skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about this argument? This is kind of how I look at the problem:

Would it be OK to have a single individual worth $1e24, while everyone else has the standard distribution of wealth as we know it in 2024? A septillionaire could give $1 trillion to every person on the planet every year for 100 years and still have 99.99% of his money left. How much power and influence over the world would someone like that have, while the rest have comparatively close to zero? I think we all agree that wouldn't work for a functioning society--we have to have some limit. We probably also agree that $1million is probably too low a limit. So it's not a question of whether there should be a limit but where that threshold is.
How has this been going? Everyone happy with it?

Discussion from when it was announced last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38107297
AI help can be giving hints instead of completely solving a problem for you.
Or, "and then ask your dad about Bittorrent, and media players that work off local storage ...".
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Lay people seem to have this weird obsession with Quaternions and love to suggest that somehow theoretical physicists are missing something because they don't use them. But physicists are almost disgustingly familiar with SU(2) which is isomorphic to the quaternions and easier to work with and understand (quite obviously, in my opinion). It is hard to imagine, from my point of view, that a mere isomorphism stands between physicists and progress, especially given that physicists have long generalized _beyond_ SU(2) and the quaternions in their understanding of fundamental fields. Formulating an SU(3) gauge theory in terms of quaternions would at least be difficult and almost certainly be goofy, if not impossible.

As for "I'm not a mathematician but I've got a strong feeling that quaternion will be one of the potent tools to proof Riemann hypothesis" I'd love to understand your intuition here, because I just don't see it.
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even more in geometric algebra: dF = J

You can do that using differential forms as well - using the co-differential δ, we can write a single equation (δ + d)F = J. However, from the perspective of Yang-Mills theory, that's a rather questionable approach as we're stitching together the Bianchi identity and the Yang-Mills equation for no particular reason...
Hi! The "real" PC-98 font (FONT.ROM) is different from the font bitmap that often ships with emulators. Kumdor comes with its own font data, though. My patch changes its single-quote character to look more like an actual apostrophe.

The PC-98 actually comes with a "kanji ROM" chip, that you poll 16x16 characters from one at a time. FONT.ROM is the data used to emulate this chip. Loading an entire font into RAM was not practical on old Japanese PCs. The earliest models, like the MSX, had 64kB of RAM, which was no match for the 3000×16×16 bits = 96kB of font data! (On the PC-98, it's something like 282kB of font data that would eat up half the available 640kB of RAM.)

I've seen games that have their own font data for drawing stylish hiragana/katakana/Latin characters but fall back to the "kanji ROM" for kanji. Kumdor's custom font only covers Latin characters. The typing tests in the game progress from QWERTY nonsense (sdfjkl jklsdf) to little texts in English and rōmaji. My translation patch leaves them perfectly untouched :)
Show HN: I made a website to track public policy changes across US
The website tracks over 100 newspapers across US and checks if there is a policy change. If it finds one, it only shows that news and a causal question that is linked with it.
I believe that's because Europeans showed that it's possible to have safe cheese made from raw milk (since it's quite ingrained into several cultures).

My comment also includes many additives, pesticides and other lots of food-related components which are allowed in the US but not in the EU.
Should doctors never trust their patients?

What's the threshold for where doctors should begin to believe their patients' claims, as opposed to simply assuming they're merely some drug addict seeking another hit or someone lazy seeking time off work?

I'm someone who's specifically had GI doctors ignore what I say so intensely as for this conversation to have seriously taken place:

Me: "The [medication] might have worked, I feel slightly better, but it was way too strong. I had nearly all the major side effects that the instructions said to contact you if I get them. Is there any smaller dose, or could I try out something else?"

GI Specialist: "Ok, so would you like me to increase the dose? I can prescribe [double]."

Edit: meant to conclude that I think it's not just excessive distrust, and that it'd be absurd and cruel to just always distrust patients completely -- that doctors definitely seem to ignore patients heavily, especially if they're in any way abnormal.
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If you try to use serverless (the framework) for Python, you very quickly learn that its support is a second-class citizen vs building in TS/JS.

Adjacent concern but: It also makes for unholy large Docker images to combine an entire JS toolchain with an entire Python toolchain.

