skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pick on regulation because it's the most universal example, but the fundamental problem is overconstraint. When a system gets too complex, you can't change any of it without giving up other desirable properties, even if the new properties you're trying to attain are more important than the properties you give up.

In terms of how we build our cities, for example, many of them are designed for a set number of people and then try to optimize quality of life for all those people. You can perhaps accommodate a 10% increase in citizens by building in marginal areas, upzoning parts, crowding, etc. But accommodating a 2x+ increase requires a radical revision of fundamental infrastructure. Your sewer system needs to be dug up and replaced with larger pipes. Your transit system needs to move from single-lane roads to either boulevards or mass public transit. Your educational system needs new schools, which generate new drop-offs, which further increases the strain on the transit system. Some people's property needs to be eminent domained. Some people's views will be blocked. Certainly the character of the city is going to change.

All of this generates political opposition, so it definitely is a political issue in addition to an economic one. Democratic (in the political-system sense, not the political-party sense) voters pass regulations so that it doesn't happen, looking out for their own interests. But the consequence of those regulations is that growth, renewal, and innovation becomes impossible. The system is overconstrained, and cannot adapt to either large growth in population or large environmental changes. Any attempt to re-adapt it to the new realities of the world require that you throw away large portions, because all of the systems are interconnected and tightly optimized.
In 2024 are folks still swapping out LoRA adapters? Is this still relevant?
Power reserve is not “the last few percent”, it’s up to 5 hours after you have run out of battery.

https://support.apple.com/en-is/guide/iphone/iph0475909d4/io....
He’s a doctor (psychiatrist) so I imagine he has something worthwhile to say about medical effectiveness. He’s at least as qualified as the economists he’s responding to!
Insights from Finetuning LLMs for Classification Tasks
> Are we now taking for granted the major leaps in nailing the interaction model (look and finger-tap)

I guess so, considering the first time I used that feature was in 2020 on the Oculus Quest 1.
It would be interesting to know Zilog's sale volumes for discrete Z80s (say, over the past decade). What uses they were purchased for, and DIP/PLCC/flatpack ratios.

There must be millions floating out there. But with distributors like Mouser or Farnell gone, for anyone looking to buy some, it's eBay & co which tends to be a crapshoot.
> Unhandled Runtime Error: Needs some hydration

Nice. Appropriate for the recent major versions being a somewhat rocky transition. I migrated one project, cursing at their documentaion numerous times in the process; and another one I'm unable to upgrade due to mysterious errors lie this. Framework fatigue is real.
Writing a commit message doesn't seem like a good example because it's usually a moment where you can pause the flow state because you've just completed the thing that needed flow

They're more like the period at the end of a sentence, so that you can flow into the next one.
It’s not OK, it’s a violation of the NEC:

> 11.1.4.2

> The relocatable power taps shall be directly connected to a permanently installed receptacle.

A surge protector is a ‘relocatable power tap’ and must be plugged into a permanent receptacle.
Russia is the cheapest energy source for Germany. And Germany did nothing when the US blew up Nordstream 2.

Russia is doing fine. It is not a communist state run by godless Bolshevik jews. It is commerce friendly, has better infrastructure than many EU countries, per capita income has improved quite a bit, growing economy even under heavy sanctions, first rate military and space technology, etc etc.
Even better, why don’t we just get rid of the unwieldy acronyms altogether and simply refer to them as “major tech companies”? It’s clearer and avoids the constant reshuffling every time the market shifts.
Context is hard!
Five millennium canon of solar eclipses: -1999 to +3000
Waiting for the visual feedback to tell you where the cursor is, also takes some bandwidth.
For example, vscode has this awesome syntax-aware expand-selection feature, but it requires you to repeat the command multiple times and check the results between each press. When applicable, ci{ is better because, despite requiring more mental bandwidth, you know exactly what the result will be.
> as it reports a $392 million loss for the first quarter of 2024.

Is there any insight regarding the primary reason for that loss? They cite EVs being expensive and unreliable but surely that can't be the primary factor behind a loss of 1/3 of a billion?
Open Source Relicensing Events
Racoons are said to be intelligent because they're good at opening locks. On the other hand, when they have food and are within ten feet of a pool of water, they will dip the food in the water and rub it between their paws for no reason. They can reason about the locks, but not about the food. Meanwhile, I in theory can reason about anything, but in practice I wouldn't count on it. Whereas an LLM can't reason, but it's very sharp and always ready to react appropriately.
Sure, that’s fine. Easy for me to agree with, IMO, based on the actual science we have today. I might say I think it’s unlikely that starships can get close without being noticed rather than it’s strange what people believe. I mean, people believe lots and lots and lots of strange things for which there’s no evidence, and most are wrong but every once in a blue moon something strange that nobody knew turns out to be true. I just didn’t follow the juxtaposition of the comment about Carter, then a comment about presidents followed by the UFO ‘thing’ being ridiculous. The article suggests that Carter might also think it’s strange to believe a starship could enter the solar system without being noticed - it isn’t clear what you’re responding to.
But how do you buy the ticket and is it less annoying than an almost instant tap on a ticket gate?
> storage and processing capacity on the cloud costs money

that's the whole point.
Is there a public resource recording past google search results?

