skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are probably trolling and I should not waste my time replying to you, but I have nothing better to do right now so I’ll let myself fall for it.

1. > which flopped, wasn't very good, and which zero people actually care about

Speak for yourself.

2. > wasn’t very good

That game has the entire map of USA. It’s a driving game with one of the biggest maps in existence. I think it takes about an hour of real world time to drive from SF to NY. I feel myself silly having to explain this to you.

3. > has been running for 10 years

How about people of the future who would want to play this game? How about all the hard work developers put into developing this game? All their work is gone and nobody will experience their creation? Using the same logic: should we burn all paintings ever made after 10 years because enough people looked at them?
Would have been a great thing to be taught in school 25 years ago.
But FDA did stamp the covid vaccine. The study that touted its effectiveness, was used to approve it, was obviously flawed. A billion dollar Fraud, and theft from tax payers that were mandated into taking it. FDA so far has faced no repercussions for it. In fact, for the longest time you would get censored for questioning its effectiveness, or even asking for some accountability.
Well they won’t touch the principal so long as tuition inflation stays below about 1.5%
I've been working on a game inspired by Wordle and Infinite Craft and am pretty happy with how it's turned out. Let me know what you think!

The tech stack is Together AI (using Mistral 7b instruct) + Neo4j + Astro + Vercel.
This was fun. Great demo, fun presentation, and I accidentally locked my phone and noticed it was still playing… Very cool for a web app!

Good job.

J
Cynically, I'm concerned administrative bloat will catch up in 5-10 years and they'll have no choice but to charge students again.
> Have you noticed that you're way more into brussels sprouts now than you were when you were a kid? If you're a GenX-er or a Millenial, that's because today's (delicious) sprouts aren't the same plant as the (gross) sprouts of yore.

This is an oft-quoted fact, and it’s true that modern brussels sprouts are less bitter, but that’s far from the whole story. The popular preparation used to be boiling or steaming, and many people still find that gross with modern varieties. But over the past 15-20 years, frying or roasting them, and topping it off with things like bacon, parm, balsamic reduction, etc. became the standard preparation, and this is just a way more delicious way to cook them (for most ppl). I’d assume this makes a massively bigger difference than a reduction in bitterness.
The central office switch that a landline is connected to is almost certainly doing analog/digital conversion. Digital switches were introduced in the 1970s and Analog exchanges were all but extinct by 2000 (according to [4], the last step by step exchange in Canada was replaced in 2002). If the call remains old school POTS, it will be essentially a T1/PRI call from that point on. Circuit switched digital calling was phased in over time, as CO switches were replaced. Chances are, a landline is actually handled by a remote terminal out in the field, and a/d converted there.

Long distance (to most destinations) calling probably switched to digital trunks faster than local calling, because long distance calling was already separate equipment from local calling, and replacing central office switches is a big process (including a pretty intense cutover [1]).

Long distance calling would have more equipment in the path than a local call, of course, and may not have had very optimal routing paths compared to today. I found a route map from the 1960 AT&T Long Lines network [2], and a fiber map with no provenance of 'today' [3] ... it's widely similar, but there's some routes that pop out at me as not being well connected in the 1960: Salt Lake City to Seattle; Amarillo, TX to Dallas, TX. On the other hand, Long Lines was radio, and radio is faster than fiber, so that makes up a little.

There may have also been more cases where routing was simplified to be more manageable at the expense of delay... AT&T wouldn't have run long distance trunks from everywhere to everywhere, you might need to do hierarchical routing --- if you're on the east coast, route to New York, and from there to the big city near your destination, and then to destination, etc. There's still some of that in internet routing, but it's a lot less. BGP and internal routing protocols make it a lot easier to manage more direct connections and let the software figure things out.

