skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd originally told them "just follow the docs" because normally Microsoft's documentation is top notch, but this time I was dead wrong.

MS' docs have been on a steady decline ever since they moved away from MSDN and went to an "open source" "community project" with them. For some of the newer stuff, a page without any spelling or grammar errors or unnaturally odd phrasing is exceedingly rare, and I have heard that they are attempting to use AI to write and edit them. I've seen older pages from MSDN era get destroyed and turned into a mess due to their edits presumably to optimise for SEO (and thus not humans.) It will only get worse. They of course beg people to contribute fixes, as that article alludes to, but there's no point in doing that when you know your contributions are just going to get mangled into AI-generated muck.
To be fair - most people, like 99% of people, do not understand monetary policy or any of the potential tradeoffs.
> no one is going to talk with you if you're drawing out all the nuance of medical regulation

Then why should anyone talk with you about it? What would be the point?
what's interesting about the anecdotes on that link though, is that once the confusion settles, there is an explanation. the chicken may have made no sense, but the problem did get solved, and the chicken was necessary, but not for the reasons you thought.

maybe prompt engineering will make sense someday, maybe we need artificial general psychology first?
That’s a good point, I guess they didn’t have any hand in the software…just seems icky to me.

I trusted the product mainly because of their name, it’s hard for me to understand how they didn’t see what the underlying product was when they attached their name to it.
Traveling with small kids, having a kitchen makes the difference between being able to actually feed the family vs scraping together insane combinations of whatever sliver of restaurant meals the kids can eat and packaged food.
This seems to be a Lucene/SOLR problem. I used Lucene/SOLR years ago, and it died so often that we just auto-indexed nightly and had a re-index button in the UI.
Thanks!

This could be a nice future feature. It might be a bit challenging to support many editing software, as each one has proprietary formats that need to me implemented from scratch (as far as I know), but would be nice to get professional editors as customers too.
They didn't get too political. They got a little political.
Google Chrome will let you send money to your favourite website
Which is an underrated ideology.

I once had to go through some code that was objectively terrible. The guy who wrote was is a mechanical engineer, close to retirement at the time, and self-learned in programming. He had absolutely none of the background you can expect a professional programmer to have, and in particular abstraction seemed like a foreign concept to him. Have 50 buttons, each doing essentially the same thing, and you will see 50 copy-pasted blocks of code. Particularly ironic that he was using Java, a language known for its culture of abuse of design patterns and abstraction.

But despite that huge mess that code was, it was surprisingly readable. You could look anywhere in the code and understand what it is doing. No calling though interfaces, when you see foo.bar(), you can just follow the symbol in your IDE and that's the instruction that will be run, and many times, there is not even a function, just code, thousands of lines of it, different cases are just dealt with ifs.

Maybe it was the most pleasant "bad code" I had to work with. Code using the wrong or too much abstraction is much worse, because it is just as buggy and ugly, but you don't even know what to expect when all you see is an interface call where the actual code is in a completely different part of the software, and what connect the two is in yet another place. With more "factories", "managers", "dispatchers", etc... than actual logic.
Sounds like inside baseball
One accident per 271,199,439 miles traveled seems pretty damn safe, applying the same standard used for other methods of travel.

https://www3.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/pdf/566250main_SHUTTLE...
20s really is the perfect time to live downtown.
I was hoping that Memristors would be the perfect storage for the 64 bits of mostly read memory in every cell of a BitGrid. Then they thought that analog mixers were the best use of it. 8(

I'm sad that we're in one of the worst timelines.
I believe it was BeOS who if not first then most famously embrace haiku error out messages :
https://gist.github.com/benjaminoakes/e58a9ddb0ead8eefbbae40...

e.g.
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.

Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
Enter the system.
Like with the MNT Reform (non-pocket), there are a few things that are aesthetically very pleasing (and fun, even), but in day-to-day use make it hard to adopt.

On the original Reform, I had some issues adapting to it's slightly non-standard (at least for US English) key layout... and on this one, it has a very visually-pleasing key layout, but I can imagine unless it's your only keyboard, it will take a bit of mind-melding to type well on it.

These MNT devices are—at least for now—not the type of things you'd consider to replace a Macbook or a slim laptop for portability and practicality/value.

I still want one, lol
In 60s/70s France 14 year olds could ride motorised bicycles, so Vespa sold a Pedalo - a regular (but lower-powered I think) Vespa scooter with pedals as well as 2-stroke engine - you had to put the engine in neutral to pedal (I bet not many 14 year olds did this).
OpenAI: Structured Outputs in the API
Was hoping it would just be a cute lil $10 or so VST/AU plugin, but still love the concept
You cannot trust Microsoft or any other big company with a similar track record.
Don't Build Your Castle in Other People's Kingdoms (2021)
>But for real, regulation exists because large groups of people generally can't be expected to act rationally.

