skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few hikes I'd really like to do, hopefully get to travel a bit, and curious to see what new macbooks look like. Nothing in the software world at all.
The council of which you speak was apparently ineffective enough to get themselves fired, so I don't know how you'd measure that.
> it's easy to spend money until there are no 'profits'.

If they have to spend the money in the same country as they gained the profits, that might work as intended.
>kqr: "Hi Mr. Plumber, could you let me know when 3-->4 happens. I need to use it once you're done, but I'm busy and don't have time to micromanage or continuously observe your work on the toilet."

plumber: Done sir! Your new toilets ready to go.

(6 months pass during which time the plumber completed some other work that was done satisfactorily and approved by the client)

kqr: I'm trying to decide whether I should keep using you Mr. Plumber. Please write me a few pages summarizing all the work you've done for me over the past 6 months. Make sure you emphasize how it has helped me move my KPIs, and how it helped me look good to my wife. Make sure talk about how the work you did contributed to our objectives as a family. Also make sure to add a bit about how you have developed as a plumber over the last 6 months and how you plan to continue to develop over the next.
I was just watching it and didn't catch that!

However. Assuming (rather safely) that he pronounces his own name correctly, NYT transcribed it badly. He doesn't stress the second syllable, as in "Lebron". He stresses the two syllables equally. That is, he says it as "pinch on", the way you might say it in "something to pinch on".
Nah, pkg_add works differently at a fundamental level. Yes, OpenBSD improved pkg_add significantly.
What is this then: https://twitter.com/jbrukh/status/1603868836729610250?s=46&t...

That looks a lot like reasoning to me. At some point these disputing definitions arguments don’t matter. Some people will endlessly debate whether other people are conscious or “zombies” but it’s not particularly useful.

This isn’t yet AGI, but the progress we’re seeing doesn’t look like failure to me. It looks like what I’d predict to see before AGI exists.
“The Universe is going to die anyway, so let’s try to kill it even faster!” Lmao
I started using 4 virtual desktops to manage distractions many years ago and it’s worked wonderfully for me.

Desktop 1 is for chat, email, Spotify, and general web browsing.

Desktop 2 is for software development only, nowadays VSCode. A separate browser profile is used here and only for development related browsing (docs, stack overflow, live testing).

Desktop 3 is data and system administration. Remote terminals, Excel, database clients, and similar go here.

Desktop 4 is a catch-all. I use it for infrequent activity, like the occasional Photoshop, Word or vendor tooling.

I’ve used this same setup on Windows, OSX, and Linux for 15+ years. I always setup Alt-1,2,3,4 to switch and tweak the OS to remove all animations so it switches instantly.

I’ve found it much easier to stay in the zone this way.
Many string search impls are adaptive and use different algorithms depending on needle and haystack lengths and possibly also contents of the needle.

E.g. https://github.com/BurntSushi/memchr#user-content-algorithms...
oh good point. someone should write an extension that only pings you based on critical rules, like if someone writes "bump", or "hey were you able to check on that?" or if 5 DMs have piled up, then it releases the notification. Honestly slack should do this themselves
Twitter's Cost-Cutting Efforts Are Hitting an Obscure Group of Investors
Pretty sure it's an informational zombie.
I wonder why their renderer is so slow. Organic Maps is super fast and smooth on my phone, though.
I have a 12 button gaming mouse working as expected on Gentoo with their binary kernel in XFCE.

It's even easier in any other distro.
Not really. If you imagine a supply chain with raw materials at one end and finished products at the other, if every step along the chain is taxed even a small amount on their total revenue, the cumulative effect would completely dwarf the value of the final product.

To solve this, in most countries, companies are taxed VAT instead, so intead of taxing the total value of product at every step, you are only taxing the value the company adds in the process.

Effectively the government is taxing the total value of the product at a fixed rate once but that tax is being split among the companies which helped supply that product proportionally to the value added by each company.
Yeah, in the original gpt-3 paper one of the more interesting bits was that it made similar off by one errors a human would make when doing arithmetic (and they controlled for memorized test data).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven
You’re totally right. Companies should invest more in developing managers.

I didn’t talk about this in the article, but (right, wrong, or indifferent) I find it helpful to think about how to help my manager help me.
It's quite easy to get the CPU back-end running with WASM. GPU might work as well with Chrome Canary, but I haven't tested it yet. Using WebGPU should make this just as easy.
Heh.

I'm not sure what troubles our flagged dead commenter more, that there are female math professors in the world, or that they have children that might comment on HN.

FWiW:

To the assertion that there exists at least one Emeritus Professor on mathstodon.xyz -
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao

To the assertion that there exists at least one female Emeritus Professor of Mathematics - https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/cheryl-pra...

To the request that "that guy" provide social media accounts of his mother, her friends, their nom de guerres, discussions, etc .. I'm altogether unsure of whom "that guy" might be.