But there's no need to add a large buffer for voice data for POTS, and it was very expensive to do it, so it wasn't done. There is a need to do it for VoIP, and it's no longer expensive, so it is done.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk

[2] http://www.long-lines.net/places-routes/maps/MW6003.jpg from http://www.long-lines.net/places-routes/maps/MW6003.jpg

[3] https://i.insider.com/56e03df7918a0f7333e350f3?width=1190

[4] https://telephoneworld.org/telephone-switching-systems/step-...
You say it isn't difficult but it is "error-prone", which is a contradiction. Either it is hard to get right or it isn't. I think it might be but not to the extent you do. Whatever issues we have with memory management, solutions exist and have existed for decades. People who continue to use so-called "unsafe" languages tend to know what they're doing. There are lots of solutions out there besides rewriting in another language that isn't that much less error-prone, such as Rust.
I don't think there are any space-based EMPs, at least no publicly known ones. There have been and perhaps still are plans to detonate high-yield nuclear weapons at high altitude above enemy territory to cause an EMP, but that is a very different situation from a CME solar storm. We're able to spot a CME hours in advance vs mere minutes for submarine-launched ICBMs, and the latter would only ever be deployed in the opening minutes of an all-out nuclear war, in which the electric grid and all grid-level precautions against solar flares are likely to be irrelevant, because most of its critical components would be vaporized or torn to shreds by attacks on ground targets anyway. Even just forcing the other side to keep burning money on military countermeasures that do work might be worth a few launchers and warheads.
Please note that HN strips the leading "How" from headlines.
> Most people here on HN would agree with you, but for someone who spent many years touch typing on a PC desktop keyboard where the Ctrl key is at the far left, it is a welcome adjustment.

For sure yeah; I failed to adjust the other way. I'm so bad I bought one of those ThinkPad USB keyboards for home and used a Magic Keyboard at work.
I mostly noticed how most tomatoes are absolutely tasteless
Japanese, which is in... asia.
Company's continued existence and sustainability isn't necessarily a terminal goal or a valuable thing; most industries aren't growing eternally but eventually reach a decline, and in certain cases the best way to handle that is to exit that industry while you can still do it effectively - milking the company dry and then shutting it down while you can get a good deal for its assets, instead of losing most of its value while slowly agonizing in a declining market to try to continue its existence until you can't and it gets shut down after bleeding all its reserves.
I love spicy food, but I actually appreciate where jalapeños have ended up because I have family that _don't_ like spicy food so it's a good compromise for me.
> immature industry of hackers

This hacker news, after all. Hackers built this stuff, and they laugh at the bureaucrats who try to make rules to control it.

> our engineering should be held the same standards as bridges, airplanes, etc

In principle, I'd agree. BUT that's only going to happen when the practitioners have the ability to say "no" to bad designs and short deadlines. Which requires some kind of professional engineering certification, and requirements that only certified software engineers be allowed to do certain things, and certified software engineers that actually have the guts to say no.

Lacking that, we'd just have to regulate the designs themselves - and, as soon as government regs get their hands on any software design, I guarantee you innovation of those designs will freeze. (Same reason why innovation of private aircraft has frozen - the cessna, the most popular private aircraft, is an eighty year old design because innovation is virtually impossible, because regulations, because safety.)

> Look at the endless problems and costs caused by our crappy quality: National security harms and risk, privacy violations, endless fraud, systems that are almost impossible to adequately secure.

Yes, but look at the incredible pace of innovation which the lack of regulation has allowed: web browsers, operating systems, word processors, scripting languages, world-wide communication and freedom from oppression. You can't stop the signal.
ChatGPT plus is approx 300 USD yearly. You are earning 30k (100x) USD more yearly due to ChatGPT? Or earning 100k with 30% use or your time?
Nah in the terminal where I spend 90% of my time Ctrl is Ctrl.
Don't worry about that! It turns out capitalists are wonderful people so they deserve it!
Really depends how good llama 3 will be. I see people thinking it would be better than GPT 4. But they still need to build a model as good as GPT 3.5 even, as llama 2 is... not.
c# is open source. There are other c# implementations like mono which are used in projects like unity.
>other than Google

