skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was lucky enough to have a grandfathered flat-rate ISDN in my apartment in ~94-97. I had one of those Motorola BitSurfr modems, and would keep it up to my ISP with 128Kbps, but if a phone call came in it would drop one so I had 64K and could talk on the phone. Invariably, these calls were people looking to post adverts in the Thrifty Nickel paper. My number was close to theirs.

I ended up staying in a small apartment for a couple of years rather than moving to a bigger, nicer one, because moving would have caused me to lose my flat rate ISDN and instead have to pay by the minute.

Being done with waiting for two modems to sniff each-others butts like a couple of dogs was liberating!

I moved to a house in 1997 and went back to modems. But I started consulting with an ISP and they offered to let me connect a T1 from my house to their network. I got a contract from the phone company for $205/mo, and got the T1 installed. They charged me $250, and after a few months of me calling them about it they said their tariff wouldn't allow them to sell it for $205, the contract was a mistake.

That was a few days after I got a flier advertising DSL: half the speed but a quarter the price. But a lot of speculation that "DSL will never work". However, it did, and it was great.
Tom Scott did a video on this [1].

I'm only roughly approximating here, but that could probably lift just a dozen 40ft shipping containers each swing-up (perhaps, this is a wild estimate based visually only).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO9gARac-w
Okay. Why are you posting this? If you aren't going to tell us, why even post this? Share the info.
Probably needs something like how openrss.org does it. Shows a UX friendly view for RSS but gets picked up by RSS readers as well.
It's not "other than Kobo", though; it's Kindle specifically (and only with ePub, it takes PDFs). The other devices will happily take both PDF and ePub.

As for Kindle... for most users Send to Kindle is going to be more convenient than sideloading anyways, and that does take ePubs now, so it's not a huge usability hit.
"Too long"? Are we not talking about, like, 60 seconds? Admittedly I don't use these things, but is there some major inconvenience I'm missing?
As far as you've shown us so far, you have absolutely no facts to back any of this up, and you just hate the church and English society back then.

OK then.
40% of all us containers go through the canal.

60% of all canal traffic is US containers.

Look at some place North Carolina... 1000 calls a year. There is rail, truck and warehouse infrastructure to support that. It is highly optimized because of domestic transit by rail and truck, of imports and exports.

If you optimize your profit, by dropping imports closer to the point of consumption any extra profit you make will be consumed by rail and trucks getting exports to you in a non optimal way.

The smart choice is to sail to the port where the exports are. But because you can't take that domestic cargo you going in a non optimal state... that empty transit time just cost you money because you have a 2nd captain, crew, ship, insurance and moving an empty vessel is waste!

Basicity the limits the jones act imposes means that you can't fully optimize against the cost and structure of domestic transit.
save money and plant backdoors

(1st is OK, 2nd depends on your moral)
> Linux is only free when our time isn't worth money.

Oh, man, not this shit.

Linux saves time. Windows servers are an endless time sink, that costs more on its hardware, and have added license costs. And license costs are also mostly the time you spend managing your licenses, the actual money you send to Microsoft is peanuts.

Windows only costs its price if your time is worthless.
I’ve noticed many posters using Doctorow’s term “enshittification” here. In the interest of preserving a useful word for a few more years - I don’t think it fully applies. Enshittification is about how _platforms_ die, in the ultimate phase using monopoly power to extract rents from increasingly frustrated users.

As bad as car touch screens are, is this rent-seeking?

You could argue that subscriptions to “features” in your car are getting closer to Doctorow’s concept. But cars aren’t platforms. I am not locked into my VW purchase because all the other drivers are using VWs.
Been many years since I used REQ (as I've not changed my setup in a long time). Don't forget a decent soundcard (does not have to be expensive).
I use a USB (can't remember the brand/chipset) and an old Audessy calibration mic (+-1db) which is good enough and works well with REQ.
Street Cred: An LLM Story
It's my understanding that most people at Microsoft run frequently updated pre-release builds of Office for example. Having a VP call you to say that spellcheck got broken in the latest release is a great way to motivate fixing issues or preventing them in the first place.
If space compression is time travel, sure. It's not like we can't time travel right now (to the future).

