skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not that experienced with it either, but a mortgage loan is just a secured loan. The primary value driver is that it's a stream of payments for a defined period of time, probably boosted by the fact that it's secured but also reduced by the fact that it can be paid off at any time. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but fundamentally it's just a debt that can be bought and sold for something close to its net present value of its future cash flows, like any other bond or debt.
This could account for why some people are much better at say geometry than algebra.

I'm the opposite. I rarely visualize things I read, be it geometry or poetry. I can read a detailed description of a person or an item in a novel, and I don't really "see" anything.

But I have an active inner monologue. I "hear" myself saying the words when reading or writing, I "talk" to myself when solving problems or just thinking about stuff.

Especially when programming I'm reasoning by discussing the problem with myself, the only difference being that I usually don't open my mouth and vocalize the discussion. Though sometimes when I'm alone I do just that.
Discussion [0] (55 points, 1 hour ago, 72 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589585
At no point did Filipinos have the ability to vote for Senators, Congressmen, or the President. Same for Puerto Ricans. US has other territories too, by the way, with the same restrictions.

You have no problem calling the US a democracy, but when the same rules are applied elsewhere you have a problem?
We used to use them for this all the time!
Did you made the graphics?

Why "move_forward" instead of a shorted world like "forward"? (What does the turtle in Logo use?)
> Participating in staking is fully permissionless, stakers are not taxing non-stakers. They are being remunerated for their work.

That's just a more polite way to say tax. Being permissionless is cool, but it's still tax in my dict.

> There is something called opportunity cost.

And, who is going to be able to have a larger percentage of their funds staked, a poor or a whale? You need a (mostly) fixed amount of liquidity to use the thing.

> Incorrect. A staker does proportionate amount of work to its stake.

Apologies, I edited my original reply which should answer this.

In short, I don't see anything preventing me to run 10000 validators with 32 ETH each with very similar cost to running just one. It's certainly not linear.
I left a job due to almost entirely for poor pay.
Entire department got an immediate 10% raise to stop more people from leaving.
wholesale plastic is surprisingly expensive, typically several dollars a kilogram. (even fairly raw petroleum distillates like gasoline cost about a dollar a kilogram at retail.) it's not like gravel and sand where shipping costs are most of the cost of the material; petroleum is precious enough to be routinely shipped intercontinentally, and plastic is an added-value product on top of that, requiring several capital- and energy-intensive purification and processing steps

to take an especially cheap example, polyethylene, as i understand it, is made by polymerizing ethylene (with <5ppm contaminants) on a ziegler-natta catalyst; the ethylene is mostly produced by steam cracking of hydrocarbons at 750°–950° followed by multiple distillation steps

so, using slightly less fake numbers, if we multiply four dollars a kilogram for the plastic, 50-micron thickness, and one gram per cc, we derive 20¢ per square meter (or, in medieval units, 1.9¢ per square foot). this is actually twice the retail price given upthread, so it's reasonable to think that nearly all the cost of the plastic wrap is the actual materials. also probably the plastic is thinner than my guess

(i'd be delighted to hear from ars what kind of plastic their plastic wrap is and if they can fold it in half six times to measure 64 layers of it with some calipers)

we can get more accurate numbers for aluminum; https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-aluminum.p... says 130¢ per pound last year (287¢/kg in modern units) and it's 2.699g/cc and typically 10μm thick. this works out to 7.75¢ per square meter, giving a raw materials cost estimate that's actually lower than my estimate for the plastic. the higher finished product cost is probably because of the cost of operating the rolling mills
Once a glorified US military base in the middle east served to expand US interests has become a parasitic entities and controls the host.

The upside is the relationship is symbiotic, US expands Israel's borders, wreaking havock in the region, but tests US's war apparatus under "defence" and prevents a unified Arab/Asia/Indo state.

Israel gets free reign to ignore international law, billions, while touting some story about a 'promised land'.
Bars (in UK) pay enormous sums of money to present PPV broadcasts and such. They are charged, usually, according to floorspace; sometimes size of screens is factored in, sometimes there are maximum numbers of attendees.

It's similar to libraries having to buy a book along with a license that bypasses the usual imprint that says "not for lending"; they don't just buy a book from a bookstore.
The lam clearly exists, as that is what maps from the LLM to actions, otherwise it wouldn’t be able to do anything.

The actions are definitely faulty, as per the door dash example. I can’t get Alexa to play my last audiobook consistently. They all suck. Amazon own audible and still can’t get it right.

It IS faster than chatGPT. Even if it’s using GPT for inference the transcription and TTS latency are less than is available from OpenAI - at least at present.

Rabbit is just a “better” understanding alexa with less actions IMHO. They all suck, so why pick on this one specifically? Amazon charges $50 for an echo dot which cant even answer a basic question.
THE largest gaming platform in the world. Users, sales, number of games, hours played.

