skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Levy's research group calls this "adversarial legalism" and yes it does seem to be a contributing factor to high construction costs.
Yeah, I have thought about account numbers as prefixes in the past as well (or some other syntactic hack for integrating the chart numbers into Ledger's account names) but didn't really try it.

A small shortcoming of Ledger in relation to this seems to be that it is not very comfortable to modify your initial accounts system later on, e.g. modify the hierarchy of things when you found some mistakes, etc. In the numbered chart of accounts system (which you have in a separate file, like PTA does), this seems easier.

I would also confirm that spotting accidental data entry errors is also easier in a single-line oriented journal like PTA. In Ledger, one entry consists of at least 3 lines, which is quite verbose.

Obviously, a more seasoned diy-accountant probably simply doesn't make any errors of this kind, or automates these tasks to an extent, so there's that. :)

Nonetheless, Ledger is obviously still a remarkable piece of software. I also recall some philosophically interesting blog posts by the author John Wiegley, on maths, thinking in general or something similar. He is obviously a brilliant mind.
As a style thing - why not?
Most eSIM providers are just resellers, what I care about a travel eSIM is:

1. is it a reseller, if yes, from whom?

2. does it have local breakout in the target country?

3. what network does it use in the target country?

4. is it data-only?

5. does it allow tethering?

6. can I pay with Apple Pay?

7. can I use it without an account?

Very, very few eSIM services fulfil the second criteria above, and no comparison website I know off lists all the others.

Without LBO, an eSIM is worthless to me. Thus far, I have only found Truphone and bne to have LBO (at least where I travel to). I would love to hear about more options. No LBO no buy!
India confronts Google over Gemini AI tool's 'fascist Modi' responses
The planet is warming more than 20X the rate of warming seen through natural processes. There is a unplanned, uncontrolled, planetary scale experiment underway with the chemical and thermal properties of the atmosphere and oceans of the only planet available to us for our survival. The burden of proof is on anyone who wants to continue that experiment to demonstrate that it's safe.
The immediate use case is the looks.
More AI for cell networks as Intel rolls out vRAN platform
> It's really hard to read this comment as anything but a quiet suggestion that perhaps PTSD is a result of mental health workers and not the result of trauma.

I’m sorry you struggled and ultimately failed to understand what I was saying, because I actually clarified this specific point:

> This isn’t to say that other cultures don’t have stress reactions, but they have different stress reactions that crystallize in forms that are more “normal” to their cultures, the way textbook PTSD is effectively “normal” to our culture.
Probably because it's the opposite of dystopic but Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciences [0], Valencia, ESP is one of the most sci-fi locations I've ever set foot in. You'll recognize it from Marvel films it's the setting for Guardians of the Galaxy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences
https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/data-access/
It's really not as much of a problem as people make it out to be, at least on the US west coast where there is good supercharging infrastructure. A charging stop takes 15-20 minutes, which is the same as a gas/pee/snacks stop in a non electric car, and gets you ~200 miles of range. So you have to stop every 3-4 hours on average, which is again very normal.
There is nothing to understand here. As I said, it's pointless.

From the Wikipedia article:

> Tacit programming is of theoretical interest, because the strict use of composition results in programs that are well adapted for equational reasoning.

Now this is bullshit. See my explanation, as equations are symmetric, and you can swap left and right hand side.

Maybe you should try to understand harder.
The author of this piece (Nicholas Pileggi) later wrote the books that became the Martin Scorsese films Goodfellas and Casino (and wrote the screenplays for these as well). More than anything, he seems keen on capturing exactly how these guys talk (or at least presenting a memorable version of it).
As far as I know though, Chernobyl and Fukushima had completely different reasons and don't really clump together apart from "both were meltdowns"

Chernobyl was entirely a product of design compromises due to cost savings, combined by a totalitarian system suppressing the known impact of those design decisions. It was also a much older design.

Fukushima also seemed like a design mistake (I remember reading it that the generators or something like that were flooded with water) , but then caused by a natural disaster and flooding.

The nuclear plans (in on paper at least) we have now as a result of decades of additional knowledge, and are way more safe. Combined with the fact that we have incredible computing firepower to better simulate scenarios, all this has convinced me to feel much better about the prospect of nuclear power plants and their safety.
I watched Robocop again this weekend after playing the game released last year. The PS5 version is a bit glitchy, but I really enjoyed it otherwise, watching the film again and it was surprising how faithful the video game was to the film.

I thought the film would show it's age more, but it actually still holds up quite well. Also brought back memories of music that sampled many of the lines and effects from the film.
Why is this “baffling”?
The minimum wage employee who stamps the check and deposits it at the bank with the hundred others in the pile isn't an accountant either.

