skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate is the wrong word. Publishers and libraries have a complicated, sometimes antagonistic relationship. It's also important to understand that 'publishers' are not homogenous. Outside of the big 4/5, many publishers love and go out of their way to support libraries.

The issue is that the relationship is asymmetric. Even though publishers make good money from libraries, libraries need publishers more than publishers need them right now. IMO, libraries need to continue to move beyond being only thought of as places to read the latest NYT best seller list for free.
Where did this idea come from? The need for a project due to expansion of a team, or did the expansion of the team lead to the need for a new project?
What saddens me is that despite technological advances and scaling, these toys remained expensive as hell.
I dont agree with the premise that running transactional and analytical workloads on the same database is architecturally “simpler”. In my experience this is only true at very low scale and those contexts are already sufficiently well served by existing database tech.
> The whole Balenciaga shtick felt like a metaphor for the rising tide of machine-generated content (..)

To me it just looks like plain old guerilla marketing devised to force a specific brand under the pretext of "AI".
>ICE emissions will be irrelevant in 10 years when they're all but banned anyway

Dream on. Germany and EU had to pull back from the ICE ban of 2035. Banning ICE by then is unrealistic considering the way things work right now. The frog needs to be boiled slowly.
There are strategies that Do Kwon could use to cover its tracks, that was the point.
(style opinion warning -- we've all got one)

Space out the punctuation from the non-punctuation and let the text breathe. It always disappoints me to see tight-fisted, closely spaced text, requiring careful scanning and reading to make sure one hasn't missed a closing brace or whatnot (a good font definitely helps here, too).

Related, using half the screen width and too much vertical space (yes there are situations for different approaches, I'm just rambling) where people have not written the code with a strong preference for readability above all else, is another thing which gets me on edge. The wackiest thing was a space after an opening parenthesis, but not before the corresponding closing one?!. Madness.

My point is that I wouldn't be too quick to blame any particular language, but after re-reading the above, (including the opinion warning!), it's obvious why go is so strict in this department as it renders these discussions moot.
It still works. mbsync/isync with an oauth2 proxy means it even works with O365 and Google mail. nmh is actively maintained.
In that vein, I remember reading somewhere a proposal that the force driving the evolution of human intelligence was human-to-human competition, since humans don't need as much intelligence as they have to out-smart any other species.
I don't care for subtle anti-trans rhetoric. No need to dig at NPR for trying to be polite.
I’m not sure you are wasting your time by not learning Rust. I think the value of programming languages depend the most on where you live (and where you want to work) and very little on global tends. In my area of Denmark there is virtually no Rust jobs and there haven’t been for the past few years, there are even fewer Go jobs. Plenty of Java, PHP and C# jobs, and basically everyone uses Typescript. Rust has seen some uptake in a lot of the C++ community, but you’re going to need to be a proficient C++ programmer to get at those jobs, and you likely will for at least a decade.

That being said. We recently build a replacement for Sharepoint because we sort of out-grew it and couldn’t find a decent headless CMS that fit our needs and also complied with the EU legislation for the Energy Sector, and since it had to be actually worth moving away from Sharepoint we actually did some thorough proof of concept testing before other needs basically dictated it needed to be ODATA and thus we ended up building it on C#. Anyway, two of the prototypes were Rust and Go, and I would never use Go professionally again if I could help it. Rust on the other hand seems like it’s genuinely a good language that sees actual real world adoption for major projects. I loved Go by the way, but we kept running into packages and libraries which can basically best be described like this: “Y needed to do X and build a library for it. Two years later Y got a new job and the library was semi-abandoned because nobody else really picked it up”. I know a lot of people are building a lot of things with Go, but we kept having to either reinvent the wheel with it, or to become guy X ourselves. Rust didn’t seem to have these issues, likely because it sees more adoption at more places which have similar requirements that we do.

I’m not convinced I’ll ever see Rust blow up in my part of the world though. Out of all the recent hyped languages going back to Ruby on Rails, however, I think Rust may have the biggest shot at it. But I fully expect Typescript, Java, C# and PHP with some Python to remain dominant for the next 10-30 years outside of the areas where they do C++.
Know I’m in the minority, but I think a separate parking brake button that arrests the car is a really important safety feature. In the other vehicle I can pull a switch and know that the car will not move.
What is the rule?
Or buy a laser plotter and make your own parts.
This probably isn't the reason but people who spend more time in nature have less spatial intuition about artificial things like 90 degree angles and perfect circles.

A possibility is that aphants have an advantage in abstract thought so they are the top percentile in maths. If the 96th percentile (in standardized tests of maths) of Moroccans studied at your school instead of the 99th, I would expect them to be better at drawing.
A CERN for Open Source Large-Scale AI
Thx; I wonder (and this is just the troubleshooter in me:) would we have gotten better results if we specified the year? (or was it already done in original)
It's also used in std::string (small string optimization).
Ask HN: Free for 3 months. Need help with plan
Hello HN,

I'm free for some time and want to use this time for something productive. Its like a school break (i'm 16). I have some experience
in coding but its been mostly tutorial hell.

