skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that AI-based coding assistants are better at writing code for more established frameworks, which has led me to defaulting to vanilla or tried-and-true/"boring technology" because AI has trouble with newer or more frequently changing stuff. Curious if this has been the case for anyone else.
Self-Verification Theory
Well, that's still technically "open". If the border was hermetically sealed (and boats/subs that tried to circumvent it were sunk) that would stop. Pesky international agreements however.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_nobility#Abolition_of...
It’s 80% full. I linked to the original article about the system for perf stats (sequential)
Rizz up, bro. Your post gives big yikes vibes.
>That was always FUD more or less

Thank you thank you, exactly this! And additionally that cache is compressed. In the day's of 4GB machines ZFS was overkill but today...no problem.
Religious Orders Hold Assets Worth Millions Across Europe
ever tried shutting down a botnet with wheels?
High School Dropout Turned Billionaire Completes First Civilian Spacewalk
I just wanted to thank you for the medium article you posted. I was online when Paul made that bizarre “delve” tweet but never knew so much about Nigeria and its English. As someone from a former British colony too I understood why using such a word was perfectly normal but wasn’t aware Kenyans and Nigerians trained ChatGPT.
There's something in this.

Startup hackers in the 80s through to mid aughts were, on the one hand, playing _for real_, but on stakes that weren't absurdly high.

They were all-in, but while on the one hand they didn't have an enormous amount to lose, they weren't that screwed if they lost it.

What I'm seeing increasingly the last 15 years or so is hyper-privileged rich kids playing at start-ups, without the same total level of commitment - but then, I can hardly blame them, they've more to lose, and you're a lot more screwed if you lose it all in 2024. The sort of people that would have started companies 30 years ago either can't afford to take the risk at all, or stay at indie/hobby business level and make no attempt to scale.
Agreed, one of my favourite blog posts is this Farnam Street one on why you shouldn't read the news

https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/

Like that haitan story every one was talking about last week, no ones knows if it was real or just BS. Better to just block it all out entirely.
Academic papers are generally written to be read by peers in the field. If you're not a researcher in the hypermedia field, you shouldn't expect to immediately understand a paper without doing some work. The abstract is a paper distilled to its essence, and is not the place to expect to learn the necessary background.

In this case, the abstract says: "This functional mechanic is used to create first an informal and then formal definition of the term "hypermedia control". Using this formal definition we then derive a generalization of the concept, referring contextually to the World Wide Web." Therefore, we should expect to look in the paper for the definition.

We find the "functional definition" at Definition 4.1: "A hypermedia control is an element that responds to an event trigger by issuing a type of request to a URL and placing the response at some position within the user agents viewport." The "formal defintion" then follows immediately after, but can't be quoted here because it requires LaTeX notation and a full page of text.

As a possible non-academic summary is that a hypermedia control can be defined as:

An interactive element within a hypermedia system (like a web page) that allows users to trigger actions, typically resulting in new content being loaded or displayed. Common examples include: links (clicking loads a new page); buttons (clicking triggers an action like submitting a form); form inputs (entering data and submitting retrieves results); images with embedded links (clicking loads new content).

The key aspects of a hypermedia control are that it responds to a user action (click, submit, etc.); it causes some kind of network request (usually to fetch new content); it specifies where that new content should go (replace the whole page, update a specific area, etc.)
What you need is backup. RAID is not backup and is not for most home/personal users. I learnt that the hard way. Now my NAS use simple volumes only, after all, I really don't have many things I cannot lose on it. If it's something really important, I have multiple copies on different drives, and some offline cold backup. So now if any of my NAS drive is about to fail, I can just copy out the data and replace the drive, instead of spending weeks trying to rebuild the RAID and ended with a total loss as multiple drives failed in a row. The funny thing is that, after moving to simply volumes approach, I never had a drive with even a bad sector since.
AWS RDS, have clocked 0 downtime in 3.5 years, does the job.
Verbalizing others' emotions fosters interpersonal trust [pdf]
Sometimes businesses do things that they believe to be in their own self-interest, but is not.

Sometimes businesses do things to create good will (which has tangible value).

Sometimes businesses do things which destroy good will and create animosity (which has a tangible cost).

