skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we back at this? I assumed the agreed SI Unit at HN was either 'number of code lines' or 'server racks'...
I had one of these (albeit with a much lesser config) and what made me not like it was the screen. It felt ancient somehow. Might have been my employer cheaping out though.

There was also something weird with the fn and alt or ctrl keys being switched, but from what I gather that's Lenovo's little kink
Totally agree. Politics and ideology is ruining imagination and fantasy. It's a disaster that i hope is soon going to be over, so we can find poetry and dreams back.
It's very common to use SQLite within backends, whenever concurrency is not a big issue.
Wouldn’t a disease-causing moon organism need to co-evolve with a host on the moon to infect?
There was also some weirdness where you could not have the status bar and word wrapping enabled at the same time.
really would like to test it but not getting the verification email *shrug
Japan needs more territory so the earth is giving them more.
normal football fields or "handegg" fields*
Reminds me, I need to buy a permantent license of acrobat pro 2020. I will never ever buy a cloud license of acrobat of 365.
It's really strange how "football fields" or "Olympic swimming pools" etc became such common comparison points for news headlines. Isn't the universality kind of the appeal of having units of measurement? I'd argue most people see things that are a meter long a lot more often than football fields.
Are any headsets offering OSS firmware and software?
Ilostat: The leading source of labour statistics
For what it's worth I just bought a M1 Pro 14" Macbook Pro. At Amazon, some of these are being sold as Renewed-Excellent condition. It has 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD. I paid $1380 after tax. I have prime card so I'll receive 5% cashback. It has 90 days return policy. It appears Apple waranty hasn't expired yet either (6 months) which means it was first activated 6 months ago.

Its charge cycle count was 2 and the machine itself is in excellent condition. I think M1 Pro processor is way more capable processor than M3 (non-pro). I know it is 2 year old but Macs go a long way. I'll switch to a newer laptop way before its support will end. So far I'm happy with the purchase.
It's not clear what platforms this can run on or how it is related to kinesis
> 32 GB LPDDR5X RAM @ 6400 MT/s

Sadly soldered down - LPCAMM [0] cannot come soon enough.

[0] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-industry...
Poop Senders
I fell for the TrackPoint. I really miss the X200 that had no Touchpad.
ProMED: International Society for Infectious Diseases
If you have ever built a web app backend that consists of a database, a REST API for that database, and a web admin interface to the database - well, this gives you all of that for free, just by running an executable.
Has the opposite ever occurred, causing someone's entire house & property to become permenantly submerged underwater?

Are there any insurance riders that'd cover such an event, or would affected individuals be entirely at the mercy of gov't disaster relief contingencies / personal savings?
Is Posix Suitable for Object Stores?
This may be true in specific domains but does not stand across the board. Otherwise, we would not see any progression in the application of new discoveries in industry. It seems to me that the evidence of the last couple of centuries indicate that in many fields we are seeing 'progress' in the application of new knowledge.

EDITED to add:

What I mean by progress, is measurable changes in society e.g. the improvement of medical science leading to measurably better survival, longevity etc outcomes, or the improvement in chemistry, materials and solid-state science effecting significant change in electronics, communications, batteries etc.
Well, as I said, I was their age myself when I couldn't understand their irrationality. Perhaps some of them wanted to look cool or rebellious. But I suspect some people just can't really imagine what "addicted" means. Prefrontal cortex issue perhaps. "You can't stop but you can totally stop?? Makes no sense!" A previous poster mentioned something like this.
I prefer the UI, especially with Vim key support, although LazyGit feels like it has slightly more features.
That's interesting. Sites like DappRadar show far more Polygon apps than Solana apps (https://dappradar.com/rankings/chains, https://www.alchemy.com/dapps). I don't know how representative that is though.

I've noticed occasional issues with Polygon, which is frustrating, and some intermittent viem/Metamask errors that I only seem to get with Polygon. I've put it down to the immaturity of the web3 stack for now but it needs to get better.
There's a guy up in the Seattle area who has a bunch of vaxen (*) in his basement. I asked him how many there were, and he wasn't sure.

