skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds cool but apparently is not compatible with Libre Office:

> BASIC runtime error. '423' Property or method not found: TopLeftCell.

I also tried exporting to XLS to try in Excel 97 on a Windows 95 dosbox but to my surprise (I couldn't expect this from a free fun project) this error encountered:

The document you are about to export has one or more protected items with password that cannot be exported. Please re-type your password to be able to export your document.
Arm gave up voting control in order to demonstrate the independence of Arm China when it was set up, so investors other than Arm own a majority interest in the "subsidiary". While the CEO's action was bizzare he was eventually evicted so he did not succeed in taking over the company.
You can tell this is ragebait because they didn't bother to do any actual reporting work. The entire story is just the student's own recounting of what happened.

> University of Exeter has been approached for comment

I guess this breaking news was just too urgent to even allow the use of past tense.
"Nope" doesn't really contribute to the discussion. Why does diversity not equal freedom?
Paying 7-10% tax is a fabulous expense for founders if that leads to company growth >10% (ignoring smallprint). Certainly that's a reasonably likely outcome. "Hyper growth" is irrelevant.

Do the benefits exceed the costs? That's a harder thing to judge.

Worthwhile reading https://paulgraham.com/articles.html which has many articles expounding the benefits (understandably biased and unfortunately mostly pro VC).

There are unfortunately very few decent articles or good data on the costs. Here's one good article against the YC SAFE: https://siliconhillslawyer.com/2019/05/01/startups-shouldnt-...

Sometimes compromises are needed!

Not many businesses can find $500k another easier way.
Several renowned mechanics in my area don't work on cars that are older than OBD-2. So, I went down the rabbit hole for:

One person brake fluid replacement / bleeding procedure after replacing a brake master cylinder. For my car, I can now do this without taking the wheels off. I'll be done within a couple of days and after that, I'll be kind of an expert.
I’m on Posteo & it’s fine. I can recommend it, but I can totally understand wanting a host that lets you use your own domain name for portability (they have arguments against it).
I like having huge wait-list so that I can put entire series on hold (like wheel of time), maybe I'm manipulating the system a little too much.
The subcontracting situation reminds me of a news article about someone in China hiring a hitman, the hitman then subcontracted to another hitman, who then subcontracted to another, then another, then another. Each hitman was offered half the money of the upstream. The last hitman defected and informed the target.
The article only covers data for the Big Five publishers, who are: Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan.
Howdy.

I'm Wryl, the original author of this language. I sketched it out in late 2018 and played with it in 2019 after seeing some Mill architecture articles floating around. I mostly created it out of spite, thinking "You don't need fancy designs to do high-level things on bare metal!"

At the time, I called it a term rewriting language, which seem a bit of a weaker label than what it is. It's more like a string rewriting system with variables and nested strings, with parentheses acting as the separators for sub-strings.

It got to the point where I could transcribe Quicksort from the Haskell wiki into a fragment of Modal. I stopped playing with it after I had some not-so-fun industry experiences, and declared my work a dead-end.

Devine from Hundred Rabbits managed to get me to talk about it a bit more, and has taken the language far beyond what I could dream of. It's now gone beyond a sketch to a genuine marvel of engineering which is continually being refined as we figure out more idioms. The language is in very good hands.

