skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But utilities also have those rules because they are granted de-facto monopolies in their geographic areas.

It's not like I can get electricity from another provider if there is literally only one in my area. And what they're providing (water, sewage, electricity) is deemed essential.

Even with banks, if one bank rejects me, I can (hypothetically) go to another one down the street.
They mostly protect others, but they also reduce the number of infectious particles entering (pretty obviously). They're very leaky, so if you wear a non-respirator you will only delay infection not prevent one. However, if many people wear masks, there is filtration going on in both directions (at the source and sink), so they become more effective.

COVID is remarkable among human pathogens because it is so damn transmissible. High percentage mask wearing completely stomps out weaker viruses (we eliminated a flu strain in 2020). COVID is almost as transmissible as measles (R0 for Omicron is commonly estimated above 8 and as high as 24), so it takes an array of countermeasures or high quality countermeasures to arrest it. Still, mask wearing will reduce the number of people infected per a unit time, making environments much safer.

Now that we are in a regime where R0 is less applicable since people have some immunity to COVID, the transmission rate is closer to 1-3. This is something masks can manage to stomp so long as there is partial immunity.
That data looks to be about 20 years older than the data in the report I linked to. That's a large time differential. Directly comparing them may be misleading.
I have a taste for folk music from just about every culture, and I wouldn't say much of it's an acquired taste. Most of it can sound alien, but still almost immediately pleasant. For instance the Chinese guqin [1] in China is basically nothing like anything else. The sound is quite unique but the style of play is just completely alien. Yet I think most would find it relaxing. Put yourself in the mindset of listening to that somewhere in nature, perhaps in front of a nice flowing stream.

The music from this topic sounded odd to me for a somewhat ironic reason - it felt far too contemporarily chorial, for me to imagine this is what Ancient Greek music would have sounded like. For contrast here [2] is Wardruna, a very popular Norwegian band that's driven by classical Norwegian traditions. So that would not only have been in an era like the one you're describing, but the song itself is also chorial in nature - yet the sound is extremely distinct.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmEHN82admY

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RCY-G-NlA
AWS used to have an integrated Ingress Controller - It just sucked (At least partially because it was built by Google, not AWS). That AWS didn't take over hosting of it (it's not even available as an add-on!) when Kubernetes the Project removed the first-party support of it is... Well, it's a statement by AWS. They were dragged kicking and screaming into Kubernetes at all, because they see it as hurting their moat, and have stalled the Ingress project quite a bit.
I got fed up with electron a few months ago and making steady progress building Electrobun.

You can think of it like Tauri but you just write typescript for the main and browser contexts. Under the hood it’s powered by bun and zig.

https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun

Still a ways to go (I’m currently porting a large app from electron to electrobun and filling in the api as I go) but check back in a couple months.

It’ll be (in my opinion) the best stack to build desktop apps.
thats on the left side of the spectrum. on the right, businesses and people are nothing more than balance sheet entries to be traded.
This is a great opportunity for open-source models to get a foothold in this lucrative market.
VS Code is electron and it has been optimized to the hilt. I have used it on Mac, Windows and Linux and the experience is uniformly great. It feels native on every platform (responsiveness is not as snappy as vim but it’s good enough and I’m getting a lot of extra features in return, like remote for instance)

But it didn’t come for free. I can tell a lot of engineering hours were spent fixing little issues like different/conflicting keystroke mappings in all 3 platforms.
Except is not the same thing? You can copy a reference, you can't copy a box (without having the T be copy as well).

A box is a pointer AND the storage at the same time. To move it means to move the storage as well, unlike a regular reference.
It is 30 years old tech.
The difference is that oil makes money. Like, a lot of money.

Charging station networks are not some highly strategic play.

Charging stations rely on subsidies. Of which Tesla recently got a disproportionately low share.
What is a stablished 3d modeler that uses the same kind of modeling as this one?
I feel a bit stupid. I use generators a lot, but I don’t understand what this offers as a convenience.

Maybe I don’t actually understand generators!

Edit: I’m realizing it’s that I don’t understand delimiting. This is really interesting. I’ll have to sit with it for a while for it to click, I think.

I have a feeling a use delimiting patterns with generators already, but I didn’t understand it as such.
Making Flying Cleaner
I'd replace the "challenging real-world tasks" in the title with "dense text, like financial reports and legal documents". It sounds less general but that's a good thing.

The repo is only two weeks old, and looks it, so how do you think spRAG distinguishes itself? This is a crowded space with more established players.

