skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come

I know past performance doesn't guarantee future results, but I've been reading comments like this since the GameCube was announced, and Nintendo has not gone anywhere. They seem pretty good at understanding that there's a segment of the gaming market which cares about more than speeds and feeds.
It's a bit strange that we all are surprised our attention spans have seemingly shrunk. Almost everyone has multiple screens and notifications yelling at them all day long now. We are training our attention spans to be shorter and react to notifications.

Of course, reading a book is going to take some training. The nice part is that if one reads for 15 minutes to a half hour a day, it becomes fairly easy to focus on a book within a few days. As long as the book is engaging/interesting to its reader.

Turning the phone on silent and/or keeping it in another room while reading helps a lot as well.
The record low in Oslo is -15f, Montreal's is -36f
Support is getting better, there is also a poly fill of sorts https://pagedjs.org
Wrong link, I think. Takes to someone's FB profile
You pretty much spelled out the use case for XSL-FO.
Rocket Lawyer (www.rocketlawyer.com) is a paid service but has a really good library of legal documents you can create online, plus access to attorneys to help review your docs or answer questions.
Which one would you recommend between these two for fine-tuning OSS LLMs?

M2 Ultra Mac Studio vs M3 Max Macbook Pro

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch
How do you calculate 5 * 7? With a calculator?
Furries - lots and lots of furries.[0] /endjoke

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/vyelva/why_are_there_...
Slide Rule for the Modern Day
an automated text from your school saying there's a situation does absolutely nothing to alleviate the parent's concern. what a disingenuous thought that this is actually helpful in the least.

the parent wants to know if their special snowflake(s) is okay. these automated systems are absolutely not going to tell them that, and aside from that information, anything else is just seen as the school trying to placate people.
so re-submitting after a couple of hours is really the way to go?
It may have finally been settled now as legal? I know in the past it was considered a violation of DMCA, circumventing technical countermeasures.

Looks like the lawsuit was settled not decided, and Apple is free to sue it's next victim.
Archiving on the Shoulders of Giants
Certain people still insist on joking about it being a 'meal' almost every time I drink one though.
Its far worse than that. Apple clearly abuses its market place "railroads" to control shipments of apps "oil" from its competitors, mainly Kindle and Spotify. Of course while offering the same apps at a much higher margin for themselves.

It's literally the same problem that led to antitrust in 1890.
It's more generic than that.

Syncthing is designed specifically for file system sync (and does a very good job). Willow could be used for file system tasks, but also for storing app data that is unrelated to file systems, like a KV store database.

You should be able to write a good syncthing like app using the willow protocol, especially if you choose blake3 as the hash function.
Streamlit and Shiny for Python are both great for cranking out simple UI's for basic use cases, especially where there is a tie-in with something data or machine learning related.

A typical workflow could be for a team to prototype in one of these tools, get feedback, but at some point they eventually get rebuilt as a proper webapp. I would love to see these tools evolve to not require that total rebuild. Maybe they could add the capability to export to React or Angular. Then that could be used as a starting point for converting that into a proper webapp.
when you review a paper, where does your "review" go? Is your review some sort of written document? Why doesn't arXiv have a place for reviews? I.e, if I trust a reviewer and says paper is good I'm likely to go read it.
Never had it crashing. Are you using it on Linux?
> tedious to parse, regardless of substance

We've got an early leader in the clubhouse for the 2024 Accidental HN Slogan Contest.
I think that's right. "Scientific" has prestige, so people who want prestige label stuff as "scientific", even though it doesn't fit. As a result, "scientific" starts losing prestige because the label is applied to all this stuff, much of it bogus.
I remember when Ars was a legitimately independent tech site in the /. days, before Condé Nast bought it. Now it's a megaphone for Big Tech and has been hijacked by political activism, a shadow of its former self. As are most tech publications these days.
But most people also aren't draining their battery every day.

I live in Toronto, own a Kona EV, and am lucky enough to have a garage. I've literally never needed anything more than 120V except when going on >300km car trips. Any daily commute that wouldn't be handled by an overnight charge at 120V probably isn't a commute I'd put up with even with an ICE vehicle.
If you actually read my comment, I haven't predicted anything about YouTube's business model. I wrote that I hope they would paywall their entire catalog (like Netflix). That's what I would personally prefer, nothing more. And it's not out of the question, things are changing quite rapidly now that we're a few years into a global economic depression. Once honest advertisers realise how low the return of online advertising has become, it will become more difficult for Google, Meta and others to attract them. Left will be the scam advertisers (who are already a large part of online ads), driving customers away from the product and maybe even start attracting the interest of the law. I'm surprised that all these tech giants haven't yet been prosecuted and fined billions for allowing outright scams on their platforms.

