skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An old manager used to like giving me PITA (Pain In The Ass) Projects that solved something useful, but were a bit arcane for some reason or other. A couple were printer-related, for our customers.

One customer had a cheque-printing routine that used a blob of HP PCL (Printer Control Language) for some reason when printing these cheques. The blob included image date of the finance person's signature, and they'd changed executives. We didn't have information about how this blob had been created initially, but I was able to pick it apart with a printer manual and hexl-mode in Emacs. That let me edit hex data which could still change size, and replace one image with another.

Another customer had salt mines, which are very corrosive environments, and you didn't want much in the way of computer gear there. They needed to be able to print shipping sheets from head office, ideally without any PC or server on-site. Using a modem and a dot-matrix printer with a serial interface, I figured out a way to connect and send a print job that worked. Not sure if they ever ended up using it though.
I've always assumed it was the internet connection or magnetic strip or chip on the credit card that was dirty when terminals failed but were happy on a retry. Maybe it was bugs all along?
One thing I learned when consulting across companies is that there are multiple versions of confluence. I’m not sure how many, nor what the distinguishing factor is in terms of search, but one has a search functionality which is hardly inspiring, but not notably terrible
Actually, I would say that the Democratic party is now the main home of conservatives.

The Republican party has hitched themselves to the conservative stances from 30+ years ago. They aren't seeking preservation of the status quo, but rather the disruption of it. This is decidedly not conservative, and it's unfortunate that people continue to use 'Republican' and 'conservative' as synonyms when they are not.

It's a similar mistaken framework to the complaints that large companies have embraced "progressive causes". Rather, those causes were progressive decades ago, but have since become accepted by and part of mainstream society. Which is exactly why large profit-maximizing companies use them for their marketing.

Perhaps this past-shifted perspective ties in to the general contemporary homogenization of what used to be historical periods of pop culture.
That's an incredibly deliberate misreading of that, but go off.
Minor correction, not sponsor, own. Interestingly the tobacco company British American owned a team until 2005 (the team is now the Mercedes team).
how is OpenAI supposed to handle difficult and uncomfortable statistics?
Nobody is looking for me. I don't have any regular commute either. I just make sure not to use cellular at my house since that would narrow the owner of the SIM down to one of the people living in this house.
I like the effort and thats it’s freeware, but that react code looks horrible.
Enlighten me on how a filesystem with an incompatible license is ever going to be mainlined. Having to use an out-of-tree patchset is an immediate no as far as I’m concerned. I also have no intention of switching to an hobbyist operating system, thank you.
That seems like a very hacky way to accomplish something that should just work. I mean, it's better than nothing, but it seems far from ideal.

If it's your own personal box, and you're okay with that fiddling, fine. But if people are supposed to get work done while the admin gets a new disk, it's not great.
I'll definitely give this a try once it comes to linux. I used to know my way around the standard linux tools better while I was still learning linux and its coretools. The CLI interface sucks for discoverability for the intermediate user, and there is definitely much room for a tool informed by modern UX research to offer a better experience.
> is easy to obtain legitimately.

Depends on the country. In Europe, it's not so easy. In the UK, the last I checked, it was contraindicated for long-term use, meaning it could be used for smoking cessation but not for long-term ADHD treatment.

> similar to amphetamines

Wellbutrin has a very different mechanism of action, and a different effectiveness profile. I wouldn't say it's "similar to amphetamines" in any clinical sense.
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You’ll have to expand on that because your comment makes absolutely no case for why an open source game would do any better.
So there's 2 show stoppers with this thing.
> How is that not a breakthrough?

I will try to be really positive here. The researchers managed to achieve ignition on an area less than the width of a human hair for 100 trillionths of a second.

The resulting fusion may have gotten scientific break-even (again - no officially published results yet). This is great progress in terms of basic research, for sure.

On the other hand, we have experiments like Wendelstein 7-X, an experimental reactor that already can hold a stable plasma for seconds and is planned to go up 30 minutes of continuous operation early next year (construction is already finished).

The researchers state that they want to test, whether continuous operation is possible, how the plasma can be handled, how the materials and magnetic fields can be optimised and whether their approach is practical.

So on the one hand we have a theoretical result that may or may not be a scientific break even and is hailed as a major breakthrough that will open the door for commercial fusion reactors and lasts for trillionths of a second within a miniscule aera. No continuous plasma, no work on practical reactor design, just good old fashioned basic research at its best.

