skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean? You do know our oil supplies are finite, right?
But are there even "sysadmins" anymore?
You can get beaten up going into a men's bathroom with your phone out. It's a moot point - if people had any intention of disconnecting, then our tech businesses wouldn't be the only thing propping up the American economy. But the number of people leaving tech for good is regularly displaced by the number of new customers starting their lifelong addiction to technology. The median customer still doesn't care.

We live in a post-camera, post-surveillance world. I am entirely apathetic to the idea that Facebook could do a worse job than Apple or Google at protecting user privacy.
> See the failure of huge conglomerates like GE

GE was a successful company as a major conglomarate which made aircraft engines, railroad locomotives and light bulbs.

GE was a failure as a financialized "engine of financial performance" that was focused entirely on spinning off businesses, outsourcing, and speculating in the debt derivatives market.
Unveiling the Extent of VPN App Removals by Apple from the Russia App Store
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I've composed quite a few chiptunes in nitrotracker (DS Homebrew application), and as long as you have the stupid stylus, it's awesome. In my opinion, significantly better and infinitely more precise for productivity applications than a capacitive display. Also, I've owned multiple NDS consoles, and never scratched or deformed the touch screen on a single one of them. I'm working on a DS homebrew game right now actually!
Yes. Someone should research the effect of banning ads on the health of our planet.
If we have set var='hello world' then the syntax breaks.
I don't think there is any conceivable scenario in which Russia using nuclear weapons would lead to anything resembling "World War", except Russia launching a counter-value strike against continental US, which is just not happening. A high-altitude detonation is not a "World War".

Russia is a China's client state at this point, and China is very interested in keeping nukes taboo. They are so worried their own army is only allowed melee weapons in border skirmishes with India. There is no way a demonstrative breaking of the taboo would not get Putin's leash yanked, so even that remote possibility (that has nothing to do with WW3) is extremely improbable and would only hasten Russia's defeat. Unless, of course, our politicians use it as an excuse to abandon Ukraine.

Also, no one is "pushing Russia's back against the wall" in Ukraine, there are no M1A2s speeding to Moscow. Russia understands it perfectly well, too, denuding their borders with NATO to throw more soldiers into the meat grinder.

> the fact that we can't assume these people are acting rationally

I think this meme is largely a cop-out. A person just doesn't get to be a leader of a country by acting irrationally. They might interpret things differently or have different priorities, they might even put on an act of irrational buffoonery, but it's different from being "irrational". However, to see the rationality of their actions requires putting yourself in theirs shoes, which is uncomfortable and/or requires a deeper understanding, so it's easier to just write their behaviour as "irrational".

Putin is perfectly rational. The empty threats are working (as evidenced by this thread), there is no risk of a strategic exchange (because the actual signalling on the ground is one of business as usual), and Western politicians are successfully convincing their voters that they drag their feet because WW3, not because actually stopping the war (eg deploying a NATO peace keeping force) would incur a substantially higher domestic cost.

We don't really talk about potential North Korean aggression in WW3 terms, do we? We shouldn't do that in Russian case either.
> For Debian it was extremely painful. A few people probably burned out. Lots of people pointed to source-based distributions and said "they will have it very easy".

'easy' in a way "just tell the user to rebuild everything in one go"? :)
What is the point where the company is eyed as stable for retirement goals? That’s where the subjective interests override the companies objectives and the growth of the company changes towards preservative rather than dangerous; wherein capital risk intrinsically is.
Didn't Ancient Egypt basically build a civilization and cult of worship based entirely on cat memes, with a particular monument to prove it?
> How are people to learn about products and services that are available?

Remember Yellow Pages?

And if that is not good enough, perhaps you can opt in to an advertising service that shows you ads when you want to see them (as opposed to when they want to show them to you).
We are discussing AlphaChip in 2024, not AlphaGo from 2016. I don't know much about protein folding (there were some controversies there, but that's not relevant). Neither of these has been related to product claims.

As for "nobody can re-produce", no, that's not the definition. Imaginary things are not competitive advantage. They are exaggerating, and that's bad. But yeah, that's what companies do, you are right.
Not strictly related (because it doesn't have a working REPL yet) but may also find ClojureDart of interest.

https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart
Yeah I think this is a misreading of Orwell. Orwell wasn't afraid that the government would point a gun at the public's heads and the people would hate it. He was afraid that, when that happened, the people would love it.

Authoritarians are popular. The January 6th Capitol attack was perpetrated by people who wanted the state to exert itself violently, because they believed The State and The People were one and the same, and anyone who is a victim of The State was not truly part of The People to begin with.

