skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“CAUTION. Do not remove the wire from pin 4AB to 7FL in the CPU
enclosure. This wire is located approximately 7 inches up from the
bottom of the backplane in bay 2 and should not be removed by using a
GE 112-3 wire unwrapping tool, first not removing the wrapping from
4AB, then pulling the wire from under the other wiring to its bound
end at 7FL, followed by not unwrapping the bound end from 7FL. Not
removing this wire will result in the normal clockspeed which is 1.6
times slower than with the wire removed and will not cause
corresponding increases in system throughput.”

— https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...
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You're still describing the same fundamental system, with tweaks. Fundamental changes would be things like a unicameral legislature, Supreme Court without judicial review or President who isn't commander in chief.
Whoever wrote or approved that should be fired. Whether they are a lawyer or politician, it matters not. To parse it one needs to write it out, draw brackets around concepts, and then add lines between the potentially-grouped concepts because there is so much in-between that you forget it all by the time you get to the end.
Man did I love my Zire.
Listening to mp3 songs while gaming Warfare Incorporated everyday on the bus home from high school
Fast, Branchless Ray/Bounding Box Intersections, Part 3: Boundaries
If you ever think of a financial trick to avoid taxes and say "why couldn't companies do X", the answer without fail is "because it's illegal and you aren't aware of the specific law you're violating".

If this was legal all sorts of companies would do this all the time.
Yet the references you give are super recent. I guess that highlights my point somewhat?

This has been an issue since before Clinton (ie before my commercial experience) at the least.
Not at the current prices for new customers. I'm currently paying 50,07€ct/kWh here in northern Germany.

25W * 8760h * 0,5€ = ~109€ per year.

The price hurts, yes, but the waste of power is _criminal_.
I expect most active HN posters, aka writers, feel a pang, a frisson, as they realize that reading and writing are a dying practice. Big money idea: the platform that replaces authored written documentation with acted presentation documentation.

Edit: imagine, it will be normal to watch a 1 minute TikTok video for each API method.
Because you can, of course.
Yikes, please don't do this.

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Show HN: A GitHub Action to wait for jobs in step, helpful to prestart the job
Currently GitHub Actions doesn't have a native way (needs) to wait for jobs in a step. This action allows to wait for the specified jobs in the same run to be complete successfully before proceeding. Such a behavior is beneficial when dependee job has steps that can run/ finish before the job dependencies are completed or out from them is actually required
AWS CloudFront with S3 recommends that you just set your S3 to require a specific 'Referer' header variable and you set CloudFront to send that custom 'Referer' with each origin request.

Seems to work great when you use something like a GUID, and no need for IP whitelisting.
Because I’m ignorant: What are the practical take aways from this?

When is a cpu core sending a message to another core?
Your question is exactly the reason why meeting of the minds doesn't solve this problem. It's subjective.

Fyi in practice, signing the document means that you understand it, as far as a court is concerned. Contracts will often throw in boiler plate like "I am authorized to sign this, I've read it, and I understand and agree to it."

The most common way it's successfully challenged is "incompetence" - by showing the person who signed it in no way could have possibly understood it (e.g. developmentally disabled, someone held a gun to their head, don't speak the language and the translation was fraudulent, etc).
I considered doing that in college--decided against it because overall I decided it wouldn't be worthwhile. Yes, I could have taken notes faster but it's not a skill I expected to have much use for later in life. I could already see that the computer was going to pretty much kill handwriting.
> Personally, I am a big supporter of regular (frequent), small changes to a country's constitution to support, and facilitate, social change

Sure. But that's a preference, nothing more. We don't have strong evidence one way or another, nor over-arching theories supporting or rejecting seldom-messed-with versus frequently-adapted constitutions.

That's my point: we haven't made progress beyond preferences. As such, denigrating the Constitution on account of its age falls flat. Modern concepts of governance were largely already in place at its drafting.
I think the hubris that made all their neighbors suspicious set their goal back by 40 years (due to generational memory, which takes time to die). By that time, they will be firefighting and dealing with the chaos of a collapsing system of every young person supporting 6 old people. The young will be too exhausted to care about domination.
what is the endless cycles?
the hype to learn things that obsolete tomorrow?
Bit by bit add all the links, phone numbers and information to do the task to the todo, once it is all right there then it becomes much more possible.

You are correct that many tasks cannot be made that small, if they cannot be achieved then the task becomes locate and ask for assistance.
The company that makes GIFs says they're 'cringe' and 'out of fashion'
Yeah, the EU one can be quite an issue.

