skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because in the winter the thermal energy within your room will “flow” out of those “cold spots” at surprisingly high rates; in summer those spots act as space heaters. In both scenarios they will adversely affect the ambient temp of the room. In short, whatever method you use to heat/cool the room will have to work harder and will take longer. Here’s [0] a good overview of heat flow in this context, with some hints towards the math behind if you wish to go deeper.

[edit: add link]

[0] https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/Flat-or-Lumpy-How-Would-...
I know this is asking about people, but following hashtags are where it's at. And it's a great way to find people, besides.

Here's mine, for example, a giveaway cross section of my interests...

#linux
#unix
#weather
#bendoregon
#orwx
#railroad
#history
#caving
#caves
#seti
#train
#motorcycle
#bicycle
#openstreetmap
#osm
#amtrak
#railfan
#nasa
#usgs
#hacking
#computerscience
#math
#programmerhumor (some real groaners)
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#rustlang
#space
#science
#programming

And then mute people whose stuff you don't want to see.

As for people, I follow my friends and:

@openstreetmap@en.osm.town

@royalastrosoc@astrodon.social

@stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk

@georgetakei@universeodon.com

@archlinux@fedi.lynnesbian.space

@nasa@mstdn.social (I think this is unofficial)

@sdf@sdf.org
You still 100% should choose your hardware for Linux even on 'Windows' laptops.

Ideally it should run everywhere but in my experience you'll never get a positive Linux Desktop experience unless you tailor your hardware purchases to the Linux world - this usually means choosing a laptop that tons of other linux users are using, so the bugs are getting found and fixed, and documentation exists.

The key here is that it should at least run on the most popular laptop brands. It should run on Macbook Pro because it's incredibly popular hardware choice for software/technical people.
I'm waiting for HN to reach a consensus so that I can decide whether to buy this one or the M1 MBP.
The integration into the SoC is partially responsible for the amazing performance. The extra travelling distance for a click-in ram stick adds up, in terms of latency, quickly
> it would require them revealing zero days they have on Tor

I always figured this was the case for a lot of common things like full-disk encryption schemes, AES, root certs, etc. If there's a break, they wouldn't use it in court unless it's taking down a very, very big target.
Is there any evidence that the reasons Stable Diffusion struggles with these things resembles the reasons humans struggle with these things? It seems like another case of recognizing an apparent pattern and anthropomorphizing it. Would it not be just as likely that such technical gaps are just a reflection of human limitations, not some inherent property?

> It's not a technological brain, but IMO it's the closest we've come.

This may be the case, but “the closest we’ve come” seems like a weak argument for anthropomorphizing that progress, especially when you look at how far the gap still is to human-like consciousness.
Is PhantomJS Dead?
Genuine question: what have they shipped? I only use Twitter indirectly, e.g. by viewing tweets like this. To me, the experience has felt the same.
This is strange, my M1 MacBook does have anti-aliasing. Not as good as the windows cleartype one though.
I hope you don't use Chrome for those web apps. Google stuff has terrible power efficiency.
I'm inclined to wonder why they needed communal apartments. I assume because there weren't enough to go around to supply everyone with one. Interestingly, it would seem that we also lack supply in the modern US, but our solution is just to kick people out on the street.

It sounds like lifespan and ability to obtain independent living arrangements factor heavily into your KPIs, and it's interesting then that both seem to be in decline in the US.
Yep, I am using MBP Air M1 16GB and it's great for typical web dev work. I use it with external 4K LG monitor.
I disagree. Social media has amplified all of the worst aspects of being a kid and they’ve done so either on purpose or through gross negligence.
Thanks for spotting that, I had missed it! This goes to show (again) that the "Ruby/Rails does not scale" myth is fictional.
JetBrains: The State of Developer Ecosystem (2022)
> I thought Google was a search company ...

