skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was designing an ebook reader, the display would look like a book's display. None of the ereaders I know of do this.

1. Have a background image that looks like paper. No, a solid white or tan background doesn't look like paper. Paper has imperfections in it, dirt, a grain, and you can faintly see the other side of the page. Except for the latter, this is easy to achieve. Simply scan a bunch of blank pages, and use the scan for backgrounds!

2. No, having a background with a fake coffee stain ring doesn't work, because it's the same on every page. You need a few dozen pages, each with a different stain.

3. A printed page is imperfect. The letters can be uneven and blotchy. No, don't have a blotchy font. Have maybe 20 slightly different versions of the same font, and randomly select a glyph from one of them.

4. Books open to two pages. Not one. Two. The ereader should show two pages side by side, like a book.

5. Book fonts tend to look better than ereader fonts, though I cannot explain why.

But most of all, the sterile perfection of the ereader is like a drummer who is too perfect. Introduce error in it, it makes the music easier on the ears, and the books more pleasant to read.
Perhaps, but all I really care about is having a complied, strongly-typed language with a fully-featured modern stdlib and good cross-compilation support that includes wasm. If that comes with an automatic admission to the Google Fanboy Club, then sign me up.

What other well-established languages do we have that meet this criteria? I know .net is a strong contender but do we have other options?
> There's no evidence that it makes "finding a job more difficult".

The unemployment rate in Europe is 6% vs. 4% in the US. I find that some evidence that it's at least a little more difficult.
Japan also suffers from severe population decline (I think it has been declining for 15 years straight). Aka the old guard let their assets go the hard way.
Are you aware of the vast disparity of wealth among American families? On the order of 100k for white families, 10k for black families. Wealth being passed down family trees ensures immigrants and people who are worse off now will remain priced out.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/black-wealth-is-increasin...
> To think that employers are just randomly firing people for no reason has never struck me as being even remotely true.

Of course not. They fire people with different taste in music, or who don't listen enthusiastically to their complaints about other people, or who refuse them sexual favours, or...
You could include the formulae as jpg's, not html.
I've always worked in places that either didn't have an IC track, due to being too small, or where the top of the IC track reported directly to higher levels of management.

I assume the idea was that if you're a Principal Engineer reporting to the VP of Engineering, and the team X Engineering Manager also reports to the VP of Engineering, then the two of you are in balance.
Camme for the evolutionary stuff (wrote mh PhD on it).

Left having leaned that you can switch Tail Call Optimisation on or off in Ruby code.
So you still have renters paying property taxes.

Renters are the controlling party. Landlords are the restricted party- they can not rent to other people or use the house themselves.
How to Move Multiple Ions in Two Dimensions
"I will keep housing prices high" is a popular campaign promise.
Is it possible there has been a leak of SpaceX IP given the article notes previous clones (possibly just visually similar) of SpaceX vehicles? I recall that there was some evidence that Chinese fighter jets that look like American fighter jets actually were in fact using leaked information.
Inspired by social media, Gen Z is increasingly drawn to the skilled trades
Inheritance is tough. Death tax takes a good chunk.
Isn't it always the same story? FBI targets some mentally unstable, near mentally challenged dude, feeds him some propaganda, gives him ideas and encourages him to do some terrorist stuff, then they arrest him claiming huge victory? The guy literally wouldn't be able to do any of that stuff if it wasn't for undercover agents pushing him to do it. "he ordered a plastic explosive composition known as C-4 and other explosives from the undercover employee" etc.
You can ship an ebook as a pdf file! Then no rendering problems.
I thought I would have a house in my 20s. Then I thought maybe by the time I was in my 30s. Now I’m in my 30s and I have no idea when I’ll buy a house, if ever.
It's only somewhat worth it?

Japan has reasonable real estate and yet around 10% is in Tokyo proper, nearly 30% in the greater metropolis. Less than half own their homes.

This study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427512... from 2023 shows that they're suffering similar issues of intergenerational wealth transfer when it comes to owning homes, specifically if your parents don't help you - you're unlikely to be able to get on the ladder.

There are a ton of homes that are not claimed but purchasing them, their value, the land value are all - as you know - quite different from the US/AUS/India where the value goes up. Different from the UK where you own the home, but lease the land etc.
So depressing. So, so, so.
Visa sells money for money, skimming off a percentage.

CPUs spends cycles for features (doing useful work). Enabling frame pointers skims off a percentage of the cycles. But it's the impact on useful work that matters, not how many cycles you lose. The cycles are just a means to an end. So x% of cycles is fundamentally incomparable to x% of money.
hey! other co-founder here — yeah, it does go through our backend systems for processing. We also store it in our db so people can iterate on it further in our web app. At the moment, no designs created via our extension are actually featured in our public catalog, but we do also support a private option for those folks who need private designs!
Maybe it's population decline instead of severe population increase beyond what society can sustain. It's like the infinite economical growth didn't account for finite resources.
Rent + Utilities + Internet: 250

Groceries: 150

Ultimate Frisbee, Tennis, Cycling, Outdoor Gym: 0 (maybe 15 for equipment amortization)

Healthcare: 0 (well europe)

Travel + Fun: 150

No kids and GF also works, but most people even with kids live very well with a 10 to 20K net income a year here.

