skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We are currently seeing fairly heavy load. The hn hug of death is real.
Tweaked some settings and the startup delays should be back to the sub-10 second range in a few minutes.
'average' people might see it in a year with an inheritance. That was me two years ago. It was a finanically interesting time before the money got placed in more safe places than the checking account.

By the same token, it's not hard for a person to be worth $1M+...steady long-term investment in a 401k over the course of your career can get you there.

But it's _unavailable_ to the average person. They'll get taxed brutally if they touch it, and when managed correctly, will be divvyd out over the course of their retirement...so having 1M doesn't mean it's liquid.
That would mean that almost every public and private company would be owned and controlled by Blackrock and Vanguard or the government because that's who they'd have to sell the shares to. No private individual anywhere would have control of any large company. Basically that's where we're going with most assets in this country with Blackrock buying up millions of single family houses to rent using unlimited money from fed bailouts.
> The LA to Las Vegas high speed line seems like an obvious mistake, though

I'm curious as to why you think this? LA<->Vegas on I15 gets supremely busy during the weekends. I dunno how much regular commuter traffic there would be during weekdays, but it seems like it would see high demand, especially if its a) faster than driving and b) you can drink on the train. My main issue with it is that it doesn't actually get very far into LA.
dude, he totally is already, when he hits rewind they do it ... in reverse! And when he hits pause they ... stop!

zomg, that must be voyeurism because being able to control is a part of ... ummm ... wait...
Is complicated.

The 7B model (cybertron) is trained on Mistral. Mistral is technically a 32K model, but it uses a sliding window beyond 32K, and for all practical purposes in current implementations it behaves like an 8K model.

The 34B model is based on Yi 34B, which is inexplicably marked as a 4K model in the config but actually works out to 32K if you literally just edit that line. Yi also has a 200K base model... and I have no idea why they didn't just train on that. You don't need to finetune at long context to preserve its long context ability.
Iirc some of the other things the same source stated were later confirmed, so this is likely to be true as well, but I might be misremembering.
Given that 2 million is barely enough to retire on, does that mean you think everyone should work until they die?
Go back in time a little more and there was definitely "warm up" time for electonics. Tubes had to get up to operating temp, etc. When I was a kid I remember turning on the TV about ten minutes before my dad got home so it would be warmed up and ready for him to watch the evening news.
Funny how we have huge fans of the 50s but they don't want the tax rates or the unions. They just miss the racism and the casual misogyny.
>you’re basically just asking for the tax rate to return to what it was in the 1950s.

AFAIK the high tax rates of the 1950s were also coupled with high levels of deductions/tax loopholes (eg. company cars), so the effective tax rate didn't really change much.
I have. And never has the urgency been warranted in retrospect. It's always been a reflection of the anxieties and worries of the CEO/president/whoever is in charge, than it has been reality.

It's an unchecked personality disorder at that point; and I want no part of it.
JD does the hard stuff that others aren't as willing to invest in: a large service network with spare parts and spare machines.

Harvest time can be make-or-break for farmers. Stuff you don't expect like a large storm at the end of summer can blow over corn stalks. That makes it a lot slower to run the combine at harvest time. If early fall storms are forecast you might literally need to get everyone available out in the field to harvest the corn in the next 3-4 days or you can expect the value of your crop to drop dramatically - everything will be wet and it's no longer warm or sunny enough for it to dry out. The field turns to mud and the grain elevator ain't gonna pay full price for water-soaked corn.

Everyone else is in the same boat so every available truck+driver is booked. Every mechanic is already 5 tractors backlogged from all the other farmers with emergencies.

Then your harvester/combine dies.

If you're with JD... they have a crews of engineers/mechanics and semi trailers loaded with parts driving around the country following the harvest. They will get you going again in a day or two, not 1-4 weeks later when some other dealer can fit you in or when the spare part you need arrives.

