skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I grew up in a small town in Ontario with a Vic 20, then C64. A few years after I moved to Toronto, the Amiga seemed the next logical step, but then PC "clones" started getting all the attention.

Commodore began as a Canadian company. I don't know if that made the difference, but for whatever reason it was a strong market for Commodore's early computers. Canadian and European sales kept the Commodore PET alive while Apple and Tandy dominated the US market. Jim Butterfield and the Toronto PET Users Group were enormously influential, and they maintained their influence even after the VIC-20 and C64 finally made Commodore as successful in the US as outside it.
This talk is... not great. Being a controversial contrarian isn't too helpful when you're mostly just wrong and misinformed. I commend him for at least linking to the responses of his critics, though I'm not sure he's ever addressed them.

I'd suggest reading Steven Novella's response at least:

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/john-horgan-is...
Car sales are in the toilet. Cars are sitting on dealer lots because they are too expensive and now banks are pulling floorplans. Car dealerships finance their inventory through banks, and these are called floorplans, in case anyone was wondering what a floorplan is.

Housing market in the last two states I lived in still see strong sales, but the transaction prices are down 10-11% from last fall.

I don't know what Nvidia's sales figures are like, but I can't imagine they are very good. Here, a base model RTX is $515 with tax. Base model cards like this were less than $200 4 years ago. What used to be a mid-range performance card now costs $1200.
>Methane has a much shorter atmospheric lifetime than carbon dioxide

And after that it continues as carbon dioxide (and water).
Canadianfella's reply is dead so I'll reply here.

Eventually Symbian (sp?) was better and when Sony killed their Zire division I just have Palm Treo one last chance. It was a bit laggy and the battery didn't last long enough.

I always wanted to give Zaurus a try, but the Linux ones not the Palm ones.
> 6%/mo

Come again? We’re at 6% year over year, which is not even close to 6%/mo.
I am curious why you feel so strongly about that?
Yes I know, I'm speaking about where the terms came from originally, since you mentioned 'historically.'
Yeah, I don't disagree. Shame they never went direction and instead were like "REAL MEN DON'T PROTECT AGAINST BUGS! WE DON'T WRITE BUGS!". But oh well. That's why we have the more modern languages these days.
Apple is close to double the price though for an arguably worse display compared to the oled one.

So OP is right in that options are present that are cheaper and perhaps better for his use case.

edit: oled laptop comes comes with PM9A1 ssd which has 7GB reads, 5GB writes which is faster then Apple too (apple has 5GB reads, 4GB writes).
I agree, all the anti-virus stuff my father installs on his laptops makes it virtually unusable.
Ask HN: Open source LLM for commercial use?
Working on a ML project and looking for an open source LLM that can be used in a commercial environment. As far as I'm aware, products cannot be built on LLAMA.

I don't want to use GPT since the project will be using personal information to train/fine tune the models.
Each country has a database that tracks import fee payment history by OEM serial number of laptops and other electronic devices, based on shipments to other countries?
Hmm. Laurence Krauss is a "hack physicist"? That doesn't seem very consistent with his career achievements [1].

Surely we can disagree with someone without making inaccurate personal attacks?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Krauss
As you say, you don't have to "like" the Dalai Lama to oppose Chinese imperialism in Tibet -- the "Free Tibet" sticker on it's face just does the latter, right?

But yeah, it's hard to keep it separate. You want to support the people of Tibet, the people of Tibet seem to support the Dalai Lama... not monolithically but it's possible most do... and of course the Chinese invasion and occupation increases support of the Lama among Tibet people, for unity against the incursion, etc.

In fact, if China hadn't invaded and occupied Tibet and turned the Dalai Lama into a symbol, then it's reasonable to think it would be much more likely there would be more internal opposition to the Dalai Lama. If it had existed as an independent country all these decades, would it still be that kind of theocracy in 2023? Seems unlikely. The invasion froze Tibetan internal politics.

We see this dynamic of "falling in line" against an obvious oppressor all over the place. Like, try opposing Putin's Russian invasion of Ukraine and thinking there are fascists at the core of the Azov brigade and being wary of US/NATO power too. It doesn't make you many friends, you just have everyone thinking you're a traitor on all sides. It's way easier to just pick a side, from what you are told are the two sides to pick from, that everyone else is picking from.

AND we see the dynamic all over the place -- invasion and occupation by a foreign entity which exerszies power on ethnic/racial/national grounds... generally leads to more support for local despots than there would be otherwise. The internal conflicts and power struggles and movements for freedom are put aside, as everyone joins in unity to resist the external invader OR as internal politics are just scrambled and destabilized. You never get more democracy from an invasion. (Sorry, Iraq).
RIM and Palm suffered the same kind of huge technical debt on the low-level kernel stuff.

They basically started with something very crude that barely did the job, and built stacks on top.

