skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like IF tech could be use for more than just fiction. Imagine government forms that could use it to help people navigate a complex bureaucratic system of forms, or something like the python cookiecutter for generating project layouts which could ask for more detail about your preferences before spitting out a template, online tutorials which customise to cover the 3 main cases etc.
Hey everyone!

I added signed cookies and session support to the Hyperdiv reactive Python web framework that was recently announced by his founder.

I love the concept and ideas behind Hyperdiv, but lack of session support was blocking tons of handy use-cases for it.

Wish the best to Hyperdiv and hope you enjoy this contribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_(linguistics)

I'm not sure what your point was, but mine is that it doesn't necessarily represent a significant amount.
"Prerecorded" CDs are actually not "burned" by a laser (in the way that CD-Rs are) in the factory, but "stamped"/injection molded from a negative. It's a completely different process!

Since there is no photosensitive dye involved on the final prerecorded disc, this makes them orders of magnitude more durable. That dye is what breaks down over time on CD-Rs, making them unreadable.
It does not, it just seems that way.
The electron just jumps to an empty slot in the next atom (metals have empty electron slots in their atoms, that is why they conduct energy) and leaves a bit of energy in the current one.
So if the electron jumps to the next atom on the right, the current seems to go left.
In practice, almost no author gets to choose how the fruits of their labor are distributed. Their rights are gobbled up immediately by one of the big publishers, who then dispose of their captive intellectual property as they see fit.
Can you read Kindle books directly on the Kobo? I know I could use Calibre to rip/convert/sideload all my books, but that feels like such a pain. I did it that way first time around when I jailbroke my Kindle and it felt like I was spending more time faffing about with software than actually reading books.

The whole point of getting another eink device for me would be to just read without having it feel like my day job, so I'd hope everything was just click and go, a slick, Steam-like experience. That's the thing that has me worried about the Inkpalm - no Gapps without hacking it, which makes the Palma seem more appealing since at least it's just a normal Android with Gapps. I'd probably still put F-Droid on there because I prefer open source if the option is there, but I don't want to do any kind of messing around like rooting it or pairing it with a computer or setting up a new account to sync with some third-party service just to read books I already bought on Amazon.

You're right about the fragility of Kindles by the way, both of mine eventually got smashed, which is how I ended up doing all my reading on my phone with the Kindle app instead.
Link to SCOTUS document, it’s quite short and readable: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-334_e18f.pdf

Here’s one of the key passages:
“ Under the doctrine of consular nonreviewability, an executive officer's decision "to admit or to exclude an alien" "is final and conclu-sive," United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, 338 U. S. 537, 547, and not subject to judicial review in federal court.”

Wow, I didn’t know the consuls executive officers had this power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect If you put a magnetic field that is perpendicular to the current, you get a charge in one dide of the wires that depends on the moving charges. This is used to measure magnetic fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube usualy you heat only one electrode, but you must heat the correct one so electrons can jump to the other electrode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube I'm not sure if it'a a different example or just a variation. Anyway, you can have a lot of fun changing the pressure of the gas, and the electric field https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/discharge_tube....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor IIRC they are also not symetric, but my knowdledge is too small even to write a good remark.
It's equally tiresome to pretend everything one doesn't like is communism, when communism has been operationally dead for decades.
Who would have guessed that one day lack of DVD rentals would bankrupt Crackle?
Ooh, ooh, how about text is kind of a nightmare?

I ginned up some pretty inelegant stuff to rotate text 90 degrees[0] because I got tired of trying to figure out if there was a sane, blessed approach that I could generate with whatever Python library I was using.

Ditto right justifying text. I just ended up fudging it [1]. Like, this is a pretty basic functionality if you're mixing text into your graphics. And I'm pretty willing to go down a rabbit hole if I can find one. I realize that doing this requires knowing the size of the text as rendered or doing something funny like rendering LtR text RtL reversed (which wouldn't work for centered?), but this is something that seems reasonable to expect a straightforward solution to.

[0] https://github.com/longwalkwoodworking/cutlist/blob/a7c96028...

[1] https://github.com/longwalkwoodworking/cutlist/blob/a7c96028...
“Zero interest rate policy” is the answer to both of your questions.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

When did the Fed cut rates to zero for the first time? 2008. What happened with this company in 2008?

> Expansion from books

> In 2008, the founders, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, sold the company to a new ownership group led by William J. Rouhana and Robert D. Jacobs.[17] Since then all new titles have been published by Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC and distributed by Simon & Schuster.[1]
Under the new ownership group, Chicken Soup for the Soul has expanded into other products besides books. The company markets pet foods under the brand Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul and a line of soups, sauces and other prepared foods under the brand Chicken Soup for the Soul.[18]

ZIRP ending also happens to be the reason that Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is facing bankruptcy.

