skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For much of the last 50 years, its been the Spanish and Italians breaking the game with insane transfer fees. But poor financial control, corruption, hooliganism and over concentration of power in the hands of a few clubs led to their decline relative to the Premier League. It was also the willingness of English fans to pay to watch it on TV which gave it a huge boost compared to its competitors. Teams were prepared to invest in better facilities because of the reliability of the money coming in from TV rights, so the experience at EPL teams and other big English clubs is pretty good. Violence has been significantly reduced so you can go to a game now without worrying about getting beaten up and most significantly the money has led to an influx of foreign coaches and players which has improved the quality of the game. This led to improved attendances and a willingness to pay higher ticket prices. So a virtuous circle ensued.

Its been overall very beneficial for the game and fan experience. The stable cashflows have encouraged outside investors to pile in and invest big because they know they can make money in England compared to most other countries in Europe. The only country that can come close is Germany, but they have a very fan orientated focus so they're unlikely to allow the big investors that England allows.

The biggest fear for fans is a move towards a franchised US style league, with no promotion and relegation and a fixed number of teams taking all the money for themselves. It was tried recently with the Superleague which led to a massive backlash across the spectrum in Europe. But with so many US investors in the game now I think its only a matter of time before they try it again. It appeals a lot to Italian and Spanish owners because they can finally have the stable cashflows to compete with the English clubs again. But after the recent debacle its going to be a few more years until it happens again.
> So people in Taiwan have no say in what happens to them?

This is just hiding behind Taiwan unless you're so naive that you think that state actors help other states out of the goodness of their hearts.

Is it the US calling the shots or not? If so then no, Taiwan clearly doesn't have a say since everything hinges on the US' power.
I would gladly pay 4 cents more just to never have to figure out how to set the time on my oven or microwave ever again.
I understand where you are coming from and it doesn’t read like your goal is selfish.

Growing up my parents didn’t allow me near certain parts because of the risk of accidents, but I was fortunate enough to have a wide area to run around where it was much safer.

Even if you know who the offenders are, it’s not always directly solving the problem.

Take care and stay safe.
Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
Yeeah! That is really great to read!

If you are ok with sharing an email address or a website, I'll be sure to give you a heads up when the site is up and running.

Thank you for the kind and useful offer!
I thought about building a transpiler from TypeScript to other languages as a learning tool.

It would also scaffold out the project structure for each language.

The idea would be not to allow all code, but focus on high-level intent as simply as possible using primarily builtin language and platform primitives.

Could even use the name of a function and some comments to express the intent, which then gets transpiled in the other language, without even looking at the implementation in TypeScript. Could probably lean on AI a lot.

I’d love to have “one obvious way” to do certain things in each language. This Pythonic rule is violated so often in every language. A lot of programming is the same thing but we all do it slightly differently. Just take a look at some stack overflow answers for really simple stuff.
Work used to use Jira. Then switched to Linear. Now they recently moved back to Jira. I'm thinking about leaving.
It's mildly amusing to see the commentary elsewhere that this whole event proves they were _right_ that the lay public speculating is somehow harmful.
> apparently there is not enough lithium on earth to store renewable electricity

Any source for that? Also what quantity of power are we talking?

I am all for nuclear though.
Reading the Wikipedia page, the Frank-Caro process is a straight forward chemical reaction. Shovel calcium carbide into your reactor. After the reaction is done, shovel calcium cyanamide out of the reactor and on to your farm land to fertilize it. The calcium is "consumed" in the process, in direct proportion to the amount of fertilizer that the reaction creates.

The article talks about Ca3CrN3H as a catalyst, giving the impression that the three nitrogen atoms in the compound stay put; it is different nitrogen atoms that get pumped into the reactor and leave as ammonia to be spread as fertilizer. The calcium remains in place, merely making the reaction go faster.

Catalysis is always a bit mysterious because the catalyst is unchanged by the reaction as though it wasn't involved at all. I don't think that there is any expectation that one can discover catalysts by taking reactants as a hint. Indeed, the classic platinum catalyst in a catalytic converter uses platinum, a very unreactive metal.
Sid is not a rolling release. This is a common misconception.

In preparation for a new stable release, it goes through what is effectively a package freeze. Maintainers are discouraged from updating packages in Sid in order to focus on the new release. So almost no new updates are uploaded to the repositories until Stable is finally out.
It's amazing that when I discovered debian in 1997, it was just the thing that was the normal way to do Linux (OK, there were other competing options that were nice too), but actually it was a pretty new idea.

And now it's 25 years later.
That demo is really cool!
The thing you pay for with cloud servers is not having to do the up-keep of the host machine. They tend to have many more drives than you’d get with a bare metal server.

I have many OVH and Hetzner servers (cloud and dedicated) but not sure I’d find a use for this.
> Am I missing something? Will I regret this in six months?