They are an ad company that once used a nice search engine to serve ads.
I miss good mp3 player days. I started on iriver cd player that could read MP3s... once i had some spare money upgraded to iriver H10 wit 20GB spinning rust drive (still have it, still working, sitting in the drawer).
Once tried an old ipod, to see what the hassle, learned the pain of loading my own music to it, and the lack of file browser on it, no i dont want that artist/album BS, got my own categorized collection. Sold that one quickly.
Sandisk sansa with rockbox was spot on, both both units failed like a year from time i bought them.
Currently using an old old heavy duty samsung xcover2, with cyanogen mod, it does not have a simcard just 128gb microsd with lots of music on it. DAC is reasonably good on it and it plays FLAC no problem.
Doubles as offline GPS with osmAnd maps loaded in.
Unfortunately beej.us/guide/bgc is not.
This happened to me the other day when I plugged my MacBook Pro into an external monitor. Sadlky I cannot use it in laptop mode at all anymore as it has a butterfly keyboard so of course not all my keys work.

It's unusable with text that blurry. I thought something was broken at first.

I guess they want to force us to buy a Pro Display XDR. No thanks, instead I'll buy a new computer and run Linux.

EDIT: My mistake, they now have the Studio Display for "only" 1500£
ROI: Return on investment (ROI) is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency or profitability of an investment or compare the efficiency of a number of different investments.

What do you think it means? "Enjoyment of my property" is an important aspect of a Cost-Benefit Analysis but it's not ROI.

Anyway, it a is a singular problem in an otherwise laudable process.
This simple code works for me:

let your_instance="masto.ai";

document.location=(
"https://"
+ your_instance
+ "/authorize_interaction?uri="
+ encodeURIComponent(document.location)
)

Before you turn it into a bookmarklet, set your_instance to the Mastodon instance you use.

You can use my bookmarklet editor to turn it into a bookmarklet:

https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor
If having to protect children and consider their outcomes (like basically every other industry has to) kills big tech then good riddance.
Lol, I tried to "report a product issue" and the submit button is greyed out. Reviews are limited to verified purchases due to "unusual activity". What the actual fuck?
Well it seems like for more than a decade, Apple seemed to think that nobody really needed more that 8GB of ram.
You're being downvoted because upvoting is the desired alternative to THIS spam...
Not if you brought your cellphone on the trip. Or used a car that has a built-in SIM card and cellular modem. Or you bought that laptop from a supplier that registers all MAC addresses of sold devices. Or that laptop had Computrace or some other firmware-based anti-theft mechanism.
Is that to say at a higher level "liberal bias = ethical/ok for boat guard rail training material, conservative bias = typically unethical and to be avoided"?

I feel like that plays into conservative hands of "they're trying to silence us!"

Why do 70,000,000 people vote (R) every year, knowing that the other 70,000,000 (D) think they are "unethical"?
There were quite a few things that made it a "debacle":

- $999 for 4 packs of non-playable cards is just a huge turn off to basically everyone, so nobody was excited about this to start

- they "soft violated" the reserve list. I don't really care about speculators in general but in the case of magic the "speculators" are often game stores that sell singles and thus are "forced" to be exposed on the long side to the prices of magic cards. My favorite local game store ended up going out of business because they keep reprinting cards and devaluing the inventory of local game stores
if you’re surprised that the US government can identify TOR users, then you should look up who primarily funds the TOR foundation
(I was wrong here! oops!)
It was revealed a few years ago Zuckerberg was paying about 20M per year on security. That’s almost 2M per month…
> The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jteqd.png

