skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my culture—which I think is right on this—individuals are subordinate to the family. I want my kids to go to an Ivy (or in the case of my eldest son, a service academy) because those are important to success in business and politics, and that’s what I want my kids to pursue—for the success of the family unit. That doesn’t mean I want to go to one, or regret not having gone to one—what I want for my kids is quite independent of what I want myself.
it is probably easier to just put limits on the kind of ownership that is possible. like, a worker-owned business can't really do this kind of thing
Amtrak blames freight trains for not following the law and the DoJ for not enforcing the law. Which is just one side of the story.

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
No one really knows how AI will develop and what sort of capabilities the next iterations will have. These kind of predictions are pointless.

1 year ago if you’d told me that commercial photographers would be toast, I wouldn’t have believed you. But after Midjourney V6, I have zero doubts that commercial photography is absolutely doomed.
Here, u is presumably utility and t is time
Looks cool (I'm a big fan of Typst), but I do question the value of moving the data to yaml, rather than just building a set of Typst functions and styles (see example below).

To me, it's one of those things people often do because it _feels_ nice, but when you really think about it the benefits are often very small (and the costs are quite high). The most obvious benefit is that the yaml data can be parsed by other programs, but is anyone really going to do that?

For an example of what I mean, is [1] (plus all the supporting code) really a better DX than [2] (which is also simpler to implement and much easier to debug and modify)?

[1]

work:
# Can't use markup or code in most of these fields, even if I wanted to.
- organization: X Company
position: Senior Developer
url: https://example.com
location: Remote / New York, New York
startDate: 2021-08-01
endDate: "present"
highlights:
- "Any markup I use here needs to be `eval`ed, and I don't get syntax highlighting etc."

[2]

== Work Experience

#workinfo(
organization: "X Company",
position: "Senior Developer",
url: "https://example.com",
location: "Remote / New York, New York",
startDate: "2021-08-01",
endDate: "present",
highlights: (
[I don't need to use `eval` any more],
[etc...]),
)

#workinfo(etc...)
> These "need" privileges to upload the resulting artifacts somewhere.

Only because pypi removed support for gpg and their only "signature" now basically is "was uploaded from a gh action".

Otherwise a maintainer could do it offline without needing to give microsoft total access to uploading to pypi.
AGI is the next logical step.

People want to create something better than what's there. With ML and AI, computers already can do what's better than giving instructions or recommending things that may be better from the list, however, it doesn't know why it's better or what are its consequences. As a system, what's next is an AI that learns the consequences of behavior and actions.

As humans, we tend to make things better and profit from it. AGI is no different.
Microsoft Corp. vs. Lindows.com, Inc
Hadn't heard of that incident before, so looked it up:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/flaming-concorde...

Everyone on board died. Damn. :(
What kind of stuff are you doing with this? I've pondered setting something up like this in my office for RF testing but I need to pin down my requirements first
Enable SSH with Key Authentication in Anthias BalenaOS Image for Raspberry Pi
Isn't that what's causing the problem?

Without that there would be no need to have an action to do an upload. It could be comfortably and safely done offline.
> I mean, I planned on using plywood for the hull, ha ha.

https://www.svseeker.com/argonaut-jr-building-and-diving-a-w... (“Argonaut Jr – Building and Diving a Wooden Submarine from 1894”)
> Not rocket science, people.

The smugness and overconfidence of someone who's about to be pwned?
Is there any tool to make animated diagrams by declaring them in code?
> Social fabric collapses. At least in the western world.

> Many systems like pensions simple don’t work in the context of not enough stable families having babies.

> You can patch it with immigration but that gets you other social cohesion issues

See: Canada.

But the other effect of trying to keep government pension running with immigration is that we ran out of housing for new people to move into here a couple of years ago. It's pretty much Battle Royale for housing while wages have stagnated at best.
> How to take power away from brokers:

A more effective approach: government. California's SB 362 creates a single opt out starting 1 Jan 2026, audit obligations (mandatory 3rd party every 3 years w/ submission of failures to the CPPA, California's privacy enforcement agency), etc. Plus the potential of a $200 per day per request fine for failing to act on opt outs.

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2023/12/califo...
This is one of the biggest reasons I greatly prefer public transportation in cities. I feel stressed knowing there's a 100% chance someone on a bike is going to actively zoom out of nowhere right in front of me and pretend they're the only person around for miles. So many bicyclists and scooter riders seem actively suicidal, which is okay and I respect their right to end their life on their own terms, except the law regards car drivers as criminally negligent.

