skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst I saw was a network hardware and service provider maintaining all their products and services in Excel spreadsheets per contract. Each of those had all the relevant information, the list of products, when they were due for renewal, service, or replacement, and the agreed-upon rates.

I was there to get them off that system doing ETL to Oracle, which was only the first part of getting it to SAP. It was interesting to see all the diverse and creative ways that the structure and formatting of these contract spreadsheets diverged. The worst was encoding crucial information in colors or other styles of the cells. That required automation from both outside and inside the spreadsheet, as well as develop a full library of heuristics to determine which strategy to use to visually parse the sheets. Looking back, I don't even know how this wasn't a multi-year project and it got done (at least the pre-SAP parts) on-time. Even then, half the work was still on the Oracle side once the data was there but barely normalized (what's less than 0NF?).
Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents?
They're still reverse engineering. The hardware is so good that people would rather use an Nvidia GPU with reverse engineered drivers than AMD with open documentation and official open source drivers. Same with Apple and Asahi.
I would consider just taking the medicaid for a year.

Medicaid can actually be very good quality healthcare, if you're located say, near a very good research hospital in a city with a structural oversupply of medical care due to having a lot of med schools.

I'd rather have medicaid living next to a high quality (non profit) health system, than "nice" insurance living in a shithole. All the insurance in the world can't materialize doctors that aren't there
Citation? Because I see private enterprise at many rest areas frequented between both coasts, including a Tesla supercharger in Ohio off the turnpike.

https://www.tesla.com/en_US/findus/location/supercharger/Gen...

https://www.tesla.com/en_US/findus/location/supercharger/gen...
Just show me where PhDs are needed to wheel a batch of wafers from the litho room to the bath. I'll wait.
There's a thread on GitHub where the dev explains why: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/issues/13...

Downloading the APK direct from GitHub is the official way to get it without the Play Store. App updates take a bit more work, but you can set up notifications through GitHub to be notified for new releases.
What did you find unique or surprising about it?

Not trying to start an argument, just good to know.
To me, unless a company is Nvidia, a stock buyback screams “we have no vision for the company’s long-term growth, let’s just prop up our options/shares for short term personal gain”.

That said, I’m not a fan of pointless acquisitions either…

Would executives actually do buybacks if they didn’t have company shares? I suspect not!

At the same time, a company shouldn’t get to underpay employees, do layoffs, and stock buybacks all in the same year…
Choosing roads and highways are a form of central planning. Single Family Homes zoning and lack of mixed use zoning are a form of central planning. The government is intimately involved with regulating and encouraging car centric transportation.

Ultimately, using the term 'socialism' is a useless label especially when it is misapplied. It is better to discuss specific policies and details.
No, not unless you're really close to the jammer. If you're on the ground the horizon is typically a lot closer than the jammer is (it's speculated that Kaliningrad is the location of at least some of the jammers affecting the Baltic), so you don't have line of sight to it and you're not affected. Aircraft are flying way up where they _do_ have line of sight to the jammer, so their receivers are impacted.
I don't use Mermaid Chart, but I use Mermaid JS, and encourage my friends and colleagues to use it:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Py7Zig1_ECpEJ3j49Ra5UYci...

BTW ChatGPT is pretty good at creating code for Mermaid diagrams.
> Pretty sure they've captured as much of the AI/ML business as CPUs possibly can.

Which is exactly how they missed out on AI/ML. CPU is irrelevant in that market.

> Because Intel is popular in gaming PCs

All gaming consoles use AMD or Nvidia hardware.

Gaming PCs use AMD or Nvidia GPUs.
.NET Smart Components
Sorry, I meant ~200 from Salammbo to writing styles/expectations today. :p

I don't think the inspirational link is very common knowledge. I found something about it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351461270_Salammbo_...

