skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that article is just wrong. There are literally thousands of founders trying to find out what users want every day. It's just not that easy to find out what users want.

There's more software available than ever before - and yes, someone needs to pay for it. It's easy to complain about monthly SAAS fees, for example, and forget that people used to pay $800 to 'own' Office 2000, only to spend a few hundred dollars every two years for a paid upgrade. I think I spend MUCH less on software today than I spent 25 years ago. Back then many programs cost several hundred dollars, and some software development tools were in the thousands.

Classic journalism is destroying itself by morphing into activism and showing a bias that makes people stop trusting it. Or maybe it was always like that and social media just uncovered it. Anyway, classic journalism needs to adapt or will die. I don't think it's bad that people have more than a few sources to chose from.

Regarding media... today more high quality content is produced than any time before in history. And that means that viewers need to pay more than ever before. The whole pretense of 'cut cable to save money' was BS, of course, because you can't get the same amount of content while paying less than you did for cable. I still think it's much better than it used to be. You can switch services, or pay per show. But you can't expect to get the same content for less. That was always unreasonable.
How do you get 2x?
I'd say you slow down boarding by something between 0.00x% and 0.0y%, since it takes an extra couple of seconds to do that, at least with the German system.

I'm intrigued about the system you are envisioning that creates the extra 100% delay.
This is really neat.

Feature request: Add a "library" option to give mkdwarfs a list of files that should be loaded into the dedup mechanism first, but not stored, allowing the image to be even smaller if the contents of the file can be retrieved from that library instead. Bonus points if you can specify a dwarfs image as a library and have it sensibly use the files contained in it.

Then you have the basis for a deduplicating incremental backup system. Currently, I have a system I wrote that will take a single file and a list of library files and produce a compressed deduplicated file that can re-create that single file using the library, which is great if you use tar to create that single file, but a little unwieldy when coming to decompress and restore everything. The bonus of making it a proper mountable filesystem instead is that then it's a proper mountable filesystem and retrieving single files is a doddle.

My use case is that I have students, and I have given them coursework, which involves them logging in to a Linux machine and hacking away. I want to store regular snapshots of their work so that I can keep a backup for their sake but also so I can see a progression of development to try to work out if they are cheating (yes, I have had to deal with this), but I don't want to store 100 copies of the same fairly large files.
What a complex way to get that result. Here’s a simpler way:

In a row of n persons sorted randomly, the tallest will be in any of the n places with equal probability. Now, add people to the row one by one:

- After adding the first person, the person added will have probability 1 of being the tallest.

- After adding the second person, the person added will have probability ½ of being the tallest.

- After adding the third person, the person added will have probability ⅓ of being the tallest.

- …

- After adding the n-th person, the person added will have probability 1/n of being the tallest..

The result of it being Σ(1/n) over 8 billion follows from that. Only then do you need higher math to get to ln(n)

(Nitpick: that’s all assuming all persons to be of different length, which is impossible in practice, as it would mean having to measure length at less than a nanometer precision. In practice, there will be less than a thousand different lengths. That may change the equation quite drastically)
you can restrict plugins to only run on sites you actually enable it on.
In my experience there are many reasonable incentives that shut these things down. Execs don’t want the even small maintenance burden on already stretched-thin dev teams (low ROI and bad opportunity costs), and individual devs want to work on the most impactful projects.
As someone else said, she stole 6.6% of the GDP
Having the police come over when jamming is detected would help though
Willow https://heywillow.io/ and Home Assistant at your service - https://community.home-assistant.io/t/chatgpt-integration-fo...
>>Come up with some sort of evaporative desalination method using coconut shells?

Depends - if you have enough coconuts you just drink the coconut water until rescued. If there is anything else edible on the island you eat that, water from plants will help.

The second option is capturing rainwater, assuming you're in a place with rain.

Third is boiling water to get rid of the salt(you need to capture the steam on a piece of cloth, wring it into another container, but it's probably going to be the fastest option).

Of course this is assuming you have any materials from your ship, which I assume these guys did? You'd at least need a metal pot or a metal sheet that you can bend into the right shape.

But yeah in general without access to at least some kind of container where you can boil water(maybe a rock of a right size would work?) you'd be generally screwed.

I think the final desperate option is to just try and dig down and hope you hit water and that it's not salty.
> Avoid using more complicated markup languages like HTML in the README file, however, because it should be convenient to read on a text-only terminal

And that's what README.md files from these days hardly can follow on Github.
you might not, but clearly the author does.
UK economy grew slightly in February
Show HN: Questflow – Build workflow with words, not codes
No, you need to see a doctor if it's more than 3 days, though I don't find that much of a problem in practice, even for mental health stuff.
The Hyphen War
> Just yesterday Alephnerd was confidently proclaiming there are no tuk-tuks in Thailand anymore.

