skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to link that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&t=1793s

Such an unbelievable moment. And I also think an indicator of how much better society could be if we focused more on doing amazing things. The comments on YouTube are just filled with hope optimism and general awesomeness. FWIW that link goes straight to the moneyshot - it's always so much better if you watch it all the way through. It's an amazing broadcast.
not every comment needs to be inclusive
As an outsider very interested in Palm devices, this was always my impression/suspicion. Thanks for confirming what I’ve long thought was going on.
I'd argue that depends entirely on your business. For example if your app has a physical component (e.g. a gadget you sell), having an unexpected inflow (by orders of magnitude) of costumers may very well exceed your capability to fulfill your side of the contract by months or years. And having to cancel or delay things infinitely can also be very damaging.

So it entirely depends on what it is you are doing.
Totally unrelated, what would be a good 3d printer for building rugged models, and what would be a good website to find designs of things to print?

https://youtu.be/RJLsUaEsogA?si=WfR-8Q-70K9jxSB4
The genius of the US way is that the politicians avoid the heat when healthcare coverage is denied. Whereas UK and Canadian politicians have to answer to their constituents.

Of course, now that getting murdered is on the table, the US health insurance executives might want to up their compensation.
After a society brings in universal healthcare coverage, more rules discouraging smoking, overeating, and engaging in risky activities often follow. Which is either a nice way to get the people of the country caring about each other's health, or an awful government overreach depending on your political bent.
Looks like Uptime Kuma to me.
That cutoff is rarely truly a hard cutoff. The limits are often too low to have a natural test of that, though.
I keep a blogroll[0] mostly on computing/programming

[0]: https://blog.davidv.dev/blogs-i-follow.html
My only hope for climate change is that insurance companies start lobbying to have a more predictable environment since risk models works better when things aren't chaotic, and that gives a monetary incentice for companies to do better
Run your cloud contracts (or anything possible to incur liability) through a separate LLC so if there are billing issues you can just move on.

The structure should look like:

"My App LLC" has contract with "My Host LLC" for hosting services. "My Host LLC" provides those services via a cloud provider. If "My Host LLC" racks up a 2 million dollar bill with the cloud provider and goes out of business then I just move to "New Host LLC" and carry on.

It's not as if the patients of a Doctor who fails to pay his office rent would become liable.

This is the entire purpose of LLCs.
Their predictions for 2024 were reviewed for accuracy here: https://lwn.net/Articles/1002368/
Other than the bloke who tried to make his LLM the author, I havent seen any lawsuits uphold your point of view.

There was a great article posted here last year rounding up all the various courts who upheld ownership for prompters of LLM output, including China (Possibly twice)

If recombining data from images in a way that theres not a single trace of any original violates fair use, then fair use ceases to exist. There is hardly a fairer use. Any existing fair use outcome uses actual recognizable elements of the original work. There isn't really 2 directions on this. The damage that success for the anti ai folk would have against IP law is tremendous.
Then the programming language becomes natural language and you’ll have to be very good at describing what you want. Unless you are talking about AGI, aka, the singularity. Which is a whole other topic.
Is the boot time password unlock occurring in GRUB or after the Linux kernel has started? If the latter you should be able to setup an SSH server to run in that early boot environment, that’s how I can remote unlock drives on NixOS.
> We lost <1% of housing stock, it’s not like we’re rebuilding a leveled city.

In a shortage, marginal consumers wipe out the consumer surplus. The new marginal consumer is now a multi-millionaire. Housing prices will spike dramatically in LA, in every neighborhood, for a decade.

That frictional pain is going to make the median person mad, and harm many peoples’ lives. We should talk again in a year when that new reality has settled in.
It's not popular because you need to create the cards yourself, and most people aren't willing to do this. It will only ever be popular with a small subset of the population that is interested in learning.

It doesn't actually have lesson plans in order of complexity, like Duolingo. Gamification also brings in many more people.

I've been using Duolingo every day for 2 years and love it (I use this in addition to my own cards in Anki). The gamification keeps things interesting.
A Ten Thousand Year Lease: Cincinnati's Mercantile Library
English speaking content moderators that are also happy to endorse CCP propaganda…
Yes? A massive amount of material on the web (including basically everything worthwhile) is given and frequently even made for free. In any case, that has nothing to do with the user agent. Why would browsers (the agent of the user) implement functionality to make more effective advertisements?
So Tik Tok is banned. How long do you think it will take to ban other Chinese social media sites if they become popular enough?
I completely agree. Also, working on a game that looks cool is a huge motivation boost. Especially because people get excited when you show them the game. Show them a game full of grey boxes won't do that.
A grep that doesn't [get] stuck
I always use a virtual credit card number (like Citi provides) everywhere which has a daily hard limit.
Depends on the use case. If boot requires a password, the computer can never lose power or be rebooted without human presence. That’s not always practical.
The profit margin doesn't include things like CEO salary, correct? I could see a scenario where the issue is still corporate greed just not greed that's measured by profit.
When I briefly lived in Oklahoma I found it frustrating that they use stick frame construction for homes and apartment buildings. Even when we know how to build much safer wind resistant houses.

