skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed Eastern Europe from the name? Your weariness of potatoes is a bit like mine with pasta - grew up eating it five nights a week and got quite bored of it.

My background is Slovenian, and potatoes are common for us also, though not really potato pancakes that I can remember. We had some great potato salads and soups though!
I think a big part of the problem is that domains in isolation don't provide the best search results. Out-of-band information like (global) anchor texts or click data makes search perform so much better.

If I want to learn how to do an INNER JOIN in MariaDB, this is the authoritative source: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/join-syntax/

The problem being that INNER JOIN isn't particularly important to that page using most IR measures of importance, it's also primarily in a <code>-block which is typically further de-prioritized. To learn that this is an important link, you need to look outside of mariadb.com.
Why would they have to take a stand? Ah because other people would make them take a stand. Why would these other people make the first group of people take a stand? Because they care. What if they don't care? Somebody else should pressure them into caring so they can pressure the ones who can do something about it. Etc etc

My point is that this is what it's usually meant by "we are not doing anything about it". It generally means that there is not enough collective awareness about an issue for the people involved to have enough incentives to do the right thing.

Some people observe that the issue is under somebody else's direct responsibility but draw the conclusion that the responsibility chain ends there.

Other people instead think it's their responsibility to apply some sort of pressure from outside and failure to even attempt to do so extends the responsibility of the inaction to them too.

Some of those people extend their feeling of responsibility to also shame people for not shaming other people.

This is all natural and human and as with all human things it functions well until it fails catastrophically
That's sort of not saying much. Are they going to recruit Joe the Plumber to submit IETF drafts?
Bing says:

In January 2022, there were several significant events:

Wildfires in Boulder, Colorado: These fires led to the evacuation of over 30,000 people and the destruction of homes across Boulder County1.

COVID-19 surge in the U.S.: The U.S. reached a record number of COVID-19 cases, with the Omicron variant making up 95% of the cases1.

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano eruption: This eruption sent tsunami waves around the world. The blast was so loud it was heard in Alaska – roughly 6,000 miles away. The afternoon sky turned pitch black as heavy ash clouded Tonga’s capital and caused “significant damage” along the western coast of the main island of Tongatapu2.

These events had a profound impact on people’s lives and the environment.
You should really reread my comment, that’s not what I’m talking about.
Agreed on needing better tooling for surprise bills - definitely no stranger to that problem!

For now we're trying to make the base price cheap enough where those kinds of considerations don't need to be top of mind today and a policy that can be forgiving when it occasionally happens, but certainly as we continue to scale and grow, we'll need to put in proper controls to allow users to define what should happen if events are spiking unexpectedly (how to shed events via sampling, what needs to be explicitly perserved for compliance reasons, when to notify, etc.)

I do like Sentry's auto-sampling algorithm which is a really neat way to solve that issue.
But we didn't have mods then which I think makes a difference.
Yes there is and it’s magnificent.

It’s called a A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson and he is an adopted national treasure in the UK (he is American, from Iowa I believe.)
One more benefit is to learn how to tame complexity. The most complex piece of software doesn't come from nowhere; it is built over years, if not decades. People will never experience the same level of complexity in the "greenfield" programming. And that experience changes the entire mindset, from how to write the codes to how to structure the entire engineering org.
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It seems that the CMP 170HX is being sold for $500 +/- $100 on the flea markets in China as closed mining farms are dumping any remaining inventory. Not sure if the prices are real, I'm currently trying to purchase some.
You won't have the "NAT as a firewall" dilemma because there would be no NAT - this whole thought experiment would take place in the 1996 era, before the explosion of NATs. Expecting your /32 gateway to do any firewalling wouldn't be too different from expecting your ISP to do the same for the entire city at the /18 level.
I know, except the parent was saying Monopoly is like Georgism, which it isn't.
I maintain multiple packages on the AUR and PKGBUILDs are pretty easy to understand imo. I only had a look at one or two Nix package builds and they seemed much more complex to me.
Two options: either it will stop showing ads (in that case, interesting) or payments are used as an easy way of ID verification.

Earlier they were rumoured to require ID verification so I think it's that. Musk seems vaguely anti free speech in practice plus he might think getting rid of bots will help raise value for advertisers.

Tired of being the product? Now you can also pay while being the product!
Grateful to life, I guess.

And not so much as grateful to but more like grateful for.
Ty DanG, you do the very important work in keeping HN the excellent site it is, you are appreciated!
There are (at least) two ways to think about the law. One (which technical people tend to subscribe to) is that the law is analogous to a computer code for the society and the ideal is that it is followed at all times. The second is that the law is there as a backup when someone is clearly causing trouble and other, more informal means to stop them have failed.

