skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it has been going on for a decade because they knew about it and defended the practice. You only need to look on this very thread to find more information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39614226
> Land is still just as important

"Important", but not "just as important". Land used to be synonymous with wealth, because you needed land to support the peasants who grew the surplus that fed your army. Now? Now we have enough spare land to have national parks and substantial re-wilding programs.

Labour is still important, but also not "just as important" — all the improvements from each of the three industrial revolutions to date have been about getting more stuff done per person, and we're starting to get "lights out" factories[0].

My comparison is to say money will be "relatively less", rather than "not" — to the extent that money is a fungible token of power, sure, that's probably still going to be useful to someone at some point — but if we've all got our own personal yachts[1] with all the on-board hydroponics, bioreactors[2], and CNC manufactories needed to meet our material needs, even if money is still around, it becomes no more important to our personal experience of life than it is for people today to be personally concerned that the harvest is brought in on time or that the ore veins in the mine might run out[3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)

[1] Snow-Crash style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)

That said, given we've already got some lights-out factories making more robots, it's a reasonable assumption they'd actually look more like this even without human-level AGI: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265026/why-dont-th...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aMo2jVKmeoY

[3] Which isn't to say that nobody will worry, just that most won't. Me 15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
Why not just ban marketing calls in general?
Interesting you mention 2 people.

I got kids. So I got a lot of toys in the living room. The small office I got, does contain a printer, a PC, a space for my laptop plus dock, a server, a switch, and a small cluster. But what I don't have is more space. I don't have space for a rack.

Furthermore I've been replacing industrial grade fans (in switches, desktop, the cluster and the like) which make a lot of noise (and cool very well) with Noctua which are expensive and have less CFM but are silent enough.
If Xen uses these addresses "on boot", why has booting Xen worked the past 11 years then?
Bad timing for 1980s transport minister
Baaaaad idea!

A Better policy is to get the city planners to open up X% more land to medium and high density housing.

We have a supply problem, not a demand problem.

Same reason why UBI makes everything expensive.

An economy needs universal basic distribution.
> Facebook or Whatsapp decided to d-list from the app store and require their own store.

Considering this hasn't happened on Android yet, I doubt you are in real trouble. Like it's not that they can really gain extra permissions (other than I guess tracking anything the app already has access to, but that isn't any different than currently) because they are sandboxed by the OS and limited in access through the permission system... I HOPE? RIGHT? @APPLE

And on the side of other app stores: there is F-Droid which is decently popular for OSS apps.
Bought Thinkpad P52 in 2018. Still going strong almost 6 years later. Running Fedora on it. I've been a Thinkpad user for over 20 years now but also using MB Air alongside for a few years. My next laptop will again be Thinkpad.
I am working on a somewhat similar project, for searching items 1 and 1a in 10-k annual reports, that I am hoping to release in the near future. I would be interested to hear what lessons you end up learning about scaling up to handle the interest you got from HN.
Maybe you're thinking of 'patriarchy'?
Where are people getting all the confidence they place in Sam Altman as a leader of a science/engineering effort? From my understanding, he has been a successful fundraiser and investor and that's kind of it. Those are real and valuable skills, but they don't seem so relevant to the task at hand. Or is the statement that Sam Altman will keep OpenAI funded (so somebody else can lead the work)?
OP's username is a kind of musical instrument; maybe we're getting played?

If so it sounds like a setup for a lot of low-return larping work if they actually respond any of these comments.

I assume it's genuine, or part genuine part very roundabout humblebrag.
> And he is using a website made for the smarter kids

Being in a group that accepts people that say "this group is smart" annoys me to no end as the lowest form of circle jerk. Specially when it's not even true.

There's no IQ test to access this site, there's no merit on the part of the users, the merit is on the part of the moderation, since the user pool is the same as any public website written in english.
what about Coke's move from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup? isn't that revolutionary and didn't that get the public excited?
Remember when we all learned from the vault 7 leaks that the US government has the ability to create cyberattacks that appear to investigators to have come from another nation?

We were doing that prior to 2017. Thank God someone like China can't ever do that, even nearly a decade after we did and we can trust these sort of accusations at face value and not at all think critically about them.
NATO isn't a pay-to-play organisation. NATO takes no money from countries. NATO has no forces of it's own to pay for.

There is a non-binding convention that member should spend 2% of their GDP on *their* armed forces. That way when other nations call for help they can respond. It's a guideline figure though and some countries do it and some don't.
the next Netflix will be movies-on-demand
I'd hate to find myself fighting a war, but any military engagement that replays Adolf Hitler's brand of imperialistic agenda over Europe in particular and the world in general, whether it focuses on Ukraine or Taiwan, is an extreme sacrifice worth pursuing.

