skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC released an online version for the 30th Anniversary of the Hitchhikers Guide with some additional graphics if anyone would like some nostalgia [1].

I don't know anyone who finished that game. It could be very frustrating. I was very pleased just to get the babel fish. Since then I have read the walk through and I doubt could have ever completed it without help. [2] (spoilers!)

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN...

[2] http://www.eristic.net/games/infocom/hhg.html
>IMHO the Internet Archive was always going to get sued because they were treating ebooks like physical books and that's contrary to the copyright maximalism that is law around ebooks.

No, IA was not sued before the "emergency library" because OpenLibrary treated physical books like physical books. OpenLibrary had been around for years before 2020.[0]

>They're never ever going to allow something like the doctrine of first sale to happen again.

Ah yes, the oft-touted warning that "they" (meaning publishers) hate the first sale doctrine and somehow will magically abolish it.[1] The principle that one you own something tangible, you can do whatever you want with it (sell it, lend it, gift it, destroy it) is a longstanding one, with books being only one application. Lending libraries predate the concept of a free public library and, yet, publishers somehow did not go around to every paid library and mechanics' institute demanding a cut of membership fees.

>That's why you can't have an regular library with ebooks.

I said "tangible" above for a reason. I don't have a good answer for how and whether to treat ebooks differently, but am not convinced that the only right and proper one is to treat them exactly the same way as physical books.

>The publishers will not settle for anything less than charging libraries per-read and requiring negotiation for every title offered.

But this has not been the case in practice. Amazon and other retailers sell ebooks with permanent licenses.[2] Libraries use both CloudLibrary's per-borrow model and Overdrive as providers; while I prefer the latter as a Kindle e-paper reader, there is an argument to be made for either approach from a logistical perspective. In my experience Overdrive has the largest market share, so libraries seem to prefer its approach.[3]

[0] I'm quite certain that my IA/OL account is older than yours.

[1] As amazing as it may seem, publishing companies' employees also grew up borrowing books at the library.

[2] Yes, I know about the 1984 example

[3] And before you say "Overdrive books shouldn't expire after 52 borrows!", that seems like a reasonable compromise given that ebooks don't fall apart after repeated use the way pretty much any physical book would after that many borrows. Again, paid-for ebooks from Amazon and elsewhere don't expire.
Ultimately mathematics is describing space-time. You can definitely think to start with the intuition of having 2D numbers, but to define that you'd have to define what 1D number is anyway.
I sincerely regret that when I went to Vienna, I only knew it for the music; where greats like Mozart, Strauss and Beethoven (among others) plied their trade and not to mention _The_ Vienna Philharmonic.

But since I'm more into visual arts anyway, I naturally checked out the vibrant (pun intended) art museums too. That's where I learned of Gustav Klimt and the Secession movement. That's where I started to become intensely fascinated with Art Nouveau/Jugendstil.

(When I was there, the Albertina had a contemporary art exhibit for the art duos Hauenschild Ritter and Muntean/Rosenbloom. It was a personal religious experience seeing those works. I won't write an essay here as to why because it's tangential to the topic. I accept maybe a lot of people will say "religious experience" is hyperbole (it's not). But the point is Vienna's cultural footprint is not just classical music.)

Unfortunately, I didn't have time anymore to visit the Secession building when I was there. But the plus side is that I have a reason to return.
I’m also the friend who brings up Cinemania once a month for no reason. Not literally the same one but I used to love it. Now, I just sit peering between ads at 2-3 lines of Fast Company articles while trying to work out how to close the autoplay video ad…
Looks interesting, I do have few complicated models will test it out and see.
I use it through both the chat interface and the Cursor IDE: https://www.cursor.com/
https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response
Hmm. "We rub our Tubes with Buck Skin", he says in the same letter. I was trying to work out whether the tube gets a positive or negative charge. I think it depends on what material is being rubbed with what:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Triboelectric-series_EN.s...

The tube is glass, but is the buckskin fur, or slightly furry, or leathery? That would seem to alter the charge it gets.
> taking a copy licensed

I'm curious what license applies when I buy a physical book, as a library does? Do you have a resource where I could learn more?
Most Perl code now a days runs under Perl5. I once tried running a Perl4 script in Perl5 and did not have a good day.
As an Spanish guy living in Japan, let me tell you that Japanese urban planning and development is an utter disaster that we should not copy. Please find a better example.
> That only works when y is constant.

Excellent point! That said, that was the case in this particular example.

> This 16-bit modulo was just a final check that the correct number of bytes or bits were being sent (expecting remainder zero), so the denominator was going to be the same every time.

