skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely confused by your point. Are you saying that because other countries have quarantine restrictions, that makes their pandemic approach equivalently restrictive as Australia was? Victoria spent over 250 days in lockdown between March 2020 and October 2021. We had curfews at 6pm for weeks and were allowed out of the house for 1 hour a day and not beyond 5km of our houses. Are you seriously asserting that if the US enacted these restrictions, I would be on here professing that these were the pinnacle of freedom?

What I will remark is that US citizens have certain constitutional protections which we do not that in theory inhibit their government's ability to enact restrictions like these i.e. "freedom of movement".
dial-tone (of various countries / eras)
There's a link 'favorite' below every submission and every comment (you need to click the comment's date first). In your account (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=evittsp) you see these links:

upvoted submissions / comments (private)

favorite submissions / comments (public)
Cloudflare is raising prices and introducing annual plans
So let's throw the people under the bus that are only served by a single ISP (or multiple, equally bad options)?
No, I'm telling you why I don't lose any sleep over circumventing paywalls. Many news outlet owners think they run an advertising company with news as the bait to bring people to the billboard. I consider this terrible for society and humanity in general, so I withhold my money. I do pay for products I consider of good quality, but much internet news is not.
https://www.nwpb.org/2020/12/03/much-more-than-a-spotted-owl...
An armed population is not going to be effective against a professional force.

I'd say Vietnam, Afghanistan prove those points wrong.
I've done all the static site generators, I just don't post enough to justify the maintenance, if you do they're probably a better solution! As is, it's pretty basic but I want to add features that GitHub pages don't support
He's going for a middlebrow dismissal. This is like the "bitcoin isn't money!" or "twitter is not a serious medium for communication!" oldschoolism that some HN traditionalists defend in spite of real world application. At the end it doesn't uncover a salient point but gets stuck on semantics to shut down an entire idea.
Lenovo offers a "keep your drive" warranty option. I thought this upgrade option was needed to keep the drive when something (drive or other) fails, but maybe it is only relevant in case a drive fails and is replaced under warranty?
I think non-commercial status is also an important factor.

It doesn't need to aim for hockeystick growth or guard its data to create value for investors. It doesn't need to manipulate users for high engagement metrics to impress advertisers.
Public Beneficial Ownership Registers Advance Anti-Corruption (2021)
Ooh thanks, I'll check it out!
I'm at an organization where our dev machines are in the cloud. Most folks are indeed using VSCode remotely, but I'm happy with emacs.

The combo that works for me (on MacOs locally) is daemon mode and X11 forwarding...but using x2Go instead of vanilla "ssh -X". I end up with XQuartz windows that behave (mostly*) like other MacOS windows and pretty good performance.

If I'm at cafe or somewhere with spotty internet, I'll forgo the X stuff and just use mosh and text only emacs, but I pretty much never do that anymore.

(* mostly, meaning that for some reason tools like divvy and other things that manipulate/resize windows just don't work with X Quartz windows)
I'm the userbase! I built it for myself and now I'm sharing it with the world. I doubt there is a huge market but even if a fee people find it useful that's good enough for me!
It's like email. You can keep your username if no one else is already using it on the new instance/mail server. The part after the username is different for each instance/mail server, like hotmail.com and gmail.com email addresses are different instances.
There a “metadata section” on HN submissions?
This is incredibly cool & inspiring. How familiar were you with Rust before starting? Any resources you can share for programming the circuit boards you use? I've had some embedded Rust ideas myself but am not sure where to start!
You did a stint on the helpdesk at your college? I can't quite tell what you learned -- did people disclose material non-public information to you and you were afraid the SEC might come after you for acting on it?
I suspect keeping a person employed "for show" could be considered immigration fraud. But that's why those workers should go and hire their own labor and immigration attorneys, and don't trust advice on this website, or from their employer.
Scala's immutable types are also "shallow". For example you can put mutable objects inside an immutable container and change them when you want. Rust avoids this using lifetimes.

It would be interesting if mutability was actually part of Scala's type system, for example if immutable Seq was defined as

class Seq[T <: Immutable]
There is clear evidence public registries are one of the most powerful tools to fight corruption:

https://www.transparency.org/en/news/how-public-beneficial-o...
So it operated for a year and a half, and now it's a $50 piece of space junk?
In a Usenet sigs, it wasn't unusual to see a phone number, DoD number, or a statement that one is speaking only personally and not for their employer. More than one person had "ICBM coordinates" in their sig.

It was a different time.

