skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We only really see up to, basically, the wizard version of a detective in Harry Potter. Maybe some of the aurors are like SWAT team members?

In general the wizard society imagined seems to actively reject the idea of professionalizing things and work more as a collection of hobbyists so I suspect “professional soldier wizards” don’t even exist in universe, and there’s no Wizard Raytheon to really optimize Wizard Radar. So it is hard to speculate about what it would look like.
It’s not just the cost of disposal. Recycling aluminum or steel works because the alloys can be separated into their constituent parts and recombined into an alloy of the same or higher quality. That recycling them is cheaper than extracting it from ore is just a nice bonus that obviates the need for political incentives.

Recycling plastics breaks down the polymers into smaller ones which degrades the quality in almost every respect. The cheapest way, for example, is literally just shred the plastic into lower quality injection moulding pellets.
I discovered your service a few days ago; very well done!!!
I read them as "more/less complexity" not "more/less code". Postgres is heavier weight because it has more complexity; it has more features, it's networked, it has a more involved configuration process. They both have different advantages and can with in problem spaces the other can't.

This is quite unlike the Apple II, which is outmoded and requires a dedicated hobbyist to get working.

Postgres is an excellent default, but preferring lighter solutions does solve problems. It eliminates failure modes and cognitive load. As engineers we seek to eliminate the irrelevant to focus on the interesting. If you can use SQLite and avoid shipping a series of containers, and instead ship a single binary, you've eliminated things to think about.

Neither of them is a silver bullet and you'll be a better engineer if you can do both.
The EU Digital Services Act (article 25) bans dark patterns for online platforms: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...

What a shame it doesn't straightforwardly apply to operating systems
I understand the comment about "intellectual honesty" about those pesky transient bugs.

It's really hard to know where a hard to reproduce bug is on the cost benefit spectrum - and that is the crux - not knowing enough about the bug to determine it's negative weight means you are essentially guessing both sides of the equation.

It's probably not the best idea, it waiting till users find it at east gives a good idea of the prior
The passengers interests are lower cost and more safety, which automation provides the most over having 2 pilots.
I think it's more like slacks and a button up. Polo shirts are super casual.
As a German I feel this is just common sense polite speech.

The only think cracking me up regularly is getting asked "How are you?". I just can't get used to it. Every time I hear it I have a split second reaction of actually processing how I am feeling before reminding myself it was just meant as a phrase.

It is such a shitty thing to ask. It makes me more aware of my feelings but sets the expectations that I am not allowed to actually verbalize my feelings. Don't ask if you are not prepared for an honest answer.

And yes, I know it is just a ritualized thing. Still annoys me.
They "solved" the problem by throwing money at it, making it harder for everyone else. Germany frantically overbid for all possible gas sources making the price skyrocket, then they threw 200B euro at domestic market to subsidize energy, sustaining >400€/MWh prices (today price was 430 in Germany).

Its easy to solve problems this way when you are the wealthiest country on the continent, all because you waged two huge wars of aggression and got rewarded with Marshall plan, while victims ended up under russian occupation.
Have you used ChatGPT?

Your understanding of GPTs and neural nets in general is consistently flawed.

You are describing a Markov model or at best an SVM model.

Would you make the same types of claims about Stable Diffusion, that it is “piecing together pieces of existing images?” That is not how these models work. Similar to the temporal memory that ChatGPT will appear to have during a conversation, “inpainting” with Stable Diffusion produces entirely novel output with context. Have you tried it out?
Given that they are testing theory, yes. What theory underlines psychology? How does one relate the findings?
If the incentive is to get the grant and not to actually produce replicable studies, then what impact would you expect this to have? If the inputs are mostly garbage, then all this might do is confirm what we already know.

I wonder if you'd be better off having a two-phase grant mechanism. One smaller payment for the research, and a second larger payment if it is replicable. Actually incentivize the "market" to produce good work. As it is, this incentive doesn't actually exist.
Except this time we know what happens when you try to cooperate with Russia - eventually you get invaded and genocided, as evidenced in Ukraine. USA is a lesser evil.
Not a very accurate title

> The Elastic UI framework (EUI) is a design library in use at Elastic to build internal products that need to share our aesthetics
The author has a hatred of bitmap fonts for some reason.
In some sense, yes - evaluation in high school math, physics, and similar quantitative fields has been reduced to proctored problem sets. Even in so-called advanced classes, this has come at a cost. Evaluations rarely assess creativity, independent reasoning, or even a non-trivial proof - because every problem must be part of a strictly time-limited problem set, with no space for real challenge or even a few hours of thought.

