skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors.

That seemed pretty low-level so I'm putting it back on the back burner. User friendliness doesn't seem to be a top priority, and that's fine.
Maybe the hypothetical "market price" of gold works that way, but in practical selling and buying provenance can be used as a shortcut for independently determining purity. If you want your buyer to just accept your "gold" without testing, if you have gold without provenance, you're just going to have to accept a discount on your sale.

Consider the difference between "merely" 99% and 99.99% gold. On a 1oz coin, that's like ~200USD of value right there.
I had an interesting idea for solo dev work recently. Pretend to be two people. One as the maker, one as the manager.

Create a private Discord server, and create a second user account in another browser profile to be the "manager".

Then chat to yourself.

The rule is that the manager cannot code, and must delegate all tasks, and is obsessed with shipping fast. Write a small document of the manager's explicit goals, what they like and dislike in employees.

I find when managing real people at work there is a big difference in your behavior when you aren't allowed to code - there is much more clarity into what is really important.

It's silly, but maybe it works.
Ask HN: Should startup founders be concerned about possible hyperinflation?
It seems that the fed will print money to provide liquidity to distressed banks. It also looks like gold is up as of late. Alternatively fed may also alter reserve requirements for banks which could hurt banks even further (along with rate hikes).

Should startup founders be concerned about this? What about VCs?
This article is from 2014. Looks like there is a 2013 version here:

https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differe...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25148942

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254569

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718067
> Where does it originate from, I wonder? I suspect someone said something like that on social media, their post went viral, and now all of the internet is reverberating with this thing. It's a meme, yes?

I don't have social media outside of HN.

It comes from a few observations:

1) Large models are still improving with increased parameter counts (we do not know where the ceiling is yet; it could be low but it could also be high).

2) Most current architectures train by using all model parameters to produce an output, which is vastly inefficient. While it is not clear how to improve on this in the general case yet, in the simpler problem of NERFs, sidestepping this issue has led to a ~100x improvement in training time.

3) https://mingukkang.github.io/GigaGAN/ very recently increased the parameter count of StyleGAN by selecting parameters dynamically at runtime. They improved on previous results by a very, very large margin, at somewhat comparable training times.

I stand by my claim: "neural network architectures are still in their infancy, it is very likely that more efficient approaches exist". I am not claiming that AI will become sentient or anything crazy and do not understand why you are associating my point of view with other people. I just said that it is likely that a novel technology will continue to improve (has this it ever NOT been the case for any new technology?).
It's been a while since I've used the extension (I use FF now) and I can't recall if you can set it to about:blank.

Disclaimer, I created https://aboutblank.page because in some browsers, about:blank was a default white page, and ignored the OS dark mode setting. My site respects the prefers-color-scheme setting, or you can set it to whatever color you want via a query string (see https://github.com/sphars/about-blank/#usage)
Does Microsoft add these feeds to LTSC editions as well now, or does the F100 in question scrimp on buying those?
Yeah, if the JSON is relatively flat, converting to TSV makes the data fairly trivial to consume using awk and other classic command line tools. I did a lot of this when a past employer decided they couldn’t afford Splunk.
I don't see how Google can get any kind of market share if all they offer is an API behind a waiting list.

OpenAI understands this. They provide a simple chat interface to interact with their language model that even my grandparents can use.

Midjourney understands this too. The Discord interface is a bit awkward to use, but the fact that any Discord user can instantly become a Midjourney user was a brilliant idea.

Google, on the other hand, is only targeting a tiny subset of all people, namely those who can make use of an API and want to sign up for its cloud offerings.

Is there any (ex?) Googler here who can explain why Google keeps squandering its immense technological advantage over its competitors again and again?
> Politics should act to ban some classes of insecticides.

My fear (in the US anyway) is that this will never happen because of one simple reason: Iowa Corn Farmers.

Presidential elections in the US start and end for many candidates in one state. Iowa. That's where the first primary election is held.

And the key to winning Iowa is the make the corn lobby and corn farmers happy.
what got me is that over the past 10 or more years, I've continually seen dead bees on the ground.

and I think... what a small creature to *notice* on the ground. How many dead bees escape my notice? there must be a LOT.
Cato the younger for forcing Caesar to cross the Rubicon?
I recommend the book "Why we Sleep" by Matthew Walker [0]. It helped me to fix sleep schedule and better understand why good sleep is important

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
My point is that if government
is a bad actor, there is no recourse. We need a fair democratic society - it's on us to build one / keep it there
Working as a SWE for lots of years, I've worked with people that always feel the need to "add a level of abstraction" or "build a framework" for (and out of) everything. A lot of the time it doesn't make things better (and often makes things worse).