The accountants just go "huh, this one doesn't match up with anything" later on.
Thanks, I was starting to wonder if I was hallucinating.

But in this case... a Lenovo (née IBM) laptop that is real and transparent is 29 years old and was on the market for years. Admittedly, the Lenovo concept laptop looks a bit brighter and appears to be illuminated.

But this isn't a remotely novel idea.
Ice ages are, like the name say, ages. No problem if the Earth heating would take ages. We would have time to evolve 60° body temperature or something...

Also, when too cold, kill a sheep, take it's coat. When too hot, what are we (and our animals, food and pets) going to do? Undress our own skin?
https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/
If I had to design a keyless keyboard, I would start from the ground up. The fingers would stay in one place with some combination of mode-shifting and chording to select characters.

Let's hope it never comes to that.
I think for buying reliable cars, new is the way to go. They cost way too much used and the first person got all the best miles out of it. Unreliable/niche cars, used all day.
I mean, obviously Apple wasn't surprised by their own plan. They wrote it.

It's probably true that the EC had gotten information on Apple's plans in advance, and wasn't surprised by it. That doesn't mean that they approve that plan. In fact, AFAIK it is impossible for them to have formally approved it. That's just not the process.

The EC will only start to consider whether Apple's implementation is compliant or not after the DMA enforcement starts, and will take into account feedback from the industry on what actually got implemented.

What Apple announced is irrelevant, the announcement is non-normative and such an announcement is really only for Apple's benefit (for them to get an idea in advance on how acceptable the industry finds their proposal, and course correct). But obviously Apple has no interest in that. The only use they have for the feedback is to print it on some special toilet paper rolls to use in the executive bathrooms.
The sad reality is that the humanity probably needs some type of big climate-related event that would act as a wake up call when it comes to the urgency of climate change.
We need something that people can relate to with their senses or emotions. Data by itself can only get us so far.
Thorium maeby more interesting!
The 1896 warming estimates that were accurate were not estimating future CO2 emissions. They were of the form: if we emit X tons of CO2 a year, the greenhouse effect will be Y. The greenhouse effect of CO2 can be studied in a literal greenhouse, and the effect can be extrapolated to the earth with methods we teach in high school today. They didn't predict at what year we would be at a tipping point, but at what the effects would be with a given level of CO2.
I set up a local BBS-like system and used the real NetZero* dialer to call it and attempt to log in. Then I changed my password and repeated the process several times.

That gave me the key to the Caesar cipher they used for the password.. so I could create a fresh account with a scrambled password any time I wanted.

At runtime, in the OS-provided ad-free dialer, I'd use the unscrambled password.

I also pre-created some accounts with unscrambled passwords like "apple" and "bicycle" to share with friends.

NetZero* ceased operations mere weeks after I started this.. Hm.

(* Was it NetZero specifically, or some clone? I forget..)
It might look insane compared to what you were used
to seeing a decade ago, but it's actually not that crazy.

I'm comparing it to a mid-range system I built last year: an Intel i5-13400F with a $60 closed-loop cooler.

It doesn't go past 45C even during Prime95 runs using all cores. And the 120mm fans aren't exactly howling either.

First, the temperature sensors got a lot better. Previously
you only had one sensor per core/cpu, and it was placed wherever
there was space - nowadays it'll have dozens of sensors placed
in the most likely hotspots.

That's awesome to know. Thanks for the explanation.
A C++ library to handle your own prompt/editor environment
Even if we solve the political and technical aspects of the problem, most of the Earth's habitable history has been at mich higher mean temperatures. Either finding ways to adapt to that, or modify it should definitely be on our todo list. Just because we don't slam ourselves directly into planet-sterilizing feedback loop, doesn't mean we aren't going to hit elevated temperatures in the future. We maybe only have half a billion years until increased irradiance kills everything, so having a parasol before then would be nice. Could get the planet another couple billion years of habitability.
Don't forget that Euler invented graph theory to solve an inconsequential riddle (the Bridges of Konigsberg).
VirtualBox-KVM Technical Details and Update
Check out our latest blog post, "VirtualBox KVM Technical Deep-Dive," where we unveil the inner workings of our newly released VirtualBox KVM variant on GitHub. Explore the replacement of the original VirtualBox kernel module with a KVM hypervisor backend for Linux.

Dive into the technical details and discover how we optimized performance, especially for Windows guests: https://cyberus-technology.de/articles/vbox-kvm-deep-dive?ut...

