skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is a social platform as it is and AMAs by knowledgable people that fit the forum are totally fine on HN. 'HN is turning (or is going to turn) into reddit' is trope as old as the site. This post and its thread were of higher quality than most HN threads so if something is going to ruin HN, it's not going to be this AMA.
The comments made me realise there's no national flag with lots of vertical stripes. Seems like a hole in the market.

Someone alert CGP Grey!
Having your country destroyed by bombs makes it a lot easier to do greenfield infrastructure projects
The US rail system carries a lot more cargo than in Europe. On the order of 3 times more freight per mile of track. It is an also much cheaper to send freight by rail in the US compared to Europe. Reconfiguring the US rail system to even slightly more passenger friendly would seriously lower the amount of freight that can be transported by rail, as well as raising the price, and most of that would end up on trucks.

The other aspect is how the rail infrastructure is financed in the US vs Europe. In the US the infrastructure is to a large extent funded by the freight companies themselves, and in return their needs get priority. Take away that incentive and they'll stop funding the rail infrastructure meaning that much of that cost will end up pack on either the local or federal government, with all that that entails.
That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.
This is only tangentially related, but has anyone done similar for HN comments? I'd be curious to know who responds to whom on particular topics, etc....
It's kinda sad how we don't know how to do megaprojects any more. :(
Duck Duck Go is for example terrible for me when it comes to looking up things in my native language.

Bing is.. fine I think nowadays
Quite convenient that you’d only pay software if developers contacted you years in advance, and none of them were clever enough to do so
It worked only on first batches/microcode versions of hybrid CPUs, since then Intel had completely disabled AVX-512 on them.
Very neat. Needs Rust compilation support!
> integer subset types/range types

You mean like Pascal or more elaborate like that?
It's okay, his takeaway at the bottom is any PC with a midrange GPU is already an "AI PC".
Because the devices that run the 1970s "WiFi"-standard are rather hard to come by.

Oh and the whole thing is written in assembler. So no native Javascript support.
I will admit to never visiting either city, but my impression is that they are car dependent without major subway service? Probably some bus line with very local service?

It’s like 2-3 hr drive between the two cities, and at both end you have to navigate auto transport, most likely a rental though maybe Uber would work out but at greater cost for anything beyond a single destination. I would imagine most people would just opt to drive, since they need a car at either end of that line?
no I think its extremely infantile behaviour to use light sarcasm when discussing serious matters
The only reason I use CarPlay is because I have an iPhone. The experience with Android auto is way ahead. Did you ever try to call a business that’s not in your contacts? Did you ever try to ask a simple question? Siri integration is horrible
> English is not that much better, actually

Note that Latin is generally considered to have about four irregular verbs, possibly a few more than that depending on how you're counting.

A verb in Ancient Greek has six principal parts, which means that to correctly inflect it you need to memorize six more-or-less independent forms.† (They're often "less" independent, but sometimes they'll surprise you!)

By contrast, an English verb, except for the single verb be, has a maximum of five forms. (Not five principal parts - five fully-inflected forms!) So by the Greek standard, English has just the one irregular verb. That's not a correct application of the concept, but it is worth observing.

> I don't think French has examples as crazy as go -> went. I mean, there aren't even letters in common!

This is a suppletive verb. (That is, a verb in which some forms descend from one ancestral verb and other forms descend from a different ancestral verb.‡) Went was originally the past tense of the still-existent verb wend, in the same way that bent is still today the past tense of bend; wend has had to shift over to wended.

Not only does French have suppletive verbs, it has the same suppletive verb, aller [to go]:

1sg pres. je vais [< Lat. vadere]
1sg impf. j'allais [< Lat. alare]
1sg fut. j'irai [< Lat. ire]

The Latin verb is ire; it is minorly irregular but not suppletive in Latin. Suppletion is present in Latin anyway; the best-known example would be fero, whose third principle part tuli is taken from tollo. In turn, tollo uses sustuli [= sub- + tuli] as its third principal part, and then sustuli is left ambiguous between being the perfect form of tollo or of suffero [= sub- + fero].

Circling back around, we can note that while fero is one of the rare Latin verbs that comes with a warning that its conjugation is irregular, that's not because its perfect forms are taken from an unrelated verb. By itself, that would barely be worth remarking on.

† And this is a convenience for modern students. Actual speakers of the language would have thought about their verbs a bit differently - in a number of common cases, one of the principal parts is a form that doesn't otherwise exist in the language, which native speakers would never have considered.

‡ Suppletion as a linguistic phenomenon is not restricted to verbs; compare person -> people.
Far less freight tonnage per km of track.

