skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're generally delivered sequentially rather than simultaneously, but that is standard practice. It means you can concentrate the dose in the target area, but constructive interference affects only intensity, not frequency. And photons will still interact pretty evenly along the whole path.
> Google doesn't even have 50% of the online ad market

IIRC Google controls about 90% of the online ad market out side the walled gardens like Facebook.
At least beanie babies are real, crypto isn't real at all.

After 15 years of Bitcoin, nothing of any legitimate value has been made from it.
> The true Übermensch would never give a second thought (or the light of day) to such a piddling subject as this, one who exhibits all the frailties and animal passions of the last man! "Second chances" and "forgiveness" are just as much symptoms of christian morality as good and evil themselves. Remember always that justice died with God. Our only arbiter is the creative life, is the aesthetic domain.

Thus spoke Zarathustra..
Have you seem them terminate unreasonable situations?

They normally are trying to keep their IPs and Network clean of scammers abusing their resources, which inevitably hurt all customers.
If it works well, the price will plummet over the next 10 years.
This article has an uncharitable framing that confuses the issue. Coinbase is arguing that the definition the SEC proposes is so broad as to define many collectibles as securities as well as crypto. This is obviously not intended and so in their opinion points out a flaw in the proposed regulation.
or latinizations? (or whatever you would call a latin sound being reduced to the 26 character alphabet)

baš -> basch
The "net worth" of the mega-rich, at least in the US, is basically just the number of shares they hold in whatever company they founded multiplied by the price per share at any given moment. It's completely fake and has nothing to do with "economic growth". If you want to point fingers, blame the Fed for setting the stage for an epic asset inflation.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hyperbole

Good old Hacker News, if you're not careful about your wording you get a chorus of "aaaaactually".

His point was that people say (the comments you mention show this) that this happened so much you'd think it was a common occurrence that clerks at Ellis Island were just randomly changing names out of spite, anti-immigrant sentiment, etc. They nearly always weren't, the changes were almost always intentional on the part of the immigrant.

No reasonable human would take this to mean the process had 100% fidelity.
The London tube map was definitely not what I had in mind when talking about "documents" in my OP. Of course some things need to have precise layout, but PDFs are used inappropriately for many things that do not.
Your definition of cash out needs to include not ever paying for anything else even in btc.
There were likely thousands of misakes.

None by Ellis Island personnel.

I don't know what your understanding of what happened there is, but it seems wrong.

Ellis Island personnel did not ask for and then reissue names to people. They checked pre-existing lists, and then those lists were filed away never to be looked again, except for by historians debunking the Ellis Island name change myth.

Even if a clerk said "your name's Joe Sch'mozle now" it didn't change anything. Ellis Island personnel didn't issue a single scrap of paper to the immigrants and did not write down the name of anyone passing through.

All they did was look at a list of names the ships arriving into port had, and make sure nobody not on the list came through (sans bribe).
Idea: buy a car with an outdated (3G) modem and simply don't replace it.
They have their charm!

Nothing quite like hanging out on a fire escape on a hot humid summer night with a cold beer and charming company.

Along with the contortions involved climbing through the window in both directions...
> Merzenich earned his doctorate in math from Oregon State University in 2021, but currently works on a farm.

Is this a common thing? We had a contractor that had a doctorate in math. When his contract ended, he went to work on a farm in Oregon. And no, his name is not Merzenich. Or, is there a farm in Oregon that specializes in hiring people with PhDs in Math?
To get clicks
I currently use nextcloud, but while I was deciding my infrastructure, I also tried syncthing. I'd recommend trying it out since your preferences make me think it may be a better fit for you. Its pretty painless to set up, auto syncs based on your preferences. I dont know how fast it is, since I only used it for trivial testing purposes while deciding which to use, but I'd say worth comparing.
48k companies sent Facebook data on a single person
I remember running LimeWire at like 7 years old, it wasn't difficult at all. The difficult part was when dad found all the malware I'd infected the family PC with.
Norwegian GDP just took a hit
I am renting 16 core AMD with 128GB RAM and 2x2TB SSD for less then $100/month in Canadian pesos on Hetzner.

I also pay for 1Gbps symmetric fiber with dedicated IP going into my house ($140/month at the moment) so I also host some stuff right from my own place.
I'm used to that headline format when the achiever is super-young or super-old. Is the codebreaker's age really that noteworthy here?
If you take out Israel-bashing and add a bit of fiscal cuts in, it very much reads like R-party’s agenda.

