skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And time. Don’t forget about time. Not everyone has the luxury of 24h/day.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. If someone told me tags must appear in a specific sequence for their markup to work, I call the implementation flawed. That’s been the downfall of XML - doing way too much for it’s own good.
That article managed to use both "PIN number" and "ATM machine", impressive. Granted, they were quoting people, but one of them was a bank manager
You can’t go back from technological breakthroughs! Fear the repercussions! None of it works right and the boilers explode! Good men die! Think of all the Ferriers who will lose their jobs! The cowboys who won’t be able to do their work running cattle anymore. It’s a travesty. I don’t see that society will be ready for this change. I can see some benefits, but the downside will destroy our way of life.

— preachers in 1860
yea I figured they are probably in the US or something which means their contribution to the discourse was essentially "bad public transport is bad"
One limitation of the previous price experiment is that it was only a few summer months. Nobody sells their car for 3 months, especially when they include a summer holiday. Let's see what happens when you can count on this existing for years to come.

The germans are generally quite conscious of right and wrong (see e.g. Linux and OSM usage: it's still minorities but it's much more present than in similar countries like NL), maybe very competitive pricing does help in mass transport adoption.

In my opinion it should be somewhere between dirt cheap and free if your income is in the bottom 10% of incomes (and could cost twice as much for the top 50%, which includes me, because it has to be financed somehow anyway), but as an intermediate step, this is not going in the wrong direction.
> because most of the population is spectacularly underpaid

Underpaid compared to what? I'll start assuming here, so please forgive me: it sounds like you mean "we have a right to not be underpaid" which would be nice but I don't think there's anyone that can bend economic realities to make this right meaningful.

It would be like "we have a right to eat meat" in prehistoric times which is simply a concept but it's not feasible simply because we call it a right. If we have a fixed amount of meat, someone will have to eat less if someone else eats more.

Yes, we can increase meat production but then someone else will again eat less than the others ("underpaid" in terms of meat).

> This makes it cheaper - so far - to use human labour than machine labour.

Yes, new technology is equivalent to putting a maximum salary on human work, eventually it's just not efficient anymore to use humans.

> It's about making all human activity obsolete

I think what you're describing is paradise and I don't see it happening anytime soon. And if it happens, well, no work all play sounds like Star Trek and there we still needed humans to work in politics, defense and research...

> All forms of culture

I think the artist that works in spite of his low income is a counter-example. There are people that like to be "productive", e.g. by making music, ...

> without much of an idea of what's actually incoming

I don't see it incoming anytime soon. But if it happens, I think must people will kill themselves by overdosing on endorphines (using drugs, social media, opioids, whatever else comes along)
i don't think revenue distribution is a problem. most goes to DB anyways, and each region has local tickets that are valid across multiple companies, and they already worked out the distribution, so now they just need to extend the same process to the whole country.
No but it certainly can run Doom
And you get a different audience. I'm trying to not go down the Musk road of considering sharing an enclosure with random strangers completely unacceptable (I do actually enjoy that part of public transit, even if individual experiences are hardly ever positives in isolation, the whole, in some ways is so much better than the sum of its parts!), but on trains intended for long distance there's just less of a school bus vibe. I wonder if we might see a return of separate premium fare seating?
Sounds like fun?
I can't evaluate the results but here's my first chat, may be interesting: https://gist.github.com/IanCal/4426fdf81797c2800e8202a3b4f6c...
It's not consistent across the entire country, sure, but my wife had difficulty on trips to Munich and Graz in the last few weeks, my nephew on his trip from Berlin to Hamburg last weekend and don't get me started on trying to get to Brussels or even the local closures in Hamburg of the S-Bahn U-Bahn. The issue is as much comms as it Engineering work.

They know they're doing engineering work, but do they allow for it? No. The bus goes, oh I can't go any further, all passengers get out and continue on the S-Bahn. Walk into S-Bahn, platforms all closed.

Arrive at HBF, 15 minute delay. Keeps changing. Keeps going up. No reasons given.

Journey to X, shortly before arrival, oh, the station is shut we're going to stop early. No notice in order to help friends and relatives reorganize.

Fuck me, the UK is bad at a lot of things with public transport, but it is better coordinated than this. The roads are the same, random closures, no diversions set up, no planning with other closures to check they're not trapping people inside loops.

It's the focus on cost rather than correctness that is frustrating.
Ask HN: Resources on the management
I am looking for resources on the management of small teams. I wonder if someone has suggestion for a good book or course?