In the second interpretation, it is desirable to have some sort of law always ready to apply when a problematic situation arises, and everyone committing technical felonies every now and then is just a (mostly) harmless side effect of the system working as intended.

The second interpretation is, I believe, also often applied when new laws are written. Usually the logic is: there is some kind of a problem that the politicians need to address, and the problem itself is too complex to directly address so some kind of proxy law is made that gives an excuse to throw problematic people in jail. See e.g. loitering laws.
Google Enshitification is everywhere.

used to be you needed a novel idea for a startup.

now you just need to copy a Google service, but not make it unusably shit.

Google today is the wish version of Google twenty years ago
Are you being serious right now? Pics. I need pics.
About the number of bytes a signature was supposed to be....
Ask HN: Best way to build paid member subscriptions website?
Hi ! I'm looking for a way to build a paid member subscriptions website, for selling access to podcasts for example. What stack is the most cost efficient / easiest to put this in place ?
It's sometimes a little mind-boggling that the FSF has been around only a couple months more than I have been around. I'm not even sure I'd have made computing of any kind a career if it hadn't been for free software myself.
Of course they are, don’t be so helpless. Getting good beans vs Starbucks is trivial. You’re obviously not limited to local roasters, google “specialty coffee delivery”, it needs to rest for around a week anyway. As is getting filtered water (in-line under your sink for less than $100, filter pitcher for a fraction of that) and saline drops (you can buy them for next to nothing online or mad-science your own for even less). All of those things will make a huge improvement compared with a better grinder.

Again. Grinders can make a difference, but they’re the last step in the chain. Do everything else first.
Not just the CPU, but also the older chipsets that Windows 9x thinks is current. It only supports emulation of chipsets much newer than those versions of Windows.
> Well, the original purpose of a VPN was more as a private LAN

You're conflating two concepts.

An "oldschool" VPN connection (using e.g. IPSec) is something that allows your computer to remotely "join" a real, physical LAN. It's basically equivalent to running PPP over IP: your computer "dials up" a daemon running on a server somewhere; that daemon accepts a stream of raw packets from your computer's network stack; and then that daemon dumps those packets out through one of the server's NICs onto a local network segment — where those packets are then handled by the switch they run into as if your computer was directly plugged into that switch. So your computer can acquire an IP address for its VPN "bridge" interface via DHCP from the switch; can talk to other devices on that private network through the switch; can talk to the Internet via NAT through that switch; etc.

Tailscale, meanwhile, creates a software-defined virtual LAN on top of p2p mesh networking of the nodes. There's no actual network segment anywhere that your packets are being dumped out onto; the "switch" handling your packets is a shared distributed abstract-machine that's partly running on your Tailscale client, and partly running on the other nodes' Tailscale clients. That virtual LAN doesn't have a routing table + NAT on it to translate packets into Internet-bound packets. Nor does the LAN have the ability to host L2 services like DHCP. It's just a functional L3 simulation of an L1 network segment, not a faithful emulation of an L1 network segment.
Depressing reading those together, reminds me why I limited my news intake.
> hallucination ... it’s just doing what LLMs do

So using that term shows the need to implement "processing of thought", as decently developed human intellects do.
It’s my understanding that the Amazon is dependent on minerals from the Sahara blowing across the ocean, and if we “re-greened” the Sahara, the Amazon would be negatively affected.

Is this the case, and if so, does that mean the Amazon is only as old as the desert version of the Sahara?

Edit: bit of an answer here for anyone curious: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2566/what-w...
"We smile and nod at the devs, and then go spend long romantic weekends with the sales team."
They had a patent on putting auxiliary batteries in the watch band. I was so stoked and then nothing came of it. I’m guessing poor performance or a fire hazard. I waited way too long before I gave up on that every hitting the manufacturing floor.
Unraveling the Quickening of Logged Forest Recover: Diverse Seedling Replanting
It's not an either or situation. One can attend both museums.
But thank you for the tip!
Apple should just use the words "sensor crop". The contortions they are going through not to use the words are getting very contrived.
I don’t think you’re being reasonable. The mailing list email does not describe the developers background nor provide context - whereas the Phoronix article does.
Yes, there are many factors. What I couldn't understand (and what I think my "brainwave" explains) is why excess demand barely moves the needle of supply. Usually if something is in short supply, it becomes more and more economical to produce it and sell it - increasing supply and decreasing prices.

Some of the factors you list decrease supply, but to me, the elephant in the room is that we don't seem to be able to create new cities - thus we're all competing for a fixed, small supply of land near the centres of a handful of high-status cities.

