skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The benefits of the current system are enormous, incomprehensibly enormous.

I completely disagree. You're conflating the benefits of technological innovation which are substantial with the benefits of socio-economic and legal 'innovation' which are non-existent and in fact negative.

It's like there is a really good horse but it's covered in parasites; e.g. ticks and you're praising the parasites for helping the horse win the race. It won in spite of the ticks, not because of them.

If you look at the west (e.g. US, Europe) in the 1800s and 1900s, most families could buy a nice house with land on just one income without even taking on debt. They could achieve this even while there were world wars going on and far less advanced technology than we have today.

The narrative about things improving for developing countries (or any other country) is nonsense. It's thinly veiled propaganda, just like ESG and Wokeism. If things were improving in developing countries, why would people from these countries be trying to immigrate to the west in unprecedented numbers today, even while the west itself is clearly declining? The GDP per capita of essentially all African countries is as low as ever. Only China has been doing well; but that's only because the west gave them a monopoly on manufacturing at its own expense due to short term thinking; which happens to be incentivized by corporate bonus structures in the west.

I don't even want to start talking about the media and how it interacts with big corporations and big government... But it would explain why you think everything is going great; all while an increasing number of people, highly skilled people are living in poverty. The level of deception in the media is unlike anything we've ever experienced before.
They want to return to a sort of corporate scrip; Central Bank Digital Currency on a national level.
Congrats, you just discovered percentage calculation...
I'm rather amazed at how well Steam and other game platforms have been integrated into Linux. I'm using EndeavorOS, not exactly the most common distribution, but installing Steam and Heroic is just a matter of a simple command to install. Works great. Documentation is great. Easy as pie.
That's the whole context with two user inputs in the INST tags, and one assistant output between/outside of the tags. They're just simulating the beginning of a conversation. You can see this very clearly in the JSON version in the next code block:

messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "What is your favourite condiment?"},
{"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, I'm quite partial to a good squeeze of fresh lemon juice. It adds just the right amount of zesty flavour to whatever I'm cooking up in the kitchen!"},
{"role": "user", "content": "Do you have mayonnaise recipes?"}
]
Indeed, there's never been a positive correlation between saving energy and improving human progress. If there will be, now is not that time.

We truly need clean, plentiful energy, too cheap to meter. We will still research power-savings techniques, but not so that we can save on energy, but so we can pack compute machinery denser.

My personal sci-fi imagination/dream is that we gain enough energy that we start beaming waste energy into space, if only because it'd be a really cool problem to have :) If we could start actively cooling the planet where needed.
Do you still expect that to work now that the decade of low interest rates is over? Shouldn't people buy individual bonds instead?
Anyone knows Vulcan's Centaur stage dry mass?

I think it escaped attention of too many people. The new Centaur is much bigger and holds almost 3 times the fuel of original one as used on say, Atlas V. That an upper stage of a totally different scale. I also believe that it's mass ratio should be absurdly high, can't wait to find out, for some reason it's not published.

Essentially, it stands right in the middle between 5-meter DCCS/ICPS (biggest hydrolox upper stage operational now), and EUS which seems to be an awfully long-delayed, extremely expensive blue elephant which might as well be cancelled before it's first flight.
> The only way to tackle this is to put leadership in prison

Agreed. But law-makers and politicians in charge of the judiciary have been bought. Laws and the enforcement of them won't change any time soon
> There are some studies here from Germany that suggest that heat pump systems can lead to higher total CO2 emissions than using alternative systems.

Were these studies, or "studies" that were effectively marketing for Russian supplied gas, which until two years ago was a state level foreign policy goal, complete subsidies that advantaged fossil fuel heating and local politicians getting kickbacks from "interested parties" on the side.

Similar to the sugar industries and their "studies" about fat.
You don’t seem to understand, the Byzantine problems are caused by Apple. They don’t bother properly following the network rules and guidelines, as a consequence the data banks get about their transactions in order decide an approval or detect fraud is a complete and total mess. Makes detecting fraud vs legitimate transactions harder than it should be.

Eh, I assume you also want your bank to block fraudulent transactions on your card. Somehow I doubt you would react kindly to someone buying half a dozen MacBooks on your card without your knowledge.
Special services killing agents (or assets) of their own special services is not a conspiracy theory.
Try to spend more time imagining and entertaining that thought. They both have the same function but execute it differently.
There is saying of Muhammad at least Imran Khan (Pakistan former prime minister) keeps reciting/saying that its Muhammad saying that nations have died/have destroyed themselves when the laws for the rich were different from the laws for the poor.
I feel sometimes US is going through something like this poor people go to jail for doing things rich/ruling class pay a fine for and it is causing anti state feelings to emerge from different parts of the populace. So far the discontented are separate movements divided along race, education and party lines. But they are mostly asking for the same thing better lives.
I was once informed that everybody has eaten at least eight spiders in their sleep. Another person in the same car confidently confirmed:

> It's true, if you're on you deathbed and you've only eaten one spider seven more come along and jump right in there at that last second.