Zappa is a better (more native) choice.

Terraform modules provide a decent Python Lambda experience.

AWS also has multiple semi-overlapping projects in the space. Chalice, SAM, and Powertools specifically to name a few. CDK more generally as well.
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> “So that we can continue to invest in and innovate on our product features and bring users the best experience, we occasionally update our prices,”

I don't care about your innovation. I haven't cared about a single new feature that's come out from Spotify in the last 5-7 years. I find myself listening to Spotify less than ever these days anyway. These prices are too much for me, so after ~10 years of premium Spotify, I'll be cancelling this month because I'm not getting enough value. I'll find other avenues of discovering new music.

Benn Jordan predicted the demise of Spotify last year, and I'm starting to believe he might be right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU
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I'd note that, for political reasons, IQ is disused in pedagogy.

This extends to standardized tests in general. It is often framed around class and race, but I think the real enemy of standardized tests is the "legacy admission" who can't test his or her way out of a paper bag. Ever other element in society is corruptible, people can use their social capital to influence teachers and school administers. Certainly test prep can give people familiarity with the test which helps up to a point but for a certain kind of student the only way to get a good test score is to hire a ringer to take the test for you.

When objective tests are used to assign kids to gifted programs the usual result is an increase in minority and low-income participation because groups that have high social capital are better equipped to manipulate subjective decisions.
Thanks. Finally got around to installing Librewolf and it works great.

Sensible defaults as Firefox should be.
> - BRK.A has an extremely high share price, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single share, which causes issues

Not only BRKA was affected, there were more tickers that went down 99+%
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One thing I sometimes see in Show HN posts is when the post is made without any sort of explanatory text. Just a link to the thing that's being shown.

I think that a good Show HN post should include an explanation of what's being shown, why it's worth showing, what the goal of thing being shown is, and so forth.
Toyota, Mazda, and Yamaha are ordered to suspend some vehicle shipments
A bit late to the party here, but I’ve used Hotwire for a little while now.

Turbo is wonderful and seemingly straightforward, but also has some real hidden gems that aren’t well-documented (a problem which plagues Stimulus as well).

Stimulus is also great, but you can’t go into it expecting React. State management can get very tedious.

I use Turbo and Stimulus for most interactions in my current project, but I pull in Preact and HTM where I really need them. It’s trivial to have a Stimulus controller mount a Preact component and sync state between them, so it’s all very transparent.
Yeah, I'm glad they started including built in gpu so there's something there, but beyond booting to a desktop I wouldn't use this graphics for anything else. But if you're just running a screen and compiling rust, that's all you need. Or in my case, running a home server / NAS.
Duo is increasing by 2 dollars too?
Ask HN: What's something you wish there was a software solution for?
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Presumably though it would be useful to have a high bandwidth link back to earth even if we had to use conventional microwave transmitters to send data back.

We want to download high resolution images/spectrographs whereas we only want to upload code/instructions.
Wonder how this will go for them.

Im sure one’s personal mileage will vary, but this is my experience.

I use windows for work Mac personal, and by far windows is more annoying with pop ups. Both do have a fair number of pop ups, it’s true.
But overall the message feels either like gas lighting or wishful thinking, does not resonate at all.
Assuming they don't tweak the TDP formula, which they can and have iirc.
I played 5000 songs through spotify just last year. I don't listen to the same songs over and over. It would cost an insane amount of money, time, and space for me to discover even close to the same amount of music without Spotify (or some other streaming service). I consider Spotify an insane value at most any reasonable price because I really love listening to and finding new music nearly instantly.
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Reminded me that "you might as well live" [1].

Not really an answer though to "What is the meaning of life?"

[1] https://poets.org/poem/resume
Back when I was a T.A. in physics I'd be rich if I had a nickel for every time somebody told me "I understand the concepts but I just can't do the problem" and then, when I worked with them to debug their answer, found that they really got the concepts backwards.

