skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a tangent but the post references an attitude in both the US and UK tax codes that grinds my gears:

If, on the other hand, you feel you are a more effective leader if you stay abreast of developing news, but doing so is not part of your job duties, then subscriptions to various newspapers are not "necessary" for you to do your job and would not be reimbursable.

This is a discouraging factor for employees, employers and office holders to develop ancillary skills that would improve their work because training, materials, and courses for such are not considered entirely "necessary" to do the job. The government then sits around wondering why per employee productivity growth has flatlined when self-improvement and education, even entirely within the scope of someone's job, is often a taxable benefit.
Form.io is an open source alternative
You can try yourself: https://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/

But generally, RAID1 gets you 50% of storage space, whereas RAID5 gets you 66% (and any odd combination of disks).
The eastern desert ranges of California are great for seeing a clear night sky (Panamint Valley etc.). There's even a Dark Sky Festival out there (Nov 9-12 2023). Shows up nicely on this map too.

https://www.easternsierraobservatory.com/california-dark-sky...
This sounds like someone who couldn't buy their desired .io domain and now sounds bitter about it trying to spoil it for everyone.
> And yet after like 50 emails to parents with yahoo email addresses they are giving me errors because of "unusual volume of emails from your domain"

Scandalous, it's almost as if the established major providers have a financial interest in making it difficult for smaller providers and individuals to send mail using their own domains!
The code generation tool better be called "Tcl me NeMo"
> optimal prediction models achieved accuracies of 0.75±0.22 for women and 0.70±0.10 for men

For a clinician, sensitivity and specificity are much more useful. It's too bad they didn't publish these.
Seems like a fancy way to argue that it’s ethical to discriminate against white people because there is a historical debt to settle.

Laying claim to culture is dumb, but everyone wants to feel special. One’s culture is less at risk from appropriation than from extinction as the world continues to trend towards an internet transmitted monoculture.
Works fine for me. I'm also using Firefox + Linux.
Atari agrees to buy classic game maker Digital Eclipse for up to $20M
It basically says that the foreign ministry says they have a formal relationship with Israel and that the ministry publishes an official map with Israel on it and that if you search for Israel on any of those map providers it will show Israel.
Intel ride or die here. My 2019 i9 mbp is trucking along still - and this time of year the heat helps keep the room hospitable.

Was looking towards M3 for a big leap, but apart from heat and power (I use my MBP plugged in 95% of the time) there still isn't that compelling a reason to deal with some of the issues (thunderbolt / multiple displays) for my use case.

At 4 grand (sterling!) for comparable spec to my intel mbp, I just can't bring myself to take a plunge.
Ask HN: How is YouTube able to autoplay videos with volume?
How is YouTube the only site on the internet that is able to autoplay videos with volume?

I thought the browsers prevented that.

How are they doing this?
There’s these things called home offices and many have converted a room to be one when working from home all the time.
TL;DR - Look into Gyration mice. Story below:

Many moons ago, I helped an older couple who unfortunately got vastly oversold on a Windows XP Media Center Edition computer from Gateway, when all they needed was a simple computer. The computer had a real nice Hauppauge capture card to act as a DVR, a neat amplifier looking PC case, and all sorts of bells and whistles. For a pointer device, Gateway included a Gyration mouse, which operated on 2.4 GHz RF, and worked surprisingly well. It used a trigger to activate gyroscopic mouse movement.

Turns out Gyration is still in business! https://www.adesso.com/product/gyration-air-mouse-go-plus/
Expenses such as this are pre-tax, so there is a benefit to the employee for the employer to take (say) $500 a month from salary and designate it as "remote worker expense reimbursement)".

You lose less than $500 after-tax and gain $500 cash (untaxed).
Encourage WFH and then the company doesn't need to pay for an office building at all! It's almost like businesses have to pay for infrastructure for the employees to be able to do their jobs, whether it's in an office park downtown or the home office in the suburbs.
My previous comment explains why you interpreted your Google search incorrectly. ChromeOS is Linux. https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/03/07/windows-losing-market-...
What about that is untrue?
Lots of cities disagree with you- they want people to return to office because they're worried their down towns are going to collapse due to lack of office workers.
I personally like this idea better anyway.
Personally I’m more familiar with the term scab than strikebreaker. I know scab is a (usually new) worker crossing a picket line, but without context I’d assume a strikebreaker is a “consultant” whose job is to break the picket line itself.

Apparently they mean the same thing though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker
Insulin is a better example than HIV drugs in terms of drugs costing far more than they should.
> Auto-fire is trivial to detect

How is this done? Input rate variability or something?
Reddit can survive without search: company reportedly threatens to block Google
> If the software does any interactions with other software, think any kind of networking like email, ftp or whatever, think printing, and so on, then you should expect it to stop working (in those areas at least) at some point.

