skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes since 12 years. Use ECC whenever you can.

>What have your experiences been with running your workstations with ECC ram?

Correctable bit-flips.
Interesting, is this an NDIS x tcpview type program?
As in you construct a FSM that can recognize all strings of a context free language less than a certain length?
Computers have historically been 'correct' about things. Obviously, humans who program computers make mistakes, and occasionally, things like cosmic bit flips can occur, leading a computer to produce an incorrect answer.

An LLM upends that paradigm, and worse, the closer it comes to appearing to reason and discuss, the more it implies that the human brain is nothing more than a biological computer, which is worrying for a lot of people.

If humans are nothing more than biological computers, do (or can) silicon computers have souls? If a collection of diodes can have a soul, what makes us special?
Perhaps http://7deadlysims.com/
In early 2018, GraphQL was new and hot tech, and I worked for a startup that kept breaking their GraphQL API. One day a field might be a string, the next day it might be an object.

I got mad, so I built a service that snapshot tested the API response every 60 seconds, and sent a Slack alert whenever it failed. I called it OnlineOrNot.

I spent a year trying to sell that MVP to startups around Sydney, but there were maybe a handful of other companies using GraphQL at that time, and they weren't willing to take a chance on a part-time business solving this problem.

Fast-forward 2 years, and several other failed projects, I decide to rebuild it from scratch, but this time as a general uptime monitoring service.

The URL is https://onlineornot.com, I've been iteratively working on it for around 2 hours per workday since early 2020 (I ruthlessly cut features down into 2 hour blocks, and use feature flags to deploy safely).

These days it's more of a status page, with built-in uptime monitoring (and has integrations to other monitors).

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Folks tend to ask what makes OnlineOrNot special, trying to figure out what the moat is - it's me.

I've worked on the web for Atlassian and Cloudflare, I've seen what works and doesn't work for self-serve web apps. So OnlineOrNot has:

- a business model that won't suddenly fail (I'm full-time employed so that I can work on OnlineOrNot, I'm not going to shut it down for not making enough money)

- docs written in clear English that load fast, and are up to date

- a modern, responsive web UI with errors that don't make you feel dumb

- uptime monitoring for websites, web apps, and APIs that Just Works
Microsoft eliminates the entire MRTK (part of HoloLens) team
What type of tech consulting? Strategy/ Architecture? Delivery management? Implementation? Each of these have their own profiles/approaches.

For the former, I'd bill fixed price, fixed outcome - half up front, half on delivery. This is the highest margin work buts it's bitty.

For the rest, a flavour of t&m depending on duration of the engagement.

Testimonials are great, but get some case studies together also and make sure your pitch deck is tight.

There is a lot more I could say, ask in the comments if you wanna talk - happy to oblige.

Source: I did tech consulting and advisory for investment banks and hedge funds for 20 years.
"I upvoted wrong porn movie and I'm now in jail" is terrible dystopia you seem to want.

All site owner should be required is to follow the law here like disclose the uploader's data to the authorities if what they did is deemed illegal

> There needs to be an incentive beyond the goodwill of site owners and users.

The incentive is users wanting to use your site because it is not filled with shit.

Also "harmful content" is nowadays waaay to easily interpreted as "the thing I don't like".
Experiment with HN: Patio11's Definition of Dangerous Professional
I am posting a discussion on Patrick McKenzie's (also often known as patio11, especially on HN) idea of a "Dangerous Professional". In the article () he suggested that you could get a better response from a bureaucracy if you formatted your correspondence with them in certain ways - namely fully in command of the facts of the matter, aware of the legal duties on both sides and prepared for a long drawn out dispute.

There are other reasons for this posting, please see (https://twitter.com/david_kasten/status/1617300212980105216?s=46&t=rbXXlWToeY1qLuhTs3CcZQ)
this was pretty funny - prof was just like...these execs and boards are lazy and stupid. :-D

i think he's being too kind.

but it seems there would have to be some real positives in disciplining your workforce through layoffs -- to not ask for raises or vacation, to not try to unionize, etc. but he seems pretty convinced.
Further Binance-Peg Token Problems
Hampstead Heath, one of the premier cruising destinations in London. Where else you you go for a stroll and see a pair of naked buttocks sticking out of a bush?
Be real. You can convince people to read a book without having to copy all 600 pages here. Saying that you're incapable of doing so when every book on the face of the earth has summaries, snippets and reviews to promote themselves is just plain dishonest. It's so obviously dishonest that it's, in fact, a form of trolling. I'm sorry, but this conversation is over as this type of thing is against the rules here.
APIUtility.com: Product manager tool for #API #testing and bulk data transformation
You install BSD/Linux/Windows on a USB-stick like you install it on a SSD/HDD, it's the same...a blockdevice.
Also scientists distort scientific information.

