomes even more complex if you want it to play nice with TypeScript. Also, most projects these days still use some kind of bundler, which might require some extra steps for loading a script into a worker.

This inspired me to make a library that takes some of that complexity away, for use cases that just involve running a single function in a worker.

There's some limitations outlined in the README, but it:

- works in any JS environment that supports Workers

- lets you pass imported modules to the Worker, even in Vite/Webpack

- lets you pass down parameters to the Worker (provided they're compatible with `structuredClone`)

- is Promise-based, and allows the Worker function to be async

- lets you terminate the Worker manually or after a certain length of time

That part about passing down parameters and imports is important, as there's no other way for functions to capture their outside scope. Workers are still an isolated environment, so any context from the outside needs to be passed down explicitly:

```

const x = 2;
runWithWorker(x => x + 1, [x]);

```

I couldn't find a library with the same ergonomics that met those criteria, which is why I decided to write my own. Lemme know what y'all think!
Everything is like that with this guy. He looks at the world through the prism of old-fashioned network TV ratings. You saw that during the infamous COVID press briefings (the bleach and light ones), holding the bible after the paramilitary cleared the streets in Washington, D.C., when he stood on the balcony after he had COVID, etc., etc.

It's the same thing here — he literally said as much today[1].

As a worldview, that is incomprehensible to me (and I suspect most people), but it really does help understand the choices Donald Trump makes. The spectacle — the attention paid — is what matters to him. How it looks on TV is what matters. How it actually is, is secondary at best, but often irrelevant.

He does a lot of things that "don't make sense" until you think of it that way. That the executive of a country as powerful as the USA perceives the world this way, and makes instinctual decisions on this basis without any credible effort to reason through the possible consequences, is of course very alarming.

As a US citizen, I'll admit that the "gravitas" of the USA as the "leader of the free world" was always carefully stage-managed. Still, it's depressing to watch momentous and crucial international wartime negotiations degraded to this reality-TV/pro-wrestling level, and so swiftly, for the whole world to watch.

[1]: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5169464-trump-ze...
These problems stem from private property. That is, we allow the hoarding of a basic necessity (ie shelter) and we treat housing as an investment vehicle. This incentivizes every aspect of society and government to do what they can to increase property prices. Homeowners think it's good for them. Investors love it. How do we do that? By limiting supply.

In most of the US it's illegal to build anything other than single-family houses. We build our cities around cars. We make it impossible to build any form of public transit because that might let undesirables into our nice clean neighborhoods.

The single biggest factor in homelessness is being priced out of housing.

Expensive housing is an input into everything. It means wages need to be higher. It makes everything you buy from a business more expensive. It's why that $2 coffee 30 years ago is $8 now.

What's the alternatie? Personal property and social housing. Personal property (as distinct from private property) is that you can still own property you personally use. You simply can't hoard housing. Social housing means the government provides affordable quality housing to anyone who wants it. The poster child for this is Vienna, where over 60% of the housing is soial housing.

If you buy a house for $300k and it goes up to $800k. You haven't made $500k. You think you have but you haven't. Why? Because what would you do if you sold it? You'd still have to live somewhere. And if every other house is also $800k, you still only have one housing unit of wealth.

Expensive housing is simply stealing from the next generation. It's also a way to keep you in debt, to coerce you into working with the threat of violence (eviction is violence) hanging over you.

