skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both components are required but as much as you want to start a business if you don't have labour to actualise the idea/business, ramp it up, etc. you simply don't have a business. There's no value without labour, that's a given not much up for discussion.

The start can be the hardest part but it's definitely not where most of the value comes from, that's what I'm saying.
Did it work great in France? The financing was so opaque it cannot be audited.

What we do know is that France can no longer do what they once maybe did. Their recent attempts to build nuclear plants have been disastrous. They've also given up on fast reactors, which is a clear tell they do not expect the world to go nuclear anytime soon (if the world did, it would quickly need breeders).

The "environmentalists did it" argument is not a good one. It falls apart when examined closely. If they were so powerful as to suppress nuclear worldwide, why can't they (for example) stop oil pipelines? Or coal combustion? The argument has all the signs of something cooked up to save a tenuous position, not because the evidence actually supports it.
fishing net entanglement is still the biggest problem for some nearly extinct species like the right whale
This is almost certainly never going to actually exist, so this is all idle speculation, but if it was real I don't think it would necessarily play out as you describe. The wealthy would be paying way more in tax than they are now (they have to, or their own assets would be sold as well), which would result in a much more generous system of income redistribution. They'd also need to generate constant cash flow to prevent that property from being sold, so I think you'd have fewer "idle rich" on passive income.

I suspect the stable equilibrium would be a lot more renting rather than property ownership, but also a much more generous welfare state such that this was not a problem, since few people would want/need to keep a house as a store of value.
PyPI has only implemented the "server signs whatever's uploaded with that account" part of TUF; there are no Publisher Signatures for packages uploaded to pypi (because GPG ASC support was removed from PyPI, the ad-hoc signature support was removed from wheel, and only server signatures are yet implemented).

https://SLSA.dev/ recommends TUF and Sigstore.dev and trusted containers for build-signing.

Someday, Twine should prompt a PyPI package uploader to sign the package before uploading it, and download it to (prime the CDN cache and) check the Publisher and Package repo signature(s) at least once.
I suspect I damaged my liver somewhat with my drug of choice. I don't do that anymore, and I've come to think that alcohol, tobacco, red meat, soda, and gas stoves should probably be banned by the federal government as well (and plenty of other things). I have no problem adding marijuana to that list, but ultimately, it seems that we value individual freedom rather highly, and I suspect the WSJ would agree with that view if the issue of marijuana did not code left wing. I believe they would call my idealized interventions "The Nanny State".
I crashed into a car while doing basic cycling around town because I was cycling behind it, it braked and my old bicycle was unable to brake as hard. There are times when it's handy to have good brakes.
Some of us still remember "Just Say No" days. We heard all about the negative effects of all the drugs that weren't prescribed.

Cannabis is particularly reviled by the medical industry, because it is so variable in effect between individuals. It is difficult to observe that and not realize that the individual's variations also impact the metabolism and effects of the prescribed drugs, which undermines the cathedral of the medical industry's promises. They don't like that.

The fact that cannabis is also a better solution for many of the "mood disorder" problems that make so much money for the medical industry gives them another reason to dislike it: its effective competition that they cannot control or profit from.
Yeah I would do it with nftables so you don't have to change the sshd listen address.
I really don’t understand why some people are so against this as a language feature. I get that the community tries to stay away from “magic” but where is the line between magic and convenient syntactic sugar.

For example keyword lists as the last argument to a function don’t need brackets, and keyword lists are really lists of tuples where the first item is an atom. I feel like those two things are in some ways less obvious and more magical than this map shorthand.
> without a source code requirement since that is impractical outside of software.

Preferred form for editing is practical for any content that is edited in digital form; if it is impractical at all, its for works where editing is done to some non-digital artifact which is then digitized, and where the norm for further modifications would be the same, and where the digital form is itself not renderable back into the artifact. But I can't think of any real examples.
A small tangent on the subject of databases on top of FDB -- mvsqlite is such an insanely cool project and it looks like it's gone quiet. Any plans to pursue that further?