I'm sure theres also still tons of skilled engineers for Perl around. Or Fortran. Definetely Java. But the TIOBE index looks more like taking inventory of existing skill throughout the industry and less like it tracks disruptive trends.
Is it more like Chapter 11?
But their actions still live on as corporate edict. Sony, Unfortunately, is now nothing like the company we once admired.
They’re great machines but do be aware they’re a fair bit heavier than the 13”, even the 14” is 0.5lb heavier (3.5 to 3). (The 16” is a 4.7lb chonk).
KeyboardMaestro is $36, Hammerspoon can do roughly the same and is free. Best part is: there is no pendant in linux, mostly due to the moving target of system configurations and DEs.
Simple, you don’t use Chrome and use the bundled browser that is much more power and memory efficient
Record number died from alcohol and drug use during the pandemic: StatsCan
Hole in the ground far away? Not on the internet presumably. In any case any would be terrorists should take note: don't use grannies computer.
If one or two children are effected it’s the parents fault, when all children are statistically impacted in a negative way it’s systemic and is the fault of organization.
> No where did the energy.gov article nor parent article mention interior heating.

That would be my point. Most of the impact on the range of EV cars in cold weather is the impact of interior heating.
this is ridiculous: the author presumes synthetic meat must replace animal meat, and entirely ignores (for example) lentils and grains.

I find so many who argue for synthetic meat have NO idea that it's not the grams of protein, but the presence of particular amino acids that matters. a synthetic meat with 1000 grams of protein might be entirely useless to human metabolism, but still be 1000 grams of protein.
Compilation won't tell you whether your code follows the business logic it's intended to do. You do need to rely on tests even if the implementation of the programming language compiles it or not.
Such as? What have the "Liberals" "panicked" over?

That's a serious question. The only one I can come up with off the top of my head are two:

- An algorithm that identified people of color as monkeys

- An algorithm that could only identify white people in photos

Neither of which seem like issues that only a "liberal" should be concerned to me, those both seem like common sense things that should be accounted for.
Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel
Apple bought Cue in order to bring the "surfacing what's temporally relevant to the user" experience to Siri. I don't really see much of what Cue worked on manifesting in Siri since the acquisition, except for the Siri watchface for Apple Watch.

https://www.cultofmac.com/248525/why-apple-bought-cue-hint-t...
L4S Impact on Quality of Application Outcome
It is if you're using Safari. I have two M1 Max MBPs. My personal machine runs Chrome, and my work machine runs Safari. I can run my work machine for well over a day doing iOS development in Xcode with an external monitor attached and not run out of battery. The personal machine will last almost all day (without a monitor attached) but not quite. I'm sure if I used Safari it would last much longer.
It's time to put cancer warning labels on alcohol, experts say
Plenty of laptops with iGPUs that can do this, yes.
> On the other hand, maybe there should be pushback against shitty inefficient software?

I think that war has been lost. Apple should just allow more RAM to be put in.
That's the thing. Hardware keeps getting more and more powerful, but somehow the computers its in don't seem to be getting any faster. UI responses should be instantaneous by now. They used to be. Why aren't they? How many cores do these things have? Why is one of them not dedicated to catering to my impatience?

Sorry, that was getting a bit ranty.
It's not about making it fully redundant, but more about taking away a good chunk of the critical mass of users.

If you could manipulate code by just voice or if you can write entire programs by natural language descriptions, would you really need a very capable and extensible text editor most of the time?

Just for context, I'm an Emacs user for almost my entire programming career. And I enjoy crafting my Emacs for speed and efficiency.
I did pay attention in physics. I learned that cows are approximately spherical and live in a vacuum.
Hilarious idea: teachers/professors start giving out writing assignments that are ChatGPT-proof because they involve topics that are off-limits.
I'm a computational physicist at Los Alamos and would echo these sentiments.

Note that there are two main types of DOE labs: NNSA (Sandia, Los Alamos, Livermore) and Office of Science (Brookhaven, Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Argonne, ...). Although the former is more focused on "nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship", there is still much basic science at all DOE labs, especially where computer science meets physics and other domain sciences.

