skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's agree to disagree then.

That's ok.

> FWIW, people selling copies of Vinyls and cassettes on blank cassettes were no real threat to the distribution business of a music label.

Precisely: crap quality and a medium that didn't last for very long even if you were careful with the cassettes. You usually got a year or two out of them before the tape got eaten, especially if you used them in cars. None of the tapes I had from that era survives. All of the MP3s I made in the '00s survive today.

> Even people copying CDs didn't harm them that much, because their reach and scale was always limited.

Copying CDs wasn't possible for the first two decades of the CD format because there were no writable CDs.

> They only got engaged when the scale increased (mass-copying of content).

Yes. Plextor was a factor in that, the MP3 format, the internet and a massive available catalog of high quality content without DRM.

> But when MP3 hit, every single upload was threatening their global distribution business, because suddenly someone was distributing for free.

That's because it was the last missing component. Fraunhofer didn't exactly make any friends in the music industry with that trick. But all of the other elements were just as much a requirement.

> The Quality of content didn't matter for the disruption of the business, a huge amount of popular music on Napster/LimeWire/AudioGalaxy/... was actually recorded from Radio,.

You see the same today with movie piracy: the DVD rips are the ones that really drive it, the 'cam' captures are junk.

> If cassettes were the peak media and pirated digital content would have been limited to recordings from cassettes, yet still distributed globally by every kid from everywhere on the planet who gets hold of ONE tape, the wheels would have been set in motion just the same.

It wouldn't have happened due to the generational loss between copies. And that's exactly why the availability of CD grade content matters because it effectively plugs you into the ADC at the studio instead of 3 different mastering steps in between. That's why 'virgin pressings' (the first 100 or so of the records off a new master) were so sought after, especially by fans of music with a high dynamic range.
I have done zero research, am not at all qualified to say any such things… but I feel like microplastics will eventually be looked back on the way we look back on asbestos today. “People used to throw PLASTIC in the ocean?!” We are in that awkward period of being aware, yet the damage has been done, so now we wait for the long-term effects to manifest.

Again, probably wrong, not at all an opinion to be taken as fact, just a gut feeling. History tells us that there will at least be SOMETHING perceived as normal today that is later discovered to be not okay, anyway. Plastic, social media, hell, maybe even EV after 50 years of batteries rotting in landfills.
This submission isn't on the front page because of incidents 4-5 years ago. It is on the front page because of the news this week.
You must be rather young or only started listening to the news recently after a lifetime of ignoring it.

The news only started sounding like that very recently.

You can check this for yourself, go look at some archived newspapers from the early 1990s.
Ehhh... if you're lucky. I've seen (and maybe even written) plenty of we-didn't-have-time-to-write-this-properly-with-dataframes Python data munging code, banged out once and then deployed to production. I'll take performance gains there.
Because Samsung TVs deliver 90% of the quality at half the price. There's a reason basically every single major TV reviewer put the x95c as the TV of the year in 2023. LG and Sony eke out minor quality victories at massively increased prices. I do miss my Sony up-scaling quality for the odd old show I watch. The Samsung is noticeably bad here.
Of Mad Max fame...
Well if OP's original "missing the forest for the trees" analogy is to be revisited (which I tend to agree with), it's that pedantry is sort of by (some) definition focusing on the letter rather than the spirit of what's at hand, and due to its often lack of necessity, comes across as taking the opportunity to "one up" or criticize something that doesn't end up making any pragmatic differences.

I've heard some people describe the compulsion something along the lines of "I don't think of it that way, I just noticed something they said was incorrect and so I presented them the correct information", often assuming it would be appreciated.

I mean, it's probably good for engineers in the engineering room, but the culture outside of maker's spaces probably won't consider it smashing conversation.
This this this.

> Putting everything into exactly one database is a superpower.

Especially this.

$1M big iron DB server is much cheaper than a redundant array of inexpensive databases when people come to actually use the data; be it developers, analysts or leadership, everybody saves time, except perhaps a few DBAs.
Is there any research being done on how our bodies are “hopefully” learning to adapt to this omnipresence of plastics everywhere in and around us?
You seem to assume they will magically get out of their rut for some reason. If cutting costs is the rut boeing is in, what will cause them to get out of it? For a poorly functioning company, bankruptcy is the usual, but mcdonell douglas and boeing are strategic assets, so bankruptcy isnt allowed, and they can take our tax money and deliver death.
And here we are, the HN consumers, reading(!) the comments. No videos or pictures.
I mention this to support your comment, that there are people who like to read, and learn from reading, but it requires more time, more involvement, and more imagination. We are a minority?
Few have that luxury, and inclination - it turns out, so the massive onslaught of easy, entertainment.
One music video can have 500 million viewers. I don't know how many viewers of HN there are, but, I doubt it's a million.
It is interesting to see where (and how) the information flow goes from here on.
> It sounds like you have a reading comprehension problem?

