skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it’s plain silly. As a remote worker for going on 3 years, I can’t ever see myself going back to a commute. You could double my salary and I wouldn’t do it..
You're going to sit on a distressed asset for 20 years hoping it recovers? Do you realize how financially debilitating that is?
Heathkit H8 Vintage Computer with an 8008 CPU Board [video]
Yeah back then business class was still a thing for most business travelers also. These days you have to be practically C-level to get it :P

But I think with the increased scrutiny on carbon emissions this will not fly anymore (pun intended). See how celebs are being criticised for using their private jets for example. This will only get worse. Then using a plane that emits much more carbon for the same distance (even though it's much faster) will definitely make it harder to justify.
Anybody know how to figure out the year?
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The submitter linked to the top comment but our software changed the URL to the canonical URL listed there (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37368412 for a similar case). I thought I'd modified the code to stop doing that in these cases but maybe this submission preceded that.
There is a parallel emergency communication system in the US - SHARES.[1] It's ham radio type equipment for first responders. 5MHz HF radio has enough range that you can get through to a distant station even if telephony is completely down. It's not used much, and has very limited capacity (5 channels) but Homeland Security has a few staffed stations so that some place isolated by a hurricane can call somebody.

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/programs/shared-resourc...
Yes, that option with the keyboard would be the easiest option. See? The point on encrypting your whole disk is not to avoid tampering, but to lock your machine in public places and be sure that no one can access your data upon placing that disk in another machine, or even trying to boot it.
What people often miss about PDF is that it's closer to an image format in some ways than to a Word document. Word documents, PDFs and images are in document editing what DAW projects, midis and mp3 files are in music and what Java source code, JVM bytecode and pure x86 machine code are in software.

The primary purpose of a PDF file is to tell you what to display (or print), with perfect clarity, in much fewer bytes than an actual image would take. It exploits the fact that the document creator knows about patterns in the document structure that, if expressed properly, make the document much more compressible than anything that an actual image compression algorithm could accomplish. For example, if you have access to the actual font, it's better to say "put these characters at these coordinates with that much spacing between them" than to include every occurrence of every character as a part of the image, hoping that the compression algorithm notices and compresses away the repetitions. Things like what character is part of what word, or even what unicode codepoint is mapped to which font glyph are basically unimportant if all you're after is efficiently transferring the image of a document.

If you have an editable document, you care a lot more about the semantics of the content, not just about its presentation. It matters to you whether a particular break in the text is supposed to be multiple spaces, the next column in a table or just a weird page layout caused by an image being present. If you have some text at the bottom of each page, you care whether that text was put there by the document author multiple times, or whether it was entered once and set as a footer. If you add a new paragraph and have to change page layout, it matters to you that the last paragraph on this page is a footnote and should not be moved to the next one. If a section heading moves to another page, you care about the fact that the table of contents should update automatically and isn't just some text that the author has manually entered. If you're a printer or screen, you care about none of these things, you just print or display whatever you're told to print or display. For a PDF, footnotes, section headings, footers or tables of contents don't have to be special, they can just be text with some meaningless formatting applied to it. This is why making PDF work for any purpose which isn't displaying or printing is never going to be 100% accurate. Of course, there are efforts to remedy this, and a PDF-creating program is free to include any metadata it sees fit, but it's by no means required to do so.

This isn't necessarily the mental model that the PDF authors had in mind, but it's an useful way to look at PDF and understand why it is the way it is.
Django App that logs exceptions and uses AI to suggest fixes
What a day off! I finally got around to making this project.
Or simply less people, busy doing what machine can't, with a bit less free time to spare. It's as bleak if we put ourselves in the shoes of the humans who wouldn't exist, but not that bleak for the ones who would...
it’s the NHS: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66673511

of course they implement triage. but if the person has enough money they can go private.
What happens is the insurers are only allowed to insure by large areas (perhaps the entire state) so they normally handle the uninsurable areas by charging insanely high for those places - but that is being prohibited.

So they either need to be allowed to let prices float or declare areas smaller than a state as “unisurable”.
The guide is so cool. I never knew you could netboot to multiple machines and use overlays to allow per-user modifications. It seems like a solution that could be used in a "computer lab" type scenario. Thanks for sharing!
Well, it does make it clear that human advancement is along the terms set by military diktat - there's nothing natural about it.