Cheers for your response, I'd have gotten back sooner but <shrug> Timezones :-)
My go-to incantation is `ps ajxf`, (truncated and edited) sample output below

PPID PID PGID SID TTY TPGID STAT UID TIME COMMAND
0 1 1 1 ? -1 Ss 0 0:57 /sbin/init splash
1 978 978 978 ? -1 Ss 0 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
978 11441 11441 11441 ? -1 Ss 0 0:00 \_ sshd: ghostpepper [priv]
11441 11445 11441 11441 ? -1 S 1000 0:00 \_ sshd: ghostpepper@pts/4
11445 11446 11446 11446 pts/4 11641 Ss 1000 0:00 \_ -bash
11446 11641 11641 11446 pts/4 11641 R+ 1000 0:00 \_ ps ajxf

Another thing some might not know is that kill (the command / syscall) can send a lot of other signals than KILL (the signal). Not all processes know how to gracefully handle them, so you need to be careful, but for example a lot of daemons can catch SIGHUP and re-load their config file from disk.
How about we put our effort behind campaign finance reform instead of complaining about Twitter?

I'd like to start by proposing that a law be written to declare corporations to be non-persons, get them out of our elections and to allow only citizens (and not corporations) to contribute money and spam to elections.
1- oh Lord, I forgot they picked it up

2- D&D should be forced to start every single workday by watching this video:

https://youtu.be/oupHONsXsZc

And explain, scene by scene, how and why this YouTuber would have been a better choice to write and direct the final season than they were
Corkscrew optics yield direct line to electronics
I don't think that actually meaningfully helps all that much. Storing it for 2 years, 30 years, or 500 years, are nearly the same problem from a political perspective. "Where to keep it" is really the question "where to put it", and then you leave it there because moving it is dealing with the problem "where to put it" all over again.
OP is appealing to modern security needs and general advances in computing. Your comment isn't really necessary or useful.
How would you define how much profit an individual made last year?
Everybody knows the answer to that one.
> I consider them to just be "a size" and not a measurement.

You're right to consider it that way. In many cases, bullets aren't actually the size the name would suggest. For instance, .380 ACP is actually .355 inches (9mm) in diameter. 5.56x45mm is actually 5.7mm.
I recently had a Linux evening trying to enable a swap file for pop os that was inexplicably lacking one by default leading to hard locks when I ran out of ram. I eventually fucked the install badly enough that I needed to wipe the boot drive and start fresh. Really disappointing because until then everything was Just Working.
On the contrary, it's also possible we see Space Marine suits made out of cloth, a la Rings of Power.
Degrowth can work
I work with a person who has ADHD and is also a fantastic colleague. After we first met the team structure changed in such a way that they were less confronted with most everybody in the department and more working in a more isolated environment. This person has flourished since, possibly as a result of this change.

I don't know what size company you work in, but based on the super scientific sample size of 1, asking for a transfer to a more isolated team may help.
> What a great happy Union this is.

Also the EU repeatedly called out Hungary for corruption but now Hungary is having its moment pointing that several member of the european parliaments have been caught in a very serious corruption scandal (and these are only those who got caught).

What a great happy honorable Union full of integrity we enjoy too.
That's an excellent solution. I think part of it is also being comfortable and firm and not teaching others that "Hey he's the go to guy and he answers questions immediately and is super helpful". Eventually the problem sorts itself out. And even if it doesn't, so what, you're one person. There are limits and real costs to being a human operating switchboard.
Why, they all have been written already, long ago.
Two things that might also work, but be easier.

Supplement MCT oil. This turns into keytones in the body. See The Complete Book of Ketones by Mary Newport for all the science. She's got into it for Alzheimers, but the applicability is wider than that.

Go gluten-free and casein-free. That's eliminating wheat and dairy in your diet. Both of these turn into a form of morphine in the body. Look up glutomorphine and casomorphine. A slightly easier diet to stick to than keto. This cured my aspergers.
I gave one clear example - the pools below Chernobyl causing a secondary steam explosion that would've resulted in Reactor 3 and potentially 1/2 melting down as well.. naively making that disaster 3x worse than it was. In Fukushima, the explosion and subsequent power loss caused the spent rods from the 4th reactor to nearly boil the water away, had workers not been able to gain access to the site and manually spray the rods, they would've been just burning in the air releasing clouds of radioactive gases. Clearly this would've been much worse than what happened already, but is mostly unaccounted for when people proclaim that the accidents we've seen are evidence that those are the worst possible outcomes.

