skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compassion will always be intermittent and fall prey to the factors you cited if not a foundational component of an individual's personal code.

As an experiment, in 2012 I spent a week on the road to hand-deliver a letter of need (not my own) to 25 of the largest philanthropists to liberal causes. Not one of them responded or helped personally, six of them had a staffer send a form letter of rejection.

My conclusion is that compassion is too often valued only when self-serving. i.e. Dozens of uber-wealthy donate to charities that support the homeless and/or drug addicted, but view the "actual people" who collectively define the issue with suspicion and disdain.
Whilst there are differences, that's not one of them. What decides whether the caller still has something is whether you passed it by reference.

fn eat(food: Edible) just takes an actual Edible. Afterwards the food is gone, perhaps this function stashed it somewhere, or gave it away, but you don't have it any more† so maybe it was Dropped (destroyed)

fn sniff(food: &Edible) -> Smell this time our function only wants an immutable reference to the Edible. The food isn't changed in any way by this predicate, it's still yours, and now you also know how it Smells.

fn lick(food: &mut Edible) -> Review but this function modifies the Edible via the exclusive reference. You still have the food, and now you've got a Review, but the food may be changed, perhaps irreversibly by being licked.

† If Edible is Copy then Rust will just copy it, so the caller still has it, types which are Copy are typically small, and they can't implement Drop, so if they were destroyed nothing happens anyway. An integer is Copy, a String isn't Copy, and neither is a File, or a network Socket, or whatever. You can make your own types Copy, if you want, and if they qualify.
>btrfs is a horrible mess that will likely lose your data.

Meanwhile the bazillion petabytes on the world's synology NAS run fine, and are BTRFS.
If the universe you live in is getting increasingly surreal, be concerned. Universes where you survive a maximal time are likely to be wierd and not fun for you.
Not true - you can easily buy unlocked Baofeng radios in EU and nobody cares. FCC cared because American manufacturers couldn’t really compete on market terms.
Erm, what? In Europe police shooting random people on streets is unheard of. Same with China.
Interesting that they seem to think that software developer performance can be measured meaningfully and accurately in a standard way across teams.
Shocked at how good the results are, and how easy of an installation it is.

Here are the exact steps to follow to get it running on Ubuntu 22.04 via WSL and yt-dlp:

1. pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

2. yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v\=bZkNIzeRBk4

3. renamed the file to test.mp3

4. whisper test.mp3 --language Japanese --task translate --model large

Note: the large model will download a ~3Gb file
The article is specifically talking about salting the ice in a homemade ice cream maker like this[0]. The ice is used to reduce the temperature of the milk/sugar/etc. to "freeze" the ice cream. None of this salt gets into the ice cream.

I agree with you - people should try salting their ice cream. But the article is about a different part of the ice cream making process.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Nostalgia-WICM4L-Electric-4-Quarts-Mi...
For a little while, yes. Ice has middling thermal conductivity, it'll eventually homogenously warm to the melting point.
Isn't Jewish also a race, not just a choice of holy books? When he said it I assume he meant it regarding the race, not that reading the Torah makes you better with numbers.
As long as the fire continues to burn, the best firefighters in the world couldn't extinguish it.
Crimea affords Russia with a warm water port. There's no way in Hell they will give that up.

Putin took Crimea because he was afraid of losing it if Ukraine joined NATO.
A ‘Stripe for phone plans’: Gigs raises $20M to help any company be an MVNO
Jared Polen (FroKnowsPhoto) is an acquired taste and not everyone likes the way he presents things but he's extremely thorough on his reviews.
it depends. likely yes, but.

there are good (usually small) teams doing interesting and professionally fulfilling work that's not really common elsewhere. (things that come due to "hyperscale". a-a-and, unfortunately, in this regard all big corps are alike. so if you want to do something like that, then your best bet is a corp like FB. though of course there are smaller niche companies for everything, so just because of some niche don't rush to big co-s.)
No, we're not there yet. Ray tracing in games is still merely augmenting traditional rasterization, and requires heavy post-processing to denoise because we cannot yet run with enough rays per pixel to get a stable, accurate render.
I think people in the Russosphere (or indeed generally) tend to overstate the 'role' of the West. The West tends to be very muddled, and at no point has it been more muddled than in the Trump era, and Russia began their invasion at a nadir of NATO coherency and vitality. My impression is that the role of the west was basically one of blithe ignorance, and mild disinterest, until the tanks started rolling over the border.

