skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other ways around the cost. They could build a distributed training system along the lines of Folding@Home, I’m sure a lot of AI folks would donate GPU time.
One downside to the Raspberry Pi (CM)4 is that it doesn't have hardware crypto. So it'd make a poor VPN machine. But otherwise I think it'd be fine. Some people are happy just using a regular Pi 4 connected to a VLAN-capable switch or with a USB adapter for the second NIC.

I recently bought a GL.iNet Brume. It's a nice tiny ARM machine I use as a wired-only router. /proc/cpuinfo confirms it supports hardware crypto...

Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid

...although I haven't set up a VPN on it yet. Downsides: the WAN and LAN0/LAN1 ports are all the same switch with only one network interface, so it'd be impossible to achieve >500Mbps full-duplex. (It's never come up for me; my Internet connection's too slow.) It's also a little pricy for what it is.

I might have tried the FriendlyELEC NanoPI R4S instead, which actually has two separate NICs. But if I'd ordered that I'd still be waiting for it...

One thing I don't care about: hardware NAT/routing offload. I think that's often unsupported by OpenWRT, and it's incompatible with SQM.
When I was growing up a K car was considered a super cheap vehicle, so yeah, the Barenaked Ladies were referring to exactly that.
AFAICT they are. You can't find a GTX 3060, 3070, or 3080 for less than 4x MSRP right now.
Just looking through the docs of one of these apps called Ledger [0], it seems to me it’s a lot of work to keep everything up to date.

I guess one could write tools to ease importing data from banks, brokers and the like.

Currently I don’t do the full accounting stuff. I just keep track of my net worth using an Apple provided Numbers sheet. It’s easy and quick, just occasionally logging into all my accounts and then updating the values in the sheet. This way I don’t get the historical overview, but at least the data can be updated in just a couple of minutes. As long as I see my net worth rise over time, I am happy.

—-

[0]: https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.pdf
Having used ZorinOS (and Ubuntu, and Mint, and several other "based on Ubuntu"s), it has a nicer installer, and a nicer package manager (it can find and install snaps and flatpaks based on a text search, which makes finding mainstream apps easier). Also it's GNOME install is configured to be a bit more Windows-like.

Overall, it feels like an incremental but noticeable improvement.
Perhaps, but the comments here suggest a lot of players would love to try it.
You don't have to pay prisoners for work in Texas.
If you use a pen to write out a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, then publish copies, you are guilty of copyright infringement, not the pen.
Generalization is the problem. It is not accurate to say that all gay relationships require two penises.

It is also wrong to call a lesbian transphobic because she finds testicles unattractive and vaginas attractive. She is entitled to be honest about her sexuality.
Floating point shouldn't be part of the interpreter. Integers are all you need.
Sounds like classic Phil Agre (except whoever this is doesn't write anything like Phil did).
That's an effort to make their abhorrent behavior seem normal. Don't fall for it.

Speaking firsthand, Glowforge will always share fully diluted options and the last 409a valuation. What we do is not uncommon, and IMHO is the only ethical course of action.

Note, however, that options are granted by the board, and until they approve the grant, the 409a and hence the strike price may change. For example, if the company got a buyout offer between your conversation and the board action, the board would likely have to order a new 409a before granting.

Good luck!
I've been wanting to try OpenWrt for a while, but apparently my Netgear R6700v3 isn't supported because of its Broadcom chip.

What's a good consumer router for OpenWrt? I don't do any fancy home lab stuff, just normal people watching videos and me posting on Hacker News.
I agree with what everyone is saying - that the monarchy is useless and should be abolished.

I agree.

And in the USA, there are so many completely useless things that should be abolished. For example, all sports teams, television, Facebook, Google, junk food, tobacco, alcohol. The list is endless.

All are useless. All take a toll and are detrimental to our civilization. Some of them are very expensive indeed.

The list is endless.
Ultimately, the only insecure thing about curl-to-bash is if you don't trust the server — the server in this case being Github. I think few people or companies include Github-being-malicious in their threat model; if Github was malicious, any build artifacts produced by even cloning from Github would be potentially suspect, since Github could fairly easily detect automated build agents and serve them different content (especially if the build agents were integrated with Github Actions, which is fairly common these days — or even if they were just using Github webhooks). If you do continuous delivery, or even if you just do continuous integration and then don't have a human decompile and audit every line of the build artifacts after they're created, you de facto trust your repo host; for most people that means Github.
The current Ranger model is not just larger than an 80s Ranger, it's larger than an 80s F150!
Ensuring AIs don't wind up wanting to destroy humanity.
That article is about turning "location history" off, not turning "location services" off.

Full disclosure I work at Google but nothing related to that.
Often? The Army Corps of Engineers had a budget of less than $8B in 2021. The Army Corps of Engineers has three main missions, one of which is the civil side of things. I'm not sure how it breaks down budget-wise though.

