MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-05-01 15:03:42+00:00
LOL :) Maybe. But he could also opt for a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, and have it painted golden. (Because Trump)

Comparison of 747, A380, C-5 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HBa5X-3Z9R4/maxresdefault.jpg

The lesser range could be compensated by refueling in the air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy#/media/Fil... (Because Trump)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HBa5X-3Z9R4/maxresdefault.jpg <- comparison of 747, A380, C-5

As could the superspecial electronics by escorting with figthers using their radar, comms & ECM. Which also could be refueled in the air. (Because Trump)
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 15:04:06+00:00
Orange often gets cited as the example of a Republican county in California because it is the highest population county that is pretty reliably Republican (it has a slight Republican registration edge, but more solidly votes Republican because it also has a Republican-favoring balance of independent-by-registratiom voters.)

But most of the Central Valley and the inland Northern California counties are much more Republican than Orange.
by spitfire | 2025-05-01 15:04:12+00:00
The 90s was a time when computers were doubling in speed every 18 months. I remember office 97* being lightning fast on. A 366mhz celeron - a cheap chip in 1998.

You could build fast software today by simply adopting a reference platform, say. A 10 year old 4core system. then measuring performance there. If it lags then do whatever work needs to be done to speed it up.

Personally I think we should all adopt the raspberry pi zero as a reference platform.

Edit: * office 2000 was fast too with 32 megs of ram. Seriously what have we done?
by jacob-ivo | 2025-05-01 15:04:21+00:00
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by fuzzfactor | 2025-05-01 15:04:26+00:00
A Walmart superstore is stacked to the gills with products of all description.

What makes lots of money is not exactly having so many different choices stocked, instead having a good proportion of items "fly off the shelf" can be the focus.

The high-performance store will have numerous shelves completely clear every day, sometimes more than once per day, and they are perfectly geared to accommodate that when it happens without waiting until the more-organized nightly re-stocking.

The store is huge, and if a big shelf stays clear for any length of time it's quite noticeable. But can still represent the tip of the iceberg if that also means that quite a big multiple of inventory is also absent from "behind the curtain" in the warehouses and upstream.
by hedora | 2025-05-01 15:04:46+00:00
486's were way past when that became practical. I remember using Prodigy on a 286. Screenshots are rare, since you can't fire it up in an emulator unless you have a modem that can make phone calls to the 1980's. Also, machines from back then didn't really have room to store screenshots:

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/1063

Their service used vector art to render interactive pages like that over <= 2400 baud modems. Other than it being proprietary and stuff, I'm guessing the web would be a much cooler place if HTML hadn't eaten their lunch. SVG is a decent consolation prize, I guess.
by maljan | 2025-05-01 15:04:49+00:00
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by qwerty456127 | 2025-05-01 15:04:53+00:00
This seems a reasonable assumption to me but I don't mean to insist I'm right.

Slow monochrome eInk panels have been around for 2 decades. Mostly built into pocket book readers, phones (like Motorola F3) and niche devices like supermarket price tags rather than computer monitors attachable with common connectors.

Okay, perhaps it's not the speed which makes them expensive, yet manufacturers and researchers mostly brag about making them faster (and more colorful) rather than making them more cheap (what I would prefer them to).
by jurajmasar | 2025-05-01 15:05:05+00:00
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by cyral | 2025-05-01 15:05:21+00:00
Previously they were ordered to allow outside payments. Apple “complied” by requiring a 27% cut on all outside payments (slight discount to cover the cost of Stripe or whatever), a massive scary popup saying that outside sites can’t be trusted, and the link wasn’t allowed to be in the “payment flow” (where else would it be?), and the right to audit your finances. There were some other things but that’s what I remember as being the most egregious.

Since this basically defies what the court would require, they are now explicitly telling Apple that none of that is allowed, and that there cannot be any restrictions on placement or styling of links to outside payments. As the judge said, no reasonable person would believe that their actions are complying with that they were instructed to do.

> Apple willfully chose not to comply with this Court's Injunction. It did so with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers which would, by design and in effect, maintain a valued revenue stream; a revenue stream previously found to be anticompetitive. That it thought this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation. As always, the coverup made it worse. For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple.
by dbere | 2025-05-01 15:05:21+00:00
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by abeppu | 2025-05-01 15:05:21+00:00
> Duckdb and datafusion are super cool! But they are VERY large wasm blobs (30-40mb each). This is often larger than the data you’re trying to load.