What I thought was worse was once a tornado rips up a neighborhood builders are allowed to build replacement stick framed homes.
> That is not how precautions work. If unsure, you ban the mostly unnecessary things.

Yes - which includes vegetables. Humans can generally survive indefinitely on an all-meat diet.

> "Do i really need this vegetable" yes

No.

So, your general statement is correct, but you missed the basic fact that vegetables also fall into the category of "mostly unnecessary" things - so, my point stands.
Question for A/UX people -- how easy is it to get semi modern C coded software on it? E.g. gnu screen, rsync and openssh for instance.
Yeah there's your problem. Hiring a random person and giving them unlimited access to compute resources is a bold move to say the least. If you're gonna work on something like this, do it yourself or hire someone who you can really trust. That won't totally prevent it but it's better than rando Upwork contractor who will move on to the next gig
Could Elon Musk's omnipresence have a negative effect on gov and tech relations?
REFERENCE: Today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith had a call with the incoming president. Elon Musk 'casually' joined the call.

I understand that Elon Musk has a DOGE (Dept. of Gov Efficiency) role in the incoming administration and just from reading online has free roam, almost a floating position. MEaning he can be part of any conversation as he desires as his department is an overseer of all the other government departments. Could this boundless privilege actually force large tech companies to not be as open in discussions with the president and government given he is, for the most part, a direct competitor to all these folks businesswise. I doubt most companies would be as open with vision and plans if Elon is just listening in.
> Rules of the water says smaller ship yields right of way to bigger ship. Sounds like you screwed up if your yacht got hit by a bigger ship.

Not necessarily. Steam is obliged to give way to sail, even when the sailing ship is much smaller.
Limits Reached -> PubSub Notification -> Shutdown Sequence.

Because it's a free plan, the delay between 'limits reached' and actual shutdown only incurs the cost of providing the service during that brief period, not the potential liability of overcharging that might exist on a paid plan.
Are they still going to allow just any random weirdo to own a lathe?
Lets pretend the CEO made $0 over 2 years and that $50m goes to what?

- $350 annual bonus to the 67,000 employees?

- Lower the cost of the 91 million policies by $0.27 per year each?

- Cover an additional 50 homes in California?

Where should it go?
So? I don't think you are really making an argument. $42 trillion created, and by those same accounting rules they got the share that they created. There net worth is just the stock value x number of shares they have. Their wealth is directly correlated by how much value the market thinks their companies are worth.

This is not a problem for me.
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I think you and the parent comment are talking about different scales. A large SaaS company deal could be $300k per month per customer, and the sales process for a company like that can involve changing the software to meet the needs of the customer. A very early lesson is that what the customer says they need is not always the same as what they actually need.

One of the many reasons calls happen is that customers say "I need XYZ feature in order to do this deal," and the salesperson then needs to ask why they need XYZ feature, and what they want to accomplish, and maybe existing ABC feature actually meets their need, or maybe the company needs to develop XYZ feature to secure the contract. Once you get into a complex domain, that is not happening over email.

The article contains good advice to many businesses out there, but it's worth considering the situations where it doesn't apply, too.
Neat idea, thanks!
Kosmos 954
literally b/c the thermal effect on our phones?
It sounds like a bad job so they should work elsewhere. These are not slave labor camps.
Technology can't save you from famines when there isn't enough sunlight to grow crops for a season or two. One good supervolcano and civilization might collapse or at least take such a hit as to be utterly transformed. Billions dead, etc.
In old enough I’ve seen many heros die. But this is the first time I’m honestly surprised.

I was holding out hope he was actually immortal.

I know that sounds really weird, but that’s the sort of thing he inspired.

If anybody was going to live for ever it would be him.
One thing worth noting about these agriscience improvements you're touting would be they require a combination of non-renewable inputs and unsustainable amounts of water. There is also the minor issue of unrecoverable topsoil depletion and the steady decline of nutrients in agricultural products tracked over decades. Kicking the can down the road isn't the same as solving the problem.
Because carrots don't work. Carrots haven't worked in any country in the planet. Carrots haven't worked in Asian cultures, in Anglo cultures, in Scandinavian cultures.

