skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"After the demise of the multi-ethnic Empire of Japan in 1945, successive governments had forged a single Japanese identity by advocating monoculturalism and denying the existence of more than one ethnic group in Japan. [...] the notion of ethnic homogeneity was so ingrained in Japan, to which the former Prime Minister Taro Aso (1940-), in 2020, notably claimed in an election campaign speech that “No other country but this one has lasted for as long as 2,000 years with one language, one ethnic group and one dynasty”." [1]

They have a long history of "Aryan-like" master race theory [2].

Why would the Japanese want to trade in their distinctiveness and positive societal attributes for dubious gain? It endangers the fabric of society.

Where has mass migration been a net benefit for a larger country in recent times? Europe has been "culturally enriched", which puts even more pressure on the already strained welfare-, medical-, education- and housing-system, lessening the quality for all. There has been an increase in savage violence, such as gang rapes and brutal attacks, as well as organized crime, terrorism and epic fraud the institutions are not equipped to handle. Outrageous sums of tax payer money is used to pay off foreign countries, so that they throttle the influx of migrants somewhat, which also makes Europe vulnerable to blackmail by those countries. The people do not want (incompatible or malicious) foreigners. The governments are incompetent in letting in only the good ones and getting rid of the bad ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_Japan#Notion_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Japan#History
Too many people like watching sports with someone else to isolate inside of a strap on face smashing computer.
My problem with zachtronics games like TIS-1000 is two fold:

1) just give me a real ide (my issue with pico8 as well)?

2) If I'm going to play a game that's close to doing FPGA stuff why not just learn to program an FPGA, that would be more useful
Yep I've done it. What a pain. Thankfully now the Switch does have captive portal detect and a little purpose built web view for agreeing to the terms.
An old partner of mine described herself as a TCK, "third culture kid": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid
That you've "lived in sweden" implies you have the luxury of hopping to whatever country suits you most. Nobody wants to hear a cosmopolitan's take on how we have too much privacy and how the government should be more involved in our lives. If the government mistreats you, you can just go to a nicer country.
All good questions on land use, and competition between food and energy (being corn/ethanol or solar).

My understanding is that US produces way too much corn, and it costs taxpayers ($2.2 billion in subsidies per year, source: https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...). Maybe instead of artificially propping up the corn industry, we could use few solar farms instead ? That might incidentally help with the US diabetes (55lb of high-fructose corn syrup per american per year, the highest in 42 countries study, source: https://news.yahoo.com/countries-greatest-high-fructose-corn...)
Curious. Are other corps funding open-source python dev?
So what you want is to remove the option of safety from those that want it because you personally do not see the need for it.

iOS is not close to a monopoly. People are perfectly free to have Android devices and side load apps on to them. It is curious that the campaigning focuses so strongly on destroying the high trust part that exists and not on promoting a trusted setup on Android.
That sounds a lot like AppleScript... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript

I wonder how hard it would be for Apple to rebuild Shortcuts around an AppleScript backend to allow power users the ability to edit the scripts directly.
Is it really supposed to take 72 hours for a tick to begin feeding? The 72 hours in that link seems to be about whether it's within the window that prophylaxis would have an effect (although you seem to be acknowledging this?).

In my case the doc asked if the tick was engorged, to which I responded that I didn't know - I'm not a biologist that studies ticks and can't give such a judgement as a nice tidy answer. Which is getting back to my point about expectations - if the treatment was amputating my leg, then I'd want some professional judgement calls. But given that the output of the medical system was going to be either (doxycycline and blood draw for lab, or nothing), I'm going to push towards the former option given the lack of expected harm and overall lack of attention outside of these scarce 10 minute visits.

FWIW I think I got a full course of doxycycline, perhaps just to avoid breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria rather than for the tick bite itself.
LMAO. I have about 150 Bitcoins sitting on an old hard drive at the bottom of the local dump. I guess someone would try to dig them up if it ever hits a million, but doubtful they could recover them much less unlock them.
Thanks for the input! I was leaning towards Penn bc its more interdisciplinary anyways!
>Apostle

Apostol?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_M._Apostol

We had his book in school or college math.
> it is that there were large teams to do what essentially can be done by two-person teams.

You're mistaking their intent, they are actually okay with less work being done. It's a desire to simply hit the reset button and see how much money they can save, and how much they need to build up the team again. They know it harms productivity but maybe something cheaper will come out of it. They are gambling.
Karma’s a bitch:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68...
The tax code is also designed to incentivize behavior that we wish to promote as a society. for example, directly reducing the tax versus tax benefits of a 401(k) and other such mechanisms. ultimately, the government is there to serve the interests of the people and society.
More details https://github.com/orgs/open-spaced-repetition/discussions/1...
From your profile it looks like you are even older than me.

