skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my issue with money being mixed up with FOSS via AGPL is because it inevitably leads to a fork where the paid version has features and performance superior to the open source "community" version.

i much rather ppl just release closed source proprietary software that i can pay for and the value proposition is clear not be lead to surprises down the road where the community version is neglected
> The deal it has been offered “appears to be a sweetheart deal”, said Sanjiv Singh, counsel for 16 families of crash victims, citing a request for the Department of Justice to independently appoint a corporate monitor of Boeing, rather that permit the company to nominate its own candidates. “I am stunned that the department deflected our demand and fell back on ‘oh it’s policy’,” he said.

Lol what. With these rampant revolving doors I wouldn’t even trust an “independently appointed” monitor. But allowing them to nominate their own is another level of insanity.
Nice, I'll have to try that going forward. I love all the smart tricks people come up with to avoid the meaningless busy-work of traditional employment.
Yep - it was indeed a teaching moment for me. :-)
Dealing with a bit of high blood pressure as well, I'm learning to err on the side of caution when it comes to salt.
Does that app have access to a full terminal ? Like if I install vs code inside distrobox, will it have access to the systems or the container terminal?
I can understand how the material cost is low for such a tiny chip -- it said 337,000 of them fit on a wafer, but testing time must cost more than 1.5 cents per die.
gen ai is dunning-kruger
(context: Xoogler, knew people on the team, am partially culpable for the last material++)

This is autopilot at BigCo. No?

There's still a pilot in the cabin.

Low stakes. No big investment required. No politicking. Unaffected by latest $X trend. No release sprints. No release slogs.
Does the predicted revenues (predicted fare * predicted ridership) exceed the interest on the bonds?

I ask because it didn't in previous iterations.
Beware of the line of operations research thinking that has latterly tanked Boeing’s engineering reputation, something the rest of us designing layered business processes can all learn from. Complexity is always best handled pushed down to the leaves of the tree. The ideal central body performs reporting and audit, not command and control. Although for some, I suppose the Boeing takeaway might be that the bottom line improved and no-one went to prison.
I think the crux of the argument is that if you are not planning to monetize it, why stop other people from doing so?
I never thought about doing bit shifts using octal numbers..

I definitely will be doing 010, 020, 030, ... instead of 8, 16, 24, ... from now on!
> 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?

That's my impression, yeah: the neural net would learn to associate input signals with output signals. If this could ever be made to work then it'd have some pretty neat implications for human prosthetics.

> How would such a magical neural net computer be trained?

You'd need some way to praise or scold the thing. Probably a debug line or something to encode pass v. fail.

> 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?

I think you answered your own question: swap out the entire neural net (which would probably entail a hardware swap unless you're able to train a neural net to replace itself).

> How would user data be persisted while upgrading the applications?

Train the neural net to interface with a hard drive?
I would wager so, it's not significantly changed much in years.
ImHex uses it for the entire UI
Strictly speaking, SQS does not necessarily store data on disk and being highly available and fault tolerant does not exclude one from operating a completely volatile data store. Indeed, SQLite itself has an in-memory option which, when appropriately architected, could be used as the primary data store for a highly available and fault tolerant queue.

Having said that, I think it is safe to assume that SQS probably stores information to non-volatile storage.

Nice work on the project!
If Seattle wants to force a certain wage, I see no reason why their city can’t have their own municipal food delivery system.
This seems fairly unlikely to ever occur. The database would have to be decentralized, and the two items would have to be mailed from separate locations and both be scanned more or less simultaneously—or within however many minutes it takes for database changes to propagate, which can’t be all that long since you’re able to buy a code and use it on the same day.

Given how remote the probability of this happening is, simply ignoring it and delivering both pieces probably isn’t unreasonable. Or flag it for further investigation and maybe bill the sender or recipient for an additional piece of mail.
I found zyppet to be quite slow even compare to DNF which is notorious for being slow.

Also it's not very well supported in the community, I guess distrobox fixes this.
Nah we would download 128kbs files, and then reencode them as 16kbps to octuple the number we could fit on our Diamond Rio.
I think this is a good time to have a Gell-Man retrospective from March, 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26454488&p=2
No need for an installer when it's just one file you can run anywhere. And folders/zips are way too hard for the average user. Ask me how I know. My partner gave up an entire game platform because it was delivered as a .7z file they could not figure out.
Link farming, check out the usernames - they are links to third party sites in an attempt to fool search engine rankings.
I mean we’ve only recently launched to early access, we don’t filter most things yet, including far-left or socialist content.