We also pushed our latest state to github where we enabled more paravirtualization enlightenments for Hyper-V. These enlightenments improve VM performance for Windows 10 and Windows 11 guests.

https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm/
Ask HN: What is currently the best way to host AI models?
AI infrastructure moves really quickly and best practices are constantly evolving so I was wondering what is HN's opinion on the best way to host custom AI models for inference in Q1 2024?
I vaguely recall that the default was to use the current average compression for the default estimation. I always changed it to 1, which is much saner: instead of being surprised that you didn't have enough disk space to store something, you'd at most get surprised that you had more space left over than you expected after storing something. Even today, things like the transparent compression in btrfs use 1 as the compression ratio for the free space estimate (though its metadata usage can be a bit unpredictable).
It's nice when you are in power to fix a system. It's much more challenging to fix a system which is hostile to you. Moreover, it's even harder when you are part of the system, which is hostile to you. Highly recommended to try.
I understand, thank you.
uikit: User interfaces for react-three-fiber
Very cool. Nice to know that Lenovo (and Asus) are still doing new things with old form factors. The dual screen and folding screen laptops they've released are exactly what I've wanted for years....it's too bad that Windows 11 isn't available in a debloated version yet.
nrf9160
> As mentioned, most of the world doesn't apply US standards and laws.

EU environmental protection rules are, generally, rather stricter than those in the US, and Europe does mostly manage to build proper train systems (though not nuclear plants, unless one happens to be France).

It's worth noting that the US has no particular problem building _roads_, visiting from Europe, as a country it seems to be about 50% road. I don't think environmental rules are as big a factor as you think they are in the US's train-y woes.

EDIT: An interesting point of comparison might be Ireland; like the US, Ireland is a wealthy country which can't build infrastructure to save its life. It has pretty much the same environmental rules as other highly-developed European countries, but hyper-local politics and extreme NIMBYism makes doing anything impossible.

There's a proposal at the moment to build a high-speed (ie 300km/h) line from Cork to Dublin to Belfast, but it's more or less tacitly acknowledged that that's the sort of thing you just can't do here, so there is a parallel plan, which may actually happen, to upgrade the existing Cork to Dublin line to fake high speed (ie 200km/h); this is kind of within the realm of the possible in Ireland, in that it doesn't require a new line, so may eventually happen at huge expense. Sound familiar?
Casemodders are using transparent displays in their PC builds since the first LCDs showed up.
Hello, congratulations. Danswer looks really interesting and the name is simply great.
We are building something similar (internal enterprise search using llm) and I am thinking whether we should jump to Danswer codebase. I would have a couple of questions, if you could answer:
- how would you compare Danswer and privateGPT? Do you see it as a direct competitor?
- you posted below that you have not use llama hub connectors because they do not allow incremental updates? Can you maybe elaborate on that, examples?
- instead of pulling data from different sources, did you consider knowledge graph approach (push) where data and vector index would live together in the single graph database? What would be the advantages of your approach?
- you posted below that you had to implement a custom search. Could that possibly be avoided (with the different architecture?)

Thanks and best
This was an interesting read, with a couple of glaring errors:

* The systems that predate the modern NYC subway were not called the IRT. The IRT was a single system, which now makes up the “A Division” of the subway. The other system was the BMT, which was combined with the IND to make up the “B Division” (since they have compatible trackage and car lengths/widths, unlike the IRT).

* The interviewee claims that the IND only really expanded into two new areas (via the crosstown line and QBL), which isn’t true: the IND also included the Culver and Fulton lines, both of which cover otherwise underserved neighborhoods.
Not what I was referring to. PWAs are a specific combination of web technologies. They're not "JavaScript apps". They really are web apps, even when "installed".
Excuse my ignorance in this space but I want to check my understanding:

About a year ago I toyed with writing a web app that was essentially a front-end to a diffusion image generator (very original I know). The site used socket-io -> flask -> redis queue -> distributed pytorch processes.

Am I correct that several of these services are selling some equivalent of the '-> redis queue -> model' component? Is part of the value proposition here that you don't need to staff people with pytorch/equivalent familiarity?
> Additionally, it is not effective unless you want to return to pre-industrial society.

Still needed to some extent even in your optimistic scenario. Because growth is increasing so is demand. New sources of energy are not displacing old ones. Just covering new demand.
In that case a tablet would probably be better, but then they would have to move the battery, PCB etc. that are located behind the screen in a tablet somewhere else, so it doesn't really work out.
Yes, I am sure. Read exactly what I wrote, we cycle the same list of recipes (we have 60 or so to choose from that we like). We keep to the same brands (Bush's beans are the best, for example). And, yes, I keep detailed records - scanned pdfs of my CC bills as well as receipts from Publix. A person who would have a curated list of recipes their family likes, would probably do this, no?

