skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bless you.

Which is even more surprising on 'hacker' news. Maybe the average (US-centric) 'hacker' nowadays is just a corporate worker dreaming.

I recently joined a megacorp after decades of small companies and I'm having quite enough fun on the project side and everything. Corporate bureaucracy is nothing after you dealt with actual international bureaucracy. Only downside is that pay is /too low/.
Without more details, that doesn't explain why the FCC might not apply such arguments to Alexa (or the news, or indeed anything). All speech occurs at some time and place, and in some manner.

Most of us here will be surprised by things in Law School 101 (I know I have been, but only because it being phrased like this came up one time in a Legal Eagle), and many (like me) aren't American and don't get the meme-sphere of assumed knowledge about the FCC or whatever, so a broader ELI-15 might be helpful.
I think it’s great to have more cpu. My kids built a Minecraft server on a 4S and it doesn’t perform that well.

The small form factor is really convenient for turning on and off.

Pis are designed for the edge case and that allows them to sit in drawers. If you design for the median only, then you’ll never get to median because people won’t be able to run and test the edge cases.
Does anyone know what happened to that guy? Or is everyone who could reply swimming with da fishes
There’s a difference between a formula which is not updated because upstream doesn’t release new versions and one which won’t receive new updates in Homebrew because its license is no longer open-source (which the non-Cask part of Homebrew requires). This is the latter.
How is there no build required?
And even in the fully analog days there was plenty of doctoring of photos, it just wasn't as accessible to the common man without the equipment. Famously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
This is silly. There is a several hour long YouTube video outlining many of the reasons why crypto is bad. There are articles and books and analyses galore. Plenty of ink has been spilled regarding why crypto is bad. What I haven't seen is any clear headed analysis of why crypto is good that doesn't fall back on "but fiat is bad because government" or on gold bug notions of "it has value because it's scarce".
Real-Time Recommendation System with Collisionless Embedding Table (2022) [pdf]
I've taken that route in a couchette car twice. I haven't had any issues and didn't find the quality of the service to be any different than other NightJets. I mean, it's not exactly luxury travel (in a couchette car), but I have nothing to complain about.

I'm not a fan of the fact that ÖBB couchette compartments don't have locks on their doors. But the sleeper cabins do. Were the people who were robbed in a sleeper?
The site has ZERO moderation. Everyday I find open calls of violence against specific groups and blatant misinformation.
Legit interesting question.
Understanding Atomicity in ACID and How Is Atomicity Implemented?
This blog post series explores ACID properties in databases and touches upon the implementation side which is not usually covered anywhere.

Other posts in the series:

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/consistency/

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/isolation/

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/durability/ - Shortly explains how databases achieve durability
The trouble lies in the old rolling stock. They bought all that from Deutsche Bahn who suddenly stopped all sleeper train services a few years ago.
Deutsche Bahn had neglected that segment for years and did not invest into more than the bare maintenance to keep the stock rolling.
Maybe not the CPU per se but I'd imagine the extra beef GPU side could be good for digital signage and entertainment.
Recently took the Nightjet from Stuttgart to Bled (Slovenia). The outbound service must have been reconfigured as we had booked a private berth, but were assigned a couchette with a stranger supposedly joining my partner and I at Munich. Kinda made it difficult to get to sleep, but this person never materialised. The attendant was very friendly and helpful. They did mention to keep the doors locked overnight.

During the return journey we got our private berth, but had a rather lengthy delay at Salzburg waiting for several other services (from Venice etc) to join ours, then had to stop again just over the border for the Polizei to inspect our passports at 5AM – started to get a little anxious that we were going to miss our connection and the whole house of cards was going to come down.

Similar to others, I was woken at Salzburg by shouts of people on the platform. I heard whistles as I presume the authorities dealt with folks boarding on the train who weren't supposed to…

That said, overall a good experience, and would happily use the service again.
Tmux control mode is one of the keys reasons I can't leave Mac. I also feel it's unbelievable that iTerm 2 is still the only terminal that supports this feature.

