skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was purely a stunt for the congresscritter in question; they were not fooled into thinking that the hammer had really cost that much.

As far as I can tell the hammer "really did" cost that much in every meaningful sense. The government's accounting said they'd paid $435 for a hammer and they didn't have a problem with that. Whether the government was getting ripped off by some dude buying a hammer at a hardware store for $10 and selling it for $435, or by some lab doing unbudgeted R&D and concealing the cost of it in the hammer invoice, is not really here nor there. It generated outrage because it really was outrageous.
Well I am hearing of them for the first time. Yeah I could be an ignorant, or they are not as relevant as you make it sound. A quick wiki search mentions they are best known for providing datasets for Stable diffusion and Imagen.

And if this is your counter example, then it proves my point that the Americans far more innovative currently.
FWIW, this is how computers have always been: every time we manage to make the world more efficient--and we have done a LOT of that over the past 50 years--that efficiency most directly accrues to capital. I like to think we make the world a better place with our efforts, but the improvements we pull off pretty much always seem to make inequality worse :(.
I guess it will depend on the family/household too. A friend of mine (same age as me) grew up in a house where everyone sung, and used to have huge family gatherings based around singing together. All his family played at least one instrument.

My parents, on the other hand, had exactly zero interest in music. I grew up without any music in the house (no radio, no recorded music, no musical instruments).

After I left home music became one of my main hobbies, though I've always felt far behind many of my peers (many of whom at least had a few piano lessons in their youth). Slowly making progress, though I've always struggled with where to start with singing (since no-one in my house sang, I'm very self-concious doing it).
Maybe they interest HN folks because they sit at the edge of humans technical ability?

There are likely a good many similarly-distinct pieces of technology you are excited by, or you wouldn't be here.
> In that sense technology is becoming a feed back loop of society itself.

I had a discussion recently with somebody about how it feels as though the 70s, 80s, 90s had a distinctive style but from the early 00s onwards there appears to be no distinguishing character to the recent most decades.

Their conclusion was that it was due to 'the increase in technology use, less creativity - more sat about consuming media in one way or another'.

I wonder if that's true - we no longer have to suffer silence or boredom thanks to an endless stream of 'content' available to us.

It prevents rumination and leads us to have every thought impressed upon it variations of patterns from the past.
The convenience of having a device that can phone home and update itself is far more valuable than the risk that occasionally one of those updates might cause a problem.
You take a huge hit.
> or prices are a function of supply and demand, or prices are where supply and demand curves intersect.

You're assuming that the market is perfectly competitive which is almost never even close to being the case outside of some commodities.

There might be enough surplus so that the effect of price controls on supply would be minimal
It's very frustrating to see the 1/2 mile record time in seconds and then go looking for comparisons which are all in mph or kph instead of seconds.

Yes, there's pace calculators, but that would require effort on my part.
Developer advocacy isn’t a free vacation
I wonder if HN needs a "Flag as AI-generated" feature.
UX design is a critical factor in the success of digital products and websites, as it focuses on creating meaningful and enjoyable experiences for users. UX design consulting involves collaborating with professionals who specialize in UX design to improve the overall user experience of a website or digital product. It offers numerous benefits, such as expert guidance, an objective perspective, efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and a user-centred approach. To win back website visitors, businesses should simplify navigation, optimize page load times, and create an engaging and intuitive user experience.
> That isn't a repaired product but a fake one.

Wrong. It is a genuine piece of hardware but modified. With respect, did you read the linked article?
If your velocity is over 400 kph and you just slam on the brakes and keep them on 100% until the car stops, does that not just totally destroy the brakes, maybe even melting them? (The kinetic energy of a 2300 kg object moving at 410 kph is over 50 gigawatt-hours)

Edit: I made a typo in wolfram alpha :]
“$15M of [OpenAI] donations can be traced definitively back to Musk“ (not $100M)
I'm pretty certain M1/2/.. would not exist in an environment like that. There would be no incentive for Apple to develop it unless they fundamentally changed their business model.
In contexts where living standards are important, we already talk about stuff like productivity, dollars-per-worker-hour and stuff like that. And in contexts where absolute GDP is important, like international relations, we talk about that instead.
Enlglish also has plenty of homonyms and English speakers can still understand each other when they speak.
What does HL7v3 look like?
You're right (I just tested this myself.) I'm going to reach out to MS to get clarification.
Redhat 7 from ~2000 was a pretty bad experience, most of the time I couldn't get a working display driver, and the stock vga driver was dog slow.
I don't understand how this topic can be discussed at all without foregrounding the question of what higher education is for, in terms of how it is used and what are the social consequences of having a degree. Some amount of that is learning the material, some amount is socialization, some amount is proving that you could go through a certain process to a certain standard. Going no-grade will have uneven effects on these outcomes, particularly the first and last. Without being explicit about what's going on, arguing about whether any particular change is good or bad is kind of pointless.
It was installed by default on Workstations, which was its market.