Will I share them with you to prove all this? Hell no.
The theme of that section was about impact of history/tradition on the (suboptimal) ways countries do construction, including "X country tends to learn from Y country's approach even if the realities of X and Y are very different."

I think the point was North Africa learns from France even though the situations are vastly different. All of Asia following Japan's approach was another example.
HUD for vehicles, although I suspect it's far from being price competitive with the current implementation of huds in cars.
https://www.aviz.fr/Research/VisualSedimentation
In the US, you are supposed to turn it over to the state, and the government holds it for an extremely long time until it's owner claims it.
As someone who has built large scale AI, it’s funny to see the only 2 brand name tools my team used missing: Airflow (etl and embedding processing), BigQuery (product analytics)
A few years back they had several Thinkpad models available with either Ubuntu or Fedora. Firmware updates were distributed via LVFS. They were even key in getting synaptics to add Linux support for the fingerprint sensor in the models.

I think currently they are down to just the Carbon X1 being orderable with Linux which likely speaks to the actual demand for Linux vs their cost to support it.
It works if you help people pick the best bank for their needs with a lot of useful information. It doesn't work when you promote a VPN at the start of a YouTube video about cats.

In other words, genuinely helpful recommendations, not half-assed ads.

In general, services with recurring payments pay much higher commissions than single purchases.

Most affiliate deals are brokered through affiliate platforms. If you know your industry well enough and your own website is popular enough, you can broker your own deals with people that otherwise don't have a program.
You are really aggressively arguing that you understand US law while demonstrating repeatedly that you don’t.

Why?

The core of the argument roenxi is making is that the legal system in the US is *very very different* from that which adheres in Sweden.

roenxi at no point argues that the legal system in play in the US is good, or better. They are just saying that because of legal barriers, what you seem to imply is incompetence at the planning level is, in fact, evidence of a poorly designed
legal system.
> I'm saying that building an effective transit system obviously isn't the purpose of the systems that control New York's transit.

You were not saying that. You said "The problem is things that are politically desirable are incompatible with a cheap & high quality product." That is an absolute statement. These two things are incompatible. It is not possible to have both.

To which tomgp responded with an example where seemingly they have both. The things which you said are incompatible with each other.

And then just after that you say that the "systems that control New York's transit" is basically corrupt.

So which one is it? Because these two are two very different situations and switching from one to the other feels quite dishonest to be honest with you.
The use case is AR glasses, but not exactly with this low resolution.
It's not that high on HN? The left most column is upvote. Then the next button immediately to the right is the link. Next row buttons from left to right are username, comments (via hours link), hide, and comments again (normal link).
I also hold my child with my left hand as I am right-handed. Obviously, it allows me to do more since my dominant hand is free for more complex tasks, as stated in the article.

I only thought about this recently because I had a 'test' on my body that determined my left arm had more muscle than my right arm, and the person administering the test asked if I am left-handed as a result of this. I couldn't figure out why this would happen, thought about it for a day and realized the common repetitive motion I do that might strengthen my left arm significantly is holding a 20+ lb child.
If they don't call home, then the foreign interests wouldn't be getting the data, I think? If the concern is access to inferred logistics and crane telemetrics, then the solution would still seem to be removing access to the data or retrofitting new controls systems to the cranes, and not replacing the entire crane.
You should never build your own billing system because you do not want to do the global VAT work.

itch.io is a good alternative if you sell digital assets and even services as you can verify payments with mail.
Typically you spend time and money developing a product or service that people want, solves some problem for them, etc. - not whatever whacky thing you can come up with without really knowing why and then present it to people in the hope that they'll figure out a reason to want it or find/create a problem for it to solve.
Cap/Trade/Offsets/Coupons. Worked for NOx.

Remember Acid Rain, it was real, it was solved.

Industry was able to work with a cap/trade system.
Used is a different world
That's not what free means.

It's cool until you realize that it only exists to take advantage of poor people.

If the infrastructure cost was actually important, then they wouldn't serve ads in the first place.
Almost all cars lose 20% of their value within first year of ownership. https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/how-to-beat-car-depreciation/

Go do a search for 2019 and 2020 Ford F150s or Toyota Tundras. They almost all list at half MSRP.
This strategy works... until it doesn't. You may well be correct for the next 3-5 years; but after that those customers will leave and they won't come back. Ever.

Tech is littered with the twittering ghosts of companies that had something "essential" and "irreplaceable". The strategy is "a retreat to the high end" and a self-serving re-definition of "who are customers are" and "what we do".
Don't forget to minimize outdoor lighting and make it the right color temp (2800k). We need to keep city light pollution in the city as much as possible and set an example of how to do outdoor lighting right.