skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My whole point is that "earthquake" refers to the material called "earth", meaning
"dirt", or "soil", or "the material making up the top layer of a planet", and that we should stop making up new words for everything that remotely shares an origin with the word for the name of our planet. This is my entire point. We should not be beholden to the origins of the word (and even if we were, we still don't need to rename earthquakes that happen on Mars).

So you say: "geo-" and "terra-" don't refer to a specific planet in this context and I agree with you. That's the point. Neither does "earth-" in "earthquake". Are you trying to make the argument that "earth-" in "earthquake" refers to the planet Earth (rather than the material), unlike "terra-" and "geo-", or are you just completely agreeing with me on everything? I'm having trouble telling which is which.
If you could build a physical book that had e-reader pages (and took no power to read), that would solve some of the issue(s) both have.

Its nice that you have a stack of books, but I also don't really want a stack of books even in tiny form factor. I want, maybe one or two books at a time, and I don't want to worry about them getting stolen/dropped/spilled on/not being charged/need an account to login to. I also don't want to search on a tiny bad UI for which book it is I actually want to read.

So for me e-readers remain a non-starter. Give me a real book any day. IFF I want to search it I have a tablet if I'm doing work or taking a note on it. And other than leaving it behind, I'm not afraid of someone swiping it when I order another coffee.
They are a majority owned subsidiary of GM, but not completely under GM's umbrella, if that makes sense.
I feel platform companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft don't really care about these services and only see them as a tool against their platform competitors. Here I see a lot of similarities with companies like Wallmart.

Unless I really have to, I try to avoid using services directly controlled by platforms since they can without hesitation make changes that are bad for users but good for them. It will simply be harder to leave them and they know it.
How is it not a product? It is produced and used. Many types of software are also products, whether they're VC funded or not.
In general, it's shenanigans with the display of VAT.

In Yamato's case, they make paying cashless a tiny bit cheaper because handling cash is a time sink for their couriers
Ask HN: Is there research into trustless inference, for LLMs?
The idea being that ChatGPT could be somehow unaware of your context or question, to preserve user privacy in the case of searching one’s IRL chat history etc. this is perhaps impossible but I’m sure there’s got to be some active research into this?
He is talking about its uniqueness in the 2021 dataset, which is time bound and unaffected by current phenomena.
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That the situation you describe, in which "those people" (Rumble, X, DCMS), either demonetized or solicited the demonetizing of Russell Brand's content. That did not happen, as the original link sets out very clearly.
> Your forgotten word makes this comment seem like it’s from the early 1800s ;)

Har har. There is such a thing as context clues. I didn't forget, just being somewhat lazy and assuming people could connect the dots.
Large size dvd drives also work today. But again, still need power and a computer/interface etc. Mesh network + reader device partially solves some of those issues, but it doesn't remove the need for fancy setups just to be able to read something.
Looks like it's stalled lately, but there was a project doing that:
https://github.com/str4d/ire
... and landed on some tracks just seconds ahead of a runaway trolley, derailing it before it could hit a busload of nuns.
> I'd much rather use python, ruby, etc.

I think I’m with you on this one
I see lots of comments debating this technology choice or that one, as if the economic buyer actually cares. I dont think they do as much as the HN commentariat might think.

All that really matters is whether Oxide's guesses about who'll buy and what they'll pay are right.

Lets say that Oxide are guessing that their lead customers are telco and oil/gas: conservative industries, regulated, very strict about uptime and data sovereignty, etc. Oxide might spend 1 to 2 years running the gamut of all the people in those types of customers that can say no: ops, swcurity, network teams etc. But if Oxide can reach the finance team and get them to believe that a one time chunk of $$ is better than opex in the current interest rate environment, them it really doesnt matter what the tech stack is. (And bear in mind that financial models are f(t) so things might turn upside down as the economic picture changes over time)

Assuming they have done this math, (surely a yes, or else VCs would not be lending them money) Oxide must need sufficent funding for a long sales cycle, and plausible enough bench strength to support customers who are going to hold them to ruthless SLAs and penalty clauses. All of that take serious coin up front, eg theres no outsourcing your 24x7 support to some kid reading from a script.
I love it when people react to convenience foods a) as though they have no idea what you're talking about b) that you're just lazy because you don't just do 27 steps in 3 three minutes with ingredients that cost more and expire quickly if you're single while dirtying 3-4 bowls and pans and c) as though you aren't well aware that it's probably not the best for you, if you eat them every day.
It's the same as how the Bing search/web browsing works. GPT-4 spits out function calls as JSON and then another systems picks those up and invokes the actual code on the back end.
The point is the expectation not meeting reality - nothing about that specific technology.
> How do we know all of the traffic isn't deanonymized due to a big company or government having control of a large number of nodes?