Landlords are parasites.
> you're going to be looking at $5000 + $300/m

I looked at Hetzner's $150/m for dedicated Xeon server with 1Gbps.
Fair, I was a bit ungenerous. So you believe - what? USAID shouldn’t engage in politics, and agree enough with a recent viral tweet to use it as your example, and to insinuate that anyone talking about USAID is just acting out their TDS. But also that USAID _should_ be doing the humanitarian work that comprised the overwhelming majority of its efforts and is quite literally being decimated. And that no benefit should accrue to the US? Or none in the form of a more aligned government or political system than history has allowed to take root?
Yeah ok, I get not wanting to do the grunt work. I take classes for fun. But if it's not for a credential and I don't want to do coursework, I'm just going to buy a textbook.
"wealth inequality" is one of the dumbest ways of measuring the health of an economy, or to specifically aim to reduce. Unfortunately, there will always be a baseline group of people at, or near, zero wealth. The goal should simply be to reduce this number and the overall number of people living in or near poverty. Whether Warren Buffett has $50, 100, or 200 billion - which does affect wealth inequality calculations - is of zero consequence to the lives of the lowest-wealth individuals (nor did someone like SBF losing 10s of billions, help them)
> China isn't sending a "small number"; casualties alone have supposedly reached into the hundreds

I think the word "supposedly" is important here – I don't think we have any hard data on how many Chinese volunteers there are serving with Russia.

And I'd question how big a military contribution these Chinese volunteers are making. Russia has hundreds of thousands of troops fighting in this war, even a thousand Chinese volunteers would be less than 1%.

> Make no mistake: if China wanted to shut this down it could.

Even if the Chinese government is willing to "turn a blind eye" to this going on at a low volume, that doesn't mean they'd let it grow to a significantly higher volume.

It also isn't clear whether this is a deliberate initiative from the very top, or something that has grown organically bottom-up and the people at the top have decided to let it be for now rather than crack down on it.
Very anecdotal. You can't just look at yourself and your circle (which is similar to yourself) and extrapolate to the general population. Also most people in HN are in Tech which did well in the last 15-20 years comparing to other fields.
> Weirdly enough, Tenochtitlan is the rebuttal to this question. Why do you think they built a city on a lake? It's because they didn't have any pack animals so boats were the best way to move stuff around. This is a disadvantage that makes everything else much harder and therefore slows development.

They built their city on a marsh because an eagle landed on a cactus and they interpreted this as a sign from heaven. They subsequently conquered the city-states that already existed there. It had nothing to do with considerations surrounding the ease of transport as they were a nomadic people and were initially forced to settle in a marsh on the fringes of the lake.

Further, you are getting away from your original claim, which was: "Transport is the backbone of industry and is required for the high degree of specialisation in trades that produces technological advancement." This was not the case for the Aztecs. "Ah," you say, "but we can amend my claim to include analogs to pack animals which facilitate the movement of materials, such as Tenochtitlan's canal system," at which point I would draw your attention to the Cahokia, the Pueblos, the Mayans, and the Olmecs, none of which fit this pattern, all of which formed complex civilizations that soundly refute your claim.

> If literal millions of Native Americans could not domesticate the other animals, but they could domesticate dogs, I'm going to guess that the other animals are harder to domesticate than dogs. You might not feel that this is the case, but your feelings don't stack up to the practical results of a thousands-of-years-long experiment run on an entire continent where these animals could not be domesticated.

Dogs were domesticated thousands of years prior to the arrival of humans in North America.

> Knowledge exists in equal quantities for all people

There is no evidence of this whatsoever and plenty of evidence to disprove it.
Property taxes are a thing. If Joe Dirt has to pay property taxes for the home he shelters in, the wealthy should have to pay property taxes for the shares of a company that they use to secure loans for yachts and Ferraris.
I think there’s also something to be said of preference shifts with different degrees of emotional or physical attraction to someone. Some couples are definitely only together so that they don’t have to be lonely individuals, and not because they’re into each other.
Yeah it might actually get Europe to take matters into their own hands (which Trump would see as a win for the US but which is long term very much a loss for the US). It also might push the EU more towards China. In fact if I were China right now I’d start making overtures to Europe.
Nonsense. In order to focus on the supposed injustice of inheritance itself, suppose that someone becomes wealthy through ethical means. If they then turn out to have a mutation that causes them to be immortal, at what point does it become just to simply take their wealth away from them? If your answer is “never”, why is it any different if they gift their wealth to their descendants? Why is gifting wealth wrong?
In my experience (worked for organizations that used everything from on-prem server racks, to Linode to AWS to Azure), complaints about cloud infrastructure are proportional to managed service usage. I rarely hear teams that largely rely on virtual machines (perhaps with a managed RDBMS) complain. They do have to maintain a little extra scripting, but that's a minor inconvenience compared to battling issues and idiosyncrasies of managed services.
I’m sure you can find a country willing to send part of your paycheck to fight a war on the other side of the globe, go for it
I think it's more projection - assuming anything that benefits you benefits society as a whole.

