skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, X litres per km is X * 10^-3 m^3 per 10^ 3 meter. Which is X * 10^-6 square meter.

Cool. So my car has a fuel efficiency of 0.000007 square meter :D
I love it.
A Swot Exercise and Analysis
How would ML know what the correct code should be?
Because the world might be going to hell in handbasket, or it might not. And either way, there's essentially nothing that that you or I can (reasonably) expect to do about it. Or not quite nothing, but probabilistically speaking, epsilon close to nothing.

However to the extent that any of us might, just might, be able to help steer this civilization out of the death spiral it seems currently locked into -- such a correction will, almost by definition, require a very strong degree of (the right kind of) optimism. If we just say "F it", and give into pessimism -- we won't have any chance at all.

Therefore, from rationalist first principles -- we might as well go with optimism. In fact if the current situation we're in can be thought of as an evolutionary test -- then it is one that is selecting for 3 traits: (1) intelligence, (2) ability to cooperate, and (3) optimism (again, of a certain "right kind" that I don't have time to go into at present).

I realize this argument sounds a bit pat (like Anselm's argument for the existence of God), but I do think there's a lot more substance to it.
> Was the person looking at you even able to decide anything about what Marketing was working on?

VP? Probably.

> When you foresaw this huge danger to your employer, ten years in advance, you didn't keep mentioning it to people

It only takes a couple of slaps to make us shut up[0]. They didn't want to hear from me, so I stopped trying to tell them stuff. Simple.

In this case, what I did, was start learning about the iPhone, and start doing coding on my own, once Apple allowed us into the system (They didn't actually publish the iOS API for a while). I actually wrote a number of apps that would have integrated our products with the iPhone, as the years went by, but ... you guessed it ... they were ignored. I considered them as practice.

I remember once, one of my Japanese peers saying "You know, I sometimes see something, and say to myself 'Chris mentioned this, like three years ago.'." But he never listened to me, at the time I was mentioning that. In fact, even after telling me that, he still refused to listen.

I knew the company was being steered into the rocks, and was not allowed to help correct the course, so I spent my time, preparing a lifeboat. I don't have to justify to anyone, why I stuck around. If I have to explain, they wouldn't understand.

Ego is a powerful force. We will utterly destroy ourselves, in order to salve our own insecurities.

> change companies

That seems to be everyone's answer, these days. I guess I'm stupid. I have not found it an attractive choice.

[0] "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow."

-Charles Browder
So your answer to “what makes you optimistic about the future?” is the apocalypse?
Reminds me of pets by porno for pyros
In a sense, inequality is also a potential source for art. Wealthy artists are less likely to critise their wealthy patrons.

Every member of a society should have the right and freedom to intellectually critise that society. So an artist class might just be as successful as an journalist class (that we already have since journalists do enjoy certain rights that other classes don't).

What is important, IMHO, is that we don't lose sight of the fact that art also has a critical role to play in society.
That's interesting. My kneejerk reaction to your comment was "no, you don't have a strategy for landing a man on the moon, you have a mission architecture!". But on further consideration there really seems to be a lot of overlap between system architectures and strategies (in the Rumelt sense). Diagnosis, kernel, guiding policies. Seems to fit both domains.
Reminds me a lot of Beware the Man of One Study by Scott Alexander

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/BQBqPowfxjvoee8jw/p/ythFNoiAotjv...
I think gp is saying that since it switch from mono to core before you will be able to finish a game, you might have a bad time when they switch implementations.
By the way, I'm also interested in solving the "no recursive macro" problem hinted at in this submission. While working on __EXP_COUNTER__, I looked into it a bit.

The big issue is that the GNU C preprocessor uses global state for tracking expansion. In effect, it takes advantage of the no-recursion rule and says that during a macro's expansion, only one context for that expansion needs to exist. That context is patched into the macro definition, or something like that. (I don't have the code in front of me and it's been a few months.) The preprocessor knows that there is a current macro being expanded, and there is a stack of those; but that is referenced by its static definition, which has a 1:1 relationship to expansion state, like parameters, location and whatnot. That might have to turn into a stack, perhaps; there is a refactoring job there, and the code is a bit of a hornet's nest.