One thing I'm glad has gone away is signatures that include a quote from someone famous (or net.famous), along with attribution. I'd skim a post, see the name of a person at the bottom, and associate that identity with that name, sometimes more than the name of the poster. At one point I was doing email and Usenet in Emacs, I wrote a feature to deemphasize sigs: https://www.neilvandyke.org/sigbegone/
Yeah, that was the reason I added the fee. Hoping, maybe naively that that will keep the baddies away.
That is not what the article is about. It's about hospitalizing people who are severely mentally ill. How is that not a medical emergency?
Compare the standard equipment between the 70s car and today - especially when it comes to comfort and safety - and you’ll see you’re buying a lot more for your $$ today than 50 years ago
$250 sat. Free (or unquantified) launch cost, labour priced at $0.

Awesome stuff. Looks like they used a metal measuring tape as antenna. I totally love the concept.
Show HN: Amazon Seller sent me a postcard asking me to leave a 5-star review
Wanted to jump in and throw this here since this is about the first time I've been reached out to by an Amazon seller by mail, directly asking me to leave a 5-star review in exchange for a $20 gift card.

With an already struggling E-commerce market, it's quite strange to see the lengths sellers are going to, to buy 5-star reviews from buyers. I am considering reporting this to Amazon, however wanted to run this by you guys and hear similar stories from you!

Here is the card I received: https://i.imgur.com/9ARMZdI.png
The sig community contributed heavily toward my career path. I learned a ton of things due to sigs from hosting and developing plugins for PHP forums, web design, working with relatively advanced Photoshop techniques, basics of various 3D modeling applications, etc. I still have some of my old sigs somewhere and they're pretty awesome little artifacts from my youth.
>And why do devs do this? TBH, I really don't know.

it's one of the pillars of the unix philosophy at work - text is the universal interface.

your nice rich type requires figuring out how that type works, maybe even reading documentation. if you make it a string, you can just treat it like a string. and we all know how to handle strings, or at least how to copy code from somewhere else that handles strings.
The point is that one shouldn't expect people to stand up and say "that's an authoritarian law"! It doesn't work that way. Authoritarian laws get passed because people want them.
Anybody interested in watching electronics repair videos I highly recommend the YouTuber northridgefix
https://m.youtube.com/@NorthridgeFix
I can not recommend his videos enough. So fun to watch and see we don’t need to throw every device that breaks into the garbage. If I was to need something repaired he is the guy I would send my stuff to.
My point is, the author grossly exaggerates the problem. There are large players dominating every industry (for now, those change out over time), and then there's myriad smaller players in most industries. I don't find anything unusual about a concentrated group of power players with the best offering at the moment gaining majority of market share, and a diversified group of secondary players that aren't as competitive.

I don't know anything about video cards, but here's the Wikipedia List of video card manufacturers. I assume some of these are not "real" but there's a lot of brands I recognize in that list.

Asrock,Asus,AMD,Biostar,Chaintech,Club 3D,Diamond Multimedia,ECS,ELSA Technology, EVGA Corporation, Foxconn, Gainward, Gigabyte Technology, HIS, Hercules Computer Technology, Inc, Leadtek, Matrox, Nvidia, MSI, Palit, PNY, Point of View, PowerColor, S3 Graphics, SapphireTechnology, SPARKLE,XFX,Zotac

You may not want the inferior video cards manufactured by some of these players, but that's a different argument.
Ah ok I missed the app part, I was still thinking about web.
Hm, that'd work with the other comment about putting contacts on both sides.

The cards themselves are completely passive and unpowered. Base does everything.
> Other than Tesla, all other manufacturers are using CCS.

Aptera is going Tesla plug apparently:

https://electrek.co/2022/11/23/aptera-use-tesla-charge-conne...

It's stupid. It would be better if Tesla switched to CCS in North America, just as they did in Europe. But it seems like they're going to persist with the Tesla plug.
Comic Sans is the best font. I will not allow this slander to stand.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
This paper seems like it could really benefit from the peer review. The sample size seems to be very small and seems to ignore that people are more likely to respond to such a survey if they had a bad experience. (Arxiv is a preprint server, the materials uploaded here have not been peer reviewed.)
pick one

https://ffprofile.com/

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
old.reddit.com and HN are the two best Web forum UIs that I'm familiar with. (threading, scoring, putting message over writer, and minimizing cruft).

(Though I used to have much more powerful tools for Usenet and email.)
Agreed that it's hard to find definitive numbers, but given it's all projections and extrapolations, that's not hugely unexpected.

As a sibling commenter suggested, 'the science' is not saying the world ends once we get past 1.5 -- and to be fair to myself, that's not what I intimated - my language was unnecessarily cumbersome, but I was trying to point out that the consensus is we have some confidence of not having a cascade up to about that figure.

