skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point. I do agree that I consume mainly English-speaking content.

I'd still argue, however, for the usefulness of the content you consume from non-English-speaking short form content.

- Political commentary -- why would I care for some random person's opinion on politics? If there are people whose opinion I respect, wouldn't it be smarter to just consume their content directly (newsletter, telegram channel, whatever)?

- Tips/hacks -- I'm not sure what you get, but I found most of these to be super simple/useless, or promote yet another super specialized tool that you can buy, "using my affiliate link down in the description"

- Views on my city -- I found some travel related content, most of it is fake. It showed me "interesting" locations, containing mountains and waterfalls in the... NETHERLANDS, the most flat country in the world.

- Comedy -- this one is actually good. The problem is that I can't seem to "train" the algorithm to focus on comedy/memes/fail videos. No matter how hard I try, I end up with conspiracy theories/OF promoters/men-women dynamics. Maybe it says something about me...
Is this a common thing? When I was in school the timetable was printed on paper and applied for the whole term. What are these substitutions and changes and why do they happen frequently enough to need daily updates?

Does the kid have to memorise this in the morning so he knows why rooms to go to?

I don't even think my parents were aware of my school timetable. Why would they be? That was my business. It seems a bit weird to me that parents get involved to such an extent.
We did extensive research on the subject, there is no mystery. iOS will only read MIFARE tags with NDEF formatted data.
If you write NDEF data to a formatted MIFARE card, it will be 'compatible' with iOS.

Otherwise, only the UID can be detected.
The real mystery is why Apple refuses to open the low-level read commands. (To read NDEF, or determine that the data is _not_ NDEF, you need to read the card.)
Thanks. I tried the AI assistant but ended up mindlessly mining crypto...
Sounds great! :) I am working on the same thing, trying to go back to my good days haha. Maybe zero desire is not achievable with highly-designed UIs crafted for attention hooks. But yeah, everyone is fighting a similar fight!
I was not claiming you said any specifics. Sorry, I could have been clearer in my answer. My goal was to try to explain a little more to other readers because this sentence:

> I don't want to have to lock away the phone from myself or unplug my router.

could lead people into thinking that a state of no distractions could be achieved with no external control. In my opinion, that is unrealistic and probably extremely rare. You will probably need to lock away or add some friction to accessing your phone.

As long as we have smartphones with zero-cost distractions, our reptile brain will need some external control and we can carefully design it.

So my general advice for anyone trying to reduce their doomscrolling time is: keep your environment clean and designed for it - move your phone away and activate do not disturb mode, use extensions to block websites, etc.
It makes you question what they mean by discovery. Is it not a discovery until it is published in Nature? On Arxiv this was a discovery in 2021. We can probably find a free energy channel in the YouTube haystack from a decade ago where the guy happened to arrange magnets in this order while going through permutations. Is that discovery or are only incumbent academics allowed to canonize science?
> However, it was severely undertrained

by modern standards. at the time, it was trained according to neural scaling laws oai believed to hold.
> Individuals posting videos of themselves is clearly speech so we are in the 1st amendment territory.

Who’s preventing them from posting videos on platforms not controlled by CCP?
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I don’t have link handy but one of the good talks that is posted on YT is about explaining how writing code is the „design phase” and not what a lot of people think „build phase”.

Build phase happens at the compile time and at runtime.
I had much better experience with a VSCode and anOpenSCAD extension compared to the stitch editor. Pair that with the latest master build for extra performance.
The key clarification is in one of the comments: if you want to treat partial derivatives like fractions, you need to carry the "constant with respect to foo" modifier along with both nominator and denominator.

Once you do that, it's clear that you can't cancel "dx at constant z" with "dx at constant y" etc. And then the remaining logic works out nicely (see thermodynamics for a perfect application of this).
> non-retail "kiosk" televisions

The more correct term would be Digital Signage displays, eg. [1] - they often run on high voltages though so it's better to be sure when screwing around with them

[1] https://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays/
The reciprocity is between you and me. If you do something bad to me, I can do something bad to you. Is not that if you do something bad to yourself I need to do something bad for myself.
You could just not use it? Why are you pushing your tastes and opinions on others?
agree, seems much slower for large context case.
Nice idea, but why do they use Google Drive for sharing their code?
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, I don't really know a lot about this field.

Would this allow me to play Puzzle Pirates (a Java game) in the browser, or would the developers still need to do some work for the game to be actually playable in the browser?
Hey, shameless plug in case you are interested.

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Using CCP app is not a right.
Investment bankers work 100 hour per weeks as needed during deals, which is how you get 20 hour days. 60-80 is the usual pace though. Investopedia has an article on this but there are plenty more. That isn't proof this particular person did this, but should at least make it believable.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/professionals/111715/d...
> as someone in Australia who strongly supports our recent U16 ban

Are you completely acknowledged about certain mechanisms doing that? I (not an Aussy) also support this but not via becoming the Government's slave.
pi-hole uses DNS, and will give out fake ip addresses based on the name lookup.