I'm of the opinion that rewriting is an unexplored paradigm, and that we don't really understand how to build software. Modal was a product of my research efforts, which are still on-going. I hope to bring more projects like this to light. This has been quite fun.
Honestly fair. I am the exact person that uses my Libby holds as my TBR. I had no idea the cost was so high for digital licenses. Especially embarrassing because my library is 2 blocks away
What are the names of the games?
Yeah, some of them have been great: "Two are obvious: Memorial-Sloan Kettering (MSK) in New York City and Dana Farber in Boston, and our experiences with both have been fantastic (not because there is less bureaucracy, but because the doctors we dealt with there were not completely beholden to it)." If you have what I have, those are both good. UCSD Health is enormous, but I was also able to get an initial telemedicine consult there, which was fantastic, I think in part because the head and neck oncologists understand the obvious regarding how hard it is to travel. Now, to get that telemedicine appointment, I did have to drive over the California border, and do it from California, but they were willing to make the appointment happen and I solemnly promised that I was in face in California.
Eliminating poverty is the best and probably only socially acceptable way of 'improving' humans (and even that will face friction with some groups). I think we already know enough to say that in a world without poverty, a huge chunk of what we consider negative traits will atrophy over a few generations. We can tackle the rest, and work out what that means, if we get that far.
Part 2 does note that I better understand why a lot of people take whatever local trials are available and hope. I have a lot of advantages and this has been brutal and crushing.
If anyone is curious about the computers they use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program#Computers_and_...

16/18-bit custom architecture, 4k/8k words (around 9/18KB total). Other sources I could find indicate a 250kHz clock frequency and around 8KIPS.
I would just go for an iPad with, if necessary, MDM of some kind. With Stage Manager and an external monitor they're fully functional as pseudo-Macs at this point, as long as you don't need anything outside of the App Store.
When you say “no one buys books” in the title, and then proceed to describe how big publishers don’t make a lot of money from books, you are engaging in disingenuous clickbait.

There are small publishers. There are also print shops. You can design and sell a book yourself. I buy physical books. I bought Greg Egan’s self-published books.

There does exist a real threat to the book market, and that’s LLMs, but as of 2024 the market is far from dead.
People read for reasons beyond pleasure. I might be doing a study or comparing authors, I might be reporting on history or researching someone. I might be doing a comparative analysis.

Ten checkouts seems low enough that it's likely to get regularly cause problems. 100 checkouts seems too high. So start bisecting. 50? Almost certainly too high. 25 maybe reasonable.

They also might have p90 checkout rates and found that 25 is a data driven choice. Librarians are smart people.
Twitter I get but why Wikipedia
it also happens to me, but not as bad as that. I'm on windows 11, rx570 and 3 monitors
35 year old stage 4 colon cancer patient here. Cannot emphasize enough his part about patient agency. It’s insane how much research and advocating for myself I’ve had to do.
That's a much shorter train trip than this Mexico one.

So why isn't this rail line already taking the traffic Mexico hopes for?
Turn it off 75% of the time. Or subsample urls with probability 25%.

In all seriousness, I’m not sure the particulars of the plan even matter since the purpose is to get rid of an employee, not to actually be achieved.
Waste Inferences
If you go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest , from time to time there apears stories with 50 upvotes in 30 minutes, and perhaps a few sockpuppets/shills comments. If you do the math, they should be in the front page, but misteriously they aren't. So the conclussion is that HN has a secret feature that detect (some of) the tricks. I think I read some coment from pg or dang about voting rings, but it was a long time ago, but it has no details. The details are part of the secret sause.

Also people flag strange threads, so the detection is not only automatic. If you notice something strange, you can send an email to dang: hn@ycombinator.com
The stress and difficulty of trying to get one's best chance of survival sounds incredibly hard. I hope the author (and others in similar situations) keep fighting.
Simply not true. You can buy insurance for cargo to/from Mexico shipment right now on https://exfreight.com/ . Powered by Haskell. Parcels, LCL, FCL, you name it.
This patronizing phrase should really be scrubbed from the modern lexicon.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40122256
Ah so the tab component doesn't render without JS. Because I can't see the form render in the docs. Which is in a tab.
Tabs can also be plain HTML + CSS. Even easier now with :has
My father continuously had problems sending pictures over SMS, which would be super helpful so that I could help him accomplish tasks remotely. The built-in app on Android was too confusing for him thanks to cognitive decline. I made a super simple app that's only purpose was to send pics via SMS. One screen, contacts selected by drop down, camera view in the center, one button. Google wouldn't let me publish it because SMS apps on the Play Store have to implement ALL SMS functionality. I sent him the APK by email so at least there's that. It worked well for him at least. Fuck Google though.
I know nothing about the Apple world so take my question in that context. Is there something equivalent for iPads ?