Reason for asking is because even 10 years ago, I’d think the top recipe site results were like they are now, but there’s no way to actually know that without an archive.
The unstallable plane that stalled
Two systems in London have this (trams in south London, the DLR in east London) so Transport for London can probably make a good guess at the costs of each method.
COVID of course influenced this a bunch, but I've been at a company a few years and saw it grow from 30->130 employees - originally we were fully in office, then remote for covid, now it's settling back in to a hybrid approach where teams decide for themselves what works best (sales is generally in every day, dev is a few days a month if they're local), and then we have some requests to all come in to the office if the board/clients are coming in.

My hope for the future is that we basically pay for commuting time, so then employers can decide if it's worth asking someone to come in when they live farther away. Also seems like management does go in more for political reasons but I think that's specific to the org. I'm a huge fan of the way Automattic sets up their culture where it's remote-first so you don't end up with that two-tiered system - you can go in to an office if you want but everything has to be done online so there's a record to look back on later
Thanks. Is there a chain of intervened Math and Physics courses? I graduated as a Math major but forgot most of the stuffs. I guess I can peek at MIT or any other open course.

What about laboratories?
Yes, I'm aware of MKULTRA. Everyone is aware of MKULTRA.

But the Department of Defense investigating this phenomenon is the only basis the UFO community has for considering any of the UAP/UFO stuff credible. It's why they trust David Grusch, because, as they claim, no one would just go in front of Congress and tell lies (or in Grusch's case, because he has no actual firsthand knowledge of anything, repeat someone else's lies.)

You can't have it both ways. You can't say this is real because the government is looking into it, and that the government can't be trusted with its findings.
Economic long covid.
Google used to work closer to verbatim mode but would get common synonyms to give you comprehensive results. Now it stretches synonyms and alternate spellings to the point of uselessness.
This is in theory a problem with most ticketing systems: people can buy the wrong ticket and then get stuck on the way out. The message on the machines is a bit misleading because it suggests that wherever one travels behind the ticket barrier will take contactless, which is not true (e.g. enter at Bond St with contactless or a single, go to Reading via Crossrail, go to Manchester via Cross Country). Depending on how naïve one seems and how far one goes beyond the contactless area, staff may be more or less sympathetic, as the sibling comment suggests. We ought to roll out contactless nationally, and hopefully this will happen under British Rail.
Whats really awesome about distance maps is that you can add/subtract in subsequent passes to make units avoid (but not be blocked by) or favor routes. E.g. you might add near player towers and subtract near resources.
It is a tap on the card reader thing at the entry points to the platform.
Tales from an Attic
The 'self-driving' feature is as least an attractive nuisance. They want to press their point (that drivers are responsible) it's simple: disable the self-driving feature.
Former ActiveRecord & Django ORM enjoyer here.

I've been using sqlc, sqlx, pgtyped, & kysely and I found they have ORM-like productivity with full type-safety but they don't bring the baggage of leaky abstractions.

Unfortunately I don't know if there are Ruby or Python equivalents yet.
Okay, so what? Whatever his views may be on that topic, it's not relevant to his article on the MS-DOS source release. If you don't like it, don't read it.
You are using a fallacy to probe the contrary: cherry picking specific cases.

While we already know (based on history) that most of the time "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." it is also true that people such as Ramanujan could see beyond using a basic set of learnt tools. There are few exceptional people that have exceptional intuition for some topics.
Thinking incoherently can definitely cause more problems than being repeatedly interrupted.

Concluding that the interruptions aren't so bad is consistent with this observation.

It does not generalise to all developers.
The Pen, Mightier (2011)
Maybe they should call it something like "driver assistance system" rather than "full self driving"? I've never driven a Tesla, so I'm not aware of what warnings are in place, but doesn't it seem reasonable to think that a full self driving system could fully self drive the car? Perhaps it is Tesla who is lying if the car is not capable of driving itself fully?
While I also agree that there are downsides to keeping the exchange constantly churning, I worry that it's hard to align the open moments with the times when market-shifting news arrives. We can't expect the Bhopal plant to explode just in the 15 minutes when Dow Chemical is active.

