skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to believe now, but for a few years Facebook was new and cool! Using FB meant you were young and hip, not like those old folks who barely even knew what the Internet was. Zuck was more like a nerdy cousin than a reptilian overlord.

Of course, here in the 2020s the tables have turned.
Point of clarification: we are fully open to upstreaming the installer in whole or in part and have been from the get-go.[^1] But the installer is a pretty radical departure from the current official installer. The official installer is written in Bash; the DetSys installer is written in Rust. The official installer targets fairly "standard" platforms; the DetSys installer has experimental support for things like the SteamDeck. And so on.

We think it's perfectly okay to have that kind of distribution of labor in OSS, where core/upstream things need to be extremely stable and conservative while the community runs experiments and figures out what works and doesn't.

[1]: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer#...
I admit I don't get a huge number and very little outright junk. It was one of the things like made me mildly resistant for a while to get rid of my landline because I'm very selective about who I give my phone number to. Nowadays, for various forms requiring it, I just use a work number that I don't know how to retrieve messages from even if I wanted to.
The sexual economy of the time was barter-based. It was understood that women traded sexual access for economic advancement.
Women couldn't even have their own credit cards. They had to be married and co-signed.
In that context Feynman's chapter isn't a "pick up artist" narrative at all. It's empowering.

It presents the possibility that a woman might just want to have sex, and that not trying to buy her with gifts might be a welcome reprieve from constantly having to negotiate.

The only "pickup artist" trick in the book is that he stops trying to offer women drinks as a social opener. He stops thinking that buying a woman a drink is an exchange that contributes to his chance of bedding her.

This is creepy? Not offering to intoxicate a woman in order to sleep with her is the problem?

At the end of the chapter he says something like "I never tried that again, but it certainly was interesting."

That always struck me as sad. He'd taken a step out into the world where women had agency and he gave in to the cultural pressure to step back.

I'm only addressing the book here. These other questions of behaving well with respect to students or anger are beyond my knowledge.
Tourists Give Themselves Away by Looking Up. So Do Most Network Intruders
Whisper.api: Open-source, self-hosted speech-to-text with fast transcription
Whisper API - Speech to Text Transcription

This open source project provides a self-hostable API for speech to text transcription using a finetuned Whisper ASR model. The API allows you to easily convert audio files to text through HTTP requests. Ideal for adding speech recognition capabilities to your applications.

Key features:

- Uses a finetuned Whisper model for accurate speech recognition
- Simple HTTP API for audio file transcription
- User level access with API keys for managing usage
- Self-hostable code for your own speech transcription service
- Quantized model optimization for fast and efficient inference
- Open source implementation for customization and transparency
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing!

I personally think human beings need some kind of central spiritual belief or identity to feel satisfied/happy/whole. I'm not sure, but in your case, it almost sounds like you might be getting that identity from REJECTING the shitty religious bubble you grew up in. Sounds like you feel like you're on a good track and moving somewhere with your life -- even if it's away from religion. So I guess in my book, you're religious.

>>I’ve seen first hand what these systems of belief do to families and communities, and while I’m not one to claim that all religion is awful, I do think it’s a bigger problem than help in the current social climate.

For me, this is really case-by-case, but my suspicion is that most religion is generally better for people than no religion -- so I suspect I disagree with you, but on limited data.

>>The ideas of most religions also set up a fundamental misconception about our relationship with the world/environment (that we’re separate from it) that is an existential threat to reaching some kind of environmental balance.

Hadn't heard this one before - huh. I think there are a lot of reasons we burn coal but IMO the fact that we're religious isn't one of the main ones. To me, religion is a great path toward loving others and the world such that we'd want to conserve them and it.
In other words, to paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, you would rather that the poor were poorer given that the rich were less rich.

Every documented great rise in the median wealth was accompanied by a rise in inequality. Every documented great rise in equality was accompanied by a disaster in which millions suffered.

Given this, how much suffering is equality worth?
Reminds me of "Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way" [0] except for the semantic (meaning) layer instead of the syntactic layer.

0. https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/
Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
They can also implement better battery management technology (cooling, charge rate curves, keeping the charge between 10%-90% instead of 0-100%, but reporting 0-100% to the user via scaling), etc, etc.

For a good counter-example, look at the early Nissan Leafs. They burned out their batteries in a matter of a few years, but battery replacements for other brands from that time are basically unheard of. (The inherent information asymmetry for new car purchasers is one reason Biden's IRA dictated minimum car battery warranties.)
I know folks have anxieties about commercial investment, and anxieties about developing flakes. Whenever we hit bugs in flakes, we go work upstream to fix them. We do this rather often :).

I won't try to persuade you one way or another on commercial investment other than it is here with or without DetSys, and we've released a rather large suite of tools to make using Nix more pleasant and all but one (flakehub's backend) is free and open source. I feel that is a good way to go!

