skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That you can, worst case, boot it (or any other tools) from simple fat32 formatted pendrive that can be created with a file manager instead of rawdogging the hard disk is just a bonus.

There was a wonderful, brief period of time where most systems were UEFI out of the box, and the largest file on a Windows ISO was under 4 GiB.

You could literally drag+drop the contents of the ISO to a FAT32 thumb drive and install Windows with it. You didn't have to erase it first. You didn't need a special app or the command line to pull it off. It just worked.

The WIM files are too big now. At least Rufus is a pretty good utility.
Congress has the power to impeach and remove judges. It’s a political decision to do such a thing. I advocate that Congress exercise this power. This is no way means I don’t want a judiciary. The reason Congress was given this power was precisely in case the Court went too far in its rulings or otherwise did things that are politically unacceptable.

I agree with the dissenters in the ruling under discussion. The ruling was badly wrong and it’s clear that the Court is going to expand on this rulimg and it’s going to have dire consequences. Removal of justices is warranted.
This is great but why can’t i get fiber internet in my bk apartment. Still struggling with spectrum coaxial pulling less than 5mbps today. No options on my block. Sheesh
this is very skibidi
Lasik has a less than 70% long term success rate and a fairly high severe failure rate. Apologies but I cannot recall the stat in that one but it was multiple percents. And by severe, I mean near blindness.

Maybe that’s acceptable to you, but not to me.
he really doesn't need the make up - just makes him seem like a joke. otherwise great content
That would be the Apple Watch most likely.
It also makes you have w rizz, no cap fr fr on god
Or get their house firebombed.
> Unless blocking ads has nothing to do with privacy and is just an annoyance with ads...

there were some comments in another post that went so far as to want all advertising banned. So for some people it truly is just "skip all annoyances, consume for free". And I see takes in this thread about how apparently everyone should be making videos as a passion/hobby.

It's either brash overrreactions, naivete on societal structures, or simply being stuck in a tech bubble (where our labor only indirectly produces value, compared to the visualizations or art or other content leveraged by tech. Hence why many can give it away).
Ask HN: Looking for a specific blog
This is probably a longshot, but I've been looking for a specific non-tech blog I saw on HN a few years ago. I've been looking for it for a while now and I can't seem to find it.

One of the articles was talking about how the writer was going to church, but not necessarily because they believed in god or religion, but because it was a "good" thing to do was good for the soul/had positive messages. There were definitely people who believed, but they suspected other people similarly didn't believe but kept showing up and it was essentially a musing on finding these like minded people in the community to continue going to church with, whilst knowing that many people weren't going for the Bible.

The blog covered many different topics, definitely a non-tech blog. Anyone might have a link in mind or any other good non-tech blogs to read through?
Correct, I've had it show all the phone tree options as soon as the phone tree starts playing. So, yes, it will reduce time to navigate the tree in that way.

Also, it often prevents me from having to listen to the tree twice, if I am looking for a better option and then decide a previous one was actually the better fit.
AI companies lose bid to dismiss parts of visual artists' copyright case
Other than the camera bar, the case is a blatant iPhone ripoff.
Different planets, Different Sneezle length, Same Sneezle Beat

I'll try to see these units you linked thanks
Marketing >>> Engineering and Sales
After spending over 15 years in the industry, running a business and multiple successes and failures with SaaS products, here's my conclusion:

Marketing >>>> Engineering + Sales + <add any business function of your choice>

Before anyone of you gets offended, let me tell you, I'm an engineer turned marketer. I love building products. Give me my code editor (and some coffee) and you'll see a happy man building awesome products.

A few years ago, I came up with really amazing ideas and built products with neat UI, scalable backend and beautiful database structure. Something I'd feel proud to show to my engineer friends.

But the world out there is brutal. It doesn't care how beautiful your codebase is, how every method is well-documented and how it can handle 10000 simultaneous users with $20 droplet.

I could not believe my first two failures. I mean, I couldn't find one solid reason people didn't want to use my product. I even tried giving it away for free. It didn't work.

I decided to change my approach.

I began observing people who were successfully selling SaaS. I was shocked.

- No one had an 'innovative' product.

- Everyone operated in markets that had competition

- Everyone was busy marketing; even their half-ready product and still making money.

My world-view was different than what I saw in the markets. I needed to adapt.

Now, I have a SaaS that's making money, users are interested and I'm learning the art of sales. My focus now is marketing and solving people's problems. That's the only way to win.