They should try a stick instead.
Are you against court-ordered community service?
Most things put into space are designed to burn upon uncontrolled descent through orbit. And then the overwhelming majority of Earth is water and even on land the overwhelming majority of land is either completely uninhabited or sparsely inhabited. And then even if against all odds somehow something doesn't burn up in the atmosphere, and somehow lands in a densely populated area - the odds of hitting a spot with somebody or something relevant on it is still quite low. The overall odds of actually hitting somewhere really bad are just astronomically low.

Nonetheless, recently NASA won the lottery when part of some batteries they jettisoned from the ISS ended up crashing through a house in Florida. [1] Oddly enough there are treaties on this, but only from an international perspective - landing on your own country was not covered! But I'm certain NASA will obviously make it right, as would SpaceX. If they didn't, then surely the family could easily sue as well.

[1] - https://www.space.com/space-debris-florida-family-nasa-lawsu...
Dark mode is an accessibility feature for myself, and many others I would imagine.

Calling it dark mode might not be ideal though. We should probably call it something like system theme awareness, or anything that doesn’t make the reader to think “gee, that’s not the theme I like.”

Prefers-color-scheme exists. It’s not that hard.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
That's a great read - thanks for sharing!
"Correctly" is doing a lot of work here. Some readers might miss that this is double edged. Insurance is a mandated product. You don't have a choice if you want a mortgage, or want to run a business. So while it is true that the sustainable price for insurance in many areas is higher than what current regulations allow, let's not forget what happens in an unregulated insurance market; price gouging.
Jony Ive specifically has said he looks up to Dieter Rams and his philosophy
> the insurance rates in Pacific Palisades or on the Florida coast would be so high that no one could afford to live there

I'm not so sure. The Pacific Palisades have astronomical real estate prices. (actually costly property in Florida isn't cheap either). I think the insurance costs would come out of the property prices.

I say this on the basis that the prices the real estate sells for is already what the market will tolerate, if there are other costs to owning it-- then the remaining part the market will tolerate will be less.

Perhaps a result of this is that it may only be realistic to construct lower costs 'disposable' cabins in areas with higher disaster risk... if so, that wouldn't sound like an unreasonable way to allocate resources.
Perhaps this is pedantic but for someone who seems principled about strictly using standards, markdown itself has no real standard - you'll find wildly different implementations all over the place.
Yes to gathering requirements but for everything else it might be possible. See Genatron AI
Good advice indeed, but paying is only one part of the problem; you'd still owe the bill.
Thank you for the suggestion. I have implemented something like this but still experimenting with different factors.
works with Node too
Executive pay is such a tiny fraction that eliminating it would be lost in period to period fluctuations.
Are you asking me? I could see ti happening if the vendor was critical to the working of the system.

A power outage should take down a company, but stuff happens - you can bet the people working there are quite stressed.
I do my own little hacking project that I enjoy - and definitely where I sink my spare time when I can carve it out! But this level of dedication and final result can be very humbling.
To add to those two, I need a working demo (in sandbox of course) of the product without which there's no way for me to validate to what extent your product meets my requirements. It doesn't matter how many screenshots, product explainers, videos you might have put up. Nothing comes close to a sandbox. Trial period is also fine.
https://www.clydeco.com/en/insights/2025/01/california-wildf...

> The Bulletin was issued pursuant to California Insurance Code section 675.1(b)(1), which states that an insurer “shall not cancel or refuse to renew a policy of residential property insurance for a property located in any zip code within or adjacent to the fire perimeter, for one year after the declaration of a state of emergency . . . based solely on the fact that the insured structure is located in an area in which a wildfire has occurred.”
Seems like there should be a reasonable protocol for major protest to a presentation without actually stopping it: like a sound proof booth over to the side where they can make whatever gestures and signs they want, and also speakers in the booth that are broadcasting their opinions on what is being said... anyone in the audience can have an earpieces to control the amount and channel of protest they want to hear personally
sure but david lynch obviously lent into that way more than most others. his work is famously obtuse and the experience of each person watching and having that experience and interpreting it on their own was a huge part of the point of his work in a way that just isnt true for many other people
Health Insurance IS a huge racket. Insurance profits are only a small slice. Executive compensation isn't part of profits. The profits of the required sole source medical supplies company isn't part of insurance profits. The contracts, salaries, benefit packages, overpayments, and waste of healthcare systems and pharmaceutical companies aren't reflected in insurance profits. Just looking at the raw profit percentages returned to shareholders is absolutely meaningless.

You have to look at the entire healthcare picture and realize that insurance is the system driving the exorbitant costs. There is no legitimate reason for healthcare prices to be so insane.
It's in front of them enough.
> Now you can build concrete houses that are earthquake-resistant (eg in Japan) but it's expensive.

