skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There probably is some reasonable etiquette that needs to be established. I'd probably feel blindsided if someone criticized my work in public w/o first talking to me about it. The counterargument is that -- it's a public paper, we should be able to criticize it in any venue we like. But in that world it's very easy for those with the loudest microphone to effectively kill research they don't (or the research of people they don't like).

In a small enough community, it seems reasonable to go to the researcher and say, "we're going to make this statement about that research -- do you have a comment". Almost like a newspaper -- both mediums are trying to present truth, rather than create a narrative, so that's probably why it's so similar.
If I understand correctly, most modern insurance models contain both a general risk ("males are more dangerous so their premiums should be higher") and personal risk ("this male has driven without an accident for 20 years, which is better than the average male, so we categorise them as less risky").
You are Facebook's product and TaxAct's potential customer. TaxAct is sending that data so they can ad-target you to sell you tax software.
We call ours "Monty" for short
"Learning and practicing how to correctly pull the trigger is probably the single biggest improvement to accuracy a new shooter can make."

Thanks, I will change that sentence.
It really depends on how you define a machine.

A machine to me is a combination of elements that interact to perform some function.

Wether those elements are multifunctional doesn’t matter.

Also solid is not a requirement: ropes and pullies, expansion elements, self altering software: etc are all found in human made machines. And they are not solid.

I disagree with this video: life is based on molecular machines. It just happens that these machines are really complex and dynamic. But machines nonetheless.
This feels like overreach to me...
> Firefox has added a small delay to prevent this exploit.

This can be a mild irritation in FF. In other contexts it could be very irritating. The problem with blocking user action for the user's safety is that most users don't appreciate it until they do something wrong (by which point I've found the option to turn the protection off!)
I replied to your comment of "This assumes there is no cost to the change." which is not nor is it ever the case.
Is it bad data if it reflects the underlying observed frequencies regardless of their social origins? I don't think so.
Since the 60's, those kids modifying their mustangs for extra horsepower have not had these problems.
Purely guessing, but I can see a power plant that delivers base payload to mine on the side to make use of the energy not used by the grid. Coal plants usually produce more electricity than needed. Why not use it?
They had one named "Monke"... nice
Is it just me or do dribble and enjin seem to yield positive results for (almost) any name, however returning broken links?
And the name. Yahooh
Does it use the frequencies from the lichess database? That would be pretty cool if it did!
As a general question did you ever wonder why people in those roles were cynical and pessimistic?

I think the reality is you can only be pleasant so many go arounds when you are giving up your weekend or sleep to rush a, "this has to be deployed", botched roll-out or application that is rushed out the door. It is rarely the individuals or groups that create the problem that are rolling their sleeves up and fixing the issues. The concept of "You build it you run it" SRE, DevOps, blah, blah is just fancy rebranding / marketing. This failed workflow exists all over the place, the cynical and pessimistic attitude comes from experience in reading what "people are saying their application will do" and what is actually going to happen.

Then seeing other people promoted because the deploy was a "success" why wouldn't you be cynical and pessimistic. You have entire groups of people who create useless problems and being creative only goes so far, but if you pointed out in your performance review about how you fixed these manufactured issues and how items from retrospectives are still out-standing its a "pessimistic" view point.

Lastly, you get the "empathetic" feedback from others in the industry of "it's what you get paid to do", "find another job if you don't like it", "just leave", etc. However, if you have to be the size of google or meta or amazon to even get ideas like "you build it, you run it" pushed out, how do you think 90% of other companies are operating?

Like all things there is a balance in fixing the problem, being a team player, and raising concerns. If you get good at this you build decision making weight which helps keep the cynicism and negativity at bay.

I think it would be a bit naive though to think that if this was a systemic observation by yourself in an operating space that simply saying "don't be toxic cause its so much better" is skipping over the root cause of why the attitude was so prevalent.

*Disclaimer: This is mostly anecdotal as I haven't seen any studies on "hey, what if we listened to the SRE/sysadmin this time for the deploy" verses not.
I think two important factors might be how obvious the danger is and how useful the object is. A kitchen knife is obviously dangerous and also extremely useful, so it definitely passes both tests. A magnet toy does not appear remotely dangerous but serves little practical purpose, so it fails both tests. A laser pointer's danger is medium-obvious and laser pointers are at least a little useful, so it's sort of in between the two extremes.

If "small magnets are super dangerous to kids" was general knowledge, it'd probably make the magnets significantly safer to sell.
Tech’s turbulence is a chance for VCs to double down on climate
I think it’s meant to make it easier to use. They also have their whole package manager to use
As far as I know, DMD doesn't offer much optimisations.