I don't know how to reconcile this with the emphasis in the page on interacting with datasets relevant to AI which are commonly several orders of magnitude larger than this. What's an AI problem where the data data involved has been less than 10s of mb? I think that only toy problems and datasets could plausibly be smaller (e.g. the training images for the classic MNIST dataset are 47MB, and the whole dataset is 55 https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hojjatk/mnist-dataset?select... ).
by Ajedi32 | 2025-05-01 15:05:22+00:00
That's possible I suppose, but do you have any evidence of that or is it just your personal biases causing you to assume the worst motivation you can imagine must be the correct one?

I know personally that given the choice I'd probably rather use Signal than whatever messaging system the DoD contractors managed to come up with. And private conversations between senior military officials over encrypted DoD communication channels probably aren't FOIAable anyway.
by padraigfl | 2025-05-01 15:05:37+00:00
From what I've seen very little. I _think_ it's something to do with the kind of people who work on embedded systems generally wanting the freedom that comes with making things from scratch resulting in not that much interest in repurposing old things outside of making them work with their overall IoT network.

I recently reverse engineered an e-waste STEM toy from scratch ( https://github.com/padraigfl/awesome-arcade-coder ) and the general response I got from places were:

a. to salvage the microcontroller and other relevant parts (probably worth $4 off a board that would cost $100+ to replicate)

b. a weirdly hostile attitude about the ethics of reverse engineering regardless of the motives (guessing people have been burned a lot with people stealing their designs)

I've mostly worked on the frontend and don't have much knowledge of embedded systems at all but it wasn't anywhere near as hard as I expected. Keen to find some other ESP32 devices to tweak (suggestions welcome!). I guess even if making them unflashable becomes the norm it won't be too hard to just swap the ESP32 off the board with a new one.
by vessenes | 2025-05-01 15:05:41+00:00
In the words of a trial lawyer friend of mine, “Nobody in the history of the world has said, ‘You know what? The judge was right; I was an asshole.’

Definitely some of those vibes there. I’ve generally been on team apple for this case, and as Gruber notes, they largely won the case. Dunking on their power to set other contractual fees seems to have come back to bite them. That said, as a user, I strongly prefer to use Apple’s in-app payments — I was just buying a hearthstone purchase from Blizzard; on my laptop it popped up options like “Credit Card or PayPal?” I was like “nah” and loaded it up on my iPad to pay with Apple Pay.

Do I hate PayPal? No. Do I appreciate a payment service that shows all my recurring payments in one place, lets me cancel them, and feels generally very safe? Yes. I’m happy to have Apple compete on fair playing field for payments.

Summary: Oops.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 15:05:41+00:00
I like to think I've been reasonably successful at becoming the person I used to want to be

That's a very good feeling. Of course not everything in life has played out exactly how I wanted, and there are always regrets about paths not taken

But ultimately I had an idea what I wanted from life and I mostly have it now

I had to make compromises on a lot of things, but it was worth it to get this far

I don't live in the city that I wanted to settle down in, but I own my own house where I live now

I had to leave family and friends behind in my hometown, but I have met new people and I have a new family where I live now

I don't work in my dream job, but I have built a solid career

I think the past me would be really happy to know what the future held for me, even if it did mean I am not that same person anymore

Edit: This is maybe a bit off topic but I think the recent cultural focus on "identity" (as in, "who am I") has been kind of negative for people

What worked really well for me was not getting wrapped up in "who am I" and instead focusing on "who do I want to be"

I've seen many friends and acquaintances fall off and become miserable because they got mired in their identity (both sexual and otherwise).

Meanwhile I am one of the most successful people I know of from the people I grew up with. Actually, I'm one of the most successful people in my entire country (top 3% based on income, anyways)

Maybe it's a privilege to not have to worry about "who am I", but I really do think "who do I want to be" is just a much better approach. It's something you can actually take action to achieve
by guywithahat | 2025-05-01 15:05:57+00:00
a Wikipedia link means nothing, especially in the context of politically charged grammar. You can't link most conservative papers on Wikipedia, and some of the founders regularly acknowledge the site is heavily biased.

I mean that article claims singular they was common through the 19th and 20th century, but we see that's not true through any dictionary lookup https://www.websters1913.com/words/They

They (thā), pron. pl.; poss. Theirs; obj. Them. [Icel. þeir they, properly nom. pl. masc. of sā, sū, þat, a demonstrative pronoun, akin to the English definite article, AS. sē, seó, ðæt, nom. pl. ðā. See That.] The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed.