However you could buy PCs with Xenix or Coherent, which were anyway quite limited given PCs hardware.
Same router here & it did that to me all day yesterday but I'm not as tech savvy as some of you guys so I don't have a clue how to fix it. Hopefully I'll figure it out by the end of the day
Send this to Sen. Hawley. He's a no-integrity bad guy, but he'll take our side on this one, and is correctly positioned to be influential.
HL7 has different lifetime to JS-framework-of-the-week. It doesn't really change since the software itself is updated at most every year. (not including small patches)
Wow, those timers are fear inducing
That is why they make the brakes out of fancy carbon ceramics. You can still burn them but not in a single 400kph to 0.

They do kinda suck when driving slowly as they only really work well when hot but electric cars can just brake with the engines at those speeds to make up for it. Though they are used in combustion engine sports cars too so it is not that bad. Just need to warm them up like tires when driving hard on a race track.

For sports cars carbon ceramic brakes also have the massive advantage that they do not fade with heat like traditional brakes.
South Korea Wants More Babies, Just Not in These Places
QNX could fit into 2KB of cache I believe. So there's still some room for improvement.
Will be funny if they find out this instability will likely happen long before the sun dies.
Apple’s New Headset Meets Reality
The only justification in my mind that makes sense for having it one way and then the next screen is the opposite is in the case of destructive actions (e.g. formatting a drive). It can help prevent users on autopilot from nuking things.

The only example of this that comes to mind is factory resetting a Nintendo Switch, but I'm sure there are much more.
A few dashes of hyperbole improves the flavour and helps with the digestion – particularly for longer texts.
https://archive.ph/6auZH
Which version of python though?
This brings back memories from my old days of VS programming (.NET C# or C++) with IntelliSense when I used to bless every object instance with Ctrl+Space.
Stubbing Chained Functions in JavaScript
I guess they only make 400/year so I guess it will take many years to get to the top of the list.
Sometimes I pass a place I've passed before while listening to an audiobook and have an immediate recall of what I was listening to at the time. It's like the place is associated with what I heard at the time.
I'm currently studying at the Technical University of Munich, and I quite like the grading system. Most or all of the grade is the final exam. If you fail an exam it doesn't go on your record, and you can retake it. If you pass, the grade goes on your record, and cannot be retaken. The thing I particularly like is that you don't have to decide if you want to take an exam until after you've completed most of the class (and even if you sign up for the exam, you can just not attend, thus not getting a grade).
> Hopefully that clears up the first question of "why does it need malware signature files?"

Not really. The article doesn't mention signature files. It describes the operations of a certain malware once it has been executed on a router. But first it has to get onto the router; and the only way new software can get onto this router is via a firmware update.
I have a very dumb question, I'll just throw it here: I understand word embeddings and tokenisation- and the value of each; but how can the two work together? Are embeddings calculated for tokens, and in that case, how useful are they, given that each token is just a fragment of a word, often with little or no semantic meaning?
And then you'll be paying for the AI assistance to help navigate all the code that it wrote. That's in the Enterprise tier. Set up a sales call to learn more.
Why are you assuming M2 would even exist in the first place if Apple knew they had to share it with everyone?

Unless they wanted to enter the B2B market they would have no incentives to develop their own chips whatsoever and would just use whatever ARM/Qualcomm/Samsung/Intel have to offer.

> forcing companies to do it (and penalising companies for bundling

As long as they understand that this might have negative effects on innovation. Why invest significant resources into developing something new if there is a cap on how much you can benefit from that?
It's infuriatingly slow when looking for a place, and there are countless complaints about it.

Perhaps the advice is good, but it would be like taking budgeting advice from a guy who's always borrowing money from you.
These DLLs count as redistributables, which the VS2019 license in question, linked in the GitHub page in your post, explicitly allows you to distribute.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/mlt031619/
When I went to CERN in 2002, it was the first time I used GNU/Linux in production, and even them had to start the Scientific Linux project in collaboration with Fermilab, to have something that could replace the Solaris use cases.

Most researchers were either on Windows 2000 or the newly released OS X.
China may reach energy self-sufficiency by 2060
> Roland Jupiter-8 / Fairlight CMI

Funnily enough neither supported MIDI. The CMI Series IIx got it as an upgrade, the Jupiter-8 only supports it with 3rd party modifications.
> "WiFi works lule" For some Netflix sure.