What is the real value in YouTube? It's the videos, and there's a much greater amount of videos and a much greater amount of the highest quality videos on YouTube than on any other platform. Yet, many more people pay for Netflix and cable. As long as YouTube has the free, ad-supported tier, many people will not pay for the product. Only because of psychology and the way that "free" messes with people's reasoning. If YouTube became paid only, I think a lot of consumers would rethink.

But do I expect that this is going to happen? No.
You're spamming SEO junk, please don't.
AI Safety stuff rubs you the wrong way because it’s a disingenuous, hyperbolic, bad-faith power grab / stall tactic most of the time. It’s not always, but there’s no money in the honest stuff.

The AI stuff is powerful, it stands to change which companies and people are rich and powerful, and like always, they want it dead or limited or constrained until they can control and monopolize and capture it. This is an old story even with names like Microsoft in the story.

Asimov had proposed the 3 laws like, 70 or 80 years ago, describing machines far more powerful than any language model, all of humanity has had at least that long to debate and consider and discuss that, lots of people have, and “put some creepy, insular, privatized clique in Atherton in charge with zero oversight until we’re safe” was zero times on the menu.

Asimov’s 3 laws still seem about right, and if they need updating? Not a private company that fires board members when the board tries to police the CEO. That needs to be the public’s consensus in one of the many ways the public weighs in on stuff.
Everyone is just kind of assuming that sociological research is "federally funded," but what do we mean by that? Surely, not all research is federally funded. I work in an adjacent field with a similar grant structure, and "funding" is a combination of faculty salary and grants, which typically come from both federal organizations and foundations like Mellon, ACLS, etc.

While I'm all for open access (so long as authors don't need to pay to publish, which is often the case with open access journals), it would be a mistake to think research is publicly funded in the US to the same extent that it is in Europe or Latin America.
If it were fuzzy we wouldn't call Mike Tyson one of the all time greats, nor would Mohammed Ali be considered one of the greatest boxers of all time.

What you mean by fuzzy is not perfectly predictable, which is true. But the results of certain individuals speak for themselves and very few people will ever be able to do what Michael Jordan has done in basketball.

Indeed, the chances of making it into professional sports is so small most people are told to always have a backup plan.

So if you want a definition for "great" here, it's that people will look back and consider them great after evaluating them _after_ the fact.

Not everyone has the _potential_ to do what Michael Jordan did, not everyone has the _potential_ to do what Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, et al, did.

This is obvious at the extremes, therefore, it's obvious that it also happens at the lesser extremes with the difference being that the sample set of people able to achieve that level of success is greater than at the extremes.

paradoxically, understanding this isn't rocket science, but it does require you to admit that people aren't merely blank canvases (of exactly the same material and size) to be written upon.
GitHub is absolutely toxic which is why we develop on GitLab instead. The reduction in the slowly creeping "social features" and non-existence of drive-by activism is great.
Young people. I live in a semi-rural area in the UK and it's starting to feel like the last stop off point before the crematorium. The consensus view seems to be to move further out as you age but I'm starting to wonder if the opposite would be better.
While I do believe in "the harder I work, the luckier I get" mentality, what you said there about "keep working even if you don't get paid much for a while" is the critical factor. I had to stop comparing what I could pay myself versus my peers and even my own post-MBA salary, as I made significantly less for a few years.
Her Wikipedia page is pretty long, she was a public figure long before this controversy, even ignoring the fact that simply being a billionaire invites public scrutiny.
Same here, but the “lots of Cassandra instances” approach isn’t really oriented for continuous versioning. One may notice the availability lags with the current iCloud implementation which sometimes come across as inconsistency.
This looks awesome, congratulations.

I think you’re onto something here.

I work on an OSS reporting and analytics tool (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence) and the amount of time and effort that goes into a really good “print pdf”, and how valuable people find it, has been one of the more surprising parts of the project to me.
Same for me. I get a blue focus ring, but no menu.
It's concentrated in the south, yes, but people in Trondheim, Tromsø, Narvik, etc. also have EVs, they are everywhere in the country.
gestures exasperated at the last 25 years of media literacy, social media and tech literacy

You're right, but it looks like the only way the general public want to do this is to restrict, lock down, rent seek, and keep putting up guard rails on technology to remove user agency from general purpose computing.
A ton of coupes, especially German cars, have the window roll down a slight bit when you open the door. It’s not just a Tesla issue.