To date, writing has evaded this trap. Sure, students write short essays during timed exams, but they also wrestle with more complex ideas and topics in longer assignments. Those assignments often take days, or even weeks, to do well.

I’m not sure what the future of those longer assignments is. I’m a bit disturbed by the idea that reading widely, thinking deeply, and distilling a few pages of coherent thoughts may not be an important part of early education. (Schools don’t always teach this well today, but at least we expect them to try.)
> When was the last time you tried Linux?

Ugh. Like, literally every time someone talks about having problems with Linux this exact same sentence is said in response.

I'm pretty much always trying Linux these days on various devices and I still constantly run into issues. Constantly. It's great that you have zero issues, but please consider that a lot of us aren't so fortunate.
A Linux install USB?
If it is a Windows machine provided from a workplace with IT then it should be a Windows Enterprise image where this stuff is disabled with Group policy or Intune.
You can still use Windows 11 with just a local account, see for example https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-windows-11-without-mi....
Look for fake watch forums and their trusted vendor list. That’s how I found the seller I bought from.

Took 4 weeks to arrive direct from China
Yeah I agree, this isn’t a technical problem. The stated goal is to build the Fossil interface using the git engine, so it’s not Fossil, it’s just an implementation of git that is compatible with Fossil’s workflow. It seems like the assumption there is maybe people want Fossil’s workflow but are stuck having to use git because it’s entrenched.

BTW, Fossil’s comparisons to git (especially rebase and rewriting) have always been hyperbolic. It’s improving slowly over the years, however the fundamental problem is still there: the Fossil team is presumptuously stating git’s intentions under Fossil’s overtly moral framework. Git devs have never stated any intention “to record what the development of a project should have looked like had there been no mistakes.” That’s the Fossil team framing things to sell the idea behind Fossil. Ironically, the Fossil team is attempting to rewrite the history of git development by using such language. I think the reason behind Fossil’s lack of adoption isn’t because git is entrenched, I suspect it’s because very few people care about having the ability to record in stone every single commit no matter how messy, most people enjoy having the ability to clean up after the fact. (Not to mention that the idea of capturing and preserving an exact “history” is misguided and fundamentally impossible; it’s already up to me what I put in a commit in the first place, and Fossil is providing dis-incentives to commit early and often, undermining the safety reasons to have version control in the first place.)
This has a far easier and less dystopian solution: charge money to access communities, which are smaller and more focused. I find it very unlikely that corporate PR bots will be paying $5 a month each to spam Substack communities, for example.
If I'm not mistaken browser doesn't reset unless you accept the prompt you get on first boot after the update to use default Edge settings.
(To be clear: no AirTags in this view. Macs, iPhones, iPads, Watches, and AirPods.)
Apple has already started moving iPhone production to India/Vietnam with the goal of having 40-45% of their iPhones being produced there. It's far from a trivial move.
He’s talking about the forum software, not the forum community.
>Artemis is a functional space launch system with exceptional reliability and predictability

is this a joke? you couldn't pay me enough money to take a ride in it.

the thing has been into space once. where are you getting this "exceptional reliability" idea from?
What are you doing with your machine that makes Windows 10 unusable? I've been on Windows 10 for years. I ran O&O ShutUp 10 a long time ago and haven't had any of the problems people are complaining about. I've had people complain about how they "shouldn't need to run Shutup 10" yeah ok valid point, but it's a weak one because I can make that point about anything on any other OS. It takes what - 10 seconds to run the application?

I'm an advanced power user. There are no pop-ups, no nagging to use Edge, no search feature hostility, no crashes, nothing. Not one day has gone by where I think "wow this OS sucks, why haven't they addressed this issue". I play PC games on it, browse, code, image editing, etc. all without a single hiccup. It's been completely stable and user-friendly. I'm genuinely curious what is it specifically that bothers people about this OS because it sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining and not anything authentic at this point.

I'm a software developer at a FAANG and I use a Windows machine. I listen to my Mac user colleagues complain every week: "my application crashed", "I need to reboot", "I'm forced to update see you in an hour", "I have to shut down so I can reset permissions for this app", etc. They roll their eyes when they notice I'm running Windows, but then endlessly complain about their mac systems. The cognitive dissonance is staggering.
It's more that the cost in money doesn't come from the cost in energy.
Thanks for the hints. About the replicas: Yes but usually you’ll find a few challenges with those. First, pure replicas are illegal, so what you can find legally are called hommages with another logo. That doesn’t make them worst by itself, but here are the drawbacks:

First the maintenance. What is the probability those watches will still be serviceable in 50 years? I own a watch that’s more than 50 years and wear it regularly because it is still maintained by the company who made it.