Well that's extremely rude.

You listed objections people might have and I'm calling those objections shallow and bad.

> This is like saying of an American football team, "Why not just have the quarterback play defense part of the time?"

This is a situation where you need experience on the defense to be a good quarterback, and physical shape is irrelevant, and the quarterback is worried about permanent salary loss because other teams don't value quarterbacks. In that case it would make sense to have a single job title and have them do a mix so they stay fresh on their defense experience.

Even if the doc writer isn't the optimal programmer, consider the gap as a training expense and a way to make sure you have enough doc writers applying. If it's a bad idea then there is always the option of paying them even more to compensate for career damage.

And nowhere did I suggest making the normal programmers do the doc writing.
> Therefore, you are always stuck with a grid built with capacity for the same peak.

Thanks, I understand your point now. I thought you were arguing something much looser.

But I think you're looking at residential solar in isolation, and not considering the load-shifting that comes with a smart grid.
Twitter targeting has always been ass though. All the employees they had pre elon were unable to improve it over a decade plus.
Please DO YOUR RESEARCH for whomever is entering your mouth. Do NOT be afraid for "second opinions" or to ask for "more painkiller, please."

I did not visit a dentist but a few times before my mid-30's... and only then because an online friendship turned out to have been with a local dentist. In the past few years I have spent tens-of-thousands of USDs restoring what even once-daily brushing could have prevented. Even when I was finally able to afford dental implant restorations, I waited years out of surgical fear.

My main dentist really dislikes his job (we are friends, professionally), wishes he was a CostCo manager... and I really am only able to visit dentists because I know he has great attention to detail. But he is not "bad," despite the occassional dental re-work. He owns his own practice (rare) but is about to be wiped-out by familial cancer — we are the same age, started out on same medical timeline. I know he doesn't charge enough for the quality he delivers, but fear his practice may soon be up for sale (and likely purchased by mega-corp investors).

Please stay away from the big-chain places, and particularly credit-issuing platforms. I wouldn't feel comfortable enough doing this now (as it would require multiple visits over several months) but if you "just" have a lot of cavities, or need crowns... travel abroad and pay much less for similar services (e.g. along Rio Grande/Baja Calif.).

I am so grateful for my dentist, and wish him well in his human struggles.
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People tend to care disproportionately about human life. We don’t actually know whether we’ll adapt at the pace required to overcome widespread plastic contamination (or really whether we even need to adapt).

Policy-by-platitude is a bad strategy.
is there one for the inevitability of catastrophe during a big presentation?

hence the ritualistic offering to the 'demo gods'

(personally i break something on purpose right before the demo, so that the 'something will go wrong' had had already 'gone wrong', but i'm now in a much better position to fix it live (no troubleshooting your own bug))
An airline is responsible more for safely operating the aircraft (including most maintenance). An airline really isn't in a position to verify every design detail of an aircraft any more than you're responsible for verifying there are no potential design flaws in your (much simpler) car that could potentially cause someone injury.
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I don't think becoming vegetarian helps. From the article:

> The study found evidence that food processing is a likely source of microplastic contamination, as highly processed protein products (like fish sticks, chicken nuggets, tofu, and plant-based burgers, among others) contained significantly more microplastics per gram than minimally processed products (items like packaged wild Alaska pollock, raw chicken breast, and others).

Note the tofu and plant-based burgers.
> A man in a friendship is not required to provide for other friends, but it is encouraged to raise his intergroup status.

That's an upside-down perspective on friendship. "Friendship" and "intergroup status" have nothing to do with each other. Somebody who wouldn't help you is not a friend, and any group that has "intergroup status" is a mob and not a group of friends.
> I have done zero research, am not at all qualified to say any such things… but

Always a great way to start a sentence. (Intended in jest.)
> seem to not know the meaning of suspect

Suspicion doesn't mean baseless hypothesis, e.g. "Mars is an orange." The NTSB would never say (and has not said, as you've conceded) it "suspects" the "bolts were never screwed in."

Were there a lack of marks where the bolts should have exerted clamping force, there would be basis for suspicion. That isn't proof. But it's more than a hypothesis.
Perhaps, but we really don't know the harm.

And if the exposure is as universal as it sounds, then we can place some upper bounds on the amount of harm. With asbestos, the exposure was somewhat limited, but had greater consewuences. With plastics, we are all getting it.
Fair feedback. We only have a free tier until now. We're rolling out pricing and billing in the upcoming days and will launch a pricing page soon after to be explicit.
People spend so much more time inside cars than inside airplanes every year, that such a comparison seems disingenuous. You should normalize the deaths by time travelled.
You can use rsync with some magic to get at the files, but it's not much removed from using cat.
Mechanics routinely forget to bolt the wheels onto cars, which has caused and continues to cause actual traffic deaths.

