skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I likewise appreciate your replies and thoughtfulness. You did remind me of one of my favorite "arguments" for God:

> There is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

> Therefore there must be a God.

> (You either see this one or you don't.)

- Dr. Peter Kreeft (https://www.peterkreeft.com/topics-more/20_arguments-gods-ex...)

Bach, man, if you look at my HN comments you'll probably see Bach mentioned at least 10% of the time. His music is unlike anything else out there: all individual parts unique and interesting yet everything forming a unified whole, constantly, across every single measure. You can listen to a cello line and be fully entranced and then listen to a violin going at the same time, likewise love it for itself, and then have the ability to then listen to them simultaneously and hear the harmonies. Every other composer I've listened to has a "dominant" section/theme, for example let's say the violins are playing a melody and the cellos are acting as a harmonic filler. It's beautiful, but listening to the cellos by themselves could be pretty boring. But with Bach, every single instrument is doing something enjoyable at the same time.
Also, boom could have asked for exclusive terms that they didn’t like.
Defalation has more risk of feedback spirals, it heavily incentives you to wait to invest as tomorrow it will be cheaper than today. This is why small positive inflation rates are preferred. You could target 0% but in practice you will oscillate around it and have potentially long periods of deflation.
I think boom is aware of this and is planning to make their planes efficient at 90% speed of sound
Some might. There are many branches and leaves in both the evolutionist and creationist worldview trees. That axiom is simply a fairly significant trunk-branch.

That said, it is very rare that I hear someone describing themselves as Christian who denies the general 7 day creation story. I happen to personally believe it was seven consecutive days^, but I've heard arguments it could have been seven days with an unknown gap in-between each pair.

^ "day" being the most morally-understandable way of describing the intervals at which the creation occurred. Obviously there was no sun or even light at first, so the concept of a day itself is shaky, and I make no claims as to how many cesium-133 transitions may have occurred in that period, or how far light might have travelled in one of them once it was created, or the magnitude of the various fundamental forces' impact on matter in that period, or really anything related to our understanding of how the dynamics we currently observe may have behaved in those intervals.
Yeah, I'll wait for the ALGOL 68 port.
A pivotal moment in my career was realizing how much "winging it" was going on even at the highest levels of the craft. Yes, there is a lot skill and intuition behind it, but its still pretty off the cuff.
What we need is a law banning this data collection in the first place. Vehicles should be always offline, period. The job of a vehicle is to drive from point A to point B. Everything else is waste.
That's not at all how our lifecycle works.

We grow up young, inexperienced, eager to learn, eager to try things and fail, our metabolism is much higher than needed, in order to compensate for this frantic phase of our lives.

Then as we settle, and slow down, the best are selected and assigned positions of responsibility. As they carry out their tasks, they get set in their ways and learn less, and repeat more. Eventually they become outdated, and need to be replaced with the next generation, or they begin to stall progress by insisting their way is better.

It's not an issue of health, it's an issue of entropy. Our brains are not designed to learn forever. We do learn a bit to the day we die, but not deeply. To learn forever, the way you learned as you were young, means you constantly risk losing yourself. This is dangerous when you're in a position of power. You need to reduce mutability as you increase your leverage, to maintain a steady course into a known direction everyone can follow along with.

You can't be a careless child and an adult leader at the same time. Those are incompatible roles. They have the extreme opposite of requirements.

There's no such moment of "peak performance" that you can hold onto. It's a wave, an oscillation. You're born, you grow, you learn, you're selected, you give back, then you retire to be consulted by the next generation only when they need you.

If thousands of specialists die before they give what they found useful to the next generation, they've failed at their purpose.

To record knowledge, to replicate it, we have speech, spoken, written, visual media, telephony, internet, videos, media in general. We have everything we need.

But it's the role of the next generation to take this in and refract it through their always evolving understanding.

Nothing is static. Only immutable nothingness is static. Unchanging. To try to hold onto something forever, unchanging, to live forever, is the same as death.
You're not "wrong" but Sqlite isn't your run-of-the-mill project. "The SQLite file format is stable, cross-platform, and backwards compatible and the developers pledge to keep it that way through the year 2050." [1]

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/
the inflation rate setting is trying to predict human behavior and so it is always a damned if you do damned if you don't.

that being said, the psychological power of central banks is very real. Brazil's real was introduced in 1994, after an intermediate period in which the prices had to be dual listed in the old and future currency, but the future currency had not been printed yet. They just never inflated the future currency, and people seemed to believe that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Real
To be honest, the best air travel is high speed rail. Replacing regional flights with train trips would save so much energy and reduce emissions monstrously. I'm not even worried about these supersonic flights to be honest. They are 40 planes out of over ten thousand in service today.