Why should we be worried that the military fund the internet, quantum computing, etc? Can there be any reason for concern?

Could it be that the military is less concerned about external threats, but way more concerned about managing internal ones? And that funding technology to create a technocratic panopticon has been long in the making? If directing technology towards technocratic infrastructure, such goals are really pretty complete, when you think about it.. Surely only a couple more elections before it is switched on, if that.
>First, and this is the default, they’re saying no because they just don’t like it.

>Second, though, the tech industry (or the doctors, or the farmers) might be saying no because this really will have very serious negative consequences that you haven’t understood.

>If the second kind of ‘no’ is ‘that’s a really bad idea’, the third kind is ‘we actually can’t do that’.

I think a big industry is plagued by the first case. On the other hand, a specific tech worker is more prone to say no because of 2 and 3.
I think it's mostly intended for public outdoor tables since these are hard to find on Google.

Edit:spelling
Always remember _bashcc_.
The most liberating insight I had in studying economics is that every person in a relatively free country already is a company of one, even if each individual is “employed” by another company. The negotiation of salary or wage is one in which the employee is negotiating the price of his/her labor, and in that sense is selling something, or purchasing services/facilities from the employer, or in reality both.
Could this be used as a source of speculative tokens for larger llama models?, as per https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/2926

Also, when are we going to start seeing open weights MOE models being released?
>my brain experiences noticeable pleasure upon recalling pointless minutiae

Could be adhd "excitement driven" focus/memory...
Ah yes you're right! According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(command) it was also in NT, but 2K must be where I'm remembering it from. It was only 20 years ago, not sure why it would be foggy ;)
Yep, I don't care what they do. I've been remote for 7 years now, I made it work before COVID, now it's like playing on super easy mode.

My Dad was a work from home pioneer, from back in the early 90's. We got all the latest modem and other tech growing up. If he could make it work with a 2400 baud modem, we can make it work for pretty much every office job.
I apologize. I can see how some of my comments could be seen as flamebait, but that's certainly not how I meant it. I guess my idea of what's "on-topic" is different from everyone else's. I don't consider things "off-topic" or "flamebait" just because they contain political language.

This particular comment (the one you replied to) was a direct answer to the question. The language might be a little too strong but it's how I approach working overtime. I think this view is popular enough to warrant representation. The OP wanted to know what people think about working overtime, and now they're aware of an additional viewpoint, which is what I assume they were looking for.

And I'd like to point out the fact that people don't get called out for political comments equally here. Pro-capitalists here get by with posting as much propaganda as they want. Only people who question the almighty status-quo are told to review the rules or else. I see people all the time calling for strict laws and other government stuff, and a decent conversation always ensues, with nobody complaining about the inherent politics involved in the conversation. What's up with that hypocritical stuff?

I think the only way to solve this problem is to reword the rule to: "no discussions involving ideas related to human social organization".

I will do my best to avoid political comments where they aren't necessary, but sometimes something just needs to be said because it's part of the conversation.
‘Biological Recycling’ Would Be Amazing
That is extremely biased anecdata. People around you, especially family members and friends, are much more likely to share your technical interest. If you leave your bubble, you'll find that the "average" student couldn't give fewer shits.
Anybody trying to do this is missing the point of PDF: It’s a page-description format and therefore only represents the marks on a page, not document structure.

One should not attempt to edit a PDF, one should edit the document from which the PDF is generated.
It’s a bad idea because you can inadvertently dial it. Use is audited and you can get in trouble for abuse.

WPS provides a cellular phone with priority on a hierarchy, on the carriers network. It’s something like FBI->State Police->Local First Responders->other entities (DOT, etc)

GETS is a code that gives you priority on wired connections.

WPS guarantees access to spectrum at a major sporting event. GETS will drop lower priority calls when circuits are loaded.
This is it. I’ve actually found it’s down to the discipline, like our tech team is fully remote and that works super well even though the sales team is in-office.