If my wife could take control of her Father's iPad then both parties would be happier, as far as I have been able to discover this is something that isn't able to be done, by Apple software or third-party. If I found I out I was wrong that would be good.
Yeah, we built it to essentially stream columnar record batches from server GPUs to browser GPUs with minimal touching of any of the array buffers. It was very happy-path for that kind of fast bulk columnar processing, and we donated it to the community to grow to use cases beyond that. So it sounds like the client code may have been doing more than that.

For high performance code, I'd have expected overhead in %s, not Xs. And not surprised to hear slowdowns for any straying beyond that -- cool to see folks have expanded further! More recently, we've been having good experiences more recently here in Perspective <-arrow-> Loaders, enough so that we haven't had to dig deeper. Our current code is targeting < 24 FPS, as genAI data analytics is more about bigger volumes than velocity, so unsure. However, it's hard to imagine going much faster though given it's bulk typed arrays without copying, especially on real code.
Fusion360 was good until it became SaaS
Well, I'd assume Somalia has a non-zero number of firearm related suicides as well
Contact this person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065821#40069048
Main value prop of physical books for me: guaranteed zero interruptions from the book itself. Worst case, the pages stick together, or pages are missing, or damaged, or other very infrequent causes of distraction.

All modern digital systems are by comparison, distraction machines. You never know when the next interruption ('notification') gets surfaced, the next update, the next forced restart, the next bug, the next battery problem, the next broken or lost charger cable.

Physical books require light, the book, and your mind. All else fades away, and your mind is given free reign to ponder, to consider, to deliberate. No wonder civilization flourished whenever the physical written form was embraced at sustained scale.
Wow, I'm really surprised he's still alive. This has been an interesting (and difficult) saga to follow on HN.
Yes people are buying John Grisham and JK Rowling and the latest celebrity memoir, but eventually (1) interest will run out and people will want the next new thing and (2) these big brands will realize that they don't need the publishers to market for them (and this is already happening, as the article says). What then?
Dark Forest Hypothesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
Cool idea. What does the expression/spec language look like? I would guess it has to be mapped... not straightforwardly. It seems like your goal is maximize throughput, but then the datapath would have to be planar, no?
Your analogies are all wrong. It's sad for people who built their businesses on TikTok, but it's the same tragedy that it would be for those businesses built on a dam that must come down to avoid a larger disaster.

The people who pinned their livelihoods to TikTok are casualties, if and only if TikTok doesn't sell. If the company just shuts down then we'll know two things:

1. The primary reason for its existence was not a profit motive (hence no reason to sell, if China can't get influence powers from it).

2. The commercial facades holding the bag were not the ones calling the shots.

If TikTok is sold to a "friendly" company, we'll know less, but it also means that none of those duped people whose livelihoods you're opining about will be touched.
You can get raw bitrate numbers, not so much about the way transmissions are formatted.
Often founders don't get to choose when to sell. e.g.:

Investors usually get vetos over certain big decisions, like selling the company, regardless of how many board seats they have.

And investors can force-feed money that founders don't want for a variety of reasons. Read articles by: https://siliconhillslawyer.com
Maybe those producers could be bought off to end the Jones Act.