Nobody floods into the comment sections on HN when this happens because people dying in cars is depressingly normal but planes are so unimaginably safe that a person hypothetically getting sucked out of a plane is strange and terrifying.
Converted my house to heat pump last year and seen a full year of what the cost savings look like. Saving 50% over gas in the winter, saving 30% in the summer over my old AC. I don’t miss the furnace firing up and the noises it would make when it pushed tons of hot air. Getting much more constant temperature instead of being hot sometimes and cold the next.

Negative: Not a fan of the weird noise the unit outside my bedroom window makes at a more consistent rate through the winter and it annoys my neighbor too.

Overall got the home warranty to cover about 10k of the 16k replacement, after learning about going to arbitration here on HN!

Definitely happy with the conversion overall thus far. Jury is still out on long term reliability
appreciate the response, that's what I was thinking but I couldn't quite be sure if I was missing something.
Yep that was what I was referring to with shortages and exhaustion - not great with the recent revelations of the near misses. It's a warning that if the work to maintain those safety numbers isn't done we can't expect them to stay the same. Air travel is still safe, and has a lot of headroom before it's as bad as cars. But even that argument is kind of scary to see people making. Going from "even a single failure is unacceptable" to "even with 2 planes falling out of the sky it's still safer than driving" is a shift in mindset that threatens to invalidate that latter argument.
In washing machines, there is also LG (Korean). And in Europe, Electrolux/AEG.
Good for Hey, but I wish this rule was revised. Google Calendar doesn't offer any functionality if you are logged out. (Does Netflix?)
hae: Like grep but with natural language queries
Uh huh. Nothing in this article makes me want to go anywhere near Nix again.
I think the point is that twitter doesnt need new features. Twitter can just be twitter.
we have robust replacement for asbestos, but not clear if we will get replacement for plastic..
And the lifecycle of the likely consumers of this energy source have much faster reproduction cycles, therefore faster ability to evolve to use this energy source.

I'm very curious how we will protect against this, otherwise bacteria will eat away at our car dashboards and such.
What town is that? It seems like the success of diversifying away from cars depends on the place and how it grew. LA, for example, grew at the time of peak automobile infrastructure investment and it's basically unrecoverable at this point. There are probably other reasons why places like LA are so locked in to cars now, but that's the one that seems obvious to me.
> Again, nobody in the entire world prays for a mediocre life, a mediocre health, a mediocre salary, a mediocre partner.

There are plenty of people for whom mediocrity would be a big step up. If you have terrible health, having mediocre health sounds delightful. If your partner is abusive, having a mediocre one looks like a grace.

Your sample selection for "the entire world" seems to be leaving a lot of people out.

Nobody's saying you ought to hope for mediocrity. But plenty of people do.

In fact, for most things that aren't important to me, mediocrity is the level I hope to attain. Sure, I could probably achieve higher, but if it's something I don't value, putting in that additional effort would be at the cost of something I value more. If my achievement drops below mediocre, it's usually bad enough to cause problems, so mediocrity is my "not very good, but not bad enough to be a problem" level goal for things that don't matter to me.
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The game is playable from start to finish but the ongoing work and roadmap includes features and functionality not present in the current version such as changes and additions to the levels as well as custom level/level sharing functionality. Scoring and circuit complexity are being modified as well. I greatly enjoy it but if one is looking for something that isn't going to change under their feet it's not quite there yet.
This type of delay is of strategic value to the status quo.

"We need to wait until all the facts are in," "investigations take time," "We're still looking at root causes and it is premature to..." These statements may be factually true, but the time it takes allows people to be distracted by something else, passions to cool, and urgency to dissipate.

It's no brainwave for Boeing or anyone else (e.g. the NTSB, on Boeing's behalf) to realize that the slower and more methodical the investigation, the lower the final penalty (of whatever kind) will probably be, at least for one-off incidents. When the track record gets long, the actual quality of the investigations may start weighing against them...eventually.
You are correct, I misunderstood! Hopefully my prattling on will be helpful to others though...
Aren't "Sony" panels rebranded Samsung (and sometimes LG) panels?
"Creating content" meant for a platform tends to reduce quality to the lowest common denominator of what will work for that platform. When the algorithm reigns supreme, there's less incentive to try something new. The internet has lost its sense of fun creative trial and error.
Firefox on Android does not support client certificates
I'm a sucker for Terry Pratchett.
If this has been happening for decades, why are lifespans still increasing, why are average heights of new generations increasing, etc?