Yes. One day you'll add another dependency to your classpath and your application will magically be doing something you didn't want or need. And the way to turn it off will be an undocumented annotation that only exists in the next version of spring boot, so you'll upgrade to that, and then a whole bunch of other stuff will break.
Link-Context Learning for Multimodal LLMs
If there is anything specific you believe is confusing, please provide some details and I will pass the feedback on.
Wouldn't it be better to notify users if a long unupdated extension suddenly updated?
North Korea confirms custody of U.S. soldier Travis King
I recently discovered Photostructure. After trying a few other alternatives, this is what I prefer now.

https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
Last non-Smartphone sold on – WhatsApp Blog (2009
Crypto and taxes; yes, they do go together
I owe you a beer or 6. Let me know if I can pitch you a few bucks.
I was going to mention that. It didnt seem to be a problem when Real was paying stupid money to assemble the galcticos. Or Italy was paying €50m for Buffon in 2001. English domination of the game really does rub people up the wrong way. But honestly they've earned it by managing and marketing the game better than the rest of Europe.
We frequently use aluminum wires with a higher thickness to make up for the lower conductivity as compared to copper. It’s not as simple as cost vs performance though, as aluminum is substantially less dense than copper. Gold and silver are also better conductors than copper, but of course are very expensive, and still have resistance. Zero resistance may be with it on some cases. For instance in projects that currently use high voltage dc it may be worth it due to safety and complexity wins, but that all would depend on how hard (expense and complexity) the superconductor is to deploy.
And in a normal democracy, some people don't vote. Others have enough disposable time to actively volunteer and organize. And others have the money to lobby and influence politicians or pay for lots of ads and messaging.
Years ago I stumbled across http://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm which is similar in sentiment.

I think APL's ability to lift loop patterns into tensor patterns is interesting. It certainly results in a lot less syntax related to binding single values in an inner loop.
That's what I most remember too from this.
I don’t know enough about the field to have a strong opinion, but it might be less carbon intensive to run the one production line.

I appreciate that it rankles the hacker in most (myself included) when Intel blows a fuse or Tesla flashes firmware to price discriminate.

But the math on whether more or less EVs get sold because the high-end subsidizes the mid-range, how that affects consumers and the environment, where this all sits legally?

Almost certainly complicated AF. It seems a bit hasty to consider just one data point out of that insane Pareto topology and call it good.
My goal in criticism is to guide interested players towards more fruitful pursuits. I don't want to see invalid science sucking up all the attention and crowding out legitimate but boring science.
I usually prefer my own crappy amateur photos over other people's professional ones.

Not specifically of fireworks, but I really like the photo I just made of the Jungfrau while the Eiger and Mönch are covered by some really cool clouds, for example.
Your wish hath been granted! <3 :))))
Who has 190kw of circuit to even handle that? That's enough for a large business building.
Not the first time I’ve heard this combination of prediction + person
> I saw useful links on twitter before (occasionally), I see them now in pretty much the same quantity.

You and I actually use Twitter in the same way. The era of Elon's ownership is the most unreliable the site has been since the days of the Fail Whale. The recent reliability fails have been publicized and obvious to those who engage with the site, and I've anecdotally noticed an uptick in the use of twitter proxies like fxtwitter, vxtwitter, nitter, threadreader, and others to help make twitter posts more available and reliable.

This is on top of the other existential threats to the site. The company is still mired in an enormous amount of debt. The site cannot attract even the marginal ad spend that the previous ownership managed. Threads has yet to release a publicly available web interface. BlueSky has yet to leave private beta.

So I feel very justified in saying that Twitter has not been doing okay since the Elon purchase, and I didn't even have to bring partisanship into the equation.
I work with large-ish CSV files regularly, 1M rows at times and Excel can be very slow. I tried Modern CSV and it doesn't struggle at all. Thank you!
> The bpb value of rwkv_430M on enwik8 is 0.948 bpb

This is an unfair test, because the rwkv_430M model was almost certainly trained on wikipedia. Testing using training data is a big no-no in the ML world - you get unrealistically good results.

To test this properly, it needs to be run on a bit of newly written text which is nowhere on the internet. Obviously writing 100 MB of human written text which is not already on the internet is rather a big task...
Ignoring the additional token count cost of HTML, how do you envision rendering HTML that is spit out by an LLM directly (without any processing) to the user?
I did not know this, but now I dont have to play the whack-a-mole catch the app to kill it game anymore.
(2021)?

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29100400
> It'd be awesome to save that, but it's not game changing

An 8-15% increase in available electricity without any new power plants built isn't game changing?

The ability to transport power over longer distances, making eg. solar farms in remote locations suddenly feasible projects isn't game changing?

> and you have to take into account the cost of replacing the wires

No I really don't have to, as we, as a species, seem to have money in abundance. What we do not have in abundance, is biospheres. We have exactly one of those, and if it's ruined, all the money won't help.