From JD's perspective that service network and parts stock costs a lot of money to maintain so it is available during harvest. They don't want customers going the cheap aftermarket route 11 months of the year because one month of sales can't sustain harvest support teams long-term. It's similar to peak electric generation capacity. Generator plants aren't economic if they only run 5% of the year at regular prices. In this analogy peak pricing has a limit: it would very quickly make harvesting the crop unprofitable.

FWIW I do think it's mostly a money grab by JD. Same reason Chamberlain closed their garage door opener API and has locked down myIQ: they want to force platforms, automakers, etc to pay for access to "their" customers and turn garage door openers into MRR. It's basically free money that you couldn't even imagine prior to the internet.
Odd that the news post didn't link directly to https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages which is what bugs.archlinux.org links to.

The news post should be updated to include the above.
This is a fork of https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/megablocks

should link to the original when possible, per HN posting guidelines
Many countries houses have brick internal and external (ours (UK) is - apart from one or two internal stud walls). How do you place a router so that it hits a 4/5 bed house with brick walls?

Airtime contention is a big thing - anything with low signal takes a disproportionately large amount of airtime to carry the same amount of data. You might be able to do it, but everything will suffer (even things close to the AP/router).

We’ve got 4 UniFi APs inside, one outside, and there are still some devices with poor antenna design that are clinging on.
Is there any human activity where quality is an attribute successfully taught? In my experience, being able to produce something of quality is gained only through practice, practice, practice.
Houses... like many assets can be leveraged. One of the ways to take advantage of your wealth increasing 43% is to take out a loan with your wealth as leverage and if your wealth increases another 43% in value next year you're happy that you only pay 1-7% interest on the loan and not 15-25% in capital gains taxation.
Do you not understand rhetorical questions? I know what the budget should be compared to.
you cannot be taught what nobody knows how to do

or maybe, them who know how to do this are just unable to spread this knowledge... something about how they think their private secret codes are the source of their wealth

when in fact, it's merely the scheme by which they mantain an advantageous capacity to extract energy from them seeking to learn how to build quality software
The logistics are just more difficult because WE let it be more difficult. "Oh it's so difficult to tax a billionaire". No it isn't. If we wanted to do it, we could. We just do not care, and we let them get away with it.

Shares are not money, shares are a percentage you own of a company, that's it. It's when you sell said shares and turn it into money that it becomes taxable. It's not rocket science. If you hold the shares forever, that's fine. But as soon as your future son sells them, they get taxed.

I really don't know why everyone always says stuff like that, it's really not a difficult concept. Money is money, stuff that is not money is obviously not money. A house worth 1 million is not equal to 1 million until someone gives you 1 million for it. Before that it's just a pile of wood.

Now this would promote not selling shares, but maybe transferring them. Okay you can't transfer shares.

We just don't try, there is no attempt at anything. If we wanted too, we could.

I am not saying we'll get everything, but even 1% more of what we get right now is worth probably the same tax we collect from all of the poorer tax payers.

I personally don't think we should tax income, I am a proponent of a higher sales tax and zero income tax personally. I think that's easier. You want to buy a jet? Ya you're paying 40% tax, but you get to keep all of your millions.
The problem is that the CPI is pretty awful at identifying how much the expenses of those struggling most have changed, despite it being one of the figures most commonly brought up in discussion.

Someone who could only afford to purchase the cheapest essentials experienced a much larger increase in their living costs than the CPI would indicate. Yet it's still used, despite how misleading it is.
> A co-worker became friends with his contractor and put in his own drops in the evening after the workers left.

Was talking to my dad over Thanksgiving and that's precisely what he did every time we bought a new house. He would go over to the new house after work and install conduit to the house so he didn't have to tear up the house installing it after drywall.
Well it's often measured at two given points in history and compared without taking into account the devaluation of the thing used to measure value (supply inflation is approx 100% per decade)
> I don’t think there’s a question that people are allowed to upload photos like that.

Technically, that's a copyright violation. Disney just opts not to enforce their rights for that sort of use.