One of the big features I’m working on now though is self-descriptive filters, so a patent can input exactly what kind of stuff they do and don’t want, without us getting in the way, and an LLM will choose which posts are and aren’t filtered out. It’ll hopefully resolve this sort of discrepancy between what we want to filter out and what parents actually want filtered out.
No worries. I'm actually not a huge fan of art films, which might explain my confusion. I tend to like traditional dramas about believable characters and situations, and I just thought of The Lives of Others as that sort of thing, aside from it being German language. But every year, fewer dramas like that come out, so I am probably showing my age.
Oh wow, so it turns out this whole business model was built on slave wages and if you pay delivery drivers an honest wage the model doesn’t work.
BE MIPS is still alive, many recent Mikrotik hardware is BE MIPS.
Userland rootkits are lame (2022)
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841004
DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges
FreshRSS does this.
The article doesn’t say why. It alludes to bureaucracy. Either way, I don’t think unsubstantiated cynicism is productive.
In addition to what the other commenter said, the Indians in 1700 Virginia weren't hunter-gatherers. They had farms, money, laws, and government. To the extent that the colonizing English didn't think of them as "the same," well, they felt the same way about the Irish, who are also European.
It doesn't sound like discrimination, it is discrimination, tautologically.

The onus is on you to show that it is bad in this case. We discriminate routinely, children are exempt from working for example.
Maybe poverty wages, but a slave wage?
The fundamental problem is just that the model of random delivery drivers grabbing (usually modest) amounts of food from random restaurants doesn't scale very well. It's inherently expensive because it's so time-consuming for the driver.

Pizza is a bit of a different model because pizza delivery is sufficiently popular for pizza places to orient around supporting delivery well in the local area and have the drivers vertically integrated in-house.
LW isn’t a modulation
I was a kid in the 90s, and back then the fact you can have animated gifs on a page was a revelation. Likewise with crazy fonts, sound effects, and frames.
So on one hand we want to ensure everybody gets paid a decent wage.

But then that gets countered by not wanting to pay too much for a luxury service, such as delivery, when I can just jump in the car and pick it up.

One question: What did this people do before all of these apps came into play?
Did the WSJ really just report on the basic concept of supply and demand?
nuklear solves all of these for me, plus it's plain C
English data sheet: https://www.nyquest.com.tw/upload/2024_02_293/NY8A051H_v1.6....
8K is a sizable window, sure larger 'exists' but also advertised context windows and functional context windows are not the same thing. I would rather a model that can 'only' handle 8k tokens but handles 8k as well as it handles 1k compared to a model that 'can' handle 32k, but realistically, output for contexts beyond 1k are garbage.
...and we've all been out of the loop at least once (probably more, if my personal experiences are any guide :) )
But then how would Kevin Costner be able to make a movie out of it???
The Mad Genius Mystery
> The right move here would be to force banks to accept them and/or as a society pay for a system where they get access to electronic money.

It's not just about forcing banks, but also about the people trusting banks and institutions, which have historically not been kind to (say) black people. Lots of folks could perhaps (e.g.) not be able to keep minimum balances that would avoid monthly service fees, then you get dinged for NSF, but of course you can pay for overdraft coverage.

It's why some suggest (government) post office accounts are a useful tool for dealing with this: profit is not a motive, so all of these hoops can hopefully be avoided.
Most pop/rock music follows a sort of “rule of two”- introduce a new element which catches the ear, then repeat it, then introduce another element, repeat it, etc. can be as small as a single instrument part (flute sound in the background) or as large as a song section. Rarely does something happen only once, or get repeated many times without modification.
We didn't get delivery for as much stuff. In the US, I felt like delivery restaurants were mostly just pizza before (and in areas places you might have another type of cuisine known for doing delivery, like Chinese takeout places). Was born in 85 and I don't really remember getting delivered food from places other than pizza. Well, office catering would be a different story, but for regular folks yeah.
For my personal site I create RSS feeds for all the main posts, but also an RSS feed for each tag. If someone only wants to read my posts about TypeScript they can just follow the TypeScript tag instead of the main feed.
At most a BLE chip to send data to your phone in a way that doesn’t touch the internet
I just found this last week, and it was tremendously useful. I had filmed an entire dive competition with a small poolside camera, and wanted to cut it up into clips of individual dives. LosslessCut let me play it back as fast as I wanted (a little over 300% speed was the fastest I could use to listen for the gaps between divers), tap 'B' every time the scores were announced for a dive, then click export after I'd done that for all the dives. It took me less than an hour to split a 3 hour competition into nicely labeled clips I could share with each diver and their coach.
Lol what? Point stands regardless? What does that mean?

- "Oh my point was proven wrong but I'm going to stick to it anyways? Because fact shmacts?"

Your whole argument was that the convoy was shut down because it inconvenienced the wealthy locals.. Which is completely not what happened.