This is the beauty of line-delineated (ha) text-based pipes. I wonder if some of those unix tools would be considered in any sense 'finished'.
US-based HN readers will know the experience of going to Best buy or Microcenter and having them offer you a warranty plan on your new controller.

The official Xbox controller is the one thing I've ever bought that it's worth getting the warranty on.

Anyone thinking that M$ plans to sell one controller per Xbox, is overestimating the reliability of those controllers.
Only in a world where businesses are not motivated by profit. It would be far cheaper for businesses to stop leasing an office, or to lease a smaller office, than to force a return to work. Everything they'd have to pay for in a work from home scenario is also an expense in an office environment, plus the lease of the office space itself.
It becomes equivalent if the company buys the newspaper subscription for the company and you have access to it.

This whole area is a gray mishmash of arguments (does buying pizza for the office count as an expense or a salary item? Depends on frequency, the tax courts, etc).
Although open source and communities are fantastic things, there is just something about "finished" software that hasn't been modified in decades.

Sometimes I play old PC games with Wine that are the exact same executable they were 20 years ago.

It is hard to describe but it feels strangely calming, you just know everything is still the same as it always was.
It's also the case VCs don't give me to extend the runway. They want their money to be immediately deployed in building new features, larger headcount and so on. Startups just followed the script.
One big outlier; the recent Intel Macs have dropped far more in value than expected.
If I had to make this choice in front of another person, I’d always choose the one that came with higher social standing than whatever I really wanted to watch. In other words, I think he did make a choice, but it wasn’t between what he wanted to watch and didn’t want to watch, but between what would look better in front of another person and what wouldn’t.
Microsoft has a licence with the Guardian to publish the news organisation’s journalism. The Guardian article and accompanying poll appeared on Microsoft Start, a news aggregation website and app.

Well then, there's a fairly easy fix.
This is how the cookie law should have been implemented and it was absolutely one hundred percent the fault of the lawmakers for not implementing it this way. The millions of hours bureaucracy has wasted having people click through banner pop-ups is entirely on the makers of the law, not the offenders.
I wonder if that sets a precedent in terms of what type of electronic signals could be regarded as a legally binding form of agreement between two parties in EU, especially given the fact that DnT is not a standardized HTTP header.
When I moved into my current house about 10 years ago, the family next door home schooled. I'd never known any home schoolers before and definitely had some notions about how terrible it must be until I learned about it.

This family was part of a home school group with other families. The kids went to different houses every day and had an instructor focus on 1 subject for half of the day, mixed in with free time, depending on the age. 2 subjects per day, so as a parent your teaching commitment was a half day a week on 1 subject.

They would do field trips. They held a school play in a garage complete with costumes and video. And the kids were smart, well mannered, socially adjusted kids with very happy and normal lives. And there are plenty of sports opportunities as well. As far as I know, they all went to public high school too.

Completely shifted my view of what I thought home schooling was, which was the kids stuck in 1 house with 1 parent all day in social isolation.

The reality was closer to a model of a Montessori school which has a huge amount of success stories.
Most ryokan did not want foreigners. The government had to crack down as part of their big tourism campaign.
I have worked in plenty i5-i7 windows/linux laptops before and a macbook m1 air with 16gb of ram is miles better in everything. Nothing like them.

And even if you do not care about battery, you still care about throttling.
Since it's California, which has banned non compete clauses, the second category doesn't actually exist.
Increasing wage floors for this kind of work will increase the speed at which automation will be adopted by companies
This is a fundamental change of life, and it’s astonishing that it’s so persistent.

It is pretty misleading for this article to talk about homeschooling being a “fundamental change” without mentioning that homeschooling was the default practice for most of human history. If anything, this is just a return to a long-established practice, not a fringe movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling
Anyone remember Uplink[1]? It was a pretty fun, somewhat realistic black hat/script kiddie simulator game.

I always wanted to make a game where you go against another human, and try to hack into each other's systems; but with pretty graphics and some "physical" game world, where your agents could be autonomous or remote-controlled bots. So there's a bit of combat / tactics; "hacking" something could require solving a very short minigame (2048, tetris, hangman, think WarioWare[2]); you could dump a fallen enemy bot's memory to recover their programming and look for a weakness; deploy RF jammer to make enemy bots in the area revert to auto-pilot; etc. You get to make your own designs, setup perimeter defenses, maybe a little bit like Factorio meets Robot Wars, with scripting in Forth/Scheme/Lua.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarioWare,_Inc.:_Mega_Microgam...!
Flambeur with this meaning is a metaphor (it can mean gambler, or just overspender).

