skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8.

> The Congress shall have Power…

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; …

Copyright is a means to an end. The end must be to promote the progress of science and useful arts for Congress to have the power to create such monopolies.
In each step of the American system, you go up by a factor of 1000 each time. There is no discontinuity.

The problem was that there were once two billions, the short billion and the long billion. The English world decided to use the short billion and the French world decided to use the long billion.
Well, if the company is providing input data, it could be interesting to generate something with it. Like a customer profile pic based on their user data and past orders!
You should try the "Smart cuts" feature (which is labelled experimental). On common formats/containers (like videos from YouTube) it works really well.

Basically it will attempt a precise cut and if it doesn't coincide with a keyframe it will reencode both ends on each side of the cut and the nearest keyframes.

It is generally very small segments to reencode so it is pretty quick and the quality of these is nearly lossless too so the cut feels invisible.

The only issue is if your segments are really short (under a second) it will generally fail... but chances are keyframe cuts in this case don't work well either.
Wow!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantala_flavescens
WhatsApp Android beta reveals Llama 3 405B option
Locke was a dunce, what of it?
I'm perfectly happy with the performance of my iPhone SE (2020), and it's still receiving software updates, but the battery is severely degraded. The same was true for my first-generation iPhone SE; I was able to get a cheap replacement back then due to Apple's battery replacement program related to batterygate.

Access to cheap replacement batteries would definitely have an impact when deciding whether I should replace my phone or not. I believe Apple even mentioned the battery replacement program being a factor contributing to lower-than-expected sales a few years ago (sorry, can't find the source).
I was thinking about redoing this with Magic cards too (I have quite a lot of code for that preprocessing that data already) so it's good to know it works there too! :)
Isn’t that an opportunity to build up new multi use development at a lower cost? Recent HN thread discussed what must come first, mass transit or development for example. In this case, the mass transit can come first, with interconnections to existing higher density mass transit systems as needed.
Contamination Fears Stoked by Water Leak at German Nuclear Site
> the "tea kettle" effect every time the BBC was between programs or went to commercial

This effect is famous, although of course the BBC does not show commercial content in the UK. I wonder if the effect has diminished with the increased variety of entertainment. Coronation Street now peaks around 5 million viewers, down from 20 million in the 90s [0], and is on a channel that does show ads. Perhaps half time in England football games still creates a big power draw.

[0] https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Viewing_Figures
That sounds very interesting. How you find founders? Which ways do you recommend?
//Precon: Need 4 legs. Have none.

Int counter_of_sanded_legs = 0;

do{

Sand_a_leg;
Counter_of_sanded_legs++;

} While (counter_of_sanded_legs < 4);

Need four legs, have none. Doing while I don't have enough. How many legs do I have? 1. Doing. How many legs do I have? 2. Doing. How many legs do I have? 3. Doing. How many legs do I have? 4. Done.

Alternatively:

for (int i=0;i<4;i++;) {

//how we start; whether we repeat; how we update our counter.

Sand_leg();

}

You only need to sand a leg when you don't have enough legs.

These aren't that far off of actual things you'd do moving about. In fact, not realizing that you're distilling something physical into the symbolic is a leading cause of confusion in my experience.

A "do x times" dedicated looping construct would be syntactic sugar that detracts from understanding what the underlying semantics are; which if you're teaching how to program is a bad idea. The idea is to have your understanding precede the machine. Not lag behind.

You can start screwing around with abstractions after you get the basics. As once you have the basics, you can compose them into any form you want.

The rest is just increasing levels of crippling mental illness.
>So are regulators, politicians and especially journalists

Yes. The important distinction that I drew was that the power is now vested in a very small group of nine people. IMO that measures it much easier for biases to continue unabated. At least in large numbers, there are more likely to be more rational viewpoints to counter our innate biases.
> kernel's performance is pretty low

Can you elaborate on this? How is it "low"
The Lives of Others (2006 film)
Norway phased out FM in 2017, and went from 5 national channels to over 30.

There's an article from back then here: https://radio.no/2017/01/norway-makes-radio-history/
Is 10 gigs really that much nowadays? I have to think that if you're frequenting HN you're likely to have at least a terabyte in storage on your personal computer?
> any RFC that defines a protocol including binary data will generally go with big-endian numbers

I'm not sure this is true. And if it is true it really shouldn't be. There are effectively no modern big endian CPUs. If designing a new protocol there is, afaict, zero benefit to serializing anything as big endian.

It's unfortunate that TCP headers and networking are big endian. It's a historical artifact.

Converting data to/from BE is a waste. I've designed and implemented a variety of simple communication protocols. They all define the wire format to be LE. Works great, zero issues, zero regrets.
How do you feel about the Intel management engine, which is a permanent backdoor with total hardware access which is fundamentally impossible to remove? Or AMD's equivalent, or NVIDIA's proprietary driver blobs, or the closed and un-auditable firmware on every computer ever?