The ability to suddenly boost the efficiency of our electrical grids by 8-15% would not solely solve the problems our species currently causes for itself, but it would help a ton.
Thanks, good to see that Wayland gets some love, I guess I never had any problems with how Firefox looks, but I don't mind if it removes one layer of "abstraction".
Yes, I was typing faster than I was thinking. I should have said Resistivity instead of Resistance and ohms.m instead of ohms/m. My point is still valid, though.
> If you set employees' salaries to how much benefit they give the company, the company's profit will be 0, which will make investors mad.

I don't see how this follows.

> If the worth to the company is somewhere between the average pays of the genders, this doesn't achieve equality between the genders, which is the whole goal of this, unless you're willing to decrease employees' salaries, which will make employees mad.

In this scenario, all employees within this tuple should theoretically be receiving the same pay. Since it's not related to the average of the group, the company would give raises to those under this figure and would withhold raises from those overpaid until inflation eats up the surplus. You'd do this on an individual basis, so gender doesn't factor in. But it would have the same outcome of equalizing pay among genders.
I could personally take or leave live readings of Wikipedia. I wouldn't do it, but I have also gone on my share of solo wiki binges. There's no problem with learning about things. The thing that bothers me is a room full of people with shallow knowledge of a subject who talk over anybody else. I think it's fine to care about things, but I need other people to be able to tune their volume to their level of knowledge and understanding, which you really can't do if you think you know everything.
Sure. To me that sounds related to the “lack of backlog refinement” and “no AC” parts of this. If there’s no text on a ticket, there’s not even a map! Good luck with the territory, in that case.
Oh god you’ve hit a nerve. I’ve never learned anything useful from a forced tour.

I’ve been in meetings where we’re discussing adding these, and the intentions all seem to be “we want to help users find things” but they’re somehow totally ineffective at that job.

ALL the information at once, presented in a way you can’t leave or return, is just the wrong solution. I honestly think it’s just assumed these help users because someone saw some other product use it once.
If you take a taxi 26 miles you'll get to the finish line first, but you didn't run a marathon.

There is such a single minded focus on the consumption of art in lieu of creation of art in these discussions around AI and I find it incredibly disheartening.

The point of writing is not "I need a page full of words" for the same reason that the point of running a marathon is not "I need to get 26 miles from here fast".

The reason to make art is because it is inherently valuable to us as humans. The act itself makes being alive better for all those who participate.

Building a tool that outputs crummy simulacrums doesn't make everyone a poet, sorry. If you didn't make art, you didn't make art. The act of creation is quite literally the entire point.

Why are we currently obsessed with finding ways to eliminate it?
Show HN: Dezbor Beta – Create Dashboard with AI and No-Code
Hey HN!

I'm Ryan - founder of Dezbor, for the last couple of years I found myself constantly building dashboards for early stage startups with limited resources. However, creating dashboards can consume significant developer time, and consequently, money.

Other no-code solutions in the market simply weren't cutting it for me and most companies I've worked with – they lacked speed and weren't intuitive for developers or non developers. So I decided to create something better...

Introducing 'Dezbor', a no-code dashboard builder with AI capabilities. Dezbor enables users to create robust, custom dashboards efficiently, without the need for writing any code.

We've just launched our public beta. Unfortunately no free version for now (interested join our waitlist to get it https://dezbor.com/request) as we're working closely with our users to solve their problems by offering a limited number of seats in a paid version, with a trial period for exploring the tool.

Our goal is to make data management and analysis simple and accessible for all skill levels. If you're dealing with any kind of data, and need an easy yet powerful tool for visualization, Dezbor could be your answer.

Interested? Feel free to schedule a demo or email me directly at ryan@dezbor.com with any thoughts or questions.

Any feedback is invaluable for us as we continue refining our product to better serve you!
> my biggest gripe with old Spring was how far you had to go to get "hello world" on the browser when starting from zero. I never would have thought embedding the whole application server would be a good idea but SpringBoot proved me wrong. That plus the annotation based config vs xml files is what made fast development with Spring possible (in my mind).

All of this is long before Spring Boot. Embedding the web server so that your system is just a plain Java application is a great idea; annotation based config is a great idea; both of those are things you could do (and I did do) back in 2010 on Spring 3.3.

The stuff that Spring Boot adds - the spooky-action-at-a-distance classpath scanning, the we-can-use-them-but-you-can't annotations, the way you can't override part of an autoconfig but have to either accept what the library gives you or write a full config from scratch - is a big mistake. Those who forget Java EE are doomed to repeat it I guess.

> Also, Spring would be a miserable experience if it were not for Maven/Gradle.

Sure. "Have dependency management that doesn't suck" is good advice for any software ecosystem.
You see this everywhere nowadays, in everything. Bad UX. All over the place. Even things that once had fantastic UX are breaking it.