House owners assume everyone else is also a house owner, so increasing values will benefit everyone.
An easier solution would be money not being power.
Tiny nitro RC engines can produce 1+ horsepower in engines that weight 1/2 lb.
To be fair AWS also has quotas on NAT Gateways.

Maximum 55k concurrent connections. After that, they make you deploy NAT gateways in other availability zones. And a max throughput of 10 Gbps.

I imagine AWS would also tell you to deploy your own gateway if you were running into the 55k concurrent connection limit of managed NAT.

AWS tends to be flexible with their quota enforcement in my experience, though.
That seems worth publishing.
ClearCase. You just triggered my PTSD!
> these gains are compounding.

It's not really. You could have done the same using no code tools in a similar time.

Question is, would you? It's alarming the amount of trust/praise that goes into "AI".

> if you're an experienced engineer
> it took me 5 minutes with AI

You'd at least read the code and fix things up so it wouldn't be 5 minutes.
Please tell me more about the man who was high on cocaine and morphine 24/7.
For testing environments Red Hat will literally give them free RHEL. Problem solved.
It depends on your medium, many platforms require a lot of throughput in order to rank highly in their algorithms and reach people.

If your business requires volume not high value customers then you need to play the volume game. But if you have high lifetime value customers, you could get away with fewer articles of higher value, authoritive, trust and reputation building content.
I thought of a slightly milder version of the tax, which I call a land wealth tax. Fix a certain maximum value of land owned by a single person which would not be taxed. In theory this might be some quantile, like the 80th percentile of land value owned per person. (I'm pretty sure you would still be taxing the majority of land using this threshold! At least at first.) Then everything owned above that is taxed by value. This avoids a rebellion of the most vulnerable and sympathetic homeowners. Of course land owned through opaque ownership structures must be assumed to be above the limit. Corporations with transparent ownership structures might see their land divided up (a likely intractable math problem if you included publicly traded companies) or some approximation applied, or the land simply taxed.

One advantage of taxing land wealth versus wealth in general (a la Piketty) is that land — "real" property — is much harder to hide in offshore corporate holdings than general wealth. It is all documented by necessity.

I have no expectation, unlike George, that taxes on land could fully satisfy the general fund. But they could certainly play a significant part. A significant difficulty with land value taxes in general is the assessment of land value, which is a difficult problem and has caused controversy in the past due to fluctuations and apparent inconsistencies. My preferred approach in the United States would be a Constitutional Amendment, which would allow centralizing the necessary expertise with the resources of the federal government.
To add:

- "I've never used this language / framework, this is what I'm trying to do, how would I do it?"
- the documentation for these libraries is ... not useful. How do I do X?
Followed by: "these parts didn't work due to these restrictions, tell me more".
(I'm currently using this one to navigate Unity and UdonSharp's APIs. It is far from perfect
but having *something* that half-works and moves me in the right direction of understanding
how everything connects together is much much faster than sitting there, confused, unable
to take a single step forward)

I find that a lot of cases where "just read the documentation" is the best route are situations where there is good (or any) documentation that is organized in a single, usable space and that doesn't require literal days worth of study to sufficiently understand the whole context to do what is, with all that context, a very simple task.