I figured it was that sort of reasoning that got us to 24 million babies.
> Total: 26 days 5 hrs 40 mins

What's the significance of adding up together the rows? Time passes simultaneously for all these companies.
I think I might also need some idea of the degree to which the contents of the trolley can be replaced and what will happen if we lose those resources. Does it contain diamonds that are valuable but useless or a limited supply of life saving medicine?

It would also be relevant to know who will bear the cost of losing the trolley. Is it society as a whole or some capitalist?
I immediately want to install the Enlightenment WM with that old steampunk theme again and do some POV-RAY.
And now you are mixing free cash flow, with revenue, with profits...
>I think you've started off great with your comment about respect but rewording some of the sentences after that to clarify that you're talking about neurotypical brains might be better.

Isn't that implied in most contexts? If I'm talking about legs' role in running, I don't need to clarify that I'm talking about normal legs, and not legs that are suffering from impairments/disabilities.
XFCE disagrees with you.

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=10432

Just Google and there are hundreds of hits with people struggling to resize windows due to the tiny boarders.
I set a goal to not buy any new computers (anything with a CPU) in the 2020s. I've broken that to buy a Steam Deck, which I justified to myself because it fits use-cases that nothing else that I have fits (particularly gaming on public transit). Otherwise things are going pretty smoothly. I'm using the same Samsung S10 that I got in 2018 I think. I'm using a laptop from the early 2010s. I upgraded the GPU in my desktop from an RX 590 to an RX 6650 XT, but only bexause the 590 had a problem that caused my system to unpredictably crash.

I've been wanting to abandon my smart phone entirely for a while now. I started using jmp.chat so I could use SMS and phone calling from any machine that supports XMPP. That has been quite nice; I hope to integrate it more into my life to replace my smart phone.
Closer to 0.32% than 8%.
And dreams even years later about having a cigarette and then waking up and wanting a cigarette... I started smoking around 13 or 14 and quit at 27. Still have those dreams once in a while seven years later.
Technically Apple absolutely did the right thing. Slowing down phones to prevent them from shutting off randomly is objectively the right move, especially since Apple’s SoCs are so performant they typically have enough headroom to offer reasonable performance even at lower clock speeds.

Where they failed was in not communicating this and trying to Apple Magic “it just works pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” when they should have been straightforward.

That’s basically this controversy in a nut shell. The tin foil hatting over planned obsolescence that always comes out has never made sense for a company that supports its smartphones with software updates longer than anyone else in the industry. Even this throttling was really about prolonging the usable life of your phone—you are more likely to think you need to buy a new phone if it’s randomly turning itself off all the time, rather than just feeling a little slower than it used to.
Minor update https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/releases/tag/1.1a Can’t edit that comment anymore, too late.
This is true for all Meta/Google/Twitter properties. No phone number results in a high chance of suspension irrespective of your usage.
I am not receiving the confirmation email.

Are you having issues emailing iCloud accounts?
There are many apps that work when the user is entirely offline and HTMX is not a good option if that is a key requirement of your app.

Figma is an example.
Unless you build everything you need from scratch I don't see how it's odd.
I think you are forgetting prescription drugs, who have had their dangers grossly underestimated to further medical industry profits.

Every day I see people on the streets, destroyed and turned to ghouls in great part because of the well known destructive drugs. Heroin, crack cocaine, meth, alcohol. There is no reason to pretend these aren't destructive. And there is no reason to put psychedelics in the same category, because these substances have nothing in common.
Portkey is super cool, congrats Rohit and Ayush on the HN launch!
Maybe the last command registered on this phone is “Siri open side door”.
Because as a shareholder, I have zero influence on whether or not the company violates laws?
Buffett's response would be that the general ideas underpinning that thinking of "alpha," "beta" and modern portfolio theory are bunk.
A few months back, we embarked on what seemed like another regular project. Little did we know, it would turn into such a game changer for LLM deployments.

Feels surreal that this gateway is already processing upwards of 3B tokens a day in such a short time.
question, how far does this logic go? would you expect people to consider the environmental ramifications if they use a v12 20liter car to go to the grocery store every day? or whether its proper to prepare A LOT of food and just throw out what you dont eat?

Why is responsibility for the software YOU decide to use somehow not something you get, but responsibility for the car you choose to drive is most certainly something you get
Building AI-Generated Furniture
You can find a place with zero fraud by denying all transactions. This is of course, maximally inefficient and totally useless.