As in, every union member gets an immediate pension and $1M cash as part of the legalization.
> solarfoods.com

It is in the name
You can do that, and you’ll certainly have seed available for - three months of the year
I work on Dify.

what we're trying do with Dify currently is to let people put together prototypes quicker and either get to production or fail at a faster rate.

we've seen it being helpful for non-technical folks to collaborate on a project well (e.g. importing documents for knowledge base, creating no-code workflow apps, etc)
Can you link to source. I'm in the very same situation.
I prefer to read paper books, but there are three reasons I generally don't.
a) Font size is getting too small for me. Years ago I changed to large hardcover (sometimes large but softcover) versions instead of the smaller-sized books I used to buy, simply because the fonts are larger then. With the Kindle I can set the font size to what I want.
b) Weight and size. I read on airplanes, in hotels etc. I read a lot and I read fast, so I bring more than one book (and even that is too big and heavy, see a). The Kindle is king here.
c) Storage. I don't have enough room for more books at home. I've sadly had to dump lots and lots and lots of books, even though I like to read the same books again (and again). Tried to sort out those most unlikely to get re-read, but..
I can't even give them away. Used-book stores have more than they can handle.

As to the Kindle - I've never felt any urge to tinker with anything, except when I'm forced to: I set the font size, that's one single operation, forget it (at least for that book). If I occasionally read at night I have to add some backlight.
And that's about it. I just read.

What I miss about paper books is the nice cover (color..), how easy it is to "see" the book (bookmarks, flip it open somewhere else and so on). In addition to actually reading it. But the Kindle is actually very nice to read (unlike phones, PC monitors, tablets, all of that. I can't ready more than a couple of paragraphs on LCD displays)
Thank you for your compliment!

I still learning and experimenting with LLM and gen AI for now

Looking at LiteLLM docs, which is quite extensive I think for tracking usages and tokens management is a great use case, which I think also have covered in their docs.

Cheers,
Vinh
CSS is a dream these days. I understand why it’s intimidating for devs because it’s not meant for engineers it’s meant for designer so it has a wildly different set of assumptions and expectations.

But learning it is 100% worth it.

Tailwind is like an ORM. I get the appeal but if you know SQL /CSS it’s just going to get in the way.
The much, much simpler, cheaper, and broad solution is to reduce copyright length to 10 years. Or even 15 years.
Ebooks are touching or have crossed 50% of sales in certain combinations of markets and genres. Overall they make up 30-50% of all book sales. So no, print books aren't still the vast majority.
I’m learning LLM and AI. And I’m building a multi-modal full stack LLM chat agent. [0]

Using semantic-router for dynamic conversation routing, and LiteLMM for model providers. It was lots of fun to learn and build.

Here is the full list of large language models. I will update more models in the future. [1]

I will be adding function calling support (tools use) for the models to have it more capable, like an agent, in the future.

Hope this project helps everyone to try out using multi-modalities LLM providers agent!

--

[0] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai
[1] List of LLM models currently supported: https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai/blob/main/src/vtai/llms_conf...
Is there any small risc-v soft-core with big ass SVE (scalable vector extensions)? I would like to play around with them but the only option seem to be cloud instances like gravitron and small (128bit) like the licheerv nano (c906) which also seems to only support a beta version of the standard.
I think there's a fourth option - those little kiosks (like the Little Free Library ones) have started to spring up everywhere so it's a lot easier to just leave one's read books there.
Opening a small business in San Francisco is still a nightmare
Yeah, I have a nice Galaxy tab for a mix of art and ebook reading.

I slightly prefer physical books and still collect them, but a tablet lets carry dozens on the road
Posting a question in a forum has its benefits though. A bunch of drive by folks end up picking up information they would never have gone through the trouble of researching themselves.
Off-topic, but wow there were some good used bookstores in Brighton. I think I know the one you mean, but the quirkiest was the one with a massive pile (literally a pile) of unshelved, uncategorized books in the basement. Hardbacks were £1, paperbacks 50p. It smelled faintly of mould down there, and there were some chairs and beanbags (the beanbags were too dodgy for me to sit in, lol) around the edges, so we'd sneak in cans of beer and spend the afternoon going through the pile and reading what we found. Once or twice the owner shouted down the stairs that he was going to the pub and to turn off the lights and make sure the door was locked when we left.

