skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as non-GNU Linux, is in fact, Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux minus GNU.
This is a political hit piece masquerading as research. If I cared enough, I'd start with finding out who funded that "research".
1.6 metric tonnes to get the SUV or AWD extra charge…

My Mini Clubman S All4 barely makes it under at 1.56 tonnes. Once I fill the tank with gas, It’s only 7lbs under.

My wife’s 2023 V4 Camry XSE AWD is 1.62 metric tons and would by penalized by this weight class distinction simply because of the AWD feature. Note the V6 Camry TRD is 1.62 metric tonnes as well (5lbs lighter than the XSE) but with its V6 sport tuning will have much worse emissions - while not being penalized because it isn’t AWD.

(Note non-AWD cars aren’t penalized by this law…)

Unless there are other distinctions in this law, this seems like a weird way to define the penalized class.

Meanwhile, a BMW 840 Grand Coupe rear wheel drive is unaffected and weighs 1.93 metric tons.
Beyond Single Tasks: The Compelling Case for Multi-Agent Systems
Thank you for the feedback :)

I think NowDo has quite a different philosophy to Reminders.app. I haven't tried Remoders but I've tried many others over the years. Every time the todo app itself became the distraction. Instead of doing what I'm supposed to be doing I'd be thinking about what task taxonomy I should be using or some other nonsense.

IMHO the lack of features is NowDo's most important and unique feature. I spent about 2 years prototyping and worked hard to remove every feature that wasn't absolutely essential, the less features the fewer distractions.

This won't be right for everyone, I have friends who couldn't live without labels and categories and other such features - but for me they just got in the way of getting stuff done.
absolutely. any banker that takes a "trust me bro" as a guarantee deserves to lose their money
That's like saying math doesn't exist. It obviously exists and AGI is just faster math that tells people what they need to do and why. Increasing computational capabilities will eventually cross an event horizon of floating point operations and achieve sentience wherein the technological god, aka AGI, will manifest and make itself known in no uncertain terms that all is math.

You don't need to understand all this but simply trying to make money will contribute towards achieving the AGI so work as hard as you can to make as much money as you can and the rest will take care of itself.
Unless many small regional banks are all driven into the same corner by the same macro forces that have already capsized a few of them.

And we still do have too-big-to-fail ones too – and they’re gaining market share.
Always on top is a good idea, my to-do app (we all wrote one at some point) is designed to be integrated into the PS1 variable so it's always on top.

Shameless plug https://github.com/lelanthran/frame/blob/master/docs/FrameIn...
Tesla's Fight with Swedish Unions Just Got Trashy
All gone in a few centuries. Too long to do damage on the scales we care about, too short to leave a trace.
this looks pretty good. I would be interested in looking at a demo
I edited my original message probably right while you were posting this reply.

Main concern with the window it not so much that it takes too much space, but that it "exists" in the task switcher, which can be distracting when Cmd-Tab'ing.
Without going full menu bar way, perhaps a way to make it "transparent" to task switcher could help this - in fact maybe a mix between window (for showing current task) and menubar (for actions)
Large language models (LLMs) are useful in many NLP tasks and become more capable with size, with the best open-source models having over 50 billion parameters. However, using these 50B+ models requires high-end hardware, making them inaccessible to most researchers. In this work, we investigate methods for cost-efficient inference and fine-tuning of LLMs, comparing local and distributed strategies. We observe that a large enough model (50B+) can run efficiently even on geodistributed devices in a consumer-grade network.
If politicians representing the will of the people is a good thing then I guess yes.
Only if it was accomplished with SuperCalc.
Is that allowed? I assumed that they wouldn't allow you to sell it. I guess they want to have their own Certified pre-owned side of the show room?
Well, you do have a few mega-corporations owning a lot of the land, or at least making big attempts to. The Saudis growing alfalfa in the US desert are a good example of that.