> On May 11, 2022, Chicken Soup for the Soul announced its intention to acquire Redbox for $357 million ($36 million in stock and $321 million in assumed debt).[28] The acquisition closed on August 11, 2022.[29]

> On April 23, 2024, Chicken Soup for the Soul announced a $636.6 million loss in 2023, and warned that without any options to generate additional financing, the company may be forced to liquidate or pause operations, and seek a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing.

Let’s see when the Fed starting hiking rates

> March 2022

> When did the Fed start raising rates? The Fed hiked interest rates a total of 11 times between March 2022 and January 2024.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40731922
Highest and Lowest Doctor Density Around the World
[dupe]

More discussion on the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40749483
> 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.

Or to have a rectangle scale to the width of the text inside it.

I have been told by a member of the standardization committee that you are supposed to use Javascript for this kind of thing.
Why does Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer (for example) show up in their 1300 banned books list? It’s not under copyright and is available on Gutenberg.

Is this some legal angle I’m missing which benefits the plaintiffs in some way?
So you think the police were responding to ShotSpotter alerts and bringing people hamburgers?

We already know "aggressive law enforcement" reduces crime. If you put enough young men in prison for loitering, marijuana, and other victimless offenses, crime will go down because you have accidentally arrested a few would-be violent offenders.

But that's insanely unjust and expensive, so people pitch us things like ShotSpotter to make cops smarter.
> And it opens up foreign ownership of US-based reactors to members of the same organization, plus India; Russia and China are specifically excluded in the bill's text.

This seems like a mistake. China are something like an entire technology generation ahead at this point.

The US isn't used to playing from behind, but realistically they should probably copy China's strategy for bootstarting industries since it clearly works. I'm not sure what China's strategy actually is, but it is clear a component of it involves foreign investment from powers that are potentially hostile but have advanced capabilities. Then appropriating the technology. The US should open that option up to themselves.

> And an academic analysis has found that safety regulations play only a small role in US costs.

And this sounds like a bad conclusion to a study. I mean, I could put out a study saying that softballs defy gravity because they were observed with an upward-pointing velocity vector and dismiss the thrown-ball hypothesis because the pitcher isn't in physical contact with the ball so can't be influencing it at that point in time.

The actual study done is pretty good, I went to have a read of it and there is lots of interesting data. But they are being unimaginative about the indirect effects of a hostile regulatory environment. Looking at a negative learning rate and collapsing labour productivity then concluding "well, gee, that just must be nuclear" is the type of stupidity that only clever people can achieve. There is no reason except regulation that an industry would perform that way. They need much stronger evidence to come to that sort of extraordinary claim.
Because of the incremental nature (it can't think moves ahead) only a tiny percentage of all viable life forms can be produced by evolutionary processes. Species forged by their ruthless struggle for survival. Maybe humanity will be the first species to escape evolutionary constraints, but maybe humanity is like the many other species that burn brightly but briefly. The universe seems to be cold and empty and devoid of life. Perhaps evolution is very good at producing cockroaches and not that good at creating intelligent life.
I love Waymos compared to my ride sharing experience.

The base car is appealing (currently Jaguars). They're spacious for a >6 ft individual like myself. The user interface is intuitive and fun. There's a cool factor that exists.

Against ride sharing, given the lack of a driver, there's no variability in driver with regards to ambiance, scents, cleanliness, chattiness, and smoothness of the ride.

I am very much looking forward to this expansion.
Why should an author be forced to give away their work for free?

They can already choose to give it away for free if they wish. We already have the Creative Commons licenses, and there are many open textbook projects.
Should it be legal for IA to offer this, especially for older and out of print books? Yes, almost certainly.

Is it legal? No, not as the law currently stands. You can support Robin Hood, but you shouldn't be shocked when Robin Hood is caught and sent to jail. It was a mistake and a huge legal risk for IA to do this. It could easily have brought down the whole organisation, and all that they've archived to date.

I wish a fraction of the people who are upset about this would actually commit a portion of their time to lobbying and organising for copyright reform. Copyright terms are too damn long, by half a century and then some. This isn't some iron law of nature, this could easily be changed if there were enough of a push for it.
If you’re an innovation hero and you don’t own part of the company, you are a sucker
Completely agree. The above user seems to of taken a very utilitarian only approach to life. Personal fulfillment, and cultural literacy are other types of awards.
Oh, I thought you were making a non-sequitur semantic context shift, my mistake.
> GIMP isn’t a credible alternative to PhotoShop for the people who pay for it for example

Weird take. GIMP's been good enough for professional work for more than a decade, and lots of professionals use it. I paid for Paint Shop Pro ages ago, because it was better than Photoshop for my use cases. GIMP progressed and became better than PSP for the same. I've used it ever since. It's even been used for major motion pictures.