But that’s just me, being European and grandstanding on the orange website.
"Failure is success in progress" Albert Einstein https://www.azquotes.com/author/4399-Albert_Einstein/tag/fai...
> I would guess the developers wanted to prevent laptops running out of battery too quickly

And I would guess sysadmins also don't like their logging facilities filling the disks just because a service is stuck in a start loop. There are many reasons to think a service failing to start multiple times in a row won't start. Misconfiguration is probably the most frequent reason for that.
I think people know they’re paying a premium on hardware.
The point of PaaS isn’t to get the best deal on specs it’s for small teams to iterate quickly and focus on product. If they’re successful they’ll outgrow it and hire people to manage infra.
According to the U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics, there are approximately 1.8M software devs in the US. Layoffs.fyi shows about 8K layoffs this year, which is only about .4% of the total market. Crude calculation but telling.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
You don't need a long queue even there if the producer can keep a short queue filled. E.g. a producer that receives an error when the queue is full and backs off but never backs off enough for the queue to fully empty can very well do just as well as maximizing throughout.
A Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Earth Is Unlikely
I guess I'm not buying that GE washer/dryer combo now...
Liquidation preferences make a difference to the math here. For example, a 3x liquidation preference would guarantee the investors the first $9 million of proceeds from any exit in the $3 million investment example.
Is this really a win?

You need a strong economy to shift to a Green future. Norway was a small country before oil and gas, now they've made the best use of it out of any country in the world.

Shouldnt they keep their foot on the pedal a little longer? Making new battery technology isn't cheap.
Also poor people exist, and sometimes they gotta make do with what they've got, even when it might be something that looks sus, that a middle class person wouldn't ever do.

And those people are often the same people to be targeted by police for drugs.
Now I wonder about process of freezing fish inside block of ice. Does that affect the fish texture?
That depends entirely on the ratio between how much you already had invested at the start of that time period versus how much you invested throughout that time period. If the ratio is nearly infinite (i.e., you had a lot to begin with and hardly added any more) then yeah your S&P500 balance should've grown about 100%. But if the ratio is nearly zero (i.e. you didn't have much at all invested at the start but contributed heavily since then) and for simple math we say that the S&P500 grew linearly, then you should expect only a 50% growth because only the early contributions rode that train while the recent contributions hardly had a chance. In reality it'll be somewhere in between.

And as pointed out by others, this assumes S&P500. If you're in a lifecycle fund instead, that's a bit like having mostly S&P500 when you're young and hardly any when you're old.
No, being venture backed implies you're cashflow negative and you're relient on funding to live.

If you're a founder of a venture backed company, one of your main jobs is to build a pipeline of investors and constantly be planning for the next round of funding (that takes a significant amount of energy away from building the company).

With this strategy, you raise one round, then you go back to being similar to a bootstrapped founder where your only focus is to make the business sustainable and you're not spending mind-share trying to raise more money.

So it is a different way of building.
> It says, unsurprisingly, that the most land efficient power source is nuclear

Not true if you factor in waste storage and the time to store it

Long after all the nuclear energy has been used making your toast, and long after many cycles of climate change, you will still be storing hi level nuclear waste, and monitoring it.

But who cares about tomorrow? Party on, and let future generations pay!
No, I gave yo a general report on the topic that cited one instance of a lawsuit. I don't give a shit about police morale. They are generally well paid, have massive benefits including all sorts of legal immunity, incredibly powerful unions, and often net up to half of municipal budgets. It's not a thankless job, politicians fall over themselves to do photo ops with police and talk about how great they are. If cops have a morale problem maybe they should worker harder at treating everyone with respect and upholding their constitutional rights instead of thorwing money at concepts like 'killology'.
I'm not an expert on the Norwegian court system, but they seem to have a Supreme Court, so I assume this can be appealed. And, since it's a completely novel[1] ruling, and the state has a large amount of money they could receive if this were overturned, I expect it will be appealed.

[1] "Novel" meaning "without precedent in Norwegian rulings". I did not mean "without foundation" or "unreasonable".
It boggles my mind that we allow GDP to not account for externalities to the environment. Like burning a wick, we cheer the flame with no consideration for the dynamite at the other end.
I specifically wrote that the Maverick is a more practical and economical solution than the cybertruck when you’re not in the group of people that needs power/durability. I don’t have any opinion on whether the cybertruck is durable, I assume it’s fine. I also agree that the Maverick doesn’t have much overlap with the cybertruck but, it is a popular part of the truck market and outperforms the cybertruck on range and economics.

As for power the cybertruck pulls 11k pounds which puts it at similar towing capacity as an f150. Some f150 engine options come in above, some below. The smallest engine f250 nearly doubles it. The cybertruck only competes in the 1/2 ton range. Everyone who buys 3/4 ton up will be losing significant capability.

The range when towing is the biggest problem as you said. It’s just pitiful. Just the other day there was a report of a cybertruck getting 160 mile range with another 6000lb tesla on a trailer. My 2011 f150 that i bought for $15k in 2015 would more than double that range. What do you suppose the range is on a 8000lb box trailer? What about when you’re headed up I-70 with 2000lb trailer?

