skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single-lane roundabouts aren't very uncommon in America. Maybe not as common as in the UK, but they're definitely around and virtually every driver in America should be familiar with them. There will always be a few fools who don't grok them, but the same can be said for any aspect of driving.

I think when Americans say they're baffled by UK roundabouts, they're almost always talking about the huge multi-lane roundabouts. Those, to me, are nightmare fuel.
UFS with journaling makes fsck almost instant. They must be using barebones UFS.
They don't. Solve tasks, I mean. There's not a single task you can throw at them and rely on the answer.

Could they solve tasks? Potentially. But how would we ever know that we could trust them?

With humans we not only have millennia of collective experience when it comes to tasks, judging the result, and finding bullshitters. Also, we can retrain a human on the spot and be confident they won't immediately forget something important over that retraining.

If we ever let a model produce important decisions, I'd imagine we'd want to certify it beforehand. But that excludes improvements and feedback - the certified software should better not change. If course, a feedback loop could involve recertification, but that means that the certification process itself needs to be cheap.

And all that doesn't even take into account the generalized interface: How can we make sure that a model is aware of its narrow purpose and doesn't answer to tasks outside of that purpose?

I think all these problems could
eventually be overcome, but I don't see much effort put into such a framework to actually make models solve tasks.
>your cd rips are 8-12x more accurate than anything streamed of Spotify?...

>...How did you calculate a factor by which lossless is better than lossy?

>I specifically typed accurate, not better.

Yeah OK, that's just wording. Which two factors did you specifically compare, that gave you the 8-12x figure?
I somehow never connected these issues with probability. Nice!
At 3AM drunk? That’s called looking for trouble.
FAA specifically should know better than blaming individuals. Whatever happened was a systemic issue because in a well designed system individuals simply should not be able to bring this much chaos. Neither accidentally nor maliciously.

Is there anyone there who heard about just culture, and root cause analysis? I can’t even believe they would publish this irresponsible stuff.
off-topic: How terrible is that site's notification to open the article in the mobile app. The mobile site experience is really getting more intimidating every day. they can't make the same warning text for the desktop because they're sure they'll get a reaction. however, when they do this on mobile, people will leave the site without reading the article.
I got a huge hack for making YouTube less addictive: use the uBlock Origin extension, and block the thumbnails! Now when I search for videos, I don't see any thumbnails and I have to read the text titles. I also don't get distracted by the end-of-video thumbnails either.
Encryption keys are kept physically and logically separate the majority of the time. Generally on HSMs that you can’t really read the private key from. It’s a huge improvement in security if one of their layers of defenses fails.
I think most people obey 4-way stop-sign intersections because they're afraid of getting T-boned by another car, not because they obey signs for the sake of obeying signs. People ignore signs when they can get away with it, but a 4-way stop-sign intersection is not such a case to anybody but the suicidally reckless.
For question 1, it's pretty much a perfect use case for ChatGPT to provide you with the consensus of the (pre-2021) internet.

For instance with the prompt "why should I use sans-serif over times new roman" you get "Sans-serif fonts, such as Arial or Verdana, are considered more legible on screens, while serif fonts, such as Times New Roman, are considered more legible in print. Sans-serif fonts are generally considered to be easier to read on a screen because the lack of serifs (the small lines at the ends of characters) makes the letters more distinct, especially at small font sizes. Additionally, sans-serif fonts are often used on websites and in digital media because they appear more modern and clean."

Maybe the author should include a summary of the font at the top?
trainingpeaks haven't seen proper dev since like 2017, except for a little css facelift i think. The only reason athlete uses it is because coach uses it and coach uses it because tp sugarcoat them.
Firefox on iPhone as well. Mine brings out the file picker. I copied a TTF font to iCloud Drive and could pick it on the iPhone.