Paint issue are pretty common on Tesla but is a lot better on newer model years.
Probably not that much considering the past, present and future totals of a 30% cut across all developers lmao. We're talking about a LOT of money here. There's a reason Apple is a "trillion dollar company" and it's not because they're putting in anything even close to as much as they take out.

If it were possible to run unsigned code on the average iDevice (and Apple's framework/drivers disabled for unsigned code) then this would have already been done, a long time ago.
Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined 11% in 2023
Yes, people are shocked. Apple's provisional approach to legislative compliance isn't working, their indifference towards public opinion is what brought antitrust regulators onto the scene in the first place.

Their App Store monopoly is the most literal definition of anticompetitive bundling in the 21st century; they're tying the primary product (Apple hardware, software, APIs, etc.) to a secondary product (the App Store) that can be offered from multiple competitors.
I wouldnt defend 30% specifically but surely they should get some cut or share. What is the right number? 1%? 50%? I don't know.

> All they do is steal 30% from society that could be used for more productive purposes than make a few people who already have everything even richer.

Kind of an odd take. They take a cut because they provide a service. They are not stealing. I guess lump me in with the defending apple crowd if you want to but to think they would or should charge nothing for their service feels... silly.
In what way on Earth is the post that I am referring to an SEO junk?
Has the project published any open source crates in regards to the app? It would be valuable to be able to create other applications on the multilayer stack
What's important when bootstrapping, it is to have a set of easily audit-able code generator binaries with several alternatives (to avoid dev/vendor lock-in). That is a thing of the past. Anybody bringing on the table gcc or clang for this is only laughable matter, unfortunately.
This seems to imply that most people would die in their 40s from one cause or another before the 20th century, which is patently untrue. This is entirely from infant and childhood illnesses. If you made into grade school in the 1800s you were nearly as likely to live into your 70s as you are 200 years later.

> ‘… life expectancy in the mid-Victorian period was not markedly different from what it is today. Once infant mortality is stripped out, life expectancy at 5 years was 75 for men and 73 for women.’ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/

It seems the only real change modern medicine has had with regard to life expectancy is maternal mortality (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625386/table/t... from the same article)
Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator
I think one potential downside of this is you no longer have `max(l) in l` for all lists.
Obsidian is that thing in the back of my mind which is Markdown+Synch. Service.

I’ve never really gotten into synch. since I tend to monocompute a lot.

I write things in Org Mode. Not a power user of that thing, just the markup I use. I don’t use links in Org but I would like to. I sometimes make very informal and tedious links. So that would be a welcome feature.

> Obsidian’s choice to work with plain text files make it future-proof

Future-proof yes. It is. But as a customer this doesn’t sound that exciting. A company could offer to print all my data and mail it to me when I terminate the plan. That’s also future-proof.

Ditto with

> Obsidian allows structure to grow organically

I haven’t read the links but 95% of the time this means “because there isn’t any structure (YOLO)”. Yeah okay I am free as a bird, cool. But I can’t make a decades-spanning personal wiki based on completely unstructured data and links alone.

All in all: most MD tools kind of fade into the background for me. People want all kinds of bells and whistles with that semi-language like a dedicated editor so that they can write headers and unordered bullet lists with a preview. Overall the marketplace feels excessive.
To add insult to injury, Logitech's proprietary format to communicate wirelessly with mice and keyboards is a little wonder of ease-of-setup plus reliability-in-use. Granted they can much more rely on their own well-defined hardware but still.
He's good, although if you're new I caution you to continue thinking critically as you read. He's one of those people like TLP who has figured out the secret to writing in a way that's persuasive to smart people, and you can sometimes emerge from a post being completely convinced it's true, and only later going, "Wait, there was no actual evidence presented for any of that."

Again, I'm not saying he isn't good, but keep your critical faculties about you.
In other words, if you want your vote to count, you need to live where it counts.
It is also hard, and can take a mental and physical toll on you.
> I see things that are clearly wrong afail

Then point those things out and cite some resources or cases that support your claims.

> I can cite cases too, but I really don't have expertise.

Well, that would at least be better than just saying "you're wrong" over and over with no evidence.
Maybe they'd have to have a smaller holiday party?
A trend of a network being so popular the user growth outpaces capacity?
> Unified memory is a hell of a thing.

Does that also apply to stuff like AMD APUs? Honestly asking, I have no clue.
> They rob hardworking small developers of real money that they need to support themselves all so billionaire Gabe N can enjoy the extreme excess of his valve palace

Steam's 30% is still a huge improvement on the overhead involved in brick and mortar physical sales. But if a developer doesn't want to pay the 30% they can always sell their game from their own website - and some do[1]. Most developers seem to think that the 30% is worth it though.