I hope this helps my fellow SaaSpreneurs. No matter how much you hate it: Marketing is bigger than your code, engineering and sales.
I've had Verizon's "Home Internet" service for a year or so in middle America. The 4G and 5G signal strength roughly match and aside from a few initial reboot issues - resolved by firmware updates - it's had rock solid speed. I just ran a few tests from librespeed.org:

╔═════════════╦════════════════╦══════════╦════════╦════════╦══════════╦═════════╗
║ Location ║ Provider ║ Protocol ║ Ping ║ Jitter ║ Down ║ Up ║
╠═════════════╬════════════════╬══════════╬════════╬════════╬══════════╬═════════╣
║ Chicago ║ Sharktech ║ IPv4 ║ 60 ms ║ 15 ms ║ 408 Mbps ║ 23 Mbps ║
║ Atlanta ║ Cloudiver ║ IPv6 ║ 67 ms ║ 8 ms ║ 311 Mbps ║ 23 Mbps ║
║ Amsterdam ║ "Rust backend" ║ IPv4 ║ 169 ms ║ 260 ms ║ 68 Mbps ║ 20 Mbps ║
║ Nuremberg ║ Hetzner ║ IPv6 ║ 155 ms ║ 125 ms ║ 132 Mbps ║ 20 Mbps ║
║ Los Angeles ║ Sharktech ║ IPv4 ║ 86 ms ║ 15 ms ║ 373 Mbps ║ 21 Mbps ║
║ Serbia ║ SOX ║ IPv6 ║ 188 ms ║ 29 ms ║ 173 Mbps ║ 17 Mbps ║
║ Tokyo ║ A573 ║ IPv4 ║ 183 ms ║ 72 ms ║ 156 Mbps ║ 22 Mbps ║
╚═════════════╩════════════════╩══════════╩════════╩════════╩══════════╩═════════╝

I wouldn't say it's "decrepit", but maybe I'm just lucky.
Aside from a half dozen or so zeros, you're right on.
The unsaid thing about endurance hunting is that you need to pick the right animal from the group and know how to persist hunt, aka keep prey away from water, have them run at the middle of the day, pace yourself, know the area and take shorter routes, know how to separate an animal from the herd.

Temperature of the area also plays a large part, perhaps the writer was doing this in a cooler area giving the animal an advantage.

I have not listened to the Audio, but most factors are not usually considered when people talk about any kind of persistence hunting.

I have hunted pigs, kangaroos and wild dogs and reindeer this way, without guns sometimes with dogs.

I am unable to do this in my older age, it's a younger man's game, it's good to see that people are still trying.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

From Wikipedia, an intuitive explanation of an elementary proof:

> If one places 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, etc. on the number line, one sees immediately that all these points are to the left of 1, and that they get closer and closer to 1. For any number that is less than 1, the sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, and so on will eventually reach a number larger than . So, it does not make sense to identify 0.999... with any number smaller than 1. Meanwhile, every number larger than 1 will be larger than any decimal of the form 0.999...9 for any finite number of nines. Therefore, 0.999... cannot be identified with any number larger than 1, either. Because 0.999... cannot be bigger than 1 or smaller than 1, it must equal 1 if it is to be any real number at all.

And then:

> The elementary argument of multiplying 0.333... =
1/3 by 3 can convince reluctant students that 0.999... = 1.
Super sick. I’m building this at work rn. Definitely a cool technical problem. Good luck!
In many cases (nearing 40%) people end up with worse vision after some number of years. A very high percentage end up with significant problems such as really bad astigmatism. Severe issues such as near blindness, detached corneas, etc are also way too common. There are several good YouTube videos on the subject.

And anecdotally, half of the people who I know that got it done 10+ years ago have had their eyesight regress back to the way it was before or worse.

I honestly don’t know how lasik is allowed to persist with such high risk of complications.
Another problem is how much companies exaggerate the effectiveness of their systems and don't share the false positive rate.
Who is suing? Would TikTok/ByteDance even have standing in a US court?
Fix print to logger.info() why not?
"Whereas if you have to fake the bins, you also have to deal with camera zoom, exposure changes, etc. that happen throughout the clip."

Oooh true, that makes sense. Cheers!
But it does make people to feel like that action is now possible. And once someone believes something is possible, they're more likely to do it
Maybe it's like the hotdog vendors outside of a ballpark or concert exit.
you can do it in ways that are really obvious, though only to someone who knows the order of magnitude of hydrogen that could be produced
Go look at the source code. Everything is abstracted to the nth degree.

If you have a bug, good luck figuring it out!
> Judges are still allowed to defer to experts

Then why is congress be denied the same latitude (via agencies)?
We could, but I would describe it as "mathematically accurate". Which is not incompatible with "unreasonably narrow", given that the definition of "exponential" has recently gotten polluted enough that it is now often synonymous with "fast growing". But what's the point of arguing over definitions if we're going to start with a baseline of saying that there is no basis upon which to argue definitions other than recent conventional usage?

> there are others which allow x^2 to be described as "exponential".

Those same definitions allow x*1000 to be described as "exponential". (x*1000000 would be "more exponential"!)