I obviously don't have the finer details in line.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3S15pqI
Yes, I know what a tithe is.

Look, they had a social organization. Somehow or other, they managed to be the most powerful nation on Earth. It seems sort of idle to nitpick on it.
Age does affect it yes. And it starts dropping earlier:

drivers between the ages of 25 and 67 can expect a discount on the average claim requirement - the insurance premium drops thanks to age being taken into account. Drivers aged 27 to 41 receive the largest discounts of 26 percent, while those aged 63 to 67 benefit from discounts of 6 percent

So while Germans start driving later they also drop rates earlier. And the older you get the less you get your rates dropped based on age! Around 45 is where you benefit the most from your age for rates.

But older people according to this also have the advantage of having a longer driving record and if you didn't have an accident in that time it can counteract the bad effect of advancing age on your rates.

https://www-gdv-de.translate.goog/gdv/themen/mobilitaet/so-w...
> Someone has estimations about effort estimation on number of people and required time for bootstraping this project

A small team of systems programmers for months, or a dedicated teenager a week. More seriously it highly depends on how they decided to implement it, if it's a custom instruction set extension it could be relatively easy
My favorite from when I used to be around this stuff was a CD demagnetizer.
With a modern filesystem, absolutely. With FAT32 that was prevalent when Calibre was first released in 2006... I'm not so sure.
The doctor is the LLM, lol.

I don't think we can/should do this on today's LLMs, but if we continue advancing in the same way, and as-good-as-human reliability is achieved, the intelligence of a doctor is in your pocket whenever you want it.

And just like you say you know addresses because you have an address book, you'll know medicine because you have it immediately on-tap. Instead of holding all of that in your own memory, instead of having to use your own critical thinking (or lack thereof), just offload it to the LLM in your pocket.

We do this all the time with tools. Who now knows how to cut down a tree but lives in a house made of milled trees? There are so many lost skills that we defer to either other people or machines and yet each individual lives with the benefit of all those skills.

Tools make cognitive bypasses for us to benefit from. When we can make intelligence a tool, I assume we can offload a lot of our intelligence, or at least acquire new intelligence we didn't have before.

WebMD is the same whoever looks at it. An LLM can adapt to your clarification questions and meet you on your comprehension level. So no, it's not as naive as you are insisting.
It seems everyone will ban you for anything with no recourse because they expect bad actors to just create new accounts every time. The answer to this is, ironically, and even officially in Google's case, that good actors should just create a new account as well if they get unfairly banned.
> I could see it occurring someday

"Someday" is on the order of decades here. By that time Rust will be a hoary legacy language with a list of warts longer than an ISO standard.
Headlights are too bright in the US because US has ridiculous regulations when it comes to car headlights.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/blinded-light-american-...

Come drive a BMW with laser headlights in Europe, you will be illuminated(!), it's absolutely amazing what modern headlights can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_XEQ8n-R5M
I'm glad to hear that and appreciate the support! I haven't come across the post about the shoelace. However, I chose to share it on Show HN as it seemed like the right platform to showcase Preline v2.0.
> I think best to me is to assume other drivers are not paying a lot of attention unless there are obvious hints that they are and if you don't have visibility somewhere, assume that something could be there.

Well, that's just absurd.
> I have yet to reconcile how any good person could step up to run a business in a world where the sociopaths almost always win.

Not-being-a-sociopath is a USP itself: users/customers of a product/service/system/platform that resists _enshitification_ will likely stay loyal, especially when the service offered relies on network-effects; I read this why Craigslist is still around, for example; similarly, Apple's tight control over their own platform (for better and for worse) keeps people (like myself) attached to iOS, after-all, the iOS home-screen doesn't show you ads for CandyCrush or Evernote when you get a brand new phone, but Windows 10 does - so both Apple and Craigslist are examples of when not-being-sociopathic results in a solid business, faithful customers, and a decent public reputation.