I have over 200k income but I just would not know how to spend more without just throwing money out of the window as most stuff is basically free. But then this is also not US but a European City
>Wouldn't it be more like $0.07/GB for BDXL?

Whoops, thanks for pointing out the math error; I've fixed it.

>If one got particularly lucky with HDD failure rates perhaps they'd survive running that long in RAID but one would expect some replacements over such a long period.

I don't think so: I'm not talking about keeping these drives spinning for 50 years, but rather in cold storage, just as we'd do with the BDXL discs.

>Some other things to consider are at high capacities all HDDs use helium now, which slowly leaks (WD/HGST have a SMART stat about the level*) and the cost of running drives/associated computers/maintenance over a long span vs the up front cost of passive writable media.

Helium leakage is an issue I didn't think of, and I don't know how sitting in cold storage for 50 years would affect this. But again, the costs of running drives/maintenance/etc. should be zero, because I'm comparing apples to apples. No one would seriously propose a massive array of BDXL drives with BDXL discs continuously available, so likewise I'm proposing just keeping 10+TB HDDs in cold storage.
Don't confuse free market and capitalism. They are operated at same time, but capitalism certainly does not have free market as end goal, it would much prefer to have total monopoly.
> Invariably this is an ideal and does not match up in reality.

No, this does indeed match reality. At least for those who work with microservices. This is microservices 101. It's baffling how this is even being argued.

We have industry behemoths building their whole development experience around this fact. Look at Microsoft. They even went to the extents of supporting Connected Services in Visual Studio 2022. Why on earth do you believe one of the most basic traits of backend development is unreal?

> I work at ~50 ish employee company and we have layers of dependencies between at least 6 or 7 various microservices.

Irrelevant. Each service has dependencies and consumers. When you need to run an instance of one of those services locally, you point it to it's dependencies and you unplug it from it's consumers. Done. This is not rocket science.
...“This is, once again, a persistent reminder that supply chain attacks are alive and well.”

For NPM, github, etc, we're long past being able to just trust anything online, whether it's malign or just disinformation.

I remember the first time I looked at server logs and nearly soiled myself with all the port scanning, and login hacks. Now, I'm all "meh - scriptkiddies..."

I guess curation has to replace blind trust.
There's a record of people reaching altered states of consciousness for millenia. However besides drugs the methods aren't widely known or recognised by the scientific community.

So by definition anything that produces an effect not readily accepted by 'science' is pseudo-science. It doesn't make it wrong it just means consensus hasn't caught up with it.

Maybe it's CSF that's pushed up the spine, maybe it's energy. But multiple traditions practice some form of moving awareness up the spine combined with gentle physical contraction as a primary means of creating the conditions for entering mystical states. Those same traditions describe how this method energises the endocrine system. Furthermore the effects of doing this are now documented in scientific papers (search pubmed for kundalini).

None of this negates the validity of the methods. They require firsthand experience for any real benefit, and more study to understand the exact processes at work.
Who doesn't have stock markets? Ok, there's a list [1], and Cuba and North Korea are there, but China has several exchanges.

Who doesn't have political yard signs? I'd be surprised if China doesn't have them; they just might not be so varied.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_without_a_...
That would also interest me
I don’t understand what you mean by capacity.
How can you do that?
How are these words even in contradiction to each other?
I don't think they do post training on the base models, e.g. https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B
Imagine being outraged your grandparents managed to actually retire in a forum that very nearly worships a couple of guys that could purchase Utah. I'd consider reviewing the holdings of the 780ish billionaires currently residing in the US before declaring a generational issue.
No, what you are describing is diagram to code ^_^
RAR was even better for multi-volume archives.
Shortcuts is pretty hard to use but it is possible to POST. Here's one of my shortcuts https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/81229c80b3ec4c32bec866e2b8f...
The daemon and the users are only to run a build when that is necessary. It might seem invasive but it works out pretty well.
A lot of never-purchased-home-before people have money but still don't buy a home. Why? What happens that causes people who have money and can pay to finally buy a home?
ha. edit window is over and I'll have to live with that ;)
Good point. If you consider the size of your dependency graph as a risk, especially for languages that encourage large dependency graphs like JS and Rust, then Go has a very clear advantage.
Cheaper alternative spares are often available for nearly all the iRobot range on Ali Express.

There is a slight difference in parts to the iRoomba ones e.g. the paper filters are visually a little different, or the rubber rollers have a slight change to the dimple designs. They still perform the same imho.