So you use DMD for development, and once the testing is done, built the production release with LDC or GDC.
Don't forget flow batteries using iron, vanadium and other chemistries, as well as various sorts of molten-salt batteries. For fixed installations we could put up with many inconvenient attributes if it gets the cost down.
> Why does it need to be a subscription?

this is an attack on the used car market
If you sell private party, or trade it to a non-Tesla dealership, then all options will follow the vehicle.

If it ever gets back into Tesla's hands, they have the option to remove the features.

There WAS a case where someone bought a used Tesla from a non-Tesla dealership that was sold with FSD and Tesla then removed the FSD, and there was a lot of outrage behind it, but like many cases of outrage, it was based on a misunderstanding. That car was never supposed to have FSD. There was a bug at some point that gave FSD to cars that weren't supposed to have it, and that car was sold before the bug was fixed, removing FSD, but the dealer sold it as having FSD because at the time, it did. Of course, IMO, Tesla should have just gone ahead and granted FSD in order to save face instead of generating a ton of negative PR and creating a massive amount of misconceptions.
Actually there's less new to it than it seems like.

Even in the past multiple models shared the same engine with minor modifications to offer different performance at different price points. E.g. a C180, C200 and C250 all used the same 1.8l engine. You paid more to get its full potential - and the extra cost was far more than the number of modifications to the base engine.

Now it seems like the extra cost just moves from a one-time bump to a subscription model.
I don't think sales, in general / in principle, has to be immoral. There's shades and details etc. We can argue value to business vs value to consumer, but in general sales, there's nuances. But we are not talking general sales here - we are talking door to door salespeople specifically.

The article focuses on the sales person and for reasons of focus or otherwise, ignores the heard of elephants in the room - what happens to the buyers afterwards.

Vast majority of door to door sales is predicated on anything from severe informational asymmetry to outright fraud. It has to be - there's a REASON why they're paid so much per sold account. It's hard work and it's swimming against the tide. From experience, they are trained and incentivized to find a weakness, with ferocious persistence and evolving methodologies, and will thus statistically exploit those with weakness. They pray on the very best of human emotions and instincts - unwillingness to be rude, eagerness to be friendly, to relate. They build and exploit implicit trust. Their product is by definition not good value - if unconvinced, imagine same product but for the price minus the salesperson commission. As I mention in more detail in parallel thread [1], nothing about average door to door salesperson is real - they're not your buddy, they will not hold your hand through the process, they will not be there to help you or answer your calls if/when things don't work out. As primary outcome of their endevour, they collectively reduce our trust in each other and faith in humanity.

(And like anything else in the wide and exciting world of MLM-likes, there's layers. Not only do the salespeople target the elderly/vulnerable, The door to door salespeople themselves are targeted to be recruited from specifically vulnerable or impressionable, and overall success rate of the profession is lousy. Very few doctors or engineers become door to door salespersons - a struggling minimum-wage worker or a new immigrant are the typical pools; I was the Venn diagram of both. I don't expect your friend to relate the true nature of their job to you, or likely even to themselves. But see if you can talk to their average buyer and get their thoughts).

Want more? Tune in the next episode of the grouchy cranky old man, where I rip into real estate agents :=>

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33718726
The only username you should use more than once is your real name.
Funny about gods. My neighbors have a non-blonde dog named Bragi.

https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-god...

Not quite a thunder god.
https://masto.host/infrastructure/

>> "The data centers used for Masto.host are from OVH and are located in France."

So probably whatever OVH offers.
Great job getting empirical data on this.

These are always theoretical possibilities, but knowing that it happens this often will be useful for informing consumer's behavior before they send a laptop to be fixed.

The upshot seems to be, unless they fix it right in front of you, they'll snoop around about 1/2 the time.
Preban Freon was an actually decent thing to have around especially if you have a device that’s not easy to replace.
I don't follow.

Wasn't your claim that the AI process hasn't been shown to generate a useful drug [1]?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33720915
Agreed. IMO, the real crux is whether you have the inclination to write down what you're taking notes on verbatim. In fact, I think it comes down to one of the following:

1. If you have an inclination to write things down verbatim, which tool/method is slow enough to force you to paraphrase?

2. If you don't have such an inclination and already tend to paraphrase, which has the least cognitive load in using? Not which engages the most senses or motor skills.

Once you develop a habit of putting what you're taking notes on into your own words, you can move from 1 to 2. However, I think most people have the inclination of 1 and tend to fall back to it when they move to 2.

Because I'm one of those people, handwriting was the best method for me for a long time, until I started my master's program where all the professors have either put out a list of learning objectives at the beginning of the course or at beginning of each lecture/unit. Now, I type my notes. I form those learning objectives as questions and try to answer them as I take notes. Outside of classes, I list the objectives of the meeting/research as questions, adding new questions as they come up, and trying to answer them.

