skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what is the best way to overcome the "I don't want to pay for it" argument when trying to sell people on the idea of using Usenet?

Ah, but people are paying for it. They pay with their time and interest in the subject-matter. Their time has value. Their knowledge has value.

This "paying for it" mentality has arisen with the commercial takeover of the Internet. Back when the Internet was young, there was a completely different mentality. It was a 'How can I help the next Man?' mentality. It was quite literally an 'open-source' mentality, and that was because the early Internet was not the domain of the commercial interests, but the domain of the universities and other centres of advanced learning.

My earliest leafnode of Usenet was as an offshoot of the Adelaide University in South Australia. I was part of a UUCP 'store and forward' sub-network. I remember the excitement around 1991 or so when the buzz was that there were now a million nodes on the Internet(!).

I also prefer a TUI/CLI client.

When you're using pure text 99.9% of the time, you might as well use a text-based client. If you have a 'Desktop GUI' you merely run that text-based client in an xterm.
Reports of major trouble back in 2020.[1]

Evolve, the bank that actually stores the money, says "Synapse’s abrupt shutdown of essential systems without notice and failure to provide necessary records needlessly jeopardized end users by hindering our ability to verify transactions, confirm end user balances, and comply with applicable law.".[2]

So much for "money as a service".

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2020/04/01/broken-s...

[2] https://www.getevolved.com/about/evolve-responds-to-fridays-...
The downside is it’s a chest and does not fit any kitchen floor plan. You would need to purposefully put it in your plans.
Hi threecheese,

I apologize if my posts came across as spam. I'm genuinely passionate about this project and wanted to share it with the community to get valuable feedback and improve it. I'll be more mindful of how I promote it going forward. Thank you for your feedback
Yes. Japan delivering the future we were promised.
> I wish we had something similar that was local (and no, not like Next Door which is full of busybodies and complainers)

I wonder if it's possible now or if that kind of experience simply belongs to a bygone era. Next Door should in theory be what you're looking for, but it seems like now that everyone's online instead of just early adopters, the current state of Next Door is just what you get with a location-based community that anyone can join.
Not a physics problem : https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
Narrow boundary analysis can be useful but problematic. The additional components is a great example.

Remember a large part of your electrical bill is paying for the grid, not just the energy it transports.
I've wanted to try one of these together with my steamdeck for a long time.

Do they offer international key layouts yet (Swedish specifically)?

Also i find the dimensions a bit funny, 320x240 :)
Linux Looking to Make 5-Level Paging Support Unconditional for x86_64 Builds
> To be honest I also think that if you are making heavy use of cloud based spread sheet software you have a 100% chance of being a drain on your organization and society as a whole

How about for just personal (family/friends) usage?

I would tend to agree spreadsheets are a crutch in larger orgs, however they're best deployed as a prototype tool IMO.

There's plenty of room for > 1 and < 5 (write-access) person operations where cloud based xlsx sharing just makes far more sense than some expensive/excessive enterprise tools.
I don't think there's anything wrong in theory with digital-only banks but I just haven't found anyone I'm willing to give my money to. Maybe the first digital credit-union will get my cash.
Are the hybrid inverters you are using be able to detect arc faults (in series) from the strings? Running 500V DC is probably by far the most dangerous thing in your setup, fortunately your solar panels are mounted on the groud.
Agreed. I used to struggle with remembering all these names in novels, but recently came to terms with the “dysnomia” by drawing parallels between reading fiction with hearing anecdotes, where capturing the rough dynamic and vibe is more important than remembering characters; confusing names is venial if the confusion is part of the experience.
You've pointing a a “Show HN”, it obviously doesn't apply to other kinds of posts (or are you gonna limit OpenAI's announcement links to once a year too ? ;)
It's not, we just use NAND everywhere because they're easier to make with transistors. You can get functional completeness with a NOR instead, or alternatively with some different combinations of other logical operators.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_completeness

We even implement AND gates with NANDs in electronics (because they're way simpler), but we might not have to limit ourselves to a single base gate with mechanical computers.
Did you read Deleuze's Logique de la sensation?