It absolutely is. This is known and explicitely called out in Tor's design:

> A global passive adversary is the most commonly assumed threat when analyzing theoretical anonymity designs. But like all practical low-latency systems, Tor does not protect against such a strong adversary. Instead, we assume an adversary who can observe some fraction of network traffic; who can generate, modify, delete, or delay traffic […]
Interesting take. Can you provide some examples of this happening?
Or, conversely, for the female-dominated fields: preschool teachers, nurses, hairdressers, etc.

This whole endeavour to have equal representation of all genders in all aspects of life completely misses the mark that career choices and most life decisions are rooted in personal preferences and interests, and that on a fundamental level males and females (and other genders as well, I suppose) are different. And that this is OK.

Not only that, but it doesn't address the main issues of discrimination and wage gap, but pretends it will somehow fix itself if we maintain a perfect balance of gender representation.

And why stop there? Why focus on gender and race only? Shouldn't we also have equal representation of all nationalities, religions, hair colors, eye colors, and whatever other human criteria?

The entire DEI trend is absurd, and ironically only serves to further divide us into arbitrary buckets.
Windows, after 30 years and billions of development dollars, couldn't make ntp work. I still must set time manually once a month.
Current figures:

14 non-binary

18 women (counting me)

329 men

3 prefer to self describe

364 total votes, about 5 percent female and 5 percent "other", so roughly 90 percent male.

When I joined, polls showed it to be more like 98 percent male. So non-male membership/participation has possibly quintupled in the 14+ years I've been here.

This fits with my general impression as a participant. Nice to have a little data. It's been a while since I've seen one of these polls.
> Obviously this kind of thing is why everyone hates effective altruists. People got so mad at some British EAs who used donor money to “buy a castle”.

This feels like a spin on how this all went down. A lot of the anger about that group utilizing funds to, literally, buy a castle came from EA groups too.

Trying to downplay the situation and pretend that the anger was only coming from uninformed outsiders feels like a dishonest attempt to rewrite history.

If you’re not familiar with this story, here’s a source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/the-reluctant-...

There was a lot of debate about it in EA circles. A lot of it turned into mental gymnastics as they tried to find ways to explain how spending a
amount of money on a literal castle so they could meet in it somehow had an expected value that was positive for humanity or something.

Weird to see this incident pop up in an article about kidney donation, but even weirder to see the critics of the decision downplayed and sneered as uninformed outsiders when so much of the anger came from inside the EA community. Really feels like a subtle signal that if you don’t toe the line on every EA organization decision, you must be an outsider.
Doesn't mean they have accessible stuff, or are actually even archiving it:

https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=original-format:software,+e-r...
Well it seems .en/.wa/.sc don't exist, (or I mean, whatever it might be, it could be .ab, for Wales it would be harder as .cy/.cm/.cr/.cu exist
I am absolutely understood understand the situation as a former vice-chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament. And describing a national law-making Parliament such as Holyrood as a "regional assembly" shows that your prejudice blinds you to the genuine issues.
Isn't most of Japan cash only?
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Of course I agree with you, which only strengthens my argument. But anyone who thinks we need to make up words like "Marsquake" clearly disagrees with you, and those are the people I am arguing against. It was a preemptive concession to ignore that point -- even if earth-the-material were named after Earth-the-planet, there's still no need to abandon the thousands of earth-related words as soon as we step foot on another planet. I felt that if I argued "Planet is named after material, therefore it's an earthquake" people would have missed the more important argument. (Not that any of this is particularly important.)
Our CEO did, yes. Again, just ask for a quote, and get quotes from other providers. It's literally just an email (or phone call).
there was the .dd domain for East Germany/GDR, but that one was withdrawn (unlike .su) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dd

Other cancelled country TLDs

- .zr TLD for Zaire - https://www.iana.org/reports/2001/zr-report-20jun01.html

- .cs TLD for Czechoslovakia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cs

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.an

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.um

Did i fail to mention anyone?