Using they to refer to someone when you don't want to acknowledge their gender is a very recent thing, only done by the politically motivated.
by areyourllySorry | 2025-05-01 15:06:12+00:00
the consensus was that ddt was okay too, and the current consensus is that oil is not a big enough issue to bother with.

the state didn't feed small children radioactive oatmeal for fun oh wait

imo, water is one of those things we should keep simple. today they add fluoride, tomorrow what? maybe "brushing people's teeth for them" in the name of convenience is doing people a disservice. pick up healthy habits or get lost.

signed, fluoride free toothpaste user and boiled tap water drinker.

as for the mushrooms, i agree that it's a stupid law
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-05-01 15:06:13+00:00
They used the label "socialist" only early on for propagandistic purposes so they could destroy / substitute themselves for the socialist movement -- which was powerful and omnipresent across Europe. Germany had just gone through a failed socialist revolution and the largest force in civil society were social democrats and socialists, so using this language was useful for them, and early on they had people in their ranks who were trying to somehow fuse nationalism with some sort of socialism. Those people were exterminated.

All the NAZI leadership (after the knight of the long knives) openly spoke of their hatred of any kind of socialism -- philosophically and organizationally -- and of all socialists and socialists of all kinds were the first to be put in death camps. The entire moral and ethical framework -- the celebration of the nation and race above all else, the subservience to a singular leader, etc. reflect a hatred of socialist (internationalism, secularism, class solidarity instead of nationalism, helping the poor and weak, women's liberation) values which were considered "degenerate" and "Jewish"

(And unlike Stalinism/Maoism which also reflects similar outcomes in this case the goal is explicit and stated and propagandistically proclaimed rather than hidden under a layer of Bolshevik ideology)

So I'm not sure why libertarians etc (and recently Elon Musk) in the US keep repeating this assertion ("NAZIsm is socialism!) as some kind of fact. It only underscores a lack of knowledge of history, it's not some "gotcha", it's a self-own that only takes advantage of people who don't know the history.
by kazinator | 2025-05-01 15:06:28+00:00
Does the author not know that rsync can use compression (rsync -z | --compress | --compress-level=<n> ), or does he not think it worthwhile to compare that data point?

I just tried some comparisons (albeit with a fairly small sqlite file). The text compressed to only about 84% of the size of the compressed binary database, which isn't negligible, but not necessarily worth fussing over in every situation. (The binary compressed to 7.1%, so it's 84% relative to that).

bzip2 performed better on both formats; its compression of the binary database was better than gzip's compression of the text (91.5%) and bzip2's text was better than binary (92.5).

Though that is not available inside rsync, it indicates that if you're going with an external compression solution, maybe gzip isn't the best choice if you care about every percentage reduction.

If you don't care about every percentage reduction, maybe just rsync compression.

One thing worth mentioning is that if you are updating the file, rsync will only compress what is sent. To replicate that with the text solution, you will have to be retaining the text on both sides to do the update between them.
by ahmedbaracat | 2025-05-01 15:06:41+00:00
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by n4r9 | 2025-05-01 15:06:42+00:00
> let's take for granted that if one has a theory, then they have understanding

Leaving aside what is actually meant by "theory" and "understanding". Could it not be argued that eventually LLMs will simulate understanding well enough that - for all intents and purposes - they might as well be said to have a theory?

The parallel I've got in my head is the travelling salesman problem. Yes, it's NP-Hard, which means we are unlikely to ever get a polynomial-time algorithm to solve it. But that doesn't stop us solving TSP problems near-optimally at an industrial scales.

Similarly, although LLMs may not literally have a theory, they could become powerful enough that the edge cases in which a theory is really needed are infinitesimally unlikely.
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by amanaplanacanal | 2025-05-01 15:08:10+00:00
I think I'd still recommend index funds and real estate for a young person today. Buy the biggest house you can reasonably afford, and invest every spare bit of money you have in an index fund. Do everything you can to move from the worker class to the capital owning class, because that's where the returns go. And inflation isn't going away.

In theory, capitalism could fail completely. In theory, governments could stop inflating their currencies. I sure wouldn't bet that way though.
by streptomycin | 2025-05-01 15:08:13+00:00
> Getting rid of native SQLite in Chrome (Firefox was forced to follow), with the main reason is that ,,there are no 2 different implementations, all browsers use the same''.

You have that backwards, it was Mozilla arguing against WebSQL (and never implementing it in Firefox in the first place) and Google was arguing for it.

I agree with your point about file system persistence, that is probably the biggest limitation in web apps compared to native apps today. However again it was Google arguing in favor of the File System Access API (letting web apps read/write normal files) and Mozilla/Apple arguing against it and only supporting a neutered version (fake hidden files that the browser can delete whenever it wants).
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by wing-_-nuts | 2025-05-01 15:08:41+00:00
Yeah, I saw that video. IMHO it's much more of a problem with smaller indexes. If you buy total stock market (VTI) just how often is a company going to be moving in and out of that index?

I noticed he didn't really have much in the way of suggestions for the individual beyond suggesting DFA funds. Given those aren't easily available without signing up for their advisor services, I am deeply skeptical that the savings would be enough to pay for their fees.