skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Directory Opus addict here too. It is my MVP in pretty much everything I do on my PC.
After a very long time, without leap seconds, the seasons will fall in unaccustomed months. On shorter timescales, noon will no longer correspond to the Sun at the zenith, it locations where that used to hold.
Man that would be so ironic.

And if they want to sue for that, they will be shooting themseleves in the foot by proving their Fair-use argument isn't real.
AT&T allows you to sign up for enhanced protection for $3.99/mo.
I know and it drives me crazy. "Bigger" and "smaller" express differences, not fractions or multiples.
I have a book printed less than 5 years ago that routinely sells for $800 online now. The niche religious press that published it simply cannot keep all of the authors work in print and his more academic work gets printed maybe once a decade in a run of 1000.
Kind of, almost by force. I was trying out Linux back in 1995, coming from Windows. Going from Windows to Linux back then was a bit like switching from a brand new economy sedan to one of those cars built out of scrap by Immortan Joe and his War Boys. Everything was so janky and cobbled together, but extremely powerful, it seemed, compared to what you left behind. It would be close to another year before some German Amigaheads put together the first Linux desktop worth taking seriously -- KDE.

So when I programmed on Windows, I used an IDE -- typically Borland C++ or Microsoft Visual C++. When I wanted to program for Linux -- ???

There was no equivalent. I had to use my old-school Unix skills and write the code in a text editor, then use the compiler and make to put it all together in an executable. I started with -- pico, was it? But a friend told me Emacs was really great and the editor to use if you're a programmer. I'd heard the name Emacs from Micro Emacs on the Amiga, but apparently this was big boy Emacs.

It came with Slackware, so I fired it up. And holy crap. It seemed unspeakably powerful and live-codable. I would only get a sense for its true power over years of working with it -- to code, to write HTML pages and stories. It had a web browser, email client, and IRC client. It had games! All written in Emacs Lisp. Blew my damn mind at the time.

The skill ceiling for Emacs is tremendously high, it's not something you will pick up easily. But for me it was well worth learning. I won't call myself proficient in it, but I can do things with it and shape it to my exact needs in ways Visual Studio (Code) can't match, live, as I use it. To me it's worth its weight in gold.
Yale pairs speech-protective policies with a culture of intolerance
this is a good starting point if you want to explore that particular rabbithole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel#Lawsuits
Reframe it. Detach emotionally from the result by offering the fruit of your past and future struggle to god. It is not a self-induced failure, but something that life has thrown at you. The universe just had other plans. Nature has built us specifically to cope with that.
>What does this offer that BSD-mutant MacOS native on Apple Silicon lacks?

The ability to test applications in a native FreeBSD environment? This is just running another OS within macOS same as one might run Windows or Linux images. It's useful for development all on one system, certain kinds of isolated deployments and so on. Also I use it for doing another layer of runs of certain things before pushing out to deployment, you can virtualize a router/firewall like OPNsense or VyOS for example, load your live config, and experiment before sending it out to metal. This is just someone playing around with yet another way to do it. I use VMware myself right now on an x86 Mac but there are lots of choices and it's nice to see more stuff heading over to AS as well.

From your comment though it's not clear to me if you're confusing this with running an alternative OS on the metal, as the Asahi Linux folks are working on? If that's what you were thinking, then the answer would be that longer term having Linux and FreeBSD on AS hardware could help extend its life (Apple won't support them forever anymore then they do any Macs), Mac Minis at least might be useful little appliance systems (eyeballing numbers so far an M1 Mini could in principle compare favorably as a firewall say to a lot of x86 systems in the same power/heat/physical size), and of course some people simply would prefer to stick to another OS they're at home in but also like the Apple hardware. Nothing wrong with that.
If they don't need 50%+ of their employees they probably need don't need 95+% of their management.
Thanks! And thanks for reading. I looked up and learned about lesser and greater-human pattern...
no but they could have contacted the person and let them know
No immediate plans to do so unfortunately (but it's an inevitability in the long term).
The article itself explores the analogy to porn more deeply than the usual offhand reference to productivity porn, particularly with reference to energy-sapping and demotivating effects.
When I lived in Brooklyn, folks in my neighborhood would often leave out things that they wanted to give away. I picked up a poetry book one day from the sidewalk and started thumbing through it on my walk home. One of the first pages had a handwritten note. The book apparently had been a gift, and the giver wrote a note to the giftee that began, "My dear fellow cannibal, ..."
I lent one my cool science fiction books to a good friend, and once I got it back and decided to re-read it myself, found that he was using a $10 canadian as bookmark. It's one of my bookmarks now, although I may use it next time I go to Vancouver. Maybe. It's pleasantly plasticky in that ineffable "Canadien" way.
True. Another example of why that thought-terminating cliché à la '100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions, so my personal choices are irrelevant' is so silly.

