skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not just you, and your reaction makes perfect sense.

When someone wrote a post, that implied some kind of research and insight you might’ve not arrived at on your own without a significant time investment and perhaps a number of specific skills or contacts. You could follow the logic and the sources and evaluate each step of the journey. Even if a conclusion were wrong, you might still glean important accurate information, such as a specific resource to use in the future, or appreciate the investigative journey the author went on.

When a post starts by mentioning an LLM as the source of the information, they might just as well tell you the prompt and end the post there. You can run the query yourself and interpret the result on your own. Saying they used an LLM is like saying they used a search engine, clicked a result without thinking, and everything is based off of that but they won’t even tell you the URL. You have zero idea if the information is accurate and can’t even trust or learn from the analysis.

Like yourself, I’m not trying to use this particular submission as an example. Rather, I’m attempting to decode where your feeling (again, you’re not alone) might in general come from.
I give Eric all the credit. I honestly don’t know if Google would have been hugely successfully without him. Sure, they would not have failed, but they probably would’ve plateaued early like most successful startups.
You want to be nickeled and dimed?

That was the whole problem Flattr was trying to solve. You decided up front how much you could afford to spend supporting artists and pursuits of creativity and public goods, and it got distributed evenly between everyone you choose to support. It was a great idea, and I was an early user.

However, they had the problem that most of the people who you might want to support, were not on Flattr. And Flattr made a poor move early on: in a bid to avoid getting spammed by low effort/beggars, they demanded that you give and take: If you wanted to be able to receive, you had to use the service yourself.

This was eminently fair. It was also a disaster, because it exposed a fact that's obvious when you think about it, but which is a crush to most "creatives"' ego: The vast majority of us are net consumers! We watch way more than we create ourselves. Most minor bloggers/youtubers/podcasters wouldn't want to admit that, they'd just see "I pay more than I get out of this? This sucks!"

Later they backed down from this demand, and then they got the problem with low effort/begging. All along they had the problem that some influential people really wanted to see them fail, due to their association with The Pirate Bay.
My guess is this is what most people do. The few remaining holdouts are busy turning C into something that isn't C because they don't like things that aren't C.
Maybe doesn't matter. I have shifted quite a bit to Bard. And have been wondering whether I need Google Search anymore. Its taking me back to the days when Google first came out and suddenly noticing I was using Google search all the time.
You don't have work anymore as a constraint, but it's not the only constraint to where people live.

If you are single and want to live alone, you can certainly optimize the hell out of housing costs. But of course, each single constraint you remove will probably let you reduce your costs by a bit.
A 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity
There is a well-known Russian meme called "китайские кубики"
https://trinixy.ru/18802-kitajjskie_kubiki_polnaja_versija_7...

That set of toy cubes had everything: letter not matching a word, image not matching a word (like an orc from Lineage 2 for "щука"), made up words like "knifefork" and of course lots of typos.
Common mode failure.
Gambit-C: Embedding C code directly in Scheme
Twitch did successfully push a subscription model for creators that allowed a lot of small creators to make an income. For anyone unfamiliar, Twitch subscriptions are $5-25/month (viewer's choice) and give access to emote, subscription badges in the chat and, perhaps most importantly, give you an ad free experience with that creator.

One cannot understate how important Amazon Prime (as Twitch Prime) is to the Twitch subscription ecosystem. IIRC roughly half of all Twitch subscriptions are Twitch Prime.

Twitch is aupser aggressive with ads. Youtube has skippable pre-roll ads. Twitch does not and might have 4+ pre-roll ads plus in-stream ads every 30-60 minutes. The ad density Twitch aims for is 4+ minutes per hour. But Twitch doesn't like the subscription model anymore. They've cut the revenue split. Previously many creators got a 70/30% split, now almost everyone gets a 50/50% split.

The big problem is that ad revenue scales in a way that subscriptions don't. Ad CPMs can go up, you can increase ad desnity easily (to a point) and ad revenue scales with view count in a way that subscriptions don't (eg a creator with 100K concurrent viewers won't have 100 times the subscriptions of someone with 1000 CVC).

You're seeing the same trend with streaming services. Netflix killed their basic tier and wants you to watch ads because it's more profitable than the subscription. Prime Video has thinly veiled a price hike by adding an extra ad-free monthly fee.

My point is that subscriptions, or any form of voluntary payment, is icnredibly hard to make work and even the most successful examples, like Twtich, require great effort and a supporting ecosystem like Amazon Prime.
Digged - via website redesign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Redesign
I agree with your general point: people generally donate/buy/subscribe much more if there's a benefit tied to it.

On the other hand, I'd like to point out that Twitch is still losing money so I wouldn't really call their business model "very viable". I'd say it's viable for the content creators, because there's very little risk in trying out Twitch streaming, sure the chances of making it big are insanely small but the worst case scenario is losing time and a relatively small amount of money on a PC setup + microphone and camera.

