skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you one of them?

The conceit of the article is that the author isnt a "pro" (whatever that means), so they went out and talked to a bunch of people in different industries, and no one had a use for the Mac Pro.

> tax write-off

Ahh, they just write it off!
As things get faster developers have to introduce lazier practices to maintain the same level of shittiness. Eliminate parallel request limit and they spam you with hundreds of scripts. Eliminate head of the line blocking and they come right back at you with cascade of dependencies blocking. Of course “things get faster” isn’t universal when it comes to network latency and throughput, so the experience strictly worsens for a subset of users.
Thank you, I will definitely use it for short sentences. But my typical scenario is to throw a whole webpage from HN if I am too tired to read it in English. I do not see how deepl can translate a whole webpage, all I see is 1500 symbols with no registration.
What obvious thing are we missing? And can AI help?
I remember reading his articles in Byte.
But did you give up your citizenship? Not much to regret when you always have the plan B.
This sure reads like a press release announcing a project that hasn't been designed or built yet.

Promising complete privacy and fully offline transactions both sound dubious.

What mechanisms would be in place to allow me to transfer money from my KYC bank account to an anonymous wallet without it being tracked?

If the max is €3000 but it's entirely private, how could they possibly know I don't have a higher balance or multiple wallets?

What tech is even being used to allow fully private, offline transactions in the first place? How does the receiver verify that the digital cash is legit? And how does the network ensure that the money wasn't double spent while offline?

So many questions here, and I can't help but have a hunch that the gaps in description would be blocked by fundamental technical limitations.
Panels are generally warranteed for up to a certain windspeed and up to a certain size hail. Mine are up to roughly golf ball sized and 80mph wind. Beyond that, you need insurance just like anything else that's valuable and subject to nature.
They have an online subscription. It’s part of Apple News+
The name suggestion is a good idea!
Planes have to be sturdy and flexible to handle the environment they spend most of their time cruising in. This is probably nothing next to the turbulence planes are expected to shrug off while maintaining a ground level environment eight miles up for decades of service life.
Dear CNN -

If you want us to respect you for being a legit news source founded on jouralism basics, please stop adopting BuzzFeed tactics. It's not a good look.

Love -
Us

I'm not going to click on a click bait headline.

Dear CNN -
You absolutely can get PTSD from a startup.

Source: I still have trauma and panic attacks from one startup I co-founded. At the time the stress was so severe I got pneumonia, couldn't sleep etc etc etc.
Computerphile did a video a few weeks ago, "Ethernet (50th Birthday)", that gives a nice overview of how it developed for those unfamiliar with it works:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOVgkcrvbg

The Computer History Museum also had a discussion with Metcalfe (and others) on it:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9On2L0-ObU

* https://computerhistory.org/blog/ethernet-turns-50/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe

Also perhaps see Computerphile's "Discussing PDF@30 Years Old", which celebrated its anniversary/birthday in January:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bffm1Ie66gM
Open Source LLM Inference DLC
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Witness as ChatGPT unveils random significant events from the past, while midjourney brings them to life

This is an experiment. As we traverse the realms of history, occasional errors, quirks, or unexpected outcomes may arise. It's all part of the unedited journey we're undertaking together.
The implication is that you would ask the owners for permission to reproduce the image for the article.
The hashmap solution here is ideally O(n) as you only iterate once (assuming O(1) lookups and inserts in the map). A sort/search method, even using quicksort would be O(n*logn).
I wonder what your actual cache hit rate is? Sounds like it could use some tuning since 100-150ms sounds consistent with most requests hitting the origin?
> Those are political problems, not technical ones. [...] TLDR. A PoC is a PoC, not a full product.

Politics eat technnological semantics for breakfast though. It's up to you to decide whether this is a hill you want to die on.

> They can be solved by aligning incentives.