Google seems to have managed to have accumulated significant animosity by shutting down services that could instead have been left to die a slow death on a long tail. I still remember a time when I could plausibly believe that "Google Is Not Evil". Shutting down those services prematurely when people still depend on them is evil. That's the cost.

And, by the way, sometimes people do things for no other reason than because it is virtuous to do so. I suppose Plato does make the argument that you should do virtuous things so that you can hang out with other virtuous people, and not have to put up with *ssholes. Darwin would probably argue that people do virtuous things for free in order to increase the survival rates of their progeny. But those are both deep and nuanced arguments that are best left to incurable pessimists.
I own several companies that have a large pile of transfer pricing agreements, I’m very familiar with the nature and complexity of international tax laws. All corporate tax avoidance is, is incurring offshore expenses to shuffle profits offshore. As long as you can do that, there is literally no way to prevent the tax avoidance. The only thing you can do is make it more complicated.

This is also the reason most developed economies have given up on regulating transfer pricing any more than they already have, and instead the strategy has shifted to trying to get the tax havens to implement or increase their corporate taxes. That’s why the “global minimum corporate tax rate” idea has recently emerged, and why the EU uses their black and grey lists to coerce foreign jurisdictions to write new tax laws. This strategy is arguably more effective, but still a complete failure, because you have some tax haven jurisdictions that simply ignore the pressure, and other tax havens are simply never sanctioned because they have sufficient leverage in the global economy to avoid the attention entirely.

It is very literally a choice between corporate tax, or globalization. There is no way to have both.
Sunamp's thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips
I really don’t get how anyone can find writing misleading headlines fulfilling in any way.
Or to put it another way:

There's nothing wrong with democracy. It's the people that are screwed up.
I'm not even American... When I say "blame Reagan", I obviously don't mean him personally, rather his government or his neoliberal ideology even.

And you keep acting like the 1982 law had no effect when it made the largely marginalized practice of stock buybacks mainstream. Maybe you should check your biases.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/23/the-dangers-of-bu...

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10266

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/2/17639762/stock-buybacks-tax-cut...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...
If by 'peace' you mean the coercive control, manipulation and emotional exploitation of those around you, perhaps.
AI can't cross this line and we don't know why (Welch Labs) [video]
Versioned datasets for machine learning.
I dislike that article/advice because it’s dishonest / downplaying a limitation of ZFS and advocating that people should spend a lot more money, that may likely not be necessary at all.
That’s a testament to your distribution/package manager’s stability, not to the language itself. I happen to write my scripts in Elixir (which is as fast-moving as Python 3), using a pinned version of it in a Nix flake at the root of my `~/bin` directory. Scripts from 5 years ago are still as reproducible as today’s.
Is this what you meant though?
Btw I'm also from kashmir, we should exchange contacts
> for sure —MUZ

(In my headcanon "super" had come into common use ca.2000, but now I see it was already extant at least two decades earlier: "It's like so bitching 'cause like everybody's like super-super nice")
a kid from India/E̶a̶s̶t̶e̶r̶n̶ Europe got same CS degree for $10k

not even that much. just cost of living. so why not adopt the same model everywhere?
Is it Salt, or is it Vinegar?

Actually it’s something else, maybe these aren’t the crisps you’re looking for.

Surely there’s just three ingredients for salt and vinegar crisps.
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even a certified unix

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3700.htm
Didn't they have a GPU card with 128GB of RAM?

Pretty smart move for LLMs, if they can get the software stack working.
I'm a big fan of Sunamp and have one of their heat batteries!

https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-solar-DHW-for-16WW-UniQ-and...
I think they’d expect as much from Dario. He designed GPT3…
Honestly I love that old processes are still running and old parts are still being made.

Modern SMD stuff is really rubbish for learning electronics. It's nigh impossible to hand solder because all of it is tiny af, and since it's newer it's expensive and you don't get as many attempts. Luckily there's still an immense supply of arguably completely obsolete thruhole parts that are super easy to work with, can be breadboarded and bought for basically nothing.
Yeah, still trying to figure where’s the problem for Stripe
Panda Paradise
Quote from NPR article

"Last year, we seized about 700 pounds of fentanyl," Modlin stated. "That was encountered – 52% of that, so the majority of that – was encountered in the field. So that is predominantly being backpacked across the border."

