skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about Seattle but in my area they have all moved over to using Doordash & co for delivery.
Agreed. I would offer a PDF version of the project's readme file as a demo.

OP: this is important. There are a million tools to generate PDF files, most of them don't produce nice looking PDFs.
For the Americans layman like myself, that's a warming of 2.7 °F
He didn’t wake up and decided he wanted to be good.

He just decided at one point that his current lifestyle was boring and he wanted a change. He didn’t turn into a good guy, he just decided to go a different way. Thats the point is that he made the choice himself.
Similarly I do better with multiple monitors and infrequent app/workspace switching than I do with one monitor switching apps/workspaces constantly.

In fact one of the reasons my gaming PC doesn’t often do double duty as a Linux workstation is because it only has a single monitor and no matter how I configure shortcuts for switching apps and workspaces, I always find myself irritated to the point of distraction trying to get work done. All my real work happens on my dual monitor Mac setup.
As I pointed out elsewhere the 200 person company is not accurate. The OP is quoting something listed as "peak" on Linkedin without even providing a reference. And for some reason everyone is running with that figure. Nearly every tech company had a peak headcount during the height of Covid. Techcrunch generally also has inaccurate tech company numbers in their profiles. Also you can't sell yourself as a 200 person company if you don't actually have 200 people as that would come out immediately in any due diligence an acquiring company would would do on you.
Hopefully we get over the fact that we still need to transpile something to the ugly SQL and databases themselves start to speak a better language.

Despite all the hate MongoDb deserves, it solved the problem how application developers can easily get data in and out of a database.
Key innovation in photonic components could transform supercomputing technology
Yeah, the pricing tiers make it all the more morbid and disconcerting. Scary future for sure.
Got an error when visiting the page, here's an archived version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240205213635/https://johnnyssw...
Not sure that really refutes the point, since the temperature was down by about 0.25 degrees during that little ice age, according to the graph at the top of your link. after that little blip down it absolutely shot up. Little Ice Age barely had an affect on that graph, relatively
Have you considered Tailscale or DIY Wireguard?
Even when Thunderbolt was still codenamed Light Peak and had plans to use fiber, it had the goal of encapsulating a variety of protocols, not just PCIe.
Tbf upvote/downvote systems are useless without context.

If it's users with similar upvote/downvote patterns as you = higher weight, then it's more effective.
Sure seems like many people would rather destroy low paying jobs and feel better about themselves than acknowledge that there will always be a place for such jobs - especially at the rate we are importing many segments of the world with much lower standards of living. I'm not sure the point is to actually help people for whom something is better than nothing, it's to demonstrate resentment and frustration and a worldview that sees all wage labor as exploitative. If you want the services to fail don't use them and don't work for them, it's simple.
I'm going to embarrass myself horribly here, but I've only seen the series, so I'm not a hundred percent clear on how much acceleration they're pulling in cruise[1]. If it's something like .3 g then they're fairly close[2] to the limits of something like a fusion pulse drive (tiny nodules of deuterium or whatever, ejected out the back of the ship, then lasered into fusing, then the reaction pushes on the whatever - magnetic field, pusher planet, etc). That would make the solar system something more like what the Atlantic Ocean was in the days of sail.

They'd need refuels every stop though. Like with early coal fired steamers back in the day.

I got a funny feeling that without much better genetic muckety muck, the hard limit will be the human organism itself. Someone will get to the stars = if we don't screw everything up - but the someone won't be human, or maybe nothing like human.

[1] I know in emergencies they pull mad g, but it doesn't seem like something they keep up for long. Would still burn through their deuterium in no time though.

[2] Like, within an order of magnitude or two.
We’re already doing piss poor responding to a simple number that’s super easy to measure and evaluate predictions against. Do you think a harder to measure more argumentative measure would make global warming easier to tackle?
I don't believe any of this is true—it certainly smells a lot like Cold War propaganda from the 50s. I don't believe we currently have anywhere near the nukes produced to have this happen even if we tried to perfectly cover the surface of the earth with nuclear explosions. To block out the sun we'd need something more like the volcanic winter of 536, continually erupting.

