skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
| but it's not orders of magnitude higher.

It is about 2-3x higher, which is not an order of magnitude, but is less than an order of magnitude away from being an order of magnitude.

Not, in any way, comforting unless our outcomes are 2-3x better, which they are not.
Can you do anything with "your" land? Like plant something or erect something on it (I know you're not going to, but if you wanted to, could you)? What about access, is it possible to go see "your" plot? And do they give you GPS coordinates so you can check it out on Google Maps?
Direct link to that timestamp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaOeVgZ-wc&t=44m
The key is to design the menus in such a way that it's easy to memorize (long press to pop up to the top menu, scroll all the way to the right, back two clicks left, press to get into the climate control menu, etc.) The power of this approach is amplified when the controls are thoughtfully designed with precise tactile feedback and multiple dimensions of interaction (e.g. two dials or a dial surrounded by multi-function buttons) and the menus are designed to take advantage of those dimensions.
What do you mean we can't do the thing we couldn't do in your system, so we invented another system to do, that we thought you'd never get around to noticing and regulating?

Cryptocurrency in a nutshell.
Define "understanding" in such a way that predicting what comes next based on experience of how things have happened in the past is not included. In other words, define "understanding" in such a way that humans have it, but these ML models (especially LLMs) don't.
There's a OMEMO proposal for the underlying XMPP implementation: https://gitlab.com/xmpp-rs/xmpp-rs/-/merge_requests/147
Agreed, this is reductionist and nothing is ever so simple but compared to current nutrition "labels" we have it's miles better.

I'm waiting for augmented reality to get far enough I can wear glasses that can scan the food I eat, estimate the composition + macros, and log it for me. That'll be the day.
They really should.

Even commercial and fighter aircraft -- which have human-interface requirements of incredible depth and complexity -- are transitioning to large touchscreen displays. ALL of which require physical boundary buttons and knobs as a redundancy for touchscreen controls.

In fact, controlling the screens via buttons are the preference for many pilots since accurately fiddling with touchscreens during turbulence, pulling Gs, evading missiles, while being task-saturated etc is very hard to do, but doing the same with physical buttons is far more reliable. Button-pushing tasks can be performed from memory in the blind (or while not looking) (a.k.a. "memory items").

There's always been a dichotomy in human-machine interfaces between airplane customers (airlines, charters, governments, and militaries) vs. their own pilots. Airplane builders have to keep up appearances and look cool by putting in putting in flashy, futuristic features like big screens and AI, and ditching old button-laden displays and the "old way of doing things." It too often disregards the needs and wants of pilots and "human factors" engineers. Fortunately, safety comes first, so the buttons and redundancy must stay.
Even the turbomolecular pump for the fusion reactor?!
Compile times will be slower than Clojure's, for sure. That also means run-time speed will be affected, due to JIT compilation time. This will not affect AOT compiled run-time speed, though. I don't have numbers yet, but you're right that compiling C++ with LLVM could be much faster. :)
The government made me an explicate promise with zoning laws that my neighborhood was a safe investment, just as they make people comfortable that bank accounts are safe via banking laws, or that stocks are somewhat safe. Taking that away is breaking a MAJOR social contract made to the 65% of American's that own their home.
I’m not sure I understand this. Inkjets go through ink fast so they need to be refilled a fair bit and those refills are expensive and hold very little.

Toner is good practically forever. A new toner cartridge isn’t cheap (and stupid DRM exists) but it’s still way better than inkjets. So I’m not sure this provides as much value.

Also, isn’t HP the company that likes to disable your printer if the credit/debit card on your auto-refill plan expires? They’re not exactly a bastion of integrity.
Ask HN: Everything is easy (boring), but I love solving bugs
I'm a 4YoE BE and I love to debug bugs and be on call (as weird as that sounds). But I've been currently in a slump where dev work seems easy to me and I just wait for bugs to happen instead. Kinda like the show House MD, where I just love the part about investigating issues.

I wanted to ask if I need to bring it up with my manager about this or if I need to spend time outside work trying to solve more interesting problems. I'd love to optimize if I could get my job to be more challenging (like the aspect of debugging bugs) as well and would love to hear your input if you've ever been in this state, or if I should consider more research-oriented roles if that's also an option.
May I ask which way?
How to Create a Website from Scratch using Bootstrap Themes?
Really enjoyed this read. As someone who has had similar daydream fantasies - maybe not to this scale - it's interesting to see all the ways it can backfire. It also definitely got me thinking about ways he could be dealing with local bureaucracy a bit better (even if the bureaucracy is clearly in the wrong.)
It is strange. Just downloaded and tried to boot in a KVM+Qemu VM targeting FreeBSD 13 (virsh). Booted but kernel hung with an obscure launchd dispatching job message. I haven't used FreeBSD consistently since the 4.x days so I have no idea what this means.

