skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to help develop Diesel Engines before I moved into Software Engineering.

If they followed anything like what we did, they would just run load cycles on the engine in a test cell to simulate approximately however many miles of ‘normal’ use they want to validate the engine up to. During the testing the engine would be maintained, fueled, and oiled according to the maintenance schedule and customer guidelines the engine will be sold with.

After the testing, the engine would be completely broken down and analyzed. If there weren’t any signs of abnormal wear then the engine would be considered validated __under those conditions__.

The problem is when real-world use deviates from the testing conditions. Which is pretty much always. Then the manufacturer guidelines no longer apply.

If you run your engine harder than the test cycle load factor, you will need to replace the engine oil more regularly. If your fuel quality is crap, i.e. has any ethanol in it, you will need to replace your oil more regularly as fuel eventually gets into the oil, and ethanol results in high water content in fuels, and hence oil, which will break down seals as well as reduce overall lubrication.

If your engine breaks down due to poor oil quality from lack of regular inspection and replacement, then as a manufacturer I’d be very resistant to paying out on any warranty claim. Even if you followed the “guidelines” for oil
changes, you still have a duty to inspect the oil regularly, both as a responsible driver and under the car manual guidelines. Using bad oil and / or fuel is very easy to test for.

Long story short, the oil change intervals guidelines are just that, guidelines, and real-world use dictates the maintenance schedule. Frequent oil changes, before the oil breaks down / becomes crap, is just a quick, cheap way to prolong the life of your engine or any mechanical device with bearings or sliding surfaces for that matter.
Thanks for the source, I've been so curious about this information but it's hard to find.

I should have said "relatively effective", since I'm also under the impression that the vaccines weren't super effective at reducing transmission of the original variant (compared to vaccines against other infections). But I also haven't seen much data, I vaguely remember hearing something from the WHO like "60% effective at reducing transmission of original variant, 40% effective against Delta", but I don't remember.
I use archlinux as a daily driver, but it breaks far more randomly than gentoo ever did for me. Archlinux's bugzilla is full of random breakages that happen at random system updates. Here's a random python bug that been happening, cost me a couple of hours to debug and for now I don't update python until they get around fixing it[1]. The fix? Download an older python version(not too old since that would break everything else) from the arch package archive.

I don't want to hear anything about stable or production systems or debugging from arch maintainers. Every so often I forget the journalctl and coredumpctl command line flags and have to google how to do basic tasks.

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73002

EDIT: and before someone asks me why i'm using it, it's because i lke tinkering and for the most part i can deal with these "outages" on my laptop.
Is it really a 4x difference? And don’t British people drive more shorter trips than the US so even if that’s the case it’s also the wrong way around?
Yep there are a lot of positive impacts. Like you, I feel I know a little about a lot of things.

By the time I was in maybe 6'th grade I suspect I had better knowledge of world history, different cultures, ecology and a whole lot other topics then most of my teachers. At least at a superficial level. Even though a lot of books I was reading were fiction I knew a lot about the world. So (as you say) a lot of times when I need to know something I know where to look or have a baseline to start from. Also I think I understand how things fit together holistically better then average. And my research skills are pretty good, separating the wheat from the chaff and rapidly getting to the meat of a topic takes a lot less time then others I've noticed.

But, it hasn't made me rich lol. Perhaps because I have too many interests and they aren't always the most immediately useful. And there have been other problems.
My point is, this feels like an area where there is more work to do. Not surprising, the container landscape is a relatively new and rapidly evolving field that hardly existed when systemd was invented. But the fact that a piece of software supplies a killall.sh script reminds me of the old situation before systemd, when every software provided their own lifecycle scripts.
> It’s like asking someone in the street for directions and they’re embarrassed they don’t know the way so point you in a random direction. Not helpful!

This is an extremely good explanation of what is going on and why it drives me crazy.

I argued this with a search engine employee once and he said others had told him they expected them to do this.

Well, here's the point: If you go this direction the engine become unusable for certain jobs.

If - on the other hand one respect user queries one maybe also have to tell users how to get the results they want.

That is a tradeoff, I admit that. But one of the solutions builds a fantastic tool that might require a tiny tiny bit of training.

The other solution builds a toy that also works as a tool in simple cases.

Why do search engines go that way?

Seems to be short time optimizations all the way:

- making it absolutely idiot proof means more usage

- annoying power users doesn't have any effects until alternatives exist.

Now however Kagi exist and I have left DDG (and Google but they only used to be a fallback anyway) and I will go around tell everyone there is a new search engine in town - and I will enjoy it!
You mean the S&P500 down 0.5% and the CRSP value index up 4%?
Anonymity is a prerequisite to being unregulated. Monero for example is apparently resistant to US sanctions. They tried to sanction a wallet and ended up sanctioning a transaction hash.