They were all the size of washing machines.

* And two working Altos, which is why I was there.
Paris-based startup Nabla raised $24M for its AI assistant for doctors
I think you're referring to Benford's Law [0] and related analysis? It doesn't apply in every context, in particular it assumes values are naturally distributed and have varying numbers of digits. But it is quite effective in those contexts where it is appropriate!

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%2527s_law
NCBI Taxonomy Browser
Round and round we go.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Last I checked, this was inevitable if you publish a SPA on GitHub Pages, like the author is doing (GitLab not GitHub, but probably similar): https://gitlab.com/utkarsh181/utkarsh181.gitlab.io/-/blob/ma...

There's an open GitLab issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/-/issues/57

Workaround: Publish the artefacts from CI/CD to Netlify or similar, where you can configure URL rewrites.
> cannot reason anybody out of something that they want to believe.

Especially when your own reasons are not the slam dunk you think they are.
> but we can't take everyone's statements at face value either

In the context of this article, why not?

Why are we objecting to "the name on my credit card makes me feel uncomfortable and I wish I could change it"?
> but I still have doubts about the stability of Linux in ARM desktop space.

smh, I don't get it. Maybe just bad distros. Linux ARM on desktop is absolutely, 100% perfectly fine. Hell, outside of 3-6 random utilities, Linux RISCV on desktop is similarly usable (probably less if GHC started publishing riscv bootstraps). The only issue is if I need x86_64 emulation, but it's not like I'm hurting for access to an x86_64-linux instance, anywhere.
> check my phrasing more carefully

"plausible" is not nearly as definite as "safety obviously comes at a cost of throughput", and is furthermore not a statement about causality, but a claim that improving safety and througput don't immediately rule each other out; a contradiction needs a strong proof, since so many things that appear contradictory turn out to be compatible with enough imagination. Absent that proof, compatibility is plausible.

But sure, maybe I should have put air quotes around "obvious", since there's no real obvious correct conclusions here. "Just your gut feeling dressed in nice wording" is another great way to describe your initial claim about roundabouts, too, which was my main point to start with.
For me, a few hundred meters is difficult to comceptualize. I can search a football arena and notice the people around/inside it and get a better feel for the story than if just presented in meters
The Canadian video game industry deserves more recognition
I just read your comment. Anyhow, it was Ukrainian, and we adopted Gregorian calendar.
In other news

Bitcoin and crypto stocks came under pressure early Wednesday as the market continues to wait for spot bitcoin ETF approvals by federal regulators, which are expected to come around Jan. 10.

[0] https://www.investors.com/news/crypto-plays-tumble-ahead-of-...
Ask HN: What are examples of profitable blockchain companies?
Adobe Suite, Office, hardware specific software like those for controlling RGB lighting, Visual Studio, et. al
March 18, 2021 - 78 comments - "Atari Transputer Workstation" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488501
Ok, unrelated dissimilar people can sometimes become in-group to each other.
The fact is they don't more often than they do. People from different cultures rarely find each other suited enough for friendship, naturally stay apart and normally only form this sort of bonds under external circumstances.

Hell, even French-speaking and Dutch-speaking Belgians consider each other "other".
> cheap external m.2/pcie3 USB3 enclosure

A note for when you have problems: that’s the cause.

Name brand, high quality USB SSDs are the way to go.
Wonderful. I need 20 of them just for myself.
> The immediate victims of the con would rather act as if the con never happened. Instead, they’re mad at the outsiders who showed them that they were being fooled.

This is why getting cult members sane again is difficult, they would rather live in the denial of having been fooled and can go any length to reinforce that bias. Even killing family members or themselves.

This is also the reaction C-suite holds as you deliver rationally why their long thought plan won't work.

This is also why if you want to rise high in corporate you want to be the one not delivering bad news, ever.