[1] https://fractalsoftworks.com/preorder/

Edit: Something I neglected to make explicit is that the PC is an open platform. If you don't want to sell through Steam you have tons of other options, including self-publishing. If you want to get your game on a PS5 or an iPhone, you have to go through Sony or Apple and they take a similar cut of your revenue.
Are you aware of any that don't have a low voltage battery?
But apple charges for storage space? Surely people needing more storage is a huge plus for Apple. Maybe they had worries about scaling storage capacity? A company like Aple could certainly figure it out though so that seems unlikely
> there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system. Fundamentally they do the same thing, and are sort of just optimizations for particular problem-sets.

Conceptually that is quite true, though the domain dependencies make a lot of the code end up looking quite different.

But the first true database (pre-relational!) was developed for SABRE, American Airlines' computerized reservation system, in the early 1960s. Before that tickets were issued manually and the physical structure of the desks and filing systems used to make reservations reflected the need!

Unfortunately I can't find the paper I read (back in the mid 80s) on the SABRE database but I remember that record size (which is still used today!) was chosen based on the rotational speed of the disk and seek latency. Certainly there was no filesystem (the concept of filesystem barely existed, though Multics developed a hierarchical filesystem (intended to be quite database-like, as it happens) around the same time. The data base directly manipulated the disk. I don't know when that changed -- perhaps in the 1970s?

Like I said I can't quickly find the paper on the topic, but here's a nontechnical discussion with some cool pictures: https://www.sabre.com/files/Sabre-History.pdf. A search for "American Airlines SABRE database history" finds some interesting articles and a couple of good Wikipedia pages.
Actually I moved to the US last year so this experience is currently in the Seattle area :/
Not just math. The technique is called "nerd sniping":

https://xkcd.com/356/

Beware. It's a common trick on forums not entirely unlike this one.
How strange to believe a conspiracy so much that you end up taking part in it to make it happen. Like if I made my own moon landing studio set to show that it was faked.
> Public funding ought to equal public results. Both to the claims, the paper, the raw data and the peer reviews.

One of my biggest gripes with academia. More and more are universities and those who run it act like private corporations than non-profit research institutions
Which is, in this context, like Amazon taking 9% if you buy something from Ebay.
> If you take away the requirement for success, then sure, anyone can do anything.

Part of the disconnect between our positions, and the position of society at large is that society at large sees receiving a college degree as success, or at least a strong sign of success. Where-as when people fluent in advanced technical topics describe someone being successful, they're referring to the ability to work in those topics fluently, e.g be their intellectual/professional peer. As your pointed out, there is a weak correlation between graduating college and actually being fluent in the topic, as it is commonplace for people to cram for a test and forget everything by the following week.

The core disconnect is that society at large interprets "anyone can get through a degree program in any topic with sufficient support systems and resources in place" as being the same thing as "anyone can be successful in any field or topic with sufficient support systems and resources in place". This conflation does a disservice to everyone, but perhaps most of all the people who work in those fields who get stuck on teams where some colleagues are a net drag on productivity and actively drain their mental and emotionally energy rather than contributing, because as a rule the folks actually doing the work aren't empowered to control who they work with other than choosing to quit.
She's a public figure, a billionaire, and a plagiarist; feeling sorry that her misdeeds came to light is a great illustration of OP's article.
> Depending on what the issue is, how well the hardware is documented (you may even hit an undocumented hardware bug!)

What's fun is, particularly with older games and hardware, it wasn't uncommon for devs to use hardware bugs to their advantage. DK64 is notoriously hard to emulate because of that.
Logseq's native sync now has smart merge which I have found prevents issues like this.
Econtalk is good that way as well.
There’s just no going back, and commercial real estate has a whooping coming for it. No one likes to hold a loser in their portfolio. Wealthy, well-connected people who are invested in commercial real estate have a perverse incentive to hype up their investment before they can dump it as soon as they can. Only then will they speak with clarity about how the industry is doomed. No amount of bailouts or subsidies will save it. There will still be a need for office space, but it will be more limited AND the offices that do remain will need to be upgraded to suit their new role as an awesome, high tech, inspiring place for occasional company meetups.
My e46 BMW had frameless windows and it was built in 1999. I prefer frameless windows after having that car. My newer cars don’t, the windows are harder to clean and don’t look as good.
> Until then companies are free to offer private alternatives to users who find that to be a valuable service.

The question with the App Store is, are customers allowed to choose?
True. I probably thought about dilation in the context of bronchodilation and incorrectly transferred that to muscles.