Things I am interested in : Low level stuff(systems programming?), solving problems etc

Here is a rough outline of my plan:

WEEK 1 : python
How : I intend to follow a book titled "Learn Python 3 the hard way"

WEEK 2 : numPy, sciPy, pandas, scikit learn,
How : Not sure

WEEK 3 : C
How : Follow "C, the complete reference, 4th ed"

WEEK 4 : Data structures and Algorithms
How : Not sure

WEEK 4,5,6 : ?

Other projects I want to do
- Start a personal website/blog. Static site generators such as HUGO or ZOLO seem good enough.
- Try Linux From Scratch project. I currently use basic arch with WM. Learning the inner workings of GNU/LINUX systems sounds
interesting
- Try contribute to FOSS someday in the future
- Not sure

I made this post to receive suggestions. Baseless weekly goals does not sounds like a good idea. If your were to start from scratch
how would you structure your learning?

What tools, books do you recommend to go through ?
Please share other tech/life/general tips too.
I wish all my readers would be as generous a reader as you are! That is a very interesting angle indeed, and if it is what the grandparent comment intended, I misunderstood.
I have a new hobby - when I spot a reasoning error, I feed the relevant part of a discussion to GPT-4 to see if it is able to detect that error.

Here is what GPT-4 says about this thread: Person 2 seems to have misunderstood Person 1's statement. Person 1 was suggesting that those who support Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, specifically the people who have totalitarian tendencies, would consider Peter Thiel as a "degenerate subhuman" due to his sexual orientation. Person 1 was not expressing their own opinion about gay people...

Interesting, right? One of my dreams is that I will soon have an AI detector for flawed reasoning (of others as well as my own).
Multiple physical effects are responsible for filtering. Each of them works best at certain particle diameters.

The combined efficiency of all effects happens to have a minimum at 0.3 microns. [1] This is called the "Most Penetrating Particle Size" (MPPS).

For very small particle sizes, filtering mostly works by diffusion (quoting from [2]):

>[Diffusion] is a result of the collision with gas molecules by the smallest particles, especially those below 0.1 μm in diameter. The small particles are effectively blown or bounced around and collide with the filter media fibers. This behavior is similar to Brownian motion and raises the probability that a particle will be stopped [...]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA#/media/File:Filteration_C...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA#Mechanism
>I don't have this issue with coffee in the slightest because the effect is nearly impossible to miss.

The problem is not missing the effect, it's missing (long term) side effects. And even large scale pharmaceutical studies miss them (you could debate if it's intentional in some cases) so it's really hard.
>If I could work on one problem right now it would be reinvigorating liberal democracy

Help small business owners. They are the bedrock of democracy, as an independent individual doesn't fear the repercussions of their viewpoints when they aren't dependent on a check from bigcorp.
Thanks for checking out our project, you're welcome!

> Probably should have licensed it properly from the get-go then

Haha yeah!

> they can and probably will just use old commits

I don’t know, maybe. some people might. there’s always gonna be some software piracy.

Are you a lawyer?
I don’t think anyone quoting the single word “identified” is intending to make a quite possibly interesting or nuanced point about their experience of the industry, no.

If you have an interesting point to raise, or a constructive question or criticism to make, as a good-faith commenter you should do so. If you choose not to, I think it’s fair to assume you’re not acting in good faith.
inotify-info – easily track down the number of inotify watches, instances, files
This is what every corner sushi shop in Germany does for their "Kimchi" and it's pretty awful.
Did you downloaded the April ‘23 table ? The page shows the prices for September ‘22. Updated data is available per payment.
Sounds reasonable. Much like the "Baby Formula Shortage" which the media is still confused on, too.

This came through yesterday: "Samsung to cut chip production as profits plunge" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/07/samsung-t...
I could've lived with the COVID printing if the Fed was more careful. There were inflation indications in early 2021 but the Fed used completely nonsense theory of "transitory inflation" which was obviously a lie to nearly every single economist but it somehow went on with it for a whole year.

After the biggest money supply growth in recent history the Fed somehow forgot basic economic concepts and its mandate for a full year. This is simply unbelievable. QE printing was still going on - in massive amounts - while inflation is showing up and the Fed is speaking nonsense about transitory inflation.

This game is rigged. The Fed is malicious, unpredictable and intentionally lying. It doesn't feel like the Fed is doing the best decision, it feels like the Fed is making intentionally unpredictable and even irrational decisions so that insiders, most likely big banks, could get to unravel their investment positions at the expense of the whole economy.
They made propane cars. What happened to them?

