skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know how coax internet works, or how the channel allocations work, but it seems to me if they can offer 2Gbps/200Mbps already why can't we opt for a channel reallocation and get like 1Gbps symmetrical, or at least 1Gbps/500Mbps or something?

Because they cannot actually offer it, it is all marketing bullshit.

Always assume coaxial upload bandwidth is slim to none. They probably just advertise a burst speed you get for 5 seconds. If it is not symmetrical, it is not real in my mind.
Guns and cars don’t change people’s mental state. Some of the states with the lowest homicide rates are states like Idaho, where half of households own a gun. This is also true over time. In the 1950s in the US, the percentage of households with a gun was much higher, but homicide rates were lower. Gun ownership rates in Europe were also a lot higher in the mid 20th century, while homicide rates were not.
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Automakers Look to Neuter ME Right to Repair Bill Under Privacy Concern Pretense
Any fruit of any manufacturing labour is fundamentally derivative and exploitative: it needs raw materials from the environment, and it needs labour for the intended transformation; if anything, the AI output is less exploitative because the raw inputs don't end up destroyed in the process.
Tell HN: Someone should start a React Native upgrades / maintenance business
Many years ago, we bet on React Native many years ago for an app that doesn’t need constant updating. We wrote the app, it’s stable, about once every 3 months we fix a bug or tweak something.

Every time we make a change, we have to spend more time trying to deploy the change than actually making it.

Almost always we need to either update Xcode and then tweak lots of random configurations, and/or update React Native and/or update Fastlane. Typically these are only issues in the deployment phase; you can still work on the app just fine. Fixing this is nobody’s full time job and so it tends to end up on my plate (founder/CTO). I didn’t go into business to do React Native upgrades.

… but maybe you could?

I would pay good money for a service where I can add someone to our GitHub, tag them in an issue/PR, and within some reasonable SLA they’ll do whatever is needed so that our app builds and uploads to the App Store and Play Store.

Charge me by the hour or by the project. Even if you work in the open and commit your fixes into our codebase I’ll still hit you up every few months because it’s always a different fix and it’s always buried at the bottom of some random github issue.

If you are a business that does this, please sell to me. If you want to start a business and really love react native (why??), please do this. You will make a lot of money off lazy CTOs like me.
This works great in my experience.

A lifetime ago I scaled up cron jobs for a client with Gearman. Using cron to trigger jobs on the Gearman server and the pool of runners to do all the work. This proved to be so reliable they still use the system today, over 10 years later.
What is bananaphone? Based solely on the video I'm assuming you repeat data over and over again wasting space to obscure the actual type of content.
Dreambooth was kinda great?

That said, I agree that I wish there were more done post-research towards products with some of this stuff.
Drug overdose deaths still killing 100K per year in the US, but congress has forgotten about it and is railing against social media for having "blood on their hands." It's perfectly clear that this is about power and the fact that social media is a threat to theirs. These people have no concern whatsoever for anything else.
I suspect they dislike the person. JRM is the type to jump on any wedge issue like renewables that might appeal to his GB News viewers and boost his figures (crazy that politicians in the UK can have a permanent campaign platform, not even the US allows this nonsense).

It's very reasonable to take anything he says or implies with a massive grain of salt.
And only like 6.7p/kWh is the actual cost of the electricity. All the rest is government taxes, fees, eco incentive schemes, smart meter rollout schemes, etc.

Considering how critical the cost of energy is to the economic success of a country, it was a really dumb move to let anyone bolt compulsory extra charges onto the cost of energy.
wow this specific single use cable with two proprietary ends looks superficially like a lightning cable. apple is so evil!

are people just pretending to be outraged now?
They know/knew [1]. Whether or not their remorse is authentic...shrug.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54k7WrbfMg
I use a similar strategy to this… much less formal but I’m excited to try this formal write up.

My strategy was more like:

1. Start making a big change.

2. See what breaks.

3. Move the big change to another branch.

4. Fix one broken thing and PR to main.

5. Rebase the big change back on top of main.

Essentially trying to break off chunks of the larger problem in small commits. I’ve had about a 90% success rate with this strategy and when it works developers really appreciate reviewing the smaller commits than one monster change.

I once heard that, “complex systems are built from simple systems,” and started to view my job more as identifying and working on the simple things to let the complex stuff fall out rather than attacking the complex stuff directly.

