skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super weird and needs a bit of editing but it seems like an actual bug. Shouldn’t a 403 invalidate whatever was cached?

As in it should bubble the error up to the user.
Xbox 360 emulation is still really bad for most games, despite what some YouTubers would have you believe. But let's say in a few years it does become substantially better. There's still:

• Nostalgia

• Authenticity

• Compatibility

• Preservation

• Cost of entry

Even if 360 emulation does become practical, a 360 will still be cheaper than any gaming PC capable of playing those games.
Besides, what's wrong with getting one's apparel at Banana Republic?
Here is an example: a certain blogger, Dave Addey [0] published a book [1] which is basically a hardcopy of the blog.

After the EMP flash of 2075, the centient raccoons will enjoy reading the stories of the civilization long gone.

[0] https://typesetinthefuture.com/author/typesetinthefuture/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Typeset-Future-Typography-Science-Fic...
Xbox security has certainly come a long way since the OG Xbox, which featured a pin header that may as well have had "insert modchip here" printed next to it.
mmmm... In this case, I don't think the "having a PhD is useless" is remotely close to what Sabine is saying, which is "academic science exploration and experimentation is broken". Yes, it's PhDs and career academics as core participants in the game, but there are plenty of valid reasons to pursue a PhD and then move into industry that are no incompatible with either 1) what Sabine is saying, and 2) the PhD experience in higher ed.
What if the users are partitioned by ID instead of email? You would have to iterate through all the partitions.
There is no reason for the delay to be more than 100ms. The 1 sec delay must be due to some extremely inefficient lazy init or a bunch of io happening when you switch between screens
Ah, you must not enjoy driving. Different strokes for different folks.
The U.S. is already much too large - we can leave it at that.
I'm using an M1 Macbook myself, but from a Permacomputing standpoint it's rather terrible. Everything is soldered, nothing can be fixed, replaced or expanded.
> seems that what this does is put the burden on reporting of this information back onto banks

Currently, yes. The modus operandi seems to be the President does X and then the Congress legalises it. (See: USAID.)

Not how it’s supposed to work! But precedented in e.g. the late Roman Republic. (Why, I believe, the British implemented a vote of no confidence for replacing the executive, versus our system’s much-more extreme system of impeachment.)
Starcraft players presumably not surprised.

But seriously, isn't this just a function of how much babysitting the robots require and how good the UI is for controlling them? I don't see why there should be any fundamental limits here.
I love the Leuchturm 1917 A4 Master Notebook with a dotted grid but the smaller B5 dotted grid notebook from Japan, the Maruman 104 Mnemosyne, is also perfect and easier to travel with.
It’s just malice. Hanlon’s razor turns out to be wildly unsafe whenever it becomes common knowledge that Hanlon’s razor is in use.
> reasonable to me to assume that those who wish to conduct their business in the shadows have something to hide

Remarkably close to the pitch against any privacy protection.
I'd say that the mini/micro PCs are better if you simply aren't io, power or space constrained. When you look at total cost for an RPi with an enclosure, storage, power, etc... the cost favors the mini/nuc when power isn't a concern. Space is the only other point of major concern for some use cases IMO (and G{IO).

When the RPi availability really sucked, I just started using MiniPCs for a few projects... in the end, I replaced my router, home server and a few other bits with a couple relatively powerful Mini options. They sit in the closet, don't use much power, aren't too loud and just work.
I don't understand the deep details of this, although I have submitted the forms for the three companies I own already but perhaps it arises from the weird nature of the US. It's a country, but not really. Specifically when you form a company it is registered with a state, not the country. The state knows (or could know) who you are. But, at least without looking in NSA databases, the federal government has no idea. Unless the state tells them. Which you might expect they would, but perhaps not? So this requirement is really there so the federal government gets a synced copy of the database each state already has, but done in the most inefficient way possible.

The same weirdness shows up with identity documents (drivers' license) which again is issued by the state, but federal authorities want to get the data. Ending with the very odd situation that you can choose from two kinds of license in the state I live in: one works to get on a plane (federal administration) the other does not.
They don't <<don't need to "rewire" themselves>>, they simply cant. That limitation keeps them confined within their predefined architecture.