Half the trucks out there that people complain about driving around town empty have a snowmobile trailer or a boat or a camper at home. People take those recreational items an hour or two out of town on a regular basis, typically in directions that won’t have a charger.

I aware I’m an outlier but the closest superchargers to me are 90 miles away. Around here more than half the vehicles you see are trucks and a cybertruck is just not a feasible option. I see a couple rivians around town but they’re vanity purchases, used in a capacity that could be served, by a maverick or a subaru. Which is fine. You can buy something that you think is cool. But thats the market. People thinking it’s cool. People who want their truck to do more than take the boat down to the marina 30 miles away twice a year are likely going to look elsewhere.

Really though, the only thing the cybertruck needs to do to be “successful” is to be profitable. If people buy it then it doesn’t really matter what it can or can’t do. I’ve seen number’s thrown around like 200k sales per year for breakeven etc. I don’t know the validity of any of those types of esitmates but it’s hard to imagine tesla constantly selling 30% as many cybertrucks in a year as ford does f150s. But more power to them if it does.
> and the entire article is basically saying - without any proof whatsoever - that it has never happened, not a single time, ever in the history of the millions of people who have arrived there.

First—for proof you dig into the linked articles.

Second, that “never, not a single time” interpretation is a bad interpretation of the article. The article should be read as ordinary language and not like a mathematical paper. The process at Ellis island was to check the manifest. There’s not much opportunity to change somebody’s name when all you’re doing is looking up their name on a ship manifest.

The article was presumably written because people like reading articles about common misconceptions.
How does that work for image generation AI? And even with LLMs the prompts are going to contain extremely limited information because the users are primarily requesting information, not providing it.

AI is only as good as its models. Now that we're flooding the internet with AI generated content with no way to determine if the content was also produced by AI while endlessly shoveling as much content as possible into these AI models to push up those parameter counts to attract investors, it's inevitable the current generation of popular AI systems will just eat themselves.
The main way for countries with higher wages to compete is through automation. You can't supply 1000 laborers at $2/hour, but you can supply five skilled mechanics at $50/hour.

The problem with this is that the 1000 people who had been doing the labor in the US for $25/hour don't want that to happen any more than they want it to move offshore, and they're the people with the skills to ensure the automation goes smoothly. So they resist and then lose to offshore manufacturing rather than domestic automation.

Which in turn causes the US to lose even more manufacturing jobs, because now that factory is in Asia and it's more economical for its inputs and outputs to be other factories in Asia.

The way out of this is to make sure domestic barriers to entry are low, so that you get more new domestic companies like Tesla that aren't stuck in this trap. Right now that isn't the case and Tesla is an exception that got there on hype and eccentric leadership, whereas what you really want is for domestic small businesses to be able to eat the lazy incumbent's lunch long before China does, and indeed to be able to eat the Chinese company's lunch by replacing a thousand low-wage workers with a handful of high-paid specialists.
Whether you consider them to have a clue or not, many (if not most) people believe crypto to be anonymous, likely due to its disproportionate popularity with criminals and cybercriminals. Ransomware always points to a Bitcoin wallet, not bank details.
Google will add new search choice screens for Android phones in Europe
Paragraph 202a of the criminal code:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__202a.html

Roughly:

„Gaining access to data that is protected with special methods against unauthorised access, either for personal use or for others“

So apparently, hardcoded passwords baked into the client do qualify for that.
Do you think we will see any bootstrapped companies become billion dollar corporations? Companies that start close to or are profitable from the get go. Obviously small revenues.

Starting small with a specific market and conquering it and then ramping up the product to go after bigger and bigger segments.

Or is that just impossible in today’s landscape?

Like for example as a swe I have an enough of money I could use to self fund myself. If it goes wrong I just need to work 2-3 more years and I have another 500k.
Just launched this thing!

Zen Tree is a short-form meditation app designed for beginners and those looking to ease into meditation without committing to multiple 20-minute sessions per day.

We're currently in the MVP stage, so we're actively seeking feedback on both the app itself and our landing page.

You can provide feedback directly on a screenshot of the landing page here: (https://www.lanno.app/l/42cb3632-4e0e-4b78-8a5c-bcad3a0dbe90) or reply to this thread.

much love
I've wondered about this. Can't those made connections be reasoned to be unwarranted by evidence, other than the feeling that it's true? From an outside perspective, there's no way the person could know that as they don't have any such information. My guess is the problem is that the motivation is to appease the emotion rather than against it with logic. When it really comes down to it knowing is a feeling, most of the time it's our feeling to trust logic/reason.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. PDF is essentially a raster format when what I want for most documents is the content, not the pixels.
This is nice, but I suspect that a barycentric coordinate bash with the formulas in Evan Chen's book could also do 30% of the IMO (seeing that most of it is about triangles) on a modern laptop.
The people of the ocean coasts has caused Holocene to end then promptly sunk themselves. Where's the revenge here? Just mind your own business.
Don't take the hard maths approach when you can take the lazy AI approach... Just fly a kite by hand, log the data, stick it through a reinforcement learning system to make you a controller that keeps the kite in the air.