Amazon's net emissions are up 18% because hundreds of millions of individuals choose to purchase from them.

The carbon-intensity metric is interesting:

> a measure that divides its emissions by gross merchandise sales

If emissions stay the same, but prices go up... say there is significant inflation, or a supply chain crunch which leads to price-gouging... then the denominator increases. Want to have a great carbon-intensity KPI? Better get that revenue up! Which is somewhat ironic.

Ultimately, Amazon's net emissions are up 18% and how efficiently they produce them isn't a factor in determining those emission's climate forcing effect. I.e., if you and I were on a boat in the ocean and I'm prying up planks from the hull to make children's toys, you would not care how efficiently I am making those toys.
This is dangerous in that it strips assets, resources, and files from your app without understanding how they are used.

If you forget a critical code path when you build using Docker-Slim, and a resource file is not used, that resource will be stripped. The feature which depends on it will be broken in production.
If you live in a normally distributed universe, then you get ahead by being swamped and incrementally doing more hours of work than someone else. But hopefully most engineers hoping to have an impact live in a power law distributed universe.

I tell all my DRs that, at the end of the year, I will evaluate them on their (self-assessed) 3 most impactful things they've done that year with a 60%, 30%, 10% weighting.

There's a couple of different ways of optimizing towards that goal, you can try out a lot of little projects and double down on the ones that seem like they're working or you can do a careful analysis and scope out a few things you think will be a big hit.

In truth, there's no ability for me to evaluate them to that level of precision, the framework is mainly there to foster two skills I regard as vitally missing:

1. Ruthless prioritization. One of my frequent questions is "does this sound like the 4th most important thing you'll do this year? If so, why are you doing it?". Being able to cut down on the noise and really focus is hard for people, especially when they feel like there isn't a permission structure in place for it to happen. Even with an explicit focus in place, the norms of the workplace make clearing away time for deep thought preciously valuable.

2. Owning of measurement of impact. Being able to measure a thing is, I believe, in many ways more important than doing the thing in the first place. Measuring forces us to ask hard questions that we often skip over: What metrics am I hoping to affect via this project? How does this metric tie into the larger goals of the company? Are we measuring this metric already? If not, how do we start? What change in this metric would count as impactful vs other projects I could be doing?
I think people should just be more open to use other providers.
Not immediately jump to AWS when they want to host anything, especially due to it's pricing and overhead.

Linode, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH and many others will probably be enough or sometimes better for your use case while still being cheaper.
Loans still have to be paid back at some point. It’s true that sometimes banks are happy to let the billionaires have the loans for their whole lives and get paid back out of their estate when they die. But, when you borrow against a security (like a stock) and the value of that security plummets (like pretty much every tech stock did recently) the terms of your loan can force you to sell the stock and pay it off right away. (and sell it at the worst possible time since it just crashed and now you’re locking in that loss) So it’s not really a good idea to over leverage yourself in that way.

Sure, he can borrow a bunch of money against his stock and buy a giant a yacht or give it away to people who got laid off, just like a normal person can borrow a year’s worth of salary from credit cards or take out a high interest loan to buy an expensive car, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
>such as ZFS

FWIW, ZFS has actually been available on macOS for a long time in various iterations (MacZFS, Z-410/ZEVO, and now OpenZFS [0]). I ran it for around 11 years on a number of systems with almost all of my data on it (home folder, applications, /opt for MacPorts etc) and it was a tank. Fun project and well worth checking out. I'll always regret the various factors that meant Apple didn't adopt it as their native FS.

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0: https://openzfsonosx.org/
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Intel Core I7 1280P Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu vs. Clear Linux Performance
I have indeed! This is my first year of using Emacs. Previously I was using VS Code, and before that Atom, and before that Sublime.

Two things which have contributed to my success:
- The System Crafters YT channel. David has an amazing tutorial series where you build a config file from scratch. I followed along, and it both gave me a very functional Emacs config and taught me enough about Emacs to get out of trouble when I goof up: https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters
- Not being afraid to go back to other editors/IDEs for a while, or even rely on other editors for some tasks. Learning Emacs is tough enough as it is, but when you're a working programmer and you're on the clock for getting something done, it's extra tough to tolerate the slowdown from all those 1000 little things that you haven't gotten comfortable with, or features which were present in your previous editor but aren't yet present in your Emacs config. In past lives I would have just rage-quit and given up on Emacs, but I tried to be gentle with myself this time and take breaks from Emacs when I need to, and it has been a winning strategy.