Often enough, that means shipping the poc.
They run their checklists and once all options have been exhausted to rectify the situation, what else should they do other than land? Also, they only had 30 minutes of fuel remaining.
Flying for me ain't fun but as soon the bird is on the ground I'm all good!
> "servers" had order-of client compute power

Still do. Biggest difference: If you intend to serve the same complexity of web experience today that you were trying to serve 20 years ago, you will find a single MacBook would likely be enough to handle the traffic. The challenge is that we've taken advantage of the exponential compute growth over the years and now it feels like we still have the exact same scaling issues on the server relative to the client.

If you constrain your product & design just a tiny bit, you can escape this horrible trap and enjoy those 4-5 orders of magnitude. If you design your website like Berkshire Hathaway or HN, you are on the right power curve. Seriously - go open Berkshire's website right now just to remind yourself how fast the web can be if you can lock that resume-driven ego crap in a box for a little bit.
A huge part of youth identity in the US use to be from the music business.

I mean we use to even have goth bars, punk bars. Imagine a bar in 2023 that only caters to people who like industrial or punk music. It sounds absolutely ridiculous.

The music business though was also highly connected to all other art forms in terms of the visual arts, fashion, literature.

With the change in the importance of music it basically devalued nearly all art forms compared to what use to be.

It seems like politics stepped in to fill this void for the youth. It is such a boring and disappointing development.

It is also not good for politics either to have competing factions who at 20 believe what they believe with near religious fervor.
Thanks for this! The summarizer is great for quickly getting the gist of legal cases.
Here is Don's web site.

I always liked his insights to Postscript and his view on Hydrogen.

https://www.tinaja.com
> landed without nose gear extended at 08:54L (12:54Z) about 12 minutes after the second go around and about 30 minutes after the first go around.

Via Tepix's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519150

In combination with what mannykannot replied to you, that doesn't sound particularly rushed to me (not that I'm an expert, but it would be surprising if they'd needed an hour for such a relatively common type of incident).
Alright, maybe...
But it's still OK to farm them industrially, with no repercussions for unnecessary suffering, since they don't have a soul.
Or something
QKSMS which I installed through F-droid works pretty well for me for years, FWIW.
I can fill in some of the next steps...

If M=1, then S must equal 8 or 9 since MORE can be at most 1987.

Consider O, which is in MORE and MONEY. O cannot be 1 (which is M), and it cannot be 2 or more, since then MONEY - MORE > 10000, so O must be 0 (zero).

Considering the hundreds place, E + 0 = E + 0 (zero) = N, so there must be a carry from the previous digit, and N = E + 1

I'm getting a little stuck now, but there must be some more tricks to take it further, presumably since we know N + R > 9 (due to our above carry), etc.
You can use radix sort which is linear for fixed width ints.
I know this is a meme, but if you're using these aren't you better off with a Windows/Linux box? You can shove an actual modern GPU in there as well and get considerably more peformance.

I struggle to think of workflows that require macOS for this, given it has conceeded the high end of performance to others.
> Please, keep the pedantry, and the laziness, to an absolute minimum.

I think this would be a good opportunity for you to get off your high horse; to me, all these responses of yours are pedantic rants about the correct use of "asexual" and complaints about changing language. Let's try to give each the benefit of the doubt.

> Lastly, you claimed that I had conflated two concepts when

No, that was a reply to Shared404. You for some reason felt the need to jump into the conversation - which is perfectly fine, this is a public discussion board. But please - don't lie; that response was not aimed at you.

> So, your use of asexual in this conversation, no it makes no difference because it is wholly irrelevant.

Sure, that's why I'm so confused why you get so hung up about it. I can go with either definition, I think I wrote that, eh, two replies ago. Let's stick to the actual question.

> That humans are sexually dimorphic does make a difference [...]

That was not my question. My question was:

> [..] why [should] your distinction between the formulations [..formulation A..] and [..formulation B..] make any difference to the question of "It makes sense to differentiate between sex and gender".

I think you answered that now; you admitted that the definition of asexuality doesn't make a difference to my question above.

> There are many temperaments and personalities, they certainly have a spectrum (or something far more profoundly complex). Gender does not [...]

