skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t keep us from buying their crap.
Thing is, I often create or update passwords from my phone. I have yet to find a good UX for committing and pushing those changes from Android. Though I would be interested in that, because I have little protection against accidental deletion now.

With syncthing it's just instantly everywhere whenever I add an account, no action required. That's particularly useful when I create an account on my computer, then have to scan an OTP QR code with my phone. By the time my phone's out of my pocket the fresh account is already in the store to save the OTP code into.
Canada explosion in international students linked to handful of public colleges
That looks amazing - the home screen focus reminds me of Niagara on Android (although that is prettier)
The mild winters are problem so:

- the risk of temp drops after plants started to sprout -> bad harvests

- snow is a great water reservoir, having the snow as rain leads to floods, results in lower ground water levels and droughts -> bad across the board and also impacting agriculture

- the permafrost in the alps is melting -> mountains litterally fall apart

And we see all that already for years now.

Edit: As rain goes rather quickly into rivers, and from there into the sea, it also compounds the fresh water issues mentioned in the article. Melting snow does so much slower, meaning it goes into ground water. Not having snow anymore really disrupts the water cycle in regions that had snow before.
Wow how grateful. In objective reality he helped Ukraine a huge amount and thus is clearly very pro Ukraine. Ukraine should literally be thanking him everyday. But I guess that is totally irrelevant. What have you done for me lately asshole.

Frankly I think the way they treat him is ridiculous. A media discord based on bad and inaccurate information heavily biased reporting somehow making him out to be the bad guy.

Ok got it. Makes total sense. War really makes people lose touch with reality.
Reminded me the the Kasada VM reverse-engineering article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285747
Exactly so! Societal and economical implications of seemingly "useless" transactions lay far off binary representation of bad/good.

And we may speculate for hours whether fur or golf accessories "good for society" and there likely will be no consensus on the matter :)
Unless you have a dual flush toilet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_flush_toilet
And also stop me accessing the site entirely. I don't know why, but every site with CF DDoS protection set to paranoid gives me infinite captchas that I can never pass.
I do all the time, what’s your point ?
I found out long ago that it's easier and more cost-effective[] for me to change my habits than it is to try to shove the square peg of my habits to the round hole of the tool I'm using.

[] actual per-hour cost and mental load
I very strongly disagree. Having "integration" tests are super powerful, you should be able to test against your interfaces/contracts and not have to spin up an entire environment with all of your hundreds of microservces, building "integrated" tests that are then dependant on the current correctness of the other microservices.

I advocate for not having any integrated environment for automated testing at all. The aim should be to be able to run all tests locally and get a quicker feedback loop.
I see scarcity more related to primary resources (ex: energy, raw materials, machines) and for normal life purposes. They obviously have some way to decide who does what (not everybody is captain), but the impact of not being captain on what you eat, what you dress, what furniture you have is much less than today.

Now, if you want an Enterprise like personal spaceship, you probably are much better of being part of the Q continuum than the human race, scarcity wise.
I guess we just disagree, or maybe you're used to worse dubs than I am. There's nothing inherently flat about dubbing at all. In fact, in many (older) movies and shows, actors would dub over themselves to get better audio.
Columbo (the tv detective show) in "An Exercise in Fatality" the scene lasted 7 minutes and it hilarious!
Yep and you can back up your saves, something you can't do on the Switch without a Nintendo subscription.
what are your plans to monetize this?
One of my favorite movies was "Scent Of A Woman". But when I watched it in the German-dubbed version, I was appalled. It made the whole movie suddenly seem like a comedy. To me, the translation had killed its "soul", for lack of a better term.

I still want my kids to learn English. And ideally also one or two other languages, like Chinese.

As Nietzsche said:

"So you have mounted on horseback? And now ride briskly up to your goal? Well, my friend - but your lame foot is also riding with you!"
Same in Poland. Fully legal to make any copies of any stuff you own, even if it involves bypassing their encryption or whatever. 100% legal.
I was actually looking for one! What's the best way to reach you? Mind jumping on our Discord so that I can share the installer with you soon?
Note: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

In the EU, reverse engineering is allowed by law if the reason for doing so is interoperability by the one who owns a license to the product in question.

"The authorisation of the rightholder shall not be required where reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning of points (a) and (b) of Article 4(1) are indispensable to obtain the information necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, provided that the following conditions are met:

(a) those acts are performed by the licensee or by another person having a right to use a copy of a program, or on their behalf by a person authorised to do so;

(b) the information necessary to achieve interoperability has not previously been readily available to the persons referred to in point (a); and

(c) those acts are confined to the parts of the original program which are necessary in order to achieve interoperability."