Often the EU "principle" that is then enshrined in individual country's laws is fairly straight forward. However, you really need to understand the individual country and their regulator to understand their take on it and enforcement. There can be a huge disparity between countries, despite all being rooted in the same principle.
At my job I have to deal with the structural design part of the building code for US and Canada (ei. calculating loads on structure). Part of my job is to find the differences in each new version to see if we need to implement anything new in our software.

For seismic, the Canadian code is easy enough to understand that teachers use it in college instead of manuals or notes. To calculates something (eg. a specific wind load or seismic load), you just read the section from top to bottom and follow the recipe. Things are actually placed in the order that an engineer would use them.

With the US code, you have to deal with triple negations and 80% of the usefully information is presented as references to other sections. It's really not fun trying to understand it when a single sentence will link you to 8 paragraphs, 6 of which are in a completely different chapters or sub-chapters. And as you can imagine, these 8 paragraphs will also have their own references to other part of the code. It's a complete mess that is impossible to follow unless you write your own summary and/or take screenshots and rearrange them in order.

You end up with a situation where even experienced engineers can't understand it and have to rely on notes from colleagues, college textbooks, calculation examples, or they just blindly follow the design software they bought.

Working the support line for a high end structural analysis and design software has really opened my as to how incompetent and lazy a lot of the senior engineer from highly reputable firm can be. It would be a lot safer for the public if the "easy to understand" version of the code came from those who wrote the original. I suspect it's the same in other professions too.
Yes, the crossover effect is quite real. I remember my econ class, where the textbook spend a lot of time deriving derivative calculus. Except they never mentioned the words "derivative" or "calculus", because evidently that triggered math anxiety in econ students. So the book went around the horn doing it the hard way, using different terms like "marginal rate of return".

Me, I had a good chuckle over that. I kept all my college textbooks except the econ one, which went in the trash.
One reason I’m highly skeptical to claims of monopolies, especially in an industry as dynamic and volatile as tech, is in 5 years you already have competition from new upstarts (TikTok) and old hands (Apple and Amazon) that makes claims of digital advertising “dominance” by Google and Meta outdated. The monopoly claims were suspicious from the beginning but now it looks pretty absurd.
As a general matter writers that try to use a formal voice but don’t have a lot of practice with it produce writing that is much worse than if they just settled for something more casual.

I’m not saying emojis and text-speak but most of the time writers shouldn’t reach for words or phases that they think sound impressive.
but the point was that the plastic bears a sign meaning/implying that it is recyclable.
whether the plastic will eventually be recycled or not is irrelevant, since that's not what the sign would convey, nor would anyone interpret it as such.
That is less effort that I was envisioning. But personally I prefer to take the stance of not inviting power vampires into my house.
Shorthand is better for this
> But I'm talking about a general disrespect teachers have for parents. This is manifested in not wanting any input from parents, not wanting to hear from them at PTA meetings, not consulting parents in any way shape or form about the curriculum. Teachers do want parents to volunteer, but only at their direction. No collaboration.

It's easy to blame teachers for this, but in public schools generally greater than 100% of instructional time is already spoken for. Administrators and regulators are heaping requirements upon teachers to cover material. Then, because not enough time is allotted, the only option is to cover it badly and quickly.

Also, because many teachers have inadequate planning and grading time, it gets really tempting to do what you did last year; veteran teachers tend to work >125% of contract hours already.

I'm open to collaboration. Unlike most teachers, I have a lot of flexibility in how I run most of my classes. But AP Microeconomics? Pfft. I don't have the luxury of caring what your suggestions are about how I run that class. I have 34.5 equivalent-block-periods of material to cover in 35.5 equivalent-block-periods, and I'm sure there will be a fire drill or something that I need to reteach that will claim that buffer.

This is just a snippet of the high level plan (lesson plans go into greater detail), showing how I'm forced to think about a class where there's explicit heavy curriculum requirements: https://i.imgur.com/YQk5LBP.png

> As for pencils and paper, pencils cost a few cents each, and the playgrounds of the schools I attended were littered with pencils.

That's nice. You are still trying to shame someone who is making below a living wage to purchase it, and many other things, for other peoples' children.
Revenue is not profit
"An artificial general intelligence will probably look more like a whole series of exponentially improving tools than a single thing" cements how I feel AI will be. Also its amusing how GPT-3 wrote that, and I'm agreeing with it.

