skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone tried Starlink? I super curious as to whether it's a decent drop in replacement for the ISP have been using at home, and have had trouble with since day one. I won't mention any names (but I will say that it sounds a bit like Smodabone). What is the latency like? The variability of the up/down? Does it do what it says on the tin? Is (non-professional) online gaming a go?
Flying a jet at 600 mph through dusty air is abrasive. The paint protects the aluminum from corrosion and abrasion. If chemical and mechanical barrier is too thin, the metal will become damaged.
Interesting! $30 and free forms https://bootstrapstudio.io/forms.

It looks similar to TeleportHQ.
How would you re-write it better? The original title actually seems worse to me, but if somebody can re-write it, please do so.
Semi-related, but Chrome won't use an SVG favicon if an ico favicon is present. (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=145085...) I ship a PNG favicon and an SVG favicon.
The first time I saw the long line of starlink satellites in a dark rural area it was unreal. Straight up looked like aliens invading.
What makes them think it's a nation state?
How feasible is it though once the network reaches a huge size? Starlink satellites are tiny, and they've been deploying thousands of them over the last few years. I imagine it would take enormous resources to shoot them down, especially if the US does treat them like a strategic resource and adds more for redundancy.
.... No, no it's not.
AVIF hasn’t been around much longer than JXL, has it? Only a year or so.

Since both of them are image formats, I assume that by ‘video’ you refer to animated images, in which case yes, AVIF (being based on an actual video codec) seems to perform better. Same with very low-quality pictures.

For higher quality JPEG XL still seems to do better, and seems to do much better for lossless encoding. (AVIF struggles to even compete with WebP on that front, if I recall correctly.) Not to mention very useful features like progressive decoding, lossless JPEG recompression, or no practical limit on image size.

Yes, AVIF is a thing, but why? Is it worth missing out on an actual full-fledged replacement by refitting yet another video codec into an image one in a rush? That’s just like acting before thinking and then going on to say “oh well, what’s done is done”. And perhaps there’s nothing we can do about it, but it’s still irritating.
You've been known for your hot takes past and present, but this one threw me for a curve.

Is there empirical data on this? I think many in the security industry believe this. I ironically use FF if we can accept personal beliefs since I believe people attack the Chrome sandbox as a badge of honor and I can use containers to isolate state to different personas. That said also anecdata bullshit take on my part.
Great article. I'm often surprised by how indifferent people seem to the answers to this. From the intro:

When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain. Ordinary matter, the stuff we can see and touch, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos. The rest, cosmologists say, is dark energy and dark matter, mysterious substances that are labeled “dark” partly to reflect our ignorance about their true nature.

How can you be interested in science, and yet not curious about that?
After reading this article, I tried Perplexity and was very impressed with the results of some information searches. I might regret it later, but I signed up and paid for the Pro version for a year.
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Yes, I'm suggesting that that their reason for emphasizing that (true) point may be in order to proactively counter some misinformation that is/was being spread.
He was on Michael Kennedy's Talk Python podcast a couple of years ago:

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/327/little-automation-to...
Exactly. Especially easy if the variable name is “id”. For API methods which take multiple ids, the order is easy to mix up - though in TS that is conventionally handled with options objects.
FLOPs by perplexity by samples is an interesting way to compare this family of models.
I don't see how it makes it any better that it was a quote. The quote still had words in it. Does Garry Tan think the entire world listens to Tupac? And what wisdom does Tupac really have to offer in this case?
Not famous at all, really. It'd be reasonable (and good) to have a standard where people don't wish violence on their political opponents. Possibly even where cooperating with people they don't like is an option. Opponents of Trump please take note.

However, after acknowledging that Tan shouldn't have done this, it doesn't look serious. Drunken rants on Twitter are not important in and of themselves.
What gave you the impression that I haven't heard of gitk?
About a year ago, he played at a super intimate (and random) spot in LA. He pitched his GitHub during the show and I had a cool conversation with him about his code afterwards. Not a huge Weezer fan or anything (a friend invited me to the thing since she didn't want to go alone), but he seemed like a neat dude.
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Australia's first colonial statue was a piss-take
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The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam
"Examples of behaviors that reflect a mechanistic mindset include doctors:

Performing medical procedures without letting patients know what’s happening

Ignoring patients’ complaints about pain

Taking pictures of patients’ injuries for documentation without informing the patient

Behaviors reflecting a humanistic mindset include doctors:

Comforting patients verbally or physically

Covering patients with a blanket after procedures are completed

Complying with patients’ requests to relieve discomfort, such as adjusting bed height or shifting medical tubes"

Absolutely!

