skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agency heads appointed via cronyism is undemocratic. Better we move to a system where Congress has to pass laws rather than installing yes-men into these agencies to push through their own personal agenda with little to no pushback.
Very nice!

The state of electronics tooling has long been extremely bad - 99% of people who put a regulator into their schematic will want an appropriate input and output capacitor as the datasheet demands. 99% of people who put a microcontroller will want a crystal and a programming port and a reset pin pull-up. It's only because of closed source tools stuck in the stone age that the state of the art is to copy out of a PDF.

And multiple people working on the same design and merging their changes? Forget about it!

It'll be very exciting if we can move towards a more modular world, where designs can be composed.
Sadly there’s not a lot of money in defending open source.
I've never heard of getting a new car checked out before driving it. Interesting. What would you expect to find? That the car might have been abused at the dealership before it was sold?
Powell: 'the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path'
The product is so good you found out about it from someone else and had to have it also... Kinda like docker or python or something.

They actually had that when the first started.
Ask HN: FreeTaxUSA denies registrations based on TLDs in email addresses?
I’ve been trying to register on their website with my non-mainstream email address ending with a geographical TLD and I got this error:

The email can't be a foreign email address ending with <TLD in my domain name>

Out of curiosity I tried with some other domain I have around ending with different geographical TLDs and the error is always the same.

Support mentioned that it’s due to “regulations” but I find this very hard to believe.
Thank you! We've certainly been heavily inspired by python and Guido's insight that code is read more often than it is written.
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Before fossil fuels “wind down”, won’t we see asphalt actually get cheaper as transportation shifts to electric?
Generally when I see something like this I assume that someone is trying to create propaganda to advocate for how their political view (in this case likely for communism of some sort - but the right has their own ways to distort data) is best or the US is really bad (since the rest of the world isn't included).

Just remember that life savings it a zero sum game: in the end everyone ends up at 0 (there are a few religions that claim you can take it with you - I believe they are wrong, but I guess I can't prove it). If you die with a lot of savings or a lot of debt it doesn't matter - either way you are at 0 the moment you die. If you have savings it goes to someone else. If you have debt someone else just lost money. As such savings is only useful in that it can enable your future life in a rainy day.

Thus I'm not convinced this is bad. Figure out how you will handle old age when you may have medical bills and no ability to earn. You may want to save for a retirement. There are people who retire and discover they miss going to the office so they unretire. You may choose to spend more now when you are young and can enjoy it as opposed to when you are old and your body couldn't go on long hikes. I may choose something different, but I can't really judge.
Interesting, what did you work on there?
> I took the liberal arts classes, they have added nothing of value to my life

Sure, many were useless. But the few that were good were golden. Sorry you missed that.

> If you want to get cultured, read

This is necessary but insufficient. The discussion is essential. To be clear, I'm not saying you can't become cultured outside college. (Of course you can.) But that coming out of college uncultured is close to a waste for most graduates, i.e. those graduating with a degree that isn't immediately in high demand at a six-figure wage.

If a student isn't a highly-motivated learner, and their goal is maximising lifetime net earnings, they shouldn't be going to college.
Kinda surprised anyone would still using WeaveNet as a CNI.. it was a bit of a dumpster fire: https://blog.quentin-machu.fr/2020/08/07/our-breakup-with-we...
This kind of approach could be a way to make these models reliable. Encode your business restrictions in the database, if they are rigorous enough, if the query passes then it's valid in your business world.
You know what’s an even better policy? Making standardised tests the sole admission criterion. No high school grades (which are often inflated, unless your teachers hate you), no extracurricular activities, no essays. Just one set of objective numbers from the national maturity exam; which tests and with what weights depending on the field of study. This is what universities do in Poland (for most fields of study; some might have extra tests to write), and it’s great at letting people from different backgrounds into universities while filtering out people highly unlikely to succeed.
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation torrents.
Doing ffi from c to python is easy.
From rust to python is annoying. Have to use unsafe, and weird parts of the rust stl. funky refs. Random crashes! oi vey.
He worked on the original committee[0]. I should have said "helped invent."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL
Appears to be another Yandex spinoff like ClickHouse, so it's probably reasonable to assume that it has the same properties: well-built, fast, and (initially, at least) slightly under-documented ;)
Can't you replay pending requests? How can you mitigate the issue of differing side effects generated by the new / old versions?
There’s more to processing than scanning, it has has to be reviewed, transcribed and translated by linguistics experts, and then analyzed and studied by academics and researchers who can put in context and integrate it with what we currently know about history, cultural, philosophy, etc of the time.
Banks transfer liabilities to there customers who in turn transfer there newly found assets to the stock market.

