skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps writing (by hand) a smiley on a post-it would be more meaningful
That's good advice. Thankyou :)

> Beware of the tsunami of autogenerated stuff to come upon the world, it will become tiring.

I think the same. There will be high quality content that is basically indistinguishable but I think there will also be low quality content that gives the uncanny valley feeling or just annoyance by the repetitiveness of the writing style.

If there was any reason to crack down on bots in social media it's this. Otherwise they will corrupt the training data. I'm surprised OpenAI isn't being more active in this area.

I think traditional web search is about to get absolutely trashed both in quality and by usability.

Auto Generated blogs that have seemingly useful but inaccurate information with affiliate links.

ChatGPT is about to do to search engines what the internet did to the media. Things that "sound right" will start to outrank correct information because all the human voices will get crowded out.

Interestingly though I was using Chat GPT to suggest recipes. I am yet to try any out but they are a good source of inspiration. It fun to just say "write another recipe like the recipe you just mentioned but with more vegetables and spices that I can cook in under 20 minutes"

I think traditional search is like sculpting a rock. You have to precisely chisel away until you get a good search phrase. With ChatGPT it's more like sculpting with clay. The search phrase is added to and accentuated until you end up with the desired result.
I wouldn’t read hacker news for romance advice.

I know someone who posts here who would complain loudly and repeatedly they couldn’t get a date.

I tried to offer to take them to one of the gallery showings I used to go to, and was like dude I don’t have a girlfriend either but I don’t talk about it loudly in the lab.

He told me I’d had like fifteen girlfriends since we worked together and after a bit of a puzzled back and forth since that was… the kind of rumor I’m not gonna deny but also entirely inaccurate.

Eventually I realized he meant that so much as inviting someone over for tea once and having it not click was a “girlfriend” to him…

And when I kind of laughed, said he’s too metric’s obsessed and he should come to an art exhibition rather than keep posting about how horny he is on Reddit, he just went on a long rant about how modern art isn’t art.

Anyways sorry for the long winded story but “women” aren’t really some species to be studied, just like men, they want someone who’s kind, who shows a sincere interest and (this is the part that seeks to trip up you people) someone with a sense of humor.

Try just finding a hobby like film or art and someone will eventually take you up to the roof like it’s that one episode of Mr Robot ;-)
If you can pay with Monero, it adds a new real use case for the public Blockchain technology.
Just get a good protective case for the phone of your choice.
Yeah the Apple displays are almost like a black hole. I stuck a glass protector over my ipad and noticed the screen became massively more reflective.
Tell me you are not a parent without…
> Do not equate all forms of work to progress. People will pay good money for women to fart on their faces.

Depends entirely upon the quality of the fart.
I feel like you're making fun of Riak :)
> The lack of a replacable battery is infuriating because it's planned obselescence of a FLIR device.

I thought the move away from easily removable cases and batteries was more for waterproofing reasons?

Plus, I'm guessing the battery can be replaced, just not by the average user. I'm sure you could get it replaced if you're willing to pay a repair fee.
Mostly reading about what catty gays and women say about these things.
> Almost every day. Sometimes multiple times a day in case of a new project / new embedded hardware (toolchain) / new devkit to "quickly test" / tight deadlines, etc.

The approach normally doesn't count project local tools which don't install like normal applications. E.g. some frameworks you install into your project instead of having user or system wide installations (e.g. with npm for web-dev stuff).

I know that for embedding computing a lot of tools which are normally ad-hoc project installations are instead system wide "normally installed programs".

But that isn't the case for most software development fields. In many other fields that new tool-chain you want to try out is just a dependency you add to your projects dependency management tool. And keeping it up to date is done in the same way you keep your other dependencies up to date (e.g. a scheduled CI job checking for updates).

Rootless OCI (docker) containers can help with that. But embedding also often touches on driver aspects so it might not be an option.

Anyway if you ignore embedding programming, parts of system programming (e.g. linux kernel), some legacy software and some cases of important C/C++ tools needing too many permissions nearly all other programming jobs should be viable on a locked down system as long as you have the right not too big set of tools preinstalled and access to rootless containers (independent of weather they run in a VM or not).

EDIT: formulations, for clearity
I will say do it if your confortable with something like arch or Gentoo but with less documentation on what to do when something goes wrong. Right now it's a little bit raw, don't take me wrong the progress so far it's amazing, but the task itself it's gigantic too
The editor seems good as a modern vim replacement, but it's a shame it's lacking syntax coloring for some languages. For instance there seems to be none for Fortran. And creating what's necessary for tree-sitter seems much more complex than writing some regex for vim.
What's more cynical is that these hackers are helping Apple to eliminate the competition, and when that happens they'll put another layer of crypto on everything and the hackers and other developers have no platform left to work on without paying 90% Apple taxes.
For the purpose of our discussion: None whatsoever. That's my point. Corporate IT mandates what they know/think about, quite often unfortunately without any understanding of the specific needs of employees (like parent).