Neural synapses can physically grow, shrink, change receptor densities, and form new pathways dynamically and autonomously at multiple timescales.

The brain adapts neuron-by-neuron based on local conditions (e.g. a single neuron strengthens its connection based on local neurotransmitter activity), RLHF adjusts millions of parameters in bulk, requiring external training loops, gradient descent, and centralized loss functions — nothing like self-rewiring at an individual unit level.

>There's no reason to believe that a computer operating with the same efficiency is impossible.

Theoretically possible, yes, but no current computational paradigm operates with anywhere near the efficiency of biological neurons; there is no reason to believe it will change in any foreseable future. If you think we know even 1% of the laws which hold it all together, well, you are very human and also a big optimist.

>This is just plainly not true. Continuous learning with existing LLMs is trivial

The claim isn’t about feasibility but about how continuous learning in AI is fundamentally different from human learning. AI models cannot learn continuously in the real world without external fine-tuning steps, while uman brains update themselves every moment through lived experience, without distinct training phases. While LLMs use large-scale unsupervised pretraining, their architecture is designed by humans with carefully curated fine-tuning strategies.

Humans learn language without needing structured datasets and token probabilities — just by hearing and experiencing the world. Machines simulate learning, humans experience it. The difference isn’t just scale, but nature.
Watching professional starcraft players makes you question if they are human. Their control of vast quantities of units and platoons is unreal at moments.
As I understand it, when exhaling, the nose create backpressure that facilitates gas transfer in the lungs.

However, my nose is decorative, and I must breath though my mouth. No repercussions as I can mountain climb.
Makes no sense - I'd expect the opposite, given how easier it is to breathe in and out larger volume of air through the mouth than through the nose.
TSMC will reportedly invest $100B to expand US chip fab buildouts
They use a ton of electricity. Probaby not sustainable for most (unless you have lots of solar)
> not aware of any language that provides this out-of-the-box, unfortunately.

Many lisps. Racket, for example.
Yeah thanks for the correction, I don't know Spanish, I just remembered this example from a long list of international sorting oddities.
-4 points and one reply, what is this, Reddit? The downvote button isn't for "I disagree".
Some stars, eg Lambda B, do appear green when looking thru amateur telescopes.
Go back to what the western world was doing in the 50’s. High tax and high public spending. In 1950 the US had a top marginal tax rate of 91%. The 50s were great, let’s do that again.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2021/04/26/taxing...
The "really fun ones" can often be pretty limited. How often do you need to go 0 to 60 super quick? Particularly when a Tesla minivan can do it faster? If you really want to try them, consider joining a car club.

I found a "fun enough one" worked best for me, because it can be a daily driver.
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Yes yes, let’s take a law meant to shine a light on corruption and rebrand that law as the corruption itself.
That is concerning.

You can always self host though.
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I'm posting this once more as there should be more traffic now. This occured during Janurary and early Feburary, adjust all dates as necessary. Thankfully a few weeks later something landed for me.

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I had a poor experience with Erdos Miller. I'm willing to take the reputational hit because I think it's important that people go in with eyes open.

I was approached by the CEO of Erdos Miller to do some data science work on anomaly detection/failure prediction, and signal recovery down mud pipes in drill holes.

Over a period of two weeks we signed an NDA, and discussed the problems. I laid out several approaches to solving the anomaly detection/failure prediction problem, including specific algorithms to use (or not!). This is my bread and butter work, with hard won experience.

On Friday the 31st I had a call and a new fairly vanilla anomaly detection problem was discussed, which he (The CEO) wanted to go ahead with immediately. He was asking about explicit approaches to solving this, which I discussed. We agreed to start next week - He confirmed that we were unequivocally going ahead, rates were discussed without pushback. I sent a rate card after the conversation.

On Monday I emailed to sort out logistics for data access, billing, etc. He promptly replied that he was taking the project in house. Now I've seen this post listing exactly the problems I had laid out solutions to.

