skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pomperipossa is not a real person

No shit. Talk about desperate argument.

She didn't need to pay the 102% tax in the end because of the Social democrats changed the law (as I already described earlier) because it became too unpopular, if they hadn't she would have. Thus is was not made up, it was a reality. Confirmed by the report from Ratio. Thus if Astrid Lindgren hadn't written that article Social democrats would have been perfectly fine with Swedes paying more than 100% in taxes. That is why Social democrats during this era were radicals. And also even after the change in law you could still pay 90% tax.

> You must have a very weird view of how power was transfered from the tsar to the bolsheviks

It didn't happened that way. It was the Mensheviks that took the power from the Tsar in the February Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks took in turn power from the Mensheviks in the October Revolution of 1917 and then murdered the Tsar and his family who was already in house arrest by the Mensheviks. Thus Bolsheviks did not remove the Tsar from power, a common falsehood by Bolsheviks, because he had already abdicated.

The Russian Civil War was a consequence of the Bolshevik Revolution against the Provisional Government, which was not accepted by many different political groups, everything from social democrats, liberals to monarchists. Somehow Bolsheviks always forgets this important detail. Wonder why.

But anyway, I was correct about Löntagarfonderna, the implementation, the goal and it's consequences.
Hey! I'm not one of the people looking for a sponsorship, but thank you. I often use both Vercel and Cloudflare (for different teams / projects).
Yeah, as a tourist I wouldn't expect too much of an issue. I've seen it multiple times that I get something of a pass on security measures. I've been routed around metal detectors more than once, almost never asked to take a swig from my water bottle etc. So long as I wasn't in a sensitive area I wouldn't worry much about it. (Although the part of China I would be most interested into going into the sort of location where I would be carrying my inReach is Tibet.)

China concerns me for political reasons, not for personal safety ones.
It's a stretch to call this discovering language. It's learning the correlations between sounds, spoken words and visual features. That's a long way from learning language.
Fully agree, although it’s interesting to consider the perspective that the entire LLM hype cycle is largely built around the question “what if we punted on actual thinking and instead just tried to memorize everything and then provide a human language query frontend? Is that still useful?” Arguably it is (sorta), and that’s what is driving this latest zeitgeist. Compute had quietly scaled in the background while we were banging our heads against real thinking, until one day we looked up and we still didn’t have a thinking machine, but it was now approximately possible to just do the stupid thing and store “all the text on the internet” in a lookup table, where the keys are prompts. That’s… the opposite of thinking, really, but still sometimes useful!

Although to be clear I think actual reasoning systems are what we should be trying to create, and this LLM stuff seems like a cul-de-sac on that journey.
Hi Hacker News I’m Captain Obvious and I’m here to tell you (and myself) an uncomfortable truth that most of us kinda know but really can’t face up to.

Many of us have sleep problems.

We don’t have the healthiest lifestyles. Lots of screen use, being very sedentary, many of us eating bad food (it’s quick! I can get back to thjngs). Denis Nedry is not a mischaracterisation.

It’s not true for absolutely everyone but for the vast majority of people the answer is super simple. You need to exercise. Not even a ton. Three times a week will probably do it. Some cardio some weights, each visit to the gym a decent workout.

This will cost you £40-£90 a month. That’s about the cost of various Adobe Creative Cloud packages, which enable you to make mediocre graphics on your home personal computer.

for the same price as those photo tweaks you can get: improved longevity, improved all round health, protection against RSI and back problems, hugely reduced stress levels, improved levels of focus and happiness and better relationships. Hey, keep it up for a bit and you’ll even get a bit buff and your partner might like that.

We all know this and yet we all seek alternative explanations and remedies: eye masks, Vit D, meditation, dietary fads… because they’re so much easier than 2 hour trips to the gym a few times a week. Sure for some people those things are real but for the rest of us it’s just procrastination because:

The gym isn’t very fun.