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

> Digital Currency Address - XMR 5be5543ff73456ab9f2d207887e2af87322c651ea1a873c5b25b7ffae456c320;

https://localmonero.co/blocks/search/5be5543ff73456ab9f2d207...
Intelligent students know that it doesn't work to try this on the teacher, so it sounds like the machine still isn't quite AGI :)
Queueing researchers should be fine given the universe will be around for a while.
But now even the rich are pulling out. Musk, Bezos, Zuck have all upped their stock sales. Zillow also stopped ibuying. At least some non-permabear participants think that something is brewing now.
Posix Shell Tutorial
By all means continue to use your browser of choice, but Chrome does offer the same functionality for as many search engines as you'd like [1]. By default, the keyword for search engines you've used before is just the domain name of the website where the search engine is (which the omnibar is pretty good at filling in for you) but you can customize it to be whatever you want.

[1]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426?hl=en&co=GENI...
Sounds like the next startup mecca. Now, before bitcoin, where did smart people put their savings? Probably, any money that wasn't needed for immediate liquidity went into dollars or euro or securities denominated in those currencies.

The present state of the art is that cryptocurrency is an arbitrage that converts subsidized electricity into value that can be transported out of the country.
I've seen it said (on here) that crypto gives you a nice legal way to access the illegal drug market since much of the activity is from illegal activities. If this is true then crypto will probably keep going for some time.
Switzerland's currency was linked to gold all the way up to like '99
No nation is truly free, all societies are ruled by a small elite that is only concerned with its own wealth and power. How the elite rules depends on different factors, but their motives are always the same.

I grew up under military dictatorship in Latin America. Back then you could get in serious trouble if you said or did the wrong thing. There is a lot more “freedom” now but the people are still oppressed by their own social condition. Plus ça change…
There's a really good blog post about the engineering of mipmaps from the perspective of mipmapping messing up their VR game's text legibility here:

https://bgolus.medium.com/sharper-mipmapping-using-shader-ba...

(May have been featured on HN recently, I can't remember how I got there).

Often mipmaps are pretty much automatic from the player's perspective, it's often kind of baked in by the developers when processing the texture files. It can probably be disabled but I can't remember seeing that option in a game for a while.

I'm curious to see how Bevy's doing it. I'm making a game in Godot at the moment, and their is the option there to generate mipmaps or not for an imported texture, and you can choose use a bilinear or trilinear filtering for the mipmaps, but that's about it (maybe there's more in the API, I haven't checked.)

> Maybe what I'm asking for is impossible, because fighting those patterns any further would just go too far into blurry territory. It might just be an inherent property of projecting something on a grid of neatly ordered pixels, which is very unlike the receptors in our eyes.

Basically it solves this exact problem - that rendering a high res image at a lower size can lose details at points you don't want them to (e.g. because some part of the texture like a line is entirely in subpixel "space"), and pre-processing a lower res image to switch to at different distance thresholds from the camera. The result is actually better details at scaled down sizes, with much less flickering, even though the actual rendered texture at a distance can be much lower quality.

They can also save a bit of GPU power and possibly VRAM, as the lower res, distant textures stream much more quickly than the ultra high res, near ones.
From Wikipedia:

> NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) will also perform spectroscopy over the same wavelength range. It was built by the European Space Agency at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

and more.
>Wonder what has changed since then.

The monument is complete now. Time for next
Arch is not appropriate for production use. LTS distros (two years of stability or more) exist for a reason.
> Cryptocurrency's not responsible for even 1% of global energy consumption.

1% is huge, especially considering the trend: Bitcoin alone tripled their energy consumption during last year.
Source: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

Why shouldn't I think that 5 years from it could become 25% or more?
Curious that anyone believed this. Equally hilarious, I have to wear a mask at my desk, but if we go to the chow hall no one has to wear a mask while eating indoors.
I sent you a message via LinkedIn, I would love to partner with you on this.
Why spend money on JWST 2 when you could as well spend it on ... LUVOIR? ^^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Ultraviolet_Optical_Infr...
Fuel and oil quality is a lot more variable in the US, so are the environmental conditions, so you have to set the guidelines according to the minimum likely to be encountered.
Are you buying precious metals in the abstract, commodities market sense or are you manufacturing? Because if its the former, I still don't think that's a net positive.

I do think it has some small benefits like transferring money where there are no other options. But the vast majority of the network's use is in purely financial use and justified by HODLers and libertarian types. Its existence is largely a downside on its own even without the huge energy costs.
It’s two sides of the same thing, I think.

Some things are standardized with protocols: IP, TCP, SQL, etc.

Other things are standardized with storage formats: FAT, NTFS, etc.