In the same way that software is eating the world, Free and Open Source software is eating software. Every year it does more and better. If GIMP doesn't work for your use case today, it likely will tomorrow, or the day after.

Some open source tools, like Blender, like Linux, exist at the top of their respective foodchains. Proprietary tools are working to try to compete with them.
How else will you discover new and exciting speculative execution vulnerabilities? /s
When I first heard about how mechanical hard drives work, back in the days when the highest end 300 MB (yes MB) drives ran a stack of four or six platters, and some drives still used a sort of rack and pinion positioning setup rather than a voice coil, I assumed each platter would have its own actuator and heads were only paired up top and bottom per platter.

I was surprised to find that instead, the entire rack of them moved as a single unit, with so much energy wasted overcoming 3 or 4 times the necessary inertial mass for each seek. So now, 20 something years later, well after SSDs have come close to superceding spinning rust when all tradeoffs and variables are considered together, someone has finally gotten around to putting an extra actuator in these units. Great!

While on that subject I also never understood why the general layout of components inside these drives never iterated away from the very earliest RLL / MFM winchester mechanisms, with the spinning platter assembly slightly off-center in the case, and a single head assembly off in one corner.

I assumed at some point that the armature assembly would become miniaturized just enough to allow centering the platter spindle and adding another set of heads at the opposite corner of the case, so that each head set could address opposite sides of the platter, effectively halving access times even on single platter drives.
NYC schools stopped teaching books
Dead authors can't choose to give away their works, they're dead. Yet someone still owns the rights 60 years later.
So if you constantly delete emails (or move them elsewhere) you could have quite a few people on a $1.50 a month plan.

I wonder if this would be effective for families. Could source a custom domain for everyone in the household.
I hope they do a data dump or leak of the archive before they comply. It’s a shame to lose so many actually scanned hardcover books.
A water powered binary logic gate dispay for NAND/NOR/NOT construction of an adder.

Some rotary calculator examples.

Napiers Bones and some worked examples.

A Brunsviga or similar.

Translucent plastic layers of a VLSI circuit which can be taken apart to discuss diffusion layers, boundaries

A model of the shockley/bardeen transistor

Something in the Babbage space.

A linkage/bar computer, analogue computer (Norden bombsight?)

A Mainframe of some kind

A flipchip era PDP8

A pdp11 running, or a rpi5 running a pidp11 with Unix on it

An 11 layer removable disk pack drive

An ATC screen.

A core memory explainer, giant size, or an ex computer core

A Logo turtle in a constrained table with a PC to drive it
What is AI? Artificial? Yes. Intelligence? Hell NO!!
Book Review: Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
Because they are fucking cool.
No, my way of dealing with it is to whine on HN/twitter occasionally and otherwise don't say anything publicly. Feel free to reach out at jpohhhh@gmail, excuse the overly familiar invitation, paying it forward because I would have found talking about that sort of thing f a s c i n a t i n g.

in general id recommend Ian Hickson's blog post on leaving. I can't remember the exact quote that hit hard, something like decisions moved from being X to Y to Z to being for peoples own benefit.

I'd also add there was some odd corrupting effects from CS turning into something an aimless Ivy Leaguer would do if they didn't feel like finance.
Might be different for other universities, but in my department, as well as all the PhD's I've known in other well known universities, there is no such hierarchy, they all worked directly with their professors.

Mine doesn't even have many postdocs (if any) as far as I'm aware. Similarly, while sometimes promising PhDs might be assigned to handle undergrad researchers, most of us worked directly with the professors back then.
> local government, which is democratic. HOAs are not.

What? Most HOAs seem to be one house one vote? Or what does not make them democratic. Should it be one vote per dweller?
Here’s detailed information about the fallout between the two: https://lawreview.law.miami.edu/wheres-my-sriracha-the-spicy...

I always buy the “rooster brand” and don’t even remember the brand name. A great example of branding among a collection of similar products. Other examples: the battery with the bunny, the insurance with the funny lady, etc
This is only true for arb opportunities on exchanges that offer colocation (which leaves almost all crypto exchanges as fair game). But if you can't get colocation, there isn't much point in having the FPGA anyway since the network latency is going to be so much higher than any savings from FPGA vs low level programming.
Damn, this is sad. Huy Fong Sriracha was a staple of my time in NYC. Guess I gotta leave the past in the past... Sigh.
It's insane how bad your product can get with no repercussions once you achieve 90 some % market share.
If the speed limit that was deemed safe for an area is lower than the 85th percentile driver speed, then that road is poorly designed. It should instead be redesigned such that people slow down themselves, regardless of what the sign says.
What I will never understand is why this is needed at all. The books that I do find interesting I buy them. Sure, you can bypass paper by having ebooks. But is it really a replacement for a printed book? There is nothing like a printed book. No power needed, nor devices needed, you can go back to any page, any chapter instantly and if you have stomach even write on them. On the other side having the possibility to just quickly browse through a digital file to check if that title is of your interest or if it will serve you well if a technical book is invaluable. I have literally saved myself hours and money from not purchasing titles that turned out to be not of my interest. Imagine paying ridiculous amounts of money for technical books that then you find out the way a topic is approached is not really for you. Go ahead and check prices of for example Springer, Wiley, Addison Wesley books. And if out of print you pay a leg for a second hand one, effectively limiting access to knowledge only to people with big pockets.
OP has a point...