Get over it. Put a podcast on, start small, accept that Tuesday night and Thursday night are going to be mostly lost to the gym and just enjoy the journey there and enjoy the music or podcast accompaniment. It’s a tax on living. Pay now or pay much more later, your choice.

I struggle with this so hard, but I’m trying ringo, I’m trying, and you should too.
That’s the difference consent makes: I’ve heard criticism of that product but it was always “I will never use this” rather than “my root of trust is untrustworthy”.
Your answer is a non sequitor.

The shutdown of the nuclear reactors was an ideologically driven decision by the last government and the last government before that.

Energy prices are extremely high which damages the German economy. Renewables depend on massive subsidies that Germany can't afford less and less.

Oh and Gas: Switching supplier from Russia to Qatar wasn't a brilliant decision. You just replace an adversarial supplier with another one. Thats really no reason to pat yourself on the shoulder. Its an extremely short term decision.
Others have said the same but it seems you can use this argument against just about any machine.
Actually the article supports this information. The number is just a bit too high.

Quote: "With the pledges from 2022 and the ongoing projects, the grant for cycle highways and the loan for the environmentally friendly bus system, Germany is financing cycle paths and a bus system in Peru with around 199 million euros."
Yes. Or put another way, there has to be something off for social mammal juveniles not to play together with others. And something off is not generally popular with mating females.
Try Kiwix. It's an offline reader, you can download the entire English-language Wikipedia, complete with media, in about 100GB. They also have a bunch of other collections like Project Gutenberg. There are also less heavy subsets.

https://kiwix.org/en/
[1] applied AlphaZero style search with LLMs to achieve performance comparable to GPT-4 Turbo with a llama3-8B base model. However, what's missing entirely from the paper (and the subject article in this thread) is that tree search is massively computationally expensive. It works well when the value function enables cutting out large portions of the search space, but the fact that the LLM version was limited to only 8 rollouts (I think it was 800 for AlphaZero) implies to me that the added complexity is not yet optimized or favorable for LLMs.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07394
uhmm.. if we have to do that, we'll do it.. i don't see what's ironic about that.
> What if you can't afford a Mac, and you're not technically literate enough to install Ubuntu ?

Honestly, buy an iPad. You can get a new iPad for as cheap as $300 and it will adequately serve all of your basic needs. If you're not tech-literate enough to install Ubuntu (which is extremely easy and straightforward in my experience) then I don't think you will need the extra bells & whistles of owning a laptop.
Some people in those situations have absolutely chosen to get shot, which means that true determinism functions differently than a metaphorical gun. You might not be morally culpable for what you do while under threat of death, but that's a separate question from whether you could physically have done something different.

In a deterministic universe there isn't a gun to your head, instead what you will do was decided by the configuration of atoms immediately after the Big Bang (and presumably by the configuration of whatever the heck came before). In a deterministic universe I do what I do because particles hit into each other in particular ways over countless eons and those particle interactions eventually coalesced into what I call myself and the particles in my brain bounce in particular ways that interact to create an illusion of choice.
I am ok with older Boeing airplanes. While I am skeptical of the company's current safety program, and attention to detail, I think the older planes - with many C checks done - are safe to fly. Something happened with the 737 Max, clearly a management decision, that increased risk or perhaps inattention to detail.

My opinion is that the company was run by bean counters instead of engineers, and the stock market convinced the business people that changing the way they made airplanes, made sense.
It's not just "spreadsheets", this happens to any software not written by someone trained in software engineering practices – e.g., some script written by a data scientist that only runs on his machine.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05629v1
Hopac: Concurrent ML Implementation in F#
I use Annke (rebranded HikVision, and firewalled off from the Internet) and Eufy cameras in non-cloud (RTSP) mode. I use Blue Iris[1] as an NVR. Blue Iris has a cent mobile app.

I also run Skrypted[2] container on my Synology that concurrently makes me able to use HomeKit Secure Video.

