skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using it since Meta acquired WhatsApp. Always on a shitty £300-tops Android phone and I have never experienced any bugs, or lag, or wonkyness... The UX is simply perfect. Especially compared to WhatsApp, which I now have to use because "the rest of the office uses it"...
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Joke I assume? Unless there's a Philip Glass the adult-films actor.
And make converting time between different time zones/countries even more confusing.
I find it kind of absurd that people claim that clock alignment has negative impact on their health. Studies show that but:

You do it only twice per year. But how often do you stay late up because of an event or whatever. And how often do you travel to another time zone, sometimes even >6 hours.

I think the latter effects outweigh the health impact of clock alignment significantly.
I've owned two and my parents have also owned two. There appears to be a boom and bust cycle of reliability with them.

We still own one - a GLC300 from its first model year (2017) and it's basically been perfect. Zero problems beyond some cosmetic stuff w/ a seat rip but that's wear and tear. I care more about mechanical.

On the other hand, the E-class sedan we owned was nothing but trouble. I remember looking at some of the reported reliability data and it seemed like every 3-4 years, you'd have this cycle where the first year had great reliability and then it degraded over the next 2-3 years. When they released a new trim, reliability was back up.

Note - this is heavily anecdata, but having talked w/ other folks that owned multiple MB's, they felt it was similar.

My theory is it has something to do with the models manufactured in Germany versus the ones eventually offshore. Something doesn't translate as they offshore manufacture.
It would make sense to have Portgual and Ireland in the Western Europe time zone. They are right over the border from UTC but it makes sense to include them with neighbors. Especialy when they are currently in UTC. It is Spain and France that need to move.
What I find incredible about this overall controversy is how Canadian news outlets begged for this law, and now they are all butthurt that they have no traffic. I have no idea why they thought they had leverage.
Found that stat kinda confusing because some trains do have tires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_tire and most if not all cargo planes land on runways with tires
Crete not having the same timezone as the rest of Greece?
> If I need to serve a large repository of videos I wouldn't self host, I would pay a SaaS since storage costs alone would be absurd, having to then also store not only the high bitrate masters but also every intermediate format...

I can hear that. Maybe in a year we will have to face the facts that we reached capacity and underestimated our needs if it's too much successful. For now, we want/need/must self-host on premise so at some point maybe we will have to say "we can't do it, either we offload or we shut down the service".
I think with RAG it's pretty reasonable. Put your corpus in pinecone or some other vector store and relevant sections get injected along with your prompt which lessens the burden on context window.
Install Linux. Don't use Windows, if you are not forced to do it
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> Advocates for the homeless, meanwhile, worry that the tiny shelter boom will divert funds that could otherwise go to new permanent housing, preventing people from moving into a real home for even longer. The rush of private industry into the space also gives advocates pause, and they worry that cities will buy bare-bones, cheaper models, place them in remote parts of town, and criminalize those who refuse to go.

There needs to be a circle of hell for those who screw over other people when they insist that "perfect" gets in the way of "good enough to be a first step." If people are sleeping on the streets because the problem isn't getting fixed your way, you're part of the problem. It's Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs here. Step one: get people out of tent encampments and doorways. Step two: get them help to get back on their feet.
That's not typically the sort of dirty laundry that's aired to employees or the public, by professionals, which all of the former board were.

And absolutely Microsoft would have behaved as it did -- it doesn't really care about OpenAI-the-company; it cares about OpenAI-the-tech.

Also, see essentially the same said by Microsoft's president: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67578656
What works for treating the common cold? Many doctors say 'not much'
Sudafed working no better than a placebo was only the beginning.

Manufacturers are grandfathered on unproven medicines. The process of fixing this is happening.
I haven’t added any mods to this car just yet. Wanted to pay it off and not worry about voiding any warranties, but I’m itching to get to it. My previous car was an ‘86 e28 (528e) and I spent many hours working on restoring it, I even chipped it haha. I also had a 2016 fiesta st (fwd isn’t all that bad after all!) I can’t tell you how many hours I spent looking for a good 70s 2002, for a nice e30, for a clean Miata, before deciding to get the WRX. I just wish factory FA20F had the same purr as the EJ models did.
"Seem" is doing a lot of work here. So is the implicit claim that theory of mind in general can be demonstrated by current-gen foundation models, and only those aspects dependent on vision cannot.
Google/Meta do more than link, though. They also grab a hero image and an excerpt. Likely fair use, but definitely getting into the grey area. I don't know how the Canadian law is worded, but it would be much more acceptable to me if Google/Meta could get out of paying if they only linked and didn't excerpt images or text.
When you strike at the king, you must kill him.
The crosswalk buttons around me are a frustrating mess. I used to live on a street where the intersection to the main road had a sensor that either couldn't detect my car or just didn't work at all. The only way to get a green light was to have someone get out and hit the crosswalk button, which quickly changes the flow of car traffic.