Some of the ways my manager has been mechanistic: setting OKRs out of thin air that he can't explain how it ties to any business goal, we just have it. Can't explain why something needs to be out of the door by a specific date, just gotta have it. Why the CTO asks to take caution during holidays but manager is giving negative ratings to people who listened to the CTO. Ignoring engineer explaination of risk for their aspirational timelines.

I could go on. But poor managers are often the root cause of poor execution because managers forget that they are working with actual intelligent adults and that filling up context lets these adults make rational choices or to explain why certain things can't work.

To be fair, my manager experiences the same from his boss and all the way up.
I see. So what is the output of Read macros? It has to be text, right, since only the compiler will be able to deal with tokens/objects?
Yes, the fact that they talk about EVERYTHING else apart from vaccines as a probable cause is telling. That is not to say that it is indeed the vaccines causing this but there should at least be a thorough investigation.

The amount of all cause mortality data coming out from different nations is quite telling.
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Coming up to 3 years of professional YoE (in December). As a reminder, I'm only 20yo and everything I've done is self-taught.
depends who you ask.
He was literally murdered though
Fair point, but it's even more sad that it can apply to any country in the world
Hacker News has been pretty insulated from Y Combinator as an institution over the years. Nowadays, I'm impressed by that.
You're not heterodox enough, apparently.
Liking Rivers Cuomo for his code and not for Weezer is the most Weezer thing I've ever heard
In substance no. In spirit absolutely.
You do realize that the first amendment protects individuals from prosecution for protected speech, right? It does not guarantee protection from professional or social consequences. For some reason this distinction is very hard to understand for people of certain political stripes.

Regardless, death threats are not protected under the first amendment, so you're even wrong under your idiotic assumptions of how the law works.
When you write comments like what Tan said on hn, some milquetoast fuckface nukes your comment.

Freedom for me but not for thee.

"Oh but that's differe.." fuck off
Yes, but that is also the difference between it being used as a replacement for tracking cookies. There’s a reason why every browser not made by an ad network is more concerned about privacy.
Do airlines that have a “bare metal” livery still coat the planes with something, then? (I assume there’s a clear coat.) Does that weigh less than white paint?
Hi! Like the other people in this thread, I got a bounce from product.leadership+hn@.
https://champsorchumps.us/records/most-mlb-wins-since-2000

https://www.fueledbysports.com/mlb-payrolls/

I think the salary cap does make it possible for any teams to be more competitive. The teams with the most wins since 2000 are the Yankees, Dodgers, Cardinals, Red Sox, and Braves. Three of those teams are the three biggest spenders in the league year after year. I think we can say with high confidence these three teams will have a better record over the next 20 years than the Pittsburgh Pirates or Detroit Tigers.

The salary cap doesn't mean that there is more parity, but overall it decouples the size of the city and the "luck" pretty well. The Chiefs are the best team in the NFL now - despite the fact they have a small market and an owner with little resources outside of owning the team.

They will be hard to catch up with because other teams aren't allowed to get ahead. That said, I think fans are more accepting of that because the reason is they drafted an exceptional player, rather than the Yankees who are hard to catch up with because they can continually spend on new players.
> People have many reasons why they do what they do and sometimes they don’t understand their own motivations.

So we’re in agreement here right? That people are doing things themselves. Others are not forcing their actions. Regardless of whether people consciously understand the reasoning behind their actions, their actions are still their own.
https://www.athom.tech/ are selling a lot of pre-flashed gear in nice casings which is essentially "plug and play ready to go" - out of the box you can wirelessly flash them.

So depending on what you're doing, they're an excellent place to start.
Thread Patterns
Sure, and that would be the system working as intended. I choose to post everything under random dictionary word pseudonyms just in case one of my hot takes is slightly too spicy. His real mistake was posting under his real name IMO.
Tan said he was drunk and apologised for his statements.

Instead of oddly defending them maybe you should follow his lead and not act like saying someone should die slowly is a joke.

Especially in this world where politicians have been subjected to credible death threats.
I've enjoyed this post many times since it came out, and I had reason to take note of it again recently, so I thought I'd share it since it hasn't appeared on HN for 9 years.
You can't make me think Boston doesn't have enough taxes, what are they spending it on?

