skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you need to be able to weigh up both sides in a balanced way. Lennart demonstrably isn't.

That's why nobody uses his software. I mean just nothing he does gets adopted.

The 'run0' solution uses an already existing mechanism that is already used for a lot of things.
Its an election year, in several countries that I know of, so it is the perfect time to jump to dramatic conclusions.
I've had corrosion. Literal rust spots forming on the metal layer. Similar to how mirrors get that mold/rust growing between the silver layer and glass.

I have not been keeping the DVDs in a controlled environment. They have been in a garage in a high humidity region.

I think you could keep them indefinitely in a humidity controlled environment but for the average user they will corrode just like old mirrors do.
Based on your description of your requirements Piper TTS might be of interest to you: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
As someone who crossed 45 not that long ago, I gotta say that I have definitely noticed an uptick in people dying who I'm acquainted with.
> I'm baffled by this comment. It's exceedingly rare for two middle-aged and otherwise healthy people to die without warning.

No. It happens every day. Yes, if you pick two random middle-aged people at random, it's exceedingly rare for both of them to die without warning. However, if you pick a large population of otherwise healthy middle-aged people, the probably that two of them might die without warning is actually quite high.

The question is, how large is the population? If the union is to be believed (and there's a lot of credibility there), Boeing whistleblowers are a pretty large population. Add in to that the stress & disruption of being a whistleblower, and then layer on the stress from any retaliation from Boeing (which allegedly is happening on a daily basis), and the probability of two of them dying around the same time isn't really that low.

e.g., if you assume a mortality rate of 1 in 1000/yr (which seems very low, considering their circumstance) and a population of 100, the odds of two of them dying over the course of a year is over 50% (1-0.999^100)^2 = 53.29%.
The book he co-authored, A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography, has been very helpful.

https://toc.cryptobook.us/
This. Gene Amdahl himself (of Amdahl’s law fame) gave up on wafer scale, proclaiming it to be 100 years too soon. Now it’s looking like it was only 40-50!
I'm talking about the copyright claims. If Bing and Google stand down when people request their sites to be removed, how would OpenAI have the resources to push against that?
Cerebras has a way of bypassing bad transistors. They over provision the WSE by 1.5%, and have 100% yields that way.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...
This made me want to look at raylib. It comes with some cute examples that run using WebAssembly: https://www.raylib.com/examples.html

One thing that's always bothered me about Wasm and browser 3d/2d graphics is that I often find minor issues such as scrolling. Look at the example called "Background scrolling & parallax" here: https://www.raylib.com/examples.html

I've tested on several devices and it's definitely not smooth scrolling, unless there's something wrong with my eyes.

How can 2D smooth scrolling not be a solved problem in 2024?
Finally, I came to the comments so I didn't have to read the article and all the comments are just about tracking cookies.
For those who were unaware of the Nix situation (like me):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199153
As suspicious as this sounds, surely the amount of pressure he was under could lead to him to getting sick, then once in the hospital contracted the pneumonia and it all went downhill from there.
Well drinking on the weekends is normal everywhere so I don't know what is being conveyed here.
Note that the majority of tests and durability claims about M-DISC (particularly about the special recording layer) are about M-DISC DVD-Rs. Although manufacturer likes to conflate them in marketing, it's not clear whether the M-DISC BR-Rs are any different than regular HTL BD-Rs.
Thanks! No not currently, its just using the SD card (I know this is bad idea but i ran out of SSDs). I GitLab to have its own storage hardware, I don't want GL using the production customer storage cluster.
> Why is it a yearly fee

I do not know. My hunch is because it's easy.
All I know is: Twitter/X is facing a crisis of spammy accounts and their mitigation strategy has been to require new accounts to submit payment info for the X subscription service.
Neofetch: A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2
Super impresssive for getting this done in a week. Being able to make pretty demo models definitely helps too! :)
IIRC Serf is mostly a library; I think the product around it is more for demonstration than actual expected use. Consul uses libserf for it's gossip protocol.
I’m still waiting for a story 20 years from now when they finally raise the hotdog price and the old CEO is 90 and kills the CEO who raised the price.

Or maybe it’s not the CEO he threatened, but a new one.
Such a company, with no long term plan, wouldn’t be able to raise capital.
(not the poster, just someone earnest explicating at length)

There's an odd dissonant quality to reading a broad-based lament* about "joining a service" and it "getting worse", in response to Spotify putting lyrics behind a paywall.

