skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work on the kernel for a living, and I find this claim exceedingly dubious. We're currently talking about experimentally supporting modules written in Rust, which is an entirely different beast than replacing pieces of the kernel core. The barrier to entry for drivers is significantly lower, and driver quality can be much, much poorer than the quality of the core kernel.
Many parts of the kernel have been fine tuned for decades, and many of the kernel developers that maintain Linux are also C experts (myself included) who aren't going to slow down development to migrate working code to Rust. It's great that we can experiment and see how Rust goes for driver authors, but they are still bus API consumers, not core kernel.
Checkout the new GitHub projects boards / tables. More power than I need but it's closing the gap on some key features JIRA has.
Every "smart tv" is or will be smart enough to connect to the internet via your friendly neighbor's "smart tv", and to do so silently for tracking purposes only.
Very interesting article and statistical analysis, but I really don't see how it concludes that the DK effect is wrong based on the analysis. The fact that the DK effect emerges with _completely random data_ is not surprising at all - in this case the intuitive null hypothesis would be that people are good at estimating their skill, therefore there would be strong a correlation between their performance and self-evaluation of said performance. If the data weren't related, then this hypothesis isn't likely, which is exactly what DK means. And indeed if you look at the plots in the article (of the completely random data), they depict a world in which people are very bad at estimating their own skill, therefore, statistically, people with lower skills tend to overestimate their skills, and experts tend to underestimate it.

Also wanted to point out that in general there is no issue with looking at y - x ~ x, this is called the residual plot, and is specifically used to compare an estimate of some value vs. the value itself.

That being said, the author seems very confident in their conclusion, and from the comments seems to have read a lot of related analyses, so I might be missing something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm a bit hazy on this and how a smart TV interacts with the rest of the devices in a home, but for example, I have a 55 inch 4K Samsung TV in my living room, which I barely use. Occasionally I stream a movie on it, use it for music when friends visit and sometimes hook it to my laptop as a large monitor through HDMI but that's it. About 80% of the time it sits unused. With all that in mind, I don't see how all of its internal spying and tracking software is even important. How much information could it possibly collect if what it gets is nothing more than sporadic generic movie/music viewing?

I don't see the problem with this particular technology if it's used lightly, unlike a smart phone, for example, which can pass enormous amounts of personal and location information on you even if you're not addicted to using it all day.
On a Russian ship currently actively involved in a war that was claimed to have been hit by a missile that stands off-shore way over the horizon yes, sabotage is just as absurd as space aliens.
Heat pumps really are reversed heat engines.

For instance, take a Brayton thermodynamic cycle. It's motor cycle, but you can literally just reverse the arrows on this cycle, it becomes a reversed Brayton cycle, which corresponds to a heat pump (or a refrigeration machine, depending on which inlet of the machine you're interested in). In practice, the reversing of the arrow means the reversing of the fluid flow, which means compression processes are now expansion processes and vice versa.

Carnot theory does still apply. The COP (Coefficient Of Performance) of a Carnot heat pump is 1/n, where n is the usual Carnot efficiency of a heat engine.

With n=1/3, you get a COP of 1/1/3 = 3 = 300%

Carnot efficiencies consider ideal machines. So ideal Carnot batteries have a n * 1/n = 100% efficiencies. It means you can't increase the efficiency of a heat engine by putting a heat pump in front of it. In an ideal case (ignoring all losses and inefficiencies), you would get the same efficiency. In practice, you can only be worse.
In the days of VCRs, they sold tvs with those built in too! An obvious convenience until the VCR part broke, which anything with mechanical components will eventually.
I’ve been trying to sell a dumb tv on Facebook all week, and people keep asking if it has Netflix built in :P
TVs are more than just displays, and software has bugs. As an example, my last TV had numerous issues with CEC and HDCP [0]. this was _eventually_ resolved by a firmware update from Sony.

