skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been known to happen that airplanes that were unrecoverable, recovered after the pilot ejected due to the massive shift in centre of gravity and the ejection forces. Like the cornfield bomber: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber

So just the fact that it continued flying isn't really enough to justify that it was a wrong decision. Like all aviation matters it requires a comprehensive analysis.
Qwant is just burning French tax payer money in an effort to "compete".
It could be that mass perception of crime levels is higher than it actually is (statistics say it has only gotten better over the years), possibly due to the number of negative media stories produced all day every day.

Keep in mind that the "majority of people" are not informed skeptics like you and me, they can barely use a computer and largely believe what biased mass media tells them to believe.

At least that's how I feel about it, you don't have to agree.
Just leaving a comment so I can find and read this thread later…
As someone that's written a whole lot of code parsing both complex XML and JSON, I'd go with a more restrictive JSON format over a more idiomatically correct and elegant (from the data perspective) XML format any day. Complex XML sucks for storing structured data unless it's as restrictive as a JSON document, and then...

The simple use case for XML is always easy, but then it always ends up looking like this:

<step>prepare fruit
<step>prepare <ing variety"bartlet anjou comice">pear slices</ing> from a <ing state="unprepped">pear</ing>
<step>wash</step>
<step>trim
<step>remove stem</step>
<step>peel</step>
</step>
<step>
<step thickness=".25mm">slice</step>
</step>
</step>
<step>...

Plain text is great and all as a display format but it sucks even more than XML to parse as a data format.

You can make JSON that's just as stupid as XML but especially if you have people hand-writing XML, it invites a lot of complexity for a little more expressiveness. If you need to, you can always have flatter XML markup in JSON fields to avoid the large scale recursive structural insanity when parsing.
On my laptop the same thing happens, but only with one particular power supply connected. The noise itself definitely comes from the laptop though.
Depending on your level of price sensitivity, you can always use a Thunderbolt SSD, an external RAID array of SSDs, or just get the 10 Gigabit Ethernet upgrade and hook into local NAS.
The reference in the Q to e^i0 and the unit circle makes me feel like a fruitful avenue may be to pursue the fact that e^ix is cosx + i sinx and avoid anything to do with critical points. Doubly so when you recall e^i(pi) + 1 = 0 has similarity to the Q expression. e ... circles ... it has to be this path? But a) being a middle aged math newbie (thanks mathacademy.com!) I'm not yet au fait with proofs, and b) no reference to this on the stackexchange page, I am likely off track, but curious what the better avenue is if it isn't that. It almost feels like the Q is asking for a proof of the euler formula. But I am rather naive at this level of math, for now :-)
> I just saw a mention about how a homework help company called Chegg has had their stock drop 99% because everyone is just using ChatGPT.

I don’t understand, this seems like the opposite of an example of “hype” causing damage. These customers found a better/cheaper alternative.
I'm a bootstrapped founder (with some prior experience zero-to-one-ing startups before), and have spent the best part of this year trying to find PMF for two of my bootstrapped products.

At least for the style of businesses i'm building, my biggest learning is quite simply that finding PMF can not be shortcutted (trust me, I've tried).

For me, finding PMF has meant:
- Spending as much time with potential customers as possible (on calls, in their office etc). Learn/Listen
- Constantly playing with positioning/messaging/feature-set based on insights you're learning.
- Building out a pilot/prototype and seeing if customers will pre-pay to be in a early pilot group

The great news is, most of this can be done without writing a single line of code.

Hope that's helpful
I use nix-darwin on an M2 as a daily driver. It works great! A few quirks you need to go with Brew (mostly graphical applications), but my setup is almost identical between my NixOS and my nix-darwin setups other than that (and some OS toggles).
The MSX standard was originally developed in Japan, with the cooperation of Microsoft in the US-its OS was a port of MS-DOS to 8-bit Z80 systems, Tim Paterson the original developer of MS-DOS did the port-he’d left Microsoft by this point to found his own company, so he did it at his new company under contract to Microsoft. MSX systems
were also quite popular in Europe-Phillips was also a major manufacturer of them. Like other 8-bit machines, you could get an add-on board or cartridge to add Kanji support. First generation MSX machines, some higher-end models had Kanji built-in, lower-end models you needed to buy the expansion. Later generations of Japanese MSX machines, Kanji support was standard even on the entry models. Machines were also differentiated by how many Kanji they supported (JIS1 provided the ~3000 most commonly used Kanji, JIS2 added another ~1000 which were less commonly used).

There were other Japanese machines which found a foothold in some overseas markets. IBM Japan developed a modified version of the PCjr, the PC JX, for the Japanese market. IBM ended up also selling the JX to schools in Australia and New Zealand (minus the Kanji circuitry), and many bought them (I remember using one at school when I was 9 or 10.)