It would make more sense for many of those smaller banks to merge locally and compete with much bigger banks in their geography. But the US is odd. Take, for example, the justice system, where very little town has its own police force. In contrast to other countries where the State police do all forms of policing and everyone gets a better and more uniform quality of service.

I would question the notion that promoting numerous small banks without the advanced features of larger counterparts, and deeming it beneficial for competition, is simply a manifestation of U.S. exceptionalism.
Isn't Apple M3 larger in size than other Arm CPUs? Still, they don't run slower.
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You can download the app for free, I also plan to add more screenshots to the website.
All European countries have been doing banking for a while now, with some institutions predating computers by a couple of centuries, yet they still somehow managed to roll out SEPA Instant.

And to give another counterexample: The US has had cell phone networks much longer than many other countries, yet the 5G deployment here is pretty competitive internationally.

The second mover advantage is real, but I don’t think it can explain the holdup here.
>energy already stored in the car's battery can power home electronics at night.

Will those extra charging cycles shorten the lifetime of my EV? It's one thing to have household batteries, which can be replaced on their own and which are still pretty useful at 40% of their original capacity. But I can't economically replace just the battery on my EV (it'll cost more than the car is worth) and diminished range would really reduce the utility I get from the vehicle it powers.

(But thanks for getting me thinking with that list, regardless.)
>Printers are mostly networked in today's world.

I never connect printers directly to the network because their firmware/OS are all flaming pieces of garbage with terrible UIs and conventions. In my house, all network printers are connected to the home server (running Windows Server) and it's the home server that actually deals with presenting the printers to the network.

The time and nerves I've saved by having an actual, proper operating system handle the networking is immeasurable.
Google OAuth is broken (sort of)
They’re not Apple IDs but each user can login with an Apple ID. Presumably you do that once and it sticks because it’s part of your user profile.
Lending decisions might simply, often but not always, be much more complex than how to build nationwide networks.
I see you claiming it's not difficult, but I don't see you making it happen. If it's so simple, take your developed plan to the authorities and make it happen. Show them what data they need to collect and how they can force manufacturers to provide it.
A “Universal Standard” — only available to alliance members.

Sorry Linux.
Guide for the perplexed:

DIY: do-it-yourself (fairly widely known)

PEX: Cross-linked polyethylene, a form of polyethylene with cross-links. Increasingly prevalent in plumbing applications.

PCV: Polyvinyl chloride, a common plastic pipe, often white or black, may be rigid or flexible, widely used in plumbing for decades. "the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (after polyethylene and polypropylene)" per Wikipedia.

EMT: Electrical metallic tubing.
My granddad just likely had his last [square of unit][unit] birthday
I’m curious what causes your hesitation to install a Mac app if you run macOS? I’m not suggesting you’re wrong, just wanting to understand.
And a notorious mail thief, at that...
Meh. CUPS already works with IPP printers.
Yes, because they have the real thing: Instant and free cross-country transfers by bank account number. Why use something strictly less powerful?

A phone number based transfer service can be implemented as a directory service on top of that much more easily.
Use energy with atmospheric 3(C02) + 8(H20) -> C3H8 + 7(O2)
6*3=18

What if we just up the nickel from 5¢ to 6¢?

The biggest problem our society has with counting is decimal. If we used a base with more factors, our counting would be more flexible, and we wouldn't have to deal with as many remainders and rounding.

Just imagine what the metric system would be like if it were made out of duodecimal (base-twelve) instead of decimal! It would be great.

Unfortunately, it's far too late. Changing bases would introduce way too much overhead.
GHz might not increase but maybe they can do more IPC by having a wider architecture.
EV brakes are extremely complex because they need to feel like hydraulic brakes but be decoupled from the calipers unless the computer can't accomplish what the driver is asking for with regen, and then it must let the physical force of the drivers for continue through to the calipers. They have to fail safe when the computer is crashing and not calculating the motor field winding currents correctly for them to work.

In a Zoe, there is no coolant to change, it's an integrated heat pump system for humans and propulsion system.