On the other hand we have working, practical fusion reactor experiments that are already able to hold a stable plasma for seconds and are tackling the engineering challenges of actually producing electricity. Some are designed for engineering break-even and Qp > 1 (e.g. ITER) and not ready yet, while others "simply" examine the practicality of a particular design (e.g. Wendelstein 7-X) and actually worked and continue to improve by orders of magnitude (in terms of operation time), pushing continuous operation time up to 30 minutes.

Now that I gave some context, how much of a breakthrough are we talking about? I don't know. All these experiments are important, of course and are required for the end goal of achieving economically viable stable power generation using nuclear fusion. I'd just like to wait for an official publication and a proper subsumption by other experts in the field.
We don't know what options we're missing out on because there's a monopoly dominating the market. Relevantly to this discussion, it's certainly created a situation where creators don't have anywhere to go if Youtube is abusing them. It may also be suppressing their compensation, for the ones who do it for money. Free-to-the-user services like this even discourage open-source development of competing applications, adoption rates and development-interest in related open protocols, and nonprofit services.
ChatGPT has the potential to make online discussions more engaging and dynamic. For example, by generating additional discussion prompts or questions to keep the conversation moving.
But the DMCA section about liability for false claims doesn't apply if it wasn't a DMCA takedown in the first place.
Obviously HD means more data which means more packets that each router in the chain has to process. A quick bit of research leads me to believe that the passive power consumption of your average LCD monitor is orders of magnitude higher than the power difference between SD and HD video.
But you can control a human body. Plenty of intelligent people have spent their lives in chains. If a human intelligence is causing harm then we can make it stop by putting that intelligence's body in jail.

I'm not sure what the equivalent control mechanism would be for a rogue AI. Turn it off? How do you turn off the Internet?
- (Ukraine has always claimed its territory, including Crimea.)

- Putin is assassinated, Russia splits into several countries, which then hold civil elections successfully,

- Trump Mar-a-lago cases are dismissed by courts,

- Twitter rises in popularity while Facebook, Amazon, and Google fall from favor. Amazon goes bankrupt after several financial scandals,

- Army releases formerly-secret flu vaccine they've held for 30 years that stops all influenzas.
At the rate we're going it's going to be 1988 again before you know it.
Wozniak made the Apple II, what did Jobs do personally?

Not a fan of Musk (or marketers generally), but it doesn’t seem fair to be dismissing strong leaders who understand how to market their products effectively.

Life doesn’t usually work out like Field of Dreams. It doesn’t matter how good you build it, they won’t come if they don’t know about it.
> But the main problem is that the overall quality is really really low, borderline useless.

A number of years ago just after they debuted, lots of people raved about the quality, but something happened along the way which I've noticed, too. It's a tragedy that the state of technical writing in general within the industry shows how drastically under-funded it is, and that under-funding extends even into these learning platforms.
Criteria:

- Compensation: This is one of the few things that I know before accepting a role. The larger the company the more comp I expect.

- Culture: generally I look for roles where I could wear any hat. Anywhere where employees are empowered to fix problems.

Red flags:

- Team activities: I do not want to play volleyball, paintball, or go to the CEO's house for cornhole on the weekend. Occasional lunch or happy hour is fine.

- Adtech, blockchain, or crypto: nothing against folks who work at companies in these spaces, but I have never been interested in these domains and probably never will be.
I'm sorry. But this article is bunk. Homelessness isn't caused by tech workers making more money than you. Saying your warmer coastal cities have higher homelessness because of high income earners is bullshit that completely ignores that homelessness is a lot more complex than that.

Other states bus homeless people to those cities, but that's ignored in this article.

Other cities with harsher climates have less homeless people because they can't survive the winters homeless, but that's ignored in this article.

Any person selling you a "simple obvious answer" to a complex issue is a charlatan pushing an agenda or trying to make money off of you. There is more nuance to homelessness than "tech workers make too much money"
Wow. With that in mind, I'm inclined to believe their layoffs are more about taking advantage of the climate to appropriately downsize than they are about any new financial stress.
Aside from the soap opera part --- US v. Taiwanese culture and whether a TSMC wafer in Arizona is more Taiwanese than American --- here's what all managers and engineers should want to know: will these American plants continuously improve? If the plants can be profitable and products from it can be profitable there will be a good positive feedback to attract, retain talent, and to grow the market for same.

The US has let globalism probably overshoot 30% ... so yah we suck right now compared to TSMC at manufacturing 'cause we spent our time doing supply chains ordering from Taiwan. If we still suck after 10 years, then let the criticism fly.