(Libraries like libdivide allow you to memoize the magic numbers for frequently-used denominators, and if on x86 you have floating point operations with more precision than you need for integer division, you can potentially use the FPU instead of the ALU: https://lemire.me/blog/2017/11/16/fast-exact-integer-divisio...)
This is a far-too-infrequently discussed benefit of self-driving cars. Right or wrong, I (and many others) have qualms about narc’ing on a human driver. I have no such qualms about doing so with a robot.
School Cellphone Bans Have Buzz, but May Be Hard to Enforce
That article does not answer any of the 3 questions I proposed.
The website does its part to fulfill the predictions. ;)
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/567/
Wow, very well put. Any suggestions for academic papers, books, or even online resources on these topics would be greatly appreciated.
Seizing 100% of a person's economic output is slavery right? The rest is just a matter of degree.

> beyond the strict minimum necessary to maintain liberty itself

You missed this part. Yes you can mandate cooperation (read: enslave) to protect fundamental liberty (police, courts, military, rights of way, etc). You can even literally enslave people by drafting them into the army if your liberal nation is under attack.

What you you can't do in a free society is enslave people to pay for healthcare, education, social security, or anything else unrelated to protecting fundamental liberty from a direct threat. The mandate of the federal government was thus limited until US v. Butler (1936). There are no contradictions here, this is literally how it used to work. This is what liberty used to mean. Being free to do anything that directly injures no one else.

> You say it like it’s a bad thing.

Fear is just as inevitable a part of life as joy. It's not escapable. Pretending you have a right not to feel it is absurd.
The Pinephone meanwhile is underpowered and barely functional. The Pro? Barely functional still.
Yep, that would be artificial inflation too.
SSO is not the silver bullet they seem to think it is. You are delegating your security to an org that may not be as secure as they claim, e.g. Okta:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/no-ok...
> Apple is likely waiting for the current term to be over

I imagine they need the likes of Mistral to lobby for them. Being locked out of the richest billion people in the world’s phones structurally disadvantages the European AI sector.
The Fuggerei: The world's oldest public housing complex
> It probably doesn't help right now, but you should know you are not the only one in your situation.

You're right, it doesn't. It feels more like an attempt to minimize. The rest was you spitballing some unrelated idea.
“was the first to box using technique”

Clearly Pythagoras would have sick martial arts moves, if they’d ever make a movie about him.
(thank you!) 100% cosign. It breaks my. goddamn. heart. that [REDACTED], the consummate boring boneheaded SV lackey is [REDACTED] of [REDACTED], and can't think outside 6 week sprints and never finishes launching. This is technology that should be freeing us from random opaque algorithmic oppression and enabling us to take charge if we want. I left Google to do the opposite, and I'm honestly stunned that it's a year later and there's nothing on the market that challenges that. Buncha me-too nonsense doing all the shit I hate from the 2010s: bulk up on cash, buy users, do the recurring revenue thing and hope x > y, which inevitably, it won't be.
> Speed is the most dangerous aspect of motor vehicles

Not in the way you think. If you're going 55 because it's the speed limit, but everyone else is going 70, you're the most likely driver to cause a collision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
Show HN: Pdfscale
Bash Script to scale and/or resize PDFs from the command line.
Uses ghostscript (gs) to create a scaled and/or resized version of the pdf input.
Re 2 question - Tesla doesn't provide any reliable stat on miles per intervention neither, so you would not be able to compare anyway.
It's an example of how easy it is to find some numbers they posted, countering that they "never" do

I'm not trying to answer your question because I don't want to put in the time with someone who seems to only want to be combative in conversation
If they keep the 10% mark up over competitors maybe there is still hope.
yeah, this doesn't really touch on the beef i have with SVG.

the problem I have is that SVG is complicated like the old web, but unlike the new web we also haven't created new standards like Flexbox and Grid that let you ignore the problems with the old ones.

For example, in HTML-land we have had z-index for a while to describe the order in which elements should render on top of each other. This doesn't exist in SVG, so the order of elements is the order that they are declared in markup, which can lead to very kludgy things.

In SVG land, there is no way to orient around a multiline text box's corners, you can only align the baseline of the first line of text. In fact, there is no way to set a width on a box and have text wrap to the next line when it hits said width. Etc., etc.

These are all things solved in SVG1.2, but of course the classic issue is that barely anyone has bothered implementing SVG1.2.
Yep. Hail Moloch, I guess. He shows up, which is more than we can say for other deities.
Actually, had it been winder that day it might have gone right.

