skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a minisforum UN100L. I disabled WiFi and other devices I don’t use in the bios. And then run Linux with the power saving mode. I also applied all the suggestions from powertop. Some suggest to also disable boost. Although it does save a bit of power by preventing spikes of power, it also makes the whole machine that much slower. So I’m content with the device using 4W idle, 8W-12W for busy, and a max of 24W when maxing out the CPU and GPU.
How is privacy protected? I wouldn't want everyone tracking my airtags.
That book sincerely answers that sort of confusion. Audio production (here music creation) is very different from audio reproduction. There is no real way of judging the former, except for room acoustic which has been scientifically guided for a long time.
> If you come to my house and express a view I disagree with, and I ask you to stop talking, I'm abridging your freedom of speech.

To what extent are you able to abridge someone's freedom, though? The only legally permitted thing you can do is to compel that person to leave. If you are hosting that person commercially, say by running a lodging house, even that option may be restricted by other laws.

Legal restrictions on speech are a little different, because of the unlimited sovereign power of the law (what Max Weber called the state's monopoly on violence). The USA has a special limitation on its own sovereignty by means of a written constitution, but I do believe that only applies to government restrictions as parent said.

Also, it is worth noting that the freedom of speech in Britain that you link to applies only to Members of Parliament. Nobody else is afforded freedom of speech by the Bill of Rights; other people have to look to different laws to defend themselves.
I was pretty much blissfully unaware of Matt Mullenweg before this recent nonsense. I knew him as “the Wordpress guy” but beyond that I didn’t really care much.

I now know far more than I would ever have liked to know about him, including his apparent sexual proclivities, how his mother allegedly talks to the staff, and goodness knows what else as his reputation is dragged through the courts.

Did I prefer Wordpress before I became intimately acquainted - albeit secondhand - with Mullenweg’s reputation. Absolutely.

Did I trust Wordpress more when I thought it was a community of developers rather than something dictated by the apparently unstable whims of a vain 40-something year old manchild? You bet I did.

Do I think Wordpress will burn to the ground, dragged down by a capricious manchild? I’d lay even odds.
I imagine whatever magical force has been constantly accelerating the disc Earth for 4,000+ years also magically accelerates everything else uniformly in the exact same direction, at the exact same speed, and also magically solves every other hole in the theory.
I don't think the demographic for sports cars is shrinking. Mustangs have always filling a small niche, a subset of the sports car market. The statement in the title may be true but it is meaningless in terms of trends, especially as manufacturers are forced to produce and sell cars that are objectively worse for most people.
> if not being asked that is the definition of presumption

If I want to have a discussion about South Africa, that's between me and whomever I'm speaking to. South Africa doesn't have a global veto on conversations about itself.

> would be same as my neighbor discussing how to fix my problems with my wife

If they're having a conversation in their house about your relationship, I don't see the issue. It's rude. But it may also be interesting or even instructive to their own situations.
What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
You might want to remove the 'featured on Hackernews' claim. Waiting lists are off-topic as they can't be tried out. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Submitting a link doesn't mean it's featured.
I'm not a regular poster here, so sorry if I don't follow the rules or etiquette correctly, but I gotta go to bat for Xyrem.
I have Narcolepsy, so our situations aren't exactly identical, but it seems to me IH and Narcolepsy have a big overlap.

First of all, the benefit of taking Xyrem is so, so big. It doesn't compare to any other medication or stimulant. You can get quality sleep at night. No more insomnia, lying awake, or constant night terrors and waking up 30 times a night. You feel refreshed when you wake up, like a weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Like a veil has been revealed.

The risks aren't that great, if you take it as prescribed it shouldn't cause you any trouble, at least not anything major. Nausea usually only happens when you titrate up the doses too quickly. It happened to me, maybe 5 nights, or 10 at the most. Hasnt happened now in 10 years I've been on it.

You should look it up more. You can check in the narcolepsy reddit, there's always questions and discussions around Xyrem/sodium oxybate every day.

I do sympathize with the high cost and insurance problem. It certainly isn't a medication most people can afford on their own.
All my bags also now have airtags. I was at Sydney airport lost baggage area a few years ago waiting for a bag I'd found was there after hours of speaking to the airline and airport. Another gentlemen there told them that his item was there. They'd been evacuated from a plane in New Zealand a month before and left his iPad in the seat pocket, and had tracked it back using Find My to Sydney. He travels internationally multiple times per month and said airtags were the best thing he owned.

I've since added them into all my cars, bags and a few honeypots embedded into high value items that might be stolen.
To make it short, as a teenager my family was too poor to have a second vehicle for me to learn in without risking losing transportation, then I went to university in a city with a very good public transportation, and then entered the workforce right around the heyday of cheap VC-funded ridesharing which was wildly cheaper to make use of than owning/leasing a car was. Even for a while after ridesharing got expensive it still made more financial sense to use over car payment plus parking, insurance, tickets, gas, etc.

