skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about people who game on their laptop (at home) but don't need to game on the go? In that case an eGPU also sounds like a reasonable choice. They can just leave the eGPU at home and still be productive away from their desk.
> I've generally found that if you can't measure something well, large American companies act extremely poorly with regards to that thing.

You've got it. The number of companies I've worked with who talk about being "data-driven" and who do not use any data for a majority of their decision making is ridiculous.
In short, on a USB 3 port with thunderbolt (or a USB 4 port) you can connect an external GPU enclosure. I think the standard setup is to just get an enclosure (like a Razor Core X) and add your own full-sized GPU.
> he costs involved in making sure there is a High School (in the US they tend to be large and draw from a distance) within 15 minutes of everywhere (no small cost to drop in a high school somewhere), or plop down a grocery store in a neighborhood ... that sounds both super expensive and politically difficult, and for some good reasons.

A high school I understand (where I live in the UK it's common for high school kids to catch the bus to school if they don't live close - as long as you live within a 15 minute walk of the bus stop that seems fine). But a grocery store? What's difficult about that? Just convert a house.
I've used shutup 10 on multiple machines and was pleased.
> Overly Descriptive Names

Looks like regular Lisp function names to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I find it uncomfortable because the point is to not just embrace death, but look forward to a better life afterwards. A death cult exposition.

Does a child looking forward to adulthood make you uncomfortable, too?
One* heat pump will do fine, but you might need a low temperature heat pump depending on where you are. After you factor in that gas is cheaper than electricity per kWh, the system should save you money as long as it is running at an efficiency higher than ~130%.

A contractor should be able to select an appropriate system for you, but if you want to do it yourself, look for yourself, get the 2021 ASHRAE climatic design conditions for your area and choose a heat pump with a minimum operating temperature which is lower than the coldest month 99.6% heating drybulb temperature (DB) (should be the top row, left most temperature).

*You would also need a fairly large heat pump, perhaps 7 tons (tons here means tons of refrigeration, or how many tons of ice the system can melt per day) depending on how well insulated you are.
If this were about cutting unprofitable divisions rather than cutting people/wages then the Metaverse would probably have been killed. Still kicking.
What's shocking is Woz didn't fix it using a vintage Disk ][ floppy drive controller. I have only myself to blame for my unrealistic expectations
Are you doing any work to position your product and service to be acquired?
I personally know several people who were able to start successful careers solely based on their inventions and the protections afforded to them via patents. This seems extremely short sighted. In fact, the bigger issue to me is that patents don't matter for companies located in countries where they are not recognized (e.g. China). The biggest issue with "some little guy in his garage" inventing stuff these days is that within weeks of selling it on amazon, it'll be copied, cost reduced to a essentially non-functional version, and sold for 1/3 the price all while pushing him down in the search results via borderline illegal SEO strategies.

The patent system needs to be fixed, not done away with.
> I think it just a slower process than we'd like

I arrived at the same conclusion. I have faith in Rust's maintainers and I know things can't happen as quickly as I'd like them to. I am still human and can rage when something doesn't go my way -- and it looks easy to me as a side observer -- but I don't judge and I applaud the team's dedication and rigor.
Absolutely. Use all the advantages you have in life.
I like the reviews at https://www.notebookcheck.net/ because they do measure fan noise.
For me personally, coffee shops and restaurants within a 15 minute walk is huge for my quality of life. I currently have it... barely.
I think of it as gaslighting. Make poc’s second guess themselves so they focus on not becoming a threat.
Sure, shady companies exist. And you shouldn’t trust shady companies to self report. But… you already know that, it’s in the name! “Shady”. So I think the idea that you should never trust self reporting is indeed an over reaction.

However, having been at (what I deemed) non-shady companies, there’s still the very human desire to downplay as much as is reasonable. Shady companies overstep reasonability on purpose.
If I can spend 1 joule to transfer two joules of enthalpy from outside to inside, then that is 200% efficiency.