NFTs fall into the latter bucket, with some conventions for the former but nothing as mature as a protocol.
https://www.amazon.com/API-Design-Patterns-JJ-Geewax/dp/1617...
Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR)
Identity via Career, or Lack Thereof
Exponential growth is so fascinating, and also the fact that so many things follow this pattern.

The DDG traffic almost perfectly matches an exponential growth curve.

A curious aspect of how it is misunderstood is how it looks to those who don't consider how exponential growth presents - basically nothing for a long time as exponential growth stats slow, then suddenly after it crosses a threshold, "wow its growing so fast", despite the growth rate being the same between the two.

We see things as binary much of the time. Exponential growth presents as "not there"/"not viable" for a long time, until it hits a threshold and is suddenly viable/there.
I don't agree either. I have been using Linux as a primary desktop for 24 years and I don't have any major issue. I have a lot however, when I am using a Windows computer.
Nuclear weapons are a great technical achievement, too. And not one has been misfired yet.
/s
Corsair Withdraws Products in China Due to Packaging Misprint
No need to whataboutism this issue. Bitcoin uses over .5% of the world's electricity just to prop up a pyramid scheme and illicit markets. It's an abject disaster.
Perhaps there is a nearby source of sand.
Citizens of Kazakhstan or Iran suffering from brown outs or people near recently restarted coal plants may prefer argentinians seek other ways to work around currency and corruption problems.
I don't think that would work in this case. In that fire, all the fuel was coming up through a well pipe, and by detonating a nuke adjacent to the pipe they were able to crimp the whole pipe closed. But with this crater fire, I don't think the fuel is coming up through a single pipe but rather through the earth itself. Detonating a nuke there would probably make the problem worse, by shattering all the rock and making it even more permeable to the gas already seeping through it.

This animation shows the nuclear pipe crimping effect: https://youtu.be/3kwQfjGnVpw?t=68
To get twice the science done, of course.
Under conifer is dry shadow that is probably the most complicated place to grow anything.

Callicarpa americana can stand semi-shadow and the tiny berries are edible in jelly.

Asimina hates being too dry.
There's a difference between economics and finance. It is possible to have real economic problems while having sound financial flows. That's what's happening now. Inflation is the consequence: there's more money chasing the same (or fewer) goods. That's not to say that a crash can't happen... because it did in 2020. It can happen again. But under these conditions, we can expect an aggressive recovery (like we just had).

> yet we are in the middle of pandemic, millions get sick every day, inflation 30yr high, supply shortages

None of these things impact the aggregate profitability of the corporate sector. Please read "Where Profits Come From" [1]. The Kalecki-Levy profits equation says:

Profits before tax =
+ Investment
– Nonbusiness saving
+ Dividends
+ Corporate profits taxes

Profits for the most part come from the "nonbusiness saving" term, which is the government budget deficit minus the trade deficit minus household savings. The numbers are looking very good. [2]

> edit: i can't help but think there will be a counter reaction to the Fed printing dollars recklessly in 2020

> and i'm even more scared Fed will go on a printing spree again to keep the current bubble from popping

It's fascinating to me that in times of outsize fiscal stimulus, people continue to blame monetary policy on all of our economic woes. If you think that monetary policy has a much larger impact than fiscal policy, you have it backwards. Monetary policy has far less impact than is commonly stated. The Fed does not really print money, it swaps one highly liquid US government asset for another. And the size of bank balance sheets do not change when this happens. And repeat after me: banks cannot and do not lend out reserves [3]

[1] https://www.levyforecast.com/assets/Profits.pdf

[2] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4475023-white-house-fed-inf...

[3] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcb...
Is the argument less valid because someone made it in 2016?
> the difference between the two

One is bigger than the other as far as I remember which means that the standard error of the prediction interval is bigger?
SystemD is kind of like MacOS, if you have a typical use case then it makes everything very easy. If you are doing something weird it can make your life a living hell.
I experimented it too… to the point that I thought it was a bug. Now I’m curious, does anybody have the same problem?
In the words of the great John Bogle (who created a great many millionaires):

"Nobody knows nothing."
Do you know how people sometimes say "If everybody stopped believing the dollar had value, it would stop having value, and you could paper your walls with it"?

I don't know if people have stopped thinking the dollar has value, but I suspect people are beginning to realize it's all made up, and we're starting to feel the deep cynicism that comes from believing your world is a farce. I think postmodern thought has probably contributed to this, due to its deconstructive and subjective bent.
Indignation and fault-finding routinely get upvoted. It seems rooted in human nature (or at least factors beyond our control), so the only thing that seems to work is for moderation to act as a countervailing mechanism, e.g. by downweighting such subthreads. I've done that to the GP now.