Banks get a monthly interest

Stocks get more liquidity

You get a combination of assets and liabilities. Your just a middle man assuming that your investments can do better then you and the bank.
We (LibreQos) have a growing presence in africa, but nothing in asia as yet (that we know of) and are interested in exploring the problems other rural networks have throughout the world - everything from fixing up aging DSL, to wimax, to other forms of wireless transport.
> And like, with all due respect, there were also a lot of mentally undemanding desk jobs back then. People got hired into them with just high school degrees.

TBF back into the 1970s most of the F500 company CEOs had only high school degrees.
Things privacy professionals should consider at the intersection of AI and da
I sense that your response is in bad faith, intended to win perceived debate rather than further discussion. Assuming it is not in bad faith, then I agree at least that a business-organization example might be apt. To that end, would I be pleased by a management consultancy that fails to identify root causes and drivers and hands me a superficial org chart as their finding? [Edited for clarity and typos]
Thanks for the support! We will try get a booth at open sauce again this year. Hope to see you there :)
Self hosting for ~20 years on the exotic platform of a computer under my desk...
Same here. The only clue I found are the following two lines in the Q/A section: "What consistency model does YDB use? To read data, YDB uses a model of strict data consistency."
I have an idea on how to solve the asphalt degradation/cracking problem, that would keep all roads like new, but it requires an enormous power source.

It involves lasers (lots of them) mounted on the front of a heavy vehicle/paver, melting the asphalt as it moves and simultaneously "ironing" it.

If anyone has an idea for a really compact nuclear power source, contact me to discuss it ;-)
Most split keyboards these days have a microcontroller in each half. IO expanders like the MCP23017/MCP23018 are fairly expensive, quite slow when used with microcontrollers like the ever-popular Pro Micro's ATmega32u4, and they really limit your hardware options on the secondary side.

It usually makes more sense to just stick a Pro Micro on each side, and have them talk serial over TRRS. As a bonus, you can connect it to your PC from either half.
Like many uses of AI, very good as a "seed" especially if it comes up with nuggets like grouping on a range instead of a single value. But as with almost any database, devil is in details. Different products have different interp of "quantity" (e.g. box vs. unit), coupons and discounts are modeled in weird ways, weights are assumed to be pounds/kg and are mixed without assigning units, etc. etc.
My project team in university built a meme generator that uses GPT and Dall-E to generate image macros using Impact font. It was pretty entertaining.
Or Professional Poker if he's a chad who wants to look in the eye the person he's taking money from.
A big threat I see is those people talking about growth, when it becomes increasingly likely that we just won't replace fossil fuels (hoping for fusion won't change that). Because fossil fuels are limited, we will end up having less and less energy, which implies less growth.

We need to prepare to slow down. Do less with less. We don't need to find ways to grow more, because growth is the cause of the biodiversity problem.
I stand by my (100% non-scientific) position that smoking bans would never have gained traction if cigarette smoke didn't smell. When all of this was being discussed in a serious manner, that was what I always heard in the background chatter, well more often than "it's unhealthy." If cigarette smoke smelled pleasant or had no odor, the bans would never have had enough support to get pushed through. I still don't support smoking bans in private businesses. I think as long as the business is up front and only hires employees that are okay with it, they should be allowed to decide whether their customers can consume a totally legal product in their place of business. Is it unhealthy? Absolutely. But the government should allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to take that risk.
Awhile back a friend of mine started talking about how he was getting into coin dealing as a full time job. I was never able to quite believe him, and then was just kinda baffled when he started buying houses and nice cars and boats and taking expensive vacations. Was he legit or was he dealing drugs? Is the coin game that lucrative?
Having grown up in the Northeast US and only visited the South as an adult, the appearance of smooth, sun-bleached, old looking asphalt was wild. Whole stretches far as the eye can see, with no potholes and minimal patching.

It is actually a little disorienting. The signal of “this is not a well maintained road, you are probably heading away from the population center” is no longer provided.

Anyway, hopefully that was an amusing anecdote. The real point is that there are whole regions that don’t care about plowing I guess.
Ironically, one of the first wifi and smart queue management systems I remember getting excited about went into Sri Lanka back in 2000... https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Wondershaper...

And I always wanted to visit.
If you're going to talk about the origins of the SAT, don't forget that it was designed by a eugenicist to try to exclude black candidates.

Ironically, the problem with them now is that they're now used to exclude white people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_SAT
Maybe the secret sauce is to not build a rocket company at all. You build a Mars Exploration company that gives people a purpose and objective beyond just money. A company where quality/efficiency/price have a direct benefit to a broader mission.
what is the idiomatic approach these days?
I'm not saying that developers should ideally be drones who have no say on anything. I'm just calling bullshit in the ADHD-fueled development of nowadays where people are not even sure about what the final product should look like and put on the shoulders of the developers the workload of dealing with the ineptness of the clients and the managers.