I don't really comprehend what you are trying to say here. Can you maybe rephrase it?
> If all you need to do is check logs and your bill, but you can still run arbitrary code, then it is serverless.

It seems like you can't run any code at all on this service, though.

And if the service provider itself uses a serverless model to run their application which provides a service to me... Why do I care, as a customer?
I was having fun writing one liners with poly, leaving my file explorer open and dragging the output file straight into a Ableton channel with a drum rack set up.

I also tried making a web UI with it via Yew. I got it all compiling and running in the browser, but the crate is all about that CLI. I would have to write a lot of the code that’s in the CLI file to call the create_smf function.

It might be worth considering designing the library’s API to be a bit friendlier to an end user. I think there’s cool stuff that could be done with it. Or at least that’s something I want to do :D
Is this actually diagnosed? Panic attacks don't mean you have PTSD nor does being stressed mean you suffered a traumatic event.
> It's a bit sad what's become of National Geographic under Disney.

It was already destroyed after Fox bought it and started putting out covers with the Virgin Mary, the Real Jesus, and the Healing Value of Faith.
Here you have selection bias. If you're a US company and you have to bring someone from outside the US, you'll probably bring the better ones and, as someone already said, if they are fluent in English, they are probably at the top.

Come work for a Brazilian company to see the that we have mediocre people everywhere.
If I wanna visit Canada, I can spend a few weeks/months in the places I wanna see (Quebec, BC, Alberta), work remotely for a US company and make 2-3x the money w/o spending half my income on taxes/insane rents.
They can most certainly repair the plane. If you've never heard of the "Gimli Glider", check this out...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
I don't know what model of plane this is, but I was watching a Real Engineering video on the Boeing 787. He said that some planes have a third engine for generating electricity (the APU) and the exhaust for that is at the tip of the tail.

Maybe there are concerns about potentially damaging the APU?
I think there are enough American SMS users that the issue is worth discussing. We can also have a thread about how there is no FOSS Whatsapp client. I'd enjoy that discussion as well.
Reminds of the plot of the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty[0], where the Life magazine was transitioning to digital-only releases.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitt...
I am not someone who complains about "stop piping cats" but using '-e' with grep is a lot quicker and easier to read. This:

grep -v 'test/' | grep -v 'tests/' | grep -v idlelib | grep -v turtledemo

Becomes:

grep -ve 'test/' -e 'tests/' -e idlelib -e turtledemo
Because only corporations and billionaires are allowed to commit it?
Seems like the best time to ask since this is an awk thread: if anyone has a line on the original artwork or a source for the awk t-shirt please let me know. From memory it's of a gangly bird jumping / parachuting from an airplane (DC3?) and captioned with awk's infamous catch-all error message: "Awk: bailing out near line one".
Last-minute Government amendment seeks to muzzle DPC critics (Ireland)
Ooh TIL about plug-ins like Scaler 2. I need to get more immersed in the DAW world.

It'd be cool to train text embeddings and musical chord embeddings (by analyzing song lyrics perhaps) and then build something to type in moods like "happy jaunty progression" and get a matching chord progression with a similar embedding (assuming you give it a large library of progressions). No generative AI would be needed :)
The death of the SysAdmin is nigh?
I did a piece about four years ago where I tried to determine who was still willing to buy the trash can, new, in 2019, and found that the answer was (essentially) MacStadium.[1]

This piece, while quite good, doesn’t dive into this, but I am curious whether MacStadium has plans to do anything with the Mac Pros that they wouldn’t with the Studios.

$3,000 for access to slots that you can get on a $500 desktop seems like an upcharge designed to discourage people from buying it.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pajmk9/who-kept-buying-the-m...
>One of my favorite station IDs was an independent local analog UHF channel 56 with call letters WLVI.

Bangor, ME has an ABC affiliate WVII broadcasting on VHF channel 7.
China unveils sweeping foreign policy law
> Gas taxes make up a relatively small part of the cost of gas

Over in the EU it seems that taxes and duties represent at least half of the cost of petrol, more in some member states

https://www.statista.com/statistics/937796/pump-price-and-ta...