... Interesting that they don't have a wiki page for deleted ccTLDs.
Not even remotely a technical site; is just an ad for a service, and doesn't belong on HN.
> Open Compute Project

Thank you. Now that sounds like it's more up my ally.
This misses the point. It doesn’t matter that the average Chinese has fewer cars. They still need cars, which means public transportation can’t eliminate the problem.

I’m a fan of bullet trains myself. I think it’s way smoother than flying and I wish the US could build some high speed rail. But the reality is, even in places with great public transit like Singapore, people still use cars.

What matters is that cars kill people and automated safety systems (up to and including self-driving) can make them safer.
But they _are_ writing the firmware that runs most of them and need to understand those devices at a deep level in order to do that, unlike Dell. Dell slaps together hardware and firmware from other vendors with some high level software of their own on top. They don't do the low level firmware and thus don't understand the low level intricacies of their own systems.
Can we teach AI to do good?
ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month
If it's Steam Deck certified, it will run on Linux. No Windows needed these days, except for mostly FPS anti-cheat spyware.
The syntax looks very user-friendly yet it claims to compete with LuaJIT and C++?!

I’ll def. try this out, is curly braces optional? Because I prefer it over having to indent.

The docs doesn’t look that friendly either, there is no good code examples on the usage of each function.

https://dascript.org/doc/stdlib/fio.html
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Nobody likes crowded or dirty space, but an aversion per se to having other people around is definitely pathological.

I think this is a social trust thing - lots of people are just scared of strangers. This is particularly true for high-violence/high-tension societies like the US.

My city (in Australia) is very peaceful and I don't feel bothered or frightened at all by the general public - in fact I like being able to people-watch, feel a certain sense of vibrancy, etc.
I don't believe that I stated an opinion relating to the impressiveness or non-impressiveness of the phenomena (or the purported phenomena) as the case may be...

"Interesting" != "Impressive".

What would impress me however (greatly I may add!) -- is if you knew how an average experimenter with, say, $100 or less of lab equipment -- could create and test (and therefore know to be real) gravitational waves -- without relying on, or repeating any news articles or other secondhand information source...

In other words, with respect to gravitational waves, "I want to see them with my own eyes" -- to believe them...

The problem with the media today is that everybody parrots what everyone else is saying (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media) ), nobody seems to think for themselves, and it seems that very few people do actual firsthand experiments to verify media claims...

I'm not saying that gravitational waves don't exist -- far from -- but the standard of proof I require is via firsthand experiment -- rather than secondhand hearsay about someone else's experiment...

Firsthand experiments usually lead to greater understanding -- whereas secondhand hearsay usually leads to greater confusion...

So, show me a guaranteed experimental way that someone with $100 or less of lab equipment could create their own gravitational waves with (and subsequently know them to be real via their own firsthand witnessing of one)... and I'll be impressed!

Very impressed, in fact!
I would be moderately surprised if association with Effective Altruism was very much more predictive of sociopathy than association with Monero.

Which isn't to say that either is so unforgiveably horrible, just that it's very funny to see someone try to make this case without a shred of self-awareness.
But you agree with the rest of my statement and therefore that you were in error?
True, fixed. But the groups have some overlap
Sorry I should have been more clear. Of course public transit replaces some cars. By definition this is true. The point is, cars are still around no matter how good your public transit system is, so we might as well try to make them safer.
> Why does Tor Browser still insist on phoning SecureDrop on startup?

Tor Browser is 100% open source, so pull up git and run blame if you want to determine the reasoning for a decision.
Lol what counts as good
I've never thought about who I know that's the smartest before.... it's either my friend who works on firmware for cable modem head end stuff, who used to be a volunteer fireman in his free time, along with raising a family

Or... the other friend who used to do everything, EE, MD, Aviation mechanic, instructor, pilot, avionics repair, computers, law enforcement, but is now in declining health, and I help him fix old radio gear, test equipment, cesium beam atomic clocks, etc.
What relevance does the gender of <400 HN readers have here?
Ipê trees are great to see in your city (I live in Brazil), I always get a big smile when my mom keeps getting amazed at them.

You can have yellow, purple, white, a whole lot of colors.
For some websites, once you reach a certain width in pixels, the designers assumed you are using a tablet or cellphone instead of a desktop, so they give you the pared down mobile website whether you want it or not.

E.g.:

https://www.nytimes.com/
Nobody bought a Tesla in the last 5 years because “I want fewer highway fatalities”, they often bought it because they thought the overhyped self driving features would let them chill out on their commute.