The "vanilla RAG" benchmark figure you cite is not convincing because it can not be verified. Please share your benchmarking code.
Maybe I wasn't clear, but the hardware costs and the operation costs should all have dropped between 2x and 5x as a baseline before price increases.

Inflation is not even close to that level.

And those hardware costs already take into account inflation up through the end of 2022.
Claude Vision can do that for you if you are building something similar. Had similar results with OpenAI.

https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/vision
Help me to design a URL schema for my app
I am writing this out both as a mechanism to think out loud, but also as an ask to contribute suggestions.

I am building what I would describe as a "supplement store as an excel spreadsheet".

The idea is to allow discovery of supplements based on their active ingredients (e.g. Vitamin A, Calcium, etc), then sort, filter and compare supplements based on price of the supplement as measured per a microgram.

I am trying to figure out what URL schema to pick.

The schema should allow to:

* view individual supplement products

* search supplements based on their active ingredients

* compare one or more supplements

What I have at the moment is a simple pattern:

/?q=vitamin-10,mineral-2

`q` is a comma-separated list of ingredients (or products). The members of `q` are in a format `[data type]-[record ID]`, i.e. This example query would list all products that have `vitamin-10` and `mineral-2`.

I was thinking of using this pattern for all of the aforementioned requirements.

The biggest problem with this pattern is that you cannot tell just from the URL what is the supplement about. We know it is a vitamin and a mineral, but we don't know which one (e.g. Vitamin B12 and Calcium).

My first question: Is that important?

Assuming the answer to the above is yes, then I am trying to think of what's the way to fix it... one way would be to replace ID with a slug, e.g. it would become `/?q=vitamin-b-12,mineral-calcium`.

Second question: This could work, but is it needed?
Either the original M-Disc BDR marketing was bullsh*t or this response is. Whichever way it is, it doesn't make Verbatim look good.
Rentech uses this model too. The equity-to-salary ratio of an employee increases the longer they remain at the firm. It's for incentivizing employees to stick with the firm in the long run such that they don't work for any other firms and become a competitor (especially true in trading given the small population of talents).
This is B2, the service that charges per byte. More data makes it easier for them to profit.
Me and the 6 year old have been making Pokémon cards and generating AI character images based on chimeras. This morning on the way to school we dreamt up a knight+scorpion with tons of armor. Basic: knightstrike, stage 1: knightbite, stage 2: knightflight.

Totally installing this font on the kid’s rasp pi. This will be a fun way to explore the keyboard. Love it.
In our AutoContext implementation, the document title gets included with the generated summary. So if you have files that are organized into nested folders with descriptive names, you can input that full file path as the `document_title`. I did this with one of our internal benchmarks and it worked really well.
Most cameras in the UK are private, rarely working well, and usually not networked or easily accessible to the police. It could be better, but the idea of the UK as a surveillance state is seriously overblown outside of maybe a handful of streets.
Bingo. We only know which mushrooms that are tasty or give us a fun time because a lot of people died finding out.
> Inflation necessarily means losses for everyone.

This is the thing you're disagreeing with parent on, because it's not true if you can afford to hold the assets that are inflating.

Inflation doesn't happen in a vacuum: it's inflation-in-terms-of-____.

If you happen to own a lot of ____, because you have disposable income and can afford to invest, then your net worth "inflates" too.

Simple example: how does inflation of the price of gasoline at the pump impact you, if you own a refinery and a filling station? Certainly not in the same way it does to someone who owns neither and commutes to work daily in an ICE vehicle.
Video showing the opening of a sealed copy and yeah, definitely CD-R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLE9bVMwz-c
The page says that the Linux kernel "has no isolation between internal components whatsoever".

When two sentences later it says, "it can be thought of as equivalent to running all user space code as root in PID 1", it is elaborating on "no isolation . . . whatsoever". Specifically, it is saying that the organization of kernel code is analogous to organizing userspace so that all userspace code run as root in a single process.

The author of the madaidans site BTW is a Whonix and open-source developer, so how is it in his self-interest to criticize Linux's security? There is no indication anywhere on the site that the author or anyone else want to sell the reader anything.
I don't see the relevance of this. No one eats at Red Lobster thinking "this is the exact dinner experience that billionaires would design for themselves".

Walmart is a family owned business. Do you think that the Walton family buy groceries and home furnishings there? McDonald's is a public company. Do you think that its CEO and the fund managers who hold the biggest stakes in it regularly eat there?
That's strange. I'm a moderately active eBayer and I've never heard of that happening without cause.