What finally pushed me over the edge was moving to a suburb during the pandemic to cut down on housing costs. It’s possible to get along without a car since my area is broken up by shopping centers (it’s not a house desert), but still clearly designed to be driven around with few sidewalks. There’s bike lanes which is nice, but a lot of them run right alongside 45mph+ traffic including big trucks which is not so nice.
Not related, but because I also liked that one, I'll add:

Devil in the White City, by Eric Larson

Covers the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Light on some of the sorts of details OP is asking for; also follows the thread of a serial killer to keep things interesting for those less interested in the business/engineering, but still good.
I tottaly agree with this sentiment. Still looking for the right balance, but half assing things for me doesn't result in feeling better.

Finding the unicorn job isn't the right thing to predicate your happiness on. One thing I like the idea of and am just starting to try is reminding myself why I'm doing the job. What are my bigger goals that it is contributing towards? I know we all know this at some level, but I think it can help to remind ourselves there is a purpose/meaning to why we do our jobs, even if we don't intrinsically get meaning from them.

I can't remember where I read this idea... but somewhere recently.
Oh, failure is way better. But a lot of the original APIs didn't have failures, they just returned a value, and MS doesn't like to break backwards compatibility even when it'd be easier for everyone if they did.

For "they", I mean MS could have made BestFit work as follows: if an input string contains characters not in the user's code page, then return a new string with characters replaced by with the name of that code point as assigned by the Unicode consortium (and maybe also the textual code point number U+<number>). This requires a new allocation and copies of the parts of the string not needing replacement, but loses no information and creates no security holes.
they just want cheap h1b workers they can treat like slaves, that is all any of these capitalists want
That scale also acts as a liability.

When everything becomes hyper concentrated in singular environments, a problem with that environment scales the blast radius to everyone.

For example when AWS US-East-1 occasionally goes down. It’s been a few years since the last time that happened, but when it happens it’s inescapable.
You're making the point for why people who are not South African can have interesting and meaningful conversations about South Africa. All while possibly expressing views that are incorrect but still interesting to consider and respond to.
A quarter of freshwater animals threatened with extinction
Clojure is not only on JVM. I often use babashka for shell-scripting and nbb for tinkering on node.js. There's ClojureDart if you like Flutter. For Lua, there's Fennel which is not Clojure but has similar syntax and inspiration. There's Clojerl for Erlang, and glojure, joker and let-go for Golang. There's clj-python and clojure-rs. There's jank-lang (which is not production-ready yet, but already is very promising).
The untold story of Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic (2017)
My view on this is more metaphysical. We have that inner self in us, that is the source of all life, meaning and happiness, and there's our persona in which our inner self is only dimly manifested. The right cause makes our inner self manifest a bit more fully and that feels like an uplifting influx of energy in our persona. On the other hand, when our persona does something wrong or meaningless, it stops receiving that energy as our inner self withdraws attention awaiting better opportunities to invest itself.
Quality over quantity, right?

The article thinks the problem is declining quantity, but I'm unconvinced. Americans have always been low on quality, since as far back as slavery and native american genocide.

If anything I think the "meditation" mentioned in the article is a really good sign.
If you look at voting maps for the 2024 USA Presidential Election, you can see that there is a blue band of Democratic voters right down the coast, including the Bay Area. The Bay Area in particular appears to have a very different culture to most of the USA, although I have never been there so cannot confirm that statement personally. I don't think that many Democratic party members consider themselves conservative, whereas a large proportion of Republican party members do.
Many car enthusiasts/gear heads used to be tinkerers & modifiers, used to have intimate knowledge of cars.

Cars of today are far more complicated systems, where there's no longer clear mechanical linkages connecting components together but instead opaque unobservable digital systems weaving the together.

The way cars are made has killed the ability to be a knowledgeable useful enthusiast. The car is just a commodity now. And sure, you can spend a lot of money to have your car modded for performance or looks, but there's so much less of a diy culture that genuinely knows cars. The industry has superficialized out its best fans.

I hope computing can a good similar fates, somehow (doesn't look great right now!). We don't even need material inputs to improve our machines; software gives us vast flexibility. If we can maintain some cultures beyond base consumerism.
>It's an equivalent of self-compiling a software project after checking out its repo

I would not assign this to someone as their first electronics project. They would have to order all the components and get the PCB etched themselves. There's a fair bit of soldering, and a usable soldering iron is not cheap. And there's no undo button in hardware: if you solder something in backwards and pop it, you get pay for a new component and wait for it to ship to you.
Indeed, I gather you don't often talk with very many other content producers.