Now, if Boom was working on a supersonic train? That would be AMAZING!
i don't know why people write these things. it's an absolute hodge-podge of theorem/proofs/results/techniques with no unifying theme other than "CALCULUS". so it's a pretty bad math book to actually learn math from (you can always spot a pedagogically unsound math book by its lack of exercises). the book doesn't even have any code in it which is surprising considering it has "programming" in the title.

actually i know why people write these but i still don't know why they publish them: this is a phase everyone goes through in their "math" life where they look back on everything they've learned hastily between undergrad/phd/postdoc (or whatever) and they have the urge to formalize/crystallize. everyone has the urge - i had a late-career QFT prof tell me that he was excited to take his sabbatical so that he could finally do all of the exercises in peskin&schroeder for real real and type it all up neatly.

i've done it too, in-the-small (some very nice notes that i'm proud of, on various things). you sit down, make your list of things, pull up all of the books/papers you're going to use as references and you start essentially transcribing - but you tell yourself you're putting your own spin on it (adding ample "motivation"). and it's all fine and healthy and gratifying for you and yourself alone. but i don't think i'd ever imagine to myself "well hmm my organization of these topics is going to be useful for other people i should put it out there for the world to see". but that's just me.

ninja edit:

before someone jumps down my throat about "what's the harm?". the harm is n00b/undergrads/young people/etc will look at this and think this is the right way to learn this material and some of them will even make an attempt to learn the material from this thing and they'll struggle and fail and be discouraged - i speak from experience! it's not a good thing for the community. sure maybe 1 in a 100 can learn this stuff from just reading a monograph (what these things used to be called...) but that's the exception that proves the rule.
This is absolute comedy gold and I wanted you to know that I saw it and appreciated it.
Very happy to have not put my feedback on that app!
Krebs broke this story last week.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-comp...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709089

Seems more like Mozilla had someone graciously hand them their finished homework they didn't even know was due. I appreciate their intentions but this is probably embarrassing for someone working there.
Would this be useful for general applications, or just numerical ones?
I live in the US and was recently and Paris and I strongly much more disagree. Paris was claustrophobic it was such an urban hellscape. There's a reason Haussmann wanted to raze it to the ground.
With all due respect, I find it hard to believe the author stumbled upon a trivial method of improving tarballing performance by several orders of magnitude that nobody else had considered before.

If I understand correctly, they're suggesting Pack, which both archives and compresses, is 30x faster than creating a plain tar archive. That just sounds like you used multithreading and tar didn't.

Either way, it'd be nice to see [a version of] Pack support plain archival, rather than being forced to tack on Zstd.
You understand that the paragraph you quoted was a didactic illustration[1], not a description of reality, right? In fact inflation is sitting right at 3% right now, not at the 2% target but hardly very far off.

> The real question is Who is in charge here? If the Fed was, they would and could get in front of inflation and raise rates

They... did?

[1] Specifically of the situation where a change of target rate (which, again, is not happening) would be interpreted by the market as a loss of control.
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It was an absolute marvel of technology for its time, in my view.

I think they really were the first to do in-space inter-satellite routing. If you call one Iridium phone from another, the call will never touch any earth-side infrastructure (after call setup). And they've been the only ones doing that until Starlink recently launched inter-satellite links.

All of that in 1998, when everybody else was still doing "bent-pipe" style satellite communications, and putting things into space was still prohibitively expensive!
I don’t think that logically follows unless we can assume or demonstrate that the factors influencing the inflation rate and other factors such as purchasing power parity of all who are targeting the same inflation rate across the board are themselves stable.
> transfer-rate performance is lower with smaller chips.

Transfer speed is lower with fewer chips, and older less-dense flash memory doesn't stay in production forever, and is more expensive per GB.
I did not read the original comment as "claims as impossible" but rather "not very generalizable". One of the important things about receiving feedback IMO is to steelman the feedback as much as possible.
Apple's best defence against the DOJ antitrust lawsuit is its customers
That's the game though. Unfortunately, there's no room for subtlety once you get to a certain audience size, and you need to make as much noise and project as much confidence as possible to stand out. While us HNers might appreciate subtlety and humility, I don't think it translates very well to the average person.
more like, Narita cost a lot of money to build, and the smart money if allowed to would just flood Haneda with as many flights as possible and leave Narita an empty husk.

Putting more restrictions on Haneda allows Narita to not be a totally useless airport.
Incredible on such a macroscopic part of US monetary policy is a “Cloud Atlas” level special sensitivity to an off handed comment on the other side of the planet.
Just curious, why are you planning to migrate away from Pinboard? I have been meaning to sign up for years.
That’s more because plain tar is actually a really dumb way of handling files that aren’t going to tape.

