skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Economies of scale. One touchscreen factory replaces arbitrary number of switches and sliders and buttons of all shape and size.

2) Who says anything about touchscreens? Most touch interfaces your interact with aren't displays - they're capacitive buttons. Think your induction stove, or a powerbank, or any other random device you have to touch just right to turn on. Capacitive buttons are dumb pieces of solid-state electronics. Zero moving parts. Zero things to break (except maybe status LED that shines through them so you know where to touch). Cheap as dirt.

The future sucks because it wasn't created for improved quality or functionality - it was created because it was cheaper than the old-school way before it.
Or people are just used to the same kind of bad
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It's not working even where this is not true.
Indeed, and some are relatively inexpensive: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005004808214900.html
None.

That’s the problem though because there is a meaningful distinction to be made between landlords renting out surplus space in their primary dwelling, and landlords who own dozens or more of properties which they rent out. Based on context I assume they were using the word landlord to exclusively refer to the latter, even though both groups would generally be called “landlords”.
Even large cities in Eastern Europe have shrinking or stagnant populations.
I hear housing in West Virginia is pretty affordable as well.
Elm is one example of such. However, it's also an illustration of why these languages are rare. With a strict semantics there's an almost unbearable temptation to add library functions with side effects. Elm only avoided this fate by giving its BDFL strict control over which packages could access the JS FFI. But that upset a lot of people.
It’s both, a good state sets up the rules that help solve the game theoretic tragedy of the commons. Without a good framework and smart investment by the state, the 1000x more individuals in the private sector wouldn’t have been able to physically build the internet.
to keep talking about the licence, I don't get a licence for a week at 200$
When I last read the book I found most interviewees had an aggressive or bro-like manner, putting coding skills over everything else. Made me kind of sad from the viewpoint of someone who has duties outside of coding
In the U.S. you can usually file a complaint with the state's Attorney General's office. Sometimes there is a regulatory authority like for utilities or the Consumer Protection Bureau.

Usually a complaint gets forwarded to the company which requires some sort of authoritative response (which wastes time and money) so you can have reasonable success there.

Same issue as the article explains, it still takes a lot of time on the consumer side (who wants to be without an oven 2 months while they file paperwork and wait)
Please do and show us! Would love to see one in real life.
What I wonder all the time is why jamming isn't a think in schools. Have it on a fire-alarm system. Fire alarm on.. jammer off
Did you create this response using AI?
I don't know, to this day I collect logs from my AWS instances and ripgrep/tail/less them like some unwashed pleb from the 1990s. I package RPMs and build containers from them. It's efficient, and I like to know what my stack is made of all the way up and all the way down. Is this such a boomer notion to have? (You could argue that "millenials are becoming the new boomers", but you know what I mean, stop nitpicking.)
The conversation went like this: I asked why people are against AI training on their posts, some people said "because of copyright", I pointed out that Meta has a license from them to use the posts for anything, and now your post is "but the government can force them not to". Yes they can, but that wasn't the original question.
There are a lot of obvious cognates between Japanese and Latin through recently borrowed English or Romance words, so I was wondering what was surprising about it.

But it seems the author is talking about traditional Japanese words, and looking for ties in words and idioms like ("kokoro" & "corculum"), ("koi" & "cupio"), ("ganbare" & "quam vale"), ("omedetō" & "omen datum").

Seems a bit farfetched to me, but I'm no expert.
Domestic reindeer (which, in Europe, is all of them - except for a small non-domesticated group in the southern mountains of Norway, and the Svalbard reindeer).

Domestic reindeer were domesticated by a nomadic people, or at least not an agricultural one. When that's said, they don't look "tame" like cows or sheep, but on the other hand anyone who's been involved with bringing in sheep which have spent the whole summer by themselves in the mountains will want to discuss how "tame" sheep can be.. (source: Myself, as a child I joined in the "hunt" every September for many years to help collect my grandfather's sheep)
Crazy that they need to write such things because incompetent investors think that ISA has huge implications
It may be humans copiying descriptions from the internet manualy, instead of using AI. Why is the author sure they are not just lazy students?
if they need it, they can go to a doctor, who'll prescribe it to them. there's a reason to limit drugs that have an enormous dependency potential that a lot of humans cannot deal with, obviously.

currently this is the way, and even through this way adderall and other drugs like opiates are getting in the hand of vulnerable people way too often - so getting rid of the restrictions isn't the way to go. if there wouldn't be and limits, these people would not suddenly think "ohhh so this is my responsibility now? okay, i just quit then." but "oh so this is available for like a dollar in walmart? i'll get it, i'm a bit down today and can't focus". and guess what, there will never be a day where they'll be able to focus without it anymore.
I would start with Gentoo, which has recipes to build stuff from scratch for just about everything.
> The greatest experts can often walk with a laymen right down to and rub against the jargon-filled specifics in a way that leaves no doubt they're able to step over that line without problem.