Q: How are governments going to replace this?
If you serve on localhost you can usually access from other devices by using the "servers" ip address. So if your desktop where you're running the server has ip 192.168.1.10 then you can go to http://192.168.1.10 in the browser of another device on the same network.
Virgin Galactic set to launch first commercial space flight
SSL Certificates: Ensuring Security and Trust
I remember him more for his CMOS Cookbook.

A search will easily find it.
There are limits and efficiency hits, they’re just edge cases / minor. For MySQL, anyway:

VARCHAR > 255 requires an extra byte as a length prefix. This isn’t a big deal for most people - even with a billion rows, you’ve only lost 1 GB of space (assuming you didn’t actually need the larger VARCHAR).

Additionally, there is a maximum row limit of 2^16-1 bytes, and collation must be considered. The modern standard in MySQL is utf8mb4, so each character can require 4 bytes. If you’re using an older collation like utf8mb3 or latin1, you can squeeze more in, but when/if those get deprecated (utf8mb3 will supposedly be at some point), the collation change might push you over the edge.

LONGTEXT can store 2^32-1 bytes, so even with utf8mb4 you can store 1 GiB in a single string. Please don’t do this.

Finally, if your table has any BLOB (including TEXT) types, you may get various limitations depending on the version, like implicit temp tables being unable to be created in memory resulting in disk hits; indexing fun (if you need to index a TEXT column - no you don’t), and other quirks.

Databases are fun.
The other thing that might not be obvious to non-residents is that K is for West of the Mississippi, and W is for East.

It must be weird to live near the Mississippi and get a mix of K and W station call signs!
Show HN: Intelligent Training Plans – FitPlan Connect
O(n log n + n) = O(n log n)
The majority of cost risk in insurance is that of third parties, not the value of your own vehicle.

People often say "the insurance costs more than my car is worth!" as if it's scandalous. But what it's insuring you against, primarily, is the risk of paying millions of $CURRENCY in medical fees to the third party. Your car's value is peanuts in comparison.
Twitter thread: Elon fires 75% of Twitter
I admit I passed over trying this for whatever reason. I'll try it now and report back.
Yes, this writing is infuriatingly light on actually saying what the hell he means. I spent the entire thing trying to determine if "don't emotionally bootstrap" mean you should bootstrap, but don't be emotional about it, or if it meant you shouldn't bootstrap your emotions or ... what. I think this phrase must have popped into his head as a stunningly insightful concept that made a great blog post title so he just barfed it out and patted himself on the back for being so clever.

And in the only spot he actually even uses the phrase "emotionally bootstrap", it appears to be a one-time thing that might be the same thing as "inner bootstrapping," which he talks about a bunch and contrasts to "outer bootstrapping," all while defining neither. I closed the page somewhat angrily and then was delighted to come back to the HN comments and see a chorus of WTF.
MyBatis Dynamic SQL Quick Start
When to Build Millennia Sewers
who wants free training plans?
its fairly simple
- head over to fitplanconnect.com
- sign up with your gmail,
- link your strava account
- enter your user metrics on profile page
- head over to “training plans” and hit “create new plan”
- enter your goal eg: “I have a road marathon on 25 september and I’d like to run under 4h”
- wait for the magic to happen

you can generate and updated training plan once a week. The training plan is generated based on your training sessions in strava, so its an iterative process.

if things break, please drop a mail on feedback@apextechnology.co.za
I was somewhat thinking of the mechanical stress of the passengers.
Sounds like a job for collapsible hail nets, like used at fruit farms.
Station ID is every hour. Also you have to say it in a very specific format: Call letters, city; or call letters, frequency, city. No additional words in between: “WKRP in Cincinnati” would be invalid.

TV stations are allowed to do it visually. When I was young it was common to see it as a full screen ID in between shows (often with a quick weather report, “time and temperature”). Later most stations I saw quit that and just put it as a bug at the bottom of the screen over top of the show.
I was going to tell you "there was this thing that was part of / related to raspberry pi[0], called 'wireframe' but sadly that got (un[1])deaded shortly after I heard about it last year" but I now realise I don't need to!