Which has proven worse than useless. It's a brand-damaging laughing stock.
Depends on the plane, but something like 40-50 mph isn't uncommon, even slower if there's a headwind (relative to the ground) or they have a STOL kit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1Jl1jwLDg
If you're looking for something slightly more mass-market but with the best writing experience I've seen out of such a pen, try the Pilot G-2 gel roller pen, preferably with a wider tip size (say, .7mm). Very smooth writing experience and good grips – the only downside is how much pen cartridges are very conspicuously less filled than they could be, and perhaps the lack of weight.
What were they thinking. A mini disc enclosure with a blu ray density disk inside would be perfect for so many use cases. Considering the extremely low prices we see for usb sticks and sd cards these days, imagine how cheap these discs could be to mass produce.
Inside cables that support USB-PD, there are chips that tell the peripherals what level of power transmission they support, so that attack shouldn't be so easy.
Deutsche Telekom/Brain.ai showcase app-less AI smartphone concept
You choose whatever browser you want for any PWA you happen to want to use. The OS will put a small badge on the icon which shows the browser responsible for running it. If things go south you know which browser to blame. You can install multiple versions of the app using different browsers and compare them, then only keep the one which you like best.

Freedom of choice is a good thing - for users.
When using hot peppers I remove some of, or all, of the seeds and pith. You can greatly control the amount of heat this way since the seeds and pith have the most concentrated capsaicin.

Maybe habanero is too potent for that strategy but it works well on jalapeno, serrano, and whatever they grow in Hatch, NM.

(and it should be obvious but wear disposable gloves if you do this, unless you want the worst wank of your life).
What a wonderful and detailed wrote up. Thank you for this! I wrote something similar but never released it due to not having a lot of hobby paint colors to include. It uses LAB for linear distance as a scoring mechanism and reflectance curves from RGB for the mixing. And a genetic algorithm for finding a recipe.

Here's a short video of an older version. Newer one let's you set how long to search for.

https://youtu.be/eGgrowt1fWg?si=NwucIgfpeWpbmCPX
By the dictates of capitalism, this can never make a dent. If it does, it must be undermined.
Intel's early integrated GPUs were practically free: their chipsets had a minimum size necessary to accommodate all the various IO PHYs around the perimeter, and they had enough free space in the interior to add a minimal GPU without much increase in total die size. After proving to be a lucrative way to kill off the competition's low-end GPUs, iGPUs started moving into the CPU package and later on-die to offer better performance.

Nowadays, we're running against barriers from the end of Dennard scaling, which prevent chips from operating at 100% utilization and all but forces us to start including more specialized units that will only be used for some tasks.
Other, and my favorite, example -- bananas

Because the plants are reproduced asexually by cloning, exactly what you would expect happened, and a disease wiped out the monoculture fields (Gros Michel variety) of the early 1900s in the 50s and 60s.

Which we then replanted in purportedly less flavorful Cavendish, which was resistant to the then-dominant fungus.

Cue the new Panama fungal disease (Tropical Race 4) that Cavendishes are susceptible to, and we'll see what the future holds...

Maybe in 2085, grandparents will be waxing poetic about how they used to be able to get bananas everywhere cheaply.

It's fascinating to think that such a staple ("a banana") is completely different from the one people ate 60 years ago. And that they largely didn't exist in the United States grocery system 60 years before that.

Ref: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11320900/banana-rise
One more reason to never trust a USB outlet and always place a powerbank in between it and your devices.
As luck would have it: watering peppers generously makes them less spicy.
> Doesn’t SpaceX and other satellite broadband kind of make this map irrelevant?

(Not the person you replied to)

No, it doesn't. Fundamentally, no matter how many satellites SpaceX shoots up, it's still a geographically shared medium with significantly more latency and lower bandwidth than DSL or direct fiber.