But they had nice frontends, nice hardware, especially the Sony Clié series was quite ahead of its time hardware wise.
I will wait a bit more in case they expand their shipping.

What do you think of the monitor by the way? Does it compare to e.g. a Macbook even a little bit?
You may be interested in Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen's work on mnemonic media.

- https://andymatuschak.org/

- https://withorbit.com/

- https://numinous.productions/ttft/
Does anyone else use planet scale but find it extremely slow? I'm using planetscale trial, simple queries can easily take 3-4s "cold", and then seem to get a little faster once presumably I hit cache.
Show HN: Tlk – A free, open-source video calling app for the web
I can switch out the SSD easily on regular notebooks, and in most notebooks I bought I did that as it was easier to match the specs to what I want that way. I cannot do that on a MacBook, so the huge cost for larger RAM and SSD is a big disadvantage.

And we're not talking about a bit of money here, Macbooks with reasonable specs start at around double the cost of a better mainstream PC notebook.
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: About three year's front end experience. Javascript, react, typescript, a little python, that sort of thing

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holden-beale/

Email: holden.beale@gmail.com
I had the interesting experience to work at Palm in the early 2000's on a project that was to compete with the Blackberry.

Needless to say, it never saw the light of day but I still remember that we had to ask the PalmOS engineering group to create a hardware layer thread so that we could do network I/O in parallel with running the user app.

It was an enormously challenging platform to work with.
well, that needs to be a t-shirt.
Cities allow road users to mess up traffic all the time.

Got a large vehicle that blocks multiple lanes while turning? No problem. Heavy 18-wheelers that fuck up the road surface? We're pro-business. Trash collectors need to stop to collect trash? Of course they do. Customers trying to parallel park block a complete lane of traffic, in addition to the lane of on-street parking? No worries. Taxis want to stop traffic to pick up customers? Sure thing. Delivery drivers want to double park? Well, you gotta deliver somehow, just make it quick. Parked vehicles blocking the cycle lane? Well you'll just have to go around. Slow cyclist in a narrow street? They've got every right to be there. Hire scooters all over the sidewalk? Yeah, that happens.

I'm not sure the comparison to toxic waste dumping is really warranted.
Experiments are potentially science. Not all experiments are done in a scientific manner.

(And even then, experimentation is only a part of the scientific process.)
The people that like cheap meat won't like that, a lot.

Ag lobbies are powerful enough no one in the US would dare propose anything like that. Even in climate conscious EU a much more modest, roundabout way of addressing part of the problem of ag emissions (nitrate levels) has been met with massive farmer protests.
I write essentially all of my cards. I find that it helps a bit with recall.

Also, people differ in the "density" of cards they need around a given topic. I might need a lot of cards to cover a particular area of a topic in many different ways, while someone who already knows that area needs fewer.

I agree that public decks tend to be terrible. So I don't really know any good ones. For the examples in the post, I tried to keep the wording as close as possible to the flashcards in my own Mochi decks, without adding extraneous detail.
A few months ago, I finally bit the bullet and started switching to Kubernetes. Here are the gains, pains and learnings I gathered from the process.
Skype Skype-In can receive and send text messages but it may be worth noting that most of the web hosted SMS groups of numbers are flagged as such and many bigger businesses will not accept them any more. The number of businesses rejecting them is growing monthly which means some here will state that they have been using one for years but if they tried to set up new accounts may be surprised to find it no longer works. Some small online stores appear to still accept them.

My theory is that this is due to all the abuse and fraud of online disposable numbers and this is why we can't have nice things.
> The most frustrating thing about following Apple Silicon over the last 2 years is just how passive Apple's strategy is.

Apple had problems but not much they could do. There were "delays" at TSMC. There was talent loss e.g. with some members moving to Nuvia (now acquired by Qualcomm).

M2 ideally could have been much better but it was out of their hands.

Wouldn't call it passive.
> I'd rather have healthcare even if I'm not allowed to criticize the government on the internet.

perhaps, but they are not (nor should be) mutually exclusive choices
Most Americans believe whatever the TV tells them to believe
Hmm, my gaming oriented laptop (not what I use it for) does not have wobbly hinges at all, and I find the aluminum on the macs far more susceptible to dings and crap than the hardshell of the PC laptop.
Have a look at https://forwardscattering.org/post/36
Databases:

Murat Buffalo - https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/

General:

Julia Evans - https://jvns.ca/
Yeah I've been able to kinda muddle my way through but progress is frustrating as I frequently get errors I don't understand. Was thinking maybe I should study compilers a bit and then I will be able to understand the triton source code better which will help me understand why I get errors.
Do people really pick Chrome/Firefox instead of Edge because the version number is higher?
Sounds like I'm about the same age as you, and it is my beard that's going gray first, but it thankfully still hasn't gone totally gray yet, only about 30%. The top of my head only has a handful of gray hairs so far.

