skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>whether those children are going to lead a life worth living or not'
>so that only life that is worth living ends up reproducing

But... most people's lives are worth living, per their own revealed or even stated preferences, despite an apparent contagion of anxiety/depression/etc.

>For the natalist to attempt to improve life is proof that they are not a natalist

An assertion with no reasoning. Generally, I can think something is good and simultaneously wish it to be better.
My first jump was a solo one as well and was so awesome. They literally instruct you to climb out and hang off the wind of the plane before letting go and they throw your drag shoot out the door behind you. What a rush. As for this article really if you are going tandem there is nothing you really need to know in a video because the guy flying with you is going to tell you exactly that anyways before you go up as it is just as much about his safety. And there really isn’t much instruction. That being said it does seem like this place has a higher than normal death rate so I do think regulations should require more data collected like number of jumps per year and any accidents thoroughly investigated. Sounds like the Korean guy did not deploy his shoot correctly? I mean how did they tangle up? If main shoot was tangled did he not release it first before deploying reserve or how did this happen? You punch out the main then punch the reserve so it should have cleared. If it did not why did it not? That should be investigated just like a plane crash and then learn from mistakes. The attitude of this business just stinks of recklessness.
I distinctly remember that the light characters had the highest top speed in Mario Kart 64. And according to this table, I'm right: https://tasvideos.org/GameResources/N64/MarioKart64#:~:text=...
I was proud of this back in the 90s: https://www.glenneroo.org/404.html

Today though, definitely not proud, just too lazy to change it :)
> What improvements have been made in the last 10 years in Outlook and Word?

Microsoft Search makes it much easier to find stuff. Word got near real-time co-editing (or perhaps that was closer to 11 years ago) and later (<10 years ago) got real-time co-editing. Which is such a huge game changer for users with complex documents that GDocs falls down on.

Lots of other improvements in Excel and PowerPoint, data access/visualization, various presenter modes, and then you've got that AI stuff all mixed in.
I don't know if it's best practices but I found two tutorials. Apologies for the markdown.

* [Example 1](https://www.mongodb.com/developer/products/atlas/rag_with_cl...) (Claude and MongoDB's vector database)

* [Example 2](https://docs.mistral.ai/guides/basic-RAG/) (Mistral and the Faiss vector database or other embedding frameworks)
Posted last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858240
I imagine the tide will lift and fall over the years. Some applications (new and old) will only run on specialized platforms. Exceptions will exist in a large enigh environment.
Something not mentioned in this analysis is that after summing the stats from the different components, the value is rounded down, giving 7 possible outcomes per stat.
The kinds of AP Calc kids you see must be super different from the ones I've seen then. I'm in a uni with a large amount of kids who've taken AP Calc and yet most of them struggled a lot with the first semester intro-to-proofs course. The second semester linear algebra course (it's a middle ground between a proof-based and a computational course) was even worse. I know many kids with 5's in AP Calc BC who resort to memorizing basic proofs (which is the sort of thing that helps with AP exams) instead of learning how to write one on their own, and some of the TA's have told me that the most common mistake on the midterm was incorrectly negating the statement "A is a subspace of B".

This is not to say that high schoolers can't do abstract algebra (or higher mathematics more generally). In senior year I attended a week-long camp (Arnold had a full semester) in my local uni where we proved the impossibility of squaring the circle, doubling the cube, etc using field extensions. And I was in the older side! Most of the kids there were 10th grades. Though Arnold's class was probably substantially harder than ours. I worked through V. B. Alekseev's book after the camp was over and the exercises were substantially harder than the ones we did at the camp. The material on Riemann surfaces was very hard to understand as well, much harder than the group theory part (I still don't understand Riemann surfaces lol).

In conclusion, AP Calc, and students' performance in it, is a terrible metric for assessing mathematical ability. Sorry for the long rant.
GPU Matchmakers (free GPU finder)
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Aren't trademarks and patents exactly the type of thing that would need to be argued in court and therefore cost more money than most startups have?
This depends on what parts you use. For many Microsoft Word 4 was probably peak Word. At this point Office is becoming an OS into itself.
> In other words, unless you're receiving 10gbps unshaped UDP datagrams with no payloads at line rate, the problem is non existant. Considering internet is 99% fat TCP packets, this sentence is completely absurd.

Uh, "the internet" traffic shape is a terrible model for low-latency multiplayer games traffic shape. Surely you don't think that 99% of the packets being exchanged during a session of Counter-Strike 2 are fat TCP packets, right?
I don't really think this is about Lodi, or whether customers should know they could die. It's terrible law that makes this not only happen but inevitable.

