skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really that they don't exist, but it's silly stupid to find them now.

For instance - ddg, google, doesn't really matter the search engine - typing in something like "ohtani batting average with runners in scoring position with 2 outs" used to be so easy it'd practically pop up in the quick answers with the exact link to the ESPN table or dudewhoneverleavesbasement.com that has tracked every baseball stat for the last 150 years.

Now you just get basically the same results for "ohtani batting average" or "ohtani news." It's impossibly frustrating. It's like that with everything now.

I guess that's more of a problem with search than anything else, but honestly, search is the main way people navigate the web. If I want anything authoritative, honestly, I'm probably going to wikipedia to see a source list and then checking out authors in the local library. Anything dated post 2022 I consider inherently unreliable.
The authoritative source has to be .. authoritative. And it also has to be timely, i.e. updated in real time. This is hard. Being an authoritative source for certain sub-types of information is definitely a viable business, but only if your information is being used by other people to make business decisions. See, for example, the Bloomberg terminal.

But "authoritative" is a social construct.
Unfortunately for the recipient of the violence, we can't bring people back from the dead, or unslash their faces with machetes, so not everyone's gonna be on board with your alternative.
> The HTTP/3 CA TLS HTTPS-only setup would start failing due to CA TLS problems eventually (in a year or two) while the HTTP/1.1 HTTP+HTTPS would remain accessible forever

This is nonsense: if you set up Let’s Encrypt or the equivalent, which is increasingly built in, it’ll keep working for HTTP 1-3. If you don’t, you need to rotate certificates for all of them.

If your claim is that the HTTP 1 option is better because you can be insecure after the certificate expires, that’s conflating two separate things and saying that you don’t care about your users privacy and security, which might be true but is a more compelling argument against using that service than against HTTP/2.
We already know the answer. The question is, will the supreme Court allow a monopoly price setter anyways?
It does, just not out of the box

https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=arch
AirCMP – Find/Compare Airbnb Listings with Review Insights
Hey HN,

I’m excited to share something I’ve been working on—AirCMP, a Chrome extension that helps you compare Airbnb listings more easily. As a frequent traveler, I found keeping track of different listings frustrating, so I built this tool to make the process a bit smoother.

What AirCMP Does:

• Compare Listings Side-by-Side: Quickly see differences in price, amenities, and more.

• Review Insights: Get a summary of what previous guests liked (or didn’t).

• Ignore List: Hide listings you’re not interested in, so you can focus on the best options.

I’d love to hear your thoughts or any feedback you have.

Thanks for taking a look!
The calorie is not part of the current SI. The SI unit that measures the same quantity is the joule (J).

Like all SI derived units, the joule is obtained by multiplying or dividing any number of SI base units, without using numeric scaling factors. 1 joule = 1 newton × 1 kilogram = m^2 × kg × s^−2.

The calorie measures the same quantity as the joule (energy or work), but 1 calorie = 4.184 joules. SI generally disallows having multiple units that measure the same quantity (e.g. tesla vs. gauss), especially ones that have numerical scaling factors (e.g. 1 bar = 100 kilopascals).

Quotes and references:

> the kcal is not officially part of the International System of Units (SI), and is regarded as obsolete, having been replaced in many uses by the SI derived unit of energy, the joule (J)

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

> (this page does not contain any mention of the word "calorie")

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

> (Section 4: Units outside the SI) (page 29) Examples of other non-SI units: calorie

> (page 52) (year 1948) calorie

> (Section 2.2: SI derived units) (page 21) SI derived units with special names and symbols: joule | J | N ⋅ m | m^2 ⋅ kg ⋅ s^−2

-- https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp330.pdf
Maggie Appleton: Barefoot Developers, AI, end-user programming
> but if you put it into implementation in a non-toy distributed-system project it will not scale

Plenty of distributed systems don't have the requirements you outline or need to scale. Distributed systems are not necessarily large, cross organizational lines, or require rolling releases. Sometimes the tradeoff in complexity by, for example, introducing a dependency on protoc et. al., is not worth it. I've built several systems that this would've been a perfectly fine choice for.

