skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am absolutely serious. Any employment has opportunity costs: a person who writes and sends out cold call spam e-mail for 8 hours a day is a person who could be spending those 8 hours on something else, but isn't. Yes, switching jobs is not very easy, and it's stressful but humans, thankfully, are not (yet) a species of highly-specialized individuals, with distinct morphological differences that heavily determine the jobs they potentially can or can not do.
If you couldn't find any good video, you may want to try books.

There's more than enough texts on Linear Algebra that you should be able to find one that works for you, it is a very popular and widely taught topic.
Does their return trail s&p 500? I guess there are some of them that are successful and some that aren't, but to be honest I've only heard about vc as people who on average have a very very high return. Now, it is very possible that's just survivor bias, but I would need to search for some data
What are you basing this comparison on? Any more details why you think the hungarian train service is worse? In any case don't you think the expectation for quality of infrastructure should be higher in one of the "richest" EU countries?
It’s as if real issues like climate change aren’t a thing that needs solving…
> That doesn't feel like something that NEEDS sub-second precision.

It does not need to be sub-second, but sub-seconds add up over time.

The Julian calendar wasn't that far off, but it was cumulative, so to fix things it took a ten day jump:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

It is considered easier to have a few small(er) semi-regular jumps than suddenly having to making giant, sudden, one-off jump in the future.
Didn’t expect curlftpfs+svn to strike again in 2024.
I would tend to agree with them even without actual data. Just probabilistically there is likely some overlap.

Whether there's enough for calling it irony is probably a different question.
Thanks for TypeScript support, when nearly everything else is in Python - trying it right away. Although we were familiar with Python, the lack of types were slowing us down tremendously every time we wanted to refactor. Python's typing is really baby typing.
They are private in how they act - improving profit by cutting costs while raising prices. Well, raising prices is now effectively capped by the Deutschland Ticket (for slower trains at least) so the focus is even more on cutting costs.
Llama and Mistral are not really competitive but they can be used as a base to finetune for a very specific usecase.

Then they don't suck as much.

With OpenAI and Claude, you throw some text instructions and you get back the answers which are surprisingly correct (minus a few exceptions). In order to replicate that with Llama you'd probably need N-hundreds finetunes and a model to decide which finetunes to use.
Deanonymized? For sale?
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In the century XXI there is a tendency to try and decouple reputation from performance.

If there's a politically important but poor performer, that fact will be ignored and the deliberate attacks on their reputation will be discussed instead.
What a strange comment. Rewatching means you've seen it at least twice but you think it's a mockumentary?

Please help me with this logic because there's absolutely nothing funny about this film which is arguably one of the most disturbing ever made.
Don’t fall for this. It’s too good and I can’t get out now since nothing else than vscode supports it.

Dependencies, env vars, dev databases, ports, everything all written up in code and ready to use once you open the workspace. All without messing up your host pc. Works also via ssh.
>Not indefinitely. He lost skilled workers, his infrastructure is falling apart and the Western companies that used to maintain it are not coming back.

Indefinitely meaning at least his lifetime of the next 10-15 years. It doesn't take much skill to manufacture rifles and artillery shells.

Probably there will be some uneasy truce reached in that time. But in the end this war will most likely look a lot like Iran-Iraq: ~1 million total military dead over ten years with no meaningful gains on either side.
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I recently started using this workflow and I'm very pleased by it.

Now, for every project I start, I quickly create a Docker container with all dependencies the project needs, and then I develop inside the container using vscode. If I need to develop in another machine (laptop instead of my desktop for example), I just download the Docker image, and everything is already setup to start coding.
Charging for use below what it costs to maintain that use is probably a bad idea.
This may be a good use case for RSS. Feed readers can filter posts by keyword so you can take the unofficial RSS feed [1] and filter it down by your interests.

I posted an RSS reader that can do this recently [2] and I'm actively hacking on another [3]. But there's many RSS tools that can do this.

[1] https://hnrss.github.io/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839262

[3] https://github.com/ralexander-phi/feed2pages-action
I like this but I use an x86 32-bit box for my "home lab" (for the fun of needing to compile everything myself) and it'd be nice if VSCode supported that natively. As is I had to compile VSCode server myself, which isn't exactly what I wanted. Unsure if I can even add 32-bit x86 to this functionality.
> Yes, you might die, but while you're alive you're really living.

You're very privileged to be able to think this way. And very naïve.

A lot of people in our world spend a lot of time trying not to die, and they don't think, "wow, this is really living" while they're scrabbling for survival.

I've been in a few situations where death was close and I don't think "wow, I was really living then".

At best I thought "well that fucking sucked", at worst I spent years recovering from PTSD.

> Yes, you might die, but while you're alive you're really living.

Now this is pod-racing.

