skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any bored programmers here, I'd recommend donating some time towards open source projects. For some examples: Gnome, KDE, and Cosmic DE are all looking for contributors.
Well.. IEEE754 have well defined behavior and detail reasoning.
If it matter to you, you may still want FP math
The article is paywalled.

The lyme vaccine went off the market due to a lack of adoption as well as factors related to it's utility (80% effectiveness seems high, but can provide false confidence and doesn't negate any of the normal prophylactic steps. But it can lead to difficulty in diagnostics given they test for antibody levels).

Sure, the law suit didn't help anything, but it wasn't the main reason. Expert witnesses on many cases can provide opposing opinions and interpretations of the case. It's up to the court and jury to decide. There are a number of errors even in the more rigorous criminal courts where an incorrect judgement has been rendered. This speaks more about the flaws in the system around determining truth or believability than can be attributed to any one party.
> They stay quiet out of politeness and not wanting to be harassed and bullied for dissenting views on this topic.

I can tell you don't work with students. They are very vocal when you do something they don't agree with, to the point where they will anonymously send you their thoughts via a burner gmail account if they actually do feel for some reason they will suffer repercussions (which they never do). If the silent dissenters have thoughts, they will go unaddressed as long as they remain silent.

But to be clear you're arguing for a hypothetical person, correct? When you say "they stay quiet out of politeness", you are talking about students you invented that you assume exist, and not actual students you know personally who voiced this particular concern to you?

> "woman = lipstick and dress and she/her pronouns"

If you're trying to imply this is something I've said here or in the classroom, neither has occurred.
And in my opinion, this is why `0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004` is a bad meme. It cements a very wrong perception about floating point numbers. If we denote a rounding operation as `f64(...)`, this is `f64(f64(0.1) + f64(0.2)) = f64(0.30000000000000004) != f64(0.1 + 0.2)` which can obviously happen. In particular, `f64(0.1) != 0.1` etc. but we happened to choose 0.1 as a representative for `f64(0.1)` for various reasons. Nothing inaccurate, nothing meme-worthy, just implied operations.
And just who is going to set the rules where money given by the state can be spent? That is suggestive of a literal nanny state, and government dictats always introduce a certain arbitrariness on the level of individuals. The government cannot save us from ourselves, but given enough power, it will always try.
Even if the DMA somehow results in Blink engine dominance, at least the engine is open, so alternative freedom and privacy-respecting browsers can build on it and patch out any evil features while mostly maintaining compatibility. Not a great outcome, but it'd be worth it to stamp out closed computer operating systems that don't let their users control what software they install. The current state of iOS and iPad OS is completely unacceptable.
https://archive.is/FMKQH
If, as you say, "there are basically 3 reasons", then disproving 1 should be sufficient to prove that 2 or 3 is true. You're just trying to place an unreasonable burden of proof on possibilities you disagree with.

There is no difference between possibilities 2 and 3. If the overhead necessary for a company to survive doesn't allow them to pay their workers, the company shouldn't survive. Mysteriously, companies that underpay their workers always have money to pay their execs and shareholders--you're just expecting workers to pay the overhead instead of the people at the top. All this is, is a shitty excuse for exploiting workers.

As for proving 1 incorrect: whenever essential workers unionize--analogous to starting their own consultancy--money suddenly materializes to pay them more. As it turns out, essential workers are essential, and the only reason they get paid less is that the people at the top can pay them less and keep more money for themselves.
Well, I've found it easier to move countries than to move banks, personally.
Excellent post! I particularly appreciate that you highlighted that the "fatal flaw" of curation's lack of scalability is also its strength.

>That it sucks implies there is an opportunity, likely for a federated curation model that looks more like a department store than the landfills of etsy and amazon.

I think this opportunity is applicable to content as well as products.
A bunch of randos on Twitter (often found by rt)

... and a bunch of the <word>porn subs (that aren't actually porn) like /engineeringporn or /weirdwings
Spoiler: a formica-on-plywood desk, 1195 mm/47", 770 mm/30.5", 750 mm/30" with a max load of 75 kgs / 165 lbs is $1,599. And you have to assemble it yourself. And pay for shipping.