Burning 1 joule of gas would give you 1 joule of heat in a perfect world. That is what a non pump does.
I stopped bothering with 3rd party lighting because it seems like Apple keeps finding ways to detect it and make the experience janky when its not an official cable.
Exploring various ways of flattening route trees in Clojure
Not trusting corporations is possibly the best advice available. I used to work for the largest insurer on Earth, a "health insurance" company. They quit paying for my insulin, which I need to live. They have enough lawyers they could just pile them physically on my house and suffocate me. They then laid me off due to age. My group of layoffs was 155, and of those 17 were under 40. They did give me a pile of cash not to sue - which I took like the opportunistic bastard I am in the end.
Did more than one ancient human relative use early stone tools? – Science – AAAS
I find the USB-C headaches worse. With a bag of cables if the cable fits[1] it works to the full capability of the device. If I'm traveling and forgot something I can expect that the cheapest gas station cable or a borrowed cable will work.

With USB-C I have to spend good money for every every cable in order to ensure that any cable I grab from my bag works. And these cables are going to be so thick that they are annoying to use with a mouse or keyboard.

I can rearrange my office and use a cheap 5 meter usb-A to B cable to get to where the printer is now (true story). If I want a 5 meter usb-C to C cable for data I need to spend over $300.

[1] excluding all the possibilities of chargers with incompatible DC barrel plugs, which is generally true of the time frames we're talking about
Did Yahoo ever get sued previously for this?
This right here is the core of the matter. When a Valve provides a detailed guide to replacing the SSD if you really want to, I trust the devs when they say we wanted to have higher storage capacities but heat dissipation was the constraining factor.

https://youtu.be/Dxnr2FAADAs

You want a Samsung PM991a, a Sabrent Rocket SB-2130-1TB, or a Kioxia BG4, to keep the draw as close to 1 amp as possible. Or slay your battery and bake your internals. It's your hardware, do what you want.
> Lots of people still had to go to work F2F, lots of people spent it cooped up in 30m2 apartments with flatmates they hate.

I assume by `F2F` you mean "face-to-face"?

I think that's a matter of perspective. In my echo chamber, people live with flatmates that they get along with just fine and are happy that they don't have to go to an office to do work that could be done at home.

> More people than not spent 2 years complaining they couldn't leave the house

So... perhaps they do indeed want to "leave the house". But I think they still don't want to go to the office when they can work from home.

I think e-commerce is indeed shifted-up relative to the start of the pandemic. I think things that e-commerce can't do well are still where people want to leave the house. As you said, pubs/window shopping (not quite shopping itself)/holidays.
Your LICENSE file is misspelled, by the way.
I think this has also to do with the fact that there is also no platform that caters to business with things like automatic background check , contract negotiation and signing etc for freelancers. Companies are wary of signing a new contract individually with every freelancer as it takes a lot of overhead to go through legal anyway.
NotebookCheck[1] does extensive fan noise, chassis heat, and hot air distribution tests.

It also performs display colorimetry and calibration, display PWM tests, Wi-Fi and SD card slot (if present) speed tests, basic teardowns, extended performance tests (accounting for PL1/PL2 limits), combined CPU + GPU performance tests on a veritable battery of benchmarks from games and renderers to industrial benchmark suites on a variety of resolutions and settings.

[1]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/
You'll change your mind about liking it when it fails and you lose months/years of mail.
Global variables are primarily bad when they're mutable. Environment variables are (usually anyway) global constants, which are indispensable.

And generating config files sounds like a pain, probably more complexity than a lot of us really need. Though I don't disagree that it's a little silly to take env files too seriously as a format.
How to Deploy Matomo on Kubernetes
We developed an Open-Source Kubernetes Operator in Kotlin to automate the installation and maintance of Matomo in Kubernetes.

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/glasskube/operator
It probably depends on what you mean by "grocery store." In dense urban areas, bodegas, chain convenience stores, and pharmacies with a small grocery section are pretty plentiful. Supermarkets a lot less so.