Even online there is a lack of relevant (magazine-style or otherwise) material. It all drifts towards "Final Fantasy XVI starter guide: 10 key tips for beginners"[2] ... it all drifts towards gaming _content_ (not to be confused with game criticism).

I have to say, though: the name 'Why now gaming' is a self-aware master stroke. Why is this now a gaming blog? Why now? Why?

[0] https://archive.is/https://wireframe.raspberrypi.com/*

[1] https://whynowgaming.com/ is _powered by (feeding on the corpse of) Wireframe_

[2] https://whynowgaming.com/final-fantasy-xvi-starter-guide-10-...
What makes you say they didn't land on the rear landing gear first? Part of the normal landing is -- AIUI, IANAPilot -- to flare, that is to increase the angle of attack of the aircraft (pull up the nose, increase drag) in order to reduce forward speed; this also puts the rear gear closest to the runway, the rear gear being bilateral means this spreads the load.

In fact, I've just looked at a video on YouTube "AIRLIVE" [0] and you can see the shadow of the nose off the ground when the plane shakes (at 0:07s) indicating the rear gear has made contact. I think the nose contacts at 0:13, so gently it's amazing.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch/I1dthJSuZLk
I’d be concerned about social limits to change. There is only so much people can take.

I am a bit shook up at the moment because I just saw a video of a Russian soldier who was in a unit of 150 men, after three months there are fewer than 15 left, there is no graphic violence at all but the description of what they’ve been through is harrowing and they’re just done with the war and want their families to know if they get killed now it wasn’t in combat, it was by their own.

Look at the resistance to taking any measures against COVID-19 that emerged in about a year and the counter-culture of people who don’t get that wearing two masks isn’t going to make up for the people who aren’t.

The right is against take measures against climate change and the left is cosplaying as being concerned, if only as an act of negativism, but once some Bipoc person realizes it’s going to cost them 50 cents they don’t have and when XYZHPNQ^ people realize that billionaires aren’t going to pay 100% of the cost they will put on yellow shirts and jump the barricade.

See Future Shock.
A former girlfriend of mine came home one day with one of these devices plugged into her car. She was the kind of person who just said "yes" to whatever was on the form and she simply picked the lowest price option. My head immediately goes to the scenario where theres been some kind of an accident. Maybe it's a fender bender or maybe a pedestrian was hit. In one case you have a couple damaged cars and a deductible. In the other case you're facing down a manslaughter charge and even if you're not at fault it's going to ruin your life.

So now imagine law enforcement has access to your cumulative driving habits/traits and the last 20 minutes of driving that day. Imagine the insurance company has processed that data for its own purpose and assigned some kind of (totally arbitrary and contrived) "aggressive" or "risk" rating to certain actions etc. Law enforcement now has a prepackaged report that will invariably say you're a terrible driver. Of course the data collected is going to say that as the insurance companies aren't in business to charge people LESS money.

Now, whether or not you were or were not driving in a reckless manner, theres data to make a case with and nobody is perfect. That data may or may not reflect the reality of the situation and even so, prosecutors are known to take the easy route to boost their own stats. Now imagine a prosecutor looking for an easy win has a prepackaged report of biased information from the insurance company?

This whole thing seems like a way to possibly save a trivial amount of money in exchange for an increased likelihood of Really Bad Things happening to you.
> Define success?

Its not hard to define success. It means having more revenue than their cost, and paying all employees market rate salary(including the founder himself).
>You aren't going to keep the subscription base without spending a ton on marketing

If you do quality work, you don't need to spend a ton on marketing. And this is very livable revenue - tons of media outlets thrived on less (inflation adjusted) back in the day.

The main problem is belonging to some conglomerate who doesn't care for such small profits or a business breaking even. They're an insect to them.

A corporation running from a non-profit dedicated to the mission (as opposed to those greedy people), or passionate private owner(s), would have no problem to continue.