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Depth: 27 1/2"
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Off-topic: Do most people there prefer "Türkiye" or "Turkey?"
Incorrect, efficiency drops as the temperature differential grows. This is a basic law of thermodynamics, since you can extract energy from a temperature difference, it must require energy to create one.
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Thanks for the info, and the link. I will read it over. I'm thinking I'll probably move back to PopOS when they release their DE Cosmic. I used to run pop and loved it, but really wanted to try an arch distro. Endeavor looks great, but I'm not interested in anything "terminal centric" which is the first sentence on their site. But thanks for the suggestion!
What's up with those pricing plans? it goes from $0 (3 users) to $80 ($20 per user for 4+ users) per month.
The obvious solution to that is having a home battery. Those are expensive now (although even now, not that expensive in comparison to what a heating system already costs), but in the future they're likely to be cheap.
No sane wallet shows private keys without an explicit action by the user to do so. Sounds like the wallet software they used was compromised somehow.
I had similar feelings, and I get the same feelings looking at today's front end development which looks increasingly like embedded C++ development. I had always tinkered with Lisp but expected it to be forever marginalized given how good Common Lisp was, and how poorly it had been adopted by industry. But Clojure changed that for me. The fun seems to come from agency, the ability to affect outcomes with reasonable amounts of time and energy expended. Agency is the ability to change one's circumstances, and modern tool chain's vast incidental complexity takes such agency away. But restore agency, and fun will follow, I suspect.

Now I don't mean to imply there are not good uses for tool chains like C++'s etc. Only I will say that the disconnection from the end result caused by the long write-debug-ship cycle leads to a certain programmer malaise. The same is true for things like coding chips with Verilog. The production chain is so long with respect to the creative endeavor itself that motivation and satisfaction is hard to get.

So, for me, doing SaaS software, which ships "all the time" with Clojure, has restored my ability to 1) read the std library and most others easily to understand them, 2) Create control, preprocessing and IO primitives myself for special purposes which easily rival standard ones, 3) use interop to access large libraries written in another long lived language (Java), 4) build and use tools that simply introspect the code, producing my own tool additions and automations without AST's, and elaborate tooling, after all, code is just data.

Obviously YMMV. One blog post documented someone who changed from C++ to Clojure and did not find satisfaction. But he was attempting to do something, embedded I believe, that is not well suited to a JVM. So changing to Clojure does involve changing to an area that favors one of the two big Clojure host language machines, JVM or Javascript based environments.
Dear reader, you should elaborate on what you view as a firehose of bullshit.
Sabbaticals for the Rest of Us
So many people will say that but even at -13F the LG Red heat pump I have is rated for a COP of ~2. Which means it is still twice as efficient as a resistive space heater. Now capacity does fall off and that can cause issues since heating demands rise as temperature drops but that is an initial design constraint that just has to be designed around.

NEEP has a great website to find all kind of specifications for heat pumps. Below is the link to the unit we have at our house in Southern New Hampshire.
https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/53914/7/25000///0
> Twitter was heavily used to seek help by people in turmoil, even hundreds of people were posting from under the rubbles. The officials were claiming that everything was under control and they are helping everyone but people were posting videos showing the situation on the ground and the situation didn't look even close to being under control.

Social media is the first target no matter the country

The US do the exact same [1], they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it

In fact, it's the first thing the US want to do for foreign apps, to ban them, just like with TikTok [2], they are recent talks about a global ban too

So we can't just throw the stone at Turkey, you have to examinate the situation, they had a terrorist attack in Istanbul in november [3], mossad agents doing shady things [4], wich btw gives flashbacks of the failed coup by the mossad [5] (imagine if the coup succeeded knowing how the Ukraine-Russia conflict developped and the current issues in Azerbaijan-Armenia, they dodged something sinister)

Twitter is known to be a place with lot of political activity, it's easy for a foreign country to spread misinformation, there are lot of noise

And Twitter is not the most popular social media app in Turkey, plus the population in that region is not tech savvy either

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-mon...

[1#] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/30/us-tiktok...

[3] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63615076

[4] - https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2023/1/11...

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
> the vast majority of projects, even large ones that would benefit, stay away from telemetry.

Nomad is one of these projects. We support a dizzying array of platforms (32bit Intel Linux?!). We have no idea how popular our Consul service mesh integration is. Are bug reports a sign of use or just failed experiments? Is anyone running on macOS in production or just ephemeral dev agents?

Surveys about this are just asking humans to do something computers can do better.

Obviously privacy and consent are paramount concerns, but not only are they solvable, in open source they’re fully auditable (and a fork could fairly easily maintain a patch that removes it outright).

I think open source largely rejecting telemetry puts it at a huge disadvantage to proprietary and SaaS software where it is the norm. I’m very excited to see someone as thoughtful and well reasoned as Russ Cox to be trying to move the status quo forward.
...or, indeed, 1/3 as binary coded decimal.
I will look for it but there was an article like 5+ years ago that had a thesis on the break-even point for cloud and when it makes sense to start to host your OWN actual infrastructure and that it was so much further out than you expect that it's not worth it.

I liked that article though, I'll see if I can dig up.