In terms of syntax/deployment, it would be easy. I envision that there could be a #defrec directive that is like #define, but which creates a macro that is blessed for recursive expansion. Or other possibilities: #pragma rec(names, of, macros, ...) which is better for code that has to work without the extension, since it uses #define.
I don't think it's illegal. You are holding it within the confines of their online system
Exported Authenticators: The long road to RFC
>Is there anything foundamentally wrong with buses and trains

It's slower, a round trip I could make in 30 minutes in a car would take careful scheduling and two hours on a bus. Sometimes it's cold outside and I'd have to walk half a mile to and from a bus stop. The local transit authority is experimenting with reducing the number of light rail cars so they'll be better covered by transit police in cars because violence is a problem. Once on BART I'm convinced somebody shit in a paper bag and left it in the middle of the car. Caltrain in rush hour would be a violation of the Geneva Convention if you made prisoners stand in such a cramped and unstable train for an hour at a time. I keep hearing about people getting stabbed by the local bus stop, 45 minutes after a friend visiting me came through the last time. A couple of months ago a dude died in the hospital after getting stabbed on a bus three blocks away from my apartment in a dispute over who got a cigarette left on the floor of the bus.

I calculated total cost of ownership of my car and it was considerably less than taking public transit unless I used public transit a lot, and any savings would be completely blown away by using Uber for just a couple of trips a month.

There are situations where public transit is a good thing, but it's generally a dirty, crime-infested, unpleasant experience in America only good for people who are really excited about not having a car. I'm opposed to any measures that force public transit on people by making car ownership more difficult until after they make public transit a safe, convenient, comfortable experience.
I could be mistaken, but Oracle’s Always Free tier seems to me to be fool-proof in terms of accidentally incurring charges. You do have to provide a credit/debit card on signup, however they promise that it won’t be charged unless you change account type, off the Always Free tier.

As an example, so far it has been enough for me to run a Nextcloud server with around 180GB storage.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free
For a farmer that works out to a bit less than 10 minutes of harvest. There are big it depends in the above, a high yielding wet corn crop might be a couple minutes, a poor yielding dry crop can be several hours. That is just the grain, most of the plant goes out the back of the combine. A quick search shows forage forage harvestors can do 400 tons per hour, I just took the first number a search found without checking details.
I'm only familiar with the systems where the fob is still just a proprietary remote. It also has a phone app, and that's what costs extra. The fees are too high, but the existence of a fee is sensible.
Ask HN: How do you document your Data Models?
When documenting my last project I came to the realization that all projects I have worked on have a very poor documentation of their data model. I believe that this leads to longer onboarding time and a lot of newscommer mistakes in the project (such adding new properties for something that exists somewhere else). Generally the data model is documented in the database / ORM, but it generally describe the physical representation of the data in the database (name is a Varchar(128)) but not how/for what such data are to be use (which is sometime complicate to understand on old project where knowledge has been lost and when naming is not consistent/explicit).

It seems that recent ORM that allow you to describe your DB schema as code (like Prisma) allow you to add ‘comments’ on your Data model, but I feel it’s not enough.

I have look at the data modeling tooling but haven’t found satisfying solutions.

I missing something? How do you document your app data model?
What he says the issue is: We should have consulted an expert before finalizing our architecture.

What I see the issue is: We have exactly Nobody in our organization whose full-time job is to perform deep[0] testing.

[0] https://www.developsense.com/blog/2022/01/testing-deep-and-s...

"Risk coverage is how thoroughly we have examined the product with respect to some model of risk."

There had been no modeling of any kind of risks related to networking issues with this technology, so there is no surprise that something went terribly wrong.
It's very true; I remember one game I was working on, when you pulled down the code and new assets it'd take a long time to rebuild the "Library" (which is not something you can check in). And sometimes, if your version of the project was acting wonky and everyone else was fine, the solution was to delete the Library and rebuild it from scratch. If you were doing it from scratch, it could take hours. They've made some improvements but it's still a mess.

The editor itself always seems very buggy. If you have the "Console" open (which you will if you're coding), it's pretty much guaranteed you're going to see a lot of random errors that have nothing to do with even your code. A lot of them don't even make sense or could be ignored. Like you'll get weird asset import errors if you upgrade versions, but a lot of times they're just red herrings and not important. There's also a lot of QOL stuff that's very frustrating, like arrays being annoying to edit (I'm not sure if they've fixed this yet or not). It's also easy to accidentally brick your editor on your own, with debugger shenanigans or loops that don't end.

Also, if you're trying to build a an editor extension, omg was that a nightmare. Just getting things like Undo/Redo and object serialization working correctly are difficult and in some cases impossible. And frankly, you need extensions for a lot of things to actually be useful, like until recently the builtin terrain editor was basically useless, and you have things like Odin because the builtin inspector is a nightmare.

There's a lot to like about Unity, but there's also a huge amount of pain points with it.
For the niceness part, I wrote a small helper [1] quite some time ago, and it really is handy in some situations.

[1] https://codeberg.org/post-factum/litter
> In 2005 (the year Unity hit the market), there were thirty-nine new games on Steam. In 2021, there were over 10,000.

