skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not ironic. A coalition government — something American readers may not be too familiar with — governs with a set of agreed upon policies decided during the formative stages by the participating parties. By necessity, those policies will differ from what the individual parties would want were they to rule alone, but represent instead a compromise.

So a coalition government where greener parties represent 50% of the governing coalition would likely be greener than one where they only have 25%, but to do everything according to their own party programme they would need to have a majority vote to be able to govern without forming a coalition.

Sometimes participating in a coalition government means the government takes actions the individual party may not find desirable, but they accept these because they do get to have their say on other topics. And sometimes local branches of a party have a differing opinion on some topics.

This is overall a good system though. It means you can vote for a party closest to your ideals, and even have a chance that they can govern (e.g., as part of a coalition), or at least have them represented in parliament.
> Statistics are presented about the benefits of renewables, which seemingly never include the environmental destruction of the gas peaking plants propping them up.

There are quite some ways of providing backup for wind and solar: ordinary hydro power and geothermal energy for base load, pumped storage hydro power, hydrogen conversion and tidal power for peaks. And even gas plants aren't that problematic either - assuming you only need them for peaks instead of, like now, replacing broken-down French NPPs, you can fire them with bio-gas gathered from farm animal dung or bio-waste.

> If you counter with 'what about batteries', the lie by omission shifts from environmental destruction to child slavery. Battery supply chains cannot escape the contaminant that is child slavery.

Of course they can, it is only a matter of money and oversight over governments.
OpenBSD: Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64
From researching this in the past, it seems like there are many more learning resources about CPU design than GPU design. Not to mention that CPU design is often covered in college curricula while I'm not aware of any GPU design courses (though if anybody know of some, please do share)
MinIO has millions of installations according to the documentation. If this is the building block in your favorite cloud is mostly hidden and unknown to users.
Use keyboard shortcuts and then search for the command:

I use these a lot:

- search everywhere, code actions, etc.: double shift

- find action: Cmd shift a, or ctrl shift a

I hope that it still works in the new ui, didn’t test it yet.
What is the goal? Reminds me of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. If the goal is personal development, that should be intrinsic and not need outsider validation.

The type of shit I write in a journal is not the type of stuff I want people to read. It is internally processing and organizing thoughts and private matters. It is shower thoughts all the way through processing relationships and emotions. My family, for instance, doesn't need to know half-thought out things that would offend them. Maybe later those journal entries would help me with a difficult conversation with them or serve as a jumping point for a "real" article or post. Most are just private.
Note that dumping the Vault's process memory is beyond hashicorp/Vault's threat model. See: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/issues/1446#issuecomment-...

I'm bringing this up because the circleCI blogpost says that the attacker did memory-dump encryption keys from a running process. See https://circleci.com/blog/jan-4-2023-incident-report/

So even if they were using hashicorp/vault, the attacker could probably still have been able to mem-dump vault's process.
With x86 PC compatibles you expect the opposite: You can use old software and the system will still boot and be mostly usable but not with SoC boards :shrug:
What do you do with 5 kW if the oven and stove and car charger are off? I have 3.6 kW (16 A @ 230 V) for everything except cooking and heating (both of which are gas)...

American energy use is really on another level.
> Before the Simpsons there was no adult animation

R Rated 1981 Heavy Metal says hello.
Not really. You need support from the manufacturer.

Recent BMC firmwares have openbmc under the hood, with the industry using it as a base for further development or customisation.
I don’t recall testing in production ever being taboo in the 90’s.
Searching for "plate amplifier module" you can find integrated digital/amp/crossover units suitable for DIY builds.
How much of "core money" lives as physical banknotes and how much is just electronic account balance of accounts that central bank has for private banks?
Platform Engineering as a Startup
Thank you for making this, also one of the most impactful books I read last year. And last but not least, thank you for GraphQL and your contribution to the open source community!
Given that it's just phase-correct PWM, you'd think feeding the bits you'd stuff into a DAC directly into the PWM counter would do the job nicely.

You could probably do that with a fast microcontroller these days. Some golden-eared audiophool pillock would complain they could hear jitter caused by the pins not being gold-plated or something, but who cares?
That should isolate you from this issue, shouldn't it?
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It's more complicated than that, since the wavelength distribution matters--we can effectively transform green photons that the plant would have reflected into red or blue photons that it will absorb. (The plant still benefits from some green light, but less than in sunlight.) We can also supply each plant with its exact optimal PPFD and DLI. For example, lettuce may be grown under shade cloth, deliberately wasting much of the incident sunlight, because the extra light won't make it grow faster and will make it taste bitter. In a vertical farm, we can just set the LED current and spacing wherever we want.

