skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was just starting out on my biotech undergrad I used to come up with whacky ideas every day after learning something new in biochemistry:

1. Rickettsia Bacteria have an ATP transporter! If we engineer E. Coli with this transporter, we can feed bioreactors with pure ATP and get even more efficiency! (Turns out this is not a real bottleneck in bioreactors, and you’ll likely waste more money synthesizing ATP anyway)

2. Glucose is transported in intestines via a glucose-sodium antiporter protein. Maybe we can find a drug that blocks this and you can eat as much sugar as you want! (Turns out you’ll have uncontrolled diarrhea if you do).

This idea sounds as boneheaded as these ideas. If there’s a “leak”, you bet your ass it’s there for a reason.
Ahh, I see. I think I can see the value in tracking kept by a person for themselves to troubleshoot things in the future.

But I can't imagine that's the kind of tracking greatpostman had in mind, and it's definitely not the kind of tracking that most managers I've worked with try to produce.
Right, and to accomplish this, it's best to pop in at least twice a day to confirm that there are no updates and alignment is being achieved
I realize you're talking about the current feasability of non-car transportation, which it sounds like we all agree leaves something to be desired.

Banning new modes of transportation is really just going to reinforce the existing car-centric design of cities though.
May be this is why Bhagwat Gita suggests living like a Yogi. Dispatch all your duties, do everything but never get attached to anything, not even your kids.

नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् |
पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन् ||5.8||
प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्ण्न्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि |
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन् ||5.9||

Those steadfast in karm yog, always think, “I am not the doer,” even while engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, moving, sleeping, breathing, speaking, excreting, grasping, and opening or closing the eyes. With the light of divine knowledge, they see that it is only the material senses that are moving amongst their objects.

Ancient Indians divided the life into 4 phases namely Brahmcharya(learning phase), Grihasth(family life), Sanyas(detachment), Vanprasth(leaving for Jungle).Last phase emphasised on living and dying alone in the Jungle away from family and fame. Modern Indians have lost these messages primarily because they have stopped reading.
Question - the article mentions bandwith capacity being a factor for pricing.

Is there a resource online where one can find reported up/down speeds by geolocation ?
Not sure how much money they make with the pre-installed bloatware deals, I am guessing this is pocket change compared to their real business.

Overall, Win11 is, in my opinion, the second best OS Microsoft ever released, the best one being the venerable NT4.

But this is true that when installing it, there is some annoying cleaning work to be done, and this is clearly not good, especially for a -professional- tool.

I don't have time for this now, but I plan to migrate everything on a good Linux distro at some point.
I got andrew tate, jordan peterson, and 'stopwoke'
Logically this applies to hosting source publicly on Github too.
My daughter got a new laptop recently. I was very happy and proud that one of the first things she did was to install a Linux partition.
I think that's the word that describes the whole thread and the topic.
Starlink is a link in Elon's fragile chain of strategies. Elon, evidently, loves interlinked strategies. The first grand linkage was "How do we make reusable rockets valuable?" because, on their own, with non-reusable second stages, they're cool, but not financially impressive. But, with Starlink using almost all reused Falcon 9 capacity, it looks sexy af.

Elon, of course, can't stop there: How do you use the redonkulous payload-to-orbit capacity of Starship? You make satellites 5X larger that are no longer a "bent pipe" architecture and you make a "backbone-in-orbit" with laser links between satellites.

That might make Starlink make financial sense. But it looks like it is years away from being possible. Meanwhile Starlink "1.5" satellites are a PoC of laser links between satellites, but not anywhere near the scale of the big satellites that need Starship.
Yeah. Software people getting uppity about use of the word “engineer” is…a hilarious thought. You made your bed on this one.
Does it help if you give it a few examples of correctly formatted data instead of trying to describe the desired format to it?
What about all the art looted from the jews and subsequently sold overseas?

> was not stolen, it was simply bought.
Engineers Canada has recently won a case against a software developer that used the term, “engineer” in their profile.
For what it’s worth, Glommio is thread-per-core async executor library in Rust. Comes with io_uring support too. Not as widely supported as tokio is, obviously, but still viable enough, worth keeping an eye on IMO.
> Should people be mind readers and figure out that they actually meant that you should not make 1:1 clones

That’s the core problem of the “licenses are the alpha and omega of open source” crowd.

I released my book How To Open Source (dot dev) with a license that doesn’t make it illegal to share with a struggling friend or an educator. It is CC (NC/SA) because there isn’t a license that perfectly describes my wishes and that was the best one. On the day of my announcement someone on /r/opensource took great glee in this loophole as they saw it. And proclaimed they would repost the whole thing in the announcement thread.

Laurence Lessig, creator of the CC license, inherently saw communities as more than licenses. In his book Code he identifies Laws, norms, markets, and technology as influencing community behavior.