Of course, this doesn't apply when the bad eggs are able to simply buy-out any civic-minded competition (e.g. if Craigslist was publicly traded, they'd have been acquired by a major legacy publisher by now).

On a related note, I don't suppose you've heard of "B Corporation"? https://www.bcorporation.net - apparently companies are now advertising that they're not optimizing for shareholder value - it's something I've seen an increasing amount over the past year - though I'm not-yet-convinced it isn't something like a greenwashing campaign or a fig-leaf like BBB. We shall see...
This should have all that and more: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...
>Like Cthulhu

Cthulhu is definitely less evil than Meta.
The trend of removing buttons and switches in favour of touchscreens, which have no feedback, must be one of the worst recent developments. I think it's mainly for 2 reasons - cost saving by removing physical switches which also speeds up manufacture and secondly just copying Tesla.
As opposed to 4chan veterans?
slightly after that.

The thing is, "the patent law" had not changed with regard to obviousness (103). CLS Bank v. Alice which I think you're alluding to was about 101.
There are some things you just can't unsee after you've read the book--like the push/pull doors thing.
Also ignorant - I have WSL/DockerDesktop etc...

I run ubuntu desktop in a vbox VM.

If I run ubuntu desktop on docker, I have to RDP into it.

What type of container will WSL build? A desktop - or headless with CLI?

Finally - which is lighter-weight, Vbox VM, or a Docker container, or whatever WSL makes?

EDIT: NM - I understand the answer now.
Given one of their stated goals is "Embracing the GC and improving upon it, disregarding betterC and nogc in the process", it seems like their goal is explicitly to move it away from being a system programming language.

And no, I didn't miss the joke :)
Could you expand on how to avoid using GC in C#?
A beautiful song about the data broker Acxiom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_HOw4sBeM

"Someone is gathering every crumb you drop..."
Look at this webcam feed overlooking Grindavík https://www.youtube.com/live/hvcP4kVVOnk

Go to about 11:58 on the timestamp in the bottom right corner, you will see the lava flowing along the berm (which is doing a good job of protecting a large building) while workers with bulldozers and diggers close the gap in the berm that the road goes through.

The fissure close to the town opens up at about 12:20. The lava flowing behind the berm reaches the road at about 12:50.
You can't help yourself. Good to know.
There are different ways of setting up a bed with a duvet. In the United States a bed would most commonly have a fitted sheet on the mattress, then a flat sheet on top of the fitted sheet, tucked under the mattress at the foot of the bed. You sleep on top of the fitted sheet and under the flat sheet. The duvet goes on top of the flat sheet, so it basically doesn’t touch anybody in the bed.

The other way is to eliminate the flat sheet, and have the duvet inside a regularly-changed cover, because, without the flat sheet, the duvet is in direct contact with the people in the bed.

A more detailed discussion can be found at: https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/bedding-debate-to...
Well, that's what wings are for.
There was a period where my listening setup used BruteFIR running filters generated by this DRC program. To my ear it sounded really good, especially managing some of the quirks having large speakers in a small space. It was sort of an anti-audiophile setup though, the only way to play anything on it was via AirPlay and everything but the speakers was pretty boring and hidden.
Exactly! I have already linked it in another thread but see this link below for the mathematical definition of dynamic programming:

https://web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/DP_Slides.pdf
There's the Open Library <https://openlibrary.org> (a project of the Internet Archive) and OCLC WorldCat.
It’s debatable to what degree ”attention” in LLMs relates to ”attention” in psychology. See Cosma Shalizi’s note on this http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
mixtral 7*8B does indeed have this characteristic. It tends to disregard the requirement for structured output and often outputs unnecessary things in a very casual manner. However, I have found that models like qwen 72b or others have better controllability in this aspect, at least reaching the level of gpt 3.5.
Whether the doctor's data for making informed decisions is in their head, or in the computer at their desk is immaterial. Where you fetch your knowledge from, either from wet-ware, or hardware doesn't have any net difference in the real world.