What's ironic is that someone has been harassing me (as a seller) and I can't even talk to a human being at eBay to report them or give a nuanced explanation of what they've been doing. The options seem to be "report violent/hate speech" or block them from bidding on your listings -- but not messaging you.

It's been said breathlessly but this move toward forum and chatbot-based customer support really, really sucks.
Money for nothing, commits for free
You can't stop someone from misusing your technology by updating your terms of service, just like you can't stop a criminal by making their behavior against the law. But I don't hold Microsoft responsible for making the police behave a certain way, or for preventing violations of the rules from happening. As you say, it's just not possible. I'd be satisfied if Microsoft consistently shut down any attempts to use their technology in a systematic way, once they discovered a violation of their terms.
No. But I can link to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40240018
Yeah, just like Unity is becoming synonymous with shitty asset-flip games -- because it puts making games within reach of the laziest and least competent among us.

Electron has democratized desktop app development and put it within reach of everybody -- but having bad apps on it doesn't make it bad in itself. Remember, the most-used programmers' editor is also an Electron app!
The difference between prawns and shrimp only exists in some regions. The terms have no concrete scientific meaning, they're both vernacular and depending on where you are both or either term may be used for the same critter. I presume you mean that prawns are the bigger ones, but I've bought local caught fresh "shrimp" on South Carolina coast that were nearly as large as lobsters. There's really no consistent widely respected rule for which is which.
that is the waterfall pmf approach and its super hard. every step of the way is a struggle with unknowns. its a large reason why the failure rate is 99%.
Pter: TUI and GUI for Todo.txt
I've been thinking about this a lot too. It just feels like all ends of the spectrum, for a consumer, are crashing down. Everything is harvesting and selling data, stock at stores is low and usually favors the generic (and sometimes lesser) option over the higher quality names... Apps like facebook, twitter, IG, tiktok, reddit, and youtube are making life worse for their users. Overall, it is kind of a depressing time to observe.
Yes, 6 or 7 years ago I went through and digitized my family’s dvds and cds (music, movies, data, games)

For factory printed discs, bit rot caused data loss in 8 to 10% of the discs. 2 to 3% were a total loss. Those loses were closer to 20-25% for burnable media.

90%+ lived a very comfortable life, climate controlled and protected from UV.
When it comes to wanting big companies to follow rules (a noble pursuit) many wish that common carrier status could be imposed on a business.

But remember why common carrier status exists. Imagine I rob a stagecoach and lie low until the next day, when I catch a train to the next town over.

Is the train engineer my accomplice in the robbery? Or my accessory after the fact? Is the train company?

He and it might be, except that the train company “holds itself out” as a transporter of goods and services open to all. In exchange, the law grants the company that holds itself out as a carrier for all the freedom not to worry about whether carriage is a criminal act for the customer.

But without holding one’s self out as a carrier for all, there is no common carrier status. You cannot hold out a company as sufficiently large; they must hold themselves out as wanting this status.

When I see people clamor for social media platforms, I get doubly confused, because not only have these companies never held themselves out as common carriers, they would take nothing they do not already have (under 230) from doing so.
Does this cater for the same item, a toothbrush for example, being in multiple pack lists?
Ask HN: How do you manage stress at work and in normal life?
I’ve never been a Kalman filter so I have no idea.

The thing that is inscrutable to me by virtue of not having been a Kalman filter myself is what I’m referring to as “point of view.”

I don’t really know that anything or anyone at all is conscious (except for me), but it sure seems like lots of other things are, based on the way they behave.
Maybe we have different circles.

I'm one amongst many using Net on other systems (Mac & Linux) as well as Windows. Larger enterprises which use VS on Windows often deploy the results onto Linux servers too (especially with microservices), which is hardly being hostile.

Though to address the issue of GUIs in Net-land, I've given up as nothing since WinForms (and possibly WPF) has lasted. They are 'supported' in many cases, but it always feels half-hearted or half-dead.
I like them not to be collected or connected. I don't trust those collecting such data.
You've just repeated and rephrased the claim that I challenged without providing any evidence or argument at all. Your actual answer to both questions is "because I believe this".

Can you explain how the math works that PE owners make money from discouraging people from going to a restaurant, and other owners don't have the same incentives?
This is trivially solved by putting code coverage and Miri into the same project, however.
Unlikely things happen. And there have been more than two (former) Boeing employees who have come forward, most of whom managed to survive.
> This is pretty similar to the old argument about why mass surveillance is unlikely to be happening - we're just not that good at keeping secrets.