But saying money spent on the military often flows into local infrastructure seems laughable.
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On the other hand, companies that have inventory right now get to increase market share over those that didn’t think ahead and have nothing to sell.
The crew cab thing drives me crazy. I had a '93 Ranger with standard cab and it was the perfect size. You can't buy anything like it today.
> If hyperinflation of the world's reserve currencies actually does occur, there is no guarantee that Bitcoin's valuation will match inflation.

You do understand what “hyperinflation” means, right?
Some electrical unions used to make their apprentices make their own motor.

I happened to have a Craftsman lathe that has a armature winder attachment.

I sold ten motors before I decided I didn't want to be a union electrician.

Looking back, I guess the union wanted the students to have a deep understanding of motors?
What hot regions use evap systems in data centers? Seems the humidity wouldn’t be worth it and once you dehumidify you might as well use an a/c in the first place.
> And with EVs coming, kei cars/trucks seem like perfect candidates for EV conversions.

Is there enough room for batteries for them to have a reasonable amount of range?
Do all of these use a text file as the back end? I like the idea of a CLI, but it’s way easier running Tableau over an SQL database than a text file with indentation (just read the beancount review).
I feel quite inspired by this regardless and will give it a shot.
Didn't Amtrak effectively do away with dining cars? Unless we want to call microwaving "dining".
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Isn't OpenWRT a distro for routers? Your router came with gigabit disks?
Sometimes those curfew fines actually cause flights not to depart. Some years ago, I was sitting on the tarmac at John Wayne for about an hour, hoping to make it just under the nighttime curfew, but ultimately the flight was canceled and I had to get a shuttle to LAX and an alternative flight in the morning.
Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjective, but I personally want broader perspectives on literature. I think this will be a difficult problem for bookwyrm to overcome.
On a related note, ETH 2.0 is coming around the corner, which is going to result in a flood of used GPUs to the market (hopefully driving prices down). This will happen sometime in the next two years I believe.
It is a shortage because there are more open positions for senior developers than there are senior developers here.

Paying more won't bring senior developers out of the void because there do not exist enough to fill all positions. If all companies expand at the same time they can not possibly all fill their positions no matter what they pay.
> it seems to me it’s a lot of work to keep everything up to date

Unless you do dozens of transactions every day, it's not much of a hassle to keep track of them manually. If you're like a day trader or a small business owner then yeah, you'll probably need some helper tools.
I avoided exercise after both doses in May after looking at Israeli data. I have no idea why this is not common knowledge by now.
One of the people quoted in this article, Robert E. Bartholomew, also wrote a book on the Havana Syndrome, which is most likely another case of mass psychogenic illness.

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030407452

I've been reading it, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more.
The shorter the distance between two components the less energy you're going to lose to resistance, electromechanical components have physical friction, conversion inefficiencies going from electrical to mechanical energy, and the energy needed to accelerate a mass.

Really, what nukes the repairability of a lot of products these days (ignoring the repair-hostile practices of many companies) is the cost of the item vs the time needed to disassemble the unit, track down where something went wrong, repair it, reassemble, and hope that component didn't blow because something else upstream is faulty that you didn't find. Cuba and Africa the time is cheap while replacement units are somewhere between expensive and unobtainium, USA/Japan/Europe not so much.
>Re: crash safety, I wonder if it's possible to retrofit some extra safety measures on these things?

That's a good question for any older car. I can think of a number of measures, but it would be interesting to see some real engineering go into retrofits. Besides new/proper seat belts an interesting angle would be a partial roll cage that is safe for a helmetless driver.

I'd love to a have a Kei truck purely for around town (we don't have any traffic lights to give you an idea) in snowy weather. Small = good when the streets shrink due to plowing, small = good for dragging out of a ditch, cheap = good just because it's easy to hurt a car in serious snow.
They can be modified, though not necessarily in a typical way. Also, CM4 implementations vary, and most interfaces on 3rd party boards can have MTU set as normal.
Yes, in economics this is called an inferior good. This does not make public transportation a bad investment or mean that society wouldn’t be better off overall with it. We are local optimization machines and sometimes our desires are not overall beneficial to us. It is an inferior good as that phrase is used in economics but it is the right choice. Economics primarily deals with desire and ‘utility’ functions. It does not provide insight into what is best for society as a whole. Particularly since in our system negative externalities are not built into price.
Not sure if it supports all the features you need, anyway you might find interesting the PCEngines APU2 boards.

https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
I've used the ledger-likes extensively, and they have two major problems:

(1) One of the hard problems in personal finance is data capture and input validation. Programs like QuickBooks and Xero don't just hide the GL because they're being mean, they're doing it because even experienced bookkeepers make mistakes on the general ledger all the time. "Since it's a text file it's easy to read" solves exactly the wrong problem: you want it to be easy to write, and easy to write CORRECTLY.