Unfortunately I think it’s naive. I saw people ready to say BS things with a touch of acronyms getting more traction and at higher levels compared to some experts. It’s true experts can walk a layman into deeper subjects but so people used to half BS and know how to convince people…

I remember getting a technical interview with the CTO of a startup. He knew all the vocabulary of DDD, Event Sourcing and the like and was talking length about it but he couldn’t explain even what he was saying like what is an aggregate, etc… I’m sure he was convincing to other officers and the tech team but not to me.

Because of that I feel like almost only experts can detect non experts.

The world is full of people like that. Consultants are sometimes literally all they do.
You won't die alone on that hill. I think it's a great thing that many phones no longer ship with chargers. The mild inconvenience of having to buy a separate charger should not outweigh the reduction amount of waste we produce with new chargers.

Brazil has made it illegal to sell a phone without a charger which IMO is a total step backwards. If anything, it should be illegal to not give the option to unbundle cables from the package.
> Microsoft's Xenon CPU

This was another interesting take on the CPU for consoles. The 360 was born with a GPU, however.
They probably use the term "landlord" to refer to professional full-time landlords, sort of like how you wouldn't call a person a "carpenter" just because they made a table or a chair in their spare time (though personally, I wouldn't object to that person choosing to call themselves a carpenter.)

The person with one spare home that's renting it out is likely doing it as supplementary income, or might not even be turning a profit on it. They're basically just preventing the home from sitting empty, to try and get value out of it.

Naturally the renter would call them both landlords, but from personal experience the renting experience is also very different when you're renting somebody's second home vs when you're renting from a big corporation.
The aim of systemd seems to be to use the Linux kernel as the base for a non-unix OS as shown (hence the "now with 42% linux philosophy tagline of the latest recent release https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/version_256_systemd/).

Its not a bad idea if you agree with the aim - Linux already has lots of hardware support and an ecosystem to leverage.

In the long run BSDs and non-systemd Linux will be more similar to each other than they are to Linux with systemd in a lot of ways.

I have started using Alpine for servers - its small and fast. Not so sure about switching on desktops.
I’d have thought the pressure of immigration on housing needs is lower than the pressure of centralized wealth creation? I have no sources just an intuition. London and Amsterdam are a good example of this
> It would have been a library.

A library can be convenient to use or not. I had one afternoon with the Cell and it wasn't a pleasant one.
> these are not Australian Government projects

Imo, there's no reason for them to be.

A lot of the R&D in the Hydrogen space was done by private companies like Eneos, Idemitsu Kosan, Hokkaido Electric, SK Group, Saudi Aramco, BP, GE, Siemens, Reliance, etc.

Just by supporting private sector champions through tax breaks, R&D credits, seed funding, and PLI you are building an ecosystem.

Even China does the same thing in the EV and Solar space, by supporting private sector companies like BYD, DAQI, LONGi, Jinko, Trina, and Canadian Solar.
> Such a price would incentivize manufacturers to make warranties last as long as possible.

Or keep warranties short, but push consumers into a pay by month model, because the amount per month is less than than the advertised "expected monthly price". The company then gets a regular income stream.
You are mixing up, terminologically, LLMs and AI. But LLMs - of which you are talking about in the post - are a special beast.

A reasoner can strive for "objective neutrality" with good results.

An LLM is not a reasoner - or I am missing (ugly time constraints) the details of the compression activity during training that acts as pseudo-reasoning (operating at least some consistency decisions) -, and while an interest in not making it insulting or crass can be immediately understandable, speaking of "objective neutrality" does not really match the context of LLMs.

LLMs (to the best of my information) "pick from what they have heard". An entity capable of "objective neutrality" does not - it "evaluates".
Paper summary: LLM training and inference without matrix multiplications
Entering Chernobyl is not scary unless you go digging in a few highly radioactive places like ruzzian soldiers did in 2022.

Prior that, you could go to Chernobyl with a tour and it was absolutely safe. Much safer than walking around random US city, actually.
Omg. I know this is mostly marketing speaking, but this is her reply when asked about AMD's reticence to software:

> Well, let me be clear, there’s no reticence at all. [...] I think we’ve always believed in the importance of the hardware-software linkage and really, the key thing about software is, we’re supposed to make it easy for customers to use all of the incredible capability that we’re putting in these chips, there is complete clarity on that.

I'm baffled how clueless these CEOs sometimes seem about their own product. Like, do you even realize that this the reason why Nvidia is mopping the floor with your stuff? Have you ever talked to a developer who had to work with your drivers and stack? If you don't start massively investing on that side, Nvidia will keep dominating despite their outrageous pricing. I really want AMD to succeed here, but with management like that I'm not surprised that they can't keep up. Props to the interviewer for not letting her off the hook on this one after she almost dodged it.
Can't see a reason to close ports with firewall on which there is nothing listening anyway.

