skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Linux is good enough, but in terms of stability and performance for user applications, it sucks compared to Windows and MacOS.

/me shakes head in disbelief. How can one persons experience be so different to mine? Everything is faster / small under Linux - the file system, the graphics, the size of a base OS install with GUI and brower is literally 1/10th of Windows. Windows taking seconds to respond to a click on the start button (I presume so it can fetch the ads) was the final straw for me.

As for stability, I watched co-workers come in in the morning and find their dev environment was broken due an overnight Microsoft update, and just accept the 30 delay while they fixed it as routine, unavoidable, "it's just how things are". But for one, an update that broke things so badly he needed an OS reinstall to drive him to having a "fuck it, I'm going to Debian" moment. That is rare though.

Meanwhile, I've never experienced unwanted downtime from any Debian security patch. OS upgrades are a different matter, but they only happen once in two years, and you have at least another 2 years to get around to it. Or you can do it once every 4 years. Which isn't surprising. Debian is used by a lot of servers around the globe. Stable is the name of the game, uptimes in years aren't uncommon.
If you're into savage debunking of junk self-help books, check out Michael Hobbs and Peter Shamshiri's podcast _If Books Could Kill_. Their obliteration of _Rich Dad, Poor Dad_ (the first book highlighted on this site) is one of their best episodes.
Not many investors would assume a long term return of 10% over inflation. If they target 7% instead, it would almost exactly fund that enrolment level.
> Vienna airport is definitely serviced by Railjet trains (Austrian railways' high-speed product) stopping directly at the airport railway station.

Which provide connection to only a handful of Austrian towns / cities. For everything else (esp. international trains), you need to change at the Hauptbahnhof.
that's an interesting take, i wonder what the graph looks like of model capability over time. If GPT5 doesn't fit in the curve and a year goes by with no one else showing the same rate of progress... is that it for the LLM hype machine?

Edit: i was thinking while walking my dogs, if GPT5 was another great advancement and especially if AGI was around the corner then why would Karpathy leave OpenAI?
Seems like "open source" as a marketing tactic (or perhaps strategy, if they do continue to release open models) has peaked. I'm not really complaining, we get a lot of stuff for free as engineers (especially software), but it does seem different for a company to release an open model without any future commitments (e.g. Google) vs making open weights your raison d'etre and then pivoting quite quickly. The first feels transactional but honest, and the other a bit too... machiavellian?

I do think it's too soon to pass judgement; this could just be a normal "freemium" strategy from days old, where you just pay up if you like the smaller/cheaper/free versions of their models.
They love gambling, it just has to be wrapped in virtual lootboxes.
They're ahead technically, but, for example, Microsoft has its claws in a lot of the NHS in the UK.
They're also good at catching a moose: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/high-wire-act/
The whole point of FIRE is that you are planning on being significantly unemployed, a lot sooner than most people. Even fairly early into that 20-year career, you'll have an emergency fund that can get you through a lot of otherwise-pretty-dire situations.

Never hurts to get injury and disability insurance, too.
> you can do anything once

I'm not sure that's the quote. You can't after all eat your own head, even once.
Umberto Eco's Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable Than Read Ones
You linked to the wrong section (again); that covers how ATC should handle unmanned balloons, not what the balloon operator should do. You probably meant [FAR part 101](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...), of which
subpart D covers unmanned balloons. But it looks like for anything under 6 lbs, most of the requirements don't apply, except to file NOTAM and notify the nearest ATC when you launch/descend and a few other things.
And that's only if someone found out you were enrolled in that community college in the first place. Unless you're applying at, maybe, the NSA, no HR department is going to call around to all the local schools to see if perchance you took a class there.
How can I get access to it? The best I can compare against is pro 1.0.

Most of my usecases are logic based on embedded content in the prompt and nothing available to me beats GPT-4 there.
I know that. It is in Wikipedia article
Yep, there are similarities between the blockchain rush and the AI rush.