I found it to be a better strategy to start from a prioritised list of risks and tackling the high priority items in an actually meaningful way. But I can see how that doesn't work at companies with >300 employees - at one point security just pushes for whatever they can get, disconnected from the true needs and relevant risks at the company.
> I think at some point Linux was as good as Solaris, if not better, on SPARC systems.

That's a bit of a stretch. In fact, the last time I was in an air traffic control tower, it was Solaris, not Linux, in active use by the controllers themselves.
I love this! That talk.wasm package has a lot of potential…
Display controller stays on. It's battery-hungry. This should change, now that DCP driver is available.

s2idle will be pretty resource-light once all peripherals can be put into sleep. CPU by itself is not consuming that much power when idle.
For those wondwring, the Blackbird is the same lenght as a 737-600. So, the next time you board a 737, try to picture something that size going mach 3+...
> while in contrast I rarely if ever notice any reflections on my MBP

Really? I see my own reflection even in indirect sunlight and it's causing significant eye strain.
Sounds like Beer Hall putsch 2.0

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch
Exactly what the article is about?
Proposal: Being a "maker" starts when one's addition —the stone one brings to the soup— is both novel and useful.

(the systems integrator may be doing something useful —certainly something lucrative!— while hardly novel; the shade-tree github'er probably has a directory full of explorations that are novel but not —at least not yet?— useful...)
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This is really outstanding work, thank you so much for doing this and open sourcing it! I'm sure this will enable many applications in the future!
Hah, for a second I thought you were talking about Dwarf Fortress! I would have understood that too actually, I prefer to play Cogmind[0] in ASCII mode instead of sprite mode too for example.

And I get what you mean, it's one thing to add new lighting effects, but they also swapped out textures which changes the feeling a lot more, and not necessarily for the better.

[0] https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/
Its one thing to write for your team

> This is a huge clusterfuck that requires A to be set before you can use B because of no good reason. :poo:

And another to publicly publish that an API is a turd because you outsourced it for time to market reasons.
1. Not me
2. We have enough discussion which make me pretty uncomfortable because of fact I'm treated as a very cheap hight quality contractor, not more, besides of tons of bullshiting as "we are one family" "building the team for a years" "one day we raise the money and everybody will be rich". The first batch of money is raised already but for the tech-team we got nothing but deadlines to new features to implement.
3. I would consider myself as core-team member, but legally is not. The founders in US, the tech-team in Asia, I don't really believe to their promising to bring us to US.
4. Thank you for the advice. I never had any experience with it, well, it's time.
Is Frankenstein human? Configuration is not creation.
And they're very possibly sharing chat metadata with Russian intelligence services https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/russia-is-spying-on-telegr...
People are programmed to recite "Like, Subscribe and Share". How are they supposed to do that in a bare bones reality?
Most "computers" out there are PC's!
Dr Anthony Fauci on the lessons that must be learned from the Covid pandemic
Black start is just that: powering up the whole grid from blackout. It requires stuff you might not think of like the gas turbine stations need a big spark to light the flame so a diesel generator isn't enough if the station breaker is open, you need a hv DC transformer.
paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5...
A related (past) thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148657

but I believe that weather conditions limit greatly their use in many places.
I don't think someone being stuck with Solaris for unknown reasons is sufficient to declare that Solaris is better or equal to Linux. For the ATC, it could simply be a matter of "The application we run only support Solaris"
It might also depend on the model. The one in question is a 2021 14” MBP with the Mini LED display, and the only other MBP I owned had a matte display.
Wouldn't a burner simcard be cheaper anyway?
I think the mAh stays more or less constant no matter how fast you discharge the battery, but as current increases, the voltage drops so the total watt-hours is lower.
Can you not use VPNs with mining pools?
You're right, I'm assuming that the interview should resemble the knowledge needed in the actual job as much as possible. Maybe there are exceptions but I think that's a pretty fair assumption. I think that's the reason why so many people hate whiteboarding interviews. They are not close to the job.
> so I prefer to gently coax them away from my plate

I’ve found wasps extremely persistent and confident in ways most insects never are.

It’s one thing to gentle swat them but when they come back for 5-10min straight it's understandable why people don't like them.