If you look at a chart of Russia's GDP since 2014, you can see what these adventures have already done to the Russian people. There's a lot of talk about pivoting to the east, but I'll believe it when I see it. Chinese businesses don't like operating in Russia for the same reason Russians don't like operating in Russia: you get ripped off all the time. Moreover, you can't just redirect gas wherever you like: you have to build giant pipelines. That typically takes about a decade.
To be fair to GP, it does take some energy to heat the ice from freezer temp to 0C (or the new, depressed freezing point), part of which will come out of the ice cream. It's just that that amount of energy is very small compared to the other energies we're interested in here (as you pointed out elsewhere).
Indian jones and the register states
No, that’s not how it works. At every moment, the likelihood of future moments to be normal is overwhelming (even if you’re already 200 years old). But among all physically possible futures, there’s presumably always at least one where you continue living. And that future may be otherwise perfectly normal and non-weird except for the fact that you’re still living. Of course, there’s also always weird futures besides the non-weird ones. But there is no special correlation between overall-weird futures and futures where you continue living.

As an analogy, when you throw a coin repeatedly, there will be a world where you get tails a million times in a row. That doesn’t mean that there will be anything else weird in that world.
So should they hand out promotions and fire people based on randomness?

Take the manager's word for it and go all in on nepotism?

What's the better solution?
> Unbiased

One of the tech lead feed [0] looks quite biased towards Ukraine though. I hope it doesn't interfere with the search engine.

[0] https://twitter.com/mgrani
It's not telling them to voluntarily do an optional thing, just that they can't do said optional thing on that specific platform. The fact that people are appearing side by side with creators making this content is what leads to the assumption that this is the kind of content women are going to create. It's the adjacency that's the issue.

Twitch already bans content like pornography, but people are free to do what they want on OnlyFans. These creators should be entirely free to produce "hot-tub streams" and other such content, just relegated to "lifestyle.tv" or something to keep a barrier between softcore-erotic content and typical creators.
This would be a cool thing to integrate into Dragonfly
https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly
> Wouldn't QE be anti-liquidity since it's net result is more cash goes to the Fed and QT be pro-liquidity since the opposite happens?

You have QE and QT backwards.

QE => fed builds up it’s balance sheet, it sends out cash.

QT => fed reduces its balance sheet, it gets cash back.

>On this earth, liquidity is about transaction velocity, and The Fed taking transactions off the table (by being a guaranteed buyer at every auction) makes non-Fed transactions happen at lower prices. The end.

Transaction velocity matters but it’s not everything. You’re myopically looking at one market, while the rest of us are talking about the systemic effects.

Transaction volume follows from the supply and demand for money. If you remove money from the system, you remove liquidity.

Look, you quoted a blatantly incorrect definition of QE/QT below. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.
I recorded myself speaking French and was able to translate decently well on my laptop. Very impressive!
> You don't need to make your website fast, all you have to do is not make it slow in the first place.

This requires testing. Which is, apparently, something most companies don't know how to do correctly.
Temp DB's feel like a slightly underused technique too. (Not saying it's always better.)

Ie, just a quick script that adds a serial id as the first column. Then imports to postgres/mysql based on header names (column names) and file name (becomes table name) to a brand new db.

Usually DBs are so long lived and carefully designed that there's a bit of mental block to just importing trash data and dropping the whole database later. I'm always 15 mins into awk before i remember.

Also in postgres you can do it as a new schema in an existing database, and join with the existing data. Probably safest to not do that in production :-).

Like so:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5712387/can-we-join-two-...

Then just drop the whole schema when you are done screwing around.
`noErrorTruncation: true` in a tsconfig.[1] It also affects hover and quickinfo truncation. Technically it will still truncate, just at a way higher limit, like a million characters.

[1]https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#noErrorTruncation
The thing is, computing has been getting steadily faster, just not at quite the pace it was before and in a different way.

With GPUs we have proven that parallelism can be just as good or even better than speed increases in enhancing computation. And there again have been speed increases trickling in.

I don't think it's realistic to say that more speed advances are unlikely. We have already been through many different paradigm shifts in computing, from mechanical to nanoscale. There are new paradigms coming up such as memristors and optical computing.

It seems like 1000x will make Stable Diffusion-style video generation feasible.

We will be able to use larger, currently slow AI models in realtime for things like streaming compression or games.

Real global illumination in graphics could become standard.

Much more realistic virtual reality. For example, imagine a realistic forest stream that your avatar is wading through, with realtime accurate simulation of the water, and complex models for animal cognition of the birds and squirrels around you.

I think with this type of speed increase we will see fairly general purpose AI, since it will allow average programmers to easily and inexpensively experiment with combining many, many different AI models together to handle broader sets of tasks and eventually find better paradigms.

It also could allow for emphasis on iteration in AI, and that could move the focus away from parallel-specific types of computation back to more programmer-friendly imperative styles, for example if combined with many smaller neural networks to enable program synthesis, testing and refinement in real time.

Here's a weird one: imagine something like emojis in VR, but in 3d, animated, and customized on the fly for the context of what you are discussing, automatically based on an AI you have given permission to.