For anyone who is asking why this feature is good: it's really not that easy to see the benefits from the documentation, blog or even videos, until you personally try it. At least that's the case for me.
I enjoy using the R.Pi 4 and R.Pi 400 and from the start I've been a supporter of this class of relatively inexpensive Linux-first device.

But the R.Pi 4x series is peak R.Pi for me. In the last couple of years, NUC-class SFF devices with Intel-based chipsets have appeared [1] and they offer a much better performance profile (speed, power consumption) than the R.Pi 5. Some of these devices offer dual gigabit Ethernet.

[1] Liliputing is one site that I follow for related information.
For all interested, TinyStories dataset they used to train "tiny" models is on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/roneneldan/TinyStories
I rewatched it recently and I had forgotten how fast everything goes wrong. One of my favorite films.
It's quite sad the most east they will go is Prague and even that only in 2024. But it's a good picture of the not very good state of railways in central Europe. At least Czechia is starting to invest in higher speeds, but it will take years to take effect.
Alcohol is not particularly addictive compared to some opioids and some other hard drugs (for most people).

But yeah, I agree with your points, I just don’t think they outweigh the potential societal harm.
That's not quite right, if you have a single person company (with unlimited personal liability) you can choose between revenue and income tax. Both are flat rates, revenue is 12% for certain groups of companies, including software engineering with revenues below several million euro, income tax is 19% universally.
>> I'm really skeptical that it's easy to automate those assembly line jobs away

I think most people here on HN does not see this because they tend to do software related work, but this is happening faster that you may think.

When I last time spoke with middle level manager of building company that specializes in constructing factories in Central Europe he said that change over last 20 years is almost magical - factory built at the start of millenium required hundreds people to operate. Projects finished two decades laters can easily operate with 20 people or less.

And this is East/Central Europe - probably least automated part of developed world.

If you look at Japan you can see things such as fully automated ps 4/5 production lines ( https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/PlayStation-s-sec... )
AI isn't really statistics at this point either though. The primitives are statistics tools, but parameter dynamics and macro-scale behavior of these models are very much their own area of study.
I don’t get it. I thought with a properly functioning stove all the smoke goes outside not into the room. Same thing with a fireplace.
It's not the same "seeing" as with your eyes open.
No, not opinions. Demonstrable facts.
I'm extremely keen to see what the SQL<->Elm experience might be (assuming something like that is part of the deal too). Simplifying how we interact with databases is arguably even more important/$valuable than simplifying UIs.
In my (very limited) experience with Terraform, the pain isn't so much associated with state, but rather with the declarative nature of the code.

I feel like imperative Terraform would be easier to reason about, since it matches up with the non-terraform workflow (i.e. go here add this, then go here and configure that, yadda yadda).

When I read HCL, I really struggle in understanding the order of priorities. Like I know that surely some things must be built first, and supposedly it's all handled under the hood. But I'd rather be in control tbh.

Then again, as I said, I don't have much experience with Terraform so maybe I'm way off?
Almost certainly https://prezi.com/
Fiction authors are who I give my patron money to.
> And if you don't want to go to jail for doing drugs, you can just not do drugs

Or we could just not put people in jail for using drugs? What’s the point of that? Not that I think it it happens particularly frequently in most places these days.
Ask HN: Vacuum is so powerful, so why it doesn't suck the Earth's atmosphere?
I read about the experiment of Magdeburg hemispheres [1], where they attached two halves of a sphere only by emptying the sphere from air, and they couldn't pull them apart using 16 horses!

So why doesn't the vacuum in outer space absorb the Earth's atmosphere if it's that powerful?

The obvious answer would be gravity, but how?
I mean, gravity isn't as strong as 16 horses, right?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_hemispheres
The math is relatively simple, but the social/political/macroeconomical policy influences to wages, interest rates, property values are non-trivial and probably require a brief incursion into basic economics before a fruitful discussion could be held.