I'd also point out that because it's so simple, adding implementations in new languages should be fairly straightforward, but I think this really shines in C codebases where complexity must be mostly dealt with by hand (for better or worse).
Sociodemographic Trends and Perinatal Outcomes in Fathers 50 Years and Older
Thank you for this explanation. I would like to emphasize that our model being wrong and not our numbers sounds like progress.

It also sound like progress that we seem to have 2 “scales” to play with to try to develop a consistently measurable distance.
I love PowerShell, but I've yet to meet someone who 'lives in' PowerShell the way so many 'live in' Bash and the various GNU CLI utilities, which I think inhibits familiarity of the kind most convenient for whipping up quick scripts like that.

That said, PowerShell is much more a 'real programming language' than the shell languages that came before it. PowerShell scripts are a lot more maintainable that scripts written for those other shells. And there are some really powerful things built on top of shell (like DSC, for example) that don't to my knowledge have analogues written directly in other shell languages. Plus PowerShell has an actual package management story, code signing capabilities, and other modern niceties.

But for me and I suspect most others, it falls down as an interactive environment for rwasons of performance and verbosity, and Windows environments themselves are unfortunately still harder to automate or inspect programmatically because most applications don't provide or document PowerShell-friendly interfaces. So I don't think it's surprising that despite all of PowerShell's incredible advancemwnts, you rarely meet Windows users who have invested in it as much as the average longtime Unix user invests in their respective CLI utilities.

But for, say, game developers who say 'Unix is not my environment; I'm not sure I wanna bother with all of that CLI and scripting stuff', they do nowadays have an alternative in that arena which is outstanding in a lot of positive ways. I don't anyone would regret deeply learning PowerShell, either.

Hell, my team at work is all Unix guys. I probably have the most experience PowerShell experience of any of us, which is way less than my GNU command line environment experience. But if someone with deep PowerShell experience joined our team, I'd absolutely encourage them to use PowerShell on Linux wherever we write scripts, and be happy to learn whatever I needed to to keep up. PowerShell is a nice enough language that I think it's very reasonable to bring it with you to other operating systems as well.
> And it seems to me that if the AI industry wanted to distract us from harms, they would give us optimistic scenarios.

Nah it has to appear plausible.
Nope, the right sentence would be 'why competent workers do not become "competent" managers right away, all the time, and for forever?'

It is easy to reverse the question:

"Why competent managers were not permanently competent workers?"

And I have the answer: because life is complicated and much judgement of values is very relative.
UAE and Saudi Arabia are in the midst of a massive space race right now due to increased rivalries between the UAE and Saudi Arabia after the KSA pulled out of Yemen [1].

A lot of funding is being placed into public and private sector space programs by both countries, as well as investing in private sector space industry players in the US, China, and India.

At it's heart is regional competition over domestic Reconnaissance Satellite capabilities [2], so all the major players in the Gulf are trying to build competitors to Maxar/DigitalGlobe

[0] - https://mei.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Insight-30...

[1] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-and-u-a-e-clash-ov...

[2] - https://www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance--interceptio...
Our cost api is very regularly updated from the pricing data made available by the cloud providers.

Metadata about the resources that require cost estimation are rolled up and sent to the pricing API, it's generally pretty quick process even with large projects
1. I have re-written a good part of the article to make the learning curve less steep.