For those that haven't seen it, SQLite on top of FoundationDB: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
That's just a terminological difference though. Both solve the same problem by inserting tiny faces into text.
>Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

Yes.

>Because, if that's what you're saying, then what is your idea of "art"? Something that you can buy, have promptly delivered and hanged on a wall to decorate a space and get compliments from passers-by?

Let's start with making a space more beautiful, and see where it takes us from here.

Definition could also include connecting with us (difficult if "divorced" from our tastes), enriching the culture, and serving a higher purpose...

>Would you like if all music was something designed to be played on the radio or in malls to decorate musically the environment?

You got it backwards. That's what modern art is currently. Only that the environment isn't a mall but a gallery or some rich person's wall.

That's why its "wildly divorced from the tastes of the majority of people in society".

Because it's either banal or high concept wankery. So like music being either musack or some avant guarde exercize for other academics to applaud. In the art world we could use some Beatles or Animal Collective or Aphex Twin or Aurora or Tame Impala or even some Taylor Swift and Luis Fonzi.
I just watched an 11 minute video on n64 video game mechanics and I was deeply fascinated. It's just a door, or is it?
I was surprised that "Engineering" makes ~35% MORE money than "Computer Science" https://i.imgur.com/xOu1qt0.png

I work at a giant Silicon Valley company surrounded in Computer Science coworkers. I do the Mechanical Engineering for the team. Most of them make at least double what I get paid. But, there's probably heavy selection bias in this area.
Why Few of Us Are "Normal" Human Beings (and That's a Good Thing)
Dell S2722QC, because it looks reasonable, fits nicely on my desk, and shows me the pixels my computer puts out, which is about all I expect a monitor to do. I don't know what "ideal" would mean.
Ok, in this case the businesses will need to consider how many users are like you and how much tweaking they will be required to strip out the promotional material.

Then they will decide if to offer this functionality and at what price.
wow

"You might be a psychopath/sociopath if..."
light bulbs, batteries and switches, all mounted on wood tiles and connected with alligator clips

I'd love to see a photo of this. Maybe I can replicate it.
Ask HN: What project took you the most time to complete?
https://github.com/ublue-os/sysext

We have indeed been playing with this! We think it's a great compliment to extending an ostree OCI base image and hope to bolt on all sorts of goodies. Lots of cool innovation happening in this space right now, it's awesome stuff.
> Because its leadership is deranged

How can you be so sure? Because you saw it on the news? Like "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq?

> in order to indulge its geopolitical fantasies.

Is it a fantasy to prevent Ukraine joining NATO? Is it a fantasy to narrow down the Western border to a more "defendable" region? Maybe.

But I would say it's a fantasy to think you can push out half a million Russian soldiers from an area 20% the size of pre-2014 Ukraine back into Russia without causing an absolutely massive escalation in which nuclear weapons are not just a possibility, but almost a certainty. A 60 billion dollars package won't make a dent. Are you willing to send 10x that (I suppose that level of money would indeed make a dent, but who knows, maybe not even that)? Send enough troops to get the job done (i.e. the real possibility of your family members being sent to die in the front)? We all know the answer: that won't happen.
Source:
Read and understood the original whitepaper.
Plus verified it in the (probably fake) source code.

You can do it too. Might take a decade or two depending on your mathematical background.
Why use 7zip over this?
Mosh was a big inspiration but I took a more traditional PTY based approach rather than object orientated updates.