But the whole point is that we don't know the universe of bad things that can happen..
That's rather unlike my mother who is on a Mastodon instance and has a long and documented love of algorithms.
Pause notifications for 30 while you do pomodoros. Works well for me
I have the opposite problem. I concentrate so much that I forget to read my e-mails and other notifications, and people get angry with me.
Allied Irish Banks is still using Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX at the same time, according to a job posting I've seen.
Glad to hear you are enjoying. I read Bleeding Edge when it came out, but was underwhelmed. It is characteristically Pynchon, but did not enchant me in the same way as did Inherent Vice some years earlier.

Still, his best novels have got to be Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day. Those are the monsters. But you get out what you put in.
Absolutely. I've been using it to create Slack bots over the last week. It's cuts out a massive amount of time researching APIs and gives me good enough, workable, understandable starting points that saves me hours worth of fiddling and refactoring.
Autism is a wide spectrum. Some would consider ADHD part if it. If nothing else, there is lots of overlap.
Oh I’m sure they aren’t consciously, but are they going to make the effort everyday to communicate with the person who makes it hard to be reached? It will be harder to maintain/build relationships. I’m not passing judgement either way, I’m just stating a reality and that reality can be dark.
Why on Earth is this topic flagged?
The Minerva geometry answer looks like something one of my kids would have written: guess the answer then write a bunch of mathy-sounding gobbledygook as the "reasoning."

Also, that answer would have gotten 4/5 points at the local high-school.
Will it all blow up in 2038? Do you have a plan (to kill it, upgrade it, or retire) if so? :)
Yes, that makes perfect sense. If they want to set up an alternative editor, doing it on their own time is a reasonable expectation. No question vscode is millions of times easier for juniors.
Individuals (in the US) have standard deduction, which approximates the minimum value to sustain one's person. It's a bad approximation, but it is what it is.

It's assumed that corporations spend as little as possible on operations. Individuals obviously don't. Whereas a corporation wouldn't rent employees 500 sqft / person, individuals regularly rent/purchase that density for themselves. Similarly, while a corporation might buy a Camry and run in into the ground, some individuals will buy a new BMW every 3 years.

Corporations also don't have a motive to exist beyond profits. If you tax revenue and make profits untenable, then corporations simply will not exist. Individuals on the other hand try not to die.
Haha brilliant
One of the best things you can do is implement a strict no FB, Instagram, tiktok, snapchat .. future social media policy.

Secondly, stop using those services yourself and take every opportunity to tell them how much crap they are and how they should not be used.

They will listen to you since you yourself are not using them. If you use them and tell them not to, of course it's not going to work.

Once social media is out of the picture, you've taken care of the worst crap. Rest is incremental and you can build on the above.

Use pihole, other DNS filtering services to help filter other services.
xkcd: Gravity
I really enjoyed the very simple animation style, and I wonder if this is using any prebuilt web graphics library.

(This appears to require a keyboard. Both WASD and arrow keys worked for me.)
The law of diminishing returns has thus far been wrong on battery and renewables. Previous estimates often were wrong due to assuming a slowdown. Not to say it can't or won't happen, but unlikely isn't the word I'd use.

The last two years were weird, especially regarding batteries due to prices increasing, but I'd put that on Covid and the resulting mess.

Especially as solar & wind is already cheaper than everything else by far, so the critical part is batteries which is a broad field with a huge increase in relevance & research over the past few years.

The chances are pretty good, but of course a slowdown could still happen.
Yeah until some IT moron running a hospital installs this on their aging fleet for budgetary concerns.
Aristocrat Inc
Ask HN: Does anyone use Agora’s web page recording?
I’m considering using Agora Web Page Recording to automate recording live events hosted on a website. https://docs.agora.io/en/cloud-recording/develop/webpage-mod...

Essentially I need a way to automatically record everything on a web page during preset times.

If you’ve used or considered using Agora’s Web Page Recording product, I’d love to know what you use it for, how happy you are with the product, and if you came across any better alternatives?
You don't know if other humans do, but you know at least one human that does: yourself (presumably).
The gun in the FBI’s possession was the correct caliber but had the wrong rifling - it could not have fired the bullet they claimed it to.

In a later appeal Ray’s lawyers argued that the bullet didn’t match the gun, and attempted to have that sustained in court. The government witness was questioned by the judge. This judge was removed from the case shortly after questioning the government witness because he “lost his impartiality”. The new judge in the case threw out the motion without any explanation.

Here is the judge being removed from the case:
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/08/us/judge-in-king-case-rem...

Here is that same judge explaining that he believes Ray did not kill King - he also claims the Memphis Homicides Unit official report on the case come to the same conclusion, that Ray did not kill MLK:
https://youtu.be/HcJ_szc3TEA

Here is the FBI failing to prove the bullet came from the same gun:
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/12/us/tests-of-gun-in-king-k...

In reading over the case, you should note that Ray was never tried in open court, despite his many attempts to do so.

Also notable is from the testimony of the store owner who sold Ray a gun, which Ray came back later to return for another, claiming he was told it was the “wrong gun.” It was wrong in the sense that it was the wrong caliber to match the rifle used to kill King, but the conspirators didn’t realize it was also the wrong rifling.