Firefox 108.1 from the App Store, iOS version 16.2.
The reliable counterpart to the Anarchist Cookbook is TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook, which is also freely available without copyright by virtue of being an unclassified US Army technical manual subject to FOIA.
Looking at Symbian C++ code after 11 years gives me PTSD. Many years working at Nokia trying to make other frameworks run on top of Symbian so that developers could have an easier life. I do not miss those times.
When I started working for AWS as an SDE, I was hoping it’d be possible to visit a datacenter. I was surprised to find out that I’d require L11 (!) approval to so so! The only L11 in my reporting chain is Adam Selipsky.

I’m told the AWS data centers has red zones, which no harddrive can be taken out of, without being mechanically and violently destroyed first.
MSI Pro Z690-A WiFi DDR5 Support Upstreamed to Coreboot
There is no "50 years of technical debt". If anything, a significant amount of complexity has been removed compared to the 70s and 80s when everyone and their mother was making wildly incompatible terminals (actual terminals that is, not software terminal emulators).

You don't really need to know anything about shells to write a CLI app, other than basic shell conventions (- for flags, things like that). You don't even need to know all that much about terminals, just some bare basics if you want to do colours or whatnot. All of this can be summarized in a page or two.

If you want to write a ncurses-like library: that's a different story. But then it's no longer a CLI app.
Winklevoss firm charged in US over crypto sales
Why is the AGPL such an issue?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...
This is another piece that I never got to talk about in my post. There's a LOT of software in trucking, the problem is that most of the software was built in a different era.

Platform Science looks pretty cool - seems like a TMS with specific improvements against legacy systems. Building a TMS is a pretty good business - massive fixed cost but once you've built the system, it's fairly hard for competitors to dislodge you.
So it is like Yelp: only capturing the extremes on either end, with the "middle meh" not represented proportionally.
Does that google figure include YouTube?
They're horrible places to live, though. Pollution, noise, light pollution, they're crowded -- it's impossible to get away from others even for a few minutesb-- and the stench is just awful.

Efficient, yes, but quality of life is unacceptably low.
> Does FLAC preserve the exact bytestream of the CD tracks? (As an analogy, PNG is "lossless," but it won't natively preserve the metadata of a raw digital camera image.)

No, but if that is the definition being used, neither does WAV store that data either.

> The audio will be preserved but there might be interesting details on the CD like easter eggs, copyright text, etc. and I'm not sure FLAC would capture those.

Flac does allow for storing a lot of metadata in the flac file itself, including: CUE sheet, a picture (image file), and arbitrary tags (key value pairs). So much of those could be stored in the flac file, but obtaining them (Easter eggs and the like) is dependent upon the program ripping the CD, not the file format storing the result of the rip (flac does not do CD ripping itself).
> There is no reason why truck drivers also needs to be an unpaid loaders/unloaders and any other roles currently taking on by them.

There's no reason, but then it also proportionally reduces the cap of $65k to some lower amount, that doesn't include those extra responsibilities.
I don’t know if it’s that they lack the understanding or they aim to avoid that understanding because it largely invalidates the lawsuit. In general taking abstract concepts and styles from things is acceptable, not protected by copyright, and crucial to creative exploration. The burden of proof is on those claiming SD is not doing this.
Indeed, I get the bar at the top "This page is slowing down Firefox" with a button to stop it. If I don't do anything though (i.e. let it run), the result does appear within one minute.
(That sounds brilliant!)

Using an HDL like Verilog or VHDL? Something else?
Using sway currently, I intend to check it out.

Just so that I know beforehand, can transparency, gaps, animation be turned off?
> "Since the early cloud-seeding experiments reported by Kraus and Squires (1947), wherein it was hypothesized that the observed “explosive growth” of cumuli was the result of artificially induced glaciation of the cloud, there has been intensive interest and research in the relationships between evolution of the ice phase and the dynamics of cumuli."

