skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [the guy] was getting paid upwards of $150k a year in a town where most people lived in poverty simply because he was the guy to call when a coal mine's conveyor belt was broken

So... most of the people there had to live in poverty just because that one guy gets paid so much for broken conveyor belts?
> “The industry is wrestling with this. Technically the companies have the copyrights, but we have to think through how to play it,” said an executive at a large music company. “We don’t want to be seen as a Luddite.”

Being a Luddite is cool!

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01/why-you-should-b...
If this were true it would be bad. Luckily it's mostly myth and rumor that doesn't actually line up with reality. The reason leasing cost is so low is that these vehicles and their batteries tend to be decent shape at the end of the lease and still have a good resell value. And they don't cause any issues in between.

With modern vehicles, the battery can actually be expected to outlast the vehicle. Many EVs sold 10 years ago still have their original batteries. They are fine and really good value if you can get a second hand one.

Battery replacements have mostly proven a myth for EVs. Of course they sometimes happen, especially with older vehicles with primitive battery management (e.g. no cooling). But most EVs ever sold still drive around with their original batteries.

Modern battery chemistries are actually even more durable. 3000 charging cycles is pretty standard these days. With a 300 mile range, that's 900000 miles. Most ICE cars don't make it half way that before ending up in the scrap yard. And that's usually after years of expensive repairs, inefficiently running engines, and going through lots of replacement parts. 3000 cycles is just the threshold where you can reasonably expect the battery to still hold > 80% of it's charge. It's not like it will stop working. Maybe 60% is still good enough. Some battery chemistries do way better than 3000 cycles of course. There has been talk of million mile batteries for some years now.
I use Inkscape with Sozi to create some nice slides.
It seems that in the US there has been a trend to "de-regulate" or let businesses regulate themselves. It works for a while, but eventually it seems to go south. I think "regulatory capture" is the term. I think of Boeing being allowed to inspect there own planes.. I think drug manufactures submit there own studies, as the FDA doesn't have a budget to test all the things themselves.

The opiod manufactures are organized too. They have trade groups and conferences.
Hate to quote theprimeagen on this but people have to stop mixing up readability with familiarity.
Hope they don't kill this one.
This is why I so often just go to the AP and look for their article - https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-purdue-pharma-opioi...
I am not really following this, but is it true that people actually got murdered/missing in this debacle?
The fact that this isn't the case after 200 some odd years exposes us. We don't care about the right to a fair trial for people who don't have money, it's a lie we tell ourselves.
A single vote means little and being partisan doesn't mean 0% voting with the other side. By this logic Congress is not a partisan institution given that people from both sides frequently vote together, but anyone who remotely follows national politics knows that it's a deeply partisan time.
So these "sleazy" lawyers are doing their job in fighting for their client.
I am sure you like the SerenityOS interface
> Pretty much every computer that matters works the way you expect it to

Except the ones that saturate, that produce trap values, etc.
the choice to have sex with someone or be fired is not a legitimate choice and framing it as one is also illegitimate. do you have a better suggestion for a term you would prefer?
What about dismantling the stock market? These are systemic problems. Free market economy works just fine without stocks. I can't prove it, but I feel there would be plenty of funding organizations to fuel your tech unicorns if the collective wealth of the America wasn't being spent and stored in this house of cards.
Flexbox & grid took a lot of wind out of the sails of the various frameworks.

The #1 (by a long shot) reason I used to reach for things like Bootstrap was to get my divs in the right spots on the viewport. Now, I can specify sophisticated 2d layouts based upon media queries that consider a combination of viewport dimensions and other device capabilities. Not a single line of javascript is required to do this.
Google Cloud Introduces Hierarchical Namespace for Cloud Storage
As a content creator, where can you even go and what can you do to get an audience these days that doesn’t surrender everything you make to be used to train ais to replace you?
It's not at all fair, because even to this day the total subsidies given the gas powered vehicles is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than those given to electric vehicles.

The main difference is that the subsidies and expenditures on gas are given to oil companies while those for electric cars are given directly to the consumer.
30 Years of Business Knowledge in 2hrs 26mins [video]
And Luddism wasn’t exactly a company executive phenomenon.

The Luddites didn’t have the luxury of sitting their asses on (copy)rights they didn’t work for themselves.
"trust the science"

edit: it's meant in sarcasm, mostly.
And the training samples are overly tied to Vertex
You are right that those who start off being well paid in the working-class tend to buy capital with the differential in pay, and thus move into the middle-class upon doing so. But, as such, still realize the gains on the capital side, so the decline on the wage side is not the whole picture for them.
Nothing wrong with JS here. MMOs are I/O bound which Node is great at.
New Internet Thing, Chapter 8 (The Computer Biz)
The math seems about right to me. Using a chatbot for an hour might only use a minute or two of computer time, I would be genuinely surprised if a human could hit ten minutes of compute time/hour of interaction. Most responses in my technical chats are under 5 seconds, so using a full hour of GPU time is going to take A LOT of questions.

