skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was there from 2013-2016. I got to use a few of the products that would eventually turn into Foundary. I've actually hung out with the author a couple of times (I was on the AirBus deployment as well as in the building right next to the healthcare team for a while, though we didn't actually interact on any deployments).

Going for operation use cases was a huge win. Once novel data existed in the system (rather than just transforms of existing data), it became a lot harder to rip out. That could be as simple as having someone merge records so you know that two companies are actually the same.

Foundry was a really interesting case because it was basically an enterprise ETL platform before those became very popular + a team of people who helped you get data into it. One of the genius things about the business model was that it operated like a consultancy, but built contracts like a product company. That allowed them to charge based on the value provided rather than hours worked, then pull the best lessons from the deployment back into the main product.
Thanks for the link. Peter Thiel did not seem terrified at all. Surprised by the question? Maybe. It took him some time to find his words but I think the final point he made is valid (and he also had a bit of humor. Kinda the opposite of terrified)
Maybe it's not perfect, but it's definitely usable. I would not call it a stumbling block.
I had so many Micro Machines, and I've been wondering the same thing about their fate for years. I thought they were so much cooler than Matchbox or Hot Wheels. There were tons of Micro Machine airplanes too!
> and i don't see anything wrong with that at all.

Read my comments on that post. I never said there was anything wrong with that.

IMO we should stop double taxing dividend income.

> a lot of people believe they're somehow entitled to the wealth that

Do not count me among those.
The reason they call asylum seekers illegal is because most asylum seekers are immigrating for improved economic opportunities, not because they are otherwise fleeing persecution from their government. If you want to immigrate somewhere for work you need to get in line for the correct visa. I would expect many legal immigrants here on HN would know this struggle. My parents did when they immigrated to the US.

The problem is that the asylum seekers are committing fraud if they are immigrating for economic reasons, and that fraud is being encouraged by the government and NGOs. JD vance, Elon, and Trump have talked about this several times but the media usually interrupts then or make a straw man argument about racism instead of covering the real issue, which is that these immigrants are being brought in as low wage, temporary laborers to undercut American workers.
Last I checked, about three years ago, any place selling kindles online (UK/Ireland) had small-print next to them stating that an internet connection and additional fee was required to remove ads.
You need to read more carefully. The claim was not that there is no NIL in Scheme, the claim was that Scheme does not have a "NIL in the sense that other Lisps like CL or Elisp have". There is a NIL is Scheme, but it's just a symbol like any other with no privileged status. Also, in colloquial use, the word "nil" is often taken to be a synonym for "the empty list" even when talking about Scheme.
Does it look like a bank of America login page and not belong to BOA oh look its crime. Not sure? Did officer friendly call to investigate? Give him the contact details right off and take action only pending litigation.

If you take only unambiguously correct actions it will be harder for the government to push for much less friendly options later.
Apple Worked with China's BYD on Long-Range EV Battery
I'm a daily user on an android phone, as it's the only FOSS eBook reader still being maintained that has a feature set that includes white text on black background. It's pretty good, though it has some bugs, every so often an update breaks things and a new update fixing them is released soon, so I avoid updating if my version works fine for me. And since it's aimed at e ink readers it's UI is a little clunky for a regular mobile device. Great reader, renders everything you can think of, although every now and then with specific books it can get a little buggy. I haven't looked into the bugs to file reports.
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My simple conception is that evolution loves local maxima.
> You never know if there might be some voles in there

I like to think I always know if there might be some voles in my boxes and cabinets.
Oversight, yes mostly. The issue is that the stack is very complex, and who watches/pays the watchers?
DeArrow – Reduce sensationalism in YouTube titles and thumbnails
Pedantic clarification. My Kindle Fire in 2011 had color. This is specifically about an eInk display Kindle? The article talks about the "the first-ever color Kindle" without specifying that it is eInk.
https://archive.ph/bPns5
FTC rule is doomed to failure.

I'm working with a state lawmaker in my state to try to get a law to this effect passed, but I'm asking him to write into the law an individual cause of action. In other words, I don't want people to have to wait for the state attorney general to take notice and decide to act (or the FTC in the case of this article). I want the affected user to be able to go to small claims court and sue for $500 or $1000 or whatever. I believe this will be much more effective as it forces the abuser to have to defend themself in court all over the place (at significant cost) or lose all over the place (at significant cost) or stop abusing.
If you confine yourself to self-help and “business” books you’re going to run out of things to read.
Those are some great pros! I have also found a lot of very good Kindle Unlimited books.
I definitely don't understand drum machines, I guess, because I'd have assumed sampling them was about as useful as sampling a sample, i.e. not at all useful.