Patreon is a different beast but there's a caveat here as well. I don't have numbers so this is just my PoV but I'd guess that the vast majority of creators that use Patreon aren't hosting, sharing or creating mainly on Patreon. They're called YouTubers, streamers, bloggers for a reason. Sure they may share BtS or some other kind of additional content but it's not their main platform. So while the Patreon business model works it's not really comparable to Twitch or any other platform where you actually start and continue to create content and also get paid by.
Is it easier now? Back then you could learn C++ in 21 days, nowadays it takes years and years and you’re still just scratching the surface. :)
Nobody would care about Russian minorities and their rights if Russia wouldnt weaponize them. Its a typical Russian strategy:

Radicalize and support those minorities. If the country does not do anything, it has a rebellious subversive group being directed by a hostile country. If it does anything it just goes to show how hostile and suppressive those countries are which justifies more official Russian reactions.

Also dont forget that those loyal Russian minorities were part of the imperial oppressive structure by which Russia ruled over its subjects.
It is derived from a famous quotation from Chairman Mao.

好好学习，天天向上

"Study well, [and] improve every day."

Making progress is conceived of as "upwards" movement.
Thanks. That's good to know. The file format is not highlighted in the documentation but I found some information about it: https://duckdb.org/internals/storage.html

It seems to be a bit early to rely on it to store data in an object store, but I will do some tests to compare with SQLite:

> The DuckDB internal storage format is currently in flux, and is expected to change with each release until we reach v1.0.0.
low bit depth quantized puts GPU's at quite a disadvantage, since they can't use their massively parallel floating point units, and often spend a lot of time packing and unpacking numbers.

However, minor tweaks to the design of GPU's could probably make them 5x quicker at directly processing quantized data (a 4 bit multiplier is so small you can afford to do thousands of them per clock cycle in a tiny silicon area), and I'm sure the next generation of GPU's will have that.
I've always avoided corn-based whiskey and preferred rye. Generally, I avoid any US corn products where possible.

Mexico takes their staple crop seriously. They've banned the Bayer/Monsanto engine corn. When making tortillas, I use Mexican masa harina. Strangely, most Mexicans here (US) use the Azteca brand, which is about as Mexican as Moses.

I'd definitely go for some heirloom corn Mexican whiskey.
Depends from case to case. It might be a complex project, but the lead/architect already has the right answers and there will be smooth sailing.
On the contrary it might be a project with constantly changing requirements, new portions of tech stack for all the team, tight deadlines, some tool chosen for a task does not support something, bugs, estimations did not meet reality. In that case (a challenging project) I would prefer the team in the office.

Also if you are a begginer, I would recommend to search for work in office if it works for you.

I dislike commuting more than half an hour, however I would like the team to be together if it's something challenging.

I know it is hard to commute long time, especially if you have other responsibilities, but that does't change my opinion on what is the best for the team.
I wouldn’t call 2.5% of the day (including night) nothing. 20 minutes is way past the upper bound of a daily commute I would consider reasonable!
It was a cardiac arrest during surgery. Likely nothing preventable or predictable. Just tragic
It's a terrible option. Cryptomining in a browser is pure banditry: it's incredibly inefficient to the point the user loses way, way more than the site gains, and it provides basically nothing to crypto.
A WebAssembly Core for Uxn
No, just commenting on how streaming of any digital content, the source company is tracking hundreds of data points on each person.
Better coffee is definitely situational, especially if your employer buys over roasted beans.
OLAP or column oriented SQLite is DuckDB.
I can relate to this situation. My father contracted COVID in December 2021. He was already suffering from dementia, having lost his ability to relate things and express himself. From what we observed, he was no longer the person we had known for many years. After contracting COVID, he became fully silent and bedridden for six months. His food was administered through pipes, and blood reports were regularly taken to monitor his health. In case of any infection, especially urinary, we had to take him to the hospital. Throughout this period, he was physically present but unresponsive.

I was unsure about what he was feeling—whether he experienced pain or had lost his ability to feel it. My mother was not ready to accept the reality, continuously supporting him during this challenging time. I cannot recollect those days clearly. He passed away six months later, but the thoughts of what he went through continue to trouble all of us. I still feel the pain. Reading this account has made me more thoughtful about his situation during those times.
Use Multimedia Fusion or Construct. The former is what I started with, and the latter is a modern iteration of that. Alternatively, Game Maker. If he hasn't been interested in computers before now, don't ruin the momentum, start from quick and easy, then introduce Lua scripting and if he's still interested, consider Unity or Unreal.
There is, or anyways there was, but the model didn’t work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle

It still exists, sort of, you can download the app, but it’s all in Dutch now, and doesn’t work on a pay-per-article model anymore, it’s unclear to me what their model is now, since I don’t speak Dutch. In any case, what you’re asking for exactly was a thing before, and failed, so I assume that’s why you can’t do it - it was tried, and people didn’t use it.
> At Apple, privacy and security are core features of the product.

