skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah unfortunately I am not sure about the Apple Watch. On iOS I personally use BookPlayer [0] and find it easy to transfer mp3 files via USB. I think there are cloud sync options as well. Been very happy with that if you are looking for other mobile options.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookplayer/id1138219998
Not the best book, but the maddest was IQ84 by Haruki Murakami. It’s a wild story and lead me down a path to read several of his other books.
If there has been over-enthusiastic use of reader macros, I think we will have to admit that the over-enthusiastic developer is no longer writing Common Lisp code.

Those reader macros have morphed the language into a new bespoke language. So it is then natural for a new developer to face a steep learning curve to learn that new bespoke language before they can make sense of the code.

I'm not condoning overuse of macros. I'd hate to be working with such code too. I'm only stating that Common Lisp is that language that can be programmed to become a different language. They call it a "programmable programming language" for a reason.
I have a portable AM/FM/WB radio in case of earthquakes or other disasters (it's the Wirecutter recommended one).

This regulation seems somewhat sensible but I'm not sure what the point is if it interferes with EV motors.
A web framework doesn't need GC, it just needs some ability to express the idea that per-request code should get its own allocator, with knowledge of said allocator propagating down through function calls.

Jai solves this by having a "context", which includes an "allocator" member by default, whose default value is a standard heap allocator. You can override this allocator member to point to your own allocator, so it's easy and straightforward to have the main server procedure allocate a pool of memory, create a new context with a new allocator that uses this pool of memory, then "push" this context for the duration of the request resolution, then free (or mark for reuse) the memory pool afterward.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
Do you have any comments on how to best absorb Ficciones? I read it recently and struggled through the whole book, needless to say, I don't comprehend why many hold that book on such a high pedestal.
If you self hosted minio on their SX nodes you could prob get close to half
I'm very confident this just isn't possible. If you want something with 4G/5G, you just cannot get open hardware. Without open hardware this is a moot point. There are a number of projects where you can use RISC-V hardware with 2G and even 3G open source hardware, but calling them equivalent in any way to an Android or iPhone is a... stretch.

I think the issue is the patents with the hardware needs to run out, but by then 6G or 7G will be out and you'll have the same problem. Anything with DMA that isn't closed source cannot be trusted. I'll die on that hill.

Even with projects like PinePhone, the best they can do is a privacy switch that turns off the modem. It's just not good enough to take it seriously.
One has to wonder if we are truly aware. How much is AI ruining the environment via its constant demands for electricity and water? I'd expect more harms will come to light way down the line, as was true with big oil, tobacco, etc.
I was going to comment basically this. Everything you could possibly want to know about how LI systems work is documented by the vendors online. It’s really just network interfaces that forward intercepted traffic to aggregators.

The thing about CSPs is their core business is edge routing. A majority of their core assets are going to be internet connected routers, and you’d actually be able to collect more data by owning some of those. The additional information you can get from LI (and the reason you often need a clearance to work on LI systems) is information about who law enforcement are running intercepts on.

Also, LI is just a regulatory cost centre for CSPs. It’s hilarious (or scary, depending on your perspective) how poorly those systems are maintained, and how often the break.
> languages which are constantly changing

They change because they are used.
Spotify is mostly Java, with some Scala and Node.
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These guys are cheaper than the simple cheap machines that automatically strip insulation from wires.
The media is also part of the corrupt system though. They also have an agenda, use clickbait, and focus on the topics that maximize conversions.
its crazy to grant or not grant copyright based on what tool you used
I remember seeing a talk by Gary Ruvkun years ago at UC San Diego. He was complaining about how he got rejected from UCSD med school and just about every other med school he applied to.

Kudos to him now!
And yet I'm sure that vast majority of Cybertrucks are purchased using financing.
Playing with a WebDev project in Node.js but jobs with Rails.

Node makes things like OAuth trivial with the mix of Express and Passport, something that took me two weeks in Rails. But man does Rails make Sequelize look childish by comparison.
> I guess I just think more highly of my fellow humans.

As an article of faith, yes. But I don't see what this adds to the discussion.
BLISS-11 didn't do bounds-checking either. VMS was my favorite operating system until I got access to a Unix. People chose Unix because it was better—and not just by a little. Handicapping Unix wouldn't have improved the alternative systems.
Ruby 3.4.0 Preview2 Released
Who is "we"? Are you referring to the handful of tech company employees who control LLM development? Do they have the right values? What are the right values?
It has everything to do with tech an innovation. Nothing shifts the balance of power in a society like technological advancement. How could you possibly think a multi trillion dollar industry could avoid politics? You can't just bury your head in the sand.
Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07055

The model is stock llama, fine tuned with a set of long documents to encourage longer outputs.