More information: https://www.vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-re...
Yes, without paying customers there can be no business. It is great that you have such a userbase! Now you only have to convert a reasonable percentage into paying customers, somehow! If they are not interested in paying for what you have now, then you must identify what they would be willing to pay for. Better is to try figure out, what would they really love to pay for? Which problems do your users have that they would like to pay to get rid of (or substantially reduce)?
I agree, although strictly speaking I think conventional decimal representation should be unambiguous, i.e. there is always one float that is closest to the decimal value
Don't you think Nvidia analyzed, sliced and diced the market to figure out how to maximize profits?

AMD is doing the same thing, the only high memory cards they put out (MI300) are for data centers.
This story is also good:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372336
I remember having problems with Meraki Access Points where if you set the channel to auto, it'd choose a DFS channel, then within a day all of them would be on the same non-DFS channel. Manually setting each AP to different non-DFS channels helped but eventually they were replaced with better non-Meraki APs.
I had exactly this experience! I’m so frustrated people convinced me to buy an iPhone, because it was so expensive I can’t justify switching back. I have been using a Pixel 6 for some drone photography and everything about is nicer than my iPhone 14 Pro.
What an astounding amount of work must have gone into that post...
> It's called contributory copyright infringement. The Supreme Court only ruled that the VCR was legal based on a very narrow use case…

That 1984 Supreme Court decision was a 5–4 ruling. Can you imagine the deleterious effect on the home electronics industry if, in 1984, a single justice had voted the other way, and the VCR had been ruled an inherently infringing device?
How to make your GNU Emacs commands 'relevant' for M-X
Cartel behaviour. But ok, that is more compelling for the general point.
How to create a sidebar navigation Tailwind CSS and and Alpine.js
Yes of course, because millions of non-politician/oligarch Russians who just want to participate in the rest of the world's economy and digital systems are little more than scummy, ponzi coin-using sanctions evaders for doing so through the only means of exchange that's available to them?

It's a good thing that crypto exists to serve such a need for ordinary people who are doing something that's illegal only because some blanket political game classified it as such. Mechanisms for escape from certain laws and rules are in general good because not all laws and rules are automatically right simply because they exist.
The whole point of serverless is to trick people into insane pricing.
Besides the very northern parts it hasn't been cold. Spring flowers bloomed last week in Denmark.
“Apple rejects Bing for being bad” isn’t clickbaity enough.
But yeah, one would definitely think Bing would have support for every language/market under the sun after 14 years, or that Microsoft would have more to show Apple since 2015.

Google has it far too easy
Nvidia is known to retaliate (delaying future shipments) if you do stuff like this.
I’m not so sure the comfort criticism is fair with Vision Pro.

They seem to think the amount of computer power in this first product is a kind of MVP for their vision of VR/AR.

Given this amount of compute with today’s technology, using metal is a hard requirement for long term comfort.

Plastic doesn’t conduct heat well. Using metal lets you conduct some of the heat away from the face.

I haven’t used AVP myself, but I’ve seen others comment that they find Quest gets hotter, despite having less compute power.

Perhaps future iterations will use titanium and/or piezo fans to reduce weight while keeping thermals manageable. But I don’t expect them to move to plastics.
You can think of a neural network as millions of NAND gates, but those gates are not conforming to the problem if you ask it what 1+1 is. They're conforming to the known answers of 1+1, 1+2, 2+2, etc. They are in other words limited by the size of their memorization of patterns of tokens. (Which is enormous). They have no handle on any underlying logic.

They can explain addition to you but they can't perform it without calling out to an external API.

In dealing with complicated code, this is a very insidious problem, because they can often write functions that compile and run, but which miss edge cases because there is no actual logic behind them.

[edit] I should add that a sufficiently large NN may be able to create an entire computer inside itself that can run code, but even that would not be reliable because it will have arrived at the gating by inference rather than starting from a deterministic root.
>Java having a Mardown parser within its compiler just seems wildly out of scope for not a lot of benefit.

I don't think javac does anything with javadoc or will do anything on this new Markdown doc. It's just comments it will ignore. So nothing should be added to the compiler - it's a separate tool that handles source to javadoc generation.

>This seems like the use case of an IDE extension, or a website that host code, not the compiler itself.

That's how we get complicated setups with external dependencies, 20 non-standard ways to do something, different habbits from project to project and company to company, and a mix of different (new and legacy) versions of those non-standards in any larger codebase.
Not yet, but we'd like to have that.
But I think Annie Lennox can be a great M&M test, too.
> Umm, slaves on a sugar plantation were brutally exploited. Kulaks in the gulag were brutally exploited. Folks who sit at their laptops and work indoors are not brutally exploited.

1. You are making a fallacy of relative privation. Problems that aren't as bad as other problems can still be big problems. If you're merely complaining about the semantics of "brutal exploitation", very unfair payment could be considered "brutal exploitation" in the context of treating mildly unfair payment as "[merely] exploitation". (Disclaimer: I have no idea what a fair payment for writing a journalistic article for Vice is, so I don't know how fair or unfair $300 is.)