Nuclear war is bad, but it's certainly not "end life on earth" bad, or even "end humanity" bad by itself, just "deeply fracture humanity and probably enter a new era of civilization" bad.
The History of Humiliation points to the future of human dignity
So... what happened?
assume you meant can't* ?
It looks expensive (per card), unprofessional (especially the use of an SD card) and impractical.
Our insane incarceration rate and the number of innocent people imprisoned?
I'm late to this discussion, but for what it's worth, these aren't gang tags, and there's nothing tribal or territorial about it -- a bunch of known writers just got up on a derelict, piece of shit building [0] because it's there, it's an eyesore, and they could.

Actual gang tags [1] have arguably no artistic value and serve a very different purpose.

Anyways, just wanted to point out the distinction -- discussions about the morality of it are a separate topic.

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

[1] https://www.instagram.com/fxckyourhood
This looks hugely cool but I found it a bit inaccessible to fully understand the project goal and accomplishment.

It would nice to get a bit more of an overview of the finished article - photo of completed card, or a video or screenshots of what happens when you plug it in etc. Or perhaps somehow I missed all this!
"ends meet" what a delightful veganization, as if the two ends --your expenses and income-- just barely meet. I used to literally buy the packaged ends of meat and cheese, which grocers sell for less because they're closer to expiry date.
Agree. Climate change is just one of the ways (and a big one) that habitat is being destroyed. Ocean acidification, conversion of forests and fields to farmland, and fertilizer runoff are others.
GitHub also uses int PKs and has over 100,000,000 users.
No, I mean small, because I'm talking about the quality of the approximation not the way to maximise delta-v.

If you have 1 gram of fuel and a 1 ton payload and that fuel has 1e6 seconds of Isp, you can accelerate the ship for 1 second at 9.8m/s/s.

If you have 1 ton of fuel and a 1 gram payload and the same fuel and burn at 1 gram/second, the first second is mostly spent accelerating the fuel, which means you're no longer able to just approximate the Isp as "seconds at 1g" in a nice linear fashion — it starts off at 1 gee in this example, but ends up at 10^6 gee in the last moment, a million seconds later.
The iPad ? no. A Surface Pro or a Z13 ? totally. Even chromebooks are covering all the computing needs of many people.

The tablet/convertible form factor is I think here to stay, even if it doesn't dethrone the standard laptop.

To your point, I'd see the same curve for the AVP: it will never become a super solid standalone device, Apple won't let other companies meddle with their vision. But Microsoft, Meta, Vive or Asus will eventually push their headsets over the line, and it won't be the default computing choice for most people, but will still be a solid choice for anyone willing to invest in the experience and take the tradeoffs.
Kobolds are from D&D. Both Dwarf Fortress and World of Warcraft got them from there. D&D got them from Tolkien, like most of the fantasy races, but I think the small lizard people concept is from D&D.
Domains play a pivotal role in catapulting startups to their zenith by establishing a distinct online presence.

A strategically chosen domain enhances brand identity, boosts credibility, and facilitates seamless digital engagement, propelling startups toward their full potential in the competitive business landscape.
Precisely. That's the famous Twin "paradox" (which is not a paradox)
As I was building LLM projects, I found I was re-implementing a new vector database for each one. So I built RagTag (https://ragtag.weaveapi.com), a vectordb/RAG as a service to make the process faster. This provides a CRUD interface to push and retrieve documents, which are automatically chunked and converted to embeddings.

