skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I am repeating myself.

You would assume so, but the whole problem was that the Horizon computer system would lose transactions. It might lose the transaction where the customer paid by credit/debit, and the post office received the money directly. Or it might lose the transaction that recorded the check the postmaster sent to the post office to reconcile accounts. Again, the Horizon system never had a reliable record of what transactions had actually happened. Once there were discrepancies, it was always easy for it to look like the postmaster had made a mistake or committed theft.
Yeah it’s a pity because otherwise zed is snappier than actual nvim for me with various extensions installed
> The distance that this kind of amperage has to flow through is very small, meaning that the resistance along the path isn't that bad.

The formula for resistive wattage dissipation does not include "distance" in it.

The formula is i^2r (i squared times r) where i is current and r is resistance.

So 10 amps flowing through 2 ohms dissipates 200 watts, and it does not matter if the "2 ohms" is 1mm long or 1m long.

So what matters is the net resistance of that short distance, not the distance itself.
I can imagine this being true but at the same time it's so weird. I tried to open an account with Chase and Bank of America and they ask me for SSN, and I can't get one because I am from outside the US (I just want to get one to have my freelance money in an actual bank and not Paypal/Payoneer/an app).

There are companies that provide a LLC with a SSN for just a fix payment of $400, but I am sure it comes with a lot of taxes issues that I don't want to care for now.

So, how can the financial system rely on SSN if they can be sold for inmigrants?
Show HN: Interactive Mapbox Visualization of Quebec HLMs
Speaking: Foresight, Instituto Millenium, CS Monitor
Linguists have noted that while some people talk faster than others - and some languages/cultures speak faster than others. However this is only a measure of word count, where people talk faster they are not actually saying more, they are just using more words to say it. (note that I could have eliminated "just" in the above sentence - to my ear it seems needed, but the sentence doesn't change meaning without it)

Human thought speed seems to be a reflection on how fast you need to think for normal conversations. Thus orders like "run" or "jump" are likely to be fast as if you need to tell someone to escape a lion speed is important. While if you are planning a hunt you are allowed a lot more time to get details right. Engineering often is a very slow activity as you need to think about a lot of details but you have time. Typing a message like this I want to be fast enough to follow my thought speed which is much faster (I won't claim to type this fast, but I get close and can believe with more practice I would be this fast)
If we recognize that the US government is corrupt, which I believe is a pretty universal sentiment among Americans, why aren't there any substantial anti-corruption movements?
Honestly, simply paying attention to what is happening in the AI space should have been all the info needed to see where things are going. This info was generally available when Nancy made her transactions. AI is about to shock the world, is news that anyone paying attention has known for a while. Who sells the hardware all this AI runs on? Invest in the company selling the shovels for the AI gold rush. Just common sense investing.
I'm interested in using Blu rays (maybe M discs, which are far more expensive!) for personal backup, as I generally don't have more than 100gb of really critical data (which excludes everything I could just download on the internet), and they're said to last a long time. Blu ray readers are widely available too.
Figgie was discussed very recently, which is probably why it didn't get any upvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38679078
She probably didn't. This is basically what she probably would have earned from NVIDIA if she had invested her portfolio in an S&P 500 fund.
How can we choose the language? The UI is not friendly...
OMG, please please do not turn it into an aquarium. That thing is so rare that it would be a crime! If you aren't up for restoring it, maybe consider selling it (for much $$$) to somebody who would.
What is the forcing function? Can't they just fly anyway and what happens happens (assuming it's a private affair)
Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard
NXP's new MCX N94x and MCX N54x microcontrollers both have dual Cortex M33 cores and an integrated NPU. Eval boards should be available for purchase any day now.
So obviously open source software for proprietary hardware is treated as, er, ..?
RAID is distributed across drives on one machine. That whole machine can fail. Plus, it can take a while to recover the machine or array and it is common for another drive to fail during recovery.

HDFS is distributed across multiple machines, each one which can have RAID. It is unlikely that enough machines will fail to lose data.
This isn't true, there are a ton of companies that make lots of money while not being pieces of shit

AMD is pretty good at having open source drivers, supporting Linux and Wayland, working with Framework to make an upgradable GPU in laptops.
NYT piece recently considered this as a possible factor in the increase of night time pedestrian deaths:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nightt...
Considering that Nvidia stock is up so much, and so many people are making so much on the its growth ... the fact she only made $500k tells me someone wasn't trying doing their job correctly.
Japan burns a lot of trash. I just hope that they're filtering out whatever garbage would otherwise end up in the air after burning it all. If they don't they're just shifting the problem from trash piles on their land to air pollution which becomes everyone's problem. At one point 30% of the air pollution in California could be traced back to China.
I used to pirate a lot of stuff and had a couple of Copland CDs. Even installed some versions and they would never last longer than 5min before crashing.
Duh. Attacking an oil refinery or lubricants factory would also have "collateral damage" in terms of impacting civil society. So does attacks on port infrastructure. There are very few "strategic" targets that don't.