Unfortunately it is NOT a firewall.

Any device can easily do its own DNS like DoH (dns over https), nnot involve pihole in name lookups, and send package directly to the destination ip address.
Poor man's CDN?
My system doesn’t over ventilate - we sometimes have too high CO2 in the bed rooms, but humidity is way too low in winters, sometimes below 30%. That means getting sick more often and having irritated airways at times.
Those usually have shit color accuracy and high black levels, but they are bright.
lol… you must be new here. When has ANY digital initiative gone right the first time from any Australian government.

The last time they tried censorship (aka Stephen Conroy) it was thwarted by a 15 year old and abandoned. Let’s not even talk about their current piracy website ban where all you need to do is point DNS to someone non-Australian.
At least in The Netherlands, about 15 years ago when I was in high school, timetables where set for a whole semester, but absent teachers where quite normal meaning some lessons where canceled. Replacements where not always available and where usually only deployed when it was known a teacher was absent for extended time.

As a teen this was great because sometimes you could stay in bed longer, be out earlier and not having to carry the extra books (not sure if that still is a problem now).

edit: I just remember we even had call trees to call your classmates in the morning if classes got canceled. This was before the internet, making it not 15 years ago but at least 20, probably more. I'm getting old...
Have you tried the new VarSet in 1.0? I found it more ergonomic than the old spreadsheet approach. With a formulas first approach, I find the modeling flow more controllable. Come to think about it, it starts to resemble a view/model arrangement I am used as a frontend dev.
Piracy is not a civil matter in the US, following the thread of this particular conversation. Asserting ownership will find you liable.
functional programming is such an (semantically) overloaded term, it means completely different things to different people. Each time I read it in a blog post/tweet it makes comprehension slightly more difficult.
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I don't think models even need to get much, if any better to accomplish this.

After every response, ask the model for some alternatives, things that could be adjusted, etc. have it return a json response. Build the UI from that. Clicking on an element just generates a prompt and sends it back into the model

It's like smart replies or the word suggestions that are popping up on my virtual keyboard now but with a richer UI. It's not perfect, but I think it would be an improvement for many things.
One thing that's not clear to me about the 'use duckdb instead' proposals is how to orchestrate the batches. In databricks/spark there are two components:

- auto loader/cloud files. Can attach to a blob storage of e.g csv or json, and give them as batches. As new files come in you get batches containing only the new files.

-structured streaming and it's checkpoints. It keeps tracks across runs of how far in the source it has read (including cloud files sources), and it's easy to either continue the job with only the new data, or delete the checkpoint and rebuild everything.

How can you do something similar with duckdb? If you have e.g a growing blob store of csv/avro/json files? Just read everything every day? Create some homegrown setup?

I guess what I describe above is independent of the actual compute library, you could use any transformation library to do the actual batches (and with foreachbatch you can actually use duckdb in spark like this).
But he has a point. Monitors might not do interesting things like HDR or dolby vision or other advanced a/v stuff.
Americans are selling iPhones into China and are getting exorbital profits from this though. Doesn't look fair to me.
this is an annoying trend. Like monitors with a remote (that you can lose)
I'm not saying this is the same thing the author is proposing, but... I'm reminded of a quote from one of my favorite book-series:

> One of the Patrician’s greatest contributions to the reliable operation of Ankh-Morpork had been, very early in his administration, the legalizing of the ancient Guild of Thieves. Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, at least it should be organized crime.

> And so the Guild had been encouraged to come out of the shadows and build a big Guildhouse, take their place at civic banquets, and set up their training college with day-release courses and City and Guilds certificates and everything. In exchange for the winding down of the Watch, they agreed, while trying to keep their faces straight, to keep crime levels to a level to be determined annually. That way, everyone could plan ahead, said Lord Vetinari, and part of the uncertainty had been removed from the chaos that is life.

> And then, a little while later, the Patrician summoned the leading thieves again and said, oh, by the way, there was something else. What was it, now? Oh, yes... I know who you are, he said. I know where you live. I know what kind of horse you ride. I know where your wife has her hair done. I know where your lovely children, how old are they now, my, doesn’t time fly, I know where they play. So you won’t forget about what we agreed, will you?

-- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
From where i am sitting it sounds like devmor implied you had "an adolescent way of thinking" and that offended you. To prove him wrong you essentially threw a tantrum.

In fairness, devmor's jab was rude and uncalled for. However responding to an accusation that you're immature by behaving childishly is really kind of weird.

> But you were confused by it and didn't understand the point I was trying to make?