It's a stopgap for extremely rural areas that even in a thousand years couldn't recoup the investment of laying fiber, RVs, EMS, the military, ships, planes... but that's it. It can't ever beat a good 1 GBit/s fiber, much less the 10 Gbit/s you can get in some particularly well developed places.
They don't have independent agendas - company owners have agendas, and they have the means and the rights to have the company implement whatever the owner's agenda is.
I think a model that is historically 100% accurate demographically, while also reflecting current or maybe even slight optimism about demographic balance when giving results not bound to a particular historical period, would be acceptable to the vast majority of people, especially if that can be rigorously shown through statistical sampling.
Happy to chat further and learn more about what you were thinking, our Calendly is always open: https://calendly.com/getdelve/demo
Chief Digital, Artificial Intelligence Office to Host Hackathon in Hawaii
Sishitos notoriously vary wildly. In every bunch, even at restaurants, there's a ringer that will blow your head off.
Sign me up for team fuckery, then, because those are all my favorite vegetables.
The two opposing viewpoints appear to be:

1. Private social media organizations should not be forced to provide a platform for views they don't agree with; and

2. Private social media organizations are de facto public utilities and as such they should be required to be disinterested as to content.

Both viewpoints have their merits, but one would think that the American Civil Liberties Union would be promoting the second viewpoint, rather than the first.
That actually doesn't work. Too many tried to game the system by getting emancipated.

If your parents refuse to pay or fill out the FAFSA, the only way to get off their income:

- They die

- You turn 24

- You get married
Yeah, fair enough. I am just jaded, as I understand a significant chunk of data that was used for training came from Reddit, Twitter, and other sources alike. Good luck drawing anything that resembles the reality from that source material without explicit alignment and bias.
No problem for birds either who don't have the taste buds for capsaicin. I had to buy spicy bird food for a while to ward off the squirrels. A little cruel maybe.
Hosting a 7B model is completely different than hosting a 150B+ model. I thought this would be obvious, but I should have been explicit.
Americans take more and more pills. Yet life expectancy is going down. So please prove these drugs are doing anything to improve the health of the American Population.
Reproductive rates are worse than ever.
The interstate system is almost profitable for the government. Fuel taxes raise somewhere around 30 billion to 40 billion a year, and the amount spent in interstate system maintenance every year is about that amount. If they increased the tax slightly, and stopped siphoning money off of it to fund non-road expenditures, it would be in the black.
That's interesting, I am curious if it's the capsaicin itself you're tasting directly.

I know I've had hot sauces that were just heat without any kind of real flavor. It's not that I couldn't taste it. I could, I just didn't want any more of it.
Well the results are indeed "quite random"... A good test case to improve the spam filtering with :)

It seems to work much better with capital letters for some reason: https://aboutideasnow.com/?q=LLM
Very little on the "how", a lot of complaining that someone is able to publicize what occurs in publicly funded schools, and a huge amount of insinuation that anyone who wants to control their children's education has "blood on their hands".
There are some artists who do and IMO they’re rather gimmicky. Not sure how widely shared that view is.
Cactus – A Modern Diablo II Version Switcher, Character Isolator, & Mod Manager
Lotteries for everyone that meets a sufficient academic criteria is a good solution.
> The fact that the richest 10 people ALSO have more than those 40% doesn't really add anything to it.

Oh yes, socially this point definitely adds to the discussion. Cap everyone's maximum wealth at 1 billion $ - that is more than enough for anyone and their descendants to never have to work a single day in life again - and tax and distribute the rest towards the poor.

You'd lift a massive amount of people out of utter poverty that way, while not even inconveniencing the fat cats riding on the backs of their employees - and you'd get a nice economic boost on top, like with the covid stimulus funds.
I agree. The donation is a pretty great thing - but without increasing the number of residency slots per year it seems like it may just shift people that would go to another school to go to this one.
> It's fascinating to think that such a staple ("a banana") is completely different from the one people ate 60 years ago.

The most interesting one to me is that US "bacon" and UK "bacon" are completely different things. But because of cultural crossover they get used for the same dishes, and people often don't realise the recipe they're working from was talking about something else.
Because recommendation is psychology-complete.

It is extremely hard to predict human behavior beyond simple schemes such as most popular items (or most similar items to those you’ve seen before).