Objectively, people are irrational about probabilities. Study after study shows that you can give people probabilities and ask them for decisions, and they will usually be wrong.

People are also incapable of understanding the legalese they're signing (that includes privacy policies as well).

Without actual understanding the substance or form, in theory there is no actual agreement, and thus no contract waiver of liability. (No theory of private ordering is predicated on duping people because that world only produces fraudsters.)

So this comes down to burden of proof: courts assume that if you're legally competent, you can sign away anything. There are very limited situations with strong evidentiary requirements for getting out of it. There's nothing socially beneficial about this assumption. It just makes contract law easier to administer.

In terms of regulation, there's no clear mandate for NTSB, the FAA, the county or the state. Indeed, the incentive is to ignore it: why spend a ton now to maybe save some indefinite person in the future?

Only the professional organizations - the medical lobby, the parachutist whatever - want to do (only) what's needed to keep business going, but that's not enough, and it's a strong incentive to hide problems.

Add to that lack of any personal honor (of being a responsible pilot or trainer or practitioner) in fields undertaking as any job in a backwards economy.

So: no regulation, no law, no private standards or personal honor will prevent excited customers from making this mistake, and some business person will engage in enough denial to make money off them.

At a minimum, neither waivers nor limited liability should not be available for gross negligence as a matter of law, and any form contract should be construed against the writer. Making this consistent and clear across all jurisdictions would root out most abuse without affecting responsible businesses.
They do, and right below the file names is its path. However, the elderly relative had never opened the file on the new computer/Office install, and likely never had any idea where they'd originally saved the file.
The issue is that defending this generally requires paying a lawyer, and filing fraudulent DMCA claims is free, and comes with no requirement to pay the legal fees of the recipient if the claim is false
Innovative device records activity from distant brain areas simultaneously
I tried the original command-r in an agent setup, and it ended up lobotomized when the agent relied on its results. It has some weird gaps. Like, ask it for the pricing for Claude 3 models and it only lists the prices for output tokens, and only for text. I managed to get the input cost for text out of it, but I could not get it to even acknowledge that image input was a thing. Command-r+ just did exactly the same.
I haven’t used pirate bay for a long time as I can simply buy or rent the material I want

However start putting adverts in that and it’s changes, it’s either “don’t watch at all” or “get from pirate bay (or elsewhere)”, because the product I want isn’t available.

20 years ago I used to get tv from places like irc because it was the only way to get the material. 25 years ago I hd no choice by to wait for the vhs to come out.

It’s a service problem, not a price problem. Sadly it seems companies want to make the service bad, which means they throw the baby out with the bath water.
It's a German of Schleswig-Holstein which is like the state of California or the state of Kentucky in the US doing a change like this. And it's only the state government and not the municipalities in the state.
You can do this with Turo.
Why do some randos get to profit from this work? Life of the author full stop. Leeches and hangers on fuck off.
Unless they were closed of course. Then you’d be waiting hours or even days for them to reopen.

In that situation you might start knocking on doors.
Sound idiotic and the fact you refused to read a repo README because something something "people wearing jeans scares me" is, well, I'm speechless.
Some of the best advice ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Never talk to cops.
To me the bigger question is why they started because I could never see how Apple could earn the profit levels it achieves in its core competencies or how cars would fit into its logistic pipeline…thinking about shipping requirements and warehousing infrastructure mostly and retail a little.

On the other hand announcing an interest created buzz and perceived value in its stock. When the perceived value became realized value in the market, the C-suite got nice bonuses.

Now that the public has more realistic understanding of the engineering reality of self-driving cars, the new announcement will be perceived as creating future value. As the stock market converts that perception to reality, the C-suite will receive nice quarterly bonuses.
> not "exterior" (processes and iles)

Common Lisp can read and write s-expressions from files. It can also compile source files and load files (both source and compiled).

The syntax for Common Lisp is standardized. Thus a lot of data may be shipped either in text or compiled files. Several implementations can also create snapshots of the runtime memory. A few domains use CL s-expressions (or a subset of that) as language syntax or as a data syntax.

Distributed Lisp applications exist, but may not use text to exchange data. For example there is a defined CORBA mapping for Common Lisp, which enabled Common Lisp software to take part in distributed software using a standard, which allows mixed language software.
Maids will be cheaper than robots for at least a decade
Why shouldn't denunciate be a real word? It is listed at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/denunciate and https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/denunciate.

But right, that other quote was horrible. Almost too perfect a fit for the complete psychopath image they were painting.
So many microcosms with tech. I'm always reminded here on HN how terrible Office is and why we don't just use Google Docs. I hold this same opinion personally. However I go to other communities (I think the last one I remember was some startup subreddit) and GSuite is being mocked and everyone is recommending Office and Teams as the obvious choice for starting your business.