Erdos Miller went back on an explicit agreement they made on the very next business day, pumped me for hard earned experience, and took a free option on my time (This entire week is un-billable, possibly more). Finally he'll have a leg up on structuring the work for these two roles should he fill them. That leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Discussed on 24-feb-2025, 69 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162793
There's so much real independent music out there that actually has meaning. I hope you didn't tell your friend you wrote the song, because if someone tricked me into listening to generated not-art and I found out afterwards, I would consider them a liar.

What your friend did, using generation for inspiration for real music he creates is fine. But if someone gifted me an AI generated song I would ask why they didn't pay a few dollars -- honestly not much more -- to a real artist to do the same.

Ten years ago a friend of mine did that, hired a real person, and it cost less than $20 to write a ditty. That's comparable to the cost in tokens for an AI except you could support a real human artist instead of megalomaniac Yarvinists Sam Altman and friends.

And the song would have real meaning. You gave your friend a non-gift. The Let Me Google That For You of gifts. Honestly if one of my friends did that I'd wonder if they even like me.
I've never bought an XP booster myself, and I feel some of the same conflict. Although I can obviously afford it, I don't think I could stomach doing this for new releases. So at most it would be something where I'd be interested after 2-3 years when all the patches are in, bugs are fixed, and review consensus has settled.

So rather than pay US$70 today for a buggy, grindy new release experience, I pay $20 in two years for the base game + $10 for the "player's digest" mod.

I expect even then it would be a tough sell, particularly having to be on PC— a lot of the market for this kind of thing would more casual console/mobile/streaming players.
You're right, the email address example isn't clearcut -- its not an issue at all at registration. From there, you could never allow an email change. Or you could just add a layer for coordination, ex. we can imagine some global index that's only used for email changes and then somehow coordinates the partition change

My broad understanding is that you can always "patch" or "work around" any single objection to partitioning or sharding—like using extra coordination services, adding more layers, or creating special-case code.

But each of these patches adds complexity, reduces flexibility, and constrains your ability to cleanly refactor or adapt later. Sure, partitioning email addresses might neatly solve registration checks initially, but then email changes require extra complexity (such as maintaining global indices and coordinating between partitions).

In other words, the real issue isn't that partitioning fails in a single obvious way—it usually doesn’t—but rather that global state always emerges somewhere, inevitably. You can try to bury this inevitability with clever workarounds and layers, but eventually you find yourself buried under a mountain of complexity.

At some point, the question becomes: are we building complexity to solve genuine problems, or just to preserve the appearance that we're fully partitioned?

(My visceral objection to it is, coming from client-side dev virtually my entire career: if you don't need global state, why do you have the server at all? Just give use a .sqlite for my account, and store it for me on S3 for retrieval at will. And if you do need global state...odds are you or a nearby experienced engineer has Seen Some Shit, i.e. the horror that arises in a codebase worked on over years, doubling down on an seemingly small, innocuous, initial decision. and knows it'll never just be one neat design decision or patch)
It's none of anyone else's business how long and how hard the Ukrainians should fight. It's their country, not yours.

> Russia is a nuclear power.

And Putin is not an idiot, so he will not actually provoke his own death and the wholesale destruction of his country. He certainly will bluff you, though, as far as he can get away with it.
Maybe we should challenge ourselves more!
Here are the Plan 9 4th edition system requirements:

https://plan9-4th-edition-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...

- 90 MHz or greater Intel/ARM 32-bit processor

- 32 MiB of RAM (system memory for physical and viritualized installs)

- SVGA capable of 800x600 screen resolution or greater

- Network connection

- 300 MiB of storage (SD, IDE, SATA, SAS)

- Either a CD/DVD drive or a USB port for booting the installer media
Is this piece supposed to make me feel bad for SAP and their terrible businessess dealings? Lol. You reap what you sow.
I'd consider the tools in the iPhone's Photos app to be amongst the most "core" features - yet there've been glitches in it for the past year where if you annotate a picture (say, by adding text), the position of everything you've added is screwed up when you hit 'Done'. I'm sure that's the tip of the iceberg.
There's also http://www.whence.com/minimodem/ which implements some standard methods:

> standard FSK protocols such as Bell103, Bell202, RTTY, TTY/TDD, NOAA SAME, and Caller-ID
You could drive the car the next day also I guess.
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Thanks! Yeah I agree 100%
Are there any other things that come to mind that you'd like to see?
Then no white teeth smile execs would ever take a job there.
Now do Waterbender for Windows apps, Airbender for macOS/iOS apps, and Earthbender for Linux apps.
According to their Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REI), REI is a "consumers' co-operative". This is a different thing than a "workers' cooperative". My understanding is that most grocery co-ops are organized as consumers co-ops, or something close to it.