Especially tourists, who are the main users of these electric suitcases.
Wait your website is morganstanley.it.com?
As it should be -- a government's duty is to serve its citizens, not any foreigners who happen to be visiting.
The first two are probably more literal than you're interpreting them at first glance. E.g. imagine taking a bike and putting a literal treadmill in it to replace the pedals/seat. It's a (niche) thing separate from a treadmill and definitely moves. In the end I think you're right but your conclusion "it's just a variation of a bike" really applies to all 3, hence "${thing} bicycle" instead of something like "electric suitcase".
That's what I've always thought of Open Source... until I found out Open Source projects that are not in the spirit of Open Source. Signal is a big example of that. It's hostile to forks, didn't publish its source code for a year and doesn't have a good documentation.

Same thing for Nvidia, big browser projects like Chromium, and Android. Many Chromium forks died because they couldn't keep up with upstream, except for ungoogled-chromium.
In what way is strange capitalization of a technical word usement indicative specifically of hate within a group of haters?

And what does this mean of the amateur radio operators who call themselves HAMs?
> Otherwise, ~10% for $500k is probably a bad deal

For most likely a pre-seed company surely it's pretty good?
Discussion (553 points, 12 hours ago, 532 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171060
This should probably be a direct link to the comment announcing the resignation:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322#c17
> like fully knowing that the killer is a migrant and yet portraying him as a welsh in the rare publications about the killings

Except for the fact that the killer is a native-born Christian and NOT a Muslim asylum-seeker.

Question for HN mods or in fact anyone else: is there a "trust pilot" equivalent or a "detect a bot" service for social media comments/commentators?
In a world of authenticated access, many security problems vanish.

Instead of implementing anonymity, which is baked into the internet, people should be trying to make authentication and privacy coexist and designing a network where authentication is built-in.
As a data point, you can put a lot of VMs onto a single dedicated server, depending (of course) on how you spec it out:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax

Their dedicated servers also have "unlimited" traffic, though as a sibling comment mentions, there might be some kind of unstated limit after all.
My practically minded friend has an interesting scheme for backups. He uses clonezilla or similar products to clone the existing drives of a machine to new replacements. Then puts the old ones in a safe place. On a periodic basis.

The other normal backups are usually managed by someone else, he just does the hardware, most of the time.

His backups are tested by experience.
From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
Battery-free technology can power electronic devices using ambient RF signals
Well if you think that civilization equals cities and farming, then go grab "the dawn of everything", the last book of David Graeber :)

I was quite amazed to realize that the Golden Horde was way more sophisticated and powerful than most other empires of its time, and still it did not had cities, nor farming, and left really few traces. And that was around 1300, not in prehistoric times.

Also, if you're interested in the relation between farming and civilization but want an adverse position, go read "against the grain". It's also quite mind-opening.
Is this limited edition?
Can we trust Facebook with Fediverse (2024)?
That's a fair point. But for me, thats more friction. Now when I get to my destination, I also have to go grocery shopping and then spend even more time cooking and cleaning the dishes after. Personally, if I am going somewhere new, I'd prefer to spend a bit more money to not do all of the the tiring things I have to do at home so I can spend that time actually exploring. I will add, I don't have kids and can see how my viewpoint may change when they do come into the picture
I’m gonna stop you right there and vote for Mr Coke Hobo as the new mascot of the Chromebook.
> had a much larger crew capacity than most missions probably needed

We rarely flew the maximum number of passengers. On non-EVA missions we typically only sent up 5 astronauts. For EVA missions we usually sent up 7 with the two extra crew typically being dedicated to the EVA.

EVAs are a real chore. The shuttle is at 14.7 psi with regular atmosphere, but the EVA suits are 4 psi with pure oxygen atmosphere, so you have to spend a lot of time pre-breathing just to put on the suit. It also drains the hell out of you because it's microgravity, not zero gravity, and moving around and positioning in the suit using just your hands all day wears you out fast.

The extra capacity was also useful for bringing other nations personnel onto a mission with us. They didn't strictly have a large mission role, but it is good diplomacy, and helps other nations build up their own space program. Plus.. a few times.. we sent up 6 but brought back 7, which is a nice feature.

Anyways, when not sending up extra crew, we used the additional space for equipment and large experiment packages, some of them as large as a single person.

> and probably used a little more than it should be.

NASA did a great job of making space flight look normal and routine. Which is a bummer, because if you dig into any of their voluminous documentation on the shuttle program as a whole, or into individual missions, they are all anything but.

Space is just an absolutely insane environment to work in, let alone to discover and study from, and the shuttle was an excellent platform for that work. Somewhere along the way space commercialization became about building stations and just trucking people back and forth to them. And for that inglorious mission the shuttle is definitely not appropriate.