One thing it does have in common with mosh, is excellent roaming support. And the other major selling point is that the remote shell protocol is browser compatible. No need for things like "Shell In A Box".
Ask HN: What is the project that you are most excited about today?
To an extent, sure. But then part of the problem is that these are planet-scale events: you’d need to disconnect them all at once (coordinating that between independent operators, and as I understand it isolating these giant grid-scale transformers isn’t just a question of flipping a switch). Then you need to ramp down power production in a balanced way as you ramp down places for it to go, and if you succeed at the whole endeavor then you don’t have a grid anymore. Even if it’s possible to do that before the storm, it’s hard to know whether it’s possible to “cold start” the grid at all, much less timely.
How (and why) to design bespoke open hardware for your loved ones [video]
I’m sorry! I totally mistook Re:Zero for another series!

It looks like it has good reviews. I’ll have to check it out.
Having run the numbers myself, at current trends I'd say there's a 50-50 chance we'll reach electrical net-zero by 2032, and add heating and transport to the net-zero bucket by 2038 (and one of the things which may prevent the former by 2032 is the increasing electrification of the latter; I am much more confident that we will reach ~2 TW-years/year of renewable production by 2032 than I am that this will balance electrical demand in 2032).

The rest of the emissions are things like "Can we stop cow methane? And get a replacement for cement that don't inherently emit CO2 as part of the chemistry of the stuff itself?", which I have no frame of reference for with regard to the difficulty, and may or may not happen concurrently.
What is your point? Cost is not a problem when near-term profit is high, and nuclear energy has an unbeatable track record with long-term ROI. Saying "it's expensive" is meaningless nonsense. There is absolutely no excuse besides the time to ROI.
>Not everyone has billions of dollars lying around. SpaceX couldn’t have beaten ULA if that was the case.

But SpaceX didn't have infinite amounts of capital during the years it developed Falcon 9 and Dragon. Until Tesla's market cap blew up during the COVID-19 era, Elon Musk had a "mere" few tens of billions of dollars. ULA's pockets were and are gigantic, too.

In any case, infinite capital guarantees absolutely nothing. Jeff Bezos has been among the world's wealthiest men for far, far longer than Musk's entry into that group. Let me paraphrase an excellent comment I saw on Reddit, in response to one of the usual lies about how the only reason SpaceX is a decade ahead of the rest of the world is that it got zillions in subsidies from the US government:

>If large amounts of funding is the only thing required to succeed, Blue Origin would now have a nuclear-powered spacecraft orbiting Pluto.
Needles in haystack, is a nice one , thanks for the suggestion.

I named is Cheatsheet, as you can quickly lookup your data where ever you are.
For number acuity, you might like this simple web I created a while ago. Have your child on your lap, open the link on your mobile, make sure volume is turned up, and tap the screen.

https://dots.twilam.com/
I dunno if sometimes the language would be contextual, and utterances could not be understood without taking into account the context of what is occurring, or the speaker. Yes I know human language can be subject to these variables too. Anyhow it's all speculation and the dream of talking to animals is surely exciting.

Also, a Youtube doc about researchers attempting to teach dolphins english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UziFw-jQSks
The iHP48 app on iOS is very good.

It’s not the same as an original due to the lack of real keys, and, frankly, I don’t think the phone holds as well as the original calculator. Phone also feels heavier.

However, having the backlight is a vast improvement. I’d enjoy the original with a backlight. My modern eyes just can’t read the original screen well any more.

Mind the other benefit of the app is simple ubiquity being part of the phone. All reasonable trade offs.

But I can’t see using the phone for extended work compared to the original. The overall ergonomics just aren’t there.
Ask HN: iPad Pro as an LLM backend?
I’ve seen iOS apps that let you download open source LLMs like Llama/Mistral and run them locally. But is there any app/solution that would let me use an iPad as an inference backend from another computer on my LAN?

I’m curious to see whether it might be worth getting the new iPad Pro M4, which I’m guessing should be pretty fast at inference, but it’s obviously a very locked down system so I’m not sure if it’s viable.
This is exactly right.

Planning and reasoning have long standing meaning in AI, based on explicit knowledge representation and inference. It's a subspace of AI that predates LLMs by decades.