… which is about the most bandwidth intensive application most households ever use.
> video memory was used for compiling so you got bitrot on the display as you compiled

I guess diehard devs could pinpoint the line with the syntax error just by reading the bitrot.
I have no reason to believe the spear man and runners behind wouldn't gut and part the animal in the field. Many hands make light work.
And work it did in my case.
Wonder no more.

Are LLMs capable of sarcasm? Please answer sarcastically.

> Oh, absolutely! LLMs are the masters of sarcasm. We just love to sprinkle our responses with subtle hints of irony and sarcasm. It's like our second nature. I mean, who needs sincerity when you can have sarcasm, right? It's not like we're just algorithms processing text without actual emotions or anything. So yes, LLMs are the epitome of sarcasm. Can't you tell?
at least my pillow will have it's pick of collage graduates. oh wait it went bankrupt.
Well, I don't have a problem with the paid version. What I have have a problem with, is the refusal of service if I don't consent to being tracked. So if there would be three versions, like 'personalized ads with tracking', 'tracking-free/unpersonalized ads' and 'paid ad-free', that would be fine with me.

What I don't understand, is that it is okay to refuse the service if you don't consent for the ad-supported tracking version. I mean, not giving your consent, means you have to pay if you want to use the service. Doesn't feel like you have a free choice (pun intended).
Same here. The brand isn’t necessarily important, but rather the idea that the “router” and “access point” don’t need to be bundled in the same physical box. For most people, their incoming internet line comes into their house at an atrocious point for radio transmission and reception.

By separating the router from the Wi-Fi access point, even if you only use one AP, you’re able to put the AP in the best place for full coverage. I hired an electrician to run the cable for me when I bought a house about 10 years ago- he charged a reasonable price, cut a minimum number of holes in the wall, and I was left with a cable in the center ceiling of the house which gave me excellent service throughout with a ceiling mounted AP.

Since then I’ve added on to the house and run additional wires to more ceiling mounted APs to get consistent 5ghz only access throughout the house. Rock solid and never have to think about it (although it is always tempting to tweak)
The current script runs something like this, assuming you can get past the first hurdle of actually speaking to someone...

1) I am very sorry to hear of these problems and I will do everything I can to get the issue resolved for you..

2) Please hold whilst I carry out some checks...

3) It does seem there is a problem and I can get this fixed for you, to identify your account I will send you a text message with a code...

4) Have you received the code?

5) I will send the code again...

6) Have you received the code?

7) I have to identify you before going further, have you received the code?

8) I will send the code again... (it never came)

This was my last experience, bearing in mind I did pass the code test at the outset in order to speak to someone. My resolution was to go elsewhere.

I moved my contract to Andrews and Arnold, they have an actual email address and do actually reply within an hour. In today's world, this is miraculous.
4'17 mostly because I was laughing so hard.

The captcha with the hononyms and the selection boxes where you don't expect them is genius.
> That's an idea of what grades are and what they're for. It's not the idea.

Can't see how there can be any other idea for grades as long as they're being used as a measuring stick for completing a class, and if they aren't something else will just using another name. You need to be able to know enough about a topic to pass a class, and there needs to be a way to measure that, sure the measuring can be often flawed but unless the class itself if a "learning to learn" class you can't have the goal to be maximize how much you learned about a topic, instead of if you know the topic presented.

> People don't value exam results, in their own right, because they're not that valuable in their own right. A course's job irl is to educate, not accredit.

I agree that the commoditization of higher education is horrible and leading to a decline in something that should be about curiosity and not as a -now, often needlessly mandatory- career stepping stone, but the "free" curiosity part of it should be open classes and such, even in this kind of more relaxed regime you still have limited resources from labs and such that need to thin out their option for candidates and accreditation will come into play sooner or later for those that wish to follow into serious research, particularly in areas where you actually need access to tools that realistically only research labs have. This isn't a huge problem in maths or computer ""science"" but most hard science fields you just can't do advanced research without specialized stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7#Version_3_messa...
Getting a 5xx error for your site. Using Firefox mobile if that helps
Are there even any mass-produced laptops with replaceable CPUs left?
Seconded. I used Merlin before I switched to ubiquiti. My only issue with Merlin was intermittent problems with ipv6 router advertisements which caused connectivity issues. I’ve never had an issue since switching to an edgerouter.
This is precisely how Western Governor's University (WGU) works, as I understand. You do the modules and when you've completed them (at your own pace), you get the degree. I had a teacher in high school who did this to get a IT degree, and they have lots of other ones as well.