I suppose, then, these would be analog drum machines and the sampling is for convenient use in a digital workflow?
For what it's worth, pretty much all ceiling fans work this way. They are brushless and both the stator and the rotor use copper windings instead of permanent magnets. The trick here is that ceiling fans get the necessary voltage switching for free since they run on AC. With DC you're going to have to have do that with electronic switching.
Ballistic Moments of Weightlessness
This brings me to a second point: The truth is rarely self-evident in politics.

Actually, the truth often does not even exist. It is true that releasing green house gases into the atmosphere in large quantities will change the climate, but there is no truth for the question what we should do in response as that is a matter of [personal] preferences.
I refer to that as 'credentialism'. It's a terrible social ill.
I am begging you to pick up some fiction instead.
I try not to read too much more non-fiction than fiction. A few non-fiction books have had a great impact on me, but on the whole I've gotten a lot more from the fiction. Not only limiting yourself to non-fiction but further narrowing your scope to self-help books that can be effectively condensed into short summaries is a huge blunder, in my opinion.
Electronic money accounts and ability to transfer money. People shouldn’t need to deposit their money at a bank or non governmental entity.

For example, USPS could provide a constitutionally protected, inalienable right (not even if you go to prison) to an electronic money account, and you can send and receive via an email address or phone number. USPS because there are already physical USPS offices all over the country.

No need for government to lend people money via credit card equivalents. Just obviate checking accounts at banks. Banks don’t have a purpose when money is just entries in a database anyway.

Keeping money “safe” is no longer a physical thing to do. If a lender wants incentivize people to deposit money with them, then they have to compete by offering attractive interest rates. But then it will come with the risk of the lender losing your money, like any other investment.
While the press lumps it all together as "AI", you have to differentiate LLMs (driven by big tech and big money) from unrelated image/video types of generative models and approaches like diffusion, NeRF, Gaussian splatting, etc, which have their roots in academia.
I needed to hear this: I have an ever-growing list of books I want to read, with topics ranging from the Mossad, to drug trafficking in Southeast Asia, to how to build better habits, to political theory, and some history.

A few days ago, I tried but failed to remember the name of a (main) character from Narcotopia.

When I'm reading, I'm so immersed in the story that I feel I'm living it. It brings me immense pleasure. But, to get the most out of it, I think I have to switch to studying them in detail, taking notes, etc.

Of course, I'll still read for pleasure, but my reading will have to slow down so I can squeeze more out of it. I hope some other people on HN see this comment and consider it too.
Is sending everything encrypted trusting, or not trusting, the communication channel.
We need a documentary.
Yeah, that was my thought too - law of diminishing returns is at play.

Expanding one's area of literary interest is key here. Look at what Bill Gates does with his quarterly reading list - so many different genres, topics, etc. Keeps things fresh at the very least!
Yeah before the Kindle I had a Sony E-Reader which worked fine for a long time, until it eventually ran into battery problems, after which I got my Kindle.

Its battery has degraded over time, but even at half the original length its not a problem.
Uber considered potential acquisition of Expedia
The last image is a pair of pictures of Needle Tower and Needle Tower II, which you can search for if the image doesn't load in the article for you.
As a user of VMs, I would value memory safety because hypervisor exploits are nasty and patching is higher risk.
Love that you threw them in. I’ve found this funny as an adult in my life— you may spend time collecting xyz, but suddenly letting it go can be easy in certain situations.
Thanks for your kind response! Are you familiar with the Replication Crisis? What happens when most of the "hypothesis" being challenged can't be rightly replicated in the first place?

And what happens when the primary means of funding is attached the volume of papers and not the quality or impact, as is what I believe to be the case generally here in the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
This whole thread started because you implied this study was worthless. Would be interested to hear your criteria.
> No country in the world could ignore militarily what Hezbollah has done over the last year.

Only Israel reacts to terrorism with a genocidal rampage. No other country behaves like this. And it only behaves like this because it has been enabled by their allies, and the international community, who consistently let their crimes go unpunished, including but not limited to their settlement policy.

On the flip side, no colonized people in the world (except maybe Tibet) would ignore what Israel has done over the last decades. Decades of colonial occupation usually results in resistance and that resistance usually includes terrorism.