Thanks!
It truely is. I found it years ago and have used the data in various projects since then. :)
Modified inkjet printer and AI imaging used to identify bacteria in fluids
Your sacrifice wasn't in vain. You saved me 5 minutes!
If you choose to live in a remote place, you'll also have to bear the costs.
Where you go to school still greatly affects how well you are likely to do on standardised tests. Better schools can easily bump students up 2 or 3 grades compared to poorer schools. To some extent this will also improve students’ ability to complete degree courses, but there’s also a great extent to which this is just teaching students how to pass standardised tests well. It’s true that truly excellent students will do well regardless of school, but you’ll end up with mostly average students from good schools.

Universities in the UK use A-level results (which are mostly based on standardised tests), but will sometimes compensate (lower) the required grade based on a students school and background. Which IMO works out fairer in practice.
that goes for any career. I'm talking about young people who have plenty of time to invest into their future.

Doctor? Gatekeepers. Actor? Gatekeepers. Lawyer? Gatekeepers. Programmer? Just show up and be good! (The closest thing to a meritocracy there is.)
It’s seems inevitable that the majority of posts and comments will eventually be AI created intended to nudge our thoughts in a direction. I at least, will probably stop reading comments online at that point
I have no clue where LLMs will lead in 6 months, so we're pretty much there already.
Ah, sorry then. At least it parses the CUE files fine. Playing audio CD is shouldn't be a "big" task at all, basically you sent bits from the faked CD drive to the sound card.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr...

Implementing the whole fake unit reading the media would be the most difficult task by far.
You don't need an official to authorize personal expenditures on an Amex Centurion black card. This is why staff at luxury clothing stores in Venice speak Chinese.
Prices can be all over the place.

My cheapest ever flight was either £9.99 (or €9.99?) for a one way from Berlin to London Gatwick, the train onward from Gatwick to Havant cost twice that.

I've also had round-trip air tickets on the same route for about 300.

Also, at the start of December I had a week long trip to the UK, and my flight back from Stansted was cancelled while I was on the runway and the first replacement flight Ryanair's website listed was a week later, so (after further nonsense I will not repeat here) I took the train to Portsmouth, the ferry to Cean, and then a train to Berlin. The combined cost of all of those and the hotel in Cean was about a third the cost of any earlier direct flight from any airline listed on Skyscanner.
what other services exist?

also I believe the comments disparaging this post seem to not even have tried it, and uncover themselves as astroturfers from Bloomberg
The problems arise because we envision the programs’ State as a large, consistent data-centric model.

If you must maintain a single, globally consistent state, you must implement global blocking primitives, which are bound by latency and correctness requirements on all parties in the transaction.

The lower bound for cost on these types of global state engines in a Byzantine environment seems to have been found by eg. Hashgraph: a few tens of thousands of distributed transactions per second in a globally distributed environment. Falls apart for multi-planetary (high latency) participants…

Reframing the global State as “agent-centric” — only participating agents must establish consistency (instead of data-centric - all participants must agree upon one globally consistent state) removes this limit; it appears that we can scale overall transaction rate linearly with node count, roughly.

This is the big breakthrough coming with eg. Holochain based systems. It takes some time to reframe algorithms in an agent-centric form…
It’s a very confusingly written sentence, but I believe the “it” is meant to refer to “German Rail” and not the Deutschlandticket.
I think you're missing the point. it's not the chat application. it's the participants that are in the chat in Bloomberg
In Cyprus during capital controls banks allowed high value individuals to withdraw money.
Sadly, this will likely not provide much incentives for infrastructure improvements. Local commuter trains around here have deteriorated substantially over the past decades. The trains have become dirty and unreliable. More passengers will only stress the infrastructure more, so it will become even less attractive.

Maybe it would be wiser to spur the competition between various commuting alternatives such as shared cars and buses, and thereby putting pressure on the railway operators to improve their infrastructure, offering it at a more reasonable price and with more transparent pricing schemes.
I'd like to see photos of that if you don't mind posting them :)
It’s the other way around.

It helps to have some familiarity with the test, so test prep has some value, but some rich kids can’t test their way out of a paper bag. The one thing they could do is hire a ringer to take the test for them, otherwise it is a valuable form of downward mobility which presents a “barrier” to them hoarding opportunity from someone more able.
I had a professor in grad school who had studied how admissions inputs correlated to various measures of success (which is of course a fraught subject of uts own). This was a while back though I assume not much as changed. As I recall, standardized tests followed by some sort of adjusted class rank were the best predictors while a lot of the softer stuff like interviews and letters of recommendation were pretty close to worthless. I expect schools could drop some of the more time-consuming softer stuff with very little impact on the admissions process.

In MIT's case it probably is especially important to assess certain types of skills, because someone who doesn't have a reasonable math background for example is going to have a bad time. (Though problems doing math is a surprisingly common theme in higher ed including at the grad level--even with programs you wouldn't think were especially quantitative.)
astroturfing?
You'll never win a 'slippery slope' argument
"trigger a legitimate debate as to whether these things are conscious"

That debate has been raging at least since The Mechanical Turk, and even now philosophers can't even agree on what consciousness is or if humans themselves are really conscious or some kind of automata.