(bio: six years of xp in a leading recommendation company)
Agree with all the above. Also, I quite prefer not having super-hot peppers. I've known people who consume hot peppers and they eventually ended up with stomach issues. Maybe it does not affect everyone... In any event, I prefer milder flavors over something which overwhelms. Then again, I probably like cheeses that could overwhelm some people.
Money supply is a zero sum game... If you only view the game instantaneously.

Wealth grows, production increases the wealth of everyone around you. If a few people hoard all of the money, they're not putting that money to useful work and those that do do this will make all the returns (which is why people don't really horde money, it's all being used in the form of investments in businesses).
> - non-apocalyptic meteor impact (can’t think of a good example)

Tunguska explosion in 1908: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
I wonder why they do not make more memory channels to get more performance out of the iGPU. 3 or 4 channels would be better than two. They could even allow segregation of traffic or memory QoS.
There’s Vimari for the dozens of us that use Safari.
The problem isn’t that these companies are denying access to a game that millions paid money for, the problem is they marketed the game as a purchase that the buyer will be able to use forever, and are now ostensibly changing the rules. There needs to be really clear marketing about whether a purchase relies on an internet connection and a working auth server to run.
That's not particularly impressive. Anyone can take out a new loan to cover an old loan.
amazing what working with kubernetes, "the cloud" and yaml will do to a person
The first paragraph is

>The first thing we get wrong is that we use made-up terms. ‘Byzantium’ and ‘the Byzantines’ were invented by western European scholars to deny the identity of this state and its people, who were Roman, no less so than Caesar and Hadrian. But this is now widely recognised, so I will move on.
Deepseek (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder?tab=readme-ov-...) code is MIT and the model license is available too.

edit I should mention that using the Web service Deepseek provides will unceremoniously shutdown terms deemed to be too sensitive. Self hosted models do not appear to be as aggressive.
This has me more curious, as I love "bitter" things. Was commenting in another thread that I hate arabica coffee, and most people's complaint on robusta is that it is bitter. Finally had some grapefruit for the first time in a long time recently. Still love that stuff. If a bit worried on how much it supposedly interacts with medicine.
Yes it issues a new bond/note to pay the one that is expiring. What is your point?
Thats pretty cool ... a ex-professor in a position to turn around and fund students at her school :-)
The Apache Foundation also takes on projects that are literally abandoned. It acts as an umbrella that takes over hosting a project for commercial actors that can no longer develop it, but want to at least give existing users a open source (Apache License) version of the software to continue with/depend on.
That's a pretty good list.

For a meteor impact, I'd cite the Tunguska Event, which was a "3-5 megaton explosion" in Siberia in 1908: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
"temporarily"

No, they just want the ability to spy without warrants, and the first step in that is making sure that spying is an option.
Same thing with mustard. Mustard used to be spicy, then "yellow mustard" came out, then yellow mustard became mustard, then actual mustard became "spicy mustard".
It's not obvious how to make SQL with nested queries with own WHERE in Norm. One of design goals of sqlbind was an ability to write complete high level structure of a big query. And to eliminate `if` statements as much as possible.

Norm:

def get_users(cursor, user_ids, only_girls=False, minimum_age=0):
s = (SELECT('first_name', 'age')
.FROM('people')
.WHERE('user_ids IN :user_ids') # doesn't work in sqlite
.bind(user_ids=user_ids))
if only_girls:
s = s.WHERE(gender='f')
if minimum_age:
s = (s.WHERE('age >= :minimum_age')
.bind(minimum_age=minimum_age))
return cursor.run_query(s)

VS sqlbind:

def get_users(cursor, user_ids, only_girls=False, minimum_age=0):
q = QParams()
filters = [
q.user_ids.IN(user_ids), # renders into FALSE if user_ids are empty and supports SQlite.
q.cond(only_girls, "gender = 'f'"),
q.age >= truthy/minimum_age,
]
sql = f'''\
SELECT first_name, age
FROM people
{WHERE(*filters)}
'''
return cursor.execute(sql, q)
If you were using appropriate materials then software wouldn't be a giant pile of shit.