This sounds like a press release.
My guess is ZK is used primary as a very complex and tedious form of procrastination. Writing the book is hard, so instead, one can endlessly tweak and tune their notes and feel like progress is being made.
I don't want to minimize pilot errors but I can't stop thinking this dual inputs system easily ranks in the top 5 of the worst design ideas in history.

Probably just behind the MCAS.
Exactly. For me, there's nothing better than 15 minute walking commute.
> The two pilots then simultaneously made inputs on the controls for 53 s. The pitch controls were desynchronized for 12 s due to opposing forces.

Does anyone know what "The pitch controls were desynchronized for 12s" actually means? and was this a system response to the two controls having opposing forces, or an unexpected result of it.
Sure you can, it just costs more than taking the loss
Autocheck If Your C++ Code Is Safe for Automobiles and Safety Critical Systems
>"And some scientists think time might not even be 'real' — or at least not fundamental," says NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel.

Yeah, time being real or not, people still need to go to work 9am-5pm tomorrow, so the point is moot.

Color isn't real either, red/blue/etc are just how our brain interpets electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum. But it's still essential to our lives anyway.
Twitch loses money because Amazon has decided to make Twitch lose money. Why? Because Amazon is charging themselves for the infrastructure Twitch uses (ie AWS).

It does that to justify cutting revenue splits (of subscriptions and ads) and increasing ad density. The minimum ad density now is generally 4 minutes per hour.

Example: say I'm Pottery Barn and I sell furniture in the US. I sell a table for $500. It costs $100 to make in China, $50 to ship to the US and $150 in store costs (eg utilities, staffing, rent, amortized capex, etc). You might say I've made $200 profit.

But let's say my corporate structure is to have 2 subsidiaries: PB Manufacturing and PB Retail. The first makes the table. The second manages the stores and sells the table.

If PBM charges PBR $150 for the table then PBM makes $50 in profit and PBR makes $150. If PBM charges $300 for the table then PBM makes $200 in profit and PBR breaks even.

This is what I mean when I say Twitch's profitability is a chosen narrative.

There are many reasons to do this. Tax is a big one. Maybe you pay less tax in China so you prefer to take profit there. Maybe you want to argue stores aren't profitable to resist demands for higher wages or higher rents.

The above is an example of "transfer pricing" or "profit shifting". What's the difference? Transfer pricing is illegal. Profit shifting isn't (within limits; it technically has to be "at arm's length" and other requirements).
Kinda tempted to say 424 or 402 and you should always consider 418.

Actually 418 might be appropriate as the service was clearly not built to solve the problem as it exists today.

"The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot client error response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot."
Seems if you have staff that needs constant oversight and micromanagement, it's a waste of your own time. Do you really want to check someone 8 hours a day, 5 days per week to make sure they do what they are supposed to do?

I think in such cases it might be better to get rid of such staff, for your own sake and theirs.
>>As a consequence, the competition on the labor side is much fiercer, and as a consequence of that, pay is lower and the chance for exploitation is higher.

Well, again - there are these golden jobs that offer both. As an example, if you're good enough as a rendering programmer with video games experience, you can command almost any kind of salary, work wherever you want, and change jobs at a whim - because any games company will pay you your weight in gold to employ you. And (while not a given) the opportunity to work on something meaningful/interesting there is very high.
Because you still need to wait for the attendant to come. But you have no chance of scanning other items in parallel. (Assuming you don't know if this store will block scanning)

It is always optimal to scan these first. You have two cases:

Blocking: scan 1 + wait for attendant + scan rest

Non-blocking: scan 1 + max(wait for attendant, scan rest)

However if you scan these items last the wait is always the same:

scan rest + scan 1 + wait for attendant

This is never shorter than either of the previous two. It is equivalent to the blocking case and almost always longer than the non-blocking case.
The future of the Winamp Forum is uncertain
I was reacting to the generalization.

There are communities where the creators are well under way to becoming sustainable with this method. Granted, it's very early days.
> about as Mexican as Moses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Mexico
What about K?
Or that not all of your bags fit on the scale.
They can even add mind reading capabilities, until they aren't the default search engine on the biggest browsers and mobile platforms in the world(FF, Chrome, Android, Safari, iOS), their market share ain't growing significantly. Defaults matter most, and Windows-Edge isn't big enough to drive this.
Why call people suckers? Maybe they don't mind commuting? Maybe their commute is only 15 minutes, and not 2.5 hours?

> To be fair, leftover workers seem to stick around at a company for 10-20 years.