There were 8 joints. Only one failed, and only in one place. The spot being supercooled by boiloff from the LOX tank. And the leak self-sealed (there's aluminum in the fuel--hot exhaust touching cold metal deposited some of it) when it happened--but the seal wasn't robust enough and eventually shook itself apart.
This is evidence that most speed limits are too low. The proper speed limit on any given road is the 85th percentile of what drivers actually do.
End user programming is simply not compatible with the commercial nature of computing, and therefore -- despite very interesting early examples -- it never took off. Now the public have been inculcated into a concept of "what computing is" that is almost entirely on the consumption side.

Not sure how we get back from that.
> not like they are open-sourcing the code

“We’ll take the extraordinary step of making software images of every production build of PCC publicly available for security research. This promise, too, is an enforceable guarantee: user devices will be willing to send data only to PCC nodes that can cryptographically attest to running publicly listed software” [1].

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
The Dunning-Kruger effect: Misunderstood, misrepresented, overused
What so often happens is you make a plan like this, then business priorities change/things took longer than expected/people leave or join and then you wish you never started...
My sibling teaches and said the parents told the school unequivocally "no" when they tried. Main reason is they want to be able to easily reach their children when picking up or in an emergency (like a shooting).
I wish the rich and powerful would do more field of gold style parties. Imagine holding a shindig so epic it becomes a Wikipedia article.
Do you think we'll ever get to a point where there is tooling to generate implementations for user specified functions? E.g. say I want log2(x!) (Picked that example because the size of the intermediate value blocks computing it naively, and because it's a function I've had to implement before).
I haven't played this one through, but I think it's an extension of the work they did on "Sourcery", which was an adaptation of the old "choose your own adventure" books to digital. For that one, they kept the book's story structure, added static images, a map, and a dice-rolling mechanic for combat.

So the base story mechanic is multiple choice, with some state (inventory, flags, stats) based on the game play. It's kind of between a text adventure and a novel.

To me it feels like they're exploring a new portion of the interactive fiction space, and it's interesting to watch where they take it.
I'd be interested to know if you might be able to if you could find problems by looking at invariants over partitions of the space.

Like

Is the number of solutions with v1=false plus the number with v1=true the number with v1 free?

If we have n constraints then there 2*n variants where you negate subsets of constraints. Is the sum of solution counts over the 2*n subproblems equal the size of the variable space?
The interesting most boring man in the world [pdf]
Unsure where you’ve lived but in Philadelphia/New York/LA/SF/Seattle/Portland public transit is pretty disgusting, troublesome passengers or not.
We do, and I have the base with isofix in my own car.
i've never seen a HN thread where everybody just unanimously agrees and wow I definitely will not be recommending Langchain or using it personally after reading through all the horror stories.

seems like another case of creating busysoftware. doesn't add value, rather takes away value through needless pedantry, but has enough github stars for people to take a look anyways
> Like, does it really take double digit millions and >2 years to fix some roof panels

If it’s made from concrete, absolutely. Virtually every commercial building has a flat metal roof with epdm over it because it’s substantially easier to replace it every 20 years. You start on one end, cut out sections, install new roof decking and then install the membrane over it. Repeat until you’ve completed the roof.

For this specific building, everything on top of or attached to the roof needs to be removed and reinstalled. Probably everything inside the building that would be exposed to the elements when the roof is removed would need to be removed and replaced. You need heavy cranes to lift the precast concrete panels into place. If they can’t use the lightweight concrete they used in the 60s, it’s possible the foundations/footings aren’t strong enough to support a new concrete roof which would require structural reinforcements. For trades you’ll have general laborers, heavy equipment operators, steelworkers, mechanical and electrical, concrete.

Double digit millions and two years to replace a concrete roof on a huge building is not outlandish if you understand what construction labor and heavy equipment costs.

Here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete, Ontario has had 30 years to secure funding for this roof and decided not to:

> RAAC has been shown to have limited structural reinforcement bar (rebar) integrity in 40 to 50 year-old RAAC roof panels, which began to be observed in the 1990s
Might depend on how companies use git but I just verified I can see commits for PRs from 2017 in my work codebase; could bisect that if needed (although code likely is no longer relevant.)

I think splitting PRs into multiple commits can make sense when there are only 2-3 commits but you're right that it doesn't when there are more than that.
> It just requires tons of money to do so.

On the order of thousands of dollars a month[0], depending on how close you want to get.

[0]: https://www.cmegroup.com/globex/connectivity-options.html
I've found the same thing - a little syntax example, some counter examples and generative AI does well generating syntactically correct code for PCB design.