It's ok to say you were wrong.
> One question: What did this people do before all of these apps came into play?

We went to a restaurant and ate there. Or we got takeout.

Only pizza was ever "delivered" because you could batch up multiple pizzas and deliver them simultaneously.

I don't even remember any delis doing delivery and at least their products travel well.
> Writing the GUI part of the program should not take more time than the actual functionality

I don't understand why this is a rule. I mean, I don't know what the author is trying to build, but in general the GUI is the part that the users spends all of their time interacting with. I don't see why it would be a problem if a little more time was spent there.
If they can't make an effective basic text search, I doubt they're going to manage an LLM integration that doesn't return straight up garbage.
Reader wasn't unmaintainable. It was cancelled because it competed with Google+.
The Schönhage–Strassen algorithm from 1971 is basically a polynomial multiplication using FFTs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nhage%E2%80%93Stras...
Before, it was mostly only pizza places that regularly offered delivery if people didn't want to leave the house or cook something.

Sometimes, the options in an area extended to sandwiches or Chinese food or a little bit beyond.

So that's what we did if we were either lazy or busy: We ate pizzas, or sandwiches, or Chinese food. These things can all transport fairly well.

We simply did not get soggy Whoppers, cold fries, or tacos delivered. (Some of us still don't, as we feel that it is the path of madness.)
New York City driver Jagat Pun, who mainly delivers for Uber Eats, said the app’s shift system has slashed his working hours by more than half.

His weekly earnings are down about 60% ..."I'm struggling to survive"

The unsaid implication: He used to make so much money from Uber Eats that he could afford the full set of NYC living costs.

Seriously? He made six figures as an Uber Eats driver?
> It is not possible to not have this.

That's absolutely false, humanity existed before central planners drew property lines and build state-run roads.

It might be reasonable to say that we can't have what we have today without central planning, but that's a very different discussion. You don't even have to go back that far, most roads were created by people just trying to get from point A to point B, there was no central planner.
Is there any context into why this was put into place at the time it was? I would like to understand why this was set up.
They probably don't test. Yield is likely high enough that failures are the responsibility of the customer.

Honestly, this is where I'd love RISC-V to be making inroads. It would be really nice to have a super simple processor with a standard architecture and tooling.
Dwell time = longer on site the better. This promotes pointless articles around information you want. For example finding a recipe involves going through pages of the history of ingredients to get to the recipe. A successful search can be microseconds.
Yeah those are a teeny tiny fraction of CPUs on the market. Little Endian should be the default and the rare big endian CPU gets to run the slow path.

Almost no code anyone here will write will run on those chips. It’s not something almost any programmer needs to worry about. And those that do can easily add support where it’s necessary.

The point is that big endian is an extreme outlier.
The problem is that "we" (the government) is making it illegal for people to work for the best offer that they had. So now some portion of them aren't making a wage at all.
Reminds me of the 2D universe simulator I wrote over Christmas last year. Mine consists of square entities (going for a pixel art aesthetic) of random initial size that have a weak gravity, slowly bumping into each other, condensing down into small objects with very strong gravity... you can imagine where thats going. The code is god awful but it was fun to hack through and it looks cute. I used Pygame, but it also spits out some matplot visualizations for a historical pov.
That's where you make a hotfix without restarting. When you really understand the structure of knitting, it can be very fulfilling to come up with ways to fix "bugs" like this. Drop down a row or three to redo just that stitch, use twisted stitches to tighten up loose stitches, or even cut the yarn and graft in a patch when you need to add extra material.
I don’t mind a $5 fee, but it’s the markup above regular menu prices that generally kills it. I also had multiple issues with incomplete DoorDash deliveries. I doubt the drivers were stealing food, but the restaurants obviously thought they could get away with theft and not be penalized. It was ALWAYS the most expensive entree missing. Had to get into credit card disputes with DoorDash more than once before they were banned from our household. Oddly never once had the issue with Uber Eats.

That being said, the in restaurant experience sure as hell isn’t what it used to be, either. Rarely bother with a sit down place anymore.

Grocery delivery seems to be a winner, though. Costs about $20 more and I don’t have to spend two hours dealing with it? Count me in.
The missing term in bb123's comment is "burning coal for electrical generation".

The Holborn Viaduct Power Plant, the first coal-fired electric power station in the UK, opened on 12 January 1882:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holborn_Viaduct_power_station>

Yes, UK / British coal consumption for other uses long predates the 19th century.
>So on one hand we want to ensure everybody gets paid a decent wage. ... But then that gets countered by not wanting to pay too much for a luxury service,

Yup. It's a tale as old as time.

Simply raising raising wages just means fewer people will be employed/contracted, thereby maintaining ultimate cost.