Chatgpt simply brought such speculation to the masses, but it's been raging in academia and science fiction for quite some time.
> Now let's say somebody in a corp uses the software for some minor task. Are they allowed? Is it the person or the corp "using" it?

Not allowed.

>If the latter, let's say me and my buddy both use the software individually, legally. We sit in the same room. Ok? We are together working on some non-profit project not involving the software. Ok? Now we use the software for it. Ok? Niw we make a profit. Ok?

All allowed.

The answer to all those questions are pretty simple and straight forward. I'm not sure why you're trying to muddy the waters here.

>RMS would be pretty opposed to these ideas.

RMS has failed catastrophically in his goal of letting users have access to the source code of the applications they use. I don't really care for what he has to say.
For non-OEM desktop PCs, I completely agree that it's all about userspace. Last time I tried daily driving Linux, the terrible HiDPI support (after 4K panels have been widely available for a decade) was one of my biggest issues along with the weird frame pacing that made some apps feel as smooth as sandpaper even on relatively fast 120Hz VRR hardware.

For laptops however, hardware support is still terrible or nonexistent. If you have a modern wifi 6/6E chipset, a fingerprint sensor, or a webcam that uses the chipset ISP, there's a very good chance it's unusable. Battery life is still a decade behind state of the art.
I was trying to remember the first hardware acceleration I saw - it was the S3 Virge.
>I feel like Sony should get the benefit of the doubt here

Free market and "benefit of the doubt here" because Sony...that's really something.
This is actually really epic to be able to use, wow. Congrats on making such a product!

EDIT: I initially thought this was open source data but I was wrong, you still need to pay for api’s to feed into this tool, so significantly less useful than I thought. A man can dream
As one of the comments to the article mentions, a lot of this dropping of standardized tests is likely being driven by the fact that the Supreme Court will likely rule against affirmative action for college admissions. The colleges want to remove as many objective measures of student achievement as possible to allow them to pick and choose they type of students they want.
> 9k out of 36k students may enroll without any academic intention.

but this isn't just because of the "semester ticket" students get, at least where I live the ticket is the least relevant reason of multiple ones why someone might sign up for university.

Other reasons include:

- healthy insurance/tax, especially until you are 25(??) you can be health insured through your parents, even afterwards the health insurance flat rate can be nice in some situations. And the tax model of student side jobs is nice too, through with some long term drawbacks people tend to overlook

- not being officially unemployed, when spending a year for yourself e.g. traveling the world

- having an excuse for your family and similar when you have absolutely no idea what you want from live

- forcing parents in broken families to pay child support longer

- using healthy insurance and tax of students to (pre-) bootstrap a one man self employment company and try out various side jobs to find yourself

- starting with the intend to study but then losing that intent due to you realizing that is not what you want to do and not finding a way forward for year or more

- abusing BAföG

- officially studing one topic "for fun, taxes, health, etc." while waiting for a spot in the study track you care for to open up, (that was a thing I have seen quite often)

- study for fun for people which don't need to work and a bored (thats how sometimes 60+ year old people appear in as students).

As a side note, in my experience most, nearly all times, when people sign up for a study track without the intention to get a Bachelor/Master they sign up for tracks which always have free "left over" spots each semester. On one hand because this makes it nearly guaranteed they get in, on the other hand because it would be pretty shitty if you prevent people which want to study from getting a spot when you have no intent to study.
I'm still so confused by this attitude. ChatGPT is not accurate. It cannot innovate, it only can rehash content is has been provided. Sure, it does so mind-boggling well. It appears to be masterful at implementing requests... but it does not know when it did something wrong. It cannot fact check itself. It cannot test its own work. And while it can reshuffle words into something new, it cannot actually invent anything new -- that depends on a person guiding it, judging the results, and driving it through additional iterations.

It is a great tool, but it is just a tool.
Nannou talks about control of lasers, what would be a way to learn and get a cheap version of a laser beam I could use at home? Or maybe can I use that to control some light projections? I'm not interested in a full projector aimed at a while wall but was more wondering if I could somehow project some satellite movement on my living room walls and ceiling. I remember in Amsterdam there are some "immersive" light shows in Micropia where you see bacteria floating around and in the floor. Also shameless plug, I bridged Alacritty with Nannou so that one can use nannou primitives as alacritty "background" with animations https://github.com/sebosp/chartacritty
Yes. There's been suggestions from multiple papers that exactly this is the case. Granted, "you get what you search for" on the internet, but I think you'll agree that search results for this are more than that.
> AI agents that interact via language

Via English.
I'll be inclined to believe we have general AI when it teaches itself language that is not widely available on the internet.
Meanwhile I did a fire course and the firefighter running it said "never leave applicances on over night or unattended" (rule 2 after "always close doors").