AgentX (https://theagentx.com), an LLM chat support app is one of the projects I built on this framework. It is a self-updating customer support agent that is trained on your support docs. Not only does this answer your customer questions, it provides summaries of the queries so you get a sense of where your product and/or documentation is deficient.
Sounds more like they're riding the line and do sometimes make a profit:

> The company posted a third-quarter operating income of 32 million euros ($34.1 million), its first quarterly profit since 2021, helped by a higher gross margin and lower marketing and personnel costs.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spotifys-user...
It would be cheaper in every sense to turn something like a giant asteroid into a rotating habitat ship than achieve a constant 1g to even the closest systems. Realistically interstellar travel is not a thing that (biologically modern) humans will ever be suited for, robotic probes don't need thousands of kg of food and water to stay alive, don't need artificial gravity, air, or entertainment. The fact that the trip is inevitably 1-way won't bother probes and robots either.
> psychologist prefer individual subtests rather then to assess the whole IQ of the individual, indicating that it is not the IQ it self which is useful, but rather the tests.

This aligns with my experiences during my ADHD diagnostic process.

Perhaps IQ can be useful to some degree at population levels, but I am not even sure about that -- way outside my area of expertise. I do strongly believe IQ falls apart at an individual level. At least, past a certain extent. I imagine IQ might be a decent predictor of outcomes for an individual if his or her IQ is below one standard deviation of average i.e., (IQ <= 85). I'll even concede maybe up until the point of average. Past average, I question the utility, especially the further one's score increases.

Person A has an IQ of 125, and person B hasn't an IQ of 130. Realistically, how much of difference can we expect in life outcomes for these people? How much does each single point actually matter? I've never been able to find a good answer to this either.

Another issue I have is that IQ testing seems to be a snapshot of all of one's particular factors and circumstances at that given time. I liken IQ testing to something like hunger testing. I do not believe intelligence is generally a constant value nor is something like hunger. Both are qualitative by nature anyway.

I'm sure we could create a "Hunger Quotient" and use it to measure hunger the way we measure intelligence. However, wouldn't one's hunger vary depending on prior circumstances and factors like when the last time one ate, how much one ate, how many calories one has burned since his or her last meal, etc.?

I imagine IQ is no different. If I deprived myself of sleep for more than 24 to 48 hours straight and then took an IQ test, then I wouldn't be surprised if my score was significantly lower than taking it when well rested. There are probably damn near infinite amount of factors -- Do you have test anxiety? Do you have any chronic conditions? Any recent, major life stressors? Do you even care about doing well on this IQ test?

My point is that IQ can only tell you how "intelligent" you are at that given point in time when you took that exact test. That makes me question the utility of it even more.

I understand research tries to control for these types of factors, and that the tests seem to have great reliability when retaken. However, in my experiences, it does not seem like there is any attempt to control for variables in a clinical setting where these test are most often administered...

Finally, I would like to mention Lewis Terman's fun experiment which I believe he started in the 1920s where he followed a group of 1500 or so "gifted" children throughout their lives and for the rest of his life. Of the 1500 or so gifted children, while still mostly successfully, apparently none of them went on to become anything noteworthy.

However, two children that were not included in the study due to having too low of an IQ, William Shockley and Luis Alvarez, both went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize separately and in separate fields.

I'm not saying this proves anything, but I do find it rather funny.
Investors Have Sky-High Hopes for AI. Can the Tech Deliver?
Iwonder if a $15 USB hub could serve as an adequate protection against electric shenanigans.
You could imagine a technically advanced society using it as a sort of penal death sentence. "You were not safe around our people, so we are sending you to the end of time."
Aha, that's our problem: for me, anger is part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response and so Irritation, Frustration, and Resentment aren't included because they don't necessarily involve that article's:

> Impaired Decision Making: When consumed by anger, rational thinking tends to take a backseat which could result in poor decision making.

(In fact, because my major interest is in good decision making despite high adrenaline levels, I lump Irritation, Frustration, and Resentment into a boring Dissatisfaction; I can appreciate that distinguishing these as well as linking them to the highly-limbic expressions of anger would be useful for people who are discussing non-adrenalised states, but for me the non-adrenalised/adrenalised boundary yields a clear qualitative distinction between dissatisfaction and anger)

I guess it might help if natural language agreed on emotional ranges at least to the extent that it agrees on colour names...
Theoretically it works, yes, though not nearly as well as initially thought. The engineering and the required materials, however, are still questionable and way beyond our current understanding of physics and material science.

