skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't read the article due to the Pay Wall but I'd like to ask if it covered the fact that in Germany life expectancy is going up [0] and infant mortality is going down [1]?

I know I've just cherry picked two statistics there and please don't compare to other countries because it's very hard to do an apples to apples comparison. But my point is that any article or new sources that concentrates on money as the measure of success for a country might be coming from a (very common) point of view which maybe doesn't look at what's actually important in the world.

0 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041098/life-expectancy-...
1 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/806915/infant-mortality-...
Think about how she navigates her house and ways to help her with that. Would she feel more comfortable with additional rails on stairs, bars in the bathroom?

Things like more compartments in her kitchen dresser drawers to help with sorting?
Wow!

I once built p0f on windows using msys2. But couldn't get the sockets to work. Without support for linux socket, p0f can not run as server and support queries.

I should definately try this sometimes.
My experience with Reddit is that what doesn't sink isn't worth much attention.
FeatureProbe: An open-source feature management for developers
> There are restaurants that charge north of 800$ per person

All of them will have a star chef/brand who'll have to leave lot of money on the table. i.e. only way everyone will make $250 is if someone is giving it for free.
"We have persistent objects, they're called files." -- Ken Thompson

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
There is no technical reason why we couldn't have an AI system do the same thing.

But the "just a problem that needs more work" requires impractical amounts of computing power and storage so it's not feasible for vehicle use. Unless the vehicle is a van where the whole back is a full-on datacenter and batteries to run it.

Tesla, in the end, is on the correct path by going camera only. You CAN do everything with just a ton of cameras, computing power and a neural network. But it's not easy or computationally light.

For example: a LIDAR can get multiple datapoints from a single object with one pass (like exact distance to every point in the object). A camera system has to calculate or guesstimate it every single time. It's possible, but requires cycles that could be used elsewhere.

Same with parking radars in cars. They're dirt cheap and tell you how far stuff is from the sensor. You CAN do it with cameras, but again, that's a ton of calculation and guesstimating.

Maybe we'll get there at one point, but we're not there yet.
Riveo is the first non-ad result for me if I search for 'Riveo'.
“Recur, an NFT startup”

Ok lets leave it at that.
The hate stems from Pinterest requiring an account, which they didn't start out requiring, just like Instagram which I also don't visit.
Programs are compiled with a modified version of emscripten for supporting the system calls of exaequOS. I do not use WASI
I've wanted SRS features as well but no ebook reader seems to do annotation exports well. I get by with Moon+ Reader and wrote a few Obsidian plugins to help me with parsing exports and generating flashcards. Would love to hear of better approaches.
Yep, that's why I added the bit after "or".

The only sustainable solution is to weigh passenger + carry on simultaneously and have some kind of limit for that. If you go over, you pay for an extra seat two, one of which stays empty because of plane safety.
Is it multi platform though? It seems like the platform is Chromium.
I think it's more important to look at the re-architecting than the different language. Second, I think certain architectures - like the actor model described in the article - work better and more intuitive if you use a different language.

That said, I'm sure a 2x performance improvement could've been done in Java as well if they did a re-architecture. They could also have made a lateral movement and go to a different JVM language, like Scala that also has an actor concurrency model + accompanying syntax.
How is annotation support on Koreader? Eink devices in general seem to be a hassle to annotate on compared to my phone.
Have you tried writing an email to the artist?
Lots of discussion last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256484
> Threads was supposed to "hollow out Twitter in extremely rapid fashion"

To be fair, in the hands of someone else, it could well have - they shot themselves in the feet with several easy-to-avoid mistakes (no web version, forcing people you don't follow into your feed, etc.)

(My Threads experience was "ok, nice presentation, who is that? block. block. block. wtf. block. block. block. block.block.blockblockblock. I give up." and I haven't been back since the day I signed up.)
>even the implementation had been ripped off uncredited

Indeed it uses Tronix code (http://pulzed.com/demo/tronix11/) unmodified (in iframe, accessible in https://treksit.com/tron/). Albeit now it's mentioned in credits (https://treksit.com/credits.html) that "web app is based" on it, it'll have been more appropriate to say "web app is using code from".
My gosh I hope they pay this guy a lot of money.
i disagree, not much more then 2 servers.. you should automate it fully for documentation purposes alone at this scale & test failover regulary

if you do this with 4 or 200 machines, does not make a big difference.
Is this really worth an article? (facepalm)
Your focus is on the wrong thing. The hypothetical gas bag is not the vulnerability - an enemy having direct access to your energy infrastructure is your vulnerability in this scenario.