As for the app, just use something like PiHole or another DNS service to block IoT devices, or specific IP ranges or domains. Your hoover will still function just as well.

Far too much built in obsolesence and social media shills serving upgrade culture these days.

Buy. Use. Service til it dies.
My main takeaway from that series was the anecdotes about the communes living in geodesic domes who operated under a hierarchy-less system but all of them allegedly imploded due to a common mechanism:

In a community that has no explicit rules, implicit rules emerge. Power accumulates quietly to the people who know the rules and can bend them often. In those situations the powerless are even more vulnerable to the powerful because of the lack of an explicit power structure with rules that would usually require checks and balances in order for people to opt into the system.
I bought a Mac in April, 1984. It was one of the first 50k Apple made and the first computer I owned. Inflation adjusted it is still the most expensive personal computer I have bought with my own money. I kept it and have it sitting on a shelf in my office.
Do you know the actual rates, what value the estate must be at for it to kick in, and in which states? Are you aware of spousal transfers and other mechanisms to reduce or avoid it?

Most people get very worried about “death tax”, until they do the numbers on their own estate and realise either it mostly doesn’t apply to them or it’s marginal.

In the UK this is often used as a major campaign point but the number of estates actually subject to it is quite small.
All the applause. Thank you for posting a comprehensive review of the information in the post (and then accurate guess of what was to come)
>not the square casing, which, while somewhat flexible in 8” and 5¼” sizes, is not really floppy, and absolutely not a disk, for any of them.

Not true. The square casing plus the circular thing inside was absolutely a "disk". But it was not a "disc". The thing inside was a "disc".
Estate taxes do not kick in until $13 million in assets.
yes a lot of people love them, but nobody's actually coming up with anything I can't do in python...
Do all of that using a PRNG seeded for the book and the reader's ID. So your copy of the book is the same every time, but different from everybody else's.
As long as those “grunts” get a better reward than their teammates, that would be… fair?
? Please clarify. Estate tax does not kick in until $12 million.

If you mean "the cost of end of life health care", sure, but anyone inheriting more than $12M can afford the taxes.
>each blog post helps me think more deeply

The most on point quote I know about this idea: "I don't write to say what I think, but to know what I think." (E. Berl)

Writing can help to become less confused, but being confused can incite to write a lot (J. Joubert: "The supremely false mind is the one that never senses when it goes astray.").
Previously (18 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42043878
"I will keep house prices rising" is an even better one, although its often funny that every party (in my country at least) wants to send that message but can't say it openly.

The simple fact is homeowners are a large voting block often with the most ability to vote. Gotta keep them happy or its electoral suicide.
Take advantage of it how? They could get a new domain more easily.
Show HN: Solve Complex Math Problems with OCR Scan and Snip
I created an AI tool that allows you to scan any question on a webpage and get that answer immediately.

- Scan all questions on a webpage
- accurately answer high level questions in regards to a degree/subject (project management)
- Inputs graphs, diagrams, and shapes
- Tested with Calculus, Algebra, differential equations, etc..

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fadapffollpaenablii...
Rust & Java also come to mind (yes, Java can be AOT compiled). Erlang too if you want more fearless concurrency if you’re OK with JIT languages. There’s lots of alternatives to Go in its space but it does have mindshare and there’s nothing wrong with staying on the well trodden path even if it’s full of if err != nil instead of sane error chaining built into the language.
> Whatever your thoughts on US policy, I guarantee you'll enjoy China's or Russia's even less.

The global politics rendition of "nobody else would ever love you."
Enshittification strikes again. In this case, fees and costs go down by virtue of being pushed out into the future as even higher costs as a result of lack of fees being paid now. Someone should make an encyclopedia or reference doc detailing all the different and specific ways Enshittification manifests. Bonus points if they tie it into Socialism/Communism because I'd bet there is a high degree of overlap between the two in terms of failure modes.
In my 20s I was open to the idea that the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65 was potentially what we would call today a cognitohazard, due to its engineered catchiness and utter lack of content, even compared to other pop songs of the era.
Google Claims World First as AI Finds 0-Day Security Vulnerability
> people you're addressing likely believe that the US can achieve its defense goals without turning over matters of life and death to LLMs or image recognition systems

I think this is generous. There are a lot of folks at universities and in Silicon Valley who oppose co-operating with the military in any capacity.
Is there a methodology (for abovementioned software) so that managers' wrongdoing is not hidden? I'm bothered that information flow from level 1 to 3 and 3 to 1 are filtered by level 2 like electronic communication didnt exist.
In the event of a invasion TMSC in Taiwan will cease to function. "TMSC and its Dutch chip machine supplier ASML have made joint plans to remotely disable the machines in the event of an invasion."