The skill today is the application of that knowledge. If an LLM can provide the data context, and the application advice and you perform what it says, congrats you now have a doctor's brain on tap for your own personal usage. The doctor has it in their head, you have it in a device. The net differences are immaterial IMO.
Roll method is easier and faster. Maybe that’s why three hole duvet cover never caught on.
There won't be 100h batteries i believe. Rather, there will be a lot more of 2-3 hour ones. To consume and then output power of lots and lots of solar (which is nearing 10 cent/watt threshold)...
Love your two alternatives because it is the typical project that requires passion and drive.
Which is different from implying they want to do it just for the lolz.
If regulators followed your advice and started putting companies out of business with that sledgehammer/nut approach to enforcement then the UK economy would crash faster than you can watch a lettuce go bad. (Again.)
There's no disagreement. I wrote "routinely," which does not mean "always."
It changed the way that I see the world.

Amazing book.

Not edge-of-your-seat reading, but it really drives home how important Usability is.

For the mercenary, it can mean the difference between success and failure. The OXO line of kitchen products is a fairly good example of stuff going well.

The same goes for iOS. Even though everyone (hereabouts) loves to heap scorn upon it, there's billions of people out there, willing to drop silly money on it.
Thank-you. The book has 359 math puzzles.
This is a light rewrite of the Pew Research analysis at https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/01/11/about-1-i... .

"Near" here means "in the same county" as a restaurant which serves Mexican food.

I mention this as some counties are pretty large and require more than an hour at highway speeds to cross, which might not qualify as "near".

The article says this "highlights the growing influence of Mexican Americans on U.S. culture".

If we do the same analysis for restaurants which serve Italian food then that number should be even higher, given the near ubiquity of pizza.

Yet I don't think that highlights the growing influence of Italian Americans on U.S. culture.

I have an issue with the analysis. It says they started with "the 101,009 restaurants with some sort of Hispanic or Latino food category tag in the SafeGraph". But consider Blake's Lotaburger in New Mexico. It serves burgers, burritos, and chili con carne.

I can't tell if it's categorized as hamburger restaurant or a Hispanic or Latino restaurant. That data is not provided.

If "Tex-Mex" counts as Mexican food then New Mexican food should surely be included too.
There are no diagnostic criteria for 'sociopathy'.
Learning Rust with Advent of Code
Show HN: Android app that asks you to type a reason after you unlock your phone
>> Until we get everything written

Now we have 3 D compilers: DMD (the de facto standard), LDC, and GDC.

I guess the OpenD project will have their own compiler, too. Well... let's see.
I'm wondering why it's not more common to indent the stages in a multi-stage build. For me, it's a no-brainer to see at a glance

1. how many stages there are

2. how long they are

3. the dependencies

Taking the example from the article:

FROM node:18-alpine as builder
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./package* .
RUN npm ci
COPY . .
RUN npm run build:client

FROM nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged:1.24 as serve
COPY --from=builder /app/dist /var/www
COPY --from=builder /app/.nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
EXPOSE 80
CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]

IMHO it's just so more legible. Without this, it feels like writing C without indentation. Unfortunately the Jetbrains IDEs fail to properly apply syntax highlighting.
Just trying it out.

Required seems to be,

First name, last name, country, state, city.

You can add more info if needed. Don't see anything about ID, SSN.

You can add other addresses. You can add extra family members. These aren't required but I'm sure it would help from what I've seen on other websites.
That is true today, but the majority of physical theories up to, say, Maxwell or so could have been discovered and verified with nothing more complex than your eyes, a well-measured distance and a decent hourglass. And they were discovered with that + the early telescopes, nothing more complex than that.
Honestly wouldn’t know, I matriculated in 2000 and didn’t actually know much about these things while in school.