But in my last piece on AI, I said that AI is 50X Blockchain!
Not always - 3 of my kids got awards that paid for their entire 'tuition' at a good state school in New England (USA). The 'tuition' was $1800/year - the fees added on another $14K, and then the housing and food added another $10K on top of that -

The state kept advertising how kids could get 'free tuition' if the met the academic requirements (combination of testing high enough and overall GPA) - but in reality, it worked out to less than 10% of the actual cost of attending this in-state, public university.

Was still nice to get the $1,800 off the bill, but it was hardly 'free tuition'.

PS: Not criticizing this medical school plan - just pointing out that the definition of tuition can, and does, vary - even in the USA.
> As far as I understand based on reading that wiki if company writes in that license that they can take away your ability to use software then you don’t own software that you buy.

I didn’t get that at all? The ruling just states that a company can put a license in their software that you have to open first, and you accept once you start using the software. It doesn’t say that licenses that arbitrarily revoke the software are enforceable.
In a weird sense smart bombs might be considered construction, in much the same way as a carefully-controlled chisel creates a statue rather than destroying a rock.

I'm not making a moral equivalence here -- please don't construe my comment to mean that blowing people up is somehow good. But from the perspective of the person dropping the bomb, they are reshaping rather than destroying. If their goal were purely destructive, there are cheaper means available.
Building on the Success of Starship's Second Flight Test
Good idea, but you need to audit your auditors.
And that doesn't count. Only pro 1.0 available for me through APIs. I need to be able to test for myself the capabilities.

As it stands best LLM available by API by Google is far behind GPT4.
it's the ground state of a system that has a big ol classical computer in it. Ideally I'd like to see it as the ground state of some simple hamiltonian with rashba and a magnetic field and some proximitized thing or whatever
Unity's stock sheds 15% after disappointing earnings
It's interesting how bad incentives are when something with qualitative differences (flavor, heat) is sold by the pound. Making it more palatable expands the market up to a point, but so does requiring more peppers generally.

The most durable countermeasure seems to be totally outside of the purview of economics: building up a culture of caring about the product. Like tomatoes in Italy, or coffee beans among coffee lovers.

For heat we've mostly had to rely on serrano or (when in season here) the Hungarian wax pepper (varies wildly between 1k and 15k scoville)
I built out billing in grocery, supply chain, oil & gas, tabs and subscriptions and without a doubt, they all have annoying complications that a person without experience would probably not consider.

I wouldn’t call billing “difficult” as much as it is “annoying”, but I also have ~18 years experience in it.
Unrelated, but I've had a lot of fun trying to degoogle my life. I have a pixel that I'm running graphene is on and I set up a next cloud instance at my house that I sync my personal calendar, contacts, and photos too. Fun Christmas break project.

For awhile before I got the next cloud instance set up, I took a step back in time and was semi manually syncing my phone to outlook like how I used to do it with activesync and hotsync. Unlike with my old palm and windows mobile pdas I had it set up to sync over wifi when I was home.

It's a surprisingly challenge effort. I still have my old Gmail account for posterity. Google did a good job sucking you into their eco system with their free goodies.
This is an excellent game! Thank you for making it!

I'm not sure if this is intentional but the game I played only let me type words that started with one of two letters.
Sorry to put it this way, but FIRE is some serious bullshit.

Most of us barely make ends meet. We bust ass and do everything right. Financial independence is a pipe dream. Retiring EVER is likely off the table entirely at all.
The article doesn't contain the actual reason.

I'd argue that the real reason is that peppers are now mass produced in clean, bug-free, environments.

Which means: No bug bites, no spice.

If you grow peppers indoors where no bugs are, they tend to be a very mild produce. If you put them outside (and have enough insects around), they get much more spicy.

Of course the usage of pesticides contributes to that effect, due to bugs not having a chance to bite the fruits anymore.
When should I use LLMs vs. SLMs?
I always presumed the heat was from the seeds and not the pepper its self.
To me security by obscurity is limited to things like this:

There is a way to view bananas at

/bananas/:bananaUUID

unsecured endpoint.