Again, this is only a very small sample of the massive amounts of evidence that points towards a conspiracy.

Since you sound interested I’d encourage you to listen to the MLK Tapes podcast, they examine all available evidence and weigh the credibility of every piece, with the balance of probability being that MLK was murdered by Memphis’s Dixie Mafia with assistance from the FBI and the Memphis Police Department.
Pair to pay NT$1M to two women in deepfake porn suits
Make checking your messages part of your routine, as opposed to an interruption of said routine. More concretely, set certain time windows of your day, be it hourly or every 4 hours, where you check Slack and reply to relevant messages, after which you drop it again until the next window.

Turn off all Slack notifications (or close out of it all together) and set daily and repeating calendar events that say “check Slack” to pop up instead. That’s how I’ve setup all kinds of reoccurring but otherwise distracting tasks and it works great.
For a VM with a couple of wordpress blogs that I administer SQLight should allow to reduce memory from 4 to 2GB. In addition the blogs will no longer share the database improving security (while the blogs has the same Wordpress version the plug-in set is different, so a vulnerability in one is not necessary affects another).
Check out Crafting Interpreters[0]. You learn about Chomsky formal language hierarchy, constructing context-free grammars, lexing, parsing, error reporting, etc by building your own programming language.

[0]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/
Yeah internal networks never get breached /s
Yeah, like what if one of the parties had their emails hacked by a foreign state, and then a week or so before the election, against their own policy, the FBI issued a press release about how they were urgently reopening an investigation not into the hack but into possible wrongdoing by the hacked candidate? And then later acknowledged there was no wrongdoing?

You're right; I really hate to think about what the fallout would be if the FBI inappropriately swayed an election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...
Bitcoin Native NFTs Now Live On Signet (ordinals.com)
There might be legal/liability reasons why they’re not releasing the footage immediately.

Reminds me of the Champlain Towers accident - there were surveillance cameras everywhere, as well as a fire alarm control panel (that was critical to the incident as it would’ve been the one triggering an alarm to prompt everyone to evacuate) but no efforts were made to recover either despite the fire alarm panel checking in with the control centre several times (on battery power, over a mobile phone connection) after the collapse, proving that it was still alive and recoverable.

I guess they worked out that it was better to play dumb and let this evidence go away than recover it and potentially get into more trouble. I suspect it’s the same situation with the aquarium.
Income minus basic living expenses would be one way.
That's cool but it's all seams with 3d printing, so it seems like that would make the problem worse.

By the way, here's a big cool 3D printer that prints opaque acrylic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b3CY3P28qyQ
as someone who has an aquarium, i'm amazed it didn't happen in the middle of the night. Any time I've had an overflow issue or something, it's always in the middle of the night and my water sensor is blaring
Cool. Thanks!

Already using MCT oil in lots of cooking :) Had no idea about dairy... interesting, I eat a lot of high fat cheese.

Thanks for the references, I'll certainly read more.
You don't think there could be a starry-eyed kid tracking Elon's jet because when he grows up he wants to be just like him? I have a relative that listened to aircraft radio when planes flew over his house. He became a pilot. But kids today don't have radios. They have cellphones.
Typically, when one refers to an element as "radioactive" one is either referring to a particular isotope that is radioactive (e.g., C14) or an element in which the most abundant naturally occurring isotope(s) are radioactive (e.g., U). To call "carbon" radioactive, is technically true I suppose depending on your view but the level of radioactivity in natural carbon is so low that it is an almost meaningless truth. Potassium and calcium have a bit more natural radioactivity, but still it poses no health issues. The other elements you list are essentially the same, except perhaps Halfnium (have not checked). Heck by the definition you seem to be using of the term "radioactive element", I do not think there exists a non-radioactive element.

Of course, you are correct that the dangers of radioactivity depend on the dose. But your message is diminished by overly emphasizing the radioactivity in carbon and other naturally occurring elements that pose zero health risk and frankly are so very non-radioactive in a relative sense.
Many data-/number-crunching C libraries already do dynamic-link-time or runtime cpu feature detection and select appropriate implementations.
E.g. glibc already has bunch of specialized assembly impls for many of the string operations
https://github.com/bminor/glibc/tree/master/sysdeps/x86_64/m...
For people who are wondering if SQLite is the right database for Wordpress, I recommend taking a look at https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html where SQLite authors explains what sites it makes sense for.

In short: for most of Wordpress deployment, especially for long tail of hair salons, car dealerships, personal blogs and other non-tech SME sites
Nixon canceled the Mars program where the vast majority of cutting edge nuclear research was happening - tech like the nuclear lightbulb (search my comments for details) that could have matured and saved us by now. He was no friend to nuclear, just the entrenched nuclear industry.
These made me laugh so much.