As I understand it the idea is that a small amount of AGI or can cause nucleation which might trigger rainfall:

> "Thus, the latent heat liberated during the freezing of supercooled droplets and the vapor deposition growth of ice particles can augment the diminishing cloud buoyancy production during condensation growth of cloud droplets. In some cases, the additional buoyancy may be sufficient to allow a cloud to penetrate weak stable layers or to survive the entrainment of relatively dry environmental air."

The idea in cloud seeding is to hit a cloud 'on the verge of rain and push it over the boundary, but it doesn't seem straightforward at all to determine if a given cloud on that boundary will produce rain or not, as in a '50% chance of rain' forecast. It does indeed seem to be one of those chaotic boundary condition issues:

> "This demonstrates that there exists a very intimate, nonlinear coupling between buoyancy production by glaciation of a cloud and the evolution of the microstructure of the cloud, and the evolving cloud motion field."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...
The article contained a couple of thousand words, but neither it, nor Sydney Chapman, nor the person I replied to provided a single actual argument for why the lump of labour fallacy is not a fallacy. The article contains no statements about why the lump of labour fallacy is incorrect, not even any about why it might not be applicable to his proposals, but two statements that readers don't need to know what it is, they should take his word for it that it's bad (hmm... what was that about meaningless propaganda?!)

Do you believe the quantity of work that there is to be done in an economy is fixed and the work readily substitutable, so if HN dropped down to 10 hour weeks the result would be unemployed factory workers all finding jobs writing backend code, not less software development work being done (and probably 10 hour work week devs buying less stuff from factories)?

Unless you do, the lump of labour fallacy is a fallacy.
strava had manual mode forever fyi......

I have the three services and I too think strava is by far better than all others (i do around 20k cycling a year and i am the one in charge of making routes for my cycling club)
There is a talk by the S3 VP on Youtube which mentions some rough numbers, I think it’s from re:invent 2019. Also, they mention 100 trillion objects here https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3s-15th-birthday-it...
Oh fantastic! this makes me super happy to hear :) I'd love to play with it.
Interesting. One problem with this approach might be that as we start using RLHF to teach LLMs how to be “nice”, we might dissuade them from making statements that actually reflect objectively real human selfishness.

Related: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/how-do-ais-political-o...
Why is a separate notification proxy better than letting apps run in background and take care of their notifications? A simple poll() shouldn't waste much CPU, right? I think that is what my IMAP client and the mentioned conversations XMPP client do.

Is the overhead of having 1 TCP connection in idle state really noticably better than having ~20, each for every app? How does UnifiedPush work with apps with traditional protocols, e. g. IMAP/XMPP - I assume the remote server itself must be logged in to your IMAP/XMPP.

I never fully understood Google's mobile notifications.
Many of the pictures are of items that are parallel, not at a right angle. I guess we can't be bothered with details to make a point?
I live in Sweden. Taxes are... high.
100% this. I have Reddit blocked on my laptop, and the browser blocked on my phone at certain times of day. Again, I can absolutely get around this, but it has disrupted the habit for me.
Pokémon – 2000 Developer Interview
Compared to? Google of 2008? Believable. Goldman Sachs? No.
Most hi-res audio is being sold as digital downloads. I don't think there's a currently-sold physical medium that contains digital data that's higher quality than a CD.
DM @ twitter.com/anmolsj with your spotify-linked email if you'd like to try it!
It's not, if it's contained to just the linker itself (which it is now), that's not why I stopped using it. I did so because it seems like they don't understand that much about AGPL and licensing in general and could change their license terms at any point to say something like "we claim AGPL propagates to the linker's output" which is very legally tenuous itself to claim so.
This is going to happen alot over the next few years. One can fine tune GPT-2 medium on an RTX2070. Training GPT-2 medium from scratch can be done for $162 on vast.ai. The newer H100/Trainium/Tensorcore chips will bring the price down even further.

I suspect if one wanted to fully replicate ChatGPT from scratch it would take ~1-2 million including label acquisition. You probably only require ~200-500k in compute.