2. The concepts to be illustrated are now mentioned in the "Discussion" section.

It is still not as detailed as The Little Schemer, but is it any good anyway?
Paying someone to perform a market analysis to help you determine how much to charge is an incredibly normal thing to do. It only becomes illegal collusion when enough people are paying that single person that they start being able to control the market.
The pressures to cause people to leave st louis and other rustbelt cities 50-60 years ago amounted to internalized racism among the white population.
> you cannot incite riots

We've just been through a week of Americans on Twitter getting shocked at Brits on Twitter because there's some, very minimal, legal action being taken against people who incited riots through false statements on social media. I think you need to be much clearer about what this actually means. Especially as there has been very little prosecution of Jan 6 "inciters" (as opposed to people who were physically there committing crimes while being filmed)
7-Zip 24.08 – The open source file archiver
Landlords may have much more capital than the average person, but they don't have an infinite reserve.

Investment opportunities compete with one another for investor dollars. If the yield on housing goes down, then investors will shift their money to (non-REIT) stocks and bonds.

Let's do a thought experiment and imagine the worst-case scenario for the "build baby build" camp.

1. We build a ton of new housing, more than we need.

2. Landlords snap all of it up immediately.

3. They collude to keep rents steady despite the massive oversupply.

4. So now most of the housing is rented out at artificially high rates, and some housing is extra and thus empty. However, a ton of capital is locked up on the empty houses.

5. The more housing we overbuild, the more investors' yield on housing goes down - they have to invest more and more to snap up all the houses, but the number of houses that's collecting rent is steady.

6. The rational subset of housing investors pull their capital and buy stocks and bonds instead. Housing prices fall.

7. The irrational subset of housing investors hold out, hoping to keep collecting high rent or sell the housing on to a "greater fool". Housing investors lose some of their capital, and the worst ones are cycled out of the system as poor capital allocators.
That sounds like a usefully-circular/tautological claim
You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses
Certainly when I look at convection currents in the ocean or the atmosphere, I see plenty of variation. Shoot, the earth's atmosphere constantly produces moving blobs of relatively high and low pressure.
I second both the sibling comments here but I'll add a few things:

- Having a detailed meeting and project history from work helps me during interviews, writing resumes, reminding myself of previous approaches. A lot of this comes from detailed note-taking but making connections with people I've worked with, companies I've interacted with, etc adds a lot of color and detail.

- In a similar vein, tying together people with contacts (from Google or iCloud), events, and notes helps me be a better friend, neighbor, family member in my personal life. I don't have an excellent memory so I build it out in Obsidian.

- I like being able to do simple things like figure out how many bike rides I took since I've been laid off (65 bike rides, totaling over 645 miles and 138,000 feet of elevation gain).

Does this all change my life drastically? No but I like the work, I like how present in my life it makes me, and it's fun.
Also indefinite != infinite.
> $2.5M is more than enough to retire on

For a single, childless person who wants to live a lower-middle class lifestyle in a low cost of living area, sure.

But if you want to live in a decent location, you're looking at needing at least a million just for a house. That leaves 1.5 to generate income, so at a 3% safe withdrawal rate that's $45k per year. After taxes that's now like $35k. And you're not getting health insurance from employer so budget $6k per year for premiums (and be ready to pay out up to $6k per year more if you end up in the hospital).

So in the end, you've got something like $20k-$29k per year to live on. That covers groceries, car maintenance/insurance/payments, upkeep on the house, phone, etc sufficiently for one person. But you're probably not joining your friends on their ski vacation or even going out for drinks with them too often.

And of course, the whole thing falls apart with a family. The average cost of health insurance for a family of 4 is $24,000 per year.
Shooting someone, lethally or otherwise, for laughing at you, is seen as an appropriate response in open-carry states? If it is, maybe the people pushing for such laws should drop the "Snowflake" line and take a look in the mirror, because this shit is not normal.

And if it's not, what's the point of this comment? To look tough online?
If I remember right, the very beginning of "capitalism" was in companies like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

which was granted a monopoly in the Asia trade by the state. In general "capitalists" like "free" markets when it means they can do what they hell they want, but they very much like regulation when it is in their favor.
Thanks. I remember that thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058194

What I took from the discussion is that there is very little chance that our next step for training SOTA models (eg. LLMs) will be "scraping the whole web including increasing volumes of ChatGPT-generated content".

