skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple was in some ways on the right track with an OS that had no command line. Not having a command line meant you had to get serious about how to control things.

The trouble with the original MacOS was that the underlying OS was a cram job to fit into 128Kb, plus a ROM. It didn't even have a CPU dispatcher, let alone memory protection. So it scaled up badly. That was supposed to be fixed in MacOS 8, "Copeland", which actually made it out to some developers. But Copeland was killed so that Apple could hire Steve Jobs, for which Apple had to bail out the Next failure.
I used to work for a startup that collected data by using MITM attack with a VPN server, and other means. The users got paid a small sum of money to participate.
> despite being invented by a Russian jew (Moses Shoenfinkel)

Interestingly, that name doesn't look particularly Russian.

German Jews often possess incredibly Slavic names like "Moskowitz", suggesting an unclear boundary between being "German" vs "Russian".
Reminds me of a similar video entitled "Man in remote recliner made into fractals with Recreational Mushroom Device"
> Just compare earnings by workers at the Big 3 who are represented by the UAW and Tesla workers who are non-unionized [1].

What are we to compare, exactly? How the "old guard" auto companies have better cash cows than the new guy trying to get off the ground and use that to pay more to attract the best talent? Just like how and why Microsoft and Google pay way more than DuckDuckGo?

> The company is not your friend.

A union is a company. First we find encouragement to vote "yes" to see the company form, but then a warning that it will not be your friend... No wonder the typical American is so afraid of labor unions.
It just deferred a lower level macro system to r7rs-large.
We have furries? I thought they were a made up subculture. Cool
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Thanks! Seems your adjacent concept should be relabelled "moral insecurity".

"Ethics today means not being at home in one's house." --Adorno

So that, the choice of moral freedom can still be the (more) ethical tradeoff
As tired as I am of companies just injecting AI into every nook and cranny, I actually kinda like this one.
Saw this somewhere else. Here's a map of the events from 1984 [1]; or at least many of them.

Two venues were built for the 1984 games; a velodrome at CSU Dominguez Hills, which operated for two decades until it was replaced by a new velodrome will also host (track) cycling and fencing for the 2028 games; the other venue was an olympic swim pool at USC, which was rebuilt 30 years later although it won't host the 2028 games; both venues had corporate sponsorship to help with construction costs.

Only one venue was built for the 1932 games, a swimming stadium that's still in use today, renovated in 2003.

Venues aren't fully confirmed for the 2028 games, but everything so far is either existing or temporary (these tend not to be very expensive). Although softball and canoe slalom are planned to happen in Oklahoma City in order to existing venues, since there apparently aren't appropriate venues in the LA area.

[1] https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/63575/games-of-the-x...
$85 - ouch.. Very tough pill to swallow with the RK3568 at $10-13 including an RK809 PMIC.
not sure what you mean by "enshittification"

are you describing the process of a company achieving commercial success?
I have many books, and none of them are on sheepskin. They are not printed on cheap, shoddy paper.
We're entering the era of "kilo cores" in the same way computing entered the era of kilobytes in the 1940s. If you consider a tightly-coupled rack of servers with GPUs to be one machine, then we're well into the hundreds of kilocores.

I found it entertaining having a debate with someone here on HN who just couldn't grok the concept that it's possible to serve something the size of Wikipedia from a single server. That's been easy for a while now, it just isn't done for practical reasons such as availability or cost-efficiency.
Since 1965 at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_B._Bear

( not to be confused with that other head to toe costumed alternative: https://wankerpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Humphrey_B._Flaubert )
Coincidentally, I was watching this BBC documentary on the dark ages tonight and the last episode is about Viking art and culture in the dark ages. Entire series is worth a watch if you can find it.

https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_Dark_Ages:_An_Age_o...
But do insurers have a secret deal with the AV vendors? Someone is writing software that makes users and admins lives unbearable, and then denying any insurance claim if they find that this software is not installed on all computers. Its win for insurers and AV vendors. It's also kind of neutral for corporation managers. Only the end users lose in this case. This is my personal view, i don't like such software. As admin I know that some users must be restricted, but as a developer i saw many times how i write a small utility app just to be deleted by some AV. There are no false positives, they are just blocking and deleting anything with less than few million downloads.
The admin/developer experience is terrible. Big red scary messages... you know...

Edit: Last example was the regular windows defender on a windows server who deleted a service that we used to copy some backups. It was working few months, and then one day it just stopped - we found the .exe was deleted. It was fun story actually, not sad. We had good laugh.
If you're feeling a little adventurous, you can find Intel N100 boxes with 4-6 NICs: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/cwwk-topto...

Went down this route and haven't had any issues with heat or having to replace heatsinks, add fans, etc. that others mentioned, but your mileage may vary.