Otherwise, just tell them the lie that you can own a home if you work hard for 30+ years.
> what was “free software” was defined by the Free Software Foundation, but in a way that left much to be interpreted

I don't understand what the author means here. What is unclear about the four freedoms? To me, Debian's definition looks redundant.
That's amazing, I love it!
One-off anecdotes are not evidence of systemic problems. What evidence do you have that any of what you described is common?

Multiple commenters describe taking the OBB night train and speak highly of it.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37810476

Apparently it's location specific.

> However, the different forms of downgrades and downgrades affect the destinations differently. Most of the downgrades from sleeping to couchette carriages were available to La Spezia. Double downgrades – i.e. from sleeping to seat carts – are hard to find in the data. Downgrades or night-chair downgrades or night-chair hooks meet the Zurich destination. A downgrade from compartment cars to large-capacity cars was again almost standard in the last two months at the Bregenz destination
Yes, and it's imperative that we do.

Even then an O-9/O-10 gets $17,675.10 a month[0] in base pay and $3,963 a month[1] in *tax exempt*[2] housing allowance for the DC metro area. That's $259,657.20 a year in salary. While maybe not high by C-suite or Silicone Valley standards, that ain't bad at all.

0. https://militarypay.defense.gov/Portals/3/Documents/2023%20B...
1. https://veteran.com/bah-rates-state/district-of-columbia-dc/
2. https://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Tax-Information/Exempt/
> Even now I can't wrap my head around that fact that people give specific instructions to LLMs using "system" prompt in the same manner like you would...

"Natural Language Processing" now that it works, to the extent that it does, doesn't seem short of magic.
Game companies have notoriously been sweatshops for devs, so not surprising I guess.
> When your fridge breaks, you don't look at the logs and try to diagnose it yourself, you take it to a repair shop.

I for one welcome the ability to troubleshoot and fix the devices I’m using. Unless it’s still in warranty (but maybe even then) I do want to look at logs or diagnose the problems. Order the replacement part online and have it running again. There’s no reason I must rely on someone else to do something I could and should be able to do myself.
Yes, π⁵ ≈ 306, while 2⋅π⁴ ≈ 195.

So pi^five clearly beats two pi^four. Three pi^4 would be close, though. If only we could just define pi as a nice simple integer...
> It also supports USB-C Power Delivery, so finding a power supply that’s capable of supplying all that juice to the Pi 5 is a lot easier

Isn't this mostly false? The Pi4 uses 15W at 5V3A. The standard says, to exceed 15W you should increase the voltage, but Pi5 increased the amperage instead. 5V5A USB-PD supplies are almost unheard of.

I wonder how much a 9V3A -> 5V5A buck converter dongle would cost.
Definitely possible IMO! Seems like it would be surprising tho - consider the disparities in volume. I think the boring answer is that breathing smoke is dangerous, despite the occult and ambience benefits of a hearth ;(

it forms minute bits of plastic that are tinier than 5 millimeters long. Their size means they end up everywhere, even in our blood, where they range in size between 700 nanometers and 5,000 nanometers.
The history of Windows NT 4
Spoilers: I found the movie's portrayal of a social conflict quite disappointing.

The movie goes as far as showing that oppressed workers will lash out in a violent protest, but then it deflects this anger towards the mad scientist, and the conflict kind of fizzles out? And I think it ends with the owner of the factory promising not to oppress them as much, and the owner's privileged son promising to upkeep this, basically reinforcing the existing social order.

Doing anything else would stray dangerously towards socialism, though, so as a product of its time it's understandable.
I think it was content addressable, down to the function level.

Unison maybe?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156370
Timing absolutely doesn't work in my experience. This effectively makes many forms of derivative instrument worthless to me. There are only a few targeted situations where I believe something might happen within a certain window, but I absolutely wouldn't bet more than 1-2% of my portfolio on anything with time decay attached to it.