Never going back.
> doing them all at once to the detriment of the others.

a situation comes to mind

a father who has to ignore his wife + children because he's addicted to "the grind/hustle" of working 12+ hour days and traveling... so he can make money... for his wife + children

is there true net detriment in that case? i'm sure the wife + children appreciate the extra income?
There is no guarantee that a blind code shaker will leave in everything important while stripping out everything that isn't. How could it possibly know?

If Docker-Slim is working for you in production apps, you are either getting lucky or your app is trivial enough to lack unseen code paths.
Or just let interest rates rise and let the problem solve itself.
It will only be an option, you can keep sysvinit + openrc if you prefer it this way.
I haven’t looked at that in depth but I believe it automatically makes API endpoints available based on the database schema. I’m not sure how access is limited.

With the WebAPIBridge the calling account only has EXECUTE privileges and authentication and authorization is (expected to be) handled in the database, ie, a sessionid is passed as a parameter. Only procedures with a comment of EXPORT are made available.
You could always just use edge if you want a rolling release.
In a non-trivial app, you can never guarantee that your "good integration tests" cover every edge case. If you could, we wouldn't have outages in production.
It's interesting that even on the newest hardware (and an ultrabook cpu at that), Linux is faster than Windows.
what do we define as living?

i have many friends who swear it is more fun to work than to "sit around watching netflix/hang out with friends passing time/drinking alcohol"
any intuition of why that that would be the case for NLP?

Certainly when you have something as large as the datasets being used to train large transformer models, SOME of the data is already repeated. Why would one more epoch make it worse?
This is a Twitter thread that continues below at the following tweet:

https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1506483943352250371

Sorry – I forgot that the Twitter UI doesn't always lend itself to proper threading.
Growing up with Windows GUI, I too found many concepts in Emacs are just too different and "old-school".

I wonder if there is an opportunity for a modern, open-source, extendable, programmable text editing environment that uses CUA, Tabs instead of Buffers, and Javascript instead of LISP. Or if it's already too late because VS Code has already taken over the modern, open-source, and extendable parts already?
Yes it's not necessary for them to be losing in the long term for Jane Street to be profitable, but I suspect they are.
Fitter happier

More productive

Comfortable

Not drinking too much

Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)

Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries

At ease

Eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)

A patient, better driver

...
So, shrinking by 2x means dividing by 2?

But... doesn't shrinking by 1/2 also mean dividing by 2?

Therefore, 1/2 == 2x ??

I feel like my elementary school math is letting me down somewhere.
While I agree that it should be a standard feature, it is worth pointing out that operating systems tend to be more difficult and more expensive to run full tests for.
Probably meant JSON instead of JavaScript

https://evrone.com/douglas-crockford-interview
I would expect a lava tube from a drained lava flow to vary greatly. We see many have collapsed over the ages. It would provide an insulated underground tube miles in potential extent. That said, the danger of a roof fall would be low in some spots and ready to fall anytime in others. This is still rock, about 6 tonnes earth mass per cubic meter (one tonne on the moon). That means a very strong tunnel liner is needed. It also needs to be air tight. Research into the use of regolith as an ingredient of a concrete needs to be done. One traditional concreted mass is baking bricks of regolith. More research into brick baking from various lunar materials is also needed. A blown up fabric habitat would work inside this sealed brick tunnel.
Information itself is a commodity. An encyclopedia doesn't have value have because it costs money but the vice versa. Wikipedia is free, yet it has done more for the world in 20 years than the Brittanica has in 250.

I'm not suggesting Google gives away information as a purely altruistic endeavor. However, Google's ulterior motives, should they have any, are irrelevant to the value of the information itself so long as it hasn't been edited or tampered with.
A key weakness of TUIs is the complete lack of accessibility. Everything is characters arranged for the eye to see, there's nothing at all for screen readers to use to extract semantic meaning.
How long have you been on the Internet? I ask because I started an ISP in 1996 and IP address spoofing used to be soooo much worse.

Today’s situation is the product of literally 2.5 decades of encouraging and/or shaming Internet-connected networks into properly configuring their routers to drop spoofed packets egressing from their network with a spoofed IP address not from their network.
I’ve never heard of Marta before, but I’m going to try it out. The clean DSL for configuration looks good, and I have to agree that GUI configuration interfaces can be very irksome. (I feel like throwing out my networking gear after using the GUI to set up VLANs—just give me access to the config file that is hidden somewhere.)
Most of these modern TUIs don't work on real "glass" terminals. Sure, nobody uses them anymore. I asked one of the Charm developer relations people if their stuff worked on old-school terminals like the VT-420, but they'd never even heard of that, didn't know what it was. Of course, the VT-420 came out before they were born, but still...
Meant to ask this earlier, but how odd does the accent of the narrator sound to native-US ears? (when I first listened at very low volume I just assumed he was an American, but listening carefully at full volume it's fairly obvious he's not)
That Java perf on windows confirms my findings, Windows might have special rules for .jar files, intentional or no, i have no clue, but it looks like it does something very fishy