It's less about "allowing fraud" and more about managing false positives in the fraud detection subsystem: it should ideally detect fraud, and only fraud. The false positives need to be low enough for the system to work, without also having so much fraud that the system stops working. Ideally there are no false positives at all, but at some point the effort to reduce this further exceeds the returns. Like with fraud.
I like the beginning of the article quite a lot for giving an overview of the cerebellum, teaching that it is the home of unconscious learning, but to me it goes into weak speculations quite quickly, first with the 'Purkinje cells learn individually but not other found do that' leads to 'neuron connectivity is not enough to simulate' brain activity while knowing that higher level mental activity exists without cerebellum. Also that cerebellum might be the home of measurement just beacuse Purkinje cell can time a reaction, then based on the headlines (lost interest to attentive reading) speculating that it is the place for anticipation and sensing. Having a feeling that wants to expand cerebellum onto as much as fantasy stretches. The whole cerebellum topic sounds fascinating without 'rethinking intelligence' completely.
Spam you with spam spamifications. Clutter your mobile device device with more twisty little icons that all look look the same. Attempt to store content with an unreliable storage service.

Move on folks, nothing more to see here. PWAs are just another Google side project, talking about them in 2024 is like still being hung up on a chat app Google killed years ago or being that guy who did his whole house up in Material Design.
I'd love to know more detail on the insulation as I live in a Victorian stone building. One person says "external walls internally insulated [...] and the loft insulation improved, a process she describes as “very invasive” but worthwhile." Presumably they're stripping off the internal lath-and-plaster from external walls then replacing with insulation-backed board. Maybe the the new room size is smaller meaning any plaster cornicing has to be ripped out/replaced. I can see why she calls it very invasive.
Personally I find draughts to be a huge problem. When it's cold and windy it's especially cold inside. But I don't know how to fix draughts without risking dampness or rot - never found any government guidance on this. It's a huge pain and I am not sure there is an easy "insulate" solution for these old properties.
Navajo Nation objects to a plan to send human remains to the moon
Nice thing about SQLite is you can “clone” the repository by copying a single file. And in cases where you need incremental sync, you can use an SQLite of diff’s as a single packfile (similar to git).

Things like cr-SQLite also have a lot of potential to make single SQLite per client a lot more viable. But I’m interested to see what you think the problems are? Have you found a solution or alternative?
> Were these studies, or "studies" that were effectively marketing for Russian supplied gas

I guess your next comment will be that the Fraunhofer Institut has been infiltrated by Russians?

https://www.ibp.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ibp/ibp-neu/de/dok...

And here's a video with all the information on different studies, universities and companies involved. This is basically a guy helping german real estate companies to survive in the current environment. It's in German. Translate it for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRe_Fu28CQs
100 + 2 doesn't exist in reality so...
>They have the limitation that they are additive-only, you can't mutate existing source

.Net has System.CodeDom which can load existing source code and mutate it.
That's awesome. 40 years ago people would have killed for such (I myself included, if it were for Z80 instead of 6502).

But why? I know better then to ask for such projects, but here I do, because the project's readme provides a 'history & motivation' section, albeit which doesn't really tells much of the latter.

"The original idea for the oscar64 compiler was to translate the C source to an intermediate 16 bit byte code". That's (afair) the approach taken by the (out-of-tree) GCC port to the Parallax P8X32A (itself not an easy target for C: registers, if one wants to call the local memory location used as such that are wide, but the architecture is memory starved and there's no hardware stack). Is there some overlap?
Or the classic “nolo episcopari“ - only promote those who don’t want it. :)
> ...Docker, Nix OS, "serverless", etc. all exist because of Linux's complexity

Yeah, this seems like it's more directly competing with those than Linux. I'd want to see those addressed in the "Why?" -- that is, why MotorOs instead of Docker, etc.?
Just because you have not looked for evidence does not mean it doesn't exist.

I have no evidence that my neighbor has a water softener - but that evidence does exist and I could obtain it in several ways (ask him; break into his house). Maybe he doesn't have one, maybe he does - but either way the evidence exists if I cared to look for it.
The biggest problem with cookie banners for me is that, for the vast majority of sites I visit, my preferences are not saved beyond the current session if I choose to Reject All tracking cookies. If I choose to Accept All, the banner is magically never displayed again.
I would be more surprised if HN didn't sprint to defend big tech, profit numbers are worthless because they can easily make those look however they want. Revenue is a much more useful indicator when looking at these giga corpos from the outside.
The better cholesterol test you didn't know you needed
thanks! we spent very long building it out properly. Time to integrate weaviate generators now?
The status of something as evidence is partly down to a judgement about relevance.

If some random person in 1970 jokingly were to have said "Yeah, I killed JFK." That wouldn't have been considered "evidence" of that person's culpability in JFK's death. But if there were other evidence that established the plausibility of that person having possibly killed JFK (worked at the Book Depository, hated JFK, owned a rifle, expert markmsman, etc...) then the statement becomes a kind of evidence-- a confession.