2. Improvements of working conditions since the past are by themselves a terrible argument against further improvements of working conditions.
Netflix Hollow is pretty great: https://hollow.how/
That's on the top of our list. It got pushed back because we want to support creating a character/profile (basically select a model and apply some defaults including a system prompt). But I feel like that was a mistake tomwait for it. Regardless, it is getting added in the next release (the one after something that is dropping in a day or 2, which is a big release in itself)
I don't understand the word "we" in your comment. Obviously, some specific people do the actual work of caring for disabled people. Most people don't do that work.

The point of "Zivildienst" which translates to "civil service" as opposed to "Wehrdienst" "military service" was to make conscientious objectors contribute to society in-lieu of serving with a weapon. So, once you came of age you had to do one or the other.

I think within this previous paradigm of a citizen army, as opposed to the volunteer army of professional soldiers we have now, this was a good way to make sure you'd still have recruits while not forcing anyone into the military that really didn't want to be there.
We had a handful of extreme cold days, but they were compressed in-between a late arrival of the winter and a too warm and early spring.
> numbers companies like nvidia are putting up right now are no lie

Dotcom s/stock/GPU/g. Although I do think NVIDIA will come out of this one unscathed.
How to build an offline-first app using Expo and Legend State
Hello! Author here - very curious to hear peoples thoughts on this, in particular to the offline first vs local first comparison.
Traffic limits change depending on our products:
See https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/
1) dedicated servers: unlimited
2) cloud servers: changes based on package
3) colocation: changes based on product
4) managed servers: unlimited
5) managed vServers: 20 TB
6) Storage Boxes: unlimited
We only calculate outgoing traffic. We do not count incoming and internal traffic. --Katie
Not just Nvidia: GPU programming that runs everywhere
Cost isn't necessarily an indicator of quality, but it is an indicator (often, of consistency in a brand). I mentioned the price not because of quality indicator, but because of how I approach it, is how I give myself permission to buy expensive things (I think about it over time): if I know they will last and they are made to my standard. As mentioned here[1] the whole clothes thing is a bit of a hobby/process for me. The sweater I was particularly mentioning was hand made in South Korea (I actually visited the factor) - everyone is paid properly, and most of their stuff is low impact[2] meaning they don't fly materials all over the world to assemble the garment. The sheep for their wool for example, is from Japan. For me this is part of a wholistic approach I have to living my life while minimizing my impact, I keep all my clothes with the intention of passing them down. I've yet to find anything outerwear(hoodies, jeans, shorts etc) made to my standard that is less than $100, I'm not sure it's possible if you include responsible sourcing.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533939
[2]https://textileexchange.org/responsible-wool-standard/
You also get by-products like geographical maps and ocean-crossing ships ...
I feel like cloud vendors overcharging for things they have the right to charge you are like a car mechanic that tells you you have to pay him a billion dollar for a routine maintenance check of your car because when he was fixing some small item, it broke and he had to get another one and put in in place, but then it broke for the same reason (that is not the mechanic's fault or the item constructor's), so he kept doing that on an infinite loop but after 2 weeks of him doing that without sending you any info, you went to the garage to check on him and told him to stop, so he stops and bills you for 999999999 items that are broken.

As a small user and not a large organisation, I'll never be able to read the full documentation on throttling every nook and cranny, I want to set a fixed spending limit that if reached, will kill the whole thing, even lose data if it must. But they won't do that because it hurts their bottom line if people are careful with budgets, and sometimes it's tricky to compute billing ahead of time.
FreeBSD doesn’t have as big mess of a file system as many Linux distributions do, in my opinion.
Speaking of random third-party JS code, do you know of anything supporting this is actually being run by Fastly, other than it being in the domain name? I did some minor sleuthing here but no clear support yet: https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/...
I don't think you have to worry about it breaking 40C, I don't think that temperature has ever been recorded in for example Sweden.

Though, Swedes would still suffer it temperatures reach 30C as it's still above average highs.
I agree with the author. I'd rather pay $7.99USD to try it for a day than suffer ads and degraded quality of a free tier. I'm sure nobody is surprised that ads are being injected into the free tier and as soon as Nvidia figures out a way to inject ads while gaming they will do so.

Round and round we go.
Ask HN: Did or do you still print to continuous form paper?
Historically programmers would have printed their code onto continuous form paper ('continuous stationery' to a Brit?) using a dot matrix printer. I'm wondering if anyone still does that, and if you think it has any benefits? For example, the ability to proofread code more easily, like you would the draft of a book?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery
The same reason int(-1.999) is -1; The operation is different to integer division. I think of it as taking the "integer" part of the float.
It was pretty cold in Oslo and that is not very northern.
> Buildings in northern Europe are just not built for ventilation, AC and dealing with heat.