Israel’s behavior is not normal, by any measure, Hezbollah or Hamas’ behavior on the other hand is consistent with resistance group of colonized peoples.
I’ve had an unfortunately opposite experience with UEVR. Seems very hard / impossible to get games working correctly without fiddling with the settings for hours. Not sure what I am doing wrong honestly.
This sounds like something Karl Pilkington would come up with.
For the love of god, stop pretending that there aren't large factions within our country that are clearly deeply attached to blatant lies.

The following are all objective facts, that are disputed because they're inconvenient to some billionaires and the tribes of sheep that follow them:

* Vaccines are not bad for you
* Climate change is real
* Pollution is bad, and some types of pollution are really bad
* Trump lost in 2020

That many many people think the above are just opinions refutes the point that we're not in "post-truth"
I had a very ambivalent reaction to this blog post. Most importantly, I find the author's relationship to reading quite odd. Basically, all he talks about is reading self-help books. Not really any reading for pleasure, nor does he discuss reading to learn about other non-self-help related topics that might interest him, just for learning's sake.

So he seems to approach reading primarily from a "how is this going to improve my life", usually from some sort of productivity-enhancing, "always be hustling" mindset. So I'm not surprised at all that he's found diminishing returns in this endeavor.

Don't mean to sound too harsh, but I actually did read his entire post and throughout the whole thing I kept thinking "Maybe try chilling TF out and just reading something you enjoy."
So a buying opportunity? If the global market is fine and business fundamentals are fine this might be one of the fabled “buy low” opportunities.
Are there any comparisons with other browsers (e.g. Chrome)? How many compilers do other browsers have, how much does it take and how fast are binaries produced?

I would love to see how Firefox compares now with the other big competitors.
is there a gold to big mac index to track the valuation drift?
Traditionally this would have been written in something like C, which, while conventional, is hardly solid in security-sensitive contexts like this one.
I'm no expert here.
You mention "either side" as if the light came from both the left and the right. But I think the light would be coming along a circle all around the sun depending on exact position.

So the trick here is that if you are at the focus point, you get all that light in a small area "for free". But if you try to catch the light on the way, you now need to catch eveywhere in a whole massive circle, which is basically impossible, so you only catch a minuscule amount of the light. And then have to deal with interferometry.
If you want to use this method, you're basically going to require one spacecraft per target and a decade of lead time for a very short-duration observation. This is not necessarily a deal-breaker; Meaningful scientific inquiry would just require we mass produce them.

We already sabotage ourselves in astronomy by refraining from mass production approaches for political reasons.

There is no practical amount of fuel that can get you to 500AU on a simple trajectory. What seems to be the best option for setting massive vehicles on a solar escape is a sequence that looks something like:

* Launching to Jupiter propulsively

* Cancelling out most solar-orbital velocity there using a gravity assist in order to dive down into a sun-skimming orbit

* Burning through a large solid state rocket kick stage while at close approach to the sun from behind a heat shield. The Oberth Maneuver.

* (optional) unfurling an electric sail or solar sail once the rocket has finished as you're speeding away from Sol

Together that gets you the required ~100AU/year escape for a mass fraction that is tractable for our civilization.
It depends on what you are trying to optimize for. There is a benefit to punning the empty list and boolean false. It lets you shorten (not (null x)) to just x, and that is a common enough idiom that it actually makes a difference in real code. And there is a benefit to being able to say or type "nil" instead of "the empty list" because "nil" is shorter. But yeah, for modern production code, I agree that stricter is better, all else being equal.
> to instead just focus on preventing incursions into Israel.

So after Hamas invaded Israel, massacred over a thousand civilians (and they don't have the "collateral damage" excuse they just gruesomely raped and murdered people because they were apparently subhuman...) and kidnapped hundreds of others, Israel should have just said "aw-shucks.. well they won't get us next time". Really?

That would have actually been worse than the US government doing nothing after 9/11 besides introducing stricter TSA checks.

Now one might legitimately argue whether the reactions in either were necessarily that effective. But not doing anything would have been insanely absurd. You just can't except any non entirely dysfunctional government to behave that way.

It's a horrible situation.. but any suggestion or proposed alternative that wouldn't result in the destruction or significant weakening of Hamas is just not particularly useful (long-term at least).
The "right to privacy" includes the right to medical privacy and privacy over your body. It's not the government's concern to dictate what and how you can treat your own body. The natural extension being that it violates the 14th Amendment for the government to surveil intimate medical decisions.

The "modern era" part comes from the majority opinion of Roe, which notes that abortion was viewed in a much better light when the constitution was written. Anti-abortion sentiment is a fairly modern phenomenon.