I assume it's just that we prefer the devil we know than the one we don't.
With an MoE you only need to train a smaller model which you can then combine into an x8 and finetune/train the router. Mistral used their 7B base to make Mixtral, Qwen's new MoE uses their 1.8B model upscaled to 2.7B, pretty sure Grok also trained a smaller model first.
So get one of the cards that offers 3% on everything / 2.5% and no international transaction fees, and just cash it out monthly or whatever? You’re not being cool or whatever, “my big brain is too full for such trivialities!” you’re just leaving >$100/mo on the table (for most households here) for literally zero effort beyond clicking "redeem" when you want it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/wiki/list_of_flat_cashb...

But credit card fees exist, and will exist regardless of what you choose. Just like filing for your tax return - you can either take the money or let the bank+merchant have it. But maybe you're just too busy to be bothered by reclaiming that money, too?

The amex "I pay $500/y for a 3% card with rotating quarterly 4% and 5% categories" shit though? Yeah, I agree, ain't nobody got time for that.
Joyful Customer Onboarding Algorithm
And mine will be studying ancient Hebrew, Greek and Latin and reading the Torah, Homer and Virgil. Anyone allowing children near electroludograms designed to be addictive before they're familiar with actual classic cultural artifacts is simply irresponsible. Of course, I am not so ignorant as to forget the Orient. I have already arranged for my second child to be shipped to China at birth to provide government financial incentives to a local couple. I've told them I'll take her back when she's caught up on the last 3000 years or so of Eastern human capital.
> "The infrastructure sucks."

This depends a lot on where you are. I rented >10 times from Hertz in the UK last year, got an EV every time (mostly Polestar), and drove thousands of miles. Chargers are, now days, pretty much everywhere that you need them to be. Absolutely no issues charging, aside from the extortionate cost of a few of them, perhaps!

UK law requires that all new chargers support "ad-hoc" payment with a credit/debit card, which makes everything very easy and convenient (although often you can get a discounted rate by using membership-based apps).
cool idea—but the design is terrible, too low-contrast for anyone over 50
if you read shaming in my comment, it was a misread. it's of course perfectly fine & great to not be a native speaker
It's not just non-conventional UI.

For example, I wrote a dashboard app for the social app we wrote. Part of it, is a map, displaying the geographic distribution of users.

It needed to be affected in a number of ways, and SwiftUI completely fell down. I spent over a week, trying all kinds of crazy stuff, and then gave up, and coded up the map screen in about four hours, with UIKit.

Since this is a central feature of the dashboard, it meant that I had to also toss the previous week's SwiftUI work, and start from scratch with UIKit.

I'm not very happy with UIViewRepresentable, and I eagerly await native SwiftUI API elements.
There's another side to this. By giving out rewards, wealthy people are given more on top. Things they otherwise would've paid for are now free to them. Whereas someone without those benefits has to pay for those things out of their own pocket.
Almost everything you wrote is factually wrong, but I'm not prepared to write an A4 equivalent length rebuttal. It seems you have not been even tangentially keeping track of any developments after... 2015.
It’s a e-commerce style site with ISR. Product pages are cached for 24h with pricing fetched on the client to save the revalidate. I think I worked out what the price increase is though and it’s the edge network £2.40 (London) per million requests. From what I can tell most requests are bots and scrapers so it might not be too easy reduce. The pricing actually seems quite high when compared to other CDNs but I might have misunderstood it.
I'm with you. I read it a year ago and found a lot of it dull as dishwater. And the ending very predictable. It was ok. I, like you, just don't understand the hype.
If you are watching your Linux ISOs on your self-hosted setup that uses a Roku; presumably they can still inject ads; regardless of where/how you obtained the media.
I think it is reasonable that they wouldn't include actual dangerous things, for the same reasons that the platforms themselves make a token attempt to avoid describing dangerous things.

Having said that, I asked ChatGPT how to DIY a parachute for me to use. It refused on logical safety grounds. The workaround in the article worked to provide a sequence of steps and materials.

It sounds like this is one of the more powerful workarounds.
> The Pernell with heat

Did you mean to type "problem"?
https://http.cat/420 and this!
>The most popular desktop operating system, Microsoft Windows, takes an entirely different approach to backwards compatibility. Do I have to ask why it has the market share and not Linux?