I feel much better about this kind of "collateral damage" than Russia blowing up Ukrainian grain silos, apartment buildings, and hydroelectric dams.
Its a satirical post...
I can't believe people in this thread seem to be unironically defending / denying that Pelosi and her husband are front running trades based on her insider information.

Particularly during the pandemic it was just painfully obvious that she was trading based on information that was not available to the public.

Her and particularly her husbands returns are just straight improbable without some explainable edge, and the only logical explanation I have seen is her political position.
This is assuming they aren't challenging them already. Wise people are constantly challenging their views. This doesn't negate's OPs advice at all.

The difference when choosing a long term mate and starting a family makes the stakes higher. Ideology will dictate customs, schooling, etc..

I do respect married folks who can vote down political lines and stay happily married. These people have a lot to learn from.
Apple 'Wireless Accessory Configuration' (WAC) Research
2PB is a lot, but it's not a crazy huge amount. It's only ~100 LTO tapes isn't it? Or a shelf or 2 of hard drives, perhaps backed up to one of their other sites?
I'd also heard it said that the Chinese clouds were really busy in the days around the invasion, suggesting the Russians were backing up out of country to them.
...as an alternative to closing the lid, which was the hygiene practice they determined was not effective.
Also Martha Pollack has frequently denounced "cancel culture", trigger warnings and stuff like that.
Title: "As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California"

HN title is exactly backwards, but gets at the insight that the operator demand in California is almost at zero -- or neutral -- during the day due to behind the meter solar.
That 5000 email/day limit should prevent most small business/personal servers from being affected...
Is it time that we finally addressed the massive escalation of fossil fuels by countries like china?
"Insider trading" refers to trading on confidential information that was entrusted to employees of a company ("insiders"). Pelosi has access to $10B spy satellite images, which is very different.
Thanks, I've updated the page with a little more about my work and some past projects. I develop mobile apps and third-party integrations for small/medium sized businesses.

Until now, I've acquired clients through word of mouth or online job boards, but I struggle with presenting my expertise. I'm trying to improve my presentation skills through working on this webpage and it will essential serve as a digital business card for non-technical business owners.

I'm aware of the slow loading issue and plan to address it as the final step, once I'm satisfied with the landing page's overall content.
iPhones have plenty of issues too, I've experienced my fair share, as have others. Technology always has bugs:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone
When I go to https://untranslatable.co/pages/stats#countries (which is weirdly hidden at the bottom of the page), I cannot open the "Languages", "Countries" or "Latest entries" sections.

Therefore, I have no idea how to see slang from one specific country.
Nice sleuthing! It's incredible to me that there is no bullet proof recovery mode for this, even something as dumb as an Arduino can recover from almost every form of abuse.
> I was surprised that the Speaker of the House earn 250k. That seems too low.

Maybe! But what if politics wasn’t a career? What if there was no profit motive? What type of people would it attract?
The idea that the rats are taking photos of themselves for the (self-aware) pleasure is pretty silly. The rats could have been trained to do anything with this method. Moving from rewarding every time for the desired behavior to occasionally rewarding causes the animal to keep doing the behavior for the reward. And if you stop rewarding entirely, the behavior will continue for a while, and it'll eventually stop. But by then the artist has made their point and doesn't care.
It’s disingenuous because they intentionally chose numbers on the pricing curve that resulted in the most clickbaity results.

There are plenty of valid criticisms, but I felt the author’s post missed sufficient nuance.
“I can’t imagine why anyone would tell big lies for big bags of money”
5+ years ago the recommendation for new users was easy: if you are coming from Windows - use Mint Cinnamon, if you are coming from Mac - use Ubuntu.

Now, I agree, Ubuntu seems to have got a bit to sh*t.

I guess nowadays I would recommend Cinnamon to everybody. Or perhaps PopOs for people from Macs, not sure?
There was an Asian student who made a death threat over the Gaza-Israel conflict and got punished. Nothing more to see here, move on.
I like there being a lot of scrutiny on trades made by Congresspeople. Unless there's some specific reason to call this one into question, I'm not sure how this is news. It didn't require insider information to know that NVIDIA, the maker of the hardware everybody needs for everything in the world right now, would be going up.
> Fast builds that are 100% reproducible.

It's unclear to me what "100%" refers to here, but surely it does not include the Linux kernel or drivers? (I've recently read conversations about how difficult this would be.)
I see Microsoft has entered the 'extinguish' phase of another business venture.