Luckily, because of the cold, buildings are well insulated so at least they can seek some cover inside. Granted, it won't reach 40C anyways, but at least houses are built properly over there so it helps a little.
Yea AliExpress did this years and years ago.

In theory the stuff they send should go through customs, but they practically DDoS the system by sending the 20 things you ordered in 20 packages, all marked below the price that would warrant a customs declaration - no matter the actual cost of the item.

The customs over here would've had to hire a significant percentage of the whole population just to manage the packages...

I've never had a single AliExpress package be held at customs and I've been ordering stuff from there before it was cool.
is this "train wreck" the bad image generation regarding people and races or is there anything more?

That does not affect my usage and Gemini works fine for me.
A large space station is an interesting idea, or a long range station!
I would guess the RoI of refactoring (especially on a consumer OS) is pretty low though.

The average person never sees this stuff. Linux is widely used as a server OS and it still has taken a long time for new appraoches to get traction.
because it's a float and not an int, it's strictly talking about integers here, not floats. All int conversions of floats are converted by discarding the remainder afaik but I could be wrong here (e.g. int(1.9) == 1, and int(-1.9) == -1)

edit: -3//2 == -2 for instance, since it's strictly integer division
Economical implications are even wider - you employ more seafarers who send money home raising domestic income in poorer countries
You may have already solved a number of captchas while filling out a form or registering for a website. The basic goal of Captcha is to determine whether the user is human or a bot. Captcha is an abbreviation for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test," which is used to distinguish between computers and humans. Companies use captchas to prevent blog spam, access bots, and to make a website more secure.

There are different types of captchas that are used, like reCaptcha (a new type), inverted captchas, word-based captchas, and image-based captchas. A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
Yes, I think the better wording is: there's no efficient market/competition going on
Did exactly the same, moving everything over to Cloudflare took me less than 15 minutes. “We’ll forgive those cases, pinky swear” is not a valid excuse when putting (even opt-in) hard limits in place is technically viable.
And then end up having to pay for lies/hallucinations the chatbot makes: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...
I've spent few months in Andalusia and can't say their apartment buildings are better suited for heat than one I live in Poland. Yes there are more curtains and AC, but it is not related to the building, you can have them in northern apartment too.
Shipping/fulfillment costs are simply far more expensive than most people assume. If you buy a $15 item on Amazon, Amazon keeps about half of that. The seller still has to pay for the entire process of getting it to an Amazon warehouse.

Air freight China to US is very roughly $3/KG. Assume T-shirts (as a light weight good that is going to trend lower price), at an ASP of $5 and weight of 150g. A $30 order (Shein minimum for free shipping) is going to be 6 shirts at 900g for a cost of $2.70. Surepost/Smartpost tier delivery is $5 or lower; even retail-available services would be $7. In comparison, Amazon FBA for 2 shirts at $15 each would charge $7.16 for fulfillment. At December rates, they would also have charged $5.1 in platform fees, which was reduced to as low as $1.5 now due to this competition. That's $12.26 in fulfillment cost for the Amazon order of 2 T-shirts, compared to 6 T-shirts shipped China to US door for $8.70 est.

The above is generous to Amazon. 6 shirts for $5 each on Amazon would cost $22.98-26.58 to sell, and they have an array of additional fees.

It also ignores FBA freight costs - sea freight and duties/tariffs that D2C air avoids due to de minimis. On the other side, I'm ignoring fixed/semi-fixed platform costs and pick/pack costs; I have no idea what that costs in China, but it has to be a tiny fraction of the cost in the US.
It's the same perverse FGITW mechanics though. Worse even, given that the RC site did not implement the change of unpinning accepted answers. Also it's regularly subject to herd voting from Hot Network Questions visitors.
That's my mistake; I wasn't trying to imply that. I was merely trying to say that once you have a set of tools in-house, keeping engineers is a side-benefit. Not that you should do it for the sake of keeping engineers.

> It's interesting (to me) that you see half a decade as "keeping" engineers. I've been working at the same place for 30, the other developers for over 20. Clearly we're insane :)

Sounds like a place I'd like to work in the next couple of years. I've been doing startups lately where keeping an engineer longer than 2 years is a challenge. I could dig some stability again.
Agree. Proficiency with the command line and basic navigation and common tools, ssh, git and Github, at least one professional editor or IDE for each platform (e.g. VSCode and vim or nano) seem like table stakes for a professional developer. Bonus for screen/tmux, fuzzy finding, reading shell scripts, environment variables. Not everyone has to use all of these things, depends on the environment.

Then again I've had to work with "front-end developers" and even so-called "full-stack" developers who don't know HTML, CSS, and Javascript.