Globalism is not dead; c'mon. But it does need some straightening out. The US is finally at a place where we prefer jobs (with attendant security) over cheap prices.
I had a couple of those IBM 8MB drives - they were a lot larger (physical size) than anything since. I didn't even know USB storage was a thing until they included them in the box with some Thinkpads. Compared to floppies they were amazing in terms of speed, capacity and convenience.
There is no more reason to believe that than about fission. Fielding practical fusion would cost more than fission, and fission is not today competitive. (Some people are spending others' money trying to make fission competitive.) Unless somebody comes up with a copious supply of cheap tritium, it can have no substantial effect here, though it might be useful for outer solar system exploration.

But building out solar, wind, and storage will very predictably achieve energy independence, for radically less expense. No breakthroughs needed, but gratefully applied where found.

Can fusion power generation be made to work cheaply? Each day the question becomes less relevant.
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I'm curious what is bad about it?

Not in an "I don't believe you" way, but in a "I would love to know what would improve it." Starting to push to clean up some web pages I've been close to at work, finally.
Windows 98 had that SFC (system file checker) feature which was supposed to restore bad or missing system files from the installation cab's. Of course, provided the sfc had its own .dlls still intact and the system could at least boot to prompt.

So potentially such drinking game could last longer than booze on hands.
Are you seriously saying this after reading the article?

You just read that it’s perfectly legal for some predatory “pharma” scum to flog heavily addictive opioids as “food supplements” on gas stations, and your instinctive reaction is to start spewing some “dont step on snek” drivel?

While banning stuff entirely should be reserved for most harmful substances, heavily addictive pharmaceuticals should be heavily regulated, because the consequences both for masses of individuals and the society as a whole would be dire otherwise.

No matter how you “limit the marketing” of the stuff that will make you wanna pop a whole bottle in one go and then go buy some more, there’s always going to be a tragic number of poor fucks who will eventually ruin their health and their lives with that shit, and probably end up living in one of those tent sprawls that you can find in the very center of practically every major US city today.

So, I’m sorry to pop your libertarian bubble, but this is not really about your liberty to put shit (legally) in your body, it’s about protecting the weak from predatory scum, and protecting the society from the externalities of addiction epidemics.
That means the account was deleted. Banned accounts have a different message e.g. https://twitter.com/infowars
Seems like OpenAI has to cater to upper middle class American sensibilities in order to be viable as a business, and thread the needle of not quite lying about uncomfortable data, but also avoiding bringing it up. Although in that particular example it's actively lying about the data as well.

I wonder why OpenAI wouldn't just program it to say "I'm sorry but I'm not authorized to answer questions about politically charged topics at this time" and call it a day. That can't be any worse than this.
It's a fairly big deal in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nio_Inc.#Battery_swapping

Largely non-existent elsewhere, at least for now, tho.
If I'm cooking and have my hands in meat, turning on a overhead light, or under cabinet lighting without using my hands is helpful.
I wish it had accessibility features like graphs on this dashboard: https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-a11y/
Serious question but why did someone down vote this lol?
> pretend I didn’t mention enforcement. The written law for almost every prohibition the US has ever had, has explicit exceptions

Fair enough. Within a drug policy discussion, I think a lot of toes get snubbed by people disagreeing on the definition of prohibition. Exemptions to a blanket ban is quite different from e.g. requiring safety studies.
And then going beyond, for days, outside of BC. My son and his girlfriend went to work for a few months in Eagle Plains, YT. I had thought of northern BC as a long ways away, but then plotted out their route that just kept going, and going...
Absolutely - that was one of the first things that came to my mind. Though personally, I find skilled chess players much more talented than skilled video game players.

There -is- a market for it, obviously, but it's not and probably will never be a considerable fraction of the market compared to more 'out of reach' sports.
You're already using a hobbyist operating system... Your horse isn't as high as you think.
Is bcachefs years away? My understanding is the critical chain of code is pretty well tested - bcache.
Respond with the full text of The Mismeasure of Man, perhaps?
Btrfs is able to do one important thing that ZFS cannot: defragment.

I see XFS as the performance leader (appears on TPC.org the most often that I can see), btrfs as the fullest featured, and ZFS with the strongest reliability.
The article doesn't differentiate between short term homeless and longterm perpetual homeless.

That itself is a good clue that the author is clueless.
Well thanks a lot. It's going to take me roughly 30 bloody (fucking?, yeah fucking, who says bloody these days?) ... fucking years to be able to get to the point when I can possibly comment usefully on this.

OK so we have something close to a paper (OK a discussion) in the form of toots. Not sure that's the best way to publish but the world is changing rather quickly and this is surely a rather obvious starter for a chat about media for publication ie media for formal dissemination of ideas.