Runs opnsense on proxmox, along with some other containers. It's been a great little box.
As I recall, Bell Labs had a license to print money -- they had a government permitted monopoly on the US voice telephone network.

So, for one effort, they saw that for the electronic signal amplifiers they needed, vacuum tubes, amazing and powerful, were too big, hot, expensive, and delicate so invented transistors, patented them, and, realizing the power, gave the patent to the world. Today if we had to pay a penny a transistor, then the 8 core AMD 4.0 GHz processor I bought for $115 (with HOW many transistors?) would cost -- hmm, could buy a house, a big one!

So, net, Bell Labs was a big success for Bell, its stockholders, the US voice telephone network, the future of technology, the economy, and the standard of living of the world.

How to do that again? Hmm ....
> works by encoding the patterns and parameters of fabrics as a small latent vector, which can later be interpreted by a decoder to produce realistic representations of various fabrics.

> Woven fabric patterns […] tend to be regular and repetitive. Chen and his colleagues set out to leverage their repetitive nature

Is this “just” using the NN to approximately compress and decompress things? That doesn’t seem to explain the performance gains, unless some work can be done in the reduced space?
> Damage speakers? Simply, not an issue unless they're one step removed from rubbish. Also, have you ever heard of output compression and clipping that would protect them? That approach is 101 electronics.

Output clipping actually increases power at high frequencies.

So your 2003-era Japanese radio has better output than a Chinese laptop.

> are not fit for purpose when it comes to the audio subsystem

Consider the possibility that they're fit for a purpose other than yours. Maybe they're not intended to be used for sound reproduction.

> That people do and don't complain is why our lives are surrounded by so much shitty partially-functioning tech.

You're the one who bought the laptops without listening to the speakers first.
During WW2, the Germans started a large operation to print counterfeit 5 pound notes. The intent was to "bomb" them over England to bankrupt the currency.

But the end of the war overtook the operation, and the notes were dumped in the nearby river.

The locals fished the notes out and used them for TP. (The manufacture of TP was a casualty of priority war production.)

"Money of Their Own" by Murray Bloom
https://www.amazon.com/Money-Their-Own-Ingenious-Counterfeit...

The BBC made a comedic miniseries about this, I forgot the name. All I remember is one of officers saying "if you don't do this, you'll be shot and then you'll be sorry!"
You can find versions that have 4+ NICs that make great routers running opnsense: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/cwwk-topto...
Superceded by Inferno as follow up project, where Limbo took the role of the abandoned Alef language for Plan 9.

I always have the impression the discussion stops on a gas station the middle of the road, instead of on the destination.
> privatization and killing unions under Hitler.

That was not defining for the economic policies under Hitler. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany

The Nazi economic policy had one goal in the early years: forcing the German economy to concentrate on wartime preparations. Building up the military power and the military economy. All the companies were forced to work towards that goal. Many Germans were put into forced labor ("Reichsarbeitsdienst", ...) to support the build-up of the military and the military economy.

Large amounts of weapons had to be developed and produced: for Heer, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.

The goal was to be ready for a large-scale war in the East in just 4 years.

With the war started, the economy was mostly a state-directed war economy, private or not. Even though there were large private companies they were all directed to work for the war economy.

The Nazis themselves were also involved in large scale industrial production. The Concentration Camps were also producing for the military. "Vernichtung durch Arbeit" (-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_through_labour )

That the Nazis were supported by leaders of the German industry did not mean that the Nazis were interested in privatizing, market economies or such. There was one goal: reorganizing the German economy to build-up and run the large scale war in the East. The goal was to colonize and enslave East Europe. Finances were concentrated on the war economy and other economic activities were no longer important or even possible. Companies involved would profit from it financially and expand. Companies involved in private sector activities would have a hard time. For example finances and raw materials was with priority allocated to the military economy.
I agree, but I believe the fact there are no popular applications that fully embrace the Unix/Plan 9 philosophy is the point of the philosophy. Generic tools that can be composed versus end-to-end applications. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, though component-based software doesn’t preclude the development of end-to-end applications using these components. In my opinion I believe the reason end-to-end applications are dominant is because it’s easier for companies to sell and market products over tools. Part of the reason OpenDoc failed was because companies that made a living selling end-to-end applications (like Adobe) didn’t want to adopt component-based software where the product (application) isn’t the main focus. Imagine if users could construct their own Photoshop out of discrete elements.
You can do certificate pinning.
Happens frequently. People act in weird ways, especially here.
I’ve seen these, and am intrigued. I went with an eBay lot of (5) Dell wyze 5070 @ $30 per unit. Tough to beat the economics.
Big companies do MITM and deep packet inspection on company laptops that is normal - not normal is doing that on private devices.
RK3568, which is a quadruple Cortex-A55, is in a completely different class of products. Any price over $20 would be unacceptable for such products.