Seems possible, but a second regular phone line seems just as possible.
Additional citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38987509
> I wonder if it's even possible in metallurgical terms

In all likelihood, the terrain is the bottleneck here.
I think the mass exodus happened before the digital nomad trend. Specifically after the 2008 crisis. At least that's what I hear from Portuguese people
“Optimization” is similarly misleading (as someone who once took a CS class on “optimization” expecting something very different ;)).
posted 3 times: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tocs3

earlier, different user, posted the same thing 6 times: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whiplash451

..someone working up a new "spam to HN" script?
I don't know, I feel like the story hit quite close to me as somebody who has had a life full of things rather than a life full of people.

Sometimes the truth is cruel.
Sorry. Your car will never drive you around [video]
>the Calibre developers are not interested

I know it was not a criticism but I would like to point out that Calibre seems to be developed also entirely by one person [0]. I understand why they would be hesitant to make big changes that would generate more work for them that would not be seen by most (GUI) users.

[0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/graphs/contributors
It appears to me the burden of proof lies on whoever wants to draw the line on what ”real” science is. Only natural sciences, then?
Is physical writing still important in our generation?
Some of these ghost kitchens even do branded food like Chic Fil A. I’d guess to take the delivery strain off the main store, but it is bizarre to see people walk out with fresh chic fil a from a nondescript commercial warehouse property.
Unless mydomain[.]com is used by more people than just you and maybe your family, doesn’t the domain itself serve as a unique(ish) identifier? I think public aliasing services offer better anonymity, but they’re also blocked by some services.
Actually, it is

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)
I guess the question is are there any open source replacement for Adobe Flash Professional ?
The new generation of appliances are more energy and resource efficient. They trade the off with using more time, though.

Nearly all appliances have a „quick“ mode though if you really need something fast.
Yes, but a textbook has fixed knowledge that cannot be queried and discussed. That's why you need the doctor to interpret and apply.

An LLM is the doctor in your pocket. It's yours to use, and whether it is in your head (like a doctor who had to take exams to prove they really had it in their head), or in your pocket makes no difference in your ability to achieve a task.

"Intelligence: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills."

Well, if I can acquire knowledge from the LLM, and apply it using the LLM's instructions, I now have achieved intelligence without doing an exam.

Problem is, I can lose my LLM. A doctor could lose their mental faculties though.
It is not an ISA extension.

It is a separate ML/AI accelerator with a VLIW architecture.

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/xdna.html

XDNA is documented by AMD, but I have not read the documents, so I do not know how much work would be to make a compiler and other tools for it.

https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/
I have the InnoCN OLED and I love it. I had to do a double take when I saw the price on Amazon and bought it immediately.
This list contains a small fraction of all data brokers. Check out https://databrokerswatch.org for a more complete list.
I am in my late 30s and used to worry about this, but I’ve been in the corporate world long enough to know that I can learn whatever I need to learn to secure a decent, paying dev job.

I’ve also realized, far more important than knowing the latest framework or tool, is the ability to work well with people. This is the skill I’ve been working on most, and in my opinion is far more valuable.
Anyone else having trouble building and running it (Ubuntu 23.10)?

> thread 'main' panicked at libcalibre/src/infrastructure/domain/book/repository.rs:20:62:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: ()
Octotype: Blog platform using GitHub Issues as a headless CMS
I've had the odd OXO flub--like the can opener that didn't leave sharp edges but was very sensitive to imperfections and took a lot of hand strength. But I have to give the company an A overall.

He did do a subsequent book that addressed user experience more broadly.
Gotta give a shoutout to kanata[1] which I have used daily for years at this point after giving up on QMK-powered keyboards.

QMK itself is great, but I was never able to find a non-columnar split ISO keyboard to use it with. Eventually I reluctantly settled on the Logitech K860[2] and I'm now happily using my favourite features from QMK with kanata at the software level.

[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

[2]: If I'm behind the times and there is now a QMK-compatible keyboard that looks like this, please let me know!