On that note, taking comfort from those higher thresholds & projections feels like hurtling past a 'Bridge Closed' sign at 100km/hr and taking instant but likely ephemeral comfort from the fact that sign wasn't so bad after all. If we hit 2-3 increase over the next few decades, even with moderate rises in climate-related casualties and costs, I expect there'll be even less appetite to address the problem.

Anyway, the two articles you've linked just now say much the same message:

" ... climate tipping point risks emerge above 1°C, become high around 2°C, and reach very high around 2.5-4°C. That means many tipping points are probably closer than we thought, and could start to be an issue even at today’s warming of 1.1-1.2°C."

Arguing about where the global collapse is guaranteed to happen does feel a bit deck-chair-ish.
OTRAG (failed German rocket launching startup) did that thing with the measuring tape antennas in the 1980s. They also used Volkswagen windshield wiper motors as rocket nozzle actuators, iirc.
I'm not sure. The responses the AI gives seem to me like they could have been copied from any conversation about childhood with anyone (which isn't surprising, since the base is GPT3).
Coder v2 – Lessons learned from v1, and OSS to Enterprise Editions
In a few years this will not be possible at all.
Legs, arms, and heads correctly oriented too.
_this_
You can run multiple processes of Sucrase if you want at which point it will still be faster than threaded SWC/esbuild. This is currently up to the user, but hopefully, the authors follow through on this issue and integrate an easier way for users to do this (though I don't know if they want that as core functionality).

https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/issues/730

JS JIT creators don't get enough credit for their string implementations. Not much comes close when you consider both performance and robustness they packed into the C++ implementations that JS is actually using.
Why feel cheated when you can feel opportunity?

This is your chance to become a patron of the arts! Pay to follow the concept through and realise the vision.
but you can inspect the generated code, jump to def, search it...
how the actual generation works may be magic, but the code is reviewable, searchable, debuggable...

Its clearly better than macros for my use cases
It happened to me! I had a crypto startup around 2014 and we were hiring. One “candidate” asked if we could meet at his office. So I walked into an IBM office off of Market in SF and he had me explain our product and draw detailed diagrams on a whiteboard.

The joke was on them. It was a terrible idea!

But seriously, what kind of scumbags are these people?
Wow, that is a dramatic comparison with the kitchen knife ballet!

"I was passed" - as in good, you passed the course? Or the instructor gave you a pass?
I feel like you might be conflating a couple of things, though I'm not a DS so could be off base here.

My reading of the OP's description is that the vendors were offering interpolative predictions, but did not use a test/train split of data. This is in contrast to extrapolative predictions which I would call out-of-sample.

Thus due to not using a test/train split, they achieved extremely good accuracy because they were testing on the same data they trained on. Even though this is "in-sample", you can't use the same data for testing and training.
Reusable totes don’t really stack.
I think the more troubling concern would be how much it would cost to manufacture that many of the e-ink cards, 5 figures easily
This is processing numbers which appear in SVG files which are basically coordinates, they aren't that big.
Whoops, I responded to your comment on a different comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33794070
Which is when folks start getting into the ‘huh. People still play that?’ part of the list, near as I can tell.

[https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed]
There were no existing tweets on that account. They use promoted tweets instead. This is not a new thing:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/02/the-invisible-apple-tweet/

https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/3/12781498/apple-twitter-acc...

https://medium.com/macoclock/apple-doesnt-tweet-848a25de004d
WebTorrent seems like the most obvious solution for distributing Linux ISOs. Instead of coordinating networks of volunteer http mirrors, the download webpage of various distributions could simply use WebTorrent and operate one webseed... Then every user becomes a seeder. They are usually going through the trouble of making torrent files anyway.

I made a proof-of-concept of this idea during the pandemic for fun[1]. It doesn't work very well without WebRTC peers though.

1. https://linux.exchange/
U.S. government to backstop mortgages above $1M
Bit OT: Are dynamically scalable process workers on a single machine the right choice?

It seems a bit niche to be in a situation where you need the flexibility of dynamic scheduling whilst only having a single machine. Once you have more than 1 machine, systemd isn’t designed for it anyway, so you’d be looking at a cluster scheduler like Nomad or Kubernetes anyway.

In the single machine case, would it not be better to either:

a) Just spin up a static number n of workers (where n is the number of machine cores) and let them idle if not in use.

b) Use a thread pool (or green threads) inside a single process with shared memory (if e.g. idle memory use by workers is a concern).

I can’t immediately see the benefit of being able to have dynamic control over a number of workers AND keep them as separate processes that need to be adjusted manually.