I'd rather take a train where all but the craziest bicyclists venture or let a bus driver handle the consequences of hitting someone. When I'm traveling around the countryside, I take public transit to the edge of the city then rent a car.
If you want especially quiet operations you can put rubber wheels on trains too.
ESPN used fake names to secure Emmys for 'College GameDay' stars
For JPEG XL, refer to its format overview [1]. In short its lossless mode uses a combination of multiple techniques: the rANS coding with an alias table, LZ77, reversible color transforms, a general vector quantization that subsumes palettes, a modified Haar transform and a learnable meta-adaptive decision tree for context modelling.

One good thing about JPEG XL is that its lossy mode also largely uses the same tool, with a major addition of specialized quantization and context modelling for low- and high-frequenty components.

[1] https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/doc/format_overvi...
LittleBigMouse: DPI Aware mouse move across screens for Windows 10 / 11
Generalists are rare gems
I’m looking for co-founders in Mumbai, India.

I’m Tanay . I’m building a search engine for bookmarks and knowledge to provide recommendations from users' bookmarks across platforms, including X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

I chose to build this product because I had more than 3000 thousand bookmarks scattered across apps that I was not revisiting or using. Every time I start to scroll through, I would only end up with the first 10-15.

If you’re interested and passionate about building a tool that people love using and love paying for, shoot me a message.
I think there might be other things going on with the potato diet. In Slime Mold Time Mold's study participants seemed to lose more weight when cooking potatoes with the skin on. My wife and I recently tried three diet for about a week with good weightloss. However, my wife who prefers potatoes cooked with skin quickly got abdominal pain and dropped the diet. When I started to eat all the potatoes I had cooked for her, I got similar issues. I think there is a good chance that the solanine which is mostly in the skins messes with people's digestive system and contributing to weightloss. Poisoning yourself doesn't strike me as a valid approach to weightloss. Supposedly someone tried supplementing solanine and didn't see the weightloss. I don't trust that though, since there was a more comprehensive trial or a believable alternative explanation
Programmer from the 80s: Cache? What's that? People have room for Cache?
When you give them your DNA, you help build their network effects monopoly.

As a genealogist, I would like (or rather, would have liked) to figure out certain things about my ancestry. It may be a man who married several times, and his children are known, but not which came from which wife - this is very common. Or it may be someone who suddenly appears in a place with no obvious relatives around - where did she come from? DNA can help solve such problems, but you need common descendants. As many as possible. Direct male and female lines are especially valuable.

Take the last case, the woman appearing out of nowhere. If you can find a direct female descendant of her, and you find someone who isn't, but has sufficiently similar mitochondrial DNA - they may be a direct female descendant of her sister. Genealogists use tricks like these to find connections that would otherwise be impossible to find from the documentary record.

But for it to work, you need a big database of people who have submitted their DNA. And they're currently all owned by sleazy and exploitative multinational companies with cozy relationships with government agencies. These companies also exploit that much of their customer base is elderly (and so both have more money, and are easier to milk as they don't have the expectations of younger people that "giving them your information should be more than enough payment" - which is after all how all social media sites run)
I'm a Supercommuter. Here's What It's Like
Foreigners can get permanent residency, but for the most part they are not immediately eligible. They will have to spend a specified number of years on a residence visa before being eligible for permanent residency. In normal circumstances, it takes 10 years, though it’s reduced to 5 years for those married to Japanese citizens, and it can be reduced even further for immigrants who meet the Japanese government’s criteria for being “highly skilled,” which typically entails advanced university degrees and professional work experience.
https://archive.is/5BnOs
Ok… so why not send llvm bytecode? Or JVM? Or JavaScript? Or WebAssembly?

Any of those would be better supported and have a faster, battle tested JIT engine.
Scientists Discover a Simple Way to Cook Rice That Could Halve the Calories (2018)
Gigawatts are not a unit of energy.... something something zalgo.
>No? Plenty of eg cars exceed minimum safety standards. Some brands, like Volvo, are even explicitly sold on safety.

In the context you're discussing, that form of safety isn't an inefficiency but a marketable feature. That doesn't mean that safety in general is a marketable feature.

Those safety standards tend to omit the safety of any pedestrians being hit - otherwise, cars would be far lighter (and with bonnets far lower), because a heavier car benefits the occupants in a crash at the expense of whoever they're hitting.
I like Obsidian, but this response sounds like you just read the title and not the article.

I recommend reading the article, it was pretty interseting.
I enjoyed this article, though not sure I can be bothered printing books.

The approach taken here is essentially event sourcing, btw. It's old and it works.
AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let's Make Sure It Benefits Humanity
Internal review backs Business Insider reporting of Oxman plagiarism claims
The theory that enterprises are all sacrificing the long term for the next quarter's success doesn't explain why companies do better year after year.
Is a modifier+space not convenient?
Following in care you remember / find it.
Yawn, I doubt you actually have.
Raspberry Pi is making 70k Pi 5s a week [video]
We may have passed "peak office". Despite heavy pressure from the "get back to work or else" movement and the commercial real estate industry, office occupancy in the US is still way below pre-pandemic levels.
This statement is true in some US states (California for example) However, it is not universally true.