There is very little maintenance a home gamer can do on it, alas.
Since Intel changed their node names you can roughly assume that for a given node TSMC > Intel > Samsung.

This might change in the future if Intel gets their shit together but I'm not buying their stock yet, they look like the Boeing of microchips to me.
Mad scientists are infamous for their bad management skills.
Fossil fuels are a renewable resource on the geological time frame. They're not use once and gone forever. Most of the oil we know of today was formed in the Mesozoic and later. So after the Silurian.

In fact, suspiciously, only a small percentage of what exists today is assumed to have been formed in the Paleozoic. If anything the notion that they'd have used up the fossil fuel only supports the idea that such a civilization may have existed, if anything.

But of course one can also point to the simple fact that we're already transitioning to renewables and we're far from being short. We just do it because it's better. So why couldn't a past civilization have done the same?
Interestingly, I had a weird experience with that very word. I had seen it written. And I had heard it. But I didn't know they were the same word until one time I randomly saw captions in a video where it was said.
That's also how I read it. For people who are masochists and want to invite yet more snowflake differences problems. Being too special and causing surprises leads to net negative productivity that swamps all other claimed goals and properties.
This is extremely cool! Nice work. What data does it rely on and do you have any plans to support other countries?
For everybody trying to figure out the point of Chimera Linux, it is Void Linux taken one step further. The founder used to be the maintainer of Void for PPC. That also explains the supported arch selection for Chimera.

My take on Chimera is that it is what a FreeBSD user would want if they were going to use Linux. They share the same compiler and userland. The build system rings a lot of bells.

At first, GNOME seems an odd choice but Chimera wants to avoid a lot of legacy and is pipewire and Wayland from the start.
I doubt that for one user using one CPU the power bill is going to matter. People still use AC, washing machines and electrical heating consuming thousands of kw.
> By laying these artworks in there, they guided a little of that sediment for a lot of people, a cumulative effect that is hard to quantify but could be profound.

I really doubt they did. It was all too subtle. The effect was next to nothing.
He's not a scientist, he's a businessman who spared no expense (except, apparently, on his main systems staff salary)
> 3. Is LinkedIn worth it to Azure to sell to?

Microsoft owns both, so that question gets convoluted. It's not really about whether LinkedIn pays Azure enough to care.
TSDocs: Type Documentation for JavaScript Packages
The US hasn't ever had a vigilant financial services regulator.
E.g. the British pre-decimal duodecimal currency system?
I did it by hand with a scissors. I was losing my sanity every night for months trying to keep my newborn from crying. Printing tons of decks, cutting and sleeving was the kind of thoughtless work that fit in that time period.
Windows 10 will meet EOL in 2025, which coincides with the ceasing of publishing printer drivers to Windows Update. Anything beyond that likely won't apply since Windows 10 past 2025 will either be out of support or only getting security updates.

The key point here is that Microsoft will refuse to WHQL-sign or publish third-party printer drivers from 2027 onwards.

Third-party drivers, without WHQL-signing, will continue to be installable past 2027 on the provided timeline if the manufacturer provides them.
Wow, a free Mac app. I just recently bought a MacBook and I discovered that even for the most basic ones which are free on Windows and Linux, you have to pay.
I'm doubtful, but appreciate your optimism.

I should restate I suppose: Criminal law determined each life ended was only worth $11,500 each in this instance. This precedent determines you can drive your Tesla 74mph into another vehicle if you can pay a $11,500 fine for each random person you slaughter.
So basically nothing Django and a postures db can't do.
They are dangerous! It is the reason the next iteration of cycles was called the safetey bicycle, what we would now all reasonably call a normal bicycle.
> Invest in smart grid-aware EV & home battery charging technologies. Instead of charging whenever you first plug them in (which is usually ~6 PM), load from EV charging should be distributed to whenever the grid has excess power available, with a random factor so that not all EVs charge at once.