I also got bit on the mouth as a child when I drank a can of coke that had a wasp inside so I'm not exactly unbiased.
It's frustrating that the article doesn't mention what remaining power plants can restart the grid with this power station gone.
Yes, I'm wondering how well these temperature measurements work with metallic surfaces that are almost fully reflective.
It’s mentioned on some of the linked pages about NYC cost overruns but it basically doesn’t get prominent mention because it’s not a distinguishing factor. American transit projects which don’t use union labor also cost far more, and European projects which are heavily unionized are still considerably cheaper. Here’s one of the report authors blogging about this:

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/01/08/meme-weeding-u...
Admitting that life is inherently unfair and the narrow margins your dubious "free will" can exert its power in are decided at birth and through events outside of your control gets many people's panties twisted. Probably because it absolutely rejects the cherished lie of individualistic self-determinism?
>My mind is blown.

It shouldn't be surprising that the ~50% of the population that is stereotyped over centuries as having an unhealthy relationship with "being wrong in a relationship" and "not letting things go" makes good on that stereotype frequently enough to be worth an anecdote in a Vice article.
Except for one, all of the above are good bits of wisdom, not
reinventing wheels, using the right tool for the job, reuse of
libraries, quick time to user - to get feedback. All great engineering
- whether you are building for the masses or just yourself to scratch
an itch.

But one that cuts to the core of a deep problem in computing and
sticks out to me is;

"customers don't care about X"

That's so broken it's not even wrong. It's a just profoundly ignorant
and arrogant misunderstanding of the world and what we do as
programmers.

Developers have never known what customers want. Customers don't know
what customers want. Because software is not a supply-demand business
based on reasonable a-priori expressed preferences. It never has been.

For the most-part people accept what they get and define their
understanding of technology and its possibilities accordingly. The
limits of their horizons are arbitrary, the product of fumbling
evolution, fads and fashions, science-fiction and fantasies, endless
copying and reconfiguration of features, educational pre-requisites to
access and understanding - and all happening within a rapidly changing
world of social and hardware change.

The conceit of the programmer as a "master-chef", lovingly creating a
dish to the exact delectation of a discerning customer is nonsense,
and I have always taken pronouncements about "what customers want" to
be naive, grandiose and out of touch.
I am tempted to vouch it (I am not a mod but have enough karma).

Before I do have I missed something where it deserved to be flagged?
Can someone explain this for the cretins in the room?
Wow thank you for the in depth reply! That makes a lot of sense about things happening on a cadence.
The bootstrapping story is a little hard to follow here. I think the normal zig compiler has a C backend which was run on itself, the source cleaned up by hand then checked in. Bootstrap then means compiling that generated-then-edited C, with an ongoing obligation to update that C implementation when the language changes.

Does anyone know what the language runtime status is for zig? I think there's a libc involved somewhere. There's a standard library which is probably written in zig, did that also get compiled to C and checked in to support the generated bootstrap compiler?

This post talks about a checked in binary that was compiled from something and will periodically need to be updated. It's unclear whether that allows deletion of the C bootstrap code.

Oh, and there was a C++ implementation as well, which is no more. That does sound like a win.
Create an embedded Linux system using Buildroot
> Fortunately, we got a gas cooker/inverter for my ONT/Router/WiFi.

Does the ISP keep things working for the duration?
Apple Has Released a Set of Optimizations – Stable Diffusion AI Image Generator
In my country everyone is speeding as well, but speed limits are enforced primarily by the radar-cameras, not cops. So you just have to know location of those cameras (thanks, Waze) and slow down there.

I assumed that your concern was cops giving trouble just because they can, not for actual violations.
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>Switzerland had 3 complete blackouts

Numerous places regularly have rolling blackouts now when power consumption is too high. And then there are the extended, involuntary blackouts that happen several times a year around the country due to hurricanes/blizzards ect. 100% Digital currency is never going to work in practice, now matter how badly authoritarian governments want to implement it.
https://youtu.be/LinpRhB4aWU
"Buy our vpn service in $low_income_country and ditch your youtube subscription!" arbitrage opportunity for someone?
Yes. I worked in asset backed finance on decision systems, and that was a rule. Neutral, meaning black, grey, silver white, while not always the first choice for second hand buyers is much less of a dealbreaker than a 'wrong' color.
I'm fine with autotools, cmake, meson, gradle, ...

I don't usually hate tools. I often hate what people do with them, though.
North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies
Correct. The only way to actually bring about change is to make sure the ones with the power to change things feel the pain associated with their decisions.
True but you’re still putting significant investment into ruby to speed it up. Ruby is slow.

I don’t think any other company could do that.
We should not conflate "Title doesn't give a literal dry explanation of the subject discussed" with "clickbait" (which is another thing alltogether)
Nvidia – learning representations of positions in a 3D scene [pdf]
ZK rollups/EVMs are one among the myriad of arguably badly named things in maths & CS.

They are named so because they are an implementation of what is called ZK proofs, but they leverage them to be able to prove a succession of modifications of the state (i.e. the accounts and their money) in a quick & easy way to check. As a simplification, you may think of them as a hash of transactions & smart contract executions that are a tad expensive to compute, but trivial to check. The end goal typically being to multiplex multiple level-2 transactions onto a single Ethereum transaction to enhance bandwidth and reduce fees.

