skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CalcPy: Terminal calculator and advanced math solver (Python, IPython, SymPy)
Autocommit – Oracle vs. PostgreSQL
He mentions it in the post, but most people will have come across Daniel via the Nuxt project, it is to Vue what Next is to React (opinionated configuration and directory layout, SSR, etc)
How is this embarrassing? 12 days of low power mode allegedly (vs 1.5 days for the apple watch) seems impressive.
Could you recommend any channels to diversify my watching?
Is it? From some points of view MS is "compromised" and potentially not an ally of the West, any more.
Here is the link. Just push the "Comment" button.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/NTIA-2023-0009-0001
I can't even think of a title that would still make sense with a prefixed "how" removed
Or one with three planet sharing the same orbit, perfectly spaced!
Ask HN: Have you used an AI tax assistant?
I have reasonably complex personal taxes (AMT, foreign tax credits, K-1, rental, etc.). I've gone through four CPAs in 10 years, every time moving on because of the number of errors they're making, and the back and forth just takes more time. If I'm going to be scouring IRS pubs anyway, I'll just file my own taxes.

And I do... But it is undoubtedly complex and error-prone, and I'd like an independent review for diversity. That is, if I'm generating my return using HR Block's software, I'd love to be able to shovel the draft return and source docs into an AI and get an accuracy check, recommendations, etc.

There seems to be no shortage of services purporting to do stuff like this, but they're hard to evaluate since doing so means sending your sensitive data to them, something I'm hesitant to do without more knowledge of the service and company.

Has anyone here used a service like what I'm describing?
It's nice that they have a free tier, but their pricing seems unattractive. Why use them when I could go with something like Bunny or Cloudflare that offer much better prices? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, Vimeo charges $20/month for what you could get on Bunny for $1/month.
agreed, but i see this as an opportunity for creative people to make art and communicate things that a computer can't. i'm skeptical that an AI can write a great novel about the matters of the heart and feels like it's alive (not without trying). i think, in the age of generic AI content, that some people will be seeking authenticity even more than we do now.
Yes, Caesar added our leap day specifically in his reforms. I just don’t think he reordered the months.
Whatever, but I think the word “source” has a meaning that is pretty sure does not equals “end result binary blob” after a lengthy process
It's an interesting idea, and certainly environmentally beneficial. However, this should focus just on data centers. Any such regulation should apply equally to any large user of electricity.

Nearly all electrical power winds as waste heat, after doing its bit of useful work. Whether it's making cement, smelting aluminum, manufacturing gizmos, or running a data center - lots of things produce MWh or even GWh of waste heat. If the local city has district heating, large-scale users should be required to put their waste heat into the system. Use that energy twice!

You can pay them market rate for the heat. If it costs them a bit extra to set up the necessary equipment, well, that's just a cost of doing business.
Hot take -- good!

Labor is a huge component of food costs.

Labor cost per menu item is directly dependent on sales per time unit, as the labor has to be staffed regardless of sales.

Ergo, food at low-volume times (late night) should cost more.

PS: It's not as if airlines, online retail, etc. aren't already doing this. I find it hard to get outraged that one industry is different than others.
Very clever. Good luck with your venture
That, and the predatory short-term loans part of their business. https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/
> Finally, do your best to avoid situations where a "quick decision" is needed; this is good advice even for "quick thinkers". Fast decisions are often poor ones - the counterpoint to that is dragging something out over many weeks or across many meetings - but putting yourself in a situation where the unknowns become knowns or the scope of the landscape and weight of the decision can be properly assessed is important. What's better is that you will likely be able to have a better paper trail for this.