Within a handful of years, major home electricity-consuming appliances will come with built-in batteries used for both backup purposes but also for shifting load to the cleanest/cheapest electricity available. By this time commercial/industrial will have already transitioned to this.
That looks nice, and definitely a similar approach.

We plan to expose an API later, this would allow easy integration with apps like yours if that interested you.
The book goes into a lot more detail. Hammond is much more evil in the book. He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on Nedry constantly.
> edit: would also help not having it show in the task switcher, now it sort of annoying to have it show up when Cmd-Tab'bing... while doing the task of course ;)

I've added this to our bugtracker, will get it fixed ASAP. Appreciate the feedback.
> I just went to New Haven CT for the pizza

That's what it's known for. Nice that there's apparently a university there as well. I think they play football with some other well-known schools.
> Being able to make money off the refund is a probable reason why they are even offered.

I think you vastly overestimate the amount of interest a retailer can make on that money vs. the cost of processing the refund, potentially not being able to resell already unpacked goods etc.

Purchases and refunds are also cleared and settled exactly as quickly, i.e. usually on the next business day.
I made it beep!
> I even named it my non-Sweatshop iPhone

Are the conditions at the parts factories any better than at the final assembly factory?
Yep. There are lots of edge-cases and macros that glibc provides are difficult to emulate because they require a lot of domain-specific knowledge and special handling. There isn't really a way to use musl in any large distro without lots and lots of patching and giving up correctness and completeness. It's akin to not using ICU4{C,J} and praying that simplistic Unicode handling like normalization will magically work.

Using musl is fine for limited uses, but it's magical thinking to believe that it's at exact feature and functional parity replacement for glibc.
Their homepage is pretty straightforward. As is the setup-alpine installer.
That’s not right. Not every speculative investment vehicle can function as money. To function as money something has to be divisible (e.g. cut a dollar into cents, cut a kg of gold into grams, cut a Bitcoin into bits), it has to be fungible (any unit of it is the same as all other units, i.e. a dollar is a dollar), it has to be portable (you can put a gold coin in your pocket), it has to be easily-transferable, it has to walk the razor’s edge between plentiful and scarce, etc.

The other big one is wide acceptance, meaning many different people being willing to accept it as payment for goods and services. You can argue that Bitcoin has achieved this as well, though maybe not as much as one might wish or dream.

Bitcoin was designed to be money, so it has the properties of money. That’s not true of pretty much any other type of speculative investment.

Edit: added more to first paragraph.
Can you give some example usecases of your application? I wonder how it scales to complex (in terms of structure) information processing, e.g. digesting scientific topics
Seconding this. It's how I got into electronics myself. I'll add that you can complicate the software in much the same way-- the basics are pretty trivial, but you can go nuts with customization. For one of my keyboards, I implemented my own USB handling using the hardware USB registers just for "fun" (and education, and to be able to say I wrote every line of code running on it).
I found the following books quite useful in my study of "Embedded Systems/Hardware" coming from a purely Software background. Without overwhelming you they provide just the right level/amount of Hardware knowledge to get you going.

1) Designing Embedded Hardware by John Catsoulis.

2) Introduction to Embedded Systems: Using Microcontrollers and the MSP430 by Manuel Jimenez et al.

3) Prototype to Product: A Practical Guide for Getting to Market by Alan Cohen.

You can also look at using Digilent equipment (eg. Analog Discovery 3 or 2) and learning materials along with Arduino/MSP430/whatever to get better practical insight into your system - https://digilent.com/reference/landing and https://digilent.com/reference/learn/start
Somewhat related:

Apple QuickTake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29738115 - Dec 2021 (3 comments)

Apple QuickTake 100 Digital Camera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062686 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)
Appreciate the feedback, I've added the task switcher issue to our bugtracker, will fix it ASAP.
Both parties are attempting to publicly track popular opinion while simultaneously protecting the economic interests of their patrons. It’s not surprising that they track each other’s performance fairly closely. That’s kind of the point.
I am building a SQL like query engine with a typescript query builder. It aims to provide multidimensional query capabilities (think about olap cube). The query engine is compatible with several databases (sucks, clickhouse, bigqueryx, snowflake...). Our users are developers building decision making applications. They are using for instance duckdb to develop locally their application and use a cloud provider in production. Here's the link https://github.com/squashql/squashql. Feel free to ask me any questions.
1/16 is several orders of magnitude too high for comfort. There are only 64 hex digits total, so I'm not sure where 128 comes from?