Second the value holding. Sure you can sink your money in any gear. The special value of great mechanical watches is that they maintain their used value well on the second hand market for decades. An hommage will have little reputation of its own to maintain.

Of course this is all subject to special cases, but, etc because the watch world is very complex. For example many brands copy each other, some replica brand make great quality, and some great brands barely hold their value (which is a good thing for passionate collectors).

No doubt there is a great skilled and passionate community around reproduction, like in music or art. To build a replica you need way more skill than the average watch enthusiast. They rarely outskill the examples they copy still.
Getting a Psion 5 palmtop from 1997 online via PPP (and a Raspberry Pi)
Winamp Player Now Allows You to Play Your Music NFTs [pdf]
Thanks for the support and the guest recommendations!
and how does frances choice of going all in on nuclear but having higher electricity prices than germany go down?

It really doesn't make much sense of speaking is superlatives, sure Germany did a mistake here with relying on russian gas and so did most of europe. Problem is, you have to rely on someone, is russia better than saudi-arabia? Irak? You have to rely on something and europe sees now the consequences
I've definitely had Edge being set as the default browser following an update without any prompt to do so.
Saying more about their frameworks/models/worldview than reality.
I have a disability. I'm a bad writer and a bad speller. It takes me a long time to compose a response that I wont later regret.

I haven't looked into it yet, but I was thinking ChatGPT might help me. I could quickly jot down my thoughts, and let the computer arrange them in an easier to read format.
The thing for me is that we (humanity that is) already know how to safely land a rocket booster and reuse it. SLS has been in development for quite a while, and lots of funding. So why aren't recovering the boosters part of the program? The most likely answer is that no one on the funding / direction side thought it was worth while, or possible, at a time when that could be engineered into the system. The cynic in me feels that there is more profit to be made in throwing away the boosters. I wonder if the true answer is somewhere in between?
If they didn't keep using it we'd've only heard about the first time.
When I worked at Google I always had the distinct feeling that my hard work was paying for some manager’s $500k home renovation. I’m way more interested in working hard to help people who really need it, and I’m glad I’m not working at a place like that anymore.
Yeah, for sure, but it's a story telling podcast.

My criteria are around someone having a really crazy you-wouldn't beleive-it story about a software project to share.
the main reason i'm not all-in on Fossil is because you cannot squash commits; my WIP branch history is very messy, e.g. "looks to be working", "refactor", "typo", "optimize", "undo checkpoint". i don't need any of that junk on the `main` branch once the feature branch is merged.

it's really too bad, everything else in Fossil looks very compelling.
If you want to use the Microsoft Office suite, it’s available on the Mac, included in Office365.
"Yes, you're reading that right: studies that replicate are cited at the same rate as studies that do not ... Astonishingly, even after retraction the vast majority of citations are positive, and those positive citations continue for decades after retraction."

The academic influence of social science papers is uncorrelated with their scientific quality.
The video output is strikingly beautiful, even at default settings. How are you generating the videos? Is that server-side, or some third-party service?

Once settings get changed, the generator seems overloaded as each change takes considerably more to create the video and eventually it just spins forever.
Perhaps a while ago... For quite some time SQLite official forum has been running its own version of Forum software (part of Fossil). It allows Anonymous login, with captcha (again, Fossil handles), yeah, but this is nothing unexpected. So in general, the path to Forum presence is fairly unimpeded, well, it is moderated. Reasonably stated issues seem to get attention.

Though, some issues indeed need a push to be recognized as such, as it's a public forum, so other users may express their "other" opinions...

All in all it's Freedom of Reasonable speech in action.

I believe there's a different channel for reporting security-related issues. Again, it's through the Forum, but there's a private message feature for signed-in users.
Fair enough. I see it a bit differently, I see image "consulting" as more of a "accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative" sort of gig rather than a teaching thing.

Your example about taxes is a good one. Tax optimization is taking a system, taxation, learning its ins and outs, and the optimizing it. One participates in the taxation system but you aren't the revenue agency. So the tax code exists and you're just looking for help to better exploit it. But images don't "exist", people do. The equivalent of a person optimizer is someone who knows a person as intimately as a tax nerd knows the tax code.