I also think developing features and improvements to Nix outside of it is a good way to prove out ideas that can be eventually merged in to core. We don't _want_ to be solving the version on the server, but I'm rather sure it would have taken months if not years to get an experiment merged. And for good reason: we all want to make sure what goes in to Nix is solid.
Does it matter for me as a user?
> My mental model about Nix is that it resembles make, but for the whole dependency graph.

Perhaps "Docker, without containers" would be a closer way to convey what Nix does.

With Docker, images get built in a fresh/sandbox environment, and the resulting image is easy to distribute to other systems running Docker.

> I kind of hoped that the Nix language is more sane. I think there is a project of similar goals but the script is in Python?

A project quite related to "Nix (but not using a bespoke DSL)" is Guix, which uses Scheme.

Perhaps you're thinking of Bazel? Which uses a Python-like language, and (AFAIU) is much closer to "like make, but for the whole dependency graph".
That's why most Canadian educated STEM grads are leaving for the US.

They can earn 3-4x what they'd earn in Canada, and can then use that nest egg to either buy a house back up north, or just live in the US.

If you're from BC, you may as well just live in Seattle at that point as you're still close enough to family.

Tbf I'm from BC, and people there seem to be more open to moving away to other cities or even the US.
What about systems like pdfgpt and knowledge_gpt; that, in returning citations from the trained texts, might be useful for legal discovery with admissibility?

pdfgpt: https://github.com/bhaskatripathi/pdfGPT

knowledge_gpt: https://github.com/mmz-001/knowledge_gpt

Are LLM tools better or worse than e.g. meilisearch or elasticsearch for searching with snippets over a set of document resources?

How does search compare to generating things with citations?
Financial stability risks from cryptoassets in emerging market economies
Why do you not use containers?
Putting the annoyance aside for a second, I think this is partly a difference of viewpoints when it comes to what constitutes being a "slave to your device" as you say.

Having the phone on vibrate or the ringer on all the time feels like being way more attached to your phone than having it on silent. Vibrate/ring means the phone gets your attention immediately all of the time. Silent means I decide when I give the phone attention.

Back to the annoyance, I know two people who like to think they're not attached to their device and leave it at home when they're out. But then when I'm visiting and they're out running an errand or something, their phones ding and ding and ding and there's nothing to do about it (since I'm not going to silence their phone for them...). I have lots of stories like this.

Of course, this all stems on me being baffled that someone would go days without checking their phone.
IMO a lot of stuff humans have 'invented' (like meditation) are really just sort of tied to our nature as animals. I think meditation is something we're all (most?) inclined to try in some way, but then some specific geeks studied it really hard for thousands of years and turned it into what it is.
I loved Android back when I had the time to hack around with ROMs and crazy customization. It's fun. But these days in my busy working life, I don't have time for that kind of stuff, I just want something that works well and gets regular security updates. My Android phones weren't really cutting it.
Gini coefficients?

No.

Low chance of being caught, low chance of meaningful punishment, low public profile of punishment putting it out of sight and put of mind. High chance of being let off, which has a higher public profile. It may make wellmeaning people feel good and it avoids hurting some individuals, but it's disastrous for society.
>It might be possible for a dink tech couple to come here and work in tech for some time and come back to Toronto and buy that way

So, come live in a closet in SF for 10 years while you pocket money? How are young people supposed to establish roots?
python pandas has pivot tables https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.pivot_ta...

I don't know if it fits your needs
wonder if he used his dictaphone
As the author I agree with this sentiment
I do that too!
Quite an awesome summary of Auth services. I had heard of the companies mentioned on there but never knew they offered such services like account creation and management for other apps.

Gotta love the nudge of Google "has a history of sunsetting popular products without warning"
The speech recognition in their demo is very very bad (~60% in my empirical test, vs. 95% with WhisperCPP). The translation is also very inaccurate.

That said, I fully support open releases and look forward to future versions and improvements.
For sure. I worked at dozens of restaurants between the ages of 15 and 23, and was never asked anything like that. From the lowest common denominator chains, to ma and pa diners that turned into nightclubs on the weekend, to haute cuisine. They care about results and whether you know what you’re doing. I aced every interview I walked into because I know food –the one exception was an interview for a bartending position where each candidate was asked to demo a drink they invented, and, well, I didn’t know what I was doing there! Total bomb, mega embarrassing, but a good experience looking back.

GP must never have worked in that industry, or they only worked that one job at Outback Steakhouse for a manager thinking they were changing the world. It’s a familiar mindset to those in tech…
Re: self-development

One of my observations in HN, and in most places I have been to is a strong preference for "comfort-orientation". People simply dislike when I propose that - taking on a challenge, working on a problem in a persistent/consistent way is needed, and that there is a price to pay. I feel the problem is truly at the philosophical level of their minds (not at a practical level). Therefore, instead of "self-development", I'm performing the "assumption-destroying" job here. It is an unpleasant affair overall, but I'm simply interested in the psychology & dynamics of the phenomenon.

