skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really promising for complex legal reasoning tasks and other challenges. How can I track progress? Is there an email list or something? Thanks!
And the "lucky ten thousand" is a reference to https://xkcd.com/1053/
If federal land is available for grazing and resource extraction, a case could be made for solar development also. As the cells need regular maintenance and cleaning, folks would also be around onsite and around it in federal land areas to preserve the environment.
There is no competition between anything good here. Americans being the most obese, by far, in the world and its subsidized corn production are the same problem. Absolutely nobody needs corn syrup in their diet. Corn is for cattle fodder and we all need to eat a lot less meat in any case. Especially the low quality variety raised on a corn based diet. It simply isn't that good for people (or cattle). Corn syrup in particular is just nasty stuff. You can safely eliminate that as a food group and absolutely nothing bad will happen. Stop stuffing people with corn based produce like fat pigs. It's not that hard. Most of the planet is fine without that crap and about half the size on average.

In the same way, ethanol is not a sensible way to do anything about climate change. Just stop burning stuff. Including ethanol produced from corn. It doesn't even come close to canceling out the carbon emissions needed to grow the damn corn to produce the ethanol. It's a completely and utterly pointless endeavor. It's not green. It's not environmentally friendly. It's just subsidized madness. This is not, and has never been, a productive use of land. Not even close.

As for solar energy and surface area needed. The world needs a lot less of it than is used for corn farming in the US alone. And that's before you consider the unused surface area in the form of roof tops, parking lots, windows, south facing walls, etc. There's no shortage of surface area to put solar panels on.
We're just submitting HN comments to HN now?
Based on your views and insights you have if feels like you are board member of Broadcom.
Good graphics, but it's almost impossible to fail. Not a good game.
From what I've seen, it is an established and expected cultural practice for "ethnic" restaurants in US to have bilingual menus regardless of their actual location. It could be a Mexican restaurant in an area that is 99% white Anglos, and it will still have menu in English and Spanish.

Personally I think it's great; it means that you get some exposure to other languages even if you never leave your corner of the woods.
"Less than two hours" does sound like a lot. I'm also in Canada and spend about 10 minutes per year on my Canadian taxes.

Settling with the US government as an expat, on the other hand... I pay handomely for somebody to handle that.
I think both Unity and Godot have ways to compile to WebGL. I don't have direct experience with Godot, but in Unity this would be relatively simple to do.
Agree. There are also a lot of factories and warehouses in the Midwest that should be covered in solar first.
We've had electronic filing for probably as long as any country, but in the US, no corporation gets left behind so financial services companies get to rip us off when we electronically file.
From what I can measure from most HN posting at least, I have had the a relatively uncommon experience in that I've both worked in a union (carpenter's union, doing acoustic ceilings in SF) and worked as an engineer in SV. Of course my experience with both may not be exemplary of all.

If I had stayed with the acoustic ceiling job, I would be doing the exact same thing I was doing then, for a bit more money. I may or may not have inherited more responsibility if people more senior to me retired, moved, changed jobs, or died. Really this would be capped though, as company ownership has nothing to do with the labor, so if you start your own company, what you are doing has little to do with you having been in the union (IDK how this applies to contracts for city jobs and all that). If I invented a magic spell that installed an acoustic ceiling for $1 in 2 seconds, I would have been actively encouraged to destroy it or hide it. The union ethos I was in was to promote mediocrity, not accidentally provide too much benefit to your employer or customer. I really don't know where this idea that unions would stop mass layoffs comes from that is brought up on HN all the time, but that's simply not true, union people find themselves out of work all the time, and it's very hard to do any job on the side if you are hoping you get picked out of the pool to work a job. Really worst of all, which is the prime driver that got me to leave, is I knew exactly what this path would look like for years to decades in the future - many people promote that as a positive (which makes sense as most people are scared of risk and change), but I found it soul crushing.

I won't go into my engineering career other than it has completely changed my life for the better both financially and just in general leading a rewarding life, and operating without whatever safety net I had in the union (which was basically nothing anyway) is not even a passing thought I've ever had.

Have any other posters either pro or anti union actually worked in a union? Curious about your experience and thoughts.
Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.
> I'm curious, what do you like about the Emacs key bindings? Is it the GNU system integration, like with Bash?

Nah, I actually don't use them I'm Bash that frequently.

It may be just due to the non-modal way of the hot keys. With Helix I frequently press Esc far too many times to be sure I'm in a right mode (just like I press C on a calculator a couple of times to clear it).

I've got caps remapped to control and somehow most of the shortcuts that I use quickly got into my muscle memory in a way that Helix's don't. I guess it's just hard for me to put into words why is that.
Unpopular opinion from the sidelines: Silicon Valley is in a tech bywater now. It's just circling aimlessly. Think of XKCD's chart extrapolating the number of cameras per phone. Things have got zero sum.