I get it, I subscribe to the lament.

It's just hard to imagine complaining about it in the context of using something in trial mode, for free, and the change being song lyrics are paywalled.

* Again, I lament this as well, but the language is sort of over-the-top and obviously unethical in a way that makes it seems more like its mocking people who lament this.

"I hate" "becoming worse and worse"
"How is this model still something CEOs go for?" "there are enough people stupid enough to keep on paying" "worth to lose people and keep on making more profits from quarter to quarter." "This is a pest." "I turned pirate again" "I'm teaching all my friends how to do it too."
Really weird to see "opinionated" used as a good thing.
Lyrics is a great feature. Other day a friend played the guitar and we followed lyrics in Spotify. Nice karaoke night
The blind faith some people have in markets and competition despite all evidence always leaves me in awe.
There are web/mobile apps that can handle the playlist/“liked” songs migrations, but I don’t think they’re widely known.
playlists age. you'll be surprised how easy it is to build those things back up again on youtube. spotify's "moat" isnt as big as it thinks it is and i hope they get a sharp wakeup call.
If you were to fire up your IDE and start a new greenfield C# project, would .Net Framework be your first choice?
"4%" is very much in dispute. It's easy to get that by reading click-bait article titles, but the question is obviously more nuanced. "N%" works anywhere you don't have total chaos. Do you have many years of plausibly relevant statistics? Can you envision these statistics (which by now include minor wars, major wars, self-inflicted major nonsense, high-inflation crises, other economic crises, demographic waves, and sitcom writer strikes) - can you envision these statistics to be reasonably relevant going forward? (You should ask yourself the questions, but "now is different" is a red flag, as economic thinking).
A Yeast-Like Bacteria Can Cut Carbon Emissions
Uniqueness Types
It happened to a late friend of mine in Los Altos who was minding his own business walking in a parking lot while playing the augmented reality game Ingress. The cops beat the shit out of his arms and legs, and then dumped him off in the county's lockdown ward to coverup their misdeeds. They knew they could get away with it and did so.
> why would anyone use that instead of dozens of easier and more common methods?

So that you will think it is not suspicious
I don’t buy hard drives based on these reports. I buy SSDs and let my cloud providers deal with hard drives.
Ask HN: What features would you want in a new web/mobile testing service?
Hey HN, if someone created a new testing service from scratch for today's web and mobile applications:

- What are the biggest pain points in your current testing processes?

- What features would make your testing faster, easier, or better?

- Are there particular integrations or tools you really, really like?
Fietje: An open and efficient LLM for Dutch
Fietje is an adapated version of microsoft/phi-2, tailored to Dutch text generation by training on 28B tokens. It is small and efficient with a size of 2.7 billion parameters while performing almost on par with more powerful Dutch LLMs of twice its size like GEITje 7B Ultra. In some benchmarks it even beats it! In real-world use, it expectedly hits the limits of its size. It is intended to find a good balance in terms of size and capabilities, setting the stage for running Dutch LLMs on phones or Raspberry PIs.
https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/
So what you’re saying is that there’s a 96% chance Boeing did it. If that doesn't conclusively settle the matter, I don't know what would.

Boeing would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for us meddling hackers!
> Private equity firms prey on companies that are already struggling. Yes, they take a struggling company and hasten its demise. But healthy companies don't end up getting bought by private equity in the first place.

From the finance/economics perspective, what should be the ideal replacement for Private Equity?

At least for me they seem like a part of the ecosystem responsible for extending the lifespan of some companies and eventually maximizing revenue in those that has success, and this premium is used to cover the losses in other bets.
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Previously Neofetch as Been Archived [0](6 points, 3 days ago, 5 comments), I've forked neofetch to keep it alive[1](150 points, 1 day ago, 99 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197500
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222213
we meant to have this fixed before launch, but ran into some snags with charm's `wish` and adaptive colors.

shipped an improved light mode today!
It also helps if the product is addictive.
Do they include audiobooks too? Spotify seems to have upped their audiobook game lately.
I love it, I think this one has legs.

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I've been a happy DDG user for a few years now. It was initially terrible for local searches (I'm at the ass end of NZ) but the last few years I very rarely find myself switching back to google for anything.
I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but I do like crime thrillers so I'll add that one potential reason could be that one or more people at the company are worried about prison time for something they did. That kind of thing could lead someone to make desperate moves, like assassinating a whistleblower. Hell, it doesn't even need to be someone high up on the ladder, it could be one of the factory workers that worked on a plane that went down, and is panicking because he got bad legal advice from ChatGPT!