Similarly, Fujitsu’s cloned IBM mainframes, the FACOM machines, were popular with Australian businesses and governments in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. They were also sold in other markets, but in other markets were generally rebadged (or even manufactured under license) by vendors such as Amdahl in the US and Siemens in Europe, whereas in Australia they were sold directly by Fujitsu and generally closer to what was sold in Japan.
> [Embedded image] Satiety per calorie? I get it, you're retarded.

I must've missed the part where this aspect got addressed.
Don't forget those thousands of ships and aircraft started across the channel the night before, only to be turned back by bad weather and having to reset and do it again the next night!
I don't think this will happen whilst GPUs are so expensive and constrained.

You need to be extremely well capitalised and have a good answer about how to compete against the cloud providers as well as OpenAI, Anthropic etc.
Well we already use all sorts of third parties that have all of our data. Do you think Microsoft should be trusted more than OpenAI? Honest question.
I've already seen enough of the drive-by PRs of hallucinated bugfixes and people putting comments through an LLM to "make them more professional" while also changing the meaning completely, to have been completely turned off the idea of using LLMs for anything that requires precision and reliability.

On the other hand I think arts and entertainment is where AI will likely still survive scrutiny, as imprecision is tolerated reasonably.
Quick search for Germany yielded https://www.industrystock.de/de/unternehmen/Hygiene/Zahnpfle...

Web browser translators should be good enough for this.

Edit: perhaaaps not the best results, I see what you mean
>all your internal code and strategic documents

are already stored on someone else's computer already, at 99% of organizations. Every cloud offering comes with business data privacy guarantees.
don’t have personal experience with this, but it sounds super frustrating!! On the flip side, maybe take it as a compliment if they’re that fixated on copying you.
Just focus on your own race, hard to see what else you could realistically do about it.
Given what law firms are paying for CoCounsel, Thomson Reuters sure as heck are.
I’m not sure this page loaded properly for me, half of it is arbitrary punctuation characters assembled in bizarre nonsensical ways.
Curious why you say it's not a great app?
I think it's population decline.

It's extremely severe in Japan. Percentage aged 15-64 is now nearing 1950 levels.

And it's only going to get even worse. 12% are young kids today. In 1950, it was over 35%.
Serious question: why not mount it upside down?
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I started with a home lab a few months back. Its basically an old miniPC running Proxmox virtualization and LCX containers. Mostly it helps me learn various technology I have not much experience with in my work. I run about 20+ services on the home lab. Some of them include:

Open WebUI which can connect to the OpenAI api or a local Ollama LLM. You can also connect various tools to the LLM like a calculator or web search to augment them. The AI has helped me learn how to configure and debug stuff. Like I got step-ca to setup a local certificate authority and give certificates to my various internal services. I played around with configuring Caddy and Nginx along with ACME to the the step-ca. The LLM was even helping be debug my config files.

I'm also using Hoarder for bookmarking and it can use AI to automatically tag your bookmarks. It can even backup the webpages.

I've been using Mealie to clip and save online recipes.

I'm running Uptime Kuma to check if my computers and services are up and if they are down, I'll get a notification.
> - Internal search tools (GPT + all your internal docs, private)

the actual hard part of this which is searching for relevant stuff to feed the LLM, which it just formulates into a readable stuff has been around for years. vector databases have been around forever.
Oh do I? Well somehow that seems more insane to me.
I don't think you understand the Devil's Advocate rhetorical device. It's not just a thing you say before you state a morally reprehensible opinion you hold.
To limit a perpetrator to a single car.
I read the salt killed them in another telling a couple years ago.
Fun read but not terribly useful. The author slams just about every idea I've ever heard come from nutritionists.

If you take their word, we know nothing about anything.
> It's not like it's drawing a ton of power on idle

Probably even drawing less than a "normal" PC PSU would just burn to heat in losses, lol. 3 watts of total idle power consumption, that's nuts how low it is...

Your average PC PSU hits up to 95% efficiency, so even at maximum efficiency at full load it would burn like 30 watts.
2) fear of being seen as less competent

Guess how you'll be seen when you get called out for pretending an AI hallucination was your own work. I've seen it happen a few times already.
A friend of mine moves often, and so has started from almost-zero connections multiple times in new cities. She contends that you have to "chain" events to get to more interesting communities as you might not be able to predict exactly where your type of people are going to be.

Start with a meetup you are interested in - sports team, coding meetup, community event, etc., and identify the most interesting people there by just talking to a lot of folks. Build some rapport, figure out what else they do for fun, and then see if you can also join in. You'll likely end up at a number of events that are a dead end, but with enough cycles of this you can narrow in on communities that work for you.
I use CF Tunnel to serve progscrape.com. It's easily the best way to serve from home infrastructure, IMO.
They're barrage balloons, unmanned airships intended to make low-level strafing runs hazardous and to break up the view of the ground for higher-level bombers. They were frequently used over London during the Blitz as well.
That seems valid.