The threat of Big Brother is not that he'll watch us, but that we will believe he is watching everyone else on our behalf. Police militarization and mass incarceration are already proof that Americans are willing to cede rights when they believe that only "outsiders" will suffer as a result.
And even when the output is perfect, it may be that the tool is helping you write the same thing a hundred times instead of abstracting it into a better library or helper function.

Search/Replace as a service.
>You will understand why when you try this with /bin/sh on Debian/Ubuntu.

Okay so just ... don't do that? You're meant to put /bin/bash in the shebang ... because it's a bash script. I don't understand this self-inflicted problem; obviously if you run a bash script with sh, it won't do what you want! They're different things! You may as well complain it won't run under /bin/python.
I used to be a happy user of `autossh` until 2023. I used it on Cygwin on Windows and was quite happy how reliably it set up my tunnels (upon tunnels) in a flaky corporate network.
`autossh` worked reliable compared to `ssh`s many timeout options.

I would still recommend it.
Exactly this. Specifically, how much error rates increased as you moved towards the treeline. The "am I looking straight up?" check was a washer hanging from the pipe by a piece of string.
Just to clarify a few things. First, there is no AI, only LLMs. Second, no LLM understands anything at all, never mind human language. Third, no LLM operates anywhere near to perfection at any task. It is still unrealistic science fiction.
I’m trying to find sites to compare energy costs for the average home across the world but coming up short.

I pay £230/month in Scotland (it’s colder up here so we will pay more to heat homes than people in e.g England).

That includes all electricity (including 8k miles/year EV charging) and all (gas) heating. Is that expensive compared to Europe?
The U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years
I used his PhonoPaper software to do this...
https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU
Tell HN: Is this AI doom loop? I thought o1-preview was amazing, until it wasn't
I get that we expect more from the tools we use. But honestly.. I'm so fed up with AI at this point.

Every new model I've used, I thought it was amazing for a few days. Until... it stopped being useful and hallucinating and giving me non-working and terrible code. I feel like I always start giving it simple/rote problems, and when I'm fed up with something difficult I really wish I could turn to an AI and have it help me..

The latest of this fad is o1-preview. At first, I thought wow. This thing is amazing. It could "come up" with answers for me, and for the first time in many months I felt like I was going to use AI tools again.

Until...

Yesterday I was struggling with some event handler hell-mode (lots of event synchronization on a very complex UI) on a web app I'm working on. It is pretty complex, and one thing I do appreciate about these AI tools is that I have a chance to describe my issue in detail which helps me understand my own problem better. But, I was stuck and I gave as much detail as possible.

I ran out of credits trying to see if the AI could help me (I hate JS, sorry) but it kept giving me, in order:

1. Code that didn't work at all.

2. Code that didn't work at all.

3. Completely new code that didn't work at all.

4. The previous code that didn't work at all.

5. Completely new code that didn't work at all.

6. The same code that didn't work at all, with phantom variables this time that weren't used..

7. Completely new code that didn't work at all, again with phantom variables.

I gave up at this point, and decided f this, I will do it myself.

I woke up the next morning (today), had my morning coffee and exercised a bit, and just took out a couple sheets of paper and diagrammed my problem out and solved it myself. It took me about 40 minutes to get a completely working solution.

Why does every AI model inevitably lead to this? Am I expecting too much?

What I have found it is great for, and what I am using in my own product, is generating database queries. It seems great for this.

But for solving actual, complicated problem? I think that is something humans will always have to do.

When people hype up that the AI solved something for them, I wonder were they lazy like me working with something complex, or were they lazy and didn't even try on something simple?
The research facility in the article is operated by the ESA and the DLR (the German space agency), not the European Union. The member states overlap but are nonetheless different; the UK is a member of the ESA but not the EU, for instance. That said, the EU and the ESA do work together on some things[1].

As for future lunar missions, the ESA doesn't yet have any one rocket powerful enough to facilitate a manned mission to the Moon. The third stage of NASA's Saturn V had a mass of about 90 tonnes in Earth orbit prior to going to the Moon[2]; the ESA's most powerful rocket, Ariane 64, can only lift about 20 tonnes into orbit[3]. A modern lunar lander could be much lighter than the Apollo-era equipment was, but this would be a relatively minor factor compared to the mass of the fuel. The ESA could of course launch a mission to the Moon with four or five Ariane 64 rockets, assembling the full lunar spacecraft in Earth orbit.

[1]: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_and_the_EU

[2]: http://www.braeunig.us/space/specs/saturn.htm

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_6
> to someone

... I'd rather not pay for the "service" they're providing.
I think a short-term driver towards local models is tooling. As difficult as reliably getting useful output can be, and as fragile as the resulting product can be, you want assurances of stability that don't exist with a model in someone else's cloud.