Most liberal democracies only exist today because of the sacrifice from those living in liberal democracies in the 1930s and 1940s. We cannot back down when it's our turn to protect fundamental values.
I'm sorry that I feel this way but this seems completely pointless. It's very much "young scholars get to meet First Lady Hillary Clinton" feel-good bullshit. It's the kind of thing that a certain type of "gifted" non-technical smart person likes to pat themselves on the back about. "We want it to bring humanity together" yet nobody else on planet Earth gives a shit about any of it. I have immense sympathy for the no doubt dozens of Pinterest mood boards that were created and destroyed in pursuit of this project.
I find it funny them bringing up aviation companies when it feels like every month Boeing appears in the news for something falling off their plan while in flight, be it doors or wheels. That is what happens when you let companies "do what ever they want" and mind you aviation is VERY REGULATED.
I support that.
In the early days there was little need, nothing big enough to need that many would fit in the rest of the machine anyway.

Also they were global so apps could communicate - the message queue was based on sending things to window handles, and the more advanced IPC methods like DDE and so forth were built on that. It is also how anything that interested with the task list or interacted with the desktop (adding decorations to windows etc.) functioned. This doesn't work if local handles can conflict with those in the other app.

The amount of things that depended on HWNDs working this way is probably a significant part of why large chunks of GDI remained 16-bit in Windows95 despite things like the limit of 16,384 handles being an issue you could run into relatively easily by that point - too many existing apps & tools would have broken otherwise and limited people's desire to upgrade from 3.x.

So a combination of "no point introducing extra complexity, at least early on", "the global pool is actually useful", and "once it was done that way, it was very hard to refactor without breaking compatibility with much of the existing application base".

I think the compatibility layers on later versions did start separating the apps more, once breaking things was less of an issue (new versions existed that were directly compatible with newer APIs) so segregating the apps for stability reasons won out over being quite as backward compatible.
What has happened here is all about the personalities involved, not a business strategy, not a legal strategy.

It is "Forming, Storming, Norming, ... " (Tuckman's stages of group development)

Forming = setting up the technical and business solution for DMA

Storming = arguing due to the newly experienced dynamics of power/control

Norming = CEO stepping in the get a resolved balance in what to do next

Phil Schiller would have been the point man on the business solution (you can hear his tone of voice in the News communications and now see his private messaging as released by Sweeney).

The regulator involvement would have gone via the CEO route, who would have had to resolve the conflict with his deputised point man (Phil).

Companies are just collections of people. Maybe they share world view or a values system, but they are still just people. So human psychology is a relevant (and I argue the most significant) factor coming into play here.

If there was a market logic, I think it would be that they'd prefer the alternative marketplace provider be someone like Amazon, and then have Fortnite be an app in that store. So the commercial disputes then are deflected away from Apple/Epic animosity.

The original business case for 3G wireless networking was "Girls-Games-Gambling". The business case for alternative app marketplaces is a similar content argument "Games-Gambling&Crypto-Porn". Maybe this is part of what is keeping Meta/Amazon/Google away. Those folks can swallow a Core Tech Fee (although would be a significant friction point for sure).

I think the fundamental root problem here is EC are trying to lower prices to businesses by attempting to foster competition which might lower prices. But the actual solution is to directly mandate lower prices, and keep the gatekeepers with their current control points and systems. In other words, consider App Store commissions as actual Taxes. And we know from history that "taxes without representation" lead to revolution.
I would say it's because the technology has not been matured enough.

I would also say the reason CFS has been getting funding is not because of fusion (although, hey, why not take that longshot bet), but because of the value of being able to make these magnets for non-fusion applications.
Thank you, this is much more accessible for me.
Common issue in open source: work is duplicated.

This change was already proposed 3h before you did https://github.com/wkaisertexas/ScreenTimeLapse/pull/19
I agree with all you said but am not optimistic about empowering the committee as a universal fix.
Power politics in academic departments were worse than any I’ve seen in my subsequent career. My committee was firmly under the thumb of my advisor. Any discussions I had with them about the pi being unreasonable were terse at best, and “we’ll talk in the next meeting when everyone is there” at worst.
They can apply. They'd be refused on that and many more grounds.
It's about the people living on the land, not the land itself.
Windmill is is built exactly like that, what box is left unchecked for it if you had time to review it?
That is one way to inflate the bubble further and pump money to those holding these mortages...
But in many tasks you want the model to assume the point of view of the prompt, for example when summarizing or when doing creative writing.