Similarly, you technically can't take and post pictures of statues, paintings, some buildings, etc., and some rightsholders do enforce their copyright when people do those things.
A Manual Evaluation of AlphaCode2 through stalking AlphaCode2 accounts
I have an easier method. Stand under coconut trees at wealthy resorts until a coconut drops and kills you, that your heirs may sue for millions.
Show HN: I created an extension for direct streaming of videos, bypassing ads
"SuGaR: Surface-Aligned Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Mesh Reconstruction and High-Quality Mesh Rendering" has the explicit goal to make accurate meshes from gaussian splats. I haven't seen anyone use it yet, it came out in November.

https://imagine.enpc.fr/~guedona/sugar/
Anyone working for Uber? horrendous CS experience
I have been trying to get an issue resolved with Uber for 3+ months. I am absolutely not getting anywhere. I cannot book rides at all. The responses are upsetting.

The issue: I haven't used the app very much but have more use for it now. About 5 years ago I booked a ride, it went fine, but for some reason payment did not go through. I did not see any notifications. No big deal, I'm happy to pay it. Here the problem starts. The app tells me I have an unpaid ride but when trying to pay it, app says I don't have any unpaid rides.
Customer service also tells me I don't have any unpaid rides.

I tried using https://uber.com/arrears but also told no unpaid rides when I try to pay for it. I have tried multiple cards.

I have submitted screenshots showing the unpaid ride, but in response to that CS just sent me a generic "your account has been compromised and reset password" email.

They are absolutely 0 help and keep sending me what appear to be generic responses.

I have never experienced such poor customer service. They promised to escalate but nothing. I reached out through facebook and still getting the same poor customer support.

Is there anyone at Uber who can help?
38M and no, not this kind of corporate crime. Plain financial fraud - sure. This case is much more complicated though.
Whale done!
> "hey, let's extend the functionality of literally every *nix command". Which is hard to achieve.

It's pretty much what powershell did, though.
The moral basis would be that most extremely rich people are not rich by merit, but by having good connections, luck, narcissistic personality disorders, or a head start in life.

Consider a random thing that you are grateful for, trace down who actually made it possible for you to enjoy, and then consider whether those persons all get equal gratitude.
Ah yes, billions more in spending that we can't afford. Keep emitting debt, US government, and keep generating more inflation while you're at it. Insanity.
Is there any value in preserving old phone lines these days? In my home I've kept vestigial coax runs because they're great for MoCA adapters, but I haven't been able to think of a reason to keep phone wires. So if I'm doing work on a room and they're in the way, I rip them out.
I wonder how those 25 richest families fared in 2022 when the markets were tanking?
What if we switched to higher less penetrating frequencies? We are now on 6GHZ and there is even a spec for wifi over 50GHz.
Even if they use a shitty cable you can pull your own cable through after the fact, no? Might not work well with flimsy fiber if they took tight turns, but CAT7 should be fine.
It’s more than fine. We have no cell signal (so WiFi calling), 5 UniFi APs. You can walk around the place and you wouldn’t even notice a transition.
Even in the dns-01 case you only need the one _acme-challenge record to *get* the cert. You only need more records to be able to do something meaningful with your cert, eg A/AAAA records that point to your malicious server and serve that cert.
or once you have enough money to not care about it as much , you can focus on "we the people" but I doubt thats likely .
Interesting idea. I have recently been reading John C. Bogle's work (of Vanguard fame) and he seems to be of the opinion, from my interpretation, that short term speculation will have disasterious consequences for the Stock Market and that we need a sort of Sin Tax to discourage such behavior. Your idea would track with that.
It’s seamless
Last page here: https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/2023-12/FY...
far better for applications to be unaware of a such a utility and allow something like jc to grow in support with plugins or something so as to keep the utilities simple and move the logic and burden to the wrapping utility in this case jc.
We should have a welfare state that provides for people who are retired (just like we should for other non-workers, like children, the disabled, students, etc.).
I'm always at awe at how many different titles others manage to play. I started with BG3 in September, have played nothing else at all since then and I'm still on my first play through (at around 160 hours in). I guess this takes the rest of the year for me, at which point I can start with another game.
A lot of times that is codewords for eyerolling about the US reluctance/, inability to build mass transit.