Its a good article, pretty accessible IMO, and quite poetic.
Surely it’s both? Some technical debt can be okay just like some personal or corporate debt can be okay.
Ok you just made me go dig into the classic official Macintosh Human Interfaces Guidelines: http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf

(A classic wonderful document that even us Atari ST users used to consult when developing apps!)

See page 216 (240 in the PDF), "Controls Not Supported by the Macintosh Toolbox".

"Little Arrows
The control that is two arrows pointing in opposite directions is commonly
called little arrows. It is used to increase or decrease values in a series.
Figure 7-16 shows one example of the little arrows control.'

So two small vertically stacked arrows as you'll see in their screenshot.

And you're right, those arrows to the left of the article title should be for expand/contract. (See 7-18, page 242 "Outline triangle control" in the same PDF)
Who knows if that 20m revenue should be 60m? They could be held back greatly by the fact that the developers are not motivated to change anything.

I also don't know Haskell and have no desire to learn it. I prefer to build products in static compiled languages where I can more easily hire developers.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220918181734/https://www.econo...
keep in mind that GTA V had to run on the PS3 as well. It's a technical marvel that the game worked at all honestly.
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We're talking about a $15,000 off-road premium European motorcycle that burns gasoline for rich young guys to have fun tearing through the wilderness. That's a "waste of the world's resources". The $10 sensor on the shift lever that you're complaining about is inconsequential.
I agree with everything you said except that for me it also applies to fiction.

I read a lot of fiction on my Kindle, and it's never as satisfying as leafing through a paper novel. I don't read start to finish, I tend to go back to favorite passages, or to re-read a character's introduction some chapters before (and if I get lost, some other passage is sure to catch my eye!) and ebooks make this painful.

My way of reading is very "physical", for lack of a better word. Ebooks are not good for this at all.

I still like my Kindle, because nothing beats having hundreds of novels on a single lightweight device. But to me that's its biggest and almost only advantage. (Secondary: adjusting font size as my eyesight grows less precise with age).
Something really really wrong just happened, I just saw an ad on Youtube. I didn't think that was possible.
I don't know what to tell you... but in real life people misunderstand each other all the time. And don't adjust.

Listening to dialog in a movie theater is generally crystal clear in terms of audio engineering, coming from dedicated center speakers with very little audio artifacts due to the space. Directional sound waves are directional sound waves, and no there's nothing our ears are optimized for that isn't reproduced by speakers, for dialog coming from a few feet or more away. Muddiness is introduced when downmixed into stereo on crappy TV speakers in living rooms with a lot of sonic reflection from hard surfaces. If you listen with spatial audio AirPods with noise cancellation, for example, you'll get something much clearer akin to a theater experience.

My point is that subtitles help people who have trouble understanding similar dialog in real life, or in bad acoustics. It's an accessibility option.

When I listen to content with my AirPods, I never need subtitles at all. The audio is perfect. When I watch a movie in a friend's living room with kids running around, we absolutely put on subtitles. Because it's a terrible audio environment. So it all works out.
Are MSFT and Apple safest faangs rn?
It was an accidental process. I was volunteering running after-school robotics teams and my role steadily increased over a number of years.

If you want to do this at a public school, you're going to need to go get a specialized master's degree and teaching credential. Of course, there's some value in what's taught in these programs (pedagogy, classroom management, practical experience, etc). I've studied rather intensely on my own.
>But with computers so fast, it's quite common for people, especially in conceptual design space, to use Monte Carlo methods since it's a lot easier to believe the answer once you get it.

Is it really easier to "believe" an answer on a purely stochastical level?
I'm kinda surprised, I would be way more confident (if I were to choose) with answers from deterministic descriptions/equations despite being more abstract and potentially harder to "visualize".

I find more often than not supposed 'comprehensibility' on the surface level to be quite misleading. Of course if one doesn't have clue where to start and enough processing power the Monte Carlo method and alike certainly can help to jumpstart/brute force the process.
I submitted this story, but I agree the wording is very suspicious.
Let's say SimCity took advantage of this beta program and fixed their buggy software. Great!

Now how do you get that fixed software to every user who bought a SimCity CD or floppies? Remember, most of your users don't have a modem and there is no widespread internet infrastructure at the time of the Windows 95 release.
If this goes wrong, what's the impact? I'd expect if a critical part of your life goes wrong, you are likely to die.