The real innovation is in energy generation and storage, and medtech like semaglutide and embryo selection.
Reusable parametrized components and state updates (for designer tool) for free.

Also could be used to build an interactive simulator pretty easily.
perfect loop achieved
I'm surprised you noticed! I think you may be the first I've seen. Most people just think it's a 1 vs 2 column layout; but we didn't find that quite satisfactory...

If you guys like cat optical illusions, they're susceptible to a few others as well, like the rotating-snake one: https://gwern.net/doc/cat/psychology/index#regaiolli-et-al-2... https://gwern.net/doc/cat/psychology/index#szenczi-et-al-201...
For starters, you could power Nevada and the neighboring states with mostly solar.

Mexico has their own deserts to power their country with solar and Canada is already well ahead on renewables through hydropower.

Don't worry about premature optimization.
>> That's possible. It's actually a deep philosophical question. Do planets "solve Newton's equations of motion" when they move?

Yes, that's an interesting question- that I'm really not equipped to answer. Probably for the best.

>> I used to be. I've been out of the field for over 20 years now. But back in the day I was pretty well known.

I'm really new to the field so I don't know your work. In fact I wouldn't even say I am in the field as such. An academic sibling suggested I take a post doc job and now I'm collaborating with roboticists. I'm just working on autonomous behaviour- I'm not allowed near hardware.

It's an interesting field although I have to constantly be on my toes to avoid violating my principles. See I'm a peacenick, but it seems with the work I do, as soon as I got that stuff working, someone will want to put it on a drone, strap a gun on its back and send it to kill people. And I'm dead set against that sort of thing.

I had a quick look at your site and you've worked with NASA. Respect! We can send autonomous rovers to explore far away planets and people want to keep them here wreaking havoc and death. Unbelievable.

Do you have any pointers to your work? Something you are really proud of that you did in the past? I'm curious.
This is Emacs, you can just use the menu items for almost any option.

You learn one chord: Ctrl-h m, to describe the keys on the mode you are.

For instance, run Alt-x eww (intro), now you are at Emacs' web browser. Press ctrl-h m to show the keys for eww.

Also, basics to navigate with multiple windows:

ctrl-x 0: close the other windows

ctrl-x 1: set the current window as a single, enlarged one.

ctrl-x b: switch between buffers

ctrl-g : cancel, everywhere.
I have a bunch of USD-denominated stuff for which my brokerage doesn’t always issue complete tax slips for, so it required going over my statements to double check that everything was being accounted correctly.

My wife’s (uncomplicated) taxes basically took 15 minutes. You do always want to check to make sure that you’ve hit every tax deduction you can - for example, work-from-home deductions, donation deductions, even things like paying for news subscriptions gets a tax credit. That’s the sort of thing that doesn’t get reported to the CRA, but which you can claim tax deductions on.
Thanks I missed it, I just got a mail from a Sr. Director for patners in Hashi. I was exicted and wanted to check the implications
Sort of moot anyway. If statements can approximate any function, most programming languages are effectively turing complete. What's important about specific architectures like transformers is they allow for comparatively efficient determination of the set of weights that will approximate some narrower class of functions. It's finding the weights that's important, not the theoretical representation power.
Thanks so much. That's a lot to absorb... Appreciated.
I agree with Cory on his points about enshittification, but I think it should just be called bait-and-switch.
If I had a bunch of cash to spare I’d short TSLA. If there’s smoke, there’s fire.
> Thousands of miles of transmission lines seems reasonable though?

Step 1: Stop worrying about coming up with an idea for a startup...

Step 2: Build "thousands of miles of transmission lines"

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit!
No, just don’t spread lies about people publicly.

Don’t participate in the economic ruin of someone just because of some jilted party
Will this or some parts of it be open sourced?
I’ve been to Switzerland a few times. It’s clean, safe, beautiful, leisurely and sophisticated. An amazing place to retire with $10m+. But at least for me, a tempting environment that’s too comfortable and indulgent for serious work.
It was basically in their investor presentation on the acquisition lol
I found the same, in my case it was fixed by resizing the window. Seems like a bug when the window aspect ratio is portrait instead of landscape.
From 20 Feb
Microsoft should just double down again on the doubling down. That would be twice as good and really start to make some headway I figure. Maybe as good squared, I'm not an C-level exec so I confess I don't fully understand the math on this.
If we're talking inter-stellar travel then it doesn't seem to matter what the destination is (planet or space habitat). The travel time remains the same, and the only source of materials (incl. food etc) would be what you bring with you until you arrive at a planet (i.e. at nearest star that has a planet that has useful resources).