Meanwhile, I have not seen this behavior anywhere else in the city where it would make sense. Instead, we have almost all crosswalk buttons that do nothing, a few that turn on a light so drivers can know you want to cross (they won't stop, but they'll know), and a few where you will never have a walk signal unless you hit the button, but the light timing does not change. I have watched plenty of tourists helplessly trapped at an intersection not knowing why it never changes.
I kinda hate the buttons here in Berlin - a lot of them look like this: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AEHF8N/traffic-light-switch-for-p...

I still will hit the yellow bit, but I'm not sure if I need to, or if they are totally automated*. There is absolutely zero feedback, not even the feedback of pushing a button.

British road-crossings often will illuminate a 'WAIT' message on the box when the button has been pressed, which is some great feedback.

(* there is a rotating part on the bottom which gives partially sighted people an indication that the lights are green).
Unix Linguistics
Their "home" edition is open source and way more capable than anything I've seen for other formats.

Saxonica, the company behind it, has been critical for the evolution of the XML ecosystem.

I agree that lack of alternatives sucks but the breadth of options you refer to is backed by an army of open source volunteers.
>Respect to Meta for having the courage to stand up to the media lobby in Canada

I'm not sure what's going on in Canada for Meta to be seen as the "good guy". Feels like rooting for Hitler to defeat Stalin.
What was your prior car?
One side effect of this whole ordeal that I hate is the fact that fake news sites and conspiracy theory sites that masquerade as "news sites" are not blocked. The result is that platforms are filled with bad content that some people find hard to differentiate from the truth.
This looks great, will have to try it out soon.
This is a very special troll post, and I am all for this troll.
Yeah, I think training for facts in general is kind of problematic since you often have to overfit and the model may lose capability in other areas. I suspect that the only situations where it really makes sense to train on facts are where the facts are very nuanced and require a lot of interpretation, or more often where the facts are just so extensive that they can't be crammed effectively into the context window you're working with. Otherwise, you're better off with a vector db and a well-written prompt.
FYI, Telegram is currently one of the main social media platforms in Russia, which is their "domestic" market (the company is not legally in Russia, as well as it's developers and founder, but all of them are originally from the country).
I hated how as a developer the requirements weren't understood, written down or changed weekly, completion was extremely hard to achieve, and I always ended up in crunch time redoing work (weekends and evenings). So I became a BA.

As a BA I hated how there was no communication regarding schedules or scope or active client management and everything ended up in crunch time. So I became a PM.

As a PM I got loaded down with too many projects to effectively manage and got no support from management. So I became a Development Manager.

As a development manager there was no support from senior management, good PM's were rare, developers were still getting abused (evening and weekends) and I had to pick up the slack. So I became a President.

As a president, I had to oversee ridiculous metrics and play financial games with shareholders that only cared for extracting as much money as possible from the company. And constantly try to straddle a line between looking out for myself or others, especially in terms of my own compensation (every dollar I take is 1 dollar less to retain talent or add to the team).

So I quit.
I completely get your fear as I also don't really want non-chat features from Telegram, but I can pretty confidently say I don't think any of the new features have at all changed how I use the app. my chats work exactly like I expect them to with my friends and that's perfect. I don't see any of the more social media stuff unless I want to.

I think it's a pretty good sign that all these social media features continue to be added and I still don't see any impact on how I use Telegram.
The regulations already function as you describe. Changes in car design reflect what consumers are willing to pay for - or at least what manufacturers believe consumers are willing to pay for.
I also just signed as soon as I knew what they were after. I just asked how much I was getting. No need to put yourself through this. I was a high performer and had been juggling up to 4 jobs by that time and was about to go on my first vacation after 14 months. They said "I looked a bit tired."

Obviously my vacation became an extended vacation instead.

I got a text a few months afterwards where they asked how I had made it look so easy. I'm still perplexed by the whole ordeal. But it was probably for the best anyways.
> I think Telegram has realised they've lost the 1 on 1 personal chat fight to Signal

LOL what?
If you move Spain to UTC+0, then it would finally line up with Portugal. Why move Portugal over even further? It's accurate enough.
An absolute wordsmith, 'a pair of brown eyes' is as close to a perfect song. Novels of thousands of pages haven't told a story as deeply as that song. His version of the Band played waltzing Matilda is one of the most moving songs I've ever heard - and amazingly wrote fairytale of New York as a bet, when Elvis Costello bet him he couldn't write a Christmas song.
exactly!