I heavily use ChatGPT via a desktop client and my own key, and I am at $3.90 for the month after making a mistake where I accidentally was sending a 30k token prompt repeatedly, that cost me about $2. Using an optimized approach, it is VERY hard to incur a $4/month bill.

I imagine that Khan academy has a much better bulk-pricing agreement with openAI, and that they can probably have a caching layer that can look for previously asked questions.
Two examples:

1. Huawei was the largest contributor to 5G development.

2. The P20 Pro significantly advanced the state of the art in phone cameras. It was hands-down the best phone camera available at the time. Unfortunately, soon after that phone came out, the US started sanctioning Huawei in basically every conceivable way, which made them go from market leader in Europe to basically nonexistent in the West.
Both Uber Eats and DoorDash made restaurant listings without permission at first, just like Reddit seeded threads with their own comments at first. It's just a necessary part of building something that requires economy of scale. Neither platform does this anymore to my understanding.
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After the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, rebuilding the elevated freeway was expected to take over 12 months. The "Fix The 10" plan offered a $200K bonus for every day ahead of schedule. The project was finished in 3 months.

https://www.planacademy.com/construction-project-acceleratio...
Phi is notorious for benchmark overfitting. It's good, but not as good as it looks on the charts. On the Lmsys leaderboard it places a whole 23 spots behind Llama-3-8B which it also claims to soundly beat on the above. So YMMV.
Supply and demand is the main factor that affects the price of anything. No amount of subsidies, wage changes, etc. will have any effect on a physical problem of having not enough houses for the population in an area. If you subsidize rent or raise wages that will further increase demand and make prices go even higher.

Think of an extreme example- take a town with 20k families and only 10k houses. Now setup some program where many of those houses are part of an affordable housing program with a price cap. This changes basically nothing because only a few lucky people will get them, the rest will still be unhoused or move. This is literally the exact situation in most small USA west coast college towns like Davis- where the city government will do anything to make housing more affordable except construction- and we can see that none of it works.

I was using the standard English language definition of the word affordable, which is qualitative and has no specific quantitative definition.
Playing devil's advocate, it's the artists' content. Don't they have the right to go back and make it more in line with their original vision?
Chunking Strategies
50 Years of Queries
How old are Minecraft versions?
Hi! I'm currently learning React for frontend so I made little project that shows you how old is each minecraft version. Hope you'll like it my fellow minecraft players!

PS. I know that the data from older versions are not consistent due to scraper, but I'll fix it any day now.
Just in case anyone else is a dummy like me: Spirit _AeroSystems_, not Spirit Airlines. Airplane parts manufacturer, not airline.
Chip-scale titanium-sapphire laser
It's high school, and parent is likely from Denmark, where high school was split into language or math, although it is odd that someone from language would be admitted to a bachelor in math without taking extra classes for about a year between the two.
Negative outcome. Some important points that the article here did not emphasize:
1) The Sackler family was not actually a party to this litigation. They came to the table (with most of the settlement money) specifically to get these so called '3rd party releases'.
2) Purdue is basically broke. It's also an LLC. Thus, in order to go after the Sackler family's money, you basically have to claw back money that Purdue paid out to the family over the years. It's not impossible to do, but it requires a whole more litigation, the outcome of which is not at all certain.

Now, 3rd party releases are a genuinely weird thing: a court ruling that a party that's not directly involved in the case is immune from future lawsuits. Partially the reason it went all the way to the supreme court is that there was a circuit split - they were allowed in some circuits, but not others. However, (and this is according to a friend who represented the victims in the settlement), it's really unfortunate that THIS is the case where they get struck down. If the Sacklers walk away from the settlement, it makes the victims getting their payout much less certain, and certainly delays that payout by many years.
If the teacher doesn't, their AI does!

Its AI turtles all the way down...
Cool URIs Don't Change – But Humans Do
can you run the whole task as a postgres transaction? like if i want to make an idempotent job by only updating some status to "complete" once the job finishes.
For anyone interested in this sort of thing this 5 part blog series from ACOUP on fortifications is really interesting.