That's not true. He claimed there are no tuk tuks outside of tourist centers. Tuktuks are mostly used by tourists and getting phased out by the government as they are deemed unsafe.
M meaning modifier key.
I feel like safe, clean water is the job of the municipal system that we pay so much for. Even the poors should have the same cleanliness as the middle class, but that's rather beside the point.
There is a much simpler solution: check ID of the passenger, verify name & photo, plus take note of the seat number. If somebody comes with same seat number, investigate.
On international flights, if an airline transports somebody who is rejected by the destination for not having the proper visas etc, they are heavily fined. So airlines are strongly incentivized to triple-check passengers and their documentation.
I hear you. I see those more as checkpoints than deadlines though.

Even with highly self managing people, it's always safer to have some idea of how much time it could take, and check for some kind of status midway to know if it's too different from the rough estimate (sometimes you learn they didn't touch the task for various reasons)
I always assumed that scanning a boarding pass means it's marked as "used" and would flag up if scanned again. Or at the very least, previous scans would immediately show up so the attendant can verify.
I've reviewed this book and agree with the Apollo Magazine writer: this book is very sloppily edited. There are better books about Kubrick; I recommend:

* Taschen books: 'The Stanley Kubrick Archives': https://www.taschen.com/en/books/film/45439/the-stanley-kubr...

* David Mikics - 'Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker': https://archive.ph/k98vP

My review of the Kolker/Abrams book: https://niklas.reviews/2024/03/22/robert-p-kolker-nathan-abr...
What a bizarre take. What about the wheel? This argument is ridiculous
Quoting Wikipedia doesn't actually change the nature of the chemical at hand. Would it help if I edited Wikipedia to clarify things?

PTFE is inert, it is not chemically active like a PFAS. The fact that it has a related chemical structure is interesting, but also not relevant.
Sigh, clickbait. No, not a real rabbit.
ndia is the world's largest democracy, with over 945 million registered voters as of 2023. Conducting free and fair elections for this massive electorate is an immense logistical challenge, but one that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has risen to meet since the country's independence in 1947.
No; those were retired in the wake of 9/11 when boarding passes became required to get through security. After that, the logistics of at-gate checkin didn’t work anymore and Southwest started issuing disposable paper boarding passes outside security like every other airline.

For those that aren’t aware, this is the origin of Southwest’s quirky boarding process. They required you to check in at the gate, and each gate had a set of reusable plastic boarding cards with sequential numbers— You were handed the next card when you checked on and gave it back as you got on the plane, so that it could be reused for the next flight.

Everyone boarded the plane in the order they arrived for the flight without needing to stand in a strict queue while they waited. If the flight you were planning to take was full, you would be first in line for the next one which was often scheduled for less than half an hour later for their core routes.
Beside the rational, what's really great is the list of such blogs: https://lists.eatonphil.com/blogs.html
> Show me visual promotional materials.

When I got to this point in your comment, I remembered the Seinfeld episode where Kramer was recreating moviefone and tried to speak a trailer, with mouth-sound-effects.
Worth it as in there's literally no cost to doing it and it prevents unidentified people from boarding.

As funny as I find the anecdote, I would prefer any airline knowing who's on my plane. Wouldn't you?
That's because very few people have access to them and there's no information about them in the open.
It's Ruby, there's no compilation. It's also common to not load all files of an application's codebase at startup, in particular this is the default setting for Rails in development mode.
Generously you could say they're reacting to the "real danger". The danger to them personally is that someone else does better at a currently fancy project and appears more capable than them to others.
1 - when the first flight was full he tried to get on another flight that he didn't know would be full.

2 - a person boarding after him was "denied" because her passport had already been scanned but they let her board anyway.

It's in the video embedded in the article.
> Upper management are just average people with better networking and less empathy

Very concise and to the point. I might print and hang this!
ID verification already happens when flying in the EU, just to check you are who you say you are.
Thanks for making this happen.
I gave up on trying to find this book years ago.
It is so good to see this finally available.
It’s not debatable that Matrix is better than IRC.

The IRC clients are mostly bad and ugly, and they don’t even implement basic formatting features (bold, italic) in the same way.

NickServ sucks.

Having to use bouncers to keep track of history sucks, this only makes it a non suitable choice for a chat platform today.

Does IRC even support long messages and multi line messages yet?

Oh and btw, net split is not acceptable today.
Maybe they do now, but at one point I had a “Python2IDE” application on my iphone. (Well, technically it is still on my list of installed applications, but it isn’t compatible with the version of the OS I have installed now. It says it needs to be updated to match the OS, but there’s no updated version available.)

So, either it was allowed at one point, or it slipped through the cracks
The headline said 'AI'.

The article said 'AI', and went on to say "there's no broad consensus ... on the exact definition of AGI."

You said 'AI'.