If you're describing something as exponential, then either you're just saying "fast growing", or you're trying to describe the type of growth. If you're describing the type of growth, then neither x*1000 nor x^2 is exponential. The fact that x^2 has an exponent in it is no more relevant than saying that x*1000=x*10^3 and x*10^3 has an exponent in it.

(Again, I sadly accept that in today's world, "exponentially" is being used to mean "fast growing", or sometimes more specifically "faster than linear". If I'm trying to understand what someone means, then it doesn't matter whether I find that usage to be a good idea or not.)
I was thinking of systems more as just processes that have low-entropy behavior, i.e. those that are predictable in some meaningful way. If one takes the process of death, which is really a behavior of any low-entropy system, to be its own object, I do think that object would be a system under my definition. I agree that yours does not come to the same conclusion, and perhaps my definition of system is too broad.
I'll also vote for this. It worked great for stock operation including things like Android Auto. I had to switch back due to a need for some BS Microsoft software for teams that needs to pass safety net which my work uses for paging.
ByteDance employs ex-NATO officials at high ranking positions. So it's tough to say if they are being wholly by a "hostile foreign power" as you put it.
I think what is most interesting about this article and what it highlights is that software, especially software that is as big as tik Tok is almost offered the same protections that modern corporations are afforded. They simply are their own entity. To say that tik Tok is Chinese owned as said in the article is not necessarily true as the software is based in the cloud and the business side is located in the Cayman Islands. If America wins this prosecution this could have big impacts on other large tech companies as their “nationality” simply does not matter as they have become their own global entity.
It doesn't work so easily; if you do that, the battery itself will fall apart because of deposition of the iron. See: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/abcf50/...
The headline (in 2017) attempts to make the case that "Trump could be even worse" than obama in abusing the espionage act. Did history prove that? I found cases where his administration used it, but unclear if it was worse
Dan here. On bespoke business decisions—these are handled through SQL and model configs. This involves deciding what items to filter, how to set the objective function (what to optimize the model for), and controlling exploration and diversity in the results.

Setting the objective function is often the most challenging. Different teams may prioritize different objectives and often it requires balancing multiple at once! For instance, how does a company think about the types of user engagement and long-term metrics like retention? A model optimized for clicks might be worse for retention in some cases, but not in others. Ultimately, we A/B test to find out. Surprises and counter-intuitive results are common!
LOL, it's awesome to see a LegendKeeper dev here! I don't TTRPG but I have a friend who does and is using your tool.

I love the UI, did you model it off Notion?
>there are numerous counterexamples of companies that charge consumers directly without double-dipping - Google One, Dropbox, Remember the Milk, World of Warcraft, LegendKeeper, ChatGPT, most video games, Notion, Slack, etc.

That's really your best list?

- Google constnatly double dips. They were cuaght not too long ago scanning Drive folders for potential Gemini use. Slack just had this discussion as well.

- WOW charges subscriptions and for cosmetics in game. That's how more and more video games are trying to recoup costs. DLC, microtransactions, battle passes, NFTs, etc. You can avoid most of that if you're indie, but that's the AAA market.

- ChatGPT is in market capture mode right now in a very hot market. It's going to pull a google in 5-10 years if it's still dominant. I would bet my bottom dollar on that one.

>there are specific examples of companies moving away from ad-supported models to paid subscription models (without keeping ads)

And they are double dipping on their own services by selling to AI to train their data. It won't be ads for you today. It probably will be tomorrow. If the goal is to minimize annoyance, this is honestly worse than double charging.

We're doomed without a fundamental shift in how society consumes content.
FT8 I think is a great example of low power digital working well.

It's not huge amounts of data or traffic, but it seems to be fairly reliable.
That must be it. Not their spectacular failures to build reliable AI. Distain for their users, selling out of search quality or their other myriad bullshit.
I think you raise a reasonable question.

I also think it *could* be less of a problem than you might think. If we treat the scale as arbitrary (which I think is a safe thing to do), then movement along the scale could be sufficient to ascertain *something*
For 40 years or so laws granting regulatory authority to federal agencies were written with the understanding that Chevron Deference was the law of the land. Now those laws grating regulatory authority
are going to be considered too vague. What will happen is that regulatory agencies will be thwarted in their duty to protect the public. Where the court is headed is that they will require a level of specificity in writing laws that grant regulatory authority that is impractical. Read what the dissenting opinions were and see where they think things are headed.
> Now, there are some schools of programming that lean heavily into try/catches. Me, I find them mentally taxing. Whenever there is a try/catch, we now have to worry not only about what the function returns, but what it throws. We not only have branching logic, which increases complexity but also have to worry about dealing with two different paradigms. A function may return a value, or it may throw. Throwing bubbles if it is not caught. Returns do not. So both have to be dealt with for every function. It’s exhausting.