Looks interesting enough to play around with but for such an ambitious project VM support should be one of the first dev priorities not only for dev and testing but for users wanting to take it for a spin.
Academic because people didn't care. It was publicized reasonably well, just didn't take root.
I left California because I couldn't afford to own a home there.
The authors are libertarians, not the people we'd expect to be pushing social services.
As a home-owner not landlord (I am against the idea of owning more property than my family will use) I WISH I could write off half of my property tax.
The only reason Clojure is viable for production use is because it relies on the really good JVM GCs. How will Jank try to solve the the GC problem?
Ask her to buy you an acre of land on the moon or Mars next
Scotland uses the metric system, no?
That seems uncharitable - the person you're replying to is saying that debit/credit are more than fundamentally abstract, and that they have conceptual meaning consistent across all accounts.
“Spoke with a doctor” sounds like she had a chat with a coworker on a hallway. If that is not the case and she was properly examined then misdiagnosed then the journalist choose a misleading wording.
Discipline is the key word here. Exercise is free in any open space, but many people (including me) maintains regular exercise only after hiring a personal coach, and only in a proper gym. And they're better for it. If staying offline is beneficial to human, maybe it's worthwhile trying to monetize on helping people stay offline once in a while?
of course not -- silly expectation to be able to. I'd have to dig up the packet they sent for any exact details, it had a bunch of fine print about stuff like access and what not.
I'm going to chime in on this. Note, however, I'm not an accountant/CPA/etc. and in that sense my take is my own; I have spent the majority of my career working with accountants implementing accounting systems so have some practical experience with the subject.

As others have mentioned a basic double-entry accounting transaction includes two pieces of information: "where did the value come from" and "where did it go". This aspect of double entry book keeping I think is the less interesting one and you'd be right in not seeing any big deal as compared to single entry accounting... a check register style accounting with categories fits that definition pretty well. The debit/credit recording of double entry book keeping is really about the next point. Note that I used the word "value" because that value isn't necessarily cash, though value is always expressed in money terms.

The next aspect, and the important aspect, is not the transaction but the accounting equation: Assets = Shareholder's Equity + Liabilities. This is where the formalisms of double entry accounting start to differentiate itself from single entry accounting. This equation expresses what it is we ("the company") own (assets) and who has a claim on it (shareholders and others we owe such as lenders). All of our accounts are assigned into one of these three categories and whether we debit or credit an account depends on this categorization relative to the accounting equation. So if I buy a hot dog for lunch with my bank card I'll credit my bank account (an asset account) which reduces it's value and debit an expense account which is a special kind of shareholder's equity account. Shareholder's equity = retained earnings from prior years + (current revenue - current expenses). When I book the expense debit the result is that shareholder's equity decreases. On the other hand if I use the same bank account to buy a house... I still credit the bank account (an asset account) but now I debit a real estate account (a different asset account) which reflects that I changed the form of the property I had (cash to real estate), but I didn't change the shareholder's equity position or the liability position (yes, there are fees and most people buy houses with borrowed money... but ignore that for this discussion).

In the single entry world everything aside from the transaction itself is simply left to you to figure out. There really aren't additional formalities which guide you in getting a deeper understanding of the accounting data you generate. You could emulate this stuff, but typically something like Quicken isn't going to help you be sure your following these formalities. For many interested in personal accounting, not having these formalities is fine. But in business, the accounting equation and the many expansions of that equation tell you about the business is a way that is (should be) reasonably consistent from business to business. It's more than: "do I have enough in the bank for the next transaction", it's really about a clear statement of health and direction derived from the transactions.
Humans need ongoing support like food, cooling, and medical treatments. We give those things to each other. There's already research into machines that can reproduce and self-repair, and of course software has the benefit of being able to replicate across any number of existing machines -- i.e. there is no "pull the plug" because it can exist on devices with millions of plugs around the world.

So why would we think machines can't avoid a red power button?
Everything becomes a race to the bottom, until every last ounce of perceived value has been extracted and the platform exists only has a shattered husk of what it once was.

You start with early adopters. They get big on novelty or being genuinely entertaining. Eventually, they learn how to make money off of it. Once people realize money can be made off of it, more people will try to do so. Then actual production units get involved. It's no long suitable to have a camera and a mic. You need condensers, filters, lighting, schedules, etc. And now, it's not just you, it's you, your neighbor, your friends, Sony, the platform itself, your goddamn fucking cat has a channel somehow. And then there's just not enough money to just grab. You have to hustle for it. And then you find yourself shilling crypto or timeshares or some bullshit.
In line with the other comments, let me give you a recent example from my work.