Yes I read him in french. Unfamiliar with Clouscard. Not a fan of Baudrillar either.
America doesn’t have privacy laws that prevent robot spam. Repercussions for violating the SPAM Act are not prosecuted very often.

Personally, the only “spam” I get is flagged by the cellular provider and 99% of the time the calls are silenced. Not really an issue for me. The only people that “call” me are in my contacts list anyways. Everyone else can leave a VM or text message.
And my next question would be can this software handle concurrent writes?

If it could, that'd be an excellent solution.
Taking this to its logical extreme, photonic computing should be significantly more efficient than electronic computing. Eventually.

Is that the end-game? Is there anything that would theoretically get closer to the Landauer limit than photonic computing? It’s way out of my element but I suppose this is a good venue to ask the question.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
PortSwigger Scores Hefty $112M Investment
Meh, it works fine for me. You can also use work profile (island app) to segment your phone a bit further.

I really love DeX and I just spent a whole week working with it as my primary computing device. I don't have a mobile dock though. The reason being that they're not an awful lot cheaper or lighter than a real laptop so what's the point.
It's still user controlled like a surgical robot but for construction. I'm guessing it's eventually going to be run remotely by a bunch of japanese operators too old to work in the field. Also disappointingly small for "enormous", was hoping for a gundam.
Absolutely. Lead acid will be replaced with another chemistry. My concern is only about the environment. I developed the post some more

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40878252
Yes. I hate it with a passion. Pointless meetings, planning that doesn’t matter and endless timesinks. The only devs I can imagine liking it are the ones that don’t want to take responsibility of the product backlog nor want to think about feature implementation. They just want micromanaged tiny tasks that tell then what to do next, a life void of responsibility.
Terrible. Glad I moved away from Authy a long time ago. Small reminder that I need to delete the account though.
> Or imagine if AI provides access to extending life and youth indefinitely, but that doing so costs about 1% of the GDP of the US to do.

That's a bad example even if you meant 1% of current USA GDP per person getting the treatment (i.e. 200 bn/person/year), because an AI capable of displacing human labour makes it very easy to supply that kind of wealth to everyone.

That level is what I suggested earlier, with the possibility of a world where everyone not in the elite is "merely" as rich as Elon Musk is today ;)

> I don't find it difficult to imagine a clique of 50 people or so sacrificing the welfere of the rest of the population to personally be able to live a life in ultimate luxery and AI generated bliss that lasts "forever". They will probably even find a way to frame it as the noble and moral thing to do.

I do find it difficult to imagine, for various reasons.

Not impossible — there's always going to be someone like Jim Jones — but difficult.
It seem to have launched an year ago. How is its adoption? Do people know about it? Is it easy to use it?

I believe the US is the last of the largest economies to deploy something like FedNow. (The UK uses the EU one, doesn't it?) I imagine the credit card processors have put a huge fight.
> There is also the alternative of treating humans as humans first

No there isn't, that's the same thing as just putting everyone in the "world" box. Which tends to boil down to just treating everyone like a member of your own culture (since most of the people from the world you've met are from your own culture), and ends up being worse.
Google sometimes ignore it when it makes sense (ie big bank accidentally adds login page to ignore) or to check for spam activity (in which case google doesn't use their bot user agent)
Economies of scale baby. Another 10x more in production another 30% less in price.
I wonder if it's missing the original QuviQ Erlang QuickCheck in the list? The full product is proprietary, but there is a freeware version QuickCheck Mini available as well: http://www.quviq.com/downloads/
Links? Didn’t think that was a thing for fridges, just hvac/water heaters.
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over key
Chinese manufacturing seems insanely advanced based on link 5.
Haha.