What works better for me is joining in on earnings calls and reviewing presentation materials. Getting a sense for product roadmap, markets, competition, etc. This is the space where you can actually develop meaningful hypotheses regarding what might happen. Those who are performing time series astrology likely do not have the patience to go about things this way.

If you don't have time to spend about a day per quarter reviewing your portfolio, then you probably shouldn't be playing in traffic with individual stock picks, much less options contracts. If you think this is an unreasonable amount of time to spend playing investor, then perhaps you should just buy a little bit of something like $QQQ every day and focus on those other parts of life that are clearly more important to you.

Or, just contribute max to your 401k and close that distracting Robinhood account. Most people would do better over the long haul if they followed that bit of advice. Monkey brain is much more dangerous than losing a few % APY to fund management fees and sub-par allocations.
> Yeah, as soon as I heard about the 5 needing cooling for most tasks (...)

I'm sure those who put a premium on thermals or quietness will be able to run RPi5 with passive cooling if they really want to. The RPi4 already suffered from thermal issues and that didn't pose a major problem. Anyone could simply drop by Amazon and pick one of the many passive cooling cases without any issue.
In principle, any digital artifact may be digitally signed, just like web pages are (using CA's).

That way, you can set up a chain of trust, to track where some information is coming from.

This works as long as there is at least a top level signature provider that is uncorrupted. That will be hard in authoritarian societies and maybe even harder in radically polarized societies. Imagine a world where the CPP, DNC and GOP (and others) each controlled their own CA's, and had the ability to present a fake view of reality to their supporters.
That strikes me as splitting hairs, but OK, as you wish.

I think it was interesting that another bit of the company did use the CPU that it is often said IBM didn't use, or similar statements. It did.

Why the PC was promoted and the 9K wasn't, I don't know. Possibly price.

IBM later used modified 68000s in the S360 compatility card for the IBM PC as well.
China can buy energy from Russia and the Middle East. It is also the second largest economy in the world with the second largest population, which means they can produce mountains of military equipment if needed, which Russia's small economy cannot.

China is coupled to the West in a way that makes the West at least a dependent on China as China is on the West.

There is no comparison with Russia and, if anything Ukraine shows China the mistakes no to make.
'We still make judgments from the way people talk': decoding accent prejudice
People like George soros, bill gross, a bunch of them
Not that person, but I believe you're right. I think it's to do with muscle fiber - breaking the connections between the meat is fully pre-empted by grinding, and I theorize a connection between the mechanics of chewing and satiety.
Same here. I was a Top Writer twice. I know one year was 2014 because they sent me a nice fleece, but can't remember whether the other was before or after. Some people here might even know me from those days. Not long after that I got tired of them breaking their own rules to promote vapid (and sometimes factually incorrect) answers over actually-good ones. I remember one guy who always posted these long meme-filled pieces of absolute garbage that would get placed above other answers with 10x as many upvotes. Because "engagement" I guess. Should have been removed per the rules, but got highlighted instead. Due to that and other issues (e.g. incessant nagging about topic-specific bios) I loudly quit in 2016 or '17 and never looked back. What a trash fire.
You’d find out real quick that Chome isn’t the only app she needs. That “truth” is also divorced from reality.
> If that site ever takes venture capital they'd be in trouble

They were in the 2014 YC batch [0] (after already raised $100m). After YC their total funding jumped to $220 million.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch
Seems to be a windows/mac problem. In Linux I've never really been bothered by it in at least 20 years
I mean... the Imperial system was clearly also a centralization effort.