For some reasons their antivirus also likes to spend a lot of time scanning jar files

I would love reading an in-depth investigation on this
Agree wholeheartedly with your (a) and (b), and would add:

(c) Emacs won't disappear after a few years (where "few" can mean decades if your career lasts that long - mine ran from 1967 to 2011 and I still use emacs daily) the way virtually every (or maybe every) "more intuitive" editor/environment will, given time. Your investment in learning it will really pay off.
Ask HN: Best UX Design Course?
Hello! I'm looking to take a course in UX/UI design. I've seen Google's UX certificate course going around [0], and was wondering if people had any experience with it or any other similar course teaching people UX design. Any recommendations for course to take, or what might be helpful for getting into this area?

[0]: https://grow.google/certificates/ux-design
From “A college mystery: the story of the apparition in the Fellows' Garden at Christ's College, Cambridge
Baker, A. P / 2nd ed.
1925”:

https://youtu.be/5JDxyVpmbJA
These things are pretty much just bike shedding though in the scale of the problems with Windows.

They are very easy to market as improvements though and MSFT is entirely driven by marketing now rather than quality and engineering.
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It's really tempting to assuming the things you think are important are what actually result in success. Nobody sees all the possible lives they could have had.

Daily jogging seems like a healthy choice when you wheren’t hit by a car etc etc.

Add in all the actual lying and it's easy to get an incredibly distorted view of reality.
Also, technically the SQ* chips (like SQ1 used in Surface X) are also Microsoft chips, though they look more like slightly tweaked / rebranded Qualcomm devices.
I think that I actually 'L - O - L' at most three times a year when reading on my computer. "cut off your finger and work even harder." is the best one yet!
I quit my (economics) PhD program after one semester.

Best decision I've made in my entire life.

Academia is a meat grinder. Choose not to throw yourself in.
Let's try it like this -- a disproportionate and extremely high number of the most brilliant minds in the world work in Silicon Valley. Overwhelmingly, that work is essentially "harvesting the behavior and attention of human beings for profit, most often through advertising" That describes all of social media and all of FAANG to various extents.

Those are facts. Up until now I haven't said anything about whether this is good or bad, and I'm still not saying "this means we should shut it down."

But I've seen too much to suggest that it makes sense to hand-wave this phenomenon away and say "it's just life."

No. It's worth studying and doing our best to determine how dangerous this is.
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing it. I thought I was pass that peak (35), hehe.
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That's what I plan to do.

But $30?

~100€ is the minimum I've found. Do you have a link? Or maybe you meant non-Android...
> Collected Works of Carl Jung

Out of curiosity, why this specific publication? Can’t you get everything in that collection from other publications (perhaps not in one volume)?
I'm having trouble imagining how to solve this in the terminal itself—there a way to pass information to a screen-reader via some kind of side channel?
I'm not. A course that is heavy on reading and writing can transform the writing ability of a student, especially when the starting point is relatively low.

I've witnessed this in my friends when we were in college. English was not our first language, and we started with roughly the same level of writing ability. But the ones in philosophy/history/sociology classes quickly outgrew those of us in engineering school. I've read some of their assignments, and the improvement could be seen on a weekly basis.

Practice matters. Feedback loop matters.
The article indicated the demonstration project will install ten 10 MW batteries at solar or wind farms and provides no information about how these installation would allow for 100% inverter based energy. The peak demand on the WECC region is 170 GW.

It would be more impressive if they took these batteries to one of the Hawaiian islands where 100% renewable between wind and solar should be possible with only 100-200MW of load. Feed an isolated system like that for a year from wind solar and batteries and then I think you can say we are 100% ready
With any luck, Facebook and its employees won't be around to deal with many more leap seconds whether they get their way this time or not.
Your professor was the Half-Blood Prince.
I didn't get to what extent they compared capability of these methods for extrapolation, which tree-based methods are not really suited for.
This is called "Electronic Harassment" / "Mind Control" enabled by real-time electromagnetic surveillance and directed energy weaponry.

All clandestine and ongoing since the 80s.
EDIT: My head hurts

10e12/320e6 = 31250 USD/person

That is quite a lot at credit card interest.
There is a whole world of lucrative fun out there.

One thing about a livelihood though: it's never fun all the time.

The same is true of many serious hobbies however.

Fun certainly doesn't have to be productive, nor is it an antonym.
Whoa. That commenter's history is WILD! Most fun I've had on HN all day.
Yep. Never seen that before.