That's probably part of a shift over time. In general, we probably have more relatively large but spread out businesses than little mom and pop places on every corner.

(This is sort of a US comment. There seem to be more serviceable smallish grocery stores in Europe that are in between a supermarket and a convenience store. That's less common in the US other than one-off markets and sometimes downsized chain grocery stores.)
It is:
Contractors' Handbook: The Expert Guide for UK Contractors and Freelancers (3rd Edition; 13 Nov. 2017)
by Dave Chaplin (ISBN-10: ‎1527216039; ISBN-13: 978-1527216037)
So why did you object to my statement that giving people the choice is better for both parties? You’re suggesting the same thing.
It was enormously expensive and difficult to undo that so it’s not at all surprising it’s hard to go back.
More technically it would be a coefficient of performance of 4, which in some frames of reference is like 400% efficiency.
>You haven't used it with imap and lots of mail then. I get 100…500 emails daily and tb freezes for 15…60 seconds at a time. My inbox is kept in order by a bunch of filters, but the thing still freezes if I have lots of e-mails in another mailbox.

I do, around 100k mails in various dirs with order of magnitude higher volume than you. Just need to set it up

> The mailboxes are very inefficient, being regular mboxes with an index. I'd rather have the e-mails in a sqlite database. A Maildir on disk is a waste of inodes and a liability when one does a search or archives the thing. Old mail is rarely touched and sqlite has a full text search function.

You can set it to maildir style, sadly impossible after account creation and requires unbelievably much effort for such simple change.

Like, this piece of shit asked me to restart client to change IMAP server name, who wrote that garbage?
This is one of the points where the dogma breaks down.

If trunk has changed substantially from the release branch where the patch is required, you can't cherry-pick and you need to work on the branch.
You put your money into something called "Kraken" (other than rum perhaps) and this surprises you?
Except me, especially if it's free.
Add irrelevant comments has real world use for some students who are required to comment all of their code when submitting their work.
> Yes. It was measuring popularity.

Back link counting is not the same thing as popularity, which measures visits

PageRank was better than keyword search, which became spammed and PR was resilient to. Now there are 100s of signals being used, see the Yandex leak
> I think we will not see "remote only" for a large company and think "ooh, they value their employees I guess", but rather, "uh oh, they like to think of their employees as being like virtual servers, easy to spin up and easy to shut down the moment you don't need to pay for that capacity".

I never thought of it that way, but it does makes sense. Companies will OPENLY espouse the "treat your employees like cattle, not pets" mantra (I assert many do that now, just not openly.)
Possibly, there was a time when people wouldn't have imagined needing to pay for water
This is helpful insight. Thank you.
Apple MacBooks: what fan noise?
The shipping industry is not required to pump obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
Every Yahoo Mail account I've seen needs 60x the storage given the amount of spam you receive vis-a-vis Gmail.
ShapeScript: 3D Scripting Language
Thank you and heeding the warning.
Apple’s job losses are hidden because they don’t build anything physical, they let their suppliers fire and hire.
datasette? https://datasette.io/
Nah, not specifically about the REPL itself, I just need a way to quickly sketch and run a piece of code is all. I know big IDEs support this but I prefer keeping everything in the terminal -- I'll have to go check if Emacs or NeoVim offer something along those lines.
The obfuscation is a little too obvious. The people need something which defends their job security but still passes code review.
Things (generally) sell better when made for a 6th grade level.
> Never trust any company with a PR department at all

So you're saying we should trust Twitter? :)
One of the reasons McDonald's fries used to be so loved was because they were fried in beef tallow. That went away in the 80s/90s, they're just not the same now.
I think this is probably the right answer. It keeps popping up everywhere.