But I also forgot to mention that:

- Tesla has large-scale deployment of industrial robots;

- Tesla has R&D for humanoid robots;

- X/Twitter has the Grok LLM chatbot;

- Musk co-founded/funded OpenAI.

So even if you don't agree with him, he is in a good position to evaluate current efforts across the board.

You and the other posts here, just dismissed the article with flippant reddit snark, probably because you don't like Elon or his politics.
Good story but not a fan of the title. It should at least be "Rabbit" which would hint that it's not a literal rabbit.
Well if you're looking for a real use, I ask a local LLM the setup for a child's joke several times a day, and post its answer to my tens of Mastodon followers: https://botsin.space/@jokeunderstander

So it's not all useless.
The amount of irrelevant gifs in this article is too damn high.
I suspect most CS grads are incapable of writing LLM code, let alone state of the art.
Have you browsed the web without an adblocker? It's been like the Futurama episode since it aired
Bankman-Fried appeals FTX fraud conviction, 25-year sentence
That article confuses screw origination machines with screw cutting lathes. (It's also clickbait for some irrelevant site.)

A lathe can be used to make screws, but the one you will make will be no more accurate than the leadscrew that drives the carriage, and probably worse. Maudsley is also noted for making the first good screw-cutting lathe.
But this is about Maudslay's screw-origination machine, used to make a reference screw more uniform than the one you started with.

Here's the actual origination machine.[1] This cuts a screw in a soft material, to be used for guidance of the screw-cutting lathe to make a steel or brass copy of the master. The basic idea is that a chisel cuts a slot in a rod, and rides up the rod as the rod is rotated, using its own cut for guidance. The good explanation of this, from 1904, is paywalled.[2]

Nobody does this much, or ever did, but it needed to be done a few times in history to bootstrap mechanical precision from imprecision. Once you have a reasonably precise leadscrew, there are tricks to average out small errors and make a slightly better one.

Maudslay's original lathe is at the Science Museum in London.
I've seen it. It looks a lot like a modern lathe. There were earlier metal lathes, with various types of slide rests and power drives, but Maudslay finally got it right. The basic design hasn't changed much since. It's one of those things, like a Bridgeport mill, which somebody got right and it then didn't change much thereafter.

[1] https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co46546...

[2] http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/d/d0/Er19040520.pdf
Hi Josh, sorry to hear about the issues. Sounds like things that should be solvable. ClickHouse does require thinking a bit differently from other stores like BigQuery. I sent you an email. Feel free to contact me at the email posted on my HN account. Looking forward to helping you bend ClickHouse to your will.
I wish this comment had revealed it was an early mobile phone antenna and not a Volkswagen Rabbit.
Interesting!

The 'much incentive' part is the interesting thing to me. Hashicorp did build encryption-at-rest for state into their paid remote cloud service. They explicitly recommend using the paid service instead when security is required, and instead of having both versions secure, the paid form simply disables the local one [1], drawing a strong line here between paid/secure and unpaid/insecure.

So I'm wondering if that created a disincentive, from a perspective of enterprises upselling for security & compliance. OpenTofu community members aren't relying on selling a remote management service, and when a cloud provider, more usage in general is better, and that includes security for everyone. I can be off, so not quite clear to me the more I look.

[1] https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/state/sen...
All tech aside, this is the best name for a filesystem, period.
It’s unclear how you meant this, but it reads as

> Sure, the Klan has some bad hombres, but we also run Checkers Tuesdays, maths tutoring for underprivileged youths Friday mornings, and Bible study Sundays.

That is, at some point, the bad overwhelms any good.
The access point doesn’t get sent the password, right? Just spoofing the access point does not allow you to get the password of the real network.
I use Alexa exclusively as a voice control feature for my Home Assistant server. If they allowed Alexa to process commands locally, the product would be a lot more attractive.
> Who is the victim in adultery?

Children. If there aren't any children, then sure, call it victimless.

But if there are children, an adulterer is directly harming them[1].

TBH, we often forget about children when dealing in family law. Another example that comes to mind is paternity fraud, where the argument is that there's no need to find the real father if the alleged father can be violently forced into supporting the child.

Everyone forgets that the child who is mislead about their father in that situation is the biggest victim. All the systems focus on the emotional well-being of the mother at the cost of the child's rights.

[1] Because, at this point in time, every single piece of evidence we have ever seen supports the assertion that children living through their parents divorce have worse outcomes.
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean seems to be available again.
DeChambeau is leading Masters using 3-D printed irons only approved on Monday
U mean like, people why had a few grams on weed on them?
Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Priceless quote:

> With Legacy Support, organisations running their systems on top of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS can obtain an additional two years of expanded security maintenance and phone and ticket support. This enables IT managers to prepare a detailed upgrade plan for the next LTS

Yeah sure... Couldn't make that plan over the last 8 years, but two more will surely do it.
Robotics as in figure AI. Not sure how you got to sexbots..