Another side effect is with higher wages, people have more money, which means more money in circulation, which means merchants will charge more for goods/services rendered. Aka inflation.

"Just raise wages." is an easy and seemingly simple thing to say and do, but economics aren't easy nor simple.
It's interesting that skeptics are always vague and dismissive - I think very few have actually studied the theory - I'm not aware of any specific rebuttal other than the infamous Rathke paper that initially had a sign error in the main equation and had 5 other significant errors as stated by Mills. In any case all it was saying was logically equivalent to this apple cannot be an orange.
Ask HN: Where to sell vintage computers?
Many of us have vintage often rare computers. The first few Apple's computers goes to premium auctions but what about things in a lower tier?
Great project! Super cool to see the progress over the last year!
The steelman argument for minimum wage is that it acts as collective bargaining for groups that are otherwise too big and too sparse to cooperate with each other.

But yeah there's obviously a some point at which the returns are diminishing, e.g. if it was $100/hour nothing would get done. Legally at least.
The Learning System
Blockbuster obesity drugs create a full feeling, before one bite of food
This will definitely not be running locally on your phone. That's for sure. Both 70b and 405b are way too big for that.

8b would be feasible though given enough ram but probably a bit too slow for most users' liking. I guess this is why they don't even offer a local option. And when you go cloud the bigger models will be better of course.

I wonder if meta will use this to finally monetise WhatsApp.
One may jest but the subtext of The Postman (particularly the David Brin novel, which I can recommend) is analysing which pre-apocalyptic institutional operating models are predisposed (or otherwise) to being rebooted/reconstituted even after the loss of all staff and centralised records, which is a definition of business continuity and process resilience I certainly intended to be in scope of the remark above.

Which is to say, Kevin Costner did make a movie about it. Just not a good one.

In practice though you can simulate/stimulate most of the failure mode conditions of central control dependencies by parking a delivery truck underground, or addressing something to a farm.
The model works if you decrease the platform's cut.

IMO, it would be neat to see a government provided "gig brokerage" of sorts that handles the dispatch of things like this (even including long haul delivery, maybe even a mechanical turk equivalent).

When the service is ultimately provided by a contractor, what's the point of having middlemen compete?
Given how straightforward the physics are, what is the limiting factor that kept us from developing planes sooner? Insufficient propulsion power to overcome the drag of an inefficient wing?
Grocery delivery is the worst for me. The store gives you the worst produce possible, and if something’s not in store, the substitution is often nonsensical.
> Why is it acceptable that the government by-pass the normal legal system in dealing with protestors?

I'm not going to debate whether it was legal or not with you because (I'm assuming) neither of us are lawyers.

I'll say that I don't particularly agree with the bank account shenanigans they pulled, but they only did that because the Ottawa police force completely failed to do their job in dealing with the blockade.

I definitely don't like the precedent that was set, but having seen the blockade first hand (it was not a "peaceful protest", it was an aggressive encampment that was regularly threatening to passerbys and locals) and the impact it had on the area - my parents live nearby - they had to do something.

I support the rights of citizens to protest but as I said, there's a limit.
I work on several enterprise apps that are .NET but the GUI is a webcontainer with a web app. Unless there is something particularly high performance happening in the GUI, this works really well for several reasons:

1. We can update the gui without the user installing an update.

2. Lots of great web ui libraries, designers, and developers to make it look great.

3. Relatively lightweight
> given how poorly paid athletes are

To be clear, in the US, when people say pro-athlete, they mostly means NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB. (Yes, tennis counts also, but leave that aside for a moment.)

I Googled for minimum contracts in those four leagues:

NBA: 1.1m USD
NFL: 660k USD
NHL: 750k USD
MLB: 60k USD

MLB is shockingly low, but it might be explained by the farm leagues. (I don't know more details.) I doubt anyone who sees regular play in the MLB is making so little.
> The problem is that "we" (the government) is making it illegal for people to work for the best offer that they had.

In doing genealogy, I've seen the end results of allowing powerful corporations to decide the best offer people would have.

Mass die-offs of 45yo's from Black Lung disease springs to mind.
Foundation the TV show was so interesting to me that it pushed me to read the book series.

I'm currently up to Foundation and Earth. The show is different, but I like the changes they made for the show, especially to the emperor's lineage. The show would be painfully boring if it was filmed in the style of the books with characters talking about what happened instead of showing.

I personally find the mentalics aspect of the books kind of lame, unscientific, and God like. I hope the show does not lean so heavily into them as it continues like the books have, but seems inevitable as I read through the book series.

Severance and For All Mankind get all the hype but See, Silo, and Invasion have all been great. The only true miss in their sci-fi shows for me has been Constellation. The only more boring sci-fi show I can think of is Beacon 23.