Even if this were a robotic terraforming mission, it's hard to see humans committing to the expense of such an endeavor with no payoff for generations to come. Heck, we're reluctant to act to save the planet our lives depend on right now.
> Free as in speech

When did they change this? I distinctly remember this previously being “free as in freedom, not as in beer.”

It’s always had to be further disambiguated by using “libre” and “gratis” — not sure “as in free speech” is better.

Update: welp, I must be misremembering. Wayback machine shows at least since 2010… so it’s either a reallly old framing or, I’m misremembering, completely!
I built out a remote sensing platform using ESP32 + LoRa. The attempt was to hit the sweet spot between cheap, easy, and reliable:

https://github.com/alexose/dorothy
It’s a common style guide in newspapers.
Ask the LLM to cite a source, then use that.
It's actually a great comment, I appreciate it being pointed out.
jQuery UI 1.13.3 Released
I think your first question is open for people to explore.

The answer to the second is yes - it's all vector embeddings, and they're aligned to each other by finding a dataset that matches pairs (eg. images with captions)

The real use for exotic embeddings will have to be in analyzing the embeddings themselves I think, otherwise it's easier to shove normal vectors downstream into other models.
This extraction of graph structure is the "holy grail" of NLP in that it can break documents down into facts so that, say, you can store them in a database and query them in a more accurate and efficient way.

Also these science papers frequently have a very low comments to vote ratio compared to, say, articles about cars or the housing supply in California.
If you are used to and like VMwares toolset you wont like Proxmox.

I would not switch an enterprise from VMWare -> Proxmox without a
really thorough analysis of what that will mean.

That said the future of VMware is certainly in question.
Nice rogue-lite, got to level 10 before dying multiple times and giving up
> But if determinism falls out in the end, it's still a hint that there may also be deterministic effects at the root.

What I'm saying is that it's a hint of absolutely nothing. Deterministic systems can very easily produce deterministic large-scale behavior, and randomized systems can also very easily produce deterministic large-scale behavior. Since the large-scale behavior is the same either way, it gives us no predictive power over its ultimate cause, in the Bayesian sense.

> That's still deterministic. Sure, there may be some influence from quantum effects which then are amplified, but the dynamic of the chaotic system itself is still deterministic.

Your argument is that because we see "determinism falling out in the end", we should also expect "determinism at the root". But I argue that in the real world, we don't even see "determinism falling out in the end". On short timescales, computers appear to simulate finite-state machines, and the Earth appears to move in a steady pattern around the sun. But looking further out, the computer ultimately turns to dust, and the Earth wobbles out of its current path, thanks to the chaotic dynamics of the solar system. That doesn't sound very deterministic to me, unless we baselessly assume a priori that they have a deterministic cause.

What determinism do you argue does truly fall out in the end?

> That's not really true. "identical speed of light for all observers" is an observation which was replicated quite often. SR is a way to explain this observation, but there before SR Lorenz already had a different model explaining it too. SR won, because Lorenz used an (at the time) unobservable "ether" and Einstein argued that its better to use Occams Razor and throw this "ether" away.

In that case, we have two different interpetations that yield the exact same outcomes. Thus, I'd say that they're really just two different descriptions of the same model: they're equally correct, and Lorenz's description is just dispreferred due to being more difficult to work with.

> This in all contradicts SR, so maybe SR is really wrong on a global level.

There's nothing in SR that says that "most" matter can't follow the same reference frame. It just says that your reference frame has no bearing on the laws of physics you perceive, contrary to older models of the ether.

As I said, we already know that SR is wrong in that it doesn't predict any of the effects from GR, cosmology, etc. It's not an end-all-be-all theory of everything. But it doesn't stop it from giving good predictions for most places in the universe.

> Which in turn would allow a non-local, realistic interpretation of quantum measurements because without SR simultaneity could be back on the table.

You can do all that today, by specifying a reference frame that you want to consider. After all, that's how QFT does it, since it's mostly concerned about local effects. But you won't get different results from what SR predicts (in particular, the physics won't change if you look at the same system in a different reference frame), except in the circumstances where we already know it's incomplete.
Salary, right? I have to imagine at one point the gap between US devs and European devs is starting to be felt
This kind of extends to embedded/low level systems programming as well - the assumption that memory can only change as an effect of program execution just does not hold true there. What's the value of tracking mutability and data ownership when a DMA engine can just decide to overwrite the memory you supposedly have exclusive access to?
Tapwave Zodiac was really ahead of its time, great couple years I had with that thing and the community surrounding it.
For me, on Firefox Android, the game worked beautifully (it got stuck at a certain point - no movement/actions accepted anymore but the visuals and menu worked).
I got to level 12 and had purchased everything, so I felt I had nothing else to strive for.