Anyways.. one of my favorite things about the orbiter.. the front thermal windows need to be tinted; obviously, but what I found out recently is they used the same green dye they use in US banknotes to do that.
I'm big on digital minimalism and have relied on Chromebooks for everything for well over a decade now. I have Gimp, Inkscape, and the other flagship Linux apps I need. I have ssh and my tmux/shell/vim development environment I prefer.

It would be nice if there were an open source alternative, but all that the open source community wants to deliver is rip-offs of the Windows XP experience. Chromebook is what desktop Linux was supposed to be, but nobody understood that the browser was the Linux desktop the whole time.
Japan has a very public problem of self powered vehicles running into people/stuff.

With an aging population, drivers who mistakingly hit the accel when they meant to brake, thus running full missile mode into shops and sidewalks make the news almost every day("Prius missile")

The last things people want is additional vehicles plowing forward at the push of a button, this time indoors and/or on the sidewalk from the start.
We've got Chromebooks we bought for our org three years ago that aren't EOL until 2028 at the earliest. Some of the more recent ones are 2030.
I'm pretty convinced that YC's alpha mostly comes from the fact that they can shine a turd into something that doesn't lose them much (or makes a modest profit) when it fails.

Many other VCs that have survived for that long have a huge IPO under their belt, like Google or Uber. The best in the YC portfolio are probably Stripe, Dropbox, and Coinbase. These are great companies and great exits, but don't support 1000+ $0 failures. They do deliver the goods if your failures have a ~0% return rather than a -100% return.

That is a good thing for you if you want to learn how to grow a company, though, because it is a great sign that YC actually works as an education opportunity.
historically there was a lot of media and some internet in sf. more interesting hardware type tech companies generally clustered in the south bay with some exceptions (oqo, sega).

twitter was notable because they put a big campus in midmarket... but there was plenty of internet and multimedia that preceded them. (organic, macromedia, razorfish come to mind but there were countless others)

sure, no sun or apple, but let's be clear, twitter was no sun or apple either.
MiniCPM-v2.6: GPT-4V Level MLLM for Single/Multi Image and Video on Your Phone
"And what I think makes ChromeOS really powerful is Crostini, a full Linux VM that you can run inside ChromeOS"....

This is akin to the person that uses their left hand to touch their right ear....

Both MacOS and Windows offer that without all constraints and privacy negligent services from Google/Alphabet.
So many startups in SF. Most dead now of course. The first round of post-money hiring at Twitter took a few of my coworkers.

There were launch parties in SF every week in the late 1990s. Often multiple per week. The startups coordinated to not conflict. It was a very active scene. The first wave ended in the early months of 2000. There were a few very slow years after that, but things were picking up again around the time of Twitter's 2006 launch (and 2007-2008 scaling).

We in SF didn't consider ourselves part of Silicon Valley back then, so that might be throwing off the search results. The relabelling came later, when the never-formally-defined scope of "Silicon Valley" expanded to include SF city (but still skipping the bedroom communities between the city and the Valley proper).

(Edit: sibling of GP is correct, SF was mostly internet and media startups, agencies, etc. The Valley got most of the hardware startups. Twitter was a descendant of Blogger/Odeo/Pyra/etc, so SF city was an entirely expected location)
I'm not really looking to debate or defend assertions. Just mark interesting points in human technological development in a way that's visible in the archeological or genetic record.
I don't need this. I didn't need this.

I'll get it when we upgrade Spitfire this year.
I imagine someone as articulate and humble as that guy is going to land on his feet. That was a really good write up.
my recommendation? use chain of thought, then feed that into a second prompt asking for json
A reason for Airbnb I’m not seeing in the other comments: traveling with a dog is much easier with Airbnb than a hotel. I can find a fenced backyard and also have lots of indoor space.

I also choose airbnbs for cooking. We almost always choose a place with a grill, since our apartment doesn’t have one, and often a fire pit, too.
They still exist in the northeast megalopolis where space to build postwar sprawl was limited.
There's a sort of prisoner's dilemma here, where the banks that don't take the 80% now make out better in both cases - they get 100% now and 100% later, or 100% now and 120% later, versus 80% now and 120% later.
I like the idea of simple sketches alongside plaintext notes, without any other features.

- what's the data format? Is it exportable?

- is there a demo I can try without signing up?

- have you tried sketching mind maps and architectures on paper? Personally, I think paper always beats whiteboard software. But a low-friction sketchpad, embedded right next to text notes, seems like the right formula. Especially for mobile.
RUM indices are a nice improvements, but they're not in Postgres core and likely won't ever be :( If you're looking for Elastic-level FTS in Postgres, your best bet is likely to overengineer pgvector+tsvector or simply to use ParadeDB pg_search
> I tired of sharing screen via Google Meet with 1-hour limitation, with Zoom and 40-minute limitation, etc.