Every time I try to learn about Category Theory, I get to a certain point and just start wondering "why?"

I can't tell if I'm not smart enough to get it (I think that's the most likely answer). But it feels like some math people -- who have nothing better to do -- are just trying to create another level of abstraction.

Are there things that Category Theory does that other branches couldn't already do? I'm curious to hear other takes on this.
Clickhouse is the best way to analyze 10GB sized json by far.

Latest bunch of features add near-native json support. Coupled with ability to add extracted columns make the whole process easy. It is fast, you can use familiar SQL syntax, not constrainted to RAM limits.

It is a bit hard if you want to iteratively process file line-by line or use advanced SQL. And you have one-time cost of writing schema. Apart from that, I can't think of any downsides.

Edit: clarify a bit
A single 800Gbit/s port can do 259200000 GB a month. That's 5'184'000$ a month. Their traffic prices are ridiculous and there is no excuse for it.
youtube competitor. that's just funny to me. kind of even comes across as petty. you took however much time to investigate average viewed time of a competitor and then cried to daddy about the perceived slight in "advantage" instead of taking that time to improve your competing product to make it better.
Already discussed about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35077888
Remember getting so many mosquito bites, but then after growing up you almost never see mosquitos any more in the same location. Was many years since I last saw one now.
I like having a few different loops to keep code more readable. I think there should be two at a minimum for whether the condition is before or after the looped code.

I agree with the rest, but the rest of the language is great.
Someone I knew has a Rabbit Diesel. That was at the time diesel fuel was cheaper than Gas, plus he lived in a Cold Region of the US. He went every were with it, even a few cross country (US) trips. IIRC it lasted far longer then the Gas Fueled Autos of the period.
Dask looks really cool, I hope I remember it exists next time I need it.

I've been pretty baffled, and disappointed, by how bad Python is at parallel processing. Yeah, yeah, I know: The GIL. But so much time and effort has been spent engineering around every other flaw in Python and yet this part is still so bad. I've tried every "easy to use" parallelism library that gets recommended and none of them has satisfied. Always: "couldn't pickle this function" or spawning loads of processes that use up all my RAM for no visible reason but don't use any CPU or make any indication of progress. I'm sure I'm missing something, I'm not a Python guy. But every other language I've used has an easy to use stateless parallel map that hasn't given me any trouble.
I'm trying to get into Anki, but it's difficult to get started.

Here's what I'd like: while I'm reading a (PDF) book, I want to highlight some text (and maybe manually tweak it a little) and have it converted into some "Anki card" format so when I want to review the contents of the book later, I can use Anki for it.

Any ideas?
Somewhere before "I had to procure a new VM just to open this Excel file", you should probably migrate to a database + Python
I guess you could make changes like that while keeping backward compatibility with older Oberon, but that's probably kind of a pain, no? I agree that such changes would make Oberon more to my taste.

Maybe what we really want would be semantically close to Oberon+ but abandoning Wirth's surface syntax. (You could still respect the design discipline of allowing a simple fast compiler.)
Well, this confusion could be solved by disclosing exact details on the leakage, but despite my research I can’t seem to find any other number than 1.5M liters. I don’t see any evidence that the reporters made up the number.

Instead, the company and government agencies just reiterate that “it’s safe”.
You seem to be coming at this as a member of the Android team. I'm coming at it as a user. It's not my job to make it better, but it is my job to make informed decisions over whether or not this software will screw me if I use it. So yes, their ability to identify security issues is important and relevant.
i wonder how many PRs this README receives to fix typos
If you have a moment — why do you dualboot? I find it too difficult to keep both environments around, especially given how high-maintenance Windows can be with blocking updates and general junk accumulation. (or, if Windows is your primary environment — how high-maintenance Linux can be, I guess)
Far more interesting IMHO is whether the vendor publishes uefi updates and other low level firmware for the device in a way that doesn't require a running ms-windows to patch it. Dare i ask for open source firmware?
Well, it's obviously not an exact replay with a one-to-one mapping of today's characters onto those of 2000 years ago. I guess I'd map Trump onto Caesar (though he seems more like a Mussolini than a Caesar -- funny how Italy seems to breed dictators), his defeat in 2020 onto Caesar's assassination, with the concomitant premature sigh of relief breathed by the proponents of democracy, and DeSantis, if he wins in '24, as Augustus.

From TFA: "The third impact was the realisation of a new reality. Caesar’s teenage adopted son took over where his father had left off. The power of a popular name to motivate soldiers and the poor left his killers amazed."