The confusing part is that it doesn't seem to support your position. Devmor's claim was essentially that sarcasm as a rhetorical device can be abused but isn't inherently bad if used correctly. You then used sarcasm in what Devmor would probably characterize as an incorrect adolescent manner to prove the point that it is annoying. However everyone already agreed that adolescent sarcasm is annoying. Presumably your intent was to demonstrate via example why sarcasm is bad or in the words you quoted, to "[present] an argument under the reader's pretense that is obviously flawed". This didn't work because nobody claimed sarcasm was a universal good, only that in certain situations it could be used to good rhetorical affect. You made a flawed argument, but it wasn't using the pretense of the person you were responding to.

To summarize, its confusing because you are arguing against a strawman. Instead of skewering the parent's argument, which i presume was the intent, it instead just made it look like you don't understand the person you are responding to.
Ok so who’s building ZK social networks?
Interesting and well-written article. Thanks to the author for writing it. Replacing Spark with these single-machine tools seems to be on the hype, and Spark is not en vogue anymore.

The author ran Spark in Fabric, which has V-Order write enabled by default. DuckDB and Polars don't have this, as it's an MS proprietary algorithm. V-Order adds about 15% overhead to write, so it does change the result a bit.

The data sizes were bit on a large size, at least for the data amounts I see daily. There definitely are tables in the 10GB, 100GB, and even in 1TB size range, but most tables traveling through data pipelines are much smaller.
Tech as in TV? See Roald Dhal views on TV and kids.

I remember growing up in the 80s and 90s, in a suburb with forest and playground in walking distance, there were less and less kids outside, or for shorter duration.

TV, cable TV and video games just killed everything.
If firefighters can't access the basement safely, that's exactly what they'll do. They'll protect the exposures instead, ie the neighbouring buildings.
When I was at a Fortune 500 company, we had $X to spend at the end of a quarter we spent it and more - I am talking millions.

It's called use it or lose it - we would also overspend by as much as we could get away with so we had justification for asking for a higher budget next year.
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Of course not, we should let all propaganda flow into minds of children and vulnerable.
If they're complicated guis, sure. A handful of options is probably fine. And I don't think we'd take away the ability to just type or shout at the AI if it doesn't provide the option you're looking for. "Give me a slider for font size", "give me more shades of red", "ok, let's focus on the logo. Give me some options for that"
and the bloat. Long boot times and cluttered menus / functions.

I don't need a tv home page.
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Great! A small correction on your post. Polars does have SQL suppor. It isn't the main usecase, so it isn't as good as that of Spark and DuckDB, but it does exist and is being improved on.
I have a full system in my house. The unit is in the attic space. It's great although it makes a lot of noise, especially in the bedroom below the unit
Except for Ubuntu, which puts ads in the terminal:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hfs4v9/ubuntu_is_put...

https://x.com/omgubuntu/status/1574759306544701443
> what date did 9/11 happen? it was a tuesday. i'll never forget that.

It depends. In US is September eleven. In EU is November the nineth. /s
Also the fact that sometimes things can take ages to render.

I did have some fun results getting ChatGPT to create OpenSCAD scripts. It created a fully functional parametric christmas tree for me, which I thought was kinda cool.
To state the obvious, Delta is an open standards format which should be widely supported.

Databricks have also bought into Iceberg and will probably lead with that or unify the two in future.
Your website can't be opened on Starlink (can't get past the Cloudflare thing).
Clickbait title. It is not the airfrier spying. It is the unified app on the phone that asks for the permissions that it needs for all potential appliances it can manage.

I guess "apps on your phone can listen in and track you" hasn't the same OMG factor.
thanks a lot brudgers, I dind't know about Show HN, that's awesome
> Is a $8000 MBP regular consumer hardware? If you don't think so, then the answer is probably no.

The very first Apple McIntosh was not far from that price at its release. Adjusted for inflation of course.
But it's under an account, an account that can receive notices about ToS and such. Wouldn't that cover this?
Everything is an 'app'.

No need to understand where the data goes, where it is stored, who owns it, what they know about you and what is shared with third parties, what is costs to provide such a service (even though none of its users seem to pay anything), how it is monetized, how dark UI patterns nudge you, how algorithms manipulate you, why you can get addicted to them.

Just click on the friendly little coloured rectangle with the rounded corners. That's the app. That's all you need to know.
I'm pretty aware of how inept our government is at these policies, and their surveillance state tendencies (eg undisclosed facial recognition testing at flinder street station). But at this point i think a malicious australian government is less of a threat to the public and our way of life and emotional prosperity than social media.
KISS. You can just use a "cone of silence" spell...

... that is, take a A4/letter blank piece of paper, fold it like a cone and tape it down, then take a red large-tip marker and write "SILENCE!" or "BUSY" on it.