I was recently arguing with a vegan about how healthy it really is to be vegan, and I sent a german paper that tested 75 people and found a generic lack of iron absorption.

The other person said 75 is too small size, and sent me a literature review that claimed that iron absorption in vegans is fine. The only source for that claim in the literature review was the same paper I had originally sent.

So the authors of the literature review just quoted a paper, completely changed the original conclusions, and got it approved.

If we were serious about science, they should all face punishment for even attempting this. But they knew that at worst their paper would be rejected.
> Don’t work for free. If companies want you to work because it will look good for referrals or something- run.

Obligatory The Oatmeal: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure
But how many people buy directly from publishers? Maybe some hardcore fans - but who else?

And another thing - I've discovered lots of artists through Spotify and Youtube. If they weren't there - I would't even know that they existed.
Someone tried that about 6 years ago [0] I tried it once then never went back.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431724
Oh my, how dare the people you agreed with one one issue, once have different opinion than you on other stuff!

Must've been a traumatic experience realizing that is even possible!
The best option is make the tests truly fast. The less good option is interlacing two independently testable but closely related tasks. The mind killer is anything else.
Uh, no, it's straight up shadowbanning, just because it can be undoed doesn't mean it isn't shadowbanning
With this change you can add logic to pick the overloaded constructor based on the value of the arguments (as opposed to the sequence of types)
Right but how do you install it on that drive if you’re using that drive as the ISO on first boot?

I see what you’re saying but it sounds like you’re using two block devices on at least the first boot? Or am I missing something?
Hydrogen is a less efficient energy store than a battery, requires high pressure systems, leaks are dangerously explosive, distributing it is more difficult than petrol or electricity. It has applications, but in general, its often significantly worse than any other greener alternative.
Show HN: Shite – little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell
Or more precisely, my little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website <https://evalapply.org>.

A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity.

Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. But. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and of course one could not let the half-past just be. So here we are, for better or worse.

Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\//

The README explains all, animated GIFs and whatnot. Some assorted highlights:

- shite's, ah, "business logic" (except templates) is about 300 lines of Bash, written in Functional Programming style [^]. Pipeline all the things!
- The innards won't surprise Perl/PHP/Shell gentleperson hackers from the last century.
- The local hot reloading workflow is surprisingly nice, and occasionally hilarious! No JavaScript needed.
- Full rebuilds are low performance and that's fine :)
- Pandoc is great.
- Sometimes sed and regex is exactly the HTML parser you need. *Very* sometimes.
- stdio buffering can mess you up
- jq -Rr @html # escapes HTML; what?!

... and all sorts of other stuff noted in the README and inline docs.

[^] because shell ain't a bad place to FP... https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp...

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P.S.The commit history stops at 3-odd months ago, because I've been using a private fork for day-to-day content drafting, publishing, and layout tweaks. The "business logic" is by and large the same as the public version linked here.
Thexhr/OpenBSD-timemachine: Timemachine like backups on OpenBSD
Yeah! I loved learning this (some time ago) too! Wonder whether there's any cool filtering tricks that can give you something similar but also filtered result. Ie an 'anti-aliased' version - although interestingly the method in the article mentions the reversibility of the whole-pixel-shears approach, which is a fun exception to what 'aliasing' usually means: worse recovery of original signal.
I sense overconfidence in the accuracy of the results. Wouldn't base any argument on such data.
A phishing attack?
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> behind each wind turbine field there is a very real gas turbine or lignite power plant

But isn't it still better to be using wind turbines 75% of the time when it's windy, and gas/coal only 25% of the time when it's not? Surely even without adequate battery storage that's an improvement?
You say this uses AI, which I assume means machine learning. What problem needs to be solved with machine learning that cannot be solved with ordinary constraint satisfaction methods?