Instead, the synthetic content used to train new models is (from recent papers I've seen) mostly curated - not "indiscriminate" as the Nature paper discusses.
Exactly. There usually is some stuff about the deeper, darker corners of a language in the type of book I pick.

I usually pick the authoritative book / advanced book.
Think "Programming PHP", "The joy of clojure", "The C Programming Language", etc.
I don't necessarily need to know all about performance optimization, the async model or non-html templating.

Reading a technical book cover to cover feels wasteful imo
The problem arises when you have long periods of either zero or near zero interest rates and no policy guardrails to regulate the market. The implausible scenario has played out in many cities in Europe, sometimes even to the extent that companies aggregating landlords started to build their own real estate that would never be sold, only let, because they ran out of real estate they wanted to buy. This left behind only low quality or poor condition housing, but at extremely high prices because everything else is gone from the market.

The issue here is essentially a cash flows problem, once you're a landlord that has a sizeable portfolio of real estate, you can use that as collateral and offload the extra expense to renters. In a healthy market, renters can turn around and buy their own homes if the rent gets too high. Where this doesn't work is if housing is too expensive for the average buyer so they're forced to rent, come hell or high water.

The Netherlands is a good example of this. While the problem has a lot more nuance and historical context to it, the state of affairs is the Dutch are short somewhere between 300k and 400k homes while two people earning the median wage can not afford an average home because the price is too high to obtain a mortgage. Meanwhile nearly all rental homes are owned either by companies or whale land lords.

Rereading my comment now I'm not sure if I was able to convey what I mean well enough, sorry about that. I'm happy to answer any questions should you have them.
The person writing about the thing has to be knowledgeable, correct, and telling the truth.
All your monetary transactions belong to us.
No, but the community and relevant economy can.
Ask HN: I need a Unix-like laptop that works as a laptop. Am I stuck with Mac?
My personal computer is a 2014 MacBook Air that has been great to me for almost ten years but now needs replacement. I would love to get away from Apple for the next one, but I will be using it primarily as a laptop, so a good trackpad and battery-life/correct sleep behavior is essential.

Are there any Linux setups that can deliver something close to MacBook performance in those areas or am I doomed to be stuck with Apple?
Right after the maintainers of libtelepathy.so release the version with Discord support.
I'm happy for you and proud of you.
What, some different complexion natives moved in and got the cahokians scared enough to flee to the suburbs? That is what happened to Detroit.
Rat poison is moving up through food chains, threatening carnivores
Congrats, Jim. looks amazing and promissing. Would love to use it for my newly created specialized directory for AI Agents and Frameworks aiagentsdirectory.com . WOuld be great to have a podcast summary focused on my niche. Lets connect.
"For some scientists doing flow battery experiments in their respective homes/apartments, we’ve got some solid preliminary results"

Obviously it's a research project not a commercial product. What do you expect?
> I'd be curious how indefinite that "indefinitely" really is.

According to [1] for $5M UCLA will create a new full time professor post. Glassdoor claims the average UCLA professor's salary is $200k so their endowment investments would have to achieve 4% above inflation just to cover the salary. And of course there are a bunch of expenses on top of just salary so you might want more like 6%.

Can an investor reliably get 6% above inflation? In the 1970s no, in the 1990s yes.

Of course nothing is truly eternal - if there were major political upheaval in the United States, a new regime would have 53.2 billion reasons to find Harvard insufficiently loyal.

[1] https://www.uclafoundation.org/Resources/Endowment
I've had the same bad experience with search as you've had, but my conclusion was that AI tools are just going to replace "using a search engine" in the near future. Google is more and more unusable to me.

That doesn't exactly solve the authoritative problem, but theoretically it makes it more centralized (one AI company vs. innumerable websites.)
Restoring the promise of the public cloud for AI
> Patreon does not require creators to pause payments when they go on break.