But LLMs don't do that kind of planning and reasoning, and CoT is very clearly not a reasoning technique in the AI sense.
There are plenty of markets in the electrical power sector. In addition to the market for energy sources, selling generating assets to utilities, there are markets in the power itself in many places, for example ERCOT in Texas.

No one has ever built a nuclear plant to sell into a competitive power market. One can trace the downfall of nuclear in the US to the time when markets were opened to competition, with PURPA.
That would be possible, but then you would need to blackstart the entire grid which would be a long and painful process.
> Scientists don’t make claims without evidence.

History has shown that to not be true.

> Scientists are generally very curious, open to exploration

In my experience, it is the opposite. I often find scientists are in fact very uncurious when it comes to anything outside their domain of choice.
> Owners merely started it in the right time and place

LOL. If it is "merely" a matter of starting in the right time and place, why don't you go ahead and start a few companies who will treat their employees in the ideal way you prefer.
Go and Python are both fine languages, but they aren't great replacements to Java (for me).

I think Go will be a great language in 5-10 years. The authors of the language wanted to make something minimal, and they did a great job of that, but it was too barebones, though they are rectifying this by adding in critical features (like IMO, generics)

I like Python for small scripts, but I feel like I'm constantly fighting the language when managing dependencies, dealing with init scripts, or figuring out which of the 10 ways I should use to perform a common task.

I don't think there is a great replacement for Java. TypeScript with Bun or Deno might be the closest alternative right now, at least for me.
Layoffs are not good. Google CEO Sundar Pichai explains why the company keeps doing layoffs, he said "Google is simplifying teams, and in others, it's moving people to focus on new areas. The company is also removing some teams entirely to improve velocity." More details here: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-exp...
Paywall detour:

https://archive.ph/2024.05.12-133455/https://www.newscientis...
In Firefox, the 24 (with the old-style 4 looking like a turned alpha) is missing from the outer dark band. However, in Edge, the 24 is there.
I agree and I think this is slowly changing.
it's an important step though. with a whale llm and chatbot we would have a tool to study whale language and communication actively rather than just being able to listen to their interactions passively. i could think of all sorts of cool experiments with an algorithm that can generate whale click sounds and elicit predictable replies from actual whales.
Me neither in Sid - I guess they installed the listchanges package some time and forgot.
Every one of your statements there is obviously false.
Show HN: Markdown note-taking web-app, no sign-up
A new philosophy: Pipeline As Code
One of the things on my TODO radar is to implement a LD_PRELOAD'able Unix sockets implementation. Plus I need to get some additional language bindings done (eg. Python).
i don’t like adding foundational syntax using libraries, but i do wish they would add this to the language. deconstruction by pattern is super common and the syntactic sugar would be most welcome.
nowadays, when people need precision to 1/100th of an "inch" (250μm in modern units) on soft materials like unhardened steel, they can use steel tools

but when they need precision of 1μm or better (in medieval units, 1/25000th of an "inch"), or when they're cutting materials harder than steel, they resort to grinding with stone, typically emery (sapphire) for most of the grinding, followed by polishing. poor people who don't have steel tools also commonly do this for lower-precision work in soft materials; you can find all kinds of videos on youtube of people using angle grinders for things that a well-equipped machine shop would do with a bandsaw or milling machine

similarly, to get the dimensional references to measure to, common shop work can use cast-iron straight edges. but, for more precise work, they resort to granite surface plates

the egyptians of the old kingdom clearly had granite surface plates (they built significant parts of the pyramids' interiors out of them) and grinding, though they were evidently using the inferior quartz sand as their abrasive

as for symmetry, the most likely explanation is that they used lathes; the oldest indisputable records of lathes are from new kingdom egypt, but rotationally symmetric work that seems to have been made on a lathe appears as far back as the old kingdom

with respect to granite, while i don't doubt that you can find a granite vase here and there, most ancient egyptian fine stone carvings are from much softer rocks such as schist, alabaster (gypsum), and "alabaster" (calcite)

so i would say the investigation has already been done and found convincing answers
Fastbench – (my first package) yet another benchmarking package for Python
Cyberattack forces US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals
Detecting captive portals re-establishing is a separate, but linked issue. It's mostly solved too.