Perhaps relevant to HN, I would mention the Applied Computer Science group at Los Alamos, which is in hiring mode (https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldsc/computer-computational-...). Besides supporting computational physicists in code development efforts, this group does a variety of researchy things like designing programming model, doing compiler development, building ML models, especially with an eye towards large scale scientific computing. The pay at a DOE lab is less than FAANG (PhD student interns might be around $80k/yr and starting staff scientists maybe $130k/yr), but the tradeoff for some people would be the research-flavor of the work, and the flexibility. Many of the LANL codes being developed are open source, for example. Other DOE labs have similar computer science divisions. For example, Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Berkeley all have "leadership computing" facilities.
People have said this for every single OS X release…
> Did you leave where you were living and retire to some other area?
We did not.

My job was great. I was working from home (precovid), my manager always did his best to unblock me if I was blocked and let me go if I was going. My biggest fear was not liking being retired and having to come back to a worse job somewhere else.

Also, my friends and family are not in tech. My income to them was very significant.

> It’s hard to imagine finding anyone who isn’t supportive of retiring early and is actually your friend.

They do love me, that I know, but we've been indoctrinated with what success is in the u.s..
Is diversity for it's own sake worth it? If they were to say - "We have a candidate with a bold new vision for the armed forces of Germany; they bring things to the table unlike anyone else - plus they're a woman."

My response would be that that's great but I don't see what the plus part is bringing to the table.

I'm slightly more familiar with the U.S. side of things and clearly woman get the shaft - mainly because senior positions tend to pull from areas (fighter pilots and SOF for example) where the applicability of those particular experiences to command compared to other areas is at least questionable.

I think the answer to that problem is to see if the premise - running around in the boondocks leading a platoon in extremely high pressure situations or flying an F-35 off a carrier deck is relevant experience for a 4 star general or admiral - is true or if there's not equally or more relevant areas of expertise. Not - let's have people with different experiences because it's different.
This is a shitty bill. But the chance of it becoming law is very low. Various leaders from this party have been (very half heartedly) trying to pass it for a decade. If passed it would fail (in dozens of ways). And the problem is more useful to scare voters and whip votes than solving it would get them actual benefits.

This is just the bill going from one committee to another (with some extreme additional parts the other committee will take out, likely leading to deadlock)
This is a fairly common instruction from a controller in my experience, at least when dealing with small aircraft that they know are flying VFR. Traditional VFR navigation ("pilotage") is mostly based on finding landmarks anyway. Flying in another city with a runway pointed towards a river, "turn after the river," "report crossing the river" are common instructions.

Other landmarks popular with controllers include the freeway, the big Marriot, the Amazon warehouse, etc. It's sort of surprisingly informal when controllers are dealing with local light aircraft pilots. But that's mostly how those pilots are navigating anyway, "follow the freeway until the bridge."

There probably is a certain risk of misunderstanding here, but then pilots are expected to be reasonably familiar with the local area and its procedures, and to ask for vectors when unsure. These days DC is one of those places that it's strongly recommended (required by FARs now, I think?) to take a familiarization course because the airspace issues there are so sensitive. Plus they have the laser gun to minimize the need to send fighters.
(not relevant anymore)
It is obvious that in some areas ChatGPT is carefully hand tuned. It is also trained on a huge corpus of Western texts and it is not allowed (or strongly discouraged) to publish anything anti-woke for the last several years.

There cannot be a different result in such circumstances.
>You described Germany! Britain and France are quite independent...

Germany I'll give you. They've definitely been putting in a herculean effort on the American Poodle front of late. But they'll have to go some to beat the UK's decades' long subservience. When it comes to foreign policy, the UK is basically a US satellite state.

France, on the other hand, were historically probably the Western European nation most likely to tell the US 'Non!' --although, that seems to be increasingly a thing of the past now too.
>Why do 70,000,000 people vote (R) every year, knowing that the other 70,000,000 (D) think they are "unethical"?

Why do people vote if they have different values? What kind of question is that?
the British would spy on US citizens and vice versa[1]).

Five eyes has been a known thing, to everyone I knew (friends, parents, teachers, everywone) even in the 80s. This is not much of a revelation.