The people who get into trouble usually buy the assumption that there is a formulaic solution, where they don't have to pay some serious price to get a real solution. They want something that takes less time, takes very little effort, and still delivers great benefits. I tend to emphasize "challenge-orientation" to counter this inherent bias I've seen in people. Ultimately, I challenge people at this level in the hopes that my strong emphasis on "challenge-orientation" does them some good in the long run :)

PS: You can see my comment history and notice, whenever I bring up the "challenge-orientation" idea, there is, almost without exception, at least one person seriously upset that a significant price may have to be paid to solve significant problems.
It seems you have a fairly narrow view of what constitutes a religion. Christian fundamentalism is particularly dogmatic and is one negative manifestation of religion which happens to be present in the West.

From the book "God is Not One" by Stephen Prothero:

"Philosopher of religion Ninian Smart has referred to these [shared religious] tendencies as the seven “dimensions” of religion: the ritual, narrative, experiential, institutional, ethical, doctrinal, and material dimensions.

These family resemblances are just tendencies, however. Just as there are tall people in short families (none of the men in Michael Jordan’s family was over six feet tall), there are religions that deny the existence of God and religions that get along just fine without creeds. Something is a religion when it shares enough of this DNA to belong to the family of religions. What makes the members of this family different (and themselves) is how they mix and match these dimensions. Experience is central in Daoism and Buddhism. Hinduism and Judaism emphasize the narrative dimension. The ethical dimension is crucial in Confucianism. The Islamic and Yoruba traditions are to a great extent about ritual. And doctrine is particularly important to Christians.

The world’s religious rivals are clearly related, but they are more like second cousins than identical twins. They do not teach the same doctrines. They do not perform the same rituals. And they do not share the same goals."
It's largely the background data-hungry apps and the obsessive screen time with foreground apps. As someone who almost uses their phone like a dumb phone, I charge my Pixel 5a about once every 7 days now, when it gets to around 20% remaining. It was more like 10+ days when I first got it, but that was also before I decided that avoiding the 0-20% range might be better for long-term battery health.

The most power-hungry apps I run are Slack, the built-in GMail and Messages clients, the Garmin app to periodically sync with my watch, and sometimes Firefox if I actually spend time browsing there instead of on my preferred laptop environment. The camera app also eats power when actually taking pictures or video, but I guess I rarely do.

When I first start using a phone, I go through a little effort to disable things I don't want via the system apps menu. For me, that includes the Google Assistant and their native launcher, because the last thing I actually want is to trigger search functions willy-nilly. If I want to search, I'll open Firefox and search...
I agree to an extent. But then again, I already rely heavily on aliases, functions, vi-mode, command history, and many other shell features, that it's painful to use a barebones shell to get any work done. So I have a small snippet I run on every new environment, to make the experience a little more enjoyable. This includes installing some required tools, copying over bash or zsh configs, the tmux config, etc. It doesn't take more than a minute, and beats struggling with the default environment.

Adding this tool wouldn't be an issue if it greatly increases my productivity.
Exactly. A few people have attempted fabricating simple 8-bit CPUs in their garage but the yields are low without a clean room and it still requires an incredible amount of technology to get started. A good amount of how to set up a garage fabrication lab is probably available through bits of print media, if we're lucky... but recreating a garage from scratch by finding all of that information would be quite the feat.
> "Exchange Rate (Point/Mile)" which I took to mean "Points per Mile",

I see... It's bad UI design from me :( Need to work on a less confusing copy/UI.

> This is still a little weird, because I don't think I've ever heard of Amazon having "points".

You can earn "Points" with Amazon branded cards, e.g., https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=s9_acss_bw_cg_swpsf20_2c1_w?nod...

100 Amazon Rewards Points = US $1

> One idea: Instead of listing all ratios in common units on both sides of the ":", let the user select what they have and what they want. Something like:

> I HAVE ([]points []miles) AND WANT ([]points []miles []dollars)

Yes, this is on the roadmap. We have already integrated most of the commonly used rewards programs (in USA) into our database. The logical next step is to develop a tool that allows conversions like this: X points from Program #1 can be converted into Y miles from Program #2, and so on.

> Different question: How do you determine the value of points in the first place? If the best I can do with my Chase points is 1.7¢ at Hyatt, then what can I do to get 2¢ of value from them? Some internal shopping thing?

It's a cold start problem.

In an ideal scenario, we would have access to a lot of real transactions, such as X miles being used to purchase an air ticket worth Y USD, allowing us to calculate the exact value of 1 mile in terms of USD.