[0] https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00173195
Why they didn't compare with Polars [0]? According to the h2oai benchmark [1], Polars is fast.

[0] -- https://www.pola.rs/
[1] -- https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/
Typical recommendation I always give to anyone looking for a dumb tv, get a JVC videoprojector, it's dumb and you'll get the biggest price to size to quality ratio possible for watching movies (note: the actual price is far below msrp if you look).

Buying a B-stock JVC DLA-X790R for 2,300 usd was one of the best purchase I've ever made. Amazing image quality, looks great on the 120 inch screen that drops from my ceiling in the living room and not a iota of smartness included.

Only thing is that it does mean that watching movies during the day is not great without black out curtains. This creates intentionality behind our tv watching. Turning on the video projector, closing the black out curtains and opening the screen means that we don't start watching tv out of force of habit. There's a certain degree of conscious decision behind watching a movie or tv show and I think that's beneficial to us by reducing the amount of tv watching and forcing us to concentrate on higher quality content.

It's a bit similar to using records to listen to music (I don't personally but I can see how it could enhance the experience compared to just turning on spotify) or to making loose leafed tea with proper teaware.
And you can do the same with the Rust dependencies (with cargo-vendor for example)
Cargo has even an --offline flag.
true, but I really loved my time I spent on my sailboat chilling on the water. Fond memories worth the money and effort.

Having a family now a boat does not fit anymore but I often think back to my Hai 7.10m
Your comment about HTTPie DELETE (or any other verb that changes the system state) points at the exact problem: what is the right balance between giving the user the power and preventing the user from shooting themselves in the foot.

For example, should "my brain switched to auto-pilot mode" be seriously considered as a risk to be mitigated?
> disinflationary like Bitcoin

Bitcoin's supply is better described as deflationary since it's capped and Bitcoin experiences ongoing losses. Eventually there will be fewer and fewer bitcoin in circulation. This will happen way before Bitcoin emission ends in 2140, since in 2061 for instance, only 320 BTC will be mined, and yearly losses will easily exceed that.
Many people download once, use constantly and on many machines.
My dev PC was never online since it was put together, all patching and updating was performed offline. All builds were bit-to-bit reproducible.
NASA halts third attempt at SLS practice countdown
Yes it's hard to know what is appetitive and what is rejecting in
culture right now. It is really self-devouring in some ways.

What the author (Luke Burgis) refers to as "thick" desires are, to me,
simply the age old depth of human values - messy, complex,
emotional. And he paints the countervailing ethos as "thin" - one
dimensional man (to use Herbert Marcuse's term).

But I am not sure his food metaphor works as vibrantly as he would
like, to describe culture, and in some places I think he gets it
backwards. Also, one should more sensitive throwing around words like
"anorexic" without thinking what that condition entails.

When I wrote Digital Vegan, it's original title was going to be
something like "Digital self-defence" [1]. But I wanted to avoid too
strong a combatative metaphor for that book. The Cody Brown quote that
is the final title came late, in recognition of the hostility towards
those wanting more control over their diet, whether digital or
culinary, and the courage needed to take a principled stance.

But control, or the lack of it, and compensatory behaviours is at the
heart of many problems. I had been reading Susie Albach's Bodies
about dysmorphia, abuse and self-perception. The relation of these to
technology had a big influence on me. However, reading about teen
suicides, now linked to social media and having in some ways
supplanted eating disorders in focus, led me to add this to the
preface:

" Throughout this book I use the metaphor of food and consumption to
talk about technology. In no way do I mean disrespect or to trivialise
the serious conditions of anorexia, bulimia, avoidant eating, or
obesity. Indeed, I believe that many forms of technological and
material abuse share the same root causes. "

Whether we build ourselves and our culture "thin" or "thick" revolves
around our ability to control what we take in, our knowledge of how it
affects us, and our own extant self-image in relation to what we seek
out.