I'm reminded a bit of the days when I was a brand new Java programmer and I would regularly Google / copy-paste:

public class Foo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

}
}

Or new Python devs when they constantly have to look up

if __name__ == '__main__':
run_me()

because it's just a weird, magical incantation that's blocking their ability to do what they want to do
this is probably one of the worst takes i've ever read on here
Author here, yeah indeed. Earlier I was worried if eBPF verifier would even let me do plain integer arithmetic and then just use it as a struct pointer to an "arbitrary" kernel memory location, but it works.

Another research/testing area is whether I need to worry about memory ordering and possibly add some memory barriers, especially on ARM platform, as the eBPF task iterator passive sampler is an outside observer, periodically running on a different CPU, not injected to the context (and critical path!) of the monitored threads via tracepoints/probes.
"Hallucinations" (ie a chatbot blatantly lying) have always struck me as a skill issue with bad prompting. Has this changed recently?

to a skilled user of a model, the model won't just make shit up.

Chatbots will of course answer unanswerable questions because they're still software. But why are you paying attention to software when you have the whole internet available to you? Are you dumb? You must be if you aren't on wikipedia right now. It's empowering to admit this. Say it with me: "i am so dumb wikipedia has no draw to me". If you can say this with a straight face, you're now equipped with everything you need to be a venture capitalist. You are now an employee of Y Combinator. Congratulations.

Sometimes you have to admit the questions you're asking are unlikely to be answered by the core training documents and you'll get garbled responses. confabulations. Adjust your queries accordingly. This is the answer to 99% of issues product engineers have with llms.

If you're regularly hitting random bullshit you're prompting it wrong. Models will only yield results if they get prompts they're already familiar with. Find a better model or ask better questions.

Of course, none of this is news to people who actually, regularly talk to other humans. This is just normal behavior. Hey maybe if you hit the software more it'll respond kindly! Too bad you can't abuse a model.
This is nitpicking. When people say that half the country voted for X, it is implied they are referring to voters, not infants. You don't need to be more precise than that. Just like if I say "everyone I hang out with prefers wine over beer", I don't include my 2-year-old nephew or my cat, both of whom I hang out with regularly.
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I believe it's optimistic to think that that is the only scenario. Consider the problems we had during the pandemic, which was luckily just a minor blip as far as possible global disruptions go.
What’s uber advanced here? I was in the calculus BC class and double majored in math and physics in college.

My performance in the Putnam (I got a 2…) and in grad school are all the proof I need that I couldn’t compete.

BTW I was the best student in my flyover state public school.
No, but they're also not punished if they do build
Yeah, because any one of those 11 CSGs that scare the living shit out of pretty much everyone who opposes the US are nearby are very weak.
oh totally, I would leave immediately. I financially helped a family with teenage kids smuggle themselves out of Ukraine to a different country a few months into the recent invasion.
For a lot of the vomit code which is mostly just skimming the API to find the magical incantation, it probably is 5 minutes, honestly.
Imagine believing that, not only after living past age 5 where you start to develop a complex model of reality beyond "what seems simple and straightforward is true", but after growing into full adulthood and recognizing what is widely known to be profitable in "news"—which is selling a narrative to a target audience.

This is so elementary that anyone can see it. It's commonly mentioned in precisely the mainstream "respectable" publications like WaPo.

There's almost certainly industry jargon and marketing models for it, and technical terminology and decades of documentation about it, if I were to ask any LLM what the words and concepts are.
No! This is more about economies of attention, and about cognitive availability, than it is about deontology --- ethics are a trap here.
> Data point of one: ChatGPT 3.5, even the free product, is so much better at answering technical questions than Google.

That's not the point of Google. It gives you a start to research the answer you need. ChatGPT just gives you an answer that might not be correct. So how do you define "successfully answered"?

In programming there are always tradeoffs. It's not about picking the 1st answer that looks like it "runs".
There is some truth to what you’re saying, but that’s just another example of (particularly American) capitalism’s masterful misallocation of resources when it comes to compensation.
Say more (here, or next time I see you).
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