This method has been more effective than anything else I've done and typing is really the only way to do it fast enough for me.
I still do it and it has worked for me from being an individual contributor, to leading a team, to leading a part of the org that has a tree of ~50 people across multiple contexts.

The way I see it, if you know the best way to retain information, why would you stop using it. I note down almost everything during meetings, 1-1s, agile rituals, etc. Very rarely I move things to a computer, most things I just need to write down even if I never read them again, others I re-read, others are to-dos. No organization, just a flow of braindump, and lots of little drawings everywhere and arrows connecting things and so on. If you'd read it you'd not understand anything, both because the handwriting is atrocious and because there's practically no structure.
Does this mean that every emacs language package would automatically make use of this once it is built in. Or will this rather enable the possibility to write/rewrite programming language modes so they make use of tree-sitter because they can assume it is available in the default emacs install from then on?
I find the comparison very interesting, in the broader debate of "how can not for profit services with no ads compete with giant for profit advertising based serices". I have really appreciated the analysis in this thread.
Has anyone also considered that people have voice recognition systems in their smartphone and thus a standalone voice recognition device isn't necessary?

Or that the results on a smartphone can be visual, whereas these home devices don't have direct IO apart from voice? [And yes, while they can be hooked to exogenous devices like a television, that's an extra step of configuration to finagle...]
it’s interesting that Thor is now widely seen as blonde. the original legend - as I know it - is of a red-haired individual
I would posit that the climate and the season matter enough to be a solid moral distinction in this case. Civilian lives depend on gas and electricity in all scenarios, but they depend on them ~much more in a Ukrainian winter.
Yes, similar to the assumption that the differences between North and South Korea can't be put down to "lazy people" and "hard working people" being magically seperated on opposite sides of the border.
Yep. The wrap around the tool is neat and looks well done based on what I could see, but I hesitated based just that consideration.

edit: I thought I should make my feedback less generic. In this case, by neat I mean: no fluff, no useless stuff on the landing page, straight to the point. I appreciate that.
multiplying by the number of pieces in the set to pad their numbers should carry a prison sentence
I was 12-18 years old so I wasn't really thinking that way.
You need to memorise enough of the topic to know what to look up in a book.

You need to memorise enough of the topic that you can draw relationships between disparate elements.

Having content in your memory means you have the ability to potentially pull it up quicker, or to pull it up in a situation (such as a team meeting) where you don't have access to the book.

If you rely only on what's previously written, foregoing memorisation, you are limited to the relationships that other people have written down.
You made up the "pounds" part, he didn't say that. Also, buying things before they disappear is hardly "sticking it to the government."
very true, in my experience it's been hard to keep up by hand and much faster to type, but like handwritten notes i rarely reference meeting or project notes so i put little effort into organization. i settled on using onenote and different tabs for different teams
Yes this is how Gmail implements undo send.. Email is actually sent 30 sec after pressing Send, giving you that time to realize your mistake and Undo.
> intended to be used for entertainment, jewelry (including children’s jewelry), mental stimulation

So magnetic dildos probably out. Fully automatic assault magnets - just fine.
High-Perceptual Quality JPEG Decoding via Posterior Sampling
motorcycle yes (fingers roll back on throttle), car not so much.
On a related note: many autistic people suffer from forms of dyspraxia that make writing by hand physically unpleasant in addition to the ouput being hard to read.

Personally I like using pen and paper for dumb sketching because it helps me persist mental models in case I get distracted. But I find it really tedious for anything that requires any serious amount of information density or permanence. I've always avoided taking notes in classes because writing by hand felt tedious and slow, and typing created too many distractions if it was socially acceptable (or even allowed) at all.

I still flinch whenever someone asks me to take notes because even the process of transforming live conversations into serial form requires so much processing I can't fully pay attention to what's actually being said and risk losing track.
A further option is to do what Notepad++ does: save current state even through closing and reopening the application until the user closes the file. When you restart the app files that were never saved and never close are as they were, modified files too. The possible issues with modified files is that if you think you've saved and don't get prompted then run some other tool that relies on the new information it won't be there (as the saved state is elsewhere, not the main file).

Keep the “do you want to save first?” prompts for when closing the file.

Of course for some file types this could use a lot of storage, so it won't be as applicable everywhere.
I don't know if I understand your comment. If 100% of people were vaccinated against covid, then 100% of covid deaths would have to be among vaccinated people, wouldn't they? Now it may be that the measles vaccine is 100% effective for all I know, so maybe no vaccinated people get it. But covid vaccinated people do get (and die from) covid, so more vaccinated people means a higher percentage of deaths will be among vaccinated people.
WASM has an OS abstraction API that ends up being pretty good. There's work in progress on cross language resource sharing, interface types, etc. It's early days yet but this is generating excitement for WASM as a sort of very lightweight cross language container/vm.