A lot of the netlists are electrically nonsense when it's doing synthesis for me. Have you found otherwise?
It is automated. Has been for many decades. Hit up ebay and search for "swyngomatic." There are ones that are spring-powered and more modern ones use a couple of d-cells (or a wall wart if you're enterprising.)

That and a white noise machine (set it low, their ear canals are very straight so they're sensitive to noise, although babies get used to noise around them given time and sleep through it, which is more practical / useful.

You can also just do what people have done for tens of thousands of years: wrap your kid against your body and go about your business.

Putting your kid in a car (self driving or not) is putting them in the most dangerous situation they could possibly be in - car crashes are the number one cause of death for kids (in the US.)
Some one uses it to start Emacs very quickly - https://gitlab.com/blak3mill3r/emacs-ludicrous-speed
But I think of CDs as the start of this era of transience. Every single CD I burned was useless after a couple of years of sitting in a spindle. Most of my 3.5" floppies from the 90s still work fine, with maybe a few bad sectors. I don't know, maybe I bought cheap CDs to start with--I think the factory burned non-writable CDs lasted.
Why would that be describing a dystopian future? A more generous framing might be to say that incredibly creative feats will be available to more people, and those who are particularly talented will create things that are now beyond our imagination using these tools. Who knows if that is how it will actually play out, but it also does not seem unreasonable to think that it might.
theres already solutions for this but even this i feel like is a wasted effort unless you have the token volume to justify high availability
This is pretty much spot on. It sucks after 250 years of hindsight, but I would encourage anyone who wants to think like Franklin to buy an amber rod, a glass rod, a piece of real fur, and a piece of silk, and try experimenting with them and see if you can intuit from physical experiment what the fire is made of and how it passes from one material to another. You can't without the benefit of future knowledge.

This is what it feels like to stand on the shoulders of giants.
I bought a Boox color e-ink tablet last year. I wanted something different enough from phone and laptop that I could read books without feeling like I am staring at screens every waking hour. I also liked that it ran full Android so I can put whatever app on it.

While the color screen is a neat trick, in practice, in an e-reader, for this purpose, I have to conclude the colors (which are faint) were not worth the sacrifice of grayer screen background, less resolution, and slower/more complicated refresh.

All that is to say, my experience with the Boox tablet makes me feel like this Daylight Computer is on the right track with its design choices. While I don't quite have the disposable income to turn around and purchase another tablet so soon after spending my money on a different tablet, if I could do things over (or if my current e-ink tablet broke), I'd definitely buy this Daylight Computer.

Hopefully the company that makes this is successful and continues to expand and support the device. That's the other issue with the Boox tablet; I read on Reddit that there will not be new Android versions for it because the company is part of a culture of moving on to new hardware and abandoning support for deployed hardware quickly.
OK... so you've quoted them again.

You still haven't explained why it isn't true, or why it's trolling. Just saying those things doesn't make them true.

I can tell that English is not your native language from the number of grammatical errors you're making, so perhaps you're confused about something linguistic here?
Have you considered 100GB BD-RE? These are rewritable, but that is only the byproduct of being a phase-change medium, which is also >50 years and thus has a longer shelf life than the standard WORM BD/DVD.
I am using them and can say only good things so far.
With this judgement, does this force them to write a tool that determines whether a book is in print or not? Are there any good webservices, or will they just have to scrape Amazon, etc.? I've noticed a lot of their lending library is definitely out of print; is "out-of-print and public domain" just the ars writer's interpretation of the judgement?

If it isn't, a tighter awareness of what is in print and out of print might be able to cut into those 500K, if at all possible. If lending is out, best to be aggressive with what's left.
Take a sabbatical, move to a new country, buy a motorbike, learn BJJ, do tech stuff if you want.

I’m the same age with kids and have done all of the above. Work is just work. Live your life around it.
As a German, I'd like to point out that about half of the German Autobahn network do have speed limits in place, or had in 2019 (this oscillates a lot between about 30-60%, I think).

According to a government study into Autobahn fatalities that occurred in 2018, "non-adapted speed" (defined as the appropriate speed for the traffic conditions and allowing full control of the vehicle) was the cause of death in 45% of cases overall. For stretches without a tempo limit it was 46%, for stretches with one it was 50% -- this may be a good statistical for the tempo limits, as presumably there would have been more deaths on those stretches without the limits having been set.

Overall, 70% of Autobahn deaths occur on the segments without a tempo limit for a variety of reasons.

Speed limits on the Autobahn are a frequently-discussed and controversial topic in Germany, but for what it's worth, they're quite actively managed for safety reasons.

Gov source (in German): https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Zahl-de...