It's a similar story for solar sails, unfortunately, though progress is being made in that area. Personally, I think that's the only realistic way of interstellar travel given our current knowledge of physics and engineering.
If I were paranoid, I might be concerned that the USB device would detect when it's plugged in to a small device like a Raspberry Pi and only launch its attack when it's plugged in to a more valuable target. Is there some way to mitigate that?
At relativistic speed, atmospheric braking would improve the ship into a cloud of plasma.
Meh, don't care.

Seriously, we had ice ages. Temperatures go up and down.

I can't bring myself to care about 86 instead of 83 degrees F in the summer and 23 instead of 20 in the winter. It's like moving a few hundred miles south. People get by fine.

I mean, I'm worried about all the weird chemicals in my food. That seems kinda wacky. I'm worried about all the biodiversity disappearing. Extreme-weather-itis would be scary, if it's actually a thing. I'm worried about breathing more CO2, and especially about the same in water (ocean acidification). I'm worried about many of the other impacts on climate.

"Climate change" was a step forward in terminology from "global warming," but we need about five more steps before it's something people care about.

We also need to acknowledge how much we don't know. Most of our models from 20 years ago didn't play out, which was obvious if you read the papers instead of listening to Al Gore. Bad things happened, but not the ones we thought would happen. It's a chaotic system. It doesn't work predictably.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy thinking about how to improve my product, new marketing ideas etc., the issue is more how it affects the rest of your life, where your attention on other aspects of life might be diluted, as a result maybe you will spend less time thinking, for example, about what nice thing you could do for your partner.
> I just added Neo Store to my boox device. Thanks so much! It is great!

Glad to be of service.
If you haven't tried it yet,
please give KOReader a try
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.koreader.launcher.fdroid...

(sorry if you knew this already)
This is actually a very useful way to build a story, one I've used myself. Given the kernel of an idea, it makes it relatively easy to develop a complete story you add more detail to the initial idea.
They are less rare now than they used to be, sure, but they are still very uncommon. As in, I might see one every week living in a ~10 million people reasonably wealthy metropolitan area. No regulation was tweaked to favour light trucks and Ford is perfectly happy to sell sedans and hatchbacks instead of F-150s. They don’t need to sell the same thing as in the US to develop their market share here.

SUVs seem to increase in popularity following the American fashion, unfortunately.
Oh, not sure.

I know that my ISP only gives my WAN router a single address (/128) so a private local network is a requirement for me.
That's the drive of the eponymous generation ship in Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora. It sends a mirror ahead of itself, then the Sol-Mercury lasers bounce off the mirror, back on the ship to slow it down.

I could see the light spacecraft with their matter-antimatter engines laying down "lightways", like railroads in the old west. Once a lightway is established, then it's much less of a big deal to get from system to system. Apart from the tens of thousands of years in subjective time, of course.
I find this stories = lessons concept interesting in that we tell this story in so many ways, but that if it's an Aesop or Brothers Grimm it's just stories, if it's Christianity, Islam etc it's to be treated seriously and with reverence and respect.
> Zeroing out is preferable sometimes, weirdly.

It's not even weird. A "live" project requires effort, and that has opportunity cost.
What if the front one is only a small fraction of the thrust at the rear? Would that be enough to "clear the path". Surely it would cost some efficiency but it may beat he alternative
we all know that once you get 36 Million$ of investment, you cannot "just" run a 50 people startup that will have a stable valuation of maybe 100m$.

Once you take big investment it comes with the expectation you will get to 500m$ at least. VCs don't want to 2x their money. They want a small chance of 20x.
So much this. I'm the asshole if I tip $0, but I have no insight into how much the delivery driver is making. Am I tipping on-top of a full salary? Am I tipping to someone who is paid entirely through tips? No idea. Instead you play the game of guessing how much you're supposed to pay for services.