If this went wrong, you'd either not read the letters, or have fun figuring out how to translate them by hanx
Writing laws and contracts in natural language is kind of insane given that they are formal specifications.
Answering only the latter question:

A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition

https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/10.2200/S00962ED2V01Y2019...

(free online book) would help
Just for my understanding: What is the power consumption of a Apple TV in idle mode? and of a Raspberry Pi in idle mode?
I like the compact mode. It looks sleek.
Not since I started subscribing to O'Reilly's online ebook system confusingly called "Safari."
Yes, but I don’t think there’s been a moment where they were not the safest.
Poor writing is the main cause for the illegibility of referreed science and engineering articles too. Historically this was partly due to publishers' demand that the article be quite short (often < 8-10 pages). Of course, this constraint is obsolete now that pubs are electronic.

In addition to a format guide, every journal should specify a style guide (like the NY Times does), so the reader can expect a highly structured layout AND argument. (Explanatory content can go in 1+ supplement docs.) I'd even like to see standards for the use of emphasis (like bold, italics, colored text), especially for first mention of term/names that occur repeatedly.

The sooner we can make all professional writing trivial to skim, the better.
Sheesh, I had to look this far to find this comment, half of the top comments were discussing how much testing OP should do and what manner he should approach the act of refactoring things while ignoring that the "monster" generates a boat load of money for the company. I love hacker news a lot but people seriously need to get out of their developer box and look at the big picture.
damn i love me some gherkins. Are those fermented? I had no idea how they were made.
Agree. There is generally little hope of a layperson (or even a lawyer typically) of benefitting from a EULA. That said, laws separate from the contract might benefit you - if Microsoft's software kills your dog, you probably can't recover under the contract, but you might be able to win a lawsuit against them for breaking the law.

Unfortunately that process is also costly and benefits greatly from lawyer involvement. It's a widely known problem that it's expensive to navigate the court system.
Neat! Will go very nicely with one of my desktop environment containers, which is inspired on Platinum as well: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/12/2330
Which attributes of a person are necessary to answer a legal question?

Python:

def has_legal_right(person: dict, right: str): -> bool
assert person
assert right
#
return NotImplementedError

def have_equal_rights(persons: list): -> bool
return NotImplementedError

Javascript:

function hasRight(person, right) {
console.assert(person);
console.assert(right);
// return true || false;
}

function haveEqualRights(persons) {
// return true || false;
}

Maybe Lean Mathlib or Coq?

... Therefore you've failed at the Law of Reciprocity.
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https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

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Don't genie's wishes end in curses?
The claims of monopoly have always been political. The only company that comes close to a monopoly is Apple due to them locking out third-party apps on their phones.
The inconsistent-edits problem is a real one; failure to follow D.R.Y. cost a Dallas lender $693K because a guaranteed repayment amount was written as "one million seven thousand dollars ($1,700,000)" and words take precedence over numbers, so the lender was repaid $1.07 million and not $1.7 million.

In another example, the agreed deadline for a party to cure a breach of contract was written as "fifteen (30) days"; the breaching party cured before day 30 but after day 15 — which was too late, because the other party had already terminated the contract, and the court agreed that words take precedence over numbers.

So D.R.Y. is a sound guideline to follow in contracts (within limits; it's not an absolute, ironclad rule).

More: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Notes-on-Contract-Draftin...
Punching holes in 3.5" floppies to turn 720kb double density into 1.44mb high density will remain my favorite removable media hack. Saved me so much money as a kid.
> Basically only religious persons names their kids Mohammed, those who quit the religion will not put the burden of that name on their kids.

That might hold true for first names (even though I am not entirely sure), but when it comes to last names, it is a complete crapshoot.

I changed my last name when I was 14 (entirely for unrelated reasons), but the old one I had contained a form of "Mohammed" in it. Without giving it away, I will just say that some popular MMA fighters these days have different forms of the same last name as mine used to be.

My mom's side of the family is religious, but they are eastern orthodox christian. My dad's side (from which I inherited my old last name) is entirely atheist, but it just so happened that at some point in time about 4-5 generations ago, there were ancestors on his side who were religious muslims.

And given that in my old country the last names of children are always automatically taken from the father (barring rare exceptions), it ended up propagating 4-5 generations down with no actually religious people in the loop at all. What makes it even more bizarre to people irl who know this is that my dad has that "blond hair blue eyes" look.
That's essentially what the GP was implying, "Have everything in writing, complete with date and signatures."