I know a guy who had one and his verdict was never again.

The valve would freeze on a cold enough day and you couldn’t get it started. He even had it freeze while he drove it.

These don’t seem like impossible issues to solve though.
Japanese DIY speaker-builders love the exposed ply-edge thing.

Maybe a sign of the times we live in when a multi-ply plywood means quality (as opposed to particle board, low-ply construction plywood ... OSB?)
>Reddit has managed to sell Polygon based profile pictures fine,

That probably has more to do with selling the digital equivalent of funko pops on reddit, than any technological merit.
> 2164 sq. ft vs. 818 sq. ft

> Which sure would explain that difference.

The amount of stoves, fridges and washing machines do not scale with area though.

You would expect larger houses having lower power use per square excluding electric heating and AC.
If you want to promote adoption of something like NFTs it's up to you to present the compelling use cases, not get mad at the detractors. The reaction to the reaction here is even more predictable.
New allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein
No, thanks for pointing this out.
Define "major company".
People used to live there before ACs. It is down to inefficient construction designs.
Depends on the sort of tires.

For examples, studded snow tires can tear up the road surface quite significantly, tend to kick up a lot of sharp fine dust. It's such a big problem they're often banned parts of the year in some regions where they're typically used.

Here's some science: https://www.ivl.se/download/18.1ee76657178f8586dfc89b/161951...

It seems to largely suggest that GP is correct (see the figure in 5.3.8 for example), with the caveat that this is mainly a problem in colder regions of the world.
The book is called "Advanced Linux Programming" and starts with a chapter that does a Hello World in C. Somehow, I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect.
Women account for 80% of fiction sales in the US, UK, and Canada [0].

The stats mentioned show that women are more likely to read at least one book by 5% margin, but they buy many more books. The sales show how much more they buy.

[0] https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/book-and-reading-statistics/
> Twyla Sharp, HWC Box 7, Wyola, MI, 59089

That would be Wyola, MT. 5xxxx is not in Michigan (and neither is Wyola).
Apple recommends PHPickerViewController for this use.
Palette cycling isn't "essential for hi-res color imaging productivity", so I don't think it's what they were referring to.
LOL, indeed. "Winding down" is something that crypto gamblers do with their portfolios, because a free-market sell would be too devastating to the ego.

(Ron Howard interjects... "They did not, in fact, wind it down.")
It also depends on the region. Here in HK, Ikea is very expensive (about double the price I used to see in France), to the point where it's cheaper to get a wardrobe custom made in good quality plywood exactly according to our dimensions than to buy a wardrobe that's close to the dimensions we need in Ikea.
> Apple is able to lock stolen products remotely

So a $0 heist? Or are they chopping these for parts?
Wow. My ad blocker killed the cookie modal, I guess, but the site freaks out detecting that the videos that are supposed to auto play are not playing, and just keeps trying to reload them. Cursed.
Lego's secondary market works for the benefit of diehard fans, but it doesn't help finance Lego the company.

The non-diehard fans can simply buy Lego knockoffs.

I'd like to support Lego but I don't get to do that by buying used sets or knockoffs, but Lego's pricing also prices me out of the market.
Neat!

I work with ruby daily and its nice to see this built in.
> [A]ll my best learning would be done outside school.

Choose one:

- Experience of discovery and survival of curiosity to adulthood;

- Set of job-relevant skills well defined by names of subjects;

- Standardized testing and easily comparable grades.

(In my admittedly limited teaching experience.)

I would guess that the last point will always get chosen, because it’s bureaucracy-friendly, and a bureaucracy makes the choice. But one of my most bizarre experiences is (some) HN readers being quite vocal about their support for it as well, where I haven’t seen it be anything but harmful. The bullshit admission process at US colleges might be to blame—I’m really not sure.

References: Lockhart’s “Lament”[1], of course, for describing the feelings that (good) teachers have on this subject; Quinn’s “Revolution in mathematics”[2], as a more clinical analysis of how the bureaucracy won and got to basically redefine what “mathematics” even means for the majority of the population (in a way that’s as hopelessly obsolete as it is intensely harmful to the subject proper). The point shouldn’t be specific to mathematics, but it’s what I have the references for.

[1] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_03_08.htm...

[2] http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100031p.pdf
Tesla to Build New Shanghai Factory for Megapack Battery
Climate control is by far the biggest single line item in home energy expenditure [1]. Hopefully in more moderate climates people can consider heat pumps and other more efficient technology to help with this.

[1]: https://www.directenergy.com/learning-center/what-uses-most-...
> Doesn't mean he wasn't right.

Doesn't mean he was either. It's well known that Android has the global market share. The point I made was that iOS is more popular with businesses, which explains why the iOS mail client see higher use than any other platform.

> Being majority in UK is like having 80% of the market in Germany.