The next few years are going to be wild!
My Argentina developer friends don't even get paid in pesos. Why should I (a tourist) be paid in the local currency?

I mentioned that Argentina has 20% inflation and locally businesses provide salary increases every 3-6 mo. They told me salaries are adjusted annually.

I don't remember their exact response when I talked about me returning to my residence in San Francisco.
Show HN: She built a better Zapier
I just made up a couple of pegboard-mounted tool kits, which turns out to be unreasonable satisfying. I think that satisfaction is in the knolling. A pegboard is naturally knolled by virtue of the orientation of gravity and space constraints. The same pegboard with the tools oriented and placed randomly just wouldn't be as satisfying.

Not sure if this only applies to those high on the OCD spectrum or not. Now I keep looking for places to add pegboards. I could 3D print a great pegboard toothbrush holder ...
It's funny how I loved reading the AC as a kid in the early 90s vs now how I wouldn't even click that link due to the surveillance state we live in. If you've ever wanted to see a panopticon in action, just look around.
Yep, that sounds exactly like the issue I had. You linked the Colima socket to the Docker socket location?
> I imagine it’s a common complaint from people who don’t thrive in a slow, steady, process oriented culture.

People who don’t thrive in a process-oriented culture? That’s everyone except for administrators and political ladder climbers.
I recently contacted the developer about this. He replied that the only reason he hasn’t released a native Apple Silicon build is that he doesn’t have an Apple silicon Mac yet. I was tempted to fund raise and send him one!
The risk from catching sars-cov-2 was/is way higher than the risk from vaccination. This is proven by the fact that some 13 billion doses have been administered with little harm, while some 700 million infections have caused 7 million deaths. You have drawn the wrong conclusions and made incorrect decisions based on your ineptitude. You are Dunning-Kruger instantiated.
Learn to see what you're looking at. An hour or so of practice from life every day for a year is a good start.
>If enough has happened, then Stripe will just cut you off from everything. Do you have safeguards on your site to validate those cards?

Isn't the whole point of Stripe that you don't need to do this? How can I know if a card is valid?
Audio CDs and data CD-ROMs use different encoding modes.

Data CDs have an extra layer of error correction. Audio CDs have less error correction because small bit errors are not a big deal for your listening experience. Most CD players quietly interpolate over small errors in a way that you probably don't even notice.
If it's so deadly and widely asymptomatic until it's way too late, why don't we screen for it? Or is that problem, that we don't have a good screening test other than expensive and time consuming MRI?
The point about currency seems like a red herring, since it can be easily converted into USD, etc., but insisting on paying people salaries based on averages in their current location is pretty inflexible and remote-unfriendly IMO.

People may move around and have financial obligations in multiple countries. E.g., if you have a mortgage and school loans in the US, and you want to live in Armenia for 1 year, your employer insisting that you take a 80% paycut due to "Armenian rates" is pretty ignorant and inflexible.
I'm planning on a visual6502-style simulator in a browser.
The real trick isn’t the staffing, it is the boundary of the systems you need to change. To improve a process in a large system, you almost have to assume none of the other systems you touch have to change anything. Compensate for the large org and large number of critical systems with technical excellence and trickery. Your image upgrade project can’t get any QA resources to sign off on any code changes in the legacy C++ stack? Fix the bug with LD_PRELOAD overrides in your image upgrade program. Take the time to reason very thoroughly about the bug, but go for it. Obviously, use whatever automated validation you have and have a cautious roll out, but whatever you do, don’t be suckered into waiting for a team you don’t absolutely control to do something.
The Case for Beautiful Software
Does "inspired" equal to "learned by software neural network"?
Is this is "StoreCycle"? "Instant cash payouts for Shopify sites"?
Same, they are also going to get all my money when I die
My residence was the US. I will admit, me working in Argentina on a tourist visa is a grey/black area. My residence to both the US and Argentina government was the US. My visa only allowed me to stay ~3 months.
If you, or other readers are still confused and want a geberal run-down if what's going on...