For me, it's just so dang easy to use the cloud, the speed/pace of development is totally worth it for a very very long time.
So 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1 in M, right?
Some news aggregation sites have their own integral search.
React without useEffect: Just use a framework
This works well. Starting with bigger models allows us to explore whats possible. I find it easier to scale down from here.
This is my system. Heat pumps are just finicky. Tons of moving parts and things to go wrong. The backup is 100% necessary, at least for now.
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
Just reread what you meant, yeah, I see that self-signing wouldn't neccesarilly solve the issue. As you say, it might also be that some apps use root status. After they updated our digital signing platform, a colleague who had a phone from china which wasn't even that old, stopped working, and I've had friends which had the same thing happen. They weren't rooted. So I don't know if there is some hardware component to it, like TPM that you mentioned?
It's worth saying, you cannot use banking apps here, without a valid digital signature, which proofs your identity. It's not just the financial app itself, it's the legal requirements we have here, which make the financial apps use this digital identity verification.

So if self signing cannot guarantee those assumptions that are being made, there's no way around it.
Same! Just finished Bayonetta recently as well
> a finite amount of energy in this universe and yet here we are at "Practically all prices are determined on the fly"

This is a silly comparison. Stars don’t model their fusion output. Particles interact on the fly. There is also no model relating entropy to overnight collateralised borrowing rates.

> calculating physically intrinsic value for a sufficient number of commodities

Interbank funds aren’t a finite commodity.
wow this is pretty hard to watch tbh
There's a big difference between recommended and required. Of course things work better if your entire dataset fits in ram, and of course at the giant enterprise scale you can do that, but it's not something I'm going to do on my VPS along side wordpress, you know? I don't really care about getting maximum possible performance when the data is only going to be accessed intermittently. I care about letting the OS maximize performance by choosing what gets cached in ram.
Nice, does this use clip-interrogator?
This list had a big effect on me. Especially #1. I’m still waiting to deploy “The cat’s out of the hat” one day.

Apparently those are called “eggcorns.” I learned that from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756402 (thanks to HN user InGoodFaith).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
I'm inclined to agree with this. I've watched someone start by making small macrame wall hangings and selling them for $60 on Etsy take this direction. Now they're posting professional level photos of large ($1,000+) custom ordered pieces hanging in client's homes on Instagram. They don't bother with the small stuff or Etsy anymore.
I wish there were such a website, but I haven't seen one. That's unfortunate, because I often feel the need to skip the comments sections on HN for economics-related posts.

There are many armchair economists here, mostly with a pure software dev outlook on the topic. People who've never taken a single class about finance confidently chime in with some of the worst takes I've ever heard.

They seem to think that because they're good at programming, they must therefore be masters of all studies, since STEM majors are often harder to get accepted into. This is a logical fallacy, and it's pretty tiring.
Same with all of the russian protests.
It's a pretty good beginning coding teacher.
https://0.30000000000000004.com is a fun site.
I've said this before, but I wish python and other high level languages defaulted to decimal for the literals, and made float something you had to do explicitly. My reasoning behind this is that floating point math is almost always an implementation detail, instead of what you're actually trying to do. Sure, decimal would be slower, but forcing people to use float as an optimization would remind them to mitigate the risks with rounding or whatever.
Any engineers feel like running the heat calcs on whether it's actually more beneficial to have the heat exchanger in a small enclosed space heated by the wood stove?

Im curious if the efficiency of the heat pump would allow for minimally heating the condenser to keep within the operating range.

That space might only be heated to +10°F, but would allow for the heat pump to operate normally.
Switch to Tin-Eye search.
It will never be built for political reasons.
Yeah, I hate those too. Few seem to get through spam protection these days though.
I love the philosophy of steam deck: by default, it's an Switch-like device that hides all the non-fully compatible games in store, has good UI and makes sure everything "just works".

But where it differs from pretty much any other modern software product is that it trusts you as a user - you can install games that aren't verified. It'll tell you why they're not verified (small text, no controller support) but it'll let you install them anyway. And then map touchpads and controllers to emulate keyboard and mouse if you want. You can install games that aren't from Steam store. You can go do desktop mode. It doesn't judge. It will give you good experience by default and then let YOU judge if you want to stray away from it.