I challenge you to find one metric where the iPhone isn't number one.
I don't get why relational DBs are usually taught around natural keys. With MySQL/Postgres you almost always want bigserial PK.
Upadacitinib has been a huge success for someone in my family. Spectacularly effective.

This is after trying the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, 5-ASAs, adalimumab, ustekinumab, and vedolizumab, none of which offered more than minor relief.
One of the reasons I no longer ask questions on Physics stack exchange:

1. I asked "how powerful" such waves would have to be to be audible.

2. I directly linked to another question whose accepted answer said "these waves can wiggle your ear drum"

3. Got my question closed as a duplicate but the link was to different question that only asked "is it possible" (and accepted the answer "yes") without there being any answer to the "how powerful" part.

4. Got an answer which said "no, never".

Of course, I can now get an infinite supply of confusing contradictions from ChatGPT, and because I ask questions from a position of ignorant curiosity, I'm equally incapable of discerning which of the mutually incompatible responses I get is definitely incorrect regardless of if it comes from an LLM or a trained physicist.
Yeah, I know that feeling well. The day after completing a massive thing, I'm super happy to have a zero day, and just enjoy the feeling of having accomplished something big. Other days, not so much.
> The response rate is so low as to be entirely meaningless.

This calculator says you need a 385 sample size for a billion (or infinite) population: https://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html?type=...

Please check the theory presented below the calculator, it explains why such a low number is enough for a confidence level of 95% that the real value is within ±5% of the measured/surveyed value.
Glad to hear you came back to it.

The underlying board layouts were generated manually, and are reused. They can get flipped for more variety though. Everything else about a puzzle (splitting the chosen board to areas, placement of words on the board, choosing the hints) is automated.
I'd love to hear about all these DRM-free single-player AAA games. If you're talking about older games, then maybe we're just talking past each other; I assumed we were talking about recent AAA games.
Nice to see new art work in browsers!

Some comments pointed out that there are latency issues, which are mainly caused by tonejs. I used tonejs a few years ago for my first live coding project: https://quaverseries.web.app/

Interestingly, I also used the same interactive rhythm prompts as op in the page title, but the timing was not accurate at all. See this classic article: https://web.dev/articles/audio-scheduling

Later, in order to refine my idea, I used rust + wasm and made https://glicol.org/.

It basically solved the audio latency problem, and I also made js bindings: https://glicol.js.org/

I'd love to get as much feedback as possible. I feel that this sequencer is particularly suitable for glicol's seq syntax.
Constructively speaking, a disproof is a "proof that a statement leads to a contradiction". A "proof that there is no proof (assuming consistency)" can exist just fine, and that's exactly what the incompleteness theorem is, alongside a "proof that there is no disproof, i.e., that a contradiction cannot be derived from the statement (assuming consistency)".
I, too, love doing in-depth research of things as a recreational activity. Particularly things that are outside of my sphere of competency.

I also end up writing essays about what I've discovered, basically as a means of having some sort of "goal" for the research.
I was looking at using moment.dev for a very similar (internal) application but the lift of using TypeScript and how the whole tool worked was very daunting. Having a simple Jupyter notebook interface (in Python) is much more approachable for a devops background.
Oh but now it's so unimaginably worse than that. Boeing lost the contract for commercial crew to SpaceX, who was indeed the lowest bidder. But Boeing has connections, and got Congress to make NASA also give them a contract. So they did. And Boeing's contract ended up being worth about 50% more than the contract SpaceX got. It was expected Boeing was going to be the first to start launching crewed missions by a fairly wide margin. SpaceX started in 2020. Boeing started, right now.

Oh and the build up to this finale is no less... odd. Boeing did their pad abort test - demonstrating the ability for their capsule to rocket off on its on, like it might do from a failing rocket. And that test failed with only 2 out of 3 of the parachutes opening. But insert 'Boeing influence' - NASA decided it was a clear success. And not just any success, but a success so clearly successful that they simply let Boeing completely skip the launch abort test (where you'd to the same escape test, but in flight) and moved right on to complete unmanned tests to the ISS.

So they launch their first mission to the ISS, and completely miss the station leaving the craft in a potentially catastrophic scenario, though it does eventually make its way back to Earth. So NASA just pats them on the back 'Happens to us all! Just give it another go!' So they do, and on this flight 1/6th of the thrusters on the approach module failed, but by some act of God (and backup thrusters), the craft somehow managed to mate with the ISS. So of course NASA said, "Brilliant! Success! Bring on the humans!"

And that's where we are right now. And that is the company behind the rocket that's under you right now.
> Getting to space SEVEN times off one poweplant/project

Sure, if you ignore the 20+ year old Atlas V that actually launched it...
> NY Times v OpenAI and Microsoft says the opposite, that verbatim, large archives of NY Times articles were retrieved via API.