I'm sorry you feel you've been missing out by living a safe and comfortable life, but you really haven't missed out at all.

But shit, just go skydiving or mountaineering, get this weird mindset out of your system.
DB is better than it's reputation. What is really amazing is German postal service. Contrary to some reports it is reliable. And they do understand how to work digital.

Compare with Belgium. For many years it ranked below moldovia in the world postal reliability report. Delivery is unreliable, many packages disappear. During COVID I wanted to buy stamps. In Germany you just print the stamps. No printer? Just use a pen and write a code on the letter. In Belgium they offered to send me stamps by postal mail. After I lost many packages and one was going back already to the US (address cant be found) I wrote a real nasty email to the Belgian minister in charge of the post office. They actually rerouted my us package back and were able to deliver it :-). The postman got a nasty talk with his both for forging my signature for packages he just put in front of the door and that goes stolen. 500 dollar loss...
Personally, I use KeePass and a self-managed password database. I look at it as the "something I have" factor being the database file itself, and the "something I know" being the master password that decrypts it. Then it doesn't bother me quite so much that the password and 2FA seed are right next to each other.
I think so, yes. Just going by how many people are using the service now and going to nearby towns to visit other people or roam around, the ticket should pay a significant part of itself in taxes soon enough.
40,000 km will always be enough.

A single cable is a bad idea for many reasons, but "it might get cut" isn't one of them, as at this scale it's the kind of thing that the whole world is using, so (0) nobody actually benefits from cutting it, (1) it's carrying order of a terrawatt at any given moment, so if you made it a single cable the magnetic field alone will mess with your cutting equipment, and (2) for reasonable resistance it's a cross section of about a square meter (1 Ω and ~1 year global aluminium production for that cross section at 40,000 km), so even a literal detonation of a Little Boy nuke 500 meters from it wouldn't make a dent.
It's an issue because CommonJS allows stuff that's forbidden in static ESM imports/exports, and it was normal to use. Newer code is usually fine, but there are many older backend libraries that can cause issues with Esbuild. Webpack had to learn how to deal with it because it existed at the time CommonJS was most popular, Esbuild didn't.
Why, are young people aware and know with any historical accuracy other major historical events, for their countries, and globally?

It's easy to deny something you never properly learned about (much less studied) - especially if it goes along with tons of other historical facts and events (some leading to it) that you also never learned about (or worse, never were even taught about, nor expected to know).
You can also pay the deficit from other taxes. That way, rich people can subsidize transport for poor people.

Almost free public transportation helps people lead richer lives, so its also a productivity/quality of life issue.
Nah, McCandless deserves no respect or admiration at all. He was arrogant, and he died, and someone else had to drag his decomposed corpse out of the bus.

At least he didn't get his girlfriend eaten by a bear I suppose.
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Mmm, I already do this with LXC, but could be better integrated, I guess?

My next goal was to use Docker for this, but since I don't know docker yet, I'm not sure if that would a good idea for having a ready prod env right after a commit.
If you want cheap luxury I recommend first class trains in Poland. I had the whole cabin to myself, with curtains for less than lunch at Starbucks, and I travelled between cities.
What do you do about the USB cable though? A flash drive you can plug in directly, it's guaranteed to work. A phone requires you to either carry around an extra cable (arguably more annoying to carry than a flash drive) or take the risk that you won't have the right cable available nearby when you're trying to (say) boot a laptop.
i.e. investment bankers in hoodies
If you don't know what to build, you don't build.
Well fair enough.
> which you can easily verify is its own derivative simply by differentiating it term-by-term.

Yes, but it's not a priori clear that the series actually even converges for all x, and the fact that power series are differentiable term-by-term within their radius of convergence also requires proof.
> 32 bit

> for the fun of needing to compile everything myself

> I had to compile VSCode server myself

You kind of did that to yourself
Deutsche bahn should reconsider European railways. Think big!

https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2019/03/19/the-breitspurbahn-o...