FWIW, jitsi[0] is an open source[1] WebRTC based, full featured, video conference/meeting alternative to zoom, google-meet, slack, etc.

You can use it via the main site, or self-host it if you like.

[0]: https://meet.jit.si/
[1]: https://github.com/jitsi
That could be the way. Now would these still sell if the speed limit was 2km/h ?
The premise of "artist get paid less" is that they get a higher percentage to make up for the fact that with better discovery the consumer's budget will be spread across a larger number of artists.

"Discovery Mode" is a transparent attempt to pit artists against each other. The one that gives the middle man a bigger cut gets more sales. The flaw here is the lack of alternative means for new artists to get discovered without signing a one-sided deal, i.e. we don't have enough competition for distribution. This is mostly because of laws lobbied for by the industry.
My attempt at drawing out the experts at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167865

Resulted in this:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/th...

The FDA never approved it in the US, although thalidomide did make its way to the US market. It's the perfect example of seen-versus-unseen. There are probably lots of examples of benefits that unapproved drugs could provide but we don't see them, while we do see the effects of the bad drugs that the FDA did not approve. I favor looser FDA regulations, but if my side doesn't even know the history of the #1 argument against it then we should just give up.

Anyways.. in my mind, mRNA does really rhyme with anarchist-primitivism*, so y'all might want to check if FDA is supervising a market failure or not.

*Due to my bounded rationality, I shudder to discuss the technical reasons, with,uh, people who have not thought about it..

But your grandma probably knew that... AMP is a OTC supplement and GMP is a common food additive . (Compare with their d variants)
I'm with amir in comment 23 and with Aaron in previous comments. Stuff happens. And when there are multiple moving pieces, the process and policies are the issue, not the individuals. Since individuals rarely have a complete overview of the entire system.

Also, as noted in the comments, it sets a bad precedent for people coming forward reporting issues.
it's true, the techies of the '90s and '00s who lived in sf embraced the culture (and suffered the commute). what happened in the '10s kinda steamrolled it.
Selectively disobeying laws that infringe upon user privacy is an act of civil disobedience, not evidence of broad willingness to disobey all laws, commit fraud, harm users, etc.
The coordination between the containerized Debian terminal and ChromeOS is really quite good. I pop back and forth all day long effortlessly.

[disclaimer] I was one of the pre-release beta testers for ChromeOS...
The last occasions that I stayed at $200/night hotels, someone triggered the building fire alarms at 2:00 and 4:30 AM. Everyone was forced to evacuate until the fire department arrived (the alarm sirens were agonizingly loud). Still, I agree, the Airbnb roulette experience is often worse.
This is so wacky I thought it was like an old April Fool's Day joke page by them
The latest keyboard version 3.0 is more standard. The swapped control vs caps lock position is something one can probably remap in software. The apparent lack of page-up/down and home/end keys would be more of a problem for me, though.

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform-keyboard-30
/r/rpg
ofc a “journalist” just outright tells people to delete their X accounts and I get a downvote

the anti musk shit on this site is counter to logic and ideological
This is one in a long list of reasons why I continue to view calories as a useless measure. I don't really give a damn about how much water I can heat up by burning my food, that's not how my digestion system works. It was a reasonable enough analog when we had a very rudimentary understanding both of what's really in food and how digestion and the metabolic process works, but its horribly outdated today.

I can say having recently gone from coding at a desk 8 hours a day to working full-time on a farm with no heavy equipment, your food intake absolutely should increase. As long as I'm staying busy I can eat basically whatever I want and not feel sick or gain weight. That's not to imply that I don't still need to eat the right kinds of food as well, but volume and calorie count has no noticeable effect on me like it did when I had a sedentary job.
No, that's wrong.

Somebody else burns the same number of calories being active as you do sitting.

The article does not compare the the same individuals performing sitting vs. being active.

It says that members of hunter-gatherer tribes such as the Hadza on average consume as much energy per day as US-Americans sitting on their butt at home. It says the Hadza's bodies have adapted to perform a more exhausting task with less energy expenditure than US-Americans need.

But the same person (being a Hazda or US-American) will still need more energy being active than being inactive.

(Source: Read from "here's what we know so far" in the article.)

This is similar to finding that from N calories, an obese person may only run 1km while a professional marathon runner will run 5km.

Edit:

The Kurzgesagt video refers to the same Hazda people, and states that if you start working out after being sedentary for a while, you burn a lot more calories, until your body eventually adapts: https://youtu.be/lPrjP4A_X4s?feature=shared&t=212
Axios announced it's laying off 10% of staff in a 'cringe' branded memo