skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this problem in modern times where, when setting up Windows PCs (via WinPE at our enterprise) some NICs would very occasionally not work right with the provided driver and end up with some default MAC.

Doesn't work out so well when you have a room full of these PCs all getting imaged at thhe same time and suddenly half a dozen on the same switch have the same MAC. :\

(I believe it came down to a BIOS problem and a new version sorted it out.)
This is a great example of the "moving goalposts" of AI.

100 years ago, a comment like yours would have sounded absurd.

There was a time when we didn't have any models that could beat any human's performance in any task.
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
A couple f years ago I installed linux on a machine to do some dev that wasn't supported in windows. My first time exposed to gnome. I have never used such a mis-designed clueless UI, and I could not believe the number of outright bugs I encountered. It was like it was designed by kids.
My biggest pet peeve with Gnome is the attitude of the devs towards bug reports or criticism ("you're holding it wrong")[1] vs the KDE devs that acknowledge the bugs and work to fix them and add features the community is screaming for (after the infamous LTT video, KDE guys fixed the UX issue Linus complained).

And don't get me started on the infamous Gnome filepicker. How are the thumbnails going? To which the response from the community has always been: "this isn't a problem since that's not how Gnome users are supposed to use Gnome" lol. Ok Gnome, you do you, just count me and everyone I know out.

I find it a shame that such a toxic and user hostile project has become the default Linux DE on most distros today, while KDE keeps getting sidelined because people refuse to try it since they had a bad experience with it 10 years ago and seem to hold a grudge.

I'm happy Valve chose KDE for the Steam Deck, though it is the most sane choice for it though.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787
My discomfort with task estimation stems from the fact that the description of the task is usually not detailed enough, either because the domain experts overlooked something or forgot to tell me, or because there are simply too many potentially relevant circumstances that have not yet been nailed down.

Think of a rather innocent question like this: How much time does it take to drive the 500 km from A to B? -- How well could you answer that question for a particular case, even if you had already driven from A to B a hundred times? There is just so much that could be different this time. Still, some estimates can be made. And as the article also pointed out: Sometimes it matters a lot that the guess is right, or you need a big margin of safety (catching a plane in B), sometimes it doesn't matter at all (going to your cabin in B).

Typically, the accuracy of an estimate cannot exceed a certain level, even when all relevant known factors are included: How many hours of sunshine may we get during our trip to Scotland in week 30 of 2023?

As for estimating tasks in software development, my approach is similar, but not identical to the one described in the article: I give a worst-case and a best-case estimation, insisting that I do not promise anything because there might be unknown circumstances that are even worse than in the worst-case scenario. What is also very helpful is to divide a larger task into smaller subtasks and give an estimation interval for each of them.

Typically the worst-case estimation is about twice as long as the best-case estimation. This seems to work quite well: Almost all of the time it turns out that the actual time spent was indeed somwhere in this interval. After a while, my clients get used to this kind of interval estimates and no longer ask for a single number.

My criticism of the article is that the question "Why do you want to know?" becomes less important (but it does not disappear completely) when management is given an interval instead of a single number. It is up to them to decide whether they can live with the worst-case outcome directly or have to adjust for it elsewhere or scrap the whole project because it might not be worth it. I estimate the risks, but it is not my job to take them.
OAuth 2.0: Security Considerations
Depending on the T(ce) and solvent compatibility/bond strength to surrounding plastic it could be as easy as pouring some LN2 on it and it might even pop itself out.

The whole glitter thing does provide really strong security against any attempt to melt/dissolve it, as well as good resilience against mechanical attacks, especially when adhered to materials it bonds strongly to, typically ones that dissolve in the solvents it contains. (iso acetone, mek, etc)
" The United States, in guaranteeing freedom of religion, sought to shield religion from state involvement. France, in guaranteeing freedom of religion, sought to shield the state from religious involvement."
No better example of the wrong direction of former approach, than the religion invaded SCOTUS.
OAuth Authentication Method Reference Values
100% agree. A popular "bring your own engine" editor would be awesome and would make a lot of sense (just not a lot of 'business sense').

The Unity editor is actually quite hackable and can be used like that, but that's very likely a 'licensing grey area'.
70-80 degree tilt will produce a lot more at latitude 45+ from Nov. 1st to end of February, but at the expense of much less production kWh per month during the rest of the year.