I try to do everything without Ansible: cloud-init is pretty powerful, too, but I am reaching the 64k limit, so sooner then later will go "back" to Ansible.
It irritates me when people press the crosswalk button on quiet roads (where most of the time there is nothing coming, so you can just cross) before they have even looked to see if anything is coming. Most of the time they then cross immediately and the traffic light will go red some time after they have already crossed, holding up both cars and pedestrians coming behind (who might get there shortly before the traffic light goes green again, so have to wait for that and then wait for the accumulated traffic to clear before they can cross). There is a walking route near me that crosses a lot of roads and I not infrequently get caught behind someone doing this so I get stuck at every crossing.
It's certainly related when you consider Pickup Trucks and the more "sporty" or "outdoorsy" SUV's. People that drive pickups, at least a substantial lot, do manual labor for a living. They're rough on their vehicles. And people doing outdoorsy stuff with SUV's are putting them in harsher conditions than just driving to work and the grocery store.

That said - if my assertion is true, the Tacoma is truly a wonder with its reliability and so on. No surprise given it is the mobility platform of choice in Mid-East and Africa for militias and local armies (i.e. Toyota Hilux).
It was never a matter of “could” only “should”.

It’s still a bad law, and Google shouldn’t have capitulated.
The topic sentence was the mantra of nearly all AI research back in the days of good-old-fashioned-AI, AKA symbolic AI. Understanding how reasoning is implemented by our brains was a much more compelling prospect than being able to implement 'intelligence' compositionally but without understanding how software achieved it -- which is largely where we find ourselves now. Today's AI is theory-free leaving us unenlightened about the continuum of intelligence -- across species, or within a human as our brain matures or goes pathological.

Many scientists outside the AI field have long shared an interest in the objective of how to "think like people" using software. Far fewer care if the AI is inexplicable (or if it can't be dissected into constituent components, thereby enabling us to explore the mind's constraints and dependencies among its cognitive processes).
Generally the problem is not the link itself, it's the headline and any included blurb/summary/image from the article. The problem being that users see & gain the content solely when viewed from the link aggregator, without ever actually visiting the originating website and participating in its monetization methods. A bare "http://..." URL probably would not have raised the same objections, but also no one would actually use a link aggregator that is just bare URLs.

Both sides have a point here. I'm not sure where I end up on the issue myself.
> a lot of startups like Figma only exist because acquisitions are common and therefore offers early investors an exit on their investment that isn't 1-2 decades in the future.

> If we got rid of M&A in tech there would significantly less investment and much less innovation

It appears this way because of the path we took with our economy, but that doesn’t mean that an alternate path isn’t viable. The giants didn’t get big through innovation. They all created some initial innovation that allowed them to print money, which then allowed them to gobble up any other company that could either be of use or compete against them. If they weren’t able to acquire, that money wouldn’t disappear from the economy. It could be sent back to shareholders in the form of dividends, who would find other investments for it. Perhaps the market would find the best use for that money instead of having it controlled by a few giant entities. I tend to think that’s how the stock market was supposed to work.
There's an avocado delivery service in NYC that claims to deliver perfect avocados every time. There's some good press coverage around it: https://davocadoguy.net/
> Where the skin is visibly much thinner and smoother and there's no brown layer, and I can only imagine that's the type of avocado where people can judge its ripeness. But those don't seem to be available in NYC at my local store or Whole Foods or anywhere...

I get both of those here in SoCal, or at least a varieties that look similar to those photos - the bumpier variety is noticeable when I come across it (it's definitely tougher). I never paid attention to the thickness of the skin or kept track of how quality correlates to the bumpiness, though. I'll keep an eye out from now on.

I wonder if there's a single vendor/broker supplying the stores in your area. Have you tried buying them from outside the boroughs?
How to compute square roots in finite fields
There is no reason to believe (evidence) that any meaning ascribed to anyone but me's utterances comes from the person rather than being pareidolia.

If you've found some, please let everyone know.
The Darwin environment can be described as stagnant waters, where you need to bring in third-party FOSS package management in order not to be stuck with twenty-year-old forks of GNU utilities.

It's no longer positioned as a server OS, which on the surface just looks like a business move, but I suspect it's because the kernel and surrounding environment aren't very good. The writing was on the wall for years.
I was thinking on doing something among the same lines but with code:

An LLM that is specifically trained for Software Development, and to which I feed the code of all my company's repositories. And I keep feeding commits/pull requests.

The idea is that I can query it about architectural issues, code improvements, and other technical aspects at different levels of abstraction (code, architecture, business, etc).