(Back then, it was phone calls, letters, and even foreign friendly spies operating domestically etc)
AI is reflective of whatever you trained it on. So are people. But you can't build the perfect AI that reflects 100% of everyone's desires; no matter what you feed it some percentage of people will find it irritating or terrible. In the long run I see no solution to trying to make a perfect AI that satisfies everyone unless you eliminate or unify every individual's desires, which of course no one wants either. Maybe the best you can do is make multiple AI's with different training material and guardrails, then have them argue with each other.
Snow Leopard was a high point for stability and speed. Unfortunately, changing expectations of integrations and feature demands meant they couldn't stay there.

What is rose-tinted is the OP's remembering the OSes of a few years ago being great. Mojave and Catalina had a bunch of annoyances and weren't as good at recovering from a bad install or a bad update push as Monterey and Ventura. Not that Monterey and Ventura are great either.
The companies build services designed to addict children and make bullying ten times easier. Fuck your politics, this is evil shit and these companies need held accountable. We don’t allow kids to purchase alcohol and blame the parents when they get alcohol poisoning. We make sure companies don’t target alcohol at kids.
> Don't ask it to write things that can be used as tools for hate or misinformation campaigns, and you'll be fine.

You're very confident in the ability of people you don't know, and in your knowledge of the goals of people you don't know.

edit: there's absolutely no reason to think that editorial decisions like this won't be (or haven't been) taken in order to create and grow hate and misinformation campaigns.
Instead of tor, would it just be safer to vpn into a hostile nation's services and browse openly from there?
> Doesn't matter if you want to go some other direction.

I'm not talking about wanting to go some other direction. I'm talking about the previous departure clearance he received. Those are the "A very busy air traffic controller spit out departure instructions." followed by the "hectic voice said “we have an amendment to your departure are you ready to copy”". Those are telling him which way to go. And they don't just rattle them off and good luck. They wait for the pilot to read them back, and they check that the pilot reads them back correctly.

I bet that he was not cleared for a visual departure out of DCA. So the departure he received must have had a list of nav points. Were they left or right? What restricted airspaces were there in the vicinity he should be aware of?

You know, it is telling that those details are left out. Probably if they were spelled out it would be clearer how big a mistake the pilot did. Very conveniently they are mentioned but not described.
forbidding/removing/censoring bad things eventually leads to people forgetting the understanding of why it was considered bad
> some way to designate things like audio systems or your DE as “system” packages and as such be protected and very difficult to accidentally screw up with e.g. dependency resolution gone awry.

I do this on NixOS (and used Nix to do the same thing on MacOS). It's really great, but the up-front work of configuring everything can be a bit steep. The end result is pretty nice though - your environments are all sym-linked together from a common package store, and you can group together certain environments/package sets to update independently of one another. The icing on the cake is the rollback feature, where you can go back through the generations of your environment (until the packages get GCed).

It's not perfect (and it would test your patience), but Nix is an interesting commitment to the philosophy of using as much disk space as possible. I'm hopeful that someday it will be the de-facto package manager for Mac systems.
Some workflows on a linux system can be totally different than what is possible on a mac. Even with apps like BetterTouchTool, Hammerspoon, Amethyst and others. Customizing window management, advanced keyboard shortcuts, general system behavior in mac is going against the tide. It kinda works, but never as good as you'd want because you can't really get rid of the default window manager and default global behavior.

Some window manager in linux are more like window manager frameworks, like AwesomeWM, that lets you customize its behavior via lua scripting. It's extremely powerful and allows you to get exactly the behavior you want.

But this part of linux is pretty niche stuff for sure though haha.

I wouldn't say I'm more productive thanks to this, but I'm way happier using a system I can set up so that it behaves how I want, instead of having to follow rules I don't agree with and can't change.
Purely reactive response to ChatGPT dominating the AI conversation lately. However, I'm excited to see what Google will release in AI this year.
Share extensions are fine, but they still require activation. Also, they can't automatically run on a page without user intervention, which is necessary for many/most traditional extensions.