In an off grid totally battery reliant pv system such as for some telecom applications you design the PV for December, worst month of the year for kWh production. If it will "survive" December and provide enough for the load to run 24x7 then it'll be fine for the rest of the year. At high latitudes this cha mean a 75-80 degree tilt facing south.
Interesting. I looked it up, and it feels like it's the precursor to not invented here syndrome.

https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-turkish/general-conver...
.it may be the .tk of the 2020s
You should try a copper pan. They are great! Copper is also a very effective conductor of heat.
I guess our memories (and perhaps locations) differ. I remember The Economist championing Bjorn Lomborg. I remember the BBC getting Nigel Lawson on more than once to argue the anthropogenic climate change isn’t real. I’ve heard Irish parliamentarians tell us that only god controls the weather.

I suppose you can argue that much of our interaction with science is faith based. I’ve never seen an electron but I believe they exist etc. But I can’t shake the suspicion that if most of the world’s physical scientists think anthClCh is real, I should probably go along with them. Even if they do write awful code.
Consolidating logging in your Java applications
I get your point but I was specifically refering to houses in cities that people live in. The majority of houses were mud huts in Zimbabwe and these were not dwellings passed on from generation to generation. This is contrast to cities like London were some buildings have been standing for hundreds of years. This means new generations are not starting building from scratch.
true, except most people don't live in new builds. As explained in other comments here, adding insulation to old buildings is highly non-trivial.
Off the top of my head, I think there's some niche use in embedding shaders so that they don't need to be stored as strings (no IDE support) or read at runtime (slower performance).
ffmpeg is one of those tools which is great and just works, time and time again.

You don't know how to use a massively flexible tool that's fine, use something that wraps it, or employ someone who does know how to use it.
IIRC put 44% of the company up for sale over a period of many years and the price of microsoft stock did indeed go up during that time.

So yes, I think what would happen is what did happen.
It’s more like she has quantitatively or qualitatively different dopamine receptors.
30KW STC rating of PV panels does not product much cumulative kWh at all in December and January at latitudes 40+. Forget the sand he just doesn't have the watt hours to run electric heaters at all.
Or maybe someone would have come up with something that wasn't Unix clone... Maybe our computing would be in better shape.
One researcher the author relies on, Kenneth Pollack, published his dissertation work in two books Arabs at War (2004) and Armies of Sand (2019). The first gives very good overviews of Arab combat performance over the 20th century. The second tries to place it all in a theoretical framework. While the 2019 book adds some recent history, I didn't feel that it improved on the understanding of Arab military performance that you get from just reading the first book. And no, it doesn't seem that things have changed much since the submitted article was written.
> it will take 100 years to insulate the majority of houses in Europe

Citation needed. This number is absurd.
I hate to say it, but when I first read the title I thought, "What do monotremes have to do with autism? That's just weird."

Had to read it two more times before it clicked. Tired Australian here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme
China isn’t looking to obliterate Taiwan off the earth. They wage a war to unite the country: they need a functioning Taiwan as much as possible after the war ends.

To put it another way, they considers it to be a civil war, and will give plenty of warning in order to convince everyone else to stay out of the way.
Places like this should be publicly funded like libraries. They are for the public good and enable people to use their creativity improving public moral and sometimes enabling someone to build something great they could not have at home.

We have publicly paid for workshops here for wood working in many cities and towns. You pay a tiny fee to use the equipment but the rest is paid for by the state. These places are also used to teach "shop" to kids etc. I would love to see the maker spaces get classified as such as well.
And not having to store it locally but pumping it in form of methane into the existing net could further reduce costs.
I agree, the small size of individual elements makes it difficult to differentiate by eye. I read an article on this that suggested a cheap USB microscope as tool detect tampering for this reason.
And for the avoidance of doubt, yes, ffmpeg is used on multiple planets, not many things are, and many frameworks-du-jour at launch are obsolete by the time the probe actually lands on Mars, let alone end of mission.
I’d like my original question answered first
A genetic modification boosts grain yields, shortens the growth duration of rice
No one can reliably predict this, this is my opinion simply. I thought that was clear.
A very impressive improvement, it would nice if taste and nutrients improved.
Pretty much no-one actively doesn't want renewables. They might not want them built very near them, but that's different.
Anecdotally gmail has been doing a miserable job filtering spam for the last 5 months or so. For me it used to be pretty bulletproof - one of its best features.

Now I get something from McAffee Pratners(sic) every other day warning my computer is about to expire. Back in May I kept winning things from Home Depot and Lowes; and gmail would categorize it as "forums".

No idea if its related, just odd.
The person you responded to was talking about the whole of Germany. You're talking about one individual village.

Your sample size is too small to make generalisations.
If you are able of imagining the future, and capable of logical coherent thoughts, the statement "the need for quantum computers remains small" is just... damn narrow-minded and perhaps just plain stupid.