I didn't say it does, but someone apparently thinks they should. That someone doesn't get the idea behind patreon

> It ought to be a creator's choice

There's plenty choice. Sell your stuff, there are plenty platforms for that. Sell physical media. Stream. Patronage is a specific thing.
Oh this is super interesting. I was only aware of the two first while writing Spice. I’ll definitely look into the two last as well. Thanks for sharing!
Soil virus dataset represents untapped viral diversity, biogeochemical potential
To my knowledge the 40-yard dash (NFL combine) timer starts when the runner starts.

I don't think this method would be as entertaining to watch.
A cost function is more applicable in industry, less so in science. In science you're supposed to report what you find, to go wherever the findings take you.
Yes, of course, but how are you determining if this is the case?
How "not terrible" are we talking here. I can totally believe this works with a proper microphone next to the keyboard in a room with no other sounds. A phone mic in an office environment though? I would be very surprised.

The sample from that link seems to be the former:

https://github.com/shoyo/acoustic-keylogger/blob/master/data...

Doesn't really tell me anything about how realistic this attack is.
It barely has a standard library. You’ll be dependent on the standard library of whatever platform you are targeting. JVM -> Java, Web -> JS.
The article states that "Other event sources like SNS use so-called Event Source Mapping", but (at least to my knowledge) SNS directly triggers the Lambda. SQS and few other "stream and queue-based services" use Event Source Mapping.

SNS = topics, push. SQS = queues, poll.
can't I with that creates video that have the world as potential users?

and the video can be the products, or tutoriala for another products. This allows me to do more, not less.
Very interesting and seems to be in line with that older news article conveying the information that hunger/satiation is a psychological feeling, that's your body's estimate of how much food what you've eaten will provide based on your past experience, and that's what need to be acted upon instead on hypefocusing on the food/calory counting.

https://aeon.co/essays/hunger-is-psychological-and-dieting-o...
Smart and mild people on both sides of the aisle are critical, but you also need a handful of principles-first ideologues on both sides to keep the Overton window from speeding off to one side.

The problem is when the middle gets radicalized and the whole lot of them zoom off to the edge of sanity.
So the recruiters can tell the resume is written by the AI using tell-tale signs like "using American grammar" and being "bland"? These are the people who decide if I'm worthy of hiring consideration???

In the middle of fruitless job hunt, it makes me feel a bit better. It's definitely NOT me.
I've written AWK programs that perform decidedly non-trivial manipulations on data, and none of the problems you describe are real. It is absolutely not the case that one must shell out to a pipeline of other commands to get work done; you can write structured programs in AWK just as you would in any other scripting language, and operate in multiple passes over data.

It's a very amusing irony if a Perl enthusiast genuinely believes that AWK can only be used in the form of cryptic one-liners, especially in the context of POSIX tools one "must" learn.
Sorry that was just a tongue in cheek joke.
there is one:

https://github.com/jianchang512/pyvideotrans/blob/main/docs/...
Engineers have a hard time with this, because we work in a very 1-0, falsifiable world.

When people talk about "truth" with regard to society, government, politics, culture, etc, they're talking about "the story". A story is something that shortcuts discussion, an agreement that two parties don't need to litigate the foundation of.

Take the statement "Joe Biden is president of the USA." Many people accept that as truth not requiring further discussion. Many people do not accept that for a variety of reasons. If you're going to make that statement, you need to be prepared that some percentage of those hearing it will object. There are people that will object to "The earth is round."

So "post-truth" means that there's not a stable foundation of generally agreed upon facts. The least common denominator for discussion and agreement is smaller.
Entropy always wins
Have you seen this?

https://frame.work
Describe "minimal." The new journalism/discourse seems to be full of adjectives that presuppose conclusions.
Yes. And C can also be used with Python and Rust. That does not make this a Rust library.