[1] Thats phrase has been knocking around the cryptoparty scene
since 2010, and Snowden uses it in "Permanent Record".
Nice to see BearSSL being used. Definitely my favorite SSL library. No memory allocations by the lib itself. Still missing TLS1.3 though.
Maybe if you supported your claim instead of vague hand waving, it would be easier to respond?
In general by explaining behavior by societal trends you're removing agency. To say women are making their choices because of the way they're influenced is to say women cannot make independent choices without being swayed by outside influences. It's kind of a paradoxical thing
It's an interesting article but the author is using terms a little incorrectly or strangely I think, and making untrue statements. The basic points are important and interesting to think about, but could've been explained more clearly.
> This isn't enough to win.

If only I was discussing that, right?

> And Ukraine have been conducting mobilization since the war started

Yes, but the original question was, "Why is Europe increasing defense spending". The sum total of Europe's deployed forces is smaller than Ukraine's was before this war.
That's a good argument, but I didn't see the "we want the best people we can get with what we want to pay regardless of where they are." Which is what some companies do, they hire from all over the world and pay them in the same range.

Why should companies hire only from the US if there are as good or better people elsewhere?

You're looking at it from the cost reduction perspective, but work shouldn't be something you save money on, but invest it the best you can to get the best product.

In summary, looks like the CEO and CTO of your sample companies don't know how to collaborate remotely. Which is natural because it's not intuitive. And if you don't know and don't want to learn, or happen to be at a niche not amenable to remote collaboration, sure, stay at an office.
> big cities are increasingly unlivable

Almost everyone in my circles are loving big city life while working remotely. It depends on your life circumstances, and what you enjoy, but let’s not generalize that urban lifestyle is bad. Meeting new people, enjoying indoor activities, walking around and etc. are not dying anytime soon, and rent prices show how people are still willing to join in.
I don't think you understand the scope of what you're talking about. Linux is tens of millions of lines of code, most of which is drivers that have to be written by vendors.

Vendors aren't going to write drivers for your hobby kernel. No one is using your hobby kernel. Bootstrapping a new kernel without billions of dollars to invest in development time is almost impossible, and anyone who is investing billions of dollars is likely going to have dubious proprietary reasons for doing so.

A successful kernel is Rust is probably the worst thing that could happen to the open source community.
I definitely agree with this. Really appreciate your wisdom, as usual!

> it's rare to find an activist who has put in significant effort on themselves. We have a tendency to want to go out and fix things out there when really the most beneficial thing we could do is stop going out and start going in, fixing the problems within..

I see this all too often as well, and that's almost always why we have arguments that never reach consensus, because neither side wanted to change themselves.
Going to be the same solution with cars.
> This gets you banned in academics.

We're on a thread where someone is accusing Hof and Nestor of plagiarism and you made that comment as part of the thread

> I never claimed they were academics. Just that doing this in academics would get you banned.

If you want to make it extra clear that it's irrelevant, that's fine by me, but it's not a straw man either way.
Why do some people write Postgres as PostGres?
What is possibly unfair about that?
Breaking down a “cancel culture” scare story
That's the way I understand the statistical analysis, and in my view this exactly supports (not contradicts) DK:

> In reality, nobody had any clue how to estimate their own success.

Wouldn't that mean unskilled people tend to overestimate their skill, and experts tend to underestimate it? Why is there a contradiction with DK's conclusions?
From your message, it sounds like you think TVs are used only to watch live broadcast channels.

If that's the case, that's the part you missed, nowadays I think that we're at like 60-70% of usage that IS NOT live broadcast channels.

I do think there is a bit to be missed by not watching live broadcast channels, because it is an easy window to view how a large part of the population think, but yeah overall the content is pretty abysmal.