The best defence, IMO, is not to have the thing if you don't need the thing. Having to remember about it all the time sometimes prevents the work from getting done.
It may well be, but the authority in my garden has demonstrated to me time and again that my claims of science are entirely irrelevant if the dindins aren't deposited in a timely manner, in which case, its war and thus bitey bitey time .. she does get pretty familiar with the scientific method, howevever, when the time comes to chase away the bugs and deposit certain necessary fluids in the neighbors rose bed, whatever their religion has to say on the subject ...
I assume they prefer Emacs style.
When Haskell was a hot topic around two decades ago, ML was also quite often discussed. Today ML almost only means machine learning
Doesn't OpenBSD files system corrupt easily, ie due to powercuts? I can recall OpenBSDers talking about how they used a UPS to prevent this.
I will! Apparently it's not as easy as I thought (because of the progress bar) but I'll try regardless!
Simplified explanation of how RSA message encryption/decryption works
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Another solution would be to get rid of tenants.
Some do go broke. We rely on New York Replacement Parts for cartridges for our bathroom faucets, the original manufacturer being long out of business. Double-glazed windows may get blurry over the years, I guess, and then one would replace those. But that should take ten or more years.

A properly protected door should last many years. One that we bought was not up to outside use, and failed. That manufacturer ended up purchased by a competitor, I think.
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TiVoization is about the inability to patch a system you bought to run different software. The TiVo boxes would refuse to run the proprietary TiVo software that did the whole magic if they detected a modified version of any of the system software, this is what annoyed RMS and led to the GPLv3. It's nothing like custom instructions.
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5G almost everywhere? In Scotland?

I respectfully beg to differ. There are massive chunks of Scotland which have no cellular reception at all. There are many places where there is service from some-but-not-all providers. Of those places, there are a few where the service is glacial in performance.

Example: if you stop at The Green Welly Stop in Tyndrum (FK20 8RY), you'll have coverage from only two of the mobile networks. Vodafone and o2 have a coverage patch there. Have a look at the coverage maps (bidb.uk aggregates them all). It's absolutely patchy, and certainly not contiguous.
Dogs have instincts, and that's the problem. Apparently you can trigger one of those by approaching a dog from behind and put your hand on the dog's shoulder. At least that's the explanation I've seen for when a kind dog out of the blue attack a child reflexively. Obviously this is not something I'm willing to try out myself.
Tell this to the Citizens of Vienna and Singapore, where the landlord is the State, or not for profit orgs propped up by the State.
Exactly. ROCm is only available for the top tier RX 7900 GPUs and you’re expected to run Linux.

AMD was (is) tinkering with a translation layer for CUDA, much like how WINE translates directX. Great idea but it’s been taking a while in this fast paced market.
A cli interface? What do you mean? Other than the provided one?
Sure.

As said before, Australia (as in the Australian Federal Goverment) is rudderless on effective policy .. fortuneatly we have some people working in effective directions, and a number of others doing their best to upset such plans and throw anchors arrears and logs of wood in front.
> They'll experience no friction when using Haskell then.

The question was what benefit you'd get from learning a functional language, though. Existing knowledge making it easier to switch to a functional language is the inverse of that.

And there's no assumption they'll actually be making things in Haskell, so easy switching isn't by itself a benefit.
CoPilot is now basically useless for discussing or even getting recent information about politics and geopolitical events. Not only opinions are censored, but it refuses to get the latest polls about the U.S. presidential elections!

You can still discuss the weather, get wrong answers to mathematics questions or get it to output bad code in 100 programming languages.

I would not let a child near it, because I would not want that kind of indoctrination. Users are being trained like Pavlov's dogs.
You guys say this like it's an obvious and ubiquitous piece of technology, but then whenever I see someone ask why can't we have smart light switches that work like physical ones (two states) and work both directions (i.e. toggleable remotely), suddenly all I see on the Internet is that it's a weird and stupid idea and why would anyone want that.

It dawns on me that a two-state motorized light switch is a strictly simpler device than a motorized analog slider.
Naw a whole nother panel that has to pop out on a swing boom like transformers - complete with an array of luminous self motivated sliders and a dropdown for presets that pops out like an actual oled panel for the list of presets that pops back in again once you make your selection!
That's details on this specific process but does not change the boarder point...
Looking outside in (from the EU), even the democrats are quite a bit further to the right than even some of the parties we label as "radical right" over here. Even Bernie Saunders (the most left-wing democrat I can think of off the top of my head) had standpoints on things like gun control and universal healthcare that would never fly here.
It's always funny, but it's a game, not even a real simulation (which would be also wrong)
https://www.learnyouahaskell.com/
> maybe if so many functions return optional values then it is going to be too much of a pain to use

I strongly believe that there is a point in the PL design space that makes optionals everywhere usable. Maybe Haskell can still be the language that delivers this.
> But then you are saved from adding seconds to milliliters, because then the types will tell you it's complete nonsense.