And, frankly, flaming gas bag is not a serious threat. It would be neat to see, but a small undirected hydrogen fueled fire without access to any other fuel source is not scary. I'd be more concerned about the body of the deflated vessel causing a short than anything
> while I didn't migrate everything I saved

Given the rest of your comment, that seems like an interesting decision. Why not migrate everything?
> Just because Bitcoin is considered not a security now doesn't mean it will never be considered a security. If the bitcoin miners decided to band together and take active control over the direction of bitcoin innovation, then its current excuse would evaporate.

This is a messed up logic. Of course, if you changed the fundamentals of Bitcoin, the consequences will also change. But saying that "Bitcoin is considered not a security now doesn't mean it will never be considered a security" implies that the same Bitcoin can potentially be considered a security. Which is an entirely different premise.
> NATO assuring Soviet leaders not to expand eastward "one inch" is backed by documents provided by the National Security Archive, a trustworthy organization.

Binding international commitments heritable by successor states are made in formal instruments, treaties and the like, for a reason. Other representations apply at best to the specific parties and narrow contexts where made, until and unless they are solemnized into a treaty.

To the extent such a representation was made to the USSR prior to and in the context of efforts to get the Soviets to the table on terms for permitting German unification, it would not be binding beyond that process unless included in the eventual treaty, which is was not, and it even more clearly would not be something that one ex-Soviet successor state could, after pursuing and then abandoning pursuit of NATO membership itself, claim any entitlement under, especially against the interests of other former ex-Soviet states.

To the extent the existence of such representations might be fact, it is very much not relevant context to much of anything happening since long before Twitter existed.
I'm disappointed as i thought they'd use actual sensors instead of guessing using old data.
Obesity is not due to an eating disorder, it's due to sedentary lifestyles, pedestrian hostile neighborhoods, and market forces in the food industry.
What's the difference between a simulator and a virtual machine?
Using alternative alphabets (which may improve the efficiency of reading, writing and retention in some cases, let alone be fun) can be nontrivial because it's not always about just replacing specific letters/groups with their direct counterparts following clear rules. I wonder if machine learning can automate such conversions efficiently so I'd be able to choose whatever a blog post and go ahead reading it in the Deseret or Shaw alphabet right away.
It depends on what is actually being benchmarked though; if it's the simple JSON payload, more time will be spent on HTTP parsing (done in nginx for the PHP benchmark so really really fast) and some JSON parsing (done in a C library for the PHP benchmark so really really fast). Basically, how much PHP is actually being benchmarked?

Are you looking at a benchmark that compares real-world usage, or a microbenchmark like hello world or a small JSON payload?
If you own the domain you can pretty much do anything, from hosting your own email to having unlimited aliases, but I believe OP question is a bigger scope as said “personal emails”, so that also includes emails from other providers like gmail etc., so I stand corrected (if I understand OP requirement correctly anyway), you can’t unless you are spoofing it, which is useless as it will end up in the black list anyway.
The problem with "everything is an object" it doesn't tell you a great deal off the bat. It's like saying "everything is a thing". Sure, it's true but it's not helpful.

In your "companies are just a special kind of employee" example well if that is true within your data model then that is quite interesting and contributes to the listeners understanding of how things work. The alternative "companies are a just a special kind of entity" is less useful.
> He also had saved very little money, as it was all going to taking Uber to and from work and eating out every meal.

This is critical to understanding one’s pay. It’s a little bit like a london software worker thinking they earn more than an east european worker, just because on paper they earn more. While the london worker barely rents a flat the east european worker owns two.

Similarly the sillicon valley worker earning three times more than you, but pissing away their money on a uber and a rent, is actually earning far less than you. Many in software are financially illiterate and dont grasp the difference between pay on paper and pay factoring in the cost of living.
That there are others who share your agenda doesn't imply or support the notion that your agenda is in good faith.
> In the Culture all real agency humanity has is lost to machines (Minds). Humans have about as much say in important matters in the Culture as dogs do in ours.

The Culture is explicitly a direct democracy, it's just that the books are mostly about what is effectively a somewhat-rogue intelligence agency's activities in other civilizations.

> Politics in the Culture consists of referenda on issues whenever they are raised; generally, anyone may propose a ballot on any issue at any time; all citizens have one vote. Where issues concern some sub-division or part of a total habitat, all those - human and machine - who may reasonably claim to be affected by the outcome of a poll may cast a vote. Opinions are expressed and positions on issues outlined mostly via the information network (freely available, naturally), and it is here that an individual may exercise the most personal influence, given that the decisions reached as a result of those votes are usually implemented and monitored through a Hub or other supervisory machine, with humans acting (usually on a rota basis) more as liaison officers than in any sort of decision-making executive capacity; one of the few rules the Culture adheres to with any exactitude at all is that a person's access to power should be in inverse proportion to their desire for it. The sad fact for the aspiring politico in the Culture is that the levers of power are extremely widely distributed, and very short (see entry on megalomaniacs, above). The intellectual-structural cohesion of a starship of course limits the sort of viable votes possible on such vessels, though as a rule even the most arrogant craft at least pretend to listen when their guests suggest - say - making a detour to watch a supernova, or increasing the area of parkland on-board.
>High return investment opportunities are limited in number and amount of cash which can be deployed into them. As cash under management grows a higher percentage of it gets invested into lower return investment opportunities which are better than risk-free rate, reducing the overall performance of the fund (relative, not absolute).