However, as we are just beginning, we have no users to provide this data. Our path forward is clear:

Step 1: We create a database and use estimated point/mile values found online, such as those provided by The Points Guy. While not ideal, this approach provides a necessary starting point.

Step 2: Users will be able to create accounts to track their points/miles and input real-world transactions.

Step 3: In the future, when we have enough data, we will be able to aggregate and calculate a more accurate value for points/miles in terms of USD.

Currently, we are at Step 1 :)
But then they did Brexit and the island has to work again.
> I just don't see how it's incumbent on Apple to implement a standard only because it exists.

I mean it isn't. But it would be nice if they supported at least any graphics standard.
I get a little tired of this format of "article".

TOP 8 ALTERNATIVES TO <<OUR COMPETITOR>>:

1. Us.

Summary: The best alternative.

2. Other competitor #2.

Summary: Here's some faint praise to seem objective, but clearly not as good as us.

3. Other competitor #3.

Summary: Here's some faint praise to seem objective, but clearly not as good as us.

4-8. Repeat, etc.

There should be some kind of special tag on HN posts, to signal, "Promotional material from a competitor". This is an even lower level of dreck than "thought leadership" spam.
> 70 years ago one man could sustain an entire household on one paycheck

There are just as many "one salary sustains an entire household" jobs today as there ever were in the past. More in fact. The factory job that provides enough for the whole family was only ever a reality for a tiny, tiny portion of humanity. The vast majority of people, even the vast majority of americans did not have access to those jobs. Even the "glory days" of american manufacturing were filled with abject poverty.

> Horses and oxen were very useful throughout history, until the car and tractor was invited. Today the number of horses and oxen is at an all-time low. No amount of unionizing by horses would change that

This ignores that horses have zero political power. No one is working to make their lives better.
LOL, How would you unlock iPhone?
After having 2 bikes stolen back in college, my last (brand new) one was haphazardly spray painted rusty-brown and had cotton stuffing taped to the underside of the seat.

That one never got stolen, despite having it for much longer.
I love this. Finding an unused/undocumented instruction to interleave bits extremely simply :)
We need to strengthen consumer data protection. GDPR has some good ideas; no collecting PII without permission, consumers have the right to revoke/delete, and the key piece for this thread is the requirement for the Controller to have a contract with any Subprocessors to enforce the right to deletion transitively (and inform data subjects of the list of Subprocessors with which their data is being shared).

CCPA was in the right direction, but AFAICT it explicitly carved out exemptions for credit bureaus.

We need to tighten the screws on these businesses; the only way we’ll see improvement here is if we hold them liable for damages and breaches. Right now they have very little incentive to care for this data, and all the incentive to try and monetize it as much as possible.
I'm sure DuckDB was used to transform/prepare the data from the ERP extract format to an MSSQL ingestion format.

There are plenty of arguments and reasons why you would use DuckDB to do this esp if you're preparing the data for Analytical/OLAP use-cases.

Perhaps a more relevant question might be why they didn't use DataFactory or some other ETL tool/service. DuckDB is rising the occasion for these kinds of use-cases though.
No, and I wouldn't want to imply otherwise. I was genuinely asking because my recollection is that the answer is "yes" but I don't recall.
Found it: https://github.com/spack/spack
> I still don't understand why people think in 2023 that Android can not be a viable alternative to an iPhone.

Because Google... I could live with not having iMessage or AirPlay, that's annoying but something I could live with. So it's either a de-googled Android phone or iPhone, and I do need a few apps which are only available in the App Store or Play Store, so I figure I'm limited to phones that can run something like CalyxOS, which basically limits me to Pixel or FairPhone.

The FairPhone isn't a terrible choice, but I'm not going to replace a functional iPhone with it... if it break maybe, or I can get a used iPhone.

It's not that I trust Apple all that much, I just trust them way more than Google at this point. I don't think Google is evil or bad, but their interest and mine doesn't really align.
Developers don't want to create seperate Apple only backends for everything. Users want to use software, they don't care about what backend is used. When Apple has to personally implement a metal backend for blender, it's obvious that there is a problem. This is despite blender being one of the most well-funded open source projects. Having to support multiple backends also increases development time and future tech-debt surface area. It's mostly not a moral arguemt as you seem to imply. This is just a feature that developers and users want. Apple is free to not implement it. It just means that many apps will not support Apple, or they will support it at the cost of other features, or they will use MoltenVK.
> There have been multiple instances over the years where my car would make completely inappropriate and dangerous decisions

Dumb question, but is this with the FSD on or off?
> cannot even properly put a former PM in jail for corruption

Sounds familiar
I’m 23 Years Old. and I’ve Bought a Farm
Photons are massless but have momentum.