Or, hook the AI directly into your neocortex. Hook it into several people's neocortices and then train an animated AI 3d scene generation system to respond to their collective thoughts and visualizations. You could make serialized communication almost obsolete.
In other words, it's like if you get rid of the worst player in each NBA team.

They are still super atheletes, but they are judged against other NBA teammates, not average professional basketballer in the world.
Also, if you really want to recover the salt, you’d just have to boil away the water.

Alternatively, pickling is a perfectly good use of brine used for frugal purposes (extending the shelf life of produce, eggs, and what have you)
I'm guessing you don't fly often!
Ec2 does not have live migration. On azure it’s spotty so not every maintenance can offer it.
Ars Technica has acknowledged that stability has been achieved for single-disk filesystems. I've had no complaints, and the Fedora community has not reported major problems that I have heard.

"So, we'll repeat this once more: as a single-disk filesystem, btrfs has been stable and for the most part performant for years."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...
I'm a happy Plausible (https://plausible.io/) paying user.

Simple to use (few features compared to GA, but exactly those I need), respects privacy, and has fair pricing.
That's a very interesting result. Did you happen to capture the seed for either of those first two images? It would be interesting to try to reproduce.
I think I prefer the method used in The Matrix.
Well that’s craiyon, what does DALLE do with it though
> A proper Thinkpad does not have issues with hibernation, or losing battery, or graphics, or any of the other things you mentioned.

Not sure if my E495 would qualify as a "proper thinkpad", although I've read about the same issues on T series laptops, I've almost never managed to make my laptop sleep in the 3 years I've owned this laptop starting from kernel version 5.4.x to the present 5.19.x. Whenever I try to 'systemctl suspend', one of the following things happens

- the laptop sleeps for a few seconds and wakes up

- the laptop sleeps for a few seconds and wakes up completely frozen and I have to perform a hard reboot

- the laptop doesn't sleep and freezes and I have to perform a hard reboot

- the laptop sleeps successfully but when I wake it up, the screen is messed up with green colors all over the place, hard reboot needed

My laptop also kept freezing randomly from 5.4.x to 5.14.x.
Senators ask for review of Apple’s plan to use Chinese chips
It is exactly this thought process that is preventing good fiscal stimulus during recessions.

Well intentioned thoughts like these are a good default for the government running in cruise control - when there is no financial volatility. A stimulus is only required during a recession. In each recession, we have only allowed the Fed to print more money, which hasn't turned out well. Instead of printing this money and raising asset prices, during each recession, fiscal policy should help increase the supply of things direly in need. If a recession is causing food shortages, we don't want printed money to increase demand for food. We would do much better by literally subsidizing X units of food for the next 1 year.
Replacing non-work time on the weekend (especially time with children or a partner, or personal time) with work seems like a bad idea.

Moreover, from years of personal experience, I have found that working on weekends doesn't seem to improve productivity and is harmful to health and happiness.
Hackers publish personal data of 1.5m TAP Air clients
Related: “The perfect human is Puerto Rican” – https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/the-perfect-hum...
Creating a saltwater slush and packing this around our ice cream base allows us to cool the base enough so that it starts to thicken and freeze before the ice melts completely.
This is still lapping up the bullshit of what it actually is. It's a redundancy plain and simple, your job is being terminated, it should be reported as such.
Articles like this often overlook the concentration of power that exists within central planning.

VCs must generally choose companies that can ultimately attract public investors to make a profit. They must also answer to LPs, convince company leadership to take their investment terms, and must follow government regulation. All this while competing with the many other VCs out there.

That naturally results in many more checks and balances (and thus less concentrated power) than is typically wielded by central planners.
The fact that methane absorbs infrared/near-infrared frequencies is also the mechanism that causes it to be a greenhouse gas.
I'm unsure why the distinction matters that was brought up in the post. It really comes down to what do you need to support, and how much weight you can swing.

Are you a small time supplier, and want a major retailer to integrate with you over API? good luck. The decision really isn't yours, if you want to get paid, you integrate.

I think the reality is that most developers would rather use an JSON API instead of EDI. EDI is sometimes talked about as just X12 / EDIFACT, but the protocol is baked in as well, which causes more headache (who wants to build an EDI stack?). X12 was built during a time where VANs probably connectivity, and caused per character, so everything was positional based and inferred. Modern APIs are descriptive, and easier to use.

(fd: I work for Orderful, a company that provides an API and then translates it to EDI so you can easily work with any trading partner)
Ask HN: Recommendations for ‘minimalist’ (e.g. not too ‘smart’) phones?
Hello HN:

My close friend and I had a conversation today about doomscrolling, and I think it finally kicked me into gear.

I’m an iOS developer for a living, and I am just oversaturated at this point from the entire smartphone experience. I’m tired of the constant feeds and notifications, and while I am aware I can turn them off and change certain settings, I am finally ready to just keep my iPhone as a device I develop for/on, like my MacBook; and find an alternative.