I don’t want people to get all my banana data, but as long as there isn’t an easy way to list banana uuids, that endpoint is basically effective security by obscurity.
Wow, I was just telling my partner last week that the Jalapeños I'd bought were not spicy and it seemed like it was happening more and more often. I love Jalapeños with cheese and crackers and it sucks to cut up a whole jalapeño only to find I might as well just used a green pepper.
> We can, and have, shut off large portions of the grid in seconds.

Speaking from personal experience, this is BS. During a bad wind event, a bunch of lines came down, started a huge forest fire around 10 or 11pm which was heading for a small town with 50-70mph winds. First responders couldn't get in to warn anyone because the downed lines were energized, so they called up the power plant. The whole process to de-energize took hours. There is a kill-switch now, but most power plants apparently can't shut off the juice in a matter of seconds, and they may not even have a plan to do so in an emergency.
Embracing ETag and If-March Headers
Super short notes on eTags and If-Match

Have been using them a lot recently and I wanted to share.

Any other use case out there?
Reddit users wonder if the next big meme stock is Reddit itself
1. You assume monthly_rate exists. It's usually not defined that way...

2. Imagine some things are billed on a recurring basis (e.g., every 30 days), and some are every 1st of the month...

3. Assume, for example, that you charge per-user. What if there are 300 users added and 20 removed in one day. Do you refund the remaining time in the month? Is this a credit on their next invoice, a negative item on the current invoice, etc...

There are many more situations that can mess this up even further.
People have been trained to look for apps in the app stores. PWAs aren't there, and have a different installation method, for technical reasons that shouldn't matter in most cases.

If you ask differently: do you want apps that install almost instantly, and take almost no space on your phone? A lot of people would be interested.

Renting a scooter or charging an EV tends to require native apps for no good reason. These apps can be 100MB+ large, and it's infuriating to install them when paying for roaming, or being somewhere in the middle-of-nowhere where it takes ages to download. The QR-code-linked page that merely redirects to an app store could have been the app itself!
I love how another page of this site uses HTML tables to simulate the Windows 3.11 Setup screens: http://www.geocities.ws/politalk/win31/multmode.htm
Over here, ( Netherlands ) you jump into a kiosk for a free prepaid and pseudo anonymous SIM card. Topping it up with 10 EUR gives you 10GB traffic. Double the money for a one month plan and you have unlimited traffic & national calls.

Best of all: when you are done with it, the trojan horse can be removed from your phone.
Couldn't other Universities follow suit? Harvard sits on a $50B endowment fund, though maybe these funds are contractually obligated toward different causes.
I agree that I will probably never use these notes to go back and actually learn anything. I did this scanning project because I wanted to shred the paper and be rid of it, but I felt I should keep it digitally because it's so cheap and easy to. It seems sad to just discard work, even though the actual knowledge is still contained in the textbooks and, hopefully, my brain. But the doodles are worth more than the lecture notes from a nostalgia perspective.
That's easy to find out: change the API credentials of a user, but forget to update the service. Notice only a few days later that you forgot the change, but you also never got any notification "something" is going wrong.

In contrast, every half-decent IdP will lock an account automatically after anything from 3-10 wrong attempts.
Can't argue with an expert but I've tried to grill ChatGPT on couple of unexplored science / coding related problems problems that I've encountered during course of my work in my other live in USSR where I used to be a scientist and the result was of zero use. No new inventions.
I don't often comment on HN, but when I do, it's a shameless plug[1]. :-)