But people aren't written down, the earlier suggestion of counseling was alluding to that. Work with someone (typically a counselor) to fully debug yourself and understand your ins and outs, and they can provide some insights from the outside () on how the way you are made up comes across to others. Then you can decide if you want to change them (or emphasize or de-emphasize them when with others).

Of course if you just want to present a "character" to the world (which a lot of people do!) then consider some acting classes. Then it isn't so much an image consultant as an acting coach. The image is already chosen, the coach will help you make it more believable to your audience.
Night Eye chrome plugin + clipon rose tinted blue-light blocking glasses, I have a light phobia, I mean I'm not afraid of the light, but bright light paralyzes me and makes me want to cover my head w/ a blanket lol. Natural light I can deal w/a little better, bright overhead lightbulbs are the worst, soft dimmable programmable lights are the best.

I have glasses for a stigmatism but rarely wear them (my vision is like 19.5/20 or something like that, but that was 4 years ago), except lately I have because of the new clipons I got from Amazon they were like $20 for 2 one's darker than the other. Supposedly it helps get better sleep if worn before bed, but that's not my primary purpose. It's namely so I can just have less light like when I can't avoid a white page in chrome or something.
But it literally can. I just tried. Go make up a group with X knowledge and tell chatgpt to explain something in terms only X group can understand. It will do it. Tell it to go in-depth and it will do it.

There are limitations to the model but making wrong statements about its capabilities does not help your point.

This is just one recent example. You may object that it's too common a question, but I've made many others and it responds competently:

> Please explain group theory in terms that children in elementary with rudimentary mathematics knowledge can understand. Go in-depth in your explanations

Sure, I'd be happy to explain group theory to children with elementary-level math knowledge. Group theory is a branch of mathematics that studies the properties of groups, which are sets of objects that can be combined together in certain ways.

One of the key ideas in group theory is that groups have a set of rules, called group axioms, that dictate how the objects in the group can be combined. For example, one group axiom is that when you combine two objects in the group, the result must also be an object in the group. This means that if you have a group of numbers, and you add two numbers together, the result must also be a number in the group.

Another important idea in group theory is the concept of symmetry. Symmetry is when an object looks the same, no matter how you rotate it or flip it. For example, a square has symmetry because it looks the same whether you turn it 45 degrees to the left or right, or flip it over. Groups can have symmetry too, and this can help us understand the patterns and regularities in the way that the objects in the group behave.

To understand group theory, it's helpful to think about examples of groups. One common example is the group of whole numbers, which are the numbers we use to count things. In this group, you can add two numbers together (like 3 + 5), and the result will be a whole number. You can also multiply two whole numbers together (like 3 x 5), and the result will be a whole number. This group has a symmetry property, because if you multiply two numbers together, the result will be the same no matter which order you put the numbers in (for example, 3 x 5 is the same as 5 x 3).

Another example of a group is the set of all possible moves in a game of chess. In chess, you can move pieces like the rook, the knight, and the queen in different ways on the board. These different moves form a group, because you can combine two moves (like moving the rook to one square and then moving the knight to another square) and the result will be a legal move in the game.

Group theory is a fascinating and important area of math, and it has applications in many different fields, from physics and chemistry to computer science and cryptography. While it can be challenging to understand, with a little bit of practice and perseverance, even young students can learn the basics of group theory and appreciate its beauty and power.
Very senior/wealthy people can get away with whatever they want. It's why Zuckerberg can look like a total slob at Facebook (notice he still wore a suit while testifying to Congress though).

If a senior executive wore a $200 suit to work, nobody would say a word.
I think it is just being practical. Much to my chagrin, git has consumed the world. The Fossil tooling offers a reasonably slick (well, not the CSS) out of the box experience which would be nice to have elsewhere.
Carnegie never ordered deaths of striking workers nor do I think you can make a defensible case that in general steel magnates do. Mining business is difficult and laborers in that industry sure do go through a lot; ore smelting laborers report having respiratory illnesses indeed quite regularly so I agree that steel barons are not completely inculpable if analyzed through an ethics lens.

But looking over the fact that the advertising industry is fundamentally about the exploitation of cognitive biases in order to convince folks to buy things that more often than that they do not need just betrays a certain naïveté of what's going on out there.
exactly, it might not have a big CO2 footprint, but that's not the whole picture, we just don't have any container that doesn't start leaking radioactive shit after some years, so is it really an alternative
Oh, that cinches it: Jeff Dieschburg is a word I can’t use here without being banned. My hope is that he is drummed out of the art world, that he is repeatedly sued by the original artists, and that his name lives on in disrepute. What an absolute turd of a human being.