Still, I agree that we need to think again about the focus on hyper liquidity. When I see high speed trading, I feel like it's just an endless competition to steal the bid-ask spread from the suckers who are actually trading.
Can’t tell if your tone is inquisitive or incredulous :)

If the later please point out the alternatives.
The whole article is ideological tainted and tries to make the move away from nuclear look good. That's all there is to it, especially in the light of the recently made public documents that show that the decision was taken by an ideologically blinded minister for economic affairs against the better judgment and suggestions by the experts.

The damage to Germany's economy is already visible and will become worse as this goes on while the minister for economic affairs stated in a speech that this was anticipated and is part of the plan.

Whatever that plan is.
Planetary Annihilation used voxel flow fields. I spent a LOT of time helping ship that system.

I feel like by the time the Titans expansion shipped it was a pretty good system. I occasionally see comments complaining about pathfinding being bad, but I’ve never seen specifics.

Seeing a mass of tanks stream into a stargate teleporter will never not be cool.
Normally materials in chips are selected so that they have similar thermal expansion coefficients - otherwise they would fall apart just from reaching normal work temperatures.

There's another problem here: below a certain temperature semiconductors become insulators. You're running the risk of your chip shutting down in a disorderly manner.
Apartheid is codified in the Rome Statute Part 2 Article 7 Paragraph 2(h):

> "The crime of apartheid" means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;

So yes it is a racist ideology, but it doesn’t need the perpetrators to be explicitly racist. The fact that the oppressed Palestinians are of a different racial group as the oppressors, and the policy is to maintain a domination of one racial group over the other, that means this counts as apartheid.

“I didn’t mean to be racist” is not an excuse admissible to the ICC

That said, The Rome statute would not become international law until 22 years after Carter was no longer President. And would never be ratified by neither the USA nor Israel. Though interestingly Palestine has ratified it.
It's funny that the article explaining why it is good and necessary to have T+2 settlement also mentions that markets are moving to T+1 settlement. To me that seems like a contradiction. Must be my cluelessness talking.
Title is: "New York Stock Exchange tests views on round-the-clock trading"
Some faces are irredeemable
Then what use self-driving? If you're poised to take over at any moment, it's providing nothing.

No, the very act of promoting self-driving creates some kind of expectation that the human isn't doing the driving. Right? That seems like a simple, direct message that anyone should be able to digest.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158183

(plus many others)
Cloud Naïve: Europe and the 'Bijenkorf' Megascaler
The Matrix: A Bayesian Learning Model for LLMs
Agreed, though in case of TfL there isn't actually any app, it's standard EMV and would work with contactless-enabled bank card or mobile wallet emulating a bank card (so built-in Apple/Google Pay).
MIDI as a non-proprietary, non-patented, non ad supported or privacy invasive protocol opened so many innovation from synth and others electronic musical instruments constructors or makers. We really need this type of candid innovation back.
I have found it to be a sign of inexperience when devs protest "good" (whatever that means to you) commit messages.

They seem to have never worked with legacy code that has a good commit history you can rely on.

Arguing commits break flow would likely come from the same mouth that comments are useless and the code is self documenting. The "doesn't write code thinking of others" type.
ImageGlass – A lightweight, versatile image viewer for Windows
I’m pretty sure humans still knew about the speed of light/radio waves being limited to c which is all you need to know to develop GPS. Time running slower on GPS would be an issue eventually though. Relativity does make it easier
It would be annoying from a user perspective because i would have to be at a computer for only those fifteen minutes when i wanted to rebalance my portfolio or risk automated buys and sells working properly.

it would probably change the value/ reaction to information assymetry which might be good or bad. It would probably decrease opportunity for me to buy stocks i like at a lower price by sitting on bids and waiting for the random walk to push the price down to my bid just due to noise.
Mine is also the river crossing puzzle. What's your variation?
To hinder traffic analysis across multiple trips, you should also have meeting where you swap Oystercards with others, similar to how people would (and still do?) swap grocery purchase tracker cards with each other, to get the discount with less surveillance.
You know, it makes me wonder how hard it would be to use this divide to actually move to the EU and get residency. Then again, with so many countries having to beef up military spending and facing economic headwinds you really have to question whether all the social / quality of life programs that make europe more livable than the US would be sustainable long term either.

Who knows maybe in 30 years Americans ultimately have a higher quality of life just due to our stronger economic position making it easier to sustainably fund M4A or whatever.
So then rephrase their point to "it's trying to stop you using <this way to pay for> the service"
Things I tell myself to be more agentic
I think the primary point here is that interruptions don't only happen externally, but also internally. I think this point is a bit obscured by the article's use of this "fragmented thinking" terminology, which it does not do a good job of defining before building an argument on top of it. (I found myself searching for those words to see if I had missed the definition.)