While I think your point still holds, I think it should be noted that 2005 was 2 years after steam released. And still primarily a distribution platform for valve’s first party games. There were many more games available via other distribution channels.
Thank you for the recommendation! I'm having trouble phrasing a warning in a way that's clear to a scam victim, without seeming weird or off-putting to business contacts. It's somewhat upsetting to think about this too much, which may be why I'm struggling.

Would you mind suggesting how to word it?
Glancing over my comment again, I can see it appearing fairly heartless, if you have the archetypal image of a homeless guy who's laying at the side of the road in your head.

But I don't even mean those or have that much of an issue with them (there aren't many of those here.)

What I mainly had in mind is a phenomenon that may not be very common outside my country (idk). I live in a country with social healthcare and government welfare for those who have no work. The people who are running from person to person in the streets begging for money aren't really needy. They most likely already collect welfare from the government, and they additionally beg as they don't want to work, and the welfare office can't deduct that money from what they get, since it isn't documented.

These are healthy looking young guys in their mid-20s or so, who are completely able-bodied, well dressed, and they're begging as if it is their fulltime job. It's apparently pretty lucrative, else there wouldn't so many of them be doing it.

They've recently become a lot more brazen in their tactics and will verbally assault and sometimes even follow you around for not giving them anything. They ask for money for food as they claim to be hungry, but when you offer to buy them some food they get angry with you as well.

These people aren't needy, and there are so many of them now that I've grown so tired of it that I first started completely avoiding downtown, and ultimately also moved somewhere else (there were other reasons of course.)

I don't have any problem helping someone who's really down on their luck (and you can usually see it pretty easily), but I'd never give money, always offer to buy them food instead. I also point them towards various places they can go to get food/shelter/help.

I'm angry at those who abuse the goodwill of people because they've turned that city I loved so much into a place where everybody always tries to quickly get-in-and-out, never look someone into their eyes, because that might prompt them to try to manipulate you into giving them money, and just generally turned downtown into a place where everyone constantly wants to rush through and avoid any contact with others.

I'm not just blaming those beggars, I also blame the people who give them money. People need to stop falling for this, it turns cities into shit.

Anyways, enough ranting for tonight...
Good point, there's some hypocrisy at play here. I think overall though the "taking" done by RH is on the whole much less than most of the 3rd party support vendors. But my original language was a little harsher than I really feel.

Red Hat funds an enormous amount of the development of projects (like the kernel), and makes Fedora one of the best (IMHO the best) distros for personal computing, so is one of the top contributors to the community at large. Their support also actively fixes bugs and sends them upstream.

Contrast that with many of the cheaper 3rd party supports, who rarely if ever send contributions (beyond bug reports, which are sometimes a positive contribution, but frequently are net drain because the bug reports don't contain enough info to be reproducible or actionable). They also don't do much or any development.

Of course this is a broad stereotype. I'm sure you can find 3rd party support providers that do contribute to the community.
I really wish that all thermostats at least had the option for local control. z-wave and other standards for this aren't even new.
Automatic windows seem hard, but you can accomplish this "easier"(not super easy, but doable if you are a home DIYer) by having a "whole house fan" + a make up air unit(basically a vent that opens up when the fan turns on, supplying outside air to replace the air the house fan takes away).

Fairly common to see here in Boulder and the front range in older homes(before ubiquitous AC units), because it tends to be cool at night + hot in the day during summers, so around 5AM you can have the house fan turn on, cool your house, and then you ride that throughout the day until the evening when the temperature starts to drop again. Works quite well IMHO - my first rental had a system like this as well as AC, but I actually never touched the AC.
Does precooking really work? I’d assume it would have to cool my house down below 65 to keep it below 80 all afternoon. 111+ days are brutal in certain rooms even with both ACs set to 76.
Huh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document says:

> Documents are also distinguished from "realia", which are three-dimensional objects that would otherwise satisfy the definition of "document" because they memorialize or represent thought; documents are considered more as 2-dimensional representations.

I think "realia" - a term I had never heard before - describes runestones better than "document".
Thinking beyond accuracy: Towards reliability in deep learning
Why would it kill security? Chrome OS already supports Play and Android apps: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7021273?hl=en
Of course, Tesla is also more friendly than these others and makes the service free.
What is your point? My point is that they're not incentivized to push games towards abusive MTX like the parent hypothesized.
In the long run ACs are exactly 100% efficient at heating the environment. The extra heat is only temporarily displaced from the building being cooled, and will leak back in eventually.
I'm sorry... What is the point that you're trying to make? That mRNA spike protein lasts forever while viruses are cleared in a week or so? That they're different? I assume they're effectively similar from any source and if there's a problem it should increase with increasing level.