Most of the action seems to happen in an agent.
I’m gonna do one with “ Can You Get Root With Only my bare hands?”
I don't use Rails, but those Solid Adapters look cool. I think people would be surprised how long a RDBMS good enough before moving to more specialized solutions. Just jumping to best of class solutions for cache, pub/sub, full-text search, vector search, document storage, etc. adds too much operational complexity if you can get by just using a single database.
You're free to have your own perspective of course. I would suggest you re-read my post
AWS: $0.024/GB/month (S3 standard, first 50 TB/month)

GCP: $0.023/GB/month (standard storage, beyond 5 GB free limit)

Azure: $0.019/GB/month (hot, first 50 TB/month)

Cloudflare: $0.015/GB/month (beyond 10 GB free limit)

Scaleway: ~$0.013/GB/month (single-zone)

Backblaze: $0.006/GB/month

Hetzner: ~$5.49/month + $0.0054/GB/month (beyond 1TB free limit)

Egress costs vary though.
> The pages, originally captured in 1990, “have recently been rescanned,” Trinity College Library writes, using state-of-the-art imaging technology. These new digital images offer the most accurate high-resolution images to date, providing an experience second only to viewing the book in person.”
those old books are still good though. There's only new syntax for latest ruby versions.
Are you in California? The requirement is to either a bond $35k or to carry a liability policy that covers at least $30k for death and injury and $5k for property damage, matching the deposit requirement. That will increase to $75k in 2025, which still seems far too low.
Show HN: Trocatalent – Building a skill exchange platform for solopreneurs
Hi there,

I'm developing Trocatalent (https://www.trocatalent.com), a platform aimed at enabling solopreneurs to exchange skills without monetary transactions. The idea was born from my own experiences as a solo founder, realizing how challenging it can be to access diverse skills on a bootstrap budget.

Current features:
1. Skill categorization system: We've developed a comprehensive taxonomy of business-related skills, allowing for precise matching.
2. Basic matching algorithm: Currently uses skill categories, user-reported expertise levels, and project requirements to suggest potential matches.
3. Reputation system: Users rate each other post-exchange, building a trust score over time.
4. Escrow-inspired exchange process: To ensure fair exchanges, we've implemented a simple system where both parties must mark tasks as complete before the exchange is finalized.

Tech stack:
- Backend: Node.js with Express
- Frontend: React with Next.js
- Database: Mongodb

Challenges and future plans:
1. Improving the matching algorithm: We're exploring machine learning techniques to enhance match quality based on successful past exchanges.
2. Implementing a blockchain-inspired ledger: To create an immutable record of skill exchanges and reputation scores.
3. Scaling concerns: As the user base grows, we need to ensure the platform can handle increased matching complexity.
4. Community building: Developing features to foster a supportive community of solopreneurs.
5. Verification system: Working on ways to verify user skills without creating excessive barriers to entry.

We're in the early stages and actively seeking feedback. Some questions for the HN community:

1. As a solopreneur or developer, what features would make this platform valuable to you?
2. Any suggestions on tackling the challenge of fair skill valuation in non-monetary exchanges?
3. Thoughts on implementing a decentralized aspect to the platform? Is blockchain overkill for our use case?
4. Ideas on how to validate skills effectively without resorting to traditional certifications?

I'm excited to hear your thoughts and open to any questions about the development process or the challenges we're facing. Your insights could really shape the future of Trocatalent.
I have used many query builders and experienced both the upsides and the painful downsides. The by far best one I have used has been JOOQ (Lukas Eder is a genius who really understands SQL well) but even that often causes more pain than it helps. Compared to the issues caused by them I in most cases prefer string interpolation of SQL.
Just double checking: are you hiring from Brazil as well? Or is t remote in Europe or remote in EU?
There is the stupid underlying assumption that most people have cars, which is not true in the city where I live (only half of households do).

I do have an emergency AM/FM/WB radio at home that I take on camping trips.
If the test is an insincere answer to a question that may tell me a lot about your worldview, then I'm fine failing it. I would rather know genuine people.
Mostly, but not always, legal auto insurance requirements don't strictly require insurance. If you can afford a cybertruck, you can probably afford to post a $75,000 bond or deposit with the California DMV (increases from $35k on Jan 1, 2025). Assuming you can't get liability coverage elsewhere.

For mortgage insurance, my understanding is if you don't carry property insurance, the lender can obtain lender placed insurance at your cost. That comes from a different, more expensive, market than direct homeowner insurance, but I believe it includes guaranteed issuance. But, if that falls through, I expect the lenders will stop lending, because they can't sell to fannie mae if it has no property coverage.
> Majority of hi-tech companies with listed stock

Isn't that kinda circular? Generally speaking, companies only list their stock when they grow large. The vast majority of web dev is not happening in those kinds of companies.
The Leopard Hunts in Darkness by Wilbur Smith gave me complete perspective of my political surroundings. The youth series called Fritz Deelman was futuristic and fantastic entertainment while thought provoking.
Well you can have a look at the rules and see for yourself, they are not that weird but very complicated. But I assume that if it would be possible, Tesla would try to get it approved.