The Us transports nearly 10 times as much freight-km as the EU and far more than 10 times tons/person.
I have 7 Mitsubishi heat pump head units being controlled using ESPHome running on D1 mini clones (ESP8266). The D1 mini clones are powered by and interface with the head units with Mitsubishi's CN105, which is just 5 volt UART.

The total cost was maybe $30 of parts on AliExpress.

I use 433Mhz Acurite temperature sensors with a software defined radio (rtl433) running on my Home Assistant box to have remote temperature sensing. The 433MHz sensors are cheap, have good range, and have excellent battery life.
money /mŭn′ē/
noun

A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account.
I guess one neat feature is that every gist is actually also a git repository, but that's about it...
Just a monitor? I'm putting in a lazyboy and full on home theater setup in the back of my self driving car, well self driving van.
Can you name a system that moves roughly the same amount of freight as the US while still having excellent passenger service on the same rail infrastructure? Genuinely curious.
Looking at OpenVINO repo activity, seems that most of them got relocated and still work at Intel.
Play it at 78 rpm?
I turned on high contrast mode which helps a lot in terms of usability. The moment I go back, everything just insanely unclear.
I didn't really get the same message from this article.

What I got was: Raghavan is/was a world-class computer scientist in his field, but actively pursued the management track and business strategy.

And for that, well, who's the blame him? If your main goal is to make an established company make more money - making wildly unpopular decisions (as far as the customer experience goes) can be tempting and easy.

The main problem here is that Google at that point was, and still is, a monopolistic behemoth. And frankly, why would they give a shit about what the customer thinks? 99% of google users are casual users that will neve scroll past the first page of search results, and will click on whatever top links google returns.

As far as enshitifacation goes, google is one of the worst offenders - so clearly anti user-friendly strategy is being rewarded.
But the in-car unit has both GPS (with the antenna being on the roof) as well as wheel speed. Noticeable in longer tunnels with traffic jams that make the speed vary. Then it's clear Google maps takes a random guess at where you are while the in-car system knows how far along you are.
Plenty of strip casinos offer free parking. Anything off-strip almost certainly has a free option nearby as well.

I’ve probably driven 100+ days in Vegas over the years and doubt I’ve paid more than $100 in total for parking over that span.
>It's not surprising that this push comes amid the understanding that the less educated one is, the more likely they are to vote R [2].

I saw the article, and it does indeed show this, however, I'm not sold that education is the only criterion when it comes to how someone votes... or does anything else, for that matter

It's far too simple of a cause-and-effect type of deal for this to be the only factor, or even, for this to be a factor at all, perhaps. The world is a bit more complex than chucking everything up to how someone does something based solely on their administered level of institutional education

I've been just a tiny bit more skeptical of all of these cause-and-effect type stories ever since I read Nassim Taleb
The implementation seems to be pretty clean and modular here where transformers (and diffusers) isn’t, unless you take their modules standalone.

This repo has a lot of handy utilities but also a bunch of clean implementations of common models, metrics, etc.

In other words, this is more for writing new models rather than inference.
Or you buy them because they know how to design products unlike Behringer?
That's an irrelevant question aimed at diverting the debate.
> It's white on black, or at least white on very dark gray.

It's light grey (#666b67) on dark grey (#222623), not much contrast on desktop.
Mobile uses other colours, the same background (#222623) but a lighter font color (#B2B5B3), which is _way_ better.

Why not use the same foreground color on desktop?
TIL assembler [sic] is unhackable
Trains don't rule Europe, we just have them and they work. Ryanair and other budget airlines actually rule Europe.
T. V. Raman? The Emacspeak guy?
Aren't those somewhat orthogonal concepts? That is, I think some genuine criminals can still be basically nice people.

Probably not a majority, though. And not that it detracts from your actual point; just a s(n?)ide observation.
> What’s actually important is maintaining high speed for most of the trip which is where Acela fails (~70.3 mph).

Reminds me of high-speed rail in France vs high-speed rail in Germany. To the point that newer Siemens trains will have a lower top-speed, because "there is no demand for it".
> Even economy class plane seats have power outlets these days.

“Do you guys not have power outlets? Yeah, everybody’s got a power outlet.”

What a time to be alive.
Mind sharing where you moved and how that prevented you from going to the road, from as you say: "just as bigoted and close minded as most of my family.", to whatever you became afterward? Do you think had you moved to another place in the US, a similar change would not have occurred, or did it have to be outside the US?
Cars have wheel rotation and direction sensors so can do dead reckoning when the gps isn't being useful
While construction only just now broke ground formally, this project has been around (under different companies) since before Prop 1A for CA HSR was passed, and has already done all route planning, environmental clearance, and right-of-way acquisition, on a simpler route with fewer stations (even compared to the CA HSR Early Operating Segment, though Brightline West is longer.)
What? That's not how inflation works. Even left to rot in a bank account it would still be 30 mil today. Not worth as much as 30 mil in 1990 but still worth as much as 30 mil in 2024 because it is still 30 mil.
I'm just right now in a slightly similar position. We have more than 20 companies ready to sign big contracts, but it is impossible to raise any money for company structure.