First link is Cisco laying 4K to focus on AI. Not jobs replaced by AI.
Second link is MSFT laying off 1500 doesn't say they were replaced by AI.
Third link, read the comments, it's a reorg. Normal at big companies.
Fourth link is a startup ceo who is replacing 2 interns...
That says nothing about the living authors.
OpenAI gives the government early access to new AI models
>> they will info dump tech mumbo-jumbo

I'm mid-level engineer. Honestly, several staff+ engineers may not be spitting tech mumbo-jumbo, but they do dump all other kind of BS. Political BS, "tactical tornados"[1]. May not necessarily mean they were good at engineering, but just good with people skills. Obviously, not everyone is like that, but I would say many are.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33394287#:~:text=The%20....
> Your language seems to indicate a sore spot has been hit.

Uh yeah? Because you're not arguing in good faith. As I've already said, "if you like it so much why don't you move there" is such a boring dogshit argument that even South Park made fun of it. Twenty years ago. It would be one thing if you knew anything about me or my circumstances, but since you don't, I can safely assume that you frequently apply this logic as a rebuttal to any criticism of the status quo, which is an extremely small-brained, liberal thing to do. Nice work.

At any rate, all states are authoritarian, so if there is some structural limitation inherent there, the US and China are on equal footing. The real structural limitation at issue here lies in the US where we have both a highly-centralized economy dominated by a few actors and one driven entirely by the profit motive. Not a good spot to be in unless you think rent-seeking is good for productivity. Which, hell, given your performance in this thread so far, maybe you do think that. But, it isn't. This explains the respective growth and development trajectories of both nations.

Anyway I'm done with this thread as you still haven't put anything compelling or thought provoking into any of your dozen or so posts here, and I'm not interested in reading any more of your reactionary liberal bullshit arguments, if that's what we're calling them. So feel free to put whatever witty zingers you like in your inevitable reply, with links to Adrian Zenz' Twitter account etc. I hope we don't cross paths here again.
DHH may buy it :-)
you can delid your CPU and fry bacon on it instead
“commonly used in HPC” is a bit of a stretch if you’re talking about production applications.
The trailer was golfing with flames, there was nothing I could do buddy.

Worst case Ontario right there.
The absolute highlight of my work is when I get a new projected 'scaffolded' (bad choice of words, but I was using it before it became a buzzword)

You know when you get to the point your data structures just make working on the code a breeze, when your library functions provide all the right low pieces to whip up new features quickly and easily with names and functionality that actually fit the domain... Basically, when all the pieces 'gel' :-D

That for me is programming nirvana :-D
I found the Kindles a little creepy, and wanted to go fully non-DRM and non-phoning-home.

So I made a list of my requirements for that, as well as general ereader features, and ended up with the PocketBook InkPad Lite.
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If an author sells the rights and does, should the buyer automatically lose what they bought? Sounds like that would severely decrease what authors can earn, especially older ones.
The suit was filed 2020 June. It's quite plain the uncontrolled lending triggered it even if it was about CDL.
I skimmed through the linked github and reddit post, and maybe I missed it, but this looks like the kind of strategy that gets blown up when a negative black swan occurs. They're "harvesting premium" by selling options, based on the fact that "implied volatility is typically higher than realized volatility on average." Which is true, until it isn't. Like, yikes dude.

For example, the author recommends spreading selling options across multiple sectors to avoid getting blown up by any one sector moving against you, implicitly assuming no correlation across sectors. But how many times do we have to relearn that lesson that correlations do happen, and more frequently than we expect.

One of the commenters in the reddit thread even says that - they retired just before 2020 b/c all their Monte Carlo simulations showed they would have plenty to retire on, unless a highly unlikely correlated whole-market crash occurred. Which happened in the same year after they retired, blowing up their retirement planning.

I wouldn't recommend this strategy to noobs.
Behind The Bastards did a couple of episodes on this. Glad to see law enforcement is finally catching up!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-why-is-the-re...