From the FTC rule finding (1/2023): https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...

> "About one in five American workers—approximately 30 million people—are bound by a non-compete clause and are thus restricted from pursuing better employment opportunities. A non-compete clause is a contractual term between an employer and a worker that blocks the worker from working for a competing employer, or starting a competing business, typically within a certain geographic area and period of time after the worker’s employment ends. Because non-compete clauses prevent workers from leaving jobs and decrease competition for workers, they lower wages for both workers who are subject to them as well as workers who are not. Non-compete clauses also prevent new businesses from forming, stifling entrepreneurship, and prevent novel innovation which would otherwise occur when workers are able to broadly share their ideas. The Federal Trade Commission proposes preventing employers from entering into non-compete clauses with workers and requiring employers to rescind existing non-compete clauses. The Commission estimates that the proposed rule would increase American workers’ earnings between $250 billion and $296 billion per year. The Commission is asking for the public’s opinion on its proposal to declare that non-compete clauses are an unfair method of competition, and on the possible alternatives to this rule that the Commission has proposed. "
What are your thoughts on using studio monitors for home listening? It seems like you'd want the playback at home to impart the least color possible, so that it does match what the recording engineer wanted it to be.
Ask HN: What would be the single piece of advice you'd give a non-programmer?
What single piece of advice would you give a non-programmer who wants to get better at using technology?
Good in what sense? it's has bad effects, but it's addictive because of what it does for its users. It's great at sharpening the mind and focusing and looked at as a tool like that, it's quite good at it. It's the smoke from smoking to get it that's a problem.
>Childe was a prolific letter writer, sending short, clear missives to friends and supporters or even the Lunacy Board about his case and his well-being.

Ah, how quaint: the Lunacy Board.

"The Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over lunatics so found by writ of De Lunatico Inquirendo" [2]

The history is interesting:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhouses_Act_1774

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunacy_Act_1845

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Control_for_Lunacy_an...
> on how long Ubuntu (or, worse, Debian) package maintainers take to package stuff into their mainline repositories...

Really a misinformed comment.

For starters Ubuntu is for the most part a snapshot of Debian sid, so except for a few cases it will not have more modern versions.

The python packaging team is really hard working… In most cases stuff that doesn't get updated immediately is because it breaks something or depends on something new that isn't packaged yet.

Please stop demeaning the work of others when you seem to not know that it even happens at all.
That is not true for Caltrain .

Caltrain tracks and right of way was purchased in 1991 from Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) by Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board which is basically Muni, SamTrans and VTA for most of the route.

Here is a detailed map of who owns what https://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2009/01/caltrain-right-of-...

While it is true that Southern Pacific owned the line for most its history it was always built as commuter line. Union Pacific is only allowed to operate 3 freight lines per day on weekdays now.

Freight does not take priority, historically freight did not fund the development of the line, Characterizing it a freight line with passengers added on to it is not a fair representation.

--

I cannot speak for Amtrack, I don't know the network personally and it is also big and very composite a network to make any general statements like for Caltrain. However in general commuter heavy lines were built as commuter lines very early one because there was economic case to do so. It is the only the long distance lines which do not have the economic viability on their own that can only run on freight lines.
Amazon went all in like google in selling ads for their search function. It has made their site junk. You even search foe a specific product brand + model & you get Chinese backend firms with nonsensical English names. Yechhh.

Someone needs to build a front end that drills down through the ad cruft to reach the products you want.

Or offer a prime plus that doesn’t have search ads.

It is an awful experience.
Show HN: Nitrite Database – An embedded NoSQL database for apps
Nitrite is a server-less, embedded NoSQL database. It is opensource and is designed to be lightweight, fast, and easy to use. Currently, it is available in Java, Kotlin, and Flutter. It has features like:

- Embedded, server-less
- Simple API
- Document-oriented
- Schemaless document collection and object repository
- Extensible storage engines
- Indexing and full-text search
- Simple query API
- In-memory and file-based store
- Transaction support
- Schema migration support
- Encryption support

Nitrite is ideal for uses cases like:

- Mobile and desktop applications
- IoT devices and sensors
- Web applications and APIs
- Prototyping and testing
- Data caching and synchronization
- Data analysis and reporting

where a lightweight, embedded, and server-less NoSQL database is required.
Whenever I read stories like this, I'm always reminded of Chapter 7 of Hazlitt's book Economics in One Lesson, "The Curse of Machinery."
I am using YAML myself to manage my CV in two different languages. Using a convention like "description(en): ..." the different translations are co-located making it easier to keep everything in sync.
> What exactly would this "cleaner base" look like?