Maybe in the future we'll have federated units, each person able to use their own measuring system - and also universal translation so every individual can speak their own unique language.
A. I. Khinchin - Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory
Emil Artin - Galois Theory. It has a super brief chapter on linear algebra and determinants that is extremely on-point.
There was a HN post while back that speculated that they might be using "cascading" payments where OnlyFans will load balance across payment processors to keep the charge back rates low.
No one forgets. 'We have to remember the jury" isn't a persuasive argument. Juries are no match for statistical misrepresentation. Even beyond stats, juries get it wrong constantly. Courts don't have staff math experts, including the judge. Were expert witness mathemeticians trial participants at any point? It may be premature to claim that there was a miscarriage of justice, but it may be similarly unwise to imply that there likely wasn't.
Simplifying Development Environments with Nix
True. Although the trilogy as a whole is pretty problematic for a number of reasons. It's probably best enjoyed by reading the first book/watching the first film.
I was lucky enough to be in attendance for this one. Loved the energy in the room during this fantastic talk.
Have you never heard of comprehensive or uninsured motorist coverage?
Newsom Vetoes Bill Banning Caste Discrimination
Well certainly part of it is much of the .deb ecosystem still feels like its stuck in the late 90s linux era to me. But maybe I'm alone on that gut feel.
Yeah, but at least you can get quality health care in America. That hardly exists in Europe. Free "health" care to shit doesn't do much good.

I have hard to seeing why you think you're worthy of incurring unending health cares expenses on a human health care system that by nature is not unending. If we are human and therefore our system can only by provide limited health care, then consequently you either go bankrupt at some point or you don't get health care. America chooses the former, EU chooses the latter.
This seems like a reformulation of the birthday paradox. That someone has a specific name is incredibly unlikely, but that someone has a name is almost guaranteed. Situations/phrasing can trick out intuition into paying attention to former more than the latter.
Emil Artin - The Gamma Function
K & R - The C programming language
But the license hasn't changed, so that raises the question of why was it included in the first place?
Ah, now that's some clear words that I can understand and subscribe to!
Also, Microsoft has their own new terminal program.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
For the amount of money being paid and the degree of hype, this is roughly the amount of cope required for someone to be happy if the iPhone 16 came pre-cracked.
Huh. Interesting perspective. Quora has tried to reinvent itself several times, and coming to it during the pandemic has missed most of them.

Quora was founded by a bunch of Facebook refugees hoping to replicate the model of attracting a lot of users, [magic], profit. They were particularly intent that [magic] was not going to be "show ads to eyeballs", and they tried lots of other things. Turns out there was a reason none of those other models were in use by anybody else. Some of them were truly horrifically bad (like paying people to ask questions, which produced exactly the crapflood you'd expect.)

So it's in a funny position. They spent a ton of time attracting really good writers, some of who actually hang on. But monetization turned out to be exactly the same thing as every other social media site because that's what works. They don't think of themselves as social media... but they're not really anything else.

Personally, I think the Q&A format is fundamentally limited in that the low-hanging fruit gets picked early and what's left is too specific to be answered meaningfully. StackOverflow manages it, by running itself on a shoestring, and being the definitive site for a specifically lucrative market (computer techies).

As it is, Quora's next turn is towards AI, and they may end up ditching the human beings altogether. I see no sign that they've got any particular secret sauce for AI, but they've tried everything else.
Latin has a few more sets of numbers than the usual ordinals and cardinals, including a full set of adverbial numbers, e.g. "semel, bis, ter, quater,..." whereas English has "once, twice, thrice" but this caps out at 3, and rumor has it the word "thrice" is frowned upon. There are several other constructs, such as generalizing "a pair of lawyers handled each case" to arbitrarily sized groups, with "vīcēnī" functioning in English as "a 20 of lawyers handled each case"

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_numerals for additional forms of Latin numbers.
F. A. Ficken - The Simplex Method of Linear Programming
He also said

>But it's true. I could name half a dozen people that I think can compound $1 million at 50% per year -- at least they'd have that return expectation -- if they needed it. They'd have to give that $1 million their full attention. But they couldn't compound $100 million or $1 billion at anything remotely like that rate.

A lot depends on the details of who's doing what.