I'm not an expert on anything, though.
Is there some rule that CTA can’t have a station in a building with a bar? Because most of the loop subway stations skirt that pretty close.

There is a bar in the pedway between the lake redline stop and the Washington blue line stop for instance. And the merchandise mart has several bars and a brown line stop.

I’d guess that the CTA doesn’t have a presence at Union Station because of the way we carved up regional transit, not because of done alcohol policy.
I don't have any formal data to prove this available without losing anonymity and probably getting sued by my employer but the introduction of them at my organisation correlates directly to a measurable rise in bugs and incidents. From causal analysis, the tools themselves are not directly responsible as such despite having limited veracity, but people trust them and do not do their jobs properly. There is also a mystique around them being the solution for all validation processes which leads to suboptimal attention at the validation stage on the hope that some vendor we already have is going to magically make a problem go away like they said they would at the last conference. I figure at this point the gain might be a negative on a social and human perspective the moment the idea was commercialised.

Urgh. I can't wait to retire.
I think you misunderstand the screening to hiring pipeline. Companies have automated the process for their efficiency. When they get hundreds or thousands of applicants for every job they don’t need to bother acknowledging every applicant.

To make it worse people frequently find job postings through aggregators such as LinkedIn, or the many sites that scrape other sites. Job postings don’t get updated in real-time so you have to expect you will often see stale job postings — filled or closed already but still cached across the internet. Since job boards look better if they have lots of listings you can guess how diligently they curate.

I think taking “ghosting” personally and reading some kind of ethical breach into it wastes time and energy. If you submit applications online — perhaps the least effective job hunting strategy — you should expect a low hit rate, similar to sending bulk email. Use a better job hunting strategy rather than getting upset about the automated pipeline you feed.

I keep my own stress and frustration down by accepting that things work the way they work, not the way I think they should work. Interpreting impersonal annoyances such as ghosting as “indecent” or something to get upset about will just drain me without changing the reality.
Show HN: Open-source app builder for comfy workflows
Hey, we’ve been working on an open-source project built on top of Comfy for the last few weeks. It is still very much a work in progress, but I think it is at a place where it could start to be useful. The idea is that you can turn a workflow into a web app with an easy-to-use UI.

Currently, it should work with any workflows that take images and text as input and return images. We are aiming to add video support over the next few days.

Feedback and contributions are more than welcome!
Yes. Also casts from phones and tablets. 100 times a second for LG and 2 times a second for Samsung, according to the paper.
> Alden is best known for buying up local newspapers like The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and The Baltimore Sun, cutting staff, and selling some of their downtown buildings.

How does that work?

I mean... were the companies sold for less than the realestate was worth?
You should watch some Russian media to see the stuff they say. I think you'd gain some appreciation for our side.
Also: It's not just about what task can/can't can't be done, but what other frameworks you/can't build around the executor to detect errors and handle exceptional cases.
> They are full of the sketchiest people of every city.

Partly because the bus station opened up in the 50s and remains in the sketchiest part of the city. There was rarely any real motivation to move them.

I used to take the bus several times a year between LA and Carson City NV. A 12 hour bus ride that would take me from scenic downtown LA and eventually drop me off in Carson City at a closed bus station at 5 in the morning. The driver was able to sell tickets to folks that were just standing by the highway at designated stops in the middle of the desert on the way up. We used to stop in Mojave for dinner at the cafe next to the bus shack^H^H^H^H^Hstation. I'd pick up cool Space Shuttle on 747 postcards while I was there.

Overall the folks weren't too awful on that bus, but it surely made for a long night.
Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the app" (2011)
a/k/a It is all a clever scam. True, or true?
> The airlines are critical to a big country like the US when our passenger rail networks are so slow, so the government supports it.

How does this follow? If they're critical and highly subsidized, that implies the value that people get out of tickets is much higher than what they're paying, so people should be willing to pay much higher prices if subsidies are ended.
A year or so ago, for google devices anyway.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/OPNsenseFirewall/comments/12h1hh7/i...
Man the reporting on this ordeal has been so awful and so representative of how media misleads the public into thinking things are worse than they actually are.