While I agree you shouldn’t be a mind reader, we also cannot expect communities to be based on licenses and laws alone.
For a very long time the majority of immigration to Sweden was from nearby Scandinavian countries. There is a lot of people moving between the borders simply because they got family on both sides, or get a job opportunity that happens to be on one side of a line on a map and well within driving distance.

People in Sweden however don't generally think of those people as immigrants, and their social economic status is average or maybe even a bit higher than average. Sweden also has about equal amount of swedes doing the same so the end result on the haves and the have-nots is basically static for that form of immigration.

Naturally, when people discuss immigration and immigration politics, immigration and emigration between Scandinavian countries are not part of the discussion and are generally exempted through specific treaties between the countries.
I wonder why it’s so unreliable - I’m assuming they oversubscribed, but rural areas by definition should not have too many users.
> > good Linux phone to free me from Apple altogether

> Isn’t Android Linux?

Yes, but it isn't good, especially not in the ways that desktop Linux is good.

Reminder: this thread is about avoiding anti-consumer behavior from manufacturers. Android is practically useless for that.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. We've had to ask you this once already.
He did say "some"
I prefer Apple, but there are times when you can't get away from Windows.

For those times I find the following tools really useful.

But like the article says... its is hard to trust a company that build all this adware crap into my OS in the first place. =P

* O&O ShutUp10++ – Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 || https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

(I turn all the recommend options off, and then re-enable Clipboard History.)

* GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. || https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

(And if you block things at the host level, remember to disable DNS Caching.)

* How to disable Windows 10 DNS Cache services || https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a0...

* Wise Program Uninstaller - Uninstall, Remove or Force Uninstall Programs Completely || https://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-program-uninstaller.html
I'm hoping it's more like 5 years to Starship launches being 'routine'. Maybe I'm an irredeemable optimist but that would at least be more similar to the curve of Falcon launches being 'routine' (I concede that to some of us, orbital launches will never be considered routine – no matter how frequent).

I'd even lay 50%-ish odds that they'll do back to back payload launches in 30 days or less by the end of next year. That'll of course depend on things going very well over the next few months so they manage to get a Starship to orbit and back on the ground at the launch site this year.
It's not because they were lying, but Windows was changed delibaretly in the wrong direction, and MacOS got much more usable because of open source contributions.

I miss the consistency that I had with Windows 7 (renaming a file anywhere with the F2 key), but those days are over.

With Mac I still don't know what the Mac / option / control / fn / shift keys mean and can't remember keyboard shortcuts, so I'm much more dependent on the touchpad, but at least the touchpad is awesome.
We have a cottage where we are considering getting starlink at. This service still seems like a game changer to me. If 4g is also available, running a router with dual-wan sounds like a great option to mitigate connection dropouts. We will try that. If you’re really serious about living in the back of beyond and your income depends on your ability to be on zoom calls, then it’s a small price to pay.
Own the domain, point people to the domain, use .com or something else solid, have a backup of the content and urls, and the rest doesn’t matter.

Too technical?

Use one of the platforms that makes the domain registration and linking it up easy.
Um, no. Keynesian economics is still predominately what is taught as "economics", and is a huge influence on how governments make economic decisions.

It's a bit like Freud - people only remember him for his kookier ideas, but his basic thinking has permeated all of psychology.
Affordable from a west coast US salary. Vancouver has always made me shake my head re: tech salaries. It has capable engineers but pays a fraction from across the border. Back in the 90s/early 2000s, there was a lot of tech but it seemed more like a media center.
Would anyone care to summarize the for-pay part that makes the titular assertion?

I can guess the Microsoft / OpenAI partnership might lead speculation on the notion of Microsoft "winning" because Azure is hosting AI workloads. But that's me imagining "completions" of the headline.

I could ask GPT, but I'd be more interested in talking about the actual assertion.
So Starlink has been so effective and so popular that — utterly unsurprisingly — it is becoming more congested and they're raising rates.

This is good news and not bad. It's a strong sign that the model fundamentally works and they will be able to fund continuous improvements to meet strong demand.
T1 was just for Touch ID. T2 did change a lot, but SIP is still as easy to disable as it was before T2. When Apple Silicon came out with a completely different boot process, they still allowed disabling SIP (and added the ability to do it per OS instead of at a global level), and despite the secure boot, they give you the option to turn that off and boot whatever you want (see Asahi Linux). I doubt they would have put the engineering effort into that if their plan was to lock the Mac down.
Yeah about a year sounds right for getting to the point of merely facing the tasks again. Personally it feels like there is a permanent anchor on those tasks. In that, yes you can do them again but you will never get back to the same speed or skill with it ever again.