It's also useful in "plugin" scenarios, like say filtering code in a network proxy. Or if you wanted to make your own Function as a Service system.
> I run my own Wireguard on a DigitalOcean box, and I'm the only user

May I ask why you bother doing this? At best, unless Wireguard is also filtering your traffic, the only privacy you're getting is hiding your home IP address. Trackers will still track you by IP and build a profile based on it.

> You would think Cloudfare could at least give me a "session" that persisted across the web, if they're going gatekeep the whole fucking thing.

Yeah, that would make sense.
Any suggestion for decent single-or-few-users ActivityPub servers?

I just want a container or a small binary I can run on my server for myself.
The "pop up while I was typing and it hit a button when I hit a space" situation is especially painful. I use a custom keyboard layout with lots of layers so it's doubly frustrating for me. I just see a UI flash and I'm like "wtf did I just do?"

Any salient state change of important data ought to be reversible in the short term. I'm especially fond of Gmail's Undo Send feature (I think it's a Labs plugin, it's not default iirc). For whatever reason, the brain often finds things it forgot when you actually execute the action.

Related, being able to trace what actions were taken is also super valuable. Often this is baked in to the UI (e.g. outbox/sent items, undo menu).

Inevitably, this results in a lot of state accumulation, thus disk usage, but this can be handled by manual garbage collection (which is the 2nd step in data destruction, so this can't be undone, so use a warning here) or tunable cache/LRU settings.
they had a loophole for "services" though...
> Speed in programming never matters except in the systems space. No one is gonna be able to tell Rust vs Go in a web API

Speed equals money. The same app running at twice the speed uses half the compute resources. You may also gain a lot of simplicity if you don't need to distribute your architecture so early on.
Imagine the Mastodon instance 44 gigadollars could have funded.
Oil changes in my ICE are now about $100 almost everywhere I go, other than Walmart which is like $75 (probably more these days, haven't been in years). 6 quarts of synthetic plus an oil filter. Two oil changes a year means $200/yr on oil changes. Not massive, and I agree with the EV cost premium it'll take a lot of oil changes to offset the price of the EV on oil changes alone.

However, the ICE is about to need a valve clearance adjustment this year or early next year. It is not that old of a car, but it still supposed to be done every 60,000mi on my car. There's another $300. It should probably also have a coolant flush and a transaxle fluid drain/fill/inspection. Another $400ish in maintenance. This year's ICE-exclusive maintenance budget is now at $900, assuming everything's fine with things like vacuum hoses and fuel lines and what not. It is not guaranteed they're fine; there's a reason why the manual tells you to inspect them every so often. And I imagine most people probably have no idea what they're looking at, so unless they're paying someone to inspect it that work probably isn't being inspected right.

If you're only getting oil changes on your car, you're probably not following the OEM maintenance schedule on your car.

My EV-only maintenance cost for the life of the car so far? $0. I'll need a gear oil and coolant drain and fill at 130,000mi, but other than that there's nothing scheduled other than things the ICE will need too (tires, suspension, wipers, brakes, etc.)
With the almost total incompatibility in mindset and preferences between Jai and Rust, I’m not sure if this is actually practical ‘advice’. I can’t help but think most devs that want to use Jai are avoiding Rust purposefully so advising them to skip Jai as a potential replacement for their low level development needs and use Rust is just not going to happen.
making a middle englosh text-to-speech tool seems like a fools errand for a number of reasons
Funny to see a self proclaimed "activist organization" leaking private citizen information for people donating to a peaceful protest

Anyone who claims these people are "successors to WikiLeaks" is full of it
This seems worrisome. Sure, don't destroy a new PhD student giving their first talk in front of everyone for sport, but open and constructive criticism is the long conversation that moves science forward.
On typical desktop motherboards, the Super IO chip handles all the temperature monitoring and fan control. Those chips usually have a few modes to configure some very simple control system for mapping temperature inputs to fan speed outputs (never anything as advanced as a PID controller).

The main problem is that the Super IO only has access to the temperature sensors on the motherboard itself, and on the CPU (these days, through PECI). There's no standard way for the Super IO to do out of band monitoring of temperatures on your GPU or storage drives, so if you want those to affect fan speeds you need to implement it in software.

Servers typically have BMCs controlling fans, and even Apple's x86 machines have their SMC; in both cases you typically see a more thorough monitoring of component temperatures, configured out of the box with a proper awareness of which fans are blowing across which components. But that stuff doesn't trickle down to the build your own desktop market.