I want to know what they're teaching these designers in design school because theyre fucking everything up. Or is it management making design decisions for them and they just go along with it for the paycheck? Are people in these companies deliberately sabotaging products? I don't know what it is but I'm sick of it.

I'll give you an example. When Android came out, one of the first, most important sets of requirements was that it do everything a normal cell phone could do the way a normal cell phone would do it. If you turn the volume all the way down, it must stay all the way down, period. And it worked like that, perfectly, for years. But recently, every so often, you want to play a video silently, and a chirp happens at the very beginning. Someone at some point changed the code where the volume control doesnt control the volume, it saves a variable that's read by the audio decoding software asynchronously and sometimes you get a race condition where audio starts before it is read. Why was this changed? Why is ensuring this functionality no longer a top priority?

That's just a tiny little example. With android, side scrolling menus, pages in the recent apps that take up the whole screen, little race conditions here and there. And that's just android, probably the least offensive software UX wise that there is. Hamburger menus, border less flat elements, nests upon nests, you see UX crumbling everywhere you look. I don't know what to make of it.
Ask HN: Help testing a World-building app IDEA
Hey everyone,

If this is an inappropriate place (or manner of asking), please let me know [ or remove this with my implied apologies].

WHAT DO YOU WANT

I'm hoping DMs, authors, and the scripturally- or TTRPG-inclined will describe any features they want/find most appealing. I'm going for a critique of the product offering itself, and will also accept that it has no value to any of the target audiences.

https://mythosforge.app/worlds

WHAT IS IT

At its core, a "collaborative world-building tool." It is for people who build/use fictional worlds: for example, you can associate a character with a specific building in a specific world. Your data can be public or private. None of the uh... collaboration bits are in there yet, since I have been focused on the "world-building" part.

WHO IS IT FOR

Currently, three groups:
- Dungeon masters (who want to plan out their worlds, locations, and characters)
- Authors (same as above; with some author-specific bits; for example, you can "talk" to your characters in a limited way)
- People who like reading written content of any kind

WHAT ABOUT "AI"?

AI assistance is designed to prompt you along your creative journey; you can use it to generate descriptions, images, or contextual creative speculation. You can also use the site without it.

ANYTHING ELSE?

Sorry for the long read; this has been the work of just a couple of guys (one a bit more insane than the other). I am grateful for any time you can spend on it.
Remote jobs tend to pay less, and taxes are higher in Canada. I think you can’t beat going to the U.S. on purely financial considerations. But there’s always other factors to consider, so it’s a decent compromise.
$70 device can spoof an Apple device sending BLE Advertising Packets
When those kinds of things are handed over to AI automation the results are often dystopian as well (at least by my quality metric).
Dad Jokes and Python Developer Experience
> read Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper

All Canadians should read it. It should be part of the high school curriculum.
What is the reason it was removed, and what issue do you have with that reason?
>instead of a trusted server under Microsoft's control like time.microsoft.com (or whatever)?

"Golly it's getting expensive hosting 100 billion random requests per year, lets let someone else shoulder the problem".

While this might not be it, we've seen plenty of other providers really screw up with time like this. I believe it was Linksys years ago just pointed their NTP as someone elses NTP servers and flooded them out.
Is it private and offline via ollama? Are all ollama models private and offline?
Even if you trained an LLM with a simplified tokenizer that simply had 256 tokens for each of 256 possible ascii characters, you would see the same result.
I don't think office hours/feature prioritization is a good and sustainable business plan, no. I wouldn't even call it a business plan.

You need to find a value-add that will entice more than a handful of people to pay you.
Nintendo games are a (meta)genre and not everyone likes that, but it doesn't mean they're Objectively Bad™. It's a matter of preference.
you wrote people. did you mean corporations?

don’t let those darn things trick you into thinking they are people. legally it gets murky, but they aren’t people. it is all just a ploy for emotional connection for the sake of taking advantage of you.

like cats.
Tacking on for anyone alarmed or curious: The main distinction is fat-soluble versus water-soluble.

Fat-soluble vitamins (A/D/E/K) can accumulate in your tissues over time if you keep taking too much.

Water-soluble vitamins (such as C) are much easier for your body to filter and flush via urine. You could still overdose in the short-term, but a chronic accumulation is unlikely.
> Trump is the least anti-abortion president from GOP.

Arguing this when it was his three court picks that removed the fifty year old right to an abortion in this country is just a bizarre assertion. Whatever his words, personal positions on the issue (I don't doubt he's paid for a few), etc., he's been the single most effective for anti-abortion folks since Roe v. Wade.
Safari only has to worry about one OS. Not just one OS but also a single line of hardware. Very easy to optimize for. It's why iPhones have tiny batteries compared to their competitors but still deliver competitive, and usually superior, battery life