I tend to agree with this sentiment. I wonder whether it would have been helpful, perhaps in an alternate universe, for all functions to return a structure containing two things: the actual intended return value, and an error object (perhaps NULL if no error, to reduce overhead).

So something like `return $foo;` would imply no error but `return NULL, Error('bar')` would imply an error. Then, we could use `return` at any point to indicate success or an error depending on the case.

The only thing remaining to mimic the behavior of `try...catch` would be to make closures which could be `return`ed from, similar in concept to `throw` in that they would exit the block except that because it's a `return` it would work like any other `return` to exit the block.

Am I crazy, or would this (at least in theory) simplify the return/try/catch issues the author is talking about?
> it can be for ANY reason, guys!" in any field, will not get you much far, regardless if you feel justified in your ignorance or not.

Of course not. The point is logical correctness: as a matter of logic, infinite theories explain any set of facts. Are almost all of these theories useless? Of course. We should restrict our attention to plausible theories.

But how do we decide which theories are plausible? We look for the ones that require the fewest assumptions.
Hah. Yeah. Going where your audience hangs out.
Ask HN: Are open-source alternatives threatening SaaS
I recently built Multiwoven, an open-source alternative to reverse ETL tools like Hightouch and Census. https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven

This experience, along with observing similar open-source projects in other domains, has made me wonder about the broader impact on SaaS.

I'm curious to hear the community's thoughts on whether open-source alternatives are genuinely challenging SaaS dominance, and if so, in what ways?

What trends or examples have you noticed in your field?
The original purpose of science was to get closer to god. Things change.

Arts degrees were also once 7-8 years before the french fought for radical simplification to get them down. There is no law of nature that says PhDs cannot be simplified down more too.

The stupification argument comes kneejerk with every new medium, you don't have to believe everything you watch on TV or form a crutch to a screen oracle. Either way, we need not concern ourselves with the average scientist who fails forgettably by being stupid when the potential upsides are great scientists who succeed with it.

One point of an AI paper farm could just be to increase that discovery hit space a little while you sleep but no one claims it can or will replace every scientist, hopefully only the pessimistic ones.
Thank you.

I am totally open to being "checked" as it were. and I am being given positive reinforcement from the AIs themselves, and It skeeves me out and I am a skeptic. HOWEVER

My results have stated otherwise.

Truely appreciate your comment.

So - WRT "how its useful"

Imagine I want to ask a bunch of questions about something as complex as to pol, corp, fin, policy, religion,

So how pull insight across these dimensions...

(I think youre a troll. There is no way someone cant put 2&2...
Trump put no journalists in jail.
ByteDance/TikTok is suing the US government. Yes, foreigners who operate in the US have standing in US courts. Especially in this case where they're being targeted by an act of Congress.
What does a smart home gym actually do?
A/B testing? Possibly increasing accuracy from high click-bait, low signal to low click-bait high signal?
To use a similar example, in my state, you can build your own custom car or airplane from scratch and get it approved, no mechanic or engineering license needed.

Also, if you aren't working as an engineer for another company but are self employed, it's not a bad idea to get some form of errors and omissions insurance, which is comparable to the malpractice insurance doctors get.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41169195
Docs aren’t always insured, and when they are, they aren’t always insured individually.
>Once something is in YT (or any other big tech silo), I'm completely outside of charity or goodwill mode.

real shame to publish the creators stuck in a monopoly when they will be the first to fall, and Google last.
Go Kansas!
As a European I couldn't care less about Tiktok spying on me. US companies and NSA do the same.

My problem is the unfair competition of Chinese app devs having access to Western markets when Western app devs don't have the same level of access to the Chinese market.
I have a similar but less extreme experience.

I have a Tommee Tippee prep machine for baby formula milk. The part it has water coming out got so dirty after months of use. Due to lack of sleep like any father of newborn does, I flip it upside down and clean it with running water, and then I found out all the water finds its way into the machine.

Then I completely disassemble it, I use a dehumidifier to blow dry air directly to the screen that water made its way between the glasses.

Then after it is completely dried, I put it back, it continued to work.

So happens I’m a physicist too.

Now I should find an electronics to throw into the dish washer. Unfortunately I already get rid of my toaster because it got so dirty, I should have kept it.
For a single phone you don't care, but for folks with a separate work phone, this suddenly matters a fair bit.
If you like to read Feynman: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_35.html#Ch35-S2
Here is an NIH article about the same subject https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9987140/
Current model massage chairs are marketed as having AI (which I think actually just means they have pressure sensors which they use to detect your height/weight... but who knows these days?)
Better than not getting any older!
on what, the spending? Facebook alone said that it will spend $40b this year on AI. probably not all of it is on Llama but a sizable portion is.
Every social security number possibly leaked in data breach
That may sadly be the next step if this does become prolific enough for ads to stop sponsoring individuals. A race to the bottom of quality against consumers who want free stuff and content creators who want to pay rent.