(2) They're the sort of solution that seems fantastic if you don't actually operate at scale. But once you start dealing with tens of transactions per day it simply is not sustainable.

Safe to say: I'm not really a fan.
The cheapest available right now was 140 euro. When do the 25 dollar server come out?
I honestly wonder sometimes if HN is the best place to market a lot of the things that get posted here. A lot of people on HN are developers and I think they post here because it’s _their_ community but in reality it’s actually not a good fit for a lot of products. Maybe some dev/SAAS things, but something like Goodreads? That should be marketed to readers, not developers. The only reason it gets posted here is because the development side is interested (supposedly) in the decentralized technical nature of the product, but that actually matters very little to most people.
> Just because something can be used, or even is used, doesn't mean it's a good idea in general.

Yes, people tend to use the “best” form of money that is readily available and appropriate for their economic circumstances. And your opinion on whether a particular form of money is a “good idea” holds exactly zero weight in their decision.
I know excactly how my tv is spying on me. Its not. Its a dumb tv. The streaming dongle on the other hand is a snitch reporting back to the mothership, of course as the mothership in this case amazon is also one of the content providers subscribe too so I cant just block it at the firewall, (I am not concerned about the Atari 2600 or NES phoning home my old original xbox on the other hand complains and pretends to be gimped if it cant talk to Microsoft every so often)
> ...vapor collection could be made much more efficient by first zapping the tiny droplets of water with a beam of electrically charged particles, or ions, to give each droplet a slight electric charge. Then, the stream of droplets passes through a wire mesh, like a window screen, that has an opposite electrical charge. This causes the droplets to be strongly attracted to the mesh

Woah, this seems really simple and possibly applicable to other situations where you're trying to condense a vapor.
It's nice to be able to add comments, add a layer of preprocessing with a template/macro language, track changes with git, organize stuff in an arbitrary structure of files, etc.

Stuff like that is not as simple if the backend is an SQL DB.
I was at the grocery store today and heard someone say "Kei car. K E I."

I wonder if it was an HN user.
Out of curiosity, what benefit do you get by flashing the AP vs the stock firmware?
As someone who worked on ml based classification I can totally see a man being misclassified as a monkey on occasion. If you have man and monkey in the output vector, it will happen on from time to time.. If you find a way to achieve 100% accuracy, go claim your Nobel prize..
> What matters is energy-per-transaction.

Why? All transactions are not created equal.
Classification of a good as inferior in economics is not a judgment about that particular good, it's just a historical observation about a particular income-demand curve. Let's just quote the Wikipedia article:

> Inferiority, in this sense, is an observable fact relating to affordability rather than a statement about the quality of the good. As a rule, these goods are affordable and adequately fulfill their purpose, but as more costly substitutes that offer more pleasure (or at least variety) become available, the use of the inferior goods diminishes. Direct relations can thus be drawn from inferior goods to socio-economic class. Those with constricted incomes tend to prefer inferior goods for the reason of the aforementioned observable inferiority.

Many of these goods are eschewed by the rich due to cultural / status phenomena that are constructed artificially by people trying to sell so-called luxury goods.

In the context of how to plan our cities, this has little bearing on the discussion. Should we use mechanical clocks to keep time because when people get rich they're more likely to buy watches with mechanical movements? Certainly those have emerged as a status symbol, but that's entirely constructed and could be otherwise. It's not based on any inherent superiority.
Wifi will always be hit or miss with Openwrt. The general advice is to use openwrt for routing and a separate access point that runs vendor firmware for wifi. Should you want everything in one device, R7800 is a well supported openwrt all-in-one device.
Makes sense! I'm using wireguard on opnsense (but it's a newish feature) and so far it's been a great experience.
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Reading (mostly SF and Fantasy)

Drawing (on an ipad air as buying art supplies is tiring and I’m not that good)
Oh wow, yep, that's exactly what we figured out. Their save file format stored the password hash, but didn't actually encrypt or obfuscate the grade data beyond just whatever serialization they were doing. We were starting on figuring that format out when we noticed that creating a new save file with or without a password changed a byte right before the password off and on... flip it off and the app no longer prompted for the password... edit/save in the app, flip it back on, and that was that. edit: I should add, rather than get expelled we got a ton of extra credit for it since it was at least sort of sanctioned.
I had a similar experience and ended up doing the same. OPNsense does include a userspace implementation of Wireguard, but is obviously inferior to what Linux already has. It ended up being that, how poorly the initial kernel space implementation was handled for FreeBSD and that I wanted Cake for QoS, which made me move back to OpenWRT.