It isn't a rescue mission, it's a regular crew rotation mission with modifications to account for the extra crew left on the station, and those crew are 'stuck' only in the sense that they're expected to stay there as part of their duties and it would be unnecessarily disruptive to operations to bring them back early. Starliner was still deemed to be safe enough to be the emergency escape option while it was docked, then the emergency escape option became seats setup in the cargo portion of the Crew-8 capsule.
I believe V6 is a reordering of V1, not V4. V4 is random aside from the bits specifying version & variant, ~6/7 bits.
It’s extra work, but I don’t know that it is necessarily insane. If libc was under the complete control of the kernel developers, then that gives other languages fewer options. Go famously (or infamously) uses certain syscalls without going through libc, for example. Sometimes the choices made for the C library just aren’t compatible with other languages. Frankly the C library, as it exists today, is insane. Maybe the solution is to split it in half: one for the syscalls and another for things like strings and environment variables and locales and all the other junk.
The correct solution here is to pick one of the following options:

1) Write a bash script and put /bin/bash in your shebang

2) Write a POSIX shell script and integrate checkbashisms into your editor.

Neither is more correct than the other.
Thank you for saying this, I was hoping somebody would bring class into it. Intercity bus lines aren’t subsidized because poor people ride buses between cities, and as a society we prefer not to subsidize poor people’s physical mobility. Physical mobility is a prerequisite for social mobility, after all.
If you can change the whole system from signed to unsigned, why not change to 64-bit?
That also doesn’t account for the CTA Union Transit center which is a bus terminus across the street from Union Station (and next to an outdoor pavilion with 2 bars).
Took a bus to Atlantic City, people played music and smoked in the bus.

If no one drives me, I will never go back.
The misaligned menu bar text in the screenshots is triggering me.
https://archive.ph/jXoFt
Guy who hasn't even shipped a landing page in its life definitely knows more than the leader of the largest AI company and the richest man in the world combined.

The delusion.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

Oil is made over millions of years and we’re on track to deplete it in under 200 years. We’ll never completely deplete it because the oil that’s left will be uneconomical to extract, but that’s functionally the same thing.
The third paragraph says following, which means it's not suitable solution to build whole system:

When building a package, ROOT should not be used to satisfy the required dependencies on libraries, headers files etc. Instead, the files on the build system should be specified using /.
Efficient, groundbreaking hydrogen-powered combustion engine
That's what SLOG is for if the writes are synchronous or if you have many small files/ want to optimize the metadata speed look at the metadata special device, which can also store small files of configurable size.

ZFS of course has its limits too. But in my experience I feel much more confident (re)configuring it. You can tune the real world performance well enough especially if you can utilize some of the advanced features of ZFS like snapshots/ bookmarks + zfs-send/recv for backups. Because with LVM/ XFS you can certainly hack something together which will work pretty reliably too but with ZFS it's all integrated and well tested (because it is a common use case).
> Google: "Don't Be Evil" is our motto!

> Also Google: "Let's do all the evil things..." ~ heavily "paraphrased" ;)

My "tongue-in-cheek point" is that it seems like corporations beyond a certain point of "filthy-richness" just do as they please, and say what they please, and mostly neither thing has to agree with the other, nor does either one need affect their profits "bottom line" all that seriously much. Most of your typical "mega-corps" are really only able to be affected much by the laws and legal system, which they've been increasingly "capturing" in various ways so that happens very rarely anymore these days, and when it does it's most often a "slap on the wrist" and "don't do that!" sorta thing, followed by more business-as-usual.

You know the old worry about the "paperclip production maximizer AI" eating everything to create paperclips? That's kinda where we're pretty-much already at with mega-corps. They're so utterly laser-focused on maximizing to extract every last dime of profit out of everything that they're gonna end up literally consuming all matter in the universe if they don't just destroy us all in the process of trying to get there.
Styling the Good Ol' Button Element
Flixbus/Greyhound will do as they have done in other cities, and rent a large parking lot, plop a trailer house and a few port-a-potties and call it a station.
Hah, I'm amazed FlixBus got that big. Their original model is Uber but for buses, i.e. sell tickets for bus rides, and instead of owning buses, they pay bus companies to drive the routes for them (also having their buses be covered in their corporate vinyl wrap).

Somewhat relatedly, I was in London several years ago, and their buses had a logo that said "Arriva - a DB [Deutsche Bahn] company". I found it funny that the Germans managed to "rule" over England (well, London - well, their bus network) after all.
Ask HN: Understanding basic computer architecture via emulation?
I have a very basic understanding of how computers work. I’m a full stack developer but didn’t do a CS degree.

I want to have a deeper understanding of CPUs, GPUs, how it all connects.

I want to learn by building chip emulators in Go

What’s a good resource/s to get started?
They have and they are more than accurate enough even if you're not a native speaker.

It's just unwilling to learn/change.

Saw an Audi today which is same physical size and price range to a Tesla model 3.
It was down right funny how much useless crap it has on the dashboard, how bad it looks and how claustrophobic it feels compared to model 3.