It has been a little over 2 years since I left my job from burnout, now I am doing something completely different and a lot less intense. But I don't think I could ever go back to what I once did. I have permanently blowen out half my cylinders. ;)
Just use Windows Server as your desktop like the rest of us hackers.
Yep. It's a goner.

It'll live on in corporate environments and XBoxes.
For those prices, traditional sat (geostationary) might not be as fast but it is at least reliable connectivity.

For anyone in the rual flatlands of america, look seriously at rural wifi bridges. Basic off-the-shelf wifi can bridge links over miles. All those cellphone towers have fiber lines. Setup a rural wifi collective and tap into that fiber. My parents ditched traditional sats a few years ago when a local company setup a local wifi tower, itself bridged to the nearest cell tower. Now they have faster internet then i do in my non-rural appartment.
As a HN Comment Engineer, I take great offense to this. I have passed this on to my team's Retort Engineer. Stand by.
Ok please tell why its so much better rather then being patronizing asshole.

Lets start with some really basic economics, the most important being capital cost, fuel cost and operating cost.

In terms of capital cost, a fission reactor is a far, far simpler device. Its so much simpler that its not even a comparison worth making. Fission reactors can often run for many decades without major maintenance on any of the core structures. Unless the vision of really tiny fusion reactors comes to pass, i.e. not anytime soon, this is a clear win for fission.

Fuel cost is also no comparison. Fusion will require complex fuel breeding, often requiring the fusion reactor itself to breed fuel. With Fission uranium and especially thorium are almost free, thorium being a waste product of rare earth mining.

Operation cost, on that we have no idea what fission will be like in practice. Seem to me containing a little Sun inside a box will lead to much higher maintenance requirements. In fusion the there is a plasma that can escape, even at far lower radioactivity. I rather life next to most GenIV fission designs.

If you want to build interstellar spaceships, yes fusion is your fiend. If you want to make cheap power on earth fission will always beat fusion unless its for some dumb political reasons.
The argument is that you will lose relatively less money from the time wasted. So instead of wasting $1000 worth of time, you only are wasting $200 of time.

An operating system that lets you waste less money, means that you will save money. Saving money is what can make purchasing something worth it.
This is all in LEO though. The satellites which can see a rural house are also going to be able to see a bunch of cities.
Do you think building thousands of nuclear reactors would be a good idea to do before trying that?
> There are plenty of other countries with old people.

And literally all of them have a wealth distribution that looks like that last one. Say you lived in a place where everyone saved $10k a year and worked for 50 years. Then the bottom 10% would have an average of $25k saved, and the top 10% would have $475k saved. If you add a modest 3% rate of return on investment, that brings the top 10% to ~$1 million. Visually this looks closest to the last wealth distribution. Wow much inequality! Time to eat the rich!

> "It's going to happen anyway, so lets not fight it"

This is such a disingenuous interpretation of my comment. Telling you not to volunteer to be a footsoldier of a class crusade isn't saying that we should do nothing. If you have a good argument for why should increase the capital gains tax rate, and why the fears of it disincentivizing investment are overblown, I'm all for it.
Bought a preowned lowend MBA for my 11 year old daughter recently.
No shes not spoiled, her iPhone is an old hand me down with cracked screen.
No way on earth I’d expose her to the cr*p from Redmond.
Yes, I know what it’s like, my employer is a 99% Window environment.
The fuzzy jpeg analogy and related kin ignore the internal disentanglement of ideas, which is what separates LLMs from, say, a probabilistic chain producer.

I.e. one can think of it as a NERF of an underlying manifold instead of just assembling pictures taken of the manifold, which is an important distinction to make.

I.e. it learns the manifold, not the manifold samples. That's what makes it so powerful and lets it coherently mix and match very abstract concepts together. Even if it gets it wrong, one could link that to the fuzziness of a NERF where there is not as much data.

That's why this whole "average" business is silly nonsense. We're reducing the empirical risk over the dataset, not the L2 loss over it for Pete's sake.
I had a 2018 MBP that also got as hot of the surface of the sun. Literally SCRIBBLING with the pencil on a blank canvas in Corel Painter for 30 seconds would send the CPU to 90 C. I got lucky with the keyboard on mine but I know quite a few people who weren't or were affected by flexgate.

You're right about about resale value. Cult of Apple and all that.

I get that looks are subjective but personally I find everything they've made post 2003 to be insanely boring with no real character.
“I think the right way to think of the models we create is as a reasoning engine, not a fact database. They can also act as a fact database, but that’s not really what is special about them.” —Sam Altman

Rebecca Jarvis interviews Sam Altman for ABC News Rebecca Jarvis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=540vzMlf-54

(I don't think this contradicts what you said.)
Yes. I own two. A t410 and a t450. Definitely more durable but no resale value. I use them for experimental linux installs these days.
Take a look at 5G extended range FWA. That's what Starlink is competing against. Proprietary versions of similar capability are well-proven, but 5G-based extended range FWA enables interoperation, standardization, and competition.
The phrase lingua Franca is a great example of why English is the most international language in the world. It’s because of its ability to absorb from different languages.