So I'm underlining that in places like flyover country you can't do that.
> Wealth isn't zero-sum.

Of course it is. We live on a planet with finite resources; everything here is zero-sum. I don't buy the myth that we can create value from nothing. Some people are just better at socializing their harmful byproducts.
What I find interesting is that nobody at Tesla seems to be able to realize that when you go abroad you can't just export your home country's attitude to labor relations and that Tesla as a brand is suffering, not just in Sweden, but in the Nordics as a whole and in the rest of Europe as well. Even if they win they lose, and not just a little bit.
I thought about those, but the 120v AC switches are gigantic beefy things compared to most automotive switches.
I feel like you are overselling a bit. Property tax needs to be very delinquent to trigger a foreclosure and a lien doesn't matter unless you sell the property.

Also in my experience there has been a relatively painless path to challenge the assessment. Although I have never seen an example where the $400 appraisal is worth paying to do so.
So true! I love the AUR, it is like the Homebrew of Linux. Or, flipped, Homebrew is like the AUR of Mac.

My new company is considering adopting Linux and is considering Ubuntu, and I pitched Arch because I really want to use the AUR again. I don't like installing PPAs with Ubuntu.
The wall units for doing that at least, only on digital infrastructure.
I was just reading (from HN recently) about when, in the Nineteenth Century, I believe) England did away with trust perpetuity. It destroyed the dynastic family wealth but instead kicked off the greatest entrepreneurial expansion the country had ever seen.

Even if the poor fared a little better we cannot say if they would not have fared even better still had we less of a wealth divide.
To be fair these days you need to spoof it in at least two locations around the world - they will query you from at least two locations. But yeah, it is bootstrapping security out of seemingly nowhere.
$ dig example.com | txr dig.txr
[{"query_time":"1","rcvd":"56","answer_num":1,"status":"NOERROR",
"when_epoch":1702030676,"opcode":"QUERY","udp":"65494","opt_pseudosection":{"edns":{"udp":65494,"flags":[],"version":"0"}},
"query_num":1,"question":{"name":"example.com.","type":"A","class":"IN"},
"server":"127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)","id":"48295","authority_num":0,
"answer":[{"name":"example.com.","type":"A","data":"93.184.216.34","ttl":"4441",
"class":"IN"}],
"additional_num":1,"when":"Fri Dec 08 10:17:56 PST 2023"}]

$ cat dig.txr
@(bind sep @#/[\s\t]+/)
@(skip)
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: @opcode, status: @status, id: @id
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: @query, ANSWER: @answer, AUTHORITY: @auth, ADDITIONAL: @additional
@(skip)
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: @edns_ver, flags:@flags; udp: @udp
@(skip)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;@qname@sep@qclass@sep@qtype
@(skip)
;; ANSWER SECTION:
@aname@sep@ttl@sep@aclass@sep@atype@sep@data

;; Query time: @qtime msec
;; SERVER: @server
;; WHEN: @when
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: @rcvd
@(do (put-jsonl #J^[{
"id" : ~id,
"opcode" : ~opcode,
"status" : ~status,
"udp" : ~udp,
"query_num" : ~(tofloat query),
"answer_num" : ~(tofloat answer),
"authority_num" : ~(tofloat auth),
"additional_num" : ~(tofloat additional),
"opt_pseudosection" :
{
"edns" :
{
"version" : ~edns_ver,
"flags" : [],
"udp" : ~(tofloat udp)
}
},
"question" :
{
"name" : ~qname,
"class" : ~qclass,
"type" : ~qtype
},
"answer" :
[
{
"name" : ~aname,
"class" : ~aclass,
"type" : ~atype,
"ttl" : ~ttl,
"data" : ~data
}
],
"query_time" : ~qtime,
"server" : ~server,
"rcvd" : ~rcvd,
"when" : ~when,
"when_epoch" : ~(time-parse "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" when).(time-utc)
}]))