Not only is our tech team fully remote, we’re spread out in the US so there’s no small part of our team that’s more often meeting up in person to work.
You don’t have a choice of which body you inhabit. You definitely have a choice of home you inhabit.
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People want detacted homes for afford prices in desirable locations like the core of major cities.
You fail to account for the cost of accurately underwriting. They can do what you suggest fir cars because it involves testing a few dozen car models. If each car needed to be tested they wouldn’t do it.
Designing a cursor for augmented reality
A few years ago I had to make an AR cursor for a mobile app. This post goes over some design considerations for such a cursor.
I can tell you what worked for me, but I can't promise that it will work for others. Basically, I just stopped giving a shit about what other people thought, especially most other software engineers.

I stopped caring about getting promoted and doing things just for visibility. If I see something that needs to be done, I make sure it gets taken care of. I ask intelligent questions in meetings and have almost always put way more thought into anything we're working on than anyone else so I'm able to have good questions and concerns. I focus on delivering for the business and not impressing other software engineers.

The key, and this is the one piece of bullshit unfortunately, is to make sure your manager and ideally your manager's manager know about what you are doing. I mostly accomplish this during my one-on-one and by speaking up in various meetings we are in. I also work for a company where talking directly to senior management and even executives is truly accepted.

The thing is, most people are followers and need to be told what to do. Become the person that knows what needs to be done and makes sure things don't fall through the cracks. Unless you are looking to go into management, focus on the technical and driving projects to completion, but avoid trying to manage other people. Eventually if you build enough respect from the team you can get them to do what is needed and your can build enough trust with your manager that you can direct them to deal with problem employees.

The downside to all of this is that I'm pulled into absolutely everything because everyone wants my opinion and I'll actually make decisions for everyone instead of meeting about it 15 times. I end up doing very little actual development these days, but I'm paid extremely well and don't have to manage people. In the end this doesn't bother me that much because I see corporate software development as a different activity from the one I actually enjoy.
I wonder why =+ is so obviously a mistake. It does look vaguely wrong for some reason, but I’m prejudiced by current languages.
That's one where they want you to be "family"

I'm a merc at heart. Fuck you, pay me.
Kind of, sometimes, but not always. On the other side of this is the "daughter from California" scenario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syndr... which you also don't want to end up in. There has to be some threshold for the doctors to say "I get what you're trying to achieve but the choice is to die today or in a few days while medicated like crazy with tubes everywhere because you they can't breathe/eat/move".
Absolutely true. But saying UK doctors are underpaid because they’re paid half of a US doctor while ignoring everyone is paid half of a US person for everything is disingenuous. Everyone in the UK is inexplicably underpaid, and everything is expensive.

What was your brothers take on the US?
I've gone through a few Chromebooks but what is, or perhaps is not, surprising is that I haven't gone through them at a meaningfully different rate than regular laptops. Given that, it seems like a net win, at least for me. You can't seriously say that the likes of HP or Dell have not simply extorting the school system for years. My Chromebooks are just as durable.

Besides, after several years of use by kids, I have a hard time imagining these things becoming anything other than waste.

And where I live in the west, I pay an additional tax for products which create e-waste (namely consumer electronics) and I must dispose of them at appropriate facilities. E-waste is definitely a problem but it's not a relevant factor here as far as I can tell.
To be honest, that "factcheck" demonstrates the value of performing well-constructed systematic reviews, i.e. a clear and unbiased assessment of what the pertinent studies do and do not support.
Is the answer yes or no?
The oldest “share” is listed as “3y”.

Gracious. Put a stamp on posts, Quora!
Long Covid symptoms can improve, but their resolution is slow and imperfect
Much of the scientific literature in biology is working off of hypotheses that don't have a huge amount of evidence.
There are a large number of studies that present a molecular mechanism which, if studied in depth, will not always be consistent with what is presented in the literature. This is often dealt with by appending several conditions that must be met, such that the combinatorial space grows large enough and the only study that is done that meets the requirements is the one being presented.
In this way, almost anything can be stated to fit some shiny new hypothesis.

