skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm actually in a luxury-ish apartment building in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, US of A -- built in the last 5-10 years -- and they've been leaving "CAREFUL OF THE FREEZE IT'S COMING ANY DAY NOW I SWEAR JUST FAR ENOUGH OUT SO THIS SIGN WILL BE MEANINGLESS" signs out for weeks/months, and we finally have a freeze, and they send emails and notifications with these really detailed instructions on how to waste wa.....errr, on how to not freeze your pipes.

Run all the taps, esp if/when you go to bed or leave the apt, esp if you go out of town, but not too much, or don't if you leave town because too high a risk of flooding, mabye, and don't let the apt heat go below 60, and...

Atlanta gets tons of rain (at this particular moment in the global warming cycle), so i don't think we'll have problems there anytime soon -- but all this water advice just seems a bit... 1970s?

one day you're reading about the importance of heat pumps in the fight against global warming, the next day your apartment complex is telling you to run the water all day/night.

I remember this type of thing existed where i grew up in a house in NJ, but... is this the way it is everywhere in cold climates? like, do the apt buildings in Minneapolis run their water all night?

i haven't been running the water.

thing is, if a pipe did freeze, it sounds pretty catastrophic. like... flooding, you're moving out of your apartment, everyone below you is moving out of their apartments, tens of thousands of dollars in water damage, etc.

whole thing is a bit bizarre. but maybe there is no simple, non-wasteful tech solution?

the apt barely gets down to 60 when the temp drops to 40s, but outside temp is 19 F right now during the day (part of the cold spell), and i've been liking to actually use the heat the past few days, so i don't really plan on testing anything, tho now i'm curious how low the apt temp will go with outside temps actually pretty low/freezing -- presumably we're getting heat/insulation thru walls/hallway/etc.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/atlanta/30303/weather-rada...
Thanks noting StretchTex. Never heard about it before. Indeed, it shares the same motivation: Allowing users to decide what and in which detail they want to read at.

I would love to see your conclusion about the usage of parentheses respected by authors more often, it makes content so much more accessible and would make a solution like this obsolete.
> - It's what Alexa should have been from the beginning.

In the early days, Alexa had a knowledge engine behind it. I could ask "what color is a light red flower" and it would say "A pink flower is pink". Likewise, asking "what color is a black cat" would come back with "a black cat's color is black."

The "there's more to this" was evident when you asked "what color is a blue bird" and got back something along the line of "a blue bird's colors are blue, red, and brown."

The semantics/logic engine and the knowledge engine were two different things. These queries now result in google searches and "According to Alexa answers contributor: ..." which does have the right answer, but this is now "search -> text answers written by humans."

Another one would be "what did Dennis Ritchie invent?" and it would come back a list of things including "the C programming language." You could then ask "who invented the C programming language" and it would respond back with "the C programming language was invented by Dennis Ritchie." These questions now result in Alexa reading Wikipedia for Dennis Ritchie and the C programming language.

I suspect that the cost of the maintenance - processing, storage, and human curation outweighed its usefulness to Amazon. Even now, Amazon has cut back on staff for Alexa because that business unit isn't demonstrating enough relationship to revenue and things such as the knowledge engine were likely early on the chopping block a few years ago.

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As to the "from the beginning" I would point out that the gen 1 echo was released almost a decade ago. I doubt we had the necessary models nor ability to properly train them back then.

What's more, even with today's resources, I suspect that the cost per query with ChatGPT is significantly more than what Alexa is today or what it was (excluding human curation costs) back in days of old.

Hooking up ChatGPT to Alexa by Amazon would just more rapidly accelerate the rate at which Alexa loses money.
Is that true? Heads or tails? Seemed trivial to understand this for me.

I understood it, too. But then, I have a degree in Communications.

People on HN think that just because they can understand written source code that they can automatically understand any writing.
The better solution is to write better sites.
I am not so much conflating them by accident as expressing my belief that the two are the same. I am not convinced that we can make sure the people from which their jobs where taken by an AI will be able to live from its proceeds.

There's a very real chance that adding these costs on top will drive development away from the sort that pays the people who lose out. For example, attempting to require licensing for images may simply push model training towards public domain materials. Then the models still work and the usable commercial art is still generated cheaply, but there are no living artists getting paid.

We should not blithely assume an ideal option that makes everyone happy is readily available or even at all. The core incentive of a lot of users is to spend less on commercial imagery. The core incentive of artists is to get paid at least as much as before. We should take seriously the possibility that there is not a medium in there that satisfies everyone.
As a BeOS users in the late 90's / early 2000's - the fact that Haiku is still going twenty years since its first inception is just incredible to me.