It's also why we added this site guideline: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you have beta access to codex you can try and replicate their results. I have not been able to get the same results out of codex.
People should have a look as k-sortable unique identifiers (KSUID). Binary they are represented by 20 bytes and their string representation has 27 characters, which is shorter than UUIDs since the use a base62 encoding. They are sortable since the 20 bytes start with a 32 bit UNIX timestamp followed by random 128 bits. They should be very efficient for clustered indexes / B+-Trees.

Note also that as long as you have a single central database you don't need UUIDs. They are only needed if you have several processes creating objects without coordination.
In your other post to my comment you mentioned that "the internet" was referring to ARPANET so I'll use that version of your argument. Electronic mail [1] was already being used on private networks to mainframes 1962. Before that, data messages were being sent over Teletext, so these private networks were just trying to do away with requiring a Teletext printer. Before Teletext, you had telegraphs being sent.

ARPANET was built with the idea to allow remote access to expensive computing resources, mainframes, at universities and government research institutions. This is far from the idea that "the computers of the world should be connected", which is roughly the idea behind the internet. Electronic mail was reimplemented in parallel on multiple different networks. But for a long time, the internet was indeed a solution looking for a problem. Why do Joe and Anu's computers have to be connected together, who cares when they can call each other on the phone or meet in person? I mean, can Joe or Anu even afford a private computer?? Private networks for research or commercial purposes were already in regular use.

> I don't see any useful applications of crypto technology.

I think in your anti-crypto zeal, you're assuming a position I don't have. I don't actually think it's valid to say "cryptocurrency is early". The early computer networks were created at a time when huge monopolies, state-run or corporatist, owned most telecoms networks around the world. It was bound to take time when entrenched interests had interest in maintaining the status quo. I also think that comparing blockchains to the Internet is silly; the Internet is the Internet, blockchains are blockchains. My point here is simply that "we had emails and TCP in 3 years" is plain factually incorrect. The internet as we know it now (a system of networks connected via L2 links that are then bridged using IP/L3 on an IP virtual address space) actually took a long time to be developed. If you're looking for an analogy to show that 13 years is too long for usable innovation, then the Web would be a better one, as the Web legitimately was used within a mere couple years of its inception. I still think making analogy between the Web and blockchains is silly for the same reason I think making the analogy between the Internet and blockchains is silly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email
Mine are quite large. By fall they are carrot sized.
I mean obviously that depends on what you search for, if I search for topological donut none of the hits on the first page redirect, there aren't even any shopping sites on first page.

I also am not sure I trust the exactness of your numbers, how have you tested this?
Seconds does not measure time, it compares two lengths of different scales. The motion of an oscillator and a unit length. What is measured is length. Nothing else can be measured.
This is already on the front page, not sure why you posted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29855624
Oh I see now one small mention of bsc

Amateurish launch

They better rent liquidity with yield farming or launch a protocol owned liquidity incentive
I know how that "I wouldn't have hired you" thing feels. I didn't go to college for software dev, but am now working at my second job. When I got hired at the first, eventually a conversation came up that was supposed to be light-hearted with all the employees at a lunch (small startup), and the CEO (who is the one who had interviewed me) said "when you got to work coding, you seemed very experienced. But had I known you were only __ years old, I wouldn't have hired you."

Not sure if it was meant to be a good job, or a "you're lucky."
All three of my kids start school at 9am. We don't even have to wake them up. They wake up on their own and it's no rush to get them to school. It's fantastic.
clang-tidy / clang-format

to a large extent, lint came from an era when compilers were primitive, these days you should mostly look towards picking and choosing the appropriate compiler warnings.
this! same applies to any government body’s health and safety recommendation.
People should also be aware that certain devices will have specific features disabled when flashing to a custom ROM like LineageOS; vendor binary blobs on the OEM side and LineageOS' policy on reverse engineering them.
Topological Donut: design a system to fry or bake homeomorphisms of the torus
ESNI is no longer relevant since it's vulnerable to a few attacks. It's ECH now.

But it seems too late: some countries have already prohibited it via laws and regulations [1]. It may help other countries making censorship/intelligence harder though.

[1] https://linuxreviews.org/New_Russian_Legislation_Would_Outla...
Why Matter Matters, and How Does WiFi and Thread Fit into It
Fuel and oil quality is a lot more variable in the US as it’s set at the state level, plus it’s just generally worse, so are the environmental conditions, so you have to set the guidelines according to the minimum / worst case likely to be encountered.
I've been using DuckDuckGo to look up taboo topics such as vaccine data and conspiracy theories. I want Google to think I'm a 100% compliant COVID vaxxer and 'science' believer.
No, I couldn't sleep earlier, simple as that. In fact, I went on to have more serious insomnia around the time I left high school, which lasted for a few years.
Thank you for enlightening me on this topic!