Being better than that is not a hard bar.
Aw, I loved that site, and have checked it occasionally through the years, hoping for a new comic.
Not theft. That's fraud.
Less than six hours of battery life, issues with audio, non-working suspend, non-working webcam: sounds awful.
sqlite should be an implementation detail. The table format should be fully documented and use a sqlite virtual table module.
While yes this is a pessimistic take on it, the book 'Dark Age America' called out the problems of the original Concord and I think it applies to Boom as well. The authors argument being that Boeing pulling out of the 2707 SST project, while at the time was seen as a massive loss, turned out to be one of the smartest moves they had done in the space.

Yes, super sonic flight and things like Boom are a massive technical achievement, there is no doubt about that. But, we should not conflate technical capabilities with economic viability. Concord was very technically viable, but it was an economic white elephant.

This thing could see a role in the luxury space but I don't think we can reconcile the issue of brute forcing physics and cheap transport for the masses.
could also be that orchestral music is usually recorded or listened to at a larger distance than other genres
How old were these bugs? surely they didn't implement them today. /s

The question remains.
Never knew "content" was animatable. This might come in handy some time.
Intel roughly doubled their iGPU performance with the latest Meteor Lake generation, but the low-power U series parts cut the GPU in half. So they'll still be in last place.
You get through airport-like screening (metal detectors, baggage scan) when crossing the eurotunnel.
New blow for Commonwealth Games as Malaysia rejects offer to host in 2026
> Although the idea of a more valuable dollar may sound great, many economists think it is worse than high inflation (Engeman, 2019). The problem is that the value of money would increase when people do nothing with it. This would be problematic since people would not invest or spend money to get the country out of a recession when they could just get a return from doing nothing.

Yes, how terrible that would be.

In reality people would still need to buy things that are actually important.

Housing. Food. Heating. All kinds of stuff. And on top of that we are still gonna spend on the non-essentials as well. It’s not like I’m going to completely stop watching movies or playing games or listening to music just because I know my dollar today would be worth more tomorrow.

The people that would be holding back are the ones that have hoarded all the resources in the first place. And that’s the real problem. Inflation is a bandaid to avoid things getting as bad as they would. But the reason is because of people taking too much and societies that don’t take care of their people. Incidentally the ultra rich also have a lot of clever ways of avoiding being impacted by inflation in the way that it impacts most normal people.
Eh, it's not that hard to imagine given how rare it is to zip 81k files of around 1kb each.
You could, particularly since protection rackets actually do compete with each other. I wouldn't want to hire a criminal, but if someone did, they'd likely be effective.
At this rate its far cheaper to pay the fines than to pay a compliance officer.
If I need to compress stuff, it’s either to move a folder around (to places which may not have a niche compression tool, so ZIP wins), or to archive something long-term, where it can take a while to compress. I don’t see the advantages of this, since the compression output size seems quite mediocre even if it’s supposedly fast (compared to what implementations of the other formats?)
The combination of monetary creation by the central bank to bring price inflation up to 2% combined with kayfabe austerity by the legislative/executive government is responsible for the utter hollowing out of our economy. The combo has given the centralized financial industry basically unlimited power to make highly leveraged investments for predictable things that conform to their pet models, while vacuuming real wealth away from the edges in the form of loan payments. A fundamental assumption of real working capitalism is that capital is distributed, and this combo has all but destroyed it.

Even if one insists on the orthodoxy that some price inflation is necessary, the new money to create such price inflation represents a distributed taking from our society (ie a tax), and thus should be spent for deliberate purposes by the government - ideally on infrastructure and other investments aimed at creating more wealth in the future - rather than being given to the financial industry as low interest loans to bid up the asset bubble out of the reach of main street. I believe this is the core of Modern Monetary Theory, and while poised to encourage a bit more spending than I would like from an Austrian perspective, it is at least honest compared to the past several decades of the Keynesian+Reaganomics bait, switch, and squeeze.
> Yes, how terrible that would be.

It would be pretty terrible if I became richer not by generating economic activity, but by sitting around with my money in a mattress.

You are correct that it's a band-aid fix... But it's the best one we have.
So for the delay in responding but you are completely correct. I am more just amazed at how much more resilient they have been than a lot of predictions.

The market will stay irrational far longer than anyone anticipates. But eventually, we the fundamentals correct the whole thing.
I'm using Neomutt and I had the same issue with incomplete messages. I tried many ways to convert HTML emails to text for the internal pager, currently I use rust-html2text [1] with some tricks and it's the best result so far.

There is still some issues with Links references and not displaying preview elements so it's a little experimental, I created a Gist with my config and notes [2].