I've been using this setup for years. I kinda miss the ease of the cloud, but love the configurability and modularity. What you save in leaving the cloud you will spend in personal time maintaining your setup.

1. https://blueirissoftware.com/ . Blue Iris has a huge learning curve, but the following video will fast track you into a viable setup without that curve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqc1ukrkMmI

2. https://www.scrypted.app/
if you make fuel from CO2 in the air, isn't that pointless? It'd wind up right back in the air once burnt
I think you're both wrong. It's actually bidirectional: dolphins with more harmful mutations are less likely to 'play' normally, and play is also extremely beneficial to development.
Rented out increases supply. People have been born anyway, with or without the housing.

Look, in terms of supply and demand, we've never had a higher supply of people, and from a propagate-the-species point of view there's no additional demand for people either. I sort of agree that more people overall diminishes the aggregate quality of life, there is more art, music, sports, literature, and everything else created by people than anyone can meaningfully experience anyway, while all of the natural world is destroyed a bit more by each additional person. But adding 2Mm houses will give a bunch of place for people to go to and take pressure off the others.
If they don't want to supply local populations with aid and food, they shouldn't block aid and food from going in.
How much difference is there between

=IF(A1 > A2, (B2 + B3), (C2 - C3))

and

(if (> aye-one aye-two) (+ bee-two bee-three) (- cee-two cee-three))

Infix vs prefix, coordinates vs variable names.

It is syntax on top of the essence of a functional programming language.

And it has the same things. One liner of perl, python, or powershell - anyone can write it and it doesn't take too much to manage its complexity.

However, once you get into more complex relationships between data and structures, it takes discipline to manage it. Spreadsheets often are poor at giving you the tools to manage it and so it takes more effort to make sure that you're not making a mess.

A complex spreadsheet is a complex program that needs to have someone who has the discipline and abstractions necessary to manage it.
As long as you have an Apple developer account ($99/y) otherwise is silently deleted after 7 days.
that just sounds like a branding problem though...

OTLP has been quite useful especially in metrics to get a format that doesn't really have any sacrifices/limitations compared to all the other protocols.
Just want to say I appreciate your stance.

(also no one should feel like they have to contribute to our SDKs, but please file a ticket if somethings fucked up and we'll deal w/ it)
Old reliable.
I do a lot of video compression for hobby projects, and I stick with h264 for the most part because h265 encoding requires far too much extra compute relative to the space savings. I can spend an hour compressing a file down to 1gb with h264, or I can spend 12 hours compressing the same file to 850mb with h265. Depending on the use-case, I might still need the h264 version anyway since it's far more widely supported by clients. If I had a data center worth of compute to throw at encoding, or I were running a streaming service where the extra 150mb per video started to add up, then I'd definitely on-board with h265 but it's really hard to justify for a lot of practical use-cases.
It's a common enough problem that I put a dedupe (based on titles) feature in my own RSS reader Temboz (www.temboz.com).
So is Valdez itself.

I've observed that environmentalists never get their panties in a knot over natural underwater oil seeps, of which there are many.The natural underwater oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico crank out between 1 and 5 million barrels every single year. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez spill was about half a million barrels.

There are a bunch of underwater oil seeps on the Alaskan North Slope as well, dumping straight into the Beaufort Sea.
Minus the mandatory always-on internet and DRM, that sounds 10 years ahead of its time. During covid I was really hoping that Microsoft would launch videoconferencing through Kinect (which was sitting unused in a closet in my home). Looking back the XBone wanted to become what my Apple TV has ended up becoming.
Agree 100% on the awful delivery of the whole thing though
> This is a controversial claim. How can someone be responsible for something they have no control over?

The Frankfurt cases showed that control over alternate possibilities is not necessary for responsibility. If someone holds a gun to your head to make you do something that you were going to do anyway, that's not really compromising your free will is it?