Nobody is selling computers that are fully open. Even Framework uses a closed firmware.

In our modern capitalist hellscape, you sometimes have to settle for the least worst option. The BIOS whitelist on older thinkpads is completely trivial to defeat, and apart from that they are incredibly durable and repairable machines. The T530 came out in 2013, and has been my daily driver for near 10 years, after buying it used for $100. I'd say that kind of longevity is more than worth the effort of flipping some bits in a BIOS image.

If you want to draw hard lines like this, then you've ruled out absolutely every machine produced in the last 30 years. Nothing is fully open. You simply have zero options.
As a Gibson fan, The Peripheral was a massive disappointment to watch; I felt that it totally failed to capture the stark, grungy (Gibson) vibe of the book and cheapened the source material. Maybe a master like Denis Villeneuve could do Neuromancer justice, but otherwise I'm not feeling hopeful that Gibson's work will ever get an adaptation that does it justice.

Apple TV does have some half-decent sci-fi under its belt, though: Severance, Dark Matter, For All Mankind, Silo...
I live in Toronto and have been to Ottawa many times, as well as tons of other Canadian and American cities. Downtown cores have some middle class folks in them, usually in somewhat luxurious condo buildings. But in no way does the interpretation of "where all the rich Canadians live" being downtown Ottawa make any sense.
The media doesn't care. They just want to move product. They are indifferent between exposing SBF as a fraudster or celebrating him as a golden god--they want the easy path to revenues. And, of course, a lot of reporters tend to be susceptible to idolatry. To be reductive, reporters are either muckrakers to starf_cukers.
Thanks for your kind words. Could you please show me the sentence or paragraph in the guidelines where 'post like this' is mentioned? Or must I assume that because this is an anglosaxon site, automatically the political correctness illness takes effect?
What is your target market? Cloud-native is, like the commenter said, going to be difficult to differentiate based on cost. I can see this being useful for hybrid cloud (onprem instances), functional or local testing, “localfirst” workloads, enthusiasts etc.
> Why shouldn’t I be able to plug a kb into my console and browse the web, or write an email or a word document, or do my taxes?

Do you want to know the truth? The cold, hard, glaring truth?

It's because Night Trap and DOOM existed. The ESRB got made and now nobody can ship games without the direct and glaring oversight of an entertainment commission. It sounds stupid because it is, but it also has bipartisan support so everyone can say "think of the kids!" and stop 17-year-olds from renting GTA for their PS2.

Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony love this. These are regulations they can exploit, because they more or less give them a legal imperative to root out bad actors and create the sort of walled garden Apple struggles to justify. Does it make sense? No. You should be able to legally unlock your Nintendo Switch bootloader, Nintendo be damned. But Nintendo is perceived to exist in regulated competition with their peers; Apple is running a free-for-all where everyone but them loses.
It is only purchasable if you install their software, can't just buy such a stamp on the website if I'm reading the page correctly?

I seem to remember Deutsche Post also had a thing you could just write on the letter, or maybe it was DHL's parcel service instead. Those were purchased simply online like any other product/service and, after paying, it told you what to write in the corner. Or maybe I misremember and they only have this system where you can take the pdf to a parcel shop and have them print your label.

Edit: found the "print in store" option, it's not for letters but for parcels https://www.dhl.de/de/privatkunden/pakete-versenden/angebot-... "Don't have a printer? Let your stamp be printed at [places]."
No, you literally said the opposite. Read your first sentence.

> ... Copilot ... is pretty bad at guessing what I exactly want to do
Tangentially, one of my big hopes of this upcoming election in the UK is that Labour get a big enough majority in parliament that they can force through a lot of infrastructure projects with minimal process. We could have a golden age again where parliament pass individual acts supporting simplified processes for HS2, a third Heathrow runway, etc, given the upcoming super-majority
Can you tell me more about the types of queue things you need to implement? (Feel free to email me too - I’d be grateful for the feedback!)
If you’re claiming the courts have more non-law domain expertise than agencies, you’ll need some evidence of that for this point to land.

If you look to Chevron for a concrete example, the issue was about the ambiguity of the scope of a “source” of emissions. That is not a law question because the law already deemed that sources can be regulated. It’s really a question of non-law domain expertise in terms of the definition of an emission source.
Show HN: ActiveInterview – Speed up your screening process when hiring
I'm aware that one-way video interviews can be a bit of a hot topic. Just to clear the air, we've learned from experience that they're not the best fit for hiring engineers (we gave it a shot, but it wasn't successful).