However, I do think this is an insightful point! I think these "internal interruptions" are indeed a big problem for me, and one I don't think about nearly as much, but will try to more now that I've read this article.

The frustrating thing about external interruptions is the inability to control them. Things like turning off notifications and putting on headphones are mechanisms to reduce that frustration by imposing control over those interruptions.

The good news for these internal interruptions is that it should be much easier to control them. But it requires being aware of the problem! So I'm thankful to this article for making this more top of mind for me.
"surge protector" is what Americans call a passive device that splits one outlet into several, yeah?

The danger is overloading. Back in the days when the main things you plugged in were incandescent lights and space heaters, this was probably a big issue. With computer equipment and LED lights you have to have a lot more stuff - many outlets' worth - to reach the circuit's maximum capacity.

If the circuit and "surge protectors" are rated for 1800W (15 amps x 120V), officially you should limit yourself to 80% of that for continuous loads which is 1440W, so you can supply 14 laptops or small small desktops that use 100W each, or over 200 raspberry pis on USB chargers that use 5W each, and either way you're going to need a lot of outlets before you come anywhere close to that limit.

At least that's a rough estimate. Power factor could decrease that number by up to 50% and you can use the full rating for intermittent loads; I'm not certified to know the fine print. Point is that 10 computers can easily use less power than a single space heater.
I agree there's somewhat more trust involved, e.g. you don't know if they go to the park for the day and just check notifications on their phone, but you still have all the performance metrics to look at. If the person is doing all their work then it might be better to let them take that day at the park when they feel like it, especially if it's a salary position then you're more expected to do a certain amount of work then to be working a certain amount of hours.

Worst case you can always ask someone "hey can you show me what you did last week?" and it should be clear if someone isn't handling their responsibilities.
Both Oyster and National Rail tickets are valid on the Elizabeth Line, despite it being effectively part of the TfL network. Should National Rail introduce a smartcard? Probably - but they don't have one yet, so it's not unreasonable that parent would be frustrated by the unreliable QR code scanners.
Finding Trends with Approximate Embedding Clustering
7 years ago? Well then they have been out-flanked by VC money that was poured into BeReal.

Sad but that’s how it goes sometimes.
US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology
This article is about daisy chaining UPSs into each other's AC outputs. I hope you're not doing that off grid. Daisy chained UPS means the energy takes the path of DC battery > AC inverter > DC rectifier > different DC battery > AC inverter > DC rectifier to whatever device you're powering. You could be losing up to 20% of the energy (server uptime) at each step of the daisy chain. And since there's only one path for power to take, if anything fails, it all goes down. The article's solution is super simple, just use them in parallel instead.
Does a "web" data source only scrape the individual page or linked pages as well? I'm assuming the former. What would be the least painful way to ingest a knowledgebase (say a wiki-like site) from the web?
Why invoke it via make when it can invoke itself? It's just another dependency that's not needed in this scenario.
Perhaps, but there ample room for improvement here.

The text simply say's it's cheaper, but the amount saved is not mentioned. This can be a big factor in changing people's behaviors. I may choose to shop at a local market for convenience, or fly a specific airline to get airline miles. In both cases, I know that I did not pay the absolute rock bottom price, but that the difference is small enough to not deter my loyalty.

Later in the article an example is given: "...Paddington to Canary Wharf would cost £6.70 if buying a paper ticket but £2.80 if using contactless payments" I am unsure how random that example is, but if typical, that is a massive 60% discount. Sharing that sort of precise information would certainly change habits of even the most loyal of paper customers.

It is of course far simpler (and cheaper) from a software design perspective to have the generic message, and perhaps it is all that could be accomplished in the timeframe allotted to the effort, and I understand that. But I do hope that more precise messaging is provided in the future so that we can revisit this discussion and review the results.
I mean you can apply this argument to just about anything, it isn’t really unique to “this industry” or computing in general.

People will generally change taste and likes/dislikes every few years.
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But you also have a good chance to get through the failure with one working engine. A two engine plane with one working engine climbs slowly, and a one engine plane with zero working engines doesn't climb at all.
If the value of "GDP of all African countries" is a numerical value then it is simplistic. If the value is informed by the functions which result in such numbers then it is perhaps too complicated.

If the parent has lots of experience with African economies then the value might be a distillation of the latter complicated ensemble of functions into something very meaningful.
This is what I love about HN, someone discovers a new field with a hobby project and someone else brings more detail with a paper in Nature.
This is such a prescient analysis from over 30 years ago, and he delivers so well - extemporaneous on a white board. The only error I see is the timing of when the market opportunity for NeXT would match their product: he predicted 1993. The world got there - pretty much as he predicted - but it took a long time.
What stack is used?
CH-53K Helicopter Transports F-35C And Refuels From KC-130 En Route