I find it strange that you did not go through similar stories - tech in the 90s was rather eventful. Maybe you were at the wrong place?
You're are not missing anything

How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture - Agrivoltaics Revisited
https://youtu.be/ww-_U7_oQbY?si=Qw6h4oJ5AMx6BoYQ
Nadella was a long time Microsoft insider before he became CEO. Under him Microsoft started putting ads in windows, featuring their AI features unfairly above competitors, bundling Teams with Office, and more. He may come off as being a quiet person but he used the same old playbook all monopolists have.

And as for cybersecurity - MS is now forcing AI agents to run on your machine in the background. That undermines everyone’s privacy and security.
The first Oculus Quest was used in operating rooms 5 years ago.
That change makes it no longer free/open source.
So, will they unban it in China?
really i think the game is:

C-h t RET

and then

touch notes.org && emacs notes.org

and then futz around! The tutorial should tell you what C-h v and C-h f do, so those will be handy. I like helpful.el for a nicer/more thorough interface that's not quite info, and I really like vertico/consult/marginalia for making M-x nicely searchable with hints and stuff.

For navigation, i like devil-mode, avy, eglot/xref, transient, hydra.

I don't really like starter kits like doom, but they're popular and i guess people like them.

package.el is fine for installing packages, but i use straight.el or elpaca.
Both sides? There should be just one side; the citizens they are supposed to be representing. This comment kind of sums up how far gone we are in America.
Everyone's impressed with VR the first few times. For me that was 1991 and 1993 but unfortunately it's not that much better today with Quest so I see zero point in trying AVP.
Ahaha wow this brings back memories :)
They can just open subsidiaries and use that to go around them. Also the big guys do donate a lot of money.

The real reason might be VCs. The companies going closed source have raised from VCs and they are pushed to more and more growth just changing licenses and taking control.
Controlling Mitsubishi mini split heat pumps instead of paying hundreds for Mitsubishis solution: https://github.com/geoffdavis/esphome-mitsubishiheatpump
I-Soon Toolkit: What Is "TZ"?
It's your job to separate the wheat from the chaff at the boundary of your network interface. In fact, personal boundaries of all sorts, from informational to emotional to physical to economic, are of paramount importance in the information age.

Nobody (and certainly not the state) is going to erect your personal boundaries for you by ensuring justice in the face of spammy text messages (or, for that matter, hypnotic and manipulative social media). This is your job - maybe your most important job.

Just as its your job to protect your personal health and safety. Nobody (and certainly not the state) is going to do that for you.

Is there something about the trajectory of evolution of the internet that suggests to you that this is incorrect?

I observe continually (seemingly perpetually) increasing traffic, and continually (seemingly perpetually) increasing capacity for general purpose computing. I also observe enormous empathy and cyberpunk traditions in our communities, protecting each other. Do my eyes and ears deceive me?
My 2013 MBP is running Big Sur latest release September 11, 2023. But yes, you can't upgrade past that. All the hardware and software works just fine.

My web cam on the T410 doesn't work under the Windows version it's running and hasn't worked for many years (and I've had a few of those, it's not just one bad hardware).

EDIT: The variability of hardware on Windows laptops is just so much larger. There's so many different motherboards, so many different peripherals, so many different GPUs. There's no way Microsoft is testing against all permutations of laptops from more than 10 years ago with their native drivers. Lenovo doesn't have modern drivers for the T410 either and I doubt other laptop companies release new drivers for their old laptops. I've owned and used for work many Windows laptops from various vendors. I've had 3 T410s I inherited and I spent a lot of time trying to keep them going including cannibalizing some of them for parts.
That power+volume button thing seems to be stock android, but some vendors (like Samsung) disable it, frustratingly.
Asimov’s Foundation tries to answer this by providing a range; if mankind concentrates its effort to document how to bootstrap civilisation, a thousand years. On the other hand, if mankind does not prepare and ignore the inevitable collapse of society, 30.000 years of darkness.

This refers to galactic civilisation. The interesting part is: it depends a lot on how much you pass over, anticipating the downfall.

There is a parallel to deploying software: how good are your instructions, if you can’t be there to fill in the blanks?
I don't think there's any comparison between drug users and dealers and racial minorities and LGBT people. Putting that aside, democracy--the collective right to create the kind of society the people want--is more important than individual rights. Societies sometimes make terrible mistakes. Democracy doesn't mean that people always make good decisions. But there is no moral justification for any other approach. Such as having a minority decide that the majority must put up with having to step over drug needles in streets or public parks.
I Wrote FizzBuzz in Binary [video]
The country you grew up in was rich from the spoils of war as other countries had to rebuild everything. It's not merely because of spending that we were world leaders. We had the biggest manufacturing base in the world, and not so much debt. Now the situation is opposite. We have an epic amount of ever-expanding debt, plus most of our manufacturing has been outsourced. What we're left with is a country with 5% of the world's population and one with little capacity for self-sufficiency. Can spending more help us become leaders in something? It could happen. But look at the competition, look at the degredation in our capabilities, even the degredation in our culture. Most of the wealth in our world comes from natural resources and manufacturing, and our manufacturing is about the most expensive in the world.