Several people my age (like just looking at people in my high school) are mostly or gray haired already, so I'm not sure how I've lucked out there. I'm guessing I'll probably wake up one day and suddenly everything decided to turn gray on me.
FWIW I wanted this laptop for a while and a big blocker for me was a lack of Linux support at the time. AFAIK a bunch of people have been working for a while to get this specific machine working with Linux. To me it's pretty cool.
I love this for it's example of what to use pio for as well as how to do it. Showpiece. Put it right into an ides built in examples/templates menu.
Max is 24GB on M2 Air. It's a great machine but pretty expensive.
"Unfortunately" the jobs report in Canada came in strong, and, predictably, the US jobs report followed.... surprise surprise, just as strong. More pain ahead I suppose.
There is usually no obvious way to convert the initial condition of an arbitrary quantum system to that for a classical system. The other way around, there is some consensus what the quantization of standard classical systems should be, but to define this transition in general is, again, not straightforward. Also, you obviously don't arrive at the same final condition for two different theories, otherwise they would be equivalent.

To talk about "number of computational steps" (which I have never seen referred to as "definition of computational complexity") you need to specify a computational model. The number and the comparison between two programs will depend upon it and you can get whatever result you want by choice of the model.

The conversion of theory -> model -> program is also not at all straightforward. The complexity strongly depends on the conversion. If you specify "best possible conversion" for model to program (which is probably the easiest part of the huge amount of things you need to define), you cannot prove anything about it anymore.

The complexity difference between asymptotic classical and quantum calculations is usually determined by its scaling in the "size of state space". Why do you focus on time and precision? I don't know for sure but it seems reasonable to me that the complexity with respect to those two might actually be the same for common system models. Regardless, you have to choose some parameters and you provided no arguments that this choice is in any way objective.

> In fact, if it turns out to be false, it is quite likely that it will also turn out quantum mechanics is in fact reducible to classical mechanics

Strongly disagree for any reasonable notion of "reducible". Quantum theory is different from classical in many qualitative and experimentally accessible ways (e.g. Bell inequalities). Computational complexity isn't everything.

To end, I want to further contest your defining complexity of a theory according to "length of computation to get model prediction". An interesting alternative would be "length of theory specification under optimal compression " (i.e., "Kolmogorov complexity of a theory"). This notion obviously also isn't rigorously defined yet but I think it's about as hard to definine as your notion. Neither of them seems obviously the "right one" to me in this context.
I found this video to be helpful.

"Why Going Faster-Than-Light Leads to Time Paradoxes" from the Cool Worlds channel

https://youtu.be/an0M-wcHw5A
Linux does not have a single filesystem, but many of them. I guess you could create one that implements versioning. As a matter of fact around 2000 I used one (Unix, not Linux). It was a version control system where different file versions appeared under different POSIX paths. I liked it, but it was at least as complicated as git and most developers in our organization did not really understand it a complained when things went wrong.

For system administration I use etckeeper these days. That serves nearly the same purpose. But for programming VMS was superior unless you are disciplined and commit frequently enough.
I was in the U.S. as well — but the Commodore wave came several years after the Apple II wave. So I suppose it depends on when you are talking about.

Before Commodore, when it Apple II ruled the roost, only the wealthier families I knew had computers at home. The 64 and Vic-20 is when my more working-class friend's families started getting a personal computer.

(I could afford neither, instead going in after school to use the Apple II's they had at my high school.)
As an 1980's elementary school student, we had schools full of Apple II's.

Now, a lot of them were the older monochrome models, but we had some color models, and a handful of them were the IIGS models. We had all the standard games like Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Carmen Sandiego, plus the typing tutors, Print Shop...

We had a couple PC's here and there. Almost all IBM. They were a different experience. You didn't just stick a disk in and it booted up into your game. You had to deal with DOS. We had the PC versions of a couple of those games, but the PC's were more for writing documents, using the early CD-ROM encyclopedias, that sort of stuff. We had a couple Macs as well, which were used for the same things.

Sure, we had Appleworks and all that, but the Apple II was for fun-and the IBM PC was for 'work'.

I didn't have a computer at home back then, but my dream was a IIGS of my own.
I really like the laptop in general, but, again, I'm not very picky. I have an old MacBook Air and the Framework's monitor is just as good (though much higher res). My only issue is that it's a little dim in sunlight.