Edit: it's also not really as controversial as you might think, experimental philosophy has demonstrated that most lay people's moral reasoning aligns with Compatibilism: https://philarchive.org/rec/ANDWCI-3
And totally understandable in Singapore's case.
It's intriguing how people's opinions about Elon Musk's predictions remain unchanged, even when they come true.

Take, for example, his 2016 prediction [1] that the Model Y would sell 500,000 to 1 million units annually, four years before its launch and even before the Model 3 was released. This would make it the world's best-selling vehicle, not just the top electric vehicle. How do people perceive such audacious forecasts? And how do they react when these predictions materialize?

Similarly, when Musk accepted a compensation package based on Tesla's value increasing tenfold within ten years, the company was still unprofitable and losing money. Remarkably, Tesla achieved this goal in half that. How do people view these ambitious commitments and their successful outcomes?

Recently, Musk claimed that Tesla's autonomous driving technology alone could elevate the company to a $5 trillion valuation, and with the addition of the Tesla Bot, this could rise to $30 trillion. What are people's thoughts on these projections?

And will they ever reconsider their skepticism?

Yes, some of his predictions are late (like FSD and the Roadster), but personally, I prefer someone who eventually delivers the seemingly impossible over someone who neither promises nor delivers.

[1] - https://electrek.co/2016/08/04/tesla-anticipates-demand-for-...
SAP or Salesforce is often the critical piece of software in many an organization. My current assignment (I don't work with SAP though, thankfully) is an energy company with ~3 million customers, each and everyone's data is managed in SAP along energy usage, billing/invoicing, the works. Small army of people managing and maintaining it, too.
then you don't need to get more from underground, just cycle what is already there
They aren't actually floating-point: each label is a pair of numbers, the first denoting the group and the second denoting the line within that group. The groups have no semantic importance, they are only for organization.
China Is Testing More Driverless Cars Than Any Other Country
https://archive.ph/l6wNU#selection-4291.0-4291.60
This probably says more about Argentinian currency than about Huawei.
Some people want to own the device they paid a lot of money for. As long as Apple policies prevent you from sideloading, you do not own your device. They do.
https://archive.ph/8Luk5
Twitter dies as soon as free money stops. Many internet companies are zombies or even worse
Our JSP server would crash but only when the moons of Jupiter were aligned and the bakery across the street was serving the blueberry scone (CNR with the ham & cheese)
> What year did we all suddenly stop using the term "video-on-demand" and start saying "streaming"?

"VOD" is still used pretty frequently in some contexts to distinguish between live and prerecorded video. It's common parlance on Twitch, for example.

> An ancient antenna on my roof can still kick Youtube's ass when it comes to clarity and resolution.

How so? ATSC is MPEG-2 at an absolute maximum of ~18 Mbps - and most broadcasters cut it down much lower than that to add subchannels. It doesn't support 1080p60 video at all, only 1080p30 or 720p60. Youtube routinely uses higher resolutions and bitrates, as well as newer codecs (H.264 at the oldest).
Unfortunately until god comes down from heaven we have no way of figuring out what is slander, libel, or otherwise abusive content.
Those ideas might be missing the networking part. I’m not sure if their people know the right people. I’m also not confident their track record would inspire confidence in their ability to execute on that type of service. It doesn’t seem well aligned. Ads on the other hand aren’t so far fetched.
Shkreli would definitely be sith, and so he would have apprentices, not padawans :P
I thought the EU had solved a lot of this by unifying the markets.
I personally think this is all very poorly thought out. There are weird superstitions around the Federal Reserve. Separate from that, "bankers" in general, and "international bankers" in particular have inherited all the medieval anti-Jewish prejudice. Then there's the modern finance system that occasionally dumps unsavory customers, like Alex Jones. This leads to a desire for a currency that exists outside of banks and bankers, where you can sell dietary supplements and scam people without having your account seized.