I am continually amazed at how much progress the project continues to garner. It really proves there was something magical to BeOS.
point beeing that self regulating markets are a lie
He seems to spend most of his time in the mountains
So then who is the abuser? The users and the developers are the victims. PMs are likely also the victims of their higher-ups, their higher-ups are the victims of the CEO, the CEO is the victim of the shareholders, the shareholders are... the users. So that's a full circle: the users are abusing themselves.
>My guess is that he'd be critical, because while their accomplishments are pretty impressive on the surface, they do very little to explain the mechanics of how humans perform complex problem solving, or really any kind of psychological model at all, and that is what he was really interested in.

The success of machine learning/neural nets--in no small part because of the amount of computation resources we can throw at them--has really led to hogging the attention compared to fields like cognitive science, neurophysiology, and so forth. Work is certainly going on in other areas but I'm still struck that some of the questions that were being asked when I took brain science as an undergrad many decades ago (e.g. how do we recognize a face as a face?) are still being asked today.

Given that ML is the thing that's getting the flashy results, it's not surprising it's the thing in a limelight--even if there's a suspicion that it maybe (probably?) only gets you so far without better understanding how learning happens in people (and other animals) and other aspects of thinking and intelligence.
Linux: Helsinki.

Without basic foundational creations/discoveries that we can all take for granted, there would be nothing for the vectoralists to build on top of.
Google's golden goose may be cooked.

The two things they've got keeping people on their ad product are search and (hypothetically) anti-competitive practices that may be hit by antitrust judgments.

If Google looses search ad revenue, the company is going to be put in a very precarious position where a lot of their scale and largesse becomes difficult, if not impossible, to maintain.

Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft have a healthy mix of revenue streams. Google does not. For Google, the entire story revolves around search ad revenue.

All Apple needs to do is switch to using Bing. An antitrust judgment against Chrome by default on Android opens the door for alternative browsers and search engines. And a judgment against Google search by default on Chrome sinks the ship altogether. Both the EU and the US are looking into this, and I wouldn't be surprised if one or more of these things happens in 2023.

Google search quite frankly sucks. A lot of this is spam at scale, but there are also increasingly perverse incentives that keep Google from delivering an S-tier product. They make their money diverting your attention to the highest bidder.

There are so many search startups getting off the ground now. The new breed of search is going to leverage AI/ML to do better than anything that came before. Paul Graham identified this as a promising attack surface, and he's totally right.

This is incredibly good opportunity for startups. Not just search, but anything else that might chip away at a Google product that they don't really care about. That they might not be able to afford when their core revenue stream begins to falter.
Much better description here:

https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/
Not the best UX for readers IMO. That defeats the purpose of a RSS "reader".

Works fine with the New York Times.

The Times RSS feed includes a headline and a summary. If I'm interested in the article, I press F19 and it opens in my browser.

Since I'm a subscriber, I'm logged in already, and it just appears.

Pressing one button doesn't seem like much of a burden.
For most platforms this is true, but not Apple TV. I don't think they even allow it. iPlayer is definitely native code.
Interesting, this is the first time I'm hearing about this. I've known a few people doing the two remote job thing.

Seems crazy to me, they never had any free time.
Well, to be fair, this was easy to predict. RISK was only created because CISC did already fail at that time; people were already letting their compilers do the job and left the specialized instruction basically unused.
"Wait did the page actually refresh? I better hard refresh just be to safe..."
Then why do all New England states outcompete most European countries?

Why is most STEM research produced in Eastern Europe, the US, or China?

This really depends on what metrics you are using and has infinite room for gaming.

US undergrads (both native and foreign born) absolutely crush all of these nondescript places you are suggesting are better, and graduate programs make the gap even wider.

A non trivial fraction of those are educated K12 in the US system.
South Park's Eric Cartmanez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91HhsuOGaRo
Update on my brain injury and the future of strange parts
Scotty is the personification of hacker ethos. This is a welcome update on his recovery after suffering from a brain injury. Glad to hear he finally found the medical help he needed.
VCMI 1.1: FOSS HoMM3 now with map editor, basic multiplayer and iOS support
Fresh preview versions of SUSE's distro and NetBSD 10 are here
Also never mention those flags anywhere in docs, which are shambles anyway in regard of everything beyond the "I'm a power user, I promise I know what I'm doing" banner.. And there are literally hundreds of such flags in e.g. every modern browser.
This.

Security is one of those things everybody thinks you can't have too much of. But of course you can. You can literally kill your company if you start blindly implementing "best practices".

It's very easy to fall into threat prevention trap, but what you should be thinking about is risk tolerance.
I used LassPass up until a few years ago. I've received three separate password reset emails this week for accounts I seldom use and haven't visited in months.