Different zoning, REITs and public transport are factors too, but these are merely resistors in the circuit, not switches IMHO.
Oh they have a podcast, how intriguing
Of course it shouldn’t, because software maintenance
does not exist. Programs don’t degrade with use

This is some real pedantic gymnastics and you're not even correct.

The word "maintenance" doesn't imply some kind of physical product metaphor. Sorry. That's not what the word means.
Does anyone know where one can find the estimated size per year of the Sahara. All I kind find are reductionist crap like it’s 10% bigger now than 1920. But this does not say if it’s in a growing or shrinking trend just that it’s bigger now than then. Was it even bigger in 2000? And now shrinking from a top or has it been a gradual increase?
its been in decline for many years

Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers

by David Perlmutter
The missing bit you forgot is that even if the first option was chosen, it very quickly devolves into the second option, whether the managers like it or not.
Could one look at the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks through a similar lens as you do with the Georgists vs the 1910s Progressives? The Mensheviks being more bottom-up (and willing to go slower if needed) and the Bolsheviks being top-down (in order to move faster) but both with the end goal of moving forward with Socialism?
The value of the land in NYC is related to all the other stuff next to the land you’re valuing. Other people’s improvements make your land more valuable, because you’ve got the subway line nearby. And the pizza shop on the corner. And the bar across the street.
What do you mean by “software support”? All I can think of that would be relevant is things like firmware/BIOS security patches. Honestly most people never need or get even that. But even if there’s an unpatched rootkit opportunity (which is unlikely to be practical to invoke), everything else in the stack can still be modern and patched, featurewise and securitywise. I’d say that’s normally good enough.

But even if we allow that, that’s a completely distinct topic, and my point stands; your Python/Ubuntu comparison was still clearly unreasonable.
it is only logical that maggots take over at some point
Ask HN: What do you think about a CEO providing human name to his business?
As I may get a CEO assistant job at a company dealing with lab equipment and reagents more aligned with my main science interests [1], I googled that company
and found that its CEO seems to have a few other similar pharmaceutical companies. But one of them is named with a female human name.

I think that business entities are a bit more abstract to bear the labels used for human bodies and it sounds strange for me. I would never buy anything from a company with any human name. This CEO is a PhD and his dissertation is aligned with my main interests, but I do not want to get into another type of bs with this CEO assistant job.

What do you think about a CEO providing a female human name to one of his businesses?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37560705
I meant by real scientists in a lab, not a YouTuber. Like a consumer testing lab maybe, or a university.

Besides, I've watched a good few Hoffman videos - including his high end grinder reviews - and while they are great, they aren't scientific standard double blind tests. They're just him in his kitchen.

I did search in case I missed anything, but can't find any videos that you might mean. If you have a specific video in mind, please link it.
They should make the phone the same thickness as the lenses, have a nice 6000mAh battery size and a high powered headphone jack. Maybe then the phone will lie flat on a table.
This is why you are only supposed to tax the unimproved value of land. This is different from the property tax that's commonly used by local governments in the U.S., which includes the value of buildings and such, and so acts as an incentive against development.
Theories being ultimately all we have, there is (or should be) no “chosen” one. People are free to believe whatever—this is a pre-requisite for theories to evolve.

There may be a theory that enjoys better predictive success for a while, but if everyone always believed in a singular “chosen” theory then we’d get nowhere: to evolve a better theory, you have to come up with and believe in something other than the preexisting one. Thus, it is normal for multiple theories to coexist at any given time.

Crucially, a theory is all map no territory, always and necessarily. It describes something we do not understand in terms of something that we do understand. At its core, it is a metaphor—and more than one metaphor can be useful, each in a slightly different context.
I think one of the keys is consensus-building. If one engineer tells management that it would be a great idea to do XYZ, management doesn't necessarily know whether to believe them.

But if the whole team is on board and has reviewed your proposal it's going to be more credible. And that's just good engineering anyway.
Hackers who breached casino giants MGM, Caesars also hit 3 other firms Okta says
Oh that’s great.

Then what? You wrote a stern letter and posted it?
> if that's my go to solution, why am I using Godot instead of Unreal?

No revenue split would probably the biggest reason. Also Unreal could still pull a Unity since it is not FOSS (unlikely, but still).

Mind you, Godot people are working on optimizing engine performance (see my other comment) because they kind of rushed Godot 4 release.

> even a more mature C++ renderer framework like bgfx, or even Ogre3D?

IMO this is actually the way to go & it is probably the way I'd do it if I had the time to build editor-like tools by myself. But these days content is the hard & time-consuming part of building games. Which means you want non-coder gamedev to be able to do as much as they can, which implies a powerful editor. Godot & Unity have the advantage of pushing the game development to the editor instead of the code.
I most definitely don't see myself as anti-social, quite the opposite if anything.