I guess there may not be a choice if the software is not designed to be run inside threads AND memory use is a concern.
To me, this conviction to just let mentally ill people roam the streets is enabling, not compassionate. A truly compassionate view cares about well-being, not just agency. Would you rather see your own child rot on the street in a psychotic delirium or get them help, even if it's not voluntary?

The easiest thing to do is to say "it's their own choice".
Are there any hacks to get Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in a Tesla? I think I would miss it.
I believe that's true in Korea (or at least the govt regulators ask for it) but it's always been a carrier cartel thing in Japan.

https://articles.inqk.net/2018/02/09/japan-iphone-shutter.ht...
So, do we call them "FFT" then?
I will take this question at face value. No, it re-entered, and is not orbital junk.
https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=39436#results
Well, yes (for all practical senses of "disk storage"), but the more general point is that Grover's algorithm applies after other improvements (if not instead of them, which is probably more common). If you have a way to reduce the complexity by a factor of 2^64, you get a classical (brute force) complexity of 2^192, which Grover's algorithm might be able to reduce to 2^96 quantum complexity, at best, assuming the classical optimization doesn't conflict with it.

Realistically, the table thing doesn't work at all, so the problems with applying Grover's algorithm don't actually matter. (If you're just brute-forcing a int256_t for any value that makes your for-all predicate fail, Grover works fine to reduce the 2^256 classical operations to O(2^128)-ish quantum operations.)
I’ve been at my current job almost 19 years. I’ve been in many roles on many teams over that time, so even though I’ve been here a while I moved around enough to keep it feeling fresh.

I turn 51 in a few weeks, and as much as I would love to stick around we recently went through a merger and the company that bought us tends to do more outsourcing of their tech to vendors than internal development, so no telling if changes will make me end up looking elsewhere.

I work from home, have maxed out my 401k all this time so I have a few million there, I’m an architect on a data science team so it’s interesting work. I’d gladly stay here another decade if I could.
More shipped than most projects!
I'm not the OP, but have been a data person long enough to hazard a guess.

If your job is an engineer or scientist, the term "AI" is basically a synonym for "unrealistic executive expectations." That's a super triggering and stressful situation to be in, especially early career.

I've actually had a CEO describe expected output of my ML team as "magic AI shit" - I bet you can imagine the team's reaction and tone. I'm reading the same strong emotions and frustration here.

The good news is you can always course-correct expectations with communication. I've come to love talking about AI with people who are only somewhat technical, because their wildest dreams are sometimes totally do-able with some duct tape and fine-tuning.
Not disagreeing - just saying it doesn't help OP's comment.
The thing is, some tech companies do optimize to this degree (fb, google) - except it only really makes a lot of sense for companies that have

A. Capital (human and money)

B. Bespoke internal tools from the server up

C. Insane scale

Google and meta put in lots of effort to have fast C++ code for their core infra, and they have several teams contributing to the LLVM project. Even places like Figma optimize to some extent because part of their business alpha is being performant and smooth. When you are at the scale of FB or G, optimizing the small things can lead to massive aggregate gains, and they have the eng talent/time to justify it.

At smaller companies though, as others have mentioned, iteration time and efficient dev spend are paramount. Optimizing for microsecond latency with on your B2B SaaS product written in Python/React is most likely not part of your business case, and it is a waste of engineering time and effort to do this when you could be putting that time and money into new and better features. Most of the time, these very niche performance considerations are taken care of to a decent degree with off the shelf tools, maybe with a bit of tuning.
Models can also be knowingly/intentionally incomplete, which necessarily introduces noise that you are not controlling for. Meaning you have to use statistics, and there isn't really a concept of prove or disprove in the true sense of those words.

Maybe very far in the future there will be models of human biology that are as robust as classical physics, but right now there is such a large amount that is not understood, it's simply not feasible. A drug could work for one person and not another for reasons beyond the realistic scope of the original development hypothesis. It requires a probabilistic view to make any sort of statement about the efficacy then.

I suppose you could argue these models are just wrong and thus trivially disproven, but I don't think that's a productive framing. I doubt any biologist or doctor would claim they have anywhere near a complete model of how their specialty works. That doesn't mean a particular model isn't useful or isn't the best we currently have to work with.

Plus maybe the third best model will actually turn out to explain a separate puzzle piece in an eventual better model. Mechanistic models in biology aren't always well done in practice, but it's certainly not binary either.
Dota 2 and CS: Go, the most played Valve games, support Vulkan on Windows, but DirectX is the default.
- To keep politicians in check

- To check for conflicts of interest

- To prevent corruption

https://www.transparency.org/en/news/how-public-beneficial-o...
I call it artisanal data science *chefs kiss*.