I would not be surprised to see an analogous sentence being written ten years from now, something like, "DeSantis took over where Trump had left off. The power of MAGA ideology to motivate a large portion of the public left the Democrats amazed (and permanently out of power)."
back then, the best surgeon was the one that could cut off your leg in less than a minuite. the only anesthesia you'd get was some booze or passing out from the pain.
It's not about styling, it was about how quickly one could develop a complete app by just following a few simple examples in docs. VCL + IDE literally guided you with very few things to learn. So a person uninterested in building UI but in the core of an app could build one in an afternoon, which is not possible unless somebody is an expert in web frontend development, wasting time/effort that could have been spent better elsewhere. I am glad I escaped frontend hell (I used to work on some web standard myself) and pivoted over to ML.
I have one project on GitHub that I use all the time as part of a script and only push changes when the python API breaks it. It is essentially “finished” and usually just needs a quick compile against the new python version whenever I upgrade the distro. I haven’t even had to touch for at least as long as GitHub required ssh keys so by all accounts this would be an abandoned project.

Now that I think about it — it is a python wrapper around a boost library and neither of those have made backwards incompatible changes in a long time which is quite suspicious.
More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships
indeed, the number of distros that come with this strange bit of software called systemd...
The rising interest in novel antidepressants on HN suggests to me that even the wildly comfortable readership of HN is struggling with this era.

I have no judgment to cast on those who try and enjoy adaptogens, but please think through what the broader pattern means: even those who this system rewards struggle to look the morning in the eye.

I don't know what that means, per se, but it suggests that conditions are ripe for some sort of monstrous upending. For if the lucky ones are struggling, who isn't?

What would be cool would be some sort of graph over time of trending articles pertaining to depression and anxiety (and other mental health problems.)

The sentiment of HN matters simply because our industry is so monstrously important to this century. We are all unwilling --- and often unwitting --- bellweathers, by virtue of our relative affluence, influence and prestige.

A 'clean sample', if you will; a demographic that typically does not have other, intersecting problems to make the verniers read funny.

Someone please start graphing this before I lose an afternoon to it ;D
ECS essentially uses the relational-database-like data storage. To model a tree, ideally you would have ECS but with graph-database-like data storage.
Great advice. I'm not sure if Dell upstreams their changes or list them somewhere, but if they don't, they deserve support problems. And if they do, well, no issue then, right?

I wouldn't trust vendor not to put spyware / crapware on the laptop.
I've never seen this intersection of computers and pizza before.

There's stir fry enthusiasts though. Or at least wok users. You need wok hei and super hot burners, electric won't cut it etc...

I've also seen some intense breakdowns of pad Thai, like it wasn't a recent invention for tourism
Technically they `git pull` it themselves, but the fact that it continues to work involves a human.
"Full time perm" means that the employer does not know for how long the job is needed, not that the job will be needed forever.

If there is no obligation for the employee to work forever, then there should not be an obligation for the employer to provide work forever too.
happily, i have multiple gigabytes of memory …
The paradigm of fixed identity information as proof is pretty obviously doomed. Just like how the 1970s concept of username/password as proof of identity is on its way out. Or credit card numbers alone being used to validate transactions.

All of those notions are pre-internet ways of proving identity. In a world where we're all rarely more than an arm's length from a globally connected computer, they're on the way out.
Well, it's not what I am talking about. TechFeed[0] is the site I use to keep up with what devs are doing in places like Japan, so that's where I get my perspective from. I was most definitely not talking about Twitter gurus or whatever you're thinking.

[0]: https://techfeed.io/
Does Calibre still do a good job of fetching the entire NYT and emailing it to the Kindle each day?

I used to use that feature heavily for a good handful of news sites.
Well that was terrible; they managed to combine unboxing and reaction video genres.
Scientist isn't a job title or a qualification, it's a word for someone doing science. Some philosophers working in quantum foundations deserve to be called scientists, as much as any theorist from the physics department in the field. Price may not be in this category, you certainly would know better.
Spark is my favorite tool to deal with jsons. It can read as many jsons – in any format located in any even nested folder structure – as you want, offers parallelization, and is great to flatten structs. I've never run into memory issues (or never ran out of workarounds) so far.
“Don’t memorize ideas. And don’t take us too seriously when we turn up our noses at rote learning. Rote helps build the man."
Are there any other companies that you would put in the same league as Rippling? (for any products, not just competitors in the same space)
+1 Predictability and rigour are crucial IMHO.
If it's the 16th that's 4 business days. But I agree, going through all the trouble of switching payment processors because you hope if the bank they're using fails they'll get back up and running in less than 4 days is a horrible ROI.
Related:

Show HN: New Oberon+ to C99 transpiler for near native performance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591993 - Dec 2021 (2 comments)

The Oberon+ Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27864582 - July 2021 (4 comments)

The new Oberon+ programming language – modern simplicity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27855767 - July 2021 (4 comments)

Others? (Lots of original Oberon, of course)
Fort Knox is audited regularly, and in 1974 cogress sent a delegation to verify it. One can easily imagine nefarious actors siphoning some off; how many tungsten bars are in there? They’d have to test every bar to know for sure. Has this been done?