Larger funds supposedly being more risk averse COULD be a reason for less yield but it might as well on average yield MORE. All you said is just hypothetical. And again, the article frames it as an incentives issue, which it isn't.

>Not really fair to compare performance between funds with such dramatic differences in cash under management IMO.

This literally makes no sense at all. OF COURSE you can compare them and you should. If I have a billion dollars to invest I could invest it all in one fund or I could spread it out of a thousand small funds. It makes no sense to NOT compare them. Is a dollar from a small fund's return different than a large funds? No.
And yet, every time it's reposted, new eyes will see it; this is the same problem that e.g. Reddit has, it's full of reposts, but there's so many posts that nobody will ever actually go down the list and read all previous posts.

Reposts are an issue on low-volume sites, but HN is not a low volume site. Reposts are also allowed, since reposts done on different times or times of the week can attract a lot more comments, as proven by the search link that shows just one of the 6 reposts having more than one comment.
Broken homepage, only white boxes on the right.

Desktop, Windows, Chrome.
> it didn't have the promised effect of increasing wages of living standards... they ran out of poor Germans

So which one is it? According to you Agenda 2010 helped Germany to run out of poor Germans. And you are right -- from the introduction of Hartz IV, German unemployment permanently fell by over 6% -- despite the mass immigration that you are complaining about.

The rich getting richer in the zero-interest-rate decade is a global phenomenon - unemployment declining by these truly immense amounts very much isn't.
There also is Kavita:

Homepage: https://www.kavitareader.com/

Repository: https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita

I don't know if it fits your needs, but i think its pretty cool. Written in C# it is also pretty "hackable".
I don’t buy the climate change narrative, so not concerned about it at all.

As one investor stated in the past: if rising sea levels were really a problem, banks would not want to finance oceanfront property or under very strict terms.

YMMV
From the screenshots on their site it seems to be a web app, both the reader and the admin. So you must be able to reach the server every time you are reading an ebook. Did you install Ubooquity on a server on the internet (a VPS?), do you have a public IP address at home, do you use a tunnel from home to a server on the internet? And what if you don't have internet connectivity?
If that article hasn't been changed since the publication, the strongest statement is "as it stands I recommend against using it for anything" AFIAK, and it is far from saying "it must die". She even gave many suggestions for improvement, some of which are shared with mine. I think you are reading too much from those criticisms.
Yeah same here, a much more challenging project would be to aggregate data from the thousands of individual pollen services in various countries. I know of at least two here in Sweden. Isn't this what we should use AI for?
It earns them money, and people aren't using competitors; Google has seemed to give up on the quality of results a long time ago in favor of plain volume and whatever numbers they use to measure success.
I think it can be a productivity booster. At my company, I need to touch multiple projects in multiple languages. I can ask ChatGPT how to do something, such as enumerate an array, in a language I’m less familiar with so that I can more quickly contribute to a project. Using ChatGPT as a coach, I am also slowly learning new things.
that is simply false but it does demonstrate the level of understanding the general public, including HN, has on this issue. nanoplastics, once again, have no proven health effects. what does at least have some attested health effects are the various plasticiser additives in plastic. the only actual health concern with plastics is and has always been: will they leach plasticisers into for example food? it only takes a very small amount of thinking to realise that suspended micro and nanoplastics in a solvent volume as great as the damn ocean likely means even if the dreaded micro and nanoplastics make it into your system they will be long devoid of any soluble plasticisers, especially if those happen to be degraded by the sun or brackish conditions
How do you read it on the web? I don't see a web client anywhere.

The only thing I can find is https://play.google.com/books/notavailable
Man has seriously underestimated how much of history is the completion of bad quests by people for whom the win condition is them sitting atop a pile of human skills. Viewing it as "progress" like this is not so much Whig History as Videogame Whig History.

Now thinking of the very opposite set of life advice from https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/ on how to survive in the extremely Hobbesian Russian environment.
There’s nothing wrong with building a model using related data if the thing you care about is hard/expensive to measure at that scale (which I don’t know if that’s true or not). But you’d want to validate your model using actual pollen samples.