Scrum nowadays is essentially a tool for micromanagement, that's why managers love it and developers hate it. Dailys are completely useless and breaking the development of complex projects in 2 weeks sprints is outright harmful.
> There are definitely better ways to communicate danger to a child than the boogeyman.

Why do you say that?

"If you go into the water you will die." Death is pretty abstract to a toddler. Even extreme pain - they've never been hurt in any serious way.

"If you go into the water you will be grabbed by a monster and taken away." It's all concepts a toddler is very familiar with.
it looks like they simply do not agree with Slint's approach to GUI programming

My comment here is explaining exactly why I don't agree, no digging required.

Your quote is also about browsers implementing the webGL API, it has nothing to do with using basic openGL for GUIs, which again, is not required, because CPUs have been rendering GUIs for decades.
The author has never driven anything on cobblestones.
The followup question is "Is it easy in C because it's actually easier or because the result is code that has a half-dozen hidden undefined-behavior mines that C does a poor job of detecting at compile time?"
> Meanwhile, brick and cobblestone roads can last 150 years or more

Unless of course you put bus traffic over them, which creates ruts and generally warps the surface.

I live in a city where some roads are laid with cobblestone without good reason.

They're:

-loud even at low speeds.

-shaky.

-unsafe, as your braking distance will be significantly higher.
I learned Haskell in just 15 years
I think you're kinda behind on the state of the art because the fingers issues hasn't been a major problem for a few months now from what I've seen, at least when it comes to stuff that gets a manual check like with this. At that point, I don't see why short videos wouldn't also be next. I think the real issue here is that this method of ID verification just isn't good enough anymore. The correct solution is for governments to make high quality ID verification services (ideally with some level of privacy guarantees etc) but obviously that's a lift that will take time to happen and if any one locality is behind it'll cause bad actors to just use that ID.
In most cases, I'd agree with you, but my parents thought it would be a great idea to have me start taking the exams in 7th grade so that by the time it mattered, boy would I be ready.

Over four years, I added 350 SAT (1200-1550) points and 5 ACT points (30-35), but it seems pretty likely to me that it wasn't the direct work ("persistence") that made the difference as much as the generic four more years of schooling and general maturity.
it's just the classic:

>person in tech spends 5 minutes looking into a subject and thinks they know more than the collective knowledge of every person in the industry
The price of intelligence is dropping to near-zero... An actually-open 72b model that benchmarks near GPT4 (Mistral Medium is still closed source / closed weights, even if an early version of it leaked with miqu) is insane. Even the 14b model easily outperforms gpt-3.5-turbo, and given how useful gpt-3.5-turbo finetunes are (they generally outperform non-finetuned GPT4 at a given task they've been finetuned on), I'd imagine the 14b model will prove pretty useful too as a super-low-cost finetuning target. Not to mention the fact that the 14b and especially 7b models are runnable locally on consumer GPUs...
Cross Compiling Rust to Win32
America's economy is booming. So why are bosses worried?
Fair point, and I don't have enough background to really answer that. I'll look for any information on "reclamation" rates of asphalt - there's got to be some amount that's just lost in general (ground up into fine particles that blow away, fall into drainage systems, etc.), and places where it's just not reasonable to tear it up to bring to a recycler vs. dump it somewhere convenient, but it does _sound_ like they are pretty good about reclaiming and recycling it.

The next chunk in the abstract I quoted is:

"The average percentage of RAP used in asphalt mixtures has increased from 15.6 percent in 2009 to 21.1 percent in 2019. In 2019, the estimated RAP tonnage used in asphalt mixtures was 89.2 million tons. This represents 4.5 million tons (24 million barrels) of asphalt binder conserved, along with the replacement of more than 84 million tons of virgin aggregate."

That gives some context as to how much is actually being reused.
It blows my mind that Google is celebrating a 1 million dollar grant to something that serves as a cornerstone of every aspect of the future of their business.

$1 mil is less than a rounding error for an organization like that. I'd love to know how much they've burned on the numerous projects that occupy their product graveyard, and imagine a future where that was devoted to the growth and education surrounding core language development in every language - Rust, Go, C++, Python, etc.
There are vast differences in how much people eat. Males between 12-25 tend to eat a lot more than girls - hormones mean they can burn a lot of calories without gaining weight - and they are also more likely to be in activities that use a lot of energy (I don't know why this is, but it seems to be the case) Babies of course eat very little.