The 3rd part specifically goes into castles.

https://acoup.blog/2021/10/29/collections-fortification-part...
It is choice. That's the whole point of the discussion you might not like the choice you would have to take but it still is. If you want to convey that you get extorted do so but use the right words.
Another take on this: phi-3 small has 1100 ELO on LMSYS (ranked #52) while the confidence interval for Gemma 2 9B is [1170, 1200] ELO (ranked btw #15 and #25).
Oh no! What will I do without my cloud account, telemetry, and ads?
Constructive Confrontation: A Transformative Approach to Intractable Conflicts
Have you sued DHHS / CMS?
There’s a recent video game called “The Finals” where you can throw these steel tanks and the physics works basically as you describe.
Have you tried Phi 3? It's smart which makes it perform well on benchmarks, but it's not great at conversation or as a chatbot.

I imagine Gemma 2 is a better general-purpose assistant for most people, whereas Phi 3 is a solid small LLM (SLM?) for more specific use-cases like summarization, RAG, learning about math and stuff.
I fully agree with this article. We are at the point were our living standards (rich countries) need to take a hit, but I say 99% people alive now will never what to see their living standards go down.

Without real political commitment nothing will ever be done. Maybe when Miami FL is under 5 feet of water all year round, maybe then something will start.

Sorry kids, but my parents and a good portion of my generation elected Reagan. He did all he could to stop Pres Carter's little bit of Global Warming initiative in 1980. I also blame Ted Kennedy a little bit for Reagan. If Carter was re-elected maybe we would be in a different place.
Yes. Ish. Died, murdered is unproven.

https://time.com/6900123/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-f...
The principle of innocence until proven guilty, the standard of reasonable doubt, and the inefficient trial by jury of one's peers is the best we have figured out so far. If there is a better way, I think everyone would love to hear it. But before you propose it, please consider whether it would really provide justice if you were the defendant with the mile-long rap sheet, but who didn't do it this time.
I'm surprised it was twice as slow. Just this past week I was playing around with WASM, running some pure math calculations and comparing them against a JS version. I was seeing a 10x perf increase, though I was writing WAT directly, not compiling C or anything like that.
Words do indeed have specific meanings.

If someone didn't get vaccinated then the government would start basically attacking basic human rights. In particular rights of freedom work, assemble, free travel, freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to practice a religion, etc (and to maintain their own health I might add) which turn up in some pretty hefty documents like the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Once those things are bargaining chips that you get to have for following a government policy, the policy is forced. This might make you uncomfortable. Indeed, it probably should.

Freedom means you don't have to trust hastily developed medical products. They can't have done any long term studies on the COVID vaccines yet because not enough time has passed for one to happen yet.
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Synthetic psychedelic found in candies linked to seizures, intubation
Which parts, specifically?

I don't develop with Microsoft technologies anymore, but I still consider their documentation among the best. It's an absolute dream compared to the disaster that is Apple Developer docs.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/docs/
> Sure, but what does a competent defense look like when someone is caught on CCTV breaking into a cell phone store and stealing phones

Protecting their rights? Ensuring an overly zealous prosecutor doesn't overcharge the case?

I was the defendant in a case (charges dropped completely very quickly) where the prosecutor had flagged me as a "flight risk" and wanted me held with a stupid amount of bail and a surrendered passport because I was "here on a temporary work visa only" (actually, lived here 17 years as a permanent resident) and had "no ties to the community" (other than owning a house in the area for several years, working in the area, including as a volunteer firefighter/paramedic, oh, and having a partner and child).

I would easily have spent a good amount of time sitting in jail before the charges were dropped if I hadn't had competent representation, and that's even before we consider the facts of my case.
You are missing that such struct initialization did not exist when C with Classes came to be.

Additionally, you are missing the whole package of struct semantics in C++, that while they should at naked eye still look like C structs, they have to also support C++ struct semantics, of memory construction, copy assignment and bitwise comparisaion.

Hence why structs and classes are the same, with the difference that structs are public by default, with code generated for keeping the bitwise C semantics, until any of those operations are redifined, at which point the compiler leaves out the job to the developer.
I don't know what the maintainers chose, but honestly, which-key would be an awesome default to have turned on.

It's soooo helpful for discovery and recall of commands (which is a huge problem with such a complicated application as Emacs!) that the fact that which-key was included by default in Spacemacs half a decade ago is a big reason I am as proficient in Emacs as I am today, and I'm sure there are others who feel the same.