If you have to make a 'quick decision', one of the pieces of advice I've heard is to try to make the smallest possible good decision that will move the ball forward. Often getting started is enough to provide more information needed to make a better long term decision, but making the best possible, smallest decision will rarely get you into trouble.
It'll probably instead be used to dynamically start and end people's shifts, as tightly as labour laws allow.
Design agencies are using AI in 2024
I wonder if running the original VT-220 (or VT-1xx) firmware on an emulator would be sufficient. Could work on Linux under MAME though.
Yeah I've had to do a lot of mentoring and explaining. Kind of funny, and satisfying, to see people posting articles and videos about how they discovered the power of the command line, a new sense of mastery. Welcome to the 1980s!
In the case of a 5-minute-a-day daily habit, you might consider choosing a specific song (maybe changing it weekly or monthly) for said habit.
You're talking about the ending of Men in Black, right? ;)
Depends, can they staff the shift without doing that?

If yes, no.
> Yet the EU prevents it from taking foreign investment all the same.

No they haven't.
During surge periods restaurants redirect customers all the time.

"We're sorry, there's a 15 minute delay for hamburgers; are you OK waiting or would you prefer to order something else".

Also:

"Happy hour pricing".

As long as they have a somewhat reasonable fixed maximum price I suspect consumers will accept this quite well. Then it wouldn't be much different than dynamic happy hour pricing or any of the many other types of sale pricing that other stores run.

And it's not much different from what McDonald's is doing. The pricing for walk in customers at McDonald's has gotten horrendous. Yet if you use their app you can pretty much always find a coupon to get a more reasonable price. McDonald's would get a good reception if those more reasonable prices were also available in store during off-peak hours.
In general, I wish people would avoid >100% increase type formulations. Like biweekly, it confuses a lot of people, even if they should probably know better (or aren't sure if the person writing it used it correctly).
Starcoder-2
StarCoder2 shows good performance on Code Completion benchmarks
McDonalds has every incentive to insist to its shareholders that price increases do not impact business performance. any onlooker --even Wendy herself-- who thinks otherwise is deluded.

McDonalds is routinely lambasted on social media and in memes for its recently gilded pricing. the quality just is not there. I suspect actual sales are flat, or in decline as a response to the price increase.

The alternative to scalding a frog is a world where corporations occasionally have to suffer the consequences of inflation as well as consumers.
I was watching a bit of youtube this morning, and there was a wendy's ad. It ended with "All this for $5!" as the final pitch for whatever meal it was. If they do dynamic pricing, they'll cut themselves off from that kind of ad entirely right?

You (generally?) can't advertise one price, and charge a different one when the customer actually shows up.
Yeah, a lot of what you're saying is what OpenTelemetry tries to solve for, and does so fairly well. If I were at an organization and had the ability and time, I'd move towards tracing and correlating existing logs with those traces, then adding new stuff to spans rather than creating new logs. Tracing as the baseline + common naming conventions can go a long way.
The basic gist is: Everything worthwhile takes time and effort; often, sacrifice, too.

At least, that's been my experience, and I have a fair bit of that (scars from doing stupid stuff, too).
Flatpak's complexity is also a product of trying to function as a single solution to two different problems. Runtime isolation and packaging/distribution are different things, and there is no compelling reason for them to be conflated together. How you sandbox the execution of your applications should not be dependent on any particular filesystem layout or package format, nor vice versa.

FreeBSD does a good job with this: applications are installed into a standard Unix filesystem with conventional packages and the ports collection. Isolation is then implemented via jails.

The Linux equivalent of using standalone isolation layers, like firejail, on top of standard distro packaging, is far superior to Flatpak.
in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78064239/does-python-not... it seems like ieee 754 does permit throwing errors on division by zero, and although it isn't the default behavior on any hardware i've used, the name of unix's division-by-zero exception signal strongly suggests that it's also the default behavior on the (non-ieee-754-compliant) pdp-11. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12954193/why-does-divisi... makes the opposite assertion, though that ieee 754 does not permit division by zero traps. i'm not sure what to believe

people commonly opt out of python's behavior in this case by using numpy

python's decision is maybe suboptimal for efficient compilation, but it has a lot of decisions like that