But, WRT having a physical TV, it's mostly comfort. I want to watch my entertainment (educative youtube video, dumb shut-your-brain-off TV shows, "complex" plot with pretty images TV shows) from the comfort of my sofa, with "happier" colors and brightness (I could say better "picture quality", but since it's mostly post-production changes, it's usually hardly representative of real-life, it's only representative of what the producer wants)
UDP still has checksums. It drops invalid packets
Do you really pay for less? Digital signage displays often run 24/7 in temper proof cases with relatively poor ventilation and heat dissipation. Thus you might actually get a display that lasts longer (which, AFAIK, mostly comes down to higher quality capacitors and capacitors placed where they do not overheat, e.g. not directly next to high current transistors and resistors, which is common planned obsolesce practice in consumer TVs).
Yes, the tactful way to discuss this is in terms of seeking a promotion with commensurate increase in compensation for added responsibility.
That’s pretty standard across everything.

The moment you do stuff because you enjoy it and not to get paid or satisfy other people then your quality of life goes up.

This is why I get paid to do something I hate (software eng) and live a quiet existence doing what I love. Which I’m not even going to mention on here. Not even my family knows what I love.
It's worse than that, they're saying communication was not up to their standards without actually communicating anything we didn't already know.

At least explain why there was such a total communication blackout company wide. Even support staff weren't allowed to discus it. Why?
Not that I do not have respect for Linux, but that doesn't sound like much in an age when we're reading about modern aristocracy buying up useless microblogging platforms for forty-plus billions. :)
No one builds rapport through zoom meetings

I disagree. I think rapport is created when you create things/solutions that makes sense for the business. You don't create rapport by being in same room when things don't make sense.

In high school I made rapport with teachers that were good. I did not make rapport with bad teachers who pretended to be good at their job.

Same as developer: rapport is made with other people who strives for clarity in design and communication. No rapport is made with people who play people games.
Office time versus zoom time does not make any difference.
Spot on. Even USSR-time RTGs have been looted, causing contamination and deaths, despite people being aware of nuclear power for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Lots of possible explanations. My mind initially went to small sample size, etc, but it looks like even assuming a 50% sex ratio (which, isn't quite right for bison, there are slightly fewer males than females) the probability of this result is around 0.26%, which is possible since there are a lot of fossil researchers out there and this is the type of result that would get press over a result that came to a more expected conclusion, but still. It's less likely than I initially would have expected.

If I had to guess I would have to assume it's something in the nature of how bison die. Say from male-on-male competition far from predators that may break the bones to digest the bone marrow. Or it's possible that predators prefer preying on females because it's relatively more safe than males.

Or it could just be the small sample size, of course.
...and you don't? I can lend you mine :3
Honestly it's still common all over the world, isn't it?
If some Indian tells you that they are progressive and caste is not followed these days, ask them which caste their spouse belongs to. And that will answer how progressive they are.
Here is the under-appreciated part. You always have friends when you have a boat. You have a headache, because you have a boat, but everyone wants to have a friend, who has a boat:P
10,000 g is certainly going to be an issue for anything squishy!
Barnes and Noble Went from Villain to Hero
I can only recommend aggressively blocking popular subs, ones that are managed by the big mods, and any that have even one political thread that gets a suspicious amount of votes. All actually becomes a source of new interesting content that way.
> Essentially, you are loaning the bank your own money, and then the bank will charge you interest at standard credit card rates to use the money you have lent them.

I have no words.

The credit card that I now managed to get by opening an account shared with my partner doesn't charge interest. It's a normal bank card except it has this non-IBAN number that I needed to pay for certain things. I expected those secured cards to work the same.

Is it normal to pay interest on what people in the USA afaik pay most things, like their groceries, with? I thought that only came into play when you overdraw or don't settle the bill at the end of the month.

I'm not sure if the one I've got now allows overdrawing (probably) but it's settled automatically and within a few days so interest beyond the hefty transaction fees already levied on the merchant doesn't make much sense to me, especially if I would put up the collateral on such a secured card.
Yeah, it's not a future that I'm looking forward to.
Hidden fees in Alpaca Trading?