Germany has a higher population by 16M people, just under twice the population of London. The average gross salary is $52K (€47K) in Germany vs $32K in the UK ($40K or £32K in London). German GDP is considerably higher too. So no.

> of course app metrics say that, Android users can use a web app!

But, outside of tech circles, do they? Anecdotally, I know a few android users and they tend to use exactly 4 apps regularly; Chrome, Insta, Facebook and WhatsApp. Even the technologists don't bother with web apps. So based on that and the OP's attestation, no-one uses web apps.
I find it odd that you perceive this as a new thing. I'd call it an American trope that long predates me. For instance, "The Beverly Hillbillies" was a 1962 sitcom that played off of it.

> The Clampetts bring a moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle to the swanky, sometimes self-obsessed and superficial community. Double entendres and cultural misconceptions are the core of the sitcom's humor. Plots often involve Drysdale's outlandish efforts to keep the Clampetts' money in his bank, and his wife's efforts to rid the neighborhood of "those hillbillies". The family's periodic attempts to return to the mountains are often prompted by Granny's perceiving a slight from one of the "city folk".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beverly_Hillbillies
Not my field of study but my initial reaction is skepticism since human communities have always been cooperative and humans have always been reliant on one another. I'd also think that you'd evolve complex displays like peacocks or powerful weapons like rams to compete with each other, intelligence seems more useful to cooperate with each other than to compete.

Eg, organizing to take down a mammoth by forcing it over a cliff isn't so much about outsmarting the mammoth as much as understanding the situation your team is in and what you should be doing. Building traps capable of trapping entire herds[1] involves outsmarting them in a sense, sure, but it also involves coordinating a large construction project.

I've heard the hypothesis that creatures with a highly varied diet need more intelligence to distinguish between poisonous and nonpoisonous food.

If I had to guess, for whatever my speculation is worth, intelligence evolved because we had to be highly cooperative in a rapidly changing environment as the glaciers retreated. And also that animals are much more intelligent than we often credit them for, so it was probably a smaller leap then we might imagine.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite
Those things are bad too.
Did you buy it on Amazon by any chance? I had this issue with another branded toy and it turned out to be a knockoff
US Air Force to divest a total of 310 aircraft in 2024 including 32 F-22A Raptor
> It was like a chicken dipped its claws in ink and went digging for worms on the page.

Hilariously, my handwriting was frequently described by teachers as "как курица лапой" which is just about the equivalent of your description.

Despite my terrible handwriting though, I still enjoy writing by hand. I've found I rarely ever end up going back to much of what I wrote down, but the whole process of turning thought into word into writing is very therapeutic and helpful for remembering and processing things.
it's tires and brake dust.
EES _is_ going to be that centralized database.
I wish they would have done a bit more research and explanation here. Book lending it not new, but the focus on best sellers is rather recent. Libraries spend a majority of their ebook budget on best sellers which is unfortunate.
I don't understand how this can be a valid comparison, unless you bought games planning to never play them, just check them off against your list? That seems like a very minor use case. This would be like people saying they "collect" Kindle books or itunes music.
Collecting is based on the idea of scarcity, either real or contrived, and digital plus not even owning the object makes that both impossible to be true and near impossible to pretend.
Don't buy cheap plasticky Chinese copies. Buy Czech Merkur instead:

https://merkurtoys.cz/

Merkur is about as old as Meccano and Erector and boys from the former Eastern Bloc are most likely very familiar with it.
I did the same job back in the mid-90's at the facility discussed in the article when it first opened. The piece rate was probably higher, though the measure we cared about was keystrokes per hour so I don't know if I ever saw a real statistic for this.

The work-load almost certainly has changed with technological improvement. Back then, my recollection is that we'd see more machine type than handwritten addresses, but only slightly. Also we were only filling in the gaps depending on how well the original OCR worked. Sometimes we'd have to key in the important portions of the whole address (house number, part of a street name, postal code)... sometimes just the postal code, and sometimes only a portion of the postal code. Some of these data entry modes were faster than others; the extended "zip code" data entry only required two numeric keystrokes whereas the full data entry mode required much more time.
Tell me about it! When I looked at the price of second hand ECC UDIMMs for my server I almost cried.
> identified

Do you have a better approach that's not to go in and check everybody's undercarriage like some kind of Kansas junior varsity inquisitor?
You'll have to explain that to me. My experience with MDF has been that it is a mold-magnet if used anywhere near where it might be exposed to water (bathrooms and kitchens are out). It requires special fasteners as it doesn't hold screws (or even glue) well. It's ugly, heavy, is hard on cutting tools (and the dust in leaves in my shop tends to jam up tool joints that are supposed to slide/rotate like on a miter saw).

I pay more and go with a multi-ply plywood in any place that others might fall back to MDF.