We had a dataset with just about 30 records and about twice as many features, about 1:3 class balance between positive and negative. Not an impossible situation at all, but there was a big premium on performance, so we threw the book at it.

Lo and behold, SVM with some particular parameters comes out on top. Ship it, right?

Not so fast, what decision did the model learn? Turns out, the model was learning decision boundaries that did not make sense. It was overfitting because the model did not know about what kinds of decision boundaries were allowable.

In the end, someone looked at a 2D scatter plot, drew a line and called it a day. It took a fraction of the effort and time of running through a box of models. It'll save the company $MM and it's trivially explainable to engineers and execs.

AutoML with blind application would've completely botched this.
This applies to the compiler itself, in the same way that GCC is under the GPL but that doesn't mean all programs you compile with it are also under the GPL.
This is why I suggested nationwide mail-in voting as a solution.

A national holiday might help some workers, but not all. Gas stations still need staffed, etc.
Neglected Cause Exploration Area: Jhana Meditation
> everyone without a home

I guarantee you're not talking about homeless people here, but people who live in a home that they are renting, reasonably near the place they work.

edit: also, somehow these so-called poors are always wealthy programmers trying to buy million-dollar houses.
It's basically the American model - if somebody isn't improving their land, you take it from them by force and sell it at cheap prices to people who will.

That's why it's a bunch of white people with title now, rather than all being native americans
> What I meant is an ability to be within the reach of any other person within an hour.

Is that all that significant? I live rurally and can be within reach of any other person in two different large cities (along with some smaller ones) within an hour. Under some circumstances, I can be at a shared meeting place in one of those cities before a person who lives in said city can get there. The highway is incredibly efficient.

Moreover, such proximity to the city – but also off the beaten path – seems to make it an attractive place for the rich and famous to have homes. I run into household names at the small town coffeeshop quite regularly.

What is significant, however, is the the city is much more amenable to wealth concentration. That small town coffeeshop might see 100 customers in a day, while a coffeeshop in a dense city can draw on thousands of customers, allowing a coffeeshop empire to be established. The small town coffeeshop will never be able to grow the same way.
Java - Spring

Go - Default http client / Buffalo

Python - Flask
This was a great and informative article, but one thing it misses is that there is in fact another way to purchase a 'legitimate' peerage title (though the cost is much much higher). I recall reading about it a while back here [1]. Basically, you pay a (broke) noble family to legally adopt you. Apparently there's brokers and everything to get you connected.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/even-if-y...
This is a video by John Campbell, who is not a medical doctor (or scientist or any other kind of health expert) and has spread medical misinformation (promoting ivermectin to treat COVID-19, questioning vaccine safety with bad data, etc.)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_%28YouTuber%29
> Video games? 40+ years old.

As a gamer, I find this is incredibly dismissive.

There's still tons of new ideas in games being explored. Factorio introduced the factory building genre in 2014, and we're still seeing new takes on it. Satisfactory made it first-person and beautiful. Dyson Sphere Program made it multi-planet and interstellar. Captain of Industry made destructible and moveable terrain.

The colony sim genre as we know it today did not exist 10 years ago. Now we have RimWorld, Banished, Oxygen Not Included, and more.

Even puzzle games continue to innovate. Baba is You is probably the most unique puzzle game I've ever seen, and then there's all the Zachtronics games...

So yeah...the product of "video games" might be 40+ years old, but it's silly to claim that there's nothing net new coming out.
There is a bug with unintendend addition if word starts with the variable name

e2foo 4.7182818285
pi-hole 3.1415926536
"I think we're talking past each other but I'm not sure how to rectify."

Let me give it one last try :)

You're claiming the truth of two propositions:

A) Without the context of the specific accounts being debited or credited the terms [debit and credit] themselves mean nothing.

B) Without the context of the specific accounts being debited or credited we have no way of explaining what the managerial result of that entry is.

I agree with B, but do not agree with A.

When an account is CREDITED, this always represents an increase in liabilities[0] (or equivalently, a decrease in assets).

When an account is DEBITED, this always represents an increase in assets (or equivalently, a decrease in liabilities).

The two statements above are true as written. If you were to exchange the capitalized text (turning CREDITED into DEBITED and vice versa), the statements would no longer be true. Therefore credit and debit each have some distinct meaning.

[0] I treat 'shareholders equity' as being a liability in favour of shareholders
Why is becoming a Scottish Lord desirable in the first place ? explained for someone who doesn't live in Scotland or any of the neighbouring Isles ?
Do we really need a “test” to find this?
When AMD or NVIDIA sell GPUs to scalpers, and those scalpers resell the GPUs and keep the profit, there's outrage about it. Nobody ever says to "build more GPUs" to fix the problem.