People want self driving cars so bad because driving everywhere sucks (and sitting on public transit sucks too). Routine travel is mundane and boring.
Just imagining a surgery gone sideways situation and they just decide to trade the one still in with the one they just took out.

(Not even sure this is an option, orientation and all, just imaging)
Since it's from Gaijin Entertainment, it's probably used in the War Thunder video game.
Not a bit, but maybe sport? I truly believe everything I said, and I believe it's a solid argument against a practice I see as silly and unsustainable: replacing any word that sounds superficially related to the name "Earth" as soon as the events are happening on some other planet. I'm saying that whatever reasons you use to avoid "earthquake" because it's on Mars, the exact same reasons mean you should avoid the term "romantic" to describe something that isn't written in Latin -- this shows the reasoning is deeply flawed. Basically a proof by contradiction. I hope that came across?

But of course I realize it's completely unimportant. Arguing is fun. It's not trolling: I'm not trying to get a rise out of people. Nor is it a bit: I'm not kidding or falsely representing any of my beliefs. I'm just having a bit of sport arguing with strangers online. If you see someone online making passionate arguments about minor word-use issues, or which superhero would win in a fight, or whether the Byzantine Empire was actually part of the Roman Empire or not, you're witnessing the same sport, and you're free to engage or not as you choose.
A copy shop where they grab whatever bleached-to-death paper they have at hand, print it using consumer-grade powder toner with questionable quality and longevity, and if you’re lucky you will only pay slightly more than you would’ve for the industrially produced book? (And not significantly more.)

You have it the other way round: copy shops for books exist – they are called print-on-demand book services. Amazon is doing a whole lot for example.

These are production lines with huge digital presses, running almost completely automated, spitting out individual books each tied to a specific order (starting from one copy).

The average copy shop and its glorified office printers will never match it in quality, and especially not in quality per dollar.
Healthcare is valid, but U.S. has the most affordable housing relative to income.

Like, you can expect to straight up own a house during your lifetime without inheriting it or striking it rich.
There was a previous discussion on how to leave critical info for your heirs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16039830
I took a cursory glance at the type inference code to see some of their code style and to check the error message style. The error message look well formatted for the type inference phase and the algorithm looks to be very capable. The code is dense, but I think digging into this implementation is going to be my weekend project. Congratulations to the DaScript devs for getting this out there.
Even if we lose the ability to build readers, the understanding that these digital mediums contain valuable information will never be lost. It isn’t rocket science to build a room sized dvd reader if needed
Why Do Countries Import Fakes?
"Existing customs seizures data suggest that around 54% of imported counterfeit and pirated products between 2017 and 2019 were sold to consumers who knew that they were buying fake products. while the remaining 46% was purchased unwittingly. The proportion of consumers who knowingly demand counterfeits differs by product type, ranging from 11% for chemicals to 57.3% for electronic appliances."

In other words, it is about incentives.
There is errors about how ICANN set country code TLD.

ISO 3166 is just a base proposition, the.uk (United Kingdom) is a bad example because the ISO 3166 code is GB (Great Britain).
Yeah, typical aliexpress misleading BS. I have yet to buy something on AE and 1. Pay the price initially shown (it’s always more) 2. Actually use one of the dozens of coupons it assaults me with every time I open the app.
“ If you could build a physical book that had e-reader pages (and took no power to read), that would solve some of the issue(s) both have.”

Check out the physical ebook for Fist of the North Star as an example of this:

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/hands-on-review-of-the-...
"People who like different things than me definitely have pathological issues."

Good luck winning people to your side with that.
The way this post leaves no room for debate about how the decision was good and paints all of the people who disagree as ignorant outsiders feels very disingenuous.

There was a lot of criticism coming from inside the EA community, too. It became taboo to criticize it with multiple EA figureheads (author of this article included) making definitive statements that any critics were wrong and the decision was unequivocally right.
My question is, if we were to dig a hole to the centre and carve out a sphere there, would the very central point have no gravity?

My thinking is that the mass is in all directions so the gravity would cancel out in the middle. You’d then have an inside surface you could run around on which would have gravity.
The VMs are bhyve on illumos. They're about as hard to move off as moving a datacenter sized Proxmox cluster to anything else.
> HN does not specifically ask for gender in the profile (which is a good thing, IMO, since it's not necessary for the discussions)

Agree.

> Maybe we are in for a pleasant surprise in terms of demographics

How can any such result be pleasant or unpleasant?