Sorry if I got technical, I don't mean to say your solution is bad, I'm just a tad confused.
Embarrassingly I can't find it now. It was styled as am expose that proved that elements of Santaland diaries were untrue.
The introduction of the Lappy 486: https://youtu.be/dmzk5y_mrlg

"Finally, a computer for your lap!"
Ask HN: Is it possible to Recession Proof yourself (SWE) and If so how?
Currently working as a software Engineer in a Software Consultancy firm in Bangladesh ( Country in South Asia). As the effects of recession are emergent what can a SWE do with 4+ years of experience in Backend and Some Frontend to recession proof myself
Oh I meant Indians from India, not native Americans. I wouldn’t call them Indians. Right?

I like seeing studies like this that try to scientifically prove/show the benefit…

I’m not attacking you or saying don’t read studies or that’s somehow not good for you. Tho I get how it could seem that way. The world can contain both things: your like of this and my criticism of the scientific establishment and public attitudes towards science. Neither are exclusionary of the other, so I understand if you reacted like they were. But I’m was not criticizing you there. I’m criticizing the science establishment, and the idea that scientific endorsement is a sole arbiter of truth of the world which is absolute bullshit.

I find it hard to believe that you have any interest in science with this comment.

I don’t know…I think if you don’t think I have any interest in science then you don’t know me at all. But also, I think it’s a bit counterfactual of you: because why would someone who had no interest in science spend time studying it and then thinking about it enough to criticize its flaws … unless they valued what they thought it should actually stand for (and we’re obviously interested in that)?

So I think instead it’s you trying to frame your disdainful contempt for who you mis-imagine I am, I somehow valid by clicking it in the pretense, that you must know more than me. But really, I think you’re comment is a bit of an overcompensating snooty elitist dismissal for you to wanna try to pretend to look down on me as like some uneducated savage because I don’t happen to reflect your (worshiping? unquestioning?) attitude toward science. So if I don’t show your view, your only response is to somehow pretend I’m bad or less than you? That’s pretty pathetic not scientific.

I’m not saying worshiping and and unquestioning is how you see science, but if you did, I would say that is not very scientific of you. Do you have a science degree?
> 3. Having lived large parts of my adult life on a sub subsistence level has helped me be empathetic towards poverty etc.

It is unclear how having enough enough resources so that you could not produce anything for 6 years makes it easier for you to understand poverty than people who never had such privilege. I'm sure any person actually in poverty would much rather do nothing productive for 6 years while still having a roof over their heads, a dry place to sleep and food to eat.

I think if being empathetic towards poverty is something that is important to it may be better obtained by just sending people to an impoverished place with no resources, social support structures or accommodation for a week.
Pretty much. As far as I understood, NDIS was replaced by WFP (Windows Filtering Platform). We built our own driver that uses WFP and as such is on the same level as the Windows firewall itself, meaning we can veto its decisions.
There used to be a website that showed off cool mspaint tricks like putting an image on top of another with 50% opacity, and rotating images using shear.
Pretty funny.
I mean that some of your most lucrative clients will take forever to pay out invoices.
I'm kind of jealous that this wasn't my dream. I love dreams like this.
Going from a card carrying atheist(youth..gah!) to a more sensible agnostic to dipping my toes into faith again has been interesting. A covid revival and immersion.

Spirituality + Meditation/Mindfulness + Religion is definitely more colourful..trippy. I don’t know why. Can’t articulate.

The only downside is the random fanatic, but I guess they exist amongst the atheists too.

The poverty of imagination that marks spirituality without religion is debilitating to sustaining any kind of life long practice. Happily, the flavor of religion of my birth family affords me all the pagan goodness and room to explore freely. Life is good now. Better..rather.
It is literally a dream computer.
What I got from this post is that the weirdness here comes in, not so much from the Hilbert's Hotel phenomenon about cardinalities and sets that can be put into correspondence with their own proper subsets, but from looking more deeply at something relatively familiar and something that we ordinarily use to tame infinities: volume.

Even though there are infinitely many real numbers in [0,1], we have the idea that the unit cube [0,1]³ should have a finite volume of exactly 1, or the unit sphere { (x,y,z) | √(x²+y²+z²)≤1 } should have a finite volume of exactly 4π/3. Or indeed the unit line segment [0,1] should have a finite length of exactly 1, even though it contains infinitely many points.

This stuff has felt totally normal and appropriate in mathematics ever since Euclid: Euclid would probably agree that you can't count how many points are in a line segment, but still endorses talking about lengths of line segments (or at least ratios of lengths of different line segments).