Several customers and employees have expressed their confidence in me personally.

But with this company's attitude, it is impossible to go any further.
After more than a month of struggles on what needed to be the next step, I decided to move on from the project: too many risks for the company composition.

So think twice about it. I know it is a tough situation.

If you want to chat about it personally I would be happy to chat and support you!
I guess the point was that in the case of a non-volatile variable, the variable would typically be in a register and the compiler would typically compile foo |= CONSTANT into a single instruction (though there is no guarantee of any of this). But if the variable is volatile then the compiler would have to load it from memory into a register, perform the bitwise operation, and then store it again. If irq_flags represents a memory mapped register then you'd need to force the second option.
I'm a Korean currently learning Japanese, and while I do understand that this mash of Chinese characters and kana writing system can be appreciated for its exoticness, as a learner I can't help but feel it's more of a hassle resulting from it being a not yet fully optimized writing system. (I mean, do we really need both hiragana and katakana?)

I'm definitely not claiming that Korean is a more "optimized" language overall, but at least when it comes to the writing system, we had exactly the same problem as the Japanese (if you look at Korean newspapers just a few decades ago they are littered with Chinese characters), and at some point we fully ditched Chinese characters and have no problem going on with our lives. In fact, it made our lives easier in many cases, especially in keyboard typing.

As a side note, we obviously have some side effects from switching to entirely phonetic alphabet system. For example, the words "tea" and "car" have the same pronunciation (차=cha) and so they are indistinguishable in writing, but it wasn't the case when Chinese characters were used (茶/車). I'm not sure how this side effect propagates into some sort of sociolinguistic phenomenon, but at least for average people it doesn't seem to have much significance.
This is a nice little course that seems to get bigger every time I reference it: https://effective-shell.com/
I don't think youtube is trying that hard to desperately sell stuff to you via home screen recommendation algorithm. And I agree its bearable and what you describe works cca well, albeit ie I am still trying to get rid of anything related to Jordan Peterson whom I liked before and detest now after his drug addiction / mental breakdown, it just keeps popping back from various sources, literal whack-a-mole.

I wish there was some way to tell "please ignore all videos that contain these strings, and I don't mean only for next 2 weeks".

Youtube gets their ads revenue from before/during video, so they can be nicer to users.
You had me all the way up until the rust bit.
Congrats on shipping something and getting into the app store, but I would never use it. Reading to my kid is super precious and should not be automated.

I rather have something that helps me with spending time with him (it's probably not an app).
> These free helpers are just assumed to be required and always available, completely taken for granted. These things are just presumed to be absolute necessary and unavoidable.

Xkcd, Nebraska, 2003...?

ETA: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Why is 7 aged though? It works very well in my household.
The point GP was making is not about protecting the data going out, but rather protecting against the influence coming in

It's reciprocal since the CCP has the similar policy towards Western social media
There’s a pretty basic course on code academy for how to use the terminal with basic commands etc.It’s super easy.
And then from there if you need to do something, but don’t know how/don’t know the command - Google it.
How is strong financial regulation authoritarianism?
But the value in Linux is not the innovation but the sheer effort to (re-)create it. Patents don't protect that at all, copyright does (not that I am arguing for copyright, it also causes more problems than it solves).
Terminal version:

https://github.com/rr-/pq-cli
FOSS everything or go home. I am not buying into closed VR ecosystem. Not Apple, not Meta, not anything else that is trying to lock me in.
Tesla costs $30k https://www.tesla.com/modely/design#overview $29450 with tax incentive
The Japanese navigation units in cars have been really good for at least 15 years. The signs and lane markings usually match exactly what’s ahead of you in real-life, and there’s a radio system on the highway gives traffic and road closure information even if you’re not connected to the internet. It’s only recently that smartphone apps are as good.
Yes, to clarify, I meant public transportation, just like they blocked the monorail from connecting to the airport.
Just occurred to me: I don't think legislatures spend their times snarking each other, but we are in the post-Twitter age, so...

What about Chechnya banning music at specific BPMs as a sarcastic reply (intentional or not) to the US banning social media under specific ownership?
> I think we could inspect chunks of iron containing mudstone deposited anytime in the past few million years. By looking at the magnetic alignment of iron particulates, you will learn the magnetic field when the particle was laid down.

This method has been used to identify the reversal of the magnetic pole. [1]

Generally tho, such solar storm lasts for way too short amount of time to leave permanent evidence in the rock layers. However, I believe they have studied deviations in tree trunk rings.