Just kidding
Why? Is the military breaking even, for example? Societies can decide how to spend their resources and it can be subsidies to things people want to have exist.
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DB is bad and honestly they are proud of it. Biggest problem is Germans love to complain but never take action.
They prefer to speak in hushed tones if it will affect their personal reputation
Yeah, but someone had to handle his corpse. I mean, SAR people can get kinda used to it, but it's still going to ruin your day a little.
Isn't the 49€ ticket restricted to slower regional trains than the 150€ alternative? I still pay a small fortune traveling between west and east germany to save a few hours of travel time.
Different people learn in different ways, and luckily Gilbert Strang recorded all his lectures on mit open courseware before he passed. So now he can be the best linear algebra teacher in perpetuity.
We make small semi-regular changes to timezones all the time. DST switches, governments arbitrarily deciding that their country is going yo be in a different timezone (at a 2 day notice), or move the DST switch day by 2 weeks, etc etc. This is a solved problem and it happens all the time. The systems and datastructures that can deal with this (eg tzdata and the process & people behind it) are already in place.
very nice web site! thanks for recommending it here. just had a nice game of gin rummy.
It was developed for young men doing late summer football practice. It is quite good for that use, or for manual workers doing a combination of cardio and strength work in very hot humid conditions while wearing protective clothing. I've painted houses in these conditions, and it can be hard to drink and keep down enough water; you also lose a lot of salt. Gatorade has salt and sugar in it but at relatively concentrations. You can make your own from scratch, but the bottles are studier and tend to stand up to more abuse
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Of course 49€ a month for unlimited local/regional travel is not economic. But it has nothing to do with DB. Local/regional traffic is ordered and financed by the states (Länder). The 49€ ticket is a political project.

DB has long distance, local/regional, and freight business.

How much local/regional traffic companies are harmed by the 49€ ticket I have no numbers handy. But I feel DB is impacted relatively little compared to many other operators.
You can be critics of both Russia and America.

We have cancer and you want to ignore it because we also have diabetes, that's a weird stance.

As a member of the EU, it's only logical to be more worried about Russia crossing the Ukraine border than American propaganda.

The risk the US lose their head and decide to attack the EU is nil.

The risk Russia decides that they want to restore the USRR if the Ukraine invasion is a success is plausible.

Is it going to happen? We don't know.

But we don't want to find out.
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I've been thinking about that at length recently. RSS feeds often don't have category elements specified and there isn't a widely used taxonomy of category names. I'd prefer not to use AI to solve the problem, although encouraging the use of RSS categories will be slow work.

https://alexsci.com/blog/rss-categories/
Except that in spite of enormous investments and engineering efforts we still have problems with fully autonomous vehicles and it's unclear it would really happen anytime soon, and here the classification problem is whether you're going to bomb an enemy or your own people. I'm not saying it's not gonna happen but it's terribly hard and 80% accuracy can wreak havoc on innocent people.
Thanks for that link. I'm happy with my Lincoln electric but had missed this videos.
You know, I've done startups for over 20 years now. Operated almost all the orgs, but spent the most time in go to market/marketing. I'm building an incubator/accelerator thing in Canada and I'm starting it from scratch, so it's basically doing another startup (something I swore I'd never do, fml).

Hadn't touched marketing for ~5 years, as I said I know the org well so I thought it will take me about a month to get the next 6 months of marketing built and automated. How wrong was I. 7 days later, the full marketing org is running, at a decent scale, on autopilot, for a year, and I don't know if/when I'd need to hire someone into marketing.

Marketing has not fundamentally changed, but it's changed such that one individual could fully operate the fundamentals. Personally I love it, I'm sure others are going nuts.
Only for a completely private enterprise. For public transport the tickets are only part of the income. Often citizens already pay taxes which can be used to subsidize transport. Just like roads are really.
I believe I mentioned primates?
As a longtime freelance mvp dev, I prefer Craigslist because I don't have to fill out forms or pay commissions. Instead, I can just send a simple email.
So I was right, you did use it sarcastically, since you are still naive
You didn't need a GPU to generate Cialis spam.
If it was me, I wouldn't have completely ditched the old system. If they're currently on 5.0, instead of moving to 2409 and potentially having a huge problem if they ever went back on the plan (think Windows 3.1 -> 95 -> 98 -> 2000 -> 7 -> 10), they could have just called it 5.2409 instead. If they had a genuine semantics breaking change or major new feature that they're really proud of, they could then bump it to 6.yymm.
Next you are going to recommend me Windows and Teams? :-)
I think the heart of the question was whether it is even a valuable service. Does it serve enough people to be worthwhile. Even if it’s tax-funded, everything has to pay for itself one way or another (i.e. tax receipts).
I believe Europe in general is the closest to that ideal. You have enough money to live comfortably and relatively strong guardrails in place to prevent greedy corporations from poisoning you in various ways etc.
It's easy outside of gated platforms. The whole 'too hard to filter' hypothesis can be tested instantly by throwing OP's email body into an LLM

Subject: Your Passion For Homelabbing is Contagious
(Spam: 6/10)

Report:
Flattery to establish a connection.
Quick shift to product promotion.
friendly but lacks personalization.
Specific reference promotes their solution.
Calls for a response.

So even if buddy buddy spam becomes pervasive you really only have to decide how accepting your are of obvious sales tactics in normal comms. It may end up that everyone having more nuanced spam filters forces humans to use those same tactics less in normal comms.
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We've been using this where I work for over a year and I'm never going back.
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This looks like a beautiful tool, but I'm not sure why I would use this instead of the Git integration in VSCode, and the CLI in VSCode's terminal? I can't really imagine using a workflow that would force me to use a different GUI for commits, diffs, merges, etc.
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> DB is better than it's reputation.