Essentially, both are about a system that corrupts and does not deserve virtue (the Carthaginian Council; the Padishah Emperor) and virtuous characters (Hamilcar; the Atreides) contrasted against non-virtuous ones (Hanno; the Harkonnens). Baron Harkonnen's anti-gravity implants are Hanno's luxurious slave litter, and his black goo bath is Hanno's cinnamon oil one. ;D
I ask people to rename their resume file to follow a very specific filename template. Maybe 1/3 of the applicants do it and I think I have had more luck with them than with those who ignored my instructions. (It is a simple template and as long as folks at least try to follow it, it is fine with me.)
The Not-So-True People-Search Network from China
Sorry, I was just trying to clarify what "skilled machines" meant. I think they meant "skilled machinists"?
You appear unaware of the breadth and depth of earth structures in history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_structure

"Mud huts" have lasted for many generations, had multiple levels, have excellent cooling properties for hot climates, etc.

Advancing technology shouldn't occlude proven technology.
Shower thought the next day, OMG I got the subtraction round the wrong way! Should be (of course);

sub dl,bh ;dl = dl-bh, emulate A with dl, H with bh

Not all opcodes are one to one like this one. For example 0x3e = MVI A,imm (move an immediate value to the A register) would be;

lodsb ;al = *si++, get the immediate value
mov dl,al ;dl = al, A = imm

This time I've omitted the 3 instruction postscript (lodsb; mov ah,al; jmp ax) to all opcodes.

While I'm here adding extra information, note another strength of my approach; The si, al and ah registers are the only resources consumed for emulation machinery. The di, bx, cx, dl and f registers are available to emulate the DE, HL, BC, A and F registers without any memory accesse (the dh register was wasted sadly). Remember the host CPU was the 16 bit 8088/8086 machine which also had 'segment' registers to allow access to 20 bits of addressable memory rather than 16 (so 1M not 64K). The segment registers had a role in emulation, basically setting up a 64K 'code segment' to run the emulator and another 64K shared 'stack and 'data' segment to emulate 64K of memory for the emulated 8080. Amusingly, getting this emulator going today would involve running another emulator to emulate this first iteration of the now venerable x86 architecture.
Well, if you identify them then you might have to do something about it. But it's not clear there's much to be done. Sometimes it's easier to deny or just not mention that someone is acting in a hostile way. The example I often think of is Iran firing missiles at U.S. warships during Operation Praying Mantis, and then, as Wikipedia puts it: "The Pentagon and the Reagan Administration later denied that any Silkworm missile attacks took place, possibly in order to keep the situation from escalating further - as they had promised publicly that any such attacks would merit retaliation against targets on Iranian soil."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
If we anticipate the private or nonprofit providers might perform poverty alleviation more optimally, we

(1) massively duplicate fixed costs for logistics

(2) ignore that a primary reason governments exist at all is to help prevent people from starving to death, despite it often being hijacked by powermongers

Just gotta say, that's a pretty extreme position to take.
It's good, then, that we have a lot of space.
Japan cannot get involved unless the US is directly attacked, their constitution and laws governing use of the JSDF are very explicit in forbidding any use other than defending themselves or the US.

If (when?) Taiwan gets China'd, that by itself cannot serve as a casus belli for Japan.

I have no intimate knowledge with regards to South Korea's laws and will thus refrain from commenting there.
Or Intel figured they could do stock buybacks with their own money knowing they could use someone else’s money for domestic manufacturing development?

A multinational needn’t be concerned with the long term prospects of any one country…

Oldest game in the book!

Have you ever seen a consulting company tell a client, “you don’t have to pay us to do your R&D, we have enough money to do it ourselves!!!”
I think this is a great primer on how to make LLMs enterprise/domain specific, but is still couching this technology's main use-case in the context of "question-answer" machine toward the service of a user.

While this may be the (brilliant) hook that enabled the massive conceptual adoption of the tech it is not going to be the value proposition of it. In the next 6 months we're going to see the deployment of Agency-based solutions completely powered by LLM[1][2].

The real value LLM provide will be that they replace the "humans-as-integrations" and RPA automations.