They have a $16B annual budget - https://budget.digital.mass.gov/govbudget/fy23/tax-expenditu...

The VAST majority of it comes from personal income tax, sales tax and corporate excise tax. Don't think Harvards $53B endowment is even relevant compared to that budget.
V2.0 of the BOOK 8088 retro mini-laptop adds VGA graphics card and serial ports
It isn’t illegal to say what he said but it’s not the right tone for his position. The slow drop into political violence begins with speech normalizing calling for death and murder.

I just hope everyone outraged analyzes their own speech. I hold a lot of opinions outside the bounds of cocktail conversation, but I was having cocktails with my (blue city, professional) friends and they made a joke about someone needing to assassinate a certain right wing presidential candidate and everyone laughed really hard. The way she said it was funny and I laughed along but it’s easy to have outrage when you want it.
Macs are still munitions if you have a trebuchet.
Is the Magic function anything like running `file` on a Linux/Mac?
Some of my first discoveries:
-Big Little Shop of Mummies
-Super Madagascar
-Lemurpocolypse
-Captain Lemur
-The Mummy Returns to Madagascar
-Captain Super Madagascar
-Captain Lemurpocolypse
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How about this part of the paper:

However, emerging evidence suggests that the reported increase in IgG4 levels detected after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines may not be a protective mechanism; rather, it constitutes an immune tolerance mechanism to the spike protein that could promote unopposed SARS-CoV2 infection and replication by suppressing natural antiviral responses.

And here:

Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals
Have you considered a dog?

I've always heard that the calculus for a break-in was that even if you had an alarm, they had N minutes to Supermarket Sweep the place before the cops arrived.

Conversely, if there's a surly Rottweiler pacing in the yard, there's the distinct risk if immediate interception.
right? I can do it on any other model, and its always my default prompt because I want to see how close it comes to a particular memory of mine. they are overdoing it. midjourney is the best.
As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd.

Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly.

His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed?

I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
The original video, and my comment, have no connection to any tea in any harbour.

Edit to actually add something to the conversation:

I think any (deep thinking) person in Australia will understand my comment: there's a serious breakdown in governance that's going on.

I'd say the issues are somewhat generalisable to other Commonwealth countries too, but lately here in Australia it feels like there's an intractable rot that's taken hold. It's more concerning to me than mere incompetence, or thinking that "[other side] bad", it's a breaking down of the political system itself.

That said, if you look at Australian history, unsurprisingly for an ex penal colony that was federalised by non-ideologues, its system of governance has not developed in a very wholistic or unproblematic way, basically ever.
I’m sorry but WTF?

We can disagree on politics, but calling for the death of politicians publicly — especially as an influential member of an already regionally important company — is disgusting.

This behavior cannot be tolerated. I don’t care how inebriated someone is.

I say this as someone who worked for a YC company (that is still in business) for almost a decade.
They won't let you FIO them though..
Filesystem persistence removes a whole host of complexities from applications

For instance, I would no longer have to store files on a server, I could simply save them locally for the user, which makes it easier for them to have portable files, use it with other apps etc.

It also reduces the startup cost of some apps. If for instance I wanted to make a photo editing app, its going to be cheaper to store edited photos back onto the users device, than it is for me to upload them to a server and store them, especially over time.

It removes alot of developer overhead and it has benefits for the user (IE, the files are more portable, since they're on your machine, not someone elses).

Currently we are perpetually stuck with having to re-create virtual representations of file systems and they aren't the same thing, not by a long shot.
> Tan, for his part, apologized over the weekend, noting that his post was a reference to a Tupac Shakur lyric

Ah, so if it's a quote, it doesn't matter, because even though you've decided when to use them, they're not "your words"

Thanks, going to publish press releases with Cannibal Corpse lyrics going forward.
I wonder how many startup founders nowadays refuse to join an accelerator/take VC money due of the people leading it.
Been using it since it was first available. Latency is fine, speeds are good and steady. Occasional outages of several hours every few months or so, but improving as time goes on.

Only complaint is that their DHCP server is buggy so if you don't use their blessed router, you can expect outages when you get transitioned to a new base station and starlink expects your IP to have changed, but it doesn't, or sometimes when your IP lease expires. Took me months to figure out that was the issue. I run almalinux on my router so I just have a script that checks a heartbeat and if it gets interrupted it will nmcli down the wan interface and back up, which usually gets a new IP. Though sometimes it will give the special IP to my router that is supposed to go to the blessed router.