Setting aside a VPN client, your browser and/or OS will send out a http get request to a site which returns "OK" or "success". If it returns a redirection, then it will go "ahha I'm behind a captive portal" and pop up a page for you to log in.

VPNs do something similar. The MozillaVPN client for example will periodically check for reauthentication by doing a http call over the non-VPN route to a server and looking for a response saying "success". If it needs a redirect it flags up a message on the client to disable your client and reroute traffic via normal networking to allow reauthenticaiton.

What I want from a wireguard client is it to check for captive portals outside (in a situation I'm routing the entire of 0.0/0 via wireguard), but also check for reachability inside the tunnel. Have "check" and "checktime" parameters, which poll a given server (presumably via the tunnel) preset a popup to reauthenticate.
Rockets are essentially just fire that burns real fast.
yes. Capitalism is the best system. Even in communist china, only after transitioning to market capitalism they got tech companies producing prosperity.

We also allow forming other kinds of companies. You can create worker cooperative tech company that has more diverse goal instead of just making money.
You would get a better price/performance out of almost literally any new hardware in it's price range. There are sub-$1000 Nvidia laptops that would run circles around it purely for backend purposes.

It really does not make sense to pay for a screen and form factor you won't use though. You could make a $500 headless inferencing server with a few used 3060s and buy a used iPad Pro with the savings.
Laptop screen + portait second-hand monitor from time to time when working on or reading long PDFs such as academic papers else turned off to save a few watts.
The area of just the register file (even for rv32e) is higher area than the survivors of the 8 bit ucontrollers.
Sweep (YC S23) is hiring a Founding Engineers to build a code generation bot
Evaluate quality of generated papers on 10-20 samples with peer review.
Same is true here in Sweden, we just have deep enough reservoirs. We also have nuclear, but hydro is also a really big part and as Canada has even lower population density than we do it shouldn't be unreasonable. But perhaps terrain in many areas isn't helpful.
C#, F# and PHP all support named arguments and they're quite common for optional parameters.
It's "daily minimum wage" Vs "hourly".
most people don’t waste money on solving a problem that happens maybe 1% of the time, gps is very reliable
If we're talking about constructing structs, like in `Foo { bar, baz: 123 }` (with the `bar` style shortcut in it), I have used that kind of syntax 10 times in 16 KLOC of Rust. Not a lot, but it does happen, and I found it kinda neat when LSP integration suggested its use.

I've probably used it more for pattern matching (`let Foo { bar, baz } = ...`), but haven't measured the number of instances of that idiom.
Seriously compare these two sales pitches from the perspective of a teenager who's nervous about starting out life on their own:

"Take out a student loan so you can get a degree and get a good job that will pay off the loan and get you secure."

vs

"Take out a student loan, even though you have a 50% chance of dropping out and being left a renter working at McDonalds and a mountain of student debt... so that you'll know how to fight fascism."

Obviously the financial ROI is what is most important here to the people who have a greatest stake in matter. Getting people into financial trouble to prepare them to fight any sort of political extremism is probably completely counterproductive anyway; if somebody is trapped in debt and looking for solutions they're more likely to fall in with rising populists figures.
If it's a public good, then it's a public good. So whoever wants to use it according to the license it's fine.

If something is produced where the author is upset afterwards when this good is not used in the way he/she intended to, than it's the problem of the author in the first place to have choosen the wrong license.
And our current tax laws don't?
My guess: train a generative model to predict whale sounds, based on recordings of real ones, and hope that the resulting latent space will map to the one of a human-trained LLM. We'd need a stupidly large amount of recordings of whale songs, a tokenization scheme, and few already translated sounds/phrases to serve as starting points for mapping the latent spaces.