I'm always a skeptic on when something gets super hyped. In this case it's more use-case specific that makes me skeptical - majority of people its 100% fit.
and provide value
I loved Udacity. I think without Peter Norvig's class I wouldn't have made the jump to software development. Back in 2012-2014 they were leaning on the "teach everyone to code" wave so they had lots of free content. I think they eventually got told to go make some money as bootcamps started making money in the sameish space and they basically started doing for-credit-ish collabs with universities.
How hard is it to resist directly editing user data on your site? It's a pretty clear-cut case of abuse of power.
There you go. The difference is that a human can transparently explain to you step by step how they have concluded to a given answer. Humans have always used multiple methods to explain their decisions transparently when questioned to.

AI machines and especially neural networks which LLMs are based on still cannot explain themselves and are as transparent as a black-box.
Something something giant fire-breathing, acid-spewing, tentacle-flinging, city-crushing kaiju bathwater.
Yes, thank you very much for your feedback.

It is still early and like mentioned in other comments, onboarding is quite bad at the moment and landing page needs improvements as well.

I focused on the app itself so far :-)

To answer your question about pricing, it means it's entirely free at the moment, didn't even implement payment !
>>Does a child looking forward to adulthood make you uncomfortable, too?

Adulthood is a known and documented expectation of childhood.

Life after death is not. Not sure what analogy you think you're making here.
So heat pumps do lose efficiency at lower temperature such as -13F but the much bigger issues is loss of capacity. If you look at the curve of available heating capacity of a heat pump versus the heating needs for your house that tend to be a bit of a mirror image. When it is warmer out your house needs less heat but heat pumps have the highest capacity they will have. As temps drop the house will require more heat while the capacity of the heat pump is dropping.

That isn't to say they cannot work I personally have a heat pump in my house and it worked fine through the -15F weather we got. But it requires careful design work initially. Also you run into simply size constraints where residential heat pumps tend to max out at 5 tons (60k BTUs) typically when furnaces can easily get up into the 100k+ BTUs. Which might require multiple heat pumps and separating existing duct work. But definitely new construction should start designing around these constraints now.
My favorite seed seller, Fedco, has an OSSI section: https://fedcoseeds.com/seeds/list-ossi

I have tried and liked Dazzling Blue Kale and Gildenstern Lettuce. I'm trying out some other OSSI lettuce varieties this year, of which there are many.
The fan noise and laptop hot zones are two of the reasons I always check that site. Many laptops will serve as an adequate substitute for long term birth control if you actually use it on your lap.
The UK/IE market is skewed due to the legislation that essentially ignores intermediaries and considers whether a freelancer is under management supervision and control, in effect an employee (using an unfavourable tax definition of such working practices). The poison pill is the end hirer is passed liability for ensuring the worker is classed properly for tax. The game dynamics that result is that any large corporation cannot hire freelancers directly anymore for 'knowledge worker' type jobs as the taxman would just do a bulk audit and penalise in one go (rather than in the old days of individually pursuing contractors separately which is not scaleable).

So freelancing only is a reality if you just serve small companies; e.g. do word press and web site updates for a bunch of local businesses, and other ad hoc tech support type work. Big money contracts with large corporations is all done via service provider companies paying contractors through Umbrella or on their payroll.
Having to profit from the software isn't neccessarily that big of a caveat either depending on what precise wording that ends up in the law. Do donations count? What if you accept a bug bounty? How about a one time contract to implement a minor feature? Monetizing OSS is already hard enough that having to deal with compliance even for (money wise) tiny projects will make it impossible for many more.
> [Apple is] probably one of the best run companies in the world.

I would argue that perhaps Apple's business side of things is arguably well-run. I personally disagree; I think that since Tim Cook has taken over, Apple's business focus is more on short-term gains instead of long-term quality.

But I would also strongly argue that their software side of things has been trending downward (especially in terms of quality) since Tim Cook took over.
Personally, I hang a "memento mori" near every mirror in the house, to remind him who would regard himself that what he sees will one day inevitably return to the earth.
Yup, kids busing to school is very common in the US too. I agree about a bus stop.