However, we've found them incredibly useful for other roles, especially when we're looking to fill positions like virtual assistants, social media managers, and similar jobs. So we built Activeinterview as a tool that we use internally + to sell as a SaaS.

This approach really shines for us in scenarios where we're sifting through a large volume of applications - think 100 or more. It's been a game-changer in helping us manage the initial stages of the hiring process more efficiently.

Would love to hear your thoughts or experiences on this!
AMPRNet: Internet over Ham Radio
I hope you will support C#. It is rising in popularity.
> You seem to be asserting that I'm claiming that Haskell simply can't do the things that imperative languages can do

No, that’s not my intention. I responded to your view that monads are hard to understand by saying that they show up in other languages too in non-trivial ways.

I also don’t mean to say that Haskell is like imperative languages. Just that monads by themselves show up in imperative languages too, so they are not as esoteric as the operator names (>>=, >>) may make them seem.

I appreciate that you followed up in good faith. The point of view that you expressed makes sense to me.
Artot: Get your fortune read with an Art themed Tarot Deck
I see a lot of people saying that cash increases freedom because the government / banks / card companies can't instantly shut off access. But, if you're being targeted and don't already have massive cash reserves, you're not going to be able to pull out cash from your account anyway.

If the authorities want you sanctioned and oppressed, they will use a method that transcends any specific technology or tangible item: the justice system.
I don't think the author meant "regressive" in that sense.

For them it means: "Actually thinking about a solution instead of wringing hands"
Skipping YouTube Sponsored Ads, Even on Apple TV (iSponsorBlockTV)
Hi dotancohen,

More info of how to help here.

https://github.com/futo-org/voice-input-models
Are you a regular user of Redbox?
Something that always bothers me about these explanations is they usually forget about numerical errors. You can't just abstract away multiplying coefficients as "constant time". You may as well abstract away the entire multiplication to begin with! If you take into account numerical precision, it's closer to O(n (log n)^3) [1].

[1]: http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Algorithms/fft....
This is an important point, and true insofar as it goes (because the discussion you quote is about clay).

But not all aquifers are clay. The ones that are composed of coarser material are more stable. Like a lot of Earth science, it's complicated.

But, yes, once clay has compacted, it's not reversible and that natural storage space has been lost.
One thing I learned about the software industry is that a lot of the tools we use are objectively horrible, but it doesn't matter because somehow big tech manages to shove it in our faces anyway.

Also, the inverse that really good software tools often don't see the light of day is also true. It really doesn't matter if some tool is good or bad for adoption. What matters is; does it have the backing of big tech? It shows that tech media is completely monopolized.
Direct link to the repo from the article: https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
> i dont know much about machine learning but what i think i know is that its getting an outcome based on averages of witnessed data/events

"Extrapolation" is the word you're looking for, for a superficial understanding of machine learning. "Average" isn't even remotely close.
I think you missed the point. I'm not ready for any large change. No one is. What I have done is get myself into a position where I can do what I want to do before there is a change and hold out as long as possible. It's a dampening effect, a parachute. I'll be in the same shit as everyone else, just later.
https://hsr.ca.gov/2024/06/27/news-release-california-high-s...

https://www.buildhsr.com/
When we started our own parcel service in 2015 we thought that everything that is needed on the actual parcel is the unique ID of the parcel (generated by a system reminiscent of twitter's snowflake and intentionally printed with digits shuffled around as to increase the chance of the prefix being unique). Pretty quickly we found out that various operational concerns need additional data on the label, with routing info (for manual pre-sorting on the depots) and recipients phone number (the courier locates the parcel in the trunk by that) being pretty important.

Also, cool design of the label is one thing, but on both laser and thermal printers the resolution repeatability is much better in the direction perpendicular to the paper travel, so you do not want to do cute design things with vertical barcodes. And you want to have a huge margin below the barcode if it is aligned to the bottom of the label as some printers will occasionally get misaligned and part of the barcode will get on the next label… and the imaging scanners in Zebra terminals will happily read half a milimetre high code-128 barcode instead of the correct one on the bottom of the label.
They run at GHz frequencies, and are orders of magnitude more complex than the 8-bit processors of yore. ICEs were big suckers, and they cost a great deal.

That was for linear-socket, Sub-MHz-clocked, 8-bit processors, like the 8085.
No, this is it for coal. It's finished. And no, we won't be mothballing any coal power stations, it takes too long to spin up. Gas power plants are more efficient and cleaner, but these are also being phased out eventually.

The idea is to replace all the fossil fuel power plants with a mix of nuclear power stations, ideally 10 and lots of wind turbines and solar farms.
I feel you are exemplifying the typical conspiratorial thinking patterns. You might as well have asked me to concede based on the fact that there are technically similarities between vaccine mandates and the Yellow Badge. I mean you must be insane not to recognize how they're basically the same thing, right? /s
Most places could build a lot of 5+1s for the $128 billion cost. Not so sure California can†.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-11/new-cost...