What made the case exceptional, was the fact they caught the guy and there were legal consequences. Usually, this does not occur... at best it wastes everyone's time, at worse it costs you like any other SLAPP lawsuit.

Best of luck, and check if your commercial insurance covers legal expenses. =3

Note, this is often used for political purposes as well:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/anti-vaxx-nurse-libel-...

https://ifex.org/a-dark-year-for-media-in-belarus-and-slapp-...

YT gives zero Fs about anything not making them money =3
A lot of cyclist rules are designed around kids.

Thus zero licensing requirements etc.
I literally have been working on something like this for a spare-time project, and am so glad to find this. Now I can throw out my code and move to the next stage of the project.
This is a great project. It's basically a Swiss army knife style tool, but for PDF files. I've been using it on & off for several years now for various projects.
> …not worth arguing against misinformed comments …

Yeah, I have these same response patterns. Shell works really well for some use cases. I generally don’t respond to the comments that list the various “footguns” of shell, or that complain about security holes, etc. My use cases are not sensitive to these concerns, and even besides this, I find the concerns overstated.
Liquid Metal Part 2 Electric(Ally Conductive) Boogaloo – Framework Edition
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> I wish they could sell something cheaper that is just a display…

The "smart" part is what makes TVs cheaper, since that's what opens the door to a higher CLV. People willing to put their money where their mouth is can still buy dumb displays: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/browse/Multimedia-Displays-Di...
It's obviously a joke, which is usually lost on HN.
> To what extent are you able to abridge someone's freedom, though

I could ask them to leave, I could threaten to not invite them back, I could withhold something they want or might want in the future. Social sanctions are vast.

> it is worth noting that the freedom of speech in Britain that you link to applies only to Members of Parliament

Yes. That is the first time a First Amendment-style protection was passed into law. The modern view of freedom of speech being constrained to what the state can and cannot do starts from around then.
I would vote it up if it wasn't for the hyperbolic title.

Funny I worked on a "model trainer" circa 2018 which was a hot mess. The trouble with it was that some models could be trained in 30 seconds on a small machine and the tools from scikit-learn for model selection were great. Other models would take a few days and had huge data sets and we'd have to code up our own model selection tools. Over time I came to understand the model selection problem better and appreciate the tools in scikit-learn but it wasn't easy to fit those into a framework that involved working across many different address spaces over time.

It sucked and I blamed the complexity of the problem about 50% and my own ignorance about 50%. I've seen a lot of other flawed (but useful) tools since as the Huggingface tools (nice models, shame about the model selection) and other tools that are just crap (langchain... how they can hypnotize people to think there is any value there is beyond me) I am putting more blame on the complexity of the problem.

(Note we believed in foundation models back then, I did in 2009, and we wanted one system that would let us handle both those huge models and also rather simple models that build on them)

That model trainer worked with a tool that looked a lot like

https://www.knime.com/

but had transferred JSON data instead of rows over the lines (most tools won't do that because of speed & scalability concern so things that should be simple involve graphical joins that are far more mind melting than plain SQL joins) and also had AI-powered blocks trained by that trainer.

Another kinda graphical tool for AI agents would be something like

https://www.jbpm.org/

which would let you sketch out a workflow and have blocks that could be human or AI tasks. Specifically the human can fix it when the AI flubs it or thinks it can't do it, and the human can build up a training set for it's "digital twin". I had the damnedest time trying to sell those last two ideas to customers and investors, either could have been world changing, but instead people give non-answers like langchain so much more respectability than they deserve. (e.g. in 2001 I had an open-source user management system modeled after what Yahoo and AMZN had, nothing like that got popular in 2013 when I discovered that "you don't own your user list" and "locked into a vendor who will either go out of business or get bought by Google" where the critical features customers were demanding that I didn't have)
That's not necessarily true, for many kinds of complex sociological, economic and demographic reasons. The nature of the working population is different than the general population. The skills required from the working population vary across time and space, and may very well consist of a set in which different groups vary only slightly. Etc. etc.

Frankly this just reads like a cover story for "I don't want to have to care about this".
Very few people got licenses during COVID (2021) then after COVID a lot of people did (2022) then the number of people getting licenses decreased.

If you are looking at a spike in 2022 as proof that the number of interested people isn't going down, I hope you have better evidence than comparing 2021 and 2022!
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Is the "deadly" due to an increase in confounding factors related to social isolation – drinking, lack of exercise, etc? Or does merely being alone, while still maintaining an otherwise healthy lifestyle, shorten life?
> Always be computing that dot product between your employer's agenda vector and your own agenda vector.

haha, great metaphor! I'll steal it! :)
> You're not going to escape lookism either by just waving some magic wand about how if you meet someone in person they suddenly can't see your face anymore.