> They don't need "AI" to do this.

No but it sure helps:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/28/klarnas-ai-bot-is-d...
I find it a bit strange that the concept of multilayered security would need explaining on HN, of all places.
Take your risk to use it, it is not signed and verified by Microsoft, and you need to install the test cert to use it. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444#discus...
Do you think people’s retirement accounts, livelihoods, and service meant for society wasn’t affected by crimes like this?

I’m from a third world. We were victims ourselves of some asshole who took our money and disappeared. Even in US our first immigration lawyer stole 18k from us which is a big deal when my dad was only making 30k. “Just sue them” easy to say when you’re rich.

If you want to host these awful parasites at your house go ahead. But I bet you won’t. You probably never had to suffer so be glad.

As a member of society I think people should who don’t want to contribute to it by engaging in truly heinous crimes (and yes I believe destroying people’s livelihoods by stealing their hard owned money in a malicious scheme is as bad killing or r working someone) should not be allowed to further leech resources after their awful behavior.
Kubrick famously read "every book about Napoleon that he could obtain".

https://imgur.com/lJB7nSb

https://imgur.com/ZwruOl5

https://imgur.com/VUsFyj1

https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/vuzygq/kubr...
author here. the key insight is that (a) the AI promotional nonsense is the same as crypto (b) the VCs are literally the same guys who just bombed out on Web3.

AI is not as blitheringly useless as crypto - ML is real and does things! - but those guys are zeroing in on the applications that really are that useless.

Also, the AI guys are making the same excuses for their ghastly power usage that the coiners used to.
Ongoing related discussion: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18915
This meta study basically says we don’t know where the tipping point is but that it’s a bad situation since we cannot rule crossing it this century. See this bit:

> The risk of a critical AMOC transition is real and very serious, even if we cannot confidently predict when and whether this will happen. We have already left behind the stable Holocene climate in which humanity has thrived (Osman et al., 2021), and the latest IPCC report warns us that beyond 1.5°C of global warming, we move into the realm of “high risk” with respect to climate tipping points (IPCC, 2023).

Another interesting point is that there could be serious implications from regional shutdowns, not just total shutdowns:

> Apart from a full shutdown of the AMOC, there is still the second type of tipping point to consider, the one where convection shuts down in one region. That happens in a surprising number of climate models, and so far hasn’t gotten the public attention it deserves. The first documented case, the British Hadley Centre model, was published in 1999 (Wood et al., 1999). Of the latest model generation (CMIP6), in four out of the 35 models, subpolar gyre convection breaks down—and all four are in the group of the 11 best models in terms of reproducing the vertical density profiles in the subpolar gyre (Swingedouw et al., 2021). That’s in 36% of those high- quality models. In the previous model generation (CMIP5), that number was 45%. What’s more, it typically happens as soon as the year 2040 and for moderate emission scenarios— even without properly accounting for Greenland melt. Thus, a collapse of convection in the subpolar gyre, resulting in rapid AMOC weakening and abrupt regional cooling, must be considered a high risk urgently requiring attention.

The study’s suggestion is somewhat uninteresting:

> For the AMOC and other climate tipping points, the only action we can take to minimize the risk is to phase out fossil fuel use and stop deforestation as fast as possible. If we can reach zero emissions, further global warming will stop within years, and the sooner this happens the smaller the risk of passing devastating tipping points. It would also minimize many other losses, damages, and human suffering from “regular” global warming impacts (e.g., heatwaves, floods, droughts, harvest failures, wildfires, sea level rise), which are already happening all around us even without the passing of major climate tipping points.
The P-8 is a submarine hunter, and has a small weapons bay and drop chutes that can be used to drop torpedos and sonobuoys while in flight. I imagine they used the same capability to drop the survival packs.

There’s a pic of it here: https://www.twz.com/40859/the-case-for-stripping-the-p-8-pos...

(I have no opinion or endorsement of the other content in that site, just merely was looking for a picture)
Forget the goofy badge, if I’m moving my arm towards a device to query an llm, I might as well just bind the button on my phone.
A lot of people here are making very confident sounding assertions, yet some as saying it's just an append only log file and some imply it's sharded. Something everyone does agree on is they are very vague about what geospartial features they need.

The one thing they do say is "no ACID". That implies no b-trees, because an unexpected stop means a corrupted b-tree. Perhaps they use a hash instead, but it would have to be a damned clever hash tree implementation to avoid the same problem. Or perhaps they just rebuild the index after a crash.

Even a append only log file has to be handled carefully without ACID. An uncontrolled shutdown in more file systems will at leave blocks of nulls in the file and 1/2 written blocks if they cross disk block boundaries.

It's a tantalising headline, but after reading the 1,200 words I'm none the wiser on what they built or whether it meets their own specs. A bit of a disappointment.