Edit 1: one other thing I will add is that this strategy has the huge benefit of producing many smaller tasks that more of a team can work on and commit to main rather than having one engineer do the whole refactor or having folks working out of a half functional refactor branch with nonstandard git workflows.

Edit 2: I've used this strategy in codebases with and without automated/unit testing. Where automation didn't exist, I've used dedicated QA staff. QA also appreciate testing small changes that impact part of a product rather than 'retest the entire product'. In environments where productivity is constrained by QA turnaround time I've prepared changes in a staging branch and keep having QA test the latest staging branch as soon as the previous has merged.
I think you mean Qwant ?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/07/alternative_search_pr...

We just aren't serious about this. If we were, Google and Microsoft would be banned in the EU. (Including other companies which are receiving a lot of money to prioritize Google or Microsoft software, like Mozilla and Apple.)

And it's not like there aren't other reasons to ban them : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_II
> Or at least: miles ahead of QuickCheck

I'm not so sure about this. The blog post saying that it's better to tie size to generation is dated 2016.

It looks like QuickGen was tying size to generation in 2008: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.1.0.1/docs/...

EDIT:
I take it back, it looks like there is shrinking in modern QuickCheck https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck-2.14.3/docs/T...
Yup, I do it every Scandinavian winter on a beater mountain bike that I have an extra set of wheels with studded tyres for the sketchiest days of ice-y conditions. When it's just snow/packed snow the usual deep grooved MTB tyres handle it quite well.
These days? Yes.

Even when cheques were used here, they often wouldn't accept cheques and would insist on cash because they didn't want the hassle of cashing cheques especially for such relatively low value transactions. Maybe if you were redoing your heating system they might take one, but a maintenence callout? Nah.
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Which they can be, when you ask them for a console.log. It does, however, get rid of the ambiguity of case (B) that GP mentioned.
On a wild tangent, I have always been fascinated by the amount of learning material on how to perform searches there is on the web.

It's something akin to learning how to learn. It needs to be bootstrapped first.

Or, was there some point beyond you asking for help? If so, maybe elaborate a bit.
yeah Chinese numbers are absolutely bollocks. there's some signal in how much they change. the absolute values are absolute... bullcrap.
Where I live, enough clothes for the coldest days (negative tens in F!) means you could not possibly get on a bike.
Very nice, I have a similar setup but I use parsec to remote in to my gaming VM that has GPU passthrough. One interesting thing I noticed was if I wanted hardware encoding on my Plex server I had to pass the Intel quicksync extension as a PCI passthrough!?

One thing I want to experiment with is a raspberry pi that controls the larger homeserver such that I can remotely turn it on/off for power savings, but I want to do it in a seamless way. Something along the lines of if there's traffic to my Plex server the pi can detect the attempt and spin the VM up on demand
>We are already making more of our fair share.

Maybe at big-tech and fanngs. On average at local companies not so much.

> More than double or triple the amount of money that a person working way harder makes.

Triple take home pay? Highly unlikely. Some outliers sure, on average no.
So, in the end, Achmed was right.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959
There was a time you could let a teenager use the internet unsupervised as long as they understood some basic safety. That time has passed. The only people to blame now are the parents.
You're so focused on capital punishment as an indicator of social health that you're missing the original point, which is that life was awful for many Indians under the British Raj.
These things love to quote stats from some of the flattest places on earth.
Even in tech, in Germany a 15h work week, i.e., a 36%-40% part time job’s salary would cover taxes, rent and rent utilities, and basic health insurance. No food, clothing whatsoever.
AI giant wave predictor, a force for good
"Machine-Guided Discovery of a Real-World Rogue Wave Model" published in PNAS [1], out of Pasteur Labs and colleagues [2].

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2306275120

[2] https://simulation.science/
Looks like they made a cron on top of an eventual-consistent database.

Yeah, I'd avoid that too.
Highest-earning Googlers are so well paid,would take years for ppl to catch up
Sensecon 23: from Windows drivers to an almost fully working EDR
The majority of existing homes and hot water supplies use natural gas
Pretty high, though I have only been skimming. It's kind of a coffee table book for me, since the part I really care about (modern keyboard cambrian explosion) is very short and way at the very end. I did read the entire small booklet "The Day Return Became Enter" and that was wonderful.
As an alternative, my Surface Pro 3 has an LED on the Caps Lock key to indicate on/off. It is a terrible keyboard otherwise, but perhaps there's other keyboards out there with this feature.
She said it was not on the script. In any case, it’s unacceptable when you make anyone uncomfortable in their workplace. Actors have a uniquely dangerous profession in which they are sometimes directed to be traumatised on screen.
Alcohol and sugary foods are also engineered to keep people addicted and mess with their mental and physical states and are completely legal and not frowned upon.