I am impressed by this ‘Punkt’ phone[0, and I like that it can still be used to tether, and supports Signal, even - but for the feature set it seems kind of expensive.

Can anyone here at HN, who I’m sure has been in a similar situation - offer some advice on models to pick? I’m ideally looking for something around $300-400.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09NRKVYF4/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_CW2GWFATNPKSRG54EV1F_0
Ah my mistake. I see the context now. If that's truly what Meta is doing, all the more a garbage company.

It does still feel like a marketing spin on "we're cutting headcount, make it work" to me though. I find it impossible to believe that Meta wasn't already doing this.
Java and the JVM from Sun/Oracle. People may not like the language (or the company), but it's good, well-engineered software.
> this will sound super unscientific (because it is) but I've always wondered if the body (or life in general) relies upon any unknown/undiscovered physical phenomena.

I strongly disagree that creatively speculating about the possible limits of our knowledge is unscientific. This type of thinking is essential for scientific discovery. The attitude that you are referencing is scientism, which is an irrational (and non-scientific) over-confidence in the power of our existing knowledge and authority figures in scientific fields.

Indeed, much of the mechanisms behind life remain a mystery, and could very well involve undiscovered physics. There's no way for us to know yet how much physics remains undiscovered. What if there are phenomena as important and fundamental as say, electricity that remains to be discovered? To me, as a researcher in biotech, I wouldn't be so surprised by such a thing, because of how frustratingly unpredictable living systems are... it would be fully consistent with what we see to have something really really big that we've been missing all along.
This may not be surprising at all actually. Look at how they form their feeds. It is hyper-dependent on a singular metric: engagement. Engagement doesn't mean you're making your users more connected or happier, it just means they are using your product more (e.g. fighting and yelling at one another). Goodhart's Law in action. But I agree that something like human performance is incredibly difficult to quantify and requires a lot of nuance. But people, and especially bureaucrats, don't like nuance.
It is used but borg scheduler does not manage vm startups
The Space Force Just Unveiled Its “Official Song”
That is really interesting I didn't realize it was so fast. Thanks for the post I will give it a read!
Is there any way I can contact you? I have an aspirational semi-related project.
Thanks for sharing, I will give it a read!
Maybe, a number of speech recognition engines have been integrated into https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly
Russian executives, some from Gazprom, keep dying in strange ways
The core problem is that Sousa is not still alive, and so he can't write the Spaceforce March
The paywall decisions are sometimes kinda odd though. With SES you can only use the older API version, SESv2 is Pro only.
> lots of really dim eyes

Think you got your nouns mixed up there ;)
> There is a LOT of money still sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed. And it WILL be deployed, that’s what investors do.

Reminds me of the saying: "Venture Capital starts with too many good ideas chasing too little money, and ends with too much money chasing too few good ideas."
Yeah, the JVM is good. But unfortunately Oracle can't consistently produce good software.

Java remains a fluke, successful in spite of Oracle.
Sure but not anywhere remotely near clearing the bar to simply calling that “reliability”.
> Food, that analogy doesn't apply because nobody is dying here.

A typical business is going to die if it can't get software.

> And it is about boilerplate disclaimers. That's my entire point. "Add a boilerplate disclaimer reiterating what your license says if you really really mean it" is what your argument boils down to.

No, please read what people are saying.

The request is for a basic description of how serious the project is. Whether it's a super slapdash proof of concept, or a basic implementation with half the features stubbed out, or a mostly complete but unstable project that, or something battle-tested and heavily documented and maintained full-time, or other places in between or outside those lines. Whether they even want bug reports; whether they even want patch submissions.

All of those very different projects could have the exact same license. The exact same disclaimers.

The request is for information that does not belong in a license, and is not put into a license. Nobody is asking for a restatement or rewrite of the license.
But Reagent is built on top of React.
That is a space they are quite directly trying to win with their in browser suite of office tools, and chromeOS is, partly, a vehicle for that. I would be surprised to hear that G and MS partnered in that sort of a way.
Gambling is a problem regardless of being regulated, if anything else being regulated only makes it easier for the audience to get addicted to it, random viewer #2345 from the US isn't gonna gamble on some dingy underground casino if there's an openly available one to do it in.
Yes, that's why I said 'alternatively'. I anticipated something more along the lines of reasons for salt in the product going in. TFA was much more interesting, frankly, just thought I'd offer the other use in comments.
Yeah let's privatise everything, Europe is really lacking in term of health, social security, public transportation, education, train infrastructure, &. I think we should follow the US way of privatizing everything, it works so well

It's such a ponzi scheme to nationalize basic necessities
I don’t believe this reasoning is used since at least Diane