* counts 4 in the living room, about 10 servers in the lab, probably 20 computers in total in my single person home not including raspberry pis, mobiles or tablets :)
Well, the problem is that those things aren't banks.
"Like-minded orgs in our global community."

* https://nanog.org/resources/organizations-our-community/
I've just been using a small folding bluetooth keyboard and a mini-bluetooth mouse. Both are easy to carry around and fit in pockets. I find the steam deck's screen large enough to use on its own, although sometimes I plug it into an external monitor over HDMI.
I use an overlay of /usr to add things to make the steam deck more useful.
This is totally reasonable. I can't find any confirmation of this anywhere.
It is often surprising that most of the US is south of most of Europe (the common reference is that Chicago and Rome are both 42N. The jet stream complicates the effect on overall climate, but latitude is pretty much the only thing that matters for solar power.)
The most creative parts of the early internet were on Usenet, I found. Posts all looked the same - better yet, they looked the way I styled them - but the look wasn't what was important.
It wasn't a dumb question, pictures could have been clearer.
Same city is irrelevant, same metro area based on how people behave is what matters.

People commuting from downtown Baltimore to DC have a faster commute than many living in well recognized DC suburbs. That’s very different than NyLon.
That's indeed what's typically done in HPC. However, substituting a parallel BLAS can help the right sort of R code simply, for instance, but HPC codes typically aren't bottlenacked on GEMM.
Cool analysis with GPT-4o! I was doing some messing around with the same dataset recently around the "Who is Hiring" and "Who wants to be hired". Although I was just using pandas and spacy. (I was job supply and demand with the US FED interest rates here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bobbywilson0/hn-whos-hirin...)

I can actually see how nice it would be for an llm to be able to disambiguate 'go' and 'rust'. However, it does seem a bit disappointing that it isn't consolidating node.js and nodejs or react-native and react native.

I'm curious on the need to do use selenium script to google to iterate, here's my script: https://gist.github.com/bobbywilson0/49e4728e539c726e921c79f.... Just uses the api directly and a regex for matching the title.

Thanks for sharing!
With a lot of new chemistry the risk of fire is greatly reduced. It seems to be an issue mostly with lithium based systems. Things like Iron or sodium based are much safer, energy density is also lower because of this but it is a reasonable trade off. Also tend to have much greater life time charge cycles. Potential to go tens of thousands of cycles rather than just a thousand or so.
“Few”, yes. But definitely some. I don’t think you can have propagation of EM wave through a conduit without at least pushing one electron into the conduit and removing one electron from the other side of the conduit.
Former Army family awarded $10M for claim moldy home damaged health for life
Chart.js (with the geo plugin for the choropleth chart) and three.js for the bubble-chart.
Possible, but I bet the risk of writing/losing the wrong sector based on that kind of RAM bit flip is a lot less than the other sources of writing/losing the wrong sector.
Took a while, but this commenter is finally correct:

> Why does Authy require I provide my cell phone number and email address? Why do I have to have a user account? This is completely ridiculous. I do not need nor want cloud syncing or backup. You are making Authy a potential target for attacks by associating a user to cloud stored 2FA information.

> This is not in the spirit of 2FA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9100560
Don't Bet Your LLM Apps on Specialized Vector Databases
According to this, the submission is fine: it's a major version announcement, unlike the examples given in the post, with significant changes, which rule out the “the diff between Foo 1.3.3 and the last time Foo came out is not enough to support an interestingly different discussion”
The real deal breaker is probably the part where it would confabulate details in processes where the details are important. I'm just imagining trying to learn farming techniques from an oracle that might instruct me to make fertilizer that sounded sensible but caused nitrogen burn.
Hi fsflover. I would definitely do that next time. Thanks
The dangers of sneezing–from ejected bowels to torn windpipes
Thanks for fleshing out my quickly written question. I didn’t really mean anything by it, just that I think it’s an important factor that’s overlooked in the linked article.