Someone is out there using whatever data or metadata was unencrypted.
Honestly, that's not a great example. Re-evaluating your ethical impact on the world is not the same as understanding the direct consequences of your daily work. Both are important, but really different. After all we are not discussing some more abstract issues of modern software propagating capitalistic values (we are all "the system", etc, etc).
This seems like a total non-sequitur, unless there’s a link I don’t see?

The people try really hard to get working the systems they are interested in, and then share their results. I mean there are various wikis out there with big lists of printers and wifi dongles (thankfully less of a thing nowadays) that are listed in states of:

* I actually could try this on my side and it works

* This brand usually has drivers, good luck!

* Totally unusable.

Imagine if a company with a customer service relationship, like Microsoft, went around dropping support for reasonably recent hardware! It would be seen as a sure sign that they’d betrayed their customers and dropped all pretense of competence. But the expectations for a community project are happily different.
I happen to be using my own. I wrote my website from scratch in Go and decided to build a RSS reader into it. Anyone can view the list of articles I’m reading at https://dwayne.xyz/reader
Yes. I think this is exactly the issue. We can't on one hand say we're cogs in a wheel, and on the other complain about the state that we are in. The choice begins with us. Don't work for companies that produce software that is unethical. Do what ever it takes.
Words Matter: Alternatives for Charged Terminology in the Computing Profession
QuiteRSS on Windows. I was using newsbeuter/newsboat when I was on Linux and I really liked it. My wants from a reader are very basic though, I'm really only interested in getting the title and links, I don't care if it even has a content viewer beyond text-only.
It means the person is getting paid by the number of words in the article.. so adding a bunch of fluff to increase that count
> Math is programming.

That doesn't make any sense. What do you mean by that?

> I agree it’s been more difficult learning math than programming for myself as well: but that’s because math is geared and targeted for people who like doing symbolic logic by hand.

Mathematics is not about symbolic logic. Mathematics is the study of idealized structures, their properties, and their relationships. Symbols are just a convenient shorthand. They are not the mathematics in and of themselves.

> The fact we don’t have a nice and intuitive way of writing math via a keyboard is proof that these two fields are not on the same page.

What does that have to do with anything? Although LaTeX and the like are pretty decent at it, there's a lot of things we can't do easily via a keyboard. Why is that a constraint on anything or relevant?

Not trying to be provocative, but I honestly have little idea what you're talking about.
This github repo is linked from the ‚powerpoint‘:

https://github.com/wiseman
I am using the RSSPreview [1] Addon in Firefox, which works for me also on Youtube. The addon brings back the nice RSS Icon in the URL Bar. You can also change to color back to orange so you can spot it easily when a site has an RSS feed.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/
I agree, but most times we are not the author of the text we read and therefore have no control over the usage of parentheses by the author.

I think the only way to opt-out is to alter appearances and interactivity on our side with something like a browser extension.
A k-LUT SRAM-based FPGA where k=6 is something like 100x more inefficient in terms of raw transistor count than the equivalent ASIC gates when I last did some napkin math (though there's a statistical element in practice when considering k-LUTs vs fixed netlists.) But the SRAM requirements scale 2^k with the LUT size, so the highest you get in practice today is 6-LUTs and 80% of vendors do 4-LUT. And then you need all the transistors for the scan chain to configure each bit, actual block RAM, fixed function DSPs, etc. Clocking them to really high frequencies is also difficult. They're mostly overpriced because the market is small and the only competitors in town can rob you; bulk buys from having costs 1/50th the list-price, per-device, isn't unusual.

But the big problem isn't really the hardware. You can go create and simulate a robust design in a number of HDLs, there are all kinds of tools to do it now, though they aren't as fancy as proprietary ones. It's doable. But it's having a good software stack that matters. You can blow a billion dollars on a chip and still lose because of the software. Nvidia figured this out 10 years ago and everybody else is still playing catch up.

And it takes an insane amounts of software engineering to make a good compute stack. That's why Nvidia is still on top. Luckily there are some efforts to help minimize this e.g. PyTorch-MLIR for ML users, though more general compute stack needs, such as accelerated BLAS or graph analytics libraries or OpenMPI, are all still "on you" to deliver. But if you stick your head in the sand about this very important point, you're going to have a bad time and waste a lot of money.
And:

- NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

- Stringer: https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer

- CommaFeed: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed

- Yarr: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

- News app for Nextcloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/news

- Newspipe: https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/newspipe

- Feedbunch: https://gitlab.com/amatriain/feedbunch
>I don’t know what other word to use for launching a website but maybe there’s a better one.