Reinforcement learning loves these kind of problems that only have double digit numbers of scalar inputs and outputs.

Either way, my kite flying experience tells me that your reel-motors must move with quite some speed and power if you are to keep the kite in the air when the wind suddenly reverses direction.
notably picking up on twitter: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1748043513156272416?s=20
Whenever Green Peace is happy, GDP always suffers
> I’d hope schools at least make exceptions for cases like this.

Of course, they absolutely do. I imagine failure to do so would be an ADA violation, at least.
Drug cartels might disagree with the 'nothing of value' statement
It’s not too much of a wish to break up these massive fraudulent companies that serve no one except scammers and ad agencies pushing products that are broken by design.

They should be broken up and shut down no matter what will be “shifting” as a result (whatever that is supposed to mean)

The brightest minds of our generation are working on making us click more ads — its dangerous and an unimaginable waste.
If we need to scale up, we drive to the nearby computer store, give them several thousand dollars for a bigger box, go home and install it!
This article does a good job of describing hard problems with ANN search and how different algorithms solve or don't solve. https://dzone.com/articles/5-hard-problems-in-vector-search-...
Are there now grounds to start shutting down existing oil fields?

Something like 20% of the government budget comes from oil revenue, and the entire pension system (to my understanding) comes from oil funds.
Curious if you read the article? The point that it is making is that immigration didn't write down people's names at all, they were just checking them off a list, so there was no opportunity to alter, change, or butcher the names. It surely happened, but either before or after; don't blame the immigration official.

In reality, immigration officials did not write names down—they checked them off on a list in front of them. In other words, the names were already written down. The officials were not working with blank sheets of paper on which they created lists of newly arrived passengers, but with ship manifests, official lists of passengers who had disembarked. These manifests were required by US federal law as of March 2, 1819. Beginning on that date (i.e., when the federal government assumed control over immigration), ship captains were required to report a list of all passengers brought to US shores from foreign countries; information required included name, sex, age, and occupation
Even paper needs shelter. It must be kept from moths, because they eat holes in it. It must be kept from humidity, because it causes the fibres to expand and the ink to run.

It stands to reason that Sima Qian, if he cared about posterity, would have submitted his works to people who make it a point on preserving records.

Similarly a person is writing a digital work, they will need to go through a digital analogue of the same process, if they want to preserve their work.

The process of bit entropy acts like digital moths.
CPUs are rapidly depreciating, hard drives are rapidly depreciating, SSDs are doubly rapidly depreciating, with this logic no hardware buy would make sense.
I’ve observed those issues on the industry default CSPs. Terrible latencies for some services. Some of those budget CSPs simply resell AWS and Azure and GCP and OCP, while others run on commodity VPS infrastructure. And honestly there’s still too much ops work running workloads not on-premise, wasted time even though totally entertaining sometimes.
No it's Germany. That law is a seal of quality on any germ software. So bad security wise, they need obscurity by lawzyness as main protection.
For a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
Yes, this is a tech thing in particular. You don't see VC being raised for a plumbing company, they'll get an SBA loan or bootstrap. They don't need to grow 10x every year, if the owners can pay their bills and send their kids to college they're happy.

And plumbing is such a constitutionally important thing: having hot, running water and not having feces in your house is so much important than seeing what that guy from high school is up to.

I think the issue lays with how high-variance tech is due to the scale: either it is marginally profitable at a massive scale and is worth billions of dollars, or you have something that is unprofitable at any scale and is worthless. It's like there's all of the sudden (in the last 15 years) become an appetite for throwing fortunes onto a roulette table (which may be giving better odds than a lot of VCs).
Thanks, TIL! Bet JDownloader can make quick work of that as well
>Why would I want to strap a giant Apple vision headset to my face all day when I could instead just have something like a 2000s Bluetooth phone headset with an AI super assistant?

I don't really understand this. The Vision Pro and gadgets like the Rabbit R1 are completely different devices with completely different use cases.
Tanner is one of those people I might disagree politically with from time to time but who nevertheless convinces me of the alternative point of view regularly. I see he disses my man Herodotus right off, so now I need to read this to see why.

There is, of course, a margin of "losing" from which no history can return. Anyone know about Khazar history? What happened to those guys? The Mongols happened.

His series on the Soviet "cybernetics" movement was also fascinating.
Surely it makes the fish crunchier.