The most useful idea to think about here, for me, is not what the raw market of economics batteries might be. Rather, the societal good that there would be if the state stepped in and just made batteries infinitesimally cheap for everyone.

The state provides a lot of things that lubricate society: just as they send electricity to our homes, provide a central bank for the economy, schools for our children, and courts to mete out justice — so too could they potentially ensure every citizen has X number of 18650 cells (or future equivalent) available to them to use as they see fit.
It wouldn't be hard to trigger DEX/desktop enviroment to load a different profile. I feel like most hardware companies don't want to eat away at different segments.
> How do we even calculate the subsidy paid to fossil fuel companies by letting them externalize the cost of their mess onto the planet?

I know this was rhetorical, but the standard method in the literature is Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium (2014).

https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA10217
Our attitudes towards AI reveal how we feel about human intelligence
Generative-AI-for-Beginners: 18 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI
Yes man, Danny Wallace. Don’t take it’s comedy approach wrongly, I think a lot of folks could improve their happiness by reading and internalising this book.
I'm not disputing that they used OCR. What's wrong is that searching text in PDFs doesn't usually involve OCR.
> Barcelona’s famous market, La Boqueria, was voted the best in the world by Food & Wine magazine last month

Lol. La Boqueria is a total tourist trap now. There's nothing great or genuine about it anymore. It's great for overpriced smoothies, dick waffles and getting your wallet stolen.

The local markets in each barrio are fine though. They're still busy. People have less time to chat but business still goes on. It will change, sure. Younger people have less time to wait. We have more exotic food interests. Probably some of the markets will close but some will remain. It's not a huge deal IMO. Just the change of the times.

In my neighborhood there's also a place where a vaqueria used to be. A place where live cows were sold. I'm sure people lamented when that closed. But if it had still been there it would have been a nuisance. Cows on the streets going in and out. Cow dung everywhere. In the middle of the city. And what for? I don't usually buy live cows for my tiny apartment. The world changes. It's ok.
Thanks for looking this up. It's especially interesting bc if I search "golang" on LinkedIn jobs, I see 5,185 results (in the US), but I only get 148 results for "rust".

Hardly scientific, but shows the risk of using Hacker News to draw overly strong conclusions of language popularity.
Please reread it yourself: this isn't a “show HN” submission.

The relevant comment is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428

And as you can see, the criteria is “Whether or not it contains significant new information (SNI)” which is indeed exactly the opposite of what you are saying.
Are these US payment startups not regulated?

Here and unblock the EU payment systems are themselves regulated , distinctly from banks but along very similar lines. A big motivation for this was to avoid such failures.
> Elon Musk's highly publicized firing of a big part of the Twitter work force also set a precedent for lay-offs in the industry

Layoffs across the industry were already well underway when Musk completed his first round. I think some tech company execs were happy to use Musk as a high profile excuse, but investors everywhere were demanding layoffs/corrections as early as Summer 2022.
You can totally combine coverage based fuzzing with property based tests. When I was at Google, I really enjoyed their internal tooling for combining both. You simply write a property based test as usual, but when it comes to execution, the testing framework compiles your test in a special way to get coverage and then adjust the random input to hit increased coverage. Of course they run the test across a cluster of machines completely automatically.

Traditional property based testing is implemented simply as a library, so they don't necessarily have coverage information to guide their random input generation.
Oof that’s why I’m gonna stick to dieting, people seem like they forgot that thats still an option!
> creating a global constant array

Note you can keep int8_t elements in that array, and sign extend bytes into int32_t while loading. The _mm_loadu_si64 / _mm256_cvtepi8_epi32 combo should compile into a single vpmovsxbd instruction with a memory operand. This way the entire constant array fits in a single cache line, as long as it’s aligned properly with alignas(32)