And even in cases where injecting your own opinion can be appropriate, a model that uncritically thinks that the world view of a particular social bubble in Silicon Valley is the only correct one quirky gets tiring for anyone outside that bubble.
Create Virtual USB Sticks with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Well, in some countries the chancellor acknowledging that is publicly ostracised for "disturbing the opinion". Which is very fun, because apparently that's not something people want to have put into the remaining mainstream media. All that in countries which a) claim not to be at war (and crucially not doing an inch of the economic adjustments), b) are the good democracies and c) are trying to play this down to things like "satellite" and internet comms. Noone is putting this out: https://en.defence-ua.com/events/what_awacs_see_as_they_tran... . If you would go into a debate and say: "hey, we are fighting this war already and without our direct involvement Ukraine would be gone from the map" - I guess that would be called fakenews.
*Bullet Cluster
> That makes sense about xpath not being an XML dialect.

But the point is that it follows TFA's advice: while it's a DSL for working with XML, it's not an XML language.

Wish that XSLT had been the same, it could have been so much better.

> Its much easier than .NextSibling.ParentNode... etc etc.

I don't think that has any relation. Also it does look a lot like what you wrote:

./following-sibling::*[position()=1]/parent::*

even if you use the various shortcuts, since there is none for the next sibling or following siblings:

./following-sibling::*[1]/..
Democracy without what you term 'subordinate-dictatorship' would just be anarchy. Democracy is the _collective_ will of the people, it necessarily includes compulsion to do things one doesn't precisely align with which you seem to consider as "dictatorship". But, when the demos compells you to obey orders, that's still democracy.
> But people keep replying with factually inaccurate information and that's frustrating.

What did I say that's factually inaccurate?

> I'm reading a lot more emotion in this comment section than seems warranted for a tent.

I'm sorry, what? I simply stated how much an elevated platform costs and you are reading a lot of emotion into that?

Look at how much you just wrote that could have been summed up as

> Do I personally think it's worth $2,975? No.

Ok, so then why are you spending so much time and effort trying to sell this and justify the price tag?

I agree, the market is irrational and the ultimate proof of this product's worth is if people will buy it. That, however, isn't a question you are I can answer at this time. The best we can do is come up with our best equivalent examples and subjective opinions "is this worth it". Which you and I both agree "no".

> But I don't think the discussion is really about the appropriate cost for the Basecamp, which is what I'm really interested in.

Does not seem like you care much about cost. Instead, I see a bunch of accusations in your response about the motives of people responding to you.

Perhaps some self reflection is in order.
There was a YA book series about exacty this topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87427.Virtual_War
Imagine the case if labor time is reduced to 0, because its all been automated away. Thats UBI
Show HN: Refloat – faster floating point parsing algorithm
In any case the fact remains that the person in question goes to one of the ones with colleges. It's in any case largely moot to how a US publication describes him, and that was a tongue in cheek way of making the point that if you're going to pick and choose which part of the context you care about, that goes both ways.
I don't know why the parent comment is being downvoted.

The source is using your brain and probability.

The ease of ordering research chemicals vs the difficulty of LSD synthesis.
Unicycle and Business
But… WHY is it wobbly? Is there a particle which represents this wobbliness? :)
He was not writing about himself. He was being written about by a US publication using American English, and it's a perfectly valid choice for a US publication to use American English rather than British English.
" any “derogatory remarks, etc., in respect of the Holy Prophet either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo or insinuation, directly or indirectly shall be punished with death"

Perhaps we can replace "Draw Mohammed Day" with ¨Insult Mohammed Day"?
Internet 'stoics' are ruining stoicism as they are ruining most other forms of philosophy by bastardising it and regurgitating it in the form of easily-consumable self-help pablum

A huge amount of which appears to be consumed and re-re-gurgitated by adolescent gamers
Well, the donations the pope collects aren't gathered trough entirely rational arguments, so that helps get away with lots of issues.

And the pope is quite bound by ancient texts and the the pronouncements of previous popes. While no way exists to depose him if he disregards them, having the cardinals declare the current pope was illegitimately appointed and appointing a new one was fairly common back in the days.
No, I get paid very competitively here in Germany
Ask HN: Cheaper or similar setup like Asus ROG G16 for local LLM development?
Hello everyone,

I’m a math graduate student in Germany and recently I’m interested in developing local and/or web apps with LLMs. I have a 12-year-old MacBook Pro, so I’m thinking about buying something new.

I have searched relevant keywords here, and the “universal suggestions” seem to be that one should use laptops to access GPUs on the cloud, instead of running training and/or inferences on a laptop.

Someone mentioned [ASUS ROG G16](https://www.amazon.de/Anti-Glare-Display-i9-13980HX-Windows-Keyboard/dp/B0BZTJKZ5L/) or G14/15 can be a good local setup for running small models. While I probably can afford this, but it’s still slightly more expensive than I thought.

Given that a 3060 is around 300 euros, I was wondering that would a cheaper solution would be to build a PC myself? If so, how much cost do you think I would spend? I’ll probably move to a new place in the Fall semester, so I would like something portable or not too heavy if possible.