†https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/high-rise-building-in-...
I agree with you.

> Easy styling, including dark mode

I wonder if this requirement has been imposed from above.

When the web was taking off I received designs from the UI architect in the form of VB6 applications. Windows was the dominant platform at the time. Never mind it made no sense in the context of more fluid HTML layouts. This was before CSS.

Since then the web has probably trained the holders of the reins that they can violate user interface norms everywhere.
If we have a test or a linter that prevents a problem, that runs in a couple of milliseconds, and you didn't run it because you are too cool to run it, then we are no longer talking about subjective preferences about tools. We are talking about responsibility.

If your code caused data loss on production because you are LARPing about being a hotshot instead of adopting the processes that keep the code running I don't care how fast your editor is.
Do you think it's because of whatever brain damage they may have encountered, or because they could not find meaning in their civilian lives? I've read it's often the latter in military men, especially the ones that really believed in the mission and experienced highly stressful life or death situations. They come back and they're taken aback by the mundane bullshit that our lives are in comparison to what they've been through. Intuitively that rings true, but having never served, I can't fully relate.
"100% Fully Software 2.0 computer. Just a single neural net and no classical software at all. Device inputs (audio video, touch etc) directly feed into a neural net, the outputs of it directly display as audio/video on speaker/screen, that’s it."

Sounds like a magical fantasy computer.

How would the input and output devices work without drivers? Does "no classical software at all" mean that the drivers are somehow within the neural net?

How would such a magical neural net computer be trained? Wouldn't it require observing countless inputs and outputs for a normal computer? How would the neural net being trained distinguish between good, wanted input/output combinations versus bad, error input/output combinations?

How would you program such a computer or load new software onto it? If the whole thing is a single neural net, wouldn't the neural net need to be replaced in order to add new functionality or correct errors/bugs? How would user data be persisted while upgrading the applications?
But at the very least Henry George agrees with GP ;)
Clearly your use of Abrahamic faiths is not fair in this context when the root of Abrahamic faith is Judaism and it is also an old religion as Hinduism.
That's not what's at issue here, even remotely. Whatever Congress did willingly was enacted in statute law. The entire question here is who is responsible for interpreting that statue law. This entire debate is downstream of legislation.
>>Microsoft to integrate an LLM into outlook

Didn't they already do this? A friend of mine showed me his outlook where he could search all emails, docs, and video calls and ask it questions. To be fair, he and I asked it questions about a video call and a doc - but not any emails, we only searched emails.

This was last week amd it worked "mostly OK," but having a q/a conversation with a long email feels inevitable
> Through their ruling of Marbury v. Madison, the court declared the Constitution as law.

The constitution declares itself as supreme law. See the Supremacy Clause:

This Constitution, and the Laws of
the United States which shall be
made in Pursuance thereof; and all
Treaties made, or which shall be
made, under the Authority of the
United States, shall be the supreme
Law of the Land; and the Judges in
every State shall be bound thereby,
any thing in the Constitution or
Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.

The order in which the supreme laws are given is: constitution, statutes, treaties.
Now you sound like an investor :)

My own vision is to take a queue that is relatively dumb and make it smarter. I want it to be able to, for example, allow you to rate limit workers without needing to implement this client side. And so on for all of the other bits that one needs to implement in the course of distributed processing.

I’m still figuring out the market. Very large firms spending thousands of queues? Or developers who want a one stop solution built on familiar tech? Or hosting companies who want to offer their own queue as a service?
I feel like "unsatisfying" is an understatement, to put it lightly. How about soul destroying instead?
> Property rights are not rights to a common resource.

They can be. Native Americans considered e.g. land to be a common resource, and yet today you can own it. What is a "common resource" is a matter of social convention, not a consequence of the laws of physics.
The New CAP theorem for Data Streaming
$100 billion for 463 miles of track is outrageous, and that's surely to double by the time it's completed. In 1964, Japan was able to build its 320 mile long Shinkansen from Tokyo to Osaka in just 5 years for less than $12B, inflation adjusted.
So you're hurting everyone for the minor few? I've heard this before and it's still very bad planning.

You can create bus and emergency lanes you know, with less detriment.
You may find they will refuse service to you for unspecified reasons.
JPMorgan brings back the liquid lunch
It's a lot more profitable (in the good way) to build the rails and stations first, on cheap land, and have the cities grow around those. The builders of the railway get to capture the increased land value, rather than having to buy (or otherwise pay off) huge uninterrupted tracts of very expensive developed land containing thousands of homes etc. Buy low, sell high and all that.