This is good fit for the OP’s use case because they need two masks, the second vpmovsxbd instruction will be a guaranteed L1D cache hit.
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Which app did you use ( I seem to have similar issue with my other parent )?
Not having all the features, functions, and flashing lights of a competitor/similar product doesn't make something worse. As someone pointed out (can't find the darned link, sorry) an alternative doesn't need to match a competitor one-to-one re: features. It just needs to do what its audience needs it to do.
For very small sizes on amd64, you can, and likely should, use libxsmm. MKL's improved performance in that region was due to libxsmm originally showing it up, but this isn't an Intel CPU anyway.
For decades now The Atlantic has run articles about not bothering to save endangered species. Probably not a coincidence that it's been owned by a rich real estate developer and now Steve Jobs's widow.
When you buy a wireless mouse do you complain it has no cord?
Their problem appears to be that they don't have that small crew to work with. Median age in Japan is already 48+ and creeping up.
It's not doing that though, and if you'd done classification tasks you'd realise the huge benefit that comes from taking a computationally expensive system and using it to solve one off problems that were very time consuming, and doing it easily.

The article says it cost ~$50. That's astonishing. That's 25 minutes of my billable time.
I've tried to use property based testing but always found it falls between two stools. If I understand a property well enough to write a strict test of it, I can generally push it into the type system and make it true by construction. And if I just want a "smoke test" then a single arbitrary input is easier.
Format, then sdelete x 10 passes writing random data, then secure erase for good measure, will take care of it for 99% of use cases out there.
I see a an increasing number of people around me using phone only for stuff they absolutely need to carry around – payment/banking, loyalty cards, 2FA, maps. Maybe also some pure messaging app, some puzzle game, but that's it. No any social media, news, work etc.
> If I’m on a call, even with family, it’s now almost exclusively on FaceTime/zoom/meet/etc.

I really don't get that. I don't get these, on neither of my phones (I've got two numbers). When it rings, it's virtually always friends or family. Sometimes the bank/insurance/doctor. Very exceptionally do I get a commercial or scam call.

I think it's not an argument good enough to excuse to excuse Authy here: "my phone already leaked, so what's one more leak!?".

> Which isn’t great because those aforementioned platforms are all proprietary walled gardens with terrible incentives

Oh I fully agree. I'm using Telegram for chat but zero FaceTime/meet/WhatsApp here. People want to call me, they usually phone me. Once in a rare while Telegram.
article says it’s optional

> Preorders at $349 start today for beta units, and Elemind expects to start general sales later this year. The company will offer customers an optional membership at $7 to $13 monthly that will allow cloud storage of sleep data and access to new apps as they are released.
shame that Samsung handicapped their flip product line by removing dex
What hubris. Every single human since the beginning of the universe has died. The greatest and noblest. Bach, Einstein, JFK. People who conquered the oceans, cured diseases or told stories that changed the lives of millions. Each one of them made room for the generation that came after. Just as those that came before had done for them. And this dude thinks he should exist forever. Narcissism on that scale would even make Trump blush.
The paper notes a (to me) amazing thing. The object of the researchers' Bayesian analysis is the number of holes likely to have been made in a metal ring, of which only a fragment remains. They think either 354 or 355 holes, on a 77.1mm radius.

The amazing thing is that the holes were placed with an average radial variation of only 28µm. This is about 0.001 inches. 2000 years ago. Our ancestors had some serious skills.
Eh, the classic Gundam is around 18 m tall. This comes close at 12 m. The upper body and arms certainly invoke mobile suit aesthetics though
I've got a Samsung Android phone that I tried with a DisplayLink dock for browsing. It was able to use the Ethernet OOTB, but browsing was PAINFUL. The responsiveness is/was not there.
how do you create these perfect tables with just text?
A scooter, motorcycle, car, and delivery van all serve different purposes, though there is a little crossover between each stage.

The same is true about these devices: yes, in a pinch you can grab that document and search for something but really when editing it you want not just a keyboard and larger display, but a bit more horsepower and different apps.

So I use to think a fancy dock like this would be good, but their continued failure has taught me a lot.