Sometimes I miss being young and poor. I'm not sure I'd enjoy spending a day like that anymore, and I'm not sure why.
This seems like a reasonable use of the preprocessor to me. I've seen similar use in high-quality codebases. I wonder why the author is so disgusted by it.
Paper is probably not the place you are going to be able to make your most significant marginal impact.
They're Scammers. Consider yourself lucky if they don't refund all your charges without any justification.
Get really faraway from stripe.
For an account of early Silicon Valley, "Accidental Empires" by Robert Cringely.

It's free on his website (https://www.cringely.com), but you need to search for it.
> I'm also not sure how much they're supposed to say—I don't see the NDAs or other docs they sign with drug companies. That said, if they see tumors shrink in at least some patients, that's pretty good.

I mean, that's all they have to go on, so it's all they can say. But it's a long way from any sort of proof, and they really should only be saying "we don't know, and you're taking part in an experiment to find out".

What you're saying about oncologists sounds quite plausible to me...there are sadly a lot of doctors who don't understand science, and it's sort of a fundamental feature of medicine that the people involved want very badly to believe in whatever they're doing. This can/does lead to people making bold claims on thin evidence.

That said, I do hope it works out for you, and I wish you the best. It's a selfless thing to take part in a clinical trial, and even more so when the stakes are so high.

Edit: regarding the pembro+lenvatinib trial article you linked (LEAP), it's not the only one that showed similar results (PFS benefit, but no OS). The CLEAR trial was similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsN0mskqUyU

Edit 2: also, I want to add that nothing I said above was meant to imply that they should hide data, just that they should make it clear what the odds are in a phase 1 trial situation.
PR can move a market overnight
Yes I think that's possible, and then you would need to get e.g. a 8 pin bios programmer for $10-15. But... I think often times if a switch wasn't supposed to be flipped you could just yank the battery to try resetting the bios to default settings. But I don't know or rather I don't have much experience with this.

I actually posted this because I just found out about this, and I didn't know you could do this in the first place and was wondering what others thought, or if they tried this before. I just tried this on a 2020 Dell laptop using linux since all the tools are actually on github. I haven't checked yet if it could be now undervolted but everything seem to work correctly.

If it works I was also thinking about trying to edit the fan curves as well because there was actual variables for the temperatures that you could edit as well. That way you don't have to rely on dell-bios-fan-control programs, etc.
Apparently a hydrogen-oxidising bacterium known as Cupriavidus Necator, per https://allfed.info/images/pdfs/Food_in_space_from_hydrogen_...

(I would never have found this before AI search)
Relying on security through obscurity goes away pretty quickly once you’re popular.
The bin chickens are a nuisance though.
While the war on drugs has largely been a failure, it's too late for US drug policy changes to bring down the Mexican cartels. Even if the US government completely legalized all drugs (not something I necessarily support) the cartels would remain. Mexico is a failed state where the central government no longer even tries to exercise control over large parts of their nominal territory.
The Voyager project is an amazing feat for humanity. But I wonder, does NASA take into account the repercussions of sending a probe deep into space? I know space is big but I can only think of the dark forest hypothesis. What's the plan for further space exploration?
Social media is the Red Delicious of the internet.
“Ever growing world population” - isn’t demographic growth in decline?
> The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies.

This distribution is pretty common in artistic professions and professional sport. A tiny fraction takes most of the pot.

As they say around here, that's a feature and not a bug. In art, people tend to do stuff not because they are looking to earn an income, but they have something to prove or say or show.
The reason PG&E rates are skyrocketing in California
Australian prime minister takes on Elon Musk over church stabbing video
Unrelated to the main article, but what is with all the (luckily dead) spam in the HackerNews comments?
Could use a different name
Reuleaux Polygon
You made me laugh. I think I love you.
The rate of growth is dropping, but that doesn't mean the population hasn't stopped rising. As an analogy, a car that is slowing down is still moving forward.