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/21/chinese-invasion-of-taiwan-ts...
>It's amazing (in a bad way) how storage sucked in the 90s, early 2000s
>Floppy technology sucked even back then.

No, not "even": floppy technology sucked in the 90s, but it absolutely did NOT suck in the 80s. Floppies were extremely, even ridiculously reliable back in the 80s, and into the early 90s. They totally went to shit in the mid-to-late 90s because the quality of both the media and the drives went down the toilet.
It's not clear from that page nor the GitHub repo whether they are using decimal floating point underneath? It's one of the nicer things when using a calculator over something like Python.
The real tricky part is the Ebionite Gospel(s), which didn't survive. Because they were Jewish Christians, claiming to carry on the beliefs and practices that James and Peter did after Jesus. Which would have been more like the Essene Judaism than Pauline Christianity. So it depends on whether one thinks Paul got his gospel from Peter & James, or by revelation.
CUDA is not merely software control. Let's face it: it's tied to their architecture and evolves with their architecture. Ignore whatever patent and software copyright you are talking about, they are simply the best at implementing this programming model.

If you port CUDA over and want high performance, you must build very similar GPUs. And can you beat NVIDIA on building their own GPU architecture without much space for innovation?

And yes, this does mean that NVIDIA themselves is also facing increasingly absurd constraints and after a few generations CUDA as a programming model may not be sustainable any more.
Yes, most people get to this insight and gives it back to their kids so they can get a head start in life. And for those that don't, there are enough movies for the kids/youth showing exactly how it works.
same. It has confidence. I can't think of any recent modern brand that has the confidence to use those multiple basic colors in its logo.

Love to see it.
Depends on how hard you want it. I spent more than a decade between the start of the search for proper property and buy decision. I even managed to sign my mortgage agreement in last weeks of cheap money in eurozone. It’s a long game unless you have a case full of cash.
What prevents them from working at a job where they are liked by others?

How does "you cannot be fired on the spot for no reason" prevent them?
Show HN: Apache Wayang supports now Kafka
I think that's fair. I have noticed people going out of the way in the time immediately preceding peer reviews to be nice and avoid confrontation to a point where it feels very artificial. There's definitely added stress around those times as well. Where I am we do two reviews a year. In a previous company we did one peer review a year. Both places are very peer review centric and I generally prefer doing this once a year. The process overall is fairly lightweight- you don't spend more than a few hours on it unless you're a manager.
Yes yes and yes.

And spousal transfers are hardly generational (most of the time).
No, I don't think it is really expensive in terms of hardware. It's probably only a hundred million dollars for renting computing resources.

The problem rather, is that there are actually some difficulties with training very large LLMs still, and then there's data and data curation; and no one has reproduced something like O-1 (I think I know how O-1 works, but I haven't confirmed it), so I actually think it's knowledge about LLM training that is the difficulty.
> Everyone has interacted with a government office with an absolutely worthless employee who is just sitting around counting down the days to retirement where they can continue getting taxpayer money for doing nothing.

Everyone who has interacted with a large company has met a more highly-paid negative-productivity employee than even the worst government worker.

> Just because there's a process to get rid of someone doesn't mean it will ever happen.

If managers aren't competent or motivated enough to follow a process, I sure as hell don't want those same managers firing people just on their say-so.

> This is a ploy to make it harder to fire bad programmers.

No, this is about making it harder for management to fire programmers who do pesky things like informing other employees of their rights, or refusing to work unpaid hours.
> As a conscientious objector, yes. If moral and ethical considerations don't separate us from our opponents, what are we even fighting for

I guess I'm a little sour about conscientious objection to war in general--versus specific conflicts--while comfortably living in and profiting from a society bathed in the peace that the credible threat of violence affords.

The irony of this being that instead of a balanced targeting AI we'll get one mostly built by those who wouldn't consider conscientious objection in any case.
Considering the average life expectancy, inheriting a house from your parents won't happen much sooner than 56.
As far as I remember the Zip drives came closest... but were held back by being proprietary and therefore relatively expensive. And of course all of these were eventually replaced by USB sticks.
Somewhere around 12 usd for one diner I believe. You can also get a monthly subscription.
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Magnesium is also a mineral that is under supplied by multivitamins due to the bulk required. This is why I take a magnesium supplement on top of a multivitamin. Given the state of vegetables today it seems wise and I feel much better with it.
This is a massive policy failure.
I agree. I’m just pointing out the reason why those other professions need to carefully time their strikes to avoid adversely affecting innocent third parties. In the case of the NYT the only people affected are the leadership so they can time their strike for maximum impact without regard for impact on third parties.
I did not understand why they called it "sophisticated". Did I miss something?
Copernicus was in the same position.

:)
There was an article recently about 'haunted' domains with a bad history, this seems to be one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951131
Does this mean that the average buyers are the same people for 15 years?

Those who are 56 now, were 42 in 2010.