> most of the traditional American big pickups like Dodge RAM are type approved - why not a Cybertruck then?

I'd guess pedestrian safety would be one of the main issues.
Exactly. Silicon Valley used to be countercultural, an alternative to Corporate America. Yes, there was always a money-making emphasis, and there’s a long history of less-than-ethical practices, but this was countered by many positive aspects of the Valley, such as the paying-it-forward ethos and the feeling that technology matters. There’s a reason Xerox PARC was placed in Palo Alto and not in New England. There’s a reason why many of personal computing’s pioneers had a countercultural vibe.

Today Silicon Valley is the establishment. It seems less like the nerd mecca it used to be (remember Weird Stuff?) and is now a place that is much more obsessed with money. When a basic 1960s suburban tract house within a reasonable commute from work costs more than $2 million, it’s hard not to be obsessed with money. There are still good people and awesome technologies in Silicon Valley, which is one of the main reasons I’ve decided to stay in the Bay Area, but it seems like some companies in Silicon Valley have gone absolutely mercenary, and they have eroded the goodwill the area had as recently as a decade ago.

But I think this is part of the natural evolution of industry. The same could be said about the history of the railroad and car industries in America. Think of how essential telecommunications and electricity are to modern society, yet I’ve yet to meet a person who loves Comcast and PG&E.
Sure, ideally you should never borrow money to purchase a depreciating asset, but the reality is most people need a car and they don't have the cash to buy it outright.

I actually do follow this rule for myself, the last car I bought was $4k, paid cash. I'd never spend 5 figures on a car, let alone 6.
BC has been around for a while though, wouldn't the spike have occurred earlier?
None of the examples the parent gave are even in the same plane of existence as actually replacing Adobe products in a professional context. (Blender has decent inroads in indie game development, and marginal inroads in other 3D contexts, e.g., as a C4D alternative, the rest are so irrelevant they might as well not exist.)
I remember when Verizon phone booths in the US started accepting the credit cards, for a while they would accept any 16-digit number with a valid IIN that passed the Luhn check.
Still a ways to go before it hits Florida, however. It probably won't be Cat 5 at landfall.
It's an operational definition: if you claim AI is not intelligent because it cannot do X, then you necessarily exclude a whole lot of humans who also can't do X.

There used to be a strident faction that would say "but AI can't produce original art/a symphony/novel/etc". My answer was usually (correctly), "neither can you."
Same, I didn't like reading much at all but Kurt Vonnegut really connected with me.
I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, yes you probably don't want to go through life "testing" people in this way as I'm sure there are some unintended consequences of doing so and you probably end up with kind of a boring circle of people around you. On the other hand, I would never want to be friends with someone who thinks someone is an idiot because they liked a particular book. "You liked this thing I don't like and therefore I want nothing to do with you" is extremely childish. So it would seem to have exactly the intended effect in this case.
Classification of Finite Simple Groups
Something like a radix trie can give you the in-order traversal and range query aspect, while still keeping some of the nice properties of HAMTs. In practice though (for my domain, scientific floating point data), I have found that b-trees and simple sorted arrays with binary search (sadly) outperform radix tries and cleverer solutions.
I don’t have an answer to this, I’m just here to say that Italian fascist economic policy was explicitly corporatist, promoting big, sector-wide industry conglomerates, criminalizing strikes etc. It's no coincidence that large business moguls (today in the form of corporations) have strong preference towards fascist leaning politics.
I think pricing differs by retailer too. Could you do the same thing for different countries (Canada, UK, etc)?
Not clear if the rise in rates is more frequent screening or actually systemic.
> To be fair, this isn’t difficult. Voter rolls are public. We usually think of likely voters, but it’s also possible to identify likely non-voters.

I agree, this is fairly easy to do. Signature checking will catch some of it, but the bar is a bit lower. The real problem making this work is detectability. Once someone legitimately tries to vote and gets told they already did, it's going to get noticed quickly.

And as you say, the value at an individual vote level is close to zero, which makes the risk/reward ratio pretty terrible.
> “With the goal of completing the decommissioning in 30 to 40 years [...]"

Can't decide if it's a success of nuclear or a failure. Leaning towards success:

- ~900 tons of super duper radioactive material is more or less safely sitting in steel enclosures

- we're (as a global civilization) slowly but surely figuring out how to move the hazardous waste to a safer storage, and it may only (ahem) take a couple generations

- OTOH another big earthquake/tsunami can potentially wash it all away and release clumps of radioactive and poisonous metals to the environment...?
The “Slow-Start” section [1] of Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking also has a good explanation for why 14 KB is typically the size of the initial congestion window.