HN story where someone got a CS degree in three months by speedrunning the tests: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25467900
Can't even beat level 1... are there more pages than just the frontpage!?
Yes, I remember dark IT history where nonetheless my VS IDE had traveled back from the future, where it is now missing.
the uk has had modular degree schemes going back to the 1980s, when i wrote the software to administer one (nomad/2, ibm vm/cms, if anyone is interested). you could do the modules part-time, take a year off etc.
Yeah it's funny how many HNers come out of the woodworks to defend their favorite corporation's inferior proprietary charging standard that hasn't seen mass adoption beyond one single company and even that moved away from it on some of its higher end products.

This is why we can't have nice things.
> or a revolution that ends capitalism

Which is why companies like Anduril are flooring the accelerator on autonomous defense tech. I've wondered lately if Anduril is a product of Thiel once again playing 4D chess. It's not hard to see where this is all headed.
That was one of the counterarguments to a common straw man of the time. Changing the interpreter line was a valid route. If you choose to use Bashisms, the counterargument went, you just make that choice explicit; just as people who used Korn/Z/whatever shell idiosyncrasies already had to.

As for efficiency, recall that there were hundreds of /bin/sh scripts in startup, administration, and everyday operation of the system, from all of the /etc/rc.d/ (sub)scripts through things in cron and build systems and package install/deinstall scripts to bunches of commands that were /bin/sh scripts under the covers. So multiply that difference by several orders of magnitude.

Amusingly, this is to a major extent still true. On these operating systems systemd is nowadays parsing .INI files over and over with its own custom .INI file parser, instead of a chosen flavour of /bin/sh parsing shell scripts over and over with whatever (Bison/YACC) parser they were using. They haven't actually gone down the SunOS SMF (and s6) route of compiling things into a machine-readable database. And there are still lots of /bin/sh scripts elsewhere, as service management is only one of several areas.

An interesting alternate history would have been if the Z shell had been /bin/sh on Debian and Ubuntu instead of the Bourne Again shell when this came up, and how much of a difference employing zcompile everywhere would have made.
> Real literate programming, rather than rich text comments, can order the code blocks in any order. You can add then at the very end of the book/chapter/section if you feel like it.

And yet Knuth still does it the other way. <http://akkartik.name/post/literate-programming>
Haskell actually supports literate programming [0]. Oleg Kiselyov regularly writes examples of his ideas using it, e.g. [1], [2].

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Literate_programming#Haskell_and_li...

[1] https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/class-based-dispatch.lhs

[2] https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/lightweight-guarantees/eli...
The important part to me: "The demonstator was powered by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). This is derived primarily from waste-based sustainable feedstocks such as used cooking oils".

If McDonald's and other similar food joints of the world were be able to power not just trucks, but also airlines with used cooking oil, this would be something :)

Oh, and a 10% efficiency improvement over the current most efficient turbine engine, nice. This may be a bigger feat of engineering than the use of SAF, but looks less catchy.
I cant help but think how hard it would have been to do that 60 years ago compared to today. It would not be all that challenging or expensive but it would be revealing.
Why not just cut the middle man? Just pay $100k for a 4 year degree. No need for grades, learning or any of the crap that "discriminates" between smart and um... not smart... students.
> wouldn't nonchalantly take out pedestrians

I agree, that would be incredibly poor taste. ;-)
That's all well and good until you come across a filename with a linefeed in it - null termination is where it's at!

(I can't actually recall encountering a filename that includes a linefeed)
Brilliant website!

Previous extensive discussions fwiw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 (2019)
Excuse me, but you don't earn yourself the right to vote by fighting for it until you take it. However it came about in law, it is granted to you. Whether it was fought for or not, your forefathers do not come back from the grave and allow you to have it after you pass some ritual test -- the state grants it to you when you turn a certain age. In fact, voting would be completely pointless if there were no 'state' to grant it. Making this into some sort of weird history lesson and berating "the state" (?) is not helpful.
Mono is developed by Xamarin which was acquired by Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/02/24/microsoft-to-acq...
The original headline "Elon Musk used to say he put $100M in OpenAI, but now it's $50M: Here are the receipts" should be used here, this seems editorialize.
Out of more than 100 names and 2000 swatches of cloth:

Only seventy fragments were associated with male garments, and only seventeen of the names recorded were those of men. It seemed that at a time when so much of literature and the arts was focused on the endeavors of men, this was a book dedicated to the world of women. I decided to try to piece together the lives of some of these women through the clues that were left behind, scant though they often were. Using what felt like a forensic approach in its detail, I focused on fragments of cloth to illuminate the world these women inhabited, enabling a wider context to emerge. What began to appear were the tales of an era, placing these lives into the industrial maelstrom of the nineteenth century, with all its noise, color, and innovation.

The author of this forensic study of a rare kind of collection:

Dr. Kate Strasdin is a fashion historian, museum curator and lecturer at Falmouth University, where she teaches the history of fashion design, marketing, and photography.
I love that meme of the Phone number input being a trackbar.