So the status of something as "evidence" and not merely data can change based on the context.

Here's another example. There was water all over the floor of my kitchen. Initially, we suspected that I may have spilled some water while filling a humidifier. There was evidence for that in the form of my own memory that I had spilled some, a few hours earlier, and there were water streaks down the side of the humidifier. This seemed to be supprting evidence. But then my wife remembered that she had filled a pan to check for leaks in it and then forgot all about it. That pan was now empty. In light of that evidence, which was very compelling (we even verified that there was indeed a leak in that pan) the earlier "evidence" STOPPED being evidence at all.
I know nothing about HTMX. Where do I look first?
> You should be extra suspicious when the fines are coming from countries where they don't have offices.

They're doing business in these countries, and making a profit from that. Where they do or don't have an office isn't that important: it's about who they're doing business with.

And it's really very simple: "obey the law or sod off". If you think that's too much bother then that's completely fair – no hard feelings. Just don't do business then.
I'm not sure there's any reason to mandate that exact solution.

It seems more likely that they would mandate age verification. This would be one way the government could support to do that. There's no reason PornHub couldn't support this, or other methods (or just one or the other). I think the law would say "a site has to verify the age of the user", not "everyone who wants to look at porn has to have age verification via a smart phone".
I don't think it fell outside the environment either.
Enshittification is the word of the year 2023. I wonder how enshittifed SoundCloud will become (it pretty much already is, but there's room for more).

Who will buy it? Who would?
Technically it's great IMHO.

But when someone pays 1 billion currency they will want to extract at least the same amount out of this service.
I don't expect it's about having an axe to grind, but about running a content marketing mill where neither factual correctness nor originality matters. (The proposed call to action for the "fines aren't big enough" problem is, after all, to sign up for a paid email service.)

The poor guy has a quota to meet, and there was nothing in the news this week to use for rabble rousing, so the only option was to recycle some of the old content.
There is an endless supply of corporate robots to replace them.

Instead there are options:

1. Govt walks in and just nationalizes them ala Japan post world war 2 where Mitsubishi, Sumimoto etc where just turned into puppets over night As in hostile takeover to influence how they use their loot.

2. Govt can then use the SpaceX model to disrupt brick and mortar sectors world wide (cement, steel, ships, planes, energy, fertilizer etc etc). The test will be bringing prices down of everything not just for Americans or the west but for everyone. other wise immigration waves just like the drugs flowing into the west will never stop.

Tech is supposed to fuck prices up. Google once upon a time did it for email, chat, video, search etc. I don't see why it can't happen with everything. We need grand goals not just how to add 6 more cameras into another fucking phone.
I use an upgraded Thinkpad X61, coupled with a screen from 2010 as my daily machine. This setup has not failed my once. The X61 is also incredibly small and easy to travel with. I use the current LTS release of Ubuntu. I also have 2 other Thinkpads (R60 and T510) which I sometimes use (mostly to watch movies) and a 2008 gaming PC which I sometimes use as a home server.

My living room TV is a 10 years old dumb device, attached to a Pi running Kodi.

My office TV is an old TV from the 70ies (also attached to Pi, connected via an HDMI->Antenna converter) which I bought on eBay for 15 EUR in 2007.

I buy only refurbished smartphones, because I cannot find a modern device which comfortably fits into my pocket during cycling.

Most of my other devices (keyboard, mouse, speakers, headphones, scanner, ...) I bought as a teenager in the mid-2000s. I only replace them when broken, which so far only happened to my old printer in 2014.

Our vacuum cleaner is also 15 years old.

We have slowly and unconsciously removed most electrical devices from our kitchen, with the exception of an early 2000s dishwasher, an electric kettle, a 1998 stove, a mixer from 2008, an IKEA fridge, and an old radio from the 70ies.

A few years ago, we needed a clothes dryer. After doing research for some days, we bought... a used Miele Novotronic from the 90ies in mint condition for 60 EUR from an old lady. (The build quality is ridiculous, I suspect this thing will outlive us).

Our family bikes are all pre-1985 (easier to repair than modern ones).

We are in our mid-/early 30ies with one child. We never consciously decided to downgrade our devices or "go retro". Typically, a modern device would break down, and we would replace it with its earlier version which was still located somewhere in our or our parent's basement or some closet. More often than not, we would not replace it because we didn't need it anymore (best example: coffee machines, a french press is completely sufficient and more convenient for us). There is also an aesthetic aspect. I simply find most modern devices incredibly ugly.

Also, maybe it's because I am getting old, but whenever I see a modern laptop / household appliance / car / etc., all my bullshit detectors go full blast (I also cannot stand devices telling me how to live my life, and for me this starts with a dishwasher that beeps when finished).
In theory, it would simplify concurrency primitives in the kernel space, especially on the main thread, which is something I’ve notice is not an area that a lot of kernels explore.