1. https://github.com/microsoft/UFO
2. https://github.com/microsoft/TaskWeaver
America Has a Resilience Problem
No, it is clickbait, also as someone said, it’s a BUNCH of text but not saying anything new or insightful actually. Just sophisticated, pretentious blathering to put it kindly
I guess the trick is to convince governments that your industry is vital for national security.
> I would consider just taking the Medicaid for a year.

ACA subsidy eligibility may be annual, but Medicaid eligibility is based on current monthly income, and if you have a change that makes you ineligible, you lose it. You can’t just decide to “take Medicaid for a year” because you aren’t subsidy-eligible based on prior-year income.
openpilot is an open source advanced driver assistance system that works on 250+ car models of Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, and many other brands

https://www.comma.ai/openpilot
https://archive.today/5iNom
See, config. :-)

// wrote what might have been first commercial-use dynamic DNS server for a regional ISP in early 90s, invented an unreasonably effective geo+latency balanced anycast-like DNS for global video delivery network in 00s
Meh, I recently built 7700X and 13700K towers. Both with premium ASUS motherboards. The Intel one was faster, the CPU was cheaper when I bought it, it booted insanely fast compared to the AMD system and it accepted the overclocked RAM without fuss or tinkering. On top of that it ran cooler (even though it uses more wattage at load) and had true Thunderbolt (rather than USB4) out of the box. It’s also well known that AMD systems use much more power at idle.
Ironically, I was a professional at the time so there were "long term economic benefits" (if you can call them that hah). Sounds like we just live different lives; I don't really go through my life completely unaware of the value/privilege of situations I am in. Not because I want to "exploit" them, but just because it's hard not to see "signals about which arenas are likely to reward you, to endure, and to scale"
Guiding Principles for the Mormon Church's Use of AI
Canada's problem is much bigger than real estate. Adding 3%+ of your population yearly drives down wages and increases housing costs. Canada not building enough housing to support that influx is only part of the problem.
Specific to the welfare/UBI/public benefits subthread of this (with a digression):

I saw the phrase "middle class solution to lower class problem ['MCSLCP']" applied to stuff like this years ago; that characterisation is possibly not politically correct today. It was discussing various forms of 'credit fine print' --- the ad for "Buy this recliner today, no interest, no payments for three months!!!" ... followed by five lines of fine print at the bottom of the ad (likely double the verbiage of this posting) about need to pay promptly, the upfront fees, etc etc, and the (somewhat usurious) rates and fees payable if the process wasn't followed to the letter.

What makes it 'MCSLCP' is that for a large percentage of the population that would look at this, if you have the time / savvy to assess the deal and make it work, you probably have better credit options available. [1]

It's super easy to comply with the terms if you have a personal organization system ('tickler') that works. Maintaining that system is really tough if you're a single parent/double job trying to keep the ship afloat... and also to have the funds to keep the deal working on the day that the tickler is triggered.

But the 'MCS' of the MCSLCP is, just buy it with the cash-back credit card, and pay the balance in full before the due date. Easy percentage, and you already do that as part of the monthly bill-payment chore.

For the vendor, the deal is a moneymaker since the majority of the takers will not (be able to) comply with the letter of the terms, and the fees and rates become the profit.

The public benefit aspect is that, the space to screw it up and lose the benefits is politically a feature, not a bug. The legislators can paint themselves as guardians of the public purse and the people who blew the cliff as thwarted welfare cheats.

[1] if I could 'ping' patio11 on this... I think some recent posts from 'bits about money' are in the same area as this.
I think HPE spent about this much for Autonomy!

Just imagine if they had invested in domestic semiconductor manufacturing instead of a shady analytics company!!!
people are paid assembling cars all the time
If anything is socialist about this scenario it would be the roads. You want other people to fund the lifestyle that you prefer and are fully willing to spend their money, time, and effort.
Boeing is what happens when run by sales and bean counters.

Google is what happens when run by engineers.