Its literal meaning as "quelqu'un qui flambe" remains correct too.
'In 10 years we will wonder why we didn't regulate social networks sooner'
How do you value the opportunity cost of an extra bedroom?
> Can you generate reasonably large images on 4gb now, with just a higher wait time?

You are stuck at low res, but you can use a GAN to upscale the output.
What Is LoRa: The Fundamentals
feedback:
- I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice.
- Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the initial useful section. My attention span struggles with this.
- I want it for Chinese!!! I would pay for this.

Great app, thanks!
Most arguments about free will are arguments about a definition. If you taboo "free will", and let the discussion continue, it turns into much more tractable discussions about determinism, neurology, and control or lack there of.
Agreed - perhaps the most comprehensive README I've ever seen.
yeah but it's cloudflare.
One year after being bought for $44B, X is worth $19B
They would say that if that's all they have in the range right now. I think you can take that with a pinch of salt.
Sounds like you're conflating scammy behavior with behavior that furthers one's goals. Just because something someone does furthers their agenda doesn't mean the person they interact with doesn't also get something out of the interaction, and it doesn't mean they were deceived in any way.

Even in human interaction amongst your closest friends and family, they only interact with you for their own benefit - that just happens to be in pursuit of the endorphins/dopamine gained when they spend time with the people they share memories with, and it happens to be reciprocal.
I'm sure there are companies that allow interoffice romance but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they're in the minority.

People go into an office to work, not be part of your dating pool.
Just FYI, while I share the overall sentiment, I think you are not up to date on the socialization aspect of homeschooling. Typical homeschooling today includes activities where most homeschooled kids from the town gather together for PE or art or other enrichment activities, maybe even specialized academic activities.
> Is there a difference between non-determinism and a free will choice? The latter seems to be a contradiction. A choice implies a reason which would be a cause, thus determinism.

So many technical (read: narrowly educated) people make philosophical arguments that just boil down to an incredulous stance.
Serious question. Did you do a background check for every gun you own? Most people simply don't.
Nothing whatsoever - they are technically correct (the best kind of correct). And yet it is also a descriptor that is likely to prime the reader with a negative connotation. There's a reason that witness oaths require not only "nothing but the truth", but first of all "the whole truth".
Other examples of "luxury beliefs" not mentioned by the author include the idea that all the poor need to do is work harder, and the idea that unregulated capitalism provides the best outcome for all.
One more thought: you might be getting confused here with the LPDDR3 limitation, which was a legit thing that existed until the timeframe you're thinking of.

Any laptop which used LPDDR3 (soldered) typically maxed out at 16GB, but as far as I'm aware, this was due to capacity limitations of the RAM chips, not anything to do with the CPUs. For example, the Lenovo X1 Carbon had a 16GB upper limit for a while due to this. I believe the 15" MacBook Pro had the same limitation until moving to DDR4. But this is entirely the result of a design decision on the part of the laptop manufacturer, not the CPU, and as I've shown there were plenty of laptops out there in the ~2014-2016 timeframe which supported 32GB or more.
That is just an automatic opt-in to tracking, the opposite of what was asked for.
Work expenses paid for by an employee are typically tax deductible. This wouldn't be anything new. The expenses paid for by an employer are also tax deductible. This would also not be anything new. The idea isn't that the "cost" is borne by the taxpayer, it is that the employee/employer shouldn't pay a tax on the money they used to produce the income.
> Six months was the threshold for me with each child

My kid (the one and only, since he wasn't even supposed to be possible, and since we're not... doing the things that would result in more pregnancies) slept through the night after 4 months.

The really difficult part, subjectively, seemed to emerge after 20 months when he went from 3 naps a day to 1, and when he started being very mobile, putting random things in his mouth, jumping (and potentially falling), etc. etc. etc., all of which demanded 100% attention. He's now 28 months and even though he's in daycare and adjusted well to it, I'm exhausted every day after he is finally put to bed around 8. I am constantly stressed out because I haven't yet found a balance between work, him, and self-care things like an exercise/meditation/outdoor-walk schedule; structural things. Trying to set that up now actually. The lack of intimacy is a level of problem that I can't even figure out how to express though
It can also go the other way, for example in Apex which supports both controller is currently considered stronger due to high aim assist, with a good chunk of pro players switching to controller.
It’s a shame Mr Martin is less good at finishing his books.
They'll get sued immediately by everyone who is denied a job following a genetic screen.

There's a reason companies who require a physical or medical history (usually done to find pre existing conditions to protect against future workman's comp claims) do it after the job offer has been extended (it's risky to rescind an offer for no reason by the way) - if they did it before, every applicant with a disability (and their pro-bono lawyers taking a slam dunk case) who did not get the job would sue.
That’s deliberate - NASA goes out of its way to use ordinary consumer goods when possible.