I have a sort of cynical view of the world which is that, governments make a huge fuss, like as if they're in control of everything, but it's really just people getting up, working and muddling through life to keep the electricity on, children growing and the food on the table that keeps everything going. If something gets in the way of that, like a plague, or total financial collapse the country is fucked.

Many governments are just a parasite that feeds off the hard work of regular people.

If this is the start of the money supply collapse, then that's something else entirely.
Chegg felt predatory.

They had no real original content of their own, just worked solutions to homework problems they pulled from textbooks. They were good at SEO and would appear at the top. You clicked on it because it lied to you: showing you part of the content you wanted. Just enough for the search engine preview. That probably boosted them further, wasting more time by others tricked by the same fake results.

To see the rest of the answer, they wanted you to pay money and hope it was what you wanted. Who would subscribe to that other than students desperate for homework answers?

Then ChatGPT comes in without any of the scammy tactics. Sure, it's often wrong, but so are Chegg and Quora.
Proxmox runs on top of Debian. The Debian is part of the install but I think you could install the packages separately on an existing Debian install. You could even install cockpit if you want to.
This is their homesite on Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CkPRPxPuQuCg3q749

Seems to be sort of a tourist attraction now. The nearest road is about 55 miles away according to the measuring tool on google maps. There's several nature preserves/parks in the area that protect the site. I guess people hike to it now.
If you see a comment like that only at literal face value, you're not ready for a lot of things, and it's not ok.
This is a nice idea, but we already know that organized criminals and state actors have no problem spending money to make money (or influence public opinion).

On top of that, social media isn't like email where a potential transaction fee increases the cost per person reached - a single post on a hot topic could get millions of views.
Ed: When exactly did these governments agree to do better?

A restaurant consistently providing bad food isn’t theft, it’s just a poor place to go. I have a great deal of sympathy for people living in areas captured by Russia or locked into North Korea etc, but in general it’s decades to generations of poor performance at this point.

> Define “net”.

All personal costs vs all personal benefits. Militaries and public roads etc may be basic functions of government but someone needs to pay for them and your personal contribution isn’t enough to completely cover such expenses.
I see it as coming from a narrative that a the most-necessary government has everything in hand and is and unshakably secure. The suppression and whitewashing is then a feature demonstration, rather than a defect.

Similarly, I suspect that people calling the PRC "unstable" ranks higher on their censorship priorities than people calling it "evil."

Disclosure: Former Hong Kong gwailo resident.
We just shout "Whammo!" but also enjoy them.
Ask HN: Is there an AWS Lambda equivalent for building AI agents?
A bunch of people are out of a job from a VC funded thing that may be gone in year for all we know.

There are tons of business that probably went through this.
I believe one standard term is negative sum games. The losers lose more than the winners win.
> I would question the ethics of engineers whom employ a strategy of preferring politics over delivering solutions.

Hopefully there is not misalignment between satisfying leadership goals and delivering end-user solutions.

But if there is, I hardly classify that as an "ethical" dilemma for the team members.
See my other post on this thread- this is a legitimately really hard thing to do. You almost certainly will need to use daycare and nannys/babysitters, but that still isn't nearly enough- it is very expensive, open short hours and limited days, and daycares often go out of business, kick children out, have no open spots, etc.

The main thing you can do, in my opinion, is be ruthlessly efficient at work, and find a way to deliver full time value with less than full time hours while working from home. Also squeeze in work at night, weekends, etc.
Several discussions over the years:

2020 (54 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880320

One Year of (2020) (213 points, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259914

0.6 release (2022) (136 points, 40 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30772042

0.86 release (2023) (95 points, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37925275
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)
Join classes for something you are personally interested in doing.
Can you provide a source for that claim? Mine says the total crime rate in Europe is actually much higher:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evolution-of-crime-rates...
My brain immediately reached for the word 'horrifying', with phrases 'terrible consequences' and 'halting problem' soon after, but to each their own.
The problem for me with all these HypeTech's is they appear to promise something valuable that is always just out of reach.

With Crypto it was the idea of micro payments. I want to pay to read news articles, or watch a movie, or tip someone I value online, but I don't want to sign up to some monthly subscription or give over my card details. It seemed to offer a viable alternative to the advertising economy which drives everything now.

With LLMs it was the idea that I no longer have to trawl through marketing websites or endless social media posts to find the nugget of information I'm interested in. As a dev, I shouldn't have to care about responsive designs or tech stacks or accessibility or versions of node libraries, all to provide a website. Instead just pump the data directly to the AI and call it a day.