There is a risk from the vaccine: spike protein + delivery package. I think there's a greater risk from the vaccine: more spike protein, risk of cytokine storm, etc. If you don't like mRNA vaccines, there are a number of alternatives using different mechanisms to deliver material to train the immune response. But the spike protein is a good target as it's absolutely required for transmission.

Perhaps they'll find a region of the virus that is (relatively) invariant and develop vaccines to that. So far, the human immune system has been unable to do this.
Aren't "Machine Readable Specs" a programming language?
The idea of a "pledge" utility isn't a novel one, it is my understanding that one was intentionally not provided.
Why not just use the native GD Script? IMO is far easier and cleaner to read than C#.
and RH doesn't have to bear much of the cost of the development of Linux, GNU, and many other products. This is the spirit of OS.. If you think that's unethical, you should find another employer ;)

edit: ah.. former employee.. so that part was already done :)
Right, I'm saying that is incorrect. Very incorrect.

Some people do buy synths as sort of an art piece but they are rare

Hardware synths absolutely still do have sonic capabilities that are difficult to emulate in software (we're getting to that crossover point, but it's still some ways away). Let's just assume that you're right and software can do anything hardware can...

Some of the critical factors that make hardware more enjoyable (and thus valuable) for a musician:

You don't HAVE to use your eyes. Don't underestimate what a huge part this plays. The context switch that you go through when switching from the largest part of the brain (visual processing) to audio is substantial. It removes you from flow state. Artists will pay high premiums to stay connected to what they are doing emotionally. Clicking a mouse on a computer is one of the fastest ways to get out of emotional flow. Hardware is one of the easiest to stay in flow.

Physical performance. Just because you can do something with a mouse and values doesn't mean it's easy to do something that you would hear a human doing in a performance. It is far, FAR easier to just... perform it. Eventually we'll have humanization algorithms that blur this but again, we aren't there yet.

Software is also far, FAR too flexible for many musicians. The design of software often times gets you out of the sweet spot of the instrument. Typically when you buy well designed hardware you can't do anything that makes it sound bad. That's a magical thing. Typically in software you can make a sound EXCELLENT (often extremely excellent) but it takes a ton of work to get there. Different ways of doing music.

There are a lot more things I could go into but those are a few of the big ones
would tape be cheaper? it'd be a lot more annoying to use, but at least you'd have a backup, even if you have to queue a request to access.
>I personally find that gross and unethical.

Where does the code come from ? All in the game yo.
So they must have plenty of cash to provide those benefits, but the long-term outlook must be really grim.

I don't think this is a "cut-once and deep" strategy. I expect a lot more later too.
Haha, anyone remember last year, when we thought big city apartment dwelling was going to go out of fashion?
The last three companies (including where I am now) use Google GSuite so I use Chrome on my MacBook for work. I otherwise use Safari. This makes sense to me.

BTW, I used to donate to the Nyxt project but I started having major difficulties getting it installed (perhaps this is when I did the M1 transition?).
A similar story happened with digital cameras. A few of the film companies practically went out of business before the electronics got sorted out and what differentiated the good from the bad cameras circled back to the mechanical parts, which the incumbents had locked down ages ago. The pure digital play companies faded and some were acquired, and one day Nikon or Canon had the best DSLR system.
If you setup water heater / cooled systems using the in-floor (sometimes in-wall) pipes, they get that almost for "free" - you can turn on and off zones very easily.
Are they actually CO2 concentrators or some variation of buying dry ice or compressed gas and injecting it?
Owl: Content Distribution at Meta
Someone who works at a bar told me recently that they “discovered” long tubular pasta (forgot the exact name) to be the best organic straws.

PS: You’re welcome.
Quantum theory of consciousness put in doubt by underground experiment
It's just an apocalypse -- or probably many small ones -- for one species. The other millions go on to some degree, I hope! I don't think humans deserve some special place in evolution that make us more important than all the other life and life-like beings out there.

But yeah, I don't think there's any saving our species anymore, I just hope enough of us perish soon so other beings can have a shot. Maybe we can go through a dinosaur-like mass extinction and transformation, where our version of "birds" millions of years later can still be very successful even without dominating.
> Plus they report it more.

The implication there is that the areas with fewer tourists have higher true rates of crime than the official stats, which makes the overall case worse...
Paper available here: https://research.facebook.com/publications/owl-scale-and-fle....

Cool to get a peek at a large-scale CDN's implementation, even if it's an internal-facing CDN. Also of note was that their previous solution was BitTorrent, and that it was "only" 2-3x slower!
Right; it's "growth" instead of growth.