The "portal" term is deeply overused, because it means so many different things to so many different people. Sometimes it means a special site for a particular topic; sometimes it means a landing page.

That's the problem with jargon. A lot of people hear a term, think they understand it, and then use it. They often have the wrong end of the stick, but they will not let go of their understanding of the word.
Vertical farms trade energy cost for efficiency in physical resources like water, soil, etc. The trade-off is worth it if the energy is cheap and plentiful enough, especially if the farm is going someplace where a traditional (open air) farm is impractical or infeasible, such as a desert.

In a place like Europe, where farmland is plentiful but energy is relatively expensive, vertical farms never really made sense beyond proofs of concept.
These were my major pain points with PG FTS.

Lack of ability to search indexes by relevance OR date

the highlighting function randomly returning no values despite a hit

lack of ability to define relevance by word positions - searching for "red dog" returns "the sky is red, i love my dog" and "red dog" as the same score. RUM indexes helped, but did not fix #1
> act like professionals and take responsibility for being clueful
about the impacts of our work.

Well said.

I think there's a lot of work to do before we can even figure out what
those impacts are and how to work in such a way as to minimise the
harms. Something along the lines of a Hippocratic Oath to "do no
harm".
First of all, that's false. Time and again, experts who can explain complicated concepts with everyday words seem smarter, not dumber. To wit: Richard Feynman, Steven Pinker, C.S. Lewis.

Second, even if it were true, that would be all the more reason to stop it, because the reason is bad. It is selfish, at the expense of others. If you make things harder for people so that life is easier for you, then you are by definition evil.

"Short words are best, and old words are best of all." --- Winston Churchill
Australia: Scientists find clitorises on female snakes
Salary or income? The median is brought down by folks with no job who survive on welfare. Is that included in either figure?
Yes! In our post-truth era, this essay is an absolute must-read.
I have a fancy OLED TV, not connected to the internet. A powerful desktop running MS Windows 10. And a fancy sound system with Dolby Atmos.

First MS Windows is the only way to get Netflix and similar to stream the 4k HDR Dolby Atmos stuff outside of smart TV applications. It will silently stream the lower quality without telling you. So if you do not tinker, you must use the smart TV crap to get any chance of watching content at the capability of your hardware.

Then comes the bugs. Randomly the TV and Sound system decide they cannot transfer sound anymore. It's just as if it is on mute.

To be clear the connection is pc -> tv-> sound system. Using 48gps HDMI cables.

The only solution is to unplug both the TV and the sound system. Reboot is not enough. Unplug one is not enough. It has to be both.

Btw if you do not have the right HDMI cable you will also get lower resolution and refresh rate. Without any recourse. No information reported anywhere until you learn that pressing 7 times the green button on the LG TV remote finally gives you the details on the active HDMI connection.

Oh and by default the sound setting of the TV will also decide atmos and convert it to 5.1 PCM before forwarding to the sound system, while you really want a passthrough to the sound system.

Basically nothing really works. So if you do not tinker I am not sure you even get the advertised quality and features. With that said ignorance is bliss.
>This exact thing is why I am not happy about Apple being forced by the EU to allow alternative app stores. The Apple App Store has served to mitigate some of the worse excesses and privacy abuses by various apps and social media sites.

Since USA is not part of EU, and USA is a giant market then I assume that USA citizens have no reason to get scared by your FUD, and if you are from EU and want the wall garden I am sure Apple will let you opt in in the USA version of the store.
Tiny tiny rss on docker desktop with tailscale so I can access it anywhere.
And this makes it OK? The status quo’s brokenness is not an excuse for acting like an ass.
Today I asked ChatGPT to explain an idea in the style of Donald Trump for fun. It refused, stating :

“It's not appropriate to ask me to present the ideas of any individual in the style of another individual, particularly when it involves mimicking the language or mannerisms of someone who may be controversial or divisive.”.

It's as if the model actively wants to censor some part of the reality.
@dang Could the URL be changed to the release notes? https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta4/release-notes/

It's a much more filled-out page, and probably what most people are clicking through to anyways.
ARM, MIPS, Power are all RISC. The only real CISC processor in mainstream usage seems to be the PICO, and of course, the x86 and amd64 are currently RISC processors with a CISC interpreter in front of them.
It's not just that there was something magical to BeOS, there's still something magical to Haiku, especially in the era of the "Linux desktop" with its free-for-all fractured ecosystem approach to desktop environments. We aren't working on Haiku just because it reminds us of the past, but because we think it could be the future, too.
I haven’t had any major issues, but on the iPad the navigation is sometimes in limbo. I believe this is caused by using the keyboard/touchpad instead of touch.