The latest TXR (292 as of time of writing) allows integers in JSON data, so (toint query) could be used.
In my experience the Xfinity (Comcast) WiFi boost pods work pretty well. You can just plug them into any available electrical outlet and they automatically form a mesh network to eliminate dead zones around the house. They might not be ideal if you need really high bandwidth and low latency, but for most homeowners it's probably good enough and much cheaper than installing Ethernet wiring.

https://www.xfinity.com/learn/internet-service/wifi/xfi-pod
I suspected that :) Where do you guys host the servers that run Github actions? (startup time is better now but speed is still much worse than Github)
This has been my experience too as a software engineer with about 8 years of experience under my belt. A massive windfall like that simply isn't in the cards for me and even being fairly well compensated saving a majority of my money I don't see homeownership in my future.

That's been increasingly the experience of friends and coworkers too. I think a fair number of people are either far better off than they think, or just don't see the huge middle class and below squeeze going on.
You are extremely downplaying the "clever" aero. Remember, simulation time and costs are regulated in F1. The innovation is producing extremely effective aero with minimal brute force simulation.
Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (2017)
Seems like they just mean the vector version of a Gaussian function: f(r) = exp(-r•r). Basically a "bell curve" except in 3D so it's a ball that's dense at the center and dies off. Then the optimizer might learn to produce an intensity, offset, and width for each point in a cloud, so the A,B,C for A*f((r-B)/C) at each point or something.
How Much Horsepower is a Horse? [video]
The CEO of my local non-profit hospital (~ 500 beds) makes $1.6 million per year with a $500k bonus. The general council makes $950k with a $250k bonus. CFO is up there too. They milk the hell out of Medicare/Medicaid + state insurance programs. They routinely have junkies spending 30-90 days in beds because "they have nowhere to go" - wonder what they're billing the government.
47% YoY growth is insane. 5 years of that rate would be a 7x increase in wealth over that period. I'd click on that.
2 million is barely enough to retired on in a country without a social safety net. But one of the points of taxing people is to provide that safety net.
My God, doesn't properly handle ls?
I think it has a chance, Elon is constantly in the news for being offensive, and every time it's like an ad to move over to threads. In the meantime threads is getting better.
How do you know if any of the startups succeeded because of/irrespective/or despite him?

Just as a fact: his only technical contribution to teslas is the design of the goddamn rearview mirror. There are plenty of (unconfirmed) accounts of having to deliberately present information to elon a certain way so he will accept the decision made by the experts, which while I don’t know how true, seems surprisingly plausible, given his personality.

Also, being the richest person doesn’t mean that $40b in immediate hard cash is not a big hit. Most of this evaluation is very transient, e.g. the evaluation of tesla shares (which are very overvalued right now — is it really worth more than all the top 3 car companies together? When they sell orderS of magnitude more cars?)

There are plenty of “fans” of him here, as this libertarian view is quite popular among the startup community. With all due respect, this “on the left” comment is just braindead.
> extortion

Complying with labor protections is not extortion.

And if Tesla does not wish to comply with the norms in Sweden they definitely should stop operating in the country.
Part of their statement says(loosely translated):

"No hacker can tell, based on the content of the digital record alone, who is the author of the digital record in question"

Boy oh boy. Either they're not singing their firmware (which is a serious indictment in and of itself) or proving that it was them all along will be trivial, but the ones signing off this message are unaware of this.

Overall they got caught with their pants down and handling it badly as evidenced by the fact that they don't even have a scapegoat prepared.
Proof we're on a separate timeline right there. Slightly bummed tho I must admit.
Money printing is one of the main causes of the increasing disparity. Look up the Cantillon effect.
Unless you still have copper service, probably not. It was nice when phones would still work during a blackout, now its limited by local battery
I think it's a big stretch to point to all of those and say wealth inequality is the main reason all of those happen. For example, people were starving around the French revolution. With Germany I believe it was just as much (if not more) general depression and national embarrassment rather than wealth inequality. With Arab Spring you can point to poor leadership as opposed to innate wealth inequality. I'm not convinced wealth inequality is the underlying reason.