Yeah, you probably are actually.

Unless you're literally disfigured most women don't care that much about the physical appearance of men compared to other things. Men care way more about this. Finding beautiful women on the arm of a man who is old or unattractive man is easy, if he has other attributes women like more.

Dating apps don't change that. It just means you have to meet and impress women outside of them. And obviously be willing to consider non-college educated, it doesn't mean they're dumb.

I met my wife four years ago, which is how long you say you've been single for. We didn't do it via a dating app, she isn't college educated, and I'm a guy of average looks yet she could easily be a model if she wanted. She also has a wonderful personality, a razor sharp intellect and is fluent in two foreign languages. There were a bunch of strategies that went into achieving that outcome that I won't go into here, but suffice it to say none of them involved surgery. They're all about how you make her feel. Not saying it's easy (it isn't), but how to do this is learnable with practice.
Maybe an increased stigma was better? Why is that you can “optimize” unhappiness nationally but not happiness, if you discount the former I think there are some examples.
In the United States we do treat one form of transport as the most privileged, the automobile.

We force places of business to build parking, forcing lower density, and higher cost to business. We build many neighborhoods without sidewalks at all, and with no bike access, forcing pedestrians and cyclists out of dedicated lanes and into traffic where they need to contend with multi ton SUVs. We do not penalize against designing vehicles with extremely poor visibility and excessive height, which directly translates to fatalities of those not in an armored shell on the roadway.

I would strongly encourage you to read more about building our cities and towns not directly around the automobile. We need to build around people, and bikes, and not strictly around the car.

https://www.strongtowns.org/
I live in Bell County now but I spent a lot of time in and around small TX towns (smaller even than Zabcikville or Cyclone) where a lot of the residents were 3rd generation or 4th generation immigrants. Growing up we learned some Czech and "Czech identity" was (is still, at least for my "elders") a big deal.

Anyway those "sausage rolls" are called klobasneks (or Klobásniks).

It's a bit of a shibboleth since the only people that seem to know that are the Czech. ;)

Interestingly we never called anything a danish—but we did have a lot of strudels.
> unlike every other company that requires explicit opt in.

Not defending Apple here, but that's silly. User hostility and auto gobbling up data without consent is perfectly normal for most companies out there.
No kidding. My sister teaches at one of the best schools in London and they haven't been able to find perm teachers for such odd subjects as maths and physics for over a year.
Laziness is great for collections, and modeling the infinite but as a general model for programming it's a little loopy for my taste too ;-)
I use makefiles all the time for my projects; projects that are actually built with something else (ex, gradle, maven, whatever). My makefiles have targets for build, clean, dependencies, and a variety of other things. And they also have inputs (like "NOTEST=true") for altering how they run. And then I use make to actually build the project; so I don't need to remember how the specific build tool for _this_ project (or the one of many build tools in a project) happens to work. It works pretty well.
Ah the modern internet. https://i.imgur.com/3c5nQ8J.png
The author of this project blogged about his experience making it the whole time. It’s a pretty entertaining read: http://reassembler.blogspot.com/search/label/cannonball
I don't know, that legal concept likely goes back to the Phoenicians, eg the start of codified law.
Can someone please explain to me why we chose to treat one mode of transportation as the most privileged?

- Motorists are provided with massive road construction subsidies

- Motorists are provided with government-mandated parking spaces

- When a motorist hits and kills a cyclist or pedestrian, punishments are usually laxer than for other forms of manslaughter

- Public spaces and shopping areas are designed with motorists in mind

- Zoning layout of cities and suburbs presumes car ownership

- Environmental costs of driving are paid by society at large

I am all for a good drive at NASCAR, but surely the way we treat motorists is unreasonable?
This blogpost is astonishing.

It’s like Mullenweg has been taking lessons from the Trump school of media relations.

“Joost is a self-proclaimed leader in the SEO space, an industry known for making the web better… he was not effective at leading the marketing team or doing the work himself… Karim leads a small WordPress agency called Crowd Favorite which counts clients such as Lexus and ABC and employs ~50 people… In the meantime, on top of my day job running a 1,700+ person company with 25+ products, which I typically work 60-80 hours a week on…”

It’s as if he’s saying “these little people are barely worthy of my attention and have achieved nothing, compare them to me I’m powerful, I’m important, you should respect my power and importance…”
In this case I don’t think it’s a lack of pressure to join, but the introduction of supplementary technologies that poorly simulate aspects of community, but don’t address some evolutionarily derived needs. My concern would be that we’ve developed poor facsimiles of things we crave, but haven’t, and can’t yet, account for all aspects of them. It’s a bit like trying to make a food substitute and missing essential nutrients.