It would be very, very useful for new users. Experienced users can turn it off if they don't like it -- much like the menu bars that are on by default in Emacs.
Not addressing OP in particular, but in the South, a truck is a cultural thing more than a need anymore. If your great grandfather, grandfather, and father all drove a truck...then you get used to that being what a vehicle is supposed to be. It doesn't matter than your grandfather was a farmer and you now live in a suburb and write JavaScript from home. It doesn't matter that it costs a fortune and has terrible gas mileage. It's part of your identity. Source: lots of conversations with friends and neighbors with giant trucks that have no need.
Fun game. I tried to go way out into the sticks and was able to write some ASCII like message but then was ruined. Liked trying to draw a picture in the sand right next to the waves. One question, I assume unchecking a box will uncheck for everyone?
I like that the usb connector is vertical. I always found it more challenging than necessary to plug and unplug the cable when using a breadboard as its hard to get a grip on the cable and forces me to put the board on the breadboard's edges.
Other noble gases can also produce anesthesia, they just aren't as effective and so require pressures above atmospheric pressure for it to work. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalational_anesthetic#Hype...
Both my computer and my car are chock full of proprietary internal tooling and interfaces. My evaporative cooler and its thermostat are a proprietary bundle with undisclosed internal communication. I'd like to think I still own and operate all of those.
What was the product? How did teams bundle kill your growth? Office already bundled Skype and teams was a natural progression for Microsoft in response to slacks and zooms growth in taking Skypes market share. I don’t think Microsoft is innocent in this, but still think it made sense from a business point and from what companies wanted from Microsoft.
How about all the apps that work with CarPlay (and have worked for years) that don't exist in Tesla's ecosystem.
You want driving excitement, try an old manual transmission roadster with your ass mere inches from the pavement. Now that is driving excitement. Every truck I've been in feels like a space capsule. And it's about as easy to park one as a literal space capsule. I have no idea why people like trucks.

I've been in a Tesla and it is rather sterile, but fine. I can't say much more about them, honestly. Having one would be fine.
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant
The money they’re spending didn’t poof into existence, it’s coming from private equity and investors that accumulated it.
Yep it's a bi-directional communication layer. You can even have shared memory.
Adding Parallel Evaluation to Nix
The decision itself:

> GORSUCH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS, ALITO, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and SOTOMAYOR and KAGAN, JJ., joined.
What makes you sure doctors are "so easy to manipulate"? Is the general public more immune? Are there many professions that are more immune?
The NY times. The AP story seems to have just been corrected.
A few things:

- I've had an electric car for 5 years now. My car has been significantly less maintenance than any I've owned. How is that throwing it away in a landfill? If you're concerned about waste, think about the amount of C02 emitted by a single gas car during the 100,000 miles I've driven it already.

- The US and Canada already has a nascent lithium mining and exploration industry, a few sites of which are already open or scheduled to soon, such as in Thacker Pass, Nevada or in Quebec. It's not our fault that a huge portion of the US government continues to ignore how valuable rare earth mining is to the next century ~ (Add other things like nuclear to the list too)
> Elon is against heads up displays for some weird reason

Cost. If you look at some recent changes - like taking out the signal stalks - it reeks of cost optimization. A heads up display in addition to the big iPad would cost more to manufacture.
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Show HN: Personalized YC Interview Simulator
Wanted to share this personalized YC interview simulator that we built! It was a lot of fun to make and we even got it to return some of the actual questions we got in our YC interview.
Any gemma-2-9b or 27b 4 bit GGUF's on HuggingFace yet? Thanks!
Keynote is great if you are making a presentation for yourself and you don't need to share or collaborate on it. Otherwise, interoperability trumps features, and either Google Slides or PowerPoint is good enough and more likely to be compatible with your collaborators. It is sad, I'd love to use Keynote too, but the sharing barrier is just not worth it in 99% of my use cases.

edit: I think Figma slides has an uphill battle ahead for the same reason.
Deliberate. Someone makes more money as a result.
You omitted:

> 1996: Version 2.0 of the Linux kernel is released. The kernel can now serve several processors at the same time using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), and thereby becomes a serious alternative for many companies.

Linux had been around for half a decade at that point, and companies took note and reacted accordingly in 1998.
It's more a failure of management. All the big, legacy players were co-owners of Hulu around 2010. The success of Netflix, and to a lesser extent HBO Max, give them envy, and they all went off on their own to build something. The problem was there were more streaming services than people wanted.
>I'm surprised more restaurants aren't suing DoorDash for damage to their reputation.

I'm not. They have every reason to expect DoorDash to throw the book at them if they did that. They'd likely end up bankrupt.
Chick and egg problem with email providers. Prove you're not spam by having actual customers, then we'll allow you to send more than 100 emails.
Not sure how Google actually indexes sites, but it would be great if you could see a "last changed" indicator in Chrome. That would be super useful.
Yes, at the price of taking time away from the mutator thread, while a tracing GC can do useful work in parallel. Arguably though, especially for the early mobile devices an RC might be a better choice.
Your question is partly why I moved to Nix after many years with Arch -- a perpetually clean install
Won't blowing money like this redistribute it quickly, taking care of the "inequality"? It looks like this is a good way to take wealth from people who have accumulated it (the investors) and disperse it widely.

I can't make your argument make any sense.
> Yesterday was MTV News deleting their archive, right?

Guess who owns MTV and Comedy Central.