1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
What does the Apple Silicon (NPU?) accelerator do? I mean, what is it used for?
> eminently readable on mobile

Sadly the font colour on non-mobile devices is way too dark, the whole site is way too low contrast: #666b67 (desktop) vs #B2B5B3 (mobile) on #222623.

Desktop colours:
https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=666B67&...

Mobile colours:
https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=B2B5B3&...
That'd get you the chip which you'd have to solder to a board. Possible and feasible but not as easy as plugging in an ESP8266.
Lexicographic encoding of UTF-8 byte sequences matches lexicographic order of the sequence of Unicode code-points. So you can sort UTF-8 strings as byte strings. Not that sorting by code-points has much meaning, but you can use the Unicode collation algorithm first.
Sorry for taking that wrong. The fanboy logic can be so ridiculous at times that it's really hard to tell.
Wow, that was a red pill. Everything suddenly makes sense. I always thought it only was machine learning that messed it up.

How to replace Google as default search in your browsers (tested on Windows).

Firefox -> Hamburger menu -> Settings -> Search

Chrome -> Kebab menu -> Hamburger menu -> Search engine

Edge -> Meatballs menu -> Privacy, search and services -> Services | Address bar and search

It says something about the state of UX in 2024 when the three major browsers have different icons for the app menu.
Spammers are smart enough to post their spam on reddit too. Then upvote it with bots.
> I'm willing to wager most people come on here just to be entertained

To add to the conspiracy, endless entertainment is another way that the rich and powerful want to keep the population complacent. Add some unsubtle propaganda about how great and diverse the US is, too.

That said, the propaganda isn't as straightforward as it used to be, and foreign propaganda is sprinkled in as well with e.g. China funding and adding their section to big blockbuster films.
I tricked iOS into giving me EU DMA features
> If we can imagine a library with every book that can possibly be written in any language, would it contain all human knowledge lost in a sea of noise? Is there merit or value in creating a system that sifts through such a library to attune hidden truths, or are we dooming ourselves to finding meaning in nothingness?

The work that system would be required to find those "hidden truths" is equivalent to re-deriving those truths from scratch.

Similar argument: an image is just a number; if you take e.g. a 800x600 24bpp picture, that's a number 1 440 000 bytes long; you could hypothetically start from 0 and generate every 1 440 000-byte number, thus generating every possible 800x600 24bit image. In that set, you'd find every historical event, photographed at every moment from every angle, and even photos of every fragment of every book from the Library of Babel. But good luck finding anything particular in there.

Similar argument 2: any movie or song is contained somewhere within digital expansion of the number Pi. But again, it's worthless unless you know how to find such works, which basically requires you to have them in the first place.
I got in to coding when I discovered digital trackers back then. Now I mostly just corral k8s clusters but that was how I got my start.

It was a neat scene technologically because that was one of the few places that would book DJs from Russia/CIS, and they had a DJ tradition based on reel to reel rather than vinyl. It still explains a lot of the difference between psytrance and the various house descendants that come out of a vinyl tradition.
Absolutely don't tolerate abuse and set out your stall early on but I don't think the response is to fire the first volley, but to shutdown an abuser quickly.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" is an old saying but very true and often forgotten. As a maintainer or moderator, swift action which shuts down antisocial behaviour is more important than engaging. Perhaps you didn't really mean to say "abuse the crap out of abusers", but the correct response isn't abuse, it's a simple denial of engagement.

The other side of this is arrogant maintainers who have no interest in engaging with their audience and who don't accept criticism/comment. If you put it out there then you are asking for comment, if you just want to maintain your own code of your own purposes, then either don't make it open source or at least turn off issue tracking.
Self-Host LLMs with VLLM and BentoML
Or Tenstorrent.

Even nVidia chips have a RISC-V core in them (not the CUDA-related cores though).
> Very few open source projects are in the public domain.

Software in the public domain kind of by definition can't be open source. Not for more than a fleeting instant: You can take it and use it, and so can anyone -- and immediately make it closed source.
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Either you pay with your data (Google) or upfront for the phone (Apple).

I use Organic Maps on GrapheneOS and add businesses I want which aren't there (hence I had to look them up in Google Maps in Firefox Focus, which is painful enough that I don't want to have to repeat it).
those who can, write. those who cannot, change the meaning of titles.
Taliban and Kadyrov are both Sunni, for what it's worth.

I believe even under the Taliban it's permissible to sing about shtupping girls, as long as you're poetic enough that it can superficially be understood as longing for oneness with god. (or was that the other way around?)

Tajikistan gets portrayed as very islamist in the US press, but when I look at vids like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_Blkn_zfs I have to say that the female singer (a) has uncovered hair, and (b) is singing outside ... in contrast to farsi singers covering the same tune.