That phrase is as English as the word tomato today.
Echo Voyager
I get that. I suppose I haven't gone through anything like this before, since I'm new. It does feel more disruptive than, say, a framework or something though - everyone seem to be trying to leverage this type of AI.

Especially when you read senior staff opinions or about meetings with managers saying that they expect they wont need their juniors soon.
To paraphrase Sam Kinison...'It occured to me there woudnt be a rural broadband shortage if people would MOVE TO WHERE THE BROADBAND IS!!!'
I mean...yes and no. Starlink is valuable provided it's cheap: above a certain price point, the number of applications drops off and there's no guarantee the remainder will represent enough to actually fund it.
> And for that, the clone-makers are, IMO, contributing to the ecosystem

Embrace, extend, extinguish.
I help run a large open source org.

I'd be interested in using a service like this, but only if it offered a good way to crowd-source the funding for bounties.

Ideally we'd be able to accept proposals for bounties, and then have a Kickstarter-style mechanism for the funding, which is held in escrow and then released to whoever completes the bounty.

Feel free to email me if you'd like to chat more :)
If the area is that congested, it's probably in need of wired connections. All the customers suddenly leaving might push ISPs to upgrade their offerings in these areas rather than seeing the customers as a captive audience.
Please don't break the HN guidelines like this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

What's worse, if you have a true point, then posting like this actually discredits the truth and gives people a reason to reject it. That isn't in your interest and in fact hurts everyone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
>90% of the world's iron ore comes from very sunny places. Easier to just ship steel rather than iron ore and ammonia. For the last 10%, move the iron ore the other way (or still use local solar energy, because it is still cheaper than shipping ammonia).
I have Starlink in an Airbnb in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.

It has been a blessing. It used to be that we had to deal with either cell carrier 4G wifi or wait until the phone company would finally extend service one block away from its current service area.

Even if you had access to either, both solutions were pretty bad. They were so unreliable that some coworking spaces had *three* providers: "broadband", 4G, and old-school satellite.

Starlink arrived last year in earnest and... really life changing. It even dropped the price some months ago. The internet _just works_.

Anything that bypasses local monopolies and government stasis will get my business with true joy.
> And who trains it to find the problems?

I think maybe, pure speculation on my part, at least one out of the thousands of employees at Microsoft has been given the job to train their $10 billion investment on the windows code base to see what they can do about beefing up security.

And every other hour there’s some startup advertising this in the form of “Show HN”.

At this point I think people are just looking for reasons to fear the eventual AI extinction event without even trying.
The blurry jpeg/average argument and related.

It doesn't even match the basic math of the loss function, and implies a static snapshot instead of a decomposed, dynamic system that uses disentangled components to form a solution (whether incorrectly or correctly).

I.e. I feel it really downplays the beauty of what is happening, and that is something frustrating to me, especially when it's fairly straightforward mathematically that that is not at all the case of what's happening, at least from my personal experience/perspective.
You literally don't have a argument against what I sad so you went to the lowest level form of argument, taking a part of what I wrote, then deliberately misinterpreted it away from its context.

You are clearly arguing in bad faith. Bye.
Programmers like you are why I have to upgrade my computer every two years just to browse the web.
EAC has worked on Linux for like a decade. That doesn't mean that those games will let you play on Linux.
The weird revelation to me was that the goal of what a decent OS is keeps moving, even as what we want to do doesn't change much in nature.

20 years ago I was on FreeBSD and it was fine. But as laptops became mainstream, and even the main linux distros were completely impractical.

Now we have really good linux laptops, but tablet form computers are maturing and we're starting to see very good ones, and linux support is still generations behind (heck, windows support is still meh)

I'd expect linux to be viable there in 4 or 5 years, when the dust settles, but then will the compatibility extend to the machines on the better form factors of that time ?

Basically "the year of linux on the desktop" meme has stopped being about sheer viability and more about what you're willing to give up to keep using linux. As long as it doesn't become the primary target of the more innovative hardware makers out there, I wouldn't expect to solve this situation anytime soon.

The frame laptop is a move in that direction.
Don't some big publishers of 'important' trendy multiplayer games with strong network effects still basically refuse to enable EAC's Linux support, though?

Do you know any recent articles or blog posts summarizing the state of affairs with competitive multiplayer games rn?
It's gonna be interesting to see how they solve the financials. Targeting a rural/spare population via expensive satellite connections, that market has to be relatively limited. And with a limited amount of customers, how does it make business sense?