And that seizure is from only a vanishing minority of migrants who were searched. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are just sneak in without any checking. The formal ports of entry undergo far more validation and hence more stuff is found.
Yes, I love using the code and AI tools like Claude, Github CoPilot are great at it. But when solving a business problem, we still need to "see it" before start writing the code (at least this is my preferred way)
Show HN: AI Bookkeeping Assistant
Hi HN, I've built a SaaS to solve a data entry task that I have often had as a business owner - to be able to extract key invoice data from batches of invoice files for financial record keeping.

From my experience GPT-4o now outperforms traditional OCR for extracting text from documents, plus the LLM's reasoning ability means that specific data can be extracted and formats can be converted as desired. Traditional OCR services generally extract all text in the document and of course they extract it as-is without the ability to convert dates etc. Accounting software usually expects imported data to be in a specific format.

The tool can extract data from batches of mixed invoice types (PDF, Word, JPG, PNG) which is particularly useful for 'bricks and mortar' businesses who often have mixed format invoices such as scanned documents or photos of receipts. The data is extracted to a spreadsheet with columns that the user defines ready for the user's workflow or for importing into their accounting software.

The tool optimizes the document contents for best LLM understanding - which isn't necessarily what happens when you upload the documents to ChatGPT for example.

I've tried to make the software as easy to use as possible, so hopefully there isn't a learning curve involved - it is just completing our template by using natural language to describe the data you need extracting. Again, with traditional (non LLM) OCR tools there is usually a learning curve involved in using the software, a long set-up process, and a rigid invoice format expected.

If there are any business owners, bookkeepers or accountants who think the tool might be useful for them then I'm extremely open to working with you as an early user to onboard you with additional free credits so you can test out the software.

I've tried to keep this brief - it would be great to hear feedback or hear from anyone who thinks this might be useful for them!

Best regards,
David.
The challenge with silent data loss is your backups will eventually not have the data either - it will just be gone, silently.

After having that happen a few times (pre-ZFS), I started running periodic find | md5sum > log.txt type jobs and keeping archives.

It’s caught more than a few problems over the years, and allows manual double checking even when using things like ZFS. In particular, some tools/settings just aren’t sane to use to copy large data sets, and I only discovered that when… some of it didn’t make it to it’s destination.
Ask HN: Interesting Datasets/Datasources?
I'm about to participate in a Code Jam themed around Datascraping and APIs. Looking for some interesting datasets, and general project ideas.

Info: The competition will go for 5 days. I'll be in a group of ¬3 of junior-levels devs of above average competency.
Interesting, are you connected with them? what's the best channel to talk?
I answered as I did because the original question seems strangely broken. The premise upon which the question is asked is flawed.

What are goroutines, other than peculiarly broken coroutines? (Notwithstanding your point that go has a non-broken implementation of coroutines at experimental release stage).

It is true that Javascript has a goroutine-like facility for executing coroutines on a seperate thread. But there are languages (c++, c# at least) where coroutines can execute on separate threads without suffering from the broken-ness of goroutines.
Honestly that probably is the best alternative, but I still like to see the occasional high-signal post on twitter.
I'm not following your question-- unless you're confused and think this person is the GP commenter.
It is, and you’re welcome.

I’m actually taking a very componentized approach with my new Rust based firmware. Wherever it makes sense, I’m spinning things off into separate crates and will be publishing them (e.g. crates for the ADS124S08 and FDC1004 used in the All-Purpose Espresso Controller.

Also, everything is permissively licensed, so feel free to use whatever you want.
I mean, “scaling compute at inference” actually means “using an LLM agent system.” Haven’t we known that chains of agents can be useful for a while?
Steel has worked well for me as far as I’ve used it. It’s easy to get going and the partnership with Helix will surely give it a popularity boost over the next year or so.
But C++ is not a sane language because templates are Turing-complete, right?
How well does it deal with video/image content? My timeline occasionally jumpscares me with gore/graphic/political content.
"you can do anything not matter how horrible you feel"

but yea, shell is foremost a composition language/environment
It's not China collapsing but local brands eclipsing western ones.
Yes but that mostly includes those who've attached themselves to fashionable identity groups, and not just the much, much smaller number of those medically diagnosed, the latter of whom aren't just following a trend.
My go-to recommendation for single boiler vibratory pump machines has been Gaggiuino. I’m not sure I can still recommend it after their latest source-closing move, but it is absolutely still the best bang-for-the-buck upgrade for single boiler vibratory pump machines.
Now is a good time to spend with families and do work that feels satisfying. Much change is coming.
> In the end this comes down to a Reddit post from Henry's, one of the online compounding pharmacies

I disagree. Alexander mentions several other compounding pharmacies that will sell you the same medication if you present a subscription, so it's not just one place that's selling this stuff:

> HenryMeds is $297/month, Eden is $296, Mochi is $254...