It's expensive here, but is it expensive in Japan? Here its' expensive because it requires extensive steelwork which takes you entirely out of the domain of rubberstamp building approval and into needing PE-stamped bespoke engineering and also gets overbuilt to a greater degree.
Not only that, but it the way it wraps around their skull acts like a shock dampener for their brain when they peck. Their skulls experience something like 1200g during a peck, humans get a serious concussion around 60g. Evolution is wild
Is there a VDI solution that runs on proxmox? I've only found UDS Enterprise.
>I don't blame some people for wanting to scrap the whole regulatory system after encountering enough of these.

Regulation can used to save lives and improve outcomes, but it can also be used to suppress competitors or favor a particular business practice and stifle innovation.
The Santa Anas getting stronger is very much related to climate change.
free-as-in-"we downloaded a bunch of copyrighted material without paying for it"

That's "free-as-in-load."
All employee compensation, including CEO and board of directors, is included in the expenses used to calculate profit margin.

Profit margin is all revenue minus all expenses.
Resistant homes will pay nearly the same prices as everyone else. So the cinder block home owner is subsidizing the sticks houses.

Same happens in autos. Monitored safe driving nets at most 10-20% discounts. Biggest factor is age, and even then, difference between 20yo and 35yo driver is 38%.

There are no tricks or deals to insurance.
ICs like to think they don't have to deal with politics. It is only an illusion that sometimes is true because their manager happen to protect them from those (double-edged sword: hurts visibility) and if they are lucky their interests are aligned with the boss. ICs often have a worse hand in politics because they have to fly blind in the politics world and operate with less information and visibility.
Why tech interviews are rigged–and failing everyone
Alleyways are good. They help prevent trash and smell from being on the streets people use.

NYC doesn’t have them and the city smells terrible from all of the garbage
What's wrong with the single file line? It moves plenty fast. It literally makes a difference of a minute or two, generally.

I have plenty of complaints about Penn St/Moynihan and Amtrak. The single file line isn't one of them.
Wikipedia has been a political echo chamber since at least the early 2010's. You will be hard pressed to find a single unbiased article that's at least marginally political in its subject, even if it is some hyperlocalized issue.

It's ridiculous (and exemplary) how bad wikipedia is, while still maintaining it's authoritative status.
Right, low profit margins are not a valid argument for why it’s invalid for consumers to suspect there is some inefficiency compared to other markets. Saying the system must be efficient because profits are low is like saying boiling water should be as cheap as 98->99 degrees C because it’s just +1 C - profit margins aren’t as good an indicator of whether there is an unusual amount of disorder in the system, compared to extremely context-sensitive resource costs for hypothetically identical systems.
Cursor.new – scaffolding app for cursor IDE
You're going to die if you're around to witness either (if you didn't already pass out from smoke/heat/lack of oxygen). It literally doesn't matter.

The advantage of suburbs in which houses are mostly built from non-flammable materials is that while maybe one or two rows of houses closest to forested areas will likely burn out, there won't be enough calorific potential for the fire to propagate further into the suburb.

Also for firefighting efforts the difference between a house burning out and a house burning down is huge. The former means that most of the fire is already contained in a non-flammable structure, reducing the risk of spreading and also making efforts to quench it with water more effective.

"Brick is much worse than wood for wind-stoked wildfires" is a strange take. If a wildfire is approaching, I'll take a town built from brick rather than plywood any day.
CFPB NPR: Protecting Americans from harmful data broker practices (Regulation V)
I almost forgot the accompaniment to the third item:

When you reach your 40s, something starts corrupting the youth.
If you don't want corporations using your software, don't put it out in a license that invites them to do so. (illegal scraping by ai notwithstanding)
Well, no one bats an eye if a manager chooses to become an IC (of course they have to know their shit, many of whom don't, and always bluff "I wish I was an IC"), but from IC to manager is not an automatic option.

Being a manager is "not a promotion" promotion.
Back in the day, Fuji had a sensor in which half the pixels had a 2-stop neutral density filter, IIRC. It was a 12MP sensor, with an effective resolution a bit higher than 6MP. It was amazing the amount of highlight you could recover in Adobe Camera Raw and the TIFs/JPGs were beautiful, as it’s usually the case with Fuji.

Alas, it didn’t work out in the market, people weren’t willing to trade half their resolution for more DR, turns out. Also, regular sensors got much wider latitude.
Even if you have a standard specular & diffuse model, indirect lighting is really important and you can't really just drop that into a shader.

If you want a standard I've go with OpenPBR, it is well documented and looks nice. Just skip the extra layers to begin with(fuzz/coat etc).
Suddenly I remember circa ie4 or ie5 that had the "active desktop" feature that made even well spec'd machines grind.

Now we run electron apps which are a pretty similar idea.
And they are the people who decide whom to fire.
> Are there any public forges that support hg?

Sourceforge, Sourcehut, and GNU Savannah all support Mercurial.
To be clear, you’re claiming that this was in fact behind them?