My interpretation would be something like: the abandonment of software that is so poorly designed that it is difficult to package and/or run under Nix.

This commit message (from one of my commits) details some of the struggles supporting Ruby under Nix:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/b6c06e216bb3bface40e...

Each of those problems is due to either:

1. Some unmotivated contrivance in Bundler, where the maintainers refused to make their stuff less needlessly broken, or

2. Ruby programmers in general not programming with packaging in mind (haven't touched Ruby/Rails professionally in a while, but when I did, it was par for the course to rsync/capistrano files around -- no one saw the utility of any sort of packaging)

And the two really reinforce each other. Bundler is the de facto way to declare and pin dependencies at the app level, but then Bundler makes it nearly impossible (see the commit message for details) to package software using Bundler, which reinforces the "fuck it, we'll just rsync files around over SSH", which means no one pressures Bundler to Do The Right Thing.

It's the same thing everywhere else. There are complaints elsewhere in this comment section about the nodejs/npm experience on Nix: same underlying problem. The design behind npm is so unnecessarily shit-tacular that it kinda sorta just barely works on its tier 1 platforms. I don't envy the brave souls that have worked on supporting npm packages on Nix.
Nail. Head.

The amount of code I now "write" (I've started calling it directing) and features I've put into my side projects has been more than the last 5-10 years combined this last year.

I successfully created a sold a product within 3 months. Start to finish, because of the productivity power I received.

People are misusing it.
My kidney doc says i was born with small kidneys and that might be why i have mild CKD and or i took a medication that damaged my kidneys. Initially in 2019 she didnt advocate for changing diet .. seemed on the fence but to me it makes perfect sense what you put in your body matters a 100%.

I read stuff on the Internet that day she diagnosed me and went to the store. Threw away all foods in my house that had preservatives and started to read labels at the store finding foods made with simple to a few natural ingredients. I increased my daily water intake to almost nothing to 3 liters a day, stopped eating all beef, pork and only eat grilled chicken, fruits, salads, rice, almond milk, breads (grains), avoid fried foods, cut down on dairy, do some type of exercise & or go to the gym daily (though ive always done that but stopped lifting heavy weights .. lots of cardio (running, swimming, lite weights) as kidney cant break down creatine as it use to when you lifted weights) and as mentioned i do my best to avoid taking all/any medications. It took 4 to 6 months for my function to rise from 55 to around 70 and in the coming years i got and maintained it from 75 to 85. I go for monthly to bi-monthly renal lab testing to ensure it's all good. I also strive to eat 1500 to 2000 calories a day (5'10 173 pounds). Unfortunately recently i decided to take a high dose of doxyclcyine (throughout past few years ive taken two smaller/longer doses of it without issue for flu) and it brought my function down :-( Working hard now to get it back.

This is my journey .. i am not a doctor but from my experience and doctor worth their salt they should be advocating revolutionizing your diet ... some will say that's how it goes get ready to go on dialysis in a few years or so. Those doctors need to be ignored and find one who believes in nutrition and see how revolutionizing your diet most likely will heal your kidney some or by a lot too.

**I eat out a lot throughout each week ... chic fil a (grilled nuggets, fruit cup, salad, water or unsweet tea & lemonade), Cava (chicken & rice bowls), Chipolte (chicken and rice bowls), Panera (Apple fuji salad or half of one of their chicken sandwiches.. sometimes do eat turkey) or at home cook spaghetti, air fried chicken tenders, pasta and still eat sweets but i calorie count daily and weigh myself daily too. Ha too most i sound obsessed but i am obsessed about my health and ive seen / see results from being such!
What do all these have to do with lakehouse? (and that is a lame term to begin with anyway)
That's quite interesting to know. Which laptop/AMD cpu did you purchase?

I may have to buy a new laptop in the near future. Linux is my default OS. I've been happy with my existing Ryzen 7 3000 series laptop for 5 years or so. I want to know if Intel is doing better these days.
It's all bots from the customer side too! AI-generated product names and descriptions with AI-generated reviews [0]. Half the books on there these days are AI-generated knockoffs of someone else's work.

I think it's not just sellers who would welcome some competition in this space.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012
AFAIK, Amtrak discontinued passenger service between LA and Las Vegas years ago.
Mine is: Don't waste time finding the "best" program for a particular task. Rather, find one that exposes keybindings for every action in the program, and then commit those bindings to muscle memory. This applies to:

- design tools (Photoshop, Figma)

- media-editing programs (GarageBand, whatever is used for video-editing these days)

- unexpected places (e.g. Trello)

The mouse has only 3-6 degrees of freedom to interact with. Only two digits on one hand operate a mouse. A keyboard has 50+ degrees of freedom, with all ten fingers available for usage.

Anecdotally, companies that design software that can be exclusively used by a keyboard tend to think more highly of their customers.