Unfortunately for those folks, Bitcoin is a weak vessel, and cannot, in reality, meet all the requirements. It takes tons of compute to create a Bitcoin, much less to process a transaction 'on the block chain'. It's not as anonymous as claimed, either, and should it be a currency, it's deflationary. Not all the implications of this are accounted for in the common knowledge about Bitcoin.
In my case - I've had sleep problems for a decade - it started to improve once my kids stopped waking me up 3-4 times a night.

It's still not as good as it was before as I've not been able to get sporting properly and, well, they kids do wake us just not every night anymore.
> international market advertising companies will adhere to GDPR in region and violate it out of region

Nobody cares what nonsense the EU tries to claim about EU citizens living outside the EU. GDPR doesn't matter if you're operating outside of the region.
> Four decades later, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called Excel “the best consumer product we ever created.” He doesn’t just see it as an enterprise tool. It’s for everything. Nadella said he simply can’t imagine a world without Excel. “People couldn’t make sense of numbers before, and now everyone can.”

So the best thing they ever did was make a clone of Lotus 1-2-3 and VisiCalc? Sounds about right.
I have been dual booting for years but this has been my motivation to officially abandon windows at home, just need to figure out how to play civ 7 when it comes out next year...
So going off of the previous HN thread, I thought we were due for a Carrington event a month ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40321821). Will this next bout of astronomical magnetic phenomena pose a threat to technological civilization as we know it?
How do you know that the "long-term plans to combat climate change" won't prove harmful in their own right? They would produce massive economic effects at a minimum. Then there are the unknown effects of (e.g.) removing a lot of energy from the desert and transporting it to other regions. I'd be very surprised if that didn't have some effect. Same thing with extracting energy from the winds on any large scale. Wind energy turned into electricity is energy that's not available to (e.g.) move rain clouds from one region to another.

And so on.
> There's plenty of cheap land where we could make cheap houses. It's just in the middle of nowhere. Why isn't America making more new big cities?

There’s a few reason, I’ll tackle the geographic one.

Big cities already occupy most/all the spots that work for big cities.

Big cities almost invariably share a few attributes:

-Interstate freeway access

-On a navigable waterway or ocean

-Railroad infrastructure

I personally believe that navigable waterway/ocean proximity is the main thing that allows large cities to develop.

Take a look at the navigable waterway map of the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_waterways_of_the_Unit...

There are only a handful of major cities that aren’t on a navigable river or on the coast: Denver, Phoenix, Dallas/Ft Worth, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Indianapolis (probably more I am missing)

Minnesota is an interesting case, MPLS/St Paul is reachable from the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi, and Duluth is reachable from the Atlantic Ocean via the St Lawrence Seaway (and Great Lakes). As the crow flies, the ocean is 800-1000 miles away from MN but it’s still accessible by water.
And you can use Tailscale Funnel to serve it publicly. No need to pay for a cloud instance.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1223/funnel
Years ago I was photographing a party in silicon valley (had just graduated college and was taking any job I could get). I take a nice photo of a couple and the wife looks at me and says " You know my husband invented H264? Do you know what that is?".

Ended up having a long conversation with the husband (the engineer) and he hinted many times that they were working currently on something even better. Years later now of course we have H265. Everytime I play something in H264 or H265 I think of that moment and how much work that guy and his colleagues must have put into coding such a widely used codec (and how proud his wife was!)
It was corrosion inconsistent with the expected properties of the material.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boeing-air...
In case it’s helpful to anyone who has to jump off vercel:

I recently had to transition my company off of vercel for reasons unrelated to this (wanted to use cloud infra primitives that vercel does not provide, and wanted to leverage the large amount of AWS credits my company received) and found sst.dev [0] to be easy to migrate to and a joy to use in general. It leverages open-next to deploy next.js projects on AWS in a serverless way.

I’ve been enjoying using it so much that for my next project I think I’ll skip vercel altogether and use sst from the start.

[0] https://sst.dev/
sounds like a delicious bug, Klaus Schwab would be proud :D