Agree on the performative nonsense part though.
SBCL is open source.

That might be a way to start.

Or not.

Good luck.
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30B € is laughably small for bootstrapping a competitive process business. at least one zero missing. more likely two.
If you sit in a rolling car and the driver suddenly presses the break vs eases it in, you could halt with the same deceleration and yet one will feel smoother than the other.

The car's position is not discontinuous, the velocity isn't either (in both cases it has to slow through intermediate velocities).

It is the decelaration that in one case grows suddenly and in the other changes smoothly.

On an egg, there is no place where curvature changes suddenly, and yet on a four point egg there are points where it does exactly that.
Bit less busy == many folks changing their behavior.
> I think the world has moved on from facebook

The HN bubble has moved on for sure, but going by DAU/MAU (which isn’t perfect but is better than “I think”), facebook is still the biggest and is still growing
I'm sorry. I don't see the difference between a problem being imaginary and allegations of a problem being false. If you allege a problem exists, and it's imaginary, then your allegation is false.

So, I'm just saying we can oppose the policy preference regardless of why they stopped appealing to a problem, and regardless of that problem's "realness"
Do you have "implemented a task scheduler" on your resume?
Does anyone have any information about LLaVA-1.6 being bundled as a LLamafile? https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
Note that there may be incompatibilities (as noted in the article) until NIST has published the final revisions. Some specifications are on Round 3 kyber, others are on FIPS 203.

This one will interoperate with Bouncy Castle (both Java and C#) as we both use FIPS 203 draft, but it won't interoperate with OQS simultaneously (three-way interop) as that is still on the Round 3 submission.

See also: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/issues/1578

(Disclosure: BC is my employer)
Everyone on HN should be rooting for this bill as the current law has singlehandedly sunk many small software businesses.
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I would like a giant book about virtual worlds in games. Games that have a free-roaming element. So things like Zelda: OOT as well as full blown open world games like GTA V. There's so much work that went into them, and also so much collective human memory of time spent immersed in those worlds. Wish someone would crowdfund that.
Spec: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.203.ipd.pdf (linked from the article)
Yes...but wouldn't it be lovely if an elected public official actually told the truth to the public? Or if The Guardian, which at least seems to present itself as a truth-favoring publication for passably-educated people, gave some hint that they care about old-fashioned fact checking - vs. paraphrasing press releases and "he says/she says"?

And if we assume that the Good Guys (hopefully the NM AG is one) have limited resources - then "where can we do the most good?" becomes an issue. It'd be nice to have some hint that they are grown-ups who care about that. Vs. talking smack about going after Meta right now because that's currently trending online.
as the sibling says, this comment is just plain wrong. the four people funded by the foundation (MD, T&S, standards & advocacy) have no other source of salary than foundation donations.
Websites that practice SEO, use paywalls, popups or "other annoyances" often also have actual content which should be relevant to a search engine. A search engine that refused to show me Wikipedia or IMDB or any mainstream news site wouldn't be useful to most people.

Also, tools that attempt to detect ML generated content tend not to work, and will only become less effective over time, as LLMs improve.
Show HN: Cells is a functional reactive store compatible with Svelte
Matriline versus Patriline: Social Mobility in England, 1754-2023
There was a time when the internet was not optimised to suck your life/money from you. Parents (I am not one by choice for this very subject and many more reasons) cannot be fully blamed for things that are engineered by people who are vastly smarter at doing so. Including specialised AI's/statistical analysis etc. I see around me that children get completely excluded from 'life' if the parents try to limit social media use. It's up to the parents, but also schools, government etc.
Even a fine is too much punishment for the benefit of monopolists like Nintendo and the wider copyright industry.
Can’t you put parental controls on children’s phones and not approve these apps? Also, why are parents on social media? I don’t use social media and my kids don’t use them either. Any app that goes on their phones needs to be approved by me. I’ve already told them they aren’t getting social media apps. It’s been drilled into them since they were 5 or so that these things are bad for multiple reasons, but primarily 1. Anything you say there lasts forever so you have to always watch what you say and 2. Creeps hang out there and want to do you harm.