People will just dislike you, it's stronger than them.
As someone who suffers from motion sickness since I was a child, as well as with the earlier headsets, the advent of passthrough mode has been delightful. Seeing the world around you is a game changer in that sense.
Alignment with "my" 'inner' worldview.
When the government starts requiring ids to vote or immigrate or stops companies from fraudulently controlling the narrative, eg Facebook, then I’ll take them seriously. If a person is underage on a porn site that’s on the parents not the provider company. The internet needs to be freed from further government restrictions.
Also typical cat behavior. It's where they go after they're bored of simply knocking things off tables.
Host an llm runner for the AI horde.

I would suggest Aphrodite, which is faster and loads it down better, but you can also run Kobold.cpp which is much easier to set up.
Nuclear is going nowhere when the clean up costs for a single incident could well exceed $1 trillion [1] and the LCOE of nuclear is among the highest of any energy source [2] and those costs are going up [3] while renewable costs are plummetting.

SMR makes no sense because power generation favors the largest core you can build.

Not a single nuclear plant has been built without significant government subsidy and, unlike renewables (solar in particular), costs haven't gone down as a result. Nuclear advocates talk about capital costs because the story of operational costs is horrendous for nuclear.

Nuclear waste (from fuel processing and spent fuel rod disposal) is not a "solved problem". Tech exists to help here but it's horrendously expensive so we don't do it. Waste isn't just stuck in a cave and forgotten about. For a significant period, used rods need active cooling, for example.

The nuclear power industry seeks to extract money from government and shift costs to the taxpayer. For example, there's a nuclear industry insurance fund for disasters but one Fukushima incident would bankrupt it about 50-100 times over so who would pick up the tab?

And the industry has successfully lobbied Congress to limit liability for nuclear accidents [4].

[1]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Fukushima-Anniversary/Fuku...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

[3]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mit-study-lays-...

[4]: https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/price_anderson_fa...
Thanks! I see there is a Fabtech event in the USA too https://www.fabtechexpo.com/
> > Sure it's useful from an evolutionary perspective

It's also useful from a relaxation and performance perspective.

Every time you rub one out you give your brain the illusion that you passed your genes so you go through life much more relaxed because it's an orgy (pun intended) of 'mission accomplished' banners within the brain.

At least for me that's how I explain post nut clarity and relaxation.
> Thing is most people won't even think to apply.

Good. As intended.
Err brain fart, yes, `known_hosts`. Thanks for the answer.

It seems there is room to expand from checking Bash history to also other popular shells (eg `fish`).
I have no love for Microsoft but they do provide value that most businesses rely on. If they disappeared tomorrow, everyone would feel the pain.

Apple provides just a veneer of convenience. If Apple disappeared tomorrow, only Apple users would be emotionally devastated but otherwise just slightly inconvenienced as they would have to bring forward their next phone/tablet purchase forward by few months and decide which brand to use instead.
> Most Linux installers already had a good GUI installer on the Live CD at that point.

Yes, I think between the end of Windows XP and start of Windows Vista era is interesting because it is by that era when Linux installers got really good (they're full graphical and would be really easy, most times just pressing Next->Next->Finish) while Windows still had its ugly TUI installer.

Also, Windows at that time didn't ship with as many drivers as today, and also we didn't have as fast internet and Windows Update still did a poor job for installing drivers from random devices, so most of time after installing Windows you had a pretty poor installation with broken internet/audio/graphics and also possibly weirdly slow (because missing chipset drivers would make the system slow depending on the hardware). While Linux if you had reasonably supported hardware it would just work.

Not that this really matters. Installation of a new OS is something that was and still is mostly done by knowledge people, and generally those people can install either Windows or Linux regardless.
The article is really light on details, to put it nicely.

> optimize networks at a concert for a barrage of social media uploads.”

How is this supposed to work? Any solution I can think of requires adding hardware, and is not a software reconfiguration accessible to the AI.

Building a cache in the ISP network close requires adding hardware.