Overall I do recommend, but have a backup ISP if always up is important.
Identifiers belong to a domain. A userid belongs to a member of a set of Users, a groupid to Groups, and so on. You are happy to have a User object with a distinct type, and wouldn’t try to have a superset UserOrGroup class.

A string belongs to the domain of “all strings” and so the type system and compiler cannot catch something like “authorizeUser(id,…) where the id is in fact “” or a groupid or “null” or “undefined”.

Lots of code does what you describe. But I prefer to use the type system wherever I can.
It's also strange because I've seen Tupac Shakur glamorized in popular culture (for example, hagiographic discussions about him on NPR). But Shakur was rapping about killing people, while those people were being targeted and killed by associates of his, and he himself shot people. A 6 year old was even shot in the head and killed with his gun in one of the fights he got into (he claimed he dropped the gun and someone else fired it during the fight).

It's bizarre to see the level of outrage against Tan quoting Tupac compared the the veneration you usually find of Tupac.
Yep. The HN users see is highly curated. Mostly by algorithms, sometimes by humans.
Yes! Of course I am average. Most people are average or worse.

And I did typo copius on purpose to get you to reply. Just a fun thing for me too do.
All my data usage is over LTE and NR. On one line it mostly gets used for streaming video (YouTube,plex,twitch) and averages around 500GB/mo. I rent a line to a friend and he's doing over 10TB/mo on mostly machine learning stuff and astronomy data.

T-Mobile absolutely counts all data used over the network, my voice lines go QCI 9 (they are normally QCI 6) when over 50GB of any kind of data usage each month, the home internet lines are always QCI 9. I don't have congestion in my area so it does not affect my speeds. This is QoS prioritization that happens at physical sector level on the tower(s).
Does anyone still do that? American Airlines has a white base now.
Okay then, so howabout:

This could have been a comment uttered in Australia every single year since fifteen years after the tea was thrown in the river in Boston. It could refer to either side of any argument.

Does that work for you?

As a fellow Australian it works for me.
Variations on the Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
> To ensure these systems are 100% secure, equipment in the Brazil data center was returned to the manufacturers. The manufacturers’ forensic teams examined all of our systems to ensure that no access or persistence was gained. Nothing was found, but we replaced the hardware anyway.

The thoroughness is pretty amazing
You could argue that the fine was too high (or that there should be no fine at all, and just a prison sentence); but the way this article reads is "poor mostly-innocent mostly-law-abiding citizen just ran a little website and now was huge punished for it", and that doesn't seem entirely true.

Whether companies do or don't get prosecuted sufficiently doesn't really matter here.
This is more of a classic lesson in what effect can alcohol have on one's life and career.
The Seven Laws of Pessimism
The easiest answer is that not all trades happen on centralized exchanges.
You can on macOS.

Just not on iOS.

And given that there’s a new iOS update every 3-4 months, it’s not a problem for iOS in practice.
To what extent would it be possible to trade off between that and more abrasion-resistant materials? Are there materials with a comparable or higher strength-to-weigh ratio that have less tendency to gradually ablate in 600mph air/dust/rain/etc? (Are there materials that would work better but cost more, and aluminum-with-thick-paint is a cost tradeoff?)

For clarity: I'm sure that aeronautics engineers have thought extensively about that question, and while it's possible that a small fraction of the answer is "we've always done it this way" and there might exist better alternatives, my expectation on balance is of learning the reasons why it's done this way.
Also, "hundreds of kilograms" is not a lot if you consider how much the rest of the plane weighs --- a 737 MAX is ~100k lbs empty, so this is less than 1% of its empty weight, and a 747 is between 300-500k lbs empty.

Then again, given how airlines would cram in even 1 more passenger if they could, and the absolute minimum robustness of other mechanisms on a plane as a result of weight-saving, I think they will still chase after <1% gains.
I had no idea who Dan Preston was until Tan complained about him, but given

> In 2022, Preston proposed a ballot measure to tax vacant housing in San Francisco.

I think I might just love the guy. Thanks for the awareness campaign Garry!
There’s a lot of “gentle human beings” who have turned out to be horrific monsters in the end.
Why do we need to guess their reason? Is the paper factually True or Not? It needs to be confirmed by other studies, for sure. But it raises pretty alarming possibilities.