“It is thus apparent that at common law, at the time of the adoption of our Constitution, and throughout the major portion of the 19th century, abortion was viewed with less disfavor than under most American statutes currently in effect.”
French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites
It pre processes your photo library while charging
One could argue the same applies to the ongoing israel-hamas war too. The ideal social network should build consensus not encourage polarization.
They actually prefer to jump in a box because to them, it's a safe space to hide and watch. Cats look for spaces like that because their wild ancestors (and feral cats now) are small enough that they are both predators and prey.
Companies are less shy about paying for recurring licenses because it's easier for them. No need to worry about keeping track of a perpetual license that a former employee purchased or having too many unused seats for a network license. Once a year, the license admin pays the bill (and potentially updates the network licenses) and it's all good until next year. License payments can be billed to individual departments. Perpetual licenses could be considered capital assets that depreciate where as a recurring license is an expense. This could make a huge difference on the company books. Additionally you can't sell a perpetual license when you don't need it anymore but you can just stop paying for a recurring license.
Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking Safari users, Chrome users, or just any users. It’s totally broken. They have no way of measuring the false positives. Website owners are paying for it in lost revenue. And poor users who lose access for no fault of their own. Until some C-level exec at a BigTech randomly gets blocked and makes noise. But even then, Cloudflare will probably just whitelist that specific domain/IP. It is very interesting how I have never been blocked when trying to access Cloudflare itself, only blocked on their customer’s sites.
That is a joke.
I don't understand why turning a simple loop into a 'mindbend' is considered good. The downfall of programming is complexity, if you're getting your mind blown by a loop how are you going to do the rest of the program?
Yep. 1-2 years is a judge. The official median is 7 years, which afaict is being quite generous. And agreed, it's gotten a lot harder even for folks most would say we should be fighting to attract.

One of the best things the US can do for its economy IMO is get back to being better at brain drain, and helping naturalize the people ready to work hard in general. They make jobs and help drive the American spirit because they basically have to. That's a tough message for people in struggling industries & towns, but it's hard to make a competitive & growing American economy when the job makers and doers are instead growing the economies of competing countries.

As a job maker, successful scientist, OSS supporter, & thankful refugee granted citizenship, immigration has become simultaneously one of the most American things to me... and one of the most bizarre.
This is a really dumb argument to make in today's day and age and lays out multiple false equivalencies. Due to the way social media and the web works today, it's now possible to have massive populations that live literally side-by-side with each other that live in entirely different realities from each other. Case in point - FEMA is having difficulty delivering aid in parts of the hurricane affected south because people are convinced they're going to take their houses or something. Do you actually think it has always been this bad?

Yes, propaganda and misinformation have always been there. Yes, truth is often subjective. However, things like "will drinking a bottle of soy sauce kill me" or "should I use horse deworming meds to treat a very serious viral disease" have pretty clear answers, and that's not what we see today.
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> Making your money from youtube is its own hell too.

There are some interesting details on that in this video [1] from YouTuber Samurai Guitarist. The video is on the various ways one might make money as a guitarist (but much of it is not specific to guitar) and how effective they may be.

Covered are local gigging, mid level touring guitarist, top level touring guitarist, busking, cruise ship musician, studio musician, private lesson teacher, university teacher, endorsement deals, and content creator.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch7t9KGcOPk
I don't think either of those would work with a single 2D vector image.
It was a joke, rust is under a normal very permissive set of open source licenses (MIT or Apache2 at the users option)
OK, so your proposed alternative is to give a key to a trusted third party (TTP). But how do you authenticate to that TTP?
I think all aquatic mammals do this - they don't have much choice since they need to surface to breathe, so need to be semi-awake all the time.
> I'm not being funny and I mean no disrespect.

> But cheaters are cunts. They're cunts now, they've always been cunts.

> And the only thing that's going to change is they're going to become bigger cunts.

> Maybe have some more cunt kids.

That statement is really shows how big of a dick you are, like come on man, it's just a game. Without learning game cheats and writing trojans and botnets since 14, although I'm kind of clean now, I wouldn't have mastered C++, C# and Java together and later get deep into computer science (and cybersecurity to some extent).
You're not obligated to buy property every time you move. I've lived in twelve places in four different countries over the past decade and didn't buy any of them.
Ask HN: Why do cars use turning wheels instead of independent motor control?
I was watching a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/6jzG-BMannc?si=GcuFJ0MvVKH-rDgL&t=189) showing an RC car with 4 electric motors, each individually controlled. The car turns left or right by speeding up or slowing down the motors on one side, instead of using traditional turning wheels.

This made me wonder: why don't we see real cars using this method?