No way!

Yup, they charge you under certain conditions and they don't mention it anywhere. Even worse, charges are higher than at Interactive Brokers.

It's a shame and they lost me right now.
Welcome in the "free trading" world.

How goes that saying: There's no free lunch.
Yes, when I read "autocorrelation" I think of a time-series variable that is correlated with its own lagged values.
And hope it does not get quarantined then disappeared? No thanks.
No. Classes aren't castes. You can change class but not castes. In this way it is more like social-racism.

I don't think the surnames "Gates" or "Rockefeller" are reserved or showing to which caste/class they belong.

As for group A feeling superior to group B, it's common everywhere and is purely subjective. Unlike a caste system that has some real everyday-life consequences.
See "Cinepaint: The long forgotten GIMP fork that once powered the cinema industry"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28578323
> Wouldn't that mean unskilled people tend to overestimate their skill, and experts tend to underestimate it?

I think it's because the original paper speculates far beyond it:

> The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.

The argument about autocorrelation says this "dual burden" doesn't need to be there to observe the effect.
So, I assume soon there'll be a pure-C kernel fork and some distributions adopting it. And I'd switch to that.
Thank you for wordnet! Wordnet is also the starting point of so many dictionary/language exploration sites, including mine, niftyword.com
That's why a level crossing has a barrier that's only there when a train is approaching. Imagine the barrier was always there; that would be asking for people to ignore it.
To go one "Why?" deeper.

The reason that our bodies do this, as opposed to making all muscles strong all the time, is to avoid wasting energy on muscles you aren't using. It is basically using what muscles were used recently as a heuristic for which muscles need to be strong to ensure survival.
Lazy Hardware Provisioning
NATO trained 33 k. People.

Europe and the countries bordering Russia have a lot of personnel. Sweden even reactivated military duty.

There's a big benefit in decentralized warfare that the NATO has been doing that Russia can't emulate.
It runs, without full GPU support (at the moment no 3d acceleration at all If I am not mistaken), and you have to use Asahi Linux, not your favorite distro (yet). Also many of us doesn't want to give our money to Apple.
Caste is another word for tribe. All across the world, the vast majority of people marry in their own tribe, for a variety of reasons.

I married within my own tribe because I like my tribe’s food and customs, and I wanted a spouse who likes the same. It all comes down to socioeconomic class at the end anyway, whether it be called “caste”, or “doctor/lawyer/engineer”, or MIT/cal tech/Stanford grad, etc.

If you have a friend who is a doctor or engineer earning $400k per year, would you try to set them up with a janitor earning $40k per year? Maybe, but I suspect probably not. Progressive or not progressive, humans are still animals, and they are going to play the mating game.
Dante? AVB? over tcp
That's a slippery slope argument, which may not be fallacious, not all are.

If we accept that Hof and Nestor have "appropriated" these techniques then the next question would be how has that led to the blocks you've outlined? When will I lose access to the authentic teachings?

> are we so sure that Patanjali et al would feel about that one group claiming ownership and only allowing that group to access it?

I reckon he'd be against it as Patanjali et al seem more focused on sharing the knowledge in order to benefit others but who's to know.

> Perhaps Patanjali didn't try to trademark/patent (or the equivalent) their techniques because they were morally opposed to this?

I think this point has been covered but I'll add that I've not noticed any form of communism in the system of yoga Patanjali systematised.
>we are actually paying more(of course, lots extra hardware cost) for less

Pretty sure 10 years ago I couldn't buy a 55-inch 4K 120Hz TV for $300. So depends on what you mean "less" as hardware-wise it's certainly the opposite.
The expectation for the switch to happen overnight in its entirety is very unrealistic.
- Watching movies/shows on a big screen

- Playing console games

- Common "sharing ground" when friends are around (let me add something to Spotify queue, let me show something on Youtube etc.)