The grocery co-op near me has occasionally faced the prospect of the formation of an employee/worker union. I imagine that unionization is a thing that doesn't happen (or get seriously discussed) in a workers' co-op.

I find this distinction vaguely fascinating, but (apparently) not enough for me to actually get informed about it.
> with no meaningful legislative controls on the confidentiality of that information

There are strong confidentiality protections around FinCEN’s BOI [1]. (Lol.)

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-31/subtitle-B/chapter-X/p...
This conversation always results in a ":shrug: I guess we'll never know" at the end.

There's potentially never going to be a silver bullet approach to this, or something that satisfies our need for determinism as in unit testing, but we can still try.

Would love to see as much effort put into this in the open source framework sense as there is being put into agentic workflows.
Ask HN: Have any of you switched away from Dropbox?
I am a long time dropbox free user, and I find it very useful, but I have more than three devices.

I don't want to shell out for a pro account because 120 a year just seems too much to pay for syncing things between devices, and I'm a tightwad on a budget.

I've tried various combinations of syncthing, github, owncloud, nextcloud etc, on private servers and raspberry pis in my home. I work from home and dont really care about having access to stuff away from home - its really more about syncing between various family laptops and across different OSes. I'm not talking enormous amounts of data - I have 15GB storage on dropbox from when they did various promotions years ago, and I have not hit the limit yet. I mainly just sync around important docs, scripts, config files, source code for things, handy files, the odd photo or thing I want to move from one to another.

has anyone found a good free alternative that actually works well? Was it one of the above ones I mentioned? if so, what were the teething problems?

am I missing a really obvious alternative?
In fact we already know they wouldn’t.
Imagine saving 2000 lives by sitting down for 30 minutes with a coffee and biscuit.

What they don't say is whether these 200 donors constitute more or less than 100% of the clinical need for anti-D plasma.

If my contributions were that valuable, I'd wonder if it made sense to keep me on life support just to extract my blood every two weeks. But alas, blood donors in Australia must be 81 years or younger, so I guess the question is academic in this case.
See also:

In a world full of touchscreens, why do Japanese people love stationery? (blog post)

https://hatsukoi.co.uk/blog/113-in-a-world-full-of-touchscre...
I've not modded my 360E, and it was probably one of the very last 360s built, but I've never had any problems with it, still play on it, and my understanding is there are fewer and less dire problems with it than the prior 360 and S.
With all these regulations being removed, I see no reason not to just start doing white collar crime. We’re being given permission. Who wants to launder some money?
It's a blast! There was actually just an event here in Colorado in Leadville. Tons of smaller mountain towns have them each year.
Reading the article my biggest take away is how low executive compensations are in Germany compared to the US. The top ranking ICs at US tech companies can hit low 7 figures!
Capitulate? The US aren't going into a direct war against the PRC even if Taiwan is invaded.

The play is to create trouble to the PRC, to bar open access to Pacific and to control trade routes to Japan/Korea.

The US do not care about Taiwan beyond its "usefulness".
If you'll take the moment to read the article past the headline you'll see there's more to it than that. Titles can't fit the whole article.
Bomb and kamikaze drones based on civilian drones are already a reality though, Ukraine uses to defend itself. Don't know why you're talking as if that wasn't possible, when it's happening already.
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I hadn't realized they've removed apps in the past like that. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/06/exercising...
How do they just decide to stop enforcing a law passed by congress?
>I've never worked on a product where 100% of the schema could be partitioned like this

SaaS for B2B works well with this, you partition by organization. Each organization has their own DB. Most organizations are typically small (no more than 100 users), and it greatly simplifies things. However, it's still problematic with large organizations (200k-300k is where it starts to fall apart).
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