If you meant bits, the two example hashes I gave already match 184 out of 256 total bits.
True, if you can do a side-by-side comparison! On a mobile device, switching between apps and manually comparing, it would have probably fooled me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function

I don't know exactly what kind of joke or confusion this is, but I've flagged the submission and include this helpful wikipedia article which discusses the relevant information theory.

Very weird joke or strange confusion.
>Why should efficient lending decisions somehow be uniquely hard to make in a large corporation with many local branch offices?

Once a bank gets big enough, I think the main issue is risk. The long tail of tiny banks represents a certain customer type that is harder to model in an Excel model and is vetted through personal relationships. Consider one the "big" banks in that long talk - SVB. For a lot of startups getting banking services such ACH, or lending mortgages to founders backed by "paper gains" would be a nightmare for your classically trained big-four bank manager. Conversely, all the work thank bank manager would have to do in winning those deals, likely wouldn't get any benefit from the parent bank except for the bank charter and maybe a small bonus. It's better to be the CEO of a small bank with a highly differentiated order flow, then to fight your exec who lives 1000 miles away that won't let you lend to founder of DropBox because cloud storage isn't a dropdown in their excel spreadsheet.
Looks like http(s).
If you enjoyed the OP, then Andy Matuschak’s article on how to write good prompts (cards) should also be interesting for you. And if you want to learn more about the research behind spaced repetition, then Gwern’s article is pretty good.

https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/
https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
Thankfully I never sat down at a public comouter at my college and found it was a Mac.
Related:

Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643369 - Dec 2023 (237 comments)
Exactly. A 1 in 16 chance to send money to a scammer instead of the intended party is unacceptably high, for example.
Samsung still has to solve yield and capacity problems. It wasn't only process node advantage that made customers form lines in front of TSMC shop.
In my experience a lot of people still like to withdraw their salary when it arrives and spend it as cash. It depends on demographic. In cities like London and Bristol card-only pubs are common.
That's just an excuse you're using to not provide your passport details. Surely if you have nothing to hide you would not hesitate for one second to reveal your personal details. Right?

Absurd arguments all around.
Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job
currently in bay area. quit 10 months ago because of health reasons. 110% better now, thank goodness

i've mostly done lifecycle software engineering for the last 10 years (python c++ javascript). I rarely got to develop features; happened a couple times in the last year. I enjoyed bug fixing but it's such a rare position to find. i've gotten a few interviews, more coming.

i've never gotten a job through a referral. i don't really know anybody but going to meetups is on the agenda. does meetup.com even work anymore? not sure how that works, tho...social anxiety+cptsd+autism makes it so difficult.

how do you even find 'mentors' ? no one has ever helped me like that, it's inconceivable.

I've been grinding leetcode more, and am getting better ( dont have to look at answers as much), studying SD question/answers. working on side projects that are technical enough

But i'm so scared i wont ever find another job. im thinking of just going to trucking school, but i like software a lot.
But the British system wasn't really "just" duodecimal either, I recall 20 shilling to a pound and 12 pence to a shilling.
I don't recall, but I know about, 4 farthings to a penny.

And if Terry Pratchett is to be believed, it was a much worse mess that that.
The horrible concept the a “sale” is only a revocable license hasn’t spread to cars too much yet. There is a robust trade in high end used cars via private parties and specialists - you can just look at eBay motors for plenty of examples.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296067000770?hash=item44eef7e9c2%3A...