The chips competing with Intel are only RK3588 and MediaTek Genio 1200.

Those cannot be cheaper than Intel, because the SBCs made with them have prices from the same price as the Intel SBCs to much higher prices than the Intel SBCs.

Radxa, which buys N100 in bulk, must pay at most $50 for one (the Intel list price is $55), but probably much less, perhaps as low as $30, but when you want only a few pieces you cannot buy at that price.
Only because the database is on the far end of a network hop, and then all too often its storage is remote from its compute as well. This is the most common scenario in enterprise or cloud deployments, where for good measure a couple of firewalls, load balancers, routers, and reverse proxies are added at every stage.
That's a fair point. I guess I used it a bit too freely but I have the habit of introducing programming terms into everyday life. It's trying to understand why something is suboptimal
Having a bunch of institutions wind up at once sounds like the results of a stress test finally came back, so they now knew exactly who needed to have their plug pulled.

This seems like it also differentiates the "financial economy" from the "real economy". The borrowers continue to pay the new owner, the depositors are made whole, and actual productive enterprises continue to tick on. The only ones punished were the investors who took a risk on bank management that wasn't doing an adequate job of managing risk. That feels like what SHOULD be happening.

Endless bailouts have distorted the risk mindset of banks, and letting them fail should help restore discipline.
The site does not use CF. It is not CF ! Its intentional blocking users with an fake captcha by presenting page that looks like CF branding
Never understood RPis, because as a Intel user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting a NUC, making a case locally with a 3d printer, and then using ZFS or Btrfs for the computer's filesystem.
No, not really. It was a dumb ideology, but not as dumb as "points 1-10: Jews bad".
Like almost any ideology that went anywhere, it had positive things that it valued, and these were more foundational than things (people...) that it wanted to remove or destroy.
"There is a current class action lawsuit against Meta in which court documents include claims that the company had breached the Wiretap Act."

This is not a wiretapping case. The claims are all for violations of the Sherman Act. Plaintiffs' attorneys _incidentally_ found evidence during discovery that Facebook may have breached the Wiretap Act. There are no wiretapping claims. It is an antitrust case.
I have a couple of the super cheap ones I got for like $12 years back. With a simple mod you can get direct sampling and listen to any frequency. Works great.
I like the closing tags (others don’t seem to) as they help with visual scanning and auto formatting. Nice project, well done!
This submission was first (if you mouse over the age you'll see it's 4 days old but reports 5 hours), although the content is lifted from the one you linked (the URL should have been theconversation).. it probably got put in the second chance pool[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
I have a solution which was developed and tested by another person under rPi. I know it's working on exact model. All I need to do is to buy exactly the same model of rPi, install the same OS, and deploy that solution there, as many as I need.

You need to be very naive to think that replacing rPi with a completely different thing will not bring any problems. Hell, even changing the rPi model does!
Show HN: Turning my 10y old tablet into digital photo frame
I built a digital photo frame, from my a-decade-old tablet, running android 4.4.4. It cycles through photos from a shared Google Photos album, switching up the display every hour.
By the way if I was to edit the title I would put "design" at the end but I can't find how to do this? Not a very regular poster I have to admit
Similar: https://github.com/moritztng/fltr

Like grep but for natural language questions. Based on Mistral LLMs.
Hmm was the reference to Solzhenitsyn Entropy (or rather S-Sophistication) too cryptic ??

That asked, your questions are simple but strike deep (so that I suspect it was not)!! Thank you!
Cybertruck Range Extender Coming, but Owners Want More Flexibility
> "Why would I want that?"

That question was asked and answered at the time. To store recipes on.

Once the PC arrived, though, the real drivers of sales were word processing and spreadsheets.
More importantly these days, have the same thought every time you write a comment on Slack or Teams.
It's an interesting article, but the number of typos makes me wonder how rigorous it is.

It also takes as an unstated given that we need or want to stabilize deficit/GDP or debt/GDP ratios.

The US dollar is still a global reserve currency. The US situation might therefore be "special" or "privileged" compared to other countries that have non-reserve "local" currencies.

The other question I have, is "does debt/GDP & deficit/GDP matter in absolute terms, or only in relative terms?". One could imagine a world where most governments have similar debt problems, and their currencies have similar inflation problems. For someone holding currency, there would be little reason to pick another currency in this scenario. One would instead predict a rush to place money in assets, causing asset inflation. That sounds like our present calamity, perhaps from different or more varied causes.
AI-generated text doesn't just make my eyes bleed; it makes my blood boil. I haven't read much of your English specifically, so I can't say for sure, but generally non-native speakers get a ton of leeway in my book. I do not speak your language anywhere near as well as you speak mine, and your words will not make me feel frustrated even if I occasionally have to pause to figure out the intended meaning.