Also, obviously Intel can't compare to an M1, but I hope the new AMD processors will improve on that somehow.
As much as I love retro stuff I see no point in reviving Palm. It's like bringing back MS-DOS, perhaps you have something ready made for that environment and you want to use it as is because you don't want to relearn some newer interface. That's ok, it can be done with emulation. But other than that why would you want to impose yourself a bunch of anachronistic limitations?
Looking back at my teens years where I was addicted to porn, I would trade every video & cum for 1 real connection.
What works for Singapore works for Singapore; the US is a very different country. As for the failings of the "War on Drugs" in the US, these have been well documented by multiple levels of social research.
This library might be of interest to you:
https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz

Specifically:
https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#toolz.functo...
Ah. Those fights I mostly put in the same category as "fights with NIMBYs over building new 8-track factories", "fights with NIMBYs over digging the Mississippi-Yukon shipping canal", etc.

(Vs. the NIMBYs are pretty much fine with 100%-carbon steel.)
They're useful quite frequently but just don't work well as the core or only way to manage elements. Size / spacing / proportion are very subjective based on the context, expectations, information being presented, even colors and animation etc.

They often don't "scale" in a way that's easy to represent with constraints. Like yes, a width or a border might work fine as a percentage, and it's good to have it there. But for example the size of a graphical figure relative to the text describing it on different screen sizes. It may be 50% or more of the screen on a small display, much much less on a larger one.

Or for a really concrete example, imagine a container element with internal spacing of 10px. Triple the size of the element; the ideal internal spacing is likely neither 10px, nor 30px, but some other thing you need your eyes to figure out. Arithmetic is simply the wrong tool to model the relationship.
No Dune references :(
Pragmatically, you can't stop extensions; if the fine print for `--std=cool++23` says that this mode is not actually C++23-compliant, nearly nobody will ever notice or care. Pragmatically, if a popular compiler makes `--std=cool++23` the default, and requires `--std=C++23 --iso-eic-jtc1-sc22-wg21 --pompous` to get standard-conforming behaviour, nearly nobody will do that; instead they will complain that other compilers lack the extensions.
Yeah I kinda hate musicals and loved that one, so whimsical.
Show HN: A cross-platform wrapper for pyright that makes it less noisy
This was mainly a fun weekend project to play around with Python's asyncio! But it also scratched an itch.

pyright (a static type checker for Python) is far noisier than it needs to be:

$ pyright
WARNING: there is a new pyright version available (v1.1.300 -> v1.1.301).
Please install the new version or set PYRIGHT_PYTHON_FORCE_VERSION to `latest`
No configuration file found.
pyproject.toml file found at /projects/pyright_polite.
Loading pyproject.toml file at /projects/pyright_polite/pyproject.toml
Assuming Python version 3.11
Assuming Python platform Linux
Auto-excluding **/node_modules
Auto-excluding **/__pycache__
Auto-excluding **/.*
stubPath /projects/pyright_polite/typings is not a valid directory.
Searching for source files
Found 7 source files
pyright 1.1.300
0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 informations
Completed in 1.006sec

pyright-polite reduces the output to this:

$ pyright-polite
Found 7 source files
0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 informations

It takes the same arguments as pyright, supports "--watch" mode, and shows diagnostics with the same colorisation.

If anyone else happens to get mildly irritated by pyright's output then perhaps give this a try :-)
my understanding is that a wood furnace is meant to be used with wood pellets or properly seasoned wood. using random rotting decaying dead wood outside probably wouldn't be a great idea - I'll need to look into it more.
The thing that turned me off against Dawkins' book, which I thought I would love, was that it just read as <em>mean</em> to me. It's been ages since I read it so I can't summon specific quotes, but here I was reading a book where I agreed with the premise but just found it to be mean-spirited.

I'm in the atheist camp, and I've certainly got my thoughts about religion dominating culture, but I agree with Horgan here: Dawkins isn't going to convince anybody (or at least not very many...) that don't already agree. That's not particularly useful.
Well without work like this and posts like these Linux would be a lot less usable. The first time I ventured outside of Windows I had to do stuff like configure ports and hunt down wifi drivers. Today for most cases it seems to "just work" and work like this ensures it stays that way.
Well looking up the specs for an Amana Budget system [1] that is more typical for what you would find in American home (mini Splits are rare here, and normally installed in Garages and Shops, not primary residences ) 1.5 Ton unit COP drops to 1.4 @ -5 and only matches the efficiency of the minisplit you linked @ 10 degrees

if I look at the high end an Amana System[2] and 2 Ton unit (which is more common size in the US) COP drops to 1.7 @ -5 and drops to about 2 at single digits.

[1] https://www.amana-hac.com/pdfviewer.aspx?pdfurl=docs/default...

[2]https://www.amana-hac.com/pdfviewer.aspx?pdfurl=docs/default...
Great effort, excellent!
https://archive.is/taesN
Unless I missed something, Edge matches Chrome with version number because it's just Chrome with Microsoft frosting.

But to answer the question: Yes. "Bigger number better" is how most people compare things.
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Open-source extension to StackEdit, GitHub: https://github.com/EqualTo-Software/stackedit-sheet-markup