If you can shave off a factor n in O(n^3) then O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y it will change the world. If you don't see the obviousness in this, then why are you working with computers?

Before you hate on me, did you even google "quantum computer"? Did you read the introduction section of the Wikipedia article?
Read out loud! Develop your confidence and a steady, deliberate, practiced voice.

And have organized thoughts. Don’t be a rambler!
They want new housing but often built by the government instead of evil property developers.
Hands off till it gets upvoted on HN
In the long run it isn’t.
> PhD in the UK is a different level of poverty compared with PhDs in any other “Western” country.

I disagree. I did my PhD in the UK, I did a post-doc in France and the PhD students there seem to have it just as bad, if not worse. From what I've heard from the US it's worse as well, you're expected to carry out teaching duties for pay, and your PI is more likely to string you along for 5+ years and stop you graduating since you're useful and cheap labour.
... or code in a programming language.
Hi! Thanks for opening up and sharing it with us.

I'm going to refrain myself from sharing my opinion (only you really know the full context of what you have gone through and how it makes you feel). But if I could champion one advice it would be this: please give psychotherapy a try. There are different types of psychotherapy and different kinds of professionals, but if you find one that clicks with you it could be life changing.

I know it's expensive (depending where you live) and it's more often than not a painful process. But for many people that stick with it, getting to go to a good psychologist/psychiatrist is like having your mind, feelings and ego dumped and analysed by a thorough debugger.
Reads like ml generated content
Places without enough sun in the winter, and without enough wind, too, sometimes, will just import power. You might be able to draw down on HVDC transmission lines. But there will also be abundant solar farms in the tropics synthesizing ammonia for export. If the weather prediction says not enough wind, and your tanked ammonia would run low, and you can't book enough transmission line power, you just order a shipment, which will be substantially cheaper than NG, from anybody anywhere.

But you will have overbuilt a great deal of cheap solar capacity, because anytime it generates more than you can use, you can synthesize your own ammonia. First you fill your tanks, and then sell the rest.

In winter, the overbuild means you burn less of it. In summer, the excess ammonia will find an unlimited market because ammonia is so useful. It is fuel, it is fertilizer, it is refrigerant, it is feedstock for myriad chemical processes.
It's funny because that's my exact experience using Windows. Buggy and incredibly bad defaults, completely mouse driven with insufficient keyboard controls. macOS is bearable and I can be productive on it, but I think GNOME is the perfect desktop for productivity. To each their own, I guess.
It really depends what coffee beans you are starting with, and the roast, just as it does with "regular", hot brewed coffee.

I also like lighter-roasted fruity beans, and cold-brewed tends to reduce the "sourness". IMO cold brew really shines for non-fruity beans though, greatly reducing the bitterness.

You should try it!
Agrivoltaics [1] has enormous potential.

[1]: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/en/documents/p...
Downplaying the conflict's moral depth without evidence is what you did, and why I posted my comment. I happen to know Vietnamese who fled to America as refugees after the war. They don't feel that Americans and South Vietnam were "the baddies", or that communists who invaded the South in the first place and violently suppress(ed) knowledge of things like the Hue Massacre are "the good guys." Many Vietnamese remain divided on these issues. It's complicated. That's the point.

If you view attempts at nuance as "trolling lies," you might be a great fit for one-party government.
They can attend those processions without problems but they have to remain neutral. The issue here is that they want to take part in communion, which as a religious act is obviously not allowed.

I'm sure this sort of things used to happen without issues in the past. So did for instance traditional nativity scenes in town halls in the South. But recently things have taken a stricter (extreme?) turn partly not to be seen to have an issue with a religion in particular, although of course the reality is that it is undeed a religion in particular (or at least the way some people practice it) that is problematic.
They do the bare minimum. You can report sites for abuse and they will take them down. It doesn't appear like they do anything to proactively stop similar sites so the person can just make a new account and domain and be back in business.
What sample over whole Germany? There is no source, no sample, it’s a baseless statement.
I occasionally have spam that slips through Gmail's filters, but when I explicitly mark it as spam it disappears nothing of the same type reappears again.
Scientific demand is enough to start something, not sustain huge annual investments.

Global supercomputer market is roughly $6-7 billion. Nvidia, AMD together spend more into R&D than the whole market has sales. Scientific use is minuscule compared to business and entertainment needs.