[1]: https://hpbn.co/building-blocks-of-tcp/#slow-start
I mean, if something as traditional as simple clustering is AI, then so is linear regression and Excel Sheets have been doing AI/ML for the past 2 decades.

At some point we just have to stop with the breathless hype. I'm sure labelling it as AI gets more clicks and exposure so I know exactly why they do it. Still, it's annoying.
In jewish philosophy, Maimonides (nearly 1000 years ago) wrote that basically anything we can comprehend as human beings, all we know is that isn't god, as god is by definition beyond our ability to comprehend.

A child's belief in religion should not be the same as an adults (both in a metaphysical sense, as well as in what the religion brings and contributes to making the world a better place). Now one might hope that there's a smooth path from one childlike understanding to one's more mature adult understanding (at least if one values the religion), but that's not always the case, or not readily available to all due to the way they are taught and raised (and again, to those who value religion), that can be a shame.

My "rational" mind has a very difficult time accepting the concept of "spacetime" being limited (not that the limits might ever matter to me in practice), but that doesn't change my belief in its truism.

On the flip side, when it comes to religion, there are many things as an adult I cannot know if they are "really true" or not (though as a child it was much simpler to believe in them being simply true), but I can believe that operating as if they are true, can allow me to operate in the world in a manner that can hopefully makes the world a better place. Do I know if the metaphysical stuff is "real" or not? The honest answer is no. Do I feel acting ("belief" some might say) as if they are true, can make the world a better place? yes. Do I also know that others who believe can make the world a worse place? yep. But guess what, plenty of people have made the world a worse place trying to replace religion as well, so I don't think its so much that religion should be blamed, but people in general, they will always looks for an excuse, and religion can be a simple excuse, but to paraphrase the voltaire's famous statement of "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him", if religion didn't provide the excuses people make for making the world a worse place, people would have invented other reasons for it.
If you compare, say, C++03 and C++14, it's also technically true that "there's only new syntax", but in practice this often means that hacks that used to be idiomatic before are frowned upon now.
> Edit: tests and trick questions with people you just met is an ineffective way to navigate the world. My 2c

Then it sounds like you won't ask someone their favorite book and write them off entirely if they say it's a raunchy romance novel about industrialists?
The fundamental issue is that they have to generate SQL at the end of the day, so there’s a hard limit on how much you can really change. I don’t know why every database treats SQL as the only API, even Postgres. Even the extension systems, which have the opportunity to hook directly into DB internals (and has no standardization to bother meeting) end up with SQL as the API to do actual db operations.
Cloud Atlas would be my choice for fiction. The novel covers an incredible range of interesting ideas and great writing.

Antifragile for nonfiction. It really changed the way I think about how both the natural world and human institutions function.
As someone who has used Hetzner in one form or another for close to two decades, I frankly find this behaviour shocking.

Besides the normal support channels, try reaching out on their subreddit and also post in the customer forum - to make this more public.

If they don't want your business, fine. But giving you only a couple of weeks to move 12 PB is unreasonable.
I am guessing you have never met someone who actually did like "Atlas Shrugged".

The fact is, some people deserve harsh judgement. Including people who lie to someone and think they are morally superior for doing so.
Total pollution of ownership would likely be lower with new hardware vs old when you take into account the higher power usage vs lower performance.
> Subsistence hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers were put out of work by cheaper agriculture systems, and some of those unemployed realized they could support themselves by reading books to other people,

The replacement of hunter-gatherers by farming is a change that took centuries to take hold. Nobody lost their ability to feed their family because their ability to hunt and gather was automated away. Ironically, the move away from hunter/gatherer subsistence took free time away (for things like storytelling) instead of adding to it, in exchange for greater reliability in their sustenance.

The loss of entire swaths of employment is a fairly new development. As is the lack of safety nets (US Centric for obvious reasons) for those who become injured or otherwise unable to sustain themselves.
Deadhouse Gates
I know the rules very well, special cars are kind of my hobby. There is nothing that couldn't be minimally adjusted to meet European regulations. Pedestrian safety is definitely not an issue. There are much more unsafe vehicles than Cybertruck in that regard.

Every model Tesla introduced was US only first few years. People individually imported the first hundreds of cars during these initial years. Tesla then introduced an European version of the car with technically minimal adjustments.
If you can afford an $80,000 Cybertruck I would expect you can afford to trade it in for a vehicle you can insure.
I've struggled through 2 or 3 Marquez books in Spanish (I'm far from fluent), and have read all of them in English. Gregory Rabassa was an excellent translator and ,from my unexpert point of view, captured the essence of Marquez' work.

Translated literature is interesting and I've recently read a few differing views on the "best" translations of Homer.

I've resigned myself that I simply must trust the masses in some places and I won't be learning Russian to read Tolstoy authentically.
as i lay dying by william faulkner