What I still use: Youtube (more than the rest), Android, Gmail, search (as metasearch adding 'reddit', 'imdb', etc).
Did you read the comment I'm replying to?
"Instead of spending money on the people. We are spending it on stupid car centric infrastructure. Forget mental health, social support, universal basic income..."

This is a classic socialist point, one I feel the need to call out.

Yes, there is a decision on what to encourage, and I think it's important to acknowledge that density inherently comes with more restrictions.
That's correct. I would even add that this will give rise to the need for a standardized Agentic focused interface (called it "Agent Programming Interface" for confusions sake) that will be massively necessary sooner than later.
This kind of comment is perplexing to me. I'm always really confused why people try to claim heat pumps are complicated because they're not really (especially compared to many of the systems in ICE cars). Most cars have even already contained a heat pump for many decades (an air conditioner is exactly the same, just moving heat the opposite direction. It literally takes one extra valve to make it bi-directional).

There are videos of hobbyists making heat pumps from compressors salvaged out of fridges or ice makers, and other scrounged parts, maybe an Arduino controlling it! They're amazingly simple when you see what they're made up of.

Sure, it sounds like there were problems with this system used in BMWs, but that's likely just a design issue. Pumping a coolant around a battery and then through a heat exchanger (that is part of the heat pump) is not that difficult compared to the cooling of an extremely complex internal combustion engine!
The US has its own share of problems too, although being a huge and very diverse country, there's a lot of variance between states and even within them.
We managed to blanket it with cars and roads despite them being unaffordable in the long term. We can do it just fine.
> I wonder if this is related to the shift in media consumption habits more than anything.

In the past I was active torrents user but now I just lost interest in movies and music, I'm tired of it. I already saw and heard almost everything, nothing "new" will impress me.
Another legend has passed on. Farewell, Drawmij.

James Ward is responsible for two of my favorite TSR products: Deities & Demigods and Gamma World.
That's only income tax. There's also social contributions including pension, health insurance, and unemployment insurance. This adds up to around an extra 20% tax (although pension contributions are capped so could be less for very high salaries).
I use Zotero and really like it, especially when working with others. This was the first thing that came into my mind on this thread.
Yes, but the point is that the project started as, and gained success as, a not-paying-the-bills endeavour. The fact that RedisLabs desires to get enough to pay a bunch of staff is not actually a requirement for redis to exist and thrive, they just happen to own the trademark.
I use mermaid.js heavily, but plug for Kroki:

https://kroki.io/

“Kroki provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag (BlockDiag, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag), BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), D2, DBML, Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, Structurizr, SvgBob, Symbolator, TikZ, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom, WireViz... and more to come!”

Besides Mermaid, of special note: BPMN, D2, Excalidraw, and Structurizr.
AI Pseudo Intelligence, brilliance without a brain?
You have a very unsophisticated comprehension if you are taking funded with taxes to be the same as socialism.

The part of the parents comment that was directed at was "Instead of spending money on the people. We are spending it on stupid car centric infrastructure. Forget mental health, social support, universal basic income..."
He was amazing in Blood Simple, the first great Coen Bros villain of many. RIP.
>Gaming PCs use AMD or Nvidia GPUs.

Any Steam hardware survey (the most relevant for gaming PC contexts) will show Intel handily beating AMD at around 66% to 33% for CPU[1], so your claim that Intel is somehow not popular is bunk.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/
- Sir! The radar, sir! It appears to be... jammed!

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There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry: Lone Starr!
Does any petrochemical plant not pollute its neighborhood? I don't mean to make light of the degradation of the neighborhood. There doesn't seem to be a way to live near fracking and not have a consequence.
It's potentially using a bunch of Matlab toolboxes, being a communications related tool, but it's always worth trying to run Matlab code in GNU Octave.

https://octave.org/
By the power that HN confers to me your submission is up again.
That's not really accurate. In relatively modern times:

"The official beginning of the construction of the New Yishuv in Palestine is usually dated ... 1882, .... Jewish immigration to Palestine started in earnest. Most immigrants came from the Russian Empire"

Russia is not in Europe.