What an absolute waste of talent and potential. But as always, if M$FT can't beat em', they can certainly try to kill em'. Though in this case, I have to wonder if it is a natural side effect of how poorly the Xbox and their Game Pass investments are doing.
PinePhone review after a month of daily driving
It seems bizarre that I can't choose to use the CarPlay user experience on my phone while I'm driving in my DumbCar. This seems like such obvious, low-hanging fruit.
It is a little bit for a bunch of reasons, but how does improving battery storage change the generation mix?
> The issue is being reported by owners of numerous Pixel models, including the Google Pixel 5, 6, 6a, 7, 7a, 8, and 8 Pro, suggesting that it isn't confined to a particular hardware architecture.

> The root cause is unknown but is likely a software issue with the January 2024 Play system update that Google hasn't pinpointed or fixed yet.

> If you are still on an older update (last was November 1, 2023), it is recommended to stay on it and postpone applying the January 2024 update until the situation clears up.

> In the case of Pixels, it appears that Google performed a staged roll-out of the January 2024 Play system updates, so not every Pixel owner has received the problematic update yet.
Can you cite a source for this claim? Because everything I see suggests otherwise
Cosine similarity suffers from a curse of dimensionality, just as distance does (it’s just one dimension less). The angle between two random vectors in N dimensions approaches zero with a power of N. The main reason this metric is useful in practice is because it better relates to how certain neural networks use/train their embeddings internally.
I have not used AI generated code in professional settings (due to the institutional reasons) but I have thought about this and had postulated that there is high risk that the code will become more bloated and will lose architectural cohesion. It is interesting to have this hunch backed by some data.

Now this is not necessarily a bad thing. I have seen a lot of man made code that is trying to follow the DRY principles and the result is horribly tangled mess where you have no idea what gets when executed by just looking at the code.

There is also hope that AI summarizing ability could help to gain a better systematic understanding of the code. Perhaps it's generalization capabilities could even help to refactor the code and build up a good test suit.

But this is to be seen to happen and so far a better awareness is an advantage.
maybe we should all start to add "evaluated a hadoop cluster for X applications and saved the company 1mi (in time, headcount, and uptime) a year going with a 40line perl script"
yeah, it was a hard decision pulling sse and web socket support out, but we've done that already in the 1.x line: the hx-ws and hx-sse attributes are deprecated in favor of extensions:

https://htmx.org/docs/#websockets-and-sse

our feeling was that, to do those things right would require a fair bit of code and it wasn't fair to all htmx users to make them pay that freight, as these were more advanced features that many people would not be using

another feature we didn't include was idiomorph-based swapping out of the box:

https://htmx.org/docs/#morphing

that was really hard to not include because it's a neat algorithm that i came up w/ and it's going to be included in the next version of Rails, but, again didn't feel it was fair to make everyone pay for it
There are three distinct things, which you probably need to keep separate: learning to program, learning to program in a particular style/approach/methodology, and learning to program in a particular language.

For teaching programming in a language, you just need some kind of guide to the language plus an IDE.

For teaching programming in a style (FP, say), some kind of guide to FP, plus some IDEs for some FP languages, plus guides to those languages.

For teaching programming at all... I'm not sure there's a way to teach what programming is without teaching at least one of FP/OO/structured/some other approach. But if you do, then you're not teaching programming, you're teaching programming by that approach - unless you teach them all.

Maybe the best you could do is say that programming is giving instructions to the computer in a formal language. So you create an IDE (plus guide) to some synthetic thing that lets you program, but has no bias for any particular approach (allows them all, or does none of the above). For that, it probably needs to be fairly simple - something for learning, not something for real work.

Note that BASIC and Pascal started with this approach.
I don‘t know. In some gymnastics people land cleanly by absorbing the shock with their kneews, instead of naturally bending them, for aesthetic reasons. I guess it depends on what we exactly mean by inhuman.
True, no update process is perfect. My anecdote is with the Wallet in iOS 17 - suddenly, for some reason, I could not add any new cards to my Wallet, even after removing existing cards. No matter what I tried, adding it took approximately 10 minutes before it errored with "unable to contact your bank". I did a DFU wipe-restore and restored my phone from an iCloud backup, but I still could not add any cards. The only thing that fixed this was restoring my phone and not restoring from a backup, meaning I had to set everything up again; thankfully, it did fix the issue and I was able to add all of my cards back to my wallet.

I have to imagine some update corrupted my years-old Wallet database. There is this screen[0] that should pop up if the Secure Element runs out of space, but I wasn't near the limit on cards, so I don't think this was the issue.

0: https://x.com/TapDownUnder/status/1750022004009586908?s=20
530am workouts. That lets me get in a run/swim, eat, stretch, and shower before my daughter wakes up. I tried other solutions for a while (lunch or late-night workouts) but just couldn't hack 'em. I don't love getting up so early but it's the most sustainable option I've found.