Fiber networks often have symmetrical bandwidth in the upload and download direction, either using two fibers or two wavelengths. So how do you optimise the upload? The only way I can see this is running ROADMs and adding wavelengths in the upload direction. However this also requires adding transceivers on the router that is client to the ROADM at the venue.
One last reason to use Sass would be parameterized media queries.
I've done my share of research on MediaPipe[1], but had never heard of Teachable Machine. I'm curious if these efforts are related, as these products looks like they were almost intended to be used together.

I am definitely excited to see that Google is investing into more "ML at the edge" use cases, especially in the browser. If you've never heard of MediaPipe before, but this caught your eye, definitely check it out. It has seen large uptake in the VTubing community especially as it has a very performant implementation of body + face + hand pose tracking driven by BlazePose.

1: https://developers.google.com/mediapipe
Pumping up the grandiose factor; a meter is tangible and can be imagined 100x, but football fields are really big!
Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist
You're welcome! I should have linked directly to the tool page: https://jvns.ca/categories/playgrounds/
FYI, nowadays notepad does support different line endings.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...
Use pnpm, it hard likes the files in node_modules to a content addressable ‘store’. It makes ‘pnpm install’ pretty fast.
Whether Satan is the hero (anti or otherwise) of Paraside Lost is hotly debated. I don't think Milton viewed it that way but plenty of English Romantics did.
... where it's being used as a measure of length and not area. How many is that in human hair widths?
I really enjoy his "water park" videos. Amazing that they've built a system that is so fault tolerant with relatively little infrastructure.
Nobody cares too
> The cerebellum has a repeated, almost crystal-like neural structure:

As a software engineer who did neurosurgery residency, my intuition/guess is that the cerebellum is kind of like the FPGA of the brain.

The cerebrum is great for doing very complicated novel tasks, but it takes time and energy. The cerebellum on the other hand is specialized in being able to encode common tasks so it can do them with quickly and efficiently. A lot of our motor learning is in fact wiring the cerebellum correctly.

This can actually lead to an interesting amnesia, where a person can learn a skill (cerebellum) but not remember learning the skill (cerebrum). So you could end up with a person who would think that he had never seen a basketball hoop or basketball before but could be doing layups, dunks, and 3 pointers with ease.
Mobile Aloha: Your Housekeeping Robot [video]
1. Waymo? Hard to tell at the moment but they will be beating Telsla's ~12/100mMiles... somewhat. I would have liked to hear his specific opinion (I infer 'no different to the rest' from the vid though).

2. Humans vs Driverless is not the comparison I want. Some humans are terrible drivers. Driving is not a right that everyone gets - Licenses can be denied or taken away, and people are retested at certain ages. Some humans appear to me to be 10, maybe even 50 (! not hyperbole) times more likely to get into accidents than others. Perhaps we should be starting to tighten regulations. Be more willing to take 'licenses' away (from human, robot or company - doesn't matter) if risk contribution is >threshold. Some people are reckless and have reckless attitudes (as are some corps). I want to see 'Worst human drivers vs driverless' and 'Best human drivers vs driverless'. Appreciate the difficulty in scope, sample selection, possibility of bias etc. If we start to just deny licensing on probability of incident, then we can just slowly tighten further over time.

3. Arguably, all of this investment, research and anti-consumer behaviour is 'planting trees for the next generation'. So we can frame it like that to see some silver lining. We benefit from the 1800s similarly (similar period of state legislation being unable to keep up with innovation). But yes that does assume that there will be a feasible product and healthy industry at the end of it. Similarly, FoodDelivery & TaxiApps, in my opinion, will pay off. They have enabled the disabled now, and possibly improved the future (Yes, I appreciate the inefficiencies of those models).
Reads fine to me with Firefox Mobile on my phone (Pixel 8).
Why would satan not be cast as a personable antihero? Would it be easy to put aside a great lawyer that finds all the loopholes for you?
Probably, dyslexia can be like that.
The movement keys are the best example of horrible defaults. They're all over the place. There are several good options, but my setup uses IJKL for arrow keys, and a bunch of other movement-related keybinds on IJKL and surrounding keys. That's just one example.
After much soul-searching and rummaging through websites, I finally replaced my Lenovo T410 from 2010 with a Lenovo P53 with a 4K touch-screen back in ...... 2020? (That means it's already 3 and a half years old! I'd have said 'about 18 months ago'.)
I'd love to know wtf it did with that long, straw-like tube around the 1-minute mark... "I got big plans, George"
If you read the Canterbury Tales, read one half way through and ask yourself how it will end. You'll be right. Plot twists hadn't been invented yet. Those now-cliche plots were new back then.
> more tuning so that some cores could actually turn off if they aren't used