I can believe both numbers just based on normal genetic variation.
https://archive.today/A8ZqM
Not my experience at all. At work we rewrote a small bit of hotspot python in Rust with no issues. This was what we primarily followed: https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2023-03-rusty-python/
> but not until you navigate to the hidden settings and enable them

This used to be the case for older Android versions, but isn't anymore. Currently any attempt to install an APK from an app without permission to do so will pop up a missing permission warning with a deep link into the relevant settings page with a switch you can flip. Flipping the switch will initiate the installation of the APK. I can't imagine sideloading being any easier without removing the permission barrier entirely, which seems ill-advised.
Yup, it's the same here. So there is a tax on the profit of the year that you let remain in the company, but it's a much lower tax than a wage tax. So it's better to leave it in the company until you need it, instead of paying a high marginal tax rate on taking it out as wage immediately.
> US Added 1.2M EVs to the Grid Last Year and Electricity Use Went Down

And there is no link between the two.
I wonder what is the reason for EV push ?
Nobody who has any idea about electricity would buy an EV.
Odd. I do not remember US meting out the same type of punishment to Saudi Arabia.
That was only for a single event. DEFCON no longer requires proof of vaccination or ID.

And as the other commenter said, the information wasn't recorded.

Also, the majority of DEFCON attendees no longer care about being anonymous. It's not this secret underground thing. Many employers pay for their security staff to go to DEFCON. For a few years now, you can even pre-pay for your ticket online with a credit card which makes getting reimbursed for your ticket a fuckton easier. Also means you don't have to carry $500 in cash.
This is why it's important to note that the group arguing against the FTC is not the automakers, it's auto dealers. the NADA is the associate of auto dealers, not manufacturers
Text puts the problem squarely into the sights of generative models.
It's unwatchable. I'd cancel Prime because of it, if I didn't want the shipping. What is the real purpose of them limiting the stream? It can't be because of pirating. The movies and shows show up on the torrent sites BEFORE they even hit Amazon Prime. So who's going to "Record" it there? They are only hurting their customers.
Just replace 'DSL' with 'API' in your comment and it describes using any large software framework. When you use on a framework to multiply your effort, you inevitably have to learn the ins and outs of the framework. In Ruby/Rails this is accomplished with a lot of class methods, but in other languages you would just be doing the same thing with instance methods or whatever.
Why not use https://any.run?
Summarisation for calls, emails. Lots of extraction tasks & closed domain chatbots.

Deployment is usually FastAPI for business logic, Langchain or MS/Guidance library, LLM hosted via. HF-TGI server
That doesn’t actually address the concern if I understand it correctly. If Dartmouth is primarily concerned with accuracy, and SAT alone is predictive of performance, and wealthy students tend to score higher even for equally qualified applicants, then a test score only admissions process will naturally disadvantage poorer students.
I'm suggesting that it's fine to pay attention to Earhart for other reasons, including the particulars of her media phenomenon, the audience appetite for it, and so on. And I don't think it's OK to incept a sort of unqualified counter-meme of "look here, a woman with fake achievements".

HN being curious about the particulars of her - factually - famous disappearance makes just as much sense as the once-a-year HN discussion of the Dyatlov Pass incident.

I do agree there's many other aviators worth talking about.
Going eink helped me cut back video content. But I ended up listening to more podcast at faster speeds and since i have youtube premium, backgorund listening. It's... better, since I treat it as background noise and ears don't get fatigued / strained like eyes do.
The trick is doing so in a way which requires basically zero hardware. DIY ergo keyboards are built around a controller like the Pro Micro - which can't do this out-of-the-box.

Having to add a bunch of components to implement such a feature isn't really worth it when switching to USB-C also solves the problem, at basically zero cost and effort. It's not spec-compliant of course, but who cares with DIY?
On this question, David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at YC's Startup School 2008 still holds up great today. Was the first time I heard of the concept of the Fortune 5,000,000

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
Transcript: https://indiefounder.substack.com/p/full-transcript-of-dhhs-...
Optimization: How I made my PHP code run 100 times faster [2018]
You can place and size the screens wherever you want. If this guy wants place an additional 2 screens to his left so he has to turn his head, so be it. The fact that tech allows you to experiment with any screen config/layout is pretty amazing.
Makerkit: React.js SaaS Starter Kit
How much do you think they should allocate to rust?
>Incidentally, the SJ management was quite unhappy when they found out that the trainee program brochures had been sent out to both male and female students! There weren't many women who got accepted into the program, but we were a few.

Interesting! My mom learned programming in the same window, getting a civil engineering bachelor's from 1964-68, during which she used Michigan Algorithm Decoder for writing programs that had to be shipped as punchcards to mainframes.

When she took an aptitude test in high school that said she should go into engineering, the school counselor's reaction was, "right, right, but of course women don't go into engineering, so stick with that plan to be a math teacher". (I know because she tells the story about every other day.)

Earlier thread about MAD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097032
I have to imagine that even a cold hearted MBA can probably appreciate that the PR damage occurring right now more than justifies the cost of a decently large team of people whose only reason for existing is auditing the assembly process.