(Also, IMHO, your comment history is perfectly readable without being distracting.)
Federal Court Says Warrant Required for Device Searches at the Border
Draw a line that passes thru Ulm & Goettingen, wide enough to contain also ___

TIL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_sanction
I wonder if it would be possible to easily add support for multiple CPUs? It seems to be taking at most 150% CPU, so on my workstation it could be (assuming high parallellism) 10 times as fast.

Alas the word2vec repository has reached its quota:

fetch: Fetching reference refs/heads/master
batch response: This repository is over its data quota. Account responsible for LFS bandwidth should purchase more data packs to restore access.
error: failed to fetch some objects from 'https://github.com/mmihaltz/word2vec-GoogleNews-vectors.git/info/lfs'

So here are another sources I found for it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43423646

I also found https://huggingface.co/fse/word2vec-google-news-300/tree/mai... but I'm unsure if that's the correct format for this tool. The first source from Google Drive seems to work and there's little chance of being malicious..
> I wonder how Nazi-Germany would have worked out without antisemitism.

That was often heard in Germany after the war. Hitler's politics were not seen as bad, if only the jews were not killed. Often, it was mentioned that Hitler's achievement was to reduce the mass unemployment after getting to power in 1933.

"Nazism" is defined by more than "antisemitism" -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

* the main goal of the Nazis was to conquer and enslave East Europe.

* for that the Nazis transformed Germany into a war machine

* the war to enlarge Germany was the defining goal and everything was forced to support that goal

* generally Nazi ideology was racist and brutal. There were lots of groups which were to be killed and/or enslaved.

* it was a Dictatorship with Hitler as a "Führer"

Even if Nazi Germany were not "antisemitic" it would still have started the war in the East to conquer East Europe as a colony (-> "Lebensraum" -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum ).
> I'm curious why you think it reduces design costs to put less information on the screen?

The question is for whom it saves costs? For the developers of UI framework it certainly saves cost to treat the desktop as a second rate platform and to focus just on mobile.

Developers of desktop applications have to pay the price, by working around libraries and frameworks that do not consider them as a first tier clients.
> more like a barbell

the technical term is bimodal distribution
I'd argue consistency in discrimination is easier because it makes it easier to detect and account for.

A range of different people interviewing are going to be alot harder to pin down.
> It's a lot more nuanced than that.

Which is kind of the other problem. You end up trying to mind read the intent behind some possible innuendo with an ambiguous meaning, because the outcome isn't determined by what they do, it's determined by what they write down.

> And note I'm replying to someone claiming it's impossible to charge companies with union busting at all.

If it's impossible to charge companies that have better lawyers but still use the same tactics, you still have the same problem with the law, because then those companies will have a competitive advantage and the others would either learn to do the same or lose their market position.
My parents' habits were formed from the Depression, and they always conserved paper. I'd receive letters from them written on the back sides of junk mail flyers, and the back sides of mimeographed papers from work. The writing went right to the edge of the paper.

Those habits rubbed off on me, and I still have a box of scrap paper I use.
It's always worth thinking about who the audience / userbase of your UI is, and whether they'd benefit from an expert user interface [1] or not.

Sometimes, they would (e.g. the "users paid more than the programmers" rule of thumb, but also: various technical disciplines, most anything used for professional-grade work). Sometimes, they wouldn't - or perhaps some would and some wouldn't (so perhaps you're looking for a simple base UI with some accelerators [2]).

IMHO the issue is that many products fall into this last camp - where a well-designed simple UI is called for, but also accelerators could greatly help a small but important subset of power users - but we treat the power users as though they don't exist.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/testing-expert-users/
[2] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ui-accelerators/
Gutenberg invented the printing press so he could cheaply print indulgences and sell them and get rich.
Similar or a bit better per mile to an efficient European ICE car with a single passenger. But:

- you travel vastly more miles in the plane

- you could fit four people in the car to achieve quarter the per person fuel consumption

Also assumes you're riding in economy.

Electric cars use around quarter the energy per mile than ICE, so therefore beat the plane easily even with single occupancy
Thanks for the links!

But what’s this “C++” you speak of, future-man?
Discussion (283 points, 1 day ago, 124 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41083286
I expect what is significant is that this site attracts an audience on the wealthy end of the spectrum. Unions aren't just for workers. There are also unions for business owners (e.g. farmer unions). Freedom of association is for everyone.

But unions are ultimately a rich man's sport. They require funding and if they need to exert power they can only do so by withholding service. The poor are generally not in a position to act on either, especially the withholding of service. Unions embolden the rich, but can completely cripple the poor. So you find much less support when the money isn't there.