Even if they were "leftovers", their value to the company they know in and out after 10 to 20 years and their productivity skyrockets compared to the A+ rock stars that left the company after one year.
Cities/governments have loads of options to fix homelessness which won't violate people's rights. But it's crazy to me that nobody is willing to do any of them. I get political ideologies... just that surely the suffering of these people should supersede your ideology.

No no, they'd rather argue that the supreme court is wrong and they do need cruel punishment and violate their rights? Some cities, particularly those in california, oregon, and washington are practically operating internment camps(tent cities) for the homeless. As far as I'm aware there's no concerted effort to kill directly, just indirectly.

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/homeless-deaths-los-an...

So Gavin Newsom facing his own policy failures and instead of fixing them, he's urging the supreme court to reconsider? that's the best use of his time... seriously?

Homeless people are your fellow man. Do you not have any sort of humanity to want to solve this problem?

California might have a recall election, but Gerry says nothing will change with that. So they are looking at 2026 at any possible change here. Gavin is at term limit, but will his Democrat successor have the ideology to do what is right? I very much doubt it.

Moral compass is pointing away from california.
I'm not saying Anki flashcards don't count as notes, but I think OP was referring to the kind of notes that would typically be created by software like Obsidian, OneNote, etc.
Doing the right thing once is fairly easy, doing the right thing 100,000 times is vastly harder. The issue is the UI around dual inputs not lack of training or awareness.
They aren't defensive foxes. They're just fixes. Any C99+ code that relied on your assumed realloc(p, 0) behavior was always incorrect.
It means one was trying to increase pitch angle (trying to climb?) and one was trying to do the exact opposite. They were canceling each other’s inputs.
Took me about a minute to identify it is a yo-yo (without reading any of the discussions), and they point out there that the official ball has a yo-yo for Y, so I am quite convinced that it is supposed to be a yo-yo as well. Just not drawn particularly nicely: the yellow bit is a cartoon string, the blue-and-white bit is the yo-yo's "body".

Edit: although now that I finished reading the rest of the investigation, there are quite a few arguments for "yxa" as well. Still seems like an odd coincidence to see a yo-yo there myself, and then to read that it is supposed to be a yo-yo on the official ball.
When it rains enough it is. What's the trend looking like for that?
Use llamaindex, include citations, and open it up to the public. I don't think they needed five phases. It looks like government bloat.
There is really no tricks to do this, anyone who says otherwise is lying. We are not designed to "feel happy" we are designed to reproduce successfully . Don't strive to be happy all the time.

I am sure even dalai lama has a nagging inner voice thats harshing his buzz all the time. All the stuff these folks preach is just entertainment.

Inner voice has been conditioned by evolution, food, famine, floods, climate, culture , your body, your parents and host of other fears and hopes. You cannot simply trick that voice into thinking happy thoughts.
This is regarding reference CPU designs from ARM. Qualcomm plans to use the Oryon cores from their Nuvia acquisition.
Training the T2S model from scratch takes around 8h on 96 A100 GPUs. Training the `tiny` S2A model is around 3x faster (training HQ `small` variant is comparable to T2S).

I think you would get good results with fine-tuning but unfortunately we don't have a user-friendly notebook or script to do that right now. The biggest model is 800MB (FP32) so you won't even need a very big GPU to be able to fine-tune.
You really are lost, you're on the wrong island
That's because the underlying search engine is really bad. And the LLM is only as good as it's given context.
+1 for Scratch. I have had success with my kids (8 & 10) too. They can almost instantly build something they can reason about.
Preferably with a completely different provider, in case something takes out there entire network somehow (or they go out of business).

But make sure you check where the other provider is hosted: I read it one user (individual, not a startup or other company) who had backups of stuff on a shared host with a second shared host. It turned out that they were both running on servers in that one OVH DC and they were cheap hosts with no better backup/dr plan themselves...
A wee bit anachronistic, considering the dates mentioned. But yeah, Ladinos are real.
If you are willing to "loosen" your requirements slightly, VOIP.ms (https://voip.ms/) VOIP phone numbers support SMS send/receive (including a web interface in your account to do send/receive) and using one to send/receive SMS codes would be relatively inexpensive (if you pick their "pay for usage" version).

This page shows their pricing in various countries (https://voip.ms/business/pricing#improved_communications_con...). For the US the "pay for usage" variant costs $0.85/month for the number itself plus $0.0075 per SMS message (for basic SMS messages).

You can configure the number to return the "out of service tones" if you don't want to use it for calling, but as you do mention "traveling abroad" then with a VOIP number you could send/receive calls from anywhere you had a working internet connection to one of their servers. VOIP.ms works perfectly with Linphone (both Linux desktop and Android app from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.linphone/) for calling (at least for phone usage, I've not attempted using Linphone's fancy IM or video calling).

As to whether VOIP.ms is available "in your country" -- I'll have to let you investigate that for yourself.