I've heard that 1 m^2 of modern solar panels will support >1 m^2 of a low-light crop (like lettuce, unlike grain) under modern LEDs. I haven't done the math myself, and this obviously varies with climate. I think vertical farms (growing entirely by artificial light) are still uneconomic vs. greenhouses almost everywhere, per my other comment here. Supplemental artificial light in a greenhouse is of course highly economic in many climates, and Dutch growers have been using it for decades.

The cost to heat or cool a vertical farm should be lower than for a greenhouse with equivalent growing area, since it's got lower surface-area-to-volume ratio and doesn't need to be transparent. That may be important for stuff like high-end strawberries, where tight control of the day-night temperature swing enables higher sugar content. I again wouldn't expect a useful benefit for grains, though.
In 1974 it would have been called a toaster oven.
I don't feel like business model canvas is a good way to start out. I rather use the "jobs to be done" thought framework.

Business model canvas is one of these things that make you think of stuff that you don't and can't know about.

A lot of the things on the business model canvas are not known at all. So at the best you can create hypotheses, but more often than not you never test them afterwards.

The number one thing you should do when starting out is talking to as many relevant people as you can.

- Your business idea is in a certain problem space -> talk to people who work in that field: engineers, managers, sales, marketing

- after talking to 15+ people you may have a rough idea what's generally seen as challenging -> narrow down what people need, how frequently the problem is encountered, ...

- create an MVP, test as soon as possible, find partners to work on the product

This is a very draining process and takes a lot of time and energy, depending on how easy you can acquire customer interviews.
He talks about telic vs atelic activities in Four Thousand Weeks, taken from the book Midlife. Highly recommend both.
Musk on chess:

"I did as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1584537377837490177

This guy just loves being in over his head, doesn't he?
Ubuntu 22.10 on Sipeed Lichee RV board
I don’t quite understand, why can’t you just determine the probability of a game’s draws and do a regular null hypothesis test?
I believe every single person must define that for themselves, and should be a definition specific for a short timeframe, it is useless to think about an "end-goal-well-spent" time because your opinion about what is well spent is gonna change of course

For example, for me right now an example of "time well spent" is playing with my elder cat. I try to reduce the time dedicated to every other thing today just to be able to get more of this
> Now that I've looked at all of this and read about APT::Machine-ID, we'll probably set it to a single value across all of our fleet

This is not a good idea, the machine ID is supposed to be unique and shouldn't change over the lifetime - a handful of software relies on this property and it's the best identifier for an installation if you can't rely on hostnames.
These are some interesting reads, thank you!
I'm still not clear on how you're defining civilization. The typical definition includes large population centers with some central authority, along with trade routes and divided labor. Roughly 3000-4000 BC IIRC.

Writing isn't even as old as civilization by this definition. I'm curious where you're getting this huge 10,000 years ago number from. Maybe you're just rounding up and I'm being a pedant, but I don't think there's much that would be considered civilization many thousands of years prior to Sumer.
Architectural Cost Optimisation – Practical Design Steps for Architects and Devs
Yoga is stretching. Ayurveda is pseudoscientific nonsense. Meditation exists in lots of religious traditions. Now let's talk about the cast system. Wasn't that a way for high status people to "other" anyone who wasn't them?
Flightcontrol (YC W22) is hiring Developer Advocate (remote/fulltime)
yeah, they are clearly talking about setting the APT::Machine-ID override in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, not the actual /etc/machine-id
These issues would be addressed by something like Tailscale, but of course they also got hacked recently…
I know of people who have written things like online casino games (in unregulated jurisdictions) where the shuffle was deliberately skewed in order to achieve certain configurable winning percentages from the games. ie it's not done by accident but design.

That said people do sometimes unintentionally write something like this (terrible and also buggy) algo

for idx in size(deck):
new_spot = int(random() * size(deck))
swap(deck[idx], deck[new_spot])

...which won't give an even distribution of all possible outcomes. If shuffling, look up a real algo (like Fisher-Yates for instance) and implement that. Or better yet, use a library implementation.
Of course a superficial read of a philosophy/attitude/religion which might say something like “turn the other cheek” (basically), and “do the best with what you’ve got”, and “pain is certain but suffering is optional” will be “compatible” (not incompatible) with being a worker bee/soldier. But really: what does one thing have to do with the other? I think meditation retreats have enough on their plate with the human mind, so doing an introduction to Marxism might be too distracting.