Either bundle in the driver's payment into the fees entirely, or don't at all. Let's drop this game of having to guess how much to tip to make up for what the company is not paying the drivers.
Clearly you're going for some snark, but some form of purge would be a good signal that the company isn't putting up with bullshit ideology.
And the point behind all those "apps" is that the actual workers get paid peanuts, wear and tear on their vehicle, likely defrauding insurance by doing commercial driving on residential insurance, and getting paid LESS than the total cost to do the job.

And Im sure this ordinance is "hurting gig workers". Well, so is working the fucking gig jobs, but that hurt comes 'down the road' with much more wear and tear on the vehicle, higher incidence of wrecks, no workers compensation, pay double tax for "self employed".

But those billionaire gig companies are doing the rake JUST FINE.
I don't buy this particular flavor of thermonuclear war scare tactics because the math doesn't add up. World's entire nuclear arsenal adds up to a couple of gigatons, while the Mt. Tambora eruption in the 19th century alone was estimated to release 30 gigatons equivalent of energy.

The havoc a nuclear war would wreak on civilization is already bad enough merely through destroying infrastructure.
The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard
Hrm—that's another case of missing isel from gcc/clang (c.f. <https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/selgen>)—my implementation (<https://github.com/moon-chilled/fancy-memcmp/blob/master/mem...>) does it in one less instruction. (An alternative is to skip the xors and do cmp/setcc/setcc/sub/movsx, which matches my approach on instruction count, but relies on good handling of partial renames, which is uarch-dependent. And I can never remember if anybody can eliminate movsx. Otoh it is non-destructive.)
Isn't this kinda like mounting a fan on your car's roof to charge the battery? You have accelerated your spaceship to 0.995C (or whatever) and now you are encountering space dust at a phenomenal rate. Some of that dust is moving away from you, some of it toward you, some of it is at rest. On average it's all just sitting there unaware that your vessel is about to smack into it. The energy is in the difference between your speed and the particle's. If you try to harness it, you slow down.

(I'm asking genuinely here. My analogy might be wrong because it's too classical!)
Hopefully the way I phrased it puts a point on why job losses are bad.

There are no “bad” jobs - just labor that needs to be done, with a commiserate price. If the labor is too difficult to find at a price, the price goes up. You can’t artificially increase the price without losing jobs.
So people should advertise on hn instead of cold calling?
"state's monopoly on violence" means that a state's power to enforce its rules is rooted in its ability to use violence on those that refuse. Putting someone in jail is not physical violence, but what keeps them there (and why they even showed up to court) is the near guarantee of violence if they refuse.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Art
Ask HN: Any Recommendation for Affordable Cricket API Providers?
I am working on a project that needs real-time cricket scores and stats. Wondering if anyone here has experience with cricket APIs and can recommend a provider with reasonable pricing or free trial options.
That is doable for "normal" speeds, not one where you accelerate 1G for twenty years, reach relativistic speeds that make you travel for hundreds of thousands of light-years in merely 20 years ship time
You mean at the very end of the game? The game seems like it's only designed to trick you into that very ending :) Are you hoping it will figure out the game based on the context clues? I'm not sure I can find them myself...

A long time ago I did some exercises in "classical planning algorithms", which all feel very like the early part of this game. I.e., how do you get ready to leave if you have to shower, and can't do that with clothes on, etc. A similar planning example involved changing a tire (opening the trunk, removing lug nuts, etc). It was surprisingly difficult to make an algorithm that could figure it out! You could search the state space given the transitions, but it exploded with what was effectively lots of dead ends; obvious to me as a human, but not to the algorithm. Which is to say that this is a harder problem than it might seem.
it completely is and that is the point of the comment.

You never hear of the 95% of unsuccessful startups

But everyone is following the runbook as if they were the successful 1% (not even the successful 5%, they all act as if they are the top 1%)