The data here is pretty much worthless without a paper explaining the model and the validation.
> Obesity is not due to an eating disorder

Wrong. Not in most cases, but binge eating disorder is a thing.
The government cannot solve homelessness, but I trust them with modifying the temperature of the planet
By the way, why Elixir and not just Erlang? (I mean a genuine question, not a dislike to Elixir, I don't code either of these yet and am curious)
I think hoarding is not so bad, as long as there is also the ability to tag and index the content. When it becomes unsearchable, you have a problem - because whether it's good or bad, you can't find it anyway.

I think the issue is space though, otherwise we would simply archive everything and deal with the problem of search. For example, if you had every podcast audio file, you could search them using AI with something like "male and female talk about hacking floppy disks" and leave that to compute a while.
For sure; Elixir comes with a whole new architecture as well, and they COULD have gained a significant performance improvement if they rewrote / re-architected it in Python.

However, could they have done a 50x performance improvement in Python? And what about the other numbers, like speed and concurrency?

That said, I'm confident they crunched the numbers and did the tradeoffs; after all, adding another language and/or architecture will make your company more complex, makes hiring more complex.
On the other hand, dealing with dependencies, deployment, even containerisation is a breeze in Elixir, so it balances out.
At least in Finland and Sweden those highways-as-emergency-airfields are always in use, no need to prep the area or remove dividers in any way. They are mostly used by the army for practicing, basically the police will just close the road so the army can practice, and when the army is done the road is opened again.

https://moottori.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kesabaana23-T...
Sure my e-mail is my HN username at aeroscan.nl!
I read red on black at night, with lights off. White is too much bright. I think astronomers would agree with me.
Personally I’d rather we have a populace of people who are healthy fed educated and housed so that more people than the elite can participate in the progress of humanity.
> In my corner of Australia healthcare is effectively closed to me, as GPs around here demand wearing masks and allow no exemptions. I guess that's democracy in action. No mask - no rights, as per majority decision.

This is like whining that the pub requires shirt and shoes but more bizarre.

It has nothing to do with 'democracy'; in QLD at least GPs have no requirement for mask wearing so it's just up to the good old "free market" where businesses can set their own rules. Complaining that a GP requires basic healthcare precautions is truly bizarre to me.
No, I think Europe and especially the US are both fine with having blood on our hands. Depends whose blood, that’s all.

Also don’t mix morals and geopolitics, they’re often incompatible.

Our safety in Europe is at risk because of our stupid wars destabilizing the Middle East and because we’re stuck between great power rivalries, most recently as vassals in training of the US, which wants to drag us in its conflict with China.

See https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-art-of-vassalisation-how-rus...
I have doubts about the accuracy of the data as well. Pollen can be very localized. I'd love to see an independent study on it.
Or allow convenient usage without registration. It seems whatever I look for mostly is there, I just go away because I don't want to sign-up&in nor be tracked. I wouldn't realy mind if there were some reasonable non-intrusive content-relevant ads though.

I probably might even sign-up some day if I weren't repelled by this being required every time I come. I even stopped reading Quora, and, most recently, Twitter because of this - they started requiring signing-in while I don't want to stay signed in and be tracked even though I actually have respective accounts.
That's a good point! I don't intend there to be a "future owner" of it, but I've made a note to sever the USB data lines when I have some time tomorrow. Want to leave the USB power lines intact in case an accessory needs the 5V.
Unfair comparison, your Elixir example includes a module definition.

That said, code volume is never the issue, code clarity is. Right now you're comparing trivial examples, but what does in this case Pinterest's high volume spam detection code look like? I wouldn't judge a language on microscopic code snippets, or disregard them as "too noisy" when it usually isn't a deciding factor in programming languages.
It's been ages that I've experienced a Windows install becoming slow. I haven't noticed any malware recently, either.
I'm viewing software engineers like FAA pilots, where they must have a certain minimum amount of time between shifts so they can't [necessarily] be exhausted. But that's pertaining to long shifts. In softwareland I'm used to seeing folks who are poor at recognizing their own fatigue. I understand there are some that do not want time away, but I'd say considering the impact of our work it'd be important to mandate time away. Maybe that's reaching, but I'm looking at it from a safety aspect and the potential to do harm if you're not careful/cognizant due to long hours and extended months of work to beat deadlines. Depends on the area you're working in, I'm sure - but it's a ridiculous thing I'd love to be commonplace. Paid time away: 4 weeks minimum that you must exercise. Doesn't have to be contiguous.

You're saying your work doesn't have PTO accrual: There's another thing we should lobby for.

How many times has productivity doubled since the industrial revolution? I would love the tech world to stand still for a time so we can demand these things that seem ridiculous, because we've been succumbed to wage slavery. Even that sounds odd: Software wage slavery - puh-lease, right? Except few things have expanded the economy of several nations in the world like software, like tech. We should be much more demanding.

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