[1] https://github.com/jugglerchris/rust-html2text

[2] https://gist.github.com/tkapias/b0df814c40daf642209b8023f80f...
I'm mostly saying that unless a chip-designing AI model is an actual magical wizard, it's not going to have a lot of advantage over teams of even mediocre human engineers. All of the stuff you're talking about is Moore's Law limited after 1-2 generations of wacky architectural improvements.
never understood this mantra of 2 %, mindlessly pound out by the msm.

in twenty years your savings have lost nearly half of its purchasing power.
Matthew Croughan – Nix the Planet – SCaLE 21x [video]
I don't know if I agree with the first statement, but I agree that leadership plays a big role.

I think psychological safety is the opposite of what you described. According to Adam Grant, it's the ability to give candid feedback without interpersonal risk. Related to my original comment, it's the ability to share ideas, even half-baked ones, without fear that they will define you as a person. The downside to "brutal" feedback is when people conflate the idea with the person sharing it.
What the heck is chat-with-pdf? :)
In fact, I'm not. Science covers the field of things which can be observed and explained via repeatable tests. The concept of micro-evolution is well within the purview of science, as we can and have observed small changes in populations based on environmental conditions, and we have established many repeatable tests of such phenomena.

Macro-evolution (what I call evolutionism), on the other hand, has never been scientifically observed, explained, tested, or anything of the sort. It is an attempt at creating a fanciful story of how things came to be by extrapolating back from what we see now in entirely unrigorous, untestable, unobservable ways. It fits much more squarely in the category of History, Mythology, and indeed Theology (aTheology?) than "Science".
That's encoded in the model weights, not "memory". Basically, there is no context outside of the context that you give the model. When you ask it a question, those model weights don't change. It doesn't "remember" what you asked.

This is why chain-of-thought reasoning works so effectively: it lets the model "use" the context as a sort of scratch pad to build up a response. Without it, the model isn't capable of mimicking thought because it's only capable of predicting based on the current context.
> Unfortunately, prosecutors are not trying to find out the truth, they're simply trying to put whoever is in front of them in prison. It doesn't matter if the suspect is guilty. If the guy goes to prison, they win.

Yes, exactly. I still can't wrap my mind around this.
> To my surprise the fingerprint reader works well and I can enroll my fingers! It even unlocks the system the system at the login screen too!

well, shit, that's better than my Thinkpad X1 on Ubuntu where they never worked

I actually came very close to getting that exact same setup (from the Amazon Refreshed store) but waved it off because I could not get Chrome (not -ium, I mean the real one) nor Zoom which for doing worky stuff is "well, good luck". Yes, I'm aware one can join zoom meetings from the browser but with eyes toward that "chromIUM" part I felt it would be really, really rolling the dice, and that's before I knew that the webcam doesn't work

there have been a few other threads on this, but it's great to have a more recent version: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad+x13s
What I’m telling you is that normal people would not be doing that. Not in the way that this kind of idea makes it sound like anyway.
This is as impactful as it gets.
> People on HN give me the impression that graduates with no experience get paid six figures and it's considered poverty level.

If you think anything in this thread is implying salaried tech workers are trying to pass themselves off as poor I probably can't communicate with you on any level. I apologize for whatever rhetoric I used.
gpt enabled pdf summarizers
Sounds like you might be after a cold-climate [0] heat pump. They'll use advances in things like variable speed compressors and flash / vapor injection to draw useful heat from the air at well below -5C, without the need for auxillary heat sources like resistance heat.

I'm doubtful it was simply mis-communication. Another point of contention was that heat pumps can be over 100% efficient - to the point that asking "Will they be more than 100% efficient with outside temps at 15C or 25C, and in indoor target of 20C?" got an emphatic no. That's less a miscommunication than a poor education, IMO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_source_heat_pump#In_cold_c...
Deflation has always been a disaster.
I was taught two reasons in undergrad Econ;

1) Deflation is seen as much worse, because inflation encourages spending over saving, which drives growth. Targeting, e.g. 0.5% risks missing and going negative.

2) Inflation reduces the true value (cost) of debt. And with $34.5 trillion of it, that’s a big incentive to keep it around.

IMO 2% is clearly too high of a target, but it’s the hamster wheel that makes everyone keep running so not surprising that government spins it too fast.
MailXto.com functions similarly to a URL shortener, but for emails. It compiles the recipient's email address, subject, and body of the message into a short link and QR code that can be shared on social media. This makes it an excellent tool for creating pre-filled email templates.
Also, the dams silt up over time anyways, so unless you dredge them they are not very good at generating power if the river generates enough silt.

Pumped hydro is more promising in this regard; they don't have to be in the river course itself, so do not run into silting issues, or block fish migration, or any of many other negatives. And because they are basically only required to be battery storage in hours, days or weeks rather than a main source of power generation, they can also be much smaller.