... but I'm like 99.9998% confident this is actually just a series of non-malicious, tragic coincidences rather than a conspiracy.
> Both were whistleblowers of which there are allegedly no more than 32 in the last few years.

Yeah, out of a population of 32, it's unlikely to happen. It seems likely that this number is grossly underrepresenting the size of the population. Maybe whistleblowers are being targeted, maybe there are a lot more than 32, maybe both of those are true, but it seems unlikely that both of them are false.
Does it matter either way? EMTs must still act based on professional ethics to not do harm and respect informed consent.
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Interesting. I wonder what changed. Formulation of the bun? Or the "special sauce"? Or perhaps just a change in the way calories are calculated.

I recall a time when the Big Mac was the gold standard of "this product has too many calories", and articles would decry things that somehow managed to have more. Now, it's hard to find anything with a mere 500 calories.
The entire schtick of chain restaurants is consistency. For nationwide chains, that means that the same ingredients end up being used in relatively remote places without cheap access to fresh produce as in, say, California, where fresh produce is far more affordable.

The big chains also tend to aim for excessive variety on their menus, which again leads to food needing to be designed to be less perishable.

And then there's the chunk of profits that are going to run the national presence, ad spend, and line the pockets of shareholders.
TBH that's partly due to the rigors of medical schooling. I suppose it's also expensive if you don't live near a skiing site though which is understandable. But if you're happy with your choice of pursuing this field I think you may find more satisfaction in your work than a CFO at a tech corp.
Just call Liam Neeson.
Seconding this - I loved 155, 255, and 251 from Professor Boneh. He's very talented and was one of my favorite instructors for multiple years; great at explaining concepts.
Data-driven X is a semantic trick to absolve people from owning their X and being accountable for it; decisions just happen to be the most damaging usage. Let data _inform_ you.
Has nothing to do with a pedestal, it's a scientific observation.

> a chaotic thalamo-cortical loop

The aroma of coffee is not explained by the words "chaotic thalamo-cortical loop" - those are words used to loosely describe which neurons activate when I experience the aroma of coffee, but they are not the aroma of coffee, and there's no proof that they are even causal to that experience. It's a logical fallacy because many correlations are not causes but effects, and some are entirely unrelated. Example:

The green stoplight correlates with cars driving, but they don't cause a car to drive. No amount of learning about stoplights will teach you about how a car moves. From far away you simply noticed that the green light is loosely correlated with the cars moving, but that's all you know. That's what is meant by the phrase correlation is not causation - "False Cause Fallacy".

LLMs have nothing to do with consciousness, that's artificial intelligence which as I defined above is not the same as having a sensation. Intelligence (and selfhood, and other psychiatry) are all happening within the conscious process, they shouldn't be conflated with it.

> There's no hard problem of consciousness

If there's no problem - meaning, it's well-understood to the point you can reproduce it - then why has nobody been successful at producing it in isolation? The answer is, we don't know what consciousness is to the point we can reproduce it.

To deny consciousness outright is to deny the first-person observation that you're having right now. Empirical science is based on observational evidence, and there is observational evidence of an experience from your perspective - the fact of your experiential existence owes a grokable explanation - even if it is caused by or correlated with neurons in brains.
1992 Game Pinball Fantasies Reverse Engineered and Re-Created
I'm a service dog
Apparently the parrots got along fine using FB Messenger to call each other, so rather than a distinct "animal internet" it's more "animals on the internet". I suppose that's what happens when you invest effort in designing UI that a toddler can use.
DBs default to B-Trees even for synthetic primary keys because range queries are almost always necessary, for instance, if you want to paginate records. Some DBs also include a hash map index in addition to B-Trees, for instance Postgres [1], but still use B-Trees for primary keys. Sqlite3 doesn't support Hash indexes.

There's a very short chapter in "Modern B-Trees Techniques" [2] that compare B-Trees with Hash indexes:

* Durability schemes are simple and robust for b-trees, not so for hash maps.

* Ordering has advantages for concurrency control by means of key range locking.

* "Very few database implementation teams find hash indexes among the opportunities or features with a high ratio of benefit and effort, in particular if B-tree indexes are required in any case in order to support range queries and ordered scans."