However, they are not ZK in the applied sense of it; e.g. they do not even try to mask the operations; anyone could rebuild them themselves with a bit of effort.
The raw deal Amazon and Spotify offer artists
Haven't seen that use of the term in the general internet, but I see it on HN and a few literal-minded forums. Perhaps people in these places are just not big on humor and elaborate titles and just want some dry description of the contents...
Are you exclusively working with the sun to your back?
Google translate says "By studying the masters, and not their students", apparently from Norwegian, apparently a quote from the mathematician Abel (who's name I know from Abelian groups but is probably better known to some here).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Henrik_Abel
Who will end up owning the data?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252263
ChatGPT is really good for one thing (other than for entertainment).

Drafting letters and statements with prompts like.

> Write a letter to manager of cinema complaining that staff wouldn't heat formula for my baby.
I personally make a sharp distinction between my professional and personal work. Personal time is for "hacking", exploring, playing around with stuff. Professional/work time is for enriching the bossman as fast as possible - so using stuff other have made.
I rented an electric VW Transporter recently (think it's the same van as the Mercedes Sprinter), and it really felt like the future. It was just so nice to operate. Smooth, quiet, tons of torque, and will probably beating day after day with little to no servicing. Range wasn't massive, but for your typical daily urban delivery round that doesn't matter so much. It just made so much sense.
It's aviation. Even if there was a superior solution and it was readily available, it would take decades to get through certifications and before it became widely accepted or even the new default. See GPS vs radio navigation or just analog radio communications.
in many countries you cannot get a SIM card without providing an ID (or in some cases you can but you have to activate it by providing your ID information - otherwise it would be deactivated and you'll eventually lose access to your phone number)
Thanks! I just forked it. Do you know if Apache-2.0 code can be included into a closed source project?
Kindle Unlimited is not a good model, though. It is extremely anti-competitive. I'm amazed that it is legal in the EU (no big surprise about the US). You can only enter it as an author if you guarantee that your book is not available anywhere else. If you don't put your book on Kindle Unlimited, however, then Amazon will make discovery way harder and sales will be very low. It's essentially a way to keep books on Amazon only.

On a side note, I once had a book that steadily sold 3-5 copies per month, then ran an ad on Amazon that barely boosted the sales and had negative ROI, and directly afterwards there were 0 sales/month. How do I know Amazon's algorithm hasn't downgraded discovery to make me continue to buy ads? I don't, this is entirely up to Amazon and nobody controls or oversees these kind of things.
1. This is not a common library that fits everywhere. It's pretty specialized. Using its full potential almost requires a commercial environment, because of the design and graphics needed. For everyone else, normal animations are annoying enough.

3. The parent post said: passion project/nights+weekends. That doesn't sound like multiple way compensation.

It's not about negative behavior of big tech, but more of a "grind" mentality gone astray. I can totally understand being (somewhat) proud of a project like this: it looks friggin' good. I also expect a company to grab whatever it can; it's the way of the world, and some companies are quite immoral. But we should not be working on something of considerable value to entities with deep pockets for free, just because it hits those 2010s linked-in bingo words. That's not where your self-worth as engineers should come from.
Not all power plants can self-feed the power they need to keep generators working. Often this is a diesel generator on the plant because the only other source of power is 20MW generators that simply can't be tuned down enough to handle the few kilowatts it takes to keep the generators turning.

Almost all plants will trip from the grid if it gets bad and remain idling for some time. But if that happens, the grid is still dark and the black start generators are the best equipped to bootstrap the grid. You can't start with the big generators too, so you can initially only bring in small plants until the grid capacity is big enough to not trip out when the big generators come online in a wrong way.

There is a good chance that by the time the grid is stable, atleast some power plants will have had to shutdown entirely and spin back up from a black start with only external power.
How do you derive the identities mentioned at the bottom of the post?
VPNs are only anonymous to your ISP and website providers. They are useless when nation states are involved.
I feel this could be dangerous advice to follow.
That's hard to say; the zkEVM landscape is currently moving very fast with already three main contenders in the ring, and performances are being gained there and there.

Maybe in the end ASICs will be required, maybe they will be used as an intermediary solution, but there is no inescapable requirement on the long term for them yet. By this, I mean that the current use of compute power is not seen as a feature, but as a regrettable side-effect of current algorithms, that is being worked on to reduce as much as can be.
Also extended QOI to make QOIX, a triple codec that can also encode 10-bit and 1 and 2-channels images. So you could say it's 3x the complexity.

https://github.com/AuburnSounds/gamut
The pumped storage plant at Cruachan is one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station

Edit: Given that the turbine hall is 300m deep in granite that station is probably fairly safe from anything other than a nuke!