You probably do not know this, but the fellow has been a psychiatrist for a decade or more. He's also aware of the business and regulatory side of the medical profession, so I expect the assertion that "But the law says that compounding pharmacies are allowed to step in and compete with Big Pharma during a shortage." is true and accurate.

The Reddit post claims a source for the chemicals, but the explanation about what compounding pharmacies are doing during times of medication supply shortage and how they can legally do it come from industry knowledge.

> But why do the terms of the license allow them to sell to anyone else?

Likely because the FDA permits compounding pharmacies to sell Big Pharma drugs when there's a shortage of them. If compounding pharmacies can get reliable access to the same chemicals that Big Pharma is selling, then the bottleneck is somewhere in Big Pharma's side of the machine (rather than the chemical "feedstock" production side), and the FDA has a strong interest in permitting entities that can take up the slack to do so.

I can't imagine the FDA has any interest at all in undermining its ability to solve drug shortages by enlisting secondary drug manufacturers, so I expect any "feedstock" production agreements must not restrict the ability for the "feedstock" producer to sell to secondary drug manufacturers when the FDA deems it necessary to permit them to sell products from that "feedstock".
Meritocracy is a myth.

The pandemic showed that or just look who are the richest people in the world.
"Download on Chrome".
OK, whatever, bye.
Oh I have backups myself. But parent is more or less talking about a 71TiB NAS for residential usage and being able to ignore the bit rot; in that context such a person probably wouldn't have backup.

Personnaly I have long since moved out of raid 5/6 into raid 1 or 10 with versionned backup, at some level of data raid 5/6 just isn't cutting it anymore in case anything goes slightly wrong.
I currently support many NAS servers in the 50TB - 2PB range, many of them being 10, 12, and up to 15 years old for some of them. Most of them still run with their original power supplies, motherboard and most of their original (HGST -- now WD -- UlstraStar) drives, though of course a few drives have failed for some of them (but not all).

2, 4, 8TB HGST UltraStar disks are particularly reliable. All of my desktop PCs currently hosts mirrors of 2009 vintage, 2 TB drives that I got when they're put out of service. I have heaps of spare, good 2 TB drives (and a few hundreds still running in production after all these years).

For some reason 14TB drives seem to have a much higher failure rate than Helium drives of all sizes. On a fleet of only about 40 14 TB drives, I had more failures than on a fleet of over 1000 12 and 16 TB.
My experience is: once you have enough different FSM and reducers that you need to abstract them, the 'sufficiently complicated' criterion is made.
We are going to support images in the next version we release (ETA 1 week), in terms of videos not sure how we'd be able to do that currently but constantly experimenting. Have you tried the extension yet?
It’s heavily, heavily recycled. Don’t be surprised if you don’t get similar accolades!
What's your preferred browser/medium?
Or as alternative title: "Finder explained all, Irish museum did nothing".
Gnome File’s is like 25 years behind Mac’s Finder. When Finder can now rename your screenshots based on content with the help of apple ai(!! Yup no more IMG_0027.jpg), Gnome is still struggling with basic navigation. Linux on desktop simply doesn’t work.
> Some of that is almost certainly confounded by the fact that many asthma medications - most notably salbutamol - are performance-enhancing drugs; an asthma diagnosis allows an athlete to take drugs under a therapeutic use exemption that would otherwise result in a ban.

I think all of it might be explained by this. At least to me it was always "common knowledge" that many athletes find a doctor willing to diagnose them with asthma so that they can get the medication.
You can put the actual definition on page 4, or you can make it easy for the reader and just say "hypermedia controls (like links and buttons)" the first time you mention the term in the abstract.
What I thought when the British claimed they can stole things because they preserved it better. This thing have preserved in this land for centuries, and who's to say that British Museum won't get nuked in the next 100 years?
https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/
sure, just watch Clueless
Podcast -> Transcription —> Text to speech.