--

1: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-types.html#I...

2: https://w6113.github.io/files/papers/btreesurvey-graefe.pdf
I find YouTube Music to be both better (larger library) and worse (less curation).
I mean most of our debt is to entities within the USA.

Which means instead of taxing the wealthy were paying them for the privilege of using their money.

So that could be a good thing.

When the rich were taxed heavily post WW2 the US was a pretty great place to live if you were middle class.

Not sure if that would work out still in a post-gold standard, modern uni-party ruling class USA where taxes may not be used efficiently.

Even some rich people question how little taxes they pay.
I'd say the key insight that I see on #4 is that people do not consider libraries code. They consider it black box. It is the same urge that causes teams to label a code base they have taken over "legacy" and "in need of rewrite."

Sometimes, the answer is to dive in an seek to understand it. Now, that may end up meaning that you fork the tool or contribute back to it. It may mean that you choose to build anyway, and it may mean that you come back understanding it. However, if a library is not working for you, the slowest answer is often the one where you fiddle with it until it's working without taking the time to dive in.
> > You can't afford a home, on your own, at $250k in the Bay Area.
There are free online tools for migration.
Is the best-selling game on every platform Minecraft casual or hardcore? What about Heartstone which allows you to play as much as you like, even once a year (and win), competitive and addictive: choose three.

It is as if the casual true dichotomy is a false one.
Wait, is that a decision a company is allowed to make ?
Is it the beginning of cyberpunk ?

Feels like they're just protecting their ass while keeping overselling their product.

Not that law enforcement should use AI irresponsibly and without boundaries, but I'm not sure it is the responsibility of a company to make that kind of call.
Monks having a laugh by making the Os in the word for eye look like eyes, and now we have unicode support for that, amazing.
Yeah I have no doubt this serves as a message for future whistleblowers, but damn that is some level of prevention.

> Additionally, western corporations were, multiple times, accused of being involved in assassinations of union leaders in developing countries.

Unions are the kryptonite of capitalists and threaten their very existence, so it isn't that out of field; if we are to make the parallel, it means there is something in what they know that threatens the very existence of Boeing and I fail to imagine what
There was a sci-fi story written in 1960s which described pretty much what smartphones ended up being:

> The remote-access computer transponder called the "joymaker" is your most valuable single possession in your new life. If you can imagine a combination of telephone, credit card, alarm clock, pocket bar, reference library, and full-time secretary, you will have sketched some of the functions provided by your joymaker.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_the_Pussyfoot)

Interestingly, the author came up with the idea after he got acquainted with the details of time-sharing mainframes common of his time. Consequently, the devices themselves are actually mostly hollow, just processing input and output, and all actual smarts are done on central servers elsewhere - which becomes a major plot point eventually.

It even got the social aspects of it - i.e. it being a standard device that people carry around them everywhere, it's used for most day-to-day communication etc. Just about the only thing about it that feels off from a modern perspective is their size - they are large enough to require carrying them on the belt (like 90s cellphones) rather than in the pocket.

Now, one thing that is still missing compared to the model is the "pocket bar" part (which in the novel also includes recreational drugs). Now that would actually justify a new device like Rabbit. ~
My dad always bought the cheapest DVD-Rs (the "free with rebate" specials they they would have at Best Buy and CompUSA in 2003-2007) to put home movies and we're definitely seeing disc rot issues now when trying to back up the videos and plop them on a Jellyfin server. Fortunately, my dad was kind of a nut about burning a bunch of copies of DVDs (he lost a big paper in graduate school in the 80's because he hadn't backed up the document he was working on because of a floppy corruption I think), so everything is redundant across like five discs, and I don't think we've actually lost any footage.

Neither my dad nor I knew how writable media like that worked at the time, and I think we both assumed that, assuming they didn't get scratched, they would last forever. Obviously we were wrong.
Try a Three Rivers Manufacturing Shadow. Same lock as a Benchmade but better quality control and IMO a superior design as far as ergonomics and practicality go than anything currently on offer from Benchmade. I love my Benchmades but when compared to TRM they almost always end up looking like a worse value proposition.
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Bandcamp and RYM.
> Did I ever say the U.S system is perfect?

Not explicitly, but I'm reading between the following lines:

> That's why I said we need to align people's outcome to profit.

Where do you think the US rates from a "focused on profit" perspective?