It's something that Apple fans always told us it's impossible to build - a device that is joy to use by default while still respecting your wishes as a user.
This is the reason I haven't started putting my original artwork on Etsy. I make a small amount annually with JIT art prints from Society6 and RedBubble (I used to do DeviantArt as well, but since their AI debacle, I've got a moratorium on that option). Originals cost much more than prints (my stuff is priced between 100-10,000 USD depending on size and complexity) and mostly come via work of mouth commission. I want to market, but the time commit seems onerous, and I like it not being "work" (that's what the day job is for)
I got annotations on my writing assignments in red ink often, starting in 5th grade or so, all the way through the last writing class I took in college. Or green ink, in one class where the teacher thought that the color red provoked negative reactions. I thought it was a common way to teach writing.
It's a tragedy no nation should face alone. There should be no "looking bad" here, just opportunities to help. Why not embrace that and do whatever you can? Any city would face horrible losses in this situation. Heck, Miami lost half a building on a normal day...
A simple 3d viewer should just use WebGL. Low level APIs are targeted at large game engine developers.
We've had some demand for this, if there's enough we'll definitely consider it when we hire more engineering resource, which is the current constraining factor
> In general, generative models are taking publicly available content from creators and are monetizing them for big tech.

This is fair—also in fairness, whenever my Google speaker answers a question, it always tells me which site the answer is from.
i agree that "quickly sped" is horrible, but to set up the crash, you need to establish the speed of the car beforehand.
Except we don't force countries to enter commonwealth, Putin is scared of old soviet union nations joining Europe. They're free to do so.
The article was -just- a link to the latest official news. Yes, I am implying that whoever is “the source” for Mr. Hersh knows much more than you and I and the internet about this matter.

Just do a ctrl-f on “the source” on the OP. And read those lines. That’s the message.
That is one of the more memorable episodes. Even the head of the British Chemical Corporation has no clue what he‘s talking about; he’s a political appointee with no actual chemistry education, since this is a nationalized industry. They’re not holding back in this episode.
>They don't call it your friend circle or your family, that's different.

Hahaa, citation needed.

Embrace the interpersonal blackpill... unu
> I use Windows 10. Been using Firefox as the default browser since the day I installed it 7 years ago. It has never nagged me about Edge.

Windows 10 definitely nags you about Edge from time to time. Some windows updates will re-trigger the "setup wizard" flow and ask you yet again to switch browsers & setup a microsoft account instead of using a local account. Or an Edge shortcut will just be quietly dropped on your desktop.

It's not super often, but it absolutely happens. That said, the real kicker is in Windows 11 where they removed the ability to change the default browser in a single spot. You're instead forced to change the app handler for every mimetype & extension, it's extremely tedious.
They tried using it to control Russia. Power will use the tools it has available will it wants to assert itself.
Was incredulous the phone was stolen for a moment before remembering this is in Paris.
When I read comments like yours I can't help but wonder if sheltered naivety (from living under somewhat reasonable governments) or ulterior motives leads to statements like this.

Would you agree to your town council deciding what things you can buy with your wages? No? Then why is an even more distant institution any more competent on that front?
This is nothing short of puritanistic surveillance state bullshit. It's censorship, and is not okay.

On by default is ok—encouraged, even. Login required? heck no.

(edit: ugh, what if this is just because they're avoiding cookies to store this? because of "privacy")
I dunno. It sure makes sense to me to collect telemetry from free software installations, but I feel that having every platform or even piece of software to do it on its own with opt-out will inevitably lead to people being overwhelmed and angry.

I would, personally, prefer a single non-profit service that would list publicly what is being collected and publish the results as open data for anyone to use. Applications (at least on Linux) would not submit their reports directly, but would use a local relay service that could be turned off completely or that could filter what reports to send to the server and what to /dev/null.

Distributions and other software stores would then make it mandatory for software to use this relay and either patch out any other telemetry from their packages or straight out forbid those that would not comply.
I was looking for a tech stack like you describe and came up with this: https://github.com/hollingsworthd/micronaut-libgdx-teavm

It uses Java 17 and LibGdx for graphics, compiled to JS (Canvas) by TeaVM, and served by Micronaut.
> cult following

Seems unnecessary to jump right to cult following. Not "cult" but RSS following is often the case where keyword in title makes the difference. I wonder why does it bothers you if it is not relevant for you. What is your problem? Why can people let others be?

> It's not the first time I see

Obviously and your comment is not first complaining about that title contains "implemented in X".
Can you expand on that last advice?
I think the bigger problem is how does something like ChatGPT fit into Google's business model for search.

Conversational interface and/or giving immediate answers may not be the best option in terms of ad revenue. Users re-iterating their search queries gives more opportunities to show ads. When users are scanning the page for best results, they might be more likely to click on the ads with clever wording.
Lemme guess, you had a run in with a psychopath or a narcissist
Maybe I am missing the constructive nature of your comment, can you clarify? Are you proposing coffee is as cancerous as Roundup? Constructively, have you seen this video? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/03/monsanto-lobbyist-dr...
> Except you are not looking for students, you are looking for the top graduates in the field, and you are training them for a job that barely exists.

Ph.D. students are in fact students, and I'm training them in a discipline in which I am one of the few experts in the world, to the point where they are an additional world expert on that topic. That takes a lot of time.