[1]: http://neonmodem.com
Thank you for the tip! I will look at how dependabot does it
What parasite?
The private school in my town with a $1B endowment is still one of the priciest west of the mississippi, and spent last week with no internet, because of a cyber-attack. I guess it mainly matters what their priorities are.
The article kind of mentions this but I think most professionals have shifted to serranos except when they want the big slices for a garnish or something. The shift was well underway when I was still cooking in the late 2000s, though I mostly heard consistency as the reason rather than heat.
Haha dang, well nevermind then
Freedom Furniture: How did Americans come to love "mid-century modern"?
10% interest seems like a stretch in today’s environment. 5% interest from US Treasuries would be a more reasonable baseline: yielding $50,000,000 per year total, or $40,000 per year for each of the 1,250 students.
How slow can a light aircraft go if pulling up heavily into a stall? Are they only going a few kmh when snagged like that?
Ok. Hold my beer.

What time zone is the billing performed in? And what time zone is the user in? Is the user part of a group billing scheme that is billed in a different time zone? Or do you bill everyone in the same time zone regardless of where they sign up? You need to know this in order to compute both "n" and "m".

Do you need to break the billing into separate line items, for example, a service component and an entitlement component? What about addons or powerups? Are they all prorated? are you sure?

What about fixed up-front charges? Surely these are not prorated?

Do you charge in arrears or in advance? If you charge in advance, how many days/months in advance? If in arrears, when do you actually raise the charge? You need to know this to compute "m" and "n". How do you remember to pro-rate it? Bonus question: what's the process you use to ensure that arrears charges are always raised? Not a cron job, surely?

Is your billing cycle even monthly? Could it be quarterly? Weekly? Annual?

Do you need to prorate entitlements? What about quantity entitlements like download volume? What about fixed entitlements like per seat licenses?

Do you prorate to the millisecond, or the day? Is there a minimum proration period?

Are there any accounting rules related to proration in the accounting regime of the user being billed?

If you provide a signup bonus or coupon that exceeds the value of the prorated first billing period, how do you apply it to the account?

Ok. That covers the stuff I can think of off the top of my head. There are probably just as many questions that I’ve forgotten.

Ultimately, the problem is not determining how to prorate, since that's a simple ratio. The problem is to work out what "m" and "n" even means, and to compute their values in a way that works within the policies of the business you're billing for. And even a simple business will change requirements over enough time.

Then, of course, there’s dealing with things like refunds and cancellations. Which, in my experience, everyone gets wrong and pushes off to manual processes. And then there's the other 12 things in TFA, each of which has at least as many twists and turns.

(edited to focus only on proration.)
I've switched between ios and android a few times, but currently on iOS.

* I would say the hardware is actually not as good as most Androids (my screen scratches, alloy AL/Ti are absolutely dumb material choices for something like a dentable phone). Up until recently, Android had expandable storage on android via SD cards, but that's pretty much gone these days. Androids typically lacked dumb things that drive up phone price on iPhones, but they've been hard at work on closing this gap and making things more pricey for no reason... but generally the phones are far more durable and repairable.

* The iOS software isn't as great in many many areas (Google voice to text works far better, texting actually works to the outside world, no shared filesystem folders like "Downloads", anti-competitive behavior with other brands of smartwatches like Garmin, you can't actually turn an iPhone off, many many other artificial dumb limitations)

* but iOS is better in some areas: Google is not vacuuming up personal life and monetizing it (when google does it, its "business" when others do it, is "hacking"), iCloud clipboard sync is a neat trick if you have a Mac, iMessage on Mac is a great experience, FaceTime works pretty danged well, international eSim experience is actually quite good on iOS, iCloud keychain and sync is actually pretty good)

I think after this iPhone dies or Apple slows it down enough, I'm going to switch to GrapheneOS and figure out how to replace iOS keychain sync/clipboard sync.
It's mostly neither, but rather it tends to be concentrated in the 'ribs', that whitish tissue inside the pepper. Seeds tend to have some of that connective tissue on and around them, or to come in contact with it more, and so have a reputation for heat.
> What. No, look, for example: assessed from a "net worth" perspective, almost every single college student is in the "debtor" column, because the net present value of a college education isn't something that shows up in the calculation.