When houses and new developments get snatched up by investors and landlords as buy-to-lets (or even by Blackrock and pension funds), there is little outrage and calls for restricting who can buy them. The same argument is rehashed over and over and over again. Just build more houses!

I feel that there is a disconnect between these two schools of thought. I personally believe that, while indeed more houses should be built, we should also have a serious discussion about whether houses should be sold en-masse to very wealthy investors
Yes, but the most important reason is cost. Alps catalog for switches has been diminishing and they are becoming more expensive.

Development/schedule impact is NRE, but any addition to COGS impacts the bottom line in every car.
It should be "Basic".
What's bad about pinning the transitive dependencies? I feel otherwise this could lead to really hard to debug errors down the road if second-order dependency versions diverge between developers.

And I fully agree on the tools. I personally would always use something like pip-tools or poetry, but it's not always an option to use them, unfortunately.
I was fortunate enough to get to interview Craig Kerstiens about this launch as we talked all about vanilla Postgres. You can see a demo of that here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryj5c8zLF50
The URL includes Matt Stoller, which is his name. He's author of a book about monopolies called Goliath. He's well known, at least to me.
Could be targeting tourists.
You're not wrong, and that's a lot of ifs.

No better example than blowing up a perfectly good stadium to then overcharge for personal seat licenses while getting that tax base to pay for more of the new stadium than the total cost of the one blown up.

Search for Jerryworld.
American, I see them on TV and on the internets regularly, and have been for at least 5-8 years.
> Since for most properties the majority of the value is in the land itself

I'm not sure that's the case for the majority of the country. At-least it's not here in my greater metro area (suburbs or rural... yuppie downtown areas... perhaps, but again, downtown is not majority for most places)
They call it "wet blanket"?
They are not 'all in' on the subscription model: if you stop paying you still get to use the last version issued while you were a subscriber. (Or maybe the one that was the current one when you paid your yearly subscription, but it doesn't make much of a difference.) They call it 'perpetual fallback license'.

I think it's a fair compromise between owning what you have paid for and being able to fund continuous development of the platform (and also to be able to receive updates without having to make a buy/skip decision all the time).

Also, they are not a Russian company and have severed ties with Russia a few weeks after the war has started.
Windows has a similar distinction between applications that have one window per open document (SDI for Single Document Interface) and applications that have one window with tiny windows inside for each document (MDI for multiple document interference).
Not particularly, because who's to say that "cop AI" doesn't screw over humanity in its attempts to shut down an AI it's deemed "suspicious"?

The current usual approach here is to train AIs without specific goals or optimization functions. Instead, they're rewarded by human reactions to their decisions. As such, they effectively don't learn "do this thing", they instead learn "do what the humans want, avoid what they don't" -- and through that, they indirectly learn to "do the thing" (because the humans want it) while avoiding dangerous outcomes (because the humans don't want behaviors that lead to those).
For reference to those who don't understand just how pathetic Zuck's metaverse is, right now, on any number of VR devices, you can freely download VRChat, choose nearly any avatar you want, including definitely copyrighted works that you shouldn't be allowed to, the avatars can have significantly higher detail and fidelity than Zuck's, all of them have legs, you can setup full body tracking through various cheap or expensive ways, you can play silly games with strangers, stay up too late and hang out with random asian kids you can't understand, go literally virtual clubbing (this was awesome during the pandemic), watch movies together, chat about nothing, draw with people much more talented than you, watch impromptu live musical performances, and just otherwise hangout with anyone, VR or not.

And after you are done, you can go "next door" onto Rec Room, play much better designed and built games with more strangers and kids, get absolutely shitmixed by 12 year olds in paintball and lasertag, make some 12 year olds day by helping them beat a big pirate themed campaign, build your own entire worlds using a robust in engine creation kit, and once again do this with both VR and non-VR people.

The only possible innovation Meta could bring in is to make it Adults Only
The only problem I see here is that these files could diverge and lead to all kinds of annoying problems down the line. Would be great if they could be automatically linked somehow.
I prefer not to ascribe semantics to accounting credit/debit - only thing that matters is it is consistently applied and balances out.

I think of this as being similar to primary key constraints - my rule is primary keys should not have a business meaning. I have walked into many situation where they would have implemented so - and usually will fail to convincing them otherwise.
This looks really cool! I use various different environments on a daily basis (windows, mac, linux) so being able to access my dev environment regardless of what machine I'm on is awesome.
nah, there's a bunch of terms, and the idea is that this will protect forests. but you can visit it!

https://establishedtitles.com/pages/faqs-ii