This does not match my understanding of the information available in the complaint. They might claim they were able to do this, but the complaint itself provides some specific examples that OpenAI and Microsoft discuss in a motion to dismiss... and I think the motion does a very strong job of dismantling that argument based on said examples.

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/byvrkxbmgpe/...
We could shut it down, but we don't.
They're always welcome to offer more money.
Open sourcing something like this feels like marketing more than anything else.

They suffer from the same "cold start" problem that social apps do. For the project to thrive, there needs to be an existing fanbase to improve and support it.

Is what makes Wordpress great the fact that it's open source? No. It's the community of builders that surround it.

Would anyone realistically be willing to spin this stack up in their existing company (and sign up for maintaining it)?

I expect you'll get a few git clones from engineers to poke around to see how it was built, out of curiosity, but not much more.

Of course the natural response would be "who cares? They opened the source so you can if you want to!"

That's fair. I guess I just get stuck on the "why"
> filesystem components like /var/tmp that nobody knows the purpose of

The purpose of /var/tmp is temporary files that should survive a reboot. A potential example where that would make since is a partial download file. It is only needed temporarily but if a reboot happens while the download is in progress, you probably don't want to have to start over.

Also if /tmp is or might be a tmpfs, it is probably desirable to use /var/tmp for larger temporary files that don't fit in RAM.
Depends heavily on what kind of database/index. Going with anything other than a random uuid4 adds complexity; for one, do you want to expose time info? I'd rather default to uuid4 as the client-exposed ID* and only change if there's a solid measured reason to.

* not the same as your internal DB row primary keys, which in Postgres should usually be bigserial
So cool! I played a shitload of foosball / table soccer / kicker / baby (foot). And I lived in different countries / continents and noticed there are so many variants... Some have plastic players, other little wooden players (my favorite). Some have players with flat feet, other with feet that have an angle (it's too easy IMO: way to easy to shot in diagonal: which is doable too with flat feet but requires more skill). There are some where in the corners, so that the ball doesn't get stuck, there's an inclined flat piece of wood, on others it can be a curve (I saw that in Spain / Ibiza a long time ago) then there are some where there's nothing to prevent the ball from getting stuck in a corner.

Then the rules. So many different rules. French rules are probably the weirdest where "pissette" ain't allowed in casual pub games but is allowed in official games.

As a sidenote in a science museum I got to play some foosball vs a robotic arm (which may be of interest to TFA's author) but the robot was cheating in that it could rotate the player to any angle FFS! That was quite cheesy. A little girl can be seen playing it here (8th pic in the slideshow):

http://science-center.lu/fr/explorations
Well, that or earwax.
From my childhood, there was Batfink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batfink
Why do you have tunnel vision on "native". It's a pretty meaningless distinction at this point. No steam deck users cares that all the games they are playing aren't "native".
This is a major problem at nearly every established company. I'm not seeing any signs of it getting solved.
2024, dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t.
Nicegui.io
Seen via recent Mesop thread on HN.
most recyclers don't want it because most of its weight is rotting food; the aluminum is ten times thinner than a sheet of paper, a human hair, or (most relevantly here) a beer can

but yes, there's no technical difficulty in recycling it; it isn't like greasy paper where the grease messes up the recycling process
At what point do you bring in Bazel? I've heard some people say stuff like Python should always use Bazel, or that full stack webapps should use it, but it often just seems like extra cruft. Why not just have separate repos and use each language's tools?
If 80% of employees stay each year, then the expected tenure would be about 3 years.
It might be too late - and especially, it might have always been.

The Spanish-American happened during direct first-decedents of the Founding Fathers, and happened because of yellow journalism -- a.k.a false or exaggerated news reporting -- and we conducted a whole war as a result of it. And when the smoke cleared out, it was decided that war is an acceptable outcome and result of the right that Congress cannot abridge freedom of speech OR press.

The first amendment will likely be our greatest strength and flaw, and I'm not surprised if the final nail in the coffin was caused by its upholding.
This is an interesting fact and brings up a paradox I've seen at the last two major companies I've worked for.

Both saw a limit on the time someone could be at the company and still be promoted. The C-Suite people really felt if people were at the company for more than 5 years, they were no longer viable candidates to move up because they had become to "accustomed" to the corporate culture and would develop a sense of apathy with pushing their departments or employees to greater success. They have now opted to hire outside executives or managers to try and keep the ideas and approaches fresh so to speak.

I remember my director at the time wanting very much to move up into an executive position and had been at the company some 15 years. He had been a director for some 7 years and had already been passed over twice before for an executive position. He recruited me for a senior dev role and had stood up an entire cloud computing team to take on specific work the company was having a hard time getting done quickly.