This is what i posted on another thread:

I found DeviantOllam's introduction on Mastodon/Fediverse[1] to be quite interesting and useful.

He covers contact discovery/migration from Twitter, and also mentions a fediverse contact search, although I forget what it was.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-jYZLs2j1Q
Acknowledging the average differences between the sexes is neither colonialism nor sexism. It is a reasonable hypothesis that explains some disparities in individual choices that lead to disparities in aggregate outcome.

To riff on your rather bold assertion: precluding such a hypothesis from consideration is rooted in activist biases of the radical mindset of non-scientists in the 21st century.
Do you have personal experience or are you just playing to a stereotype.

I don’t have experience with either organization but have worked for a big tech company and a big finance org and the finance org was much less bureaucratic and got more done.
I think the argument still stans: mastodon as a relevant technology is one that attracts Twitter users which it does by emulating Twitter.

Users are joining Mastodon now despite the federation ideas underpinning it, not because of it.
Office politics is one somewhat cynical perspective (even if it is accurate as a hierarchy grows taller).

The other simple fact is that a larger team or a larger org requires more communication, more co-ordination, and more management.

Beyond a point, adding parallelism doesn’t improve performance, it kills it.
Improving the main product or exiting products is seen as "maintenance". Industry doesn't give bonus/RSUs/promotions for maintenance. It is always gonna be a shiny new project, which gets promotions/bonus/RSUS. After getting bonus/promotions, every one (from the director level down to the bottom) will move laterally to another org. Rinse and repeat, you can see the pattern across FAANG.
> The results showed that “teens who grow up checking social media more often are becoming hypersensitive to feedback from their peers,” Dr. Telzer said.

This discourages independent thinking. Not what we need. And perhaps an explanation for what we see among today's fearful college students.
Welcome to flaky startups wallowing in internal chaos.
I keep seeing more and more of these stories about Stripe and I can't stay quiet anymore. I know this doesn't help you now, but other payment processors are just as easy to integrate, the support is better and the fees can be much lower that Stripe. Plus you get a dedicated account manager and telephone support! I use Chase for my online payment processing - and never had a problem!

Are there any other developers out there that can weigh in on Stripe alternatives?
> I'm sure some folks are thinking "what if you just limit yourself to 30 minutes a day?"

An alternative to this that I've found more effective is to prescribe which modes of interaction are allowed.

For example, in this case, the author JT has a YouTube channel, so he could say that he's allowed to post to the channel, interact with the comments, etc. But then also say that he's not allowed to go to the frontpage and browse recommended videos (or whatever habit it is that he finds leads to problematic overuse).

I've used an approach like this when I find internet overuse detracting from the things I want to do. For example, I'll say I'm not allowed to just aimlessly browse my reddit homepage, but I am allowed to read a reddit thread if I came from Google search looking for specific information. That way I can still get the benefits without losing too much time.
That's surely the design intention.

However... I have a little cousin in my family, and all she does it watch twitch. I've asked before "Don't want to play the games you're watching?" and she looks at me like I asked to solve fusion.

So, there is a hand shake meme of people who play because of twitch and people who just want to watch twitch... Good for twitch. Bad for humans.
I recommend reading Bret Devereaux for examples of deft handling of definitional issues in history.

For example, his series on the fall of Rome [1]. It's certainly possible to get into silly disputes about what counts as the "Roman empire" and what it means for it to "fall" but he uses this as a starting point to talk about what evidence we have about actually happened. Different historians define things differently depending on their perspectives, but you just accept and deal with that.

Similarly, I could see someone wanting to talk about religion to make some definitions just to be clearer what they're talking about, but then you go on to talk about what people actually do.

[1] https://acoup.blog/category/collections/fall-of-rome/
How did you come to that conclusion? Sounds restricted anyway.