Apple regularly makes sweeping changes to MacOS and expects apps to adapt, and MacOS is pretty popular.
as in it is very difficult to find anyone willing to transact in cash for any transaction whatsoever in most chinese cities
I've tried LibreOffice, periodically over the years. The same thing always sends me back to MS Office. MS has really sweated the details of their UI in ways that can only be done by maintaining a huge army of coders. When I use LibreOffice, the lack of responsiveness is immediately noticeable, and actually makes the software physically laborious to use. I've also noticed something like a 10x or even 100x difference in the time to recalculate a large spreadsheet.
I think my first clue was when they picked a random Japanese guy out of the phone book and proclaimed him Satoshi Nakamoto.
I didn’t know there’s something called 404 day, yesterday I was designing a 404 page for my startup site, front end isn’t my area of expertise and not yet done but open for feedback https://ubiquitous-tapioca-350c21.netlify.app/404.html
I won't blame VCs but the 0% interest rate environment.

When money had no "price" to it, it made absolute sense to borrow as much as possible from the future, and thus delaying profits for growth.

That's why we start seeing this world change now, rates are no longer 0 and money isn't free. You have to pay now, and so you have to have some cash flow now.
Mhm. Spending less on licenses would free up money for other things.
Ok, this will be my last try:

"The libc headers across all the different weird Unix variants are 99% identical."

This is both true and not applicable. The headers are nearly identical. The behaviors of the systems are not. Functions with the same name do different things, functions have different names but have slightly-incompatible shims with the name you expect, the headers have the function primitives but those functions are stubbed to NOPs in the actual library, and a million other things. These differences, furthermore, are not documented. All of the platforms you listed are meticulously documented and many of them have SDKs available. This, again, is not something that existed for many decades.

If libc headers being close were so meaningful, widevine binaries would work on musl libc. They do not. Modern build systems work around these incompatibilities by declaring incompatible platforms unsupported and ignoring them. That's a perfectly valid business decision that makes everyone's lives easier! But it's not the only approach, and other approachs are valid too.

Meanwhile, if you want complex software to accurately and correctly support a broad array of platforms, you use Autotools to compile-and-see what behavior you're dealing with, and then something like libtool to polyfill the differences. Doing this is not the result of ignorance, but the result -- borne of hard experience -- of trying to get code working on divergent undocumented platforms.

I don't really understand your point in the last paragraph. Neither GCC nor Clang handle linking. GNU ld or gold or some linker is invoked to do that.
Art is not just about the thing itself, it can be about the context of the creation, and the viewer too. "Outsider art" is about the context of the creation. So without knowing who made the art, it's impossible, or impractical to determine if it's outsider or not.
There is https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/info
I've always wanted to get into using docker swarm for a homelab, since I love docker compose for dev/single node production deploys.

Any tips on the minimum hardware or VPS's needed to get a small swarm cluster setup?
Broadcom: The $600B AI Chip Giant [video]
I've seen this story every few years, perhaps this is just how they Munich negotiates its contract with Microsoft.
My first question is what does a GPT have to do with solving this problem?

Have you seen how effective transformer-based networks are at image recognition? They are literally better at reading bad cursive handwriting than I am, at this point. So yes, they can be pressed into service recognizing products being taken off of shelves and placed into carts or bags.

"Just walk out" is a difficult problem but very much worth solving. We now have tools to attack it that nobody was even dreaming of when Amazon designed their current approach. Tools with near science-fiction levels of capability.
A node shader editor for Three.js [video]
I’ve been working on this for a while. It’s still broken but for what it’s worth a graph can be made. I managed to export the results to a sandbox. Maybe someone learning about shaders can find it useful.
Yeah haha I mean even when you buy a consumer camera like, say, a Sony a7 or whatever, it doesn't come with the lens.
That’s your opinion, but I was clear about the origin of the information which is accessible to anyone, it’s up to others to vet and validate information they find online, and furthermore, what you think is poor form is strictly your personal opinion and has little to do with the implied social etiquette of this forum, and nothing to do with its actual rules.

You continue to grind your axe without considering or responding to my opinion about LLMs utility as a tool. Like any tool, it can be used for good and bad things.

No matter what you feel about LLMs and other generative “AI,” they’re here to stay. If you choose to be ignorant of how to use such tools to your benefit, nobody is going to stop you.
Gimp is a classic example of OPs point.

Mozilla really ? Lack of vision and focus driving Firefox into irrelevance. And also started on the back of a commercial product.

Blender started as a commercial software and is being spearheaded by Ton ever since (my very uninformed impression), which again reinforces OPs point.
I used this to setup my runners on a dedicated server: https://github.com/vbem/multi-runners
The virtual data center a working walkable 1401 3D simulation – for free