With enough propagandistic scholars I’m sure any religion could become pro-capitalist, pro-Japanese, pro-socialist, or what have you. Because we’ve certainly seen some insane religious justifications throughout history.

But “corporate mindfulness” seems to mostly be about mind training. It’s not about submitting to the boss per se (other things are used to instill that attitude). And if Buddhism then is reduced to just that (better resilience through mindfulness meditation), then I don’t really get the complaint? Because it seems like complaining that a workplace offering free gym membership is corrupting the human activities of cardio and weight training in order to make more efficient worker bees/soldiers. And while that’s what the workplace wants, for sure, it’s not like the employee won’t also get some benefits from doing regular weight training and cardio.
I mean, you CAN still develop against Twitter API, just don't get too popular and end up in the top 20 when Elon sorts descending at 2AM one morning.
Cute but also super annoying when you want to actually get results. Scrolling far enough on mobile, you can't get the results to stay on the page.
Imagine you are kidnapped and knocked unconscious. Then you wake up in a prison cell by yourself. You are now wearing a prison uniform with a label that says "prisoner N", where N is some number.

Would it really be "trickery with probabilities" to say that there is only a one-in-thousand chance that the total number of prisoners is more than 1000*N? And that the real number of total prisoners is probably much closer to N?
No one at the top wants stable and reliable.

It's so much easier to profit and seize control during periods of volatility.
APT::Machine-ID overrides it only for APT, you can still have a unique machine-id in /etc
Reminds me of the distinction between Type 1 and Type 2 fun.
How will Morlocks ever be able to enjoy filet of Eloi with garlic on its hot stone if the latter were to be encouraged to sample the former's courses?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sbizs-qAwY
Pretty long and haven’t read it all, but worried about a sort of survivorship bias. You’ll see more cards from games that go on longer with the methodology described.

That and some spicy uncontrolled multiple-hypothesis testing.

Seems like a pretty unreliable analysis as a result.
They chose coal for now and lng. That’s why those who want to follow the 1.5 degree limit protest.
> The first one is actually Japanese

Yes, I know. I don’t think that’s relevant but it’s because I thought you might nitpick that I added a USA example.

> and the second is an independent production.

Why does that matter? It was a worldwide hit and is an important piece of movie history, it’s not an obscure college movie.

> Sure, it was not unheard of.

It’s considerably more than “not unheard of”, I specifically chose well-known authors with well-known works. Ralph Bakshi alone directed eight adult-oriented feature film animations before the Simpsons was a thing. Those are far from the only examples.
You bring up the question of how the debt is settled. That is out of the scope of my question. The debt could be settled in any number of ways. For example, Alice could give Bob the $100 she owes him. Or not be settled at all. Or Alice could give Bob something else. However Alice and Bob come to the agreement, that Alice does not owe Bob anything anymore, that settles the debt.

My question is if Alice and Bob created money, when they agreed that Alice owes Bob money. If so this money would be destroyed the moment the debt is settled.

The statements "money is debt" and "debt is money" come to mind. So if you create debt, do you create money?
I had the same thoughts initially. It's interesting to think about with the way the climate is heading. The people that are working on this are likely also working on breeding plants that are more suited to growing indoors. Useful genes would be dwarfing genes or genes that speed up the growth cycle. What breeders would be looking for is completely different than what's been selected for throughout history. Most grains are also annuals but there is work being done on breeding perennial grains.

Do you know why strawberries from California are available at the supermarket all year round? It's because farmers and breeders found a gene that made strawberries daylight neutral, meaning they didn't have to go through a "winter" season to produce fruit again. Plants will keep bearing fruit all year round.
Bridges tend to be owned by the government which in democratic counties gives an accounting to the public.

Private bridges, have owners who give an accounting to no one when they collapse. At best, if you have standing you can sue them and they will defend themselves by giving an accounting for why it’s not their fault or they did their best.
I'm from Cebu and our monthly electric bill is in the average of 160-200 USD. Are you living in the province?
A gorgeous book.

They also share a bit about the equipment and process used for making the pictures.

Some of the slides should be a part of every electronics course in every school and University.
The original version of magic online from the early 2000s messed it up slightly, but since then, the shuffles have been perfect.