[Full disclosure I work mostly with devs but am not one myself]
Right, I read this as the duck curve had inverted back to a neutral load curve. To be fair though I feel like I may be fairly familiar to the duck curve compared to most people.
I don't know what you're getting at, that's clearly spelled out already. But in case you didn't get it: that's without liability for the manufacturer because you have the choice to bypass them. Presumably such a situation wouldn't occur very often because 'proprietary hardware' with 'open source software' wouldn't be proprietary for very long. The software would tell you all you need to know about how it works.
I wonder how much of the data was _actually_ relevant to the Russian military - things like climate, natural disasters, weather data, etc. don't seem very helpful - the only thing that might help would be satellite images over time to see any new developments, etc. in Ukraine.

Not that the hackers would have had time to pick through data to delete only the stuff that might be useful to military though.

You see terrorist groups like ISIS going through countries blowing up monuments and historical sites to wipe out history, culture, and the hard work of it's citizens, and I feel this is part of the same. It's just unfortunate all around.

(I'm not conflating the Ukrainian military groups as terrorists for anybody ready to jump the gun and chastise me, it's just an observation, and it's disappointing I have to clarify this.)
It is, major compilers do that by default
Accidents can also be caused by someone who didn't crash. If you have to take evasive action because of someone else you might crash. (in some cases you crashing is the best result for you)
It's true that the natives were initially afraid of horses, but I think that overstates it.

You can find some accounts of earlier battles that went like this:

> The Indians, who had never seen any horses before, could not think otherwise than that horse and rider were one body. Quite astounded at this to them so novel a sight, they quitted the plain and retreated to a rising ground. [...] Our swords had done the most carnage among them, though many were killed by our cannon. Wherever the cavalry made its appearance the enemy had most work to do. The fighting lasted about an hour; and our enemies maintained their ground so well, that they did not quit the field of battle until our horse broke in among them. There were two caziques among the five prisoners we made.

But not much later, the natives recognize the importance of the horses and specifically targeted them:

> Besides all this the Indians kept continually throwing sand in our faces to blind us. Here, indeed, the great mercy of God alone could save us. The chief object of the enemy was to capture one of our horses, in which they did not altogether fail; for, as Pedro de Moron on his well-trained mare, attended by three others of our cavalry, was attempting to break through the enemy's ranks, the Indians wrenched the lance out of his hand, and fell furiously upon him with their broad swords, wounding him severely. They gave his mare such a terrific cut with the same weapon in the neck, that the animal instantly fell down dead.

This from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo. At any rate, it is perfectly sensible for unmounted infantry to be terrified of horse cavalry. Mounted cavalry is hard for infantry to beat without specialized weapons and tight formations.
I believe that its essentially equivalent and neither raid nor hdfs are good enough to exist without backups.
> if there is a bug in libpng then I have to recompile everything?

You say that as if it's such a burden. But it's really not.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to the space argument, but a package manager/docker registry means that updating software is very easy. And it happens all the time for other reasons today anyhow.
Pretty sure the US requires planes to be maintained according to the manufacturers requirements in order to use US airports.

I suppose you can travel to your hearts content in africa and Asia, but you wont be able to land in Europe or NA.
No, you're not alone. Approaching Mandarin I expected tones to be some sort of big hurdle. They're not. They're largely obvious. It's a part of the vowel, basically. Linguistically speaking, there's very little distinction between a vowel and a tone - it's part of how you make the vowel. And tone and vowel quality interact in a complex way, which means you're hearing changes in the vowel, along with the pitches involved. As you mentioned, at the start I was more likely to mix up x and sh than I am to mishear a tone.

Other languages use tone, of course, they just don't use it lexically to distinguish words. I also have played an instrument, etc. but I don't know if that's a factor or not.

Now, pronouncing the tones is a whole other question. My own Mandarin has like 2.5 tones instead of 4, and I struggle to apply tone contours to long phrases without messing up everything involved. Both English and Mandarin have tone contours (and a lot of them are even the same, for example, slowly rising with a sharp rise over the last few syllables = question) but the tone contours of Mandarin interact with the lexical tones of a word. Something we don't have to worry about in English. I doubt I'll ever get enough practice to make that automatic.
> I didn’t know too much about OpenLiteSpeed (“OLS” to its friends) other than that it's mentioned a bunch in discussions about WordPress hosting—and since SCW runs WordPress, I started to get interested

This was a trend for a bit but I don’t know of any serious hosts off the top of my head who run LiteSpeed these days. Most are running either nginx or good ol Apache (sometimes both!).

(We run enterprise scale WP on nginx, and our competitors at this scale basically all do too.)
The blogger who spotted problems in Dana-Farber cancer papers
That's like a $5 entry fee for a bar where cocktails are $20.