Nope. The reputation is well deserved.

> What is really amazing is German postal service. Contrary to some reports it is reliable.

Not for parcels which are handled by DHL. They have no shame in claiming delivery attempts that never happened and then make you stand in line for up to hours to retrieve your stuff because they can't be arsed to hire enough staff.

> And they do understand how to work digital.

There has been some improvement in that area but basic things like step by step tracking for the postal service isn't available (because they want you to buy their more expensive DHL products). It's absurd that if you order something from abroad you get frequent update while the package transits in bumfuck nowheristan a but then as soon as it gets to germany it's all silence and all you can do is hope it arrives within the next months.
If you go on Tik Tok, sometimes you see fake French news, with the proper setting, format, voices, and sometimes faces.

It's quite believable, especially on a platform where you scroll mindlessly.

But if you look for the bit online, you will not find it on the official TV channel website because it never happened.

I'm used to my gov and American propaganda, but they are rarely faking the whole thing, mostly selectively presenting a certain truth or point of view.

That's new to me: completely fabricated, sophisticated facts and media.
That's a somewhat expected result (in the sense that averaged over the whole population I'd expect results like yours more than half the time, and averaged over the subset prone to taking pre-workout supplements I'd still expect a 20+% rate of creatine doing almost nothing). Creatine has a gender bias, doesn't work for everyone, has effects that overlap non-cumulatively with extra red meat consumption (lessening the relative effect size), and is most helpful when taken 1-2 times daily rather than just pre-workout.

If it doesn't work for you, by all means don't waste your time and money.

Other people reading might still want to give it a shot. Proper size experimental design is a bit hard, especially if you start taking creatine as you also start working out more, so keep that in mind when evaluating results.
Struggled to find a specific comment earlier today via Algolia, found it as the second result on Vectara.
Depending on a particular statistic, it looks like at least some EE nations are ranking higher than Germany.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255048/punctuality-regi...
is this like rookout?
> You've always been screwed over by marketers, and Internet has already been destroyed by adtech. Adding AI into the mix doesn't change anything

This is pure, complacent nonsense. "We have always been surrounded with spam, 10x more won't change anything."

Yeah, why improve the status quo? Why improve the world? Why recycle when there's a big patch of plastic in the ocean.

It's an argument based on a nonsensical, cynical if not greedy position. "Everyone pollutes, so a little more pollution won't be noticed."
> to allow irrationals I think you need some real analysis (it's been a while, but I think the usual way is to first define exp and log, and then say that a^b=exp(b*log(a)), which is kind of cheating because we have to define exp first!).

a^b, for positive a and irrational b can also be defined as lim (x -> b, x € Q) a^x - which is possible because Q is dense in R. This is a pretty natural way of extending a function to the reals.

The way we extend exponentiation to complex exponents is IMHO much less straightforward.
That is for voters/societies to decide but it doesn't necessarily have to pay for itself in any monetary sense and instead be subsidized.
I’m unsurprised to see a lot of very shallow usage of AI. Most users don’t have a real use case for the tool.
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> Charging for use below what it costs to maintain that use is probably a bad idea.

I disagree. that's absolutely not a valid conclusion for a service (public transport, road infrastructure, healthcare, etc) that has a substantial benefit to society as a whole.

i.e. providing it at low or no cost at point of use can be a great idea.
i'm a big fan of 'Die Anstalt', here's 45 minutes of them satirically talking about DB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxaxKEpIj8

> the legal form doesn't really matter

i disagree. but let's not waste time on kleinigkeiten, i'm pretty sure our disagreement stems from our respective political viewpoints and not DB specifically.

another comment which explains what i mean - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864811

i think quite a couple of things change when you start focusing on share-prices etc.
Just wait. Enough of us will get pissed off that we will develop AI agents that sit between us and the internet.

A sufficiently advanced personal assistant AI would use multimodal capabilities to classify spam in all of its forms:

- Marketing emails

- YouTube sponsorship clips

- Banner ads

- Google search ads

- Actual human salespeople

- ...

It would identify and remove all instances of this from our daily lives.

Furthermore, we could probably use it to remove most of the worst parts of the internet too:

- Clickbait

- Trolling

- Rage content

I'm actually really looking forward to this. As long as we can get this agent into all of the panes of glass (Google will fight to prevent this), we will win. We just need it to sit between us and everything else.
Presumably there are plenty who would, if any were available to study. ;)
I really like this HackerSearch app:

https://hackersearch.net/
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How do I log in to make rankings?
I looked at the build docs and it mentions 'chromes' does this mean it uses the google chrome web engine?
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