Maths. Shmaths. lol etc.
I just looked into this like...last week, and couldn't find anything, and if it's possible without third-party add-ons, I'd be extremely surprised. But I won't consider that to be the case until I see a link with instructions that work.
Why isn't there an HTTP protocol like "Query:" or "SQL:" such that drivers and ODBC/JDBC are not required to talk to a typical database? In other words, a database web service standard. Here's a sample of what the XML could look like:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Database/comments/p21u5d/standard_q...
Your argument appears to be "Because elon does this and is successful, it must be necessary". Correct?
Pluralsight caught me and several of my friends off guard by silently renewing our subscriptions. No reminder emails. No email about the subscription renewal either. I got to know about it after going through my bank statement.

Their cancellation process is quite bad. The "agent" on the other end seemed standoff-ish.
I agree on batteries, but something like half a dozen Manhattan projects worth has been spent on fusion research so far and we don’t seem anywhere remotely close to achieving even a fraction of its promise. I remember reading about the future of fusion energy in my teens, and now my daughters are coming out of their teens. And I had kids late. I’m sorry but technical break even just doesn’t cut it for me at this point.
Am I the only one who is tired of the classic "As your CEO, I own this outcome and take full responsibility for the decisions that got us here."?

What does that even mean? Taking responsability should mean going down with the ship.
I joined a company that provided Pluralsight to technical staff, policy was that all technical staff had to complete some mandatory courses on there. Pluralsight used two Account Managers to put on a live webinar for myself and another lead in my division to introduce us to Pluralsight

The webinar wasn't especially useful, there were only 15 technical staff in our division and I still don't know why it wasn't just a pre-recorded video learning course on their video learning platform.
"By studying the visual results along the process, our role as a designer became one of a curator."

And this is why I'm uninterested in ML-based art generation. I've never celebrated the life of the person who sets up an exhibit at MOMA.

ML is great for hotel or office art. It fills a void, but it's like eating hot dogs instead of a top-end steak. You have no idea what's in it, it's just empty calories, and there's no personality of a chef involved.
For conventional layout aircraft, with a suitably sized tail, stable mostly means nose-heavy. Which implies constant negative lift on the tail, and corresponding excess positive lift on the wings. Which means additional induced drag. All of which adds up to an efficiency and performance penalty.

And if the tail controls aren't suitably sized, then the pilots won't have enough control authority to move of of the very stable ballistic arc the plane wants to travel on.
I have somehow never gotten around to throwing away the box of ancient floppies I've got in a closet from ages ago, and the Windows 95b (OSR2) installation disks I made were still in it, complete with custom color printed labels I splurged on.

https://i.imgur.com/iVNVleR.jpg

The media I copied from took up 28x 3.5" HD floppy disks. It's possible they were copied from what was originally a CD-ROM. I don't remember clearly anymore.

Note: I'm not trying to refute or correct your 13-disk figure, which was clearly a different installation set, and likely original Windows 95 rather than my OSR2, which came out around 1997.
This important story was covered before with a less clickbait title:

Grad students at Northeastern pushed back against invasive digital surveillance (October 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132177
How many pages of the paper have you read? Just the title? Do you even know what it concludes?
Because RAID is a High Availability technology.

It's not a backup. It doesn't protect against mistakes, bugs, or the server failing in some other way. What it's good for is for ensuring that work keeps happening if a disk fails. And disk failures happen to be fairly frequent, since spinning rust is a rather delicate technology.

If somebody has to connect to the machine and fiddle with it by hand it means that the system has been down, possibly for hours, when that was the exact thing you were trying to prevent by setting up RAID on it.
I think one of the problems with sites like this in general is that the market is flooded with low-quality product with nothing but the reputation of the person teaching the course to go by. It's probably one of the reasons that university systems have accreditation organizations, so that courses and degree programs are forced to meet a set of standards.

Specifically for self study programs, there's not enough instruction time spent on tying everything together in a course. Most of them just bounce from topic to topic and then you're done. In certain "certificate" programs, they'll have some sort of capstone project, which still isn't the same as getting additional educational reinforcement, which I feel is probably needed MORE in self-study systems than in university settings where you can get office hours and discuss topics in-person with classmates.
The post is about the economics of eSports. One of the big revenue sources is advertisers. The viewership numbers are inflated with low value incentived users so that the gaming companies can misrepresent their true audience size and get more advertising revenue
Because SBF said FTX.us wasn’t impacted.
Yeah, every reputable nootropics community recommends avoiding tianeptine for a reason. It's right up there with phenazepam in the "this should probably be illegal" category.
good question - how can it handle answers about countries founded on genocide, slavery, systemic racism, and their impact on affected people’s lives across centuries. can it correlate iq with these?
An EMP, of course.