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/in...
I review articles for an NPG journal. I have seen articles submitted that are essentially advertisements from a company. They don't bother to read the journal's guidance to authors or anything else. I don't see how promising to publish a review alongside that is a good idea. They're just looking for free press and you're rewarding their bad behavior. No one will see the review. They'll see the glossy reprint the company hands out at their booth at the conference, with your journal's emblem on it. I'm not against companies submitting articles, far from it, actually. But how am I going to confidently review a single spaced PDF? I don't even have room to jot notes. I am against a complete lack of respect for the process.

In a case like that, my advice to the editor is not a review, it is to simply reject for failing to follow guidance to authors. Now, it may be that other journals have a better desk review process before sending out to reviewers, but I don't know.
There is remarkably little information in this press release. The volume of leaked water is meaningless without specifying the tritium concentration. Even if they have nothing to hide, they certainly make it look like they do.
Most Chicagoans I know do not eat deep dish often, nor do they even really like it. But...as someone else said, this isn't really the alternative. The crust is just plain wrong.
If that were the only difference between a house and a flat then there would be reason to be confused. Few chose a flat vs a house mainly based on how much they love nature itself.
The reason to own gold is that there is no counter party risk. It can also help transfer wealth between incompatible systems. If there is a currency reset, lost war, or you end up a refugee - Gold is a great option.
I posted this having in mind some simulation games by Nicky Case (https://ncase.me/projects/) which combine insight and fun in a brilliant way. Specifically:

- The Evolution of Trust

- The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds

- We Become What We Behold

But those games only focus on social interactions. I wonder if there are similar ones that focus on economics. We learn much better through play, a game is worth a hundred papers.
I think the real test is: can it quickly build an ad-hoc financial model. This is the bread and butter of spreadsheets.

Mito doesn't look like it keeps the flexibility of a spreadsheet in that way.
No worries! it was mildly amusing finding all those links.
Warmer climate should be better for insect populations. This is mostly about pesticide overuse.
A major limitation exists for spaced repetition software (e.g. Anki, SuperMemo, or other flashcard-style systems), in my experience using them for several years for long-term memory: it's neither necessary nor sufficient to use this software to learn certain topics.

Several excellent physics and math students I worked with have never used spaced repetition software, but were excellent at their studies because they consistently solved textbook problems. For them, they got the "repetitions" (aka exposure to facts and problems) via solving more new problems from the book nearly every day. Later problems in the textbooks would provide review of previous problems. This method can be far more effective than spending too much studying with spaced repetition software (which I have done in the past), as the time spent creating new cards and reviewing cards that are due comes at the expense of time spent solving new problems.

Ideally, you can perhaps find time for both activities. But in my personal experience, I learned mathematics more effectively by focusing primarily on textbook problems (reviewing older material through new problems) and spending a very limited amount of time with spaced repetition, versus even a fifty-fifty split between a textbook and spaced repetition that I've experimented with in the past.

In the past, I also spent too much time in the past remembering phrases and vocabulary when learning new languages, and not enough time practicing listening, writing, and especially conversation. Certain skills can only be efficiently developed by directly practicing them. While spaced repetition software remains an essential part to my language studies, it is very far from sufficient (even just a couple hours of conversation practice per week over three months, got me much further than primarily focusing on Anki/spaced repetition for six months).

Spaced repetition systems like Anki (though I moved to SuperMemo about a year back) are vital to my daily studies, but I've learned far more effectively by treating these systems as a supplement to more traditional and tested study methods that rely on active problem-solving. For technical fields, these are textbook problems from books by well-regarded authors, and for languages, these are conversation practice and writing articles that I request feedback on (in particular, teachers in small group classes have given me great, useful feedback on my writing).
For those who don't know the context, there's a large controversy due a company called FantasyAI trying to enforce exclusivity on top model creators.

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11secau/ai...
But you don't need to enable cross-AZ traffic. Or to be precise you can disable it (if you give up on some features like stickiness).
Shout out to Lincoln at http://emperorlinux.com/

I have had excellent success with him over the years.

Deeply knowledgeable, and able to configure whatever you can imagine.
Advocating that a company change payroll processors over this single incident seems like a drastic over-reaction.