One big theme I see is that people want something emotionally out of physics that it just can't give and if you are misaligned on these you are going to accomplish nothing even if you can do the math:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Causes-beyond-Physics-Streater/d...
Yeah I have to go with my wife to doctors visits or they ignore her. All I have to do is sit in the corner and not say anything but my presence is still required for 50% of the doctors she’s seen over the years.
I'm pretty sure they're going to charge what they think is the optimal price point for their product, independently from any product blunder they've had in the past.
Whriled peas.
The universe clearly isn't completely random. I'm not sure anyone believes that.
Just doing a bit of back-of-the-envelope math: 40 years of Spotify assuming 4% annual increases would end up being around $13,700. However, if prices increase a little faster, the price goes up fast. 6% annual increases makes it over $22,000 and 10% annual increases would make it nearly $64,000.

Individual tracks tend to cost me $1.29 or less so that's well over 10,000 songs even assuming only 4% annual increases.

Some people might listen to a huge variety, but others certainly use music streaming services to listen to a small set of songs.
Spotify is in the class of products that are less or not impacted by inflation.
On some level he's a victim of his own success. He invents information theory in the same paper that proves the most interesting results, so who else will work on it?
Interesting to think about. I did the math quickly, assuming you take the ~$12 and invest it instead here's what you end up with

$12/mo invested to return ~6% over 30 years:

End balance: $11,751.08
Total Interest: $7,431.08
Total not spent on Spotify: $4,320.00

Over a 50 year time horizon, the numbers become more fun:

End balance: $43,155.05
Total Interest: $35,955.05
Total not spent on Spotify: $7,200.00

Of course, bunch of assumption, 6% return, past performance doesn't indicate future return etc etc, and I doubt Spotify is going to exist in 30 in its current form, small probably it does, but odds are against that if I had to bet.

Maybe those boomers are onto something about avocado toast /s
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Discussion [0] (353 points, 3 days ago, 160 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525130
'The bigger the slope (in space), the faster (in time) the temperature changes at that point!' - Sorry but I'm not really reading you here. If the points around an 'atom' a symmetrically and equally far away when it comes to the point in question but are opposite in magnitude (i.e. imagine having a point with temperature 12 degrees Celsius which is surrounded by a neighboring points which have temperatures of 8 degrees and 16 degrees (so the delta is +4 and -4) then the temperature here will stay the same. The slope of the temperature field has nothing to do with this - unless maybe you're alluding to the slope of something else? I think I should have maybe explained this equation in terms of 'concavity' instead of using the methodology which I used - you can get a good grasp of this in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-LKPtGMdss
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This reasoning only makes sense in the context of a dysfunctional system. "We can't gather information because we will react in stupid ways".

Surely the correct response for noninvasive tests is to run the test, and raise the threshold for intervention?
For more information:

The astro-nav's gimbaled telescope-like system on top of the guidance group works by making an ever-widening circular search pattern to find and fix three of any of 64 mapped stars in its memory, and compares their locations to a Julian calendar and a highly accurate chronometer.

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AFAICT from looking at the source for the tz database [0], it's capable of handling UTC offsets at least to a second level, if not fractional seconds.

[0] https://github.com/eggert/tz
Several years ago, I took my car in to be serviced. When I came to collect it, it was parked at the back of the garage (about 20-30 yards in from the road) amongst other cars the garage had in for servicing or work, with basically a single 1.5-car width lane available to get in and out. I got into my car, and spent about 10 minutes trying (and failing) to do an n-point turn in the very limited space available, in order to exit back on to the road forwards.

Eventually, one of the people who worked there (who had been watching me the whole time, looking very amused) got me to open my window and simply said to me "why didn't you just reverse all the way out like we do?". The ground could have swallowed me up - the thought had literally never occurred to me.

I like to think of this story as a good reminder that sometimes looking at a problem from a different perspective can make all the difference.
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As someone who has gone through cassette tapes, CD albums, and other fun audio tech over the years (hi Sony Minidisc!), I am very happy to pay Spotify for their collection, new music discoverability, and availability, while also hating their podcast junk, poor user interface, and ignored feature requests. There's no perfect solution for everyone and it's especially true in this space. Even though Spotify has good discovery, I really miss Pandora for its channels that were amazingly tuned.
They also have a book on field theory, which is just about E&M basically.