I do want to ask though, has there been any downsides to using OpenWRT on x86?
Why do everything in openwrt ? Virtualize openwrt itself on an x86 host and do whatever else you want with other vms.
> I have enough HW and can live a few years off what is there. I guess people have been trained to get the newest thing every year

I imagine the downvotes were for implying that everyone else is in a similar situation as you. What about people who were being efficient before the shortage, and now can't keep their aged equipment running any longer? What about businesses who suddenly need much more equipment than they did previously, due to pandemic restrictions?

> How is the market for used equipment doing btw?

I've found it much harder to find available supplies at any given time, but I haven't actually seen prices going up as a result.
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Shift Phones
Personally, I’m much more mystified by how emotionally invested otherwise normal people become in initiatives to reduce the numbers of undesirable populations. Margaret Sanger wasn’t exactly subtle.
it multiple toxic love triangles varying on the policy/issue in question, department, party in power, and media provider.
"...force Apple to be silent giving up Biden-people’s iCloud data via NSL gags."

I terribly misread that as SNL gags.

My brain was awfully (in hindsing - hilariously) confused for a good two minutes... trying to figure out how exactly was Apple sidetracking the imposed silence coalmine-canary-style by creatively leaking some data to Biden's people - via the medium of Saturday Night Live gags.

(My only defense is a self-eyeroll.)
Wonder how many VCs are thinking it but avoid leaving a paper trail?
> Didn't Amtrak effectively do away with dining cars?

No, though it suspended traditional dining for a while due to COVID; it was restored in June.
openwrt is/was better for fq_codel and cake which were linux things. There may also be other packages that you may find on one or the other. I make extensive use of vpn-policy-routing on openwrt which does selective routing over a few different vpn interfaces (wg, openconnect, etc.). Not sure if something like this exists in bsd land.
Take a look at hcqmeta, specially the RCT parte. You will see:

* A lot of small trials that are perhaps not even statically significant and show some positive effect.

* A few very large trials that show essentially no effect.

Very small trials are easy to organize, and if it fails people gets disappointed and forget to write it down, or the journal reject it because it shows (almost) no effect. So there is a lot of filtration.

Very large trials are difficult to organize, so they must publish the final result somewhere to ensure they can fill all paperwork. Also it's large enough to be interesting for the journal. So there is less filtration.
I agree and the lack of a shingles epidemic in the USA since the advent of the chicken pox vaccine means that UK children are suffering needlessly.
Interesting… no, I have not checked out their latest models.
This is fantastic. I always wanted to learn relativity. But almost all the books I borrowed were so deep targeted towards students who will think about that day in and out.

I think a lot of avenues of core sciences need books like these that are deeper than popular science but are accessible to someone who is not doing it for a living.
Awesome! Could you provide a link for it?
Interestingly I was in Best Buy and this is what they’ve done.
Many consumers fuel this demand by sheer convenience. I personally know of many PC users who order a new laptop/machine, when all they require is a SSD upgrade to their hard-drive. Unfortunately they are not tech-savvy to do a reinstall of the OS. For them it is simply more convenient to order a newer machine. In some extreme cases, all they need is an external drive to store their data and to physically wipe down of their computer to remove the dirt/crumbs/grime from 2 years of usage.
The optimization problem at the inner loop of these methods doesn't handle latency very well. This is covered a bit in the DOTA 2 rerun work [1] (e.g., Figure 5b on staleness).

So for both large models (which are split up amongst multiple accelerators but effectively one "computer"), as well as learning from "your friends" you want to be more tightly coupled than something like seti/folding@home. There are plenty of workloads that are great for embarrassingly parallel (and now "pleasingly parallel") workloads, but training a single model isn't one of them.

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/dota-2.pdf
And I impolitely concur, because a security tool that's installed on the fly with no signature verification is just stupid (or a funny troll)
https://archive.is/S8qzB

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8hQnK?kreymer=false
Have I traveled back in time? I swear I saw this exact story and comments a day or so ago, but HN is telling me they're only a few hours old. Specifically it says OP is 3 hours old (including in a private tab on a different browser). Hitting the "past" link suggests it's 3 days old. Did someone s/days/hours/ somewhere?
It would be nice if it also supported SCSS. Writing vanilla CSS variable syntax over and over can get extraordinarily annoying. Also if you want scoped variables SCSS has support for that while vanilla CSS uses global variables.

I'd really just rather write $color-blue rather than var(--color-blue);
https://archive.is/W5j9h
Desktops are nice. Laptops are meh.
Agreed 100%. Go with the Air, you can do more stuff on it than the iPad, including programming.
I'm not affiliated with the company at all, but I recently heard about Shift and thought they were unknown enough to warrant an HN post.

They seem to operate in the same niche as Fairphone, i.e. ethical production of smartphones.
hah, found the DMV rule

"Only if located on a natural island with an area in excess of 20,000 acres and that is within a county having a population in excess of 4,000,000"