I was thinking about this as I was reading your comment, and wondering: is it nonsense? If I have 5 seconds of time as well as 10 milliliters of water... I can consider them as being packaged together... which is addition. And I can subtract 3 milliliters and 6 seconds from them without running out of what I had. Nothing wrong with that, really. Five potatoes and a gallon of water is the same notion, just more familiar. Seems no more nonsensical than dividing length by time, right? Food for thought...
I'd have loved seeing a proper reflection of capitalist economics where rents get so high a large chunk of the population ends up homeless and fully destitute.
Nothing prevents them from having their own RAM - ISAs and implementations can be extended.

The market for the Cell never materialised in the end, but it could have turned into something a lot more interesting.
I actually did have trouble with that bus image. However it’s not as though adults make this trade-off for no gain.

Ask a 6-year old to spot a bird in a tree a hundred feet away and they’ll be looking around everywhere for it simply because they don’t know what they’re looking for. An adult knows exactly what to look for: a dark shape in the branches moving separately from the motion of the branches in the wind behind it, briefly silhouetted against the sky while those same branches move, probably 30 ft or higher off the ground (depending on the size of the tree, of course). You probably even know instinctively what size of thing you’re looking for based on your knowledge of the apparent angular size of a bird at a given distance you’re also instinctively able to estimate.
I don't think there are many people who believe the state shouldn't intervene at all and that humanity will blossom without it. I'm sure most people strive for some kind of balance.

For those of us who are old enough and were born in the USSR, it feels like we've seen how a similar scenario with too much state intervention has played out before. On one hand, we were so proud of putting a man in space before anyone else; on the other hand, we used to hoard a year's supply of toilet paper and other basic necessities.
it can be exceedingly handy to update things like daily conversion tables or grab output from an ETL job that has been exposed by an API.

Construct your SQL well with proper TX isolation and guards and there's no worry, and it's much better in many cases where data warehouses are employed than writing extra software on top.
I don't envy Australian's most things but this is one worthy of it.
Ask HN: What is a good website/app for math practice?
Hello friends,

I am looking for a website or app good for practicing math with. Ideally it would have an interface like taking a test, where it gives you one multiple choice problem and after solving gives you a new one. I would like to be able to have practice questions for anything from high school Algebra 1 all the way to advanced mathematics like calculus and linear algebra. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
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I have the weird situation where in my country the IRS is called the IRS even though the letters stand for words in my language for "income tax" it ends up being the same acronym and its used interchangeably with the actual name of the government entity.
You don't think a travel agency selling policies covering china should have their sysadmins ensure that their customers can actually make use of those policies? They can always explicitly exclude china if they don't want to deal with this but then they wouldn't have gotten GP's money.
> where you can book a call or chat session with AI employees

When you click https://www.smstactic.com/booking-calendar/all-in-one-ai-bas... then it's not clear at all that one will be chatting with an AI. It should be made very clear. (And personally I think nobody wants to chat with an AI)
> If China ever takes over Taiwan, America is so screwed.

The 21st century will not be a remake of the 20th. Empires rise and fall, and that's in their nature to do so. So far, China has managed theirs very well, and I don't see a fall in the cards for this century.
What is she supposed to say? Perhaps "our products have bad software, don't buy them, go buy Nvidia instead"?
Criticism applies the same way to them. Even more so, as they're also the dealer.

Thank $deity that there are still search engines you can just pay for. A honest exchange of money for value is getting quite uncommon these days.
I don't believe for a moment that was the initial aim of systemd. They just tried to improve on a pile of hacks and by pulling on that string it sort of ends up touching (or from your perspective infecting) everything.

It vaguely reminds me of people arguing about "what color is your function". You open that portal and end up in a new universe. All or nothing.

The unix wars are long over I'm not sure what you can point to that ever was a True Unix. Nostalgia not withstanding. What well defined standard Right Way you're actually clinging to is not clear.

Whether it will end up for the best or not I don't know but the entire saga seems to be the pitfalls of endless tinkering on display rather than some unifying vision. I wish we lived in a world where systemd type efforts had clear end goals and well thought out architecture in mind when they start but open source doesn't like working this way.

It just ends up as "my favorite way of doing things is better" based on vibes. In both directions. That's the problem with "philosophies".
> what you find objectionable

Speaking as an onlooker passing by: well, your «Evidently not. :) » above was not particularly productive, that is a rebuttal fit for relaxed old friends at the restaurant... :D
Italy has great architecture from fascism days
https://archive.ph/gqOsY
You know what I mean, don't catch me on words.