That hasn't stopped the rumors.
The article repeats that they would like to set up a canary server but can't. But they also link to an askubuntu answer which mentions these two settings:

Update-Manager::Always-Include-Phased-Updates;
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates: True;

Update-Manager::Never-Include-Phased-Updates;
APT::Get::Never-Include-Phased-Updates: True;

Surely the best setup would be to set some canaries to always include phased updates, and the rest of the fleet to never include them (so you get them once they are at 100% rollout and no longer phased)?
I don’t know Gilbert Ryle but I believe I understand the paper as intended.

What do they realize then instead?
That fingerprints a piece of software (and, if SSL library versions or configurations change, the version), but not a specific client. It's virtually worthless as a security measure if the endpoint is a common browser.
Electrical engineer here.

During my studies, I did do quite some coding, but this was mostly due to my own interests. There are plenty of opportunities to code: embedded, simulations, data processing, more and more ML stuff, ...

However, what you don't learn in electrical engineering is software engineering. If you are lucky you can do data structures & algorithms but even that is not always part of the program.

If you want to work as a software engineer I would go for electrical engineering. I would probably do computer engineering or compsci. Compsci often is very very theory heavy on theoretical comp sci, but that's not necessarily bad, just not something that will help you in software engineering in my mind.
More accurate title: "Operations within a file are faster than directory operations"
Greed? No. Profit motivated. Of course. They are a business. Businesses generally exist to make a profit. The more profit they make, the stronger and more resilient they become. Apple, having been very close to bankruptcy a couple of times means that they have a strong motivation to make a profit. Nothing is without reason, whether or not you like the reason. I guess corporate greed is a thing, but then so are the very real costs of operating services. Ranting about a business being successful or being the wealthiest just smacks of petty anti-capitalist jealousy. I get it, Apple were supposed to fail and they didn’t.

Are Apple’s fees worth 15%[1] of the vendors revenue? Possibly not, though as a provider, they are entitled to make a profit.

[1] Yes, yes; 30% if the vendor make > $1,000,000. Let get real, the significant majority of the app that you are arguing about are likely to be grossing less than that. And of course 15% of $0 is $0, so the argument is completely moot for freely distributed apps.
I think that fractional reserve banking assumes it starts with a person saving in a bank, but the article asssumes this is the reverse

"""This article explains how, rather than banks lending out deposits that are placed with them, the act of lending creates deposits — the reverse of the sequence typically described in textbooks.(3)"""
and

"""
While the money multiplier theory can be a useful way of introducing money and banking in economic textbooks, it is not an accurate description of how money is created in reality.
"""

As such there is a new understanding of money developing - QE, lending and even MMT are involved.

So I think this article says quite clearly that the Econ 101 idea of fractional reserve lending as a money multiplier based on deposits made is just out of date

I do see this as a good argument to remove money creation from banks because

"""
Banks first decide how much to lend depending on the profitable lending opportunities available to them
"""

which is determined by time horizons and risk appetite much more than central bank interest rates - and why most lending needs collateral.

Government lending (government as a VC) however has much longer time horizons
That's the anthropocentric argument, that the original comment we're discussing specifically excluded...
That opinion seems like common sense. Why do you think it would be unpopular?
On Linux, this could be done using an userspace FUSE driver I guess.
> A human doing the same SATs will test roughly the same way every time.

> ChatGPT has achieved 80% in this user's run, will refuse to play at all the next run, will get 45% the following run etc.

While I agree with your conclusion, I want to slightly modify the first sentence. I know this is just one anecdote but I took the SAT 1 twice and did somewhat better the second time. I think this is common as you are more familiar with the test the second time.
Whilst slightly off-topic, curious if they published, or if anyone knows, what OS the compromised employee machine was running?
You need a suitable non-null hypothesis to start with, too.

Suppose we're talking about a regular deck of cards, and someone says "the shuffler gives the first player too many hearts". That requires a different test to debunk/support it than the hypothesis "the shuffler gives the third player too many aces".

In other words, any claim that the shuffle is not random needs to include a testable assertion about the direction of bias it has, and allows you to make predictions about the next card with better than random accuracy.
I'm not aware of any tool that can ingest thousands of company-specific knowledge data, and then have a chatGPT-like experience to answer questions related to that company (or product). I'd love to know what i can use to do that.
Who are the "knee-jerk literary math-haters" the article is aiming at? I'm not aware of any and I certainly don't think the public or the establishment, in general, "hate maths". There is a weird tribalism in this article.
You better believe it: https://theviewpoint.com/insights/blog/automatic-content-rec...
I think they are talking about App Store. And maybe the nag in settings to “finish setting up your iPhone”