Going further back Zionism got a strong boost when Rome was the center of power in Europe. This was around 1,700 years before Islam even existed.

And at the actual start of Zionism, the Celts and Carthaginians were important.

Zionism is ancient and it did not start as a result of the Holocaust. It predates virtually all other cultures.

Your "5 minutes of Googling" was a failure. Maybe spend a bit longer next time.
I wrote my own version of this - but ended up abandoning it for todoist. What I care about is that Obsidian is my “point of service” for all of my daily notes - but the actual management of todos seems better outside of the tool, rather then inside. As long as I can quickly and easily create tasks in notes, and display them in the correct output, using todoist to mange the backend seems reasonable to me.
100%. The problem with housing that's so expensive that it's out of reach is that it completely reinforces the idea that "it doesn't matter how hard you work, I'll never be able to afford a decent place to live", and once large swaths of the population give up on the idea that hard work is rewarded, very bad things tend to happen. People lose faith in institutions, they blame everything as "corrupt", and they're not exactly wrong. It becomes a world of haves vs. have-nots where what defines a "have" is that you, or a parent, already owns a home in a semi-desirable area or better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(636%E2%80%...
https://reason.org/commentary/federal-ban-on-commercial-rest...
Ondsel managed to make FreeCAD intuitive, it's actually quite usable already! I never could get things done in FreeCAD. Some would say it's a skill issue, and they'd be right. And yet Ondsel "just works" for me.

One downside is that Ondsel has recently put the download behind a sign up for their SaaS offerings. Even though there's a free tier, requiring a sign up is very anti-user and not really indicative of the open-source CAD saviour we all want...

For now they still have releases on github, though:

https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/FreeCAD/releases

But it really should be available on their official website and not hidden behind a dark pattern (IMHO).
The people for tumor meat are also industry lobbying groups. What the FDA deems safe today will change tomorrow.
Interesting that some of those designs appear to block a lot of airflow.
HOUSING PRICES

Every time I see a story about economic anxiety and dissatisfaction among people under 40, I want to etch "housing prices" on a hammer and beat people over the head with it. Housing prices are the economic problem in most of the developed world. The economic problem, singular. Everything else is at least okay, and some things are great, but housing prices negate it all.

Canada seems to have this disease worse than (most of) the US. Not sure why. It looks like utter madness, especially since Canada has a lot more land than the US per capita.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...

I think that article understates its case. Real estate prices are destroying civilization. So many other problems are downstream of real estate hyperinflation.
I'm a transit activist. The infrastructure bill allocated more money for transit ($39 billion) and Amtrak ($66 billion) than EVs. The funding for EV chargers is a mere $7.5 billion. If anything, the angst should be directed toward the $110 billion allocated to roads and highways.

EVs are mostly just harm reduction. An important step but not the end goal in cities.
I was sort of with you until the FSD
Cynically, I’m thinking the main “problem” being solve here is the current drivers are not written in Rust
Permissive meaning “freedom” (the eff definition) in this case.
Does the government get shares as a result of this, or is this investment a gift? Are they really just handing money to a giant corporation?
Kids are not okay. US ranked #62 of happiness below 30 [pdf]
Perhaps they will freeze their LLM api, but these systems appear.incredibly fragile and rely on dumb parsing of LLM output'

They'll be a toy until a purpose built and reliable LLM is available and its primarily local'
Memcached?
Strangely enough, people who live for long periods out of sight of normal day-night clues, and without an artificial time-keeper like a clock, seem to slip into a longer daily natural cycle. Somewhere around 27-28 hours.

It's probably an evolutionary memory thing from way back in our past, like the salt content of our blood reflects the lower salt concentration in the primordial seas.

Pity the link is broken. Now I don't know if the article is about astronomers or spelunkers.
I don’t understand, haven’t they seen the GDP and stock market numbers?