I would like to see a more specific example of what you mean by sophisticated rules and norms. What would a real-life example be? I still don't get it, so I would be happy to learn what you mean by this.
if you read a lot of chinese news, they said 2 biggest reasons: 1. many high skill engineers out from tsmc, moved to huawei and simc. 2. tsmc fear iphone 15 sales are falling especially in china
But why would any of this continue to exist if landowners have no interest in improving the value of the land? Lower Manhattan today is worth billions, but 50 years ago parts of it were empty enough to be used as lofts by squatting artists.

Let’s say land value taxes are implemented in New York today. Suddenly companies have a real incentive to leave and move somewhere with cheaper land values - way more incentive than today, as in theory they will be taxed mostly on land value, not revenue. What’s to stop Manhattan from slowly becoming empty again as people leave, jobs leave, corner stores close, subway maintenance worsens due to less revenue, etc.?
Where did you get that idea? Windows 98 is still a default template in VirtualBox 7.0 and fully supported:

https://youtu.be/yxJDK5xmTFQ?si=5yJScYparrURTAWH

And here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes

You just don't get accelerated graphics or USB sharing.
Overall smaller languages is abysmal. Microsoft translated Windows to my native language decades ago. MacOS still not translated. Nor iPhone. While Android phones come with translation out-of-box for most manufacturers UIs.
I think the problem with Gemini is that it attracts people who want to talk about tech, thus making it just like the rest of the stuff we scroll all day.

The tech is not the main problem with the modern Internet I don't think. Endless scrolling sucks and old forums were amazing, but the bigger problem is we scroll all day, instead of doing stuff worth writing about, so all the content is just a reflection of more stuff on the screen, like a hall of screen mirrors.

Neocities is a much cooler model IMHO for old school web stuff.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37562292
It could be rendering directly to the framebuffer (e.g. `mpv playthisfromtty.mp4`).

Or they mean they used pure X (e.g. `startx`) and added a decent v-sync compositor such as picom.
and good riddance!
I can definitely see it being popular in specific groups as a kind of in-group slang. I don't think it's particular popular as a general term though.
No, that is "run" vs "make an inventory sitting at the desk".
Biosimilars couldn’t come sooner.
The "service" was art. The museum got art. The supplier delivered.a

In fact they got more than they bargained for. Do they really think it would've made "much, much more money than what it invested" if the artist had produced the other concept?

That backstory is the art. The museum happily profited off it. However the emperors don't like having their clothes mocked (and they definitely don't like it when you reverse power roles), so the artist needed to be 'taught a lesson' and more importantly 'made an example of'.

I wonder how much the museum paid in legal fees to recover less than $77k?
The reason why I posted this, was that I find it kind-of interesting for the "culture wars" that plague public discourse - especially in the US, but with a global fall-out - where a number of topics are mis-used as either political maces (don't annoy others) or/and to claim a victim status (don't be easily annoyed), therefore making them radioactive for everybody else who does not want to engage in the game.
you can take out sube data then give it to a rss reader to find all of them. It can be a pain to add to the reader and there would be no thumbnails.
Fyi, asking the model about it's cutoff date is not a reliable way of finding out what it has been trained on.

The model doesn't know that, unless it was provided that info during fine-tuning or something -- but even then it doesn't guarantee anything.

The more useful thing to do is ask it about events which happened during a particular time range. That way, you'll know it has at least seen the news.
I need to backup my iCloud data soon too. How sure are you that the data is all downloaded from the cloud when you copy it to the external drive?

Do you use any special tools?
And when you buy the subway line, the pizza shop, and the bar, the value of your land will go back down?
>vaguely anti free speech

He's all for free speech- for the voices he agrees with.
This would be _absolutely hilarious_.
Not any worse than pre musk twitter.
How much of that is free though? Especially in the urban areas, parking is very expensive and I assume the city (and people) benefit.
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Yeah, I wonder too. A patent should be registered with the patent office and everyone can search there to see if there is something and what it covers and when it expires. What's this orange book all about. Some easier to search database? Why can big pharma enter stuff themselves and why does the FTC not check this? Seems absurd. Can it be that the orange book is an invention by big pharma and their lobby?
I think there’s something to be said for taking a job on a late stage project early in your career, participating in RCA analysis of all of the problems, and then picturing yourself in the room when those decisions are made and asking if you would have made the same decisions or better ones. Then work next on a greenfield project to test your theories out and adjust/grow.

I never felt like I had 1 year of experience 5 times because I moved between several kinds of projects at different lifecycle phases and with different constraints, and drew lots of parallels between them. At the end of five years I had project histories in my brain that spanned more than ten years. And got jobs that should have gone to someone with 8 years’ experience. I do not think this was a coincidence.