Have the conversation and get off those apps. Unless adults do it the kids never will.
> The fact that your home garage and work parking lot are also empty most of the time is also a huge problem.

I don't think it's a huge problem. My garage is part of the overall footprint of my home. My garage is under my office. It wouldn't help to have them full all of the time. Should I also have someone living in my house while I work? Or ensuring that all offices have shift work? Sure, there is a possible efficiency there, but we make certain concessions for convenience. A ratio of 4 spots per car doesn't seem obviously bad.

I do think there are some places with too much parking, but there are also plenty of places where there is not enough.
Rate of gun ownership in Montana is among highest.

Rate of suicide in Montana is among highest.

Guess the method of suicide.
Our government is a gerontocracy; our representatives don't even have the vocabulary to discuss these issues at any real depth.
Say hello to an efficient process that gets your app from code to production swiftly.
https://archive.is/e1xN9
Not really anymore nowadays. The Apple Extended Keyboard[0] did have that feature. Similarly, Cherry used to produce a lock variant of their MX switches[1] that could be used for a such purpose. However this switch really only ever saw use in industrial applications.

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

[1]: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX_Lock
SME industrial production. Business electricity is/can be significantly more expensive than domestic electricity prices. It's a significant variable cost.

Consider a small CNC routing enterprise running 4 machines. Each machine averages 25kW, with extraction, air supply etc contributing another 50kw. Heating the space in winter (CNC routers lock out if the ambient temperature drops below 18c) is incredibly inefficient, because when the extractors are running you're emptying the workshop of air (that you paid to heat) multiple times an hour.

Pre-covid the hourly electricity run rate would be in the region of £45/hr (0.27p / kWh)

At the worst of the energy price crises, the run rate was > £180/hr (I know of one shop that was paying 111p/kWh for a period).

Now we're paying 0.38p / kWh or £70/hr. That's a baseline increase of >£10k a year...

SME workshops have died because their pricing model just couldn't flex to accommodate that.

STABLE energy pricing is equally important as CHEAP energy pricing.
When Empires Die
Yes, there is a stigma.

No one who has pride in his work relies on LLMs to do any lifting.

Perhaps someday LLMs will not be so unreliable. But at the moment they cannot be trusted to do anything important. Or let me put it this way, if you trust them, that trust cannot possibly be justified based on actual careful testing— because you don’t have the time for that testing, you don’t know how to do that testing, whatever testing you did do cannot be generalized to your next project, whatever testing you did do is obsolete, and finally, because if you did the testing you’d see that ChatGPT is unreliable. My opinion comes from fairly extensive, unpaid testing of ChatGPT (plus some dabbling with its competitors).

Treat an LLM as if it were a child, not like it’s a co-worker.
I think you can apply to get access to some sandbox from your bank (at least one of my EU banks does this) where you get access to documentation and fake APIs. Then you can go through a lengthy process to have it approved, but in my case I think it also requires a proper business entity to move it to "production". This might differ from bank to bank.

Or, you can use something like GoCardless which provides a sort of aggregated API and "connection APIs" for making things simpler: https://gocardless.com/bank-account-data/

Not affiliated with them, but I do use GoCardless to automatically import transaction data from a couple of EU bank accounts to my local datastore.
Why is the kdb+ epoch date 2000.01.01?
I can put all kinds of restrictions on my child’s phone, but I have no control over the garbage her friends show her on their phones at school.
Well I mean this is the internet, where no comment is so absurd as to avoid confidently being made. But I'll bite.

So tell me: if an entity has to be able to repay its debt in gold, which it has limited stocks of, and can't get more without difficulty, how does that not limit their spending compared to if they can print bits of paper to repay their debt?
I really love this. It makes me feel weirdly nostalgic, even though I've never been to California, or indeed the US. As a tech-obsessed teenager in the 90s, some of the older companies here felt almost mythical at the time. Plus lots of California generally would show up in so much pop culture, films, music videos and so on, and the sort of vintage-y vibe I'm getting here feels really reminiscent of that.
In older cars without cabin filters, it makes sense that air pollution is at least as bad inside the car as it is outside, it is, after all, the same air.

But modern cars usually have cabin filters, which, if good enough, well maintained, and leak-free, should result in a significant improvement. I know Tesla made it a marketing point for the Model X, but I believe all cars built in the last decade or two have at least some kind of filtration.