You can imagine how much money you could spend on a special room for billion dollar rocks! Surely 150M is nothing!

The actual problem statement: “we need a safe room for some rocks” only requires a couple plastic bins and some tape.

I’m always so pleased by how hacky NASA stuff looks!
While I have no doubt that Google is working on machine learning applications for chip design, there have been a number of concerns raised with that paper:

https://retractionwatch.com/2023/09/26/nature-flags-doubts-o...
Call it what you want, just FREE THE PALESTINES!
You seem to have a very limited view of artists. The vast vast majority of artists are not professionals and make no money from their art. The vast majority of them also get very little publicity for their arts. Yet they still create.

There'd be less art and probably lower quality art however to think people would outright stop making art due to any reason is strange (to use your words).
How is YouTube the only site on the internet that is able to autoplay videos with volume?

They have a policy in Chrome [1]

Chrome does this by learning your preferences. If you don’t have browsing history, Chrome allows autoplay for over 1,000 sites where we see that the highest percentage of visitors play media with sound. As you browse the web, that list changes as Chrome learns and enables autoplay on sites where you play media with sound during most of your visits, and disables it on sites where you don’t. This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59409015/how-can-youtube...
“These days”? Nations have been restricting trade for millennia.
Meta rolls out paid ad-free option for European Facebook and Insta users
good, I hope they can use them to make better drugs
T-Mobile. I've been a TMo customer for most of 20 years. Every time I've needed anything they've taken care of it with no fuss.

Recently I added a line to my account, and ended up getting charged the wrong amount, because I have a very old plan and whoever added the line couldn't figure out how to make it the right price. One call, no transfers, and they fixed it to the correct price and refunded me the excess charge.
>Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. [...] I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. [...] , remember that sometimes, the best software is the one that doesn’t change at all.

If we take your Wordstar 4.0 example literally, it's not a good example of the concept I think you're trying to convey. Wordstar did change for 7+ versions after 4.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar#Version_list

Wordstar didn't freeze at 4.0. Instead, what happened was George R. R. Martin's idiosyncratic usage of word processing froze at WS 4.0. That's a very different concept.

If we define "finished software" as determined by the end-user instead of the developer, then any software of any version that doesn't force auto-updates (e.g. not Chrome, not Skype) can also be "finished" if the particular user is satisfied with that old version. E.g. In that mental framework, Adobe CS6 from 2012 and Windows 95 can also be "finished software" because the user doesn't need/want Adobe CC 2023 and Windows 11.

Maybe a better example of "finished software" from the perspective of developer would be a one-off game where the programmer never had intentions of making franchise sequels out of it.
I really hope Apple doesn’t do a yearly cadence with new chips. From all the comments I’m reading here there’s a lot of confusion and misunderstandings about why new chips that seem to underperform or lackluster performance. Maybe Apple should just do every other year for chip upgrades.
It's not. It's completely insane. No cross pollination of ideas allowed, as that is appropriation too.
Yes, you're a tech person. I mean when non-tech people run them and try to use them for Adobe Suite and a browser at the same time, etc.
Given the number of borderline Sociopathic comments I've seen on here about population growth and worker exploitation I wouldn't be surprised.
AV1 is more complex. Prediction can be more complex with things like "combined inter/intra" or "warped motion" or "overlapping block MC" compared to HEVC/VP9. Then there's additional postfilters like loop restoration, cdef and film grain that didn't exist in VP9 (just deblock - which also exists in AV1) or HEVC (deblock + sao). Entropy coding is more expensive than VP9 with per-symbol entropy updates (which HEVC also has). Bigger blocks are probably an overall win, but bigger transforms can be painful with many non-zero coefficients. And intermediates in 2D MC and bi-directional ("compound") prediction are 12-bit instead of 8-bit in VP9 for SDR/8bit video. This is more similar to HEVC. So overall, AV1 > HEVC > VP9 in terms of runtime complexity, this is expected, nothing you can do about it.
It's biased in the same way an unchoked shotgun shoots pellets with wider dispersion. K-12 education done independently, atomized from regional or national institutions, means people come out more different, so the edges of the cluster are further away. Homeschoolers are biased about 43% to white and rural, so it's pretty fair that the fring is going to be on that side of things. I'm kind of stumped as to how that's biased.
Working from the kitchen table doesn’t work if you have a family or really anyone else in the house.
The remaining frontiers in fighting Hepatitis-C
There are many home-schooling success stories, and also many home-schooling horror stories.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/law-school-pr...
I think they differ about the why. The article claims that types are useful mainly because they allow sophisticated auto-completions. u/mordae thinks there are more important benefits re avoiding bugs in production.