Not that I always do not do so (the dishwasher and washing machine in particular), but the coming millions of cars drawing double digit kilowatts at night out of domestic electrical systems is probably going to cause a few fires.
I wonder how many tonns of coal they burned
Which sounded like a covid thing to me. Must have been interesting to watch the access logs for tweedegold.nl in fall 2020! (That is, I assume the name was chosen before covid but the About page doesn't say.)
Homologicity is often used as an English phonetic crutch where a particular syllable would be awkward and/or for exposition that may not be tautological to all observers. Maybe get over it and bikeshed about something else?
I use public transport to go to work. But it's not really convenient. It takes me about 45 minutes to get there. And that's if everything goes well. Half an hour of that is walking (to and from bus stops) and waiting (you should be several minutes early because busses sometimes leave early themselves, but most of the time they are late). So there's not much reading that can be done. Also, try reading while you're waiting in the cold for a bus that keeps on getting more and more delayed because of weather. My personal record so far was nearly an hour with busses promised but then suddenly vanishing from the app.

Compared to this, the corresponding car trip takes about 10 minutes. I never sat in heavy traffic because you can easily circumvent that in a car. However, I have been stuck in a bus sitting in a traffic jam for more than 30 minutes on many occasions. The bus can't change it's course and the bus drivers don't like letting you exit anywhere that isn't a bus stop. But at least you can read while your colleagues have already been home for a while.

Most people overlook that travel to and from stops and waiting for a connecting bus can add up significantly. And then there are all those things that time tables won't tell you.
The goal posts are always moving.
Fortunately, the German population is 77.6% urban, so most people benefit.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/984679/urban-and-rural-p...
Well yeah it's for people who actually live here, tourists can pay the full price
interesting! the builder is making the program slow?

would be interesting to see the benchmark result using cl commands directly.
:) I would, because it came across as very sarcastic to me
Ask HN: What simple web apps do you wish existed? Seeking ideas for sample apps
Hello!

I'm looking for ideas for simple web apps that people wish existed. I plan to select some of those ideas and implement a “v0” or prototype version of the idea using PyCob, a Python project that makes it easy to create web apps using just Python. The easiest types of apps to implement would be Python libraries that you wish there were a front-end for. I’ll post the demo and code here: https://www.pycob.com/

If you have an idea for a simple web app that you think would be useful or fun, please share it in the comments below. These are some examples of demo apps we’ve made:

PyPi Analytics: Show trends of how many downloads PyPi packages have over time

HN Analytics: Find the best time to post on Hacker News

Dataframe Explorer: Choose fields from a dataframe to pivot and graph the results

App Wizard: Generate Python code for a CRUD app

Book Summary: Choose a book and get a 10 bullet point summary
AI Regex Generator: Give the app 3 examples and have AI (try to) generate a regex pattern

Warranty Claims: Allow users to submit warranty claims and track status of replacement parts

These are just a few examples – feel free to suggest any kind of app you can think of!

Thanks in advance for your ideas. I'm excited to see the ideas, and I look forward to implementing some of these apps using PyCob.

Thanks!
It’s a WAG
Netflix sound is just crap. It has nothing to do with "cinematic experience". Voice is not intelligible even at very high volume.
If you want fixed point arithmetic, the integers are already right there, so, you can just use those, today. What are you imagining is better about your idea ?
Are the increasingly tight capital controls a precursor to a war with Taiwan or because the CCP expects some other shock to occur? Is their economy expected to crash for some other reason or is this simply dictatorships love centralised control over everything especially capital?
Just like you receive marketing copy in your mailbox.
> I think folding/lint/etc. markers are poor examples here, because they're
> basically annotations for other tools which seems entirely fine.
>
> However comments that affect the behaviour of the code itself are really
> much less fun to deal with.

I think there is no clear distinction between "hints for other tools" and "the behavior of the code itself" unless you implicitly assume a set of tools that define "the behavior of the code itself".

You could argue that HDL synthesis hints don't change the behavior of the code, nor do SQL optimizer hints.

I understand why you think that IDE folding hints are poor examples, but you would still force unrelated tools to leave those "comments" intact, possibly in cases where there is no clear definition of "intact" (massive transformations to the JSON structure). xkcd "spacebar heating" applies: https://xkcd.com/1172/
A even better method is to start a business in China and get permission to send money overseas to buy “supplies”.

I was talking to guy in California who got an order for $1M in chips from a Chinese company. He had done tons of business in China and even had a factory there. Sent the invoice ahead of time (no product shipped) and the guy in China went silent.

His theory was that they used the invoice to get approval to exchange to USD and send it to the US. They probably edited the invoice to change the bank account the payment was made to.

That worked years ago, but nothing stops the Chinese government from clamping down on it.
Sell the picks and the shovels