And that's completely correct, given that there is an absurd amount of garbage colleges/degrees out there, that there's a massive oversupply of people with degrees, and that companies nowadays require degrees even for underpaid paper pusher jobs because it allows them to legally discriminate against otherwise protected classes. It's fundamentally impossible to assign any positive value to a college degree unless the person is actually employed.
The other half of the equation is the amount you're spending. At least in tech, FIRE means finding a way to earn a San Francisco salary without paying for a San Francisco lifestyle, such that you're saving more than one year's expenses per year you work.

It is surprisingly doable, particularly if you can land a remote job and then move somewhere cheap. (Doable for us software developers, anyway.)
Nobody will be forced to buy EVs; the California law does not prevent people from continuing to use their existing vehicles, nor from reselling them. It will simply become illegal to sell new fossil fuel vehicles in the state after 2035.
Twitter (X) use predicts changes in polarization, sense of belonging, outrage
How then would Harvard sort students by socioeconomic status?
I would be more willing to try this if it was possible to host it myself. I get that you want to monetize this and that’s fair, but I am also not going to trust my code to a random online tool.

Maybe I’ll give a bash at making something like this for my own use
I don’t like more than a little spicy but I discovered that if you stand the jalapeño up and cut vertical panels leaving the core and seeds behind, they are essentially just sweet peppers with a little kick. It seems that almost all of the heat is in the seeds and the plith.
I fail to understand why we don't do more to make equipment robust to this kind of thing. There's a whole range of problems that this solves looong before we get to general nuclear exchange.

If stuff was shielded, isolated, and grounded better, everything from your phone to your WiFi would work a lot better and have longer range. Wind slapping power lines together wouldn't destroy everything plugged in inside your house and solar flares wouldn't be more than a passing concern. The design changes to affect all of this aren't remotely expensive or difficult, we just don't.
> ...turning the fourier series into the continous fourier transform

Yes, if talking about the Fourier transform. My understanding was that author proposed that "trick" in context of discrete series for bounded non-periodic functions x(t), y(t).

Instead, what followed was more like an extension to periodic function.
But the point is that we’ll have 15-24 hours, not 8 minutes.
Good luck with that approach. Just because there is a demand for a service, does not make the provider your friend. Yikes.
Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
Why is this even a thing, people wondering about who Satoshi really is? What good would it do for the rest of us to find out his real identity? Bitcoin has already taken off without him publicly revealing himself. There are plenty of cryptocurrency experts out there commenting on it.

Is this just a case of celebrity worship? Or is there something practical that I'm missing?

I have searched this question online and haven't found any threads discussing it. The only results I've found were threads discussing whom he might be, or why he might have chosen to stay anonymous.
I don't think you are including the deaths in following years from the radiation poisoning. Those numbers are just 'the day of'.

But also. I agree, Coal industry has a lot of deaths too. Far more year over year.
And things like settling ponds should be more regulated. Lot of deaths from coal waste holding damns failing.

So. Think you are little cherry picking stats to show Nuclear "isn't that bad", and Coals "very bad". When truth is really somewhere in middle.

Think in this, the disconnect, you are discounting the potential much higher risk potential with Nuclear.

A coal damn giving way, kills everyone in the downstream town, maybe hundreds.

But if worst case Nuclear disaster, has much higher potential, millions.

Really in Chernobyl and Fukushima, we got lucky, they turned out to be bad, close calls, but in each we were saved at the last minute, so not so bad.

Both were minutes away from much higher releases. Both could have wiped out their entire country. Potentially, Ukraine and Japan could both be gone today, not exist as countries, by the time you factor into half the country farmland gone, and major cities un-inhabitable.

That sounds dramatic. But think that is what a risk matrix would point out.
So how much risk can we tolerate? Is Climate Change risk finally in the public mind enough to overcome the Nuclear risk?
True, though with the faculty they lined up (including Dean Erwin Chemerinsky), there wasn't much risk of it not being accredited.