edit: downthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39540416 pclmulqdq clarifies that in fact trapping on division by zero is not only ieee-754-compliant but (unlike flooring integer division!) efficiently implementable on common high-performance architectures
I think "anecdata" is a play on the words "anecdote" and "data" - an anecdote that includes supportive data.
Yeah, my M2 MacBook has 96GB @400GB/s. For $4k or so, it feels like cheating. Does it beat 4x24GB NVIDIA cards? Absolutely not! It's slower and occasionally runs into CUDA-moat software issues. But the capability to daily drive Mixtral 8x7 locally, with great token speeds, is phenomenal.
Interesting that this kind of problem exists elsewhere. What happens in the UK is a developer buys a "listed" building - meaning it has a special status that means you need to preserve it and cannot knock it and down then, say, build a bunch of flats or offices on the same location. These buildings have a very unfortunate tendency to burn down overnight, leaving said developers with little option but to build apartments or offices there.

Just one of those things, eh!
People who chase longevity like Bryan has been really freak me out. I have a hard time accepting that they are anything other than obsessively afraid of their own mortality.

And there's an extra something that's particularly sinister about it when they're also fabulously wealthy.
Very cool! Seems like a similar aesthetic to Sourcehut: open-source, written in Go, a collection of tools geared for hacker-types. There's even some overlap with the paste bin and static site hosting.
Agreed. The fact that y2k was even a concern in the first place suggests that vanishingly few systems were made with century-scale foresight.
Not intended as a comment on the current TFA, but based on observing many conversations on the topic of unit testing in the past, I believe this to be a true statement:

"If you're ever lost in a wilderness setting, far from civilization, and need to be rescued, just start talking about unit testing. Somebody will immediately show up to tell you that you're doing it wrong."
Thanks!

My case is a bit outside that, so I don't think the compiler can deduce that. I have a file format which tells me the expected number of fields about a category, and I throw an error & abort if the number is not exactly that.

Also, these data structure fields are always sent in as const variables, so they are never modified (making them "sealed" in a sense), hence I don't need to bounds check on arrays and vectors storing them.
Though both areas are very rich, there’s a lot less total wealth in the EU than in the US. Due to taxes, this is especially true for rich Europeans vs rich Americans.

In the below report, it looks like Europe with it’s much larger population clocks in at a total wealth of 110T, while the USA + Canada has 150T. That’s 600k per adult in N.A. vs 200k per adult in Europe.

More specifically, it looks like 1%ers in the US are worth USD 7m, but in Europe the 1%ers are worth USD 1.5m.

I’m not denigrating Europe or the European way, just pointing out differences in the capital environment.

[page 142, 144 of https://www.ubs.com/global/en/family-office-uhnw/reports/glo...]
It absolutely 100% can be true.

As an example: Windows Services for Linux 2 used a special init daemon to interact with the host OS.

That meant no systemd. That meant that the `systemctl` program wasn't there.

This baffled legions, armies, of wannabe sysadmins.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55579342/why-systemd-is-...

https://superuser.com/questions/1785697/systemd-in-wsl-on-wi...

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9477

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1132230/unable-to-run-any-sy...

People on the whole have no idea how this stuff works, and they just copy magic incantations from StackOverflow to get stuff to happen. If that doesn't work, then this OS is broken. The end.

For these guys, WSL was broken.

Result:

MS hired Lennart Poettering.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/07/lennart_poettering_re...

He "fixed" it. Systemd now works in WSL2. All those guides for noobs now work. Everyone is happy.

In a world where tools like Flatpak and Snap are proliferating and it's driving deep divisions between Linux distros, if you think the average person struggling with Linux is going to use `ldd` to work out where the dependencies for something live, I'm afraid you are a deep guru who lives on a different plane of existence.

We now have widely-used packaging systems which simply embed an apps entire dependency tree into a package to avoid people having to work out the difference between `apt` and `rpm`. Thousands of terabytes of disk are being burned to make this stuff go away.

Yes, this is too hard. Way too hard.
All you need is links (2022)
> Edit: No, unsafe doesn't count

Why not? You can basically write C with FFI and unsafe. In fact that's how many "port to Rust" projects start.