I know PFAS are hormonal disrupters in research but it seems like most people are doing... just fine?
1. If the website is correctly using HSTS, the new HTTPS DNS record, or redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS manually with a 301 then you don't even need to specify a protocol. Just put in domain.TLD and go.
2. ???
3. Yes, it's the protocol definition and that's what it means, correct.
4. Without the protocol, it's not a URL. The specification of a valid URL can be read here https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1738 where it points out that a "scheme" (the protocol, such as "http" or "http" or "ftp") is required.

The problem is your examples assume you're talking about ONLY a web server, when you can put ftp:// or ssh:// or even gopher:// in front of ycombinator.com and the connection process will be vastly different, as they are different schemes of communication. Websites will always require a valid protocol before the domain because otherwise there's no way to know for sure where the link is meant to go.
Just like the 737 MAX then ;)
I guess, but perhaps having an app in the foreground increases power usage? For example, if this app accesses the network a lot (not just when it's time to update the image) this would result in the wifi chipset being awake for longer.
Not just tires. Your clothes being washed.
> We developed a custom LLM model

Maybe you should ask yourself, why did you do this? Was it to solve your own or someone else’s problem? Or because you thought it would be fun? No shame in the second one, but it’s a lot harder to work backwards from that into a viable product.
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Only if you're able to prove that AGI will be conscious instead of just an extremely optimized system that spits out the responses that convinces you. And it will be far more convincing than any human, even without consciousness. Otherwise, you're taking a suicide pill for nothing.
well I dunno, we've only tested this architecture for 60 years and a few million companies...

in all seriousness, putting the data in one place also makes it a lot easier to optimize and to amortize the optimization efforts.
I tried it, with NVlink. The speedup during inference is negligible. You'll probably benefit more during training.
Full copy of the paper:
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Teaching/553/2011/Reso...

There's also this which seems to use the same technique:

Templates-based portable just-in-time compiler, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/944579.944588

Nice to see there's still room for innovation in the VM space!
It'd be all fine and dandy if you didn't hop in a car after getting off your Airbus
Makes me think of scifi.

What if there's some kind of plastic cliff that most species in the universe don't survive?

We worry about virus epidemics, global warming, asteroids, etc.
What's an ELI5 of Rama? I found the docs confusing as well: https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/index.html

Please no buzzwords like "paradigm shift" or "platform". If diagrams are necessary, I'd love to read a post that explains clearer.
There are several DSP & VLIW platforms that have their own toolchain (not gcc), and they only support C programming language (for example Trimedia VLIW processors, TM1300, PNX1500, PNX1700 and a lot more SoC based on TM32/TM64 cores).

In addition there are tiny microcontrollers (8051/AT89, STM32 etc)

Essentially these are Platforms with

1. Very specific instruction set (DSPs)
2. extremely limited resources
3. specialized toolchain and no LLVM support
Here is the private eye report.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi...

For those who don't know, Private Eye is a UK published satirical magazine which takes it as it's mission to go after liars, fraudsters, bent politicians, and all those who are a disgrace. It plays a pivotal role in British democracy and consequentially may be closed any day soon. It has been doing this since 1961 and everyone involved is a hero.
That's your loss, and not our problem.
> as far as I can tell from some Googling, the FAA has not done so

That's because Google has become useless, not because the info isn't there.

You should try and find some of the analysis articles close to the MCAS disaster that explain how it's not the FAA that certifies airplanes any more, but the manufacturer basically self certifies.

[Yes, they're FAA employees but paid by Boeing. Do you also believe in Santa Claus?]
The silly preambles that you have to rattle off when commenting on the internet, because everything you say can and will be taken out of context :p
/r/financialindependence and the surrounding financial independence community may be of interest
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Twitter targeting wasnt any better with 10x as many employees. Its ad system has always largely sucked, Elon was just the push advertisers needed to get out.
Happiness may plateau, but life satisfaction does not. And there has been subsequent research that casts doubt on the idea that happiness plateaus. Happiness has a large endogenous component i.e. it is the nature of the individual to be more or less happy on average.

I would argue that life satisfaction is much more important than happiness generally regardless.
Maybe the amount of stress we feel is narrowly bounded and has little or nothing to do with how bad things are externally.
For sure, I love HN and love reading. But if we’re honest here, it’s a niche thing. A random TikTok video gets more views than a link that’s on the HN front page all day.
I don't think the way you productize something in order to extract more money makes it a different platform. I'm sure on the backend you just have different subscriptions on the same database.
This is a BS article that revolves entirely around the author's pathological definitions of STEM education and StEM jobs as illustrated by this hilarious quote which implies learning math is useless for a career in finance and learning science is useless for a career in medicine.

> Many able STEM grads bolt for better-paying careers, especially in business, finance, management and medicine