Great variety of enemies and attacks. Loved the different weapons and how they "evolve".

If would be fun to have the frozen ward being able to nullify the fireballs, as it seemed an obvious consequence.

I think after unlocking all the base weapons, it would be fun to move up and be able to access "epic" sets (not just money locked, so you don't see them until you buy the other ones).

Also expected to have some "hidden" treasure rooms but even trying no walls broke, even with bombs.

Might be nice to have a boss fight every 5 level, often it's done by taking the base enemies and making them huge and harder. If I had a reason (like reach level X to save the princess, or reach the center of the earth or something else), I would have kept playing but after level 10 and everything unlocked, I thought maybe the game was over.

I really enjoyed the experience! The graphics were great, just the level cleared text seemed lower quality than the rest (maybe a font rendering problem?).

Great job!
Action Retro just posted a video of an AppleII card based on the ESP32. It plays Doom
What tools do Google, Amazon or Microsoft use?
They are running millions of VMs,
Presumably its proprietary?
> i can no longer edit my post to clarify this, but by "responsible for breakages" i meant that if your new check-in caused any CI tests anywhere within the codebase to fail, even if due to bugs in the other code, you had to stop and fix it, or get the owners to fix it, or find some principled way to temporarily disable those tests, before you could check your code

Google engineers hate this one weird hack: just send a mail saying "we're deleting/deprecating [everything your product depends on] in [14-180] days, good luck!"
I'm a bit surprised anybody with DevOps in their name would be unclear about the benefits of having specific roles devoted to what might seem to the uninitiated like just some tiny corner of the development process. Past a certain scale, things can't be covered by just having anybody pitch in as required and everybody collectively muddling through.
Yes but with 20x the resolution and the processing power of the ps4 running at 20W. Where's the bullshit?
Yes. If you and your spouse both make minimum wage and not a cent more, and you have two children or more, you can come out about even. How many two child families do you know with both parents earning absolute minimum wage?
> I don't want to load up a browser

I didn't know anyone ever closed their browser anymore. Honestly trying to imagine a workflow that doesn't include regularly using a browser seems very alien at this point.
100% agree. These conversations always seem to end with lots of "what about"s, as if being easy for the average case was somehow undesirable.
Ask HN: Seeking On-Premises Website Examples for Uptime Comparison Experiment
Hi HN community,
I'm conducting an experiment to compare the uptime between cloud hosted and on-premises websites. If you know of any websites that are fully hosted on-premises, could you share them with me? Thanks for your help!
Between the Known and the Unknown
Personally, the disconnect is all the excellent customer service I've received from Apple in the 21 years I've been using their products. This includes two repairs on nine computers, and one battery replacement on an old phone. And the time that a major point release of the OS got stuck moving around my homebrew directory and hung. That, and the butterfly keyboard that needed replacing, were annoying. But the customer service was first rate.
Your point notwithstanding, Twitter was originally built by a two person team over couple of weeks.
We have a pretty different definition of the word "exactly", then :-).
That's exactly what Terraform and Redis did.

The open source license is designed to guarantee your liberties. The moment you start to remove some liberties you have neutered it.
> I'm not sure where you got this information.

I was working in mobile games at the time and ended up working with Google on the Play Store launch, among other things.

But what I mentioned was not some big secret. Everyone knew Android was supposed to be the response to google having to keep stashes of j2me devices in drawers, which is ironically what everyone ended up needing to do with Android devices.

People have memory holed just what a shock the iphone caused, not just technically but strategically, and how it altered who has the power over distribution. The whole industry (google included) did not see this coming because of the power of the carriers.
> cannot fathom

Yes you can. It’s capitalism. The owners of the current system lobby and advertise and “manufacture consent” in keeping the current system because it is wildly profitable.

That’s really all there is to it.
>Recommended languages are Java (ultimately a failure despite vast effort)

Why is Java a failure? Recent JVMs have come a long way, and GraalVM makes it somewhat comparable to Go-like languages.

I understand the historical hate and how Oracle bought it, but it really isn’t that bad of a language if you’re using modern Java.
You understand context, right?
The fallacy here is that you’re ignoring the pipeline. The next generation of infrastructure admins are either running on all cloud, or running on something they can easily access like any KVM based system (like proxmox). VMware is instantly a legacy system because anyone who doesn’t already run it isn’t going to bother learning it.

Revenue generating or not, the free platforms are will generate more revenue than VMware at such and exorbitant cost.
Windows still comes with a lot of crap installed by default, the difference is that Microsoft has decided to cut out the OEMs and preload the crap themselves (a clean install of Windows 11 Professional comes with apps for Roblox, TikTok, and Disney Plus among others) so the "install from retail media" trick no longer works unless you also pirate the LTSC or Education editions of Windows.