It seems directly analogous to the fact that you can disable SIP on macOS to escape their walled garden, into an "I know what I'm doing" mode.
I don't think there's a single restaurant on the planet with a line that runs with the same labour cost at 11 PM as they do at 6 PM.
Even trying to figure out which OS, for a start.
And then your text editor might leave a backup copy with filename "xyz.php~" which PHP won't interpret and Apache will happily serve to a curious user as plain text.

So I've heard :-)
> With some kind of streaming-from-flash architecture you might be in the realm already.

I thought mmap'ing models to only keep the currently needed pieces in RAM was something that was figured out ~6 months ago? Performance wasn't terribly great iirc, but with how much faster 1.58B is, it should still be okay-ish.
The case with gliders and U2 and the max L/D is due to the wing aspect ratio (look up the formula for drag polar). Modern aircraft have much higher L/D because they have long skinny wings and these wings are possible because we moved from aluminum to carbon reinforced composites.
Flawed Valuations Threaten $1.7T Private Credit Boom
It would be better if they were banned from the EU, but this is a start.
Ok but I was distinguishes processes for which a recipe exists vs processes for which is doesn't. For example, if I was to be fit vs if I want to be Mr Olympia. For the latter there's no process that guarantees that at the end you'll achieve it.

So in a sense, some transformations are microwavable.
I think this is an act of desperation and will completely fail. Customers will see the higher prices during certain times and just not go there. These kinds of games are insulting to consumers and represent very narrow, bean counter mentality.
I haven't, sorry.

I didn't realize either until August last year!
Pretty sure that's just debris from the separation, most likely to end burning up in the atmosphere too.
So far Gelsinger's ambitious roadmap has worked out. Goodbye MBA mentality and back to Grovian execution and engineering centric culture.

Intel made huge error when they decided to delay DUV -> EUV transition. Now Intel is the first to order ASML’s EXE:5200 and push High-NA. PoverVia and RibbonFET are what Intel is going to use. Meanwhile Intel's EUV 3nm chips are coming out this year.
Can anyone explain the random bright flashes at the apex of its velocity?
Jump cut. We helicoptered in, but it took about 20 minutes.
> We cant even be civil with people of different skin color and eye/nose shape.

Sure we can; obviously racism exists, but generally speaking you can travel to most other countries without any issues.
One of the problems with the Union-Company relationship is that it's not long-term symbiotic. A union is apt to milk the cow dry. A company will put up with a union as long as it has to but not longer. It's a contentious relationship. It need not be. The relationship could be more cooperative, but it isn't. Cooperative unions are seen as weak and accommodating. Companies that voluntarily unionize are at a disadvantage --they are less flexible and will eventually lose out to the non-unionized company, unless there is some kind of regulatory capture going on.

We could kind of have our cake and eat it too if we became more protectionist and also modified the Union-Company relationship to be less contentious. If we prioritized the good of the American worker and society (to the disadvantage of other world economies) Wealth would be less unevenly distributed. Total wealth would decrease and efficiency would be reduced, but very likely we would have a happier American society but also likely a poorer international worker. Of course, this would also require strict immigration weighted more on ability rather than simple willingness to work for cheap.
Pure frivolous anecdote about FF

Whenever I’ve been lucky enough to get Glastonbury tickets it has been on Firefox

When applying I run Chrome as well to cover that base. But for me the Firefox windows are the ones that make it through. YMMV
The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streaming
Because the borrow checker is always watching. Even you're in an unsafe block. It's that paranoid.
I can't speak for others, but at Honeycomb that's what we do. There's some details in this blog post that might be interesting: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-observability-requires-dis...
Not strictly accurate; it's the major part of it, but climate-change driven species loss is a real threat and at some point will likely outpace the rate of loss due to land/resource exploitation.