The 2 concepts could even work together so my "original thoughts" can be monetised so I can be paid royalties for my "art", like musicians are today.
Google's "Negligent" Piracy Response Prevented Critic Deindexing Its Own Site
This hasn't been my experience at all. LA Metro has opened a ton of new rail stations and turned on a ton of new bus routes. The Aviation/Century station just opened and the LAX Transit Center is slated to open some time between now and Jan 2025 which will cleanly connect the C and K lines and offer a quick connection from LAX to the Metro. The Metro ambassadors and increased police presence has definitely made the Metro feel a lot safer. Metro hit record ridership numbers with the Dodgers game/parade the previous week.

Ridership decreased across pretty much every transit system post COVID. Metro is bouncing back to pre-COVID levels. I strongly prefer using Metro when I'm downtown because it's just so much convenient than dealing with the hellish congestion. Waymos might make the drive more comfortable but it won't stop you from sitting in the car at 10 mph because of traffic. I agree that Metro has a long way to go the further you get from DTLA or Santa Monica, but I think the trajectory it's on is great.
That's great for writing recipes for someone to read as recipes, but it's not very useful if you're trying to create a collection of structured data from recipes.
Nice product. You guys remind me of Hey & Once from 37signals. Excited to see what else ships from Good Enough.
> an ethical duty not to follow an order that is illegal

I'm not sure that has to be said, but yes, don't do illegal stuff.

You then push this question further outside the legal/illegal bounds.
people saying \034 / \035 are not readable / printable so they don't make good human readable delimiters: make it ,\034 and \n\035. looks like csv, but is actually ascii delimited. just remove last character from all entries.
Right. It was an easy to understand example on hand of a business that was DESTROYED.

I’m sure there are plenty of good places that were destroyed. I just don’t have verifiable anecdotes for any others at hand.
Show HN: PyTermTk – an open source Python TUI Library
In the past few years I worked on pyTermTk, an Open Source TUI Python library, it helps developing interacting Terminal applications with modern aesthetics and controls (mouse/keyboard/drag&drop) that you can run out of the box on a terminal on through an ssh/serial session.

It is cross compatible with Linux, MacOS, MS Windows, HTML5
> And the Japanese have found ways to solve many of their problems without software.

If you consider ‘throwing bodies at’ a problem an acceptable solution, then yes, they’ve found something that works for them.

Personally I can’t stand watching the nonsense Japanese people have to go through to get their boss to like them.
I know everyone is complaining about the power button why not just flip it upside down ?
I didn't get the matte option and I have very bright sun in my office, so I went back and switched to the to the matte (glad I did) - anyway - point of my comment is that apple told me the return window is extended to January 9th because of the holiday season stock isn't always regular, so they extend the exchange window during that period, might want to check with your local store but apparently that is the policy across apple in Canada.
Standard American diet is equal carb protein and fat? What’s your source?
The iFixIt video above literally shows them swapping the module out.
Just flip it upside down
Gonna have to disagree with you. Most car-centric (even small) towns I have seen do NOT have a prevalence of foot traffic.
A new vulnerability on IPv6 parsing in linux
Something is strange in the math for "Let's stretch your time off from X days to Y days"

I am in the US, and it says I have 11 days off. If I say I get 0 days off, it says: "Let's stretch your time off from 0 days to 18 days". It looks like it's counting the weekends prior to a holiday no matter what as a "bonus" day, which is a strange methodology to me. (I would expect that it would only count days that it performed some action to optimize, otherwise it's just table stakes)
"going on a journey similar to mine"

At this point "journey" is a cringe word because of it's excessive usage in blogspamverts. It tells me you are a gross aspiring influencer.
But we don’t know that.

One product worked and made money.

The other is (effectively) being dumped on the market by VCs in hopes of being a valuable unicorn.

It may never turn a profit.

My argument is that that VC bet on something that may not work out may have destroyed lots of real jobs. It wasn’t harmless, even if you ignore all the other externalities about resource usage.
>I'm just going to leave these here: "Cute girl wearing a Free BSD costume"

Please leave your nonsense elsewhere, and don't pollute this forum with cliches devoid of thought.

If you have a point to make, do so, and figure it out before you say it.

In any case: a "gimp suit" only means one thing, it has always meant that one thing, before GIMP-the-software was a thing.

This doesn't apply to "things you left here", so please put them where they belong.

This is why searches for GIMP will inevitably land on BDSM imagery. A teacher that tells kids to "use gimp" (or, Cthulhu forbid, the GIMP suite) is risking their job no matter how many things you suggestively leave around.
Enh I don’t get it. Cheers folks.
Arguably it worked out pretty well for Japan, given where the rest of the post soviet countries are now.
> Name your tables in snake_case

This bit me. It's highly tedious that case isn't preserved honestly.