So far, I've played a bit with CodeRabbit and it's "just ok" but it is more of a very small windows to what "could be" than being actually useful.
Some software really prefers to control the whole host, usually highly integrated stuff. Some examples:

- Unifi Controller installs like a half dozen dependencies to run (Mongo, Redis, etc last time I used it), much easier to isolate all that in a VM

- Home Assistant's preferable and most blessed install method is Home Assistant OS, which is an entire distribution. I've run HA in Docker myself before but the experience is like 10x better if you just let it control the OS itself

- I have Plex,Sonarr,Radarr, etc running for media - there is software called Saltbox which integrates all of these things for you so that you don't need to configure 10 different things. Makes it a breeze, but requires a specific version of Ubuntu or you're in unsupported territory (kinda defeating the purpose)

Lots of stuff you can be totally fine just using Docker or installing directly onto the host. But having the bare metal system running Proxmox from that start gives you a ton of flexibility to handle other scenarios.

Worst case you just setup a single VM & run your stuff on it if you have no need for other types of installs. Nothing lost, but you gain flexibility in the future as well as easy backups via snapshotting, etc
Has someone calculated the optimal unique timezone for the EU given population distribution and the goal to minimize the sum product of number of people and solar time difference?
I rarely support Meta, but in this case I do. I think it was a total dick move on the Canadian govt's side. Poorly understood their position, poorly understood the implications, poorly understood the problem space overall.
Admittedly I had missed that.

The kernel has self-patching mechanisms for doing effectively the same thing (although I don't know if it has ever been applied to memcpy before).
look up "frames", it's an old concept and also influenced OOP.
Abolishing daylight savings and keeping standard time.

If you’re going to abolish it, this is the way. None of this permanent summertime nonsense.
That's why it's gas lighting and narrative shaping.

Yet they would never refer to Darrell E. Brooks Jr. as "Black supremacist terrorist Darrell E. Brooks Jr."
The United States adopted summer time in the 70s but abandoned it because of complaints about the late darkness in winter mornings.
Open Graph, which all the major news organization in Canada use, was created by Meta/Facebook to ensure that the news organizations have editorial control over what is "grabbed". If the news organizations want them to have less information, all they have to do is give less information.
> it's almost always something simple and relatively cheap

That's a key point. Reliability might be good these days, but long-term repairability is very low.

It's come to the point that even a mind-dumbingly trivial change like changing a brake light bulb or a battery can't be done (on a BMW, surely many other brands) without access to factory repair computers.

So when the factory stops supporting your particular model, what then?

I firmly believe that a century from now we'll still have historical cars from the 1950s-60s running around, but surviving cars from the 2020s will be extremely rare, since they can't be repaired beyond factory support.
This is great context, good find. Loved this line: “If the piece feels like it takes too long to reach its end, well, I'm just marrying form and content.”
India manages to deal with a fractional offset from UTC, as well as several other countries. It’s really not that big a deal.
he is the human that does this.
Reminds me of a thread on HN from 2013 that turned tic-tac-toe into something much more interesting and in a same way meta [1]

I made a simple online playable game of it back then: http://mck-.github.io/T3/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5898506
The difference is: I wouldn't be able to regurgitate it on a moment's notice adapted to the situation at hand.
Generative AI is almost always a service problem. If a model can offer customized art instantly 24/7 for free but the artist says you have to wait 3 months and it’ll cost 500 dollars and I only accept PayPal, then the model’s service is more valuable.
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I don't think it is proposing that. From what I can tell their proposal is a (somewhat awkward) way of saying some countries will stick to their current summer (standard) time next time they switch to it. Other countries will stick with their current winter (DST) time when they next switch to it.
Absence of Spontaneous Magnetic Fields Due to Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking
If I understand correctly, Google agreed to pay proportional to the number of human journalists an organization employs. If so, that's an awesome detail in this age of AI journalism.
Not my product, but looks cool.
The idea would be to move Spain, France and Benelux to UTC. Currently all of Western Europe is on UTC+1/UTC+2, which is much wider than it "should" be.

I have no opinion on the idea, just relaying what they are proposing.
Discussed the other day

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461514
Spot on, recent updates are mostly about useless stories and other BS, instead of that, how about making an E2EE by default?!
Given that most claims about war crimes by Kissinger focus on south east Asia and the sort of governments there, I want to ask:

Dear internet, it Hitler had never dissolved the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact would Churchill's obituary have been "Churchill - the butcher of Hamburg and Dresden has died"?

Or would it be "(((Churchill))) - the butcher of Hamburg and Dresden has died"?
It probably comes down to large US corps simply having more money. Since they're in competition with each other they pay more to get and sometimes even hoard devs.
How would news organizations deny the request referred by a linking party? Are you talking about a technical denial - as in reject the HTTP request? I guess technically they can base something like this on HTTP referer header, but you can have links without referer info as well.
You do need a technical co-founder [video]
Search github there are a few utilities on there for this
Circa OT, but what's the dynamic for flagging an article?

Specifically in this case, what's the probable reason - other than being the moderation equivalent of "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room"?