Ocean biodiversity loss is almost certainly harmed by overfishing and toxic run-off from rivers/lakes don't get me wrong, but it's also hugely impacted by rising sea temperatures. Ocean biodiversity increases exponentially with sea surface temperature up to about 20-25 C (68-77 F). Beyond that threshold, biodiversity drops off due to the limits of aerobic metabolism. Temperatures that make it hard for cold-blooded sea creatures to breathe have likely been among the biggest drivers for shifts in the distribution of marine biodiversity.

Desertification, caused partly by human agriculture and the removal of soil-retaining plant matter but mostly due to climate change, is also a major cause of species loss and it's occurring across much of the planet - especially Africa and Central Asia. Those animals that can't rapidly migrate to cooler/wetter climates are ripe for extinction.
I doubt that a malicious punycode host name would pass muster more than a minute under the scrutiny of the HN crowd.
That's very illegal. You can only discriminate based on the appearance if you are doing enterprise sales.
Two Chinese Supercomputers (With Mystery Hardware Components) Go Online
It’s not a new idea but i’ve always “wanted” to do something similar with beer at a long bar with many many kegs of craft beer. Idea is to make sure all the product ends up moving and nothing stays untouched. Massive train station style flipping letter/number signage behind the bar with updating prices every 15-30min or something if it’s busy. One of the laundry list of reasons this is just a pipe dream is alcohol pricing like this is definitely illegal where I live.
I've done two stints of working in supermarkets. Once during college 2007-2011 then later 2021-2023.

Customers are far worse now. Glad i'm out of it again because it's a lot harder to put up with the treatment once you've worked in anything else.
They offer no hint why transiting the star could help us pick up radio transmissions. If they mean the planet going behind the star (being "occulted") would cut off the radio signal while it is back there, they should say that instead.
Tiny pieces of the heatshield debonding from the craft and interacting with the plasma.
Firefox OS was actually a not terrible idea. Instead of having applications written in a platform-specific stack, do it with web technologies and make the apps PWAs.

Seeing how many people are now criticizing Apple for hobbling PWAs with Safari on iOS, I'd say they were just ahead of their time.
My kids are doing chess. After your comment, I searched for best YouTube chess channels. I love this one about amateurs (and trash talking while playing chess):

https://www.youtube.com/c/CoffeeChess

Found in this list:

https://blog.favoree.io/articles/best-chess-youtube-channels...

But, why does YouTube not make it easy for me to surface this content to my kids instead of these crappy channels like Ninja Kids or Aphmau which celebrate monoculture, consumerism, and fake accomplishments so they can sell junk from Walmart?
I don't have much advice on that front since that is one thing I've never actually had an issue with (unlike literally everything else about it, from craft to marketing).

Ideas tend to come for me all the time, _but_ I noticed they sometimes flow even more aggressively when I read other fiction books as well as when I go for a walk out in nature. I think consuming stories just generates more stories.

For my last novella, I actually brainstormed it with ChatGPT. I already had a general idea and theme, but needed to brainstorm some plot points, character motivations, etc. I found using ChatGPT as a more advanced rubber ducky helped spark the imagination and flesh out the plot. At one point I even did it through ChatGPT voice on my phone while on a bus, and actually _talking_ through it in some ways seemed even more effective.
... agreed some decline for Nokia - but still Nokia revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $25.646B... SAP forecasted to range from €29.0 to €29.5 billion at constant currencies, up from €26.93 billion in 2023. Ericsson revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $26.263B.

Not quite dinosaurs if they integrate GEN-AI into SAP and telecoms capture 5G licenses... but I agree they lost significantly from where they were ... we need more Spotify's, and major innovative ideas - but then how to get the investment capital and skills - I think that the EU will see a massive job losses in the coming 2 years (eg call centers) --- maybe the dinosaurs will turn around - By the way it still stuns me that US companies such as HP and IBM are such big companies
I noticed the FAA website[0] doing this a few days ago - pretty neat. (They use if-cdn/iframely[1] as an intermediary.)

[0] https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id

[1] https://if-cdn.com/consents
Those little white specs moving from lower left toward upper right? I think that's just tiny pieces of debris dislodged when the RV separated, shining in the sunlight.