While it feels like we know how to work with volumes, and that they're comfortably finite and well-behaved, things like Banach-Tarski suggest that if we want to have every set of points have a well-defined volume in any given number of dimensions, we're actually going to run into bad trouble. But the article suggests that there are several ways to avoid this trouble, including just saying that some weird geometric objects don't have a defined n-dimensional volume. Instead, maybe only some "nice" sets should have one?
HN is not your marketing channel. Bring substance or don't bring anything at all.
I love this app. Although I couldn’t not use because of Stripe but its really nice.
The combination of "simulator" and "online" in the post title & URL had me convinced this was a web-based simulation.

Consequently, I spent longer than I should've trying to tap the buttons on the screenshot.
Thank you. That’s very kind of you. I really appreciate that truly. You didn’t have to say that but I think sometimes when people go out of their way to say or do something nice maybe they don’t understand how much it can positively affect someone. And I just want to let you know this really made my day and it will leave a lasting positive impression on me that I’ll always remember. Thank you so much that’s really wonderful. Just wanted to make sure you know that you’re kindness is so meaningful to me. Thank you.
> Generally, two succesive quarters,

Exactly. There is no source for the unsubstantiated 'three successive quarters' claim.

> though the official determination in the US is made by the NBER

I would not wait for an entity to determine and tell us if it is too late. Hence why businesses are preparing now, even when they should have done in November 2021.

And of course, I am not saying this in hindsight either, since the warning signs were there in [0] and finally when it happened [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185591
And maternal mortality rates.
Org-roam-UI: a graphical front end for your org-roam Zettelkasten
Could you expand on the mammalian response, what exactly triggers it, and its benefits?
"Whatever it is you do, forget about the tech and talk about the benefits."

That's a very good point. People who want to get stuff done, don't want to hear about all the tech buzzwords, they want to hear if you can make their life easier or not. And if you throw around tech jargon to impress them, you likely loose them as they don't understand you.
This whole thread has a lot of info in it, but the main point is this - we suck at breathing, don't breathe properly and are remarkably easily knocked out the "calm awareness" mode.

It's sometimes best to work at this other way around, like with anger management, e.g. don't try to improve your breathing, but try to be more concious of when your breathing and mental state go to sh*.
> The distraction has the potential to cost 100's of billions.

Not doing this has the potential for Google to miss the next technology trend, potentially crashing Google completely.

That being said, I completely agree with you on a different note. "Professional" spectator sports in schools and higher education. In my opinion, it should be completely banned. Every single such initiative distracts from a school's or university's core mission. It does not matter if each dollar they spent on it makes back ninety cents or two dollars. It is still a distraction that everyone has to do because everyone else is doing it.
No, you can obviously do your
best to be employable and all that, but nobody is recession proof.
Then there's me who would like to be able to restore Edge Legacy.
Lawnchair Launcher
You use two USB sticks, on one you write the installer and during install you select the second usb-stick instead for example a SSD..that's it.

>I see what you’re saying but it sounds like you’re using two block devices on at least the first boot? Or am I missing something?

Exactly

You just need those two sticks for installation, after installation just one. NomadBSD is just a preinstalled Image +.
Firstly, thanks for the detailed answer.

The article we are tesponding to itself has the text:

“the stoves have also been linked to a slew of other health conditions from cardiovascular to cognitive issues”.

Since the authors themselves raised the possibility, I saw it reasonable to suggest comparing European with American cognition. I also find it intuitively unlikely that it has any cognitive effect.
You can't get to a shell and dd when booted in a Linux installer?
Wow, transmitting to the screen through RF instead of wires. That's rare!
It would only affect devices without Play Services installed, same as today.
This is incredible! Thank you for sharing! Did OpenAI release these pretrained models, or was the training done separately alone with this project?

Of OpenAI releases the pretrained models, why would we use their service?
Over here in reality, other countries with even more aging populations have little trouble providing good healthcare for everyone at reasonable cost. The problem in the US isn't old people, it's a horribly-designed system.
> Once I learned it, what's the point of using a gui?

The first point is that it makes it easier to learn the concept of Git, which is most of the difficulty. Yes Git's CLI is really terrible, but if you know the concepts you can mostly just google the CLI options and learn through repetition.

The second point is that GUIs make it easier to see the state of the repo. There's a reason that even the CLI includes a basic GUI. Don't tell me you never use `git log --oneline --decorate=all --graph`.