Thank you very much for your time!
I have only a surface level understanding of dark matter and dark energy, but they both feel very unsatisfying to me. Sort of like a cheat code.

I hope one of these new theories gains respectability.
I have zero regrets right now and I don't care if I might have regrets in the future.
Every Russian naval ship sunk by Ukraine in 2024 has been sunk in sight of land, at a small port or bay that they have been stationed at.

It's not that Ukrainian USV are making pinpoint attacks in a vast ocean, rather they are driving over to a port that a ship has been hanging around for months.

- Ivanovets, sunk in "Lake Donuzlav", where it had been for months
- Tsezar Kunikov, sunk in sight of Alupka, and located right where drones would pass on their way around Crimea.
- Sergey Kotov, sunk in the tiny confined space of the port next to a bridge it was guarding.
I’m lacking a lot of context here, why are Altman and his crew (not sure who they are either) creeps?
> Weird you're getting downvoted to agreeing with something that definitely should be there.

"Me too" responses are generally discouraged, unless they add extra detail/nuance or other related information to the thread. If all you are doing is agreeing, that is what the upvote button is for.

In some places a "me too" or "this!" response has extra effect, in places like Facebook a comment is now likely to spread attention around your contacts for instance, but not here.
That's not actually very common in non-profits. In the Apache foundation, there's membership that elects the board.

While the membership is determined by the executives appointed by the board, there's at least some thought given to the idea of holding the people on the top accountable.
And the quoting is odd as well.
You keep returning to bricklayers and that's a really odd way to analogise it. The bricklayer is tangibly giving away the results of his labour - once he's finished building a house, he doesn't have it any more. Musicians are not giving Spotify their music! They're not sitting there slaving away at an album, handing it over to Spotify, and being left with nothing. It's still their album.

If musicians were actually left without their music, like the bricklayer, I'd agree with you and I think so would most people. But conversely, if a bricklayer really loved building houses, spent a great deal of time building houses, owned all of them himself and they were empty and he was doing nothing with them, and a company came up to him and said "hey, we like your houses, we have a business letting people go on tours through houses and we make money off it, would you let us run tours through your houses in exchange for a cut of the profits, which will probably be very small but could be large?" then I don't think you can be too scandalised by him taking the deal and making at least some money off these houses that he'd already built and was doing nothing with! Even if you think selling photos of the houses directly to customers is a better model! Especially since he can still do that!
So is there any evidence for it being done by China beside that its been done by the US before?
This is roughly how it works for non-equity partner lawyers as well.
How is a `<pre>` tag for code blocks a 'weird format'?
Makes it available to more people. Also probably helps paper books sales more than it hurts them, through exposure.
What are the best practices for building quality backlinks?
> As I understand it, Erlang/OTP captures the entire state of the program and it’s a feature of the language and VM to accomplish this. It’s not something you can retrofit into any arbitrary language. For example, your JS app or your Python app or your Rust app won’t be able to do the same easily which means it won’t be robust and it will be error prone. Thus I stand by that there’s no “generic” solution you can bolt onto an arbitrary language.

I say you can do hotload in any language that supports dlsym/dlopen or eval. I've done it (rather poorly) in Perl and C, and I'm sure others have done it in other languages.

It's a lot nicer in Erlang, so IMHO, if your use case includes long running processes with expensive to construct or transfer state (such as long running sockets), it's worth considering Erlang or something than can do hot loading.
Found it. The claim is not as strong as I remembered though:

https://twitter.com/yanaiela/status/1764816123898565020
I and many people I know have bought this: https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games
How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/kg (2023)
That isn't even scratching the surface of what can go wrong on distributed systems.
I was being snarky in response to a pedantic response that was itself founded on conveniently ignoring that the article was written in a US publication using American English. As such, if they were called school students in American English, and someone chose to ignore that and complain about how it was called something else in British English, I might have been tempted to make that same argument in that situation.

The point more that if one person can apply "pedantry" with disregard for convention and context, then so can I.
IANAC (I am not a cosmologist).

However, what is interesting to me about this is that the MOND-like galactic rotation curves drop out of the theory.

MOND itself didn't give any reason why gravity might behave differently. It was just a tweak that seemed to fit many observations. This theory seems to say that spacetime is inherently "wobbly", and this creates a difference from the classical picture in low acceleration regimes.

The paper acknowledges that there is much more indirect evidence for dark matter than just the galactic rotation curves, but it is still an interesting theoretical approach.
New Research: Are Well-Being Apps Harming Us?
Analyzing Military Technology – Javelin and Maverick Missiles [video]
A helicopter and boats to perform a rare ceremony at the Tower of London