>Obama’s stimulus act funded loans to clean energy companies and was pilloried when bets failed.

When the results don't match the investment, it is natural to cut back. Keep in mind Obama also presided over the global financial crisis of 2008, and the government had a number of urgent things to take care of. Incentives for clean energy never stopped, and in the case of EVs they are becoming annoying. We don't need an EV mandate. If they want people to use EVs, they need to make EVs that don't suck. That seems to be a lot to ask for, and the tech just isn't ready.
There isn't a well known / widely accepted license with such clauses (afaik, happy to be corrected). Noone other than individual tinkerers will ever touch anything with a custom license or any license ambiguity for that matter.

Meta's LlaMa for example is "OSS" but under a custom license which effectively prohibits hyperscalers from using it
Erm, what? Your statement makes no sense whatsoever.

It's perfectly reasonable for the default setting of a phone to forbid sideloading apps. And anyone who doesn't want to can leave it that way. That's the 'option of safety'.
In my opinion, the best engineers don't "go off by themselves". The best help enable an entire team to be more productive, learn faster and deliver value quicker.
It's not the only difference, at least where I live - I have to significantly reduce image sizes to send them to Android users..
It's not. There's also enough barren desert space just in Nevada to power the entire continent of North America.
I have a very old rotary phone that you “dial” how bright to make the lights. esp8266 detects dial pulses, sends mqtt message to home assistant, home assistant sets zigbee can/recessed lights to requested setting
The only thing Apple cares about is Apple making more money. they will gladly gouge the end User so that their executives can line their pockets. there is nobody here you can actually ”trust”.
Uh plenty of Sweden see that as a huge invasion of privacy

Sweden also doesn’t have secret ballot

In Sweden, anyone can look up your address, phone number, social security number, your car registration etc etc

This is not cool or desirable
They don’t cut down the trees, they trim them. Often with crazy helicopter chainsaws. Transmission lines tend to be in difficult to reach, undeveloped areas. They’re often not owned by the power company but rather used with easements. The power company might not be a generation company either. Building the hookup for thin lines of solar panels might not be cost effective either.
Framemaker was great, was the tool used by most US military contractors in 90s. Many well known aircraft were designed using this document tool. I still try to configure MS Word to work like it.
I build an Agentic AI that leverages #6 and #7 at the end of the article as well as techniques not yet published. It tackles hallucination relative not to the world at large but to the facts, entities and causal relationships contained in a document (which is really bad reasoning if we assume LLMs are "reasoning" to begin with) It also tackles cross-reasoning with very large token distance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NPzteAz94

This is my first post on HN in 10 years.
Dolphins call each other by name
Looking for Examples of On-Premises Deployed Websites
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!
> I use the same tool a lot for the exact same reason. Really wish the 'mainstream' desktop SVG editors had this level of control of path data.

Inkscape is open source, file a feature request?
Ten years

Water wheels for a start, then dams, hydroelectric power and industrial revolution around the corner in just a year. Then ethanol/corn fueled engines and we'll be sailing/flying in no time. Trains will go electric right away instead of steam/diesel/gas. A small country with smart people and good leadership would easily build the first computer and nuclear bomb in less than a decade. From there, world domination.
Lenovo has been tarnishing the think pad brand for several years now, pushing plastic junk that also has the thinkpad branding. It’s not enough to stick to thinkpad anymore, which thinkpad matters.

Ditto HP. Their machines are… not great to operate on (from a maintenance perspective), their hardware maintenance manuals are much lower quality than they used to be…

Only dell latitude hasn’t disappointed me yet, and I fix laptops as a hobby so I’ve worked on quite a few 2014-2019 machines.
Facebook cofounder accuses Tesla of being the next 'Enron'
They want 1 in 5 VMWare customers to jump. If they don't, they'll be forcibly pushed off of the edge. Broadcom's entire growth model is to take an established player that is entrenched in massive corporations, introduce that product to the existing portfolio Broadcom offers that customer, and then jack the price on the lot. If you're not in the Fortune 500, Broadcom doesn't want to talk to you and if they keep your business at all it'll be through digital sales or third party resellers.

I am not a fan of them and didn't like working for them, but their financial results speak for themselves. You can attack the ethics of Tan's leadership certainly, but to call him an idiot ignores the fact that he's doing exactly what his shareholders want. Growing the company at obscene returns.
Transmission is a huge challenge – you can't just generate solar energy in one place. You need to generate it near the actual consumers.
I actually did not know that File.WriteAllText/new StreamWriter defaulted to UTF-8 without BOM if no encoding was specified. I always passed in an encoding to those functions, and "Encoding.UTF8" has a BOM by default. Without specifying any encoding, I just assumed it would pick your system locale, because all the default String <-> Number conversion functions will indeed do that.