Can't you control which cores you use or what you put on them with the kernel cmdline? On x86-64 I use cpu0_hotplug nohz_full=1-3,5-7 rcu_nocbs=0-3,5-7 irqaffinity=4
Ah, my subs are mostly embedded, IIRC that's what Jellyfin has issues with.
Fair cop! I didn't flag however I added that comment mostly selfishly for my own search history because Ackman's previous tweet seemed to disappear off HN - presumably inflammatory?

Anyways - I normally try to be a better HN citizen - I promise to try harder!

On-topic: porn is a live A/B test because it is already out there. We can measure some of the current harms to children (adolescent or not) and adults. The B test is introducing new rules and then either: comparing harm between jurisdictive boundaries or: perhaps compare between before/after (hopefully preplan to collect data before new rules were introduced).

Either way, Legislation rarely mixes with science so even trying to measure metrics is likely fruitless. And even then Goodhart turns up to tell you your metrics failed to achieve desired outcomes.
Same. It took me a few attempts to get all the way through it, but it was certainly worth it. Never has Satan been so... relatable.
I'm reminded of a funny story from Edward Friedkin:

"Just a funny story about random numbers: in the early days of computers people wanted to have random numbers for Monte Carlo simulations and stuff like that and so a great big wonderful computer was being designed at MIT’s Lincoln laboratory. It was the largest fastest computer in the world called TX2 and was to have every bell and whistle possible. a display screen that was very fancy and stuff like that. And they decided they were going to solve the random number problem, so they included a register that always yielded a random number; this was really done carefully with radioactive material and Geiger counters, and so on. And so whenever you read this register you got a truly random number, and they thought: “This is a great advance in random numbers for computers!” But the experience was contrary to their expectations! Which was that it turned into a great disaster and everyone ended up hating it: no one writing a program could debug it, because it never ran the same way twice, so ... This was a bit of an exaggeration, but as a result everybody decided that the random number generators of the traditional kind, i.e., shift register sequence generated type and so on, were much better. So that idea got abandoned, and I don’t think it has ever reappeared."
it lacks a bunch of multimedia stuff. Works fine for a terminal or workstation with a simple handful of apps, but not much chop for the multimedia rich world we live in.
Yes, and I've seen ones that have drivers like normal wifi, that come with a python script and one of the lines is for changing the region but I think underneath, it also uses AT commands. And it's certified to use in US, Taiwan and Japan but nowhere else. It's barely documented except as comments in the script. In both of these cases, it's way more prone to being set to the wrong region than a normal wifi router and there is also a big incentive (increased datarate) to just use the US region.
I seem to recall articles that wordpad was written because microsoft lost the source code to its precursor "write.exe". But I cannot seem to find any.
What is willpower?

I think physical power/ strength is an interesting analogy.

A weightlifter can pick up 20lbs with ease, my frail mother couldn't if her life depended on it.

What is the equivalent for mental strength?
Paste69 – A simple CURL-able paste bin
Right. For now it's an open question. I hope it gets cleared up soon.

I think the TJ case is a bit complicated, because:

- an action motivated by racial balancing may be trying to correct for other issues, and not necessarily by 'racial animus'

- a lot of the comments (from board members) suggesting racial animus were a precursor to the original proposed policy

AIUI the most recent ruling suggested you couldn't assume the latest policy was informed by such animus just because the first one proposed was. To draw such a conclusion would mean the board could never make a new policy without it being tarnished.

Such a messy situation.