Heck even suburban schools around me are trying to stop everyone from dropping off their kid with their car in person. It's just a hassle / traffic.
Exporting to OBJ would get you 90% of the way there. If you're not doing anything but generating a mesh, then OBJ -> whatever converters exist for pretty much every datatype.

OBJ is also the easiest to implement, too. Assuming whatever geometry library you're using is using _real_ geometry and not using any sort of weird volumetric rendering, etc. then it should be 'trivial' to export to OBJ.
Thank you. Any recommendations on readings or courses for formal logic?
Consider them as a Union, Lawyer, and a Agent.
Citation is absolutely not needed for something as obvious as the idea that hundreds of thousands of people spending an hour less driving every day is better.
> Just convert a house.

In many places there is a miserable quantity of political and legal infrastructure to prevent that from happening. Undoing that is a necessary part of 15-minute cities, but it may be weirdly unpopular.

(also, people expect a wider range of things than will fit in an old style corner shop, and you need to have HGV parking..)
> (carcinogenic) roundup

Citation needed. Roundup has been studied a lot. Very few of those studies find it is carcinogenic - enough that meta analysis finds it is not.
Eh in many ways that is not how humans work. We tend to build close in groups with higher trust level, because not trusting everything any anyone is physically and mentally exhausting. If you met a person that behaved in this manner in real life most people would conclude they had a mental illness or were an abuse victim.
I think you're making a strawman to argue against. Nowhere above have I claimed that "knowing" requires "consciousness", or "it must be implemented identically to me to count", and in fact I believe neither.

But:

- In this context, following on the whole 2nd half of the 20th century where cognitive science and psychology moved past behaviorism and sought explanations of the _mechanisms_ underlying mental phenomena, a scientific discussion doesn't have to restrict itself to only considering what the LLM says. Neither we, nor the LLM are black boxes. Evidence of _how_ we do what we do is part of scientific inquiry.

- But the LLM does _not_ reproduce all the behaviors of an agent with a theory of mind. A two year-old with a developing theory of mind may try to hide food they don't want to eat. A 4-year-old playing hide-and-seek picks locations where they think their play-partner won't look. They take _actions_ which are appropriate for their goals and context which require consideration of the goals of others. The LLM shows elaborate behaviors in one dimension, in which it has been extensively trained. It has no capacity to do anything else, or even receive exposure to non-linguistic contexts.

I am in no way arguing that only meat-based minds can "know". I'm saying that the data, training regime and model structure used for LLMs specifically is extremely impoverished, in that we show it language but no other representation of the things language refers to. Similarly, image-generating AIs know what images look like, but they don't know how bodies or physical objects interact, because they have never been exposed to them. Of _course_ we get LLMs that hallucinate and image-generators that produce messed up bodies.

On the other hand, there are some pretty cool reinforcement-learning results where agents show what looks like cooperation, develop adversarial strategies, etc. There's experiments where software agents collaboratively invent a language to refer to objects in their (virtual) environment to accomplish simple tasks. I think there are a lot of near and medium-term possibilities coming from multi-modal models (i.e. can models trained on related text, images, audio, video) and RL which could yield knowledge of a kind that LLMs simply do not have.
Maybe let's share ideas
Yeah, the higher the speed the better! My current scooter (Xiaomi M365 Pro 2) only charges at 80 watts, though. The charger is rated for 42V output, which I believe means it's a 36V battery. I'm not very knowledgeable on the eBike side of things but a quick look at Bosch's site shows they seem to do 4A or 6A "fast" charging on their 36V batteries. 424=168 or 426=252Watts, so it seems like PD 3.1 could charge at regular speeds and at about 90% of fast charge speeds. Not bad, really!
Android’s ART used to be a completely AOT approach (that compiled to native machine code on the machine at install time), nowadays there is also a JIT compiler that shares profiling information across devices even.
my bad, will make sure to do this next time
I'm sorry, but I've read that article twice and I'm still not sure what they're actually saying.

Are we talking about neighbourhoods not having a store selling fresh fruit and veg­eta­bles, or not having a grocery store of any kind?