Not a great example since we know for a fact that mass surveillance is happening. The U.S. Congress just voted to extend and expand it.
This Tesla team built one of its superpowers. Why did Elon pull the plug on it?
Not when you have a lot of cameras, right? You still have to put it on somewhere without being seen, and you would have to swap all clothes so you can’t be tracked by checking tapes of other locations for your clothes before you put it on.
I am not sure about the exact numbers but I would think objects of a certain size would fall apart if they spin too fast. I think I read that this is 1m. Spinning that fast creates some significant centrifugal force.
See also

https://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_generators.html

Or was it

https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_async-iteration.html...
Wayne Coyne and the Creative Benefits of Fry Cooking
I literally had to present ID this morning to buy cold medicine. Had to present ID lastweek to enter my kid's school then had to present ID to their pediatrician.
I spent a year subscribing to each streaming platform, Spotify, Youtube Music, Tidal, and a few others, in search of an adequate replacement for Google Play Music.

For me, Apple Music is simply the best. No clutter, no ads, no podcasts being forced in your face. It has the best recommendations I've seen, much better than Spotify.
Consumers prefer lower electricity bills, so there must be tradeoffs to these efficiency standards that the article does not acknowledge.
It has more to do with the nature of the industry and firm. If your TC yearly is all cash and exceeds 500k, asking 100k of that as buy in is not too different from being granted stock options as an outcome. They could just reduce your TC by 100k one year and replace it with equity in the pool.
For another take on reconstructing ancient greek music, you should look at the work of Annie Bélis (mostly in french but she has a wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_B%C3%A9lis) and the musical ensemble - Kérylos - that she created https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHzK2yVKDmpWEC-igDSeOYg

"Founded at the beginning of the 90s, the Ensemble Kérylos, directed by Annie Bélis, is dedicated to Ancient Greek and Roman Music. It plays only authentic scores as accurately as possible, using instruments that are faithfully reconstructed."
My own concern is more about how Dualists can justify their metaphysics, and where does consciousness stops when considering less complex systems than humans. (Also aggregations of systems, like a country !)
yeah i should stop that habit! my apologies
What a shame. Apple is basically the only company with the resources to take on Google without needing to vacuum personal data.
I think a single Google Analytics alternative is pretty hard to pick considering that GA can be used to very much varying extents.

For simple and "detailed enough" insights, I enjoyed using Plausible (https://plausible.io/) in the past.

For more in depth analytics that give you a detailed view into your own product, PostHog.com seems to be by far the best and most popular option out there.
"Old movie".... Now I feel old....
It does seem sporadic on whether it ends up in the product, but since we're talking about product from 40-50 years ago, it's hard to say what was present in the old product.

Notably - in the 1950s, the USGS published guides on where to mine asbestos in the US [1]. This map is the precise geo coordinates that the USGS included for the Ludlow site and then the site of the Vermont J&J talc mine... literally 2 miles between the two. So again, consider my credulity strained that the only found contamination a handful of times decades ago mining talc directly next to known asbestos deposits.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/43.383623,-72.647868/Argonau...

[1] Page 7 in Windsor County: https://web.archive.org/web/20200319042340id_/https://pubs.u...
One of our foster dogs would bark and growl at dogs on TV. I am pretty sure she would have interacted with them if the TV dogs would have responded to her.
Amazing write up, thanks! Really enjoyed it, miss working on C/C++ apps from scratch and having full control
This looks like such a fun jam - wish I'd have known about it!

When's the next one?
I explained the difference in incentives: Restaurant margins are a PE failure [0], that alone would explain it. Your framing of the scenario as "discouraging people from going to a restaurant" is... less than charitable. A better description would be "extracting the value of customer goodwill from the business and moving it into their pockets". They're PE, they prioritize big, fast returns over long-term customer value and small, slow returns.

Add to that, the leveraged buyout mechanism that Red Lobster went through is famous for siphoning value off the target in the form of fees and other schemes, and then leaving the empty husk to die under crippling debt[1]. A clue here is that the 2nd paragraph of the article we're discussing is, "In mid-April, Bloomberg reported the debt-laden seafood chain...", and it sounded like they had trouble paying it in part because of the rent payments that started when the PE firm sold their real estate to pay for the buyout.

Can you explain why you think anything I've said so far is untrue? After all, we can't assume a PE LBO executor and a small business owner have the same incentives unless we have sufficiently convincing evidence to support that assumption.

0: https://www.indeed.com/hire/c/info/restaurant-profit-margins...

1: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/09/corporate-kl...
I kinda think you’re out of order. Market it. If that gets some traction, maybe it’s a good idea, and maybe try to execute.