You can put it upright/on-the-desk when needed, and down/in-a-drawer otherwise.
In the Netherlands these systems are fairly common in new houses. Mostly because the law mandates a certain level of energy efficiency of new houses. There are other ways of obtaining this required efficiency level, but an ERV unit is pretty cost effective.

I've personally been looking at installing such a system [1]. However since houses in the Netherlands are almost all made out of concrete installing such a system in an existing house is pretty hard.

[1] https://www.duco.eu/uk-ie/products/mechanical-ventilation/ve...
This sounds confused. Why do you think the halting problem is relevant to predictability? Undecidable problems != Unpredictable problems
> Three air fryers, made by the Chinese brands Xiaomi, Tencent and Aigostar, wanted to record audio on their owner's phone for no specified reason

> Meanwhile, smart TVs made by Hisense and Samsung which were tested by Which? asked for people's postcodes during set-up. Samsung's TV app also asked for permission to be able to see all the other apps on the user's phone.

Information is the valuable bit here, the devices themselves don't produce enough value as they can be sold only once.

Data can be sold multiple times.
I'm spoiled by the "search the menu" thing in vscode, intellij and devtools. I wanted that in Photopea today because I couldn't find the darn paint bucket tool. If everything had built in AI (which seems to be happening whether it's good or bad) I could probably just say or type "paint bucket" which I guess is only marginally better than a fuzzy search.. but the iterative process of AIs where you can kind of lazily ask it for things and then correct it when it's wrong sure is nice.
Haha thank you for reminding me of the image of my old pentium 3 pc, which was left open all the time due to this reason! Fun memberberries!
Of course this title triggers me and I need to share/rant about my own programming struggles with CAD :) Sorry

Coming at the problem from another end, I have have been designing dream houses as a hobby but have been struggling and frustrated by the current CAD and 3D editors.

There are a lot of drawing-house-plans apps like SweetHome3D and Homestyler etc, and they are all really good at getting some wall lines down quickly, but quickly start to get hard to do anything advanced and all give up on real roofs and attics.

From the other end there is Sketchup, which is both good and easy yet also difficult to control.

The general advice for people wanting to see a house design in 3D is to draw the plan in some house plan software then save that as a jpg and import that into sketchup and then to build the walls on top of the drawing etc.

Of course, being a programmer, I had some ideas... and have about a dozen abandoned starts on a house drawing program that actually understands that 'this is a wall, and this is how thick walls are' etc.

The openscad approach is good and I have some routines that do sensible tricky roofing angles and things, but you can't really go and and parameterise whole houses. Its a nut that still hasn't cracked.

I've watched and talked with a lot of architects and tbh they are sketching and treating their CAD as a bunch of lines rather than the CAD knowing what walls and beams really are.
Spending will by increase by > 2 trillion
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I have not observed this to be true. Ventilating enough to keep CO2 low means sub 20% winter humidity in multiple places I’ve lived.
The success rates for MOOCs is usually lower than 5%.

MOOCs were the holy grail - free, Quality, any time, education.

And it still had single digit pass rates.

———-

The people who are self motivated to learn, are probably people who move entire fields forward.

They are likely very happy while learning.

It’s an important part of human survival and existence.

We can and should optimize for it.

We are going to waste energy, if we argue that we should optimize for possibly 5% of the population.

Disregarding what 95% want, is a losing battle.
LinkedIn, then word of mouth.
Actual article from a few days ago: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musk-open-ai-lawsuit-respon...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42418750)
The arguments about the relative costs of the Las Vegas tunnel versus the cost of the CA rail project are interesting. You mention that the bulk of the cost is actually in the stations, yet tell us the per mile cost. How many fully accessible stations integrated with existing transport infrastructure are to be built on the high-speed rail project? The Vegas tunnel is currently unidirectional isn’t it? That would be less useful for the high speed rail project. It’s a bit different to consider a largely pleasure route which can largely be routed anyway from a transport project which is much less restricted in where it can be routed. A rail project has additional costs and complexities like laying track and signalling. I’ll assume your argument is that these are unnecessary, we can just use existing autonomous cars to solve this. In which case might we be better comparing cost by passenger throughput rather than per mile.
> But teaching people to ask critical questions risks

How long will it take to do it on a meaningful scale, all while “free-thinkers” (read Chinese and Russian bots) beat the drum of “they’re brainwashing you”?
Really?
They've been working hard on a mass surveillance legislation (which would outlaw encryption) for a couple years now, it was thankfully voted down in 2023 because of a successful public outcry, but that didn't stop these gestapo assholes, they're gonna "reword it" and keep pushing it and eventually the public will have fatigued and stopped caring and it will go through.
A new class of magnetism or magnet? Are we adding a new term to the equations or another bird to the catalog?