6 months in and he pulls me into his office after our 1:1. He tells me he's putting in his two weeks and loved working with me and wanted me to come with him to his new company once he gets set up there. He told me his bosses boss told him she knew his aspirations of moving into an executive position, but it wasn't going to happen here. She told him in no uncertain terms he had reached his ceiling at this company and should move on if he really wanted to be an executive.

Same thing happened at another company. The VP of the company had been in that role for some 10 years and had been passed over at least three times for the CEO position which he wanted very badly. Many of the managers had told me he has just accepted he wouldn't get any higher than VP, but had no aspirations of leaving the company. This unfortunately created a huge choke point in the company because now managers would be at the company for a certain amount of time, and then know that's as high as they were going and leave.

While I agree with your point, I feel like there is some amount of time threshold you can cross where the corporate apathy can take hold and your value starts to decline. It seems that way the higher up the ladder you go.
>Whether or not those people are "threats" shall remain to be seen, but Israel is going to lose (is, already, losing) the hearts and minds of everybody on the planet under age 40

At this point, I think these are not the real power dynamics.

I used to think Israel needed western support to exist. I don't do anymore. Now I believe that Israel needs any support, and they are perfectly fine with the idea of allying with Russia, China or whoever seems reliable enough and willing to put up with their stuff. Which means that Israel is not dependent on the west, more specifically, the US. The US is reliant on Israel for presence in the middle east.

Which would explain why they seem to do whatever they want, ignoring warnings from the US. The warnings aren't real, Israel is going to commit unspeakable abuses on a population either way, so might as well have them on our side. I believe that to be the current state of affairs.
I own a Tesla, for practical purposes it is self-driving.
>> At $360 a year, the productivity benefit doesn't need to be huge to justify the cost, lets say you would probably want to so $500-1,000/yr in expense reduction.

You also have to factor in the cost of ai's failure modes. Though it might be difficult to put a number on it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/12nt2le/when_dealin...

If your C doesn't fight the scheduler it isn't that bad.
Some people are simply better in most aspects. And it is fine.
Show HN: Ephemeral Postal – disposable email for developers
Hi all, here is a little project that I have been working on: disposable E-mail for developers.

Every page load gives you a new subdomain, and any valid email address can be used with that. There are a few API endpoints for polling the unified inbox for the subdomain, retrieving the latest emails, and retrieving the raw message body.

This is pretty useful for integration test scenarios - for example, a test case could involve a user signing up with a random email address. The test script can poll the inbox to ensure deliverability and check header and mail contents, etc.

Things are pretty bare-bones right now but wanted to put this out there in case there is interest in a more full-fledged service.

For those of you checking - this currently does not have DKIM/DMARC/SPF records because this is inbound-only, but I would appreciate reports if the lack thereof interferes with your deliverability.

Happy emailing.
It seems like you could mitigate that by designing the wing such that when mounted the angle of attack is 0 and thus no lift is generated. Obviously the wing would still have an effect when the booster changes orientation or in cases of high winds. I'm not remotely qualified to calculate the scale of those forces but I don't see why any of that would be a guaranteed showstopper given a booster with enough thrust vectoring capability.
No, that’s just India
Yeah. The atmosphere is very thin but nonzero at ISS altitude so atmospheric drag causes orbital degradation over time. Whenever a resupply ship docks, if it has extra fuel, they orient the station so the ship is pointed prograde and fire the main thruster to increase the altitude. They plan to leave enough fuel for the supply ship to do its usual retro burn and land or burn up as normal.

The station can also boost itself with the Zvezda module, which has thrusters.

https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station-frequently-...
We can’t fight the right to break the digital lock. They are getting increasingly unbreakable. We must void the right of the vendor to apply such a lock in the first place.
I mean, i was trying to talk about why Israelis might feel the UN is against them. That doesn't preclude Palestinians feeling the same way.

It is possible to talk about why X might feel Y without talking about why other groups might feel the same way or even whether or not that feeling is justified.

Talking about motivations is different than determining what is "fair"
The West Bank is occupied by in substantial fraction by Americans, not even Israelis, who choose to live in the West Bank, from where Palestinians were exiled by the IDF, under Israeli protection. How is that anything like Afghanistan nation building?
Because he is a complex human being with a very visible dark side and any praise of his achievements will make his terrible personality traits stain you like a soggy barf bag on an overnight flight
My advice is US specific (brutalist labor market), and there is little evidence pay is tied to performance quality [1]. Regardless, I understand your perspective and respect it. The situation in the US is so terrible, we can only go up (imho). I am, very reluctantly, pro union because there is no other option.

[1] https://hbr.org/2021/02/youre-not-paid-based-on-your-perform...