There are some coding standards for C# that mandate passing in the maximum number of parameters to a function, and never allow you to use the default parameter to be used. Sometimes this is a big win (prevents all that Current Culture nonsense when converting between numbers and strings, you need Invariant Culture almost all the time), and other times introduces bugs (Using the wrong value when creating Message Boxes to put them on the logon desktop instead of the user's screen).
There’s four things that make this more useful than it might first appear. First Ion engines can pack a lot of DeltaV when you essentially have zero payload beyond an attachment device.

Next most unguided mass is still in a small number of giant objects so we don’t need to clean everything just removing the biggest objects in the most crowded orbits prevents things from getting worse.

You don’t need to get junk into a low orbit. A highly elliptical one that just touches earth’s atmosphere will deorbit things eventually. Which then sets up for the next intercept as DeltaV as perigee magnifies where your perigee ends up. Further the goal is to intercept at a reasonably low relative velocity you don’t actually need to match each of those orbits. (You can also use earth’s atmosphere to lower your perigee essentially for free so aim for the highest orbit first and work down the list.)

Finally you don’t need to handle everything with a single device. Even just having one in a polar orbit and one in an equatorial orbit greatly reduces deltaV requirements.
Everyone is doing it, first it was the search engines doing crawling now LLMs just directly scrapping.

Today we noticed Claude tomorrow another company but it will not stop.
Yes, I admit that this was a little bit reductionistic. I was aiming it to be mostly a joke about the situation, didn't expect it to garner so much response
I can see doing this for a nanny, but surely no one is jumping through all these hoops for ad-hoc, hourly babysitting? Any of the random highschoolers or college kids I've used would look at me like I was crazy if I tried to set them up on payroll lol.
A quick comment: The idea seems interesting/entertaining, but the requirement to login with a Google account will make some people (like me) simply not even try it.
All that matters is what ARM chips are coming out this year. AMD is ok, but Intel is hopeless. They lost back in the 00's as they haven't really done anything for so long, I don't think they can. AKA... Is this just core2duo again .. again ...again etc
Looks like a great product. I'll have to give it a try!

I like that the product seems to solve the RAG need only and not be an "everything framework" for LLMs. It makes for a richer seeming product for RAG while making other aspects of AI apps open for the user to choose their approach.
I did the same thing, but from TaxAct instead of from TurboTax. The big tax prep software companies have squeezed their last dollar out of me. I'm done with them.

For reference, here's what I paid for tax preparation over the years:

2010: $9.99

...

2017: $48.00

2018: $66.95

2019: $97.90

2020: $67.91

2021: $93.67

2022: $124.90

2023: $133.95 (at this point I said "Fuck this")

So from $48 to $134 (or +280%) over the course of 6 years and +1344%(!!!) over the course of 13 years. All to simply pre-fill some standard IRS forms and submit them for me. It doesn't make sense to pay for this.
How does a "surprise heritage listing" come up?

I don't know that I'm always a fan of heritage designations, but they're not exactly a surprise to a buyer, right?
The VR market was "emerging" in the 80s when VR setups made it to our mall video game arcades. Then it was "emerging" again in the 90s when VR kits toured universities across the country. Then VR was "emerging" in the aughts with military and medical systems getting a bunch of attention. Then VR was again "emerging" in the teens with Oculus and Hololens. Now it's once again "emerging" because Apple's joined in. Great. With all this emergence, you'd expect we'd have something that didn't suck shit through a Slurpy straw, but alas we do not.
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Thank you for this. It confirms a lot of the issues I've been experiencing lately.
First Prison Photo of Sam Bankman-Fried: Bearded, Thin, and 'Weird as Shit'
>> If you as a sitting politician have received monetary benefits from a tax filing service you should not be allowed to speak

Should people who are receiving welfare benefits be allowed to vote?
I think the word you are looking for is "totalitarian". The legal system there virtually guarantees French as the only acceptable language. Even native-born Quebecois who are also native English speakers need to go through a process to be permitted to school their children in English.
I've been writing scrapers on Upwork for many years. I'm sick of doing project based work and want to work at/start a scraping SaaS. Any advice?
In most cases, you know the information (and may have to file) before they’ve processed it. Request your tax account transcript (what they know about your account) on April 15 and again on August 15. I can pretty well guarantee they’ll be different for the prior calendar year.

It might be stuff they’ll eventually know, but it’s not necessarily stuff they already know at the relevant time.
No the data collection and analysis are biased.

If your argument is “consider this anecdote”, and you can’t imagine historical analysis of economic questions other than through non-quantitative hand-selected case studies, you’re falling into the same trap.