This is effectively the science based method, since it can be tracked to a, perhaps, 'plausible' mechanism (although often now lean towards more 'intriguing' than parsimonious, especially if published somewhere like Nature)

Evidence based medicine has other faults. One subfield is meta-analysis, which looks for very solid observations that are reproducible, but often lacks the complicated modeling that may be necessary to see any highly conditional effects. So the findings tend to be real, but boring and often "well-known". It is however, a good way to check if the "well-known" observations in the literature are reproducible.
UK has three separate legal systems -- England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is case is in England & Wales and only reflects the legal position there
> people don't get called out for political comments equally here. Pro-capitalists here get by with posting as much propaganda as they want

Having spent the bulk of my morning drafting a long reply to someone who was claiming exactly the opposite bias (but in exactly the same way), I have to insist that this perception is illusory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384133

I think the reason it feels that way to you (and feels the opposite way to that other user!) is because all of us tend to notice the data points we dislike, and to weight them more heavily. There are plenty of comments that "don't get called out"—more than enough for cognitive bias to kick in and produce whatever image is guaranteed to be most irritating to you.

Lots of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

All I can tell you is that the people who most strongly disagree with you about all things political are completely convinced that the site and the mods are biased against them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

> I think the only way to solve this problem is to reword the rule to: "no discussions involving ideas related to human social organization"

That's impossible on a site dedicated to intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and for a host of other reasons as well. If you (or anyone) want to read more about how we moderate politics on HN, here's a link to lots of past explanations:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Accessing_Wii_Shop_Channel_from_PC

(Would be appreciated if a mod could fix the URL on the submission)
Because it won't sell in anywhere near the volumes comparable x86 motherboards will.

It's the same for the Talos II using IBM's POWER. It costs a lot because a) it is designed as a workstation and b) the volume just isn't there.

Economies of scale basically.
I’ve thought that ever since I was a kid reading news reports about the trailer park at the mouth of a local river getting junked every few years when Southern California got more rain than average. Let FEMA help people, sure, but it should be a one-time conversion to national forest not an “act of god” which happens multiple times per decade.
you can change the position of any key. its one of the selling points of keyboards with qmk/zmk firmware. you can make unique layout for yourself or choose from what others have already tested in their setups.
The flip side of this is not simply assuming that insurers are stupid. Performing bespoke inspections of houses is an industry onto itself which i also would not rush into. It also doesn’t help you much; if 10% of houses have these countermeasures your regional risk pool will still be vaporized when the other 90% are burned to the ground.

It’s just eventually impossible to insure these assets when these types of super correlated risks become as ubiquitous as they are.
Thanks for giving me (and others) such a great/fun resource! I recall at least in LaMothe's at the end there was a contest to make the best mod/improvement off of the book's engine. Do you know if those actually happened and if the winners are accessible anywhere?
Ah, I could see how this'd lead to market failure. Any info on the specific regulation that's causing this? It's having pretty severe negative impacts on the densely populated urban areas of California to prop up specific parts of the WUI that really should not have people living in them anyway.
The roots of PDF are PostScript, which is like Forth, and is text-based, so that’s why
There is kind of a "boy who cried wolf" thing going on where the tech industry has pushed back hard on pretty much any sort of regulation and oversight that the regulators automatically assume "they’re saying no because they just don’t like it.".
Honestly an LLM chatbot trained on all the worlds academic writings that was able to correctly cite sources in its answers would be of immense benefit to humanity and academics.

I wish it would happen, but so much academic content is locked behind various pay gates.
While very cool, open source drivers for propriety a proprietary gpu design is not quite the same as open silicon or open gpu isa, which is what I think the parent was asking for.
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I think because it's ambiguous with unary plus (a = +b), since C isn't supposed to have significant whitespace in most circumstances.
Most chips have input circuits that avoid this and are metastability resistant - though arguably some metastability is a good thing in an RNG
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At this point and seeing the way you argue, I’m not interested in debating about what I would prefer private banks to do. I simply stated that it’s intervention to force me to use some currency, and yes I am forced to use the USD. As is any business in the United States, which is legally required to accept it.

I don’t see the relevance of “it’s illegal” to anything in this conversation.

If I “take” something from you and you still have it, nothing has been stolen.
Ask HN: What’s Your Morning Routine?
I’ve read a few of these posts over the last few years on HN and honestly I find them so insightful.

So what does your morning routine consist of?
If you're making a comparison, then you're assuming the owners of long-term residential buildings are local as well -- which they most certainly are not always. And I don't know why STVR owners would be less likely to be local than regular landlords. (And then if want to send money to hotels, remember those are almost always national chains!)

But in any case no -- I'm talking primarily about the fact that tourists spend more on restaurants and attractions and shopping than locals. While I'm assuming that landlords just remain landlords.