Quantum computers research gets millions or maybe few tens of millions funding. That's not enough.
The Secret Service Texting Scandal Makes No Sense
The article mentions it is because Bash went to GPLv3 and Zsh is MIT, and Apple is (my words) allergic to GPLv3. They avoid it everywhere. (Which tells me its a fantastic license.)
Every single one of these results carries the `html` filetype as part of their URL is my experience. This is likely a consequence of the useragent-based switcheroo technique they use to fool Google.

Just blanket block the lot with the following uBlock Origin filter:

google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".it"][href$=".html"])

Google ain't going to fix itself ;)
This is just a (not even) thinly-veiled appeal to authority.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but your credentials don't make you right.
Any sources for your claims? I thought most were pasture raised (grass) and finished with grains like corn to fatten them up.
A broken clock is right twice a day. It is still a broken clock.
Nice article, but one sentence annoyed me:

> At current rates of production growth, the supply/demand mismatch will see a 10 year backlog between the time when local solar powered synthetic fuel production reaches cost parity with fossil sources, and when solar supply will be available to meet that demand.

I hate this use of "at current rates", it's basically a lie if you don't follow up with some kind of lower bound to go with that upper bound and people believing this is not possible, or too costly, or too late is one of the main problems.

He called out the hairy back prediction graph further up and then did basically the same thing with words.

But overall a good summary.
Okay, but what if the server burns like it happened to OVH, or your account gets suspended for no reason and they shred all your data, or you simply fat-finger an rm command? How do you (the grandparent) handle that?
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220721223626/https://www.theat...
How do you possibly know the details of a future implementation?
I think we in Europe are somehow slowly starting to understand that. We have big powers like Germany and France, and a lot of smaller countries. If the big countries want to be respected and not treated like the USA (=someone who can help you but can become a bully in an instant when it suits them), they need to be more open and less egoistical. This needs to happen on a global scale, though, to really work.
i dont have problems with OSX gui while KDE crash regulary. KDE can for sure looks better but it is not even close to same polish lvl as windows/osx
I'm more or less in the same professional spot as you.

Responding to your criticism of Rust all I can say is that you can only convince yourself, try it, if it isn't rhetoric you're interested in. Suddenly your code, when it runs, is bug free. It's a magic experience. More importantly it gives the ecosystem superpowers. That's an indirect response to your:

> If there is a bug, it might be hard to find, but that's it.

Which is damning. But typical of embedded. It's such a C shit hole. We debug most of our time, many of the tools are crappy. So you perhaps constrained yourself to 32-bit ARM devices, isolated yourself as much as you could, and created your own comfort zone? That's a symptom.

There are many advantages to Rust, that run from things as basic as assuring code runs the same on a 8-bit MCU as it does on a 64-bit PC, to the trust one can have in the ecosystem, and the hive mind behind it.

That said, though I see Rust becoming inevitable because of these reasons, I would very much like Zig to succeed, as it uniquely has the flexibility to construct the optimal solutions embedded craves for. Rust is more rigid in that sense, so Zig appeals more to the creative of minds.
The only thing that we can know 100% for certain is "I think therefore I am" or probably better worded "I am experiencing something therefore something must exist that can experience things". There are a lot of definitions of consciousness and sentience but I think the best one is talking about the "I experience" or the "I think" in those sentences.

All of our beliefs and knowledge, including belief that the world is real must be built on top "I think therefore I am". It seems weird to throw away the one thing we know is 100% true, because of something that is derived (science, real world observations) from that true thing.
Yep. I find it’s absolutely horrible since they went bananas post gnome 2. All the discoverability and consistency is gone.

Honestly this is the biggest barrier to adoption of you ask me. I can’t hand a windows user or a Mac user a gnome desktop (or any of the other Linux options) and just leave them to it.

I tend to recommend a mac these days for people. They just work.
I prefer Fish.

And with xxh (or Nix) you can take it with you to a ssh session near you. There is also a couple of plugins in OMF and Fisher to fix some bashisms Fish is missing.
Podcasts translation service: re-record audio in different languages
Also thankful. For so many years I used Gnome and KDE apps exclusively because I wanted a uniform look. Only now, after many years of tolerating web-based UIs, and switching to i3 am I appreciating the KDE ecosystem. Generally every time I’m comparing apps the KDE one wins out. Dolphin (taken from a suggestion on HN) is the best file explorer that I’ve used. Okular is almost as good as Preview. If they had a signature annotation like Preview, I’d like it better. KTorrrent is great. I can’t believe I spent so long using the overly simplified Gnome apps.
Have you ever heard of mould? Moisture in the walls? Caused by shifting dew points. Your "just pop down to the hardware store" DIY insulation will do a lot of damage.
Hah. Now I know what I can plagiarize for writing blog posts...